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Dire ount • ~~ :;• .~'• ~ ~~. '~ . .Air; i, ( i .) 'ALTER SCOTT AND THE MANIAC. •Ipted up the fallowing. from the gossip of Melrose, Slsdlfcclnt the respectability of my informants, can vouch for Its accuracy. A young woman one day recently appeared at the portal of Abbotsford, and requested admittance to the presence of Sir Walter : no min is more accessible than the worthy Ba ronet, hut the wild hurried manner of the applicant made the servant hesitate. " Nay, I maun see him," tile exclaimed, " I maun see him. Ah, sir, dinna hinner me gif ye be a Christian man ; and gin your heart was breaching as mine is breaching noo ye wadna stand atween the door an' me." The impassioned sin cerity with which she importuned, and the flood of tears which .creamed down her pallid cheek—the convulsive heavings of her bosom, joined to a face in which still the traces of beauty chased by the hand of sorrow might be seen, so operated on the sympathy if the domestic, that he supported the fainting supplicant into an anti-room. and went to inform his master. On Sir W. entering I he room, the scene was affecting heyotal description ; the wretched maniac (alas ! 'ris true) wrung forward in an extaey of joy, ex ..ainting " Alt ! the I see ye at last, 1 hae wandered mony a weary mile and gave !pony a weary gate, hut I cnuldna find ye ; but I'll tt r leave you non—never I—never !" Immediately relapsing into melancholy silence, she refused to answer the mild interrogatories of the astonished Baronet i who here saw the itj agining. of bis fertile brain unhappily realised), hut kept her eyes atedfastly fixed •)n a ribbon suspended from her neck. fly soothing and flattering l,er he at last found out that she belonged to " Aberdeen awa," that in her derangements she had left bet home. and wandered in search of the master-spirit whose effusions bad beguiled many a happy hour in better days, and that to effect this she bad travelled 140 miles on foot. In this perplexing situation Sir Walter's duty was unpleasant but decisive.; to lodge her in a place of safety, and acquaint her anxious friends of the circumstance. After prevailing on her to recruit her strength by rest and refreshment, under pre text of going along with her, she was prevailed upon to enter a post-chase, in which she was no sooner seated than the driver, ap plying the whip to his horses, drove off at a quick pace for Jed burgh Castle. On perceiving the deception, she gave a convulsive scream, and the attendant in the chaise states the scene to have been afilicting beyond the power of words. She shortly after sub sided into a tranquil insanity, and as she lay back in the chaise her dark ringlets covered her ashy countenance, and the tear-drop rolling down her check, she at intervals faintly exclaimed " Ah ! deceitful man, did I think ye would beguile'me sae? The warst may come noo; they hae s' deceived me!" Had this circumstance taken place before the Heart of Mid-Lothian was given to the world, I would have ptesumed that one of its characters was mo delled on the poor Aberdonian minim—Correspondent of an Edin burgh Piper. LAW. INTELLIGENCE. • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 2. Adjourned Sittings in Middlesex—Special Juries. ROBINSON V. MESSRS. WATERIIOUSE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the owner of the Auction Mart for the sale of horses, in Little Britain, for the recovery of the value of two bills of exchange, accepted by the defendants, the coach proprietors, carrying on business at the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and also to recover the value of some horses sold to them. It appeared that the defendants became involved, and . offered a composition to their creditors of 10s in the pound, which was to be paid within a mouth; this was accepted by the creditors, but the defendants did not attempt to make the tender to the plaintiff until a calendar month after, when he was absent from his resi dence, and afterwardseefused to accept it. Lord TINTINIDIDI thought the best coarse to adopt was, to take the opinion of the . Court in term, to decide whether or not t h i s composition was to have taken place within a lunar or a calendar month; and for that purpose proposed that a verdict abould be entered for the defendant, subject to be reversed and a new trial granted, if the Court should think the period was in law a lunar month. The Counsel assented to this suggestion. mourn AND ANOVA= a. TTISZLL. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, anomie', to recover the amount of their.biil of costs for acting professionally for the defendant. The justice of the demand having been fully proved; the Jury found a verdict for ,the plaintiffs for £99 ss. 4d. the amount of the bill. WILSON V. COPELAND. This was an action in trover, brought by the plaintiff, an uphol sterer, against the late Sheriffs of Middlesex, for taking a quantity of household furniture under an execution issued against. the goods and chattels of LordMontford, by creditors of his Lordship. Two questions arose :—First, whether the goods taken were the goods of Lord hlontford, or if hire. Brantley, who was his Lordship's mistress? Secondly, whether an instrument given by Mrs. Bromley, to cover a, debt which Mr. Wilson claimed for uphol stery, was a colourable transaction, for the purpose of protecting the goods for Lord Mootford ? The facts were these :—Some years ago, Mrs- Bromley lived as chamber-maid at Hatchet's Hotel, Piccadilly. Lord-Moat ford lived there at the same time, and they both left , the Hotel together. After some time, they resided ill a house, in .York-strett, Portman-square, which was taken in she name of Mrs. Bromley, and furniture was sent in by the plaintiff, of the value of 4410. Lord hiontford came to her occasionally, and the creditors of his Lordship, con cluding that the furniture could not belong to Mri. Bromley, made a seizure. The Arroaser-Guntaiz, who was Counsel for the plaintiff, contended that thajurniture had been bons fide the gift of Lord hlontford to Mri. promley, and that no proof could be offered to the contrary. • A number pf iiltricsses,were examined in support of the plain• tiff's case. , . • Mr. Guaasx;for the defendants, said he should prove that the whole had been jprchased by Lord Montford; and that the written document, by which the goods appeared to be the property of the plaintiff, was nothing snore than a colourable transaction, to pro tect the furniture'against the 'Noble Lord's creditors. The Jury, under all the circumstances, found a verdict for the defendants. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 2. Before Mr"lustice Game; and a Common Jury. COFFIN AND ANOTHIS V. LLOYD. This was an astion brought by the firm of Griffin and Dun comb*, wine-merAhants, for, wine supplied to the defendant, a tailor, to the amount of 4100. The defence was, that the plaintiff Griffin was indebted tothe defendant, •in his private capacity, in a larger sum, for clothez; . but it turned but that no adjustment of a ccounts was made befor e the notice of dissolution of partnerphip. Verdict for plalntiff—Hamaigs, 4100 10s. 10d. FIREDESTRUCTIVE AT CLAPHAM. 77 • The inhabits tits of Clapham. conimon, and its vicinity, were yesterday swarming thrown into a state of considerable alarm. in consequence of the breaking out of a fire in the workshop of Mt. Mills, juo. °nese( the most extensive buiders in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The workpeople (a large number) had, it seems, gone to breakfast ot eight o'clock, and soon after a dense cloud of smoke was observed to issue from the windows of the workshop, and before any art could effect an entranA.,, se as to discover from what precise.spot the smoke precluded, the flames burst forth with astonishing rapi*ty, and in the coprse of two dr three minutes the whole building *a/ one mass of frame. The greatest anxiety was instantaneously manifested by;all: the neighbours, not merely be cause they were excited by feeffngsof commisseration for the pro bability of loss by Mr. Mills, but because unless an obitacle was speedily thrown ha the way. so as to present the consuming ele ment from communicatipg to the adjoining buildings and stacks of timber which.yreto in the yards belonging to Mr. Mills, the most disastrous,conmAuenees would arise. The two parish engines were very soon on We spin', hot here an tinlooked for obstacle presented itself-not a &Ova water was to be procured in the ordinary way. A consultation was then held, the result of which was, that various messengers vfartreent to all the water carriers in the neighbour hood. and others to the London engine stations. The former par ties were soon in motion, and such a spectacle was never before seen in Oliphant Common, there being at one moment upwards of, to carts in the largepond by the Church. On the arrival of the carts • at Mk. Mills' they were again at a stand still for vessels wherein to deposit the water. They were not. however, long kept in suspense, as all the water tubs belonging to the surrounding houses were presently brought into the road. foto these the owners of the carte pumped out their Water, and the pariah engines were supplied by the means of placing the sucker in the largest tubs, which were fed 'from the smiler ones by the neighbouri. About nine o'clock the West of England, the Protector. and the Guardian fire engines ar rived. and were slickly In action. Their combined exertions were, however, unable to pavent the complete destruction of the build ings, ands large portion of the timber was also consumed. Saturday 'afternoon tra Inquest was . held at the Red . r Deism, on the body of Rebecca Ambrose , a , • childtbree yen, and a halt old, whose father is a respectable baker -in Delstoo. It appeared that the mother of the deceased sent a 'boy for. two pennyworth of turpentine, to clean a stove. and. he bravest ol of Vitriol, supposing it bruit. The phial i • which he bruises it being laid on a table its a room in which the deceased wasleft by herself for a few moments, she swallowed the contents. Medical assistance'was instantly procured, but without effect, and she died iu a few hours in dreadful agony. Verdict--" Accidental Death. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Nov. 2. OLD COURT. Before Mr. Sergeant ARAMS and a Middlesex Jury. Williams Thorngm was sentenced to be transported for seven years, for stealing a live pig, the property of Mr. Knight, farmer, Harrow-road. Before Mr. Justice Rana and Mr. Baron liuLLocs. CUAtCit or vonazay. John Trueman, aged 45, stood capitally indicted for uttering a forged and fake order for the delivery of six pipes of wine from the London Docks, with intent to defraud the London Dock Com pany. Another count in the indictment stated the fraud to be upon Messrs. Cousins and Co. Manchester. Mr. Alley (with whom was Mr. Bodkin) stated the ease for doe prosecution. The accountant to the London Dock Company produced a book in which the entries were made of all wines in the Docks. He then rated that there were certain entries of wine in it, in the hand writing of Mr. Blackwood, under the date of December last. One was for six pipes of port wine from Oporto, in the names of George and Thomas ousins, who would obtain possession of them by an order, the authority required by the Company. When that order was presented at the Docks, the party was entitled to remove them at any time he pleased, or to transfer them into his own name. Upon this be would be entitled to a warrant, which would 'enable him either to transfer the wines, by indorsement or de livery. to another party. Witness was present when the order for the wine was presented by the prisoner. The order was presented to himself or Mr. Blackwood. Five pipes were delivered in consequence of such order. The wine had been in the Docks thirteen months, and was lodged on the account of C. Do naldson, and transferred, on the 18th of December, in the name of Ce 11r. John Blackwood, a clerk in the docks, was present when the order was delivered by the prisoner. He was asked if be would have a warrant, and in consequence wrote on the back, " Please grant me a warrant for the time named :" on the other side," J. Trueman." Five pipes were afterwards obtained on this warrant, transferred to the name of Dalrymple. Is certain the prisoner presented the order. Henry Lincoln Galten, a clerk in the Wine Department of the London Docks, deposed to his having made out the warrant produced. Mr. Thomas Cousins, cotton spinner and manufacturer, Man chester, deposed to the prisoner's having been in the employ of himself and brother, as an agent, in December last. They bad wine in the London Docks. The names on the order are not in either witness's or his brother's handwriting. Neither himself or bro. titer gave the prisoner permission, or commissioned him to transfer the wines. _ by Mr. AooLruus—He sent a Mr. Jones to London to watch the conduct of the prisoner, who bad been ar rested in January for debt—lodged a detainer against him for £2OO after he was in custody. The value of the wines was £270 but the prisoner was in debt to the firm £2OO independent of the value of the wine. By the Couax.—At the time of lodging the detainer wineu bad no knowledge of the forgery—he included the wine in the detainer. When the forgery was dicovered in February, directions were given to a solicitor to proceed against the London Duck Company. The detainer against the prisoner for felony was not lodged against him until September. The Jury, under these circumstances, acquitted the prisoner. Stephen Sandford, servant, aged 24, was indicted for committing a burglary in the house of blr John B. Smits, and William Leslie, tailor, aged 31, for being au accessary before the fact. The particulars of this case appeared at length in this Paper, in a report from Marlborough-street Police Office. Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after a few minutes consideration, found the prisoners Guilty. The prisoner, Sandford, was then put on his trial for attempting to shoot Bannister, the watchman. Bannister proved, as he had done on the first trial, that when he saw the prisoner running he seized him, and the prisoner, with out speaking a word, pulled out a pistol and snapped it at him ; it burned the printing in the pan. The prisoner then knocked him down with the pistol and ran away. Witness saw him in custody three minutes after, and was confident of his identity. The prisoner being asked whether he had any thing to say in answer to the charge, said nothing, but begged to be recom mended to mercy. The Jury, without a moment's hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Baron GRAHAM addressed the prisoner, and said he should not think that be was performing his duty, if he did not recommend to the prisoner, the moment he left that bar, to commence his preparation for the awful fate that coo probably awaked him. Aka Allan was indicted for stealing a parcel containing bank notes amounting to £B9O. Mr. MOOD! stated the case for the prosecution. Edward Brown stated, that he is clerk in the bank of Vincent Stuckey and Co. Taunton, Somersetsbire. Ott the 10th of Oet. he selected Bank notes to the amount of 6901. to be sent to London, and also bills of exchange to a large amount. Verdict, Guilty.—Sentence, seven years' transportation. NEW COURT. Before Mr. Sergeant Alums. Tina ANNUAL/J.—Jane Baits, aged 37, stood indicted for stealing 49 engraved prints, the property of Henry Triggs, on the 19th of S e pt e mber; and Jane Simpson was also charged with having re ceived some of them, knowing them to be stolen. Messrs. BOLLARD and CIiZUWZLL were for the prosecution, and Mr. Las appeared for the prisoner Simpson. The case occupied the Court the greater part of the morning, and excited considerable interest amongst the publishers of " Annuals," as the prints alleged to have been stolen were some of those which were engraved fur the " Gem," Literary Souvenir," " Friend ship's Offering," and the " Juvenile Forget me Not, " for 1830. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty spinet Bain, and Ac quitted Simpson. Catherine Cosird was found guilty of stealing a quantity of wear ing apparel and other articles, the property of Bridget Kelley, and sentenced to a lengthened period of hard labour. Sarah Sharpe and Elisabeth Ryan were found guilty of stealing a watch, with chain, seals, atc. the property of Edward Brockman. DRUGS TOR TIM PURPOSE OP SOURRY. Charlotte Shard was indicted fur stealing forty-seven sovereigns from the person of Joseph Singer. The prosecutor stated that he was a currier. On the 15th of October he was at Drury-lane Theatre, and on coming out he was rather intoxicated, and was taken to the watch-house. When there, he placed fifty-nine sovereigns in the hands of Mr. Thomas. the inspector. After he was discharged from the watch house he met the prisoner, and accompanied her to her lodg ings, where he passed the night; the next morning he took the prisoner to the Zoological Gardens and other places. and called at the watch-house for the money he left there the previous night. He returned home with the prisoner, and they had two bottles of wine. Witness drank a few glasses, when be found himself getting drowsy, and he fell asleep on the bed. When be awoke the prisoner and his money were gone. He believes that some drugs had been put in the wine, or it would not have made hint so drowsy—he did not drink more than five glasses of wine. Sarah Uoyd stated that she called at the prisoner's lodgings on the night in question, saw the prosecutor and her drinking wine together; the latter pulled out a bag full of sovereigns. Witness drank some wine with them, and left them about ten o'clock ; ad vised the prosecutor to take care of his money. The prisoner con tinually pressed the prosecutor to drink more wine. Witness said, " Why do you press the gentleman to drink wine?" and she re plied." That is my business, not yours." Mary Cherry stated that the prisoner lodged at her house. She beard her come down stairs, about two o'clock on the morning after the robbery ; she called to witness that she was going out to get something to drink ; she left the house, and witness heard no more of her until she was taken into custody. Sarah Allington stated that the prisoner came to lodge with her on the day after the robbery. Prisoner produced some gold, and said it was money that had been left her by her brOther; and that she intended to return to her friends in the country. They went out together, and the prisoner bought a quantity of new clothes. Samuel Stephens, as officer, stated, that he ,apprehended the prisoner on the 21st of October, iu Shoreditch ; be told her he took her for robbing Mr. Singer of some sovereigns. She denied all knowledge of the robbery, and offered him se.s to let her go. He found a box of tier's afterwards, and in it a viol coniainiug sugar of lead. He took it to a chemist, who on examining it de clared that ft was a very strung poison. 'fite prisoner put in a written defence, in which she in general terns. protested her innocence. She did not call any witnesses. The COMMON Statiaaarr summed up the evidence—and the Jury retured a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Wontner, after the verdict stated that the prisoner wished to inform the Court that she gave £l9 to a mass named phalli', and, that she wished if it could be recovered that it should be given up ot the prosecutor. . . C 11M • EN T. —The large snails which are fo'und . in pr. , dens and woods di4harge a whitish substance. with `a . sllny am) g e latinous'appearence, which has been known to ceeifent twe piecws of Snit so strongly as to beardishiog on a pavement without the junction being disturbed, although the flint broke into fragments by fresh tract urri.—Minvr. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. - - - -------- The settling for the Houghton Meeting was heavy, and occu pied the better part of the afternoon. The betting vim almost ex clusively on the Derby, the odds being taken about Mummer, Brunswicker, and Wat Tyler pretty freely. Cetus was quoted at 15 to 1, but his friends were shy; so were the backers of Sal, Cressida, Mahnsoud, and the Major; the betters of the odds form ing a great majority of the subscsibers present. Bud is likely to rise for the St. Leger, the odds (9 to 1) having been taken by oar of :he leading betters ; nothing else was done on this stakes except an offer to take 50 to I about Mummer. The following were the closing offers : DUCT. 7 to 1 agst Sir NI. Wood's Mummer (taken) 13 to 1 -- Sir 111. Wood's Cetus 14 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker (taken) 17 to I Lord Exeter's Mahmoud 17 to 1 Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt is to 1 -- Lord Sefton's SA Colt 20 to 1 -- Mr. Thornhill's Vat Tyler (taken) 20 to 1 --- Mr. l'etre's The !IlAjor 20 to 1 -- Lord Cavendish's Mouse•colt 35 to 1 Ld Sefton's Captain Arthur 0111[11. The only bet made on this Stakes was 20 to 1 agst Lord Queens- berry's Sister to Emma. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Hnsty Smith, a respectable-looking young man, who stated him self to be a mineral-water maker, was brought up, charged with stealing a chest of tea from Pickford's warehouse, in Wood-street, on Saturday evening. The depredation was effected with singular audacity while se veral persons belonging to the premises were about the yard. It appeared that seven chests of tea were sent in front Messrs. Etherington and Co. in Barge-yard, Bucklesbury, to be forwarded by the canal, and after they had been placed in a van for removal to the wharf, the prisoner walked boldly up and carried one of the chests off upon his shoulder to that part of the yard where the booking•office is situated. To this place he was watched by the porters in charge of the van, who. from the coolness of his manner conjectured be was the owner of the goods, and they supposed his object in carrying the chest again to the booking-office, must be to have it sent by land carriage. Having waited in a corner till their suspicions were lulled, he walked off with his booty, but not without being ques tioned at the gate by the watchman, whom he at first satisfied, by stating that it had been left with the other six chests by mistake, and must be taken to the White Horse at Cripplegate. He made a short circuit in the rear of the yard, and in attempting to cross Wood-street to pass through an alley into Staining-lane, his manner suited t►e suspicion of one of Pickford's porters, and of a con stable, and be was stopped. When the constable accosted him, he attempted to drop thecheat upon his toes. The value of the tea was upwards of £3O. Being asked if he wished to say anything respecting the charge, be replied be should reserve himself for another occasion.—He was committed for trial:. HATTON-GARDEN. Saturday evening, W. Tyler, an old man who keeps a shop in Cow-cross for the sale of old books, and a circulating library, was brought up along with his wife, charged with vendicg indecent books and prints. The case was remanded till yesterday. The prosecution, we understood, was at the instance of Mr. Hynd, the clerk of St. Sepulchre's parish. . Edwards and another officer having been instructed, went to the shop and were served with a certain book of an infamous descrip tion, ond on searching the shop further, they found a number of others, amounting to about 150 copies. The female, it appeared, was implicated, as being the principal vendor In the disgraceful traffic. In explanation, she stated, that they had received an or der for these sorts of publications from Scotland, and* they had been supplied by a printer, whose name she gave. Henley, a constable, who resides in Peter's-lane leading from Cow-cross, had, nearly three years ago, purchased a similar publica tion at the same shop. A number of the prints and hooks were produced in the Office, all of the vilest description. The books were ordered to be burnt by the officers, and the Tyler* were put upon bail of £5O, not to be found having for sale such books or prints in future. Mr. LAINIII and Mr. Runes. sent one of their favourite officers to turn out the Reporters, before this investigation commenced. Joseph Conlell, a builder of ovens, was brought up on charges of having deserted his wife and three children, leaving them charge able to the parish of St. Pancras, and with having cruelly assaulted his wife, whets she by accident met him on Saturday last. The prisoner had been once before sent to the. House of Correction for the same offence. Kempton, the constable, stated that the prisoner was living with a little girl about 15 years of age, and the prisoner afterwards ac knowledged that their residence is lu Cow-cross. He made a desperate resistance at his apprehension, and it took eight men to secure him. He was sent for three months to the House of Cor rection. UNION HALL. Yesterday morning, JAN Smiley and Thous Harford, two keep ers in the Lunatic Asylum, Lambeth, were brought up before the Sitting Magistrate. under the following circumstances : —Freeman Anderdon, Esq. has resided at No. 2. York-street, York-road, Lambeth. for upwards of 12 years past, and has kept a banking account with Messrs. Anderdon, Bosanquet, and Co. Lombard street, the head of the firm being his brother. On Saturday the complainant gave a check for the balance of his account with Messrs. Anderdon and Co. amounting to 1(401.; this he was not allowed to do without any reason for retaining that suns being given. Upon this the complainant waited upon his solicitor, Mr. Tru whitt, Lincoln's Inn, and desired him to arrest the whole of the partner,. Mr. Truwhitt, however, made a written application for" the balance, and sent a special messenger with a letter, stating that, if the money was not paid by 11 o'clock on Monday 'morning (yesterday), proceedings would most certainly be taken against them. To this letter no answer was received. In the interval, Mr. Oliver and Mr. James Anderdon, brothers of the complainant, applied to Dr. Burrowes, 10, Montague street, Russell-square, and desired that gentleman's medical assistance, as the complainant. their brother, was labouring under a disordered state of mind. Upon this, the following copy of an order to the keepers, Shelley and Harford, was sent off : "By direction of Mr. Oliver and Mr. James Anderdon, and others, please to take charge of Mr. Freeman Anderdon, he being insane, and confine him in his own house, No. 2, York-street,. York-road. (Signed) " G. M. Bunaewss. Montague-street, Russell-square, " Ist November." The keepers proceeded a►out seven o'clock, on Sunday evening, to the house of the complainant. They then set about confining him in a room ; this was on his part resisted. They proceeded to violent measures; a serious disturbance took place, which alarmed seine neighbouring gentlemen. Coustablei were sent for, to whose . cue the keepers were assigned, and locked up in the watch-house • all night. At ten o'clbck on the following morning.(Monday,) Dr. Burrows drove over to York-place to visit his patient, when he was astounded un being informed that the keepers whom be bad sent were in custody, charged with a serious assault, and that the complainant had gone to Union-hall to prosecute them, attended by his solicitor, Mr. Truwhitt, and a numerous party of friends. Dr. Burrowes drove to the office, and arrived just as the case against the men bad been heard by Mr. CHANII2III, and notice sent to Montague-place, to request the Doctor's attendance. A long conversation took place between Mr. Cuaamass and Dr. Butrowes, which did not transpire. The latter gentleman then went to ask the attendance of the parties at whose instigation the order had been given. At the close of the business of the office, neither the Doctor nor his friends had returned. The keepers were, of course, discharged. THAMES POLICE. fru. Rois ter, in the service of Mr. John Surrey, the proprietor of a flour-mill, neat Wapping Old-stairs. wii charged with rubbing his employer of Sour, malt, and other property, to a large amount. It appeared that the prisoner bad been In the employ of Mr. Sur rey for five years. About last June the depredations on Mr. Su:- rry's property became so extensive, that be suspected some of the workmen, and steps were adopted to detect them, but in vain, till Saturday evening, when the prisoner was stopped soon after be had left work, by William Judge, a Thames-police surveyt.r, and a quantity of flour- wu found in his hat and pockets, and some cat-got round his _body. Judge immediately procuded to the prisoner's house. in l'asling-street,&. George's,and in every • room discovered flour, amounting in all* to *vend hundred-weight, concealed under the gads and in drawers; cupboards, chests. sod lathe coal•boles. • The whole, with a number of flour-sacks. sun plc-lugs. two sacks of ground-malt, fifteen quarto of iplieptUes several jars of oatmeal, and a Vast quantity of othei propereW4roo seized and brought to the office in a can. Mr. Surrey. esaidood the property: He said there could be' little toubt but the the whole belonged to him. but declined positively swearing k had _lieen stolen from the will. A quantity of ied-lead; emery. Ultow, rope; twine, hra7i =aigitie' Vibtkk, 'and'othefitiiipertyl found leithe isrisiner s i tibuse,Wras ail, pitirhicesl.r • bitiStitteey sad. sitdMs-sr ttehtchadfirm freqtrently'skolen Wm-Ms premises. but' could-tot 'west to the property prodoced. Mr. llsoossit. said, thciitgh the prtipertY etial&ndt belliedttled, he was determined such a gross breach of confidence should not go unpunished, and sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprison ment, and hard labour. The whole of the property was declared forfeited. William Mackintosh was reexamined on a charge of attacking a coal-porter, and stealing from his person four shillings in silver. The prisoner met the coal-porter a few evenings since in Shad well, and taking advantage of the latter being intoxicated, knocked him down, and robbed him of the money. The prisoner was ob served by a watchman, who pursued and took him into custody. No prosecutor appearing, the defendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment as a reputed thief. Wherever trade may be declining, that of litigation is not. The number of writs taken out this vacation, preparatory to the ensuing Term, is 11,000 more than were issued previously to the preceding Term, and 5,000 more than were taken out during the corresponding period of last year. A cluster of five swan 's -egg pears was last week gathered from a tree in the garden of Mr. John Sharp, at Lancing, Sussex ; they grew on one strig, or stalk, and weighed 28 ounces; seven others trop the same tree weighed 30 ounces. WOO ARE ESQUIRES ?—The title of Esquire is coeval with the Conqueror, but in its present application it takes its date from Henry the Fifth. Some go so far back as Edward the Third, but this is a mistake, as in that reign an Esquire was only as it ori. ginally implied, an attendant on a Knight. Eustace and Merceeur were the Esquires or attendants of Edward the Black Prince. The word is derived from the Norman Equine. from whence also is derived Equery. lien* the Fink. after his victoty at Agin court, reads from a paper, presented by a Herald, the names of the principal characters who were slain— " Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Stiffolk, Sir Richard Ketley, Davy Gain, Esquire: None else of name ; and, of all other men, But five-and-twenty." The late Lord Barrington was once asked by a German Prince-- " Pray, my Lord, of what rank is an Esquire in England?" when his Lordship replied," Why, Sir, I cannot exactly tell you, as you have no equivalent for it in Germany ; but an English Esquire is considerably above a German Baron, and something below a Ger man Prince." Nothing can be mere absurd than the commonly. received notion, that a certain property constitutes a man an Es squire ; in the country, however, every village has its 'Squire, and to dub him less would be an affront not easily forgotten. The fact is, none are Esquires *facto but the following, viz. all in his Nis jesty's Commission of the Peace; all members of and pertaining to his Majesty's Government ; all Officers of tb's regular Army down to a Captain ; and all Officers niche Navy down to a Lieute nant. These are the only Esquires de facto t however, the title or distiction is generally given to professional men, to persons en-' gaged in literary pursuits, and to wealthy people in general. Doc- • tors of the three learned professions, and Barristers, rank above Esquires. Attornies are Gentlemen by Act of Parliament. A fire broke out in the paper-mill of Mr. George Harrison. at Chester, on Friday afternoon, which entirely de stroyed two-thirds of the premises, which contained some valuable machinery. An Inquest was held on Saturday, at the residence of Win, Willis, Esq. Montagu-square, to inquire into the death of his son, William Henry Willis, Esq —Robert Russell, the footman., proved that on Wedne.day night last he heard an alarm of fire, and met the deceased Gentleman in the hall in his shirt and cap, with his hands and face covered with blood. At two o'clock on Thursday morning he died. The room in which the deceased slept was on the second floor; on entering it witness found the bed and furniture, and the window blinds, on fire. The candlestick was found behind the pillow. Joseph Cox, a surgeon, stated that the deceased told him that he had been reading in bed. Verdict—, " Accidental Death." EXECUTION AT PAlSLEY.—Thursday, John Craig* and James Brown, convicted at the last Glasgow Autumn Circuit Court of Justiciary of the crime of Stouthrief, underwent the last and awful penalty of the law, pursuant to their sentence. on a scaffold erected in front of the new County-buildings in Paisley. It la rather singular in the annals of Paisley, that the three - last executions there, have all been 32 years asunder, namely—the first in 1765 ; the second in 1797 ; and the third in 1829. At Limerick, the lady of Captain Garrett H. Fitzgerald, of a daughter. MARRIED. At Myers Castle, Joseph Maitland, Esq. third son of Admix Maitland, Esq. of Dundrennan, to Ann Maria. eldest daughter of James Pillans, Esq. - At Dumfries, W. Stewart, Req. of Shambelly, to Jessie, young est.daughter of the late Mr. Ilphert [lowa, merchant there. At North Berwick, the Rev. Matthew Carrier Thompson, of Woodstone Rectory, Huntingdon, to Eliza, second daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colooel Dalrymple, C. B. Mathes artillery. DIED. At Laureston Castle, Miss' Helen Alhn, youngest daughter of Thomas Allan, Esq. of Lauristoo, in the 16th year of her age. At his seat, BaUynabinch, in the County Clare, Cornelius D'Callaghan, Esq. of Holles'ltreet, Dublin, an eminent attorney. At Edinburgh, Mrs. Mary Maswell, relict of the late 11ev. James Hall, D. D. of Broughton Place Church. NEVIGATB AND LICADBNIiALL MAILKETS, Nov. S. Beef ..... 3s Od to 3.1 4 Yd I Veal 34 Sd to 4s 4d Mutton ..... 33 4d to 3s 6.1 Pork Ss 4d to 4s 84 Lamb 3s 4d to 4s. PRICES or HAY AND STRAW YESTERDAY. ST. JA IS$ s. • IVNITIMINATEL. Hay 3115 s Od to 41 15s Od Hay 11 10$ to 41 8s Od Clover 3110$ Od to 51 51 Od Clover 21 10, to 51 les Od Straw 21 2s Od to 21 5s Od Straw II 141 to 21 Os 01 PRICE OF LEATHER. Best Dressing Hides • l4d to 16d . Common Ditto Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting .Ditto 45 to 50Ibs l7d to 19d Calf Skins. 36 to 40Ibs ..... Ditto 50 to 701bs - 23 d to 284 Ditto 70 to 801b5 ... .. ...Small Seals, Greenland) :O4 to 2W Tanned Horse Hides 164 to -2.1.4 Spanish Horse Hides .... .......... ... 23d to +9.1 PRICE OF HOPS, Noe. Y. _ mew rocxrrs. es IM PAG4. Kent 180 s to 220.1 Kent Sussex Essex Farnham fine 2804 to 37.6s—Seconds. 240 i to 280 s Old Duty laid at £39,000. • PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP ae. Town Tallow 4gs Oct j Yellow Soap 78s od Yellow Russia ... 4050411 Mottled .. ... 84s od White ditto- —s Od Curd —s od Soap ditto —4 od Graves t6s od Melting 33s0d 'Good Dregs 5s od Tallow Imported frogs &. Petersburgh, 7,710 Casks. • PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, broom, 411. cos. reamed, 431. Os. Unwed 0i1,421. 10s. linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand, 111. 11a. Rape Cake, per ton, 51.105. to 01. Os. PRICE OF SEEDS, Nov. 2. Our market continues stead since our last uotation. Tbere is some demand,for Red Clover, y and Trefoil is in q qvired after. COURSE OF BEd Amsterdam ...12 7 C.F. Ditto at sight —.12 41 1 Rotterdam 2 U 12 71 Antwerp ...12 71 Hamburgh Ul3 151 Altons ... 21 U 13 151 Paris,3darssight 25 75 Ditto 2 U 26 00 Madrid Cadiz ... 361 Barcelona ..36 Gilboa ... tANGE, Nov. 2. Seville Gibraltar .. 47i Leghorn ... 47b Genoa 25 85 Venice ... 47e I 'Malta 4Bi Naples I Palermo .. 119 d per us Lisbon .. 00 ltio Janeiro .. 24; le t Cork PRICBSOF GOLD AND SILVER. Foreign Gold in liars ... £3 17 9 Silver, in Bars, standard ... 0 0 0 COAL NI AILILICF, Nur. S. _ Ships at Market. Ships Sold. 471 Newcastle 3711 41} Sunderland £S6 I Yorkshire I 0 Scotch Coal 0 , Stone Coal i 0 Welsh Coal 0' Coins Pt ice. °Wen • 4- -forniaW Coal . it. e • 11. J.:4. Iv AT • ',.lVorsine es. 6d to 364 9 t 7. Od to •37s 25s 64 to 00s 0 001 Od to COI 0 40s Od to 004 0 00$ Od to 00s 0 00s 04 to 00s 0 00s Od to 004 0 Stls Od to 223 0 3t itt LOPEDt)!I•IOCTOGR, TO NOkleoW. . 50. suture• Atter 6 s . 62inut.es. WO 7 Looms Printed and NU%lied by JoeitilSailor. It Ike SSA ... Ovnca, No. 1. Pickett place ,Tempk Bar.