Star. — London, England, 1830-09-30 00:00:00

• • . Im _•• M PETTY SESSIONS. t•- 4 0 0 — Tio..day a plc.,/ ,f , :sinn was held at Cispham, at which Jonw V a v 1: N 1111.1, and THOS. PIT CI LE, emirs. the Alagistrates, presided, and oecit pied !' , ll..•oine time in investigating a charge of a RCIITIERY BY BAVARIAN BROOM GIRL[. ~.er Sc:ataidt, Itannah Schmidt (a man,) Catherine iiitttiitt. Yehtniat. anal Catherine Hoffman, who obtain their living by hawking 1.1.8.0 ms about the country with the cry of "Buy a broom," were brought up charged with having violently assaulted and robbed Joseph NVVIFIN. a ~;artlener, on the Wanil%wotth.road, on Thursday night last. Norris 4tated that he was a labouring gardener, and lived near the melope Inn, at Wandsworth. On Thursday night last, about 19 12 ::'clock, he was going home along the Wandsworth-road, near Lonna ster.sweep (a turning leading to Clapham,) when three broom girls pass rd him in brown dresses, such as they usually wear, but the night was so stark he could not discern their features, but they appeared to have white handkerchiefs bound over their heads. He (witness) was !oil/. towards AVandsworth, and the girls towards town. After they had . ahem 11) yard 4, he turned his head and saw they were stopping. kg had net proceeded many paces farther, when he observed the prisoner, Peter s:chmidt, dressed in a blue stnockfrock, standing with his back *phut a .uer, and the other prisoner Hannah Schmidt stooping behind : just as vissed them, Peter Schmidt came behind him, and placing his hand h;- shoulder, said, " Halloo, how much money have you got about you ' The prisoner had a foreign accent. Witness saki he had none. He Oen ask. d if he had a watch in his pockets he answered in the -er..tis.e. upon which prisoner felt his trousers, at the sometime saying it was riot likely a young man like him should be without money or ‘vatcli : he then seized him by the collar, and called the other prisoner Hannah Schmidt, who came up from behind the tree, but before he awls up the other prisoner had knocked him down, and had placed his hand over his mouth to prevent him calling 'for assistance. Witness begged fur assistance, and said, " For GOD'II sake don't ill-use me, and I'll give you all I have." Upon this assurance he allowed him to rise, and' he then turned his pockets inside out, and witness gave him 4s. 6d. all die money he had. At this moment the three broom girls came up, and stood near whilst the prisoner Peter Schmidt robbed him. They then desired him to make the best of his way home, and swore if be made any alarm they would knock his brains out. At some distance he came up with two policemen, and he gave information to them of the robbery, and a description of their persons. He (witness) was quite positive as to the identity of the prisoners, and they all joined after the robbery, and proceeded towards London. Magistrate.—Did they use any further violence towards you than you have already described ? Norris.—They threatened to murder me if I made any alarm; and when I was knocked down my head was much hurt by the fall. klagtstrate.—Are you positive the three broom girls were in their society ? Norris.—l am quite sure they were all together. Cornelius Casey, a policeman, division V. No. 71, stated that on Thursday night last, about eleven o'clock, he saw all the prisoners pass through the town of Wandsworth; they were going towards London. The prosecutor met him, and told him of the robbery, and he and another constable pursued the prisoners as far as Vauxhall turnpike, but could not overtake them. He gave information to some policemen of the L division, who subsequently took the prisoners into custody. Witneu is certain he saw them passing through Wands worth.. Thomas Cooke, policeman, division 1., No 59, stated that on Thurs day night, shortly after 12 o'clock, the prisoners came up to him in Kennington-lane ' and asked him the way to Whitechapel ; he di rected them, and they went away. In a few minutes after he heard of the robbery, and instantly followed them, and succeeded in apple. bending them. He conveyed them back to Clapham, where he searched them, and-on the prisoner Peter Schmidt he found a bag containing 291. 10s. all in silver, and some coppers. The two male prisoners spoke English very well. The prisoners, when called upon for their defence, said, in broken English, they were innocent of the robbery, and declared they had never seen the prosecutor before. They, however, admitted they were on the Wandsworth road at the time in question. The Magistrate, said the evidence was quite conclusive, and they should therefore send the prisoners for trial. They were then fully committed to Horsemonger-lane gaol, to take their trial at the next assizes. Yesterday Captain William Smith, R.N. was brought before the Ma gistrates, Jona RAVENHILL and THOMAS PUCKLZ, Esqrs. upon a warrant obtained against him by William Edwards, his madman, for an assault. Capt. Smith is the same Gentleman who, it will be rentembered,some time ago resided in Eustonaquare, and who was tiled and acquitted at tne Old Bailey, for committing a rape upon a female, under very extra ordinary circumstances, which at the time created much interest. Since that period the Captain has been residing on Clapham Common, at the house of Mr. Chinga, where he occupies an elegant suite of apartments. The Captain, it appears, still indulges in his extraordinary habits, and i. is servants, especially females, never continue in his service more than a fortnight, when they invariably are compelled to leave, for their per sonal safety, and in many instances the Magistrates have been applied to, to recover their boxes, the Captain having refused to give them up unless they conform to his wishes. In this cue the complainant stated that lie had been engaged by Capt. Smith as coachman a few weeks back, and he had done every thing in his power to serve his master, who on Monday told him to go about his business, without assigning tiny cause for his dismissal. He called shortly after to ask for his wages, when the Captain turned him down stairs and struck him. Captain Smith, with great warmth, endeavoured to show that the coachman had given him provocation for assaulting him, but failed • and the Magistrates ordered him to pay a fine of forty shillings untie; Mr. Peel's Act. The Captain said, " I will be d—d if I pay the fine." The Magistrates immediately fined the Captain ss. for swearing, and asked him whether :le was ready to pay the fine, or in default they should have the unpleasant duty of committing him to prison for two months. Captain Smith W3F inexorable, and refused to pay. The Magistrates then ordered his commitment to be made out, and the Captain was conveyed in his own carriage in custody of an officer to prison, fcr the terns of two months. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sm. 29. THE VALUE or ♦ F aavalito.—Georoc Sing, a simple-looking man, described as late a fanner at Cranbrook, was opposed by an elderly gentleman named Unecure, in propria persona, who complained that the insolvent bad put him to unnecessary expense by sending him a frivolous letter. The opposing creditor stated, that several years ago he lent the in solvent 1,6001. secured by a bond of his brother, who bad lately be come bankrupt, but under whose Commission he received 14s. in the pound, and for the residue he had arrested the insolvent, who ren dered to prison in May, and afterwards sent him a letter enclosing a farthing. Commissioner litmus—Where is the letter ? What did it state ? " I am an injured man," exclaimed the opposing creditor, "he put me to seventeen pence expence for a farthing !"—(laughter ;) and he handed the letter with the farthing up to the Court. The following is a copy of the letter, the reading of which excited the risibility of the whole Court : Debtors• Prison. My dear Sir—l have a LITTLE money which I have just received, and 1 beg your acceptance of the enclosed in liquidation of my debt. Yours truly, OEO. KING. HARRIS-Why did you write this foolish letter to year creditor? insolvent.—l did not write it, Sir ; some one wrote it in the prison. (A laugh.) The COUST said such conduct could not be tolerated, and the in solvent would be made an example of : it was enough for a creditor to dose his debt. Mr. Cooxx hoped the Court would not remand his client, as he had suffered already four months' confinement. The letter was evidently written to cause a laugh. Mr. Commissioner fissure said that the Court was invested with a diwretionary power, whist they would exercise on the insolvent. Mr. Comex—Then lam afraid you will make the insolvent laugh on the wrong side of his mouth.—(d laughter.) Mr. Commissioner HARKlll—Creditor are not to be harrassed in such a manner. A remand fill deter others from the same course. Mr. Cooxx said the insolvent had been very ill, and further confine ment would materially impair his health. Mr. Commissioner Hsancslemained inexorable. and sentenced the insolvent, for his foolish conduct, to six months' imprisonment from the date of filing his petition, which will expire in the latter end of isovember. Wonsuir ix Russ s,—Let a person he ever so reli gions, he has the greatest dint:nil to refrain from laughing, when he sees so many genuflexions and so many crosses made before a trum pery image, beside whichmue: simpleton has pfaced a lighted taper. You can seldom pus therolte of me Kremlin without seeing some old woman or other of thelower class, notwithstanding the carriages, strik ing her head in her pions zeal for an hour together against the muddy pertinent. How often lime I seen a long barded hypocrite, holding a relic to be kissed by a poor young girl, who firmly believed that she pious offering of a few copecks could secure her father and her lover from the murderous sabres of the Turks ! No droschka driver fails to make the sign of the cross as he passes the image of any saint at the coruer of a street, rind even the shopkeeper does nut forget to cross himself befOre be cheats you out of your cuh. But it is in the churches that the absurdity of all this pious mummery is most striking. Placeruneif near the altar, if you would observe the truly comic movements of an'thaie backs that bend, of all those heads that bow, in comet: • Old end tong, men and women, devotees with grey beards and without any beards at all, follow this religious cadence with woaderful precision.—Fanailp .fifertsine. INVERNESS CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE. William Dunand, pilot, formerly residing in Lower Pulteney Town, Wick, forge Jamieson, sailor, formerly residing in Upper Pulteney Town, and John Henderson, pilot or fisherman, residing in Pultency Town, were charged with having, on the 2d of December, 1825, within the bane occupied by the said William Durrand, feloniously assaulted James Small, mate on board the ship Rose, of Wick, which was then lying In the harbour of Pulteney Town, and striking him several blows on the head with a glass bottle, or candlestick, by which he was felled to the ground; and, while lying on the ground, they did spring upon him, and violently twist his neckcloth round his throat, and forcibly compress his throat until he died in consequence of the injuries and vio lence then received. The prisoners severally pleaded Not Guilty. James Farquhar went to Durrand's, along with Small, on the evening of his death ; the three prisoners were in the same room ; Small had a quarrel with Dunand, on account of having charged him with sending dead bodies to Leith ; and had also some words with Henderson; Due. rand gripped Small by the neck, and a scuffle took place ; the candle was blown out, but before it was put out, Durrand struck him a blow with a bottle on the forehead ; witness went up to Small to see why be did not rise ; he was lying on the floor, and witness said, " Lads, you see what you have done; you'll be hung for that." Henderson and Durrand were nearest the body; Jamieson was greeting on the floor, and said " he had no band in it." After the light was put out, tritons beard two blows, but did not bear Small fall ; when they found that Small was dead, they all took an oath that they would never divulge the secret; witness sanctioned all that was done; left the house about twelve o'clock. when it was moonlight; does not remember what they said thetwould do with the body; one day he saw the body; it was coming from Pulteney ; last spring witness made a confession to the Rev. Mr. Simpson, in Orkney, and afterwards ordered it to be sent to Wick ; witness had frequently spoken to Emily Sutherland in the gaol, but never told her what to say about this case, nor did she tell him. On his cross-examination, witness stated that it was after a second light was brought in, and extinguished intentionally, that Small re. celved the mischief He made a confession, bemuse he bad learnt that there was a great deal of law work in Caithness about Small); death, and that Durrand's servant had disclosed it ell. Emily Sutherland was in Durrand's service at the time of the murder; has no reason to think that any one struck Small except Durrand. Emily Sutherland—l was a servant in William Durrand's house at the time of Small's death ; I saw him in the room with George Jamieson, Durrand, Henderson, and James Fasquhar. I looked through the fey bole, and saw nine or ten of them about the body of Small in the cellar; I do not recollect that Farquhar was in the miler, but the three prisoners and Mrs. Durrand were there. They were an hour and a half in the cellar. I heard Mrs. Durrand say she would do his Maginot& I saw James Small lying on his back on welsh. Some body took from him his pocket-book, and they parted the money. At the close of all the book was in Mrs. Durrand's band. After the money was parted, one of the strange men carried him out. All went out but Mrs. Durrand. One man carried the body to the shore at the beck of the quay, and stopped there. The prisoners were with the body. It was at the breaking of the day when the body was car : ied out. Captain Macbeth examined on behalf of the prisoner—Durrand never shipped any boxes by witness's vessel. Witness was not in Durrand's house at all on the night previous to the finding of Small's body. Never made it a practice to go into public houses with his mate. A number of witnesses gave evidence that Emily Sutherland was not in the service of Durrand, and that Mrs. Durrand was from home at the time of the alleged murder. One of the witnesses stated that there were no company in Durrand's house on the evening when Small was said to have been murdered. Another witness proved that, when Emi Sutherland was called to be precognosced for the defence, Farquhar sai d, " Do not answer these gentlemen." Lord Mackenzie said it was unnecessary to go over the evidence, and he left the case in the hands of the Jury. The Jury retired for about twenty minutes, and returned • verdict finding, by a majority, the whole of the prisoners Not Guilty. The panels were accordingly assoiliz4 and dismissed from the bar. Lord MEADOWBANIE remarked that, between the witnesses, there was, on one side or other, gross and deliberate perjury, and justice would not be done to the public if the matter was not further investi gated by the public prosecutor. It was past eleven o'clock before this ease terminated, it having oc cupied the Court 15 hours. POLICE REPORTS. GUILDRALL.--John Connor, a stout young fellow, who said he was an apprentice to a machine- maker, was brought before Mr. Alder. man Ansley yesterday, charged with breaking and entering the pre. olives of Mr. Marriott, a coach-painter, in Goldsmith.street, Gough. 'quart. The complainant stated that about eight o'clock on Tuesday even ing, he heard a noise in his bed-room on the first floor, and perceiving at the same time a strong smell of fire, he became alar med, and rushed up stairs. He went without a light, and had to pass through a sitting. room to get to the bed-room. He found the doors of both unlocked, and on entering the bedroom, he kicked against something, and then stepped on the body of a man. lie immediately caught hold of the collar of his coat, and stamped with his feet to alarm the persons be neath, and upon a Mr. Evans coming to his assistance, he found it was the prisoner whom he had secured. The prisoner made no resistance, and said he wanted a lodging, and he asked what they meant to do with him ? Witness observed a silver watch had been taken from the head of the bed, and was lying on the counterpane, and in the sitting-room a quantity of linen had been taken out of a drawer in the closet, and placed upon the table. He found also some burnt paper lying on the table, and in the drawer. The officer produced two skeleton keys adapted for small locks, two more for room-door locks, and a latch-key, which he had found on the prisoner, and in the rooms. The risoner said he was so intoxicated that he did not know why or how he got into the premises. He was committed for trial. Bow-sTazET.--Yesterday morning &leant M'Sweeney brought three little girls, the eldest of whom could not have been more than eight years of age, before Mr. HILLS, stating that he had found them wandering about the streets in the rain, about one o'clock that morning. They stated that they all belonged to one family, and that they were waking for their sister, whom they expected to return to take th em home every instant. After the lapse of an hour, the sister not having made her appearance, he took the children to the station, where they one and all refused to give the address of their patents. Their conduct was the most artful that could be imagined, and the evasions to which they re sorted were truly astonishing. Mr. HALLS observed, that he had no doubt whatever that they had come from the purlieus of St. Gibes. Ford, the gaoler, then recognised one of them as • little mendicant, who, to excite charity, held a paper containing an appeal to the humane and benevolent, before her face • and the other two as children who, under pretence of selling matches, also carried ok,the trade of jute nik beggars. Mr. HALLe---.No doubt they would know their way home, if let into the streets? Ford—No doubt they would, your worship. Mr. Hau.s ordered them to be set at liberty, and they accordingly scampered off about their business, seemingly much delighted. Harrox.filmintx.—Riehard Dwatfor4 butcher, was brought up on a warrant charged with assaulting Philip Arnold. Arnold, in answer to the usual questions, stated the defendant had assaulted him by striking him on the side of the bead with his fist, but added be did not wish to press the charge. The latter sentence escaped the ear of the magistrate, who was pro. seeding to treat the charge in the usual manner, when Umbria the of. ficer directed the attention of Mr. Rogers, to the desire expressed by the prosecutor. The magistrate questioned Limbrick and Hall, the officers, to whom the warrant had been entrusted, and they both stated they had been told by the parties that the affair was made up. They had gone several times to bring down the defendant, but could never get him, and it was not till they had threatened to take both prosecutor and defendant before the magistrates that they got the parries to appear, and they then said a compromise had taken place. Mr. Lame (to the defendant).—What money has passed between you and the defendant ? Defendant—Ten shillings. Mr. LAIN (to complainant,)—Produce the ten shillings, sir, you have received. Arnold.—l cannot, Sir, I have it not about me. Mr. LAING.—We are not going to allow our warrants to be treated in this manner. Mr. Roos can go into the case. (To defendant) What have you to say to It? Defendant stated, that the dispute had arisen out of Arnold's owing him a small debt, and which he had often called on him for payment. Arnold frequently at these times had spoken to him in an unbecoming manner, which was the case at the time that the assault took place ; and in the irritation of the moment he had raised his hand and struck the complainant a blow. Mr. Lamo.—And how, under these circumstances, did you come to pay him ten shillings? Defendant.—Because I had never been before a Magistrate in my life, and I preferred getting rid of the matter by paying him 10s. The money was paid by • friend of mine to him. Mr. Latwo.--Then you shall pay other twenty shillings to the Ring; and you will know in future to take better care when money is required from you in like manner Defendant was astonished at the turn which the case had taken, but 1 he paid the fine and was discharged. Mr. LAING turned to the complainant, and told him that he had better mind what he was about ; and if he (Arnold) attempted such a pa:ceding again, he might, perhaps, find that the consequences would be more serious t han he imagined. TAIIING AN OATN.—A constable about to give evidence in a charge, hastily took the Testament from the hand of the °Seer in sueadance, and before three words of the oath were articulated the constable Mood the book, and began to give his evidence. Mr. Ftagers, who observed the neglect, reproved him very sharply, telling him that he ought to pay the greatest attention to the obligation, and to consider that the taking of an oath was a very solemn act. The Magistrate regretted that too little attention was paid to the observance of decency and delibera tion in swearing frequently in Courts. The constable apologized he his mistake, and then wok the oath in a proper manner, before be gave his evidence. ISMILDOIIOI7OII.STRIZT.--RiLTRAOIDTIMIT CAM 0? SHOPLIFT. INO.—On Tuesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, during the sitting of Mr. Roe, the Magistrate at this office, a lady of very fashionable appearance, and very elegantly dressed, was brought before him, from the police station of this division, in custody of Clements and Bates, two police inspectors, on the fallowing singular charge of shoplifthq; s Mr. Ward, a linendraper and haberdasher in Piccadilly, stated that about fire o'clock on that afternoon, the prisoner came alone Into his shop, and asked to look at some goods. The articles she required were accordingly shown to her, and while she was looking them over on the counter, while the persons serving in the shop were engaged with other customers, as, from the respectability of her appearance, not the slightest suspicion was entertained of her dishonesty. It happened, however, AM a few minutes before the prisoner entered the shop, another lady, who resides at Pimlico, purchased several yards of lace, but had not as yet departed, nor taken the lace, which was folded up for her, from the counter where it :had been placed, near the spot where the prisoner stood examining the goods. The lady being about to quit the shop, she asked for the roll of lace, but it was no where to be found, and the prisoner was questioned if she had seen it, but she declared she. had not. As, however, no one else had been near that spot, suspicion was reluctantly cast upon her, and she was requested to search her dress, where, possibly, the lace might have become entangled; but she appeared highly indignant. At length the assurance of her having taken the lace became so strong in the minds of Mr. and Mrs. Ward, that the prisoner was requested to walk up stairs into a private room, which she did without the least hesitation, and was there searched by Mra.Ward, who found the roll of lace concealed in her bosom. A police constable was then called in, and the prisoner was given into custody, and he took her to the podia atadon. Mrs. Ward, who was also in attendance, confirmed her husband's evidence. Clements and Bates, the police Inspectors, stated, that shortly after the prisoner was brought into the 'police station they observed that she Deemed ray uneasy in her person, and frequently shuffled a good deal about her dress, which induced them to think that probably she might have some other concealed property about her, and they determined to have her strictly searched before bringing her in the presence of the Magistrate. They accordingly put her Into a private room with a fe male, who is employed for the purpose, to morels her thoroughly, when it was found that she had on an enormous pair of pockets, one of which contained no less a sum of money than 6 101. in Bank of kngland notes, and in the other a parcel of India Bonds to the value of between 7,0001. and 8,0001. the whole of which property the Inspectors produced to the Magistrate. In answer to questions put to her, the prisoner declined to give her name, or any further account of herself than that she was a lady of rank and fortune, and that she at present resided near Hackney. The charge against ber she declared was utterly unfounded, as she was a person totally incapable of such an 'offence as that alleged against her, and de. pied that she ever had the lice in her possession at all, or that it was found there. The India bonds and money found on her were her own property. She came to London once every year to receive her dividends. The Magistrate said that the charge was of so distinct and clear a nature it was impossible he could do otherwise than have it fully inves tigated, and he should remand her for a future examination. The Ma gistrate then'gave direction to have certain inquiries made by the officers, and ordered the prisoner to be brought up again on Friday—but Mr. Ward said it would be impossible for him to attend on that day, as he was going out of town some distance yesterday on important business, and should not be returned on Friday. Mr. Ron then altered the day for the prisoner's re-eaamination, and ordered her to be brought up on Tuesday next. The Magistrate directed the police inspectors to take charge of all the property found on the prisoner until the next examination. Woosnte-sratEr.—Yesterday Mr. John Talbott, the proprietor of the Three Jolly Butchers, Boot-street, Shoreditch, was summoned by Brooks, the ipformer, for suffering gaming with cards in his house. Purtoo, the informer's witness, swore that on the 25th inst. between eight and nine o'clock, he went into the defendant's tap-room, and saw a number of journeymen bakers playing at cards. The defendant said that the parties who were playing brought the cards with them into his house, and the moment he found it out be took them away. A respectable witness stated, that he saw the defendant take the cards away from the T= who were playing, he told them be would not suffer It in his Mr. BenstaxT.--The case is dismissed. Untow-Har.x.—Yesterday, five young men, named Alm Mills, it fUiasa Gorisy, Patrick Riley, James Kiev, and Thews Bromley, were brought before Mr. CHANDZIM, charged with performing a play in an unlicensed place. The defendants on being placed at the bar ex cited much amusement, each being dressed in the costume of the As racier be played on the preceding night. A variety of theatrical dresses, with helmets, swords, daggers, Rt. were produced, all of which bad fallen into the hands of the officers who intetrupted the performance. An Inspector of the Rotherhithe division stated that complaints had been made by the parish authorities of a nuisance in the neighbourhood of Millpond-bridge. At the above place an outhouse or barn was con verted into a sort of playhouse, where numbers of both sexes congre gated together to witness a theatrical exhibition, and each person was threepence oa entrance. Occasionally much clamour arose chargedeti the building, such as horning, the reports of guns and pis tols, ac. which was a description of nuisance the neighbours were most anxious to have abated, and with this view he (the In spector), accompanied by several policemen, proceeded to a di. lapidated building in Gillian's-lane, on the preceding nigh; and secured the fi ve defendants, who were all on a kind of stage. The de. fendants were all engaged in combat with long swords, but the instant the police entered, they dropped their arms, and the unfortunate ama teurs were all maned in the " green.room," where it appeared they had laid in a good stock of porter and " backy," to regale themselves with after the performance. An attempt was made to "douse the glhns," but the attempt failed. Two of the defendants were dressed in armour of so ponderous a weight, that it was found necessary to convey them in a wheelbarrow to the station.house. The inspector added, that he had ascertained the building in which the performance was going forward had been hired at a weekly sum by Mills, the defendant, who was ma nager of the company. Mr. Cnainzas asked Mills what trade or occupation he followed for a livelihood; be replied that he was a glue-maker, but that having been solicited by a few of his theatrical friends to start a thing of the kind; and being partial to theatricals himself, he had adopted their ad. vice, and rented a concern at four shillings a week, to have their per formances in. Mr. Cmanszaa.—What was the play last night ? Mills—The play was " Blue Beard, ' which was to have been fol. lowed by " the Devil to Pay," had not the police disturbed us. Mr. Cantatas—What character did you take In " Blue Beard ?" Mills.—Why, to tell your Worship the truth, I went our of my ge. peril line last night, and played one of the legs of the elephant in the piece.—(Laughter.) Upon which Mills said, that they were obliged to make shift some. times; but, added he, your Worship, I can play Richard, Othello. and all Mr. Kean's principal characters ; and 1 can assure your Worship that it would astonish you to hear the applause I meet with. - .. Mr. CHAMBERS said that he had no desire to bear it ; proof had been given that he was the chief person concerned in the business, and he must, therefore, find bail. Bromley, the person who played the fiddle, the only instrument in the orchestra, was also held to bail The Magistrate remarked, that the Manager and the Fiddler were the only persons out of the lot he should punish, as they were the chief actors in it. The poor fiddler begged hard to get off, and declared that if he got out of this scrape he should never draw to elbow as long as he lived in any but a licensed house. Evidence, however, was given that he was an old hand a t scra pi ng on the violin at most oethese amateur theatrical exhibitions, and he was, therefore, committed with Milla the manager. The remainder of the defendants were discharged. Twawcs ortrcx.—Yesterday Charles Simesesse, alias Fisher, and Thotssas Keith, two coatermongers, of Bethnal-green, were c h a rge d with soliciting and inciting Robert Butcher, foreman to Mr. Ashley Barrett, a miller, in Nanow.street, Limehouse, to plunder his employer of corn and pollard. They were committed for trial. A frightful accident happened on Tuesday morning to the Rev. Dr. Parsons, who, between the hours of eleven aid twelve, was crossing between the coaches, on the stand in the Haymarket, when a miechlevous hone, in a cab, bit a piece out of the Rev. gentleman's cheek. He was conveyed to a house in the ntighbourhood, white me. dical assistance was procured, and the wound was sewn up. He is doing very well. SHOCKING EFFECTS OF PASSlON.—Tuesday morning, two tanning men, in the employment of Mr. Pass, of Pltsmoor, near this place, quarrelled about which of them should de some puck:she part of the work in the yard, when one of them took up his soythe•asd cut the other in the hand and across the thigh, is such a shocking atm. nor. as to require the gash should be sewed up by the surgeon, (Mr. Stanifortb) who was called in. His beads were also severely eat in at• tempting to save himself. Mr. Pass secured the fellow who initiated the wound, sad it is to be hoped be will most with the punishment due tor his imposts misdeeds. We have sines bawd that the wounded mates life is considered to be in great danger.—.t 4/441 SCINTILLA. TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE POPULAR SO7i6h OF THE REVOLUTION. Tint TUREE nays. Twice were they from our country chased, And twice by foreign Lords replaced ; But they who twice our France disgraced, Shall never more our annals stain. Our hour is come—our rights—our laws— Our country, and our country's cause ; And France, proud France, indignant throws The despots never to rise again. We had our days—our glorious days ! Bark ! Freedom calls, and France obeys. Young, old, rich, poor—they rush—they raise The Iris standard on the plain ; A million voices hail it flying— A million tongues of joy are crying_ A million smile on thouOts of dying For that bright flag which beams again. Curse oa the frenzied hand which held The torch of terror—France rebeli'd ; Tho' traitors to her fame she quell'd, And wash'd away the tyrant stain. Tyrants, begone!!—ye sought—ye found, The scorn which whelms your names around. Bone for France is freedom's geound, Which despots never shall again. J. B. A coot. PINCH.—A glass snuff-box has been recently in vented in Holland. It keeps the snuff exceedingly fresh by means al double bottom, which is flied with ice and salt. A YANIEB BOLL. —The New York American paper re cords the death of Mr. Oliver, a medical student, who was drowned at Trenton Falls, while 'hewing them to several touts female friends.— The party consisted of his sister, his wade, and two cousins. SAVOURY MONKS.—" It is a strange thing," said M. de Hamra, "that the Friars of the Minimes eat nothing but fish, and yet they always smell of shoulder of mutton." A MAN ADVISED TO BE ALWAYS FIGHTING.—A Omani, who had gone to a ball, :danced so indifferently that all the company laughed at his performance. Observing the merriment he had caused, he turned round to a person near him, and said haughtily, that though he might dance indifferently, he could fight well. ""Then, Sir," replied the other, 1 , 1 would advise you alway s t o fi g ht, and never to dance." TRADE or RELIGION.—A few days since (says an Ame rican paper) a traveller called at one of the hotels in the village, and having introduced some conversation with one of our citizens, who is occasionally a little waggish, asked how many religious societies there were in the village ? On being answered that there were three, he enquired which was the most nourishing ? The wag replied that he did not know, but he believed the methodists were doing a v er y fair stroke of bus iness. OMN IYE ROUS LAW.—The American papers announce a forthcoming work, entitled, " Omniferous Law exemplified :—How to curse and swear, lie, chest, and kill, according to law r by Mr. Lorenz.. Dow, who publishes it by subscription. ÜBLIMITY.—A certain paper with which we exchange winds up the melancholy account of a dreadful accident in the following eloquent style :—" But in the midst of life we are in death." On, moment she was riding along, in the full possession of all the/. blessings, and in the next, her horse sprung, she fell, and lut trembling spirit stood In the presence of its Maker."—estskili Recorder. THE PRICE or PREDECENCY.—By the standing orders of the House of Commons, the Sergeant at Arms of the " Honourable House" is entitled to 51. for taking "a Knight" into custody, while, for discharging the same duty to "a gentleman," he can:only demand 31.16 a. ed ; but the knight and the gentleman equally pay 11. for every day they continue under his care. LANCASHIRE WIZARDS.—This county has wizards as well as witches. In a town there, one day last week, as two sawyers were cutting an oak tree, they found an obstruction which spoiled two saws. On examining the cause, they found a stone in the middle of the trunk of the tree, firmly embedded, which weighed nearly thirteen pounds. Those who have examined the tree and the stone say that the latter originally could have been but a diminitive pebble, and had grown proportionably with the tree itself. FIVE AND Tuars-rzwcs.---:Parker and I once sat nest each other at table, and, in the midst acne of his best stories, a gentle. man whispered his friend, "George is a devilish clever fellow, isn't he ?"-.- ,4 Yes."—" Pity he should ever want money. I lent him fire. sati.these-pence yesterday." "So did I," replied the other.—" You ?" —" Yes I" They mentioned it to a third ; he had been* donor to the same amount t—a fourth-.a fifth—a sixth ; they all acknowledged leading him a " five-and-three-pence." The smothered laughter which had circulated the table now exploded in a simultaneous shout; and Parker was by no means disconcerted, foe he whispered in my ear, the minute after, ' How do you think I mean to pay 'em all ?"—" I can't say."—" Present them with a box-ticket apiece at my benefit !" Bernard's Retrospection. of the Stage. A TOUCH OF THE SUBLIME.-118 Newry Telegraph, in describing a dinner given to Colonel Forde, the unsuccessful candi. date at the late election for the county of Down, speaks in the following inspired terms of the wines given to the company on that occasion : " The wines, too, were of the most approved description ; they con. sisted of the dark, but generous, port and claret (sanctified by a vigour ous old age), the glittering sherry, and the delicious champagne, which foamed in the wine cup with a beauty bright as the rainbow coruscations of wit, end pleasing to the taste as the honeyed liquid which moistens the vermillion life of beauty." Mr. Cummings, the favourite of York Theatre, was re markable for a voice of extraordinary strength. The power he pos sessed seduced him into a habit of ranting, which the public b,irg pleased with, confirmed him in. Thus, when John Kemble stains" York, be was told by the gallery he " cud na shoot out laik Cootnens:' The death of this gentleman was another of those singular coinci. denoted which John Palmer's is a well-known instance. lie was play. ing Dumont, in Jane Shore, at a town in the York circuit, and in t`.. last scene with his wife, when be had repeated the words— Be witness for me ye celestial haw, Such mercy and such pettish as my soul Accords to thee, and begs of Heaven to show thee, Nay such befal me at my latest hour ! he tottered an instant, sunk down, and expired ! s The audience, mis taking this for an intended " point," awarded him in the u=.4l way ; but, alas ! he was for ever insensible to their notice ! real aced mimic life were essentially mingled into a departed shadow, and the actor was now upon a level with the monarchs and heroes it had ban his highest ambition to imitate.—Bernard's Retrospections of the Stage. ENGLAND, WITH ALL THY FAULTS, I LOVE TliFi!- - The soi disant patriots, who take such pains to exalt the nubility 01 every other country over the industrious classes of their own comm..- laity, would do well totaling the swarms of Englishmen, late rcsalenu in foreign lands, who are ret e u s r e n r i t z,; like wasps, to su ck niece honey from the hives they have d eserted. These voluntary exiles—not the men of science or of industry, who travel to improve their country. but the spleen-banished thousands who have fled in disgust of every thing at home, return ; and the faggots spit at them from their lure. abandoned he arths. In the moment of alarm they fly to shelter, and in the nest they try to pull that shelter about their ears. The craven. who shrunk pale and in terror from the first sound of conflict, returns to brag of his share of the victory ; and his deluded countrymen encou rage his lying vanity,, ill, warmed with the recital of his hnsginca deeds, he plots fresh scenes of mischief in the land that would have pro tected her unworthy weed, when its own insignificance uprooted it and cast it out. Let Englishmen beware of the enthusiasm of the moment, and Ist such things and their own place amongst us. We speak with I more warmth than usual, because we have just been annoyed by one of these " pardonnes nods." One word more. Foreigner w ho have sought a home in England which their respective countries denied them are bound in decency to respect the institutions under which theY breathe with freedom and in safety. We know our own defects, and Englishmen proceed constitutionally and gradually to re pai r the glorious fabrics which "dry antiquity" may have dilapidated. Enlarged " 04 ° s and a better sense of our necessities point out abundant faults in the old mansion. The Constitution, like Windsor Castle, may be improved by wisdom ; while Pimlico palace, of intelleetual architectureorould 60°1 a monument of folly, and a satire on improvement. BIRTHS. The 28th instant, at Brighton, the Harsh/ins de la Vakste. of daughter—The Seth inst. at Woodford, the lady of T. H. Spark` Re+ of a The 27th inst. at Ration Hall, Rutland, the of S. Raton. . of a daughter. MARRIED. The Uth lost. at &. Luke's. Chelsea. Lieut. G. Butler, R.N. gib son of the late Sir R. Butler, Bart. tt. P. for the county of Carlow, to Emily, eldest daughter of J. Bayford, Esq. DIED. Tholliglis inst. at Sosibamptoo, Mary Katharine. Lady Marlow The Mot August, at Carthagena de Colombia, J. Fowler, Rog. of the bons. of Maffenden, Fowler, and Co.—The gist inst. A. litedel, Esti• Ws Balt year of Oa age—Tb Midi last. at Mosehdte, in ber sgd year, Mary, relict of J. /bans Sot formerly of Gegen, and late of Lamb's Condult.strcet. • LONDON : Printed and rubliebed by JOBS MATNA at the STAS• Orrlci, Na 1, Piebtt•pkkce, Temple Her.