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74 . - 414 ; "•-• 4.44.44 a. Vy TITHE QUESTION. • From the Exeter Alfred. Having intimated that we should give some extracts from the bill ; - nrodueed by Mr. Newman, on this important subject, we avail ourselves of an opportunity to redeem our promise to the public, • audit. an insurance that the perusal will be satisfactory to all I parties, RESOLUTIONS. I.— That it is expedient to enable ecclesiastical proprietors of tithes to grant leases thereof, under due regulations. 2.—That such leases should have the effect of binding the successors. _ _ _ 3.—That the term of such lease should not exceed 14 years. 4.—That such leases should only be granted with the previous consent of the patron, and the Bishop of the Diocese. s.—That the consent of the Bishop should not be given until he has been furnished with a certificate upon oath, by a compe tent surveyor, to be named by such Bishop, and to be paid by the contracting parties, that the tithe rent or composition proposed is a fair and just equivalent for the tithes so to be leased during the term proposed. 6.—That such leases should only be granted to the proprietors of the land. 7.—That in any new law to be enacted for this purpose it would be expedient to define who rhould be considered the proprietors of the land for the purpose of taking such leases. B.—That the leases to such proprietors of lands should be appurtenant to and run with the land in the nature of a real covenant. V.—That in cue of avoidance of the living, by death or other. wise, a proportion of the rent should be paid to the incumbent, or his representative, up to the time of such avoidance. 10.—That the said tithe rent or composition should be re. coverable by distress, as if the same were a rent-charge upon the lands. 11.—That the tithe proprietor should have the option of avoiding the lease, in cue the tithe rent be in arrear for three calendar months, after notice in writing demanding the same from the lessee, and the rent not paid, nor sufficient distress found upon the premises. 12.—That the tithe proprietor should not be restricted from re covering the tithe rent or composition by due course of law, In the same manner as he may now recover tithes, or compos ition for tithes, where subtracted. 13.—That the form of a lease or grant should be set forth, and that no stamp duty should be payable on such lease or grant, unless the tithe rent or composition exceed pounds $ year. 14.—That tenants for life and for years determinable on a life or lives, and tenants in tail, and tenants in fee, subject to be deter. mined by executory devise or shifting use, being the lay owners of impropriate tithes, have the like power of leasing such tithes for any term not exceeding 14 years at a yearly rent. 15—That a like power be given to all spiritual bodies, under proper regulations. 16.—That no lease shall be valid to bind the successor, rever. sioner, or remainder man, where and . other consideration is given than the annual tithe rent or composition declared in such lease. 17.—That the power of leasing tithes as it at present by law exists, should not be taken sway or diminished. ABSTRACT OF THE ACT. Whereas great inconveniences have arisen from the incapacity of ecclesiastical persons, and others having qualified interests in thine and church lands, to make leases of the same, so as to bind thedr sae. cessors. And whereas the authorising of such leases, under certain restrictions, to the owners or occupiers of the lands liable to the payment of tithes, and such church lands, would be conducive es well to the interests of the United Church of England and Ireland as to the improvement of the agriculture of these realms t nay it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with she advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in deb present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the • That from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, one eboasani eight hundred and eighteen, it shall and may be lawful to and for all and singular bodies politic, corporate, and collegiate, Arch bishops, and Bishops, Deans and Chapters, Precentors, Preben daries, Rectors, Vicars, and other persons having spiritual or ec clesiastical benefices or preferment, who are seised of or entitled to any tithes or portions of tithe ' • and also to and for all and singular persons who shall herea ft er become tenants for life, or for years de terminable on a life or lives, or tenants in tail, or tenants in fee sub ject to be determined by executory devise or shifting use, of any tithes or portion of tithe, and not having any express power of leas ing, for the term of ten years or more, the same tithes annexed to :inch estates; and also to and for the committees or guardians of any person or persons so seised or entitled as aforesaid, and being infants, lunatic., or idiots, to make or grant any lease or lees in 3 m the same tithes or portion of tithe, or any part thereof, by indenture or indentures, to any such person or persons as hereinafter mention.. ed, fur any term or number of years not exceeding ten years in rag. land or Wales, or fourteen years in Ireland (subject to such q fication as is hereinafter mentioned) and to take effect in passed= and not in reversion, or by way of future interest, reserving on every such lease or grant the best or most improved yearly rent or annual sum that can be reasonably had or gotten for the same ; and that every such lease or grant shall be valid and binding for the term thereby demised upon the successor or successors of every such body politic, corporate, and collegiate, archbishop, bishop, rector, vicar, and other persons having spiritual or ecclesiastical benefice or preferment, and upon all and singular persons having estates or in terests In remainder, reversion, or expectancy, in the same tithes or portion of tithe, when and as such estates or interests shall from time to time vest in possession. " And be it further enacted, that the tithe rent or annual sum which in and by every such lease or grant as aforesaid shall be re served, or made payable, shall be incident to the reversion of the tithes thereby granted or demised ; and that all and every person or persons who from time to time during the continuance of the teem granted by each of such lease respectively, shall become entitled to the same tithe rent or annual sum as incident to such reversion, shall and may have and use the same or the like remedies for reco vering and enforcing the payment of such tithe rent or annual sum as the person or persons may or might have and use by whom the same lease respectively was made and granted. " Provided always, and belt further enacted, that if° such lease or grant of any tithes or portions of tithe which shall be made by any Rector, Vicar, or other person having ecclesiastical or spiritual preferment or benefice, shall be valid and effectual without the pre vious consent in writing if the patron or patrons of such benefice, or the guardians of any such patron or patrons, being infants, luna tics or idiots, and of the Bishop or Ordinary to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of the same benefice shall of right belong, unless the same benefice shall be a donative, or otherwise exempt from epis copal jurisdiction, and then the consent of the patron or patrons thereof, together with that of the Bishop of the Diocese within which the same is locally situate, shall be requisite; and that women being patrons and under coverture, shall, jointly with their husbands, be competent to give such consent. " Provided also, and be it further' enacted, that no Bishop or Ordinary, to whom application shall be made for consent to any such lease or grant as aforesaid, shall be entitled to give or signify such consent until he shall have been furnished with a certificate In writing to be made by some competent surveyor or surveyors, ap. pointed by the same Bishop or Ordinary, and to be sworn before a Justice of the Peace, to the form or effect following : A. B. of maketh oath and saith, that he did on the of faithfully, and to the best of his skill and ability, estimate and com. putt the value of the tithes in the annexed schedule, as to the seve ral tenements thereto mentioned ; and that the annual rent to be re served on a lease of each tenement, as the full and just equivalent for the said tithes, pursuant to an act, is the sum mentioned in the said schedule against the said tenement, and is a fair and just equi valent for the said tithes. " Provided always, and be it enacted, that no surveyor or sur veyors shall be competent to make any such certificate as aforesaid, if he or they shall be the owner or occupier of any titheable lands or hereditament, within the parish wherein the tithes of portion of tithe to be valued or estimated as aforesaid shall arise. " And be it further enacted, that the costs and charges of every such valuation shall be borne and paid by the parties respectively granting and accepting such leases, in equal moieties ; and that every such certificate shall be filed and preserved by the Registrar of the Bishop or Ordinary by whom such consent shall be given as aforesaid, to the end that recourse may be had thereto at all season. able and convenient times by all persons whom it may concern ; and that such registrar or his deputy for the time being shall keep and make a calendar or index of the several certificates which shall be so filed, for the purpose of more convenient reference thereto; for every inspection of which said calendar one shilling shall be paid, and no more ; and a true copy of any such certificate, signed by such registrar or his deputy for the time beirg, shall be delivered to any prison or persons demanding the same, when and as often as the same shall he required, and three shillings, but no more, shall be paid for every such copy; which copy, duly verified upon oath, shall at all times hereafter be admitted as good and legal evidence in all court' whatsoever. " And be it further enacted, that upon the making and granting of every such lease as aforesaid, the preference and priority of taking and holding the same shall belong in the first place to the pans or persons, body politic, te, or collegiate, who shall be in the, actual possession of, or ei t i l ti r Ted is to the rents and profits of the men.' sw ages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments out of which the tithe or portion of tithe to be thereby granted or demised shall be arising or accruing (other than and except meant or intermediate landlords, and other than and except tenants or occupiers at improved or rack rents); and that in case such body, person or persons as aforesaid, shall refuse or decline to accept such lease at the rent proposed or demanded by the owner or owners of any such tithes or portion of tithe, and there shall be any Mille or intermediatettandlord or land lords of the same massages, leads, tenements, or hereditamenta, the right of taking such lease shall in the next plate belong to the said mane or Intermediate landlord or landlords, every superior landlord (if more than one) being preferred to and every priority in the exer cise of such right to every inferior landlord or landlords ; and in case there shall be no such memo or intermediate landlord or land. lords, or he or they shall refuse or decline to accept the same lease, it shall be lawful to make and grant the same unto the occupier or occupiers of the said messuagea, kMa, tenements, and hereditament*, holding the same upon any lease for years at rack rent: provided always, that no lease or grant shall be made to any such mesne or intermediate landlord or landlords, or occupier, or occupiers, at a lower rent or yearly sum than that at which the same lease shall have been offered to the persons, body politic or corporate, to such priority as aforesaid. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMAKE CrEN MEETING. ?UEIDAY, APRIL 12. Although the sport was confined to two races the day's business on the whole was brisk, the Oatlands betting being much heavier than could have been expected from the comparatively inferior qua lity of the field. In the afternoon there was a pretty strong muster before the coffee-rooms, and some heavy bets were made upon the events to come off: Cressida was backed for the Derby and St. Leger to large sums, and was the favourite for both. Mummer was in better favour, Mouse retrograding; Cressida's advance sent Raby back a point for the St. Leger, for which Hassan was backed at 20 to 1, to the tune of 6001. or 700 L by a gentleman who has before taken the odds to a larger amount. The betting left off thus at the Kingston-house-rooms :—. DERBY. 9 to 2 apt Mr. Chifney's Priam (Cressida) (taken freely) 10 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker 10 to 1 Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt 11 to 1 Sir M. Wood's The Mummer (taken) 11 to 1 Sir M. Wood's Cetus 20 to 1 Mr. Ridsdale's Red Rover (taken) 90 to 1 Augustus 50 to 1 Mr. Ramsbottont's Zucharelli 9000 to 25 Finnan (taken) woo to 40 Lord Sligo's urine (taken) 1000 to 10 - Subaltern (taken) 1000 to 10 Thermometer (taken) 800 to um Lord Exeter's lot (taken) 1,000 to 1,900 on the field against Priam, Mouse, the Mummer, and Cetus (taken.) ST. LlOll6 9 to 1 apt Prism 19 to 1 Raby (taken) 20 to 1 - Hassan (taken) 25 to 1 Maria. Priam has two good engagements for the next Meeting, but is not in the 2,000 guineas Stakes, as stated by mistake. WZDNEIDAY AFTZILNOON. The Jockey Club rooms-yard was crowded this morning, and after the settling for yesterday's races, some heavy engagements were made on the Column Stakes and Derby. For the former the offers were 7 to 4on Pilaus (Cressida) agat the field, 2 to 1 being taken with avidity. The Mummer was backed at 19 to 2to three or four hundred pounds, his advance being attributed to the running of Mr: Gully's Red Roves, who ran second to him at Ascot last year; Priam was at 4 to 1, Mouse and Brunswicker at 10 to 1 each, Cetus at 11 to 1, Mr. Gully's Red Rover at 17 to 1, Mahmoud and Angus. tus each at 20 to 1, and Zucharelli at 30 to 1. bOO even was laid on the field apt Cressida, Mummer, Mouse, Brunswicker, Zu choreal, and Grampus, 1,000 to 10 being betted apt the latter in return. Some surprise has been expressed that Zinganee was not started for the Oadands, which many think he would have won easy. To remedy as much as possible a pat evil the Club have' issued the following notice : " In order to prevent all doubts whether a start is fair or a false start, the jockeys are desired to take notice, that if the starter does not consider it a fair start, he will ring a bell, upon which they are to return, but not otherwise." Lord Chesterfield left late on Tuesday night in consequence of an express from London. His Lordship was expected to return in the course of yesterday. The following races (the only important ones) were run when our account left the heath : Sweepstakes of 10 sows. each, h. ft. Colts, Bst. 71b. fillies, fist. 41b. got by untried stallions, and out of untried mares. D.lll. Five subscribers. Lord Exeter's Augustus Lord Cleveland's Ch. c. by Emilius--Sheldrakc. O Lord Lowther's e. by 3tol on Augustus. A very pretty race throughout; they were close together about two hundred yards from home, when Augustus went in front, Ninina being herself beat off about a hundred yards from the chair. Augustus mended his pace, Chifney at the same time making his usual rush with Sheldrake. The rest of the ground was contested with great severity, Augustus winning by a head only —rode b Arnull, Ninina by Buckle. It was not expected by any one that hheldrake would have made so good a race. Sweepstakes of 200 soya. each, h. ft. Colts, fist. 71b.fillies, Bst. 31b. R.M. Lord Exeter's Red Rover, by Middleton. Augusta's dom 1 Dukeof Gritßon's Rupert, by Emilius— Prudence.. ... • ... 2 Lord Cleveland's Wit Tyler and Raby paid h. ft. 4 and sto on the winner. Rupert made play at a good pace to the Abingdon Mile bottom, when Red Rover came out, and after a short struggle won cleverly by half a length. Rupert rode by J. Day, and Red Rover by Arnull. The Column Stakes of 50 sous. each, h. ft. for the produce of mares covered in 1826. Colts, Bst. 71b. fillies fiat.4lb. D.M. Allow ances as for the Riddlesworth. Mr. Chifney's Priam, Bst.4lb 1 Lord Exeter's Augustus, Bst. 21b...... Duke of Rutland's 1. by Middleton, est Mr. Stonehewer's The Fairy, 7st. 131 b.. .... Lord Grosvenor's Thermometer, fist.4lb 0 Lord Verulam's f. by Whalebone, Bst. llb Duke of Rutland's c. by Tiresiso—Emily, Est. 71b 0 All the above started, but only two placed. Won by a head We have not time to give the particulars of the race; there is a race or two yet undecided. PEDESTRIANISM. The great foot-race of 200 yards for £4OO was run on Haley Common on the 12th inst. and won by Hall, who beat his anta gonist by one yard. The task was performed in 20 seconds. Yesterday morning, as a female in the service of Mr. Gear, landlord of the Globe public-house, Lisson.grove, attempted to cross the road in Stephen-street, Paddington, she fell down, and the wheels of a cart, which was at that moment putting, went over her, and also over a fine infant belonging to Slr. Derr, which she carried in her arms. The infant,which was two years old, was killed on the spot,and the woman was seriously injured. The driver, who is in the service of Mr. Walters, of Bankside, was taken into custody. Early on Sunday morning a most daring attempt was made to break into and plunder the premises of Mr. Innocent, a silversmith and jeweller, near the Cambridge-heath-gate, in the Hackney-road ; but was frustrated by the vigilance and good conduct of the police constable on duty, No. 75, N, named Kimber. The officer was passing Mr. Innocent's house about three in the morning, when he heard a slight noise proceeding apparently from the rear of the premises. The noise, although slight, was unusual at that early hour, and excited his suspicion. He went round to the garden at the back of the house, and looking cautiously over the wall, discovered three men in the act of breaking into the house. One of them was mounted upon a ladder, and working a hole through the brick-work immediately under the back parlour window, about six feet from the ground; but another, who appeared to be on the watch, saw the officer's face, and giving the alarm to his companions, they immediately scampered off. Two of the robbers escaped, but the officer pursued and captured the other. The villains, when detected, had worked completely through the wall into the parlour, and, in the course of two or three minutes more, would doubtless have been in the shop, which contained a valuable stock. The captive proved to be a known thief, named Ormesby, one of those who were charged with the extensive robbery of plate at the residence of Prince Polignac. An investigation, which lasted four hours and a half, took place at the Three Castles, St. Andrew's-hill, Blackfriars, be fore the City Coroner, respecting the death of Sarah Goulding, the wife of a labouring man residing in Ireland-yard. A number of witnesses proved that the husband of the dec. mid had for a num ber of years treated his wife In a brutal manner, often threaten ing her life, and using the moat obscene language, repeatedly turning her out of his bed at night into the public street in a state of nudity, and that in the most inclement season. Several times the witnesses heard him say he would be th e d eat h of her, if he was hung at Newgatc for ft.—The landlady of the house in which the deceased lived stated that she had never seen any blows struck, but had heard the deceased often cry out " Mur der !" and often heard her fall on the floor as if knocked down by her husband. On Saturday week she was delivered of a child only four months gone, and on last Saturday she died.—.l surgeon stated that he heard the deceased say " Goulditig, you know you have been the cause of my death —you have knocked me down like a bullock ;" to which the husband made no reply. Witness having examined the body since her death, has found no marks of external violence ; but she being a weakly woman, a blow would have caused her miscarriage. 'Mere was inflammation on the left side of the pleura of the membrane covering the lungs, and slight inflammation around the upper orifice of the stomach. The cause of her death was the inflammation mentioned, combined with fever and miscarriage. The Coroner left the case to the Jury, who re turned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" ag a i nst the husband of the deceasel—An immense concourse of persons were assetubled out side during the investigation. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Aran 14. Sittings before Lord Tsirraitpux and Common Juries. ASSAULT MID TAUT imenesoxnzxr. ILTDIENAT S. YOUXTAIN. _ The OM for the plaintiff, as stated by Mr. TaLFOUID, and made out by three or four witnesses, was, that the plaintiff was a waternuut at Hammersmith Suspension Bridge, and the defendant a tavem.keeper, at the Middlesex end of the bridge ; that on the 17th of September, 1827, a riot took place before the defendant's door, but the rioters were dispersed, and soon after a dispute arose between two persons on the bridge, near the Surrey end; that the plaintiff was at that time sitting on a stone with some persons at the Middlesex end of the bridge, and had nothing to do with the dis pute ; that while there the defendant came up in a state of excite. ment, and said that the plaintiff was one of the rioters, and ordered a constable to take him into custody. The constable took him to the house of Mr. Scott, a Hammersmith Magistrate, who was just going out,and could not hear the case. The constable then kept him all night in the cage, and next morning took him to Bow-street, where Sir R. Birnie dismissed the charge as frivolous. The plaintiff being a poor man,could not bring his action immediately,but he soon did bring it, although some delay took place from circumstances not necessary to be mentioned. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for the assault, false imprisonment, loss of time, and character. The case for the defendant (who had pleaded a justification,) as stated by Mr. Guaxey, was, that about 20 persons had, on the occasion in question, assembled riotously before his door, and were obstructing the footpath to his house, and disturbing his family and his guests ; that he sent for a constable, who desired them to disperse ; on their refusal to disperse, the con stable took one of them to Mr. Scott, the magistrate, who was not at home, and that the constable then desired the man to make an apology to the defendant, which he did, and was discharged. The rioters, on the apprehension of the man, became more violent than before, before the defendant's door, and ied very abusive language to him and his family. The constable who had been desired to attend ordered them again to dis perse. The plaintiff said he would be cursed if he would move for any one, and in saying so stepped aside and sat on a stone at the end of the bridge, and the constable followed and took him into custody, and lodged him in the cage. Ile did not take him to Mr. Scott's, as he knew that Mr. Scott was not at home. Nest morning he took him to Bow-street,where the charge was dismissed. The case was made out by five witnesses—the constable, two and two sons of the defendant. The action, as Mr. G. stated would never have been brought, if the plaintiff had not found out an attorney, who was the best fellow in the world, and undertook the cause on the principle of " No cure no pay." Mr. TALTOUID—The mountain has been for some time in la bour but has brought forth nothing but the fabled progeny. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, One Shilling. THE HON. MISS POWYS V. OROILL. Thu was 1111 action brought to recover a sum of about 301. the value of some wearing apparel booked at the defendant's coach parcel office, to be conveyed to Westbury, in Wiltshire. The parcel never reached its destination, and had not been accounted for to the plaintiff: The booking of the parcel at the defendant's office, be. longing to the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, was proved, and also the value of as much of the articles as came to 101. The defence was that the address was not sufficiently specific. It was "The Honourable Miss Powys, at Mr. Longs, Chalcot-house, Westbury." There were five or six Westbury. in the kingdom, and in point of fact the parcel had been sent by the defendant to one of those places, from which a coach proc eed ed to two of the Westbury., and the defendant having done that, Mr. J. NVILLIAIII, bis Counsel, contended that be had done all that was incumbent on him to do, and that he was discharged. The Hon. Miss Frances Powys proved that the address was merely " Westbury," without mention of Wiltshire. There was a good deal of confusion in the evidence from the cir cumstances of two parcels having been sent addressed to plaintiff, Westbury, about the same time—one on the 19th, the other on the 92d May last. One of these appeared to have been sent to the Old White Horse Cellar, to be sent by a coach called the Traveller which plied on the road to the right Westbury, and it appear e d th at one of the parcels went right. The other was sent to the Belle San vage, Ludgate-hill, and they being somewhat at a loss, sent it by a coach called the Independent, which went to Manchester, the family of the Powys's being well known residents at Manchester. The parcel having driven about to different places, no owner could be found, and from Manchester it was returned to Loudon. This, it was proved, was the parcel which had been lost, and so far the matter was clear of the confusion of the dates. Lord TYNTEIIDEN thought that if the defendant had sent the parcel to the proper coach office he would have been discharged, but he was of opinion that there was evidence in the defendants books to show that the last parcel ought to have been sera to the Old White Horse Cellar, and not to the Belle Sauvage. Verdict for the plaintiff for 101. HILLS O. HILLS AND OTHER,. _ The plaintiff, whom the ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated to be a very respectable pawnbroker, sought for damages for an illegal dis tress. His father, it appe ared, had left 3,9501. to his family, of which, the shire of a sister was 1,3141. which plaintiff secured to her by a bond and warrant of attorney. He became concerned in ac commodation bills to the amount of 4001 and unfortunately, al though his ability to pay was unquestionable, he made himself scarce, as the phrase was, to avoid proem on one of these bills, and the sister, without any intention to injure him, was advised to sue out a C o mmission , which she aid, and the plaintiff's goods were taken to the amount of 6,000. He then brought this action against the sister, the messenger, and another person concerned in the commission. The object of the action was merely to try the va lidity of the commission. l'he sister bad suffered judgment to go by default. For the other defendants, Mr. Pottocir contended that the/ were not in fault, as the commission was evidently , a good one. He then proved the act of bankruptcy, which was the very question in dispute. Verdict against the sister for One Shilling; the other defendants Not Guilty. DOE, DEN. GAUEIEL, V. CARKON. A person of the name of White had entered into an agreement with the defendant to grant him a lease of certain premises in Spite'fields. Before the lease was granted he conveyed the pre. miser to Gabriel, who brought this ejectment. As the lessor of the plaintiff had the legal estate in the premises the ejectment was held bustainable.—Verdict for the plaintiff, Damages One Shilling. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ELY ASSIZES. Before Chief Justice Sroaxs. Joseph Jones was capitally indicted for having feloniously cut and stabbed one Thomas Longman in the neck and throat, in order to prevent the lawful apprehension of him the said Joseph Jones. The prosecutor, Longman, is town inspector at Wisbech, and part of his duty consists in preserving the property of the Corporation and the good order of the town. About twelve o'clock on the night of the sth of March Longman was going his rounds, when he heard the 11011 C of the breaking of a lamp a little distance off, and imme diately afterwards he saw the prisoner running towards him very fast ; and when lie was about a dozen yards from him (Longman,) he stooped down, picked up a large atone, and threw it at another lamp, which was dashed to pieces. Longman sprang forward to seize the prisoner, who ran away, but was followed and taken ; when a desperate conflict ensued, which lasted altogether for fifteen or twenty minutes, each 'being alternately on the other as they lay on the ground. While they lay upon the ground Longman felt the back of his right hand cut cotr.pletely across with, some sharp instrument by the prisoner ; immediately afterwards he received a deep cut in the neck, just above the carotid artery, and ' another transverse cut on the right hand. He bled profusely, and being uppermost, he held his head over that of the prisoner, and " almost quackled him by the blood flowing into his mouth."— , When he was nearly exhausted from the loss of blood a watchman came to his rescue, and Jones was secured and taken to the " cage ;" where the prosecutor said, " If you had not come up just as you did, the rascal would have murdered me, for he has cut my throat." To this Jones replied, " How could I do that when my knife is in my pocket ?" His pockets were then all searched, but no knife was found, and on searching the spot where the conflict had taken place the watchman found a clasp-knife, which was shown to the pri. soner, and admitted to be his; it had no blood upon it, and was shut. The surgeon said that if the wound on the back of the neck had been a little deeper it would have caused death by dividing the carotid artery.—By an Act passed in 1810, any person who sees another break any of the public lamps in the town of Wisbech is authorised to seise and detain him, for tho purpose of taking him before a Justice of the Peace. The prisoner said nothing in his defence. The CiitEr JUSTICZ left It to the Jury to say if the evidence sati.tied them that Longman had actually seen the prisoner break the second lamp, and that the prisoner Inflicted the wounds on the prosecutor which he had exhibited. The Jury found the ptisoner Guilty. His Lordship said that, before he petard sentence on the pri soner, he would carefully re-examine the evidence in the case. If he were satified, upon such examination, that the wounds inflicted on the prosecutor had been given by the knife which had been pro. duced, he should feel it to be his painful duty to arty the law into its full extent. Sentence of Death was afterwards molded, and he will be trans ported for life. Henry Smills, aged only 10 years, was convicted of breaking into the dwelling-house of \Vat. Towson, at March, and stealing Us. and other ankles ; but was strongly recommended to mercy. The boy was in tears during the trial, and it was understood that belted bee., several times in want of food and the common necessaries of life, from the Inattention of his family. The Learned Judge strongly condemned the inhuman treatmer,t which the boy bad experienced from his father, and said he should be happy to &sward any communication, so as to place him o u t o: the rea ch of such an unnatural monster. At present the only course was to record sentence of death. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent of Police of th e letter F division, came before SIR RICHARD BIRWIE and Mr. HALLS, accompanied by a respectably-dressed young woman and two fine children, and stated that he had to call the attention of their Worships to a very distressing case. The young female before them was the wife of Inspector Ouseley, of his (Mr. Thomas's) division, who was a young man of superior education, and the son of r General in the Army. She was the daughte r of a person in very humble life, and the marriage gave so much offence to his father that he discarded him, but subse. gamily used his interest to procure him an appointment as In. specter of Police. By the death of a female relauon lately he be. came possessed of about 1,2001 and on Saturday last applicant was much surprised at finding him absent from his post at the time that he ought to have come on duty, having always found him re. markably punctual. He sent to his wife, who was equally sur. prised, as he had left her at an early hour in the morning for the purpose of going on duty. Some alarm fur his safety was excited, and he (Mr. Thomas) was engaged in making inquiries respecting him, when be received information from Mr. Kidder, a highly r e . spectable silversmith In the Strand, that his daughter, who had not attained her twentieth year, had absconded from her home, and that he had strong reasons for believing she had gone of with Inspector Ouseley, between whom and the family some degree of intimacy had subsisted. Applicant made further inquiry, and ascertained that Ouseley had on Thursday last drawn the whole of the money mentioned above from his banker's, and learned also from a private source of information that he had left London with Miss Kidder In a chaise and four soon after he quittted his wife and children on Ss. turday morning. Be had left them without any means whatsoever of subsistence, and she was now compelled to apply to their Wor ships for an order upon the parish officers of St. Martin-in-the. Fields to take them into the workhouse. Mrs. Ouseley, in WHIM to IL question from Sir RICHARD, said she had been married to him six years; and that they lived happily together until lately. She appeared much afflicted. Six R. Bimini said the case was really a very distressing one, and immediately gave an order, o ink that he hoped the parish airmen would do all they could to ap Ouseley for deserting his wife and children. Mr. Thomas said there was every reason to believe that he and the companion of his flight had before now reached the Continent. Mr. T. added, that Mr. Kidder and his family were in a truly pitiable state of grief at the unhappy occurrence. The order upon the parish was then made out. Two young Jews, named Lasarus and Lawrence, were brought up on suspicion of having been concerned in robbing the shop of Mr. Rogers, a baker, of Hammersmith, 0(521. on Moods,/ se'mught. On the evening o f day mentioned, Mr. Rogers expected his mealman to call for money due to him, and he gave his wife 581 in bank-notes and sovereigns before he went out, in order that she might be prepared. She placed it, wrapped up in a paper, in the till, behind the counter. The prisoners, and a third man, were seen standing by the window when she did this. The two former soon after entered the shop and offered Mrs. R. some pens for sale, and,:while in conversation, the third man entered, and purchased a biscuit, and was observed to lean across the counter. They all went out together, and in a short time after the money was missed. The prisoners were pursued and apprehended, bat none of the money found upon them. The third mac was seen to mount a coach, and was not overtaken. The robbery was rendered the more remarkable by the circumstance that Sir R. Bimie, with Sir John Scott Lilly, and six other Ma gistrates, were holding a Petty Sessions at the Bull and Anchor Inn, opposite to Mr. Rogers' house at the time, and that several constables were standing about the door. On Good Friday Mr. Rogers received the following precious morcesu by the three-penny post, the reading of which in the office created great merriment : April 9, 1830. " St=,—l have to inform you that your health has been drank with three, upstanding and uncovered, by the party that had the luck to get the few pounds out of your till. We likewise drank the health. of the vigilant constables of Hammersmith and its vicinity, wishing that there may be a Petty Session every week and the con stables as drunk as they were on that day. The best way you can do to regain the above sum will be to make an extra dead man a. day, which will soon make you all right. Yours was a very lucky hit, as I had not the price of a pint of porter at the time. I shall visit Hammersmith again very soon, and if I have any luck I will treat you to a bottle of the best wine the Bull and Anchor can af ford, and the wide-awake officers of the above place shall have a drain of gin. The ;blunt is now nearly half gone, or I would send you half a dual of wine to drink my health. " Your obedient Servant, " ONE OF THE NEw POLICE IN DISOUISZ." The prisoners denied any'Anowledge of the robbery. UNION-HALL. A youth, between 'titan and seventeen yeses of age, was brought before the magistrates to have an order of affiliation made upon him, for the maintenance of an illegitimate child. The mother appeared to be about sixteen years older than the lad. She said they were re. siding in the same house together when the misfortune happened to her. The boy, on being asked whether he had any thing to say, held down his head, and looked quite sheepish. The constable said he had admitted that the connection existed between them. The magistrates said that the woman was the seducer, anti not the se duced, and recommended the parish officers to institute proceedings against ha as a lewd woman. The parish officers promised to attend to the recommendation. The order was made. THAMES POLICE. Samuel Jewett, a dredgerman, was charged with stealing a num ber of awn sacks from various granaries. A Thames Police of ficer, named Gallsworthy, having received information that the prisoner was in the habit of plundering the granaries of corn sacks, proceeded to his lodgings in Bermondsey, and in a large room found what appeared to him, at first bight, to be a large carpet on the floor, but which, on closer inspection, he discovered to be a number of corn sacks cut open, and afterwards stitched together, and then painted over, so as to appear as a com plete carpet. The floor of another room was covered in the same manner. On close observation, however, the names and initials of ghe owners could be discovered, and who identified them as their pro- perty.—The prisoner, in his defence, said he found the sacks at various times, and intended to restore them to their owners ; but his wife would not allow him to do so, and used them instead of carpets. Mr BALLANTYNE said the prisoner must stiffer for the petticoat influence, and fined the defendant 541:t. The sacks were ordered to be restored to their owners. Tuesday evening a man, named White, while in a state of Intoxication, fell into the river, near London-bridge. Some persons instantly hastened to his assistance, and got him out ; but life appeared to be wholly extinct. Some policemen instantly car ried him to the station, in Southwark-bridge-road, while he sas laid on warm blankets, and the usual remedies were applied to re. store animation. Four policemen set to work to rub his body, and a medical gentleman stood by to direct the operation. In the course of half an hour the patient evinced signs of life, and in less than half an hour more he was pronounced out of danger. BIRTHS. At Lynedochplace. Edinburgh, the lady of Dr. H. G. Strachan. of a daughter.—At Edinburgh, the lady of W. 31arshall, Esq. proprietor of the Panorama, of twin sons.—At Elswick, en Tues day, the wife of the Rev. W. C. King. of a daughter —At Field. house, Mrs. Joseph Shield, of twin sons.—At Durham, on Tuesday se•ntight, the wife of J. Trotter, 31. D. of a son. MARRIED. At Sidney, Major A. C. Inner, late of the 3d regiment of Bulk, to Margaret, daughter of A. Mackay, Esq. Colonial z‘eeretary, New South Wales.—At Edinburgh, H. Rutherford, Esq. merchant of Rotterdam, to Marian, eldest daughter of the late John Wilson, Esq. of Transy, Fifeshire DIE!). At Cincinati, Father Hill, of the Catholic Church, brother of Lord Hill, and nephew of the celebrated Rowland Hill.—At gow College, aged 28, 1). M•Farlan, jun. Esq. advocate, eldest son of the Reverend Principal Blacfarlan.—At Durham, Mrs. Chaytor, daughter of the late H. Chaytor, Lb. 1). formerly rector of Croft, and prebendary of Durham.—At kleckfoot, parish of lloime Cultram, Cumberland, Richard Armstrong, a pour la• bourer, better known bf the name of Dickey of 3lowbray. aged 56. Dickey was one of those " hearty chicle" who love a pint of ale and a good song ; and will be long remembered by &numerous acquaintance for his ready wit and dry sarcastic humour, which often set the pot-house in a roar. PRICE OF LEATHER. Best Dressing Hides Common Ditto Crop Hides, 35 to 40Ibs for cutting Ditto 45 to 50Ibs l6d to 16d Calf Skins, 56 to 40Ibs ...... Ditto 50 to 701bs Ditto 70 to Nibs ... .. Small Seals, Greenland) • Tanned Hone Hides ... ... Spanish Horse llides WIDOW : Printed and Published by JON* MAT'S, at she 9taa• Orrin No. t, Pickste-pleee,Teinple Bar.