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OUnt ; i•-••••• - . us PANORAMA Or TOE BRITISH EMPIRE. LEICESTER CHRONICLE, Ju! 30. GLOVE TRADE —ln the House of Commons, a few (I N ago, an hon. member complained of the badness of ..v glore trade at Worcester, which he ascribed to the im. I,:rtatiou of gloves from France. Thismay be in part cor e• tr, but we think another and more striking cause of the f tiling off in the Worcester trade, will be found in the fact. r:st th re are now five thousand dozens of light cotton and lambs' wool gloves made in this town weekly, whereas only two or three yeses ago the manufacture of gloves In Lakes ...viscareely heard of. Ills. CURTIS'S LEICESTERSHIRE.—Our readers will observe from an advertisement in this week's impreasion, that this truly interesting and valuable work Is in the course of immediate publication. NVe have been favoured with an Inspection of the volume. .add if sterling merit be any surety of patronage,the edition cannot long continue on hand. The preface bricily explains the plan,and gives due acknow h to the several contributors. Ace introduction of nearly forty closely-printed pages gives a perspicuous history of its civil and ecclesiastical divisions into hundreds, dean eries. &c.—the state of its population from the conquest. The Poor's Rate from 1750. A list of Sheriffs from 1158, aid of county members from 1294 to the tact election, with ti short sketch of its political history for the last two centu. rues. An account of its boundaries, natural rivers. canals, :seal rail-roads. The turnpike and Roman roads follow. A judicious view of the geology and botany of the county is opcluded by a compendious sketch of its agriculture, ma hufactures, &c. ray TIOX TO RrNAwaYs.—Thomas Shipley. the eon tidential traveller of Mr. Overton, of this place, hosier, and whom we some time ago stared to have absc onded with a considerable sum of money belooeing to Mr. Overton. has, xe are happy to state, been arrested in America, and corn /idled to restore the greater part of the stolen pronerty. Proceedings were comment.. tl by Messrs. Harris and Payne .I.thnson, of this place, solicitors, and an individual named lirkling. was dispatched to America, to identify Shipley, who through the medium of the American Consul. was bolo sht to justice. 'We understand, that there are between, tnir.y and forty similar worthies, natives of this town and • eighbourhood, now residing in and near Philadelphia, among whom are Poole and Jones, late of the West Bridge, and a person named Ross, who lately went from or near Shearsby. Poole carries on business at Philadelphia, and Jones and Ross at a place called German Town, within seven miles of that city. It may be useful to persons who have been plundered by such characters, thus to learn, that by imming proper means, they may be made to give up the money or property of which' they have cheated their credi• toot. In America, an application made to a court like our e'laneery Court, setting forth that the runaway has either ••ttt his money in a bank, or invested it in trade, buildings, ke. will cause an injunction to i sue, to seize and bold such money or property, till he has made satisfactory arrange meats with his creditors. l'one.—A case of breach of promise of marriage was tried on Friday ; the parties in which were Mica Chadwick. of Leeds. against a Mr. Walley. a wobbstapler. of the same town. The latter left off his intercourse only duce days be fore he married another person, leaving the object of his for .rer affections a mother, but had always declared his inten tions to be honourable.—Damages, 1001. DOG Ca ars—On Saturday last, at the County Public Office, a hawker, named Richard Smith, was convicted in the penalty of 101. which he paid with coats, for carrying the goods he offered for sale on a cart drawn by dogs, having taken out only a foot license. The information was laid by Noses Pegg. who had been in Smith's employ. On Thursday, during an interment at Eaton, the son and daughter of the deceased fell into the grave w hile the body was lowering. The daughter is not likely to survive, and the son was taken home much injured, was bled, but without much hopes of recovery. Another account states that the female died almost immediately. LEICESTICIL, Sarvarsay....-Wheat, 68s 8d; Rye, 60s; Barley, 42s ; Oats, 295; Beans, 41s 8d ; Peas. 98s ; Fine Flour, 51s to b% ' • Standard Wheaten, 49s to 51s; House hold, 47s to 4911; Quarters Loaf, heaten, 91d—ditto Household. 80. ALIRRIED.—M. 8. Dailey, Esq. of Bloomsbury square, to Sarah. only daughter of the late Henry Walker. Esq. of Beaumont Leys —.W. H. Babington, Esq. to Sarah. daughter of the late F. Disney, Esq. of Madras— At Shamford, Mr. John Smith Crossland, of Burbage, to Miss Harris, grand-daughter of Thomas Clarke, gent.—At Koipton, near Belvoir Castle, the Rev. Charles Heycock, of Owston, to Catherine, only daughter of Mrs. Blain, of Whissendine r DlED.—George Cooper, gent. 80, of Great Glenn—At Hampton, 14, Thos. Greatorex, Esq. F.R.S. F. LS. organist of Westminster Abbey, conductor of his Majesty's concerts lof ancient music, Ac. buried in Westminster Abbey, on the 25th—Mrs. Philippa Massingberd, 83, eldest surviving sister of C. B. Alassingberd, Faq. of Ormsby. HERTS COUNTY PRESS, Avg. 2. The put week has been one of great importance to the scriculturist. The fine and seasonable weather has rejoiced 11,e multitude, the partial showers base raised the hopes of the monopolist, and the returning beautiful weather has caused the speculative holder to tremble. The corn market has, however, suffered little alteration during the we e k , but its aspect ha s downward, and may be expected so to continue, unleu some great and unexpected change take rhce. "('action," therefore, is still the word. It is not in the metropolis alone that the trade has been in a quiescent state, it is the same throughout England, Ireland, and Scot land ; all the accounts say "trade dull. little doing ;" and so it must remain for another week or two. The barley trade, let what may happen with regard to the crop. must remain in an uncertain state, until the " sweet question" respecting molasses is determined. It is a ques tion no doubt of the greatest importance to the two clashing irttrests of the colonist and agriculturist ; but we feel con fiticnt that the committee who have to report themon,will not sofft-r the interests of the latter class to be sacrificed to that f the termer. In the meantime the agriculturists are not eamindful of their own interests, as will be seen by a peti lion which was presented to Parliament in the past week, from the Agricultural Society. The humble Petition of the undersigned owners and occu piers of land, and others in Hertford and be vicinity, in the county of Hertford, shewetk—That your petitioners view with alarm the pro- posal made to permit the use of molasses in the breweries and distilleries of the United Kingdom. That your petitioners are apprehensive that the use of that article in breweries and distilleries would more than counter. act the relief which has accrued to the agriculturallnt crest from the repeal of the beer duty. But deeply as your petitioners interests are concerned, it is not merely on this account that they address your honour. able House, but also from a belief that tbe quality of beer will be materially injured by the use of any other article thrill barley in its manufacture. They beg leave further to submit that more effectual assistance may be given to the growcts of sugar, by a reduction of the duties on that article. That such a measure would, by increasing the consumption, diminish but little the amount of the revenue derived therefrom ; that it would afford relief to the labouring classes, boll agricultural and manufacturing, by ena bling them to use more of that nutritious article in their food, and espteially in the tea and coffee, which haveof late years become a curia:lca beverage among the industrious classes of England. On Saturday a dinner was given at the new Town Hall, St. Alban's, by Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. M.P. for the borough, to a large party of electors, who voted in his in terest at the last General Eh ction. Peter Maztencau, Esq. addre-sed the company. He said the present was the first occasion on which their hon. member had met them since the last election ; to be sure, no great time had elapsed since his (Sir F. Vincent's) return ; still he was convinced that he not only expressed his own sentiments, but also the sen timents of evety one present, when he declared that every vote the honourable member had given, had met with their approbation. (Le ud cheers.) On the question of reform he had throughout the session voted with the illinisters ; yet, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a grant of money for pensions, Sir FrancisVineent opposed it. (Cheers.) Sir Francis Vincent he considered to be not only the pro tector of their liberties, but also the protector of their inirses ; he therefore hoped, that at the next election the electors would show a kindred feeling for the honourable member's purse in return. He begged to propose "The health of Sir Francis Vincent," with three times three. BLDFORD Cnantry.---The committee of inhabitants, it appears, intend to continue their exertions to procure some athrations in theebjectionable clauses In the Act of Parlia ment, and to exercise the power given them of being repre sented in the trust, by electing their own representatives-- The intetfereitee of corporative trustees in the choice of elec. tire trustees is eirr.sidered by the committee as an infringe recut of the privileges of the l^habitants. Becronn.—The new Barton Hill read is now fast ad. warming toward. completion it is intended that It shall be open to the public some time prior to Michaelmas. The cutting is of immense depth, and after being inspected by several military engineers employed by Government to make a survey of that line ef mid, has been declared to be as fine a specimen of engineering as any extant, either in this or the adjoining counties. When the beauty of the scenery is taken into consideration, it will form one of the most atzraa tire objecut of the day; the Mil through which the road is cut being one of the highest points above the level of the sea, on the north-west of London. There will be a large bonfire on the promontory of the hill on the first night of the road being open, In order to announce the event to the I üb lie. The fire, it Is expected, will be visible at Cambridge, Biahop's &ortfonl, Oxford, and a considerable distance on the Portsmouth road. A LLOTWINTS OT /USD TO TOE Pooa.—We feel pleasure in stating, as a proof of the advantages of this system, that the heed prize given by the Horticultural So ciety fo the best cultivated cottage garden, was awarded to a man who has an allotment of land from the directors of the Bedford House of Industry, and that two of the prizes for vegetables were also given to two other men having allot ments of the same land. We hope this will induce land owners to encourage and extend this laudable system, which is found to be so advantageous in various ways. ARCREAT MEETINU.—The first meeting of the Bast Hertfordshire Toxophilite Society," which wu held at Bdckendonbury on Wednesday last, went off in the most agreeable manner. The spot chosen was admirably calcu lated for the purpose; said at an early hour in the morn ing marquees were pitched, and eight targets placed at due intervals. These, together with the handsome silk flags which waved over them, presented a very picturesque and I pleasing appearance, which was greatly heightened on the arrival of the company. The members and their fziends I began to assemblerahout one o'clock, and the sports began at half.past two. Four prizes were shot for the order of the shooting being anottged by lot, and each member shooting three arrows emisecutively. The targets were placed four at each end of the ground, at sixty yards dis tance, and the shooter shifted their ground after the dis charge of three arrows each, the band at the awe time strik ing up. The prizes escalated of aMt gold brooch, in the form of a bow and arrow; a gold ornament, in the form of a rose-bud ; a gold seal, with a bow and arrow engraved on it, and a bow. The two first prizes were won by the Misses Gould, the seal by Mr. Gould, and the bow by Mr. W. Chester. The best arrow of the day was one from the bow of Miss Anna Maria Lloyd, which pierced the exact centre of the bull's eye. The following are the chief names of the ladies and gentlemen who contended for the prizes: —Misses Busk, Calvert, two Cheaters, Faithful, Gosling, two Lloyds, Malthus, &c. Messrs. Alston, Busk, Campbell, W. Chester, Gould, Hamilton, Rev. P. Johnson, Malthus, R. Nicholson, Sutton &c. _ MARRIED.—At Chipping Barnet, the Bee. Tbomu Breton, 11. A. to Jane Lewis, daughter of J. Goodyear, Esq. of Barnet. DIED.—At Biggleswade, Samuel Wells, Req. banker, 76, highly respected by all ranks—At Margate, Miss Kimp ron, daughter of Henry Kimpton, Esq. late of Paul-house, Edmonton—At Pertenhall Vicarage, Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. Thomas Marlyn, Thanes Oldacre, of .10 years Huntsman to the Berkeley Hounds—At Cambridgeshire, the Rev. F. Winstanley, Vicar. LAW REPORTS. COURT OF CHANCRRY, Ana. 2. IN IZ DESTRIL Mr. Lovanar applied to the Court to know how and when the affidavit which had been made in this matter should be filed. The Loan CHANCELLOR said he did not sit there to di rect what parties should do. There could be no doubt, after what had been said yesterday, that the affidavit must be en titled win the matter of Desprey," and that it must be filed as all simile, affidavits. If i: was the intention of Mr. Desprey to apply in formed pampe r i s , h e m ust fi rs t ma k e an affidavit that he war not worth 51. and he must procure the certificate of a banister that he had merits. Mr. Lorena,' said this had been done. • . His Lotman' r asked who bad signed the certificate. Mr. Luvarray said he had done so. His LORDSHIP said he should require the certificate of some other barrister, in consequence of the suggestion which had been made that Mr. Loveday had some interest in the matter. Any gentleman at the bar, upon looking into the case, would say whether it contained enough to enable him to sign the certificate. Mr. Loveday wished to say a word to the Lord Chancellor on his own si•uation with respect to retainers. His LORDSHIP declined to hear another word on the sub ject. He sat there to hear the public businessand the causes which were before the Court.—not to permit mere gossip to be addressed to him. He had been, he feared, too indul gent, but he desired that no more might be said upon this topic. There could be no difiiculty among gentlemen at the bar about retainers, if the rules of the profession were pro- perly observed. His LORDSHIP then proceeded with the appeal paper, which contained nothing of public interest, up to half-put two o'clock, when the Court rose. SUMMER ASSIZES. LEWES, Mummy 1. (Clows Couay.--Before Lord TENTEIDZW2 Thomas Man and James West, bo t h rather well. resod men, stood indicted for a burglary at the house of George Rogge Gilbert, a wealthy fanner residing at Burwash, in this county, on the night of the 21st of June last. It appeared by the evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, that they were awoke about one o'clock on the night in question by the breaking of a pane of glass in their bed-room window on the first door, and on jumping out of bed and going to the window, it being then moonlight, they found that a man had already opened the window by putting his arm through the broken pane, and had nearly got himself also through the window into the room. Mr. Gilbert immediately struck the man with his fist, and Mrs. Gilbert struck him also with a chair, and they endeavoured to force him down from the leads under the window on which he had got by means of' a ladder, but they could not succeed, and, in spite of all their efforts, the man got into the room, and was instantly followed by another. While they were saw gling with the man who first entered, he called out to Mr. Gilbert to know his name, and, on bearing it was Gilbert, he said, " That is the name we want, we must have your money." Mr. Gilbert assured them he had no money, upon which the men called out to some person outside the window, " Give me the pistols, 111 shoot him." During this time Mrs. Gilbert made her escape down stairs, and jumped through a window into the road, where she called out "Mar der !" but was immediately /mired by a third man of the party, who laid bold of her by the arms, and told het. to be quiet, and that no harm should happen to her. At this time too, a dog In the house began to bark, which, with the cries of Mrs. Gilbert, so much alai med th e men w i t hi n the house, that they b o th jumped out of th e w i n d ow at which the y bad entered, without waiting to come down the ladder, and the whole party ran away, leaving behind them a lantern and candle, with phospborus.box, &e. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert distinctly identified the prisoner Thomas Man, as the person who first entered at the bed. room window, but they could not speak pesitively to the other prisoner ; they were, however, a bl e accurately to des cribe die dress that both wore at the time, and to say pod tieely that teitiler had hat nor shoes on. They also stated, that the next morning they ascertained that the pantry bad been broken open, and two bowls, with their contents of milk, stolen, the only property that was lost, the burglars not having had time to take any thing more before they were disturbed. A number of witnesses, chiefly labourers on the roads, identified the two prisoners as having been in company with a third man, the whole of the day previous to the night of the robbery, lurking about the neighbourhood of Burwash, and making inquiries about Mr. Gilbert's house, his pro perty, Ac. and about other farmers in the neighbourhood, and they all gave the same description of the prisoners' dress that Mr. and Mts. Gilbert did. The last witness was William Sands, an approver, one of the burglars, who was admitted as a witness for the Crown in consideration of his youth, and that he bad not entered the house or threatened any violence. This witness detailed all the particulars of the plan laid by the prisoners and himself to rob Mr. Gilbert's house. 'The whole, be said, was concocted in the town of Lewes, at a public house called the While Lon, where they met soon after their discharge from the house of correction. where they bad all been ctefined for some time, and had become acquainted. He was the person, he said, that laid; hold or Mts. Gilbert, and told her she should not be hurt. This witness went through a long crom-examioation by cite }Waie 'Man; but lie was not in the slightest degree oil his bilr widest*, corroborated as it was, btoughtth e diem serighilie both the sonot The rise/rot bsat asesetuardned pri s. every witness that was examined foe the remotion at great Wok and abriaya began his anss-examinstion thus :—" Witness at the bar, 1 do you know the nature of the oath you have taken?" in i ough 1 Neither of the p r i soners said any th in his defence, sad before hearing the Judg e 's charge the cry slid that their minds were made up, b u t his L or dship t it proper that the jay should, before returning their verdict, hear a few observations from him on the distinction they wets to thaw between the evidence of the approver. and that given by the other witnesses. Ilis Lordship, however, only detained theta a few minutes, and they then returned a verdict of guilty against bath the prisoners. it very - little boy, named John Tree, only 12 years old, was convicted of breaking into the National Infant School, at Brighton, and stealing front a desk which he found open. 41. in money, and several silver rut, which were 'found upon his person wh en a pp re hend The Jury, on returning their verdict of Guilty, recom mended the prisoner to mercy on account of Ms youth, which the Judge said should be attended to, but on inquiry be learned that the prisoner had been several times before in custody for felonious acts, and that he was, encouraged in them by his parents. His Lordship said, that the bat thing that could be done for the boy would be to separate him from those parents, but his lordship deferred, for the pre sent, passing sentence on him. It was expected that his Lordship would have immediately passed sentence on the two convicts West and Man, but his Lordship, after some hesitation, ordered them to be taken from the bar until the last day of the assizes. CIVIL COUILT. Mr. Justice ChiszLza was occupied the whole of this day in trying three common jury causes of not the slightest in terest except to those immediately concerned, nor indeed is there now in that list any cause that can excite interest, as the only one of that nature which the list contained has been withdrawn. ___ The (hand Jury, in the Crown Court, has found a true bill for murder against a man brought into the town only to. day, and whose name of course does not appear in the calen dar, and it is expected to be a ease of some interest ; there is another charge of murder under investigation be fore the coroner at Brighton, which, it is said, will be endeavoured to be brought on for trial if possible this as. aims also. LEICESTER, Aviator 1. (Before Lord Chief Justice Trxnatz, and a Special Jury.) SMITH V. NEWBOLD. This was an action of assault. The plaintiff, it appeared, was executor of a person, against whose estate some members of the defendant's family had certain pecuniary claims, and the latter being dissatisfied with the mode in which the a ffairs of the testator were managed by the plaintiff', considerable ill feeling arose between them. The parties having met at the house of a solicitor, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, some angry ex pressions were used towards each other, in the course of Which the defendant threatened to punish the plaintiff, who thereupon called the defendant a puppy. The latter, who is a young man, about twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, immediately struck the pla i ntiff , who is upwards of 50, although in other respects a stronger man apparently than the defendant, a blow on the ear with his,ftst. He after wards repeated his blow two or three times, when the solicitor, who was present, interposed, and prevented any further vio lence being offered on either side. for th is assault the plaintiff brought an action, which was tried at the last sprift assizes, and recovered 251. damages. The defendant obtained a new trial, on the ground of surprise, owing to the neglect of his own law agents, and on the terms of paying all the costs of the former trial. It now came on again, when the defendant appeared to defend the cause in person, and after urging, in a written defence, the provocation he had received from the plaintiff, he left the case in the Lands of the jury, without calling witnesses. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintifE—Damages twenty pounds. The learned judge refused to certify for the plaintiff that it was a proper case for a special jury. No other cause tried to-day possessed the slightest inte rest. All the business was disposed of at an early hour, except two special jury causes originally fixed for TuNday morning. POLICE REPORTS. Gunnuor.r..—Wm. Baker was charg ed with stealing a purse, containing 42 sovereigns, from r. Banowdiffe, an auctioneer containing in Fleet-street, while be was standing on Black. trios-bridge to view the return of the procession, about half. past six o'clock in the evening. Dlr. Banoweliffe stated that he took some of his children with him, and while his attention was distracted by some fellows who pressed on one of his younger daughters with some violence, some person drew his purse from his breeches pocket. He had fortunately shifted a check for 601. into another pocket a few minutes before. He had noticed the prisoner pressing on him, and be followed him till he gave him into custody. He was committed foe trial. A long inquiry took place respecting a charge against a repeatable person as b e in g one o f t h e gang , but that wean proved most clearly that he was not near the spot, alt hou gh Mr. Berroweliffe and two or three other persons swore to his identity. He of course was di BOIV - STREES. — Exvossiv i l ar ro d iontw.—Last night a young man ' of highly respectable connections, named Henry Cape Seymour, was brought up in the custody of Salmon, one of the principal officers charged with having stolen watches, plate, and moneys, to the amount of nearly 0001. the property of Messrs. Makeptace, th e well-known silversmiths in Sale-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, in whose employment be was a clerk. From the evidence of Mr. inalepeact, the principal partner, and Salmon, the officer, it appeared the prisoner had been in the service of the firm for eleven months, and about a fortnight ago he suddenly left them without giving the least notice of such an intention. After hb had disap peared suspicions arose that he bad robbed them, and upon taking stock a quantity of plate, watches, and other articles were missed ; and upon further inquiry it was discovered that the prisoner had possessed himself of several weep lances drawn in favour of the firm, and had taken them to the different places of payment when they became due, obtained the money, and applied it to his own use. Salmon was applied to apprehend him, and on Sunday morning went to Brighton, where he met him en the Stein; and took I him into custody. He at wee said be knew what had' . brought Salmon after him, and on the road to London eon. fused that he had lobbed his employers, and told the officer that if on their arrival be went to a respectable house, which he named, and where he (the prisoner) had been in the habit of visiting, he would find on the top of a bureau a num ber of pawnbrokers' duplicates relating to property which be had pawned belonging to Messrs. Makepeace. Salmon dis covered the duplicates as dentribed, and they were found to relate to property bebeafteg to the prosecutors. Mr. kfasepeace said ite - had not yet had time to ascertain correctly the full moment of their loss ; and the prisoner was remanded fora feral" *Ws the case will be more fully gone into. Mairr.LA.Bowitn...lffiesets Pitcher, a demure-looking man, was yesterday brought before Mr. Griffith, at the in stance of his lawful wife, Hannah Pitcher, for ill-treatment, the complainant at the time sighing most piteously'. Mr. uairryrn t Why, you sigh ? Hannah : So I ought, for the wretch, (pointing to poor Simon,) he murders me every day, your Honour, day and night, though I say it. Mr. Osaveir : Bat you are not dud yet. What do you want? Hannah : I want not hi ng at all of him, your Ho nour. I have been nine years getting my breed, and be wants to live upon m e , th at ' s all. Simon Pitcher now stated that it an arose entirely from his wife's unaccountable attachment to her uncle, who bad to emigrate to America with bar. In proof whereof proposed _produced the following letter : " Ballywerern Feb. 26, 1831. " My dear Hannah , —l direct thee; few lines to you, hoping that Mr. Pitcher has found good health, as I find at pawn; thanks to Amorenvir Gen for the same. I should have written long before now, but expecting your favours, and knowing that it was right. Yon know my mind, and I need not manias a word to you with regard to that. I n ee d not tell you how nearly I feel inclined to you, so lose no time if you wish to travel with me, for you have no more than one single moult to be over with me. If you don't come, I hope you will not delay y our answer to t hi s letter three days. Don't with dela if y the letter, as I wou ld di v id e my last shilling you, you are inclined to me, u there is not that woman on ear , L .. 11 I could wish beyond you. So no MON at present, dear trannatt, from your /orb, and most affectionate uncle, . S. I " AMES DUANE. "P hope yOu will not fail to cane has to me. Di. rem, if you don James Duane, Dallyeresteru. count of Cork, Irel ea d. " J. D. Mrs. Pitcher felt indignant et the canntrueslon put are this letter by her husband. She snorted, that hr rode had brought ber up from a child, and that she k new nothing Mr. of blin than the Ass& Goirrint— peer stint= aid I bogie tine ; • b et th9setmattues ar o gees.say Simon Philter and hts With the Ake in all cis Mains itt Coc• utzligteirit..,-Qtiendaj, .41aliiilfirat;r &IL blown Hem* vidoellor, _walinag hi the neighbourhood of stmilsieught Ilfr. Kewanee's, to stewed adg a field of wheat belonging to r. Kayla, a fenno, at Hendee. 111 r. Kayla 'noted that es Swialoy lost he saw the primer and another Mahone ametekig her dqpitheough his wbeat field. He lubibesolkequody sonoyed by nuisances of a similar kind, and followed that foto the New-road, where be gave lit. Smith into custody. 'Mr. Rawmusou called upon the primmer for his deface, who denied thee tatement in toto, and warned that the goitre wan who accompanied him into the New-road waste NW stranger to him, and that items his dogs that congeals the wheat field. Mr. &mustiest considered it a most extraordinary sort of Cockney sport i John Gilpin himself would be ashamed of salt amusement. He ordered the parties to retire and try if they could not arrange the matter. They retiree, when Mr. Smith paid the complainant 41. foe the damage, and was discharged MARLBOIOIIOII.IITRZEZ—Monday Caroline Mansell, a smartly-dressed young woman, was brought before Mr. Roe, by Mackenzie, a police constable, who stated that on the preceding night he observed her in Castle-street, Leices. ter square, under the influence of intoxication, and behaving in a riotous manner. He cautioned her to move on, and even assisted her along, but she became so violent, and abused him so grossly, that he was at last obliged to convey her to the police (station. The constable added that he believed her is be a common prostitute. The unfortunate creature Jo her defence related an extraordinary story of ellablerie, which she said she had witnessed on the previous night, and which she solemnly averred had so dreadfully alarmed her, that she had been nearly frightened out of her senses. She stated that she was walking along Coventry-street in the early part of the evening, when three gentlemen came up and persuaded her to accompany them to a house at the east end of the town, somewhere, she believed, in the neigh. bourhood of Shadwell. They conducted her to a dark and very gloomy apartment, where one of the party exhibited a drawn sword, and threatened to murder her forthwith, unless she consented to take off her clothes. Under the influence of fear, for she was terror-struck at the whole proceeding, she complied, and she was then put into a coin, and covered with a shroud. After remaining in the calls for some time she was suffered to rise, and a scene more terrifying than the preceding followed; for she beheld numbers of figures made to represent imps, demons, and other inmates of the infer nal regions, who, she said, were chum into a blazing fire by the party, who introduced pitchforks on the occasion. At length they permitted her to depart, and she reached the west end of the town by midnight. Mr. Roo said she was well known at the Office, having been there before on similar charges. He should, however , take care that she should not undergo another fright of the kind for the ensuing three weeks. Tuaseas PoLicz. Yesterday, Marchand Barber, a lighterman, was charged with committing a desperate out. rage on the river, in the presence of their Majesties. He struck Mr. C. J. Manning, of Great Ormond-street, in the mouth, which bled profusely. Marston, a constable, seized him by the throat, and prostrated him Into the boat. The prisoner promised to be quiet, but on being liberated, he knocked Blanton backwards, and jumped into the river.— He was again seized. At length he was tied down to the galley and taken to the Police Ship, where he behaved most outrageously all night. The Magistrates adjudged him to pay a Snit of four pounds to the King, and in de fault of payment, two months' imprisonment. EXECUTION OF JOHN ANY BIRD BELL, FOR MURDER. MAIDsToWZ, Ann. I.—The execution of this wretched youth, who was convicted at our Assizes, oo Friday last, of the murder of the boy Taylor, in a wood near Rochester, took plea over the Turnkey's lodge, in the front of the County gaol. The tender age of the culprit, for be was not yet 14, and the circumstances under which the atrodous crime was perpetrated, drew together an immense concourse of people to witness the sad spatacle. As early as five o'clock 3,000 or 4,000 men and women arrived from differ. eat places in the neighbourhood of the town; and by half. past seven o'clock, at least 10,000 persons bad congregated near the gaol. A rumour had got abroad that th e execution would take place at eight o'clock ; and the dense mass re mained till a quarter past that hour, when the governor of the gaol placed a board in the front of the gaol door. stating i that the sheriff would not make his apparent* dli a few minutes past 11 o'clock. This announcement occasioned considerable disappointment among the asmatbkd throng, but this feeling did not prevent their attendance at the hour appointed. Meanwhile, the unhappy object of all this greet curiosity was awaiting with trembling anxiety the approach of his doom. Ever since sentence was passed upon, and when he was assured that no hopes of mercy remainerLto him, be had conducted himself with great decorum. The Chaplain had repeated visits to his all; but the profligate lemons he was taught by his depraved parents were too deeply rooted in his mind, to make Bell 'Weir sensible of the drea4ful situation In which his crime had placed him. The hardi hood which the culprit had displayed at his trial, and even when sentence was posed, deserted him as he entered his cell. He wept bitterly; and when his mother visited him on Sunday afternan, be accused hes of being the cams of bringing him to his "present scraps." On Sunday evening, after the condemned sermon had been preached by the Rev. Chaplain, Bell made a full confession of his guilt. His statement did not materially differ from that which was given on the trial ; but he added some perdue ars of the conduct of his victim before he murdered him, which makes the blood run cold. He said that when be sprung upon Taylor with the knife in his hand, the poor boy, aware of the mur derous intention, fell upon Isis luxes before him, offered him all the money he bad, his knife, his cap, and whatever else be liked, said be would love him dating the whole of his life, and never tell what bad happened to any human being. This pathetic appeal was lost upon the murderer, and without making any answer to it, be struck his knife into his throat. At half-put eleven o'clock, the solemn peals of the prison bell announced the preparations for the execution. A ft er the operation of pinioning, &e. had been completed, the culprit, attended by the chaplain, Qtr. walked steadily to the plat form. When he appeared there, be gazed steadUTT around him ; but his eye did not quail, nor was his cheek After the rope was adjusted round his neck, he exclaimed in a firm and loud tone of voice. " Loan have mercy upon us. Pray, good LORD, have mercy upon us. Loan have mercy von us. All the purple before me take warning by me in Having been asked if he had anything farther to say, he repeated the same words, and added, • LOUD have mercy upon my pore boa" At the appointed signal, the bolt was withdrawn, and in a minute or two the wretched malefactor ceased to alit. The body is to be given over to the surgeons at Rochester, for dissection. A CENSOR AT CROSS PURPOSEti...—Co—I want to know your number Ma'am, for the population return A. Thirty.seven, air. C.—Thiny.aeven ! and only ins family occupying this house ? A.—Only one, air. (Cetr sae marks one family consisting of tbirtymeven individuals.) C.—Now, ma'am, how many males above twenty are there in the house ? A.—None, sir. C—Why, nose out of the thlrty.seven ! air, thirty-seven is the number. C.—(oh here's a blunder.) Well, ma'am, bow many boys and girls have you got ? A. Boys and girls! do you come to Insult me, tar! me, sir. whom the Bagwell scandal never before pointed at! no person ever bad the i audaelty to ask tee such a question,—boys and girls indeed! begone fellow. C.—Bless me ! ma'am, don't be in a pas. sion ; it's the Census I'm after. A.—Your sasses, your senses, cab ! I see they're gone, but you won't and t hem here, I warrant you. (Bangs the door in his face.) At next door he Gods the former house to be occupied by an old Tabby, who was currently reported to have had a slip in her youth. C..—Who lives here? A.-A blind fiddler. Censor reads one of the heads of his iiichedule—" Capitalists, Clergy, Pres:Axial, and other educated men," so claps down the scraper of catgut between a learned judge and a D.D. F.R.B.—" Arn't you afraid of the curse that overtook Bing David for numberieg the people?" asks a talkative old lady. C.—No, no, ma'am, this is not the reign of King Ddtrid but King Miliaria A.—wed, weal, replied the dame, be that as it may, I would like to bear o' Queen Adm.ladle adding a kiddie in earnest to your Census, what say ye ?--Amen ! rejoined the Censor , and proceeded in his task. GOOD LITCI.—A hacincy coachman i n Moo:- fields was called from his stand on Saturday morn ing to take possessiori'of an estate of 1501. a-year, to which he succeeded by the. dfath of a relatios at Edmonton. The poor fellow and his famity *ere in the utmost distress, hariugheitbriatenail by thaiOanigu r a oily a few hosin.bffnly *SW Oftiairived to IS' tfiriaed eit.prtbSit lodsigis la:ticiisiO . o f their inability to payoff WOO old aheiuilot reni: •RUCLO. Conox (LIL: Woos (Leo.) SILL (thrown: (raw) neat • 'soli . Cotta . 0: Lun . Tut - &mu . Tow= - Basmoir . • Ram - (14 (10 • 20: Wassail' Grurvi - Poll - Manus* Can . HIM . --...„.-- VIRTUOUS INDtottATtow.—At the Glan.or time wore 26 prisoners for trial, of whet. told Bound guilty of @lading a bundle of eon:l% frall ihil Imo, .ot illeribyt-Tydvil, was sentenced v, sem "NW On baring bb sentence, ,p, air mizkinsboz...P.timetatsbletzlitgallatknjbunrybias,nezdairandyalltesertagoatsheedini:,toßTTh:tonuniltbesinnfocegowil:unii h e * b ee n Begged at Warwick, for stealing sec POLISH GaLLSITRY....-In former thous, it was usual among the nobility, after banquets, for the h ost to show his guests his skill in firing a pistol, by le a ki ng th , heel of the shoe on his wife's foot his target. Thi s is vet singular, for the modern Poles consider devotion to the tail sex the glory of arms; and they carry their noti ons of gal lantry to so extravagant a pitch, that they sometim es table take the shoe or the boot off the foot of the lady of th , house, drink wine out of it, and pass it round. PETERIIFIELD. , —.A hoax was played off or. Tuesday on the sexton of this place. In the morning he re . carved a letter, informing him that a funeral would through for interment in the Isle of Wight, and desi r t s.z that the church bell might be tolled muffled, beginning at nine in thej morning. The bell was tolled aeconlingly but, as no procession arrived, it is conjectured that the ft meal alluded to was no other than that of Lady Rocca ° . rough, whose remains were in such a state of decomposition as not to admit of remold, and were therefore interred in St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster.—Hanspakire Chronick. One of our city functionaries, who has, with credit to himself, filled a prominent situation for many years, and is as well known as Show Jamie, applied to ou r good-natured Provost for a passport, saying he was goin g to travel. To please the old man, it was at once given. To his Lordship's surprise, in a few days after, he received letter franked by the Premier of Great Britain, from the l e . dividual, detailing his adventures in the great city. Th e following extract Is not the most singular part of this singe. lar letter—not having seen the origin a l, It i s g i ven f rom r=:—" As I was dandering through the streets, I reed carriar, I speared wha it belonged to, they told me it was Lord Grey's; I followed till it stopp'd at a bras house, and was told it belonged to Lord Grey. Next fore. noon I called, and said I wanted to see Lord Grey, and gee! in my name. I was then shown into a grand room, gh ee wha should I see there but Lord D—n and Lord 82-h—o, They were pleased to see me, for I bad seen them before but I could not see Lord Grey. Anither gentlerac. 'peered what I wished with him ? I said I wished to se, Lord Grey. He bowed and said, lam Lord Grey. You are no the Lord Grey I mean; it is Kinfauns I want to see. The 'cher Lords laughed at me, and speered how I was, and how a' the folk in Edinburgh were. I thanked them baith, and asked fora frank, as I was going to write down. Lord Grey said at once, be would gre me me bat I called this morning, and was as kindly received as at fiat: —Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle. MARRIED. By special license, on the Ist of August, the Most Noble George Augustus Francis, Marquis of Hastings, to the Right Hon. Barbara, Baroness (kg de Ruthyn, of Bran. Casa House, Warwickshire, at Walston Church, by the Hon. and Rev. Wm. Eden, A. hi. LOAD NORBUReft Last.—Died, on Wednes day, the 27th of July, at his house in Dublin, John Toler, Earl of Ncebury end Norwood, In the 86th year of his age. He was &venerable relic of those good old limes, the shadow of whose glory, now about to be extinguished for ever, he could not be expected to survive. As a punster be was unrivalled ; as &Judge it may be a consolation to his friends, as well as to the public, to know that be has not left his match upon the Bench. Long may his memory reign there without a compeer ! Mercy droops not beside his tomb, nor will Justice, Eloquence, or Learning, stretch themselves in his grave. He leaves no " insuppliable in. Iterstiee in the science of British jurisprudence, and tLe country takes comfort in his fall, from the recovery of a good round peraion. His title and estates descend, in geed. kind, to his sous, one of whom is Lord Norwood and Nu. bury ; the other Earl Norbury and Viscount Olathe. Peter Heneby and Isaac Bethel will have to east lots for his parenomasde mantle. STAPLES OP BRITISH COMMERCE. (THIS DAY.) SIMS. VOW NT LID 1111•1171111 Bowed Pernarna N. Orleans I . Saxony . pr. 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