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ooURT OF CHANCER DRCAMBSR 43. LORD GROSVENOit V. MATHER AMAMI. Mr. JoNES applied to the Lord Chaheelliationss !;gn the conditions of certain issues direetilt by his Lordship in this case. The defendants had alleged contracts with Mr. A. Moore, Agent of Lord GroS ‘•,-tior, for the delivery of lead from the works upon estate of the Noble Lord, with stipulations of cues for non-delivery, at a rate per ton on each quan tlty, to accrue after specified limits of time. There w ere five of these contracts, none of which had been executed, nor were they known to Lord Grosvenor, until the cessation -of the Agency of Moore. The purchasers had evidently not fulfilled their duty in entering into them. The conditions were unequal— :he profits to be made by Messrs. Mather and Co. at the price agreed upon, would have been enormous : rle whole of the circumstances had been so unusual and irregular, that it behoved them to inquire if the contracts were wart-Anted by .Lord Grosvenor. They had neglected to proceed against the breach of the first four of those contracts, but sued for. the whole of the furfeitutes on failure of the fifth. "Lord Grosve nor resisted the claim of the purchasers on the ground that the contracts were impracticable, because the works could not produce the quantities agreed upon; that the conditions were wholly disadvantageous to his Lordship, -and altogether so peculiar as to have required them to make some reference to the princi pal. The Lord Chancellor directed two issues to try hew far Lord Grosvenor should be bound by the con• tracts of his Agent under the particular circum stances., fie (Mr. Jones) now applied to his Lordship to direct the particular terms and conditions of„the issues. The purchasers had prepared their declara tion so largely as to bring in any contract they should e able to prove :they had laid out twenty-seven counts, comprising lofty-three or forty-four' several issues. lie thought that the plaintiffs should be required to state which of the numarous contracts specified by them they meant to claim ; and that the Jury should be directetto *Worse the postea with the particular contract found, sand their reasons for finding. The issues should be :educed and simplified, and other issues should be submitted, to determine exactly the thiee following queslions t—lst, Whether or nut the making of the contract was a bona fide exercise of his agency by Mr. Moose? . 2dly, IN the conditions were according to the ordinary course of business? Silly, As :he works of Messm-Mather•and Co. are in the same neighbourhood With those of Lead Grosvenor, and at Are works of Lord Grosvenor bad always been. unprofitable, whetheror not the purchasers knew that the works of Lord Grosvenor would not produce the quantity of lead stated in the contracts? The object of these new issues was to secure to - the cause :the proper media. of proof, so that on,thereturn of the re cord the conscience of the Court might be perfectly informed of many circunistandes which were con nected with-the original contrail, the consideration of which would be shut out under the issues prepared by the plaintiffs in the action at law: He hoped-his Lordship would give directions_ which would secure the purposes which he had suggested to the Court. Mr. LITTLEDALS claimed the benefit of all the counts in the declaration. The contracts were not contained in any single paper, but were to he inferred' and proved from matter spread over a great variety of thoononents and correspondence. If his Lordship thought otherwise, he had no objection to any issues which should specify their contract, and go to deter mine the responsibility of Lord Grosvenor. • The LORD CUANCILLLOR thought that the plaintiff in the action at law ought to reduce the number of , issues. They might frame them so as to surround the largest contract they could claim, together with the whole contents of the record of this Court. He would give directions that all the questions necessary to determine the nature and value of the contracts should go to the Jury, subject, of course, to the ob jections which should arise in the lower Court; and the Jury should be at liberty to endorse special matter on thepostra. The issues should find two things: lst.Wbe- • ther there was any and what contract; 2dly, how far, under all the circumstances to be laid before the Jury,' the Eatl of Grosvenor was bound by - the contracts of his agent. Mr. LITTLEDALE submitted, in. addition, that as there was breach of contract, there should be an issue to determine the quantum damnificatus. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought that the .propo •••.ion was not admissible on a disputed contract for lii,oool. which the defendants claimed • from Lord it osvenor, upon the failure of agreement. - The LORD CHANCELLOR—Let the Jury find the damages also, and they may be dealt' with here on tie teturn of the record ; and do.you frame the issues -1 ei:d hand them up to me that I may settle . them. In 'a very thin house . an actress was speaking very low in her communications with her lover, when the actor, v,ith a face of woeful humour, exclaimed— " My dear, you may speak out, you see there is no cue to hear us I" MiDSIIIPMAN'S PAY.—An Officer or the Nav y being a,ked what Mr. By RKE meant by the "Cheap defence of nations?" replied, that many persons in his line understood him to mean a Midshipman's half-pay— " Nvihing a day, and to find himself!" A foolish fellow, when addressed by a man of rank, used to answer, "Thank GOD and your Lordship." —" How many children have you, honest man?" •,:ticl a Grandee to him ; " Four, thank Gun and your Lordship !) A lady having asked M. de I .llAncnAways why persons oilier sex might not be electors? he replied, MAditM, you might 1* electors, but you could not! e deputies." " Why not?" said the lady ?—" Be vltuse no woman would like to-acknowledge that she 40 years of age." Vie Fist question put to the King of FRANCE the other day by the Duke of WELIANGTorr, was—" How 17:avl men can your Majesty command?"—" Perhaps . one hundred thousand."--" hive hundred thousand would not dolhe business," was the reply. Ou the 17th inst. at half-past one in the morning a hte broke out in the chateau 4 the Prince of 'ORANGE, at Terveuten : the cause oithis is unknown., happily it was discovered in time, and immediate a.sistance being given, the fire was exting►ished by two o'clock, without having done any other mischief tll.►n destrOying some part of tbe small staircase near du: dtessiug•rooru. • NOW ARD AND GIBBS'S BANKRUPTCY. . , COURT O &moldy 01.11 AS, DECItMIIO • ' • ORNINTIE t tD V. ratewalp AND DIM. Mr. Serkant• Lena - stand ttii case, tnther was an issue directed by his Uonqur the cellar to try whether the plaintiff. was or was not a good and brninfide creditor of the defendants.' estate? The plaintiff had.beeome, throngh the agency of the aefendants, a purchaser of annuities to the amount 9f ' above 45,0001. and had besides advanced to Ho9iita ' and Gibbs another. sum exceeding 30,0001. for the same purpose, which Mr. Gibbs had appropriated to his own use, or the immediate necessities of the firm. James Gibbs had been a partner it: the house of Howard and Gibbs, of Cork-street, Burlington-gar. dens. The fill( annuity purchased by the plaintiff was one from Lord James Murray, the principal part of which was paid in September, 1816, at seven years purchase; the interest was 141. ss. frons which insurance was to be deducted. Another annuity was soon afterwards purchased by the plaintiff from Lord SeftOn, of 3001. in consideration of 3,0001. that an nuity continued till 1818; when Howard and Gibbs received the annuities they paid them over to the plaintiff after deducting their commission. ne next was an annuity of a Mr. Sydenham, of 200/. per an num, in consideration of 1,2001. that was still in existence. The plaintiff continued to be paid, until the bankruptcy in 1821; the next was an annuity of a Mr. Benson, but that did not appear on witn , ess'a books, as the plaintiff attended to it himself; the consideration was 4,9001. the annuity 700/. it was purchased for seven years, but paid off before the bankruptcy; the next was an annuity of Mr. Long ‘Vellesley's,:it was first granted to another person, and afterwards assigned to the plaintiff, in Sept. jBl9, the consideration was 2,027/. Hs. 9d. for seven years purchase, it was now in existence, but did not continue to be paid ; the next -was an annuity of Lord Walls.' court's, which was also granted to another perstan but subsequently assigned to the plaintiff, the considers-.: tion was 2,7471. for seven years purchase; the next was. granted by Mr. Beckford, in. Nay,, 1819, the consi deratien was 1,0881. the annuity 136/. The next was an annuity of Mr. Udney, the consideration 3,2001. the annuity 4001. it was purchased in June, 1819. The next was an annuity of. the Rev. Mr. Struth, of 1501. the consideration.l,osol.. There, was a second of Lord J. Murray's, of 3001. the cOnsideration 2,1001. and a third of 1500. for 1 1 000 guineas. • The neat was an annuity , of Mr. J. Payne, of - 350/. the consideration 2,4501. that was still in existence: there was another of the same party, of 350/. the consider-. ation .2,4504 ,The next was an annuity of Count Lin singen of 1101. the consideration 1,100/. The next was an annuity of the late Duke of Kent of . 6141. the consideration 4,2001. The next was an annuity of Sir B. D'Urban's of 4001. the consideration was 2,8001. and another annuity of 260/. The next was an annuity of Lord C. Fitzroy's of 3301. the consider ation 2.6401. The gross amount p f all these was 44,1251. ss. 2d. and all these were real transactions. Witness never applied to the plaintiff for money ex cept to invest in the purchase of annuities. 4tt dif ferent times the4Laintiff. had lent money to witness, to the atnoutig.4l *hove 80.0004 all of which, he be lieved, was invested in annuities. Witness always - told him.it was. The house had ample property, but money not coming in so fast as it was required, wit ness had appropriated the plaintiff's money to the immediate necessities of the firm, which was, from. the year 1817, under engagements for the annual payment of 120,0001. and on the 9th of October, 1819, the plaintiffs pass book was made up, and the balance really in favour of the plaintiff amounted to 14,3191. 2s. 4d. To reduce that balance, witness made fictitious entries of annui:ies and names of an nuitants, so as to make it but 419/. 2r. 4d. Another settlement of the account took place in May, 1820, when witness again made fictitious entries for the same purpose. In November, 1820, the, balance really in. favour of the nlaintitl,s9,s 36,8771. 10r. 14. Mr. Rimonde went into the employment of How ard' and Gibbs in September, 1819 ; he deposed to making up the accounts alluded •to by Mr. Gibbs, and that the erasures were not there when he made •them . up. Tile SoLICITOR-GINERAL,'IM the defendant, said there .was a conspiracy to defeat the claims of bona fide creditors, whose only support had been wasted and destroyed by the gross mismanagement of Gibbs, for Mr.-Howard, at the time of the failure, actually believed, himself possessed . of very extensive property. Gibbs had repieSented himself in his evidence to have acted fraudulently towards Grinstead. His case rested on fraud and deceit ; but it had. been well ob served, and he (the Solicitor-General) should use the argument here, that if a Irian represented himself to have acted infamously,the question would be whe ther he had so acted, or was so acting at the time making the statement of his infamy for a particular and fraudulent purpose? Several letters from Porter, a conveyancer, to Gibbs, dated March, 1821, were read, in which he desired Gibbs to arrange, so as to postpone the meet ing for the choice of Assignees, until the plaintiff could arrive from France. A letter from Gibbs to the plaintiff, dated Oc tober 9, 1819, was read, in which the balance was stated to be 4191.25. 4d. A letter of Rimonde was also read, in which he stated his willingness to do anything to assist Gibbs, and promised 'to attend the Office as Clef k to the Commission. The pass-book was produced, and Mr. Richard Ailarn, the accountant, proved that he had ascer tained the amount of the annuities received up to May, 1819 ; by that account 2,3501.65. Bd. was the balance up to that time, when a bill to that amount was given to the plaintiff, and subsequently paid. . Mr. Ambrose Humphries deposed that a Mr. Wil son, a client of his, had purchased an estate of Mr. Howard, and Mr. Gibb, and the plaintiff had been present at some of the interviews for the purchase, and requested that part of the purchase-money should be paid to Grimstead, in liquidation of his , debt. Mr. Serjeant Letts replied, and contended that the books which had been produced supported Gi.kb.'s evidence, and, being documents created at the time when nothing of this kind was expected, clearly and• indubitably proved the truth of his ktatement. Lord Chief Justice DALLA.B charged the Jury,who retired at half-past seven o'clock, and returned in half an hour with a verdict•for the defendants. • 4 +.1.7,rj0v. • SPORTING INTSLLIGENCE. • , • IntirrifltO ferriptit/4 , 0111t. im- • . . ~7.1-v,i, ..u.:, ; ., . • , . h. , ... .. „ vi, - • ‘ , l 7 4l " i vi l v i ~ . . y : ok. l 7 te' CrtalATOK(bilia4 111 to 1 apt ;lamina (taken) 8 to;1. ' •Yolly ... _ ~ IS to 1 apt Mo. to Carhonaro .11 to I art Web 'A) ':- ' i 0 MI apt Sk W. Alilner's 0.. r WI tol*4 Tailistniutfloy ..., ~,. t 7to 1 aPt Zaidis . " I E 9 to l ' pt sister to Sultan 9to t apt oistil tO Bad! • I - s tot apt (Mom CLAIM?. ato gaga Moses . ' I oto 2.agst Posthuma (taken) 7 to 2 apt Swap G to I apt Wanton DONCASITRAT Liosll . 6 10 to I agst Sherwood (tak e n) 20 to I a p t M t. Armattong s II to 1 agst Miss Fanny (do.) I e. (taken) ' 18 1 ° 1 agst Wistlane (do.) HUNTING. . . The King's Stag-hounds meet oil Friday, at Bedfont. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet ea Thursday, at Brad den ; Satorday, at Nash Common. The Qakiey Hounds meet on Thursday, at Marston Thrift; Saturday, at Clapham Park. The Quorndon Hounds meet on Thursday, at Bardon Hill; Friday, at Iloby; Saturday, at Bonny Park. The'East Sussex Fox-hounds meet on Thursday, at Pidding. hoe; Saturday, at ikinny. Kati Fitzwilliam's Fox-hound s meet on Th urs d ay, at A shton Welsk. . Mr. Hay's Hounds meet on Thursday, at Slych ; Saturday, at Woore. The Chester pounds meet on Friday, at Bookford. - Lord Middleton's Hounds meet Thursday, at East Bridgford. Mr. Chawortb's Fox-hounda meet on Thursday, at Cllpstorte Mill; Friday, at Winwick Warren. The Boroughbrldge Harriers meet on Friday, at Grafton. Lord Anson's Hounds meet on Thursday, at Sbuckborough ; Friday, as Setghford ; Monday, at Shutdown Bridge. The Op4erstead Harriers meet to-morrow and Saturday, at ktnnel. ThunitYaithe Mid Lothian fox hounds threw off at Dreghorn tate. • Anfox was nlmost instantly found In the veighbourbood, sOich tp4 to the west, and enter e d th e . p o li cy new Dreghorn Castle:* . turtting eastward, he entered his 014 cover, and was itn iiieariteirkilk4.. A few minutes afterwards another fox was starsect, which, after a short run, was also killed, The dogs then went towards Woodhouselee, but not finding, the sports of the day 'terminated. The company was numerous and respectable, but the weather was far from being favourable, In consequence of the thickness of the atmo s ph ere . A s most of t he company bad gone towards the top of the hill, in expectation that the fox would go in that direction, as is generally the case, few or none were in at the death. An Ayr Paper of Thursday speaks in raptures of the excel lent order in which their subscription pack of hounds is kept. It particularly dwells on a fine run which they had on Wednesday se'nnight. On that day they started both a fox and a hare in the same cover, when one half of the pack went after the fox and the other hilf after the hare. " The Ayrshire hounds appear to approach•every day nearer to perfection." WAKEFIELD COURSING CLUB. - - - The Members of this Club met on Wednesday last at Went Budge, and had a good day's sport in Smestoa Fields. Six couple of dogs were entered fur the silver cup, which apPeared in fine condition, and excellent wind ; they were run down to a single brace; when, after a severe contest, the cup was won by Mr. THORNTON'S black b. Snip, beatiog.Mr. A RCHER'S red dog Spanker. SPARRING. The Eves' Court Was fairly attended yesterday, for the Be nefit of 4Yeale, the Streatham Youth. The mutter was select, and the seta-to were good, as far as they went. The bat "meeting was between Turner and Cooper, the gypsey. It was an exquisite piece of workmanship, rather in favour of Turner ; "bbt the returns and the out-fighting were nearly upon a par. and Coder made a good set-to ; and the sports closed with Ai. Beiatee offering to fight any man in England, of eleven stone and a half, or to put on the gloves, with Carter, fur a good belly-full. A horse, the property of the Company of Pro• prietors of the Mersey. and Irwell Navigation, was I lately freed from further labour, and sent to graze away the remnant of his days. Wednesday. week, , this faithful servant died; at an' age which has seldom been recorded of a horse : he was in his 6'2d year. In a village near Edinburgh, last season, a pair of swallows, which had built in the corner of a window, deserted their young at the period• of migration.-- They had previously brought up a brood, and when the general body began to collect for their annual flight, they seemed to be carrying fond for another. These, however, they deserted; and two days after, the people of the house took down the nest and found three young ones in it dead. To the curious in na tural history, this circumstance may occasion a question, whether, in these birds, the migratory in• stinct is stronger than that of attachment to their young, so powerful in all animals ? A circumstance interesting to the curious in na tural history occurred in the neighbourhood of New castle, on Sunday se'nnight. Some young men, while skaiting on J. G. CLARK, Esq.'s fish-pond, at Fen ham, observed a fish embodied in the ice. It was a fine pike, and on being cut out recovered, and, when put into water, dashed through its native element with all its wonted tile and energy. A young woman, in the parish of Middlebie, Dum fries-shire, has the following relations, all living, with their faculties entire, and capable of attending to their several employments, namely, two great grand fathers, two great grandmothers, two grandfathers, two grandmothers, a stepfather and a stepmother, and a father and mother. Saws day se'nnight, the corpse of an old woman was found neaz.4farm-house, in the ,muir, a few miles from the, village of Dairy, in Ayrshire. The body being unknown, the circumstance was proclaimed, on the following Sabbath, in the Parish Churches of Beith and Dairy, in the hopes of discovering some trace of the unfortunate individual's connections. A little boy, the son of a farmer in the neighbourhood, on coming home from Church, remarked to his father that the woman's plaid was " unto like his granny's." The farmer, rather alarmed at this information, hast ened to the spot, and, to his utter grief and astonish ment, discovered the corpse to be that of his aged mother. It would appear that she had left Ii vine with the intention of visiting her son, and that, either overcome by fatigue or misled by the darkness of the night, she had lost her way in the muir, and perished with the cold. When found she was in a sitting posture on the side of a hillock, and bad an orange, partly eaten, in her hand. In consequence of the new Marriage Act, not less than six happy couples, from Cumberland, were mar ried at Annan last week, according to the easy laws of Scotland. Wednesday several men and women were appre hended in Edinburgh, in the act of uttering forged • oats of the Bank of Scotland, ninety of which have already been discovered. A child belonging to Mr. THOMAS Corn, of Stokes • ley, Yorkshire, died lately in consequence of having received too large a dose ut Godfrey's, cordial. A , -- 7.07.1w1 • - ~;' ~~ T-71/4"7".7111.1 4 • WEST LONDON THEATRE. ==1•• ••••• • Although the act4e ireitloni of . the Manager ei thisseat little Theatre have not commanded complete 'Nieces', it cannot be denied that he has. strenuously endeavonredto deserve it. Entertainments of every description.from Tragedy to Pantomime, have been produced in the course of the season, and much ta lent, particularly. in the Comic department of the Drama, has been eonsta . ntly displayed. Friday elm.; ing a Piece founded on the Tragedy of Venice Pre. served was peformed, the part of After by Cobbs& Baticautv—a Gentleman whose theatrical abilities . are well known, especially at Cheltenham. * flieNts- • • tained the character in a very respectable Though not calculated to tnNntain a lofty rait‘E' amongst the regular troops of Melpomene, he dieserceit to hold rather a high station in the *volunteer pw which occasionally march under her banner. BRUNTON was by no means an inefficient Pierre; and Belvidere was personated with a good deal of eff:. et by Miss NORTON. In the Afterpiece of The Wedding Day, Mr. DA WICI NS, another gentleman amateur, who also occasionally plays at' the Cheltenham Theatre, appeared as Sir Advil Contest. He is really a clever performer, well acquainted with the business of the Stage, and possessing no inconsiderable portion of dry comic humour. Miss BRUNTON played the part . of. 'Ads Contest excellently. The same Play and Farce were repeated on Saturday evening ; but, in conse quence of illness, Cirl. BerticeLest did not perform. By a singular , coincidence the two Gentlemen who collect the Poor's Rates at Aylesbury are named Lcck and Kcy Aw uswsr.costs Visrroa.—Yesterday a boy in. the service of Mr. Hawkins, a farrier, returning home with a horse io Man sell-street, Goodman's-fields, the animal took fright at a table on a man's bead, ran down the street with great speed,•itimped through the tap-roam window of the George public-house, the corner of Goodman's-yard, and broke in the whole front win.. dow, destroying the bench and settle in the tap-room, &c. The boy, stiU on his back, was much cut with the glass. Tna Seamen:4v Itivaa.— A sudden thaw came on yesterday morning. Soon after noon the ice became unsafe, and the men belonging to the Humane Society having secured additional as sistance, promptly took most effective steps to prevent persons venturing thereon. At two o'clock the whole sheet of ice wal covered with water. Conger, the young man who is under sentence of execution for burglary, in Chelmsford gaol, was on Saturday taken, under a proper escort, to a place where he had said he could discover a large part of the booty ; but, on his arrival there, he was wat able. lie then implicated his father and two others, who were apprehended the same evening. Bow-Ssarre.—Sunday information was received at this Office of the following atrocious attempt at robber? and murder. About three o'clock on that morning an attack was made upon the house of James Smith, Esq. near Dartmouth-row, Blackheath, by a gang of burglars, one of whom had already bored round three fourths of one of the square pannels of the door, in order to en able him to loosen the fastenings inside, when Mr. Smith, who is upwards of 70 years of age, was awoke by the noise. lie got out of bed, and throwing up his chamber window, called out " Who's there? what are you about ?" He had scarcely uttered these words when a ruffian at some distance from the door fired a pistol at him, the shot from which passed through the fleshy part of his arm, entered his breast and lodged between the ribs on the opposite side ; the villains made off immediately. The re port of the pistol and the fall of Mr. Smith upon the floor of his room alarmed the family, and he was found weltering in his blood. Medical aid was procured, but he now lies in a state of extreme danger, and, as the surgeons think, there are no hopes of recovery. Ruthven, one of the principal officers, was sent off immeiji ately, and was engaged the whole of the day and night endeavour ing to trace theiuffians, but without success. Gutumat.t..—Sunday morning Fishman, the watchman, ob served a man loitering near the poulterer's shop at the end of Fleet-market, fronting Bridge-street, and when about to tell him to go on, he heard the creaking of a door, and saw another man standing at Mr. Richardson's, f ‘ the butcher) shop, adjoining to the linen-draper's, Mr. Morri. s, which forms the south east corner, and Mr. Richardson's door open. The two fellows im mediately ran down the middle of the market, Fishman pur. sued, but one of them escaped, leaving the skirt of his coat in the watchman's hands, and the other was stopped near Harp. : alley. The watchman who took the latter had no charge to pre fer, other than that he was running when the rattle was sprung ; but, being unable to give a good account of himself, he was sent to the Compter, as disorderly,.before the news of the robbery reached the watch-house. I: turned out that the linen-draper's shop had been broke open, a patent padlock had been forced off; the thieves admitted, and another padlock substituted by, a con federate on the outside; that property, to the amount of from 3 to £4OO bad beewremoved to the butcher's shop, next door, which was opened by a skeleton key ; and that when the thieves were disturbed the job was complete, and they were only wait ing for a hackney coach to carry away their booty. When the " disorderly" prisoner was brought up yesterday. be was recog nized by Fishman as the man who was loitering near the pool terer's door. Remanded. Marren-Gasaen.—Yesterday four girls, aged from 14 to 16, of respectable parents, were brought up. An old woman, who lived in Tuniatill-street, bas for some time made her house a rendezvous for juvenile thieves and prostitutes, and by having dances, &c. young females of another description have been fre quently ensnared. The old woman (above NI) was sent to the Workhouse, and the girls delivered to their parents. Ma ar.socoucu-sTkarr.—Mary Meredith was fully committed, charged with robbing her master, Mr. Bray, of James's-place, Hampstead, of various articles. The prisoner had been three mouths is Mr. Bray's employment, during which a great Wain. her of articles had been missed; and on her attempting to go out a few days since, a waistcoat belonging to him was found upon her; and ou 'farther search, 83 duplicates of articles pawned, many of s4hich were his property, were discovered about her person. A Lore Wirs.- 7 William Steel applied to the Magistrate for 'advice as to the best means of recovering a wife he bad lost. He is an Oxfordshire man, and said, that abut two months ago, being in London, he married a young woman, named Mary Stevenson ; that they went into Oxfordshire to spend the honey moon, but, after a fortnight's sojourn. the lady disappeared. He traced- and came up with her on the Bristol road, where helound her is a waggon, but by some means that did not appear he let her slip again, and only a few days ago succeeded in discovering her In Cleveland-street; but . she refused to live with him, and • he found she had drawn some money of ber's (tut of the Bank.— The Magistrate asked what money this was? lie said about £25 which she had of her own when he married her, and which she gave him; but he was too gallant to keep it, and returned it to her, which he seemed not to repent a little.—The Magistrate told him, that any property she was possessed of at the time of the marriage belonged ntiw to him, and would advise him to go to the Bank and lay claim to any that remained; but fusilier he coulll not interfere. Quent-Souwar.-e-7`. Hilton, a yrivate in the Coldstream Guards, was remanded, charged with tobbint a gentleman, whom he met at a public-house in tho Almonry, and who, after treating him, the prisoner engaged to see home ; but on their way he snatched his hat from his head, and ran af, but was se cured by the watchman. who witnewed.the transoct ion. Lasuarrit-staxer.—Yesterday E. Lew and 7'. W 66 were fully committed, charged with stealing thirteen fowls and eight geese, the property of Mr. Paine, market-gardener, residing at Barking Side. Law accounted for his possession of the property by say. ing that he placed it on his cart, near the Green Map, Layton stone, to oblige Webb and another man, both of whom were strangers to him. He was a farmer's servant, -and was coming to London a t The time. There were three. others, viz. Poltartl, Allen, and Hiller, examined on suspicion of being accomplices In the robbery ; but there was no evidence to connect them with the felony. Miller was consequently discharged; but another case was preferred against Pollard and Allen, by Air. Millet, the jailer of Barking House of Correction, who charged them with having molest deer from Haineult Forest, the property, p f me Maje4sA and they were sent, in custody, to Barbing. , . . • • •