The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-08-14 00:00:00

- q • ' ! rrlif;qa ..• THE STREETS • . Sone curiosity having been excited by Mr. Id' plan for convertieg the pavement of streets into a same* surface, We have extracted from .the minutes of evildoing takes before a Committee of ibe Home of Contmoos, tido passages tending to show Low far . the piss has bead nand on, and in what degree it is practicable. Mr. JAMS MADAM examined. , . , Has airy tuggestion been muds to you Of eettertinf o gg pavement of any part of the streets of Londe, into —I have been ordered by the Parliamentary Commits ere having charge of Westminster Bridge, to prepare as Estimate and Report, with a view is conVert that paventesit into a broken stone road, which docannents I hare furnish ed ; and I bay' reason to believe that the same will be lies by mediate)y carried into effect. I have been also directed e trustees and proprietors of StJamee's-eqsate,to prepare (which I have done) the same document', with a view to anbstittve a broken stone road in StJames'saquare, in 1k of the present pavement. What is your opinion of the effect that would be found from its bring carried into execution in all the streets of London, as to the redaction of expense, and benefit gene rally to the public ?—1 consider that the expense would be most materially reduced ; the convenience of passing over the surface, there could be no doubt, would be generally facilitated. and made more convenient, particularly in the great leading streets such as Piccadilly, Pall Mall, Podia anent-street, anent-street, and Whitehall, and others of that description; thee expense of the same Weight of stone now put upon those streets as pavements would be obtained at Wl nitely less expense, is a different form, for the pupae, of rose-making. Is it your plan to raise the present pavement, and convert that pavement into materials for making the road, or to bring new materials and dispose of. the pavement ?—Por Westminster Bridge I recommended to the Trnatees to sell the present pertinent, beamse as long at pavements conti nue to be generally used, stone in that shape and sive will 41ways be valuable, and the same weight of granite I could obtain for the formation of the road over the bridge at Ifs. 61 per ton, the present pavement being worth a guinea par ton ; bat were the streets of London generally taken up, up, pavement would of course become of less value, and It might be broken for the formation of the roads. Is this pstemcatofa quality calculated to make goad roads? —The hest material in the kingdom. What portion would the pavement now used in the streets of London bear to the materials necessary to the formation of the roads T—Tnere would be sufficient for the formation of a strong durable road In the first instance; and I estimate that a supply of materials for the future care of the road, for a considerable time, would be left. Would that answer in all the small streets of the metropolis as well as for the large and open streets?—l think not so well is the very narrow streets, which are liable to water, and where, from the width of the street, the thoroughfare must necessarily be upon one given spot. I beg, however, to observe, that the thoroughfare in those streets is extremely small. Would the dust be increased or diminished by this alteration? —I consider, that upon a well made stone road, with the same cure of cleansing and watering that is given to the streets, that the annoyance from dust would he infinitely less ; sad a road is more susceptible of retaining the water than pavement. What world be the proportion of the annual expense be tween the paved street and the roadl—Taken seven years, dur ing which time I calculate that the pavement gets worn out, I should think the annual expense of the road would not be one fifth part, because in that seven years the whole value of the pavement is nearly lost, What would be the effect produced upon the necessity of raising the road for the purpose of alteration of the pipes and White works ander the street 2—At present, when this operation is necessary, a peeler, whose wages are from Ave to six shil- Ungs a day, is required. Were the streets converted into Wee roads, a labourer at e'ghteen•pence a day would perform net same service ; sad by due ears in laying the materials el one side, and the earth on the other, the injury to the road would be extremely small, and the spot weeld very soon be come obliterated ; whereas in raising a part of a paved street it is quite impossible ever to unite the piece so raised with the rest of the pavement. Supposing the pavement to be converted into a road, In that case, would' it be necessary. when any pipe was repairing, to atop up the way to prevent can-leers and horses passing ? Certainly not more so than at present, as that circumstance must always depend upon the width of the street. In vary narrow streets, where the pipe lies in the centre, a large open ing is necessary; it would follow as a matter of course that ti.e strata most he stopped ; .but upon large streets one side would he left free. Would not a repair be more rapidly executed, supposing the way to be a road instead of a street 2—Were the streets con verted into roads, the repair of the roads would be almost un known to the public, and no stoppage whatever wonid take place; the repair of such roads would be limited to a one-lasi' coat at a time, which would searctiy be known to persons pant ing in carriages, end the great inconvenience at present con stantly felt in every part of this large metropolis by the owes idle of repaving the streets would cease. You assume that the roads for the streets in Loudon must be made with graalte?—!: tat assuredly, I should never recom mend any other material to be made use of for the roads in the town. Mr. WY. lld'Anam, further examined. Have you, in the course of your practice. converted any paved street into a road 2—Yes. I have ; Fore-street-hill, in Exeter, forms part of that turnpike-trust; it is very step, and was exceedingly slippery, so much so, that I never rode on horseback down it myself till it was converted into a stone road; it has been so for a year or two ; it has answered every purpose. and stood remarkably well, and by being watered a little in very dry weather, I believe there isles. inconvenience found from dust than when it was paved. I have heard .oine gentlemen say, that in coming up that hill with their carriages, it not being above a furlong end a half, or two furlongs in length, they have saved from five to ten minutes time since It was made road : and I have heard coachmen say, that when they brought their horses quite cool to the bottom of that hill, ti-share been quite in alather by the time they got to the top of it, from the terror of the horses in slipping about. That was when it is paved":—Yes. What kind of stone do you use for making that road? — The pebble of the country. picked from the gravel pits. Have you converted any other part of Exeter front pave ment into road ?—There is no other part of Exeter under the care of the trust; but in consequence of the effect which the Chamber of Exeter saw in Fore-street, they have broken up a great many of the streets in Exeter, and, I believe, are proceediog gradually to do them all. In the town of New ton Abbot there is a county bridge; the county have broken up the bridge bands, and converted it in a statilar manner. John Loudon M'Adatn, Esq. farther examined. Have you, in any inst wire, made the alterations stated by your sons ?—Yes, 1 have: I found the suburbs of Bristol were entirely paved when I to uk charge of the roads of the district; those sobnrbs are within the jurisdiction of the commissioners for the care of turnpike road's; and I found the expense of piling was eery heavy, and the effect very bad, and I at once took the whole pavement up, and broke the stone that I found there into a stone road, up to the ju risdiction of the magistrates. Was that granite stone?—No, a kind of stone called the blue pennet in that county, and part of a light stone called Brandon-hill stone, both tolerably good stones; the blue rnnet is certainly no. so good as granite; the Brandon bill stone, when broken, is pretty nearly as good as granite. But those suburbs having been taken up, and given treat satisfaction the year before list, the magistrates took up balf of the street, called Sto k-'s Croft. which is the great entrance of the town from Glocestershire. The inhabitants were very mach afraid of dust; and therefore they request rd the magistrates not to take up the whole of the street, bat to make an experiment on one half of it, and after a year's experiment they consented to the whole being taken up. Worn I left Bristol, which Is now three months ago, they Wets busy taking up the remainder of the street; and I understoorbit was the intention of the magistrates to pro ceed gradually to take up a great number of other streets in the town. Do you know what dill:re:ice it has made in the expers •: .. • , t• ..: ' _ —That part of the sebeiips' that Was lineld, 'lid Tald itele with the same stone broken, cost sd. a grub yard for doiagtook op the stone I t he a tre nothing to purchase, the stone that came oat of ets folly shade the road, and we bed a little remaining for repair afterwards. and that operation cost sd, a square yard ; paving. in the city of Bristol, costs 56. 6d. a square yard when stone is fiend by the pavier, and I believe they reckon the laying down to be eighteen peace of that. What would be the difference of expense annually be tween a paved street and a road ?--I think that road re quired no repair for the first three years after it was done. A pared street would require no strair for seven years afterit was done ?—I think we repaired it for about a fifth part of the money, when it required repair, that a pave. meet would have cost. We seldom find our streets i n Bristol last above three years; the pavements heroine rugged, and full of holes, and so on ; they are obliged to be taken np, and they relay them generally oece in three years. There is another street in Bristol which has been taken up. but I cannot recollect the name of it ; it goes from Stoke's Croft to Kingston; it has been taken up by the magistrates, not under my direction. Has any objection been taken by any person to the alter ation that has been made at Bristol?—No, except the alarm that the inhabitants of Stoke's Croft bad when it was be gun to be done, and thy got the magistrates to delay doing more than half of it till they were satisfied that it would not inconvenience them ; and the circumstance of their sending a request to the magistrates to finish it induces me. to believe that the/ were very mach satisfied with the ex periment. Park Street, in Bristol, has been done in that way for, I think, 17 years; I was then a commissioner for watching and paving the streets of Bristol. Who did it?—it was done at the expense of the commis sioners for watching and paving, at my wish ; and tainly did superintend it, though I hadliotbing to do with more than any other commissioner had. It is a street ninny gentlemen know very well; it is a public road from Bristol to the Park, and very steep ; I believe it is a rise of three inches in a yard, and when paved was so very dangerous and slippery, that many accidents arose from it, and now it is a very good road, indeed, and 180 not believe that it cost upon an average, since that alteration, more than one fourth of what it need to do. What stone was it paved with before ?—Black rock-stone, a species of limestone. COURT OF CHANCERY, WILDNUDAY, Atig.l3. -........- SIR O. lint/MONT V. A LLNI."I"r. Mr. SUGDEN obtained an order for transferring the pic ture of Macbeth, painted by Mr. Haydon, to the plaintiff, by whom it was claimed, on paying into Court 1001.; that being the earn for which it was sold, in the disposal of Mr. Heyclon's effects. POLICE. Mangos; Hesse.—blocs AUCTIONS.—A gentleman attended before the LARD Maros to complain of frauds pros. used upon the public, and by which he had suffered, at a Mock A nctioa in Lime-street. The gentleman stated, that being unacquainted with the character of the place ' he was led by a public advertisement to a public auction in Lime-street. The description given of the sale in the advertisements and the catalogue was, that the whole of the property was of the very first rate, and be longed to a person of high rank. He purchased a large quantity of property to the amount of upwards of 1301., aed the whole turned out to be of the vilest kind, completely at variance with the description, and certainly not of one-fourth of the value it professed to be. Without troubling his Lordship with a description of the whole of the articles he had purchased, he would state that a considerable part of the things purchased consisted of plated ware, which the auctioneer, a respectable looking matt, warranted to be of the strongest kind of plated goods, and to have silver edges. Instead of being such articles, they proved to be, nut plated, but washed, and without silver edges. The auctioneer disappeared .immediately after. He (the com plainant) had been at the Excise office, where he couclisded, as a matter of course, that the name of the auctioneer would be found registered, but he could tears nothing of the fellow there. Under these circumstances, he requested that the Lord Mayor would grant a warrant for the apprehension of the man who, in the character of an auctioneer, had defrauded. The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant whether he knew the name of the auctioneer. The reply was in Aril negative. The Loan MAToR expressed his surprise at the incautious manner in which the complainant had ventured upon such purchases, especially as there was such opportunity for com mitting fraud. The complainant said, lie presumed that all auctioneers being sworn, and to a degree responsible persons, were therefore respectable. Besides, from the manner in which the site was conducted, no stranger could have suspected it. There was no opportunity for the examination of the articles. It was then stated to the Lord Mayor that the system of fraud, by means of mock auctions, had at present reached to a serious height. Sometimes a coons Was hired at the west end, and a sale of " eatable" plate was nude in the name of " &gentleman going to. Spain," or " on going to give up his town residence and sell his stock of wines," and by this means the worst trash was palmed upon the unsus• pecting. The LoRD MAYOR regretted that the anctioneer could not he found, as a warrant could not be issued for his apprehen sion except the name was known. His Lordship then advised that every possible means should be resorted to for the im pose of ascertaining the nurse of the mock auctioneer, whom the law would certainly treat with mach rigour. GUILDHALL.—John Homer, the driver of the hackney. coach, No. 170, was brought up for re-examination before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox, on a charge of f.dony, under the following circumstances:—lt appeared that on Thursday last the prisoner had a fare of two ladies and a gentleman, who had desired him to wait while they went into Mr. Maynard's, Ludgate-hill, to make some pur chases; one of the ladies, after agreeing for the goods she wanted, on putting her band into her pocket for her purse missed it, and imniediately recollected she had left it on the seat of the coach. She went back directly for it, but it was gone; and the coachman when questioned denied all knowledge whatever of it, declaring positively that he bad never seen it. Snow, the beadle of St. Martin's, Ludgate, was sent for, and searched the coach, but no purse was to be found. Previously on searching the coachman, lie questioned the lady as to the contents of the purse, who stated them to be five sovereigns, and 11. 15s. in silver; the purse was of green silk; and finding upon the coachman five sovereigns in gold, and 21. 4s. in silver, he took him to the Comptty. The purse was found shortly afterwards in the gutter close to where the prisoner's horses had stood.— The lady, Snow said, had identified the purse, and bad also given her name and address, Mrs. Braves, Parade, St. James's park; but on calling at her house. lie could not get sight of her, and was toll she was gone out of town, atul would out attend. Mr. HUSiplialaS, who attended for the prisoner, said he understood he was a respectable moo, and drove his own number, but as no evidence appeared against him, it was not necessary for him to go into his defence. Snots' asked what he was to do with the money be hail taken from the prisoner; to which Mr. Humphries imme diately replied it had been taken from his client; there was nobody else to claim it, and it most therefore be restored to him as his. The'Magistrate unfortunately had no authority to direct otherwise, and the prisoner was dist:bark:lA pocketing the. dl. 15s. leaving Muow in unincl , sled possession of the empty purse. 'a te . .- .-..,~- ,► -y.. . • ; Arm sT , osm • ' How STaarr.—MaLANCHOLI Cass.—A omit taim of Interesting appearance was brought before Mr. hha, under the following circumstances:—lt appeared that she' wet seen wandering about Sr. Martin's Lane, in a stale of great distress, and on inquiring into the cause of her sito ation, she stated that she had lived in service-at North Shields with one master for vie years and a half; that un fortunately, while there, a man who represented himself to he a roach spring maker. paid his addresses to her, and be lieving him to be respectable, she entertained his proposals of marriage, and ultimately was married to him; het oar our, from her previous good• character, giving her rosy.' Oa the ceremony being concluded, her little fortune, which,'l with her own savings and the contributions of her friend • amounted to 100 sovereigns was handed to ber hush 4 For some time he treated bet kindly, and ultimately brought her up to Windsor, under pretence of seeking work. Here' he remained till' last week, when he suddenly deserted her, without a farthing in her pocket. She found her way from Windsor to town, and was now completely des titute. Mr. HAu.n, with great humanity, promised to writedown to her late master at North Shields. and if her story proved true, to have be; conveyed to her friends. Jo the interim. be gave directions for Ler comfortable accommodation in St. Martin's uorkhonse. He has also directed that search shoeld be made for her husband. The mine of the unfortunate girl previous to marriage was Isabella Lindsay ; that of her husband William Lewis. She was living with Mr. Luiscale, in Dockwray Square, When site was married. • FaAvo:faanes Roger:, alias Brown, who was brought up on a former day,. charged with attempting to defraud Mr. Scott, a tailor in Pall Mall, of a suit of clothes, was again put to the Isar yesterday, when a new charge was pie. ferred against him by Mr. Coward, tailor,. in. Hanover Street, Hanover Square. Mr. Coward stated, that on the 20th January, ISIS, the prisoner went to his hoes* and be spoke a suit of clothes, and a morning frock coat. He represented himself to be Major Hepburn, of the 4th Polish Lancers, in the Russian service. On the Saturday even ing they were sent home to the prisoner, according to his order, at the Oxford Coffee House. The Foreman who carried them had strict injnnctions not to leave them with out the money.' The prisoner, on finding that the foreman would not diptart from his instructions, was a good deal mortified, and talked of some misunderstanding with the banker,. He agreed, however, to accompany the man to a friend of his who would satisfy him as to his respectabi lity. The foreman and he then went together to Mr. Copt land, a surgeon, in Golden Square; anti the prisoner be- I ng shown into Mr. Copriand's parlour remained with him for some time. On coming out Mr. Copeland took leave of him with apparent cordiality. The prisoner then said Mr. Copeland was an old friend of his; but baring lost sight of him for some time, he did not much like to be come responsible for his debt. He finally said be would proceed to Mr. 'Coward's, and reached his house between nine and ten o'clock. He sew Mr. Coward, to whom he read a note, which, be said, lie had received from Messrs Stephen Thornton& Co. that morning. It was to the following ef fect :—" Messrs. Stephen Tborntoo and Co. present their compliments to Major Hepburn, and have no im mediate recollection of any letter of credit in his favour from Messrs. Thornton, diary. and Co. of Petersburg,- They will, however, he glad to see him on Monday; and in the mean time they will behappy to honour his draught." On hearing. this letter read, an: also being informed that the primmer was acquainted with so respectable a man, as Mr. Copeland, Mr. Coward was thrown off his guard ; and he ineaolionsiv agreed to take Isis draught on Thornton and Co. for .£l6 tis., which was the amount of his bill. The prisoner then wrote a formal char on the house in question. which lie signed with the name of Hepburn, and enclosed it in a letter revesting that airy would accept and pay it.— This done. Mr. CuWild sent for a hackney-coach, the doilies were delivered to the Major, and he drove off. Scarcely had he quitted the house, however, when it was discovered that lie had left the note which be read as from Messrs. Thornton and Co.; this being read by Mr. Coward, be at once found that he had been duped, for instead of con cluding with the words which had been repeated by tho prisoner as part of the contents—" They will, however, he glad to see him on Monday, and in the meantiine will be happy to honour his draught," the conclusion wa't this— " They will be glad to see him on Monday tuorning, with any letter of which lie may be the bearer from their Peters burg friends." This was so palpable a misrepresentation, that Mr. Coward lost no time in proceeding to the Oxford Coffee-house, to have some further conversation with his customer. He soon reached his destination, but his fears of being cheat(' were completely realized. The Major did not return, and on his portmanteau being inspected, it was found a pefect void. From that time to the present he had in vain sought for the prisoner, and now discovered him from the report of the proceedings at this office in the daily papers. On subsequent inquiry of Mr. Copeland, he ascer tained that the real name of the prisoner was Rogers. and that be had been for some time one of his assistants. He had also been with Mr. Brooks, of Blenheim-street, the lecturer. •The prisoner was remanded to Monday next. There are several other charges against him of a similar nature. MARI.BoROUGU-STREKT.—Yesterday, Mr. Vickers, of the , Robin Hood, in Windmill-street, Golden-square, a nd Mr. • Bevan, a licensed victualler, of South Moulton -street, were each fined in the penalty of 2tls. charged with serving their customers after 12 o'clock at night. QUEEN-SQUARlL—Yesterday, John Wells, alias Turpia was brought to this office, charged with having committed a most outrageous assault upon Mary Turpin, his own mother. The prosecutrix stated, that she is a widow, and keeps a marine store shop, at No. 24, Dartmouth-street, Westmin ster; the prisoner is her own son, and lodges in her house; since the death of her husband, his conduct towards her Las been most violent, and he has repeatedly threatened to murder her. On Tuesday night last. she went out about ten o'clock, after the shop was shut, and returned home again a few minutes before eleven, when the prisoner, her son; met her at the door, and asked her in a violent tone, where she had been to? she made him no reply, but treat into the house, where the prisoner followed her into the back parlour behind the shop he seized hold of her and forced her into a chair, he then took up a ponder ous hammer, and swore he would knock her brains oat ; and with this murderous weapon lie struck her several times over the head and various parts of her face. She screamed out, `• Lotto have mercy upon me! for Hou's sake do not murder me, and 1 will tell you where I have been to." Instead of becoming more calm, he took op a naked sword, which he held to her throat, and threatened to sever her head from her body. She repeatedly cried out for mercy. and begged that he would spare her lite, but he still cont need holding her down, and threatening her for at least a quarter of an hour, when her screams at length brought a watchman to the door, who rang the bell, and witness em braced the opportunity of and escaped from the prisonn's grasp. The sword and hammer were here produced ; the former appeared very sharp and about a yard In length, and the latter nearly the size of a sledge hummer. The prisoner did not attempt to contradict what had been asserted against him, trot attempted to justify his con-, duct by stating, that his mother had lately become ac-1 painted with a man of bad character, who he was afraid would rain her. 1 The sitting Magistrate (Mr. Wuiva,) informed Ma,tat l nothing could justify his committing such a growl attack mi l l his own mother, and he must call upon hint to add the , most unexceptionable bail, and give 21 hours notice of ;be; • same,. • THAlties Poucs.—The quietude of thr Justice-m MIS disturbed yesterday by the fullowinir ludicrous case :—Mr l Stem, !au.flotd of the Gun," Hermitage-stairs, was cbarg- ~• ~~ ~.__,- ed with detaining a parrot Ethe property of Jobs Baptist, who, it afpeared, was the lover of the publican's servant, in Whose care, about six sent):. ago, he left the parrot in in question . while he went a voyage. On his return, be claimed his parrot, which he found bad brooms the favour ite of the landlord, and was confined within a beautiful w i re cage, and equipped very differently to when he left It: the landlord refused to give it op without being paid 21. for keep, and 18r. for a new cage. The Magistrate insisted . on the bird being fetched, which was done, and ss soon ao Poll entered the office, she ruffled op her feathers r awd gem menced a dreadful squall, as that the Magistrate mild scarce bear himself speak, and he was obliged to order hey instantly oat, and te.be eves teethe owner. The laid , applied for the 2s. 15.., bnt the Magistrate mid be had iw i • the bird's company for her keep, and the cage he had bought *at his own instance, inetnnst abide the Imo. Yesterday Thomas Hudson Harris was examined before H. BALLA NTINE, HS+ OD a Chillge of stabbing and cuttiug Mr. Wm. Appling. Mrs. Appliog staled that herself, her hushand and child, went tfown the river, in the Royal Sovereign steam-boat, on Tuesday. The prisoner was also a passenger. Upon their return, when near Gravesend, the prisoner pushed a lad with a basket against Mr. Appling, and after wards against the child ; upon which the wittiest gave the prisoner a slap on the f.ce. The prisoner went abut'. and in about ten minutes returned, and struck her kusbauil twice. Several of the passengers deposed. that there was a scuffle between the prisoner and a boy on board. and that the prisoner pushed the boy against Mrs. Appling's child. In about ten minutes afterwards the prisoner accosted a Mr. Westwood, one of the passengers. and said " Where is the man who insulted tne ?" and, turning %sickly mend to Mr. Appling, stabbed him twice in the falls wish brokea knife, over the right eye, and on the side of hill ROW. Mr. Appling is confined to his bed, bat hopes are enter tained of his recovery. The prirsonees attorney asked' the Magistrate to admit him to bail • who replied, that the prisoner could out be bailed, for if Mr. Appliug were able to attend before hint he alio Id commit the prisoner; and if the wounds should • prove fatal he should commit the prisoner for murder. For the present, therefore, he should remand him. UNION HALL.—A woman named Maria Smith, who is in the chair n.ending lime, was brought up chaiveed Nino suspicion of Loving robbed the house of Mr. Anichini, at N 0.33, S aulford Street, illadsfriers, under the followiti; remarkable circumstance: — On Tues lay morning, between n'ne and ten o'ciock, tbe prisoner walked along the street as if differing much tr rate fatigue, and seeing a young lady in the window of Mr. Anichini's house, begged for Goo's rake that she no :14 have the lininanity to give, or order one of the servants Its give, a poor weary creatnee a drink of w der. The young lady instantly ordered a female servant to give a drink of beer to the poor woman. who was all gratitude for the an. expected cumf,rt. The area door king open, and the young lade having retired from the window, the worry traveller walked down the st•ps hilo the servant was providing the beer, and contrived to return the favour by concealing about her person right silver tea spoons, one pair of sugar tongs, six taiile spoons, sst silver forks, an 1 one dessert spoon. hbe drank off the beer to the health and long life of her how tess, and then hobbled away, tent with less apparent diffi culty than she approached the )rune. She had not beret tong round the corner when the property was missed. The chairinender was then no where to be fonn I. tirosmith, the officer, upon being informed of the robbery, and of the person to whom the suspicion attached, went off to Kent Street, which contaios in soy dens of thieves, said soon laid his hauls upon the prisoner. Not one article !hat had been stolen was found. Indeed), the officer 05 dth there were such faciiities of disposing of stolen plate by the era. Bible and otherwise in Kent Street, that it was almost use- • Ina to follow property of the kind into such a place. The prisoner dented that she bad been at Stamford Street at all; but she was at once recognized by the servant girl, who swore positively that she was the pecan who bad beets accommodated with the drink. The Magistrate having found that the evidence was not sufficient for the conviction of the prisoner for the robbery. . sent bee to Brixton mill, to spend the rest of the summer at a new occupation. TOWN HALL, SOUTIIWANE.—YCSII.III4y morning, the carmanogainst whom a verdict of manslaughter was brought in by a Coroner's Jury at St. Thomas's Hoopit d (but whose name was then unknown), for occasioning toe death of a journeyman painter, named John Hawk's, by culpable neg ligence in driving his end against the ladder he stood on. was bronght before Mr. Alderman Wood, in the custody of Richard Ware, the beadle of St. Thomas's. Ware informed the Magistrate, that in coneeqnenee of orders from the Coroner on the return of the verdict, he went in search of the prisoner to his employer'e house, Mr. Sawyers, Star-court, Brick-lane, Spitalliel , l4, where he was directed to the prisoner s residence, who immediately siir- • rendered Iffinselt, and gave his name Thomas Conishee, and that the Jury who returned the verdict were to meet again toonorrow, for the purpose of receiving his name. Mr. Alderman Wood said the prisoner mist be kept in custody, and taken before the Coroner to-morrow, to abide the verdict. Yesterday afternoon, a respectable youth, in the employ of Mr. Ackermann, of the Strand, named Christopher CIA about sixteen years of age, plunged int.) the Thames front the steps of Waterloo-bridge, but unfoan lately sank into a bole and was drowned. The accident being observed b several persons, drags were instantly put is mo'ion, and were successful in finding the holy. It was instantly taken to the Spotted Dog public-house, in Stranii-lane, when two medical gentlemen, were sent for; they promptly arrived, and employed every means for the restoration of life for up wards of an hour and a half, lint in vain, lite being extinct. In the beginning of last week. a party of potters, or mug gers, comprising a number of women and children, took up their abode in the vicinity. of Ovingtun, and commenced trafficking round the neighbourhood in earthen and tin wares. On the Thursday following one of the women alarmed the in habitants of thevEilage with the cry that one of their dogs had gone mad, and had bit one of their children, and then GO seized upon en ass belonging to them. A number of the vil lagers immediately ran to destroy it, some of them armed with guns ; but when they came to the place, they found that the ass had killed his opponent, and had then laid down upon it. The villagers thee turned their attention to another dog belonging to the muggers, which they were determined to de stroy. A little girl of theirs, iu order to save a favourite dog. seized it in her arms, and carried it into an adjoining field. where she set down with it in her lap ; when a man, coining down on the other side of the hedge with his gun, perceiving the dog's head looking over a hush, fired and wounded the dog, but at the same time unfortunately wounded the little girl in the thigh aril hand, but nut dangerously. Every thing teat humanity could suggest has been done for the unfortunate sufferer by Miss Hind and Mr. Burnett, anti she is now in I • fair way of recovery.—(Newraxtle Chronicle.) MARRIED.--Ou Tuesday last, at Bray, Bernard Brocas, of Wake field Park, Bettis, and of Beaurepaire, Hauls, to Anne Dolly, eldest dauglifle of Perinea Pigott, Esq. of the Bridge Villa. Maidenhead. On Tuesday last, at Mary.la-bonne Church, Alexander Ureig, • Esq. of the 83d Regiment, to Mrs. Wiesen, of Sandersttail.Suriev. DIED.—Oa Friday last, at Melton. Yorkshire, suddenly, while attending his clerical deity at the visitation of lb v Venerable Archdeacon Wranchrue. In Use $BOl year of his age. the Rev. Wm Smith. A. M. Rector of Moder well and Braiishy, in the almovc county, and eldest brother of the Right Hos. Lord Mayor of York. On Tuesday sennight, of an apoplexy, while in the act of writing a letter, ' the It ee.Tboinas Klyne, A.B. of St. 111uaund Ball, Oaf.) ri, and ion of Mr. Kirne. 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