The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-12 00:00:00

WILTSHIRE ASSlZES.—SaLtanear, Manes 10. On Saturday the Commission was opened by Mr. he rice Benanuen and by Mr. Baron Huts.occ. John Mason, aged 32, was tried upon a charge of bi - gamy, in having married Johanna Smart, bis former wife, Mary Mason, being still alive. • T. Ent witness was Mary Partner, whn stated that, )e 1- 14'she knew tlie s piisaner, who courted MaryLece,' a young woman of irmingham, whom he marred at St. Margaret's church. He lived with her but• three months and then left her. The register Was proved. A ,yoaug woman named Jolia , ut a Smar, stated that s e lived at Trowbridge. a here the prisoner about four years ago, came and courted, and married ber at the perish church. The reg'wer of this latter marriage was proved, and also the identity of the prisoner. . 'IIW prisoner, when called upon for his defence, began tp curnelain bitterly that he had b-en ill used in the insti tution of this prosecution, in consequence of which he hail already undergone the punishment of several months imprisonment. "To be sure I did marry the woman at Birmingham," said lie; "but Instead of my running away from her,- she sold all my traps, and then tau away from me. I went to sea, and she, thinking she had got rid of me, married again. When I got back from sea, I went and demanded her back, but as soon as Cashed for her, her new husband ups with a poker and swore he would open my heed with it. She disowned me, aria swore that she had never seen me. What could Ido wi h sneh a wife as that, year Lordship? So I left her, ni•y it plea e your Lordship, and leant out what I t. 011gat a better wife, and 'thirtieth her. This woman k3aws (pointing to the first witness). that say first wife is hivit - tg now with her new husband at Birmingham, and hashed three children by him, but she hadn'tone by me." prisonerexpressed his fires coolvietion that his eile's seeuud marriage exonerated him froon the bends of ma trimony, and entitled him to marry again. A constable who produced the certificate of the first marriage at Binning') ten, here said, that the first wife had nut hesitated to marry again ; and that she was now living with her second Ittisband, by whom she had had two children. The first witness, Mary Farmer, stepped forward, abet in justification of the first wife, stated to the Court, that she li-ed only married again when the prisoner rau away fns a beer. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Justice Helmut:en said, that whatever might base been the conduct of the first wife towards the pri soner, it could not justify his conduct towards the pro se, 146 x; Johanna Stuart, in marryint: her. His Lord ship sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned fur six months to hard labour. Mary Hillman was placed at the bar, charged by the Coroner's Inquest with moirdering her female infant bar tard child; the Grand Jmy not having found a bill against her. In consequence Of her delicate state of health she was indulged with a seat. Mr. WIXTER, in stating the case for the prosecution , I after detailing in a brief manner, the facts he should lay before the Jury, observed, if they should be satisfied that the unhappy young woman had not murdered her own et ild, they would consider whether or not she had con citified it. But should they be satisfied site had coin irittint the higher offence, then it would be their bounden duty 'to say so. The Learned Counsel then examined the following witnesses : Aar) , Allpot was eared, and deposed as follows: —I live with my . mother, in the borough of 13ewdley. '9n the morning of the S h of October, I saw the pri soner come oat of the privy. I asked her if something t-ai not happened. She answered, " No." I then toek fie tongs, and was proceeding to the privy, when she' 'took them from me, and said there was no such thing.' Ilee prisoner at down to her breakfast, and afters ards went up stairs. Maty IlumPlierson was next examined.—l was at Mrs. .:Alipht's house •on the morning of the Sib of October. In consiquence corsoine communication Vwent up stalls, and there saw the prisoner, and I said," Sally. what leave you been doing ?" • The prisonee hail the appearance as though she had been delkered. I 1 - Itl seen ,her the :day before. Sarah Hitler examino d.—l sate the prisoner on the us wning in question up stairs at Mrs. Attpot's house. I asked her why she did not own it: She answered he. puse she was bewitched. I afterwards vent to the privy and sew the child's head; I lead then a candle. The second time I went with the tongs and took the child out. I t was a fedeale child, and was dead. I left it in the house. Elizabeth Juniper said that the prisoner desired her to go to a drawer on the 9th October, and there she would find a child's cap and shirt. Witness went there and foand them in all unfinished state. Mr. James Fryer was next examined.-1 am a snr yen living at Bewdley. 1 wen: to the house of Mrs. Alhpatahout one o'clock on the sth October. The pri soaer app. teed pale and exhausted. I first saw the body of a child in the privy. The nose and moutli were under the soil: rise hack part of the head and some part of the face nereexposed. Externally, I saw two or three small scratches ti von e skin of the face. The navel string lal,not been tied. 'I he back part of the hea I eas louse. ts belly was *sunk. The 1n04 . , appeared of a florid co• lour, and SW3nl in water. On examining the head the tones were I.roken. A consider itole quantity of blood was upon the lobes of the brain. 'The bones of theloi ad seinen d to have been broken by either falling down or a hard substance telling upon it. I went to examine the brick -work in the privy, slid there saw it was of pie in a 'silting manner. There was n.e blot,' gem it. It is very probable the child had breathed. It did hot appear tie he rptite full grown. By the COURT.-1 cannot undertake to say the child wss born alive ; it might have eject in birth. The lungs sit laming in water do not prove the child to have teen' born alive. The child's head might have been crashed in birth. 'f he Learned J unc tr, in commenting on the evidence said, before the Jury LI on . ght a verdict of guiltyagsinst the prisoner on this cap ital part of the charge, they toast be satisfied that the child had been wanly de at. eyed by th.: prisoner. But was it riot more that this child had died from one of the many circumstances be which thousands died on their entrance into exist i:nce, lit in by any design of its unhappy parent? The respectable medical gentleutan who had been called, would not undertake to swear that the child did hot die when it was just about entering into life. This evi dence the Jury would consider. -There was another question fur their consideration, which he (the Judgv) was sorry to say where evidence was not so faVourabletu the prisoner, and that was the testitnoiny of the reipect tilde young woman,. who was the first witness in the case. 'The prisoner's conduct on that occa•ion certainly amonnt ia to of the child ; ;yid by a Staticepassed in use late King's reien - , that od'etice was visited by pu nishment. His Lordship left the .In-y to form their own torocki-hin Coin the facts state I. 'the Jury as:turned a vrrditt of acquittal ai to the traced r. hit aunty as to tile concealment. •*1 lee je*D C .E'dien inquired the eitaracter of the fritiuner, - He was told by two w iteesses that she had al as-av condoetea herself with propriety and modesty, be firc the present- occasion: flea Ihninlship then called Ler up .for judgment. He said the Jury had done eight In neeaiisiug the chance of murder, he was firmly persuaded she did not intend to kill the child, and 'sines- she had . received an - excellent character, he seas unwilling to add to the imilrisonment she had already uude v zone, 'therefore, the sentence of the Court wet Oat she should be: imprisoned one day, and then dlsobarged. • . • TtrL sTATEsMAN flowage at Wools The• prisoner had lees but seven kept the notes; mad his excuse for so manta now was, Uses menthe cm -board her, and lmadnly 41. wages to Tecate), he Mad led to appreimed the chair-maker, for stea4ing while the complainant having been three years and a on of them from the boy. ban' in the ship, had an arrear due to bins of 47 / . At 1 , The Nfarisfrate ordered the notes to be advertised- ins the lime of their discharge, the complainant, feeling merliarely ; and unless an owner for them could be found himself rich in romparison to his comrade, offered to that they would' become the property of the fiuder.— share his parse with him. They went to toil together, The complaint, upon this understanding, was &s -ited lived upon the money as a sort of joint stock. till it oriesed. S Was reduced to verylittfe more than 101. 00 e I turday UNION HALL.—Yesterday James Cain, a Iralapay moruing last, the complainant left the prisoner at home, officer, and Matilda his wife, were brought up by twe e whilst he went out upon some business to Tower:llßL ! mona, the officer. charge 1 with obtaining 3001. and. up. and upon his return, he found his old messusate bad i wards ander a folic and fraudulent pretence. It am broken open his chest, and taken away five sovereigns, a I peare4 that in the month of May last the torisoners were 51. Bank note, and' several articles of messing towel.' introduced to a getellenean of considerable property in The prisoner was takes i no custody at the Gentrd's-hall I the city, and were represented to be in the most urgent Inn, Ban/4one, where he bad boeiked himself for Bris- distress, although they had upwards of 12,0001. as the tol. All the articles of wearing apparel taken ( r uin female prisoner :eat-a', in the hands of her aunt (MN. Lyoe's chest, were found in hit possession, and also a Mary Adams), who resided in the family of laird Met a/. note, and 3/. las. 3d. in cash. bourne, at York House, Inaction ; hut (ruin certain The prisonnr was cot 1111 l itted to Newgate for trial. circumstances• at that moment they could met obtain BOW•STREET.—ltesterdity, John Graves, a man in the possession of it. The Gentleman to whom this shre. employ of a carrier named Mott, was brought up on a meet was made, on the faith of the lentil« presetner, warrant to answer the complaint of Mr. Wrench, the co- vanceil her money for the use of her feebly Iron n ear median, fur excessive cruelty to a horse:. to time to the ontottnt of 3561. upon con ei ion of its b e - Mr. Wrench saw the defendant in the Strand, beating ing repaid with the usual iuterest. On the 19th Decent his shaft hot se most unmercifully. The pour animal her last, he received in order, signed by the husband, on trembled under the pethishment, and did not tininediately Mr. al‘Cann, ante liaal gentleman residing in Porliamete - obey the command of the brutal driver ; upon which he street, who attended his Lordship's family , fur 1001.; but - took a strap and tied down the head of the horse as before the order was prss-uteri, a letter purporting to be tightly us he could draw it, in such a position as must written by Mr. M•Cann was brought by the reansie pri have inflicted.txtreme torture, and then belaboured him soner, wherein Its stated that it would he impossible to over the head with the butt-end of his whip until the pay any money on account of Mrs. Mains till that lady animal Fell on his knees. This was dune in spite of the retureed to London, as she waa Biro s journing with 'serrations of a crowd of persons, some of whom bad Lord Melbourne's family in France; the consequence well nigh inflicted summ try punishment upon the (le- was, the order was not presented for p eyenent. Subse fendant. Mr. Wrench took the number of the cart, acid friendp four or five other letters, putting off the paya a set tttttt ons was served upon Mott to produce the driver, wens, and purporting to come from Mr. al`Cante, were but be said he did not know which of his drivers it was, Stated to have been received by the teen ae prisoner. and was evidently desirous of screening the offender from At length the suspicion of the credulous gentleman was punishment. A second summons producing no het er arouaed,and.he ileterneimet on waiting on Mr. al`Cann effect, a warrant was issued, and Mr. Wrench aecomp a personally, in order to ascertain the trite stele of tieing , ; nied toe officer at six (Moak patentee morning to aloe t's and he ancordingly cello I on that gentleman yeStelMay. stables in Satitorge's in the East, mei! painted out the de. when, to his great surprise, lee learn I that the letters fenelent as be came to his work. purporting to be signed by him wer • forgeries—Bin he The defence was that the horse was obstinate. knew nothing of such persons as 3lr. and Mrs. Cain The defendant was fined 20s. and revs; but when he that he had never attended Lord al elbonrae's fooaly had been lurked up in defaulter payment for two 01 three and that it was nothing more nor lesa thin a trick to hours, he made a pitiful appeal to Mr. Wrench on account defraud him of his money. Ile had th-reltore coursed both of his children, woo, be sail, must starve if he went to prisot.urs to be apprehended. prison, and he had no 10441 to pay the tine. Ile ex- A gentleman naissea'Newenan said, that a friend of pressed much contrition fur his telfeure ; and Mr. Wrench his had been bamboozled of •aOOl. by the prisoners - prevailed upon the Magistrates to discharge him upon der similar circumstances. He had Iseown :be father payment or the costs, amounting to 12s. an I mother of the prison Ts, who were esti!' living, a'. SEDUCTION AND ATTI:MPTEI) SUIeIDE.—H ATTON GAR- though they were mew:wets of ninety years oleo. Ile DEN.—Yesterday, Mr. John Scud, Clenreltwarden of St. verily believed that the haanoted was totally innocent James's, Clerkemvell, anent led by a young woman, of the transaction, and that the whol4 .guilt lay upon named Sophia Ranson, 17 years of age, with a - female in• the wife. fent, eight months old, at her breast, whom lie had taken The Magistrate asked if Mr. 3l‘Cann, or any person of into the workhouse the preceding night, she having at- Lord Melbourne's hoiesehold were present ; the termer, tempted to destroy herself by ceeteing leer throat with a to prove that theaetters, stated to have come from him, razor. The poor girl appeared nut to he so old as she were not in his hand writing; and the latter, to negt stated herself to be. five the prisoner's -statement of Mrs. Aeatais' having re. She stated herself to be the dangliter of a respectable sided in his Lordship's family. farmer, in the county of Sorrels who fell into pecuniary • His 'Worship was answered in the negative, lout that difficulties • and that she was under the necessity of emu. they wont(' attend on th e next examistation. ing to London to seek her bread, where she got a respect. Mrs. Cain said that leer aunt hail absconded shout s: a able service, but was seduced by a young chemist and Months ago from Lord Melbourne's fimily, taking with druggist under the promise of marriage; lett heti deserted her all the property belonging to her ( Sirs. Cain;. her, and worried another. !Bombs- evening she was oh- which cireauesaince her tension I slid nut know till the served by some persons walking en a very disconsolate present moment, area it was she who induced him to w steer e lie. manner by several hours, up and down Spa-fields. A the order on Mr. 31•Cann for the payment of 1001.; gesoleman of the name of Voting was indueed to watch confessed that the letter she had stated to have heed seat her ; at length lee saw her sit down and liv down a small her by Mr. M'C. *tea, nut writton Ly him, but by a but :le whittle she carried, then kiss tier child and lay it woo ten legged moo evlioen shoe le id' eityloyea in the down by her side, puil a r-zor oot of her pocket which Westminster-road; she sled it to satisfy the pressing de she opened, and as She teas taking off her bonnet and frill nneols of leer belief maw. from her :leek lie ran towards her. When she saw him The husband at this disslustire appeared par kHz...a she drew the razor acr. as her throat ; he rushed upon her and declared till that moment lee was ignorant of tar 'led forced the Ineerament oat of her hand, sae having aranmetion. inflicted only a slight scar in consequence of her frill The Magistrate told him he had link -d himself in his and the tie of iier - beaver 'bonnet being, round her neck. wife's infamy bywriting the oriler, therefore they were Mr. Youug soothed her sorrow, and humanely conducted jointly culpable. Ile should therefore remand theirs beat her to his own house, where he give her some tea amt for further examination. toast, it b lug the first time • she said, that she had broken The prisoners, who were very resaectably dressed, ware her last that day. 'flee wound on her neck proved to be then consigned to the ;rimier. but slight. BROWK GREEN inlet —The of Hammersmith ills. Mr. Young brought her to this office at eight o'clock h • i have had a full Meeting n the yourch, 04 the subject of in the evening: on being asked where she o ut the razor, this Fair, the inhabitants having ge n erally complaitoot she said her seducer sent her a small parc el that morn seri% feud those residing at Brook -Yuen in partiemlar, re ins in which the razor was contained. The Magistrate presenting tuat, for three nights before the tat , a 204.1 ordered the offre to be cleared n hilet lie had some pri dewing the three nights uf the Fair, they mere ob!iged to vase conversation with her; after which he sent John Litubrick else officer with her, requesting that Mr. Scutt, guard their houses and premises againit out gitll!! such ‘i pre . cautionsnotllari having al ways been siie the Overseer, would give an order to have her taken in that night to the Workhouse to lee taken care of; to rage'sl' a !eine res o l ve d . to a I res t s the Ma 2 which Mr. Scott cheerfully assented. Yesterday, on her t i ratea t o h n the th n u e hi t ec i t , , ui t i l i tey A lta. t rang at stal t , i t i d e at ( th is last t e,eeere e power ro being brought up again, the Magistrates thanked Mr. s A t: . i t ores ' et t it le ttiele . r c ertain . un ' t , tatte tu es; Stott for his kind attention to her, as well as to many others. It up s cored upon inquiry that th • p eor girl hal gi!trat-s in conscee tence of such aeulieation on behalf of r?ver sworn the child to the tataer, and lead no allowance app lied .' to the Bishop . er Lot ion, as Leal of the ' Manor ' toaseertain whether the Fair was seamen:l for its support. The reputed father was sent for, but ho by any Charter, or . whether its supp ression would teas.- was not at home; his falter attended attended for him, fere wills any of his privileges. It w,w then and a long private examination took place. it is only durina recent years Gait fees have been recei re , ' NIARLUOROCOH-STREET.—John Keely was Yealer•laa' I by the - Bishop's Bailiff, to the anemia of 5(11. for ona examined at this Office before Mr. Conant, charged under I shot of gronnee; that there has lately been appointed a the following circumstances with leaving robbed his soma. nese ; and that the Ilishoa, so far from haven , ter, Sir Geo. Alderson, with whom he lived some time an y o hjection • to the suppression tit ° Bromic Green Fair," back es footman. d yawed it. These answers were y•esterelay commenicated It appeared that about two months ago the prisoner I to the hamlet, and the Alajs:rates awl District Otti era was apprehended by Clements, the officer, upon a charge then issued hills announcing the eliseoutintiance of of felouy, when on searching his longing,Clements fowl,' Brook Green Fair in future; and that any persons en an immense number of pawnbrokers duplicates, chiefly for wearing apparel. The Officer mentioned the circuit'. deavouring to erect booths, nr to u: .he other prepara lions fore Fair, will be dealt with according to the new stance to Sir George, who on «awning his %sante lobe found Police Act. that almost all the drawers had been emptied, and pro- II .: A TERFORD MARKET, MARCH S.—The price of Bat perty to a large extent taken away. ter is still nominally at 765. to ;as. for fresh first quail- A number of pawnbrokers attended, and produced ties (eqnal to about tars. to Sls. with the former beam pantaloons waistcoats, dress breeches, shoes, stockings, a e a t ) —but, as scarcely any of this description is coming handkerchiefs, ace. in, no accurate quotation can be Liven. 'l'lle soles at the Sir George's tailor attended to identify the articles C rane f o r the last two days leave amounted to 145 lira ins. made for him. The prisoner acknowledge d they belong- all from fanners, but almost entirely stale tuts, and chid ed to Sir George, and expressed ids sorrow for having lv of inferior quality, which sold iron/ &kis. to about 71. robbed so good a master. lat• prisms of pigs continue to a.ltwice grydoaffy. Ito - The prisoner's mother, a very respectable woman , who can Pigs are now at 24a. 61. to 25s.—Scalded pork. '2lls. keeps a school at Hampstead, anended, and seemed greatly to 21is, b , i , (•275. was paid en Thorn lay)—Heads, 12a• to affected by the situatiten of tier sun. 13s.—Offal, 10s. to 12s. peraavt. Sir George said, that from the high opinion he lead of the young man's parents and friends, nothing should induce him to prosecute hint capitally, and it was with ninth unwillingness he submitted to the determination of Mr. Conant, that the prisoner should he indicted for petty larceny, in stealing a pair of shoes, the only thing Sir George could swear to. Upon this charge he was fully committed. QUEEN Snoods.—DETAINING LOST NOTES.—Joseph Kidd, a Constable employed to keep order among the stage coaches, at Charing-cross, was suinmoned to slimy cause why be detained 41. in notes of the Yarmouth and Sielfeelk Bank, found iu clue street, and arc supposed to have been lost or stolen hey some person at present un known. About a fornight ago a youth, who sweeps the cross ing in Whitehall, saw a bundle of papers wrapped up in the street, near the curb-stone; on examining it he found live pieces, taith flourishing and writing upon each, which he could not understand, and lie skewed the pa pers to a man who sells chairs in the street, near the Steip I favern. It was atmat dusk in the evening, and the man took the papers to inspect them by the light of the lamp; lee then to.d the boy that the papers related to money, cannoned him not to thew and giving thera ntifortled, them to any other person tilt the neat day. The men ion of, money made the troy more cations, and he shelv ed the nires to another mall:sand found lie had now only (Mir papers. This man'toulatini to the constable, wbn DIED.—On Saturday, the Silt inst. at his house in Cado gan-place, Sloane-street, IL Douglas, EN. On Wednesday, the 2tith ult. Mary, the wife of Mr. J. Mitchell, of the Borough of Southwark, in her 7tith year. On Monday, at Lyon-terrace, Edgware-road, Mr. J. Jar vis, aged 4S. COURSE OF EXCII INGE.—Tunsnay. Amsterdam e f ..12 11 Gibraltar 3lll 0 Ditto at Sight 12 8 Ltgliqrn, .. Rotterdam...... Antwerp..... ll 9 Venice Italian Liv 27 70 Ilainburgh. ..........35 a Malta... .15 0 Altona ..... ... ....35 6 Naples 3S 11 Paris, 3 days' sight,..2s Sil Paierino.. .... 'oz 1141 Ditto 96 10 Lisbon al; 0 Bordeaux 90 RI Oporto 52i 0 Frank foi ton the Main 139 Rio Janeiro 44 0 Petersburg 3us p role 9 Bahia 5O IS - Berlin.. ..Cur Dolls 7d7gr. Dublin 91. 0 Vienna, Ef.2 m....f10 10 36 Cork 0i 0 Trieste ditto 10 36 RULLIOS. per oz. Madrid 37 i 0 l'Orlugal gold i n coin.(l/.0:.01 Cadiz ......3131 U Foreign gold in bars. 3 17 6 Bilb o a : 7 4 0 New Doubloons.... 3 lii . U _ -. .. , .iooa Barcelona 4'U New Dolla►s Seville lit U Silrerinbarcstandard 4:111 London : Mite& Printed, and Published, at the onlooka "The STATasnms" No. d)7, Strand, by R. WARDELL: LL.B. to "thorn all coa.niunications, Orders, d.o. are requested to be addressedt V" ` - , I t! 1 1 ESSEX LENT ASSIZES—CusLmmao, MACV 11. The Lent Assizei for this Cottuty commenced bete 1 to-day before the Lord Chief Baron on the Crown side, and Mr. Baron Graham on the Civil Side. In both Courts the business is very light, compared with the former Assizes, there being only 49 cases in the gaol -ca lendar, and 13 entries in the cause paper. CIVIL SIM Before the Hon. Mr. Baron GRAHAM. SEDUCTION--ROYCE V. POLLEY. This was an action against the Defendant for dte- , benching the Plaintiff's daughter, whereby he lost her' services. Mr. Sergeant Teddy and Mr. Walford conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. blarryatt and Mr. Knox the de fendants.. The case opened was, that the plaintiff nas a miller, at Great Totham, In this county, and also kept a public house. The defendant, a man upwards of 40 yea's of age, was also a miller in the same village, and a neigh bour of the plaintiff, and was in the habit of drinking at his public-house, in which Mies Lucy Royce, a young woman of 17, assisted her father as a servant, and at tended in the bar. About two years sincelha defendant beeame.actinainted with Miss Royce. In order to effect his base purposes he prevailed upon her to visit hint at the cottage of a woman named Smith, a tenant of his.— The lame r, it was said, had lent herself to the ruin of the girl by going out of the way, leaving the parries togs-. 'ether. About Michaelmas, le dl, the defendant accom plished the ruin of the unhappy girl at this cottage ; the consequence was, that at Michaelmas following, she be came the mother of an infant For the loss of services thus occasioned to the plaintiff, and the expenses during the illness of the young woman, this action was brought. Miss Lucy Royce, a girl of interesting appearance and considerable beauty, deposed that she became ac quainted with the defendant in consequence of his coming to her father's public house todrink. The defendant lived about a quarter of a mile from her father's dwelling. A wo man named Smith occupied a cottage of the defendant Witness used to go frequently of an evening to visit her sister, who married a Mr. Gentry. In her way home she had to call at Mrs. Smith's cottage, where she often met the defendant. Mrs. Smith used to leave them alone when the defendant came io. An intimacy was formed, and about Michaelmas, 1'321., the defendant effected ber ruin. She continued to meet hint at Mrs. Smith's from that time until June last year, daring which time the im proper intimacy was continued. in Sept. last she became a mother. On her cross-examination she admitted that in the room where she met the defendant there was nu bed or sofa; but there was a carpet. She denied that she knew Benj. Gentry, brother to her sisters's husband, as well as the defendant. No improper intercourse had ever taken place betwten them. Mr. Brown, a farmer at Great Totham. proved that the defendant was a man upwards of 40. He owned a mill, and was in pretty good circumstances. This was the case for the plaintiff. The defence opened was, that there hid been no seduc tion on the part of the defendant ; that it was even a I doubtful matter whether lie was the father of the child, inasmuch as the young lady had been familiar with other men before the cr,nnection was formed with the defend ant. According to the case proved for the plaintiff, it n'as urged:that norniral damages would satisfy the jus tice of tho ease, considering the easy manner in which his daighter had become the defendant's prey. If the Jury had reason to think that the defendant was not the father of the child, it was clear that this action would nut lie. It Was proposed to show that as early as twelve years old, the piing lady's mind had been imbued with vicious notions from the company she oat in the habit theefidg in the tap-room of her father's public house. Mr: Benj. Gentry, deposer], that his • brother had mar ried Miss Royce's sister. About two years since he was in the habit of meeting Miss at his brother's house. She was then about fifteen years of age. They 'heel:me very intimate. A criminal intercourse took place be tween them in the kitchen. lie broke off the connec tion with her in consequence of her having taken up with other men. Mrs. S. Smith, servant to the defendant, proved that the defend, it and Miss Royce used often to meet each other at her house. 'Phis w as the case for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant 'FADDY replied on the part of the plain tiff. and urged that the defence set up was wholly impro bable, and that- the statement of Mr. Gentry was so in famous as to be totally unworthy of credit. He in sisted that the conduct of the defendant, in thus at tempting to attack the character of the young woman, whose ruin he had effected, was a consideiabie aggrava• ion of damages. Mr. Baron Grrattast summed np the case for the Jury. The JurY found their verdict for the plaintiff—Vantages [OK • SCOICH POLICE. Though we have a very high idea of the sobriety and good order of our northern neighbours, of which K e hear a great deal from witnesses be4t acquainted with time I facts (their (ion countrymen), the following Police Re port, which we copy from the Glaa7oin Chronicle, re ceived this Jay, still show that even Scotch men are not exempt from all the frailties of our common nature. The population of the city in which these 1,303 cases occur in a month, is about 150,000; every Scotchman, however, will remark, that there are many Irishmen in Glasgow. List of persons convened before the sitting Magistrate officiating in the Police Court, for four Weeks, co:n niencing on the 30th day of January, anti ending on the 27th of February, 1523;-119 for assault; 109 for being drunk and illsorierly in the street and in houses; 44 for molesting Policemen on duty; 95 for suspicion of theft; 5 for reset of theft ; S for contraveing sentence of banishment ; 1 for issuing hese money ; 30 fur keeping disorderly houses; 6 for entertaining people on Sunday' during divine service, in taprooms; 35 for incutnbering the streets with articles for sale, and with burley ; 22 for contravening the carter's act; 35 for having coals defi cient in weight, and using false tickets anti tares; 42 sent to the Chamber for prosecution • 4 sent to the She riff fur auto •' 2 sent to Justices of die Peace fur ditto ;2 arm to time 11 7 ater Ilaillie ; '206 prostitutes ; 117 beggars ; 7 suspicions characters following no lawful employment ; • 2 for beating carpets in courts and on the streets ; 29 for not cleaning closcs; 15 for not cleaning pavements ; I for wheeling dung to the street after eleven o'clock a. in.; 19 for throwinix filth and water over windows; 17 for foul vents ; I for breaking public limos ; 6 for having porta ble lamps not lighted ; 2 for having swine going at Image; 4 for embezzling webs ; 6 for dogs biting per sons,-and lighting d.,gs mum the s•reet : 1 for dirt} in; the streetiewith overloaded farts; I fur firing guns tau the streets an-I in eliureli-yards ; 6 found destitute on the street ; 1 fur driving cattle through the streets on Sun day; 2 for refusing to pay pro. onion of expense of cleaning pavetnetits; 2 for exposing a child; 1 for de serting a child; 1 for einliezzling leather;—total, 1,303. PpLiCE. • GVLDHALL.—John Duncan, late a seaman on board' his Majesty's ship Pheasant, %vas tAtarged before the sit ting AVderman, Sir James Shaw, with robbing David DynNa messmste, who hai served with him on board the same ship. The IL ) ,eafant, it ttprared, lid been paid off i talon / •