The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-02-26 00:00:00

COURT OF NO'S BENCH, IX “TaiittsTatt, Fis.2s. 'ens Item r. rovititt. This wee an indictment against Mr. Lattihert Fowlet. WI.o is a gentleman of fortune, and a person corned At bide, charging them with indecent conduct In Hyde Pith on tier 6.1 i of November last. An application vele imulitafor a certiorari, to remove • he indictment from the Weetntinster Sessions into this Corr?, ott the ground that it u oold be proper that the Jury should have a view of the 'spot where the offence was alle.ed to have been com mitted. The writ ant accordingly granted and lodged with the proper officer; but as it only specified Fowler mot another,' without expressly naming Attride, the suejority of the bench thought themselves Justified in pros eeteAng to tr y Amide, who was found guilty , and sen tenced to be imprisoned for six months. The case of Mr. Fowler now came on fur trial. The Sohiceroa ()seine t. stated the case for the pros secntlon. The principal witness for the prosecution was named Eeglestone, who was at work near the powdeomagaslue in lied. Park on the day in vocation. The place in which he represented the transaction as hying oecureeili was close to the Serpentine-river, and the time about half past 3in the afternoon. Three witnesses were called to confirm his statements, but they differed from him and from emit other in several circumstances of their story. •Alr. Conant, the magistrate of Marlborough-street, before whom the parties were taken, stated that Mr. Fowler said in I ie defence that he was looking after a dog which lie hod los!, and asking Attride if be had seen him, when the witnesses came up and wade their ch tree. On cross exemisatictn, this magistrate produced his minutes of Eaglestone's evidence, which he read, and which differed from the testimony of the witness to-day, in placing the time at which the defendants were taken at a quarter be fore five. instead of half-past three. It now appeared that the defendants were taken at halfpast three, and that they were brought an eloaly that it was nearly five o'clock before thee arrived at Mount-street watchboase, where they wore given in charge to the officers. Air. SeARLETT addressed the jury for the defendent•-••• He expressed the great anxiety uttich be felt for the re mit of the case, bemuse he was firmly convinced of the inn ccence of his . efient. dlr. Fowler was a gentleman of good fortune, peat the middle period of life, who had been Nice married, and had enjoyed much domestic hap piness eith both his wives. This gentleman hail been -seized in mid-day on a charge of the most distressing nature ; he was hurried—not burried o -but slowly drag ged alone to a public-office, doubllessao afford the oppor. tunity of a compromise; and, if he had not the assurance of entire guiltlessness to sustain him, and uncommon fineness of mind, insist have sunk under the afilietion. If any ef the Jury had the sorrow, the bitter calamity, to hill under so Soul a suspicion, what means of difence toeld ti ey possess but that of sifting the evidence of the witnesses, and peodaeing thou who bad long knows thew, and whip were assured, from the whole tenons of theit lives, that they could Rot be guilty of the crime laid . to their charge? the learned counsel then commented on the variations in the testimony of the witnesses from tech other, and of Englestone's present evidence from • his former tale; and asked the Jar!, even independent of then discrepancies, the charge was not wholly incredi- Isle ? They had happily seen the spot—it was open to the View, though in the netghlmurhood were plantations and pits in which coat ailment might be obtained—it was close t a footpath, atni opposite to a horse-way, where, at this beet's in the afterlives, horsemen were continually rid:ng ; and c yid they, who knew these circumstances better than he. believe that any man sought this pine for purposes Which be would con sal from the eye of the world with the most apprehensive oars ? In any other case, he should freselewly leave the issue with tie Jury. wiehout What witnesses; but here something dearer than property or (lift was intrusted to his protection, an l he would pro 4ace testimony which Amnia leave no doubt or stain on ciient's honour. It would be membered, that at else time when this atrocious accusation was preferred, Mr. Fewer staled that Le was looking for his dog : and rich was ureloolvecily the fact. This gentleman, who was in an infirm rate of health, having suffered a para lytic stroke—was afflicted also with a complaint in his eyes, and was advised by his medical attendants to bathe them in the sprint', in the ein ensure for deer beside the eMigazine in Hyde park, which was supposed to possess sonta.peculiar tactile.. To this place, therefore, he was eccueonted daily to resort, in company of his lady. Their habit was to proceed in their carriage to the neighbour hold of the spring, to which they afterwards walked, while a favourite dog, which was usually taken with Ahem, w.s kept away from the enclosure, as there was a wetice that any dogs found within it would be shot. On this dety, it efts not convenient to take the carriage, and Mg. Fowler walked to the spring with the dog. Is would be shown that this dog did not return till after 11 ('etude that Mght, that it was then without a collar, and that the spot where Mr. Fowler said he was looking for trim we , exactly that spot where any servant would ex pfto to find him. Besides these feets.• confirming his *teem , at, it would be shown that the defendant was a efc ornestic habits, of singularly modest demeanour, awl of high respectability of character, by friends who bad known him for a long course of years, and who now tome forward to protect his honour, in spite of efforts o)jich leaf been made to prevent them. When the Jury bad heard the case fully proved. they would, tie trusted, met only give a verdict of acquittal, but would be sail.- fed that the charge was altogether false, !joked, and vowelless. James Man, the footman of the defendant, 'wand his h.thits to be of the nature stated by . Mr. Scarlett ; that he went out u ith the clog' to the Sprats:, on the Bth Nov. when the dog wore his collar, and that the dog return ed. soon after eleven in the evening, without it. The Loot Cuter JUSTIee, who bad suggested to Mr. Searlett that he ishould begirt with his evidence, inter opmed,ond observed, that this fact appeared to hint very .kneortant, as confirming essentially that account which the defendant had always given. After this had been 'tailrace:wily made out, and after the i nconsistencies raid worietions in ' the testimony of the witnesses, he 'would pet it to the Solicitor General whether he would pro oe I ftirlhot. The SoLicaove Seavaftat. replied, that in a cehninal. case, he-certainly would nut struggle after such a sug gestion. All .thot the prosecutors could desire was, that vie 'cam, 'hyoid be.fairly submitted to the jury. The Forearm said—My Lord, the Jary are perfectly satisfied. The LORD elltEr Jvanct observed, that it wasquite erwreot in those who had the care of the place where this 'transaction was Midge have ocenneci, to put the matter 1 11, a proper conese•of investigation ;but if the Jury were •saristied, it Writ unneeessan to proceed farther. The Poreinun s.i.l,•risit they hid sten the spot, and Mere cent-ince , ' of the impassibility of the defendant's pelt, • • Several of theJnryeald—it it trite bark/150:0c lienttET *1414; that halted visited the Out, and 'le see it was alembits detnonstratien. The Joryfrund.the defendant old guilty. TUE KING T. JOUN • This wps an infonneion. Hied ex of kiti by the Attor atm-General, against the captain of a merchant rersel, :for carrying two seamen named Clarke and Morris, to Genoa, sod wilfully leaving them atthat port. Tice Solocnoe-elansitaa stated that this prosecution •was instituted *oder the statute of William, which was ,passed to protege a most inipoitent cliss of men e -the, . o thitish stitsmene-fropt a species of eppretelenao whittle they were peouliewirfiellthle 'rum woo a dlookblo .ta*pra con to captains to reaveibtir roan is foreign port, be- TITS STAIISSTAAS. rause the mariners were rot antit'ed 40 wage, ashes._ preformed the whale /royale, and because foreign sailors might be hired iet a cheap rate to navigate the vessel ow her voyage home. To shield seamemfrone this evil, the statute prohibited, In the most positive terms, the leaving of any sailer at a foreigu port by the captain of a wee- . chant vessel. The defendant had taken Clarke and Mer ris on board at Bristol, but at Cienoa had refused to a'- low them provisions, in order to compel them to leave the ship. They were willing to go if the captain would pay them their wages, but he refused to do so; and while they were gone aslic.re to obtain provisions, he set sail aitheut them. 'flee British consul provided for them while they remained, secured them a passage home, and passed them to the Navy Board, by whom this pro ',canon was directed. A similar indictment had been tried three years ago, and the Admiralty thinking it of great importance, bad caused the proceedings to be print ed, and had ordered a copy to be placed in the office of every British consul. 't he case was proved by the two seamen, Morris and Clarke. The defendant made an address to the jury, in which he complained that the tailors had rut done their duty as he expected, but did hot apply his observations to the material part of the charge. The jury found the defendant gritty. He was corn-• milted to the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsca, having been brought up in custody of the gaoler of Li verpool. The Lone CIIIEV JUSTTCE expressed his hope that the defendant world be brought up for judgeteat as early as possible in the term, that his previous imprisonment might not be unnecessarily I.rotrac'ed. HALL V. SMITS. This was an action by the bearer against the maker of ten Southampton one-pound bank notes. At the trial before Mr. Justice Burrougb, at the last Assizes for the county of S..uthaterpten, a verdict was found fur the plaintiff. subject to the opinion of the Court as to the several liability of the defendant on the notes in question. This was a case of very considerable importance to country bankers. The defendant was member of a bank ing firm at Southampton, and the question was whether lee was liable to be sued alone on the notes, which were in the following form:— " I promise to pay the bearer, on demand, one pound, value received.—Suuthampton, thp 24th day of March, ISIS—For W. Smith, W. P. Smith, and W. B. Taylor, " Was. SMITH. " Mr. SELWYN, for the plaintiff, contended that the de fendant, though he might be jointly liable with his part. arts upon these notes, vet there could be no doubt that he was also severally liable, inasmuch as the words " I promise" imported a sevetal undertaking to pay the money. He cited several cases analogous to this in sup port of his argument. Mr. BAYLY, on the other hand, insisted that the form of the notes only rendered the defendant liable jointly with his partners, inasmuch as he signed the notes for himself and his partners, and consequently . they were only joint undertakings. He urged the universal opi nion u hich had long prevailed is the mercantile world, that the person elm atgoed notes of this description for and on behalf of himself sod partners, never could be considered as severally liable. The decision of the Court in fayeer of the plaintiff In this case, could not but produce an effect as to the liability of country bank ers, which was never yet contemplated. If the Court should hold the deft ndant to be severally liable upon these noses, he saw no reason why Mr. Huse, the Cashier of thsßanls of England, might not be personally liable for the amount of every slate issued by the Bank, hum touch as every bank note commenced with the welds " I promise," thereby importing a personal ander eghigg.—Considering. therefore, the momentous effeel which such a decision might produce, he trusted the Court would pause before tney decided that the defendant was severally liable. Mr. SELWYN was rot heard in reply— The Court being clearly of opiniou that the defendant was severally, as well as jointly, liable upon these uotes. The notes imported, front their very language, a per sooal uatcrtaking. It seas unnecessary to decade that the defendant could make his partners severally liable, although there was JO doubt that he could make them liable jointly. It was by no means clear that even Mr. Ham.. as Cashier of the Bank of England, was nut per sonally liable upon the roses issued by the Governor and Company of that I nvitution; but, happily there had never been any occasion yet for raising that question. [low ever, this cave was mainly distinguishable from that.— Here tire defendant was a partner, and undertook for him self and partners,—butthere, Mr. Huse wholly undertook as an Agent for a Chartered Company. There was one very . good reason why the member of a banking firm, issuing notes of this thscription, should be held severally liable, namely, the difficulty to which a plaintiff might besolsjected in proving the partnership and ascertaining ' before hand alto the members of the firm were. On grounds, therefore, boils of policy and law, judgment ought to be given for the plaintiff. Judgment tor the plaintiff. THE KING P. BROWN AND WHITEHEAD. This was an indictment against the defendants for a i conspiracy to defraud Sir Cohn Campbell of a sum of ' 60411. The trial of this case lasted from two in the afterooon until past nine in the evening. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. SCARLSTT, Mr. DILNMAN, and Mr. Cuawonu, and the defence of Whitehead bottle Solicitor thoend, Mr. 6unxite, and Mr. Aaouvaus. The defend ant Brown did not appear. The following is an outline of the ease:—Mr. Brown was a clergyman of Essex,Vicar of Little Clackton, near Colchester, end the defendant, Mr. Whitehe .d, was a money agent, brought up in the office of Mr. Howard. In October 1819, Mr. Whitehead applied to Mealirs: Peoli and Watkins, Attorneys of Lincoln's inn, to : seise a sum of 6 0004 for Mr. Brown, if they had any client who would advance the money by way rif annuity. He stetted that Mr. Brown was the son of a gentleman of tank, the Provost of Aberdeen College, from whom be had large expectancies, that lie had married the daughter of a Mr. Cole, of Clackton, in Essex, from whom he likewise ex pected a large fortune; that his Vicarage was worth 4001. a year; that he had the donative of St. Osyth, worth 2001. a year ; and that be had a copy boll estate of the manor of Great Holland, which hisfather-in-law bad given him, which woaltifeteh him from 13 to 14,00 W. ; bathe made it a sinegita BOX that the CONatOIIS should not he searched, because another son-iinflitw of Mr. Cole was Steward of the manor, and his father-in-law would by that means know that he M ax raising money, and might in consequence disappoint his expectations. But Mr. %Vhitelleart said that he himself had searched the Court Hulls, and that he had (wind Mr. Brown's Title to he quite satiscactoq. After some negociation, an ab stract of Mr. Brott n's title deeds, together wilt re gniar attested copies of the admissions and surrenders, aere prodneed by lira, Whitehead, stewing the title to be clearly in the fatter. lie also offered to produce au 'affidavit of Mr. Brow o's other means of giving security for the proposed. loan. Being deceived by these repre sentations, Messrs. Peoli and Waldo* did not search the ' Coup Rolls, and 11,:vitctl their client, Sir C. Campbell, to advance the money, which lie did accordingly, and the annuity deeds w. re executed. It turned out Chat the whole of these doTtunitnts were forgeries ; that. Mr. 'Blown had no estate in Orem Holland ; that the e.tate was the property of his Gann-in-law ; that his living at - Little Ciorkton, instead of bring worth 4001. *year, was -worth no more than •JlOl. and that Isis donative of 'St, Osytlo.pru ;need only twenty : pawls .a .year. It ap lbatllr. Brown - bad aliconded and was gone to Auirtgen. During thivertneartiou both defamikeits were• frequently together. The defence set up for Mr. Whitehead "S alit he binwetf hirf b• en deceived by Mr. Brown, snit *as dr laded Into a belief that be was possessed of t'. .e mean , above.twertrioned. A long correspondence betvreri the riefentiasta was read in evidence to support this groom! of &fusee. The finite JUSTICE charged the Jury, that the (tura s on for them was whether Air. Whitehead was knowing ly treivy to .liese fraudulent reorerres'ations. for if he nu deceived leinvelf by Mr. Brown he would not be within the scope of this indictment. The Jury ininiediately found belt defendants Guilty. OLD BAILEY: Yesterday. Rained Dalrher, a man of colour, was in dicted for feloniously e:nbezeling 201. the property of Messrs. Perkins, Fairman, and Heath, engravers, of Fleet street. The prisoner had been brouelit over to this country by the prosecutors, sod had been employed by them as their contideatial clerk. On the 81st of Jannery„ he was sent with a check of 11051. to Messrs. Cocks nal Bid Iples, end on his return he said he heal lost the money. At the same time the prisoner was extremely impertinent, and he was in consequence discharged. Suspicions being afterwards en tertained, the prisoner was apprehended at Liverpool, and thep lie confessed his crime. AB-r hearing the evidence, the Jury found a verdict— 'G•ilty.—The prisoner, a Spaniard, implored the Court to be merciful to tilin. The COMISON SERJFANT made no reply, farther then it was a most serious offerer. IV illium Tobias. William Burgess. and Jlkliacl Thomas, three lads, two of Whom were under the age of it, were con victed of stekling a great quantity of wearing-apparel from the house of a poor women living In Eleven Diets. The three nalsereauts succeeded in getting clear off with the pro perty, but were afterwards taken with a great portion of it In their possesshsn. The Bacot/nee finme,:iately sentenced them to seven years' transportation. Joseph Benjamin was put to the Bar on an indictment charging hint with taking tram the person of Emanuel Dias Santos, a Roman Catholic Cl-rgynian, on the 30th of Jan. in the passage of the pit of Drury-lane Theatre, a watch end its appendages, his property. The prosecutor stated, that on the evening of the tiny In question,. he bad gone to the Theatre for the purpose of witnessing Vie performance of the Oratorio. While stand ing in the passage, he felt a leg at his guard-chain, which was broken, and he immediately missed his watch. Ott turning round he saw the prisoner attempting to make his escape; he called out slop thief, and the prisoner was per geed. In about fife minutes after the prisoner was brought back. His watch was given to him on the second examine don of the prisoner et Bow-street. Willlatn Nettleton, the officer of the Theatre, took the She prisoner into custody in consequence of the alarm. On their way to Bow-street, the prisoner contrived to escape, and ran through Vinegar-yard, down Drury-lane, until he reached the Olympic Theatre, where he was stop,.ed Tne witness was positive the prisoner was the men whom he first leid hold of. He received the watch subsequeutly from one of the work-people of the Theatre. The prisoner was found Guilty. Richard Clarke was put to the har on an indictment ehare ing him with stealing, on the 90th of Aug. last, le the pare It of St. Margari-t, Fish-street hill, property to a very large amount, belonging to his master, Mr. Thomas haber dasher, 01 Fish-street hill. Toe prisoner and his brother had been in the employ of the prosecutor, and from the frequent losses he had sustain ed he was induced, In September last, to go is c•unpaity with Turnpeoey, the officer, sad a friend, to the re•iderme OS the prisoner, at No. 63, Curtain-road. Cu scorching t:te rooms, admitted by the prisoner to be his, they found in a stl trunk, silk shawls, lace, sarseeet. sits handkeiefs, gloves. Irish linen, velvet. &c. sod money to the amount of 1911 tits whole of which, with the exception of the money, the prosecutor knew to be his property. &Veral witnesses were called, who clearly brought home the charge to the prisoner, and the: Jury found him Guilty. We regr. 1 to state that the losses of Mr. Flint are by no means comprised n the property above named. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for 14 years. POLICE. Row-rracur.—Yestevelay, G. Peoria:, the proptirt tr of a shop for the sale of British mines, in Cress•-..ourt, Russell-court, Droryline, oas summoced to answer tie complaint of Richards, a constable of St. Martin's perish, fur refusing to receive into his berme, or to rovide accom modation elsewhere, fur a private soldier, who had been regal:vie billetted neon Ricbixeds stated tt'at the defendant kept a 51.0 for the sale of British wines, ginger and spruce be..-r, an I other comm tdities of that description; and as the precept deli vered to the constables of Westmi aster, f r the regula tiott of their conduct in the performance of their various branches of duty, and the printed forms of billets fur sol diers with which they were also furnished to fill up as occasion required, both mentioned "venders of British wines" as IP rtons liable to have soldiers qnartered upon them, he had felt it his duty to send one to the defend ant, who had refused to receive him, on the plea that lie was not liable. The defeudant kept his shop open eutil to wor three o'clock in the morning for the s she of his wines, while the proprietor of a mastic-house was com pelled, by the fear of heavy penalties, to close his house soon after 11; and as he came strictly within the letter of the law, witness thought he should be guilty of a breach of duty if he did out deal with him as his precept directed. The defendant, in answer to the complaint, contended that lie was not liable, in .smuch as toe license under which he soil British wines, contained no stipulation of th it kind, whereas that of the licensed victualler expressly set forth his to have soldiers quartered upon If the Magisti ales considered him liable, every oilman and grocer in London, fur they all sold British wines, would . be equally so. Richards handed in his precept and the form of billet,, in each of which "Dealers io British and Foreign wines" were mentioned as being liable. Mr. HALLS said, there could he no dou'A that the de fendant, as well as every other person who sold British winks, was liable to have soldiers quartered upon him. — He must receive the man ahu had been sent to him, or pay the penally prescribed by the statute upon refusal. The defendalt s mid he must, of course, subndt to the derion, and be retired with the soldier. HavroN Ganuesr.—ln consequence of the charge made at this office agaihst Samuel Waddington for as tempting to commit a rape on a little girl, eleven yeses of age, who was sent by her parents to take him souse victuals in the House of Correction, one of the Ltagiwl testes of this office went to that prison, where the exami nation of the witness was taken before the prisoner.—lt appeared from the evidence of Mr. Taunton, a surgeon, that the (Aimee was not effected. Mr. Vickery, the Go vernor, satis:actorily exculpated himself from soy blame, in consequence of the child b.:ing admitted into the pti• son. The charge of moult, with intent to commit a rape, w is nee le out—the parties hound over to prosecute, and a detainer lodged against Waddington. AlAltuionovumrsTßurr. — Yesterday, an investigation, whi.l excited corsiderable interest, occupied the a ten lion of the lagistrites at this (Ace, regarding the quar tering of the will:sty. The . proprietors of several salt re ,riprion-houses in St. Jam-s s-street, he. at ended to an swer the complaint of a perish constable, fur having re fused to comply with the regulations ciniteine-1 iu the Mutiny Act of receiving soldiers into tbeir - houses. The first oases were those of Messrs. Bootle and kagget, alto attended op the occasion. The Constable deposed to his having visited the houses of defendants, to quarter the soldiers in .the same manner 11 at publieLbousts and be contended - fiat - Ulm Jim- • tilled in billsiting soldiers at the shore holism by lig Act of Parliament, or at any house where they sold swift► by retail. The defendants contended that they never sold wine by retail. 7 beim were sabsehipion•houses. sad were the same es arty •gentlenran's private house. The consump tion of the wines was merely confined to the subscribers, and none was se'd for profit. The Ctinstebin.canteslE d that he had soon wine avid by retail there. Sir ti. VIIIIRANT explained 'o the Corrot %hie that the Act of Parliament only embraced inns, livery stables, public Isoicses, lice.; hut he had no more right to billet at subscription houses than at private gentlemen's. The houses in the first place stere porch:mod, and then sup plied by the subscribers themselves, and therefore loin wine could not be sold hy retail. A Coninetitee was aim, formed of the same geutlenieu to candeet the :ears of II s • house. The Constable still contended that lee had a right t. billet soldiers at the atom houses, and said it had hen gloom at Penton's, lteddish's and o:her houses in St. James's-s•reet. Mr. ISAACS, the Solieis”, remsekel that the Art of Par3sonent merely embraced homes of se,:onomodmieu where persons coon indiscriminately enter an.l refrect . themselves and no other ; The Magistrate Alecitlekl in favnur of the defendants. THE LATE SNOW STORM IN SCOTLAND. (fIIOM TOE DUNDEE ADVERTISER Of THE'IIsDAT) The body of a young rusn who perished in the rum? on Friday se'nnight, between Cer:s and New Di'stall, was found, on Sunday last, by some persona who were attracted to the spot, by seeing his gloves and the shovel wit's a hich he had been assisting to clear the ton's. It was conveyed to a farm boure at a short esis•a ce, alma a scene took place which excited strong ratio ..as in thins who witnessed it. It was recognized by one of tit- ser vant girls to he the body of her lover, who had nest his fate in going to psy her a visit. She threw herself eta the body, front a Inch she cooled with didicolty be sepa rated; and has ever since remained in a state of onaiter able distraction. On Thursday week, Mr. David Littlejohn, farmer at Strathy, near Hunt lug, while returning tiom paving'his rent, entered a public-house with souse frietals to rest himself. Having partaken of some refreshment, Mr.. Littlejohn, in spite of every ctr....t to detain him, proceeds eil towards borne,—a destination which he trivaterracind; for he teas nest morning found deal upon a hibmit. within forty yards of his own door. The bode was in a, sittirg posture, half covered isitte same, his diad !emits.: upon his left haul. and with hi* right ham} hid arroiss his breast. Mr. Li!tirjo:au act'. a %%Lion and semal ch Wren. The son of a f.nner a few miles from Itedgorton. set out to who 4, at the nsital boor, during if:teller/At of die storm His father, dreading the di.ficoltv the boy wouht have in finding his way through tic drift, followed him in a short time, tracked his pith, ami at some distance froth Lome found lite lifeless body of his child. _ _ Vitali THE SDISSURCII IDT.Ut Of rumor. The road to Dumfries, Ca. helm, and I.ivrpo.ei, is now open by Ilridgehou-e. Iligrar, and Thornhill. The Commercial coach commesced running on IVedneselay. as usual along this line f road, up to which great acti vity had beet, used in cutting the snow. In several places from 100 to 200 men were employed. Daring the lit'e storm, a wreath of st ow, from ten to fifteen yards in accuntoirel ten the high way near Durnhiane, to the ai pth of obeli: 17 feet. The men who were employed in ele.ring the rood, cat an & rob kh, o a c h I nds wreath, of such tlimetisicort, as allowed the bleachers and cares-rs' cats to paws wtt Mut interception. Weanderstand Use 'ice storm has bees very destriwtivo 'to the herds of deer in this country. We are tire! to he ir that the tine pat k of deer at P..nasine, the w•at of Mu Hun. W. Manic, have experienced its f aei effects, sow* hundreds of th m having died, anti what mania ors marls injured. The country people state, to ftr as they Wm. yetis's* able to *sere tab+, netth• r the wheat nor the grass lave b-en injured, nor even ninth retarded io their growth, hr the [we storm. The snow pro.ected them completely from frost. At anr e ing of the ilittsrow Florist Club, held on Thursday hia lit, souse Ch:istniat roses were re duced in good condition, a kWh had, blown smiler the show. Very few sheep have heels lost. Fines.—A fire broke out cm Morally nigh', at t!ic cot tage of Home Plomcr, Esq , callrti Fenton-house, r Bailey, Herta, which consooe I the corage and two homes adjoining it. It WaS 'typos. dto have originated in the laundry. The inmates, the in now er. hid 4 narrow escspe. A young man who slept iu the fOOMs ever the laundry, Leaped from the window in a sodden frights and broke his thull. No pint of the f timitore, wnt is was valuable, was sired. Another lice broke ent y-ster dr; morning, at the bcosi of a laundress in Ne•tur Bi - :burn-road, which d .stroyed a great qnau 'sty of A Court of Aldermen was ye stcrilac held at sioilaislk The Bishop of Bristol and Dr. Bloo.i.fi hi, arch oacon of Colchester and rector of St. Botolph, Bialtapgate i were requested to preach the Spits! Sermons on llasa-r Moe. day and Tuesday nett, at Christ Uhurch„NewgiSte-street. , The Rte. Dr. Neat wlasee!ected to the Itectof7 of St. Duke's-place, its,the room of the Rev. Thalami 'Moore, deceased. The Court were lex. upied a onshter able time in hearing a coiplalut against one of tie brokers, which was adjuatne I. Last night, at eight o'clock, is Jury was impinstellell at the watch-Louse of Farringsjon 'Within, in King'• Head-court, "Newga•e-street,. to inquire into the cause of the di ath of a lady who bed been killed at the end of Si. Martin's-lr-tirand, by a waggon wheel going over her head, on Monday afternoon. It eppeared i that the de ceased was the mulles. of Mrs. Bennett, ef the Cabaret Theatre. Verdict—Accidental death ; &misfit ss. oa the waggon. DIED. On the 15th instal Friuli-hall, Roxberglishire, the rekt Don. Lord Ashburton. On Thursday last, suddenly, Either, re.ict of the late .1., Moravia, Esq. of o.d London-street. aged 74. On the 22d inst. at his house iu Devenshire-plats, JR- Coore, Esq, On Monday evening, the 24th inst. Mr. 3. Barton, Gram* Road, Bermondsey, aged 44. COURSE OF EXCITANOE.—Tttsnar. 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