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LAW NUTICES. COURT OF CHANCERY. This jveinot the third seal, motions only will be heard by the Lord C%oketiliir this 1110111i11 f. 'fro. Virt-Chaneeilor will giorejudgrnent in Crawshay T. Collins, ant Del Pont v. De Tutet. • COURT OF KING'S BENCH. LORDOW ['MISTS TO RR TRIED BY COBIMON JVIIIIS Tin/ AIoRSING AT lIALT•PABT KIST. Raynor V Linthome Parke?' Harrison B ruce . I . G ra y Briant v Milnes Taylor • Dairies Bryan v. Wagstaff JUDes • repria Rnrwond y Cast Allan • Shipman Yates • Choodge Nichols • Sayer Jones v Stnilhouse Cox • Stephens Ilathway v William. Gaitskell v Merry Hill v.lAwrence BM Mason V Kinsey Tinley v Baker Warmnll• linneg !lanyard • Salter Chapman • Peaks The Thames Tun- Allaopp v Stephens li‘ikt!l • Walter nen Company • Rickman v Proter Pinckney • Morris Sheldon Emly v Elias The King • Hutch- dame • Same Hodgson • Stephens isle! Latham • Bristow Henning I. Birch ('oseranse • tomb Strire • Gamey NVadlsethamt 'Early Walker • Part COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. t nsrpow CAUSES TO DE TRIED 11T COSISIOW JCZIES THIS aura le tw 0 AT TEN. Pullen v Hewn Samos v. Tnredder I Compton v. Hen }mote. v l.nc' Smith v Farch show Tuck's r Velclharo Scales v heron Walker v Best Ulearby v. Crossley Hornsby v Prince COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Bitting at Gray's-Inn-Hall, this morning, at ten. 31nrrell v Wakefield, far Judg. Fielden v aleynell meat Evans v Williams I.d v Lloyd, Petition Bamford v Archer Giding v Haverlield, ditto Bossingbam y Boar Ditto, dnto Hamilton v Earl of B!rstbroare, Redfearn v Livesey, by order on sequestration Price v Spencer Wade v Stahington Dean and Chapter of York v. Watkins v Smith Middleburg% Gale v Walters Atkisson v. Hutton LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF OF CHANCERY, TUESDAY, DEC. 13. COMMISSION OF REVIEW. I'IWELL MOVCHETT. The Court was occupied during the entire of the day in bearing fustbn arguments in this cause. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Tnespa—, Dec. 13. His Honour the Vicr-CrtaNcrt.cou was engaged the entir dse in hearing arz.onents and exceptions in cases of no publi ir,terest. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, TUESDAY, DEC. 13. 'Sittings in London beibre Nk bonD CHisr JUSTICE and Common Juries. MttRIAL 2.. This was an action on a promissory note for 1001. by the nettled eedoraee against the second endorsor. Mr. Gurney and Mr. Lewes conducted the plaintiff's case ; Mr. Scarlett and Mr. Chitty that of the defendant. Mr. Gu RStF. Y stated the case very briefly. The bill in question was drawn by a person of the name of Stevens, and after two en doesements came into the hands of the defendant. It would, in the first instance, be quite sufficient for him to prove the hand-writing of the parties to the bill. Mr. Henry Cope, examined by Mr. E. LAwre, proved the hand-writing of the names on the bill. Cross-examined by Mr. ScAuter'r-1 do not know Mr. Mu riel, the plaintiff; I have heard of his name. The Nutary proved the protesting of the bill on its non patment. Cross-examined by Mr. SCATtLETT—i do not know Mr. Mu riel, the plaintiff. Mr. SCARLETT addressed the Jury for the defendnnt. If he was rightly Instructed, he ehould be able to show that thin v as a case more proper for the Old Bailey than this Court. The plain tiff, be said, war a shadowy unsubstantial sort of a person. The Jury would not fail to remark that neither of the witnesses called toe the plaintiff knew any thing of him. The bill on which the present action was brought was one of seven bills, all drawn by Stevene,sbe whole amounting to 7801. for which 7601., minus UM., had been paid, namely 600 L which h e.i the Learned Counsel, un derstood was 481. per cent. beyond the legal interest. He under stood, however, that it was to be set up in defence, that this sum was pad as commission for getting the bill discounted; that Mr. Rabin Pollock, who held the hills before they were discounted, bat whose name was not en the bills, and by , what means they had come into his possession did not appear, had got them discounted by wing 3luriel's money. If in, then, said Mr. Scarlett, I shall Lae a food defence, for the transaction is dearly usurious. Scalmere being about to call his witnesses, Mr. Guiltier t rose; aAd said, if you only want us to prove con sideration, we tan do that in a moment. For this purpose, he was reducing • letter • and haying proved the hand-writing, was about to hand it in for the purpose of being read, hen— Mr. BCaaLETT said, it was not necessary to read the letter; he thought they would have called 31r. Robert Pollock, and, as they hind net, be should. Mr. Robert Pollock being sworn, before be was examined in chief, Mr. Gunter v asked if he had any interest in this bill'—\o. . If the defendant should succeed in his defence, would he (the witnee4) derive any benefit'—No. Examined by Mr. fiCANLETT—There is such a person as 51r. Muriel ; I know him ; this note wan in Mr. Muriel's Jensen sion ; at that time he lived in Southampton-building*, Holborn ; at present, he is living At Ely, in Cambridgeshire. Ido not know that be ever lived in Tooley-street. I received this note, and some where from him. was his agent in this transaction. The whole amount of the bills wan 760/. for which, and an assignment of a con ttneint interval in two houses at Hertley-upon•Thamee, I gave him 5001. The houses were not to be given up, if the notes were paid. 31r. Muriel, and I, sere not to hare the house's: all events. Crota-examined by Mr. GraNEY—Mr. Stevens is a Was of straw ; the Mitten In the house% at Henley is not worth a farthing. lie-examined by Mr. SCARLETT—When I made the bargain, I understand the sorority was good. I had no doubt whatever that we should have made a titer two hundred and fifty pounds by the teansaction. I have had many similar transactions with Mr. Mu ral, which were more ptothable. Mr. Ov este', in reply, said, that on this ease his client would dearly be entitled to a verdict. Mr. Kinnear, he said, was a most ingenious person, who had contrived to find out this Mr. Stevens, ' who had !ionic doubtful Inmost in come houses at Henley. and by bin assistance managed to carry on • pretty considerable business. The Learned Counsel contended, under all the circumstances, that the transaction which entitled the plaintiff to bring this action was net a discountiug for usurious interest, but a clear purchase of the bal. The Loan Cutts Jusr lex, in summing up, said that if the jar/ were of opinion that this transaction was not Basle, but merely a colour and contrivance to repay a loan of live hundred pounds at alature day, then the case of miry was made out, and the defer dent was entitled to a Verdict. The sale of bills, his Lordship said, was net a very common question in Courts of Law ; and when: such cases had recurred, it has not been usual for the seller to pan his name= the bill. If, on the other hand, the Jury thought that these notes were given .merely as a collateral security, then they would find for the plaintiff. The whole question was one of filet. and was entirely for their consideration. The Jury, after consulting for about five minutes, gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damages lOU summon a jury until the summoning officer received notice from the Associate, which was usually given on the day previous to the trial. Ills LORDSHIP iitapproved of this practice. and said he would take care that a better regulation should be adopted in future. Several other Special Jury cruses which wets appointed for this morning were obliged to be postponed for want of Jurors, and the Court proceeded to take the Common Juries. CROWDS/ V. AUSTIN. This was an action to recover the sum of 29 gitinnut, being the prier of a brown gelding. sold to the defendant at Aldrhlge's Re pository. on account of the plaintiff: Mr. Sergeant I3PANZIE said the hone was sold without any warranty. which he should be able to prove by the conditions of sale; but the defendant had refuted to complete his purchase, alleging that the borne wan unfound, and that he had purcliated it on a warranty. If anything gave rise to contradictory swearing it was a horse calm, which was the most prolitie source of perjury. The conditions of sale set forth the name of the horse, the number in the sale, and ha description. The latter was contained in four letters, which were extremely intelligible to all persons fre quenting Repositories. They were, "Dr.— It —Qt." which no table hieroglyphics meant that the hone would draw well, was used for riding, and was quiet. These words by no means amounted to a warranty of s•rundncas, nor was Mr. Aldridge authoriaed to give any. If a warranty had been intended it would have been the duty of the auctioneer to make it publicly known, as it was a circumstance that always very much enhanced the price. The sale, however, having taken place, a dispute • then arose upon this question of warranty; and the defendant refusing its take away the horse. it wan, atter tome time, resold; and notwithstanding all the objections made against its reputation, 25 guineas were ob tained for it. _ _ _ M. Aldridge was then called, and proved the sale of the horse to the defendant, upon the terms stated by the Learned Sergeant. ('rose-examined by 11r. Sergeant V.aunnast—There was no puffer at the second sale. The letters " Attd." , were written opposite the description of the horse in his sale-book. which meant the , . some person would attend the sale for the seller, to prevent the horse being sold below its fair price, which would relieve him from all resObmiibility as to price, as it deprived him of the ri,g ht of buying in. The plaintiff's groom attended, and witness looked at him at the sale for a nod, which meant a bidding. He nodded two or three times. The horse was knocked down to the defend ant, but he refused to take it away, on account of unsoundness. The horse was what was called a roarer, or else it would have been worth DO guineas. The horse was resold by consent of the parties. The loss and commission upon the second sale and the keep was about 181. By the Count —The plaintifl's groom bid two or three times. There were three bidders, two of whom were bona fide, and intend ed to purchne, and the third was the groom. The defendant and the groom continued to bid against each other for some time after the other person had discontinued to bid. Witness did not know that Dlr. Austin knew plaintiff's groom was in the room bidding. 31r. Sergeant SrAN ig pronosed to put in evidence to show that this was the usual practice at these sales. The Lone CHIEF JUSTICE could not receive it; and although the practice was an old one, he was clearly of opinion that it was illegal, and that the action could not he maintained. Ile would, however, rather have the question decided by the Judges at West minster.tfall. George Elliott, the plaintiff's groom, was then examined on be half the defendant, but he denied having any conversation with Mr. Austin before the sale respecting the horse. Crcrss-exarnined—Witness was the person who nodded at the sale ; he did not represent the horse to he sound. Ht. might have said that the horse was sound, except a crack in his feet ; this was previous to the sale. The LORD Cuter JUSTICE interrupted Mr. Sergeant Vaughan in his reply, and said there was nothing to go to the Jury, and that it was his opinion the plaintiff could not recover in this; action. By the conditions of sale the highest bidder was to be the buyer ; there was no reservation for the plaintiff to bid either openly or covertly at the sale, and therefore in case the plaintiff did covertly employ a person to hid, in order to enhance the price, he would be acting against these conditions. But it had been proved by Mr. Al dridge, who was a very respectable man, and who had given his evidence with great fairness, that a person was present, and did bid for the plaitatilf ; the conditions, therefore, were infringed, and the sale was consequently vitiated, as it was impossible to say that 29 guineas was the next highest prier after the last bidding of the per son who bona fide hid at the sale. His Lordship had long been surprised that the objection had never been taken before to this practice of puffing, which was nothing less than a gross species of fraud ; or if in the transacti,ns of the world it did not deserve that name, it was most undoubtedly a fmud hr the eye of the law. The plaintiff most be nonsuited, but his Lordship would give him have to move the Court above to set the nonsuit aside. Plaintiff nonsuited. SALMON V. WARD. This was another home cause. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN' said the riaintiff was a surreal+ re siding in London, and the defendant a cider-merchant living in Devonshire. The latter gentleman being in town in the early part of the year, understood that the plaintiff had a horse which he wished to dispose of on account of its having the vice of rearing. The defendant proposed to exchange a horse of his for it. and upon the agreement, the plaintiff was to pay the defendant 101. on the exchange. Subsequently the plaintiff found the horse which had been sent up to him by the defendant from Devonshire. to be in every respect unwound ; and he accordingly wrote to Mr. Ward, and informed him that instead of the horse possessing those good qualitia which he had represented at the time of the exchange,it was everything that was bad. The defendant, in his answer, declared, that the horse was in every respect in as goods condition when he sent it the plaintiff, as what he had stated : and in his turn coin. plained that the horse sent to him by the plaintiff was full of faults. The plaintiff now contended that the representations made by the dtleodant, together with the letters, amounted to a war. ranty. Mr. Sergeant SCA nie, on behalf of the defendant, submitted to the Court that the letters merely spoke of a representation, which cud(' not he construed into a warranty. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE was of opinion, that if the con. venation alluded to in the plaintiff's letter did actually take place, it was an undertaking on the part of the defendant that the horse was sound: and as the detendant had not in any of his letters de. Died such conversation, but on the contrary persisted in saying that the horse was sound., he thought the Jury might infer that such a conversation did take place. Mr. Serpent SPAN Kt E then addressed the Jury, and said it was obvious neither party had acted upon his strict rights ; that the ex. chazge was upon the mutual representations by each of the gen. tiemen, who seemed to think his own a paragon of a horse; and that, as they both dealt upon honour, each ennfirling in the other, the plaintiff o..ght not to have resorted to law at all. It was quite clear that the letter written by the plaintiff was intended to entrap the defendant into some admission that should afford a ground for this action. The probabilities, however, were all against a war ranty having been made. The Jury founds verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 52/. 4s. 61., including the 101. paid by the plaintiff on the exchange, and de ducting the money for which the unsound horse had since been sold. CONSTRUCTION OF TILE COURT. In the course of the morning the Loop CHIEF. JUSTICE com plained of the extreme inconvenience experienced in this Court from its ill construction for conveying or compressing the sound of the voice. On the one hand, the witnesses who were unseen'. timed to speak in spacious buildings did not raise their voices to a pitch high enough to be heard, either by the Counsel or the Jury ; while, on the other hand. die Counsel were generally so loud, that their voices were generally lost in their own echo. In the first cue, the Lamed Judge, who, by his propinquity to die witness-box, was enabled to bear more than the rest of the Court. was obliged to repeat the answers of the witnesses both to Jury and Counsel; and in the latter, be as often had occasion to interrupt the f.t2arned Ser. gwits, as it was frequently impossible for him to distinguish their legal logic from a continuity of mere unmeani-:g sounds, reverbe rating from the walls of the lofty, 111. designed building. This corn plaint bad been often repeated, and on a former occasion it was Aug , etted by Mr. Sergeant Yell that some curtains or dupery should be hung loosely about the ceiling, so as to deaden the sound and prevent the echo. A communication was made to the city authorities on the subject, and it was understood that some alteration would be made for the removal of h 0 great and serious an inconvenience ; which the Lord Chief Justice thought oftentimes occasioned very eon , sjderable prejudice to parties, there being no doubt dist much important testimony was often entirely lost in consequence of the difficulty of hearing the witnesses. As nothing has ye: Omen done it is to be hoped the matter wilt be main mentioned. We, bow. ever, are quite of opinion that the principal cause of the evil is,in the very disproportionate height of the Courts. The same objection existed with reference to the Old Raileg New Court, which ties Ted to a most judicious improvement, by the ceiling being toMeted serail fact ; and no Court la now bettar'adart4Yor . 4 Ft•tet 4 /11ta clear and distinct enunciation than that ts. It is to be hoped that the very liberal accommodation which the City Courts at present afford to the public will not be contracted in the endeavour tore. move the evil complained of ; as there is r.o feature in the Mini. nistration of justice more grand and imposing, and perhaps no circumstance which gives a greater madden to the decisims of a I Judge and Jury than the presence of a large body of the people. It dispels the prejudices of ignorance, and in a corresponding degree insures respect to the laws, and inspires a confidence in the integrity of those who aro appointed to dispense them. • ' COURT OF EXCHEQUER*, GRA - T'S TUESDAY .1J644 (Before the LORD Gutty BARON.] EXECUTORS OP RIDLEY v. OBER. This ease canteen to Reargued upon various exceptions takes to a' report made by the Master, in conformity with a decree of the Court made in 1821, by which he was ordered:Au report upon the early value of a house situated in Wevithistthatreet. Crept I&,s to y 1816. The Master reported that GO/. was the yearly eolith of ihr; , house from 1801 to 181 G. and it was now excepted that,the year; y value of the house in question hod varied et shEretelat,periu•ls and that the Master had unjustly overlooked the verladoa el the and decided upon a oinsideratiou of tots value M ampi494 voices the decree lisped to . him. The Loup CUAEF BARON flip ikcop4 r arge bare been a koigi bnc, it could "be pro e tut tile . seta ittutonly considered the annual value of the house at the period itentle port vrasthalfe ; but it testo 4 llllll4lMeellillie YeMd tonsi.t dered the variation of value, and telreo4lllll.-1001111‘verwireirsitte from 1904 to 1519. There woe no clear ground before the COWL for differing with the blaster, and so far the Court confirmed hit report. ~ POTTAGE o. DEAS. This was an action for assault and battery ; the defendant pleaded Itof Built . Tie pfaint'Tin a butcher, living in Albion.street, Commercial. m id ; the defendant keeps the Three Compasses publie.hottae o l Shadwell Market. The defendant, it appeared, had got.e to the plaintiff's house for the purpose of asking for money which he had lOot him. They had drink a cheerful glees together, as they were in 'the habit of doing occasionally--for they had been intlrrame tilends—wben the defendant asked the plaintiff for the money ow. leg to him. The plaintiff', though he had shortly before received payment of an a;nutty, which he hail in the right of his wife, refused to pay the money then. The defendant on this said, that ;rile would not pay when he had money, hoar could he pay erten Kw had none, and pressed his request very urgently. High words misted, then a scuffle, in which the plaintiff, with his wife and daughter (who was called as a witness teethe plaintiff) tried to tandi the defendant out of their house, upon which the defendant lipsek the plaintiff', and (mire him a black eye, which was the as. adArismplatned e LOW') Cntr.F JusTICE summed up shortly, sod the Jury gifettia verdict for the plaintiff—damages ein. • 'CIOUItT OF Co3l3loT''lll i nlS, TUESDAY, Dec. 13. Sitaays to Lowslon before Lord Chief Justice Bear cad Common An issue directed by the Vict.Citavitcet.Loa to be tried by a Snecl4 l Jury cF merchants was appointed for this morning, but on thelf.Md Chief Jostler entering the Court it was found that there were enly4re special Jurors in ettendenee ; and ae neither party fhb hisnediat /thefts to pray a plc, conceiving the order of the Vice-Chancellor to be imperative, the trial was obliged to be post. poued. His Lot:D.IUP old dist, strictly speaking, the issue could not be uses tin the mat tenn ; bet he should he syn., that any delay phonic] take plate Gram On circumstance of the non-attendance of armors. and he would therefore Wm it at a future day during the iieesent Sittings. The camas, however, of the non.atundanm of gpatloneu who were samosoued ought to be ascertaioed, and it I nisi litepieS Awed.' Oleo, the Jitters said the he did not receive notice till late last -s, etellPloopwd artshtil so know whether that was the usual time for pesos in trade to be suimmoned. The LORD CHIEF JUtrICE Seakit !EMU/Irib nut. • TbeAttoniey in the cause said he had left the veni; e facies at the pro , * dfKre so early as Friday last. His Lordship wit then in !brined that it was act the practice to tively engaged, one of them twisting the animal's tail, and t , other poking it behind with a s ti c k, too k t h em into custody. 4e The Alagistrste sentenced th em t o p ay a Fire of SOL e ac h , nt to be committed for two months to the House of Conecuun. In de_ fault of payment they were committed. UNION. HA Lb. Yesterday John Jacobs, alias the Hon. Capt a i n Hamiken, Its brought up for final examination, on a charge of polygamy, contracted marriage with Miss Anne Fitzgerald, his form er sit;' Dorothea Donovan, being still alive. The proceedings were Intl. toted, it will be recollected, by a third wife, named Frances N'itiia ed live Hanpaldi. Her evidence, however, will not b e requ i ted on the trial wife while of the pdsonef, former on as he wile was l be instill a dict for . haling married the 'tend the first T h a e nd p t ri h no ird ne w r i v evinced ne co p r n es si e d n er t ; a b ai le e m de o p m re e s n s t ios i e of for azi err i tssaw s h e oute fell into s violent hysterics, and It became necessary to convey of p The examination of Elizabeth Eyre, to establish the tint raw. tinge, was then taken. Upon the bridal morning ,Miss Dotes„ sent for witness's daughter, to attend the ceremony ns bride's.msid. The year following she gave birth to a son, who is now twelve NI , of age. The certificate of the marriage of the prisoner with his first wife was produced, by which it appeared that the solemnization of it took place In the parish church of Cove, in the county of Cu r s, 0 , the 6th of April 1813. The Magistrate then fully committed the prisoner for trial at th e preient Assizes, and the witnesses immediately proceeded to Ei r ,, anon, in order to prefer the bills before the Grand Jury broke v. v i 4- I,t-l' (). ; i, cti II • (Yr cb dthlC IC gat Airli "Z. : - rs• Id, etty . .110 mar ,'; Al on T . i d , projecy Barrac fi tei. and Qin' .• Ginn ces s. Moadiu air* HA inY, OM Nerve. Bs Lb. Berke Dorset `That the Debi Annoy neat T en der for An WON the ".Bth e ywalve o'Clock p ro ppesde Into isr the Counties aunt be include( the Letter which two persons of . 1 the patty tendert' fee the due perfc sauced unless m is words at leni mootinuanoe of tt date same, th e paid in the brat hint. Particulars of t Chambers, betwe N.B. Samples !imam the hour Coyrt Merchants low Notice, That the Com to receive propose Dar, the 4th Jai to aup the Cm FLINTS FO aid that the 'coati plication to the C pawls roust be It said 4th of Jilllll/ aive eat wader. Loading fl VOR VAN J 1.." WALES, A 1. 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I rurpose of hur tog t. e ef6orre seeibg the two • • THE BRITISH PRESS. It was nlso rxcepted that the Master had not allowed interest on the money laid out in necessary and useful repaint to the house; but on this point the Court was of opinion that the Master had only acted in conformity with the decree of the Court. This case origiaally came before the Court upon a question as to the validity of a deed of assigtimetu ir sehich was set aside upon the ground of fraud.—See Price's Reports of Cases in the Pmchequer. As the proceedings were grounded on fraud, the COURT now decreed that the defendant should pay costs. .Me. MARTIN Anti Mr. RICHARDS appeared for the plaintiff'', land pp...WRIGHT for the defendant. DAIS P. THOMPSON. This case came before the Court, on a report from the Master, for further directions. It appeared that a person named Savage died possessed of considerable funded property, a moiety of which be left by will to his wife, and the other moiety to his relations. Mrs. Savage subsequently intermarried with a person named Thompson, and divvied of a considerable part of her first bus. band's property. If wits contended by plsintiff"s Counsel that she had committed a &mulct* in conjunction with her husband, and that the whole of a sum of 20001. (part of the personal pmptry of Savages now in Court, should he handed over to the rext of kin of Savage, and that no part should go to the representative of Mm. Thompson, deceased, It was argued on the other side, that as Mrs. Thompson had coin. mined the deur:ea:it in conjunction with her husband, her exclu. sive property was not liable, when the husband was before the Court, and. for aught that appeared, was solvent. The Cans' BARON said he would turn the case in his mind before he could give any decision on it. WINTER ASSIZES. Surrey Aeaiz^e cornmeneecTVnipton-upon-Thames, on Mon day, betore Mr. RAM HITLLOCR and Mr, Justice LITT LEDA LE. James Turgrt and Grorge Withers were indicted for stealing, at St. George's, Southwark, on the 13th of August last, a mare, the pmperty of Mary Burridge. It appeared in evidence that, In the night of the 10th of August, the mare In question was stolen from a field of the prosecutrix, who refides at Wlsbury, in Wiltshire. On the 13th of the some month, the prisoner Target brought the mare and a pony to the Obelisk Livery Stables, St. George's-fields. in order that they might Ire disposed of, and left them there. Shortly afterwards he returned with the other prisoner, a youth of about nineteen, and took the mare away ; and on the 16th of August he sold her, for the sum of six pounds, to a pork-butetser who resides in Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell. On the next day, information of the robbery having been given to the London filagistrates, the prisoners were appre he, (led. The prisoner Target, who had lived in the ptoseeutrix's neigh bourhood. now without hesitation confessed the fact of the robbery, and endeavoured to implicate his companion ; hut there being no evidence against the latter, he was acquitted, but the former was found Guilty. lVillatni Brett was indicted for stealing at Camberwell, on the 16th September, a mare, the property of Henry Monday. Mr. BRODR/CR conducted the prosecution. Three witnesses proved that they saw the prisoner go into the prosecutor's field at noon day. on the 18th September, catch the mare, and with a halter ride off with it. The mare had never been heard of again. Shortly afterwards the prisoner was token up for stealing a donkey, when he was identified for this offence. The prisons now set up an alibi, and called three or four of his relations to prove that on the day in question he was conlined at home with illness. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, TCZSDAY, DEC. 13. Radon:its George Valois,;Miriniari of gentlemanly appear. anee, was last night indicted far wilfid perjury. Mr. PRTINDE 213.45 T, in stating the case, said that the defendant came to lodge in the house of Mrs. Lee, the prosecutrix, who kept a school in Jewin-street, Aldersgate.strett, in the early part of the year 1921. Ile left her house for a time, and again became her inmate in the December of the same year. Some few months afterwsr:in, her circumstances having become embarrassed, she, with the view of saving her goods from being taken under an execution for rent, advised with the defendant as to the best way of protecting herself. Valois recommended that the furniture should be removed to an apartment that he had undertaken to provide, and she, confiding in the sincerity of his intentions, consented to let Lim superintend the removal. Subsequently to their being put into his possession, she repeatedly desired to know whence they had been taken; but after making many fruitless Inquiries about them, she was compelled to bring an action of trove?, to recover them. An application was made to the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. to compel the defendant to put in special bail to that action.— Valois, in answer to that application, swore that he had put. chased the goods of Mrs. Lee, and that he had paid for them by sums of money which he bad given to her on different occa sions. This was t he perjury assigned in the indictment, as Mrs. Lee distinctly disclaimed ever having sold the defendant any part of her property. After a minute detail of the facts of the case had been given by a number of respectable witnesses, the Jury returned • verdict of Guilty, and be was sentenced to seven years' transportation. This trial latted till two o'clock in the morning. SENTENCES ON THE PRISONERS. . . The business of these Sessions being concluded, at a few minutes after 11 o'clock. the Recorder, in company with Mr. Alderman Ansley, and the Sheriff's, took their seats on the Bench in the Old Court, and immediately after the Learned Recorder proceeded to pronounce the dooms of the prisoners who had been convicted dur ing the present sitting of the Court. The following wretched indi viduals received the awful sentence of Death : Thomas Gilmore, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Michael Davis,for burglary : Frederick Felweil, for a like offence ; Wm. Johnson, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Jane APAror, for a like offence ; John ‘Vetch, for a like offence ; Thos. Johnson, for ditto; Mark Brooker, for ditto; Jaa. Pinkett, for burglary ; Corn. Brisnahan,for stealing in a dwelling-house; Ju.Ederands.for ditto; John Williams. for ditto ; Wm. Dunn, for ditto ; John Lowe, for house-breaking in the day time, and committing a larceny therein, and Samuel Roberts, for the tame offence. (The two last named prisoners are those that were tried at the last Session for breaking sod entering an apartment in Hampton Court Palace. A point had been reserved tor the opinion of the Judges, who hare decided against them.) Thomas Sl' inter Preston, fur stea li ng in a dwelling. house. John Tyler. .M ark Lyons. Wm. Jones, Henry Brisner, James Allmck, Thos. Gorroques, George Kelly, and James Green, other wise Schofield, were severally sentenced to be transported for the period of their natural lives. For Fourteen Years—Wm. Wallace, John Saunders, and James Weight man. For Seven Years—Wm. Moulds, Wm. Chem., IVm. Frances, Wm. Howell, James Powell, Timothy Humbolt, Richard King, George Wilson. Michael Bryant, John Connor. Robert Thorn, Thomas Briggs. George Blackman, James Stevenson, James Bowman. Samuel Ferney, James Holland, Edward Jones. David Shepherd, William Shannon, W. R. Milward, Alary Cummings, Elizabeth Smith, Thomas Bronto, William Cross, Francis Jones, John Downs, Crighton Boyd, Henry Wm. Spears , Michael Brown, James Bellinger, Thomas Rayner, Ephraim Mollghan, :Toothy Riley, Rebecca Greenwood, and Judith Sullivan. ' To be imprisoned tiro years, and kept to hard labour-31arigaret Williamson. To be imprisoned twelve months, and kept to hard labour—Jo. sepb Richardson, Richard Bullock, Moses Samuels, and Catherine Al act n/ios Kelly. To be imprisoned six months, and kept to hard labour—Charles Mason, John Smith, Ellen Tarrant. Samuel Green war, Mark Barra, Mary Halloway, Robert Rowbotbam. and Jonas Birry. To be imprisoned three months, and kept to hard labour—Dennis Holland,-Edw: Dense. Wm. Grant, Lot Hayward, Henry BuJer, Robert Roper. John Roberts, James Edwards, Samuel Sawyer, John Cattun, Wm. Ingle, Alexander Dobie, and John Davis. To be imprisoned two months, and kept to hard labour—Francis Edmonds alias Edmond, Sarah Cunningham, Jonah Andrews, Wm. Brown, Henry Hoffent. John Thompson, Mary Hopkins, Ann Bradsell, and Sarah Dark. To b: imprisoned one month, and kept to hard labour—Jeremiah Bryan. Mary Clarke, Wm. Robins, Jpseph Dumberley, Charlotte Taylor, Ann Fowler, Wiliam White, Thomas Skinner, and James Smith. To be imprisoned 14 days--Mary Dixon, Mary Maloney, Ann Blakey, and Robert Baxter. To be publicly whipped and imprisoned for three months—Chris topher dudgeon. To be publicly whipped and discharged—Charles Hawkins, Ed ward Smith, Joseph Collins, John Hunter, ‘Villiain Webb, arid Joshua Miles. To bo imprisoned for ore week—William Stewart and William . To be deed Is. sod discharged—NVm. Whittington. Judgments respiteid-.-Aodrew Reynolds, lain Webb, and Jo seph Snit h. Yesterday morning, an explosion of what i* called fire damp took place at the Waterloo Coliery, at Thorp /1011, near this town, by which two of thg pitmen were severely burnt : one of them, of the tame of Shires, has been re moved to the Infirmary, the other was taken to his own house; we ate, however, happy to add, that thee a re b ot h likely to recover. We are - informed that the actident arose from the negligenee.of the workmen in 'leaving open an air door, contrived to prevent the fool air having action to the fire-pan, placed under the mouth of the pit.--Leeds Portiof Saturday. z4Tlta.ottnin•xv Btarits.--14114P thrlike..Of Mr. Bowey, of Ifouglton4e-Spritig, tit three boys; tvisi of whom tend the , toother are doing well ; also, the wife of Mr. J. J. Newsham, of Ranehester, tobacconist, of three female children ; also the- wift of . 6. collier at 'llartiley, Lantieihire, of three girls. MeRDR A AT 11111MINGII4M—Arr a iX etbAk or MI.• VC; .700.—This man, who A fleet) `of 'the murder • °Mr. Perry, at Birminghatit, and who' ahiconded Tien thence, bas been apprehended at Liverpool. 'lle was vet higem hoard a trading rtssel, when, the police Officers ihm custody. • • , ' htimil in ovr gent; Me amuses htrotiolf cratin g sma 1 barrels and other articles, in which le stotipicbn siderable ingenuity. The products of his industry are ea gerly purchased by the curious.—Bucks Gazette. POI,ICIi. GUILDHALL. An offence which, though not of unfrequent occurrence now, will pmbably, front the cessation in the course of a few days of the high duties upon spirits, soon become an unusual one, came under the cognizance of Sir CHARLES Ft.owta, the sitting Alderman, yesterday. 'ehn Marsden was charged with assisting in a private distillery, which it is understood hits been csrrying on for upwards of three years, at No. 17, King's Head-court, Shoe-lane. East, a principal o ffi cer of Excise, stated that, in consequence of private information. he went yesterday morning. in company with Lindsay, another officer. to the house in question ; where, having obtained admission without difficulty, he found the prisoner in the back parlour tilling some casks with water, and attending a still which was then charged with apirit-wash of the strength of low wine. There were two Mills on the premises, which are very roomy; one capable of holding about sixty gallons—the other twr•nty gallons. He found in all about two hundred gallons of wash, sod twenty of raw spirit. The quantity of spirit which could be produced on these premises amounted to at least one hundred gallons a week. The prisoner paced across the bar inn state of great irritation, and said in his defence that he expected no lenity ; that he was the servant only of another individual, and had no personal Interest whatever in the concern. lie need not, he said, reveal the name of his employer, as that was probably well known to the Exciseman already. East replied that he did not charge the prisoner with being the proprietor of. but merely an assistant in., the distillery. Sit CHARLES FLOWER adjudged the prisoner to pay a fine of 301.; and, in default, to be confined for six months in the House of Correction. BOWSTREET. Mr. Millet!, a market-gardener in extensive bus;riess, yesterday appeared, upon summons, to answer for having suffered one of his wagons to remain on the carriage-way pavement, in Covent- garden, longer than was necessary for loading or unloading. Mr. Stevens, the surveyor of pavements, proved that he saw the defendant's wagon standing in the atreet,without the denier stone, at six o'clock in the morning; end at seven it was still there. and be then gave the usual notice to remove it. At '2O minutes before eight it was still there, with no more titan a dozen cabbages re maining in it. The defendant, in answer, said he hired a stand within the denter.stone, upon which to place his wagons, or whatever they contained, and for which he paid the lessees N. per annum ; but on the morning in question his brother-in-law, who had a spite against Mai, had nearly filled up the space belonging to him, so that he could get only part of his wagon upon it. This was held to be no defence, and Mr. Millett was fined 40s. and costs, in paying which he complained bitterly of the want of accommodation in the market for those persons for whom it was originally intended. It was stated, that some steps had already been taken to remedy the evil complained of, the occupiers of some iron shops having received notice to quit. As in some degree connected with the market question, we mention the following cue of assault : A young woman, who obtains a livelihood by vending water. creases at the market, was brought in by two of the beadles, who charged her with assaulting them in the Plum A quarrel took place over the creases between her and her husband, in the course of which they were very noisy and abusive ; and in at. tempting to interfere, the good woman was so uncivil as to give one of them a box on the ear. In her defence she said she was certainly wrong to strike the beadle, but it was done in a moment of passion ; "and you know, Sir," said the defendant to Mr. Halls, " we married folks don't like to have our own private quarrels meddled with, do we, your Worship ?" Mr. Haw said he believed not, generally. Mr. White, proprietor of the Bedford Hotel, said the defendant had no right to place her goods in the Piazza. Mr. HALLS asked her if she paid toll when she pitched her goods in the Piazza ?—" 0 yes, Sir, always," said the defendant. " Then do so no more," said Mr. White; " for the lessees of the market have no more right to demand toll of you there than they have to ask it of me, for d o in g b us i ne i s i n m y own h ouse ." The beadles consented to forgive her, on paying the expenses, and she was discharged. IfATTON-GARDEN. In consequence of prirate information that extensive coining was carried on at the house of James Smith, N 0.12, Swan-alley, Coleman -street, the Magistrates, at the request of the Solicitor to the Mint, despatched four officers of this establishment, with in structions to detect the guilty parties. The officers, without making any inquiry, went directly up stairs to the room occu pied by Smith, the door of which they found fastened ; but, on looking through the key-hole, they distinctly saw him at work, and, without further parley, they instantly burst open the door, and rushing into the room, seized the culprit Smith at the melting-pot, with some base metal in one hand, and the imi. tative die in the other. Before him, on a table or bench, lay one hundred and three counterfeit sixpences, not yet cold. It is al. most Impossible to describe the wretched scene which ensued : in one corner of this miserable hovel, on a truckle bed, lay Smith's wife, who though only newly delivered of a sickly-looking infant, then at her breast, hod been employed in finishing her husband's felonious works. At the opposite side lay the remains of a dead child, the body nearly black from exposure of the air, having lain for nearly a.weck without coffin or covering of any description, the father being unable to defray the expense. The metal he was casting, when detected, might possibly have coined about ft thousand spuriods sixpences, which very likely would have been sold for as many pence, perhaps not so much, for the profit required by the wholesale utterers is so excessive, that the fabricator is seldom allowed mach rnore than the intrinsic value of the bell metal which forms the base coin. At the itlatnnt that Smith was seized he crushed the die in his hard, with the intention of destroying that evidence of bin guilt ; being comnosed of plaster-of-paris,lt easily yielded to the pressure, but the officers secured the fragments, which being glued together. enabled the Mint Inspector to bring that part of the charge home against him! . -. . AN the oflace occurred in the City, the Magistrates of this office had no jurisdiction to commit, though the caption was made by their officers. The prisoner was accordingly taken before the Lord Mayor, and, after a short examination, he was remanded untilttaturtlay. 111ARYLEBONE. Yesterday an information was exhibited at this office before Mr. Hoskins, the Sitting Magistrate. charging Major Philip Roper, the owner of the ship named Lady Bomngton„ with having refused to pay Thomas Racket, a man of colour, three months' wages, to which he was entitled for his services as a seaman in the above. named ship. The complainant stated that he was by profession a musician, and on the 12th of June, 222, applied for a situation on board the Lady Herrington, to Captain Hudson, of Manchester -street. Man chester-square, with whom he entered into an agreement for three years. at 31. 10s. per month. On entering the ship witness was in formed by the steward that Major Philip Roper was its owner. He commenced his duty RS a musician, but during the voyage he acted as seaman with the other men. On their anival st Carthugena, wit. ness, contrary to his expectations ' was discharged, on which h e received 41. 10s.; and he remained there for upwards of three years much embarrassed, and ultimately was obliged to pay his own pas sage home ; and, on applying to Captain Hudson, was told that he bad no money to receive. 111 r. ORMSBEY, the defendant's Solicitor— Would you be able to identify alajor Roper if he was produced ? Racket said that he could. Mr. Oa MSBEY then directed hint to look round and sec if Major Roper was in the office. Racket pointed out Mr. Brown, a ship-broker, as the person he meant. Mr. Brown stated, that he was owner and superintended the equipment of the Lady Borrington at Gravesend, and he paid the plaintiff at. 10s. in advance. He never saw Major Roper on board the ship. They never engaged men to go to South America for three years. Mr. 0a MSBEY contended that the parties had proceeded irregu larly under the Act of Parliament, as th e M aster or C omman d er of the ship ought to be proceeded against, and not the owner. It was not, he said, until Captain Hudson had left England that the information was laid. Mr. floats:sow, for the complainant, 'misted that his client had seen Cantain Hudson on Saturday last. Mr. ORNISRKY poeitively denied the fact. Mr. HOSK INS. under all the circumstances. dismissed the CM. Mary Jones, alias Welerloo Pell, by which appellation she hat gone ever since she distinguished herself at the memorable battle of Waterloo, was brought up in the custodf of a watchman, charged by Mr. Sheppard, confectioner, of Oxford-street, with having broken a pane of glass in his window. Mr. Sheppard awed that, last evening, about six o'clock. the prleoner wan passing by his shop in a state of intnxi:atlon, when she fell against his window, and broke a valuable pane of glass ; and on requesting payment of 12s. the prisoner would not consent to pay it, but became insolent, and he sent her to the watchhouse. Poll, who was still rather giddy, did not deny having fallen against the window, but she thought it was rather hard to make her par 12e, for what occurred accidentally. Ills Worship reminded her that it was through the liquor the mischief had happened. Poll did not deny being drunk, and excused herself by telling bin Worship that it was with her own money, for which the had fought 'and bled in the "battle field ;" and she had not only obtained laurels at famed Waterloo, but, in consequence of her exploits Mete, she received a pension of 14tid. per day, and after receiving it site thought it no harm to drink the health of his Majesty. It was stated that the prisoner, who is about 35 yearn of age, in' her youthful days became enamoured rf a young man who enlisted in the army, and was called from his native country; she, is the garb of a male, enlisted in the same regimen as drunnner, and followed her sweetheart.; fur several years she eared in thnt capacity, and was engaged in several battles. Mr. SHE PPARD, on hearing this. with a humanity that did him credit, consented to the liberation of " Poll," on paying the usual fa, and she luitted the office with flying colours. NVORSH IP-STREET. Two young men, named Wrn. CoOrigton and Jame . ; Coleman, were yesterday brought to this Office, charged with h unt i ng a b u l. leek on the filiie-end-road the preceding evening. It appeared that an cgrazier and his man wane driving a herd of bullocks along the road, tl.ey were beset by n mob, consisting of about 3dpersons, who separated one bullo c k from the rest, for the purpose of hutting it. The officers seeibg the two defendants Sc. CORONERS' INQUESTS. INQUEST AT ST. LUNE'S LUNATIC ASYLUM—WEL-4, evening an inquisition was taken at the above institution, 0:i. street-road, before J. IV. Unwin, Esq, the Coroner for Me dim e ,. and a respectable Jury, on view of the remains of Mr. S mut .. Russell, late a patient in that establishment, who had commit tal suicide on Monday last. The evidence adduced on the om. slim was as follows : IVm. Windmill examined.--. 1 am a keeper in the hospitaf. Saturday last, on my going into the room of the deceased, 1 y oucd him with his throat cut ; i mme di a t e ass i stance was sent fur. and Mr. Dunstan attended and bound up the wound ; he heed until Monday : on the morning of that day I left him in his apartmert about half-past flee o'clock; he was then in bed, and the hand" were secure around his neck. I then went about my usual bug. nest, and was absent for a quarter of an hour ; on my reaan I missed him, and in consequence ran to my own room, and net. tinned the circumstance to another young man who deers with e, and In whole care the deceased equally was. Acromparded by him, I proceeded up the stud, and at its extremity we fotrnd him it.. vended by a small cord, fastened round his neck, and attached to the iron bar which crosses over the ward gate ; his feet were mute off the ground. 1 immediately broke the string, and had him to. moved to his own room, where he was placed on the bed. 31 % Thomas. one of the medical attendants at the hospital, was at rr:: in attendance. I have no doubt but that the deceased rJnaciitett suicide. lie came here as an in-door patient, and attempt e d t , kill himself twice before. He was in the hospital about En months. After he made an attempt on his life on a former oar. sion, he expressed the greatest regret at having done so, and lA A that if he was so sensible at the time he attempted the act as h: then was, he would not have done so for a thousand pounds. The Coroner here remarked that, to call it by its very lighten appellation, it was die extreme of negligence in the keeper, Inviv an insane person, such as the deceased, for an time alone; h t the more particularly so as it was a f act o f which 'he was aware, tin he had made several attempts at suicide, Mr. John Thomas, the house apothecary, examined—l have seen the deceased, and think that the wounds inflicted on his them would not have caused his death, and that he would have recovered from their effects ; the immediate cause of his death was strarga. lation. I conceived that he committed suicide, and his insanity was of a decided character. The ceritlicate, signed Benjamin Hall Symons, was here put in and read. The Coroner having briefly summed up, the Jury returned a ye. diet of " Suicide, committees while in a state of insanity." An Inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, at 20, Foley-place, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. Coroner, to kuire into the death of Mr. Charles Smith, who terminated his existence ' by hanging himself. The deceased, it appeared, about two months ago, lost his wife, and has since much declined in health, and become so excessively unsettled in mind, that a person named Dunning was appointed ta watch him. He was attended by Mr. Noble. a surgeon, but here. jeered that gentleman's medical care, and refused to allow the ope. ration of bleeding. He latterly became exceedingly irritab:e. and at times conducted himself very violently, and frequently drank to excess. It was found necessary to conceal his razors, sod hee+ without his reach of I every description knife, or edged tool, este more than once attempted selkfestruction. On Monday morning, during the temporary absence of the person who had the cued him, he ran down stairs, and Imaged himself in meet the kitchens, and was found quite dead, his knees nearly tonchiag the cmcod. The Jury, being satisfied, returned a verdict of `• Temporary derangement. MARKETS. [From the LosdottiNetr PrieeSzrreet.l - - • UTSDAY, Die. 13. COTTON.—The demand for Cotton was very languid Irt week ; the business not amountin g to more t h an 030 b a l es ; seven parcels have been pressing on the market. for money, and hen sold at lower rates. The sales st7C as follows:-260 Egyptian 1 Old. duty paid ; and, is hoed, 350 Surats bid. to titel. ;3W Beivgals a 51t1. 10 Madras 61.1. SUGA e wholesale grocers having lately purchased et for their immediate wants, were entirely out of the stock last weer, and came forward to purchase ; and a the holders were sexist: , to effect sales, very considerable purchases were reported ; trd t. they still kept increasing, towards the closed the week the holder: obtained an advance of Is. per cat, on Aluscovadea, and at as improvement very considerable sales are affected. There is ru business doing in 3luscovades this morning; in addition to 1;,: panic in the money market, which stops trade, the deliveries fron the warehouses have an unfavourable effect: the deficiency. pared with last year, is now only *Witt 2,000 casks; the weel.4 delivery, compared with last year, is again about LlOO (rat la. The Refined market last week attracted considerable attention: the wholesale grocers purchased considerably of fine goods for the home consumption of the country, but the low goods attracted mco attention, and, as the Refiners refused to sell at the previous yrrtc. an advance of 2s. per cwt. took plate; searoely any Lumps 0; 1 - , Ing under 82s. Molasses last week 32a. fid. The 'Refined glow is entirely at nominal quotations; this morning there is no hunrdh doing. Some inconsiderable parcels of East Wits Sugars acid ; week, but foreign and East India are still at nominal quotatier , .. COPFRE.--The•public sales of Coffee last week went r!! : • very irregular prices ; parcels of St. Domingo were on si.. ' which 555. was offered and refused : fine ordinary Brasil SE:I .• 545. and good ordinary eoloury high in proportion, 535. and ; the few lots of Jamaica sold very high ; the Demerara and Berbiee, from hoe ordinary to middling, sold at a reduction of 5. a 4s. per cwt. ; low middling being sold at 60s. middling at 751.1 775. and good middling 80s. a 846.: the fine quite the reterse ling at very high prices, fine middling 100 s. and 1011. There sac no public sales this forenoon, and as to purchases by private of tract that is out of the question. FRUIT.—By public sale on Wednesday, II& butts toll; caroteels Currants were sold, Cephalonia from 084. v It!" Zante 955. to 98s. ; and 518 barrels New Red Salyer' gar from 48s. to 50s. New Turkey Figs continue to go JilswAw .. ,o• the quality this year being tine, and the price low : Valen ;la Raisins a further decline has taken place, scculum '!' very considerable importer pressing sales both in Liwn and err: in very small quantities; the trade nevertheless Sere WO" cro of another importer, and are now retelling them, Dais it bd..feti 425. to 445.; Valentia in boxes 511 s. ; the demand conarater w prune_ r HEM r, FLAX, and TA LLOW.—The new Talks is Icahn quoted lower. 335. 6d. Hemp 43/. Flax is little OILS.—The prices of Oil are entirely nominal, es sales It lately repotted. RU3I, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—The Rum mute. continues in a nominal state; there are no sales at any censidettllg reduction, yet purchases can certainly be made lower. Brady offered on lower terms, but there are few buyers.' Genera noesns the same as last week. TOBACCO.—There are no sales of Tobacco worth rerorlq ; offers are made under the present market prices, but the Wien will not sell at any reduction. A deputation of the trade Wild neon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, respnting a rercrlc! they reduction of duty. They received no anrwcr. but the the• cellor stated the consumption 144 greatly increased. The ace° this quartet, compared with the corresponding one of last year, nearly two millions of lbs. TCA.—The Congous have finished ta.day. Prices hare r id. per lb. lower at the latter part. Common Congous2i. 2s. Gad., middling 2i. jd. a 2s. lid., good 2s. a 2s. [lid.; t" Pekoe kinds 3a. Id. a 2.4.6 d. An application was to.dey oisM the brokers to the Court of Directors, praying that the time to r P°' jog deposits might he extended from three to five o'clock, ow'rg the peculiar circumstances of the times ; but it being contrary to ti express Act of Parliament, the Court could not comply. MARRIED. Yesterday, at St. IS argaret'a, IVesoninster, by the Rey. Chola LoyleY, Student at Christ Church, Orford, Major Harsco . ti t, Ilro e, the yonngest brother of Sir Philip tones Broke. rf l44 ` . hall, Suffolk, Bart. to Frederica Sophia, eldest daughter of Jim a Mure, of Great Georpe.strect, Esq. On the Rth inst. at Dawlish, Devon. Irenteus Myherr. Eml• Umberleigh House, near Barnstaple, to 31ra. 3lattertace, " the late Lieutenant 3latterfaee, R.N. DIED. On the 7th inst. aged one year and five months, Maria bowl& the infant daughter of the Hon. A. A. Hely Hutchinson. On the 16th inst. at his house at Holloway. Mr. Joierh optician, of the Royal Exchange, in the 60th year of his g e ' On the Ilth lost in hladdol.otreet, John Stead o Stately, Egg. 1 Bon' li h y„ aged H VA Tgit ATTol46o — giftitta Morning. 69 min. after Printed iBi a , t s T t r e i h ' e p SillAcz‘e.xb—oy..sllllr".el'pAtai.:i. 0% %. l iiii i