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IV OR THERN CIRCUIT. LANCASTER ASSIZES.—LAwcAsTra, Awe. 17. ASSAULT. Mr. At Di It BOX opened die pleadings, and stated that this wee an nation brought by the plaintiff a weaver, against the defe,alant, the &ram of a Mr. Cullingworth, a gentleman at Manchester, who was indebted to the plaiutiff, to recover damages for an assault committed upon him. Mr. ECAILIC L TT called the following witnesses ; Mr. Cullingworth, the master of the defendant, was celled to Hove the insulting language winch passed between the parties. Be beard so rntthing like a scuffle, but lie saw no blows struck. Tn crosamaaminatton the witness denied having kept servants for the purpose of evading the demands of his creditors, and also to the virderce used towards the plaintiff. aletgeaat *toss—Nobody who knows you, Sir, could suspect that you kept servants for any such purpose. Those who know the arm to which you belong could not believe any such statement for a gle moment. ''Lamination resumed.—The plaintiff was conducting himself with great violence when a treveller came into my shop. The ptair ult asked defendant what he was coming there for: to which bis replied. " You know you're a scoundrel !" upon which he was knocked down. I.`•ti further evidence belng adduced in support of the plaintiff's ease. Its was non-suited. NEGLECT OF ATTORNEYS. Several causes were called on in the courae of the day, hut as no attorneys appeared to instruct Counsel, they were ordered to be struck out of the list. Baron Ho LLOCI obseeved, that it was really too severe that clients abduld in this manner have their causes neglected. He 'Would r enend a few actions to be brought by the sufferers in this. • against the attorney', for of the right to bring and sulleggll is such actions there could be ne doubt, and then per /nig flop ;PPM be a little mar: attentive to their duty. . CROWN SIDE. (Before Mr. Justin BAYLET.I Rkhard Fri Mars and Hszjl Quin were capitally indicted for layfrig disposed of, mid put away a Ibtged note of the Bank of England for U., knowing the same In he forged. lir. SCAIL ITT stated the case to the Jury, and called the fol lowing witnesses. Elizabeth Eves—ls servant at a public-house in Preston,' . and remembers the prisoners having had something to drink there on • Sunday evening and called for change of a tire pound note. Witness offrend the note to Mrs. Eaton, who' asked to have the names of the prisoners. Change was given for the note. Mrs. Eaton the landlady, and Eaton, the landlord, corroborated she servant. The note was here identified by Eaton. the landlord. The p risoner Williams here interrupted, and said," If I was to declare it upon my oath before God, I could say that I stated my name to be Williams." John Gillespie was called to prove that the prisoner Williams WAS known to him ; that he went to a butcher's shop to buy some meat; that be offered a hi. note to be changed, and that he got the 'hangs from a public-house near the butcher's shop, and that Quin obtained a part of the change. Witness had some suspicion of these persons, and returned to ask the landlord of the public-house if it were geed ; he found upon inquiry that it was bad, and west to the constable, Wharton, who despatched some officers to search rut the prisoner., and they were found at a puAic.house in a direc tMn totally different to that from which they said they were going to take. _ . _ Clarkson, the keeper of the public-house, and his wife, deposed to the receiving the 5:. note, and Wharton, the constable, to the ap prehension of the prisoners. Mr. Lee, Inspector of Notes to the Bank of England, proved that the notes handed to him were forgeries upon the Bank. Both the prisoners were then found Gel!! y. Two persons, of the names of David Charles and Joseph Nichol son, were indicted on the same charge: but after a few observations between Mr. Scarlett and 'Mr. Justice Bayley, the case was not proceeded in, and the prisoners were acquitted. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Joists Ilapsord was capitally indicted fur having feloniously killed and slain Jane, his wife, on the 2th July last. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner .a his wife were walk ing home from Gaston. near Manchester, in • state neither tipsy nor sober ; that they walked along for a certain distance as lovingly as husband and wife are wont to do on such occasions, but that all of a sudden the wife fetched her spouse a blow, which so kindled his wrath that he fetched her another under the ear, and of which sae never lived to complain. After she fell her husband called for her to arise, but she made no answer to the call ; she was lifeles, and no more. The huhand again called her by the mat endearing names, 15. it lore and life had fled together, and she spoke no more. The surgeon who inspected the body said, In his opinion the death of the deceased was occasioned by the blow under the left ear, which left a livid mark, and produced a great estravasation of blood. The priginer, in his defence, called the father of his wife, who sad that the prisoner had been • remarkably good husband and father, and had always treated his wife very well. In fact, the wit. ness could not say whether he felt more at the sorrow of the prisoner or at the death of his wife. Verdict—Guilty. Mr. Justice BATLILY. taking ail the circumstances Into his con sideration, looking at the provocation the prisoner had received, and at his character for good conduct, sentenced him to fourteen days' imprisonment. L.4W INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FRIDAY, Au 0.19. IX THE MATTRR Or KIRBY RAVENSWORTH CHARITY. Mr. RALPH said that he was Instructed to real this matter to Ms Lordship's recollection. His LORl , llltr thought this matter had been disposed of ages ago by the Commissioners of Charitable Uses. Mr. Rocru stated that It was not dispesed of yet. There had been certain matters in dispute referred to the Commissioners, but theiZt it impossible to dispose of them without first having the' ju ent of the Court upon the petition. is LORTIIIIP then desired to hare the papers returned, which had been taken away from him several years ago. It would have been but kind, he said, if some one had mentioned long ago that this matter was still pending here, because the Court most dis tinctly uuderstoei that the case had been taken out of its hands at Ism three years ago; but this was the manner in which the Court was treated in many instances. REY. ALEXANDER ruvrcnra w. INAIGARRT RIACEKUIDO, AMORY, BROWN, AND NET. Mr. HART moved, on behalf of the Rev. plaintiff, for an in junctim, to restrain the defendants, Aldermen Brown and Key (Sheriffs for the county of Middlesex), from taking out execution upon a judginent confessed by Mr. Amory in favour of his co.de teodant, Mtn. 01sekmurtio. The circumstances of the case were these: the Rev. plaintiff is the occupier of a cottage and several acres of land, situated at Ilomerton ; he obtained a lease of the saint, from the owner, Mrs. Itlacktnurdo, in the year 1810, for 61 years, at rent of 801. annually. In the lease there was a clause ;no nibiting the plaintiff from selling, letting, or setting the premises, without the permission of Mrs. M.; but there was a covenant, that if the plaintiff should desire to retire from the premises, and ten daed a respectable tenant to Mrs. M. that she should sanc tion the assignment of the lease, and accept of the new te nant. Soon after this agreement was entered into, the plaintiff lild out about 1.0001. in repairing . and improving the estate; in ainsequence of which, with other circumstances, the plaintiff be cime in want of money, and Mr. Amory, a merchant in the city, lent him the suns of 4001. as . a security for which, the' lure of the premises was left in the hands of Messrs. Amory abd Coles (one of those gentlemen being the brother of Mr. Amory, one of the defendants). The transactions went on be tween the plaintiff and defendant, Mr. Amory, until he advanced another sum of three hundred pounds, and then the solicitors who held possession of the lease, made an assignment of the feline to Mr. A., which they tendered to the plaintiff for, and obtained his signature to, and which was at once a flat forfeiture of the lease, in consequence of not having previously obtained Mrs. M.'s consent; anti, upon the back of tins, followed an action of ejectment brought by Mrs. M. against the plaintiff. The plaintiff then consulted his Counsel (Mr. Hart) upon the subject: that Counsel recemnendett the plaintiff to send a notice to Messrs. Amory and Coles, that it would be necessary for them, in due dis charge of their duty, to take care that he (the plaintiff) was pro perty protected by them. After the assignment of the lease, how ever, was made, Mr. Amery executed another lease for the plaintiff, making him, therefore, his lessee. Subsequently Mr. Amory had an interview with 31r. Ashley (the plaintiff's then Solicitor), when an agreement was proposed, that, in consideration of 2001. more to be paid to the plaintiff; be should relinquish all title and interest whatever in the premises. Upon this agreement having bin produced to the plaintiff; to be signed by him, he refused to do in, stating he had never given any authority for entering into such an agreement, n or was 111 r. Ashley his agent on such an oc casion. After the notice alluded to had been sent to Messrs. Amory anti Coles, Mr. Amory undertook to defend the action of ejearuent; but before the action could conic on for trial, upon she Ist of August he entered into an agreement with Mrs. M. for thr purchase of the freehold, at the sum of 3,n)081.; and on the fol. loving day (2d of August) very dexterously confessed judgment in favour of Mrs. 111. ; upon which he got the Sheriffs to interfere to tern the plaintiff out ; or, in other words, to turn Mr. Amory out, foe the purpose, in truth, of turning him Into the possession of the pr mists. And it was under these circumstances, verified by the affidavit of the plaintiff. that, the Learned Counsel submitted, a nearer asse of cognition between Mrs. M. and Mr. A. had never emu before this Court; and therefore he trusted his Lordship would grant the Injunction. # llr. WAKEFIELD was on the same side. Mr. SUDDEN opposed the motion. Ile thought the very name ofthe plaintiff sufficient to carry with it an impression, at least to him, that the plaintiff was the last individual whom he (31r. S.) sr ;old ever think of attempting to take advantage of with success in any one thing, being an persuaded of his qualifications in legal uetia, as well as in every thing else, to protect himself against any thing like imposition ; a.til therefore the Court, in this instance, *se not to understand that there had been any thing like fraud tr ictlied towards hint, particularly that frau! which lie imputed to .4r Amory, and which, if true, (but which was flatly contradicted), v.r:ld make him one of the most degraded persons In society. In this toss there was a cmitract, which he (Mr. Sugden) thought ~.staid no:, in any way of putting it, effectually be disputed, to the port of the plaintiff or his agent, and that all should be done which hid been done. fits LOA nsncr interrupted Mr. Sugden, and asked, whether or not Mr. Ashley had made any affidavit ; Mr. Buono w said no, but that he had expensed a willingness to di au, if the Court should give an intimation that he ought, Mr. IT ART had no dou bt that that gmtleautn wood rags an II is LoRO9/llp considered It extremely important that he should, emit theretore desired that that should be done, and a copy of it sent to hie Lordship on Tuesday next. At present, putting all consi derations of fraud out of the case, his Lordship was most clearly of opinion, that if the plaintiff were turned out of possession by force of Mrs. Mackmordo's ejectment, he would undoubtedly have a right to retain possession under the lease Mr. Amory had granted to him • but then he might bargain himself out of that equity, either Ilernself or his agent, and therefore it was that Mr. Ash. ley'R afir davit would be extremely important. The Solicitor for the plaintiff said, Mr. Ashley was at present at Chelmsford, but he would make every exertion to get the affidavit by Tuesday. His Lonnanirt said he should be very glad to receive It, and then would do the best he could with the motion. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. The Loan CrtaricELLog—liare you any other motions to make? . . No answer being given to this question, his Lonosnt, asked whether there was any thing that required his attendance to morrcw (this day) ? Mr. HoRNE-1 do not know that there is any thing to trouble your Lordship with to-morrow. Mr. Kiriour mentioned a case which it was desirable might be heard as early as possible. Mr. MONTAGU, Mr. Holum, and Mr. Scones also men tioned some cases that were standing for judgment. The Loan CHANCELLOR—If I can have to-mo►row tin. occupied, 1 shall be able to get more done for the partiel on Mon day, when I mean to give judgment in several cases ; whereas, if to-morrow is to be engaged, I must postpone some of them to Tuesday. MOTIONS FOR INJUNCTIONS. In answer to a question from AIL Sudden, His LORDSHIP observed, that whatever injunctions might be wanted to be moved for after he had risen, and while he was in town, he would hear them ; but if anytmotion of the kind should be re quired to be made after he was gone out of town, he begged it to be understood that the Muter of the Rolls would hear them. JUDGMENTS. MARTZ BAXTER—IN RE MARSH AND co• Mr. HORNS begged to remind his Lordship that he had in. rimmed the other day, that in case his opinion should undergo a change upon the circumstances of this case, the parties should be informed of it. The LO 13 CHANCLI.LOR—Yes but no rethetion that I have been able to give the case, has altered my opinion at all. wnowNE v. DE TASBLT. Mr. Hortsrx—May i be allowed to mention this cape to your Lordship, which in now waiting for the judgment of the Court? The Loan CH•NCELLOR—Yes you may, Mr. Home. The papers in this cause arc very voluminous, but however frightful the aspect of them may be, I will endeavour to look at them in as short a time as possible. Mr. Hon N E—l do not think your Lordship will find the case so bad when you look into the papers, as appears by looking at them. LLOYD V. ST. Intres. Tin ATTORNEY•OENLRAL •. LORD MAYSTIELD. Upon his LORDSH IP being remindedof these awes, he ob served, that with regard to the Ant, it required ten days' considera tion at least before any person could come to a decision upon it. lie meant to make these two cases form part of his amusement during the long vacation, as it was called. Ile had nearly looked into all the old bankruptcy case,, and he meant to exert himself to give judgment in them all in the course of the next week. Ills LORDSHIP then rose to leave the Court, and bowing to the bar, said, " To such of you an I shall not have the pleasure to see again, I wish a happy vacation." PALACE COURT, FRIDAY, AVOI:ST 19. LIABILITY OF STAKE-HOLDERS. Ev•ws V. BEN BURN. Mr. Titompsow said this was an action brought by the plaintiff!, a sporting gentleman, agaimt the defendant, a well-known pugilist . ! for the recovery of the sum of 61. which had been placed in his hands stake-holder, to abide the issue of a bet, but which lie had with. held and improperly disposed of against the usual (in such cases) given undertaking. The defendant pleaded the general issue. 3lr. FLAN w.tomg, in stating the case to the Jury, observed, this was one of those actions which lie considered set aside the solemn forms of adjudication in Courts of Justice, inasmuch as they, from their character and from the generally disgraceful circumstances attending them, ought never to be pushed forward to the detriment of public time and public justice. The case fully exemplified the effect of profession upon the disposition and morals of certain indi viduals; as in persons pursuing the "avocation" of the defendant very little, if any, moral or honourable feeling or faith of any de. scription could be expected from them, and consequently such results ax this action displayed might have been anticipated from any communication had with persons of that stamp. The cir cumstances of the case were briefly theses--The plaintiff, a gentleman of some celebrity in the sportirg world, laid a wager of five to one with a 31r. Grimley, in the month of June last, and the 61. by mutual consent was deposited in the hands of the defendant Burn, who united the professions of publican and pugilist. In some tine after, the plaintiff wanted a decision upon the wager, and applied to defendant to appoint a thus for deciding it, and a meeting was appointed at the house of Tom Cribb, the retired, or as he was termed, the ex-champion of Eng land, a distinction which the Learned Counsel did not at all wish to dispute with him ; but yet, he thought it rather an impudent as sumption. However, the meeting was productive of no declaims, and at several other spurting houses, Tattersall's, dm The de. fendant refused to give up the money until a decision upon the wager was given by the referee, a Mr. Kirby, • who, from knowing both parties intimately, refused to decide, and Cribb also declined any interference. At length the defendant, to the great surprise of plaintiff, informed him, Mr. Kirby had, upon Ascot-heath Race-course, decided against him, and he had given up . the money to his opponent Grimley. The plaintiff made inquiries and as. eertained that the money bad certainly been given up, but he rather thought without consulting the referee at all on the subject, and Mr. Kirby eventually declared he had not, upon Ascot-heath or any other place, ever decided the wager; neither had he ever any such intention, although he admitted having formed an opinion upon it, which opinion, he positively declared, had never been in any way expressed to a human being living. Upon this discovery, the plaintiff brought his action to recover that money. of which, by this breach of confidence and faith, lie had been improperly and fraudulently deprived. The Counsel for the plaintiff called Mr. Volley, Mr. Clark, and another, who proved the wager of 5 to 1 being betted, the plaintiff betting the odds, that Grimley could not clear him of an joint betting between them which they had entered into with other.. They also proved the repeated application to Burn for the money, but he refused to give it up until Mr. Kirby gave his decision, but that gentleman refusing, Grimley refused to' have any other reference, and declined meeting all parties at a place appointedito decide the wager, when Burn said lie would keep the money for ever sooner than give it up. The witnesses afterwards heard, to their great astonishment, that Burn had given Grimley the money, knowing that Mr. Kirby had never decided. Mr. Kirby was called, and proved he never had decided the wager, from a kind feeling towards both parties, who had repeat edly urged him, but he would not. lie never bad even expressed his opinion on the subject. This was the plaintiff's ease, and Mr. &Lieu addressed the Jury for the defendant, declaring that whatever observations the Learned Gentleman on the opposite side had thought it necessary to make upon the influence of " profes sional pursuits" upon moral character, the present defendant would be found to stand in a very fair, manly, and honourable point of view in this transaction, which arose out of Evans and Grimley en. tering into a partnership bet upon some sporting transaction of 7 to 4. But when the time of deposit arrived, Evans did not appear " at the scratch" with his share of the money, and Grimley re leased him from any concern in the wager, which he took upon his own ace , unt. Evans, offended at this, and considering Grimley had no such right. betted 5 to 1 that he had not, and the defendant was made stakeholder. The referee, a person of the name of Kirby, would (although it appears he is not a very „ decided" character) be proved to have given his decision at Ascot-heath in favour of Grimley, anti the defendant, acting under this decision, paid over the money to hint. Mr. Grimley 'proved having early in the lest month received from Burn the 61., as the wager had been decided by Kirby in his favour. _ _ Jr.l Selcock. of Peter's Pariah, St. Alban's, surgeon, stated that he was on the Course the second day of the last Ascot-heath Races, and was standing near a booth with Kirby. Bum, Orindey, and one or two others. Burn asked Kirby what he should do with the money ? Kirby answered. "Oh, that bet: why give it up to Grimley ; he has won it." The witness heard no more about it, but the conversation he described certainly passed. Cross-examined by Mr. FLAINNAGAN—Did not know any thing about the bet before, and knows but little about it since. Is a sur geon, and lives at St. Peter's, in St. Alban'''. Cares but little about the business or for the Counsel who examined him. itir. FLANNAOAN here begged the witness not to answer so flippantly, but to preserve good manners and decency of demeanor. The witness, who folded his arms on the box and stood forward, observed he was not guilty of any ill manners. Mr. JLAY HAGAN—I:au, sir, are a surgeon and a bit of a sports man, - - Witness—That is very Immaterial. Confine yourself to the case. Alr. FLASXMIAN—You roan/ other he a th s ? go to Ascot-heath Races, and indeed Witness--You have just said it. Ido occasionally. Mr. FLANNAGAX—Von probably bleed persons t here? Witness—W•hy, I will bleed you, if kis necessary. FLANNAGAN—'Thank you, air, bin I will dispense with your skill. Are ynu acquainted intimately with boxers and the fol. towers of the ring ? Witness—No, I am not Intimately. Mr. FLAIINAGAX—You will do me the favour of giving me a trus and civil answer to this question a Ave you not the proprietor of a roulettestable ? Witness (angrily)—No; it It's false. The Jormix (Br. Bender) called to the witness, and advised him to answer civilly, and not in that manner. Mr. FL•POVAGAN—But you belong to a gambling-table? Witness—l do not; sonic of my tonally may have attended such places. FLAX:(AOAIf —About what time of the day did you bear this derision of Kirby's. Witness—Between one and two. FLANtrariax-114;;;btx n drinking that day ? Wimeas—No; I had not. Mr. FLA xLiteax—What not a drop of anything/ Witness—Nothing but my breakfast. This kind of erdluesaminatiOn Wu continued for Some time, without eliciting anything, awl such answers did Mr. Selcock think it necessary to give, that the Court interposed, and threatened to commit him if he did not desist. The Learned JUDGE said he believed the present defendant had a family of prize-fighters. Mr. FLANNAGLN replied to the evidence for the defence, and lamented that the high and distinguished profession of physic Ishould have one of its members capable of such debasement of conduct as to condescend to associate with such a rabble as attended the movements of the ruffians of the prize-ring. The Learned JUDGE summed up, and expressed his indignation at the proceedings altogether, and lamented the time of the Court should have been occupied by so profligate a host of persons. He gave it as his opinion decidedly, that in point of law the plaintiff' was entitled to a verdict, as the evidence for the defence rested mainly upon the testimony of the one witness, who appeared to know little or nothing about it, and by no means rebutted the evi dence given by the plaintiff's witnesses. The Jury immediately found for the plaintiff—lhmagee J. with costs. BRADFORD COMBERS AND WEAVERS. iFrom the Leeds Intelligenter.l As the worsted spinners and manufacturers of Brad ford gave notice on Saturday of a meeting on Monday last, " to take into consideration the propriety of the mas ters proposing to their respective workmen a personal dis cussion of the differences between them," we are unwilling to offer any remarks which might tend to thwart even the slender hopes of a reconciliation suggested by this announce ment. We must say, however, that in the vindication which the manufacturers have published of themselves, in reply to Mr. Fawcett's letter, they have avowed principles it would have been more creditable to them never to have entertained. As no proof of Mr. Fawcett's having violated the spirit of the rule, " to buy tops only from one another," by his purchasing tops made at 150 miles distant, they broadly state that their object and intention in resorting to that regulation was to prevent their workmen from getting employment elsewhere, and thus insure a triumph over the Union. Whether the extent to which combination has reached may have provoked or rendered necessary such a resolution, we shall not deckle ; but it certainly strikes us as fully as culpable for employers, who refuse to give the wages demanded of them, to prevent workmen from ob taining employment in other places, u for a Union, or the members of a Union, to prevent persons who arc not of that association from selling their labour for whatever price they please. With respect to the refusal of the masters to submit the disputes with the men to the arbitration of the Leeds merchants, who offered to mediate between them, we can easily understand, that besides the reasons alleged by the spinners and manufacturers for declining to accept of the mediation, they naturally felt reluctant that their workmen should look up to third and indifferent parties as the friends who had at length effected an arrangement and restored them to employment. Of the comparative advan tages of hand and power weaving, asset forth by the mas ters, we cannot, for the life of us, perceive what it has to do with the question now at issue. If power weaving be so much more preferable and cheap as it is described, in Heaven's name let those who choose resort to it; bat while they employ men instead of steam-engines to weave, they must deal with the former independently of all considera tions of the latter. Late last night, and after the forego. ing was put in type, we received the following letter from our correspondent at Bradford:— " BRADFORD, Auo. 17. "Matters, as to the differences between the masters and workmen here, are apparently drawing to a close. The men have professed a willingness to meet and discuss their differences with the. masters; but the latter have, until Monday last, resolutely refused to attempt any com promise. On Monday, however, a resolution was passed by them, that esch master might endeavour to settle his disputes with his own men : and accordingly they have most, if not all, had communications with their men, but without coming to any settlement. The men refuse to re turn to their work under the price demanded, on the ground that it is evident, from the conduct of Messrs. Garnett, who have been giving the advanced wages for a fortnight, and Mr. Firth, who agreed to give them on Monday morning last, that the required advance can be afforded. It is now generally expected that all the masters will yield this long-contested point ; and, in resentment at the con duct of the manufacturers of Halifax, Keighley, Bingley, and other neighbouring places, who have held aloof from the battle, and continued to employ the Union there during the strike here, will also offer such other wages as will produce a strike in those places, and place the masters in this dilemma—either to give higher wages than the trade there will afford, and so to manufacture at a loss, or otherwise to give up manufacturing. Mr. Fawcett has gotten between two fires, the masters on one hand, and the men on the other : they both charge him with duplicity. His answer to the charges made by the former is before the public ; and, in reply to what has been published by the men, as to his offering work to the men in the Union, on condition of their withdrawing for a short time from the Union, a declaration has been signed by Hayley, Mr. Fawcett's foreman, who went to the Com mittee of the Union at the Roebuck, in the name of Mr. Fawcett, that his communication with the Committee was an act of his own, and entirely unknown to, and un authorised by Mr. Fawcett. This, and the fact that Haley had been discharged by Mr. Fawcett, for treating with the Union in his name, will be estimated by spectators of the passing events in diffaent lights. " The men had their usual meeting at Fairweather green on Monday last, but no resolution here passed. Their funds increase with the duration of.:.‘ . contest, and were never in so good a state as at the pre-,. it. They re ceived nearly 200/. this morning, in bills, notes, and sove. reigns, from differestt quarters." SHIPWRIGHTS' COMDINA7IONS.-lt has been under stood by the shipwrights of this yard, that their services will not now be required in the Thames, the unfortunate mis understanding which has 89 long existed there between the masters and the men having been at length amicably ad justed. About 60 of the artisans of this yard have signed 1 1 a paper, offering their temporary aid to the London ship -11 builders, should the men in their employ not abide by their I late agreement. It is also rumoured, that those who have volunteered from this yard will be recommended to the Board tc be placed at the head of those who are to have apprentices.—Plymouth Journal. Doos.—Through the praiseworthy exertions of Mr. Foote, the Surveyor of Taxes at Salisbury, it has been discovered that upwards of 200 dogs have never been re turned, and consequently no tax has been paid for them. The plan now pursuing will in time rid the city of those useless and dangerous animals.—Dorset Chronicle. YOVTIIFUL DEPRAVITY.—A shop-boy, in the employ of Mr. John Alford, draper, of Bradford, having been corrected for some offence, attempted, on Friday last, to seek his revenge by poisoning his master. For this pur pose he went into a druggist's shop, and actually stole a parcel marked "poison." This he put into a bucket of water, from which the kettle was filled for tea ; and on the family (consisting of five persons) partaking of it, they I all became sick. Mr. Adyc, a respectable surgeon,lwas sent for, who administered some medicine, and very fortunately ' removed the cause. On analyzing the water, poison was clearly discernable. Suspicion at once fell on the boy, who has since confessed, and is now in prison.—Desirrs Gazette. A most daring forgery has been attempted at Lloyd's Coffee-house. Mr. Bennett, the Secretary, received a com munication, purporting to be from the Russian Consul, stating that after the Ist of September all British vessels would be admitted into the Russian Ports on the same terms as ships under the Russian I .ag. The letter turns out to be a forgery. The most active measures are taken to discover the writer. In the thunder storm of Wednesday, some persons em ployed in reaping, in Ilcene Field, near Worthing, took shelter in the mill, one of whom, a boy, was struck with lightning, but fortunately did not teceive any material injury ; the hair on one side of his head was singed ; and his dress, from head to foot, participated in the shock, being rent asunder, and a part of his boot torn off:— Dorset Chronicle. CORONEIefI Iwiaverr.—Yesterday evening an inquiai. don was held before T. Moos, Esq, at the Stag, U t istl e .j ane , James -street, Buckingham Gate, on the body of Elizabeth Harris. 22 years of age, who, it appeared, had returned home in Ship-yard, l'eter.street, on Monday night, In a state of intoxication, and fell asleep. Unfortunately her cloihes caught fire from a candle, and she awoke enveloped in flames, in which condition she ran into the s reet, screaming dreadfully. A man passing by at the time in. stantly took of his coat, and wrapped it about her, anti afterwards threw several pails of water upon her, which extinguished the flames. She was conveyed to the Westminster Infirmary without the slightest hopes of recovery, where she died in excrutiating torture. The J ury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." POLICE. COMPROMISING CASTS- Magstow House, AUGUIT 'Y.—During the progress of the business of the Justice Room this day, a case was called on, when the complainant came forward and stated that lie should not occupy the time of the Lord Mayor by bringing forward the charge. The defendant had thought proper to make an apology, with which he was satisfied, and there was now an end of the matter. The Lotto MAYOR said the affair could not be disposed of an easily as was Imagined. Ile for one should not countenance the practice of settling cases in this manner privately between the par ties, without a public inquiry before the Magistrate. It was one which might, and he believed it did, often lead to great abuse. This case might, for aught he knew, be one of an outrageous na ture, which public justice required should be prosecuted. Complainant.—" The gentleman was highly outrageous cer tainly, but the apology which lie has made is quite satisfactory to me." The LORD MAYOR said the complainant might be fairly satis fied, and public justice yet be outraged. It was a notion very ge nerally entertained by complainants, that every affair of this nature was entirely personal, and thet it was at their sole option to aban don or proceed with a charge. Many cases of a very serious nature were in consequence compromised at the watch-houses, and parties I were liberated without any other check against future offences than' the persuasion, that if they again happened to get into trouble on a sintilar occasion, they had only to apologize to enable them to get out of it. The example bad other evils. Watchmen, it was known, were in the habit of facilitating such compromises. His Lordship declared that he could not permit the case to be dismissed without an Inquiry into its circumstances. The complainant said he was willing enough that public justice should be done in the case, but he was very unwilling to sacrifice any of his own time to it. The Lout) MAYOR said It was a duty which the complainant owed in common with every one else, and ha must consent to make the sacrifice._ . . -.....—. Th. complainant then, with some reluctance. stated the case. Is appeared from his statement, as well as that of a tavern-keeper, that the defendant, who is a gentleman of respectability, got out rageously drunk, and quarrelled with every body whom he met with. Amongst others he ran foul of the complainant and struck him. The complainant gave him in custody, and he was bailed out. He was yesterday unable to attend, being very ill in bed in consequence of his excess. Ile was exceedingly sor►y for what he had dune, and ready to make every reparation. The LORD MAYOR thought the case was one which did not re quire any further interposition on his part, and lie therefore dis missed it; but he expressed a decided opinion against the practice of dismissing such cases without inquiry. ANOTHER LUNATIC. BOW-STREET OFFICE, AUGUST 19.—A poor man of the name of Walker, who was formerly in service in some part of his Majesty's household, and discharged on account of in- I sanity, brought up his landlord, Wm. Batten, a publican, to an swer to a charge of assault and the detention of his property. With the most ludicrous assumption of pomp, and with a carriage and port that might have become a Field-Marshal out of commission. Mr. Walker advanced to the centre of the office, and, regardless of the tittering laughter of all around, he proceeded to open his charge, He stated that he was a bit of an artist, and, although not profes sional, had ability for any department of science. He had four drawings, which lie could not prevail upon his landlord to take to Mr. AV yatt, of Foley-place. Ile accordingly asked a tailor's boy to do this service for him. [Here Mr. Walker's narrative was in terrupted by a violent fit of laughter, which he W3S unable any longer to suppress, and in which he was cordially joined by all pre sent, not even excepting his Worship.] He further alleged that he never could get a bill from his landlord, and that, front his love of the sex, he always spoke with extraordinary kindness to his land lady. Mr. Batten one evening took him by the hair of his head, and violently assaulted him. The charge was eventually dismissed. The poor man was fan tastically dressed in tattered rags. BEGGING-LETTER WRITING. —..„---- ----...—. HATTON-GARDEN, AUG. 19.—.31r.W00d, a respectable draper residing in Seymour-street, Euston-square, applied for a warrantof assault, origins ing out of the following circumstances ; My Honey, one of the gentlemen connected with the Mendicity Society, attended to explain to the Magistrates how the interests of the Society were involved in the present case. Mr. Wood stated, that a person of the same name as himself, with a man named Clarke, journeymen tailors, engaged some upper apartments in his house, and were employed by him. Ile was how. ever surprised, a few days after their taking possession, at the nu merous visiters which daily called on them, of various classes (sometimes thirty or forty), and was resolved to get rid of his lodgers, as he was much annoyed by those numerous visiters, at the expiration of the time agreed on for the lodgings. To his amazement, a few days ago, two servants from the Duke of North umberland called with some donation from his Grace, and he then discovered that one of the parties was a regular begging-letter writer. On upbraiding them wi:h such conduct he was assaulted by his namesake, Wood. He immediately went to the Mendicity Society office, and gave information of the circumstances. Mr. Honey stated, that the Society', constables have lately dis. covered that a gangof begging.letter:writers have lately settled in the neighbourhood of Etts•on-square, and are successfully practising their impositions. The Society was therefore much interested in the case. The warrant was immediately granted, and intrusted to Llmbrick and Lee to be executed, as it was thought tome resistance would be made. MARLROROUGH-STREET OITICE, AUGUST 19.--Jatnes Collins, the man against whom a Coroner's Jury returned a vet vict of wilful murder in the case of Nicholas Dawkins, late one of the officers of this establishment, underwent an examination before Mr. CONANT, in the private room. The Earl of 11'estmoreland deposed, that on the 23d of May last he was at an entertainment given by Lord Cavendish, at Bur lington-house, Piccadilly. About half-past twelve his Lordship, ' followed by James Porter, one of his Lordship's servants, walked down the court-yard of Burlington-house, towards Piccadilly ; at the gate his Lordship perceived two carriages, which were jammed together, in consequence of the coachmen striving both to get in side. At the time his Lordship called out for an officer, and Daw kins, the deceased came up. His Lordship desired him to do his duty, and clear the gateway. Dawkins went towards the gateway for that purpose : he spoke to the coachmen, and they put back a little, and in a few seconds one of the coachmen drove in among the people at full speed. His Lordship was so struck with the con duct of the coachman, that he ran after the carriage, and asked the coachman to whom it belonged ? He said it was Lady Lambert's. His Lordship then went into the house, where he informed Lady Lambert of the conduct of her coachman, and on returaing to the outside, found the deceased lying against the wall with his leg broken. Lady Lambert's was the ouly carriage that came inside at the time. Mr. Jeffries, the surgeon, in addition to the evidence given at the Coroner's It quest, stated that the death of the deceased was really occasioned by a compound fracture in the thigh. Mr. Pitman, the house-surgeon of St. George's Hospital, de posed to the same effect ; and other witnesses gave similar evidence to that produced before the Coroner's J ury. Mr. CONANT committed the prisoner to take his trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions for manslaughter. ROBBERY BY A CONFIDENTIAL SERVANT. LADtaETH•STREET, AVG. 19.—Ann IVilkins and Ann Bliss, mother and daughter, were brought up for final examination, the former on a charge of robbing her master, Mr. Dale, a surgeon, residing in the Commercial-road, of property to a most alarming extent, and the latter with having received the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. The circumstances were these :—Yesterday week. a table-cloth being required for that day's use, the prisoner Wilkins, who had the care of the linen as well as all the other household property, was applied to for it. It not appearing as soon as it ought, suspicion was etched, and an officer was sent tor, to whom she was given in custody. Lee, the officer, subsequently apprehended Ann Bliss, the mother, on seaching whose person, he found about 60 pawnbrokers' tickets 01 various property, pledged at different periods and houses. This day, when the final examination took place, there were no less than 15 pawnbrokers in attendance, who produced the property, which consisted of plate s , wearing apparel, household linen, an d in fact, almost every article In a family's use. The whole was !den. titied by Mr. and Mrs. Dale as belonging to theM, and , ^hicb, on a moderate computation, must have amounted to at least 801. The Magistrate (Mr. WYATT) expressed his astonishment that the robbery was not before discovered, as it appeared from the duplicates, that a great portion of it had been pledged so far back as 8 orb months, and during that interval it surely must have cc curred, that some of the things were wanted. Mrs. Dale, in reply, said, that she had missed articles at ent times, but that immediately after they were particularly inquired for, they made their appearance, as she now perceived, front the pawnbrokers. Mrs. Dale added, that so great a confidence had she placed in the prisoner, that a thought of her dishonesty never occurred to her. The prisoners were fully committed to take their trials at the ensuing sessions at the Old Bailey. UN I ow-HALT., Aua. 19..—1 n the course of the day a gentleman presented himself before the Magistrate, and stated, that having dut an advertisement in a morning newspaper for a loan of money. on good security, it had no sooner appeared than he received a letter from a person named Clifford, who appointed an interview, stating that he would treat with the advertiser to any amount, on good security. The applicant called at his residence; and having seen Mr. Clifford, that person expressed great anxiety to get the securities into his hands, as he said, for the purpose of examining them. This, however, the applicant, fortunately for him, did n ot then agree to; for on returning home, with an intention of forward ing them to Cliftiwxl, he (applicant) happened to take up a news. paper, in which he read an account, under the head of "Union Hall." of a person named Lars having applied to the Magistrates, describing that he had intrusted securities to the amount of 2,0001. into Clifford's hands, under the pretence of that person advancing him a sum of money. He, however, had no sooner got hold of the securities than he refused either to advance money upon them or to give them up, until a bill which he presented to Mr. Lam for taking extracts from a will, &c, was paid. The applicant said that had he not seen this account in the newspaper, he certainly should have been duped in the same manner. The Magistrate considered the applicant very fortunate in escaping the danger, which, h e sa id , was certa i n l y to be attributed to the publicity given to 31r. lAN'S statement in the newspapers. This, said he, is one of the many instances of the utility of police reports. It is stated that Government are about to employ 4,000 convicts in the completion of that great national work, Plymouth Breakwater. Peas Rye MARKETS. CORN-EICBANGE, Famaw, Arra. 11 One supplies this week consist of 3,100 qrs. Wheat, 1,170 qrs. Barley, and 9,300 qrs. Oats, with 4,300 sacks Flour. There was a fair demand for tine fresh Wheat this morning at rather hiew prices than on Monday, whilst to effect sales of middling . i ons rather lower prices were submitted to. Barley obtai ne d rub higher prices than on Monday. Oats sold readily on quite as go o d terms as on Monday. Beans were dull saie and rather ch ea pe r . but in prices of Pease there was no variation. The agg regst ; average price of Barley for the six weeks preceding the 15th inst. being only 3ds. 9d. per qr. The ports continue shut for thi s, si ; well as for every other article, until the next avenge is m a d e sis in November. Corn Inspector's Return, Auo. 18. Wheat, per load - - • 171 18s so 11 DI 1. 4 Ditto (New) - - . - 181 10. to 11'21 le, Barley, per quarter - . - 11 181 to ii k Oats . - - • • 11 71 to If Hy _. _ . ko to 2_ol, 21 Bs to V Ile 01 Os to 01 os NEWBUR_ • - 554 to 77i I OMs • - I4as 3 sh . 1173 to 83s Beans . be t to be t . 40s to 48s Peas bs a to N G Bread, per gallon, Is 7d to Is 94 Avo. 18. DEVIZES, Al'O. Wheat and Beans at per sack; Barley and Oats per gunk Wheat -23 s Od to 39s 6d I Oats . 251 to 341 Barley -42 s Od to Os Od Beans . 26. to 24 01 a Wheat . Barley . - Beans Wheat • New . Barley UNGERFORD, At:o. 17. Me to 78s 'Oats - - 49s to 465 Ditto (New) • sto yr 48s to 606 SALISBURY, Auo. 16. 64s to 68s Oats . 65s to 73s Beans . . 33s to 44. WARAIINSTER, Auo. 13. Wheat . 211 a to 73s Od Oats • Barley . 32s to 48s Od I Beans - fOo to 1. . 506 to 171 tal to Ilk W. to No PRICE 01 FLOUR. Town Made, per sack %is to 65s J Norfolk and Stockton 450 to 04 Seconds . 65s to Ms Bran, per p. - Os to Ili Essex and Suflblk, on Pollard, Fine . 15 to I board ship - 501 to 551 PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread In the Metropolis is 100. for IN /lb. Loaf. Thera are Bakers who sell from id. to 20. below tk i a rate. SSIITHFIELI►, FRIDAY, Auo. 19. There is a little more briskness, perhaps, for Mutton is out market to-day, but every thing is as nearly u possible the same ea on Monday last. Beef . 4s Od to 5s Od Veal . Ss Od to bs 114 Mutton • 4s 4d to 6s 2d Pork - Is Ott to I. Olt Lamb 4s d to Ss 4d _READ OF CATTLE TIIIS OATS Boasts, 610 ~Shtep, 8,040 HAV.MA Hay (Old) . 41 Inferior . . 31 Clover - 51 Ditto (Inferior) 41 Straw . . N I Calves, 274 i Pigs, 90 RRET. 135 Oil to M is Oa 10$ Od to 41 10s 04 as Od to 61 05 Od 105 Od to 31 Os Od 16s Od to 21 1s Od NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL—(I37 :he Carcass) Reef . 3a Od to 4s Od Veal . 31 4d to 5 1 Di I Mutton - 3s 44 to 4s Rd Pork . 3a Ad to is 8d Lamb 4s Od to 5s Od PRICE OF POTATOES, AUG. 19. New Potatoes, Ware - 01 53 Od to 01 6s Od per Cit. Middlings - - 01 33 6d to 01 43 Id ditto PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW. ST. JAMES'S. WAIT ECHAPIL. Hay - 714 Od to 105. Od I Hay . 70. Od to 110 e Id Ditto (New) Igls Od to 105 s 0i Inferior . —r Od to —4 ije, Clover . 90, Od to 132. 6d I Clover . 90. Od to 11.0 s 04 Straw - Od to 48s Od Straw . 12s Od to 50s 01 - PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt. Auo. 19. POCKETS. TAOS. Kent - 141 Os to 171 Os Kent . 141 Os to 101 161 Sussex 131 10. to 13/ lOs Sussex . 131 Os to 141 1". Essex . 13/ 13. to 161 Os Essex . 131 10s to 161 Vs Farnham, fine 181 Os to 201 Os—Seconds 161 Os to 181 Os PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of Alb. Price by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melten), 2s TO PRICE OF TA MI% Town Tallow . dOs 6d Yellow Russia . 373 6d White ditto . —a Od Soap ditto . --g Od Melting Stuff . Sls Od Rough Ditto . 20, Od SOAP, Sm. per 1121 b. Yellow Soap . 72s Cd Mottled . 00, 04 Curd 81, 01 Graves 20, 04 Good Dregs - 401 PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles in ths retail shop. is as knows: Candles, per dozen . . &s lid to 76 Moulds . . . 9s 6d RAW [IDES. Best Heifers and Steers, I Ordinary .2s fld to lb 116 per stone . 3s 4d to 3s 6d Market Calf (each) - Ifs vi Middlings . 3s Od to 33 2d SHEEP SKINS. Sheep Is 10 to h 9d I Lambs Is 90 to 20 101 PRICE OF LEATHER. Best Dressing Hides . - roa lo 34 - Common ditto - . . . 161 to *1 Crop Hides, 35 to 38Ibs. . . . 101 to 17d Ditto 40 to Ulbs. . - 170 to 191 Ditto 45 to 50lbs. . - . 201 to 225 Calf Skins 35 to 401 b s. .. . . 18d to 274 Ditto 45 to 551bs. . - • 261 to 314 Ditto 55 to 711bs. - - . 231 to 2M Small Seal Skins . - . - 170 to 19 ' Tanned Horse Hides . 1111 to 151 . Spanish ditto . . . . - 161 to 104 COAL 3IARKET, Ave. 19. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. PM' 341 Newcastle . . 241 . 30, 9d to 3/3s fd IR Sunderland . - 18 - - Us Od to 44 00 I Scotch Coal - . 1 . .illy Oil to —4 Od 1 Splint . . 1 . . 3ls per ton I Cuhn - . . I . 300 Oil to --11 Oi 4 Small Coals . 4 - 23 s 6d to 29s 61 BIRTH. On the 17th inst. in Bernard.street, Russell-square, the •M► of the Rev. Dr. Vivian, of a son. MARRIED. On Tuesday last, at Castle Church, Stafford, Mr. Edward 11)1. loughby, of Lancaster-place, Waterloo-bridge, to Lucy, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Sergeant Williams. On the 17th inst. at West Ham, W. F. Puget, Esq. surgeon, 00 Johannah, eldest daughter of the late John Ford, Esq. of &mum& grove, Essex. On the 30th ult. at Paris, at the British Ambassador's Mon Townsend Carlow, Esq. to Elizabeth Anne, second dau ghter of Captain Rowed, R.N. On the 16th inst. at Great Baddow, Alexander Finlay, Esq. of Castlemains, Lanarkshire, to Miss Lucy Ann Jones, only child of James Jones, Esq. of Great Baddow, Essex, and of Twickenham Park, Jamaica. . On the 13th inst. at St. James's, Clerkenwell, Stephen Achy. Esq. of Darnley, Gloucestershire, to Lucy Leman, daughter of the late Leman Thomas Rede, formerly of the Inner Talk, London. On the 17th inst. at Broadwell, Oxon, Mr. Richard Dutton, of Herne-hill, Surrey, to Frances Louisa, daughter of Edward Frartis Colston, Esq. of Filkin's-hall, Oxfordshire. On Thursday, at the New Church, St. Pancras, by ths 80. George Osborne Townshend, John, eldest son of Lord Jobs Townshend, of Balls Park, Hertfordshire, to Elizabeth Jane. eldest daughter of Lord George Stuart. The bride was given sag by the Marquis of Bute. At Berne. on the 10th inst. at the residence of the British Allah ter, by the Very Rev. the Dcan of Raphoe, Captain Jasper Hall, Coldstream Guards, to Lucy, eldest daughter of Win. Alves, Eol• of Enham-place, Hants. On Thursday, at St. Mary.la-bonne Church, Mr.Jobn Goal& of St. Albans, to Mary, second daughter of John Field, Esq. Vet' riflery Surgeon, Oxford-street. On the 16th inst. at St. Cuthbert's Church, Wells, tbs 114/ ' John Sandford, of Baliol College, Oxford, to Elizabeth, Sangho of the late Richard Jenkins Poole, Esq. of Sherborne, Dorset. DID. On the 13th inst. a t the Recto E ry, Alverstoke, of inflammation in the stomach, occasioned by a severe cold, the Rev. Chado Augustus North, M.A., youngest son of the late Mawr of Wm. cheater. At the Royal Military College, Bliss Elizabeth Butler, astlFh* ter of the Lieutenant-Governor. DoO.n ntna the n, 16itnhhiha Bth y e ar.lst i at' lVe el st Mailing, Kent, Lientenant-Colus On the 9th inat, at Ids house in the East India-roat!, age,l ;if Captain John Hepburn, many sears in the Jamaica trade. On the 14th inst. aged 74 , Thomas Hughes, Er.q. of thl' hir ' Herts. At the Marsh, near Shirchampton, Mr. Painter. aged 77. lit' death was occasioned by the stinging of a wasp, which w.is %ewe. served in a cup of beet which he was drinking, and althOugh a'le' very considerable efforts he succeeded in throwing the insert Pitt . his mouth, he died of suffocation, in consequence of the swellirg of the throat, within half an hour. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDI3 iTIIIB him= 17 la with 'alto Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS Mae, by J. W. Garrey, 181, Strand, aid published by K. 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