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!Pingo:toted of food, harsh treatment, want of elothee, and air and imereive, erre completely unfounded. The affidavit was sworn at *thetas ?4th July, 1824. It was admitted that the deponent was between 70 and 80 years of age. Mr. W. H. Crowfoot, a surgeon of !Inclea. proved that in 1820 he attended Mrs. Barite professionally, whilst she was at the Jithg's Ilend Inn, in that town, and afterwards visited her in a felendly *ay, end had had frequent oppowtanities of judging of the Mate of her mind. Ile found her to be a woman of shrewd inlet. lict, and of considerable atquiretnint ; but upon the subject of the disputed subsisting between her husband end the mune, he found het to 'shone under mental delusion and insanity. He received three or four letters front hcr. Ile had rommumeations with Mr. e'larke upon this subject, informing him that in his opinion 3lrs. B. multi not be morally responsible tor her acts, such was her state of ;sienna infirmity. ‘Vitness had known Mr. l'larke for 30 years, ' and he believed a more upright and honourable man did not live. OPTtral letters written by Mrs. Barlee to both defendants teepee. tinily. to Lord Gifford, when Attorney-Henerel , to Mr. Crowfoot, anti to Or. lmahlnmen, were put in and read. The first letter was dated gla May, 1014, requesting Mr. Clarke to become her trustee, In which she spoke of that gentlemen in cite highest terms of re. specs and and affection, and spoke of her intended hnsband as the man of her own choice. The other letters contsineti eloquent com plaints of her sufferings arid wrongs. All these letters bespoke a Pita highly enitivated, and exhibiting great shrewdness and aptitude of intellect. Some parts were rather figurative, and perhaps a We exaggerated with respect to her real or supposed Me. A. J. Suckling was ecnnairted with Mrs. Barlee when she lived In Mr. Clarke's house, in 1813 and Ililfi. She was treated in that gentleman's house with the utmost kindness and attention. She was not fed upon nothing but fat pork. as she complained of in one of her letters. Mr. Clarke was a gentleman of tbehighest inte grity end respectability. It was admitted that she paid for her board It'd lodging in Mr. Clarke's house. The Rev. T. :Hecht:Ad, a Magistrate of Suffolk. and Chairman of the Ipswich division, proved that he visited the gaol to hear Sirs. Bargee's complaints, most of which he found perfectly groundless. She was treated with uncommon indulgence, considering her situa. Lion. The gaoler had paid out of his own pocket about 331. out of his own pocket to supply her wants, and had purchased a comfort able bed foe her, and had provided her with the best apartment in the gaol. The gaoler had never yet been paid the money he laid out. The window of Pier room looked upon the misdemeanour and debtars* ward, and not npan the felon' yard, as stated. She also Appeared to have plenty of clothes, notwithstanding her complaints to the contrite!. Witness repeatedly recommended her to draw her money, but she said she would not violate her oath nor compound a felony. This the repeated at least twenty times. She constantly Replied the moat opprobrious termsto Mr. Clarke and Mr. E. Bar- Ise. Witness wrote to the trustees. and he was told that if she would l ove the commonest acknowledgment, she might have what money she wanted, but she gave the same answer. Undentatxling from her than Alr. Murray was het solicitor. he wrote to that gen. tlrman to advise her to ta ke the money. in a few days an answer was received that Mr. Murray could not recommend her to take money from her trustees. At this time the suit in Chancery, he un ite...ood, Will pending. \Fitness had known Mr. E. Barlee from a boy, and he Aid not know a better man in all the relations of life. Mr. Thomas Warburton deposed that he had had fifty years, exnerience in emus of madness. In the greater proportion of case. madness affects the mind in a partial manner; in most uses the mind is aliened by a particular delusion. In those cases where the mind is affected upon particular subjects, it is peculiarly sane and a.:tive upon others. (In the 241 Sept. 1821. in consequence of an order from the bind Chancellnr, lie visited 3lrs. Barlee in Ipswich gaol. after having read the petition and affidavits on both aides, by the Chancellor's direction, He saw her without the presence of a third peeper,. She appeared to have been apprised of his coming. She received him with civility, but with some desreee of levity anti flightiness of manner. After a few minute'ge netsl conversetion, the fine question be asked her was, who. thee she married Mr. C. W. Berke with her own free will and consent, and whether she approved of the match ? She answered, that it was with her own free will, uninfluenced by Map lxaty. %l'imess then said, "Of course you mum have en tertained a 'NA opinion of him before you maned hint ?" She said she hail, Ile then asked her what could induce her to change her opinion. She said, that boon after the ceremony was perforated, and at the time she was returning from the altar, she peeeeived that there was a great change in 31r. 13arlee's manner, and she was sure he had deceive' her. From that time she had taken . dislike to him. She said she was distantly related to Mr. fisrlee's tinnily. She admitted that his family had elvisyx behaved kindly in her previous to the marriage, and she spoke in high temis of Mr. Bargee's mother. He then asked her what reasons she had for charging then at that time with sonspiring against her ? Her answers were meguc and contradictory—that they had conspired to ..ePtroy tier happiness and comfort. The first interview lasted rather longer than an hour. He saw her the neat day, end staid with her and amid with be, .but throe quarter, of an hour.' The result of both interviews guise satisfied him that the ides of a conspiracy was a Mansion, which, In his opinion, had commenced soon st:er the marriage, and continued down to that thue. It is nemomibie fur a person not acqusinted with mental disonlers, to form a torten opinion as us the mental sanity of another, nnlesa the patient is examined on throe points on width the themes is soppneed to hinge. %%fitness sax clearly of opinion that. Mrs. Barnes mind was unsound, and in his judgment there jar ground for the trustees aupysuing that she was of unsound remit. 'unite a disinctino between general insanity and and unsoundness of mind. A person might be insane upon all, %Mein some, or upon only one point. Atestretteilly speaking, and without Tel.:OW to the truth or falsehoods of Mrs. Badge's coon. phis is against her husband and her trustees, he should hive pro trounced her mind to be unsound from the time of her marriage, terd should have advised a petition This witness had been np. permed to examine 31rs. Barlee on behalf of the defendants. bir George Tathdi, who had been eighteen years a physician, gelerally, and ten years one of tee presiding physicians to Bedlam I too Utah proved that he was applied to by Mr. Murray by the Lad Chsoceflot's order , to examine into and report his opinion as us the wee of nlrs. Bargee's mind. He saw her on two successive days, and remained with her two hours each (I.y, and he said he bad nut the smallest doubt in the world that she was insane, speak ing abstractedly, and without regard to the supposed conduct of her husband anti her trustees. The treatment of which she cont. ybined sat a delusion of mind. This was his opinion without liaahation. Roth th e se witn esse s were questioned by several of the furors, and they bodeleoucutred in thinking, that assuming Mrs. lierlee's complaints to be well-founded, rill her ntind was unsound. The defendants' Counsel were proceeding to call many more vituesees. when Mr. Baron tinettax again addressed the Jury, and reminded them of the question which they had to try upon this record. They were not en issue, whether Mrs. Barlee was or was not, in fact, it ...me at the time the petition was presented. It was not incum. Lent on the part of the defendants to show that she was absolutely 'nee e. All that the defendants bad to show was, that in the ;minim of awn of science end understanding upon such subjects, there was resentieble and probable ground for applying to the Lord (Annelle/ for a Commission. It was foreign to the present case, whether Mrs. Berke was or was not, in fact, insane. The question use, whining the defendants had conspired and confederated to. genie/ in one concerted plan—namely, to secure to themselves the room:y at her person. and the division of her fortune, and whether that was the (inject of all three; for that was the gist of the charge. The hardships imposed upon this unhappy lady by her husband were foreign to the question. The Jury must he satisfied that the object of all the defendants was to put her fortune into their own !sockets, and to order to effect that object, lird conspired together laic ly to we nut a commission of lunacy, sithout any reasonable or ;on:sable cause. In his opinion, it appeared to him. that it such Wpm the object of the defendants, tlo y had taken the most efiectual at ;t to detest their own views, because a commission of lunacy wojltl hire pat it completely out of their power to tooth a farthing • of • lie letly's fortune. Mr. 1111 Er said he quite reedy to submit to his Lordship's fntimartam • the in . / told kit Lordship, *ha' they were fully aware of the ar,..ion they Pori to determine: and said diet' would retire to con wit, t h e arr- c . pi the evidence adduced on the part of the Jelin 4a: a, They item retired, and after being absent about half an h a ms, returned, and said they vac ready to deliver their verdict. he verdict waa delivered, CiIINEY though it right to explain, that it was upon con. nider.diott-mwrog his Learned Comoutors, that they had eh- Ittornetr Irons Produelug Alr. Stehhing affidavit, and calling Sir things Tatbill. Their instruetiuns wwe the other was; but upon tie hest ennaidetation they could give, they thought it wonid be more astialaetory that the tlfilitllCC alluded to came from the other aide. 'e Jury then delivered in a ectdict of Not Guilty. Mr. Baton Onausre then said, he was persuaded that the herd. egoism of the Jury was attributable to a laudable desire of sifting II a emir a the bottom; but, horn the first. be was himself perfectly ;milled, that the charge of conspiracy was without the least colour Of-fenne.atlon t and bethought that the trustees might go forth to sfifs country with perfectly unblemindicd characters. .1 Jt: Rot—We do not acquit the trustees of cruelty, in allowing Otis ur happy lady to lie In a felon's prison for three long years. Waout Lear having visited her once during her confinement. This je I. opinion of us ail It is somewhat singular that these trustees never once visitad her In prison. 1 entertain very strong feelings wric thot par of the ease. .4•mtiser Juror said, that the Jury were by nn means unanimous iu thinking that Uoete was any blame attriburable to the trustees OXFORD CIRCIJIT.J.3 - TArrona, 31Aacu 10. The Assizes for the County of Stafford commenced here this CIVIL. SIDE• WOOLLY P. •ATT. This. wet an swim brought by tho plaintiff against the deft's /Fan:, to reotwee a we at MAL Ist., under the following clients oa„rt.,„ Th e plaintllT anti detendent was partners In the year id. in o stage coach tbut run front Bilstoo to Birmingham. w.ut upset by the awdessneta of th:ir driver, and a 311 s. J•ay.na. wf u VII no protWpasscoger, was thrown from the roof, Ler and, broken, wig she was rendered a cripple fur la con vtayulatee u • thia, 11r. Jeatona brought an action ag2iust the pbtardsfl add defendant, bat not until they heti diasolv,d partner /de* The defendant then suffered judgment to go by default, but after ;al a verdict Isis found against the prnetit plasma'', Aid. wi.tt cost. be bad to pay to Mr. Jeavons'a attorney the 11401 HAL Lt. To mom belt of thin mown. Abe present meths was .. brought, and the Jury found foe the plaintiff undo' the direction of Mr..limicc Park. CROWN SIDE. Mr. llama Gri'mow presided on the Crown side, and the calendar is very heavy. HIGH TREASON. Thladore Moore, who was indicted fur high treason as s ediner at the last Assizes hue, and whose judgment was Testified until the opinion of the twelve Judges was taken on an objection urged by Mr. Le Aaron() and Mr. C. Pitll.l.les, was now put to the bar .0 receive judgment of death. It appeared upon the trial that the prisoner had been traced through an immense dis.riet of country with an accomplice, occasionally stopping iii lonely villages. where he took small houses, in which he set up his press and coined several thousands of half.crowns sad shillings. When appre heudetf, in his cart were Wand a:100 blanks for shillings, and 3,400 blanks of the size of a hall-crown, together with the fly of a press , some screws, the press block, and eight collar.. calculated to put the edging or milling round the counterfeit coin. No dies welt found at that t i ttt and the evidence of actual coining depended upon the artear.firnied testimony of the accomplice. Crider throe circumstances. the prisoner was indicted for having unlawfully in his custody and possession certain edging tools, such u are used in his Majesty's Mint, and such as were not ordinary implements in any trade or business. It further appeared that collars were used by several medalists at Birmingham, but none were ever em ployed such as would convey to the edge of a medal a milling similar to that on the edge of half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences. It also appeared that the edging-tool used in the Mint at the time of the passing of the Statute was quite different from the collars now used. Mr. Cnawoon objected that the collars found in thegrossesslon of the prisoner were not edging-tools within the 'molting of the Statute; and upon this point, idler verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Burrough reserved the case 10, the consideration of the twelve Judges. Mr. Baron ()Arnow informed the prisoner that all the Judges met on the 12th of January last, when they, after fully deliberating upon his cue. were unanimously of opinion that the verdict was correct, and that the indictment was fully MIS. tained. His hardship said that as soon as this decision had been come to, the prisoner was aware that he had been informed of it. in order that he might be aware his fate was inevitable, and that he might spend the few fleeting hours of his life in re pentance and religion. The prisoner here interrupted his Lordship by protesting his innocence. Mr. Baron Cisiasow resumed—The prisoner must he aware, from the dictates of his conscience, that such an assenion was not true. Ili► employment in this dangerous manner for many years was too well known for such an assertion to deceive in the loaner where mercy was asked, and would have been extended if it could with any regard to the justice of the country. The prisoner must well know that several persons who had been connected wish him had been executed for the offence with which he was charged, and he ought to have taken warning by their fate. All hope of escape, however, was now shut out, and the prisoner must there. fore prepare to meet his fare. His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to Death, with the usual formality of being drawn to the place of execution on a hurdle. The prisoner is about forty years of age; he is married to the wife of a man who was transported fora similar otferice about four years ago. Since his conviction the dies have been found, and are excellent imitations of the current coin. _ Bremsett, Richard Rhodes, and Adam Rhodes, three respectable butelsets, residing at Wednesbury, sere indicted for fe loniously stealing, on the 25th of November last, seven sheep, the Pf7gly of William . I C. l'uttaars was for tbeproseestimi ; and, from his state ment, confirmed by the evidence, the following case was disclosed. On the night of the 'lath of November, the flock of the prosecutor, a fanner,residing 10 miles from Wednesbury, were perfectly safe in his field. The next morning his shepherd missed seven sheep. A butcher, named Ilayley, who lived next door to the prisoners at ‘Vedontbury, suspected that they did not come by their meat ho nestly, and knowing they,kad gone out on the night of the 25th of November, be hid himself in his barn. About one o'clock in the 'Darning, the prisoners came into the yard on horseback, driving seven sheep. They Oleo threw them over a wall loto • yard, where they had a slaughtering house. The witness then procured assistance, and both the prtsonets and the sheep were secured. The prosecutor, on being sent for, identified the sheep to be his property.—Goilty.—Doith. CIVIL SIDE. MARCH li. BHUTILEBOTTAM V. BOWLET. This was an action foe issauh and battery. AIL Jan els stated the ease to the Jury. Both plaintiff and de. fendant were lirstiers at llaidley in this county. It so happened that on some occasiortvggvious to the assault in question, some cattle of the defendant's had strayed into an oa, field of the plaintiff's where they did considerable (Menage. The plaintiff had the amount of the injury estimated, thnsigh it was , mended, and this had roused the dalieslaut's mall of December lam, both panics imet at a Court Leet manor, where the defendant began abusing the .4114;11 been weawatomed..o do, The . 'told him I pay him fur the damage his e had done, on which th e defiedeut strildi It Tilgent 'bias., *hid' knocked him down, and t en the defendant kicking him in a moat cowardly manner while , ground. John Middleton proved the assault in the manner Cross-examined by .51r. CAMBRELL—I was not a little fresh. There was plenty of ale at our dinner, and there were two ten alai- IMg bowls of punch on the tableat once after dinner. I cannot tell how often thoge bowls were replenished, but they were frequently refilled. The plaintiff called defendant a rascal before the assault was committed. John Stubbs. a servant of the plaintiff, who had gone to light his master home from the public-house where the assault was cum_ milted, was neat called to prove the assault, and the cross.purposed answers he gate to Mr. Russel's questions set the Court in a roar of laughter. What are you ?—A witness. IWhat are you, 1 say ? Ile hit him twice. are yno by business? is my question—lle kicked him. Do you hear my question ; what are you by business ?—A clod !topper. Are you a servant?—Yes. To whom ?—To my master. After the laughter in Court had subsided, the witness stated he was servant to tne phsintiff, and saw the assault in question corn minted. Two other witnesses were called, who swore to it, but ad mitted that there was a jolly party at the Court Leet, and plenty of punch. Mr. esxrn ELL then addressed the Jury fur the defendant, and enn:ended that the smallest damages would be quite sufficient. The assault in question was merely the result or a dtunken squab ble, and the parties would have acted much more wisely if they had shaken hands, and never come into Court. Mr. Justice l'ists 'unlined up, and the Jury found for the pllaintiff—daniages 101. This was the only cage to-clay of any interest on this side. CROWN SIDE. Wor. o . llTeill, an Irishman, was Indicted under Lord Ellen. bor*.ugh's Act for that lie,.on the 27th of December last, at the pa. risk of Sondem, wilfully and maliciously cut and maimed o ne James Money across the face, with intent to kill and murder him, or with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. P 1111.1.11.5 stated the facts of the ease without comment or obsarration, and then called the following witnesses : John Maitland.-1 ant a potter ; I know the prisoner and the prosecutor ; the psis met. lives opposite to the prosecutor at Buts km. On the Leh of December, at night, I recollect gnint home with the son of the prosecutor. When we got in we shut the door. it was then about ten o'clock at night ; shortly after we heard a vio lent knocking at the door, sounding as it made w1:11 some heavy in. women!, and io a few minutes one of the panels of the door was driven tn. I went and opened the door. The pri-oner entered with an axe in his band, and struck me twice over the arm. The pro secutor, seeing this advanced, asked the prisoner whether he meant to commit reorder. The prisoner made no reply whatever, hot im mediately stack the prosecutor twice across the lace with t!.e axe he had in his hand, above one of his eyes and below it. He wounded him severely.. . . I.'roes.exaniined by Mr. Ctrawoon.—l gave the prisoner no bloom, nor did the prosecutor ; there was no dispute or scuttle, nor was tbs prisoner beaten by the proteoutor or his wife. 31orrey, the prosecutor, then detailed his story in nearly the same terms as the last *antis. He added the! the prisoner said, if they attempted to cross the threshbold of the door to go out he would blow their brains out. The constable was then called, and proved that after having taken the prisoner into custody, he escaped and went to Liverpool, whither lie was traced and again apprehended. The prisoner was rather in liquor when he lira( took him, and he hal a wound in his head, which he said he received in a ecuMe wilt the prosecutor's party. Joseph Murray. the son of the prosecutor, was called to confirm the account of dor transaction given by his father, and the witness Maitland. The pri,tnner alleged that 'Mx witne•a had given him the prove ea• keg which induced him to coMmit the offence with which he waa now charged ; but the witneas denied having quarrelltd with the priaouer.. . _ _ The prisoner in his defence said that he had been repeatedly provoked by the prosecutors, who had called him an Irish b —r, and bad taunted him in the most aggravating manner with being a Roman Catholic. (In the night in question when he went to the prosecutor's house he was most cruelly beaten, and wikil the axe in hi own de ence only. dlr. Ct: wool) then called a witness of the name of Bath, echo told a long story, in which he stated that the prisoner had been beaten by the prosecutor's party; on a close examination, however, by the I:ourt he prevaricated most grossly. The Jury, after raeommending the prisoner to mercy, found him 11 r. Karon GAR now, upon the recommendation of the Jury, said in his opinion, at Ft molt, this wasa case in which the law ought to take its ("one, but lie aroulJ take a day to cutiaider whether be should ieuve the prisoner For execution or no:. NORTH Ett N CIRCUITTLANFAST ER, 51mIcit 9. CIVITSIDE. Before the lion. !Ur. Ittron Nutt cacti and a Common Jury.i VESEY V 411.11)1MATPIE AND ANOTPIEN• This was an actton for an assault com•ni.t.ed by the ticfmxitinni, John Taylor Wilson and Leonard Redmayne. nava.. in their capacities as Magistrates of the borough and torn oftLemettater, on the pltitt:tiff, by the committal of her person to the prison of the House of Correction at Pram, on a charge of bastardy. The case ~, . excited in extraordinary degree of Syncretic and the Court was filled to overdo* at ao early hour. The Court tat et nine o'cloek, and it Wilt the fleet cause taken. 31r. 111,01.0113/33—titlittemen of the Jury, this is en action brought by the pleintite, Margaret Veen, spinet the defendants, 31aeistrates of the borough of Lancaster. The defendants pleaded —Not Guilty. The A vroeury Gentnei. (Mr. Seeded) then rose, and stated the case to the Jury The plaintiff, he said, was an un tUrtunate female, who .had been, by one of the moat arbitrary acts ever heard of, committed se pr can for a period of no lees titan eleven week,. by two of the Magistates of Lancaster, and the action had been brought to recover a ilimpeneation in damages, and to tcworr her to those privileges am had a right, with all other of his Majesty'. snbjecte to primed, and which he bad no doubt the yeedict of the Jury. diis day, would restore to her. The abuse he had to complain of, had been inflicted by persona holding an hapordud situation, who might have been supposed to have had more humanity in their nature, especially as it herhheam directed against a defenceless female, whole greatest crime had been that cf having the misfurtune to give, birth to one or more illegiti. mate children. The plaintiff was, before her commitment to prisea, an inhabitant of this place; anti, but for the misfortune he had mentioned, her character had been without a stain This female the Magi.trates, clothed in a little brief authority, upon the ninth of a airgle person, had committed to hard labour, !Of twelve months, under a supposition that site world become chargeable to the parish. The unfortunate plaintiff had continued • primmer until the Crum of King'S Bench was applied to for her liberation, That the imprisonment of the plaintiff was an over. stretch of power it wanted little argument to convince a British ,jury, and from the nature of the evidence which he should lay be- Mee them, he had little doubt but that they would come to the con. elusion, that a moat unwarrantable power had been exercised. If errors like these were to be visited with such heavy punishment, what was to become of the many unfortunate victims of seduction ? IV hat was to follow if such absolute, such unwarrantable% acts were to be allowed in an enlightened country like ours, and in an age like the present 1 The plaintiff iii this action had at tracted the attention of a gentleman. By him she had happened to have two children, and she still enjoyed his protection. Ilia name he wonid leave his Learned Friend (Mr. Sergeant Cross) to make such comments upon as might answer his purpose, al. though nothing in his comments, he thought, could effect the character of the person alluded to. There was no doubt but by the law as it stood. Magistrates had a power of commitment atter conviction—a power which certain Acts of Parliament clothed them with: yet, even under these Acts, he should be sorry to fled that men, acing in the judicial capacity of Magi'. trues, should order a helpless female to prison under circumstances so peculiarly delicate. In this case, however, no offence had been committed; it was. in fact, only a supposea crime, and he hoped, for the hollow .of the county of Lancaster, that this would be the last ease. of the kind on record. The Learned Gentlentaii theo cited the Act of the first of James, and the Act a Sle Geo. Il I. cap. el, which repealed it in part, and upon which she war coin. added to prison This latter Act gave the Magistrates power to discharge out of cusiody, after a period of six weeks, where it was sliewn that the person so committed had acted with propriety sub sequent to her commitment ; but then this Act did not authorize the Magistrates to commit on mere suspicion. The great lewd Kenyon doubted such prerogative in any cue, even under the Va grant Act. In this instance the warrant was illegal, and the gaoler would have been perfectly justified in not receiving her into his CU/to toily, no former conviction having taken place. In the plaintiff's case, All application had been made to the Magistrates for her libe ration, but they remained unmoved and inexorable ; nor would the abate a single jot of her sentence, until the Court of King's Bench had been moved to set the commitment aside ; and when they found that they could not help themselves, they ordered her to be die. charged out of custody ; and it was for this assault she now sought, at the hands of the Jury, a compensation in clement. The pinta. liens she had endured so long, called for exemplary damages. The Learned Gentleman, after madly, the leading tenures of the case, At will appear M the evidence of the wend witnesses, requested the Jury to exercise the power they possessed, for the sake of public• justice. John Tugvrood examined by Mr. Poetocit—He saw the plain.• tif sign tbe notice • known the rentlutits ; served tbeui boat on the I Ith of Septem b er ; it was %friday, the 10th, the day atter it was signed. By the J DOI -4)11 each of Ike defendants-- John Taylor 14i1.1 son and hemmed Redensyne, the Magistrates. Henry examined.—lle is the clerk to the plaintiff's Wi cker ; he produced the writ of Caine' ; it was signed on the lath (farther, I lin Jobs Hayhurst examined, by filr. BRoxc I/AM—He is an offi cer in the Preston Howie of Curreetion—caws so in 1825. He pro duced the warrant of commitment by which the plaintiff was taken to the House of Correction ; she was brought there on the 22d of April last. By'' &tonal when to - prison; a doctor attended her there. She was kept in a room where convicts had been placed, where two convicts had been put. Thomas Thompsos, examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL— He was prevent when the prisoner was brought before Mr. Red mayne slid Mr. Wilson ; that is the warrant, it is in the hand. writing of the two defendants; he attended Colonel Bradshaw at the examination : lie tried to prevent the prisoner from being sent to prison ; lie offered a bond of indemnity against any charge the parish might be put to ou account of the pluitairs two children; both the Magistrates were present when he made the offer. By the JUDOZ—She watt committed on the 21d of April ; ten &chick was fixed upon for her being brought up ; witness saw Mr. Itmlatayne that morning; said, that it was a pity :hat she hail been interfered with, said little more ; Colonel Bradshaw we, with him, saw them together ; the warrant wax not signed in his pre. setae, it was signed by both the defendants; the Town Cletk of erwards fold him, that two err the Magistrates had ordered her to be colett,itted for twelve months in the Bowie of Correction, at Preston ; lie had nut known the plaintiff before ; she lived on th e Quay ; 1 said—Gentlemen, if after the expiry of six weeks, she should obtain a certificate of her good character from the gaoler, will you liberate her f Mr. Nelson said, that it would be time enough to talk of that alter the time had expired. I afterwards Sent I note to Mr. Redmayne, he was then the Mayor ; he said, in reply, that lie would call a Meeting of the Illagiscates ; a notice. 'dated the 20th of February, 11126, was put in ; it was a notice, to produce the bill of indictment against the above-named plaintiff; that is what he seat to Mr. Redmayne. The certificate spoke to the geed character of the plaintiff atter the nix weeks had expired, and that she had conducted herself in a regular manner ; lie rewired a note from the clerk to the Magiatrates, which ran thus :—.• Dear Str—l am chicon:id by the Magistrates to inform you, that they have issued an order fur the discharge of Margaret Vesaey from the House of Correction. I am, dear Sir your's, A.c. (Signed) John Higgins." Thin had been an application to the Court of King's Bench before. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeast Caoss—Colonel Bradshaw had emrloyed him : the attoerey for the plaintiff is the witness's agent; don't know if he is employed ay the Colonel ; he is a gentleman, and lives at Lancaster; he was fAlonel of the Local Militia, and a Magistrate lot the county of Lancaster; he is about 56 or 60 j ean or old. Witness acted aseletk t a meat nuniber of year,' ; cant say it the house the plaintiff lived iu was a house of good fame ; can't say that it was. _ (The Arroltutr.Gsnttat. said the Jury might hare pre (erred a bill of indictment., If it hel been thought proper.) Had not heard that it was a good one; could not say much about it; there was a hill preferred against Mrs. Vesey for a leering a disorderly house, but which bill had been cot; flogarth, the officer. had a warrant against her the night before; he went to Mrs. Veney's bowie in cnoxequeuce . of hearing hat a warrant kid been issued to apprehend here Colonel Br:aloha* , was present: don't recollect If the eastioSeratt inked for; could not say if he ' damned the Magistrates. sod that is was harsh ousget *ld net hear them nay that he 'mold fit them for it ; a gentleman offered to pled g e for her it;spearaufe; there was a great disturb. once about the house; said to the afffeer that he thought it would be best tor hint to retire, in order to keep the peace, and she should appear on the nest morning; she did appear, not the next ninrns ing ; her protector appeared, and ailed that she was too unwell to attend then, in consequence of the BI Lange that she had received from the °there; raid that she limpid be there very shortly ; the covetable was ordered by 3lr. Higgins to go and fetch tier; lie went to her residence; lie came a short time afterwards, area the information wan read over to her; Bye, the overseer, was present when t•e informal ion was read. By gergeont Co oes—Pye was sworn in her presence; that she had a botarit etold, and also two tabors. 100 Lem nett; r objected to the qstation. Examination resumed—Can't tee/elite( it' she erne asked if •she had a chill is 182 If ; he thinks thaethe question was not asked . it was not asked her; it wee shoed to her she had two others besides the one ; she did nay the it was correct, but that she would take care that neither of them nitould become chargeable to the parish ; I said that, after toe capinuMn of the six week., I hoped that they would order her to bet sent home (root the House of Correction : I did request that defy, the Magistrates, would be leniatt to their prisoner t 1 did•eiht question their authority, did Hat doubt their right to control; ; there were three Magis trates present ; the Ilagistrame devised that the Colonel and the witness would withurew ; his client appeared as her protector before the Magistrates; Mr. Higgins said that the 31agistrstes had ordered her conmiltutent for torlefe months. Ills client sabl it was en unprecedented proceeding the lllagietrates said to the C ninnel, see by the calendar berg you have committed two women for a like offence. Ity the ATTOIINEV4irgrEnaL—Ife was in Court by the •uttos Tit? , of Messrs. Nilson and titan *. The ATTOZNET-GENtRAL—Tbe strand Jure threw out the bill against the defendant for keeping a diesireerly house. Colonel Braashaw is a gentleman of tivtu ie. Be would have intivisnilied the parish rummer the two children becoming chargeable to the township. Heard no reflection pomade* the mduct of the "'him when he went down. The warrant ug apprehend her was Mooed in as hour after the bill was thrown talht. The Magistrates Issued their warrant. Heard no oomplaintedeinafter. It was not mud !Jere" 41,10 Al*Pie 4 11“011 when the istildreis were. The Almia testes knew that the plaintif was wader the ptotection of f`uWiel Bradshaw. 1 he Colonel was penal whew the plaiutiff was take r away to prison. She sulked for leave to get her clothes. There was a great crowd before the Torus Hall She was taken away is a gig. Can't say if force had been used to take her away. Ras lived in the town many years. Can't say that he ever heard that her con duct was called in question before. By the Ju Doc —llas seen the woman ("nee or twice before; nevi , heard any reproach against her than that she had lied three children. Cannot say who desired Pye to do it. Sergeant Cnoss—lt was not stated that the children were not by Colonel Bradshaw. By the Jeont—None of the children were stated to be his. Robert Jackson examined by Mr. Po LLOC it— He Is clerk to Mr. Thompson, the attorney. Ile served a copy of the rule on both the defendants on the littli July. (Here the rule obtained by the plaintiff's attorney, in the Court of King's Bench, calling on the defendant to stem cause why the plaintiff should lint be discharged from the House of Correction, at Preston, was read) The rate of Court tOr an Habeas Corpus for the bringing op the plaintiff to be discharged front custody, on account of an error in the commitment, was rend. The warrant of her commitment was then read, by the deire of the Attorney-General ; it was utatm the hands and seals of the defendants. It set forth, that according to the Act of Parliament, the Keeper of the House of Correction for Preston, should receive into his custody the body of Margaret Vesey, charged on the oath of henry Pye with having a bastard child, and two others, charge. able, or that might become chargeable, to the best of his belief, • the township of Lancaster ; and that the keeper of the prison do keep her to work and hard labour, for a period not exceeding twelve calendar months. The rule of King's Bench, directing the Magistrates to dis charge the plaintiff' out of custody was then read. Mr. Poit.r.oce.—lt was moved in Court, and disposed of at the Judges' Chambers. Mr. Thompson rmalled....-It was a rule nisi. Mr. Sergeant Caoss.—Colonel Bradshaw employed him. This was the cue for the plaintiff The defeadanta called no witnesses. Mr. Sergeant Cnoss commenced his address to the Jury by commenting on the speech of his Learned Friend the Attorney. General, by ridiculing the call for exemplary damages. This action was not brought by the plaintiff' from her own desire to vindicate her character, for she had none; no, she was only the nominal party ; who the real plaintiff' was it did not want much sagacity to discover, and the most interested one too; why, was it any other than her avowed protector, the gallant Colonel Brad shaw? this Justice of the Peace who had been found at the very respectable house situate on St. George's Quay, he who had himself too committed two women to prison under similar cir cumstances. Oh ! what would the public think of this offices of the militia, of this tender-hearted gentleman of sixty years of age—what was the case ? why, the magistrates had done their duty, and but for an error in judgment, the power to imprison had never been questioned. The Jury had heard the case fur the plsin• tiff, and a precious one it was ! in what an amiable light had his Learned Friend's client been placed—let the Jury look to the house where the plaintiff resided—take a peep at the Colonel behind the scenes—and then add the bill of indictment with it, and what a picture they had then before them. Then came the question of da mages. Now what was the plaintiff entitled to salt at their hands; nominal ones only, if any ; if they gave what his Learned Friend asked for, into whose pocket would they go? into her prometor's, the Magistrate. The Learned Gentleman, after commenting on the nature of the evidence, concluded his reply, which our limits lrevent our going into at length, by calling on the Jury to give the east damages they could. His Lounenrits, in his charge to the Jury, said, that it was clear the plaintiff moo recover a verdict ; but what damages they would muse for the injury complained of was their particular province; that the warrant fur her commitment to the [louse of Correction, when no previous conviction had taken place, was clearly illegal; in point of law there could be no doubt the imprisonment she had muttered had been eleven weeks, and it was for this iinprisonment the action had been.broneht. It would be absurd, however, to attri bule to these two respectable gentlemen, and Magistrates too, any malice against the plaintiff; they had in exercise of the power given them by the Act of James I. which had been in part repealed by that of the Ist Ueo. 11. committed a cleric error, nothing more ; that they possessed the right to commit, was not doubted. There could be no personal ill-will or malice in their sending the plain tiff to gaol ; and if they believed it to be, as he thought it was, a mere error to judgment, then it would be hard to visit such error by awarding heavy damages ; and in his opinion, it would have been far better if the plaintiff had not brought the action at all ; there had been a most melancholy disclosure of Meta that did nei ther the plaintiff's cause nor that of Colonel Bradehaw any cre.lit. His Isardship, after recapitulating the evidence, said, that the Jury would take into their consideration all the circumstances of the case, and give such damages as the nature of tile case war ranted. = Plaintiff — Damages , One Farthing. 6t then applied to Ns Isorlship, and said he would not hare the costs to pay, considering had given. When his lordship observed, lants ought to be satisfied. ••• taIIRYA V. - 11KI11. JUN. debt, to receive the penclty of five pounds, the defendant having killed a partridge, Mated the ease to the Jury. and called itress lives at Colne, in this county ; re members seeing Bullock and Smith on the 10th of May ; they had a gun; Bullock carried it first ; they were ranging the fields; there were a brace of partridges got up, they flew past Bullock, who gave Smith the gun ; he fired, and one bird fell ; the other flew away; Bullock came over the hedge, picked up the bird, but said, he could get off by pitying. Mr. Williams cross-examined—He is a friend of the defend ant's. Not a put companion. Don't know that Beaver was a liar. Smith said that that he coold get off by paying, The ATTORNET-GENENAL said that he should be able to prove that his client was duly qualified. A deed of gift to the defendant was then put in, the execution of which was proved by a person of the name of Walley, and the possession of the land, by the delivery of a piece of grass, which was on the 12th of June, 11123. Ilu Aponnsitir said that as the defendant has proved his quell. fication, their diet muct be for the defendant. Verdict accorintgly. POLICE. II :WSTREET. Ou Saturday night, when Mr. Minshall was about to leave the bench, he was informed that some persona were waiting to prefer a charge of felony against two men, who had been taken into custody at Kensington. by Hull, a constable there, so early as four o'clock in the afternoon, but that neither he nor his prisoners had as yet appeared. Mr. Mt witsturi. said he thought it very strange, and if the de. lay should prove to have been the fault of the constable, his conduct could not be too severely reprehended. 3lr. Richmond, the clerk, said it was the constant practice of that cont table to bring prisoners at or after the hour for closing the office business; and that Mr. Halls had more than once threatened to tine him 40s. for neglect of duty. Mr. MtwsttttLt. said, he would wait some time longer, and in about twenty minutes (it was then nine o'clock), two young men were brought into the office by the gaolers, linked together with large chain handcuffs, and put to the bar; and when Mr. Minshull asked for Hull, it was answered that he was so beastly drunk as to I be unable to stand, and the gaolers thought it best to leave hum in I the wait:ng.rnnm Mr. Miushull, however, desired to see him, and Hull in a few minutes made his appearance, and went stag. gering up to the bench, where he stood, holding by the railing, a perfect picture of stupid intoxication. Why you are drunk, sir, beastly drunk," said Mr. Rich. mood, " and ought to be fined severely for coming before the Ma gistrate in such a state." (Hi !'dear no," stammered out this trusty officer, " you are mistaken. I am not drunk, hut suffering under a severe tit of cramp, which attacked me as I came along, and had like to have been tbd death of me." This declaration was accompanied by di vers writhings and contortions of countenance, and a pressure of the .liagato the atainach, while hi. bead wagtail:newt dmpwinac ow his shoulders, and his eyes half closed. The effect was perfectly ludi. emus. Alt. Muesli nr.t. merely smiled and desired him to sit down, probably reserving any comment upon such conduct until the offender should be better able to understand it. The clnarge was then gone into as to the prisoners, whose names were Rube , is and MI sky. A lady named Jennings. It appeared, living at Phillinime-place, Kensington, went out on Friday after noon, leaving her watch in a parlour on the ground floor. She ordered some earthenware at a shop at Knightsbridge, where the prisoner Roberts lived servant, and he was sent home with it. He was left in the hail while the female *errant went up stairs, and in about six hours afterwards the watch was missed. The female servant swore positively that no person but Roberts came into t h e house during the whole of the time that her n;istress was absent. Against Kersley there was not a tittle of evidence, it being merely a:ated that he lied called at the house by desire of Roberts in the course of the day, to ask leave lir 3lra. Jenninge's man servant to go nut for a short time. The watch was seen safe after he called. 51r. Illissitu tr. instantly called Kersley from the bar, and asked Hull on what grounds he took that young man into custody ; hull replied, as well as we could understand him, that lie had heard somebody say that Kersley knew something about it. Mixsti ur.t. said be had no right whatever to deprive hint of his liberty for a single moment. The illagisttate then discharged him, and said be was sorry he had been detained at all. Roberta was 'emended till next week, to give time for inquiry about the watch. LAMRSTII.STRUET. RF.CEIVING STOLItar (1001311.—0 n Saturday IVilliorn Coke, the peoprictor of a hardware a hop in Itoeemary.lane, together with two men named Mills and .Shaw, were brought up for fitml exa. ntmation. thargeti, the two former r ith receiving a quantity of combs knowing them to hue been ll' Lnosigneil by Mann. eptewarts.ot York, to Air. tioo.ibdiste, of ll'elleicwie-aquare, and which had beat abstracted from the yard of Sir. D e acon, of t h e NV Lite Horse P , inies, Cripplegate, an d the latter with being the person who stole the same. l'tte citeemetoaces which led to the discovery of the accused are somewhat elogtisr. Mr. ALier and a Solicitor attended the examination on the peel of maprigaz Coles. and 1)1r. &ARYLS ou th at o f Altlia. The evidence u follows we. p asta , aulaiintd—l am an officer of Oa isiabllshment. On tistli imam I, accompanied by Mr. Deices, ~to the , . - , .-........ was never paid or de. By the JUDGE—And discharged on the Bth July. Warrant pro- The Jury found for the I malice. ()n the Bth duced and shown to witness. The Learned Sergeant t Leet on Lord Crewe's (:roses-examined by Mr. Sat'SCUP CROSS—Was only the strewn hoped the detendants wou 3e plaintiff eche Jeett .in tbe Reuse ot .s t:Lbaq. pew e person who received her ; the damages the Jury had he had mu bfkc i r Ike GOVerglat V.* 1 130 . 64 tet tiiii • . *mita the defendants . . , tine ,„ als.r • %IMMO .., utterer I !.bloss.on afteoeseple, scene to see her from teen - than Lancaster; henget., that This was en sedan in de efendant commenced 'weveral came from the aeigh rhood of Lancaster • they called unde r th e G am e L aws . eh ale he was upon the abbot threw times. Colonel Bradshaw came; he di d take her not tieing duly qualified. away. Mr. Serjeant C 'toss %till anner above mated. Re-examined by .51r. BIIOUGUAL—She was in good health Willi am it eaver _wi t , ' ' THE BRITISH. PRESS. holt** of the prisoner Coles ; he keeps a hardware shoo i mary-lane ; on goirg there a lad In the shop called t e l e ; n ' his appearance I Informed him that I had a warran t to uy house. He asked me what for, and I told him for so Z" which had been stolen, at the Lime time observing, who wan then in tete shop_ I believed wee the pers on 1 , 60 Offering some for sale in Welklose-square. He (Coles) r en t; he was, and handed down from a shelf ten parceh of comb; now produce. I then asked him if lie had any more his " Mon, and he said that he had, a n d b roug h t some from thrf glass. which Fortune, the officer who was assiating in th took posses.ion of. On this I to ld C o l es that he muste—', the office. He informed me that h e b oug h t the combs sno t son recomended by a man of the name of wh o 6 2 0 , bonnets, w eerd used to pass up and down die lime er n d "' asked loin where he lived, and, after some hesitation, h e net , ' Elder-street, SpitaHlelds. I also asked him to w h om money. and how much it was. He said to the rh on 4 whose roaidence he did not know, and th at h e gave him &Ley coat. The entire number of combs amounted to thirty demon were packed up In brown paper and numbered. 0, i ‘ Coles I went to Mills's house, who acknowledged to m e , had recommended Shaw to Coln, and that be (st, e , )l Bethnal green, but he did not know where. On further rlp ing him he said that his wife's sister was then in the ho iLk, would shew him where it was. Ile aftetwarda 'dinkier)? ame Shaw worked at a bonnet shop in Bishopsgate-street Withot7 went, and on his being pointed out I t oo k hi m i nto custody. 0! my asking him where he got the comb s , h e sa i d he fated o._ near the White Horse, Cripplegate. Fonune eonoixasted—* evidence of the former witness, and in addition mated ? h i t hiund in the house of the prisoner Mills thirty combs, w hi ch lie wile was secretly removing. Mr. IFeacon stated, that on the Vith of January a chest v ., ceived from York, directed to Mr. Goodbeliere. It wag eithd rs marked off in the equal way, and was miss e d soon after. Them. Donee Shaw lately came in with a box as if to be sent to the ors and he then thought it was the chest that wee stolen. h • quence of private information. lie searched the bonnet t h vei _ sobers Mills and Coles, and there found a great part of the Mr. Deacon's clerk and porter corroborated his testimony. Mr. Stewart stated that he •vas a comb manufacturtr in V et t , and that on the lhhh of January he sent a packnge to m e. rhil, behere containing combs ; they were enclosed is part of a is, chest with his own hands. The hand-writing on the parcel pi ; duced was his. The value of the parcel might be neat IBL John Newson, the servant of Mr. Goodbeilere, peeved the e(. log of the combs for sale to him, and his declining them. tiv A e ovfatrty of other h ie echargeag d a e i v n i st e t n h c e e p w ri a w a g o ne iners, to a ,i i n d all at o l e n gth, e n t " L a oil t.h. standing the exertions of their legal advisers, were fully commit, ted for trial. 'hop in Coles, ane to to sit forth on,_" ., • • ot tk . ,„b„ had V co m b,. vac -it ss in hi s 4 1 r Pava m n , the in the . e 77 must ox4t . , nba 4, 0 , 5 l • who Beak~; eve be . r e pif o • /Al ma - hrn he 44 thi l ie )140 d 0 .„:7,. I to • On 147 • ree t (*we) ' 1 Wier (path % the ho w t iucdto meth, vet Wig l i b. - 1 e custody. N , r`.l I be ( owe , k _ :4111 orrebo ist ,f2 mated thitt Z . 3 hhe, *kick Y e , e Mae ea pi. . 4 wee ( m ei 14 after Teo. . to th e ' lee ' In teisi. • I wo o f th e pi. of the men s minion,. Y. tore? in Vat, e to Mr. Geed . part of a ta the Parcel pee, divot 181. roved the An them. leth, condos. them, noLei,b. fully comma. 1p th this A m •oTen three par t, of at. prof* Mond hie hat • leactiptier, 004. 4 to soperiataid isonet called at *. of flighetrea, spectacles, toe. once monis:ea questioning the nowletlged the ter days beferi, 4, vowing nee pawn broken to rind that they ;arched a poem twitted them e r also proceeded ed the spectacle Or she warned to some qut %Our !i• in •Ittch the are precisely the ian, declared ha ten in any otha sit never been is as. d no recollect.* dinary bow tbe :e, and at suds it the thief a ace for security. .sons in his ete- t he had one in. pet of robbing stance Certainly ,nd another fact ; duly the same I, mother. ['odor I discharge the to keep a sharp nmitting en ouS. ely arrietilitr t in n the defendant. I was proceeding Kelly, who at. toted. This an- lent blow on the f in contact with 'Tried home in a ' cowardly min. is escape. which offence was, his complainant war is, however, was ~ ie whole mime. he unmanly con. nee the charge at Y.—On Satur. r. Candler, con. id left his horse letivered a pare! UNION HALE,. ' A woman, named Sagan Ritehel, was brought up* th, on Saturday, charged on suspicion with having sm/en three pig of gold spectacles from Mr. Doßond, the optician, of at. has Church-yard. From the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Dnllona kaa robbed to some extent. of articles of the above cisactigien, withstanding the vigilance of those whose duty it fs to sopeeigtagg the business. Some days ago, however, the prisoner called et Messrs. Barker and Jupps, the pawnbrokers, of flighwtheet, Southwark, and offamd to sell a pair of gold eptctaclet, coo, siderably under the value, which circumstance at once convinced them that they were improperly come by. l'ison questioning a* woman closely on the subject, she at length acknowledged that she had found the spectacles by accident, a few days Wok together with three pair mote, under some bushes, 'ruminan. her own residence, at Carsha/ton, Surrey. The pawnhooken w examining the pair she had so prouliced, ascertained that they were made.by Mr. Mellon& and immediately despatched epos* to Warne him of the circumstance, when he identified them a having been stolen off his premises. An officer also proceedal down to the prisoner's residence, and there discovered the spectacle that she had represented she found with the ones she noted is dispose of. The officer added, that, upon putting some gut snort to the prisoner's children, respecting the m anner i n which the articles came into the mother's possession, they gave precisely the same account as she had. The peisnner, who is a very decent looking woman, declared be i Innocence of having stolen them, or come by th e m n any °the manner than the way see had described. She had never bank Mr. Dollond's shop in her life, or knew where it was. Mr. Dullond, who was present, said, that he had no recollecties of havingy, seen the prisoner before. The Magistrate observed that it was extraordinary bow th spectacles had been found concealed in such a place, and at sada distance from town. It was rather curious that the thief a thieves should have thrown them into such a place fur acuity. Mr. 1)01.1ond was asked whether he had any persons in hls etn ployment residing at ('arshalton ; lie replied that he had one is. dividual living there, whom lie could scarcely auspez.t of robbing him. The 3lsgistrate then said that that circumstance certainly diminished the suspicion against the woman and another fact in her favour was. that her children gave precis/4 the Mt Secouat of thatlinding of tin spectggles. as their m oth er. Under these circumstances he (the Magistrate) should discharge the woman, now in custody, and advised Mr. Dollond to keep a sharp look out on slate of those in his employment. A fellow, named Kelly, was charged with committing ta ouh rageous awault. on Catherine Alorris. The complainant was so ill that she could scarcely articulate, in consequence t f the ill treatment she received from the defendant. It appeased, that on the preceding night, as the girl was proceed* home to Jarnes.street, Bkckfriani, she was met by Kelly, who tempted to take liberties with her. which she resisted. This an noyed the fellow so much, that he struck her a violent blow on the breast that knocked her down, and her head coming in contact with a stone, she was so seriously iojitted as to be carried home in a state of insensibility. Fortunately, however, the cowardly mis creant was aecured before he had time to make his escape. winch he attempted. ll'hat aggravated the fellow's offence was, his anxiety to make the Magistrate believe that the complainant was drunk, and that she fell down in consequer.ce. This, however, was positively contradicted by a watchman, who saw the whole max tioo, and completely corroborated her account of it. The Magistrate expressed his indignation at the unmanly con. duct of the defendant, who was held to bail to answer the charge At the Sessions. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.—OR SERV day afternoon a young man in the employ of air. Candler, con. fectioner, of Prince's -street, Leicester-square, had left his horse and cart in Whitecrces-street. St. Lute's, while he delivered newel at a neighbouring shop. During his absence a set of young villains, five in number, and none of them apparently more than thirteen or fourteen years of age, ent cart and drove off at full speed. The confectioner present! his cart and followed in pursuit, but the boys continued t ..,,, t , until they had arrived in the New North Road, where they met by a constable, who, struck by the strange appearance of boys driving at A gallop, and several persons in the distance ruq , in after them, stopped them until the persons came up. On road they had been observed throwing parcels out of the cart,'' one of them having fallen into an arca, proved„to be a paper Of ges, with a bill of parcels for 18/. tied on the outside, Alt. ' lees man now arrived, and as aeon as he could recover breath...Ms:tent, explained what had occurred, and the boys were safely IletedAndie watch. house, to await the result of a judicial inquiry:.: 4.:i I DI II AiSTROU 8 FIRE.--Ott Friday night, allitoobllbnoineee had concluded, anti the family retired to rest, a lutist destructive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Corrigan At proprietor of the Three Tuns public.house in the village of ROM: 'Oe house being old, and principally composed of timber, the Sabo spread with the greatest rapidity ; indeed, so little expeetatioefiiis there, from their violence, of the preservation of the lives oaf thalitirates. drat one of them, a lodger, in a state of utter desperation. having seized has child in his arms, liung hhuseif headlong from the attic Into the street. As might be anticipated, the injuries he received from the fall are of so serious a nature, that scarce any hope is ee tertained of his survival. The child, however, we are happy to add, miraculously escaped without even the slightest contusion. The house of Mr. Corrigan is completely destroyed, together with it.purtion of his stock in trade. Six engines were to attendance, but notwithstanding their united exertions, and a plentiful &apple of water, the devouring element was not subdued anti! three o'clock the following morning. The alarm excited durirg its con tinuance was of the most lively nature, numbers of poor people who lived is tenements immediately adjoining hurried out with the greatest precipitation. and the streets prest,,ted a singular mine, covered as they were with a variety of household furniture, whim in the hurry and anxiety for preservation was indiscriminately bundled together. As usual in every menoof calamity, a plentiful supply of depredators were on the alert, but owing to the p r esence of Davis, an officer of Lambeth -street, their induetrioes effort were defeated. l'he premiss were, we understand, insured, but not to the extent of the loss sustained. Um Rose. Gower-street, of a daughter, still .burn. MARRIED. On the 11th inst. at the New Church, Chelsea, George Waiter Thum. E. of Long-acre, to Josephine, eldest daughter of the Ode JotePb Stutely. EMI!. Whitehead's Grose. On the sth lust. Edward Gibbon Waketeld, Esq. So Elko, atdY daughter of W. Turner, Esq. of Shrtgley Park. In the county of thelter• At Newchttrch. Isle of Wight, Mr. Juries, of St. Alban Rail. to 5 U , " Prestwood, daughter of the late Captain Clayton, R.N. andgrasui.dsultbter of Rear-Minitel Clayton. On Tuesday last, at the parish church of Kirkham, Lancashire, by the Rev. James Webber, Prebendary of Westminster ' the Bee. Mates Rad cliffe, Curate of 11(10.bant. to Mary Elisab e th, doaghter of the late Joh n King, Esq. Vice.chal cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, sad niece of the Bishop of Rochester. DIED. OR the eth Inst. the Hon. C o l onel J o h n Liathwy. bank' 6 ° the late Earl of }talcums. At Merat, in the Fart hailer. on the 27th of ,toro.t tart after ealnert o of nine dry- , Lien, nant Robed Atarwoit, of hLr Midertro 11th l.oOf dsa. goon., fifth root of the late Edward Maxwell, E:4l. of Ktunboid Whyte, la the euuhty of tharrer. At Brighton, 'he Rev. Robert Hole, one of the Senior Follow or ilif nity College, Comb Idge. At Clapham CAD, on, aged 28, the Rev. Theneter Ware, M.A. et Tit. nity College, Carat) Idge. At Warkton, the Roo. U. Wouchope, Rector of \Valliant and of 9- too, both ho N oph =pion hire. %EMS oltir •. J. '.% • lisd by R. CANNON, SIMS plow% . , v . 1 w - . 01 4 Ni