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rcr it 14, 4%. 104 CITY BLEMONS., LAST DAY. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. r i 44 BASSISHAW. This Ward returns four members. Hughes 37 I Frisby Weguelins 34 Britten 4 v I Lister 3l The poll fioally closed at two o'clock, when the three first were declared duly elected, and sworn into office; but in c onsequence of Mr. Frisby and Mr. Britten polling equal numbers, the sitting Alderman, Sir C. S. Hunter, Bart., de. dared that no election had taken place reapeoling either of them : in consequence of which, a fresh election will take place between these gentlemen. No day was mood. CRIPPI ROATE WITHIN. This Ward returns eight Members. Sowers lll 1 Forsyth* Heel lO4 Field los rsyth* Valiance ice Thorogood* Waterhouse Capel if erron At five o'clock the poll closed, when the first eight were re turned. Those marked thus c*) are new candidates. On liondav afternoon a young lady of latsrestlthr apposite was obaerveci to be wallas; in a very thdaschelesasod towards the Canal at Peekhare, sad is a abort tins she mid he. A Mr. Sue, of Peckham, who bad both vistablag bar artiess, Imbed to her aseistasee, -tad by gent maim tosamil bar *oat the lespeadiag fate, sad ossosysi bar te a home doss by. With she was seithelestly recovered to spelt ratissally. sloth the nose patella leans Sashed her had dam& ter savior her thous edf-destraelies, sail reistsdto Ma the saw otter etassiais an act each a horrid Mars. • Iths widths* bar Mai the torah Lally s and that alms two years opet the Wm at a boactilag school et Lowlaimithorlthe Os tisagbars of as ordeal traiumns in Ontertiolasstoress also othateing their ethethea. Bee* the nos the War young riless flaw at the shank the Mgt Mr. swag g oes ollthatibis sisters, sad of tonna bad sossaissth apportnithe of Pithy her. In the coarse of dm he declared assithethasst to. Mareillervithe ass. Othictielate idiade width stir listand with seittbstairtiser other yothlttal heart. Thus eacthrsgod, be cos. mow/ Ms addresses fort dam, dam, sad ender tits most sacred eszofs marriage ecathithad her nda. ?ram that period ter bar decithaed, while she, who bad the ex of barstakti a soother, premed Ida to cement to an maw vide was the emir Wag that could save her 'thiscas dope= stiathat apes ler asearteaste situation. Tonaillally pat bar a. bog abs Id* pain rresived his thins kiiiiidag. awl la properties her Wed beCNO• SO“ 08,4104 trill at last whoa she nut bar ealsoer os Math ay. eighirmill to hint her thillabed ethilltioa—prothed Ideate IMM Ids wed pennies, and WA aitterod the nth' amstant sod lavhdable atithantit M 1111th, be decthred to her list he to & vmablosid r , ow that Oa **- Moony eathandss st bar iiikestismOso Wi mmi is. Tik aipwei dark, Zak3/4018818* *and Mr Eir g Wan In load of ther rawasr just With.llisathhathlstripase d. awl pretested es addition of the aims Wks added to ewe failings which haw =lOl her ts asst a state of 11111111111614111101. During tit 'her recital the poor un ,..z.aauently by on exams of feeling, to base a due sense of the hainsansess of lb ala. s in a stassent of distraction mad espalr, she lad wade upon her life. Mr. Sate very basonsly promised that he would take that care of her which her wreathed situation required. The circumstances attending the postponement of the seventeen trials in the Court of King's Bench, which we mentioned on Saturday last, are of a nature to excite whatever spirit of justice exists in Par liament or the nation ; and, we hope, will lead to some revision of the system of Special Juries. The trans action is important in two ways ; as calling upon the Attorney-General to answer for what at first sight appears lobe one of the most atrocious acts of persosksli injustice ever perpetrated by a matt whom the law ban vested with discretion; and as throwing light on the evils necessarily incident to the Special Jury system. The cease immediately before us seem to have arisen from an accusation preferred by some revenue officers against two individuals for smuggling. These prosecutions, the individuals allege, were supported by perjury. They have prosecuted all the informers for this perjury, and one of them hosbeen found guilty, The prosecutions which remain have been removed into the King's Bench, sad Special Juries have betel appointed on the application of the Crown officers who have defended the informers. The witnesses, 'who are necessarily very numerous, have been, there fore, brought from Yorkshire to London. This, in itself, is an enormous and a grievous expense to the' persons who have attempted to vindicate their charac ters by these prosecutions; for the maintenance and removal of the witnesses in such a case, is, at a mo derate computation, as expensive as the pay and feeding of a squadron of dragoons for the same length of time. Mr. J9NEB, one of the advocates in the cause, estimated it at 5,0001. But this was'thought necessary, we suppose, to get impartial justice, which, it is a pretty general notion with lawyers, can never be had too dear. But when this expease has been incurred, what is the result ? All the Special Jurymen do not attend : the ATTORNEY-Gzazases warrant—generally a matter of course—to pray a tales, La. to supply the deficiencies in the Special Jury list out of the Common Jury list, is applied for: the AT• TORNEY-GENERA L refuses it; the trials of course stand over; the witnesses may go back to Yorkshire again if they please ; the 5,0001. spent by the prosecu tors is as much lost as if it were thrown into the sea.—Their only remedy is to spend another 5,0001. if *hey dare, under the chance that it will be wasted like , he other. Now, what a monstrous injustice is thus perpe trated? No possible circumstance in the case can pal liate it. Let us suppose that this is a gross conspi racy, trumped up by the two individuals prosecuting, gainst the informers ; let us suppose that these two lorkshiremen have planned to outswear the dawn of the revenue—to break down the Crown with eia penses—to out-litigate the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR GRNERA L—lo trick those simple persons, the Judges of the Kings Bench, still, the proper way would be to bring the matter speedily to issue. There is an old story of a lawyer, who, when he was sued upon a forged bond of pretended antiquity, met it by a forged release. But this honest species of petty-fogging could not be, in the present case, either necessary or satis factory. If the ATTORNEY•GINXRAL is convinced that the persons accused of perjury are innocent, the evi dence which has satisfied his mind, might be brought forward to satisfy any Jury. If they were wrong convicted he could procure for them a pardon.— t any rate any result would have been better than .ttis monstrous spectacle of men applying for justice and meeting ruin, without a possibility or bringing their cause to trial.—Traveller. Between the hours of three and four in the morning t.f the 29th ult. some evil-disposed persons malici ously attacked the house of a respectable farmer in the parish of Loss, and violently smashed to pieces the window of the room where he slept and also the kitchen window. The Gentleman of the house, as well as the servants, being awakened by the noise, the farmer immediately went out armed in pursuit of the villains, and saw a man making his escape through a hedge, who, from his appearance and other circum stances, he supposes to be a person living in the neigh bourhood. It is supposed the cause which led to this outrage is that the person against whom it was com mitted has been summoned for the Crown as evidence igainst some smugglers for contravening the excise . aws. Every inquiry is makin g into the matter, a n d shoped the guilty per s o ns w ill soon b e b roug ht to e inishment.—Glasgow Merrick. LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Oozzaw.z, TOILISAY, D Landon Adjastrued Sittings a ft er Nicks.;limas Terve, before Ike Lo ne Cause JUSTICI owl a Special Jury. POLICY CAUSE ON A SHIPMENT OF WINE. HUDSON V. MA RJORIBANIS. Mr. Striellit VA17.11•111 stated the ease to the Jury. It was an action on a policy ofassurance on a cargo of wine. In tho month of December, tuo, the Swallow, booty' from the Cape of Good Hope to Bristol and Dublin, with a cargo of wine, was wrecked o ff the p or t o f Bristol. The vessel was turned on her broadside, and, at every return of the tide, during the period she was lying there, she was covered with water; in consequence of which the cargo sustained considerable da mage. Notice was immediately sent to the underwriters, and abandonment was offered, but there was no proof of its having been received. A public sale of the wine, at Bristol, was ad vertised, but a prohibition was sent down by the under writers ; but subsequently it was consented that the sal e should he made, for the benefit of all the parties concerned. It would be for the Jury to determine whether, in conse quence of the wreck, a total or an average lou had been sustained. By mutual consent of Counsel on both sides, it was agreed that the Learned Judge should read his notes on a former trial in the same cause; from which it appeared that the course adopted, namely, that of selling the wine at Bristol, was the most prudent that could have been taken. The " price fur the wino sold amounted to tel. per pipe. Mr. Bremen (new witness) was then sworn.—lle de that he was oue of the firm of Goiter, Brenan, and I, wine-coopers, in the city of Dublin. A great part it cargo on board the Swallow was consigned to = biz Man for Leland, Crosthwaite, and Sons; and t from Ida la ir of the Dublin market, be had no hesitation to =that this wine had come to Dublin, it would have no market. lir. eaubjeant Imps addressed the Joey for the defetulawt, lied eawlaaaed VW this was as cistoplele a sase of average lam as weld waris luagmed. No evidence Whatever had bees sewed is apppoit of the assumption that there had been aay nUatiandonment, and nothing short of such as *odd deprive the underwriter ut his undoubted rid* la Vadat The Ostia of so total a loss. Thl-LONIF Clint) Jirertes—" Is it not the opinion of Lord Maaseeld that the loss of half the cargo would amount to a total leas P' Mr. serjeant Lots—" Bat, with great respect, my Lord, that is not the opinion of modern times." The evidence of Mr. Hower, Mr. Wilde, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Pritehard (the two latter wine.merchants), residing at Bristol, was then read from bis Lordship's notes of the for mer trial, from which it appeared that • groat proportion of the wino was saleable, and that they purchased a part of it, winch ed them a profit. Mr. Harrisonlil sworn.—l saw Mr. Donaldson after the order of abandonment, and communicated to him that the under. writers refined to receive it. Mr. Burney was then sworn, and deposeJ, that he sits is the same box with Mr. Kershaw et Lloyd's. He recollected very well Mr. Kurabaw's having refaced to receive the aban donment. Mr. Serjeaßt VAVGRAT4 having replied— The Lean Cruse Josue' addressed the Jury.—The first question, Gentlemen, for you to decide is this. Has or Ins not the plaintiff a right to recover? It appears that there has been a clear offer of abandonment. Thee has any cir cumstance occurred to deprive the assured of his right ? It appeared to me, on reviewing his conduct, that the assured has conducted himself with extreme propriety. Notice of abandonment was regularly served, and a meeting was held at Lloyd's of the underwriters, which the defendant did not attend. It was very true that the underwriters were sot • corporate body, nor that any one of them was bound by the acts of others. In point of strict law, the underwriter was not bound to tell whether be should accept the abandonmeat or not. But, in my judgment, is the spirit of candour sad manly dealing between man and man, be should not have kept the other parties in the dark. The two points you will have to consider are these :—first, in what proportion the cargo has been damaged ; and next, whether the acceptance of the abandonment by the underwriter was positive or conditional. _ _ The Jury consulted for a few minutes, and returned a ver dict for the plaintiff on the average loss, subject to a re ference. WINTE2 HUME CIRCUIT. LEWES, DECEMBER 23. The Winter Assizes commenced here this morning before the lair. Baron GaAsIA as and the Hon. Arr. Justice BAYLEY. At ten o'clock the Commissions r were opened ; after which the Learned Judges attend ed Divine service. The following Gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury : Sir Charles R. Blunt, Foreman. Sir D. Scott, Bart. Thomas Woodward, Esq. Slr George Sbiffner, Bart. Alexander Donovan, Esq. Sir H. Blackman, Kut. Henry Shiffner, Eaq. Thomas Partington, Esq. John Holier, Esq. Walter Burrell, Esq. Thomas Tour', Ls+ Davies Gliber t Esq , James Ingram, Esq. J. M. Cripps, Esq. Jessy Oregson, Esq. Henry Campion, dsq. Daniel Rowland, Esq. John Woodward, Esq. I John Boyse, Esq. J. H. Bates, Esq. Nathaniel Kemp, Esq. W. C. Mellott, Esq. William Wigney, Esq. Mr. Justice BAYLEY then addressed them to the following effect : " Gentlemen of the Grand Jary—lt cannot but be highly satisfiletory to find that, in the various towns through which the Judges pass, the gentlemen summoned upon the Grand Juries attend invariably, with the greatest alacrity, at this, which may be called an experimental Assizo. " Gentlemen, the Calendar which is now laid before you, at about one-half the period siace the last Assizes that might naturally be expected, shows that, in this county, there may be great propriety-in the measure. When you look at the character of the different crimes which the Calendar con tains, for your consideration, I hope you will make all the endeavours in your power fur the purpose of preventing the recurrence of similar crimes before the next Assizes. On looking at the Calendar I perceive that the crimes there are, with a very few exceptions, offences committed in the night. For the prevention of these crimes, great watchfulness is ne cessary ; and perhaps nothing would be better calculated for that purpose than to take care that individuals are well em ployed throughout the day. There is one thing, however, which has a greater tendency than any other to the commis sion of nightly crime; I mean that in some instances paro chial relief has been afforded to different persons, without requiring a proportionate degree of labour from them. Now, if a person capable of labour is supported, without working, by parish relief, be certainly will not be idle throughout the whole twenty-four hours. " With regard to the cases which are mentioned in the Ca lendar, there do not appear to be any which require any par ticular observations from me. There are two offences of the same description of the highest order--namely. of crawl. In these cases, a principal point for your attention is, that the evidence produced before you amounts to something beyond mere suspicion. Yon will not find the bills ' unless the evidence proceeds beyond that length. if the bill is found, and the prisouer should be tried, on insefficiest evidence, and thus acquitted, he is at liberty, and can never be tried for that crime again. Bat lithe bill be thrown oul, io the course of time additional proof may be obtained, and that which tat one time was merely a matter of suspicion, may at a subse quent Assizes become a matter of certainly. " Before I finish, there is one point which seems a neces sary object for your anxious attention. It is that, at these Assizes, as well as every other, there must necessarily be a great number of persons disch arged from confinement, and set at large on the world, who only means of subsistence rby their industry and bodily labour. Gentlemen, at this' season of the year it may be difficult for persons to obtain employment; and if they aro to be discharged, without some little means of subsistence to enable them to reach their re* spective homes, to have an opportunity of returning to their honest pursuits, what is to be expected 1 In the county we bare just left, there have been forty individuals discharged, and of course it is to be hoped, theta great number of them will return to habits of industry; hut I cannot forbear re-1 marking, that on looking at the different calendars, and at• tending to tho history ofthe different gaols, I find that the laces of the same persons who were dise•iarged at the Summer Assizes, frequently appear in the following winter. IN many instances, at the time of their being discharged, they would be willing to maintain themselves honestly ; but their extreme poverty, they are again driven upon the oesundasion of crime. 1 have no doubt, Gentlemen, that Mrs yea take these circumstances into consideration, you wiH be able to devise some means by which this evil may, to some extent, be remedied. " If, in the course of the discharge of your duty, any diffi culties should arise, I shall be very happy to render you any assistance in my power." The Calendar contain' filly commitments, several of which are fur capital offhnoes. Before the lion. Mr. Baron GRAHAM. David Eagles was indicted Mr having l'elooiously uttered forged Flank of Eqgland note, fur the value of al. on the 27th of July, be knowing it to bc forged. It appeared that OR the day in question the prisoner had gone to the shop of the prosecutor, a shoemaker, at May• field, and purchased a pair of bouts. In payment he ten dered a bi. note. As the prosecutor bad not sullicient money in his own possession to change it, he went to the house of one of his-relatives in the town to ■sk him. Tbo latter thinking that there could he no cause for suspicion, es it was offered him by a relation, immediately complied with his request. Before the peNteentor gave the change to tho prisoner, he asked where he had got it. He said be had re ceived it from his master. Boon after the note was disco vered to be forged, and tbo prisoner was apprehended it some distance from the boom of tbe prosecutor. When the constable who took him into misted, told him the reason for that proceeding, he immediately said be had received the note from a person to who. be had sold a hone at East Grimstead fair. Witnesses were also called, who proved that on the first of Jane preceding the last transaction, the prisoner had called at a cilMdler's shop, at Erridge Green, near Tunbridge Wells, and asked the shopkeeper for cha n . of a 31. rime, saying, settle same time, that he wanted it fo t r the purpose of paying a sinister of labourers in his eni pjoyment, then waiting at apublie-honse called the Gra Man, in the neighbourhood. This assertion was actcompan by a promise to deal with her for any commodities % as bacon, bread, or cheese, that he or the persons in hie employment might want. Induced by this promise, die change was given, and the prisoner said his name Mb Russell, and bred at Talding. One of the Inspectors of Notes of the Bank of England proved that the two notes, the subject of the indictment, were forged in all respects. The confession of the prisoner, stating that he had bought the note, knowing it to be forged, was now put in and read. His Lordship having summed up the evidence, remarked• that the Jury were to consider whether, on the present ores- SIM the prisoner could be considered as having a guilty Itamieledge of the nategaof the note. Upon that point, they len to consider wheatmeal person, who was ignorant of ilk' being forged, would hamisiyon the different accounts of him.' self, which the prieneet aril done. If they were of opiniom; von a due oonsiderationetall the eh commences of the case, that the prisoner knew Omelets was forged, it was their chair to convict bins. The J ury found the prissiest Guilty—Death. Before tie Ratiteridie Mr. Justice BAYLIY. Milieus Led" was Wield fur stealing, on the Isth of Oc toher, a bay . mare, ck riches, the properly of. Thomas Hewitt, at H pz..=.16 - . .0 the et Oletsborr the servant of the ins egistihned in tbe Indiclittent 44a safe in a eilses MOS Um . TM meat moraing the pri soner wee Me ridigklieigdairr& MO leading the mare, at lite detainee et .nee 111.1111/ Wee the place, where they went missed. The pNeewwho saw him not having beard Of the middy, elle Ake Surpass. When Mr. Hewitt's ser-' veld perceived bet the mtiatais *ere stolen, he went accord iesto the dinette* of de person who had seen the prisoner rt the_ tlies,eirter th e road for abost four miles. There they iedt fed alt &nee of the !winner. As the plate to which had IMO arrived was by the side of a wood, they se it vergAlrebside ghat their search in that place tHigt ey be successld * they seeordiagly entered owe of the sad whet they bad proceeded a short distance, they saw primmer start free the ground, where he had bees. lying end run away. He was pursued and taken. Whep at hew be had attained possession of the homes, he said they bed been intrusted to has care by a person whom he did set know, and that set liking the yob, be had left them, and gene into the wood. The Jury found Ike primmer Guaty—Desth. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COCRt, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24. William Allen, a captain in the royal navy, appeared 111103 his petition for his discharge, which was opposed by three different creditors. The first was a tailor, sensed West, who stated that the in solvent first came to him is hevedsber, tell, and represented himself as a captain in the Davy having a pension of soot. a year, independent of his pay, *siding, that lie was about to raise a large sum of money ; be ordered goods, at three dif ferent times, to the amouotof mi. which the creditor intrusted him with upon the faith of the insolvent's representations. These goods were all sent to the house of a person named Quick, in Spring-gardens, by the insoivent's rollers. Suboe quenUy, however, the opposing creditor discovered thal the insolvent was, at the time lie ordered the goods, coedited in tbc Rules of the King's Bench prison for debt. Mrs. Magratb, a widow lady, then stepped forward to . .- pew the ensolveat's discharge. Her debt was 1411 i. s olely arising from the rent of lodgings which the insolvent had rented of her ; she stated the insolvent first came to lodge with her about four years since ; he had lodgings fur himself and four servants ; his agreement was to pay every month, instead of which he from time to time gsoe the witness ac ceptances, which be did not honour; he also occasionally sent her to his agents for the purpose of receiving money. Cross-examined by Mr. HISATO, the insolvent's Counsel.— Her house is within the rides of the King's Benoh : the in solvent's rent was three guineas and a half per week ; she might have received about rod. of the insolvent ;. his family consisted of himself , Iris rriar, font children, his w ife's sister, and four servants. At the time the insolvent left the lodgings he gave the witness tan order oolis agents to receive 61. per month in reduction of her debt, which was paid her several months. The insolvent was now examined by Mr. HEATTI.-. For se veral years be had been under the necessity of supporting his wife's sister, who was the daughter of ad °Meer, and had no means of support, elce trl. a year pension she received, being an officer's des ter. During the *hole time this yobng lady was with t o insolvent she was dangerensly ill, etj tit sad the insolvent had been put to the etpenso unit least soot fir medical and other assistance during her illness. The in solvent was the son of the late Admiral Allen,and experienced great disappointment in his expectations of property upon the death of the wife of Admiral Allen, from whom he had received a considerable yearly allowance for many years pre vious to her death. . .. .. . The insolvent was now examined by another opposing cre ditor, named Chambers, when he admitted that be was executor to a Colonel Skinner; and that his insolvent's wife had received 119 i. as her share under the Colonel's will. Phero was some trifling property belonging to Colonel Skin ner at Gibraltar, which remained to be divided, and out of which the insolvent's wife .as entitled to a sixth part. The insolvent received a pension onto!. a year, and his pay was 2261. a year. This was received through the bands of his agents, and, telt tber with a policy of insurance on the in solvent's life, in the agents' bands, formed a security for 2,0001. due to the agents by the insolvent. .IW. liners now addressed the Court for the insolvent. Ho declaimed loudly against Mrs. Magratb, who! knowing I the heavy expenses which the insolvent had been put to, on account of his unfortunate sister-in-law ; and having received so much of his money, should to-day seek to deprive him of his liberty. He clriraciterized Captain Allen as a brave and meritorious officer, who had rendered essential services to his country. His being placed in that Court to-day was the result of misfortunes, and not of extravagance; and he, the Learned Counsel, felt great satisfaction that the insolvent had rendered so honourable an account of his trausactions. The Counr considered that the insolvent should give a mire explicit account of the properly be would be entitled to under Colonel Skinner's will, and explain more satisfac torily the nature of the security to the agents— The judgment of the Court was consequently postponed until the ad of January. MONDAY, DEMMER. 21. Thomas Sumner was opposed by a creditor named Dourdon. The insolvent had been before the Court on Friday last, when the Court was occupied several hours in hearing a , quantity of frivolous and unimportant questions put by the opposiug creditor. The result of the hearing was an adjourn-. ment until this day, in order to produce a person aamed Chalmers, who had bought some property of the insolvent. i The opposing creditor &Omitted again this day, when he stated that be had now come prepared with evidence that , would thew the present to be one of the most fraudulent eases that Overcame before the Court. 'she Cover expressed its surprise at this assertion. It had bad, on Friday last, listened fur several hours, with great at ' tention to every thing advanced by the opposing creditor, and had over and over again asked him if he bad closed his case, or whether he had any thing more to say. The ease was then closed ; and it was then only adjourued in order that the Court might, for its own satisfaction, ask one or two questions of Mr. Chalmers, which was all that remised to be done, when up starts the opposing creditor, with what he calls a new case, and additional evidence. The creditors all received at days notice of on Insolvent's appearing in that Court, and were theretirre based, during that time, to prepare themselves for their opposition. In a Criminal Court, if a witness was only absent for a moment, a prisoner was ac quitted; and a plaintiff, in a civil action, got nunsuited, in case of a similar circumstance. The mollies of the Insolvent Cuurt was founded upon ::re same principle as the other con stituted Courts of the country; and were it to allow the pre sent attempt to overtern hat universal practice, thole would be an end to all ordi r and regularity in cooducliug tho busi ness of the Court. The opposing creditor still urged to have his new evidence let in, but it was peremptorily refused by the Court. Mr. Chalmers was then called, when he was asked by the Court whether ho was aware " that if he at all assisted the insolvent in eoncealinic any property from his creditors, that he (the witness) was liable to be indicted fur a misdemeanour, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment." The witness replied In the affirmative. Upon examination, the witness gave a satisfactory account of the manner is which has had purchased the property in his possession belonging to the ausolvent. Mr. Donrdon now commenced an address of some length, by making use of several most anwarraritoble assertions; the Court prohibited him from proceeding in that strain. lie then went on with his aildresss, in which he complained that he was ignorant of the Insolvent Laws, and that the Court had taken advantage of his ignorant*: and after peskiest use of innch (no doubt, in Iris own opinion) very eloquent lan gunge, hut such as every other person in the Court thought complete nonsense, he enneledmt by miring that, bad the Court have heard his whole ease, they would hare been satis fied that this was the must hardest cast:they ever sad. • Mr. Hermit, in addressing the Court far the Iftsobrent, de dined saying true word upon the speech of Mr. Bourdon; fur l althimgh he had listened with great attention, he (the Learned Counsel) could dot understand one word of what it meant. The Cisme Comenominee (Reynolds), in giving judg event, said the Court lamented being under the necessity of precluding any matter that Might throw light upon a cue. It was, however, necessary in every Court to bare general rules established; these rules must be such as would be bene ficirl to the general business Of the Court ; and if they hap pened to touch hardly upon here and there an individual case, it could not be helped, from what it had seen of the present opposing creditor. The Court entirely despaired. of ewer satisfying him, therefore it would not waste any further time upon that subject. The Court however, was very anxious that its decision should b e publicl y known, in order that other creditors might not hereafter say they were ignorant of its rules. From the evidence before the Court, it was clearly of opinion that there was nothing to prevent the insolvent's discharge. POLICE. • GUILDHALL LAMENTARLE INSTANCE OF ROBBERY BY A SERVANT. Amongst the numerous cases of robberies by mrvants that have occurred at th is J us ti ce -R oom lately, there is scarcely one in which (hit system of depredation has been more regu larly and more extensively ca rr i e d on th an th e f o llowing, "Which came under the investigation of Aldetinan Thorp, yesterday. The prisoner, CAarlex Woman'', an elderly man, who has been In the employ or Messrs. Browning and Son, distillers, Smithfield-bars, for upwards of boar years, and whose sup posed good eanduct hedprocured him the greatest oonlldence and encouragement from his masters, had been eget by Turn penny the officer, about seven o'clock in the teething on Sun day the is th of December, comin g f rom Smithfield-bars with a loaded basket in his hand. He accordingly stopped him, and examined its contents, which were found to be a two-gallon keg ILII of brandy, and a bladder Containing about a quart ofeinnamon. The prisoner, when charged by Turn littlenny with having robbed lits master, pleaded it was only a e drop he was taking home for hisown use, slid beggettfer Merey. The officer having lodged him in the COmpter,gave th lbrrnation to Messrs. Browning., and proceeded to search the peiewer's lodgings, No. 3, Cloth rain. Here they discovered be was a complete wholesale dealer: the stock there found was a four-gallon keg full of gin ; another six -Talton risk, which appeared to be his reservoir, having a regular cock in it, about half full of the same liqnor ; a botUe containing three pints of rum, two bottles full of brandy, one bottle of red port wine, a bottle of British brandy, a quantity of Sterna raisins, together with the necessary utensils for measuring and carrying away the spirits, viz pewter mevsurea, funnel, bladders, &e. The prisoner, at his first exatnination, expressed great con trition, and confessed that he had been carrying on this sort of depredation for upwards of a year and a half ; that he was first seduced to commence it by *coachman and guard, father and son, whose names he mentioned, the elder of whom 'hiked him if he could nut do as Bill Barrett used to do, the porter whom besuceeeded, and who used to furnish him with spirits cheap. He was accordingly prevailed on to act on this hint Wand they purchased the stolen property from him. He had never given them to understand that he had &jigger (a pri vate still). They were the only persons he had sold liquor to, but he bad never delivered any to either of them in the pre senee of a witness except once, and that person was since dead. A married daughter of the prisoner's, Jessy Butler, spoke to het knowledge of the connexion between her father and Me persons he had named, but had never heard any tomver satin° that. implied a knomiedge of the property being stolen, but had once heard her father tell one of them be had a Auger. The prosecutors were very desirous to have the receivers brought to punishment, but whatever suspicion might at tach, there was nut sufficient evidence of a guilty knowledge; and it is but justice tb say that the son (the g u a r d) was i n at tendance at the first hearing, and willing to be examined, de. daring that both he and his father always understood the pri soner worked a private still. Wright, the porter at Messrs Brownings.who sleeps e. the premises, deposed that the prisoner came there on tin" Sunday morning with the basket produced, saying hoiffi for a pair of shoes. Ile lighted a candle and wont dew* but he did not see him go away. 77 - . " A clerk ideoliffed the kegs likind as the property of iffalllMet Browsing.; and Ike Winer was also sworn to be of the IMMO strength and flavour its that upon their premises. The prisoner has a wire inn three daughters. two of them grown women : they were all in attendance, overwhelmed with tears, end the man himself appeared deeply affected by his situation. Committed to Nei gate fur trial. BO W-STREET. • irrnx-oo LOTTERY INSURING. Yesterday Wm Roberts, of No. 17, Castle-street, Leicester square, an old, Wiens, and grey-headed offender, was, for about the thirtieth time, brought to this eltice, charged under the State Lottery Act with having violated that statute. Mr. Hesse, the Solicitor to the Commissioners of the Lot tery, to Somerset House, stated that the prisoner had spent the greater part of the last ten years of his life in gaol, in con sequence of his frequent violations of the Lottery Ad. He was known to ho a common insurer in the State Lottery and Little-goes. The offence which he bad committed sisbjected him to an impriscniment not exceeding siz moat's, at the discretion of the Magistrate. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. The racers, Mares- and F.msden, who had apprehended the prisoner, were called to give their evidence of the offence in question. They stated that baring tecolved information that there was an insurance going on at the prisoner's house, they got a warrant to search it, and found therein the prisoner, w ith several women ; one of them was the wife of a man named Hogg, who was convicted a short time ago; and upon the chair of tbe prisoner's wife they found, under her, a piece of paper, on which were writ ten certain numbers oftickets,w hich related to Lit tle.go Insurance. The prisoner begged hard for mercy. lie was sentenced to two mouths' imprisemsent in the House oftorrectioe. Is loft In eti• is- ep 1 1 Pal • spy far N▪ t ▪ r, my rd it tt 00 lbo to T; ter es. b. th a- is of Id of ly ty Id N d. r- • h • • • I ▪ ' HOOKEY WALKER. has not heard of , the celebrated Hawkey, the great pe destrian traveller and !Moist, in comparison to whom Gul liver, Munchausen, and walking Stewart, were mere errand boys ! This great personage, not the " Copplestonian" nor " Wilkinson's" Hockey, bat the real Woolley kiasself, yester day was brought to this office, charged with being non eempns and as a proof thereof, it was stated that h e wen t t o Herald newspaper office to find spe c im ens o f tterilis Morning Malay Went and political information. The printer of the Herald stated, that the Prisoner had very much annoyed him and the compositors by taking the liberty frequently in the middle of the night o fi entering un solicited into the priatiopodice, and that morning he was found asleep in the corner of one of the rooms, and when be was requested to leave the place refused, and was Riven into the custody of a constable. He being a man of learning, and a very occeutrio character, he did not wish to hurt him. A person present said, that the accused's real name was Hanrood, as ho had been informed, tbongh he had been called hockey Walker for some years, and in fact was the original Huokey, which distinguished rogiwnien be obtained from his peregrinations in various parts of the world with a remarkable /muted stick, and from his constant practice of negativing or dissenting from any propositiou that be wu ad verse to, by holding up his stick and exclaiming kookey ! The prisnner addressed their Worships on the bench. He Ind been employed since be walked his cartons from Islington workhouse occasionally during the night at some of the newspaper of fi ces as reader, by which lie had got a shil li ng or two to prielire him road and sustenance, but now be could get no employment, " Othello's occupation was gone !" He then strongly inveighed against the overseers of Isling ton w orkhouse, to w hich place be bad been schoolmaster to thirty bon, mid instead of having a proper salary, he was al lowed only as. a week ; slid be was sure that his teeing in the house much longer would have occasioned his speedily dying, and so he left, and bad been found asleep, " To sleep, perchance to dream ;" when he ought to have been awake. It was a great offence, truly; lie believed It came within the Vagrant Act; but it was no moral offence. They said he was mad; no, be was not mad, " Ile knew a hawk from a hernahaw !" and Dr. Temple had pronounced him, a fortnight ago, a ra tional man, and romp.* ',geniis. The fact was, be had given to the newspaper some political writings of big to insert, but, alas! "They feared to print bold truths," and now he was given in custody. Tbey did not like his polities, he suppos , d, and as he was reduced to misery and poverty, they might do what they pleased with him. The prisoner delivered his ineongnions story in unconnect ed, though occasionally in very emphatic terms. That he was in a stale of mental aberration, there could be no doubt.— Such a figure could not be found in St. Giles's bark shims.— Hu bad no hat nor shirt ! The right and left sides of his cost were nearly divoree.l iron each other. Ito had two ol• ragged stockings on his left leg, his right leg ass bare. A black !WSW, stock graced his neck, and altogether lie was an *Pet of wretchedness and pity. The Magistrates humanely ordered the poor maniac to he taken care of, and he will be conveyed back to the workhouse, from whence be strayed. MACHINERY AND PAUPERISM! A poor fellow, lately a pauper In St. Hiles workhouse. ap plied for an order from the Magistrate to the o%erseers for adru.s.ion into M. flilea's workhouse, out of which he had been turned It short time ago. He stated that he was a pressman, and lately worked at a printing-office in Queen- street, Lincoln's Inn-fields; but as the greater part of press- wurk N a non performed by machinery, he could not get em • • . pinyment, and most die in the streets if he bad not rale. The Magistrate ordered a summons to be issued to the 01011100 r. OVERSEEIDI. A well dressed female, with a child in her arms, complained of the conduct of the overseers of a parish west of Temple bar. She stated that the child in her arms was Mega/mote, and had been regularly affiliated. The father, who had never seen the infant since its birth, had given 30i. to thg overseers of the parish to take upon themselves the oare of roe child, to rid himself entirely olan, further respoosibility,and i they had agreed to allow the mother a meekly sum of as., but recently they had refused to allow more than Is. ad. . The Magistrate expressed bisopinion of the conduct of them overseers in strong but very just terms. reprobalies such a mode of proceeding, and issued a summons to order ap o►er seers to attend to answer the complaint. A SNEAK. • Joan Green was charged with committing • robbery, upon the neck, in the house of Mr. Stringer, the Rod Lion, in lb* Strand. The prisoner entered the tap-room and called for a pint of porter, which he paid for, and made some pretence to go into the yard, and took the opportunity of aneakiag into the scul lery and stealing three knives and forks; and alter be haft drank the beer he pocketed the pot, and was kbottt to swat out of the house when the waiter seized him. He was Committed for Md. UEEN-SQUARE. • PISTRESSED Yesterday teeming vast numbers of the meet shim= tures, who at this period of th e y ear are re d uce d to c indigence in consequence of being thrown out of work through the inclemency of the weather, attended at tbiadilffie, to prefer charges against the overseers of St. Margaret's pa rish, for refusing them parochial relief. They all said, that they applied to Mr. Mickey, a Scotch baker, who would nut listen to them, but on ascertaining their object, would heap upon them a volley of abuse, more hurtful to th e i r f ee li ngs than all theirsuffer ings. If be did not relieve their distresses, they conpidcrnd themselves emitted to be removed to their respective settlements, and this he refused, and left them to perish hi the streets of London. Amoutt the group was an elderly well dressed *mean. She told the Magistrate that a case came withth her own Itnowiedge.shich induced her to wait upon Mr. Miekey. It *as that of a poor man who had worked upon the river until big constitution had failed, and be was obliged to teke to his bed, brit being a single man, about fifty years of age, be had ad One to assist hies, and when his little all was expeeded he could no longer remade in his lodging. She took him in and applied to the overseers for his admission into the work bouse, but withuut effect, and now the poor man mu s t i n , evitably perish, qnless he was immediately relieved. The Magistrate asked whether abe was ready to assert tbit npon oath? She answered in the affirmative, and added, that the poor man was now ip a dying state; be was incapable of moving, and had pot the means of supporting nature. Another poor woman, in the last stage of pregseney, with three vi t y tine children, but all in tattered rem and in this most de ()rabic state, applied to the Magistrates for protec tion. he said that she lived five years in St. Margaret's pe rish, and although her husband was only a working man, yet be and she, by their industry, brought up a numerous ['may without troubling the parish. Last sessions her husband wat convicted of an assault upon another man, and being amble to pay the fine, he was sentenced to three mouths imprisdn meet. Since that, she was obliged to sell and pledg e a ll h er furniture, and on ly kat week buried one of her children, when she applied to Mr. Mickey, the overseer, for 11011110 trifling relief ; but although he knew her child was lyingellead on the same door with her, and that she had neither furnit ure . lire, nor food, he refused giving her the least relief. The Magistrates observed that numerous complaints had been made to them before, under similar circumstances. They were horror-struck at his inhumanity ; in one lemma), whecu there was a woman w ith h er c hild dying upon her arm, ho only relieved her with a single sixpence, after me how's abuse to her, and such conduct in_ particular instances was quite reprehensible. The sitti ng Magistrate then ordered, the clerk to till up an order upon him ler tire shillings to each of the persons mentioned, immediately ; and directed ft sismilsons to be served upon him to answer the compliant* made against him. HATTON-GARDEN. AN UNGRATEFUL ROBBER. Elizabeth Price, a country girl, was brought up for Nowt eamninstion ' charged with stealing a five pound Bank yf Ragland note, and silver watch, the property of Mr. Thos. Lawrence, one of the elder brothers belonging to the Charter Howse, and a quantity of table and bed linen, the property of the daughter of the said Themes Lawrence. It appeared that the prisoner was a country-woman of Mn.'s Imortmee, who Amides in St.Jobn-street, and some tied* ago she moss to [modes to seek for a servitude. On her arrival, Wen se mosey or friend, she was received by Mrs.Lawrenco loto bar house, and furnished with food and lodging till also abecild get is place. Whilst she remained thus fostered, Mr. Lasereisoo, who is in his 86th year,- and had been foorteeu in the Charter House, was taken dangerously ill, and his I daughter was necessitated to attend to him, and was there fore obliged to leave her house and children in the care of the Prisoner, and on various occasions Mrs. L. sent her with messages and for other purposes, to the aged man in lb ) Charter-house, and it was o n one of those occasions that oho contrived to plunder the dying gentleman of the watch and money. On the robbery being found out, every person yeas sitspbeled bat the prisoner, an whom the greatest trust alid confidence was reposed. At divers times articles were disappwariog Roil Mrs. Lawrence's house, but no conjecture could be formed by whom they were stolen. Mr. Lawrodee becoming worse, it was siecessary for his daughter to sit op with him all night, and for the purpose of society she pre vailed on the prisoner to sit up with her. In the course .of the night the prisoner, from fatigue, fall asleep, and whilst so reposing, something struek her she was the individual who had planderea her and her father, and she was therefore itx. duced to search her pockets, when to her great surprise, stio found in a small parse, Iwo Sovereigns, some silver coin, lb,. duplicate of her father's watch, and also of the table of t bed linen that bad been stolen from her. Su interested wa s sbe in the prisoner's welfare, that although she saw the SA plicate.. she could scarcely reconcile her mind that sho was the thief. However, next morning she heeded her over Los constable. The pawnbrokers produced the stolen property, and iden tified the prisoner to be the person who pledged them. The Prisoner appeared quite indiff erent about her situi lion, and she was committed to Newgato for trial. • UTTERING BASE COIN. Hinennk Norwood and Mare Barrett were brought up for a third examination, charged with being common utterer, ut have coin, counterfeit half crowns. Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, attended, and the rase being clearly wade out against Mem they were esimmitti...l for trial. . . MARY-LE-BONE OFFICE. FLYING DUSTMAN. Thomas Coombs, alias Donkey Tara, a running dustman, use brought before Julius Rawlinson, Esq. by Wilson, a Bow.-ire, patrole, who apprehended him on Monday last ocar West_ bourne Green. It appeared that the prisoner, in company with Stephen Stephens, alias Long Stevy, :duce convicted in the penalty ot -101. fur marries away ashes contrary to the statute, Vs » tame being the property of the contractors, had gone. iis the house of Col. Houston, in Montague-square, on the ills instant, and alter proceeding down the area steps, catered the dust-ben, and were in the act of taking away the ash, s, but being observed by an otlicer they instantly dropped th. sack and ran away. The °Weer, however, pursued them, and succeeded in apprehending Long Stevy. but his companitio. escaped. On Monday last Wilson suet the prisoner near Ty burn Turnpike, and after an intricate chase of about th.• hours he look him into ciotedv, alien he made a most despe rate resistance, and it WAS witli the greatest difficulty that ohs handcuffs could be put upon him, in which he attempted kr bite several hmen, and &cleat!y bit a man's le. .Thomas. Walley, parish °Beer of Mary-le- bone, stated lb- prisoner did not belong to the parish contractor ; vv.:: termed a flying dustman, and the ashes which he nes car - fog away was the contractor's property. The servant of Colonel Houston declared that the men had taken away the dust without permission, `end the pi hauler was one orthem. The prisoner, In his defence, denied the charge, and m ai n - tented he was not the man. The Magistrate was however of opinion he was entitled t•r the same aevcv as his companion, and coot icted him so ths penalty of lot. MARLBOROUCIII-STREET. An old woman was charged for having in her possession about a pint and •-half of brandy in a bladder, and is hall - pint tin measure. The officers, imagining that she had pos sessed herself of the brandy per the purouso retailinklu the streets, took her into custody. The Magistr a t e ( 11 , . Conant) told the offieers the only way to deal with the pi.- toner was by a complaint to the Commissioners of Eter-,.. He did not see enough to detain her, and she was cubit- - quently thschiwgcd. James Carter charged William Anderson with creating, a riot on Monday in Henry-street, Hampstead-road. Ti.. pr - loner, who is by trade a tinplate-worker, and well-Pintas' at • the office, was fined lice shillings for being drunk, and An,- jag complainant, so lately as last week. The present charge was under the following. circumstances: Cans,- is Anderson's landlord, a memberbf a congregation f Wet.- leyan Methodists, who have the*out room on tie ensiled floor in complainant's bunse, the beak parlour being net-up/kJ by the defendant. Last night the rtsegirecatios was iliNtorue s by the imprecations ef Anderson doting its devothois. o u t on Carter going to his room 10 request him to desist Ittvt making a noise, he peered a volley of misuse upon bite, ant said he had as much right to make a anise as the Metteelist,. Anderson being called on for his defence, stated that he *a., by two years, an older occupier et Ms room than the tetigiss s society was of theirs, ho having been lies, it only three y. acs a~ I I _, 1 i: •~~y f 1 - ,