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does not afford the means of their subsistence, or that they are unwilling to do the work which is necessary to take advantage of those means." We protest against these levelling doctrines ; for though we are of opinion that property is held by the rich under the responsibility of pro viding for the poor, and placing the institutions of society in such a state as shall remedy the diseases which may grow up in our system, and if the rich neglect this duty, they cannot, and ought not, to escape the punishment of their sin ; vet we can conceive nothing more mischievous than to hold out to the people that the labouring classes ought never to be subjected to any priva tions. The principle of population alone is a sufficient refutation of this doctrine. There is not at this moment a country in Europe in which there are not multitudes willing to labour, but unable to find employment. Nay, though it may sound paradoxical, we attribute the superior condition of the English labourers till within the the last thirty or forty years, to the struggle which the Poor Laws necessarily produced between the rich and the poor, arising out of the necessities of the latter, and the exertions imposed by the law on the former, either to become poor them selves, or to check the increase of labourers beyond the demand. Why is it that Ireland swarms with unemployed poor, and that our own institutions are rendered unavailing by the emigration of ne cessitous persons from the sister island, if there are abundant means to support all the people in comfort and abundance ? There are not abun dant means to supply the people, if they in crease at the rate at which they have lately in creased in Ireland, and in this country. The writer in Blackwood observes— " It is plain to every man of common observation, who looks at the resources of this country, and at its population, that there is enough for every man—it is also plain that every man has not enough. It is obvious that for the happiness, or to put it in a stronger and truer form, for the alleviation of the misery of the country, a better distribution of its wealth is necessary, and it is riot more necessary than it is sufficient. Distribution is all we want to make the common people as comfortable as they are the reverse; and when they see and know this, how long will they bear with the cold neglect of scien tific speculators in politics, who, while they fare sumptuously every day themselves, endeavour to demonstrate the utility of measures which they well know consign thousands of poor labouring people to present distress ? The coming danger is already signified to us by the recklessness of crime which begins to prevail among the lower order; the pro hibition of law is no longer strong enough to re strain those who are maddened by a contemplation of the riches of others, compared with their own poverty ; they take by craft or by force, that which, from the altered state of affairs, they can no longer ex pect to share by the exertion of honest labour. These things are no more than the breakers which may en able us to gee at a distance the rocks upon which we are steering. Let but the present order of things go on, and the common people of England will, ere long, become like the common people of Ire land ; the laws and, establishments of the country they will look upon merely as inventions for their oppression—contrivances which it is their interest not to support hut to break down ; and we know not what power it is which is to resist the common people of England, if they become possessed with notions such as these. They are not like the im petuous and fickle Irish, to be managed when they smart under settled conviction of a wrong; doubtless the progress of events has much broken and altered their ardent spirit,, but still they are not the men to rush into hopeless and headlong violence, or when resisted, to subside into dejected tranquillity, and die of starvation beside their cold and desolate hearths. If, however, the Legislature will not take better care of them, they may be disposed to take legislation into their own hands; and against such an alarming consummation as this, we would warn those to whom the more than ever important task of go verning this country is confided. It cannot be too frequently, too earnestly, too energetically enforced upon the attention of all who have any influence in the making of the laws, that the present moral and physical condition of the labouring classes is most deplorable, and that the country cannot long con tinue in such a state." It cannot be denied that there is some truth in these observations. The labouring classes are in a wretched state, they are in many places be coming reckless; and that they are beginning to look on the laws and establishments of the coun try merely as inventions for their oppression. This is, unquestionably, a most alarming state of things. We also agree with the writer in Blackwood, " that it is not without shame for our country that we look at an assembly of the Representatives of the people, containing six hundred and fifty-eight Members, with so slender a display of that which constitutes greatness in a man." It is because Parliament consists of the elite of the imbeciles of the country that the Ain and industry of the nation is so often remlered of little account by that body. The labouring classes have been sinking lower year after year, and still nothing is done. Ireland has been for years drawing down England to her level ; and after twenty years debating a question which staved off all attention to Ireland, we are now, for the first time, in a condition to ap proach the disease of that co untry. The riots at Manchester were the w ork of famished Irish men ; the riots at Barnsley were, at all events, inflamed by necessitous Irish orators, according to whom that town was filled by emigrants from Ireland. To hear the Aristocracy in Parlia ment, one would imagine that all possible good is summed up in the Game Laws, and their efficaey as an inducement to Gentlemen to live on their estates, and that the people were unde serving of care. But want is coming on the country like an armed man. The Roane of disease is in Ireland, though the poverty of Ire land has certainly eaten deep into this country. We must arrest the multiplication of poor in Ire land, without which we cannot hope to prevent the extension of poverty in England. But if we indulge in dreams of a boundless capability of subsisting all who are and may be brought into the world, we shall only feed hopes that must be disappointed, and prepare a long ac count of guffering for ourselves. —Morning Chronicle. GROUSE AND BLACK COCK.—Perhapg it is not ge i ;erally known, even among sportsmen, that the grouse and the black cock, a black game, are inveterate enemies ; and whenever they come in contact are sure to wage war against ,each other ; the Vick cock being much the most powerful bird of the two, always comes off vic torious, while the grouse " being game to the bottom,'' never yields to his antagonist till death compels him. Many gentlemen, especially we kelieve in North are now encouraging the bree d of the 4.4;.,* cock as much as possible ; but they are surely not awate,, that when the black cock is introduced on the hills, where g:puse are plentiful, that every year they will dad the litter birds rapidly diminishing, till they become quite sparce, or even wholly extinct. Some instances we bare beard of, pipe chilly in parts of Yorkshire, and other counties, as well as in Scotland, that where these fine birds have been bred on the same ground, the black cock has almost egtermi mated the grouse. Now those gentlemen who enjoy the manly sport of grousing, and prefer these birds to the others, will do well in not allowing the black cock to in crea,e much on their grousing grounds; if they do, they may rely on it that inn few years they will have real cause to rryorct APPREHENSION OF THE WEST MOUL. SEY GANG OF BURGLARS. The public will be glad to hear that the dar ing gang of burglars which committed the me morable robbery in the house of the Rev. Mr. Warrington, at West Moulsey, in November last, and been the terror of the villages in the vicinity of the metropolis, where they have, dur ing the last eighteen months, carried on a sys tem of plunder with an impunity that defied the skill and exertions of the L ost intelligent and experienced officers of police to detect, is at length likely to meet with that retributive justice which the crimes of the gang so well merit. The history of the gang and their plan for disposing of their ill-gotten property would, if given in detail, occupy too much space in the columns of a public journal, but a brief account of some of their exploits, and the manner in which they have been denounced to the police, we shall briefly narrate. The gang, which consisted of five desperate fellows, at the t head of which was a man named Banks, who had been tried at the Old Bailey for robbery, and was for some time an inmate of Newgate, committed the burglary at the house of the ltev. Mr. Warrington, at West Moulsey, on the night of the 20th of Nov. last. The parti culars of their dragging Mr. Warrington and his wife and servant from their beds, tying them with cords, locking them in the cellar, and steal ing his horse, chaise, &c. must be still in the recollection of our readers. The almost unpa ralleled daring of the outrage excited at the time a very strong public feeling against the villains, but notwithstanding the large reward which was advertised for the apprehension of the thieves, and the offer made by his Majesty of a free par don to any one of them who would impeach his coadjutors, and be the means of bringing them to justice, no clew was obtained that was likely to lead to the detection till within the last few weeks. The gang committed a burglary in the dwelling-house of J. Campion, Esq. at Waltham cross, on the night of the 20th May last. They cut out the pannel of a back door, and by intro ducing a hand withdrew the fastenings. Amongst other property, they carried off a green top coat, the property of Mr. Campion ; five men were seen early on the morning going away from the back part of Mr. Campion's house with bundles. When the gang had obtained a " swag" (booty) of what in their slang language is termed " pewter" (silver plate), they used to dispose of it to a well-known " fence," named Joe Barnett, who immediately consigned it to the melting pot. Barnett was what is called a dealer, and traded at the coffee-room in Duke's-place, where the lower class of Jew dealers congregate to pur chase and exchange commodities. He was ap prehended a little more than three months ago by Herdsfield, the city officer, charged with steal ing a quantity of silver plate. The robbery had taken place a few days before, and Herdsfield seeing a porter, followed by the prisoner, stopped the porter, who was carrying the stolen property; Barnett ran away, and effected his escape. The porter proved that he had been employed by Barnett to carry the property, and he was igno rant that it had been stolen. On the following day Herdsfield met the prisoner near Finsbury square, and saw him run into a baker's shop ; he pursued, and took him into custody. These facts being proved on his trial, he was convicted and sentenced to transportation for life, he be ing an old offender. The Moulsey gang were the parties who actually stole the plate in ques tion, of which Barnett was the receiver only. After he was taken, he said that one of the rob bers had " nosed" upon him to the " traps," because he had refused to give the sum the gang had demanded for the " swag ;" and he knew that Herdsfield had been given the " office" when he would go towards his house with the swag" in his possession. He observed, that if it had not been a " plant" upon him, how could Herdsfield have known that he had any thing to do with the porter who carried the " swag" twenty yards behind him ? Since Barnett's conviction his suspicions that he was betrayed by one of the robbers having been strongly confirmed, he declared that he would be revenged, and " split" upon the whole gang. He consulted with a gentleman who had acted as solicitor for him and other members of his family on several occasions, and to him he com municated the whole facts that he knew concern ing a number of daring robberies in which the gang have been engaged. The gentleman ascer tained that a large reward and a free pardon had been offered to any one (except the individual who used the violence to Mrs. Warrington) who gave information that led to the apprehension and conviction of the gang, and he advised Bar nett to avail himself of the opportunity of ob taining a commutation of his sentence. Barnett authorised his solicitor to make known to the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street his willingness to assist in bringing the gang to justice upon cer tain conditions. His solicitor had an interview with Vlr. and Mrs. Warrington, and also with the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, and it being clearly shewn that there was evidence that was likely to convict the gang, if they should be taken, it was determined to em ploy Bishop, one of the principal officers of Bow-street, to effect the apprehension of the parties. Bishop, who is well-acquainted with all the haunts of the initiated cracksmen, soon as certained that the gang had split, and that they were on country excursions. He engaged the assistance of Ledger and Craig, two active of ficers, and they soon got scent of some of the gang. In the early part of last week the officers proceeded to a house in Chequer-alley, Golden lane, and there they apprehended a man named Banks, who was one of the principal robbers of the Moulsey gang. They have subsequently apprehended two men, named Taylor and Smith, and on Saturday last, a fourth of the gang was apprehended, by the officers of police at Lam beth-street. Banks, when taken and brought by Bishop to Bow-street office, underwent an examination be fore Sir Richard Birnie, which, as the rest of the gang were not at that time in custody, was taken in private, and the evidence was not permitted to transpire. Mr. and Mrs. Warrington, and a number of witnesses, were in attendance. Both Mr. and Mrs. Warrington identified Banks as one of the gang of robbers who entered their bed room, and plundered their house on the night of the 20th of November last. Mrs. Warrington decl.ared that he (Banks) was the person, who, when yi.Ql,lico was offered to her by one of the robbers, interfere 4 in lapr behalf, and that he was th;.l robber who proposed to carry their bed and clothes haw the cellar to prevent them from taking cold. The most important evidence af, fecting Banks was that of Mrs. Barnett, the wife of the convict who is now Irr Newgate. Sh e stated that her husband bought some o f t h e stolen property, and that Banks made her a pre, sent of a brooch, which he said was part of the booty. She produced the brooch, which she had worn ever since. Mr. Warrington, on seeing the brooch, de &red that it was his property, and was stolen on the night of the robbery from his dressing table. He had been constantly in the habit of wearing it, and could not be mistaken as to its identity. It is a curious fact, that when Bishop took Banks into custody, he found upon his back the identical green coat which was stolen by the gang from the house of J. Campion, Esq. at Waltham Cross, in May last. Mr. Campion identified it as his property, and he brought forward the tailor who made it for him, who deposed that it was the coat he made for Mr. Campion, and that new buttons had been put upon it. The prisoners are to be reexamined this day at Bow-street office, when witnesses who saw several of the gang smoking cigars at a public house near to Mr. Warrington's the day before the robbery, will be called. The servant girl of Mr. Warrington has been sent for, and she will, in all probability, arrive in time for the examina tion. As these is no longer any necessity for secrecy on the subject, it is believed that Sir Richard Birnie will take the investigation in public. The fuur robbers are in separate prisons. It is but justice to Bishop and the other officers to say, that their exertions for the last fortnight, by day and by night, have been unceasing, and they deserve great praise for what they have accomplished. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday John Johnson, William Bankes, and James Smith, the men charged with the robbery at West Moulsey, as given in another column, under went an examination, together with two others John Potts alias Emery and James Taylor, for a burglary in the house of a Mr. Campion, of Wal tham-cross, upon suspicion of being also concerned in the Moulsey robbery. The five prisoners having been placed at the bar, the case of Mr. Campion was first gone into. Mr. Campion having been sworn, stated that on the morning of the 21st of May last, his house at Waltham-cross was broken into, and a variety of articles carried away. Amongst the property stolen were a pair of boots and a light green body ccat. The boots and coat now produced are the same that were so stolen. Mr. Mathews, pawnbroker, Whitecross-street, de posed, that on the 21st of May the boots now pro duced were pledged at his shop by a woman who gave the name of " Ann Potts." In consequence of the information which witness received from Mr. Millar, the chief officer of Lambeth-street Office, who told him that the boots had been stolen, he was induced to watch for the party who pledged them. On the sth of the present month the pri soner Potts came to the shop and redeemed the hoots, when he (witness) seut for an officer, and had him apprehended. Craig, a Bow-street-officer, deposed that upon taking the prisoner Bankes into custody, he found upon him the green coat which Mr. Campion had identified as one which had been stolen from his house on the morning of the 21st of May. Pye, a constable of Waltham-cross, produced a coat (also a green one) which he found buried in the earth in a ditch at the back of Mr. Campion's house. (This coat, it is supposed, was left there by the man who carried off Mr. Campion's coat.) Sir R. BIRNIE said that this evidence was quite sufficient to warrant him in sending both Potts and Bankes to trial. The magistrate then asked if there was any evidence affecting the prisoner Taylor, and being answered in the negative, he was discharged, but cautioned as to the company he kept in future. __. Sir R. BIRNIE a,ked if Mr. or Mrs. Warrington had arrived, and were told they had not as yet come. The prisoner Smith here requested that two per sons, whom he saw in the room, named Lock and Fordham, might be ordered to withdraw, if it was intended to enter into any evidence against him. " I wish, your Worship," he added, " to have the witnesses against me examined separately•" The witness Lock observed, that he merely came to say that the prisoner Bankes was in the habit of wearing a green coat prior to the 20th of May. Sir R. BIRNIE—What do you know of the prisoners ? Lock—Why, I know them all as re puted thieves. The prisoner Johnson said lie was a respectable man, and had kept a house for several years in Fleet market, where he carried on the business of a chim ney-sweeper. He complained of having been in solitary confinement for nine dais. Fanny Longman, a young woman, who lived as servant with the Rev. Mr. Warrington at the time of the robbery, was then called forward to see if she could identify any of the prisoners. Having looked attentively around her, she said that she did not see any of the men present whom she saw on the night of the robbery. Her master and mistress, her fellow servant and herself, were all put down into the cellar by the thieves. Sir R. BIRNIE—Did you not see any of their faces sufficiently to remember them ? Witness—No; I do not think I saw their faces at all. _ Sir R. - BIRNIE—Do you know any thing of a man of the name of Johnson, who was in the habit of sweeping chimnies about Moulsey ? Witness—No, I know nothing about him. Sir R. BIRNIE—You appear to have a very bad memory. The witness's father was then called forward; but after looking at the prisoners, he declared he knew nothing about them. He then complained that his daughter had been turned away from her service im mediately after the robbery, and had never since ob tained the wages that were due to her. Sir R. BIRNIE said he did not at all wonder at it. There were circumstances which rendered his daugh ter's conduct very suspicious. A young lad who lived at Moulsey when the rob bery took place, was then called forward. He de posed that one morning, a little after five o'clock, he could not exactly say when, but it was a good while ago, he was proceeding to Guildford, with some fish in a cart, with his master, Mr. Rough, a fish monger, who lives at Hampton. They were driving along the Sunbury road, when witness saw a horse and chaise pass them by. There were four men in the chaise, and witness immediately said to his mas ter, " That is Mr. Warrington's chaise gone by." — His master replied, " It cannot be his chaise at such an early hour." Witness repeated that it was Mr. • Warrington's chaise, for he knew the horse, and could not be mistaken in it. When his master and himself returned from Guildford that evening, wit ness heard for the first time that Mr. Warrington's house had been robbed. Sir R. BIRNIE directed the lad to look attentively at the prisoners, and to say if he could recognise any of them as having been in the chaise on the morning in question. The witness, after looking attentively - at the prisoners, pointed out Bankes, and said, " That is the man who was driving the chaise." Bankes—You are quite wrong, young man. Sir R. BIRNIE asked the witness if he could iden tify any of the other men? The witness replied that he could not swear to the oihers, but he remembered the prisoner Bankes from the circumstance of his driving the chaise. Sir 11. BIRNIE observed, that in the course of the investigation, he was sorry to say very little assist ance had been afforded by the turnpike-men, who must have seen the chaise pass through on its way to town. Men who stood at turnpikes might be of the greatest use on such occasions, but, in general, for some r eason or another, they were extremely backward in giving evidence. The Rev. Mr. Warrington and his lady having arrived, Sir R. BIRNIE inquired if their servant Margaret had as yet arrived in town ? Mrs, War . rington replied that she had been written to, and was expected in a few days. The prisoners were then remanded for a week. The examination was not over until nearly five o'clock, Sir R. BIRNIE having been engaged until three in the investigation of a charge against two men, who were brought to town yesterday morning by Smith and Taunton. The prisoners are charged with being concerned in the late extensive forgery on the Customs, for which a young man named Richard Hughes Jones has been fully committed to Newgate. They were examined in private, and re manded to a future day. It is said that 7001. were found upon them when taken into custody; but none of the notes could be identified as those which had been received in payment of the forged instrument at the Bank of England, those notes having been sent to France, and there exchanged for others, so that there will be considerable difficulty in obtaining evidence to convict. MARYLEBONE. Mrs. Carter, a very smart lady, who is mistress of the house, No. 11, Duke -street, Manchester-square, was charged on Saturday, before Mr. RAWLINSON, with assaulting a maid-servant belonging to another family, which occupies apartments there. The cir cumstance was occasioned by the alleged misconduct of a cat, which, it was said, made a dirt in the draw ing-room of the complainant's master, and she rub bed its nose in it. Taking it for granted, upon the oath of Catherine, the complainant, that the cat held decency in contempt, Mr. RAWLINSON thought the correction it received was good, and he believed everybody else, when they heard of it, would think as he did, for it was universally resorted to on such occasions in every quarter of the globe. Catherine resumed her statement—After this took place, Mrs. Carter desired her girl to carry "her poor little pussey" into the back yard, and wash its face at the water-butt, and she afterwards wiped the cat's nose herself with a pair of clean stockings belonging to Catherine, which were hang ing upon a clothes-line to dry. Catherine endea voured to prevent it, and Mrs. Carter caught up a " big broom," and beat her off with the stick of it. Catherine offered to remove her neckerchief and show some bruises on her shoulder, but her state ment appeared artless, and it was not thought ne cessary. " It's a pity, madam," said Mr. RAWLINSON to Mrs. Carter, " that a lady like you should appear here in such a trumpery case. Why did you treat the young woman in this way ? Mrs. Carter (with some vehemence)—lt's all false. It was not our cat that did it. Mr. RAWLINSON—Whether it was your cat or not, you ought not to have beaten her with a broom stick. Mrs. Carter—When I wag wiping the cat's nose, she pushed me against the wall, and— Mr. RawuNsoN—She tried to keep her stock ings clean. Mrs. Carter—She pushed me with great violence against the wall, and I took up the broom in self defence, but my witness will prove I did not strike her. The servant's evidence was taken, but it did not disprove the charge, and the Magistrate was about to convict Mrs. Carter in a penalty, when Mr. Car ter came forward, and said he had some very im portant facts to communicate, which would change the complexion of the case materially. He stated, with great gravity, that the cat in question is a kit ten belonging to him, and a pet with his children, and too well trained to be guilty of the misconduct imputed to it. " No, Sir," said he, " the mess was not made by her, but I will tell you how it happen ed. For some cause which I cannot discover, all the cats in the neighbourhood make our house a ren dezvous, and hold their midnight revels there. By a little stratagem, I caught two of these strange cats on Thursday night, and locked them up in the wash house by way-of punishment, and it was one of these cats, Sir, not ours, that made the dirt. Now, Sir, our cat suffered for it innocently, and was taken into the back yard to be cleaned. Mrs. Carter went there to see the washing performed, the complainant followed her and pushed her against the wall, and then Mrs. Carter took hold of a broom to protect herself, but she struck no blow." Mr. RAWLINSON—What was the cat's nose wiped with ? Mr. Carter—A coarse cloth. Mr. RAWLINSON—Nothing else ? Mr. Carter— A stocking. M. RAwussoN—Whose stocking ? Mr Car ter—Catherine's. Mr. RAwuNsoN—Don't you think it would have been better to have settled this foolish matter else where ? However, we (Mr. Griffith and himself) have been obliged to hear it, and we think Mrs. Carter committed the assault, and we fine her 10s. Yesterday Thomas Hemmings, a lad about 17 years of age, who is apprenticed to Mr. Tomlin, a respectable baker in Clarence-gardens, Regent's park, was charged before Mr. RAWLINSON with having violated his master's daughter, a delicate looking little girl, eight years younger than himself. The object of his brutality stated, that at half-past six o'clock on Sunday evening, she was sent to church by her parents, in company with a litle boy who is six years old, and who is her first cousin. When they returned, Thomas (the prisoner) told her her father and mother were gone out, and they had left orders for them to cut some pie for their supper, which was set out on the parlour table. After they had supped, Thomas put her cousin to bed in the kitchen, where he usually slept, and un der his instructions she went to her bed, in a baek room upon the first floor, and as the candle she took up wig h her was nearly a whole one, she requested Thomas to wait until she was in bed, and fetch it down. Soon after she got into bed he came up, and instead of retiring immediattly, he partly un dressed himself, got in with her, and according to the unfortunate girl's statement, perpetrated the crime with which she is charged. In answer to Mr. RAWLINSON, she said he had never taken any liberty with her, nor kissed her, before. Mrs. Tomlin, her mother, confirmed the girl's story. She came home at half -past nine, for the purpose of putting the children to bed, and was surprised to find them there already. She went to the bedside of each, they were asleep, and she went back to her husband, who was spending the evenincrat a friend's house. She and her hnsband returned home between eleven and twelve; the little girl slept in their bed. She had occasion to take her up is her arms, and found reason to put some questions to her; she answered them with reluct ance, fearing her parents would punish her; and the father went down to the sleeping-room of the prisoner._ a a Mr. Tomlin found the prisoner awake ; he had been roused a short time before, to let in a journey man, who come to his work at midnight. He seized him by his shirt collar, and said, " You villain, what have you been doing to my child ?" The pri soner replied, " Nothing." Mr. Tomlin took up a stick, and struck him two or three times, and he cried out—" Oh, pray forgive me." Benjamin Smith, a watchman belonging to the Regent's-Park, was requested by Mr. Tomlin to take the prisoner to the watch-house, and on his road he said, " I know I have done very wrong; for God's sake speak to master fur me." To complete the case, the opinion of Mr. Lamb, a surgeon, was taken; and he thought less injury had been done than, judging by the marks of vio lence which he observed, had been intended. The prisoner stood in tears at the bar, and after being admonished by the Magistrate to bero• in mind his awful situation, he was committed to Newgate for trial. Edward Goodrich, the driver of a cabriolet, was placed at the bar under the following circumstances : Mr. Thomas Parkes, a wine -merchant, at No. 12, in the Minories, represented that on Thursday night lie received of a Mr. Pope, in Newport -street, thirty sovereigns, and a guinea coined in the reign of King Charles 11. It is usual for a wine-merchant when he receives money of a customer to call for a bottle of wine, and he drank a glass too much. He left the place at half -past ten. Mr. Pope was fear iul he was not quite capable of taking care of his money, but he thought otherwise; and when lie got into the Strand he called a cab, and ordered the driver to take him to his dwelling-house in Deverell street, Great Dover-road, Southwark. As he at tempted to get in, his foot slipped, and two persons, who bore the appearance of gentlemen, came up to assist him. The driver of the cab seemed to be acquainted with them, and he said to the com plainant, " These gentlemen are going your road, will you allow them to ride with you ?" Mr. Parkes readily consented, and they drove off, he sitting between the two gentlemen, arid the driver in his little box, between the body of the carriage and the wheel. Mr. Parkes believes he went to sleep on the road, for, without noticing the streets he passed through, he found himself at the door of a public-house in Great Suffolk -street, Borough. The driver of the cab went in for a glass of brandy, but really he cannot say whether he drank any of it, arid one of the gentlemen left him there. The driver then proceeded to Trinity•square, South wark, and stopped on the dark side of it, and the other gentleman, who was dressed in a black coat and a white hat, got out, and the driver told Mr. Parkes he could go no farther. Mr. Parkes asked, " What have I to pay ?" The driver replied, " Oh, nothing; these gentlemen have paid me." Mr. Parkes went home; his family were in trouble because of his absence, arid in a minute or two a friend said, " Why, Parkes, you have been robbed; your amethyst brooch is gone." " And so is my purse; good God, and my pocket-book also," added Mr. Parkes, after feeling his pockets. He and his friend went immediately to see if they could find the cabriolet, but their endeavour was vain, for the watchmen in Trinity-square told him the two gentlemen who were his companions got into it again, and were driven back. He applied at the office in Bow-street the next morning, for assistance; he did not see either of the Magistrates, but an officer there said it was out of their district, and referred him to Marylebone. " Sent away from Bow-street without assist ance," said Mr. RAWLINSON, " because it was not their district ! Why you were robbed either in the Strand or in Southwark, and surely that was nearer to Bow-street than here." The complainant told the Magistrate he had rea son by that time to believe that the driver lived in Marylebone. He went to several cab-owners, and Mr. Brown, of Great York-mews, told him he thought he could give him a clue whereby to find him, for one of his c,wn men sent his cab home on Friday morning at two o'clock broken, and with a message that his seat had given way, and that he was much hurt, and spoke of him as being to his knowledge connected with bad characters. Mr. Parkes obtained the man's address, and on Saturday night he was apprehended. Daniel Dutch, a Marylebone officer, directed by Mr. Parkes, found the prisoner at his lodgings in Barlow-street, on Saturday night, and he took him into custody. He denied the charge, and said that at the time when Mr. Parkes was robbed, be was driving a fare from Holborn to No. 39, We!beck street, Cavendish-square. The seat of his cab afterwards gave way, and let him down ; the wheels went over him; he was much stunned: how long he remained senseless he could not tell, and when he came to himself, he sent the cab home. He went out in a black hat, and came home in a white one; he lost the black one when he fell, and some one, he does not know who, clapped a white one upon his head. Dutch took him to Welbeck-street, ac companied by the complainant, to point out the house where he put down his fare, for to No, 39 no person came on Thursday night, and he was unable to do so. The prisoner said in his defence, he could almost swear it was No. 39, WeTheck-street, where he drove to, but he could not to I exactly. Mr. RAWLINSON asked Mr. Parke; if he took no tice of the cab and the driver Mr. Parkes had seen the prisoner's cab in his master's yard, and he thought it was the same; but he did not take suffi cient notice of the driver to identify him. Mr. RAWLINSON said the contradictions of the prisoner were a sufficient ground for his detention, unless he gave security for his appearance ; and he thought his master should come forward and bail him. Dutch was sent with a message to that effect ; but Mr. Brown declined, and two housekeepers entered into recognizances of 401. each to produce him when required. UNION.HALL. Yesterday William Humphrey and John Hem min ',ham, two privates belonging to the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards, were brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged on suspicion with stealing a silver watch, the property of Mrs. Mary Claridge, who resides at Camberwell. The prisoners are both young men, and belong to the same company in the above regiment. Mary White, on being morn, stated that she lives in the service of Mrs. Claridge, who keeps a dairy at Camberwell. On Friday last the prisoner Humphrey, who formerly lodged with her mother in the country, accompanied by Hemmingham, called to see her at Camberwell. Not having seen him for a considerable time, with the permission of her mistress, she invited both the soldiers into the kitchen, and Pet some refreshment, consisting of bread and cheese and ale, before them. At the time of their entrance a silver watch belonging to her mistress was hanging up in its usual place, over the mantel-shelf, and having occasion to leave the kitchen, she looked at the watch, and saw it was then 25 minutes after eleven o'clock. When she returned back to the kitchen, Hemmingham was gone, and the other prisoner followed soon after wards, after having returned thanks for the hospi tality with which he and his comrade had been treated. In a few minutes after their departure, the witness missed the watch, and was confident they had taken it. Mr. CHAMBERS—You have stated that you left the kitchen for a short time ; now was it not pos sible that some stranger might have entered without your knowledge and taken the watch ?—The wit ness, in reply said that the time she left the kitchen she went up a flight of stairs to scour them down, and must have observed a stranger enter the place, if one had done so. In reply to the Magistrate, the witness said that Humphrey was not her sweetheart,—that he merely called to see her out of friendship, having lodged with her mother in the country, and she was de sirous, on that account, of treating him and his us well as she was enabled to do. Mrs. Claridge gave the young woman a most ex cellent character for honesty and industry. Mr. CHAMBERS said, that if the robbery was com mitted by the prisoners, it was an aggravated one, particularly after having experienced such kind treat ment on the part of the witness White. A serjeant belonging to the regiment was then called, and he stated that both the prisoner's were absent from barracks on Friday night. Hemmingham returned the next morning drunk, and when asked by the serjeant of the guard whether he had any money, he replied in the negative. This was, how ever, found to be untrue, for he had 6s. in his pocket. In reply to the Magistrate as to where be got the money that enabled him to get drunk, and also that found in his possession, Hemmingham said tliat his brother's wife lent him half-a-sovereign on the Fri day morning. He declared that he knew nothing whatever of the offence with which he was charged, and had not seen his comrade from the time he left the kitchen until he saw him at the bar of that office. The prisoner Humphrey also protested his inno cence of the alleged charge, saying, that however bad he might be in other respects, still he was not so completely devoid of all feeling as to ro b t h e per son at whose hand he received kind and hospitable treatment. The witness White said, that notwithstanding the asseverations of the prisoners, she was convinced they had taken the watch. Mr. CHAMBERS very closely quest i one d H um ph rey as to the manner i n which he was occupied from the time he left Camberwell, until his return the next morning to the barracks, and in reply the latter stated, that he went from one public-house to another, until at length he became drunk, and Wr., in that state was taken to the Tower, and lodgeu„' the Mint guardroom. He could not state W" t particular house he went into. The Magistrate asked the serjeant what kin.. ci characters the prisoners bore in the regiment, on he said that both of them had been frequently punished for intoxication, not by flogging, but by solitary confinement and extra duty. In addition t ° c , this propensity Humphrey had long been suspeet e f in the regiment of thieving, but as yet no charge Q t that description had been fully substantiated again him. Hemminghatn, on the contrary, was nev er suspected of felony, but he was a sad drunken teflon': The Magistrate inquired whether inquiries boa been made at any of the pawnbrokers' shops whether a watch, answering the description of the o ne stolen, had been pledged ? The reply was, that or plication had been made at several on the Sorrel &de, but no trace was as yet discovered of it. Mr. CHAMBERS recommended that inquiries s how be also made at the different pawnbrokers in west. minster ; and until then he remanded Humphrey and discharged Hemmingham, who was directed, for the sake of his own character in the regiment, t° assist in tracing the watch, the seijeant promisieg that he would be responsible for his appearance the next examination. ANCIENT GREEK LEASE. The attention of the learned world has re' cently been called to some inscriptions of Inv questionable authenticity, brought from Greece many years since, and now in the UniversitY ( Leyden, which had hitherto been most strang el y overlooked, that contain not merely an allusi on to the practice of letting land in Attica, b ut leases actually entered into. One of these scriptions was found near Mount Hymettus, an d is dated in the fourth year of the 108th Olyn v paid, or 345 years before the Christian era. It is a lease by the Aexonians, the town's peuPle; or demos of Aexone, of a piece of land call ea the Philais, near Mount Hymettus, to a fath er and his son, for forty years, for 152 drachma ° year. But as the inscription is exceedingly '1 rious and instructive, we take the liberty to 0 ' join the following translation of it, which y' a , believe will be found to be sufficiently exact " The demos of Aexone let on lease the Ph' lais, to Autocles, the son of Auteas, a nd t ° Autcas, the son of Autocles, for forty years, f° r 152 drachmas a year ; the said land to be farm by them, or planted with trees, as they pleas e ' the rent to be paid in the month of Aecatombleol l ' If they do not pay it, they forfeit their securitit and as much of the produce as they stand ia arrear. The Aexonians not to sell nor to l et the said land to any one else, until the 40 yea rs t have elapsed. In case of a loss on the part 0 ' the tenants by hostile invasion, no rent to e , paid, but the produce of the land to be divid ed between the Aexonians and the tenants. Th e tenants are to deliver up half the land fallaft and all the trees upon the land ; for the last O a years the Aexonians may appoint a vine dressed The lease to begin with respect to the c orn la° with Eubulus the Archon entering into office' but with respect to the wood, not before Elba lus goes out of office. The lease to be cut ur n stone, to be set up by the Magistrates, one OP/ in the temple of Hebe, the other in the Lesehe° and boundary stones (oroi) to be set upon th e land, not less than two tripods on each side! And if a tax should be paid for the land to Gil vernment, the said tax to be paid by the Ae ti onians, or if paid by the tenants, to be deduct! from the rent. No soil to be carried away Plc digging of the ground, except from one p a rt 0 the land to another. If any person makes a 01°,' tion in contravention of the contract, or puts 4 to the vote, he shall be answerable to the tenants for the damage." And there are some furth er stipulations with respect to the cutting of the olive trees, and the division of the price obtainc" for them between the Aexonians and the tenants. Now it appears clearly from this inscription or lease, that the mode of letting land for a moneY, rent, for a considerable number of years , an d under conditions with respect to m anagemen t / must have been well understood in Attica. The terms of the lease are such as indicate a very high state of civilization, and a very considerable knowledge of agriculture. In proof of this, it i s only necessary to advert to the clause binding the tenants to have half the land in fallow, at the termination of the lease, and to that whic h authorises the Aexonians, or lessors, to appoi' ll a vine-dresser for five years previous to the °" piration : the making different entries to the co rn and and vine lands, the provisions with respect damage that might arise from hostile invasi°°' and the interdiction of carrying away any P °r ; tion of the soil to another. farm, all discover st disposition to protect as far as possible the rights and interests of both parties, and to a se vance the progress of agriculture. The l ea for cannot be objected to on account of its being be too short a term ; in this country it might. thought too long.—Foreign Quarterly Revtewt No. 8. THE LATE Ma. JACOB.--The musical world has sustained a great loss in the decease of M r : JACOB, the eminent Organist, who expired on Ma ui ' morning, at his residence in College-street, Brompt°l4 after a long illness. FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS.--- 11 . 1 Welsh firmly believe that one of their princes, nall i j MADOC (the hero of SOUTHEY'S poem of the same nal l ' e ! discovered America long before COLUMBUS, and that t hee Indians of that vast continent are descended from hin i s of the strongest proofs of which position was the be t i ° the existence of a bird there named the penguin, wh i°4 ' as the Welsh men of letters observed, was evidently de rived from the Cambrian pen (white) and gain (held ).- ; This argument was held to be unanswerable until it observed by an eminent naturalist that penguins have jol ly riably black- heads ! BIRTHS. On the 28th ult. Lady Elizabeth Drummond, o f a so?' On the 28th ult. at Hill-h ouse , Wind s o r Forest, the lad of T. J. Knowlys, Esq. of a son. On the 29th ult. the wife of Mr. Edmunds, architec/' Margate, of a son. On the 30th ult. the wife of John Burder, Egq• ° I Pat' liament-street, of a son. _ MARRIED. On the 29th ult. at St. Luke's, Middlesex, Mr. Jo h n Richardson, of Twickenham, to Emma Penelope Hoppe/ daughter of the late Mr. E. Hoppe, of St e pney-green. r On the 29th ult. at St. John's, Hackney, Win. Alu:r: Esq. of Dublin, to 'Margaret, eldest daughter of P. H uu ' e Esq. of Homer ton. DIED. o f On the 29th ult. at Ramsgate, Mr. James Pet ra ' New Millman-street, Guildford-street, solicitor. A A/ On the 30th ult. aged 66, Sarah, relict o f the lat e Walton, Esq. of Girdlers'-hall. On the 29th ult. at Milton-next-Gravesend, in her 51°1 year, Letitia, wife of Mr. Richard Vandome, of Leadv ie hall-street. On the 29th ult. at Camberwell, Mrs. M. F. Galabilu aged 93. On the 26th ult. at Notley-place, 'sear Braintree, Dowbiggin, Esq. aged 70. On the 27th inst. Mr. Rleuler, of Ludgate-street, i° his 75th year. On the 27th ult. at Aahe Rectory, Hants, agel 3 8 1 tb4 Rev. B. Lefroy, rector. /' tb PRINTED and POELISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at OFFICE ; 112, STRAND, LONDON* ( rc • nee are N C , 1.01 No, A r i irk