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ti manufacturer a larger portion of his product Cor the same goods than he gave to the importer. Apiculture would have been rendered less pro (itavtive, ,ma, consequently, the advancement the Marian as a whole woul4 have been re- tratit. But the project has failed, and the new Manchesters and the new Paisleys of America will be worth only the value of the bricks and other materials employed in the erections. The Americans have purchased wisdom Ly experi- ence. The spreuintors in manufacturing esta blishments in that country were unable to see bv imposingheavy duties on English goods, 1 with tbe view of their having the monenoly of the_ home market, they were of course di:;iinish- • itts; the sale of English goods in America, tn... • :Wing to the glut of English goods deprived of a market to which they had been -`:tecustomcd, and const;quently bringing on themselves a com petition with a deprecktlon, their own handy work, By these heavy duties on impoitation the 7 were, therefore, really increasing the difli t.ulties in the way of establishing their own Ins• nufactures. So long as the necessary cost of the mann fitcturing labourer is much lower in Eng land than in America, the American manufac- turer must always be paralysed by the competi tion of English stocks, The soil of England is not like that of the United States, it Is li- mitcd ; but there is no other limit to Ler manu- 'hawing industry than the abiiity of the inhabi tants of other countries to furnish equivalents for our manufactures. So long as food can be in troauced cheaper into England than it can be raised, it is evident that the most beneficial ex tenion of our industry is towards raising mann ... factures rather than food. Foreignera.will net. ', -, end their food here for nothing ; and We cannot, therefore, import v. ithout the ability to pay. Whence have we the ability to pay ? By ex- changing our mattuth;:tures jiihei directly for the food, or indirectly for gold to purcho,se it. The 'purchase always resolves itself into the industry of the nation. we had no means of obtain- ing gold, we could not purchase food from fo reigners. That we can afford to purchase it cheaper from foreigners than at home, is a proof that we ought to purchase it from them, and that all attem:)ts to prevent this by heavy duties on importation, is merely sacrificing the prosperity of the country to the avarice of the landowners, which is neither more nor less than a counter part of the foolish scheme of our brethren of the United States. The distress of the country has not, certainly, been occasioned by flee trade, but by the want of free trade ; and, among other 'things, the monopoly of the Bank of England, and by the violent measures recommended by Lord Liverpool, and acted upon very injudici ously towards the country bankers. The in dustry of the country has suffered very much from the derangement which this interference occasioned.—Morning Chronic'e. Since the establishment of the New Police, Nye have neglected no opportunity that offered of making ourselves acji uainted Nith the details of its operation, both aTrespected the safety and convenience of the great body of the people, and also with reference to what may be called its own internal economy, organization, and discip line. We have already hazarded an opinion, that so far as a short experience extends, it may fairly be pronounced an improvement. We do not wish to be understood as expressing an opi nion that the new system is not still susceptible of further amendment ; but we are satisfied, from Some striking facts that have come to our know ledge, that there is an honest and earnest desire to establish and enfi)rce amongst the individuals employed, an attention to their duty, and a spirit regularity in the perlormance of it, indispen sible to the attainment of the important purposes contemplated at the time of its adoption. That some delinquents should be found in a body so numerous, and who were for the most part, or rather universally, selected from the population of a luxurious metropolis, was no more than was to be expected in the ordinary course of things, and ue hold it to be an earnest of a proper course of proceeding in the persons to whom the discipline of the body is especially confided, that so far as we can learn (and our inquiries have been minute, and directed to competent authorities), -no case has hitherto occurred of a complaint having been preferred without prompt redress, when injury had been sustained, and as prompt punishment to the offending individual. A similar course of salu tary rigour has been pursued in all estaLlished eases of intoxication ; this most mischievous and dreadfully prevalent vice has already been the cause of the dismissal of nearly one hundred policemen ; and it is the fixed determination, in the quarter where the requisite power is lodged, to receive no excuse for a failing which, from its very nature, incapacitates its victim from a pro per discharge of his function. We think the publication of the facts above detailed will be serviceable in a double way : it will tend to dis abuse the public mind of some absurd prejudices, industriously propagated, that the new establish ment might transgress with impunity, and will, we trust, operate as a wholesome warning to the remaining members of the establishment.—lbzd. An idea is afloat (an erroneous one, we hope) that Ministers have no measures in agitation to propose to Parliament for the relief of the coun try—that they do not think Parliament capable of administering any relief ; and that their main efforts are directed towards what is called a balancing of parties, by which when Parliament does meet, they may be protected from any seri ous annoyance ; in fact, that they still intend to trust to the chapter of accidents—to the absurd and worn out notion that things will in time " right themselves." That a country should be at the end of fifteen years of peace in a much worse state than that peace found her in ; that she should have been deprived of the blessings and advantages of peace by the errors of her statesmen ; and that her present rulers, wilh these errors and their effects staring them in the face, should say—" We will go on in error, because we are sure that in time all will come right," im plies a degree of absurdity which one would hardly attribute to men who, in the present ad vanced state of society, take upon themselves the direction of State affairs. Nor can things go on so much longer, let Ministers imagine and dream what they will. But then we may be asked if the distress of the country be so great, why was not the country spoken out more loudly upon the subject ? It is the duty of wise and prudent rulers to know the s.ee, of a country without its being fOrced upon them by the cries of public distress. • Of' the extent and nature of that distress no part of the public can now be ignorant ; and what all the rest of his subjects known and feel, surely the King's Ministers cannot have to learn. We agree in opinion witli those who think that pub 7 lie meetingi - should be 'called ; that the people, more especially the influential - part of them, should speak out ;. but still we thiek, that their n ot doing so, forms . . no excuse for the.apparent supineness of the Government. Suppose, which God• foibid, the distress of the people should become, as it appears to be becoming, too acute fur endurance, and should break out (ai there have been already some alarming symptoms of its doing) into acts of violence, will it be any apology on the part of the Government, if they tel os, " how could we know that things were in so bad a state P—why you did not complain." On the contrary, ought !Int the patient endur ance of the people under their accumulated suf ferings to furnish stronger reasons than even the urforts of despair can do why not a moment should be lost in either applying a remedy to the evil, or m acknowledging their incapacity to do v:1, and in resigning their posts to those who can ? In saying this, we would guard ottnelvv:i From being supposed be in any degree in- fluenced rti..,l,y motives, or that our object in r.gbailest degree is to see one man out of office, or another in. Our pat•tv !s that of the country ; and if dlr. Dulze of Wellington is so misled o„ tl'dceived, as to hesitate at doing what we believe to be his duty for the interest of the State, then we should say, however rcluciantly, let seine other tarn be placed at the head of affairs who wadi. In the mean time let the in- flttcntial classes of society speak out. In agri; culture the landlord should speak for himself, his tenants, and tha peasantry in manufacturing - • - • • districtn the masters should make their own tame known, and that of their men ; and we trust that whenever Parliament does meet, Ali- nisters will at least not have the excuse of say- in( there can be no distress where there is no cotnplaint, but that the table of both Houses will be covered with petitions, setting forth the real state of things.—Morning Herald. The letter of Dr. Doyle to the inhabitants of that part of Ireland over which he exercises spi- ritual authority, if properly followed up, as we think it is likely to he by similar admonitions from others of the Roman Catholic Clergy, will, e trust, abate those confederacies which reader lire and property at every moment unsafe ; and the due administration of the law an absolute impos sibility. These lawless and sanguinary combi nations are a greater curse to the country, they are more fatal to every hope of prosperity—they can more completely and certainly elude the or dinary areas of Goyernment, and the regular operation of the law, than any merely political agitation, however violent, or from whatever cause it may proceed. And therefore we wil linglytailmit that we shall owe a weighty oblig.a tioa l e - -th ose , be they whom th e y -m a y, who ,boar with zeal and success for tie extinction :if this giant evil, and that such efforts will go Far to redeem the faults they may heretofore have committed, or even to extenuate those which they may still meditate. It is due to Dr. Doyle to say that his letter is powerfully written, and that all the topics it embraces, if we con sider who are the parties to whom it is address ed, seem well calculated to promote the success of the single object they profess to have in view. We must, however, say, at the same time, that some of the topics are such as we had rather not have found in such a production, inasmuch as they affoid ground for a suspicion that the author, however anxious to put an end to mur derous associations in Ireland, has no great de sire for the cessation of political conflict in that country. The pathetic description in which Dr. Doyle indulges of the miseries he has witnessed in the expulsion of tenants from their holdings, and his representation of the distress inflicted upon farmers by rapacious landlords, ungenerous parsons, and exacting proctors, arc topics per. haps well enough calculated to engage the sympathies of those whom he addresses, and thus to secure greater effect to his im mediate and express admonition ; but these arc topics, nevertheless, which the Roman Ca tholic Priest, sincerely desirous of allaying the general spirit of turbulence and disaffection, would, we imagine, very willingly have avoided. The ostentatious manner also in which the Re verend Doctor identifies himself with a lay de magogue, at this moment intent upon the task of providing a new subject of Irish agitation, is not it must be allowed, a very favourable symptom of his earnestness or sincerity in the cause of peace. We wish, moreover, that Dr. Doyle had not been " told" that in the ;Associations he is en deavouring to break up, " Catholics and Pro testants are united." The first and most esscn- vial preparation for attacking any evil with suc cess is to be .accurately informed of its nature. This advantage we are now compelled to con clude 1)r. Doyle does not possess, if we would avoid the harsher judgment which would impute to him the deliberate purpose of conveying a false impression to the conununity.—florniiig Post. We agree with a Correspondent that a dispo sition has prevailed, rather strongly of late, both with the paid and unpaid Magistracy, to abridge the rational enjoyments of the people ; and that the late refusal to grant music licences to several respectable taverns and hotels does but little cre dit either to the heads or hearts of the powers that be. We also willingly allow that there is no harm in " a sober game of whist," and that to proscribe such amusements savours more of the tyranny of power, than of that wise regu lation which it ought to be the object of the exe cutors of the law to establish. But our corres pondent is in error if he thinks that a Magis trate has any authority to interfere with " an in nocent game of whist," or a tune on the piano, when the one is not made the subject of gamb ling, nor the other of obtaining money. They have no right and no authority ; but if par ties will quietly submit to their decisions, without trying the law of the case, we have no means of helping it. The law has, in deed, been unjustly construed to say, that even the sound of a piano in the house of a Licensed Victualler, for which a music licence has not been obtained, is an offence to be punished by a heavy fine ; but the law itself does not say so, nor did those who enacted it mean it to be so construed. In the same way the favourite amuse ment of our Correspondent would, we are con fident, pass harmless through the ordeal of the law, in every case where mere amusement, and not gambling, was the object, if those who were charged had the courage to appeal against con victions. The expence of fairly trying the ques tion has hitherto prevented both these subjects from enjoying the benefit of a fair decision—and the consequence is, that that which was not, and is not, law, has been made and acted upon as law. With regard, however to gaming in public-houses--or rather we should say gambling,—nothing is more clear, than that it is both the intention of the Legislature, and for the benefit of public morals, that nothing of the kind should exist ; and sadly would the Magistrates neglect their duty, were they to tolerate it for an instant. There is nothing so ruinous to the public, or so disgrace ful to society as gambling. It has ever been the aim of all good governments to put it down, whatever Corm it might assume; and wherever gambling is proved, there can be no question that the Magistrates have full power to resort to the penalties inflicted by the law ; but where mere amusement, and not gambling, is the object, and clearly and indisputably the object, we are confident that there is no just dispenser of the law who would give his decision against the party charged with offending it. The diffi culty is to draw the distinction, and it is a diffi culty of that nature which can only be solved by the verdict of a Jury.--Morning Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. IL WOOD V. SMITH. Mr. GURNEY moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict obtained by the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered. The action was on the warranty of a herse, and was tried at the late sittings in Middlesex before Lord Tenterden.—Ride refused. DOBSON AND OTHERS V. RATUBONE AND OTHERS. Mr. littouGuater stated that this action, which was tried at the last assizes at. Lancaster, before Mr. Justice Littledale, was brought by the assignees of Jeremiah Thomson, a bankrupt, to recover from the defendants, Messrs. Rathbone, Brothers, and Co., a very large sum in their hands. A verdict was found for the plaintiffs, with leave by the Learned Judge to move to set it aside and enter a nonsnit, on a point raised for the defendants as to the in validity of the act of bankruptcy. The main ques tion was whether a deed of assignment, executed abroad by Jeremiah Thomson, constituted an act of bankruptcy within the meaning of the 3d section of the 6th of George IV., cap. 16. Another question arose under the Stamp Act, which was, whether an instrument of this de,cription, executed abroad, but intended to operate in this country, was exempted from the exigency of the Stamp Act. The COURT decided against the Learned Coun sel, on the latter point, and suggested that the other question, which they thought was one of great im portance, should be brought on for discussion on a special case. This was acceded to. ROGERS V. WOOD AND OTHERS. Mr. TAUNTON moved for a rule to shew cause why the verdict for the defendant should not be set aside and a new trial had. The declaration in this case was in prohibition, and it alleged that the Court of Great Session of the County Palatine of Chester was proceeding to try a quo warrant° informatio❑ against Mr. Rogers, the plaintiff, touching an office in the city of Chester. There was a traverse, to the effect that the usurpation of the office in ques tion was committed out of the jurisdiction of the Court of Great Session of the said county of Ches ter. The substantial question to be tried was whe ther the city of Chester, from time immemorial, had been, and still was, parcel of the County Palatine of Chester, and within the jurisdiction of the Court of Great Session of the said County Palatine. The verdict for the defendant was in favour of the juris diction. The Learned Counsel now moved to set aside the verdict, on the ground that the Learned Serjeant (Mr. Serieant 'Faddy) before whom the eal4,C was tried, had received evidence which ought to have been rejected, and rejected evidence which ought to have been received.—Rule nisi granted. LLOYD V. ALDRED. Mr. PLATT stated that this case, which was tried at the Middlesex sittings last week, had excited some attention in consequence of the curious case which had been made out for the plaintiff. It was tried as an undefended cause, and a verdict was given for 38 guineas. The action was in trover to recover the value of a necklace and pair of ear-rings. The facts proved at the trial were, that the defendant, Miss Aldred, had sent to the plaintiff, a jeweller, stating that she wished to purchase a necklace and pair of ear-rings, and requesting him :o bring those articles to her. The plaintiff accordingly Nl'aited on her with them, and was shown into her bed-room, where she was in bed. She looked at the articles, which she said she liked very much, and would keep them to show to a friend whom she was ex pecting in town. The plaintiff objected to leave the articles without the money, having previously told her that the price was 38. guineas ; but she refused to return them, and immediately put them under her clothes in bed. A written demand was afterwards made, but the articles not being returned, the present action was brought. The Learned Counsel now moved on the affidavit of the defendant, which stated that in March last she sold the plaintiff a dressing, case for 201. which he had not paid for, and that when he brought the necklace and car-rings, she proposed to deduct the 20/. from the price of those articles, and pay him the difference, but he oljected, and afterwards brought the present action, to defend which she employed an attorney. She had relied upon having intimation from the attorney of the time of trial, when her witnesses would have been forth coming, but she had heard nothing more of the cause until she saw by an account in the newspapers that it had been tried. These facts were stated to ac, count for the cause having been taken as undefended; and the Learned Counsel trusted that under these circumstances the Court would grant a rule for a new trial on payment of costs. Rule nisi granted. EX•PARTE MAULE. Mr. B. ANDREWS moved, on the part of Mr. George Frederick Mande, the town clerk of Hunt ingdon, for a rule to show cause why a criminal in, formation should not be filed against Weston Hat. field, the publisher of the Bedford and Huntingdon Gazette, for two libels published in that Paper on the 25th of July last, reflecting on Mr. Maule's per sonal character, and also on his conduct as town clerk of Huntingdon.—Rule nisi grated. CASSIM V. THOMAS BERKELEY BOND, GENT. ONE, &C. This cause came on for trial in June las'. My Lord TENTERDEN recommended a reference. It was referred to J. N. Talfourd, Esq., who bath awarded a verdict to be entered for the plaintiff- - Damages 1651., besides the costs of reference, and the costs of action, together making a further sum of about 2501. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 11. COMPETENCY TO BECOME BAIL. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, upon taking his seat this morning, informed the bar that in consequence, of some doubt having existed as to whether or not leaseholders should be allowed to justify as bail, the Judges had conferred together on the subject, and agreed that none but housekeepers or freeholders were competent to become bail. WILKINS V. MOLLOY, GENT. This was an action brought by. the plaintiff to re cover an alleged balance of salary due to him as clerk to the defendant. The plaintiff having been nonsuited on the trial, he was yesterday about to move the Court in person to set aside the nonsuit, and stated, that although lie had had• the assistance of Mr. Serjeant Taddy when his cause was tried; lie was now deprived of it in consequence of the want of funds. The COURT desired the plaintiff to let the case stand over till this morning, when they were sure Mr. Serjeant Taddy, who was nut then in .Court, would not object to lending his professional aid out of any such consideration ai that referred to by the plaintiff. Mr. Serjeant TADDY to-day made the motion, first observing that he was bound, not only in justice to himself, hut in. justice to the bar generally, to ex press his conviction that there was no gentleman in the profession who, when a client ceased, from want of funds, to be able to claim his assistance in the usual way, would not still not only continue his exertions in his cause, but even, if possible, on that account, continue them increased zeal. The ground on which he now moved was, that the plaintiff's own evidence was a surprise upon him, in asmuch as the witness, whom he had been obliged to call to prove his ease, and who was a clerk of the defendant's, had made a statement, a month before the trial, to another person, directly at vari fiance with his testimony in Cotttt. —Motion refused. POLICE INTELLIGENCEa 110 W-STREET. Yesterday an elderly man, named Daniel Flynn, and a woman named Ann _Flynn, who represented herself to be his wife, were capitally charged before Mr. HAu.s, with havi►►g in their possession various implements used for the purpose of coining, and also some peces of base money. Ihomas Car►noody, a constable belonging to the new police establishment, deposed that from infor mation he received he proceeded, in company with other officers, to the house No. 22, in Church -street, St. Giles's, at about seven o'clock on Tuesday even ing. He went up to the lirst•pair front room, and found the door fastened. He knocked, and it was opened by the female prisoner, and upon entering the room witness found there both prisoners and a little child. Witness and those who accompanied him left the house, but returned in a few minutes to the room inhabited by the prisoners for the purpose of searching. it. Upon looking upon the floor under the head of the bed, witness found two moulds for casting shilling , , and al-o a quantity of plaster of Paris, together with an iron pot and a large iron ladle. Witness then took both the prisoners into custody, and conveyed them to the watch house of St. Paul's, Covent-garden. Witness re turned to the house again at nine o'clock on the same evening, and upon searching the room once more .he found another mould with a piece of money in it. Witnt-Ls asked the prisoners how they be came possessed of such articles, and they both answered that they knew nothing about them. They then asked him from whom he had received the information, and witness answered that it was their own daughter who had informed upon them. The female prisoner denied most distinctly that either she or her husband knew any thing whatever of the articles which were found in the room. The male prisoner also asserted his innocence, and said that he had had a quarrel with his daughter on Sunday last, Ivhich he supposed induced her to give information to the officers that articles of coin- ing were in his room. The prisoners were then removed in custody. Mr. liatnilton, a solictor, residing in Henrietta street, Covent- g arden, came to complain of the con duct of one of the new police, who had suffered a person charged with felony to escape from his cus tody. A young man, in the employment of Mr. Hamil ton, stated, on Tuesday evening he met a person in Holborn, against whom a warrant had been issued for felony. He told the police-constable, now pre sent, to take him into custody. Ile did so, but afterwards suffered him to escape. The constable stated that he took the young man into custody by direction of the last witness, but he was not aware that the person was charged with felony. The prisoner requested permisson to go for a few minutes to the house of his father, in Brosvnlow- street, Holborn ; and he (the constable) accotn panied him, and waited for him while he spoke to his mother, The father of the young man then came home, and the prisoner requested' to hold a few minutes' conversation with him also. The fa- ther and son then went into the back parlour an( closed the door, and a minute had scarcely elapsed when the father opened the door and said tl'at his son was gone. Mr. Thomas, the supervisor of police, told the constable, that unless he succeeded in retaking the party, the matter would undoubtedly cost him his situation. The constable would use every means in his power to find out the person who had escaped. M A P LBOROU GH-STREET. A case which has been under investigation for some days at the office, but deferred, was yesterday brought on for final examination before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate. A Mr. henry Rawlings, said to be one of a firm of that name carrying on the business of house 'agents and auctioneers, at No. 41, Duke-street, St. James's, and at other places in town, was placed at the bar, charged with tittering a fictitious checque, knowing it to be of no value, on the banking-house of Me&srs. Cockburn and Co., in Whitehall, for 101, purporting to be drawn by a firm named " William Stewart Morgan and C 0.," and dated the 10th of October last. IMr. Robert White, a eleeesemonger residing at the corner of Duke-street, in Jermyrestreet, de posed, that on the 13th of October a young man named Robert King, now present, brought the cheque produced to his shop, crossed in the usual way to be passed through a banker's, and asked to have it changed, saying that he came from Mrs. Satchwell, of Duke-street, and he (Mr. White) knowieg Mrs. Satchwell to be a most respectable lady, did not hesitate. about changing it. He paid the cheque into the house of Messrs. Ransom and Co. of Pall-mall, the same evening, and two days after it was returned, with " No effects" written across it. He then applied to Mrs. Satchwell, but that lady declared site had never sent the cheque for change. The young man King could no where be found until a few days ago, when Andrews, the officer, apprehended him. Robert King, the young man in question, de posed, that on the 13th of October, he was in the employ of the prisoner, as clerk, at No. 41, Duke street, Sr. James's, and on that day the prisoner game him the cheque now produced, and desired him to take it to Mr. White, and say that he was sent from Mrs. Satchwell,and that thecheque was crossed to go through a banker's, and to ask Mr. White to change it. Witness accordingly did us he was de sired, and Mr. White gave him ten sovereigns for the cLiee i ne, which he immediately gave to the prisoner. Mrs. Ann Satch well deposed, that the cheque now produced she knew nothing whatever of. The next witness was Mr. Adolphus William Barnes-1 am a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Cockburn and Co., in Whitehall. The cheque now produced, drawn upon Messrs. Cockburn's house by William Stewart Morgan and Co., I never saw before this day, but I know it to have been pre. sented and payment of it refused on the 13th of October last, from the words " no effects" written across it in a hand-writing which I recognize. Mr. DYER asked the witness if it was not usual to write the word " clearing" on all cheques to be passed. in through a banker's, and not a parcel of crosses ( as appeared on this cheque ? The witness replied, that the practice of wilting the word " clearing" upon cheques -so passed in was entirely confined to city bankers, and never done by the west-end bankers. . • Mr.. Binns now submitted that there was nothing like a fraud, or attempt at fraud, in the transaction as far as regarded the prisoner : he had merely passed away a cheque drawn by other parties, which he be lieved at the time tobe a good one, and the drawers of which, it appears, actually kept an account at the house on which they drew it at the time. There was no pretence, therefore, in charging the prisoner with any fraud. Mr. DYER said that the most suspicious part of the transaction was, the cheque being sent by the prisoner toMr. White in the nameof Mrs. Satchwell. Mr. Biting said • that there was a mistake in this, for the truth was that the prisoner merely told the lad King to say that he came from Mrs. Satchwell's, meaning Mrs. Satchwell's house. The young man King was here questioned as to this point, which was considered by the magistrate to be very material, and he confirmed Mr. Binns' view of the matter,—namely, that he told Mr. Mite he came from Mrs. Satchwell's. Mr. White positively contradicted this, and de. clared that tile message of King was in these worth, " that he came from Mrs. Satchwell with her compliments to have the che - que changed." The whole thing, Mr. White said, was intended to be a fraud, and he was not the only sufferer by the pri soner and those connected with him. Mr. DYER did not think, although there was a great deal of suspicion about the case, that it was sufficiently strong to send the prisoner to trial upon under a commitment ; eompleining _parties felt. disposed to pur s u e ti l e case further, he Should hold the prisoner to bail to answer any charge that might be preferred against him at the sessions. Mr. Keats, solicitor for the prosecution, appeared on thi4 part of a committee of tradesmen, who had joined to protect themselves against fraud, of which Mr. White was one ; and so satisfied were they of the intended fraud in this case, that they were de termined to prosecute the prisoner, for if they did not, no tradesman was safe against such depreda tions. The prisoner was then ordered to find two sure ties fur his appearance at the sessions to meet any charge that might be there preferred against him. Mr. Pitt, a linen-draper in the Strand, here step ped forward and said, that the prisoner had " done" him out of some shirts, stockings, &c., which were sent, by the prisoner's orders, to No. 41, Duke street, and which the prisoner said were for his brother ; but from that day to this no payment could be had for them ; and seeing the account . in the newspapers of the prisoner's apprehension, be thought he might as well come and see it any thing could be done. Mr. DYER could not assist Mr. Pitt, for his claim was a mere debt, and here the matter ended. HATFON-GARDEN. It will be recollected that on the morning of the 27th of last month a daring burglary and robbery was committed at the malt and hop warehouse of Messrs. Truman, Hanbury and Co., the extensive brewers, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields. Several sttoegly barred doors leading into various rooms of the ware house were en that occasion broken open, and the burglars succeeded in carrying off six pockets of hops, and a quantity of malt of the value nearly of 300/. Frim the nature and circumstances of the transac tion, the proprietors were induced to believe that some persons in their employ, and in whom confi dence was reposed, must have been connected with ir. Information was immediately given at the seve ral police-offices, and a reward of 1001. was offered for the apprehension of the perpetrators, in conse quence of which the police-officers have been actively eisgaged in searching out a clue to discovery, and yesterday two men, who gave their names George Crouchman and William ihillis, were brought to this office in custody of Edwards and Duke, both officers of the establishment, and placed at the bar before the sitting Magistrates, Mr. ROGERS and Mr. Serjeant SELLON, charged with having four pockets of the said hops in their posssession. After hearing evidence, the Magistrates remanded the prisoners till Monday next. MARYLEBONE. On Monday morning, Joseph Powell, a hackney coachman, was charged before Mr. RAWLINSON, with having robbed a gentleman of his gold watch and his money, under the following extraordinary circumstances. Mr. John Michael Goodere, a Carmarthen solici tor, on Saturday supped at the Tavistock Coffee house, in Covest-garden, with Major Wait and an other officer,and about 20 minutes before 12 o'clock desired one of the waiters to call him a coach. A chariot was brought, arid he got into it, and ordered the driver, which was the prisoner at the bar, to take him to the Gloucester Coffee-house, ill Picca dilly, his place of residence in town. He had been fagging hard all the day, and as soon as he entered the chariot he fell asleep, and the. driver awoke him at the door of the Gloucester Coffee-house by sha king him. Mr. RAWLINSON asked him if he was sober ? Mr. Goodere had taken two glasses of punch after supper, and was a little elevated, but quite able to recollect all that passed. He got out of the chariot, • and the prisoner demanded Is. Gd. for Ids fare, and when he put his hand into his pocket, he found all his silver, amounting to more than a sovereign, was gone; and he also missed his watch, the guard of which, with the ring twisted open, was haugivg from beneath his waistcoat. He challenged the driver with robbing him, and he denied it, and said, if he had lost any thing, the lady he took up on the road must have got it; and he pretended that Mr. Goodere stopped the chariot in Coventry street, took up a lady, and went with her to a house in Portland-place, and parted with her there. Mr. RAWLINSON asked him when he left the coffee-house in Covent-garden, and what the time was when he reached the one in Piccadilly. Mr. Goodere said it wai about a quarter before 12 when he got into the chariot, and past one when he got out ; and the last time he saw his watch was as he left the Tavistock Coffee-house, for there he pulled it out to notice the time. Mr. RAWLINSON asked how so much time could pass in going so short a distance. Was he certain that the punch had not rendered it possible for him to hare been in the company of a female without afterwards recollecting it ?—" No, Sir," said he," it is impossible. While I was disputing with the driver, one of the policemen came up to the door of the Gloucester Coffee-house, and it was proposed that he and I should get into the chariot, and be driven to the house in Portland-place, to try the truth of his story. He drove us there, but said he could not distinguish the house, and he brought us back ; and after taking his name and his number, the head waiter paid him his fare at my request, and dismissed him." At an early part of Mr. Goodere's statement, the persons prisoner a it whotwe-iolud bed t e o i u giveri injurious d t e o n c h e i in we i r f e o p t l e i e r r . mitted to remain in Court, and they were ordered to withdraw. The policeman, William Cunningham, was ex amined.—His account corresponded with what Mr. Goodere had stated, excepting that when the coach man declared himself unable to find the house in Portland-place, Mr. Goodere refused to return with him, saying he would not be driven by a thief, and they walked some distance and called another coach. Mr. - 11.twuNsoN asked whether Mr. Goodere ap peared to be sober.—The prisoner declared the gentleman was too tipsy to know or recollect any thing, for instead of its being a chariot it was a coach. vv Mr. RAWLINSON said, it was a melancholy thing if s policeman could make such a mistake, and asked for the head waiter. Thomas Smith came forward, and stated, that at a little after one on Saturday night, Mr. Goodtre got out of a roach at the door of the coffee-house, and said he had lost his money and his watch. The witness asked the coachman if lie - had searched the coach ? he said he had, and he told him the gentle man had had a lady with him. In answer to Mr. RAWLINSON—He did not par ticularly notice whether it was a coach or a chariot; but the same one came back the second time. Mr. RAWLINSON (to the prisoner)—You don't deny it was a chariot ? Prisoner—Yes, I do. Mr. RAWLINSON (to Cunningham, the police man) —I am almost afraid to ask you questions, because you don't appear to be quite clear-headed. Was it a coach or a chariot ? Cunningham—l can't really say which it was. Mr. RAWLINSON—What ! don't you know a coach from a chariot? Cunningham—Not rightly. Mr. RAWLINSON—HOW many seats had it ? Cun ningham—Just how many I cannot say, your Wor ship; I sat by the gentleman's side. The prisoner said he was not fetched by any waiter, nor did he go near the Tavi,tock Coffee house. A policeman brought the gentleman to the corner of Charles-street, and put him into his coach, and the gentleman told him to drive to the Glouces ter Coffee-house in Piccadilly. Thegentleman stopped him in Coventry-street, and took up a lady, and said. " Now drive along Piccadilly till I stop you." He went forward till he got to Park-lane, and then, by order of the gentleman, he drove to Portland place. The gentleman and the lady got out there ; they parted in the street, and the gentleman went on again to the Gloucester Coffee-house. Mr. RAWLINSON asked how it was, that after going over so much ground he demanded but 15. 6d. ? The prisoner said the gentleman paid him ss. 6d. when be got to Portland-place; and if the Magistrate would postpone the case, he could bring forward -a witness who saw the lady taken up by the gentle- man, Anti who would prove that it was a coach, M 1 not a chariot, which he drove. - - The request of the prisoner . was granted, and Yes terday the case was resumed. Cunningham, having since noticed the difference be a coach and a chariot, said it was .8 elle' riot, and Mr. Gooderc said he had other evidence t° prove that fact in readiness. Michael Fowler, of 21, Upper St. Martin a cab-driver, in the employment of Mr. lioe, 4 „ ss e brought forward in behalf of the prisoner. knows him ; he drives a coach. lie don't Imo/ t he number of it, nor whether it belongs to the pris° rl h er e or his father. • Recollects speaking to him a t t er cot-ire of Coventry-court, at ten minutes or a (Parte rafter l2 on Saturday night. lie was then driving_ a coach, and a gentleman was speaking out of th,' window of it to a lady. The prisoner got down at let the lady inside, and the gentleman told him ° drive down Piccadilly till he told him to stop : • ' The witness afterwards gave several evasive an swevs, and wa< reprimanded. The prisoner requested- a second postponem ent ' and he would bring forward many more witnesseo. Mr. RAWLINSON told him to take them to 1119 , Old Bailey, for after what bad been sworn, if 7, brought 500 more to the office, he would COO" him ; and he was sent to Newgate for trial. • UNION-HALL. rid Yesterday three paupers belonging to Ber mo-- g soy workhouse, named Brodwey, Bell, and Bole lon, were brought before Mr. CHaslnErtsi dull ed with great cruelty to Thomas Stedman, a poll idiete an inmate of the same workhouse. One of the overseers and the master of the work' house attended, and by their joint evidence it sr geared that the poor idiot had incurred the displs e. sure of the three defendants, owing to his halal pilfered the bread and cheese belonging to one °. them on the last banyan day. The idiot, it seems, l; possessed of a most craving appetite, and when Mil tiling in the shape of victuals presents itself to vies, he is certain, on most occasions, to avail himself ot any opportunity that may occur to obtain sion of it, and it is his practice then to scamPe, away to the water-closat, and fasten himself in anti' he has devoured all he has laid his clutches ups: On the present occasion he had made free Nfi tv Bell's allowance, and the other two defendants h' 1 ' ing suffered in a similar way, they all e n teredio l ; an agreement to give the unfortunate idiot sod j i7 " whopping" as should deter him from medal' with their " grub" in future. For this . purn they procured a carter's whip, and when the W ie r was crossing the workhouse-yard, in the dusk ~.° the evening, the defendants, who had been on tr., 100k -out, immediately seized him, and conveyed 11"`" away to an obs Cure part of the premise;, wb,, re ; posses; after having divested him of his thick frieze jac"!"; they began to lash away at his back until his Cil e brought some of the other inmates to his assistance' by whom he was rescued from his assailants. 0 1 During the above statement, the poor idiot 6 1 ° ° ,ll with a vacant stare, apparently unconscious of that was passing around him. One of the defendants, although well knoll the poor fellow's affliction, appealed to him wher e , l he was the man who had actually used the 1 1 .° r whip orer is. The idio h t s merely grinned at him, but did 1° utter a word. , is The same defendant then began to eerarised loudly of the idiot's voracious appetite, and derl sr th e that he possessed more cunning than one-hal f 1 :o inmates of the workhouse. Before he came l ibs they were not afraid of placing their food tie shelves in the different wards, but now that he ',,sati come amongst them like a hungry wolf, nut a N o of " wittles" could they keep unless they hid $"- gether from him. 'd s l4 Another of the defendants said, that they d id 4 intend to give the idiot such a drubbing for 130 , 1 ,1 - 0 0 their .wittles, until they found, after the first - „ 0 0 they gave him, he turned upon them, and ‘ l. '".if have got the better of them, they being old In e ; e rl they had not acted with decision and overP °W o -r ost him. "It was," added this defendant' Whic " gs k by serious matter to be done out of one's such a glutton as this here hidiot is." .1 the The third defendant said that he only he l " idiot's arms while his brethren horewhiPpedl -' " I have been on board of a man-of - war, your ro; ship," added he, " and I know this , that let hinl. idiot or what -not, if he stole his, messmate's (OA he'd soon get lashed to a gun, and get a couple dozen with the eat." The Magistrate had some difficulty in decidir;l! what punishment to inflict on the defendants. youngest being 72 years of age. If he inflitted o ' on rhem, it was certain they were unable to , any ; and their age secured them from work on d tread-mill ; therefore sending them to the Hous e r , Correction would be but little punishme nt to the After, however, a consultation between the Plo strates, the defendants were sentenced to o ne moot imprisonment each at Brixton. • A man named LODDER, who was last w e v sl committed f ,, r three months' hard Isbour to the 11°°-iirl Correction at Dorchester, escaped on the road frollitbeit constables who were conveying him, but who, o n w it' arrivhl at the prison, found him at the gate patiently fate d ing them, having previously rung the bell, an d i o the turnkey of his committal, but that he did not lo` di.grace of being seen in custody on the way. o e It has been decided, that the large 0° . sr e boards, placed by the brewers against public hoolj te dangerous nuisances, calculated to facilitate fin 10 16 prevent inhabitants escaping by the windows, 8° under the 13uii,ling Act, to be taken down. 0 114 NOVEL READING.—It is unclouhted l Y bo: to the fact, that during 1828 alone, thirteen toSiteebstqA ing lost their reason from novel reading, and !We n t , he in the madhouse of Charenton, that the g ove lll . 10 0. 0 Schaffhaussen has published an exhortation se perusal of romances.— Quotidienne 0 0 BIRTHS. ,(10 10 On the 9th inst. at Torquay, the lady of Lieu t. Elphinstor, of daughter. J. ( of On the u a 11th inst. in Fitzroy-square, the .--• Balker, Ecq. of a son. dy CIO On the Bth inst. at Elvethan, Hampshire , La . 'll lotte Cdthorpe, of a son. N et t. On the 7th inst. at R ,if unnymede, the Hon. o' r- 4 * Reid, of a daughter. , .0 1 On the 10th inst. at Oxford, the lady Watts, Rector of Tarrant Gunville, Dorset , of a w s P . ; of rt O the 10th inst. the lady of A. Hume, I. ''' . daughter. of the Re.... MARRIED. CO On the 11th inst. Marshall Hall, Esq. M.D. t° , 0 0 4 lotto, daughter of Valentine Green , Esq. of NO III- . , le-Heath, ethtl eath, Leicestershire. s. lii Oa the I 1 th inst. H. Mereeron, .Esq. °f late eseen, Esq. to Matilda, third daug hter of the , 1 1 Bird, Esq. of Bath. 0 • At Cork, M. J. Staunton, Esq. to Miss Bal.1) resa Fitzgeialti. DIED. • 8 11111 ' On the 10th inst. at Brockwell-hall , Surrey; .'' E4q. of Ludgate-hill, in his 78th year. 5 , On the 11th ihst. Mr. Win: Kingsfardi of the .„) with-two-Neck.< Tavern, Lad-lane, aged 51. ,A ; On the 10th inst. in his 71st year , at Haot ; ir liattye, Esq. of the firm of Battye, Fisher, an d Cinuvery-lane, solicitors. • lid 0 At Hampstead, the Rev. T. Belsham, the nt i)l M nister of the Chapel in Essex-street, in the 0- - of his age. . ~; _ - EAST INDIA.—DEATHS. o 1 At Pundigul, April 18, Lieut. J. Pi nchar" Horse rt illery. At J. A iulnah, April 19, Ensign T. S Wlo' 10 Native Infantry. e C' At Kandy, April 17, Capt. Manwaring , °- th Rifle Regiment. • Ito ri' At Ghazipoor, May 25, by a fall from. 1115 , Grant, Paymaster H. M. 38th Regt. , fr At Noacolly, April 24, Capt. F. Mack enPel I. aged 38. On board the John Woodall (suddenly), - Ll° fot ti R. Jenkins, ,ecoad officer, aged 20. At Calcutta, June 4, A. Gibb, the Medical Board, aged 68. E'll• Senior lift i 34 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO Y O 00 viz Strif Orncz, 1121:fiviits.,