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'LAW INTI Liu6Ncg. COURT OF fiING'S SEttJEANTS' INN lIALL, OCTOPILIt Four special cases were argued to-day. hut tione oft cut wt re of eery getteral importance. LRDRI*VR V. FARROW. tIIA Was an action upon a bill of exchange for 501. The raw. rif the case were „t hat the defendant was the agent of the Dili-ham Bank, residing at HeXhatn, in Wortoumberland, and the plaintiff having occasion fur a hill upon London, deposited 80/ in the hands of the defendant, who accord- . ingly drew for that sum upon the agent's of the Milo - tin Bank; residingin the metropolis, desiring the money to he paid on account of the Durlmm Bank, the defendant signing the bill without de scribing himself in the character of all agent. The Durham Bank afterwards became insolvent, and the bill not being paid, the question now was whether the defendant was liable upon it in his pprsioud character. The Court iield that as there was no other name upon the bilLand as it was drawn in his personal character, the defendant 111011 V was liable. Judgme,ot for the . plaintiff. DDLESES SESSiONS, OCT. 31. LYCEVNI. • A licence was prayed by Mr• Arnold for the Lyceum. hi, Verition stating that he had expend ed 80,000/. iti building an Opera House, but that his' licence from the Chamberlain to perform Operas was restricted to our months. lle there fore prayed a licence to enable him to open his house for the residue of the year for dancing and concerts His petition was opposed by the Theatres of Dimry 7 lane and Covent -garden. Upon the opinion of the Bench being taken, a Large. majority was in tavour of Aranting the licence, which was issued accordingly. pANTRtON. Application was alio made to :the Court, on the part of the Proprietors of fire Pantheon, for li cemse tor Music and Dancing; for the ensuing whiter. This was opposed by Mr. CtNnY, who had the liceuse.last year, stating, that he had the nectipation of the. Theatre, and claimi'd a re'n'i!wal of the license. It was asked, whether the ptihlk grad bencfitvil by the license granttd last year ? It wi t s saki„, that owing to di , . pities it bad not been u30.--The license was .refose,tl to either panty. THE MILLISIt AND HIS MEN. At the Northumberland Sessions, held at Atn wick the 17th instant, Wit/ia»t (lager chicken, Eduard-Brati, -and. Robert Sisterson, four men, late in the employ of Mr. CaAwronp, milli r, near Mirth °Side!di, were faund guilty of stealing flour, the property of their master. It appeared that these men had been many years in the cm- Ployment nt Mr. Crawford. Willis for thirteen. Mr. CraWfOrd fervently thought the flour.WaS ;tot of that quality, or consitined of, the qiiiinthy which the wheat ought to prodUce. About April last another min was eifgaged to work in the mill : he had not been long there before he ob served the prisoners carry away flour, and on their discovering he bad found out their tricks, they 'endeavoured to prevail 'woo him to do the same himself; at the same time observing;, that he need have no fear Of being found out if he kept a close tongue : they then sheaved him the mintier in which they conveyed the flinir out of the mill, stitch was . t hits CraWford allitwed hi§ men a certain tpiantity of coals, which they cart lel in a bag, within which coal bag they contrived to put an inner hag, which they filled frill of flour, and carried away with, the coals, to their respec tive ironies ;, and the conduct of thesenven'at last became so notorious, that the neighbours' used to observe, when any of then) . passerl'With their coal bags, " there goes the white crow in the black er . ow." However, this new man withstood the temptation of his fellow-servants; and acquainted bis master with what he haul seen ; who very pro perly commenced the above prosecution. The Court sentenced them to be confined to hard la bour in the Howie of Correction, at' Morpeth, for twelve months. The Chairman (THoMas CYAN )iEL, Esq.) on passing sentence, strongly snimat.' 'erie on the conduct of servant in purloining that property which it was tiseir.boutteen duly to protect ; and he trusted, that the example utak of those men would operate as: a warning to Others.,,), CURIOUS IiVitOLARY AND . 13POERY.. -- * A :Gen. ()email oldtlist name of BURT, residing with his ( All ay hotElist india-row, Poplar, being on a visit to-a-trietlir in the King's-road tor a I,iw days, re ceived qtilligence that in his absence his house bad beell; i brolten into and robbed, and that a boy, who wasokOeof the depredating party, bad been taken by the watchmen in the act of arming over the garden•wall from the. house. Mr. B. imme diately returned home, and when arrived there Pliny: his house completely gutted. The plun derers had not only completely eleared dietitian, but had regaled themselves by drinking„several dozens of wine s and even carried otf the trunk of a servant girl who was with her mistress, with all her wardrobe exetpl,wliat she had along With her. So entirely did they consider themselves at their ease, they had amused themselves with,smokiug and reading„ for-on the only table they left behind them, they had deposited several, pipes, newspa pers, and the glasses which they had used in drink ing-tbc wine. BURGL A RI ES .-09 Wednesday night 'the house of Mr. Mimic, Old Nicholas-street, Bethnal green, was hurglarionsly entered by thieves, Who stole It large quantity of wearing apparel, with 0)46 they got clear ofF.—The same .night the house of Mr. Wm. Ladgrore, a broker, in Moor herds, was broken into, and a barometer, souse carpets, and other property, to a large amount, , Stolen. —Monday n i g ht the dwelling-house of William Corey, biker, Colt-lane,Aietimal-green , was entered by thieves, who succeeded in carry ing oil a great:A . oBlloy of wearing apparel, candles of different: sizes, and a bushel of breatl ready baked for the morning customers, anti it is - very singular, although persons were up in the house at the time, that riot the -.ls;_noise..was heard,: and that the thieves got off quietly with their plunder. OLD BAILEY, finunsn IY, eCT. 31. dia Pagett and William Perry stood indicted Nor assaulting Jane Presti:n, and taking'froti:lier . person a silk shawl. The prosecutrix, it appeared, in'tiimpany with a Mrs. Hill, was proceeding along the narrow part of Rathbone-place, on their way home from tile, theatre, When'the was met by the prisoner Pagett, and two other women of the town. 'Pagett gave her a violent blow on The cheek, which knocked her down, and on snatching at the shawl,. the pri soner also fell on her back. Sire presently, how ever, ,recovered herself, ail(' gave the shawl she had in her hand .to Perry, tiplu wide!) they both made off. The 'other two women who were. in company with Pagett went away before the shawl was taken. The 'Jury found 'both the prisoners Guilty. David Hutchinson was capitally indicted for stealing a heifer, value IV. the property of John Russell. John Walden deposed, that be was a drover, living near Boston, and on the 224 September ar rived in London with a drove a beasts, about 50 in number. On the• next day, the 23d, a heifer, which had been previously marked 11 .P on the rump, was !pissed. On the 22d witness had de liVered all the beasts over to %Via. Nicoll, drover, in Sinitlifield, William Nicoll received 33 of the beasts on the' day mentiOned by Walden : the rest were left at Islington. The beasts Were Marked differently, some being marked B on the Mr rump, and others 11 P. On Sunday, the 23t1, the heifer in tities don, marked P, was stolen, and in consequence of information he received, witness went to a butcher's shop, kept by a man of the name of Stent, in iVestillillSter, and there found the hide ot,the heifer, nusiked H P. Joseph Hurst lived with, and worked for, Mr, Stent. He knew the prisoner, aim nii the2lsl of September met bins in the street. He asked wit ness whether he lived with Mr. Stem, and o he titer he thought his master would allow hint to kill sonic beasts in his tilaughter.housel Hurst replied, that he had better go and ask his master: Cn the 24th, tire Monday following, the prisoner brought a heifer to the-slaughter-hotoe, marked Ei P, and there killed it. Joseph City, butcher, having heard of the rob bery, went to Stent's slaughter-house, at half-past three o'clock on Tuesday, the 25th of September, in the morning; and having waited until six, saw the prisoner go into the slaughter-house. As he was proceeding to cut the bind from the fore.: quarter, 'witness look hint, in the presence of lily, the officer into custody, A written defence was put in, in which the pri soner declared that bereveived' the beast from a Man in Smithfield to kill for him. Death. John Weston was put to the her on the charge of stealing a silver watch and seal, value 575. the property of Elizabeth Harris. The prisoner, as was`shown upon the examina tion of the witnesses, became neqintinted with James Greenfield, a steward on' board of a V4,IA. ndiaman,.by whom he was introduced into the house of Mr. gallant . , and passed among the ser vants as his brother., On the 22d ut October, the prisoner ,carne to Mr. lielfont's house, and was invited by the servants to sleep there. The room in which b. slept was next to that of Elizulteth Ihrris, and it appeared that about half past seven o'clock shegot up, as usual, to clean the house; leaving her watch under her pillow, with time key hanging out, apparent to every one who might en ter the thorn. At about eight the prisoner catue down,-passed Harris, and, went out of the house through the kitchen without his hat. The watch WAS preS.elitly MitiSed, and traced to a pawn broker's, where the prisoner was proved 'to have pawned It, having at time time no hat upon his head. The property was identified, and the Jury convicted the prisoner. Ashton, Eleanor Henriekson and Francis Dixon were indictedr--Ashton for.stealing a watch and gold seal, &c. the property o 1 EdWard ; and Henrickson and Dixon, the one for receiving the watchond the other the seals, knowing them to be stolen.• The prosecutor belonged to the Griffin, a ship lying in theLaver Thames, .ft short dßtance helots? the 'l'ouver; and the property was stolen front the cabin, where he had left them. The wit ness examined brought all the facts home to the prisoners Ashton and Henrickson, who' were both found Guilty ; but Dixon was acquitted.' John Smith was capitally convicted for burgia riously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Samuel Chason, and stealing therein sonic plate, and 2/. 4s. in silver. On the 24th of October last the prisoner came to the public-house of the prosecutor and bad some liquor. . He then went out, and the shut ters were shut tip. At a quartet past 10 o'clock, -Mrs. Chason sent her servant up to her bed -room for some sheets, and upon entering the chamber, fOund the windows and shutters, which had been previously shut, wide open, the drawers open, and the property in question gone. She imme diately went down stairs to inforM her mistress, and while in the act of telling her what she had seen, distim:tly heard a man jump, as if front a window, upon the .parement in the street. - A person who Was passing through Russell-street at the time, saw the prisoner jump from the window of this room, and after pursuing him through many streets, at laat apprehended him, and gave hint in charge to a constable. A pistol, loaded within half an inch of the mouth, containing two balls, a box with phosphorus, matches, and Other arti cles, were Maud ,upon hiM when he was taken, and the prisoner was With much difficulty pre vented from pulling the pistol out of his right hand pocket when he . was apfirehended. LARGE ERs.—There was c►►ught in theSolway, in th►e nets of SARAH • LocKERBIE, of Annan, an eel of the enormous size of 12 feet long, by 18 inches in circumference. Wednesday evening, sbont seven o'clock . , as Win. Sketly, a boy about twelve years of age, yon to a poor woman in the neigiihouihood of lilackfriars, was playing on Saint Andrew's-bill, heldi down, when a ! . cavenger's cart going down the bill at . the live time, one of the wheels went over his head, and lie died upon being taken to the hospital. 4POLIC,i INTEi;IAGENC& now-STREET. BaaAn.—Yesterday Chor&l Ferguson, a baker, is Broad-street, St. appeared by summons before Mr. MIMI/t o to answer to an in formation, charging him witls selling Bread short of *eight, very properly brought against him by Mr. Charles Stray, a respectable shrieMaker, in Tottenham Court-road, who had dealt with the prisoner for some time, and had.frecrently dis covered his quartern loaves, four and five ounces short.of weight, and bad complained tohimupon the subject frequently, and the defendant had as often 'pronilsed that it should not happen again. On Monday Mr. Stray, sent a boy in his employ to the defendant's shop for two quartern loaves ; and from what had happened before, he was in duced to weigh them, and found they only- weighed , three pounds fifteetcounces, being six ounces and a half short of weight ; and having a large family of seven children to maintain, it was more than be could afford to 'lose ; and as a matter of public justice, he thpttgbt it right to.lay the infortna-. lion.—Mark Bnekingham, his boy, confirmed the above. 'Pte Magistrate considered this a very flagrant case, especially as bath the loaves weighed exactly the same '.eight; the probAbitity therefore was, that all the loaves he had made. on that - day, were of *bests= deficiency - in weight, and therefore he thought bins a proper subject for a 'white example, and convicted him in the full penalty often lings an ounce on the thirteen ounces, with co•ts WORSHIP-STREET. Monte LIGHT BREAD. —Alexander Callender, baker in the City-road, was summoned at this Office yesterday for selling bread shivy.t in weight. It appeared the infornnttion was laid by a poor woman, who purchased Wily one loaf, and found it two ounces short in weight. This was all the bread, produced in Coml. • But bee %yds further charged with retushig to wi•igh the bread, agree. ably to the Act of Parliament, which world sub ject him to a penalty of at teas( 408. This ptirt of the case, however, was not made nut. Mr. GMORD said, he was determined to 'putt the law in torce,payticularly in such cases as these. Bread Was very dear at preent, and heyotW the teach of many poor peop ' e. The bakers had had). good time of it lately. He would, therefore, con vict the prisoner in the penalty of IN. per oe.-- As there were only 2 us. deficient, prisoner paid 20s. MANSION-HOUSE. AGED DSLTNQUENay.—Mary Smith, fsr ad vanced in years, was charged with having stolen a tea-caddy and a quantity at clothes out of the apartments of a Mts. Caballo, who stated that soon oiler she had left her rooms in Bishopsgate. she heard they bad been broken alien, and upon going to examine them, she met the prisoner in the custody of : some persons: Smith had at the time the properly above-mentioned,, which -:be longed to Mrs. Cabal)°, whose rooms and drawers had been broken open. The prisoner slid the otlieet inertly wanted to get his forty. The La its'NrSt6irds*Oirillts 44'004 ice , ligi•O the I'f , lEc., heri gretted dee att, existed to tut imwarrantableextent. It was certainly a cow- . pendions method to punish a body of people for the crimes of itidividuali, and save the tr ou bl e o f proof ; but as human as well as Divine justice did not consider crime as applicable to tlennininatiotts, but to individtiall, it Was an act of rebellion against reason and hamanity -to indulge such a disposition against those who Were unconeerted in the transactions alluded to. The general pre judice induced him to Make this.observation. The prisoner %VHS hilly Committed. MATILTtORNJOH- 4 :TREET. CHARGE 01; WILFUL ANSWER. —Yesterday John Coleman, a youth about IS yearaold, was brought up, previous to h►s going► to the Session, charged with' tl►e wilful murder of his father-in law, Bartholomew Mannax, a shoemaker. lately residing at No. 29, Moutuouth-street, St. Giles's, on the 15th of September. The evidence pro duced on the Coroner's Inquest was gone through aga i n , and the only new feature in the case was the testimony of a woman who CillOC forward 10 swear that the death 'was Abe effect of accident. Coleman, however, was sent to Newgate to take his trial during this Session. UNION-HALL. James Gosport was yesterday brought before the Sitting Magistrate, charged with repeatedly 'as saultinga young Lady of fortune and respecta bility, residing at Stockwell. roar the evidence of the young Lady's mother it appeared, that the defendant, an - elderly man, is a plasterer by trade, and resident at Stockwell : her daughter is a girl of 16 , , and entitled to considerable property on coming of age. For some time past, whenever the young Lady went out, the prisoner bad been in the habit tif way-laying her, and annoying her with professions of love and admiration ; and he had also frequently of late forced his way even into the house, and disturbed the family. He hail been repeatedly remonstrated with, but remon strance produced no good effect. The prisoner did not deny the charge, but said he must have a-wile, and a young one too -; and he had fixed his affections on the daughter of the peo ireautrix. He had made honourable proposal* to the young lady, and did not conceive he had ever received a final answer : this was the cause of his persevering in his attentions. He was ready, how ever, to promise he would not again go to the house, or interrupt the young lady in her progress through the street. `The Magistrate, considering• the prisoner as somewhstt deranged, was unwilling to proceed to extremities with him, and the prosecutrix not press ing her charge, tlo defendant was discharged with a reprimand and a caution as to his future con duct ; the Magistrate informing him, that should lie persist in Such conduct as that now complained of,: and be again brought before him, he' would most ,certainly be committed till he fuund sureties fur his good behaviour. , MEMORANDUM I.I,XTRAOIMINARY. WILLIAM. SUTHERLAND, commonly cAlled MORE, was horn about . . the end or the 14th i'entor, in the parish of LAtheron, in Ilre' . soothern col miry of Caithneis-shire, who 'beam. eri anniz,l g height of nine feet five inches. 11 . .ARVE!'3T - IN iitt.);‘,NlS We have extracted from the Country Papers every article of intelligence which they c ontained: relative to the state of the harvest. A reference. to the extracts thus made will satisfy our reader - 9 that:the great sourees of public food are not inju riously deficient. In the South the ditrgiog oat of the potatoc crop has commenced.; awl it would: he well if, the example were 'generally followed: thioughont the country.—(Dublin,COrreSpond ent, Oct. 28.) , . We arc happy to learn that work of mauling a new road between YOughal and K:lleagh has commenced, as it will give employment to such a, number of poor persons, and be such - an improveur, mcnt to that part of the country. It is a curious .fact, that in digging up part of &id, through' which the road is to pass, a quantity of pikes, at many as made two cart loads, were foutOi.a'hirli it is supposed must have lain there since the time,. of the Rebellion.—(Same Paper.) Though we have received many idditional ac counts from various parts of the country, respecting the state of the harvest, yet theycoincide so m uch with our preceding statements, that,. however in teresting the subject, lilac remains to be said on it. The Provincial Prints too, in every , part a our Island, continue to represent the harvest in telligence of their respective districts in the same favourable light as described by their former com munications. Indeed, of the different corn eroPsy a tery small portion of oats '.alone, in the moun tainous parts of the Country, (it least in tire South of Ireland,) remains to he harvested, owl;" when he is not employed in threshing, the fornic r ' s industry j 3 stow exclusively applied to digging and securing his potatoes. For this purpose a•great number of itinerant labourers have becti and at high wages, in the neighhonrhooll this City. With respect to the crop, th e ar mints we have received differ considerably. On dry soil d near the sea coast, 'the q;tality is said to he pa and the produce adundaut. Of the interior, tw. tiinintly in moist grom , d, the reports with rev/ exceptions are not so encouraging, either as (1) quality or quantity, but they 'all' agree in stating, that the crop has been much more extensive: l f cultivated than usual.— (CorkAdverrtser.) . . EDINBURGH, OCT. 28. Late on Salitiday ni ht a fire broke out If ' I htinse- in Galtoway's entre, Canongate, rithz" burgh,•where an old Lady wss but nt todeath fore any person was aware of the circumstance. It is conjecturer', that some part of her clothes had caught tire, and the flame proceeding onwadit . had, by suffocating, prevented_ her calling fur help. An alarm having been given, the tire en gint's of Edinburgh and Leith were ‘vith great alacrity brought to the spot, and, by perseve' ing exertions of the firemen, the flames were cos fined to the room, aml finally subdued witimat dtiing furtherniisehief. The body Was' consume" ' almost to.. ashes ; and a 0614 tlllll eat,. tar 0i4:1; companions, shur.ed - t he same fate. The "Y who Notiered was Airilfilw, tyro 70 years-of age. ‘Vednesitay the hills in view Irvin the t ows of Kendal were capped for the first time thi " e r " ith snow. This Appe3raoce, which 1114 be called the first indicati , ii of the' api)rciaeli winter, was seen in tine north of England siyeJi.ll as the 4th of -September, but that, fill of ta.rlollr was confined ,to Skid(laW, Atid gh bOrotigli, am. I a few other Moilumins , the its thenorthern group. • O." Thusaday night serious depred-etions %%ere,. committed by. a gang. of t hieves in thevillage af Aberlady, where every 'thing - that layexpOsed the gardens and out-houses a 'the I.lllSiisvC Cti ll l. villagers Wtre carried of; and alno.st ever,' I: utf 11"it"'" has stiffened more or less in the Vs.s clothes, hee4iives, fruit, Ponitry, No I " .c has yet been' discovered of the depredators. A reopitv sktraig the pleas u r e, o lkis ,Royal like ness the PRINCK URGENT, Wil s reCej"d at deen on s Friday for Andrew D o nald, at pr.escut un der sentence of' death for the crimes of house.. breaking and theft. • 00 the morning of the 18th current riSpeetr able young mail, sotilnaii to a 'merchant in Ciiptr jog to his lodging life, was found dead at the foot of the stair lout examined by medical men, under the prurr 4 " ... • and, front the marks . on ii, the belief at present is that his death 'was occasioned by 0 0 7 s. . Ilia body wad immediately levee. In consequence of an unhappy a father and son, farmers, it; the ;itinity of• Sdri ~ A b cf ; deep, concerning the property of field of the father 'wounded his sou in the g rail* , vviti t t. sickle he held in his hand, and otheovisC"4:o treated him. For bctftie tune the man quarrel betweo raised recovery,, but it is now very doninfill r Monday night, about 12 . O'clock; M rs ' 111 l ‘. l . Was, apprehended in B r id g egate-street , and carried to ihe Police Of ‘Vhic" ed, upwards of 61. l Is. in'hase money were I° , 4. on her person ; soineor tin! siiver w as even being newly . madc, and the Manufacturing ja)l" ments were also found upon her. A matt of the name of CHARNLEF.Y, W/' liyg . till February next, will' then enter .the hundredth year of his age, assisted in rearini-E: field of oats last week, at Marsh Side , ham, near Lancaster. Yesterday. at Hampstead, • - , • NtA RR! FM. William Wiesen, General in the serv , e , ot tlie enil 4 - rnr Russia, to Miss Aiken, eau + 1 f M ` like[[, of lial+ 4. g. ter u r. stead. . . Yesterday, at St. reo '1 H - r....‘ uare, Robe!. ,-,_ „ ..v rge s ('hare 1, movie .. 1 .. __.„ 04 ""muiC taller,tsq. a rise War•Otiict, to MISS Sus 11 1. ' - 14, of Diss, Norolk. -----• • __—_--- liii EKcellencv Baron cretlerienik On Monday, in the ;6th year of his age, DIED. ' ardo Esq. of Ehill, tVandcworrh. ‘f 4 .tixiet S it, London, on the 30th ult. the Rev. Alexamter ' 0 " ( 1 ) , e, of tinrruland, in Perthshire, and S arroWliead, in VUI ii , ' 1 Mittliter of St. Paul's, in SI ' P ietaeld, ... - . f sir r► wife 0 - tin We I •Ja I - , neb y at,- of apoplexy, Wean"-, ' , Limes Denham,. of lilachheailill• Iti . s Ant i On Friday lait, at Last Lone, Cornwall, aged 9f l , -r • C%impbell, 'mother of Captain Campbell, It.N• John 13arch LON:i : Print( At 0 00 • ; anti Ftithlisitetl by Tit Iri of n ri%t • . _ . st' at the SUN-Orr:cr.. * No. 1 0 , Sfrand : where I , s d , Lents, Orders, Letttrs,Stc. (postepaid) must be addl .° J. 11. CA IPS. No. 7. Cr