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THE LONDON JOURNALS. EXTRACTS FROM TILE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, August 30, 1822. [MORNING _POST.] Tux KING.—:As the wind has hitherto been tolerably favourable, his Majesty, in all proba bility, is by this time considerably advanced in lsis voyage from Scotland, and may reasonably be expected to reach London by Sunday at far- :heat. The conduct observed by the people of Scotland on the occasion of his Majesty's visit, werves in no small degree to enhance the charac ter they had before so justly acquired, not only for loyalty to their Sovereign, but for a correct sense of moral propriety and decorum. The strict purity of their religious sentiments was most im pressively evinced by their conduct on the occasion of.his Majesty's attending Divine Service on Sun day last, when the most profound and reveren tial silence was observed by the whole popula tion while his Majesty passed along the streets, on his way to the place of worship. Never cer tainly was a more impressive religious trait dis pl.ayed by any people. Feeling that boisterous expression of joy would be a violation of the solemn and sacred character of the Sabbath, they testified their loyalty and affection to their Sove reign by taking off their hats and profoundly bowing to him as he passed along—a demeanour at once so religious and loyal as could not fail to make a deep impression upon the mind of the Kipg, and to raise the character of the Scotch people higher if possible than ever in his Ma jesty's esteem.- [BRITISH PRESS.] It will be seen by the letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Gibraltar,—(See THE su. of Yester day)—that the Government of Spain has marked its sense of the conduct of the United States, in recognising the independence of the South Ameri can Governments, by commanding the States to remove their depot of naval stores from the island of Minorca. Spain could not, without a compro mise of her dignity, fail to evince displeasure against the United States, on account of the re cognition of her revolted provinces ; but the step of compelling the States to look around for another depot in the i\lediterranean will probably have the effectof inducing the Americans earnestly to•assist the Greeks, from whom alone they can expect to obtain a harbour. Should Greece owe her freedom to the interference of the United States of America, while the ancient free Powers of Europe looked cold lyon thecontest,itwill afford them ever lasting glory. When Greece sunk under the arms of AMurath, America was yet undiscovered, and the Turks were the most formidable people in the world. America has since passed from infancy to-the strength of maturity, and now exercises a considerable influence upon the affairs of Europe; while the Ottoman Porte is sinking into the de crepitude- of old age. Greece ventures once again to hope for independence, and her patriots look for assistance to the country where a con federation of Republics seems to offer a. picture of what Greece herself had exhibited in the brightest period of her existence. We confess that we should envy the United States the glory of:giving liberty to Greece. [TIIC TIMES.] There seems reason to hope that the relations between Spain and France are about to be re established on a more advantageous footing for thr former, and on terms more honourable to the latter Government. Public opinion in Spain makes no scruple of ascribing to the Ambassador to the French Court, M. Casa Irugo, such a bias in favour of the Servile faction, as amounted to a sacrifice of his great public trust as representa tive of the interests of the Spanish Constitutional Monarchy. The consequence IS, that, as ap pears by letters from Paris of the 26th, M. Casa Irugo has been recalled to Madrid.— His successor is to be the Duke de San Lo renzo, a Brigadier-General in the Spanish army, and who was a patriot during Buonaparte's invasion. This Nobleman is, however, of mode rate principles, though of a firm and steady cha racter, and a strong supporter of the existing Constitution. The choice appears to be of a na ture to satisfy ,all parties of reflecting men, who are aware that the solid interests of the country might have been as much endangered by the in discreet and inconsiderate violence, as by the lukewarmness or duplicity, of the Minister accredited to the Tuilleries. Casa Irugo was supposed to be a strenuous advocate for the establishment of a Chamber of Peers in Spain. So were many wise and upright individuals in the earlier stages of the revolution. We have formerly been inclined to join them in that view of a supposed reform for the Spaniards, but the conduct of the Court, the upper Ecclesiastics, and the Grandees, has been such as to impress us with a persuasion, that 'until the present race shall be extinct, an Uppar Chamber, formed,, as it must be, out of materials inimical to the State, must be employed as an engine for its overthrow. The Spanish Envoy at Paris must be devoted to the Constitution, and to nothing but the present Constitution, or he will be %holly incapable of fulfilling the difficult functions imposed upon him by the joint schemes of French and of Spanish ultra-royalists. [NEW TIMES.] In all Cabinets there must be some subordinate points on which honourable and enlightened Statesmen may differ; and that such may be the case with the present French Cabinet we shall not dispute : but we repeat that, on the question of an invasion of Spain, there is not the slightest difference among the French Ministers; no one of them is in the least disposed to any such mea sure ; still less has it been proposed by Monsieur to his august brother, the King, for adoption.— We have reason to believe that on the internal policy of France there is more diversity of senti ment in the French Cabinet. The English pub lic has seen with surprise the tardy and ineffec tual means that have been adopted to bring the French 'traitors to pUnishment. No King sits firm on his throne, whose Ministers dare not strike at treason promptly and effectually. No Govern ment is secure, where the laws against every class of offenders cannot be enforced ; or where, if the law be palpably inadequate to the emer gency, the Legislature cannot or will not venture on adequate enacttnents. Every succeeding Mi nistry iu France has been surrounded with revo lutionary advisers, who have paralysed the force of authority in the restraint of treason. This influence has indeed happily declined, and its sphere has been very greatly narrowed ; but still it exists. When Fouche was Minister, he himself was at the head of the plan for annihilating all Royalist principle. M. De Richelieu was com pletely blinded by the noble ideas of modera tion and clemency which his deceivers employed. In the present Ministry there is only one indivi dual, M. De Corbiere, who is believed to be thus misled; but as his department is that of the In terior, which directs the whole Police of the Kingdom, it is obvious, that, if there be any ground for this opinion, the consequences may be very serious, in a country where the Tribune and the Press have been openly employed to promote those insurrections which the secret Societies have prepared. M. De Corbiere is universally admitted to be a most honourable man ; but we doubt whether he understands the effect of the Press ; and, still more, whether he has not been treacherously served by the Police Agents of his Departments. If they had done their duty, it seems impossible that the Secret Societies could have carried on their plots in so many parts of France ; and if they did not do their duty, the Minister should not have hesitated to remove them from office. The War Minister, the Duke de Bellune, has shewn an example of strictness in restraining re volutionary principles atnang the subordinate Officers of his branch of the Administration, and his conduct has been followed by the most bene ficial results. [MORNING- HERALD.] It seems implied in the last Spanish papers that another alarm was given of the King's in tending to escape from the kingdom—at least from Madrid. The Guards round the Royal stables were reinforced—even after the King had' consented, at the desire of his Council, not to leave the capital. There appears no doubt that the Portuguese are sending a strong military cordon to defend the frontier against France, in concert with Spain ; and it is even said, that England has joined in the Peninsular alliance, offensive and defensive, with Spain and Portugal. This would be indeed a singular change in the views of the British Government, and in those of the Allied Powers also.—We can hardly sup pose, that the moment is yet come, when England must seek friends against the European alliance. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] When the Irish Constables' Bill was in pro .gress through the House of Commons, we recol lect that Mr. Brougham (to borrow his own lan guage on another occasion) " administered an interrogatory" or two to Mr. Plunkett, with the view of learning the probable number of places to be created by this Act. The Right Hon. Gentleman at that time found it quite impos sible even to approximate towards a satisfactory answer, and to the present moment we believe the public are unacquainted either with the amount of patronage which this Military Police measure has placed in the hands of Government, or the expence it will impose upon the country. —From some circumstances, however, which have come to our knowledge, we have reason to think that both must be considerable.— It appears that already the number of applica tions, with " thick and three-fold" recommen dations, to the Irish Government, for appoint ments under the Constables' Bill, are about five thousand ! Such a point of attraction too has this Act rendered Dublin Castle, that these applica tions have been conveyed to it from every point -of the compass, and every part of the United Kingdom. We are not, therefore, surprised to find the Dublin Evening Post insinuating that the show of opposition made to the Bill, by the IriSh Country Gentlemen, just in sufficient time to reach London after it had passed into a law, was somewhat of a joke. It could not well be otherwise. The salary of the stipendiary Magis trates, with all appurtenances thereunto belong-, ing (if the present harvest prove as plentiful as it promises), will be a first-rate object with half the Gentry in Ireland 5. and we understand it is only persons of rank, fit'to associate with the Irish Squires of antedeluvian blood, who are to obtain those important situations. The very Chief Con stables, indeed, are intended to be Gentlemen. It is said they are to be chosen almost exclusively from the Army Half-pay List, under the rank of Staff Officers, and it is calculated that a salary of 1501. per annum, with house, coals, candles, &c. &c. amounting to about 1001. a year snore, will, added" to half-pay, and probably a pension, leave those constables extremely comfortable, on an annual income of from four to five hundred pounds. We have not heard as yet what' selec tions have been made by the Irish Government out of the list of applicants, although it is ru moured that some who now dream they are Ma gistrates will shortly awaken Constables; but it is certain that several of the candidates for both those dignities have very singular qualifications for office. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.--Yesterday the LORD MAYOR caused large placards to be stuck up in and about Smithfield, announcing the commencement of Bartholo►new Fair on Tuesday next, and cautioning all the keepers of suttl ing and sew booths, public houses, and other places of public entertainment, to shut up precisely at eleven o'clock ; together with other regulations concerning the fair. A considerable improvement is made in Smith field-market, by removing all those low posts and rails around, to which cattle were affixed for sale, and have substituted in their stead handsome oak railings, with convenient op !clings for foot passengers, &c. On Sunday last, the banns of matrimony were published be tween 23 couples, in our Collegiate Church, and during the three last days, 27 couples have been joined in the silken cords of wedlock ; a circumstance which shows the •anxiety of .per sons who were about to enter into the marriage state, to have their happiness consummated before the new Marriage Act 'comes into operation.--( Wolverhampton Chronicle.) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOAI, AUG. 1.-STATE OF THE ODDS. DONCASTER 15 to 8 agst Swap 8 to 1 agst Mandane 12 to 1 agst Ajax 14 to 1 agst Marcellus 20 to 1 agst Gascoigne's c. 25 to 1 agst Marion. 26 to 1 agst Bro. to Antonio ST. LEGER. 30 to 1 agst Theodore 30 to I agst Pilgarlick 33 to 1 agst Young Cypress 33 to 1 agst Magnus Troil. 33 to 1 agst Violet 40 to 1 agst Euphrosyne 50 to 1 agst Newbyth NEWMARKET ST. LEGER. 5 to 4 agst Posthurea. Even on Moses DERBY RACES, TUESDAY, AUG. 27. Sixty Guineas, given by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, for maiden horses, &c. Two mile heats. Mr. Platel's br. g. Slug, 5 yrs, Bst. 81b. - Mr. Massey's ch. f. Ynysymacrywn, 3 yrs - Mr. Slocock's b. f. Duchess, 3 yrs, 7st. - 5 and 6 to 4 on Slug.—Easy. A Sweepstakes by Subscribers of lOgs each. The winner of the Cup at Nottingham to carry 51b. extra. Mares and geldings allowed 21b. One three-mile heat. Sir I'. Mostyn's Teniers, 6 yrs, 9st. 31b. - Sir R. Gresley's The Pattiarch, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b. Sir G. Crewe's Haddon, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b. idr 1 1 2 2 3 3 Mr. Cave's ch. f. Mandoline, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b. (fel 3-to lon Teniers. Won easy. A Sweepstakes of 20gs each, for two-yr-olds. Half a mile. Mr. Platers br. f. Betsey, by Clinker, Bst. - - 1 Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. by } ilho da Puta, Bst. 21b. 2 2 to 1 on b. c. by Filho da Puta. a lam, CHATHAM RACES. YESTERDAY (THURSDAY, AUG. 29.) The Races, which afforded much sport, were under the Stewardship of W. P. Honeywood, Esq. M.P., Colonel Bur goyne, and two other Gentlemen. . A Maiden Plate of £5O. Two miles. Mr. Farrell's bl. m. by Don Cossack, 4 yrs, Bst. 1 Mr. Pierce's br. f. Miss Blucher, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b. - 2 Sir J. Honeywood's ch. c. by Blucher, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b. 3 Mr. Hulkes' bl. m. by Overseer, 6 yrs, 9st. - - 4 The winner the favourite. _ The City Plate of .£5O. Two-mile heats. Mr. Jones's Legal Tender, 6 yrs, 9st. 91b. - 1 1 Mr. Davison's Liberty, 6 yrs, 9st. 21b. - - 3 2 Mr. Friend's Philip, 6-yrs, Bst. 131 b. - - 2 3 6to 4 agst the winner-5 to 2 agst Liberty--3 to 1 agst Philip. A Sweepstakes of .Z 5 each, with £35 added. Mr. Turner's b. m. Coral - - - - 1 Mr. Jones's Prosody - - - - - 2 Mr. Brown's Marksman - - - - 3 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. LANCASTER, TUESDAY, AUG. 27. John Carty, convicted of the fraud on the excise at Liver pool in 1817, was - this morning brought up to receive judgment in the Nisi Prim, Court from the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. An affidavit was read in mitigation. Mr. WILLIAMS addressed the Court to the same effect. His Lordship was aware from the evidence, that the man whose in genuity contrived and constructed the machinery by which the fraud was effected, had not been sought by the defendant, but had been sent to him by an individual who was not now before the Court. The defendant was now a bankrupt, and had a family dependent upon him for their support. In this situa tion a pecuniary punishment would be to him only an inter minable imprisonment. He would rather suffer in his person than see his family destitute. The Learned Gentleman spoke at some length upon these topics, with great feeling and ap parent effect. Mr. RAINE spoke in aggravation. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE admitted that the contrivance seemed to)have been another's, not the defendant's. The of fence, at the same time, of which the defendant was so clearly convicted, was one of great extent and extensive criminality.— The sentence of the Court was, that he should be imprisoned for 18 months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ClunVnALL.—Yesterday a young woman, whose name in the list of prisoners was set down as Ellen Eyre, one of those wretched females whose appearance denotes a life of drunken. ness and debauchery, was brought up before Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, on. a charge of felony. The prosecutor, William Leonard, describing himself as a musician, residing in Castle -street, Clerkenwell, commenced his charge by stating that the prisoner ran away from him on Mon day morning last. " What," said Mr. Payne, the Magistrate's Clerk, who was examining him, " she lived with you as your wife ?" " Yes," replied Leonard, " she has done at several times." The prisoner here interrupted, by declaring that she was his lawful married wife, and he could not deny it. Leonard made no reply, but being pressed closely upon the subject' by the Magistrate, reluctantly acknowledged the fact. —He had been married to her some years ago at Shoreditch church, and had a family of five children by her. " What do you bring her here for now?" said the Magistrate. " For breaking the room open and robbing me," answered Leonard. " But you are married to her," said Mr. Payne, " and a wife cannot rob a husband." " Indeed, Sir," said Leonard, " she has robbed me several times, and almost ruined me." He then proceeded to state that on his return from his last voltage to India, in the Marquis Wellington, (for he was a sailor, it seems, as well as a musician) he found his wife in the House of Correction, under sentence of 'imprisonment for a robbery, of which she had been convicted at the Old Bailey. Be took her home again after the expira tion of her sentence, and she had several times since stripped his lodgings, and run away from him : this last time she robbed him to some tune, for on Monday she set off again, and took with her, among other things, two clarionets, the principal in struments by which he got his living, and he had seen nothing of her since till he met her accidentally that morning, and gave her in custody. The Magistrate commiserated the poor fellow's misfortune, and regretted he could do nothing to assist him. The law con sidered the interest of a wife in the property of her husband to be complete, and consequently no felony on her part could lie committed with respect to it. Leonard could not understand this law ; nor could he be brought to conceive why, after his wife had violated her matri. monial vow " to love, honour, and obey" him, the fatal de claration he had made at the altar, " with all my worldly goods I thee endow," should be held so strictly binding on him that his wife might rob him whenever she thought proper. " I can't get my livelihood," said he, " without my clarionets— she has pledged them—can't your Honour make her give me up the duplicates 9" But the duplicates, standing in precisely the same situation as the rest of tne husband's property, the Ma gistrate could not interfere, and the unfortunate musician was left to his own ingenuity to make the best of a bad bargain. MARLEOROUGH-STREET.— CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.— Yesterday Richard Cowlett, a boy between twelve and thirteen years of age, was charged by Mr. Dennis Quin, cow-keeper, of Little Guilford -street, Russell-square, with stabbing one of his cows with a pitchfork. Mr. Quin stated, that some time ago one of the cows was severely stabbed in the same manner, and that yesterday evening the boy was detected' in the act, and that he immediately ran off, ana threw the pitchfork through an opening Into the stable, and he was not taken until ten o'clock the same evening. The cow, he said, was in a very dangerous state, having received nine stabs on the side. The boy's de fence was that the cow had kicked him.—The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 10s., and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment in default of payment. LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday James Geese, servant to Mr. Wm. Hone, farmer at East Ham, appeared to an infor mation under Mr. Martin's Act, for cruelly whipping a cart horse.—The Sitting Magistrates, Sir DAN. WILLIAMS and M. WYATT, Esq. after having read him a severe lecture on his brutal conduct, convicted him in the penalty of 20s. and costs. The defendant said he was unable to pay the conviction. The Magistrates told him that in default thereof he should be committed for one month to hard labour in the House of Correction. BOW-STREET.—On Monday evening last, between nine and ten o'clock, the shop of Mr. Richard Staton, tailor, situate at the corner of the Golden Cross Inn, Charing-cross, was broken open, and a great quantity of cloth and wearing apparel stolen therefrom. Application was made by Mr. Staton on Tuesday morning, at this office, and Avis, one of the patrole, was employed to investigate the affair. Yesterday evening William Walker, a suspicious character, driver of the hackney coach, No. 1127, was taken into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery.—He was remanded. HAT T 0 N-GARDE N.—Yesterday William May was charged by Mr. Edward"Scargill, jeweller, Coppice-row, Clerkenwell, with forgery, under the. following circumstances.—Mr. Scargill deposed that the prisoner came to his shop about eight o'clock that morning, and presented him the note then produced, pur porting to be from Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, of Ludgate-hill, silversmith; ordering eight handsome mourning rings to he sent them by the bearer.—Mr. Bridge, of the firm of Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, deposed, he knew '{nothing oC the prisoner ; he was not in their employ, and the written order then produced was, to all intents and purposes, a fbzgery.—The prisoner was committed for further examination. A PeN.—A gentleman, who was blessed with a mouth of unusual dimensions, was once asked by a friend, if he had a lease of that mouth of hiS " No," good humouredly, rejoined the other, " I have it only from year to year." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--W e regret to have to corn) nunicate a most melancholy accident, which occurred on 'Wednesday last, in the county of Wicklow, by which a young Gentleman, of most amiable manners and character, has been suddenly snatched from his horror-struck friends, and from the society wherein he was universally esteemed. The lamented individual is James Pratt, Esq. second son (we believe) to General Pratt. Accompanied by his friend Mr.• Drury, he drove into.the county of 'Wicklow on Wednesday, on a shoot ing excursion ; the two Gentlemen weredriven in an inside car ; Mr. Pratt's gun, which was unfortunately loaded, was placed by his side in the car. Mr Drury observed to him, " You are subject to cold, and liable to a sore throat, put your handker chisf round your neck ;" the lamented young Gentleman com hpliisefdaoatntdo'tit is supposed , kere the lii m ef u'izle of which, t in ch m ed ov' t i l by accident, slipped towards his side—the piece went off—the contents lodged in Mr. PitATT's side„ and he expired shortly ngte trigger r u o st f his his handkerchief, afterwards.--( Dublin Freeman•) MURDER. John Wolfenden, aged 28, was put upon his trial for the murder of Eliza Ann Dunwell, at Royton, on the Coroner's Inquest, the Grand Jury having thrown out the Bill. Mr. COLT MAN stated, the case. The charge was, that the prisoner had caused the death of the deceased, his apprentice, by excessive work and insufficient food. The vestry of Royton had appointed men to go round the several places in the pa rish, where poor apprentices were employed—an example worthy of the highest praise and of general imitation. The consequence of their visit was, the discovery of the situation of this girl, who died soon afterwards. It was for them to say whether her death was caused by the conduct and treatment of the prisoner. Thomas Radcliff's—l live in Royton. I was appointed with others to inspect the different parish apprenticeships in May last. We went to Wolfenden's, a weaver. We found the de ceased sitting on a loom in a quite emaciated state ; we went from the cellar to where Wolfenden was. We had made in quiries of her as to what quantity of work she did ; she wove two yards and a half a day of fustian. She was about ten years of age. That was not a proper quantity of work for her age, even if she was well and hearty. She was unfit for work of any kind. 1 told him so. He said he had put her to bobbin wind ing and nursing of the child, but she was too weak for the child, being a lusty child, and she preferred weaving. I asked her to weave, and she did, with the greatest exertion, but with the greatest difficulty. I took her up in my arms, and thought she was not 201 b. weight. By Mr. WIT. L lAMS.—I don't know weaving. There were three other girls in the cellar. It is the custom to weave in cel lars. Two of the girls looked middling, another poorly. The prisoner has a wife and a child. John Cay, overseer.—She appeared in a very emaciated state, unfit for labour of any kind. Wolfenden said she looked badly when he took her an apprentice, but he had been told by the overseers of Leeds that she had been short of meat, and if he would take her she would come round. I went again to see her on the Bth of July. She was at a winding engine, quite in a worn out state. Nirolfenden seemed very willing that the indenture should be cancelled, and to give money to the town ship for the purpose. On the 10th she was taken to Rochdale. The Magistrates ordered me to take care of her, and that Wol fenden should pay the expences. She had done more work than a child of her age, in health, ought to do. I weave, but have no apprentices. By Mr. Wimams.—Wolfenden had had the girl since Christmas, and wished to send her back in April. On the 10th of July he offered 4/. to me to take her from him, and paid 1/. 10s. in part of that sum. He mentioned that her being poorly was the reason why he had wished to send her back. Margaret Mellor.—The girl, after she was removed, was sent to live with me. She looked almost done. She lived ten days. By Mr. WlLLtams.—She was consumptive. Mr. W. Taylor considered her to be in the last stage of a pulmonary consumption. She died nine days after. Extra ordinary labour would contribute to bring on the consumption. Cross-examined.—lt might have arisen from natural dispo sition. Mr. COLT MAN —That is the case for the prosecution. Mr. Baron WOOD.—I don't consider this a case of murder or of manslaughter. It is very proper that parish officers should look after these poor apprentices, but there appears to have been no culpable negligence, much less any design to destroy the hie of the deceased on the part of the prisoner.—Not Guilty. Mr. WILLIAms.—I ought to state for this poor fellow that we are prepared to prove that a medical man was called so early as February, and kept in attendance upon the girl for a consi derable time. Mr. COLT3IAN applied for the expences, and stated that they were bound over to prosecute by the Coroner (Mr. J. Milne). Mr. Baron Wool) granted the expences, and said it was very proper that those cases should be inquired into. ASSAULT ON A GIRL UNDER TEN YEARS OF AGE. John Hull, aged 36, was indicted for a most atrocious assault upon Eleanor Mercer, at Ilindley. The indictment was only for the misdemeanour, the Grand Jury having thrown out the bill for the capital offence. Mr. RAINCOCK stated the case. Eleanor Mercer,' a very interesting little girl, stated what happened to her with great clearness. The prisoner met her on the road near Hindley, on the 26th of March, and after in. .quiring the way to !ie next public house, he pulled her into a shippon (a shed for cattle), and there accomplished his brutal purpose ; she screamed, and he stopped her mouth with hay : on coming out she met Betty Oakes, to whom she told what had happened to her, and the prisoner was taken into custody. Mr. ASHWORTH cross-examined the witness, but she did not vary in the slightest degree in her evidence. Betty Oakes and Allice Mercer, the child's mother, proved the complaints made by the child, and the situation in which she had been found. Mr. Howarden, a surgeon, deposed to the state in which the child was found, after the abominable usage which she receiv ed from the prisoner. Mr. ASHWORTH defended the prisoner at considerable length, and argued with much ingenuity on the improbability of the crime having been committed under such circumstances. Mr. Baron WOOD was about to sum up the case, but the Jury declared themselves satisfied, and instantly found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Baron WOOD—A very proper verdict, Gentlemen. FORGERY. Thomas Pendlebury, aged 36, and Wm. Crossland, aged 38, were charged with having forged a bill of exchange for 191. 15s. 6i1., with intent to defraud Messrs. Davies, of Liverpool. Mr. CLARKE stated the case. James Dutton, an accomplice, carried on the trade of tallow chandler at Manchester; knew Pendlebury ; left Manchester with him and Crossland, on the 2d of April ; met a man named White on the road. White said he had been trying to do business at Warrington, but could not. We all four got on the coach when it overtook us. We got to Liverpool ; and went first to a public house kept by Hurst, and then to another kept by Minshull. Pendlebury asked me for a sheet of paper, which was brought with pen and ink. A man of the name of Byrne was there. We went all up stairs. Pen dlebury pulled about 30 stamps out of his hat. He looked them over, and at last gave Byrne one. After the bill was drawn, Crossland came up to the table. Byrne wrote upon the stamp, and Pendlebury asked Crossland to begin it. Crossland said, " What, must I sign it ?" and Pendlebury said, " My friend Mr. Phillips,'to be sure." Crossland then said, " What, must I endorse it ?" and Pendlebury said, " You know as well as I do; write Peter Leigh." Byrne drew the bill, but I did not see it endorsed.' Pendlebury said, " It is a nice bill ; I never saw a nicer in my life ;" and Byrne said, " I don't think you ever did." It was drawn for 19/. 15s. 6d. Crossland gave it to me by order of Pendlebury, and I went to a Mr. Leather barrow in Dale-street, to buy pipes. I tendered the bill, but it was not received. I went to Messrs. Davies, rosin dealers in Liverpool, and bought 2t)barrels of rosin at 7s. 6d. per barrel. They took the bill in payment, and gave me the balance in cash. Cross-examined by Pendlebury.—l am admitted evidence against you. Mr. Miller, the police-officer, said, that if I would tell the truth about the bills, he would admit me as evi dence. I have not told more than the truth. I was in part nership with a man named Edmund Taylor. The goods I bought at Liverpool were for my partner and myself. I don't know whether I was told to take care of what I said about Pendlebury, as they wanted to get hold of him. I did not say that I had filled four sheets of paper with my evidence about Pendlebury and the concern, and that I feared I should not be able to recollect it all during the Assizes. By Crossland.—l never knew that you had, or were to have had, any profit out of the bills. John Hayes, a blacksmith, was at Mrs. Minshull's on the 3d of April. He confirmed Dutton's testimony. Dutton said to Pendlebury, " I wish you would go with us and pay this bill; it will look more respectable." Pendlebury said, " No, I'll have nothing to. do with the bill ; I am a better judge than that." The cross-examination of this witness by Pendlebury was long but not important.—You did express a determination to go before the magistrates when you heard the officers were after you, but it being Good Friday, there was no court at the Rolla Exchange. James Hogarth, foreman to Mr. Leatherbarrow, Pr °°l4' refusing the bill. A clerk to 111 essrs. Davies proved receiving the bill from put ton. It was never paid. Thomas Roe apprehended the prisoners. Pendlebury * l5 concealed in a coal-hole. Mr. Neil, clerk to Messrs. Fenton and Co. said there was no John Phillips known to their bank. Mr. Wood, clerk to the other bank at Rochdale, said the/ knew no Peter Leigh and John Phillips. Both the prisoners denied the charge. Crossland called witnesses. - John Phillips.—l have accommodated yOu several times, b ut it tis lon g s i nce . I saw you i n S eptember last, and we &ID/ together. You repe a tedly as k e d f or t h e use of my name ;. said—" Well." You pr e s se d me , an d I put you o ff v,b. saying--" Well." I did not positively give you leave to LW my name. _ _ Crossland.—Come, come, John, recollect yourself, inio• Come, behave like a man ; behave decently. Mr. Baron WOOD.—Do behave yourself decently. Peter Leigh.—l don't think the bill is right. I never author" rized you to use my name. 0 Lord Almighty ! I never heard such a tale in my life'' How came you to writ e t o me h ere ? — I never wrote to you "e"- But you desired others to write ?—No, I never did. John \Vatson.—l was with you when you bought the blankets in September. I don't remember that John Phillips was theL e• The Jury retired for half an h our, an d f oun d both Fisorlefr Guilty. Joseph White (the same whose name appears in the prat ing trial) was ch arge d w ith utter i ng a forged Bill of 291.15 x• 6 d " and forging the endorsement " Peter Leigh." Dutton repeated evidence nearly the same as i n the last Cras e but there was no evidence to prove the forgery. • • The Jury, under his Lordship's direction, found a v erdict'f Not Guilty. There were other indictments against 'White for oil . ilar crimes, but no evidence was offered, and he was acquitted. NISI PRIIIS.—HOGGITT V. lIIGGINSON. tOs This was an action to recover pena l t i es under the game Ta A ., for the sale of gam e . Th e plaintiff is a gamekeeper ; w e : - 0 - fendant an innkeep er i n M anc h ester. M uch evidence was/P:rd,. on both sides, and a grea t p art o f i t contradictory. His of ship left it entirely to the Jury to decide upon the cfedibilitl, the witnesses, and to say whether any penalties were tVih e There could not be more than three brace of grouse, so" penalty was 5/. each bird. Verdict for the defendant. STEPHENSON V. MOORHOUSE AND OTHERS. Mr. WILLIAMS opened this as a case of great oPPr'e . The plaintiff was a weaver at Paddyham, and had lived In house in which his father had lived before him for 60 17,i' and which he was e ntitl e d t o occupy. T his house was fora/ entered, and the plaintiff' s f urn i ture and goods thrown riite the public road, and the house itself was pulled down. , a defence, he und ers t oo d, was, that the plaintiff's father been a pauper. Jenny Dean was summone d as a w i tness to the sat i s fy and amusement of th e C our t. l am t h reescore b ut three' to knew Paddyham sinc e I was a c hild. I h eard orders givenass pull them out with s p ee d. ° By Mr. SCARLETT.—I h ear d i t sa id t h at o ld Stephet_ s was buried at the pari s h ex p ence . I never k new hi m to 'l' pauper. John Whitham.—Old Stephenson died 21 s t o f April 1' His son James liv e d i n it a f ter . ve 4 Helen Patrick, daught er o f th e plaintiff, and aged 25, pr? tst o that the house was entered by the defendants, the for ° thrown out, and the roof and windows pulled down. fe a Cross-examined. —N ever h ear d t h at my grandfather reel parish relief. . t he John Wilson knew pl a intiff' s f a th er to h ave li ve d 1 ...n ° house for upwards of 30 y ears; never k new o f any sc"."-,ther ledgment to the t owns hi p f or t h e h ouse, or of plaintiff's ' l ' receiving parish relief. 014 Margaret Wilkinson.—ls 70 for aught she knows, lol a Stephenson occupied the house for 57, 8; 9, or 60 years- won Mr. SCARLETT said, .this was the most impudent j im — c at ever brought into a Court of Justice, Mr. Stephenson hau t t r t ter perseverance. It was a pity he was not engaged in a u Lot cause, for he had so much constancy and fervour about rio that he must have m a d e a s pl en did fi gure . Th e old mstLf„ o t be be proved to have been a p au p er , an d to h ave b een pu t tul,fi e d house by the parish. The house was, he admitted, F'"" down, and a new house built. Isabella Stephenson, 75 years old, knew nothing root — the cause. aka William Waddington was paid by th e overseers for r° bop the old man's coffin. Old Stephenson acknowledged ° that the house was the town's. Betty daughter hi s death, of ol S saidt e p t h h e e fis houseon s i ft s t e t h d e t th at oo by .. ty a D few en d b a i Verdict for the defendants. s g y h s 9 b efor e Mr. WILLIAMS obtained a r u l e t o s h ow cause elan fate e r t trial should not be granted upon certain points of obJe taken to the proof for the defendants. file In the Archduchy o f Hessen, e 0 essen, an order '' e Government was some d a ys s i nce m ade Pub ;. iii obliging every land holder to deliver Six ° To twenty field-mice to officers app o i n t e d to re"' i s them.—The ravages of thes e d es t ru ctive ani n d i s o had arrived at such a pit c h th a t t h e p e ople hel lo , to in great alarm for their vines ; but w e , t he happy to learn that since th e p romu l g ation oi ce j above ordinance, their numbers have exPerl en a great diminution. bri% ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, JULY T fro 4, Spence, of Sunderland, 505 tons, Michael Wilson, 13 1 ,,,,01i5 t 1y Richebucto, bound to Liverpool, with lumber, was w" - ",, ; $ Ol near St. Shot's on the 16th inst., at 4 in the evening; e r _L" coot and arrived here on Thursday last. Scylla and GhlaYur an irw„ not have been more terrifying to the mariners of old, w o ;. the name of St. Shot's shortly be to our modern ruivife t _ d tli ° is certain that on the small extent of coast which diviue s ing t OP*" bays of St. Mary's and Trepassey, mo re ve ssels are ' l bs fe j , on all North America beside ; yet no steps apPestrZ been taken by Government, or any institution conlie''.„ OW' our extensive shipping interest, to a scer t a i n th e cause or to ot i ffsr against it in future. The cost of any one of the In en o which have been wrecked there within a few years, w °i r i o g f°s maintained a small military post, for th e p ur pose of fi b.ro br'' guns, or a bell might be so constru c t e d as t o toll at ita of Aq No notice is taken in any of the charts hitherto publisur at. let 3 extraordinary indraft or current on that part of the C_P:;coe! e t i is very evident it must be the case: it is a subject of sero,.: t . quence, and we hope will call the attention of Governolt Iv ue due respect to his Excellency the Goverror of this 1 7 oot think one of the men of war under hi s c ommand C ge t better employed than in ascertaining the strength 'r aw er s oe the current at spring and neap tid es , f r om ; s litsw,„, Cape Race ; it might be the means of saving marl e t of lives and a considerable amount of property. The eo 0 0? people who live in the neighbourhood, in plunderit l ite o ;:, and even the baggage of the crews, also requires& st r t o f det er gation, and some example to be made, for the purPe s " ring them in future. BIRTHS. fet e4 On the 27th inst., at Carshalton, the lady of W l2. 31' o f Esa., of a son. grail' CA I° On the 26th inst., at Hampstead, rs. J o hn C. a daughter. MARRIED. Yesterday, at St. George the Martyr, Queen 4c l ege n uare ;stl ee i t rt Henry Saltwell, Esq. of Carlton Chambers, Ock to Franny Bree, eldest daughter of John Wm. tj " 7 Queen-square. - ard P rri k 0 On Tuesday last, at Halifax, Yorkshire, Ei dau ghtc' Esq., of Primrose-hill, near Coventry, to Sarah/ 1 Luke Stavelev, Esq., Springfield, near Halifax' eer y On the 26thinstant, at Wisbeach, the Rev . , "a t & g et' A.M., Vicar of Hitchin, Herts, to Sarah, du es Mr. Thomas Grounds, of the former place. ....------- Geo rge. DIE On the 28th inst., in the 65th y D. or, , ear of his ag e, ... t- & Silk, of Northampton-place, Cltrkenwell. A an d 8 0 On the 28th inst. at West Cowes, aged 81, Bum ee l Esq. late of Ottershaw-park and St. Jarnes's-s9l!arloosabe On the 25th of August, at Ewell, Surrey? W M ' ' • To gS ' Esq. a ri baP , Kir On the 9th of May, at Barville Park, n ear u i • tel Algoa Bay; Major-General Charles Campbell, , .L .ae rt manding his Majesty's Forces at N e wfoundlan„:A e o:6, l 7,ll o On the 20th instant, at Southend, Mr. tior„ w oesor' aged 28, deeply lamented by his relations, and stf' quaintance. On Tuesday last, after a short illness, at .u..- - *" -I} 2. lllri a mb' Ille..o4l4ltr market, John Murray, Esq. formerly CePtai n . '" ta in arei te the Cambridge Volunteers, and afterwards Car, m bri , . jutant in the Newmarket Division of the Ist u i L -it Ole ocal Militia. tyr.yr. _ _ _ Printed and Published for the PnoPßlETolts' a te• Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CASErri (11 it