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THEATRE ROY AL

MISS CUSIIMAN will appear at this Theatre on
THURSDAY next, 15th instant, in the character of
BIANCA, in Hillman's Tragedy of "Fazio," being engaged
for that night only. Last Six Nights of MISS
FITZPATRICK, whose successful debut in London, and
subsequent tour in the United States, hare distinguished her
as one of the principal artistes in Comedy.—Tills EVENING
(MONDAY) 12th instant, THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM.
Letitia Hardy,i Miss Fitzpatrick. To conclude with
FORTUNE'S FROLIC.—MR. BARRY SULLIVAN,
who is engaged for FIVE NIGHTS ONLY, will make his first
appearance on MONDAY, the 19th instant—Admission :
Dress Boxes, 48. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 1 s.—
Doors open at half-past six. Performances commence at
seven o'clock precisely.—The Box Office is open from Ten
till Three o'clock daily, for securing Seats and taking
Private boxes, under the direction of Mr. T. Shuttleworth.
—Children in arms will not be admitted.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Sole Lessee, Mr. IV. B. Copeland, 15, Great Charlotte-street

IMMENSE SUCCESS OF
PABLO FANQUE'S COMPANY!

CHANGE OF PERFORMANCE, THIS EVENING
(Mor)Ay), December 12th, and the following. evening.—
First night of the Ballet entitled MARCO SCIARRO ; or,
THE BRIGAND QUEEN OF THE ABRUZZI. First
Appearance of the TRAINED PONY and MONKEY.
First appearance of MADAME ANTONIA.—Doors open
at a quarter to seven o'clock., a:id the Performance to com-
mence at half-past seven.—Prices of Admission : Dress Circle,
35.; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Stalls, Is. 6d. ; Gallery,
6d. Second Price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d. ;
Pit; ls. ; no second price to Gallery or Stalls. Second Price,
to Boxes and Pit, at nine o'clock.

ROYAL PARK THEATRE.
Parliament Street, near St. James's Market.

THIS EVENING (MONDAY), Dec. 10th, will be performed,
MARY MARSTON; or, THE TRIALS OF POVERTY.
Mary, Miss Marriot. After which, THE DIVIDED
ROOM. To conclude with THE VOW OF SILENCE.
—On TUESDAY, for the BENEFIT of MR. WALTON,
FAZIO To conclude with the WIZARD OF THE WAVE.
- —ln Rehearsal, the New Grand Local Christmas Pantomime
ORMSHEAD THE GREAT; or, HARLEQUIN AND
JENNY JONES, AND THE FLOWER OF SNOWDON.
Columbine, Mademoiselle Rose; Harlequin, Sig. Guarrino ;
Pantaloon, Mr. P. Anderson; Inimitable Clown, Mr. J.
Appleby.— Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven
o'clock.—Admission, Private Boxes, 25.; Boxes, Is.; Pit, 6d.;
Gallery, 3d.

HIGH WATER IN THE MERSEY.
THIS DAY—Morning, 9h. 13m .... Afternoon, 9h. 34m.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1853,

THE Turco-Russian war retains all its peculiar
features. As far as Turkey and Russia are con-
cerned it is a bloody war. As far as England is
concerned it is a perfidous, dishonest, stock-jobbing
war. As far as France is concerned it is a war
it which her existence, as a, constitutional empire,
is at stake. To feed the dastardly ambition of one
monster, a whole nation must be overrun with
fire and sword. That monster,—we need scarcely
name him,—is one of the family of European
Kings. He, therefore, commands the sympathy
and respect of his entire kindred. And all the
" Conventions," " Conferences," "Notes," and "Ar-
mistices," are but so many snares, delusions, and
traps laid for the unfortunate Ottoman people,
The Mussulman resists all overtures and at-
tempts that are made to bring him into the great
Church and State Convention of more enlightened
nations. His existence is, therefore, looked upon
as a blot on " the Orthodox Faith." NICHOLAS, of
bloody memory, is sent to usurp his territory, and
as the defender of the " Orthodox Religion" of Con-
tinental Europe, to demand the possession of .a
certain " Key" from its lawful possessors. The
inquiry about this notable relic of very doubtful
origin, roused the ridicule of the world. The loud
laugh of Christendom was too much even for the
frigid and plodding ABERDEEN, and the " fabulous
key" was thrown aside, but not before the sove-
reignty of the Turkish Empire had been violated,
and her territories seivd by the defender of the

Is this conduct befitting a great country ? We
are a commercial people, and once we forfeit our
character for veracity and consistency, we cease to
be worthy of credit, and our status as a trading
nation, except in blood, is for ever lost. That-
England is to blame for the shedding of the blood
of the Turks, no one can pretend to deny. Every
effort that political craft could design has been re-
sorted to,for the purpose of stifling the expression of
popular feeling on this most momentous question.
A fleet has been sent into the Black Sea, but it is
there only to witness the capture of Turkish ships
by Russian men-of-war; and now an amistice is to
be demanded at the hands of the SULTAN, in order
that the " Orthodox Faith" of a mock POPE may not
be outraged by the scimetar of a Mussulman.
In writing the history of this fearful chapter of
political profligacy, there are certain Royal influ-
ences as well as ministerial predilections to b e
taken into account. The close intimacy between
the courts of SL Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, and
the houses of Orleans and Bourbon, and the court
of St. James', is a matter of no small concern to
the Bonapartists of France. At a moment when
we needed the cooperation of France to check the
encroachments of Russia, Her MAJESTY calls to
the head of her ministry the very man who was
instrumental in restoring the Bourbons to the
throne of France, and whose antecedents must
necessarily render him more or less obnoxious to
the present Emperor NAPOLEON. A man who is
blessed with a daughter Dolly can never forget
her; and thus we find it with LORD ABERDEEN.
As a statesman the Premier commenced his career
as our ambassador at the court of Vienna, whence
he was sent for the express purpose of detaching
the Austrian. Emperor FRANCIS, from an alliance
with NAPOLEON I. and throughout the whole of
his dispatches written at that memorable epoch, he
expresses his most sanguine belief as to the speedy
downfall of the Napoleon system,—and when this
event did take place he was sent to France to sign
the Treaty of Paris as one of the Plenipotentaries.
The knowledge he thus acquired of the exact
position of the leading parties in France, at that
time, was doubtless the strongest reason that
could be assigned for his appointment to office so
soon after the elevation of NAPOLEON •111. to the
French throne. And here it would be by no means
unreasonable to assume that Lord ABERDEEN was
a party to the recent reunion of the members of
the houses of Orleans and Bourbon.

This latter event, however, is one of very doubt-
ful expediency, as it can only tend to exasperate
the Bonapartists of France, and make them view
our conduct in the East with that distrust which
up to the present moment it really merits. In
proposing to make a NAPOLEON a party to a new
Holy Alliance against Russia, we confer a favour
on France which is not binding on the Bourbon-
ists or oAeanists ; and if NAPOLEON were to send
his troops to the Danube, it is just possible that
he might forfeit his position on the Seine.
Coupling this view of probabilities with the well-
ascertained Bourbonist and Orleanist sympathies
of the Court and Cabinet of England, we need
scarcely look for any real succour for the Turkish
people, except that which an indignant public
voice can demand and enforce. The English peo-
ple have much at stake on this question, and the
North should speak out ere it is too late.

THE number of juvenile mendicants, sturdy
beggars, and deformed and miserable objects, that
infest the thoroughfares of large towns, is truly
alarming. Their whining cries, fictitious tales of
distress, and loathsome appearance, draw largely
upon the impulsive sympathy and misplaced be-
nevolence of the passers-by, who seldom consider
the vast evil that agrcrues, or the vagabondism they
are increasing, by such eleemosynary aid as they
confer.

Sir R. CARDEN, one of the London aldermen, has
endeavoured to mitigate if not abolish the evil—
and for this purpose has begun with the young
urchins, determined to render that class extinct,
by inflicting summary punishment upon the un-
natural and unfeeling parents, who send them forth
at this inclement season, half naked, to practice
their system of extortion in order to procure means
to supply their own vicious cravings, and gin-
chinking propensity But the difficulty is to find
the responsible parties. The case brought before
the cognisance of the Metropolitan magistrates on
Thursday last, only shows how cunningly and
craftily paternity can be evaded. Those little
begging children have, as a matter of course,
neither father or mother. They are all like ToPsY
in this particular. Some kind uncle, or affectionate
old aunt, invariably gives them shelter, and being
too poor to maintain them, are obliged to let•them
shift for themselves ! But the_ only, \NW for the
magistrates to act is, to treat the reputed relations
just as they would the others—and we think there

is little fear but that, in the majority of cases, the
saddle would be put upon the right horse !
One cannot pass a street without being beseiged
by those young vagabonds, with the long and nasal
cry of " ha'penny, Sir!" and really, sometimes,
you are necessitated to toss them " a copper," in
order to get rid of such disreputable pages, and
their tormenting importunity. Our curiosity has
sometimes led us to interrogate those artful
" cadgers," as to their temporal condition. In-
variably have they invented most melancholy tales
of woe ; but when we asked for their whereabouts,
assuring them if their statements were true, some-
thing should be done for them, in almost every
instance we had been furnished With a wrong ad-
dress. It is a common thing foridle, drunken, and de-
praved parents, to send out their young brood to beg,
each one planting himself or herself in a particular
locality for the day. In the evening the proceeds are
placed together, which generally are sufficient to
allow of a night's debauch. After a little training
in the arts of lying and begging, a taste for thiev-
ing is speedily engendered ; and whilst the juvenile
miscreant holds out one hand for the donation of
the unsuspecting philanthropist he dexterously
abstracts a pocketkerchief with the other ! Crime is
progressive. One moral delinquency is invariably
the precursor of a greater still—and our gaol Ca-
lenders but too painfully testify to the ultimate
end of those who first began their. career by
whining in our streets,or sweeping the crossings of
our public thoroughfares. To relieve this class of
beggars is doing a great social wrong. We thereby
encourage their parents to live in ease, luxury, and
vice destroy all moral sentiment, little as it
may be, in the child—and make him for ever an
enemy to society and a curse to himself !
But there other descriptions of street beggars,
as objectionable, if not more so, who endeavour
very successfully to evade the law which prohibits
the asking of alms in public. We allude to the
veaders of matches, and similar trumpery wares,
as well as to the host of cripples, blind and halt,
malformed and deformed—in fact, human monstro-
sities of every kind, who " drive a roaring trade"
and receive far more money thereby than many a
hardworking and honest labourer who contributes
to the maintenance of the State. Really Mr. BULL
is gullible to an almost inconceivable degree. His
ear is always open to the wily tale of distress,
let it be ever so fictitious; but the appearance of
mendicancy in tattered garb, preternatural aspect,
or like LAZARUS, covered with ulcers,melts his very
heart, and he quickly unbuttons his breeches-
pocket to administer to the wants of the atlicted ;
and many act thus who never subscribe one farthing
towards the funds of benevolent institutions ex-
pressly intended to succour such miserable objects
as are deserving. We think that we would not be
far wrong in saying, that one-half the money indis-
criminately and foolishly thrown away by exuberant
charity in the relief of every description of street-
beggars would, relieve all the really distressed
objects in the country—fin ding them in suitable
asylums,and providing moderately fur their wants.
' The general public have no conception of the
nefarious arts practised upon their credulity. In
fashionable squares the greatest scoundrels hawk
religious tracts and put on as doleful faces as if
they were at a Ranter's Meeting ! Mahomedans
".do" the converted Christian first-rate ; and draw
many a shilling from the well-lined purses of pious
old maiden ladies, who, doubtless, look upon " the
miracles of grace," with up-turned vision ! Others
take to grinding a wretched organ to the tune of
the " old hundred," singing the while with drawl-
ing air and sonorous voices, and, by way of
interlude, reading ever and anon two lines of the
psalm. By this disgraceful mockery of religion
these canting, crawling hypocrites turn their godly
seeming into goodly gain! Others again, labouring
under opthalmic disease, take up their positions
at the corners of streets or on the centres of
bridges, and, with the help of an embossed bible,
spout away most stentoriously and solemnly, "from
early morn till dewy eve," the moral counsels ; but
no sooner is their day's work ended than they
betake themselves to a neighbouring tavern and
drink themselves blind drunk—forgetful of the
excellent precepts. they have had, a little while
before, " pat" upon their tongues !
Then, as to the loathsome and disgusting spec-
tacles that present themselves in our streets, how,
is it that they are tolerated by the authorities ?
Sometimes one's feelings are not only pained, but
fairly shocked, by the scandalous and indelicate
exposures which occur even at noon-day. 'Tis not
long since two or three men, having the garb of
sailors, stopped us in the street to solicit charity,
and turned up their coat sleeves thrusting almost
into our very face arms fearfully covered with
reeking sores ! Many who are only fit subjects for
our hospitals or Hunteriau museums, are suffered
to prowl about our leading thoroughfares making
a gain of their gangrenous limbs and hideous
deformations—to the alarm of young married ladies
and the horror of every observer. Now, why
should such evils be countenanced or permitted ?
Why should • our cities and towns be thus turned
into out-door Lazar-houses, and refuges for all the
horrible diseases which infest the world, and where

" The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders,"
can find succour, and the miserable and diseased
obtain means whereby to make life not only en-
durable but merry, with all their apparent suffer-
ings !

We should not wilfully breathe a word that
would be calculated to impede the current of true
charity. But we think it would be much better
were the philanthropist to seek out uncomplain
ing, enduring, and inobtrusive poverty, and when
found, to relieve it, than by indiscriminate charity
harbour a whole host of thieves and prostitutes—
make deceit successful—and villany remunerative.
Fictitious woe is always to be distinguished from
that which is genuine. The one is boisterous, the
other is tranquil. Deep distress like mighty rivers
is silent; whilst affected misery, like purling brooks,
is ever distinguished by its murmurs. By all
means let deformed and diseased objects be re-
moved to fitting asylums away from public sight,
not to harrow-up our feelings by their doleful
whines and melancholy lamentations. We trust
that the good work commenced by Sir R. CARDEN,
will be extend to all other orders of street mendi-
cants, and that the magistrates of Liverpool will
follow the London alderman's meritorious and
praiseworthy example. These would be important
steps in the way of social reform.

Upwards of 20,000 head of cattle, of all descriptions,
were imported into England last week.
Upwards of 100,000 persons visited the Smithfield cattle
show last week.

The Porte having declined to receive any compensation
for the repairs of the Friedland—repairs which cost
300,000fr.—General Baraguay d'Hilliers made a present to
the Suitor of 2,500 Vincennes rifles.
MARITAL BRUTALITIES—Mr. Wilson, of the Economist,
recommends as a means of stopping the brutality of husbands,
that the law should be made better known. We think this a
mistake—we don't believe there is a brute anywhere who
is at this hour ignorant of the six months' clause.
ACCIDENTS.—The following persons have been admitted
into the Northern Hospital since our last publication, and
are now under surgical treatment in that institution:..
James Welsh, Chisenhall-street, with a severe contusion,
from a block of wood falling upon him, while employed on
board the ship Tereen, in the Bramley-Moore dock. Horatia
James, with a broken ankle, occasioned by slipping from
a *tage. John Webb, with a fractured hip, from a sack of
corn falling upon him.

Mr. COWELL began fa lengthy speech by addressing the
assembly as "my dear slaves" (in allusion to a placard,
headed " Cowell and his slaves," which had appeared upon
the walls of the town during the week.) (Cheers.) How-
ever, be that as it may, we have got over another week,
and it is now drawing very near to Christmas, and perhaps
when Christmas gets turned we shall have a little
better trade than we have at present, and then we
shall have a scrambling for hands, and the
millowners of Preston will wish to have us again, knocking
our shuttles about, spinning our cops, and making the card-
rooms hum. This strike of ours, coupled with our
obstinacy, is quite a God-send to them, say the manufac-
turers. They don't want you just now, they say; but they
will in a little bit. But it's my opinion they want you
now. (Hear, hear.) I have had some rather curious
things told me this week. I have been informed that a
certain draper in Preston, who buys his bleached cotton at
a certain mill in this town, went to procure a fresh supply
from the proprietor of that mill. His mill, however, hai
been standing for seven weeks, and the consequence was
that he could not supply the draper with the goods he re-
quired. The draper said, " I am very sorry you cannot
supply me; I think, after all, you've done a bad job for
yourselves." (Hear, hear.) The manufacturer replied
that they were aware they had done so, but that they had
got in the midst of it and they could not get out of it.
(Laughter and cheers.) " Well," said the draper, " I shall
be obliged to seek elsewhere for what I want, and if I get
well suited you can't expect rue to come back to you in a
hurry." (Cheers.) You may depend upon it, that whatever
people say about the affair, it is Just touching these fellows
in their pockets as much as it is pinching you in your
bellies. (Hear, hear.) Suppose we just take a retrospective
view of the year 1847, when nearly all the mills through-
out the manufacturing districts were closed against the
operatives. And for what? At that period, you know
there was a commercial panic, and the people had to
suffer the consequences of that panic. Soup kitchens were
erected in the manufacturing towns, and money was sub-
scribed in order to make soup for you. And, as good John
Mitchell said, when addressing the Irish patriots—" When
I saw the Irish people supping soup with chained spoons, I
thou ght there was something radically wrong, and. that it
was time for somebody to step forward and stop a system of
that sort." Well, looking back to 1847, and remem-
bering the degradation, the privation, the misery,
the wretchedness then endured, by the bulk of the
working classes; contrasting your condition then
with your condition at the present time, it seems
somewhat strange that the press should now be so much
more profuse in its lamentation or your behalf than it was
on the former occasion. But in 1847, weavers were not in
receipt of 4s. per head, and spinners, of 75., as they were
now. Judging from some of the articles that appear, you
would fancy that the operatives of Preston were now re-
duced to a race of skeletons. (Laughter). Preston is not
reduced to that state of starvation. I visited a family last
night and inquired their position. They said they had
never wanted a halfpenny yet, they had never wanted a
meal's meat ; they had always had a bit of something,
though it might not be so rich ; and all they were
terrified about was, that they should ;have to resume
work before gas was done away with. (Hear, and cheers.)
The speaker here briefly alluded to the fact that not more
than 200 applications for employment had been made at all
the mills in the town. These, he said, included fire-beaters,
mechanics, sweepers, and others who not beino' interested in
this dispute, were of course disposed to go in. Although
deputations had been going about the town, promising half-
a-crown a-head, and in some instances a mess of broth
along with it,—notwithstanding this, they had not been
able to induce more than 200 to register their names.
(Cheers.) " Ignorant populations, (said the Times) are
always on the brink of misery." That was the truest sen-
tence the Times ever wrote. Wherever you find an ignorant
class (remarked the speaker) you will always find them
"hewers of wood and drawers of water." You will always
find men of wealth taking advantage of them—grinding
them down to the very dust. Before this strike commenced
nine-tenths of the factory operatives of Prestoon were " a
week worse than nothing." It may be asked how I can
prove that. Go to the trust-shop ledgers —go to the pawn-
shops, and you found them literally crammed before the
strike commenced. Go to these places, and then let me ask if
the working classes have anything to lose ? There are four
prevalent evils, and would to God they were abolished, I mean
" popping," "scotching," (dealing with packmen,) drinking,
and " shopping" (taking credit). After somestrictures on an
article in to-day's Times, Mr. Cowell thus concluded :
Are you tired of playing yet ? (Cries of " No.") All you
who are wishful to play until the masters give you a full and
fair ten per cent hold up your hands. (The entire crowd
responded.)
Mr. GALLAHER informed his hearers that they might
anticipate roast goose or something of that kind for their
Christmas dinner, inasmuch as some of the districts were
reserving special funds to send to Preston on that occasion.
He exhorted them to be firm, and to say to the manufac-
turers :

" A ten per cent, and no surrender,
And then to you our thanks we'll tender."
(Laughter and cheers.)
Mr. GRIMSHAW announced that he had visited Sheffield,
and the first place he went to they granted him £5O for the
Preston " revolters."

Mr. WADDING and Mr. WALTON having addressed the
meeting, the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

There were no less than two cases of pocket picking de-
tected in the Roman Catholic chapel, Seel-street, yesterday.
On Saturday evening, the body of a female child was
found in Disley-street.
EAST INDIA COLLEGE.—The examination took place on
Friday last.
The church of Moretonhampstead, Devon, is to be fur-
nished with an organ ; the late Mr. Ponsford, an old inha-
bitant, having. by his will left funds for its purchase.
Mr. Frederick Glennie, resident at Mexico, is appointed to
discharge the duties of her Britannic Majesty's Consul in
that city.
STREET SWEEPINGS.—In a case prosecuted by the parish
authorities of Southwark on Saturday last, it was sworn
that street sweepings acted as a deodoriser.
MR. FERGUS O'CONNOR.—On Saturday an order !was
made by the lord chancellor appointing the official manager
to sign conveyances in the matter of the O'Connorville
state.

THE GLASGOW BRIDGES. —The people of Glasgow—a
committee acting on their behalf—have proposed a bill to
establish the " pontages " or pa yments on their bridges.
;31,s will still be payable on the suspension bridge.
.IACCIDENT.—Rosanna Brown, residing in Cotton-street,was
knocked down by a man in Newhill-street, and sustained a
.racture of the arm. The above case was received at the
Qouthend Hospital.
_ _ _

The Queen has conferred the honour of knightood on
ieut.-Col. Archibald Bogle, of the East India ;Company's
Service, Bengal Establishment, Civil Commissioner in the
Tenasserim and Martaban provinces.
WEEKLY RECORD or CIioLERA.--The disease during the
past week has, in the provinces, continued to produce about
the same mortality as has been recorded during the past fort-
night. Scotland is still the seat of pestilence, and new cases
have occurred in several fresh localities during the week.
In the case of Mr. Temple, Q.. C., and chancellor of
Durham, the court of chancery has decided that he is entitled
to the fee of £lOO per annum formerly paid that officer by
the bishops of Durham, but which the recent legislation
has interfered with.

ACCIDENT IN WEST DERBY-ROAD.—Last night an acci-
dent, which might have been attended with serious conse-
quences, occurred in West Derby-road, near the Zoological
Gardens. A whitechapel coming from the direction of
West Derby ran against a hackney coach with such violence
as to completely overturn the former, and precipitate the
passengers to the ground, one of whom was seriously injured.
The announcement in the Monileur yesterday, of a proto-
col having been signed at Vienna, on the sth inst., by the
representatives of France, England, Austria, and Prussia,
excited considerable attention in Paris, and the funds ad-
vanced in consequence, notwithstanding great doubts exist
as to any beneficial results arising out of the " accord" in
question.

SUDDEN DEATH.---An inquest was held at the Royal
Infirmary, on Saturday, by Edward Herford, Esq., coroner
for the city of Manchester, touching the death of Thomas
Archer, of Albert-street, ostler, aged 53 years. Matthew
Meadows, of Albert-street, ostler, stated that he lodged at
the Menai Bridge beer house, and that the deceased had
lodged there about three years. On the previous morning,
about two o'clock, he heard the deceased coughing, and at
five o'clock, when he got up, he found that he was quite
dead and cold. The deceased had had an asthmatic com-
plaint for many years, and had been worse lately, but he
would never have a doctor. He had no friends or relations
there. Verdict, died from natural causes.

SUDDEN AND SINGULAR DEATH.—On Saturday fore-
noon an inquest was held by Mr. Herford, coroner for the
city of Manchester, touching the death of George Thornton,
11 years of age. It appeared that the deceased was stand-
ing in the shop of his father, a hairdresser in Clifford-street,
whilst a man who was waiting to be operated upon, was
describing a severe cut he has received in his lip, which
caused effusion of blood, and had to be sewed up by a
surgeon. The man had only got thus for in his narrative
when the boy fainted and falling upon the fire-place pulled
over upon himself a vessel full of boiling► water, from the
effects of which he was so severely scalded that his death
was the consequence. He had never had fits, but his father
stated that he was a boy of tender feelings, and the narra-
tive of the person in the shop seems to have upset him.
Verdict, accidental death.

Police-officer 176 stated the prisoner was the previous
night given in charge for stealing a pistol, and when appre-
hended, he abused the officer and injured his finger.
It appeared the defendant entered the gallery when in a
state of intoxication. and quarrelled with the keeper, who
ordered him out, when he took away the pistol, which, upon
being overtaken,
magistrateover
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orderednheda damaged it.
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pay 18s. for damaging the
pistol, and costs, or in default of payment, to be imprisoned
for on month.

ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.— Thomas Griffiths, a
soldier belonging to the 82d regiment, was charged with
stealing 275., the property of a butter-dealer, named Peter
Field, livinc, in Cheshire. The previous evening the com-
plainant met the defendant, and asked him to go and have a
drink with him, which he did, and when the complainant
had got pretty forward, he pulled out his money (about £l3),
and counted it upon the table of the public-house. He
stated the soldier took up 275., and refused to return it.
It appearing that the complainant was in such a state of
drunkenness, that he did not know what he was about, or
what money he had in his possession, the magistrates dis-
charged the defendant, telling the complainant that if he
had lost any money, he had brought it upon himself, by
getting into such a state of intoxication, and keeping such
company._ • _

Docx ROBBERY.—Christopher Thomas was charged by
police-officer 493, with stealing a piece of copper from the
Clarence graving-dock.
The Magistrate : Have you found an owner for the
copper ? .

Police-officer : No sir, we never can get the people to
swear to their property.
The boy was consequently discharged, with a caution.
OBTAINING GOODS BY FORGED ORDERS. —The man Lyon,
who was remanded on Thursday last, was again brought
forward, and several charges were preferred against him, all
of a similar character. Ills method of proceedure was, to
write an order, purporting to come from some person in the
country, requesting to have so much flour or bread for
warded to him; for which he would pay, on his coming
to town on the following Saturday. These orders he pre-
sented himself, and obtained the goods. There were only
three charges entered into. That for obtaining goods of
M. Allison, Richmond-row, by an order purporting to come
from Mr. Chamberlain, farmer, Kirby; Mr. Reynolds,
Scotland-road, and Mr. Jackson. These charges having
been clearly substantiated, the prisoner was coinmitted for
trial.

PICKING PocxErs. —Two prostitutes were committed for
14 days imprisonm.nt, on a charge, clearly proved, of
picking the pockets of a sailor, who was about to accompany
them home.

SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS.—Margaret Crews, Ellen Mat-
thews, Charles 117.;rren, and John Crews, were charged by
inspector Russell, of the detective force, with being in com-
pany together, for the purpose of picking pockets. The
inspector stated he had followed the prisoners from Lord-
street to Duke-street, when he saw the female, Crews, go
up to a person very drunk, but being " covered" by the
others, he could not see .vhat she did. Tie went up to the
man after they left 1,...u1 and he said he had been robbed of
£1 65., but being so drunk, the officer did not take his
name. Afier that, he again saw the prisoners together, and
apprehended them. The two Crews were known to the
police, but it having been some time since they were "in
difficulties," they, with the others, were discharged, with a
caution not to be seen together any more.
CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.— Catherine Magrath, and
three other prostitues, were charged with stealing a jacket,
from a sailor. The sailor, it appeared came into this port
on the previous day, and upon his leaving the ship he met
the prisoner, whom he told he had no money, but she con-
sented to his going home with her, which he did. The
following morning he missed his jacket, but was provided
witL one while he went for some money. On his return he
paid 55., and was then presented with the duplicate of his
j a eket.
The magistrate dismissed the case, but directed the
pawnbroker to deliver the jacket up to the complainant, and
censured the pawnbroker for taking such things in pledge
from common prostitutes—as they only, by so doing, gave
them encouragement and assistance in robbing poor
fellows.

Several females were in attendance to affiliate their chih-
dren, but as such cases are neither amusing or of the
slightest public interest, we refrain from publishing
them.

FIRE AND Loss or LIFE.—On Saturday, a fire occurred
in London, in the neighbourhood of Grafton-street and Fitz-
roy-square, upon the premises of a baker, named Musterd.
A man lodging on the second floor was prostrated by the
body of the flame, and being unable to extricate himself was
in the course of a few minutes burned literally to a cinder.
Another man was also forced down by the heated air, when
the flames seized upon his body and burned him in such a
shocking manner, that he was obliged to be removed to the
hospital, where he at present remains without the least chance
of recovery. The origin of the melancholy catastrophe is en-
veloped in obscuaity.
About 3 o'clock p.m., on the 6th instant, a female carrying
a child in her arms, was met at Knotty-ash, West Derby;
Sergeant Bundle of the county police, who was then passing
looked at the child and judging it had not long to live,
went with the mother and child immediately to the surgery
of Mr. Fitzpatrick, who happened to be in, but while the
surgeon was looking at it, it died in its mothers arms. The
police officer then brought both to the police station, where
the body remained until the inquest which was held on the
Bth instant, before W. W. Dri.neld, Esq., deputy coroner,
when a verdict of died of concussion was returned. The
coroner and jury expressed themselves in every respect
highly satisfied with the discretion and humanity mani-
fested by the police sergeant.