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the pinee ;rag tan miles from St. Mary Ave, ispi
the P.lsmier appeared to lie too ill to walk so far.
Cross-p.rantioed...-At'ms not Clair(' typo by the
Prisoner daring his first and liVentlli I.xsimiitotion ;
the Primmer nsed to deal in such Olio,. a. a seal
and a krt ; it aaa the fathei of the Prienner who
ordered turn to call alsont the clothes.
Acme Ilwrdsvicke attersderl the Pri.nret'a motilf-r
as 1111110; tv•tm there, when •Oie (hell;
Stnninv, V.Olll, nod wag buried the 210 I)ereisslier ;
the family *tit on the ground for sev-st days alter
the funeral; the Primmer tan sat on the ground,
and never left the house durtog a forth:v.ln whit:
the wituesa way there.commtiscitig the Friday be-
fore the death; he was very ill all the time ; he
attended the fouteral in a coach, and car out about
three quarters of an hour.
Abraham Shannon, An (vcoof.hror, attended the
Prisoner's mother • daily for some gone before her
death. and saw the Prisoner there conatantly. There
are eertam ceremonies usual to be gsme threw:4h kr
a week .ctrirt, part of whirl. consist- in prayers two
or three timea a dlr. Wita.rwt during
tlr-
•:even (Lys to see the Prisoner; :•io• '.ad b-rit iu n
had aloe of health for two year* ;),:1),-..
:rod ton.
then in a genertl state of debility. !ors miselt that h.:
(11111.111411e1i 111,71 from attending up to take part its the
prayer.. After the rn;iiration of the w.ek. it i4l tin
Cil.tnin 10 let the beard grow for a nlr,utlt. which
the Prissmier did ; on Sunday. the 17Ils. 0114/0!
Woi• that he could not wassibly walk two
miles wllhput help.
Several witimsses g 17.• the Prisoner • very good
character for hooesty •Itirl integrity.
The Jury. without hearing • cbargr. found the
Pillow., Not Guilty.
A. Felton, is shoemaker, was itsrlieted rir atmling
a Rank value Int.. the property of Snit's
Sayers, Kay. a footsmtit of Alderman Vol,at in the
dwelling-house of the latter—Acquitted.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS%

EARLY DEPRAVITY.
A boy about eight years of age. named Strnr-
man. we. indicted for having stolen a e.:M.:coat whir)
hung upon a line 10 thy.
The Prisoner was sten in the Prosecittnes );ird.
but how he got there nobody conl.l guess; for the
well was and there was 0" entrance to the
yord except thruirgh the house which was fastened.
Under his pin-yr./ore he pinned the eiostcorat which
he had taken off the line. On 1,. ,n7z questioned.
he seemed quite unconscious committed
any offence, and told a dismal Plto.v b!itylit the
death of lilt Mother ; nor word of +solicit Vil.4
not true. The officer who had Irusti employed
upon this occasion said. the boy's mother had de-
ed •red before the Nlagistratte who emu witted him,
that she had iii vain endeavoured to cheek her
child's propensity to theft ; that the lose of plunder
had grown up with him ; and nothing but violcne
measures could restrain him, for hr avoided the
sight of every hotly who wished to do hitn a service.
The child admitted that he had stolen the waist-
cod, and supported himself by thieving. Its
mentioned to the officer that he and a man ;aimed
%‘'illiarris were in league ; that they were in the
habit of going out every evening together to see
what they could steal front the washerwomen, and
that their best days were Fridls, because the
washerwomen were on those days very latisy iu getting
up their linen. He also stated that lie lived with
Williams, who took him to the Prosecutor's pre-
mises, and set him on to a part of los accit-toured
duty. Upon making inquiry the officer learned
that there was s:o Sloth men as Wilhams, and that
the boy WAS not known to have any ass dates.
This account astonished every one in Coin". The
Pfisouter, who is a tine-looking boy, reemed
attrn-
tive to the trial, but wholly unmoved etilpor at the
verdict, which was that of Guilty. or the sentence,
which was imprisonment for three mouths,
sound flogging.

P(ILICE.
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t:nw•svnevt.
Yesterday Ifeary Houma and .1411 Gain wen h.....ht to
the Office, awl underwent an examination f. or N!r. Poole.
the Sitting Magistrate, charged on siispition of robbing
Messrs. Sherbourne, (miners, at Hedfunt, who, it app. ared.
had for some lime paidied snspect..l they had hero robbed of
hay and straw by their ...reams, aid yest erdry morning early
stn the prisoners(Rossam was driver to the Prost rotors; traw-
ling their ',semis., with two loads and a half of straw, it
being first ascertained that he had taken 4►.t bosses instead
of $4l), Mr. Francis Sherbourne determined on. watt Wog and
following him to London. He stopped at the (*haw and
Horses, at Hammersmith, where Ise saw a Irmos of hay taken
from the top of the waggon by a man, whom he believed tw
be the Prisoner, Gunn, and on the arrival of the waggon at
Mr. itiWiCt:// ftabirs, to Halltiti street, thosvenor. place,
there proved to be two ifIle4CP short, to that Messrs Miry.
lairtroe had been rubbed of two trusses, mid Mr. Hassles
of two.
The Prisoners were comniit ted for further examination.

TIMM lIALL.
STATE OF ST. JOHN', WORKHOUSE, SOUTH IA A It li: .
A woman, named Elizabeth Itoheren Norton'', agid rot,
was !nought before Sir John Eaniur, Kat. cliarz.ti by /lie
tbart suers of the parish of St. Joint, Southwark, for imam rih,.
being a pauper, refused to perform the wink house duly, lint
by her example and persuasion had excited the other paii.
pees to itintiny.
The Complainauts stated that the Prisoner hail been some
time a 'molter iu their ',louse, during which her tionloct a lii
very impett Went. On Wednesday south. rI; male, who hail
been to the hospital but had that day tome mil, ons
brought to the Wait ithourie, and she °mire. 0 inb n i-li:• .
10 place her in the ward where she bad hero hi Go e, ... it i• il
her, fur certain reasotio, to be coowcyiti into another, but st..•
absolutely n fused to go into any other but hut obi braid, sad
resisted iio much, that it was funiii necessary to deck to r
with a strait jacket ; in which, born the violence of In t
exertions she faiuted. Mr. Baker, one of the oversee I ,
called the conies to assist her to bra whilst in that stare,
but the Prisoner, who was thew at the Washing soh, iefused
to comply, and also persuaded the oils, tit not to assn... sad
when she was bruoght before the Bonn, to answer for he r
conduct, she told them, with a good heal of kowtow. that
she was oat their wervaitt and would du as she pleas. d. Th. y
had a local Act isi Ilw parish, by shirts they were empow.
1 rued to punish persons of the Prionisei's derciar by MY-
! iterate correction, rustling thin, in she public Flut ks, or ilia.
tingtoisbing them by dress; but they did out *Wok proper to
influct either of shear posishnienis un • woman or use Pri-
-1 aossees yeses, and their sale objict in bringing Iser al all be.
fore the Magistrates was, that she might be wi &all with aA
its prove as example to the others, who were is • complete
stale of ineubordioatioo.
The Prisoner in bee defense amid, that sloe dist net consider
b,„eie b,,,,,,,i ~, obey the OvineWra, as they gave her taw
waive, and only a salad gaudily of Lad food.
Ihe Overseers assured the Magistrate that they red the
pour on rose • legs and stmuldeis of mutton, remote of Lora,