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OUILDHALL

freely Hymns and Jose Bloernfield were chord before Mr.
Alderman Tsio a P under the following circumstances :
Woodgate, a watchman of Vintry Ward, said, he observed•
about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, ;he prisoners coming out
of a hogse of ill-tame. on Garlick-hill. The officers of the ward
had reolcsed instructions to take into custody all parties who were
seen to coute out, eith:r nt tbat or any of the houses of the same de.
scri)oicia in the ward. In accordance with those orders, he went up
to the persons, and told them he must take :hem into custody. The
gentleir.an immediately gave him a volley of abuse, and said the
girl should not go ; when they were got to the watchhouse, the
gentleman became still more abusive, and assaulted one of the
watchmen,
The Magistrate ordered the prisoners to be discharged.
Mr. Hyrum wished to know by what authority the watchman
acted, so Car as to take any person into custody open such a
charge ?
The Alderman said, be could give no advice on it; but perhaps
an action at law might be maintained.
BOW-STREET.
Folio TD PASS ts.—ln consequence of the exposure in the news_
papers a few days since, of the system of fraud which has been sin
extensively canted on hrnughout the country by means of forged
parses, purporting to be the regularly authorized documents 'some-
times given to soldiers' wives and widows at the War Office, letters
have been received at this office, from overseers and churchwardens
of parishes in almost all parts of England, detailing the frauds
which have been practised upon them in this way. In most of these
letters, the advice of the Magistrates was asked as to the surest
mode of guarding against such frauds in futon, and in answer, a
genuine copy of the authorised War Office pass has been trans.
witted, together with instructions for the future guidance of parish
officers wi h respect to such matters. The publicity given to the
former Investigation at this office lona's° been productive of soother
gooey—several gangs of the dealers in forged passes having in con-
, sequence been .apprehended in the country. At Maidstone, six
I persons have been committed to prison who had obtained 40/. in a
day or tw a ; at Tewkesbury, another gang has been apprehended,
consisting of eight or nine ; and at two parishes in Norfolk, simi-
lar captions have been made. Evidence has also been obtained,
through the same channel, against three of the persons who were
apprehended In St. Giles's, by the officers of this establishment, on
last Thursday se'nnight. They were yesterday brought up for final
examination, before Mr. HALLS. Their names are—Joke Henry
Meyer, Sandi Meyer, Mary Dowling, and Mi.ry Wade, alias
Fitzget aid.
Mr. Wm. Overall, a farmer at Morton in Essex, and at present
overseer of that parish, stated, that on or about the 11th of Febru-
ary last the prisoners Dowling and FitzgeraNi came to him a bile
he WU at plough, and presented a bundle of passes and demanded
relief for themselves and seven other women, together with seventy
children, who were all on their way to Wales. He very naturally
inquired where the other women and the children were, and the
prisoners said they were gone on, ascribing as a reason for their not
stopping in ibe village, that several of them were afflicted with an
infectious fever, brought on by sudden charge of climate, they
having all just come from abroad. Tha-peisoner Fitzgerald said
that the overseer of Billericay had paid them all for 18 miles on.
and that they wire entitled to the same payment from the parish of
Morton. The witness took them •i the Rev. Mr. Earle, curate cf
the parish, wbo made a calculation of the amount, at lid. per mile
each person, and witness paid the prisoners hi. Ils. 80. for them-
selves and their supposed companions.
The Rev. Edward Robert Earle, curate of Morton. corroborated
Mr. Overall's account, and said that the prisoner Fitzgerald (who
is a well-looking girl of about 18) told him she was the daughter
of a soldier then on a foreign station, and that she and her mother
were travelling home. Her mother, she said, and the other women,
were ill of a bad fever, and had gone on. The prisoners produced
certificates, purporting to be a ;Coed by the Commanding Officers
of the respective regiments to which she husbands or fathers of
those claiming relief were said to belong; and they also produced
printed forms of receipts for money paid by overseers, and signed
them when the witness had filled up the blacks. He calculated ,
the amount to %Van, in Hertfordshire, at lid. per mile each for 79
persons, and gave directions to Mr. Overall to pay the prisoner*
W. I Is. RI.

The passes, cerificates, &c. given to the list witnesses were put
into the bards of a man named Wright, who swore that he was
well a q u rated with the handwriting of the n.ale prisoner, John
Henry Aleyer, and that the documents in question were in his writ-
ing. He once saw Meyer writing on a document similar to the
passes now produced.
Meyer denied that the passes were filled up by him.
Fitzgerald and Dowling declared they were never in Essex in
their lives.

As against Sarah Meyer there was no evidence, she was dis-
charged.
The other three were fully committed for trial, for conspiring to
defraud the parish of Morton. They will be tried at the Essex
Sesisions.

Some difficulty has occurred as to the disposal of John Leach
Miller, the tthiortunate lunatic, who was brought up here on
Thursday lest, for threatening the safety of Mr. Hopkinson. of
Regent-street, and his family. He was discharged from the uylunt
at Bethnal-green. and there is no relation of his in this country who
is able to pay for his readmission or his support there. He belongs
to the parish of Chutney, to Surrey, but it is necessary that he
should be regularly passed there from the parish in shich he last
slept, and no one knows where that is. Yesterday Mr. Halls, in
the course of some conversation on the subject, remarked that seve-
ral insane persons had been of late brought before hint and other
Magistrates, and had been committed to prison and taken care of;
but if they went on providing for lunatics ii that way, they would
soon have enough to do. He could not help expressing his surprise
that such a county as Middlesex had not a lurwic asylum of its
own ; and he should certainly take an opportunity of mentioning
the subject at the neat general meeting of Magistrates at Sessions.

UNION-HALL
DISCOVERY OF ♦ O•No or HORSE-STEALERS.—Wiihin
the last two months • vast number of horses have been stolen from
farmers resident in the counties of Surrey, Rent, and Essex ; and
in consequence of the height to which this species of offence had
become, Hall the chief constable, and Pople, an active officer of
this establishment, were specially appointed by the Magistrates
to commence • strict search after the offenders. According to their
instructions, having been engaged for the last six weeks in scouring
the above counties, they have at length apprehended two men con-
cerned with the gang. Yesterday, these two meo were brought
before L. B. ALLEN, Esq. and their examination excited much
interest, the interior of the office being crowded principally with
farmers, most of whom had had horses stolen from them.
One of the prisoners, named John Millen alias Jim the Yokel,
was charged with having been concerned in ►tealing four horses, a
cart, and a quantity of harness, front the stables of Mr. Rayner,
at btsnford Rivers, near Ongar. Essex, which were broken into;
and the other prisoner, George Smith, was charged as a receiver,
the cart and a great part of the harness so stolen being found upon
his premises. Subsequent to this robbery 150 guineas was offered
for the apprehension of the thieves.
A part of the cart, as also the harness found in Smith's house,
were here produced and identified by Mr. Rayner, as having been
stolen out of his stables on the 24th nf March.

The case against the other prisoner, James Millet alias Jim the
Yokel, was as follows :
Hall having heard that he was concerned with a gang of horse
stealers, which' had committed such depredations in the counties
above-named, proceeded to the Queen's Head public house, in
Freechurch-sweet, Bermondsey, and there saw the prisoner, whom
he accused of stealing horses, but he stoutly denied the accusation,
protesting his innocence of such practices. Hall then desired the
'prisoner to stow him to a small stable at the rear of the Queen's
Arms ; after soma hesitation, he did, and there Hall found a horse
which has been since identified by Mr. Rayner, as one of those
stolen from him. The prisoner at lint denied that the hone was
his, or that the stable was in his occupation ; these facts, however.
the constable subsequently ascertained, for the landlord of the
Queen's Arms stated, that he had let the stables to the prisoner,
and that Millet had always represented the horse found in it was
his property. After having recovered this hone, Hall proceeded to
another wretched hovel of a place in King's.gardens, Maid-line,
Holland-street, which the prisoner galled another of his stables,
ai:so this place, tied up to a rack, he discovered the three cart
whicb +ail been stolen from Mr. Rayner. Mall added that
be could produce witnesses who would swear that they had seen
two dead horses within the last fortnight, conveyed sway out of this
last-mentioned place, which there was every reason to believe had
been stolen and killed for the purpose of selling to the knackers.
In fact, said Hall, I have no doubt, from the difficulty of recover-
ing stolen horses, and the obscurity of this place, but that it was
selected by the gang as a slaughter-house for all horses that fell into
their hands. A great number of picklock keys of all sorts and sizes
was found concealed in this place. The chief constable added,
that if the prisoners were remanded he would apprehend some more
of the gang by the next examination.
They were accardingly remanded, when Smith, on leaving the
bar said, that he could bring most resreciable persons to give him
&character. Millet said, that be was innocent of having stolen the
horses, cart, or harness. lie was in the service of a'oman for whom
he took care of them ; and he added, that on no account would he
disclose the name of his master.

A strike for an advance of wages, amongst the journey-
men carpenters, masons, helliers, and paper-makers of this
city, took place on Monday. The reason assigned by the
men for this step is the present advanced pr;ces of the
necessaries of life.—Ezeter Paper.
Bets to a considerableamount are depending at Manches-
ter and Liverpool whether Mr. Hemingway, the jeweller,
:n the former town, cr Mr. Ksye, the statio;:er, in the
latter, sells the greatest number of tickets and tharri in the
present Lottery ; they are both agents to High in that
town, and both have generally been very fortunate ; Mr.
Hemingway sold the entire of one 30,0001. 'n the last Lot-
tery, which certainly gives him a capital chance of success,
but then Mr. Rave has also great points in his favour, as
past of another 30,0001. was sold at Liverpool ; however,
a few days will determine, as the entire of the F cur
90,0001. and all the other Capitals must be decided on the
18th of this month, and no doubt Bich and Lis Agents, as
toad , will give a caprfcl account of tbem.

SPORTING I NTELLI G FNCE
TATTERSALL'S, APRIL 4.
There nal cot any attendance tad Ay, being Newmarket Craven
Meeting. Fur a statemant of the udd. we ret.t our readers to our
antouot from Newmarket.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.

Newmarket, Sunday night, 17.o'Clitek.

The racing.sesson for 1525 commences to.tnorrow vi:h the above
great meeting, who h. witether we consider the number and amount
of the stake% the celebrity of .he horses and their riders, the length
ofnonami the rntereeratinzs,anord itthseeihra,ar.flneukcetoubery3,uonschi:t.lsieoitlitei:titisaototg.l4ethfororwait,:ieei!es:ry most in.
som and
tetrating and important in the kingdom, and, as usual, has attracted
a insigni-
ll
tnhtettihwignh. "Tertheinorldest inhabitant cannot mil to memory a greater
arremblage of Nobility, Uentry, die. at so early a period prior to
the meeting : nut • bed is . a be procured In the neighbourhood, and
servants are pouring in every hour for the purpose of engaging
apartments for their masters, many of whom, we ezFect, will meet
with sorry accommodation.
His Royal Highness the %leo( York arrived at Ens ecieek,
and was greeted with the hearty cheers of the visitors, and a teary
peal trout the bells.
Amongst other arrival', :hope Int—
Dukrs—Rutland, Grafton, anJ Portland.
Marquia—Grahatn.
fiarls—Sefton, Stradbreoke, Lowther, Jersey, Orford, &c.
Lords—Lytedoch. Duns:kb, Anson, R. Manners, C. Manners,
O. H. Cavendish. J. Fumy, &c.
Sirs—J. Shelley and J. Bvrg.
GeneralOroavenor, Hon. 31. de Roos, Hon. Mr. Greville, Hon.
Mr. Irby; Cols. Thornhill, Udney, Lyster. and Russell; J. Mott-
' glaa, Esq., M.P., Stuart Wortley, Esq., M.P., Batson, . ;
dilesars. Hammond,Stonehewer, Haywood, Walpole, &c. &c.Esq
Before one o'clock the beauty of the weuther drew together a
greet number of betting men before the rooms, from whence they
shortly titer moved to the Heath, agreeable to custom, where a gra-
tifying si.eht presented itself in the exercise of the different horses
entered for the various stakes of the week, most of whom boat there
appointed riders. Alost of the Nobility above mentioned were pre-
sent, and the whole Heath resounded with the praise of the action
and symmetry of Rufus, who is here as great a favourite as ever
was known.

In the evening, the Jockey Club Dinner was well *amulet! ; 8.
Wonky, Esq. M.P. in tne Chair. There were present Lords
Lynedoch, Ai son, Stradbrooke, and (1. H. Cavendish, Sir John
Byng, Hon. M. de Roos, Hon. M. Irby, Colonels Li ster and
Messrs. Batson, Walpole, D. Hammond, Crawford,
Haywood, and Sionchewer. At the dinner the welihts of Inc horses
for the handicap were fixed, the stake itself having been made up
before dinner, to enable tritirers to put their horses in muscle.
There was a great deal of betting on the Riddlesworth ; Rufus for
a comiiderable time standing at even against the field, but at last
left offal under.

65 •o 50 the field agst Rutus 10 to 1 agst Acteon
6 to 1 agtt Llizibt!th 10 to 1 agst Windham's
7 to 1 apt Lord George 101 to 6 eget Blue Stockings

4 to I arkt Second Sight
6 to 1 apt Streatham
6 te I agat Ganymede

9 to 2 the field apt Rufus
6 to 1 eget 31uleteer
10 to 1 exec Webb
10 to 1 agst Defiance

4 to 1 oast Alice.

6 to I aim TOMIDO
11 to 1 ipt Pastime

STAKE/.
7 to I apt Furbisher
9 to I agst Elfred
10 to 1 ags‘ Spermaceti.
till%

14 to 1 agit Poirot
16 to 1 ago Legacy
29 to 1 ago Spermaceti

12 to 1 opt Sorcery
12 to I apt Waits

__. -COES.
to I agar Memnon 17 to I agst Redgaundet
10 to I apt Cleveland 25 to 1 ago Homer
16 to 1 apt Androgeus 50 to 1 egst Toss
The (elk:wing is the Programme for to-morrow, 12 o'clock :
The Crayon Stakes of 10 sore. each, 2 yr, set. 101 b.; S yrs Bst.l
4 yrs est. 91b. ; 11 yrs est. 1lb.; 6 yrs 9st. 51b.; and aged, Oat. 71b.
A. F.
Mr. F. Craven's Longoairl. 3 Yrs.
Mr. Oreville's br. e. by Whalebooe, out of Aaron's dam, 2 yrs.
Al r. Cooper's Streatham, S yes.
iltr. Hunter's Ganymede, 4 yrs.
Lord Stradbrooke's gr. c. Second Sight, by Phantom, 2 yrs.
Lord O. H.Csvendish's Furbishrr, 3 yrs.
Mr. Prinze's b. c. by Soothsayer.
Lord Verulam's ch. f. by Sella', out of Trcdrille, 3 yrs.
Mr. Wortley's b. e. by Bourbon, 2 yrs.
Mr. Laml,ton's Spermaceti, 4 yrs.
Duke of Grottoes b. c. by World, out of Sister to Nectar, 2 yrs.
Mr. Prendergast's Witch, 3 yrs.
Mr. Rush's b. C. b Pioneer. 2 yrs.
Mr. Wyndhatu's Brother to Black and all Black, 2 yrs.
Mr. Wyndlism's Elfrid„ 4 yrs.
Mr. W. Edwards's Wildwood, 2 yrs.
Lord Easter's Conviction, 3 pl.
31r. Rogers's b. c. by Haphssard, 2 yrs.
Mr. Powktt's ch. f. by Coon t, 2 yrs.
H Stir • PAST Twxxvg.--Handicap Sweepstakes of 19 .nn Meth
all ages.—T. Y. C.
Mr. tidny's Pontine, 4 yrs Oat.
Mr. Pettit's Bravura, 3 yrs ftst. fllb.
Lord Ortori's Orton. 3 yrs Est. 61b.
Lord G. /11.-Civendish's Print-loess', 3 yrs eat. 31b.
Capt. Rous's Pedrillo. 4 yrs &a. 91b.
Sir G. Byng's Ina, 3 yrs est. 21b.
Mr. F. Craven's Entellus, 2 yrs 7st. 41b.
Mr. Theakston's c. by Filho der Puts, 2 yrs 6st. 121 b.
Owe o'CLocl.—Swecpstakes of 150 soya. each, h. ft. colts, est.
71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b.—R. 31.
Duke of Portland's c by Teesdale, out of Pleigt.
Duke of Grutton's Cramer, by Election.
Lard Exeter's c. Comm, out of Advance.
Lord Stradbronke's Straymon, by Quiz.
Duke of York's c. by Partisan.
Lord Grosvenor's Achilles.
HALF-PAST ONT.—Sweepstakes of 200 gs each, h. ft. PACS est.
71b. ; fillies, Pot. 31b.—D. M.
Lard G. 11. Cavendish's c. by Bourbon.
Duke of Graftrn's ch. c. by :Holey.
Mr. Oreville's b. f. by Aladdin.
Mr. Wyndham's b. c. brother to Twatty.
Two o'CLocx.—The Riddlesworth Stakes of NO gs. esch..—
Ab. M.

IT. LI

Duke of Grsfton's Rufus.
Mr. 1 hornbill's f. by Scud.
General Grorrznor's c. out of Blue Stockings.
Mr. Si'yndluou's c. by Whalebone.
Mr. Payne's Aline.
Duke of Rutland's f. cut of Elizabeth.
Mr. Newton's Actaeon.
Mr. Crockford's.c. by Sclim.
Match.—Mr. Greenlee Don Carlos apt Lord Orford's e. by
Ditto, 300—Off.

31 ONTDAY.
The Craven Stakes, for all ages.
Mr. F. Craven'. Longwsist, . . - 1
Mr. Hunter's Ganymede. - - - - 2
Eighteen started. but th^ above two were only placed.
This was a fine race; 2 to 1 agtt Mr. Greville's br. e. by
Whalebone; 5 to 2 art Streatham ; and 5 to 4 these two against
the field. Guhgwaist, rode by Dry, won only by half a length.
The weather was beautiful, the comrany numerous, and the
course in good order. The Duke of lock was at the winning.
poet in Mr. %Vyndham's carriage.

DONCASTER RACRg,
MONDAY—D .1:e of Leeds's hr. c. Bluebeard, by Blacklock,
agt Mr. Ru•se;l's br. c. Mustachio, by Whisker, Bat. 41b.
298 SOT. h. tt.—Tsra

RACES TI
Cieterick Bridge - April 6
The tiro - - 9
lif
. . 11
Newmarket - - 18

'0 CO3IE.
Newcastle - Jana 11
Preston . - 12
KnutstOrd - - 2G
Abingdon - August 9
Oxfo - - 16
Burton-on-Trent - - f.")
Warwick - September 6
Northampton . - 12
11,;(1161d • - 13
Doncaster - . - 19
Newmarket - October 3
Rugelcy - 6
N colt rket - 17
Do. - - - 31

Ci•ester - May 2
Newmarket - - 2
York - .

Epsom - - 17
Nlanchester 45
Ascot Heatb . 31
Newton - . June I
Buxton - 8
Leech . 8
Newmarket .11

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Hambletiln ',winds on Thursday at Basing Park, and on
Saturday at Illosinn Heath--at ten.
The Duke of Oration's hounds to-morrow at Foseot Wood--at
half-past ten.
The IVrongll hounds to-morrow at Cotgrave, and on Friday at
Watnall—at half.past ten.
The IVe•urcre stag hounds on Friday at Swaff hum race-course
—at eleren.— ( Last day.)
111 r. Dearing's hounds on Thursday at Weed Dialing —at ehyt en.
Mr. Warde's (Hems) hounds to-morrow at Donnington Gate, aid
on Friday at Penn Wood.

The ground at the direrrnt training stables is becoming
very bard for want of rain, and some apprthengons are
nrturally entertained by the owners of the race horses for
the safety of Me 4 legs. Epsom fails as early as tl:c lith of
May this year.
GRANTHAM EASTER-EVE FAIR.—At this: fair, on
Saturday, bow sheep Esti beasts ;Nu: c.»sideret•l lower
than at ary fair of die present year. Lean legs (year old
sheep) producing from 391. to 465., and two years old lean
wethers generally from 625. to 561. each. A few pens of the
latter are, however, said to have sold at 60s. each. The
best Store beasts were about Sa. per stone, at their weight
when fattened. The supply was great and trade dull.