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LIST OF THE MAJORITY

WHO TOTED ON THE 17TH AGAINST THE REPEAL or THY
i:SuRY LAWS, AND OF THE MINORITY WHO TOTED FOR
THE sLcOND READING OF THE BILL.
3IAJORITY.
Aclancl, Sir T. D. Ottise, Sir %Vm. Palmer, C. Figgie
Autry, Sir John Heygate, WM. Pelham. J. C.
Ikiwtt, S. M. Heron, Sir It. Peuruddock, J. H.
Bright, HenryHotham, Lord Pitt, Joseph
Br' es, Sir George Houldsworth, Thos. Robertson. A.
Cooper, Bransby Innes, Sir Hugh Russell, AI.
Corbett, Penton Jersoise, IJ. P. Sumner, G. Holme
Crompton, S. King, Hon. H. Thompson, Lowther
Crigps, Joseph Knatehbull, Sir E. Vivian, Al.
Davenport, Davies Lethbridge. Sir 'I. B. Webbe, Edward
Ltsskins, Remy Lockhart, J. J. Wilton, Thomas
D.ltleas, John Lowther, Lord Wodehouse, Edmund
Hewett. Robert Mundy, Francis, Worthy, J. S.
Luceurt, Thomas Packenluini, lion. It.
Txxxxxs—J. Caleraft, C. Wetherell.
MINORITY.
Alexander, James Forbes, Sir Charles Alorland, Sir S. B.
Alexander. J. D. Grant, W. F. Monck, J. B.
Alth°,P, Lord Gilbert, I). Parnell, Sir Henry
Atwood, 3laithew Gurney, Hudson Phillimore, Dr.
Hempen, Benjamin Horton, R. W. Phillips, G.
Craddock, J. S. Home Joseph Smith, Abel
Colthorpe, Hn. F. C. Inglis:Sir R. H. Smith, Wm.
Don. Gen. Sir Alex. Leader, William Sykes, D.
Douglas, M. Krill Leiceorer, B. L. Trent, W.
limo:mot& !tome Msberly:John Tulle., C. A.
Ellis, Thomas Alaberly, W. L. Wood, Ald.
Erns, Wrn. Martin. John Wynn, Rt. Hon. C.
Fleming, J (Saltash) Maxwell, W. A.
laquhar. Sirßobett Monteith, H.
'f El-Lees—John Smith, Sergeant Onslow.
D/LIIISH CATHOLIC Faze GUT ASSOCIATION.—A
Meeting of the NVestern Division of this Association took
Place yesterday evening, at the Catholic School-house,
Dean-street, Soho. At eight o'clock, a Mr. Stanfield, one
of the Committer, was called to the Chair, and inspect:l the
books of the diffornt collectors, one of whom, he observed,
had not limited his visitation to the dwellings of the poor,
but had even extended his visits to the abode of Royalty it-
Rif, for in his book appeared an entry of It received from
the household of the I)uchess of Kent. The subscriptions'
received since last Sunday, amounted to the sum of 9/. 70.9 d.
, he Meeting was then idjourned.
Russt•x Loas, negotiated by Mr. N. M. Rothschild,
.a London.—Tbe half-yearly dividend on the above Loan,
Which becomes due on Tuesday, the lst of March next,
will be paid by Mr. N. M. Rothschild, on that and every
succeeding day (Sundays excepted) between the hours of
!en and two, at his Counting-house, No. 9, New-court.
Ihe dividend warrants, with a list thereof in numerical
oilier, must be left one day previous to payment, for the
Purpose of being examined.

The tofu'

ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK.
.owing petition from the Proprietors of Wet
Docks in the Port of London, against the intended new
Dock at St. Katherine's, will be presented to-morrow
evening to the House of Commons, previous to the second
reading of the St. Katherine's Duck Bill. Another
petition to the like purport will, we understand, be pre-
Dented from the London Dock Company, under their seal.
The matter of the petition we subjoin is worthy of serious
consideration. Tha question undoubtedly Is, whether
the trade of the port is at present sufficiently accom-
modated, and upon terms as reasonable as will yield
a fair return on the capital invested iii these vast and
expensive undertakings. The petitioners allege, that
the rates and charges on the landing, housing, loading,
and shipping of goods, have been already greutly reduced,
and must, from the keen competition thut actually twists,
be necessarily reduced to the very lowest standard at which
any dock establishment can subsist." If this be so, it
would seem to be a conclusive answer to the application
now under the consideration of the Legislature.

ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK.
TO THE HONEURABLE THE COMMON! OF THE UNITED
ISINODOSI or °BEAT BRITAIN ARO IRELAND, It/ PARLIA-
MENT AssEmBLID,
The humble Petition of the undersigned Proprietors of wet
Docks in the Port of London,
Showed),—That your petitioners are proprietors of certain wet
docks, wharfs, and wareimuses, constructed under various Acts
of Parliament, for the accommodation of the trade of the Port o
London.
That your petitioners having understood that leave has been ob-
tained from your Honourable House, to bring in a Bill for making
and constructing certain wet docks, warehouses, and other works
at St. Katherine's, cannot but contemplate with deep anxiety; the
pusibility of your Honourable House agreeing to pass the said
Bill into a law ; the proposed undertaking being to a very high de.
gree prejudicial to the interests of your petitioners.
That the petition on which the permission to bring in such a Rill
has been obtained is, in the opinion and belief of your petitioner..
grounded upon a position as unsound as the allegations therein
contained are at variance with the facts to which they refer.
That the said petition sates, that " open competition can alone
ensure the advantages contemplated by the enlightened policy of
the Legislature, in respect to the trade and navigation of the coun-
try ;" but as, by the actual or prospective expirationlof the Charters
of the several existing Docks, and by the perrniUon to private
warehouses to receive bonded good., competition is already coin-
pletely open, your petitioners presume that, by the word: •• open
competition" in the said petition, unlimited competition must has*
been intended.
That your petitioners, although fully aware that competition is
the best general mode of regulatiitg supply anti demand, need not
remind your Honourable House, that, u in almost all elementary
Min equally general, this principle is subject in its practical applica-
tion, to many and important limitations.
That your petitioners humbly conceive, that public works, cow.
structed-at great expense, form one of the strongest cases fur such
limitation.

That the capital disbursed being irreclaimable, and wasted if not
devoted to the specific object for which it was expended, your pe.
thioners humbly submit that the individuals who have so applied
their private fortunes under the sanction of the Legislature, ai.tl in
furtherance of a public object, hare an equitable claim to protection
frobt wanton or unnecessary rivalship.
That against the wanton competition of individuals, your peti-
tioners have always the protection of that salutary caution which
operates to restrain the injudicious application of p: irate funds ;
but that nothing short of the authority of Parliament can pro.
tect your petitioners from such co:npetmon of Joint-stock Com-
panies.
That, without-meaning to impute to the persons who have pre-
ferred to your Honourable House the said petition, any motives
less worthy than those which they theinselves assign, your peti-
tioners cannot refrain from observing, that it is matter of notoriety,
that, at present, subscribers to any amount can be procured to any
undertaking, for reasons quite apart from the probabte success of
such undertaking.
That the existence of a project for the formation of new Docks
cannot therefore be &turned as evidence even of the probability
of such Docks yielding as adequate return for the capital en.
gaged, much less of the necessity or expediency of their tor-
mat ion.
. .

That were it however probable that new Docks would yield an
adequate interest to the adventurers, your petitioners humbly sub-
mit, that merely to enable a new Company to participate in the
returns now enjoyed by your petitioners, would not be a sufficient
reason for your honourable Ham to grant the permission sought.
That your petitioners humbly conceive, that it is incumbent on
parties applying to the Legislature fur an especial law in their fa.
your, en show some great public good that will arise from
granting such indulgence; especially when the concession is frarght
with the most ruinous consequences to others.
That when it is broadly stated that competition is indispensable,
it seems to be overlooked, that competition is not an end. but a
means; the public good is the end to be obtained; competition is
one mode ct obtaining it.
That if to acquire increased competition be a sufficient reason for
permitting the construction of the proposed dock at St. Katherine's,
without reference to the real demands of the trade of the port, it
would, your petitioners humbly submit, be en equally good reason
for any additional number of wet docks—an argument which might
evidently be pushed to absurdity.
That it does not appear that, in this present case, unlimited com-
petition is the best mode of consulting the public good, inasmuch a•,
although to a certain point such establishments may compete with
each other in reducing the rates ; yet, if too many of than be
permitted, ruin would impend over all, unless, in self preservation,
' they were to coalese to raise prices. Low prices might yield a
moderate return to as many as the trade of the port might ne-
qnire ; high prices would barely save a greater number from ruin.
That if it be contended by the projectors that front the number
of docks anti private wharfs and warehouses such coalition would
be impossible, this assumption affords a conclusive reply to the
alleged necessity of a more enlarged competition.
That the rates and charges on the landing, housing, loading, and
shipping of goods have been already greatly reduced, and must,
from the keen competition that actually exists, be necessarily re-
duced to the very lowest standard at which any dock establishment
can subsist.

That the construction of the Wet Docks, contemplated in the
said Bill, can, your petitioners apprehend, in nowise remove any
" obstruction at present existing to the navigation of the river
Thames, as vessels that use Wet Docks can already find accom-
modation ; but that, as the site of the said contemplated Docks is
higher up the stream than the Docks of your petitioners, vessels
frequenting them would. in fact, cause greater obstruction to the
navigation than at present exists.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly entreat, that your Honourable
House will be pleased to take the premises into your consideration,
and finding that the additional Docks contemplated by the said
Bill are not required by the state of the commerce of the port, and
that the construction of them would, in the first instance, grievously
injure your petitioners, and eventually the projectors themselves,
without any public benefit whatever, that your Honourable House
will be pleased to withold your consent to the said Bill passing into
a law. And your petitioners will ever pray.
_

London, Feb.l7, 1825-__

Dovoa, Ftaztosny 18.—A moat distressing accident
occurred at Newgate station, near Margate, on Wednesday
evening last. John Burke, a seaman of the Blockade Ser-
vice, had taken the two infant children of Lieutenant
Nightingale, to play in the garden, which is situated near
the edge of the cliff; one of them, a very finis little boy,
named Alfred, sixteen months old, was in his arms, and
whether the child made a spring, and the man tried to
save it, or whether the cliff gave way, or the man slipped
from the grass, being wet, is unknown, but both man and
child were precipitated over the cliff, and fell from a height
of forty feet. The other child, a little gill, wat the only
person who saw the accident, and, by her shrieks, alarmed
its parents and otherv, who immediately ran to their assist-
ance, and medical aid was called in, but to uo purpose, as
the man, John Burke, was found with his neck dislocated,
and the infant died almost instantly after being picked
up. The agonized feelings of its parents are more easily
imagined than described. The unfortunate mother has
been in fits ever since. This morning an inquest was held
on the bodies, before Sir T. Mantell, Mayor of Dover,
and Coroner, when the Jury returned a verdict of Acci-
dental Death.

MIDDLETON COLLIERY.—(From the Leeth reUrV.)—
The melancholy sequel to the tragedy at Gosforth Pit has now been
performed. Soon after midnight last Sunday, Mr. Blenkinsop and
lr. Bedford repaired to the pit, attended by a number of the work-
peopls, and prepared to open it. The shaft had been fastened up
with boards, covered with earth, in whith a tube six inches
diameter, with a covet, was at the same time fixed. On removing
the cover of the tube, the carburetted hydrogen gas rushed out with
so much force that the persons in the tunnel were obliged to retreat
for nearly one hundred and tifty yards towards the mouth to find a
breathable atmosphere. They then quitted the pit, leaving the
process of ventilation to go on till Tuesday evening, when they still
further promoted it by such means as they judged necessary. On -
Wednesday morning, the air was sufficiently pure to enable them
to remove the covering, and to commence the search for the two
bodies that were missing. The body of Joseph Haigh was found
almost immediately, with his hands over his face, as if attempting
to prevent suffbestion ; but that of John Ranisden was sought for a
a long time in vain ; at length it was discovered by the acciiental
removal of a piece of timber; his death had no dobut been instan-
taneous, and his body could scarcely have been more dislocated if
he had been shot out of a mortar. The tint care of tho.e engaged
in the search was to take the remains out of the pit, but so rapid had
been the process of putrefaction, that it was only by their clothes
that they could be rectignired by their friends. The same ilsy the
Coroner held his inquest upon them, and after the examination of
Dimes Roberts, the only witness examined on the occasion, the
Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict—" Lied in consequence
of an explosion of carburetted hydrogen gas in liosforth coal-pit.
on iCednesday, the l-2th of Jan. WIS.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

L.4lr INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, Fra. 19.

Adjourned Siltlrfre, after Hilary Term, befuie fie
LORD CHIEF Jaren:lc era COMMOII •la tilt.
BREACH OF MARRIAGE PRO3IISE.
SARAH stonsrEit v. inwattnt Wools.
This was an action foe the breach of a marriage cdr.tract.—Plea,
the general issue.
Mr. SCAULIETT (with wham was Mr. CHITTY) stated the
plaintiff", case. The 'plaintiff was a young woman twenty-thrze
years of age, the daughter of a retired butcher, now deceased.
After her father's death, she lived with her mother, who hail a mo-
derate competency. The defendant was a young man of twenty.
nine, and carried on business on his own account as a potato
salesman. lie was the son of a butcher at Croydon. An intimacy
had long subsisted betwein the plaimiff's and the defodant's fa.
mu lea, it. consequence of intermarriages. About raw years since
the defendant began to pay his addresses to the plaintiff; and his
deterin ;nation to marry her was defter:Ted last year, when he mode
a forth ilnpripposal, which was accepted. Both families were favour-
able to the match, and gave their assent. The defendant demanded
of the ifaintiff's mother a portion of five hundred pounds, but the
latter consented to give NW. which, with 3001. which the defend.
ant's father agreed to put down, would have been a comfortable
provision to set the defendant up in business. The 12th of August
last woe the day fixed for the marriage. In order to this the de-
fendant wrote upon a piece of paper the necessary directions for the
publication of the banns, which were delivered to the mother, and
by her given to the clerk of St. Saviour's, Southwark, of which
parish die parties were described in the paper. Before the day
hxed upon for the marriage bad arrived, die defendant prevailed
upon the plaintiff' and her mother to go end reside in his house, in
order, as he said, that they might not be " bothered" with the
marrow-bone and cleaver people, who would Probably serenade
them with their rough music, if the marriage took place at the
mother's house. 'When the 12th of August arrived, however, the
j defendant pressed for some delay, suggesting that it was inconve-
nient for hint just then to have the marriage solemnized. The
delay Watt acceded to, but in about a fortnight afterwards the fol-
lowing letter was received by the plaintiff and her mother, whilst
they resided under the defendant's roof.
" To Mrs. and Miss Horner. " August 30, 1824.
" Ladies—Feeling mybelt very uncomfortably situated, and
quite unsettled at this present time, compels me to take my pen in
hand to endeavour, if possible, to release both your mind and my
own. Will commence candidly, in the first place, by stating that,
according to my own feelings and opinion, I think it is a cruel
thing for any person to marry another without they have that lore
for them which will be the principal thing to make the remaining
part of their life happy. And I must candidly say, that the love
which I once had for you, Sarah, is entirely baniahed from me
therefore I think it would be very wrong for the to marry you.
when at the same time I feel as if I could not make you and niyulf
happy afterwards. It is the case oftentimes that peoplee affections
or minds are set against certain things and certain people, and
cannot probably know or state the reasons why, but certain things
transpire, and sometimes things are said, which oftentimes unhinges
a person's mind in that sort of way that it is impossible for it to be
settled again, and that is the case with mine; therefore I must po-
sitively decline the idea of being married. Am extremely sorry it
has gone to the extent that it has (but it is not the first time that
such a thing of the sort has happened), but it cannot be helped
now. I wish you no harm ; I bear no malice toward* you or your
mother; but I hope you way get a better partner than ever I
should have been ; and, if circumstances should turn out all fa-
vourable, am sure you will get one that will make you more happy
than I should, if you was to have me it the state of mind and
feeline. as I am at this present titne ; therefore I think you will
both join with me and say it is best as it is, and needs no further
particulars.
" Therefore, to make things more pleasant on both sides, I
would advise you, if you continue here, to make yourselves com-
fortable in your own apartments; you can make a tire in the
kitchen, and have the use of it with your bed-room, and you can
make the dining-room your sitting-room. I state this, because I
think it will make things more pleasant fur both parties; if not, I
think you had better get another lodging, and I will move your
without any expense to you. I think I need not state any
recaps
else to satisfy your mind on this unpleasant business.
The annexed are the statements and feelings of your obedient
servant."

The mask being thus thrown off, the plaintiff had no other alter.
native but to bring this action tor the injury which her reputation
must necessarily sustain by the termination of the contract, which
was thus broken off without any reason or pretence. An unjust
and censorious world might possibly imagine that there was some
cause to justify the defendant's conduct. In order to prevent this,
however, she had, under the advice of her friends, determined to
submit her case to a jury, who would, no doubt, afford her that
redress to which she was entitled. The Learned Counsel said he
had a great many of the defendant's letters, the composition of
which might possibly gratify that sickly appetite which some per-
sons might have for private scandal. These letters were unneces-
sary to his case, and, therefore, they should not be disclosed. He
should call the plaintiff's mother, who would prove all that was ne-
cessary to entitle the plaintiff to a verdict ; and the letter already
reed would take away from the defendant any thing like a defence.
Undoubtedly this was not a case for sentr:iental shortages. He
would not talk to them any nonsense about loss of happiness and
so forth, in the wedded state. The case was submitted to a jury of
husbands, fathers, and brothers, and he bad no doubt that in their
hands the interests of the plaintiff were safe. To them she looked
for such a verdict as would protect her honour from imputation,
and prevent the finger of scorn from pointing at her character.
Mrs. Horner, mother of the plaintiff; stated that her daughter is
now 23, the defendant is 26 or 27. His family has been long
intimate with witness's. There have been intermarriages between
the families ; the defendant is a potato salesman, and has been in
business about twelve months. Witness's husband had been a
butcher, but retired from business before his death. About the
middle of last year the defendant asked plaintiff to settle and marry
him. Ile asked her to marry, and she and witnsss agreed to the
proposal. He demanded 5001. of witness soon after that. He said
he had SOO/. of his own, and he thought he should shortly have
10001. in the business. He wished witness to advance wor., but she
said she could not, until she saw his father about it. He said he
should leave it to his father. Afterwards he wished witness to go
' down to his father at Croydon, and communicate with the latter
upon the subject. NVitnessi and the plaintiff went down to the de.
Pendant's father, who agreed to give 3004 They went down the 10th
of July. Witness agreed to Five 3001., and the father said he
I would give 300/., and added, 111 give shilling for shilling, for 1
wish fur the union. The father said he wished the marriage to take
place on the 12th of August; but prior to that, he asked witness
to remove into his house, as she was a lone person. The defendant
was informed what his father said. At this time he was going out
in a one horse May, and said he would call and speak upon the sub-
bect. Sometime afterwards, he called and said that something had
een said unpleasant by his sister, who lived with him, and kept
his house. He said he could not make up his mind until he had a
_Acing (I. e. until he had a meeting, face to face, with thee father).
Ile afterwards came and wrote a paper for the banns of marriage to
be published..—(The paper was produced).—He gave her ruouey
out of his pocket to pay for the publication of the banns ; she did
not wish to do it without having the money. The defendant wished
witness and the plaintiff to go and live in his house. He came,
with some assistants, and packed up the goods, and removed them
to his house; this was after the tint time of asking ; it was before
the outasking. lie said to witness, " You may as well be with
me, the same as a stranger : you may as well pay the as another."
Witness paid for the time she was in the house. The plaintiff and
herself lived in the defendant's house about seven weeks. His
reason for wishing her to remove to his house was, that he was
i afraid of his brother salesmen, who would all be wanting a treat ;
and therefore he wished het to conic to the house to avoid the an-
noyance; this was a little while before the marriage was to take
place. After being in the house for about a fortnight, witness re-
ceived a letter Vont the defendant. Whiist in the house the deft -
dant behaved very well, until one Saturday, when a lady came,
and then he behaved very ill to the plaintiff; very ill, indeed. De-
fendant read a letter under the door of her room. The letter was
produced, identified and read. It was the same as that which Mr.
Scarlet had read. This letter was communicated to the plaintiff,
and she became extremely ill in consequence; she is very poorly
now.

Cross-examined by Mr. Platt: She is not well enough to come
to the Court to-day ; she has never been out of doors for some
days; the defendant said something had been said unpleasant by
his sister, but he did not say what it was; did not go out often
during the time she was in the house; after receiving the letter,
she remained live *s in the house; thinks she did not dine at
the same table with the defendant after this; is sure she did not ; '
will swear she did not ; dined in the dining-room, w'a.ch she had to
herself ; the defendant never complained that the plaintiff was too
gay for him, and that she staid out too late at nights ; her daughter
never staid out late at night; she might have said that he had
heard so of her. He did not assist in moving the things after.
wards; he was out of the way at the time. The defendant told
witness that he carried on the business of a potato salesman ma his
own amulet. Always understood so from hint.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. PLATT then addressed the Jury in mitigation of damages.
He admitted that a verdict must pass against his client ; but
lie submitted that, cansidering the station in life of the parties, tiieir
ages and their cir .aces, this was not a case which called fur
any serious measure of damages. Upon a candid review of the
defendant's conduct, it ,nnia pat unreasonable to suppose that he
had some just reason for declining to fulfil the solemn and irrevo-
cable comract of marriage with the plaintiff. These was no proof
that they bad ever been much in each others' society, or that
lie had ever any opportunity of forming a proper estimate of
her temper, disposition, and habits. In the season of court-
ship, the lover may well be enraptured with the external
graces, and the outward show of attraction which his betrothed
displays; and not until the indissoluble knot is tied does he dis-
cover how wofully he has been deceived. Possibly the fortnight's
residence of the plaintiff under the defendant's roof, had then,
for the first time, awakened hint to a sense of the perilous situa-
tion in which he was placed. Then, and not till then, had he an
opportunity of seeing the lady undisguised b_y the blandishments
of eet interviews. or stolen endearments. The defendant's letter
plainly alluded to some new discovery in her temper, habits, and
disposition. His delicacy and consideration for her feelings re-
strained him from more pointedly alluding to the nature of the ob-
jections which had induced him to terminate their connection.
Having, however, discovered something in her conduct it:consistent
with their mutual happiness, it lOW his duty, as a min of honour
—nay, it was hie duty to God, not to take a lady to the altar whose
taste and disposition mast embitter their White !'-cis. There was

nothing in the defehdanes leiter which could aggravate the ease
agairo.t him. On the contrary, it ails a plain„ manly.and honest
eipasition of his genilinents, and contained such cownt regions,
as ought to have induced the Indy to release him from hProbligii.
Cions. lf.n. happiness was de my iittaisted in this ?maid of his
motives ; for kink s% she puyattised his until: ided affections, and un-
testrainkd confidence, it wit utterly impassible that she could cojoy
that felicity, without which themarriedslatewould be ib toletab I e
No injury appeared to have been sustained by the lady. 'The
Learned Cotwosei disclaimed sentimental damages, cap the score of
blasted happinc.Ss and the violation of plighted love ; on that
ground she had no claim to damages. As tittle had she any claiai
ll for injured hoow b character. The defer.datit v.st no reflections
upon her, and he was ready now to do her ample justice id every
point of view in which her character could be aTocted. Acting
upon the truest sincerity. lie had, though late, discovered id the
plaintiff a dissimilarity of taste and temper inconsistent with their
mutual happiness ; and for her sake, as well as his non, he was
desirous of terminating an alliance, which could only have entailed
upon both all the horrors of matrimonial iiscora. Against • de..
fendant so acting the jury would not make this action an hiatus
mend whereby he must be consigned to a gaol, from his Liability
to pny any thing like serious dantago.
Tie Lo RD CII lIC Ir JUST ICS summed up the cast for the ittiy,
and directed then,, in their estimate of damages. not to overstep
the bounds of moderation and temper.
The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, One
Hundred Pounds.

OLD BAILEY, -A TUNDAY, F. 19.

OLD COURT.
Thomas Aidnis, aged 35 years, a man of 'gentlemanly appear-
' ance, was indicted for stealing a mare, value 211. the property of
Samuel Badgery.
Mi. Badgery, a tailor, stated, that the prisoner called at his
house, in Cirencester. place, 31ary-la-bonne, on the 15th of Decem-
ber. and said lie understood that he (witness) had a mare to sell,
and he wanted to purchase one for an elderly gentlemen, a friend
of his. The prisoner went to the stable and saw the mare, and slid
he would call again. lle called on the 17th, and asked If the mare
was sold. Witness told hint it was rot. The prisoner salt that if
it was a safe-going horse, he thcught his' uncle would like to pur-
chase it. Witness wilted hint where his uncle lived ; the prisoner
said at No. S 6, in Davin.strect, Berkeley.sguare ; that he lived
with his uncle, and if he (witness) had no objection, he would ride
the mare to his uncle's house; that if his uncle did not like it, be
would bring it back in ten minutes, and if be did like it, he should
not return for half an hour, and the money should be paid at six
o'clock the same evening. The prisoner rode away the mare, and
he (witness) did not see hint again till the 17th of January. lilo
person called on him representing himself to be the uncle of the
prisoner.
Jika:ste BURROUGH —You swear there was no absolute sale
of the ma ?

Witness—Most positively; he called at 36,Davies.street, Berke-
ley-square, on the same ; ight the prisoner took the horse away,
and tound Mr. Hopkins, a coachmaker, residing there, who knew
nothing about the prisoner or the mare.
The prisoner addressed the Jut v, and denied the greater pelt of
the prosecutor's stivement ; he called no witnesses, arid gave as a
reason, that he had been till within a few months at the Cape, and
his friends lived at a great distance from London.
Verdict—Gut/to. The prosecutor recommended him to merry.
on the ground that he believed him to be the dupe of others.

NEW COURT.
If Mitchell, an exciseman. was indicted for stealing two
quarts of brandy, the property Olds _Majesty.
It was proved that the prisoner had been appointed on the night
of the 20th of January, to watch the brandy quay, on the London
Docks. About nine o'clock, Slater, a Thames police officer, disco-
vered the prisoner stooping over a cask, one of the number he was
in care of. He was in such a situation that it excited the attention
of the officer. He found a bottle of brandy at the prisoner's feet,
and a quantity of the liquor lod spurted on the ground, from a
hole made in the cask. On searching the prisoner, an empty bottle
was found in his pocket, a brass tube for drawing celiquor, a gim-
blet, and also an empty bladder enclosed in a leather bag, and
bound by a wire to lie flat in the pocket.
Alr. Botta:cr., who stated the case for the proseution, repre-
sented the loss that must arise to British merchants, if such prac-
tices were not stopped. The French correspondwtt charged a cer-
tain quantity which had been.previtely gauged, but when it came
to be examined by the English merchant, it was discovered -to be
deficient in quantity. The moment the prisoner was discovered by
the watchman, he very readily said, " gauge the cask." It wont!
be observed that the Excise never charge fractions, and when a
quantity is found in a cask less than a gallon, it was not charged,
so that the prisoner supposed, by stealing any quantity under a gal-
lon, he should not be considered to have commuted any offence.
In his defence, the prisoner said he found the bottle of brandy
lying under the cask, the empty bottle had lit,ch given him. by a
sailor, and the other articles he found. He said he was In great
distress, and had a family of seven children. He received an ex-
cellent character.

The Jury found him Gniltfi, but strongly recommended hm to
mercy, en account of his previous good character and large family.
rumor Scott, aged 21, was indicted for stealing twenty-three
coach glasses, value SOL the property of Hancock and Stubbs,
coachmakers, of IVhiteehapel-road.
It appeared that on the morning of the 13. h January, the prose.
cutoffs carriaee repository was broken open, and the 23 glasses
stolen ; some were In frames, and the others were cut from the car-
riages. A per e. named Marriott, a wire-worker, was going to his
work between dra and six in the nqwning, when he saw the pri-
soner and two men following an ass, and a pair of hampers
heavily lade•r The prisoner and one of the men were very resec...
ably dilated. but the other man was dressed like a hawker, and he
appeared to have the command of the ass. They had proceeded
but a short distance on the road, when some of the glasses fell out
of the hampers on the ground ; the crash attracted Ilatriott's mitten-
tion, and he saw a young man pick up the glass, and put it again
into the hamper. They then proceeded as far as Whitechapel
church, when a watchman turned into the road to examine the ham-
pers, and the three persons immediately fled, and the glasses were
taken to the watchhouse. The prisoner went in a contrary '
tion to the others, and had ran but a very short distance when he
turned back, and met the us, proceeding under escort to the watch- '
house. The prisoner was then secured ; and he immediately in-
quired—" 'What do you want with me? I know nothing about
it." He afterwards accounted for being out at that early hater,
by saying that he had been to the play, and was locked out
all nlght. The prisoner, in defence, said he was innocent of the
charge, and called witnesses, who gave hint a good character.
The Jury found him Guilty.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, FEB. 19.
David Pugh was indicted fora fraud, in falsely pretending to
Benjamin batty that he was a Sheriff's Officer, and had authority
to arrest him, and obtaining from hint 2/. 10s.
The prosecutor stated that he is a builder, and snide, at Chel-
sea; at ten o'clock at night, on Saturday, the 22d of January, the
prisoner came to his house and produced a writ against him, at the
suit of a person named Bryant, for :10L, on which he arrested Lim,
saying he was a Sheriff's officer. Witness's wife was so frightened
that she fainted. The prisoner ptopused to witness to give him a
fee of 61., and he would allow him to remain at home, and on
Monday he might give bail. Witness consented to give him
2L 101., which he took and went away. Witness gave bail to the
writ on Monday, and the prisoner came to his house again the nett
Saturday night with another person, and made a disturbance at the
door, which witness refused to open; witness did not owe any
money to Bryant, who was then a prisoner in the King's Bench,
and considerably in debt to witness.
Mr. Henchman, the Under-Sheriff, proved that the prisonet was
not a Sherirs officer.

proved that he was an acquaintance of the prisoner,
who, on the Saturday after the arrest, asked him to walk whh him
to Chelsea, where he said he had a fiat, from whom be had got one
fee, and expected to get another.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he had sent in the names of
his securities as a Sheriff's officer, And thought he might call him-
self one; and he took the fee to settle the business tot the prose-
cutor, and save him expense.
The Jury, without hesitation. found the prisoner Gmilty, and
he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the House of
Correction.

CORONER'S INQUEST IN THE PENITENT'S/LT.—An
inquisition was taken on Saturday afternoon in the Penitentiary at
Milbank (the best since the return of the convicts to this place of
confinement after their removal, in consequence of the great mor-
tality among them two or three years backs, before 'lltos.
Esq.. Deputy Coroner for Westminster, touching the death of a
convict, named Richard Peakes. The surgeon deposed that the
deceased was affected with fever, which terminated in typhus.
Verdict—" Died by the visitation of Clod."
Snot:luso SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Friday,
in the Board-room of St. Andrew's Workhouse, Urav's•inn•lane,
before Thomas Stirling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Mrs. Anne
Thompson, who put a period to tier existence the night previous,
under the following circumstances, as detailed it) evidence. The
deceased was the wife of Mr. J. Thompson, clerk in a respectable
mercantile establishment, and though et the time of her death only
32 years of age, had two children living, one twelve and the other
fifteen years of age. Fur some time back, without any known
cause, she grew peevish, melancholy, and averse to the society
either of her own family or acquaintnnce; and on Saturday last,
she went into a coal-merchant's shop in Mount Pleasant, where ber
husband resider, and, in the most energetic manner, besought his
protection ; the man, surprised at her appearance, inquired from
what or whom she souglit protection ? She replied. " Oh, God !
don't you know that my husband will murder me it I go home ?"
The man endeavoured to pacify her, and induce her to return
home, an he knew Mr. Thompson to be a kind husband 'Wan
affectionate father ; but the pour woman resisted, and ultimately
ran away, and was not heard of until the following Monday, when
she was met in a remote part of the town by some friends ; and as
there was then an evident appearance of mental derangement. she
was taken to the workhouse, until some titter asylum could be se-
lected. Mr. Fernandes, the attending physician, visited her in the
lunatic ward, and, as she appeared quite calm, gave her permission
to walk in the yard ; taking advantage of this Indulgence, she, on
I Wednesday night, retired into the water•eloac:, and. with a razor,
which she had previously possefsed herself of, mangled her throat
in the most frightful manner, and was at length discovered by
means of the blood which gushed in a /MN= beneath the door.
The Jery haying expressed themselves perfectly satisfied that tle
act was SYMETlined Ikfeugb insanity, a verdict to that effect was
recorded.

POLIC—.E.
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nonArtU.:lehineievlenlarferf:alninhor,ehibiecur.isfirordttesires7irtnu.ignr.e.a.
A The prosecutor, a miller, named Meredith. * Fesmclen, in
. is' las"!'trnou'lglbiturbteefiol.ren34lhr.e ;juin!! r'. i'hi,
ClOucustershire mated, that on Thor-day, the 10th of the present
morith, he Lad plactll the mare. which Stewed the subieet of the
present charge, it an orchard adjoining his mill. Ile toad seen it
safe about ten o'clrck iu Cie clering aril at Seven on the Ai:lowing
trimming he urissid it. IVhen he inintmed his *dr of the circum-
stance, she told him that Probert, who his resided in the neigh%
-bourhood some weeks past, called on the preceding Tuesday, and
made sonic inquiries {opt:cling the place in which tire mare was
kept. Mr. Meredith thsh commenced a search ihrougheut die
neighbourhoud, and by the assistance of ;Ire smith, who Lad
shortly 'before shod the mar; he traced her to the hoti.e of Probers l
mother. :she was at home, and on being told that retv Wore
suspicion,' exirted of her wee guilt, with respect to the dint,:
pcaraitee of then:ate. she said, that if Ptsbart had mita the mate.
but had not parted with is, it should beseturned. And 'even if by
hail, the value should be paid to lila.. For thin purpose she wool,
ante ad him by the next post. The poor man romphilined, that
nen if the value were restored to hint immedicely, the loot of bit
beasl hal &hoist rritned hint, since, having no other, he had heat
forced to disappoint his customers. Ile wet. also informed by a
neighbour, that he had met a tallsnan, shriller to Nobert, with the
ricrre, at sante distance from rearrtlen, on the night she was last
Fire night being quite dark, he held up his lantern to' he face of
that person, and thus had a full opportunity of observing his
features. Too person, whoever he was, made no answer to ha
inquiries. In a held at the side of the road., neat srhieb thy
stranger had been soon, a quantity of horse hair, of the 'stare
colour and description as that of the inane Int, was discovered.
A atm coigne of thee lace was made at Irotesittiaet.ond.Woin the
risscriotion given, • .sne. of :he principal offiwts, named Ellie, took
Probert into custody on Friday. At the cane be met bin, be wee
walking is IVitadmilbstreett Haymarket. . . • *,
On this evidence Mr. Minahull directed him to be remand:ll
for a week, a' the end of whieb time he will be removed to (Hoe-
cestenhire. Before he left the• bar. he was asked whether he wished
to say any thing •in iris defence ? lle set lied, I hate a good
deal to say, but I shall say nottriag now. I shall be able to yoke
a complete ellei.'T .. • . ..
Probcrt was well dressed, in a drab top cost, and top boots, Arad
if we may use • the phrase,. "looked wail." He has been Ben
some time at rewnden, which is his native place, and the tesiderste
of ).1,, mother. However, rte infamy with which his noire is gory
rounded, frost his connection wide .E Hill cottage. pulse" Wel
to he shunqtl by eiery person. T u:borit. ihe esanituation be
manifested great coolness, and took As end, In InOst deeeek It*.
F .
We understand that evidence has since beenpttieureds by whi&
will appear that the horse has been found and sold at an aucilo
mart in London: rr . s; •
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