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FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Doke of Northumberland entertained a distinguished party at din-
Der yesterday, at Northumberland Hoax, among whom were—the Dirks
and Duchess of Montrose and the Ladies Graham ; the Duke and Dottiest
of Athol y Mr. and Lady Gantlet Clive; Lord Prudhoe Arc.
Mrs. Bennet had a dinner party yesterday, at her house In Privy.
gardens.
The Maroubt and Marchioness of Taristock bare left their seat, Oakley
House, Kedlotd-hore, to Stowe, on a visit to the Luke and Duchess of
rencitlngirinm.

The Earl and Countroo of I:tooling and family have arrived at ILeir
bona. In Privy gmdeno, fn m their seat, St. Margaret's.
Sir Edward Chetwynd, Part. arrived yeoterdny at Mn house In Great
aeurge-.trett, Wmtminoter, from bin seat in Warwirkahlre.

Keane Fitzgerald, E4q, fejt town yesterday, Ca Mn seat, Under. Lin.
Bette.

General Htll arrived in town yelterdny from Bath.
Conntesto De Grey a. shed yesterday at her houoe In St. Jamee'LNeare,
from her reat„Pottoey Hersh.

The Lord likhop e;f Gbh:nester and family left town yesterday, for tha
Palace, Ciliche.ler...

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Lord and Lady 0. H. Cavendith and family are expected In town oq
Mond.y, from Mete vent, Ilolker, Laneasltlre.

Lady to atburtun her arrived at her house lo Albemarle-street, Lon
tour.

Emily IlforthioneY, of Londonderry it+ left town, for the Down.,
IlfarchioneYY of Londonderry'Y .eat in Moe..

Sir W. and Lady Humber; and family arrived yesterday, at the relent,
lintel, Albemarle-street, horn Lord Banditti's seat, Bunny park
Leicestershire.

The Right Ronourahle Sturges Bourne, M.P. and family left town
Berdal, far their seal. Te,twood Ilon,e, Southampton.
Antrala nt Fenton'., New Hotel. St. Jame4h...trevt —Colonel Vaud'.
tart, from his *eat in Berk.. ; Richard Norris, Esq. from hie meat, Basing
Park, Hllatl, General Brooke has left ditto.

Lord Nevehorough arrived yesterday, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermya,
street, from Ninth Wales.

Arrival( at the St. Genie's lintel, Alhemmle-atre-t .—Lady and Mil.
Acton, from Staffordshire; Mr. and Mr.. Nithoiron and fatally, frau
Berton. The Mlaars Loche have left ditto on a tour.

FEMALE FASHIONS FOR APRIL.

From La Mile AsicmOrr.]
PRIVATE CONCERT DR ESS.—A full round dress of white grass
de Neples, with eight narrow flounces of creoe.lisse. falling over
each other, and caught up in front, en festons, wi.h a white satin
rosette and a bouquet of roses. The corsage is made to fit exactly
to the shape, and plain, excepting that fi:hu-bracers cross it over
the bust. These are of rich white ribbon edged with blond ; the
ends rounded, anti falling over the front of the skirt. nearly as low
as the knee. Short sleeves, with the fulness ed across the trp
of the arm. text the shoulder, by rows of falling ~rnaments, com
posed of narrow blond. The head-dress cnosists of a dress hat of
white crape, ornamented with white ostrich feathers, placed iu
various elegant directmis. The jewellery articles worn with this
dress are several rows of pearls, twisted, and forming a necklace.
Each ear-rirg is formed of one large pearl.
MORNING EXHIBITION I)RESS—A dress of celestial blue, or
of springbud-green grog de Naples, with two broad flounces round
the border, very handsomely pinked and 3callopetl at the edges;
between each flounce. and above the upper one is a beautiful row
a raised embroidery, in chenille or flair: silk, of a colour a few
shades darker than that of the dress, which I.as a very charming
effect. The body is made high, and fit.ished downwards by se.
venal narrow foul- aux ; or some ladies prefer having the corsage
laid in very small flit plaits. This should deptitsl on the embon.
point or slightness of make of the fair wearer, each mode having
the same effect as to ornament. A collar falls from the throat,
trimmed round with braided satin, and 3 rosette of ribbon, the ea
tour of the dress. fastens it in front ; this is surmounted by a
double French ruff, rather narrow, of filling's hce. The sleeves
are long. rather close to the arm, and are conlinid at the wrists by
three rows of the same material as the dress houillonce. The hat
is the V:.!ois simile, of pink gros de Naples. and is slightly or e-
,•mented with satin and flowers of bine, or when the dress is green,
of suitable colours; with strings of the same hue, left untied. A
gold chain with a convent-cross depending. finishes this lively cos.
tune, which forms a fashion admirably appropriate to the comicg
season of spring.

The Duke of York gave his last sitting to Behnes on
Wednesday, for his marble bust.
Yesterday, the Pritiass Sophia Matilda left town for her
house at Blackheath.

Tuesday morning, soon after eleven o'clock, Mr. Secre-
tary Canning left town, and procet-1-1 as far as Marlbo-
rough, where the Right Hon. Gi.(9tlexan slept that night.
Early on Wednesday morning he proceeded to Bath, where
he remained during that day and-n:lh% At ten o'clock on
Thursday morning Mr. Canning iecto /U.), and proceeded
on his way towards London to Selt-Pit, wh rc he arrived
about six o'clock to dinner, when the Right Hon. Secretary
was met by Mr. Stapleton, his pl.!._t^ secretary, who had
arrived from London in cons, ;pence of some important
business occurring at the Foreign Office, which rtquired
Ills immediate attention. Soon aster e!even o'clock yester-
day morning the Right Hon. Gentleman left Salt-hall on
horsetn.ek. The Right Hon. Gentleman rode to the Royal
Lodge, Windsor-park, where he remained two hours, duts
ing which time lie had a long audience of his Majesty, to
take hie commands on some state busimss ; after which
Mr. Canning mounted again, rode as far as Hounslow,
where he entered his travelling carriage, and proceeded to
London, arriving at his house in Downing-street about
four o'clock. .

Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Canning and a select party dined
with the Marques of Clanriearde..

Thursday 'light Mr. Mcates, the King's messenger, ar-
rived at the Foreign Office, Downine-street, with de-
spatches from St. Petersburgh. Mr. Meares left London
with despatches a few days after the Duke of IVellington,
and overtook his Grace at Berlin, and prececded with the
Noble Duke to St. Petersburgh. IF: Grace was to leave
St. Petersburgh on the 251 h or 26th cf March.
Last night a gentleman left town with despatches for
the lonian Islands.

IRISH CHANCELT.ORSIIIP.-It it confidently assered,
that Mr. Plunkett has been this day apyointed Lord High
Chancellor of Irelaud.—Diddin Evening, Past
We understand that vpon the decease of the Bishop of
Durham, that See was offered to the Bishop of this
Diocese; but his Lordship declined the offer. This dis-
interested refusal of the richest See in England must ii.
crease the respect entertained for his Lordship throughout
his Diocese. Dr. Van Mildert, Bishop of Llandaff, will
be advanced to the Sce of Durham. Dr. Sumner will have
the Bishopric of Llandaff, and, with it, the Deanery of St.
Paul's.-IV)ree.ster Journal.
The death of the venerable Bishon of Durham will oc-
casion a great sensation amongst the coal owners in this
district, as they will have !navy fines to pay on the re-
newal of their leases.—Tyne Merettry.
The Lord Bishop of Limerick has left Dublin for Lon-
on.—Freeman's Journal.

Lady Ongley and other ladies of rank patronised a kind
of fair at the Royal York Hotel, Brighton, on Wednesday,
for the benefit of the Spitalfields weavers and their fami-
lies. Ore shilling admission was charged, and divers
fancy articles found ready and liberal purchasers. A hand-
some sum was realised on the occasion.
Mrs. Hickman, of Thonock Grove, Lincolnshire, lately
deceased, left her valuable estates to her cousin, Henry
flacon, Esq. youngest son of the late Sir Edmund flacon,
Bart. of Ravenitigham Hall, Norfolk, with directions :o
take the name and bear the arms of Hickman.
Cantain Coe, late Commander of the squadron in the
East Indies, has presented to the University of Cambridge
an alabaster statue of a Burmese idol, taken from the
sacred grove near Ava ; and two religions books, beautifully
executed on the Palmyra leaf, to which none but the Bur-
mese priests were permitted to have access.
In consequence of a vacancy having occurred in the Ma-
gistracy of the town of Greenock, by the resignation of
James Ramsay, Esq. senior Magistrate, the members of
the Town Council, on whom the right of nomination de-
volves in. terms of the Charter, have made choice of John
Denniston, Esq. to be junior Magistrate, the Chief Ma-
gistracy. being now filled by William Leitch, Esq. late
junior Magistrate.
THE LADI IN SEARCH OF A HUSH :IND.—On Sanday'
at three o'clock, immense crowds were attracted to Merrinmsquare
by an advertisement that appeared in a Morning Paper, in which
" a Lady" announced her intention of perambulating the north
aide of the square, in the expectation of receiving a matrimonial
proposal. Carriages and four, and.pair, and vehicles drawn each
by only one horse, dashed along, containing Its cursor, who,
while they and the pedestrians smiled at the credulity of others, In
being duped into giving their attendance on the pare upon so ab-
surd an occasion, forgot that, by being there, they themselves
" dropped in" also the victims of a wagg:sh advertisement. Ono
female of respectability, hahited accidentally nearly as the article
described, appeared about four o'clock, leaning on a gentleman.
and was quickly surrounded by such a mob of well and ill-dressed
Persona, that Rile was right well pleased to seek shelter beneath the
hospitable roof of a gendeman residing in Lower ,Ilerrion..ittreet.
One of the frail sisterhood, habited in Kendal-green bonnet and
robe, with a dashing white plume of &gibers nodding over bet
locks, was returning from Sandymount about a quarter after four:
some one exclaimed, " There she is !" and hundreds instantly
rushed along, shaming and pressing forward in so troublesonie a
way, that she also was obliged to seek shelter, and was protected
by peacemificer Sheil and others. The celebrated Mr. Anthony
Prank, who is still unprovided with a helpmate, was " in attend-
ance." The crowd immediately recognised hint, and proceedtd to
treat bim with considerable roughness. Alarmed by their nutting',
he besought the protection of the pesee.oltlrera who well present'
and was by them Conveyed to a place of racy—Man lrrcrmvi s

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21) THE EDI 10.'t 0F THE BRITISII PRESS.
hope that, through th medium of your impartial
rrir, I may he allowed to tall-r a few <bort observations
die subject of die it alteration in the ciarency of
Nly NIA I.A t• a I NIALAGROWTIISR,
ailed public atti. ntion to ir very strongly, though, I
lienfea, no; very soberly ; his zeal, I admit, has run away
With reason, and Ila r t that one who was capable of
flmi,fling Si) nitwit ttttt a-gontent in behalf of the side
he ,spoustr., sheldtl havi• it With asperity and
with so much had liarrina. But all philosophers allow
tilt we are none of us wis.• at ad hours, and the majority
who like myself, at hat‘lly wi.c at any hour, ought, in
,ompliment to our own Imilties, to seal his pardon. In
spite of the " ta Bob" spirit in which his Epistles
co written. they Coat on a reat many troika, awl some
at* g
ettingt wet hoolioa. As to what the effect
J g Cal of 4.:1C an.l two round notes in Eilin-
1mr.41,, and t:ki-cow, and Ali. rilcom and the other
:Teat towns iii Loierriaii., may be, I don't pretend
to say ; but that we can do without them in the
//4.;biarri/r is int. sly ia'posaible. A Leith or a Glas-
gow mcrehara ty contrive to carry en their concerns,
well without them ; but as for
for ought I very
‘• Jock an l th. Laird," it is all over with them the moment
you pet an end to the small not,. corn itcy. In the Low-
'nails there is a•ry lath' goitl coin in ciioulation ; but in the
Hiodands, 3 are alinast unknown. They now
:0.1 then perhaps find their way into those parts from the
pules °fa ft ar totiriata from the Sandi ; but, even then, they
or not receivtal with to much readiness, nor with so much
(antidote, as a Seo:eli note. A wealthy people may easily
ilispease with soiall t.o:' s, because their transactions are on a
hrge scale, but in the greo!:•r part of the Hier/ow/a of Scot-
land it is quite another hi• tt ; you may travel fifty miles on a
road!, and not he aide to gm change for &jive pound note.
you will say. ro..y likely, in answ, r to this, that in time
there will be a pleilti;nl supply of metallic currency, that
sovereigns will tw a. num, rtrtlA as notes are now, and that
then all this lit ieuit y and inconvenience will vanish. 'f his
b very easily sa.d. not in tho mean time we are quite sa-
tisfed that al' Mr: tau ollrtt from your sidle the Tweed
will do us a t;-e• ::!;sclikf ; and as we suffirr no evil
that asks for ac: a remedy, we would prefer to be left to
wirselves. At 31-1 ,'cents, to speak in the language of our
own homely pro' er!i, " We hal rather our bannock should
burn, than that yea should Pura it," for we are sure your
interferoce wiii do us more harm than good. The cpera-
Cons of trade, iu tl.e small way io which buying and sell-
ing is conducted in :b:-sis parts, cannot be carried on with-
out tae accommodation of mu: pound notes.
fur instance, let us rarrtric twenty different purchases,
trade by so many di:ferent persons, to be from one dealer,
each purchase arautniting from twenty to five-and-twenty
(Tines. Now, with a small note currency, each can settle
la- payment with a ;amoral rote and five shillings, where's,
without it, each will probably rcluire change for a five
fund note; sad the silica- must either be provided with
epwardn of so:-ra!y sorereiorr to give in change, or he will
not be able to i:is patmeota. But is it to be supposed
that the tradesmen or dealers in these wild and poor dis-
Mai ego Le rovidetl with r,rdd sufficient for all the pur-
Ncs of exclina:: which their :mall transactions render
weesnary ? It may ptriirti's lea said that the purchasers,
w!.ocome from the Lowlands to the Highland market, will
bring with the o the eland:). of cold necessary for the pay-
m• tas they will have and will, therefore, not require
change ; boa, on ilia rontray Delia thus leave a supply of save-
rigns behind them. Bat it is because gold is a cumbrous
commodity that Flier is fauna se much more convenient, and
t, suppose that any, one wili !ravel with the weight of four or
five hundred em.,: eigns in his pack, when ho can can y the
whole amount iii his poetic'-hook in the shape of five-
plod not" 5, is tc suppose what is never iikely to happen,
and therefore tie' •••. it which I have pointer out will not fail
to occur ; to cap 1 not notes from tit; Highlands is
therefore a can produce notbino' but evil.
If England a do without them, let her. Let her even,
if she can so ioaarive it, keep all Scotch notes out of her
borders; hilt, in meanwhile, let each tub stand on its
own bottom, or, rs we say, let every sheep hing by his
own shank. B. tooly the evils of your own currency in
any way yon plea e, and settle your differences with regard
to the Lowlitidi wit Aunt M. LAG ROWTII 11, as you
can; but as for or, we ara pont, and our bones are not worth
the picking ; w. play therefore to be left to ourselves.
A HIGHLANDER.

LA TIDE'S CH A PEI. 4ND ALUS HOUSES, LAW NOTICES. •
maxim CRIPPLEGATti
INSOILVENT7=W COURT.
On Wednesday morning the Master, Wardens, The Commitsloners or the Intolvent I/rhino' Coon have appointed the
and several M onbers of the Court of Assistants of the hllowios days upon which to hold their bittinp in the month of Apttl.
v
Ciothworkers' Cump.eny, re:sembled for the gratifying pur- liundaY •• •••• • •• F
Mridayy
pose of opening the New Chapel & 1f
longing to this four- 4th onda .
Handal • 10th Toe,clay ........ lath
dation. which ha, been recently rebuilt, together with the Tor•diy Wedne‘day Eitb
Alms Houses. Divine Service was performed, and an ex- vredue4day ..... 121 h Thutolay 29th
13th Friday 2lst
collent discourse, suited to the occasion, delivered by the Thur.da •v
Rev. Mr. Whalley, the Chaplain to the Company.
As this foundation derives some degree of interest from
its great antiquity, a brief account of it may not be nnac-
ceptable. It was originally called Capella Saudi Jambi de
Inelnsurin, or the Ilermitage on the From its situa-
tion, and from its architecture there is reason to conclude
that it is of higher antiquity than the reign of Henry 111,
whin it appears first mentioned in existing records ; the
name of Monkwell, given to the street near this hermitage,
warrants a supposition that the hermit was the guardian of
some celebrated spring, near to or over which the chapel
with its crypt might have been built. It wars, in the
rein of Edwaul 1, placed by the King under the i"
guar-
dianship of titer Mayor of London, and some few years
afterwards trarsferred to that of the Constable of the
Tower ; it was finally, at the dissolution of the monaste-
ries, granted by the Crown to William Lambe, citizen
and clothwurker, who bequeathed it to his Company for
their use, and they continue to hold it for charitable pur-
poses..
The Gentlemen composing the Court of this opulent and
liberal Company, deeply impressed with a desire to carry
into effect the henevalent intentions of the Founder, by
administering to the comfort and convenience of their less
fortunate brethren by every means in their power, decided
a little time back on rebuilding this establishment, in con-
sequence of the state of decay into which it had fallen by
age. They, therefore, directed their architect, Mr. Sa-
muel Angell, to prepare plans, etc., and early in the year
1623 the new structures were commenced under his super-
intendence; they have recently been completed, and he
appears fully to have succeeded in meeting the wishes of
the Court, by combining every domestic convenience with
that pleasingeriniiplieity of style in their external appear-
ance which the old English architecture affords, and which
is so well Adapted to stich I'etitutions.
The buildings form three sides of a square, the chapel,
under which the curious ancient crypt of Saxon or Nor-
man architecture has been preserved, occupying a consi•
derable portion of the north, and are approached by a gate
at the cast end; they comprise eleven tenements, replete
with convenience for their inmates, and are lighted at
night from a gas lamp in the centre of the area, at the
N.W. angle of which is an entrance to a drying-ground,
bounded on that point by one of the circular bastions of
the old London Wall. •
• The curinua inquirer into Antiquarian subjects may find a
more detailed account of it in a paper communicated by A. J. K.
to Gengleman's Magazine for May, 1825, p. 401, from which
some of these particulars are

Rutz? or Tir Pooa.-11 we may judge of the yuan-
tsm of distress which exists amongst the poor in this town,
by the amount of food distributed, it trust he to a frightful
extent, since the cost of that given on Thursday last alone
would not, we under-land, be much if at all less than
I,nool. The utinoAt exertion therefore will be necessary to
make the sub'cription adequate to the demands likely to
k mule upon it, during the period for which it is pro-
Lahle that the presswe will continue.—Leeds latellegeneer.

Monday
TUC ,filly
U'4Ane•day 2oth
Thursday

Frlday .. ...... 29th

The General Quarter Sea ion of the Peace for {Vernafaster will com-
mence at the Guildhall on Monday next.
Thy Ses.luu of Oyer and 'l•erminer, and Adjourned General Quarter
Sea..ion of the Peace, furtdidttte ea, will commence at the heaskm-house,
Clerkenwell, un Tue.(loy nest. •
The Old Bailey Gaol Delivery will commence on Thursday nest.

LAW INTELLIGPNCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARC!! 31.

Margaret Emmerson, who has been several times examined by
the Court, was brought up for farther hearing.
The insolvent, who was a cow-keeper in the neighbourhood of
Grosvenor-square, was opposed by Mr. POLLOCK on behalf of a
creditor named IVoiitt. am! Mr. Hnave' supported Me petition.
. .

It appeared by the previous ev,dence, iliat the insolvent being
embarrassed about August last, • thrums was put in to her pre-
mises, but was vectored through the opposing creditor and other
persons interfering. Subsequent to this the insolvent disposed of
her property, and paid Air. Norman Hughes Isis debt, which
amounted to near 20111.: and there was evidence to show that same
household turniture had been removed in the night of the Mot of
December last, of which no account was entered in the lehedule,
and the lease of the house was also in the hands of the landlord,
which the Court required to be gives up.
The insolvent swore ti.at the furniture removed was not worth
more than iil. which her friends would pay into Court, and give an
undertaking to discharge the lien on the lease, and deposit it for
the use of the creditors.

MR. GREEN'S LAST AERIAL OYAGE.—Mr. Green I
states that he descended on terra firma near Seven Oaks, in Kent,
in about an hour and a half after leaving the Ilogle Tavern, in the
City-road. Ile had sonic difficulty, he says, in effecting his des.
cent, owing to the very woody nature of that part of the country,
anti was compelled at last to precipitate his balloon into a field
bounded on all sides by plantations of trees, and where, had not the
grapple fortunately taken a firm hold, the balloon MUM have been
inevitably carried against the trees, where it would have been torn
to pieces, and their lives placed in no small jeopardy. The highest
altitude they attained was about two miles. He says be experienced
intense cold, accompanied by as almost incessant fall of snow, and
found all around and above hint one vast and apparently intermina-
ble ocean of dense clouds. The lad who accompanied Mr. Green
for the first time, did not betray the least fear or uneasiness during
the progress of their voyage.
eIIOHLFS.—On the 9th inst. a meeting was held at the
town-hall, Chotley, to consider of the best means of extending tem-
porary relief to the distressed poor, when a subscription was opened
and a committee appointed to superintend the distribution of the
donations received. On Monday week the committee sat all day,
and gave tickets to upwards of 300 families, amongst whom meat,
potatoes, and bacon were distributed at half the regular prices. On
the Thursday following, more than MO families were relieved in the
same way. 1t is also deserving of notice, that the work-people in
the employ of Messrs. Hole and Wilkinson, of Cowley Bridge
print-works, contributed 27/. out of their earnings, in addition to the
amount subscribed by Mr. Wilkinson.
RRIDPORT, March 29.—We regret to say the small-pox
is likely to become very general in this town. tut having yet for-
gotten the dreadful ravages of this disease a few years ago, we look
forward with gloomy anticipations to the consequences. Every
precaution was taken with a child in the parish of Burton to pre-
vent the disease from spreading ; but report says, that no sooner
did a medical gesitleman of this town hear of it, than he exerted his
utmost efforts, against the united opinion of the rest of the profes-
sion, in propagating the contagion: this he declares he does on
principle I Happy would it be for this town were such principles
exploded.—Dorset County Chron.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—At half-past three yesterday af-
ternoon a fire broke out in Strahan's Place, Ball's Pond. Islington.
which raged for three hours with ungovernable fury. Maberly
Chapel, with its rich service of communion plate, &c. was con-
sumed, and so rapid was the progress of the flames, that, within an
hour and a half of its commencement, four houses, exclusive of the
Chapel, were destroyed. Three persons, belonging to the Phenix
Fire Office fell victims to the devouring element, besides a child
about four years of age, whose heart-rending cries having reached
the ears of its afflicted mother, she rushed through the flames to its
assistance, with all the solicitude of maternal affection; but, alas !
her efforts to prevent its falling& sacrifice to their fury was unveil.
ing. There was a great scarcity of wilier, and, owing to the dis-
tance, it was some time before the engines arrived. With the ex-
ception of the Chapel. no pecuniary loss has been sustained, as the
houses were well insured.

The wool-trade iu I)evonshire and Cornwall, continues
in a very depr.eiell state. The farmers are bolding out
for such prices its tie manufacturers state they are un-
able to afford ; ail the consequence is, that the latter
are necking forttrii s of foreign wool, which is said to be
very plentiful in the London market. An extensive manu-
facturer in Dcvonshhe has lately bad two carges of wool
fnin London. At the Bristol fair, thin month, and which
h the general wo,i-market fur the West of England, not
hilt a dozen packs ot re said.—Plywolith Journal.
NLw ROA t.s.--The various intended new lines of road,
and ether iinnruectuents, in almost every direction from
te-ter (for th.e making of which an Act of Parliament has
Nen obtained), I.inet, if carried into execution according,
to plan, he a !-.-eat acquisition to travelling, as all the
steep anal slang: Toys places, which now abound, will, we
Understand, be entirely avoided ; and we are told that the
proposed road from Exeter, througii Crediton, towards
Barnstaple, stay be continued all the way to that town
without eamintering a single hill—a striking contrast to
t e present lines of communication.
Banyan Nisi:lNa Assoct wrtost.—The first annual
inecing of the shareholder' in the above Association took place on
Thursday, at the office of the Association, in Great Winchester.
lora, I'. A. Curtis, Esq.. in the chair. The Report stated that
the trustees felt peculiar satisfaction in adverting to the fact of the
suety being in possession of a property, legally leased and made
o,,,,tairnittg an almost inexhaustible supply of the 'Wheat ore,
tr. which the metal in so easily extracted as not to retake the
c,;:nnion process of stamping mills. That the Association were
not put to the expense of machinery, as the mines were worked by
mutual labour; four miners could break 1001. worth of copper per
day. That the trustees felt great regret in adverting to the death
of Captain .1. G. Cochrane, and three of the miners ; that they had
sent nut a sturgeon to watch over the health of the miners, and that
the miner" had written a letter, expressing their grateful sense of
the attention that had been paid to their comforts; that the mines
vete in full work ; and that General Bolivar had written • letter,
eadirming their title to the mines. The Chairman referred the
s.,arehulWes to .hr several letters from the agents which lay on the
tahle.andsaid that the trustees would ask for money very sparingly,
anal if they received the copper which they expected. no further
cill would be made ; at all events, snore than IL per share would
no: be required. The Report wan ordered to be printed, and a
cn.y sent to each proprietor. The Account stated that there was
5.141. in the anent: hands, that t hey had copper to the amount
of !Wit, and valued the ateam.boat at four thousand pounds.
A ',ge of thanks to the Trustees f4r their seal and attention to the
^terests of the Proprietors, and to the Chairman, were Carried
!.tsitswnoly.TheChaiyman reamed thanks on behalf of the

In consequence of tins, and of there being 301. paid into Court,
the judgment, which would have been alwavy one, was abandoned.
Mr. Coosa applied to the Court to allow the cost of opposition to
be paid out of the proceeds, which was seceded to, end the insol.
vent was ordered to be discharged: but the discharge not to issue
until certain conditions were complied whit.
Samuel Hall, who was before the Court on the 20th hut., was
brought up for rival hearing and judgment.
The insolvent, who was a hatcher is Fria-street. Blackfriars%
Road, was opposed by a creditor named Sutton. it appeared in
evidence, thi.t shortly before the insolvent went to prison, lie made
over his shop-business, for which be had-given a considerable sum,
to his son, who now carries it on on his ern aceount.
Mr. Commissioner HAIIRIS said that it welt quite clear that •
collusion existed between the insolvent and his awl, to whom the
business had been transferred, for the express purpose of defrauding
hie creditors. Conduct like tint, of which' the insolvent had been
guilty, was not to be toleratal ; nor was he a :It person to receive
his' Immediate discharge. The Court, therefore, mold etc/vise its
clistretton under the ltith section of the Act; sod its judgment was,
that the insolvent be imprisoned within the walls for the term of
six months, at the suit of his detaining creditor, for ft:aided:ltaly
making away with his property, with. a view to diminlch the
vidend.

as taxed by the Alaetsr, amounted to M. 3s. 34. for which a writ of
fiere Arias lied iasi,ed, which MR delivered to the Sheriff's offferr
( Ilaniels)' to execute, with the sum to be levied endorsed on the
hick. but not •' poundage." By the Act of the 22d of Elia. c. 4,
the Sheriff is entided to receive Is. in the pound. except in simple
'contract debts (and that was one, The learned Counsel then tired
Thornton v. Alerridew, 3d vol. Fuller, p. 362, to illustrate his ar-
gument. The Act of the 43d of the same Queen gave treble toms to
the parties aggrieved, where it was taken, and directed that the
Sheriff's remedy was against the plaintiff for his poundage. The
i officer in this inetana• levied for the whole, and the action was
'now nominally brottubt against the late Sheriff, although, in
fact, against his officer,. Daniels Ohs real defendant) to recover
treble costs.

John Purton was opposed by two creditors, named Bowery and
Pritchett the holders of several bills of exchange, vtliiith bore the
name of the insolvent.
Mr. Bowery stated that he Is a licensed victualler in Cierken•
well, and diecounted bills for the insolvent to :he atnuont of 671.,
and when they became due, the persohe upon whom they were
drawn denied that they owed the insolvent any thing. The wit.
nests s'.i.ted, moreover. (list in axembee last the insolvent removed
his goods, and immediately afterwards went :tro custody. In his
examination by Mr. Heat:t, the wristlets denied that he had been
guilty of an usurious transaction.
Mr. Cronk, a broker, stated that he seized upon the insolvent's
goods on behalf of the landlord, who had a claim for tire years and
three quarters' rent. Witness did not believe that any furniture
had been clandestinely rerrcved by the insolvent.
The Court were of opinion that the in.olvent had not obtained
money by means of fraudulent representation, and they declared
him entitled to his discharge.

ASSIZE INTNLLIGENCE.

HOME CIItCUIT..-14A7DITONE, Rfaace 90.

TAYLOR AND WIFE Yo.MORRISON.

The officer, on being placed in the wirnemi's box, refused to
answer any question that might tend to commit himself, of which
he was cautioned by his counsel (Mr. Coltman), but on his being
shewn a letter, in his own writing. directed to Mr. Brawn, that he
lied levied for the whale, Sheriff's poundage, &c. a verdict was
given against him for three timarahe amount of the poundage.

This watt an action to recover the amount of a reward of twenty
guineas, offered by the defendant foe the conviction of a man named
Overy, charged with pig.steallrq.
Mr. ANDELENB and Mr. Ci.aaasow conducted the plaintiff's
case; Mr. Gunner and Mr.S•earn the defendant's.
The case for t:^e plaintiffs was this. Vie plaintiff's wife had a
lodger named Overy, who told her that he bad some pigs to sell,
and, believing that they hill come honestly Into his pessession, she
made the purchase. In a dd./ or 111/3 afterwards, sl.e sew ■ hand-
bill published by the deicatiant. not:ff.nr; that pigs such as she had
bought had been stolen, and clerring a reward of twenty guineas to
any person who gave such evitknoe as weuld bring the Wenders to
justice. Suspecting from this th:it the pigs sold to her by ()very
were stolen, she commuricated•with the. defendant on the subject,
and the pigs being identified, Overy was apprehended, and by her
evidence was convicted. When she applied to the defendant foe the
payment of the reward advertised, he dedined complying with the
terms of tie notice, on the ground that she was a guilty receiver of
the pigs, knowing them to have been stolen. She now brought her
action, joining her husband for conformity, and the defence was
grounded on the presumption that she was in sari delicto with the
thief, and consequently could maintain no action for the reward.
Two police-officers were called, whd swore that the plaintiff's
wife was a notorious recover of stolen goods, and also kept a house
of questionable fame at Sheerness • that when they went to search
her premises for the stolen pigs rite was greatly agitated, and ex-
pressed a hope that she should not be prosecuted ; ant: that, so far
from their claimirg any merit in having given the information
against ()very, she disclaimed any desire of participating in the
reward offered.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, MARCH 31.

ATTEMPT TO POISON.

John Davies stood indicted for administering a quantity of shout
six drachms of laudanum to William lisrvey, with intent to cause
a deep sleep to fall upon hial, and to plunder him while in jhat
state.

pay ;the and •the defendant took a 'billing farapilL
pocket, and handed it to Mr. *Richmond.
Mr. HALLS—But there are the costs to pay.
Defeatiant—Grote! pay no casts.
Mr. llALLs—lliit you must, Sir, as you are in the wrong,
Defendant—Well, if I must, I mast. How much is it.
Mr. Richmond said seven shillings, with the odd Manias IHRIIb
he had refitsed to pay the coachman.
Defendant—Seven eMltinits ! Seven shillings coats in ID Om
for one. Nobody ever heard of such a thing, and 171 oot pay 4.
Mr. HALLS—AM you please, sir. certainly, but if you do drat.
It will be my unpleasant duty to data% u.
Defendant—Detain me ! me, sir Do you know what you ant
talking about? I an a Mitgbarcre, Stt,untl jdull repent dssala-
ing me if you veoture to take such a amp.
Mr. HALLS-1f you are a Magistrate, Ifir, you ought to know
better than to refill; to pay costs, which your intperyaee most haw „
taught you are necessary upon all peosiridiogs in aa Wks like
this.

The Jury, under the Learned Judge's direction, found s ver-
dict for the plaintiffs—Daniagev, 211.

. -
Defendant—Tell me what the tints art Feb
Mr. Richmord sal./ that no more than the usual Mtn wino
charged For the coachman's Imo of time 2s. ; few the hearing Is.l
for the summons and service 3s. ; being the joins invariably -
charged.
The defendant, evidently very reluctant and very much this,:
gtinetl, paid the amount, and then, turning to Mr. Halls, said, "
shill be glad to know your name, Sit.. I consider that I have bum
treated very unlike a gentleman, and I shall see further into dia.
matter, and ugh that view I dishy to be furnished with yeir •
name."
Mr. Ilut.t.s—Really. Sir, your conduct altogether has bees eta •
ex;raorditary, thut although I can have no objection to your kWh. •
ing my name. r do not feel myself called upon to show you seed
the courtesy of giving the information you require. It is, hoe.:
ever, very well known here who I am, and If you wish to be loss
formed. mie of the gaoler* I dare say will tell you.
Mr. Carney did not venture to reply to this rebuke, but indltetr-
away without making the inquiry of the gaoler. .
The driver of the hackney coach No. 41, appeared upon two semi • •
I inciters issued at the suit of Sir John Stemma, the celebrate*
musical composer. for exacting more than his fare, and for being
drunk sad abusive.

Mr. Wm. Harvey, the prosecutor, a man apparently about 50
years old, with a countenance strongly marked with shrewdness
and good-nature, mated that he was a rope-makar, residing near
Derby. Ott the 7..hl of the present month, while walking along
Fetter-lane, the prisoner came up to him, and inquired the way to
Hyde-park. Witness supposing him to tae a stranger to London,
and having nothing particular to do, offered to show him the way.
Accordingly they pro•miled along the Strand into the Park, and
thence to Mamma's. In the course of their walk the prisoner
told him he had been only two days in London ; that he
was the son of an Innkeeper at Chester, and had come to
town to receive a large property, of which lie at that time had
(OW. about him. N. :Linen told hint that he did wrung to carry so
much property about him, and advised him to lodge it in the lihmk.
He added, that he (nrotecutor) never carried moth money with
him ; to be mire (showing his purse) he had, he said, then about
him the change of three five-pound notes, which he had received
that morning at the Bark, but then he had not had an opportunity
to go to his lodgings to leave the money there. On leaving Tatter-
will's they went into the Turf Tap, where they had two glasses of
brandy and water each, and for which the prisoner Insisted on pay-
ing, as a return tbr witness's kindness in showing him about. From
thence they proceeded to a public-house in Castle•street, Leicester-
square ; witness having en their way purchased a quantity of ham
and beef fur both of them. They went into en up stain room, and
while the plates. &c. were bring got ready, the prisoner went down
stairs and returned in about five minutes afterwards. Having de-
spatched their supper, the pri toner proposed that they should take a
glass of grog each and,s pipe, and asked what liquor witness pre.
ferred. Ile replied gin and water, but was so pressed by the pri-
soner to take rum and water, as being batter fur him, that he con.
seined so to do. Two glasses of rum and water were accordingly
brought up, for which, with the expense.; of the supper, witness
then paid. A little time after he took up the glass which the. pri.
Rome had handed to him and raised it to his lips, but finding the
taste to be ve, y unpleasant, put it down after urmaing a very small
quantity. The prisoner pressed him repeatedly to drink tt up, but
he refused, and as',cd the prisoner to drink it fur him, which he de-
clined doing. They flaahy rose to go awry, leaving the glass and
its contents standing on the ethic, and had got to the bottom of the
states, when the landlady came up to them,end told them they must
not go away. Immediately I.:ter an officer came in and took the pri-
mmer into custody, on the charge which tints the substance of the
present indictment. The prisoner was searched, but no bottle was
found upon him. Witness went to Bow-street with the nal er, and,
after giving his evi.lence, sat roan in the.,,:fice and fell asleep. He
also felt very drowsy anti feveri,th during tte greater part of the fol-
lowing day. On putting hin hand :too his coat pocket
. the next
morning, he found a phial labelled "Poison," containing a small
quantity of laudanum. He took it immediately to the public-house
where he had been with the prisoner, and gam it to the constable.
Cross-examined—Had been in London three weiks; had come
up on business ; had been in London fifty tiraes before. Fie offered
to accompany the peianner out Pi kindness, thinking him to be a
atran,;er to the place.
Th..: assistant of Mr. Couzens, surgeon, in Castle-stmt, proved
having sold the prisoner, on the evening in' question, 6d. worth of
laudanum. The bottle was labelled " poison." Thinks the
bottle was the Pante as that now produced. The prisoner was
brought to him ahont an hour after the transaction in custody, and
was identified by him.
Creafrexamined by Mr. RARMV—I take it the quantity you
sold him was not enough to kill a man ?
CHAIRMAN-10i a rtan ! Aye, there was enough to kill 20
men, not used to taking It.
Mr. Guest, a hail...Memel.. residing in Bear-street. stated that
he went into the ;Inn and Thirteen Canteens public-house, in
Castle-street, on the evening In question, for the purpose of taking
aurae refreshment. He found the prisoner and prosecutor sitting
by the fire of an up-stair room, smoking their pines. There was
' no one else in the room. Tao full ,e, uses of rum and water were
standing on the table, one of which, before he had been in the
Atom a minute, he observed the prisoner take up. and hold under
the table white he poured something out of a phial into it, and af.
' towards push it over to the prosecutor, whom be invited to chink of
it. Witneset's suspicions being excited that ,foul play was in-
: tended, he went down stairs, and acquainted Mrs. !larding, the
landlady of the house, who earnestly requested him to go ter a
conetable, promising, in the interim, to prevent the prisoner from
' leaving the house. Witness procured a constable, and brought him
' I to the house.

Sir J. Stevenson stated that he hired the defendant to 4144 bird •
a distance of less than a mile, and when he got outt,he latter charg-
ed him 4 shillings. Seeing that he was beastly drunk, he took
into a shop, and there pain him the lour shillings, at the sawn ii aw ,
telling him that he should be punished for extortion. Upds older
the 'defendant abused him.

THE KING v. JOHN GERISKANY AND OTHERS.

This was an indictment against the d,fendalts, for running down
a boat, and assaulting two men of the Smuggling Preventive See-
vice, named Turner and Woodward, at thilinghain, on the 4th of
August last.
The prosecution was conducted at the instance of the Board of
Admiralty, by Mr. sergeant Ormow, Mr. MAIIRYAIT, Mr.
ClunwEr, and Mr:Ksrox. . • . .

Bow ES FOR MANURE.—A peculiar feature hts for some
time appeared in the commerce of Lincoln, and has at length be-
come a very prominent and conspicuous characteristic--viz. the col-
lecting and grinding of bones for agricultural purposes. Three
large steam-rills have been erected in the neighbourhood, and a
fourth is commencing, besides several mills moved by horse-power,
all employed in grinding bones. From its vicinity to large tracts of
laud, the nature of which is moat suitable for bones, there is no
doubt of Lincoln becoming a principal market for this novel art i-
de of commerce, immense loads of which are brought into the putt
of Hull by the Dutch. The bores so brought appear highly desic-
cated ; but as they are not white as if bleached, it is more than
probale that they are carefulls collected from the fields of war-
fare. At the re-embarking of the British troops at the retreat of
Coranna, it will be recollected that the cavalry horses were de-
spatched in ranks, to prevent their falling into the hands of the
French • and it is probable that from such sources as these some of
the prodigious supplies of the bones of horses are procured.
RIOT AT KILMACTIIONAS' COUNTY OF WATERFORD.
—The Dublin Evening Post of March 28 gives an account of a
Meeting of the Magistrates of Waterford, held at Dungarvan. in
consequence of a riot which took place at Kilmadhortiaa, a place
belonging to Lord Waterford, and where there had been an exten-
sive registry of freeholders, and observes, " With the circum-
stances of this riot we have made the reader already acquainted.
The Magistrates were called together by a requisition from Lord
Waterford, who is Governor of the County, to take into consider-
ation the facts already referred to, told the general state of the di.-
triet. Nearly thirty Magistrates assembled at Dungarvan, in con-
sequence, on the 23d inst. and a vast assemblage of gentry and free-
holders from all parts of the county were drawn to the spot. There
was a preliminary meeting at the principal inn of the town.
in which the subject-mutter of discussion was, whether the
meeting should be public or private. All the Magistrates in
the popular interest, including one of the Members for the
county, Mr. Power, of Clashmore, decided on a public inves-
tigation ; the Magistrates in the opposite interest, including
Lord Gorge Beresford, the other Member, were for this.
cussing this important question with closed doors. The parties
not being likely to come to an understanding, separated, one con-
tinuing at their apartments in the tavern, and the other adjourning
to the Court-Ileuse. After some further negotiation, a double
series of resolutions were passed. This, then, we may consider
, one of those notes of preparation, announcing a contest for the re.
presentation of this county, which promises to be in itself the most
severe, and which, in regard to its political consequences, Is likely
to prove the moot important that Ireland has yet witnessed. Until
the late record tried in Waterford, and which confirmed to Mr.
Villiers Stuart the fee of an immerse tract of country, it was sup-
posed that the numerical interest of the parties was nearly balanced.
The decision of the Court, however, has had the effect of emanci-
pating all the freeholders in this district, and securing their votes
to Mr. Stuart."
Extract from a French Paper:—" The English Mi-
nistry have adopted the principle of Free Trade, and yet they pass
an Act to abolish Lotteries; which have given freely to the public,
without any expense to the State, upwards of One Hundred Mil-
lions of Pounds Sterling, in Capital Prizes during the last century.
Surely every person ought to have the liberty to pay Eighteen or
Nineteen Pounds for Twenty Thousand Guineas, as long as Mr.
Bish will offer such terms? but, no:—we find the British Par-
liament have determined there shall be no more Lotteries after the
present and one more drawing.
TRADES. NEVISPAPER.—This Journal, which, along
with other Articles of Intelligence, now gives the latest Dinnes-
tic and Foreign News of Saturday, will contain on Sunday
next Original Articles on Mr. Wilmot Norton's Scheme of Emi-
ration—On the Conduct of Parliament respecting Military Flog-
ging, the Abolition of Slavery, and Mr. Martin.. Bills against
Cruelty to Animate—Extraordinary Waste of Paine Money for
Consuls and Ambaspadors—lrish Charter Schools—The State of
Trade at Home and Abroad—State of the Working Classes—
Address of the Silk Weavers of Manchester to die Masters—
MLuiorial of the London Itopemakers, &c.

The corrhrsan apologised very humbly. and said .bri wriald sot
hire offended the gentkinan for the world if it hdd Doe been for ib
confounded drink.
Hie contrition, whether sinsere or what he himself would
garnmesn.7 had the effect of lesr.enipg kris punishineot, for ho
finel only in the Itivrest penalty of ten' &billings aed war kit
otTenee.

• AATTON-OARDEN: ' • .
Fans ox pitaletiEll.—Yesterday, the 131tagisktote; of ,
office, Metros. Rogers and Laing, Were ocEupied In thE Invesfiga:.
tine of a most extensHe system of fraud, which has for a loaf
deferable dote been carried on by paupers of a certain dais manse' -
the parochial establishments in various pens of London:
Jam And Mars his reputed wife, with two miaerabin
children in their arms, were placed at, the bar, charged bit the Ind-,
errs of St. Sepulchre's pariah, Middlesex, with obtaining money
under false pretences.
Mr. Hind, the Vestry-clerk, stated that the prisonms at the bate
had several times, applied for relief, whirls was granted in varied/
sums to the amount or-tour or file and twenty shillings. The oink
prisoner represented himself to he a native of the paef of Halkot-
ton, near Tiverton, in Devonshire, to which place, he etas anxiatin ,
to return with his family, not being able to procute employment in
London. lie signified, that he did not like to be passed it 2 tpti
regular way, but would wish to go
,by rife waggon, his *if( and
children being in a very feeble state • Being Mied 11o* men,
money he 'would require to take them home„ be teplied about
3/. Is. This demand was thought rather exorbidint, and it wait
referred to the consideration of the lloard, when, on investigadley,
it was discovered that a similar application had made or be
parish of Cierkenwell, and an advance made for the same purpose.
It was also suspected, from the contradictory statementS of the Slag
and woman that they had been practising in the wine way, on many
other parishes. It was therefore deemed advisable to bring then
before a Magistrate, and on Wednesday morning, when they algid
to ramie: the money, as they were given to understand It would het,
edvanced, they were taken into custody.
Messrs. Waltham and Newton, two of the overseers of St. Se.:
pulchre's, proved having advanced to the prisoners datious fulls* of
monej, by we of temporary relielf, pending -hi investigation with
reference to the demand of 3/. -Is. for taking item to their parish:,
They hail likewise given them shoes for themselves and thew child
then, and the % omau received other necessaries alto.
Messrs. Key and Harvey, overseers of Cierkenwell, said Mgt the
prison rs had made similar applications to them, and received is.
nous sums of money, as would appear by the parish accounts.
Mr. %Vest, the master of Clerkeowell workhouse, produced the
honks, in which were entries to this effect:—" Advanced to John.
Stevens anti family (various dates and sums), for temporary relief,
12s. ;" oral on the 23th March, " Paid to John Stevens, for ttin '
,
purpose of taking self and family to his pariah, Halburtoo, De..
yonshire, IL Ills." being in the whole two guineas.
Mr. Hind observed, that at the time they were receiving this
money front Cierkenwell they were also drawing from St. Sepulchre's.
It was therefore lair to infer that the like fraud had been practised
' en many Other parish*.
Mr. LAING then ordered Stevens to withdraw, and the wife an.
derwent a very long examination, in the course of which she ad,
mined that her husband had run away from his perish, in cone.
quence of a bastard child, or, as she termed it " a base child he'
been put to him." She spokehaws
of a stater in Westminster, with
whom she stopped when they arrived in London, but the could not
, recollect either the name of the street or the number of the house.

The Constable deprived that, on taking the prisoner into custody,
be insisted on watching him. The prisoner replied, "It you
mean to search me, you must pull (X: your coat, and tuck up your
shirt sieen-a." After a little parleying, however, he consented to
be searched ; there was nothing of importance found upon him.
Bra Magistrate—You did not find 13001. in his pocket then P—No,
nut COO pence.
CIIAIRMAZ:—Of COMO not. _ _ -

Mr. BARRY, for the prisoner, addressed the Jury. Ile was In-
structed that the prisoner had procured the laudanum for the pur-
pose of giving to a mare, to cure her rf kicking. As to how the
laudanum got into the glass, and the bottle into the prosecutor's
pocket. the Learned Counsel said nothing.
The CUAIRMAN summed uti with great minuteness, and
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of GoMi,
but not with intent to kill.
The CHAIR mast explained that no such intent was laid In the
indictment. A general verdict of Guilty was then recorded.
The Cuatnstaw, after enlarging on the enormity of the pri-
soner's guilt, sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and bard
labour.

It appeared in evidence that, on the day in question, Turner, a
gunner belonging to the Shannon, stationed in Gillingham Creek,
had been sent from shore by Lieutenant Gray, with a messege to
the Commanding•offtcer of the Shannon. On his return, in a small
beat belonging to a man named Woodward, the boat was run down
and sunk by a fishing smack. of which the defendants, three in
number, were the crew. With considerable difficulty the lives of
Turner and Vt oodwesd were saved. A Waterman put off flout the
shore and picked them up. Turin.r caught hold of a rope attached
to the fishing smack, and was dragged through the water about the
distance of two hundred feet. The defendants, seeing the danger
of the men, had put out their host to pick them up. and alleged
that the affair was an accident, and that they had no alternative out
to run on shore. At the spot where the accident happened there
were seventeen feet of water, end their smack only drew about six
feet. Turner and Woodward said they could not say that the de-
fendants (whom they had not known before) had acted from a' ma-
licious motive, but they declared that they never saw such lubberly
conduct in their lives.
Mr. ANDREWS urged, for the defendants, that the whole trans-
action was the result of mere carelessness, if not of pure accident,
and, on their part, disclaimed any intention of running down the
boat which had been sunk.
The Jury, under the LORD CHIEV BARON'S directions,
quitted two of the defendants altogether, but found John Germany,
who acted as helmsman, Guilty of a common assault.

[ln her etamination before the Board at St. Sepulchre's work+
house, she described the former as Smith-street, and believed the'
it wee at No. 4, or 24, or 34 ; but on inquiry, no person ansireriog
the description could be found in all IVestminster.]
She denied having made any application at the workhouse then,
or at any other time. She admitted that they removed from West-
minster to the King's-road, but could give no description of the
part. It was at length ascertained that the King's-road was Port-
pool-lane, where a notable gang of this description are in the habit
of resorting. In answer to a question from .31r. Laing, she denied
having applied at the workhouse of St. Andrew's parish, in Gray's
Inn-lane ; indeed, she had no idea where it mss.

POLICE.

GUILDHALL.

The husband was then called in, and during a long examination
frequently contradicted the statement of his wile. He admitted
that they had applied at St. Andrew's workhouse, and that the wiip
bad received 20s. front one of the overseers to take her home.

Stevena was then removed behind the bar, and the wife was again
called in. She persevered in saying that they had never applied
for relief to any parish but the two.
Mr. LAING then taxed her with the pound received from St. An-
drew's, and she observed that her husband had ordered her to sl►
nothing about it.
Mr. LAING said there could be no doubt that this system of
plunder had been going on a long time, and, in order to gibe other
parishes an opportunity of corning forward, he should remand trio
prisoners until Monday.

James firolA, the boy who has been in custody several days on I
suspicion of tuothrig committed numerous robberies in the vicinity
of the Royal exchange, by entering at the garret windows or trap-
doors on the roof, was again brought before Ale. Alderman Garratt
yesterday for further examination.
Mr. Iladdeley. of Tom's Coffee-house, Mr. Martin, the banker,
and Mr. Bland, or Garraway's, whose premises have been broken
into in the above manner, were in attendance, as also some persons
who had on various occasions seen tl e young marauders going from
roof to roof; bat as none of them had made particular observation
of them, so as to be able to recognise their persons, or at least, as
neither of the witnesses could positively identify the prisoner, the
only case that remained to be pressed against the latter was thgt of''
stealing Mr. Haddan's boots, which were found upon his person,
when he had made his way over the roof into the adjoining house.
The system of the young urchins seems to have been to walk into
one of the many houses in the above neighbourhood, let out as
counting-houses, and, if they met any person on the stairs, to ask
fur some fictitious name; if they did not, to make their way through
an attic window or trap-door, and then a wide field was open to
them ; and if they looked into the window of a room where a per.
son chanced to be, which has happened 10 them, their excuse was
ready—that they were in quest of a stray pigeon, and this always
lulled suspicion. They seem systematically to have avoided rob.
bing their houses of egress and regress, in order that the npportu.
I oily of committing future depredations might not be cut off, and in
the hope that the means by which they gained access to the roofs
from the street would not be discovered. Another over.the-rorif
robbery was committed in Cornhill on Thursday afternoon, it is
supposed by the prisoner's associate who escaped.
Mr. Alderman OARRATT having announced his intention of
committing the prisoner, the depositions were prepared to be read
over, when It was discovered that Mr. 'ladder), who identifies the
hoots, was absent, and the final commitment of the prisoner was
again postponed, until Mr. II addan's attendance shall he obtained.
The preacher to a congregation of Johanna Southantians, or
Universaliets, as they term themselves, who meet in a sort of hay-
loft in the rear of a house in King-street, %Vest Smithfield, applied
for a summons against some person who had interrup:ed " divine
service" last Suoday ; as, however, lie (tad forgotten to bring the
documentary proof that it is a regularly lirensed meeting, the Al-
derman declined granting the summons. and recommended him to
proceed at once by indictment, as the (hand Jury will now soon be
sitting.

QUEEN.SQUARE.

ROBBING FCHKISIIED LODGINGS.—The practice of Astragal,

ing articles from ready-famished apartments, mid afterwards pawn.
ing them, has lately been carried to such an extent that the Magis-
trates of this office have determined to resist any compromise, and
in future to inforce, in such cages, the full penalty of the law.
William and Mary ilathreay, man and wife, were charged with
ste•-iling the pillows and bolster, and also sonic bed-linen, trum their
ready-furnished lodgings in Westminster, and then pledging the
said property.
The husband, a respectable looking man, who it was said earned
40s. a week, declared that the articles now charged as having been
stolen and pawned by his wife, had been made away with unknown
to himself, and, therefore, he now implored the Magistrate to be
permitted to indemnify their landlady for the property which had
been pledged by his unfortunate wife.
Mr. LAND observed, that the prisoners had not the usual
I plea of poverty to offer in extenuation of their offence, and coin-
merited on the increase of tine description of crime, particu-
larly as it vane under his own cognizance; and, therefore,
he could nut consent to suffer the matter to be longer made
up. With regard to the male prisoner's defence, he Raid it
could hardly be supposed that lie had gone to bed, night after
night, and never missed either the bolster or pillows front under.
neath
• The prisoners were accordingly both committed to Newgate
for trill.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoaI, MAR( u 90.

ASSAULT.
STANCLIFFE VEARNI.EY.
Mt. BLACKBURN, for the plaintiff.—From the Learned Gen.
tleman's statement it appeared that the plaintiff and defendant
were cattle dealers at Kirk Heaton, and the assault was com-
mitted under very aggravated circumstances. On the 27th of
September last, the plaintiff was with his friend in Cross Creech-
street, Huddersfield, (it being the market day), when the defen-
dant and his son were observed coming up the street. Plaintiff,
said se his friend, " Here comes Fearnley, I will demand my
debt of him." On the defendant and his son coming up, plaintiff
said to the defendant's son, " Thou knows what thou owes me,
thou might as well pay me ?" Young Fearnley replied, "
owe thee nothing, and will pay thee nothing." The defendant
then said, " D---n thee, if thou wart a partner of mine, I would.
lace thy body for thee !" The plaintiff remarked, " Never thee
mind, what I have is my own, I never signed over to any one."
No sooner did the defendant hear this, than he struck the plaintiff
over the mouth with his list ; and, not satisfied with that, he
struck hint with his stick, broke his hat, by heating him over his
head, back, and shoulders, all the way from the Ramsden's Arms
Inn to the White Linn. amidst a great number of per. ons.
Witnesses were called, who gave their evidence to the same effect
BOW STREET.
as the plaintiff, V esterday a person of respectable appearance, named rarnep,
Mr. WlLLl:tars, for the defendants, addressed the Jury, and
contended, that ins client had been irritated to commit the assault, an Irish Ma • ate attended upon summons, to answer the cow-
lof ler P aint aac ney coachman, for refusing to pay the legal fare.
by being called a villain and a swindler in the public market.plece.
The coachman stated that he was taken by the defendant, first to
Had he, however, stopped, after giving the blow over the offensive
have been the better,
unt
Betiford.square, and afterwards to Curson-street, Mayfair. and he
part, namely the mouth, perhaps it would
eantled 3%, the distance exceeding two miles. The defendant
but who could place a boundary to position There was no evi- refused to a, n v more than two shillings, and therefore he summoned
dance of the plaintiff's being seriously injurei„ and the Jury would him. •
do well to give him, what he certainly had a right to,
very small The defendant said he felt confident that the distance did not
damages., ' exceed two miles.
His LORDSHIP said, that the plaintiff was undoubtedly entitled
Fite coachman said he knew it did very considerably.
to their verdict; but what &sieges they would give, they were the
Mr. HALLO said he had no means of knowing the distance but
best judges. by ordering the •ground to be measured by the sworn officer with
The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 25/.
131 PORTA NT TO SH ERI FFS' OF FI CERS. his wheel.
Defendant—Very well, then let it be measured by all means.
Damn v. HUTTON, LOTS SHERIFF OF KORA.
1%/tr. llor.T stated the ease to the Jury. From his statement it Mr. BALLS—WeII then, let each party deposit :in., the cost of
appeared, that a professional person, of the name of Brown, brought measuring, anti whoever is in the right will have his money re.
an action in 3larch 1825, against the now nominal plaintiff. who turned.
was the defaodant in the original action, to recover a debt of "Oh ! not do that," said the defendant ;" I won't run the
91..11;5. 3d. Ile had suffered judgment to go by default. The costs, risk of losing tire shillings when there is only one at Issue. 1 shall

MARYLEBONE.
Yesterday Ann Trans, a young woman of moat violent temper,
was brought to this office, charged by her husband with having. at
Wednesday last, made an attack upon him with a knife, with
which she cut hint desperately whilst struggling to get it from her,
The prisoner denied having used the knife purposely to injure
her husband.
The Magistrate ordered her to find bail to appear at the Sessioas„
and she was detained in custody until she could procure it.

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MARNBOROUGH-STREET.
SNEAKlRS.—Yesterclay, two youths, name Grant and Lralr,
were brought up on suspicion of belonging to a numerous class of
thieves, termed " :Sneakers."
Ballard, the officer, deposed that, in consequence of inftaNnation
he bad received, he proceeded to General Cummins's house, in
Lower Gmsvenor.street, where a robbery of plate, to nearly the
value of 1001. had been effected the previous evening. The pantry
hail been entered, owing to the area gate having been left open.
Not being able to procure information sufficient to enable him to
discover the offenders, he left the house; when, in looking down
the street, he saw the two prisoners, one of whom was coining out
of an area, and the 'other standing on the watch. Having reached
them unperceived, he took them into custody, and, on looking into
a Icrue nut basket, which the prisoner Groves had. he found
about a dozen of oranges and a quantity of hay, which CirCUMIIADCO
induced hint to bring the prisoners to the office to give an account
of themselree ; for the plan row adopted by the thieves, in atealllK
of plate, was to go down those areas of which the gates were open,
under the pretence of selling oranges.
In ref!y to questions by Mr. Cowarer, the prisoner Groves
stated, that he lived in the Lower-road, Islington, and was a
1 painter.. out of work ; and, to get au honest livelihood, endeavotte.
ed to sell a few or.mges.
Mr. CONANT—Aye, and likewise steal plate.
The other prisoner stated that he lived

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