The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-13 00:00:00

LEFT JURIES.

Yeetarday Om Recorder of London. as Steward of the several
manors *them the Borough of Southwark, together with the High
Bailiff, atteelcd by the several offices, held three Courts Leet,
tor the purpose of receiving presentments, and swearing in fresh
Juries.
An the course of his charge to the Jury, the Recorder remarked
that a very important pan of their duty was to inquire as to the
clients of using false weights. and oweirates. He bad observed
with great pain, that in the Uwe moors contained within the
Borough of Southwest, there tow ao leas than 120 persons pre.
seated en having bees guilty of dua Me serious offence. He per-
ceived that in many stemfilot edisasetellete were but small, but he
hoped in future, Ude waapsealeed In. that the Jury would
regard it with a seem eye, and billet such penalties as would pre-
•ent It being worth thopaety's while to continue the comanifelon
of it. Be was glad to He that in one instance they had gone to
far in their STllatelatill as it., and he would assure them that the
. offence was not only presentable at the Lest, but was indictable at
the division% and punishable by fine or Imprisonment, or both ;
and be osiot.lenti it his duty to declare, that tn the event of any
Las: being brought before the Bough Sessions, and found well
Freed by a Jury, he, as tins Judge, was determined to inflict •
sentence of both tins and imprisonment to a eery considerable ex.
tent. Poe be felt, that although to the nil and the opulent it
might not be a matter of considerable importance, yet to the poor
man. the latent of whose income was, perhaps, ten, fifteen, or
*reify shillings per week. sod who had a large family to sup-
port, it was a mete of serious eviL It was subjecting him to a
tax by a panty who bad no right to levy it. A tax against all law
and humanity, and founded upon that wont of passions which a
WOAD balm eau indulge—en avaricious desire of gain, without
regarding the Unstops, the welfare, or the comfort of their neigh-
bours.

A paragraph has gone the round of the newspapers in
praise of the Huinsult scythe, which is stated to have et-
"tented great things in seotland, one titan being able to cut
three-fourths of an acre of wheat in a day with it. This
it rat*: Amusing, when we know that with a common
scythe as much as three and even four acres a day have
. been cut in Northumberland by one man. This has been
done, we are credibly informed, neat Wooler, on the very
borders of the Land o'Cakes.—Tyne Mercury.
Au old woman got, by some chance, into the Friends'
Meeting, at Edinburgh, and after sitting two hours in all
the fidgety torment natural to those who have not been
aoctletomed to this " subjection of the activity of the na-
tural still," on coming out, said 'to the person neat her,
An unto place this, where there's neither prayer nor
praiie I"
Sunday hat died. Mrs. Hannah ll'aut, at Hitchingbani,
it- the 146th year of her agc. She was born on the YOth of
August, 1140, and throughout her long life enjoyed a state
q(,uinterrupted health, and retained her memory and per-
t. -mien to the end with a clearness truly astonishing. Till
' the Jay previous to l.er decease she was not ronfined to her
bed • and on the anniversary of her 105th birth-day enter-
tain:4i a party of her relatives, who viiited her to celebrate
it. She lived to see a numerous progeny to the fifth gene-
ration, and at her death there were living—children, grand-
children, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grattilehiV
then to ihe number of 121.
About balf-past five o'clock on 'Friday night, the Duke
of Norfolk coach, from Sheffield to this town (Manchester)
was overtutmd, on this side of the canal bridge, at the
helflway between AsltidP Mud Manchester, owing, as we
are informed, to the breaking of one of theaaletreos. There
were several passengers, both inside and out; and three of
the latter, namely, two men and one woman, received very
severe fractures and other injuries ; but we believe none of
them are likely to be attended with fatal consequences.—
attrAester Aeleertieer.