The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-15 00:00:00

GAMING HOUSE, it.-3AlllekS-STREET.

However immoderate thei:47s of the bow .window and show
shop in St. James's-street have hitherto been, their real value will
be put to the test in a few days in the Court of Kiog's Bench, as
au action to recover penalties to the amount of MEOW. toe monies
won front several Noblemen and Gentlemen, has been commenced.
The action is set down in the cause paper ter the Sittings after
Tenn, and it is likely to come to a hcunug on )londny or Tues-
day next. The master of the establishment has used every pre-
caution to guard his fry from the cormorants of the law, but nei-
ther the privity to a elub-bouse, a strict ballot, to which only Mem-
bers of Parliament, or of the principal clubs, ware admissible, to
the sevenfold tenon of doors within doors, have been sufficient to
exclude the inquisitive eye of the law, or daunt the perseverance of
the individual who has undertaken the action. 'The list of wit.
messes contains names of high rank and fashion, and the following
have been actually served with subprenas to attend and hive eel.
dence. The messenger employed to perform this duty was obliged
to use various artifices to get access to the parties, as rumours were
abroad, and pnrautitms takes to exdudc all troublesome visitors.
Mr. George Lane Fox was deceived by a pretended summons
from the Speaker of the I louse of Loninions. The Earl of Orford
was taken in by a man dressed as a porter, who said he was the
bearer of a Inst bet on the Oaks, on the settling day at Tattersall's.
The Earl of Thanct, and Mr. Edward Moore, were intruded upon
in their respective dressing rooms ; and Mr. Henry Baring, though
particularly engaged at the moment, was deceived by the assumed
urgent nature of the messenger's business.
Ex prde llereakm, judging from the culinary foundation, the
uninitiated may form a shrewd guess at the value of the dealing.
in the upper stories of this establishment. The daily cooking ex-
penditure is forty pounds; the outfit of the kitchen, &c. cost twelve
hundred pounds ; end, to crown all, the il*h Priest of the Tem-
ple was first cook to Buonaparte. The Fishmongers' Hall was a
grand experiment on the gullibility and credulity of John Bull,
for the John Bull of fashionable life is just as gullible and &valid-
' ous as the Loan-lending or Joint-stock Cs • tpany•making John
Bull : and the action of penalties is an experiment equally daring
and novel.--Morsittir Paper.

To MAKE Fins FROM Way Ea.—Pour a little clean
water into a glass tumbler, and put one or two pieces of
pliosphoret of lime into it; in a short time flashes of fire
will dart from the surface of the water, and terminate in
ringlets of smoke, which will ascend in regular succession.
The London SZusious commenced in the Court of King's
Bench, Guildhall, yesterday, I..efore the Lord Mayor
Sheriffs, Aldermen Sir J. Perring, Ileygate, J. Smith'
and Cox, the Recorder, &c.—The 0:1 Bailey Sessions*
commence this morning.
MELANCHOLY ()CCIIRRENCE.—On Sunday morning a
man and his wife, in the village of Mitcham, when separating for
the remainder of the day, after a desperate quarrel, the one to go
picking rosebuds in the fields, the other to the alehouse, were heard
by a neighbour to make use of the following horrible language.
The woman said, " I hope I shall never see you come into this
house again till you are brought in a corpse:" and the man
replied when leaving the door, " I hope I never shall come in here
to you agsain till I am dead and d—d :" with these imprecations
in his mouth he departed, as was his usual custom, to the public.
house, where he sat till he was Intoxicated, and commenced, in
this state, a quarrel with another drunken man, which terminated
in their going out to fight in a neighbouring field, when, after about
five rounds, this wretched man received a blow in the neck, which
produced his death in a moment ; and by three o'clock in the afters
rown the miserable wife was informed that her rash wishes were
just about to be exactly realised.
Cstssrsost TO Ilaxians.—On Tuesday evening, about
eight o'clock, a melancholy accident happened on the Serpentine
Aver. A young gentlemen named Alendham, of Kennington, and
of highly respectable connections, attempted to swim across the
Serpentine Pifer, and plunged in on the south side, confident of
soccer. Being a gond swimmer, he reached the middle of the
river, or near two-thirds oe r, when two other young men who
had backed him, and who sere swimming near him at the tune,
heard him utter some exclamations, which were followed by a
groan, and Mr. Meadhain suddenly disappeared. An alarm was
immediately given, and a heat in possession of the agents to the
Humane Society was rowed up, and the agents wish drags searched
for the body, which search proved unsuccessful for a considerable
time ; when, at the approach of night, not willing to discontinue
their exertions, they renewed them, and succeeded in recovering
the busty about the centre of the river. Tw t wirgeons immediately
came, who were of opinion that all hope.. to restore animation
were unavailing, and that the deceased had beer seized with the
cramp in his swimming across. The body was conveyed to the
Humane Society's house, by the side of the river, astd from thence
to St. fieorge's workhouse. Hanover-square, where an tospiest v:as
held on the body before 31r. Stirling, coroner, and the .try re-
turned II verdict of " .Iceidental Heath."

A LI.Y.tiED Alr■nr.n.—Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was I
taken before J. W. I %nein, Esq., Coroner. at tlie Ship, cormr of I
High-street, Mile-end, New Town, on view of the body of Mary I
Illundfrd. aged -ft;, who was reported to have been killed by
Elizabeth Brseuenborough on Monday night bat. Lime which the
care has excited mullet: Table alarm in the hamlet .of
New Town. ltrackenborough was examined on the charge of
murder, at Lambeth-street, on Tuesday, when she was remanded
until the result of the Coroner's Inquest should tie known.—
Several witnesses ere examined, whose evidence went to slum
that the deceased was extremely drunk on the evening of her death ;
that no animosity existed between her and the prisoner ; and from
all the circumstances It fully appeared, that the deceased came to
he death by accident. The Jury returned a verdict accordingly.