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( OURT OF C 0 31310 N PLEAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY L.

At a quarter past one o'clock, St William Draper Best, Lord
Chief Justice id the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Justice Bur-
rough, and Mr. Justice Park, took their seats on the Bench.—
.Mr. Justice ltichardton, the other Judge, was absent from in-
disposition.
'the Court was occupied in swearing in bail, and other matters of
no public interest.

INSOLVENT DEUTOR:s' COURT, MAY 5.

JUDGM ENTS.

The following insolvents were brought up for judgment, their
several cases havin 4 ben previonsly investigated
William Chamberlain, having completed his services appointed
before the Court for adjudication. At the original examination, on
the Gth of April, the insolvent wan of posed by Harry Win. Page,
on the ground that he, heir; at the time a ruler in the King's
Bench prison, tendered a bill of exchange for 201., and represented
it to bear the names of persons of respectability. Hence 3lr. Page
delivered him goods and rash as balance. It tamed out that the
insolvent was at the time i.r custody, of which the complainant was
ignorant, and he was completely defrauded out of the whole amount
and law charger..
J udgrnent—Eight calendar months within the walls of the King's
Bench prison.
Charles Baker, late of Camberwell, postmaster and tailor, who
was before the Court on the 2tith ult. and :Al instant, came up for
iinal examination.

The insolvent was remanded, to produce a witness named Amelia
Christmas, a sister-in-law, to whom he had sold several ponies and
carts, and other ankles, amounting to 751. and upwards, Just before
he went to prison, and the proceeds whereof he mild over to his
father, who was his landlord.

The witness was examined this day at considerable length, and
the result was, that the preconceived opinions of the Honourable
Cominisslonen were confirmed.

Hence, for fraudulently making away with property, the boner was was remanded for eight calendar months within the walk of
the 111araltakea prison.
J. Whitehouse. who was before the Court on the 12th ult., when,
owing to some irregularity in his pa , the investigation was not
pnweeded in, came tip to be re- , and to receive judgment.
111 r. Ilenry (keen, the opposing creditor' stated, that he had
been induced to give credit to the insolvent for two chests of tea,
value el and upwards, on account of representations made by him,
which he should prove to have been false, u he was prepared with
evidence which the insolvent could not controvert, that he being a
minor at the time of his commencing business, lie gave his father-
in.latv, Edward Ward, a warrant of attorney, and that after his in-
fancy terminated, the said father-in-law entered up judgment, and
took possession of the property, to the prejudice of himself and every
other creditor.

The insolvent, a fashionably-dressed young man, tacitly
acknowledged the validity of the accusation brought against him ;
therefore, die Court, after animadverting on hls conduct, and giving
him some wholesome advice, as to his future regulation of it,
sentenced him to be confined for sift udentlitr months a Ithin the
walls of the Fleet Prison, and that he be deprived of all rules and
dairy ruler.
All judgments in this Court are computed from the day the in-
s° vent petitions it, which leaves an interval of about lire weeks.)

rALSE.IIIREST UPON ACAPTAJN OF METE:I'TM

TENCH D. TURNER.
Yesterday an action was brought by Capt. Tench, of the Tenth,
against the Sheriff* of Surrey, to recover daniages for injury sus.
tamed in ammeguenee of a false arrest, when he was returning from
the Duke of York's Levee. Judgment having been allowed to go
by default, a writ of inquiry was held for the assessment of damages,
at the Three Tuns Tavern, Southwark, before Abbott, Lag.
the Under-Sherif.

Mr. Baotfostme, for the plaintiff; stated, that his client's ease
needed no preface. no commentary. The mental pain and degrade..
tiara, and the bodily inconvenience, to which Capt. Tench had been
sithjected, could not be more powerfully descr,ked than by a naked
statement of facts; and there eau Id be no palliatim of the grow
and stubborn conduct of the( )(liter who lh ad made the arrest, and who
was not to be prevailed upon to believe that the Capt. was any other
than one Jones, a person who put on clothes at the expense of other
people. (A laugh.) The Captain, being arrested as Mr. Jones, at the
tailors suit, was imprisoned in forsemongerJane gaol for 70 hours.
In the mean time, repeated assurances were given to the officer and
the tailor that they were doing an illegal act; applications were also
made for a discharge at the Sheriff's office ; but nearly four days
elapsed before those assurances and applications had any effeet, and
then the bailiff brought six or seven persons with him to the prison
to identify Mr. Jones. The Captain was then ordered to exhibit
himself bef tre his judges, who were drawn up in a line to put him
under examination. His hat was taken off, and the scrutiny WM.
nienced, while the iron bars were between them and hini ; but,
unfortunately for the defendant, they all agreed that no Mr. Jones
was there; and one of them same that the captain was no more like
Mr. Jones than his grandmother. The Jury (said the Learned
Gentleman) would see the necessity of remunerating the Captain
fur this series of injuries, which were of such a nature as had not
been equalled under any circumstances of mistaken or wilful arrest.
Evidence having been given,
Mr. Asnutays, for the defendant, admitted that the caption
was erroneous; but the bailiff, who was to be responsible for all
the consequences, was wholly blameless ; he had merely done his
duty : the tailor it was that was to blame. But the Captain, too,
was not quite without blame, however dignified might have been
his 4:abduct in his own estimation. lie might easily have cleared
up the business by sending to his agent, or by a reference to that
; but the Captain calculated upon a good profit, and must
person
delighted with the prospect of harsh treatment. The
very name of a gaol must have beta a comfort to hint, as a sure
means of a "golden redeutpuoa."
Mr. ABBOTT commented upon the evidence, and stated to the
Jury, that although the action was brought against the Sheriff, the
consequences would fall upon es
The Jury, after haying consulted for some time, assessed the da-
mps at 101., which is less by 10s. than Mr. liroughaties fee.

SUSPICION Or Ali, any x.--Oia the afternoon of Sunday I
last, the bodies of a woman, aged about 30, and of a female child of
two years °rage, were found dead in a plantation at Brae of {'info.
debt, in the county of Aberdeen, under circumstances tending to
create suspicion that they had met violent deaths. The bodies
were nest morning hmught to Aberdeen, and proved to be the lintel
and child of a strolling vender of small hnniware articles front the I
south country, somewhere about Glasgow ; and the ease is un- 1
dergoing an investigatiou by the public prosecutor.—Edinburgh
Purr.
ATROCIOUS Aleuor.a.—lVe have been favoured with I
the sight of a knit received by a gentleman in this city, dated
Valparaiso. January 9, It continua the narrative its a bar-
barous murder committed au the pvtoin of a Mr. !tannin, whose
wife and family, at present residing at Ilishopthorpe, near this city,
gives it a pars of local interest. Mr. Ilottitan 11.161 purchased the
sop of a mountain which overlooked the town of 'Valparaiso, and
by infinite labour and trouble had made a eig-rag road to the top,
where lie had built a house, in which he hail gone to live, and was
likely to du very well by seEing lots of the ground for building. Ills
friends had frequently told bin of the danger of living alone. but
Ihe unfortunately paid no attention to the warning. The thing that
was fared by than, however actually happened in the following
! manner. About eight o'clock in the evening of the 7th of Janet.
sty, three of the men he had at work on his ground, came with the
intention of killing and rubbing him. One of them knocked at
the door, and gave the old man a letter, saying it was for him,
while be was by the candle. and in the act of *truing the seal,
another of them stabbed him to the heart with a large knife ; this
done, the other two laid hold of his antis, till the murderers had
plunged the knife nine time% into his body. They then robbed the
house of every thing of value, and took to the mountains. An
English gentleman, named Mr. Andrew Blest, who was out shoot-
ing, found the three fellows in a vale, dividing the clothes, &c.;
Ire immediately knew them to be the men, and continued to follow
them. till he could procure assistance, when two were scored, but
the third got away, but was taken the following day, being found
on his nail to the town he belonged to. These wretches will have
raid the forfeit of their crimes, having been sentenced to be shot.
They emit:seed to the murder, &c., and described the male of its
perintrat:on.— Yw k Coftrant.

sunfirt sEs SUM'S, Mat I.

ROWIERIES ON WORKMEN.

Joh) lrare, aged Xi, and Ma; ;in Greti:wood Ware, his brother,'
aged 21, were placed at the bar, and charged, on no less than whet
indietmnds, with stealing great tivantities of tools, the property of
nine different persons.
Joseph Snow, a constable of Newington, stated that be had re.
aired Information of the new churchesand other buildings having I
been lately robbed of the workmen's tools to a very great extent,
and Ire had reason, from bottle circumstances, to suspect the pri-
soners,who were what are termed " running dustmen, and oceu.
a smell cottage with two rooms in Kennington ; witness and
yers, another constable, accordingly proceeded to this cottage.
on the 22d ult., and saw John Ware, whom they informed that
they had come to search for some tools which had been stolen; he
denied ell knowledge of soy robbery or of any tools; but, upon •
' close inspection, witness and Myers discovered, secreted in various
parts of the cottage, a number of carpenters' baskets, planes,
hammers, trowels, rules, chisels, pincers. and various other carpen-
ters' and bricklayers' tools, moat pan of which Martin Greenwood
Ware, who soon afterwards came in, owned as his property ; part.l
he said, he had pun hatted, and the reniainger he had taken out of
pledge.
Richard Myers, also a constable, corroborated the above state.
1111Cflt.

The prosecutors identified the tools, which had been stolen front
St. Peter's Church at iValworth, and other buildings where they
had been at work.

John Ware disclaimed all knowledge of the tools, but the other
prisoner told the same story of his possession of them as he did to
the officer.

The prisoners were only tried upon the first three indictments, on
which Martin Greenwood Ware was found Guilty, and John Ware
Nut Guilty.
The latter was ordered to be detained to have fresh indictments
preferred against him for feloniously receiving the property, know-
ing it to have been stolen.
Jam SteekiNg and Johu Donovan, two lads about 14 years old,
were indicad for stealing three silk handkerchiefs from the shop of
Mr. Cross, a mercer in the Borough.
it appcarod that the prisoner, were observed in the act of break-
inif a pane of glass in the window of the prosecutor's shop, on
elfettiog which they dragged the property stated in the indictment
through the aperture they had thus made. They were Immediately
ap ierded, and the property found in their possession.
erd let —4: u illy.
The prisoners were stated to be most incorrigible thieves. The
Court sentenced t:tem to be transported for seven years.

Emma Ira&iris was indicted for stealing two coral necklaces,
two gold chains, and two gold seals, frau the shop of Mr. Skinner,
a pawnbroker in I y-street.
The prisons went into the shop of Mr. Skinner to pledge some
trifling article, at which time she purloined the above articles,
which were lying packed up on the counter. She was taken into
custody on attempting to pledge them at another shop.
The prisoner admitted her guilt, but pleaded extreme distress is
mitigation of punishment. She had a sick husband and three
young children to support.
The prosecutor stated that he had made inquiries, from which
he learnt that the tale told by the prisoner was true ; he therefore
begged to recommend her to mercy.
Verdict—Guilty. Sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
Itutirrt Meredith stood charged with stealing three pair of shoes
from the shop of:11r. John Hawes. a shoemaker, at Newington.
The prisoner was seen to enter the shop, and immediately after-
wards to retreat hastily. Ile was pursued, and the property found
in his possession.
Verdict—GnUty. The Court sentenced the prisoner, who was •
well-known character, to seven years transportation.

POLICE.

110 W STREET.

ROABEIi Y AT 31a9iEis;.-.-.iaQ:thires wall brought up,
charged with receiving a large quantity of` lace, Irish linen, and
other artieler, the property of Mrs. Lm, a respectable dress.
maker in Tavistock-street, Covent-garden:

filr. Pit t Let rm„ who attended fot7:llrs. Lees. opened his case by
stating that Mrs. bees for some time past bad the most daring de-
predations committed on her property by Emily Higgins, one of
her apprentices, to the amount of between seven and eight hundred
pounds ; she confessed her guilt, and said that the whole of the
workwomen had received the property. but that Miss Ayres, who
was confidentially employed by Mrs. Lees, had been the most
guilty, and had been selected for prosecution. He should call
Emily lliggirs, who ould prove that Miss Ayres had received the
greater part of the property.
After a few words between Mr. Alley, Mr. Phillips, and the
Sitting Magistrates, Higgins and Spikeman, the two principal
witnesses, were ordered to leave the Court, and the Learned Coun-
sel continued his statement. lle observed that some doubt would
arise as to whether the evidence oldie guilty party could be re-
ceived, but he proposed first examining the other witnesses, and if
the evidenct was Oct strong enough to commit, then to call Higgins.
The evidence of a witness named Spikentan would prove the find-
ing of two peculiar artitles in the prisoner's box ; namely, a piece
of muslin and a piece of crape, which were both the property of
Mrs, Lees.

Mr. A ni.EY, on behalf of the Fleece?, said that In DO ease where
the principal thief was to be found, the receiver was prosecuted ;
and referrvd to a ease hence Mr. Justice Buller, in which a person
wbo, on similar evidence, had been committed by a Magistrate, was
diochargal.
Mr. ltxartrLz. here said, that if Mr. Lees could swear to the
articles found in the ridOCCell box as being her property, that
would be sullinent, without the evidence of Higgins, and there.
fore he should not receive any evidence as to her confession.
The evidence produced MI the examination of Emily Higgins teas
then read over by the Clerk.
Mrs. Lees next gave her evidence, which was similar to her de.
position on the examination of Emily Higgins. She underwent a
long crow-examination by Mr. Alley.
After Mr. A nne v had finishedcrortetamining Mrs. Lees,

Mr. Alt Natty'. t. said, that he should be very unwilling to receive
the evidence of Iliggina, and as the prisoner was now under recog-
nizance" to appear. the better way would be for Mr. Phillips to
indict her at the .`,cssiona, and he would be answerable for her
appearance.
Mr. Pit t t.ti es requested that the witnesses might be bound over
to appear at the Old Bailey, which was acceded to.

HATTON-GARDEN.
A KIND NußSE.—Elizabr-th Prendergast, an elderly woman,
was brought up from the watch-house yesterday, charged with hav-
ing robbed, on Tuesday night, 11rs. Collins, wife of the pro-
pnetor of the Ca►tle and Falcon public-house, kit. John.street,
under the following circumstances :
Alm Collins deposed that last night, between ten and eleven
o'clock, as she fat herself extremely indispmeil, the prisoner (who
had hem a lodger in her house but a few days), volunteered her
services of kindness, assisted in putting her to bed, and strongly
reamunended her to take a glass of warm negus. After tucking in
her bed-clothes comfortably, she withdrew, offering up her prayers
fur a good night's rest fur the landlady. In about a quarter of an
hour afterwards, she, with feeling tenderness, returned to see what
state her patient was in ; and holding a candle before her face, as
Mrs. Collins kept her eyes closed, she of course concluded she was
in a sweet sleep. She then began to set about remunerating herself,
and went to Mrs. Collins's pockets and took out I Is. in silver, and
also a sheet out of a bundle of clothes. After she retired Mrs. Col-
lins gave the nlann, and she wits given into custody. As there were
found on her 16 duplicates of sheets and counterpanes, in order to
trace the property she was remanded for a week.

SUBTERRANEAN Mit correspondent of the Cork
Southern liepur ler gives the follow•inF account of an extraor-
dinary subterraneous mill recently discovered in the county
of Cork: " The mill alluded to was discovered within about
two miles anti a half to the west of this town, on the lands
of Doolartl, the property of the Rev. Mr. Bruce, while the
labourers of that gentleman were in the act of raiding sonic
manure. its ruins lay beneath the bed of a scanty rivulet,
which, it is more than probable, served at one time to set
this little mill in motion. After digging through a black
turfy mould, for a considerable distance, which the good-
ness of the manure induced them to do, they met with one
of the boarded lofts, composed of bog dale, to all appear-
ance fresh, and in a state of sound:win ; beneath this was
found a considerable quantity of the like coloured mould,
intermixed in many places with a few compressed cakes of
heath, which in like manner continued in a perfectly sound
state. On one side of this discovered apartment, opening
to a width of about twelve feet across, and about eight in
depth, was found a single mill-stone, resembling in every
shape those of the present day, excepting that the space in-
tended for the axle was somewhat larger than that made to
receive the axle of the smaller mills now in use. The
aortment above mentioned was boarded on both sides, and
likewise beneath ; le•tween both lofts was also found a
long beam of mouldering Irish dale, which upon inspection
was found to have been perforated from one end to the
other ; this, it is to be supposed, was used as a pipe or duct
belonging to some part of the machinery. Little doubt can
be enteruined that this dilapidated mill must have been
one coeval with the round towers, which (as the paper
says) have so greatly puzzled all inquiry, and that it was
one constructed for making that Danish wine, the account
of which is only handed down by tradition. To adopt this
opinion we may be inure strongly induced, front the quan-
tities of heath which were found in a compressed state bu-
ried amidst the ruins, and the singlemill-stove being only
found, more than which, tradition says, the Danish peo-
ple never used in the making of that drink, the art of which
is now totally lost.-
MIR' ROPHORI'S ; OR, IT:ETANTAN LOUS
LW. lITER.-111 determining the composition of tartrate of
lead, Dr. Friedman tiobel, of Jens, observed that this
salt, when heatel in a glass tube, formed a fine ryro-
phorus. When a portion of the deep brown mass is pro-
joeuxl from the tube, it instantly takes tire, and brilliant
globules of metallic lead appear on the surface of the sub-
stance in ignition. The effect ecntinuo. much longer than
in othcr pyrophori.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKLT SPRING MEETING, 1D24

TUESDAY, MAT L
The Kings Platc of inogs. for mares, r olds. flsa. 41b. ; fr.
9.t. 4!b. ; tire, 9.t. 101 b. : six and 'aged, Ira. c.
boui Ezeter's b. m. Augusta, b.yrs'old • -
Mr. Wyndham's b. f. Sperniai.e. ti, 3.yrs old - - -
.1!o 24,7‘t Augusta.
_ . .

The 2.000 p Stakes, a subscripiimi of Mt* sot. each, h. ft. for
71b. and fillies, Ilst. llb. It. M. rising throe years old.
Mr. Hatienden's b. c. Schahriar, by Shuttle Pope, out of
Dinarzadc . .
Duke of thafton's ch. 1. Tiara, by Castrel or Soothsayer, out
of Pope Joan - - - 2
Lord Exeter's ch. c. Conviction, by Captain Candid - . 3
Bto 1 agat Schahriar-4 to 2 agst Tiara-1 to 1 ago Conviction:.
Fifty Pounds. by subscription, for four-rear olds, 7.t. 91b.:
Bat. 31b. ; sia, and aged, Oat. 71b. Lest Three Macs of B. c.
Non-subscriber; to pay ags. entrance.
Mr. B'yndham's b. h. Centaur. 6-yea old . .
Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Hampden, 4-yrs old - .
2to I apt Centaur. Great betting.
I Lord Dunwich's gr. E Dandizette, 3-yrs old. boat Lord Hunting.
field's br. u. 3lostyn,. aged, Hat. 71b. tads. A. F. 1011sor. won br
three lengths ; the wanner rode by F. Boyce, the loser by Buckle'

NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY, MAT I. (Two o('Loca.)

STATE OF BETTING.

NEWMARIET STAKES. (roma
6 to 4 agst J.-sy. I 31 to I agst Rebecca.
2 to 1 agst Ridtcule. 8 to 1 agst any ether.

SA to 1 apt Jessy.
81 to 1 apt Reformer.
7 to I apt Grenadier.
8 to I apt Osmond.
8 to I apt Ridicule.

DEIBY. , _
14 to 1 apt Iranhoe.
IS to 1 apt sirettaiL
16 to 1 rest Skiff.
17 to 1 agst Elephant.
20 to 1 agst anv ocher.

I)OIiCASTER PT. LLUER.
No alterations.
OAKS.

5 to 2 apt Rebecca. 8 to 1 apt Mr. GoJdard's.
6to 1 apt Lord George's two. 10 to apt. any other.

SPRING AND LANGAN.—These first-rate heroes of the fi‘t loth
left London yesterday for close training. The former sill take up
his old quarters In Surrey, where he trained so dean the Neat.
Langan is gone fora few days' sea-bathing, until Tuesday next,
when he will be present at the fight between Hudson and Sampson.
He will afterwards pursue dose training in the neighhourhood of
Cheltenham. Betting remains stationary at two to one oo Spring.
HUDSON AND SAMPSON.—Hudson has won the toss to BIM
the place of fighting on Tuesday next. The articles state that
the battle shall be fought within 100 miles of London, and report
states that it will be 70 miles off. Josh Hudson is the farounte at
six to tour.