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London, England, 1825-10-07 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

Two troops belonging to the 17th regiment of light dragoons
(lancer) hwe received orders to march, on Illonday next, from
13righ.on to lihicheater, to replcce a squadron of the same corps,
which is on duty there, and which is wdaed to return to lirighton.
The Otreshorship of Fort William, which was held by the late
Omani Sanest, gill remains vacant.
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Mena Barnoc—Saturday last this magnificent and
stupendous bridge wet united and fixed across the river,
and the seltle, we find, will be completed before December.
Several parties are daily crossing along the chain ; and it is
worthy of remark, that during the whole period in form-
ing die stupendous rods a perfect gale was blowing. Owen
Williams,;sq. M.P. of Craig-y-don, ands party of ladies
and. gentlemen, were the first who crossed the bridge.
Among this party was Mr. Sola, well knolvn for his musi-
cal talents, who is on a visit to a neighbouring nobleman,
:ea who played " God save the King" on the middle of
the bridge, and the sounds reverberated to a great distance.
Mr. 0. Williams had nineteen guns fired in honour of the
omen'''. and sent 101. to regale the workmen. He had
also& select party to a splendid dinner. Mr. Sola sung an
air. which lie composed for the occasion, which was much
admired and encored. The party did not separate till a
late hour, and festivity prevailed throughout the vicinity,
} due tribute to the importance of the undertaking and the
suceessfvl progrers of Ito eucution.

MANSION-HOUSIL
The ease of the Brazilian advocate hoe, it appears, cached but
very slight interest among the gentlemen of the 1/nglish bar. Two
notes, enclosing 21. ooly, hate been reereived4 one from the Temple,
the other from Lincoln s Inn. Yesterday the object of this bounty
called at tht Mansion-bonze, and left for hie Lordship, who waist
the time presiding at the Court of Common Council, a letter, wet-
ten in the Portuguese language, expressive of his grateful thanks,
but requesting that the public might be assured that these was ao
longer Occasion for any effort in bin behalf, as the moment the cit.-
eurustances wets detailed in the newspapers there was an end to his
discreet.
It appears that the Brazilian Ambassador, Seabee Gaincio, when
be perused the ointment which has been made public, had an im-
mediate interview with his countryman, and most satisfactorily ar-
ranged every thing for he accommodation and comfort during his
stay in England; that be (the Ambassador) instructed Senor Ds
Cunha Ladner upon him on the part of the Offerament to any
amount he considered necessary for existing and incidental ex-
penses, and promised him that a passage to the Brazils should be
secured in the first tip that should sail from the port of London to
Rio de Janeiro. Vie Ambassador alto requested that Senhor Da
Cunha would write a letter to the Lord Mayor, informing him that
it would be inconsistent with the dignity et' the Brazilian empire,
al well as with that of the advocate's own character and rank in
society, to permit pecuniary acconantedation, under existing cir-
cumstances, to be-applied to the case, from any other source than
that of the Governmeut of BraziL
The following is a translation of the letter traoarniued to the
Lord Mayor on the subject by the Brazilian advocate:—
" 3ly Lmrd—ln an interview with the Brazilian Ambassador,
baring represented to him the deplorable condition into which I
have been thrown, without having given cause for public or per-
sonal resentment, he immediately and warmly offered me his pro-
tection, and every necessary assistance, as far as regards pecuniary
as well as personal interference.
" Most respectfully, therefore, declining the probable result of
the application which my calamities obliged me to make to British
feeling, through your Lordship's rocillattoo, I beg that your Lord-
ship will accept my most grateful thanks for having so promptly
interposed ions benevolent intentions for my relief.
" I have the honour to remain,
" Your Lordship's much obliged, grateful, and obedient servant,
" JACINTO 110REIR• SEVURIANO DA CUNHA."
The LORD Matron, upon being informed of these particulars,
expressed his with that the two Gentlemen of the Bar would let
him know to whet charity he should send their contributions, or
whether he should send them back to themselves. Ile should- if the
disposal were left to himself, feel very desirous to hand over the
two pounds to a poor widow with six children, who resided in the
neighbourhood of Barbican, and who had been once living in great
comfort and respeetapility. His Lordship hail taken care to inves-
tigate the merits of this case.
BOW-STREET.
A Mr. Moulin presented himself at this office yesterday, and,
addressing himselt to Sir Richard 'limit, said he applied for some
proceeding against Sir Nathaniel Conant, for a libel seriously
affecting his (Mr. Itlnwlin's) character.
Sir 12. Br ait application is a little singular, Sir, because
Sir Nathaniel Cocant has been dead, to my knowledge, fur some
years.

Mr. Mowlin—l may be mistaken as to the person, but I mean a
gentleman who now sits as a Magistrate at Marlborough.atreet.
Sir R. Minute—Ca, you mean Alr. Conant. AVell, Sir, I will
hear y our application, but I tell you in the outset, that libel is a
mater with which I wish to have as little to do as possible.
Mr. Mowlin then produced a copy of the Morning Chronicle
newspaper of Saturday last, and pointed out to Sir R. thane's at-
tention an article on Marlborough-street police intelligence, headed
`• Magisterial Imputations," and stated, that in tie course of the
matter there reported, Mr. Conant had chosen, as Sir Richard
would perceive, to give utterance to foul and scandalous and un-
founded libels upon his (applicant's) character. This was the
ground of his application, and he wished for a warrant or some
other proceeding against Mr. Conant.
Sir R. 1111INIE—Rrally, Sir, I cannot understand why an ap-
peal should be made to a Magistrate in a ease of this kind. The
higher Courts are open to you ; you can proceed either by action or
indictment, and that is your proper course if you hare been in.
Mr. Wirth) said, he was aware that the Courts; were open to
him, but he wished t 6 institute a proceeding of a more summary
and a cheaper kind. An action Tres en extremely expenalre
process.
Sir R. BIRNIE—Not, Sir, if your cause be a just one. My
advice to you is the same that I give to every other person. Apply,
if you have had wrong done you, to the regular and proper tribu.
nals for redress. The authority of a Magistrate to interfere in cases
of private libel at all, is, I think, somewhat doubtful ; and of this
lam certain, that the less he dose interfere the better. I would
much rather, Sir, that you adopt the usual course and bring your
action.
Mr. Mowlin departed with thia assorts.

IiAI'TON-OARDEN.
IMPORTANT To Pew wertognas.—Mr. John James Ramsey.
of Leather-lane, appeared upon a summons to ~newer the romplsint
of Edward Hay, of Fullwood's-rents, Holborn, for taking more
than the lerrat`interest.
The complainant ►tated, that on the 2fftli of March last he
pledged is watdt at the defendant's Shop, for 7a. ed. and on the 6th
of September following, when he vents° redeem it. the shopenan
demanded ed. interest, being three farthirgs more than the Act
allowed, it having been in only live calendar months and eleven
days.
Mr..AXIMIEWS. for the defendant, teok an objection to the in,
formation, which set forth the complainant's name as " Edward
Day," whilst the ticket bore that of " E. Dave," Which, under
the Act of Parliament, made it punishable, forgiving a false name
when offering a pledge.
The information was accordingly quashed.
A second information, by the same person, was then prefaced,
wherein the defendant was charged with taking the Win of 2d:over
and above the legal interest.
Mr. ANDREWS contended that the case was not proved, is the
witness did not state that this excess of interest had been •, de-
manded."

Mr. Sergeant SELLON overruled this objection, and observed,
that the words of the Act were, " shell demand, take, or receive ;"
therefore, es the receiving had been sworn to, he was reluctantly
compelled to convict the defendant in the lowest penalty, 40s.
Mr. AXDREWS then stated, on the part of Mr. liamsay that
without intending. the slightest dissespect to the worthy Aloes-
trate, he felt It a duty which he owed to the protection of
the trade to appeal to the Sessions, in order to prevent the recur-
rence of this practice.
Yesterday, the superintendent of the Alderney Dairy Company,
in Percival-street, Northampton-square, accompanied by Messrs.
Stanstield and Howell, two of the proprietors of that establish.
meet, applied to Mr. Sergeant SELLON for a warrant to bring up
• person in their employ as a milk carrier, whose name escaped us,
on a charge of alleged breech of contract. The man himself, it
appears, had on the previous evening applied to Mr. Rogers, the
tben sitting Magistrate, for a warrant against one (*the present
complainants, for false imprisonment, having been locked up by
him in the counting-house more than twenty minutes, because he
refused to perform some menial service, which he averred he was
not bound by his agreement to do. It was now alleged by the
superintendent, that the man in question had, for some time, been,
' in the habit of depreciating the quality of their milk in the estima-
tion of their customers, with the view of inducing them to leave-the
concern, and purchase that necessary article of domestic consunip.
tion from himself, he being about to quit his employers, and act
up in the same line of business for himself. In consequence of
this his practice being discovered, he on Tuesday lasi, when about
to commence his usual perambulation with the tint, received diree.
nous to stay at the sited and perform work of some other descrip-
tion, to prevent his having an opportunity of spreading his loathes-
lions farther before Saturday, on which day he had received notice
to quit. This, however, he peremptorily refused to do, although
by his contract (which was now handed up to the Magistrate), he
was hned as " milk carrier and servant," with a penalty of ten
' shillings in use of refusal to perform his duty. It was for the
perpose of detaining:him till an officer could he procured to take
hint into custody, that one of the complainants now admitted he
had secured hint in the coonting.house as before elated.
Mr. hlatryat, clerk to the Magistrates, hire observed, that the
contuses was worded as is usual in all similar cases, " carrier and
servant" being invariably the expression used ; and Mr. Sergeant
Sellon having examined the agreement, intimated his disinclina-
tion to grant a warrant, as the wording of that docuMent, he said,
made rather against than for them.
The complainants pressed strongly upon his Worship the ne-
cessity of som;thing being immediately done for their protection,
as, if the man was allowed to go on in his present course, their con.
cern would sustain an injury to the amount of more than lOU/. be-
tween this and the period of his dismissal, besides which it was ap-
prehended that such an example of insubordination would be
highly detrimental when exhibited to their other servants, of whom
they employed between 60 and 70, and among whom evident symp-
toms of a rebellious tendency had already begun to manifest them-
selves.
The nature of the duties of each of these " ranters and servants" .1
being inquired into, it was stated that they had each a certain
number of aows under their care, which they were to milk and tend
previously to proceeding out with their milk.
Ills Worship. no mature consideration, thinking the end which
these gentlemen had In view might be equally well answered by a
summons, refused the warrant and directed one to be istued ; but
of this the parties complaining declined to avail themselves, saying
it would be of no use at all, as it was necessary that the cheat
should be instantaneous, In order to be effective. They therefore
quitted the officein evident disatisfaction.
MA RLBOROUG H -STREE T.
Thom!: Poury was put to the bar yesterday, charged with being
found over night, about twelve o'clock, under suspicious circurn-
srauces, on the premium of Lady Lansdowne, in Aibeinsrle-street.
Her Ladyship, it seems, is at present out of town, and her house
is occupied by two or three female domestics. About lI on Wednes-
day night, they were alarmed by some appearances about the pre-
mises, and two watchmen were sent for, to see what was the master.
On searching, however, nothing was found miming; but to the
mean time • mosidetable crowd collected about the door. The
irisoner rendered himulf very conspicuous; made very particular
nquiries as to whether any male servants were in the house, repre-
muted himself to boa city police officer, and when, on being unable
to,prosinee his authority, the watchman desired him topless on, Ito
maintained his position on the steps of Lady Latodoolles house,
bade bins deautce, and MI4 him it was the north of his place .to

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touch hire (theprisona) with hii little finger. The watchman was
not to be thus alarmed out of bit duty, and seising Mr. Penny,
carried him off to the abode appointed for nocturnal transgressors of
the public peace.
Mr. Penny being called on for his defence, said that he was a
workman of Mr. Tyrehitt's, bootroaker, 6, Finsbury-place, South,
that he had been down to Chelsea yesterday, described his adven-
tures with sundry coachmen, how many pints of half-and-half, and
blue ruin, and bottles of Burton ale he had drank, and that to point
of fact he was quietly making the best of his way to his brother's
house its the vicinity of Golden-square, when he suddenly met with
the affray in Albemarle-street, and, desirous of showing off his
skill in police matters, he unfortunately subjected himself to the
imputations this day laid to his charge.
A say respectable man, the brother of the prisoner, was its at-
tendance, and confirmed a part of this story.
Mr. Rot, the sitting Magistrate, thought that I)an, the coach-
man, with whom the prisoner had come up to the White Horse,
Piccadilly, should be sent for, in order that if the' prisoner really
were innocent, his story might be confirmed, and then he might. be
discharged free from any imputation on hit character.
The foreman of the Grand Junction Water Works appeared to
answer an information laid against blur under Mr. Taylor's Act,
by the parish of St. James, fur breaking up 72 feet of the street
pavement in Pall-mall, in order to remove one of the water-pipes
of that Company, without having, given due notice. It appears
by this Act, o water company is :a empowered to break up the
street for the purpose of altering or changing the course or direction
of any water-pipe, without giving notice to the parish ; but this is
the only exception to the Act, for any other purpose, the necessary
notice mast be given, under a penalty of 21. fur every foot of the
street so broken up.
Mr. Coe, Secretary to the Grand Junction Company, contended
that removing a pipe altogether differed io no respect, accordiug
to the spirit of the Act, Irons changing or altering the direction of
the pipe.
The Solicitor to the parish of St. James, on the other band, con.
tended, that it was only a private accommodation to the Company
to take away a pipe which was of no use in one place, to lay it
down in another.
The Magistrate decided, that the conviction must take place.
The Solicitor for the parish said, he did nut wish for the whole
penalty to be inflicted. •
It was tben agreed between the parties, whh the concurrence of
the Magistrate, that a conviction should take place on 10 feet of the
street, instead of 72, which was a penalty of 20/. This sum, with
the coats, the Company's Secretary paid, and the defendant was
discharged.
M'ORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Joseph Gilbert, silk-weaver, of Thomas-street, Beth-
nal-green, appeased err a summons, before Mr. TWYFOIID and
Mr. OSBORNE, charged with ill-treating Mary Anne Childs, who
has been his apprentice about three years and a half.
The complainant, who is about seventeen years of age, related
in a plain and artless manner her tale of the ill-treatment which
during her apprenticeship she had experienced at the trends of her
• master and mistress, and the language they were in the habit of
using was, she said, too shocking to be repeated in any place.
About a fortnight ago her intoner threw a half pint pot at her,
which cut her severely in the bead.
Mr. TwteoilD asked why she did not then come to the office to
complain ?
She replied that she did so, but that her master followed, and
prevailed 00 her to return, promising to treat her more kindly ; but
she had not since ex pet ienced any relaxation of his cruel treatment.
A few days since tie beat her with one of the rods used in their
business (about an inch thick) until her shoulders were black, and
since then he beat her with a " tan toe" (an-instrument used for
turning in the work, and nearly as thick as her wrist.) Bhe con-
cluded by saying, that site was not permitted to go to church more
than once or twice in a year.
Mr. Twatono said, that that circumstance alone would be
a sufficient reason for releasing her from such an apprenticeship,
and asked if she had any witnesses.
Another young woman, about twenty years of age, also ap-
prenticed to the defendant, fully confirmed the statement of the
other apprentice, and complained bitterly of the treatment she her-
self experienced.
The defendant said the girls had been turned out of a Sunday
school for ill-behaviour, and bad so spoiled a piece of cloth that
he lost bd. a yard by it.
The Magistrate. having conferred together, decided on cancelling
the indentures, and ordered that the females should for the present
be received into the workhouse.
LAMBETH-STREET.
CAUT /OK TO PIIBLICANS.—YesterdayMr./IPDonall,tbeland-
lord of the Harrow Inn, Poplar, was convicted before the sitting
Magistrate, M. Wyatt, Esq., on an information charging him with
having kept his house open on the 2d inst. between the hours of
two and three o'clock in the morning, for the entertainment of
persons not travellers. The present proceedings were instituted,
not at the instance of the local or parochial authorities, but arose out
of a ease of felony, which came on for Investigation before the same
Magistrate on last Monday morning. The circumstances were
these: a sailor was robbed of his watch in a brothel in the neigh-
bourhood, which it appeared had been supplied with half a gallon
of beer from tile house of Mr. M'Donnell at the time before men.
nonce,.
The defendant was fined U.
UNION HALL.
wc•IITION co WORE ll:EX.—Yesterday, two men named
right and /Ay cock, in the employment of the firm of Messrs.
Crundell and Milian, iron-founders, of the Great Dover-road,
'were brought before the sitting Magistrate, 111. Swabey, Esq.,
charged with having absconded from the service of their employers-
Mt. Hellen stated that,the defendants were in the employment
.of the firm, in the capacity of moulders ; one of them, Wiight,
had entered into a written agreement to work with than for one
year, at the wage. of 365. per week, and a verbal engagement had
been made with the other defendant, who was to have 365. per week
and a week's notice on either aide, previous to leaving his work. On
Tuesday last, both the defendants left off work, sod witltout giving
the slightest notice of iheir intentions, abandoned the factory, and
were not seen again until they were in the custody of an officer.
Mr. Hallan here described to the Magistrate the very great detri-
ment such conduct as that pursued by the defendants was calcu-
fated to produce on the trade in general, amongst the workmen,
besides the expehse that tell upon the masters by their men quitting
work under circumstances similar to. the present ease, which he
would instance. The furnace In a foundry is lighted at six o'clock
in the morning, at the expense of between Cl. and 7!., and should
the moulders absent themselves' as had been proved against the de-
fendants, the purposes of the furnace were rendered unavailable
and the value of the fuel used consequently completely thrown
away. Such practices amongst the moulders in many of the
foundries in town had become prevalent, ever since combination
had been resorted to by the workmen of different trades, and unless
some examples were made, to check offences of the nature with
which the defendants were charged, and which he submitted, op.
proximated to combination, the trade would suffer considerably.
The foretnan of the factory having been called, corroborated the
evidence of Mr. Hallan.
The Magistrate asked the defendants what they had to urge
in their defence for conduct so unjustifiable to their employers ?
The defendants made no complaint, but stood grinning at the
bar, completely indifferent as to the consequences of their conduct.
The Magistrate proceeded to read that part of the Act under
which their description of offinees came, and sentenced Wright,
who had entered into • written agreement for ore year with his
employers, to three months hard labour; and Laycock to two
inoutlis at theßrixton tread-mill.
Both the defendants laughed heartily on hearing the sentences
pronounced ; when it was observed by a girl of the town, who stood
near them, and who hod farted the pleasures of the round-about,
as she called the tread-mill, that they would soon have reason to
grin in earnest.