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; called . it ten a sufficient excuse for his being late, that htuae hap-
pening to be the last he had to call at. It was clear that tbe pub-
, bean, although his doors were closed, bad persona tippling in his
hones after the regulated hours.
Mr. 11. Bell said that was a general rule, which bendier thought
Iwas not punctually acted upon. the two persons were respectable
neigLiswors, and such persons was not lkely to commit themselves ;
some discrimination ought to be exercised.
111 r. G TCIFTIT it told this young gentleman that he did not want
I any inetrunione from him, and also observed, that the persons had
i no right there after eleven o'clock, by any means or under any pre-
team. The conduct of Mr. Bell was, in his opinion, extremely
censurable, and would not be overlooked. As to the corporal, he
hoped the Imminent would be correctly reported to the Colonel ; but
as far as the dismission went, he could find nothing to interfere with,
and therefore there was an end to the matter. Nevertheless he was
klad, on public grounds. that the inquiry had taken place.
Two men.,.of the names of Hart and App. were brought up by
Hooper, charged on suspicion of stealing a pair of silver candle-
sticks from the house of Samuel Smith, Esq. 79, Charlotte-street,
Portland-place.
They were employed doing some labouring work in the lower
part of the house, and OD Thursday the candtestirks were missed,
and a candle, which one of them contained, was found concealed
under the rubbish where the prisoners worked.
They were remanded.
A washerwoman was brought before the sitting Magletrroe (Mr.
Hotter NS) to answer the charge of sfrs. AI sebtren, or some such
name of •• eldralroua renown. for refitting to return her linen.
The complainant• a portly dame. " het, fair, and forty," was at-
tired in the first style of fashion. Her •• outward and visible" gar-
rnents dilplayed a puce silk gown, which fell to her feet in told,
that won d have added another grace to the drapery of Grecian art ;
• Leghorn hat, of the finest texture, which yet the breath of lice-
! yen 'seined scarcely to have fanned, surrounded by a corona of
brilliant roses, and surmounted by a black veil, wrought in the
most curious form of an. Such was the complainant. •• I have
llnought this woman tip," said site. ,• fur Keeping back my linen.
owe her a bill, to be sure, and I will pay it as fast as I ran, but I
cannot pay more than ten shillings a week." •• lam a oor wo-
man, your NVorehlp, and cannot do without my money," replied
the washerwoman. " lieu shall have your money," rejoined the
lady of the roses. " And how can I take your wutd even fur that
mach 1" retorted the cleanser of foul linen.
. . . .

lidr. Host ixs--This is a matter that we have nothing to do
with.; it belongs to your own jurisdiction, and yoL•must suck it
between yourselves.
The parties, were ordered to leave the office, but neither seemed
antisfierL Tee lady wished to have some security from further an-
noyance ; the washerwoman was as anxious to have some security
frr her money. Tbry cast a " longing, lingering look," first at
the magistrate, then at the door, and then again at the magistrate ;
but it was in rain. " Take those women away," was repeated,
and they left the office to settle their dillirences as they could.

Eliza3eth Phillips alias Tormenter and Henry Phillips. of 22,
Nelson-place, were brought upon a charge of stealing a watch.
John Collins, who keeps a shop to filary-la-bonne-strest, said
that on Saturday morning last he hung his watch up as usual in the
aitchAls, when' be returned, about midday, he discovered that
Iris watch was missing. Ile was then told that several auspicious-
looking persons had, for some days previous, been lurking about
his house ; but " after-wit is good for nothing." "It is too late
to lock the stable -Awn the horse is stolen,' as poor Dick says.
Ile immediately communicated his loss to an officer of tills mat.
lishinent, wilt whom he was intimate. The officer traced the
watch to a pawnbroker in the neighbourhood ; it had been pledged
there by the young woman at the bar, who said she bought it from
one lAward Graves. The officer .proceeded to her address, and
took her. She then told him that she had the watch from Phillips,
the other prisoner, and he was in consequence also taken into cus-
tody. They repeated the same story this morning. Graves, who
is well known, last present in the country, a short distance from
London. The two prisoners were accordingly ordered to be brought
up again to-morrow.

TOWN-HALL. SEPT. 9.—A young woman, 22 years of age,
whose pallid and dejected countenance bore the remains of beauty,
and who was far advanced in pregnancy, was brought this morn-
ing before 11Ir. Alderman J. J. Smith, by John Hanbury, one of
the night patrid of St. °laves. Tooley-street, who stated that per.
ceiving her between two and three o'clock this morning wandering
about St. °lanes-stairs in great apparent agitation. he watched
her, and was fortunate enough to nave her from self-destruetion by
catching hold of her clothes at the moment she was plunging into
the river.

Alderman J. J. SMITH asked the unhappy creature what could
have prompted her to attempt so wicked an act, to which she re.
plied that the pangs of hunger and disease, joined to the bitter an.
gulch of her mind, had driven her to despair. Her name, she
said, was Mary Martin, that she was born at Penzance, in Cornwall,
where her father, who was an Irishman, married, and whom she
accompanied last Christmas to London on the death of her mother,
and slept the find night at a public-house, where her father left
her under pretence of seeking private lodgings, but never returned.
She had since subsiated by prostitution, her only resource, which
had sunk her so deep in misery that death alone now appears to
her relief.

To this pitiable tale, the Magistrate paid the greatest attention,
and after endeavouring to instil into her mind the enormity of the
crime she had meditated, recomtnended her case to the parish
officers of St. Olave'i, as one entitled to their humane and imme-
diate attention.

Mr. Littel, the assistant overseer, assured the Magistrate she
should be directly admitted to the Poor-house, and made u com-
fortably as possible.