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when he was first taken into custody, al described by tbe lut
witness.
Emma Cook remarked, that the young man's hair was 1.1.4,
who made the purchase. (The prisoner has rather light hair.)
She said, in answer to a question put by the 7.lsghttrates, thatthe chisel was purchased on the evening ofFridav, the 18. h. rptic
robbery in question was committed an the following night.)
Thomas Shergold, ex, ired—l know the peisonen. I ht.,
Nye that they both resided at Ne. 8, Gaywooti-stmet,
road. I saw them there the Sunday evening after the robbe.
One of them was entering and the other going out of the hack;
On Monday night I and Keyse, and another constable, went t,,
the house to apprehend the prisoners, but we did not then sue-
! cred. We searched the rooms and finind a dark lantern, ha:tr.
the top broken off, a centre.bit, at. iron crow-bar, and undertake'
fire-place, sipieee of brown paper.
These articles were produced.
Mrs. Anderson was here desired to examine the rapes, which
she did, and identified it, front its having upon it the weeds
looking-glass," written in a hand which sive knew as having bin
taken from the cupboard when the plate was stolen.
Shergold said, that he had, since the burglary, compared the s:r,
of the crow-bar with the marks on the panels and dears in the
prosecutor's house, and he found that it exactly corresponded nits
them.
The dark-lantern was here examined, which was found as skte
described, and tile small piece of tin picked up by the prosecutor
in the garden, on being tried, fitted, which evidently prorcd it to
have belonged to the lantern.
The prisoner Smith here said that he did not lodge with Edmunds,
but that he lived with his mother.
Shcrgold and Keys. both said that his mother, who was now is
the office, had declared that he had not slept at home one night
lately. .

To some questions put to these witnesses by the :Statisttaus,
they declared that when they searched the house in asywood•stree.
they found twe beds having the appearance of being both measly
occupied.
'the landlady of the house In question, who was in attendance,
was called and examined. She said that Edmunds and his wife
were the only lodgers she had. The other prisoners she said she
did not know.
Edmunds said he could explain wily the beds had been used; he
and his wife occupied one. and his mother who happened to visit
him on the Sunday, slept in the other.
It being nearly three o'clock, and as there were several witnesses.
to etainine in another case of burglary, which was expened to ie.
fect the prisoner Smith more immediately than the preceding case,
Mr. Chambers desired die parties to be in attendance on Frilly,
and 'emended the prisoners until that day.
Ballard and another officer were in attendance from Marlbe.
rough-street, it being believed that one of the prisoners war re.
cently concerned in a burglary in St. James's
-street, at the house
of Mr. Gurney, a tailor ; and Cooper from Queen-square. was
likewise waiting to apprehead one of dun, foe a robbery, in Cale
they should be discharged.

SUSSEX AND KENT HOP-PLANTERS.

LETTER PROM MR. MERRIE 3, SECRETARY TO THE TSEA•
BURY, TO ME. CCRTEIS, M.P. FOR less :C.
',From the Lewes Janette'll
Treasury Chambers, Dee. 8, 182:,
MY Dean Stn,—l have received and laid before Lord Lire.
pool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer your fetes of the lth
and Gth instant. representing the distressed state of some of the
Hop-planters. now called upon for the payment of the duty upon
the growth of 1824, so long postponed ; and they desire me to state,
that with every feeling for the peculiar circumstances which have
pressed upon the districts In which these parties are situated, they
still find it to be quite impossible for them to recommend to the
Lords of the Treasury to grant lay further general Indulgence in
the collection of this duty, or to suspend the directions which hare
been issued for the recovery of it in the usual manner. Dot they
will be so far disposed to yield to the representations which here
been made to them by you. and some other Magistrates, on behalf
of the planters of Kent and Sussex, as to be prepared to move the
Board to afford some extension of the time is any individual asp
of distress or poverty, such as may, in your judgment, be so urgent
as to.make them fit subjects for special exemption from the general
application of those directions. '1 hey therefore desire me to inform
rout, that if there are any such
_peculiar cases within your out
knowledge, or that of the other Magistrates with whom you COM.
municate, they will, en receiving from you a statement of the
names of the parties, give authority to the Comniissionen of the
Deese to forbear from any legal proceedings against them for such
further time as you may recommend, in each cent, not exceeding
in any the Ist or'itlay, 18M.
I am, my dear Sir, yours, sincerely,
J. C. BERRIES.

E. J. Curteis, Esq. M.P.

BIRTHS.
On the 26th inst. at Woodford, the lady of T. H. Sparks, Erri.
of a daughter.. _ _

On the morning of Christmas-day, the lady of John Tasker, Esq.
of Dartford, of a still-horn ehiW.
At the manse of Crawfordjohn, In Lanarkshire, Scotland, on
the 17th inst. the lady of the Rev. Wm. ((oldie, or a daughter.

MARRIED.
On Tuesday, rt Camberwell Cburch,the Rev. Stedman Rabies,
M.A., to Elisabeth, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Hallou,
Esq.
()n the 20th instant. at St. Michael's Church, Toxteth Park,
nesr Liverpnol, John Hamilton, Esq., to Anne, second daughter
of William Smith, Esq. of Aliened bodge.
On the 27th lest., at Sr. Hiles's. Camberwell, Nicholas Wm.
nostroeht, Esq., of Alfred House, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
Richard Heale, Esq., of Peckham Lodge.
On the 27th lest., at St. Illary's, Bedford, the Rev. Peter I,t
Trobe, eldest son or the Rev. E. I. Ls Trobe, to Mary Loma,
second daughter of the Right Rev. F. W. Foster.