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STJR►RFI SESSIO.I.S,_WLL,NrsuAr, JAW. 11.

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!..10,1.,t was rwcu;t7ed t!tatin4 tl:c entire of the day in heating
cSi r.ri,ell, torh,c,t tta: s.at terminate until a late hoot. Tech-
rt.id wfie g:lscilv,•ll at perat length, hot a report of the
plenceed..:J. would !tr., e IC restirg. a. tl:c subjects were of very
yn,le lipreenmee eicept tt:e conrernetl.
•11.1111.1ear.d Jury PAIN! s've-..11,;11. in the course of the day.

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OLD BAILEY. SC4STONS,

A monmary Si-dement, dt4criptive or the various offences with
oLarh iht otirotera :or trial vrven.lly stand charged :-2lurder, I ;
: luutN,l.realiii-g, I ; ato,ling in the doellirg.hou•e, 6;
rel,"1.1,11 traiolv—vtilo,, 1 : rorrery. 2: coining, 1 ; sheep.
a.rsh!,/. h:g.tar., 1 ; 3; "telling, 'TOM the person.
L9l; haeir.uting Wm.. 1; oelling c..tir.tetfcit coin. 1 ; fraud, 2:
laseirti unlaeolui po•re,riti of base o In, I : attzmpting to commit
a felony. I ; larceoirs, I lii. Of the above number 41
ale dugeit with ciimk con.n:itt‘d in the city of Lando), and 132
to the county of Al iddlettx.

OR ENT STATE OF
_II IS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF

iIEIiTGA TE

Prisoners under Sentence of deal'
s, 17; do. transportation for
INO, 21 ; do. for lents, 4; do. for 7 yes" 17 ; do. under
sentence of imprisonment for felony nr.l misdemeanor, 10; dn.
wow, ; do. consmiued under the Bankrupt ',Lisps, I ; de, where
ginents hare been realised, S ; do. for triel at the .Vosizen, 1 ;
disa abiding judgment, 1; do detained from the last, to be indicted
40 she presrst Jeans. ; do. remanded from I:sst Sessions, 1 ;
.0. hi trial at she coming Seqslons, 173.—Total 281.

Susie Steasisa.-IThis crime has lately been carried
tztainiost unprecedented taunt In various parts of the country,
umat instances the depredator' have escaped detection. On
W., night lost no has than forty-three sheep. chiefly of the
D rit, Weil Leicestenttnre breeds, were stolen from Ovterly Park,
iddiesr:i. and no trace of them lies as yet been discovered. A re.
Me of Za/. bin bees offered for the apprehension of the thieves.
Tuertlay last a men, fishing with a cleitching net in the
river Wye, observed something floating down the stream,
which at first sight appeared' to him like a piece of wood,
Alia on a neeer inspection proved to be a fox endeavour-
mtg. ao gain the bank. The man cautiously approached,
and as the fog turned from him he threw the net over
Lint, and brought him safely ter shore. The luckless fox
MU evidently bait some time or other caught in a trap.
Neu kg appears to have been broken, as a large callosity
limefonned toutul the injured part, and the leg is also
,a
good deal distorted. No dogs were either seen or heard in
perish efthinv—tfereprd Independent.
* - DOCII ITV or efts Ltorr.—A remarkable instance of this
t iced in 'Chester on Monday morning. The head keeper
.Le
vain% Earl James and Sons menagery bring absent,
magnificent male lion, which forms part of this colleo-
iiillt, was fert on Sunday night by a strange keeper, who
omitted to fasten the door when he left the den. The
tc:limn, in going his rounds about three in the morning,
• &levered the king of beasts deliberately walking about the
yord, and surveying the surrounding objects with apparent
copAslty. The watchman immediately went to call the
otaiiiieur and some of the people connected with the exhi-
bition, and when they arrived they found the royal beast
spoken( on else tap of one of the coaches in the coach.
asker's yard in Princes.street—ss if he alone deserved to
be free, aml, eoaseiotts of his royal dignity, was giving
sillditmee tnitiespirdenped subjects, who were in durance
',mind him. With very little entreaty from the proprietor,
!swards ref the fittest tltied to descend from his
w
hro, soul very graciously .folluwed a young lady, the
• tore daughter, Into hir. den again. —Cheater Conran l.
tetif Are
ir,to Aruaret.--On Saturday morning last,
film Bibby, a
' .crofter, In the employ of Messrs. Ridg-
way and ertAse;-, nt Herwich, met his death in the follow-
toe dreadful manner :—He lad been working during the
iitfht, sad in the merning, ithrtlit six'o'clock, he sat him-
•dbern on the side of a nen nearly full of boiling li-
ithr, for the purpose of taking off his tarpauling and the
n.
legs, and whits eneageri 'ii that position. he fell back-
monk Into tile scalding furnace. His piercing cries imme-
(Lately called the workmen to his assistant.. ; and when
fatri.caterl, he reseatql a toast appalling obj..ct ; the skin
banging from bit leo stn'Wv like ropes. lie died about
bee U.tsireit it. the afternoon Of the Wee obtY• in the welt
eleenteiviing neenies. He was a single roan, and about SO
91us of age.- Bufan Chrusick.

POLICE.

CITILDIALt.

Sarah Alletaase, the cook and housekeeper to Messrs. Wilt-
shire and Mastery, Manchester 'turbot's:seam, Cheapside, was
brought up for re-examinetien ye:te4t/Iy, before Mr. Alderman
Restsr, upon the Cil.PTge of rohittott her employer to a great
extent ; Eliza Matilda 111:fr•is, the old fortune-teller, on sus-
picion of !whiz ems...ire thereto.
Mr. PAT 14 I!, the Ilstribter, attended on the part of the prose-
cutors, and Mr. Hume!! ante on the part of Iluchnnan.
The lniwnters hail been /emended, that the officer might mike
inquiry respneiing ditrlevea he had hound in 31orria's
apartment and Harrison. the mvsitalman, now reported that he
had inspected the whole of the articles to which ece dunliestesle-
kited. and had inquired at each Or the pawnbrokers whether they
had token ill site other pl .dges of remnants of prints answering the
description of the pieces that had been stolen, patterns cf which
he carried with him. lie I,ad not been able to trace a single pristicle
of the missing property : bat nit Tuesday evening he received a men-
sege that he utta waned th sour,trcet Compter. sod upon
going thare the principal turt,kzy &livered to Men a •bundle. con-
• .iaing two ati few silver spoors, two dessert swoons, and
two table-cloths, all the property of 31r. Nriitshire. They had
been ief: at tile prison, wriortti id brown peirei-.threc:e4 14 —3l".
Lueltanan. to the care of Mts. t.:•inelanti," the iilmlier's wife.
3lr. said. that at:er ti!els.e.e.;n:ui,Ativit lie missed the
sPoohl atui table chains. awl on Al, It:or!.ing he and his
p,rtett we: t to Mr.. lieehatoot. in the .et: I ;der. arid 'upload
what site hall done nit!' enters. She ,ni.l trey should he
rtitered to hint. lie then 1...k:A her if anvhing el‘e ww%tuis.ing,
:old she .ni.l there were two slier: which ,d.o‘dti likewise be
Mr. Teague. tie tioir:rror, tin n calied Wm aside,
and cauthined him against urging the pi i,oncr to tuttke co:iirssions,
and be preeied his inquiries no forum..
Mr. Etucit ticked hew the prisoner obtained access to
the geode. -

Mr. Wiltshire said that he tosnally secured the warehouse at
night himself, hnt when was %Jowl?, and on Sundays, a young
whn boarde lin the house, had charge of the keys• no Sun-
days the li:tanner had the wile care a! the whole I,out-e, tug hours to-
gttlier, and it was then, he mispn.ted, she sentirol tier booty. The
gond' were rot kept in balea, hit ramred in single Meer:. The
youn7 man had only once mined the worry tmahatl been ear-
nett GM . . .

Scomfirld, nnn of the turnkeys nt the Ccmptsr, raid the pared of
sprains, fie. was left by a man at the Direr door, who went away
without making any observations.
Copilitil, the principal keeper, anitl he opened the parcels in
the prrsesce nf Mrs. Buchanan, who said it contained her toaster's
prooerty. and that she had tent it to sonic friend.
Mrs. Johmon, Morris's landlady, was mat called into the wit-
nesobox. and slated that itlorris hail tcht her she used to go to
‘Vihshire's house herself. evist while the Mho TS were upon

the watch on the opposite side of the sleet t, and bring away the
peels vr.pped round her body under her clothes, and that the
property usol to be concealed by Buchar.an between die bedding
the sacking. :Inerin was a woman, ebe the 1110,4 in-
xi:mating address, and her success in s beedlitig her own ees was
estrsonlinary. Those who cane to her to have their future destiny
unrave!!ed sometimes paid her with goods, sometimes with 'nonce.
Me lady took her eye-glass froat her neck, Rod tent it out in he
pawned, and IN. W:l3 enisel on it. Witness herself lied Ire-
giletitly lent Monis her last shilling; she had borrow, d PICIIII of
3/., of 2/. , and in one seat' or mita had aline,: stripped her.
She vetoed mitre by ftirinne-tellire in a day than ',ine had to keep
'mutat end sic children Cie a ulnae wet k, yet Morris a!says
seemed ix be in distress. tnwetin•ee she rißairted to other are
that tin; of divining by cards; such ni the vending of charms.
There sits one which the disposed ,•f ant, i•g tie ton credulous
fen alas, that had the reputed virtue of enabling the poesessor to
obtain whatever she desired, and quite to cunimand the course of
erects. This was prep real by forming a picee of flinnel into
the shape of a heart, and enelnsing therein solie
teecJ coal, and same of the dale called dragon's hinotl, well *4'9.
rated c;•!i lavender water. This was to be worn rest the heart.
Mire 1.1113 Johnenn proved that lirn. Buchanan once calid on
her fellow-prisoner. at her mother's house.. . .

1:44:111,3 itud.welli of Lloyd's-row, St. Johfi's-st,eet-rortd, where
Morris fornlrr-or lougcu, ah.o reeoiiectea IQ have
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visited her there.

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:vtas•tey, Mr. Wiltahirr's partner. was examined as to
llochaoan had at the interview in the e,mlocr stated alto
hall lent tEe articles Alr. W. liQd ntisadd. dlr. Masoey said
nothing of that nature rased.
7 itia Wit the whole o the evidence. _

Mr. PAY v. !hen urged that a sufficient case for the commitment
of bath prisoners had berm made nut—Buchanan upon her
esE,h.ssinn to her masters In the Coninter, with r.card to the
poona, and Morris upon her, confessions to her landlady, Mrs.
Johnson. _ .

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lit•stitustmrs said he was not employed by Altai-rig, but
with regard to Buchanan he did rot see that a sufficient case
had been established. It did not appeur that she had converted
the spoons to her own use by pawning or selling them, and it
it mil true that she had merely lent them, that would not be a
feitattiAns taking.
Mr. PaYNE replied, that the mere possession of goods shortly
after they wt re stolen, was primet.fitrie evidence of a felonious pos.
'Poston, and it rested with the prisoner to s!low at. in kw. she came
by them honestly. If the Magistrate had doubts himself, still it
ass a lb qoc• don to he submitted to a jury.
M►. HUMPHREYS said. study if a felonious taking was not
established, it was too much ea ask a Maeatrate to commit for

felony.
Mr. Alderman Bloc," acknowledged it wag a nice point to de-
cide whether Buchanan had taken the goods out of the house
with a felonious intention, and he was inclined to take slr. Hum-
phreys' view of the case ; however, to give time fur fulther copal-
titration and inquiry, he again rensanded the prieoncre.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday the driver of the hickney-coach, No. 714, appeared
upon a %Immune before Sir R. Brawn, charged by a gentleman
tamed Tinian' with the following offence :
Mr. Tillyaol stated that he was at Covent.geolen Theatre, with
three ladies, end at the conclusion of the perfigrnance he called a
coach to take him and his female companions to his residence in
Guilford.strect. Russell-square. The defendant answered the call,
and they all got into his coacii. desiring him to drive to Guilford-
street. Ile consented to go there, and drove away, and the witness
thought he was going comfortably home; but all at once the coach
stopped, and letting down the blinds he found himself In a stable-
yard amidst a gnantity of dung and other filth. Ile called out to
the defendant, and said he had taken them wr,mg, but the answer
west. •• you must get out here, and nowhere else ; I shall drive you
no farther." " Why." said complainant, " 1 want to go Guilford-
street. and I insist that you will drive me there." ' That's all
very fine, I dare say." said the defendant, " and I think you would
like to be driven there very. touch; but it en happens that I don't
choose to do it. The fact Is, lam a men of reason, and it is con-
trary to Act of Parliament for me to drive any body in my coach
after 12 o'clock at night." The complainant remonstrated, but the
defendant's err still was, " I shall go no farther ; lam man of
reason ; I know the Act of Parliament, end it is contrary
to it that I should drive any body after midnight."—
Further remonstrance was vain ; the only answer was, that
he was a man of reation he knew the Act of Prirlian.ent,
and not a step would he budge after midnight. lie. Tillyard was
I then obliged to reek another coach, and having with some difficulty
procured one, he and the ladies got into it, and were going towards
home, through Hanway-yard, when their attention was arrested by
a loud voice calling out, •• Stop, stop ! I arrest tour coach ace-nett-
ing to Act of Parliament." This cry was raised by the defendant,
who, it appeared, had followed the coach be :time lie was not paid
anything for driving the complainant to his own stable.yard instead
of to Ouilforthstreet, as desired. The driver of the saond conch
was inclined to pay very little attention to the defendant, but he
seized the heads of the horses, earl would not let go until he was
whipped from his bold.
The defendant now seemed very contrite, and begged that he
might be forgiven, as upon inquiry he found that he was wrong in
his interpretation of the Act of Parliament.
Sir R. 81/11CIE said he had seldom heard of a grosser case, and
he should certainly indict the highest penalty of M.
The defendant's wife hem stepped forward, and with tears in her
eyes said she had six children, and she hoped the worthy Magis-
trate would be merciful.
The prosecutor interceded when he heard this Repeal. and the
Chief Magistrate being •,a men of reason." he mitigated the pe-
nalty to 30s. and 101. costs, vnieh the defendant paid.