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LONDON ADJOURNED SESSION),
wrDwompay, MAT 26.
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Ann Harris was Indicted fee aemaklag John Rogienbels the Out
of March last.
The prosecutor is a tailor, midis/44n Goswell-street ; the defen-,
dant is the wife of a person confined in the Fleet Prison for debt.
'On the above-mentioned day he called on the prisoner's husband,
sit the Pelee% lad demanded of him a settlement of a claim which
Wield ei MAI, tithe executor of a will, by which prnperty had been
h..,easted labia upwards of thirteen yea* ago. The defendant's
In imply to his expostulation, COMUlell“Al an assault on
of
hri,
,t7.:1 at this minute the defendant entered the room with a pot
!pOrteehi her band, the contents of which she threw aver him, and
Laitillstanla belaboured him with the pewter pot, and inflicted an
Wiry an his back. from the effects of welch he still coffer e
• calese.examiaed by Me. Pnietirs—Had not previously to this
affeay advised the wanton of the fleet not to let Mr. Harris have
the rules.
Mv. Pates-les—And pray is not Mr. Harris a little fellow with
a pot belly, whose breath yen could knock out of his body with
one Mow ?
Witness--Little as be is, he was big enough to wring my nose
the other day at the Old Bailey. (A laugh.)
Thomas Bailey confirmed the prosecutor's statement, and in ad-
dition stated that he was so much injured as to be obliged to lean
on witness's shoulder.
Cross-examined—The peasemitor did not return the blows aimed
at him, but merely acted on the defensive.
Wm. Walter gave similar testimony.
Crese-exaniined—Mt. Harris is a very short man, end aimed his
lbws at the prosecutor's head, but moat of them failed, as he was
Seeable to reach so high. (A laugh.)
.1114. PHI curs addressed theJary for the defendant, and argued
*strong improbability of " Little Harris" having committed the
Molt in which the affray at present under discussion originated.
He was even a little tailor, and had not wind enough in his body in
his best days to mount the shoe -board, and It was not likely, there-
fore, he would attack a man much taller and stouter than himself.
At all events, if it even was so, Harris was a most valiant tailor,
stud Rogers a most patient one. 1-hy, his own goose would
not have borne it more philosophically. (A laugh.) lie was
instructed that witnesses would prove the complainant to be the
Tt aggressor.
lwitnesses for the defence failed in proving thus much, and
the Jew imbed a vtrdict of Guilty.
Juldielligared.
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GUILDHALL.
The ' ..
The driver of the hackney charint No. 1.035, was, on the infor-
mation of Richard Martin, Esq. 31.1' summoned before Mr. Al-
derman 'f nom esox, for wantonly and cruelly treating a horse, on
the 21st Inst. in Combat.
Mr. 31artin deposed that the horse in question was wealed in a
most dreadful manner ; ore weale particularly reached nearly
from the head to the tail of the animal, and when the Honourable
Member placed his hand thereon the flesh quivered. He did not
seethe whipping inflicted, bitt the driver at the time acknowledged
the offence.
In his defence, the driver denied that he had whipped the home,
although it certainly haul been whipped. No other person had
driven it that day. The horse was his own, and he had never been
summoned before. •
Under these circumitsnees, 31r. Alderman To oet Peen ordered
deadefendant to pay the expenses, and trusted that the drivers of
coaches would take warning by the example.
The driver of a cart was fined ten shillings for negligent driving
in the streets.
/lOW-STREET.
COmniteearoer.—Yesterday. Front), Moron, riritlitrm Smith,
James Doughty, and Charles Whitehead, journeyman shoemakers,
were brought up under a warrant, by Skillem. one of the conduc.
tors of the Bow-street patrol, charged by 31r. Scars, of Ileerietta.
street, with refusing tocomplete their work. The prisoners were,
after much difficulty, apprehended last night in a public house in
the neighbourhood of Regent-street, where nearly leo journeymen
were assembled, debating their question with the trade.
Mr. Sears, with great lenity, die, not wish to press the caseagairat
these individuals, provided they would promise to perform their
work. Their refusing to do so originated in one of their fellow-
workmen being continued in employment after he had refused to
advance two guineas towards an association for the protection of
trade.
Mr. Illiwsnuex., the preelding Magistrate, expressed his opi-
nion, that if 31r. Sears had urged the case he should certainly have
committed each of the prisoners to two months' hard labour; under
the circumstances, and on their expression of penitence, he dis-
Cl=them.
being dismissed, however, the congratulations of their
numerous friends, who were waiting outside, seemed to alter their
Intentions, and for a great part of the day Bow-street was in an
uproar.
Samuel &biro, a brother of the boxer, was on Saturday com-
oilseed to take his trial for picking the pocket of a gentleman on
Irma rece-course. When he was taken he made considerable
Illielance, and was aided by other persons in endeavouring to get
away from the orreers. Yesterday morning, his brother, Abraham
lielaseo, Appea:cd before G. B. 311 asII I' Le, charged with assault-
leg Franca Lee, and also one of the patrol of this office, and at-
sempting to rescue his brother from the custody of the officer who
had hint in charge. It was stated that the defendant said, "Meg,
Out away, he shan't be taken:" that he also pushed Mr. bee aside.
The Magistrate thought the charge a serious one, and held the
defendant to bail, himself in the sum of 60/. and two sureties in 40/.
each, to appear at the next Sessions to take his trial.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday John Smith, a respectable-looking young man, was
brought h. tore Mr. ‘VIIITE, the sitting Magistrate, by flanks, an
officer, charged with robbing Charles Gray, in the pit of Astley's
Theatre, on Tuesday eveniog, of two sovereigns and four shillings
in silver.
The prisoner was fully committed to llorsernonger-lane gaol for
trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.
ROADI:UT IN Cr.trwoen's Iwar.—A person of respectable
appearance, named William Calvert, who wait stated to have been
formerly an attorney's clerk, was yesterday brought before Air.
l'svreoun, fur examination on a charge arising from the following
singular circumstances:—
It appeared that early in the month of April the chamber, of Mr.
Warneford, No. 13, Clifford's Inn, Fleet-street, were broken into,
and four Bank of England notes, of 101. each. was several gold and
silver witches stolen, value altogether about 1001. The usual pre-
cautions were adopted for stopping payment of the notes. and about
three weeks sines one of the notes were presented at the Bank, and
subsequently traced to the poniession of a person who keeps a
tailor's shop in George-street, Shoreditch. That person was then
taken into custody, and underwent an examination at this office,
whets he stared that two men came to his shop to purchase some
articles of clothing ; one of them being in want of a pair of panta-
loons, be (the tailor) on taking memnre found it correspond with LI
pair of pantaloons he had pledged at a pawnbroker's shop in the
neighbourhood. He mentioned the circumstance to his customer,
who gave him a 10/. note to redeem the pantaloons. He sent his
wife to the pawnbroker's, and on her return the customer pm-
chmed the pantaloons, and received the change out of the ten
pound note. The other man then made some purchase, in
payment for which he also tendered a 10/. note ; and change for
this second note being obtained from a publican is the neighbour-
' hood, the tailor received part of the money in payment for his
clothes, and handed over the remainder to the stranger. The note
which was paid to the pawnbroker was afterwards stopped at the
Bank, but the other note has not yet made its appearance.
The tailor, being known as a tradesman in the neighb•
was then discharged on his own recognizance to appear when=
on; and so the matter rested until Tuesday, when Vann, the
officer, succeeded in apprehending the prisoner, from the descrip.
don which had been given to him of the two men by the tailor.
At yesterday's examination the tailor swore positively that the
prisoner was the person from whom he had received-one of the
notes. The prisoner then, he said. gave his name and address,
Nickel, Provost-street, Hoxton " with which he endorsed the
note before lie sent It to-be charged. He said be should be also
able to identify the other man.
The prisoner was then reananded for further examination.
CORONERS' INQUESTS.+4
An inquest was held before T. SHELTON, Esq at the Crown
public house, St. Dunstan't.alley, Tower-hill, on the body of Thos.
Harris. aged 30 years.
It appeared that the deceased was a respectable fish salesman,
residing at Barking, in fitness, and during his stay in town occu.
pied apartments in the above-mentioned house. On Monday morn-
ing, about three o'clock, he was called up as usual to attend to his
business in Billingagate market. Deceased got out of bed, and
tappedm the window on the first floor in answer to the call. Being
a verrpetaetsal man, some tears were entertained that something
had to detain him, as he was subct to fits. A person
was theesfinsdespatched to look after him about tour o'clock, who
observed his great coat on the cellar stairs, which induced him to
go down, and he discovered the deceased on the floor of the water-
closet, which is a very confined place, doubled up, and so cam.
pletely jammed in that it was with difficulty he could be got out.
There was every appearance of the deceased haying struggled hard.
He was conveyed into the tap-room, and a surgeon attended as soon
m possikle, who bled hion(very little flowed), and pronounced him
dead. The deceased las afterwards put into bed, and his body
becoming quite warm, another surgeon was sent for, and nearly a
pint of blood was takes from him. Other Meal!. were used,
but without success. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God !"
Another intone was held before the same Coroner, at St. Bar.
tholoniew's Hospital, on 'he body of Eliza Rice', a child nine
years of age, whose clothes accidentally caught fire daring the
temporary absence of her aunt, with whom she resided. Verdict—
" Accidental Death."
An Inquest was also held before the same Conner and Jury
touching the death of Hiovinti Oneto, a poor Italian 13 years
of age.—The deceased, ltappeared, had very lately arrived in Oil
country, at Gravesend, where be met with shameful ill-treatment
from a man who is now in-Maiastone gaol for
,the assault, and it
was supposed be some of his countrymen that his death was occa.
siosiod. by the thieriei :WI then recetvedz but it was satisfactorily
proved:the deceased died in consequence of the small-pox, of the
Most inveterate kind, and a verdict to that effect was accordingly
returned.

DESTRUCTION OF CUMBERLAND GARDENS
TAVERN BY FIRE.
—f—
Yesterday morning these extessivi premises were Many eon.
sumed by Are. The fire was discovered by two young They
retnening home, about II minutes befeet four o'clock. were
pasting over Vauxhall.hridge, when they observed smoke bursting
from the roof just above the kitchen. They immediately alarmed
the persons who kept the tap, and having leaped the garden rail-
toga, they amused the instates of the tavern. In a abort time the
wasters and the female' in the house were got down stairs. almnet
all without an other clothes than those they slept In. In a few
minutes Jar. Knott, Alr. Belly's partner in the tavern, returned
from town, and he, with the assistance of the young gentleman be-
Ibre mendened, and others, succeeded In saving the money and
books in the bar, and other parts of the house, and almost all the
bedding, furniture, &e., with the exception of one or two bed-
sisals. Sheets and blankets were the only coverings which could
bellimialied to the females, who were sheltered by the neighbours,
Mesta. Wicker, Smith, White, and Wells, to whose noun, and
Ms hers, what property was saved was also taken. Having
Ned flip that was possible, in which they encountered much den.
se the cattlemen next turned their attention to procuring engines.
-Two of sir R. Burnett's were soon got into the garden, bat in con-
sequence of the wind blowing very strongly down the river, the
tide, which was at low ebb, and much lower than usual, together
with the shortness of the engine hoses, which could not reach the
water, these machines were useless. The engines of' the different
fire offices in town then arrived, but, from the same cause, were
unable to work for an hone and a quarter; during this time, owing to
the violence of the wind and the quantity of wood In the building.
Oho lon t roo:n being entirely of that material and plaster), the tame
were making an astonishingly rapid progress towards the d
Lion of the whole premises. At last the Sun Fire 2oating etigine
arrived, and threw a vast body of water on the flames ; while on,
of the Globe engines was got on the beach, and supplied one of the
Westminster in the garden, by joining their hoses together. antli
thus enabled the latter to play on the flames. Notwithstanding
these and other strenuous exertions, the roof of the ball-room fel
in at a tivarter to Ma o'clock, and that of the tavern at about seem
o'clock. The tavern part of the premises being of brick work might
probably have been saved but for the difficulty of procuring water.
Two plugs of the South Lambeth Weter.Works were opened, but
fora considerable length of rime they supplied no water. The un-
fortunate waiters, who lost their clothes, at first appeared so amazed
and stupified, that they leaned on the railings, and were unable te
render any assistance for a considerable time; while some of the
firemen seemed to be very willing to transfer their share of the
labour to the zealous and active inhabitants of the neighbourhood,
who exerted themselves to the utmost in attempting to subdue the
flames. The only part of these extensive premises now standing
are part of • wall and a stack of chimneys. fader these are the
cellars containing the most valuable of the stock, which, it is to be
hoped, will be found but little damaged. The proprietors of the
tavern had but recently laid In a very large stock of wine', spirits,
ale, doe. ; and we regret to say that we fear their insurance, which
they were about to increase, will be very inadequate to the amount
of their loss. They had the prospect too of a most successful
meson before them, having been engaged to entertain different par.
dos on almost every day from next week till the middle of August.
Miss Bally received a contusion by the falling of part of a bedstead
on her back. 111 r. Knott was considerably hurt on the side and
leg by the falling of a chest of drawers; and one of the young gen-
demen who first discovered the fire had one of his boots burnt and
his hands considerably scorched, in his exertions to save the pro.
perty • while the foreman of tie Sun Fire-office actually fainted
front the excess of heat.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
As the watchman on duty on the Vauxhall Bridge road, at half.
past three o'clock yesterday morning, was going his round, lie per.
eeived much smoke issuing from the upper part of the Cumberland
Tavern. After knocking at the door of the 'fap for some time, he
informed Ireland, the night constable, who, without delay, alarmed
the neighbourhood by ringing the watchhouse bell, after which he
collected the whole of the watchmen of the parish, and proceeded
to the -Tavern, when they found a great volley of flame was is.
suing from out of the windows of the staircase leading to the
ballroom.
The noise made by the watchman at the door of the tap, suc-
ceeded in waking an apprentice-boy who slept over it. who went to
the room in which two females were sleeping. This room is
situated in the (tont part of the house, and the inmates had barely
time to escape with their lives, being obliged to run out into the ;
gardens, attired in their night-clothes. The servants of the house
also succeeded in getting out of the house in time to escape the fury
of the flames.
At about a quarter to four o'clock the china-closet, and several
other rooms over the flue of the kitchen copper, were on fire. Ire.
land, assisted by the watchmen, immediately. set about saving the
furniture, which was thrown through the windows of those rooms
which were not yet in flames.
The engine belonging to Sir Robert Burnett's distillery was the
first on the spot ; it was shortly followed by that belonging to the
Vauxhall Gardens : but their endeavours were completely fruit.
less, as there was no water to be obtained ; the nearest fire-plug be.
ing close by the Vauxhall turnpike,a distance of nearly six hundred
yards from the Tavern. The tide at the time was at its lowest ebb,
and just on the turn ; therefore the only means of obtaining water
was from a pump oat the premises, which, with the utmost exec.
tions, did not yield a sufficient supply of water for Messrs. Bur.
nett and Co.'s engine.
Shortly after four o'clock the \Vest of England Company's en-
gine arrived, and immediately after the Globe engine came at a ra.
pid rate across f auxball Bridge. The Globe engine at first went
to the water side, but the engine only having two tiler, and the tide
hating turned, the engine was obliged to he shifted, and the fine-
men went to the plug opposite the turnpike gate, where it waited
the arrival of the Beacon and other engines,anto which the Globe
engine played. and by that means were enabled to throw some
water on the flames. The 'West of England Company's engine,
the Hand-in-Hand, and several other engines, snout half.past
tour o'clock, got a good supply of water from the Vauxhall
Creek, which runs alongside of the gardens, and the Sun The
office floating engine, which is calculated to throw nearly • ten
of water • minute, was stationed on the river opposite to the
gardens.
The flames continued burning with rapidity in both directions,
owing to a considerable breeze which at the time was blowing from
off the river. At five o'clock the whole of the roof fell in with a
tremendouVerash, and a fcw minutes after a piece of brandy burst
with a considerable explosion, and added vigour to the conflagra.
tion, which at this moment was dreadful, in defiance of the most
vigilant exertions of the firemen. The firemen at six o'clock found
their exertions were of no avail, as no power could save any part of
the premises. Several officers of the Union Hall Police Office Sr.
rived about half-past five o'clock, and protected the effects which
had been saved from the flame..
The flames continued to rage until near seven o'clock in the
morning, when they began to abate for want of fuel, and at eight
o'clock the firemen were able to relax their duty ; and at nine
o'clock there was nothing standing with the exception of six of the
chimneys, and the wall by the side of the road. The tavern is the ,
properly of the South London Water-works, and is held by Illesars.
Baily and Co. the landlords of the tavern, on lease, of which
nearly 24 years are unexpired. The premises are insured in the
Globe Fire-office for one thousand pounds, and the stock, is instead
in the sante office for two thousand pounds.
.51r. Baily left the tavern about two months ago, in censer.%
of health, and is at present residing at Illargate. 31r.
brother set off by the steam-packet yesterday tr.ornirig to infers
him of his lost.
The stock is expected to be saved, with the exception of the
brandy, which exploded. Of course some of it is damaged, but
the principal part still remains in safety, as the cellar was, soon
liter the breaking out of the fire, covered with the ruins.
The amount of the property destroyed is estimated at about seven
thousand pounds. A poor servant girl lost thirteen guineas, the
produce of her savings for sonic years past. None of the servants
have saved any of their apparel; some household furniture was
saved.
At one o'clock, the firemen, after pulling down the stacks of
chimneys, ascertained that the wine in the cellar was nat damaged
to any considerable degree; a few hoiden were broken.

Such has been tha mortality among the young lambs this
lambing season, in the county of Berke, that a dealer in
lamb skins, at SVantage, has purchased upwards of 30,000
skins.
MINING INTLI.LIGENCE.—COppOT OTC" PO Truat ro,
May 19, 2,169 tons ; average produce 64 ; quantity of fine
copper, 169 tons 13 cwt.; amount of sale, 15,1091. lOs;
average standard, 1221. 10s.
iViSTEax SHIP CANAL—The Committee of the House
of Commons came yesterday to a unanimous decision that
the Promoters of this measure had fully proved the pre-
amble of their Bill. The general merits of this under-
taking being thus satisfactorily established, after a most
patient investigation, the Bill will now proceed through its
regular stages in Parliament.—May 23, 1823.
ItICIIM•N'S PYROFUGE, OR COMPLETE AND Clarion
Fraz Escapr.—F. Richman respectfully begs leave to inform his
friends and the public in general. that he has invented, and ob-
tained his Majesty's Letters Patent far, • Fire Escape Machine,
the only one ever yet invented to effect a safe, ready, and complete
Escape from • House when on Fire, without the aid of persons from
the street, with other machines, ladders, at., which seldom ar.
rive in time. The instantaneous and magical production of this
Machine can only properly understood by being seen, as a child
may produce an Escape for the whole Family in an instant. The
Apparatus may be seen daily, front Eleven to Four, at the House
of the l'atentee, 35, Great Pulteney-street, Golden-mare. Who-
ever will take the trouble to inspect the above Machine, will confess
that it is complete in every respect; and henceforward no person
need apprehend danger from fire wherever it is erected.
Hazard and Co.'s great success !!—No. 9,183, a Prize
of '20,000f., drawn 12th of last month, wu sold by Huard said
Co. iu a Half and Eight Sixteenth Shares. Hazard and Co. sharal
and gold the following Capitals, drawn on the same day :
8.185 . moo() 9,063 £3lO
9,579 - 2,000 3,776 - - 213
115 . - 525 7.522 - 215
9,403 . 524 6,337 - . 215
Huard and Co. are selling for the new Scheme (for which the are
the Contractors), containing Two of 30,0001., Two of 10,000 k,
Two of 5,0001., dr.c.-ite., and No Blanks. All is One Day--nrat
Tuesday—Royal Exchange (late, 26, Ccuthill ; 324, Oaford-
street, end of Regent-street.

SOH OF THE LATE POPE.
The following is the subject of much conversation is
Rome. It is commonly asserted that, when on his death.
bed; his late Holiness acknowledged a son—Legorten ctr
course he:fore he embraced the eeelesiastiesl profession, and
by a second codicil to his will, in which latter lie provided
tor his legitimate relatives, he constituted this fruit of his
juvenile indiscretion residuary legatee, directing letters t,
that effect to be written to him by the Prelate S—, and
Cardinal G—. Upon receiving intelligence of the Pontiff's
decease, this person applied to the Papal agent at Florence
fte a passport, in order to betake himself to Rome; bat be
received for answer that orders had been received for with-
holding from him such paper. At length be contrived to
reach the Ecclesiastical capital, and having made known
his case to the Cardinal Minister, and obtained through
his Eminence's interposition the usual carte de suede,
his next step was to submit his claims to the executors,
Prince C—, Prince B—, and a Prelate. The first
received him with his wonted urbanity, and referred
him to the others. Prince B whose sister is
married to the nephew of Pius VII., is reported to have
Heated the applicant as an impostor, and to have threats'
cued him with imprisonment. Finding that nothing
was to be obtained troni the executors, he was advised
to apply to the laws for redress—employed Counsel--
and commenced proceedings. In the mict time, tte
period for which the carte de suede halt been given,
being near expiring, be demanded at the Police-office its
reanwil, but was assured there that he might remain
tranquil, as such formality would not be considered as
necessary. Relying upon such intimation, he returned
to his dwelling, and continued to pursue his process. One
evening, however, he was called by a loud knocking to his
door. Upon opening it, his apartment was immediately
occupied by a party of gensdanues, headed by a police
officer, who peremptorily demanded inspection of his cage
de surete. Notwithstanding his sepses( ntatiou of what
had been communicated to him by the police magistrate,
he was, upon failure of producing the required document,
ordered to be arrested, his papers seized, and he was con-
ducted to the prison annexed to the police-office where he
still remains, deprived of communication with his friends.
It is said that he bas more than once been privately tr_
mined, and has answered every interrogatory with firm.
ness and consistency, protesting loudly against the oppres-
sion to which has been subjected. As his late Holiness has
left very considerable residuary property, as appears lot,
several documents found after his death, this claim may tit
liable to contest ; and the imposture, if it be one, should ix
severely punished. The mysteriousness, however, of the
transaction, involves much doubt. If it should be wished
to conceal an incident of human frailty, it might have been
preferable to hush the matter up. It is edded, that Co.
vernment itself has begun to be tired of this delicate affair,
and has even afforetl the prisoner opportunities of escape,
which, in proud conscientiousness of the justice of Lis
cause, he has disdained to avail himself.

BENEFIT SOCIETIES.
At Worship-street Police Office. yesterday, the Secretary and se-
veral of the members of a Benefit Society, called the " Frieadly
Society," which has existed for upwards of a century, in spiral'
fields, consisting of thirty-one members, appeared before Mr.
Twyford, on a summons obtair.,cl against them by James Dow.
hog. to show cause why they had expunged his name from the
books of the Society.
The complainant stated, that he had been a member of this So-
ciety for fifteen years, but having lately removed from London to
Oakingham, in Berkshire, he sent one pound in a parcel to hut
daughter in London, with directions to her to pay his contribution
t t the Society on their meeting night, the sth of February. The
pixel arrived in London a week before that time, but owing to
mate negligence in delivering it. his daughter did not receive is
until Sunday morning, the Bth of February, the morning atter the
meeting of the Society. She immediately went and offered pay.
went of the money, but the Stewards refused to receive it, telling
her that her father was " scratched" (i. r. that his name had been
crossed off the books), and that he no longer belonged to the So-
ciety ; and all subsequent applications on his part having proved
unavailing, he was if nren to the necessity of seeking redress at the
hands of the Magistrates.
The Sectmary said, that the complainant's daughter did not ap-
ply to the Stewards of the Society as stated ; but he was informed
that she applied to one of the members, and offered the money to
him. The Secretary then submitted to the Magistrate, that the
' Stewards were not empowered by the rules of their Society to rt.
celve money from members, if not paid in at the proper time.
The member who had been alluded to by the Secretary stated
that Dowling's daughter brought the money to him on the Sunday
morning, and he told her he thought the Stewards would Rot they.
receive it, as her father had been „scratched." She however lett
the money with him until she could communicate the circumstances
to her father, and it remained in his possession a fortnight.
The 10th rule of the Society, under which the complainant had
been" excluded, was now read by the Magistrate as follows
" That every member of this society shall clear off his account.,
what is owing to the box, on the quarterly night, or else he shall
forfeit od. to the box ; and if he does not clear *hat is owing to the
box in one month after that time, he shall be excluded this society,
and his 3d. for expenses on a quarterly night shall be considered es
money owing to the box, and to be taken out of the box for the
reckoning owing."
The month allowed lay this rule for the payment of arrears basing
expired on the sth of February, the members then present had pro-
ceeded to " scratch" the complainant.
The Magistrate said he thought the proceeding of the Society
was, to say the least of it, a very harsh one, anti appeared to him to
I eve gone beyond the meaning of the rule, which could not hate
been framed to exclude members, the payment of whose cootnbu-
tion had been delayed by mere accident, as it had been in thin case.
it having been proved that the complainant had sent his money
before the required time.
The 31agistrate afterwards discovering that one of their rules
made ft imperative fpr the Secretary to call a general meeting of the
members in'cases of dispute between the Stewards and a member,
advised that that course should now be adopted, saying lie was core
the good sense of the meeting would lead them to restore Dowling's
name to the books of the Society.
The Secretary promised to act on the Magistrate's advice, and
the parties then left the office.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 25.
The supplies of Grain and Flour fresh up since Monday hare
been but trifling. We had a very dull trade to.day for all Grain
' (espetlally Wheat), without any material variation in prices from
Monday.
Nf r"RDE R.—Considerable consternation has been excited
in this city this morning by the discovery of a murder which Ms
been perpetrated by some person or persons unknown. Early tbis
morning a young man's attention was arrested by something against
the bank of the river side towards I)olmead, which an examining
it proved to be a sack containing the body of a man in a state of
nudity. On the left breast was a cut extending some Inches down.
wards, and below it a stab which had perforated the beast. Se►eral
other marks of violence appeared in various parts of the boar,
which is now undergoing examination. In the bottom of the sack•,
which was securely fastened. was found a large stone ; the body
has not yet been identitied.-Batl Gazette, May 24.

BIRTH.
On the 24th inst., in Berkeley-square, the Hon. Mrs. Bitlby
Thompson, of a son.

MARRIED.
' At St. AnoesChureh, Dublin, on the 18th inst. DanietKinahan.
jun. Esq. Barrister at law. to Louisa Ann Stuart, eldest daughter
of the late John Robert Moller, of Russell-square, Lando°, and of
Longbridge, Wstrwickshire, Esq deceased, niece of the Hoe. C. H.
Hutch;ineon, M.P., and granddaughter of late Sir James Bood,
Bart. _ _

On Thursday last, at the British Ambassador's, Paris, Jos. T.
Forster, Esq. of Seaton Bum, Northumberland, to Slade. J. Jam-
bert, of St. Germain.
At Bideford, Roar-Admiral H. R. Glenn, to Mary, eldest
daughter of the late H. lucledoo, Esq. of Bideford, and sista 10
Captain Incledon, R.N.
On Monday last, at Liverpool, Mr. William Brown, wine-mer-
chant, to Emma, only child of the late Thomas Helif Price, Esq.
of Bristol,

DIED.
On the Ikb ofJanuary lass, at Mama, boom Thomas Roberts.
Esq. • .
On then* twit in Oesectemete Pagmemmure, Mary, the
wife of pkarls Gokionoy. of4lookioll in the county
of Berke, hoe amooloor of osomillowdoo, Esq. of Plowdet.
Hall, in the county of Salop, In the NS year of her age.
On Tuesday, the 24th inst. at Richmond, Sir John Grey Eger-
ton, Rart. of Egerton and Oulton Perk, Cheshire, in the 60th year
of his age.
At Clifton, out the 19th inst. after • long and painful ilium,
aged 28. Fanny, the wife of 111. H. Castle, Leg. and fifth doellbor
of the late R. H. Saddam, Esq.
In Russell place, in the 81st year of his age, lieutenant-omnd
Thomas Trent. of the Hon. East India Company's Service.
After a short but severe illness of two days, %has Mary Brewer
aged 21, wood daughter of Themes Brewer, Req. of Barlby,
Selby. This young lady was to have beat married on the very day
on which her funeral took place. nest

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