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and I can't vitllnot I do ; rot the pales are broken, and he can
creep between them.
MTh Alderman Sam n—T hen why do you not ree them me--ded
App!icant--That would cost 1 great deal 0: numey ; and the
house is not mine ; I am Maw a tenant at will.
Mr. Alderman Sista-it—Then you shouid made the dog.
Applicant—But 1 WILL hho to bite the thieves. if the, do come.
I have told my neighbour* to sh.sit him, it he bites stir a tlicut off
the premises.
Mr. Alilennan Sri ITH—But petha;4 they may not have a gun.
Cannot you keep hilt. h, snnie sheil or 1,111'.9115e ?
Applicant—l have nothing of the kind on the premises.
Mr. Alderman SulTit—ishoold thirk as you only 'cant him to
guard yu .r house front thieves, he wui4d do that best if you kept
him hi the house at night witea he is loose.
Applicant—That is quite impossielo, the house is so small;
there ate only foot little morns in it. Who: on Itodo 7 1 must
keep the dog.
The worthy Alderman having entausted crery expedient that
occurred to hitn, without suggesting to tile gentleman what he ass
to do, fairly gave up the mattes; nr, indeed. rather increased the
difficulty, by hinting to him that bt a late statute. if his dog did
bite any hotly, hevould be liable to a penalty of 51., and therefore
he had better take care what he did.
To this the gentleman :•eplied, smilingly. "Well, then, I really
do not know what I am to tio," and took his kite.

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BOW.STREET.
ninsxv.—Yesterilay Willem lbw, a 'especial. young man,
,ppar,n•ly about 30 years of age, was charged with nurrying
s:tult As...t, his first wits?, Margaret Anderson, being alive at the

time,
The vristwer's moulage with lllargoret Anderson WM proved
to have been celebrred at Storey Stratford,. ly in the year 11:111,
in the presence of Richard Anderson, het bromer.
Sarah Aube, a gonll4roking young woman. about 21 vein of
erre, deposed to her 11,3775.1ns dor ?mono., at Newark, in Notting.
hamshire, in the year 1:121
The certificate of bath marriages were produced by Wall, the
rarer, who brought the prisoner up on a chat;: of illtreming his
tin): wife a few slat • since.
Sir RICIIARLI lit axtt: asked the prisoner what he had to say in
his defence?
The prisoner said he sh,,,id rot have monied the second time,
had not the female been in the family way by him. lie v. as fully
committed for trial. •

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IiATTON-BARDEN.
31a ir arw o Dr r crap it-la.—Yesterday Joseph Geer, of
No. G, %VW-in-street, tirat'a Inn-lane, marine and portrait painter,
and double-bass placer at 'Covent-gent:in Theatre, was brought up
under • warrant, chargi.d with brutally assaulting his wife, Mrs.
Als.• Gain
Mrs. Gear, an interesting young woman, when placed at the bar,
with an infant in her ems, exhibited • miserable contrast both in
person and appearance to the well-pointed figure of her unfeeling
spouse. In tones rendered inaudible by emotion, she stated ha
complaint to the following efect. She married Mr. Gearabout
wren years ago, and was hit second wife. By the first wife he had
eight ehildrcu ; she bore him only one, the infant at her breast.
Some of Mr. Gear's children being her seniors in years, they took
every occasion to ill-treat and tyrannise over her, and unfortunately
her husband, instead of shielding her from those unmerited insults,
has too fully seconded their eWearours ; she was compelled to do
the most menial offices for him and his family, was not suffered to
eat at her own table, but got her meals after they had done. Soon
aiter the birth of the baby, be turned her into a damp kitchen to
sleep, m consequencesleep, her health and that of her infant was endan-
gered. While in this delimde state, he still expected her to work,
and when she was no longtr able to do so, he denied her the com-
mon necessaries of life; and on Sunday night he grasped her bon-
net-strinp in his hand, and wrung them so unfitly round her throat,
as to cause the blood to start through the akin, and leave an it.dm
lible mark on the place.
Mr. Laura—What hare you to say to alt this, Sr
Hosband—Why, Sir, it la all false.
Wife-0 no, Joseph, you know it's trite.
Mr. Larro—llsve you any witmesm to disprove •the usertion ?
Husband—O, yes I hare, Sir ; I have witnesses, but they are
not come yet.
Mr. Larva—Tout, Sir, I can't wait your convenier.m.
lifr. Butler (Mr. Banner's clerk), who attended on behalf of the
complainant, observed that Mrs. Gear lied no wish to punish her
husband, but merely to obtain a protection against his cruelties,
and to oblige hint to give her sufficient sustenance, for site had
alre.aly been driven to such positive want, that she was compelled
to solicit parochial rtiief from the overseers of 3lary-M-bonne;
and
Busload—Yes, and the Magistrate wouldn't listen to her com-
plaint/ he said she should go home, and if I put her to sleep in a
ptg-atye that she bad no right to complain.
Mr. Laswo—l don't believe a word of what you say, Sir; no
Magistrate would so express himself.
Mr. Butler said that the Magistrates had merely recommended
her to go home. presuming that the husband would have drove his
duty by her, which it now appeared he had not, but quite the con-

tniry.
4r. LAING—But why, Sir, does pita wife and child appear in
this state?
Husband—ill tell you that, Sir; it is her own fault entirely—it
is. upon My honour ; bir, she is the most sluttish, Indolent, dirty,
ill.teotrred, Jilin, lazy, good.for-nothing woman in the world;
she is. upon Inv bsnotir.
lVife-Lldle, 'lazy, and Intiolent.7—and after working for six years
for you and your eight children.
is, I assure you, all that I have described, and
when she had a servant she made the girl as bad as herself.
Mr. L itjt:—lt matters not what she is, you hare no right to
deprive a woman in her weakly condition (having a baby to take
ate or) of those nioiforts, tire and food, which it seems you have
denied; you most, therefore., find good bail.
At three o'clock no bail was forthcoming, and Mr. Gear was as
locked up. -