The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-06 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Wont,: trousr or M LIE-EN n NEW Tow N.—Yesterday, Jane
Gregory MIN placed at the belt for final examination. That part
of the charge which had been advanced nn a former day. viz. the
prostitution of the two workhouse children, was abandoned, it
being. since her Lost es.imination, ascertained that the story which
they then told was et issue of falsehoods. The other part, how.
ever, which related to inducing them to rob, was gons into, and
the following was the evidence given in its support.
Sarah Tyrre:l. one of the children, stated that she lived in the
workhouse of Mile-End New Town, where the prisoner was em.
played as nurse. Sonic days since she asked her if she would leave
the (muse, and she then said she did not know. She afterwards
came to her a second time, and told her that the boys were going,
and desired her at once to make up her mind. She then consented,
when the prisoner requested her to steal some candles, snap, &c.
which she did, and also took some bread from the cupboard, and a
frock from the drawers of her mistress, all these she gave to the
prisoner, who pawned some of them, and sold others. On Monday
week she helped her and the other girl, Sally Johnson, over the
wall ; the boy had got over before, and unbolted the gate, to let
the prisoner out.
A pawnbroker here identified the prisoner as the person who
pledged several articles at his house, and the beadle proved having
received the duplicates from her.
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On the production of a frock, one of the articles pledged, Mr.
HARDWICK called on the master of the workhouse, to prove an
ownership in it on the part of the parish ; but that person said, that
though he believed it to be their property, he' could not take it
upon himself to swear to the fact. This called forth the censure of
the'Magistrates, who observed that a case of this kind, connected
as it was with the gross depravity of the children before them,
could Dot exist, without throwing a slur over the general adminis-
tration of the workhouse.

The master, in reply, stated that one of the children bed only
been about a month in the house, and must hare been corrupted
before the came to it, and that it was not by anything she had seetT
within their walls that the mind of the other was contaminated.

From the answers to some questions from the Magistrates, the
affairs of this workhouse, u regards the religious instruction of its
inmates, seem to have been anything but well regulated. They
sever attended Church, or any other place of divine worship, save a
Methodist school in Spha'fields, twice on Sunday, and for further
spiritual instruction were left entirely to the guidance of sectarian
teachers, each conflicting, perhaps, in their creed, and thus de-
stroying that unity which is indispensably necessary to the well
being of any inititutiou.
The prisoner Gregory was fully committed for trial.
UNION-HALL

A decent-looking young women, named 11W, with an infant in
her arms, was brought up, charged with committing an assault
upon the lady of Captain Wright, who resides at Brixton.
It appeared that the defendant was in the habit of calling at the
Captain's residence and exciting disturbances. A few nighin back
she called, as usual, at a eery late hour, and broke out into violent
exclamations against Captain Wright. The complainant hearing
the noise. wen; Into the 1, and seeing the defendant there, re-
quested she would with raw ; upon which Miss 11111 dew at the
complainant, and struck her violently, declaring at the same time
she had as much right to the Captain, if not more, than the lady
who took upon herself the character of mistress of the house.
With difficulty the was st length thrust out of the house, but not
until she had raised the whole neighbourhood by the violence of her
conduct.

The defendant here towed that Captain Wright was the father of
the child she then held in her arms, and that he had turned his
back upon her, leaving the entire support of the infant upon her.
She admitted that she hall gone to his residence for the pur-
pose of soliciting some maintenance for their mutual offspring.
but he had avoided making any arrangement to that effect, and
uniformly sent the lady who now made the chime against Fier to
meet her. ano.. who had constantly abused her, although she (de-
fendant) had assured Mrs. \night that all ahe wanted was to have
a maintenance for the child from its father. She denied having
assaulted the complainant.

A *sham' who attended on behalf of Captain Wright, told the
Itlagidrate that the affair of the child had been.long since compro-
mised, by his chant paying the SUM of fifty pounds to the pariah
authoridea.
The Magistrate observed that the conduct of parish-efficen was
most- reprehensible In compromising a
.case of bastardy. He
dite•ted• that the MU. paid by Captain Wright should be returned
to hint again, and then the pariah could proceed against that per-
son in the legal way for the expense 4 attendant upon the woman's
confinement, and the subsequent support of the child. The Meats-
trate then cautioned the defendant not to go near Capt. IVright'a
house or molest hia lady. and ordered the the warrant should be
open against her in the event of her committing any breach of the
peace in future. . • _ _

The defendant said, that although she had been abandoned and
treated with cruelty by him, yet she would never molest him
again if be maintained the °lend.

NiGHTT.Ir WATCH.—The gentlemen of the Common
Council of the parish of St. Bride's. Fleet-street, are busily en.
gaged In the endeavour to improve their system of nightly watch,
and, among other measures, propose to reduce the present number
of wetehmen„ yie. 411 (many of them inefficient, from age and
otherwise) to 20, the latter number to be composed of heal'', cf.
&tient young men. whose eateries shall be rendered adequate to the
new duties to be imposed upon them. They are to parcel during
the whole night, aed.to meet each other at stated points, in the man.
ner of the Costa Blockade. with sufficient superintendanta of their
conduct. Thc watch-boxes are also to be entirely done away.
STltlgs o• Tug rtatros? COTTON-61'INNLI18.—From
the following paragraph it will be seen that in consequence of the
gross misconduct of the Belfast cotton-spinners, there is a very eli-
gibhl opening for the unemployed weavers of .Manchester and its
vicinity. "A number of cattomspinners of this town are now em-
ployed at the loom. We are glad to learn that these deluded men
have found any means of procuring support (however scanty) for
themselves and their families; whinnied we confoss we have doubts
as to the accuracy of the statement. We know of many respectable
weavers, who have been in the regular employment of manursctur.
log houses in Belfast for years, and who Are now destitute of the
means of earning a livelihood, flow the spinners should find work
as IVC,Vert, whilst the most experienced weavers we have here are
dkengeenti, apneas in us singular. Besides, the disparity hetwt en
304. and fn. or tis. a seek in their earnings (granting that they are
employed at the Loom), strikes us as being a sad falling oft "
Beifest Whig.
• Thursday a number of swans were observed in our
basin. a sore indication of the severity of the weather,
whkh has driven thew fowls from their natural haunts.—
Montrose Review.

Mr. Charles Savery, solicitor, last week received.a.com-
pound fracture of his leg, owing to having jumped from
" the Company's" coach at 11-ading, while on his return
to Bristol. It lima been falsely stated that the coach was
upset, but the fact is, that Mr. Savery, upon the wheels on
one side embracing a spur-stone, at the most awkward
corner of the whole line of road, jumped off in a fright.
The coach was not upset, nor any one else hurt. Mr.
Savery is getting well fast.
'l°l2c-stealing is again carried on to a great extent in
this county. On Friday night last the stable belonging to
the Rev. Mr. Carter, of Chcdburgh, was broken open, and
a capital horso stolen' therefrom. We understand two
horses were stolen the same night from the adjoining parish
of Clievitigton.—Bury Guartte.

EXAMINATION OF MR. WAKEFIELD.

'rum the Manchester fifes-clay:l
SECOND DAY. •Willi S.

The examination continue-et! this day at two o'clock, at the game
place, and before the same Magistrates as on Friday. (In this or-
emtion Mr. Harmer, of London, attended as the attorney of the
prknner.
The only witness examined was Miss Dl!by. who stated that she
and her three sisters kept ♦ hoarding.selmol at Liverpool, and that
Miss Turner was in their care on the thh of March last; rin which
day, about eight o'clock in the morning, a letter was presented to
her by a person who came with a carriage, and stated himself to be
sereart to blr. Titrner; that be had con:e front Shrigley ; that
Mrs. Turner Its I ham taken ill, and wished to see her daughter.
Ile then presented a letter, saying it would detail the particulars.
The letter staled that Mrs. Turner was 'mired with a sudden attack
of paralysis, and .wished to see her daughter immediately. In con-
sequence of this letter, Miss Turner set out in the carriage, with
the person who brought the letter, in about twenty minutes her it
arrived ; and witness did not hear any thing of her wain until the
lath of March, when she revived a letter from Miss Margeret
Tomer, the cousin of Miss 'l'urner, stating that Dr. Ainsworth
had communicated to the family some very dia.re,sing intelligence
respecting Miss Turner, and requesting to hear from her immsdi-
' ately. Ls consequence of this letter, witness went over to Shrigley,
where site learnt that She had been imposed upon, and that bliss
Turner had been carried off by fraudulent urea's. Defers that time
witnesa never knew such persons as Edward Gibhon Wakefield or
William Wakefield, and never saw the prisoner before to her
knowledge. Neither of those gentlemen had ever been at her
house; and she did not think that either of them could have had
any opportunity of seeing bliss Turner wbilst age was %mat the
cave of witness and her sisters.

This concluded the evidence.
Mr. AAR atER declined asking any questions from Miss Dalby,
and begged to know what course the Magistrates intended to take.
Mr. GRIMSDITCU (who conducted the case for the prosecution)
submitted that the evidence he had laid before the alagisttates
fully made out the capital offence ; and he therefore felt it his duty
to call upon them to commit the prisoner to take his trial on that
charge.
Mr. HARMER contended that the offence amounted only to a
misdemeanor, as Miss Turner was not heir apparent. but .nly
heir presumptive of her father. Various contingencies might arise
to prevent her from inheriting her tallier's property. ' That gen-
tie”ian might have a son, and thus prevent her from succeeding to
the inheritance. The case evidently amounted to no more than a
misdemeanor, under the statute of Philip and Mary, which im-
posed a certain punishmen► on all persons carrying sway a young
lady order shtteen years of age. Ile therefore submitted that the
prisoner was entitled to bail.
Mr. OnmsniTen said, the point was, whether a person in the
situation of Miss T. was or was not an heir apparent within the
meaning of the statute of Henry VII. and he submitted that the
Magistrates ought not to take upon themselves the responsibility
of deciding it, especially in a case like the present. But. if they
should be of opinion that the offence made out against the prisoner
amounted only to a misdemeanor, still he contended that they
ought hot to admit him to bail ; and he quoted the statute respect-
ing bail (3 ) dviard I. c. la.) anti Burn's Justice, to show that for
certain manifest and heinous offences, though not amounting to
felony, Magistrates ought not to take bail.
Mr. HARMER briefly replied.
The room was then cleared, and the Magistrates remained some
time in consultation ; after which they announced that they should
commit fin the misdemeanor ; but they must decline to admit the
prisoner to bait.
Mr. HARMER stated that he should apply fora writ of habeas
corpus. in order to have the prisoner brought up and bailed by one
of the Judges.
A warrant of commitment to Lancaster Castle will then made
out ; anti we understand the prisoner will be sent nit' to that place
thismorning. We believe lie was !nutlet] to the daughter of a
Baronet, only two or three days before his apprehension.