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HOOKEY WALKER.

has not heard of, the celebrated Hawkey, the great pe-
destrian traveller and !Moist, in comparison to whom Gul-
liver, Munchausen, and walking Stewart, were mere errand-
boys ! This great personage, not the " Copplestonian" nor
" Wilkinson's" Hockey, bat the real Woolley kiasself, yester-
day was brought to this office, charged with being non eempns
and as a proof thereof, it was stated that he went to
Herald newspaper office to find specimens of
tterilis
Morning
Malay Went and political information.
The printer of the Herald stated, that the Prisoner had
very much annoyed him and the compositors by taking the
liberty frequently in the middle of the night ofi entering un-
solicited into the priatiopodice, and that morning he was
found asleep in the corner of one of the rooms, and when be
was requested to leave the place refused, and was Riven into
the custody of a constable. He being a man of learning,
and a very occeutrio character, he did not wish to hurt him.
A person present said, that the accused's real name was
Hanrood, as ho had been informed, tbongh he had been
called hockey Walker for some years, and in fact was the
original Huokey, which distinguished rogiwnien be obtained
from his peregrinations in various parts of the world with a
remarkable /muted stick, and from his constant practice of
negativing or dissenting from any propositiou that be wu ad-
verse to, by holding up his stick and exclaiming kookey !
The prisnner addressed their Worships on the bench. He
Ind been employed since be walked his cartons from Islington
workhouse occasionally during the night at some of the
newspaper offices as reader, by which lie had got a shilling or
two to prielire him road and sustenance, but now be could
get no employment,
" Othello's occupation was gone !"
He then strongly inveighed against the overseers of Isling-
ton w orkhouse, to w hich place be bad been schoolmaster to
thirty bon, mid instead of having a proper salary, he was al-
lowed only as. a week ; slid be was sure that his teeing in the
house much longer would have occasioned his speedily dying,
and so he left, and bad been found asleep,
" To sleep, perchance to dream ;"
when he ought to have been awake. It was a great offence,
truly; lie believed It came within the Vagrant Act; but it
was no moral offence. They said he was mad; no, be was
not mad,
" Ile knew a hawk from a hernahaw !"
and Dr. Temple had pronounced him, a fortnight ago, a ra-
tional man, and romp.* ',geniis. The fact was, be had given
to the newspaper some political writings of big to insert,
but, alas!
"They feared to print bold truths,"

and now he was given in custody. Tbey did not like his
polities, he suppos,d, and as he was reduced to misery and
poverty, they might do what they pleased with him.
The prisoner delivered his ineongnions story in unconnect-
ed, though occasionally in very emphatic terms. That he was
in a stale of mental aberration, there could be no doubt.—
Such a figure could not be found in St. Giles's bark shims.—
Hu bad no hat nor shirt ! The right and left sides of his cost
were nearly divoree.l iron each other. Ito had two ol•
ragged stockings on his left leg, his right leg ass bare. A
black !WSW, stock graced his neck, and altogether lie was
an *Pet of wretchedness and pity.
The Magistrates humanely ordered the poor maniac to he
taken care of, and he will be conveyed back to the workhouse,
from whence be strayed.

MACHINERY AND PAUPERISM!
A poor fellow, lately a pauper In St. Hiles workhouse. ap-
plied for an order from the Magistrate to the o%erseers for
adru.s.ion into M. flilea's workhouse, out of which he had
been turned It short time ago. He stated that he was a
pressman, and lately worked at a printing-office in Queen-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields; but as the greater part of press-
wurk N a non performed by machinery, he could not get em-

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pinyment, and most die in the streets if he bad not rale.
The Magistrate ordered a summons to be issued to the
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OVERSEEIDI.
A well dressed female, with a child in her arms, complained
of the conduct of the overseers of a parish west of Temple-
bar. She stated that the child in her arms was Mega/mote,
and had been regularly affiliated. The father, who had never
seen the infant since its birth, had given 30i. to thg overseers
of the parish to take upon themselves the oare of roe child, to
rid himself entirely olan, further respoosibility,andi they had
agreed to allow the mother a meekly sum of as., but recently
they had refused to allow more than Is. ad..
The Magistrate expressed bisopinion of the conduct of them
overseers in strong but very just terms. reprobalies such a
mode of proceeding, and issued a summons to order ap o►er-
seers to attend to answer the complaint.

A SNEAK. •
Joan Green was charged with committing • robbery, upon
the neck, in the house of Mr. Stringer, the Rod Lion, in lb*
Strand.
The prisoner entered the tap-room and called for a pint of
porter, which he paid for, and made some pretence to go into
the yard, and took the opportunity of aneakiag into the scul-
lery and stealing three knives and forks; and alter be haft
drank the beer he pocketed the pot, and was kbottt to swat
out of the house when the waiter seized him.
He was Committed for Md.

UEEN-SQUARE.
• PISTRESSED
Yesterday teeming vast numbers of the meet shim=
tures, who at this period of the year are reduced to c
indigence in consequence of being thrown out of work
through the inclemency of the weather, attended at tbiadilffie,
to prefer charges against the overseers of St. Margaret's pa-
rish, for refusing them parochial relief. They all said, that
they applied to Mr. Mickey, a Scotch baker, who would nut
listen to them, but on ascertaining their object, would heap
upon them a volley of abuse, more hurtful to their feelings
than all theirsufferings. If be did not relieve their distresses,
they conpidcrnd themselves emitted to be removed to their
respective settlements, and this he refused, and left them to
perish hi the streets of London.
Amoutt the group was an elderly well dressed *mean.
She told the Magistrate that a case came withth her own
Itnowiedge.shich induced her to wait upon Mr. Miekey. It
*as that of a poor man who had worked upon the river until
big constitution had failed, and be was obliged to teke to his
bed, brit being a single man, about fifty years of age, be had
ad One to assist hies, and when his little all was expeeded he
could no longer remade in his lodging. She took him in
and applied to the overseers for his admission into the work-
bouse, but withuut effect, and now the poor man must in,
evitably perish, qnless he was immediately relieved.
The Magistrate asked whether abe was ready to assert tbit
npon oath?
She answered in the affirmative, and added, that the poor
man was now ip a dying state; be was incapable of moving,
and had pot the means of supporting nature.
Another poor woman, in the last stage of pregseney, with
three vity tine children, but all in tattered rem and in this
most de ()rabic state, applied to the Magistrates for protec-
tion. he said that she lived five years in St. Margaret's pe-
rish, and although her husband was only a working man, yet
be and she, by their industry, brought up a numerous ['may
without troubling the parish. Last sessions her husband wat
convicted of an assault upon another man, and being amble
to pay the fine, he was sentenced to three mouths imprisdn-
meet. Since that, she was obliged to sell and pledge all her
furniture, and only kat week buried one of her children,
when she applied to Mr. Mickey, the overseer, for 11011110
trifling relief ; but although he knew her child was lyingellead
on the same door with her, and that she had neither furniture.
lire, nor food, he refused giving her the least relief.
The Magistrates observed that numerous complaints had
been made to them before, under similar circumstances. They
were horror-struck at his inhumanity ; in one lemma), whecu
there was a woman with her child dying upon her arm, ho
only relieved her with a single sixpence, after me how's
abuse to her, and such conduct in_ particular instances was
quite reprehensible. The sitting Magistrate then ordered,
the clerk to till up an order upon him ler tire shillings to
each of the persons mentioned, immediately ; and directed ft
sismilsons to be served upon him to answer the compliant*
made against him.

HATTON-GARDEN.
AN UNGRATEFUL ROBBER.
Elizabeth Price, a country girl, was brought up for Nowt
eamninstion' charged with stealing a five pound Bank yf
Ragland note, and silver watch, the property of Mr. Thos.
Lawrence, one of the elder brothers belonging to the Charter
Howse, and a quantity of table and bed linen, the property
of the daughter of the said Themes Lawrence.
It appeared that the prisoner was a country-woman of Mn.'s
Imortmee, who Amides in St.Jobn-street, and some tied* ago
she moss to [modes to seek for a servitude. On her arrival,
Wen se mosey or friend, she was received by Mrs.Lawrenco
loto bar house, and furnished with food and lodging till also
abecild get is place. Whilst she remained thus fostered, Mr.
Lasereisoo, who is in his 86th year,- and had been foorteeu in
the Charter House, was taken dangerously ill, and his
I daughter was necessitated to attend to him, and was there-
fore obliged to leave her house and children in the care of
the Prisoner, and on various occasions Mrs. L. sent her with
messages and for other purposes, to the aged man in lb)
Charter-house, and it was on one of those occasions that oho
contrived to plunder the dying gentleman of the watch and
money. On the robbery being found out, every person yeas
sitspbeled bat the prisoner, an whom the greatest trust alid
confidence was reposed. At divers times articles were
disappwariog Roil Mrs. Lawrence's house, but no conjecture
could be formed by whom they were stolen. Mr. Lawrodee
becoming worse, it was siecessary for his daughter to sit op
with him all night, and for the purpose of society she pre-
vailed on the prisoner to sit up with her. In the course .of
the night the prisoner, from fatigue, fall asleep, and whilst
so reposing, something struek her she was the individual who
had planderea her and her father, and she was therefore itx.
duced to search her pockets, when to her great surprise, stio
found in a small parse, Iwo Sovereigns, some silver coin, lb,.
duplicate of her father's watch, and also of the table of t
bed linen that bad been stolen from her. Su interested was
sbe in the prisoner's welfare, that although she saw the SA-
plicate.. she could scarcely reconcile her mind that sho
was the thief. However, next morning she heeded her over
Los constable.
The pawnbrokers produced the stolen property, and iden-
tified the prisoner to be the person who pledged them.
The Prisoner appeared quite indifferent about her situi-
lion, and she was committed to Newgato for trial. •
UTTERING BASE COIN.
Hinennk Norwood and Mare Barrett were brought up for a
third examination, charged with being common utterer, ut
have coin, counterfeit half crowns.
Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, attended, and the
rase being clearly wade out against Mem they were esimmitti...l
for trial. . .
MARY-LE-BONE OFFICE.
FLYING DUSTMAN.
Thomas Coombs, alias Donkey Tara, a running dustman, use
brought before Julius Rawlinson, Esq. by Wilson, a Bow.-ire,
patrole, who apprehended him on Monday last ocar West_
bourne Green.
It appeared that the prisoner, in company with Stephen
Stephens, alias Long Stevy, :duce convicted in the penalty ot-
-101. fur marries away ashes contrary to the statute, Vs»
tame being the property of the contractors, had gone. iis
the house of Col. Houston, in Montague-square, on the ills
instant, and alter proceeding down the area steps, catered
the dust-ben, and were in the act of taking away the ash, s,
but being observed by an otlicer they instantly dropped th.
sack and ran away. The °Weer, however, pursued them, and
succeeded in apprehending Long Stevy. but his companitio.
escaped. On Monday last Wilson suet the prisoner near Ty-
burn Turnpike, and after an intricate chase of about th.•
hours he look him into ciotedv, alien he made a most despe-
rate resistance, and it WAS witli the greatest difficulty that ohs
handcuffs could be put upon him, in which he attempted kr
bite several hmen, and &cleat!y bit a man's le.
.Thomas. Walley, parish °Beer of Mary-le-bone, stated lb-
prisoner did not belong to the parish contractor ; vv.::
termed a flying dustman, and the ashes which he nes car -
fog away was the contractor's property.
The servant of Colonel Houston declared that the men had
taken away the dust without permission, `end the pi hauler
was one orthem.
The prisoner, In his defence, denied the charge, and main -
tented he was not the man.

The Magistrate was however of opinion he was entitled t•r
the same aevcv as his companion, and coot icted him so ths
penalty of lot.

MARLBOROUCIII-STREET.
An old woman was charged for having in her possession
about a pint and •-half of brandy in a bladder, and is hall -
pint tin measure. The officers, imagining that she had pos-
sessed herself of the brandy per the purouso retailinklu
the streets, took her into custody. The Magistrate (11,.
Conant) told the offieers the only way to deal with the pi.-
toner was by a complaint to the Commissioners of Eter-,..
He did not see enough to detain her, and she was cubit- -
quently thschiwgcd.
James Carter charged William Anderson with creating, a
riot on Monday in Henry-street, Hampstead-road. Ti.. pr -
loner, who is by trade a tinplate-worker, and well-Pintas' at •
the office, was fined lice shillings for being drunk, and An,-
jag complainant, so lately as last week. The present
charge was under the following. circumstances: Cans,-
is Anderson's landlord, a memberbf a congregation f Wet.-
leyan Methodists, who have the*out room on tie ensiled
floor in complainant's bunse, the beak parlour being net-up/kJ
by the defendant. Last night the rtsegirecatios was iliNtorue s
by the imprecations ef Anderson doting its devothois. out
on Carter going to his room 10 request him to desist Ittvt
making a noise, he peered a volley of misuse upon bite, ant
said he had as much right to make a anise as the Metteelist,.
Anderson being called on for his defence, stated that he *a.,
by two years, an older occupier et Ms room than the tetigiss s
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in the house; and that nothing could be more annoying than
Vie noise produced by their devotional ezercises • that these
persons were sometimes groaning from seven o'clock in the,
morning till eleven O'clock at night, and that so far from their
meetings furthering the &keels of religion, he conceived them
(=enraging bluphemy. Carter offered to forgive him all the
r*tit thalweg due if he would quit the house immediately, but
this the prisoner said was impossible, he must have a month
or five weeks. The worthy Magistrate thinking Carter's pro-
posal perfictly fair, ordered Anderson to find two sureties in
asl. cacti, and to enter into his owe recognisance ern'. (or
the (offence of disturbing a religious congre6atioe.
Ned Moron was brought up to answer the charge of Sewell
nod Criss, of Frith-street, Subo.
Mr. Cross, of this firm, deposed to the prisoner coming into
Wets' shop on Monday night to look at some flannel ; this
was in the early part of the evening, and at about a quarter-
past eight o'clock he came again, when he stole a large roll
of carpeting, which be run with towards the square. Thy
snop.bay who was appobted to watch the dour, apprised
_Mr. Cross of the circumstance, who instantly pursued the
prisoner. On being pressed closely, he put the carpeting on
the ground behind a woman, who happened to be passing et
the moment. He was eventually taken in Soho-square.
The shop-boy stated, he had noticed the prisoner, in com-
pany with two other young men, loitering about the shop
sometime previous to the robbery being committed, and he
never lost sight of him after he had taken 11,smaster's pro-
perty, excepting when he turned his bead to inform Mr.
Cross of the fact.
Mary Hayes, the woman who was accidentally poring
along Frith-street at the time, positively swore to Moran be-,
ifig the person who put the carpeting behind her.
The prisoner, in his defence, said, he was walking ito
Frith-street, when Mr. Cross and other gentlemen were_pasS.,
.'sing some boys, whom he supposed had ridibed tiewelf u
- Crows shop, and on one of the gentlemen coming up to hill,-
Ise said, that is the wan, and seized him. That was all hi
Wear of it. •
• He was fully committed.

DONOVAN c. CARNEGIE.
A
press of other matter prevented us from noticing, in cur
report of yesterday, from the %beim Ake, this very important
The filets. as detailed by Mr. Donovan, who is a fishmonger
in Onford.street, aru 29 10114)W : On Sunday night, about six
.'clock, Mr. Donovan went out; leaving his house in the care
• of the prisoner, a lad about sixteen, and a young man his
foreman, his daughter, who keeps his house, having pr •vious.
• I! gene oat. In an iron chest in the back parlour were step°.
ailed *M. in bank notes, silver, and banker's cheeks ; the
• chest was covered with a large market coat, and many other
likings, an as entively to conceal it, and it stood behind the
• fluor, which was lucked : the key of the chest was deposited
in a drawer belonging to a chest of drawers which stood in
the' parlour. Mr. Donovan's daughter returned first, and
• found a ward of a skeleton key in the parlour door leek;
the lock of the drawer where the chest key was kept, picked,
and the chest robbed of all the property it contained, but
lurked again.
The boy, when asked if he had any thing to say, stated the
a little alter six o'clock he went to his mothers to tea, aid
returned at seven ; he then opened some oysters that
ordered to he sent to Manchester.street; that ho took
oysters to Manchester-street, and on his return the •
went home to bed ; that soon after the foreman was gintil4je
young titan having the appearance of a butler, came littinl
Moe shop, man,
inquired for the boy's master ; on being tad
he was not at home, he asked for Gerge (the foreman); Cir.
negie told the man no one was at home hut himself; that'll*
then desired the boy to go and fctoh George; the lad left the
stranger in the shop and went for the foreman, and *bee Is
returned he found the door of the shop open, and Ilse man
gone • that on the return of his young mistress he told her
the circumstance.
• On being asked if he left the stranger in tho dark, he skid
the gas was on, but there was no candle.
Mr. Donovan considered it impossible for any ono unac-
quainted with the situation of the chest to have found it is
the dark.
• The prisoner was asked when he last saw -?
For obvious reasons, we suppress the name of this person
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is to be brought up for re--- a to.
:inorrier.

WORSHIP•STREET.
▪ ifagibriday James Brews, Isadlord of the Duke of Wel-
ls-Vow Mackeey, appealed
hours summons for keepieg hogs
• ,hereasts at esessoosgMe.
ihe sear, elshild. on visiting the different houses
direadien fildielfigibliates, be found the shove boast
MAN twelve o'clock on Saturday evenidg
were live or six working
w, that he should indict a =l.
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It oetal be a sufficient warning. The
should certainly profit by the kinihmrs of
▪ "1" rite, sad was convicted in the penalty of M. Slid
-eaSti
Element ether publicaes appeared to answer similar Aar.
but were dismissed on paying the costs, with a repri
•I'he Landlord of the Bliod Beggar, Bethnal Greer, aegt li-
ed to the sitting Magistrate, to allow him on Thersday next
to keep open until twelve o'clock ; the Staff of the Tower.
hamlet mild to intending to give as entertainment at hie house
en that evening.
The Magistrate said that be could not authorise bias to
• keep open boots* ea that evening, and should any iefesse-
tutu be laid aphid him, it must tato its usual course.

, .Yesierday. Nary Fisher, Elisabeth Stater, and don
hatlght. wise charged with felony.
..-Mrs. hilergaret M`Ouire, linen-draper of Stratford, stated
on Monday afternoon, about three o'clock, the prisoners
''`'.7lsher and Wright went into her shop and requested to see
„"mime gown.pioces. She produced several, but after emamining
they said none of then would suit, and went away. Some time
'l, siker Styles, 'an Aker, brought a gown-piece to her, which
'proved to be one which the complainant had sbewn the pri-
soners, but she had not previously missed it.
Iliestras Gibbon, a linen-draper of Stratford, stated that he
lad been robbed io a similar manner, and as he believed by
the prisoners. He day the whole three pass his shop on
:idooday afternoon, *ad suspecting they were going to purloin
something. be *Bowed them until they entered Mrs. M`G uire's
' shy. fisher and'Wright only catered the shop, and brought
out a gown-piece, which they gave into the hands of Slater.
' They then walked away. -Witness instantly Informed Styles,
ono of the Bow-street patrol, of the circumstances.
Fran is Styles stated, that being informed by Mr. Gibbon
ef the direction the prisoners had taken, he followed and
tunk them at loytonstone, withftteproperty In their possession.
They were fully committed for trial.

Mous had not pne of the other lodgers come to his assistance,'
he would have been sacrificed.
Mance said he never struck the complainant till he had
pulled Mrs. Limbrick by the hair of the head, and bad at-
tempted to bite her breast.
Mrs. Limbrick said that she merely went into his room for
the " stork and bit," and he swore if she did not leave, he
would knock her brains out; and thereupon seized her by
her hair and threw her down, and swore he would do for her.
Two witnesses on the part of the defendants swore that the
conduct of Biuon was most outrageous, and that he had
taken up a shovel and struck at the defendants ; he had at-
tempted to bite Mrs. Litnbrick's breast, era bad actually
bit* piece out of the hand of Mance.
The Alderman told the complainant• after the oaths of the
two witnesses, and he not having any one to corroborate his
testimony, be must acquit the defendants, observing that if
their story was true as to his vicious conduct in attempting
to bite, ho was a most unmanly fellow—a complete brute,
and ought t o be muzzled ; it was dangerous for personsto pass
along the streets were he to go amongst them.
The warrant was then discharged.

UNION-lIALL.

i„. THAMES POLICE. in
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FOROINO 'SEAMEN'S WILLS.
Yesterday this Office was crowded to excess by persons €
interested is the coininereiel world, to hear the decision in
1 the case of Thaws, Rilv, ler forgery. Every time he has ri
vet been resetusded fresh eases of forgers have been laid to
4 his
charge lu the interval; the last of which appears to be a c
teaser," where the money has been received. There was a
no iliferenee in the evideneeset forth inthe cases of"Warree" ti
or " Pratt," 100 of tbe parties whose wills have been forged.
'else only 'farther evidence was the gentleman ow Tuv.ar- II
bill, to whom he applied fee payment (as eseeutor) of the s.
~,, 1 wages due to Warren's representative. He stated that be
t k new him, and had paid It!es mostey,.but doubted whether he
.did in the case of "Pratt""Pratt. 'He paid him in the ease, a
that of "Taster," who belonged to the 1 lope ;!asilllss lien (ave c
• / his address "Ns. 9,lrirlil4aDe. Mothers." !He appliefita tie
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. rose of Warren, but was not paid.
''.... f Solicitor,
Magistrate called upon Mr. Price, Who attended melds f
to hear if he had any thing to offer in extenuation; 1
hut be answered "No ;" be should refrain from then saying
• • - env thing. fr a defeoce was really requisite, be should re- r
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bbbbb it for another tribunal. t
The Magistrate then remanded the case again la TuesdeP. 1
next. when he e ill give hi. 'I..- ~inn. . .
• Jobs PeelsWe was charged with felonv. , t
Sauna loam stated, that be had lost a tpa-chest. a. i
plume, &co and had so use to suspeett b it the prisoner, who
worked iu the .SUM soup ; be conseque illy obtained a search 1
vernal, and found UN: goads iu questiun on his premises, 1
which were swum to. 1
f • ! Mr. RObinsou identified ten planes, and different other
property used by shipwrights, as having been stolen from his I
t'.
k ~i workshop, earl found in possession of the prisoner by 'Baby, I
an °Seer who searched the premises.
I I The• Prisoner was lulls committed for trial.
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I Yesterday a youth named Jaws Maser, aged 18, and his
ehere emir, Mrs. Sarah lissbriek, aged se, both in the chair.
ft 1 otoking line, were brought up on a warrant Inc ni
mess
an
assault of a very violent description on the rye and the ms
of their landlord, Mr. William Rissole, aged ir, who is in the
t i same profession.
1 The parties reside at No. i, Little Surrey-street (formerly
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Dover-street), Blarkfriars-road.
Tke.yeatkfail landlord stated, that some time since Mrs.
I. , 1 Limbriek took an apartment in his house, stating herself to
he a single woman, but he afterwards ascertained that she
was the larefel wife of Limbrick, the How street °Meer. Sult•
i - I sequently she employed the defendant Mance as a journey-
, wan, in which capacity he has lived with her for some time.
• On Monday morning last Mrs. Limbrick came into his room..
and in a peremptory manner desesaded a "a stork aid bat ;"
• iswthereluce relived to give either one or the °thee, and de-
, I '. steed her to leave the room. gibe said she would see bins
d—d arm, upon which be was about to eject her therefrom.
when in rushed Mance, and with a tremendous blow on the
eye, blocked him seaselese to the grouod, and whilst he lay
t Isere, the defendant Linibrick held him whilst Manee further.
,- 14 ail-treated Ida, die herself participating, and pummelling him
over the nose till he was in a gore of blood, Ned he war we-%
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