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IVILTSHIRE ASSIZEv.

These Assizes commenced ou Monday last, when
the following Prisoners, sixteen in number, receiv-
ed sentence of death :
Isaac Taller, fur housebreaking and stealing a watch, ace.
belonging to Mr. Seiellgruve. at Cursley ; John Hancock, fur
• burglary and stealing plate !rum Dr. Sainsbury. at Curs-
ham ; W. Wirdanan, for housebreaking at Stratton Si. Mar-
garet ; Michael Larupshire, fur an assault with an attempt
to ravish, and rubbeng Ara Wilson, nu the road between
Herbage and Salisbury; Cringe Cle seri', fur rubbing the
house of Mr. R. Merrell. Of Merton ; John White, for break-
ing into the house of Mr. J. Itaveliams. of Trowbridge, and
waling two pieces of cassinarrc ; Thomas While and Joel
Dixon, fur housebreaking, at I.rocluon sad at 'ruthenium ;
Stephen' Mills. fur stealing w mare belonging to Mr. H.
Treelguld, at Poulsbut ; W. Maslen. fur breaking into the
house-of Mr. James Moore, of Sterol ; Joseph Giles, fur a
burglary at Garstlen ; Cursirlius Randall, fur stealing a pair
of bouts, &e. trout Mr. R. Barnett, of Brown Chalk ; W.
Gale, fur stealing nineteen yards of cloth from the fartory of
Mrs. Hale and Co. at Queenford ; George Davits, fur rub-
bing Mr. W. Fry, at Campton Komi ; Henry Deane, for
stealing a was belonging to Mr. Morse, at Leightertose,
Gloucestershire ; and James Nlticluil, fur stealing the velvet
cumins of the communiun table, at Tisbury.
There was very hi tle interest excited in the Nisi
Pries Court, the business of winch finished on
Tuesday.
THE ICING V. THE INHAIHTANTS Or THE COUNTY

OP SOUTHAMPTON.

This case was brought to determine whether the
county of Southampton or the Marquis of Buck-
ingham, as representative or the Cliatidos family,
was bound to keep and repair Avin.rdon bridge.
The person or persons by whom the bridge was brat
erected was not ascertained, but meters' crimes*.
proved the alterisig the bridge, which had been
paid for by the then occupier of the Atingdun
estate, and which hail &pier become the property of
the Marquis of Barckinghatu, as representative of
the family of Cluatidos, to whom it hail foiturrly
belonged. A verdict wits given for the Plaintitf,
which renders the county of Southamrton liyhhe
for the repairs, Re.

POVC
VOW STREET.
ROBBERY AT THE HUM MUMS.
On Bidoiday a e.g investigation took place befitri Mr.
Minets, respecting a 40/. Book sole which is soppueed to
have been stolen at the Ohl Hinunimos, it Covelititsrden,
belouging to a geutlemsu of. the name of Ford, from the
country, who is lorigiog at the Old lisimusionse, and was
positive to his having the 401. note in his Inmates on
Tboreiley senoight. On the morning of the follow/ism
day Mr. Ford gave the trousers, two costa. mid a waist.
suet, rolled together, to a joaroeymait hairdresser, who
was in atleudante in Ilse house, to get them brushed.
The hair-dresser gave them to the porter belonging to the
house to get them brushed, who rearmed theta in a abort
time to Mr. Ford, who missed the 401. mats soon after, and
gave notarisation of the circomensoce to Mr. Hewitt, the
landlord of the house, who sent a description of the utile to
the Bank to loop it, which Mr. Ford was enablea to obtain
from Meson. Hereire hied Co. the bankers, is St. James's-
street, where he had received it. Mr. Hewitt examined
end swelled the male servants in the house, and his
wife acted in a similar way with the females. informal.
lieu was received of the note having been paid into
the Rook by a man who said his name was John Cameron,
who, us being called upon to accoont for his possession of
the note, said, it was nut his, but that lie received it
from a man to get it chanced, whose name wasJobti Camel,
whose residence was Nu. 20, in Swallow-street. Upon in.
qairy it was ascertained that no such man lived there.
Cameron admitted that lie knew but very little of
Camel-1113i be ar.icii•il oo pertienlar reason fur seed-
ing him to the Bank to get the forty poem' note
rhinoceri, he was not lam reeeive a sum of money for
&dog so; lw admitted that his own sospicions were, that
the note was forged. He hoe given several are.ossits of his
conduct, all of them very contradictory. He was not
detained in custody, as there is no poor yet of the note
having been stolen, it being possible that it bad been lost.
He is to appear en a future day. 'rise porter at She Hum-
mums, said the journey moss hair-Jesus(' who was in 'livid-
once, were kith woes as to their knowledge of Cameron,
and they both denied it mail positively.
The business is to be further investigated.
Samara Tualisuo*, the driver or the hickory chariot,
No. 1,001, was charged with misbehaviour to John Cook-
man. Esq. of Great Purtland-street, and using the must
abusive and scurrilons iangnatte.
He was convicted in the penalty of five pound', which he
not paying, he was committed to Beidewell fur two mouths.
A luau of a respectable appearance charged the money-
taker at the Tao Minnie Gallery of Drury-lane Theatre,
with having lei:rind hie motley fur admission to the Thea-
tre but refused to give him a cheek to enable him to pass.
The complaint was referred to Mr. Spring, or Mr. Ward,
the Secretary, or to 111111113114146 the money-taker to the Court
of Requests.
UNION HALL.
A SON MURDERED BY HIS FATHER.
A traisoiction, at winch humanity shudders, was un Satur-
day the occasion of attracting shoot this office a crowd of
between two and three thousand persons.

John PotreoMon elderly mail, was brought before Mr.Ser-
ieant SWAM, charged will, shooting his sun, Julia Fawcett,
joss. on Friday night, about eight o'clock.
Jane Cummins, of Dukes-place, Westminster, stated, that
too Friday eveuitig she was passing along Joifter-street,
Tooley:street; the door of Mr. Bush, potable-merchant,
woo amen the Prisower-Sred a pistol at some person on the
stairs; she went into the passage, and saw that the monocl-
ed persou was a yuloug man. He staggered iota She ware-
home, and fell into a chair. She inquiri 41 where he was hurt ;
he said "she right Side." She obseived the blood rosining
front his side its a torrent. She asked if he knew who it wan
that Seed the pistol ; he replied, " Olo! it was my father."
The Prisoner looked pitumaly at the w iiiii Wed man for seve-
ral moments; he appeared horror-struck at what lie bait
deur, mad did not attempt to escape until she cried out
" Marder !" he Biro ran away.
Mr. Frederick Ramat, dresser at St. Thomas's Hospital,
sworn.—" On Friday night a young man, named .1. Fawcett,
was brought into the Hospital. I dresmol his wound; it is
a Rua-slot wound on the light aide His state is so demo,
ous, that I du nut expect bin, to live."
Mr. William Speck, solicitor, St. John's, Southwark,
swum.—" Last night I was passing •long Toulerstreet,
is company with my brother; saw a man with a pistol ins
►is banal run oat of Hash's house. He ran very (ass; 1 ful-
lowe.l until I overlook him in a court, where there wa■
au thoroughfare. He hail then goo pistol After giving him
in deuce so a constable, 1 weal to look fur the pistol, mud
found it in a clout through which the Prisoner oast. I after-
wards went to him at the watch-louse; he complained that
Mr. Bash had cohabited with his wife, and that she mid
Bush hod plioadered ►ad twitted him; his ititestiou was to
shwa Bosh."
Wm. Bush sworn—" I was up stain on Friday night with
Prisoner% wife, who is say housekeeper. Ilia loom was there
also; a talk girl of mine was below. The Prisoner came
and impired for me; my girl came to the bottoms of the
stairs 111141 (11114 nut Father!' Prisimer's solo went down.
A few m ttttt ruts afterwards I heard the report of a goo or a
0001. I went down stairs, and found !moll Fawcett a dieting
in blood. I have maintained the prolog mato at my house a
very emosideralole time. The Prisoner is a biscuit-Isaker,
and lives in Bishopagate. We are toot good (limas; we
were prisoners together fur Jib!, and 1 believe that lie
jealous of hi. wife nail ow."
Other eviilrore was lak►a to a considerable length, the
tendency of which was to she* that the Prisoner bad shot
his sou, conceiving him to have been Bush.
At ilw dose of she examination', a messenger arrived from
the Hospital, with the intelligence that young Fawcett hail
expired. Further proceedings were immediately adjimoueoll
until the verdict of the Jury is kunwu. The deceased was a
Sue young luau, 20 years of age.
It was stated by Bash, that the Prismser had bees heard
to threaten the life of his sun at various times.

On Friday night a young num, of the name of Faulkner,
clerk in the employ of Mr. Harwood, auctioneer, Chelsea,
put a period his existence by hanging himself. The rea-
son assigned fur his committing this melancholy deed is
suppueed to he from a dread of appearimg to a summons
on the following lily, before the Magistrates at (Jaen-
square, to answer to a charge made against him for refusing
to pay the toll in passing the turnpike at Grosvenor-gate,
which was observed to make a sensible impression on his
miud. A Coroner's inquest was held vu the body on Satur-
day evening, which returned a verdict of—buranity.
A few sights back an Inquest was held at the White I.ion
public•honse, at Paddington, before Mr. Sciabine, his Ma-
jesty's Cormier fur the Western Division of Middlesex, un
view of the bodies of Joba Whiteburat nod Wm. Thus. King,
two young men, who came to their deaths in the following
•hocking manner :—Tbe deceased persons were both Defiers
of Northampton, and worked the Sy boats from thence to
London. On Wednesday, the 451 s inst. (the day on which
the metropolis was visited by a violent hurricane) they had
arrived with the boat ■t binipsuis's Commissariat f,
Paddiugton. It then blew a strung gale, and King and
Whitehurst, alth..ugh ignisraut of the management of the
best, got up the oast fur the purpose of unreeling the
lining. Whilst ensp'oyeil on this task a middlen gust of
wind blew along with suds incredible force as to carry them
both off their sanding place, and to precipitate them into
the canal. They fell its a part that was not very deep, but
so extremely muddy, that their heads stork in the clay even
to the shoulders ; their lex% were erect, and in that dreadful
situation they wile smothered. Mr Simpson (the proprietor
of the Wharf) was resew, and lined leery endeavour to
save thei► lives, bat email not, without hazarding his own.
The drags were theta applied, and the bodies gut out, aftar
cousiderable difficulty, and conveyed to the hone-house in a
shell. The onfortues.ite youth. had very respectible Mein%
at Northampton, end we onderstand that their fellow-work-
men 'on the Canal entered into a subscription to convey their
Mullet fur iteterineut to their relate in the rouatry.—
The Coroner and Jury made many severe n masks un the
improper cuaduet of the dipolar boatineu, for allowing the
vomit men, inexperienced as they were, is have any thing
to do with the riljgiog. Verdict—.lccolenfallp drowned.

INDIA 1101ISE.

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IMITATIVE TEA.
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In COnsequence of the late disc urea relative 16
the practices of some of the tea-dealdil adulterating
their tea with slow end ash leaves, it was uuderstood
that some notice of that circumstance would be
taken by the brads of the trade, either at or subse-
quent to the usual time of their meeting at the tea
sales ut the India House. Accordingly, on Wed-
nesday last, during an interval between the sales,
Mr. RICHARD TWINING rose and addressed tire
Chairman, Sir JUUN JACKSON, to the following
effect :
" Mr. Chairmen, as the room is now most nu-
merously attended by Gentlemen of the tea-trade,
I think it it proper lime to address you, Sir, olio.'
reports which have been circulated, not only in
town, but all over the kingdom, so injurious to
the characters of the tea-dealers in general, than
whew. I will venture to affirm, there is not a
more respectable body of men existing. I
mean the report eh .it nine-tenths of the tea-
trade do adulterate their tea with iish, sloe, and
other leaves. This report. Sir, hiss bteii circulated
widely tl gli the medium of the public prints,
and if 'offered to go uocontrarlicted, will cast an
odium upon the whole body of teit.tlealers, which
ought to rest solely upon a few obscure indivi-
duels. lam satisfied that tro respectable house in
the City of Loudon is guilty of such illegal prac-
tices; and therefore they ought not to sutler an im-
putation of su serious a nature to puss tih ed.
At first, I and other persons, the heads of the trade,
thought that the falsehood of so general a censure
was so glaring that nu person would give credence
to it, and therefore it would be best not to notice
so gross an aspersion. But I understand that the
statement has gained belief; and I submit to yoa,
S:r, whether it would not be proper for the tea-
trade, either now or at the close of the wiles, to dis-
cuss the subject, and immediately pursue such a
Course as will expior the real pracmisers of such an
abominable kisuil. lam satisfied that it is the in-
terest nut only or the tea-trade but of the country,
, which gains such an enormous revenue by the sate
of tea, that the suhjixt be taken into consideration.
I therefore move that now, or at the close of the
isles, us the Chairman shall book most fit, the re-
ports which have been circulated against the tea-
which may in their consequences prove highly
injurious to them as a respectable body, be taken
bib) consideration, and a Committee appointed
with power to act as shall behest for the interests of
the tea-irede."

Mr. RICHARD SHARP rose and addressed the
Chairmen :—" I second the motion of Mr. Twin-
ing, because! cm certain the trade will be injured
by such reports. In fact, 1 know am instance
where toy own business suffered. A Gentleman,
whose family I have fur many years served with tea
and every article of grocery, in his customary or-
der last week omitted tea; and, as a reason, said,
that lie should leave off taking tea until he
could procure it genuine, which he could not
then obtain front the tea-dealers. I toll the Gen-
tleman that the statement, if it were meant to ap-
ply to the great liody of tea-dealers, aa.s a lllaMi
iufamons falsehood : to which he replied, that
the tea-trade had suffered it to go oncontradicted,
and that he thought was a stiffly:ea ground for
his supposing it to he trite.' I therefore hope that
she trade will give their concurrence to Mr.
isintioii,"
The whole of the Gentlemen present gave im-
mediately their sanction to Mr. Twining's motion.

The Cif Alas' st thought it would br hest for the
tea-trade to hate a meeting after the sales, and
they could then proceed in the business without
interruption.
At the close of the sales a tweeting was accord-
ingly held, and a Coinnortter appointed : Mr. Twt-
NING VMS caned to the Chair.

COM af 11 T vr— Air. Fry, Mr. Sanderenn, Mr. Twitting
Mr. l'Almer, Mr. Stringer, Mr. Antriibuo, Mr. Situps ...., Mr
Finclioni, Mr. Milli.), Mr. Gitrrat I, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Sparrow
and Mr. Vockury.

The C ttee being appointed, they agreed to
meet on the billowing day, when a Deputation was
chain to wait upon the Board of Exci►e fur the
purpose of learning to what extent the practice of
adulterating tea had come within the knowledge of
the Board, what seizures had been made, &c.
It was warder(' that they meet this week, at the
I leatl, Poultry, to receive the Report of the
Committee.

Mr. GREENHILL RUSSEL!, With obliged, from in-
rlipposit to noir oft' on the quemion of 11w In-
denniity Bill. On the second reading lw paired off
with Sir ROBERT MOOESOSI, slid on the third with
Sir JOSEPH YORKE.

Extract of a letter from Major CARTWRIGHT,
to a efirmapondetit at Paisley :
" Bat while I recommend Petition'. by twenties, I beg to
put you on yonr guard against a trick of one enemies,
somewhirl base men have attempted to play un Lord
Cochrane and myself. From Iwo populates places we have
received parcels of Petitions, each having twenty signa-
tures, hot un examination great numbers of them are evi-
dent forgeries, proved by all the names being written by the
same hand. There can be no doubt hot that it was hoped
they would have been presented without any previous SOO-
homily, awl that the plotters bad taken care to give the
proper intelligence to some wirtmois norousil tttttt ocer,
im
the h►pe of bis !wing able to charge on the Member'. by
whom they should hare been presented, re connivaner, if not
a participation in the fraud. Such attempt,' having been
made, in the hope of bringiug into disgrace cities and towns
which are most patriotic, as well as enabling same profit-
gale orator to stigmatise the characters of men tiny dread.
I he most earnestly to ',prat my caution, in the hope
that you ■nd the other promoter• of Reform in Paisley
will be very vigilant to prevent what has taken place in
two other places, hut, thanks to the vivlasiee of Luca Cud:-
rime, without effect. Willi regard to involf I merely follow
instructions in sending half a parrel to Lord Cot hiior, and
aro lying the other half fur Sir Fratitis Buisdett, which I
had out delivezed when the discovery was mode."

The devastation committed by the recent violent
storms upon the public defences of Ports ))))) utli
garripon, we understand, has been rstitnatell at
upwards of 50,000/. loss. No similar considt•inu
of the ilea has happeried these forty-three yews :
when, it is said, the entire of Soutliseu -..1)1111110ii
was deluged. The tenements forming Greenwich
View, the inhabitants of which *vie almost literally
washed out of their houses in the middle of Iluu
111,.tuall night (Wednesday st'im;glo), continue
floodtil slid uninhabitable.