The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-07 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

John Arpkby, a boy about Li years of age, was charged by Jas.
Jackson, an apprentice of Mr. Mitchel, butcher, NS, Oxford-
street, with having robbed him of a silver watch, chain and seals,
which having been proved, he was fu:ly committed, and the parties
bound over to prosecute.
A young woman of very respectable and prepossessing appear-
ance, was brought front St. Pancras watchhouse, under the follow-
ing distressing circumstances:—
Clements, one of the officers belonging to this establishment,
stated, that admit six o'clock on the evening bethre, he was passing
through the Regent's Park, and, as he approached the basin of the
('anal, he saw this yuurg woman plunge front the batik into the
water. Before he arrived to her assistance, two labouring men,
who were working near the spot, had jumped in after her, and were
then struggling in the water; and, so great was the resistance she
°ford them, that, as neither of them could swim, Clements feared
she might escape from their grasp and be lost, and was preparing
to jump in to their assistance, when they dragged her ashore. It
took some time to recover her sufficiently to make any inquiries re-
specting the cause of her rash attempt, and, when slie was asked,
she refused to give any account of herself( but said that, if suffered
to depart, she would go directly home, and think no more of her
misfortune. The people who had collected thinking her sincere in
her repentance, she was suffered to depart. Clements, however,
did not place such confidence in her promises. and determined to
watch her. She directed her comae towards the Jess' harp Ta-
vern, by the end of which she concealed herself until she thought
the Officer quitted the Park. Clements, suspecting her object,
also concealed himself. In about ten minutes she emerged from
her hiding-place, and, it being now quite dusk, she proceeded, with
a hurried and detem.ined step, towards the Canal. Clements fol-
lowed unperceived, close behind her, and, just as she was about
once more to plunge into the water, where there was no chance of
her being saved at that hour, he seized her by the arm, and she
fainted away. This humane officer, after restoring her, determined
to leave her no longer to her own guidance, but conveyed her di-
rectly to the watchhouse of St. Pancras, where Mrs. Cousins, the
watchhouse-keeper's wife, paid the poor creature every attention,
gave her dry clothes, proper nourishment, and put her to bed. The
ur.happy young woman expressed her gratitude, but still declared
her determination not to survive the cruel treatment of her hus-
band, to whom she had been but a short time married, and whose
conduct drove her, she said, to her rash resolve,
The Magistrate approved of the totainane conduct of the officer,
and ;hose at the watchhouse, and questioned the unhappy young
woman as to the cause of her rashness. She with much reluctance
told her husband's name, confessed that she had acted hastily, and
thanked those who had preserved her life; which, after a feeling
admonition front the Magistrate, she solemnly declared she would
never again attempt to destroy. Her husband was sent for, and in
a short time a young man of genteel appearance entered the other,
deeply affected, and, atter thanking all who were concerned in the
• preservation of his wife, she was delivered to his care, when they
left the office together in a coach.

LA MBET 11-ST REE T.
Yesterday Mr. Nicholls, the proprietor of several staige-coaches
paying to a,..d from Stratford, appeared before Sir D. N t t.LIAMS,
to answer to an information laid against him by Wise. a noted in-
former, charging him with having, on the outside of one of his
coaches, on the 24th of August, two passengers more than the Act
of Parliament allows. This ease was allowed to stand over since
Friday last, at the request of Mr. Descor, who attended as solicitor
for Mr. Nicholls, in order to give him an opportunity of bringing
forward some of his witnesses, who were '.''en in the country. This
was acceded to by Mr. Nicholls paying the informer's
two witnesses ten shillings for their day. The parties all appeared
ytsterdsy, and the evidence was about to be taken, when Mr.
heacor discovered that neither the name of the coach-owner or the
driver, was inserted in the information.

‘Vitaeitaid It was an error in tilling it up.
Sir DANIEL WILLIAMS remarked Mat it was an error that was
fatal to the present Information, if the parties did not wish to ac.
kr.owledge that they were the persons for whom it was intended.
Mr. Dftaw, after consulting with Mr. Nicholls, said, that
under the circumstances Itis client would nut ackuuwletli,se to being
the party meant.
The information was accordingly distnisaed, and Wise ordered to
return the ten.shillings to Alr. Nicholls.

' George Darts, relies a respectable-looking man, was brought
before the .Magistrate, charged with having created a disturbance
in St. f icomc's church during divine service on the preceding even-
ing, and issitimlating a violent assault on one of the beadles.
Cooke, 'ha sexton belonging to the church, stated, that
the prisoner came Into the aisle of the church during the service, in
a state of extrema Intoxication, and after staggering about for sonic
time he at length fell, and his hat, which he kept on till then,
rolled off. That be, the witnow, remonstrated with him on the int_
pmpriery of his conduct, but it was all to no purpose. lie then
called Jaeksoti, a beadle, to his assistance, to remove him from the
chinch, and daring thu forcible ejectment the prisontr struck