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taken into the possession of Reid, who bore them prisoners m
Marlborough-street. when/ Mr. Gould was held to bail for the as-
sault, and his mao Daly, for want of bail, was carried to i'othill-
fields Rridewell.
Mr. Edward Francis Michael Goold, commonly called Colonel
Geoid, being in custody, numerous tradesmen came forwerd, to
know what they were to do to get paid for the various articles
with which they had trapplied Mr. Edward Francis Blichael
Geoid.
The wisdo-n of the Magistrate did not, however, ru 11.11101
a pitch u to solve so important and difficult &question, and the ap-
plicanu read, in the loiiks of kis Magisirate, that they were tot
likely to see of their debts, in Mat Other, any thing but the mere
name of Goold.

WORSHIP-STREET.
hwtnntixo.--On Saturday last this office W3ll much crowded,
chiefly by silk manufacturers from the neighbourhood of Spical.
fields and Bethnal-grecn, to witness the examination of a person
named Peter Atkinsme, who had been arrested the preceding even-
ing, charged with various fraudulent transactions.
It appeared that lie was in someway eons exted wiith a firm calling
themselves " Alexander %Vele!' and C 0.," general warehousemen,
7s, Queen.street, Cheaps'ile, who have fur some ir.ootha pair dealt
extensively in the 'ilk trade, and are now charged with having de-
frauded various manufacturers of that article of property Litt very
considerable ■mnwnt.

The prisoner was Hrst placed at the her in the public office, but
In contequence of some arrangement between the sitting Magistrate
(Mr. B) NETT) and Mr. Dennis, of Austinfriars, who appeared
professitraelly for the complainants, the prisoner ►as removed to
the private room, and it was ordered that the witnesses should be
admitted and examined separately.
Beveval witnoeves gtve evidence of Jiff rent acts by which the
prisoner had obtained possession of their voile to a considerable
extent.

The further besting was postponed until evening. but upon the
application of Mr. Dumis, the examination wu further postponed
until Monday (this day).
At this last examination, Mr. Miller, the solicitor, and several
mfrobtrs of the Guardian Society, were present ; and it is under-
stood that the future proceedings will be conducted by them.

TOWN-HALL.
Host" Thomas, a haekney-coachman, wait nn Saturday brought
before Alderman Smith. by Mr. Hill, a surgical student residing in
Weston-street, Bertspndsey, on a summons for charging more than
his fare, who stated that Master Thomas was called from the stand in
Gooch-street, Tottenham-court-road, to take up at the north end of
Thornhaugb.street, Fitzroy-square, and convey the comolsinant to
Weston-street. Bermondsey, to set down two friends in his passage
at the Post-office. Lombard•atreet, and for which service he de-
manded 4a. Rd. and took it.

To this Master Thomas, a son of the whip, rat& " I'll tell your
Worship all I knew, of this here btetiress, and I know. that I have
measured every inch of the ground my tits travelled over by the
wheel of our club."—" Your club?" said his Worship. " Yes,
our club," answered Jehu ; " it's established to protect us honest
coachmen, and I knows the wheel clicked in Southampton-street,
Bloomsbury; in llliddle.row, Holborn; in Newgate-streets in
Lombard-street, and the three miles and a half clicked half a fur-
long this here side of the gentleman's lodgings; but the gentleman
may bare it measured again if he likes, for I hate* di.honesty."
His Worship paused in admiration ! The complainant stared at
the ra►e rats, and swag content to take the honest man's ward.
" But my lost time, your Worship," said thin rare blot. " You
are entitled to 2a." said the .Magistrate. • " pay it," Said the
student. " And the exponent." said the clerk. " I'll pay them
also," said the gentleman. The coachman drew the nether side of
the right sleeve of his dreadnought athwart the creep nap of his
canter. The gentleman shelled out—the Magistrate looked—,
eoachee grinned, sad the audieece burst into • di of rowing
laughter.
UNION-HALL.
POLYGAMY.—Saturday Joho Jacobs, alias the Hon. Capt.
lie-
mi/ton, was brought before L. B. Allen, B.q. on a writ of Herbals
Corpus, from the King's Bench prison, at the instance of Mrs.
Francis Vitellis Baspaldo, on • charge of having contracted mar-
riage with her at Paris in May lost, he then having a lawful wife
living. The examination wen carried en is the prorate room, in
consequence of the of being filled with parties engaged in other
eases. Much interest was excited on account of the respectability
of the parties concerned.
The prorecutrix was considerably agitated during the investiga-
tion, but the prisoner seemed totally regatdLtse of his situation.
Before the proceedings were commenced, the prisoner begged
the Magistrate to exclude the gentlemen gannected with the press,
as in all probability the names of sonic noblemen, and others
moving in the first circles, to whom he claimed relationship by
marriage, might be dragged forward, and unnecessarily brought
befcre the public.
Mr. ALLEN said, that he had always carried on examinations in
public, except where a premature exposure might defeat the ends
of juatice t in this came he saw no reason to deviate from his regular
practice of administering public justice, and therefore he should
not exclude the gentlemen who had attended for the public
papers.
The prisoner then begged the reporters not to give the proceed•
logs of this examination, because the statement would be ex-parte.
Failing in this application, he requested that the examination might
be pestponed, as his evidence was not ready.
Axxar desired Mr. Butler, who attended for Mr. Harmer,
to proceed with his witnesses. _

.....
Mary Eyre, the first witness, was called to prove that a marriage
had taken place between Mr. Jacobs and a young girl, named Do.
rothea Donovan, at Cove, in the county of Cork, but she seemed to
have lost all recollection of dates, and, after • long examination, the
Magistrate was of opinion that she did not establish the first mar-
riage. . . _ -

111 r. BUTLER said that the mother of Mary Eyre could prove the
fact of the marriage beyond all doubt. A messenger was therefore
despatched for hit., and in the mean time the evidence of the pet.
goner's second marriage was heard.
Lieutenant Richard Butler was then examined. I know the pri-
toner very. well. I am an officer in an infantry regiment ; I was
formerly in the Guards. The prisoner was married to Miss Ca-
therine Fitzgerald, a beautiful and accomplished young lady, on
the 23d of January, 1817, et the church of St. Michael, Bath. I
remember the day well, it being the one on which I was married
myself. The marriage between the prisoner and Miss Fitzgerald,
as well as mine, was solemnised according to the forms of the
Established Church. I know that Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs lived toge-
ther as man and wife a considerable time; I have seen them toge-
ther, both in Dublin and in London. I have nut seen Mrs. Jig-
cobs, she who was married at Bath. recently.
Mr. BUTLER stated, that the lady had been summoned in order
to be identified, but that she bed refused to attend.
On the suggestion of Mr. Staples. she Chief Clerk, a warrant
was issued, requiring her immediate attendance. But, although
the p•oreedings were procrastinated to a late hour, no intelligence
of this lady reached the office.

Lieutenant Butler cross-examined—l do not know that proceed.
in relate!e to the marriage of Mr. Jacobs and Dorothea Donovan
have taken place in the Court of Arches. I should think that Alias
Fitzgerald we. about 21 or 22 years of age when she was married
to Mr. Jacobs.

Mr. RITTtrII then produced the certificate of the prolecutries
marriage with the prisoner, which was solemnised be him in the
name of " John Julian Hamilton, widower, of the City of Glas-
gow,"at the House of the British Ambassador at Paris, on the 10th
of May last.
The Magistrate having left the room, understanding that the
witness who bad been sent for could not be in attendance for some
hours, we collected the following particulars respecting the pri-
!toner's life and habits. It impairs that he is of the Jewish per..
suasion, and was fitted out by his hither for Demerara in 1813. on
board a ship; that on arriving in the Cove of Cork, be eon.
trscted the marriage with Dorothea Donovan ; they both were
minors at the time. In 1817 be was Introduced to Illisa Fitagerali,
to whom he made love passionately. She listened to his addresses,
and at length became his wife, in spite of the advice of her friends
and relations. Her health, it is said, is now declining. About a
year and a half ago, the prisoner was an inmate of the King's
Bench ; he was admitted to the rules, which he presently broke,
and went to Paris, where he became acquEnted with the
prosectitrix, -Wider the assumed name of the flooourable Captain
Hamilton, representing himself as the eon of Lord Charles
Hamilton, and in the service of Mr. Canning. He was
much in debt when he married bin. Riapaldo. Ssme processes
had been taken out against him. lle therefore persuaded his
nowly.scouired wife to quit Parts with him in mediately. He
professed to have written to the British Government for 6001: which
be said would await hint nt Calais, mad in order to arnve there
safely, it was nrranged that site should obtain a passport in another
name, and he clothe himself in her livery. In this manner he reached
London. In the course of the last summer, being tired of the Me.
gropolis, he set out for Worthing, leaving the prosecutrix behind,
and when there, he made an oiler of marriage to Mrs o—. He
afterwards went to Portsmouth, and attempted to purchase an estate
in that neighbourhood.
Between four and five o'clock the mother of the first witness ap.
peered; but the hour heing so late, Mr. ALLEN said it would be
impossible to take the depositions that day, so the cane must stand
Over.

Mr. ntret.Ert was understood to say, that he should at Ono pre-
file an indictment, the Assizes being now at band.

After s short dismission about whether the prisoner should be
Committed to gaol, or return to the King's Bench Prison, it was
decided that he should go to the latter place. He wks accordingly
taken thither by the tipster, who had brought him up with the
understanding that he would I.e prosecuted without &lay.

A LARMINo rms.—Between four and o'clock yesterday
efte.noon the neighbourhood of Stacey.street, which runs from
Old Comptomstreet to the hack of St. Giles's starch and Den-
mark-street. wu thrown into tie greatest state of slam by the
discovery of lire in the upper put of a house, No. 3. Lloyd's.
I court. The confusion was increased in conseqtleacc of the adjoin_
ing premises being occupied by of extensive dairyman, who
bees a number of cows on the premises, which sere Mith
culty got out. The engines were soon on the spot, and, owing to
, the esertions of the different firemen, it was get under, but cot
mail family the whole of the property OW destroyed in tits house
In which it commenced. Ned uhf fire happzic.ci in tits ;Lied of
the night the loss must have been tniir.ense. At the center Mete
is a eery extensive building, occupied by a fimber-inercitint, and
within two doors of the house tbete *ere legs buildings tilled
with timber. Mr. Napier, the printingmischine.mater's pre.
miles. are directly opposite; and had not the united efforts of the
different firemen checked the devouring aothiog could
have prevented their slay felling a saerif.x*

THE BRITISH PRESS. .

JEALOUSY A .VD MURDER.

[From the Glasgow, Citron*le. Dee. 81
A dreadful homicide was perpetrated on Monday night at Bar.
rowlield.road, In the house of a eotton-spinner, of the name of
Thomas Wl:be-a°, who, being discharged from flarroweed mill
at the time he was mentioned in Keen's confession, lately took
up his residence at a public-house in that vicinity. which inns the
general rendeavoits of the cotton-spinners. A raffle was held in
the house on Monday evening, for the purpose of enabling an old
spinner to make up his rent. A number of persool were conse-
quently collected, among them several females. The raffle was
succeeded by a dance. There were several companies in the house,
and Charles Campbell, who is charged with the crime, hstl been
drinking with some companians. A person of the name of John
Orr, • cotton-spinner, came into the house about ten o'clock with
Sarah AlsVicar, Campbell's wife. He had gone to her father's
hour-, and though she was in her shirt, he had advised her to
dress, and go to the (lance. Orr took her up to dance a reel, and
Campbell took another partner, not knowmg his own wife was
there. In dancing the teel, Campbell saw his wife, and patted her
on the side of the head, and they spoke a few words to each other.
After the reel was over, Orr and some other's retired into a back
room to have some whits ty. When Cempliell went into the room,
he saw his wile sitting on the knee of D.tniell Orr, brother to John
above mentioned, both brothers being unemployed spinners, when
he said it would be as propet for her to he sitting on his knee. She
replied, " you have got nothing to do with tile; go to your wife
and family at Johnstone." Campbell denied this, and said it
wns oily a girl who had a child to him there. Oa this he
made two strokes at his wife with a knife, but was prevented doing
her any berm. Some more high words having plumed between
them while she kept sitting on the opposite side of the table, he
watched the opportunity, and rising up, plunged the knife into her
bosom. She immediately rose, and screamed " get a doctor, for I
am gone." She ran from the back room through the kitchen, hold.
ing her breast with her two hands. the blood streaming from it.
She reached the pavement, bet almost instantly fell. She was car-
ried inside the shop frame the counter, till medical outshine*
could be procured. 'I he blood was spouting from her bosom, and
flossing through the house. She cried " I sot gone; God be met.
ciful to my soul !" Dr. Callaghan was called up about midnight,
by T. Al`Gowan, the landlord, who requested him to come in haste,
as there was a girl who had got stabbed in the neck in his house.
The Doctor went as fast as possible, and saw her lying on the shop
tenor with her head to the door, and her upper garments all covered
with blood. The Doctor requested that she should be removed lo
on inner nom. There turner/era! persons rending around her,
some of whom lifted her up, took her into a room, and laid her on
some chairs. There was a quantity of dotted blood on the zroond,
where she had been lying. Site could not be got to lie properly on
the chain. so that an opportunity might he afforded of examining
the wound. She ass laid on the floor. Dr. Callaghan saw of clear
arterial blood, a few jets spring front the wound. A forger being
placed on the wound, the bleeding ceased externally. The wound
was situated in the front of the neck, immediately above the ater.
num or breast bone, and was about half an inch to length. The
deceased spoke once or twice, but indistinctly; particularly she
asked for drink, which was given her by the landlord. She
wrought violently with her arms, which were held by some persons
present, while Dr. Callaghan examined the wound. every ',nip.
torn of death was fast approaching. The pupil of the eye was
dilated, the pulsation ass imperceptible, the countenance was coda-
verous;and the lower jaw felL It might have been about fifteen
minutes from the time the doctor first saw her till life wax extinct.
On the fatal deed being perpetrated, some of Campbell's com-
panions let him out by the back-door. The toll-keeper of Barrow.
field very properly watched a; the close till he came nut, when he
seised him and thrust him Into the house. He had to step over his
wife's bleeding lady into M•flowan's house. A party of the Cal-
ton patrol crrived and took him to the office about one o'clock on
Tuesday morning. The Superintendent and a party went to the
public.house, and made prisoner of John Orr, and a woman.
Wile body of the deceased was wrapped in • cloak. and ear-
ned by the patrol to the Calton office. Mr. Leckie went to
the house of the deceased's father, where he found the family
awaiting her arrival from the dance. The melancholy event was made
known to her parents, in the way loud stunting, through the medium
of the deceased's cousin, to whom it was imparted at the door by Mr.
Leckie. Between 4 and 5, the body was taken to her parent's house in
Afillroad-street, and is was heart.rendlng to hear the lamentations
of the familyy. Her father is a labourer, and the deceased wrought
in a cotton mill. A breakfast knife with a sheep point was found
on the floor, with which, it is supposed, the wound was is.
Aimed. Campbell said he went home to his mother's for the knife,
after Orr had provoked him about his wife. The deceased was a
good.looking young woman, aged eighteen years. Campbell seems
to be about thirty. He appeared to be drunk when he was taken
to the Calton police office. He slept on the floor of the office from
about one o'clock till six in the morning. He then tried to p_t_uo,
but his limbs were so feeble that he was unable till assisted. When
be awakened he did not appear to know whet he had done. The
Superintendent asked him hew he was ? He replied, what are you
that knows me ? What news this morning ? He was told it was
bad news; and when informed what he had done, he wrung his
hands, and tore his hair, and said he had murdered die best of
women. "We will not be long separate ; I hope we will meet In'
Heaven. I will put an end to my own existence; you will never
see me executed—(he said this several timeel—l wish I had a dug.
ger, I would put it into my breast. Where are you, try dear
Sally ? Where are you, Sally ? Many a happy hour we have had
together; you are gone, and I shall soon be with you. I have
sent her to eternity in an unprepared state, and I must expect to
lose my life as I hays taken hers ;" and knocking his forehead with
his hands, cried out in a distracted manner—" Oh. that the Lord
may impute her sins to me, as I mutate occasion of her untimely
end ! If the half of the world was mine, I would give it to re-
store her to life, but that is impossible, and I must follow Sally;
oh, that villain, he was the occasion of all this 1 I toyed the lassie ;
she wax a bonnie lassie; and where love is in the cue. jealousy is
soon kindled. I bred her to distraction. and would sooner suffer
death titan see her polluted. That rascal is ell to blame ; he went
to her fathers. and brought my wife to the public-house without
my knowledge. I was dancing among the rest, when to my asto-
nishment I found my dear wife before medancing along with OR.
I patted her on the cheek, and said, ` are you there?' and she did
the same to me In return. I advised her to go home, but On-, to
provoke me, kept her dancing and singing, and evidently for his
own purposes wished to fill her drunk.'. Campbell further stated
that he then left the dancing room in a high state of Irritation, and
joined his own company. He aftermath asked the landlord to tell
his wife to came out, but she would not come to him. Orr then
took liar into the room a here Campbell was drinking, and sat down
with her on his knee before Campbell. and said he meant to pus •
part of the night with her. He rave he was much intoxicated, and
has only a feint recollection of committing the deed. He was In-
flamed with jealousy and desperation. " Sally wan sitting opposite
Ito me along with Orr. We had a little chat, and I thought elle
rather slighted me, when I *manic up in • passion, and. God help
me I plunged the knife into bar bosom. On my making the first
attempt, they should have disarmed me, when they saw the lutist-
' went iu my hand."
He was merely placed at the bar of the police office, and told
that his case would be examined in a superior Court. He was then
taken to the Fiscal office on Tuesday forenoon in a noddy, and
afterwards sent to gaol. He said to those around, " farewell, I'll
never see you more." There was a great crowd collected to wit.
ness his departure. He is of low stature, and has something for-
lorn in his aspect. He said none could feel his present distress,
and he would not know the full extent of it till he was in the soli-
tary cell. He said he had wrought with her in the same mill, and
had courted her for three years ; they were scarcely ever separate
at night, and looking out at the coach window opposite Tradeston,
he said, " many a happy night my dear Sally and I have had
there together." He kept lamenting the fatal deed. He state'
that he belongs to Tarbert, Argyleahire, end has respectable
friends there. He was bred a cotton-spinner, but while at that
business lie attended the medical classes of the college, and prac-
tised as a surgeon in Tarbert for three years. If he had taken care
of himself a lady there offered to procure him the practice den
families, that would have been worth 1001. a year to him. Became
back to Glasgow about four years ago, and has since wrought as a
crettin-spinner. He seems from his conversation to have abilities.
Lie occasionally wrote poetry. He was one of the principal leaders
of the epinnen combinanon. He wrote letters, aced did other busi.
nest for them, lie says be received nothing for his trouble.
During the strike he got only the acme allowance as the rest, some-
time, 2e. dd. or 31. ed. a week. About three months ago he lost his
situation in Mr. AlThaire mill by displeasing his employer. He
had no allowance from the aatiOrMiioll, as his quarrel did rot con-
cern the trade. He has since been going about idle, sod imputes
his ruin to whisky. He is said to have been rather in a deranged
state for sometime back, especially when intoxicated. About six
weeks ago he called on Dr. Callaghan for advice respecting some
disease. He said he was sitting in an apartment some short time
previously, opposite a window, when some one neer him gave
a shrill whistle. He felt it going through him like lightning,
and immediately felt himself affected in a manner which he de-
scribed. On examination, nutting was found wrong. On the
Doctor reasoning with hint he found him perfectly insane on this
point.

The story prrmagated yesterdo_y that Campbell had been con-
fined in the Lunatic Asylum is false.
Campbell says he had been married to the deceased abont a
year. The couple had not taken up house, but occasionally saw
each other. He had repeatedly pressed her to go with him to
Tarbett, when he would resume business as a surgeon, but she
positively declined to go. He received no countenance from her
parents, when it was known that he had two illegitimate children
at Johnston.

It Is said that this Campbell is one of those who furnished the
information sent to Rime respecting the cotton spinners.--
.We are informed that the police have had their eyes on him for
some time, and had anr thin. been done by the cotton spinners'combination, combination, he would have been the first person that would have
been Invited after.
The unfortunate woman thus suddenly cut off was the grand-
daughter of poor widow Allan, whose deplorable case, with an
allowance from the Session of Is. 3d. a week to fend, clothe, and
lodge her, it the advanced age of eighty-nine yeah, was formtely
mentioned.

WADER AT BIRMINGRAII.-4 the British Press of
Saturday, we mentioned the particulars of a dreadful as-
sauit committed :by an Irish labourer, named Ford, on a
respectable shopkeeper in Birmingham, named Perry. We
have since learned that Mr. Perry died the next evening
or the ♦ounds inflicted on him. The police of Birming-
ham ate using every exertion to apprehend the murderer,
whose crime has easited universal horror.

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