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NEW CHURCHES.

Yesterday a Meethne of il7ll7•Ttees for building the intended
sew Church in the parish of St. Mary, Newington, was held at the
!Huai Wants of the parish, for the purpose of hearing an d deter-
mining on an appeal made by the Auditors for the parish against
POMP charges in the accounts of the before-mentioned Trustees.
Mr. Adolphus, in consequence of the appellant's having been
*aqui ed to appear by counsel, attended on hatalf of the Auditors,
bud stated, that although by the Act of Parliament, they were in
the extraordinary sod anomalous situation or judges we an appeal
against their own acts, yet he trusted they would. from a sense of
!mem, retrace their steps, if it should be 111114 k out. as be bad
flute doubt it would, that they hsd been lavish in the expenditure
of the parish money. The learned Gentleman then stated that
his Mot objection was to the allowance made to Mr. Clutton, who,
in addition to the other favours bestowed on himself and firm. re-
mised 2001. per annum, as Clerk to the Trustees. Their meetings
were not Lutverous, and when they gave him 1311. per annum, the
auditors bad objected to it on behalf of the pariah, and, since that
time, the duties had been considerably diminished. In addition to
this allowance, Mr. Cluttoo received payment, as • Solicitor, for
matters which he should have done as the Clerk ; and many things
were done by him in the latter capacity, which it was the duty of
the 'trustees to have done themselves. The next item to which he
had to object was ter a chime of eight bells in the New Church.
Now they had one chime already, which some might think more
than necessary. But certainly they ought not to have • second
chime of eight bells imposed on them at a considerable cost, when
three at mint would suffice. In olden times it had been customary
with those who, from motives of piety, or a love of harmony,
w.2re desirous of a peal, to make a present of the bells they
Inn& think desirable, beyond those requisite for tolling the congre-
gation to church. Such donors perpetuated the remembrance of
Their liberality, by baring their names cast en the bells. Here the
Trustees had their names east on the bells, but directed that the
parish should pay them for the honour. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to call a number of parish clerks, whose salaries, it
appeared, were from 1001. to 2001. and 2301. per annum, with ex-
tensely heavy duties attached to them. One of them stated, that
be sometimes wrote for 17 hours per day. The Learned Counsel
objected to the mode in which the accounts were mixed up ; but
the Trustees refused to allow that point to be entered into. Ile
then put in one amount, from which it appeared that the amount
of the rates toll cted in this parish, under the operation of the la-t,
was 21511. 14s. 3d. Of this had been paid to Mr. Clutton, or the
Grni of Carter and Clutton, for his bills, as Solicitor, and his sa-
lary as Clerk to the Trustees, 2,3191.; for his leasehold interest
is the site of St. Peter's Chureh-yard, 21971.; and tither items,
foran..g a total of 45011. 18s. J. The amount at present expend-
ed was 52751. Ss.

Mr. THEIIIIOeII replied as Counsel, In support of the ac-
counts as we undenitood, for the trustees. He said the bill of
Mown.. (:aver and elution had not been questioned by any evi-
dei ee. and he should therefore leave that out of the case. He then
amterilA that a second peal of bells was requisite in the pasish for
the parishioners to celebrate their weddings or their loyalty. The
salary to Mr. Clinton was li tie enough for a prufessiensl man. It
woul.l he useless to adduce evidence to justify these charges, since
they were aware of it, and as the auditors. perhaps, intended to
appeal, It would only be furnishing them a ith arms out of the well
stored armoury of the trustees.
The sepellants and the parishioners were ordered one of the
Penni. when the trustees deliberated for a considerable time. They
then declared (Mr. Palmer only dissenting) that the accounts were
proper, and that they saw no just grour.ds for the appeal. The
Auditors give notice of an appeal to the Sessions.

Matters are happily im constituted in the commercial
world, that every great evil in due time brings about its
own cure. This is apparantly about to be the case witlt the
coals. The unusually high prices at which they have ht en
selling for a conaiderable time have induced the proprietors
of land, particularly on the east side of the city, to sink a
numbt-r of new pits. Mr. Dunlop has got fine coal in a
sew picas Camlachic. Hunttr has put down at Light-
burn, in which he has found a species of coal which is in
high estimation for drying malt. Mr. itl'Alpine is sinking
one at Shettleston. Besides, new pita are either in progress
or finished at Mount Vernon, Drnmpellier, Kenmure, San-
dylaills, Willismriood, Govanhill, Shawlands, and some
Lather places. There can be doubt that the produce of such
a number of new mines will soon cause a re-action, and
bring down the prices of coale.—Glorgoo Chronicle.
A steam vessd, on an entirely new principle, is now
building at Bridport harbour. It is not to be propelled by
paddle-wheels, but by the retrogate motion of short flaps,
which work horizontally in the sides of the vessel, progres-
sing at the rate of twenty-four feet in a second, on a pa-
rallel line with the water. When the flag, or rather fin,
has finished its motion, it rises out of the water and repeats
its operation, by rushing through a space of eighteen fret
along the side of the vessel. Boilers are dispensed with,
end the steam generated by forcing water into a double
barrel, by the heat of which it is easily converted into
steam, basing all the advantage of the perpetual boiler
without its incumbrance.—flymortla
MONTROSE.—TraIIe continues mcney eircu-
lating—but not even one failure of considerable importance
bas taken place or is anticipated. We have heard of no
4Apinissal of workers. The mills are kept going the usual
urs, although the wages have been reduced. Stock on
Land accumulating Int.—Caledonian iferestry.

LAW NOricia
COURT OF CHANCERY.
11110111 TUC LORP CVAIICULLOA AND ►ICa-CNANCSLLOI•
Foo.th Seal Day.—Motions only.
Lord Chant rllor tbl, ddy at ten, the Vice-Chancellor at battled ten.
ROLM COI' RY.
General Pent= Day at the Rolla to•morrow (the ISth lust.) at six In
the evening.
Petliton. rnwd be set down, and copies left with the Secretary before
two o'clock thi. day.

ASSIZE I.N"I'ELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LANCASTER, MARCR 11.

MAYNAND V. ACHOLF.A AND cuirws•
Tretpam—Ao Action for as. SA 1!
Mr. ll'lntiAal• peened the pleadings, and Mr. Sergeant CROss
stared the nature of the trespass to tt.e Jury.
Two of the defendants lad suffered judgment to go by default ;
the other riveted—Not Guilty.
From the Learned Sergeant', statement, it appeared that the
Plaintiff occupied, at the time that the tuatara.% was committed, a
house of the defendant Scholes, at the rent 01 2s. 10.1. per week :
that the defendant, heanng that the plaintiff WO Omit to leave the
house, proceeded there, and pressed him for the rent which he
owed, being two weeks, understanding that he *as going to
Leeds to •• moonshine it," and was actually preparing for that
place, to go by water, and that a cart was then at the door to con-
vey the galida to a boat. This the plaintiff denied, when the des
fendant got a constable, sod locked the door It was for this'
trespass that the present action had been brought, and it woull be
for the July to say, after he should have called the witnesses, what
damages the plaintiff WM entitled to under such circumstances.
John Hilton examined—lle knows the plaintiff, Jo:haa May-
nerd ; recollects that he vas going off to Leeds on the 18th of
September ; he was with him at seven o'clock in the evening; he
lived at Blakely at that time ; he au at Robert Seholes's house ;
he stopped with him that evening ; he was to start between the
hours of three and four o'clock in the morning ; don't know that
&holes kept a public-house ; he remained there with him all that
night ; he stopped there until four o'clock ; the phtiotlff had fur-
niture of his own at Blakely ; he has a wife and three daogliters.
Witness wu going to help the plaintiff to carry the goods to the
cart, which were to be taken to a boat and gent to Manchester ;
they were not carried • Scholes came up whilst he was preparing to
move them ; some of family were up and some in bed. Hall,
&holes, and Clarkaon Caine ; plaintiff said, " What do you do
here ?" &holm said, " I am going to see that you do not re-
move your good. :" pulled from his pocket a em,wable's staff,
said, " I'd he d----d if you shall mote anything out of the
house until I am paid my rent," and shut the door. Ile ask.el
him to show his authority ; he raid " You will see by tied by."
He said, " Come over to our house and you will see." lie went
and began to put something down. I asked him what he was
writing ? He said. " I am putting down the two weeks' rent."
Maynard said, •• Why you have in hand ha. lid. or 61.8 d." De.
fentlant said, right or wrong he would have it so. When plaintiff
began to talk about come bacon which he had charged him 80.
for, when it should have been only 8.1. per pound ; he said to the
defendant " Why you arc 44. in my debt." Scholes asked if the
windows were all right. He then took a candle and went up etairs ;
he had the key of the door then in his hands. I salted Seholes if
he meant to keep toe pig, as it was not Maynard's' He said he
had awbip for Sam Hamer. Plaintiff did not go to Leeds.
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL...IIe lied agreed
to give 35a. for the pig ; it took him an hour and a half to put the f
goods together before the cart came ; he came to Maynard's Mbar`. 1
Witness lives about two hundred yards from the plaintiff's Name ; 1
he was to take the pig of him for the price he had agreed to give
for it; Scholes kept a public-house at Blakely, called the Lion ;
we are all lions at that place (a laugh); will not swear he's a lion ;
every mon coming front Blakely is called a lion. (Much laughter)
ATTONNEY.GENERAL-1 am glad to sec a lion here. ( Repeated
laughter.)
Examination resumed.—Knows what a " Lottriwt Ail" is ; that
is, naming away without paying your rent—it ix leaving the land.
lord—it is tuoonshining it ; has never heard Maynard say, more
than twenty times, that he did not owe him one halfpenny ; he '
could not take his family away and leave them without goods; he
left five or six weeks after; the rent was 25.10e1. per week; don't know
if Illeynard's attorney it a lion (renewed laughter); cannot tell 1
what is fur the heneht of others ; he had worked hard for his pig,
and all he wished for was to have it ; he had only Ins. per week,
and the pig would be of great service tow large a family. (Conti-
nued laughter.)
After several witnesses had been examined, to prove that the de-
fendants were in the house, and that before they proceeded to levy
on the goods of the plaintiff; the defendant had locked the door,
The ATTORNEY•GENENAL addressed the Court in behalf of
the defendants, and said, that as a !Anteater Jury had in two in.
stances, during the present Assize, given a nothing damages,
he trusted that in this instance they would give similar damages.
The present action had been brought by a poor ruan'„prget on
by his attorney, no doubt, who might be called the hod of lions !
(Great laugirer.) Ile would admit that the plaintiff mug re-
cover a verdict, but then what damages had he shewn he mas
entitled to ? Here was a man who had evidently an intention to '
leave his landlord without paying him the two weeks' rent, and
to " as it was called, by " moonlight ;" and it was only
because the defendant had locked the door before he die-
strained, that the plaintiff bad found an attorney to bring this!
paltry action. It was quite clear that he had an intention to
wive Isis goods ; it was the attorney's action, who brought it for'
" ho cure, no pay." He admitted that a verdict must pass against
bin client, and then what would be the consequence:—what, bfft '
that the poor man would be consigned to a prison. No damages had
been proved, nor had any goods been taken &tray ; then what
had he to complain of? fie thought attorneys did themselves no
credit by bringing such actions as these, and he was stogy to
think there aliuuld be fuund one who could lend himself to Oath a
cause. •

His LORDSH ir, in his charge to the Jury, said, that the plain-
tiff must have a verdict againg thine defendants who had not
suffered judgment to go by default. The action had been brought
for a compensation in damages for the trespass complained of,
which was the locking the door before any distress had been fe-
rny made ; he had certainly no right to take the key with hint.
fhe quantum of damages was their province, and they would give
such as would answer the case, and the lowest coin of the realm
would do.
TbeJury found for the plaintiff—Damages .31.

DOE AND FORSI Elt V. EARL Of DERBY AND OTHERS.
•••• • • - •

This was an action of ejectment, brought by the tensor of the
plaintiff (heir at law of James Forster), to recover possession of
certain lands in this county.
The case lasted a coneiderahle length of time, and liner a num-
ber of witnesses had been examined on both sides, the Jury Wood
for the plaintiff.
TAYLOR ANT) ANOTIIER HART/MAN.
This was an action for work and labour per!urmed by the plain-
tiff at the defendant's request ; 1831. irpt. 7d. had been paid into
Court, and the plaintiff went after the balance of his bill, which
wu originally 1,0441. and upwards.
After a long examination of witnesses, the Jury found for the
plaintiff—Damages, Mg.

THE BLACKBURN RIOTERS.
CROWN SIDE. •
(Before the Ron. Mr. Justice BAYLE Y.)
This day his Lordship tried these rioters, and sentenced Samuel
Shsw, the ringleader, to five months hard labour, Bond and Bar.
ker to four too Chit, and the ()then to two and three tnnnths each.

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Richard Pennington alias /fir/lard //w/'r/I, aged 25, charged
with burglatiausly breaking .and entering the dwelling-house of
William Prescott, at Barscough, and with having stolen thcrain
one silver watch, two cows, three waistcoats, one pair of breeches,
three pairs of stockings, three sick handkerchiefs, and 31. 3a., his
property and money, was found Guilty.
Sentence of dauth recorded.

POLICE.

GUILDHALL.

• 4xnuaamtiar or Pmaasaa Orrsaci“--niagil, the beadle
of Cnppiegat:. appeared yesterday on the behalf of the overseers of,
that ;harsh, to answer the complaint of Eliza Vivian, a decent.
looking female, for refusing to relieve Mgr.
The youit.• woman suited, that she and her husband had lived
some years ht tire parish, and that her hushaml becoming ill a few
days ago, and unable to earn anything taWnTill their summit, the
applied to the .overseers for a little temporary relief. Sire was in-
tr,tineed to the Parochial Committee on Thursday, but WOO dia.
missed by them without any assistance. and with the observatioa
that '• as het husband got ill he must get well again."
Donald replied to this charge, that the woman slimild not merely
have left the Magistrate's summons on Saturday, but she should
have obtained an interview with the relieving overseer. and then
there ought have been no necessity for attendieg hen to-day.
Mr. Aldennan Baowx—l never sit in this their but I hare to
complain of .he uss inhumanity of overseen% towards the poor of
the steam parishes. The treatment of this tinur woman is ex-
eessively disgraceful to the parish of Cflpplegate. and I do not care
how publicly this opinion of mine is known. It is shameful that
in a city like this. respectable Toresons cannot be found in the %rental
pAri.lirs to discharge the duties of overseer in person. butt that it
must be deputed to hirelings like you. who yniitule and trifle with
the most pressing want. Let the necessary amps be taken to make
a peremptory tinier upon this parish.
Donald finmedistety slipped Is. Si. into the woman's hand, and
said, " I have relieved her, your Worship ;" but the Alderman
nevertheless signed the summons, in order that the overseers may
be kept to their duty,

ROW-STREET.
Yesterday Peter N,den and Level, two young men
having the appearance of mechanics, were brought before Sir
RICHARD BISNIE, charged with a highway robbery alleged to
have been committed under very atrocious ciredinstances upon Mr.
John Moulton, a farmer, at Yemen Barnet, Uiddlnrx,
Mr. Manito,s, who appeared with his head bandaged and several
bruises on his lace, a sl in a very weakly state, depneed that
he was in the habit of taking in droves of sheep for the night on
his tam, and on Saturday night he was always at a public-house
called the Orange Tree, at Colney Hatch, waiting for the drovers
to coma up On Saturday night last he was at that house until
shout batf-pluit eh van, wheo he left it, and proceeded towards his
tam at Friern Hemet, by a lane called Muiswell liill.lana lie
had got but a fey yards when he was overtaken by the prisoners,
who were stringent to hint, and one of them, accosting him, salt!,
" We have been Into Tatra (Me landlord of the ()range Tree) to
get some beer, but the bat was shut up." The witness merely said
" have you ?" and walked on, the pnsonai keeping by the stale

THE BRITISII PRESS.

him. Presently Platten raid, " we have been down the reed to meet
some sheep, but there's note up." The witness again said •• have
you ? ' and they walked on in silence together until they had
I gone about a quarter of a mile up the lane, when the two prisoners
at the same moment, and without uttering a word, fell upon him
with bludgeons, like two men threshing of wheat, and beat him on
the head until they laid him list upon his back. One of them
then got upon hint arid grooved his throat with his fingers and
thumb was to pin his head to the ground, while both rifled his
pockets of all the money they contained. consisting of two sove-
reigns and from Ws. to 15s. in silver. The prisoner Naden was
the first that spoke, and he asked the witness for his watch. The
latter implied that he had none, upon which Naden said, " Let's
have none of your lies," adding, "if you make any realstauce I
will shout you." The witness saw no tire arms. The witness's
head was already laid open in several places, and he was welteting
in his blood, mid lie called out to them for God's sake to spore his
life, on account of his wife and six chiLlren. Having marched all
his pockets they left him, and walked away very composedly.
The sticks with wlti4 they beat him exactly resembled what funn-
ing people call wheat-swingles, used to thresh corn. When
numess lied somewhat recovered, he got up and followed the pri_
kitten, whom he aould see very plainly about one hundred yards
down the toad, when they-got over a gate, and he lost them. lie
then returned to Lolney, and saw a ohm named Healey, a carpenter,
and another, a gardener, who saw the state he was in, and assisted
hint to wash his wounds. and staunch the blood lo some measure,
but one or two or the cuts continued bleeding until the next morn.
Mg. On Sunday morning the witness went round about the neigh.
bourbon& in the hope of meeting with the robbers; and having
given ii.formarion, will a description of their persons♦ at an inn
called the. Swan, by the road-side, he was going through a private
road belonging to a gentleman named Hensley, when he saw the
prisoners before him, and immediately pelt convinced that they
were the men, though he then only saw their backs. They looked
round and raw hem with his head hound up, and then turned sud-
denly hom the road across acme fields. The witness knowing that
the path they bad taken would bring them out near the Swan,
went quickly round by another road, and met the prisoners and two
tither young mum just emerging Irom the fields, with each a
bundle of turnip. tops, lie charged the two strangers to assist
hint, and the prisoners were taken to the Swan, and there given la
charge to two of the borre.pwtrol, who searched them, and found
is. Od. in silver ouone, and pis. on the other. The witness, in
conclusion, swore josithrely to both the prisoners, whose dress
and persons he sadtL. he described to Healey and the gardener the
same nigh:. He ;induced a antock.fr , which he wore at the
time, and which wietecoed in blood.
The patrols bar' been
.fecen examined, Sir It. iIIaNIE ordered the
prisoners to he brut round to the table, and directed their
clothes to be nitroftriy examined. This was done, and several
marks were found ttie Latch's trowoers, which had the appearance
of blood, but whieb he said were the stains of oak which he had
got his trade of *sawyer. On examining the inside of the cuff
et his coat, and tire wristband of his shirt, however, there were
narks of blood which could not be mistaken. On Naden's coat
sleeve there appealed 16190 to be stains at blood.
lons prisoners were asked separately what they had many, and
each told the Stale mom...namely, that they went into the Orange-
. Tree about seven or eioltkietlock on Saturday evening, and there
tom the prosecutor drinking beer with a man named Taylor. whom
the. {mew. The prtnecutor was very drunk, and soon afterwards
tdl asleep. They stayed there till eleven, or a little after, and then
went home to It hetstotie. where they slept together. Taylor came
out when they did. '('hey did not see the prosecutor after they left
the Orange.'! roe timil the next day.
The preitecujee was asked upon his oath if he won drunk on Sa-
turday ntgltt,agd his answer was that he .` was perfectly sober and
solid. "

The prisoner's cents were taken from them, and they were re.
mandegi to g!ir tittle to asflect some further evidence. Imie be-
trayed great agitation when his clothes were examined.
No !eve than five lads taw committed from thlt, °Mee yesterday,
for picking pockets, an offence that has of late been lamentably on
the incre,ist..