The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-29 00:00:00

ADULTERATION OF SUGAR.

We have received a letter from >tr,Bla,ko, of Broad-street,
Golden.squate, whose name appeared In our police report on Satur-
day, connected with a charge of adulterating sugar with salt. Be
states that he told .tar. Conant that ho was in the habit of going
into the market and buying his sugar sometimes of one house and
sometimes of another, but that he had bought no sugar from the
house of For. and Price for several months.—ED. Ba. Pa.

PROVIDENTIAL ACQUITTAL—A lad, named Male,
was tried at the Old Bailey Sessions on the 14th of Sept.
1772, for a highway robbery, and his identity positively
sworn to by several witnesses. When called upon for his
defence, he persisted in his innocence, and said that his
witnesses would prove it. These witnesses were the books
of the Court, by which it appeared, that ou the very day
and at the very hour when he was stated to have committed
the robbery, he was on trial at the bar, where be then stood
for a similar offence, in which he was likewise unfortunate
enough to be mistaken for the guilty person : he was, of
course, honourably acquitted.
A THIS! CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAI..-.—Early on Sa-
turday morning, as.tha shopmen belonging to Messrs. Hil-
lyer's furniture warehouse, No. 25, Mount-street, Lam-
beth, were opening the premises, to their great consterna-
tion found a man concealed behind some furniture in the
shop, he was instantly secured. It appeared that the man
had contrived to secret himself on the evening previous,
with the intention, in concert with others, to plunder the
warehouse, but was fortunately frustrated in his object by
the place being so well secured", that with all his ingenuity,
he could not even gain his own liberty, and was obliged to
remain a prisoner until the opening of the premises. He
had therefore concealed himself in the hopes of making his
escape the first favourable opportunity ; but was prevented
by his discovery.
On Friday, about two'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Har-
bour, horse-dealer, of Silver-street, Golden-square, sent
his son, a youth between fourteen and fifteen years of age,
to Mr. Kemson's, of New-street, for a chaise cart ; the
lad had harnessed the horse, and just seated himself in the
cart, when the animal, a very spirited and fresh young
mare, started off at full speed into Broad-street, from
thence into Little IVindmill-street, and down Great Wind-
mill-street into Piccadilly. The youth not possessing suf-
ficient power to restrain her, she turned the corner sharply
into Regent-street, and unfortunately came in contact with
the poet. The boy was thrown out a distance of several
yards. She then pursued her course, with the harness at
her heels, and was not stopped until she had reached the
corner of Carlton-place and Pall-mall. The shafts were
broken of short, by the violessee of the concussion, both
springs were broken, and the vehicle dashed to pieces.
The boy was carried in a senseless state to the shop of Mr.
Cobbe, the chymist, in Regent-street; and upon restora-
tives being administered he was so far recovered as to be
carried home in the course of the afternoon.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning week, about
nine o'clock, as Mr. King's servant, of the Axe public-
house, Watergate-street, was going into the cellar, she per-
ceived a man lying at the bottom of the steps. He proved
to be a person named Willia.n Bourke, an Irishman, who
obtained a precarious livelihood by teaching writing from
house to house. He had nothing to drink, and it is sup-
posed that he had missed his way in going out, and fell
down the cellar steps. On being brought up, his skull,
which was remarkably thin—indeed scarcely thicker than
glass—was found to be dreadfully fractured. He was im-
mediately taken to the infirmary ' • and although every at-
tention was paid him by. Mr. Bag, tall, surgeon, and the'
professional gentlemen belonging to that establishment,
the unfortunate man expired two hours afterwards. A
Coroner's inquest was held on the body, and the Jury
brought in a verdict of "Accidentally killed."—Chester
CA rtinide.

INCREASED VALUE OF PROPERTY.—On Thursday last,
the Wellington public-house at ilunslet was brought to
the hammer, and was bought in at the sum of 1730/.; and
was, however, afterwards sold by private contract for two
'thousand rounds to Mr. Thornton, clothier, near Bradfotd.
The same premises, which cover the space of 708 square
yards, were sold within the last 20 years for six hundred
pan nds.
On Friday last, Mr. Thornton, gardener to Thomas
Bonham, Esq. gathered an extraordinary large bunch of
grapes, several Pleasuring three inches in circumference.,
It was taken from the same vine as the bunch for which
'he obtained the second prize at the Chichester flortieultural
,Soci.;•ty.4-11aorpr4irs Chronicle.