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London, England, 1825-12-17 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FRIDAY, DEc. 16.

Robert Brasier Rice, of Blaney Milli, near thicktield, Sussex,
was brought up a second time far examintuoii. •
This application gave n■^ to a long sr gamest, and eventaally to
an important decision, relrti►e to the cfoustvact;o:: ct the Act of
Parliament.

Mr. ff tarn opposed, and J! r. Coort supported the ititolvenet.
petition.
The insolvent having taken the benefit of the Aot within five
year, he was required to obtain the consent of three-fourths of hip
creditors, in onniber end value, to his appliestio t for relief under
the present petition.
Mr. Coos E produced ih consent reqoired, which r.mou nted in
number, and far exceeded in 'slue, Hera.-fourika of the aggregate
in the schedule, but It appeared that one of the pereons signing was

BO W.S-;1' BEET.

A young married woman, the wife of a tradesman, whose name
did not appear, was brought up yesterday morning front the watch.
house of the Precinct of the Savoy, charged In the constable's book
with having summed to drown herself in the Thames. The con-
stable who broughtlipe to the office, also produced a -bonnet and
shawl which had bplifited to another 'tumid), who had, it seems,
actually committed cute.
It appeared that between one and two o'clock yesterday morning,
the toll-keeper on dety at Waterlno Bridge saw the prisoner walk.
ing up and down near the gates, in a hurried mariner. While he
yeas taking toll item a passenger, she suddenly slipped behind his
lodge, mounted the balustrades, and was in the act of throwing
herself into the river, when he caught her by the clothes,and dragged
her back. He expostulated with her on the wickedness of the net
she had contemplate& and endeavoured to obtain some explanation
from her, but she was sullen and reserved, and finally he took her
into the Strand and gave her in charge to a watchman, whom he told
of what had occurred. and desired him-to prevent her from coming on
the bridge again. Not long after, as a gentleman wns paying h:s
toll, and the gate-keeper was relating to him the story, the prisoner
and another woman passed through, and the gate.kreper pointing
to the prisoner, said, " there she gees—that Is the woman." She
had given a sixpence to pay for both, anti the toll-keener gave her
a penny too much change; arid, making that an excuse, he called
her beck, and thegentleman took her in his charge and conducted
her to the watch-house, where Ice gave her into the custody of the
constable of the night "for attempting to drown herself." On the
*ay, in Firmer to some questions. she said that site and the ofler
woman had been. schoolfellows, and that they had revolved to die
together. When asked what had induced her to come to such a
resolve, she said something about ill-treatment from her husband,
but was rot at a explicit upon the subject. Meanwhile the toll-
keeper lest sigh of the prisoner's companion for a time, but in a
few minutes ass told by mime person, that a woman had
returned thmtigh the opposite gate, and gone down the steps lead.
log to the river. He ran there immediately, and as he was de.
standing the steps, he heard the noise of some one struggling in
the water, and on arriving at its edge he saw the body of a woman
sinking. The,tide was then making up very fast, and he had no
mums whatever of endeavouring to save her. 'Pus gentleman
who conducted. the prisoner to the watch-house, went back to the
bridge, and learning there chat had happened, he returned to the
watch-house, and accused her of having been accessary to the
death of her enmpanion, which she denied, and said she knew
nothing aboutther. The body of the woman who drowned herself
was picked op In the course of the morning, and conveyed to tta
Savoy public.bouse by the bridge.
The pri , whose husband was present, underwent a long
interrogation Sir R. Birnie and Mr. Halls; but she gave aoottrex-
ceedingly e fused and unsatisfactory answers. We gathered,
that her husband was a butcher, and that they had three
children. When asked and repeatedly pressed to say if her bus-
' band had illareated her, abe at length, with great reluctance, said,
"not lately." When her assertion that her female companion
wan her scli lfdlow was repeated, her husband said that could
not be the , for his wife hail never been to school. Upon hear-
ing this. priaonetturned round, and, in an angry tone,- said,
___l flow do u know she was not my schoolfellow, you wretch ?"
When ask why site called her husband " wretch," she said
t
he had g sly ilLtreated her; and this was all that could
be drawn in her, until Mr. Jones Peery, of Covent-garden
market, at red forward, anti said he knew the huabs-d and wife
Very well, dhe had' reason to believe that jealousy on her
, past, erh•42 ;well or ill founded he could not say, was the cause
,
: of the d immix+ between them.
The pr. ner criml, and admitted that such was the fact, adding,
" All L w in a separate maintenance from him ; I will never live
with him sin."
Mr. H a said the prisoner must he detained to be sent before
the Corot artsbegged that, id the interim, Mr. Peery would
retire whether and her husband, end endeavour to make the bad
atrangetnebt he could with them.
In about half an hour Mr, Perry returned with them. and said
she still *ailed to have a separate maintenance. The husband said
be was wilinn to arrange the matter in any way, and there the
conversa*m t ailed, Mr. Halls postponing his determination until
after the itqueat.
Yestert 4: Jaws Haskins was brought up on a charge of return-
ing from nsportatinn before the expiration of Ills sentence. The
prisoner was recopiiized on Thursday night, .in the pit passage of
the Adelphi Theatre, by Foster, an active officer belonging to the
Lambeth police establishment, who, after a seriotui struggle with
him anithis companions, during *lnch the scene of operations was
tranafered from the Theatre to Maiden-lane, succeeded, by the
assistants: of Birthall and Craig, of this office, in securing him.
A. poir,ef silver spectacles, and a handkerchief marked with
ioltialat ilrereat from his own, were found upon him. Bond having
bleatitild his person. and produred a book containing the record of
his eantiction for picking the pocket of a Mr. Thomas, in the year
lit), *d his subsequent sentence of transportation for 14 years, the
prisent was fully committed to Newgate for trial.
1 MA RI. BOROUGH-STR EET. '
Culisous Dtscoveae.—lrsaterslay, Jalo%/1 limiter, the driver
or do hackney chariot No. 2:116, who was in inunady oo suspicion
of lis if stolen a valuable military clock, belonging to Captain
E. Al 'rats, was brought up fur re-examination betide Sir George
Fair t.
C sin M'Oralh deposed, as on the former occasion, that he
era cid the prisoner on Sunday last, at Charing-cross, to carry
ht ii Regeto-street, from which plate the prisoner drove him to
Weolbridge Hottse, Cieekenwell ; on getting out, Lc forgot to
take Isis cloak, but knowing the prisoner's master, he made nn in•
quirk. end! the following morning, when he was informed
ti* two gentlemen had taken the chariot at Bridge-street,
Bleeitfriarit, who, the prisoner stated, must have taken the Hoak.
i in Wednesday two youths called at Captain M'Gratn's residence,
N0..217, Regvnt.street, and, on having the door opened to them,
thet wirtioes saying who they were, Ifft the cloak ; on which cit.

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