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London, England, 1826-09-12 00:00:00

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Robert flit trrthq, a rather genteel-looking young man, was
placed at the her, charged with obtaining various sums of money,
on account of his employer, by false and fraudulent pretences.
The prisoner, it appeared, had been for some months in the cm.
ploy of 'Messrs. Statham and Co., liquid blacking manufacturers;
his business was merely to take orders, and was not empowered to
receive money on account of the firm. lie had, however, as Mr.
Statham mated, applied to several of the customers, and possessed
himself of different sums of money, for which he had not accounted
to his employers. Mr. Statham said, that he had not been able
as yet to procure the attendance of the parties by whom the money
was paid, but lie hoped to be able to do so in a few days.
The prisoner made no defence, anti was ordered to give good bail
for his personal appearance.
hi LllOllOl/ GM ST RE E YvSterday Messrs. Lambert and
Say, two gentlemen residing in Wardour-street, were brought
before F. A. Roe, Esq. charged by Mr. Shepherd, the constable of
St. James's watch-house, with having assaulted him in the watch-
house.
The Constable deposed, that or. Sunday night, between ten and
eleven o'clock, the two defendants rune to the watch-house, ac-
companied by a watchman, having a young woman in custody.
Mr. Lambert then charged the female with having abused him and
his brother in the street, when he said he could nut entertain the
charge, it being fur abuse, and on which he discharged the female,
and told Mr. Lambert to leave the place. The defendant then
gave him his card, but still refusing to take the charge, on which
Mr. Lambert said, I *hall report you to the Magistrates of Marl-
borough-street, and demanded his caul back ; but this lie refused
to do. when the defendant called him a scoundrel, jack-in-office,
he. He then ordered him to walk not, but still refusing, he tank
the defendant by the arm and handed him gently out, when Mr.
Lambert turned round and struck him three or four times in the
face ; previous to which he turned round and said, " George, you
mind you say lie struck me first ;" when Mr. Say replied, " Yes."
The second gentleman lie charged for not leaving the watch-
house.
Mr. Lambert, in his defence, said, that he and his brother had
ben out together, and on their returning home through Sydney's.
court, two females came up and begsn pulling them about, re.
questing to have something to drink ; this they refused, when one
of the girls knocked his hat off. They then made use of the most
disgusting language, an which lie gave one of the girls in charge
to the watchman. On arriving at the watch-house, he gave the
charge, stating the whole of the particulars, when the constable re.
fused to take the charge; and, in reply to his striking the con.
stable, it was false, for he had for some time past been obliged to
keep his arm in a slim.
The Beadle deposed that he saw Mr. Lambert strike the con-
stable three times in she face. On being questioned by the Magis-
trate, he admitted that Mr. Lambert had stated the whole of the
charge to the constable.
Mr. Roe, to the constable—You have acted excessively wrong
in not taking the charge which the gentlemen had made against the
girl of the town.
Mr. Lsmbert was than sworn, when he re-stated the facts, and
Was corroborated by Mr. Bay; on which the Magistrates censured
Shepherd's conduct, and Seed him 61.
Mr. Lambert put is bail

A gentleman, stated to be the Bev. Jorph Taylor, was brought
up for being drunk. lie had been living at the George and Blue
Boar for the last month, where he had incurred a bill he was (n-
-eapable of paying, and had put oft the host from time to time till
his patience was exhausted. The unfortunre Divine had a pro-
pensity to drink, which made him more offensive than his poverty.
Mr. DYER discharged him with a reprimand.
UTTERING COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
QI7 EEN-SQUARE.—Yeltenhy Mat Ma Bird, a very interesting
young girl, underwent a final examination on a charge of uttering
bad money.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner 'mid gone to the
shop of Mrs. Elimbeth Bicadon, a patrycook's, in Paradise-row,
Pimlico, and in the purchase of two tarts tendered a bad shilling.
It seemed that on two former occasions the had disposed of money
in the same way and escaped ; hut in the third attempt a con-
stable was sent for, who took her into custody.
Alr.J.Field, an Inspector at the Mint, on examining four shillings,
pronounced three of them base and counterfeit, and from one die.
The prisoner, in her defence, denied knowing the shilling was
bail, and declared she never was in the shop before.
Fully committed for trial.
WORM( P-STREF.T.—Yesterday, Thomas Ilayes,a boy appa-
rently not more than 12 years of age, wan brought before the sitting
Magistrate,,on a charge of stealing a basket of plums nearly as big
as himself.
Ann Bates, a poor woman who keeps a fruit stall, near Shoreditch
church, purchased a bushel basket of plums, in Spitallields market,
yesterday morning, and deposited them near the door of a ware-
house while she went to make some other purchases. On her re-
turn after a very short absence her basket was gone, and she
" catch" the prisoner in liamb.street, carrying it on his shoulder,
and making off us fast as the burden would permit.
It appeared from the prisoner's acknowledgment when taken to
the watchhouse, that the plums were to have been a sort of joint.
stock property between him and another boy, to be sold in the
atreets at a penny per pint. The prisoner was to procure the plums,
while his companion was to borrow a pint pot for the purpose of
measuring them.
The young delinquent was committed to Nesrgate for trial.

FAM ILY SQITA BBLEFI.
UNtosr-II A r L.—Yesterday a respectable looking man who
gave his name Bows, was summoned before the presiding Magis-
trate for assaulting his brother-in-law, of the same name,
The complainant, on commencing bit statement, called the
Magistrate's attention to a black eye titer he had received from his
relative that morning. He then proceeded to state that he was a
married man. and that his wife having taken a freak into her head
to abscond from him, " very naturally," said he, " I went to
week after her, fearful that she might have flung herself into the
river, or done some other naughty trick." In the course of his
search he called at his brother-in-law's house, and the first object
that presented itself to his astonished senses wan his wife, whom
he had almost given up for lost. She wan sitting behind a screen
in the parlour, and he no sooner caught a glimpse of her, than
running forward for the purpose of embracing her, the defendant
met him half way, and gave him a douse in the eye that closed it,
and during the confusion that arose in consequence, his wife, in-
stead of remaining where she was, made a precipitate retreat, leav-
ing her cora spoon in the hands of a man that, in point of size was
able to annihilate him from the face of the earth. He added that
he nude an attempt to follow his wife, but the person who had
assaulted him in the first instance swore most bitterly that if lie
budged any where but one of the house, his other eye should meet
with the same fate. Consequently lie was obliged to depart without
1 his wife, to whom no one had so much right, he said, as himself.
The defendant interrupted him by saying, that he was justified
in treating him in the manner he had. " The fact was," said the
defendant, " the person who now made the complaint treated his
wife very barbarously, and the poor woman, eisguated with his
behaviour, left him, and sought protection under his (the de-
fendant's) roof. Thither the husband followed her, and in a state
of intoxication demanded that she should instantly leave the
premises. Defendant remonstrated with him on the brutality of
his conduct, in the course of which high words ensued, and the
result was, that the defendant struck hint in the eye.
The complainant declared that lie was as sober as a judge when
he went to look after his wife. The assertion, however, was COD•
tradicted by two witnesses, who bore testimony of his having been
blind drunk on the occasion. The Magistrate therefore discharged
Mr. Bones, the defendant,and advised his namesake,the complain•
ant, to behave better to his wife in future, and lie would warrant
she woul:: not abandon tier home.
I DISGUSTING INSTANCE OF immoRALITv.
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An apprentice boy to a printer was brought up for neglecting his
mas'er's work.
The printer stated that the defendant was bound to him for seven
years, and that he had served about 12 months of his time. For
the first two or three months the lad went on very well ; but sub-
sequently, having formed some very bad associates in the neigh.
bourbood, he neglected his business, staid out at night, and what.
ever work he was set about always contrived to spoil it. This was
the complaint.
The defendant, a tine chubby-faced boy, began to set up a howl
on hearing the charge. He declared that the complainant had not
told the truth, " toe," said he, " my master reaches me nothing
but gambling. Ile drinks very hard, is regularly drunk once a day,
and twice on a Sunday. He attends the Baptist Chapel on the Sab-
bath, and often goes there staggering drunk. It is true he allows
me a shilling a week, but when he gives it me, he compels me to
gamble, and then gets it back again."
The Magistrate observel. that by the lad's account lie had a very
bad example before him. Ile should therefore advise the indentures
to be cancelled. This proposition was mutually agreed to, and the
parties withdrew.

We have just heard that a butcher, named Yates, has
been murdered on the Bristol road, not far from this city.
The report seems, unfortunately, to be too true, but no
particulars have transpired.—GAireester.fournal.
DREADFUL. Munnes.—We have the pain of recording a
most dreadful and sanguinary murder, occasioned by a fit of
jealousy, which has been committed on the body of an un-
fortunate woman of the town named Mary Brown, by a man
who was on the most familiar terms of intimacy with her.
The name of the murderer is Philip Tinning or Tinneney ;
and conceivin,, that the unfortunate deceased had given
favours to others besides himself, he determined within
himself (aa he expressed it) to " see the far end of her."
Having made an appointment, on Wednesday last, with
her, to meet him in the neighbourhood of St. Nicholas,
they walked together about three or four hours, from two
till about six, during which lie treated her with some rum,
which he had brought with him in a bottle, for the pur-
pose • and, in a field next but one adjoining to St. Nicho-
las' Well, committed the dreadful decd for which he now
awaits his trial. Ile struck her with a hammer several times
on the head, and inflicted three most dreadful wounds, from
one of which the brains plainly protruded, and, ptting her
hand up to save herself from the effects of' his deadly rage,
lie oroke one of her fingers with a blow of the hammer,
and completed the dreadful work of destruction. Leaving
her body lying he flew into Scotland, but was so dread-
fully conscience-stricken that he returned to deliver him-
self up to justice, and, giving the information of the
dreadful deed which he had committed, was sent to gaol,
and his voluntary confession was taken, in which lie un-
hesitatingly owned himself the murderer. The deceased
was about 26 years of age. She had a husband, Henty
Brown, who is a native of Wetheral, and is now a white-
smith in Whitehaven. The prisoner is a native of Ireland.
—Carlisle Journal.

CORONER'S INQUEST—Yesterday evening an inquest
was held at the Triumphant Chariot, Pembroke-mews,
Grosvenor-place, on view of the body of William S,oith,
a lad aged 13, who expired at St. George's Hospital on Sa-
turday morning about nine o'clock. This lad was one of
the three persons, who, our readers may probably recol-
lect, was precipitated from a scaffold 55 feet high by the
parapet of a new house falling on it, and has lingered
ever since. The same evidence was repeated as was
given at the inquest on the apprentice Wm. Evans, and
the Jury returned a similar verdict—Accidental Death.
We are happy to have it in our power to state that Mr.
Jefferys, the other person who was on the scaffold at the
time of the auitlent is likely to recover.
During the whole of the past week, the inhabitants in
the neighbourhood of the Greenwich and IVoolwich road
have been kept in a state of continual alarm and anxiety,
in consequence of the numerous excesses committed by the
sailors of the two frigates, the Briton and Leven, which
have just been paid off: On Sunday evening about twenty
of these fellows, headed by a drunken niessmate in a large
seal-skin cap, with no other covering save his shirt and
trowsers, attacked every well-dressed female who came in
their way, and committed, even in the face of day, the
most horrid brutalities. One of the fellows, more impudent
than the rest, seized hold of the wife of a respectable inha-
bitant of Blackheath, and attempted to drag her into an
adjoining field, even in the presence of her husband and a
friend, by whom she was accompanied. In Mr. W.'s
attempt to die igage the ruffian from his rude embrace,
and extricate his wife, who had fallen into a fit, he was at-
tacked by the whole of these desperadoes, who, after beat-
ing him in a most horrid manner, made off towards the
fields at the back of the Ship anal Billet, and, unfortunately
for the ends of justice, effectually made their escape.
Typhus and other fevers, and bowel complaints, have
for some time past been prevalent in this town (Lewes)
and neighbourhood, and in some instances the former
proved fatal..--Susser Adv.
The bowel complaint is very prevalent in this town. We
understand that one eminent surgeon has no fewer than'
400 patients under his care for this disorder at the present
time.—Lrierster Cironicle.