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rot eating, laete, Bouncer, and a veil. These drama I wore at the i Inc at Short-litchi, for the rrearery of MIL which she bad invested
deep, big not at home. I used to kayo them at night with Alm in certain grounds which were put up fir Pole, and which in the
%mums. limn whom the heave was rented. When I paid the . bill of sale were described as being subject only toe pepper corn out
mites Mr. Aldred, I was furnished with a bill, and with another nominal rent, and being equivalent to freehold ground.
letbsequently. These bill+ I placed in Mre. Sinimorts's clock, but The definite set up wee, that the condition of the ground
Mrs. Simmons wait I
told apprehemave
theAl th might be diswevi.
mentl, were stilliidently set forth in the bill of pude, so as to make any
nfterwards burned then. Maug my. person who may wish to purchase the property. err invest their
father that they came to so much. :me told me she would not. and money in it, acquainted with the terms on which it was to be
said that she often did ouch things for the young people of nye- done.
elite. I never wore these ortichis of drew at home, err in my fa- The Otter. .1 I'S TICE —The terms should be set forts in the
,nees prisoner. I used to wear them at church on Sunday, but hill of sale so axis mislead neboily. and it was dear that the lady ,
my father and I did not freqiient the soot,_ church. The Ina hod been deeeireil ice this e.t,e, by giving the ground i diaraeter nf
:unotanted to Atil. 13s. and was cunt:acted in the euout,ts of Marcb being sukieet only to a nominal rem, and equivalent to a freehold,
. and April. whet was not the ease, in foe.
Mrs. N. Johnson—Witness is a dents-maker residing at RTe.! Verdict foe the plaintiff;
a stein 'pewee, ter the daughter.' DE PRE v. SD A 1.0 ROSS.
of 3ei ;ther.Ps inper..aTettrit up
arts 41" s.
ides nrrc fetched home by the defendant% I Mr. Sergeant P;:t.a seated the plaintiff's ease in this eeriest, which
servant, and hie wife paid f..r making them np. In her °risk= was brought fora breach of warranty of a horn. The plaintiff was
there was CO article in the bill width was tiotaittited to a member eF, a mason residing in Savoy Wharf, Strand. He purchased a horse
Mr. Piper's family. who was a respectable tradesman in very cotn- t for SOL which was warranted is ,milord, and capable of drawing.
fartakile earninnstances. f As soon as he came into the plaintiff'. he tried him

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Cross-eitansined—These articles might he very plessaat for this
yr:nig female to have, but they were nut mciaaary, and might be
very well done without.
Mary Sutton examined—Witness lived as servant with the de-
&Want, and was to be destined br him whilst she lured to his ser-
vice. She went to the plaintiff 's shop with :Hiss Piper, and got
there a gown and shawl. These articles she wore in the presence
of the defendant. She knew that some of d:articles. and the bill.
were furnished ; that sane of then were for Miss Martha Piper..
a girl of only nine years of age; among them also were a pair of
Mockingly &c. tot a ling, the brother of Mita M. A. Piper.
On her crow-examination she admitted that Mies M. A. Piper
grit money for the payment of the articles of drat which were got
for her wear.
The Cesar Justin:cr remarked. auk the permits of this young'
woman were exhibiting her as a very wicked petsun.
Mr. Sergeant Clings addressed the Court on behalf of the
fondant. It was true, that the sum which was sought to be re- '
covered by the present action was inconsiderable, but the principle
tivolved in it was of the uttnoat importance to every parent in she
' country. He was tuitialied the Courts of Law would not encourage
those persons who may be disposed to entice infants to prodigality
and acts of extravagance ; but that they would extend their pro.
nation to parents against the unfair claims which may be made
upon them by seducing their children into such ■premier.. Nothing
could be. more dangerous; there w* not a man of continua feeling
who would not shudder at the extremity to which a young female
way he driven by thus indulging esperitte dresses sad other costly
anises which wars aotaxispeiredity h aitra in swim ; andtlw I
charge of s. hich she was not abl: to defray. Notorious as the truth
of this w4‘• yet were line dresses furnished to this young female
without the knowledge of her parents. 444 under circumstances
which he would explain. and which he contended would disentitle
the plaintiff to recover anything by the preaent action. The le./
fendant, who was a farmer, rmiced with his Wally at a short diet.
ante from Ityegate ; he established a small shop in that town, in
which he placed his son and daughter, with a view of augmenting
his incur:le. Either the defendant's daughter was to be believed,
or she was not; it' not to be believed, thon her evidence was of no
avad ;ifto be believed, it was equally an. What was her story?
She admitted that she procured the clothes clandestinely ; that
I she wore them clandestinely, taking them off when she went
home, and putting them on when she returned to the shop. Thus
it appeared her parents had no knowledge nor opportunity of know.
Mg the transactions between their daughter and the plaintiff What
right had the plaintiff to apply to the defendant then, and say
" I furnished these dresses to yiur daughter as necemaries
' certainly none. He would read Ora observation of a Learned
Judge of the last century on a simdar case. An action had
been brought to retiner a milliner'a bill of 3W. for furnishing'
ornamental apparel to a young woman under age. The Lnirned
Judge observed. t• No man snould dictate to another what clothes
his child shall wear, or from whom to purchase them. Every
parent should be permitted to exercise his own discretion on this
pant; he knows his own cireuinatances, and the:afore knows what'
apparel is suited o the situation of his family: and as it appears
that this young woman was properly clothed, we will not encourage
a person who would inveigle a young woman into the purchase of
ciuravagant dresses without the 'knowledge other parents." There
(amid not be a rase to which these observations were more directly
apnlicabie than the present. Ile would ask, if any proof had been
offered to 'hew that the articles supplied were necessaries ? No
such evidence was tendered. With the exception of a pair of shoes
far the boy, and a frock for a younger sister, there was not an
article of necessary apparel in the bill. Perhits the plaintiff hoped
for a verdict on account of these articles being necessary ; but that
hope would be defeated when the Jury recollected that tour pounds'
had been already paid in account, which was more than sufficient
to cover the cost of these articles. As the young woman bad re.
ferred to Mrs. Simmons and her brother, he would call them to
the witneaa's box, to sustain the testimony she had given ; and he
looked with the fullest contSdence to a verdict for the defendant.

Mrs. Simmons was then called, and deposed, that the defendant's
son and daughter kept a shop at her house for the sale of gloves
and gaiters. She remembered the delivery of the articles of dress to
Mary Anne Piper, but dil not make her father acquainted with the
fact of her haring gut them.
CH I Jt:ST I C E.—Anil why did you not acquaint him 7—No
answer.

C H le r des Tlc r..—Your conduct has been very shameful In not
acquainting this young woman's tacks of the circumstance.
ExAmination resuinvll.-31nry Anne Piper kept those things at
my house. She changed her I•cis (very day, ap she came from my
house. Two bills came to ha kause far paAmeas smiths clothes.
When the last bill wan presented the plaintiff asked for money.
Mary Anne promised that she would shortly let him hate some.
:the was to pay him by instalments.
On her cross.exatnination she stated, that the defendant came to
ha shop generally on Tuesday. Miss Piper did not wear any of
her finery on the occasion of his visits. Her brother was seldom at
the shop, being engaged in the purchase of wool. Witness was a
married woman, and lived with her husband.
Severnl witnesses were then called, who deposed as to the pay-
ment of the four pounds by MIAs Piper. 11 hen the last in-
stalment was paid she went in by the back door; it was on a
Sunday.
The brother of Miss Piper deposed, that he never saw his sister
habited in those clothes.

Mr. SE nCeEANT PELT. replied--The question for the Jury to try
was, whether the plaintiff was or was not entitled to recover 161. for
the things furnished to the defendant's daughter, with his knowledge
and consent. It was not necessary that the articles should be ex-
pressly ordcrel by him; there might be art implied as well as an
express credit. If the defendant, on hearing that his daughter had
been furnished with those articles, disapproved of what had been
done, he ought to have gone to the phantiff and told him to take
back the articles he had tarnished. and to send her to more. If
he tailed in doing so. he regniskel the contract, and was liable for
the payment of the rtr..sses. Sath a recognition was made in the
present instance. It was stated doe the tither visited the shop at
Ilyegate on every market clay, :Mel was it to be believed this lady,
who wort her finery every other day, would divest herself of it on
such a public day as the market-tiny of Ityrgate, and cehibit her-
self in the dress of a faxner's daughter. It such were the fact,
would it not have excited the attention and surprise of the people
at llvegate—would not the circumstance have been communicated
to her facile:, and ii it were so, did it not require the strictest inves-
tigation on his part. It was said flint the girl's condition in society
did not render 'etch clothes necessary for her. This he denied.;
besides it was incumbent on the father to chew that he 'loathed
his daughter properly. Ile did not produce such evidence, and
th:refore lie must take the rcnscqucnce of such omission. Atall
events lie should have sent back the articles of apparel when be
came to the knowledge that they had born furnished, and vs it
was not his intention to pay far the: t. This had not been done,
however, up to the ii:xsent day. lie therefore hoped the Jury
would not permit the ile.endant not to pay for the things, and also ,
to keep them.
Tire 1401113 CIIIFF JUSTICE onlercil Miss Piper again to be
called to the witress's box.
In reply to several question% pat by the Court, she said, that since
that action had been brought her tattier had seen her wear some of
therm dresses ; she did not know what became of the other part.
' She got the four pounds, which she paid to the plaintiff, partly for
' work and partly paid it out of money of her father's, which she
gave away without his ~,:rniisson. The two sovereigns which she
last gave she borrowed from a yo tog carpenter.
The eit I F./i JUST t cr. in charging the Jury said, that whatever
ditlerenec may pree.,•! on other points of this case, it involved one
principle of great itormance. on which no difference could',
exist; that was, that if any man supplied a young woman with
dress unsuited to he: situation, without the knowledge of her parer",
I and for which she could not afford to pay. he aimed 40 do her a great j
itJury and positive mischief. lle crested feelings of extravagance
in her mind which led her to apply the money of her parents, or
money perhaps acquired in a worse way, to support the extravagance I
into winch see was ir.:•ei;;lcd. 'Forte could no; be a greater enemy
to female virtue than the titan who would furnish a young woman
in the situation of the defendant's daughter with tine clothes with-
! out the direction of her parerts. The sum which the plaint& ought
to recover was 11W., and notwithstanding the conduct of the plaintiff
was highly to be cm:drained, vet he was afraid that a verdict should
pass in his favour for part of the money. If the girl had said that
part of the father's money was applied to the payment or part of
the bill, then h_• %%nag Five dire:•ted them to apply the money
thus paid to the payment of the articles which had been got with
the consent and knowled;•: I defendant for the use or the ser-

vans, Ili, daughter Martha. aril other articles; but this was not the
case ; unfortunately she was obliged to apply for the money to a
young carpenter, thereforr a verdict he feared should pass to the
amount of the . des t!,us proci,red. The conduct of 31es. Snit,
mons was highly to oared. Ile e•gretted that there was a
shop in sty,g,iie .7 .I,lnt h.ll •nrlt principle. as the plaintiVs wife
had stated. It' the rldentlent disapproved of his daughter having
the snicks of apparel she thus got, he e:rtainly was bound to return
then. to the plain:in.; if be diet not, his omission amounted to a
recognition of his elaught,i's cimtract, anti he was bound to make
it good. More:ice:, the defendant bail seen his daughter wear the
clothes. Was not this a ra-ignition of the contract. If they thought
so they were obliged to find a verdict for the whole value of the ..r.
tides, but whether at the price stated in the 6.11 was a queseion for
them to theme tipm.
31r. tierr,,aat l uues reminded his Lordship that if his daughter
made a coatract it was not in the power of the fattier to rescind it.
The Voir r .11•,•rti..): said, the questinn was not whether he had
rescinded the contract. but whether he had recognised it.
51r. Sergeant titus, requested that his Lordship would take a
note or his objection.
The tuner .It•sT r. said lie certainly would. If i; was fair
to express it, lie hail been looking for n nonimit from the beginning
of this mse, but ciiithl not grim:ids Mr it.
Atter the Jury had consulust together a few minutes, tehzy Te-
-1 turned a verdict for the plaintitr—Damages 61.
ticrr striritst.t..
This was an aztlon broogin l'y a lug agalnstan auctioneer mid-

_L. the pt... posseesiouJie , hist un-
der a load, and found him quite useless, as be would not draw, and
could not be convened to any purpose for which he was recom-
mended. Betides, he wita unsound, and amongst. other diseases
was affected by the megrims. He remained for site months in
the plaintiff's possession, and was finally sold fur fftcen pounds,
by order of the Judge, viltboat prejudice to either party in the present
action. The horse had Bert reomousended in the highest terms by
the defendant, who was a farmer at Barnead, IN Surrey, and who
said he parted with him because he was too heavy for the work for
which he wanted hint, Ile nen described him as " running away
with the plough."
Several witnesses were celled, who sustained the statement of
Counsel and it further appeared that he had been previously seld
for twelve pounds, as an tisoioutid
No material contradiction of their allegations was made on the
part of the defence, turd otter a short charge from hi. Lordship, the
Jury returned a verdict for the plaintif, making allowance for what
the horse had been suh•eptently soh, P4o, the charge of keeping
hint whilst in the plaintiff's possession, and a few other incidental
expenses.

OLD RULE); Juii 16.

Before Arr. Jrgeice BC CROUGH Med Mr. Jastic4 GASS LEE.

M lURDER.
Thomas Fish, ageti was indicted for killing and slaying
Themes 11'atkins, on the 22d June.
Mr. LAW appeared for the permeation, and stated, that paha-
lily the Jury might dismiss from their minds the serious charge of
murder as attaching to the prisoner ; and it would be for than to
say whether he had been guilty of the minor crime of manslaugh-
ter. as this unfortunate occurrence took place in a fight.
Richard Linton being called, stated, that he was a tailor. raid-
ing in Salisbury mews, New-road , that he saw the prisoner and
the deceased quarrelling the mewl, and that they afterwards
went into Quebec-street, and fought there. After fighting avail
minutes, the prisoner struck the deceased an the aide of the neck,
and he fell against a cart raising at the time. The deceased, after
this blow, said he would light no more, and went to a public-house
about fifty yrrils distant.
George Cortield deposed, that the deceased struck the first blo• .
and was envious to fight.
Mr. alattliew Norton, a ',moon, deposed to his having been
ailed opal to attend the deceased, about four hours after the fight,
but that he did not then know thrr it had taken place. The de-
ceased complained of a pain in the bowels, and witness prescribed
sonic opening medicine for him. The next time he called to ace
him he knew about the light, and examined the deceased. He
found that he had received blows on the body, neck, and lace. We
complained then of hilt bowels. Watkins died on the 27th Jena
He had no doubt that the deceased's death was occasioned by mats
tification of the bowels; but whether the inflammation that pro-
duced it was occasioned by blows he could not say.
A Juryman asked if the deceased, being heated by fighting,
drank cold porter, whether that might not produce inflammation ?
The witness said it certainly might, lie had opened the body,
and found the bowels greatly inflamed.
James Marshall, a fellow workman of the deceased, had teen him
the evening before the tight. lie was then in good health. He
was not at the beginning of the fight, but saw the three last
rounds. The prisoner struck the deceased on the neck, head, and
each side of the body, whilst he wax there.
Mr. Norton was again called. He said he could not assert that
Ithe inflammation was realer ad by blows, although the parts of the
body that the last witness described as having been struck, ex-
actly tallied with those parts of the bowels that were described.
(Marshall pointed to each side under the ribs.)
- Fildl' the dieessed's father, deposed that the prisoner and
the deceased drank a shilling's worth of cold gin and water together
as soon as the tight was ended.
Mr. Justice Be a ROrttit summed up to the Jury, who, without
hesitation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

FORGERY.
IFiMite nnu, aged 21), was indicted for forging and uttering a
bill of exchange to Elizabeth Nicholls, of the nominal value of 221.
with intent to cheat and defraud her.

The presecutrix stated that she was a single woman keeping a
broker's shop in Chelsea. On the 2tith of October the prisoner
came to her shop, and looked at goods to the value of 141. On the
Ist of November he called again, and offered a bill accepted by a
31r. Wm. 31ills whom she knew, in payment for the goods. He
had called several times between the 26th of October and the Ist of
November, am: on tie 31st of Ocestser he showed her the bill in
question, not accepted. The day after he called with the bill ac-
cepted. She gave her brother the bill to take to Mills, who said
it was not his acceptance. The goods were packed up, and taken
away by the prisoner on the let of November.
. . . . .

l''ronS.-eximiined by Mr. COOCE—IIex bmther had only been
staying with her about a week. lie had been suffering in a good
cause in the house of correction for a twelvemonth.

James Nicholls (•he prostecutrix's brother) mated, that he had
known the prisoner about three years, and that on the Nth of last
October he came to his sister to purchase goods. He looked our
between 14/. and 15/. worth, which were packed up, and taken away
by a porter he hired for the purpose, on the Itt of November. He
Dever saw the prisoner again until he apprehended hint in Oxford.
street, about a fortnight since. The prisoner gave the bill to wit.
neas's sister, saying at the same time that he had come into a good
fortune, and that Mr. Mills owed him SOL; and on that account
she took it. When he went to Mills with the note, he said it was
not his acceptance.
Cross-examined--He had lived with his stater for nine or ten
years, without ever having another lodging. He had never been
away from his sister's. He had once been in a lodging where he
paid no rem for some time; it was for a twelvemonth. It was in
the house of correction.

Mr. Cootie then asked the witness under what charge?
Mr..!uatice (LetELEE staid that it was bis duty to tell him he
need not answer that question, unless he chose to do so.
The witness declined answering it. lie was brought up to the
Westminster Sessions last week ; but it was only fora common as.
sault. lie was positive there was no other charge against him, but a
common assault. lie never told the prisoner to buy the stamp for
the bill ; he never gave him the copy of a bill; he never maid the
drawing and executing this note ten a mere matter of form. He'
knew a person named 31illst, a carver and gilder; when the bill was
brought he wax present. He had never seen the prisoner write ex-
cepting when he indorsed the bill ; he had looked out some goods
before the fourteen pound's-worth ; he had never pointed out goods'
to the prisoner to purchase. He had never been in the counter;
but he had been in Tothill-fields prison for two days.
31r. Coo It r., in this part of the examination, addressed his Lord-
, ship and said, however loath he might be to do it, he was under
' the necessity of appealing to the Court to protect him in the dis-
charge of his duty from the vulgar insolence of the man in the wit.
ness box. He had called him " Mr. Impudence," and had said,
" if such a thing as that less out of Court without his wig and
gown, I would be even with him."
Mr. Justin Gas E tr. r. Cooke., I was taking notes at the
time, and certainly did not hear the witness snake use of any such
offensive expression, or I should have stopped him ; but I ani
certain he has made use of them from your having told me so.
Mr. Coos E--M y Lord. I ani sure you did not hear theirs, other-
wise I shooed have been protected by your Lordship.
Mr. Justice (lasi:LEE then addressing himself to the witness
said, " Your conduct is such, that if it be repeated, I GM
assure you I will send you to another place; and, let, ma tell you,
Sir, if you ever again appear in a Court of Justice to give your
evidence, you most cor.dnct yourself properly."
William Mills was then callish but his Lordship said he could
not be examined as to the writing of the acceptance, as he was in-
! terested in the payment of it, if it were not a forgery.
Buckeridge, the officer, produced the note, which was Hen-
: tified by the prosecute.: ; hut no one appearing to prove the hand-
i writing of Mills, his Lordship directed the Jary to Argnii the
prisoner.
/leery Leroy, aged 17, stood indicted for stealing a hall clock.
two silver sp ens, nod other articles, value forty shillings, the pro-
; petty of John Bevis, on the 13th of June.
The prosecutor. who lives at Bethnal-green. and keeps a pub-
' lie-house there, stated, dint he went to best on the II th ofJune at
about eleven so'clisil. ; but his wife ami servant did not go to bed till
three the next morning. At the tune they went to bed the property
was safe in the bor. A neighbour of the prosecutor was in a gordeu
that he had the care of at site o'clock in the morning of the 12th,
when he saw the prisoner with a bag in his hand. Hr asked him
I what he lout got th,Te 1i The prisoner replied, nothing that belonged
to him. 11'ihitss however seized him, and brought him to an offi-
cer, when a clock was found in the bag, two silver spoons in his
pocket, sod a ph,sipliorus box. He knew the prisoner, tor he lived
about a t wel v einont is a4n s the pros.mtor. He informed the
prose:uoir of the circui:,N.anco, who attended in consequence at the
pol ice-011;er.
. . .

The property wit< proi:Lx?d in Court, and the prosecutor iden-
tified it.—GAlly.

Ale.rander Fah.) was caritslir indicted for stealing four gold
seas, value Ili. the icor. fty of itobert Johnsqn Attention anal his
partner. . . .

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31r. A N nu rws appeared tot the prosecution, a.,d called
Jeweph Spenci.r. w ho deposed that he was a jeweller, and his part-
ner was Robert Joh• son Allanson, and they carried on their bust-
ni,,S in the parisa of fit. John. rlerkenwril. The prisoner came
into their service na the :Id of .lay. On taking stock on the 23d
June. at news missed a great dial of property, three se is he parti-
cularly niissed. 31r. Ilearcroft afterwards *hewed him the seals.
(.11mi-examined by Mr. !taupe. sticit.—Prisoner was not eu-
thorised to take out any articles for sale that west not given to him
by wit:..ess or his partner. The prisoner never cipremed any wish
that the stock shohld be takea, but continued in lite employment till
the stork was taken. lie was taken into custody at his own house.
It occupied two days to take the stack. The prisoner was there on
one of theme days, and witness then told him that he should not
want him after that week.

Wm. licarrrotr, shopr.:an to M. Wood, a pawnbroker, in High-

'street, St. filet's, pridueed t-3,,v that had bee^ yietlged hf
the prisoner in the name of John James, at his master's shop, Oil
17th June : he lent 2:. on them.
IL J. Altai:son, Spencer's partner, proved that he never aatto-
rimed the prisoner to pledge the seals produced:
Crlss-essinined.—He entered into partnership with Spencer In
April. Prisoner had insinuated things 'Omit tipeneet, ,sod
he wa• sure faisc entries were made in the o';. is knew apr
j son canted Saunders, hut he 1.:41 never told him that the prisoner
and witness had rt.;red to take away part of the stork. being sorry
that he entered into partoer..hip with Spencer.. Ile told Saunde 4
that he was fining to meat the prisoner on the 224 of June, at the.
Colonial Collie -house. Witness told Saunders. that the prison,.
was to wait a: the l'ektnial Collite.house, with the sock that he
had taken ou: for the flay's sale; and lie might have told him that
it Ilt3v. for the purpre Media Spencer to a disoniution of part-
nership. Ile remembered whget the 'lock rows token; it see the
23.1 of June. The rheum. tram It tie shop an that dey.
It.-esamined...—U imam saw &mindere I. roo.equenor of baviv •
tailed upoo him, he haring been a *aqua of the partnership, mil
witness thought that he might give some account of the property
missed. The prisoner nude the insinuations against Spencer n't
the :5.15: of June, at night ; Dever before the 2lst ; sot sin or befut,
the 17th of Jruhe.

lib the
61:11117.—.The stork the prisoner returned a ith oa
22.1 of June Was larger than he usually carried gut.
Kerte, the officer, apprehended the prisoner at hi* lodgings in
Ctharlone street, Fitiroy-sousrt, oa the ligth of Jame. Nothing
material passed at the tone. ,
,pencer proved the prop,/ to belong to the partnemhip.
he prisoner, in his defetseg, Raid that he hr.l entered the rings
as sold, beam* be, was amid of not appearing to make asks.
lie paid ready money (or one of the meals to hie employees, and
entered the other two as told for credit; sr.d when the lime arrived
for their being paid for he accounted far them, and therefore coa-
-I.sidered the seals as hisnim.
Mr. Justice Gasttec, in ratnitiing up to the Jury, obserini,
the: it' they were satisfied of the guilt of the prisoner, they roust
also satisfy tbstaseltes that he took the property all at one time, to
make it a capital Greece t for if the seals were taken at sera: • •1
times. their static singly was so near Ws. that the Jury wouit
probably find under 40t. Lie thought, if any thing material turnosl
upon Saunders's evidence in favour of the prisoner he might have
been protium*.
Mr. piton atc it said he was then in Court. aml naked permis.
siott to call him. to which his Lordship assented.
Arthur Saunders forded, that he had seen Mr. Allmison, Whp hert
told hits, that ho directed the prisoner to meet him .•t the Otiontal
Cofree-house on the 2241 ofiune, with a large portion of the stock.
to force Spencer to a dissolution of Partnership, but that he amid
I not meet him there, and had sii)t his father to tell him to go borne.
Anniston told him that he was dissatisfied with his cotioaahe with
Spencer.

'His Lordship then proceeded to enish his summing up I ansi the
Jury, in a few minutes, returned a verdict of " Holley of stealing
under ads."

ftie-7
protonez was detained co tw3 other indictments, which wst•
withdrawn.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Fktoir, Jet.l.

A MOR %I. SCHOOLMISTRP.d.si.
4., mong the appeals which came before the Reach of Maestratki
;•.•..-day. was one against an order ef affiliation made by the are.
gi- irate, of flatten-garden, which culled considerable raerriesert
in Court.
The circumstances of the case were briefly as Viol .:-4 sit.
Elisabeth Perry, a lady of no very prepossessing aypearanee,pwly
forty yeas of age, .ad who keeps a school for little dtiß to
freak Lower Routh-. Northampton-square. appearqd a sliort.tkoti
ago, areampanied the parish officers of Islingtin, to eansilner.
'to the imilitistra,cs she had an additions! pupil for bee Meal
by the hi of a child, for which acquEntion *be ark
lien:title a young ollw (of reepeetsble connealtatal named Jewai
'than Bunt. Their Intimacy, which was but of three days' that.
tion, was enteral/ formed by her meeting bin) in the meet ! aid
op the kw day. In White Conduit (Jardine, I little OW eight
o'clock, in the month of May (when of count dr medusa ekete
crowded), her connexion with the other sex, foi. the Eta sod lON
time of her life, took Mac:.
' In consequence of her positive .sweatint the order wag lank.
which gave tine to the present appeal.
Mr. C. Pm LL tea conducted the case (debt wpdiant.
blr. ALLEY appeared on the part of the pinrh.b.
It was admitted by the young man, tint "after rcfreshin this rts4
lunteer cheer /tone with some negus, they might have Ines/gad Is
a little an.orous dalliance, but a rest, •zt for public deseacy pre-
vented any further intercourse at such a crowded place, caw si So
early an hour.
Miss Berry examined by Alt. Pritsrtrs.....Wkitaht ill a
schoolmistress ; of course fond of little children; cestardflas soak
place in the tea-gardens.
Are there any beds there besides bedim of roses ?—Nate.
After a few more questions respecting the bees its fee, the
beamed Counsel commented on the romantic selection of oboe
made by the lady ; and after dwelling on the monwrows Ineweinder
of her story, eallei a respectable gentleman, who eastandiatad Iry
statement in some Imporant points.
The Cot: lIT was however of opiniOn, that they Mad Mk teeth
the order ; wit some warm conrersaaon occurred between the
' Chairman and Mr. Phillips, arising, we believe, hem theta wilaap.
prehending each other.

r. PutLl.tre Was about la intrados, fiNteliessouvesdhs4llr.
porter err an evidence, as his notes of theme. as OtellaingtiktlllP
°Nee would material!), contradict some of her stateasiests ie
The Customs:l dal not however conceive that the Dates soak% be
admitted in evidence.
The order was confirmed.
IMPORTANT TO COAL-MERCHANTg.

BETSROiriII AUAI\ST A CONVICTION O• Z. mazicLANn.

E ~Q.

This was an appeal of the plaintiff, a coal-menthant of Chelsea.
against a conviction of Mr. Markland, a magistrate*, Queen-stow
police office, charging Mr. Betaworib wit two offences under ri,y
Coal Acr, upon which he was convicted. The proceedings were
instituted by the principal coal meters of Westminster, in order err
abolish the practice of coal-merchants sending out trucks and cart*
loaded with coals for sale in the streets, with which they usual v
neglect sending any meter's tickers.
Mr. ALLEY, on behalf of the conviction, was proceeding to call
witnesses, when _ _

Mr. A DaCO'S admitted the fact of .tenilin,' out coals in ezra
for ittee; the Ad of Parliament not allowing sending out more than
eight buithels of coals at one time, without a meter's ticket. This
fact With 1160 admitted.

The true' linen observed, that the whole eight bushels most be
proved to be sold to one person, to require a meter's. ticket.
W. Field said, in this Mee there were thirteen bushels in the
cart.

The Cum a MAN 913 i I Ciat wets of no consequence, for the cox'.v
were sold in entailer quantities than eight bushels.
Mr. ALLEY, on referring to the Acts of Parliament, fot:nd
there expressed: " All coals sold or to be sold ;" therefore cf.,
Chairman dismissed the conviction.
Another appeal by Mr. lletswotth was then beard ; he hal Ist!!!'
convicted at the same time for sanding out cowls in sacks ul illegal
dimensions.

Mr. ANDREW'S contended that the .Ict merely refrrreil to the
vending out a greater quantity of coahL than eight bu4helo. or the
bringing cosh from on board Whips, fie.
The (imn sr AN however thought otherwise, and tharfore or-
tinned the conviction.

3lr. An:mews expressed a wish to have t!-.e cave argand in the
Court of King's Bench, which Sh. At.tty declines!.

A Coroner's Inquest has been held at the Rovel Cw.:ufze..
in IVortiting, before J. L. Ellis, Evq. the Coroner for the
western division of the county, on the bodies of John Ink •
pen and Robert IWaden, who were drowned on Friday
week in attempting to bring some contraband spir:ts to,
the abort.. The Ju►y returned a verdict of " Accidental
Death," and levied a deodand of one pound on the beat.
The widow of lukpen is left in great distils.% with five
small children. A subscription has IK-en raised for be•
relief. The bodies were interred in the church-rani a:
Broadwater.—Brightnit Ga77.rite.

COAl"1 ACCIPENT.—On Monday afternoon, b:1:•.*:ott
four and tire u'cluck, the Wigan coach, in attempting to limes tM
Bolton Union coach, going op Loudon Road, rune In contact wit!•
it near the Green Mao and Still, and in consequence the Bolton coach
was driven against the lampspoid at the corner of Moassetreet.
by which the wheels on that gads came off, and the coach came
down white tremendous crash. We are sorry to learn that mom:
passengers are seriously hurt, and one of them dangemusly. The
inexcusable pretext of competition could not be mod on this
occasion, as we understand both coaches being to the same eon.
cem ; the conduct of the driver was thareedr* mast wanton anal
reprehensible.—Lirrrpoot (':wrier.
An inquisition was taken yesterday at a public-house
Little Saffron-hill, before Thos. Stirling, Etc. Comm; on the
body of Mr. Thomas Newton, wno lived for upward. of (.0 rears at
20, Back.hilL The deceased was • cooper. 78 years of age t. he.
had been ailing • ems days before his data; and en Tuesday
evening he walked out for the benefit of the Mr. oral intschciL
advice ;on his return he sat on the stein a shoe.vaacer's anm at
the corner of Ilattun.wall and Saffron-hill , and expired. Vev.ii:t
Died by the visitation of Cod."

PRESERVATION FROM DROWN:Nt..-0 t IV-canterlas
evening as 30111 C ladies were walking on the Dm!: of the !tattoo
Drain, near the bridge, a boy ran up to them in great distress. at.
stated that one of his companions, who 1%0 gi.te into the ware
to bathe, was drowning. They liveried to the spot, and per-
ceived near the opposi.e bank the hands of the suflerer elevatr!
above the surface, but the rest of his was completely in.-
me.nied. Their shrieks attracted the attention of a soi•INN
longing to the I;th, who was walking in the titids at inure
itbdanc;, and who made towards thin with the umiost +mid.
Its this time the body had entnly disappeareil. On Ica-ning
the cause of their alarm, the solder off his e..;• and brit.
and witii the greatest promptitude and 11 rnrm plunit,d into the
drain. Atter diving several tinioi, he sn..rzeded in bringing -
the body. and lo.lging it on tie bans. The hoe (whose fisrll,
ISUIMUIk) was in a state of perfect inocoobilice. and c•hibt
every appearance of death. but try I..r.,verance in the means
conin.ended he such occasions, he was gradually restored to r
mation, and conveyed home; the soldier was aso in a se.if,
great exhaustion. We are inforiled that lie was the meant
saving the life of a fellow-creanire, under similar cir:iiinstanork
a fiwaier occasion. The parents of the boy arc nut 1:1 a silostion
reward his humane and 111.7-slo:11511 conall:t. hut we trait it

out pAss u:ututiccd in odic! ya,rten.—!//.:1