The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-06 00:00:00

coach to go that distance, almost daily fot some time past, and had
Dever paid more than fs.
Mr. Raw xiNaos/ reminded him, that there nevi* were any half.
crown fates.
Mr. Parkes said he was aware of that ; he considered the fare to
be a 95. one, and had been in the practice of giving the extra 6d. as
' civility money.
The worthy Magistrate took his compasses, and after measuring
with them the distance on the map, remarked that he rather
believed the coschman, as was mostly the case when he was the
summoning party, was in the right, but if Mr. Pukes thought it
worth while he could have the whole ground measured.
Mr. Parker hesitated some time, and at lett consented to pay the
litigated hi, with the pleasing adj.inct of expenses amounting
to 75.
Goachee, on pocketing the blunt, observed that the distance was
just two miles and a quarter, and had been measured more than
twenty times.
The public would do well always to pay the full amount de.
mended, and then to summon the coachman, if on inquiry they
found they had been in:posed on.

TOWN HALL.
Yesterday a young creature, not more than ten years of age, the
daughter of ramectable parents, named Miner, was brought up for
re-ezandnation, on a charge of stealing from the shop of Mr. Jones,
haberdasher, highs reef, Southwark, a silk shawl, value 265.
The delinquent evinced an aptness in the art of shoplifting equal to
• veteran practitioner. Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock,
she entered the shop of !qr. Jones, saying she was sent by her pa.
rents to look at soma shawls, and requested the shopman, John
Edwards, to open a parcel for her inspection, when she selected
four, and des red him to accompany her home with them, on which
lie went to the back of the shop to get a wrapper, leaving the shawls
upon the counter, and quitted the shop with her without missing
any thing. After being led through several streets, and wearied
into suspicion that he was on a wrong errand, he requested, as a
favour, site tvoula allow hint to take die size of the shawl she wore,
and, drawing it on one side, perceived beneath her arm a shawl of
hit master's.

John Kinsey, the officer, said, that on asking her motive for lead.
ing the shopulan such a round, she replied-." In the hope of giving
hint the double."

The father of the girl, a respectable-looking man, apparently
overcome with affliction by the circumstance, declared he lICVaI be-
fore knew her guilty of a bad action, and that it had been his daily
endeavour to instil virtuous principles Into her mind, and waa igno-
rant of her having formed the bad connection it was too evident she
had done.

The girl ►hed abundance of tears, and promised never to again
offend it forgiven.
In consequence of the tender age of the prisoner, and the repent-
ance expressed for her first ofence, Mr. Jones declined proceeding
further, on the condition that the father undertook to watch over
her conduct with a vigilant eye, which he declared his dotermination
to do.

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Alderman J. J. Sntrit acqualntei the girl she was bound to be
ever grateful for the leniency shown her, and which, in all probabi-
lity, had saved her from transportation.--She was then, her eyes
suffused with tears, led front the office by her father.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday J. Thompson was committed to take his trial for going
lut evening into a glass shop in Bridge-row, Lambeth, and steal-
ing therefrom a cut-glass trifle dish, value 7s.
Crisp, the officer, applied for a warrant, on account of a woman
named King, who complained that a broker, named Cole, in levying
a distress for 9s. had assaulted her, and actually tore the marriage
ring front her finger to satisfy his demsnd, although there was more
property in the house than he distraincd for.
The Magistrate immediately granted an assault warrant.