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POLICIT•

MANSION-ROUSE.
Yesterday a man named Cordell, who occasionally works se a
porter, was brought before the LOAD Melon on a charge of hay.
mg committed an oftensive robbery in a house in Old Broad.
street. The house which wu rubbed is one that is let out in offices
and apartments to commercial gentlenien.
A female who has the cue of the house stated, that the hallaloor
is kept open for the convenience of the occupants. (In Friday
evening she was busy in the kitchen a little after dusk, when • man
suddenly entered with • huge bundle in his arms. He seemed
surprised at soling her, but Immediately asked which was the
street door, saying, that as the lamp was not lighted he had mis-
taken his way. She supposed at the time that he belonged to one
of the lodger' and told hint he had come down • flight of stairs
too much. The thief upon this infurniation went out, and got
clear off' with his bundle. She soon after discovered that her own
room had been entered, and stripped of all her best wearing ap-
parel, and that. an apartment belonging to a foreign gentleman,
who Is at present nut of town, had been broken open, and robbed
of • gold watch, and sonic articles of property, she feared to a very
large amount. She immediately gave Brady, the officer, a de.
scription of the person who came down Into the kitchen, and she
firmly believes the prisoner was the same inan.
Brady rutted, that from the exact description given by the last
witness, he apprehended the prisoner, who prevaricated very much ,
in the account which lie gave of the manner in which lie passed the
previous evening.
The Loam Mayon asked him whether he was not before him on
• former occasion, for having been found in an awkward situation ?
The prisoner did not recollect such a cite ttttt stance ; but on re.
freeing to the books, it appeaml that lie had linen sent to the tread.
mill for two months, having been round in a house with the inten-
tion of stealing.
l'he Loan Alia°a remanded him, that scarch might be made
for the property.
114)1P-S1.11EET.
Jo /in Donnell and Jeremiah Oilett, two patrols of St. Martin's
parish, were charged with an assault On Mr. lirinze, the landlord
of the Star and Garter, St. Alartin's.lane. The two defendants
were pluming the complainant's house on Saturday night, and sup-
, posing they heard a noise, rushed into the house and demanded
I the reason of it, and not receiving a satisfactory answer, they seized
the landlord by the collar, saying, they had authority so to do from
the Magistrates ; and dragged liini before the night constable, who
refossil in detain hits, he being a very respectable householder.
Mr. Itrinre's shirt was torn, and his anti was black from the effects
of their blows. To substantiate his charge Mr. B. called a number
of persons, who proved that he gave no provocation.
Mr. 14111 CD, the solicitor. called the attention of the Magistrates
to the fact, that the two defendants had cloaked their conduct under
the idea that the Magistrates had directed them to take the land.
lord into custody for having a disnrdoly house.
The patrols denied the charge as regarded the assault, but at.
tempted to justify the taking into custody, upon the ground of the,
Alaostratesorder,.
Sir Ricitaan IiIRNIE denied that any such orders had been
given, and to make an example of thane he vistaed Mr. Isaacs to
lindict them whilst the Sessions were sitting.
3/r. Isaacs expressed his determination so to do.
31A It I.lloli OUGII-S T It I:ET.
A few days ago a Gentleman or very respectable and venerable
appearance, shout fifty years of s te, &cued in black, and wearing
powder in his hair, whose profession, under the present CirCUOI.
stance% It is impossible to guess at, came to this ()nice, and applied
to Mr. CON•I4T, the Sitting Magistrate, for his advice and as..
alliance to recover • AI. note, of which he stated himself to have
been robbed in the following manner :
Ile said that about eight o'clock on the evening before, as he
wait sauntering along Oxfmil-street, he was accosted by a poor girl,
who said she had not a farthing in the.world to help herself with.
Feeling fur the unhappy girl's situation, he consented to accompany
her to some house, where she said slur could be comfurtcd and re-
lieved at a trilling expense to him. [laving arrived at the house in
question, himself anti his companion were sheen into an apartment
very respectably furnished j but he had not been above • quarter
of an hour in the room, when, all on a sadden, lie found, as if by
magic, his fob turned inside snit, and a W. note and a shilling, which
he had therein, vanished therefroni. 31easuro were taken by the land.
lady in his presence, but no trace of the Ll. note was etude, and
lie was ultimately obliged to quit the hone without recovering it.
An officer was despatched for the landlady of the house, No. 23,
Sheppard-street, Itund-street, and In a few minutes a very fashion.
ably-dressed female made her appearance at the office; and on the
Magistrate's relating to her the circumstances stated by the com-
plainant, and bin charge or suspicion against her, she related, In the
gentleman's preneher, her version of the transaction, and added,
that the gentleman had the girl's name and address, (or he took it
'town most carefully in his pocket-book.
Mr. en NAM? naked the gentleman if this were trite. Ile said It
1 was, and pulling out his pocket-lank, and deliberately turning over
the leaves, he read, '• Mary Thompson, 8. IVynyard-street •" but
he said that he was quite sure the girl had not the note, and this
charge was agaii.st the landlady only, whom be believed to have
found the note and kept it.
The Magistrate having now made preparation to take down the
complainant's deposition, asked, in the usual manner, as a preli-
minary, his name and address. These the gentleman refused to
give; but after some hesitation, he said his residence was in Kart,
and wished to have the chuffed dismissed.
Mr. Cox•K r replied, he had a charge of felony before him,
which must be investigated ; but said the gentleman might retire
into the private room, and write tits name and address, which. if
he refused to do, the Magistrate said he would commit him. In.
stead of writing his name, however, die gentian= Mimed a lie.
t«, •••••setti 1b... pare, en the Magistrate, which, when linialud,,
he was about to attach a signature to, but suddenly starting from
his seat, he exclaimed, I cgtinot sign a false DIM j and 1 twist
not-1 dare nut sign my own"--and dashing the pen upon the
potind, he paced the room in the greatest agitation.
The letter, in this unauthenticated inate, was taken by Plank to
Mr. Conan!, alto, after perusing it very attentively, evidently with
some @win iso, retired into the private room, and for some time held
a conversation with the writer.
' Mr. l'offaer again took his seat upon the bench, and said be
would receive the gentleman's word to appear on Tuesday.
This promise the mysterious gentleman gave, but on the ap-
pointed day be did not appear, and the case was adjourned till
Friday, when the charge was altogether &rationed.
Thus has this gentleman, by the violation of his word of honour,
most likely been the means of preventing a simile indulgence by
Magistrates in future.
UNION HALL.

Notts]: lirwat.l wo.— Three men, named Dillon, Gksister, and
Moon, were charged on suspicion with having stolen a dark brown
horse, about 134 hands high. The prisoners were apprehended in
lient,itreet, one of them nding the horse.
the fellow who was on horseback when the constable first
saw them, in reply to the Magistrate's question, •, Where did you
yrt the horse!" said, as he was welktog along Charing-crap on
Sunday, a genteelish Lind of a chap came up to him, and said,
that he would give him lid. if he would take the horse over to the
lleilf.way Houle in the Keut-road and leave him there. lie was,
he said, proceeding to that place, when the constable, in a very
engenterl kind of a way, came up and frightened the animal, which
ran away with hint, and he was tossed orl'his back in the kennel;
when the constable, not satisfied with this, mounted the horse him-
self and rode away, leaving hint (the prisoner) in the hands of a
Charley. for horae.atealing. At the conelutlim of this eloquent de-
fence, Dillon declared that he and his ffielllit were IS innocent as
babes unborn. •

'rite ddaemonte directed Mr. Staples, thr clerk, to advertise the
horse. and remanded the prisoners until an owner is found to prose-
cute them.

TOWN iiAL4
MACADAIIIIINO.—The unlimited demand at present for la.
',wirers to break up the granite for the purpose of Alacadamizing,
and the consequent veer made to the diTcrent partaltes by Mr.
M•Atiani, to furnish employment for all the paupers capable of
work that they might choose to send him, seems to be looked upon
by the parish officers getterally as a sort of windfall, of which they
cannot make too much ; and it is now pretty Fentially the practice,
if a pauper applies fur relief, instead of furnishing him with pecu-
niary assistance, to set him up with a hammer or two• and drspatch
hint with an order to Mr.:ll•Adam ; and they hating thus found hint
employ mcnt, is considered as • good reason for refusing all further
relief. That this is door somewhat too indiscriminately will appear
pretty evident, front the fidlowing case, which occurred yesterday
before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman J. J. Sl4llll :
A poor old fellow, 1111111(41i Thomas Murray, apparently between
fA and 70 years of age, applied fur the interference of the 3lagistrate
to compel the parish of of St. Olave'a to relii.re hint and
his family. Ile had applied to them this moriting, and they re-
fused to do anything fur hint. lie was himself not of employ
he had a wife and three children -one of them an in arms,
which consequently prevented his wife front being able to do
anything to assist lout.
Th. Alderman asked Little, the beadle of St. there's, •ho was
present. whether there was any question as to the settlement of
the family being with their parish
Little iephod, that there was no doubt that he belonged to
them, but their I/veneers had obtained work for hint at breaking
quota line Aluendarnizing the mails. and had furnished him with
9, to buy ban:titers, but instead of baying the hammers and going,
to work, lie had appropriated the money to his own use; and
having found him employment, the °veneers considered they %ere
tint bound to relieve him bother.

Al array—What he speaks of was a fortnight ago, and f have
11:111 relief float the parish since. I mails inquiry at the place.
and found that the insist I could possibly earn at star e•bteaking
wa* not more than 6s. a-week. Is not that true, Mr. Lillie?
The beadle allowed that 65. was the utmost a man of Murray's
age and strength would be able to earn.
k And 610 e ',dinned Murray, •• tint being enough of itself in
seep me and nay favaly. l thought it would be beat to I,y and LAI
little fruit, and it and of buying lin 11111 l ers, your Worship, I
bought a *VI !WS. When the parish did make site an al:ow-mice.
tiny newer pare more than three shillings a week ; a shilling every
other day, and nothing on Sundays.
Little allowed that the pauper had not squandered away the mo-
ney. but that it had barn applied in support of his wile and family.
Mr. Alderman ll—This man and his family must not be
mattered to perish. There is nu ground fur refusing to where him.
The employments You offer him would occupy Ow whole of has
time, and produce bine but six shillings a week, •Ilien is certainly
not sutlicient w support his family. Vint are not W. very old. Can
!outset nothing to do, Murray, in the way of employment ?
Murray replied, lie was only a ',Maurer; bit if the pans,' wculd
allow I a shilling ii-day, with whit occasional jobs be might get,
he would try to make it do.
Mr. Alderman SNIT!. thought that extremely reasonable; and
made a peremptory order upon the parish tie the payment of
Lug a-clay to the pauper ; or, in the alternative, to take hum and bia
taw') tutu the workhouse.

MELANCHOLY CAnuntoPfill,
AT lIALTON, NSA& WICSDOTAII, AUCZII, IQ A TASTY 'BON

VKLVET TAWS.

Morn the Bucks Chronic* of listarday.)

An event of a most distressing nature, which has spread a deep
concern around the neighbourhood, occurred on l'huroley evening
last, in the wide part of the Wand Junction Canal, on Halton
Moor, within a mile of Wendover, near Aylesbury.
A WV, consisting of six persons, chiefly inhabitants of Tying
(five females and a ening man) had engaged • boat to convey them
from that place to Wendover, from whence they proceeded to that
ntuch.frequented spot, Velvet Lawn, to spend the duty. On their
return in the evening, and when they had proceeded about a mile
from Wendover the boat upset, and two of the females (Miss Lydia
Butcher, of Tring, and Alias Martha Allen, of Leighton. Buzzard)
were unfortunateTyedrowned. The ladies were found, one about an
hour, and the other about two hours afterwards. They were con.
ferrates exp. f itiously as possible, to the house of Mr. Wm. Reed,
near the Reservoir, in the parish of Wendovcr, where every means
was re 4011,0010, 'without effect, to restore animation.
Too utuelf cannot be said in praise of isir J. D. King, who was
on the spot Immediately after the fatal occurrence, and who conti.
rued using every exertion both fur the recovery of the deceased and
the consolation of the survivors, till feu, or five o'clock yesterday
morning. That gentleman, on hearing of the fatal accident, or.
dried several hones to be saddled, and gave directions (after his
services in other respects were useless), foe the sad news to be
carried to the parents of the deceased persons, and to others.
Several religious hooks were picked up near the fatal spot yester.
day morning, and also a reticule and a book on matrimony, and
into which state we are informed one of the unfortunate females had
been about to enter.
The beat which caused this dreadful disaster wee a flat bottomed
skiff, peeked at each end, not more titan three yards and a half in
length, and about one and a hull broad It was towed by a horse,
which was driven by a man and a boy, but nu blame appears
to attach to either of them, as had been reported before the Inquest
was held. The boy, as will be seen by the Inquest below, was in
advance, opening the gate of the towing-path, and it is not on.
likely but the opening of the gate might somewhat have alarmed 'I
the horse, and caused him to have given the "snatch" spoken of
by the witness Lake.
The Coroner, J. Clirareity, g4q• arrived at the house of Mr.
Wm. Read, the place where the Inquest was held, about two
o'clock yesterday (Friday) afternoon; and the Jury having
already beet. summoned by Sir J. D. King, the Inquest
proceeded.
CORONER'S INQUEST.
The Jury, consisting of Sir J. D. Xing (Foreman). Mr. W.
Croxford, Sir. 'l'. Croxtord, Mr. W. Purcell, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr.
W. Eldridige, Mr. W. Rumen, Sir. W. Wickert, Mr. John Cole-
man, Mr. J. 011iffe, Mr. Thomas Oanthle, end Mr. John Smith,
proceeded to view the bodies; after which the following witnesses
were examined :
Mr. William Lake, of Marswerth, surveyor, a young man about
20 years of age, said he was in the boat with the two deceased and
three other female*, on Thursday night, about halt-past eight
o'clock, near Helton Moor; the boat was towed by a horse, and
which was driven b a man and a boy. The boy was forward,
opening a gate on the towing path, at the time the accident took
place. The party was perfectly steady, and the boat was going at
the rate of four miles per hour. 'sir J. V. King here stated that
the accident happened in deep water, where the buoyancy of the boat
was greater than in shallow water ; end after suiting some facts,
which he looped would exclude the necessity of the surviving fe-
males being called on for their evidence, thereby sparing their al-
ready too much distressed feelings', the witness proceeded :—Thc
Party reached about a mile from K endover—believed the boat was
going a little faster than before; it became agitated, as if the hone
had given a sudden search, when the fore-end pitched into the
water, it upset, and the whole party were immersed in the water.
The canal was deeper than the height of the witness. Witness
could swim a little, and succeeded In rescuing three of the females ;
by this time the two deceased females had sunk. lie matte sonic
efforts to find them; but he was quite exhausted, and could not
have done more without endangering his own life. The party was
seated quite steady when the boat was upset; the drivers were quite
steady, and stopped the horse when called to, and witness could not
attach the least blame to any one.
Robert Vellum (the boy) said he was opening the gate at the
time the accident took place; he heard a voice cry " stop ;" it ap-
peared a cry of alarm ; the man who drove the beat stopped Mune.
diately, and went beck to the boat, and assisted to get some of tfie
females out of the water. Witness saw the deceased females sink s
they did not rise again ; did not know the cause of the boat sinking.
The boat was upset in the parish of Halton. The boat, horse, and
towing-rope belonged to Sir. Lake.
The Coroner said it was necessary to ascertain this fact, as the
liar demanded that a deotland should be laid on every thing at all
instrumental in the death of the deceased persons.
Thomas Barwick, labourer, was present when the first deceased
body was taken out of the water, about nine o'clock. The other
was taken out about an hour afterwards. The surgeon and Sir J.
D. King were attending the lint belly, while search was making
for the discovery of the other. The potion who drove the boat was
searching, and appeared quite steady.
Mr. W. Reed corroborated the evidence of last witness.
Alt. T. W. Turner, surgeon, of Wendover, was called to the
first deceased body that was found about a quarter past ten
o'clock, and used every, means to restore substation for nearly
three hours, but all hill efforts proved ineffectual. He saw the
other body about one o'clock; ft was quite in an irrecoverable state.
The death of the unfbrtunete females was caused by suffocation,
in consequence of' immersion in water.
TbeJegy were sseisdsd with the evidence, and by the Coroner's
dlressleale ethwillswid the case, sod retuned a yeediet.—" Aecidess.
telly Drowned.'"..-A deodand of is. was laid on the boat be. on
the be, and tab. on the rope. Sir J. P. King, as hard of the
Manor, expressed a wish that the boat should be broken up, to
prevent the recurrence of such a dreadful catastrophe.
An undertaker attended early yesterday to measwc the unfortu-i
naies for coffins, and it was expected they would be removed in the
course of the evening to the distressed habitations of their parents
and friends, which they had so lately quitted in health and spirits.
They were both possessed of great beauty. The surviving fe.
males were, to a -late hour yesterday, at the engine-house, about
200 yards from the melancholy abode of their deceased friends and
conteanlons.
Miss Butcher was daughter of Mr. Butcher, grocer, at Tring,
and Miss Allen, daughter of Mr. Allen, parchment.manufactuter,
at Leighton-Buzurd.