The National Register.
London, England, 1817-06-23 00:00:00

OF TUE OTHER HRIDGES TN LONDON.

Westminster, from wharf to wharf 1223
lllsekfriars
A:Of:on-bridge
N'atixliall-castiron bridge ...... 860
We observed a lever contrivance st each toll lodge fbe the ruri"e
of checking and preventing dud •dishonesty to the trust T kind
of iron turn-stilm, which a:tult of only one timeo at a time, touch
some machinery which coniumnicates with A clock locked up in an
elk box in each tolling house, the index of which is thereby moved.
sn that on looking at it the number of erne.; who havel passed is
direet!y se.m. Some machinery for a siatidar object is to be applied
to tle home and. carriage gates.

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About loom years ago, as r trailesmari of Leicester was
travelling by va coach Iron, that town to Lough'Jormigh, one
of his pockets was artfully cut open, and property in drafts
and cash notes, to the amount of ALA. stolen thercout. When
the coach stopped at Mr. Cooper's, the Grey Horse, Loligh-
borough, to etraege horses, the loss WAS publicly made known,
accompanied with a positive assertion on the part of the
tradesman, that gotta one of Isis fellow passengers had com-
mitted the robbery. Now, ultimo:oi each of. Great went into
a room of their own wecord, and sobluitted to being very
strictly searched, yet the 1U00.!V wind not be found. The
mystery is, wowever,at length developed :—A man now tin-
der sentence of death in London, seat fora person intimately
acquainted with Mr. Cooper, and confessed his leaving coin-
mined the offence in question, adding, that he actually was
true of the said passengers, and that he contrived to secret the
notes in nn out-budding just belay: the search took place.
The Irish Papers give a most distressing representation of,
the condition of Ireland, through scarcity of food. Dis-
turbances are breaking out in every county, and-stores and:
mills plundered of corn and Pour. Crke'Government has is.
stied a noel:l:nation, dated the .10th imam'', exhorting all
masters of. families to abstain as much as possible from the
constunption of oatmeal anti potatoes, and also in feeding
their horses, to lessen manner the supplies of oats.
film pedestrian match at Wormwood Setubbs, between
Eaton and Raker, concluded on Wednesday, when taker;
beat hi. opponent by nine milts and •throe einarters. Eaton
nevertheless walked an till he,ba<kanpleted Xlie 2000 macs.
Saturday, a poor fellow, Aunt 311 years °rage, was going
through Stoke Newington, in search of employment, and
being swats through hunger awl want, sat down at the gate
of Mr. I Itigles house ; king spoken to, he sold he was dying,
and had scarcely shrank half a glass of water nefore he ex-
pired.
A icostsitaprecedented fall has taken-place in the price of
rye coru,..in France. It fell in one day from 36 francs to 6:i
per cwt. The price of corn was lower in the Dublin market
Saturday week.
A very minierons meeting of the inhabitant; of Kent, con-
vened by the }hell sheriff, was held at Maidstone on Weenies-.
day, when Earl Thanet moved. and Mr. Rider seconded, l'e-
titions to both Houses of 'Parliament, against any further
Sus'pewsion of the Habeas Corpus Act. Sir Hobert Wileon,
in an able speech, supported the petitions, which w ere car-
ried
with only one dissentient voice.—tiir F. linatchbitll and
Sir William 'Geary, the two County Members, were bulb
absent.
The office of Adjutant General for Militia,l'uluntoers, &c.
will be abolished from the 24th inst.
HOME CHICUIT.--SUMMER ASS,IZEIL
Ikfore Lord Fileuhorough and Mr. Justice Pan,
IfertfordsAire—Tlutostisy. July Y 4, at Hertford.
Ezarx--Monday, Jaly 28,,at Chelmsford.
/Pat—Monday August 4, as. Maidstone.
Siener—Santrevr„ tamest e, at Lewes.
2ltvgtutl3, at CgqYciOn•