The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-29 00:00:00

LAO INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—(SATurosv•I
This morning a considerable crowd of ',eosin's attends
at the Court, as it was anticipated that a motion would be
made relating to 6. the unknown man.' who last seigibt
refused to plead at the Old Bailey. The motion, how-
ever, was mudt d to a future sky.

FREEMAN ♦ND OTDER4 V. THE MON. NAST INDIA
COMPANY.

An application wee made this day by the Solicitor-
General, to have the verdict set aside and a new trial
granted, on the ground that the negligence of the Captain
and crew of the Cerbends, the vessel of %birds the plaintiffs
were the owners, had caused her to rut' foul of the ship
Mary.
The plaintiffs were underwriters, and the defendan►s
he had no occasion to describe. He contended that hail
it not been fur neglect on the part Lb' the crew of the ship
Cerberav, no act:Ovid would have happened.
Mr. Gatwick:, tin the plaintiff', coati. tided that every
thing which experience cud skill could do, had been
exerted.

On this the Lnrd Chief Justice concurred, and—Rule
ret used with costs.

OLD BAILLY.—(SATuRRDAY)
The Jury Jury were in waiting this morning for a smnsi-
&rabic period, in consequence of the Alderman whose
torn it was to preside not making his appearitice. At
length Mr. Alderman AValthritiltll, although labourins
under much indisposition, attended Mr him.
Thomas Clements, aged t 6, was indicted for stealing
a silver watch, fit. the property of Mary bury, in the
house of Prince Estcrhazy.
Thomas Walton, one of the Prince's domestics, saw
the pr 'otter in his Highness's house, Curzon-street,
Caventlish.square. Soots toner he went out, he missed
a silk handkerchief of his, he pursued, overtook, and.
him Lick to the hall, and on searching hint,
he found the handkerchief on his person, which witness
identified as his property.
Mary Ivory also lived in the family of Prince Ester-
' hazy; witness left her watch in the hall on the 20th of
February; saw Whales the ollicer search the prisoner,
and knew the watch taken from hint to be hers. -

John Whales, the officer, corroborated the evidence of
the former witness.
The prisoner in tile no defence, and the Jury returned
a tenucl to Guilty.
Mary Young was indicted for stealing a piece of lawn.
the pitmen), of Win. Haynes.
The case was filly made ont against the prisoner, (a
respectable young woinatt,) and, under the direction of
the Judge, the Jury found a verdict of guilty.
Sne was removed fro•n the bar in toe arms of the
turnkey:.
The Judges etirpsirA whether any person knew her,
when Mr. Browne, the late Governor, stepped forward,
and said that she had conducted herself in a most ex-
emplary manner.
The intlge observed that she should be leniently dealt
hy, as it was probably her first offence.
I leery White, a genteel youth, was placed at the bar,
charged with stealing Iwo shirts, thy property of lltiats
Milner, and a sitter spoon, the property of Uri urn
Pizetta.
At the coinmeneement of the examination the unfor-
tunate youth tell backwards whit consklerable
and animation was or some time mispelided. Every
etlort was used to restore him, hut in vain, and he was
carried out of Court in a state of

A nun of the name of Marley, was convicted and
sontenced to he hanged at the last Mayo assizes, for
stealing a mare, but has since (teen respited. The exe-
cution of another c 1111 l Mal was appointed for an earlier
day, and Marley's contnvattee to make money, dirrin4
the few clays Ise itail in live, deserves to be recorded, itir
its novel.), and ingenuity. Ile actually made application
to be permitted to pet-limn the office of executioner on
the per:on who was to sutler before him, stattirg, " he
would earn thereby a• certain sum ; and if the lavotir
was granted hint, of allowing his wile to hang himself,
lie was sure she would du it as well and as tenderly as
any pergill that could be found ; and the creature," lie
said,. " .vould then have, by the produce of I.oth j drs,
wherewithal to pay hcr rent.'
A curious circumstance occurred in the Coliegia.c
church, Manchester, lm the mo-iiing of a recent
—A youitg couple repaired, very lot itigly, to the all it
altogether, to be hound in the mums of nyirteti.—
Already the " white read priest" had commenced the
holy rites; the trembling Maid t%leatheil tier hand
to receive the ring; the priest then demanded of the
bridegroom if he would hare her for his wife,
behold, he answered " No!" and precipitately fled
It is impossible to describe me amazement of the hOfSakrut
damsel—she seemed as if awakening hunt a dream, and
gazed horribly annuttl, as if to seek her cruel, her per-
jured swain. Rut slat! he was for ever gosu•; lie had
vanished from her sight, and she was left to console her-
self as well as she could, for her cruel disaisporiument.
HOUSE OF CORRECTION, COLDItArIi
IS the ()pinion of the Grand Jury, who inspected the
. above ruosoii on Tuesday last, ►hat it is in every respect,
in ponot of der:lioness, and in regard to attenlion and
civility on the part of the officers thereof, worthy of the
highest admorrtion and praise ; but the (fraud Jury re..
pectfully submit, that the ge4littah iilmvauee, r z. tine
pound ut bread and a pint of gruel per day each prisoner,
is scarcely sutlicie?it for human subsistence'
Illenkensop, the pedestrian, f..:led in his attempt us
walk toe and hived, as it is termed,. seVerite, a litlica in
three hours, on Ashford Common, on Thursday. Ile
did eleven miles within the two hours, and broke Jowls
in goiug the fourteenth tulle, hut was then belund time.
—lt was for .;t) guineas.
A.tluei was to hate taken place on Friday hetwveu
M—tl-11, a surgeon, amid \I r. but the hit ihs
of the former prevented the AM' 'akin: pl.sce by causing
1-him to be taken into custody on Use gromat u t lloonslow
heath, and he was held in turtties to keep this I'tCe.