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which they were reprimanded by the defendant Hussey.
The plaintiff said he was near 70 years of age. and not
able to work as long as • yoneg man, but would work
from eight o'clock till tour. Hussey said he was a saucy
rascal, and should work as long as the youngest Mall ill
the house. The next day the plaintiff stroked from seven
to five, as usual, but on the day after ( Wednesday) did
not go to work. On that evening witness lI4W hi si in the
cage, the place where felons and other prisoners weir
kept till they were sent to Maidstone gaol. There was
too fire in the rage, nor bed, but some straw on Ilse fluor,
which was Wirt:. There was no blanket or coveting of
any kind. Witness brought souse porrage fruits the
workhouse. Palmer went with hint to let him in. 'flue
plaintiff said to Palmer," How long do you mean to keep
me here. you ?" Pahuer said lie slid not know.
Sa ttttt el Hoonby stated, that on Tlinrsday, the lOili of
Ot Sober, he saw the pl. ' '(fin the cage through the bars
here was no glass in site window. Witness went, at the
plaintiff's desire, and brought I a great coat. Palmer
went wills him, and let him take in the coat. 'the plaintiff
trembled and shook, and seemed very ill. When he got
the coat, he laid flown on the straw on the floor. Painter
saw the state be was in, and gave him nothing, but lucked
him sip.
Mr. Butler, the 1111011 surgeon, proved U. having
treated the plaintiff-for chronic rheumatism after he was
discharged; it might have been caused by the cold to
which lie was exposed its the cage.
The ease for the plaintiff closest here.
Mr. Adolphus address'•d the Jary at great length for the
defendants in mitigation, bust called no witnesses.
TheJniy, after a short cou•nitatioo, returned a verdict
for the plaintilf —Damages ltd.
On the morning of Thursday about three o'clock, the
maid-servant of the Rev. Mr. Beckwith, curate of TO-
lingliasn, liisex, was alarmed by a noise at the window
of an apartment below, and looking out, she saw the
hotly of a man about hail' way through the sash, and
he was then pushing himself its the remainder of the
way. Mr. Beckwith was at that time in London, on a
visit, and the only Milli in the house will the parish clerk,
who slept there. The servant went immediately to call
hiin, and having informed him of what site bad seen,
desired that lie would gel up and protect her and her
mistress. She then went to Mrs. Beckwith's chamber,
and had no sooner coati tttt ticated the terrifying
intelli-
genee in bier, than this courageous young lady took •
loaded pistol in one hand, and a candle in the other,
and desiring the servant to follow her, went down stairs.
When she came to the room into which the fellow hail
entered, she walked boldly in and saw him cowering
down in one corner. She presented the pistol at hint,
and in a menacing tone told him that if he moved, or
offered any resistance she would shoot him ilstaittly.—
By this time the honest parish clerk, who probably
fearing that his ancient hones would suffer from being
exposed to the cold, had waited to put on his clothes,
came shivering into the room, and seeing the tri tttt pliant
posture of his mistress, he advanced with more crisifi-
deuce, and Mrs. Beckwith still standing by with her
pistol, the clerk and she servant bound the thief hand
and foot with cords. He was the nest day taken before
a magistrate in the neighbourhood and committed. He
bad, it appeared, lifted a five barred mate f its hinge,
and brought it across one or two fields for the purpose of
using it by way of ladder to enable kiln to reach the
windows.

A little before four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon
an elegantly dressed lady was ohscrved walking in a de-
jected state in the Dirdcsge-walk, St. Jatnes's•park. She
looked at several of the trees with apparent earnest-
ness, and seemed quite insensible of the object of the
mob who followed her, till she arrived opposite Story's
gate, when she took a handkerchief and tinkle it last to
• tree.; but finding the bough to which she attached it
was not her height, she untied it again and fastened it
to another much higher. She very leisurely tied it round
her neck in the presence of a large crowd of men and
boys. who all the time watched her inot;ons; and sming-
ing forward, twisted it round in such a manlier that she
was entirely raised from the gtound, and would hare
been strangled had she not immediately been cut down.
—She then abused those around her in the grossest lan-
guage, saying, she was by birth Lady Carrington; that
the King and the Duke of York had known her, but
by oppression she was deprived of her rights, and left to
wander forlorn and friendless. She was, however, re-
cognized to be a woman well known in St. James's; she
had been sepported by a noble peer, in splendid equipage
and dignity, only a few years ago, and through some
fault afterwards abandoned; since which she has been
seen about the streets, frequently in a state of despon-
dency. A constable took her to the workhouse, until
she can be got into xnt e proper asylum.
AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.— Saturday sennight
the corpse of an old womait was found near a faun-
house, in the muir, a few miles from the village of
Dairy. The-body being unknown, the circumstance
was proclaimed, on the following sabhath, in the parish
churches of Beith and Dairy, in the hopes of discovering
some trace of the unfortunate individual's connectioils
A little boy, the son of a tamer in the neighbourhood,
on coming home fermi church, remarked to his father
!hat the woman's plaid was " unto like his granny's."
I he farmer, ratheralarmed at this information, hastened
to the spot, and to his utter grief and astonishment, dos.
covered the corpse to be that of his aged her. It
would appear that she had left Iverne with the intention
of visiting her sou, and that. either overcome by fatigue,
or misled by the darkness of the slight, she had lost her
way in the muir, and perished with the cold. When
found, the was in a sitting p .stare on the side of a
hillock, and had an orange, partly eaten, in her band.
pA Pagassur.—A gentleman of Manchester, a few
days ago, received through the post-office a packet, site
charge on which was 11. 14s. 10.1. 0,1 pring trriird it
was found to consist of a gown, value about 12s. which
was sent front the neighbourhood of London, by a per-
son to whom he had rendered some sett ice, as a preseut
for his wife. It is supposed the packet had heen green
to a servant to scud by the mail, and that the man, not
knowing the distinction, had thought he was attending
to the instructious iu wading it by post.-

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-;:On Saturday evening, as one of the Reading coaches
was proe:edi gig to to‘vo, it came in contact with a chaise
cart at KOI:',111$1)t I.lp, opposite the Life Guards barracks,
the violence of winch overturned the chaise-cart, in
which was the landlord of the Marquis of Granby
public-house, and a person named Williams, who both
recei.ed very severe contusionv„ in consequence of one
of the wheels passing over them. They were conveyed
I tune inst,sible, and now lie in a very precarious state.
About an hour after the above accident took place, the
lead. rs of one of Limpus's Islewonli stages took fright
near St. Geurge's Nominal, and ran with unceasiuq vio-
lence down the road. The swaying of the coach, un
wkich were seven persons and four inside, was truly
terrific. All attempts to stop them were unavailing.
Milli another chaise cart, standing exactly opposite
where the former accident took place, locked in the fore
wheel of the stage, and by that means the horses stop-
ped. The passengers, who had very prudently kept their
seats, jumped off, but received very little injury in so
doing. Tote coach soon after started, but several of the
permits refused to proceed further with it.

FARE—Wapping was thrown into considerable alarm
on Monday niaht about six o'clock, by a fire breaking
out on the extensive premises of Mr. Dent, shipchand.
ler, in Herinitave•street, which at first threatened great
destruction : it broke out in the warehouse, but by what
means cannot be ascertained ; it soon spread to a quantity
of oakum, which took fire, and burnt with great ra.
!inlay ; the dexterity and exertion of the neighbours,
who soon threw the whole property into the scree saved
the premises from being burnt to the ground by the
raging element; five minutes wore, and it would have
gone beyond their power. The Aldgate parish engine,
the Imperial, Royal Exchange, and Philmont, soon
amt td ; but we are happy to say, their aid was dispensed
with, and that the injury was confined to the property
only ; except that of Mr. Mills, a publican in the same
street, who fell over one of the fiery bundles of oakum
and hurt his head severely.
SHOCKING OCCURReNCE.—On Thursday last David
Clator, a private beloogiug to a detachment of the 3d
Dragoon Guards, stationed at Carlisle, pot a period to
his existence at Hexhant. The following are the circum-
stances attending this melancholy transaction:—lt ap-
pears that Clator had lately m flied a young woman of
Garble, to whom he was passionately attached ; she,
however, both before and after her marriage, had peen
In the habit of corresponding with another man, in the
neighbourhood of Carlisle. This circumstance, it is
believed, coining to the knowledge of Clmor, he became
extremely jealous, and greatly disturbed in mind; his
wile, in the 111e1111 time, having availed herself of the
'inflection of her mother, who resided at Hexham, went
to live with her, declaring [that she could no longer
remain with her husband. Clator now determined to
proceed to Hexham and demand his wile, with a fixed
resolution, in case of a refusal, to shoot tither her or
himself, or both ; witit which intent he carried with
him two loaded pistols. CO:t anis tug at her mother', he
met with the relosal he had anticipated, his wife reso-
lutely persisticg iu having no further communication
with him. His leave of ausence being now expired, and
and being in a state of the utmost distraction of • tl
at his wile's conduct, he destroyed himself with one 01
the pistol: which he had unfortunately brought with
hint for that purpose.
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The Time Mercury says—" The keelasen of the Tyne
continue to follow their occupations as usual, and there
appears little danger of 3 relapse. There is a large steam
boat of a 34 horse power at present building at Ilowdon
Paw, for the purpose of giving greater facility to the
looting of ships of great burden without the assistance
of keels, by towing 'Vessels op and down the river. We
understand the kcelnien bare been taking the opinion
of counsel as to the spouts being a nuisance to the
na-
sigation of the river, and Mr. fltougham, it is stated,
has given them so much encouragement, that they are
determined to set apart weekly a small portion of their
(railings in order to raise a fund, that they may try the
questiou at the next sessions."
A melancholy allot happened at Leicester, on Mon-
day atter:tom. Six boys, on their return from school,
went to slide on a pond near the infirmary. when the
ce broke and let them all in, and four of the number
were drowned.
Thursday morning last, two men left a box at Sims
son's coach office, Rochester, to he forwarded to Lon-
don. Mr. Aldeisly. of Sirood, who was present at the
time, having belore obsessed the same persons at Srrood,
suspected something improper, and called in an excise-
man, who was passing, and communicated his suspi-
cions, that the box c iiiii dined contraband goods; it was
accordingly opened, when the body of a man was ex-
posed to view. Tue circumstance being made know',
many persons soon collected round the office, and one
of them thought it was the body of his father, who had
been buried in Snood church-yard on the preceding day.
It was 3CCOrdlllejy taken to Roches er workhouse, when
it loosed to he the body of William Herungion, n aged
man, many years servant to the late Mr. Boghtirst, of
Stoat!. The body was re-interred on Friday, the grave
having been deepened ten feet. Three meat, suspected
of the robbery were in the meantime taken into custody
at Gravesend. They were travelling in a light cart win'
a good horse, and had tools, such as a spade and pickax,
and a wrapper similar to the one the body was shrouded
They underwent an remain:thou on Friday, at Ru.
climes, and were remanded.
A few evenings ago, a pool woman, and her son,
ten years of age proceeded in the storm from Chosen
Stretton market towards their home at Prolsnomr,
Shropshire, a d wanct of about four miles, but the v to-
hence of the tempest was so great, and their fatigue so
excessive, that when within about fite hundred yards of
their own house, they stink tinder the accumulatiog
difficulties of their journey. The shrieks of the poor
woman were heard uy a cottager, who went to her as-
sistance, and she was wills difficulty recovered ; the poor
boy was guile dead; and two couple of fowls which
were by barn were also dead, and covered with had.

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Hamm FOOTPAID".—On Friday •e ght as Mr
John Jackson, a pig jobber, wbo lodges at the house
of Mr. Radmile, gamekeeper. in Wiklinore Fen,
Lincolnshire, was tet rst;ng on horseback from
Tattershall market, and had arrived within a shrt dis-
tance of his house, he was attacked, so early in the
evening as a little before six o'clock, at the descent of
Froghall bridge, by three men on foot, who must have
been purposely w• g for hint at the spot. Two of
them made a catch at his bridle, which he, with meat
courage, dexterously warded off by a vigorous use of the
' bon end of hit whip, whereby, he so quickly knocked
down one, and *tanned the other, as to frustrate their
attempt to stop hint. While Mr. Green was thus ac-
tively and closely engaged with two of the villains, the
third aimed a blow at his head with a thick stick or
bludgeon, which caused the blood to glow profusely from
his face. He then, clapping spurs to his little spirited
horse, made his way with all the speed he !possibly
could, though a piece of road so extremely bad as to he
almost impassable ever. by day-light: and was enabled
most providentially to eal•ct his escape from the violent
hands and diabolical designs of these three desperate as-
sailants.

Sunday evening last, some daring villain entered the
stable of Mr. Newton, farmer, near Market Deeping,
Lincolnshire, at the early hour of eight o'clock, and stole
thereout his nag mare, with which the villain rode off
in view of the 111411 servant, whom he threatened to shoot
if he made any disturbance ; and his threat so alarmed
the man, that he dared not pursue the thief. In the
course of half an hour. the mare returned all over dirt;
it is supposed she threw the rider, and by that means
got away from hint. The servant, hearing her in the
yard, went out and replaced her in the stable; but yet
strange to relate, she was again stolen by nine o'clock.
when Mr. Newton coming home, missed the mare, and
immediately pursued the robber. It is supposed that he
was close at the villain's heels, as the mare was left tied
as hedge about smile front the premises. Mr. Newton,
replaced her in the stable, and kept watch against fur-
ther attempts during the alight.
A horse. the property of the company of proprietors of
the Mersey and Irwell navigation, was lately freed from
further labour, and sent to grate away the remnant of
his days. On Wednesday week this faithful servant
died, at an age which has seldom been recorded of a
horse: he was in his &ad year.
The premises at Cnard. in which the very large wool.
len cloth factory has for many sears been carried on. but
which have been lately abandoned in consequence of the
general decay of that important branch of trade iu the
West of England, have been taken by same manufac-
turers of patent lace. Upwards of 1,300 hands are to
be immediately employed in this concern, which has
been undertaken by some of the prisons now or lately
connected with a similar establishment at Tit erton. A
steam-engine and gas apparatus are erecting on the pre-
mises, the latter being fur the purpose of furnishing gas.
through the pure RAIN of which the lace is rapidly
passed, for divesting it of its downy filaments. The net
is subsequently sent to France, where it receives a rich
and elegant improvement, by the addition of a cunously
wrought foliage and tlinvels, and as thou returned to this
country, in which, tiotwiaistatitling this elaborate course.
It amply realizes the hopes contemplated by the ingenious
patentees. The utmost expedition is using w fitting up
the complicated machinery requisite to this undertaking.
and the most scrupulous regard is observed in the regu.
lations of the workpeople, to prevent any communication
by which the processes of the manufacture are to be
conducted.
DaIaRtICTION OW LONG'S HOTEL.—This splendid
resort of the/feat/0o was consumed by fire on Saturday
morning. In what manlier the fire originated is not
exactly known, lint it broke out in one of the servants'
rooms, at the upper part of the house, shout two o'clock.
and so rapid was the communication of the devouring
element, that all attempts on the part of the inmates to
check its progress were ineffectual, and in a short time
the whole of the attic was in flames. The timely arrival
of engines, and spirited exertions of the firemen pre.
vented its spreading to the adjoining houses, and in a
much shorter little than would have been expected the
lire was subdued ; hut not until it had consumed all the
interior, excepting the gr I floor and cellars. Con-
siderable property was saved. and we are happy to stare
that no lives were lost. All the exterior walls are stand-
ing ; and they present a curious appearance from the
water having frozen on the surface, and formed several
icicles.
INUNSATION.-01) Wednesday night, or rather on
Thursday morning. about one o'clock, the reridents in
a house in Monimerstreet,Cavenclish-square, were most
seriously alarmed in a very singular manlier. These
persons retired to rest late at night, and they had sin
long been in bed belote they wcte alarmed by a strange
noise over their heads in the above st. irs rooms, and
presently water began rapidly drop,ing through the
ceiling, fec. upon them. The butler Instantly HOW,
and on opetutig the door perceived torrents of water
running in every direction towards him ; lint knowing
what to make of this extraordinary alarm, and summing
the house was on fire. and the engines were in full play,
he rushed into the room, and snatching his wile in has
antis lie ran down stairs, bitt in his progress found no
fire. He opened the street door and galled the watch,
who with several other pt.rsons entered the house, and
found all the up stairs counts full of water, and on vs
annotation they ascertained it proceeded from a cistern
at the top of the house, which Was left sitolocked, and
con,:eqiicittly rushed out, and .with great viol-ace forctli
i!s way tlirinigh the roof into the monis. Part of the
furniture mss destroyed, but no further injury appeated
to have been done.
A young woman in the pariah of Mirldlebie. Dum-
friesshire. has the following relations, all living, with
their faculties quite entire, and capable of attending to
their several employments, namely, two great grand.
Gathers, two rem granilmoihets, two gratidlailters, two
gratidtionthers, a stepfather and stepmother. 3ts.l a fattier
,tad mother.