The National Register.
London, England, 1811-06-16 00:00:00

NATIONAL REGISTER.

LAW REPORTS.

A blood, dressed in the first style or fashion, was fully com-
mitted, on Monday, from Marlborough-street Office, for steal-
ing in the shop of Mr. Cole, of Han way-yard, a valuable broach.
He was observed to put the article in his pocket whilst bar-
gaining for a diamond ring; and it was found on his person.
A most dreadful calamity took place on Saturday se'nnight
at Cork, by which three women and a man wo:.e italed
on the spot, a fourth woman dangerously wounded, and seven or
eight persons severely injured. The circumstances of the acci-
dent are these :—The Corn Market, which had been long in a
state to threaten the sa'ety of those who had an; intercourse with
it, or who may be occasionally near it, was a short time since
judged too insecure to be permitted to stand any longer, and an
architect was, therefore, instructed by the executive part of the
Corporation to take it down. He had proceeded sci far in its
denmlition as to have taken down a considerable part of the
tioof, when on Saturday, about thee &clock, whilst the labour-
ers were at Nyorl: on the roof, the proj-tcting stone cornice which
terminated the upper part of the wall, having no super-incum-
bent *eight to cou,:terbalancc the projection, fell down sud-
denly, and, melancholy to state, w I.ilct a number of persons were
collected immediately under it. The cot:sequences are as we
have stated : four unhappy persons, of humble condition, were
killed instantly ; some of them were terribly mangled by the
immense stones which formed the cornice, and the others,
though they have been much injured, escaped destruction most
miraculously.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
THURSDAY, jUNL 13.

JANSEN V. MICHIELSON.
This was an action brought by a seaman against hi Captain
for wages, upon the decision of which nine other causes depend-
ed; the ship and crew were Dutch, and the vessel having pro-
cerdeA part of her voyage, was captured and libelled in our Court
f;r condemnation, but was •afterwards restored. Pending the
Admiralty appeal, the plaintiff applied to the defendant for six
months' wages, four months' being due to him before the de-
tention of the ship. The defendant refused the plaintiff till the
ship should be cleared, alleging that the voyage would not be
compete till then; and the plaintiff left the ship, to appeal to
the English laws. A point of law was here made, whether, mi-
ller the case of Gienar v. Meyer, 2d Henry, Blackstone, 603 ;
and Hu;l v. Hairnet!), " /Mutt on Shipping," 440, the contract
between the plaintiff and defendant, being both foreigners, was
not a bar to the action. Lord ELLENBOROUGH was of opinion
that it was not, but saved the point. His Lordship also recom-
mended, that in the mean time a verdict should be taken for the
plaintiff for the four month's wages actually due to him.

Friday being the first thy of Tr.nity Term the Lord Chan-
cellor and Judges went in State to Westminster Hall, and open-
ed their respective Courts.
In the Court of King's Berch they were occupied the whole
clay in justifying bail.
The cause in which Sir Francis Furdctt is plaintiff, and the
Serie:int at Arms (I the House of Commons, defendant, will
come on Lext week in the Court of King's Bench.

POLICE.

BOW-S 1 RUT.

On -NV t.:lneday evening„l ihn Read was brought to the above
(Mice, charged with robbing, Mr. Charles Fruas, of Vibe-lane,
on Westm:nstet Brid,,,e, of his packet-book, containing several
votes, and a Bin of Exchange for 511.
It appeared, from the evidence of Eshnrby, Godfrey, and
Cane, three of the patrole belougitig,teAlse•ollice, that they Were
ion Westminster firrdge at the time the rowing match was tak-
ing place-on the-river, for a boat given by Mr. Ast:ey, on NVed-
nesday afternoon, when they observed tne prisoner feel sevt ral
(I..ntlemen's coat pockets, and, by other acts, attempted to feel
them. At lergth they observed hbo in company ith two
• 'others end, as they supposed, surround the prosecutor, who was
Jooking between the ballustrades of the bridge at the rowing
tnatch, and, on suddenly leaving him; they had no doubt but the
rosecutor had been robbed, and accordingly asked him : he
replied, he had lost his pocket-book ; upon which the Officers
seized the prisoner, and he dropped the prosecutor's pocket-
book—which was also seen by the prosecutor, who felt a great
pressure against him, when the prisoner was behind him, but
oncluded it was his eagerness to see the rowing match.—The
prisoner was fully committed for trial.
A man, of the tame of Rogers, was charged by Hum-
phreys with hei.:g in the crowd, for the purpose of picking
pockets. tin searchn;g him, a pick-lock key was found in his
pocket.
Friday El I:aheth, the wife of Thomas Leech, was brought
to the office charged with utter ing a forged 11. Bank of l• ngland
note, in the purchase of a pair of stays, of Mr. llulme, a pawn-
broker, in Bow-street, Bloomsbury. The prisoner, in giving
an account of herself, gave two false residences. She was
committed fur further examination.

I: CCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Sc.c

Thursday morning the body of a man, decently dressed, was
taken out of th-e New River, Islington, drowned, and was con-
veyed to the Workhouse to be owned, and for a Coroner's
inquest. The body was soon after recognized, and appeared to
be that of a reinectahle tradesman in Gray's Inn-lane. Insanity
Is supposed to have been the cause of his committing this rash
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PRTE OF STOCKS.
3 per Cent. Reduced • 61
4 lA. Cent. Consols 79W
Bank Long Annuities I6IF
India Bonds . • 13s. 19s. pm...
Exchequer Bills, 3d. la. dis. pat
Omnimn 164 dis.
Consols for Open. 64ii

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