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Vectertly wss all•hustle amongst the admirers of fish
snorts. It wis even out that a fight was to take place on
Warohleilms Common, between Teesdale and Hawkins, men
of Ught weights bat adepts in their line of hissiness. The
ci,c!dessa was lived on a common through Dulwich, but
••tteail of Hawkins mid Teesdale, two minor operators, of
W••• mimes of Goddard and Commits's, peeled for a stake of
$2.11 -nines; the funnel' seconded by Harry Holt, and the
rby tirrofzint. They fought more than as boor very
sank ntedly, when Cummins won.
Thaeker and Thorn...A very manly, although not a
-.••••titifie fight took Oise al Fysk Green, in Herta, yonder-
.y. It was for 100 aeineas, and the men went most of
•!• it money. l'hey we both reputed game men, and they
:,roved themselves such. 'Thom true successful.

OLD BAIL :Y, Tv ssiliwr, Or. 16.

;rtlinns Carnieens, a pang of very respectable appear.
• was indicted for Riesling a barometer, on the loth of
.I.igust last, the properly of Richaial Gavle. The case fur
the pia...relit inu of the' Prisoner his been already detailed at
:tea its this Paper, moiler the bead of " Police Reports." It
esied chiefly upon the evidence of thr pawnbroker at whose
soup Ow Prisoner had plydg,d the barometer.
The Primmer, in his defence, said, " My Lord, I am inn°_
✓ein of the uffeaCe lift/ailed to me. I was asked so pledge
she article by a pergali nested Thomas Lloyd, which I did,
:led I gave hint all the noose!: that is all I know about it."
Chas. Wm. Palms. late • clerk In a barrister, and now
employed by law stattiallel a, hail known the Prisoner about
s Wes years. He weut see him at Mr. Smith's (Alice no the
Ilth August, TheY,rdnierl together on shat day ism Gray's
lou-lane, and afterwards went to take a walk. In Hs wry-
lane they met a onag ,oats whom they bosh knew,
stained Thotneits Lloyd. He had a barometer in his
hand, which he sett! he had to pledge for some pens ,
whom he named, sot the requested the Prisoner to pledge it
for him—assigniog net fepill/11 why be did not like to do
tt himself, that, flap the poverty of his appearance, be
apprehended the pvithrukers would not give hiss, so
much on the article as Hwy would a lirtter-dressid ter.
son. The Prisooer Atiok the barometer, and tatted it at
Newby's, the witness arompanying him; but not getting
what was wished for ippon it, they went away, and went to
ass:Akre pawnheoker'Ain Drury-lane, who was wowiliiwg aka
to kid upon the barlirueier the mouey which Lloyd wished
fur. 'Th. y ullintoCry wvit to Mrs. Lainli'a, in Staishope-
Adroit, where the Prisoner went in and pledged it for 15..
-*ldle Lloyd *Lit wilitess waited for him outside. On his
eosin!! lalli the Pristine, handed the money over to Lloyd,
being 159, all but s.me few halfpence, which witness be-
lieved ass deilueltegiy the pawnbroker (sir the ticket.
Mr. Smith, a solicjior at Bedford, and Mr. Towushencl, a
solicitor, who had ivied his clerkship in Mr. Smith's other,
gave the Prisoner spud character for honesty.
The Ovoids SZKJIAST was pruceediog to nom up the
• i tit II et., whep
The Forenoon of* Jury said be believed it would nut he
necessary to give doe Court shat
-trouble, and immediately,
to the satssfactiene 4 a crowded Court, returned a verdict of
A'of
William Flosuywparis was indicted for stealing a silver
(porno on the Illik.Jaly last, out of the house of Charles
J. Clatterbuck lista opposite Ilse house of Mr.
the Prosecutor. About five o'clock m the lamming of the
4tb July, be heaid the sound of a window breaking, and
vats the Prisoner at. the li'or withemother faun looking down
the area of Mr. Rawlins. He observed the Prisoner's -
within take ass instrument out of the Prisoner's baud, whirls
be screwed together, mil pat it through the winds, of Alr lt.'s
house, aid draw itback again with a spoon at the end ail ;
by thee gave the spoon so the Prisoner mid the instrument
also, sad they went off through a passage whirls leads to
Holborn. The witness followed and bad the Prisoner at the
bar taken into custody. His companion run off and escaped.
On searching the Prisoner the silver spoon with (Maud cuss.
eealeil up his coat-sleeve. The iitstrastient with which the
theft was effected he threw away on his way to the watch-
boon., hot it was picked up aarl now produced in Court.
It was something like a fishing-rod, and consisted of three
-nines; at she and was a piece of wire, looped 111111 bruit.
'var. hooks were found upon the Prisoner wills screw
handles, ofor the purpose of fitting on to the rod whets linen
was to 11e drawn up.
The Jury without hesitation found the Prisoner Gui/ry.
BIGAMY.

Wm. Kill was indicted for having married Mary {White,
avi:low, on the 6th of August, 1813, his former wife being
s'.•l'abve.
From the evidence it appeared that toe Prisoner was
married in May, 1802, to a young woman named Mai)!
Pierce, with whom hr did not lire lion:. They were op._
1 it. d, as it appeared, by mutual consent, and in August,
1911, lie married again to a widow, nain.al Mary White,
with whom he lived six years, and had one child by kr.—
Upon be; discovering the Prisoner's former marriage abe
immediately left him, and had since married a man named
flairis.—The Jury found him Guilty.

We have already remarked that the publication
lately made by the friends of Baron OMPTEDA, for
'llaysurpose of relieving his character from the inp-
pdtation of cowardice, was too obviously imper-
fect to merit the-attention of the public. It hitire
within itself the marks of being a garbled and 'neon.
statement, framed for the purpose of creating
a false impression, iu -which, however, it has failed,
for even the very letters of QMPTEDA and his friends
ore sufficient to 'hew that the man had ,not the an.
and vulgar virtue oi• personal courage to rescue
1114 memory from general contempt. Tu this inter-
s:a! evidence, derived from the papers themselves,
we have now to add the assurance that the publics.
Lou is a garbled statement of the communications
that permed between Mr. Howe AM and the valiant
.111kAron &that is particular one lette► front Mr. Flow.
NAM is omitted, which would throw strong hgnt
-upon the whole affair. Mr. liovvsitss, we under-
stand, is at present in Paris, mid 'probably the cit..
euinstance of his absence from London may have

been one motive for making the recent publicstinis.
We learn that when Mujocchi, or some of the alive
witnesses, being questioned whether they made their
evidence on the Queues trial the sullied, of con.
venation atnongst themselves, replied ill the negu.
Cyr. Lord HOLLAND observed, Mutt, if such were
ti,.! case, he should be glad to he admitted to their
society, as "it tutu be much more agreeable then
ally company be had been in for souls: time past.—
/ Evening Paper.)
The Court- (or the relief of Insolvent Debtors
)lioceeded yesterday, for the first Moe since the
passing of the new Act of Parliament, to hear and
4iteranine the' petitions of fissolvent Debtors. Se-
vetral cases were heard, but there were tone of
much general interest.

•A n estraordiaarymeteor was seen et Reading on
tlr wirillog of the 41st instant, Irvin about fuse
lock till Eta It appeared iat tint hint a pointed
war, rather larger than a crown pieer, mid cola.
so tur•vat hour and a half, see g'sitaiiousry
.•v,r Fortnarylllll, when it shut to the southward,
art.,: %Inch It: gradually pasitt) to the northward,
ih size, till it was :!en no 'inure.
About 1)4;11 an hour before this phenomenon, at
steady lialfiipeat three, three very loilhanit tueinors
ea,iri veto together exactly over the Furbury, pro.
d4clug a great
.light.