The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-17 00:00:00

AIIDDLES&I SESSJONS.

THURSDAY. Dec. 13.1{0BRFRY or A CLERGYMAN
• 1- KEEN HA M.—Joseph Sharp was indicted for stealing
tour ounces of beef, value one penny, and tour ounces of bread,
value one penny, the goads of the key. T. Via
Mr. Ai :thin stated the case for the prosecution, which
strociAly excited the risibility of the auditory. 'Ube prose-
cutor he said resided near Twickenham, mid the prisoner
was his gardener. 'Eke prosecutor having occasion to make
Mahe search ill the tool house, iii the garden, found in one of
the drawers in winch seeds were kept, a slice of beer and a
slice of bread. It happened troy reinatkably said Mr.
Atabiliohat at this time the prosecutor had a round of
beer dressed in his house, and on viewing the slice is the
drawer, he thooJit it very much resembled the sound in his
lardei ; he accordingly took it away ait h him for closer
etainiiiittion. Lind on comparing it a ith the round, he found
it to lied i tartly, that he could almost %wear it was his own!
The taught. r here became so loud, that Mr. Arabia's voice
was lost. As soon as silence was restored, . . .

The Rev. T. Vitals was sworn. Ile stated that the prim-
wee was his goirdner, nod i bat having occasion to e amnion. his
tool house in the gm deo, he was struck by seeing n slice of
beef and of bread iu one of the drawers, and from the cons-
pleitimo of the beef he immediately concluded it was hi.
sown; but for greater certainly he cut a similar ce from
the round, and on comparison he found they coincido d iu
p iitleular.—(Oreat laughter.)—He then sh -wed it to the
pi 'sooner, %homed be had h ght it from his aunt's at Cam-
bers% ell, *heir he had dined the day before. The prosecu-
tor arid it ss:;io his. The prisoner repiled he could not swear
le a bit of beef. The prosecutor snid to him, 1 have com-
pared it %4 ith this slice, and I think I ran swear they were
both cut Mr the sa e rowed !—( Burst of laughter ) Oa ohs
tajuing silence, the prosecutor •aid the case was too trifling
to occupy the attention of the Court, and he did nut wise it
to co farther. . . . . .

lie n EIS crow-e runined by Mr. Alley, and admitted, that
when he found the beef he chewed It to the cook, nho said
it vim not bie,beingcoatt,er in 'he et AM.
Mr. Alley said, he had the cook to prove, that the bike of
beef found by the Reverend prusecutog woe nut his ; soul he
hid the privener's aunt lo prove, that ►he had given huo u
thee of beef ',finiar to that taken from I

The Jury all stood up, and said it Ma. quite unnecessary
to ca:l any aituesses, as nothing had becn proved against
the prowl. r.
The Chairman said the prisoner had been hardly dealt
with. lie should not have been oupri.unrd ur prioccuted Oil
such evidence.

FATAL ACCIDENTS.—A Mr. David Brook, a car.
'mutat., at Thorp, was on Wednesday last returning
hoine from Leeds, on the rail-way towards Nliddleton,
having elevated his umbrella to present the sleet beating
in his lace, a nittlitter of coal-waggons drawn by the
loco-tnotive machine came noon hint unobserved, and
passing over his lower our:Annie' wangled his legs and
thighs to so dreadful a manner, that he died in the
Infirm try in the coarse of the same nitzht ; the deceased
has left a widow and six children. A still more terrible
accident occurred at Lofthouse on the following day, by
which lour liersiois lost their Ines. It appears that early
to the 'horning of that day km persons were descending
in a curve ono di 01.11-1/ii, when the rope giving way,
they were all precipitdird to the bottom, and two of
them killed ou the spot; the two others, one a boy about
16, and the other 12 years of age, were removed to the
Leeds General Infiintary, where one of them died im-
mediately on his arrival, and the other within half an
hour afterwards,