The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-12 00:00:00

UNION HALL

Wednesday J. Iveson and J. Owen, and Maria Oliver and
'Harriet Wilcon, their female asanciates, were re-examined.
The evidence of seventeen persons was taken. The principal
charge against Iveson and Owen were for mitt ring the house
of P. 111109ge, Es.;. in Townsend. Street, Kent Road, slid
steahng varioes artielecalinen, plate, and %gearing ap;i4egi ;
a similar offence at tee house of Mr. Hoare, in Bed bird Street,
Lock's Fields. from whenee thry stole plate ar.d trinkets;
a like depredatiou at the residence of Mr. Hull, at Prekii sill,
.and stealing, a large quantity of plate ; and an attempt to
break open the house of Mts. M'ilkinson, of Burdett Street,
Maks orth. Upon ell the above charges the pf biolloll4 IVeBOll
and Owen wire committed. Tile leinale prisoners were ad-
mitted as evi lenee for the Clown, aml gave information of a
most important nittere. Oliver is 1.7 and VI/11cm' IS y ears of
age. Being 1111 d Isle to Mel hail for their appearance at the
next Assizes. to give evidence, they were itert..•,vg ily re.t rn-
but are at present separate from the ri lons. They
were intnrinell, that upon vs:reties being 1,1.0% ides: Cut their up.
pearance, they would be set at liberty.
J. Cowell, a tal)/e-aie and beer brewer, at Camberwell,
pleader; gnilty to haring omitted to mai k casks of table beet ;
by which, under the Art et Parliament, he had i,u pe-
mattes to the anoint of 15301. Tile information was laid uy
a Supervisor of Excise ; who at ,the same /bee exprowed his
.opinion, that the nmissian was frotn.inadverience, And not,
dattaiaoual. 1:11e Atavietrates, aoderatauthiig.that tut Com

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tnis%ioners of seise did not mean to press fur the foil'
penalty, tined tine defendant 121. Ins.
Several peisons resident at Camberwell, No:wood. anti
Peckham. wage charged with retailing table beer at a higher
rate than is allowed by Act of Parliament, viz. I fd. per quart.
I was proved, that the defendants had, in many instances,
vended table beer at 2411. and 3d. per quart. J. Clark,J..
Steward, W. Wreford, A. Smith, J. Robins, J. Staple, E.
Thompson, J. Wilson, J. Rogers, and R. Cooper were sever.
ally fined 334.—Fur the infarmation of the Public, the Super.
s isor laid before the Magistrates a communication lie
had received from the Board of Excise, which stated, that
the Board had in no instance ordered proceedings, unless it
appeared that the beer in question was sold at a price ex-
ceeding 243, the barrel and the duty, snaking together 20s.
the barrel. The beer referred to in the above informations
was sold for 30i. and upwards the barrel.

Lines written in the title.page of Hume's History of Enghtnd,
presented several years ago to Mr. Henry Johnson, now of
Drury Lane Theatre, by the late Mr. Lewis :
it matters little what one gives,
The niatter's in the cane or giving :
ti hile he that gives this hook still lives,
Remember you've a friend still living."

M. G. LEWIS.
On Wednesday last, a well dressed female called at Nlr.
Sergeant's, in Great St. Thomas Apostle, to look over his
house•, which he wished to dispose of. Miss Sergeant showed
the house to the woman, who expressed herself perfectly saris.
fied. She left the house; in a tow minutes she returned, and
said she had left a paterl up stairs, Miss Sergeant went up
stairs to look for it, and not being able to find it, 'be return.
ed, and the woman said she supposed she had left it eke.
where. She had not been gone more than a quarter of an
hour, when it was discovered, that while Miss Sergeant was
looking for the parcel, she had entered the counting house,
aml carried 0ti.281. in Bank notes, which Mr. Sergeant had
left for a gentleman who was to call upon him that morning.
It has been ascertained that the notes have been changed at
the Bank, And the address written upon them proved to be
fictitious.

By a report of a Committee of Parliament. it appears
that the turnpike roads of England and Wales extend 19,751
miles, and the other highways 95,104, making a total of
114,859 miles ; also that 1,415, 8331. is annually expended on
them; and that the area of England and Wales is 57,660
square miles, cr 37,094,400 acres.
A few mornings since a French row-galley, with a crew
consisting of 11 into, arrived on South Sea Beach, near Fort
Cuniherlend, and diately lauded a quantity of French
silks and other prohibited articles of considerable value.—
There was no Custom•house officer in sight ; but they did not
escape the notice of the officer commanding the troops at the
fart (of the 18th regiment), who, very prudently, did not at-
tempt to interrupt their proceedings until he saw one of them
move up the road-way. He then sallied from his post, and
took possession of the following articles, all the men having
retreated into the boat, in which they got away :-1139
yards of French silk, 19 Angola shawls, 11 dozen pair of
Angola gloves, SO pair of silk stockings, 49 snutf-boxes, 56
dozen pair of kid gloves, 225 yards of cambric, one petticoat
of fur, and 16, silk sashes.

Barnet, the veteran pedestrian, who is now in his 75th year.
for a bet of 751. to 501. has undertaken, it seems, to walk 300
miles in 1200 quarters of hours. This sporting match is to
take place on the 16th of this inontleat Cheltenham.
Gas LIGIITS.—A Gentleman has just obtained a !latent for
an improvement in the purifying of gas, which promises to be
of great public utility. By the plan lie ha. devised, the
noxious smell arising trout the use of lime anti other solutions,
which has so long been the subject of public complaint, will
be entirely removed.
A few evenings ago the house of Mr. Horder, the corner of Printer.'
Street. Earl Street,Blackfriars, was robbed of money, plate, clothes,
and other articles, to the amount ot'sool. It seems that on the re-
turn of Mr. Border, who had been during the day at Croydon, to
his house, at 9 in the evening, he heard a noise and strange voices on
knocking at the door. He went to the watchhouse to get assistance.
and on his return found the door open. On entering the house be
saw every thing in disorder, the desks and drawers forced and rifled,
end the rooms stripped of every article of value that could be re-
moved. The maid servant was absent, but the chairwoman, whom
she had employed to take care of the house while she visited her
sweetheart, made her appearance in great agitation. The story she
told was, that die female servant had left her alone in the care of
the house in the early part of the evening: shortly after she heard
VOiCI6 tip stairs, and listening attentively she heard somebody say,
" Ann, are you gone out yet ?" Frightened dreadfully, and fearing
that she should be murdered, she crept iota the coal-hole, where she
remained locked up-unti! the return of Mr. Borden The servant, on
her return, seemed astonished on hearing of the robbery, but being
euspeeted was taken into custody. The person she had been to visit
was also apprehended. They underwent long private examinations
at Guildhall, but were discharged after f: confinement of two days.—
Among the property stolen are the following articles:—A gold watch,
ten silver watches, several gold chains and seals. four dozen of silver
spoons, four massy silver candlesticks, three silver mugs, a number
of ancient gold aed silver coins, and from Go to too guineas in gold.
A reward hers been offered for the apprehension of the thieves.
At the last Wells Assizes a cause was tried, for the second time,
respecting the warranty of ltd' sheep, which the seller, who lived in
Someisetshire, engaged to deliver to the purchaser, a gentleman of
fortune, at his seat in Kent. One thing soon became certain,, and
that man that all the sheep had the rot seen after their arrival at the
piece of their destination. The proof of this was most positive, fur
within a very short time they all died of it. A question here arose,
whether the cheep had contracted this fatal disorder l:; fore or after
the delivery ; the purchaser refusing to pay became they were un-
round, and the seller claiming the benefit of his bargain because he
maintained that they were sound. Witnesses were drawn up against
each other in flat contradiction, and tne Jury would have !seen puz-
zled in their decision, had not air. dustier' Burrough addressed a few
rotations to two of the defendant's witnes-es. Milo: fire, a Kentish
Leiner, he enquired, if he did not know that land which would rot
sneeo in open weather, would not rot them in a frost?-1)n the
firmer declaring that his experience did not extend so far us that,
hi, !Amiable g rid, " Then I would not give a flee for yotc evidence in
a sheep cause !"—Of the second witness, a Norfolk fanner, who
professed to keep 'oho sheep as his regular flock, his Lordship en.
quired if he was aware that lambs and ewes in milk would thiive
upon land that would rot all other descriptione of sheep—" No !"
was the reply.—" Then," said his Lordship, e. my good friend,
you know nothing about sheep . • we need not trouble you any fur-
ther !" It is Deedless to say on which side the stale preponderated.
At the Circuit Court at Glasgow, Margaret Kennedy was con-
victed of issuing forged notes of the Stirling Banking Company, awn
sentenced to be executed On the 6th day of November. The poor
woman, who is young, was mealy unirtde to read or write, and was
carneely recommended -to hierce by the atty. This is the only in-
stance of any person being tried in Glasgow for forgery since 1505,
who two rung men were omvieted of engraving
.tite plates for
forged. notes, and issiang the notes. She is the rally nets dual rteW
in enernae in senalend on a similar charge, and 07110 one ho ban
,executed.ibie lase 15.7ean.for forged-nctes. i