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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

the calendar, nod none of them charged with any crime of
marked atrocity.
BANC FORGERIEL—The following prisoners pleaded
guilty to the minor offence of having forged notes in their
possession, which subjects them to transportation for 14
years :—William Goldson, aged 3ti ; Alfred Piuk, aged 30;
John Clark, aged 50; and Sarah Price, aged 42.
EzTaNst%P. KontlFßY.—Malachi Thornton, aged 21 ;
Andrew Smith, aged 23; John Walsh, aged 23; John Galvin,
aged 32; and John Woradmit, alias Brooks, aged 22, sol-
diers, were capitally indicted with having, on the morning
of the 23d of April last, at the parish sir Portsea, Ports.
mouth, feloniously and burglariously broken and entered
the dwelling-house of Captain James Hearney White, nod
stolen therein a large quantity 01 dollars, Bank notes, silver,
plate, wearingapparel, &c. his property.
It appeared limn the prosecutor, Captain White, his ser-
vant, and others, that on the 22d of April he left London for
Portsmouth, taking with him the property iu question. On
arriving at his house, it was lodged in the parlour, where a
temporary bed was erected fur the Captain ; the r bad a
bow a lnduw, and was fronting the street, so that any person
might have seen the property, and what was passing within.
On Captaiu White's awaking next morning, he found the
room in the greatest confusion, and his gold watch and
seals, which he had placed on the escrutoire, gone, together
with the °Orr articles. The dour, which shut by a spring,
was oval, some handkerchiefs having gust entangled under it.
On searching the house the scullery window was discovered
to be open, through which the thieves hid effected their
entrance. Au oyster knife, which was sworn to have been
in the scullery on the family going to bed, was found in the
parlour, but for what purpose it was remitted is not known.
A female, who slept in the upper pint of the house, stated
she beard a noise about one ill the ttttt rning.
In consequence of information received, Captain NVhile,
with two officers, tin the 21th of April, repaired to Cosham,
and a idle sitting in an inn saw the prisouer Thompson pass.
He was immediately secured, and on search being nv;de,
some of the stolen articles were foetal. They then went to
the barracks: nad Smith aad Brooks weie taken into custody.
Au extensive search was then made ; Galvin gave up the
watch and seals, which it appeared he obtained from
Smith, and a large quantity of the plate and uniforms was
found in the possession of Thornton, Brooks, and Smith,
ugaiust whom the evidence was quite clear; but it did nut
materially alliret Walsh.
Mr. Justice Best summed up the evidence with his usual
impartiality, and adverted to the want of substantial evi-
dence agairdt Walsh. His lordship atso observed, it was fur
the jury to consider whether the proof of burglary hod been
muds out agaiust Calvin, who might be viewed in the light
of a receiver.

The Jury, after a short consultation, pronounced Thorn-
ton, 'smith, and Biooks guilty of burgliiiy ; Galvin guilty of
receiving the watch, knowing it to he stolen, and acquitted
Walsh. . .

His Lordship then, in an impressive address, passed the
awful sentence of death on the three first pi isomers, and sen-
tenced Galvin to twelve mouths' imprisonment ill the House
of Correction.

POUCe.

BOW-STREET.

CONVICTION UNDER THE NEW POLICE ACT—On
Monday, Thomas Cole, the keeper of one of the night
coffee-shops, appeared before Mr. Bunk, dr. sitting ma-
gistrate, upon an information exhibited aglitist hint,
under the Police Act, passed in the recent session, for
keeping his shop open after ten o'clock, contrary to the
provisions of that statute.
A constable of St. Clement's stated, that the defendant
had, for a long time, kept a coffee-shop of the worst de-
scription of characters, and open all hours of the night.
It was the determination of the officers of St. Clement's
parish to avail themselves of the power given by the sta-
tute, and the constables had orders to %smell them closely,
and to exhibit informations against the owners whenever
they should infringe upon tile law. 9t two o'clock in
the morning of Sunday se'nnight, witness went to the
defendant's shop, and found it filled with loose charac-
ters of both sexes, some fighting, tuners asleep, and the
remainder in situations that it would not be delicate to
describe.

Mr. Ilirnie asked the defendant if he had any thing to
state in his defence?

lle said he was very sorry, and pleaded his ignorance
of any statute as the one under which he was summoned,
and hoped the worthy magistrate would be lenient wan
him, as he had closed his shop at a seasonaide hour since
the information was exhibited.

The constable said, that was the fact.
Mr. Biritic said, he was glad to hear that, and under
the circumstances he would fine the defendant 51. only.
Defendant.-1 cannot pay al., sir.
Birttie.—Then you musk be committed to the
House of Correction for six weeks.

The defendant was accordingly committed but, in
the course of three hours, the fine was paid.
Hugh Rogers, one of a notorious set of swindlers who
have lately infested the metropolis, obtaining large sums
of money from different persons muter the preience of
procuring them situations under Government, was
brought up fur re•examination, charged with defrauding
George Dykes of two bills of exchange for the payment
of 501. each, which he had obtained from hint tinder a
similar pretence. The prosecutor (Dykes) is ala houritis
carpenter, residing in Fisher-street, Red Lion-square, and
by his industry had possessed him:elf of the above pro-
perty: he unfortunately got acquaiiiied with the pri-
soner, who represented to him that be had the interest of
several gentlemen who cifuld procure situations fur hun,
and that there was a situation vacant in the Excise which
he would get him for 1001.: to this proposition I)ykcs
agreed, and gave him the before-mentioned bills, which
were endorsed by his brother, who is a respectable
tradesman. After the prisoner had got possession of the
bills, he kept out of the way for some time after, but
Dykes happened to nvet hint, and watched rim home,
• and then obtained a warratit, on which he was appre-
hended.—He was fully committed for trial for the fraud.

A great nur•.rber of pickpockets and other thieves as-
sembled on Wednesday near the Belvidere Tavern,
while the people were waiting to see the balloon, as-
cend, anti committed sevorJl robberies iu the must au-
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AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY.
There is little of novelty to preseut to the public, at this
time, a; an agricultural report. The different crops upon
the ground have improved since our last, from a favourable
eliiingein the weather. whilst yet there has been a great want
of solar heat. Late high winds also, may have had some
degree of ill effect on the wheats under the flowering pro.
cess. Nevertheless, all the crops appear in a propermis and
thriving mate, and very probably at harvest, to afford a can•
siderable augmentation of the oat' I stock of corn, pulse,
and roots collectively. The block 111 roots was great, and
the late rains will draw up a large aftermark. The hops tire
much mended, and will probably Ise a far greater crop than
;Li I.` specie& The growth of seeds this year has not been an
successful. Tares will be a good crop. Fruit is in far
greater abundance than the early season promised, apples
being the chief exception. The late rains have di awn up
the turnip plants to u size and substance to defy the Ily.—
Live stock, both fat And lean, has declined in price still
farther since our last, with a choice to encounter the usual
autumnal full. Wool has experienced a trilling amendment
in price. The crops generally, in Ireland and upon the Cots-
tiucut, arc reported to be of good promise.

Hxlraordinary Escape from bciag Killed.—Ois Wednes-
day a boy was riding a fine blood mare belonging to Mr.
Hughes, of Hatton Yard, Hatton Garden; a waggoner,
who was liaising with his Scam, cracked his whip, whirls
so frightened the animal that lie set ()fiat lull speed down
Mutton Hill, run over a poor woman, who was sitting at
a fruit shill, broke her table, and scattered the fruit, but
she escaped wills only a few bruises ; the boy not being
able to curb the animal lie ran down Vine Street, which
is divided from Mutton Hill by a bar across the street ;
the horse leaped over the bar. which is about five feet
high, and on lighting on the slippri flagged pavement,
on the opposite side, his feet slipped and lie fell ; the boy
was thrown off; the neighbours ran to his assistance, ex-
pecting nothing less than that he would be dashed to
pieces, but miraculously ni ither received the smallest
injury.
Thursday se'imight, at Fakenham, a pedestrian,
named Jetitiim;s, undertook to rim 50 mites in eight
hours, which he performed with ease, having five minutes
to spare.
Swaff ham fair was but thinly attended ; there was a
large quantity of lambs which sold at very low prices ;
there was but a small shew of neat stock, and no post
horses.

On Wednesday afternoon a dreadful accident, and
which had like to have been attended wit') the loss of
several lives, occurred near the Belvidere, Pentotsville.—
A number of persons of both sexes, consisting of men,
women, and children, who had assembled to witness the
ascension of the balloon, climbed on a low wall topped
with iron railing, surrounding the lawn in front of a gen-
tleman's house, for the purpose of elevating themselves
above those on the ground, when the railing not being
sufficient to resist the cumbrous weight of those attached
to it, about twenty yards of it gave way, together with
part of the wall, bearing all befoie it into the street
several were seriously hurt, and many had either a leg or
arm broken, but the most serious case of ad was that of a
fine boy, about eight years of vge, who was killed on the
spot by a large portion of the stout pillar falling on his
head, which crushed it to pieces.
POIsONING aY M !STA KIL—An Ingntsion was held On
Saturday night before Thomas Higgs, Esq, coroner, oil
the body of Mr. T. Smith, a gentleman residing at No.
to, Grosvenor-square, who on Friday night having
pain in his head, was advised to take a dose of salts.—
He stated to one of the family that he had a quantity of
salts by him in a box ; he mixed about an ounce of it in
some warm water, and went into his bed-mom and
drank it. He was immediately seised with the most
excruciating pains, and it was discovered, upon the in.
rrival of Mr. Fordhatn, suraeon, of North Audley-street,
that he had taken oxalic acid, (which is used for cleaning
bout tops) by nosaike. The unfortunate man died in a
few minutes after the accident, in the greatest agony.—
The internal coat of his stomach was entirely destroyed.
After hearing evidence, proving that the deleterious potion
was taken by accident, the Jury returned a verdict.
" l)ied from taking a quantity of oxalic acid, by mistake
for Epsom salts." lice paper was produced in which the
oxalic acid was wrapped it was a piece of a newspaper.
Theiury recommends in futore,that chemists should hate
the word " poison" printed on the paper in which such
dangerous emnedients were enclosed.

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.-014 Friday night Mr. R.
Parker, Stock-broker, of Bartholomew-lane, in the city,
who resided at Kensingtou, having been bled copiously
in tile course of the day; imprudently went to bame in
the Serpentine River: tic had been in the water about a
quarter of an hour, when he suddenly disappeared.—A
number of persons were swimming at the time in the
river, and gave the alarm; the boat belonging to the
Royal Humane Society's house was rowed to the spot,
and the body was dragged for till a late hour, but was
not found till Saturday morning about seven o'clock.—
The legs and arms of the deceased were much contracted,
and it was the opinion of the medical men, that he died
of the cramp. A coroner's inquest sat on the hotly, and
brought iu a verdict of " Accidentally drowned."

An awful instance of sudden death occurred on
Wednesday afternoon, in Lower-street, Islington.—.
Mrs. Whitmore, the wife of a respectable carpenter,
residing in that street, whilst standing at her own
door, looking, with others, at the balloon, which
just ascended from the Belvidere, dropped suddenly
down, and expired immediately, before surgical us-
sistance could be procured.
The Maria, Captain Thornthwaite, arrived in
Dublin on Thursday, having on board Sir Gregor
Mac Gregor, his lady, and family ; they sailed ti m•
Santa Martha in an armed schooner bound to Gret—
nock, but falling in with the Maria, about 130
leagues to the West of Ireland, and being short of
water, they went on board, and arc now at Gu—
sh:oll'z: hots; a.kvill~ -street.

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EXTII.4OIIDINAHr OCCURRENCE.

At the conclusion of the late Old Bailey Sessions,
tl,e Foreman of the London Jury intimated to the
Common Sergeant, who was presiding, that he had a
communication to make by the direction of his bro-
ther Jurors—lie then began to read the following
document, but was grossly interrupted by the Com-
mon Sergeant, who told him that the Jury were
usurping what did not belong to them, and on the
Foreman remonstrating, absolutely ordered him out
of Court, under an impudent threat of committal for
contempt it' he did not immediately obey this gen-
tleman " dressed in a little brief authority:"—
"The London Jury ear not separate without making an anxious
appeal to tire Court in behalf of the prisoners who have been
capitally convicted. By a conscientious discharge of the duties
impostil on them. they have been compelled to commit the lives
of individuals into the hands of their fellow men, for offences
varying in character and degree; and it behoves them to state
then feelings of deep regret that the absence of marked atrocity
should not ensure an exemption from the dreadful sentence of
death, Notwithstanding the high degree of confidence they
would place in the merciful discrimination of those who arc
invested with the final disposal of lives forfeited to the law, the
painful apprehension caused by the uncertainty of remission
deprives them of the satisfaction which should follow their own
verdict. Beason and humanity dictate the hope that the embar-
rassing difficulties attending the office of juror may be speedily
removed; constrained as they now are by their oath to award a
punishment so manifestly excessive as to demand the constant
interposition of higher authority to prevent its being carried into
effect. It is their humble desire, therefore, to communicate to
his Majesty's council, through the humane offices of the Court,
that the London Jury respectfully disclaim the extreme penalty
which their verdicts would seem to invoke on the criminals they
have had in charge, and earnestly solicit their delivetance from
death."
The above was approved and signed by all the
Jurymen.

Ffects of Lightning.—During a violent storm,
which visited the town of Biberbach, in Prussia, on
the evening of Monday, July 16, four young pea-
sants, engaged on an eminence in some agricultural
labours, had recourse to the expedient of sustaining
a bundle of clover over their heads with a pitchfork,
in order to shelter themselves from the rain. The
lightning struck the pitchfork, passed along the
breast acid shoulders of one of the young men, af-
terwards over the lower part of the belly of the one
who stood next him, ran down his right leg till it
reached his toes, and there caused a turn about the
diamster of a 12 Kreutzer piece, without having left
any trace of its passage on the outside of his boots,
which were carefully examined. The direction
taken by the lightning was marked by a burnt hue
both on his skin and on his clothes Although these
two young men were much injured, hopes were
entertained of saving their lives; the two others
were not hurt. The most remarkable circumstance
in this event is, that the young man who suffered
the most, and who was a little deaf, has been per-
fectly restored to his sense of hearing since the ac-
cident.

On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, as a woman
named Esther Knight, who resided at Crowan
Church-town, Cornwall, was taking leave of a person
who had accompanied her from market, she said,
that from the appearance of the atmosphere, she
feared there was a fire in the direction of her son's
house, which wus at some distance. Becoming
alarmed, she called her daughter, who had gone to
bed, and who arose and followed her mother half
dressed. The daughter passed the old woman, and
on coming to her brother's house found it was on
fire. The owner of the house and wile had gone to
ielston market, from which they had not returned,
leaving two children at home, who were with diffi-
culty rescued from the flames ; a few articles of fur-
niture only were saved. After some time the young
woman who had been called out of bed, a as returning
home to put on the remainder of her clothes, when
she stumbled over a per, on who had fallen across
the road; and making an alarm, the person was
tiken up, and proved to be her mother, who had
dropped dead from fright before she could reach her
son's house. Every means were tried to restore ani-
mation, but in vain_ The poor girl vas so alarmed
at this second shock, that she was seized with hys-
teric fits, and now lies in a very precarious state.—
The fire was occasioned by one of the children placing
a candle so as to communicate to the thatch with
which the house was covered.
J. and J. SIVENVIIIGIIT with pleasure return
their sincere thanks to their frieatis and the Public
for the distinguished. and unprecedented patronage
they received during the whole of their two lust
Contracts, and they congratulate them on the division
of all the Capitals, sold in Shares, by which so many
persons have been benefited; and they invite those
who hold Shares of the following Capitals, all Sold
by J. and J. SIV LWRIG HT in the last Lottery, to come
in and receive the value of their respective Shares :
No. 4,421 £25,000 No. 3,300 J:400
1,446 4,1./00 6,033 4OO
9,182 2.400 6,245 250
12,730 e,.too 2490 240
19,023..... 3,100 I 19,663 244)
Also Nu. 2,053, a Prize of £21,0p00. and all the Prises of

.60,000 in the preceding Lottery.
A New Lottery was contracted fur on Saturday,
the 25th ult. the Scheme, with lull particulars, will
be delivered gratis, as soon as approved, at J. and J.
SiV El% RIGHT'S Offices, 37, Cornhill ; 11, Holborn ;
lla; :mulct, London.

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

SATURDAY, JULY f27.--The Common Sergeant was
occupied in the the trial of several prisoners, Whose eases
possessed no interest
The Calendar having been gone through. the Recorder
proceeded to pass sen tenet u. d cat II on the following un-
fortunate persons :—J. ‘Vainwr.glit, It. Wilson, T. Per-
ring, J. Smith, George Labour, Catherine Flanigan,
Mary Hart, Anne Groves, and Sarah Flerlier, for stealing
in welling-ho Ales ; George Lee for uttering forged notes;
Francis Summers, I)avid Emanuel, Charles Gilbert, and
John Montgomery, for lughway robbcry:.• Thomas
Powell, for returning from transportation ; Win. Ham-
mond, George Beasley, and Henry liurroughs, fur house
breaking John Collins, John Wilson, William Bird,
and George Eustace, fur burglary ; Thomas Patinure
for subbing, with intent to kill.
Eleven were transported fur life—one for fourteen
years-22 for seven years—three to he imprisoned for one
year—three had their judgments re,pited—several were
ordered to be imprii.iined tor various periods--some pub-
licly, and others nrivaleiy whipped.
Rtoe IN WESIMINSTED —James M'Carthy and
Richard Hoeholum, the two soldiers found guilty of
manslaughter, rect..% cd sentence; the fortnt r three months
and the latter one month's isonuient.—The seminar's
then adjourned.

DISTRESSING The ship Essex,
Pollard, of Nantucket, has been lost in the Pacific
Ocean, by being struck by trWhale ; the crew were
compelled to leave her suddenly in their boats,
(three in number), with a scanty supply of provi-
sions; shortly after in a gale, the boat in which the
captain was separated from the other two, which
have not since been heard of. The captain's bast
soon getting out of provisions, the survivors were
compelled to subsist upon the carcasses of such as
periAted until their numbers was reduced to three,
when they were at length driven to the dreadtel
alternative of casting lots which should die to sub-
sist the others. In this manner the two lived, until
they were fortunately picked up.

Mirtbe.
The lady of J. Window. esq. of Upper Bedford place, of a son.
At Sinitic° lodtte, Mrs. of a son.
At his seat, Bryn',er, Carnarvoushire, the lady of Joseph Hutidat t,
csq. high sheriff of that county, of a ten.
Mrs. F. Decry, of Dorset au ett, Fleet street, of a daughter.