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London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

A letter from Naples, 12th inst., announces the
accouchement of the Duchess d'Aumale of a Prince,
who received the name of the Duke de Guise. He
was to be baptised on the following day, the King of
Naples and the Dowager Princess of Salerno standing
as sponsors.

A letter fro at Bosnia, in the Milan Gazette of the
16th, says that the Turks continue to oppress the
rayahs just as they did before the rebellion ; that ex-
orbitant taxes weigh upon them, and that ten rayahs
are enrolled in the army for one Turk. A late instance
is related of a'.Turk stabbing a rayah who owed him
14 florins, and being acquitted upon his bare denial
of the act.

THE INH ABITED HOUSE-DUTY.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Government have called for returns of the
amount of the
.house-duty which will be raised, in
order to ascertai:n, no doubt, the difference between it
and the window-,tax. Nobility and gentry throughout
the country have now set up as great a cry against
the new house—duty as Protectionists have done at
their loss of the iniquitous corn-laws. It is a" great
fact that noblemen would have it believed that
their halls and mansions are not worth more to rent
than a gentieninn's box, and the gentlemen would
have it believe d that their residences are not worth
more to rent t aan tradesmen's houses and shops.
What will be ate next exhibition "my Lords and
Gentlemen" have to make ?At all events they
have now, by the estimate they have endeavoured to
make of their O'N a residences to let, made out a good
case for tenants to demand reduction of their rent-
roll. When no') lemen and gentlemen set up a low
estimate on they own residences they did not dream
of laying a foun d ation for tenants to demand reduc-
tion. Rents must now come down !

MR; HUllth, M.P., AN D THE NEW

LEFORM BILL.
At the recent :meeting of a Reform committee in
Edinburgh the 17c llowiug letter from Mr. Hume was
read :

" TO THOMAS RUSSELL, ESQ., EDINBURGH.
" Dear am favoured with your letter, and
am pleased to learn that the Reformers of Edinburgh
are about to meol me and to express their opinion of
the necessity of 7earlismentary Reform, and also of
the extent to which the reform should extend in order
to correct the abuses so glaring in our representa-
tive system.

" Lord JohnE;assell, who has intimated his inten-

tion of introducing a scheme of Parliamentary Reform
in the ensuing selhion, has a right to know the opi-
nions of such La rge constituencies as that of the
metropolis of S otland, and I consider that the
Reformers shouli I also be anxious to express their
opinion on so imic octant a subject, that his Lordship
may attend to the m or not as he may think requisite.
After the expeir ience we have had of the working
of the elective srvatem, as amended in 1831-32, I
called together Er 0 or 70 of the Reformers in the
House of Comme ns in 1849; and, at their request, I
submitted to the House of Commons a motion that
contained the arca •ndments that, in the opinion of our
,meeting, if adopts by Parliament, would correct all
or nearly the wlu de of the abuses that now exist in
the elective syst.e n.
" I moved ' fo r leave to bring in a Bill to amend

the national reprs sentation, by extending the elective
franchise, so that: every man of full age, and not sub-
ject to any ments 1 or legal disability, who shall have
been the residenct occupier of a house, or part of
a house as a led ger, for twelve months, and shall
have been duly rated to the poor of that parish
for that time, shall be registered as an elector,
and be entitled to , vote for a representative in Par-
liament. Also, t y enacting that votes shall be taken
by ballot, that thee duration of Parliaments shall not
exceed three yea 2,9 ; and that the proportion of repre-
sentatives be matte more. consistent with the amount
of population at ed property. And after great con-
-1 sideration, I can a ot, in a more condensed form, submit
the amendments I think best calculated to promote
the harmonious • N orking of our representative system,
50 as to obtain sf 3( :urity to the persons and property of
stitt‘ultion
all classes of the c orninunity.
"I view Parliis .nientary Reform as a question in
state toi:'"in mY
vi
ew,
which the men of rank and wealth are more interested
than even the cli vi sea which are now excluded from
UT elective trim e: hise, and from their just and con.
faction
toulthsehaturece f the government of the country.
have entra
most important in the present
, zmrope, fc r the future peace and quiet of this
country, that our i elective system should afford satis-
faction es of the people, now discontented
amongst the
hY blehlwgoueledcludted from the Parliamentary franchise;
and
who
join hitherto stood aloof from the reform move-
ment,the liberal insti 'lt] flg
to it those men of rank and influence
niie,tia rdially in promoting contentment
terest in ions, and in giving to them an in-
preset
seen with the peace, and in protecting
sath ;11 !tons of the kingdom. I have .
1 i here
Reformers of bi I.net,i," the proceedings of the
they
•have ae",..4""ter, and am pleased that
also give their cc.ulntewnoauni,e,
submitted by me: fee the scheme of Reform
and I h( .1) the latenYeefar3 to the House of Com-
mons;:_rrnere of Edinburgh will
to these safe and consti-
tutional reforms.,
against an errc ,r into which many well•disposed
persons hive fall an, of requiring, us
Rfuelf.ormers
g, us a qualification for
the voter, that h a :should pay up which
he has been ease as I and registered. The payment of

taxes to enable electors to give their votes was one of
the most prolific causes of bribery and corruption
in Westminster, Southwark, and other places, before
1831-32, and ought, therefore, in any change
that is made, to be altogether done away with.
The assessment, registration, and residence, should
be the qualification to distinguish the householder
from the vagrant, which is all that ought to be done.
The rate end register book and time of residence
should be the proof of qualification; and the payment
of the taxes or rates for which the householder has
been assessed should be left in the same category with
all other debts due by the householder. The laws to
enable the collector to collect the taxes have equal if
not more power than for the collection of other house-
hold and personal debts; and, therefore, no distinc-
tion should be made in those debts.
"I think, when in Edinburgh,. I stated carefully
the distinction I have now more particularly made ;
and I hope that the committee for preparing the reso-
lutions for the meeting will keep that distinction in
view.
"In conclusion, I would say that the events on the
Continent of Europe should induce all classes to
concur in improving the liberal institutions of our
and implanting
country, them on a still more perma-
nent basis, which has always been and is my object
and aim as a reformer._] remain, &c.,
" JOSEPH HUME.
Burnley Hall, Norfolk Jan. 6 "

INSTITUTION °F CIVIL ENGINEERS.
On Tuesday, (James Meadows Rendell, Esq., Pre-
sident, in the chair), the
paper read was " On the
Alluvial Formations, and the Local, Changes, of the ,
South Eastern Coast of England. Second Section—
from Beacby Head to Portland ;" by Mr. J. B. Red-
man, M. Inst. C. E.
Westward of Beachy Head the effects produced by
local variations in the beach were traced—the " fulls
tailing across the outfall of Cuckmere Haven, and
driving the outlet eastward, creating a barrier of
beach at Seaford—at an early period the outfall of
Newhaven Harbour where an ancient outlet existed
on the site of the present entrance, subsequently pro-
jected eastward by the passage f shingle from the
westward, until rendered permanent by piers. The
recent degradation of the shore along Seaford Bay,
from the shingle being arrested to the westward, and
the unavailing attempt to stop this movement by
blasting the cliff at Seaford Head, were noticed. The
waste of the coast at Rottingdean, the modern changes
at Brighton, the
great variations in the outlet of
Shoreham Harbour, until rendered permanent by
artificial works, were examined, as well as the ana-
logous effects on the coast generally at Pagham,
across the entrance of which a spit had been formed,
similar to those at the ancient harbours of Romney
and Pevensey. The anchorage of the Park, off
Selsey Bill, once presumed to have been a portion
of the site of a bishop's see, prior to its removal to
Chichester, owing to the progressive waste of the
shore. At the back of the Isle of Wight, the
peculiarities of the land-locked harbours, and
the protection afforded by the shore defences to Ports-
mouth harbour, so little altered in its general outline,
since tte time of Henry the Eighth, were described,
as also the remarkable promontory called Hurst Point,
many of the characteristics of which were similar to
those of the Chesil Bank, Calshot Point, and other
formations, such as a low flat shore to leeward (east-
ward), and a highly inclined beach seaward, with a
tendency to curve round to the northward and east-
ward, and eventually to inclose a tidal mere, or
estuary. The elevation and size of the pebbles in-
creased towards the extremity of these points, and in
places on the sea slope an intermixture of coarse sand
and shingle, which had become solid and homogene-
ous by age, cropped out through the modern beach.
The remaining portion of the coast of Hampshire,
and that of Dorsetshire, as far as Weymouth, were
then minutely described, and the paper concluded
with a particular account of the Chesil Bank, which
in magnitude far exceeded all other formations of the
kind, and which it was considered might be attributed
to the waste of the great West Bay.
Numerous diagrams, compiled from ancient and
modern maps, together with sections and sketches of
the various alluvial spits along the coast, were exhi-
bited, and it was shown that all these local accumula-
tions bad many features in common, and were subject
to the same alternating effects of loss and gain, and
were the resultant of causes in constant operation, the
whole exercising a most important influence on har-
bour and marine engineering generally.
In the discussion which ensued, in which Sir C.
Lyell, Sir E. Belcher, Mr. Rennie, Captain O'Brien,
Mr. Scott Russell, and the author took part, the pe-
culiarities of the different parts of the coast were still
further described, and the formation of the moles of
shingle were attributed,:by some of the speakers, to
the action of the tidal currents, but more generally,
by others, to the mechanical power of the waves
alone, which appeared to account for the apparently
anomalous fact that the largest pebbles were always
found on the summit and to leeward. Chesil, Hurst,
and Dungeness beaches were referred to, as re-
markable instances of results produced by such causes;
and the effect of the severe storm of November, 1824,
on the base of Hurst Beach was alluded to.
A short account of Mr. Deane's Submarine re-
searches on the Shambles Shoal, off the Bill of Port-
land, was resd, describing that shoal to consist entirely
of a bed of small broken shells, arranged in parallel
shelves, or steps, instead of, as had been supposed,
being formed of boulders and pebbles. This
of light shells at depths peculiar
,
arrangement varying from
four to nine fathoms, must be the result of the action g
a spot comparatively with-
of the currents forming
out motion, and induced curious speculations as to
the causes of the accumulation, and the effects that
might be produced on similar aggregations by artiti -
clot works.
The discussion was adjourned until Tuesday, Jan.
27, when, if time permitted, the following paper was
announced for reading :—" Description of a Cast Iron
Viaduct erected at Manchester, forming part of the
Joint Station of the London and North-Western, and
Manchester, Sbeffl,-Id, and Lincolnshire Railways,"
by A. S. Jee, M. Inst. C. E.

RSITY
UNIVE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JA,T. 20.—The Junior Proctor will rece:vo
the Lames of ljodergraduates who intend to otter them-
Selves for the Responsi▪
ons in Hilary Term, on
Ilroiday, the 26th instant, from two till three o'clock.
Tuesday, the 27t0. from one till three o'clock.
Wednesday, the 28:n,• from twelve till three o'clock.
Each candidate must eitner bring. in person, or trans-
mit through his tutor-
1. His Matriculation paper, or a copy
of it attested by
the registrar.
2. A list of the su'jccts and books in which ho pro-
pose?, to be examined.
N.B.—Those candidates who, in order to their having
their names inserted in the het, may need a dispensation
from the Vice, Chancellor and Proctors, are required to
attend at the Vice-Chancellor's house on Tuesday, the
27th instant,tat ten o clock, and to bring with them from
the head or tutor of their college or hall a written state-
ment of the grounds, on which the dispensation is sought.
The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Mr.
Hussey, of Christ Chnrch,) proposes to begin his lectures
for this term on Monday, the 16th of February, with two
classes, reading Eusebius and Bede.
The lectures are open to members of the University
who have passed the BA. Examination; and all who
wish to attend them are requested to call on the Pro-
fessor, at 25, Beaumont-street, on Saturday, Feb. 14,
between twelve and two o'clock:

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COURT-
MARTIAL AT UHATIIAM, JAN. 20.—A ge-
neral court-martial, of which Colonel Henry Jervis was pre-
sident, assembled in Chatham Barracks, for the trial of private
James M'Cor'
—lee, of the 16th Regiment of Foot. Captain
J. S. m
Wood, the
udge. brigade-major of the garrison, officiated as
deputy j
advocate, and read the charges against the
prisoner. , Chart L-1. For having, on the night of the 26th
:December,lBsls threatened to strike Lieutenant and Adjutant
C. S. Flower, with a life-preserver •' 2. For threatening to
shoot the Adjutant-Lieutenant C. S. Flower; 3 For Ea-
tempting to strike Cor ural P. Lincham, 16th hoot; and :In
.additional charge charpefed the prisoner for having, at Hythe
.harracks, used threatening language to Lieutenant and
.Acijutant Flower, on the 7Th instant, by saying, " I'll have
my revenge of you, Lieutenant Flower, you b—, dead or
alive." To the charges the prisoner pleaded not ;;silty.
Eleven witnesses were examined for the prosecution, and five
for the defence. The prisoner was found guilty. Several
former convictions were proved against him. The sentence
Hof the court is not known.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan, 22.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EVAN'z.)
1N RE J. BARTLETT.
This was the last examination meeting. The bank-
rupt was a wine and corn merchant of Upper
Thames street. His unsecured debts were 11,575/. ;
debts secured, 8181. ; liabilities, 9741. The assots i
were, good debts, 22/. ; property, 1911. ; property n
the hands of creditors, 1,455/. The profits (in two
years) had been 6901.; deficiency at the commence-
ment of the account, 9201. ; losses, 4,319/. ; interest,
365/.; law costs, 865/. ; trade expenses, 3,027/. ; per-
sonal expenses, 1,944/.
Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, objected to the
accuracy of tba accounts ; Mr. Lawrance supported.
An adjournment for two months was agreed upon.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 22.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.)
IN THE MATTER OF lIENRY COHEN.

This insolvent, an iron-merchant at Cow-cross and
Saffron-hill, was further examined on his application
to be discharged.
Mr. Dowse opposed for nearly a dozen creditors;
Mr. Cooke (Mr. Sargood with him) supported.
The case was somewhat remarkable. The insol-
vent owed 1,6391., and bad some debts owing to him,
but no available property for his creditors. The
complaint was that he had made away with property
and given preferences. At the end of July last he
was in a state of insolvency, and since then had ob-
tained goods from his creditors, which bad either been
swept away under an execution for money borrowed
from a friend, or paid away to persons for similar
loans. In July, Mr. Lee, a tobacconist, at the corner
of Fetter-lane, Holborn, .had sued him, but did not
levy his execution until September, when the property
was purchased by a Mr. Emanual. In addition he
had paid 3201. to persons for money borrowed.
Abraham Goodman, who said he was on the " turf,"
was paid in August 12014 and a Mr. Scott was paid
a sum of 70/. without asking for it. The insolvent
had offered his creditors 43. in tho pound, and in this
court 2s. 6cl. in the pound was offered and refused.
SOM9 of the debts of the creditors had been incurred
in August and, September last.
Mr. DOWSE complained that there bad been a
making away with property, and that the creditors
had been despoiled of their goods to pay the friends
of the insolvent to a large amount. The case was, if
not the worst, certainly one of the worst that bad ever
come befbre the Court.

Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS said the observation
reminded him of an anecdote of a Learned Judge.
When he addressed a prisoner, he told him his was
the worst case he had heard, and in one day he told
five different prisoners the same thing.
Mr. DOWSE recapitulated the evidence which had
occupied a portion of two days, and asked on the part
of the creditors an exemplary judgment.
Mr. CooKE, on the part of the insolvent, contended
that there had been no making away with property
to Lee, as it had been taken in the due coarse of law.
Evidence had been given of the payments the insol-
vent had made, and it was for the Court to say
whether he was justified in snaking such payments.
Mr. Commissioner Plimars said he would consider
the case and give his judgment next week.
Judgment deferred.
APPLICATION TO DISMISS A PETITION.

At the rising of the Court,
Mr. DOWSE applied to dismiss a petition, the insol-
vent having gone out of prison before adjudication.
It wss stated that the Court of Queen's Bench had
held that a vesting order was annulled by operation
of law where a man was discharged before adju-
dication.
Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS said he would consult
Mr. Commissioner Law on the point ; he had givsn
an opinion on the subject.
It transpired that an order for hearing had been
granted to the sth of February, and the application
stood over until after that day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday John Vaughan, of 16, Nelson-square,
Blackfriars-road, was charged before Alderman
Sidney with having embezzled various sums of money,
the property of his employer.
Norman Garston, a provision merchant and
leather dresser, stated that in March, 1850, he was
induced to enter into the leather-dressing business by
the prisoner, and engaged him to manage it at a salary
of 21. a week. The business commenced in Ber-
mondsey, and was afterwards removed to No. 2,
Oxford Arms-passage. The prisoner was entrusted
to buy, sell, and receive money for him. He received
for petty sales the sum of 81. 165., out of which he
had paid only 51. is. 6d., leaving a balance of 31 143.
61 yet unaccounted for. He had also received 41.
ss. 6d. from a person in Cork-street, Bermondsey,
which be had not accounted for. On the 19th of
September, 1850, prisoner sold goods to a Mr. T.
Haine, 27, Jewry-street, Aldgate, to the amount of
161., and told witness on the 2d of October that he
had received only 151., and that the other pound
would be paid next time he called. From that time
to the present he had not accounted for it. There
was a mistake in the account, and on Monday last it
was settled, when Mr. Haine paid the
which he had not accounted for, prisoner 65.,
A long cross-examination ensued, with a view to
show that Vaughan was a partner to the prosecutor,
which entirely failed. A letter from the prisoner was
put in, where he admitted having received money from
petty sales to the extent of 3L 143. 61, for which he
had not accounted. The agreement was put in, and
it proved that Vaughan was the servant of Garston,
at a salary of 21. per week.

Som© important witnesses having refused to attend
unless summoned,

Alderman SIDNEY remanded the prisoner, but ad-
mitted him to bail, himself in 801. and two sureties in
401, each.

MAR YLEBONE.
Joseph Kaceborshi, a shabbily attired young man,
a Pole, was brought before Mr. Long, for re-exami-
nation, on the charge of having, on the 24 inst., com-
mitted a robbery at the mansion of Lord Dudley
Stuart, No. 6, Stratford-place.
Some particulars connected with the case have
already appeared, and it will be remembered that on
the day above named the prisoner presented a lett,r
at his Lordship's residence, and that for a short pericd
he was kit in the hall, he took the opportunity of
decamping with a hat, a scarf and a pair of gloves
belonging to the Rev. Edward Mortlake, who was
dining with Lord Dudley Stuart at the time, and he
was at length taken into custody in the Strand, by
Horsford, the chief officer of the Mendicity Society,
to whom he admitted his guilt, and mid that he had
sold the property.
Additional evidence was now gone into, and it was
shown that the prisoner was an old offender. He
had been punished upon a former occasion for a rob-
bary at his Lordship's, and he had long been known as
a begging-letter impostor.
The prisoner, who had no answer to make to the
charge, was committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.
A respectable-looking young countrywoman, who
appeared completely brokenhearted, implored Mr.
Norton's assistance under the following distressing
circumstances :

Applicant, anative of Newark, Nottinghamshire,
stated that a female neighbour there having repre-
sented to her, some time ago, that she had come into
some property by the death of a relative, told her
that if she would afford her the means of coming to
aLnodndwonnultdonesneoemtphaensyolicitor
_engaged in the matter,
recom-
pense her for the kindness
fortune.man her,
wshheonwsohuel dc
aammeplyintopos
oser aiolnaboofurhienrg Applicant, who is the wife
as so deluded by her profes-
sions and promises that' she obtained the consent of
her husband to apply their little stock of cash, con-
sisting of a few pounds saved from his hard earn-
ings, to the neighbour's benefit, and on Friday
last applicant came to town with Iler, where,
having been induced to part with all the mofley
she possessed, excepting 3s. or 41., her neighbour
then abandoned her. Complainant too late discovered
that she had been made her neighbour's dupe, and, in
the midst of the great metropolis, without a riend to
apply to. She spent three or four days fruitlessly, as
may be imagined, in search of her quandam friend,
found her last shilling exhausted, aria, having in vain
applied at the railway to get back home upon credit,
was recommended by some strangers to whom she
narrated her misfortunes to apply to a magistrate, and
had come to this court. To add to her distress, she
had left two young children in the country, and knew
not how she should ever reach there again.
in tonative
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and
Downing, one of the warrant officersofthe
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court,
was directed to make some inquiries
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having reported favourably upon it, he
yesterday,
Mr. svo the 4 1
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way
home, her thanks at the prospect of regaining which
were unbounded.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Thomas Burn, a iniddle-aged man of respectable
appearance, was placed at thef bar before Mr. Ham-.
mill, charged with the following trawl upon Mr.
James Clarke, a general dealer, in iccrth.strat,
Bethual-green.
The prosecutor stated that in the month of October
last the prisoner, with whom he had had some slight previous acquaintance, called upon him at his own
holm and informed him that he had some excellent ,
hirns:4, as he had just ro-
news to tell him affecting
ceived an intimation from his solicitors (mentioning
the names of an eminent firm in Chancery lane) th"
a Chancery suit in which his farni!v had been for a
and that bp,
long time ergnged had at length'been decid€d in
as th,..ir re
their favour,
the greaterT
fallen into a large amount of propertv,
n Ile •
portion of which was situated in North.Devo •
property
then proceeded to state that a part of the ,
consisted of it stone quarry and engine-house, with presentative,

the usual contents, and, as he did not know how to
manage that kind of business, and he knew that
witness had been so employed fostnerive he wihe3 to
enter lino Su engage islet with Limo ie.: iis
superintendence, as he had every conilanee in his in-
tegrity. Witness at first objected to give up the
business he was then engaged in, unless for a cer-
tainty, and the prisoner, after some bargaining be-
tween them, agreed to allow him a fixed salary of
300/. per annum for five years positive, and offered to
sign a legally drawn up instrument in those terms.
He also said that the whale of the law affeirs would
he completed by the Ist of the following December,
when the whole of the property would he trans-
ferred to him, and suggested, as conferring a better
appearance upon each of them, that the witness
should take a much more respectable house than he
then held, which he would like somewhere in the
neighbourhood of Whitechapel, and promised if he did
so to lodge with him until the whole metter was set-
ticd. Witness mode inquiry about the legal firm the
prisoner had mentioned, and finding that they were
not only in existence but highly respectable also, he
agreed to his last proposition; and the agreement
having been drawn up between them and signed, he
took another house in Friendly -place, *St, hitehorse-
street, Stepney, to which the prisoner at once removed
all the goods he appeared to possess, consisting of a
chest of drawers, bedding, six chairs, and a few mi-
nor articles; shortly after which the prisoner ordered
home two large boxes, in which he urged the witness
to pack up all his tools, that he (the prisoner) might
send them down to " the works," to he in readiness
for immediate operations. Witness, however, would
not consent to this unless he went with them himself;
and the prisoner then asked him for a trifling advance
of money, to be repaid as soon as he came into his
own funds. This the witness a/sented to, and from
time to time, at short intervals, advanced him altoge-
ther, money and goods, to the amount of about 101.
When it had reached this amount witness was surprised
one afternoon at finding the brokers in the prisoner's
rooms, from which they swept out what furniture
there was, and as soon as they had done so the
prisoner went out, and did not return, and, as his
absence continued for several days, he at length be-
came very uneasy and suspicious of having been duped,
and determined to make inquiry of the solicitors about
the prisoner's affairs, but, on calling upon those gen-
tlemen, they at once told him that he had been
defrauded, as they had not only not been engaged in
any such_Chancery proceedings, but new nothing of
the prisoner whatever. He then kept up a sharp
look-out for the prisoner, but saw nothing more of
him until the day preceding, when he accidentally
met him in the street and gave him into custody. The
witness added, that what he had mentioned was not
the whole of the misfortunes he had sustained through
the prisoner's duplicity, as he had been actually
offered a permanent engagement of a similar character
at 2001. per annum, and foolishly refused it, as he
considered himself too etrictly bound by the agree-
ment be had signed to the accused to retreat from it.
When- culled upon for his defence, the prisoner
merely demurred to the amount of the goods and
money the prosecutor had charged him with, which,
he said, he did not think could come to so much, but
offered no refutation of the other allegations against
him ; and

Mr. HAMMILL, considering that the money had
been obtained from the prosecutor solely by means of
false pretences, ordered the prisoner to he committed
until that day week for the formal completion of the
evidence.