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SHERI FF'S COURT-THURSDAY.

houses, to mention that an order was issued for closing
on the Sunday following. On Sunday morning having
been informed that the Woolpack was open, he went to
the house after six o'clock and saw a great number of
persons in and about the house. He got more of the
policemen together on account of the crowd, which in-
creased greatly. At about ten o'clock he with difficulty
got in, and he saw Mr. Sharpe and another man
and a woman serving at the bar spirits and
seer. He was hooted and hissed as he went
in and came out. The parlour and the bar in front
were completely full, and there were upwards of 300
persons outside. They were quiet and orderly. Many
were waiting to get in, and many were drinking outside
out of pots and glasses belonging to the Souse,
.which was
closed at ten minutes before eleven. He went in after-
, wards and found that all was clear. Mr. Silverton did
not make his appearance at all.
Policeman No. 32 also deposed as to the serving of
liquour in the bar from half-past six in the morning
until the house closed.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you go in and say that
they were doing wrong?
Witness said he went on Saturday night into a pub-
lic-house in Sparrow-corner, belonging to Mr. Barnet,
and mentioned that he had orders to say that all public-
houses were to be kept closed till one o'clock on Sunday.
Mr. Sharpe, who served in the defendant's bar, and who,
he believed, was conducting Mr. Silverton's business,
was there at the time, and said that he should open the
Woolpack, as witness understood him.
Inspector Brake stated that, on Saturday night,
Mr. Barnett, who kept the Blue Boar public-
house in Sparrow-corner, called upon him, bringing
with him an Act of Parliament, and said that he would
not obey the order to keep his house closed, inasmuch
as the new Act could not come into operation till the
15th of October, and he and the owner of the Wool-
pack public-house had agreed to open next morning.
Witness strongly advised Barnet not to open, and Bar-
net went away saying that he would not, and accord-
ingly he did not.
Mr. Sharp said that he meant the 25th of December
instead of the 15th of October.

BURTON V. HAMPTON.
This was an action brought against Mr. Hamp-
._on, the celebrated aeronaut, to recover the° sum of
151. for prin•ing, &c. It appeared by the evidence that
the plaintiff had been engaged to print various bills an-
nouncing his intended ascents, together with tickets of ad-
mission, printed in letters of gold. The defendant had
also published a work called the " Aerial Messenger,"
purportin2; to be printed in the City of Clouds, in the
Isle of Sky. It gave an account of his aerial voyages ;
in one part was a mercantile list, in which it was stated
" silk and cordage were rising, gas ascending rapidly
sand was falling, and it was expected there would short-
be a rapid descent, as paper was floating about, and
was of little value."

Mr. THOMAS said he trusted the defendant would
have to pay for his wit, and that he would be
compelled to raise the wind, and pay for the work
which had been done for him. The publication in
qnestion contained advertisements and puffs not rela-
ting to aerostation.

Mr. JONES, who appeared for the defendant, after
evidence at great length had been gone into, consented
to a verdict for 141.

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NORTHERN CIRCUIT--...LIVERPOOL, Aua. 27.
(Before Mr. Baron MAULE.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
TAYLOR V. LLOYD AND OTHERS.

It appeared from the statement—oithe Learned
Counsel for the plaintiff, and from the evidence ad-
duced, that the defendants are bankers in Birmingham.
The firm consists of five partners, four of whom pleaded
to the action (which was an assumpsit) that they were
never liable ; the fifth (Mr. F. Lloyd) pleaded in ad-
dition a plea of payment-of the sum claimed. The
plaintiff was anold
formerly resided in Liverpool, and is possessed of an
lady, aged about 75 years. She
income of more than 1,7001. a-year. At the time of the
transactions which gave rise to the present inquiry, she
had gone to reside at a place called Wild-green, near
Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, where she kept a car-
riage, a coachman, a servant maid, and a dog. There
was little society in the neighbourhood. The dog fell
ill, and she applied to the wife of a Mr. Jones, whose
husband, there, was a spade and shovel manufacturer,
in rather a humble way, to recommend her to a far-
rier, who could see to the horses and cure the dog.
Mrs. Taylor afterwards called repeatedly on Mrs.
Jones, who became a friendly visitor at the house.
In the year 1836, one of the defendants, Mr. Francis
Lloyd, came to reside at the Manor House at Sutton
Coldfield. Soon after this the plaintiff's house was
robbed, and Mr. Francis Lloyd being a Magis-
trate, application was made to him to inves-
tigate the case. This led to a friendly intercourse be-
tween the plaintiff and Lloyd, who appeared greatly to
interest himself in her affairs. In 1837, the Joneses
removed to Birmingham, where Mrs. Taylor assisted
them to set up in business in the edge-tool trade, and
lent money from time to time to Mr. Jones, in various
sums, to the amount of nearly 2,0001., for which she
had his personal security, and a mortgage upon some
premises which he bought whereon to establish his ma-
nufactory. In 1838, a young and handsome woman
.
came'to reside at Sutton Coldfield, a house called
the Swiss Cottage. Mr. Lloyd mentioned her to Mrs.
Taylor, as a young widow lady of the name of Harding,
and introduced them to each other. Whenever Mr.
Lloyd came in the neighbourhood he generally called at
Mrs. Taylor's, on his way both to and from Birmingham,
and when at a distance he did not fail to write to her,
expressing his devotion to, and wish to serve her, in
terms which could only be accounted for, considering
the great disparity of age between them, on the supposi-
tion that he had some purpose to serve. He sent her
game, fruit, and flowers, became her banker, sent her a
pass-book and a check-book, and received her money.
He wrote also that he had a project by the accomplish-
ment of which b e hoped to add to her domestic happiness.
This was an intention to marry the pretty Mrs. Harding,
Ind to offer Mrs. Taylor a place at his fireside, being as-
sured that the lady of his choice would find great advan-
tage in having her assistance in the conduct of his house-
hold. He had for the first time thought seriously of
matrimony, though it had often been recommended to
him by his friends, combined with the allurements of
youth, beauty, and fortune. On one of the occasions
when Mrs. Taylor advanced money to Mr. Jones, she
requested him to cut two checks out of her check book,
in which at this time stood a balance in her favour at
the defendants' bank 0fJ..98
Lloyd-tdok-the opportunity to see Mr. Jones, and
said that he thought they were at cross' purposes as to
Mrs. Taylor. Jones said he was at no purpose at all,
and did not understand what he meant. Early in 1839 ,
the old•lady resolved to return to Liverpool, and made
preparations for the purpose. Mrs. Jones, and the pretty
Mrs. Harding, who had become a frequent visitor, came
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should want 1,000/., and requested him to bring it her.
On looking for the pass-book it was missing and
could no where be found ; and one morning, towards
the close of the scene, Mr. Lloyd brought a paper
parcel, which he delivered to Mr. Jones, saying " Here
is Mrs. Taylor's money." On opening it the par-
cel was found to contain 250/. Mrs. Taylor said,
" What does Mr. Lloyd mean by this? I wanted
1,0001., and he has sent me 050/." Shortly
after this Mrs. Harding discovered a pass-book under
a heap of loose waste paper in the water-closet.
and produced it as the lost book. On examining it
several sums were put to the credit and debit of Mrs.
Taylor, so as to render the balance due to her only
2501.; and some items of interest were put on the debit
instead of on the credit side. The book, though a re-
gular pass-book of the bank, with a printed notice to
customers pasted inside the cover, professed to be an
account between the plaintiff and Mr. Francis Lloyd
only. The whole of this appearing very strange, Mrs
Taylor consulted Mr. Weaver, one of her agents who
collected part of her rents in Liverpool, who had an
interview with Mr. F. Lloyd. At first Mr. Lloyd
denied the account being more than the 250/., which
he had delivered to Mrs. Taylor, but Weaver said that
he had hiinself paid in a sum of 700/., and that he
could have the notes of 4001. of it, and that Jones knew
the pass-book contained a balance of 1,981/, 10s. in
favour of Mrs. Taylor. Lloyd said, "If so, I must
stand by it." This led to further inquiry, when it
turned out that the pretty widow Harding was a mis-
tress of Lloyd's, and had had two children by him.
The paper-manufacturer who made the paper of which
the pretended pass-book was made swore that he made
the paper, and that the frame in which it was made was
not in his possession till the 24th of August, 1837.
The book contained entries of an earlier date, all of
which looked as if written with the same pen and ink,
and at the same time. The frame-maker now retired,
but formerly paper frame-maker to the Bank of Eng-
land, deposed that he made the frame in which the
paper of which the pretended pass-book was made, and
that he sent it from his manufactory to the paper
maker, on the 24th of August, 1837, and not before.
Mr. ALEXANDER administered a long and severs
cross-examination to Mr. John Jonis, and addressed a
long and ingenious speech to the jury on behalf of the
defendants, and argued the innocence of Mr. Lloyd
from the circumstance that it would have been easy for
him to have purchased secrecy by paying the amount
claimed, if he knew he deserved the imputations sought
to be cast upon him.
The Learned BARON, in summing up the case, ob-
served that when a young man who had withstood the
allurements of youth, beauty, and fortune, wrote to an
old woman in the way Lloyd had done to the plaintiff, it
must be obvious to anybody but himself that his object
was to ingra • tiate himself into her favour, for the sake of
her money. It could only be with a view to deception
that he asked her advice and sanction with regard to his
marriage with the pretended widow, who had long been
kept by him as his mistress. That there was a banker's
account appeared certain. Even the pretended book
was put off as a pass-book, though headed as between
Mrs. Taylor and him only, and she had all along had a
check-book of the bank. The other partners pleaded
that they were not liable; but if one pa
partner took the
plaintiff's money, and pretended to place it in the bank
for her, they were all liable, On looking 'it the evidence
it did seem that about 700/., paid in by Mr. Weaver,
had been drawn out again ; and whether that constituted
a part of the 1,981/. 10s. which Jones
saw in the pass-
book, was a point for their consideration.
The Jury (special) retired for a few minutes, and
returned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
1,281/. 10s.

Hoppe, the ward beadle, confirmed the state-
ment made by the policeman. Mr. Sharpe had taken
the house from Mr. Silverton, but the transfer had not
taken place yet, as transfer day had not arrived. Mr
Silverton had told him that Sharpe had taken the house,
and that he (Silverton) had removed to Stamford-
street, Blackfriars.. Witness had seen Silverton remove
his goods. _

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Mr. Silverton, what have
you to say to this accusation ? Why did you open your
house in violation of the law ? Defendant—l have to
express my deep sorrow, my Lord, that the house was
opened. I have disposed of the house and business to
Mr. Sharpe.

The LORD MAYOR—You are answerable, and you
know it very well, for the conduct of the house till the
transfer is completed.
Defendant—lt was done, I assure your Lordship,
through mere ignorance of the law. Mr. Sharpe and
I inquired of the police, but we received no satisfac-
tory information, and we had no idea that the Act was
to come into operation.
The LORD MAYOR—You need not make any allu-
sion to Mr. Sharpe. He will have to answer for him-
self at another time. All I want you to do is to defend
yourself.

Defendant—Mr. Hoppe, the Ward beadle, upon
being questioned on the subject of closing our houses,
said he had no orders on the subject. I went at nine
o'clock on Saturday night into Fleet-street and pur-
chased an Act of Parliament, and upon reading it I
thought it did not come into operation till the 25th of
of December.

The LORD MAYOR—Of what Act do you speak ?
Defendant—Of the Act of George the Second. I
paid half-a-crown for it.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—Do not think that you can im-
pose upon us by your affectation of ignorance, for by
talking nonsense of this kind you but set the law openly
at:defiance, and you have shamefully taken advantage
of your brother publicans who have acted in obedience
to it.

Defendant—l assure you, my Lord, it was mere
ignorance. _

The LORD MAYOR.—It is very extraordinary that
you should be the only person who would not shut up
his house, that you should be the only person who put
the construction upon the Act of Parliament, that you
were to open your house when all the rest were closed ;
you saw the excitement which was occasioned by the
course you adopted. It was such that I and other

--tvlagigttates-oftlitl-City were obliged to stay from citirCli
from the apprehension that our presence might be ne-
cessary. Such was the impression upon Alderman
Johnson, the Alderman of the ward, that he came to
consult me upon the propriety of reading the Riot Act.
Defendant—l had no idea of infringing the law, and it
was not done for profit, there was no profit resulting
from it whatever.

The LORD MAYOR—There was an immense profit,
and it was procured at the expense of your brother
publicans.
Defendant—There was no profit, my Lord. You
don't make allowance for broken glasses and other losses.

The LORD MAYOR—Are you not aware that fifty
per cent. profit was made ?
Defendant—No, my Lord

The LORD MAYOR—I can tell you that more than
that was charged ; so that it was a robbery upon the
poor unfortunate persons who crowded to the place, as
well as a robbery upon all the rest of the publicans.
Defendant—As soon as we found that we were in
error, we closed, your Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR—lndeed !

Defendant—Yes, my Lord, when our legal adviser
came in on Sunday, and told us we were doing wrong,
we determined not to persevere.
The LORD MAYOR You are convicted, and
the case is the most aggravated that can be.
As, however, it is the first offence under the
new Act, I do not relish the idea of inflicting
the whole penalty of 5/. I do not like to do it, as
in a case of a first violation the party charged seems to
suppose that he has a sort of right to make a mistake.
Defendant—l hope, my Lord, you will consider that
the offence was committed in error, I have a wife and
ten children, my Lord. Everything that operates
against Mr. Sharpe will operate against me.
The LORD MAYOR—As it is the first offence under
the Act, I shall fine you only 40s. ; but you may de-
pend upon it that the authorities of the ward will pre-
vent the transfer of the license.

Mr. Sharpe—l am very sorry indeed, my Lord, for
what has happened, but I had no idea of infringing the
law. It was my opinion that it would not come into
operation till the 25th of December. I went in person
to the Inspector to learn whether we were to keep closed
or not, and I received no answer.
The LORD MAYOR—So you set up your opinion
against the opinion of the Magistrates, and of all the
publicans in the City, who thought proper to keep their
houses closed ?

Mr. Sharpe—l do . not presume to know the law
better than others, and all was done in mistake my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall take particular care to
let the Commissioners of Excise know that a person
who has no license has been carrying on business in this
house, and we shall see whether you are to act against
the law with impunity. You have been transgressing
in the most culpable manner, for you have occasioned a
most dangerous excitement amongst the poor people,
who crowded together, and to whom you supplied liquor
to any extent at a double charge, to the prejudice of
those who respected the law. I shall do all I can, I as-
sure you, to prevent either of you from ever holding a
license in the City of London.

Defendant (Silverton)—l am daily in the habit of
doing business in the house, my Lord, until the transfer
takes place.

The LORD MAYOR—That way of doing business
must be put an end to. A vast deal of mischief arises
from it. No man in my Ward ever attempts te sere
customers till the transfer regularly has taken place.
Mr. Silverton—l trust you will rescind your resolu-
tion, my Lord, about stopping the licence. Any injury
done to Mr. Sharpe will be an injury to me.
The LORD MAYOR—You shall both take the conse-
quence of violating the law. It was your duty, suppos-
ing there was no law at all against opening your house,
to have closed it when you saw such excitement prevail-
ing amongst the crowd.

Mr. Sharpe—l sent to the Inspector to know whe.
ther I should close the house.

The Inspectors present denied that any application
had been made to them—on a subject on which every
publican was perfectly well informed.
The LORD MAYOR.—You shall take the conse-
quences. If you want a character as to fitness to keep
a public-house send to me, and I will supply you with
the character each of you deserve. I repeat that I
shall send to the Commissioners of Excise, and I am
convinced that the City authorities will never allow
either of you to have a license.
The defendant paid the fine and expenses, but not
until he had again and again besought the Lord Mayor
not to persevere in his resolution to oppose the license.
Deputy Tyers (the Deputy of Alderman Johnson),
a very active and intelligent member of the Common
Council, presented a petition, signed by between forty
and fifty of the most respectable inhabitants of the
Minories, praying that his Lordship would exercise his
influence to stop the license of a house, the opening of
which, in violation of the Act, had caused so much
annoyance and offence.

POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday a great sensation was occasioned by the
investigation into an alleged violation of the New City Po_
lice Act. . _

Mr. Wm. Silverton, the proprietor of the Woolpack
public-house, in the Minories, appeared before the Lord
Mayor to answer a summons served upon him by
City policeman, No. 32 (Williams), for serving liquor
on Sunday morning last, before the hour appointed by
h e Act for permitting public-houses to be opened. Mr,
Sharpe, who was seen serving at the bar, also attended.
They were unaccompanied by a solicitor. By the di-
rection of the Lord Mayor the proprietor produced his
license.

Henry Hodges, acting inspector of police of the
Eastern division of the City, deposed that he called
on Friday at the Woolpack, and the other public_

Q UEEMSQUARE.
FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.—Jantes Moore, the

driver •f one of Sibley's Hammersmith omnibuses, wa
place at the bar, charged with having driven over a boy
named William Baxter, aged nine years, and thereby
occasioned his death.
James Carter, a farrier in the Ist Life Guards, stated
that on Wednesday evening, about half-past seven
o'clock, he was standing outside the Knightsbridge Bar-
racks, when he noticed two children playing on the op-
posite footpath. Presently one of them ran into the
road, and pitched itself against the off horse of an om-
nibus, of which the prisoner was the driver. The pri-
soner pulled up almost immediately, but not in time to
prevent the wheels passing over the child's body, which
was crushed in a dreadful manner.
Mr. GREGORIE—Was the prisoner driving fast?
Witness—Certainly not, he was going at a slower
pace than omnibuses usually go at ; he thought that
there was not the slightest degree of blame to be at-
tached to the prisoner.
Police Sergeant, 12 T, said that if the Magistrate
should think it desirable to remand the prisoner until
the result of the Coroner's inquest, there were several
respectable people in attendance who would give bail
for his appearance. The prisoner bore the best of
characters •n the road and with his employers, for whom
he had driven several years.
Mr. GREGORIE said it seemed to him that the unfor-
tunate occurrence was purely accidental, and he would
therefore not detain the prisoner, if he would promise to
attend the Coroner's investigation. The prisoner, who
was much affected, said he would do so, and was then
liberated.

THAMES- OFFICE.
EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION.--Mr. Hodgson, a
solicitor, residing in Wapping, applied to Mr. Ballan-
tine, on the part of the carpenter and nine seamen,
belonging to the Anna Mackenzie, trading to New
Brunswick, commanded by a Captain Morris, under
circumstances of a somewhat extraordinary character.
The men joined the vessel at Deal on the 16th of
August (being engaged in London), and found the ship
laden with a general cargo, but in a very leaky state,
and upon examination the vessel was found to be
quite unseaworthy. The carpenter made an accurate
measurement of the leakage, and found it amount to
eighteen inches per diem. This justly alarmed the
crew ; and, upon inquiry, they found that two crews
had been engaged before, and upon discovering the dan-
gerous condition of the vessel, had refused to sail in her.
In this state of things a signal was made for the Captain to
come on board, and upon his arrival he was informed of
the unsafe state of the vessel and the disinclination the
crew had to sail in her, but offering to stay by the ship
if she went into dry dock to repair. The Captain,
however, said the vessel should go to London, and the
crew accordingly worked the vessel up, and she was
then in the London-dock, where she arrived on Sun-
day. They washed and moored the vessel, and had
kept her pumped ever since. On Monday the captain
came on board, and addressing the crew said, " I
have done with you," and ordered the cook to give
them no more victuals. That order had been since com-
plied with, and the men were consequently without food,
and in a state of starvation. All reward for their ser-
vices had been withheld. He (Mr. Hodgson) had told
them that the Magistrates could not enforce any payment
of wages till the voyage was completed ; but the men
had an opinion that the Magistrates would find a mode
to protect them, and he had known that in some in-
stances the Magistrates of the Thames Police Office
sent one of their officers, who in such cases usually
effected every object that justice demanded.
Mr BALLANTINE said he could order no wages
till they were earned. He believed this to be a
very distressing case, and he and his colleagues
had been in the habit of meeting such cases in the
way pointed out, but he was now deprived of the
means. He had once many good officers who effected
much under the directions of himself or colleagues in
such matters, but he had none now, and could give no
assistance. The Thames Police were extinct, and the
officers in attendance were merely ushers, to bring the
cases in and swear the witnesses.

Mr. Hodgson—ls there no way of intimating the
opinion of the Magistrates to the captain and owners ?
Mr. BALLANTINE—I really know of none. The
ushers of the Court may be applied to ; but I know not
where they are to be found.
_ _

M. r. Chambers, one of the Editors of Chambers's
Edinburgh Journal—a publication totally free from
public th
party bias—lately visited this country, and was r
forcibly struck by the contrast between its conditia:n in
1829, when the Tories were in office, and
•onf
ietsrePsrueft t
lt
state of tranquillity and progressive improvement, thai
he determined to place before the
his impressions. Accordingly that gentleman addressed
the following letter to a London Weekly Journal :
TO THIS EDITOR OE THE SPECTATOR..
Edinburgh, 19th August, 1829.
Dear Sir—Since I saw you in London I have made
a pretty considerable round, by way of Dublin and
Belfast, to Edinburgh ; but how rapidly is such a jour-
ney now made! from London to LiVerpool by railway
ten hours ; Liverpool to Kingstown, twelve hours ;
Kingstown to Dublin by railway, a quarter of an
hour—all steam. What a magician is this steam now-
a-days ! It is doing more for Ireland in the way of mo-
ral and physical improvement in one day than was effected
in years by the rubbish of Parlimentary enactments. Peo-
ple in England, however, are not aware of this: they goon
dreaming about uproars, civil wars, and miseries whic.h
characterized a past age in Ireland, apparently not aware
that the Ireland of 1839 is quite a different thing from
the Ireland of 17911, or even of 1828. I had not been
in Ireland for ten years, and was on this occasion much
struck with the signals of improvement which on all sides
presented themselves. Dublin is more cleanly, and i▪
n-
finitely more orderly than it used to be. It has got a
police dressed in the same garb and disciplined in the
same manner as that in the metropolis. This civ•
il
force has, I understand, been of prodigious benefit to
Dublin; everything like a row is now promptly quelled,
and during the night all is as quiet and peaceful as in
London. There is, I think, also much less of that
tag-rag and broken-windowedness in the appearance of
some of the bye-streets than I saw formerly—as if a
taste for neatness and love of comfort were on the
increase. Those funny fellows who drive the street
cars are likewise more decent in their apparel—the
straw rope having disappeared from the hat or legs,
and their inechanique being altogether of a better
order. The railway to Kingstown is now going on
famously, after some initiatory difficulties. The
train goes every half hour. I went several times
to and fro, and there were never fewer than from
a hundred to two hundred persons carried. In conse-
quence of the case of conveyance out of town in this di-
rection, the beautiful low sloping hills along the entrance
to the bay are becoming covered with villas, the whole
presenting a scene of great beauty from the sea. While
the environs are thus receiving the higher class of house-
holders from the city, the streets they have partially de-
serted are filling up with shops and houses of business,
thus affording an evidence of growing prosperity. I
was pleased to observe, among other tokens of improve-
ment, an increase of booksellers' shops : these are even
numerous, and I learned that literature is daily advanc-
ing. A few years ago there was no publishing at all ;
but now, one house, Curry and Company, issues as many
new books, the produce of native talent, as are issued
by all the publishers of Edinburgh, if not considerably
more.

Mr. Hodgson—There is twenty feet of water in the
vessel now. The men stick to their duty, but get no
provisions.

Mr. BALLANTINE—I wish I could relieve them ; but
I have no jurisdiction, and can direct no officer to per-
form any duty.
Mr. Hodgson said he most deeply regretted the Ma-
gistrates had lost the power so very beneficially exer-
cised for the public good. Numberless cases, of which
the law did not take cognizance, were settled to the
satisfaction of all parties before the passing of the
New Police Act, by the judicious interference of
a Thames-police surveyor, under the controlling
authority of the Magistrates, and the people on the
river and in the maritime district of the office would feel
severely the change. He should apply to the Court of
Admiralty on the subject.
Mr. Barnett, a respectable jew slopseller, said he
cashed all the advance notes of the men, and he should
enter actions against the owners.
Mr. BALLANTINE—You have made a bad specula-
tion. I fear, the money being spent by the men, you
are in a sad situation, and I cannot help you.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday, Mr. Samuel Rhodes, coal•merchant, of
No. 21, Grand Junction Wharf, Paddington, was sum-
moned to this office before Mr. Hall, the sitting Ma-
gistrate, upon an information under the Statute of the
Ist and 2d of William the Fourth, ch. 76, sec. 57, to
answer the complaint of Martin Doherty, coal-dealer,
of No. 17, Cow-cross, St. Sepulchre, for haring
delivered a quantity of coals deficient in weight in
several sacks, which subjected him to a penalty of not
more than Si. on every sack deficient in weight.
Mr. Robinson, from the office of Mr. Yardley,
Solicitor, of Hatton Wall, attended for the prosecutor.
Martin Doherty, being sworn stated, that having
ordered four tons of coals of the defendant
to sell by retail, on the Ist of August, they were sent
by a carman to his residemce in Cow-cross, in 40
sacks, in a waggon ; the witness required the carman
to weigh one of the sacks, and afterwards to weigh
the empty sacks in like manner, which being done, the
coals were found to be deficient in weight. Seven
sacks and coals were subsequently weighed in the pre-
sence of two indifferent and credible persons, when no
one of them contained 1121 b. or 2241 b. as required by
law, whereupon the present proceedings were instituted.
Thomas Blake, of 19, Cow-cross, and Thomas Reer-
don, corroborated this testimony. The deficiency in
the various sacki of coals differed from 4 to 6,7, 8,
and 141bs. The carman had his weighing machine
under his waggon, and he delivered his ticket, " 4 ton
of coals, in 40 sacks, each containing 2241 b."
The defendant denied having any fraudulent intention
or guilty knowledge. It was his desire and object to
furnish the full weight of coals, and he could not
account for the defalcation, unless the coals were lost
on the road or through the dishonesty of his servants;
if the coals were not properly weighed at the wharf, it
was the fault of his clerk.
Mr. Robinson said that unfortunately this was his
client's first transaction in dealing with the defendant.
Defendant—l deny having any guilty knowledge ;
but it might be implied from the publicity of the case
that I am the guilty party, which is not the fact.
Mr. HALL (to the defendant)—The complainant
does not impute to you a guilty knowledge, but the fact
of the deficiency in weight is proved, and under the
circumstances I shall fine you 20s. upon the seven
sacks which were deficient in weight, and the costs,
amounting in the whole to 71. 7s. 6d.
Mr. Robinson—The Act also allows all reasonable
expenses for the attendance of the witnesses.
Mr. Rhodes—lt is not the penalty that I begrudge,
but it is the publicity, from which it may be implied
that I had a guilty knowledge. It is a thing that we
are subject to every day, and it is hard to say where it
may end.

The witnesses declined calling for their expenses and
in the course of the day Mr. Rhodes paid the penalty.

THE POST-OFFICE IN NEW GRANADA.—
The rates of postage are all settled by weight ; a single
letter from the seabord to Bogota costs twenty-five cents. ;
pamphlets and newspapers are free. A set of boxes are
provided for the merchants at the rate of four dollars per
annum. Letters are generally delivered through a
window from the street ; but the place for the delivery of
parcels, called encomiendas, which pay a mail-freight of
one dollar per pound, is in a different part of the building.
No country can possibly possess a better regulated post
than that of New Granada, nor is there any place
where fewer accidents occur. If a person wishes to
send a hundred doubloons to the scabord, he must
place them in one of the little bags of the
teoeuntetriyiercatlhleedn
h
mochilas ; and after the teller in the office counts the
money,
him aformal
the bagi s tied
receiptu p foran the
dnu mbe r ed; h
amount,
in which is also
stated the kind of coin received, and to whose order to be
sends to
delivered
his at its place of destination. This receipt he
P p
ent the e
being office
corrondent, reseGnotsve it
Government
atni
there, and receives his money, the
responsible for its delivery. This mode of the " enco-
miendas," is often a great advantage to the man of busi.
ness, as no goods can possibly reach him in so short a time
as by mail. This being the case, I have often seen small
parcels, containing a few pounds weight of some new style
gloves,
l wayoves ,v
veryno. conveniently f
much
de.manidrainthemratrhkientk,
forwardedhaw
s , li ae es n
this ,
that the mail is limited as
e whatnu mber
extentof pounds
i ain i
g nor weightant.
in the gross it can carry, liut to
—Steuart's Bogota.

When I was last in Dublin (in 1829), I was asto-
nished to see the vast number of red coats in the
streets ; but now there is hardly one to be seen. Fromm
whatever causes, this is doubtless a good sign of the
state of affairs ; there is always something wrong when
red is a predominating colour in apparel.
The thing, however, which pleased me most
was the appearance of the schools for the children
of the poorer classes. At the school of the Na-
tional Board of Education I saw 1,700 children,
a mixture of Roman Catholics and Protestants,
receiving an education infinitely superior in quality to
that given in our Scottish parish schools. I found not
only mere reading taught, but mathematics and natural
sciences. A class of very poorly-clad urchins, at my
request, went through an examination in these branches
of knowledge ; and the result was most satisfactory.
(School-fee Id. per week.) I visited also the large
school of the Kildare-place Society ; and in it found
1,100 children under a similar system of tuition. From
these visits, and what I saw otherwise, I feel impressed with
the belief that the Irish have got fairly into the right course
of intellectual and moral advancement, and that the
country will by-and-by show as good a front as Eng-
land or Scotland. One thing is most gratifying—the
landed proprietors have begun to take an interest in
the condition of the poor peasantry. The Poor-law de-
serves the credit of bringing about this beneficial change
in public sentiment. Foreseeing that the peasantry may
fall upon them for subsistence, already a stir has been
created among the gentry, and they are at this moment,
in divers places, projecting some wholesome measures
of emigration, and making an effort to enlarge the
size of farms and introduce agricultural capitalists.
All this is exactly as it should be. The mischief of
Ireland is too many people and too little work ; and,
although the country will ultimately support in comfort
far more than its present number of inhabitants, it is
clear that in the mean time the profitless mass of la-
bourers must be removed—that is in the spirit of kind-
ness, sent away to regions where labourers are wanted
and well paid. It is likely enough that a class of ora-
tors, newspapers, and magazines, who thrive upon
keeping up mischief, may set their faces against these
benevolent plans of emigration ; but I would fain hope
that, by good management, Ireland will be relieved of
her difficulties, and the land every where put under a
right system of agriculture. Already, I understand,
estates are bringing good prices : and no wonder, see-
ing that produce of every description is so readily ex-
ported to England and Scotland, by steam-boats. Cattle,
pork, poultry, butter, and vegetables, are now seat off
daily for half a dozen ports ; and, would you believe it,
Glasgow is now supplied with buttermilkfrom Belfast? Of
course, all this is rapidly transplanting capital from Great
Britain to Ireland ; and hence Ireland must thrive in
spite of herself. Every one with whom I conversed
allowed that, provided no political squabble intervened,
and that Ireland was fairly treated as an integral por-
tion of the United Kingdom, its advance in the course
of the next ten years would be very considerable. I
have no doubt in my own mind that in that period
there will be a decided rush of capital into Ireland
—the rush, indeed, has begun. That half a century,
however, may elapse before it is what it ought to be, is
not improbable ; for Scotland took nearly a century to
recover from the shock of its union—all its improve-
ments, as you know, being of quite a recent date.
Among other symptoms of an advance, I found thatthe
Church is roused to do something useful. There is
now a greater energy about the Clergy, and they are at
present.projecting the establishment of schools of a strictly
Protestant kind. This is excellent. The more schools
the better, for the greater chance is there of the whole
people being educated.
In the North I found things in a fully more flourish-
ing state than in the South. A railway, just opened from
Belfast to Lisburn, is making a stir. It is to be car-
ried shortly to Armagh, and afterwards, I believe, to
Drogheda and Dublin. When we get our railway from
Edinburgh to Glasgow finished, and also the railway
from Glasgow to Greenock, we shall be able to reach
Ireland from the east coast of Scotland in no time.
I am, dear Sir, yours truly,
W. CHAMBERS.
The Dublin Evening Post remarks on this—" These
are the opinions of a sensible, unprejudiced, and ob-
servant Scotehman. He shows that Ireland is rapidly
advancing in enterprise and industry—that the ' Irish
have got fairly into the right course of intellectual and
moral advancement,' and that if she be fairly treated
pasrosapnerityin a fe
integral pow yearsofrtionmust fully equal the British Empire,
that u
her
f
England or Scotland. And this is the country which
Lord Roden described, five months ago, as infested
with treason and deluged with blood, and which has
been mocked by the solemn inquiries of a Committee,
at an expense of 50,0001., with a view of establishing
such absurd and monstrous allegations. Mr. Chambers
never even heard of a Ribbonman !"

,
SILENCE.—Forbear to sport an opinion on a
subject of which you are ignorant, especially in the pre-
sence of those to whom it is familiar. If it bemnoortalsal,waanyds
in your power to speak to the purpose, it certainly is to
hold your tongue; and though thousands have remembered
with pain their garrulity, few, as an ancienpinithsree,nmoamrkeendo,nhavine
had
WHIRLWIND.—It
GoldenvreHa sionnLt
Rules.ow
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nh eiciotor
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dl earn singularre i.oM
II
ascertain, has
i t v eeroymm seldomeneed oc-
curred.
ss climate,i
nA st
thefar
h viacashl 1e y or hollow between the Derby turn-
pike and West river, about a mile from the city, where it
rooted up trces
oaks undred years' standing, large apple
stFor
renne,
ins
situated andthence
at ytfoeowk a s i f they
the sheds attached to hriesdfsaremas,had been nothing but wisps.
the premises of Mr. Joseph K. Mun-
t and of theta taking
i valley,ng
off t demolishinghe roof
of
his
dwelling entire, and prostrating many valuable fruit and
forest trees.
waswoundereb ouo up like
A lot of
From thence it took the slaughter-house of
Mr. J. R. Platt, just erected, and hardly left a memento of
its
of Judgewisp largeDarlingulbacordry
trees, p
nearrot this,
of straw. Thence it passed
to the premises
the Lichfield turnpike, demolishing mulberry
fences Roger
and trees,u Prout, on
a small barn belonging to Mr. Prout. Two large
pine
trees, next door to .Mr. Prout, were twisted off and their
tops carried off to an adjacent field. Thence crossing
the turnpike it took the premises of Mr. J. Dickerman,
demolishing his large barn, in which several gentlemen
were present, all of whom were injured by the falling tim-
bers, but not dangerously. Mr. G. F. H. Read was
wounded badly in the knee. Two large elms before Mr.
Dickerman's dwelling-house, whose capacious roots would
seem to have defied human exertion for such an act,
were laid prostrate. From examination it appears
that it was a progressive whirlwind, pursuing an
area of about sixty rods in width, moving
lay their
from
west to east, spinning in its course from right to left in
to the movements of the hands of
front, contrary a watch
when laid on its back. There are among the sufferers se.
o not
have wlt e r
beene to
veral poor and industrious citizens, who have lost their all.
Several
ra
heads—
whose swept away, and
the hard earnings of many years of toiland
ecllfnatmhiinliges and who
furniturehave n
economy ut.
terly destroyed. We hear that a black woman had
broken in the fail of Washington's house, and also an
arm
a chili
in that of Mr. Warner.—Newhaven Herald.