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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1836.

We have inserted elsewhere the Report of a Meetin3
of the Proprietors of the Thames Tunnel Company,
held yesterday at the City of London Tavern, which
will, we are sure, be exceedingly gratifying to our
readers. It is now no longer a matter of doubt whe-
ther this wonderful undertaking will be completed.
Science and perseverance have triumphed over all dif-
ficulties, and we may now expect, with well-founded
confidence, that—to use the expressive words of Mr.
HA WES, the Chairman of the Meeting, and the warm
promoter of the undertaking—it will not be long before
the public " will be enabled to go into the Tunnel at
Rotherhithe and come out at Wapping."

It appears that more than 700 out of the whole
1,300 feet have been already completed ; that the
work is now proceeding at the rate of 41 feet per week,
and that this weekly rate will soon be increased to 8 or
9 feet.:When it is considered that the stupendous shield,
which Mr. BRUNEL has constructed to obviate the diffi-
culties formerly ,encountered, weighs no less than 140
tons, and is propelled under the bed of the Thames,
sustaining a pressure of 3,000 tons, we must regard this
as a rapid progress. But that which places the skill'
of the engineer in the most conspicuous point of view,
is the fact that the material through which the shield
is now proceeding with the most perfect safety, is in a
semi-fluid state.

Two days ago we begged a Morning Contemporary,
who has been a loud declaimer about re-action, to
account for the extraordinary fact, that his party should
have omitted to avail themselves of the assistance of
this—according to him—universal agent at the late
election for East Cumberland. We wished to know
why a red-hot Radical was allowed to walk over the
course, while not a Tory dared to wag a finger at him,
or even ventured out of his hole. We have not suc-
ceeded in getting an answer from our Contemporary,
and we must, therefore, presume he has none to give.
Silence, in such a case, is the best policy. We had yes-
terday, instead, a diatribe from the blusterer of Print-

ing-house-square, who expects to carry every thing
before him by dint of impudence and foul language.
He gives his fellow-labourer a little help; but it is
such as a scavenger or a chimney-sweep gives to the
unfortunate wight who happens to be the object of
his protection. A torrent of vituperation is poured
forth against every person and thing which happens
to stand in the way of the writer's party views. The
Poor Law Bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. JAMES,
and twenty others, come in for a share of the coarsest
ribaldry that ever disgraced the contiguous and con-
genial region of Billingsgate. Not even Lord
EBRINGTON is spared, though it is but a brief space
since this pink of consistency expressed an earnest
wish that there were five hundred EBRINGTONS in

the House of Commons. And how does he dispose
of the Cumberland business after all this spitting and
swearing, and setting up of the back, and bristling of
the tail ? It is no business of his, says he, to en-
quire why Mr. JAMES was permitted to jump into
Parliament I This is an admirable solution of the dif-
ficulty, and must be exceedingly agreeable to the Carlton
Club. People have no business to inquire, where in-
quiry would lead to " untoward " results. -
But he has one source of comfort under his affliction.
" We know," he adds " that Sir JAMES is the other
Member." Either the Times or Sir JAMES must be
sadly changed when the latter has become the mainstay
of the Tory cause. The Hon. Bart. is in this fellow's
eyes a " thorough-bred Tory," and Mr. JAMES a
" rabid radical," and it is a source of hope that the
electors who have chosen the latter, once chose the
former as their representative. We are to measure the
Cumberland re-action then by the past, not the present
sentiments of the constituency, and must conclude—
according to the rule of contraries—that because that
constituency has now elected a " rabid radical," they
will next time elect a " thorough-bred" Tory ! Truly

the Tories are excellent logicians when they have a
point to make out.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Tuesday. Contrary to the expectation of our Gallic
Contemporaries, a list of the New Cabinet has not yet
appeared in the Moniteur. Nevertheless it is gene-
rally believed in. Paris that all difficulties have been
overcome, and that the question will be finally settled
in the course of the present week. Our Contemporary
the Advertiser of this morning, asserts that the " forma-
tion of the Ministry will be designedly delayed for at
least a fortnight to come." The cause of such delay is
thus stated--f." LOUIS PHILLIPPE wishes to gain
time, in order that the complexion of his Ministry may
perfectly agree in tone and colour with the wishes, or
rather instructions, of the Holy Alliance, as regards
Spain." Our Contemporary may possibly be right as
far as regards the delay in the formation of the French
Cabinet ; but he is decidedly wrong in his allegation
of the cause of such delay. The agents of the
Northern Powers in Paris require no time for delibera-
tion. They know well whom to recommend, without
waiting for instructions from the Arch-Chancellor of
the Russian Empire. The Doctrinnaires are the men
for NESSELRODE. Russia desires nothing more than
to see them wield the destinies of France. Where men
of absolute principles are not to be found capable of
discharging with effect the duties of a Ministry, the
agents of the Great Northern Powers fulfil their in-
structions by' recommending men of no principles
at all to seize the reins of Government. But
independently of this, was it not evident, even
to our Contemporary, that such a list as that
published by the Constitutionnel of Monday, could
only have been drawn up at the instigation of Russia ?
Is not Count MOLE known to be the mere tool
of Russia ? And is it not equally true that there
is not a name on the list, with the sole exception of
GUIZOT, to which any person can attach the ideas of
political honesty or patriotism ? DUCHATEL is an
able financier, but he is likewise a parasite, and has
no opinion on foreign affairs but the will of the KING.
To suppose that Louis PHILIPPE would designedly
delay the formation of his Cabinet, with a view to ob-
tain Russia's_ opinion of the proposed materials, is to
admit inferentially that the CITIZEN KING intended
it to have a will different from his own. But his
Most Christian MAJESTY intends nothing of the sort.
He will be in reality his own Cabinet, or he will be
nothing. This the Northern Powers know right well,
and therefore they care very little who his MAJESTY
may nominate as Ministers, provided his selection be
made among the leaders of the Doctrine.
We regret to observe that symptoms of a growing
indifference to the friendship of England begin to be
manifested by France in a thousand ways, which,
though trifling, minute, and apparently isolated in
themselves, are, nevertheless, not to be mistaken in
their character. We hesitate not to attribute them to
the Government. We are confident that the people
of France view the close alliance of their country with
Great Britain as the surest pledge of their indepen-
dence. A rupture between England and France would
prove fatal to the liberties of Western Europe. In the
event of a war, it is easy to foresee that the constitu-
tional thrones of Spain and Portugal would be sub-
verted ; that Belgium would again be united to Hol-
land under the sole sway of the House of Orange ;
that Greece would be declared a province of Russia ;
and that the black Eagles of the CZAR would float
over the mosque of St. Sophia.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday contain no satisfac-
tory account of the ramifications of the plot for the
murder of the KING at Neuillyothe execution of
which on Sunday night, was only prevented by the
activity of the Government. Many believe that the
whole affair was fabricated by the police with the
knowledge of the KING, with a view to rouse the sym-
pathies of the more respectable classes of Frenchmen
in his MAJESTY'S favour, and more especially to create

a general abhorrence of the Spanish Constitutiona

system. Such a thing might be probable were the
Chambers sitting ; but nothing is more unlikely under
existing circumstances. There are now neither Cham-
bers to manage, nor elections to influence—so that a
sham plot could serve no political purpose. Besides
Louis PHILIPPE is not now quite so anxious to
have it believed that his life is in danger as he
was in 1834. He has had enough of conspi-
racies, real and pretended, without seeking for more.
That the plot—the execution of which was pre-
vented on Sunday—was a real plot, and that its

object was the death or banishment of Lours PHI-
LIPPE, we, in all sincerity, believe; but we are, never-
thelesss, of opinion that the conspiracy was not so ex-
tensive as the Government supposed it to be. The
following account of it from the Droit, a Paris Jour-
nal, is the only one which has yet appeared :—" A
plot was laid for surrounding the Prefecture of Police,
setting the buildings on fire, and at the same time
making an attack upon the Palace of Neuilly. A Re-
publican Council was, during the whole of the time,
to remain sitting at the house of a wine-dealer in the
Rue Valois-Batave, and thence direct the proceedings.
Of all this the Prefect of Police had timely informa-
tion from his secret agents, and reinforced the Mu-
nicipal Guards, whom he stationed, with several
brigades of Sergens de Ville, in the court-
yard of his hotel. The troops were closely con-
fined to their barracks, cartridges were distributed
to them, and they': remained with their muskets
loaded ready to march at a moment's notice. The same
precautions were taken at every other point of Paris.
Numerous patrols traversed the streets in every direc-
tion, and yet the morning arrived without any one
being arrested, except a single man in the Rue Valois-
Batave, who was found seated at a table with some
packets of cartridges wrapped up in a handkerchief, a
pistol in his coat pocket, and a list of the names of
some persons who were afterwards arrested in the
course of yesterday. The police continues its searches,
and it is said that 150 or 200 muskets have been
seized in the Rue de Rivoli."

Plots such as the above are not to be put down in
France by an alliance with Russia, at the expense of
liberty and England. The secret enemies of the pre-
sent dynasty can neither be conciliated nor crushed by
the frowns of the Holy Alliance. The presence of a
million of soldiers could not preserve the life of a
Monarch so menaced as is the life of the citizen KING.
There is but one remedy for the evil---the restoration of
the popular liberties guaranteed by the charter of 1830.
PARIS, SEPT 6.—The Styx steam-boat, on board which it
was announced that Marshal Claesel embarked on the 26th, at
Port Vendres, which was to touch at Barcelona, has had a ra-
pid voyage. A telegraphic dispatch states that it arrived at
Toulon, from Algiers, on the sth of September.
A journal says, that it is calculated that by the 29th Sept.
there will be nearly 40,000 men assembled, under the com-
mand of General Harispe, on the frontier of the Pyrenees,
and that a month ago, there were not more than 8,000. We
believe that we should be nearer the truth by adding a little
to the last number, and taking away much from the first. If
the troops under General Casteliane were added, it would be
different. The Government cannot be blamed for keeping its
army of observation on a respectable footing, but the use that
it means to make of it must be watched. —Journal du Com-
merce, Sept. 6.

The Moniteur contains an Ordinance respecting the Cod
Fishery._

-
The Journal des Debats gives as nearly definitive the com-
bination by which the Doctrinaires are called to compose the
new Cthinet. That Journal already makes the funeral oration
of M. de Montalivet.

A Journal states that M. Argout will be appointed Ambas-
sador to Madrid. We are still looking for the explanation of
the pretended plot, discovered the night before last.—Na-
tional, 6.

The Ministerial crisis is nearly at an end. The news which

we gave this morning, of the military measures taken at Paris
last night, is confirmed.—Messager, Sept. 6.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Partts, SEPT. 6.
Five per Cents., 1091. 10c. 20c. 15c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 60c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 79f. 95c. SOf. sc.
Bank Actions, .2,270 f.
Dente de Naples, Of. 45c. 50e. 65c. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 103.
Spanish Actives, 30%
Spanish Passives, p%IA.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 103 M.
Portuguese Loan. Three per Cents, 4‘..' 4?/.
Haytian Loan, 375 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, ; money, 25f. 274 c
Three months, paper, 25f. 714 c. ; money, 25f. 5c
Authentiaue.

Bonßsn, QUARTER TO FOUR.—The monied men are the
decided friends of the Doctrinaires ; they are employing every
effort to get up the Three per Cents ; to-day they have pushed
up the price to 80f. 30c. on the Parquet, when at the same
time they were sellers in the Coulisse et 80f. 25c.
The Spanish Active Stock has had no fluctuation—it re-
mained the whole Bourse at 304.
LAST PRICES.-Five per Cents., 1091. 45c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 25c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, 104; New Loan, —; Actives, 303-; Pas-
sives, 91 ; Ducats," 100] —; Romans, 103 ; Pcdros, —;
Belgians, 1031; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 375 f. ; Mi-
guels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 261 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 12i; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.
DUTCH FUNDS—ANISTERBAN, SEPT. 6.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2t6 per Cent. 55 55
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
AmoitSvndic,4y4 percent 97 y:, 95%
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent BO fO4
Commercial Company, 4, per cent 1571,4 190 i/
Ditto (1432 and 133.3) 5 per cent.
Loan 1936, 4 ner cent. —
Exchange on London, One month l2 0714
Two months
—Dutch Papers, Sept. 6.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, SEPT. 3.
Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. 5O 98%
Ditto ditto 3 percent.
Ditto Bank Shares P 338 1236
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Anglo-Russian Loan lO5l 1054
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent —
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent (l9
Ditto, 3 per cent. 4IN 51,,i
Dutch 2,, per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets .

A nglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 73% 7
Norwegian Lean of 1834, 4 per cents. ....
Spanish, in niastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
Greek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed by France -
-Hamburg Papers, Sept. 3.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ann 27.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1351
—Allgemeine &Ming, Aug. 31. a

BRUNSWICK, AuG. 23.—The alleged plan for a
marriage of our Duke with the Heiress of the British Crown,
which was said to be wished for by the King of England, and
for which he is supposed to have visited London, appears to be
given up. And here we are glad of it, for this event would
place the Duchy of Brunswick in the same situation with re-
spect to England as Hanover has been in since the accession of
the House of Hanover to the English throne. The absence
of the Prince could not be advantageous to Brunswick.
BREDA, SEPT. 5. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester arrived here yesterday afternoon, and
was visited by the two eldest sons of the Prince of Orange.
Her Royal Highness proceeded this morning to Antwerp and
Brussels.
STOCKHOLM, AuG. 2G.—The new Russiam Am-
bassador, Count Potocki, is expected from Russia on hoard a
steam-boat, which will take back Major General Count Such-
telen, and the valuable library and other collections of the late
Count Suchtelen, which have been purchased by the Emperor
of Russia.—Hamburg Borsenhalle, Sept. 3.
It seems decided that Count Frantmandorff will be
Ambassador at London in the room of Prince Paul Es-
terhazy. Count Frantmandorff is, however, an able diplo-
matist, and his wife being a cousin of the Princess Ferdi-
nand of Saxe Coburg, mother-consort of the Queen of Portu-
gal, and sister-in-law to the Duchess of Kent. He will be in
come degree connected with the English Royal Family, as
Prince Paul Esterhazy was through his consort, who is a
cousin of the English Princes.
ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 20.—His Majesty the
Emperor set out to day on a tour into the interior of the Em-
pire, which will last till October 14. According to the route
which has been published, he intends especially to visit
Nishney Novogorod (where the fair which began in the middle
of last month still continues) and the University of Rasan.
The Empress will reside at Zarsskojo-Selo during the Em-
peror's absence.
The average prices of wheat and rye for the 4th
week of August, (from the 22d to the 27th) were—wheat,
16f. 29c. ; rye, 9f. 93c. per hectolitre ; import duty 37f. 50c.,
and 21f. 5Sc. per 1,000 kilogrammes. M. Goblet has just
been appointed Ambassador to Portugal. Belgian Funds,
Sept. s.—Actual Debt, 21 per Cents., 541 ; Rothschild's
Loan, 1014 ; Loan of City, 1832, 994 ; Society of Com-
merce, 149 ; Bank of Belgium, 1261 ; Loan of 30 Millions,
94—Brussels Papers, Sept. 6.
We have just learned that M. Kals, editor of the
Flemish journal Volks- Vriend, was arrested at past 5 this
morning by 4 gendarmes, under the direction of M. Cout ou-
lete, Commissary of Police. Jean Tahen, a paper-hanger, is
also arrested.—Brussels Paper.
LORD COTTENHAM.—The Lord Chancellor has
displayed, since his elevation to the high office which he holds,
very eminent judicial qualities. Patient, careful, quick in his
comprehension of the points in a cause, yet generally slow in
forming an opinion on them, having considerable learning,
completely free from undue bias from counsel, looking at each
matter in all its bearings. These are some of his Lordship's
distinguishing merits as a judge, and we are only echoing the
general professional opinion when we say, that Lord Cotten-
ham most adequately fills his present situation.—Legal
Observer.
The Liverpool Exhibition of Paintings and Sculp-
ture, which opened on Monday last, contained 679 works of art.
On Friday evening her Grace the Duchess of Nor-
thumberland, accompanied by the Hon. Mr. and Misses Percy,
and Miss Smyth, arrived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The noble
party, on Saturday morning, took the opportunity, in passing
through Newcastle, of viewing the splendid markets lately
erected, and were highly gratified with their appearance. The
Duchess and her noble friends then set forward for Alnwick
Castle, and had only left the town about half an hour before
his Grace the Duke of Northumberland drove up, changed
horses, and pursued his route to his magnificent mansion.
DUBLIN, SEPT. s.—Lord Bloomfield and the
Hon. Captain Bloomfield have been sojourning for some time
past at Hermitage, Waterford. Lieutenant. General Sir John
Ormsby Vandeleur, his son Captain Vandeleur, and Miss Van-
deleur, are staying at Kilrush, county Clare. Colonel and
Mrs. Percival, family, and suite, have arrived at the Shel-
bourne, Dublin ; the Right Hon. T. Lefroy is at present so-
journing at the mansion of Harry Alcock, Esq., of Wilton,
Wexford, where a numerous party of gentry were invited to
meet him at dinner on Thursday. The Lord-Lieutenant has
appointed Lord Boyle, of Castlemartyr, Vice-Lieutenant for
the county and city of Cork, during the absence of the Earl
of Shannon. There never was an instance of so many law
chiefs being absent from the kingdom as at the present mo-
ment. The Lord Chief Baron of the English Exchequer has
gone to Rome, the Irish Chief Baron to Constantinople, and
the Irish Chancellor to Vienna.

THE LATE ELOPEMENT.—The lady who a few
nights ago eloped from the residence of her husband (a
wealthy merchant, named residing in Nottingham-ter-
race, New-road), with a young man, a discarded footman, has
returned to the abode she so abruptly quitted, and is now sole
possessor of the house, and has full controul over all apper-
taining thereto, Mr. - having entirely left it, and taken up
his dwelling in another part of the town. The footman has,
since the " untoward" event, been observed walking about
exhibiting a somewhat stylish appearance.
The hops have improved considerably in East Kent
within the last few days, and a corresponding advance has
taken place in the anticipated amount of duty; 205,0001., and
in some few instances 210,0001. is the favourite figure, though,
in our opinion, with but a slight prospect of its being realised.
In East Kent the crop has seldom been so free from blight and
the fly. In many grounds in the weald and in West Kent the
mould has caused much destruction.

A new method of smuggling whisky from Glasgow
to London was very accidently discovered on Tuesday last.
A carter called at the shop of Messrs. John Reid and Co.,
Queen-street, and informed them that some accident had be-
fallen the address of the box which they had sent to London,
the ticket having been torn off. Mr. Reid, who suspected
something wrong, as they had been sending no parcel to Lon-
don for a day or two previous, went immediately to Port Dun-
das, to inquire into the matter. He there found, instead of
a parcel of books, a small keg of mountain dew, neatly
packed up ; and, to avoid suspicion, one of their cards—
" Bought of John Reid and Co., 81, Queen-street," pasted
on it. As no other claimant appeared, Mr. Reid ordered the
contraband article to be transferred to his shop.—Edinburgh
Courant.

It appears from the result of some valuable inquiries
lately made, that if two inches and a half be deducted from the
circumference of the stem of any vine, the capability of it will
be equal to the maturation of 181bs. of grapes for every re-
maining inch of growth.
Sir Theodore Broadhead, Bart., of Camps Mount,
near Doncaster, has in the most handsome manner contributed
100 guineas towards the erection of a new Church, at Monk
Bretton, near Barnsley. His Grace the Archbishop of York
has also subscribed 100/.—Halifax Express.
SWITZERLAND.--The two Italian refugees, Ber-
thola and Migliari, who wore implicated in the Council affair,
were transported the 30th of August beyond the frontiers of
the Canton. Harro Harring, accompanied by the German
refugee Dieffenbach, hds taken the same direction. —llefretie.
Foreigners, Kings as well as private persons, we
see, are seized by but little alarm at the plots which we lay
open to their view, and they are right. Despite circumstances
the city is good ; and her inhabitants are amusing themselves
more than any people in the world besides. -Journal du
Commerce._ _ _ .

After the marriage of Kin°. Otho with the Princess
of Saxe-Altenbough, he will visit Paris for a fortnight.—
Journal du Commerce.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS lAAY.)

MARLBORO U GH-STREET.
Samuel Burgess, a tailor, was chargcd with being drunk'
and assaulting John Clarke, a parish constable. but
The defendant admitted having taken a drop
was quite unconscious of having offered any violence to
man in authority. too much, t

He was ordered to pay a fine of s. about
Timothy Browne, a well-known crippl , who goes
upon all-fours, levying contributions at thee West End, wsts
charged with being very drunk and disorderly in Regentstree
MAGISTRATE—This fellow is a regular impostor—what haver
you got to say to this charge ? Defendant—Please
Worship, every body knows I can't walk like a Christian--

leave it all to your own generosity.
MAGISTRATE-Well, you are fined 5s stolen
Eliza Morris, a charwoman, was charged with having et° •
property of Mrs. Jennings, a housekeeper, by whom she
and pawned a quantity of bed curtains and other articles, to_
n'ns
occasionally employed. the
Police Constable C 156 found about fifty duplicates on
prisoner. She acknowledged that she had pawned the articles,
but pleaned distress.
Waq
Mrs. Jennings did not wish to prosecute if her propertY
restored, and the prisoner was sent for a month to the H°lls
of Correction.

UNION-HALL.
James Birch, a fellow of no very prepossessing
and whose habiliments may be described as shabby-gently
was brought before Mr. WEDGEWOOD, charged with violen.,.
assaulting Miss Elizabeth Johnson, a female of CO
personal attractions, with intent to commit a rape. her a
In consequence of the prosecutrix appearing in rat
e,
delicate state of health, from the ill-treatment she bad 11;
ceived, Mr. Wedgwood heard the ease in his privateer oonire
but as far as we could collect them, the facts of the cas ffe
shortly these:— ing
On Tuesday morning last a gentleman named Flea° k,
ppearatici:
who carries on the business of a plumber and glazier at Pecto
ham, applied to Mr. TRAILL, who was then sitting at a
office, stating that a relative of his had been ill-treated lilt.°
most inhuman manner, and requested his advice as t° ,
course he ought to pursue. The statement made by the
Flemming induced Mr. Traill to desire the inspector of e.
P Division to take the party accused into custody, and alt.
ably to that order the prisoner was apprehended last
From the statement of Miss Johnson, it appeared that on
sheP
turday last, on coming from a visit to her aunt 5 d
met the prisoner with whom she had been acquainnieer
ever since she was a child. He made several in3r2rbe
proposals to her, saying that if she would consent ct,
would marry her in the morning; she became alariliem
and endeavoured to get away from him, but could not 10%;
plish her object. The prisoner then dragged her tinner
several streets and turnings, and about 10 o'clock he gociiit
into Southampton-street, where he took her behind the In—tal
School, caught hold of her in a most indecent and 11°-of
manner; she struggled with him, and had nearly the whcue
tic.
her clothes torn from her back ; at length, however, she :
ceeded in freeing herself from him, and went to her horn'
Acorn-street, Peckham, as soon as she could. The prison td
brutal conduct had bruised her in several parts of her bl;
but fortunately for the prosecutrix her struggles prevented `O,
prisoner from carrying his brutal object into effect; she w-0,
however, obliged to be placed under the care of a medical Ono,
and was still. The prosecutrix was very respectablY. c°o
nected, and had never, by word or action, given the pris°'
the least encouragement to take liberties with her.
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The prisoner, on being called upon by the Worthy -12 .s.
trate, admitted having seen the prosecutrix, and having ":th
tended her home; during which, he took a few liberties 111.
her : but as to anything else, the statement of the prosenniagrilas
was false. He positively denied that either his own or 0.1
Johnson's clothes were disarranged by him.
Mr. WEDGWOOD said it was very fortunate for the priannierci
he had not accomplished his object, for if he had he silo
have been obliged to commit him for the capital offence. 0,
conduct, however, had been most unmanly and brutal, ja,te
deavouring to ruin a virtuous female. He should, therein'
order him to find bail for the assault, with intent, &c.
The prisoner then left the bar in custody of the officer.

TOWN HALL.
John lee, a master shoe-maker, was brought this dal beg;
fore Sir JOHN KEY, charged with violently assaulting hiss
Mary Ann Lee.
From the statements of the wife, it appeared that she
been married to the defendant for upwards of twelve rime %
He resided in Kent-street, and there carried on the busin.a
of a replenisher of second-hand shoes. On Tuesday eveilifet
last after they had gone to bed, he struck her most violently bt
no cause that she was aware of. To save herself she nallgt
hold of his shirt, upon which he again struck her ; she then b-of
up and remained in the yard behind the house for uptvard3
two hours in her night clothes. The next morning the
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soner struck her again, and his conduct had been so vioi.tip.
of late, that she felt her life was not safe without she left bloc
The defendant when called upon by the worthy Magistr,,,
to state what he had to say in extenuation of his violent co
duct, said that his wife was mad, and he could prove her 50' t,
Sir J. KEY—Yes, you have driven her mad by ill treato
The Prisoner—l never ill treated her. My only wish Tf
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to keep her in bed when she was in the habit of starting ,
in her dreams, stark, staring mad I
the
Sir JOHN KEY—Oh you endeavour to pacify her at
time she is afflicted, by ill using her, do you ? f r
The Prisoner—l have never ill used her. I came here A
protection from my wife, who is not in her right mind.
Sir JOHN KEY—Well, if she leaves you, as she seems 'I
sirous of doing, you won't want protection. But you 20t1'
allow her something.
The Prisoner—l offered my wife some time ago ss. ;
when I was in better circumstances; but I cannot do tbl
now.
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After some altercation, the prisoner agreed to allow b
4s. a-week, and was then discharged. Oa
Mary Dewitt, a common prostitute, who said she was in the
habit of taking walks at three o'clock in the morning 01, fed
neighbourhood of Walworth and Camberwell, was coman„„it
for one month to the House of Correction, for being .
and disorderly.
The prisoner, on hearing her sentence, returned thanksolt°
the Magistrate—wished him a good morning, and exPre,s4c
her hope that he might enjoy good health till she cacao ''
again.