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the alcoves of the bridge, with a knife in his hand,
preparing., it was (n.ppetpd to cult c‘fr his head. in

. . . .
1, vas fastened round its neck. When taken into cus-
tody, he made an attempt to throw the cat over the
bridge, but in this he was also foiled, and taken to the
station-house.

The owner of the cat said it was a favourite, and
that the prisoner having seen it at the door, snatched
it up, and ran away—that the brass collar was worth
ls. 6d., a sum very inferior to the value which she set
upon the animal.

The prisoner said that he met the cat in the street,
and that as it seemed to be lost, he took it up, and
would have advertised it if he had been let alone—
that he never intended to have cut its head off for the
brass collar, and that he only used the knife to try
and wrench it off.

The MAGISTRATE said there were several heartless
fellows going about stealing cats to kill them for their
skins, and he believed the prisoner to be one of them.
He should punish the prisoner, and sentence him to
f.iurteen days' imprisonment for having unlawful
possession of the animal.
LAMBETH.
John Marson, a builder, who has been in custody
for some days, on a charge of being concerned with
an extensive gang of swindlers, was again placed at
the bar for further examination.
In addition to the evidence already given, the
managing clerk to Messrs. Neill and Co., patent
asphalte cloth manufacturers, in Bunhill-row, St.
Luke's, said that on the 30th of September last, the
prisoner gave an order for twenty pieces of patent
asphalte, and gave him a reference for his character
for respectability, &c., to Messrs. Thornton, Outrim,
and Co., of Essex-wharf, Fore-street, Limehcuse, and
1, Great Winchester-street, City. He (witness)
called on those parties, who gave the prisoner an ex-
cellent character, and said that any business transac-
tion with him would be " all right " Feeling satis
lied with this, the order was executed, but soon after
he (witness) discovered the prisoner's real character,
and he had not been able to get the amount of this
bill for the property.
Robert Tatton, a livery-stable keeper, at Chelsea,
deposed that about the lit or 2d of the present month,
twenty pieces of asphalte were brought to his pre-
mises by order of the prisoner, who borrowed 3/. on
it ; some days after these pieces were taken away, and
one of the prisoner's party succeeded in getting from
him ill. on a cheque, on the banking house of Her-
ries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street, and signed
by J. Day, the same person by whose cheques the
prisoner had obtained several sums.
After some further proceedings,
The prisoner offered no defence, and was fully com-
mitted for trial on this charge, but was remanded on
others.

THAMES.
William James Hopkins, a lighterman, in the em-
ploy of Mr. John Dudin, of Horselydown, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, on remand, charged
with stealing six quarters of oats.
On the 4th inst. the prisoner was ordered by his
master to navigate a barge, called the Eclipse, along
side the ship Tennant, off Rotherhite, to receive 260
quarters of oats, part of a larger quantity, which Mr.
Dudin was engaged to lighter from the Tennant to
Whiting's Wharf. While the corn meters and fel-
lowship porters were employed in loading the Eclipse,
a skiff was brought alongside the Tennant. It was
in charge of a man named Wheeler, a companicin
of the prisoner's, who ordered the porters to lower
five quarters of oats into the skiff, and said Wheeler
was in Mr. Dudin's employ. The corn was lowered
in sacks which the confederate Wheeler brought
with him. The porters thought the transaction a
very strange one, and called to Mr. Adcock, the City
meter, who was measuring the corn in the hold, to
come upon deck, and on being informed that five
quarters had been lowered into the skiff, he appealed
to the prisoner, who said it was quite right, and that
the corn in the skiff was wanted for Mr. Dud in, and
that Wheeler was in his employ. Wheeler the rowed
the skiff away in the direction of Princess-stairs,
Rotherhithe, and the five quarters of corn were never
traced afterwards. After the barge was laden, and
the meter was about to give the prisoner a bill for
the corn delivered, he asked the meter to " slink" the
five quarters, and said that he did not want his master
to know anything about it. Mr.-Adcock, the meter,
understood what this meant, and refused to be a party
to the transaction, and on Mr. Dudin being informed
of it he gave the prisoner into custody, and paid the
merchant for the corn stolen.

The prisoner, in defence, said he did not put any
oats into the skiff, nor speak to Wheeler. He also
denied using the word slink.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

THE BLOCK PRINTERS' PRESENT

TO THE QUEEN.
A few weeks ago, the society of block printers of
this and the adjoining counties forwarded to Sir
George Grey, for presentation to her Majesty, a
splendid dress-piece of mousseline-de-laine, printed
by hand. The following letters have since been
received by Mr. Thomas Graham, the secretary of
the block printers society :--

Whitehall, October 6, 1847.
" Sir,—ln the absence of Secretary Sir George Grey,
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, trans-
mitting, on behalf of the society of block printers, a piece
mousseline de laine, as a present to the Queen ; and I
have to inform you that this present has been forwarded
to the Lady in Waiting, with directions for its presenta-
tion to her Majesty, together with your letter which
accompanied it.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
" DENIS LE MARCHANT.
"Mr. Thomas Graham, Secretary to the Block Printers'
Society, Rhodes, Middleton, near Manchester."
" Whitehall, October 13, 1847.
" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey,
with reference to my letter of the 6th instant, to inform
you that he has received a letter from the Lady in Wait-
ing, conveying the Queen's gracious acceptance of the
mousseline de laine dress presented by the society of block
printers ; and her Majesty has been further graciously
pleased to desire that patterns or the same material
may be submitted for her inspection.'
" I am, sir, your obedient servant,

" DENTS LE MARCHANT.
" P.S. These patterns had better be submitted through
;he Lady in Waiting, and not transmitted to the Secre-
ary of State.—D. LE M.
Mr. Thomas Graham, Secretary of the Block Printers'

Society, Rhodes, Middleton, near Manchester,
'Manchester Guardian.

An old man of seventy-seven, named Martinet, ani
a middle-ai..,ed woman, named Meunier, were on Friday
tried before the Court of Assizes of the Seine for robbing
and wounding a person, named Marl6J, carrying on busi-
ness as a watchmaker and grocer at Belleville. The
female prisoner had lived with Marle.l and his wife as
servant, but carried on a criminal intercourse with her
master. At length the latter drove his wife from the
house, and lived publicly with the woman. After
while she persuaded him to receive Martinet into the
house as a lodger, and it appears that she carried on a
connexion with both. This led to constant quarrels.
which resulted in blows, and in one of these encounters
the female inflicted a peculiar mutilation on her master.
She, however, had such an empire over him that she
persuaded him to declare he had done it himself, with
the intention of committing suicide, owing to his inability
to pay a bill. Notwithstanding this kindness of her
master, she acted contrary to the advice of the medical
man called in, by administering strong and exciting
drinks and drugs to the sick man. At length he died.
after cruel suffering, and the prisoner immediately laid
hands on everything the house contained, and, carrying
it away, went to live with Martinet at Charonne. The
latter was a party to the robbery. The details of the
wound inflicted by the woman rendered it necessary for
the public to be excluded from the Court during the
trial. The jury declared both the prisoners guilty, and
the Court condemned the woman to twelve years' impri-
sonment with hard labour, and exposure on the pillory ;
and the old man to six years' reclusion. ' Beiug very
deaf, the sentence had to be shouted in his ear, and or
learning it, he cried " Six years' reclusion ! I should
have have preferred death !"—Paris Paper.
WELSH SUPERSTITION.—John Hughes, butcher,
was charged before D. Edwards, Esq., mayor, and John
Davies, Esq., with threatening to assault Margaret
Davies, for bewitching his son. The poor woman stated
that on Saturday last the defendant had followed her in
the street, charging her with having bewitched his son,
and said if she would not instantly undo her work that
he would make her food for fowls (a Welsh phrase,
equivalent to the English of cutting her into mince
meat). The complainant stated that she knew nothing
of what he had attached to her, and from the violence o
his threats she was really afraid of the man. Hughes
denied having threatened to assault her, but acknow-
ledged having charged her with bewitching his son, who
had been ill for two years, and he knew that it was her
hand that was upon him. He had merely asked the
complainant to come and cure him. The mayor ex-
pressed his astonishment at the superstitious, ignorance
of the defendant, and ordered him to enter into recog-
nizances to keep the peace towards the complainant,
himself in 20/, and two sureties in 101. each. The
judgment seemed to fill him with the most profound
astonishment.—Chester Chronicle.
LOLA MONTES ONCE MORE. Among the curio-
sities which most attract strangers visiting Munich at
the present moment, perhaps the most curious is the
residence of the Countess of Lansfield, the celebrated
La'a Montes. Among the apartments thrown open to
public admiration is the Countess's bed-chamber, which
is fitted up with royal magnificence and taste. On the
table in this room is a rare ornament—a superb album
is laid out, filled with pieces of poetry, written in Ger
man, and in celebration of the charms of the beautiful
Countess, and on an embroidered cushion upon the same
tahle a hand, sculptured in marble, is shown as a repro
sentation of "the royal hand that wrote the verses."
ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND GRANTON
lianwev.—On Friday night, about a quarter to seven
when the train arrived from Granton at Edinburgh, the
"messenger-rope" attached to a carriage came in con-
tact with one of the iron bars connected with the switch.
which stretches across the rails, whereby the rod was
bent, and the rails opened up in such a manner as to
throw two of the carriages entirely off. No effect fol-
lowed, except that the passengers were a little startled
by the sudden jolting of the earriages.—Caledonian
Mercury.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yegtprrilt- r0!1-!' for d; oc'

THE PICTURE PRESENTED BY THE KING OF THE
FRENCH TO THE CORPORATION.
The LORD MAYOR rose immediately after the
,formation of the court, and said--" I have the honour
to state to this court that I have received a letter from
the French Ambassador, conveying a request that I
would be pleased to present a picture from his Ma-
jesty the King of the French to the Corporation of
London. The picture is intended to commemorate a
most interesting event in the annals of the Corpora-
tion, and I trust that his Majesty's gift will be cordially
received.—(Hear, hear.)
The following is a copy of the letter :
" Hertford House, Oct. 12, 1847.
"My Lord Mayor,—The picture of the presenta-
tion of the address of the Corporation of London to
his Majesty the King of the French, at Windsor
Castle (which from unforeseen circumstances has
been delayed until the present time) is now finished,
and I am directed by his Majesty to request you will
have the kindness to present it to the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Common Council of the Corporation of
London.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor,
" Your Lordship's obedient servant,
" V. BROGLIE.
" To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor."
Upon the motion of Sir PETER LAURIE, who
brought up the report of the deputation, stating the
particulars of the presentation of the address, seconded
by Alderman MOON, it was
Resolved unanimously—That this Court tender
their acknowledgments to his Majesty the King of
the French, for the picture representing the presen
tation of the address of the Corporation of London to
his Majesty, at Windsor Castle, on the 12th day of
October, 1844, upon the occasion of his visit to
Queen Victoria, which he has been pleased to present
to this City, in commemoration of that memorable
event, and which this Court recollect with feelings of
much gratification.
It was also resolved—That the Lord Mayor be
requested to communicate the resolution through the
French Ambassador to the King of the French.
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO MR. BROOKE.
Sir PETER LAURIE rose for the purpose of propos•
that the freedom of the City be presented to His Ex-
cellency James Brooke, Raja of Sarawak. He thought
the Corporation would feel it an honour to do honour
to such a man, and he felt it a greet distinction to
propose that mark of respect, while at the same time
he felt unequal to sketch the extraordinary merits of
the subject of his commendation. The Court were
too well acquainted with the points of Mr. Brooke's
life to render any detail necessary. The son of an
English gentleman, he early obtained a commission in
the East Indian army, and served with distinction in
the Burmese campaign where he was severely
wounded ; and it was after returning from that ser-
vice, and during a casual visit to China for health and
amusement, that he conceived the grand project
with regard to the Indian Archipelago, which he had
so gloriously effected. Seeking no aid from Govern-
ment, he devoted his private fortune and all his ener•
gies to national purposes, and objects of Christian
benevolence. Some nine or ten years since an English
stranger landed on the coast of Borneo from his yacht,
with a crew of twelve men and six small guns, but he
landed with the olive branch, and not with the sword,
and he had founded a little kingdom of happy, and con•
tented, and peaceful subjects, who obeyed his wise and
prudent laws, and who loved him for the purity of
his motives, and the integrity of his manly character.
That English stranger had suppressed piracy in the
pathway of our commercial marine, protected the
oppressed, emancipated the slave, and civilised the
savage, and he had associated the name of our coun-
try with justice and humanity.—(Hear, hear.) The
importancp of Mr. Brooke's services, in a commer-
cial view, was too evident to require remark, while
his zeal for the spread of our common faith was go-
verned by a discretion which promised an abundant
and glorious harvest. Could the Corporation ever
find a nobler example to reward than such a man ?
No selfish motive impelled him, no cruelty had tar-
nished his flag, no avarice had degraded his con-
quests. His ambition was to spread the blessings of
religion and civilization. His labours were for the
happiness of a portion of the great families of man-
kind. Sir Peter Laurie felt that he ought not to
detain the Court, but it was impossible to speak of
such a man without enthusiasm. Few pages of our
history would sparkle more brightly than that which
recorded the peaceful triumphs of James Brooke, the
English Raja of Sarawak, and let the city of Lon-
don hasten to enrol among her freemen one who had
given freedom to so many, who did honour to our
common nature, and to whom he said from the bottom
of his heart, what every heart present would echo
hack again, " God speed him."—(Hear.)
Sir P. LAURIE expressed an anxious wish that Mr.
Richard Taylor should second the motion.—(Hear).
Mr. TAYLOR said he considered it a very high com-
pliment to be called upon to second such a proposi-
tion. It was, he was happy to say, the distinguishing
characteristic of the Corporation of London to desire
upon all occasions to pay honour to the benefactors of
mankind, and whether they were to regard the
greatness of the undertaking of Mr. Brooke, the ex-
traordinary vigour with which it was prosecuted, or
its future consequences, they could not more honour-
ably to themselves bestow the fredom of the City upon
any individual.—(Hear, hear.) He was happy to
find that amongst the other advantages with which
the island of Borneo abounded the article of coal was
providentially discovered, so that the facilities of navi-
gation would be added to the enlightened labours of
Mr. Brooke in the progress of the nations in the arts
of civilization. The island was inhabited by two
races of people. The descendants of the aboriginal
inhabitants, and the Malays, who, before the arrival
of Mr. Brooke, held them in the bonds of slavery the
most intolerable. Mr. Brooke had interfered suc-
cessfully in abating that evil, in changing the cha-
racter of the Malays, and introducing the great
blessings of civilization and Christianity. Mr. Tay-
lor then stated that a friendly feeling existed between
Sarawak and the Dutch possessions in the island, and
anticipated the highest advantages from the spread of
education amongst the natives.
Sir J. DUKE said that in his younger days he had
been acquainted with those seas, and he had known
them to be infested by pirates. The enterprise of
Mr. Brooke had completely checked the crime of
piracy, and it was but just to make an addition to
the motion of Sir P. Laurie in allusion to that fact.
Mr. WIRE was rejoiced to find the Corporation,
who had been remarkable for complimenting warriors,
now glad to distinguish men who had engaged in the
work of civilization by the arts of peace.—(hear.)
The motion was then carried unanimously, and
amidst acclamations, in the following form :
"That the freedom of this City, in a gold box, be
presented to James Brooke, Raja of Sarawak, in tes-
timony of the admiration of this Court of the cou-
rage, zeal, ability, discretion, and disinterestedness
displayed by him during his adventurous voyage to
the island of Borneo, and his residence there, and in
the peaceful establishment by him of order and good
government at Sarawak, in that islald, thereby pro-
moting civilization and increasing the safety of the
commerce of the world."
THE POLISH EMIGRANTS.
A deputation from the Literary Association of the
Friends of Poland, composed of Lord Dudley Stuart,
M.P., Captain Townshend, R.N., W. Lloyd Birk•
heck, Esq., and Lieut. Charles Szuleziwski, secre-
tary, attended with the following petition :
" We once more approach this Honourable Court,
for the purpose of soliciting the renewal of a favour
which you have on many occasions generously
granted, and which you have never yet been known
to refuse.
" The difficulties that are at this moment expe-
rienced by almost every class of the community are
felt by none perhaps more severely than by those who
have been compelled to take refuge amongst us, de-
prived of every possession except the respect due to
their courage and unmerited misfortunes. It is for
the purpose of supplying assistance, for which exiles
cannot look from kindred or connexions, in a mode
which, we trust, will have no tendency to diminish
the funds destined for the relief of our suffering
fellow-countrymen, that we venture to make this
appeal to the benevolent and generous feelings by
which, as we well know, your councils are animated.
" We should be wanting in the duties we have un-
dertaken if we did not, on this occasion, recal to your
memory, that since we had the honour of appearing
before you the last relic of Polish nationality has
been annihiliated, through an act which, by no less
an authority than the voice of the Sovereign, has
been denounced as a manifest violation of a solemn
engagement entered into with England. The fate of
a city, once second to none in opulence and celebrity,
which, even to the last troubled days of its inde-
pendent existence, was the sanctuary of justice, of
learning, and the arts—in the midst of a land from
whence they had been banished by violence and op-
pression —cannot fail to awaken sympathy within
these walls, where the sacred cause of liberty and
national honour has ever found its most ardent, most
eloquent, and most incorruptible advocates.
" We therefore humbly request that you will be
pleased to grant the use of your Guildhall, as on
former occasions, for the purpose of giving a ball, in
lid of the funds of the Literary Association of the
Friends of Poland."
Deputy PEACOCK moved that the prayer of the
petition be complied with.
Unanimously agreed to.
Lord DUDLEY STUART, M.P., then addressed the
Court in a speech of great feeling and eloquence.
The Committee of the Poles are, it is said, deter-
mined to make the forthcoming b.. 11 surpass, if pos-
sible, any former ball which has taken place in the
.nagnificent
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CITY OF LONDON.
Deputy ALLAN brought up what was designated a

ORRIBLE DEATH OF A Bow.—Early on Friday
morning, a little boy named Woodcock, the son of
Joseph Woodcock, a collier, residing at Hart's- hill,
Worcestershire, met with a frightful accident, which re-
sulted in instant death. It appears that the unfortunate
Eubject of this lamentable accident proceeded to the col-
liery of Messrs. Izon and Co., at Hart's-hill, to take his
father's breakfast, and while he was in the act of stoop-
ing over the mouth of the pit in which his father Was
at work, to place the food in the skip, the poor little
fellow lost his balance, and was precipitated to the bottom
of the shaft, being dashed to atoms in the descent.--
Birmingham Journal.
THE HARVEST IN KENT.—So bountiful have been
the crops of wheat in the neighbourhood of Faversham
from the late harvest, that in many instances as much eS
eight quarters an" acre have been reaped ; and the re-
spected view, the Rev. Mr. Collins, in a very eloquent
discourse on Sunday last, stated, that as much as ten
quarters of wheat had been grown on a single acre of
land, and fourteen quarters of barley on a like portion.
That the above are not solitary instances may be knowni
by the fact, that from a single acre selected from a field
of wheat on the farm of Mr. Collard, at Reculver, ten
quarters and three bushels were the amazing produce,'
which was proved with great care for the purpose of
deciding a considerable wager.—Kentish Observer.
rADvERTISEMENT.]—THE EARL OF ALDBOROIroII
AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astounding cure by this miractilouS
medicine, after every other means had failed. See extract from his
Lordship's letter, dated Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1545.
Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have
effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach all the most
eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, had not
been able to effect ; nay, not ever the waters of Carlsbad or Ma-
rienbad. (Signed) " ALneoaouon." These wenderfed pills will
cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (als• Holloway's
Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Straiad, and
by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world.

AMNIA%
At Lowndes-street, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Cust, of 3
daughter.
On the 9th inst., in Upper Gower-street, the wife of C. V.• Phillips, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Elm-green, the lady of J. H. Elweg,
Esq., of a son.
On the 19th inst., at New-street, Spring-gardens, the lady
of Dr. Todd, of a son.
On the 19th inst., at Provender, the wife of Norton .1.•
Knatchbull, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Leyton, Essex, Mrs. Frederick Green,
of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., 'at Glocester-crescent, Regent's•park,
Mrs. Frederick Browne, of a son.
On the 20th inst. at Glocester-square, Hyde-park, the
wife of J. P. Kay Shuttleworth, Esq., of a son.
On the 20th inst., at Stamford-hill, the lady of Benjamin
Oldham, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., the lady of Dr. Robertson, of Mile-end,
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 20th inst., at St. John's Church, Notting-hill, by
the Rev. W. Holdsworth, Harriet Maria Cooper, to Charles
John Barker, Esq. ; and at the same time, Walter Henry
Medhurst, Esq., of Shanghae, China, to Ellen Gilbert Cooper,
daughter of J. IV. Cooper, Esq., of Notting-hill.
On the 13th inst., at Budock, in Cornwall, Robert PaPe
Wynne, Esq., to Anne Ponder, eldest daughter of James Por-
teous, Esq., all of Falmouth.
On the 12th inst., at Saltwood, Kent, Frederick Staten,
Esq., to Georgina, third daughter of the Venerable Jones
Croft, Archdeacon of Canterbury.

On the 16th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Hobson, sister of the late
Mr. Thomas Hobson, of Hackney, aged 88.
On the 18th inst., at Portsmouth the Rev. W. Bishop,M. A., aged 29. ,
On the 18th inst., at St. John's-wood, Joshua Cristali.
On the 19th inst., Maria Emma, youngest daughter of G•
Hann, Esq., of Park-row, Greenwich aged 17.
On the 19th iust., in Clarendon. place, Ilyde-park-gardenst
the infant daughter of P. Melvin, Esq.
At Boulogne-sur. Mer, Mrs. Sutherland, widow of Cora'
missioner Sutherland, R.N„ aged 84.

London
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