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they failed to prove actual guilt. In the cross-examina-
tion of the witnesses by Mr. Phillips, it appeared that this
was not the first time the plaintiff had been an inmate of
Newgate, nor was it shown upon what terms he and his
wife lived.

Mr. C. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury for the defendant,
and ci,ntended that a more trumpery case had never been
brought into a Court of Justice.

IES LOhDslilP shortly summed up, and the Jury imme-
diately found a verdict for the de'en innt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

130 TV- S TI?EE T.
John Saul, a market gardener, appeared upon a sum-
mons, obtained under the 57th Geo. 111., chap. 29, to
answer a Complaint preferred against him by Peter Skey,
the inspector of pavements for the parish of Saint Paul,
Covent-garden, fur that he did on the 20th June place or
cause to be placed a cart on the can riage way pavement
for a longer time than was necessary for loading or unload-
ing the same, to which he pleaded Not guilty.
Mr. TwfFORD inquired if the alleged (dance was com-
mitted within the precincts of the market, and by whose
authority the complainant had laid the information.
The complainant said that he was appointed by the
Committee of management belonging to the parish under
whose control the pavements are ; the cart and goods stood
at the corners of Jarncs-street and Hart-street, and although
he had affixed a printed notice upon them at five o'c:ock
in the morning, the defendant thought proper to let them
remain there until between eight and nine o'clock.
The defendant said Le was at a loss to know what the
proper hour was for clearing the streets of the different ve-
hicles that came with goods.
The complainant said that nine o'clock was the hour
ordered by the Committee. The cart in question took up
about twenty feet of the street; and when the defendant
was told of the obstruction it caused, he said that he had
paid toll, and refused to stir. although the following notice
was on the cart:—" Saint Paul, Covent Garden.—Unless
the goods, matter, or thing to which this notice is affixed
be immediately removed, I shall proceed to recover the
penalty: inflicted by the Act for the better paving, im-
proving, and regulating the streets of the metropolis, and
removing and preventing nuisances and obstructions
therein."

Benjamin Dickenson, a beadle of the par;sh, proved that
he was present when the cart was ordered away, and it
remained in the same )ilscc for a considerable time aftei-.

Mr. TvvFono could not understand how it happened
that the servants of the Duke of Bedford exacted toll from
persons who could not, from the pressure of business at
tl.is season of the year, draw their carts within the pre-
cincts of the market, and he supposed the defendant could
explain how the difference between him and the toll-col-
lector originated.
The defendant said that whenever he found the market
blocked up, he was suffered by a publican to draw up his
cart before his door, and for a considerable time past he
had been persecuted because he refused to submit to an
exorbitant demand that was made upon him by the toll-
collector, at a time when he was standing with his goods
beyond the precincts of the market.
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within the market, but he preferred stopping beyond the
bounds, to avoid paying toll.
The defendant denied that such was the case, and the
Duke of Bedford's servants caused the parish officers to
lay the complaint, because he would not allow them to
impose upon him.
Mr. TwtFonD said that the question was one of the
greatest public importance, and he could not overlook the
provisions of the Act, although the persons connected
with the market were suffered to exact a toll which could
not be recognized by law.
The defendant said, that had he consented to the de-
mand which had been made, the parish authorities would
never have preferred the complaint, and he would be suf-
fered to remain in the same place with his cart, however
great the obstruction might have been.
Mr. Twyrono thought, that as the subject was of such
importance, a beginning should be made, with a view to
sett le such disputes for the future, fur he had only to con-
sider if the Act under which the complaint had been made
had been infringed upon before he could impose a penalty
of 40s. upon the defendant; but, at the same time, he was
bound to attend to the reasons given for refusing to pay an
unjust demand, and he would suspend the judgment for a
week, for the purpose of communicatin,g with the com-
mittee of management upon the matter.

MIDDLESEX CO URT of REQUESTS.

ROBBING - PETER TO PAY PAUL.—A miserable
looking journeyman shoemaker was summoned by a
tailyman for 1/. 16s. for twelve yards of green silk,
which the latter had furnished the wife of the defendant
with for a dress. The defendant strongly protested,
that he had not only never seen the silk, but that he had
never heard of his wife entertaining such a monstrous
idea as that of wearing a green silk dress. The plain-
tiff admitted that be had never seen the husband upon
the subject, and the Jury indulged in some very strong
observations upon what they termed the enormity of a
system under which the wife of such a man as the tie
fendant could procure credit fir silk dresses at the rate
of 11. 16s. each. The defendant assured the Jury that
his wife had previously had bills at tally shops—one
for a silk, shawl, which was charged 31. 12s. for ; an-
other for a blue silk dress, which came to 21. 4s. ; and
a third for a Bros de Naples, to the amount of 1/.
18s., none of which he (the defendant) had ever
seen, but for all of which he had been obliged to
pay. lie was, he said, a hard-working man, and
could have ten years' character from the master fur
whom he was working, and he thought it a cruel
thing that tradesmen should suffer a poor woman, like
his wife, to incur a debt for an expensive article of
dress without making any inquiry of the husband. So
thought the jury, who abused every tally-shop in ex-
istence, and they were for fining a verdict for the
defendant, when the Commissioner, who observed that
be ti thought
supplied,teisb-n said ido
utght to be seen before the
goods would be well to ascer-
tain under what representations the plaintiff had sup-
plied the ware
defendant's wile with the silk.
The plaintiff was questioned, and stated that the de-
fendant's wife represented herself to be a dressmaker,
and was well recommended.
" She carn't make her own dresses," said the defendant.
Then we will have your wife here," said the Commis-
sioner.

The wife was then sent for, and appeared. liogarth
never sketched a better drunkard. ..
" It needs no conjuror," said one of the jurors, " to
tell where the green silk went to."
" Not at all," observed another juror, holding up
three fingers, to intimate his belief that the silk had
found its way to the sale keeping of one of the Lom-
bardy bankers, i. e. those good Samaritans, who gene-
rally live at the corner of a dark alley, up which the
poor may slink, without any one having cognizance of
their poverty, and borrow 58. at 2.5 per cent.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois (to the wife)—What
became of the si,k that you bed of the plaintiff?
Wite—Pawncd it.
What did )ou gel upon it ?—Six•and-twenty

licga. -
What became of the money?
The wife looked at her husband.
The Husband—Tell the truth, Mary ; it's no Ude
15 ing here as you do at home.
Wed," said niry, " if I must tell the truth, I
wanted 10s. of the money to pay Mr!. Biles."
The pu':ilican as lives at the corner of the court,"
said the husband, sorrowfully.
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—And the other 165.,
what became of that?

Wife—Seven shillings of it went to Mrs. Gaynham.
" As keeps the Horse and Groom," muttrrcd Alary's
unfortunate mate. _ .

Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—And the remaining Os?
" Oh, never mind how that went," said Mary ;
" that ain't nothing to nobody." And the wretched
woman, who had scarcely any garments upon her, inso-
lently flung herself out of Court.
'The tallytnan said he regretted having supplied
such a worthless creature with an expensive ar-
ticleof dress ; but the fact was, his collectors, how-
ever cautious, were sometimes deceived by the
ingenuity of those who wanted to " take up" a bill.
lie was sorry for the defendant, and would be satisfied
with the sum that his wife had obtained at the pawn-
broker's for the silk. The Court gave him a verdict
for that sum.

Mr. Commissioner Dußois said he thought that the
husband ought to be seen in all cases, if poseible.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE MANCHESTER
AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—An inquest was held at the
0--ckW:millisaamturlldraayelmbuorrning
Bradbury, a labourer, stated,
Infirmary, on Monday last, on the body of William Williams,
a railway contractor, who came to his death under the follow-
last, the deceased
was at Rushford, on the line of the Manchester and Birmina-
itnhgat
ham Railway, giving directions about a train of waggons laden
caibrcouurnt
nstianneel
with earth, which wets going to Stockport, when, on a sudden,
a train, consisting of an engine, tender, and four passenger-
carriages, from Stockport to Manchester, came in sight. Wit-
ness and several other men called out to him to conic off the
line ; and the engineer used the steara-whistle, and also let off
the steam, in order to stop the train ; but the deceased stood as
if he were stultified, and, the train coming tm, the near side of
the front of the engine struck him, and threw him upon the
line, and the remainder of the train went Oyer his body. The
train stopped, and the deceased was taken up and conveyed to
the Manchester station, and from thence to the infirmary,
where he died the same day. Verdict—" Accidental death."
—Manchester Guardian.
TIIE COMNIERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.-
According to Marchant's " List of the Country Banks of Brig-
and and Wales, also of the Names of all the Shareholders of
Joint-stock Banks, as registered at the Stamp-office in March,
1838," we find that the " Commercial Bank of England," be-
sides its head office at Manchester, had at that time sixteen
branches, viz. at Preston, Burnley, Birmingham, Chester,
Leek, Burslem, Liverpool, Blackburn, Ashburn, Rochdale,
Shrewsbury, Ellesmere,: Uttoxeter, Whitchurch, Newport,
and Ludlow. The bank, we learned last evening, had not then
resumed its operations. We understand that a deputation of
three of the directors were in London, engaged in endeavouring
to make some arrangements with Messrs. Barnett, Mares, and
Co. for again accepting and paying the bills and notes of the bank.
On Monday they had not succeeded in their mission, but were
I not without hopes of being successful yesterday. It is now said
that Messrs. Barnett, Ifoares, and Co. were first alarmed, and
induced to refuse the bank's paper, by the agent of the Com-
mercial Bank in London having intimated to them that he had
i heard that there had been a run on one of the branches of the
Bank. It is added, that this rumour subsequently proved in-
correct, and that Me Irs. Barnett, Hoares, and Co, have
! since expressed their regret, that, acting on information Which
they could have no reason to question, they should have thus
1 caused the suspension of the Bank. However this may be, it
' is certain that here every thing at the Bank remained, up to last
evening, in the state in which it was on the auspension of pay.
rterifS on Sattuday tucruin 11%,..../Afaxc-A4stey Guaditn,