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London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

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stairs and break his back ;he then pushed .him, net after-
wards said that he would do for him.
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The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the ClutA'rman
sentenced him to six months' imprisonment, and at thie ex-
piration of the punishment he was ordered to find of for
twelve months.

Mr. JARDINE said that he did not believe; this story. He
believed that the handkerchiefs were stolen, and that the
prisoner knew it. He would therefore send ,her to prison for
one month, for having the handkerchiefs in her possession,
reasonably suspected to be stoleQ. He thought the conduct
of the pawnbroker in the highest decree laue,able, and if all
pawnbrokers would act with the san:c propriety and dis-
cretion, he would be very well satisfied.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Two pugilists, named Smith and Smirke, were charged
with a murderous assault on police-constable Warner, 141 G.
On Monday morning the prisoners were pelting snow-balls
in Gray's Inn-road, when the constable interfered, as several
persons were struck by the snow-balls, upon which the pri-
soners fell upon and maltreated him in a frigh,tful manner,
by beating and kicking him about the head, and
bad it not
been for the timely arrival of several other consta.'iles, the
consequences would have probably been fatal. Aswas,
the the constable was in such a dangerous state from ti.. 1-
juries he received that he was unable to leave the hospittot Mr. COMBE decided upon committing them for trial, but
remanded them until the medical gentleman should be ills;
condition to pronounce Warner out of danger.

CALEDONIAN SOCIETY'S ANNUAL BALL, This
assembly took place last night, at the Queen's Concert Rooms,
Hanover-square, where a very numerous and highly re-
spectable company attended. At one time of the evening
there were upwards of six hundred persons in the rooms
The dresses were of all nations, but that of the Highlands
predominated. Those whose costumes were most admired
were Captain Charles Forbes, James Davidson, Charles
Davidson, George Bain, D. Brown, 'G. Hepburn, and
Mr. Mouatt, jun. The members of the society were all in
the garb, and with the members of the committee of manage-
ment were most attentive to the comforts of their friends
and visitors. The rooms were tastefully hung with the dif-
ferent clan tartans, shields, and spears. Mr. Leigh acted si
master of the ceremonies, and Mr. Guineas, with
hit excellent band, played the most favourite airs-
Mr. Angus Mac Kay, her Majesty's piper, attended by the
assistant band-master to the boys of the Caledonian Asylum,
played choice Strathspeys and reels, and the favourite reel
of Tulloch was smartly danced byfour gentlemen in the
Highland garb. The refreshment department was admi-
rably arranged, and everybody seemed to have enjoyed
delightful evening. The active and attentive treasurer, Mr.
Boucher, was, as usual, very efficient in tho performance of
his duties.
The Total Abstinence Society of Liverpool adopted
a new plan of obtaining an audience for their lectures on
Tuesday, having offered soup tickets to those who should
attend. By this means a goodly concourse assenibled to hear
the advantages to be derived from total abstinence; and at
the close of the speeches 433 soup tickets were distributed-
Viscount Melbourne entertained Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston and a select party to dinner on Wed-
nesday, at his Lordship's residence in South-street.
We read in a letter from Alexandria, Jan, 24 :--
" Since my last letter, announcing the appearance of the
cholera in the Hezas and its ravages, we have received other
news. On the departure from Aden of the English steamer
that town enjoyed perfect health, although i',B suburbs were
infected. From Cairo, under date of the 20th ult., we learn
that the Viceroy, in opposition to the advice of the physician
Clot-Bey, bad ordered the cordon to be closed at Suez and
Cosseir, in order to prevent the return of the great caravan
of pilgrims into Egypt, and bad sent provisions and tents
to Akaba, where the caravan was directed to stop. Similar
precautions had been taken at Cosseir and Suez for the
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pil-
grims arriving by sea. By these measures the run noped
to prevent the cholera from entering Egypt. It appears,
however, that after having made a great number of victims,
the fell disease had completely ceased. The pilgrims that
have already arrived at Alexandria say, that when,, about to
perform the usual ceremonies at the tomb of the Prophet, a
dreadful wind arose, which continued several days, and
caused many persons to die of the disease. The Pacha of
D.unascas and the Mollah of Mecca were amonmt the dead.
The authorities had ordered the public criers to recommend
the pilgrims to depart from Mecca, and they all immediately
abandoned the place. It is stated that Geda. had not been
visited by the pestilence."
NOVEL HOAX.-A curious hoax was. played off
on Mr. George Davies, of Oldbury, near Ddgnorth, last
week, by some kind neighbours spreading a report that, in
consequence of the severity of the weather, he had given
leave to the poor people of the town to gather turnips from
one of his fields near the church. The consequ Brice of this was
that a fine field of about eight acres of capital. swede turnips
was densely thronged by parties availing their (selves of the
opportunity, and it was not till full two acres had been
cleared of the crop that the owner was apprised of what WAS
going on. Great was his astonishment, and as great his vexa-
tion, particularly so as many parties who !nad benefited
thereby informed him that a Mr. Fletcher, a baker, of the
New Town, had told them of the matter. Upe n that person
being applied to he said he had heard the:report, the same as
others had, and had only mentioned it again.. Mr. Davies
caused two women to be apprehended, and tn:ken before the
magistrates, at their meeting on Saturday, •o hen the cue
was heard; and as the proceeding bore no feionious intent,
the parties, Sarah Adams and Jane Hurst, were severally
fined in the sum of 6d. each, and discharged, ;with a caution
in future always to ask leave of the owner previous to again
going out on such a Quixotic expedition.----Worcestershire
Chronicle.

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN TURRET.—The
cor-
respondent of a French paper writes from Constantinople on
the 20th ult. :—The Sultan yesterday presided at a sitting
of the Supreme Council of Justice, all the Ministers and
high functionaries being present. The Sultan himself pro-
Eosed a measure which will produce a gre at sensation in
urope, namely to issue an ordonnance for the suppression
of the slave market. This is not indeed a suppression of
slavery altogether, but it is a first step tolvards it. The
Koran, it is true, admits of slavery, but it is only in to-
lerance, for it at the same time recommends the enfran-
chisetnent of slaves as a meritorious action and the rich
Mussulmans, at their great family festivals, or before set-
ting out on a long journey, and, indeed, at any important
event of their lives, believe they cannot do anythimg more
agreeable to God than to give a slave his freedom. .The ob-
stacles to general emancipation arise rather from the customs
and manners of the Turks than from religious prejudices;
and from the mement the Sultan sets the example it will
meet with ready imitation. The Bey of Tunis has already
abolished slavery in his Regency, and Ibrahim Paella, on his
return from Europe, gave freedom to all his slaves, without
either of these acts producing the least mark of disapproba-
tion in the .'i ussulman states. All the world knows that in
these states the slaves ;orm a part of the family to Which
they belong, and that many reach important stations.
Two of the present Ministers of the Sultan, Kosrew Pacha
and Hafiz Pacha, are freed slaves, so were the late Governor
of Trebisond, son-in-law of Sultan Mahmoud, Halil Patella,
Mehemet Reschid Pacha, Commander-in-Chief of the ram,
of Arabia , and many others. The mother of the Sultan And
all his' wives were Circassian or Georgian slaves who have
been enfranchised. The whole questions turns on this paha,
that no man can hold a right over the freedom of a fellow-
creature."

DEATH IN TUE STREET.—Yesterday, Mr. G. 1.
Mills held an inquest at the Churchill Arms, Kensington, c n
the body of Elizabeth Jeffreys, aged fifty• two years, who
was found on Sunday night, opposite the residence of tlass
Princess Sophia, apparently in a dying state. It ap—
peared that the deceased was a widow, carrying on the bust.
ness of a laundress, at No. 13, Camden-street, Kensington
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recovered. On Sunday last she left home at eleven o'clock
in the forenoon, to go and see her married daughter at WOW-.
with. She left there late in the evening, and came from
town in an omnibus to Kensington Church, and was seen
about twenty minutes to twelve o'clock at night sitting in
Church-lane, opposite the Princess Sophia's residence, on
the kerb-stony. She appeared very ill, and complained of
pain in her chest. She was promptly conveyed home by the
police, and Mr. Cobb, surgeon, was sent for, but deceased had
expired. Mr. Cobb gave it as his opinion that death had
been caused by the rupture of a vessel on the lungs, from
natural causes. The jury returned a verdict to that effect.

On the 31st of Dece 81R2718.
mber, at Demerara, Mrs. Ross, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Stoke Newington, Mrs. William Ogilvie, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Rolf's Muhl, Great Marlow, Bucks, the wife
of William Penn Gaskell, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., the wife of the Rev. J. A. Ross, Vicar of West-
well, Kent, of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde-part, the wife of J.
Bullan, Esq., of a daughter.
On the Bth inst., at Portland-place, Mrs. Lees, of a son, still-born•

MAK.fUED.
On the 10th Inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Benjamin
Young, Esq., of Hertford, to Mary, eldest daughter of Fredirkz
Gilbertson, Esq., of Egliam, Surrey.

DIED.

On the. 4th of December, 1846, at Churra Pconjee, in the East
Indies, Lieutenant William Charles James Lewin, of the Bengal
Artillery, aged 41.

On the 27th ult., Miss Charlotte Goodson, of Peak-hill, Sydenham.
Surrey, _

On the 6th inst., at Farm-hill, near Stroud, R. Cooke, Esq., aged Bo.
On the 6th inst., at Blackheath, Maria, the wife of Rowland
Money, Captain it.N„

On the 7th lust., at The Ifythe, near Tewkeabury, Mra. Elizabeth
I)Illon, aged 94.

On the 7th inEL, at Hallgate, Doleaster, Fanny, the wife of Dr•
Fenton.

t .n the 7th inst., at Manor-place, walworth, Miss Ann Townsend.
On the 7th inst., at Dorking, Susanna, relict of J. Newman, Esq•
On the Bth inet., at Weybridge, Surrey, J. Feetharn, Esq.,
aged 80.
On the Bth inst., at Camberwell-grove. Alias Catherine Birch.
On the Bth inst., at Victoria Cottage, New-cross, Esther, the wife
of Mr. James Matthews, aged 48.
On the Bth inst., at Reading, Mrs. Eleanor Dodson.
On the Bth Init., in Cecil.atreet, Strand, Jane, widow of the late
sir. George Karnes, aged 84.
On the Bth Mst,, iti Soho-square, Mr. Georga Walker, 4it;e'l

lc,: 'it, Publls; . by ',-TZ LK) YOUNQ, 9,f No. 112.
Strand, Printer, at The Sun eftlew, No. I 12, Strand ;in the Precinct
of the Savor. in the County of Bliddloeex, Friday, Fe.
willaZ7 120847.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS . DAY.)
Ehen Donoghue was placed at the bar befo to Mr. Jardine,
upon a charge of offering in pledge to a pawnb sok er one linen
and two cambric pocket handkerchiefs, map ected to be
stolen.
MAL% John Avant, foreman to Mrs. ffewby, pu wnbroker, of
Drury-lane, said that on Tuesday, .the 2d inst., the prisoner
offered the three pocket handkercLiefs vrodue zed in pawn.
She said they were her own property. He aatt ed her it they
were linen, and she said yes, they were lawn. As this was
not the case—two being cambric and onl'v on lawn—he im-
mediately suspected that they were not her own, and told
her so. She said they were her owl t, and had been
her mother's. He told her they could not be
her mother's, as they were not In tarked -with her
initial, and she said it was her mother's b, :fore she ,vas mar-
ried. He asked what her mother's maid len name way, and
she said Burke. The handkerchiefs were marked "Aland
as it was clear that she did not know them, he refused to re.-
turn them, but kept them in the shop. In.. the evening she
returned with a young woman (now in coo rt), whom he had
known as a customer, named Dempsey, who'told him thatthe
handkerchiefs were her property, had been given to
her by her sister's sweetheart," and were marked
with the initials, "S. G." This being ale) false, he told
her they could not be her handkerchief,, and 'again refused to
give them up. The prisoner and Dempsey 'relit away, and
he saw no more of either of them till this morning, when
they came together to pawn a gown. He then said they
must go down to the station-house to expla in the matter,
and calling a policeman gave the prisoner in 'charge.
Mary Ann Dempsey, who was evideni-ly a reluctant wit-
ness, said that on Tuesday evening the pr.lsont.r told her she
had found three pocket-handkerchiefs in t he street, and had
taken them to Mrs. Newby's to pawn, awl that the foreman
had refused to give them up. She asked witness to go with
her and claim them, which she agreed to d. ).
Mr. JARDINE said that the witness had I tad a very narrow
escape from being sent to prison.
The prisoner in defence said that she h. ad picked up the
handkerchiefs in the street.