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to attach several linen sheets together, and just
as the cloudy scourge was entering their good
town they placed the sheets before it, and laid hold of
it, and instantly tied the corners together, which they
tightly kept until another party dug a large hole in the
consecrated ground which surrounds the Cathedral,
where they succeeded in burying the pestilence, to the
no small joy of the kingdom. After covering it with
plenty of earth, a stone flag was placed over it, which is
to this day seen and known by the people of the district
at the spot where the great plague lies, that had been
captured by their forefathers, by whom it is firmly
maintained if the ground were once disturbed the pesti-
lence would again take wing, and commit as much
havoc as ever throughout the land. However, the good
citizens of Fortrose know otherwise, than middling with
an affair which might prove so fatal to themselves and
their neighbours.— Correspondent Ross-shire Advertiser.

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—There has beeritm change
in the market since Friday; and, owing to the season,
very little business has been done. There continues
to be some demand for the Levant, and the lighter de-
scriptions of domestics and long cloths have not only
been easy of sale, but some rather considerable orders
have been taken for future delivery. In most other
descriptions of cloth, and in yarn generally, the
dulness of the market has its customary effect upon
prices ;
some few cases. Still, production continues to ex-
tend ; and we hear every day of the resumptiDn of
work by concerns which have been standing for
months past.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market has been
much like that of last Monday. There has been a
rather thin attendance of buyers, and a limited quan-
tity of business done, at low prices. There is little
or no change to report in the wool market; prices
are steady, and the purchases made are for immediate
use.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There was a better at-
tendance of merchants in the Piece Hall to-day than
there was this day week ; but we do not learn that
many more goods change hands. The yarn trade
continues in pretty much the same state as noted in
our last report; and we have no alteration to quote
either with respect to long or short wool.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—There has been again
an improvement in our market to-day, especially in
the better sort of vestings; and some of the mer-
chants connected with the home trade have purchased
larger parcels of woollens than for some weeks past.
LEEns, TUESDAY.—There was a slight improve-
ment perceptible today in our market; so very
slight, however, that it would have escaped notice in
ordinary times. But when the current of business
runs so very still as hitherto, the least disturbance of
the surface becomes matter of observation. The
elements for a near approach of brisker times are at
work, and the symptoms keep strengthening every
week.—Manchester Guardian.

ALARMING FIRE IN GREENOCK.
GREENOCK, DEC. 6, QUARTER TO TEN P.sl.—There
is now raging the most extensive and perhaps disastrous
fire that was ever witnessed in Greenock. Three large
ropeworks, extending the whole length of Lyne-
dech-street, have been, in little more than an hour,
almost entirely consumed. The fire began in Messrs.
A. Tough and Son's ropen•ork, at the north-
eastern end ; and, as there was a strong north-
easterly breeze blowing, the flames shot along like
wildfire, and spread to the other ropeworks adjoining—
Messrs. Quintin Leitch and Co., and William Connell,
jun., and Co. There could be no effectual resistance
offered by the fire-engines, as not only the materials
composing these erections, but the goods contained in
them—tar and hemp—are of the most inflammable na-
ture. The engines are playing with great force upon
the large flax mill of the Gourock Ropework Company,
and we are informed it is in a state of conflagration, with
little hope of saving it..—/Vorth British Mail.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 8.
RODGERS V. GAYSBROOK AND ANOTHER.
This was an action of trespass, to recover compensation
for the loss the plaintiff had sustained through being
kept out of possession of property of which he was the
mortgagee. The defendants, who were the assignees of
a bankrupt tamed Ruben Hunt, a paper maker, had taken
possession of certain premises in Berner-street, Mile-
end-road, where the bankrupt formerly carried
on his business, and sold a quantity of machinery they
found upon the building, which had previously been
mortgaged to the plaintiff ; and the present action was
instituted to recover compensation, not so much for the
loss of the machinery as for the injury the plaintiff had
suffered through being deprived of possession of the pre-
mites, of which he was also the mortgagee, from the
month of December, 1840, to September, 1841.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mageo, 5001.

JOHNSON WYLD.
Mr. Whateley and Mr. Ogle were counsel for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Crowder and Mr. W. Ball for the de-
fendant.
I The plaintiff was a printer, carrying on an extensive
• business in St. Martin's-lane, and had established the
Nassau Steam-press. The defendant was the eminent
mapseller at Charing. cross, and Member for Bodmin,
and the action was brought to recover a sum of between
t 4001. and boa for the use and occupation of some pre-
mises in St. Martin's-lane, and for the use of certain
steam-power to drive a lithographic press. The de-
fendant pleaded a set-off, and the amount in dispute was
very much reduced. It appeared that in the autumn of
1645 the defendant had an immense demand for litho-
graphic plans for railways, and arranged to take some
premises of the plaintiff in St. Martin's-lane, in which
he put up a French machine, which was to be driven by
steam supplied by an engine belonging to the plaintiff.
,;;The witness relied on by the plaintiff was a Mr. Bush
a builder, who stated that in the autumn of 1845, in con-
sequence of a conversation he had with the plaintiff, he
saw Mr. Wyld relative to the premises he was then tem-
porarily occupying belonging to Mr. Johnson. He tolel
the defendant he had been sent by Mr. Johnson
for the purpose of treating for the hiring of
the premises in question. Mr. Wyld said he was
anxious to take them for a term, so that he could bring
the whole of his printing presses from Southwark. They
had several meetings on the subject, and Bush agreed
with the defendant to let him the premises for 1751. per
annum for three years, to commence from Christmas
1845. They then went into the plaintiff's counting-
' house, and, at the request of both the plaintiff and the
defendant, the witness reduced the terms into a written
agreement. A second agreement was also entered into
between the plaintiff and defendant, that the latter
should allow the plaintiff 1501. a year for steam-power
for his printing machine. They were read over in the
presence of the defendant, who did not object to them,
but said he would take one of each home with him, to
look over. They were not signed. The parties were on
most intimate terms.—(The defendant's counsel objected
to the papers being read, and the Learned Judge ruled,
that by law they could not, be read; but he permitted.
the witness to read them to the jury as an account of
what had taken place between the parties.)—The de-
fendant brought his printing machine to the premises
which he occupied till Christmas, 1846, and then ten-
dered the keys to the plaintiff'. The witness did not
think at the time that the rents were at all too much;
such property at that time, under all the circumstances,
was exceedingly desirable. The witness could not tell
why the papers were not signed, hut the defendant said
he would take them home and look them over.

For the defendant, it was contended that he was per-
fectly willing to pay what was right, but that the sum
claimed was much too large, and he had not been fur-
nished with sufficient steam power to drive his printing
machine ; and witnesses were called, who stated that they
did not consider the premises worth so much money ;
and others said that the machine was frequently at a
stand still for want of steam power. One witness, how-
ever, went so far as to say, that the machine was so
stopped every five minutes.
Mr. Justice ERLE, in summing up, left it for the
jury to say how much they would allow the plaintiff
for the rent from September, 1845, to Christmas,
1845 ; how much from Chri6tmab, 11145, to Christmas,
1846 ; and how much for the steam power for the year.
The jury said 40/. for the rent from Michaelmas to
Christmas, 175/. for the rent for the year, 150/. for the
steam, which, with 55/. admitted to be due upon other
items, amounted to 4201. ; there was from that to be
deducted 239/. admitted to be due from the plaintiff to
the defendant ; so that the verdict was for the plaintiff
for 181/.
Plaintiff's attorney, Mr. Harbin ; defendant's attor-
ney, Mr. Sergeant.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Prudence, alias Rust, alias Zillcr, was brought
up for final examination, upon charges of fraud com-
mitted through the medium of advertisements.
Upon the first examination of the prisoner he was
charged by a Mr. Boutherway with having obtained
money upon the promise of supplying that complainant
with a situation in the house of Rust and Co., of Beer-
lane, all the members of which firm he contrived to
represent himself'.
A groat number of letters from victims have been
received by the Lord Mayor, in consequence of the pub-
lication of the particulars of the first examination,
complaining of similar robberies perpetrated by the
prisoner upon them. In some of the instances the
persons who were plundered had made great sacrifices
to procure the price of the situations to which they were
led to consider themselves permanently appointed.
When the prisoner was placed at the bar several indi-
viduals crowded towards the witness-box. After the
witnesses in the case of Mr. Boutherway were bound
over to appear at the Central Criminal Court, the fol-
lowing was selected from a considerable number of
transactions, as calculated to show in a prominent
manner the genius of the system:—
William Charles Lucy, of No. 121, Wardour-street,
Oxford-street, said, in March last I advertised for a
situation, offering a douceur of 301. for one. I received
an answer to that advertisement, in consequence of
which I went to Cannon- street, and saw the defendant.
He told me he would give me a situation as town tra-
veller and collector to a firm in Bush-lane, the name of
which be did not mention at the time, but he said he was
related to that firm. I left him to consider the subject.
I had some further correspondence with him, and the
affair was dropped until I received another letter from
him, in the following terms:—
" Sir,—l will endeavour to be at your friend's house,
4, Chapel-street, on Saturday at three. I have some-
thing to state.—Yours,
" J. P., at Messrs. Zeiller and Co.'s 8, Bush-lane.
" To Mr. Lucy." " •

DECEMBER 9, 1847.

I saw him upon the subject of his letter, and the result
of the interview was that he said he was going into
business for himself, and that he would engage me as
town traveller, as Mr. Zeiller had offered him two or
three agencies. I agreed to go into his employment upon
that statement. I believed that there was at that time a
distinct firm of Zeiller and Co., and I believed that he
was engaged to that firm as traveller, and that he was
then to have their agencies. He told me that he must
look out for a counting-house, and in the month of April
I agreed to go into his employment, at 20, Beer-lane,
where I saw the prisoner, who acted as master of the
place, Before I went into his employment I was to
deposit 30/. in his hands, as security for moneys I
should receive as collector on his account, and I paid
him that sum by instalments, as follows:—On the 12th
of April, 31. ; 14th April, 6/. ; 13th May, 6/. ; 21st
May, 151. He had agreed to deposit with me thirty-
four parcels of Fitch, as a security for the repayment
of the thirty pounds ; but I had previously paid him
the money. I got some orders, but I could not find out
that they were ever executed. I believe a few of
them were. I never got back my money, and Ido not
know whether anything was ever got for the pitch. I
have reason to suppose, however, that it did not produce
enough to pay the expenses of room, &c. I was in his
employment about three months, and the. name of Rust
and Co. was written over the door of the counting house.
The LORD MAYOR—HOW much of your salary did you
get ? Witness—l was paid only a week's salary, and a
pound off the following week. That was all I ever re-
received.
The LORD MAYOR—What business did you transact ?
Witness—Business 1 Hardly any.
The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to ask this
witness any questions ? The prisoner—No ; I hare no-
thing to say to Mr. Lucy. There's nothing in his state-
ment likely to hurt me. The pitch I gave to him as
security was more valuable than he thinks. He is rather
too fast.
Mrs. Elizabeth Russell said, my husband lives at the
house 10, Bush-lane, which is let out in offices. I know
the prisoner by the name of Ziller, which appears upon
the door of the offices, and also outside as Ziller and Co.
I never knew any person as Mr. Zeiller but the pri-
soner. I used to open the outer door, and I have re-
ceived letters directed to Mr. Ziller, and to Mr. Pru-
dence, and I gave all such letters to the prisoner, or his
wife.

The prisoner—You don't say that you didn't see any-
body in the office but myself ? Witness--I never saw
anybody but you or your wife there. Persons some-
times called with parcels and boxes of goods, but I don't
know what business was carried on.
The prisoner—Did you not know me as Mr. Pru-
dence ? Witness—Certainly not.
Prisoner—And did you not see any other gentleman
but myself ?—(Laughter.) Witness—l never saw any
other gentleman who had anything to do with the count-
ing-house business.
The prisoner—Did you not call me Mr. Prudence
when you addressed me ? Witness—Never. I know
you only as Mr. Zeiller, and called you by no other
name.
The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to make
any defence ?
Prisoner.—There's no use in saying anything here;
you are too fast. lam not afrad of the result.
The LORD Mavou—You are committed for trial, how-
ever, upon the two cases.
The prisoner was then committed to Newgate, but he
departed apparently confident that neither case would
stand long before a jury.
Three Irish women, two of whom were from the county
of Cork, and the third from the county of Kerry, were
charged before the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Lloyd, one of the relieving officers of the City of
of London Union, said the three women called at the
union and demanded from him an asylum for the winter.
He offered them tickets for the Peckham house of refuge
but they indignantly refused any such paltry accommo
dation, and covered him with abuse and maledictions.
As they refused either to accept the tickets or to return
to their native country, or to try any other expedient
for their present relief, he had no alternative but to ap-
peal to the chief magistrate for protection.
The LORD ALA-on—You are constantly coming here
with complaints against the poor. There must be some-
thing seriously defective in your system. Did you give
these people anything to eat? Mr. Lloyd—No, my
my Lord. lam but a servant of the guardians, and I
am not at liberty to give any relief. It is my duty to
give poor applicants pass-tickets to Peckham, where they
are relieved.
The LORD MAYOR—So you send a poor, fatigued
creature who applies to you in an exhausted condition,
to a distance of four miles, before any relief is admi
nistered!
The women said they had not only to walk all that
way, but the accommodation lasted only for one night.
It would be something worth talking about if they could
stay there till after Christmas, when they would have a
a chance of work.
Mr. Lloyd said he had offered to pass the women home
to Ireland, but they resolutely refused to go.
The women declared that they had no friend or ac-
quaintance i❑ Ireland. They had been five or six years
in this country, and they knew they could not be bene-
fited by leaving it.
Mr. Lloyd said he had no doubt the defendants came
from Marylelysne, where the magistrates had expressed
their determination to send all Irish paupers who sought
to burden the parish home to Ireland.
The Loam MAYOR said the operation of the Poor-
law was evidently bad. He utterly disapproved of the
Cannon-street system of sending hungry people away
without relief to encounter additional hardships and
fatigue before they got a morsel of bread.
Mr. Lloyd said he should intimate to the guardians
his Lordship's opinion of the necessity of administering
immediate relief to necessitous applicants, and inform
his Lordship of tho result.
The LORD MAYOR—With respect to these women,
who will neither accept immediate relief nor go home, I
will give them another trial. They are now dismissed,
but if they are brought before me again, I shall send
them off to Ireland, and I assure all Irish paupers that
the magistrates of the city of London are determined to
aet upon that principle.
BOW-STREET.
The notorious Joseph Ady appeared before Mr. Henry,
having been summoned by the Post-office authorities for
the payment of 11. Its. Bd., the amount due for postage
on 208 letters, which purported to have been written by
the defendant, and had been returned to the Dead-letter
office.

Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, attended to
prefer the complaint.
Ady began by protesting against the inquiry going
on. He objected to the jurisdiction of the Court in the
first place, and, secondly, he objected to the conduct of
the Post-office authorities in having broken open letters
and exposed correspondence which they were bound to
keep sacred and inviolate.
Mr. HENRY said there was nothing in either objection,
and the case might proceed.
Mr. Peacock then explained the nature of the charge,
and quoted several clauses of the Postage Act (10 and
11 Victoria, c. 85), to show that, in the event of parties
refusing to take in unpaid letters, the Post-office had
authority to open them, and, on ascertaining the writers
of such letters, to proceed against them for the payment
of the amount with cost. He then submitted the fol-
lowing evidence:—
Mr. Walter Scrivener, 14, Bury-street, a clerk in the
Dead-letter office, produced 208 letters, all of which
purported to have come from Ady. They were all
posted as unpaid and unstamped letters, and the amount
of postage due upon them is IL 14s. Bd. Of these letters
180 bear the post-mark which shows that they have
been rejected by the parties to which they are ad-
dressed. There are 25 which bear the stamp indicating
that the parties addressed cannot be found; and the re-
maining three bear the stamp denoting that the parties
to whom they are addressed are dead.
Ady (taking up a letter)—How do you know that this
letter comes from me?
Mr. HENRY said the clauses in the Act referred to by
Mr. Peacock rendered such evidence unnecessary.
Ady—l am ready to affirm that I never posted the
letter produced.
Nlr. HENRY-But your simple affirmation is insuf-
ficient. You must prove it by the evidence of a witness.
Ady—l cannot do that just now. But I will look at
the rest of them. (The defendant then looked through
all the letters, and counted them over.) There are 36
out of them that I will not say anything about; but I
I did not send any of the other letters. lam not pre-
pared to prove it, because it came upon me unex-
pectedly. I did not think this Court had jurisdiction,
and I therefore request time to get evidence.
Mr. Peacock submitted that he had given the requi-
site prime facie evidence as to the authenticity of the
letters; but he did not wish to press the case to a deci-
sion at once.
Mr. HENRY said, as the summons did not apprise the
defendant of the particular letters which were the sub
ject of the investigation, and as he, probably, had no
means of learning what they were, he had no objection
to grant reasonable time to the defendant to prepare his
defence.
Ady—l say nothing about the 36 letters. They are
directed in my own handwriting. I beg pardon. I wish
to recall that observation. Mr. Peacock, will you allow
me to recall that observation?
Mr. Peacock—Oh, certainly, if you wish it.
Ady—l thank you. Well, I have a good way to send
for my witnesses, as they are in different parts of the
country.
Mr. HENRY—What time shall you require?
Ady—About a month or so.
Mr. HENRY-I cannot give you so much time as that.
I think a week is ample time. You can get witnesses
from all parts of the country in that time now.
Ady—Oh, that won't do. You may not know it, Sir ;
but lam a very poor man. Mr. Peacock can get wit-
nesses in a week, I have no doubt, by putting his hands
in the Post-office pocket.
Mr. HENRY - I cannot allow such a remark to be
made here. I will give you a fortnight, but no longer.
Mr. Peacock said the defendant, meanwhile, should
have access to the letters at the Dead-letter office,
where he might also see several hundreds more at the
same time. _
Ady—Very well ; I suppose I can send some one to
take copies of them. Or, if I send the amount of postage
claimed, that will do, I suppose.
Mr. Peacock said there was no penalty. The amount,
with 2s. costs, would be 11. 16s. Bd.
Ady then bowed his head to the Court and withdrew,
haying been previously reminded by the Bench theadid
ta
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distress-warrant would be issued for the amount
not appear on the day fixed, or send the money claimed
in the meantime.
MARYLEBONE.
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