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London, England, 1833-10-05 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. I'ackham and G. Taylor, truss-manufacturers, Maidstone,,
Kent—R. Snell and H. Atkinson, accountants—H. and W. E.
Davis, attorneys, Bristol—J. Grafton and I'. Batt, gas-light
contractors—T. Pryke and J. Parsons, grocers, Marsham-
street,Westminster—A. Brown and T. Anyon, coal-merchants
—W. H. Potter and J. Wright, chymists, Old Compton-street,
Soho—A. Wyke and E. Jones, apothecaries, Shrewsbury—W.
Scott and F. Salt, dyers, Leeds—T. Hodgins and I'. Bassford,
stationers, Bilston, Staffordshire—J. Sanders and W. Davies,
grocers, Maidstone, Kent—A. B. Wimpenny, W. Swindells,
and J. Gee, cotton-spinners, Dukinfield, Cheshire—J. Bebb, D.
Morgan, and D. Jones, maltsters, Welchpool, Montgomery-
shire—F. Holdsworth, C. Turner, and J. Fletcher, jun., com-
mission-merchants, Liverpool—J. Wood, J. Milner, and L.
Noble, fancy waistcoat-manufacturers, Dalton, Yorkshire—
J. Hadfield, and T. Hargreaves, engravers to calico-printer 5,
Manchester—E. and T. Manley, machine-makers, Atherton,
Lancashire—J. Forrest and I'. Robinson; maltsters,Warrington,
Lancashire.:

WARSAW, SEPT. 24.--ttis Majesty the Empe-
ror, on his return from Bohemia, arrived the day
before yesterday in good health at Modlin, in the
neighbourhood of which place the Russian troops
from the different parts of the kingdom had assem-
bled for a review. The Field Marshal Prince
Paskewitsch bad gone to Kalisch some days before
to meet his Majesty. The day before yesterday
the members of the Council of State and Admi-
nistration, who are at Warsaw, went to 11odlin to
pay their respects to his Majesty.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, SErr. 28.
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent....... 9634 96
Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent 10314
Ditto. 159.2. 5 per cent.... 103%
Dittos Bonds lB3O, 4 per cent.... 92 9154
Excha*ge on London, three months 6 25%
Prussiatatate Gazette, Sept. D.
HANOVER, SEPT. 25.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge is expected at the beginning of
next month from Berlin, and the Duchess from Ito-
lenkirchen. There is every reason to suppose that
the Convention with Brunswick, respecting a tariff
of customs, will shortly be concluded; but it does
not appear what we may expect from the negotia-
tion with Oldenburg for the same purpose.
Hariornit, SEPT. 28.--The Hanoverian Gazette
has a long article to refute ihe unfounded assertion
repeated in South German papers, that the Consti-
tution had been received from London with the
royal sanction, and that some of the members of the
Cabinet Ministry were surprised at its being so un-
conditionally sanctioned, and hesitated to publish it.
It concludes, however, by saying, " that it is fully
convinced that the time is near when idle reports
will be silenced, and the faithful country will receive
from the hands of its royal masters, in whom it
honours the most powerful, as well as the most libe-
ral powers of the earth, the maturely considered
document to the consolidation, explanation, and com-
pletion of its ancient liberties."
The Duke of Oldenburg has arrived here to-day,
but will leave us for Oldenburg to-morrow. _

CIIRISTIANIA, SEPT. 24.—0 n the 21st the dis-
agreeable intelligence was received here, that four
sailors on board three ships lying at Tangiers, near
Drammen, had been seized with a malignant dis-
order, which the physicians declared to be the
Asiatic cholera. One of the patients is since dead.
But as no new cases bad been since announced, and
there have not yet been any on shore, and as every
precaution has been adopted, it is hoped that the
disorder will not spread.
BORSEN HALLE, OCT. I.—Our Stock transactions
are limited, Ru.sian IHscriptions in Certificates are
demanded a, 9
Discount 3 4 per Cent. End of September.
Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 7O
Anglo-Russian 994
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1821 91%
Ditto, ditto, 1831 904
Ditto, ditto, 1932. 904
Polish Bonds llB 4
Prussian Bonds, 1832
Austrian Bank Shares 1206

Ditto Metalliques 938
Ditto 4 per Cent.....
Spanish 3 per Cents.
Ditto 4 per Cent 49h,
Dutch •1y,2 per Cents.
—...

Ditto 5 ire(Cents. 91%
—Hamburg Reporter.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

CHARGE AGAINST A MAN FOR SELLING HIS OWN
BOOKS.--Alexander Whellin, a gentleman who
writes under the signature of " John Gifford, Esq.,"
was brought before the LORD MAYOR, having been
given into the custody of an officer for selling his
own works by a hawker.
Mr. Hobler, jun., appeared for the defendant, and
stated that the case was uncommon in its circum-
stances. Mr. Gifford was a man well known for
many years by the profession and the public, as the
compiler and publisher of a work called "Every Mai,
his own Lawyer;" and since the recent Act of Par-
liament had passed, dissolving the monopoly of the
King's printer, he had published the various Acts
himself, in parts during the Session of Parliament,
and in volumes in the recess. Some parts of the
compilation he had sold to a bookseller; and while
in that bookseller's shop disposing of the remaining
portion of the work, in walked an officer and appre-
hended him at the instance of a rival in trade, who
had been once his agent.
James Yates, of Durham-street, Hackney-road,
who stated that he was a regular hawker of books,
said that he had taken up the defendant, whom he
knew as Alexander Whellin, for hawking without
a license. Witness had seen the defendant regu-
larly offer some of his publications for sale.
The LORD MAYOR—If a man sells his own work,
do you call that hawking ? Witness—Yes, my
Lord ; I go upon the 50th of George 111. cap. 41,
and I contend that he has no right to hawk any
book, whether his own or any other person's with-
out a regular license, such as I possess.
The defendant--I have done so for a considera-
ble period, my Lord, and certainly am of opinion
that en author is justified in disposing of his own
works without being fettered by the regulations
which effect other men.

The LORD MAYOR.—Why do you take the
name of John Gifford, Esq.? Is it because we
have had a legal authoriry of that name ? The
defendant—lt is usual to adopt a name in writing
or compiling books, and of course those are some-
tunes chosen which are likely to benefit a work.

Mr. Hobleit—This is an arbitrary course
adopted by the rival of Mr. Gifford, from a jealousy
of the reputation of the work compiled by that
gentleman. It is a most extraordinary thing that
a gentleman should be pursued and apprehended
tinder such circumstances.

The LORD MAYOR desired the complainant, who
declared that he suffered injury in his business from
the exertions of the defendant, who worked without
a license, to obtain the testimony of the people of
the Stamp-office in proof of the violation of the law,
and postponed the case for some days.
Yesterday, when Mr. Whellin appeared a second
time, the complainant stood forward to repeat his
charge.

The
LORD MAYOR—Have you got your witnesses
from the Stemp•office ? Complainant—No, my
Lord ; I have not had time.
Mr. Hobler, jun.—He has had four days to do
the business, and has done nothing ; so that it is
evident the prosecution is a malicious one. The
solicitors for the Stamp office don't wish to attend
in such a case.
The LORD MAYOR—I believe it is a malicious
prosecution, and I shall dismiss the case altogether.
CURIOUS CASE.—Three Jews, named Levi, but
not related to each other, were put to the bar a few
days ago, under the following circumstances :—Au
Irish shoemaker, named Davis, stated that, as he was,
the preceding night, walking along Petticoat-lane,
rather fresh as to liquor, he was surrounded by some
persons, and his watch was snatched out of his
pocket.
The watch, it was afterwards ascertained, was
bought of one of the prisoners by another of them,
and pawned for that other by the third; and the
pawnbroker having identified the pawner, the three
were taken in►o custody.
The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant whether
he had an adequate recollection of what had taken
place ? He replied that he was about half tipsy at
the time the robbery was committed, but he knew
what he was about. He was by no means drunk.
He could not identify any one of the prisoners.
Upon the second examination, the LORD MAYOR
asked the complainant whether he had learned any-

The LORD MAYOR—You think this will put an
end to the prosecution, but you are mistaken. The
case shall go before a jury. Complainant—l'll sacri-
fice the whole sooner than prosecute innocent men.

The LORD MAYOR—Your watch was found in
the possession of one of them. You are as bad as
they, and I shall certainly commit them.
Mr. Isaacs, who appeared for one of the pri-
soners, stated that his client had got the watch
honestly in bis possession; and Mr. Hobler, jun.,
who attended for a second, submitted that there
was not a tittle against him.
'The LORD MAYOR—This man has sworn that
he was robbed of his watch, and the watch is re-
gularly traced to these three • Men, through the
hands of each of whom it has gone; and now the
complainant denies that he was robbed, and rays the
men are all honest. What has worked this change?
Complainant—l do it out of compassion, for lam
told they are honest.
The LORD MAYOR—What ! you'll swear that
yots were not robbed, because you have been told
they are honest ! Aye, you'll get more by that
than by a prosecution. You know that well.
Complainant—l.don't want anything, and I cannot
think of prosecuting.
The LORD MAYOR—Now, here will be demon-
strated the mischief of Grand Juries. This fellow
will be called before the Grand Jury, and he will
give such evidence as, not being compared with
his former testimony, will have the effect of throw-
ing out the bill.
Mr. Isaacs and Mr. Hobler, jun., declared that
there appeared to be nothing against their clients.
The LORD MAYOR—I shad not let this drop.
This is a new mode of defence—making a prose-
cutor plumply deny one day what he has said upon
another.

The prisoners were then remanded.
A man in the dress of a sailor was charged with
a robbery, under the following circumstances:—
Mrs. Coleman, the proprietor of a public-house,
stated, that the prisoner called at the bar of her
house, and asked for a glass of beer : he had in his
hand a bundle, which was so far exposed that
it could be seen that a pair of trousers were
the contents; he pulled out a bank-note, or what
appeared to be one, and wrote something upon
it, after which he asked whether he could be ac-
commodated with a bed ? The landlady concluding,
from the exhibition he had made, that he was an
unexceptionable guest, consented to let him sleep in
the house, and he paid his score and retired to his
chamber. In the morning he came down with his
bundle, and began to brush his clothes, but the
chambermaid was soon at his heels, and told her
mistress that she missed a sheet off the prisoner's
bed. He then said he had slept uncomfortably as
he lay in one sheet, but his bundle was opened, and
instead of the trousers, the sheet was there. It was
also found, that the note he flashed in the house
night before, was a wager note for 20,000/., that
one man was able to make better brandy than an-
other.

The LORD MAYOR said, the deception had been
carried ott with a great deal of contrivance and
ingenuity, and fully committed the prisoner for trial.

BOW STREET.

Bickntore, a man dressed in
the garb of a horse-dealer, was yesterday placed at
the bar, charged under the following circumstances:
John Fairmanner, a horse-dealer, residing in Ca-
roline Mews, Bedford-square, stated that the pri-
soner had been in his employ as a labourer in his
yard. On Saturday week he employed him to take
two horses, of the value of 491., and two mares of
the value of 461. to Reading Fair to dispose of them
—supposing that the fair would take place on the
following Monday. He gave the prisoner two
pounds to pay his expenses, and directed him to re-
turn on the following Tuesday. Some time after
the prisoner had left the yard, witness discovered
that the fair would take place on that day (Satut-
day), and he therefore expected that the prisoner
would return on that evening. He did not, how-
ever, return, and he heard nothing more of him.
On Monday last, witness and his son-in-law, Thos.
Rowell, who is also a horse-dealer, living at Isling-
ton, started off in quest of the prisoner, and from
information they obtained on the road, they went to
ihe Angel and Crown Inn, Staines, where they
found him. Upon questioning him, he admitted
having discovered that he would be too late
for the fair at Maidenhead, and said that he there-
fore thought it would be his better way to try and
dispose of the horses elsewhere. He accordingly
chopped the two horses for 151., and another horse,
which was in the stable. Upon being asked what
he had done with the money, he said he had been
robbed of 131. or 141., and that he had spent the
remainder in the keep and feed of the horses. Wit-
ness, upon seeing the horse which the prisoner had
obtained in lieu of his own horses, discovered that
it was not worth more titan sixteen pounds. One
of the mares had her knees broken, but the other
was not hurt. He took the prisoner before Sir
John Gibbon, a magistrate for the county of Berks,
by whose advice he on Thursday brought the pri-
soner to town.

In answer to questions put by the Magistrate, the
witness further said that he had received a good
character with the prisoner, who had lived for some
time previously with Mr. Shirley, an innkeeper, at
Staines. He had only lived with him (witness) a
week ; but he had known him for eight years pre-
viously, and he never heard anything which would
have led him to doubt his honesty.
The prisoner, in his defence, admitted the truth
of the greater part of the prosecutor's statement, but
said that there was no fixed price at which he was
to sell the horses ; but his orders were to make the
best he could of them. After he had left Maiden-
head, he said, he went to Windsor to endeavour to
sell the horses, but without success. He then went
to Staines, where, on Sunday night, while he was
inebriated, he gave a man of respectable appearance,
whom he took to be an inhabitant of the town, 101.
to take care of for him, and that on the following
morning, upon his seeking the return of the money,
his " friend " was nowhere to be found. The acci-
dent to the mate's knee he could not avoid, as it
occurred when he was leading the horses in a string,
and she fell down.

The prisoner was remanded until this day (Sa.
turday).
_ MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CHARGE OF FELONY.--A dark-complexioned
young man, of genteel appearance, who gave the
name of Richard Thompson, but whose real name
is conjectured to be Woodison, was brought before
Mr. CONANT yesterday, charged with having just
stolen a silver spoon from the shop of Mr. Ragless,
confectioner, No. 195, Piccadilly.
Front the evidence given by the daughter of Mr.
Ragless, it appeared that the prisoner came into the

Mr. CONANT was of opinion that a real gentle-
man would not object to eat his soup with a hand-
slme plated spoon, and those delicate customers
who insisted upon having silver spoons, he rather
suspected could give the best account of the disap-
pearance of such articles from the tables of hotel
and tavern-keepers.
In defence, the prisoner said he was quite willing
to admit that he had committed the offence. A train
of unfortunate circumstances had plunged him into
distress, and though the substitution of a metal
.goon for the silver one, at first sight might appear
conclusive of his being a practised hand at such
matters, he declared it was his first offence.
Mr. CONANT inquired what his situation in lifts
was P—T he prisoner begged to be excused from
making the communication. His friends, he said,
were of great respectability, and though he was
aware that he must suffer the consequences of the
degrading situation in which he had placed himself,
his greatest fear was that the occurrence should come
to his father's ears.

Policeman C 2, who took the prisoner into cus-
tody, said, on searching him, he found two letters,
but the moment he drew them out of his pocket,
the prisoner made a snatch at them, and succeeded
in tearing them in halves. The policeman laid the
fragments of both letters before the bench. The
first one appeared to be in the hand-writing of a
female, and the contents were to decline the atten.-

tions of the prisoner in future, and to request that
he would not watch the visiters to her mother, as

the writer was determined to decline all further
acquaintance with him. The fragment further stated
that the writer thanked him for his assistance in her
professional career, but as she had only admired him
as a man of talent, she could not admit of future
visits. The portion of the second letter contained
the superscription of Mr. Woodison, Nu. 17, Prince's-
st reer, Cavendish•square.
Mr. CONANT requested the policeman to go there
and make some inquiries, as he thought it right that
the public should know whether the prisoner wets
an old offender or not.

The policeman returned shortly, and told Mr.
Conant that the prisoner's uncle lived there, but he
had been told he was not then at home.

The prisoner, to some inquiries by the Magis-
trate, said he was a writer in the public papers,
hut he did not name any one in particular. He Was
fully committed.