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rate to pay it, but, in consequence of no such step being
taken, an application to this Court was considered
necessary. He (Mr. Cowling) considered the-case a very
proper one for a rule.—The rule was granted.

nection with these other facts, he must say that thejury
had come to a proper verdict.
The other Judges agreed with his Lordship,' and the
rule wasconsequently refused,

UXBRIDGE PETTY SESSIONS.
On Monday Henry Lavender, a young agricultural
labourer, living at Ruislip, appeared to answer a sum-
mons under the game-laws, for having on the 7th inst.
unlawfully snared a hare.
The defendant pleaded guilty, saying it was the first
time, and he hoped it would be the last.
Thomas Howell, deposed that he was gamekeeper to
Messrs. Pearce and Stone, of Ruislip. On the morning
of Wednesday last witness was watching some snares
which had been set in Ruislip Park-wood, when about day-
break he saw a hare caught in one of the snares. Shortly
afterwards he saw the deteedunt come up and take both
the hare and snare up, and hand them to William
Tobit, by whom he was accompanied. Witness then
jumped out of his concealment, on which they both ran
away.

The defendant was fined 20s. and 10s. costs, or 21
days' imprisonment.
Willi un Tobit was then called on a similar summons.
The defendant did not appear, but the case was proceeded
with in his absence.
Police-sergeant Gough, T 24, deposed to serving the
summons on the defendant personally on Thursday last.
Detendaht said he bad done it, and would attend, b•it he
had since absconded from the neighbourhood. Defend-
ant had been repeatedly convicted of poaching, and had
only been a few thys out of prison.
Howell, the gamekeeper, repeated the evidence he
gave in the previous ease, and added that on the hare
and snare being handed to Tobit he disentangled the
former, and killed it by striking it with his hand across
the back of the head. On seeing witness, who was
about fifteen yards off, Tubit threw the hare away,
which witness secured.

The BENcit said as Tobit had not attendee, and being
also an old offender, they should fine him in the full
penalty of 5/., or two months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

A warrant for his apprehension was accordingly
:staled.

Richard Man, the keeper of a beer shop, Hillingdon-
end, Uxbridge, appeared before the Bench of Magis-
trates, to answer a summons at the instance of the
police, which charged him that he, being licensed to sell
beer by retail, did, on the 25th of December last, unlaw-
fully suffer persons of notoriously bad character to as-
semble in his house.

The defendant pleaded not guilty.
The Bench convicted the defendaut in the full penalty
of 5/., with costa.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
GUILDHALL.

James M'Cat thy and William Lambert were brough,
before Mr. Alderman Challis, charged with stealing a
puree containing 17s. 11d., from Miss Louisa Farley, of
Church-street, Trinity-sq uare.
Upon the New Testament being tendered to Miss
Farley, she said she would speak nothing but the truth;
but she could not take an oath.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS asked why she could not be
sworn. Did she belong to the Society of Friends, or
Moravians, or Separatists?—She said bhe did not belong
to either of those bodies.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS required her reason for re-
fusing to take the oath?--She replied, the Scriptures
forbade it.

Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said she put a construction
upon the passage of the Scriptures on which she rested,
which it was not intended to have. The prohibition was
not intended to forbid the using of' the name of the Su
preme Being reverently and upon proper occasions. The
ancient Jews had such a dread of using that sacred
name, that they never repeated it without trembling and
dread; but the unnecessary and profane use of the
name in the common affairs of life, the using it as a by
word, and to curse, was only forbidden. We all acknow-
ledge the power and influence of the Almighty, and
hoped for and, had need of his assistance and help. By
the proposed oath she would say that as she spoke the
truth, so God would give her help.
Miss Farley said with this interpretation she was
willing to be sworn.
She stated that she was going over Elackfriars-bridge
about one o'clock that day, and feeling a touch at her
pocket, and soon after seeing the prisoner M'Carthy
run away, she felt for her purse and missed it. She
called out stop thief, and the lad was pursued.
Mr. Franklin, a law stationer, in Tower-street, de-
posed to seeing Lambert steal the purse from the young
lady's pocket, and hand it to M'Carthy, who instantly
ran off. He pursued M'Carthy till he was stopped by
the pier-master of Blackfriars-bridge, and then he se-
cured Lambert.

William Nash spoke also to seeing Lambert pass the
purse to the other prisoner, upon whom it was found at
the station• house.

The prisoners Cross-examined the witnesses with some
ingenuity, questioning them upon what they had not
seen or sworn to.

Mr. Alderman CHALLIS committed the prisoners for

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Wm. Harris, a young man who is said to be respect-
ablyconvected, was charged with committing an out-
rage on a respectable marrit-d female, and her sister, as
they were passing through Cecil court, St. Martin's-
ane, between eleven and twelve on Monday night, on
their way home. The defendant was at the time intoxi-
cated, but not so much so but that he knew what he was
about.

The prisoner, wit) made no defence, was sent for trial.
John Rowe was committed for trial for stealing from
a truck on the line of the London and Birmingham Rail-
way Vbs. weight of potatoes, the property of the Com-
pany.

SOUTHWARK.
James Leary and William Cowell, two boys, the elder
not more than thirteen years of age, were brought before
Mr. Cottingham, charg6d with stealing half a hundred
weight of old iron.

A policeman stated that he stopped the prisoners that
morning carrying two bars of old iron, and when he
questioned them as to here they got it, their reply was
that it was given them by another boy, who told them
he had picked it up by the river side. The policeman
further said, that he had known both the prisoners for
some length of time, and that they had been in custody
before for thieving; that the associate of one of them
(Leary) was tried at the last Surrey assizes and trans-
ported for ten years.
Mr. COTTINGIIAZ interrogated the prisoners, and
from their answers it appeared that the parents of one
of them were dead, and having been brought up to
no trade, ho was compelled to wander about and
make out a livelihood in the best way he could ; that he
could neither read nor write, and had only been at
school three weeks, and that he never entered a place of
worship ; that he slept at' a common lodging-house in
Kent-street, when he could raise enough to say for his
bed, and that when he could not do so he wandered
about and slept under sheds, or in the market-places.
The other boy's account was pretty similar to the
above, and when asked where they were taking the old
iron when met by the policeman, they said that they in-
tended to have sold it at a marine store-shop, to get
somo money to buy food, and enable them to pay for a
night's lodging.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said it was a difficult matter to know
how to dispose of such boys ; that they had committed
an offence which empowered him to send th-m for trial,
but instead of doing so he should adopt th,? more lenient
course, and summarily punish them, and sentence them
to fourteen days' imprisonment, with hard labour. Be-
fore that time next year, he trusted that through the
intervention of the Legislature some plan would be de-
vised that would have the effectof rescuing boys, such as
those brought before him that day, from the lamentable
consequences attendant upon the utter neglect of their
education, and that an improvement might also be car-
ried into effect in the law providing punishment for juve-
nile offenders.

LAMBETH.
A shopman, in service of Mr. Mathews, a pawn-
broker, applied to Mr. Henry to take his advice as to the
sale of a table of very ingenious workmanship, which
had been pawned at Mr. Mathew's shop, and which re-
mained unredeemed for seven months beyond the legal
period of keeping such articles.
It appeared that in the early part of last autumn a
young man named Fueillede had been brought to this
Court on a charge of annoying his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, by sending letters of a very ex-
traordinary description to his Grace, also with sending
one or two boxes of his own workmanship, and which
were exceedingly beautiful, for his Lordship's accept.
ance • and, further, with attempting to make his way to
his Grace's presence. From the prisoner's manner at
the time, and for seversl months previously, and parti-
cularly his extraordinary notion that his Grace of Can-
terbury was about to provide him with a wife, no doubt
remained upon the mind of the sitting magistrate, Mr.
Henry, that the man was labouring under insanity, arid
the attention of the parish officers was at once called to
his case, with a view of his being taken proper care of.
The officers of the parish of Lambeth promptly attended
to his case, and he was placed at a proper asylum at
Peckham, where he still remains. One of the boxes
sent by the prisoner to Lambeth Palace (a lady's larg.
work-box) was brought to the Court on the occasion of
his apprehension, and drew forth the admiration of all
who saw it. Its exterior was composed of a great va-
riety of dyed and coloured woods, beautifully diversi-
fied, and polished, so as to present a beautiful specimen
of art.

Mr. HENRY expressed a hope that it would not be dis-
posed of ,aithout some notice was given of the pawn •
broker's intention so to do, so that his friends or the
parish officers might have the option to redeem it if they
thought proper. He a:so thought Mr. Mathews had
acted perfectly fair in the matter. The young man, he
understood, was still at the asylum at Peckham, and as
he was maintained there at the expense of the parish,
he (Mr. Henry) thought it would be but right that the
parish officers should be made acquainted with the fact,
that the table was about to be sold, so that they might
redeem it and sell it again, if they thought proper, or
act in the matter to the best interest of the lunatic.
The applicant undertook to make the parish officers
acquainted with the circumstance, and left the Court.
GREEN W IGIL

Geo ge Giles, a seaman on board the schooner Mary,
trading from Guernsey to London, appeared on an
information, at the instance.of the Board of Customs,
charged with secreting 101bs. 7- 16ths of foreign manu-
factured tobacco, by which he had incurred a penalty of
loots
Thomas Cornell. Queen's appraiser of Customs, proved
the tobacco produced to be of foreign manufacture.
Joseph Sloane, tide surveyor of customs, deposed that
he boarded the Mary off Greenwich H 'spite! on Saturday
last. He rummaged the vessel, and found the tobacco
secreted in the after part of the schooner amongst the
cargo. The prisoner denied that it was his, but after-
wards acknowledged that it was.
The Solicitor's chief clerk of Customs said, from re-
presentations made to the Bard by the prisoner and
friends, by which it appeared that the prisoner's father
is on his death-bed, and that the act was committed in
order to render his parent assistance, they were disposed
to be extremely lenient towards him. He was liable to
1001. fine, but they would allow him to mitigate the
penalty to 51., or in default to one month's imprisonment
in Maidstone gaol.
Joseph-SI ifford, for having slbs. 4-16ths of contraband
tobacco, on, board the same vessel, secreted under his
bed, was fined 3L, and in default to one month's impri-
sonment in Maidstone gaol.
George Burrows was convicted in a penalty of 405., or
one month's imprisonment, for having 2lbs. of contraband
tobacco secreted on board the Alice, of Guernsey. She
was boarded off Greenwich Hospital en Saturday by
Mr. Tide-waiter Sloane, who found the tobacco secreted
under his clothes ia the forecastle. The penalty in the
latter case was paid, and in the two former the offenders
were committed to prison.

WAND S WO R TN.
Two men, named Kimber and Brown, were charged
with destroying a portion of their workhouse clothing
and refusing to work.
Mr. King, the master of the workhouse, who proved
the case, said he should not
have given the prisoners
into custody for destroying their clothes had they con-
seated to work, but no persuasion would induce them
to do the latter,
The prisoners made no defence.
Mr. CLivz committed them each fora month, with
hard labour.

Seven men were next placed in the dock, charged with
refusing to work,
Mr. King said the men were admitted on the preced-
ing night ; had their supper and bed, and that morning
were put to work at the hand corn mill. They had
done about three-quarters of an hour's work and then
deupfdeci their , bre4fast, whicit was given thew.
,

emotion rendered her voice.almost inaudiblei said, •" I
have too much guilt ever to return."
Mr. BURRELL-Will you give me the address of your
parents ? Defendant--They are respectable. I cannot,
I would not give it for the world.
Mr. BURRELL, after consulting with the chief clerk,
said that in charity to the poor girl, he felt bound to hold
her to bail. Her attempts to commit suicide had been
most determined, and in her present state of mind, he
thought it would be berter to send her to prison, where
she would be treated with kindness, and have every atten-
tion paid her.
She was removed in a fainting fit.
MARYLEBONE.
Charlaie Williams, who described herself as a dress-
maker, residing at Brentford, was brought before the
sitting magistrate, Mr. Rawlinson, on the charge of
having, by false and fraudulent representations, obtained
from the housekeeper of Sir S. Vassal, Hyde Park-
gardens, the sum of 31. 10s.; and from Mrs. Flt-teher, 2,
Hyde Park-place, 3/. The said amounts were given to
her on a statement which she made, setting forth that
laundresses, whose names she mentioned, and who were
employed by the families in question, had been distrained
upon for rent, and that the money, which was to be
fpeedily repaid, was required to satisfy the brokers in
possession.

- The pace having received information of the above
frauds, and others of a similar nature having been com-
mitted by the prisoner, kept a sharp look-out for her,
and on Monday morning she was taken into custody by
Crofts, 179 D.
She was remanded till Tuesday (this day) week, when
more cases will, it is understood, be brought forward
against her.
A miserable-looking man, who gave his name J. 'n
Ande, son, was charged with stealing a half-quartern loaf.
It was stated in evidence that the prisoner took the
loaf from a baker's basket, in Harley-street, and haring
placed it under his coat went away with it. The theft
was observed, and he ;prisoner) was given into custody,
when he told the officers that he had not eaten a morsel
of anything since twelve o'clock the previous day.
The prisoner, in answer to the Magistrate, said that
he came from Staffordshire, and that on the night before
he slept in the Kensington Union, which he left at five
in the morning.

He was committed fora fortnight, and at the end of
that time will be passed to his parish.
Jost-ph Montefiore, Esq., No. 13, York-street, Port-
man-square, attended to prefer the following charge
against Sarah Maddock :

It appeared that the prisoner had been cook in the
family about five weeks, and that ten days ago she got
much the worse for liquor, fur which offence, after her
being lectured severely, she was forgiven. On Saturday
evening last she again became intoxicated, and created
a great disturbance in the kitchen, in consequence of
which Mr. Montefiore went down and ordered her out of
the house ; for some time she positively refused to go,
but she at l@ngth went away, and soon afterwards re-
turned, and commenced ringing and knocking violently
at the door. She was then given into custody.
The prisoner said she had worked hard all the day,
and did not attempt to deny having taken a little too
much.

Mr. Rem .'NsoN discharged her, being of opinion that
by her being locked up so long, coupled with the loss of
her character and situation, she had been sufficiently
punished to operate as a warning to her in future.
Henry Hardy was charged with having stolen a silver
watch and other property, belonging to George Middle-
ton, 3, Sussex-mews, Hyde -park-square.
The robbery was cou.mitted on Saturday last, and on
the same evening part of the stolen articles were pledged
by the prisoner, upon whose person the tickets for the
same were fuund when he was searched at the station-
house.

The priscner, in defence, said he was speaking to a
young woman, and the policeman shoved his bull's-eye
lanthorn in his face and struck him, and he returned the
blow.

Inspect-A- Horne was recalled, and said the policeman
had no lanthorn on the morning in question.
Mr. BRODERIP said a very cowardly assault was al
leged to have been committed, and ordered the prisoner
to find bail, himself in 401., and two sureties in 20/. each,
to appear and take his trial at the next sessions.
He was committed in default of bai!.
Margaret Coker was brought before Mr. Broderip,
charged with cutting and wounding Jane Carney, with a
knife.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, that
they lived at 1, Nelson's-place, Salmon's-lane, Limehouse.
On Sunday evening the, prosecutrix was having her tea
with the landlady of the house and another female ;
prisoner was in the same ro,un, but not at the same
table. A dispute arose between her and Carney, to
specting some money the prisoner had received from a
young man the night before. Some aggravating Lin
guage was used on both sides, and from words they
came to blows. The complainant was satisfied with the
weapons nature had given her, and struck Cotter with
her fist. The prisoner did not return the blow in a
similar manner, but took a knife off the table, and made
use of horrible language, and stabbed her in the neck,
inflicting a severe wound, from which the blood flowed
copiously. In a struggle which took place, the prose-
cutrix attempted to take the knife away from the other,
and was cut in the hands. One of her fingers was nearly
divided.

Mr.
BRODERIP—How many cuts have you in the
hand? Witness—Two, Sir. She cut me across the
hand twice.

Mr. BRODERIP —And you have been stabbed in the
neck ? Witness—Yes, Sir.
.....

The prisoner made a long defence to the charge, and
said that while she was eating a bit of meat the prose-
cutrix struck her, and laid hold of the knile in her hand,
and received the wounds by accident.
Mr. BRODERIP said the prosecutrix could not have
received the wound in the neck in the way stated. The
surged 's certificate, which had been handed to him,
said there was no immediate danger, and he was glad of
it ; but he should not commit her for trial at present, but
remand the case for a week, when the state of the pro-
secutrix would be again made known to him. lie should
certainly send the case before a jury when it was com-
pleted. The use of the knife in petty quarrels had
become very common, and was much to be deprecated,
and it wis absolutely necessary for those entrusted with
authority to do all in their power to put down the practice.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, JAN. 13.—Wind E, fresh breeze and hazy.
Potrrsmotim, JAN. 12. Wind E.S.E. to S.S.E.—SId
Johanna, Trinidad; Active,nacobson, St Croix.
OFF ST. ALBANS HAAD. Providence, Page, Cal-
cutta ; Britannia, Simmons, I3arbadoes ; Lucy, Cherry. An-
tigua ; Lotus, Watson, ew Orleans ; Yorkshire, Tripp,
Mobile ; Jane and Barbara, Brown, Savannah ; Emigrant,
Brewman, do. ; John Lighton, CharleAton.
WATERFORD, JAN. 11.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W. by S.—
Arrd. Tweed, Delaney, St. John's, New Brunswick.
PETERHEAD. —Arrd. Robinson, Hornsby, Quebec.
SHIELDS, JAN. 12.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Liffey,
Noonan, Miramichi.

COWES, JAN. 12.—The Pomona, Colbye, from Hamburgh
to New York, which put in here, is discharging her cargo.
The Faside, bound to St. John's, New Brunswick, was in con-
tact with a smack, and had her fore-yard, &c., carried away.
DEAL—Arrd. Harmonie, Bowman, Batavia. Arrd. from
the river and sld, Queen Dowager, Robinson, Cape Coast
Cas:le ; Swiss Boy, Cuba.
COWES, JAN. 12.—Wind S.E. by S.—S.l:l. Caled,nia, Ba •
tavia ; Velox, Salvander, Valparaiso; Fanny, Andrews.
Launceston ; Forrester, 3PArthur, Tobago ; Faside, St.
Jchn's, N.B.

YARMOUTIT.—John, Jordan, New Orleans.
SOUTILAMPTON.—Duke of Cornwall, Mills, Constantinople.
OFF PLYMOUTH.—Waverley, Mauritius, out 87 days.
Orr PIgIZANCE. Carmentia, Ozinaga, Havannah ;
Franklin, Sangs. New Orleans.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.—Wind S.S.E., fresh.—Acrd. Jane,
Stanley, Savanilla; Madison, Foster, New Orleans; Pales-
tine, Scott. Baltimore; Rothsay, Wallace, Slit. Fortuqn,
Taylor, Valparaiso; Majestic, Reeves, Rio Janeiro; Ellen,
Tiller, St. Michael's.

PILL, JAN. 10. LA packet of letters, all addressed to
Captain Owen Roberts, of the Queen of Trumps, has come
on shore at Portshead.

TOBERNORY. JAN. B.—The Janet, Duncan, from Liverpool
to Burghead, ran on a sunken rock in the Sound of Mull 4th
inst., and remains; crew saved.

JAN. 12.—The schooner reported 28th ult. and
9th inst., and sunk off this place, has been positively ascer-
tained to be the Trial, Alurson, of this port.
YARMOUTH. —The Orwell, Payne, of Ipswich, got on
shore at Winterton 10th inst., but was assisted eff, and 1138
come into this harbour.

DEATH OF GENERAL HODGSON•
We have this day to record the demise of one of the
oldest officers in the army, and one who retained to the
last as much of the true spirit of a British soldier as any
o those whom he has left behind—General ITnrigson,
Colonel of the 4th, or King's Own Regiment. The
Gallant General was the son of Field-Marshal Stud-
holme Hodgson, who is known in history as the com-
mander of the expedition which took Belleisle from the
French, in the year 1761. The following traits re-
corded by Horace Walpole, in his memoirs of George
HL, is characteristic of the man and times :—Sometime
after the siege of Belleisle, when the then Government
were above everything anxious to conciliate the French
Court, General Hodgson was desired by the Minister o.
the day to explain the cause of Belleisle having been so
severely sacked. The reply of the old Marshal was,
" that he had been ordered to take Belleisle ; that he
had done so ; and that he had nothing more to say upon
the subject." He was greatly distinguished by the
friendship and favour of the Duke of Cumberland,
and by the confidence and good opinion of the great
Earl of Chatham. The mother of the deceased officer
was Lady Catherine Howard, through whom he was
nephew to the late Field Marsha lthe Right Honourable
Sir George Howard, K. 8., and first cousin to the Earl
of Effingham, and to Mary, Countess of Roseberry. He
was educated at Harrow School, and was still there when
he obtained his commission, so far back as 1779, in the
King's Own Regiment, which was his father's corps, and
was then in Canada. He shortly afterwards went out
to join it, and served with it for some years in Canada,
under the auspices of his friend and connexion, Lord
Dorchester, the Governor; and as Captain-General of the
province in 1793, he was employed as Major of Brigade
at the reduction of the Islands of St. Pierre and Miguelon.
He was twice taken prisoner at sea, in 1794 and I 797
on the latter occasion by a French privateer, after a
severe action, at the close of which he sunk the colours
of the "King's Own," to prevent their falling into
the enemy's hands. He was then taken to France,
where he remained a pri goner until October, 1798,
when he was exchanged. In 1799, he served as com-
manding officer with the nth in Holland, where he was
present at the capture .af the town and garrison of
Hoorn, and at the actions of the 2d and 6th of October.
In the action near Egmont-of-Sea, he wit.; most dan•
gernusly wounded, the ball having never been extracted.
Ile was subsequently appointed Governor and Coalman •
der-in-Chief at the Bere.nudas, and afterwards in the
same situation at Cu race.a, which latter government he
retained till the peat e, 'when the island was restored to
the Dutch. In each of these situations he received the
repeated thanks of the .King's Government, and on his
return home was appointed to the Colonelcy of the third
garrison battalior4, In 1522 he received that of the 83d
Foot, frog Alibi,* he was,* 1835, removed by the ape-

After eating it they refused to complete the labour,
which he had reduced from four to two hours' duration.
The prisoners made no answer to the charge, and were
committed for 21 days each,
Mr. OLIVE subsequently addressed the master of the
workhouse, and after alluding to the enormous number
of charges of this description recently brought before
him, said that he was at first inclined to believe that it
was in part owing to some mismanagement in the house;
he was now satisfied that such was not the case, but that
the majority of these men and lads were idle fellows,
who would not go to any regular employment.. He
thought that if the master kept a list of the casual pau-
pt:rs who refused to work, together with a description
of their persons, many of them might be charged with
a second offence, and under• another statute be punished
with much greater severity.
THAMES.

William Smith, a labourer in a glass-house, was
charged with assaulting James Parsons, a police-con-
stable, No. 179 K.
The policeman, who has been confined to his tied for
seventeen days, appeared in a very weak condition. I
appeared that on the morning of the 26th of December
he was on duty in Sydney-street, Mile-end, and saw the
prisoner loitering about with a girl for a considerable
time. He watched them, and they stopped near some
carts. He asked the prisoner if he lived in the house
opposite The prisoner refused to satisfy him, and said
he had nothing to do with him, and he would remain
where he was as long as he pleased. The policeman
desired him to go away, and the prisoner made an
attempt to strike him. The policeman pushed him
away, and he again came forward with an intention
of :.triking him, The girl then interfered, and took her
companion away ; but he soon afterwards came towards
the policeman again, and struck him a violent blow on
the face, at the same time exclaiming that he was a
better man than Parsons, who once more pushed him
away, and, with great forbearance, advised him to go
home, and not to get into trouble. The prisoner then
commenced abusing the constable, and made an attempt
to strike him again. Parsons said, if he did not leave the
spot he should be obliged to take him to the station-
house, and to avoid giving him any further pretext for
quarrelling, crossed the road, and turned down another
street. The prisoner followed him, and struck him, and
while Parsons was staggering from the violence of the
blow, he was struck several times by the pri toner about
the head and face. The policeman fell heavily on the
ground, and when he had partially recovered himself, he
tound the prisoner standing over him. The policeman
drew his staff for the purpose of defending himself, on
which the prisoner attempted to take it away from him.
but not succeeding, he struck the policeman another
blow on the head Nith his clenched fist, and felled him
to the ground. The policeman was insensible for some
time, and when ho recovered his assailant was gone. lie
crawled to the station house, and was conveyed to his
own home, where he has ever since remained under me-
dical care. He was scarcely able ta walk, so cruelly was
he punished on the occasion.
John Baker, 217 K. apprehended the prisoner on Sa-
turday night upon a warrant, and on asking him how he
came to illuse Parsons in the way he had done, he said
the policeman had very grossly insulted him. The pri-
soner admitted that he committed the assault.
Inspector Horne, of the K division, recollected the
policeman coming to the station-house early in the
morning of the 26th ult. His face was bleeding, and his
clothes were very dirty, and covered with blood. There
were several wounds on his person. The policeman
described the way in which he was attacked. As the
complainant was unable to continue on duty he sent him
home.

TA.t.tow.—P. Y. C. is 43s to 438 3d per cwt on the spot,
and town 45s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The market is firmer, and the deliveries are in-
creasing.

(From the 7,and611 New Price Current of Jan. 13.)
SUGAR.—To-day, although there were sellers of West In-
dia Muscovado at a decline on the rates of Friday. of 6d per
cwt for all qualities, still the trade evinced little inclination
to operate, and the business transacted in all kinds was ex-
tremely limited, the purchases amounting to 200 hhds and
trcs, including 100 hhds of Barbadoes at public sale, which,
however, brought generally the full value.
REFINED.—To-day there was only a limited business
transacted in refined goods by the home trade, and lower
rates were taken, brown grocery lumps selling at 63s 6d,
and standard lumps 64s 64 per cwt. For bonded crushed
Sugar 33s 9d to 34s per cwt are the rates asked,' but there
has not been much done ; there are buyers of large parcels
at 33s 6d per cwt.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was pur-
chased with caution, and 937 bags at auction were sold at a
decline on former rates of Is per cwt ; tine bright yellow went
at 52s 6d to 535, good 51s 6d to 525, good middling 50s to
50s 6d, washed:4Bs to 525, syrupy 48s 6d, and low sound
brown 35s 64 to 375; for public sale on Thursday 10,000 bags
are declared.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with little
attention, and 2.131 bags at auction were sold at a decline
on former rates of 6d for white and yellow, and Is for brown.
Of Java, duty paid, 1,843 baskets at public sale only in part
sold at pricts sh .wing a decline on those of the highest point
of them nit-t of 2s to 3s per cwt.
MorAsses.—An improved demand hes been experienced
for West.lndia, and the rates obtained exhibit a slight im
provement on Close previously quoted: the sales amount to
300 -puncheons. Antigua good at 24*, and Demerara at 22s
per cwt.
FOREIGN..Tee business transacted in white Brazil has
been extremely limited by private treaty, and prices are still
on the decline. In brown the business done has been very
limited,. although prices have become moderate, and rule at
16s to 20s for low to tine quality. Yellow Havannah is
ofe.red neon further reduced terms; still buyers have been
eautieue in their proceedings, and the market has been more
liberally supplied. White has met with a dull sale at 32s to
381. All other kinds of Foreign have been purchased
with caution, and the rates accepted are under those pre-
viously quoted.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Mocha Coffee met with little at-
tention, and 253 bales at auction were mostly taken in, ordi-
nary greenish at 54e, outside package slightly stained with
sea water 52e, fair sound yellow long berry 755, which is the
full value, a small part add; sea damaged greenish at 40s 64
to 49* 6d,. fair sound yellow long berry 71,E 6d, see damaged
513 to 6fis ; 27 bags pee berry Singapore Java sold at 37s 64,
and country damaged 333 to 36s 6d; 21 bags Ceylon went
at 59s for tine ordinary grey Plantation, 40s 6d for sea de-
maged, 665, for sound pea berry, and 44s to 49s for sea
damaged.
TlSA.—There has again been no public sale, and at present
none is declared; although there are further arrivals, mer-
chants have confidence, and the town and country dealers
are evidently more inclined to increase their stocks, as the
consumption continues to be good, and all kinds of Tea mo-
derate in comparison with those of last season. There has
been a large business transacted in Cong•ou, and rather higher
rates haVe been again paid; the common and medium qua-
lities, however, met with the most attention. •There is but a
moderate quantity offering for sale in the private market,
notwithstanding the late heavy arrivals.
STMTS.—Although there are sellers of Jamaica Rum upon
lower terms, still shippers and the home trade have shown
little inclination to operate. The limited business transacted in
Demerara has been at a fall on late quotations of 2d per gallon.
Leeward Island has been sparingly dealt in, but proof
common quality is not to be obtained under 2s.
For Calcatta . the demand has been only for small
parcels at is 1I d per gallon proof with certificate. Holders
of -all descriptions of Brandy evince firmness, and a good
business has been transacted. Geneva has been purchased
with more freedom for exportation, and prices are firm. The
value of English Corn Spirits is 10s 6d per gallon, nett cash;
but there has not been much business done.
SEEDS.—The Clover-seed trade remains without interest
buyers being rather more favourable to red than white seed
The frost atHamburgh has had the tendency rather to reduce
prices of red Clover-seed there. Trefoil in bond finds a
better sale than English ; prices of all remain unaltered.
ElCE.—Bengal has been purchased with more freedom,
and holders supplying the market sparingly, an advance in
prices of 64 per cwt has taken place. Java is wanted, but
there is little to be hall, and quotations are on the advance.
'For Madras the demand has increased, and prices have risen 6d
per cwt. Cleaned Rice has been largely dealt in at the late de-
cline, Carolina selling at 30 to 345, Patna 18s to 225, and fine
23s to 24s per cwt. Rice is still dearer than it was a twelve
month back.. For Tapioca and Arrowroot there are few
imams to be met with, and prices are drooping.
APICES —To-day there was more desire shown to purchase
black Pepper. With white the market was more liberally
supplied, and 720 bags were put up to public sale, but a part
only sold; and at a decline on former rates of id to ld per lb.
Pimentoavas in fair request privately. Cassia Ligoea was
purchased with caution. For Nutmegs the market is quiet,
and II casks 2 bags at auction were only in part sold at a
decline on former rates of 4d. to 6d. 318 cases Preserved
Ginger were withdrawn. Mace is not much wanted, and
Cloves met with little attention.

SALTPETHE.—To-day the market was better supplied with
rough. At public sale 1,300 bags of Calcutta were offered ;
merchaWs were inclined to realise, and submitted to a reduc-
tion on former rates of 6(1 per cwt; the whole, however, sold
Oiz .—There has been a falling oil in the demand for
Linseed Oil, and although the quantity producing is small,
still lower rates have been taken on the spot. For forward
delivery 25s 6d to 26s are insisted upon, but there are not
many purchasers. The consumption of Linseed Oil does not
fall off, and prices still rule low. Rape-seed Oil is not to be
had upon lower terms, but there are not many buyers.
For Cocoa Nut previous prices are asked, but the amount of
businecs transacted privately has been small. Palm has
been in excellent request ; holders show firmness, and sup-
ly the maket sparingly. The demand has been good for
Olive Oil, and prices are very firm. For Cod Oil the demand
has been brisk for home consumption, but holders are un-
able to obtain better prices.
TAu.ow.—The demand has been brisk for Russian on the
spot from chandlers and soap-makers: prices have again ad-
vanced, and rule 3d to 6d per cwt above those previously
quoted. For delivery in the two next months several con-
tractsna
de have
has b ebeen p
uernzarseedd intoaxteantsi%4-3elsy,3adndth434s3sper6dc.wtlipoamide,
nett cash. All other descriptions of Tallow met with a ready
sale, and prices keep on the ascendancy.

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING BY IVATeort,
LATE J.P., D.L., AND MR. CHARLES ARMSTRONG, J.P.
—SEIZURE OF GuNs, &c.—Between one and two o'clock
in the afternoon of Saturday last, as a young gentleman
of this neighbourhood, qualified to kill game, and having
a certificate for that purpose, and the curator of the
Belfast Museum (who, by directions of the Natural His-
tory Society, went to procure some small birds for the
collection, on the farm of a friend in Ballinderry), were
returning homewards, they were met on the public road,
about two miles out of Ballinderry, on the way to Lis-
burn, by Mr. Watson and Mr. Armstrong, who were out
hunting. Mr. Watson threatened to have them taken
into custody. The young gentleman at once showed his
game certificate, and stared that two hares which he had
were killed at several miles' distance, where there had
been no hunting for very many years, and where he had
the permission of the occupying tenant to shoot. The
hares were, nevertheless, taken from him, by order of Mr.
Watson. His game certificate, on being shown to Mr.
Armstronx. was kept by that J. P., who refused to return
it to him Mr. Armstrong, in addition, seized his gun, and
carried it off. The gun of the curator of the Museum
was also seized by Mr. Watson, and carried off although
the late J.P: was a r tieu lady told that he had been
merely shooting small birds on his friend's farm, for the
collection already named ; that the gun was registered,
and was given him for that purpose by a member of the
Council of the Society. The birds in his possession, all
small, common one, were likewise shown, to prove the
truth of his assertion ; but all was of no avail. They
were told by Mr. Watson that they should never see the
guns again, and would be fined in twenty pounds each ;
and were commanded by Mr. Armstrong to attend at a
certain hour, on a day named. at the Petty Sessions, to
be held in Crumlin, and ordered to receive this as a
summons. Most abusive and insulting language was
used towards both the aggrieved, in which particular the
late J.P.. D.L., was even surpassed by his nephew, Mr.
Wakefield. Such are the particulars that have been
communicated to u', of an occurrence upon which we
refrain from adding any remark, as the case will, we '
understand, he made matter of legal investigation.—
No? thern Whig.
THE DEVON MILITIA.— It is understood the ballot
for the militia in the county of Devon and city of Exeter will
take place in March next, and that the battalions (afier
such manner as shall be directed), will be embodied and
trained. The strength of the respective regiments, it is said,
is to be as follows :-15t, or East Devon, 503 ; head quarters,
Exeter. 2d, or North Devon, 502; head quarters, Barn-
stapl--,1l e. 3d, or South ppm, 501.; head quarters, Plymouth.
onottport In4voient.

cial command of his late Majesty, William IV., to the
distinguished regiment of which he disci Colonel, and
over the interests of which he watched with the care of
a parent. The General retained to the end, in an un-
usual degree, the fire and energy, as well as the kind-
nr ss of disposition, which distinguished him through life,
and fell a Victim at last to the art our and perseverance
with which, within a very few weeks, be continued to
follow his private pursuit of shooting. He has left se-
veral children to deplore his loss, and will long be re-
membered with affection and veneration by a numerous
circle of friends and acquaintance.

MARKET NE WS.-(Y ESTERD AY.)
MAT 1110.1ft'MTS.
SMITFIFIELD—Madnw Hay. 3/ 8s to 4' 8s; Clover
ditto, 4/ 8s to 51 15s: Oat Straw, 1/ 88 to 1/ 10s; Wheat
Straw, 11 lb to 1/ 13s per load. A fair average supply
and a sluggish demand.
CUMBRIMAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 8s to 4/ 108; Clover
ditto, 4/ 8s to 5/ 12s 6d: Oat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1111 s; Wheat
Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 148 per load. Supply moderate, and
trade firm.
WITITECITAPEL—MeadTtv Hay, 3/ 58 to 41 8s; Clover
ditto, 4/108 to 5/158; Oat Straw, I/ lOs to 1/ 12s ; Wheat
Straw, 1/.12s to 11 I3s per load. Trade rather dull, at the
above quotations.

CO!oNram.
&toAn.—The market for British Plantation is heavy, and
for the small quantity sold privately rather lower prices were
accepted. The transactions are estimated at about 550 hhds.
inclusive of those offered by auction. The public sales have
consisted principally of 268 hhds 255 barrels St. Lucia, and
3,838 bags • Bengal, nearly all of which found buyers,
the St. Lucia at 43s to 51v 6d for low brown to tine
yellow, being for the low and mid sorts fully Is 6d cheaper.
The Bengal brought about previous rates. The quantity of
British Plantation landed last week at the East and
India Docks was 561 hhds 67 tierces 51 barrels, and there
were taken for home consumption 1,151 hhds 116 tierces 484
barrels. The stock in the same places is 8,527 hhds 736 tierces
1,480 barrels.

COFFEE.-76 casks of British Plantation and 1,671 bags
Ceylon were offered by auction. All the British Plantation
was taken in, but being unclean, it affords no guide to the
market. Only a small portion of the Ceylon was disposed of at
49s to 51s for good ord to very good ord quality ; the remainder
was withdrawn, being held above the value. Privately nothing
has been done worth reporting, with the exception of about
500 bags good ord Padang, which have been sold at 255,
being fully Is to Is 6d above the previous value, and at
which price there are some further purchasers.
Rtmi.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India docks was 151 puns; there were taken for home
consumption, 199 puns 29 hhds; and exported 92 puns 25
hhds. The stock in the same place is 12,250 puns 789 hhds.
RICE.-1,400 bags Spanish, at auction, were all taken in at
19s Oct to 21s for good mid to good bold white, which is above
the value.