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not so scrupulous as to oaths when he was candidate for
the situation of Common Sergeant.
After some further discussion, Mr. Woodthorpe, the
Town Clerk, was asked what his feelings were as to an
examination before the Commissioners?

Mr. WOODTHORrE was not sworn to secrecy, he con.
sidered himself bound to give any information to the citizens
of London which they might require; but if he considered
it injurious to make some statements, he should exercise
his discretion. He should act exactly in the same man-
ner before the Commissioners, and he would not give any
information upon oath.—(Cheers.)-
Mr. C. PEARSON thought the last statement settled
the question.
The resolutions, as amended by Mr. ASHURST, was
then agreed to, only two bands having been held up
against them.

It was then resolved that they should be published in
the Morning and Evening Papers.

ELECTION OF UNDER-MARSHAL.

Mr. Theobald was elected Under Marshal in the room
of Mr. Cope.

ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

Mr. PRITCHARD brought up the report relative to the
elective franchise of the city of London, which was or-
dered to be printed.—Adjourned.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 19.

GONIN AND ANOTHER, V. COCKBURN, BART., AND

ANOTHER.

In this case, which was not concluded when our Paper
went to Press, the jury returned a verdict for the plain-
tiffs—Damages, 1441.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. 19.

Sittings in Equity, Gray's Inn Hall, before the LORD

CHIHF BARON.)

WITITBRIAD AND OTHERS, V. ELILMOOR AND Oftftßs.

Mr. Statricxxsom, on the part of the defendant Bul-
moor, applied to the Court to dissolve the injunction ob-
tained by the plaintiffs in this cause, restraining John
Wilson, another of the defendants, from paying over to the
defendant Bulmoor the amount of the purchase money of
certain premises mortgaged to him(Bulmoor) until a prior
equitable mortgage on the same premises claimed by the
pl.iintiffs was duly satisfied.

After the Learned Counsel had stated the case at length,
at 3 o'clock Lord L74YDHURST, being obliged to leave the
Court, postponed the further hearing until to-morrow
(this day).

ADMIRALTY COURT, DEC. 19.

THE TRIUNE.

In consequence of a slight indisposition Sir J. Nichol
was unable to sit to day, although he had appointed this
au extra Court-day to commence the hearing, assisted by
two of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, of an
important collision cause promoted against the Triune,
for running down and sinking the Triton at sea.
The Triune , of 207 tons, left Newcastle for London
on the 12th February, and the Triton, of 187 tons, left
the port on the same day. Nothing occurred until the
following. morning, at about four o'clock, when the two
vessels in the course of the voyage neared each other so
closely that fears were entertained of a collision. The
Triton, it is alleged, warned the Triune to put her
helm a-weather, which, it is alleged, she did not, and, it
being a maritime custom that a ship on a larboard tack is
bound to give way to one on the starboard tack, the
Triune :Ind Triton fouled, and in ten minutes the latter
filled and sank, the crew being saved by the jolly-boat.
This accident happened about eighteen miles north-east of
Seaham. The master of the Triton alleged that the
Triune was not worked in a seamanlike manner ; but this
charge was negatived, and a recriminatory plea put in
by the master of the Triune. The Court was therefore
to decide the question as to which of the parties are correct
on a point of nautical skill.
The KING'S ADVOCATE, on behalf of owners of the
lost ship the Triton, went over the allegations as to facts
on either side. The Triune struck the Triton in mid-
ships, and she sunk almost immediately, and the Triune
had not acted properly in the situation in which they
were placed.

Dr. DODSON, for Mr. Wardell, the part owner and
master of the Triune, should have to contend that the
result was with tke Triton, as she did not continue her
reach, but put her helm hard a.lee, lulled up, and thus the
accident happened.—The further proceedings were ad-
journed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT-LEWES, DEC. 19.

I Our Assizes terminated this afternoon at three o'clock,
when the Judges left this town and proceeded to Kingston
immediately, to open the Commission the same day.
Another ease of arson was tried this morning before
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN. The prisoner's name was John
Wood, and he was charged with setting fire to a wheat-
stack at Battle, the property of James Patching. The fire
took place within a short distance of the other on the
following night, and the prisoner was taken into custody
on the same day as Goodsell, who is now under sentence
of death, a fact to which his Lordship particularly called
the attention of the jury. There were circumstances in
the ca'e tending to implicate the prisoner, but the evidence
was not conclusive.

The Jury, after a short consultation, pronounced the
prisoner Not Guilty.

Some applause was here manifested in the Court, but it
was immediately suppressed. The prisoner, on leaving
the dock, declared his innocence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILD HALL.

A genteel young man, who gave the name of Oliver
Throckmorton Kirby, was brought before Mr. Alderman
KELLY, for refusing to pay the fare for the hire of a ca-
briolet.

Thomas Needham, the driver, said the prisoner got into
his cab about six o'clock on Wednesday evening, and after
he had been driven to a dozen places, going over twelve
miles of ground, he told him he had no money, and that
he might drive him to the Compter. He admitted that
he had recently been committed to the House of Correction
for a like offence.

The prisoner expected a gentleman who saw him to the
cab would pay the fare, but when he found that was not
the case he went to a woman he had been living with, one
Sophia Parsons, and hoped she would find the money. He
was like a blue-bottle fly ; had no habitation just now.
" What is Sophia Parsons to us?" inquired Mr. Alder-
man KELLY.

"Or to me either ? rejoined Oliver, " for she cares
not for me."

What business bad you to hire a cab if you bad no
money? Why not walk ?"

" Oh, I had walked till I was tired," said the prisoner ;
" 1 had walked about three days and nights."
The cab-driver said that notwithstanding the prisoner's
appearance he seemed to be desperately destitute, for he
quite bugged the idea of being provided with food and
lodging by the Magistrate, as he was being brought from
the Compter that morning.
Mr. Alderman KELLY would endeavour to cure him of
this penchant, by providing him with net only food and
lodging but hard labour in Bridewell for a month to come,
unless he sooner paid the fare (125.); and in default of
payment he was forthwith committed.
A gentleman named Holmes presented himself to be
sworn to an affidavit that be bad heard a person whom he
described proclaim his determination to drag from the
chair Mr. Alderman Johnson (the new Alderman of Port-
soken Ward), and tear him to pieces; and that he verily
believed great violence would be attempted when Alderman
Johnson attended at the Wardmote on Saturday next (to-
morrow), to preside at the election of ward officers and
representatives.
Mr. Alderman KELLY said that, presuming this affi-
davit was to be the foundation fir certain precautionary
measures, it should be sworn before the Magistrate whose
province it was to take those measures ; and the place
where the violence was apprehended being in the district
of the Mansion House the affidavit should be sworn before
the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Holmes accordingly withdrew.
B 0 W- S TREE T.

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chargeable to the parish of St. Martin.in.the.Fields.
The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Dry, a pawn-
broker, in St. Martin's-lane, on Saturday evening last,
when the place was greatly crowded, and having remained
there for a few moments with the child in her arms she
suddenly disappeared. In a short time after the crying of
a child was beard in one of the boxes into which persons
go who have articles to pledge, and the poor infant was
found on the floor with scarcely any covering but an old
shawl. The shop was crammed with people at the time,
and it was next to a miracle that the child was not tram-
pled to death. The unnatural mother was taken yesterday
by the parish officers of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and,