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COURT OF DELEGATES.

On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, this
MI was read a second time, and ordered to be committed
en Tuesday next.

CHOLERA.

Colonel SIBTHORPE moved for further daily returns
relative to the cholera.

Captain GORDON seconded the motion.

Mr. P. THOMSON opposed the motion on the ground
that it would, if carried, defeat its own intentions.—Mo-
tion withdrawn.

Lord ALT HORP brought in the Russian Loan Bill,
which was read a first time, ordered to be printed, and
read a second time on Tuesday next.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned.

THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY AND

HIS CANDLES.

A Correspondent sends us the following► :—After
the acquittal of the man tried for sealing the Mar-
quis of Londonderry's candles, the police-constable
who apprehended the prisoner a,ked the Judge
what he was to do with the candles, and he was
told to keep them, as the Marquis might indict the
man for stealing composition candles; but this the
Marquis declined—to use his own phrase, " he
would not be bothered any more about the busi-
ness." 'Tuesday last the Marquis sent a peremptory
message to the constable, to bring the candles to
Holderness-bouse, as he-was going to Scotland, and
wanted to take the candles with him. The constable
called at the house, but did not take the candles,
and he was ordered into the study of the Noble
Marquis, when the following colloquy took place :—.
Marquis of Londonderry (eyeing the constable
with his glass)—Constable, why have you not
brought my wax candles, as I ordered ? Constable—
It is more than I dare do, my Lord. The Judge
ordered me to keep them in my possession; and if
you like to indict the man for stealing composition
candles, instead of wax, arid if he is found guilty,
you will then get the candles hack.
The Marquis—What do you mean, Sir ? Are
not the candles my property ? Constable—No, my
Lord, not according to law. You have not proved
them to be your property.

The Marquis—What do you mean, Sir, by not
proving the candles to be my property ? Constable
—Why, my Lord, the man was acquitted.
The Marquis—Well, Sir, but did not my wax-
chandler swear they were my property? Comtable—
Yes, my Lord, but Munroe (the prisoner) says that
your servant gave him the candles; and he has been
to me, and says that he has taken legal advice on the
subject, and demands the candles as his property.
The Marquis (getting warm)—Nonsense, S;r,
nonsense; they are my candles, Sir ; the man stole
them from my house, and I demand and insist that
you bring me the candles immediately.
Constable—My Lord, I must not; I only obey
my orders.

The Marquis (warmly)—Orders, Sir; stand
between you and all danger.
Constable—My Lord, it is more than I dare do.
The Marquis (warmly)—Sir, I tell you, Sir, to
bring me the candles, or I will make you, Sir.
Constable (bowing and retreating out of the room)
—I cannot do it, Sir, indeed, Sir.—(Exit.)
The Marquis (in a loud tone)—A pretty thing,
indeed, that I am to be wronged out of my property
by such a parcel of fellows.
The Marquis has had the case before the Commis-
sioners of Police. The constable has since left the
police force.

A few weeks ago two Englishmen left Paris
for Valenciennes in the diligence, their travelling expenses
being defrayed from a stock purse. The individual who
was intrusted with the money died suddenly on the road,
and his effects, including all the cish he had about him,
amounting to 3,000 or 4,000 francs, were immediately
taken possession of by the authorities. The situation of
the survivor may be imagined. In vain he urged that
half the money found on his companion belonged to him ;
that he had nothing left either to get a dinner or to pay
his fare in the diligence. Thire was no remedy, all was
placed under seal, as belonging to his deceased fellow-
traveller.—French Paper.
Mr. COOPER'S new work, entitled « The
Heidenmauer," is built on one of the most striking and
romantic circumstances in German history. The extra-
ordinary incidents lay which it is marked arose out of a
dispute for the possession of certain lands between the
Baron of HARTENBERG and the Chief of a Benedictine
convent ; and the manner in which this was carried on,
together with the nature of the agents employed, render
the affair one of the most mein Table feuds on record.
No wonder, therefore, that the vivid mind of COOPER
should have fixed on it.

On Saturday se'nnight five little boys, the
eldest not more than 12, went to bathe a short distance
above Stoke-bridge, Ipswich. WILLIAM BARNET, a lad
aged 10, went into the water first, and in a few minutes
he got out of his depth and sunk. A lad named LANE,
aged 10, immediately plunged after him. He caught
hold of him, and the other grayed him tight by the
neck; in consequence of this they were l oth drowned.
Their companions, who c:,tild not swim, were unable to
render any amistance.—..Cokliester Gazette.

Mr. HUNT presented a petition from the North-western
Metropolitan Union praying for a full and complete inquiry
into the case of private Somerville. Tile Hon. Member
said there was now a Stir Chamber inquiry at Weedim
Barracks, to which the public were not admitted, and
where the unfortunate man was to be a witness, under
the terror of the lash again, in case he gave such evidence
as he could do if he were at liberty. He was sorry the
Hon. Member for Middlesex had withdrawn his motion
for a proper inquiry upon this case, for it was highly im-
portant that the ensuing inquiry should be ample and
public.
Mr. HUME said he only withdrew his S otion upon
the assurance of the llight lion. Member for Westmin-
ster (Sir J. C. Hobliouse), that every opp irtunity should
be given for a full inquiry. 11 the case should turn out
otherwise, be would lie ready to bring forward his 'no-
tion for a more effectual inquiry.
Sir JOHN BRIDGES said it would be time enough
for the Hon. Member (Mr. Hunt) to make such observa-
tions when the result of the inquiry proved it to have
been'in, ffectual.
The petition was ordered to be printed.

Mr. HUNT then presented a petition from a public
meeting of the working classes held on Kennington Com-
mon on the 9th of July, praying fur the abolition of the
punishment of fl )geing in the army and navy.
Sir JOHN BRIDGES was persuaded, from what he
had seen while he was in the army that corporal punishment
was highly injurious to the army, and if he should be
in the House in a future Parliament when it was proposed
to abolish it, he would cordial y support the proposition.
Colonel EVANS supported the prayer of the petition.
Mr. HUNT presented a petition from certain smug-
glers confined in Bodmin gaol, praying for an act of
grace. The Hon. Member hoped that some other mode
of punishing smugglers would be adopted than that of
confining them for a length of time in prison, where they
were a great burden on the county and parish rates—they
being maintained at the expense of the county, and their
families supported by the parish.
Mr. HUME supported the prayer of the petition.
Mr. LITTLE:TON on reference to the petition found it
was addressed to " Henry Hunt, Esq." and not to the
House.—(Loud laughter.)
' Mr. HUNT said he had not discovered that before, and
be2ged to withdraw the petition.
Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented six petitions in favour
of Reform and Education in Ireland, and also against the
Tithe System.

The' iloN. MEMBER. al-) presented a petition from a
person of the name of Banks, praying that a more equita-
ble system might be adopted in levying the land tax.
Also a petition from Mr. John Stephen, jun., com-
plaining of the conduct of General Darling, the Gover-
nor of New South Wale 4, in causing him to be dismissed
from his office.

Lord HOWICK observed that he should not enter fur-
ther on the subject at present than to say, Mr. Stephen
had been dismissed from his office for conduct which, in
the opinion of the executive Government, bad rendered
him totally unfit to hold a situation under the Crown.
Mr. Stephen was suspected of being privy to the escape of
a female convict, and was called upon to answer some in-
terrogatories before the Council upon the subject, which
he refused to do. Under these circumstances, General
Darling had no other course to pursue than to suspend
him. Mr. Stephen then came home and represented
his case to the Colonial Office, but as they had a
great mass of contradictory evidence before them
they could not do otherwise than to send the case
back to be investigated by the Council. This was the
course taken by Sir George Murray, and he (Lord
Howick) did not see that any other course could have
been taken under all the circumstances.
Mr. H. BULWER considered that as there was such a
vast difference in the statements made by the Noble Lord
and the petitioner, no better course could be pursued than
to have a full inquiry.

i dbtehath,adbeitnagkemnixteht!euptroiunbtlhee
taoffswirrsitoef
to several persons who were resident in the colony
me
place ; for he was anxious to know what charac-
terat Generalltrie I I
tUiE Darling,
tsa h
said
transaction complained of took
the peitioner bore, both in his official and pri-
vate capacity. He was not aware that the petition
was to be presented at that time, or he would
have brought down the answers he bad received.
However, by them he found that Mr. Steven stood high
both as a private gentleman, and in his capacity as a Ma-
gistrate and Register of the Supreme Court. He would
a'k whether it were to be allowed, that a governor was
to have power to send police-officers into a man's house,
and that man a Magistrate, to ransack the whole of
his paperg, and look into his most private affairs
without his ever having been summoned before any
Court, or being called upon to explain any-
thing on the subject of which he was suspected to be
guilty. The Honourable Member then real certificates
of good character, signed by all the Judges of the Court
in the Colony, and by the Attorney-general, in favour of
the petitioner. Unless Government were prepared to
support the most arbitrary conduct un the part of the Go-
vernors, it was impossible to let this case pass without in.
quiry. By so doing, Government would in effect say to
the people of the colony, you must not offend General
Darling ; he is lord and master, and may act as be
pleases. You may bring your complaints to England,
but there all that you will get will be, that you he
referred back to the man who has already injured you.
11,- would say no more at present on the subject, as he in-
tended next week to bring forward a motion on the con-
duct of General D Ming generally.
Mr. DIXON was at a loss to know whether the con-
duct of General Darling, or the opinions broached by the
Noble Lord were the most illegal. He would tell the Noble
Lord that the case was begun illegally, for neither in New
South Wales, nor in England, could a warrant be executed
legally at the dead of night as that was.
Mr. HUNT considered it an act of the grossest injustice
that the petitioner should be told to go back to the co-
lony, in order to clear himself from the charges, when it
was well known that he could benefit nothing by it, his
office having been abolished.
Sir C. FORBES said, it would be much better if
his Majesty's Government would select fewer military
men to fill the office of Governors. A civilian had
Arr .i
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conduct
gave
washim.
The
u petition
Anotice,
General
ent
orderedhearat;
to
Darling.
be
the
t
boen appointed to the Governorship of Ceylon, and
he hoped that example bad been followed. He knew Mr.
Stephens, and he considered him quite incapable of the
conducti imputed to
thenof
he
would move an Address to his Majesty to institute an in-
uiy into
Mr. STANLEY presented the following petuigtiuosnts,
in
favour of the Government system of education in Ireland,
from the Protestant Dissenters of South Shields, front the
or
lin printed.
id2n t
of
fd
township of Manchester, in the county of Lancashire ;
from a Political Union in Copper-street, Manchester;
from the inhabitants of St. Nicholas and St. Luke, Dub-
lin ; from Edinburgh, from Duincries, from the minister
and elders of a congregation at Cupar ; from the Presby-
tery of Belfast, in connection with the Session Church ;
from the Southern Presbytery of Dublin ; and from the
minister and elders of the Presbyterian Synod of Ulster.
Captain GORDON was surprised to find it stated in
one of the number of these petitions, that all the other
systems of Education in Ireland had failed. The
ttihieldwarheoe-lstreet Society, so far from having failed,
had amounted from only one school to a number
at which 137,600 scholars attended. If there
bad been any failure it was from a limitation of funds, but
of them prospered to the full extent of their
means.

Mr. HUINIE supported the prayer of the petitions.
After a few observations from Mr. D. JOHNSTON and
Mr. Bum Ex, the petitions were ordered to lie on the
table.

„ Mr' EWART presented two petitions from certain
r-reshyterian Di.senters in Liverpool, in favour of the na-
tional system of education in Ireland.
Mr. GOULBURN was anxious to embrace that oppor-
tunity of asking a question of the Noble Lord opposite. It
appeared that, in the finance accounts of the year end-
ing 'nuarY, 1832, there had been charged out of the
Consolidated Fund, a considerable sum which bad been

Lord ALTHORP slid the question was certainly one of
some dsfficulty. Mhe period given to decide whether th.
holders of 4 per Cents would take in lieu thereof 4 rer
cents extended till the month of April in the year 1831.
Now the parties to whom the Right Honourable
Gentleman referred, resided in the East Indies, and it was
necessary to give the interest on the money which they
held in the Stocks up to the time when their option
was declared. This view of the case bad been adopted
after the maturest consideration, and after the opinion
had been taken of the Law Officers of the Crown.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Lord RADNOR presented petitions in favour of Reform
and against tithes from a parish in Mayo.
On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, several
Bills were forwarded a stage.
Lord SEFTON presented two petitions in favour of the
new plan of education in Ireland, from Liverpool.
Lord PLUNKETT presented similar petitions from the
preshytery of Antrim, and other places in Ireland.

MAIL COACH ROADS (IRELAND.)
Lord ORIEL begged to ask the Post-Master-General
whether he bad made an enquiry into the subject of a
complaint preferred by some petitioners a few nights back
of the in•ecurity of the mail conveyance on a part of the
road between Londonderry and Dublin, and of a change
in the line of road.

The Duke of RICHMOND said he had made the re-
quisite inquiries, and saw no necessity for altering the plan
which had been recently adopted•

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

Mr. BERNAL, Mr. F. PALMER, Mr. PRTRE, and
others from the Commons, brought up the Sheriff's Ex-
penses Bill, and three Private Bills, which were severally
rsad a first time.

REFORM OF PARLIAMENT (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord TEYNHAM presented a petition from certain
freeholders of the county of Mayo, praying for additional
Members for Ireland.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented a petition
from the University of Dublin, praying that the consti•
tuency tnigl,t be assimilated to that of the English
Universities.

The Archbishop of ARMAGH presented another peti-
tion to the same effect, from the Masters of Arts of the
University.
Lord 'MELBOURNE rose to move the second reading
of the Reform of Parliament (Ireland) Bill. As this was
the last of a series of Bills on the subject of Ref irm, he did
not deem it necessary to go into any lengthened argument
upon the general question. In the whole of the
debates upon this subject, it had never been
argued, nor did he see how it could be are
gued, that it was not necessary to extend the
same principles of Reform to the Sister Island that
had been adopted in this country. If it was necessary to
extend the elective franchise to classes differently qualified
from those to whom its enjoyment had hitherto been con -
fined in this country, it could not be contended that it was
not right to make such a similar extension of the fran-
chise to Ireland as the circumstances and situation of
that country called for. It had been said that they had
carried Reform in England further than necessity required,
and further even than the expectations of the people; but
he had always felt that when we once began Reform—
when we once admitted that boroughs were to be dis-
franchised, it was necessary to carry the principles to
the extent they had done.—(Hear, hear.) Had they
done less, they would have involved themselves in a maze
of inconsistencies, from which it would have been impos-
sible for them to escape. They could not by any chance
have made any selection of boroughs which would not have
drawn down upon them the charge of partiality. But sup-
posing. they had avoided ttiat charge, and had contrived
to strike off a part of the rotten boroughs upon a prin-
ciple which would have satisfied of all of their impart'
lity the scandal of those which would have been lett wou d
chaauvseedbeemn
ore greater,ooo Ida
otht
ieo
o leaving
amongof
them would h
the
the
en-
tirely. If that argument were good in England, how
ou I
people
than the system had ever done in it
much stronger was it as applied to the nomination
boroughs of Ireland ? Had any boroughs baea left in
tie hands of individuals in that country, the charges
which had been always made against their oligarchical
tendency, would have been aggravated a thousand times
and the scandal created by their sale would have been in-
finitely aggravated by the manner in which the diminution
of the nomination boroughs would have enhanced the price
of those preserved. He was sure the House would not think
him called upon to make any remarks upon tbe state of the
representation of Ireland, either before or since the
Union, or as the elective franchise rested upon the
same principlesas it did in this country, to enter into a
statement so full of historical and antiquarian research
as that which the Noble and Learned Lord on the
Woolsack had found himself obliged to make from the
peculiar nature of the tenures in Scotland with re-
gard to the electoral qualifications of that country,
all that he proposed to do was to state the points
of difference between the English Reform Bill and that,
the second reading of which he now moved, with the
reasons for those differences. The first point of any
importance to which he deemed it necessary to call their
Lordships attention, was the number of representatives
to be added to that country. It had been impossible for
his Majesty's Government to teel that in opening
this, as well as other gre.t questions, certain in-
conveniences were thrown upon them. One of
the inconveniences to which they had been subject
on this occasion was the throwing open for discussion the
proposition of representation which ought to be given to
the three constituents parts of the empire, but as far as
they had yet proceeded, it was matter of congratulation
that they had been able to adjust the new propoaitions of
the representation to be enjoyed by each part of the coun-
try. The Noble Lord having stated the difference
between this and the English Bills, conceived it
was a fair and equitable enactment to be intro-
duced into Ireland, and one calculated to give
great satisfaction to that country. Under such circum-
stances, he submitted the Bill to the impartial considera-
tion of the House, on the grounds that it was absolutely
necessary to introduce Reform Mtn Ireland, and to intro-
duce it, founded on the Reformation introduced into this
country.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, particularly in the ab-
sense of some Noble Peers whom he knew to be opposed
to the present measure, could not allow this stage of the
proceedings to pass, without offering a few observations
in objection to toe Bill. It might be convenient in these
times to reform the representation here, and even in Scot-
land, and yet not to introduce it into Ireland. In 1829, the
subject of reformation in Ireland was considered, and an
important measure then adopted, by which the different in•
terests of that country were finally settled. The measure
of 1829 was founded on the former measure, namely, the
40s. freeholders, and was calculated to put an end to tha
improper influence of the Catholic priesthood. Supposing
it were proper, in consequence of what had lately passed on
the subject of the representation of the people of this part
of the United Kingdom, to adopt a similar measure
with respect to Ireland, it was surely necessary to adopt
meantla to h
resti was
hi
that measure on the principle of the measure passed in
1829, and not on any new-fangled motives of the present
(y.
T
9 otphpeosgitrionunntdo otir:is whichmeoootrhe. the Noble Duke
mea-
sure e
oa
-
sure a great preponderance of influence and of right was
given to the Irish Catholics. The rights of free-
men were put an end to after the death of the
present freemen, the rights given by corporate bodies men
also put an end to. The Noble Lord bad, therefore, de-
parted from the principles laid 'down both by the enact-

The wish to unite the whole of Germany
into one kingdom gains ground daily, and is the
subject of discussion in the salon and the cafe.
The people speak boldly, and declare they arc
determined never to be satisfied until this great
object is obtained. They pretend that at present
they are the shuttlecocks of Europe—their
country the field of battle on which disputes, to
which they are no parties, are decided—that
they are at the will and mercy of their powerful
neighbours—that they are bought and sold
like slaves—that the brother can be called on to
draw his sword against his brother, and that their
rationality is destroyed. They complain also
hat, from the continued changes in the duties
)f the different kingdoms and duchies, their
commerce is fettered, and that the merchant he-
sitates to speculate, knowing that the tariff of to-
day is not the tariff of to-morrow. All these
complaints, they contend, would be radically
cured, supposing the whole of Germany was
placed under the sceptre of one Monarch.
It is also anticipated that the next protocol of
the Diet will put the press under strict regula-
tions. For this also the agitators are prepared,
old arrangements are already made fo7 printing
German newspapers in France. The press in
Baden is free—possessing no censor, and
amenable only to laws, mild and equitable in
their construction. But then the application of
those laws is despotic to an intolerable degree,
►ud places the editor in a much worse position
(ban if his articles were co;npelled to pass the
censor. The Government, having the wish to
crush any particular paper, orders the law officer
o institute proceedings criminally against the
editor. The delinquent is summoned to appear
before the Magistrates, who are Judges ap-
pointed by the Duke, and removable at his
pceasure ; they are not sworn to distribute jus-
tice equitably ; neither are they responsible to the
Chamber for their acts. Their sittings are in se-
cret, and inquisitorial. Having examined the
culprit, and permitted him or his advocate to
defend the article in question, the Judges re-
tire, and at some future period the editor is
Again summoned, and his sentence is read to
him. It is easily to be believed that a process
once commenced, the unfortunate writer is inva■
riably punished. The only friend the Press I)oE-
esse s in Baden is M. V. Winter, the Minister
of Justice ; but, unfortunately, he has little
power. M. V. Turkheim, the Minister for Fo-
reign Affiirs, has the reins of Government in
his hands. It is he who directs prosecutions,
and by his influence the Judges are appointed.
This gentleman is not liked ; he is proud and
overbearing, and has greatly contributed to
render the Duke, who is a weak, but good man,
very unpopular. On the contrary, the Minister
of Justice is a great favourite, from his manly re-
sistance to the demands of the Confederation for
:he suppression of the liberty of the Press ; but
he is no favourite at Court, and his power to
do good is very limited.

Neither the Prussians nor Austrians are liked
in the South of Germany. The former are not
so much in disfavour as the latter, and great ex-
pectations are entertained that the Prussians, at
some future period, will join in the and poli-
tical scheme. At present Frederic William is
beloved ; he is the idol of his people ; his cha-
racter is mild, equitable, and open, and he rules
the nation with the hand of a parent ;—he en-
courages commerce, and his subjects flourish.
While this truly noble man lives no change will
take place in the political position of Prussia.
But the instant he ceases to breathe, and the
Crown Prince ascends the throne, the flame will
burst, the promised constitution wit' be de-
manded, and the South of Germany will obtain
a powerful ally in the disaffected of the North.
So much is Frederic William personally be-
loYedin the South, that were he anxious to be-
come Emperor of Germany (I do not include
Austria), he has only to promise a liberal consti-
- ration, and the destruction of the manifold Iron,
tiers, and he would be receivEd with open arms
throughout the whole country. lam inclined
.o think that the King of Prussia well knows
the influence he possesses, and is taking the sure
road for improving it, by rendering the people
dissatisfied with their present state, and, by ar-
bitrary duties and military occupations, compel-
ling them by some decisive act to throw off their
allegiance to the petty Sovereigns, and to call on
some powerful nation to take them under its
protection. Prussia is watching the fermenta-
tion, and will be ready at the critical moment.
Austria sees clearly the intrigues of her ally, and
is endeavouring to out-manoeuvre him. Met-
ternich is secretly ingratia'ing himself with the
petty Princes ; he is offering them a tariff—so
drawn up as to produce to them a greater re-
venue, and liberate commerce from the frontier
duty. His proposal is to form a general tariff
for the whole of the South, and Austria to gua•
cantee a certain annual sum to each Prince, and
to undertake the general collection. This plan
would be very desirable were it merely a ques-
'ion of money, but the real aim of Austria is
known—the command of the whole of the South
of Germany, the suppression of all liberal prin-
ciples, and the introduction of the rattan. This
jealousy between the two nations is one of the
principal causes for their disinclination to en-
gage in a general war. They are afraid lest
either Power should obtain the ascendancy, and,
possessing it, turn it to his advantage. The
people, on the contrary, are anxious for war,
t,oand hoping,fforward,
vaa mr thereby,
d,carelmd credibly
so
almost
yttioi
informed
e ao
rcmi:bretdaa s t
certainty,
t in
the ecountry
their
s egverer
aatl as
to
parts
mrt ss;
in Germany there have been meetings of fami-
lies, who have determined on compelling their
children to withdraw from the army in case of a
general war, and that any person refusing should
he disinherited, and rendered an alien to his re-
lations. Invariably, before a young man enters
-; he army, his parent compels him by an oath not
to draw his sword against a German. I have
also heard, and that in a very creditable quarter,
hat in case of a general war the French army
.vould be well received, and joined by
the greater
part of Germany—that is, the Gertrans would
!tot enter the French service, but forming them-
',elves into different corps, they would put them-
,elves under the orders of a-French Commander;
and they are as determined that as soon as ther
ause is triumphant,
the French army must wi-h-
-..
draw itself into its own territories—the Germ up,
!)eing firmly resolved to remain Germans, an I ic,
establish their nationality.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

injury.
Fanny Baker—Please you, my Lord, would you
ax her why she wears the blue kickseys in this here
bles,ed muggy weather. It wa'nt fair for to come
stuffed in that ere kind of a vay, when you may feel
if I've a morsel between my petticoat and my pelt,
barrio it's a piece of an old shimmy, begging your
Lordship's pardon. Look here, please you, my Lord.
Maria Grey—Fan, I say, don't you go for to ex-
pose your body to the whole town, for the sake of
that ere lousy old broom-girl. If I wa'nt five or six
vim lighter nor her, I'd pitch into her myself.
The LORD MAYOR--It is DO affair of your's if
she choose to wear a different sort of dress. Maria
Grey—But please you, my Lord, you might as well
Tint on the gloves has hit her from the belly to the
chin, she's got sich lots of toggery on. Bless'd it
Fait dtd'nr give her two or three good uns as would
make her burst if she did'nt git 'ern about the waist-
band of her breeches.
The broom-girl said she wouldn't mind fighting
the whale three if they didn't kick her when she
was down ; but the moment she returned a blow
somebody tripped her up behind, and when she fell,
men and women fell upon her.
The (fticer said it was a fact that a set of black-
guard fellows, as well as women, had done as the
broom-girl had described. Indeed there was no
mor, fair play than might be expected in a prize-ring.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you know these three
girls to be troublesome and a nuisance ? Officer—
I know them to be common thieves and street-
walkers, aid that the inhabitants are dreadfully an-
noyed by them.
The LORD MAYOR —Let them be put to haul
labour for a month in Bridewell.
Fanny Baker (in an under tone).—l'm blowed if
my Jack don't tickle her toby for this here.
BOW STREET.

It may be remembered that some weeks ago an
under-waiter at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street,
was committed from this office for having robbed his
master of a quantity of plate. At the time of the
robbery the Ma'quis de Lavallette (son of the cele-
brated Lavallette) was sojourning at Fenton's, and his
bed-room was plundered of some valuable property,
including a gold watch with a cross composed of brd•
hunts on the case, and on the dial the names of his fa-
ther and mother. This watch, the Marquis stated, was
given to him by his mother on her death-bed, with
an earnest exhortation to preserve it, " whatever
perils might assail him." The Marquis was so
much affected when he dis.covered his loss, that he
shed tears. He immediately offered a large reward
for the recovery of the watch, to which was attached
a curious gold seal, worth fifty guineas, and some
valuable seals. Nothing was heard of it till Friday,
when it was ascertained by a police-officer, that
such a watch had been offered in pawn by a dust-
man, in Jermyn-street. The officer went to the
dustman, who immediately produced the watch,
which he said he had found in the dust taken from
Fenton's Hotel. He had offered it for sale to a
Jew in Jermyn-street, who said he would give him
3s. for the whole lot. He then offered it in pawn
in the same street, and the pawnbroker refused to
give more than Si. which he refused to take.
the MAGISTRATE ordered the watch to be deli-
vered to the Marquis,and severely censured the dust-
man tur not requtittig, and the pawnbroker for not
detaining, the watch.
MARLBORO U G S TREE T.
Eli::abeth Shaw, a respectable looking young
woman, about 30 yeara of age, was charged with
having intermarried with Edward Shaw, her first
husband, Win. Shaw, being living.
S'iaw, a hair-dresser, deposed, that
about eigiti'ien months ago he became acquainted
with: the,.. prisoner, and subsequently married her.
She Was very .e4iravagant, but he loved her; and
.r,ough tiring di 1 not go on so smeothly as he could
wish,' they liv together without any thing parti:
"lull*, till one night he met her firm-m.

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A well-dressed man, named John Williams, was
on Sasurday brought before Mr. Alderman WilsoN,
charged with stealing glasses from various taverna
and public-houses in the City.
The prisoner, it appeared, was brought up to a
lucrative trade, but not being fond of work, he had
contrived to live for some length of time past by the
following stratagem
He sallied forth from his lodgings, at the east
end of the town, in the morning, and arrived in the
City, the scene of action, at a time the proprietors of
taverns and public-houses and their servants were
busily engaged in business. It was his practice to
slink into one of the above houses, and call for a
glass of porter, which he always paid for on deli-
very ; and in the hurry of business on the part of
those who served him, he generally succeeded in
pocketing the glass, after lie had swallowed the con-
tents. In this manner he would enter other houses,
and being a fellow that could carry a tolerable quan-
tity of" heavy wet" without much injury to himself,
he ha; contrived to fill his pockets with the empty
glasses, which he could sell to advantage, having
only paid for the liquor which they had contained.
In the midst of his career on Friday he was disco-
vered taking a large rummer from a public-house
near the Mansion-house, after he had drunk the beer
which it contained. When searched on the spot,
not only the glass in question, but several others,
belonging to different persons at whose houses he
had given a " friendly call" that trimming, were
found in his possession. The charge for a glass of
porter is lAd.; so that the prisoner only expended
that trifle at each house, and pocketed glasses in va-
lue from 2s. to 2.. 6d. each. Ile was committed.
Three gies, Maria Grey, aged 12, Esther Smith,
aged 13, and Fanny Baker, aged 14, were brought
up before the Magistrates, charged with having as-
saulted a broom-girl.
It appeared from the statement of an officer, tha•
in passing along Moorfields he saw Fanny Baker and
the broom-girl pummelling each other with great
fury ; and he perceived that Maria Grey, who acted
as clothes-holder to the former, gave the broom
girl a sly kirk or punch in the wind now and then,
which caused an unmariretly noise. Esther Smith,
too, acted on the treacherous, although she pretended
to he the friend of the poor foreigner, who, upon
being raised from her back, 411t4 often pushed for-
ward on her face by her second, amidst the laughter
of the crowd. Ti e principal cause of merriment
was a pair of blue worsted breeches which the
broom-girl wore, and part of which was visible at
every toss she got. When the witness went to sepa-
rate the combatants, Maria Grey, the youngest of the
set, became quite bound able, and swore she would
" darken the day for him by a jolly good poke
of her fist in his eye," so that he was obliged
to hold her by the throat until persons ran to his
aFaii-tance. There was a marked difference in the
stile of each of the fighters; the broom-girl fought
with her elbows, and a cited her antagonist with the
hacks of her large bony hands and wrists. In fact,
every blow she gave told upon half a card of Ba-
kes's person, so that the latter felt the first part of
a whop tinder one of the righcribs, and the last
part under the let eve, This was as bad as the
bastinado. As for Miss Baker, she trusted to a
tprirtern of Pee Owe, and the sudden straight-
forward shot of the back knuckles, which chattered
against the foreign tusks like a double-cannon at
billiards. Science would, however, have lost, if
now constant companion, treachery, had not her
infernal tricks in readiness. The broom-girl said, in
language which it was very difficult to understand,
that she and others of her poor countrywomen had
of late been very much knocked about, because
some newspaper-man said they came over to help
the Queen to prevent his Majesty: from passing the
Reform Bill.
The LORD MAYOR—Oh !, you mean Mr. Cobbett ?
The Broom-girl—Nye, atsis de man. Him say
we be ugly,.we be nasty, we don't smell nice;
and him say, drive them all to de --.—(Laughter,)
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I read the article, but
it made every body roar with laughter, arid was
altogether so droll, that I am sure it never could
have been written for the purpose of doing you any