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London, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

same time, she was strictly liable in law for lie
glecting to keep her child after she came out of
prison.

- The defendant said she earned from is. 6d. to 2s;
a-day at washing and charing, and was certain 01
being employ ed three days in the week. Her eldest
daughter, who lived with her, earned from Gs. to is.
per week.

Mr. CLivE a,ked the defendant if she had since
her confinement ken enabled to purchase any fur•
niture ?

The defendant replied that she had not ; all she had
in the room was a sack of shavings, upon which she,
her infant, and her daughter slept. She trusted,
however, that the should soon get round again.
Mr. Cravn thought that the defendant's case was
one deserving of commiseration. He could under'
stand the feeling that induced her to keep out of the
house. She was evidently an industrious woman,
and preferred enduring the greatest privations to be'
corning a burden upon the parish. He thought'
under the circumstances, he could not do better tba.e
appropriate a portion of those funds placed in 111,
hands by benevolent persons to her relief. He should,
therefore, allow her as much as would purchase a few
necessary articles of furniture. The child would be
delivered up to her at the expiration of three days.
The poor woman appeared most grateful for the
kindness shown her.

SIDCUP.
THE GAME-LAWS.—Frederick Stacey attended Yes.
terday before the lion. F. Dashwood and J. Malcolm,
Esq., to answer an information, charging him witb
having unlawfully used an engine, to wit, a snare,
for the purpose of catching game, at the parish o',
Chislehurst, he not having a certificate, for which
offence he had subjected himself to a penalty of 51.
The defendant, who appeared to be a weak-minded,
imbecile person, was accompanied to the court by 11i9
mother, a very aged woman, who cried bitterly during,
the proceedings, and appeared to be dreadfully alarnoe
at the nature of the charge against her son.
John Ford, gamekeeper to Mr. Plaskett, a gentle'
man residing at Chislehurst, deposed that on the 20
of October he found a snare set upon some land in
that parish. He " laid up" to see .who would collie
to take it, and shortly afterwards the defendant came,
and was about to remove the snare, when he inter•
fered, and took it away from him.
Mr. MALCOLM—Did he say anything to you at the
time ? Gamekeeper—Yes ; he said it was the fire
time he had ever done such a thing, and he had been
very foolish; and be hoped I should not say anything
about it, but I told him my master would compel no
to take proceedings.
Mr. DAstiwoon—What is the defendant ? Keeper
—He is a labouring man about thelparish, and I dol
think he is quite right in his head.
The mother begged to be allowed to speak. Sae
sail her son worked on the roads and was paid 15.64
per day, but latterly, from an injury he had receive('
by the bite of a boar belonging to Lord Bexley, he
had been prevented from working. She was sure he
had never done such a thing before, and he would 11°:
do it again She hoped, therefore, the bench would
deal leniently with him.
Mr. MALcorm inquired of the police-constable
stationed at Chislehurst whether he knew anything
of the defendant's character ?—The constable replied'
that there was some suspicion that he was given 0
poaching, but no charge had ever before been mode
against him.
The MAGISTRATE inquired what was the nature of
the injury the defendant had received from the boar?'
The constable said he understood that two bore
belonging to Lord Bexley were fighting, and the
defendant, on attempting to separate them, Wes
attacked by one of them, and very severely bitten in
the thigh and knee.
The MAGISTRATES asked the keeper whether he found
any game or any other snares in the defendantl
possession?—The keeper said he had no game, 9117
he voluntarily turned out two pockets to show the
he had nothing of the sort, at the same time declaring
that he had never set hut this one snare, and begging
him to forgive him, which he told him it was not in
his power to do.

The BENCH inquired the amount of the costs. gr.
Freeman, from the office of Mr. Latter, of Bromley,
who officiated as clerk on the occasion, said they were
nine shillings.
The mother of the defendant begged the bench to.
be lenient. Her son could not work. She was herself
sixty-nine years old, and her husband was seventy-
two, and they had very little to subsist upon.
Mr. MALCOLM, having consulted with his col-
league, said the charge had been made out; but as it
did not appear that the defendant had been accused of 3
similar offence on any other occasion, the bench would
deal very leniently with him, and only inflict a fine
of twenty shillings and costs.
The poor old woman paid the money, and she and
her son left the court, both crying piteously,

MILFORD.--The Berthally, Jones, from Portmadr„
to 'Newcastle, has arrived at this port, having narrowu
escaped being shipwrecked. It appears that on all
morning of the 29th ult., she bore up for Ramsey Soul
in consequence of the wind blowing hard right a-held,
where she remained till the next day; when, in endear
vouring to get under weigh, she missed stays and struck
on a sunken rock, where she stuck for five hours. The
weathe'r being moderate she came off, with comparativelf
tr:flinfr damage
to keel and planks. It having been
deemed advisable to get the sloop George, Shearer, frfigi,,,
Newport to Dublin, laden with coals, under weigh, belt
too near the ground and striking heavily, during the gal'
of the Ist instant, it was accordingly done—but missing
stays, she came ashore under the Old Battery, where silt'
bilged and filled with water. The cargo has since beefs
got out, and the vessel brougqt into Ilubberstone Pill 142
be repaired.—Cumbrian.

APPREHENSION OF A MURDERER.—This morning
about nine o'clock, Mr. John M'Laren, sheriff's officer.:
apprehended in Washington-street, Anderston, ,
M'Lauchlane, lately a plasterer's labourer, the man who,
in the month of September last, assaulted a person
named Dunn or Dunion, with a reaping-hook, during i 5
quarrel, in a harvest-field on the farm of Alton, in the
parish of Campsie, whereby the weapon in question eoi
tered the body of Dunn below the arm, and the point
which touching his heart, he died almost instantaneous])''
The prisoner, who has not been seen or heard of since
the fatal affray, although every search has been made f°r
him, was quite cool and collected when apprehended by
Mr. M'Laren, and intimated that it was his intention 6:
any rate to give himself up to justice. He was conveyed
by the officer on his way to Stirling Gaol, by the eleveno'clock train on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.'
Glasgow Saturday Post.
THE NEW VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS.—A meet
ing of the Queen's counsel and Chancery barristers tom‘
place on Saturday, at Westminster, for the purpose 0e
taking into consideration the great inconvenience which
all the members of the Chancery bar are now sufferino.
from, by reason of no efficient courts having been PO;
vided for the two 'Vice-Chancellors, Sir J. K. Bruce sir!
Sir J. Wigram ; the former of whom has been sitting is
the sessions court, Westminster, whenever that court
was vacant ; and the latter has been occupying the
large dining-room appropriated to the use of the countymagistrates. The distance of these courts from those 'l4
Westminster-hall has been felt most severely during th,e
late inclement weather. A deputation of three Queen 5
counsel has been appointed to wait upon the Lord Chary
cellor to request that, since the Government have
thought proper to appoint two new equity judges, they
will also provide proper courts fur them within the Pre'
cincts of Westminster-hall.

BIRTHS.
On the 4th inst., at Ostend, the lady of G. B. Godbold'
Esq., of a son.
On the 7th insf., the lady ofJ. Ingle, Esq., Va son.
On the Sth inst ,at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, Mrs, Bobei
Elliot, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Bexley, Kent, the wife of Major
shank, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., the wife of the Rev. M. Wilkinson, MasteS
of the Marlborough School for the sons of clergymen s"_
others, of a son.

On the 9th inst., Mrs. Lewis Engelbach, of Old Dorset'
place, Clapham-road, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Milton-street, Dorset-square, the lady
of J. Samuel, Esq., of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Norwood, Mrs. J. Maitland, of a sou.
At Minterne House, Dorset, Lady Theresa Digby, ° s
ilkughter.
On the Gth inst., at Gillingoase, near Falmouth, the lady„ of
T. Horsford, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., barrister-at-law, °'
daughter,

MARRIED. ir•
On the 7th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddington, i'' to
Lionel T. Ponsford, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the '''''
T. Lewis, Esq., of Porchester-terrace, Bayswater.
,
On the Bth inst., at Northfleet Church, Kent, flora tios
fourth son of the Rev. William Pace, M.A., Captain, 20,dr,.,3
army, to Jobina, third daughter of William H. Styles, •c's'''
of .New House Farm, Northfleet.
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DIED. r
In September last, at Soorapoor, in the East Indies, 164,rfi.
the wife of Captain Meadows Taylor, of his Highness
Niz am's service.
On the 17th of September last, at Kamptee, Lieutenant
Cyril Andrews Brown, of the 7th Regiment of Madras Kati
/re
Infantry.
On the 19th ult., Louisa, the wife of John Lewis Salm°.
On the Ist inst., in Finsbury-circus, Mr. Adolphus Fla*
On the 4th inst., at Clapham, James Hannay, Esq. v.,
On the Bth inst., at Hammerstnith, Sarah, relict of
Hilditch, Esq , aged 72.
On the Bth inst., in Conduit-street, John Stevenson, 961"
the eminent surgeon-oculist. Ines
On the Bth inst., at Trinidad-place, Islington, "'-
Thomas, the infant son of George Athill, Esq. -
On the 9th inst., at New Bond-street, Mr. Hardwick.
On the 9th inst., at Wilton. place, Adam .Bromilow, Esq.
►
barrister-at-law, aged 41.
Beds, O n thethe
Rev.9th Johnhist e Rector ~ t the t
Oil the 10th inst., at Hanover-terrace, Peckham, the in
daughter of A. Johnson, E
On the 10th inst., Mary,s q.
wife of N. van Fowinkel, Uppereßeocrtoortytlhila otu psaer'i tsshP, PaegreSdt7°7l:
Ebury• street, Pimlico.
On the 10th inst., at Broadstairs, Mary, the infant daugh-
ter of I. H. Benbow, Esq., of Doughty-street. of
At Blackheath, Martha, the wife of Mr. Edward Upton,
Queenhithe. of D.
On the 11th inst., Amelia, the infant daughter
Meinertzhagen, Esq., of Devonshire-place.

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