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and having agreed to give the price Mt upon it, he returned
it into Mt hands of the shopwan, desiring him to wind it up
and set it going, as he was in a hurry to be off to business.
This having been done without loss of time, the watch was
returned to the prisoner, who, placing it in his fob with one
hand, began rummaging about in his trousers pocket, as if
searching for the money to close the bargain. Instead, how-
ever Of paying for the watch, the prisoner made a sudden
" bolt " out of the shop, and ran down the London-road with
great swiftness, pursued by the shopman calling out "Stop
thief." When the prisoner got to the corner of Market-
street, he ran down the turning, but the number of his pur-
suers having increased he was at length stopped, and when
subsequently searched the complainant's watch was found in
his possession.
When questioned by the magistrate, the prisoner said
that at present he should decline making any defence, as be
supposed the case must go before a jury.—He was then com-
mitted.

TI/AMES.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF RAPE.— Samuel Hart, a
grave-looking man, 50 years old, and nearly bald-headed,
was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with forcibly
violating the person of Mary Ann Dodd, his wife's sister,
aged 18 years.
Mr. Pelham stated the case for the prosecution. He said
this was a most painful and extraordinary case. The prisoner
was a painter and glazier, and lived in Greenwood-street,
Mile-end. The girl- whom he was charged with abusing was
a cripple, and had bean afflicted with a disease of the hip from
the time of her birth ; and one of her legs being shorter than
the other, she could not walk without the assistance of a
crutch. When she lay down, she could not rise again without
a great effort, unless she was assisted. Some time ago the
girl went to the house of her sister, the prisoner's second
wife, as a sort of domestic, and to do needle-work. On
the night of Tuesday, the 16th ult., the prisoner came
home with his wife at a very late hour. The girl was
sitting up for them, and let theth in, and they all went
up stairs to their bed-rooms at the same time. The girl's
bed-room was on the same floor, and adjoined the
prisoner's bed-room. She slept with the prisoner's three
children. At daybreak, on the morning of the 17th, the
girl was awoke by the prisoner, who had obtained admission
to her bed, and he then committed the offence laid to his
charge. The girl screamed loudly for help, indeed as loud as
she was able, and the children awoke and began crying. The
prisoner immediately left her and returned to his own room.
His wife, it appeared, slept so sound that she did not hear the
screams of her sister, and was not made acquainted with the
affair until several days afterwards. The girl was so over-
come with shame and fear that she made no communication
to her sister in the house or to any one else, until Sunday
last, when she informed another sister and her father that the
prisoner bad abused her, and begged of them to obtain re-
dress. •Her father promised that he would attend to her
wishes, but he had not sought redress for hisinjured daughter,
and took no steps in the matter at all. Under these circum-
stances the sister had consulted him (Mr. Pelham), and he
advised that the man should be immediately given into cus-
tody. The prisoner was the father of a large family. He
should prove the facts he had stated by the evidence of the
injured girl, and he submitted, that notwithstanding the
length of time which had elapsed before the prosecutrix made
any communication to her friends, it was a proper case to be
sent before a jury. •
Mary Ann Dodd was then sworn. Her testimony confirmed
the statement of her solicitor. She added that the prisoner
had since made improper advances towards her, which she
had resisted.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Why did you not mention this to the
prisoner's wife? Witness (crying)—l was too much ashamed,
sir.

Mr. BALLANTINE—To whom did you first mention what
the prisoner had done? Witness—To my sister Caroline. I
saw her on Friday last, and told her I was not comfortable
with my 'eldest sister and her husband, and wished to leave
them. On Sunday I left the prisoner's house, and told my
sister Caroline how the prisoner had misbehaved.
Caroline Dodd, who is several years older than the prose-
cutrix, stated that the last witness called upon her on Friday.
She appeared much depressed, and said she was afraid of the
prisoner, and that he had not behaved well towards her. She
asked her sister what the prisoner had done, and she said she
had something on her mind which she would divulge upon
another occasion. On Sunday, when her sister returned
home, she related everything to witness. She immediately
communicated with her father, who desired her to leave
everything to him, and he had done nothing.
Mr. BALLANTDZE— Did she appeor to be ill ? Witness—
She was very ill, and had been fretting.
Mr. BALLANTINE asked the prosecutrix if she had seen her
sister between the 17th and 27th, and she replied in , the
negative.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the girl had suffered ten days to
elapse before she complained to any one, and continued to
live in the house of the very man who, she alleged, had
ruined her. . That was an awkward circumstance ; but it
did not palliate the prisoner's guilt, if guilty he was. The
girl was of mature age, and there was nothing to prevent
her complaining to the prisoner's wife, who was, moreover,
her own sister.
Mr. Pelham said nothing but a feeling of shame had pre-
vented the girl communicating with her friends. He asked
the sister if the prisoner's wife had not made some proposal
in connexion with the affair.
The witness said that her eldest sister had promised to
support the prosecutrix and her offspring if she became preg-
nant by the prisoner.
Mr. Pelham asked for a remand, that he might obtain the
evidence of a medical witness, and likewise the evidence of
the prisoner's own son, who saw the immoral conduct of his
parent.
The prisoner, with much animation, said the charge was
false, and trumped up against him by the prosecutrix and
her sister, who had given evidence. He was a respectable
and a moral man, and had never any idea of committing the
offence laid to his charge. The girl had robbed him to a
great extent, though he had supported and cherished her,
and her sister Caroline was a common prostitute, who for-
merly walked Bishopsgate. He begged of the magistrate to
allow him to put in bail and obtain professional advice, for
he was an innocent man.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he had no doubt the case must
ultimately go before a jury, and when he did commit he
would take bail for the prisoner's appearance at the Central
Criminal Court. Under those circumstances he had no
objection to receive good bail for the prisoner being forth-
coming to answer the charge on Friday next.
Bail was then tendered and accepted for the prisoner,
himself in 801., and two sureties of 401. each, and he was set
at liberty.
A Britrm FELLOW.— William Hazle, an ill-tempered
though well-dressed fellow, residing at 11, Portman-place,
Stepney, was charged with cruelly maltreating Susannah
his wife.
The complainant, a delicate, interesting young woman,
stated that she had been for four years married to the pri-
soner, and during the whole of the period he had treated her
with most unrelenting cruelty, not from any sudden ex-
citement, but calmly and deliberately. On Sunday week he
got a piece of rope, which he made up in the form of a whip,
and on the same evening he took the screws from the hinges
of the door, which he again temporarily fastened up with
nails. About four o'clock next morning he burst in the door,
and beat her •cruelly with the rope which he had prepared.
On another occasion she gave him in charge for beating her
with a thick bamboo cane, which he split to pieces on her
person, but on his promising amendment before the inspector,
the charge was not pressed. On Wednesday last he came
home in ill humour, and d—d the infant, who was crawling
`upon the ground. She told him not to do so, as his curses
would fall upon himself, when he followed her into the
kitchen, drew her along by the hair of the head, and gave her
several blows and kicks, which cut and marked her severely.
He never let her see the colour of his money, but left her
and her children to starve, so as that they were compelled to
live on the casual bounty of the neighbours.
Anne Pearson, a poor woman living in a house to the rear
of the prisoner's, proved that for the last three months, during
which she lived in the place, the prisoner treated his wife
with unremitting cruelty. On the previous Wednesday she
showed witness her legs, which were all over bruises, and in
gores of blood. The complainant was a most domestic
woman, who never left her home, but she and her children
were half starved by the prisoner, and witness often assisted
her with food out of her own scanty means.
John Pearson, husband to the last witness, stated that on
Saturday he 'Saw a stick rise and fall through the window of
the prisoner's house as if some person was beating another in-
side with great violence. The house was at some distance,
and as the door was shut, witness heard no cries.
Mr. BALLANTINE—You and your wife assisted this poor
woman ? Witness—Oh, sir, don't speak of that, I'd blush to
mention it ; 'twas a trifle—a mere trifle. I wish it had been
more, poor thing, she subsists on too little.
This little touch of generous sympathy and unostentatious
humanity thrilled through the Court with an electric effect.
The prisoner in his defence admitted striking her, but said
she had ruined him by her extravagance, and pawned all
he had.
Mr. BALLANTINE said it was clear the prisoner was a bad
tempered fellow, and no one with his disposition should be
in any place involving the slightest authority. For the
assault on his wife he should pay a fine of 51.. or be imprisoned
for two months, besides giving security to keep the peace in
future.
The prisoner was locked up in default.
The worthy Magistrate subsequently ordered five shillings
to be given to the complainant, and a like sum to the poor
but worthy man who had relieved her in her necessities.
Pearson—No, your worship ;I am obliged to you. My
wife and I can earn our little morsel and eat it in peace.
Give it all to the poor woman.
Mr. BALLANTINE bighlycommended the noble spirit which
exhibited itself in so low a state, and was sure the honest fel-
low's own emotions were the best reward he could receive.
WORSHIP-STREET.
COINING.—George Reynolds, a middle-aged man, of re-
spectable connexions, was placed at the bar for further exa-
mination, charged with having been found engaged in the
manufacture of spurious money.
It appeared from the evidence of Sergeants Teakle and
Price, of the B division, that in consequence of information
they had received they proceeded on the morning of Thurs-
day last to a house in White Bear-gardens, Hackney-road,
and on knocking at the door they were admitted by the pri-
soner, whom they instantly secured before he had time to re-
cover from the panic occasioned by their sudden appearance.
After searching his pockets, in which they found three coun-
terfeit half-crowns, they proceeded to a room on the first floor,
where they discovered a plaister-of-Paris mould for coining
half-crowns upon a trivit in front of the fire, and also a smaller
mould for the inanufacture of shilling pieces, upon the
side of the stove. On a further search they afterwards disco-
vered a quantity of base metal, a crucible, several tiles, and
all the other requisite implements and accessories for carrying
on the nefarious occupation. The prisoner was then con-
veyed to the station-house, on reaching which he stated that
distress had driven him to the commission of such practices,
in which he had been engaged only about four or five weeks.
The prisoner was recognised by the officers of the Court as
having formerly held a highly respectable position in society,
but they had lost sight of him for some years, and were un-
acquainted with the disastrous circumstances that had re-
duced him to such an ignominious condition.
The prisoner, who declined offering any defence, was fully
committed, but he will be brought up again for the comple
tion of the depositions.

LIABILITY OF ROYAL PALACES
TO PAYMENT OF POOR-RATES.
Yesterday, at a Petty Sessions of the Justices acting in
and for the Staines division of the county of Middlesex, held
at the Red Lion Inn, Hampton, the proceedings in the long-
pending dispute between the Crown and the parish of Hamp-
ton, as to the liability of the residents in Hampton Court
Palace to be assessed to the poor-rates, was further gone into,
The magistrates present were Messrs. C. Devon. T. Marriott,
T. Paterson, and Scott.
Mr. Kent appeared, as before, as solicitor for the parish of
Hampton ; and Mr. Pemberton, the Crown Solicitor, being
absent in a distant part of the couutry, Mr. Jones, his chief
clerk, attended for him.

Mr. Kent said he attended that day on behalf of the pa-
rish of Hampton to support certain summonses, which the
Bench had been pleased to issue against twenty-four of the
inmates of Hampton Court Palace, for non-payment of a rate
of one shilling in the pound for the relief of the poor, made on
the 2d of May, 1839 ; and also for nineteen other rates which
had been made subsequent to that period; and when he had
proved that the rate was a legal one, ;unless the parties so
itunmoned showed good cause why they should slot pay the

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REPEAL ASSOCIATIObesi3g er the 'Kr
At an early hour the Conciliation-hall washaterl
plicants for admission, and at the hour aPt„,i—occollidie.'hi•
patch of business not a space remained 01°4, v„,ss
galleries appropriated for the accommodation '",regrotly;o.
is generally the case when Mr. O'Connell iSiko*e 00'
bited a formidable array. At one o'clock the "`" arsti.(llo
leu • r
entered the hall, and was received with al
strations of applatise. He then moved that
should take the chair. h°no°,tei
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks for the ere sojeciv
upon him, and assured the meetin that to`"the
existence -a warmer advocate for repeal& it rito
g ; g
union than he was.--(Cheers.) .asrea pr.;
Mr. O'CoNNELL rose, and said he consl vey•
once to move that the signature of the Hight 0,04 $
Bishop of Kildare, be inserted on the 111 dee' It";ted
names of the other eighteen prelates who ,b,ters)
decided opposition to the Colleges Bill.—(ul';i4bl.rd 01';,1 of
compliment they owed to that respected and P,`,..e8 100''', of
prelate. He trusted that whatever diffetel jec`,4 o,feJ
might have hitherto subsisted, that after tb°b%• li'decir 1,1
nineteteen prelates—uncontradicted officiaq,;;lll„g ere 411
them—on the contrary, all their bishops '" smithtbilittot
that that Bill was dangerous to faith and mor3ect t°
be no further difference of opinion with resPdsted, tort,.
amongst' the public.—(Hear, hear.) He tr„;:i $
they would reject the Bill with scorn 3,4" 0501.,e1
(Cheers.) The Learned Gentleman then of, 01 ,;,110.00
munication to make from that most estiniav`,;ol,'"Lealiel
gentleman, Mr. S. O'Brien, M.P., which wasigt'be 813.1`eorodie
by the contents of that letter. It containea benoe(l;*l
of a gentleman of rank and fortune, requesl01510003;01v
a member of the Association.-1-The letter ;stioli„,o°,B
adhesion of Mr, Lloyd to the Repeal Assoc of
r
read.] Since the adhesion of Mr. Smith 0P"0 ate' id
-
never had more glorious intelligence to eeri, 40,,
the accession of Mr. Lloyd. Here they bad
rank and fortune, a Protestant, and strongly ring rely t•
religious principles, coming forward and dee; for fie ce,
viction that there was no hope, no salvati%re.,
save in the restoration of their native Legisl,„isloedlaor
O'Connell) considered the accession of this 14 tied
man, whose family he had the honour of b'''Easle,ll" 00.0
with, a sufficient answer to the miserable eioo,
ry
gutter commissioner of the Times. In condo' ijo,
dttie
that the secretary be directed to write to Mr' 1 °,l acro,
him every assurance that, in looking for a rev-0 37.1e53(08'
gislative union, the Irish people aimed at iiiiticswe
whatever; that they desired no sectarian or P°oleir
tage over anv class of their fellow-countrYmen..iotit,
rtits
ject being the regeneration of their common ernig
Mr. J. O'CONNELL, M.P., read a letter iron
refill,
O'Brien, in reference to the Davis Testimonial,' of e„111 to t 4,30
Mr. O'CONNELL would take that opportuniti erer't
his hearty approbation of having a testimonia b jtO ei,
memory of that man, of whom Ireland had sucindehi pelita!lr
to be proud, and to whom she was so deePiYbos j'eir
persons of every religious denomination and c.o tileo
th
were anxious to participate in commeinoralfibipi,dt,
tinguished countryman, it would be right to of $ mopportunity, and thereby deprive the matter r fr?cli
sectarian character. lett 6hlet
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL read the extraordinall.cturef
the Times' "Commissioner," in reply to the stroljallns'
e 45'0,
he conceived it to ba his duty to make on the .20, ,
individual. "Halesworth. Sept of Ye
" Sir.—l have this moment read in the Tres the,oe
your dirty and unmanly to remarks concerolth,tell
commissioner; and I do not lose one moment
you are a liar and " I
a blaam, Sir,
ykour obedient ervs2o4o' ir
"John O'Connell, Esq., M.P." aJOui. vio6
e .4 h°°iC
Mr. O'CONNELL claimed the privilege on
sertion of that specimen of English politen'—soole
lti" tie
of the association. He (Mr. O'Connell) seri with, ;
the gallery who seemed disposed to quarrewiiiriatios tlbis
condemning all for the transgression of an irdisn'
would therefore merely say that the blackgo3,ol to4it t",a,
culiar to the " commissioner." It would be 11„re ttiectier.ko
person an appropriate name. They were arriog 'age/ 31 fa
were various classes of agents
waspemloyed "„uate,f,b oil, 1`,41
and the lowest grade of these called Pot
He would suggest, then, that this " commissl(,),oes
cierti
future be called the " gutter agent of the `a sod roll
Laughter)—and he considered that he possesSSaiste,criolo
terest with the press to have this soubriquet
peison had said that the Irish women were nitighte did
,:b4
"He lied.") Oh, how. ugly they were !--(!" he
wished he were here—no, he did not wish 14 gay'
old
as he should ever have the happiness of See ei"l 1.
°
as that (pointing to the ladies' gallery). of -,,°11 jBl,
Mr. O'CoxNELL handed in several large sty— do g
von - ocll3
then announced that on the succeeding —, stice„.me ter
hold a demonstration in Kerry, and on tue in ""oolio
there would be a grand stag hunt at Killatnetytod 0 '
repeal. On the following Sunday he was W.aotiorifreriitl°
meeting in Castlebar, and he had. a con:mini' cons'
relative to having a demonstration there underhandedo o'io
A large number of remittances having bee_nwishede of I'ol I
Mr. O'CONNELL: again rose, and said be, notate reP ot
the attentibn of the Association to the presen'orthe b!bail/tltilY
affairs, but before doing so he would allude to exhlobalisce,
demonstration in Tipperary. It was a Jr
,%roull1„0
peaceful, quiet, but determined men, and ", 'bad to test, "so' t,
declare, of all the monster meetings whientbe grestioo.„-0
that held in Cashel on Thursday:last was " ~astrs tt
perhaps the single exception of the Tara de.".„l"er `io thsal
thing could be more delightful than the inalft belie%_otecie.
people conducted themselves, and he did Irusvh° itiesijto
single glass was drunk by any individual, 5 a pi:Oe and rd
that immense multitude. Cheers. It ',l,,iaan4fir,
monstration, having determination for its, Hear, regto,
repeal of the union for its object-7,k the hr to le the
cheers.) The English press had taunten ugh u ,r?
ow over ont.
.10 iliac C°.
with not having wisdom or caution
late for themselves, but he would asked I_eet•
men in Tipperary in the late demonstrattent, 01,0,
It was their own reason, their own j dad that ''''esolt
1_ of the
self-command; and he, therefore,
ing in Tipperary afforded sufficier
lity of the Irish people to conduct
assured that there was not in
Irish, who could assemble in suc'

time preserve tranquillity.—(Hel
Gentleman then proceeded at o

ment on the various contingen

arise abroad as having a to
land in a war, and argued
_

realisation of any one of his prof
be the means of restoring thl
of Ireland. Having reviewed
wards.this country, and commen,
tions and modifications—which

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