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London, England, 1826-04-06 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.—(Turs DAT.)

This morning these Sessions commenced be.
fore the Right lion. the LORD MAYO a, the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Recorder,
Mr. Deputy Recorder Arabin,and several Alder-
men. The presiding Judges are the Lord Chief
Justice ABROTTAIrId Mr. inslice,Perk,the state.
who en-
tered the Court at
.10 o'clock,—.By
ment recently published,
it appeared that the
number of prisoners for trial is unprecedented,
but it has since undergone a consWeroble aug-
mentation ; and it is presumed that troepre the
Grand Juries for the City and,County are dis-
charged, the number will be increased to 450.

RETURNING VIIOI4 TRANSPORTATION.
Henry Brockley alias Wm. Johnson, aged 23,
wa• indicted for being at large in this kingdom,
before the expiration of the term for which he
was sentenced to be transported.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sergeant ARAUIN said be was aware that
the prisoner was acquainted with the proceedings
of a Court of Justice, therefore he would give
no advice ou the subject.
The poisoner replied that he was aware of his
situation, and wished the plea of guilty to be re-
corded, which subjects him to a capital punish-
ment.

Reybre the Loan Com! .1 timer.)
sTrAEINa IN A DWIII4IOINo7IIOU4II,
Elisabeth Costello, aged 'lB, was indicted for
stealing on the Bth of March eight shirts, value
pl., the property of James Nance) in . his dwell.
ing.house.
Jane, the, wife of the prosecutor, stated that
on the Bth of March eight shirts, which were
safe at six in the afternoon, hanging to dry on a
line in the parlour, near the window, which was
Open ; a little before seven witness missed the
Properly, which• Was taken out of the window,
and upon examining the garden observed the
marks of the footsteps of two persons on the bor.
der, but whether of men or women she 'could
not tell ; has since seen oh'e of the shirts in the
posiession of a pawnbroker ; witness is a laun.
dress, and the property stolen belonged to dif.
ferent gentlemen.
Mr. 11. Lloyd, a pawnbroker in Strutton
Ground, Westminster, produced mm shirt, which
was brought by the prisoner the day after the
robbery ; but, as the mark was picked out, wit.
mess refused to snake an advance ; and us the
prisoner gave equivocal answers, he caused her to
be given in custody. Witness has known the
prisoner for several years, and believes her cha.
mister to be rather diSsOlute.
The prosecutrix identified the shirt, Which had
been marked " It. S. N0.'9,"
The prisoner made no defence, except that the
shirt was given to her by a soldier.
The Loun CHIEY JUSTICE summed up the evi.
deuce, acrd the Jury returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.

Thomas Kingston, aged 17, was indicted for
stealing a clock, value 201., hi the dwelling house
of Win. Porter.

of 'West-
The prosecutor, who lives in the city
minster, stated, that on the 10th of March he
had occasion to leave his shop a few moments,
when the prisoner's compgnion took advantage of
the circumstancteentl- went lit and took the clock
from off the counter ; it was an antique table
clock, and the actual value was. 201.
A lad was called, who stated that he saw the
prisoner's confederate enter the shop and return
with the clock, when the prisoner said " Can't
you carry it t" and took it from him. Witness

ent, and asked Mr. Porter, who was in the next
shop, at the end of the Albany, whether he knew
the young man who had got the clock. The
prisoner had then got out of the way. About two
days after witness met the prisoner accidentally,
and g►►ve him into the custody of. Lee, one of the
Bow-street patrol.
The prisoner made no defence, and declined
to cross-examine the witnesses, No person was
called to speak to the prisoner's previous dia-
meter.

The Jury, without hesitation, returned a rel..
itict of Guilo—Death.

Mary M'Carthy was capitally convicted for
steuling yards of lace, value 405., the pro-
perty of Robert Orme.

The prosecutor's servant stated, that he lives
in Russel-street, Covent-garden, and on Thurs.
day last, the prisoner came, under pretence of
purchasing a piece of lace, and, while bargain-
ing, she took the card of lace now produced, and
put it under her shawl. •

The evidence !wino'r' complete, the Jury found
the prisoner Guilty—Death.. Aged

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

The Commissioners ha

day next, having appoit
whereon to hold their Si
month of April :—»

ye adjourned until Mon.
'led the following days
kings during the present

Monday - April 10
Tuesday - 11
Wednesday -
Thursday 13
Friday 14
Monday . 17
Tuesday —lfl
Wednesday - 19

Thursday
Friday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

April 20
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Yesterday morning a lad named William
man, 17 years of age, was whipped in the 80.
rough Coinpter, pursuant to his sentence at the
Southwark Sessions, for stealing two loaves of
bread from the shop of Mr. John Kerr, baker,
in Tooley-street. Mr. Holmes, the High BOW
of Southwark,
,superintended the punishment, to
witness which a crowd of youths who assembled
round the door of the prison were admitted, to
whom it was hoped the example would prove
beneficial.

Several of the Vestrymen a Mary-le-home
have, from the most praiseworthy motives, ea.
tered into a private subseriPtion among them.
selves for the erection or 6`4` addition gallery it"
the parish church.
Another
extemixe robbery took place at Ac.,
ton on Mondaynight. Mr. GXORGE WOOD had
forty-eight fat Downs sheep stolen out of a fold
in which were sixty.

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

WAY
:Extracts eke liorning Papers,April 6, 1846.

[BRITISH purls.]
The policy of the I.lw of Primogeniture con-
tinues to be strongly contested among the 'French
politicians. It is quite natural that the Royalist
party should be anxious to restore the old feudal
principles of succession, since the abolition of
entails is decidedly unfavourable to that con-
centration of wealth which is the Soul of family
influence. The fears of the Aristocracy are,

in this respect, well grounded. The endless
subdivision of the landed property is essen.
tinily democratic. The principle was well suited
to the republican era in which it was intro-
duced ; it was fitted to work out the designs of
the Revolutionary Government ; but as the basis
a a restored Monarchy—that is quite another
:thing. That it may be favourable to general
industry, and to the improvement of the soil, may
be true ; but that its effect will be to form, upon
the whole, a more enlightened and independent
• population, is yet to be determined. The pro-
gress of improvement is retarded at present in
France by so many causes, that it becomes im-
possible to ascertain the exact effect produced by
the republican part of its constitution. One
• thing is certain, that the equal distribution of
landed property will not necessarily produce an
equality of rank. Opulence may be gained in a
nation like France, without those liberal endow-
ments which generate genius, and talent, and
• ktiowledge ; and the more, in other respects, men
are on a level, the more must wealth make the
scale preponderate.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There never, probably, was a period when the
general appearance, not only of the different
States of Europe, but of the world in general,
held fo th a stronger, earnest of a universal and
lasting peace, than at this moment. At home,
weighed down by taxes, to pay the interest of an
unextinguishable debt, and pressed upon by the
exposure of fictitious capital, and the bursting of
numerous bubbles, we were never less prepared
for warfare. France, though less encumbered
than England with pecuniary difficulties, may be
looked upon as a new State, just emerged from
at state of fearful revolution, and to whom an ern
of repose is as essential as to the human body

after a long and trying state of disease. Spain,
by the insanity of her Rulers, seems al-
. most swept from the map of Europe, and
though hersvlf a pestilence, is only ,as
such an object of any regard. The foo!,
pire of Germany has nothing to hope, and
every thing to fear, from foreign contest.
—The experience of the past carries with
it no prospect of aggrandizement, which caty in
.any way compensate for the fearful chance of
again seeing an invading army in possession of its
capital, and that, too, %%itlt the grand Son of its
Emperor a firebrand in the heart of his own
dominions. Prussia, Bavaria, and the lesser
' States, the last war has left utterly powerless.
Turn we then to !twain, the chief source of jea-
lousy and alarm of late yearsond there we behold
a state of dmnestic broil and sedition, which, how-
ever we may deplore it in other respects, is'a tole-
rable earnest that the peace of the world has little
WI fear from a Government, the whole of whose
energies are called for to protects it own exist.
s'nce. This being the view of our external rein-
tions, what have we to do at home but to profit,
as far as. possible, by the state of repose which is
thus affbrded us.? What advantage has ever been
• gained to mankind by the slaughter of each other,
is a question which politicians may argue if they
will, but which philosophers can only answer In
Otte way• If Ow nations of the earth could learn
wisdom from experience, it is a question which
could admit of no dispute. in this country
we know to our cost what the- disadvantage
of needless wars has been ; and though our
insular situation, aided by the bravery .of our
fleets and, armies, has kept desolation and car-
nage from our own shores, we are, every hour of
our lives, paying dearly indeed for a species of
filory, with' which the substantial glories of peace
admit of no comparison. Happily, the'ambition
4taieSll)l4l) Seems to he taking a different turn;
Ad Wili.not be the, fault of Governments, but
of 'the rising age, if mankind do not for the fu-
lure pursue more commendable paths of ambi-
tion and glory than those w hick the past age has
"trod, so little to its, own advantage, and, as Car us
me are concerned, so much to the detriment and
cost of their posterity..