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which he took up a poker and assaulted witness. He
took the weapon from him after a struggle, when the
defendant took up a fork which lay on the table, and
made a stab at witness, which wounded him on the face;
and he would have done him other serious injury had
not he (witness) rushed out of the house to seek the aid
and protection of the police.
Mr. GREENWOOD inquired whether there were any
witnesses ?

He was informed that the mother was the only person
present at the time. They, however, dispensed with her
testimony.
Mr. GREENWOOD asked defendant what he had to say
to the charge ?—The defendant sail he was out of
employ as a shoemaker. His mother was a woman of
independent property, and lived with his brother. lie
(defendant) had been in difficulties, and he sent to ask
his mother fur 21, when his brother interfered to prevent
her lending him the money, and threatened him with a
poker. He took it from him, and they struggled to-
gether, when he (the brother) hit him on the cheek, arid
beat him.

Mr. GREENWOOD—Has he got any marks of violence?
—Cole, 200 N, said he had a. severe bite on the cheek,
and other marks.

Mr. GREENWOOD said the assault was proved against
him, arid, urtler all the circumstances, he would order
him to find responsible bail.

IVA ND S WORM

George Nickolas Gyford, whose father, up to the time
of his death, held a situation in the House of Commons,
was brought before Mr. Clive, for re-examination upon
a charge of burglariously breaking into the dwelling.
house of his brother-in-law, Mr.Williatri Cook, a brewer,
at Wimbledon, who also holds a situation in the House
of Lords.

It appeared, from the evidence given on the first ex-
amination, last Thursday, that on the night of the Bth, or
early on the morning of the 9th inst., a forcible entry
was. made into the kitchen of Mr. Cook's house, and pro-
perty, consisting of four brass candlesticks, six glass-
cloths, some knifes and forks, a shirt, and other articles,
stolen therefrom. Information was given to the police, and
suspicion fell upon the prisoner, who had been seen hover.
in;; about the premises on the night of the robbery. A
sharp look out was kept for him and he was apprehended
on Wednesday last, on Wimbledon-common ; he was
wearing the stolen shirt, and upon searching him a du-
plicate relating to the stolen candlesticks was found.
Mr. Cook was afterwards informed that the prisoner was
in custodyl but he refused to attend, and the pawnbroker,
who produced the candlesticks, could not identify the pri-
soner as the party pledging.
Mr. Clive, the sitting Magistrate on that occasion,
ordered summonses to be served upon Mr. Cook and his
servants.

Charlotte Sutton, the housemaid, was with much diffi-
culty made to prove the fact of the house having been
broken open and the property stolen.
John Davis, the nephew of Mr. Cook, was called to
identify the shirt which had been found upon the pri-
soner, and which bore his initials. He was under exami-
nation nearly an hour, and said that he did not know
when the robbery was committed, and that he could not
tell, after examining the shirt take • from the prisoner,
whether it was like one of his or not, although it was
marked with the same initials and in the same manner
and place. At last, when the Magistrate declared that
he would commit the witness to prison if he did not
cease prevaricating, the witness said it was very likely the
shirt might be his—it was like his in all respects, but
yet he would not swear to it.
Some further evidence was given, connecting the pri-
soner with the robbery, and he was again remanded.
Mr. CLIVE said it was evident to him that interested
parties were et.oeavouring to stifle the inquiry, but he
was determined it should proceed, and if the police
wanted summonses to compel the attendance of witnesses
they should have them.
The prisoner was then remanded until Tuesday next.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Dec. 23, 1843." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
1838-9-40-1-2
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total.
Aire
tiuvmns.l
yFeaivre.
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 192 183 182
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 140 140 148
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
Dseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidnoys, &c. 6 5 5
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c l5 10 9
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 4 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 92 106 105
01. d Age, or Natural Decay
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes . 968
Average Weekly Deaths
908 903

Population Average Death
enu- Weekly in
DISTRICTS. merated Deaths the
Ib4l. 18.38-9-40-1-2. Week,
West—Kensington, St. George
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Five
I Five
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye Irs..Autumns.
St. James
North—St. Mary-le •bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 162 165
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon.
don, West London, City of
London 373,806 184 183 194
East—Shoreditch,Whitechape ,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49'4 203 206 224
South—St. Saviour, St. Olave,

St. George( Southwark),Ber-
mondiey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Rother-
hithe , Greenwich —438,060 219 227 239

Total 1,870,727 903

908 968

It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised th<
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with am) without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith( Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
General Register Office, Dec. 28, 1843.

PASSENGER DUTIES ON RAILWAYS.—From a re-
turn made to the House of Commons in the course of
last session it appears that the railroads in England and
Wales, 56 in number, have paid in the year ending Ja-
nuary, 5, 1843, no less than 152,663/. 13s. Old., as pas-
senger duty. The amazing increase of railway traffic
within the last ten years may be gathered from the fact,
that in the year ending January, 1833, the whole sum
paid to Government as passenger duty was 6391. 16s.
10d. The amount paid in the year ending January,
1842, was 143,204/. 13s. Mid, In Scotland, in the year
ending January last, 20 railroads paid 15,1251. is.
being an increase of 3,4681. Os. I Id. over the preceding
year. The gross amount paid by all the railroads in the
kingdom during the last year was 167,788/. 14s. 71d.
The amount paid in the previous year was 159,8611 14s.
6d., showing an increase in 1843 of 7,9271. Os. lid: The
ten railroads having termini in London paid 82,447/. 4s.
5d.: the three largest amounts being paid by the Lon-
don and Birmingham, the Great Western, and the South
Western, which paid respectively 25,9401, 14s. Id.,
25,8041 ss. 2d., and 12,0481 19s. 7d., or more than two-
fifths of the whole amount.

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TIIE LOGIC OF A SMUGGLER.—Wherefore is a poor
widow woman like myself to abide by the juggling of
princes and their ministers,--who deal with nations and
languages as with flocks and herds; creating as it were
a line in the air, which they advance or retrograde at
will, and which is to mako me French or Fleming,
according to their whims and fancies ? My old grand-
father used to boast of having spoken with those who
remembered the time when Flanders extended half way
into the France of to-day,—the time when Mar'brook
came soldiering here, and for all the great victories we
hear so much of, left tke Grand Monarque in posses-
sion of our finest provinces 1 Even 1,-1, Lottje Van
Kerckx, who am speaking to you,—recollect the period
when the French eagle was the imperial standard for our
stamps ; when Brussels, which now calls itself a capital,
was but a country town like' the rest of us ; and all was
France, France, France, from Rotten to Hamburgh ;
paying toll and tax to the same Parisian seat of Govern-
ment I And why, pray—because it pleased the crowned
heads of Europe to knock themselves together at Aix-
la-Chapelle, and decide that this patch of ground should
be called Prussia, and t'other patch of ground be called
France--is a poor widow woman to pay mulct and fine
to this new King of ours, for liberty to drink and retail
the French liquors, which in my youth I bought and sold
at prime cost ? I had no hand in their rubbishing
Congress I My opinion wasn't asked ? And so, without
further ceremony—feeling myself guiltless in the sight
Of Almighty God for violating a law which is none of
his making--I make bold to catch the gendarmes of the
frontier napping, whenever they are fools enough to let
me !—?alt's Magazine.

ASTONISHING-INSTINCT OF A CAT.--A family in
Swansea, having a favourite cat, but in consequence of
its thieving propensities, they were determined to part
with. Pour Tom was given to the care of a captain of a
vessel who was about to sail for Cuba. After a voyage
of four or five months, the vessel returned to this port,
about a month since. In a few days after the arrival of
the ship, Tom decamped, and the vessel was about to go
to sea without him. About three weeks since a cat was
heard by the members of the above family about their
premises, mewing most pitifully, and could riot be kept
away, despite the threatenings of the servants ; when,
10, to the astonishment of its old mistress, her old friend
came up p her, rubbing against her with all the affection
imaginable. What is most extraordinary, the cat had
to cross the river and pass through the most dense part
of the town to find its old habitation, after a voyage to
Cuba, and an absence of five or six olontlis.—Cambrian.
ItECAL OF LORD DE GREY.—T 6 recal of Lord
De Grey from dr; Lord Lieutenantcy of Ireland is re-
ported to have been decided on by the Cabinet.
The necessity of a more cordial union, a more
perfect agreement in opinion, and c.,nsequent de-
cision of purpose and act than have characterised
the present executive of Ireland, in order to creat-
ing and maintaining confidence in the govern-
ment, has been long seen and felt. The return of
Loi'd De Grey may not take place till early in the
ensuing spring ; but that his Lordship's recal has been
determined on, is—we are assured from a quarter on
which we place full reliance—now settled. The Duke
of Richmond is mentioned as the new Viceroy.—Evening
Paper.

GREECI

Ai

ATHENS, DEC. 9.—The great and all-absorbing
subject of discussion and anxiety for the last few days
has been the election of the Committee for drawing
up the Constitution, in concert with the King. This
did not terminate until past ten o'clock last night—a
very late hour for the National Assembly at Athens,
though at St. Stephen's the business of the night
would only then be commencing. The moderate
party, who are attached to English principles of go-
vernrnent, have obtained a most triumphant majority.
Upon this occasion, as well as upon the election of . .
Vice-Presidents, Mavrocordato and Colletti agreed to
support each other ; hut on both occasions it turned
out that, although the Mavrocordatists, in compliance
with the earnest wishes of their chief, voted against
their own inclinations to a man, for Colletti, the adhe-
rents of the latter, about forty in number, broke the
agreement, and did not vote for Mavrocordato.

Upon the first occasion, Mavrocordato was disposed
to think there might have been a mistake ; but, when
the same conduct was repeated, it then became evident
that it was the bad faith of the Muscomangites, as the
party of Colletti is designated, which had placed him
next to Mavrocordato in the list of Vice-Presidents,
and above him in the Committee for the Address.
This circumstance has excited a strong feeling of in-
dignation against the treachery of these persons, and
a sense of the impropriety of allowing Greece and
Europe to be deceived as to the real state of parties in
this country, induced the adherents of Mavrocordato
awl Metaxa to withdraw their votes from Colletti
upon this last great occasion, when those were to be
chosen by whom the fabric of the Constitution is to
be constructed, and thereby to demonstrate that he
cannot reckon upon the support of more than' forty-
three certain, and about twenty doubtful votes in the
Assembly. Mavrocordato and Metaxa, however, in
the spirit of peace and union, did all in their power
to dissuade their friends from withholding their votes,
declaring that they would prefer seeing him again in
a fictitious majority, rather than risk the disadvan-
tages of disunion. Many would not act upon this
suggestion, and the consequence is that Colletti stands
low in the list; and, if:more than forty of the friends
of Mavrocordato and Metaxa had not, at their earnest
solicitation, voted for him, he would have been ex-
cluded altogether.
_ _ _

In the Committee for the Address the French ,
party, as it is called, is represented by Colletti alone,
or with the equivocal support of Anastasio Loudos.
The proportion is two to five. In the more important
Committee on the Constitution the disproportion is
still more marked, being only four to seventeen, so
that the French party, about which so much has been
wr►tten and said for the last three years, has dwindled
to a miserable minority; and well it may be so, when
no better man could be found to supplant Mavrocor-
dato, in 1841, by means of a million of francs, than
Christides, arid when he, "the despised of all men,"
finds a fit successor in Riga Palamides as champion
of the party. Neither this personage nor Conduri-
ottis, the President of the Council of State, are in r,
either Committee, though they made every effort to
be elected.

Tricoupi, the late Minister in England, owes his
election to an accident. General Church might have
been placed at the head of the Commission for the
Constitution, but, having heard that his name was on
the list, he did not rest till he got it withdrawn, ge•
neroosly thinking that none but Greeks should take
part in the solemn office of constructing the Consti-
tutional edifice.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
COURSING.

ALTCAR COURSING MEETING, DEC. 28 AND 29.—The
Sefton Club (16 dogs) was won by Mr. A. Graham's
Sir Edward ; Mr. Jefferson's Lowther ran up. The
Molyneux Plate (16 dogs) was divided by Mr. Adorns's
Matchless and Mr. Slater's Scrutiny. The Croxteth
Purse (12 dogs) was won by Mr. Temple's Titania (late
Woskie); Mr. Standish's Stranger ran up. The Altcar
Stakes (12 dogs) were won by Mr. Hunt's Trapball; Mr.
Richmond's Rockett ran up.

THE LATE ASHBURTON MURDER.—On Monday
last, Edward Webb, better known as " Deaf Ned," and
Charlotte Williams, a woman who accompanies him in
his peregrinations, were fully committed to the county
goal for trial at the next assizes, charged with being par-
ties concerned in the foul and horrid murder committed
last summer, near the town of Ashburton. Somerset
Gazette.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held on Fri-
day afternoon by Mr. Higgs, Deputy Coroner for West-
minster, at the George, Gilbert's-passage, Clare-market,
on the body of Joseph Corbyn Abbott, aged 69. From
the evidence it appeared that the deceased left his home,
No. 1, Selwood-place, New-road, and proceeded to the
Strand. Whilst proceeding up Drury-lane, on his way
home, he was attacked with apoplexy, and fell to the
ground. A police-constable coming up, he was conveyed
on a stretcher to King's College Hospital, where ha was
attended to by Mr. Brown, the acting physician, but
died the same evening. The deceased's son said he
had to complain of what he considered great neglect on
the part of the police. His father not returning at :1
the usual hour, and supposing that something might i
have befallen him, he went to the Bow-street sta-
tion-house and made inquiries concerning him. The
inspector who was on duty answered him sharply, and
said he knew nothing about him, although it was from
that place the stretcher was brought on which he was
conveyed to the hospital. That was between twelv.e and
one in the day after his father was taken ill, and it was
not until two o'clock on the following morning that, be
knew where he was. Police-constable F 56, the man
who brought the stretcher, said, that he gave in his re-
port of the occurrence to Sergeant Weston, and he
could only account for the son not receiving information
by the pressute of business. The son said, that on
going to the George-street station house, the inspector
there gave him every assistance. The Coroner and jury
were of opinion that there was great neglect on the part
of the police, but they could not go into it as it did not
concern the deceased's death. A verdict of " Died from
an attack of apoplexy" was then murned, the Coroner
advising the relatives to write to the Commissioners of
Police on the subject. '
A CANDID ADMISS.ION.—We are able to state,
on the best authority, that Mr. Bulwer, before his de-
parture for Madrid, received from the French Govern-
ment the most satisfactory assurances as to the policf
to be adopted towards Spain, and that one important
point, on which he felt it necessary to speak rather
strongly, was settled entirely to his wish. It was fully
understood before he left Paris, that Count Bresson
would cordially support him in the views entertained by
the British Goverment for the settlement of affairs in
that country.

DIRECTIONS TO POLICEMEN.—The Learned Judge'
Mr. Baron Rolfe, in one of the cases lately tried before
him at Worcester, said, with regard to policemen putting
questions to persons accused, that he was sorry the 1
had got i'ito such a tender state on this point. It was gene'
rally laid down that policeman were exceedingly wrong
in putting any questions to persons in their custody
now he thought it was often well for them to do so, for
he had seen cases- in which such questions were mot;
essential to the establishment of a person's innocence $
however, as he did not like to differ from his brethr' Of
he alWays told policemen not to say anything to prisoners'
CULTIVATION OF FLAx.—An influential meeting
was held at Norwich, on Wednesday last, the Mayer in
the chair, at which the following resolution was adopted:
—" That this meeting being of opinion that much benefit
may arise from the cultivation and manufacture of flex
in this city and its vicinity, with a view to the reunr
nerative employment of the poor,, and the profitable in;
vestment of capital, strongly recommend that a genera'
meeting should be convened of all persons who 00
willing to contribute to the promotion of this very de'
sirable object."

TEAS AT WHOI
Good Common Black 3s. Od.
Strong Cor.gou ....... 4d.
Fine ditto, Pekoe flavour-3s. Sti.

ESALE PII,ICES•
Fine Pekoe Souchong 41:
Superior ditto 4s. 47;
Finest ditto imported ss.

COFFEE.
Good Common Os. 9d. Finest Java .........111. 6S
_,
Ceylon, sound and sweet...ls. Od. Ditto Cuba Is. SP'
Fine do., recommended ...Is. 2d. Finest Mocha
Finest Ceylon, rich and
mellow
Goods delivered iti all
Country orders amounting to 51.

MANSELL and CO., —2:

parts of Town daily.
eat n
sent free to all parts of —r
rain.
Bucklersbury, Cheap side.

BIR TA S.
On the 25th ult., at Spike Island, the wife of Lieutenant
Colonel Burton, Royal Marines, of a daughter.
On the 27th ult., at Ikloergate-street, the lady of Job
°
Smith, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. I,
On the 28th ult., at Upper Clapton, the lady of a a..
Nichol!, Esq., D. C. L., of a son, who died the same day. ho
On the 29th ult., at Weston-super-Mare, the lady of t"
Rev. J. Hamilton Forsyth, of a son.
On the 29th ult., Mrs. William Newman, of Stratford
House, Stratford-grove, Essex, of a son.
On the 24th ult., at Empingham Vicarage, Rutland, 110'
Levi& Cooper, of.a son.
On the 29,h ult., in Harley-street, the lady of Sir Denis.
Merchant, Bart., of a son.
On the 29th ult., in Ulster-place, Regent's-park, the wife o
John Gdiner, Es. a daughter.
On the 29th ult.,q theof lady of J. W. Pease, Esq., of 11091?
wood, Yorkshire, of a son and heir.

MARRIED.
On the 27th ult., at St. Philip's Church, Liverpool, Cb!,
Melhuish, Esq., to Emily Martha, second daughter of the.
Edwird Hull, M.A.
On the 28th ult, at Axminster, the Rev. William Will
Rector of St. Nich.olas, to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter
the Rev. W. D. Conybeare, Vicar of Axminster. ,--*"

DIV D.
On the 30th ult., at Lintifield, Sussex, after a lite deot6lio
to the best interests of mankind, Wiliam Allen, F.R•S'
his 741 h sear. - O°
On the 29th ult , at Hastings, the Right Hon. Lady
sington.

On the 3d of July, in India, James Lopez Leary. Esti•
On the 28th ult., at Britton-rise, Surrey, R. %Villimns, .00
On the 29th ult., at Annett's.crescent,
Islington,
Charlotte Turpin, aged 42.
the
irtr
On the 27th ult., at Barnes•terrace, Surrey, Jane, •
of Edward William Cooke.
On the 27th ult., at Sellinge. Kent, William Wise.obt•gr*
fourth son of the late Arthur Clark, Esq., of 13i91,QP5
churchyard, London. silt
On the 29th ult., in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, Sas
widow of the, late W. Lumley, Esq., of Siintouth-pla

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