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life Mr. Grimsditeh bol not been in the position as to
money matters that he had since occupied, for it
I would appear by the evidence which he shou'd submit
! to the jury, that he had repeatedly borrowed money
from the two ladies, and was, in fact, up to their death,
considerably indebted to them. Confidence had grAu-
ally ripened into intimacy, and at length it would ap-
pear, as the ladies grew older, into a claim of relaticn-
ship, for in the letters which would be laid before the
Court, it would be seen that of late years the defendant
addressed the ladies as "Dear Cousin." Among his
other professional pursuits, the defendant was manager
and law agent to the Adlington estate. On that estate
the Miss Duncalfs lived, and had for years rented a
farm. Mr. Grimsditch, having become indebted to
them in the sum of 1,8731., for which, up to the
year 1824, he paid them interest, amounting to
93/. 13s per annum, appeared from that time to have
paid the annual rent which amounted to nearly that
sum, instead of paying them interest, and receiving their
amount of rent ; in fact, from the year 1824 to 1842,
when the last of the bliss Duncalfs died, he had paid
no interest, but in lieu thereof, had paid rents for them,
amounting to 1,160/. or thereabouts. Upon the death of
Miss Duncalf in that year, it was found that she had
made a will, appointing executors, and bequeathing all
her property to Ler next of kio. The executor refused
to act, further than to seal up all the papers
and documents in her house, and a struggle
took place in the Ecclesiastical Courts of Chester
and York, for the administration of the effects
of the deceased. Among the rest, Mr. Grimsditch
entered a caveat, and appeared very anxious to get ad-
ministration confided to him. Ile tried very much to
obtain an injunction of the papers of the Miss Duncalfs,
and evinced great anxiety to search the family Bible,
and other documents. Ultimately administration was
granted to the present plaintiff ; and upon searching
the papers of the de2eased ladies, which had until that
time been sealed up, there were found bonds of the de-
fendant's amounting to 7201.; and also st:ttemeots of

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accounts which showed that from the year 1824 the di'
fendant had been indebred to the two ladies
the sum named before, namely, 1.8731. These state:
ments were all in the hand writing of the defendant
himself ; and upon the aelmini trator applying to hin
for information, the answer given was, that. he did to t
owe one farthing. The plaintiff was, the refore, corn
pelled to bring an action for the recovery of' the coon.-T
appearing to be due, and at the last assizes for th
County of Chester. an action was tried, in wr.ich a ver-
dict was given for the plaintiff for the bend debt. Upon
that trial, by the form of the plea,lings, the plaintiff
could not recover for the m.mey not lent on bond ; and
although the defence to that action was just the same
to the present, and the question then decided was in
truth the same question which the jury now had to de-
cide, yet a second time the plaintiff had to bring hi
action for the part still remaining due. Upon the
former trial Mr. Baron Gurney, who th,m presided, ex-
pros-eel himself strongly as.,to the defence attempted
and he, Mr. Jervi,, was greatly deceived if the same
feeling did not now pervade the breast of every person
who heard this trial. The defendant, in answer to his
own written acknowledgments of debt, had p!eaded that
he never had owed any money to the Misses Duncalf ;
next he had pleaded payment, a safe plea, for the parties
to whom he alleged payment, being d-m,l, could not re-
fute it ; la-tly, he had pleaded the statute of limitations.
What did the jury think of such plea, by an attorney,
in answer to the demands of the representatives of his
client? And what would they think of such pleas, when
they did, as they certainly would, most signally fail?
No doubt if the defendant had searched the family Bible
—had himself found the dlcuments among the papers of
the deceased, and had obtained administration of their
effects, he would at once have paid the money to the next
of kin. But why should he refuse to do so now ? Why
did he bring the administrator twice into Court for one
debt, although of two natures as to securities ? Mr.
Jervis concluded with some severe strictures on the con-
duct of the defendant.

The statements of account, in the hand-writing of de-
fendant, showing the results stated by Mr. Jervis, and
the payment of rent by the defendant up to 1842, were
put in and proved.
Mr. EvANs addressed the jury for the defendant,
justifying the plea, but called no witnesses.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS left it to the jury, whether the
payment of rent was not.in lieu of interest, and whether
die principal sum claimed and proved, was not 'thereby
taken out of the statute of limitations.
The jury found for the plaintiff for the full amount.

POLICE liiTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
MANSION-HOVSE.
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO SINK THE SHIP COLINA.
—There was a great a;semblage of persons in the
justice-room and the avenues to it, in consequence of
the understanding that William Bead, the shipowner,
of Ipswich, and William Simpson, the captain of the
Colina brig, which was the property of the former
person, would be brought up for final examination on
the charge of having conspired to defraud the Alliance
Marine Insurance Company of the sum of 1,2501., by
sinking that vessel off Holland. The examination
was appointed to take place at three o'clock, in conse-
quence of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Clarkson
till that hour.
The Lord Mayor and Sir John Pirie sat upon this
occasion. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin attended
upon the part of the prosecution; and Mr. Wontner,
the solicitor, appeared for Read. As it was generally
understood that Simpson would be admitted as Queen's
evidence against his employer, neither counsel nor
solicitor attended for that prisoner.
Mr. Clarkson, in addressing the Lord Mayor and
Alderman Pirie upon the subject, said that the pri-
soner, Captain Simpson, had voluntarily made a
statement relative to the charge in which he and Read
were involved, and that Mr. Wontner, the solicitor
for Read, should he furnished with a copy of that
statement as speedily as possible, in order that imme-
diate preparation might be made
,for the trial, which
would in all probability take place in the ensuing
week. It was not the intention of the Counsel for
the prosecution to read that statement to the justice-
room, but he thought it necessary to intimate that it
was heir intention to produce it on the trial, and to
accept the offer of Captain Simpson to turn Queen's
evidence. Under existing circumstances, the prose-
cutors applied to the Magistrates to commit the two
prisoners to Newgate for trial. The necessary course
would be subsequently adopted to take the deposition
of Simpson, and Mr. Wontner should be furnished
with copies of the whole of the evidence without delay.
Mr. Wontner c:id not object to the proposition of
Mr. Clarkson ; and the prisoners were both committed,
Simpson for having feloniously sunk the ship Colina,
and Read for having aided and abetted in sinking her.
The statement of Simpson comprehends the whole
of the statements made by the clerk of Read and
gage, as to the conversation which was represented to
ave taken place at Ipswich on the subject of the
wilful loss of the Colina between the prisoners, and
the details of the plan of scuttling the vessel. The
captain declares that according to the suggestions of
Read, who first proposed the project of doing the In-
surance Company by dropping the vessel, he took the
opportunity wholly unknown to the mate and the rest
of the crew, to go below with an augur and bore two
holes in the Colina's bottom. He also confirmed the
account given by the several boatmen who went to-
wards the Colina for the purpose of saving her from
the destruction which threatened.

It has been stated that there are several other
cases in which it is believed Read was a participator
in the profits of dropping vessels, but it did not
transpire whether any of those cases were to be
prosecuted. Mr. Page has been, all are assured,
altogether ignorant of any transactions of the kind.
The mate of a vessel, called the Diana, who appeared
on Friday, the 29th of last month, in pursuance of
his recognizances by bail, to answer the complaint of
Mrs. May, the widow of the deceased captain of that
vessel, again appeared, the further hearing of the case
having been adjourned to this day,
Mr. Bozon, the solicitor of Mrs. May, stated that,
since the last hearing of the case, he had obtained
further evidence, which would tend to add to the
suspicion entertained that the ship had been wilfully
set fire to at St. Helena; and he could prove, by the
testimony of a respectable witness, that, in addition
to the property taken possession of belonging to the
late Captain May, the defend int possessed himself of
a gold watch, guard, and chain, which the de-
fendant denied, upon a former occasion before the
Lord Mayor, the captain ever had. Mr. Bozon
further stated that the evidence which he considered
most material would, in his opinion, clearly show
that the defendant had acted most fraudulently to-
wards the widow, and that the case was one which
his Lordship was bound to send for trial to the
Central Criminal Court, as the whole of the cir-
cumstances were most mysterious, and required clo,e
investigation.
Thomas Fitch, upon being called by Mr. Bozon,
stated that he lived at Deal, and had been a seafaring
man for 27 years. He was a passenger in the Diana
in March last, and recollected the circumstance of the
captain having been found shot in his cabin on the
evening of the 15th of that month. The captain was
buried at sea the following clay. Before he was
dropped into the waves, and on the evening he was
found lying dead, witness requested the mate to square
the yards and run down to some vessels which were
then close in sight, to have a doctor to see if anything
could be done for the captain, which the mate refused.
He also requested him to take the ship to the Island
of Ascension, but to that proposition he would not
agree, although within sight of the island, and that he
insisted upon going back to St. Helena. There was
plenty of provisions on board, and the vessel
was quite seaworthy for the voyage to England.
Witness well recollected the late captain leaving a
watch, which he believed to be gold, and a guard chain,
which the mate took possession of, and that after the
captain's death, and the blowing up of the ship at
St. Helena, by which the steward lost his life, he
saw the chain in the defendant's possession. The
steward, Cox, who was killed by the explosion of the
vessel, kept a journal of everything that transpired on
board, and the defendant, after that catastrophe, broke
open the steward's chest and took the papers from it.
Witness further stated the manner in which the
Diana was blown up at St. Helena, and declaied it
to be his unshaken opinion that the vessel had been
set fire to.

The litaw titer havitig comultod

Mr. Goodmati, the chief clerk, said the case was
rendered an exceedingly suspicious one, and thatfoul
play had, no doubt, been perpetrated. Ile did not,
however, consider that there was sufficient evidence
to justify him in sending the case to a jury. It was
certainly a case which Mr. Bozon was justified in
bringing forward, but he should he satisfied with the
promise of the defendant to appear, if his presence
should he required, upon a future occasion.
The defendant declared that there was no ground
for the charge; that he had acted with firmness and
judgment, and reliance upon the skill of older persons
throughout; that the watch-chain was his own, and
that he was not aware of any unfair play at all in any.
of the transactions.
Thus the case has concluded for the present.
Two very dirty-looking vagabonds were charged
with having picked pockets. Upon one of them, a
most filthy red-headed fellow, a highly scented silk
handkerchief was found.
The LORD MAYOR— How did you get this hand-
kerchief? Prisoner—l have had it these three
months.
The Loan Mavoa—But how did it become so
much scented ? Prisoner—How ? Why, easy enough.
I always wear scent in my hair, and I keeps my
handkerchief in my hat, to be sure.—(Laughter.)
—Committed for three months to Bridewell.
GUILDHALL.
Thomas Howell, James Mahon, and John Skinner,
three young men, having the appearance of mechanics,
were brought before Sir John Key, charged with
breaking into the harness-maker's room at the Oxford
Inn, Warwick lane, and stealing eight pairs of coach
traces, a knife, and two pair of pincers.
The prisoners were remanded.
ITIARLBOROLGH-STREET.
John Kebble and James Kebble, two brothers, very
respectaVy drei- ed, were brought before Mr. Hard-
wick for final examination, charged with having
stolen, at various times, about eight dozen silk scarfs,
worth about 801, from the shop of Messrs. Higgins
and Son, ho-iers, at No. 21, Old Bond-street.
From the evidence of William Owen, one of the
assist ints, it a.opeired that the pr:soners about ten
weeks ago came into the ship and asked to look at
some scarfs. While they were examining a parcel,
one of them claimed an acquaintance with witness,
having, as he asserted, met turn at a house in the
ne ghbourhood. The prisoners did not buy a•iythiog,
but they come again the next day and bought a scarf.
Shortly a 'ter thi, they again carne to the shop, anti
got the scarf exchanged, paying the difference. Th©
prisoners continued to call at the shop to see witness
until about a I,ft:tight ago, when. in consequence of
some scarts having been missed, stock was taken, and
then a discovery was made that about eight or nine
dozen, worth about a guinea each, had been stolen.
Inquiry was made, and Polict'.sergeant Wball, C 16,
was einploted to trace out the thief. Having suc-
ceeded in finding one of the lost scarfs in the hands of
a pawnbroker, he obtained a description of the party
who pawned them, and this description tallying
exactly with the appearance of one of the prisoners,
the police-sergeant went to their lodging, and took
them into custody.
Police-sergeant Whall, C 16, said, when he appre-
hended ihe prisoners they were in bed. He searche
them when dressed, and found nine duplicates, all of
which related to portions of the missing scarfs. Ile
was enabled, by the help of the duplicates, to ascertain.
how between two and three dozen of the stolen scarfs
were disposed of.
The.pavinbrolters came forward and produced the
goods in their possession, all of which were identified
by two of Messrs. Higgins and Co.'s assistants, Owen
and Barnes.
The prisoners said they would make no defence for
the present.—They were fully committed.
William Burgess, shop:nail to Messrs. Stagg and
Mantle, linendrapers and mercers, Leicester-square,
was charged with having stolen six silk handkerchiefs,
the property of his employer.
In consequence of a communication made to the
prosecutors the prisoner was called into the counting-
house, and asked if he had sent handkerchiefs to any
one in St. Martin's-court to be made up. Prisoner
denied that he had, and. he was then told his boxes

must he searched, as he was suspected of having
robbed the firm. His boxes were searched, and in
one of them was found-two pieces of riband, worth
twelve shillings. .
Miss Jane Anthony, milliner, No. 18, St. Martin's-
court, said the prisoner called at her shop, and
brought six handkerchiefs, which he wanted to have
hemmed. One of them, he said, she might have fur
an apron.
The handkerchiefs were produced, and identified as
the property of Messrs. Stagg and Co.
Police constable Clarke, C 79, said when he took
the prisoner into custody, he remarked to him he
was a ruined man, as his character was now gorse.—
He was fully committed.
Catherine Apperley, a young woman in a miserable
condition. was charged with having attempted to de-
stroy herself on Thursday last. The prisoner was
seen to throw herself into the Serpentine, about three
o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday last. A call
was made fur the Humane Society's boa, but before
it reached the place the woman was drigged out. She
was taken to the receiving-house, and after proper
attention hid been p tid to her, she was sent to St.
George's Workhouse.
Mr. HARDwSc a'ked her what had induced her to

attempt such a wicked act ?—The woman said she
was the wife of one of the Grenadier Guards, now in
barracks at Winchester. In consequence of her hus-
band marrying without leave, the commanding offi:er
refued to let him sleep nut of barrack ; but as her
husband was then on duty at the Tower, this was not
so great a hardship, as her husband did contrive to
allow her a trifle out of his pay, which, with her own
earnings by her needle, sufficed to maintain her.
About a month back her husband's regiment was sent
to Winchester ; and as his pay was reduced by stop
pages for arrears, he had been unable to send her any
money. She had, in consequence, fallen into a most
frightful state of destitution ; and after pawning every •
thing she had, she ~took the determination of ending
her miserable life by drowning herself. She went
out for this purpose on Thursday, but her unhappy
design was frustrated by persons who accidentally
witnessed her proceedings.
Mr. llAanwicx ordered the poor creature to have
some refreshment provided for her, and sent for some
one from St. George's Workhouse.
The woman, in corroboration of her story, produced
a letter which she had just received from her husband.
The letter was couched in most affectionate terms,
and the writer mentioned his determination to send
for her to Winchester as soon as he could save a little
money.
Lacy, the Messenger of St. George's, soon after-
wards arrived in Court, and he at once took charge of
the poor woman until she is in a fit state to be again
brought up, when, no doubt, some temporary assistance
will be afforded to her.

James Brody, a man of respectable appearance, about
40 years of age, who refused to give his address, was
placed at the bar on the following charge.
Mr. Henry James Gunning, of No. 15, West-street,
Seven Dials, brass ornament manufacturer, stated that
on Thursday last the Lprisoner, who was a perfect
stranger to him, applied at his factory for employment,
stating that he had a wife and four children, and had
been out of work for several months, and that, in conse-
quence, his family were in a state of actual starvation.
Prosecutor, commisserating his unhappy condition,
directly gave him work, and as he was leaving the pre-
mises at dinner time, advanced him a few shillings to
procure his family what they might on the in-tant stand
in need of. As the prisoner was leaving the shop at
tea-time, he was observed to drop, by accident, a
piece of brass, the property of the prosecutor, which
he had no right to have about him. From
that circumstance suspicion was entertained that
he was removing prooerty from the premises, and a
watch being set upon him, he was seen to take and
secrete about his person other artich s of brass-work,
and on his being gin•n into the custoly of the police and
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The prisoner said distress had driven him to commit
the offence.

Mr. HARDWICK—This is one of the black, st cases of
ingratitude that ever was brought before mt. Pleading
pov. riy under such eircumstanc s is minsense. I shill
commit the prisoner to Newgatc for trial at the Centra!
Criminal Court.

BOW-STREET.
John Skinner Francis, a young man of military ap-
pearance, wearing. mustachios, and who wa stated to
have been formerly an officer in the Cape of Good
Hopr- Rifles, and Mary Ann Browne, a young woman,
very fashionably attired, and who was stated to be the
daughter of a clergyman, were brought up in the
custody of Inspector Pearce, of the A division of po-
lice, charged with having feloniously uttered a forged
cheque for 1901., purporting to be sig►ned by the
Dowager Lady Nelthorpe, with intent to defraud
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., the bankers, in Lom-
bard-street.

Mr. Bush, of the Society for the Protection of
Bankers from Forgery, attended on the part of the
prosecution ; and Mr. M. Chambers, the barrister, at-
tended as counsel for the prisoners.
Thomas Evison stated that he was a cashier in the
house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co. Herecol-
lected that the cheque produced was presented there
for payment on the 9th of January last, but he could
not remember by whom. The Dowager Lady Nel-
thorpe kept an account with Messrs. Payne, Smith,
and Co., and the cheque purported to be signed by
her. Witness could not tell by whom it was pre-
sented, but on a reference to the books he found that
it had been paid in Bank-notes.
The Dowager Lady Nelthorpe stated that she. re-
sided at River-hill, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, and had
also a town residence in King-street, St. James's.
She kept an account with Messrs. Smith, Payne, and
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signed by her, neither had she authorised any person
to draw or sign it. She knew the female prisoner,
who was introduceqi to her in the month of October,
1842, and she remained at the house of witness until
the month of Dee mber following. During her stay
there she had frequent opportunities of seeing witness
write, and had no doubt also seen her sign cheques.
She represented herself to witness as friendless, hope-
less, and in absolute want of clothes.
Elizabeth Mason, of Ranelagh-grove, Pimlico,
stated that the two prisoners formerly occupied apart-
ments in her house for about five months, at a rent of
15s. a week. They lived together as man and wife,
and went by the name of Francis ' • they left the
apartments in February last. In the January previous
the female prisoner told the witness that she was going
to take some money out of the Bank of England, and
soon after that she pail the amount of rent due with
a Si. Bank of England note, which witness subse-
quently paid away to Mr. Cafe,' the auctioneer, in
Great Marlborough-street. Witness believed the
body of the cheque produced to be in the handwriting
of the female prisoner.
Susan Luff, a milliner, in Regent-street, had seen
the female prisoner write, and also believed the body
of the cheque to be in her handwriting.
Inspector Pearce stated, that in consequence of in-
formation he had received, he went to Kingston on
Thursday last, and at ten o'clock at night succeeded.
in apprehending the prisoners at the lodgings they
occupied there. The male prisoner at first said the
female was his wife, hut afterwards admitted that she
was not. The female declared her innocence, and.
expressed great anxiety to know what account her
companion had given of the transaction.
Sergeant Kendall, of the A division, stated, that
after the male prisoner had been placed ut.d.r his
charge by the last witness, he said that he knew the
cheque in question had been presented fur payment at
Messrs. Smith, Payne, end Co's, hut he did not know
by whom. He had no idea it was a forgery. The
notes were given to him by the female prisoner, and
he afterwards paid them away.
Mr. Bush applied, on this evidence, to have both
the prisoners remanded fir further examination.
Mr. Chambers submitted that there was no evidence
agaiiist the male prisoner.—Mr. Bush said there was ;
and he should he- prepared with further evidence
against him on a future day.
The p-isoners were both remanded until TueStlay
week, and an applioution to admit the male prisoner
to bail was refused.
A shabby-genteel looking younc, man, named Chris-
topher W,1,0n, was placed sefere fir. Twyford, charged
w.th having a mackintosh ni ak in his possession, re-
si eetivg which he mat n t pive a go. dace:taint.
P. slice able 119 said he was in s. arch of thieves
list night in a house in Be Ifoidbury, rather notori us
as the resort of such characters, and. while there he saw
the prisoner offering the inackin;osh in question for sale
for twelve shillings. When the witness went into the
room the prisoner displayed by his manner some anxiety
as to the presence of an officer, a'.d in consequence of
this the eitness asked the prisoner if the cloak belonged
to him, and he said, " I know nothing whatever about
it." The officer then said he must take the prisoner
into custody. and the pri!,,ner immediately struck him.
Be was, boa ever, ultimately secured and conveyed to
the station-hogs...
The prisoner in his defence. said the mackintosh did
tyst belong to him. It was lying on the table when the
officer came in.
The prisoner was remanded for further inquiry.
QUEEN'S-SQUARE.
Thomas Pyvis, a sickly-looking youth, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Burrell, charged with having
broken into the dwelling house of Major Thomas
Henry S. Clerke, No. 4, Brompton-row, and stolen
therefrom a large chest full of silver plate, a gold
watch, three gold rings, a diamond bracelet, a suite of
silver, including ear-rings, bracelets, brooch, &c., and
other articles of jewellery.
The evidence of several witnesses who were ex-
amined went to prove that on the evening of the 29th
ult., about five o'clock, Major Clerke left his resi-
dence, giving the footboy orders to follow him to his
club-house with his bag, that he might dress for a
party. The boy did as he had been ordered, and the
presumption is that the perpetrator of this daring and
extensive robbery had watched the proprietor and his
male servant from the premises. Shortly after they
had left the place, the look thought she heard a noise,
but supposing -it was caused by the kitten, paid no
attention to it, but on hearing the hall-door shortly
afterwards slam too, she became alarmed, and her
suspicions that the house had been robbed were
shortly afterwards confirmed. On the return of the
foothoy, at eight o'clock, she proceeded with him to
examine the house, and on entering the Major's room
they found that the plate chest, which was usually
kept there, had been carried off, and that an
attempt had been made to force open several
drawers in the room. They also discovered
that an upper sleeping apartment had been visited,
the whole of the locks on the drawers forced, and a
gold Geneva watch and other valuables stolen. On
their return to the Major's room they discovered a
hat which bud been left by one of the robbers, a skele
ton key which opened the street door, and by which
the thieve. had effected an entrance to the premises,
.1 small file, a jemmy, acid a candle. The police were
called in, who, on examination of the place, a ere of
opinion that the robbery must have been committed
by some persons intim acly acquainted with the pre.
:nines, and they, as u-enil in such matters, directed
their inquiries as to any servants who had been re
cently dischare-ed. They ascertained that prisoner,
after a service of five months, had left the Msjor's
service in -January, being subject to fits, and was an
!inmate in St Thomas's Ib-pital, but they hal every
reason to believe, in sonsequence of some communica-
tion made to them, that he went in and
out of the establishment whenever he thought
fit, and had an ample opportunity of com-
mitting the robbery ; added to which, the water-
man at the coat h-rank at Knightsbridge, on a visit to
the hospital, said that he had every reason to believe
that prisoner, with a female, Fired a cab on the even-
ing of the 29th ult., and placed a large chest inside it.
Under these circurnstaeces of strong suspicion, added
to others about to he detailed, the prisoner was taken
into custody by Bradley, a constable of the B division,
to whom he said, without any leading questions being
put to him, " lie supposed he was taken about the
Major's spoons."
James 11Pley, the Major's footboy, proved that
prisoner had been in the habit of coining to the house
to visit the servants. He never saw prisoner wear
such a hat as the one found on the premises.
Ellen Measted, formerly in the Major's service,
proved that prisoner knew where the plate chest was
kept, and at the time he left the service abused the
Major, and said he would serve him out.
Benjamin Pelliss, 28 G, produced the plate-chest.
On Saturdayweek he was on duty in the Bagnigge-
wells-road, and saw a woman whom he knew to be a
bad character pass, and in a moment .afterwards, on
crossing the road, she said to him, " You are wanted
here," and pointed out the plate-chest, which was
standing on the road side.
The chest on examination was only found to con-
tain a few trifling articles, the others being gone.
Major Clarke said that he had a character with the
prisoner from Lady H. Chisholm, hut he was so sulhrti
and violent that he was obliged to discharge him. He
had paid him fOr a month before he entered the ser
vice, and for a month afterwards.

The prisoner declared that he was in the hospital
on the 12th of March, and had only been out once
during the middle of the day. He denied all know-
lhdge of the robbery.
He was remanded until Friday next.
Mary Sherbeck, a middle-aged, decent-looking woman,
was charged, before Mr. Burrell, by Mr. Parham, a pork
butcher, re,iding in the Broadway, W.stminster, with
stemliiig a piece of salt pork, of the valu- of one shilling.
At about half past eight o'clock, on Thursday night,
whilst the complaihant was serving some customers, the
prisot.er entered, and pretending to be looking at th-
pork as if -h. were ebout to buy it, put it under her
shawl, and left the shop. He 'topped her at the d ,or,
and mecused her with taking the-meat, which she enied,
but immediately afterviards dropp-d item the pavement,
and offered to give him her shawl if he would let her go.
Sh,- was, however, given into custody.
The pi ironer, who' did not deny the charge, and bey.ged
hard for mercy, as it was the first offence, was committed
to take her trial at 'be flex'. Midd esex Ses-ions.
UNION-HALL.
William Dear, alias Howard, was charged with
stealing a bay gel Lug, the p •oper-y of Mr. Wheat-
ley, the coach prop ictor, of Gr,-enwich.
Thomas Rogers. foreman to Mr. Wheatley, stated
that 'the prisoner was horsekeeper in the employ oi'
Mr. Wheatley, who.e service he suddenly left with-
out asignintr any cause about a Manight ago. On
Thursday night last wi:ne-s saw the bay gelding
sale in his waster's stable, and the next mor.iing he
rni,:sed it, and found the stable. door had been force-I
open.

Samuel Giddens, a horse-slaughterer, in Green-
strs et, Blackfriars-road, stated that on the morning
of Good Friday, the prisAier brought a bay gelding
to his yard, and offered .it to him for sale. IVhen
questioned as to whom the animal belonged, the pri-
soner's answer was thLt it was the property of Mr.
Archer, fishmonger, of Dorking, in Surrey, who
sent him to London to dispose of it. The witness
suspecting the truth of the prisoner's statement, pre-
tended to send out for change of a Bank of England
note, and de, ained him until he sent for a constable
to give him into custody.
William Harris, inspector of horse -slaughterers'
yards, stated that upon being apprised of the circum-
stance of the prisoner having offered the horse for
sale, and his assertion with respect to its being the
property of a Mr. Archer, at Dorking, he (the wit-
ness) immediately started off for that town, to make
the inquiry. He sent back his carrier pigeon with a
note to Mr. Giddens, informing him of the falsehood
uttered by the prisoner. • On subsequent inquiries it
was_ ascertained the horse was stolen, as already de-
scribed, from Mr. Wheatley's stables at Greenwich.
The prisoner told the,Megistrate that his character
stood well at Greenwich ; thatio-lad.ufvekibeeliobl'

r trouble before, and that he would bring up witneosof
as to his (prisoner's) good conduct.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that he was bound to-ECIA,
the case for trial, where evidence of prisoner's go
character would operate on the minds of thc-Comal
and jury.—The prisoner was committed accordingly,
James Keegan was charged with robbing a man .nauloe
Jamieson, in Vine-yard, Tooley- street. .
The complainant is a sailor, and having just .arrives
from a voyage he -went ashore, and got " half-seas over
at a public-house in Tooley-street. When he • left the
house, in passing the end of a notorious place,
Vine-yard, he was surrounded by several men, mongol
whom were the prisoner and a man named Harley (situ/
committed), who pinioned his arms and while therhelo
him in that situation, turned all his pockets mat
out, and robbed him of all the silver he had in
his possession. The prisoner escaped at the time, .boC
was taken into custody on Thursday for robbing *-
female, and when he was taken to the station-house he
was at once, identified as having been concerned in On
other robbery.—He was committed.
HORSE STEALING.—WiIIiam Dear, late korse-keeper •
in the employ of Mr. Wheatley, omnibus proprietor, co •
Greenwich, was charged with stealing a horse, the pro'
perty of his master.
It appeared that on Good Friday morning Mr. Wheat'
ley's stable was broken open and a horse stolen. The
same afternoon the prisoner took a horse to a knacker'.
yard in Friar-street, and offered it for sale. Suspicion
however, being entertained that the animal was. Stolen'
an inquiry was made on the subject, the result of. which
was a discovery that the horse had been stolen from lgr'
Wheatley's stable.
The prisoner, who pleaded poverty in extentlittionf
was committed.

MARKET NE W S.—( SAT (IRDAV.)
COVENT-GARDEN.
The prevailing fine weather having caused. Vegetation tO
progress rapidly, we have had a very large time-of-7SO sor
ply of vegetables, yet the demand was steady, at lull pricsk
In Fruit, comparatively little was doing.-Pp4stoi3Ofrom 25.9°
to 5s per cwt ; young Onions, 2s to 4s ; Coleitorts or Great
2s to 4s ; Turnips, is 6d to 2s 6d ;. Carrots, 4s ta's6 6d ;Ow,
Leeks, 8d to is 2d per dozen bunches ; old Onions;-2i VW-
2s 8d; Spinach, 8d to is 2d; Apples, Is to 4.0 ' • Pears, 7$ tO
12s; and Brocoli Sprouts, is to is 6d per 114'111'41'e ; AAP*"
ragas, 3s to 8s ; French Beans, is 9d to 2s 3d; Oranges,-7s to
14s ; and Lemons, 8s to 13s per 100; Spanish Nuts,-161
Barcelona do., 20s to 248; and Brazil do., 15s perluilisi ;
Almonds, 6s, and Chestnuts, 12s to 255 per pea( rnewlo9l"'
toes, 4d to 10d; Pine Apples, 6s to 9s per
_lb; Seal
Onions, is 6d to 5s ; and eetroot, 6d to 10 per ass";
Horse-radish, 2s to 5s ; Celery, 8d to 2s 3d ; Rhubarb, 8.4 to
Is 6d ; anti Brocoli, 2s to 3s per bundle ; Radishes, Bd. to
1. per per dozen hands; Lettuces, 3d to is 44 'per score; •
Sea-kale, is 9d to 3s 6d; and Small salad, 2d per punnet;
Parsnips, 6d to is per dozen ; Turnip-greens, 2s- 3d per bAUF4,
basket.
tJZW GATE AND IMADENNAEL.
Prime Lamb was in trisk demand, at advanced ratO.' I P •
all other kinds of Meat not much business wao; point
Beef from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 4d to 34 6d ; Luny,
5s 44 to 6s 10d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 43 2d ; and P0r1,.2s .4d
to 4s 2d per 81bs. There was very little businees doing, 'OW
prices were with difficulty supported. Fowls, td to „46_1 ;
Chickens, is to 2s; Ducks, Is to 2s 3d; Geese, 4s to'b_ ti%
Pigeons, 4d to 10d ; Turkeys, 5s to 8s; Rabbits, 6d to 11f01; •
Hares, Is6d to 2s 6d each. .

NEWPORT.
Prime Meat was in demand at full prices. Pthervrise
trade ruled dull. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 4d; Mutton,
8d to 3s 8d; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 8d ; Veal, 35 4il to 4s 2d ;
and Pork 2s 6d to 4s 4d per 81bs.

WRITECHAPEZ.
We had a very heavy demand for all kindc'of nieat, excelw
Lamb, on the following terms :—Beeffromls 4dtd4s ; Muttotit
2s 4d to 3s 64 ; Lamb, 55 4d to 6s 10d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 411
2d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs.

BILLINGSGATE. '-
Although the supplies of Fish were extensive, tlit deipsof
was active, at very full rates. Turbots, 8s to 18s ; Cod-flea
3s to 108; Brill, 6d to 2s 3d ; Hallibut, 4s to 9s ; Hadderg4,
2d to 6d ; Lobsters, 10d to 3s 6d ; Whitings, ld to 3d ; Crib,
8d to 3s • Scates, 10d to 3s ; Gurnets, 6d to ls ' • Plaice, 3d t 4
10d each; Soles, 6d to 3s 3d per pair; Eels,4d to 10d; Per
lb; Flounders, is to is 4d per dozen; Oysters, 12s to :‘,l/
per bushel ; Red Herrings, 10s to 41s per barrel; lifackaret
4d to 8d each.

1117NGERFORZI.
Although the supplies of most articles on sale were ony
moderate, the demand was throughout heavy, at but 40
variation in prices. . ,

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are fr.'',
8d to Bid; of Household ditto, 6d to lid per 41b loaf.

BIDE MAIMMT.
Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs--Best steers .and heiffirof
5s 4d to 5s 8d ; mitddling hides, 4s 6d to 5s ; inferior dittor
4s 2d to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin=lViarkts
calf, 6s ad to 8s; long woolled sheep, 4s 6d to ss9d; 1111-°"
ditto, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; lamb skins is to Is 8d; and shearlini"
6d to 8d each.

IZAIMLILUX.UTS.
SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ las to :31 So; us!:
ful ditto, 31 3s to 31 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 13s
3/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 3/ 55 to 51; Oat Straw; 63 to 15"
Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 103 per load. Supply
moderate, and trade dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/. to 315 e ; usiP";
ditto, 31 6s to 31 12s; fine Uvland ditto, 31 13s- to:,, AP-:
Clover Hay, 3158 to 4/15s ; Oat Straw, 1183 to 1/101; Whe;
.
Straw, 1/ 103 to 11 12s pd. losul. Trade extranely dw"
at barely late rates.
"•
WurrEcHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 161 to ',
useful ditto, 3/ 6s to 31 lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 3'l 121:.N
i 3/ 16s • Clover Hay, 315 s to 51 5s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to
8s; Wheat Straw, 1! 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Both 114
and Straw sold heavily, at but little variation in-prices. .

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDA.X. , • •
There was a very short supply of Wheat at this day,
market ; thy trade firm, and a fair extent of bUsinO._o
transacted, at an advance of fully Is. per quarter fro'
the rate of last Friday. Barley sold on much the san!°
terms as la,t advised. We note no alteration in the rah
of either Oat,,, Shelling, or Beans.
Per qr. of 601 b to the bustle..
NPR'
Wow,
..
, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent R to 57 6640
Ditt -- ditto White... 00 66 g"
NortOlk Red 55 51 0,
Ditto ditto White... —. 57 66
Lincolnahile and Cambridge Red......; .. .55 SI • a
rkDiva ditto 5O K. N

shire

115

Ditto ditto
Forel., 'VVhfteeite... a. 6316 5...4 _
..,°-
Ditto ditto White." 56 00 ""' ',..
Per guar cr intsrriati
Barley, Norfola an.t iifirilk
'SI :
Yorkshil, a d Lineoln.atre
—.
3
Grinding
Foreig
0
Per qr. cf 631 b. t.• the bus
deans, Small n
. 3 . 31 Fl
Tics 3l 34 SO, ....,, ,
Foreign.
Oats, rot.", a d Pole d —. —s • .'..: ""I'• 1
a.ealint lo.i. to 11a., Foreign —d to —4 pep Stew; 3
&lolling Ls. to 25 per I.ea4• •
Min
1. ..,,,
R " ..
ipe5eed...................."..... 251.1.1 s '47 S. Of ..;. M. /. Os. psrjalu .

RAIL WAY„ RETURN& •
We extract from .the 'Railway Magazine the 101
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of: the month prefixed
each. The return includes the money received Pt'
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and4ler
chandise:—
Week
of R Total. ' same ailway.
ended

Mar. 30 Arbroath and Forfar ' 159 12 8
30 Birmingham and Derby Junction : 1,353 14 °-
29 Birmingham and Gloucester
.2,
40 :34s .. 1
.6 5 r,
,7 •
30 Brandling Junction as 16 ..
1•
29 Chester and Birkenhead
April 2 Dublin and Kingstown
,191 .7. „IL
Mar. 31 Dundee and Arbroath - ?
30 Durham and Sunderland 789.• 6 •
30 Edinburgh and Glasgow '..2,054 .15 6
31 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 3,774 18 10
30 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .1,261 , ,e 1 0
30 Glasgow and Greenock 685 5 .2
.
30 Grand Junction 7,332 14 ;. 6
. ~ •
30 Great North of England . I,gss i 9 I,
31 Great Western
29 Liverpool and Manchester • %4,198 • 4
30 London and Birmingham . 15,561 .10 -1.
April 4 London and Blackwall 863 • 1
.„' -
Mar. 30 London and Brighton
,
April 2 London and Croydon
4 London and Greenwich BB9 17 _. ?
Mar. 31 London and South Western ....... ...; 5,303 0 14.
29 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 706 .3. • 1
Manchester and Birmingham ..... •
30 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 5,620 0 „,
to'
30 Midland Counties - 2,486 13 : •
30 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,491 10 .':
' 31 Newcastle and North Shields 343 3 ,v, '
30 North Midland - '
North Union and Bolton and Preston ' --
26 Paris and Orleans 4,390 .-0
.
,17
916 .
Mar. 30 Preston and Wyre ' 229 13
30 Sheffield and Manchester
602 6 .1. .
April 4 South Eastern
Mar. 30 Taff Vale - 721 5-;01 '
31 Ulster
30 York and North Midland

BIRTHS.
On the 4th inst., at Chester, the lady of Sir- JEdiri."-
Walker, of a son.

On the 2d last., at Camden Vicarage, the lady of the.
James D. Money, of a eon.
On the 2d inst., at " The Nunnery," Sussex, the wife
Brown, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 2d fast, the wife of Alfred Brettle, Esq., of „
tineham, Kent, of a son, still-born. r
T.
On the 3d inst., at Hackney, the lady of the'Rev."
Wright, of a daughter.
lot
On the 3d inst., in Nottingham-place, the lady of LIDO'•
Shadwell, Esq., of a son.
On the 3d inst., at Elizabeth-place, Brixton-road, the
of William Thomson, Esq., Assistant Commissary4o,l
of a son.
On the 3d inst., at Blackdown, the lady of the Bev. #OlO
Codrington, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, the *if.°
Richard Albany Nelson, Esq., of a eon.
On the 4th inst., at Woburn-square, Mrs. William 04.,
'owes, of a son. • -

On the 4th inst., the lady of John Cutbell, Esq., of
dish-road, St. John's-wood, of a son.

MARRIED..
On the 2d inst., at Holbeach, John Phipps, Esq., to 31 06
Elizabeth Sharman.
On the 4th inst., at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, Mr. •
Piper, of Bishopsgate-street, to Elizabeth, second dolt"
of Mr. Josiah Harvey, Grand Junction Wharf, Whiteiriar°'...

DIED.
On the 22d ult., at Boulogne-sur-Mar, Mr. John
late proprietor of the Royal Pavilion Theatre, Whited's!'"
road, aged 53.
On the 24th ult., at Inverleith-row, Edinburgh, Dicta r
nant Charles William Hope, Royal Engineers, zouNlegt °is
of the late Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope, G.C.ti•
On the 25th ult., at Paris, Patrick Stewart, Esq., of Aticu
lunkart, county of Banff.
+h
On the 28th ult., at Spofforth, Yorkshire, Mary, --e
of the Rev. Richard Hartley, D.D. oaf
On the 28th ult., at Carlsruhe, Baden, Cecilia,
‘the
Wingfield Yates, Esq. •
On the 4th inst., Captain David Baztor, late of the ahl?
Bombay Castle, of
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