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alone to confer a borough qualification, and he there-
fore summitted that the lessee was entitled to vote for
the county.
The REVISING BARRISTER said, if he understood
the question rightly, the subject of the claim appeared
to be a house split into several tenancies, all of them
under 101. a year.
Mr. Smith said this was so.

attempt to murder, and refused bail when applica'
tion was made to him.
John. Locker, a well-known dog fancier, was charged
with having attempted to steal a valuable little dog
belonging to Mrs. Parsons, of Halfmoon-street.
Mrs. Parsons said she was walking in Curzon'
street about nine o'clock on Friday evening, when sbe,
suddenly missed her dog ; she turned round, and be
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the 'prisoner attempting to cover it with a cloth: B.lh
called "Stop thief,' and the prisoner then ran off with
the dog, but dropped the animal when pursued..
A person named Cadwallader Waddy said he I°4
lowed and overtook the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, had enticed the dog 11
.the well-known means of a piece of prepared liver: Lae
Mr. MALTBY fined the prisoner 51., the value of r,
dog, and 201. additional tine, or six months' hard "'
bour.

The REVISING BARRISTER inquired whether the
whole building, if let, would not be worth more than
101. a year ? Mr. Smith replied that it would.
The REVISING BARRISTER said that under these
circumstances he did not think that a county quali-
fication had been made out. It was clear that the
building was worth more than 10/. a-year, and being
within a borough, it clearly conferred a right to vote
for that borough, and the fact of its being split into
several tenements made no difference.

Mr..Meymott said the 25th section of the Reform
Act declared that "no personshouldbe entitled to vote
in the election of a knight of the shire, in respect of
any estate or interest in any house, warehouse, Bcc.,
if the same were of such value as would confer on
him or any other person the right of voting for any
city or borough, whether he or any other person
shall or shall not have actually acquired the right to
vote for such city or borough in respect thereof."
The REVISING BARRISTER said he had no doubt
upon the point. He thought the claim could not be
sustained, and therefore the name would he expunged
from the list.

UNION -HALL.
Thomas Parren and Jeremiah Gross, two draYo3e;
appeared on bail to ans.Aer the charge of causing
death of. Mr. Scott.
oft
Mr. COTTING HAM., addressing the accused Pat-Alith
said that since the inquiry that had taken place tst
respect to Mr. Scott's death at that court, an inqu-
hal been held on the budy of the deceased. and ver3
diet of accidental death returned. This was the reAl,
which he (the magistrate) anticipated, and in ,clllr
charging the accused, he seriously impressed oil
minds the necessity, in future, of having 'some peke
attending at th 9 hf-als of their horses while th
themselves ‘s ere engaged in unloading their. -drill,
Had that precaution. been adopted in the presentLieo
stance, the life of a human bein would not have ue,he
sacrificed, and they would not have been placed
unpleasant position from which they had been 3
discharged.
In the course of the day an aged man, in the ,
of a sailor, applied for advice under these cifou-oi
stances :—The applicant stated that he was a natifeteo
Prussia, but had been fifty-one years in Englancit,f.
of which he had served this country on board a roan 7
war. He was now, in his old age, in great disc
and considered that he had some claims for his sety
vices, although he was allowed almost to perish:o
street. ' of
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When Mr. Fisa had gone through the Lambeth
list, he addressed Mr. Clark, the vestry clerk, and
complimented him ani the overseers upon the careful
manner in which the lists had been prepared.
The whole of the revision having been gone
through, Mr. Meymott addressed the Revising Bar-
rister, and said that on his own behalf, and .he had
no doubt Mr. Jeans would concur with him, he
begged to tender his thanks for the courtesy they had
experienced at the hands of the Revising Barrister,
and the extremely► careful and efficient manner in
which the several lists had been revised.

The REVISING BARRISTER said he was very glad
they had concluded their labouri ; and he thanked the
agents on both sides for the assistance they had ren-
dered him, and which, he said, had rendered those
labours comparatively light.
The court then adjourned.

X. NOTTINGHAM, who deplored the situate.- , the
the old man, questioned him on the subject el, be
nature of his services, from which it appeared
was wounded on board the Orion, line-of-battle !few':
in an engagement with the Spaniards off Alget,,i
and that he also received another wound in the utbe
from a splinter while serving in the Montague,"ie.„o,
West Indies, and lastly that he was in the ever nleroi
rable battle of Trafalgar. He added that he de, io
no pension for his services, not being long enoOlsto.
the navy to entitle him. He had waited on the Frio
sian Consul, who refused to send him to his °rot
country, saying that as he had fought and blgd
England, they had a right to maintain him. '
oc-
Mr. COTTINGHAM, who interested himself very • be
in the fate of the old tar, advised a memorial . t°, to
drawn up, setting forth his services, and addrestieci,
the Lords of the Admiralty, with a view that hi:4°7
might be taken into consideration, and be granti'ejog
asylum in Greenwich Hospital for the few reraiind
years of his life. The magistrate had the metl3°.,,a
dispatched to the Admiralty, and it was accomp•wthe
by a note from himself, calling the attention 0f of
Secretary to the case. The applicant, with teeriirej
gratitude, thanked the magistrate, and he was cles3 of
to call in a few days to be informed of the rest'
the application on his behalf. • of
Shortly before the termination of the businesgthe
the day, two deputations of tradesmen waited on two
magistrate to solicit his advice with respect t° io
grievous nuisances, the (ne a lucifer manufactoifo, 0
:-.ent-street; and the then an exhibition ef.ti of
works, at a house situated in the populous vich'2,t of
London-bridge, on the south side. At the io
these places, there was carried on a brisk troutois
lucifer matches, upwards of a dozen men and4eocll
being employed in the manufactory. The ,0
arising from the process of mikin the matcheslijos
intolerable, and the manufactory itself; being rOtit to
but a wooden erection, was exposed every 111°131,e0ife
conflagration, in which case great and ex_,Lsect
damage would'
accrue to the owners of the 11°.3,
premises. With respect to the exhibition, .00
stated that a fellow with a big drum and a Pel'irorc
pipe was stationed at the door all day long(•!At.
eight in the morning until eleven o'clock at "eici' io
that during the intervals he was not 61304100 gs
beating away on the drum he was exerting his not,
to the utmost limits of their power by bawlinfr, the
" Walk in, ladies and gentlemen, and behei-ch its
astonishing works of natur." The result of °collect
exhibition was, that it caused great crovvas
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opposite, and who blocked the thorougi4rere was
gave great facilities for picking pockets.
tofro
andv of
scarcely a day passed that persons passing
from the City were not robbed by the ga
thiever.sC infeOTTlNGHsting thAM, e sp
ha ot.
Mving listened to the cereP the
in each case, advised the applicants to indict
parties at the ensuing sessions.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A host of poor fishermen appeared before Sir J.
Key, to answer several informations laid against them
by the City water-bailiffs, for fishing in the Thames
lyitn illegal nets, thereby damaging the fisheries to a
serious extent. -The justice-room was much crowded
by dredgermen and others employed in the fish trade,
the proceedings being of the greatest moment to this
class of persons. The complaints were laid under a
code of regulations passed by the Court of Aldermen
as far back as 1785, for the better preservation of the
young fish in the river, and which enacts that no net
shall be dragged in the Thames for flounders above
London-bridge less than 2i inches in the mesh, and
not more than sixteen fathoms long.
Mr. Rough, one of the bailiffs, in proving.the case
against several of the offenders, stated that he caught
most of them fishing at about midnight with the net
produced, which, so far from being 24, the average
was full If, the use of which must have seriously, de-
teriorated the fisheries, inasmuch as the nets drew the
young fish.
The defendants, in answer to the charges, positively
denied that the nets were illegal, but admitted that
they might now be found within the measurement, as
the twine shrunk from its constant immersion in the
water. They complained of some recent alterations
which the Court of Aldermen had adopted in the
fisheries, almost precluding their gaining a livelihood.
Sir J. KEY—The nets I am bound to condemn,
and I am sorry for you.
The men then left the justice-room.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Abraham Myers was brought up for final examina-
tion, charged with having wilfully and maliciously
stabbed John Clayard, livery-stable keeper, with in-
tent to murder him.
The prisoner and the prosecutor were each pro-
vided with legal assistance.
Mr. Clayard,' who was in court, with his arm in a
sling, was called on to give evidence, and was accom-
modated with a seat in the witness-box. His state-
ment was as follows :—I am a livery-stable keeper,
and keep the White Bear-yard, Lisle-street, Leicester-
square. On Tuesday last I was at the house of Mr.
Banks, the Crown, in Cranbourne•passege, with some
friends. About half-past six o'clock I was standing
in front of the bar, when Myers came in. Some words
ensued between us, but I forget what they were.
Myers said to me that if I called him the same name
which 1 had called him to a friend, he would punch
my head. I called him the name, and he then struck
me on the mouth. I got up, and blows ensued. I
held him against the corner of the bar, and he tried to
force my eye out with his thumb. He put his fingers
into my mouth for that purpose. I told him if he did
not take his fingers out of my mouth I would bite
them. He persisted, and I believe I bit his fingers.
We were parted, and I sat on a stool ; while sitting
there he came up to me and we had another tussle.
I told him to be quiet,.as I did not wish to hurt him.
Myers went into the tap-room, but came out again
almost immediately, and wanted me to fight, and he
then kicked me. I did not kick him again, but I
kicked his hat, and afterwards went into the parlour.
In the parlour words ensued with Myers and some
other persons in the parlour about his having kicked
me. About half an hour after this, Myers came in to
me and asked me' why I kicked his hat. I told him
because he had kicked me in a brutal manner. Myers
wished to force his conversation on me, but I told him
to drop it, as we had already been a nuisance to the
company. I got up and went to one end of the room,
and Myers went to the other. Two persons came in
and sat near Myers. Myers spoke to one of them,
and said, " You are not going away just yet, give an
eye to my coat," and then went out. In ten minutes
or a quarter of an hour Myers returned, and sat
down for a time in his chair. He then rose as if to
light his cigar, and I said to Myers, don't let us have
any animosity between us, shake hands. I held out
my hand, and I forget whether I said, here's my
heart with it, but I might have said so. Myers
took hold of my right hand with his left, and put
his right hand behind him, and scuffled with
his coat pocket. He then suddenly made a
blow at my breast, and he was about to repeat it,
when I saw he had a knife in his hand. I rose up
and seized the knife, and my thumb was cut across.
This was done all in a breath, and Myers, when he
made the blow, said, " You b—, I'll have your
b— heart." I staggered, but did not fall ; and
Myers stepped back and placed himself against the
door, looking round the room as if he wished to
stick the knife into somebody else. Myers remained
against the door about half a minute, and some per-
sons called out, " You villain, you have murdered
the man." Every one in the room appeared afraid to
approach Myers, on account of the large knife in his
hand. Myers opened the door and ran out, and I did
not see him again until I saw him in custody at the
station-house, after I had got my wounds dressed. I
had two wounds; one on the breast, and one on the
hand. The hand was very much cut.
Cross-examined—Myers commenced the quarrel,
by saying, if I repeated the term which I had applied
to him, when speaking to another person, he would
punch my head. I did apply the term, but I forget
the precise words. It was not, " You are a b—
b--." In the scuffle I got the best. I did not use
any language to Myers to warrant him in striking
me. I did not abuse him or his house ; nor did I tell
him that he had better hire a gig, to go in the coun-
try to fight it out. I told him that I was too much
for him. I had been drinking that day, and so had
Myers, but I did not think Myers was drunk.
John Acton, waiter at the Grown, said Myers and
Clayard had been quarrelling during the afternoon,
and aftewards they went into the parlour. Heard a
scream and ran into the parlour and saw Myers with
a knife in his hand. Was about to seize Myers, but
his master shook his head. Myers went out and
dropped the knife in the passage, and then ran out of
the house. Witness followed and seized Myers, and
threw him down and held him till a police-constable
same up.
Cross-examined—Witness did' not hear any bad
names applied by Clayard to Myers.
Mr. Joseph Banks, the landlord of the Crown, was
examined, and his evidence went to corroborate the
statement made by Clayard. He was of opinion that
Clayard tried to sooth Myers rather than to provoke
him. Myers appeared to be inclined to quarrel with
any one.
The knife was produced. It was a butcher's knife
used for cutting up the largest :cats. It was sur-
prising to think that any man attacked with such an
instrument could have escaped with comparatively so
little injury as the prosecutor.
Mr. Thomas M'Queal, assistant to Mr. Morgan,
surgeon, No. 71, St. Martin's-lane, said he dressed
the prcsecutor's wounds. There was a wound on the
left side of the chest, and a wound on the ball of the
thumb • The wounds had evidently been inflicted
with a knife or some sharp instrument. The wounds
were not dangerous.
Inspector Aggs, who took the charge, was asked
as to the state of the prisoner when brought to the
station-house ?—The inspector said Myers appeared
to be drunk.

MARRIAGES.—By an Act passed in the late sOlhuel
concerning bans arid marriages in certain district chutetd
or chapels, various doubts which had arisen are rein°de
respecting the legality of such marriages, and it iittt or
dared that in every case in which a district has bee the
shall be assigned to any church or chapel u
n_er the
Church-building Acts, it shall be determined bisbet
Commissioners and the Bishop of the Diocese olle'g
bans of matrimony shall be published and marriagelawo.
lemnised in any church or chapel or not. The fuoliri
in g clause has been framed to render mareiag?a...3de
which have already taken place, and provision is P:rrof
for future- cases. Section 3—"'And whereas by ID
rot
bans have been published, and divers marriages bate
ci to
been solemnised in chapels with districts aolglieettea
them under the provisions of the hereinbefore
Act,, or some of them, but in which chapel ban sole'
net be legally published, nor marriages by law
Stoiog
nised ; and it is expedient to remove difficulties 11,01
from the circumstances aforesaid touching the vrbitae
of such marriages ; be it therefore enacted, la
already published and Marriages :Already solemn oe:
such chapels as aforesaid shall not hereafter betaiseo
tioned on account of the said bans having been Pu pel ss
or the said marriages solemnised in any such eitvioel
aforesaid; and the minister or ministers who solne,soo
the same shall not be liable to any ecclesiastical c„for bi
or to any other proceedings or penaltieS.whittan' so s°'
reason thereof, and the registers of all marriagess obalif
lemnised as.aforesaid, or copies of such regislcace °
he. received in all courts of law and equity asevl
such marriages respectively."
HORRIBLE CRUELTY.—THE KNACKERS' •••• 'llls tbe
In the months of N.,vember and December, 184 ogee
public mind was awakened by the various eXraf
made by " the National Animals' Friend SocietYr a ela
horrible cruelties in the above dens of infamy' ; 81110.ners
should have thought it would have awakened the Ire in'
of these charnel-houses to sajdit sen,e of the tor.tt ''bat
Hided by them on that noble animal, " the hnrbe:-,f th°
such is not the case. Mr. May, with the otficer,lol, and
Society, have continually kept a sharp eye on t'h -verill
have, during the week, succeeded in entering Se tbe
the yards ; and the r, ports are truly horriblei,opir
following declaration will show :—I went into bridge.'
ter's horse-slaughtering yards, Belle Isle, Bat thr,
„toldt'
in company with Childs. Theyaril was in a borrlui'i; the
tion—there were nineteen living horses petit tips
shed, and twenty-one dead horses lying about the Yci oot
just as they had died ; the man told us theY,bcal
killed a horse for the last fortnight, as more nie, iveffie
and nightly than could be skinned. Those h"P`
in all imaginable positions, just as they bad streggd bee°
the last agonies of death. A brickla3er oh° 11 I ill,:
some days building a wall which formed' one en joe `-
yard, said it was enough to melt a heart of sect
e
see what the poor horses suffered.--LLEtanY
tare ; W. CHILDS, Officer.

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BTRTIIS. 11-stree"
On the 25th of September, in Greet Marlboroug ir
the wife of the Rev. C. H. Gaye, of a daughter- ~,,c., gger,
On the 25th of September, at Upper Thurlow-Pl,;ghtt of
ney-road, the lady of T. Ware, Esq., solicitor, of a 71,0 WO'
On the 26th of. September, in Bedford-squ3re'
Patrick Black,-M.D., of a son. ' • t, St. /313
ies.f'
• On the 26th of S9tember, in Bennett-street, deli'
-Mrs. Alexander Bridge, of a son. ~ oar
fi On vo
On the 27th of September, in York-street, v°-
Mrs. H. G. Bohn, of a daughter.

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MARRIED. Ber
4V. ha
On the 18th of September, at the British. Einbatt-pr of t-
Captain Henry Smith, R.N , C. 8., to Anna, dalig"'" ~
late Sylvester Costigin, Esq., of Dublin. i' G.
1, Rev. etr
On the 26th of September, at Newark, t-e deal;
Bussell, Vicar of Newark• upon-Trent, to Julia, elcie'
terHodgkinson, Esq., of the abov lace
e p *Churcli' to
On the 27th of September, at Marylebone &all
Macfarren, Esq., of Berners-street, to Thalia, eldest
of Heinrich Andrao, Esq., of the 15th Regiment.

DIED. . e „Q f
_.11;1;
At his seat, Euston Hall, Suffolk, on the ;--t-nh iereo-
tember, the Duke of Grafton, aged 84, deeply an uu- ,
limetted. Fortobeh4
On the 19th of September, at Brighton.,place, Iva ea
Captain Andrew Barclay, after a few days' illness, oar an
years. His loss will be deeply felt, especially hY the
P
destitute in of the
On the 21st of September, Joseph Taylor, Esc'', late
sci'S
Royal Exchange insurance-office, aged 82. James De
On the 21st of September, at Sarum. Wilts,
Esq., of Wheeler-place, Haverstock-hill. aged 7 lla'
9Th jobe
On the 22.1 of September, at Raywill, near lit"
relict of Daniel Sykes, Esq. ,
On the 23d of September, at the Vicarage, inderbP l'ill‘
Sw
colnshire„ Mary, the wife of the Rev. W. J Clarke. Burn
On the 25th of September, Ann, wife of Ur. Jolla -‘'
of Victoria-road, Kensington. Elizabetil'
On the 26th of September, at South Lambeth, i
wife of John Pittar, Esq. L EdWer°
On the 26th of September, at Christ's Ho spita-
ce
Heming Rice, of University College, Oxford Mr `e
On the 27th of September, William, son of .I."''
se'
Lev
On of Norfolk-s, rand.
y,
e 2 the 26th of treet
Septem Stber, Charles Graham Cleatb,-;cl'
cond son of Captain Edward Cleather, of Higher Ara"
near Manchester.
r lien 00 111,
On the 27th of Stntember, in the Strand. 13irs: A--
Stun, relict of the late Mr. Edward Houl,ton. , n.' Of
On the 27th of September, Edward Peppercorn, Ps'''
grove, Rye-lane, Peckham. litnl' Tjeljrl
, 1 On the 28th of September, at Chertsey, SurreY,
at Street, aged 50.
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day.
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Mr, IN.I.A.LTBI fully committed the prisoner
for th o.i.indl, Lt, ..,.. . ~,,,,,, o: Lue bay, y, in the k,,-
0 Middlesex, Monday, September 30, 1644.

Mr. MALTBY asked Myers what he had to say?
Myers—l have only this to say, that I was intoxi-
cated at the time, and so Icannot contradict anything
the witnesses have said. I don't know what hap-
pened, and was so unconscious of what took place,
that when I got sober in the morning, I did not
know what it was for that I had been lopkerl nh .
• and I hn,l

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