The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Mr. Villiers Stuart has published an address
to the freeholders of the county of Waterford,
professing to be explanatory of the Honourable
Gentleman's reasons for the singular step of re •
tiring from the representation of the county. We
have read the address, and we arc dull enough
not to comprehend the reasons ; the retirement,
therefore, appears to us as " singular," to say the
least of it, as when it last was ►►oticed in this

journal. The Honourable, Gentleman states,
that since the passing of the Disfranchisement
Bill, for which he voted, though strongly dis-
approving of it, -because he conceived it to be a
sine qua non cf emancipation, he feels himself
to be no longer the representative of the same
" constituency by which he was returned ;" and,
in short, announces his intention to resign. Now
the remark which must strike everybody is, that
if the motive assigned be the true motive, it has
no foundation in justice or common sense. On
that ground every Member of the Irish Parlia-
ment, who had been returned by Protestants or(
the last election before the year 1793, ought to
have instantly resigned their seats on the passing
of the law which qualified Catholics to be voters.
But further, if Mr. Stuart resigns because ho
cannot now represent the forty-shilling free-
holders, will he be kind enough to inform the
county of Waterford, how he mends the case. of
such extinct freeholders by giving the county
another representative? Will Lord George
Beresford represent the class of voters by whom
Mr. Stuart was lately returned, any better than
does Mr. Stuart himself? Does Mr. Stuart
pretend that 'he confers a benefit. on the 41-4.
occupiers of the county of Waterford, by
abandoning the duty of protecting them from
wrong—of speaking their sentiments, anti sup-
porting their petitions; .and turning them over
to the mercy of another individual, exasperated .
against them for their successful preference of
Mr. Villiers Stuart to himself? We do nut say
that the Hon. Gentleman means unfairly towards'

the freeholders of Waterford, or that he has anysinister and selfish object of his own to realize ;
but we beg leave to state our opinion that Itc
acts unwisely, both for himself and hi sup,
porters. A man in public life must be true td.
that cause, and to those principles, on the .asr
sumption and through the prevalence of whicff
he obtained a high station, involving a great
public trust ; otherwise there can be no effectual
union among the members _of a political body,
—otherwise no valuable purpose can be accom-
plishedno bad system can be strenuously anti
perseveringly opposed—no confidence demanded
from the people by men of property. Mr.
Stuart ought to look at the substantial conse-
quences of this ill-timed and ominous desertion
of his post. Ills return for the county of Wa-
terford inflicted the very first serious wound to
the Court and anti-national faction in the south
of Ireland. It gave repute and
.influence
.tcy
public opinion—it waved the flag of
policy in the midst of the enemy s
Mr. Stuart deceives himself, if he imagine:4

that the country will give him credit- for
having performed his tchole, duty by- watch.
ing the progress of Catholic Emancipa-
tion, and aiding its final victory. He sought
the suffrages of the county of Waterford as the
advocate of freedom, civil and religious. He
came in by the side of Mr. Power, as the sworn
adversary of an overbearing family interest, which
had for more than a century trampled on the in-
dependence, not of Waterford alone, but of al-
most every quarter of Ireland. The Hon. Gen-
tleman was not engaged by his country for a
single trip; he was commissioned for so long as
he might be fit for service; he was not rigged
up as a jury-mast, or driven in like a plug to
stop a shot-hold. Mr. Stuart ought to .have felt
himself a fixed and inseparable member of the

Whig garrison of the Southern counties, and not
on frivolous or less pardonable pretexts delivered
up his gate to the enemy. There is not out:
Irish Representative in twenty, who might not
have betrayed his friends by virtue of the same
quibble, viz. that after the Disfranchisement Bill
he served no longer the constituency which had
returned him, as if the people had no interests
to be protected because they were deprived of
their voter. There still remains to be done for

Ireland what will call for.the utmost vigour and
activity on the part of every liberal and hone 4
politician in the island, for many years to come.
Ir. Stuart, we repeat, is not faithful to his
pledge, if he resigns a county struggling for in-
dependence in favour of Lord George Beres-
ford !—Times.

Our readers will find in another column an ac-
count of a meeting held at Hampstead on Tues-
day eveni►►g, on the subject of the Bill which has
been smuggled through the House of Lords,
and is now proceeding through the House of
Commons, conferring certain powers on Sir
Thomas Maryou Wilson, as Lord of the Matior
of Hampstead. It appears that the first notice
the copvholders of Hampstead received of a
Bill, by which their interests are seriously
threatened, was from a letter addressed by a
Member of the Upper House to a lady at
Hampstead, expressing his sorrow ,‘ that the
Heath v‘as about to be enclosed." This was
after the Bill had been twice read. Sir Thomas
Maryon Wilson has evidently been guided
by the best advice. By commencing with the
House of Lords, he had all the privacy that
could be desired ; and it entered the House

)1 Commons at a time when attendance for

any business could with difficulty be obtained.
But what are we to think of the Tribunal which

is so constituted, that numbers of individuals
may at any time be deprived by stealth of their
property ? The chances Were as ten to one that
Sir Thomas M. Wilson would have been suc-
cessful ; and then the people of Hampstead
would have been entirely without a remedy. Had
Hampstead been a hundried miles from London,
the chances, too, against discovery Would have
been greatly multiplied. • That a multitudinous
body, like Parliament, should retain the power
of making private laws—that is, of setting aside
the law in favour of individuals—is of itself a
very great evil; as it necessarily opens the door
to all manner of acts of injustice and fraud.
Those who ask for private laws ask for what will
either affect the rights of others or what will not
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affect them. In either case, Parliament is not
so constituted as to be able to conduct the in-
quiry which is necessary to determine whether
the favour sought for is a matter of indifference
to the rest of the public or not. It is.precisely
the sort of tribunal which a dishonest applicant
would choose for the effecting a dishonest pur-
pose. In the first place, there is the chance of
making his way unobserved amid the multitude
of jobs of all sorts. In the next place, there ins
the enormous expellee connected with all Parlia-
mentary pioceedings.. And then, except the
business is of a nature to rouse public feeling,
and through public feeling the honest, but lazy
Members of the Legislature, the object is sure
to be tarried b.v_ paeki:g. Responsibility in a
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great hotly like Parliament amounts to nothing.
No Member feels the odium of any measure.
The honest Members deem it quite sufficient that
they themselves did not vote for the measure.
They do not blame themselves for not being pre-.
sent to prevent others from doing what is wrong.
Reformers, perhaps, chuckle at the proof thus I
afforded of the corruption of Parliament. The
Members who lent themselves to the views of
the applicant, chuckle at the dexterity with which
they out-manoeuvred their opponents. The suf-
ferers are without a remedy, and without even
sympathy. Were a Judge to commit an act of
palpable injustice, he might be held up to public
indignation : but a multitude cannot feel objur-
gation. The power of passing Private Bills by
Parliament is a nuisance of the first magnitude,
and ought to be abated. We lately referred to
a publication by Mr. Wickens, calling on Parlia-
ment to proceed with a little more regard to the
principle of the division of labour. hat gen-
tleman, speaking of this grievous abuse of Private
Bills—" And let it not be supposed (he says)
that it is only a bare liability thus that there is
cause to complain of; that in short the Acts of
which we are speaking are few, and conse-
qudently undeserving, in an argument like the
present, of serious notice ln
neither of the Sessions that have intervened
(since 1822) has the number passed of Estate
Bills been fewer than 20 ; while in others it has
been as high as 37 and 43, which is an aggre-
gate of legislation equal at one period of our
Parliamentary History to the entire labours
of the Session. We can scarcely imagine
it will be objected to the change we are
suggesting, that in these matters of mere form,
as we term them, some vital Constitutional prin-
ciple is mixed up. Admitting it to be so, acts
in which principles equally vital are concerned
are done in the country almost every day, the
faculty of legalising which exists by deputation.
We presume it will be allowed that the property
and that the lives of men are of as much moment
to them as their names or armorial bearings ; but
in how many instances is the disposal of them
both vested in parties, not the primary sources,
the original depositaries of all power—but parties
to whom, as we have just intimated, power is
deputed ? Again, the outlawry, if not the send-
ing to Botany Bay our own citizens, together
with the processes by which entails are cut off,
women barred of their dower, partitions of estates
affected, and the like, are cases, we humbly con-
ceive, involving principles to the full as vital ur
fundamental as those which are implicated where
the question is one of conferring the privileges
of fraternity on the citizens of other countries ;
or of giving increased powers to Proprie-
tors or Trustees—which is what is for the
most part done by Estate Bills
In the case of parties desiring for themselves or
others, to exchange, or in some way alienate, to
effect a partition of, or to lease out particular
properties (one or the other of which objects is
generally that of Estate Bills), we believe it is in
the great majority of instances, entirely optional,
whether recourse shall be had to Parliament, or
to the Court of Chancery ; the jurisdiction of
this latter Court over property, and almost over
persons, being notoriously all but absolute ; and
where, too, it is worth observing, justice on the
occasions we are speaking of, is quite as much
secured as by going to Parliament ; it being a
condition, according to Blackstone, that not one
of the objects contemplated by Estate Bills,
should be capable of being effected, and not even
the application itself entertained, 6 without the
consent expressly given of all parties in
being, and capable of consent, that have the
remotest interest in the matter.'" No good
object can be promoted by Parliament re-
taining to itself the power of adjudicating in
matters of this sort. However, as abuse aids
abuse, the confusion which an unnecessary waste
of the time of Parliament must produce, may be
desirable to those who dread too much light.—
The main reason, however, for the continuance
of the most of these evils is, that individuals
benefit by them from the fees derived from them.
One of our contemporaries (the Morning Jour-
nal) animadverted severely on the conduct of
Juries, and very justly observed, that as far as
responsibility was concerned, they were not for
a moment to be put in competition with a Judge.
A still stronger objection, however, lies against a
multitudinous body like Parliament deciding
causes than against Juries, responsibility dimi-
nishing in the inverse ratio of number. The
only good argument we have heard fur multitu-
dinous tribunals is the greater difficulty of cor-
rupting many than corrupting one or two. A
single Judge, it is said, may be corrupt, yet, if
he keep his own counsel, he cannot be reached :
but in a number corruption becomes difficult,
because it can hardly be concealed. However,
much more is to be apprehended from the evil of
diminished responsibility from increased numbers,
than from the facility of corruption from paucity
of numbers.—Morning Chronicle.
We gave yesterday an article from The Sun
respecting the attempt which is now making to
procure a licence for the destruction of Hamp-
stead-heath—or at least for converting it into a
mass of bricks and mortar, instead of allowing
it to remain, as it now is, the choicest spot in
the immediate vicinity of the metropolis, for
healthful exercise and amusement ; and we now
learn, with great satisfaction, that the attempt is
to be manfully opposed. A meeting of the
copyholders was held on Tuesday, at which it
was resolved, by a majority of eight to two to
oppose the Bill ; and the sense of the public is
so generally and so justly against the attempt,
that we entertain strong hopes of the Bill being
thrown out is the Commons to-morrow. The
whole of the people of London and Westminster
are so interested in doing themselves justice in
this matter, that the copyholders ought not to
be allowed to stand alone in their opposition to
the Bill ; and did time permit, the Members for
the City and for Westminster ought to be in-
structed by their constituents to vote against it.
The thing, however, is altogether so bad, and
so injurious to the public, that it cannot pass.—
Morning Advertiser.

Within the last week several meadows have
been mowed in Sligo.—Carlow Morning Post.

Some one was commenting indignantly on the
conduct of a certain French Marshal, in 1814, who, it

was said, bad sct the first example of defection. "Oh !"
said TALLEYRAND, " all that can be said is, that his
watch was too fast. Every one else was punctual to the
time."

RA RA Avis.—On Tuesday morning a milk-
white bird was seen among a flock of sparrows in Stanley-
place, Chester. It was shot by CHARLES MoRRALL,
Est, and proved to be one of the same species. We be•
lieve Mr. Morte.am, intends to have it stuffed.—Liu.rpoo,
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Albion.

At Devon iron-works there has been cast an
iron bridge for the Earl of BRE.,.LDAIIISA NI, to be thrown
over the Tay, opposite to Taymouth Castle. It is beauti-
fully light and elegant in appearance. It consists of three
arches, the whole embracing a span of about 170 feet.
Editaktrgh Evening OntiarrS.

MISS - AND MR.

The following is a more correct version of the
affair which occurred on Saturday morning, at
the church of St. George, Hanover-square,
than the account which we copied from a Sun-

day Paper.
About half-past eight o'clock on the morning
in question, an elegant carriage drove up to the
front portal of the church, and immediately Mr.
W-y, a gentleman of very large property,
but of small beauty, recently returned from the
East Indies, alighted, accompanied by another
gentleman, who it was understood was Mr. W. 's
brother ; both were in full dress. Shortly after-
wards a string of five carriages drove to the same
place, the coachmen and servants of which, as
well as of the former carriage, were dressed in
new liveries, wearing white gloves, large white
favours in their hats, bouquets of flowers in their
coats, &c., the whole exhibiting all the " out-
ward signs" of a wedding in high life. From
the first carriage descended Miss Z-b, a
handsome female, about five-and-thirty, elegantly
attired in a white lace dress over a satin slip of
the same ; a large white veil was fattened to her
head by a profusion of roses. The lady whom
every one concluded to be the intended " bride"
was followed by a great number of bride's-maids
all dressed in the purest white. The parties pro-
ceeded to the Vestry-room, where the intended
bridegroom was awaiting the lady's arrival. The
Divine, in his robes, proceeded to the altar, and
opening the book of Common Prayer, at that
part of it which contains the forms of the Mar-
riage Ceremonial, requested the parties to
ap-
proach in front of the altar. Mr. W-- prof.
ferred his arm to Miss Z--, but she merely
drooped her head, as if unconscious of what was
passing. Some moments elapsed, but still the
young lady remained mute, The bride's-maids
attempted to encourage her, the bridegroom
urged the pressingness of the moment, but nei-
ther produced any apparent alteration. At last
the Clergyman retired from the altar, but still
remained in the Vestry, ready to perform the ce-
remony, should there be any change in the lady's
disposition. This proved, however, to be unne-
cessary, for the lady appeared unaltered in her
determination of not undergoing the ceremony,
even after two hours' entreaty. At half-past ten
o'clock the lady retired to her carriage, unac-
companied by Mr. W--. The would-have-
been-bridegroom drove off in his carriage, and
in an opposite direction to that of the lady.
It is stated that Mr. W--spared no expence
in purchasing the wedding paraphernalia ; the
bride's dress cost him upwards of 100 guineas,
and the bride's-maids were fitted out in corre-
sponding elegance at his expellee. TLe gentle-
man, whose severe disappointment the lady has
occasioned, has very recently released her from
,he east side of Fleet-market.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

On Wednesday morning a report reached this
town (Bury), that a young woman's throat had been
cut, on the night previous, at Ashfield Parva,
about ten miles distant. By twelve o'clock at
on Wednesday, William Buckle, a young
21 years of age, and of interesting appear-
ance, was in custody, and did not attempt to
deny that he had done the deed.
On Saturday morning Mr. Orridge conveyed
him to Badwell 'White Horse for examination.
At half-past ten the Rev. G. Boldero, the Ma-
gistrate, arrived ; and several gentlemen in the
neighbourhood were in attendance. On in-
quiry it was found that the young woman could
not be removed from her bed at her uncle's,
about a mile and a half distant, at Ashfield
Parva, so that it was found necessary to repair
thither with the prisoner. On entering the room,
the prisoner placed himself at the foot of the
bed, and stood in a manner that did not evince
the slightest remorse for what he had dene ; the
sight of him so affected her that she fainted, and
he was instantly removed from her sight.
Leah Warren is the name of this unfortunate
girl ; her parents live at Ashfield ; the father is
a bricklayer. She stated that the prisoner, Wm.
Buckle, had worked for her father upwards of
three years ; that he boarded with the family,
but slept at his mother's at Walsham ; that he
was always treated like one of their own family ;
they had been acquainted upwards of two years
at times ; and she permitted his addresses at in-
tervals till last Bury fair or Michaelmas time,
when the acquaintance was entirely broken off,
at the solicitation of her brothers and sisters ;
she lived at this time with Mrs. Brown, of Bury.
She did not see him any more till last Christmas
time ; the acquaintance was not then renewed ;
she afterwards left her place and went home,
in consequence of ill health. On Whit- Sun-
day she had conversation with him at her father's;
he came there when she was dressing, and asked
if she was going to Walsham ; she said " Yes,"
anti went with him to Badwell-green ; they then
returned together, because he wished it ; she
I,vent to her father's house, and he left her ;
while walking, he wished to renew the acquaint-
ance, but she refused him. In the afternoon
he returned to her father's ; she was up stairs
with her sister, and refused to see him, but after
some time came down ; he said to her, " You
have been crying, what's the matter ?" She
answered, " that her brother and sister had been
taking her to do for going with him iii the morn-
ing, and she wouldn't have any thing more to
say to him." Buckle then said, he would leave
her father's, and come no more ; and she persuad-
ed him not to leave her father, as he had worked
for him three years. Nothing further was said
about the acquaintance, nor was any appoint-
ment made to meet on the Monday. About
four o'clock, she was going to Walsh= to meet
her sister ; he prevented her, saying she should
not go, and went himself. Soon after a young
man, named Ely Hunt, came to see her sister
Martha, and she walked with them towards
Walsham arm-in-arm ; saw Buckle, and he said
to her, " So you would come ;" she answered,
" Yes," and passed on, holding Hunt's arm ;
she saw no more of Buckle till the meeting held
at her father's in the evening at Badwell Ash ; a
meeting of Dissenters is held there every Sunday
evening; no conversation then took place between
them. On Monday morning she saw him about six.
o'clock ; no conversation passed on the subject
of their acquaintance ; she slept on the Sunday
night, for the first time, where she was then
lying (at her uncle's), to accommodate some ac-
quaintance who was visiting her father ; she went
out on Monday night about six o'clock, with her
brother and sister, to Backton Bull ; they passed
Buckle on their way, but nothing was said by
either ; she saw no more of him till Tuesday
night, between eight and nine o'clock ; she was
then walking with her brother, his wife, and
children ; her sister-in-law first saw him, and
said, '' there he is now ; Buckle was then com-
ing towards them ; she said, " What shall I do ?
I'll go back;" her brother said, " No, come on."
They were then about two hundred yards from
her uncle's house, where she was going to sleep ;

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when she got,near the gate by the :house, Buckle
touched her arm, and said, " Stop, I have got
something to tell you." Her brother, in leaving !
her to go home, desired her not to stop—but
she did stop ; this was in the high road ; Buckle
asked her if she was going to Bacton (about
three miles) ; she said " No, I'm going to bed ;"
he then said she should go with him to Badwell ;
they walked about some time ; when near her
uncle's gate, her aunt came and asked her to go
in ; Buckle said to her aunt, " Go you to bed,
or throw a stone at you—l have something to
say to her." Her aunt left them together ;
Buckle took hold of her bonnet strings, and
requested that she would give them to him, and
she refused; he then asked her to walk by the
side of a pond in her uncle's potatoe field ; this
she refused because it was wet, and she was fear-
ful of cold. On this Buckle requested she
would go back to her sister's ; this she also re-
fused—not from apprehension of violence on his
part, but because she was tired, having been
up the night before. Buckle then said, " I'm
got to my furthest ; you won't see me any
more." She replied, " Nonsense, the devil has
got hold of you again" (alluding to his having en
her account attempted to hang himself some time
since) ; he replied, " I do not know, I'm got to
my furthest." A Mr. Rose passed by at this time,
and she attempted to pass in at her uncle's gate,
but Buckle prevented her. They then walked
once to the garden corner and back again ; when
at the gate, she said, " I must go in, for it is
getting dusk. Buckle passed his left arm over
her shoulders, held her hat strings in his hands,
and once more requested she would give him
the strings. She replied, they were no use to
him : and when she was leaning on the gate,
about 50 yards from her uncle's house, he said,
" If you don't go with me, you shan't with any
one else." Buckle twisted her hat strings round
his hand, so as to hurt her; she said, " You
hurt me,—if you don't let go, I'll shriek out."
He said, " What do you want to shriek for ?"
He pulled the strings tight round her throat,
threw her down, placed his knees on her body
to keep her so, and tried to force his fingers,
with the hat-strings, into her mouth ; she then
felt something draw across her throat, she did
not see it, but it felt like a saw ; he was about
to inflict a second wound, and she caught hold
of what she supposed a knife, half open, and
threw it away ; in doing this she received a cut
on the end of her thumb. She gave a violent
shriek, and called " Murder." He left her, and
she heard some one jump on a stone heap ever
the gate, as if a person running away. She got
up and ran to her uncle's house, and told them
her throat was cut, and who had done it. Nearly
a Year and a half since Buckle attempted to
hang himself, for her, she believes. During the
transaction she held a book and a pocket hand-
kerchief in her right hand ; and nothing but
the bluntness of the knife could have preserved
her life.
Buckle, on being questioned, declared he
should never have thought of her, if she had not
given him encouragement. On Tuesday night
he met her, and she said she would not go with
him ; he told her he would kill himself. He
was walking with her, and it came into his head
all at once to di► this, in consequence of her re-
fusing to go with him, and her telling him that
she had been the night before with Reddit, an-
other young man ; the act was momentary ; lie
took his knife from his pocket, and cut her
across the throat.
During this the poor girl again fainted. He
was removed from her presence, and taken back
again to Badwell White Horse, where he de-
clared it was his intention to have destroyed
himself directly, hid he killed her.
Mr. William Dutton, surgeon, of Bacton,
was called to attend Leah Warren on Tuesday
night, June 9. On examination, he found a
transverse incised wound, in the front of her
neck. It was not so deep or so dangerous but
that she may recover from it. She had pre-
viously been much indisposed.
Elizabeth Drake, the aunt, corroborated that
part of the evidence relative to herself, as given
by Leah Warren.
The prisoner was fully committed under Mr.
Peel's late Act.
He is a youth of prepossessing appearance,
and bore a good character for industry and inof-
ensiveness till this affair.—Seblk Paper.

LONDON BRIDGE BILL.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
This Bill, the struggle against which in the Lords'
Committee has impeded the prorogation of Pariia•
ment, is at last likely, it is mentione.l, to be the
subject of compromise. It was ascertained in the
Committee, on the testimony of Mr. Rennie, the
engineer, that if there were a grant of money on
account (400,0001. was named) of the works, the
approaches to the Bridge, &c. could proceed till a
Bill could be introduced and passed next Session ;
and as the inquiries promoted by the Marquis of
Londonderry appear to be of an almost interminable
character, it was yesterday confidently mentioned
that a compromise of some sort had been proposed,
and was under consideration. Many witnesses are
still to be examined on behalf of the parties oppos-
ing the Bill, amongst them Mr. Charles Pearson, the
attorney, Mr. Hunt, as a City Auditor, &c. In
fact, the examination, conducted as it has been, in-
vestigating and questioning respecting the City ac-
counts, means, and expenditure, has led to the mul-
tioliCation rather than the diminutiOn of the number
of witnesses, each account and statement being
made the foundation to call for fresh witnesses. The
Marquis of Londonderry has been the most perse-
vering, having for hours together examined wit-
nesses, and not allowing himself to be diverted from
his course by all the Counsel, the City Authorities,
the numerous attorneys, the various agents, the en-
gineers and architects, nor the Duke of Wellington
himself, who has been as constant in his attendance
at the Committee as the Marquis of Londonderry.
The Duke occupies himself most of the day in writ-
' ing letters, hut, nevertheless, watching the Mar-
; quis's questions with the shrewdness of a counsel,
l• promptly calling to order if a " leading" question
be put.—Morning Advertiser.

On Sunday last the remains of the late Lord
THURLOW arrived at the Swan Inn, Woolpit, where the
corpse rested for the night ; and on Sunday morning the fune-
ral procession proceeded to Great Ashtield, in this county,
and his remains were interred in the family vault in that
church at one o'clock, attended by a great number of spec-
tators. —Bu ry Poat.

ILARIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Thursday a
Young man about twenty years of age, employed atiNlessrs.
I)ARKES and OrwAy's iron-works, Deepfields, put his
head through one of the cog-wheels while it was in motion
and was completely decapitated ! This freak was performed
with the view ofeihibiting the fearlessness of his disposition
to his companions.—Manchester Herald.
SINGULAIt FACT.— A hen pheasant left
Houghton Hall, the seat of the Hon. CHARLES LaNGna, La,
about four weeks ago ; and on the 6th inst. the returned
to the keeper's house, with a cletch of young pheasants.
She is so tame, that she will take food out of the hind
of a lady with whom the bird has become familiar. There
is also a cock pheasant at Houghton Hall, which is so do-
mesticated as to come for its food when called upon.--
York Cour a*.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday a simple-looking young female, named
Elizabeth Davis, was charged with having practised
a most ingenious fraud upon several pawnbrokers.
Samuel She'll)), deposed, that he was shopman to
Mr. Cameron, the pawnbroker, in Chandos-street.
About ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, the prisoner
pledged two silk handkerchiefs at his employer's
shop for 3s. The prisoner came in the evening to
redeem them, and offered to leave a shawl in lieu
of them. The shawl not being worth more than
half the sum lent upon the handkerchiefs, her re-
quest was not complied with, and she went away.
The witness then discovered that the prisoner had
taken away the parcel containing the handkerchiefs,
and left in its place a parcel of rags, rolled up in a
similar manner. The witness, upon discovering the
fraud, followed the prisoner, and gave her into
custody.
Mr. HALLS said there would be some difficulty in
framing an indictment against the prisoner. The
question was, had she stolen the handkerchiefs, or
the sum which she had obtained upon them.
Mr. MieisnuLe—She stele the handkerchiefs
most undoubtedly.
Mr. HALLS said he should not be at all surprised
if, putting the case in either way, the prisoner
should get acquitted. A similar case was tried
some time ago ; and although the indictment varied
the nature of the charge, the prisoner was acquitted
by two separate juries. Ono indictment was fur
stealing the goods—the other the money.
Mr. MINSHULL asked if there were any other
charges against the prisoner ?
Several pawnbrokers here came forward, and pro-
duced bundles of rags, which had been substituted
by the prisoner for different articles which she had
pledged at their shops.
Thomas Race deposed that he was shopman to
Messrs. Townsend and Page, pawnbrokers, Little
Russell-street. The prisoner offered witness two
handkerchiefs, upon which she asked 45., but witness
refused to lend her more than 3s. 6d. upon them.
She demurred to this. and the parcel was given back
to her. Seeing him, however, engaged in serving
another customer, the prisoner shoved over to him a
bundle which he conceived to contain the two hand-
kerchief., and consented to take what he had offered
her. Not suspecting for a moment the species of
sleight of hand which she had practised, he gave
the prisoner the money, and upon putting by the
parcel which he supposed contained the handker-
chiefs discovered that it was made up of rags.
It appeared further that the prisoner had practised
a double fraud, for she sold the tickets of the sup-
posed handkerchiefs to different poor persons.
Several other charges were ready to be gone into,
but Mr. MiNsnuee conceived that the above were
sufficient to answer the ends of justice.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.
MARLBOROU GH-STREET.
The driver of the hackney-coach, No. 984, appeared
under a summons to answer the complaint of Mr.
Saunders one of the Magistrates for the county of
Middlesex, who charged him with demanding and
receiving more than his legal fare.
The defendant denied that he had taken more
than his proper fare, and said he was entitled to the
sum he demanded according to the distance; and so
certain was he of his judgment being right as to the
distance, that he was ready to deposit 55., the usual
charge for measuring the ground, if Mr. Saunders
would do the same, and the party in error would
forfeit his ss.
Mr. Saunders said that he had not the least objec-
tion to deposit the ss. and have the ground mea-
sured, for he was quite sure that the charge was too
much.
" I don't mind that," said coachee; " I knows
the distance by my eye to a hair."
The money was accordingly deposited, and the
messenger sent to measure the ground with the
measuring wheel-, when it was found that there was
a great defect in coachee's eye, for he was wrong in
his judgment of the distance by a whole furlong.
The consequence of all this was, that coachee lost
his ss. deposit, had to return the overcharge,. and
was fined 205., and ss. 6d. costs, for the extortion,
leaving him minus by his eye 1/. 10s. 6d.
A gentleman of fortune, of the name of Goodall,
residing in South Molton-street, appeared on a war-
rant before Mr. CONANT and Mr. DYER, charged
with attempting to take improper liberties with a
female of the name of Maloney.
From the evidence of the complainant, a pretty-
looking girl, it appeared that she is a servant in a
lodging-house where the defendant, who is near
seventy years of age, has resided for some time ; that
during the last few days he has insulted her in a
very indelicate manner, and placing a towel over the
lock to prevent her cries from being heard ; that on
the last occasion she took up some water, when he
desired her to bring it into the room; he then only
had his dressing-gown on, when he proceeded to
insult her, at the same time sa)ing the last servant
allowed him to take similar liberties.
The defendant admitted having twice taken liber-
ties with the complainant, when she made no objec-
tion, and this charge was brought forward for the
purpose of extorting money from him.
After some further remarks the Magistrates tined
him in the penalty of 41. for the assault.
MARYLEBONE.
A serious assault charge was made yesterday, be-
fore Mr. RAWLINSON and Mr. GRIFFITH, by -Peter
Hahn, a Dane, against Sir Henry Ppm.
Peter represented that Sir Henry lately engaged
him in Paris as a servant, and brought him over to
his residence in Orchard-street, Portman-square.
Peter soon became dissatisfied with his situation,
and gave Sir Henry warning that he should quit his
service in fourteen, days, according to the custom
abroad; and when that time had expired, Sir Henry
wanted to send him away without giving him a pass-
port or certificate; and Peter, supposing that as in
Paris, so in Landon, no one would take him in as a
lodger unless lie was provided with such a docu-
ment, refused to go. In consequence of this re-
fusal, Sir Henry attempted to turn him out by
force, and, according to Peter's statement, on
Monday he burst into his bed-room, laid hold
...of
him, and beat. him, pinched him, and kicked him
down stairs. Peter exhibited some violent bruises,
produced apparently by compression, upon the fleshy
part of his arms above his elbows, accompanied
with a circular cut through the skin of each, which
he said were made by the thumb nails of Sir Henry,
and he complained of injury received elsewhere, in
consequence of being kicked down stairs.
Sir Henry came to • the office on Monday to ask
Mr. Rawlinson how he could get rid of this man,
and when an officer was sent to the house, he found
the man already gone. Nothing was then said about
Sir Henry having recourse to violence, and after
Mr. Rawlinson had beard Peter's story yesterday,
and witnessed his bruises he told Sir Henry, " he
was sorry the matter had taken another turn," and
required his defence.
Sir Henry said, if the bruises underwent surgical
examination, they would be found to be "old com-
panions, met with long before?' The fact was,
this person was introduced to him in Paris, and he
hired him under a written character, which now, in
consequence of his violent temper, and habit of
swearing, he believes to be forged.
Mr. RAWLINSON wondered; as he was going to
bring him to England, he did not inquire into it per-
sonally.
Sir Henry said he hired a barber in the first in-
stance, and he altered his mind, and considered he
he (Sir Henry) gave him up, and
could do better as a barber in Paris than as valet in
time left for inquiry. He told the Magis-
tratellad London;
no
he made use of no more violence oil Monday
than was necessary to get him out of the house, and
as he himself had given warning to leave, he ought
to have gone peaceably.
Peter complained that he was brought out of
France without a passport, and he could not go back
again in consequence of it.
Sir Henry said there had been no necessity for
one ; when they embarked his 0% n was all that was

required, and he had promised to furnish him with
one to go back with, if he would wait till the next
day.
Mr. RAWLINSON supposed Sir Henry had paid
him what was due.
Sir Henry said he offered to do so, but the com-
plainant would not take it unless his expences back
to Paris were allowed.
A gentleman who was in the house was put for-
ward by Sir Hem y as a witness, but he saw nothing
of the circumstances which occurred in the servant's
bedroom and upon the stairs, and there being no
evidence beyond the statements of the t °Mending
parties, Mr. RAWLINSON told Peter the charge falai
be dismissed, for he had himself given warning id
`leave his situation, and when the time was up re-
fused to go. His master was therefore obliged to
turn him out of the house; and excepting the marks
which locked as if they were of longer standing,
there was nothing to show that he had iiged Oldie
I violence than was necessary in doing it.

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