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TiUK SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1842,

Conflagration at Dunstable, twenty-one houses -are
tlestrbytd.
Death of Sir David Wilkie, at Gibraltar, in hia
56th year.
2. The King of Hanover opens the General Assembly
of the Estates of the Kingdom.
_ . _

3. The second readiniof the Jews' Declaration Bill is
carried in the House of Lords, on a division, by 48 to 47,
the Archbishop of Canterbury having moved the second
reading that day six months,
4. The Turks are defeated by the insurgents in Can-
dia, 'in the mountains of Spakia.
Conclusion of the adjourned debate on Sir Robert
Peel's motion of wont of confidence in Ministers. The
motion is carried by a majority of 1.
7. Lord John Russell announces the intention of Mi-
nisters to dissolve Parliament, and call a new one at the
earliest possible period.
Thomas Lloyd leaps from the tower of Chelsea
new church.

Disturbances at Barcelona, occasioned by the sale
of contraband goods, which are seized by a body of be-
tween 2,000 and 3,000 weavers, and burnt.
8. Total destruction of Astley's Amphitheatre by fire.
9. Re-formation of the Portuguese Ministry, J. A.
d'Agnier being President of the Council.
13. Lord John Russell announces his intention of
offering himself as a candidate to represent the city of
London.

The Committee on the guardianship of the Queen
of Spain report that no person out of the country should
fill that important post ; and, consequently, that the
Queen-Mother could not act as such.
14. In the House of Lords the Punishment of Death
Bill goes through Committee, when the clause abolishing
the punishment of death in cases of rape is carried, on a
division of 42 to 38, the Max,quis of Westmeath having
ineffectually deprecated the extension of the clause to
Ireland.

15. Mr. Scholefield brings before the House of Com•
mons a motion on the subject of the distressed condition
of he industrions classes, when the House is counted out.
Lord Sydenham opens the first Parliament of the
United Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
Destruction, by an earthquake, of Villa da Praia,
in the Island of Terceira.

- 16. Prince Albert's visit to the University of Oxford.
Death of Earl Fortescue, aged 88.
Closing of the Diet of Sweden.
18. Another division takes place in the House of
Lords on the clause in the punishment of Death Bill
abolishing the punishment of death in cases of violation.
The clause is carried by a majority of 64 to 60.
Riots at Hyde and Stockport, in consequence of
an indiscriminate attack by some Irish labourers upon
every English person they met. The house in which
the Irish resided are partially destroyed by the mob.
19. The Court of Queen's Bench makes absolute the
rule for a writ of prohibition directed to the Archbshop
of York and his Commissary, prohibiting them from car-
rying into effect the sentence of deprivation from his office,
passed by them on the Dean for contumacy and alleged
simony.
21. The Royal assent given by Commission to 148
public and private Bills, being the largest number ever
included within one Commission in the memory of the
oldest perion connected with Parliamentary proceedings.
Launch, at Woolwich, of the Trafalgar, of 120
guns (this being the anniversary of the battle of Trafal-
gar), in the presence of the Queen, Prince Albert, and
an immense assemblage.
Lord Plunket resigns the seals as Lord Chancellor
of Ireland. He is succeeded by Lord Campbell.

Extensive conflagration at an oil-nierchant's at
Southwark, by which four warehouses are burnt down,
and 26 houses damaged.
23. Death of M. Gamier Pages, the celebrated French
Deputy ; 20,000 citizens form part of the funeral pro•
cession.

-- Proclamation by the Queen for dissolving the pre-
sent Parliament and calling another.
Arrival of the King and Queen of the Belgians at
Woolwich, on a visit to her Majesty.
25. The guardianship of the Queen of Spain is de-
clared vacant by the Chamber of Deputies, by a majority
of 129 to 1.

Prorogation, by Commission, of the French Cham-
bers of Peers and Deputies.
28. The borough elections commence this day through-
out England, and are attended with the usual disorders.
Popular tumults, leading to the loss of life, take place at
Walsall, Canterbury, Ashton, Liverpool, Blackburn,
Carlisle, &c.

29. The polling for the City of London commences
and terminates in the return of Masterman, Lyall, Al-
derman Wood, and Lord John Russell,
Death of the Queen of Hanover.
30. Opening of the Great Western Railroad, from the
terminus at Paddington throughout the whole line to
Bristol and Bridgewater.
JULY.

1. Death of Sir Thomas Edlyn Tomlins, author of a
law dictionary, &c.
--
3. The office of Guardian to the Queen of Spain de-
clared vacant by the Cortes' by a majority of 47 to 23.
4. The King of Hanover dissolves the States.
5. An abstract of the net produce of the revenue
shows a decrease of 524,6401. on the year, and 3,6611. on
the quarter.
150 persons are drowned at Rotherham, by the
upsetting of a boat on being launched into the water.
7. Execution of Rudolph Kuhnupfel, the murderer of
the Bishop of Ermeland, at Frauenberg, by breaking on
the wheel.

8. Carnaonp, lays siege to the town of Carthagena.
Formation of a new Greek Ministry at Athens, of
which M. Marrocordato is Premier, on which occasion
M. Mavrocordato announces his course of policy.

9. Renewal of the disturbances at Toulouse.
10. M. Arguelles is chosen by the Chambers guardian
of the Queen of Spain and of the Infanta.
13. A treaty is signed between the Ottoman Porte and
the Emperors of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and the
Queen of England and King of France, by which the
passage of the straits of the Bosphorus and the Darda-
nelles is closed to all foreign ships of war as long as the
Ottoman Porte enjoys peace.
14. Debate in the Court of East Indian Proprietors
on the.Raja of Sattara's case.
16. Death of Lord Feversham, aged 76.
AB. Coronation of the Emperor of Brazils.
19. Queen Maria Christina de Bourbon addresses a
protest to the Spanish nation against a decree of the
Cortes, depriving her of the guardianship of lvtr
daughters, Queen Isabella IL, and the Infanta Maria
Louisa. -

The Spanish Government agrees to sell to Great
Britain the islands of Fernando Po and Amaobona, for
the sum of 60,0001.
20. The Court of East Indian Proprietors negatives
the motion for a Committee to inquire into the case of
the Rajah of Sattara.
21. Death of Lord Dufferin, aged 46, from taking an
over dose of morphine.
Tahir Pacha defeats the remaining body of the
Greek insurgents in Candia.
24. Prince Albert lays the foundation stone of the new
Infant Orphan Asylum, on the \Vanstead estate.
Lord Campbell, after three weeks' sojourn in Ire-
land as Lord Chancellor, takes his departure for England.

•
Medhurst, a prisoner confined for the manslaughter
of "a schoolfellow, is released, on the ground of ill-health.

26. her Majesty and Prince Albert visit the Duke of
Bedford at Woburn Abbey.
28. 'Espartero issues a decree complaining of the vio-
lation of the rights of national sovereignty by the Pope
of Rome.

= The Duke de Bordeaux is thrown from his horse,
near Kirchberg, and fractures his left thigh.
-- Conflagration of the Hebrew quarter at Smyrna,
when 3,000 houses and eight synagogues are destroyed,
leaving destitute the greater part of the Jewish popu-
lation. _ _

29. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visit the Earl and
Countess Cowper at Pansauger, Herts.
30. Several smart shocks of an earthquake arc felt at
Aberfeldy, Cowie, Auchterarder, crieff, and other parts
of the counties of Stirling and Perth.

ministers of all denominations on the subject of the
Corn-laws.

19. First day of the assem'Aing of the new Parlia-
ment ; .Mr. Shaw Lefevre is unanimously re-elected
Speaker of the House of Commons.
22. Resignation of the Greek Minister Mavrocordato.
He is succeeded by Kriezio.
23. Dinner to M. Guizot at Liseux.

Prince Albert distributes the prizes to the pupils
of the Government School of Design at Somerset House.
24. Her Majesty's Speech on the openin,, of the new
Parliament is read to' he Houses ley the Lords Commis-
sioners. An amendment an the Address, in answer to
the Speech (expressing want of confidence in her Majes-
ty's Ministers) is moved in both Houses, and carried in
the Lords by 168 to 96. In the Commons the debate is
adjourned.
Death of Mr. Theodore Hook.
Destructive thunder storm at Liverpool.
Close of the session of the Spanish Chambers.
Revolutionary movement in Mexico under General
Santa Anna.

Baronetage conferred on Mr. Larpent, Mr. Clay,
M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, and Mr.Easthope, M.P. for
Leicester.

26. Release of Feargus O'Connor from York Castle,
on his owu recognizance of 3001, to keep the peace for
three years.
28. The debate in the House of Commons on the Ad-
dress in answer to her Majesty's Speech, having lasted
four nights, is concluded at three o'clock this morning,
when, on a division, the numbers-were—For the original
address, 269; for the amendment 360, being a majority of
91 against Ministers.
Meeting, at the Thatched House Tavern, Sir Ro-
bert Peel presides in the Chair, at which subscriptions
are commenced for the purpose of erecting a monument
to the late Sir David Wilkie.

30. Lord Melbourne, in the Houso of Lords, and Lord
John Russell, in the House of Commons, announced the
resignation of her Majesty's Ministers. Sir Robert Peel
is sent for by her Majesty relative to the formation of a
new Administration.
SEPTEMBER.

1. Celebration at Madrid of the revolution by which
Espartero was appointed Regent.
Opening of the Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne
Railway.
2. Total destruction, by an earthquake, of Cartago, on
the Isthmus of Darien, with the loss of 40 or 50 lives.
3. Appointment of the leading Members of. the New
Ministry.
6. First meeting of the Houses of Parliament pursuant
to adjournment after the change of Ministry.
8. Mr. Roebuck, in the House of Commons, complains
of a paragraph in a newspaper, characterising him as one
of the "one-shilling-gallery gentry ;" and moves that it
is a breach of privilege, but no Hon. Member is found to
second the motion, which consequently falls to the ground.
9. Vauxhall Gardens put up to auction.
10. Death of the Earl of Malmeabury.
11. The Exeter stage coach, whilst crossing the Bris-
tol and Exeter Railroad, is encountered by the railway
engine and overturned, six persons being more or less
injured.
Resignation of all the Ministers of the United
States, with the exception of Mr. Webster, in conse-
quence of the President's veto of the Bank Bill.
The Chatham Islands are purchased of the New Zea-
land Colonization Company for the sum of 10,0001.
12. The masons engaged in the erection of the new
Houses of Parliament strike work, on account of the al-
leged harsh treatment experienced from Allen, the fore-
man of the contractors, Messrs. Grissell and Peto.
13. The Duke d'Orleans, whilst marching with his
brothers, the Dukes of Nemours, Montpensier, and Au-
male, at the head of the Duke d'Aumale's regiment on
its return to Paris from Algiers, is shot at by an assassin
named Papart, alias Quenisset, but escapes unhurt.
Quenisset seized and other persons implicated in the
conspiracy.
15. Earl de Grey assumes the Government of Ireland.

16. Death of Thomas Dibdin, the dramatic author.

Sir Thos. Fremantle obtains leave to bring in a Bill
to lease the Royal Kitchen Gardens at Kensington Pa-
lace, for the purposes of building.
17. Debate in the House of Commons on the subject
of Sir Robert Peel's refusal immediately to bring forward
the measures he intends to propose. Mr. Pielden moves
that no supply be granted until the House has inquired
into the distresses of the labouring population. The
motion is negatived by 149 to 41.
The mob at Monkwearmouth demolish the win-
dows and furniture of Edward Liddle's house, who had
presented a gun from his window and frightened them,
during the passing of Lord Howick's election procession.
18.Guadalaxara, in Mexico, declares in favour of a
Republic.
19. Arrest of Grogan, an American, by a party of
British soldiers, on the American territory.
Death of Lord Sydenham.
General Oribe defeats the insurgent Juan Lavelle,
in Tucuman.

20. Mr, S. Crawford opposes the motion for the House
going into a Committee of Supply unless a pledge is given
that the distresses of the people shall be taken into con-
sideration. The motion fur a Committee is carried by
136 to 22,

Colonel Sibthorp denounces giving 17,000/. of the
public money to Dr. Bow ring, fur information which he
had procured from the British Consuls abroad.
21. Opening of the London and Brighton Railway the
whole extent of the line. _

--- Murder of Mr. Burdon, of the King's Head, East-
cheap, by Blakeslee, his biother-in-law.
23. Bernard Cavanagh, the pretended faster, exhibits
himself at the Hanover-square Rooms.
Presentation of the freedom of the City to Admiral
Sir R. Stopford and Commodore Sir C. Napier.
24. Accident at the Penddarran iron works, Glamor-
ganshire, by the bursting of 'the boiler of a steam-engine;
eight persons are killed instantaneously, and 18 others
scalded and wounded.

On the motion for going into Committee of Supply
a discussion arises in the House of Commons on the dis-
tressed state of the manufacturing districts.
Death of M. Laporte.
26. Shipwreck of the barque Amanda, off Metis, on
her passage from Liverpool to Quebec, with the loss of
29 passengers and 12 of the crew.
27. Kinmel Hall, the seat of Lord Dinorben, near St.
Asaph, destroyed by fire. Tho mansion cost 90,0001.
when built in 1783.

Sir Charles Bagot appointed Captain-General and
Governor of the North American colonies.
28. Further discussion in the House of Commons on
the Poor-law Continuance Bill.
OCTOBER.

1. The Poor-law Commission Continuation Bill passes
the House of Commons.

2. The National French Newspaper is found guilty of
libel, and the proprietors sentenced to pay a fine of
5,000 francs, with four months' imprisonment.
Fatal accident on the London and Brighton Rail-
way, by one of the engines going off the line, by which
four persons are killed.
General O'Donnell and the troops under his com-
mand declare in 'favour of Queen Christina, and take
possession of the citadel of Pampeluna.
4. Murder of Jane Pearce by Jabea Kirk, a soldier of
the 34th Regiment, at St. Albans.
Grogan is given up to the American Government.
5. The Town of Bilbao declares in favour of Queen
Christina. Several other towns in Spain follow the ex-
ample.
- Earthquake at Constantinople, occasioning exten-
sive destruction of property, and the loss of five or Six
lives.

6. Don Carlos publishes a proclamation calling on his
partizans to abstain from taking part in the recent poli-
t►cal movements in Spain.
7. Prorogation of Parliament by the Lords Commis-
sioners,
Lord Monson died, aged 32. _ _

An attempt at insurrection at Madrid, combined
with a plan for carrying off the Young Queen, is quelled
by the-Governmeut after some fighting between the in-
surrectionists and the troops of the palace.
9. Dinner at the Mansion-house to her Majesty's Mi-
nisters.

- Insurrection of the National Guard of Barcelona.
10. Death of Sir John Bayley, Judge of the Court of
Queen's Bench. -
- Formation at Barcelona of a junta of public safety.
11. The citadel of Pampeluna, having refused to obey
the summons to surrender, ~is attacked by the Govern-
ment troops.
12, Acquittal of APLeod, after a trial which lasted eight
days.
—.Birth of a Princess, _ciiingliter of the Sultan, who is
named Nourva Sultana.

13. Explosion of a steam -boikr at Manchester, by
which seven persons are killed.
15. Gen. Diego Leon is shot at ,Madrid.
IG. Gen. O'Donnell gains possession of Estella.
18. Extraordinary high tide, when much damage is oc-
casioned by the overflowing of the Thames, the ground
on both sides being laid under water.
- Opening of the Session of the States-General by
the King of the Netherlands.
___. Time Spanish Government orders a blockade of the
Cantabrian coasts.

19. The troops in Alava and Guipnscoa make their
submission to the Regent. Several of the populations
also again recognise the Government, and the leaders
of the movement make their escape to France.
Death of the Duke of Cannizaro.
By a decree, dated•Andoain, General Alcala de-
clares the three Basque provinces to be in a state of siege.
21. General O'Donnell takes refuge in the French ter-
ritory. General Zurbano captures Bilboa.
The Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary cf State under
Ar. Van Buren's Administration, died at Washington.
22. Death of the Earl of Home.
25. Murder of General Aymerich at Palma, in the
Balearic Islands.

er , as Regent, issues a decree suspending
the payment of the marriage settlement portion of Queen
Christina.
M. Olozago, Spanish Ambassador to the Court of
the Tuileries, demands the-expulsion of Christina from
the French territory.
The National Guard of Barcelona demolish the bas-
tions of the citadel.
27. Death of Mr- T. Phillips, the vocalist, occasioned
by an accident on the Birmingham and Liverpool Railway.
A decree, dated Vittoria, suppresses the juntas
that had been created since the insurrection at Pampeluna.
28. Robert Blakesley found guilty of the murder of
James Burdon, in Eastcheap, on the 21st of September
last, and sentenced to death.
Mr. Knight Bruce and Mr. Wigratu are appointed
first and . 'second Vice-Chancellors, under the Act esta-
blishing new courts of equity.
29. Lord Ellenborough has an audience of the Queen
on being appointed Governor-General of India.
- Espartero abolishes the fueros of the Basque
provinces.
30. Total destruction by fire of the grand armoury in
the Tower of London, containing,„amongst pumerous
military trophies, 300,000 stand of arms.

NOVEMBER:

I. Me. O'Connell elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.

lie city of Valencia appoints a junta of vigilancr,
and decrees the demolition of the citadel.

2. The Queen Dowager, who had been suffering for
some time under an illness which had occasioned serious
apprehensionF, recovers.
Debut of Miss A. Kemble at Covent Garden
Theatre.

General Quiroga y Frias shot at Madrid.
3. Grand entertainment by the Directors of the East
India Company to her Majesty's Ministers, and others,
in celebration of the appointment of Lord Ellenborough
as Governor-General of India. _ _

Examination at the Mansion House of Rapallo,
charged with having been concerned in an extensive
forgery of Exchequer bills.
Don Pedro Beltran, formerly Governor of Morella,
is shot by order of the revolutionary junta of Valencia
4. Mr. Edward Beaumont Smith, a clerk in the Ex-
chequer Bill-office, is examined at Bow•street, and finally
committed to Newgate for trial, charged with forging
and uttering Exchequer bills to a considerable amount ;
and Ernest Rapallo is examined at the Mansion House
on a similar charge and remanded.
The Rev. M. Zavala, a Guerilla Chief, is shot at
Bilboa. _ _

5. Death of M. Gaudin, Duo de Gaeta, formerly Mi-
nister of Finance of France.
The bar of Ireland present an address to Chief
Justice Bushe, on his retirement from the Bench.
_ _

6. Destruction, by fire, of Messrs. Cocicley, Barrow, and
M'Kinley's cotton factory, in Jersey-street, Manchester.
8. Espartero issues a proclamation expressing his dis-
approbation of the occurrences at Barcelona, and of the
conduct of the Junta and the National Guards.
9. Birth of the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.
The intelligence is hailed with great rejoicings through-
out the kingdom.
Alderman Pirie assumes the Mayoralty of London.
Lieutenants Borio and Gobernado, implicated in
the Christino plot, are shot at Madrid.
11. Col. Don Demaso Fulgoaio is executed at Madrid.
12. Riot at the Union poor-housP, at Bradford
Wilts, occasioned by the paupers being discontented with
their diet.

13. General Vandersmissen, chief of the late conspi-
racy at Brussels, condemned to death, the sentence being
afterwards commuted by the King to hard labour for
life and the pillory.
Attack on and massacre of the Christians by the
Druses in Syria.
14. Fatal fire in Blackfriars-road. Two firemen are
killed by the falling of the walls.
Death of the Marquis of Lothian, aged 47.
Marris, a private in the 60th Rifles, in a fit of
jealousy, murders his officer, Lieutenant O'Grady, and a
woman named Terrett, with whom he had cohabited, and
afterwards stabs himself.

Death of the Earl of Elgin, in his 76th year.
15. A maniac, named Charles Mann, endeavours to
obtain an entrance into Buckingham Palace, and is
handed over to the police.
Execution of Blakesley for the murder of Mr.
Burdon.

General Van Helen enters Barcelona, displaces the
National Guard, and places the city and province under
martial law, the junta having made their escape.
Conflagration at St. John's, New Brunswick, by
which the greater part of the city is destroyed and a large
quantity of shipping. The value of the property lost is
estimated at 100,0001.
16. An attempt made to set fire to the Horse Guards,
and the barracks atCharing-cross, by throwing balls,
containing combustible materials, into those buildings. •
17. Final examination of Ernest Rapallo, and com-
mittal to Newgate for trial for the forgery of Exche-
quer bills.
Inauguration of the column erected by the Emperor
of Russia commemorative of the retreat of the French
from Smolensko.
18. Prorogation of the Cortes by the Queen of Portugal.
Bernard Cavanagh, having been detected in pur-
chasing some food at a chandler's shop to allay his
hunger, is sentenced by the Mayor of Reading to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
Mrs. Blakesley, widow of the murderer Blakesley,
expired at the King's Head, Eastcheap, of the wounds in-
flicted by her husband.
20. Fire in Woolwich Dockyard, which is confined
to the building in which it originated.
Execution of Patrick Woods at Armagh, for the
murder of Mr. Powel. _ _

22. Her Majesty appoints a Commission, at the head
of which is Prince Albert, to inquire into the best mode
of promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom.
Explosion in a coal pit at Barnsley, by which 15
persons are killed.
23. Destruction by fire of the Barrowfield cotton-
mills, near Glasgow.
Espartero makes his triumphant entry into Madrid.
24. The first communication between the north and
south shores of the Thames, by means of., the Tunnel,
effected this day.
M. Ledru-Rollin, a French Deputy, tried at Angers
for publishing a seditious speech to his constituents, and
sentenced to four months' imprisonment and a fine of
3,000 f. The publisher is sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment, and to pay a fine of 2,000 f.
25. Presentation of the freedom of the City of London
to Major-General Sir C. F. Smith, Commander of the
Forces in Syria.
Death of Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A., the eminent

sculptor, aged 59.
Lord Denman suddenly terminates the business of
the term at 11 o'clock this morning, in consequence of
the non-attendance of counsel.
26. Death of H. Lucelles. Earl of Harewood, aged 73.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MALISH) -HOUSE.

A young man, named Thomas Humber, in the employ.
ment of Mr. Isaac Wilson, of No. 25, Milk-street,
Cheapside, was brought before Mr. Alderman Gibbs,
charged with having robbed his employer.
Mr. Wilson stated, that, having been informed that a
quantity of hose had been offered for see at a much
lower price than .they could have been made for, and
having ascertained, upon examining some of the goods,
that they had been manufactured by him, he caused in-
quiry to be made into the circumstances of the sale
by the police. By the activity of Inspector Waller
the goods were traced to the prisoner, who was appre-
hended and charged iiith the robbery. The wholesale
price of the stockings was from 17s. to 203. per dozen,
and that at which they were sold by the prisoner waslo3.
Ephraim Leman, a dealer, residing in Bell-lane;-
Spitalfields, stated that he was in the habit of going,
like other men in his line of business, to the Notting-
ham Castle, mar St. Martin'sle-Grand, and there he
saw the prisoner, who constantly smoked his pipe in the
'parlour. The prisoner asked him whether he wanted to buy
any stockings, and showed him a sample, and a bargain
was made at the rate of 10s. a dozen. Witness pur-
chased seven dozen of the stockings at that rate, and
soon afterwards sold them at a profit of 6d. per dozen. ,
Alderman Grutts-•—Do you know the prisoner's si,lna-
tion ? Witness—No; but as he used to go to smoke his
pipe at the Nottingham Castle, I did not doubt his
respectability.
Another witness stated, that having purchased stock-
ings of Ephraim Leman at so low a rate as had been de-
scribed, he mentioned the circumstance to Inspector
Waller, who at once concluded that they were stolen,
and gave him instructions on the subject, at the same
time directing that inquiries should be made as to losses
at the various warehouses.

Sergeant Waller stated, that upon hearing of the cheap
sale of the stockings, he was convinced that they had
been stolen, and he sent round to the trade, and after a
considerable time found that Mr. Wilson was the plun-
dered party. -
The prisoner—Can Mr. Wilson swear that these stock-
ings are his ?
Alderman GIBBS—He has already sworn to that effect.
The prisoner—Yes; that they are his own manufac-
ture. Of that there is no doubt ; but can he swear that
he has missed these stockings from his stock?-Mr. Wil-
son said he believed them to have been stolen from his
warehouse.

The prisoner—They have not been stolen from his
warehouse.

Alderman Gums—Where did you get them ? The
prisoner—l
.purehased-them of a party at Brighton who
did btisiness with Mr. Wilson's house, but who is now in
difficulties.

Alderman GlBBS—lndeed t Who is that party ? The
prisoner here mentioned the name of the house from
which he Said h 3 had purchased the goods., " That
house," said he, " sent to me indirectly, to know whether
I could dispose of some stockings ; ansl I told them.l
should make inquiry, which I accordingly did make
where I went to smoke my pipe ; and this man, Leman,
offered me 10s. a dozen, which, after communicating with
them, I accepted. In that way these stockings came into
my possession. I know that Mr. Wilson never will be
able to show that these stockings were stolen from him,
although nobody can deny that they are his manufacture."
Alderman Ginns=Pray why did you decamp, and
never return to your business, after you heard that sus-
picion fell upon you ? The prisoner—I never decamped.
The fact is, I would not go back to The situation, I was
treated in so .ungentlemanlike a manner there.—(A
laugh.) My feelings really could not bear the rudeness
I was accustomed to, so I determined not to go there any
more, and you may depend upon it I never shall.
Alderman GIBBS—WeII, you are clever at making a
defence ; but, as it does not convince me, you must try
what a Jury will say to it. The prisoner—Very well.
We shall see by-and-by whether I ain't quite right. Mr.
Wilson never can swear that he lost. these stockings, so
it won't do.—Committed for trial.

Two brothers, of the ,names of Thomas and Charles
Hawkins, were .charged with having in their possession
five bottles of foreign brandy, which they had got on
board the Harlequin steamer.
Thomas Hawkins, it was stated by the revenue officers,
was one of the unlucky fellows who accompanied Louis
Napoleon to Boulogne, in the Edinburgh Castle, on the
memorable occasion of the strange experiment made by
that adventurer upon the people -of FranCe, and the,. de-.
fendant lust all his clothes when the steamer was K4ed;
and had never got into legitimate employment Stice that
unfortunate piece of folly came off. The other brother
was steward of the forecabin of a steamer; and had four
bottles on his person, while Thomas had only one.
Alderman Oinns--7-Whylsee they continue toftmuggle
in the HarleqUin still?—The officers said that smuggling
was going on to a great extent in all the foreign
steamers.: They knew perfectly well the nature of the
dealings. These persons who went on board to deal in
contraband articles paid 2s. Gd. a bottle for the brandy,
and sold it on ahora for no more than 3s. or 3s. .6d.; but
each of them made several journeys in the course of a day.
Alderman GIBBS fined Thomas Aawkins 10s., and his
brother 40s. •

An Irishwoman, who possessed but.very slight per-
sonal charms indeed, was brought before the LORD
MAYOR upon the serious charge of having attempted to
extort money from a gentleman of high respectability,
who resides in Ironmonger-lane. She appeared to' be in
the last stage of pregnancy. _
The complainant stated that the'woman, whoni'he had
seen in the streets selling fruit, came to him in distress
one day, and requested assistance, in consequence of
having been obliged brthe police to leave her standing
in the street. Upon that occasion he gave her Is.; but
instead of expressing her thanks, she asked him, in very
abusive language, whether that was all he would let her
have? He indignantly- told her to , begone. "By my
sowl, then," said she, "If you don't, I'll swear you are
the father of my child."
The LORD ,MAYOR—And you swear that you know
nothing more of the woman than what you. have stated ?
The complainant—l do, certainly. Is it of such a crea-
ture as that I could be supposed to have the knoWledge
she meant.
Defendant—Oh, then, it's you that forgets the'words
yOu used to me when you made me go into your apart-
ments, and came over my weakness.. Don't you remember
saying, when I told you there was purty girls enough
walking about Cateaton-street for you ? Oh, says you,
it's net them I care about. It's such as you, that's not
one of them ltind, I wants.
The complainant declared that there was not a word
of truth in what • the woman stated. She never 'Was in
his apartments, and no such conversation had taken place.
The LORD MAYOR—You at length ordered her into
custody? Complainant—l did. She came last night
and asked me to give lier something, and I.rause'cl, and
she then threatened to expose me: I called an officer
and charged her. •
He then produced a letter which the woman had sent
to him, dated 16th October, begging for assistance,- but
not containing one word'abOut her pregnancy.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, Mrs. Lyons, this is very
extraordinary conduct of yours. The defendant—Upon
my. word, my Lord, it's all truth.
The LORD MAYOR—Have you any one here to speak
as to your character ? The defendant—No, I haven't a
friend in the world, and I have nothing in this • world to
support me ; it was he that brought me into thi3 trouble,
and he promised to betny friend.
The Complainant—l solemnly declare to your Lord,
ship that there is not a syllable of truth in all she has
said. I assisted her from compassion alone ; nobody
could look at her and suppose I was influenced by any
thing else.
The LORD MAYOR—Defendant, you must have some
friends or acquaintances who advised you to charge this
respectable gentleman with being • the father of your
child, in the expectation that he would be afraid of the
accusation. •
The defendant—God knowS I don't charge him wrong-
ly: I know he is a respectable gentleman well enough,
but he acted badly to me, for he is the father of my child.
The LORD MAYOR said that he should cause inquiry
to be made into the character of the woman, and directed
that most particular care should be taken of her by the
matron in the Compter.
• MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John. Easom, a middle-aged man, was brought before
Mr. Hardwick for final examination, charged with having
attempted to obtain goods from various 'tradesmen by
means of forged orders.
The first case was that of Mr. Bidgood, trimming-
maker, Vigo-street, Regent-street. The prisoner went
into Mr. Bidgood's shop on Friday afternoon, and pre-
sented a letter, purporting to have been written by
Messrs. Place and Co., tailors, Charing•eross, requesting
that five and a half yards of the hest double-milled blue-
kerseymerc should be sent by the bearer, and promising
payment on the following day. Prosecutor having su
picions that something was wrong, asked the prisoner
who sent him with the note. The prisoner replied, a
man who met him at Charing-cross, and who told him to
take the goods when he got them to Messrs. Place and
Co., tailors. Prosecutor feeling satisfied that the note wa:
a forgery f.TaVe the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Carberry, of the firm of Place and Co:, said that
neither he nor his partner had written the note produced
by Mr. Didgood. The prisoner was a perfect stranger'to
him.
In defence, the prisoner said that the note had' been
given to him in the street by a person whom he did not
know, and to whom ho was to give the goods.
The prisoner was fully committed on this charge'. • -; '
A second case was brought forward, for ,attemptii:g
to obtain a large quantity of goods • from Messrs. Stones
and Co., Manchester warehousemen, 13, Warwick-street,
Golden-square, by means of a letter signed 'with the(
names of Vernon and Co., tailors and army clothiers;
Charing-cross. The letter was in the samezhandwriting•
as the one purporting-to come from Messrs. Place and Co.
The foreman of Messrs. Stones and Co. stated, that
though about to execute the order, he had fortunately
rot entrusted the prisoner with the goods without first
'Caking inquiry as to the validity of the order. The in-
quiry, of course, proved the note to be a forgery, and
tl:itt no orders had been sent to them by Messrs. Vernon,
and Co. The affair having reached the ears of Mesirs,
Place and Co., it was immediately surmises that the pri
soner was tho same person who had attempted to defraud
Mr. Bidgood. The foreman went to the station-house
where the prisoner was in custody, and immediately re-
cognised him.
The clerk to Messrs. Vernon and Co. said the note was
a. forgery, but the party who executed it evidently was
well acquainted with the usual way of signing by the firm.
The prisoner, who said he found. the note,. was also
committed on this charge.