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London, England, 1830-10-01 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

eirghtes,GunDwALL.—Thowess Hoeglf his
ram and
wife, were charged with uttering a fictitious cheque for 501.105. at
Messrs. Eadaile's.
It appeared that the cheque was signed William Lindley, no person
of that name had an account at the above banker's, and that the date
bad been altered from 28th of September 1801, to 1830.
The wife said she received the cheque from her husband, and at-
tempted to get cash for it, supposing it bad been paid to him, though
he was not in the habit of receiving such sums.
The husband said be found it in St. Martin's-court, and had DO idea
of converting the proceeds to his own use. lie only wished to know if
it was of any use.
Mr. Alderman Amex said if his intentions were honest, be would
have inquired at the banker's foe the drawer's address. The cheque was
mere waste paper.
The prisoners were admonished, and discharged.
Bow-sestaxe.—Patriek M'Cabe, who, on a former day, was exa-
mined on a charge of having uttered a bill of exchange for 501. under-
went a further examination yesterday.
The evidence of Mr. Clifford was read over afresh, and from it it ap-
peared that the bill was left with him by the primmer, for the purpose of
being cashed.
Wm. Quin deposed that the acceptance of the bill was not in his
hand.writing, for in fact he could neither read ace write.
Sir R. Brawls asked the witness if he bad authorised any person to
put his name to the bill ?
The witness declared that he bad not.
The prisoner was remanded.
Harron.Glannxx.—A WINN POINT IN DOO-STIMLININ—Yes.
terdsy a person named Skinner, residing in Church-passer, Islington,
appeared on a summons before the Magistrate. Defendant had a re-
markably handsome small bitch, of the bull and terrier breed, leading
by a string in his hand.
The complainant, Thomas Taker, Penton.place, Newington, sated
that the bitch was his Property; be had paid a sus reign for it, and she
had been stolen out of his stable above a year ago; be bad never seen
her since till, a few days back, be heard that she was in the possession
of Mr. Skinner. Complainant could swear to the identity of the dog,
she was so remarkable ; and, besides, he hod the pima who bred be',
who could also prove the right in the dog.
The pasoo stepped forward and corroborated the statement of the
complainent..
Defendant said, that he had purchased the dog in July twelve.
to from a paean in the Old Bailey, sod paid him a sovereign
for her. lie never kept her eouseled, but had when her all over
the town since.
Mr. Lux° asked Limbach, the Glaser, how defendant behaved when
he called upon him ?
Limbrkk replied that defendant had immediately acknowledged
having the dog as soon as it was described, and he produced for in.
spection.
Mr. Lanai ordered the dog to be delivered up to the complainant.
Defendant—l can have no objection to give him his dog; but
I ought to be made some allowance, having bought the dog, and for
its
:17.tusto--Yoe acknowledge that you did not know the man from
whom you bought the dog ; and if you ate so foolish as to buy dogs in
that way you must put up with the loss. You and every one else must.
know that the half of the dogs sold by these fellows at the coma of the
streets; are stolen.
Complainant—You know you woo one match of M. with her, and
that was suakient payment.
Defendant—lt was only 21.
Complainant—Well, that was plenty. And, your Warship, she has
four puppies now at the house of defendant. Am I also entitled to
thein
„This question sleeted to perplex the Bench considerably; and it was
soma tinulbeforean answer was given.
Mr. Lunn questioned the complainant if the bitch was with pippin
when she was stolen ?

Complainant replied that he did not know.
Defendant set that question to rights, by a brief but ample detail of
a portion of the canine natural history, which went to infer that no pep.
pies were then in invisible existence.
Again the Magistrates seemed perplexed ; and Mr. Room remsrh.
eff that the owner ought to be contented with the restoration of his dog
that be held so valuable.
Complainant, however, made it appear that the puppies were only nine
deys old ; and as an order of removal had been granted for the mother,
Itwas necessary far hos health that the family, or at least a pert of it,
ould h
Deism Mended strenuously that complainant mid have no
right to the puppies:nine days old.
Complainant was desirous to have the order of the Magistrates es.
"plicitly on the subject, but neither of the Magistrates was inclined to de
so, and the diMaalty was compromised by the complainant cc -
to be contented with one of the puppies, and on that.understaa
difficult case was clotted, and the parties left the OM«, but to
anon neither of them were Eirhedy eatierled,

r..,-Weeteeday,tD:taidd ifot;ideffillittingen aged Jew, and
hie daeghta, wire brough
with obstructing and assaulting several of the preens who
cawing, the Lest Jury for the Manor of Stepney. From the state.
Petit al-the foreman, and several of the membas of the last Jury,
appeared that a abort time bars, they entered the shop of the
blab defendant, who was a vendee of lollypops and potatoes in
Petticoat-lane, and, finding ha weights and oda facareet, they
eemismatel them, and ordered them to be taken away. While en.
tlimeardeg to do this, however, both the defendants struck and clawed
bees el several of their members.
Marten, in defence, deeded that either the weights or scales of hie
dlwasliter were Wigan ; on the contrary, these were part of the forma
Wilsey, and as fee the
J latter they were as even as a die. on the scales
being condemned, one of the Jurors demanded five shillings from him;
t thls he refuaed, being conscious that the scales were right and the
demand unjust; and it was on this refusal that the scales were ordered
to be taken away. He denied having committed the assault; on the
tamely, both be sad his daughter were very ill-used; and all that be
milked was, that the sales and weights mitt be brought before their
Worships, in order that they might see how unjust die attempt to seise
was.
Magistrates observed that the question of assault was the only
as with which they bed to deal, and it being distinctly proved, they
sea on the defendants to put in bail to IVISWer the e eat the
brim

A very ordinary-looking female charged her husband, a strapping
sailor, with having assaulted her on the previous day, in
highway.
The sailor plaided guilty to the charge, but asserted that he had been
provoked tot tise his wife, from his discovering that she had been
rathei too intimate with a brother shipmate.
The wife confessed that, ►eing unable to resist the force of her affec-
tion, she had ran off with another man, who was waiting outside, and
who would bear testimony as to the violence with which she had been
assaulted.

The brother shipmate was acceedingly ushered forward, and to the
magistrate's surprise displayed a diminutive figure, and;a most hideous
sable phis. The black Lothario with a grin confessed, in broken Eng-
fish, that his brother shipmate bad tolerably substantial grounds for be-
lieving he had made free with his nightcap, and that this was the origin
of the assault. _ _

The woman having declared that she could not be happy without her
dear Mingo, the Magistrates recommended, for the sake of peace, that
the parties should separate, and dismissed the cue.
A young couple, whose honeymoon was barely in the wane,
before the Magistrate to detail their matrimonial grievances. appeared
was about 18, exceedingly pretty and smartly dressed, and used a pair
of sparkling black eyes in darting looks of disdain against her puny and
somewhat shemisb.looking helpmate. The lady claimed the privilege
of her sex, by first addressing the Magistrate, and with characteristic
volubility a tirade of invective, in which she was ably supported
by the f branches Ober family. Sbe said that her husband, who
was a journeyman painter and gluier, had commenced ill-using her only
five days after the marriage knot had been tied. Since then he bad
condoned to heat one of the mildest (to use her own account) and most
forbearing wives in existence.
" Ask her how she got that fine bonnet and ribands, please your
Worship," said the husband, angrily. The Magistrate put the clues.
tioa as desired, and elicited that she had taken her husband's tools
to the pawnbroker's to raise the " needful."
" There," said the glazier, " that's only a part of her conduct.
I comes home about nine o'clock Ikons work, and, when I wants my
wife, she's gadding about wherever she likes, and comes home at all
hours. I haven't a button on my shirt, or a pair of stockings that
isn't like a cabbage net; and when I tell her to stay at borne, and
keep me tidy, she fetches her three slaters, and they all fall upon
me, and whop me out of the house. She told me, the other day,
that if ever I met her walking with a gentleman, I was ago about
my business, and take no notice at all about it."
Mr. Wataza said this was a puzzling case, as the faults appeared
equally divided. he should, hoWever, dismiss the warrant, cautioning
the families on either side not to interfere, and, if possible, for the
parties to live together in harmony.
Timms, PoLzcz.—Yesterday John Sheay was charged with rob.
bing Robert 'easgood of his hat, and some ocher articles. The prisoner
was Bestowed to two months' imprisonment and hard labour, as a re.
puted thief.

FoaTtais-Tztitsa.--Saturday last a man named Mi-
chael ilurphy, was apprehended in Drogheda, by a soldier in the 87th
Regiment, as being a deserter from the. 00th Rifles. This' person et
fated to be deaf sod dumb, and has resided there for the last sit motitksl
la the cipecity eta fortune-teller, the dudes of which be discharged with
cktnitesuceses, sad much to the satisfaction of many highly 'respectable
of most whom actually admitted him into their bed-roorne.—
Since has got the use of his tongue. he has become very communica-
titre, and says that he administered the consolations of his art to 107
females of all ranks in the town, of which he has kept an active and
most diverting registry.—Doblin Bonging Post.

scurnmat.

SONG.
When palest stars are keeping
Vigils through night-hours;
When languid winds are sweeping
Dewy, alumb'ring Sowers;
When meekest moon-light streameth
Through loin, ghostly towers ;
When ev'ry lover dreameth
Of his dear one's bow'rs
Ten, with thy lyric voice, oh ! breathe
Unto mine ear
Some feeling lay, which I should
All but die to hear.
Some old, impassion'd measure,
Which, from li like thine,
Were,4n each word, a treasure
In doch tone—divine !
Sing de fond Forsaken,
Of warm love's decline;
And that sad song shall waken,
Saddest thoughts of mine ;
Until each mournful note, each
Solemn, sighing tone—
Each sob hem thy wrung breast be
Echo'd by mine own !

EGO-EATING FORMERLY FELONY.—The b' of the
Scottish clergy was so intense daring the reign of James V. that Catdi.
nal Beaton
on of
denouncing the punishment of death
by Atwood of goods, fagainst any one who should buy or
eat an egg on forbidden days_! This we learn from Sir Ram% SAD-
Llrell Siete Papers.

Ax ZIPINSIVS TOT.—Lamia, mistress to Demetrius,
another Ave& to her way, judging teem lest hut= gemmed IR
ALCIPNIOIIII NAOS [ISO p. Be of the Englith oselitiss, ed. 17911
was extremely weD paid fie her tunderomelen ; fee, upon one oecasiou,
Demetrius commanded the Athenian to dm Immediately the sum of
250 talons (i. e. 48,1371. 104. Od. mobs° when collected, be ordered
it alio be given to Lamia and her tensimaism, to—fury soap !_See
PLUTARCH'S of Demetrius.

NUPTIAL OlL.—Philostratus says, that on the banks
al the Hnhasis grow some trees, hem whl h the Indians obtain a
liquor used as a nuptial oil, with which new married people are an-
notated all ova, by persons appointed for that purpose. See p. 125 of
Szawicu's aarealetten. A similar custom appears to prevail smug
the inhabitants of the Tonga Islands. See p. 126, 153, vol. i. of 31a.
amines Tongs Islands, where he desaibea the ceremonies which
usually take place at a chief's marriage, when the bride is " profusely
anointed with c000a.nut;o11, scented with sandal wood."

SUlClDE.—According to STRABO, book Jt. and 4..ELtan,
Var. Ilia. book iii. ch. xxxvii. the Ccans enacted a law, by which all
upwards of three score were obliged to drink hemlock juicy.
rarlifaxtmus relates, book it. ch. vi. that a poisonous liquor was
kept publicly at Marseilles, and that it was given to all such as utiafied
the Senate of the propriety of the reasons which prompted them to
commit mdeide. According to PLINY, book iv. ch. Mi. when the
H intended to commit suicide, they invited their friends to
a oet, and when finished, threw themselves from a rock into the sea.

A SINGULAR FACT.—It may be mentioned u an his-
torical singularity, that all the English Kings who married Preach
Princesses incurred the displeasure of their subjects, and suffered sic.
lent deaths; as Edward IL Richard 11. Henry VI. and Charles I.

A LONG Suo.r.—ln the burial register of the parish of
Beckenham, in Bent, is the following remarkable entry:—" Anne
Isted, a child, killed by the careless discharge of a pistol at the distinct.
of 337 yards!"

At Holmpton, in Holderness, there has not been a death
decor 1825. A woman of the name of Briggs died in July of that year,
being the last Instance of mortality in the village, in which there Is a
church, with between 40 and 50 houses. Holmpton lies very near tht
ass shore.--York Paper.

GIBBON CONVICTED OF A BULL.—" According to Plu-
tarch, Romulus allowed only three grounds of a divorce—drunkenness,
adultery, and false keys. Otherwise, the husband who abused his
supremacy forfeited half his goods to the wife, and half to the Goddess
Ceres, and offered a saaifice (with the remainder) to the terrestrial
deities." See Decline and Fall, ch. xliv. note h. It would be difficult
to find the remainder of that man's property who had already forfeited
two moieties of it. Drunkenness is not mentioned by Plutarch at all ;
•and he plainly implies that all divorces require an offering of expiation
to the terrestrial deities.
THE LANGUAGE or limos. —Coeffetau, Reponse au
Myeatre erlseiguite, p. 704, says, that one day a ',snow chirping in
presence of several prelates, some asked Largesse, the Arebbiahop, and
companies to Pope Benedict IX. what that bird said l and be told them,
that the bird was &drag its companions to fly immediately to Porta
Maggiore, when a cart, Ueda with millet, bad just broken down...-
Upon hearing this, several oldie prelates west to that gate, and found
that such was the fact. This story is evidently taken from Mos.
trams, who relates, thilatarts Apolloolus was in the mile of his
associates, a swallow so be present, and twittering,ld he told
them that the swallow to other birds, that an ass fades with
am bad fallen down ban the city, and that in consequence of the fall
of the ass, the am was aped on the ground. Pusr, book x. ob.
ilk. Mow of DmeeMmet that he used to lab that by Ea= to.
el gether the bleed Peak which he named, a be
se wenthend a prepay, that whoever eat it, would
Valle et
emlisseemd what the bids said to one another. " When
Melange's Wad In the settee r, an oak lay before his door, in which
several 'repeats hedaselsals his servants having killed the old serpents,
be berm the other espiles, together with the wood, but brought up the
yonesserpents. After they had now reached a reasonable she, they
stood around him while he lay asleep, and resting upon each of his
Ishoulders, fell a licking his ears with their tongues. At last awaking
lin a fright, be understood the language of birds as they flew , ovse his
head, and be foretold to mortals the future events which he was informed
of by them."—A eoLLonoaos, book i. p. 47. "An associate of mine
informed me, that he once had a boy, who understood the meaning of
all the sounds of birds, and who said, that all of them were
and deelsrative of what would shortly happen. He added tirart=s
deprived of this knowledge through his mother. who, faring be would
be sent to the emperor as a gift, poured urine into his ear when be wa'
sleep."Tratalstion.—Poitennter on Absiiimos, book iii. § 3, p. 90 of TAYLOR'S

Agourrics.—Captain Parry, in his Third Voyage, p. 58,
relates that a conversation could be distinctly carried on at Poet Bowes.
at the distance of 6,600 feet. Dr. Clarke, however, mentions a more
extraordinary instance of the propagation of sound. He asserts, vol.
liG p. WI, that while sailing from the Gulph of Gleams to Alexandria,
the firing of the English, in attacking the fortress of Rachmanie upon
the Nile, was distinctly beard by all on board, a distance of ooc hundred
and thirty miles !
A Lona TABLE.—A gentleman, writing the history of
the Table, has made a curious calculation. Solomon the Wise gave a
feast in the court-yard of the Temple, at which were consumed 22,00 u
oxen, and 120,000 sheep. The feast, then, wield require tries acrd
of ground for kitchens, *madam thousead emits, and, allowing ore
pound of meat for each guest, and eiOteen inches for each seat, the
table would extend the whole length of Solomon's kingdom, viz. frotr
Dan to Beersheba, or from Whitechapel•chursh to Bristol-cross 1 ;
ANBCDOTE 01' THE DIIIICE on WILEINGTOII.-011 the
occasion of opening the Manchester and Idverpool liail.road the Duke
of Wellington refused to leave his carriage on its arrival at Manchester.
While his Grace was a silent spectator of the scene around him, an in.
r touched
man, wearing the Waterloo medal, approached and
his hat; his Grace observing some anxiety in the man's WWl-
team, and that he was about to speak, said. " Can I do any thing
for you ?" The man answered by presenting some which his
Grace opened and hastily, though attentively, read. 11%elesW long hare
you served t" inquired the Duke; and the poor fellow immediately an-
swered by giving a short sketch of his adventures at Waterloo, explor-
ing where he retreated, how he advanced, where he met his Orate, be.
Were you wounded ?" " No, your Orme." " And your service
short ?` " Yes, your Grace." tbe Duke finished the papers, and
said, "I am sorry, then, that we cannot do any thing for you.". "
was afraid so," observed the poor man, " Providence has preserved me
so far; I must trust to that still ;" and the poor fellow was turning
away, when his Grace recalled him. " Here, stay," said his Gran.
and, as the man's hat was off, emptied the contents of his purse into
" I am very sorry that, as your service was incomplete, we can do
nothing to assist you." But the two or three who saw the tear glisten
in the soldiers eye saw also the act of benevolence which is now for the
first time retorticd.—Lady's Megasins.

MARRIED.
Thursday '
, at Islington, H. B. Alexander Esq. only surviving swot
J. Alexander, Esq. of Kensington, to Caroline, only surviving daughter
of the late T. betdewell, Esq. of Clapham Common Thursday, at
Trinity Church, Mary-la-bonne, R. Fewest, Seq. M.D. of Queen'
street, to Cecilia Eleottora, second daughter of the Lste T. I-
Labalmondiere, Esq. of Demerara.

DIED.
The 30th ult. in Waterloo-place, Pall.mall, Martial, .wife of P.
C rEsq. in the 68th year of per age.—The 20th ult.
ter &tampon.
it:Telkeees, Marianne Harriet Gaillard, youngest dough of the late
.1. Gaillard, Esq.

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