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then said, " This Is $ doll road, Ma'am." She re; lit t,
that it was rather lonely, and particularly for a fen,nl,.
He then said, " I am going your way, and will prob..;
you ;" and he walked by her side into Park-street. H
ing proceeded about 100 yards further, the prisoner I, titld, •
snatched at her neck, and aloe at the same time seized 61,
by the collar, and exclaimed, " You shall not rob me," at,l
immediately cried out " Murder!" The prisoner then t!wy I
out his arm, and gave her a sudden push and ran away, I
and finding that her watch was gone, she gave instant lila.
suit, and continued crying out " Stop thief !" She never Is;
sight of him, and saw him stopped by a gentleman. When
she come up to the spot where the prisoner wag secured, a
tradesman who had come to her assistance picked up her
watch off the ground near where the prisoner stood, tl,c
glass of which bad been broken in the fall, and the 114"
was gone. She added that she also lost a crape shawl n!'
her shoulders, but the latter article was not found.
A gentleman, named Dudley. stated, that as he was pals.
ing down Southampton-street at the time mentioned, he saw
the prisoner running with great speed towards hint. Ili:
prisoner endeavoured to avoid him by getting off the paw.
meat into the road; but witness pursued, and eventually
succeeded in securing him. The pthanermade strong efforts
so disengage himself, but all to no purpose, and in the
struggle the witness heard the noise of something fall on the
ground.
The prisoner, on the recommendation of his attorney, de.
dined saying anything, except that he was a respectable mar,
and could procure bail.
The magistrate, in reply, said that it was a charge which
affected his life, and therefore could not take bail.
The prisoner was then fully committed.
THAUZI POLICE.—Job. Thomas, recently paid off from
one of his Majesty's ships, at Chatham, was charged with
t intermarrying with Eleanor Henley, an Irish fruit-girl, hit
, former wife being still alive.
I The Magistrate regretted that he could not send the mi.
t loner for trial without the evidence of his second wife; he
: must be discharged.
SCINTILLA?.
EPIGRAM.
The paint is on her cheek,
The tear is in her eye;
What does such grief bespeak ?
e Lost Beauty's—Hue and Cry.
Diamond Magasinc.
it
r. ATTACK UPON TILE LIBERTY Or TUE PRESS.
tt
—On Wednesday evening last, a horse having ran avo4
' with a carriage, took the direction of our office, and, much
to the dismay of our pressmen, then engaged in wodire
I' off the first side, precipitated his head, neck, and fore kJ:
through one of the windows, demolishing everything which
s' obstructed his passage. Like most of the biped assailant,
'1 of the press, the poor fellow fared badly, having been se.
re verely excoriated.—Frederickshery (N, A.) Arena. [Hal
a. it been an ass that made this daring attempt, it would hate
to been rather more in keeping with some similar attacks cc,
the same organ of freedom in this country.)
td MARCH OF ARISTOCRACY.—Amongst the
td insolvents in the Gazette of the Bth of April last is the fol.
lowing " David Davies, of Grove-hill-terrace, Camberwell,
as assistant dealer in beer." Query—pot-boy ?
be A DIRECT INDIRECTION.—An Irishman cc-
to copying a lodging in the fifth or sixth story, made known
en the place of his domicile—clear and distinct (barring the
re- bull) as any admiring kinsfolk of his could wish or require
ito —in the following terms :—" Place to move up—keep coo.
ate continually going up—then turn the lark taste in life to the
01. right.—keep along up to the lift, quite entirely straight foe.
ward before you once more ; turn short to the right, sal
Lug straight out at the top.—N. B. It's there you'll find Paddy
me O'Rourke, and a vale little well-aired apartment, with s
ind mighty fine prospect—when he's at home l" A friend hap.
or- pening to meet him by chance, after reading the notice, sc,
hit coated him thus :—" So, Muter O'Rourke, by your own
account of yourself, you have got a snug bit of a roosting.
old place above, in the cock-loft." "'Pon my conscience,'
I of replies Mr. O'Rourke, " I don't know whit you mane by
up- the cock-loft—but this I can tell you, if the house we
ous turned upside down, Paddy O'Rourke's fine airyfied place
would be changed to the parlour, my darling !"
yes, 18th July. F. E
D. A SINGULAR ADVENTURE.—Once upon a
ts' time a traveller stepped into a sup. He was a young nun
just starting in life. He found six passengers about him,
, all of them grey-headed and extremely aged men. The
9 in youngest appeared to have seen at least eighty winters. Our
young traveller was struck with the singularly mild and happy
aspect which distinguished all his fellow-passengers, and
I• determined to ascertain the secret of a long life, and the
7 art of making old age comfortable; be addressed the one who
6 was apparently the oldest, who told him that he had always
4 led a regular and abstemious life, eating vegetables and
drinking water. The young man was rather daunted at
• this inasmuch as he liked the good things of life. He ad.
Pr', dressed the second, who astounded him, by saying he had al.
now I ways eaten roast beef and gone to bed regularly toddled, for
in& seventy years, adding, that all depends on regularity. The
thiril bad prolonged his days by never seeking or accepting
o.ffl
office—the fourth by resolutely abstaining from all political
I or religious controversies ; sad the fifth by getting to bed
at sunset sod rising at dawn. The sixth was apparently
ind 7 much younger than the other five—his hair was less grey,
and there was more of it—a placid smile, denoting a ea-
fatly easy conscience, mantled his face and his voice was
Ool' jocund sod strong. They were all surprised to learn that he
11 of was by ten years the oldest man in the coach. "How,"
"Ts exclaimed out young traveller, " How is it you have thus
61• preserved the freshness of life ?".---" It is no great mystery,*
the said the old man, " I have drank water and drank wino--1
were have eaten moud vegetablee—l have!held a:public care—
s I bare dabbled in polities and written religious pamphlets
2U .11 have sometimes geese to bed at midnight, got up at
pin!' .anise and at noon; but I always paid promptly fee lry
a° newspapers."--[We thought it better to tell this o singular
nine advancing" before we interpreted it. It is extracted from
oft an AIIKEICSII paper recently received, and is • hint to sue
o the of the subscribers as were tardy in payment. It is elate
s equal to the best days of our lotseries, whew the Curds sad
"nap Dishes were in their bloom.]
eay's During the Consulate, it was insinuated to Bo-
ram, rapine that M. de Tallorand availed himself of his pbce
o. F. as minister of fudge aides, to speculate at the Roane, obi
mt. that be had thus gained immense sums. The first caul
, 74 had a mortal antipathy to stock jobbing in general, end felt
°' , particularly indignant that his prindpd minister shot Id be
so devoid of principle as to enrich himself by such midge
means. The next time be transacted business with this great
factotum, he sharply said, " I understand, sir, that you an
rich, very rich, and that
you have gained your wealth at the
im: Bourse; you have epeculaW then in the (hods!" " Nen
rr▪ " but once," replied the wily statesman. " How is that?"-'
'r ."
I bought in, air, the day before the 18th Brumaire, sod
, sold out the day Am." Napoleon could not help unapt;
at this clever repartee, and the gathering storm on his keg
was dissipated. The reader will remember that it was et
is but the 18th, Brumaire General Buonsparte sounceranonimadi
n cashiered the council of five hundreds la Cromwell.
I- u HYPERBOLZ.—..As we advance towards tho
toted South we invariably find an increase of exaggetatios! ia de
✓ duo figurative language of ordinary conversation. An heelik
man, to signify that be is extremely wet, says that
"tort Is the shin" A Frenchman goes further, and won
is Id, that he is " ifeesillsjuarseatme os" (wet to the bassr)i IW
tide to a Spaniard beats them hollow, and announces that he 1108
`code- himself "Moja* hails tar euetense" (wet to the wel
marrow.)
power, 1111
kiestY•
ieman BIRTHS.
id they The 22d inst. Mee. Galloway, Ikons too-row, of adastb*
im
sod rer ter.—The 23d inst. in Dorset-street,,
Led till H. F. flandemam of a son.—Tbe 23d inst. Mrs. W'
of Aneeriakaquare, of a son.
[whom
s neat Al ALLIED.
proved The 23d inst. at St. Bloomsbury, P. B. Tornr.
Bled Basing.lane, sad Ham to Olive, widow
aid nee at late W. Turner, Faq.....110 81st inst. at Caney°
oppot. Dando, Somerset, the Ffiev.-T. Mines rector of Tinning.
led her to Elizabeth Aylire, youngest deraghter of the late 11.
Met Est of Brook-street, Onevaseraquare.—The
!mein inst. at Perth, T. P. Matthew, ink if Church-sweet, n
stained dington, to Rachel, only daughter of the late A. Andemoh
to next Esq. of Newburgh, Flfeshiee.
put of
DIED. wife ef
whale The 22d inst. at Frittenden Rectory, Kent, Anna,
let, was the Rev. IL P. Neale.—The Lid inst. at Abllttall4o!
73, J. Hackett, Req..—The 23d inst. ill PiCaldilif,
owe% Mtn Domaine, the only child of the late C. Ducterg't
Ink, as 11114.--Tbs Cid inst. Emma, wife of Mr. J. Lard, Of Pa'
Jan:nista inst. Lucy, the wife efJ.
imEtt.ami I Lew:Tole
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