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generallr collected thousands of disorderly persons of
the worst description, for the mercenary purpose .of
seeing two human beings fight in cold blood. The
character given of the prisoner must weigh strongly in
his favour, and as, no doubt, he would remember with
grief to the close of his life the fatal effects of the guar-
rel with his fellow-apprentice, the Court would treat
him with lenity. The Learned Judge sentenced him
to one month's imprisonment in the County Gaol.
,Margoret Haley was indicted for stealing, on the
2511 of November, Bank-notes and other property to
the value of 1001. in the dwelling-house of Thomas
Iloys, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner was servant
to the prosecutor. On the day mentioned in the in-
dictment the prosecutor, whilst at church with his
family, left the prisoner to take care of the house.
When be returned home he lonnd the street-door open,
and on entering missed the prisoner, together with
Bank notes and wearing apparel to the amount of 100/.
and upwards. For some days nothing could be heard
of her. A handbill, with a reward, was published for
her apprehension. A police-officer, at Bristol, named
Galloway, having seen the handbill, and recollecting
that he had seen the prisoner in that city, went to her
lodgings and apprehended her, with the greater portion
of the money upon her. It appeared that she had
taken her passage to Ireland, and was to have sailed
nest morning. The case was clearly made out. The
prisoner, who was bathed in tears, said nothing in
her defence.
The Jury found her Guilty, and sentence of death
was recorded.
The Grand Jiiry threw out four bills of indictment
preferred against Mr. Thomas Wick, a tradesman of the
Borough, for forgery.
John Atteridge stood indicted for stealing at Wimble-
don. half a sovereign, the monies of William Harvey.
The prosecutor and the prisoner were in company
with other persons at a public-house, when an argument
took place as to the weight of the prosecutor's dog ; the
prisoner's companion proposed a bet upon the subject,
and a half-sovereign being produced by the prosecutor,
the prisoner took it off the table, and put it into his
pocket; upon the prosecutor demanding his money
back, the prisoner gave the prosecutor a button with-
out a shank, and said that was what the prosecutor had
given him : the prisoner was searched, but no half-
sovereign was found, but upon the prisoner being about
to be locked up, he offered to return the prosecutor the
money next day. On the prisoner's person a number
of broken buttons were found.
In his defence, the prisoner denied having ever taken
the money, and said, that he was induced to make the,
offer to return it in consequence of the night being wet,
he did not like to be locked up.
Mr. Baron GARROW shortly charged the Jury, who
returned a verdict of Guilty.—The prisoner being a very
old offender, was sentenced to transportation for seven
years.
Lawrence Loveland was indicted for stealing half a
bushel of potatoes, value ninepence, the property of his
master, John Evershed, on the 12th of November
last. Verdict—Guilty.—Sentenced to a month's hard
labour.

John Cope, William Jarvis, Wm. Cherrdl, and Henry'
Williams, stood indicted for having, on the 20th No.l
vember, broken into the dwelling-house of John Farley,
at Hersham, no person being therein, and stealing a
wooden tea-chest, value 2s. his property.
The evidence in this case was presumptive, but such
as convinced the minds of the Jury. The-men were
seen together about the house OR the day in quststion ;
the tea-caddy wns missing; one of the prisoneri had
been observed with something bulky under his apron,
and the property was subsequently found in a ditch
near the place (where the men had been observed in
conversation) through the confession of one of the pri-
soners during his confinement—Guilty. Twelve months
hard labour.

M. Ouvrard, the Contractor-General of the army of
Spain, was arrested on Christmas Eve, between one
and two o'clock, in a fiacre, in the Rue de Bac, at the
suit of one of his creditors. He required to be con-
ducted immediately to the President of the Tribunal
of First Instance, before whom M. Cottinet, his Ad-
vocate, contended, that as M. Ouvrard had already
suffered five years' imprisonment, at the suit of tit,
Minister of the Public Treasure, in 1811, he could
not now be imprisoned for debts which had accrued
previously. M. Drouin, the Counsel for the creditor
by whom he was arrested, argued that M. Ouvrard
had not suffered the five years imprisonment which
were spoken of, and even were it so, that was for a
public debt. M. Moreau, the President, directed that
31. Ouvrard should be detained, and he was forthwith
conducted in a hackney-coach to St. Pelagie, where he
was handed over to the jailer.
The National Calendar, published at Washington,
contains some valuable notices respecting the United
States. The part relating to emigration is curious
enough. In the years 1821 and 1822 there arrived in
different ships 20,201 passengers, of whom 3,969 were
citizens of the United States. Of the other 16,232 emi-
grant foreigners, 8284 were English, 685 French, 486
Germans, 400 Spaniards, 112 Hollanders. It is a ques-
tion of great importance to settle the advantages which
the United States do or might derive from these emi-
grations. The compiler of the Calendar mentions some
facts which aid the solution of this question. He di-
vides the emigrants into four classes—the first is the
usefully productive, and comprises 4964 individuals,
all engaged in some sort of trade or profession. The
oilier classes are, unproductive but useful, 5069; un-
productive, 459; and all other sorts of unproductive
(as 01.1 men, women, children, &c.) 9721. The Calendar
contains a list of all the patents granted for 1822 ;
they amount to 191. It has also a list of all the new
works or new editions deposited in the Secretary of
State's Office in the same year; they amount to 95,
twenty of which are dictionaries, grammars. or ele-
mentary books; nine theological and moral; 14 of
physical and mathematical science ; eight law ; eleven
statistics and geography, &c. &c. Altogether the
work presents a curious and instructive picture of this
ns►ng country. •
In the year 1711, Mr. JODN STEWARD (grandfather
to a most worthy and highly-respectable Gentleman
now living) was chosen into the office of pai ith
clerk of a church in tile Deanery of Readenhall, and
which he held till his death, in 1762, when the pre-
sent parish clerk succeeded him, who has ever since
filled the office, and that of sexton with it, and is at this
time able to do all the duty; he can read the set vice, ring
the hell, and dig the graves, and appears to be likely so
to do for some years longer, although now at the age
of ot.e hundred and thirteen.

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