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London, England, 1831-05-13 00:00:00

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OLD DAILEY.
Yesterday the Sessions of London and Middlesex commenced at the
Old Bailey, before Mr. Justice LITTILZDALr, Mr. Justice BossN-
atrZT, and Baron VAUGUAX. The alitity.ltecorder of London pre.
sided at the N.:w Court. The =lender comalns a total of .10 eases for
London, and 19c; for the county of Middlesex, in both 236. Of these
5 are for murder, 1 manslawsliter, 5 borgEry, 13 housebreaking, 131
1 .recny, 42 stealirg f the perton, 9 wiling in a dwellitt_t-howe,
stealing a hater limn the post-office, 2 horse-stealing, 4 uttering coup.
terfeit coin, 2 Cur an efrativ kawl iwwiwovltus, wul the remainder for
minor ofVences of various tlcsteriittions. There arc now in the poi 0,
Ncegate rai) male. 2.11 114 female prisoners, or whom 18 we undo
sentence of &alb, soid It. of transportation for life.
The Court was occupied during the day in trying cases of al tnine
nature, and of no public 'merest. We never recollect the Old Bailey
so little crowded, or so fete from excitement, during the season.

Ikfore the COMMON SEIJIANT.
CASE nErainan 70 THE TWELVE JUDGES
Williom Deelry, tin elderly ,urn, was placed at the bar, who at
th-2. last April ,ensims was convicted of bigamy. • An objectioil tem
raised 'pun a miNsion on the face of the indictment, which imputed that
he 66 murk(' Elizabeth Chant, 1./Mow," whereas it api-earol in on.
deuce that Elisabeth Chan , (t 11.! second wife) was what 1134 tailed
in Irtr 6- a spinstcr,"--a deviation which die twelve Jud•;e, held to let
fatal, and thenaiire the iiri-oncr w.a. entitled to his disci:urge.

The celebrated Vicar of limy was one Simon Symonds,
who kid that benefice dirrin:.; the reigns of four successive
monarch'. He is said to ila.: been twice a Protestant and
twice a Papist; and wl,en reproached for the unsteadii.ess
of his principles, which could thus suffer him to veer about
with every change of Adieinktration, replied that he had
always rforernedhimself by ghat I.e thought a very laud-
able principle, which vas never on any terms, if he could
avoid it, to part with hk vicaraee.
The following account of tho eccentric appearance and
costume of an attorney-general at Otaheite is taken from
Captain Beechey's inteiesting account of his recent voyage
to the Pacific :—" The Nava-rai of the district took his
place between the Court and the prisoners, dressed in a
long straw mat, finely plaited, and edged with fringe, with a
slight cut in it for the bead to pass through ; a n bite oakum
wig, which, in imitation of the geutlenuli of our courts
of law, flowed in long curls over his ; and a tall
cap surmounting it curiously ornamented with red feathers,
and with variously-coloured tresses of human hair. His
appearance, without shoes, stockings, lr trousers, the sti tinge
attire of the head, with the varivg.arid tre,s., of hair
mingling with the oakum curls upon his shoulders, pro-
duced, as may be imagined, a ludicrous effect."

Tne Alreeeee fu.tr.— At the Hampshire election on
Friday, a gentleman, named Marsh, iii the course of a very
humorous address to the electors, said " he really believed
that a sort of eelitical Ails:Huhn-a was commenced, as
lawyers had eefused to receive money for their services; and
who knew but that, by and bye, they might hear or Clergy-
men declining to take their tithes ; but he did not believe
that would occur in the year I e3l—(laegliter.) The other
day when he had an opportunity of seeing a numerous body
of Clergymcn swarming together ia oppesitiou to the bill,
he gave them the name of Ilivites ; finding tkeni very
strentious, be called thou Hittites, which he subsequently
changed, fium their dislike of the King's bill, to anti-
' hillites.—(le tighter.)
The Ring of Denmark, to prevent unnecessary litigation,
has established a Court of Equity, or Aihitiatiun, the mem-
bers of which arc paid entirely by Co.. eminent, and no ex-
iNnse is incurred by the parties appealing. to its tiecision.
No suit can be instituted in any court without a certificate
to state that the parties have ineffectually attempted to have
it settled by arbitration.
It was coulidently rumoured that a sweeping measure of
retrenchment will be one of the first object.: to which the at-
tention of the new House of Common- will be directed. The
measure, it is uneerstoed, t ill be introduced in the form of
a resolution, declaratory of the principle that all offices
(without exception, and without regard to the tenure by
which they are held) to which no duties me attached should
be abolished ; that, %there lime are coice, the salaries and
.emolument shutild he apportioned to the work actually per.
formed ; and that every channel of unnecessary expenditure
should lx' closed. This will be the. first advance towards the
Mill nium promised by Lord Althoip, in which the country
is to ')e governed without patronage, or towards that happy
period alluded to by Mr. Home, whon it mai t,o t.,..3..be necessary for a Minister of the Crown to be a rogue. The
support of this resolution is to be made the test for trying
the merits of eendklaces for the reformed I louse of Com-
mons, in like manner tis the support of Lord John Russell's
bill is a test of the merits of candidates at the present ge-
neral electian.
The fine eameleopard, which was shipped on bnard the
Lady 11I' Naughton, East Indianian, at Calcutta, died off the
Cape of Good Hope. The Captain Lad the animal, which
was extremely young; in his posse' .ion for some inculthsbe-
fore it was placed on board. It vas twenty feet high, and
valued at 2,0001. Au insurance was effected on it, it is
said, at the rate of 20 per cent. It was captured in the in-
terior of Africa, ith twn others—one et which was sent to
'the Pacha of Egypt, and the other to the Grand Seignor at
Constantinople.
The following is a paragraph in Mr. Rees original addreu
to the freeholders of Tipperary :—" What teed we further
to prove the necessity of Rrperil to remedy our complicated
wrones—Gascoyne himself asserted, but a short time since,
that he would sooner second a motion for repeal than have
the Parliament occupied with Irish business!! Up, up,
then fore, bravo freeholders of Tipperary! from end to end
of the county, and animate each other for the approaching
exertion of your constitutional power—tear off the flimsy
veil that, Hcavcn knows how, has been cast over your po-
litics—this is verily no time for humbug—a man that is
true to &p al mu, t he true to Rrftnen, as the only legiti-
mate means of obtaininie it—but you know to your cost, that
Iteformeis may not be Repealists. Suffer none, therefore,
to represent our noble minty, that does not advocate repeal
e.--such a man can alone be effective, because he alone can
tne true to his country. Again, I say, be stirring, and by
with unanimity you mutt insure success.
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The 17th of January last, IA 1114.xieo, the lady of Charles Thaddeus
0/001maiss 1.11. Drinmnic lllpjehty's Courttl-General, of a swc•—
The 116 ii at. Iv Lowts DerhckyAtrect, the 1a64 of T. W. BranntOr•
lAe. of sap mod kir.

MARRIED.
The 11th inst. at St. James's. Church, Clerkenwell, H. F. Stroud.
EA. of the Ciiti'pel•lionsc, Si : Feld:, to Catolitie, the second daugl nr
of Mr. J. Wooln, hitt. at Tomes. Devon, R. Malins, el
the Inner Ten,1,1,,,H.q. barri:ter.i.t.lan, to Smainuh, ddest daughter
of il.c lan, Dew. A. Fnry.ell, lector of St. klurtin's,Corriwall.—The Ith
inst. rt St. Pane:: • New Church, Mr. R. Wilton. of Mtinelicatcr. to
Mr,. Pettit, of Loniliat..—At the residence ni W. H. Lompriere. Lhi•
Rezzl, Jorsey,the 0t in,t. W. T. Jones, Broad.simet, to Labella Lae-
cb..-tcr, of the form:1.1)1:1w.