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London, England, 1830-06-10 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

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Mastsrow-Housz.—Aecounts of bites from dogs are daily
brought to the Justice.room. Yesterday one of the parish officer,
waited upon the Lard Mayor, and Informed him that several per.
sons had lately been bitten by truck dogs, which started suddenly
from beneath the trucks and fastened their teeth in passengers. He
requested to know whether his Lordship could oblige the owners of
trucks to have their names and addresses painted on the truck, in
order that they might be made responsible for any mischief commit.
ted by their dogs ?
The LORD MAYOR-. 1 would have you not to be over nice on
the subject at all. If you have the least suspicion that a dog is mad,
kill it. I shall be answerable for the consequences. IJ wish it to
be known as publicly as possible, and do not care a pin who is the
owner. The accounts I receive are dreadful, and I know of only
one way of checking so horrible an evil.
The Officer—But the officers do not like to go to those truck
dogs, they are so savage, and they snap at every body.
The Loan MAYoR—I shall inquire whether we cannot compel
the owners to abate the evil z in the mean time I would have the
officers destroy all the dogs they suspect of madness.
A person told the Lord Mayor that be and his family were kept
awake all night by the noise of dogs which were locked up behind
his premises.
The LORD MAYOR—Poison them by all means. His Lordship
repeated his directions to the officers to destroy all dogs that wan.
dered about unmuzzled without masters.

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BOW-STREZT......CURIOUS CASE.—Yesterday a respectable
young man, named Charks Cumpfield Human, was brought up
on a warrant, to answer the complaint of the parish officers of St.
llartin's-in.the-Fields, for refusing to support his wife. The cir-
cumstances of the case were curious :
In the year 1821, the young female now claiming to be the
wife of Mr. Harman, :was married to a man of the name of
Denby, who, in 1822, deserted her, and formed another mar-
riage with a woman named Brown, who was in the posses-
sion of considerable property. He was detected and prosecuted for
bigamy, and sentenced to transportation for seven years. Not long
after the passing of this sentence, Mrs. Denby became acquainted
with the present defendant, and they made an agreement to live to.
gether. She, however, professed great uneasiness at this mode of
life, and he was so much annoyed at her constant reproaches on the
subject, that he told her if be was convinced that he would be acting
legally, he would at once marry her. He gave her a guinea for the
purpose of obtaining a legal opinion, and she professed her inten-
tion to wait upon a solicitor. On her return she stated that the so.
licitor had informed her that by the conviction and sentence for fe-
lony passed upon her husband, he was, to all intents and purposes,
dead m law, and that she was perfectly at liberty to marry again.
This assurance was taken as genuine by Mr. Harman, and
he was married to Mrs. Denby, who styled herself in the licence
" widow." From the day that the ceremony was performed, she
led Mr. Harman such a life that he had reason to repent most bit.
terly of the step he had taken, and about six months ago she con.
trived, in his absence from town, to dispose, without his knowledge,
of two Stanhope gigs, his property, and put the money into her own
pocket. He caused her to be brought to this Office for stealing the
gigs, and she then produced the certificate of marriage with him,
and was dismissed on the ground that a wife could not commit a
felony upon the property of her husband. Mr. Harman, after this,
sought the opinion of a legal gentleman himself, and found
that he had been completely misled, and that the conviction of her
first husband for the crime of bigamy, did not at all absolve her
from her matrimonial engagement to him. He then left her, and
after she had continued to annoy him in every possible way, she
went on Tuesday evening to the officers of St. Martin's parish, and
stated that she was chargeable there, and that her husband, (Mr.
Harman) was about to abscond to America to avoid supporting her.
The officers believing her representation, procured a warrant at this
office against Mr. Hannan.
These facts being fully established, the Magistrates (Messrs.
3lntstmr.r. and If ILLS) dismissed the complaint against Mr.
Harman, and told Mrs. Denby that she had no claim whatever
upon him, she being still the lawful wile of Denby.
At hearing this decision the rage of Mrs. Denby knew no bounds.
She stamped and raved in an extraordinary manner, and was at
length expelled by force from the office. She waited a long time
outside the door vowing vengeance against Mr. Harman, but he
eluded her by a ruse, and escaped from her claws for this time.
It was stated that Denby was pardoned in 1826, and is now living
respectably in this country.
.MARY-LA-BONNS OPFICE.—BEGGING LETTERS..—fester.
day Lord Blanvers came to this office, and told Mr. Rawlinson ha
had acted too cautiously to be robbed himself, but for the sake of
the public he had caused a woman to be apprehended who had made
the attempt upon him.
His lordship produced a letter which he received some days ago,
purporting to come from Ann Browning, in Little Queen-street.
Holborn and soliciting his lordship's pecuniary assistance in behalf
of the writer, who described herself to be severely of liated with a
cancer in her breast, and destitute of support for herself and five
children. The names of several distinguished persons were men.
tioned in the letter u having given relief and recommending her
case, and one of them was that of the Rev. Dr. Moore, rector of St.
Pancras. Lord Nlanvers mentioned the circumstance to Dr. Moore,
and found that his name had been used without his knowledge, and
that a sovereign, which was said to have been received trom him,
he had not given; and Dr. Moore advised his lordship to cause
whatever person might call for an answer to the letter to be taken
into custody. This was done, and after his lordship had finished
the above statement, a woman of decent appearance, about forty
years of age, was placed at the bar.
John Rider, his Lordship's porter, stated that about twelve
o'clock that (yesterday) morning the prisoner rang the bell of his
Lordship's house in Portman-square, and asked for an answer to
the letter which came from Little Queen-street, and in pursuance of
his Lordship's orders he detained here until the butler fetched a
policeman to bring her to the office.
In answer to Mr. Rawlinson, the witness said the prisoner men.
tioned the name of Ann Browning, as being the writer of the letter,
and he remembered that when formerly he lived in the service of
Lord Cardigan she came to that house with begging letters.
The prisoner gave her name and address, Mary Clifton, No. 12,
31arylebone.court, High.street, and said she was the mother of
eleven children.

Mr. RAWLINSON sent Hooker to 3lary-la-bonne-court, to
make Inquiries about her. Her landlord told him she had lodged
there for some time ; she now and then went out as a charwoman,
and sometimes she wrote letters to gentlemen for relief.
The prisoner, in her defence, said, as she was passing along Port.
man-square, a man she Never saw till that moment sent her to Lord
Blanveres house, to ask for an answer to a letter.
Mr. RAWLINSON.—Produce that man.
Prisoner—My dear Sir, I can't if I am to die for it.
Mr. RAWLINIOX committed the prisoner to the House of Cor-
rection for three months.

WOISHINSTREET.—Yesterday Mr. Thomas Merchant, the
proprietor of the Duke of Cumberland, Red Lion-street, Spitaltields,
was summoned by Rawlins, the informer, for serving porter during
the hours of divine service, on Sunday, the 30th of May.
Benwell, the informer's witness, swore that on Sunday week last,
at ten minutes past twelve o'clock, he went into the defendant's
house, and was served a glass of porter by a young woman. He
was let in by a boy. The defendant's pot-boy came forward, when
Benwell said he was the boy who let him in ; the boy, however,
positively swore thatlhe never let Benwell or any other person into
his master's house during church time.
The defendant's bar-maid swore that there was no other young
woman in the defendant's house on Sunday week last besides her.
self, and that she never served Benwell or any other person during
the hours of divine service.
Mr. TWYFOILD, to the pot-boy—Were you in your master's
house the whole of the morning ?
Poet-boy—l was away about an hour. I went to see my 'mother.
There is no other bor in my master's house.
Mr. BENETT-1 m sure I shall sooner believe the boy than that
man (pointing to Benwell), who goes sneaking about, peeping in at
every publican's window he passes, endeavouring to get live or six
shillings—he makes a regular trade of it.
The defendant's servant also swore that there was only one boy
employed in her master's house.
Benwell--I will not swear the boy whom the defendant has
brought forward is the boy who let me in.
BENETT—Why you have sworn he was the same boy who
letu in.
Dwell—l said I believed he was the boy.
The case was dismissed.

The remains of the Marchioness of Northampton,
which were brought to this country from Rome, where her Ladyship
died, were on Monday removed from Dean-street, Soho, to the
family vault in Northamptonshire, with great funeral pomp, for in.
terment. Several Noblemen and Gentlemen's carriages joined the
melancholy procession.

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The murderer of the celebrated Paul Louis Courier
has at last been discovered, and has confessed his crime. His
name is Fremont : he was the gamekeeper of the unfortunate de.
ceased. The assassination appears to have taken place from feel-
ings of revenge : it had nothing to do with politics. Fremont had
for accomplices one Symphorien Dubois (since dead,) Piere Dubois,
and two others. The trial of Fremont and his surviving scum.
pikes was to take place at Tours on the 9th inst..l

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ter of Prebendary Dennis, B.C.L.
Am EiticAx NEWSPA PERS.—There are now fi ft%. d:nis
newspapers in the United States, two-third' of which are st.q.pomt
to be yielding fair profits. We may add that there are nu I.c3V
duties imposed upon them—no tax upon inental fo.xl— as in dui-
country.
Cr N CIS NATI.—The inhabitants of this city in the yea'
1802 did not exceed 800, and at this moir.ent they amount to mom
than 25,000; the population during the last three years alone lily
ing increased eight thousand souls !
AMERICAN HEMP.—A New York paper state. 11,41,
some experiments have been made in that city on the company...
strength of Russian and American hemp, " by which it apptorre;
that there was a superiority of 20 per cent, in the hemp grown i.
America over the finest specimens of that of Russia," Of courie.
AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY SOCIETY
—This Society in 1829 printed 172,000 copies of the Bible in the
Chacta language, an equal number in that of the .etieess, one
175,000 in Cherokee. " The Phcenix," a Cherokee jcurnal shod
by a native, who bas Invented written characters for his language
announces that a Temperance Society has been formed at lee„
Echota, the Cherokee capital.
STATUTE LAw.—Some idea may be formed of the
changes that have taken place in the statute law of the reJm, fron,
the number of statutes that have been wholly or partly repealed
within the last seven years. During the above period, 1,126 Act.of Parliament have been wholly, and 443 partly repealcd—makine
a total of 1,369. Of these, 1,344 relate to the empire at large, ar:l
225 solely to Ireland.
NORTH ROA D.--The Report of the Select Committee
on the Northern Roads has just been printed. The evidence ad.
duced consists of that of 31r. Telford and Sir Henry ParralL The
former gentleman gives it as his opinion, that a saving of thin.,
miles may be made in the road from London to Edinburgh- v.;
ten between London and Newark, six between Newark and Mer•
peth, and fourteen between Morpeth and Edinburgh, so that th,
whole would be reduced from 399 to 369 miles. Mr. Telford par.
ticularly condemns the bad and circuitous road over Staimnore, and
from Greta Bridge to Carlisle, and thinks that much alteration it
generally required.
STATISTICS.—The sixth monthly meetingof the Societe
de Staliefigue Univerrellewas lately held at Paris. Several statistica:
works were presented, and the names of new candidates for admit.
sion were given. An interesting report was read, from which it
appears that the Society now consists of 617 members, among whom
are several princes, ministers of state, peers of France, and other
distinguished personages. At this meeting it was proposal. and
unanimously agreed to, that, at the end i,of 1832. three prizes of
3,000, 2,000, and 1,000 francs, should be awarded to the authors of
memoirs on statistics, the best calculated to further the views of tic
Society.
CONGREVE ROCK ETS..—Some experiments wore re-
cently made at Toulon, for the purpose of ascertaining the powerof the
Congreve rocket. Out of seven which were fired, twocacetdel. ti,
about 250 toises, the range of a 36-pounder, and two others bee,:
before they had reached half their distance. The experinants, o:
the whole, were considered satisfactory, as they demonstrated :hi
about half the number of rockets discharged will be effective.
ARTESIAN WELLS.—The Paris " Globe" informs u-
that an English company has received authority to introduce into
France, by way of Havre, all the instruments necessary for the con-
struction of Artesian wells in different parts of France.
AGRICULTURE.—The Paris Central Society of Agri.
culture, at its last sitting, awarded the following prizes :-20oti
francs to Messrs. Flackat and Mulot, for their process for boring for
Artesian wells ; another, for the same object, to Messrs. Fraisse ate
Poitevia ; and also a gold medal to M. Faye!, 1000 francs to 31
Payen, for a memoir on the use which may be made of the carcl,t•
of domestic animals when dead ; and other prizes, of small anieunt.
on different subjects, making altogether 7000 francs. Several gc.,:
and silver medals were also presented. The prizes of next year arc
to be, first, 1500 francs for the best treatise on the use which tray
be made of the dead bodies of domestic animals; 1500 francs tor
the best treatise en the blindness of horses; 3500 for the best modtl
of a threshing and winnowing machine ; 3000 francs for the best
treatise on the mode of boring for water; 1000 francs for the be=t
treatise on the culture of the pink poppy. Three prizes arc also an.
noenced for 1834.

Dr. Casper, in an article in the Revue Britannique,,
states, that there existed some time ago in Prussia a club of suicides,
composed of six persons, who not only vowed to destroy theinsclres.,
but also to make proselytes. They did not sacceed in the latter re.
spect, but all gave proofs of their own sincerity. The last of then
blew out his brains in 1817. The same writer states, that a simila.
club is reputed to have existed not long ago in Paris. This was
composed of twelve members, one of whom was to be selected ever
year for self-destruction.