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money in question was, IA iiit ,
pence being in papers, when the prisoner, ..__
about 13 years of age, entered hii.:owavi.gHtf-ak ,ti,
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money. He was pursued : be titreW SW , Ptiejr,aw. ,
and when taken none was fauna
The Jury, under the Learned ud e.'l "
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found the prisoner—Guilty., anll , . •
three months' imprisonment ansk ;a .
House of Correction, and to be onceptiletalc
Wtllintn Mellows was indicted N!
th inst. it"paii of shoes, the propettAlini,,,_ _
: Us pris met bad been a journ4l44oo df,
anew On the 9th inst. the nephew:4.4lll)oov
the prlsoaerput the shoes in qeestitin . "his
d attempt to go away. He WaSPrivh;
.Wrapped, and the shoes found ltilits p, ,
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made no
Upon this evidence the prisosery
wbo lalli
fence, was found Guilty, and sentenced to sir months%
imprisonment in the House of Coireetirtn.
Bona Harrold was indicted for stealing a sheet,
and a pillow-case, the property of Catharine Dunclas,
on the 14th. of February last, from her furnished 1
lodgings.' ' The indictment stated th,e lodgings -to
have been let 49 the,prisoner and her husband.
. The prosecutriz proved that she kept a lodging-
house in St. George's in the East. In February, the
prisoner and her husband hired a furnished room of
her, both.being present. In a few days afterwards,
the sheet and a pillow-case from the bed were missing,
and traced to .1 pawnbroker's shop, where they were I
alleged to have been pawned by the prisoner.
Mr. Platt, amicus curie, suggested for the consi-
deration of the Bench, that the indictment was de-
fictive, in stating that the lodgings had been let to;
the prisoner and her husband. In point of law, the
contract could only have been made with the hus-
band alone. If the indictment had charged, that the
lodgings were let to the husband for the use of the
prisoner and himself, it might have been sufficient ;
but as at present (tamed, it was defective.
Mr. ARABIN thought the objection fatal, and di-
rected the Jury to acquit the prisoner.—Not Guilty.
William Gooday, a boy about 14 years of age, was
indicted for stealing eight pair of stockings, the pro-
perty of a poor laundress in St. James's, Clerken-
well, on the 19th inst. The property was found in
the prisoner's possession, he having concealed him-
self in a. pig-sty e after the robbery.
The case being dearly made out, the pi isoner was
found Guilty, and sentenced to be once privately
whipped, and then delivered over to his mother.
Daniel Fornge was indicted for stealing several
pairs of shoes, the property of James Clough, on the
19th September, in the Parish of St. Clement Danes.
The prisoner was apprentice to Mr. Clough, a shoe-
maker, in Holywell-street, Strand. On the 19th Sep-
tember he was detected in the act of pawning a pair
of shoes, the property of his master, at a pawnbroker's
in Blackfriars -road. This led to the discovery of other
thefts of the same nature.
The prosecutor -gave the prisoner a good character
up to this time. He was, however, found Guilty, and
sentenced to be once privately whipped, and then deli-

vexed over to his on.ster.
John Field was indicted for stealing a cheese, the
property of Peter Jones, a cheesemonger.
The prisoner was caught in the fact,with the cheese
upon him. He attempted to make his escape, but was
pursued and taken into cassody. Verdict, Guilty.—
Sentenced to three months imprisonment and bard
labour in the House of Correction.
Ann Cannon was indicted for stealing two 10/. Bank
notes, from the person of a countryman named James
Simmons, on the 29th of August, at the Brown Rear
public-hou,e, where the prosecutor, in a state of in-
toxication, was in company with the prisoner.
The prosecutor did not appear, and therefore, in
his absence, the Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty;
and the prosecutor's recognizances were ordered to
be estreated. •
James Creed, a boy twelve years old, was indicted
for stealing a lock, the property of Edward Jackson,
who keeps an iron stall in Turnmill-street, on the
20th of July.
The prisoner was taken in the act of carrying off the
property,aud the evidence of his guilt being conclusive,
be was found Guilty, and sentenced to be privately
whipped, and then delivered to his mother.
:The remainder of the trials were for trifling lar-
cenies, and possessed no interest.
At five o'clock the Sessions having closed its sittings,
the RECORDER proceeded to pass sentence upon the
following prisoners :
Thomas 'Tinder, John Lewis, William Poulteney, William
Smith, John Evans, Abraham Henry, Robert Greece, John
13vyle, Cornelius Reading, Joseph Hargrave, Michael, Bryan,
William Strode, and Thomas Towlar—Transportation for life.
Thomas L Robinson, and Thomas Newby—Transportation
for fourteen years.
John Chard, Frederick Simpson, Ann Irvin, Robert- Rice,
Thomas Rutter, George Davison,John Perry, Richard Ro-
berts, James Ilobdell, John Williams, Edward Ford, George
Willoughby, William Hedges, Thomas Brown, Sarah West,
Samuel Russell, William Ligurian, James Harris, George King,
Elizabeth Boot, Richard Wise, Mary Smith, James Callender,
William Tuck, John Mackey, George Edward Ilsley, Luke
lliggins, Joseph Hunt, George Wigge, Thomas Walker, Wil-
liam Chapman, John Williams, Sarah Bateman, Mary Anderson,
William Gerrard, Eliza Davis, Thomas Long, James Moores,
Julia Weatherall, Mary Rusteion, alias Barnes., Christopher
Guymer, Edward Fordham, Harriot Vise, Thomas Jeffs,
Richard Wells, Thomas Morgan, William Needham, Matthew
Pennell, David Barnes, alias Barnard, and Rosina Davis—
Transportation for seven years.
Two prisoners were sentenced to one week ; 21 to one month ;
three to sis weeks; 14 to two months; 25 to three months; one
to four months; 25 to six months; 11 to one year; and 16 to
two years imprisonment in the House of Correction for Middle:
sex.—Twenty-nine to be whipped.—Two were sentenced to two
months; four to three months; six to six months; four to one
year ; and two to two years, in Giltspur-street Compeer.
Judgment was respired on John Par kes, James Hicker, James
Nicholas Moores (whose father is sentenced to be transported),
and Thomas Wilbraham.
A considerable number against whom the Bills had
been ignored, were discharged by proclamation, and
at six o'clock the Session, almost unparalleled for its
length, was adjourned to the 23d of October.
It is melancholy to state, that when the prisonert
are removed to the House of Correction, it will con-
tain a greater number than has been recollected there
for many years.

A story hai reached us of a Nunnery in the West
of• England, in which one young female at least is
forcibly detained. She is said to have e►caped lately,
and thrown herself on the protection of a Gentle-
man, who, hot. choosing to risk a quarrel with the
t'atholie Establishment, suffered her to be forcibly
Cteterned to her prison. We mention the circumstance,
With the view of exciting inquiry—that the truth may
, be ascertained and justice doue,— Western Luniinnrs.

mentor.as.h..
book, the witness would.beable to _
quantity of each delivery ; There was a -set-off
VOL which the defencat would have to prove.
John Child said he wasin theemployof the plain-
tiff four the last two years, and had taken- bread and
flour to the defendant's house ftom January, 1821, to,
Fritillary, 1822. He. could not tell ivilat the average
was during the whole period ; sometimes he delivered'
five quartern loaves, and at others eleven a week.
Ile did not know what was delivered in January ; but
he thought from seven to nine quarteroloaves a week.
The account was gone into in the same tedious
manner as far as March, the Counsel being obliged
to calculate and form an average as well as they
Fould, when it was suggested that one of the work-
men should be examined, in order to see if his recol-
'section was clearer.
James Vaughan, on being called, inquired who
-was to pay his expenses, as he had lbst a' day's job
by attending? but no answer was returned.
Were you a labourer in the service if Mr. Conner in
1821 Sir, I was not a labourer, but a brick-
larr. But who will pay me fi:r. my time? I cannot
give evidence unless I am paid.
Plaintiff's Attorney—l will undertake to pay you.
The witness was then questioned respecting the
delivery of bread, and not giving any, more satisfac-
tory answer than the preceding witness, -the Counsel
recommended the parties CO refer tik case to arbitra-
tion, :ind appointed W. K. Dehany, Esq. for abitra-
tor, with power to call for books. .
The Judge observed it was highly proper to enter
into such an arrangement.

The custom of having a gg roast goose" for dinner,
seasoned with sage and onions and port wine, on Mi-
chaelmas-day, is of very ancient standing; yet the
cause why remains unexplained : though, as Beckwith
remarks, in his new edition of •' Blounes Jocular
Tenures," it was probably for no other reason but
that Michaelmas-day was a great festival, and geese
at that time most plentiful. Poor Robin, in his Al-
manack for 1695, has the following lines:

Geese now in their prime season are,
Which. if well roasted, are good fare;
Yet, however, friends, take heed
Bow too much on them you feed,
Lest, when as your tongues run loose,
- - Your discourse do smell of goose I
Saturday morning a fire broke out in the house of
Mr. Bradford, oilman, in Bread-street, Bloomsbury,'which did
considerable damage before it was extinguished. A house in
Brick-lane, Old-street, was consumed by bre on Friday night,
owing to • a lighted candle being left by the workmen who were
repairing it, which fell among some shavings.
Remarkable escape of a gang of horse-stealers from
Aylesbury Jail, and their subsequent re-apprehension :
" A gang, consisting of three horse-stealers, have for
some time been detained at Aylesbury, to take their
trials on several capital charges, and had, not long
since, nearly effected their escape; but on the morn-
ing of Saturday last, about five o'clock, an alarm
was given in the prison, that this band of ruffians,
with one Cotes, under a similar chaige, had certainly
effected their escape ; and had, by means of a rope,
formed of their bedding, descended into the public
street, half-dressed, on the market day, and made off
with great alacrity, to the dismay of two men who
witnessed their surprising descent from the upper
story of the County Hall. An alarm was imme-
diately given, and the 'number of the pursuers in-
creased every instant ; nevertheless the fugitives had
not been much noticed, or their route known, till
they had reached the brewery of Messrs. Dell and
Co. where the strangeness of their dress, and half-
naked-state, awakened the attention of those coming
to market. Their route was, evidently part of a pre-
concerted plan, most ingeniously laid down, and as
dextrously as audaciously executed, for at Ford-lane,
adjoining -to Bishopstone, a company of vagrants had
loitered for two or three days, and by their talents in
music and mat-making, obtained pity for their for-
lorn appearance from the neighbourhood. The pri-
soners hastened towards this point by the nearest cut.
The pursuers, headed by Mr. John Gurney, of the
Bell, at Aylesbury, first discovered and apprehended
4ilsom, alas Cribb. He was found, in his party-co-
loured jail dress, extended, hiding himself in a furrow
draia in a field. Cotes had, in the same quarter, se-
creted himself in a hedge, and was taken. Brown,
alias Cribb (supposed Milsom's brother) kept up with
Banks, and made considerable resistance before they
were secured. On their return,- being asked how
they would have managed touching their irons, in
case they got off? their reply was very remarkable,
viz.—" Some hungry dogs would gnaw them off in
ten minutes!" This, by those who have been most
with them, is judged to allude to the company of
miserable wretches in Ford-lane, who would have
sawed them uff, and sheltering them in their party,
have hidden them till night among the woods about
Hartwell. On their return to their old lodgings,
they were strongly ironed together in pairs, and new
means devised to defeat any. further attempt, espe-
cially by seclusion-from strangers. On examining the
Court of Sessions, and the greater Court in the story
above, whence the party had come down in the stir-
prising manner already stated, their simple instru-
menti of escape were discovered. The first article
was a picklock key, fabricated in the prison of thick
iron wire, taken from the rim of a jail saucepan used
among the prisoners. The next was an iron bar
wrenched from their fire-place. With the first they
opened all locks that obstructed them, and la ith the
bar they forced a passage through the ceiling below
and the flooring of the Hall, whence they came to
the place ,of their descent. It was remarked by a
Magistrate, that such ingenuity, agility, and intrepi-
dity, might, in a better cause, have been eminently
useful to their country ; and well way we exclaim,
how fertile is ingenuity when urged by necessity r--
Oxford Journal.

1404 •

Deacons,
H. C. Ilayiey and J. R. Barber, A. B. Trinity Coil. Dublin.
J. A. Barron, R. liocker•klge, T. W. dithitt, A.!". and 11,
Stebbing, A.B. St. John's College, Cambridge.
John Convey ; the Hon. Robert Eden, A.M. Fellow of Mag.
dale, College, Cambridge.
U. I. W. Fanqtder, A.B. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. -
T. F./bikes; A-. 13 Jesus College, Oxford.
Tho Mas C. Fowler, A.R. Jcsui•Cedler, Cambridge.
W. Godfery, A.B. St..lOhn's College, Cambridge.
A. Jenour; W. Maysi, A.B. Exeter College, Oxford.
. F J. Moor,'A.B. and Edward Postle, A. 6. Trihityrollegeb
Cambridge.
Gborge Norman, A. B. St.. Peter's College, Cambridge. •
Pen/ Ifdrsey, A.B. Sidney College, Cambridge.
John Raven, A.B. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
A. W. Schomberg, Magdalen Hall, xford.
Simon Sendall, Cain§ College, Cambridge.
G. Stewart; John Stewart; N. 3. Stubbin, A.B. St. John's
College, Oxford.
James Waters; Thomas W. Whitaker, A.B. Emmanuel Cots
lege; Cambridge.
F. Wilson, A.B. Merton College, Oxford.
W. T. Worship, A.B. Jesus College, Cambridge.
PRIEM.
S. H. Alderson, A.M. late Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge.
W. Birch, A. 13. and Richard Harvey, A.M. Catherine liaßs
Cambridge. .
Walter Burroughes, A.B. Clare Hall, CaMbridge.
, C. Clarke, A.B. George Pearse, A.B. and 1. W. Wenn, A.B.
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Caius College, Cambridge.
& B. Elliott, A.M. and George Peacock, A.M. Fellows.of
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Ralph Errington, late of Christ College, Cambridge.
A. Goode, jun. T. Griffith, A.B. and E. Sidney, A.B. St.
John's College, Cambridge.
R. E. Hankinson, A.B. and T. B. Wilkinson, A.B. Corras
Christi College, Cambridge.
R. Howlett, Pembroke Hall, Oxford.
Thomas Hubbard, A.B. iiene't College, Cambridge.
H. Jollye, A.B. Jesus College, Cambridge.
C. Neale, A.M. late Fellow of Sz. John's College, Cambridge.
Thomas Sewell, A.B. Sidne) Sussex College, Camb; idge
The Hon. William Thelluson, A.M. and R. Ward, A.lf4
Trinity College, Cambridge.
J. J. W. Turner, A.B. Peterhouse, Cambridge.
George H. Vachell, A.B. St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

The Rev. Henry Hubbard, M.A. has been collated, by eta
Bishop of Winchester, to-the Rectory of Hinton Ampiter.
The Rev. Henry Tattam, Rector of St. Cuthbert's, I;,:alford,
to be Chaplain to the English Church at the Hague.
In consequence of a lapse occurring during the vacancy of the
Chapelry of the Holy Trinity, at Richmond, in Yorkshire, the
Bishop of• Chester has given it to the Rev. T. 13. Atkinson.
The Bishop of Exeter has instituted the Rev. Samuel Archer,
M.A. to the Vicarage of Lewannick, in Cornwall, on the pre-

sensation of his Majesty.
Friday, at the final close of the poll for the Lectu.....4llip of
the Parish of St. Olave, Jewry, the numbers werr-11.,:v. Mr.
Twig, 29; Rev. Mr. ortimer, £5. •

BI ILT HS.
Saturday se'nnight, at Burigay, the Lady of the Rev. Thont.3
Holmes, of a daughter.
Saturday se'nnight, at Drayton Green, rang, the Laly of
the Rev. ,Kilwarn }lepton, of a son.
At Rennes, In France, the Lady of Captain George W. Gib-
son, of the East India Company's Service, of a daughter.
Sept. 16, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, the Lady of Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Sir Richard Jones, K.C.B. of a son.
Sept. 23, at Cooly Keigh, parish of Powersconrt, Ireland,
the wife of Daiid Connor, of three sons!
Sept. 25, at I3roadssak, near Canterbury, Mrs. Walker, of
two girls and a boy. The mother and children are doiug well I

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Lnd Aelftleted to ;Mil flour from Jkotperit,P4l, to.'Etitiokry. ISSll.la.,' sod -. ,•..• . .1
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askil`r.. 't j' He had also fuinishad sexisal. at 'his:Wor'kaliP.PiVi 11i/:..i; Au, If* •• ' i 10: , e reihit nt Mini gollege,.
onceZestalyAbisippeld. of the time. It was vaqvisikek robot.ove .all the and DO dot , atta ,!.t.iie:,,.. . ... at. taliterloiry,'las
:tic' athatiog do tile iitint in' it lonviadte*lflhie., .. trre; he Vieoiiettil teen • 'by h • ilie:.tn . ),* of Witching with
opettilliiiittf.*Cot. the pi Daimons wcitrld,t;io tisrAl tescribed Sli. baying I . ~, Saut•'s• •- • ' "'" " • '
-, • - .- . . tht Rev. 11.1ktifet'IWAViof iNsplelee It'll, was
arn47#l44ki the prose. been delivered dliwWll 1 sum of a shoproan, , eteered, try tile•Allyist alift&peiratioo 'of 04.
ephewiefuthejetter.sew who meotiostect. to.. - twassek whenever he cwied! fard; ijiiid illaster•of the Grketnier We'd! le chit town, ou the
questitisi.iaso-isia racket bread to tht dererkeritat'fiN m+ n, and the master resilf. *1.60 ot 'Pie Ver: *IC Stwityhed. - • •
+.l7S:htfelrieii-ptirsued, regularly entered it- in aboblc for that purpose ; so trew"="gfits', Mr. fiVi.TlFtel,roinfriziewl:!littZ
,Cd'rellow of
itiiita ilid.rkit" .. that by the aid of a merssarAsudiuisfurnished from the Sunday, at a (Rive filtitinatiOnin the Cell-Aral Church of
sosser,,who made DO de- book, the witness would.beable to Lathe time and Norwich, ' the" idly:l44 osortlihes.vme admitted, feta 1
. . r._..._.:.„ ..r ....h deliver*: There was a set-off of Orders: