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London, England, 1815-11-30 00:00:00

L 1W INTELLIGENCI.

COUR r OF RING'S BENCH, NOV. •f.
Lord ELLI24IIIORoUGH commenced his Sittings after
Michaelmas Term for the County of Madlege:,
this &Lip

21.1.1 AT W. MONKHOUSit.
Title was an action for falsely accusing the plaintiff
of being an utterer of bad silver, and causing him to
be carried before a Magistrate without probable
cause, by whom he was discharged.
The defendant in this case kept the Merlin's Cave
Tea Gardens, near Sadler's Wells, and the plaintiff,
who, it appeared had not any distinct occupation,
was at his gtounds playing skittles, when offering to
pay a bet in had snowy, the landlord sent him to the
watch-house. and the next day he wis taken before
the NI sui• r sic and discharged ; hut it also appeared
that he had tendered several had shillings in succes•
,e), •1) d the constable of the night said he found
upon him eight shillings, which he suspected to be
counterfeits.
Lord ELLINSOROUOII held this was a probable
cause enough to detain him, and the plaintiff was—

Nonsuited.—
bln W. ROWLRY, BART. V. CHAIIISFRS AND OTHERS.
This was an action against the Hundred of Mary-
-IA-kumne, to recover the amount (f damages sustained
by the plaintiff's house in Wimpole-stteet, in conse-
quence of the tubtultuous proceedings which took
plAce in the metropolis, during the recent discussion
of the Corn Bill
The becessAry evidence being gone through, to
bring the cAse within the Act,
The .1111 y, under the direction s ,• his Lordship,
found a verdict for the plaintiff.--Damages ldl IS.
I4s. sd. •
GENERAL FLOYD V. LIOIITFOOT AND OTHERS.

This was an action of the like natute ; hut it ap-
pearing that only the windows of the I i p.aitiff's house
were broken during the attack on Lord Bathurst's
residence, Lord ---FLLRNBOROUGH held the case not to I
be within the contemplation of the Act, and there-
tote directed the plaintiff to be nonsuited.
REConVER's COURT, (CORK) NOVEMBER W.
RCERING A CHURCH, AND A NisTAKR.
Chria,pher M.Lom,gAlin stood charged with having
5t01..0 a Bible and a napkin from Lower Shandon
Clu a, in List Thursday morning.
Hannah West, who acts in the capacity of scaton
to Lower Shandon Church, being see inn, deposed,
that on the morning stated, she saw the prisoner at
' the bar in the vestry room taking down a napkin, from
where it hung ; that she immediately went out, and
called on Mr. Lawrence, a peace officer, who lived
outside the gate, to whom she told the circumstance
and pointed apt the prisoner, 01- o was immediately
searched, and an his hat was found the napkin, and
in his bovni. a pocket Bible, which belonged to Mr.
Swete, the Curate of the parish.
IThe pristine' did not pi oduce any witness, and the
Racuarnm asked him what he had to say for himselt
a which I.e replied, that at the time he committed
the theft he was heavy in liquor, and thought he was
in a pulilic house.
Toe Jury immediately fiand him Cal: y, and his
‘T.rsliip, awl.' addressing him, asked lion what he
was, or whether he had any employment ? He said
he was a cornier. Upon being fut they questioned,
this fellow stated, that a caiman's wages was 4.5. 6J.
a day, and he would not take less.
The RECoRDIER sentenced him to a month's impri-
sonment, to be pilloried once within that time, and to
be kept cominually employed at Any repairs that may
be necessary in the gaol. It was suggested to tile
RECORDIR that the Sheriffs were in wait of a new
pillory, and that it would he well to employ the pri-
sorer in making one against the day of his own ex-
hibition, in which his Worship expressed his coin-
; , ctdence.

blishments in France.
Yesterday a sermon was prea:hed in the Wesleyan
'Chapel, City-road, by the Rev. Dr. Cor,Lyee, in aid
of the Briti-h and Foreign School Society. The
Dunces, Nov. 21.-1 he LORD LIEVTENANT has
Dukes (t i KENT, Su-sax, and BEDEonD, the LAID)
inCnuncil, heed pleased to proclaim the Barony of
MAYOR, and several other persons of distinction, were
pre- •iii. and a liberal collection was made in support Kilcoursy, in the parish of Durrow, the parifilt of.
Rahan, the parish of Lernanhan, the parish of Clot,-
of the Institution. i.nachoise, and the parish of When y, in the King's
ACCIDLNTs.—Sunday a daughter of Mr. Ball,
County ; also the Baronies of Cloulonan and Kiv-
u- acn-maker, of Vineyard-walk, Clerkenwell, five
casael, in the county Westmeath, as in a state of,
'years of age, being at play with a little brother tit
her's, in the privy, unfortunately fell in the soil, and disturbance.
About a fortnight ago, an armed 'banditti brt lee
was suffocated• into several farmers' houses in the parish of Bourney,
T:ie same evening a fine acid, daughter of a trades-
Barony of I kerrin, county et 'Twin rary, and havinp
man in Falcon-court, Coppice-row, was burnt to
ell•aeged out the Connaught labourers emplo)ed
d at!' : the accident was occasioned by its clothes
t..ere, made them tall on their knees, and presenting',
cote uric;; fire what! standing too near the fire-place.
.hlnnderbusses to their heads, compelled them to take
Sunday se'enight the Alms-house, at Warntord,
an oath, to go back to Connaught and never return I
was destri yed by flue, which has bereft six poor fa-
:o '!'pt y.
ierar
milks of a Jas ling, and deprived-them of the few
t of the 11th inst. as
a ticles of household furniture, &c. of which they On the niHen C.irry, of
ghry
were in possession. Roscrea, nailer, a member of the Yeomanry corps of
ExeLostoN AT ifotnoLow HEATH.—On Monday that town, was returning from Parsonstowo with his
a:ten:tam, about four o'clock, the neighbourhood of journeyman and apprentice boy, they were way-laid
naJoslow, and the country for some miles round, about a mile from Roscrea, in the county of Tippe.
heyund Windsor on the south, were alarmed by a rary, by three men, who beat and cut Carry and the i
journeyman most unmercifully, and left them for
',wench-Ars explosion of some powder works on
Hounslow Heath. They proved to be the property of dead. Carry was thrown into a ditch at the road
Jilin l'art:s, Esq. in the parish r:f Hal:worth. By thts side head foremost, and most have quickly perished
:accident two men employed in the manufactory were bet for the assistance of some humane persons of the
killed, An inquest was accordingly held on Tuesday Aeigltboulhood, brought to the spot bythe apprentice,
boom Geonos Howson, Esq. Coroner for Mi-idle. boy, who had escaped at the first onset. By the in-I
H
st;:, when it appeared; on the evidence of Samuel detatigable exertions of the Rev. J. —.WILTON, a
Edwards, manager of these works. that one of the Magistrate, the three ruffians have been identified,
tadorton rte men, James Tinsey, about 20 years of and strange to tell—have avowed that they never
age, had been at work in a detached building, used 'received the slightest provocation from the persons
for pressirg the powder, ahout four hundred yards they thus cruelly treated.
from the main establislinient, and at the time of its nat.—Between the hours of two and three o'clock'
explosion was ;doer in these premises, and had finish.. on Saturday morning, a fire broke out in a house in
es! his daily employment. In this building were about M.uy's Abbey, belonging to Mr. ELLIOTT, a whole•
. fifteen barrels of powder. The press was empty, and sale grocer, and adjoining the house inhabited by
no machinery at all was moving. It was therefore him. Three young men, apprentices, and the porter,
e,,,,iectmresi that the fatal explosion must have been who slept in the house, endeavoured to escape from
occasioned by some imprudent act of the urfnriunate the Names, and sought an asylum in the attic storey;
win. His body was carried more than .50 yards hom the violence of the conflagration was such, that in a
the spot, and was dreadfully mutilated. About 60 snort time they became nearly enveloped by fire. In
rrds from this building was another, called the that dreadful state, they were seen in their shirts, at
Iland-corning House, in which were five barrels of 1 the upper storey window, making the most piteous
duct-powder. This was also exploded within a second jsupplications for assistauce; which it was utterly im-
of the former, by some burning timber, whi-h must, possible to afford. They then returned into the back
have fallen (Ten it ; and the citamirairt sappearti j room, and precipitated themselves into the yard,
that the other sufferer, Was. Ferris, was passing close i where, from the effects of the fall, they, for a while,
Yo tl e building, on his way to Hanaorth, after his i lay for dead, and their recovery is still doubtful.—
day's vita k. 'The mangled parts of his body were I Notwithstanding the prompt attendance of the diffe.
found about 40 yards bons the Hand-corning Honse. rent fire7engines of the city, the flames raged with
Samuel Edwards deposed, that there was: no defect such violence as to baffle every exertion that could
in C.,. works; and was clear thatnone were in murk& be made to preserve the preasiieb, which were burned
su the time of do accident.--lecidasid l'ema. down,.