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amount to a total prohibidot of his budouse: Re was ethical to
know bow he was to sat under such circumstances?
Sr R. Maui said he could not tell hint, but this much he mu.t
say, that had such a case come before him, he should have ensertained
a very different opinion from that of Mr. Dyer, at Marlborough.
street. He should not have convicted.
Mr. Harding—The defendant io that cane hai appealed to
tFa
Sessions, but until that appeal is decided I wish to know how. 1 an,
to act, and whether I as. liable to penalties if I act as I have always
dune before?
Sit B. can Only tell you that if an information sitosid
be laid before me, I would not decide it limit that appeal has been
determined, and I think the same course ought to be adopted by
other Magi for the presentb u the question is certainly one of
great importance to the parties concerned.
Mr. Woods, the clerk, suggested that a waiter front the public.
house could attend at Mr. Harding's and serve out the be.r.
Mr. Bscsuir (a Magistrate) said this Was done at the writ.
known beef shops in the Old Balky.
Mr. Harding said such a tonne woultrbe eltremely inctinveuirre
and expensive, both to the publican sad himself, as a waiter nui.i
be kept for that sole purpose.—Mr. H. having thanked Sir litcHane
for his attention, withdrew.
QUERN-SQUARE.

A young man, of Idiotic appeara;ce, was charged with attempt.:
ing to strangle a child shoat IS months I. Burn, of fault*:
street, deposed, that in passing near the Horse Guards she saw the
prisoner carryinu the child under his arm. It was screaming, and,
after striking it several times, be endeavoured to thrust a band:
kerchief into its mouth, which bled profusely when several persons'
seised bald of him, and she wrested the child from him. mall
Forbes said, the prisoner was her landlady's son, and she had hiss
la the habit of entrusting him for the last three months to take her
child out foe the air. She was anxious to know if the prisoner
could not be admitted to bail, none however being in attendance,
be was committed.

UNION-HALL
Two men, named Fus and Chuck were charged with commitdng
a highway robbery. it appeared that on Thursday night a young
man named Page spent the greater part of the evening at the Alfted'i
Head publiabouse, Newington Ca unsay, and on leaving the bow
be gave the waiter a AS note, desiring him to deduct the amount of
what he bad drunk. The waiter did so, and gave him £4 18,, aid
Page then Wt the house. On passing an unfrequented spot net;
St. George's market, he was surrounded by Ave men, two of *ion%
be swore to be the prisoners, who knocked him down, beat bins
and kicked him about the body, and robbed him of has money...
Both prisoners were described as bad characters. They war
committed. ,

Guaoaw
Pouca.—Monday Pthv Wrhaff, a travelling pedlar,
was charged wick stealing front a writer's office in In rrrrr y, the
sum of 2001. Information bad been received in town of the theft,
and Ike criminal officers apprehended ►im in consequence. He Via/
sent to the Sheriff's Chambers for examination, and there to await
till the °dicers arrived to convey him back to Invenry.

CRIM. CON. ExTRAOHDINARY.—HAILEs
lOis Tuesday, the Sheriff's Court at Durham was called
upon to assess damages in this case, pursuant to a
wilt of inquiry from the Court of King's Bench,
where the defendant had suffered judgment to go by
1, default. It appears the plaintiff is a wooden-legged
shoemaker, and the defendant a blind fiddler, both be.
longing to South Shields. The cause of action was
alleged to have a isen on the lst of January last, and at
divers other times, and the plaintiff laid his damages,
for being deprived of the contort, &c. of his wife, at
5001. After a full investigation of the business, the
Jury only awarded one farthing damages, which seemed
to give general satisfaction.--Tyxe Mercury.