Star.
London, England, 1828-07-09 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

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The Lord Mayor held a Common Council yesterday
at Guildhall, for the dispatch of public business.
The Special Committee appointed' to inquire into all
charges upon coals imported into the Port of London,
delivered in a Report upon the reflect, in which they
stated that the charges, incluzling the Government duty
of 6s. per chaldion, amounted in the whole to 9s. tikcla
chaldion, which charges. they were of opinion,
night be reddced Is. by the abolition of the system
'of land coal metage, doing away with the coal under-
takerege, and leaving it to the owners of the coal ships
procute.the discharge of theft vessels upon the best
terms they could, without any fixed rate of wages, and
by reducing one half of the present market charges.
The Court agreed with the Committee in their Re.;
poit, and referred it back to them to make the requisite
communication to the Lords of the Treasury upon the
subject.
A Petition from the Inhabitants of Billingsgate
Ward, on the subject of the proposed approaches to the
mew bridge, and against the erection of an arch across
T • iarnes•streer. was read, and referred to the New
• Bridge Committee.
The Court then took into consideration the Petition
from Cripplegate Ward, respecting Gas Lighting,when
Mt. Taxton moved for the appointment of an espea
cial.Committee to consider the same, •as also a former
Petition from BishopsgateWard upon the same subject.
He was opposed by Mr. Ttaterni Os* moved as an
. Amendment, that as the subject had been recently under
the consideration of the Commissioners of Sewers, the
Court do not deem it expedient to adopt any proceed.
ing on those petitions. •
A vbry considerable discussion having taken place on
the question being put, the Limo MAYolt declared the
Amendment carried.
A division was then demanded and granted, and the numbers
seem,—
'Fur the Amendment, Against it,
• i Lord .Mayor,
43 Commoners,
2 Tellers.

Y 1 01111M011efi,
2 TrUers.

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23—Adjouraed.

Majoriq,

OLD BAILEY, JULY 8.

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. Yesterday Thomas Joe ph Hiltless, aged 20, was in.
dicier' for having, on the 14th of June last, secreted a
letter. containing a t n pound bill of exchange. put into
the General Receiving House, at Holborn, kept by his
employer, Geotree Wasp.
Mr. SURPHIRD stated the case to the Jury.
Zechariah Finch, of High Holborn—On the 14th of
June last paid the postage of a letter at Mr. Wasp's.
Mr. Wasp called on him, and showed hint the letter he
had put into the Post Office—it was open and ditty—
the letter now produced in Court is the saune.;,.
Charles Berry, an errand boy in the employme;t of
Mr. Wasp. deposed to having seen Mr. Finch pay the
postage of the letter.
Elisabeth Johnson, servant maid at Mr. Wasp's..-On
the 18th of Juno assisted in finding a pipe belonging to
the last witness, which was found under a board in the
&bop, what two letter's were also found—they are the
same now produced in Coots I Another letter was shortly
afterwards found; the prisoner came back the day after

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and begged her to say nothing about them.
Mr. Puma?: took two objections--first, because the ;
prisoner s. as not a person in the employMent of the Post
Office. Secondly. because the letters, if taken at all,
were n• t taken out of the house, which the Ace of Par-
liament requirrd to coust.tute the offence with which
he was charged.
The RECORDER allowed the validity of the objections,
and the prisrmer was acquitted.
o.lUian: Millisighant• was found guilty of stealing a
handkerchief from thi per on of Thomas Cook.
The pri,oner was recommended to mercy on account
of previous gild character.
, The Court hawing now disposed rf all .the business
—that had come before 'them, the Learned RECORDBIt
proceeded to pass the sentet.ce of the lai on tie vat ious
ri.oners.
The &ng received sentence of Death :—George Grego, fur
• robbery di she person; William Jackson. far house breakini ;
Joseph 'Nabors, cattle stealing; Jane neonate, for stealing three
51. Bank of England notes in a dwelling-boon; 'Joint Walker, for
robbery on the person; Ann SMith, boombreaklng and larceny;
Ann Brewton, for a similar offence; and Richard Breech, for a.
robbery on the person. •
To be Transponed for LlteThtimas Ledge, M. Donald,
Healing, R. Hogg, F. Carman, J. Clarke, W. Millintbam,
lawis, P. HatAins, and G. Garlick'.
For Fooneeo Years—Samuel Dyke, S. Berke, A. West, T.
Sittlth,•W. Mayo, M. Davis' and M. Weatberington.'
For Seven Years—Mary Potter Clarke, Joseph Weaver, Wm,
Layton. Lewis Philipps H. Pouter, IC. Alder It. Hone, T. Bar-
. no. T. Pacer G. Cooper. H. Milieu, J. Misery, J. Donald, J.
Jones, B. Morro, W. Burnham, L. Armstrong, J. John.sa' H.
Jacobs, B. Colebrook, G. Forecart, J. Shea; J. Swering, T. Sta.
piston. J. Whist, H. Smith, W. Pearson. H. Brooks, H. Thomp.
alias French, W. HAM% J. Fenn. J. 'Cowles, T. Wilco.,
F. Fishes. A. Coleman. C. Farland, F. Thompson, T.rfrotc, J.
Thornton. J. Taylor, G. Mach, W. Davidson alias 'f. Roberts,•
and John C,owey.
Awes:bee of other oresdeiv were sentenced to various terms of
Charles Blasi.. convicted of bigamy, was sentenced to undergo
two months imprisonment in the bigamy,
of Correction.
Several juvenile depredators were whipped and discharged.
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~Janles ititeersois and. -Geer Morris, who ewe or.
dered tOr eiecution on Filasy last. but reprieved tor a
vrireki hays tresthrespited duriug his hlsjesti's pleasure.
Yemenis', an Inquest was held at the Duchess of
York,fil the Kingsland Rotd. oa the body, ,of a youth
!rimmed /Owns, aged 18, who was drowned whilst
batbing in Bunker's Pund, Hackney R4,oa. Verdict—
A ceidentalDeatia.

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Maui fraddistriks.--Friddy as ridquest was hid
%kirthe r#443010r of IPSVII4I. at the Heppy ROOM
- irs St. Clemears,Parish..M that Borough. on view
af die body of John Kiley. It appeared that the de-
• email was a person who gained his-livelihood by tra.
nu pdblic occasions; and was, on Wednesday
af lpswich lace's. in company with a man named
John Roche, when * dispute arose, and they agreed to
, y fight. in the third 'mond, 'Roche felled' deceased "to
Nie gttuna by a tlelhenduws bit ntr tbeleft. side of the
:body, whirl t idjseed bird senseless; and in ten mina*
he aspired: From the evidence a the surgeons who
opened the todyilt"afrared,•that the spleen was so
.t.
*eels lii"cini-Caeath; 'The birdy was.ether-
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ji~tertibfy contused. ',Ver diet.:—* Manslaughter against
Oche' lid the seciade; use cif WhoM is in custody.
,„ •Irlercaittile letteh Sitireived from -Odessa, dated on
Vie; 13th Of"Jene,irepressistlhe army of his Imperial Mkt-
heint, no contain within itself sufficient rimer tb execute
~‘ ,Ott orders with which it is cottoned. The main army,
• these 'dikes state. abont io 1 874100 dna; independent
. at 30,00 t! of the Imperial Guards. To penetrate the'
Meant Names, it iliiitiffieientlyeitablished,
i.wasild be attended Isf a asmaidetiable lois of 'mid, but
46 geniis were this Missions of spaces% that on the 16th
of Jude a fleet of M ttadsPorts, contaisiug all the
siSsisikioss of War, had been direeteiso maims Odessa
for the Crulph of Benet, there to *wet the Imperial
Army after the pa* bad been faced.