The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-21 00:00:00

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After the details of the robbery had been deposed to, not
-varying ankterially from those stated on the first•mcasnina-
don, evidence was adduced to prove the participation of
Downs in the robbery. which chiefly depended on his hav-
ing been seen in Clark's company im mediately after it was
committed, and having in his possesbion the box in which
the property was contained. Both prisoners werefully
committed. Mr. Manuel, a jeweller, 'who attended, valued
the articles stolen at 10001. They were placed in a box
sealed with the office seal, and given in charge to Col. M. y-
rick till the trial.
HATTON GARD/N.—Yesterday, Messrs. King and Cow
ling, proprietors of an extensive brick field, opposite the
White Conduit Tavern and Tea Gardens Pentonville, ap-
plied to the Magistrates for advice, under the following
circumstances :—They stated that on Monday lest, in con-
, sequence of Mr. Graham's Balloon, npwards of 50,000 spec-
tators assembled in Pentonville, every place from whence a
view could be obtained was crowded, they poured into com-
plainants' brick field by thou-ands, several constables had
been employed to prevent them, bat to no Purpose ; the
whole field was crammed with spectators. They got or
the fresh ridges of bricks set op to dry, and trampled then)
into dirt. The kilns of burnt brick were levelled to the
ground, and all broke to pieces, and several panes of glass
in their windows were demolished by the incensed moh. so
that their loss on the smallest computation exceeded 1501.
Their application was for their Worship's advice what steps
were best for them to take to recover damages, whether
against Ike Proprietors of the Garden, or against the
County.
The Magistrates informed them they did not sit there to
give advice in such cases, butadvised them to consult some
. respectable A torney.
Qvassr-siiiusax.—An old man, in a very miserable con
dition, was brought yesterday to this office, charged by one
of the park-keepers with begging in St. James's Yark.
The M•GISTRATIL—Where do you come from?
The Prisoner—From gaol, your Worship. f have'nt been
out more than 20 minutes.

Alfred, the assistant at Tothill-fields Prison, said, the un-
fortunate prisoner had been confined there for the last six
weeks for a similar offence,aod he had been liberated within
the last half hour.

I he MaataxiaTe inqinred if he had any allowance made
to him upon leaving the prison ? and it was stated that a
pint of porter was his only viatiettm.
The prisoner exclaimed, that if his Worship would pass
over this offence, he would proceed without delay to War-
wick,—The fact is, your Worship, said the prisoner. I was
proceeding up to the One 'fan, in Jermyn street; it's a
sporting house, and I thought I'd meet with Mr. (fully, or
some of the sporting men, and get a pound from them to
take me down to Warwick Races. ,

The Dl•oisTaaTe—What do you want at Warwick
Races ?

The Prisoner—l follow race-horses, your Worship!
• The M/015TRATE—Yes, at a pretty good distance, I
think.—You are rather too old now, I think, for a jock-y.
The Prisoner—U4! your .Worship, but my judgment's
good. I've had great experience.
The MAGISTRAT6 observed that he seemed to him a
melancholy instance of age without experience.
It was stated by one of the Officers that the Prisoner be-
longed to St. George's Parish.
The worthy MAatsTRAT6 ordered him to be P..ken to
ois parish workhouse, and assured him that if be was
again detected at his old game of begging, he might expect
no trivial punishment.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday the Magistrate, L. R. ALLEN,
Esq. was occupied the greater part of the"tnorning in the
examination of lie. James Cataimg a wbarfinger, residing
at No. 337, High-street, Wapping, who was charged with
wilfully and knowingly receiving at his wharf,
acargo of beech staves, 13,000 in number, and va-
Ined at 290/.said to have been stolen from the wharf of Mr.
Wilkins, timber-merchant, in the Waterloo-road.

The facts of this case have been already stated. It may
be remembered that a person calling himself Francis
agreed with Wilkins to purchase a quantity of stave*, for
which he was to pay ready money.. The staves were ac
cordingly shipped on board a barge lying off the wharf,
and the barge disappeared during the night, the price not
being paid. The goods having been traced, were found
in the possession of the prisoner, whO said he bought them
from Francis, for 290/. which he paid him in sovereigns,
but he kept no tally. This and the unsatisfactory account
he gave•of the 'transaction, excited suspicions that he had
purchased them with a guilty knowledge.
Mr. ALLEN said, that in his opinion the case had been
clearly wade out against the prisoner. cad he would there-
fore, send hint to take his trial. There were two extraor-
dinary features in the case against the prisoner, the one
was, ;bat he kept no tally of the goods as they were landed,
and the other was, his paying the money for them in sove-
reigns. His opinion was, therefore unalterable.
Application was then made to bail the prisoner. After
a considerable discussion, the Magistrate took two sureties
in 3001. each, and himself in 500/. for his appearance atthe
ensuing sessions.
BULLOCK HUN f ISO.
--ssesea—e.
Yesterday evening, betweee n tir and six o'clock, a most
daring and flagitious outrage was perpetrated at the east
end of the metropolis, of which the following are the parti-
culars : -
It seems that about the time stated, a servant of Mr.
Browne, a respectable master butcher in Whitechapel-
market, was removing a bullock from thence to a slaughter
house, in tioulstone-street, not far distant, when the animal
was rescued froM him by a gang a ruffians, who, as they
are wont to do on all such occasions, commenced beating it
in a most brutal manner. Such treatment of course tending
to drive the animal wild, he proceeded in an infuriated state
along the road, towards the London Hospital, chased by a
motley group of desperadoes, amounting to several hun-
dreds ; he foamed at the mouth, and bellowed in a terr fic
manner, and upset every person and thing that he chan ied
to come in contact with. On arriving opposite the gate of
the hospital, lie attacked a boy about five years of age, who
unfurtanately had not time to get out of the way, and hav-
ing lifted him on his horns, hurled him into the air ; and
on the boy's alighting on the earth, the animal made to-
wards him again, and tossed him into the air in a similar
manner ; and on his being picked up, he was discovered to
be lifeless ; the roof of his mouth was nearly torn out in
'consequence of one of the horns getting in there. The
mob did not seem satisfied even after this melancholy cir-
cumstance happened, and, evidently beat on further mis-
chief, drove the bullock into the fields behind the hospital,
and here an old lady also lost her life in a similar manner
Ito the former. The Lambeth-street officers, accompanied
by a party of the Bow•street patiole, by this time came
ad, and after having secured the bullock, captured some
of the offenders, and lodged them in Whitechapel watch-
house.

About three weeks since, Captain F. retuned from a long
residence in Jamaica, bringing over with him two of the
bloodhounds from the island of Cuba. They had remained
about a fortnight in London, when the Captain sent them
on Tuesday week by the waggon to Salisbury, where they
were received, and properly secured in a stable. On the
following Friday, however, the dogs presented themselves
at their master's lodgings in town, and while conjecture
I was yet busy as to the wanner of their return, the man in
1 whose charge they had been placed, called to say the dogs
had gnawed away their fastenings, had worked a hole
through the stable, and had escaped; and as he kneivhe
11 value set upon them, he had hastened to town in the hope of
hearing of them upon the road, or of giving such early
1 intelligence of their escape as might lead to their imme-
diate recove:y. Nothing could (NW the surprise of the
man when he Darned that the dogs had anticipated the
messenger,