The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-12 00:00:00

OLD BAlLEY.—fate Mennen% ,
josepAitleeltp leas inflicted for eteallag tied sliest'
watches. the piopitity of Joist Oaten, and .101e0A &ed•
herd, for receiving the same, well kneeing them idler!
been itelere—The Jury found then. both gdilty,
llioteure Gibbons was indicted for Bigamy, is inters
marrying with Mary Ahn Parsons, his former wife, wiz.
Morgan, being still alive.
Mary Ann P.lllOllll liVes at 28, Ne.v Fludyer-Itreet.
Westminster; wen married to tne prisonOr, on the 1101
of Me• last, at the parish Church of St. Margaret's, Wes!:
noinster. The prisoner represehted lihnielt to be a single
man, sod emoted her about ten months.
Mary Duncan liras at Deventer, in Northabiplehsh; re.
is first cousin to Elitsbeth Morgan, the first wife; ws.
present at her marriage. In the year :Sl7.
lived at Davehtry. Omni a year and a half. Cannot P4I
whether the prisunec left lae wife, dr whether she let:
him.
Wiliam Parsons, a berlibilitier, &flier Of dm second
wife; went down to Raventry. by desire of the Magis=
hates, for the purpose of Obtaining a copy of the registry
of the lint usarriage.: The copy now prosloced is the
same delivered to him by, the Minister of that red'''.
Witness had heard, bettors. the primmer married his
daughter, that lie had another orife, and ehallengerf hiyt
w:th it; hot this he posit-4.0y denied. Tl:ey Weft after-
wards married, without his tnostriedge or consent.
The Jury foiled the prisoner evilly, and the BS,
cutout intinediately eestenced him to be thiesportell fur
leaven years,
Yestardiy, In eonsequenne of the denseness of the for.
Ithe lamps In Court were ontes ed In he lighted at ten teethed.
Joan, Willie. about whom so meets was said in the police
reports some days ago; es hs"lug committed sundry lets of
'theft In various hotels In which he had taken up his residence.
was this day Capitally rOtitiete4 of stratiog a silver tea-pot,
cruet-frame, tan other articles. There were sundry other
charges against the prisoner, bat none of thee wore pro-
ceeded In. It appeared that the prisoner hind mice motel
in a respectable sphere of society. He asserted that, being
,eoeneeted with a friend who lottrodaced him to a gambling-
house. he had there lest, at different tirr.es. etwards of
l,bool. sod belt deeply dlsteessod, he had resorted to those
means which had brought him to that bar.
After his coutiction be moved the Court Mr in order that
some money which had been taken from him oe his appre-
Ittenston might be retcrued to him, tineenting to tltf.sod
upwards.
The Reconea.• expressed his astonishment et the appli-
cation from a person whose *hole attention ought rather to
be tented to the deploratde situation in which his felonies
bed placed him, rather than occupied by an anxiety to re-
cover possession of the proceeds of those felonies. The
money must be paid into the hands of the Sheriff.
There were several ether Indictments against the prisoner,
width were not proceeded in.
Several pawnbrokers applied to the Court for diversions
as to the disposal of property In their possession, which had
been pledged with them by the prisoner.
The Recoanea ordered the whole of the property to b s
given ep to the I persons claiming it, who bad beet
bound over to proem-ate.
Janet Shrew, a child of nine teen old. and George James,
another of twelve years, were robed gthlty of steeling sari •
ous articles from the sttowshot of a hir.Goold; They were
described as soaoricess offenders.•end as hoeing bees tried
.ence before: le wasstated that the yosinger boy had been
totally wissedosed during hie imprisonment by those of his
relations who ought to have visited or protected Me. The
Recoltrill* ordered that applicatioe should be made lee the
reception of both. children in the Refuge for the Degtltute.
Several eases ease ibis day before the Court, of !tenons
stealing coats and Small parcels front the back of gigs and
chaises, ie the streets. The parties, when coatleted,„ mete
sentemsed to be pebttely whipped. and to be lespelseeed and
kept to bard labour for differeet periods of thus.
Beseeist m .peeelose emelleteettattc is Use employ-
meat of Johe Josiah Buttress. shi-mannfacterer, was in-
dicted for various ombesslements of his master's monies,
which had been glean bits in treat to pay workman. H.
was capitally em upon one of the chino, and the
others, tatoentitig in all to about sow. were not proceeded
is. Twelve rivimetalate witnesses appeared to the psi-
goiter's ehorarriir, which they described as being of the very
hest descritaldn. fie Was seoteueed to fourteen years
transportation.
*fore fits COMIOW SZISE4NT.
Michael APCabe. a watchman of St. PeneraSpatigh, was
indicted for robbing Penitent a•Guest of an embeetto.4 ;e'er.
of gauze, and • pene•containlng a slipeoce [a silver, ant
some halfpence.
ft appeared that Ill'Cabe, 'boot eight o'clock in the erse-
leg, found the preemmtor intoxicated near Itimrey-market ;
and possessed himself of a basket which she dropped in
falling down...de/Melo contained Ike smaller articles mime.'
in the Indictment. The woman. becoming more sober, weat
at ten o'clock to Pancras wetchhouse.and when the priS .er
mane in at twelve, lie was searched, and the property tonal
upon hint.
The Jury found a verdict of—Guilty.
The COMMON SktIGrANT said that the offence was one of
great aggravation ; and sentenced the prisoner to two
veers' imprisonment in the House of Correction, Coldbalt-
fields.
Philip Redman, a private watchman, in the employ of
Mr. Cuff, a holesale chersemons.r, of Whitechspet. was
charged with robbing Thomas Edwards of two yards of
cloth, value
The prosecutor was going home, not quite sober, 00 the
night of Saturday, the Inth of Nov. and had the cloth inn.
parcel in his hand. Tne prisoner (presuming on his ma* Is
I watchman). Insisted upon seeing the contents of the I.s.t.
cel, and afterwards desired leave to keep it until next otry.
To this the prosecutor objected, and he then ran of wm,
the property.
The case was fully made oat from Redman's own contes-
shin 'thee apprehen.:ed. The Jary found him Guilty.
ly,

CLORMItt., DEC. 7.—Gant Wednesday was incompar-
ably the worst. Fair that we have witnessed within me-
mory. There were Fat Cattle to some number, is price
order—for-which the prices offered (and given for sow.
whose owners tp.uld nut avoid wiling) were, on an aver-
age, 9.0 to 3U per cent. lower than the rates at
whisk
they .were porchased.lean. Pigs went generally :or
about 14s. per cwt., which report states to be higher
than the last Waterford prices.
The extraordinary prevalence of wet weathey, ham
made the tot in the sheep more general than has been
known fur years at this early period of tbe winter—Mr
are the destructive infects of the weather confined to the
low lands, where it has been very injurious, ludo* dry-
itilllarnei, we :re informed out of small flocks t4if4rand
four sheep died in the course of ten days, or a siirt-
night.
ALARM:NG is with sincere regret Chit we
announce the conflagration, on Saturday morning last.
the jth inst. of B miry Old Ball, the residence of the
Rev. T. R. Wilson. The fire was not discovered until
lialf.past two, and by five o'clock the whole huildieg,
with the exception of the wing recently erected, was to
flames, and burning oith the greatest fury. Some of
the furniture was saved, bat it is so much Irlseeil at tp
be almost useless. A thousand pounds in cash, the rip.
petty of Mr. Wilson, were rescued from the limes .6 v
a person of the name of Leach, at the ',Astra of his
The tire is aad to have originated in the laundry, to
which some clothes had been left before the fire to dry.
It was not discovered until the flames had burst into the
room above, the occupant of which, one of the servants,
was dreadfully burnt in endeavouring t, save a portion
of her property. Mrs. Wilson appeared unwilling to
leave her bed-room until a chest of drawers, containing a
great many valuahles, were reek:veil, although the roof
was every moment expected to fall in,' The greatest
intrepidity was displayed by the fatuity iso Bait lament-
able occasion. Fortunately no lives Were Lou, attliongis
the children and maid serv.ustie escaped with consider-
able dil salty, The whole of the property was Ouitt.
sured.—(fecds Lite!!igt.icer)

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