The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-13 00:00:00


Sties.
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appearanat. OW gave their names Catherine Mantras
and Mary Hart; elklerweat an eaasoloat los before Mr.
Alderman Smith, charged with shitiolifting Mears.
Todd and Co. habettlasheri, Pore-aereet. Miss Wawa,
one of the shopworn's, statil, that the prisoners cams
into the shop at about half-Ott two in the afternoon,
and purchased a small quantity bf Persian. They thee
desired to look at some lace, *hide she aeeordiogly
sbewed them; aid after tittering the contents of two
boxes, at length purchased thke qeatters of a yard.
During the time that they were tkantitiing the late, is
order to suit themselves, she perceived the pritoner, War,
rigan, privately withdraw from the box three cards of
lace at separate tunes, and drop them into.the lap of her
companion, who was sitting in a chair at the counter
close by her, anal communicated the feet, ',observed by
the prisoners, to %Vm. Cocklestone, one of the shopmen.
Wm. Cocklestone said, that on receiving this inform.
don be immediately seized Hart, and charged her witlt
having the property. This, however, she denied; but
he felt, while holding her, the cards of lace ander her
arm. She tried several times to drop them, but be kept her
arms close to her side, and thereby prevented her. Both
the prisoners were taken into a back room, when the
three cards of lace were taken from Mary Hart. No
property was found upon Harrigan, but the testimony of
Miss Watson was positive thst she had removed the pro
party and conveyed it to Ilart. Hart said nothing in her
defence; but Harrigan declared she knew nothing of her
companion hut as a neisrhbonr; that she requested her
to go with her to buy some hear for a child's cap, that
the removal of the property was quite acci:lemal, and
that she must hare hrosheti it off the rounter with her
elbow. The value of the lace was stated at 101. With
the prisoner. were fully ccituonitted for trial.
l'es!erlav Thomas Packman, of Marylebone-lane,
Lit ery Stable-keeper, appeared before K. tltaile, Ecq.
the Sit ing igistrate, to mower a summons obtained
agaiost him io eons•quenee of ea informatioa 'barg-
ing him with neglecting to enter certain particatavt
respecting two horses and a baronclie, let out on hire
tby him, in the Stamp-Office weekly account, as re-
quired to be clone by as Act of Parliament of the 57th
Geo. 111. 'llse charge being satisfactorily proved, the
Defend Ant was convicted in the penalty of Ye/.

Yesterday a wJenan of the name of [disarm% wives
deeps a house in Alargnis-court, was brought to the
odic, charged with ill-treating a girl who lodged it►
liou‘r, and by whose evidence it appeared that the
risom•r t a house of ill-hole; the girl paid her
I, ee work for board and lodging. The
111a-
;*str:rte ord, urd the vestry clerk of the parish to be •
-reel for to prosecute Mrs. Lazarus.

Receipts of the principal Religious Ckaritlls
London for the year ending Lady-day, lb2l :
British and Foreign Bible Society - .C 139,151
Society for Promoting Christian knowledge,
about . . . . . . 4.100
Church 3lissionary Society . . . 31,2110
London Missionary Society . . . 210;4
Methodist Missionary Society, about . 21,30)
Baptist Missionary Societe . • . 13.200
Society for Propagating the liompel, about 13,f1410
Society for the Conversion of the Jews 10.71141
National Society for Education, about 8,000
Religious Tract Society . . .
ilibernian Society . . . .
Moravian Magian', about
Naval and Military Bible Society . .
British and eoreign School Society .
Prayer Book and Homily Society

7'.54 1

/.049
5"
!MS

2,131
1.993

1'2113,102

fly the " New Police Act," which has just passed
—" shop, roost', or place for the %Ale of, or under
pretence of, selling ready made coffee, tea, or other
liquors, shall he kept open after 11 o'clock at night,
nor opened before four in the morning, between Lady.-
day and MichArlon's; or before six o'clock in the morn•
in;; between Jlieloaelinas and Lady-day ; under penalty
of any sum not exceeding 10/.; or, for non-payment
thereof, imprisonment and hard labour for any space
of time not exceeding three months. Also, nu person
shall blow any horn, or use any other noisy instru-
ment, fur the purpose of hawking, or selling, or di
trihuting, any article whatsoever, under penalty of any
sum nit exceeding forty shillings ; or, upon non-pay-
ment thereof, imprisonment for any time not exceeding
ten days."

Yesterday the London Police received information .
of a gross untrage committed by ROW einogglers et
Deal, on two Officers of Excise. The names of the
snifflers are Payne and Smith, and the aggressors ap-
pear to have been extremely numerous.—The former
had rendered themselves very obnoxious to the assail-
ants by their active conduct, and they became marked
ohjects of vengeance. In the course of the latter part
of last week, they were surprised by a body of armed
men, who Ariz( d them, and having stripped them. and
tarred and feathered them, paraded thew through the
public streets in a cart, till at length they were rescued,
half dead, by the police: The villains escaped, but
several of them are known, and the officers are in active
search fur them.
An inquest 11311 been held on the body found its the
pouession of Dr. Lloyd, on Waterloo-bridge. The
Jury returned the following verdict—" That the body
of a man found on Waterloo-bridge,on Saturday even-
ing last, died a natural death, and that it was procured
for the purpose of dissection."