On Monday afternoon, abou...
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un oluonlay atternoon, about four o'clock, a decent- looking couple presroted themselves, with great simplicity, before the officiating minister at our parish church, for the purposc of being married, neither having procured a licence, or even had the bans of marriage published. Theyliad walked from TopelifF, a distance of nearly fbrty miles, huving started at two o'clock in the morning. It is needless to add, that the disappointed pair was dismissed with an admonition to return home, and get married in their own parish. -Leeds porper. On Tues(lay evening last, as Mr. Abraham Aldridge, of No. 4, Ann.street, near the East India Dock gates, was coming to town at a quarter past 8 o'clock, near the corner of Canton-plaice, Cemmercial-road a ruffian came up and struck him between the eyes, and knocked lhim down immediatelv; another instantly struck him en the ear and face, and held his foot upon his neck: they ther. took from his person upwards of 17 sovereigns and other monev, and a rent-book (which book was found bv a lad in a pond near tsie East India-dock gates tied up in a handkerchief, the next morning). Ifc now lies in a dreadful1 state. 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