Young Aspulls concert, an...
The Times, 1824-03-13T00:00:00

Young Aspull s co01cert, and the Brst public exhibition of his reiarkable talent on the pianoforte, will take place at the Argy11-rooms on the 25th instant. AMr. Cletnenti, svho takes great interest in the young musician, has undertaken to preside on the occasion, in which he would have been assiste(d by Rossini, but that his eswagements with the ma-I nngers of the King's Theatre contSne his public exertions wholly to that establishment. The concert is announced to be under the es al cia1 patronatqe'of Ris' Majesty. The brewers and spirit-merchants of Carlisle have tic- termined to memorialize the Treasury, on the consequences of *muggling Scotch whisky over the borders into England. Vast numbers of persons are eneraged in the illicit traffic, anti it is sup- posed that from 8,000 to 10,000 gallons a week are smuggled into Carlisle and its vicinity, at about Iii. per gallon, introduclng drun- kenness into the cottages and farms.-veniring paper. The Glaswowv Chtronicle says, a On Sunday last, the Magistrates, in their progress to church, were observed to be shortlv shorn of their beams, by the absence of all the town officers except three. On inquiry, we are informed that all the rest of these civic antvesncoutriers were in ' durance vile' for debt." FLAr RANT ur TRAG F.-O, IThursday forenoon, at about twelve o'clock, the followinhg most daring outrage took place in Pall-mall, and excited the utmost indignation. A ruffianly lookinig fellow, an Hibernian of the lowest class, appeared in the above place without his coat, and indiscriminately made his attacks upon the various ladlies and gentlemen who were passing tbrough the street. As he was proceeding alohg the stecets, he continued howling like a wild Indian, and on his arrival at the corner of George-street, he remained stationary, insulting every body that passed by. The ladies seemed to be his chief object of attack, many of whoni he sprang upon and forced them on the ground,.and be- haved himsclf in thc most shameful manner townrds them. 'While thus engaged, the Rev. -Andrews, of Putney, was passingby, little expecting to be attacked by the ruflian; but hc sprang on him with the most wild fdry, andi, seizing him by the collar, knocked him down on the ground. The reverend gentleman, for his own safety, was compelled to struggle with his antagonist, who certailnly would have murdered him, hadl he not received assistance from some other gentlemen who were passing at the mement; hut they met with the most violent resistance, and the powerful ruffian conquered the whole uif them, and still petsisted in his indecent be- haviour towards the passengers. iln a shiort period several officers who had received information Of the transactiori proceeded to the snot, but tihey were attacked in the same way as others, athd it was witlh the greatest difficulty that the fellow was secured. The crowd colle. ted was immense, and several of them assisted the officers in SCCring him, which was done by tying his legs and bands with ropes, in which state he was carried on the shoulders of the officers to Mlarlborou,h..strect office, where he was placed at the bar to an- swer for his conduct. The officers were covered with bruises ih con; sequence of his violence, and when he was bound, having no other mode to vent his spleen, he bit and spat at those surrounding him. The Rev. - Andrews, and a host of laties and gentlemen, at. tend ed to exhibit charges againist tile prisoner; who was ordered to find bail to all the charges.-Eveningpaper. DARtxu RoB1ngRY AND ASSAULT.-A daring robbery attended witlh cireumstafi,es of uncomuron atrocity, was committed on Monday night at the Newton tutmpike:house, niear Wakefield. Edward ellis, the bar-keeper, had retired to rest; and his wife was preparing to do the samne shortly after the mail had passed, when there was a knocking at the door; she went to open it, and four men then rushed in, locking the door after them: suspecting their de- sign, she cried out for help to her husband, who rose up in his bed, fromn wvhence he was instantly dragged into the middle of the floor, and trampled upon and kicked with the mast ferodeoas barbaritv: his wife also was knocked down, but saved herself from fiurther ill. treatment by declaring where their property was deprsited: the *i1- lains then proceeded fo secdre ii, and to- pilage the bouse. This h.appened about half-past nine, and sodn aftgr, a person on the road. wvho had heard the woPaOn's screams at a distance4 came up to the door ofthe house and asked what was the matter, and if they were committing murter? On this the ruffians came out, and walked leisurely away towarils Waltefield, by the St. John's-road; the alarm was now given rind th,tp were puirsued, but unfortunately with- out success. ilMr. lorsa, a surgn of Wakefleld; who visited the poor man and his wife aboat ten that night, reports the injuries re- ceived by the woman tobe trifling, r,i' those of the man such ax to render his case dangerous. His head Is much 9vcNA the left side of the forehead mueh kruised and cut * the skull laid ba6retor: ;out an inch over the left eye, but there does not appear to he any fractrs - man y bruises on the stomach, and two ribs on the right side broken. Tlhree men were yesterday taken up on suspicion, but the poor peo ple do not appear able to recognize them. The villains were all young men lbad on dark-colouted jackets, two of them rather taller than the otbers, and all peared to be persons emploved on turn- pik- roads and canals. The property stol en consists of half a dozen silver tea-spoons, marked l . E. I., a pair of silver plated sugar- tongs, a gold breast-pin, a silver watch, maker's name Trentham, Liverpool, a gold wedding ring, about fifteed pounds in silver (ten pounds of which was in half-crowns), two provincial five pound notes, one of which is a Barnsley bank ticie, arid a ouanticy of oie pouna and one guinea provincial bank notes, amountesg altogether, at money, to nearly 1001.-Lecds Intelligenver. IIATTO N-GARDa aF.-Yesterday, Thom". Web5ter, a lodger in the hotise of Tir. Woodhouse, of the Red Lion, Little tuildford-street, Burton-crescent, was brought up by Hutt, vatch- house-keeper of ttle Foundling, upon a charge of robbery under the following circumstances :-It appeared in evidence, that ilr.Mrood- house has been for some time past missing, every morning, a quan- tity of copper, and occasionally silver, from his bar till; and thoLsgh lie had hilerto used every exertion that could lead to detection they. were unavailing. His health, as also his wife's, being extremely de- licate, liis bar-maid, named Abigail Barry, (a fine young woman) volunteered on Thursday night to lie secretedin the shop,and vwatch for the depredator. Accordingly, about 4 o'clock yesterday moring, the prisoner came down statrs, and contrived by shaking one of the shidig windows of the bar, to disturb tlfe bolt whichisecuti it, and thereby gaim access to the tilL. After he had well loaded him- self with coppers (many of whicb were marked by the landlord)- the bar-maid sprung upon him from her place of concealment, anti tlhough bp was a powerful man, she piinioned bhin io closeliithat hbe could not throw a single penmyout of his pocket (which-he struggled. hard to do) before -the landlofd and others came to her assit,rnce. All1 the rnarkced money was forrpVnlpen hin.- iTXe ItFaeis*at e:om.. plimnented the yoimig vwotan highli Xirislto 2el in iser master' s ervice, andeislly;eommittedithe iiser f;otr.tiah -., pb lish - dissay,bela or'TiIi*hi