We have received a letter...
The Times, 1824-10-01T00:00:00

We have received a letter from Thomas Edwards, of Wilks's.place, Hoxton, complaining of the report in our paper of Thursday, the 23d of September, of the proceedings upon a com- plaint against him and his wife, rt Wosship-street police.offlce, for cruelty and ill-treatment of their daughter,l a child of 13 years of age, and, upon inquiry, we find no ground for quesi oning the cor- rectness of the report in question, nnd no reason to retract or vary any statement therein made. When Foote was onie day lamenting his growing old, a pert young fellow asked him what he w ouldl give to be as young as he?." I would be almor,t content," said Foote, " to be as- fooDli3h." A nurseryman at Twickenham, who had served Pope, being told by Air. XValpole that he wished to have his trees plaRted iegularly, replied, " Yes, Sir, I understand; you would havethem hung down somewhat poetical." A cheqf-d'anirve, painted by Rafaelle, the subject Thte Tribute Money, was picked up the other day, at a broker's shop, for a few shillihgs. The present proprietor has the modesty to ask fo? it ten thousand pounds. T'he hop-picking is nearly finished in this county, and though the produce is far from a usldant, yet generally the hops are excellent in quality.-Hereford Joitratta. There is a fair walnut crop this year, but filberts are very scarce. Some landIs are said to be held at Broughiton, near Brig, in Lincolnshire, by the following tesure:-Every year, on Palm Sunday, a person from Broughton comes into the church-porch at Caistor, having a green silk purse, containing two shillings, and a silver lash tied at the end of a cart-whip, which he cracks three timnes in the porch, and continues there til the second lesson begins, when he goes Into tihe church, and cracks it three timea over the clergyman's head, and kneeling before him during the reading of the lesson, he presents the miniister with the purse, and then goes into the choir, and continues there duiring the rest of the service. It may not be unacceptable to some of our readers to know, that, by the 24th George IL. chap. 40, sec. 12, " No, person can recover any money for spirituous liquors, unWess the debt hbs been tontracted at onu time to the. amount of 20s., or upwards." And also, on the authority of " Scott v. Gilmore," 3 Barton's Re- porti, Michaelmas Term, 51st George III., that this act extends to spirits mixed with water. Revived by 24 (Geo. Il. chap. 40, with the following enactment, namely, " No retailer of spirituous liquors can takte any pledge for the paymnent of money owing for spirituous liquors under the penalty of torty shillilngs-.Lcd# Indec peideut. On the loth of last month, two Spaniards, who are sup- posed to be Catalonians, were found murdered in the forest of Gabas, near Pau. Their bodies were quite naked, and the hands and feet tied together. The. researches of the gendarmes in tracing out the murderers were successful. 'They were themselves Spaniards, and had taken refuge in a part of the forest difficult of access. They were taken the same evening, and carried to the prison at Pau. Considerable eums of money were found on them, and they betrayed the greatest ngitation when detected. The clothes of the murdered men, stained with blood, were also Ibund.-French paper.