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The Times, 1824-06-11T00:00:00

We understand the piojeqeiIbridge' across the Thames from Hammransmith to. Barnne will be immediately proceeded i-. The billihaving received the Royal a5sent, the 'directo rsare deter. mined to lose no time in carrying int6 effect an.object of saamuch importance. A lughable circumstance occurred a fortnigi aP - ea specting a petition against the:Beer Bill, which all the publicans of a small town bad signed, `and.erc preparing to despatch ner in' when one of them aciden'tall' upset the contents of an inkstandon the parchment. and vry much disfigured it.. As they were obiged to send it off that night;there was not time to provide another, and they sent it to a cymnist, forjhim to. extract the blotch; Who, mi.. muderstanding the messenger, thought the whole of thew:ritinF was to be obliterated, snd accordingly washed the..parchmeut with a chymic, and-returned back word, the in7k would gradually disappear, as he had washed it with somethiig for that-purpose. The petition was accordingly packed off to London,' and the hoi. memberLwho received it, discovered, to bis surprise, the ink- had Tgpdually disap. peared, and leR th'eparchbnent as blank as when it was first made.. T aion Courer. .AniUnpleasant disappointment took plaee iiL Spalding church'on Sunday se'nnight, in the time of divine service. After the mnarriage bans bad. beeu publisbed, a loving couple applied to be iminediately joined in Hymen's bonds, which the 'vorthy minis. ter directly-solemnized, and afterwards repaired to the vestry.room, agreeably to thehuwin that dase, to ratify their~ marriage .But un. fortunately; the intended groom having two Christian names, which. hes-igned in fuU that-didnot.corre3pond with the bans, Which were given in with onQy-one of the names by mistake, and -so ublished ; the minister was therefore compelled to inform them that.their ms- riage was invalid.- This unexpected circumstance tO exasper:S the fauir nyph, tbat she drew the ring firom herfinger, and left i,i1a thevestry wth her swain, whose mortification is easier -conceived than deacribed....Bo:ton Gnzctfe.- DARI-NG. :stMD .EzTENS1VE PRoBBamy.-A -very daring burglary-and robbery wvas commiitted about one o'dclsuikyesterday muor.ning by a' determined gang -of thieves,, at the-hte of MIr. Haines, steward to.Earl bowper, at Pansanger, ne'afli -htown of llertford. Mnr Haines's house is-situate upon Cole-green, on his noble master's estat. On WVednesday he had been colecting rents,-' and had casl,. Bank notes, end checks, to theiamoontdo more than 2,0001: in tie house. 'About twilight on Wednesday- evening feur n a were seen wbalking about neat the house, and their manner ex- cited some suspicon at the time that they were there for some - im proper purpose, bat the circumstance vas soon' forgotten, ano the- inMates retired to rest unruffled by apprehension ' of any tng esrOng. About ontdnes'clockbintheemoicting, however, Air. Iaines's son, a lime youth, *as awoke by a 'oise aft a witn do20 at the end of a paussage near h his chad ber;d and stepe ping out, he saW a man nutering, foltowed by another. He mamne. diately ran- tohio father'siroe, and heving informed him of wat he had seen, they placedt the cii- aginst the door, determined if possible to' preventthe' intruders from entering. - The strength of tohose outside was, houever, too great for' them, and the door wwas bulst inl and four or live men entered. At the moment tbat the first rhufftan eneterd, he levelted a blow with a bludgeon at the iead of r. aines, but the latter lackily evade a d ing and the bludgmon com- ing in contactwiith the bed_wcrtain.rod, snapped itasunder.Mr.Haines snatched upr a poker and endeavoured to defend limself,hnddiddenj out two or three haerd blows ut he was soon overpdwered by supe- osr strength and num'Ders. inThe illains threw himn upon the ground, and having tied his arms beind him, they rolled him-up in a carpet n such-a inanner as 'almoetto suffocate him. They the asked hint where hIs money was, and he said. he had-none in the: house. s That's ab-ylie," said one of them: ";come yoiioldb-, fosJ it out, or you'll rue it." ' They threatened with horrid impreuatones to-murder hiuifhe did nottell)buthe ftiledtuse 'ttlendgth ddne said,- t ree,hif -you 'wou't tel, we musne-pfind it; souhere goes," 'and with a crow-bar he smashed-w b thoe buieau, where tshe money: was deposited. u eThey took every fart eg, and were searching for more money or other valuables, when they experienced a most unwvelcome interruption.'- Mr. Hlaines's EO" haa contrived ind.the bustle to sicp unoerceed out of the room, and having got to awindow he rauz an alar erbeit. The tlieves hearing this, ran to t'e place, and hmving -idocited youn oaines,dorni they proceeded toget from the indow te t' ground, as speedly-as possible. The ringing ofdthedbel, however, had pro duced mine liect, for they aere met upon the grovd by four or-five men from nenghboutingaouses, and a desperate conict ir.mediately comumenced, during wihich one of the rdffians snapbed a pistol at his antagoaisbut forturnateyiite asheasin thepan. Therthieves inally ob- tained the mastry,andgotclt ar offnwit their booty. Theyle& api5tol nd aheatupon theground. It was foundtet they had efkected yn en- trance to thehoscbyemondtiogaladder o the window, uttin'g out a piece of glass with a glazite's diamzond, sufficiently large to. admiit a man's armd, and so unfastening -the sash. Inforbation of-the' rob- ber reached the offce in Boyw-street early yesterday morning, and Bisheop, thprincipae officer, withgAvis, a patrol, started to Panse anger in a post chaise abont 12bo'tocff Earl Conper called upon the agogistatesut n tbeyourstof the day upon the subject, andSir } Biriie, and tIr. Stafrord, the chief clter, have given such direc- tions tO other officers, that the offenders cannot escape fu,tice, if it be possibne ti detect them. There -twere only Itwvo checks, and of those payment ws stopped yesterday morning. and [Advcrtisement.]_T1me )?cdgaun7ttet;* a Tale of the 18th Cen- tury, by the author of Waverlev, &w , allbe pubElshed O Tuesasly, the 15thi iaistuht, by Archibaldb1Constable and Co., edinburgh and Hirst, aobinsDn,'and Co., London; in 3 vols postdvo. tAdVentithe nfer.]eTaE LAThE Pqe T SHEsLEY.-.A thick Oetavo Volume, contai ning the. Posthumous Poems of the late Percy Shelley, is this day published, pricel5s..oards; byJohn and H. -[d. unt, Tevitliok see,covet-Tgar en8