The Welshman

LONDON LAW COURTS "AND POLICE j OFFICES. I FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Mr. Breeze, of Merionethshire, brought an action for false imprisoomentagainst Jourdcin, Bradley, and Beaumont. The p'aintiti and his friend, Mr. Williams, were in a railway carriage on the Blaekwall line, when Jourdein smoked a cigar, to their annoyance, and was insolent, when they remonstrated. At the ter- mintis the plaintiff complained, and was by Beaumont taken to the station, where Bradley was inspector, and because plaintiff refused to hind himself to prosecute, though willing to be a witness, was committed to the Compter for the night. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff.—damages £ 15. THE JOCKEY CLIUR.-Ill the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, the case of "Thornton r. Portman" excited an extraordinary degree of interest in the racing circles, and several of the stewards and other noble members of the Jockey Club were accommodated with places on the bench and on the seats usually appropriated to the bar. It ap- peared that Mr. Thornton, the plaintiff, who is a merchant of great influence in the City, had some wagers with Mr. Guiney, a gentleman whose name has been much before the public in reference to sporting transactions. Mr. Gurney had lost and won very large sums of money on the Epsom races, and was not in a condition to pay his losses on the settling day. The defendents, Mr. Portman, Mr. Beales, aad a Mr. Clarke, became trustees for Mr. Gur- ney, and, with the sanction of the stewards of the Jockey Club, undertook to receive his winnings and pay his losses to the extent of the sums recpivei' by them. There is a rule or practice in the Jockey Club, that, when a party who has entered into wagers does not pay his losses, those from whom he has won are not bound to pay him and the plaintiff, in regard to his transactions with Mr. Gurney, was desirous to enforce that rule. When applied to, there- fore, by the defendants, as the trustees of Mr. Gurney, to pay them the sum of £ 1,350 wbich he had lost to Mr. Gurney, the plaintiff intimated his readiness to do so upon condition that the defendants should undertake to pay all Mr. Gurney's debts, on his Epsom accounts, in full, and that, if they failed to pay twenty shillings in the pound, on or before the settling day after the Houghton meeting, they should repay the plaintiff the sum of £ J1.350 he was about to pay them. The defendants accordingly signed a written undertaking, accepting the money from the plaintiff con(li- tionally, but the condition remained unfulfilled. At a meet ing which took place at Tattersall's, on the day preceding the October settling, Lord George Bentinck had reminded the defendants that they had oniy one day more to complete their payments. That day, however, passed, and they had not complied with the condition of the guarantee by paying in full. Letters were read which proved that noblemen and gentlemen on the turf must oix with men neither -esed to the plain- gentle or noble. One of the letters addressed to the plain- tiff, speakiug of a man .whnse check was dishonoured, said, the only way to bring Atkins to book was to take the necessary steps to shut up his bell- ((i laugh)—and taking persevering measures to prevent him from opening it again." And instead of settling his own liabilities con- cluded with a very friendly piece of advice Hester is a good horse, and I advise you not to bet against her." (Laughter.) This advice, however, was not quite so valu- able as the expected payment. Mr. Thornton's clerks and his nephew proved the giving of the guarantee, as did Lord George Bentinck, who said, "The course pursued in this case by the trustees was sanctioned by the stewards and six selected members of the club. The six members were —the Marquis of Exeter, the Duke of Rutland, Colonel Peel, Mr. Irby, Mr. Greville, and Lord Stradbroke. I differ from all these noblemen and gentlemen, and also with the stewards, oft two points. I think payments ought not to be enforced from losers, unless debts are paid to win- ners and the other point on which we differ is a matter of fact, namely, as to what is a payment in full. I do not conceive 10s. in the pound a payment in full." Mr. The- siger submitted that, in point of law, the ptaintin? could not recover. It was clear that money lost upon horse- racing could not be r!'coved at law. Here the parties were in pari delicia. The condition was illegal. The con- duct of the plaintiff-the betting merchant—was not very creditable. He should not charge the witnesses for the plaintiff with perjury or forgery; but he was instructed that the defendants understood the guarantee to be very different from that produced. However, if the plaintiff in- sisted oh his bond, he must have it, though, in point of honour, he was not entitled to reclaim the money. Lord Abinger summed up. They had nothing to do there with the" làws" of the Jockey Ciuh. Mr. Thornton was not legally bound to pay the debt to Mr. Gurney, for it was a debt arising out of a transaction the law did not sanction. When he paid, therefore, he had a right to dictate his own terms. Well, he got the defendants to undertake, if they 'did not pay all Mr. Gurney's credits 20s. in the pound, they were to return him his mouey. Here was a clear legal undertaking, which might be enforced, whatever might be the practice of the Jockey Club. In fact Mr. Thornton was not a member, and had nothing to do with the jockev Club. The inry without hesitation rp?'J a verdict for the plaintjjr-damaes ?1,350. [The S<?ici- tor-General, on the part of Mr. Thornton, announced that the sum thus recovered would be presented to Christ's Hospital.] MERCANTILE SWINDLING.—In the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday the notorious Benjamin Parker, who sometime since was tried at Newgate for a similar offence, was indicted together with John Parker, and Philip May for defrauding to a considerable amount several houses in the City. J. and B. Packer kad carried on business as grocers, and the latter failed. Mr. May is now in business as a Manchester warehouseman, in Cateaton-treet- Tn June, 1841, Benjamin Parker opened a business under the name of John Parker and Co., at 70k, Thames-street, ostensibly as an exporter of goods to the East Indies, Sydney, and Texas. He gave out that he had a capital of 4,000/ and had considerate expectancies. The counting- house was fitted with all the appearances of an extensive shipping business, such as invoices, bills of lading, cards of the saihng of vessels, &c. ? June Messrs. Parkers' clerk "?"?' ?'?? several houses for goods suitable to the Cr' RtPPJ 1<Iessrs. Tame "? Co., the prosecutor were sufferers to the extent of !,6ua?. Early in July Park.r and Co appfied for a sample of cotton yarn to a MMir.. tF7 ennefll, whui-ch h was supplied. ?- Fennell, calling 1 the I oth of July, found no one but a porter, white Xai ?r?on? ? house had been completely gutted. On count:ng inqu ry It Was  that ?' the goods that had been    and Co, ?? ?en taken to Philip May within i day ?r /1 .n after ?"? ?'??y at the counting- hmiop n ^>SP° considerably below their value. Thp nameSParkers traded under were falsely gi. ven Ilenjam n him?)f John, and John calling .m c f Jo ph. There rea»v was a Joseph Parker existing, .John and Joseph being twins, were so much afliikl?e p iinn ?? '?'' ?tha? t when thev we? dressed alike, no md.v.duaIcoutdd?Dgui.ho?-from the other; but the real Joseph, at the time of the transaction, lived 200 miles from London. After Benjamin Parker had been taken into custody for the fraud, the M?gs where he and John Parker slept, were atJandoned nnd- the landlord seized the property and papers for thereat. Some of the letters were of a cunot1s nature. One written by Benjamin to John expressed an anXle^y to see how he could sign the words" John Parker and Co. directed him to get a copy of the evidence against him (Benjamin), and make himself well acquainted wIth It, as he might have a great deal of cross-questioning. The letter gave most minute direc- tions as to the answers John Parker should return to certain questions which Benjamin anticipated would be put to him. The real Joseph now came from the country and Mr. Platt read an ext.act of a letter from Benjamin to him, stating that he (Benjamin) wanted to bring two actions for false imprisonment against certain parties, as they could probably make a few hundreds by it for this purpose, Joseph came to London, that he might be taken up for John, so that an action might be brought by the veritable Joseph, on the ground of not being the right person. He also directs him to order two suits of clothes, to be just alike, and ready on the same day for him, the mock Joseph and the re-itl Joseph. After stating a number 1 .1 I I I.- -? .? of other minute tacts which he (Mr. Piatt) thought im- plicated the prisoners, the Learned Counsel called witnesses I to SSPpPrt his statement. The case acraioet Mny wn" given up. Verdict Guilty agMnst Benjamin a»d John Parker. The Court was crowded to excess during the whole of the trial, which did not terminate until nine o'clock at night. There were no less than seven Counsel retained for the de- fendants-viz., the Attorney-General, Mr. Swaoo, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Bodkin, for the defendant May. Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Chambers for Benjamin Parker, and Mr. Ballantine for Joseph Parker. The case was one that excited considerable interest in the City. The two defendants, Parker, who were in Court the whole of the trial, will be brought up for judgment early next Term. PUNISHMKNT OF JUVENILE OFFF.NDEUS.—1 he Mid- dlesex adjourned sessions commeuce d on Monday, at Hicks's Hal!, with a list of forty prisoners, twenty of whom were charged with felony. Two boys, one nged thirteen and the other twelve, were found guilty of steal- ing, and, as they had been confined on two previous occa- sions, they were sentenced to seven years' transportation. The Chairman said they would be sent to the new esta- blishment at Parkhurst, in the Isle of Wight, were they would be instructed in some trade and have every endea- vour made to restore them to the arid as good and moral members of society. If, however, and he wished to im- press the fact upon their miuds, they were to misconduct themselves at Parkhurst, they might rely upon it that the sentence of transportation would be fully executed. ) DAMAGES.—Under a writ of inquiry to assess the dama- ges for a libel in the Cambridge Chronicle, the amount claimed was 41,0o0. The jury sat at the Sheriff's Court on Wednesday, and their verdict was-daniges oizefarthing. VIOLENCE,—The first news of the spring assizes is from the Northern Circuit, at Durham, where on Monday the commission was opened, and on Wednesday a stepmother was indicted for the manslaughter of her daughter-in-law. The death was caused by fracture of the skull in conse- quence of the prisoner having thrown an earthenware pint-pot at her. She was sentenced to one month's im- prisonment. TRUE CHARITY.-At the Mansion House, on Monday, the Lord Mayor acknowledged the receipt of jglOfor casual charity in his office, sent anonymously. 1. O. U.-On Tuesday, at Guildhall, Jfr. E. Clark, of llrompton, was charged with stealing an 1. O. U. for 500/. from Utting, the keeper of a gaming-house in Jermyn- street. The Information stated that complainant held an 1. O. U. of Mr. Lindsay Shedden the defendant called and invited Mr. Utting to go with him where he should be paid, but, hastily snatching it out of his hand, he ran away with and had not returned it. Mr. Smee said that he had a little interest in this I. O. U., and offered it to Mr. Clark for Gs. in the pound of its nominal value. Mr. Utting did not appear, and Mr. Clark, having entered into his own recognizance for 50.01., was discharged.

UNITED STATES. I The George Washington, New York packct-slup, arrived at Liverpool last Saturday afternoon, after an excelientpassage of something less than IS days. By this conveyance we have received New York papers to the Sth inst. inclusive, and seven days later consequently than those brought by the last arrivals of the Southerner transient vessel and South America packet-ship but the news brought possesses little interest. The eKcitement caused by the stoppages among he banks had a good deal subsided. The assets of the United States Bank at New Orleans had been seized by an attachment under a fi. fa. issued from the U.S. Court at Philadelphia, directed to the Marshal of New Orleans district, which as- sets were in the vaults of the Merchants' Bank for safe keeping. Under thefT. fa. the Marshal threatened to seize the assets belonging to the I Merchants' Bank, and an attachment was issued under process from the Commercial Court of New Orleans, on a suit entered by the United States for the sum of nearly two millions of dollars. Ap- plication was, however, made to the United States Court, which at once granted an injunction to I stay all proceedings. In the mean time the assets, assigned by the Bank of. the United States, were taken by the Marshal, and are now in his charge, the Merchants' Bank going on as yet. The Bank- rupt law had been in operation a week. The ap- plications in Court for the benefit of the act were not near so numerous as was expected in the early operation of the measure, however, the num- ber of persons seeking its beneficial provisions can scarcely oe considered a uue ciiierum ot the ) true state of trade and commerce among the citi- zens of the Union. The procedmg-s in Congress are of no interest, nor do the papers br,ng in- telligence of any moment from Canada. Mr. Dickens (" Boz") was received most enthu- siastically routs, balls, dinners, and exhibitions were got up for him in endless prolusion. THE LONG-LOST PRESIDENT.—It is SUPPOSED' from the following extract fron the log-book of the brig Puultney, Captain James Moult, of Balti- more, that the hull of this long-lost steamer has at last been seen :— "July 21, 11 a.m. lat. 40 21 N., long. 39 IC) W. from N. y or for Smyrna, passed a large piece of wreck, sixty feet jon-thrty to forty wide, and looked like the brond- side of a steam-boat. It appeared to be part of the main channels, having four dead eyes, with turned mouldings j and long flat iron straps. Her hulk was black, with at broad white streak, and large painted biacK ports. There was a bite of a hawser over a piece of wood, apparently part of the guards." The ill-fated President was seen both here and in Liverpool by the chief mate of the PUllltnc/f, and he unhesitatingly says that the wreck passed was part of that steam-ship. Everything about the wreck plainly shewed from their great size and manufacture, that they belonged not to any mer- chant vessel or a man-of-war, but to a large stea- mer. e think as the mate does, on this point, and believe the wreck seen to have been that of the unfortunate, ill-starred President. The firrivecl yesterday at Li- verpool, from New York, and we learn (bv ex- press) that the currency derangements and the efforts Of the banks to "restore confidence conti- nued in the state described in the papers of a date two days earlier, received by the last packet. AN ELOPEMENT: TROM NEW YORK.—-A young Miss in her lith year, from the West, perhaps the richest heiress in the whole West, whose property too was in her own right, recently left this city I for Liverpool with a man aged about sixty. The young lady was left by her father at a boarding- school near this city, where the gentleman became acquainted with her, and it is believed that a mar- riage ceremony was performed before they left. The new s must be most painful to the 1)arciA,wbo doated upon tins, his only child. H there was really a marriage ceremony in this case, as is really believed, we should be glad to know the name of the clergyman or magistrate who performed it, for such an act should not go unnoticed, if, under the sanction of the laws, it can go unpunished.— Nno Yoi lc Express.

I CHINA AND INDIA. I The New York papers, brought by the George Washington, contain letters from Macao of Oct. 15, brought by the Valparaiso. No decisive blow seems to have been struck since our last dates, though a sort of predatory warfare is going ön. Several learned Chinese have just become con- verts to the Gospel. One a distinguished poet, another one of the first literary men in the empire. Keslien, it is now beyond a doubt, has been doomed to be beheaded. At Amoy affairs remained quiet, and many of the inhabitants had returned there. No edicts have of late been received from Pekin. Sir Henry Pottinger is expected to return when the expedition shall have gone into winter quar- ters, probably in the course of the next month; and from the tone of the proclamation issued by him, on his arrival here, there is reason to believe that some steps will be taken to punish the Chinese I for their violation of the treaty, in endeavouring to block the channels of the river, in which they arc still engaged. (From the Bengal Iterahl, Jan. 8.) The fate of our troops at Cahul is now, we fear> almost certainly decided for unless some special intervention of Providence relieves them from the dilemma in which they arc placed, human aid is all unavailing. Accounts have been received from the city to the Sth December, which repre- sent the state of affairs there to be much worse than they were before; provisions were becoming scarce, and the enemy more daring every day. They had closely invested the intrenched camp at Seca-Sung, and, it is said, had made overtures of surrender to the Envoy, the conditions of which were, that he should deliver Schah Soojah over to the A Afghans, and leave the country with our I troops, God help our poor fellows, for they are j indeed in a critical position FRANCE.—A rumour is current that the French I Government has discovered a new and formida- ble plot against the lives of the King of the French and his family, and that, in consequence, the most extraordinary precautions arc taken to guard the Tuileries and the various entrances thereto. There is great agitation il1 France on the subject of the slave trade treaty. All rejoice in the firmness of their ministry in refusing to ratify it, and all are hoilin with indignation at the foreign poxvers, who, by acting consistently and in union, have again isolated" France. It is expected that Guizot will dissolve the Chambers, I and from a more practicable Parliament obtain leave to ratify the treaty of Saturday last, for the exchange of the ratifications on that day in Lon- don will, no doubt, give it the title of the treaty of the 19th February. In the meanwhile, the right of search stands, with regard to France, as it has done since 1833, when she bound herself to the principle. THE COST or A SOLDIEr.-La Presse calculates that in England the annual expense of a soldier is ,of. in France, 340f.; in Prussia, 212f.; in Aus- tria, 2 lOf. and in Russia, 120f. MADAME L.YFFARGE.—-We have received a letter from Montpellicr, bearing date the iitli instant, which states that the convict Marie Capelle pfadamc Laflrage) 1S dancrollsly ill, and that her physicians have given her over In fact, she has alreadv received the last sacraments of the church. — Gazette des Tribiniaux. t;PA!N.—In Spain a motion for the introduction of llriÜsh manufactures had been negatived by the Cortes. Catalonia is thus deprived of her best pretext for revolt. The Levant mail bring news from Constanti- nople, which proves that, while Turkey is making peace on her Grecian frontier, her Syrian subjects, so recently recovered, are ripe for general revolt. One of the Sultanas had delighted the people by saving birth to a son. Sir Stratford Canning was absent from the grand ball given by the French ambassador on the 5th, in consequence of a very temporary indisposition, whether real or diplo- matic does not appear. Letters from Alexandria of the Gth inst. an- nounce the arrival at Suez of the Bangalore," the vessel dispatched from Calcutta and Bombay, with a view to open the transit trade with India across Egypt. Private advices from Malta of the 15th inst, mention the fatal termination of a duel which took place on the Sth in that city, between Captain Levick, formerlvof the 59th Regiment, and Lieutenant Adams," of the 8Sth. The latter was wounded in the side, and only survived twenty-four hours. The Portuguese revolution and triumph of the charter, which we announced last week, and the intrigues in France raid in Spain to renew the civil war in the latter country, which we have con- tinned to trace for several months as in full play, make up the foreign news of the whole week in the columns of our contemporaries, both French and English. Cape of Good Hope papers of the 21lh Decem- ber state that the colony had just escaped from the averages of enormous fliirlits ol locusts, which had wrought much damage".

TORY PM'CK !—In last Monday night's debate, I when Mr. C. Buller exhorted the c ('i,, it ?,r- to p!uc?npalittle courage for once, and behave like the Duke of BllCkillham-Sir Robert Peel remarked across the table, And gu out," It is clear that Sir Robert Peel lias not forgotten the threats of the country party, and is in no temper to compliment them. The will of the late Lord S wenham, which is imade only the day previous to his lamented death, s'ives the whole of his property to his brother, ¡ Mr. Pouictt Scrope, absolutely, subject only toihe payment of a few legacies:—To his nephew, Mr. William Baring, £J,Oi)(); to Lord John Resell, as a remembrance ol his friendship, £ 500. Thursday was a Jewish feast, kept in comme- moration of the death of liaman. This is called by many the" Jews' Christmas," the trades-peo- ple sharing out Puf:m<-ho\cs," in the same man- ner as "Christmas-boxes. NUMBER OF DISPUTED S¡\T.Fr()m thc "List of Election Petitions it appears that there are 34 Conservatives and 35 Liberals whose seats are dis- puted. The object of the petitioners, in many in- stances, is merely to avoid the election and have a new one ordered; but in other cases a scrutiny of the votes is demanded, by which the petitioners hope to pull down the majority obtained hy the silting members, and to convert it into a minority. THE GENERAL LICENSING ACT.—By a recent decision in the Court of Queen's Bench., it Las been determined that under the Llcensim" r Act of the 9th George IV., Ties to tin- quarter sessions of the country against tlie reiu- sal of the borough jnstic.es to grant a licence to ,Cs to -I-,Illt to sell beer, &c., and not to the quarter sessions of the boromrh although the borough has a charter with a ve intromited clause, and also a separate court cf quarter sessions under the municipal act 5th and Gth William l\ cap. 76. BANK OF ENGLAXP-—The following notice was most unexpectedly issued by the curectoi's of the Bank alter their weekly meeting 011 Thursday afternoon:— The Governor and t omnany of the Bank of England are ready, until further notice, to receive applications for loans, upon the deposit ot approved Bills of Exchange, j not having more than six months to run, Exchequer Bills, and the East india Bonds, such loans to be repaid 011 or before the 20th April next, with interest at the rate of -1 per cent, per annum, and to be for sums of not lefcs than £ 2.000 cach. Bank of England, Feb. 21, 1812. COLONIAL Bisuors.—The next bishop to he ap- pointed under Hie Colonial Bishopricks' Fund will have the superintendence of the British posses- sions in the Mediterranean, It is supposed that the Venerable Archdeacon Robinson, D.I)., late of Madras, will have the appointment. When this -npryn ri irt-firCTi T11tTVfr"" liirrcUltiUJittuxrTI ill I» mwrtg- diocesans for the following sees:—New Bruns- wick, the Cape of Good Hope, Van Dicmen's Land, and Ceylon. CHARTISTS.—TORIES.—Those who construe acts by their tendency have long ago made up their minds as to the Chartist leadershein in the pay of the Tories. But now nothing is left to conjecture. It is established that the Chartist movements have been directed and paid for by the Torics.-I eices- tershire Mercury. EXECUTIONS.—A return hits been moved for by Mr. Ewart, of the total number of persons exe- cuted (for all crimes) in London and Middlesex, during periods of three years, together with the number of persons committed for murder in the same periods respectivelv, &c. I* 10m this return ic appears that the total number of PGrsons exe- cuted (for all crime, ia London and Middlesex, during the three years ending December, 1821, amounted to f)s durimi the three years ending December, 1821, to .7)1 during the three years ending December, 1827, to 53; during the three years ending December. 1830, to 52 during the three years ending December, 1S33, to 12; during the three years ending December, 1836, nil; and during tll? t l iree during the three years ending December, 1839, to 3. No conviction for murder took place during the three years ending 1830. The total number of persons committed for murder during the above period (viz. from December, ISIS, to December, 1839,)• amounted to 215. FALLACIES ABoet EATINO.-—Peel has the finest fallacy upon eating that ever was invented. Men," says Sir Robert, eat in nations—they never eat individually. People always cat in averages and if you will give me the quantity of food consumed in any two countries, and the quantity of people contained in them, I dl tell you in which there is the least hunger. They gave liini these quantities, and from them Sir Robert found out that the Prussians were desti- tute of every thin" except tobacco and fresh but- tcr-upon which they riot to repletion—and that the English enjoy an average of butchers' meat which would make the stomach of a Prussian growl with envv. Alas we fear that the average is all that very manv of them ever do get. We remember an Irish peasant once celebrating to us the glories of some village festival at which be had been a partaker. "0, sir, W had an illigant dinner Well, what did you have, Mike? we aslceu. Oh, sir, we had ana There was an emphasis upon the word, as though it com-  poii !lie i, 1),jcti.e of rare luxury. We fcar tlwt a rcat many Ens:l?h pea- sants in the full of enjoyment of Sir Robert Peel's averaqe of an annual 1001b. of butchers' meat would speak of their practical acquaintance with its taste much as Mike did.—Atlas. THE TAX ON GIGS.—At a recent meeting of the commissioners of assessed taxes at Kingston, a decision of considerable importance, involving a point "hich has not hefore heen discussed. was come to. A few years ago the government intro- duced a clause to exempt persons keeping chaises, or vehicles of that description, from the payment of duty, provided that their christian and sur- names, and professions, were painted in letters an inch long on the back of the vehicle, and provided I also that the original cost of the vehicle, with cushions, and every other requisite, did not exceed latter portion of this proviso rendered the former completely nngatory <or it 's -ti-ell known that no vehicle comina; under the descrip- tion of a gig or chaise could be built new by a coachmaker for -C21. It has, however, been the practice throughout the country to claim the ex- emption, and, until recently, no steps have been taken by the collectors to enforce the act; but it appears, that at the close of the last half-year all such vehicles were brought into charge, and as- sessed at £ 3 5s. each. A great many parties ap- pealed, and upon the hearing belore the commis- sioners, it was attempted to be set up, that as the vehicles which were charged by the duty had not cost their owners, who purchased them second- hand, dE21, they were entitled to the exemption. The commissioners unanimously decided that the circumstance of the second-hand vehicles not ha\- ing cost the sum mentioned by the act was no ground for exemption from duty, and that it must be proved that when newly built by the coach- maker, with all its cushions and furniture com piete, the vehicle only cost him X21, to enable the owner to claim an exemption from payment of the duty, by reason of his name, &c., being printed at the back. The whole of the assessments weie therefore confirmed. ET.OPEMEN*. — On Monday morning last the family of Mr. re-Ridiii-, in the vicinity of the Regent's Park, were thrown into a state of great consternation by the sudden disappearance of Miss J., a young lady of great beauty and accom- plishments, and the ward of 1\1 r. A letter was found on the dressing-table of the a bsentee, addressed to her guardian, in which she stated that she had adopted her present line of conduct under the full impression that it was calculated to insure her future happiness in life. It was quickly ascer- tained that a chaise and four, containing a cava- lier, had been seen in the immediate vicinity at an early hour in the morning, and it was suspected that the fair fugitive had tiou n on the wings of love," in company with the gallant-looking occu- pier of the post-chaise, and which it was disco- vered had proceeded eastward, a somewhat dil- fcj ent route to the one generally adopted by par- ties under similar circumstances. After consi- derable exertion it was ascertained that the chaise had left town by the White-cliapel-road, and a pursuit was immediately commenced by the young lady's guardian, accompanied by his nephew. Ai the runaways had the advantage of a five hours' start, the pursuers were considerably distanced in their endeavours to overtake the fugitives, but al- ter journeying some 50 odd miles, performed at an extraordinary speed, they reached the little village of Hillington, within IS miles of Bury St. Edmund's, just as the parties they were in pur- suit of were on the point of sitting down to dinner. The pursuers, without any ceremony, rushed into the room and proceeded to take possession of the lady ri et annis, but the disappointment of the worthy guardian may be imagined when it was politely intimated to him that he might have spared himself the trouble and expense of the journey, for that tlie twain" before him had been united II) II)c ind issol uble bonds of matrimony some six w eeks previously. After a scene of mutual recrimination between the parties, the lady's guar- dian refusing all overtures of reconciliation, re- turned in doleful mood to town, accompanied by his disconsolate nephew, who, it appears, is a dis- appointed suitor of thc lady in question, who will* on attaining her 21st year, become entitled to a fortune of nearh being lktreiy three months to expire before her minority vvdl be completed. A SERVANT'S CHARACTER.— In it recent case, heard before Lord Deumati, a governess received damages to the amount of £ 10 against a former mistress, in consequence of a written character, through the influence of which another lady de- clined to hire her. It appeared that the lady in whose service she had lived, and with whom she had resided for fourteen months, had suddenly dis- charged hEr and that, upon been applied to after- wards for her character by another lady who wanted to employ her, she stated that the gover- ness was incompetent, ill-tempered and iililadv- like in her deportment; aud that it was because of these faults she had parted with her. Upon the receipt of this information the governess lost the place she was seeking, and appealed lor her re- medy to a jury. As tar as we can gather the mo- tives of the verdict from the scanty report in the newspapers, it seems that the jury considered the letter to have been written with a malicious pur- pose, and upon that ground gave a verdict for the plaintiff. —A llm. NON-A TTENDANCE AT DIVINE WORSHIP.—A copy of the warrant has been moved for by Mr. It. M. Milnes, on which J. C. or J. Carlton was commit- ted, at Rochdale, en tbe29th of June, 1840, by Cle- ment Royds and William Chadwick, Esquires, for neglecting to attend divine worship at Butter- worth, in the county of Lancaster. William Carlton was sentenced, for the said li misde- meanour," to forfeit and pay the sum of Is., toge- ther with 1 is. for costs; and, in default of pay- ment, was ordered, by virtue of the above war- rant, to be imprisollèd in th Salford House of i /.VmriX-'titm ih» stem rJmttfd be paid The warrant is signed C. Royd" and James Taylor," EVGLAXD A PENAL SETTLEMENT.—A most expert burglar and pickpocket has just been transported^ by way of punishment, from Jersey to our shores, and has been turned adrift at Southampton. This perhaps will be the first step towards a longer voyage. TIIE MILLENNIUM.—A Captain Hall, R. N. has been delivering a course of lectures at Hereford on the Millennium and some other mysterious and controversial points in the Apocalypse. The cap- tain is a member of that eccentric and enthusi- astic, though no doubt well meaning and devout body of Christians, denominated Plymouth Bre- thren, who, among other articles of faith, believe in the personal reign of our Saviour upon the earth for a thousand years, and that the com- mencement of that period may be immediately expected. THE LATTER DAY SAINTS IN LANCASHIRE.—A young man from Manchester, a preacher amongst the Latter Day Saints, says there are upwards of six hundred various religious creeds, but all of them except the Latter Day Saints are in the dark, and not appointed to preach the gospel; he also declares that the preachers ol the Latter Day Saints could take deadly poison without injury— they could heal the sick by the touching of hands —they could also handle serpents, and they would not hurt them—they could speak and interpret ia unknown tongues, and that, he says, has been done to a great extent in the Carpenters' Hall at Manchester, and a surgeon had lately joined their society and had given over administering drugs to sick persons. He admitted that there were some persons amongst their society who yet took phy- sic when siek, but they were not properly con- verted.—Leeds Intelligencer. SETTING A FACTORY ON Fii-,P--At Rochdale, two lads set fire to a cotton mill. It appeared from the evidence adduced, and from the confession of the boys, that on Monday the 14th inst., during the stoppage for breakfast, two carding en-inell were discovered to be on fire, but the flames were spoedily extinguished. About six o'clock on Tuesday evening, the mill was again found to be on fire "in the scutching room: but the fire was again quickly put out without any serious damage. On Wednesday the police were sent for, and they found foot marks in the soft clay near the mill, with the impression of a nail in the heel of the clog; and luener matches were also found under the window, in which a pane of glass had been broken. The officers then stopped the hands i,, they came out of the mill; and Hojle's clogs were taken off, and found to correspond with the im- pression in the clay. Hoyic then confessed that he and Mills set fire to the premises bath on Monday and Tuesday and said that if the omcer would tro into his room, to a certain place, they would find a bottle of vitriol. The above is the substance of the evidence; and both yout hs, who were piercers in the mill, were committed for trial at the next Liverpool assizes. — Manchester (j uardntn. EFFECTS or MACHINERY WIITME TRADE IS FREE, —The immediate and certain effect of good ma- chinery is an increase of production. It is said, that he that makes two blades of grass grow Where onlv one grew before, is a benefactor to his race. Is not he who can produce cloth for five suits of clothes, where only one was produced before, equally a benefactor? The tendency of this in- crease of production is to ckcupen the price. It is said; it would rt-quire one hundred and fifty meji to grind as much corn in the hand mill in one day, as can be ground in an ordinary water mill; and if the ruder machinery of breaking the grain by stones were adopted, perhaps it would require the hundred who does not see by this, that the price of the article would be vastly increased t If machinery was abandoned in the w hole process of procuring and t ransrnitting coals, instead of 10 s. per ton, they could not be had for £10 per ton. What is it that has so immensely diminished the value of needles, tape, books, silks, cottons, but the introduction of improved machinery? The obvious effect, then, of machinery is almndavee and aii(I these must be regarded as great blessings. A double harvest would be considered is a merciful dispensation of Providence; aud vhvnot a double harvest of clothing which the )e()I)ie need, and any portion of which, but for bad aws, could be exchanged for li)od? Stieli an increased ennsvtnption is sure to follow cheapness of price, as ii-ill lead to the employment of an ad- ditional number cf hands.—Livesay.