. At the Old Bailey, on Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Stone,
lately in. business as a hop-merchant, was indicted for perjury, in swearing that he was twenty-one years of age, in order to obtain a licence, under which he married Miss Mary Hannington, daughter of an attorney, living in. Nelson Square. The indictment was preferred_ by the father of the young lady. It appeared that she had no fortune, and the match was one of love. The prisoner was also charged with falsely swearing that Miss _Hannington was of age. After a long investigation, the Jury acquitted the prisoner.
At the Middlesex Session on Wednesday, Richard Knowles, Henry Dunsden, John Barrett, Charles ManriniF, Peter Kates, George Hay- cock, and Edward Webster, were convicted of rioting on the 21st March, the day of national fasting. Knowles and Dunsden were sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour ; Barrett, Hay- cock, Kates, and Manning, four months' imprisonment; Webster, two months' imprisonment.
Three respectable young men, named Orr, Evil, and Siddons, disciples of Mr. Irving, were charged on Thursday, at Hatton Garden, with creating a mob near Sadler's Wells, by preaching in the open air. The Magistrate dismissed them with an admonition, but told them if they were charged a second time he would hold them to bail.
At Bow Street, on Thursday, a summons was granted, on the appli- cation of a Mr. Judge, against Mr. Scripps, the publisher of the Literary Gazette, for publishing news matter on an unstamped paper. Mr. Minshull was fully of opinion that the Gazette contained news matter. The case is to be discussed on Wednesday.
At Bow Street, yesterday, seven men, of sturdy and desperate ap- pearance, were brought before Mr. Halls, charged with having, on the 1st of February last, been engaged in an affray.with the Coast Guard, at Twissfort, in the county of Kent, in which several liyes were lost, and a great number of persons wounded. The prisoners were remanded for a fortnight. In a case of affiliation, which has made a good deal of noise, the Middlesex Magistrates, on Monday, after a long and tedious hearing in support of the order against Mr. Montague, Surveyor at Clapton, gave judgment-14 for affirming the order, and only 1 apthist it ; With 801. costs. The frail one had been in his service till within a month of her delivery. Mrs. Montague was oniter deathbed at the time. Mr. Montague promises to bring an indictment for conspiracy and perjury: A fellow that calls himself Baron de Laume, who was figuring in Brighton some time ago as a chevalier d'industrie,—and who, with a mistress, has contrived to swindle a number of shopkeepers in the West end within the last few weeks,—was captured in Great Chesterfield Street on Thursday: the lady was previously in custody. No fewer than forty pawnbrokers duplicates were found on the Baron. He de- scribed himself as a retired French officer, and a Carlist.. He was re- manded.
A number of Irishmen broke into Westminster Hospital on Wednes- day, and carried off the body of a comrade who had died there. The body was brought back with some difficulty, by the police. Two fellows who led the rioters were ordered to find bail.
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