BARGES AND STEAM. BOATS;--YesIerday, at the Mansionhouse, a man named

Moakes complained to the Lord Mayor that his barge had been swamped by the Eclipse steam-vessel. He described the steamer

as proceeding at a much more rapid, rate than was prescribed by the re- gulations ;. and declared that he had hailed her, with a view to the prevention of the accident. The City Solicitor attended by the desire of the Mayor, and pleaded the case of the bargeman very warmly. His

Lordship—who has a wonderful horror of steam-boats—strongly recom- mended compensation to the bargeman. The Proprietors, however, de- clined acceding to the recommendation. The Captain said the steamer was proceeding only at the rate 'of three or four miles an hour, and that

the barge was so heavily laden that the least puff of wind must have swamped it. Lord Mayor—" Very well. Perhaps the best way is to

have it settled in a court of jeStice. I trust that it will be tried, for I really begin to tremble for the public. I have presented a Petition in the -Court of Aldermen on the subject of those vessels,- and I have no doubt the Court will adopt such measures very soon as will give some protection to the community: From what I have heard, I have reason to suppose.that the regulations of the Court are as little attended to as if they had never been made ; and I shall certainly use all the power of which I am capable to remedy this very serious mischief.' THE CREDIT SYSTEM.—Two persons named Woodward and Car-. ,ter were charged at Marlborough,treet, yesterday, with obtaining goods' on false pretences. They had. called at-a Mr. Allen's in Upper Berkeley' Street; where they procured=oe lean÷:e quantity of glass' china-ware,'" plate, &c.; •which was irriniediateii Pawned ; Coates and Irone, svine7 merchants in Baker Street,. furnished a.quantity of wine; which it is sup- posed travelled the same .road. A.hatter was similarly diddled of a hat the wonder is that he did net lose a couple. The parties represented themselves as residing in 29, Berners Street ; whither theivarious articles ordered were sent. This is one of the cases of daily occurrence, in which' the roguery of the purchaser is 'far less surprising than the simplicity of the seller. Magistrates hesitate to convict thieves, where the article stolen is, improperly thrown in their way—why should they not equally hesitate to condemn swindlers, to whose hands merchants are so. eager to play that the grossest and most palpable trick is sure 10 win ?

BEAUTY OF TIIE CRIMINAL. LaW.—Under the old Roman law, so tender of the blood and of the freedom of a citizen, no man could be imprisoned or restrained previous to condemnation. Under the modern English law, so zealous' for the punishment of the offender, we not only imprison the guilty defendant, but we shut up the prosecutor and shut up the witnesses also. Two boys have been confined in the Compter for the last six months, because they had no means of procuring sure- ties for their appearance as witnesses against a man who was not in custody at the time they were bound, and Who is not in custody now, nor in all probability ever will be. Here have two lads suffered ad im- prisonment equal to that which is ordinarily inflicted on a thief for his first Offence, not only for no crime, but Without imputation of crime. And yet Sir Robert' Peel is content to be lauded as the reformer of our criminal laws! The imprisonment Of a witnesi suipasses even Moorish tyranny and ignorance. The Case in which these boys suffer was an accusation against a Captain D. Wilson of the Armenia, through whose harsh treatment a boy was said to haveilied; Wilson; as we have said, had not been cap- tured when the .boys were sent to the Compter, nor is there as yet the slightest intelligence of him. It is said that there is no legal remedy for the case. That we can easily suppose. FORGERY.--7A Jew named Lyons has been charged, before the Lord l!dayor, with forging the Goldsmiths' Hall stamp. He had sold a watch with a pretended gold. case, which bore the mark in question. On its being worn in the pocket for some time, the nature of the metal was discovered.; and Lyons was arrested, after refusing to refund the money. The forgery was proved by a gentleman from Goldsmiths' Hall: The Jew was remanded.

FORGERY OF AN EAST INDIACOMPANYWARRANT.—Janies Monds' the person charged with forging a warrant for 614/. has been committed. It appears that the Company's blank warrants have not hitherto been kept with shmuch care as such documents ought to be kept : they are in future to be securely locked up. MunnEaous Assalwr ON A POLICEMAN.—A poor man belonging to the New Police, in attempting to convey. to the watchhouse a fellow who bad been fighting in Peter Street, BerWick Street,..Solso, on Sunday night, was SO terribly beaten by the prisdnei's companions, that his life is in imminent danger. We notice in the report of this case, Peter S.treet:described as "a Sink of iniquity, wholly inhabited by the lowest

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-Trish."—What -is meant by the lowest Irish, -we-do-trot know. The as- sault alluded to was a most brutal one ; but Peter Street, though an abode of the poor— they must live somewhere:, we presume—is no more a sink of iniquity than Grosvenor Square. The above is the only instance of -a row that during several years we have seen recorded of its inhabitants.

MuTna- ON BOARD THE CYPRUS. The • person who described • himself to the Company's officers at Canton as William Weldon, and who -

left the Charles Grant at Margate, was apprehended last night in Lain. beth. He underwent a long examination, in the course of -which, it is said, he made some important communications respecting the rest of the mutineers. He was remanded till next week, in order that he might be identified by Popjoy, and Mr. Capon, the highs constable of Hobart.

TOWE, who came over with lkey Solomons, and whose evidence lets, by a rare coincidence, been so useful in a ease of much more importance. The other fbur mutineers have beett fully.comthitted for trial at the next

Admiralty Sessions. •

Iltraor.Any.—The house of Mr. Gresler, 4, Upper Woburn Place, was broken into early on Tuesday morning ; and among oilier articlies, a valuable gold Watch and seals; a- silver cruet stand, and several other articles of value carried off.

ST E ALLKG.—John Bowling, a had in the employment of Mr. Bishop, of Lillvpot Lane, the newsman, was committed on Monday, en a charge. of stealing four sovereigns and a half and fifteen shillings from his mas- ter. He had -been suspected for some time of robbing the cash-box, and money was marked and deposited there for his detection.

PnISON.BREaKrxn.—A plot of the prisoners under sentence of trans- - portation in Newgate, to break out of that prison, was accidentally dis- covered on Saturday. - Twenty-five of the most active were immediately sent off under a military escort.

THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE AND THE SMUGGLERS.—The Morning Herald gives the following under the date of Dover, Octuber tbe " Some idea of the utility of that most expensive establishment called. the Preventive Service may be formed from the folloWiag occurrence. Ni) less • hau twenty-five bales of hyson tea, each containing about Milt's. were landed undee the walls of the Castle on Saturday night, together with about ten thousand yards of riband ; and, had it not been for the acci- dental wandering abroad of the quartermaster, would all have been safely hauled up the cliffs with ropes and carried off: This took plai:e within a few yards of the blockade station, and upon the very ground where men ought to be constantly walking backwards and forwards ; a proef that the smugglers know how to allay the suspicions of those public-spirited indi- videals attached to the Preventive Service. Thegoodg were of course seiZedj; but the smugglers, with the exception of tyro or three boys, made their escape. The tea; as belonging to the Excise Department, was carried to' the Excise Warehouses ; and the ribands were lodged in the warehenseS . of the Customs. The smugglers, however, were not so easily to be 'deprived of their booty. Last night, a number of man, sup.,;- posed to aMount to net less than twenty-five or thirty, broke into the Excise warehouses; and carried off twenty-four of the bales of tea ! Other, descriptions of goods were in the warehouse ; but "the smugglers," as the„-Doverleople say, "touched nothing that did not belong to them." An.aliErayAnak place at .Worthing on Sunday .Morning, in which A. smuggler, was wounded in the leg, neither did the pMventive men escape - se:et free. Two hundred tubs of gin and several bales a tehacco„ Urge,. therwith Life boat and two men, were seized by the latter ; but the cap- tured smugglers were afterwards rescued, and the .half of the "run goods" carried off in triumph. As one in three is, according to the cal.. culation, sufficient to pay all expenses, the smugglers may be fairly said to have achieved a victory.

From another letter, dated St. Leonards, October 11.—" This morn- . ing, between seven and eight o'clock, when several persons were on the beach preparing to bathe, and others walking on the esplanade, a boat ran on the beach close to the bathing-mach:fie and under the windows of the library ; and, on a given signal, about a hundred and fifty men rushed down from the cliff, and in the space of four minutes and a half emptied the boat of a hundred and fifty casks of spirits, and disappeared before any force could be collected to oppose Ahem. The sentinel.of the preventive service on the beach was told that if he did not give any alarm they would not injure them; but he nevertheless dis. charged his pistol, on which they knocked him down and would perhaps have murdered him but for the remonstrances1 of • some gentlemen who ventured so far to interfere. The boat was abandoned.

• BURNINGS xx Kr.—Time Lords of the Treasury have offered a reward of •1001. for the discovery and apprehension of' the offenders who set fire to and burnt the barns and corn-stacks belonging to the Rev.- Mr. PA-m;(4 Lyminge, in the county of Kent, on the night of the 5th instant( and his Majesty's pardon has been. offered to any but the person 'Who actually set fire to the property, who shall discover and con- viet his accomplices. At the adjourned meeting of • the magistrates and' other -gentlemen of EastLEent held on: Tuesday, at Centerbury, the - High Sheriff in the chair, it was resolved to offer an additional reward of 5001; for the discovery of these incendiaries.

ROERERY AND MunDER.—On Saturday night last, about eight. o'clock: an atrocious Murder, accompanied by an attempt at robbery, was committed on the road to Tuebrook, near Liverpool. On that night, as Mr. Charles Burns, of the firm of M‘Gaa and Burns, wine-merchants, Was returning along the West Derby Road, to his house -at Tuebrook, a man 'rushed from the hedge, and presented a pistol, at the same time demanding hotV much money he had. Mr. Burns immediately turned, and ran 'off ; on which 'the villain tired; and the ball entered the lower part 'orhis back.- The unfortunate gentleman, notivithatanding the. desperate nature of the wound, succeeded in reaching the house of Mr. Turton, on the way to Liverpool. Medical aid was immediately pro-

cured; but he expired about half-past seven o'clock On Sunday evening,

having survived the fatal shot only twenty-four hours. The man by Whom this atiocity was Perpetrated was 'described by. the deceased as

being about five feet nine inches in height.. It would 'appear, that he

remained onthe spot a -considerable time after the murder ; for about art hour and a half later, Mr. John Latham ArrowsMith, of Soho Square, a cousin of the deceased, was robbed about one hundred yards 'from the same 'pike, by three men, one of them dressed in -dark Clothes, of the Bile of the murderer Of Mr. Burns, and itipposed to be the Same person: A reweitY or 1001 has been offered for the apprehension of the raurderer.

• . Mr. Burns was only twentpseven years of age ; he has left a'wife and one child.

MunDEn.---Harry Winter, the captain of a trading vessel, residing at Newhaven, murdered his wife on Friday night last week. Winter

had come home that night in a state of drunkenness ; soon after, he was heard quarrelling with his wife ; which being a usual occurrence, at- tracted no notice. Next morning, he requested a female to go into the house and look to her. The miserable woman was found on the floor of the apartment, nearly naked, her head covered with blood, and quite dead. A shovel, with which the fatal blows had been inflicted, was found lying broken near the body. Winter has been committed to Hor- sham gaol, on the Coroner's verdict.

MuRDEn AT SratniNG.—Cross, the murderer of James Tomlinson, whose commitment to Lincoln Castle we mentioned last week, was stated by mistake to he seventy years of age ; he is a young man.

Frowristo.—Two journeymen tailors weht out the other evening, at Southampton, to settle a difference by single combat. They fought two hours; and one of them was so severely beaten that he died in a few hours after he was carried home.

BIGAM Y.—On Friday last, Mr. Stanley, a most respectable wool- merchant and broker, was apprehended on a charge of bigamy. Mr.

Stanley came to Leeds in the early part of 1826. Ile commenced busi- ness as a wool-merchant and broker, and opened an office and warehouse in Greek Street, Park Row. His business went on prosperously, and

gradually increased, up to 1329. In the beginning of that year, he be- came acquainted with Miss Daniel, a young lady, who then filled the sitaation of governess to Mr. William Gott's children. Having mar- ried, he fixed his abode at Crimbles House, the residence of the late Abraham Parkinson, Esq.. In consequence of this alliance, his commer- cial connexions increased. He apparently lived in a very geuteel style, keeping up a considerable domestic establishment, horses, man servant in livery, &c. Thus flowed the course of his affairs till the eventful Friday last. On the evening preceding that day, a bustling, good-looking female, attended by her son, aged twenty-two years. arrived here from Camber- well, near London. She brought a letter to a respectable resident ; and immediately introduced herself as the wife of Mr. Stanley, whom she married in 1806. She stated, also, that she had borne him eleven children, six of whom are living, and the eldest of whom 'accompanied her. In sup- port of these and other allegations, she produced a regular marriage certi- ficate. Th &necessary depositions being made, and a warrant obtained, Mr. Stanley was taken into custody, in his own warehouse, in less than an hour, and conveyed before Mr. Gott, in that gentleman's countinghouse. Here he was confronted with his wife and son. Ile put a bold face upon the matter. He did not deny that he knew her ; nor did he deny his son (who, by the way, bears an uncommonly strong resemblance to his father) ; but he declared that he had never legally married her. His accuser alleged that his name was not John, as he called himself, and under which he married Miss Daniel, but Joseph. This too he stoutly denied. As, however, Mr. Stanley had not the means of meeting the charge, he was told by Mr. Gott that he must be detained in custody till documentary and other testimony could be adduced to elucidate the question. To this hard necessity he submitted with a tolerably good grace ; but knowing Mr. Gott, he begged permission to go, under the constable's care, to deliver some wool which he had sold to Mr. Wil- iam. Mr. Gott assented. The wool was delivered ; and the officer sub- sequently conveyed him, also by permission, to Mr. Stanley's own residence, where he busied himself for an hour or two in looking over and arranging his books and papers. About six in the evening, Mr. Gott, and Mr. Barr, the deputy town-clerk, repaired to Crimbles House, for the purpose of taking the informations usual in such cases. Miss Daniel, as we must call the second wife, was confined to her apartment by a severe scald in her legs and feet. The examination took place in a front room, in which Miss Daniel sat ; Mrs. Stanley and her son were in a back room adjoining. The constable remained without. During the inquiry, Mr. Stanley repeatedly went from the front to the back room, to speak to his real wife, and made many endeavours to mitigate her anger and her stern demand of justice. All at once he was missed It is supposed that he went out at the back-door, got over a wall, leapt into a plantation, and thence effected a retreat. He has not since been retaken, nor is there any clue to the place of his retreat. His first act, after his escape, was a singular one, and indicates a good heart and honest principle. He hastened to the counting-honse of a gentleman, of whose property he had from 1,000/. to 1,2001. worth in his possession. Re briefly explained that circumstances had arisen which rendered a retreat prudent ; and he put into the gentleman's hands documents relating to the transactions between them, and instructed him how he might regain his own. Having performed this honourable and consi- derate action, be continued his flight, by what means the chroniclers have not recorded ; but on Saturday morning, at a considerable distance from Leeds (as appears from the document,) he executed a regular deed of assignment of all his property, in favour of his second wife's father, Mr. Daniel, (who is, or was then, at Bath) to whom he owed a moderate sum of money which had been advanced to him by way of loan. Under this instrument, the household furniture and other effects were speedily announced for sale. Mr. Stanley's private affairs were in good order. He scarcely owed a pound in Leeds, or any where else, so far as is at present known. All his furniture, which is elegant, has been paid for. In short, it appears from his books that his fair profits of business =minted to little less than 1,0001. a-year.—Leeds Intelligeneer.