CABBAR E BEYOND WHAT THE LAW ALLOWS."—At the Westminster Court

of Re- quests, on Thursday, a tailor had summoned a respectable attorney, for a small suns for work done. The attorney stated in defence, that he had employed the plaintiff to make a Spanish cloak, and his woollen-draper had furnished six yards of broad cloth 14 that purpose ; but when the cloak was brought home, the de- fendant expressed his doubts as to the cloak containing any thing near that quan- tity, and retained a part of the plaintiff's bill until he could get the cloak ex- amined. It was inspected by several tailors ; and their report was, that the quan- tity of cloth actually used did not exceed from , three yards to three yards and a half. In support of his statement, the defendant called a respectable tailor (Mr. Lewis, residing in Manchester-buildings, Westminster,) who stated, that the cloak contained only about three yards and a quarter of cloth. At this stage of the proceedings, another tailor, a stranger to all the parties, and who was present on other business, stepped forth, and declared, at a single glance, that the maximum of its contents was four yards. The case Was j one of the Commis- sioners observing, that "lie would allow a trite for cabbage, but could not think of sanctioning the quantity that had in this instance been taken." The defendant stated, that notwithstanding this decision he was still a loser, and should certainly Proceed against the tailor for the loss: the cloak had cost him 9/. and it lacked of the suitable proportions for a man of his height. This would be a lesson agaihst employing any but regular tradesmen (the plaintiff is a journeyman snip): a cloak of the sonie descrietion, but of the proper size, Mr. Lewis would have made for about 71.—Fron3 a Correspondent.

SLANDE n.—At the Su rreyAssizes, Wood, an attorney, prosecuted Fall, an account- ant at Lambeth, for slander. Some time since a bill of a private nature was brought into Parliament for local purposes in the parish, and the plaintiff had been employed to solicit it through the Deese. When passed, it appeared to some that there were certain defects in it ; and at a meeting held on the subject of the bill, the defend- ant, who was present, took occasion to join in the remarks made. It should be observed, that some time antecedeet to this bill passing, the defendant having become security for a certain tax collector who was a defaulter, he was of course fined to the amount of his defieiences, and the plaintiff was the attorney on that occasion. This induced him to join with some acerbity in the reinarks on the plaintiff, and to add that the plaintiff was a man of millet:1ml propensities, and had on that account been turned out of Soho parish, and that he could turn him out of the parish of Lambeth. This Statement was repeated by the defendant the next day at another meeting. This was the defamation for which the action was brought. Mr. Adolphus addressed the Jury in mitigation, and contended that the character of the plaintiff stood so bight that there was no chance of its being in- jured by any thing which the defendant could say. It was also to he remetrthered that the defendant spoke under the inadence of wounded feelings, as Ile conceived the plaintiff had really injured him. The Jury, without any hesitation, gave a. verdict for the plaintiff—damages 500/. costs 4(18.

LIBEL IN WELSIL—The editor of the Welsh Star, a paper written in the ver- comfier. language of the Principality, was fined 50/. at Monmouth Assizes this week, for a libel on a publican at Tredegats The latter hid got two men confined for rioting in his house, who by accident set the to the straw of the dungeon, aml were both suffocated. The libel charged him with cuisiuue. the death of the two men, and otherwise described him as a cruel and tyrannical character.

COUNTERFEIT COIN AND IRISH EV1 DENCE.—Several persons have been convicted at the Birmingham Assizes, of " putting off" counterfeit sovereigns, half-sove- reigns, half-crowns, and shillings, for less than their nominal value, and knowing them to be counterfeit. The examination of Martin, a most impudent Irishman, who turned King's evidence, formed the chief point of interest at these trials. Ile said he did not expect to receive any remuneration for convicting the prisoners, but he had come over "in consequence of his reports to Govermnent." Ad- dressing Mr. Denman, lie said, "This is not the first time I have had dealings with the gentlemen at the bar ; so you had better not talk to me, or I may let out a little more." His wife, he said, bad a pension of 2s. 6d. a day, and he therefore felt himself bound to support Government ; that, and a love of justice, were the only motives that induced him to betray his former friends. Whets another witness Collis was giving his testimony, Martin kept his eye upon some small pieces of paper, which lay before him; Mr. Denman inquired what those were, and when they had been written ? Witness—" I wrote them after the conversation took place ; as often as any thing occurred, I retired to the muses, and took a note of it." Mr. Denman—" Retired to where ? " Witness—" To the muses." Mr. Denman—" What does the fellow mean ? Are you a poet, friend ? " Witness—" No Sir : but I call a certain convenient house in the yard due muses." (Immense laughter.) Mr. Demnan—" Oh, I beg your par- don. You are the Apollo of that mount, are you ?" (Increased laughter, in which Lord Tenterden most heartily joined.) In another case, being pressed hard by Mr. Sergeant Adams, the witness very coolly observed, "I am really astonished at a gentleman like you putting such silly questions. Ask me sensible questions, and I will answer you." Mr. Sergeant Adams—," Might you not have purchased this coin from other persons ?" Witness—"I haul no money, and therefore! could not." Mr. Sergeant Adams- " So you say ; but suppose you had money?" Witness—cc How can I sup- pose that, when I tell you I had none?'' Mr. Sergeant Adams—" But I ask you, Sir, might you not, if you had the money ?" Witness—" Do you mean if somejackass was to give me the money ? " The learned Sergeant appealed to the Judge, but his Lordship left hint in the hands of the witness.

CREM 'NAL ACCUSATION, TO Exemer Mosey—Two persons, named Strickland and Parker, were tried at Wisbeach last week, on two different indictments, for accusing, and threatening to accuse, John Gay and Matthew Doggett of an un- natural offence, with a view to extort money from them. One indictment laid the extortion to have taken place on the 4th of May last ; the other laid it on • the 5th. Mr. Gay was a respectable solicitor in Wisbeach ; Matthew Doggett; • the person on whom the threat was practised, and who paid the prisoners 5s. " not because he was guilty, but front the fear of losing a good place," was servant to Mr. Girdlestone, also a solicitor in Wisbeach, at whose house Mr. Gay had dined • on the occasion in question. On the first indictment Strickland and Parker were acquitted ; on the second, a different Jury found them guilty, and the Chief Justice ordered sentence of death to be recorded. These trials lasted two days, and excited an extraordinary local interest.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry were proceeding in a curricle few days ago, in the neighbourhood of Stockton-mm-Tees: the pole of the carriage broke, the horses dashed forward, and the vehicle was dragged a considerable • way. The Marquis at length guided and pulled the near horse to a ditch, Adele he Tell on his side under the carriage, and broke his hind-leg. Lady London- derry sat up on the seat of the curricle, squeezed into the corner, during the frightful kicking of the horses ; and when she saw the near horse fall, she scram- ' bled out into the ditch, and only received some slight bruises.

Mr. Wadd, surgeon, of Park-place, St. James's-street, left town for Ireland, about ten days ago, accompanied by Mr. Teggard, the apothecary of Pall-mall. , As these friends were travelling together in a post-chaise not far from Cork, the . post-boy was by some accident dismounted, and the horses took fright and ran. ; off. Mr. Teggard prudently kept his seat in the carriage, and was taken out at , the end of two miles uninjured ; bid Mr. Wadd, upon the first discovery of his danger, jumped out, and was killed on the spot- He was surgeon extraordinary to his Majesty, and had long been one of the council of the College of Surgeons; and was elected by dm College, only two days before he left town, to the distin- guished station of one of the examiners.

Mr. Joseph Reed, a respectable medical practitioner at Islington, walked home on Sunday evening after attending, the last moments of one of Ids patients. Find- ing himself unwell'', he went up stairs, sent. for his wife and daughter, and on Mrs. Reed entering the room, exclaimed, "My dear, I am very unwell ; I am dying— , I ant dying!" It was true; he had burst a blood-vessel, anal died in a quarter of an hour.

Two unfortunate boys, of thirteen and fifteen years, lost their lives Lust • week from sleeping on a brick-kiln near Crenberwell.

The congregation of St. Saviour's in the Borough, was dreadthlly alarmed last

Sundayeby, a notion that the church Was fidling it), occasioned by the loud shutting of a large door. Several persons were hurt in the attempt to escape. The cause of the noise being explained, the service resurned.

On Saturday sennlght, as the gamekeeper of Philip John Miles, Esq. of Ashton, was wiping the lock of his gun with the flap of his coat, as the weapon lay across his knees, it unfortunately went off, lodging the whole of its contents in the side of his wife. The poor woman lingered in great agony for ten minutes, when she

expired. She had not been dead above an hour before her husband, who ap- peared like a distracted man, threw himself into a shallow pond and was drowned, having taken the precaution of tying his hands together for fear he should struggle.—Western Luminary.

At Fordham, an infant, has been killed by laudanum administered to him by a druggist's boy, by mistake for a medicine called Godfrey's Cordial. Several daring robberies of orchards and gardens having lately been committed in Rochford Hundred, Essex, Mr. Jermany, residing at Eastwood, near Leigh, loaded a spring gun and placed it in his orchard to protect his fruit ; when on turning one of the wires, the gun accidentally went off, and lodged its contents in the lower part of his body, causing his instant death. A woman'died on Monday, in St. James's workhouse, of apoplexy, occa- sioned by excessive drinking. For the encouragement of drunkards, however, it is fair to state that she had fifteen years' enjoyment of this vice before it carried her off.

FATAL EFFECT OF THE BAD WEATHER.—A respectable farmer, near Harrow, has put an end to his life ; having been for some time in low spirits on account of the continuance of the bad weather, which he imagined would so injure his crops as to ruin him. ----VURIOUS DRIVING. A drunken scoundrel was committed to Newgate yester- day, for driving over and killing a fine boy eleven years of age in Arabella-street, Pimlico. There is hardly a day pas-es without such accidents, as they are termed ; nor will they cease till some fellow is hanged for causing them.

FIRE. Mr. Grimwell's house, Claremont-square, New-road, was burnt down on Tuesday morning, and the family with difficulty roused from their slumbers in time to escape from the flames. An old nurse was miraculously saved by the ex- ertions of two of the Bow-street patrol, who at the risk of their own lives ascended a ladder to the roof of the house, and drew the poor woman by the hands from the flames over the parapet into the adjoining house.

The Hudson's Bay Company's regular trader from London to the Colombia rver, has been wrecked on the bar of that river. All the crew, twenty-six in niumber, were murdered by the natives on their landing.

A young woman appeared at the Mansionhouse on Tuesday for the purpose Of affiliating a child, of which she was pregnant ; and having gone through the forms, she accompanied Trip, the beadle of Duke's-place, and sat down in his shop while he went up stairs. When he came down he heard a child cry, and upon looking at the young woman, he saw her kissing and hugging a fine child, of which she had at that moment delivered herself. She would, if the beadle had allowed her, have walked to the workhouse.—..Evening Paper.

Execurrosr.—James Brown, alias King, terminated his career on Monday morning on the scaffold in the Old Bailey. Brown has been a man of the most depraved habits, and was the leader of an organized gang of burglars who have for a considerable time been perpetrating the most extensive robberies, accom- panied in many cases with great atrocity. He was now very penitent ; and made confession of robbing a gentleman of his gold watch, about fourteen months ago : this gentleman, he maintained, was Mr. Baker, a divine who attended the prison- chapel; but Mr. Baker said the penitent was mistaken—it must have been some other person, who resembled him.

Fife, Spencer, and Adams, convicted at the late Kent assizes of highway robbery attended with atrocious cruelty, have been respited during his Majesty's pleasure.

Lambourne, the murderer of his wife, having died on Friday last, of the self- inflicted wounds under which he has been so long a sufferer, a Coroner's Inquest has sat upon the body, at Guy's Hospital, and returned a verdict of /do de se.

Mr. Nash, the landlord of the Coach and Horses public-house, in High Hol- born, cut his throat on Thursday morning, and was quite dead when discovered.