Warrants were in the course of the week granted, by
Mr. Broderip, of the Thames Police Office, against Colonel Burrell and Captain Bell, the agents to Don Pedro, for an alleged infraction of the Foreign Inlistmcnt Act ; but,' from the caution of these officers, it was found impossible to serve them. The warrants were applied for by the Consul of Don Miguel. The offence is a doubtful one. Donna Maria is the only recognized Sovereign of Portugal, and the men were raised for her service. They left the river on Tuesday, in various detachments an i d from various points. The whole number s stated to have been 1;600.
The Old Bailey Sessions commenced on Thursday. On that day, Elates, the man charged with stealing'the rcticuie of Lady St. Germains, at Wormwood Scrubbs, was found guilty. Yesterday, Bainbridge, the woman who stabbed a black man who resided with her, and whose case was reported at the time, was found guilty of manslaughter; and Kennedy and Brown, the men implicated in the. death of Mr. Smales, in the .River, were found guilty of murder, and ordered for execution on Monday.. The entire cases for trial amount to 516. artholomew Pair was pit-Agri-fed in the usual flirt-ion Monday:\, On the suggestion of Mr. Char/es Pearson, every degree of strictnesS \ which the law permits was used to enforce the shutting-up of the nu. , merous public-houses and gin-shops in the vicinity of Smithfield, at the regulated hours. The weather has been exceedingly favourable to the holyday folks ; and we would fain hope, notwithstanding the anticipa tions to the:.contrary, that the fair will not add to the virulence of the . cholera, the fear of which dictated Mr. Pearson's suggestion. If the Magistrates could contrive a gauge by which to measure the purity of the liquors dispensed by the publicans, they-would do morel° repress diseasethan by shutting, them up at eleven o'clock. It is the quality Of the "heavy," as much as the quantity, that injures the stomach of the unthinking bibber.
;`-----Old-Sairtrob-MirPoliceemfficer, was robbed in Bartholomew Fair on 'Tuesday of a pocket-book, containing two—warrants I A case for :the casuists of the law stands for adjudication in the Lord Mayors Court. -A female,-now .named' Powell, had a husband who deserted her ; at the end of ten years, he being reported dead, she married again. She has a family by her second husband, to whom she has been united nine years. Word was recently brought to England, that the first was living in America, where he has married another wife. Mrs. Powell claims relief from Bishopsgate; her present husband's parish. The question is, are the children she has born to him illegitimate or not ? By law, if a husband be absent for more than seven years, his wife May again marry with impunity; but the law, which relieves her from punishment, has not settled the condition of her offspring.
A disgusting instance of profligacy was exposed yesterday at Worship Street, in the course of investigating a charge of unlawful pawning. The parties were a female of twenty-three, and two brothers, the one eighteen the other seventeen years of age. The female, after cohabiting with the younger brother, had married the elder ; and, at the time the charge was preferred, all three were living in the same room laid slept in the same bed!
• ---"A young scoundrel named 'Steel, only fourteen years old, "but well grown for his age," the son of a silversmith in Oxford Street, was examined at Marlborough Street, on Wednesday, on a charge of extensive robbery preferred by his father. It appears he kept company with no fewer than four young ladies ; at whose suggestion, according to his account, the acts of robbery were committed. Three of the ladies are in custody,—Miss Amelia Saunders, Miss Catharine Phillips, and Miss Jane May; the fourth, Miss Lee, is not yet captured. As young ladies are rather scarce commodities at Botany Bay, the Old Bailey Court cannot do better than despatch Master Steel and his harem thither, where a more equitable distribution of the fair ladies' favours may be effected.
A Jew named Brown, with half a dozen of aliases, was committed from Worship Street on Monday, for stealing clothes and other articles from a number of hotels. Among others, Captain Forbes, the candidate for Preston, had been laid under contribution for a coat.
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