... CRIMINAL LA Tr. In the course of the last session of Parliament, Lord Brorrtana presented the report of the Coaltrrissiorners ap- pointed to examine into the Criminal Law, and to that io. port was appended a code upon tlre single subject cf theft. His Lordship ?? a sort of promise io introduce ?? code to the legislative consideration of the House in ti(! course of the next session. We hope ...

... ?? 1R. HrDGER, Esq., Chairman.1 Jo/n Divine, aged 20, and John Mealinq, aged 22, were indicted for having unlawfully and feloniously obtained from one Eliza Nicholls, with intent to cheat and defraud, two shillings under the following peculiar circumstances:- The Pro~ecutrix, a poor woman, deposed she resided in Meadows-place, Lambeth. On the 4th instant the prisoner Divine came to her ...

... MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SrNGUL..A CAs..-A VOLung- man of very repulsive ap- pear-abe, having lis hair fastened in a knot, with a comb in the same manner as a woiman's, wet yestortloy brought before Mr. Conant on the followiag charge:- The previous afternoon he had been seen to decoy a lit- tle child into a house in Church. street, in which he occu- pied a garret, and information of the ...

... COURT OF CHANCERY.-FsuDAY. WHVrrrAleE. V. LEACH. This was an appeal from the Court below, against a decision on exceptions taken to the Master's report. The question arose out of the construction to be put on the will of a lady named Slade, who had devised certain free- hold avd copyhold lands, situate at Bampton Abbots, in the county of Oxford, to Richard Whittaker, for life, and then to his ...

... POLICE INTELLIGENTC.E. MANSION-HOUSE. WOI.ESALtE COI.NING.-On Saturday, Samntel Shannon, a butcher, wvhto resides at No. 33 IPetticoat-lane, was brought before the LolD MAYOR under the following cir- cumstanees': Mr. Wityear, the superintendent of Police in the City of London, stated that hc had received information that a good deal of counterfeit coin was secreted in Petticoat.lame. lie in ...

... LA4W NOTICES.-Tils DAY. COURT OF CHANCERY, WESTMINSTER. Sittings at ten. Graves v Hicks, appeal, part ?? v Palmer, rehearing- Aogell v Westcombe, appeal-RavenshaV v Hollier, ?? v Graham, ditto. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, WESTMINSTER, Sittings at ten. Pittv Bonner, fifth ?? v Taylor, by ?? v Hudson, cause, by ?? v Ward, ?? v Roberts, petition, by ?? v Spronle-Dittoy Price, two pleas- Hatfield v ...

... S t BOW-STREET. I SMASHiNG.-On Saturday Richard Grifihsvas brought up, charged with uttering a counterfeit ?? to a . Mr. Shenstone, a scale.maker, residing in the Strand. It appeared that the prisoner entered the shop of the prosecutor on that Inoriing, and requested to be served with an ?? weight, the value of which was 6d. The weight having been handed to him, he placed on the counter a good ...

... LAWI NOTICES.-7TIS DAY. COURT OF CHANCFRY, WESTMINSTER. In re ~~~sittings at teil. vrnikal lii re lutip hric, ?? pietiltiol h-, order-O ar Elkiira - Graves v llickt, ?? v Palmer, ?? v UWetncombe, upileal-tavenshllatv v llallier, ditto. VI- CHAE CEL OR'S COURT, WESCi'MINSTEH. ~~ ~~ SittIngs at te a Tdo, Pu ilt votmer, fioe ntgio.n byo ?? v Tylior, ly order-- IIoinpsoll v U pron, om'e ?? v. ...

... QUEEN-SQUARE. Catvir.'ry ro ANIMAlS-.Juames Kirby,', a dlraynman in tlhe ?? of A1Iessrs. Joseph CarteC Wood, Hsq., and Co., porter and ale brewers, Artillery-place, Strutton- ground, e'cstmiriil ster, was charged ivith cruelly beating a fine tlray-liorse, the property of his eolple) Lrs, hir. Frederiek Wood stated, that oss Satiurday eight last, aoutst seven o'clock, he heiard one of the ...

... POLICE. INTRLLIGBNCR GUILDHALL. Inspector Martin,' of the City police, produced 47)., which, he itated, had eots into his possession in the following manner _-In passing down Ludgate-hill the previous evening, he found a boy crying bitterly, and saying, that a man who was standing with him had 501. of his money, and was going to run away with It'; and, as the man admitted he had nearly that ...

... GUILDHALL. Mrs. Sandell, who keeps the house in Little Distaff-lane I which was plundered last Saturday evening by a fellow who put a pitch plaster over the servant's mouth and nearly, suffocated her, attended yesterday before Mr. i Alderman Cowan to show why she refused to pay her poor-rates. Her statement was, that when she came into the parish four years ago the house was assessed at 1!. ...

... MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday, a young man, named Johsn Lawson, who was servant to a gentleman of rank at the west-end of the town, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having entered the house of an inhabitant of Leadenball- street, and concealed himself on the roof, where he was found at two o'clock in the morning. A constable stated that as he was going his rounds at two o'clock in ...