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At the Guildhall, on Saturday, Charles Wyatt, a Pimlico pawn-

broker, was fined 40.s. for taking one halfpenny beyond the legal interest of a loan of 40s. for three months. A common informer was the pro- secutor, and Alderman Lucas the judge, in this very hard ease.

At the Mansionhouse, on 'Wednesday, James Read, an extensive dealer in fish at Billingsgate market, was fined 9.0/. for selling more than twelve pair of soles in one lot. The complainants in this case were small dealers, who said they suffered much by the wholesale man- ner in which the business was now conducted, and which was con- trary to an act passed in the reign of George the Third. The Lord Mayor said, in reply to the defendant's attorney, that though the law might be deemed obsolete, it was on the statute-book, and was, doubt- less, intended to protect the poor fishmonger, who could only buy in small quantities, front the wealthy monopolist. He should theretbre give judgment against the defendant, but would not allow any further steps to be taken till the questiott were settled in at higher court.

It will be recollected that, some weeks ago, a female searcher on board of the City of Boulogne steam-vessel was fined la for searching two ladies, friends of Sir William Curtis, without reasonable cause. She was suffered to depart on the promise of Mr. Rutherford, principal clerk to the Solicitor of Customs, that the fine should be paid. On Thursda, Mn'. Cooke, it clerk in the Customs, called at the Mansion- house toy in thrin the Lord Mayor that the conviction was bat in law. The Lord Mayor asked if the tine had been paid? Mr. 110!)Ier said, it had not. "'?'hen," said the Lord Mayor, " 1 can hear making from the Commissioners of Customs on the subject. I would have detained the woman if Mr. Rntherfi)rd had not guaranteed the payment of the fine. I am not to be turned round in this manner ; and k will never again take the word of the Solicitor to the Cu4onis or any other esta- blishment." Mr. Cooke said lie wished to remove the conviction into the Crown Office, where it might be determined whether it was good in law. The Lord Mayor, however, would only say, that if the fine were not paid, the woman should be arrested ; and Mr. Cooke left the office.

An inquest was held on Wednesday, at the' London Hospital, on the body of Charles Henry Moore, who was accidentally killed by a blow from part of the machinery of a coining-press at the Royal Mint. Mr. Atkinson, of Portman Square, the senior Moneyer at the Mint, said that Ire had closely investigated the circumstances of the case soon after the occurrence, and from every thing he could learnta I

ere was no doubt whatever on his 11111111 that it was quite accidental. \l r. X;Isinson also gave a description of the outliner in which the accident had occurred ; nod observed that, since the erection of the existing mai:hi:wry at the Mint, this was only the second ao.ident which had occurred in the esta- blishment in nineteen years ; and when this circumstance, together with the extent of machinery, the number of persens employed, and the quantity of business done there, was taken into consideration, he felt satisfied the Jury would not consider that there hail been any careless- ness on the part of' those whose duty it was to attend to it, or any danger in the construction of the machinery itself. The Coroner and Jury felt satisfied with the explanation ;) and the evidence of a pupil in the Hospital having stated that death had been produced by the injury, a verdict of " Accidental Death " was renamed.