In the New Court, on Thursday, Mary Wearing was tried
on a charge of embezzling the sum of one shilling, belonging to the prose- cutor, the Reverend John Stnallintin Master, of Greenwich. Mr. Master said that he was Treasurer of the Greenwich Provident So- ciety, arid that the prisoner was employed as collector. The shilling she had kept was received in 1837, before the death of the lute King. The Common Sergeant said, there was an end of the charge, as the indictment stated the offence to have been committed in the month of April, in the first year of the reign of Victoria, whereas she era; not Queen at that time. It appeared, moreover, that the society itself was defunct in December 1836, and the prisoner could not be the servant of a society which did not exist. The prisoner was acquitted. Another trumpery charge of the like nature was brought against the prisoner ; but the Judge immediately directed an acquittal, adding that there was no pretence for sending her to trial. Mr. Clarkson, the prisoner's coun- sel, said that this poor woman had actually paid off a debt to the Greenwich society left by her husband, to the amount of 181. (This Reverend John Smallman Master must be a merciful man ; and his conduct in the prosecution of Mary Wearing will doubtless endear him to all his parishioners.]
The trial for perjury of three persons, who swore to a charge of bribery against Mr. W. H. Miller, M. P. for Newcastle-under-Lyre, be- fore an Election Committee, takes place to-day in the Central Criminal Court.
On Tuesday afternoon, the extensive turpentine works of Sir Charles Price at Limehouse were destroyed by fire. The premises were con- sumed in a short time. The amount of damage is very great, as the manufactory was one of the largest in the kingdom.
We are requested to state, that James Hepburn, one of the domestics of Sir Andrew Leith Hay, who recently made a complaint before the Magistrates at Marlborough Street Police-office respecting some arrears of servants' wages, has presented himself before Mr. Chambers, for the purpose of stating, on behalf of himself and his fellow-servants, that their claims upon Sir Andrew have been completely di charged: and that, from the explanation that has been given, they are perfectly
satisfied that Sir Andrew had not left town without due instructions as to the settlement of their demands, and that no blame whatever attaches to him in respect to the delay.—Courier.
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