At the INiansionhouse, on Saturday, two young men were committed
to prison, each for a month, for having offered for sale a id. and a .2(1. newspaper. The Lord Mayor regretted that, for the sake of the newspaper-proprietors, the Stamp-office did not proceed against the principals at once, instead of the poor penniless creatures whom it was a mercy to give victuals to. The Inspector of Stamps said that the office was proceeding in the most resolute and summary way. They seized presses in which the prohibited business was done, but the ojAnders contrived to get every thing set up and printed in the country. Lit will be found, by and by, that the Stamp-laws cannot be enforced so as to protect the fair dealer against the contrabandist.]
At the Greenwich Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, Thomas Henry Latham, landlord of the Wheatsheaf publichouse in that place, was committed for trial on a charge of stabbing in the face Henry William Floyde, who was drinking in his house. The wound was a very severe one, and seems to have been given with scarcely any provocation.
A discovery has been made at Greenwich of a receptacle for stolen goods, in the house of a mall named Ingram. Some sheet copper be- longing to Greenwich Hospital was traced to his premises ; and upon close inspection several subterranean rooms were found, constructed with a good deal of skill, and containing pewter, lead, and copper ar- ticles, principally stolen from Greenwich Hospital, to the value of SOU Ingram himself has absconded ; but his wife and Beale, a mes- senger of the Hospital, supposed to be an accomplice in the thievery, were examined on Saturday before the Magistrates, and remanded.
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