In the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, sentences were prs-
nouneed on the prisoners convicted at the last sessions. Six were snms- tenced to death (but none of them will be Iranian ; twelve to trans- portation for life; eight for ;fourteen years ; arid forty-six for seven. years.
At the Mansionbouse, on Saturday, a boy who had been charge& some time ago with stealing from his master, but who was discharged by the Lord 3Iayor, complained that he had been driven from anethe! Place which he had got, by his former master accusing him of theft to his employer. lie could not tell what to do, but wished to go to soa. The Lord liaryor gave him five pounds, and recommended hint tr., a man in the office, who fits out boys for sea and procures them plaees T. vessels. This transaction speaks well for Lord Mayor Kelly. 1r.. some of the Police-offices, the boy would have met with very dirferen treatment.
At the Thames Police-office, on Wednesday, the captain of a Indianan, from Jamaica, applied for the assistance of the Magistrara It) secure a negro who bad concealed him=elf in his ship, and Was (1 I ,:eavered until three days after he left Jamaica : unless he to: 'k back, he should be liable to a heavy penalty. Mr. Ballantyne mi.i, supposed the negro liked England better than Jamaica; and as he Will ■ %; 11 -ed of no crime, nobody here could force hitn to go back again ; was perfectly free in England.
At Bow Street, on 'Tuesday, Thomas Francis Carroll, the ".-.1ras...ei, ford attorney, was ordered to Isr set to Br istol, natal thews!! to IV 'ear. ford, to take bis trird on the charge of forging the name of :"7.r. Barron, Al. P., to a bond for 460/. Mr. Barron said, that notl.::-.1.■ hitt a strong sense of duty to the public could induce him to proseeate the prisoner, who had been his agent in two contested tact:rim:a, arsa had been intrusted with all his family secrets.
James Ilarlatel, an old gentleman who had onee been a merchant is, Mitchell:It Street, was taken before the Lord -Mayor un l'uesdav, try a Policeinan, whom he had assaulted. Mr. Harland, evidently out n.r4- his mind, hall collected a crowd in Fenchurch Street, to whom he wee reading the contents of a parchment. The constable desired him tc. " move mm;'' but Mr. Harland struck him with the tin ease ill he kept his parchment, and would not obey. A Resole occurred nu ills affirm. Mrs. Harland, who had been deserted by her Inisband, appei:thc; to claim lni,n : she had been supported by her parish for nine yea '°. gentleman present told the Lord :Mayor the history of the Ilarlauth:-- The case, he said, was a most deplorable one. Mr. ('banks Harland, the brother of the defendant, had, upon his death, left a large sum of menrs; ttttt igst the family, all of whom had been in very humble circumstances itrlecsl. • lime money produced the most active spirit of hostility amongst the elaimaat At length it Was agreed, upon reference to a high mercantile house, tha..1. property should he equally divided, and an agreement to that effect was drawL: up and signed by all the parties. The agreement, however, afforded matter to farther disagteenient, and again the estate was submitted to the tedious misery of an equity process. The defendan contrived, notwithstamlires, to get bo!c of 1.000/, of it; and with that he proceeded to America, of his return frmr which country nobody knew until the complaint against him had been ms.fs the Justice-room.
Old Harland said, it was true the CiISC was in Chancery, but tiaLL WaS IlUt his fault, or his relations.— Ty a conspiracy of lawyers and Jews, who seemed to have been born to Lap ea4.: other for the honour and glory of their C0111111110U parent the Devil, the pre— re: •y was '11.1%5.'11 intl the above. named Cum t, and the greatest confusion u.as result. Ile had glue off to America, where Inc remained for some 3 ear.; a, now that he Was come back to make another attempt to rescue the ■-stve from the fings!of Cli.incery, he was apprehended the moment he began to measures for the purpose.
Ile was ordered to find bail for the assault ; and was taken to prisosa till it could be obtained, after an attempt to escape from the Polk:- matt by runtrieg suddenly out of the °thee.
It was mentioned last week, that 'Eliza Davies, barmaid at the Kira Arms, Frederick Street, mad been murdered, and found witlt her throat cut within] the bar of the public-house. Several persons, nonswering trs the de-eription of the supposed murderer, have been taken before the Ala,ri.trates ; but discharged, in the absence of all hut vague sespieion against them. One mau, a foreigner, named Eugene Courrisr, kis been arrested at Bath ; but the evidence against him is far froin con- elusive. There is some suspicion that the girl killed herself. A. reward of 100/. for the discovery of the murderer has been offered by the Ilome Office. in addition to 50/, which the girl's master will give. Mrs. Mary Anne Woinesley, who has some connexion with the Good Samaritan Society, was tined '201. at the Lambeth Street Office on Thursday, for giving a good character as a servant to aproatitate.
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