In the Bankruptcy Court, on Tuesday, the affairs of General
Palmer, late Member for Bath, and described as in wine. merchant, were investigated. The debts proved amount to 10,0001. ; and there are no assets at present, but there is a vintage at Bordeaux, the proceeds of
which, it is said, will furnish a dividend. bankrupt is at present in tl e Fleet prison, in a bad state of health.
A woman was remanded from the Bow Street Office on Monday, on u charge' of throwing her own son, three years old, from the second story of a house in Chailcs Street, Drury Lane. The child is not ex- pected to live. The woman was drunk. John William Bertrand, a Negro, was committed on Monday from the Lambeth Office, to be tried on a charge of stealing jewellery worth 500/. from a box in the Victoria, a vessel hound to Carthagena, on board of which the Negro was cook. Three women were accused of receiv- ing part of the stolen property, but they were discharged. The man confessed the 'heir.
At the Hatton Golden Office, on Tuesday, the driver of a Padding- ton omnibus was condemned to pay 4/. 1Ss. fur damage done to a cab- riolet which lie upset while racing with another omnibus.
A young man u few days ago offered some books for sale to Mr. White, a bookseller, in Blenheim Smet, Oxford Street. That gentle- man, suspecting from Certain marks that the books belonged to the
British Mu‘toun, told the young man to leave the books and call the next day. Mr. White's suspicions having been confirmed, an officer was kept in waiting, but the young man did not make his appearance. Many valuable sets of books have, it is said, been recently rendered incomplete through robberies like these.
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