Mr. Rotch was unanimously reelected Chairman of the Middlesex Magistrates,

at the Adjourned Sessions, held on Thursday. A long discussion arose as to the sale of some land in Westminster, on a mo- tion of Sir John Scott Lillie, recommending the revision of a resolu- tion of the Court by which the sale was postponed. On a division, there appeared 12 for selling the land and 12 for retaining it. The Chairman refused to vote either way ; thus the question fell through.

Captain William Stokoe, of the East India Company's service, was sentenced on Saturday, in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, to fifteen months' imprisonment, for having represented himself worth 4000/. on Ms marriage with a young lady whom he afterwards deserted, with the view of marrying another. He had been compelled to settle an annuity on his wife, but he never paid it; and his discharge was opposed on behalf of his wife, by her trustees.

Application was made at the Man aonhouse on Monday, for an order to compel a Mr. Stephen Underwood, a citizen of London, and a man of sonic property, to contribute a weekly sum to the support of his father, a pauper in the parish of Yelden, in Norfolk. The claim was resisted, on the ground that, under the new Poor-Law Act, the support of parents is not compulsory on the children, although fathers and grandfathers may be compelled to support their immediate descendants. The Lord Mayor was unwilling to decide one way or the other ; but in the end, the application was dismissed, as one Magistrate is not em- powered to act in such cases, and the Lord Alayor was on the bench alone.

At the Bow Street Office, on Monday, George Pink Smith, a pri- vate of the Forty-ninth Regiment, was committed, on a charge of robbing a fellow lodger at a house in Cro:ner Street, Brunswick Square, of several articles of clothing.

At the same office, a cabman was fined twenty shillings and costs, for refusing to drive Digby the informer, and another man of the same trade, in his cab.

The Magistrates decided, that the Hungerford Market Company have no power, under their act of incorporation, to compel payment of toll or rent from persons who hawk about articles for sale on their pre- mises. The act gives them power over persons connected with the market, and none other.

Three journeymen printers were brought before Sir Frederick Roe yesterday, for intimidating and abusing another printer, who had with- drawn from the Printers Society. These men also told their employer, Mr. Wright, of Noel Street, St. James's, that they would leave his office, unless he discharged Taylor, the person with whom they had quarrelled, and who, they said, was not fit to work with respectable men. The Magistrate committed one of the delinquents to prison and hard labour for two mouths ; another for one month and hard labour; and dismissed the third, who had been less active than the others, with a reprimand and a caution as to his future conduct.

Mary Barnes, a widow, with several aliases to the name now given, who has already been remanded twice on charges of robbery, in order

to give time to procure decisive evidence, was again placed at the bar of this office on Thursday. She is the same individual who some time ago gave evidence against her two sons at the Maidstone Assizes, where they were found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transporta- tion, for robberies of a similar nature to those of which she herself now stands charged. There were on Thursday morning no fewer than five cases against her. She was committed for trial, and the parties bound over to prosecute.

A warrant was granted yesterday, at the Union Hall Office, for the typrehension of Mr. John Emblem, the son of a clergyman at1Stratford, in Essex, on a charge of stealing an octave flute and a violin from a Mr. John Eardley, a tradesman residing at Lower Tooting, into whose house he had contrived to gain admittance. The rather of the thief, when applied to, said he was not surprised to hear of his son's con- duct, as he had behaved even more dishonestly to other parties.

Sir Charles Forbes appeared at the Marylebone Office on Monday, and charged Thomas Hughes, a servant out of place, who had been assisting his servants on Sunday in some household work, with stealing a chronometer, a repeater, a snuff-box presented to Sir Charles by King George the Fourth, and a musical seal, all very valuable, from his dressing-room-table. There was, however, scarcely any evidence against the man, and he was discharged. It has since been discovered that a person whose name is not mentioned, but who is said to be under great obligations to Sir Charles, is the real delinquent.

At the Marlborough Street office on Monday, a poor Scotch- man was charged with the crime of having slept in a dung-cart, the night before. He had travelled from Edinburgh to London to get some news of his son, who was gone to the East Indies, and to see an old friend, a " manufacturer of spunks, called hereabout matches." He was above begging, but accepted a shilling from the poor-box; which Mr. Chambers, the Magistrate, kindly and sensibly gave the poor old man, instead of sending him to prison to expiate his offence among felons.

Mr. Richard Cathie and the Reverend Robert Taylor have had a violent quarrel, though till recently they were devoted friends. On Saturday, at the Queen Square Office, Taylor charged Carlile with assaulting him ; but, after some time had been wasted in hearing the trumpery case—which involved a contradiction between the Reverend gentleman's former doctrine and present practice in regard to matri- mony—the defendant was discharged.

A seller of the Legal Hue and Cry newspaper was committed from Hatton Garden Office, on Tuesday, to the House of Correction, for seven days. The person who laid the information against him was an inspector of hawkers' licences.

At the Guildhall, on Tuesday, Peter Frederick Roselt, the natural son of a Peer, whose name is not given, was charged with stealing ten pounds from the carpet-bag of a person from the country, who was staying with him at the Bell Inn in Holborn. He positively denied the charge, but was committed to Newgate for trial.

A simple-looking young woman, about twenty-five years of age, came before the bench of Magistrates, at a Petty Session held on Monday at Highgate, to affiliate a girl aged two years and a half to a mechanic, who, about three months ago, was married to another young woman. The Reverend Dr. Owen, addressing the young woman, observed that he did not feel himself justified in calling upon the reputed father to support her illegitimate offspring. He then made an order for the child's admission into the Hornsey Workhouse. The mother of the child cried bitterly at the Magistrate's mandate, and declared that she should break her heart to be separated from her child. She acted in accordance with her resolution not to be separated from her infant, and was therefore refused any parochial assistance.