At the Sandwich Borough Sessions, on Thursday week, a true
bill was found against Mr. George Hawkins, for an assault on Sir Charles Shaw, committed on Ramsgate Pier. The plaintiff's solicitor imme- diately handed in a writ of certiorari, removing the case into the Court of Queen's Bench.
The Reverend Richard Blacow, incumbent of the living of St. Mark's, Liverpool, and the Reverend Prince Crawford, his curate, had a violent quarrel in the Vestry, just before Sunday- evening service, about fees. Crawford said to Blacow—" If it were not, Sir, for your gray hairs and your old age, I would give it you, you wretch." Such is Blacow's statement : Crawford's is the following- " I confess I felt very much incensed; and turning to Mr. Blacow, I said, ' Your .gray hairs are a sufficient protection to you, to prevent me from using expressions to you, equally coarse as yours are to me; nevertheless, I do tell you that you are a wretched old man; your gray hairs, instead of being ti crown of glory, are a covering of shame to you. You are now going, with the habiliments of death upon .you, to proclaim the gospel, of which you boast to have been a preacher for fifty years; while your own heart seems to be un- touched, uninfluenced, and unsubdued by it. The only revenge I will take of you is to pray Gout Almighty to change your heart l' Mr. Enemy's reply was, Keep your prayers to yourself, you great hulk want none of them 1" Sir William Follett has been retained to defend Bolam of Newcastle :
his feels three hundred guineas. Mr. Cresswell, it is said, has also been engaged.
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