At the Bow Street Office, yesterday, John Minter Hart, whose
name has been frequently before the public in connexion with bill At the Bow Street Office, yesterday, John Minter Hart, whose name has been frequently before the public in connexion with bill
transactions, was committed for trial, on a charge of forging and utter- ing a bill of 5001., with intent to defraud the Reverend Charles Jen- ner, of Wenvoe, Glamorganshire, son of Sir Herbert Jenner. It appeared that Mr. Jenner had given a blank acceptance for 200/. ; but the amount had been subsequently altered to .500/.
At the Marylebone Office, on Tuesday, Richard Robinson, a pri- vate in the Grenadier Guards, was fined ten shillings for being drunk and assaulting a Policeman.
It appears from a return furnished to the Poor-law Commissioners by the Board of Guardians of the Strand Union, that in the week end- ing the 26th November last, the number of in-door paupers was 565; which is 176 less than the number in the corresponding week of last year. The diminution in the number of out-door paupers is consider- ably greater. In the same week this year, the number was only 190; whereas in the preceding year there was 596 out-door paupers receiving relief. The amount of out-door relief during the corresponding weeks of the two years was, in November 1835,59/. 2s. 7d., November 1836, 51. 19s. 61d., the diminution being at the rate of 2,272/. per annum.
Captain Folger, who shot Mr. William Mellish in April 1833, was released from Newgate on Tuesday, on condition of his leaving the
kingdom within thirty days. There was no doubt of Folger's insanity at the time he shot Mr. Mellish, whom he fancied to be his mortal enemy.
On Wednesday morning, a barge laden with coals ran foul of one of the piers of Blackfriars Bridge, with such violence that the barge was split in two, and the waterman was drowned.
On Monday night, a man decently attired and quite sober, threw himself from the two-shilling gallery into the pit of Drury Lane Theatre, as the people were going out. Fortunately, be hurt nobody but himself; but he was taken to an hospital almost dead.
At Norwood, the ravages of the storm last week were most exten- sive. A terrific gust carried away the three turrets of Norwood Church; which, falling upon the roof, forced it completely in, carrying away in its descent the galleries of the church, and rendering it a complete ruin.
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