Mr. Benjamin Dickenson, of the firm of Dickenson and Son,
cotton- merchants, Manchester, has been fully committed to Lancaster Gaol for trial on several charges of forging the acceptances of Messrs. Lees and Bottomley to bills of exchange to a great amount.—Halifax Paper.
A girl of bad character, named Harriet Legerton, was tried the other day at the Essex Adjourned Sessions, for stealing a purse with money from Robert Gladwin; and the following verdict was returned
by the Jury---" We find Harriet Legerton not guilty, alid.we consider Gladwin as bad as she is, and the worst of the two."
On Thursday morning, six or seven poachers were detected shooting pheasants in Sir T. Lethbridge's preserves. On the gamekeepers, who were unarmed, going up to them, they formed in a line and fired on them ; wounding severely, though not dangerously, two of the ser- vants, named Lockyer and Holl, and then escaped. Sir Thomas has offered a reward of 30/. for their apprehension.—Taunton Courier.
On Wednesday week, Mr. Aleeson's tape manufactory at Measham was totally destroyed by fire, with all the valuable machinery and stock. The amount of the loss is not yet ascertained, but is presumed to ex- ceed 10,000/. ; upwards of 90 pair of hands are put out of bread by this calamity.—Leicester Journal.
A powder-mill, near Battle, belonging to Mr. Charles Lawrence, blew up, on Thursday afternoon, with a fearful explosion ; but, fortu- nately, no one was in it at the time.
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