OLD BAILEY SESSIONS—The sittings commenced on Thursday, before the Lord
Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Common Sergeant, Mr. Ser- geant Arabin, Aldermen Cowan, Heygate, Scholey, &c. The Judges named in the commission are Mr. BaronBayley, Mr. Baron Bolland, and Mr. Justice Bosanqnet. There are 3 persons charged with bur- • glary, 12 with house-breaking, 1 with horse-stealing, 1 with highway robbery, 8 with stealing in dwelling-houses, 2 with manslaughter, 4 with embezzlement, 7 with receiving stolen goods, 25 with stealing from the person, 1 with sendinga threatening letter, 2 with bigamy, 1 with child- stealing, 1 with perjury, 181 with larcenies, 2 with uttering Counterfeit coin, and 2 with selling it.
S. JOHN LONG—This hero has at length surrendered. He was committed from the Guildhall on Monday, whence he drove to Newgate in his own carriage. The trial comes on at the Old Bailey to-day. COBBETT.—The London Grand Jury, yesterday afternoon, among the rest of their presentments, returned a true bill against Mr. Cobbett for publishing a seditious libel, tending to excite disaffection among his Majesty's subjects, particularly those engaged in agricultural labour, and induce them to destroy machinery, &c. The form of the indictment is similar to that on which Carlile was convicted last sessions.
THREATENING LETTERS.—A man named Cass, aged about seventy, was found guilty at the Chelmsford Assizes, on Wednesday, of writing and sending a threatening letter to the Rev. Mr. Bourchier, of Great Hallingley. He was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. The letter ran thus- " You are sworn a Magistrate, and you should do your duty, but you do not. There are many families starving for want of bread. You give way to the farmers too much. Do you think one person can live on a shilling a week ? Some families have -Is. a week—one shilling for rent, one shilling for tire, one shilling for the man, and-one shilling for his wife—they are starving. The old debsty overseer will either he shot or necked on the head the first opportunity—that is old E. Wilson, unless some altration. There is families that live three days on Swedish turnips and potatoes, and nothing else. There will be SO people attend Chelmsford Court from Great and Little Hallingley, unless some altration. Old E. Wilson drinks more gln in one day than many does beer—he's an old blackgard. There will two quarters of the parish will suffer by fire, if no al tration. One third of the parish is starving."
Cass was discovered by his spelling as well as writing.
THE PERFECTION OF REASON.—A poor man, who resides at Shoreham, applied to the Magistrates of Brighton the other day, to assist him in a case of' legal oppression in the County Court. The case affords a fine picture of the condition of the poor in our free country. The appli- cant, it appears, owed a blacksmith 15.r. ; he paid 6s. 44. on account, and was summoned for 10s. 8d., being 2s. more than he owed. On at. tending to explain the mistake, he was desired to sign the just bill ; which was a paper to pay 8s. 8d., and costs 7s. &I. He paid 16s. at Is. per week, and then thought he had paid all off. Ten days after, he was attached for 4/. 6s. 6d.; and, as he could not pay the money, his goods were seized and sold for 18s. About eight weeks afterwards, he was in Brighton, with a horse and cart belonging to his brother ; when Hughes, an officer, said he had a demand upon him for 5/., and seized the horse and cart, n ch he sold for 36 10s. On Monday last, Hughes said he had an attachment against him, on account of the same business, for 1/. 7s. 10d.
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