The Recorder, on Wednesday, made a report to the King
of the pri- soners in New'gate under sentence of death, convicted at the last Ses- sions,Old Bailey—viz. Joseph Bewley, returning from transportation; John Smith, Thomas Guest, George Richardson, William Ward, Ni- cholas White, and Mary Jones, housebreaking; and Job Cox, stealing a letter front the Post-Office; all of whom his Majesty was pleased to respite during pleasure,—although, by a mistake of the Recordersthe warrant for the execution of Cox was actually sent to Newgate. This will, it is said, be publicly investigated by the Common Council.
Andrew Macarthy, a child eight years old, known as one of the most experienced among the forty thieves of the Whitechapel gang, was sen- tenced, at the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, to two months' hard labour, and two whippings, for stealing a tea-caddy containing 21. 1St. out of a house in Whitechapel.
On the same day, another boy, eleven years of age, was sentenced to be transported for fourteen years, for robbing a boy in the streets, of some books belonging to his father. This lad cross-examined the pro- secutor with considerable ingenuity, and was said to be the most impu- dent rascal that the Magistrates had ever seen at the bar. The march of intellect, with a vengeance! On the arrival of the mail from Bristol to London on the 30th ult., the parcels sent by it, instead of being delivered as usual, were takes to the General Post-Office, and there opened and detained. Among the parce45 were several from attornies in Bristol, to their iondon ageing, enclosing legal proceedings and letters to the agents respecting these documents. On the following morning, the anoraks received letters from the solicitor to the Post- Office, threatening them with actions for the recovery of penalties Qf M., which he alleged were incurred in each case ; and he has since intimated that the exemption from postage to which they considered themselves entitled, extends only to letters sent with goods.
The pensioners in Chelsea Hospital never were so healthy as at present.
A great number of Irish vagrants have been passed by the different London parishes during the past week. • They will most of them pro- • bably beg their way back again from Liverpool, and then get passed again by some other parishes, and continue doing this as long fine weather lasts.
William Hayden, a young man, in the employ of Mr. Davies, news- man, Broad Street, Bloomsbury, forged a check for 3001. on Praeds and Co., of Fleet Street, on the 17th of June, and got the money, and has not been heard of since.
Mr. Charles Inman, a surgeon, who resided in Adelaide Street, cut his throat on Sunday last, in a tit of temporary insanity.
. The body of a man, about twenty-five years of age, was found float- ing in the Regent's Canal, near the Hampstead Road Bridge, on Mon- day. Arsenic, sonic foreign coins, and a flattened bullet, were found in his pocket.
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