WITCHCRAii.: — mii following case was heard at Union Hall Police Office
this week. A young woman charged an old one with putting a spell upon her.
Mr. Chambers inquired what she meant by a "spell upon her ?"
Complainant—" She is nothing more nor less than an old witch, and every body in the neighbourhood knows it." The old woman declared that she knew nothing about putting a spell" on her accuser, who was never quiet except when she was scolding and calling her out of her name.
The complainant said, that the old woman had, by her acquaintance with the Devil, put a spell upon a man that was now lying on the fiat of his back, bed- ridden, and there he would lie until she took the spell off. " She rattles marbles in a tea-pet at my door in the middle of the night, and fetches up rats alive out of the cellar by the tails, and lets them loose upon me; and she is a cat-killer into the bargain." The witch and her victim were dismissed. Oh, Antelluek, Ante!- luck, as Cobbett has baptized thee, what a lame and halting jade thou art, notwithstanding all the boasts of thy march ! Arr setentric- gentleman was brought -before Mr. Sergeant Sellon, the other day, charged with the entirely novel offence of over-abundant compassion for the poor. He had stripped himself of his own clothes, which were new and expensive, in order to put Ahem upon a poor trembling creature without shoes- or stockings, whom he met in the street. The gentleman—who is a man of great -respectability, of the name of Lloyd—strove very earnestly to convince Mr. Sergeant Sellon that he had a right to exchange clothes with any man he ,pleased, and -that he ought not to be deprived of his liberty for exercising it ; but the learned Sergeant was not to be convinced so easily, that any one on the right side of his senses would make an exchange which was so evi- dently a losing one. Mr. Lloyd was detained in consequence, until a friend came to his relief; at whose interposition he was at length per- mitted to depart. Mr. Lloyd is a Millenarian, and talked very modestly on the subject of his belief.
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