Henry Lockie was brought before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday,

by a Policeman, who stated, that on the preceding night the prisoner had spoken to him in the streets, and accused himself of robbing a fellow-servant who was cook to Miss Edgar, a lady residing in Devon- shire Square. Upon inquiry, it appeared that the woman really bad been robbed of forty sovereigns ; and that the prisoner had decamped on the night of the robbery. He was then examined by Sir Peter Laurie.

Lord Mayor—" I see you have given a very accurate account of this transac- tion, prisoner. Pray, what have you done with the poor woman's money ?"

Prisoner—" I spent it all except Is. 6d. I took some spoons too, and pawned them • and I burnt the ticket."

Lord Mayor—" And what was your motive for committing this monstrous robbery ? Prisoner—" I did it to be revenged."

Lord Mayor—" Revenged! Who had injured'Tour Prisoner—" The cook, my fellow-servant. I was leaving the house, and I was promised a good character; but I heard the cook refuse to give it me, and I determined to &something to make her remember me; so I robbed her of all she had."

A Policeman said, that the prisoner had acknowledged his design to revenge himself further on the cook, and carried a pistol and bullefs about him for that purpose. It appeared that she had always treated him very kindly. A suggestion that there might be insanity in the case was thrown out by the Lord Mayor.

Lord Mayor—" How could you, prisoner, think of doing snub dreadfal Mier, to a poor woman who treated you so kindly ?" Prisoner—" She did not treat me kindly." The Inspector said he feared there was no insanity in the case.

Lord Mayor--" I fear it too. It was the act of a fiend, and his intentits, it is evident, went beyond the robbery."

The Inspector stated that the prisoner was the son of a man who had bees greatly respected as an officer in the Union Hall establishment." Lord Mayor—" And what induced you to deliver yourself up, and confess the tobbery, prisoner ?" Prisoner—" Because I thought they would he looking after me." Lord Mayor—" And so, to save yourself the trouble of hiding from them, you threw yourself into their hands?"

Prisoner—" Just so."

The prisoner was then remanded. for further examination.

George Taylor, an out-door clerk in the banking-house of Sir John Lubbock and Co., was examined on Thursday, on a charge of having forged a check upon his employers for 700/. The check was in the name of Drummond and Co. Suspicion was excited by an unintelli- gible entry in the books in reference to this check ; and Sir John Lub4. bock being informed of it, questioned the prisoner upon the subject, but received no answer. Sir John then said to him, " How long have you been carrying this on ?" the prisoner then replied,," For some time. and I have spent all the money." It appeared that, if the forgery bad not been discovered, the check would have been returned to the prisoner the next day ; who would, as usual, have supplied its place with a new forgery. The check, it should be observed; was upon a West-end branch of the town-house, which did not send to the clearing-house ha Lombard Street, as is the case with the City banking-houses. It is supposed that the system of fraud practised by the prisoner began with sums as low as five pounds. He was remanded.

Yesterday, two children, a boy and girl, were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with selling unstamped sheetand book almanacks

A gentleman, who attended from the Stamp Office, stated, that the sale of unstamped almanacks was carried on to an enormous extent, and that Govern- ment were determined to punish offenders under the act, which adjudged the penalty of 101. upon every violation of it. Last year, upwards of 200,0001m- stamped almanacks had been sold, to the great prejudice of the revenue, I5d. being the price of each stamp. It was a painful thing to take into custody chil- dren of such tender age, who could not comprehend the nature of the offence they were committing ; but the persons who printed the almanacks were of that class of demagogues who exulted in uniting profit with mischief, and made a merit to the young persons they employed of acting in direct violation of the laws.

The Inspector stated, that in consequence of instructions he had received, he apprehended the defendants in the act of selling almanacks.

The little girl stated that she bought the sheet almanacks at 2s. a dozen, and the book almanacks at 4s., and she had a small profit on them. She itad tt dying brother at home, and she had lost her father about six months ago. She had been selling the almanacks for two monthstand thought that she committed no offence.

The Lord Mayor asked why the Stamp Office did not look after the printer and publisher, instead of taking hold of the two children ? It was stated that there were difficulties in the way of such a course, and the evil could not be checked without actually inflicting a positive punishment upon those who sold, of whatever age they might be. The girl had just laid out 5s. at the shop of one of the publishers, who sold under feigned names, and she begged to be allowed to take the purchase home. The Lord Mayor—" What will you do with them Girl—" I'll take them back and try and get my money again." The Lord Mayor—" I can't let them out of my possession; they must be destroyed ; but if it were not that other children would be encouraged to db wrong in this way, I would give the girl the price she has paid." The girl assured his Lordship that she would never sell any forbidden matters again. Mr. Woodfall—" As you are the two first we have found erring, you shall have the money you paid for these books and sheets ; but if you are ever caught at the work again, you shall certainly go to Bridewell." [He then gave 5s. to the girl, and Is. 6d. to the boy.)

The Lord Mayor declared, that, painful as it would be to him, he should commit in every future case of the kind. People were, he regretted to say,

acting as if the Government was a separate and distinct body from themselves: Gregorio Guinea, the Spaniard who stabbed his countryman, Mr. Lavega, on the 11th instant, was fully committed yesterday. Mr. Lavega appeared at the office and gave evidence against him : it was suli- stantially the same as that which was given at Guinea's first examination.

The Stewards of a benefit club, called the Loyal Independent So- ciety, attended at the Guildhall on Tuesday, to state why they refused

to pay 71. which was die, according to the articles of the Society, to

one of the members in discharge of the burial expenses of his wife. The defence which they made was rather singular—namely; that the wife of the applicant having committed adultery with a gentleman in the City, she ceased to be his wife in law, and he had since lived sepa- rately from her. The applicant had compromised an action for damages, which he had brought against the seducer ! and therefore there was rib legal evidence of his wife's guilt; but the Society they contended, ought not to suffer on that account. The Magistrates decided, that as the guilt of the wife had not been proved, and as it appeared that the husband had countenanced her in some sort since the separation, and had actually paid the expenses of her funeral, the usual allowance ought to be made him.

At the Bow Street Office, on Tuesday, James Bell charged Wil- liam Lundon with defrauding him of 11. 6s. The prisoner had pre-

tended to be an officer of the Marshalsea Court ; and on Sunday had called upon the prosecutor, telling him that he would be arrested for delit the next day. He then demanded IL 6s, for fees, which was immer- diately paid. The prosecutor had since discovered that he was not an officer of the Court, and was not entitled to the fees; he had therefore caused him to be apprehended.

Sir F. Roe said, that, if he understood the complainant rightly, he paid the money to the defendant in consideration of his telling him to keep oat of the way. Complainant—" It was tantamount to that, certainty."

Sir F. Roe said he had no power to interfere under such circumstances,

The complainant said, that the defendant o feted to refund the money in tie Station-house, but he would not compromise the matter. Defendant—" The money is mine, and I demand it from the officer who took it up from the table in'the Station-house." Complainant" Surely your Worship will not allow the defendant to receive the money."

Sir F. Roe—" Let the constable place the money on the table from which be took it."

• The complainant and defendant, on hearing this "judgment of S,olo- mon," ran over to the Station-house as fast as they could to scramble for the money.

Henry Chapman was committed from this Office on Wednesday, to take his trial for purloining .57/. 10s. from his employer, Mr. J. H. Cancellor, of the Secondaries Office in the Temple. The prisoner had decamped, but was taken at Dover on his way to the Continent.

Mr. Farren, Secretary to the Westminster Association, applied to the Queen Square Magistrates on Wednesday, for their signatures to a memorial against the House and Window Taxes. Messrs. White and Burrell, the Magistrates present, were of course much surprised, but ordered Mr. Farren to quit the office without delay. The latter said

that l:. had been deputed by the Association to wait upon their Wor- ships; which he had accordingly done, and would report their refusal to sign the memorial.

A number of Polish exiles were charged, on Wednesday,. with in- sulting the passengers, and creating disturbances on the previous night in Beak Street, Regent Street. Four of them were held to bail, the others, who were not identified by the Police, were discharged.

The case of the Reverend Mr. Haslam against Judah Isaac Abra- hams again occupied the attention of the Magistrates at the Queen Square Office, on Saturday. The charge against Mr. Abrahams, who styled himself "a Preacher of the Crucifixion of Christ by the Jews, and a converted Jew," was, for interrupting Mr. Haslam in the middle of his sermon at Zion Chapel, Waterloo Road, the particulars of which were stated in our Paper of Saturday last. The defendant was ad- mitted to bail ; and having since had an interview with Mr. Haslam,

that gentleman consented to stay proceedings, provided the defendant would make a public apology before the Magistrates. Mr. Abrahams had no objection to comply with Mr. Haslam's request; and the parties attended before Messrs. Gregorie and White ; when the defendant, after stating the cause of his appearance before them, handed to Mr. Gregorie a written paper, in which he made an ample apology to Mr. Haslam, for his conduct in the chapel. The paper also stated, that he knew his wife's conduct to be " most circumspect ;" and that he never designed, by using the word jealous, any allusion to her conduct, but merely to express his mortification at the superior influence Mr. Has- lam had obtained over her mind in respect to doctrinal matters. Mr. Gregorie then ordered the defendant's recognizances to be withdrawn. [We have received a letter from Mr. Abrahams, in which he also de- riles the charge of having ill-treated his wife, and affirms that she never fled to Mr. Haslam for protection.]

Mr. William Barnes, the jeweller, applied at the Marlborough Street Office on Monday, for a warrant to search the premises of an .individual in whose hands some articles of value had been deposited by Mr. Tuffnell, who bad removed them from the residence of Mrs. Irlampton since the trial of Ann Vickers. Mr. Barnes suspected that these articles had been furnished by him to Mrs. Hampton, though that person had stated that she had never seen them. Mr. Chambers said that he had no authority to grant such a warrant : there was no precedent or act of Parliament to justify him in so doing. So the ap- plication was refused.

• Mr. Beech, an upholsterer in Kingsgate Street, Holborn, was sum- moned before the Magistrates at this office, by the Parish-officers of St. Giles's, for refusing to contribute to the support of his father. The Overseer said, that he was a man of some property, and had an excellent business.

The defendant thought it exceedingly hard that he should be called upon to do any thing for his father; especially as he had paid, since September last, no less a sum than 30s. for his support. He also paid poor-rates ; and that cir- cumstance, he considered, entitled him to expect that his father should be main- tained in the Workhouse.

Sir George Farrant explained the nature of the law on the subject to Mr. Beech; and informed him, that where proof was afforded of a child's capability of contributing towards the support of a parent—in case common decency and humanity should fail in obliging him to make proper provision—the law em- powered Magistrates to make an order for the payment of a certain sum weekly. Mr. Beech considered the law to be very arbitrary, if it obliged him to pay any thing more than he had already paid for his parent's maintenance ; and be was very much surprised that an application had been made to him in preference to other members of the family, who were in affluent circumstances compared with his own situation.

A son •in-law of the old man said that he had maintained him for ten mouths, and that his own son had not done his duty to him. Mr. Beech said, " I have done my duty to him : I pay the poor-rate, and I don't eee why I should be obliged to keep him."

The Magistrate made an order on Mr. Beech to pay five shillings weekly, while his father was supported in the poor-house.

Thomas Coppin, Eliza Hopkins, Samuel Langhan, and Charles Pott, who were last week remanded from the Hatton Garden Office on a charge of having robbed the umbrella-manufactory of Mr. William of Goswell Street, were reexamined on Tuesday. The office was crowded, as the prisoners are connected with a gang of thieves, who have long infested the neighbourhood of Goswell Street, and other parts of Clerkenwell. Some additional evidence was produced against them, and they were fully committed. They were subsequently charged with another burglary, in the house of Mr. Cowen, a tool-box-maker; and were remanded on this charge till additional evidence could be pro- cured against them.