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The new Sheriffs, Alderman Kennedy and Alderman Rose, were sworn in yesterday at the Guildhall, with the usual forms and ceremonies. Then the Court of Aldermen assembled ; the ilew Sheriffs were invited to take their seats; and Mr. Eagleton, the new Alderman, was sworn in.
Islington, Pentonville, Ilarnsbury, and neighbouring districts, have been considered healthy and pleasant places, lying high and enjoying "good air" : they are now threatened with the loss of their reputation, a decrease of population by removals, and a depreciation in the value of household property. In a place called "Belle Isle," Maiden Lane; there are establishments for bone-boiling, making patent manure, and for horse- slaughtering ; from these places arise the most nauseous odours, likely to cause disease as well as annoyance. According to the direction of the wind, the residents in particular quarters are half-suffocated with the
disgusting effluvia wafted to them, and vainly strive to exclude them from their houses by shutting doors and windows.
Baldwin Specbt, a German, who keeps a coffeehouse in Kentish Town, has been committed by the Lord Mayor for stealing a number of articles belong- ing to Miss Johanna Dorschen. The robbery was not the worst feature of the case. Specht, though already married, seems to have addressed the lady as a single man, and induced her to come from Bremen to marry him : he took an apartment for her at the Adelaide Hotel ; he made dishonourable proposals ; and finished by stealing a bracelet, a shawl, and a mantle from Miss Dorschen's room.
James Barney, lately a warehouseman in Addle Street, has been held to bail by Alderman Finnis on charges of obtaining goods to the value of 30001. on credit, within three months of his bankruptcy, with intent to cheat and defraud his creditors. He has been in business one year, and has contracted debts for 90001.
Mr. Seeker, the Southwark Magistrate, has felt compelled to liberate Jane Gibson, the nurse who had been employed in our hospitals in the East, as her alleged robberies of articles belonging to the hospitals or to individuals had been committed out of the jurisdiction of the English law. He refused however, to let the accused have the property restored to her.
A Coroner's Jury have pronounced the crime of George Pemble, who killed his wife in Southwark, "Manslaughter" only. The deceased was a drunken creature, and had exasperated her husband ; he struck her, she fell against a post, and her skull was fractured; but it did not appear that Perable intended to kill her.
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