A paragraph having appeared in some of the papers, in

which it was Raid that Captain Ross's crew had not been paid the full amount of aeases due to them, the Captain on Wednesday went to the Mansion- ..ouse end made the following statement to the Lord Mayor. Weatever privations and hardships the crew had undergone, were fully par- - i;it,ated in by the officers ; trim worked as hard as possible during the whole • itne they were absent front this country. As for the withholding of the pay, :inn was nee: grossly incorrect. The crew bad received double pay tip to the rrioa of ll_e loss of the ship, and that loss did away altogether wtth any for- >ttet claim. Ile however, procured fir them full pay up to the moment of her landing in England ; so that there teas not the slightest ground for -inn/tin; that the co:at:let, whirls was in Gut exceeded as far as the pay IV as

.:ozeerned, was violated or treated with indifference. He had fully shared the :abours, without being recognized, as far as pecuniary matters were concerned ; that certainly upon the part of the seamen they had quite as little cause to romplain.

Th, Lord Mayor observed, that the seaman who had applied for leave to nalze affidavit said that he had expected 56/. more than was awarded to hint. Ile :!tritpased that such an expectation ought not to have been entertained. Captain Ross said, that the person tvho had given such informatien to his 7.,ordship was the only man who had mis:-onducted himself during the e%pedi- • ion. The 561. to which that individual scented to think himself entii led, was ;he difference hetweco the double pay during the whole voyage, poling cut of oc question the loss of the ship, and the money which he had actually received ; ..nd, as had been previously stated, the moment time ship was lost, all claim • ..pee the part of the clew legally terminated.

After some further conversation relative to the loss of the will of of his crew, and a provision for his widow,—from which it up- t.eared that Captain Ross had kindly exerted himself on behalf of the ;otter,—the Captain left the office.

At the Bow Street Office, on Thursday, a miserable-looking lad, married James Graves, was charged by Mr. William Groves, a barrister cad a Magistrate for the county, with soliciting alms from him in Lin- ohm's Inn Fields, on the previous right. Mr. Groves himself sat in 1.idgrnent on the prisoner; and, without being sworn, described to the derk the manner in which be had been importuned by the defendant; • v?to, ha allNed, was iutoxicared at the time. The Clerk wrote down 4-1-oe facts, as detailed by the Magistrate ; and the lad, having nothing to :-.fge is his defence, was sent:tit-A by Mr. Groves to be confined as a

/grant for eight days in the House of Correction ; and he was re- ...loved from the bar in pursuance of the sentence. The proceeding was either unusual, from the circumstance of Mr. Groves appearing in the "Sire capacities of prosecutor, witness, and judge ; and the committal of

lie defendant on the unworn testimony of his accuser was a novelty in :he judicial proceedings of the Office, which occasioned some surprise.

appears, however, that the Vagrant Act gives the power to a Magis- ; rate to commit to prison any person who may be guilty of an act of -agrancy, without requiring his Worship to swear to the alleged offence, being merely necessary to state that the particular act of vagrancy ;:mok place "in view " of the Magikrate ; who thereupon is empowered

commit the offender for any period not exceeding three months;

,id Mr. Groves, in this instance, availed himself of the power which

lie law has vested in him, there being no other Magistrate on the .11ench at the time to whom he could refer the case.—/Ilineting Herald.

Several individuals were femmoned on Saturday before the Marl- aorough Street Magistrates, •,), the parish authorities of St. George's 1 /allover Square, for having '.fused to pay parish-rates, under peculiar eircumstances. It appeared that the landlords of a great number of ::arses in the parish neglected to pay the poor, the county, and the police-rates, because they had sublet their houses to other parties, who, they contended, ought to be called upon to pay such demands. Now

under-truants were mostly paupers, receiving relief from their :ae-ishes ; and they were only enabled to pay the rent to the real land- hwd by letting the houses out in lodgings. In order to bring the ques- lion to an issue., whether the real landlord or the pauper tenant was the isoper person to make the claim of parochial rates upon, the parish had di-

ed summonses to be served on Mr. Cubitt, landlord of twelve houses ; _1gtr. Edwards, landlord of fifteen houses ; and Mr. Cowdry, landlord

s' -eight houses of this description. The Bench looked into the local :':et ; and, upon consideration of the 56th clause, became of opinion, the case of Mr. Cubitt, that he was not liable for the rates. The '..-estry Clerk said the Vestry considered the point of so much impor- tance that he had no doubt he should be instructed to apply to the king's Bench for a mandamus on the subject. The two other cases

ore postponed.

Mr. Barron, a builder, applied to the Magistrates of this Office on

Tuesday, for protection against a combination of a number of work- men, lately in his service, but who had struck for an advance of wages. He made the following statement.

He was executing some extensive building work in Pall Mall for a gentleman who was under a contract to Government to complete the work by a stated time, which time had now about a week to run ; but there was every proba- bility, from what had occurred among the bricklayers and labourers employed in the business, that it would not be possible to get the building completed ac- cording to the contract. On Saturday night, the men, who belong to a Union society held in Windmill Street, all struck, and refused to return to their work on Monday morning, unless their terms were agreed to. They also openly told him that no other labourer should be allowed to go on with the job; and this threat they had carried into complete execution. The men said they wanted 55. a day for eight hours' work; which terms he did not think fit immediately to comply with, but put on other men to work, who were almost immediately seduced away by the members of the Union, who congregated in large numbers in the street. Ile at last consented to yield to the terms proposed by the Union; and called to one of the men, who was most active in the strike, to go to work. The man said before he or his mates went to work, Mr. Barron must not take any other hands than those who had been employed previously. To this he also consented; telling the speaker he did not want them all, but he would take as many as he had work for. The speaker at first said this was very fair ; but, after conversing with his mates, it was announced that lie must take all the old hands on again. The building, in consequence of his resistance, was now at a stand-still : for if he put a stranger on, lie was within half an hour induced to join the Union, who stood round the building watching it, to the uumber of a hundred and upwards.

The Magistrate declined to act, because Mr. Barron could not bring forward a specific ease of violence against any person, nor charge any one directly with entering into a conspiracy to deter others from work- ing. He directed some Police, however, to go to the spot, and en- deavour to persuade the men to disperse.

Two boys, eleven and twelve years of age, of decent exterior, were charged on Satin day' at the Queen Square Office, with stealing an apple from the shop of a fruiterer in the King's Road, Chelsea. The case excited no small degree of interest, from the nature of the charge and the decision of the Magistrate. The prosecutor stated, that Richard Burrowes, the elder boy, entered his shop, and asked for a halfpennyworth of specks (damaged apples) ; and his companion, John Roe, followed him in, and purloined an apple from the basket ; which he found upon him, and he gave both boys into custody. He believed both prisoners resided with their parents in the neighbourhood. The Policeman, who produced the stolen apple, said that the boy Burrowes had been in custody before. Mr. Burrell asked upon what charge ? and was answered tor stealing some fat ; but the boy was discharged on his father undertaking to give him some correction. The prisoner Burrowes, in answer to the charge, said that he had nothing whatever to do with stealing the apple; he went in to buy some "specks," and the other boy accompanied him. The boy Roe admitted stealing the apple. Mr. Burred committed Roe (the boy who stole the apple) to the House of Correction for ten days, and Burrowes to the same prison for twenty days, there to be kept to hard labour.

At the Hatton Garden Office, on Tuesday, Dr. Blick, of Waltham- stow, accused Charles Wright, an undertaker, of having assaulted him at a funeral procession. The Doctor, with his arm in a sling, thus stated his case.

On the previous Friday, he was driving in his cabriolet along Holborn to- wards St. Giles's sitting alongside of his groom, when his progress was im- peded by some hackney-coaches; and he crossed the road with a view of pas- sing them by ; when be was completely blocked by other vehicles, so that he could not proceed one way or the oilier. At the moment, he observed a funeral procession coming in the contrary direction; when the defendant, who was acting as one of the mutes, called out to hint to " make way ;" which he found impossible to do ; and be informed the defendant that he could not do so; on which he proceeded to the horse's head, and, laying hold of the reins, be- gan to drag the horse along; and without any provocation on his part, the de- fendant commenced beating witness with a long staff which he held in his hand. He belaboured him, the horse, and the vehicle, in a violent manner; and he was eventually assisted by other mutes, who also beat him in an un- merciful manner with their staves over the head, shoulders, and arras, by which be was seriously injured ; and had it not been through the interference of a Mr. Jordan and some other gentlemen, who were near the spot in a carriage, he would have been more seriously injured.

Another witness confirmed this account. The prisoner and the two witnesses gave a palliating version of the'story; but it made no im- pression on the Magistrate; for Wright was sentenced to pay a fine of 4/. ; and as he declared his inability to pay it, he was committed to the House of Correction and hard labour for six weeks.

Last Saturday, at the Thames Police Office, the master of a sailing- barge of Erith, was charged with having stolen Messrs. Barrand acid ]belch's devil. A clerk to the complainants, who are coal-merchants of Whitefriars Wharf, said that on Friday morning the devil was missed from their wharf; and the prisoner's barge having been lying near the wharf, it was suspected that the devil had been carried away by him. The clerk proceeded to Erith, and there be found the barge and the devil in it. He asked the prisoner how it came there ; to which be said, " I don't know how the Devil it did." He afterwards said be be- lieved one of the men had taken it by mistake from the wharf, for which he was very sorry.

Mr. Combo—" Pray, Si:,hat is the devil?"

An Officer—" It's a portable fire-grate." The clerk begged to observe, that this was quite a new devil. The old one was quite worn out. The prisoner was fined M. for unlawful possession of it.