8 OCTOBER 1842, Page 11

Charles Gifford, the man charged with shooting at Peirce, (the

Southampton quondam Chartist, who says that he has discovered a plot to destroy the Queen and Prince Albert,) on the 6th of September, was again examined before th. Magibtrates on Thursday. It was proved triumphantly, by the evidence of Gifford's employer and fellow-workmen, that at the time he was said to have met Peirce, he was engaged in his ordinary business as a bargeman ; and was actually in his barge, stuck in the mud, in the river Itcben. He was of courbe discharged.