Volice. MANSION HOUSE. siNIBULkrt I)ISCOVLRIV-011 Monday a very important fact ass discovered in the course of an investigation into Incase in which Mr. Duncan Campbell appeared against a Jew boy, named Emanuel Allen, for a robbery. The circumstances were these—Mr. Campbell stated, that 115 lie was passing along Hotindsditeli on Saturday last, between lota and five o'clock in the evening, the prisoner, a boy anont ten years old, ran up to hint null 'batched a gold watch, chain, and seals out of his pocket. Tlie boy, near sebum were others of a suspicious de nt iption, inimerlisiely rim oil, hilt Mr. Campbell fol lowed, and never lost sight of him until lie was lodged in the custody of AO officer. 'flue officer stated, that he hail searched the boy, lint foetid touting upon him, the arratigement ut the thieves in such t aces being so ingenious aunt rapid of execution, that pi overly passes like lightning thiongli a multitude of battik, alter it has beet' stolen. After such direct evidence as this, the chief elm k drew up the recognisance in the usual form, Wilding the person robbed to prosecute, and give evidence itgainsi the prisoner. Ile !lauded over the bond to Mr. Campbell fur his signal lire. Mr. Oamphell said, he was certainly ready to give evidence against the prisoner= but he did nut know all4l light the Cold layor had to bind hint down to prosecute, there being no law that he ever yet heard uf, alucil ren dered a petsmi, uuder such circ 1111 l stances, responsible as a prosecutor. 'The Lord Mayor said, the law was peremptory upon the subject, and ordered, than the event ut a refusal to the person' erillhe LI should lie imprisoned. Alr. Campbell begged that the art would 1w pointed out to him. He hoped to be enlightened oy aii czhibuUou of the kind, and declared that if it w vie presented to him, he should imen-diately repent and correct Ills erre,. It hits Lordship insisted upon it, lie should go to custody of his officer to prison , but it would Itt. a K.ltiNfat: I' lO him to see the statute, authorising his coinunital pre viously. Tire Lord Mayor immediately sent for the City Solicitor, who, upon hearing of the refusal of Mr. Campbell, said, the act was imperative, and the alternative was a prison. Mr. Campbell questioned the authority of the learned Solicitor, as at II as of the Lord Mayor, and said lie did not know of any Salute imposieg upon any luau the oh ligatiun to prosecute upon an inawtowiii. 'floe City Solicitor then relented to the Ist and goil of Philip and Maly, cap. 13, which is the only authority, and to his astont,linieut, that there was not a word in it from which it could be interred Mat any one was obliged to plosecute another upon an indict ineiit. Tire Learned lienileman then stated, that Mr. Camp bell was certainly tight in the olijer non he had made, suit that au alteration most be made w the recognisance. The wood "prosecutor" having then been °blue' ated, Mr. Campbell then read over tic bond with great care, and affixed his signature to it. He declared, upon leas nig the office, that lie would cutupel the Atturucy Gcuerul to prosecm e the pi isJner. BOW STREET. A woman, of the name of IVarrender, was charged on Monday, befoie Mr. Birnie, with uttering a forged D. note, at a grocer's shop at Kensington. Tile prisoner, it was stated, tendered the note in pay meat of some groceries, anti whim, upon suspicion that the note was bad, she was told she st be detained; she said that a young woman named Darting?, gave it to her. —This peisau, when applied to confirmed the story, and was taken up, but finding she had gut into trouble, she denied she gave the prisoner the note, and the latter then confessed that she had purchased it for Gs. ad.— Davoien then acknowledged that she knew the prisoner had a forged flute, and that she confirmed her story at first in the hope of getting her utf. Clipstone, a man at least IGO years of age, was charged with attempting to pick pockets. Lines and oilier officers, stated, that they saw the pri soner, with two lads, following and attempting to pick the pockets of a great number of persons between Somerset Moose and Tempie Bar, The lads sounded the pockets whole the prisoner walked close behind 'early 10 receive the property, or to give a signal in CAM of danger. Mr. Well, Mr. Clipsione, you nave heard the charge against yon, have you not?" Prisonei.—" Nut a sentence, your worship—l am so exit emely dear." Mr. Ilia Me (speaking You were not deaf when you and I used to mcu at Union Hall some years ago." isoner.—" So, Sir, but a few T ears make a great di& fereuer, IluW :1111 411 Old :11r. think, (iu a very low voice).—" llow long have yon been deaf." The prisoner answered most readily that lie had been five)eiiis dear. • " Mr. I3irnic.—•' I perceive boa are only deaf when it snits OIL " . . The pi ismier denied the charge altogether, and said lie was hut on his law rut business, and he thought it was very hard that lie should be interrupted. Lints said the prisoner Ali+ ays walked behind to re ceiva the .` wag" (stolen properly). Mr. I commit him under the Police Act." Mr Woods, the del k, informed the prisoner, that lie was convicted as a logio and a vagabond t aut repined thief. Prisoner.—" Really, Sir, that is • very unpleasant sort of twin ttttt lication to tie made in a public ollice i it makes sue quite iieondortable, I declare." He was committed to the Sessions. CMILD STRIPPING.—Saturday morning a little boy, belonging to Air. Davies, of Bedcnns-street, Liorough, was decoyed away l• the door by an old woman (wlio spoke with au Irish accent), who gave the child apples, and persuaded bins to accompany her up some mews, where she prim-oiled to have a rockingdsorsc, which she would give hill'. litre the old delinquent stripped the poor child of all ib clothes, and wens away, promising to kiwis soon with a hew stilt. In she meantime the buy was ibiss,tl by his lAtrelll9, and Smith, a constable of the Borough, was sent to make hiquiries tespectin,; tun; lie 11111114.1 Lim towards the evcning in the care Ma cowkeeper, named Thomas, of Bermondsey, who had been attracted iodic stable by the poor little boy's cries. THE NATIONAL EGISTERR BOXING AND CUDGELLING AT RIDDLESWORTH NEAR TAMWORTH, HERTS. The provincial fanciers had a good morning's play yesterday, on Riddlesworth Downs, in two boxing matches, and a cudgelling match. The heroes for the first battle were (not the Tom Jones of Fielding, nor Tom Jones the brave competitor of Jetn Bel cher), but Jones, a pupil of the latter, a farmer, who knew how to use his tnauleys well, and Abel Norris, a Cambridgeshire man, backed fur .20 Guineas by some collegiate sprigs of fashion. I.—Four hat d rounds were fought which occupied 36 !ninnies. In the first round Norris was neatly pinked blind by the left handed hits, which, it nos of the hardest kind, told by repetitions. Jones was floored by a right handed blow au inch shove iYr (nark. . 2.—Norris got hold of Irk adversary at going in, and gave Min sonic pulley haulcy punishment, and then threw him a heavy 1511111 ell Net. S.—Jones winked with notch caution npon his science, and did h out exerntion. lint in it rally, %%Inch lasted several minutes, much execution was pet-loomed, and both went down weak. rir was too blind to find the scratch, and he NAA kOlUtked dUII , II by a hotly hit, which won Jones the A second battle was fought for a purse of five guineas, betweca two awkward novices, which. was a contrast to the former, and afforded much fun. Their names were Gee and Roach, and the iiacta tion of science caused the fun. Not a drop of claret sprinkled the ground from them, but it was round hitting, where the wrist instead of the fist acted. After fifty minutes Roaah gave in with a slap on the side of the head. Our informant left the single-stick players con tending fur a hat worth a guinea, second best ten shillings, and five fur the worst of the lot. Baxter from \Vanstcad won the hat, and we left the others in contention. MYSTrRIOUS RollllbltY.—Ai extensive robbery has been committed, under circumstances of a very extra outlawry nature, hitherto without detectian :—A batik ing house in the city, hail occasion to send a reniittauce in between 130ut. and 14001. in batik notes, to o banker's at Plymouth, they were packed tip in arinail box, sealed with an official seal, and snit by the porter of the house to a particular waggim office, to be sent off by a Plymouth waggon early next morning. He was also ordered to enter n as of toe value of 4501. and insure it to that •I'he porter left the Wok with the uox, but it 11.11111elled that he ltd 1101 to Lac Wagaalll office until the book 4 had closed fur the ingest, aura the box could tint be sent by the next wagon. The clerk at the wag goll ollice, however, took tlbe box and locked it up iu an out citest, where it remaitied until the mkt waggon started about two days. 1 , was Girt) placed in the wagon in such a 5111156011 that it was utterly impossible to take it OW Olt the roan. It so ilLypelleli, LILO On Ille antval of toe waggon at Pivtivi:oli, toe chief partner iii the batik there, who also open such ',weds was extremely ill, and the box remained lite or six days belOre it was opened. It was 110Wetcr kept secure ha the banking house, and when at Lenath It was given to the chic( partner to be opened, the seals of the 1...011du1l B.lllk were still 111/4/11 It, aILII to all appearauce it was precisely in the Sallle stale as when it kit tile hands of the batik clerk here. The surmise, therefore, of the Plymouth Banker may be culiceived, when Olt opening the box he [omid it to contain ))))) Mug but a parcel or waste paper tile interval, between the lea% ing 01 the parcel at the waggon office atid its arrival in illy wraith, die whole of die notes winch were hist enclosed in it were put iu circulation in the metropolis. Au inquiry being set on font, it was discovered that the porter, when he went to the wteagon oilier had a man with him. lie was (I tit siioii ii es LO ills attillailnallee with tilts lulu, aura bald he had roily known min a short nine, and Mat he knew him from his hat lug had a cttandler's shop to let, which lie (me porter) was about to take. This man was applied to benne he could see the porter, and asked it he tad ever wished to let his shop, awl lie at first replied with a decided negative, but alter some further coiner simian he said lie believed tie had once made an oiler to a friend of his to let tile shop This man and the l Wier underwein a lima, and severe interrogation, but nui fling was extracted train knew that could tend to throw any hot upon this ino,t singular affair. The matter rests here on the present, anti we understand to be decided between the Loralon Bankers aid the proprietors of the wa g gon (Alice by civil action. AnOiller banker's parcel was plundered in a similar way but a shut time before Fraley inoroing, about three o'clock, the tinnily of Mr. Fainter, cileesemouger, 129, High Street, Sliadwell, were awoke out of tilde sleep, and thiown into the utmost alarm, at hearing a crackling noise; supposina it to be occasioned by robbers endeavouring to gain admission they got tip, and after making ttie necessary preparations to case 01 an attack, Mr. Farmer nut being at home; a person went out cautiousiv, acid gave tilt alarm at the two adjoining houses, occupied by Mr. Roeliester, a lea dealer, and Mr. Spring, patent navy paint and ship bottom( tt warehouse, win .1.50 gout up to • oppose the entrance of the supposed robir. , rs. A greater degree of terror, however, was Minn& itely excited amongst the occupiers, the whole of the roo;s oi the three houses falling in at the etas.), licatiog down the whole en the th:rd floor or each house, and materially damaged the seemid. '1•wo child ren who were at that time asleep in a roo.a on the second door to Mr. Pariner's host e, miraculously escaped being killed, one of the rafters in its tall ha( og gut right tormigh the foot of the bed in which they slept; hail not these families been roused throuBli we anovecircuin statices, ►everal lives must have been lost, as the greater pan of tile families in each huusesk•pt on the third Moor. 1 . r .-. . ~ _` ~~ _lair. . ~~ .~ - - 23 METHODIST SCHIEM.—We regret to state that a schism of considerable extent appears to have taken place among the Methodists in the Notthero Counties as well us the South, owing to the folly of some of their preachers, in interfering with the pol Meal opinions of the people. This began about the latter rod of last year, when their Committee of privileges in London, in concert with his Majesty's Government, issued circulars to the different preachers in the connexion, in all parts of the country, to discoutitenance amongst heir people, all those who might be attached to political reform.— I mated 'at ely the methodist pulpits every where refounded with the murderous doctrines of passive obedience and non-resisiatice, those doctrines, which in 1....ng1aw1, brougin one tyrant to the block, and obliged smother to abdicate toe throne. In consequence of which, added to the tvi unity of their preachers, and their exorbitant exactions from the people, few of whom are opulent, great itumbeis have separated f• the body, and formed a new conitintity, under the denomination of " Inde pendent Aletliodisa," maintaining the same discipline, but Mitering in church government, as their preachers, the primitive teat hers of Christianity, claim no pe cuniary reward fur their lauours. In ssieiJs, Newcastle, and other places, tiley are rapidly increasing, and have already fourteen chapel* and places of worship, which ale supplied by twenty-one preachers. 'rite noble spirit of intlepencletice rising dosing these people cannot be too much admiral by every friend to civil and religious liberty ; and ire hail this cretin as the forerunner of still greater exeillollS in the cause of freedunt, which is ultimately coottected with the present and eternal hap piness of die I kkkkk lati-raCe. • Al u Kt:Ea.—Aaiun o'clock WS Wednesday night, the 8.0, a set of villains alined with pistols, attacked a boat laden with a cargo of differeat ineicitantlise, on the Grand( :mai at Colgan's lkidge, near the town of Eden burn, in the Kitig's County, Ireland, proceeding on her • passage from Dublin to Shuman Hat boor, and after • shutting the hatchways on the crew, oue of whom they • unmercifully beat about the head with the bin end of a pistol, until part of the skull was completely discarnate, • they sunk the boat by breaking a plank in her stern with • au axe,. having plundered the most valuaide property.— Seveial gentlemen residing near to the spot have rub- • scribed a very liberal reward to any person who shall cause the delimpients to be apprehended, and brought to condign punishment; and the directors of the Grand Canal Company have in a manlier highly commendable, - offered tool. to the Saone purpose. A severe conffict took place on Wednesday night last: between a gait of five poachers and the keepers of- Windsor Great Palk. The keepers were apprised of the presence of the poachers by repeated reports of guns dis— charged tri tile several plaistationS at tile pheasants on the trees, as early as eleven o'clock, but it was not till twelve o'clock that tile action convineneed, when the poachers had taken a position on a bridge, four abreast, with presented arms, aiteatening to fire if the keepers advanced a step Midler. Tile keepers answered, "We have arms, and ate determined to take you," advaticitig at the same time. The poaciwes inimetilately fired, a close action then commenced whit the bout-ends of their pieces, which nimbi:acd in the surrender of three of the poachers, ssmo are lodged iu Windsor gaol. Tne four keepers and t h ree u. their men received many severe blows; one oh them, Page, lies so ill of tiaree wounds lit his head, as not to be able to attend puidicly to give evi dence. Ills deposition was privately taken. Upon examining the spot where the contest took place, lour guns were found ; one of theta broken lit three pieces, two of them loaded with powder and small shot, and one that appeared to have been not long discharged.— - Niue pheasants were found in a sack. EILTRAOKDINAR Y ESCAPE.-011 TilESday morning . some men belonging to Sheriff Hill coliiery, Northum bellow', were waiting of the gin horse to go into the pit. Owing to the cleaning of the boiler, the regular engine rope was not in a workable state at the moment, but about 20 fathoms of it, with the chain, were hang ing into the shaft. One of the men, John Wilson, having in tile dark gone incautiously too near the edge, fell in. Repeated cries within the shaft at last roused the attention of the oilier men, woo on repairing to the spot Willi a light, were told by Min that he hall fallen into the pit, and was then hanging by the rope. As soon as the alarm would allow meni to take measures I fur his ',McMahon, they proceeded to adjust the gin rope, a work that occupied tot less than fiiticit 11111111,c,, twin their having to discharge it it oue pulley and place it upon another. After fixing uo a con one of ' mein visited to descend in it to•his assistance, but this Wilson habittle them to do. 'l' he con' was flow Itt show it gently till it came thither his feet—lie then freed himself from the engine rope, and being seated in toe curt, was drawn slowly to bank, in a state of indescrib able trepidation. He was, howet er able. woo the as sistance of atiother it to walk upwaidsof a nide to his own house, which oil tattering he threw hiniseh au hu knees, and poured out his hers chit thanks to God i'or his deliverance. No sooner was Ma Julie, than, overpow ered by toe dreadful conflict of his feeliogs he tainted. Some time elapsed before Lie recovered tolerable coin postite. ; one even still when the subject is recurred to, Ms agitation is extreme. biting gmstioued minutely, lie Bahl—" lie had gone to the brink of the shalt to ascerta'n whether his comrades were ealliog upon hint from otlow ; and being to:craved by a glimmering of light the lnattice part' ion his foot slipped. lie was con scious at time !tunnel,' lie dropped in, but has no recul- It:churl whatever or how or when he caught boil of the cutout rope. The first thing Ile was sensible of was the rope shiling on his breast, and MIL its stripping his left hand, with which he held mainly on, and also wt Ii nis legs and feet. lie hail itt his right hand a stick, of which he kept Sp m possessiutt all the time, and brough t it op with Imo." A transit of Mercury will take piece at 6 - o'clock in the morning of the Sd February, when thee planet will appear like a runoff bltu:k spot oil the 'ace of the cuss. rlailia _. ir:.r~il ..,. ~' I