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MARRIAGES.      

At James' Church, on the 20th inst., by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Aus- tralia, Francis Fisher, Esq., Crown Solicitor, to Miss Rogers, daughter of Richard Rogers, Ordnance Store-  

keeper.

By special license, at Sydney, on the   22d June by the Rev. John M'Garvie, A. M., Captain Boyle, of the Govern- men schooner Isabella, to Miss Geogiana Rose Oliver, of Sydney.  

The Brethren of the respective

Lodges 200, 266, and 584 dine together this day in their Lodge Rooms, to cele- brate the festival of St. John the Baptist.

A long room is to be added to the main   building, of the Sydney Benevolent Asylum ; notice for tenders for the same has been issued by the Commissariat. The tenders are to be delivered by the 10th July.

On Thursday Mr. Thomas Griffiths, cabinetmaker, of Pitt-street, was brought before the Police upon warrant charged by Mr. Joseph Sly, also cabinetmaker, living opposite in the same street. Mr. Sly deposed that in consequence of a man named John Grimstone, who had been living with Griffiths for the last six weeks, informing him that his (Sly's) overseer had offered for sale to Griffiths a number of locks and other brass ware, stating at the same time that they were the property of Sly, and that Griffiths with that knowledge had purchased them ; he obtained the warrant in question.

Sergeant Alexander William Hoyle   deposed that in virtue of a warrant placed in his hands he searched the premises of Griffiths and found in a chest the locks produced, wrapped in red paper; upon a shelf he also found locks, and a castor in a basket upon a shelf.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sheehy - There was no obstruction to the search- ing; Griffiths handed out the locks from the chest ; the remainder of the property was upon a shelf.

Mr. Joseph Sly - Had looked at the property in question ; could not speak as to the locks they were so much alike ;   he knew the castor produced, he could swear to it; it had been upon a table and taken off, the holes to admit the screws had been rimerd ; he had the fellow castor at home; had no good feel- ing towards Griffiths in consequence of his conduct towards him; he had had Griffiths bound to the peace towards him a month or two ago ; when Grimstone gave him the information he (Grimstone) was intoxicated. Grimstone had made a charge of robbery against a party some time ago, he therefore placed no reliance upon Grimstone's statement.

John Grimstone stated that he was in the employ of Mr. Sly ; Mr. Bride

kirk, foreman to Mr. Sly, offered seve- ral dozen locks to him to purchase, stating at the same time that they were the property of Mr. Sly ; he replied that he had no money ; could not speak as to the locks in the red paper ; did not know any of the property produced ; never saw the castor ; Bridekirk said that it was his master's property, and yet he was going to sell it to him ; knew nothing about Griffiths as far as related to the locks or castor.

Mr. Joseph Bridekirk deposed that he was foreman to Mr. Sly ; knew Grim stone, but never in his life offered him any locks for sale ; never sold any to him ; should think it most difficult to swear to a castor, and could not swear to that produced ; not aware that Mr. Sly has lost any ; Grimstone had five glasses of grog before breakfast yesterday morn- ing ; witness on two occasions prosecuted Grimstone for improper conduct in hired

service.

This closed the plaintiff's case.

Mr. Sheehy, for Griffiths, contended

that the whole proceeding was one of   malice on the part of Mr. Sly, they being rivals in trade. He was satisfied that the Bench was of the same opinion with   himself, and therefore would call but

one witness as to his client's character.   Mr. Thomas Metcalf, a cabinetmaker,    

living in George-street, knew Griffiths,   he always bore the character of an honest   man ; looking at the castors he was of opinion that there might be 50 dozen in Sydney of the same kind ; he would not swear to that castor being his. The Bench dismissed the case. The sitting magistrates Potter M'Queen, Esq., and Colonel Shadforth observing that there was not the slightest impeachment what- ever against the character of Mr. Grif- fiths. The man John Grimstone was ordered to be detained in custody that proceedings might be taken against him for perjury.

THE RULING PASSION.--On Wed-  

nesday night, Alexander Green, the public executioner, was put into the   watch-house, in a state of intoxication; upon coming to his senses, and thinking

the time was hanging heavy upon his   hands, he felt about for some one upon     whom he might perform a cast of his office, and having laid hands upon a man named Dennis Sullivan, better known as Doctor O'Toole, he then drew from his    

pocket a piece of cord, which was knotted   and rove in the most approved style ; having insinuated the noose over Sullvan's head, he drew all taut, the knot coming under the ear of the intended victim, secundem artem ; the constables keeping   watch hearing a noisy sputtering sound, peeped forth, and found Sullivan kicking out, and foaming at the mouth, evidently at the last gasp. He was quickly released from his unpleasant situation, but it required some little trouble to bring him to a perfect recollection of things that

were.

On Wednesday morning between the hours of three and six o'clock, the house of Mr. Jackson, belonging to the Com- missariat, in Prince-street, was entered by the front window, the door was then opened and the following articles car- ried off : a silver watch, writing desk,   ladies' work box, a gold seal with the words "Tally ho ! Armagh Sportsmen," a gold locket with the words, " No time thy dear remembrance can remove," a gold broach initials J. L., a silver spoon marked E. I. and a variety of other property.   It is somewhat singular that this robbery was committed in the very house from

which the batch of worthless women have    

been lately ejected. There is no doubt ¡that this robbery was what is called a " put up," and that the confederates and

protectors of those degraded creatures were the parties who committed this  

offence.

On Wednesday a man named John Divine, having been discharged at the Police Office from a charge of drunkenness was immediately taken into custody upon   a warrant which had been issued against him in December last, upon charge o stealing cedar.

Died, in January last, of Typhus fever,         after an illness of only eight days con- tinuance, Robert McNish, Esq , M.D , well known as an eminent physician in Glasgow, and author of the Philosophy of Sleep, the Anatomy of Drunkenness and Outlines of Phrenology. He was the modern Pythagonean of Blackwood and Fraser's Magazine; he was the eldest brother of Mr. William McNish, of Sydney, and is greatly regretted by a large circle of friends.

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