News in Brief
Edward Farris a idd , o wa6 o- Mon day committed to `Newgate from Worship-street ofiioe, fbf robbing and brutally treatinga young wont m kIackneyfids, is a w . knoln character: nbout ten years ago he was tried and convicted at he Id Baley sesions, and transorted for seven ves. At the last September sessi4n,s Old Bailey, there were 17 prisoners for triji conmitted by unpaid Audd1eses meistrate ;. they were disposed of in the following renrkable manner .-Con. victed, 6i; Bl I3 ignored and llo prosecution, 8; acquitted, 3. A counsel being questioned by a Judge, to k-now e' for whorr, he was concerned," replied as fol1o07- I am cotuarned, ray Lerd, for t te plaiatiff, but Il'r employed by the defendant." "Lord Bacon," says Aubrey, " had a delicate, lively, harel eye. Dr. HIarvey told me it was like the eye of a vier."