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 The Philadelphia National Gazette has the follow ing report illustrating the ''glorous uncertainty of the law"

 Catharine Towner yesterday arraigneed be- fore Judge Barton, in the Court of Criminal Sessions on charge of ''receivng stolen goods" A lad of sixteen testified that himself and another lad . about the age had been employed at various times by Catharine to steal various articles for which she had paid them a compensation. The immediate charge against the defendant the present occason was the receiving rom of the lads above mentioned eight pounds of copper, (knowng it to have been stoen,) for which she paid him ten per pound. The fact sworn to by the lad, and also that he took tke copper from the woter-spo1 of house near Fair mount.

 At this stage of the Judge Barton arrested the proceedings, and stated that the defendant could possibly be convicted the present. indctn l. inas- much by act cf 1772, the lads had been guilty. not of larceny hut of isdemsanor and that therefore though these legal distinctions becoming grow ing evil and disgrace to the laws of the land the defendant clearly could not be convicted of receiving stolen goods, where goods had been stolen. As illustration, the judge stated that f man, passing through another's orchard, were to climb tree and fill his pockets with fruit, inasmuch as the fruit was

 part of the tree, and therefore in the eye of the law real and not personal property, he could only be convicted under the act of 1772 but that if he were in the first instance shake fhe t from he tree and then fill bis pocket from the ground he would clearly be guilty of larceny. aif'

 The defendant was acquitted, but was subsequently ordered to give bail in the sum of S400, to answer the charge in another rom and in default thereof was remanded to prison. 11.l.,-