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INDIANS At W AILNINOTON. EPITAPH. WO 110 Pt cones 11101 t• TOICII4fOIIII at AN ditORCIII-TAILIN A little spirit slumbers here, Who to one heart was very dear; Oh! be was more than life or light, Its thoughts by day—its dream by night! The chill winds came—the young flow': faded And died t the grave its sweetness shaded. Fait boy ! thou shouldst have wept for me, Not I have bad to mourn o'er thee ; Yet not long shall this sorrowing be-- Those roses I have planted round, To deck thy dear and sacred ground, When spring-gales nest those roses wave, They blush upon thy mother's grave! HATS. In the reign of Elizabeth the wearing of hats- was considered as a kind of luxury, or that assumption of superiority which rendered those that had so far stept out of their rank liable to a fine; for by the Statute of 13th Eli:. every person above the age of seven years, and under a certain degree, was obliged, on Sundays and holydays. to sear a woollen cap, made in Eng land, and finished by torn- of the fraternity of coppers, under the penalty of paying 3s. 4d. for every day's me glect.—Repealed 39 Elia. In the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of Fulham, is the following curious item: " 1578. Paid for the discharge of the parish of Fulham for wearing hats contrary to the Statute, Ss. ad." These, it appears, were a species of hat imported from Geneva. Arrangements are trymaking for lighting York Cathedral with gas during the ensuing winter. The branches for the lights will be of a highly ornamental form, and strictly in ac cordance with the noble architecture of the edifice. Mr. Incledon is now residing at Exeter, and though apparently lost to the world, has resided there for some time. He has a comfortable residence there, and mingles freely with the society of the city. In his retirement, it is gratifying to know, that he is neither without the comforts of society, nor the solaces of good company. In II•illand the heat of the weather during the last week was more intense even than with us. For five days the thermometer in the shade at the Hague reached the extrace-dinary height of 921 1 degrees of Fahrenheit; and in the night did not fall below 88. Yesterday morning, at two o'clock, a fire broke out at Mr. Merritt's, baker, Store-street, Bedford-street, Comme• cial-road ; and another at nine o'clock, at Mr. Roberts's, baker, Grange-road, Bermondsey, both of which buildings were greatly damaged. A very sir.gulai circumstance took place at Wolver hampton, on Monday morning last. A man and wo man, between whom the banns of matrimony had been duly published, made their appearance at the door of the Collegiate Church, for the alloged purpose of having the contract ratified, when the female asked for the ring, under the pretence of trying it, and, having got posses. Lion of It, immediately decamped, leaving the intended bridegroom. in the utmost consternation. MARIIIAOII EX7'S4AORDINARY.— The Brighton G - mile says, " A 'young man, abcut eighteen, had for some time past courted a young woman about his own age, with great assiduity, and an old woman, upwards of fifty, had with an equal assiduity courted him. The young fellow in this predicament hardly knew what to do ; on the one hand was the weeping beauty, whom he could not for a moment bear the thoughts of resigning; but then she had no money ! On the other there was an old woman, but who had got an old stocking, con taining above fifty good pounds. At last he hit upon this very ingenious plan to obtain both objects. It was agreed between the young woman and himself, that he should warty the old woman, taking care to get her money first, and as soon as that was accomplished, to abandon her, and set off with the young one. This project was accordingly put into execution. He wheedled the foolish old woman out of her money, under the pre tence of opening a splendid butcher's shop and on Monday se *might they were married in Brighton church. During the ceremony, the young woman was in the • church-yard, and as soon as it was over, the fellow came out, leaped over the wall, and bid farewell to his spouse. The young woman followed him, and they have not since been heard of; and the old woman is left to bemoan the loss of her husband, and the contents of her old stocking." 181PR0VESIENTS IN Eteis.—One of the things that most attracts the attention of strangers who come to Paris; is the extraordinary quantity of new houses which are seen in every direction. Those who do not build re pair their dwellings. It might be supposed an immense fire bad spread through different parts of the town, and that the people were zealously repairing its ravages.— Everywhere we see scaffoldings eiected, ladders fixed, and materials heaped together. A multitude of woe k men are hewing stone, making mortar, squaring tim ber, and continue their work with an activity that is rarely suspended. Elegant houses, commodiously laid out, rise as if by enchantment, and the Parisian himself, who goes for a short time out of town, hardly recog nizes on his return the place of his abode. It is remark able enough that private hotels are now built, and that grand hotels are changed into houses, which skews a general state of opulence, and no colossal fortunes. The latter belong chiefly to the Bark, and prevail most at the Chaessee d'Antin. It may be observed, that building speculations are not limited to tllt districts of the r ich, but are extended from the Fauxbourgs of St. Germain and St. Jacques to the Barrier du Trone. It appears that the industrious class has a tendency to in crease their pleasures, to be better lodged and better clothed than formerly. Cynic moralists find this change pernicious, and cry out against the progress of luxury and the corruption of morals; we, however, only see in it the natural effect of the present state of society. Among the curiosities exhibiting at the fair of St. Lazare, at Marseilles, the Etoile notices a giant, named Martin Ruboga, who is seven feet two inches in height, with finely proportioned chest, hands, and thighs. His stiength, it appears, is prodigious, for he breaks with facility a marble slab into pieces by a single blow with his naked fist. He is an Italian by birth, and the de scendant of Gigli, whom Buffon has honoured with a particular notice in his Natural History. The Mayor of Huntingdon, being in company with the late Losd Sandwich, at the finish of the evening his Lordship taking up a glass, said, •' Here's bon reps." The next day, after dinner, at his own house, the Mayor, being called upon for a toast, said, he would give them one which had been given by no less a man than Lord Sandwich—" So here's bon FT", my boys r M. DROUTTI, the French Consul-General in Egypt, has made a present to the Museum at Lyons of eight fine paintings, In excellent preservation, representing the ancient mode of bulal in AMA. The deputations of Indians, now at the seat of Go vernment, visited General Mason's cannon foundry, in Washington, where they had an opportunity of seeing a thirty-two pounder cast, and of inspecting the boring machinery. It was highly interesting to wit ness the deep impressions made upon these red men of the woods by this exhibition of fire and tacked iron, and by the music of the augurs, as they made their slow and difficult progress - through the body of the cannon. The whole was a scene of wonder to them ; and that peculiar faculty of concealing their emotions, which the Indians exercise when strange sights are dis played to their view, furnished but a thin veil over the inward workings of surprise. One of the interpreters requested them to look well wall they sa W,Rsthey might some of these days have occasion to mike guns- too.— " Impossible," replied one of them," that can never be." After the Foundry and its operations had been well scru tinized, they were invited into the second story of the boring mill, where refreshments were served out ta them, cautiously prepared in the form of saugaree, le. monade, &c. While this weaker sort of drink is better for the Indians themselves, it serves, at the same time, to impress them with a grater respect for , those who present it. Whiskey, or other strong liquor, on the contrary, though they prefer it, leads them to feel a disrespect and contempt for those who serve it upon them. They left the Foundry about six o'clock, to visit the Secretary at War, at his residence, followed by at least 2,000 men, women, and children, attracted by the , strangeness of their costume, if an almost entire nudity, with painted heads and faces, may be called costume. Not less than 60 horses have been stolen in the neigh bourhood of Abergavenny within a few months. EXECUTION.—J. Reynolds, for the murder of his un cle, was executed at Ilchester, en Monday last, pur suant to his sentence at the last Wells Assizes. Ile was only 19 years of age, of short stature, florid complexion, and black hair, and his countenance not unpreposses sing. The prisoner's behaviour since his condemnation was quite changed ; he acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and became calm and resigned to his fate. Yesterday afternoon, about the ee o'clock, at the end of Fleet-market, one of those frightful vehicles, called " vans," either through its own unwielJiness or the neg ligence of the driver, was forced against a single-horse chaise, which it crushed to pieces in a moment. The Ipersons in the chaise were, fortunately, by the prompt ness of people on the spot, extricated from their very perilous situation. Monday last, Mr. Baowx was to have ascended from Barnsley, Yorkshire, in a balloon, but owing to a very heavy rain which fell during that morning, accompanied with thunder and lightning, he deferred his aerial ex cursion till Tuesday, when he ascended in grand style from that place, and passed over Pontefract Park during the time of the Races, and appeared to the view of the numerous company assembled in the Park for upwards of a quarter of an hour. He descended near Fryston, and arrived at Pontefract at five o'clock, all well. The tranquil state of the country having rendered it unlikely that their services should be required, the Glas gow sharpshooters have discontinued their annual train ings, and their arms and accoutrements are to be re turned into the Government stores. Thursday se'nnight, said to be one of the hottest days ever experienced in this kingdom, an extraordinary phe nomenon occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of Wolverhampton. About three o'clock in the afternoon a heavy storm, the skirts of which reached the town, extended from Priestfields in a north-easterly direction over Willenhall, where the hail, rain, and solid pieces of ice fell in torrents, accompanied by lightning and most tremendous claps of thunder. The sewers were choked up by the fierceness of the tempest, and the streets were flooded with water, which emitted a strong sulphurous smell. Scarcely a building in the place escaped without injury in broken windows from the pieces of ice, which measured more than three inches in circumference, and 190 panes of glass were broken in one house at Moseley's Hole. The thermometer that day stood at 89 in the shade. EXTENSIVE Rona eae.--Wednesday, about one o'clock, as Mr. John James, a porter belonging to the firm of Snow and Co. bankers, Strand, was passing the corner of Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, after having been his round collecting money, he was sullenly overtaken by a tall man shabbily dressed in black, who pressed hard upon his shoulders, pretending to be passing him in great haste. The porter suddenly turned round, %Oren the fellow made off, and James immethatAy missed his pocket-book, containing the sum of 2,9551. nearly all in notes. The porter, a man advanced in years, and being lame, could not give the alarm before the robber had made clearly off with his booty. It is fortunate that the numbers of all the notes are known, and pay ment stopped; and as the porter hai given a good de scription of the fellow, it is probai:le that he may soon be traced. The police are on the alert. The porter was struck with a stick as he was passing through Sr. Paul's Church-yard, but oinkd not perceive where the blow came from, and no doubt it was done as a signal to mark him out to some of the gang. The celebrated anatomist and chemical lecturer, Dr. GEORGE FORDYCE, dined every da7 for more than twenty years, at Dolly's Chop-house. His researches in Comparative Anatomy had led him to conclude, that man, through custom, eats oftener than nature requires, one meal a day being , su ffi cient for that noble animal o the lion. At four clock, his accustomed hour of dining, the Doctor regularly took his seat at a table al ways reserved for him, on which were placed a silver tankard fall of strong ale, a bottle of port wine, and a measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy. The moment the waiter announced him, the cook put a pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some delicate trifle as a bonne bouche, to serve until the steak was ready. This was sometimes half a broiled chicken, sometimes a plate of fish : when he had eaten this, he took one glass of brandy, and then proceeded to devour his steak. We say devour, because he always ate so rapidly, that one might have ima gined he was hurrying away to a patient to deprive death of a dinner. When he had finished his meal, he took the remainder of his brandy, having, during his dinner, drank the tankard of ale, and afterwards the , bottle of port. He thus daily spent an hour and a half of his time, and then returned to his house in Essex street, to give his six o'clock Lecture on Chemistry. He made no other meal until his Return next day, at four o'clock, to Dolly's. STEAM VIEERLE.m......A citizen of Maryland, in the United States, has lately invented a kind of cabin fee steani.boats, which is proof quilt all accidestaby espiesieNeed se convected, that the passengers who are thdoso4 in this part of the vessel are secure from ail danger, in cue the boiler should beret or forte tir its cover. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ~-wr+ M ANSMR-11017SE. An aged MIN named Kimberley, a sleeks Otitis law's delay, ap plied yesterday to - the Lori Maros, in the hope of obtaining some redress of his grievances, who had all the appearance of pauperism aboutbim, and made 'a statement to the following effect : His father Wu Mr. William Kimberley, of New Windsor, in the county of Berks, who was nearly 6 years a Member of the Corporation of that Borough, and was possessed, in 1790, of more thin 25,0001. but by some unforeseen calamities his fortune was reduced to 5,0001. at the period of Ms death, which took place in 1908. - • The will named litr. March, of Dover -street, Piccadilly, and Mr. Kinsey, of the Imperial Hotel, Covent-garden, as cleft tors ; but those Gentlemen refused to act, and administration to the will was granted to the applicant's younger brother, as residuary legatee, be (applicant) being_ t he eldest son, and consequently heir to the freehold property. The residuary legatee, after obtaining the administration, instead of defraying the funeral expenses of their father, appropriated the money then in band to his own private use, and s uffered himself to be served with a subpoena from the Court of Chancery by a creditor of their father for the sum of 501. in which applicant was included as heir at law, and to which he put in an answer, stating that he bad not ally money whatever out of his father's property, but that nevertheless he was 'willing to assign over any part of his interest in the freehold property for the payment of his late father's debts. The younger brother dying in 1812, the property remained subject to the Court of Chancery, which, by a decree of a Master of the Court, sold the freehold by public auction at New Windsor, in February, 1817. The money, amounting to 1,570/. arising from the sale, together with the interest thereon, had ever since remained in the custody of the Lord Chancellor. No creditor to the estate had been paid, and be,the heir to the property, notwithstanding the acknowledged validity of his claim, was com pelled, at the age of 67., to beg a weekly allowance from his parish So suppot an existence which had been dreadfully harassed by dis appointments and misfortunes. The Overseers of New Windsor allowed him the sum of 2s. tid. a week, upon the stipulation that the abovementioned allowance or loan be refunded whenever this business is settled. The Loan Maros regretted that he could not interfere. This unfortunate suitor in Chancery is aeicted with hysteric Su, and lame front a fall, and be bas outlived all his near relations, as well as those who, if alive, would have rendered him assistance. BOW-STREET. Yesterday. Matthew !joy, an Irishman, was brought before Sir It. Them by Reed and Miles, two of the day patrol, who stated that about ten o'clock that morning, as they were on duty in Bolton street, Piccadilly, they were informed by the under butler of Mrs. Colitis, that the prisoner had been offering a silver spoon for sale to a Jew named Alexander, who, having a suspicion whether or not the prisoner bad become honestly possessed of it, inquired at Mrs. Coutts's house, to know if there wire any spoons missing ? Miles and Reed being informed of the circumstance, they appre hended the prisoner in Holton•street, and on searching him disco vered five silver tea-spoons, two rings, two sovereigns and a half, be sides some silver, concealed about his person, of which he not giving them a satisfactory account they brought him to this office. Sir IL Brom now interrogated him as to how he became pos sessed of the property ? Prisoner—l found the spoons as I was coming up to London from Bristol about six months ago, and the rings are the property of my wife. Sir R. Bums asked why, if the table-spoon was his own, the crest bad been oblit d? The prisoner said it was done by a Jew, to whom he had of fered it for sale. After some further questions be ins put to the prisoner, Sir It.Bia xra said,that from the unsatisfactory account which the prisoner gave of the property, he should detain him until they had been adver tised ; on which Matthew very innocently inquired how long he was to be detained ? and followed the gaoler out of the office. Bastin tr. Bakst.—This was a proceeding by summons againit Mrs. Bailey, a stout lady, dressed in the extreme of fashion, and who occupied her leisure time in the office with eating nectarines, charging her with breaking and demolishing the goods and chattels of the plaintiff, to wit, two squares of glass in his tenement.—Mrs. Bailey pleaded guilty, but said, the was anxious to state the circum stances that had led to the demolition. _ _ Sir RICHARD BMWS said, be was not desirous of going into a long history of events as the Lady had pleaded guilty ; but she press ing his Worship to hear her story, described how she resided nest duor to Mr. Barnett, who was as short of understanding as he was in stature; how Mr. Barnett's servant made it a daily practice to annoy her, by tittering a loud " Hem!" or by pretending to be seized with a violent fit of coughing; how Mr. Barnett said she was in the habit of riding out with Gentlemen in light-coloured hats, to the great detriment of her character ; bow the servant repeated this " Hem !" and how, on the day that the windows were broken, she went to the gate to receive a note, when the aforesaid servant repeated his loud " Hem !" and bow that she, in the irritation of the moment, catched up the stone which Mr. Barnett had carefully treasured up, and by giving it a backhanded Bing, it came in con tact with the windows aforesaid,splitting one and erecting another ; but this, she added, she would not mind paying far, so long as she was able to recount these difficulties to the Worshipful Bench. " And now, Madam," said Mr. HALLS, you have gained your point, and have nothing more to do than to pay for the windows and the cost of the summons.—" All this, your Worship, has arisen," exclaimed Mrs. Bailey, , " because Mr. Bailey is a Scotch man, and Mr. Barnett has a particular aversion to Scotchman." Sir Moulin Biatsta was anxious to transfer the business into the hands of Mr. Halts, as he (Sir Richard) was himself a Scotchman, and did not wish to incur the censure of either party on that account. Mr. Haus seas equally fearful of engaging in the case, as he wu labouring under a cold, and might also cough or " hem i" " 0, Sir," exclaimed the Lady, "this' hem !' which is practised by Mr. Barnett's boy, I consider an insult, and done to annoy me." The parties would have said more, but the matter was cut short by Mrs. Bailey being ordered to pay .19s. 6d. for the costs and damage done. _____ • __ _ _ GUILDHALL. James Davis, a youth 18 years of age, was charged with felony. —Mr. Wells, clerk to a Mr. Janner, a solicitor, deposed, that on Tuesday evening, at Bartholomew Fair, he got by accident into one or those crowded streams, out-of which it was impossible to extri cate himself. He was hustled about on all sides by a gang of fel lows. The prisoner was the first who attacked hint, making a fruit less attempt at a pair of silver spectacles, then on his nose ; but not daunted at his failure, he faced about a second time, and succeeded in capturing the spectacles by violence. In endeavouring to secure thy prisoner, the witness was assailed by his companions, who soon rifled his pockets of their contents, such as handkerchiefs and moner.• When the officers came up, there was a violent but fruit leaf attempt at rescue. The spectacles, value 20$. bad been handed to one of the gang, wbo made off.—Tlie prisoner made no defence. The Alderman said that this was one of the most barefaced rob beries that ever came under his notice. _ _ The prosecutor, on account of the prisoner's youth, did not wish to press for a committal on the capital charge. The Alderman said that there was no doubt on his mind but that the prisoner would be convicted on the capital charge if be was• committed on that. As the prosecutor behaved so humanely to wards him, he would only commit him for the transportable offence, which be hoped would be the means of ridding society of so auda cious a character.—He•wu then fully committed. HATTON-GARDEN. Gene Oliver, about thine's) years of age, was charged with robbing his employers, Messrs. Beckwith and Son, Wilderness row, of a five-pound note, his mode of spending which was rather singular. It appeared that a short time after the boy entered the service, various articles of jewellery were missing, but no parti cular suspicion attached to the prisoner until last Monday week, when he absented himself for an entire day, after mentioning, as au excuse for absense, that his mother had been taken suddenly 111, and he was compelled to accompany her to different hospitals, where she sought admisdon. This conduct, on the part of the boy, led to an examination of the money chest by Mr. Beckwith, when a five pound Bank of England note was missed. After much searching, the constable, on the preceding evening, met the jockey in Southfield, booted and spurred, riding a donkey up and down, which seemed to have suffered from a hard day's work, and its sides were quite lacerated by the goadinp of the spur. The boy, after some hesitation, acknowledged that he took the five pound note, with which he immediately purchased the donkey, boots, and spurs; that contemplating a continuance of his prosperity, he had hired a stable its Cow-emu, at a certain rent per week, of which he paid four weeks in advance, and had laid in six trusses of hay for his favourite animal—The Magistrate committed Ma for trial. MA RY-LAZONNIL asselesed Men* Req. a Gentleman of considerable sporting ce lebrity, was charged with severely honewbipping his groom, a lit tle boy named James Green. The complainant stated, that about ten o'clock in the morning he was desired by his master to lock a small portmanteau, but the lock requiring great force, he was un able to do so, when the defendant accused him of having injured the lock, and reaching down his bunting whip, full of large and hard knots, be desired the boy to take a his coat and waistcoat, and proceeded to beat him with all his strength, and notwithstanding his cries, he continued to do so upwards of half an hour. it,. Unwin, in bin (Win* tionifit the honewhipplug en himself by his bnpreprielimnione, and ebat the punishment was nothing more than was frequently inflicted *pen Noblemen's children ! I The badt of ibit boy Was indeed dreadful to loni on, sad togs. then with the arms, loins, end legs, was one man of livid flesh every part was deeply welded; the blood had streamed from a number of places, from some of which large pieces of Ink had been cut out. The boy then stated, thit his master had in repeated instances horsewhipped him very severely, and once, when at the Isle of Wight, as cruelly as that morning. The lad who had held the situation the complainant raw dill, also told the Magistrate, that he had often been treated very se. vertly by Mr. Unveils, and that in one instance his head had been laid open ; but Mr. Unwin bad presented bins with £5 as a com penuation for that injury. The Magistrate, upon observing the state of the boy's back, MI! apprehensive that some fatal consequences would mute from the injury, and sent the boy to the parish surgeon, who said he wou!.i not be able to work for several days. The boy was then delivi.:( over to his mother, and the defendant was ordered to find bail tit the assault. MARLBOROUG H-STREET. Yesterday, a young man came to this once and made the follow ing statement to Sir George Farrant :—lle said his name was J o hn Carmichael ; his friends lived in Fifeshire, and were respectable.-- About a fortnight egos he went into a coffee-house near to the Sur rey Theatre, to take some refreshment, and entered into conversa tion with a person who he bad now every reason to believe was an accomplice of the person who had defrauded several persons under the assumed name of Sir Charles Farrington. The person said to him, that, if be could raise 401. he would recommend him to a Gem tleman who wanted a valet and confidential servant, to travel with him on the Continent; that the Gentleman would give 601. per an num. and W. 4s, per week, whilst abroad. He told the person he was sure his friends would raise the money if he could get so valua ble a situation, and this person directed him to " W. Alston Esq. Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester-square." He dressed himself in his best clothes next day, and went to the Sablooiere Hotel, and in quired for a Gentleman named Alston. and was introduced to a m.lts, of must elegant manners and gentlemanly appearance. He told the Gentleman his errand, who expressed himself satisfied with his ap pearance, and said, if be engaged him, he should want him to live some part of the year on his estate iu Normandy ; but before he hired him, he must have a Ave years' character, and be fully satis fied that he was honest, sober, and religious. The young ma. wrote to a Mr. Anderson, who resides at Bond's-green, Southgate, and is a friend of his family, and informed him of his promising prospects, and requested him to come to town, and speak on his behalf. Mr. Anderson accordingly came to London, and was introduced to the Gentleman, who expressed himself entirely satisfied with Mr. An derson's recommendation, and told him that he should treat the young man, he being the son of respectable and religious parents, more as a friend than a servant. On Mr. Anderson coming out of the apartment from the Gentleman, he met the young man, Car michael, and said to him, " The Loan's blessing is upon thee, lad, thou hist a kind and good Gentleman for a master." He thanked Mr. Anderson for the trouble he had taken on his account, and on the same evening the said W. 'Alston, Esq. directed him to bring his boxes to have them packed with his own luggage, prep I ratory to his voyage to France. He took his boxes ' and the Gentlem in regrettest that he could not get change for a 4001. bill !refute the following day, as he was in want of about 20/. In cash to pay a trifling account that night: He (Carmichael) instantly advanced 141. for his master's use. The following day, on returning to the Sabloniere, be found W. Alston, F.sq. was gone, no one knew whither, and tho boxes also, containing his apparel, linen, &c. He had given up a perm silent tuation to join this Gentleman, and was reduced toti state of penury and desperation. The Monday following, he saw a newspaper, con taining an account of the conduct of a person calling himself Sir Charles Farrington. at Stevens's Hotel. and from his description he was satisfied that W. Alston, Esq. of the Sabloniere, and Sir Chas. Farrington, of Stevens's, were one and the same individual.— He went instantly to Stevens's, and there all doubt of the fact was )removed, and he discoveredthat his boxes bad some of them been removed to Jaunay's HoteL He also found that the day W. Al stun, Esq. left the Sabloniere, Sir Chas. Farrington fi rst made his appearance at Stevens's- Os going to Jaunay's h o el , in company with Taunton, the officer, be had the boxes broke open, and instead of his linen and apparel being found therein, nothing but lugs stones were found in their place. Sir G. Fa &RAW? told the young man, that he lamented very muds that he should have been the dupe of the artifices of an accomplished swindler, who appeared to have agents in his nefarious practices; and he hoped that the &Bow would soon be taken into custody. UNION-HALL. - - Tire ;quanta AT BECKCNIIAM.—Yes terday being the day up• pointed for the further examination of Thomas Cmnitt, charged under strong circumstances of suspicion of having shnt.James Mor gan, at Beckenham, on the 16th of August, the office was crowded at an early hour with Gentlemen from the neighbourhood of Beck enham. The investigation took place before L. B. ALUM, F.sq. and a full bench of Magistrates of the counties of Kent and Surrey, and It lasted the whole of the day. Mr. Goodhart and several other persons were examined; hut as some very material witnesses were not present, the poisoner was again remanded until Thursday next. LA M BETH-STREET. P. Hurley, was charged with a highway robbery. Elizabeth Beenley stated, that she was passing through George-yard, on Wed nesday night, when the prisoner put his arm round her neck, and attempted to take the shawl from her shoulders; she resisted, when he knocked her down, snatched the shawl, and fin into a house, but was followed and secured by a watchman, who found the shawl on a bed on which he was lying.—Fully committed. • Ourzas.--Many persons suffered much during the hot weather with bowel complaints, from eating oysters of an inferior quality. Good and wholesome oysters are plump and white, and the inside of the shells have a clear and pearly appearance. When this is not the case, and the fish appears lean and yellow, the oyster is unwholesome. An extensive seizure was made yesterday by Robert Whittaker, one of the officers of the Customs, at Bromp ton—six coach loads, and one cart load of contraband goods, consisting of tobacco, snuff, spirits, and paint ings, to the value of several thousand pounds. Wednesday last, at Brechin, after baiting the horses about ten o'clock at night, a person having occasion again to visit the stable, discovered that the litter on which the poor animals stood had caught fire, in consequence of which two of them were already dead ; other two were got out immediately, but one of them died about an hour afterwards, while the remaining horse was with difficulty so far recovered as to be able to drink water. The fire had scarcely reached them, the hair being merely singed on some of their legs, so that it is supposed they died from suifocatioo. Two of the three were valuable horses, belonging to the Glasgow carrier, and one of them to the carrier from Stoothaven. The following curious notice appears in the Jamaica Courant of the 20th July : " The Editor of this Paper was impelled yesterday anon to com mit a gross breach of the peace, from the irritation of beholding, in a print of 'this city, the initials of his surname disgraced, by being preceded by the name of a coloured woman who performed at the Theatre on Saturday evening. The insult thus offered the Editor was as unprovoked as the allusion was disgusting. The Mee. thus mildly, perhaps unseasonably, reverts to the circumstance, wag bound to abstain from all hostility by the most effectual interference of the Magistracy!! MARRIED. Sept. 4, at the Manse of Daviot, the Rev. Hoer Smile 15 ' nister of Chapel of Garioeh, to Mary, second daughter el the Rev. Robert Shepherd, Minister of Davit*. DIED. On the 7th, at the Hades, Lancashire, Heywood, the son of Jo• seph Birch, Esq. M.P. aged 20. August 24, at Edinburgh, Mr. Robert Douglas, late of the Ad ♦ocatea Library, aged 87 years. H. was admitted into the Advo cates' Library in the year 1786, which situation he held Wynn. X A ILL.— . atm 1178. Dublin 1 o Waterford 1 0 Guernsey sad Jersey 0 0 Lisboa 0 0 Holland 1 0 Jamaica . 0 0 ITS DAT. •IR. DWI: 0 0 Hunburgh 0 1 Flanders 1 0 bulls 0 0 Gottenburgh 0 1 America 0 0 HIGH-W ATER at LON DON- BRIDGE TO-MORRO' Murntn 4 • • n minute , abar 3 ♦'tern.=» - - 49 minutes after 3 LatiDoai Pri►u , d and Published by J. F. Kaav:, a/ M. 3zaz Orrice, A . *. 1, 110gal-11m:e s Tcntr4;-Bar. wry_ el ti en • 81 AO foi an tin d•m= 1 Co Be MI ble ch Cu ate anc Pie Uk TI M Itb •et AM' .~ Erni of a and lent Outl clot! Cent Of. fine: with Eas; cons 4. SA 4 74 (tea Preii team •fitais: of ti Pleet "'Ye tStal