Star. — London, England, 1824-02-26 00:00:00

-- _--~ THE ARMY. RlSant In the Gazette of 27th January last. cc ..mission in the Cardiganshire Militia, signed by his Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Cardigan. Fa William PAlward 'Powell, Esq. to be Lieutenant-Colonel-Com mandant, read William Edward Powell, Esq. to be Lieutenant. Colonel -Commandant, with the rank of Colonel. The Duke of Wisuncorow has appointed "Lieutenant-Colonel, Lacs to tbe situation of Barrack-Master at Waterford, vice Captain *sinew, first appointed to Belturbet, and next to Roaerea. The lit Royal Veteran Battalion has been ordered front Cork to Galway. The fid Royal V ttalion has been ordered from Galway f o r the purpose of being di stributed in detachments at Guernsey , J ame y, Languard Fort, and Sheerness. 'The Seth (Ilutlandshire) Regimen of Foot has received orders to march in two divisions, from Brighton to Portsmouth, for the purpose of embarking forthwith for Cork. Saturdayohe last division of the 94 th Regiment marched into Edinburgh Castle , from the West country. The ranks of of this cor ps were filled up with ex traordinar y dispatch ; upwards three hundred men, tainted over and above the complement, volunteered to the 96th. EXPLANATIONS OF ARMY RXTRAORDINARIES. Cornet Service, :Artillery Deporennst, Abroad.—Extra pay to Offi ces commanding Royal Artillery; staff-pay to acting Adjutants a nd Quartermasters; allowances for servants ; allowanceand to co mmis-ioned Officers in charge o f stores; pay to Fire Labourers at the laboratories. Contingencies, Artillery Department, Abroad.-1 - lire of carriages on marches ; travelling allowance to Officers ; medicine, wine, and other bosphal expenses; charges of replacing horses shot for the glanders; passage of artillerymen; postage of letters, and incidental expenses at the laboratories. Current Service, Storrlateper's Department, 'lonic and Abroad. — Pay of storebousemen and labourers; armourers and artificers; storehouse end office rent; rates taxes, anJ tithes. awhogetsciesoStornfreeper's D;partment. I lame and Abroad.— landing and watching stores; boat hire ; occasional hire of vessels rt foreign tat ion • ; travelling allowances and passage-money to civil officers ; postage of letters, and carriage of parcels and stores. LENT ASSIZES.—CHESTER CIRCUIT. The llonourable_Cumu.ss lA/ARMIN. 'Nforcfnittnrsulaw.—Thursday, March 25, at Ponl. th.ssioustuar.—Wednesday, March 31, at Buthiu. punsmutz.--Tuesday, April 6, at Mold. CALSIIIRE.—ItIonday, April 12, at the Castle of Chester. CA lila A IrrnEN CIRCUIT. Sastesi Hytwooo,Serjeant at Law.—Jouu 13.ttzur, aq. Caarucau.—"Nlonday, April 12. Havaarosowtsr.—Saturday, Aprill7. CasitAxTuis.— Friday, April 23. SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT. W. WINGFIELD, F.sq. Chief Justice.—R. li. CASIILRD, Esq. GLANORGANSHIRE.—Tuesday, April 6, at Cardiff. Bascoussuas.—Tuesday, April 13, at Brecon. It a nsoatutag.—Nlonday, April 19, at Presteigne. NOR'f II WALES CIRCUIT. JONATHAN RAlNg,lr,sq.—~ ti KuggicK, .Audiscr.—Tuesday, April 6, at Ileaurnaris. Casaaawousulag.—Monday, April 12, at Carturvon. ilatuosrrusulas.—Saturday, April 17, at Bala. BOW STRLET-THIS DAY. Roma , / AT • SERUM% —James eltier was put to the bars charged by his master, !r. Goddard, of the Strand, with having robbed him of Windsor and other scented soaps to a considerable amount. The prisoner had been in the employ of Mr. Goddard' three months, but from repeated losses at length became suspected. lie, however, contrived to evade detention until yesterday, when be was stopped at the moment of leaving the house. Au officer was seat for, who searched him, and found on his person a quantity of soap, the property of Mr. Goddard. The facts of the case were clear against the prisoner, who said nettling in defence or explanation of his conduct, and was com mitted for trial.—Mr. Goddard humanely paid him the wages due before he was lucked up. DRUIIY-LANE THEATRE. The Merry Wives of Irixdsor attracted a crowded audience last night, and the whole Comedy went off with infinite eclat. Madame VErrats performed Mrs. Page for the first time, and acquitted herself with the greatest credit, her songs and duets were given with great sweetness and .effect ; the mellifluous STEPHENS WAS as charming as ever, while Miss POVEY'S liquid . tones fell sweetly on the ear, particularly in her beauti• lul duet with BRAHAU ° Love like a shadow Ales." BRAIIANI sung all his songs with uncommon power, taste, and expression. An additional movement to his cantata of " A loses eyes can gaze ap eagle blind" was introduced with the happiest effect and success. SLAVERY. The first Annual Meeting of the Edinburgh Society for the mitigation and gradual extinction of Slavery, was held on Monday, the 15th instant, at the Waterloo Tavern, in that City.—Walter Brown, Esq. acting Chief Magistrate (in the absence of the Lord Provost), in the Chair, supported by the Rev. Dr. Davidson and John Waugh, Esq.—The Report was read by the Rev. C. Terrot. The object of it was to establish three points : I. That moral and religious education applied to a Ne gro population, even more degraded than that of the iVest Indies, will effectually improve them in all the good qualities of human character—proved by the ex perience of Sierra Leone, where there is now a popula tion of several thousands of liberated Negroes, and although that population has increased, crime has de creased. Q. That the alarm ofa gradual emancipation is groundless, seeing that, in St. Domingo, even a total and instantaneous emancipation, produced none of the evils that are dreaded ;—and, 3. That the happiness .Ind interests of proprietors and slaves, even under the present system, and in the Islands themselves, may be effectually promoted, by a system of kindness and hu mane treatment, proved by the experience of Nlr. Steele, and other similar ones referred to. From all of which considerations, the Report inferred, that it was the duty of the British nation to second the wishes of the Minis try, by supporting measures calculated thus to benefit all interests, however apparently opposite. With re ference to he clamour which has been ixcited in the West India Islands themselves on the subject, the Re oport obse r ved that this was limited to Jamaica and Bar adoes alone, in which Islands all concession had been systematically, however unwisely, opposed ; while an Opposite and most pleasing spirit had been evinced in the islands of Tobago, Grenada, and St. Lucia, the le-' gislattnes of which had passed laws highly favourable to the improvement of the Negroes.—Speeches were delivered by several Gentlemen present, and a pe th3en to the House of Commons was agreed to, and numerously signed. HENRY ANDREWE s who for many years edited Moore's Almanack, received only 201. or 251. a-year, for his la bours. They order these things better in Russia, where Messrs. KorztEcw and VON BESTUSCHEW, the editors ii the first Russian Almanack, The Polar Star, have re ceived magnificent diamond rings from their Majesties the Empresses. Thursday an explosion took place in Bumton Col. l ery, by which one man was killeJ, and a boy se• I ;eusly hurt. .•/ • • . - - ,~- 'EAST INDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a special Court of Proprietors was held at the East India House, for the purpose of taking into consideration a Requisition for inquiring into the state of Ha y leybury College. Mr. DOUGLAS KINHAIRD rose to bring on his pro 'nisei Motion relative to the Company's College esta blishment at Hayleybury. He reviewed the proceedings of that collegiate establi,hment, and adverted to the many expulsions which had taken place since its foun dation—expulsions that were, in their consequences, particularly severe, from the imperative nature of the clause of the Act of Parliament, which rendered a service of four Terms at the Company's College ins dispensable, before the student could be qualified to embark in their civil or military service in India. In bringing forward the present subject, he did not mean in the slightest degree to impute any misconduct to the Professors at the College; the evil was inherent in the system of the establishment, and not arising from any fault on the part of individuals. At this College, an iron controul was placed over the discretionary power of the Professors by the Act of Parliament, and they had no authority, as in the other Colleges of the country, to send a refractory student away, without being cern- pelted, as at Hayleybury. - to visit him with the several sentence of expulsion, which for ever blasted the pr0..1 spects of the individual upon the Company's establish - 1 ment. If the discretionary power to which he had alluded were vested in the Professors, they would remove an improper student, without waiting until he had violated some of the statutes of the College, and thereby prevent the progressive contagion of his vices among the other students with whom he must associate.— The Honourable Proprietor read a variety of extracts From Mr. Malthus's book, which he contended deve• _ . loped the evils inherent in the system of the Institution,. and recommended the extension to the Professors of a power to send home refractory students in the first instance. He urged at considerable length the impolicy of confining to Hay ley bury College the exclusive edu cation of the persons destined to serve them in India, and pointed out how much better it would be, to allow parents to educate their children where they pleased, always establishing a test of proficiency (for instance, the same as at Hayleybury) before they were permitted to proceed to their ultimate destination in India. Let that test of proficiency be clear and public, so that the examination would leave no doubt of the Lent; fide qu*. lifications of the individual. On the whole, he thought that the restrictive clause which prohibited appointment to office, except through the medium of education at Bayley bury College, ought to be repealed, and that, still preserving that College as a seminary for the edu cation of their Officers, other roads for education should be open, so that, by a fair competition, the College should be excited to emulation, and the acquirements of their Officers enlarged. He iidiculed the idea, that if the monopoly of the College were withdrawn, students would no longer be sent there, and contended that an ex isting and well-established Institution, when reformed and placed upon a proper basis, would always command a preference. He pointed out the improvements in the, system of education which had been adopted of late years, and strongly recommended for adoption that pursued by Dr. , Russell, at the Charter-house. By the practice at Hayleybury, they barred themselves from the improve ments which circumstances called forth, and which the Professots, if unshackled and left in loco parentis to the students, would themselves adopt. He wished to abo lish the exclusive privilege attached to Hayleybury, and to arm the Professors with a better moral power; and for that purpose, moved 4. that an application be made to Parliament to repeal the clause of the Act which pre scribed a residence of four Terms at Hayleybury as in dispensable to an official appointment in India," and said that he also wished to have a fit test of examina tion established, which all students would have to pass before their appointment, but without reference to the place of their previous probation. In conclusion, he expressed a warm anxiety that the Court of Directors would take the subject in hand, and do that as emanating from their body, which he now recommended for the adoption of the Court of Proprietors.—On the motiot being banded within the bar, The CHAIRMAN (Sir RobertVrigtam, M.P.) said, that being appealed to by the Honourable Proprietor who had introduced this subject in a calm and dispassionate manner, he was anxious to inform him, that were it not for his (Mr. Kinnaird's) repeated notices of motion upon this subject, he (the Chairman) would have himself brought the subject under the consideration of the Court of Directors. Hesubmitted, therefore, whether it would not be advisable for the Honourable Proprietor to with. draw his motion, and let the matter rest for considera tion in another quarter ? The Honourable Proprietor was certainly misinformed as to some of his details--: for instance, the Professors had the power of sending home students after the first time, which was merely probationary, if they found them unfit for the/ College. A long _conversation then arose between Mr. Km- NAIAD, Mr. Hums, Mr. RANDLE JACKSON, and the CHAIRMAN, in which it was pressed upon the Court of Directors to consider the specific proposition at present made, or something like it, but upon the refusal of the Chairman to commit either himself or the Directors in any specific course of proceeding, the discussion of the general question was resumed. Mt. CARRUTHERS, at considerable length, opposed , the motion, and said that the establishment of Hayley bury College had been found eminently useful—a fact which was demonstrated by the superior acquirements of the civil servants dispatched from it to India during the last few years. He contrasted the liberal scale of education in use there, to that of the old Colleges.under the obsolete Stattites of Henry VIII. and urged the im portance of preserving an institution which sent forth to the millions subjected to their Government in India, men of enlightened and highly cultivated minds, fit for, the arduous duties of their station. Mr. POYNDER also opposed the motion, and denied that Mr. Malthus had spoken so decidedly against the system of education at the College, as was mentioned. On the contrary, he had in many instances spoken in the highest praise of -it. He contended that the effect of this motion would be to abolish the College altogether. On the whole, he thought it was better to let well alone. Mr. RIGBY and Mr. Weems° spoke in favour of the motion, and contended for the necessity of ameliorating the system of education at Hayleybury.- Mr. TWINING saw no adequate reason for making an innovation upon the present system of the College, and should therefore oppose the motion. Mr. SAMUEL DIEoE spoke in favour of it, ~' Mr. limy opposed the motion, and argued at some length for the continuance of the present collegiate dis cipline at Hayleybury, which he asserted had materially improved their present class of civil servants in India. , • . ' • . . . •,, ..o . * . .! 1. • . • • •• .e• i•• ‘•••••••-•• • '''• ' **"•'. : ..' ' " • ••••.' ••••s * '7 "*. **• • • '''% . I I . ' • _ . • ._.... ... 41....:.........._ ' Mr. CAIIACAST warmly supported the motion, and denied t h at an expu l s i on f rom C o ll ege oug h t to be,a final bar to a Student's professiohal advancedent in life. The ablest men of the day had suffered that sort of punishment, and after Wards become very distingnished in life. Sir nancis Burdett (with whose politics he did not always agree, was, he had heard, expelled both from Westminster and Oxford—(A laugh). Mr. RANDLEJACICSON supported the motion. It being nearly five o'clock, an adjournment of the debate was loudly called for; some proprietors were, however, for going to a decision without further delay. A division ensued, when the numbers were— For the adjournment, 62, I Against it, 52 Majority tor the adjournment. • The debate was then adjourned until Friday nett. It is stated in a respectable Morning Paper, that Mi• nisters are determined instantly to send another exile. dition against Algiers, and thit homb-ves-els are pre paring for that purpose. Such we are assured is not the case; indeed, had Ministers any such intentions, a considerable increase in the N ivy supplies would have beep necessary. A sufficient force will be sent to the Mediterranean, to protect our trade and our flag from insult, and to prevent the further vi lation of the Treaty into which the DEY entered, when such a lesson was taught him as he cannot easily forget. It is most probable that the piratical Dv/ will not long provoke out hostility, or incur the hazard of another bombardment. Parliament will be adjourned on the 15th till the 28th April, for the Easter.recers. The Ministers have made such progress with what is termed the public business —the Eititnates and the Annual Bills, all of them be ing now before the flouse—that it is calculated in the Government Offices that the present Session of 'Parlia ment will not last beyond June, about one month earlier than usual. The Parliamentary vote•pa per contains a long list of eallutions, on the subject of the Four per Cent. Acts; but the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S speech on Monday contained so full an explanation of the mode of carrying into execution his intended project for convert ing the Four per Cent. into Three and a Half Stock,that it is not necessary to publish these resolutions. The propriety of employing female prisoners on the tread-mill having given rise to much difference of opi nion, Mr, Secretary Pm., with a commendable anxiety to set the question properly at rest, directed three of the mast eminent physicians to be consulted on the subject. These Gentlemen -visited Cold-bath-fields Prisort several times last week, but their opinions have not yet been made known. A new Bill relative to the management of Gaols has been brought forward by Mr. PEEL. The following is the clause respecting compulsory labour before trial:— And whereas doubts have arisen, whether by the said recited Act, prisoners before trial can be compelled against their will to labour on the tread-mill, and it is expedient to remove such doubts; be it further enacted and declared, that it is not and shall not bel.m.. ful to compel any untried prisoner to such labour against his will." The rate of in:urance on vessels in the Mediterranean , trade experienced another advance at Lloyd's yesterday, five to sir guineas having been given. It is not more than four days since the, price was 50s. to 60s. The general opinion, however, is that very little loss will be sustained by our commerce before the arrival of the squadrons there to protect It, as the Algerines had not many small vessels of war fit for immediate service. A meeting of the Catholic Association was held in Dublin, on Saturday last, at which th t wiseacre, Mr. O'Connell is represented in one of the Dublin papers to have made use of the following, language He (M! . . O'Connell) would ask, bad not the Duke of York pub- Italy avowed himself their enemy ? Had he not voted against them, and made speeches against them ? Was he not, a short time ago, at the head of the Orangemen of England ? To be sure, some friend about him had lately advised him to shew a little mote poliey;anJ he was to preside at a meeting of the Society of St. Patrick; but the people of Ireland were not to be deluded by such shallow artifices. The Duke of York was heir to the greatest empire in the world ; he had before him all the enjoyments which roan could desire; but he ought to remember, that one Duke of York lost Ireland, by endeavouring to force the consciences of the Eng lish nation, and another Duke of York might lose it by attempting to force their consciences. It became them to speak as freemen, and to tell the Heir-apparent, that one Duke of York, by his bigotry, lost the throne of England, and, that another Duke of York, might ex perience the same fate." DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN CONSEQUENCE OF INTOXICA TION.—Saturday evening last, Thomas Church, the driver of a stage waggon belonging to Mr. Claridge, of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, called with his waggon at the sign of the Boot, Edgware, being quite drunk at the time, but did not drink anything at that house. He soon afterwards left the bar, and went towards the waggon, and the ostler, with other persohs seeing the Mate he was in, endeavoured to get him into the waggon, at he persisted in driving the team himself, and taking is whip out of the band of one of the bystanders, started his horses briskly ; he had not pre, eded more than twenty yards, before he fell down, when both the near wheels passed over his head, and crushed it ih such a manner, that he survived but a few minutes.. HABERDASHERS'ALMS-HOUSES.—This oncebeautiful pile of buildings, which were situated at the end of Pit. field -street, Horton, are now levelled with the dust, in order to give way to modern improvements, after having stood about 230 years, and from the sound state of the materials were likely to have endured as many more. Monday night an alarming fire broke out in a dwell ing-house (of a Mrs. Wallis) in King's-row, Dog-row, sear Mile-end turnpike, between ten and eleven o'clock, which totally destroyed the building and furniture, and , part of two otherrudjoining. Friday night a young man, of the name of Joseph Reeves, having met a young woman by appointment at Carr's Hill, near Gateshead, they unfortunately missed 'their way, and both fell into a quarry. The young wo. man was not much hurt, but Reeves was killed. In the village of "Larbert, where lies interred the ce lebrated Abyssinian traveller, there is placed at the end of a house fronting the road, a large figure of the lion, cut from stone, by some country mason, and which 'may rank among the most unlion looking of the many characters of the noble beast. The traveller could not. fail to be offended with the unnatural thing, and used to recommend to the man who kept the house to have it removed. When Mr. Bruce was siding through the village one day, the owne', having got the animal newly painted a bright red, was standing at the door, the traveller's horse naturally took fright at the grinning monster, and reared and pranced with every symptorts, of fear. " All ! Mr. Bruce,' cried the pleased owner, ".although yi n have been in Africa, your horse knows best when it sees a lion." The di:west sheet of bright tin-foil, ( ; rroperly lead joil,) is a pet leer fire screen ; you may eneJunter a glass house fire in a mask of this description. • . I • , . ~.r+--~ --.--,-.---_ .. - -5•.. • NA PAL INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday, a Court of Directors Was held at the East Indialgam, when Captain Hams= was sworn into the comigand of .0. 16 abtp Thames. Dr. Diction, of Clifton, Physician to the Platt, has been pointed Physician of the Royal Naval Hospital at Plyntolitlh• the room of Dr. TKOMPSOW, deceased. Captain Bourns', of the CAMILMN sloop of war, who so gallantly captured the Algerine corvette, is promoted to the rank of Post- Captain; and Capt. Lsitisicrisappointed to command the CAUILIAN As the Po, 131%Ln:a Master, was endeavouring to make Padstow harbour, on Saturday we h, a tremendous sea struck the vessel and washed the Master ands his son, a fine young man, overboard. As no assistance could be afforded that, they were both drowned. FA LMOCTII, FICIIMIYARYfit.—:Vied, the Ruby. WAT son, for Genoa; -Marys, FiNnLav ; Britannia, •R csi • ana WAt son, WA 'NON, for Lisbon; and NORMAN, for kfarseilles. Piassourn, FaaßtlA RV S 4.— Wand R..— A rrived the za, 1: it, front Charente. PORTiIIOUII4, FiSSUA RV 25.—Witid N.V.—Arrived the Orpl.e s, Frion.av, from London for the Isle of France ; and his Mai, sii's ship Cametrow, from Falmouth. FEHRUA 25.—Wind N. F--Catne down from the River, and sailed, the ilonourable Company's ship Sir David Scott, for Bengal and China; W.lliam Money, JACIC•bt3N, fur Madras; Mit ford, TAitos, for :Ilogadore ; West Indian, ('OOK, fur Antigua ; Sibson, STEPIII mom, for St. Lucia ; Telegraph, G uANnmo, for Havre ; Betsey, Fun, for Antigua; Cineinnatits, Scotto, for New York ; Rosanna, JOHNSON, for Batavia; Tula, IVrirrk, for Gibraltar; and Betsey, Asriti., for Tenerife. CUSTOM-11013SE. Sines Mennen lowa Res—The Conferencesa, from Gottenbofgh ; Better Luck Still, from Calais; Apollo, from Stettin; Lawring. front Pre deriekstadt ; Lively, from Harlingen ; Emma, from Li verpool; Conch, front Antwtrp; Hazard, front Dunkirk i • Kiel. . from Stock:mint ; Marys, Pheasant, Margaret, Active, and Wharsn. ger, from Waterford; and Factor. from Belfast. ENTEKVII Otera•aans--'llte Agincourt, for Antwerp; Gerirude, for Rotterdam • Golden Spring, for B e rmuda ; and Kleenex, fur the Cape of Go od Hope. CLEARING OuTwARDS—The Massasoit, for Baltimore; Barcl ty, for Jamaica; Sisters, for Naples; Frederick, for Gibraltar; Oporto packet, for Pernambuco; and Reward for the South Seas. ARRIVED—At Lisbon, the Courier, Cozen; Gloria, Baptiste; and Nancy, Morrisy, from Rio Janeiro ; Lark, Pylons ; Vittoria, Pinson ; Alliance, Collins ; and Augustus, Cram, front Newfound land; and Amphion, Liberg, front Itarnsgare. At Oporto, Isa bella, Bishop; and Lapwing, Richards i from Liverpool; Two Sisters. Prowse ; and Dove, from Newfoundland. At Übe's, Auguste, Bateman ; Emanuel, Bismark ; and from London ; En igheden, Asander, front Ramsgate ; Union, Da vey, from Liverpool; and Ceres, Wagg, from Newfoundland. At Figuera, Speculator, 'Mulloy ; and Justin, Cotinen, front Newfound land. At St. Helena, Kains, Cunningham, from Madras. PIRACY AND MURDER. Matteotti, Fee. 2.—The American schooner Napoleon, sailed hence on the 23d ult. bound to the Cape deVerds, in ballast, and on the morning of the 25th idem, a Portuguese brig (which had loft the sehooner off Pond do Sol, and headed at Ilibairo Brava), ar rived in town, with the melancholy intelligence of the murder of the Captain, Mate, Steward, and a ynusig Portuguese lad, by three of the crew. The Governor immediately sent out armed boats (under the direction of the Harbour :\laster), in starch of the schooner and crew; they succeeded In getting the s.:liooner the same night, and on the morning of the 26th die vessel and mursterers were conveyed into Funchal Roads. The three men are now un dirgoing a strict examination, but nothing further has transpired. It is supposed they will be sent to America, and there receive their punishment. The boy who brought Utz intelligence of the murder had been spared to assist in the vessel, bat on the night of the 24th be contrived to lower the boat and escape, whilst the men were below drinking. The object they had in view is not yet known — the Captain had but a small quantity of specie on board. SPOUTING INTELLIGEACE. CAPTAIN PARRY'S MATCH FOR 100 SOVEREIGNS.• Not the Great Circumnavigator, but a real Light Horseman, who undertook his match n Tu. salty to ride and. drive thirty-six miles in two hours. lle first became an equestrian, and did twenty one miles in eleven minutes within the first hour. This mot of the condition having been performed in less time than the equestriaii thought of, he commenced charioteering, with betting six to foto in his favour. The ground was over a bye.road fr ilare-hat.ll to Lemming Wood, on the other side Maidenhead. The diiv:oz; part was skilfully performed in alight vehicle, weight 1201 its. The first horse in the gig was too fart fur ,his work. .There -wits ver: little trot about him it was necessary to take an after chance, which, by way.of accident, had been prepared to do any fast work required- Ins second lot was a new Manchester mare, or at lelst new to the sporting world, said to belong to a Mr. Nelson, front Westmoreland. She did her work at the rate of sixteen Wile, an hour with great ease, and the match was won with great difficulty something under three miritncs and a rew seconds within the time. THE CHASmossmr.—Sjwing has written another letter, in which he says—" Of Lungen I have nothing to say, but th .t I consider him a brave fellow in the ring, and a good fellow out of it: butt iu order to put an end to all further eArtling, and to-brie; out matters to a clear understanding. I have only this to o'uervid--Lhisgati at his .ven benefit publicly statedthat ' he was ready fight any man who called himself Champion of England, on a stage, •fiat • front e. 300 to £1,000.' Now I have been pronounced the character he de teribes, and I sin ready ro fight Langan, or any other man, for £5OO, in a roped ring on the turf; or for £l,OOO, in any way that himself or his . fri.:nds may think proper to suggest—on an iron pavement if they choose. This is my final -answer to all grata; and I shall be at the Fives' Court on Wedisetelayiaisd. amas tit the - scratch, if called." • - Reirtiouts ANT) Wittax.—The former has accepted thee:barllitre of the latter, with the following proviso:—flu says he is, ut:cLo eleven stone, and will fight me fur .6200 a .side. I will accept his challenge, awd light half way between London and Blanchester; but it has been whispered to use that Air. Wittain weighs twelve stone ten pounds; if that is the use, he rough: nave ses.d himself rise trouble of writing, fur my farads s id uot allow rote to fight aganist • superior weight. PEARCE INOUE AND NED TURISEE.—On the Cdth instant, there was a strong muster of the Fancy, as well as Spotting Gualemen, at Mr. Thomas Belcher's ' the Castle Tavern, Holborn, when, after a little chaffing, the sum o f SU was made good towards 1001 a-side, between Pearce Inglis and Ned 'Turner; the neat 50L to be made good on the 6th of April; the battle to take place on the 20th. •: Monday the 23d inst. was rang at the Parish church of St. Dnnstan, Fleet-street, by eight of the Junior I:uqthethtnd Speistir, the whole complete peal of Grandsirc Triples, containing 5010 changes, in three hours and five minutes, conducted by. Mr it; trod'. The sudden changes of beat - and cold this year, in Russia, have caused an uncommon increase of sicknes. Among the cases tried last week in the Court of Ex chequer, the most important was the case of "Thu King v. John Bridges and James Dew," which was an informa tion filed by the A rroaNev•GIiNERAL againstthe defen dants, for breaches of the Revenue Laws. The selendatits were common breners, at Bristol, and had, it.would ap pear, been guilty of every breach of the Revenue Laws which it was possible to do in their trade, for which the various penalties sought to he recovered amounted to several thousand pouncG. In the &it place, they mixed strong beer and table beer together, and srld it in that state for strong beer ; this was a very great fraud on the Revenue; because the strong beer pa t s 40;. per barrel duty, and table beer only 2s. so that by mixing one of each, and then selling it as strong beer, they pay for the two barrels' 125. only, instead of 20s.'and put the whole of that surplus into their own pocket.. The defendants also frequently mixed table beer and ale together, be side; erasing the letter T from the table beer barrels, mixing grains of paradise (a hot seed from South Ame rica), liquotice, and copperas with the beer, duti ig the process of brewing. Anctlter method they pursued was, ; that of taking a quantity of grains from the vat after a Lrewing t but before the officers went to g au g e i t; so that when it was gauged, it seemed •rs if only table beer had b:en brewed, and it was charged accordingly by I n h ai e v E i x w c a is,e s itmolono:eadc,h,ao. which the , e offen c es h h vasnovs 4 v e ry glitto he b a e v y r e pe - c 0. leered. • the Learned Counsel called two of the defend :.nts'.foriner workmen; who } .roved the facts • as above stated Jury returned a verdict for the Crown, in penalties to thus amount of • • ; . • A: ,t . .. -. _.. • , ---.~--~ 1 py r• U. 71'g7 7 . ~~ ~- 1