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The Hermit Abroad. Vols. 111. and IV. 12mo. We noticed the two former volumes of this work, as not unworthy of the attention of such as are fond of works of fiction. The present volumes are no way in-, ferior to their predecessors. As a specimen of the aathor's manner, we shall lay before our readers a por tion of one of his well-told little tales: THE BROKEN DOWN DRAGOON HORSE. " Thrice did the poor animal toss' his head proudly, As if indignant to be placed in his degraded situation ; and thrice did the driver of the cabriolet pat him kindly on the neck, crying, " Courage, Blondel, thou shalt have a double feed this day, for thou halt worked like a brave one." The horse reared his crest courageously, but the noise of a number of bells suspended round his neck seemed to alarm and to humiliate him. He hung his ears; his flanks beat to and fro, the driver offered him some wet hay, but the unfortunate servant and friend to man was too weak and jaded to relish food: a hollow cough announced an affection of the lungs, and blood streamed from the dumb sufferer's mouth. " The scene interested me, or rather, I ought to say, my sympathies found themselves entangled in the living drama. " Diable," cried the driver, as he looked feel ingly at the horse—" putt."—He offered a second lock of wet hay, the old horse drooped and faltered ; a cold shivering seized his limbs, the bells rang again,tnd the animal again shook his head. 1 saw the moment had arrived, which was likely to terminate the existence of the slave to man; and I approached and advised the unharnessing of the poor beast, which advice was most willingly accepted by the driver. "A h mon --„" I add not the monosyllable so commonly and irreve rently pronounced ; this word is not considered as swearing, or as a rash and profane invocation ; those who use it know not, perhaps, what they do; in English, it would be a greater fault; let us pass, therefore, from, the exclamation, or ejaculation, to its purport ; it was to deplore the situation of a suffering animal of the greatest utility, and nas followed by the uplifting of the shafts of the cabriolet, accompanied by a panto mimic communication to me, which informed me I might relieve the patient, (I may say) for patient and resigned was the agonized quadruped, by aiding him from the suffocating collar and galling traces : a look was enough for me, I pocketed my gloves, deposited my cone in the cabriolet, and worked like a hired la bourer to get the horse clear of his incumbrances; crowd now gathered around us, the horse staggered horn his load—shivered—rang those bells,which seemed like his departing knell—and fell 'prostrate on the pavement. " The driver looked in despair, and smote his forehead. " Raise him up,"ctied he, in a voice stifled with grief, and every one around lent a hand ; the animal stood erect, and looked again proudly for some seconds, again he tossed Iris head, and fell—to rise no more. The driver sighed and swore, he cast his hat upon the ground and swore a second time;—wept and swore again. " Brute that thou art," cried one spectator, " thus to overwork this poor horse:' Thou hart starved him," exclaimed another ; the man was deaf to these accusations, and I saw that his heart acquitted him ; Ce West Tien de tout cola,"—" it is nothing of all that, which occasions his death," answered he, " he nas not made for his situation:" here he took breath— " he had not the force to undergo the fatigue of a street cabriolet :" his voice failed him, " f—! a word we must not name—s I fed him, and took care of him like a child, but his appetite and strength failed him daily," and—(ax oath )—" here he lies at last." " The pause was long and impressive. M I wish that he had been shot before I had bought him," resumed the speaker.—" Rather wish," replied I, " that some humane master had turned him out in his paddock for life, in consideration of his former services." "Lis bleat oui," said the owner, with a sneer ; " yes, indeed, where should we find such generous souls, here live there the men, who leave not the brute creation to contempt and ruin when their service is performed, and when they are no longer fit for work ? Do we not see man treat his fellosv-man in the same way ?" He might have uttered a volume of reflections, but could have added nothing to what I understood. Here a heavy tart passed by, but the old driver interfered, and exerted himself so as that the wheel should not touch the body of the dead horse; many approached it with interest, all viewed it with decency, (I say decency, because death in any form is a solemn hint to the children of morta lity). " Poor thing !" exclaimed a pretty blanchisseuse, as she passed it by, and gently touched its arched and once comely neck. " Poor thing !" echoed the driver, in an octave below the female note of pity ; at length a veteran in rags approached the spot, whose weather beaten front, and prematurely grey mustaches exhibited his brief and unsuccessful biography ; he rushed boldly into the circle, and tried to raise the horse. " .vone stun " vociferated he (another unconscious oath), 4 * will nobody lend a hand ? " "It is too late," uttered a dozen voices together. The broken soldier lifted up the neck of the beast again, and again; it fell lifeless, and with it sunk the heart of ragged humanity.— " Tonnerre —" it was no use. "The soldier wiped the perspiration from his copper' brow—be then examined the carcase attentively ; a mark on the left haunch soon brought to the broken soldier's remembrance his former comrade, and his for mer occupation. The dead dragoon-horse and the veteran (wr inklcd in the early autumn of his days) had shared the same fate, and had braved the same perils together. Laforce (such was the dragoon's name) had actually made three campaigns on the poor brute's back, he had been wounded in one of them, and many a time and oft had they both partaken of the same coarse black breed, and slept side by side at the sign of the seven ears (the Septem Pkiades) together. The soldier could no longer contain his feelings ; from oaths and ejaculaa tions, he passed to the historical detail of the joint feats of himself and Moustache (so he called the victim war horse); scarcely could the great Bucephalus, or the grand elephant of Pyrrhus, boast more renown in the annals of battles. At one moment, Laforce looked wistfully at the animal, at another he caressed the re mains of his faithful companion, now no more ; at length, tears coming rapidly and involuntarily, he swore a round oath, and departed abruptly, crying as in scorn, " Ah 1 bah I rt . & ce qe eat que de nous 1" meaning man and beast; each soon humbled to the dust, the race of each soon run, the tale of either soon told and soon forgotten." The Duchess of PARMA (MARIA Louisa) is on a visit to gems, with a large nits. GAME LAWS. On the Motion of Mr. S. WORTLEY in the House of Commons on Friday, for the recommittal of the Game Laws Bill, Sir Joan BRYDGES spoke as follows: " Entirely opposed as I am to the principles of the measure now under the consideration of this House, and believing, as I do, that if it is adopted, it will dot answer the end proposed, however feeble must be my opposition, still it is my duty to shew it, satisfied as I am in my conscience, that should the Bill be passed into a law, it will be a destructive precedent for an interference in and an infringe ment of the privileges and the rights of property. Though Ho nourable Members who advocate this measure, may attempt to decry the privileges of Lords of Dlanors, by calling them permis sive rights only,l consider this to be a distinction without a differ ence: every privilege is a right, and every attempt tjg invade it ought to be resisted ; and though permissive only this right may be, it still has Its value ; for is it not one amongst the many inducements daily held gut to persons to become purchasers of estates? Nothing is more common than to state in the advertisements, as an addi tional inducement to persons to become purchasers, the rights and privileges of an appendant manor. It has been argued that a privi lege, the exercise of which it is in the power of another to prevent, is of little consideration—yet mark the inconsistency of those who argue thus, trifling as it is, and valtieless as they would have it supposed to he, still they are anxious that it should no longer be confined to ancient Lordships, but would open it to the wide command of the purse: if valueless, why do,this? Sir, I shrewdly suspect this part of the Bill is framed only with a view to catch popularity. I will not detain the House long, but I must say a few words upset this occasion, as I may not have another oppor tunity. lam come to this House to do my duty, and not to sacri fice it at the shrine of popularity whatever odium, therefore, my opposition to this measure may create to myself, I am content to incur it, hod to take the consequences of endeavouring to defeat this obnozious measure. Among the many objections I have to the principle of this 1301, I disapprove of it as an innovation en the privileges of the higher orders. Lately, in a debate in this House on a Bill to prevent cruelty to animals, some Ilonour.ible Members wished to extend its provisions to the practices of bear baiting, cock-fighting, Ste. amusements of the lower orders—it was connuendattly opposed on the ground of its being an interier ence with their recreations. Upon the same principle, Sir, I claim the protection cf this House for the higher orders, and out to take away or abridge those inducements that invite the Country Gentleman to' domesticate among his own people. Sir, the Country Gentleinas is no longer that uneducated illiterate 'Squire that we used to read of of old ; there are now no 'Spire Westerns—there is now no longer that obnoxious character so whimsically, though satirically described in Hall's Crazy Tole.: A country dog, I think, Is very like a country 'Squire, They both are only fit to sleep and stink by their own fire ! • And when awake, are only good 'l'o yelp and halloo in a wood; Few worsts compose their whole vocabulary ! A fox, a hare, and a flue seeming day, And whether they are serious or merry, this is all they have to say ! In short, they never are so entertaining, As when they are fast asleep, or feigning !' No, Sir; the present race of Country Gentlemen is an enlightened, educated, and most useful class, the flower of Ettgland, well quali fied for the &nate, the Magistracy, or any othCr duties that their ' inclinations may lead them to adopt. Is it fair then to deprive tbent of their ptivikges, and to abridge those recreations whisli invite Country Gentlemen to domesticate among their own people, when time and opportunity concur to enable them to do ao.— " Dit/cs est desipere in loco : ' and this is a privilege every class should be permitted to enjoy. Farther, I would ask those 'knout - - abh. Members who are favourable to this Bill, to weigh well what they are about &afore they consent to interfere with privilege. I know their argument is, that a privilege which is pernicious, and which tends to demoralisation, ought to be abolished ; and they say the Game Laws come under this description—this I deny, but foe the sake of argument I will admit it is a privilege, and as web, I would not interfere with it, unless urgent necessity de manded it. When innovation once begins, who shall say where it will stop? " Moribus ant iquis stet Roma." We all know the privi lege of freedom from pereonal arrest that is enjoyed by the Mem hers of this House; suppose Petition on Petition was laid on this table, praying the abolition of this custom, fraught with injustice, and full of demoralization, because, under this advantage, debts were perhaps created which otherwise never would have been incurred, bad not the person been known to be secure - Irons arrest. But, Sir, I say, were Petition* on this bead so presented, would they be heeded, or would they not rather be rejected by acclamation? or would this llouse be guilty of a suicidal act? I cannot believe it. We li.ve frequently known persons run then heads. against a wall, but it is rare fur them to build a wall for the purpose. Now, Sir, as to the measure not answering the end proposed, I verily b eliePe it cannot du so; on the contrary, whateter evils spring out of the present Game Laws, if there are any of consequence, I believe they will be increased rather than diminished, by making game pro perty. For what is it but creating power, and consequently the right to exercise that power, and moreover placing this in a class, many of whom may perhaps he without any education; and where this is the case, are always found to be the most oppressive.—" Set a beggar on horseback and be will tide to the Devil." Sir, inimical as I ant to the practice of poaching, which is the beginning of the ca reer of a thief, Lam as ready as any man in this 1 - louse to sacrifice any private consideration fur the public good ; but until I have better reasons adduced, and more cogent arguments brought forward, I must remain in the opinion I now hold, that, if this Bill is passed, there will not be one poacher the less; nor will demoralization in any degree be checked, but will be extended. But beyond all this, I have yet a still stronger objection to this measure, viz. that it adds one more to the catalogue of felonies to be inscribed on our Statute Book, already, unhappily, too full; for night poachers, after the third offence, are to be liable to transportation ; the consequence of which will be, that their wives anti families, if they have any, will come to the parish ; and thew will accrue an accumulation to the burtheasome and ruinous system of the Poor Laws. Under this impression, it is my duty to oppose this Bill, which I consider not only a levelling innovation upon ancient privilege, and an expo. riment dangerous to be tried, but that it is wrong in principle, and win be inoperative in its effects. I implore this Honourable 'loom; to pause before it proceeds farther, and to recollect that Facilis descensus averni; bat that to retrace its steps will be impossible, I Nutt homilies non dii, non concesstre columns.' I beg leave to move an amendment, therefore, that this Bill be re committed this day three months."—This amendment was after wards withdrawn. Saturday se'nnight, at the Guildhall, Newport, a man named Kirkpatrick, on the information of Ford, a Cus tom-house officer, was fined 254 for hawking tea with out a license. ANCIENT ORDER OF DRUIDS —The Anniversary of this Order was celebrated on Monday, the 3d in•tant, by the Mona Lodge of Bristol, and some Gentlemen from the Monmouth Lodge. Stanton Drew, where are the Druidical remains, commonly known by the name of the Wedding Circles," was the place appointed for transacting the business of the day. In imitation of the custom of the ancient Britons, a rural fete was held on the spot ; and several excellent pieces of modern and ancient British music were sung by the bards, who were arrayed in the costume of the Order. The superior of ficer exhorted the members of the Lodges always to bear in mind the instructions which they had received upon their initiation; pointing out that charity and inte grity ought to be the main-spring of their actions, and that from these principles alone happiness could flow. After pledging each other in the beverage used on such occasions by the ancient Druids (metheglin), they re tired from the ground to the house of Mr. Fowler, who entertained them, thirty in number, in the most hospi table manner. There were between two and three thou sand spectators present. The meaning of holding the Anniversary oti this Order at the beginning of the month of May, may be found in the customs of the ancients, among whom astronomy was cultivated as a science. The ancient Druids were great astronomers, and consequently observers of the periods when the sea sons changed. At this time of the year, when nature appears in her most beautiful garb, they instituted what is now called in the northern parts of England a Beitain fete, welcoming the approach of a season which was most conducive to the pleasures of mankind. These fetes are still to be found in she observance of May-day. NIVERSITY and CLERICAL INTELLIGZAR.' CAMBRIDGE, MAY 14. At.a Congregation on Wednesday lag, the follbwing degrees were eonferrid i Bacurunt s Dttnarr—The Rev. J. Lonsdale, King's College, Compounder. Maxus or Ares—The Rev. Henry Harding, Fellow of king's College. %camps us Crrn. Law—Ralph Coate, of Trinity Hall. Bacenewa lit Pursrc--..Thomas Jeffery, of Pembroke Hall. &commas or A-ors—George Brown Matutin, Fellow of King's College ; Henry Battiscombe, Fellow of King's College ; George H. French, of Trinity College, Compounder ; Daniel Sykes, of Trinity College; James Murray, of Catharine Hall. It is confidently expected that the Rev. Archdeacon Illomfield, of Trinity College, will be appointed Bishop of Chester. Robert Bentley Buckle, Esq. B.A. of Sidney College, wal on Friday last elected Mathematical Lecturer of that Society. Saturday last, Mr. Thomas Worsley, B.A. of Trinity College, was elected a Clerical Fella"' of Downing College. Saturday se'nnight, the Rev. Henry Freeland, Rector of Haske ton, in Suffolk, was appointed alternate Morning Reader of St. Philip's Chapel, Westminster; and on the same day, alternate Afternoon Lecturer of the same Chapel. OXFORD, MAY 15. Mr. S. W. Cornish, B.A. Fellow of Exeter College, was on Monday last elected to the (lead Mastership of Ottery Free Gram mar School, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Warren. Thursday the following Degrees were conferred : 1311CMYLORS IN DIVINITY—Rev. John Thornton, Wadham Col lege • Rev. Thomas Prince, of Wadham College; Rev. Thomas Fowler Short, Student of Christ Church. Mangos or A ars—Rey. John George Stork., Magdalen Col lege Grand Compounder ; Rev. Edward Frowd, Exeter College, Grand Compounder ; Rev. Charles Nutt, Magdalen College ; Wil liam Graham, Christ Church; William Lemuel Sbuldham, Christ Church; Rev. John Law, Exeter College; Rev. John Roberts, Je sus College; Rev. Wm. Asthy Brown Cave, Brasennose College; Rev. Andrew Alfred Daubeny, Brasennose College; Rcv. Charles Dethick Blyth, Fellow of St. John's College. Bacumous or A wrs—Wiliiarn Robert Lavorenson, Esq. Oriel College, Grand Compounder; George Pike, Sr. Alban Hall; John Jones, St. Alban Hall; Robert Irvine, Magdalen Hall; Robert l.ingen Burton, Christ Church ; Edward Seymour, Christ Chinch; Joho Oakley 11111, Christ Church ; Octavius Brach, Scholar of Je sus Colleg; Ralph Maude, Brasentiose College; Thomas William llt asenuose College ; James Danbeny, Rrasennose College ; William John Agg, Pembroke College ; Nathaniel Best, Balliol Collrge ; John I.:await! Armstrong, St. John's College • Francis Annesky, St. John's College; Thomas Alfred Stricklan d, Post waster of Merton ( Ves:erday, the Nee. John Thornton, some time Fellow of Wad_ ham College, and now Ityctor of Wi3bor".4l-green, in the Dio cese of Chichester; and the Rev. 'l'llomas Prince, Fellow of Wad ham College, and Chaplain to the British Residents at Brussels, were admitted Doctors in Divinity. ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. Ili. Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has been pleases! to ap point the Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Rector of Sr. John's, Cierkenwell, one of his Royal Highness's Domestic Chaplains. The Rev. Samuel Seyrr, M.A. to the Rectory of Mon, Glou cestershire, on the presentation of Mrs. Manley. The Rev. Wm. Spooner, I.A. to the Rectory of Acle, Norfolk. The Rev. It. Downes, to the Vicarage of I.4..amington Priors, Warwickshire. SALES OF PROM:RIK MI. W I 1.1.00 K. _ ...... _ Freehold.—A Market Garden Farm, situate =Wall End, parish of F.astham, near Barking, Essex, comprising dwelling-house con taining eight rooms, kitchens, garden, orchard, ozier bed, and sun dry iticlosures of tneadow ' arable, and pasture laud, in the whole about 59.‘. la. 9r. late in tle occupation of :Ur. It. Gooderharn, at £l6B per annum, land tau reditmed ; timber, fruit-pees, and growing crops to be taken at a valuation—sold by direction of the Devisees in Trust for .C 5,590. MR. PEYTON. Leasehold.—No. 3, Upper Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-square, con taining eleven rooms, d stic apartment+, coach-house, and stable, let at Xuct per annum, and held at a ground-rent of £l6 ltis. for 64 years, land-t redeemed-4'1,040. MR. AKRON, OF UXBRIDGE. Freehold and Copybold.—A Farm Estate, comprising dwelling house, stabling, detached buildings, and sundry inclosures of arable and meadow land, together 60a. Su. 22r. freehold ; also 495. 1 on 39r. ro pyh.td, in rise wln.4c 110 A. 01 v. titular lit Bartell, near Hayes, Aliddleses, and in the occupation of Mr. Edward Shackle, at £l5O per annum, the Copyhold held of the Manor of llayes, subject to a trifling quit rent, and customary Elie on death or alienation; timber included in the purchase—.f6,s2o. MR. ELLIOT SMITH, OF CAMBRIDGE. Freels)Ms.—Bedlam Farm, situate at Mane; Isle of lay,within the district of the Bedford Level, containing 200 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture land, in the occupation of Alessrs. Smith and Dunham, at £ll7 per annum, subject to a tax called the Eau Brink Tax, of 2s. per acre, which expires in 1833; to the Corporation Tax of Is. 94. per acre ; to the Barrier /lank Tax of 9d. per acre ; District Tax of 3s. per acre; and laud tax *poll the whole of £2 10s.- 1,100 gainers. An Estate, the residence of Prior Johnson, Esq. situate at Bart low, Cambridgeshire, comprising dwelling-house, containing eleven rooms ' domestic offices, coach-houses, stable, farm-yard, granary, i hrewhouse, detached buildings, gardens, plantations, and 30 acres of meadow land; laud-tai sES per annum--4,300 guineas. MESSRS. BROOKS. Lemboldg.—Nos.29:,2;,asul Walworth, total anneal rental £65; held at a ground-rent of £7 10s. for forty four years—ATss. Shares.—Six Turnpike Shares, of £lOO each, leaving five per cent. per annum, secured upon the tolls on the road from Cam bridge to Ely, pursuant to Acts passed in NI and sth of George the Third—A99 per Share. AMENDMENT TO THE INSOLVENT DE/lITORS' ACTT The amended Bill now pending hef.,re Parliament, en titled, " An Act to amend, until the Ist day of June, 1825, cer Mill Act. fur the relief of Insolvent Debtors in England," recites, among other things, the following; viz.—Prisoners remanded to be confined within the walls of the prison.—Penalty to be inflicted on Gaoler for permitting such prisoners to be without the walls. —Prisoners to be remanded for offences whether opposed or not.—ln cases of fraudulent debts, &c. Prisoner not to be discharged till after a period not exceeding two years.—Every Prisoner subject to be remanded who does not prove his Insolvency to have arisen from mis fortune.—ln certain cases Prisoner to be discharged by detaining Creditor.—So much of the Act, Ist Geo. IV. ch. 119, as directs an allowance to be made to Prisoner to be repealed.—Assignees to proceed to execution when they think proper.—Prisoner collusively arrested to-be remanded.—This Act to extend only to prisoners within the walls of the prison, and not to those removed thither by writ of Habeas Corpus.—The Court to have power, at request of Creditors, to remove Prisoner from Prisons in London, Middlesex, and Surrey, if their usual resi dence is elsewhere.— Filing Petition to constitute an Act of Bankruptcy.—Assignees appointed before discharge of Insolvent, to make dividend ; and also the Assignees of Lunatics.--Any person recommended to the Court by three or more Creditors to be Assignee, the Court may appoint him though he be not a Creditor.—Provi sion of the 3d Geo. IV. ch. 39, to extend to Assignees of Insolvent.—Voluntary preference fraudulent and void. —Prisoner omitting any property or books in his Sche dule as finally amended and filed, and persons aiding him, &c. &c. guilty of felony, &c.—Court may order such part of the Salary of Officers of Customs and Ex cise as the Commissioners thereof shall consent to, and be applied in the payment of such Officers' debts.—ln solvents intitled to Lease or agreement for Lease, deli vering up the same to Assignees, shall not remain liable for rent, ',sc.—Lessor may apply to Court.—Costs to be paid to opposing Creditors in certain cases.—One Com missioner may hear matters out of Court, on summons. —Act to commence on the Ist of September s 1824, and continuo in force to the Ist of June, 1825. SOCIETY rok TEE PROTECTION OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. A meeting of the members and friends of the above Society was held on Saturday, for the purpose of re. ceiving the Annual Report, Lord HOLLAND in the Chair. The Report, as usual, detailed the proceedings of the Society for the past year. Mr. Mum, the Treasurer, addressed the mee:int at considerable length ; in the course of which he stated that several instances had occurred recently of Clergy. men of the Established Church having refused to butt' infants that had been baptised by Dissenting Ministers. In the case of Trimp v. Wilks, it had been decided that all children who had been baptised in the name of !lie Trinity were entitled to the rites of Christian h t ; although, as the law at present stood, the childien of Baptists were 'exempted, as they are not accustomed to baptise their children until they are of age. They h a d also received letters on the subject of baptismal regis ters. The Master of the Rolls had latterly refused to admit as evidence an extract from the Dissenters' 11,4 p. tismal Register kept at Dr. Williams's Library, in Red. cross-street, as he could not consider that registry as a public record, like these of the Parish Church, but merely as private memoranda. Other Gentlemen addressed the meeting to the same effect; after which thanks were voted to the Noble Chairman, and the meeting broke up. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUI LDHA LI. The Solicitor of the Treasury applied to Alderman Scitor.iv for a warrant to apprehend a person named On/Splint, who was brought before the Alderman no Saturday week, for selling Pane's Age of 'Voisin and Paltucr's Priacildes of Nature. Campion was shopmot to Carlile, and on returning to the shop he obliged a little boy to superintend the sale of the copies, coveting thereby to elude the law. A Bow-street patrol went into the shop and asked for the copy, when Campion referred him to the boy. The warrant V/ .is granted. Eliza Cockburn, servant to Mr. Ware, of Skinner -street, atai brought before Alderman Scirouty, for final examination, upon the charge of having set fire to her master's house. The case had been postponed, in consequence of the illness of Mrs. Ware, who had some important particulars to add. The prisoner appeared quite careless, and had said on the night of her apprehension, that she " should like a jolly good supper, as she knew slit: would nut get it where she was going." Mrs. Ware erepoTeit, that after the fire had been extinguished, the prisoner said to her," I wished to let you know that it was I chat set the house on fire. I was put on, I think, by an tvil spirit to do it, and I had no other reason."—lt appears that the girl had been confined a week by her master for misconduct, and 3be had been in the habit of doing injury to any article of dress which .he could lay her hands upon. In the lower part of the house tlt..e were , £4OOO worth of property. Alderman Scnot.xv having ascertained that no part , f the hnu;e had been burnt, although a hed had been consumed, committed the prisoner for the misdemeanour of having attempted to set the house on fire. .•13 1.5 4 4;V 1 16 6 VP - DOW-STREET. ,l<rroes Magenel, a carman in the employ of Alessrs. Christopher Ashman and Co. cheesenumgers, in the Strand, appeared before Sir Puma au Marne, to answer the personal complaint of the Right lion. the Lord Mayor. His Lordship Mated, that as he was riding on horseback along the Strand, on 'Thursday the 6th inst. he found the narrow part of it, next Charing-cross, almost blocked up, in consequence of a cart and horses belonging to Ue.srs. Ashman being placed before their dotal.; and another cart, or truck, before the door of a shop :warty opposite, hi such a way as to make the sp ce be tween them barely sufficient for the passage of a single carriage. The Strand was crowded with carriages of all sorts, which, but tor these two carts, would have passed each other in well regulated hies, without impediment or danger, but as it was, each carriage was compelled to wait its turn to get through the narrow winding pass bow it could. Through this pass he attempted to make his way, followed by his daughter, who was also nn horseback ; and on passing Mr. Ashman's cart, a ferocious dog, which was in it, made a rush at him, and caused his horse to plunge and start aside, so that if he had not been a pretty good horseman, he must inevitably have been thrown under the wheels of the opposite carriages t he kept his seat, and looked about for the driver of the cart, bust there was no person in charge of it, and he therefore took the name ar.d number, determined to make his complaint before the Magistrates of the district. His Lordship added, that in doing, this he was ac tuated by a wish to benefit the traders themselves, as well as the Public; for he was convinced that they impeded their own interests by the injudicious and increasing practice of allowing carts to st sod before their doors. At the same time he regretted that there was not some slighter punishment than that awarded by Mr. Taylor's Act. llis Lordship's groom having substantiated his account of the affair, the defendant was asked what he Mato-say ?—He replied, that the cart had not bt en at the door longer than was necessary to load it ; that he left only for a moment, whilst he went into the shop for a bill of parcels, and that his Lordship irritated the dog by car rying his stick across his arm in a threatening position. Mr. Ashman, his employer, corroborated this statement ; and said the dog was one of the best-tempered dogs in London, and it would be very hard upon a tradesman, if he was not allowed to load a cart at h 6 door without being subject to a fine. Sir Riessaau QUINN said, the practice of employing dogs to take care of carts and trucks war highly improper and dangerous, whilst boys were left to starve or pick pockets.—The defendant was theta convicted in a penalty of 10s. TOWN.TIAT.L. Julia Sha►p, carman to Messrs. Aspin, 'fooley.street, was com mitted for stabbing his wife. He wounded her in the hand with a large knife, which he afterwards aimed at her with such desperate fury, that, missing his object, it penetrated de. ply into the ►vaimcot. The poor woman, when she perceived her husband was about to be punished, besought his release with tears, which the Magistrate said justice forbade him to grant. Saturd •of the wish _...urcray, a Meeting of the Inhabitants. of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, took place in the Church, at which a Petition to the House of Lords, 'against the intended Repeal of the Spitalfields Acts, was agreed to. Tuesday morning, between one and two o'clock, the *mates of the dwelling-house of Mr. Richard Dear, at Weston, near Winchester, were alarmed by fire, which in a short time destroyed a barn full of oats, a stable, an or-house with three fat oxen, and a tenement, toge ther with all the bedding and wearing apparel of Mr. George Ball, whose family had only time to escape in a state of nudity. Other tenements were much damaged. BIRTH. Saturday m'nuight, at Wickb Whimper, R.N. of a daughter. the wife of Lieutenaut MAR] Thursday, at WaltenAtipon-Thames, the Rev. R. A. St. Leger, of Star Cross, near Exeter, to Charlotte, second daughter of Sil l John. Frederick, Batt. of Burwood Park. Lately, Lieutenant Arthur Davies, R.N. to Elizabeth, daughter; of George Matcham, Esq. DIED. Saturday se'nnight, at Harwich, --- Baskin, L►sq. Servs= to his Majesty's surveying brig Investigator. May 15, Sidney Edward, fourth son of Lieut.-Colonel Ryan, aged 12 months. Sunday se'nnight, at Hertford, in the 71st year of her age, Ann, relict of the late Rev. John Moore, LLB. Rector of Langdon Hills, In Essex, and of St. Michael Bassishaw, London. MAILS.-' • II R. OUR. ;IS DAY. Dublin 2 0 Waterford 2 C Goering! , and Jersey 0 0 Lisboa 0 0 Holland I 0 I Gottenburgli 0 France Hamburg!' Flanders Brasils All. SUL 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 e Leeward Island 0 0 I America 0 0 HIGH-WATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Hurtling . - 25 eaniutes after Atternann - 46 minutes after 5 LONDON; rimed and published by Lrrin, Kin, Pickets- Place, Temple-Bar, SI th P; di