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, . _ CONJUGAL LIFE IN JERUSALEM. In no country, perhaps, is a greater degree of jealousy entertained than in the East, with respect to the wives of the Mahomedans. I saw several of them walking about the streets, in company with each other, who were sad figures. Their faces are covered sometimes with cloth of a black, and at others of a white colour, having holes cut for the eyes to look through. Boots are worn only as high as the ancle, and cased in slip pers. These females are strongly built, some of them almost gigantic, and wrapped up in large coats, not un• like those used by the wives of shewmen in England. They are complete slaves to their husbands, whose word is a law, and infidelity is rarely known among them. - Should, however, am act of adultery take place on the part of the wife, four witnesses are required to the fact, and on conviction she may be stoned to death or drowned. I fell an with a kind of quack, a nat;ve of Italy, who had been an inmate a short time in the convent, and was pretty successful in picking up money, there being no medical person in Jerusalem, notwithstanding its great population; he made a boast of the distinguished privilege he had enjoyed from his profession, in being allowed to walk through the streets with a hat on his head, unmolested by the Mahomedans. This man informed me that lie had been called to at- tend one of the three wives of the Governor, when I asked him if he had been gratified with a view of her countenance? He replied, that all the interviews had taken place in presence of another, when he found it quite impossible to see her face, though in that view he had a lopted every expedient, such as informing the Go vernor he could not judge of the nature of the com plaint unless she was completely unveiled, and he exa mined her eyes and face. This was, however, most strongly opposed, and the Governor only per mitted him to feel her pulse, and exercise his own ingenuity to discover the nature of the indisposition. He also added, that on occasion of being required by a Turk to visit his wife, who had been taken with the pains of child birth, he was solicited to afford her relief by adminis tering medicine! He found the woman in bed, and when about to proceed with that occult examination which was indispensable, the Turk raised a poniard, and caused him to desist, under a threat of plun i ;ing it into him ! On this, r. hen he told the Turk relief could not be afforded her, and death might ensue unless he was allowed to act ac the nature of the caseaiemanded, the barbarian replied—" Then let her die ;" and the dis solution of this unfortunate woman actually Ai take place the following day. I ant led to suppose that in such a state Oriental women in general suffer less than those in Europe, and probably require little or no as sistance from medical persons, as appears from Holy Writ was anciently the case*. No person, however, it may be observed, is held in greater estimation in the East than a medical man, or any one whohas the slightest knowledge of a remedy or mode of cure for any malady. Throels in Egypt, the Holy Land,Sfc by Rae Wilson,esq. • " And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian, fur they arclirely,and ate delivered ere the midwives come unto thcm."—Esod. i. 19. " The Gentoo women, at their labour, seldom call midwir,s : it is a prules,Mn only among the rich and lazy : the 'morel - , while they are labouring or planting, go aside, deliver themselves, wa:it the child, lay it in a cloth, and return to wuth again."—Forbe:.'s Oriental Memoirs. At Ripley Castle, in Yorkshire, the seat of Sirs. WIL• LIA:11 INGI LBY, the; e is in the great staircase an elegant Venetian window, in the diviaons of Is hich, on stained glass, are a series of escutcheons, displaying the prin. cipal quarterings and intermarriages of the INGILBY - family since their settling at Ripley, during a course of 430 years. In one of the chambers of the tower is the following sentence, carved on the fiieze of the wain scot : In the yeile of owre Lb. M.D.L.V. was this horse huyldyed, by Sir Wyllyani Ingilby, Knight; Philip 'and Marie reigning that time." JOHN PALLISEIi, of Birsthwaite, formerly held his lands of the manor of Wiley, by the payment of a red rose at Midsummer, and by carrying the boar's head to the Lord's table all the twelve days of Christmas. A fatal accident occurred at Storge-hill Colliery, in 1-lorbury. By some neglect, the air-roads had uot been kept open : the consequence was the accumulation of explosive gas. In this state of the works, Thomas Kit then, one of the workmen, incautiously permitted his three children to go into the wot kings w ith a lighted candle, which exploded the gas. The unhappy parent heard the ex plosien, and rushed to the assistance of his children, but it was only to share their fate; he was suf focated, and was found lying on the body of hi, lifeless child. The other two children, though considerably scorched, have been declared out of danger. • Wednesday night last, about eleven o'clock, a most alarming fire broke out in the extensive oil and ware bills of Mr. JCSEPH MEDLEY, at Cross n Point, Leeds, . and notwithstanding the prompt attendance of the en gives, and the great exertions of the men, the building in which the fire originated was burnt to a shell. All the machinery, and from three to four hundred quarters of rape and linseed, and a considerable quantity of dye wares, were destroyed; but the principal oil-mill, the steam engine, and a large range of warehouses, nearly contiguous, were by great exei dons pi eorved from the effects of the conflagration. It is a very singular coin cidence, that nine years before ( Nithip a single day) the same premises were destroyed in a similar manner. In the same evening, a dreadful fire broke out in the ex tensive woollen-manufactory belonging to Messrs. GANDY and SON, at Kendal; the progress oldie flarnes vas not to be arrested by any exertion which could be made, and in three hours this immense pile of buildings resented the appearance of a mass of ruins. The da mile is said to exceed £1.5,000. 1 we very fine Arabian horses, which had been pur chased at Dongola, arrived lately in London, as pre sents to the Earl of filottrou. They were escorted bT a Maltese groom, accompanied by a native of Don gola. The various novelties of Europe completely ri vetted the attention of the African ; and after visiting . Paris and London, his veneration for Grand Cairo, which had hitherto been excessive, was so decreased, that he expressed himself in no measured terms of con tempt for that metropolis of Egypt, the once-famed residence of the Saracenic Caliphs; and declared, that rt single shop in Regent-street would purchase all Cairo. • lie was particularly pleased with the facilities in Euro pean travelling,. and enjoyed his nap in a close car *Thepoor fellow was somewhat disappointed in the reward attendant upon his trouble: he had antici pated a doiscAur of fifty dollars (ten pounds)—no very unreasonable expectation ; but he stated at Paris to air EngliAmo, that five pounds was the remuneration. IUItE •• • 12 0 C SS . 1 ). •••7 01. • c,N -41,4 I •._- CRIMINAL JURISPRUDEACE IN CHINA. In the 126th number of the Pekin Gazette, the Em peror's Ministers report that they have divided the list l of criminals, whose death-warrants require his sanction, into seven parts, and have taken the opinion of the As tronomical Board as to the proper days for his Majesty to affix his mark. This is done by drawing a curved line in red ink under the name of the person to be executed. The number of criminals included in the report was 479. His Majesty gave orders on the first day, that 76 were to be executed within 40 days; on the second, that 65 should suffer within the same period ; on the third, 8-1 within 18 days; on the fourth, 71. within 35 days; on the fifth, 73 within 12 days; on the sixth 82 from four to nine days; and on the seventh 25, condemned at Court within the same period. In this list are included only the lightest degree of capital offences, and, as in very atrocious crimes, unless doubt arises respecting the criminal, punishment is in flicted in a very summary manner, no criterion is af forded of the whole number of capital poi.i,hments within the year. Even in cases referred to the Emperor for his decision, the criminal is sometimes put to death before his order can be obtained. Torture, in criminal proceedings, appears to be freely applied. In the latter end of 1822, his Majesty issue d an official mandate, addressed to the whole empire, in which he declares, that within the space of a few months it has come to his knowledge that no less than seven ! witnesses have either been toi tured to death, or com mitted suicide consequence of the pain of torture. — Two of these were females. Ills Majesty, however, does not prohibit the question by torture, but desires it may I not be carried so far as to occasion death, and that pi i soners may be guarded more carefully, to prevent sui cides. This mandate must not be so construed as to in troduce undue lenity in the examination of witnesses. Ia cases of doubt, the Emperor sometimes orders the criminal to be re-tried. In an imperial mandate, in the 125th number of the Pekin Gazette, his ilajesty de• Glares, that " in viewing the list of capital offences, ►e gulling his signature for the autumnal death-warrant, there is a case of murder in the province of • ;imbue, the evidence for which does not appear credible, and the Governor is therefore ordeied to subject the pa: ties to torture, and to try the criminal anew." The case is this—A villager had stolen some raiment from the land lord of whom he rented his cottage, and after weaiiiT it a considerable time, it was observed by the owner hanging out to dry, and clairme: a, his property; but on account of its having become the worse for wear, he demanded the value in money. Thus originated between the parties. The villager, as the case is stated to the Emperor, formed the diabolical resolution of killing his-own wife, and charging his landlord with ' the murder. In pursuance of this design, he caused her to accompany him to the borders of the landlord's grounds, to collect fuel, when, watching his opportu nity, he slave her skull with his chopping-knife, and killed her on the spot. Now, the Emperor argues, that since it does not appear that he was previously on bad • terms with his wife, nor that she disclosed the theft, it is not credible that he killed his own wife to involve another man in the charge of murder. Ili, Imperial Majesty is anxious to repress litigation. In the Canton Gazette of the I 1 ih of October, 1822, it is officially announced, that appeals from the pro vinces have become so frequent of late, that the Empe• ror commands strict search to be made to disc4ver all law-suit-exciting blackguards,' who fatten on fends themselves have enkindled, and, when found, to punish them severely." HOAX EXTRAORDINARY. — Saturday week hand-bills were posted in Oldham and the neighbourhood, an nouncing that "Signor Francisco Ponlini, the celebrated Italian deronaut, would ascend in a balloon from Bent Grange, Oldham, on Monday, precisely at two o'clock in the afternoon ;" and (modestly enough) that he " would expect no remuneration but the voluntary con tributions of the spectators." On the morning of Mon day the town and surrounding villages were almost emptied of inhabitants. Even as early as eleven o'cl, ck thousands were assembled at the appointed place, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the aeronaut, and they continued to pour in from Ashton-tinder-Line, Stayley bridge, Middleton, Saddlewoith, Rochdale, &c. during the forenoon. That the latter had come a distance of six or seven miles was no slight aggravation of the dis appoiutment which they, in common with the others, telt, when one, two, and three o'clock neve past without the appearance of " Signor Francisco." A long time elapsed before the assembled multitude could be con vinced that the whole affair was a hoax; and numbers lingered about the ground till the approach of night put an end to their hopes. The following affair came lately before JAs. Bit I rit- LEV, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate at the New Briley' Court-house,Manchester : Simon Platt and Ralph 2rotva, two labotning-looking men, resident at Westhoughton, were placed at the bar to answer tor the possession of a quantity of stolen title-deeds. It appeared that about eleven years ago the house of a Mr. Bailey, now deceased, a farmer, residing near Altrincham, was broken into in the night-time, and a great quantity of property stolen, including the deeds produced in Court. Mr. Bailey, who was an old man, charged two respectable persons (one of them well known in Manchester, and lately de ceased) as parties committing the robbery ; and they were, in consequence, tried at the Chester Summer As sizes, of 1513, but honourably acquitted. The parties so indicted subsequently brought an action against Mr. Bailey for false imprisonment, or for a malicious pro secution, in which action they recovered heavy damages. Mr. Bailey died soon afterwards, and nothing more was heard of the property stolen until a short time since, when the two prisoners called at the house of a Gentle man to whom Mr. Bailey had left, by his will, the estate to which the stolen deeds related. They gave hints that they knew where the deeds could be procured to be re stored to the rightful owner, but modestly demanded, as a recompense, 1001. for every 1,0001. that the estate was worth. By considerable ingenuity a scheme was contrived, in consequence of which the prisoners brought the deeds to a place at Westhoughton, where they were seized, by virtue of a Magistrate's search-warrant, that had been previously obtained. The two prisoners were taken into custody at the same time. The housekeeper who resided with Mr. Bailey when he was robbed at tended that day at the New Bailey, but she could not identity the two prisoners as parties in the robbery ; and the sitting Magistrate, conceiving that the bare posses sion of the deeds stolen so long since would not be suf ficient to commit the two prisoners as panics in the rob bery, they were discharged.—The deeds have pow been delivered to the rightful owner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • BOW-STREET. Saturday, a young man, named Miens Gibbs, was charged before THOMAS Ham.; Esq. on suspicion of having stolen a large quantity of grapes, the property of the Right Hon. G. Canning, from his hot-houses at Gloucester-lodge, Old Brompton. Mr. Grange, a fruiterer in Covent-garden Market, deposed that the prisoner came to his shop between five and six o'clock, with about 401bs. of sweet-water grapes in a basket, and wished him to buy them. Witness observed that the grapes were not ripe enough to gather, and asked prisoner where he brought them from ? He replied, from Kingston, and that he had gathered them in that un ripe state because his hot-house was about to be pulled down to make room for other buildings. Witness thought this an imptoba ble story, but told prisoner he might leave a few bunches of them with him, and when he had ascertained the market price, if he would call again he would pay hint for them. Prisoner then left a few bunches, and as soon as he was gone witness placed them in his window, not doubting but they were stolen, and that so exposing them would be the best means of finding the owner; and so it turned out, for they had not been in the window more than an hour, before Mr. Canning's gardener came into the shop, and claimed the grapes as his master's property. Prisoner returned shortly after, and was given in charge to an officer. John Johnson, Mr. Canning's gardener, deposed, that he left the hot-houses a 3 safe at eleven o'clock on the preceding night, and on going to them at six o'clock next morning, he found a large quan tity of grapes had been carried away during the night. The win dews were open, and there were marks of footsteps from the bot tom of the garden. Ile immediately proceeded to Covent-garden, and fouatl some of the same grapes in Mr. Grange's window. The Magistrate asked how he knew them to be the same? He replied that he had grown them himself ; had inspected them frequently during their growth ; and he knew them by the shape of the bunches, and by their sta t e of ripeness. Inc pi isoner, in his defence, said, the grapes ware given to him to sell, by a man whom he did not know.—He was remanded for further examination on 'Tuesday next ; the gardener being of opinion that he had an accomplice, who might be-readily apprehended. 'Fe aerlIZE TOLLS.—Felir Webb, one of the toll-takers on the Ken sington Trust, appeared upon summons, to answer the complaint of John Greenway, for demanding and taking double toll. Mr, Williams, the Solicitor for the defendant, begged to put a few questions to Mr. Gcernway, previous to the evidence being heard, as a view to slam that he had given a false name. The :%lagi..trate assented, and it cause out that his real narna was John Greenway, but the Magistrate held, that as the parties were present. this variation was immaterial, and the case proceeded. It appealed by the complainant's evidence, that on the morning of the sth inst. he passed through the Hammersmith gate in a one horse chaise, and p lid the toll to the defendant, receiving the ticket of the thy in return. Ile returned from the country the same evening in the same !terse and chaise, and on his coming up to the gate'defenslant dem ttit;cd the toll. Complainant said, " You know %ell I paid )ou this morning." Defendant replied—" I know nothing about it, except that I know you to be an old thief!" Com plainant shewed him the ticket he received in the morning, at the same rinse tendering bins a shilling, in order that he might take the sell again if he thought proper. Defendant did take the toll, and complainant told him he would punish him if possible, for he bad defrauded bins in the s-one way before ; upon which the defendant again c4livd bins an old thict ; and insisted that he had given him his shilling again; and after some further altercation the complain ant left bins. Felix \CI-hb said nothing in his defence ; hut Mr. Williams, for him, said the shilling was certainly returned. Creenway positively denied this ; and the lintistrate said it was of little consequence, as the words of the Act were •••taking and demanding." Mr. Williams then contended that his client could not be con victed on the unsupported testimony of a witness who was to re ceive half the penalty. His Worship observed, that if this objection was valid, it would be necessary for every traveller to carry a witness behind him on a pillion.—lkfendant convicted in the penalty of 31. with full costs. GUILDHALL. MATRUIONIAL FYLICITV.—A rev. ctable, well-dressed young woman, named Mary Bird, appeared before Alderman SMITH, the Sitting Magistrate, to complain of her hushaas conduct towards her. Ft appeared front the statement of the unfortunate complainant,! that her frail lord had for2,ottin the sanctity of the marriage vows, and had been, for some months past, indulging in amours with ertry fair one over whose heart his dt-ceptive manners bad gained influence. This was, as the poor woman said, " bad enough," but this was nor the worst ; for, not content with his infidelity, Mr. Bird woultify at her like a tiger, and, when he had knocked her down, would kneel on tier breast, while he beat her about the head. This was enough to satisfy the law of the case; and a trusty beak was armed with a warrant, with ortlet to pounce on Mr. Bird like a hawk, and to bring him to justice. Another charge of the same sort was made by Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, against her lawful husband, Mr. John Martin. On Mrs. Martin being questioned what trade her spouse was, she replied, "a tailor," and then a pretty general feeling seemed to per vade the assembly, that the case w.s " all my eye and Batty Mar tin." It, however, t uraed out otherwise. Dirs. Eiiza)eth Martin told her tale (if woe. She had been mar ried to John about right years; at first they lived vet y happily to gether, but .lohn sum' formed an attachment for another woman, which now had coiled in his hay.ng tkstrted his faithful wife fur her embrace;. The Magistrate told I:r he had no controul over John's afl'ec tion.4 ; but that if John had committed an assault upon his then be could grant a warralit for his appearance. This, Mrs. Martin said, he had done : and the requisite for John's apprthensimi was issued accordingly. MA RLBOROUG H-STREET. Satuttlay, a young woman, about twenty years of age, of very prepos,csir•; appearance anti manner, and genteelly dressed in black, who gave her name Louisa Rooknoll, was brought to this office, charged with having robbed het ready-furnished lodgings of various articles of property. Mr. Willis, a stayinaker, residing in Russell-court, Covent-gar den, stated that about two months ago the prisoner came to lodge at his house, and hired a forni•hed apartment by the week : tbe ' rent of which she, however, has since continued to pay Very irre gularly ; and on being pressed for payment, she always gave as an excuse that she was only waiting to receive a sum of money which was allowed to her at stated periods, by the Managers of the Pa triotic Fund, as the widow or a Naval Officer, who had distin guished himself in the service of hie country. Tuesday last, she went Irons home, saying that she was going to receive the nioi;ey of which she had spoken ; but she had never since returned ; and after an absence of three days, Mr. Willis broke open the il•ior of her room, which she had left locked, and found that the apartment was stripped of almost every article it contained. He then employed an officer, and from a certain clue which he obtained to the prisoner's retreat, he succeeded in appre hending her, when she immediately gave him up the duplicates of the property, which she had pledged at various pawnbrokers. :Mr. Balfour, of Chandos-street, and other pawnbrokers, pro duced the property, consisting of sheets, blankets, curtains, &c. &c. al! of which Mr. Willis identified as belonging to him, and which the pawnbrokers said bad been pawned at their shops by the prisoner. On being asked by Mr. DYER, the Magistrate, what she had to say to this charge, the prisoner, who was deeply affected at her si tuation, in great agitation, said that she did not take the things with an intention to commit robbery, but to afford her a temporary sub sistence until she could replace them, as slie was at the time actually in a state of starvation, as Mr. Willis knew, and he must have sup posed that she intended to return, as she had taken the key of the room with her. Mr. Willis said, that he had made inquiries respecting the pri soner of the Secretary to the Patriotic Fund, and discovered that her story as to an allowance from that fund was totally false, and that she was only known there as an impostor, and a very bad cha racter, and this it was that determined him (Mr. Willis) to prose cute her. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. QUEEN-SQUARE. John Kirby and Robert Ebb, were brought before J. ATARI:LAND, Esq. charged with uttering counterfeit coin. Mr. Edward Chapman, proprietor of the Chelsea Bun House Chelsea, stated that on Frid a y l as t (G oo d F r id ay ) , the prisoner Ito:. bert went to his shop, and purchased three buns, and in payment tendered a half-crown, which, upon inspection, turned out to be bad. He informed the prisoner of it, who said he had no more money about him and that he had taken it of the landlord of the Three Crowns. He took it from the prosecutor, as he said, to get a good one for it, and left the shop. Instead, however, of taking the road to the Three Crowns, he went the reverse way. This ex cited witness's suspicions, and be went out for the purpose of watching the prisoner, but lust sight of him. In the meantime the other prisoner (John) went into the shop, and purchased sonic buns, gave half-a-crown in payment, and received change. The prisoner John bad just left the shop, when the prosecutor was returning, who saw the two prisoners join company, and enter into a conver sation.' At that moanent the shopwaman came out of the shop, baying discovered that she had taken a bad half-crown. The con , stable of Chelsea bapfeuing to pass at the time, Mr. chapnlial Zetv • DIED. On the 15th instant, at his seat Trenant Park, Cornwall, Vice- Admiral Sir Edward Buller, Bart. in the 60th year of his age. At Netherhy, Cumberland, on the 13th inst. Sir James Graham, Bart. aged 69, M.P. for Carlisle. Rev. J. Dunderdale, Perpetual Curate of Fulford, Staffordshire. Rev. Robert Smith, Minister of Cromarty. Lately, at Enville, of which parish he had been twenty-four years Rector, the Rev. Rich. Wilkes, formerly of Christ Church, Oxford. April 7, the Rev. C. Peters, M.A. Rector of Pontesbury, Shrop shire. The Living belongs to the New Foundation, Queen's Co:- lege, Oxford. Wednesday, at Farl's Colne Priory, in the 90th year of his au, the Rev. Thomas Carwardine, A.M. Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Vicar of Earl's Caine, Court and Preston Wynne, Hereford. April 8, at Chatham, Lieutenant James, of the Marine Artillery. Saturday se'nnight, at Grantham, Mr. Wm. Bedford, of that place, aged 86. As Mr. Bedford's daughter, Mrs. Wass, of flops. ley, who had just arrived to see her departed father, was next day standing beside the corpse, with an infant about ten month's old in her arms, the child was suddenly taken ill, and died in abort four hours. ,lr. Bedford and his grandchild were both buried in one grave on Tuesday. April 14, Mrs. Sarah Simpson, relict of the late Rev. Robert Simpson, D.D. many years Theological and resident Tutor of the Hoxton Academy. Dublin Waterford MAILS--' ARA. DUI. 2 o 1 1 1 Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Leeward Island 'HIS DAY. 1 0 France Hamburg!' Flanders Brazils Gottenhurgh Jamaica 0 0 HI G 11-WATER at LUND°. - Ancrtitxm the two prisoners into custody. While torching the prisoner 1 01— he dropped a small parcel containing several half-crowns, sh 111..,. • and sixpences, and upon his person was found some good and money mixed together. Upon the other prisoner were found tr, bad sixpences. Sarah Martin, shopwontan to the last witness, identified the pt. soner John as the man who gave her the bad half-crown, in N I . ment for three pennyworth of buns- s Hobert Chapman, constable of Chelsea, depnsed to the fintlin• the bad money, aniseveral indecent pictures in their possession. - The prisoners were committed. UNION-HALL. Saturday the Overseers of the patish of Newington appeared tc the summons of a poor man in the parish, who stated that two o f his children were dead, one since the sth of April, and the oth q since the 10th, and the Overseers refused him the least assistaeo f to bury them. _ _ _ The Magistrate inquired of the Overseers why they refused ,tri application so reasonable and so pressing? 'fhe Overseers said, that had the complainant applied to them in time they would have buried his chiidren for hias, as they wttc bound to do ; but instead of snaking application to them, he v t coffins made himself, which bad nails in them, and the Rector fused to allow any bodies, in coffins with nails, to be buried in t:. church-yard, which every one knew was his freehold, without be:.:• paid his fees; and it was also a rule with them not to give aliyas,i!::: ance to the interment of bodies in any other than parish coffins. The poor complainant stated, that he had intended to l.ury ki s children without making any application to the parish ; bat alt er having pledged all his things, he found the fees and tXpel:Sei great, that he was unable to do so without some little assistanc e from the parish, and he had offered to take even a few ?.hillings. The Magistrate observed to the Overseers, that it surely ce,,ed not be their desire to keep the bodies of the children aiaeve raune. The Overseers consulted for some time, and then agreed to gise the complainant six shillings, with which he departed. ASSIZE OP lIREAD.—A Bill was brought into the House of Commons, the day previously to the adjourn. ment, for amending an Act passed in the 53d year of the late King, &c. so far as !elates to the price and assize of bread to he sold out of the City of London, and beyond the Bills of Mortality, and within ten miles of the Royal Exchange. It is to be read on Friday, the 7th May. The late WILLIAM CALDERHEAD, Esq. merchant in Glasgow, by his latter iil left the following handsome legacies to Charitable Institutions in that city, viz To the Royal Infirmary, 5001. North Parish Chuich Session, 1001. Leanox's School, North Palish, 1001. Lu. natic Asylum, 1001. Deaf and Dumb Institution, 1001. and Magdalen Asylum, 1001. One of the French Papers states that the Police has recently shut up the Private Theatres which had been opened in different parts of the capital, and which had become so numerous as to be highly objectionable. The piece of ground given by Earl GROSVENOR, at Pimlico, for building a Church, has Leen lately en closed with boa' ds, and the foundation has been digging for several days past. The spot of ground is situated at the commencement of the King's-road, on the right side of the entrance from Grosvetim -place. It is the vacant piece of ground between the houses and the en closure for a new square. When the Church is built, application is to be made to Parliament to constitute Pimlico, which has increased very much within the s e few years, a separate and distinct Parish, to be called the Parish of Belgrave. At present it is attached to the parish of St. George, Hanover-square. IMPORTANT TO PARENTS.—It was lately ruled in the Court of King's Bench, in a cave Wilken u. Law, that the entry of the birth, in a Baptismal Register, is not evidence to prove the age of the party. In chic case the defendant was chi istened in 1807, but the entr stated that he was horn in 1799. This verdict should be a caution to parents not to defer the baptism of their children longer than the first or second Sunday after their birth. Ten persons, whose united ages amoureed to hundred (naive years, sat down to bre:le:lAA together on Wednesday, at the London Inn, Taunton. Tuesday morning, the watchman of Mr. JONATIIAS AKROYD'S mill, Lear Halifax, was found dead, supposed to be horn a fit. Thursdly afternoon, a n elancholy accident oe:tirred on the Eton side of the Thatne4, to a youth ten years of age, the son of Mr. SAwycr, Intzklayer, who fell off a barge into the Ilumes, and was drowned. The following are some of the plans lately brought forward for the investuient of capital, with the nomilt.il amount of each : *Pie Alliance Inuirance Company The Palladium ditto - X 5,000,000 2,000,000 - !i,000,000 ,000,( CO - 5,000,C00 1,000,000 - 100,00 200,000 The Equitable Luau Bank The Irish ditto - The British Annuity Office - The Metropolitan Invetment Bank The Thames and Isis Navigation Company Table Ale and Ale Brewery £14.300,000 April 17, the Lady of the Rev. C. T. Smith, Crawley, Sussex, of twin sons. Wednesday, the Lady of Lieutenant-Celonet Power, at Marl ton, of a son. iNIARILIED. Thursday, at Stepney, the Rev. B. Moore ' of Edwarilstone Cot tage, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the Rev. C. Hyatt, Com _ _ At Littleham, the Rev. Whitworth Russell, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, to Frances, daughter of Vice-Adm. Carpenter. At Kingston Church, the Rev. John Edmunds (Kirk of Scot land), of Portsea, to Miss Caston, of Basingstoke. April 10, at Monkstown Church, county Dublin, the Rev. Thos. Palmer, A. M. to Diana, daughter of the late John Croke, Esq. of Sussex. - •tt. •us. 1 0 1 0 1 o 0 O 1 O 0 IN-BRIDGE TO-NIORROW. • 42 aunutes after 6 - • 8 minutes after 7 LONDON ?tuned and puhlishett by Lim, Kilts, Ptc►stt i'tacr, Temple-Bar . .~~_ _ , . 7. 7 "A 7IM 1 ~. .~ .Q J D - th IM I .~ ~, if SP DI ai eI AO 'T a i I i 1 I • I I 1 I 1