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SONNET TO SCOTLAND. By THOMAS PRTNOLE, ESQ. MT country! when I think of all I've lost In leaving thee, ro seek a foreign home, I find more cause, the farther that I roam, To mourn the hour I left thy favour'd coast; For each high privilege which is the boast And birth-right of thy sons by Patriots gain J, Dishonour'd dies, where right and truth are chaired, And caitiffs rule—by sordid lusts engrosi'd : I may, perhaps, (each generous purpose crosed) Forget the higher aims for which rye strain's!, Calmly resign the hopes I pried the most, And learn cold cautions I have long distlain'4 But my heart must be calmer—colder yet — Ere Scotlarad and fair Freedom I forget! ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HERTFORD, Jur.v 17. John Rose was indicted for having robbed a waggon at Cheshunr, of linen-drapery and other articles, value fifty pounds. the property of William► Weston, of Bun tingford, and George Smith, a carman, svAs indicted for having feloniously received the same. The prisoners were found Guilty. Rose was sentenced to seven, and Smith to fourteen years' transportation. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—OXFORD, Jute 18. William Eales, John Perkins, Arthur Redmond, John Wharton, and William Thompson, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging them with having riotously and tumultuously assembled on the 3d of July last, with intent to commit a breach of the peace (nam, ly, to get up a .mill) in the neighbcurhood of Oxford. They wi-re bound over in their own recognizance., for 201. to keep the peace, and to appear to receive judgment when tailed upon. They also promised to sign an apology to the Nlagistratcs. for the attempt of which they had been found Guilty. The Assizes terminated this evening, and, contrary to all the expectations which bad been formed from the calendar, there was not a single trial worthy of the slightest notice. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, duty 16._ Vicente b2oun, a Spaniard, WAS arraigned for having, on the 9th of March last, at Portsmouth, wilfully and Maliciously cut and stabbed one Thomas Stowe, with intent to murder him, or do him some grievous bodily harm. An interpreter endeavoured to explain to the prisoner, who seemed to be a man of weak understand ing, the nature of the proceedings and of the circum- ' stances in which he was placed. The prisoner after some time pleaded guilty to the charge, adding that he wished to be tried. From this; taken altogether, it was inferred that the prisoner intended to plead not', guilty, and a plea of not guilty was recorded. He was then asked by the clerk of the arraigns if he would be tried by a jury composed of six Englishmen and six foreigners, or by a jury altogether English ? The pri soner said that he would be tried by an English jury. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. Nanny &vacate, aged 59, and Jane Southcote, aged 17 (mother and daughter),were then indicted for having, on the 29d March, in the Isle of Wight, wilfully mur dered a male illegitimate child, which had been then recently born of the younger prisoner. The evidence cf the surgeons who had attended the young woman, and examined the body of the infant, proved that the child had been born alive, and bad died of some violence; but they said that the marks upon the body were such as might have been the re sult of a wkwardnes and want of skill in the person as sisting at the delivery. The mother, who mime assisted her daughter on the occasion, had never performed a similar ,uty belore.—The jury acquitted the prisoners. CROWN SIDE,-VORGERY. TAornas Ellis stood charged with having, on the 14th of January last, at Portsmi.uth, forged and counterfeited a Navy bill to: 251. 183. in the name of one James Monday, with intent to defraud the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy. Mr. BAYLEY tfor the priyinerY contended that eiere was, at the time of the uttering of the bill, a def. ct, which no evidence on the part of the prosecuti , n could core. It was clear that this could be no order for pair znent of money without a payee's name being insetted. At the time of the uttering there was a blank, which *as afterwards filled up by one of the witnesses, but it Was j etot such a bill as was contemplated by law. It was clear that this 'paper had been presented for payment by some person, but by whom it did not appear. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALC held the objections valid, and the prisoner was acquitted. David Exale was indicted for killing and slaying a person named Simpson. It appeared, horn the evidence, that on ,the day laid in the indictment b , th parties were present at a sort of rural festival, at Sadley Hill, in this county, where a quarrel having arisen between them, the prisoner inflicted upon Simpson several blows and bruises, which ultimately proved fatal. It was proved, ou the part of the prisoner, that the deceased chal lenged him to fight, and provoked him by his language. They fought several rounds, and at length the deceased declined going on, but not until he had received the injuries of which.he died.—The prisoner, being fizad Guilty, **fined 1 la and discharged. _ . NORFOLK CIRCUIT—BUCKINGHAM, JuLir 18. Josepi•Hook aged 21, Henry Wise. aged 21. and John Careen, aged 21, stood indicted for having, on the 14th of May, at the gaol of Aylesbury, stolen a part of a flitch of bacon, the property of Mr. James Sheriff.— The prisoners in this case were undergoing sentence ut imprisonment in Aylesbury Gaol for different peri , .ds, on previous conviction* for ielony. They were each sentenced to be transported for the term of. 14 years. His Lordship observed to Green, that it was probable he might have his sentence mitigated, if he made appli cation to the proper quarter. Alter the prisoners had heard their dcom, Wyse said, with apparent hardi hood, ," Thank ye, my Lord, I did not know I had so long ,to live." loaeph Walker, late parish clerk of Owing, was in dicted for the murder of his wile by poison. It appeared that the : prisoner had lived upon very bad terms with his . eritri_ slice he became acquainted with a girl named Begot. and bad on several occasions beat his wile and threatened her lite. During her absencifrom home, at a religions meeting which she was in the habit of at tencling,,the prisoner returned home, and, it is supposed, placed some arsenic in the tea,por. The deceased on returning home made some tea is this tea-pot, and shwa, after abe had taken it became sick, and ethi bited symptoms of having taken poison. lier son, who came in shortly afterwards t drank some of the tea, and he also became very . ill, 614 **misted. The body of the deceased, when opened, presented the appearance' of having contained poison. The primmer was found Guilty, and ordered for meet:ion on Monday. 41Fa4lam Baidtiand, f fohng Man only . 20 years of age., ries indicted for basing cut his wife's throats with intent to murder her. The primmer was &labours:Nand resided at Vraysltry. On the night of..the 4th of April The prisottet and bis wife bad a slight quarrel, when the prisoner, in the heat of passion, cot his wife's throat with a knife, and then cut his own. He was instantly afterwards taken into custody, when be ad mitted having committed the offence. The wound in his own throat was very slight, bat that in his wife's was extremely dangerous. After the occurrence took Place and when the prisoner's wife had recovered a little frAm the injury,she said that she and her husband had had a quarrel, and he struck her head against the fire-place several times. She ran to a corner of a chest of drawers, and her husband then cut her throat with el clasp knife, which was found in a place where she said it had been thrown by the prisoner. The wife of the prisoner, who has been in custody ever since her recovery, in consequence of her refusing t r become a witness against her husband, was brought into the witness' dock. She is 23 years of age. She at first refused to be sworn, and after she was sworn, she said she would not speak against her husband. On bring pressed, she said that she cut her own throat, and that the prisoner cut his afterwards. The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summing up the case, said the Jury must entirely reject the evidence of the wife.—The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was ordered for execution. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. I " Saturday a porter in the house of a chemist and druggist near the Mansion House charged one of the Gentlemen of the estab lishmeot with having wrung him so violently by the neck, that he thought his head was coming off. The LORD Aaron asked whether no provocation had been given to account for such an extraordinarract of violence? The Porter—Not the least, except that 1 refused to go for his ►lippers. The defendant stated that the porter, in the first place, was in the habit of showing his independence in a very obnoxious manner, by taking opportunities, when the defendant was engaged in business, to act before strangers as if he was more than the equal of any of the Gentlemen on the establishment. In t►e next, be never failed to contradict the defendant before persons in the most offensive manner. In the third place, he remained out of the house which he ought to have remained at home to protect, until an unseasonable boor; and, in the fourth place, he deserved punishment for some petty thefts. The Porter—Thefts! Who dares to say I committed thefts? Defendant—My Lord, look at his head (the hair of the porter was highly polished, and neatly divided) ; that bead of his costs his miter a great deal more than the fellow is worth. Nothing will do for him but otto of roses—(Laughter). The moment one of us turns our back he runs to the Otto of roses, or eau de Co!ogne, and covers his ugly head with it—(Load laughter). The porter admitted that he did use a little perfume sometimes, but then lie considered that a perquisite—CA laugh). Nobody could, he said, call the liberty he took with the perfume a robbery. The LORD Mayoe—That depends upon circumstances. You won't tell me that a porter in drinking his master's wine while at work in his cellar does not commit a theft. I say he does. The defendant said that the otto of roses cost three pence a drop, so that a porter could carry a great deal of it. The complainant was unlike any other porter that ever lived—he was to be nosed a mile off—(Laughter). The Lotto Maros did not think that the offences of the porter should have subjected him to a drubbing, and ordered the defend. ant to be bound over to answer for, the assault. GUILDHALL. Mrs. Efisa Freiman*, otherwise Mrs. Elks Hawkins, a lady whose personal conformation is precisely that of which Lord Byron has recorded Ms hatred—via. the decidedly dumpy, underwent several examinations at this office last week, on a charge of having taken unto herself a second husband before bet first had departed this life., The charge was preferred by the aputleman on whom she last bestowed her band and person—one Ir. Ethelred Hawkins, an officer in the army, at least twice the height of the Lady, and per. haps some ten years younger. He was moreover very muck em bittered against her, at least if we may judge front the tone and terms of his evidence—" I married ibis women," said he, " on the 29th t o May, in the year 1819, in the church of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and I have since discovered that the cranium bad a hus band then living." The Lady, on her part, began her response with a—" When f married this fellow be had not a and no doubt a very edify ing recriminatory altercation would have ensued, had not the Ma gistrate nipp'd it in the bud, as it were, by peremptorily enjoining them to be quiet. Mr. Hawkins was then asked—" At the time you married her, did she represent herself as a spinster?" " Neither one nor the other,' replied Mr. Hawkins. " What do you mean by neither one nor the other ?" asked the Magistrate. " Neither as spinster nor widow ; but she was married as a spin. ster," replied, Mr. Hawkins. 41' A marriage certificate was then put in, by which it appeared that, in the year 1815, four years before she married Mr. Haw kins, she was married at St. Olive's, Southwark, to one Henry Freeman, and several witnesses were called to prove that he was alive at the time of her marriage with Mr. Hawkins. But they could only prove that in the year ISIS she was living with a person named Henry Freeman ; that she always passed as ins wi:e, by the name, style, and title of " Mrs. Freeman," and that he, Mr. Free. man, was alive in October I all, when, after a ling series of mis fortunes and ill health, he died in St. Thomas's Hospital. As for the Lady herself, when asked by the Magistrate whether she wished to say any thing in explanation—she replied that she left it all to Air Solicitor) and her Solicitor boldly contended that there was no mare. " You have not proved," said he, '• that the Henry Freeman she was living with was the Henry Freiman named in the certificate of marriage; and unless you prove that, you prove nothing—tor it does not follow that, because she was living with Henry Freeman as his wife, she must - Lc his wife." Unfortunately for her, however, at subsequent examinations it wag sworn that the signature " Henry Freeman," in the certifi cat.; was the sign-manual of the Henry Freeman with whom slit lived; and upon that evidence she was on Saturday last fully com mitted to Newgate for trial—to the great comfort of Lieutenant Hawkins, her own great chagrin, and the considerable profit of her Solicitor—who gave her great hopes of being able to " pull her through it at the Old Bailey." BO NV-STREET. Saturday a man named Thomas Steluta was charged with having attempted to murder his wile. It appeared that the prisoner, who is a labouring gardener, had been for some time previous separated from his wile, but happening to meet her on Saturday morning. in Kensington Gravel Pits, they went into the Feather* public-house, and sat there a considerable time drinking together. The prisoner, however, feeling offended at some remark made by his wife, struck . her on the bead with a knife, with which he had been cutting some bread, and then attempted to plunge it into her breast... She, how. ever, held up her hand to ward off the blow, and the blade of the knik went through it. The woman Iva unable to attend. The prisoner appeared very sorry for what had oc:urred, and said be vias quite overcome with drink. He was remanded. HATTON-GARDEN. Edward Evans and Frederic* Turnley were charged with at tempting to commit a burglary. Symonds, a watchman, deposed, that about twelve the preceding night, the servants of the home, No. 14, Guildfard-place, Brunswick-Inoue, Informed him that the adjoining house, No. 13, which was uninhabited, had been entered by some persons. He called !Cereal of his brother watchmen, and having mashed himself that persons were inside, he and some of his rty went round to the back door, which they burst open and pi shed up stairs, having previously heard the sound of feet in that rection, when two persons were seen to get upon the roof, whither the watchmen pursued them, and after following them over the roofs of several houses, apprehended Evans in the gutter of the house No. 6, and Turnley was taken in the•upper room of the same house, having forced the window, and thereby effected an entrance. Turnley also in his flight leaped a distance of between twelve and fourteen feet, from one house to another, without being hurt. Upon the prisoners, and in the house No. 13, a quantity of housebreaking implements were discovered ; fte witness and his party als6 found that the grates of the drawing-rods of No. 13, were disturbed from their situations; as were also the brass locks and nobs of the doors bhlonging to the different apartments. The prisoners were com mitted to the House of Correction for three months. ' MA It LBOBOUG H-STREET. • Saturday a market gardener, named..fas.E/slest, was charged with cOnusitting a gross astray on Thomas Scott, coachman to Lieu. tionant•General Slr IL 6.. Ferguson, Bart. M.P. It appeared that on Friday evening Scott was returning home through Piccadilly, from the residence of the Duke of St. Alban**. whete be bad left Sir Roaald and his Lady, whets htwas met by the defendant, wbe drove his cart with great vielenceogainst Sir itonald'scarriase,tand the concussion was se great that the lamps and glasses were shat tared .to atoms. Scott alighted from Pis box with the intention of stopping the defendant, and for that purpose seized hold' of the horses had, and the defendant at the sate moment driving on ' tit greater violence, Scott was thrown tender else tam, the whack le Injured which passingiever his Lam and Johis him se severely la t t he was carded home insensible, and still remains in a ptecs ' dem wank A watchman, in attempting to soh) the prisoner s wi also Bogged severely.--The prleoner -was reseeded mil Scott should be able to attend. • M A RY-4.. A—BON NE. • Saturday, a young who is in the service of a Gentleman In George-street, Portman-square, wass charged with attempting to violate the person of Rebecca Bond, ayoung girl- The prisoner resides in the Gentleman's house in question, but his family reside in a neighbouring street, where the complainant was engaged by them as servant. On Monday afternoon the prisoner desired hrr to carry his infant child to his master's, and when she arrived there and bad taken the child up to his bed room, he endeavoured to perpetrate the offence in question. He was cotninitted in default • of bail. LA MBRTI.I-4TREET. • Saturday Mary Gentry; a middle aged' female, was charged with robbing her master, Mr. Wall, of Great Prescott-street. Gondman's fields. On Sunday morning last Mr. Wall placed his pocket book in his desk, containing Bank of England notes to a considerable amount, and on the following day he found it 'was deficient of up wards of twenty pounds. On the neat dirt he missed other sums of money from the same place; and on Thursday., witha view of detecting the thief, be placed in the desk two five pound notes of certain numbers. He then went out, and on his return missed one of the notes. The prisoner was then searched, and on her was found the missing note, a key which unlocked her master': desk, and another five pound and a ten pound note, together with gold and silver amounting to upwards of a. Her boxes were full of costly dresses, together with rings, jewellery, Ste. A silver snuff-box, which she bad pledged in February la -t, was also pro duced, and identified by Mr. Walt--The prisoner was committed to Newgate for triaL QC) BEN-SQUA RR. Jahn Dams, a watchman of St. John's Parish, *as charged with :beating his wife in a shocking manner. It appeared that when her husband came home on Friday he knocked her down, and kicked her till she was covered with bruises, and then threw a pail of water over her. Mr. Cox, a surgeon trim the Westminster Hos. pital, said that one of the blood-vessels of her leg was ruptured, and Acre was the marl of a dreadful kick on the aide, which, had it 'been, on the stomach, must have killed her.—The Magistrate or !tiered the prisoner to pay a tine of 205. or be imprisoned for 14 days. Not being able to pay the fine, he was committed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STAMFORD RACES—Cencutszts. Sweepstakes of 50 wvs. each, h ft. for three yr old fillies. New Mile. Four Subscribers. Lord Tavistock's Luna .. ... ... ••• I Lord Lowther's Scribe ... .. ... ... 2 Lord Exeter's Bessy ... .. ... 4,80 3 A Silver Tureen, value 70 soya. Two miles. Lord Exeter's Serenade .. ... .. .. 1 Mr. Platers Tantot ... ... ... ... c General Grosvenor's Icarus ... .. ... Fifty Pounds given by the Marquis of Exeter. Heats, twice round. Lord Lowther's Coroner (post entrance) ... ... 1 1 Lord Exeter's Serenade ... ... ... ... 2dr Dr. Willis's sister to Sweepstakes ... ... ... 3 dr CRICKET MATCHES. Saturday, a numerous and distinguished assemblage of the Nobility and Gentry, met together at the Westminster Playing Ground, Vincent-square, Horseferry.road, to witness a grand match between eleven of the Westminster King's Scholars, and eleven Gentlemen of Old Westminster, which, after some scientific display both in bowling and batting on either side, was decided as follows; MOO'S scnoLoßS. OLD WDSTMINSTIM First Innings... ........ 29 First Innings Second ditto Total Total ... ..... The Gentlemen of Old Westininster winning, with six wickets to go down. A second Match was afterwards played between the same elevens, which likewse terminated in favour of Old Westminster, and that tuo in one innings ; there being at the close of the game, for the • DING ' 3 SCUOLA It& OLD WISTADISTIO. First Innings 3O I First ........ ISO Second ditto SCULLER'S WAGER FOR TWENTY GUINEAS. Friday evening, about five o'clock, Mr. Duke, of the Treasury, and Mr. Spears, both admirable amateurs, started from Vauxhall Bridge. to row to Putney Bridge, for a wager of 20 guineas. Mr. Duke rowed in Messrs. Searie's fine wager beat, the Shark, and Mr. Spews in an excellent boat of his own, and after a nicht scion• tific contest, the match war} decided in favour of Mr. Duke by some distance. LIVERPOOL REGATTA. Livraroor., Jot. r IL—Never, we believe, was old father Mersey witness to a more gay, exhilarating, and beautiful scene, than that which cheered and animated his noble bosom yesterday ; though we are much deceived if the pleasure which that one exhibition has 1 afforded, to the thousands of his childaen who engaged in its festi vity, do not lead to its renewal with still increasing splendour, in each succeeding year. • The preparations for the' regatta having ez- I cited the most lively expectations in the whole population, not only of Liverpool, but of the surrounding country ; about noon yester day, the inhabitants of the town, and crowds of strangers who had been flocking into it for some days previous, began to pour forth in thousands, by every passage to the river side, and the whole swarm of steamers and other passage boats, which usually ply at the several ferries on the river, found ample employment in carrying over the shoal. that were flocking to Seacumbe and Birkenhead, the chief points of attrac:ion to the expectant participators in the plessureof the day's spectacle. Never before, we believe, was the hundred of Wirral occupied by a population so numerous, certainly never by one surpa•s:ng it in beauty and splendour, or wealth and respect ability, than that which crowded its shores on this occasion, while the whole s ange of piers front the north to the south end of the town ut Liverpool was filled with a dense MASS of spectators. To those who were placed in the latter situation, the proceedings of the Re. gatta must, in all probability, have proved most disappointingly barren of entertainment; for, to say nothing of the distance, the scene of comes' lying chiefly over on the Cheshire side, the mass of craft of every description, interposing between them and the boats engaged in tile races, muse have eff..ctually impeded their observa tion of what was doing. But the beautiful and panoramic view of the oprusire shore, with the fine outline of the Welsh hills in the diw tuner, and the gay and ever varying features of the floating world beture them, presented a scene which even the coldest of human beings could never look on but with delight. To the luckier nail. titudes, however, who succeeded in planting themselves in the more favoured situations before mentioned, or who filled the vessels of every kind that covered the river, the beauty and brilliancy of the picture was greatly heightened by the unceasing changes of effect, in light, and shade, and colour, caused by the partial lighting up and bringing out of objects by the sunlight, as it broke through a fitful and cloudy sky over the town, with its fringing forests of masts, its spires, and its covering amphitheatre of hills. It is difficult to ima gine a more pleasing charm io nature, than was shed over the scene we are now describing. by one of those sudden gleams which we have just mentioned, gilding the lofty masts, swelling sails, and finely moulded hull of the Heroine (a vessel of the largest class, just arrived from St. Andrew's, New .Brunswick); as she was beating up the river, under double-reefed topsails, jib and foresail, against a stiff breeze from the S.S. W. that brought her lee chains into the water, while a countless multitude of steam and sailing boats of all rigs and sizes, were shooting across her course in every possible direc tion, just as the sports of the regata wets about to begin. These were announced in the programme to consist of three sailing matches and three rowing matches ; one of each alternately. The followiog is an account of each, commencing with the SAILING MATCHES. Irian' RACE. A Silver Cup—sailing boats belonging to Gentlemen.—Fran the Magazines round the furthest Lazaretto from the eastward, from thence round a boat off the south end of the Prince's Pier from the westward, and thence to Seaconibe rounding the Leda. Emerald . 1 I Experiment ... Fairy Isabella drawn. SZCOND MACE Ten Guineas the first bOst, and Three Guineas the second.— Boatmen's saiiing boats:—from Seaeombe round a boat off the Potteries front the westward, and thence-back to the Leda. William, 1. Endeavour, it. Canary, 3. ThlllllD ILICR Ten Guineas the first boat, and Three Guineas the second.— Ferry sailing boots. Victory, of Seacombe 1. James, of Rock-ferry 2. The fallowing also started, vfm—Jessy, of Tranniere ; James, of .New-ferry; Sovereign, of Birkenhead; and Prime Minister, of Woodside. ROWING MATCHES. 71 birt tech. A Silver Cup.—For Row Boats with six oars; owned, rowed, and steered by Gentlemen. From seacombe round a boat moored uff Birkenhead from the westward, and back to the Leda. • Cygnet, 1. Rovetr.2. Busy Bee, 3. They started w two o'clock, the Busy pee taking the lead, closely pushed by the Cygnet, and the Bober also at hand. The last-named boat returned to the Leda (the goal) first; followed by the Cygnet at about one or two lengths distance, the Busy Bee three length. farther astern. SZCOND BASIL • ♦ Sliver Cup. for Row Boats with six oars; owned, • rowed and steered by Gentlemen. &me course u the former. flaritquin, 1. Psyche, S. • Quiz, 3. •This was any thing but a match, the Hulequia wincing by a quarter of a mile, and the Psyche with equal eve the like distance from the Qui*: ?HIM, ItACI4 Ten Guineas the first boat, and Th,e Guiness the secnnd b-or. Row limns with six oars, rowed and steered by boatmen. Flo m Seacombt round a boat moored off Tranmere from the we , twarj, thence round another boat off the north end of the Prince's K r ttrom the westward, and thence to the Leda. Liver I Psyche 2 Cygnet 4 Calypso also started, but was not placed. This was an ezcelknt rate. The Bee took the lead at starting, but was soon headed by the Liver, which maintained her posltin. 4 wining by several lengths. The second prize was, however, w. 41 contested by the other three boats. The Cygnet dropped fist after rounding the second boat, but the Psyche and the Bee kept w el l together, the former winning by about a length. LAST RACE. The day's amusement elosedwWbqcontest tot supeiloefit b e . tween the Gentlemen of the Harlequin and thme.of the ensign s . winners of the Cups. From a boat moored off Traililleff, M sh e Leda off Searombe. The Harlequin won well by two km*. lb e style of riming of the Gentlemen wbo manned tbil Mot, eaehrl the admiration of every one. The folloiring is a hat of A s * names, vit. Coxswain, Mr. Tinley. ItuWllOlS. Messes. William Duncan, I Messrs. WlMaul Neilson, Charles Hurry, Daniel Neilson, Michael Humble, Thomas Tobin. It has seldom fallen to out lot to observe a day of public (Privity pass off with such general satisfaction as yesterday ; and it is in. deed pleasing to add, that so far as we were enabled to learn, it Was free from accident of any coneemsence. • LANARK, Jocv 10. Quote Pc/tem.—We should be glad if we had more frequent opportunities of noticing these manly exercises, which were so much ' practised by the ancient Romans. and which Horace. In one of his beautiful lyrics, so prettily remarks as among the graceful accum. plishments of a well trained youth—" nape disco, save trans finem, jaculo probilis expedito." To the honour of the Niblernen and Gentlemen In the t.orthern counties of Scotland, annual prizes are distributed among the young men who excel in gymnastic exercises —and is there any thing more befitting the brawny arms of oar p s. santry than these healthful, graceful, and masculine games? Are the males in the Upper Ward of Lanarkaiiire less sinewy than the natives of Perthshire? By De means. But it appears that ous% chiefs are less virile than the leaders of the northern clans. Such amusements were not peculiar to barbarians ; they were practised by the most refined nations of antiquity, and thereforp bespeak a mind superior to effeminacy, which, it is to be lamented, is making inroads amongst ns, with rapid strides. We would advise the young men of every parish to imitate the example of Lesmahagow. L ast week a match at quoits was played upon the farm of !Sluirsland, possessed by Mr. Weir, in that parish, by the young men on the cut and west side of the water of Nethan. Seventeen pair appeared for each, to contend for victory; when, after long and dexterous playing, the youths on the east side were declared victors, by only two shots. The whole prize was one gallon of " mountain dew," which they very prudently dispatched on the field, without any of that discord which too often disgraces such congregations. Vie hope that next year they will multiply their sports, and that we shall have to tell of "putting the stone, foot-racing, and throwing the hammer, &c." Abboud' In the middle of summer, we cannot forbear remarking that this parish ranks very high In the noble exercise of "curling," encouraged and stimulated by one of their worthy pastors. CLERICAL IN I ELLIUENCE. tL TKOZIOTIO?Ii. Monday the Rev7idwartiGouldfrioni,;l.A. of Triahy Cut lete, Cambridge, was inducted into the vicarage of Newport, Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas HAI. On the ad inst. the Bishop of Peterborough instituted the Rev. Thomas Corso, M.A. to the vicarage of Norton by Mornay, is the county of Northampton, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Pinnoek. Saturday se'nnigit the Bishop of Peterborough instituted the Rev. William Greenwood, M.A. to the Rectory of Thrapston, in the county of Northampton, vacant by the resignation of the Ret. Sept!mu Hodson. Rev. Andrew Haddleston M.A. Rector of Moresby, and In. cnmbent of Saint Nicholas' Chapel, Whitehaven, has been prs. stored, by the Earl of Lonsdak, to the Rectory of lowness. Rev. T. W. Morley, M.A. of Kirklington, has been instituted, by the Archbishop of York, to the Rectory of Bitithy, near Nor. thallerton, on the presentation of the Bishop yf Durham, vacant by the death of the Rev. Matthew Parrington. Rev. J. N. White to the Vicarage of Rushall, Norfolk. Rev. Henry I.gge has been presented, by Lord Willoughby de Broke, to the Living of East Levant, near Chichester. Rev. J. Thynne has been installed Sub-Dean of Lincoln Ca thedraL The Presbytery of the -North-West of England have given :a unanimous invitation to the Rev. Cull Turner, a licentiate of the Cbarch of Scotland, to become assistant and succes<or to the Rev. John Selkirk, Workington. It is a maxim in mechanics, that what you gain in speed you lose in power; and whoever heard a flipped tongue for five minutes, without perceiving that the maxim holds good with regard to that ? GADDICK AND &mom—Sterne, who used h;s wife very ill, was one day-talking to Garrick in a fine 'end mental manner in praise of conjugal love and fidelity " The husband," said Sterne, " who behave, unkindly to his wife deserves to have his house burnt over his head."—" If you think so," said Gatrick, "I ho, e your house is insured."— The Mirror. In the Brighton Theatre, on Tuesday, an incident occurred which caused much laughter in the house. One r f the best chat ;triers drawn by Mathews is that of a London auctioneer. He was in the act tf pout traying thi, and dwelling in his usual happy way on the 1 t-, when, as he raised the hammer, and exclatmei One pound two," Mr. Listrn. who had been enjoying, evidently with much gold, the drolleries of hi, friend, called out in a loud tone, " three." Mathews and the audience looked at the first moment lost in equal amazement ; but when it was discovered from whom the bidding proceeded, the house resounded with laogittrr. Mathews, humouring the joke, ran up the biddings, and after warning Mr. Liston that they were agaihst him, finally knocked the article down to him anricst the loud plaud.t, of the audience. HEBDOMADAItY.. Testa DAY— Georgium Sidus south at 12 at night. Geocertric longitude 0 deg. 24 min. Aquarius latitude 0 deg. 36 min. south. To.asoasow—Mary Magdalen. This day was first dedicated to her by our pious King Edw. VI. Wanstason2—Opposition of the Bun and Georgium Sidus at 7 id the morning.—The Sun enters Leo, the secoed of the Somali Signs, at I I at night.—The Battle of Salamanca, 1812. THURSDAY—Sun rises 8 minutes past 4; sets 8 minutes before L FRIDAY—SS. James; the first of the Apostles that died fur the faith of Christ . — Duch ess of Cambridge born, 1797.—Holiday Bank. _ . _ --..-- SATUILDAY-Full Moon 19 minutes past 10 at night.—St. Ash, Mother of our Lady—a feast of devotion with the Catholics. —'h is called the Wood•offering among the Jews. Nehemlas had sr pointed certain days for certain families to bring in their wood offerings, but on this day the families who had no bled day brought in their portions, and all others wete at liberty to make spontasessi additions to their quota. BIRTHS. At Edinburgh, oo the litia --- in - ii:the Lady of Colonel MAT"' of a on. _ . _ At Weymouth, the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel Allen, of loamu . tine, of a son. At Barlow; de Bigorre, Mautes Pyrenees, the Lady of Lint.' Colonel Grierson, Dumfries Militia, of a daughter. MARRIED. Rev. William Ward, of Scamblesby, Lincolnshire, to ;►Maria; youngest daughter of Mr. Byron, of Louth, in the above county. The Rev. Edw. Hyde Cosens, MA. to Caroline Brickendesi third slaughter of the late J. Btu - Alford of the Inner 'fewle. Rev, it. A. Temp!man,. Merriott, Somusetshire, to S o l 4lll ' daughter of the late Captain Draper, DIED. Rev. Joseph Martin, of Ham-court, Worcestershire. At nathnv, Cambridgeshire, the Rev. Joseph Halt, in the 761 b year of hie age. The sth hut. aged 6S, Clcment Cartwright, Esq. M.A. Fellof 4 All Souls' College, Oxford. ATb.lt a I,t)NDUNziSKIDGIC TO 11101010% Morning 5 minutes A tter 40 • Atternoun 30 minutes ittrf_lo..... i,o; DJ?: arki ruba...bect by Joms XtAyt+t, the rsorrieor, •, the 6711111 OrrwE, Nu. 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