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~~ MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. About the period of the decapitation of this unfor-d Innate Queen, in February, 1589, she presented to Miss Elisabeth Curle, one of her Ladies in Waiting, her mi niature, with instructions, that after the event she should procure from it a full-length likeness of her person. This was specially bequeathed to the Scott College of Douay, in France, founded by her Majesty, which was the object of her peculiar bounty and regard. Also a table clock, one of the first that had been made at the time, along with her prayer-book. After the execution, Miss Curle proceeded to Antwerp, and fulfilled the dy ing request of her Royal mistress. These articles were delivered accordingly to the College; and it is a singu lar fact, that the title-deeds of it shew, that in the event of this seminary being removed to any other part of that country, these donations should not be permitted to be separated from, but considered as part of the pro perty which belong: to it. This picture was long hung up in the dining-hall of the College, and looked up to as an object of high ve neration ; and the other relics were in possession of the Presidents of the College from time to time. . At the period of the Revolution, institutions in every shape, connected with the interests of religion and science, in Douay, were denounced, and marked out as objects of demolition. When the dreadful work commenced, not only the whole of the Colleges and their s contiguous chapels were ransacked, and no regard paid to any one thing, however precious in point of an tiquity, or of a sacred nature, but records, public do cuments, books, manuscripts, pictures, and furniture, fell a sacrifice to the fury of revolutionary demagogues. Nay, the very walls of some of the most ancient edi fices were not permitted to remain as silent monuments to deplore this scene of disorder and devastation, and exhibit these to future ages ; but pulled down with the most satanic fury, and hurled into one frightful mass of confusion. Under these alarming circumstances, the invaluable papers and manuscripts in particular, that had so long' been in the Scots College, and which, it will be ob served, actually included the original celebrated Poems of Onion, which the President of the College repeat-1 edly informed me, whose veracity I apprehend was un-1 impeachable, he had been in possession of during thel long period he presided there, fell a prey to revolu tionary madness l What mast be the feelings of the' scholar and man of science, nay the literary woild at large, when they are told that one half of these inva luable papers were actually distributed to the grocers of this place, who employed them in wrapping up such , articles as they sold, and the remainder were applied as materials for making of ball cartridges, and the books piled in a heap in one particular square, and set in a blaze ? Notwithstanding the destruction, during this reign of terror and bloodshed, the picture of Mary Queen of Scots most miraculously escaped the fangs of the mob. The canvass appears to have been taken out of the frame to. facilitate its remoaal ; and when I was at Douay with, the venerable Heed of the College, immediately after the peace, we saw it in the possession of a Lady, who unfolded it like an old map, and informed us it had been carefully concealed in a chimney during the Itevulution. k was then delivered, cleaned, to him, and put in a Superb- frame, taken to Paris, and deposited in the ScotF Cortege, till it was ascertained if the College , o Douay was to. be restored to the exercised its former rights end,priviluges. This noble picture, hitherto so little known, is twelve feet in height by six in breadth. Her 'Majesty is repre sented in a standing attitede,.of peat dignity. She is• dressed in a black. gown, with white sleeves, a white robe underneath, mid a heat cap un her head, in the form of a shell. in the right hand is a crucifix and her prayer-book, with a coverofparchment, in her left, and a representation of our SAVIOUR on the Cross hanging at her breast. °none-side there isa representation of her decapitation, in the back ground. She is accompanied. by her two Maids of Honour. Her head is laid on the block, and the exceetioner shown to be in the act of holding up the axe to strike the fatal blow. He is dressed in - black, with a white apron, and attended by four assistants, one of whom appears to be giving the word of conimand, and another writing . notes of what occurred during this tragical scene! 'A further description is given of this interesting pic ture, with the different inscriptions, which we have not room for at tbismateent:—Wilson'S Travels in tlie Pkly Land; 41p... • ••- It must be now nearly a twelvemrinth ago since a scaffolding was erected round the statue of Queen Anne,. in front of . St. Paul's, for the purpose, we think it was said, of restoring her Majesty s nose. lip to this time,. however, the scaffolding. remains in gain quo, and, we believe, the nose also. _ _ _ The stable. of the Honourable Mr. GORE, at Brook Lodge, near Southend, have been broken open by some miscreant, who mangled two fine hunters in. so dreadful a manner that the stable looked like a slaughter-house The wounds seem to be triangular, as if with a bayonet ; and almost every part of the car-case was perforated. The Cork coach, by. Cashel, which left Dublin on Sittunday, was stopped by an armed banditti, in the Countyof Tipperary, and , robbed of the mail. The gpard was badly wounded, and two of the horses were shot. The robbery occurred nearly at the same place where afoul:ller robbery of the coachlrad been committed. Tins wife of a , gingerbread-man, who is in the habit of attending fairs, was safely delivered of a fine child M a tilted car t, during the fair at 111inaer, in Sheppy, last week, being the third time that she has been cou "wed at the same fair within the last three years. DREADFUL FIRE AT DEI7TMORD —Yesterday Morn ing, about one o'clock, the:town and neilthbourhood of Deptford. Were thrown into great consternation by a sodden burst of flames from the extensive premises of Af t :lllostur, timber-rnerehunt, near the Black Horse, em the Loweveroad,which. in an instant communicated to some stacks .of hay, from thence to several huge piles , of deal's, and in less than ten minutes the flames eirtincled:over the whole of the yard, communicating to a i onipran g t of sheds and stabling, in which were threeicarvborees, which, such was.the rapidity of the devouring element, .coteld not be rescued, and were tonsurna. The whole of the piles of timber were in filimes,,4 . nii the atmosphere for several miles was illu minated by the coniagration. Every effort was made W. save some stacks of mahogany ; but the attempt frnitless, and•the entire-stock .of the yard, with all die stittoluidinebut-houses, were reduced to ashes....,. The driellingehoirse, whicli is not in the yard, escaped. We are.happf to hear, that no-lives were lost. As yet it is not*knoWit how the disaster originated. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday, the adjourned Sessions were held at Clerkenwell, before FRANCIS CtiNST, Esq. A young man, named Fellowwwho is a painter, and in good business, was tried uponin indictment, charg ing him with having extorted the sum of 3s. from a poor old man, named Calf, a real object of compassion. Calf said, " I am seventy-seven years of age, and very poor indeed. I was going along the street with my barrow, upwards of twelve months ago, and I sup pose I might have rolled it on the pavement ; but the prisoner comes to me in the morning and says, lam an officer: He produced a staff, and says to me, Johnson has seen you, and he'll pull you up; but I'll get you over it for 40s.' I had not 40s. in the world, GOD help me; and I told him so. Oh, tlicn, says he, you must go to jail for twenty-one days, and so he was going to have me up, and end my days in that way. It was on a Sunday morning, and the day was bitter cold. I have three children to support, and I was bringing home to them a bit of meat and bread ; and all I bad in the world was 3s. 2d. and I was going to lay out part of that to buy coals to warm us. I told him it was all I had, and be still threatened me with the jail, and said he had a warrant; and I said to him, For the LORD'S sake don't do it, Sir; you shall have all I have ; so I gave him the 3s. 2d. for he would not go without something. He then wrote something upon a bit of paper, and put, a bit of blue paper upon it, to make it look consequen tial, and told me, if Johnson came to toe, to shew it to him, and it would be all right. We had no fife on ac count of the loss ; but I began to think that it was add for a Magistrate to grant a %% arrant on a Sunday, and as he told me that Mr. Rawlinson granted it, I went off to him, and asked him. I What clts you mean ?' says Mr. Rawlinson, and when 1 told him, he sent after Mr. Fellows, but we have been hunting him now upwards of a year, and he shirked away irom place to place.' At last 1 caught him, with the assistance of the chief . constable, and here he is." The prisoner asked the old man whether he had not offered to settle the matter for a 51. note?—" Never," replied Calf. In his defence, Fellows said he had been with an offi cer when the old man rolled his barrow on the pave ment, and that the officer intended to have him up, but lie (prisoner) interposed, and prevailed upon the officer to take less money than the poor man would have been tined under the Act. As for the production of the staff, his Worship would see nothing at all in that, as the fact was, it was a tvoodea staff; and therefore had nothing to do with the police. Here the prisoner, who is a very able-bodied young man, began to cry. He could, he said, prove that his character was a good one, and that be was in excel lent business. Two respectable persons stepped forward to give him a character, and they certainly proved that necessity did not compel him to commit the fraud. His father also appeared, but the assurance of the prisoner's ability as a workman, and the condition of his circumstances, were rather calculated to make the case worse.—The Jury immediately found him The CIIAIRM A N then addressed the ruffian, who con tinued' to " pipe his eye" the whole time, and told him, that he bad been found guilty of one of the most atio .cious frauds that ever was committed, as the person whom he had cheated was a poor, infirm, and aged man. The Chairman was about to pass sentence on him, when another prosecutor, named Tomkins, made his appearance, and said that the prisoner had cheated him out of 2s. The case was immediately gone into. TOmkins, a poor ignorant creature, said his barrow was before his door, and the prisoner came up to him and told him that lie (prisoner) was a public officer, and connected with Johnson, the notorious infrirmer, who was pulling up the whole town. " However," says the prisoner, . 4 l'll get you a transference that will protect you from Johnson and all others,. for the sum of 55." Witness had not ss. but he civilly invited the prisoner into his cellar, and told him all the money in the house was 2s. Sn the prisoner pulled out a pack of parchments, and wrote a teceipt, promised to bring the transference, and took away the2s. The Csmusm - u—What did he mean by the transference? Witness—" 1 can't tell : but I suppose he meant to cheat me. However, he never brought the transference to me." The Jui y found the prisoner Gnilty. The CHAIRMAN then said thAt a year's imprisonment for each offence would be as little as such a .scandalous impostor deserved. He, however, hoped that a qua' ter of that punishment would have a proper effect ; and sell. tencect Fellows to imprisonment for three months for each offence in the House of Correction. It has been at length determined by the Middlesex Magistrates to erect a separate prison for the reception of females only, the total cost of which will not, it is supposed, be much less than 40,0001. besides the perma nent annual expense for keepers, matrons, &c. MYSTERIOUS AEFA IR.—Wednesday night last, about twelve o'clock, two men, who gave their address as Military Officers, accompanied by a police officer, en tered the lodgings of a young Lady, who has resided not far from Leicetter-square for the last two years, and forced her from her dwelling, notwithstanding the en treaties and exertions of her friends about her. CAUTION TO OWNERS OF Doos.—Yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, as an ostler was exercising a couple of horses in the neighbourhood of Charles square, City-road, a large bull-dog, which was follow ing a bricklayer's labourer, ferociously sprang upon one of the horses, and tore his side in a most shocking man ner. The horse broke from his hold, and ran down 'Ortinswick-place towards the City-road. The dog pur sued him, and seized his throat, and did not quit his hold till the horse dropped down exhausted by the loss of blood. He then attacked the other horse, upon which the ostler was mounted, in the same manner, which caused him to take fright and. throw his rider, who pitched head-f - oremost upon a curb-stone. The first horse that was attacked cannot possibly live; and the other, though likely to recover, is so mach mangled as to ren der it certain that he will not be fit even for a common hack. The ostler is in a hopeless condition. ACClDENT.—Wednesday evening, in Greenwich Park, as a party of young men, with their lasses, were amusing themselves in running down Greenwich-hill, one of them, a female about 18 rani of age, named. Morin; daughter of a respectable tradesman at Kenning ton , suddenly fell with such considerable force in the descent that she broke her ieg in two places. ROYAL FAVOUR.—A low Frenchman bragged that the King had spoken to him. J3eing asked what his Majesty had said ; he repliect i m He bad& me stand out of his way.", MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE. Yesterday evening Inquisitions were taken before Mr. UNWIN D the Coroner, on view of the bodies of Mary Threader, William Eynan, Elizabeth Mitchel, Robert Scisson, and Elizabeth Scisson, his daughter, aged three years and a half. The first Inquest was held at the Horse and Groom, White Horse-street, Ratcliff, on Mary Threader ; and the Inquest on the other unfortu nate deceased persons was held at the Plough, Kidney Stairs, Limehouse. The following evidence was adduced on both Inquests: Mr. W. Thomas sworn... Witness is a ship-owner, re siding in Narrow -street, Itatcliff; Monday last, about eight o'clock in theevening, he was standing at his back door, which commanded a view of the river; the tide was going down at the time ; he saw a boat on the north side of the river, opposite his premises ; four barges were hanging to a chain, on Mr. Kean, the coal merchant's premises, one outside the piles, and the other three hanging to her; a long loaded barge was at this time dropping down head to tide;' he can't tell to whom the barge belonged, although he and others called out to ascertain the fact; the long barge was going to .4 bring up" to Mr. Kean's barges; the boatman was pulling a-head, but finding he could not, he dropped back ss ith a view to go outside the loaded barge, but from the weight of his boat, he could not accomplish his project, and his boat struck against one of Mr. Kean's barges, which stopped him. In the meantime the loaded barge kept dropping down, and the ruddeis struck the boat, drove her under one of Mr. Kean's barges, and all the passengers were washed over board. When witness found that the accident had men:led, he cried out " sculler," and several w•atermen and part of a ship's crew put out to the assistance of the di owning persons, and picked up the waterman, All elderly man, an infant, and Mary Tin eader, all living, and who sur vived the shock, N ith the exception of the latter, who died shortly after she was brought ashoi e. It is witness's opinion, that if Mr. Kean's barges had not been moored time, the disaster would not have occurred. There were four women, four men (including the vraterman), and two female children, in the boat at the time. John Threader, an old man, deposed, he was hus band to the deceased of that name; they went together to Greenwich on Llonday last, not to the fair, but to via a particular friend of his at the College, and were returning home in the boat alluded to. Witness cannot recollect under what circumstances either he or any of the others were saved, he WAS in such a state of con , fusion at the time. William Hewett works occasionally for Mr. Thomas, the first witness, and was in his warehouse, and saw the accident occur as described by his master; he heard two children screaming bitterly, and ran to the whirl with' a good ladder, which he phiced in the water, in order to save some of the pei sous, but he had no suc cess; he saw Mrs. Thre...ler taken ashore ; she was then alive; and he went to call the assistance of two neigh bouring surgeons. The Jury were all of one opinion, that the situation of these barges sva, Janet ons and illegal, and wished to hear of the Coroner how the evil could be remedied. The ConnNER said, the matter might be either re presented at tlr• Crown (Mice, or the nuisance indicted at the Sessions, After some further comments, the Jury returned a verdict of—Accidental Death, in each case. The waterman received a most excellent character from some respectable inhabitants in the neighbourhood POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STIMET. • Goon Flimsy Ssmors.—One Sanuni Gardiner was brought be fore Sir Menage' Mamie yesterday, on an assault warrant, charg ing him with having assaulted and beaten William It shad. It appeared by the evidence of Roxhall, a decent4ooking elderly man, that he and " many other gel:lle:nen" amused themselves last Good Friday with a match of ingein shouting, at Chalk-farm. The defe:datit, Samuel Gardiner, was one of the party ; and, in the midst of the vort he canto up to Roxhall, with the blood stream . ing front his mouth, and said, " you rascal !—what do you mean by shooting me in, the mouth ?" Roxitall replied, that he had nut 'shot him, either in the mouth or anywhere else; and to convince him that he had nut, he showed him his gun, which had not been dischaiged ; whereupon Gardiner collared " another Gentleman," and repeated the same demand—" you rascal! what did you mean by shooting me itt the mouth ?" The Gentleman denied that he had shut him. IVhile they were disputing, the witness went up to the defendant, and merely tapping hint on the shoulder, assured hint he had got hold of the wrong man, upon which the latter turned about and knocked him down. He got up, and the defendant not only knocked hint down again, but kicked him ; and then, in his own defence, he certainly did use his guts, and knocked the defen- I dant down. This was Roxitall's account of the matter, and it was confirm .4.1 by one of the " Gentlemen" present at the time; but he admitted, in his cross-examination, that he was at least .20 yards of. Gardiner and his witnesses, however, declared that there was scarcely one word of real truth in the whole story. According to the:e account it appeared, that when Gardiner was shot in the mouth —fur shot in the mouth be certainly was, though not dangerously— he accused Roxhall with having done it; but Roxball instantly con vinced him he was mistaken, and then Gardiner accused a son of Roxhall, who was standing hy. Young Ilexhall positively denied that he had fired at all, though his gun was still smoking from the discharge ; upon which Gardiner told him he was a liar, and seized him by the collar ; and at that moment old Roxhall went behind Gardiner and struck him on the head with the butt end of his gun so violently that the gun-stock was broken in two pieces, and Gar diner was carried home in a state of insensibility. Drummond, the patrol produced the gun, which was brok en asun der at the lock. Jr.s lisLis examined the gun, which is a very stout one, and ob served, that either that must be very defective, or Mr. Gardiner's bead particularly. strong. Mr. Gardiner said, that nothing but the breaking of the gun pre vented the blow from being fatal. A witness corroborated the defendant's statement, and said that the blow felled him as though be had been shot through the bead. Sir IL BIRNIX said, that he had seldom met with a more impu dent attempt to turn the.proper course of justice. The defendant had been shot in the mouth, and very naturally seized upon the person who in his judgment, was the o ff e nd e r ; a nd f o r d o ing s o, the complainant had almost fractured his skull, and now had the face to proceed against him by law for an assault. It ,'appeared, in the course of further inquiry, that the person who actually shot Mr. Gardiner, and whom the Litter seized, was Rbithall's son. The result was, that the oriLdnal warrant was discharged, and Mr. Gardiner bring sworn as a witness, Roxhall was ordend to give no tice of bail for the assault. He in the meantime was locked up. Sir R. MANIC strongly censured the practice of assembling to• gether for such sports as pigeon-shooting en a Good Friday—a day held tacred•by the law of the land, and said he had a huge mind to have the whole party indicted. BaNSION-HOUSR. Yesterday the Lena Matron' agsiin 'adverted to the streets, and stated that be had received communications from a number of citi zens, confirming his observations as to the extent of the nuisances, and the injury done to the trade of the City, by the stoppages and obstructions that were created in the public thoroughfares. One tratesntan complained of theinjaty he had *attained in consequence of rueiglibour's caravans continually standing before the door. He had taken what he considered to be an effectual course to rid him self of the nuisances, by sending them continually t o the Green yard; but it had no ;Att. On eramination he discovered that the Aber wlurvres ditetted to' impound. the carts released them im mediately, and thus encouraged the owners with impunity. His Lordship said he should investigate this circumstance; and, con vinced as he was of the extensive mischief that was done to the trade of the City by the obstruetlette, be *ar determined to pro ceed visotontly•ibt dab-removal. He cliroctied , that all the street . keepers and cdric;ets, vilinte duty i& *la lo.preentrf order in the sweets, should be summoned before him on a particular day, to le. ceive his directions. Regulations must be made for the pteserva. tion of order and enforcing the Street Act throughout the while line of the thoroughfares from one end of the City to the other. Il e had been applied to by professed informers for his sanction to their proceeding under the Street Act. He should sanction nothing n: the hind; but whenever an offence was proved to have been cow nutted under the Act, he should certainly inflict the penalty directed. It was observed in the Office that it was highly desirable tit those Authorities who bad the regulation of the Strand should fc.l. low his Lordship's example, and keep the streets clear of those nb. struetions which took place hourly in the Crowded and narrrw parts. Foot passengers in nrany places were greatly annoyed by the fellows with bills, and stationary applicants for custom, in vari ous ways. In Holywell-street, for instance, it was astonishing that the practice of the Jews, standing outside their doors with their wares, should be permitted. In many instances they Were so klaring as to seize persons, and drag them into their shops ; and the must respect. able persons could not pass without annoyance. 11.1170 N- G A It HEN. Yesterday, a stout-looking smith, named Green, was brotglit upon a charge of violently assaulting his wife and children. His wife proceeded to state many cases of gross assault, mid r b served (we suppose in compliment to his trade) that the itstruno.77•. which he used were pokers, tongs, shovels, &c. nay, on one occ .- sion, he pulled the grate out, and flung it at one of his children. When called upon for big defence, he said, that as to his chit dren, in flinging those implements he did not mean to strike them : he only meant to make them " look sharp." As to his wife, she gave bins provocation to use not only pokers, but sledge haniliwrr, ••••• 14 an aggravating tongue." " Aye," exclaimed Alts. Green, " and you attempted to care i t by actually proceeding, the other day, to thrust a poker down nw throat.”—a-The Magistrate, though he was scnsib:e that there _ le many diseases attached to a woman's tongue which NA.: huina, skill, yet, not exactly approving of the smith's summary mole of cure, ordered hint to find bail for his appearance elsewhere, to give a more satisfactory account of this novel experiment. UNION HALL. A respectable elderly woman, who gave her name Jane Butc;..., was charged under the following singular circionstancesi—lt a t . geared, that un the previous night the prisoner came to the slue, of Air. Brand, a brush-maker, it: Great Stainlk-street, and requested to look out a variety of articles in their line, consisting of reticule, baskets, fire-screens, brushes, egg-cups, &c. 181. worth of which she selected, and desired that they might be into packed up in an earthenware crate, with directions to be seat to the Fa versham hoy, end forwarded by the vessel to that ne•glibourhood, where she said she rented a large farm. She was then about to leave the shop without hinting at payment fur the articles, whet: Mr. Brand, sen. expressed a wish fur immediate settlement, or rc ferences as to her respectability. The defendant seemed surprised, and said—" Oh, Sir, you need nut he afraid of your money ; seed ;his things, and I will call in the morning, and settle the accueet arse t you." She then retired hastily from the shop, but was peree 7 eve by Mr. Brand's son, who kept his eye upon her, to take up a rt.:- cule basket from the counter, with which she withdrew. 'lle young man followed quickly-after, and observed her walk into ti shop of Mr. Jacobs, a fishmonger, at a short distance. He watched for some time, and saw Mr. Jacobs busily engaged in skinning while his wife was preparing codfish and oysters. Ile then waikr.l into the shop, and requested to speak a word to the 6;11111ot:re:, who begged nut to be interrupted, as that Lady (pointit:g to the prisoner) was giving a large order, and she mustbe attended to. Mr. Brand, however, mentionedwhat had occurred at his father's 61:(11), and upon Mr. Jacobs demanding the money for the fish, wind' amounted to 11. 164. the defendant replied, that she could not FiF bins then, and added, that if the order was sent to her sister's house, close by, he would have his money. Mr. Jacobs immediately sent for a constable, and gave her into custody. Mr. A um; desired her to give some explanation of this extraor dinary conduct. The Defendant—What the young man has stated is correct, so far as concerns the order which I gave at his father's shop ; but respect to carrying off the basket in a clandestine manner, deny it. It was one of the ankles included in my order, and I conceived there was no impropriety in taking with me the ankle which I intended to pay for. Mr. ALLEN asked her if she was now willing to pay Mr. Jacoh. for the damage he had sustained in preparing the soles, &c. for het • The defendant said, that she had no money at present about her, but would make all right if site was permitted to go and borrow it. The fishmonger stated, that the amount of his damage in skinning soles, crimping cod, and opening oysters for the defendant, was 14s. Ile added, that while he was engaged in preparing the order for the defendant, she asked hint to send out for a pint of porter, de siting him to put it down in the bill. The Magistrate said, unless the defendant paid the 14s. to the fishmonger, she should certainly be sent to the House of Conti, tion. The defendant here requested paper, pen, and ink, which she was supplied with, and sent off a letter to a tradesman, who came forward, paid the damage, and the defend .nt was permitted to leave the office, after having restored the basket she had takin off Mr. Brand . * counter. TOWN-HALT» A rospectable tradesman _charged an abandoned female, named Elizabeth Clawson, with seducing his only child, a gill between to and 17, into a course of prostitution. The particulars detailed by the unhappy parent were these:— On Saturday afternotra last, his daughter obtained his permissiou to take a short walk-, but remained absent until eight o'clock in the evening, when she returned home, to his surprise, in the last stage of intoxication, from the effects of which she had scarcely reco vered on the following morning; when taking advantage of he• aunt's absence, who was his housekeeper, she again went out, since which time he had not seen her, until an hour previous, when learning her retreat, he took with him an officer, and removed her by force from the prisoner's lodging. It now appeared, partly by her own confession, and partly by the testimony of others, that she had passed the whole of the three days and nights in the prisoner's society, by whom she had been taken to Greenwich-fair, and led to the haunts of profligacy, where she revelled amidst scenes of vice, returning long after midnight, deprived of reason, to the prisoner's lodgings, amid a corrupt mass of soldiers, sailors, &c. and where she was concealed from the researches of her aunt, whom the pri soner assaulted with a poker upon her insisting on her niece being restored to her family. The aunt swore to the assault. The Magistrate, after expressing his conviction of the demoraliz ing tendency of such fairs, called upon the prisoner, a squalid miti dle-aged woman, to account for her flagitious conduct, who coolly replied, that as a sinner before GOD, if she was to be crucified, she was the tempted and not the tempter, av the girl had solicited her to go with her. She had danced a reel or so, she admitted; had drank a glass or two, it was tree, and they had visited more than one public house, and concluded by adopting all her male associates as brothers and first cousins. The poor girl sat down humbled and abashed, while her vile be trayer, after some rebuke from the Magistrate, who lamented his inability to punish her according to her merits, consistently with the evidence, was handed over to the gaoler in default of bail for the assault. NEW ROYAL MEWS, PIMLICO.—This extensive range of buildings is now bordeting on completion, and consists cfa prin cipal quadrangle for bis AIAJESTY'S stud, and adjacent buildings for the reception of the horses of his Royal Highness the Duke of Yoaa. In the former are two ranges of stables, containing stalls for twenty-four state horses, the creams, and' his late MAJISTY'f favourite blacks, the remainder being apportioned for hi► M a assres private curriage.borses and hacks. Those for the state horses are already finished, as are the Royal Duke's, in Arabella-row. At the Admiralty, on the ISth instant, the Lady of William R. K. Douglas, Esq. M.P. of a son. April 16, the Lady of Colonel Sir Colin Campbell, of a daughter. Sunday, the Lady of the Rev. G. P. Lowther, of a son. DIED. Saturday, at Bromley, in Kept, the Rev. John Baker, A. M. Monday, at Bath, Capt. Alexander Nesbitt, R.N. Sunday, at Nenagh, county TippErary, the Rev. Thos. O'Meara. Jan. 24, at Spring Vale, Jamaica, Peat. J. Clerk, 9 4 .41 Regt. Monday, in Cadogan-place, aged • 26, Mary Anne Williamson, only daughter of the late Capt. Williamson, R.N. Tuesday, the Rev. Robert Clarke, M.A. of hTerham, Northum berland, aged 53. 'IS MAILS. ARR. DUI. •RR. *ye. Dublin 1 0 France 0 0 Waterford 2 0 Hamburgb 0 0 Guernsey and Jersey 1 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 . Brazils 0 Holland , 0 0 I Gottenburgb 0 0 Leeward Island 0 0 I Jamaica 0 0 RIG H-W ATELI at LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 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