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He had philosophy enough to &spire superfluous wealth, and judgment to fora see the mce.sity of a competence; but love was headstrong, and too hard for reason : so than after a year or two's ineffectual delay, they bide defiance to their stars, and had courage enough to marry 1 The scholar gained a wife, and lost a fellowship, the only small subsistence he t ef..:c depended on. Our innkeeper often upbraided tht bridegroom with the barren effects of his learning, and thought it very strange, as he well might, that wl.ile every body told hint his son.in-law was a great scholar, his whole stork of knowledge could not help him to one penny of his own getting. Six i'M seven months after this marriage, the father-in-law died mi serably poor,—and the credit which his industry maintained in his life time dying with him, the goods he left behind were seized on by his etc limrs and the student and his young wife turned out of doom, to (..t the b read of fortune where they could find it. The wife had a relation in town, unable to contribute any great as sistatice. She took them, however, into a garret of her house, where the man could only waste his hours between books and sighs, while the part n.r . f his sorrows made hard shift to pick up a support by knitting stockings, at a certain common price for every pair. At last, by a very natural coincidence, the cares of the lady became mote " weighty, and the patience of both less fortified. The only subject of their conversation now was their dread of what would become of the poor infant who was to be born a beggar ; but sitting constantly together from morning to night, the scholar often fixed his eyes, with stedfast attention, on the motion of his wife's fingers, in the dexterous management of the needles : he took It into his imagination that it was not impossible to contrive a little loom, which might do the work with much more expedition. This thought he communicated to his wife; and joining his head to her hands, the endeavour succeeded to their wishes. Thus the ingenious stocking loom, which is so common now, was first invented , by which' the inventor did not only make himself va hi4family happy, but has left his nation indebted to him for a benefit which enables us to export silk stockings in great quantities, and to a vast advantage, to those very countries from whence before we used to bring them at considerable loss in the balance of our traffic. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER. SEPT. 4. Before Mr. Justice JERVIS ands Special Jury. OLDHAM V. SHAW. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a butcher at Hyde. to recover from the defendant, who is landlord of the Navigation public-house in that town, compensation in damages for an assault con. mitted by him upon the plaintiff on the 9th of Sept. last. The pleadings were very voluminous. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and several pleas of justification stating that the plaintiff came to the defendant's house in a state of intoxication, made a great noise, was very abusive, and afterwards assaulted the defendant. That the defendant, in his own defence, struck the plaintiff, and that the defendant, in turning the plaintiff out of his (defendant's) house, used no more force than was necessary for that purpose. The plaintiff by his replication admitted that he was drunk, b.c. but denied that the defendant had not used more violence than was necessary, and , upon this point issue was joined. Air. Sergeant Cnoss stated the plaintiff's ease, and said this was a special jury ease, and if it had not been made a special jury by the de fendant, it would have been tried yesterday, and the Anises would have then terminated ; but the defendant for some reasons best known to him self, bad thought fit to submit the case to the consideration of those respectable gentlemen who so attentively tried all the other cases on the list. The plaintiff was a butcher at Hyde, and a member of a building club, which was held at the defendant's house, and on the Bth of April last, about eight o'clock in the evening, the plaintiff having occasion to attend a meeting of his club, went to the defendant's house, where he partook of the good cheer afforded by the defendant to his cus tomers; and as the Wakes of the Hyde were held at that time, and the house being full of company, the plaintiff thought that a large room in which the meetings of the Club were usually held, might be appropriated to the use of the other company, and that upon that oc casion the Club might hold their meeting in a smaller room, civilly asked the landlord, who was in the bar, which was the Clu b-room , to which question Boniface, instead of a civil answer, came out of the bar, saying—" skew you the Club room," and im mediatelyi struck the plaintiff a violent blow in the face, and blackened both his eyes, thus treating him to a specimen of Club law. —(A laugh.) Not satisfied with so doing, be called his waiter, who seised the plaintiff by his legs whilst the defendant laid hold of his shoulders, and carried him into the street, where they dashed him violently against the ground, and when the plaintiff got upon his legs he was struck by the defendant's waiter, and knocked down. The injuries received by the plaintiff were such as prevented him, for several days, attending to his usual business. The Learned Sergeant called three witnesses, one of whom confirmed his statement as to what took place in the house, and the others confirmed his statement of what took p lace i n the street. Mr. Sergeant JONES ad dressed the Jury for the defendant. Before he made any observations upon the evidence of the plaintiff's first wit. ness, be begged, for the information of his learned brother, to state why this case was brought under the consideration of a spe cial jury, and it was this, that as the charge made against the defendant was most extraordinary, and likely to injure his house, which was one of, if not the most respectable in Hyde, he wished that some of those gentlemen who were in the habit of frequenting his house, and associating with those who frequented his house, should see by what sort of wit nesses the case was to be proved. He ( Mr. Sergeant Jones) put it to the Jury, who were gentlemen of common sense, and some of whom knew the defendant, and the manner in which his house was conducted, and who had experience in the ways of the world, whether it was at all probable that any landlord could have behaved is the manner sworn to by one of the witnesses. The plaintiff admitted he was drunk, and yet the witness swore he had behaved in the most civil manner. He had witnesses to prove the defendant had done nothing more than he bad a right to do, in order to prevent his customers being annoyed, but he should not call them, as he was convinced that the respectable Jury he had the honour of addressing could not believe one word of the evidence. His Lordship summed up, and the Jury immediately found a verdict for the defendant. _ - _ - . . BerieSnt ions, applied to his Lordship to certify that this was a fit case for a special Jury, but was unsuccessful. The Assizes terminated this day. usesessnmencoMmt INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, SEPT. 4. This day the Chief Commissioner heard, in his private room, Portu gal.street, Lincoln's-inn-fields (the Court undergoing a cleansing), se. veral motions, in consequence of the Court not sitting until the 20th inst. in order that the prisoners might have the benefit of his attendance in matters connected with their petitions and schedules. IN RE GEORGE imwz ANDJAINES BARRETT. This was an application on the part of the insolvents for an allowance under the 56th section of the act of Parliament which enacts " That in all cases where such prisoner shall be liable to further imprisonment at the snit of his or her creditor or creditors, or any or either of them, it shall be lawful at any time for the said Court, on the application of such prisoner, to order the creditor or creditors at whose suit he or she shall be so imprisoned, to pay such prisoner such MINI or SUMS of money not exceeding the rate of 4s. by the week, In the whole, at such time and in such manner and in such proportions as the said court shall direct; and that on failure of payment hereof, as directed by the said court, the said court shall order such prisoner to be forthwith discharged from cus tody at the suit of the creditor or creditors failing to pay the MM. The insolvents had been remanded upon the opposition of the Mar quis of Anglesey for a period of eight months, for fraudulently making over property, under the following circumstances : At the original hearing (13th July last) it appeared that the insolvents had been formerly farmers, residing at Stalbridge, Doesetahire, where they, in 1821, occupied a farm called " Gibb's farm," of the noble Marquis, at a rental of 4201. per annum. They paid their rent regu lady until 1828, when they fell in arrears, and at Michaelmas, 18111, they owed 48GL On the 27th of Jan. they called on the Marquis's steward ( Mr. Castleman,) and assured him of their perfect solvency, and promised shortly to reduce the arrears. However, they never called afterwards, and on that very day about 20 heifers were removed clandestinely from off the farm, and other property secreted and removed. Upon Mr. Castle man he aring of this, which was on the 2d of February, he levied a die- tress on the farm for 5901. and took possession of all the property, the insolvents having absconded, and by the vigilance of three of his men, traced about twelve milch cows helooging to the insolvents, which they seized and sold. They also took possession of twelve acres of wheat, and the property seized was worth altogether about 2401. The insol vents had succeeded in concealing eighteen beasts at a friend's farm. In February Mr. Castleman arrested both the insolvents, and they gave bail, having a short time previously made over nine of the beasts to one of their relations, for an old debt of 841. and the other nine beasts they sold after their arrest, and spent the proceeds in their support ; and they now had no property left for their creditors, of which the noble marquis and the clergyman for tithes were the principal. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said it was evident that the insolvents represented their solvency to Mr. Castleman in order to lull him to sleep, so that they might easily remove the heifers from off the farm, and of the disposition of the heifers the noble Marquis complained. There was s gross preference to a relation, in making over the nine heifers, and with fraudeody making away with the other nine. The of ldavits upon which the insolvents applied for the allowance stated, that they were in the most destitute condition, and wholly with out toe common means of support. The Cum, Coanetssioirsa granted a rule nisi, against which the noble Marquis will have to show cause when the Court resumes its sit tings, if he should be advised upon the merits so to do. In the course of the morning, a petition was presented to the Chief Commissioner, from a person of the name of Dowedell, who had for merly been a clerk in the employ of an attorney of this Court, of the name Qf Moses Abraham, in which petition he stated his sincere con trition for having affixed the Initials (" H.D.") of the provisional assignee in seven instances to an affidavit sworn to by an insolvent of the name of Plunkett, and that the Court would be /dewed to restore him to his former situation as clerk, which petition the Chief Commissioner, rejected, the case, be said, being too &grant to be passed over without the sentence be had deemed it necessary to make being carried into effect as a warning to others—namely, that no papers should be received by any officer of the Court from this person again. An Attorney of the Court complained of a great hardship on account of Mr. Barrett, the Governor of Whitecross-street prison, not holding a commission for taking affidavits, whereby the prisoners were later in their applications to the Court than they otherwise would be if he held one. The QUIT CONIMISIONIR wondered why Mr. Barrett should ob. jeet to hold 'commission and inquired of the attorney if he knew the reason why Mr. Barrett did not act as his predecessors had done ? The attorney said he could not state the cause, unless Mr. Barrett I I thought it too much trouble. He further added, that when a prisoner had to make an affidavit, he was obliged to wait for Mr. Dance, who, in the vacation, visited the prisons but once a week, or must submit to the attendance in The Curies COMMISSIONER said this was a great hardship, and that he should cause inquiry to be made. IN RI WIZIITLET. This was an application on the part of the insolvent to dismiss the pe. tidon formerly presentectto:the Court, with liberty to file de novo. The insolvent was first arrested In 1896, and afterwards went out of custody; since which he bad been arrested again. In his affidavit for leave to file a new petition, he swore that he bad not sold, assigned, or parted with any property whatever, and that he should have applied W the Court sooner but from his inability to employ an attorney. The Curzr Costaussrozza granted the motion, but without dis. missing the former petition. IN ix MZILANCAXT.—ThiII was a motion for leave to amend the estate paper which had been filed in blank, and to insert some perishable property. Cum Couurssroxica.--lias the property been given up to Messrs. Dawson and Cafe ? _ Clerk...ale property consisted of pig's feet, and when the broken of the Court went to the insolvent's shop, his wife refused to give them up, and she bad since sold them. CHUM Commtssrowart.—Why did she do this Clerk.—. She said she and her husband bad been at variance, and that she would not give them up. Cams' CommustoxEs.—l will grant the application, but you ought not to have been at "variance" with the rule of the court, which required the statement in the first instance. Clerk.—The insolvents seldom state what is necessary when instruc tions are taken to Sic their petitions. Ix as Hoorsa.—This was a motion foe leave to file a new petition, the Insolvent having omitted to state that be had previously taken the benefit of the act. The Costar Coxxissrowsa said It was strange that Insolvents should forget those things : he granted the modems, however, as matters of course. Ix zx Tooxe.—This was an application for leave to file a petition. The Camp Coxxissioxxa—Who makes the affidavit ? Clerk—l make it. The CHIEF Coxxissionza—What I no affidavit from the Insol vent himself ? 1 never heard of such a thing.—Refused. Ix x SUDLAND,....ThiS was a motion to file a new estate paper under the following circumstances s The insolvent, when the attorney took Instructions to file his petition, stated that he believed the property on his premises to be under 201. After the petition had been filed, the landlord seised for rent, when it turned out to be upwards oethat amount, which excess had been since paid over to Meseta. Dawson land Cafe. The emir Commustn . ita said that no blank estate paper should I be filed without great care, as it afforded the creditors an opportunity of judging of the Insolvent's property. Under these circumstances, how. ever, he granted the application. Ix sis Nzwitunx.—This was an application for leave to file a pe. tition. The insolvent since his imprisonment had received the sum of 1251. which be stated in his affidavit he had distributed in various ways, and that, owing to the ignorance of the attorney he had first consulted, be bad been obliged to employ another, which prevented his applying to the Court within the time prescribed by the act of Parliament. It being beyond three months, the Court directed a rule to show cause. IN RE SUNDEILANDoThif was a motion for leave to dismiss a petition from off the files of the court, the insolvent having made an ar. rangement with his creditors, and gone out of custody without taking the benefit of the Act. ----- The Cunt CommtestowEn (looking at the schedule)—The in_ solvent would not have passed through the Court without having Bled a new balance sheet. The papers upon which the insolvent moved to dismiss his petition being found correct, it was ordered to be dismissed. Ix as lamas...-This insolvent Will in a county gaol, and the sp. plication was for leave to file a petition. The CHIEF Commrssioxia—He states in his affidavit that he has not received one halfpenny since his confinement, and as I shall hear this case at Glocester, I will take care to inquire into the truth of his state ment, and if I find he has sworn falsely, I will dismiss the order for hearing. Mr. Nicwou.s—lt is a very poor case, and I have no doubt of the truth of the man's statement. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—WC'', 7 grant the application, but shall pursue the inquiry. Ix as JzarEaxsore—This was an application for an allowance under the belth section of the act. The insolvent had been adjudged to seven months• Imprisonment, fee disposing of property divisible amongst his creditors. In his affidavit be stated that he was actually in a state of starvation, and that his wife was at the moment in very bad health. The Court granted a rule to show cause. Ix is Hainswo.,—This was a motion to Sic a new petition, the insolvent having gone out of custody without laving taken the benefit of the act. From the affidavit of the insolvent it appeared that the ere. ditor, at whose suit he had been before charged in custody, had again arrested him. In his receipts of money since his imprisonment he had not stated to whom he had paid WI. when the Commissioner directed the application to stand over foe further inquiry, and the application to be renewed. Rs ANBLZR.—A summons was taken out in this matter by Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, in their capacity of agents, calling upon Mr. Nicholls, agent for a gentleman of the name of Rawlinson, why he should not deliver to the assignees under the insolvent's estate an account of the sale of some) property which bad been directed to be sold in the country by the provisional assignee of the court. From the statement or Mr. Nicholls it appeared that the account had not been sent up, or, if it had, it had got mislaid. The CHIEF Commissions,' directed Mr. Nicholls to write to Mr. Rawlins= for an explanation, and In the mean time the summons to stand over. BAsTuoLoatzw FAlR.—Yesterday afternoon the heavy storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, proved extrstady prodtabte to the numerous show.bootha and public-houses, in the neighbourhood of Bartholomew fair, by persons crowding in for shelter from the storm but the utmost confusion prevailed outside from the hundreds of per. sou rushing ont of the fair, and the blackguards, as usual, took 'dun sage of the commotion, and several females were thrown down in the mud, and many were deprived of their property, as well as having their clothes torn. Yesterday evening, Police Serjeant Shacklock, of the G division, was informed that a gang of reputed thieves and pickpoc. kets had a gambling table in Wm. - Street, Smithfield, at which seve. ral persons, who were simple or curious enough either to play or to look on at th e ware robbed of their money, pocket ha n dk erc hi e f s , & eh e. and, his dress by putting off his uniform, he proc ee d e d to the spot in be. As soon as he could make his way to the ta. bin through the crowd, he pulled a bilk:own out of his pocket, and was about to lay it down as a stake on the game, when a fellow on the opposite side of the table dexterously snatched it out of his hand, and a general bustle succeeding, be shortly effected his escape. Serjeant Shackloek immediately seised the man who owned the table, and was dragging him away to the watchbouse, when the cry of " rescue" was raised, and the serjeant was struck down, and his hat knocked off. At this moment one of the gang, a powerful looking fellow, with a large stick in his hand, rushed forward, and adoring the scejeen t t o l et the prisoner loose, struck him a violent blow on the with the stick, and repeating it, the serjeant reeled and fell on the ground almost senseless. His head was severely injured. The whole party then lied, for Shackle& was alone, and could procure no assistance at the time ; but a Mr. Bey. ant, a gentleman residing in John-street, Mackiklars.road, who witnessed the transaction, followed the niffiati who desperately assaulted the sec. jeant until he saw him, in company with several others, go into a public.bouep in Long.lane, and then returning, he accidentally met the serjeant, and told him, where his assailant was to be found, but advised him to procure assistance to take him into custody. The serpent im. med y appled to Ave or six of the City Police, whom he met in the fair, to accompany him, telling them the circumstances, but they so ftball as go, or to take upon themselves any trouble in the matter. He then proceeded to the Compeer, accompanied by Mr. Bryant, sad having seen one o f t h e w eet hem, and informed him of what had oc can4 that officer promptly modsred him the assistance he requited i a perry Odle pate were &spMthed to the publio.house, bat it was then too lab, for the fellows had gone of in the mesa thus. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OP AN OLD LADY. A considerable sensation was yesterday morning created in Canterbury. place, Lambeth, and the surrounding neighbourhood, in consequence of the sudden dissolution of Mrs. Dance, an elderly lady of independent fortune, who resided with her dater, at No. 24, at the above place. The particulars of this unaccountable and mysterious affair are as fol. low :—Mn. Dance, it appears, was a widow, and most respectabLecs fleeted, and for the last four years lived with her daughter, Miss who is about 40 years of age, In the above house. Both mother daughter were remarkably eccentric, and so rarely was any one seen to visit them, that their dwelling seemed deserted and desolate. They kept no arrant, and for the last six months the old lady had been confined to her effsmber, where she was waited upon by her daughter, who seldom allowed any one to see her. Yesterday morning a suspicion was excited in the neighbourhood in consequence of the parlour shutters being closed, and these suspicions were considerably strengthened upon Mr. Bluson, who occupies the adjoining house, knocking loudly at the door without ha being opened. A general opinion prevailed that the old lady and her daughter had been murdered, and information having been conveyed to the police station house, the superintendent despatched two constables to the house immediately. It being found impossible to ob. tain an entrance the front way, the officers gained admission to the rear by going through Mr. Bluson's house, and succeeded in effecting an entrance through a back window. On entering the house they found every thing quiet, and no appearance of the house having been plan. dered. Hoeing searched the lower part of the house, they proceeded up stairs, when, on entering the bed-room of the old lady, they, undrawing ' the curtains, saw her lying on the bed lifeless, and her daughter lying by her side, in a state of the deepest lethargy, as if produced by some powerful narcotic. Mr. Beck, a surgeon, who lived opposite, was instantly sent for, and as promptly attended ; he examiwd the old lady, and gave it as his opinion that she had been dead some hours; there were several bruises and black marks about her thrust, as if she had been strangled in her sleep. On searching the room, a phial, which had contained laudanum, was found, which led Mr. Beck to believe that the de ceased and her daughter had taken some of that poison, but on draw ing off the contents of the stomach from the latter, be saw nothing to warrant that opinion, as no appearance of laudanum could be The stomach-pump was subsequently applied to the deceased, but with little result ; so that, with the exception of the marks about the throat, no criterion can be formed as to the muse of her death, which is at present involved in the deepest mystery. The survivor, who ap pears to be labouring under an aberration of mind, refuses to ma ke any disclosures. She is still in the house under the care of the Polio* POLICE REPORTS. ifonlapse, about 15 yam; of age, the son of a horse-keeper at the Swan with Two Necks, Isad-lane, was yesterday charged with stealing a parcel, which was brought from Newbury by a Bristol coach on the 25th ult. and which contained halves of provincial notes to the amount of 4001. Mr. Waterhouse, jun. having stated the nature of the use, called Thomas William Brodrick, who said that the parcel In question came by the Regent coach, and was called over by him on its snivel in check. ing the way-bill. On the following evening, in checking the par eels charged to him, the principal porter discovered that none of his men had accounted to him for the delivery of this parcel, nor could any of them recollect anything of it. Here the mattes rested till Wednesday last, when Mrs. Ashby, of Bunhill.row, complained of the non.delivery of the parcel to her, and stated It contained the halves of notes to the extent of 400 L Upon enquiry, whims learned the next morning, that a porter named C lev eland had been observed to be in possession of half an Oxford Old Bank note for 201. Cleve land was applied to, and said he received it from a porter named Fowler, who took It from the father of the boy, upon being asked by him if it was of any use. It had been given to the father in the pre sence of another porter by the son, who said he had picked it up as it was swimming down the kennel in Gutter-lane, en the evening the parcel was stolen. Several other witnesses were heard, but they did not state any new facts, end the prisoner was remanded till Saturday. UNlON.HALL.—Yesterday, three men, named Smith, Driver, and Clark, were charged with breaking into the premises of Mr. Farmer, oil and paint manufacturer, in Lock's-fields. One of the policemen of P. division saw three auspicious looking characters lurking about Mr. Farmer's premises. The no sooner found that they were noticed, than they in a different direction to elude suspicion. segreated'policeman proceeding that the warehouse had been broken open, and a quantity of paint, varnish, and verdigris, taken out of the casks, and placed in ready to be carried off the premises by the thieves. The policeman apprehended Smith while undressing to go to bed. Smith was highly indignant when informed of the suspicion attached to his conduct, and when told that he must proceed to the station.bouse, he became quite outrageous, and seizing a poker, swore that no power should take him out of his house. Unfortunately for him, while engaged in Mr. Farmer's warehouse taking the verdigris out of the casks, - his shirt and stockings were stained with that article, and when that proof of bis having been on the premises was mentioned to him, he became quite calm, and submitted to be taken out of his house without any resistance. The other prisoners, on separating hem eilddi, it will be recollected, went in contrary directions, both erwhom, lemma as to his fate, pr!- eeeded afterwards to his house, and were in the same bed. Their clothes were also soiled with the is, and en the room, one of the padlocks which was wssecitsd off the door of Mr. ar. mer's warehouse was found; these, together with a large quantity of butter, the property of a Mr.Wrighessa,whess premises had been broken into a few nights ago, and robbed of property to a considerable amount, were identified. A knife was fond in Mr. Farmer's warehouse, left behind by the thieves, on the hails of which were the initials of the prisoner Clark's name. The Idioms were conmattaL Lautitru•sTizas.....Ymterday, AIM Gould was= with stealing a leg of mutton from one of the station.houses to IL division of police, and which was intended for the Sunday's dinner of the policemen stationed there. The prisoner, ma the preceding morning, obsemed the leg of mutton hanging up in the hall ; and, though he was perfectly aware of what the house was. yet he could not resist so tempting an offer. After pos. swing himself of his prise, be scampered GC but being observed, a posse of policemen were soon in pursuit, and secured him and the mut. , ton. He was committed for three months to the tread-mill, the magis trates at the same time remarking that his attempt was a most daring eta. A ludiaous charge of felony was prefened!against two little urchins, whose heads scarcely reached to the top of the bar behind which they were placed, and whose united ages could not exceed fifteen years. From the statement of the prosecutor, an itinerant poulterer, ft ap.. peered that he had on Saturday night placed four sucking pigs in a basket in Whitechapel market, and during his absence the prisoners had sold them to different customers for 13s. though their first coat to him was 245. He subsequently, however, speared the p and found on one of them the whole of the money which be hadreceived for the pip, and which he took from him. The Magistrates, after a severe admonition, discharged the young delinquents. Thalia& Pottcr..—Yesterday, Patrick Crams, an excavator was charged with knocking down several of his countrymen, and assaulting: the new police. It appeared that, on Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, the prisoner rushed out of a house in Old Oravel-lane, Shad. well, in a state of intoxication, followed by several persons, the whole if whom he knocked down In succession. Cries of murder were raised, and Lee, a Felice-constable, stepped up to secure the prisoner, who soon le- I veiled him with the earth. Two other officers came to his assistance, end they were also felled to the ground. Mr. Young, an Inspector of K. division, said the defendant be. bayed in the most outrageous manner at the station-house, upset the table and lamp, and attempted to strike him. Prisoner—lt was all owing to the whisky I got at Larry Hine& ley's wake r I hope that Honors will look over it this time. An officer stated that the prisoner had best a female in a very brutal manner. Prisoner—Oh, that was only my wife; pure now a man may bate his own wife without being called over the coals. Mr. BEODERIP ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 40 shillings to the Sing. In default, he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Curvier, the celebrated French naturalist, is said to have dissected an insect which, though but an inch long, contained 494 pairs of muscles, connected with u many nerves, and 40,000 antenna. Crcesus offered large sums of money to Anacharais, the celebrated Scythian philosopher, but he refused them, saying, my ap. pad is s Scythian rug ; my oboes the hardness of my feet; ply bed the earths my MCC hunger ; and my riches content; if you wish to serve me, you cannot do so more effectually than by bestowing the gifts you intended fa me upon those of your citizens, who stand in need of them, or in sacrificing to the immortal GOD. CROWDED STATE Or THE PRISONS or THE METROPOLIS. —There were no less than 75 charges at Bow.street yesterday, brought t‘p by the Police of the Division F, to this Office, and Sir R. Birnie took occasion to 'observe to Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent, that he had received communications from the Governors of the three prisons, the House of Correction, New Prison, Clerkenwell, and Tothill.Helds, tofoiming him that those receptacles for offenders were crowded beyond all precedent, many prisoners in each place being obliged to sleep at night in t h e open air, occupying the yards usually appropriated for their use for exercise during the day. He (Sir R. Thule) therefore hoped the men under Mr. Thomea's contrail would be instructed to bring u few charges forward as they could, consistently with the proper pee• fortune, of their duty. The charges were almost •ll of a very trivial nature, and but few were committed or decd. SCINTILLA. TOBACCO. Sublime Tobacco ! which, from East to West, Cheers the Tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand ; Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe ; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dreez Yet thy true lovers mom admire by far Thy naked beauties—Give me a cigar ! Lord Byron a The Island. OLD PARR.—It was the privile ge _ of Old Pan . to escape six times the infection of the plague. He was bom before_ plating came to be in vogue, and had lived 80 years befor e guns were fabricated in England. He wintered the first importation of busks, masks muffs, fans, and periwigs , for female use, all derived from Italy, but by the English borrowed from their French ndghboun. Although deprived of his sight, he retained his mental fumbles, more especially the shrewd ness of his apprehension, of which a curious instance is given by hi, biographer. Being desirous to renew the leased his house for the third time, for sixty years, for the benefit of his wife, who was about a c tn . tury younger than himself, be took occasion, when his landlord we.: coming to his house, to desire that a pin might be dropped on his sh oe; and scarcely bad the landlord to enter into conversation with him, than the wily old man exclaim 4 "Is not that a pin I see there ?" By which artifice he hoped to make the landlord - believe that h e Q . recovered his sight, and consequently was not unreasonable in demand. ing the renewal of his lase. A HINT TO MOTHERS.—AII young animals naturally delight to be In the open air and in perpetual motion : but we signify our disapprobation of this intention of Nature by confining our infants mostly in houses, and swathing them from the time they are born its tightly as possible. This natural instinct appears very strung when we see a child released from its confinement, in the short interval betwixt pulling Wits day loathes, and swathing it again before it is put to sleep. The evident tokens of delight which the little creature shows in recovering the free use of its limbs, and the strong reluctance it dis. covers to be again remitted to its bondage, one should think would strike conviction of the amity and absurdity of this practice into the most stupid of mankind.—Dr. Gregory's Comparative View qf the Faculties of Man with those of Ike Animal World. LEGAL DECISIONS.—" Reason is the life of the Law; nay, the Common Law itself is nothing else but reason."—lf a man rays et a Counsellor of Law ' " thou art a daffaalownsdilly," an action lies. So adjudged in Seacario and agreed per iota= aniata....l Pin. Ab. 448.—" He bath no more law than Mr. C.'s bull," these words being spoken of an attorney the Court inclined that they were actionable, and that the plaintiff should have judgment, though It was objected that the plaintiff had not declared that C. had a bull (Side:fin, 327, p 1 & Push. 19 Car. IL Baker v. Morfue.) The Chief Justice was of opinion that if C. had no bull the scandal was the greater. And it was pro. nounced per curiam in the same ease, that to say of a lawyer, " that he has no more law than a goose," has been aljudgedactionable.—Sid. 127, pL 8. There is a querre added , as to the sayin g , "H e b a t h no more law than the man in the moon " (ib. 2 Kib. 209); the law, doubtless, contemplating the possibility of there being a man iu the =lion, and of his being a good lawyer. DOCTER MARTIN LUTHER'S NOTIONS OP LOVE AND Moray ox.—Some one said to the Doctor that a very pretty girl had been given to an old widower, a aipple, and at the same time cross and avaricious, who had treated his former wife in the harshest manner. When he plagued ber more than usual she would say, se Can the Devil not get quit of you—if he had bad you as lon g i n h e ll he would have been sick of you." Then said Dr. Martian Luther, "GOD give her his blessing and this epithelia:ilium, that he may be as jealous of her as old men generally are of their wives. Ah ! dear Goa, what a grand but Musinular thing it is to love wife and children as we ought ! We can Mu a mistress easily enough, but a wedded wife not easily. It must be a very righteous man indeed who can love his wife, and a righteous woman who can sincerely love her husband and children. So completely has Satan got the better of Gon's ordinances, and extinguished all natural affection and love in us. For whatever we ought to do, that we are sure not to do. For Law excites dislike in us, even in worldly and temporal things. What we ought to do, it grieves us always to do, and we never do it without ill-wilL Were a man to be compelled by law to have a new bride every week, it would be insupportable to him, merely because the law commanded him. Thus we can be fond of any vile creature anemsbalg) but we cannot have the same love for a wedded wife."... Luau's Collwatia, f. SOIL DIRT.—The inhabitants of the northern extremities of Europe and Asia, the Esquimau:, and the people of Terra del Fuego, live entirely on flesh, and that often raw, and yet in strength, size, and courage, are far inferior to the rest of mankind. This proves that ani. mal diet does not necesearily confer moral and physical energy. Again, vegetable diet is not connected with weakness and cowardice. The Greeks and Romans subsisted chiefly on vegetable preparations, as a period when their valour and energy rendered them the terror and admi ration of surrounding nations. The Irish and Scotch, who me not weaker than ourselves, live chiefly on vegetable aliment. The Swedes under Gustavus and Charles were herbiverous and invincible. The ye. groes, distinguished for all kinds of physical energy, live chiefly in the mine way ; and so do the South Sea islanders, whose agility and strength were found infinitely to surpass those of our stoutest sailors.— On the other hand, the debilitating effects of animal food are altogether without foundation; there is not a vestige of evidence that any period ever existed when the whole human race abstained from flesh. and lived in a state of perfect innocence and profound repose. Look at the diet of that nation which has produced some of the most inundate names in the records of the human race, whether in literature, science. politi cal, civil, or military eminence , —the country of Shakspeare, Newton, Locke, and Milton. With such examples before us, it is monstrously absurd to assert that animal food is productive of any detrimental effect on the developement and powers of the human mind and body.— Griffides Translation of Cutder's Animal Kingdom. Kismo.—There is too much of kissing in the Comedies of the time of Moliere. The valets are always requesting kisses from the waiting-women; which is exceedingly flat and disagreeable, espe cially when the actors are ugly and must necessarily exhibit against the grain.—ln a chapter on Kissing by John de la Casa, Archbishop of Benevento, he says that people may kiss from the head to the foot. Be complains, however, of long noses, and recommends ladies who posses such to have lovers with shun ones. To kiss was the ordinary mantel of salutation throughout all antiquity. Plutarch relates, that the coo. spiraters, before they killed Cesar, kissed his face, his hands. and his bosom. It is horrible to betray while saluting : the assuainarion of Casa: Is thereby rendered much more odious. The kiss of Judas has become a proverb. Josh, one of the Captains of David, aid to him, Art thou in health, my brother ?" and took him by the beard with his right hand to kiss him, while with the other he drew his silent and smote him so that his bowels were " shed upon the ground." We know not of any kissing in the other assassinations so frequent ainong the Jews, except possibly the kisses given by Judith to the Captain Hob fawn, before she cut off his bend in bed ; but no mention is /nark of them, and therefore the fact is only to be regarded as probable. The first Christians, male and female, Wad with the mouth at their Agape or love-feasts. They bestowed the holy kiss, the kiss of peace, the Mo therly and sisterly kiss,—ogion Akins. This custom lasted for four centuries, and was finally abolished in distrust of the consequences. It is remarkable, that mankind and turtles and pigeons alone practice kiss. fog; hence the Latin word colatbatim, which our language mesa ea:dm—Philosophical Dictionary. GIBBON'S APPRECIATION OP HIS OWN CHARACTER. May Bth, 1782. This was my birth-day, on which I entered into the Nth year of my age. This gave me occasion to look a link fro myself, and consider impartially my good and bad qualities. It v eep:ll2:dt rt and a m : sagneaue bese uPim acdon, this form in i : o l e i l ety uiry for: getterou that ne m se y s g one ch l,:b ies t u e t r l th w i iii s r t t li W e r n S at :PM 4 vou in t . to cultivate, exurpate, or restrain, according to their different teorieuy , Wit I have none... - My imagination is rather straw than pleasing. 313 r memory both capacious and retentive. The shining qualities of my understanding are extensiveness and penetration; but I want both quick . nese and exactness."—Ectracted from his Annual. See Gibbon's ;tit. cellansons Works. BIRTHS. The 3d hut. at Richmond, Surrey. Mn. (lulchet, wife of H. Ow ehet, late of I'Ecola de Thole, of a daughter—The bth last. at Dalhatil, the lady of E. Pauli, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. The 4th lust. at All Saints, Poplar, Lieut. F. R. Coelho, R.N• Jane Monaurally daughter of L.Bealf, Esq. sorgeoo—Thedth lam at St. Alkuniturs Church, Derby, Mr. S. S. Woollatt, Holhors.ll Bl . to Elisabeth, only daughter of the late Mr. J.Woollatt, of flaky. oat Duffield, Derbyshire—Saturday, at Fawley, Northamptonshire , the Rev. A. Fawkes, to Miss E. Storey, second daughter of the Isle J. B. &orey, Esq. of Lockingtoo.hall, Lricesteraire—The Sfst nit. at &- Joliet, Hempstead, William, son of B. Brooks. Esq. of Lincoln's Inc. to Mule. widow of the late G. Rodd, Esq. DIED. The lit inst. Mrs. Lathes, Union.row, Peckham, aged 68 •••• The 2tl inst. Mr. J. Rymer, late of Fountain.court, Strand, in the 42d year of his sp.—The 4th inst. at Dover, R. Mush, Esq. in the (154 yesi of his age.—Tbe 4th inst. at Leamington, is the 61st year of his art HL Hored, of Waterloo-place, Pall.malL--The 4th inst. in ha 72ih year, J. Bartlett, Ea +of WielthW, Bracknell, Becks. --The sth inst. at ines Langky, Haw, T. Taney, Esq. erg 72.—Tke 17th oh. at Flotsam, H. D. Raba& Esq. aged LotiDos : ?tinted and Publisbed by Joint MATIfX, st*.elinge• Ounce, No. 1, Pieksa.plase. Temple Ns • a p I