Star. — London, England, 1826-07-11 00:00:00

OLD HEADS UPON YOUNG SHOULDERS. r•- 'ROM TRZ NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Upon one of my days of infant innocence I lined my cousin Proby's hat with birdlime, out of revenge, be - cause he had broken the central ornament in a string . of birds eggs; which, at that happy epoch of puerile simplicity, I had purloined from certain nests in Hadley grove. The poor lad found his beaver as immoveable as the plumed cap of the son of Maia ; and much hot water and many screams were expended before it could be disjointed from his head. My mother was seriously angry; but my poor aunt Proby, mother to the victim aforesaid, as gentle a being as ever suffered a family to run wild upon the common of their own inclinations, ex claimed, " Well, well, never mind! he meant no'harm there is no putting old heads on young shoulders!" My aunt's asseveration has, according to my subse quent •experience, been qualified by two exceptions the one corporeal, and the other mental. The Countess of has a pair of very juvenile-looking shoulders, with a very wrinkled head screwed upon their apex. If you walk behind her, she seems twenty-two; accost her, cis a nix, and she mounts to sixty. In that respect she is like the law—very well to follow, but very ill to confront. The mental exception is one Smedley Jones, lately an articled clerk to an attorney—l beg his par don, a solicitor—in Furnival'i Inn, Holborn.; but re cently out of his time, and therefore qualified to kill game upon his own account. He wears black half gaiters, and is a member of the Philonomic Society ; exhibits much wisdom, little whisker, and no shirt collar; simpers; makes a gentle bow at the close of every sentence, with his chin touching : his left collar,' bone; criticises the new law courts; wears lead-colounci gloves affects a beaver with a broad brim ; nods at the close of every sentence when the Court of Exchequer pronounces a judgment, by way of encoareging the three puisne barons; and carries his pantaloons to his tailor's in a blue bag that they may pass for briefs. There is a lame clerk in the Three Per Cent, Coastal Office at the Bank, with whom Smedley Jones appears to be on terms of considerable intimacy. Lather sus spect that the motive of this conjunction is that the litter may obtain private information with respect to certain funded property, appertaiaing to certain widows and maidens, his attention to whom rises and falls ac cordingly. It is an unquestionable fact, that whenever a young man rises, like Smedley Jones, upon his toes in walking ; waltzes with every thick-ankled girl, that would otherwise be a wall-flower for the whole even- Ing ; looks benevolently downward upon his own cheeks, sings a second at Church, and boasts of belong ing to no club, he may. to a certainty, be set down as one who means to let fly an arrow at Plutus through the Temple of Hymen. It is quite edifying to meet Smedley Jones at a din ner-party. The first thing he does, on entering the drawing-room, is to take up a book with an air of no common sagacity. If it happen to be Woodstock, he smiles with an aspect of compassionate disdain, and in forms the by-stander that he objects to historical novels, and he prefers going to the fountain-head in Lord Clarendon and Bishop Burnet. Upon the appearance of the mistress of the mansion, he takes a seat by her on the sofa ; but so near to its edge, that the slightest backward movement of that article of furniture wouhl seat him where he ought to be. He smooths down the sand-coloured hair of the matrons accompanying off spring with an air of ineffable interest; inquires after dear Charles : hopes to see sweet little Emma : and ejaculates, " Oh, pray now," when mamma expresses a, doubt as to her appearance. He then talks of the sea as beneficial to children, and recommends Worthing be cause it has no cliff. When dinner is announced, he looks sharply round for some female whose spine ra ther swerves from the perpendicular, aware that heiresses are seldom strait-backed; tucks her lean arm under his, and manoeuvres to sit next to her at table. Whilst in the act of descending the stairs, our proprietor of an old head upon young shoulders, takes due care that the tongue which vibrates in the mouth of it shall ejaculate, " What a capital house this is I" in accents sufficiently loud to be overheard by the master or mistress of the mansion. He dilutes his wine with water, to adapt it to his conversation; and enlarges upon the folly of the maxim, " a reformed rake makes the best husband." I beard him tell, nineteen times over, the anecdote of his uncle Major Flush, who thirty years back, at a dinner with Sir Phelim O'Four-bottle, poured his claret into his boots, aware that they would stand a soaking better than the coats of his stomach. - This gives Mr. Smedley .lotus an opportunity of observing how different things are at present; with an addition. that one glass of wine at dinner, and two after it, should never be exceeded by any man wko wishes to render himself acceptable to the Ladies. He belongs to a society for converting Captain Parry's Esquimau:, at the North Pole, from the errors of their ways. I have this fact from his own Mouth, having had the misfortune to sit next but one to him at dinner, at old Spinsuit's, the Chancery. barrister. The intervening individual was Miss Creek, of Upper Clapton, a white visaged personage, whom the above mentioned lame clerk, in the Three Per Cent. Office, has introduced to his acquaintance. I rather think Spinsuit has been instructed to peruse and settle their marriage articles. Miss Creek having retired with the rest of the Ladies, my left dank was cruelly exposed. The old headsman accordingly brought his juveolle left shoulder lot ward, and occupied the vacant seat.— Ile asked me if I did not think the Esquimaux at the North Pole, " dark heathens ;" I answered, not entirely so, because their whale blubber supplied them with oil for lamps. Mr. Smedley Jones stared at this, and added that his meaning was, that they were poor unen lightened wanderers. I rejoined, 44 True, but that's Apollo's fault r. Finding that he had a neighbour who was not to be dealt with nietaphorically, he changed his course, and began to dilale upon his family affairs, and informed me that his brother George was a clerk in the Post-office, where he expressed a hope that Mr. Freeliug wouldpash him. Finding, upoti inquiry, that his brother George lodged at the last house in Cecil street, which. overlooks the mud-bank of the river Thames. I answered, " I hope he will." I was then informed that Mr. Smedley Jones's brother Richard was a clerk in the brewhouse of Sweetwort and Com pany ; the junior partner of whicir establishment, " sitting under the same minister" at Haat" had ;mo ralised to push him. Finding that Sweetwort and Com p iny were celebrated for their large vat, I again said, " I hope they will," wh'ch procuted for me one of those amiable chia-dropping bows which I have already de picted. " For myself," continued my juvenile com panion with the antique bust, " I have a clerk who is a cousin to one of the judges, who goes the home circuit next assizes; he knows something cf the high sheriff. and that kind-hearted and noble personage (Nlr.Smedley Jones is not spm ing of. adjectives to benefactors in eisi or ex peso) has promised to puSh me"—" Neck and heels out of Court, into the High-ftereet," . "olPght "or his javelin-man will not be of 07 mind- * Capt. Srnithers, with a dull eye and a drawling voice, now altered his snuff-box to Mr. Smedley Jones ; this the latter declined, with another of those amiable bows t , ) which I have faintly endeavoured to do justice ; and turning to me; observed that snuff-taking was . a bad habit for a young man. "At all events r answered I. "he should wear a bad habit, or Scotch rappee will make it one." " Not but what I carry a box myself," continued Mr. Smedley Jones—with a look that be meant for arch—" here it is r so saying, he pulled out of his coat pocket an oblong box, with an amber lid. " May I perish," thought I, "if it does not come from Geneva,. We shall now be pestered with the regular orthodox series of quadrille tunes." When this machine had interrupted conversation for the usual period, and had "said its say," I was in hopes that we had done with it; "but, soft! by regular approach—not yet." It was again wound op, and again set a-going, to gra tify little Theobald Spinsuit, who had bolted into the dining-room in quest of an orange. These little attentions gratify mothers, and are apt to procUre the perpetrator a second invitation to dinner. . There new ensued a regular struggle between Mr. Smedley Jones's tongue and my taciturnity. He is one of those civil young men oho must speak to their neigh bours, whether they hive any thing to communicate or not. I was accordingly asked what I thought of the Catholic Qtrestion. I had entertained no thoughts upon the subject. "Indeed F' was the reply. The nest to terrogatory to which I was subjected, was " Who was the author of Junius?' 1 protested that I had never given the matter a moment's reflection. This, how ever, did not stop the subject, and I was condemned to listen to the usual harangue, with the words, " Sir Philip Francis, Lord Chatham, Lord Shelburn, bound copy at bankers, and tall man at letter boa", emphasized after the accustomed manner. Then followed the banking system of Scotland, the Rev. Edward Irving, (whose watch I fear is still in pawn), the death of the dowager Empress of Russia, Craneoscopy, and Tooke on Currency : all which topics were by me, jointly and severally, returned ignoramus. Mr. Smedley Jones's battery here suffered a momentary pause: whereupon " Thinks 1 to myself!" now for my turn. " Since Nature has clapped an old head upon his young shoul ders, Art shall insert a young head between my old ones. Fifty-one shall start the topics which twenty-one ought to have discussed. Accordingly I asked Mr. Smedley Jones, to his no small dismay, what he thought of Mrs. Hamby's Cherry Ripe and the Lover's Mistake•? I took it for granted that he had seen Paul Pry on horseback, at Astley's Amphitheatre. I animadverted upon Madame Pasta's Medea: was sorry that Signora Garcia had picked up a Yankee husband : mentioned that I had seen Sir Thomas Beevor add Cobbett, in St. Paul's Church-yard, in the characters of the Goose and' Gridiron : wondered why Potier came to the French theatre, in Tottenham -street; and asked him if he could tell me what had become of Delia? Nor did I not re gret that Miss M. Tree had changed her situation, and taken to enact plays at Florence, in lieu of operas at Covent Garden. It is thus that extremes produce each other. If twenty-one monopolizes all the sense at the dinner-table, fifty-one must take to the nonsense or hold Its tongue. 44 Sir," said the moralist of Bolt Court, upon an occasion somewhat similar, "be talked of the. origin of evil, whereupon I withdrew my attention, and thought of Tom Thumb." I fear that Smedley Jones has by this time become alusost as wearisome to the reader at second hand as be was originally to the writer. I shall therefore conclude, with this observation:— " All monsters ought to be smothered : and wherever Nature puts an old bead upon young shoulders, the sooner the one is knocked off the other the better." Mr. Green ascended with his balloon from Derby, on Wednesday last. The balloon was seen to pass over Eastwood, in a direction E. by N.E. and continued in view for nearly half an hour. Mr. Green descended near 011ert on. The amount paid as dudes on the French and East India silk manufactured goods is much less than was anticipated. On the first day the import was allowed (the 6th inst.) 70,000/. was paid for dutiei ; on Friday, only 10,0001. The amount on Saturday is said to have been inconsiderable. The Fe.rty-second Anniversary of that valuable In stitution of the Kent Dispensary, under the patronage of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kill; was cele brated at the Green Man Hotel, Blackheath, on Thurs day, the 6th inst. Sir E. KNATCHIVLL I Ban. M P. one of the Vice Presidents, in the chair. The dinner was served op in the best style, and the wines wete most excel lent. The only addition to the usual loyal toasts was a speedy recovery to his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, which was drank with sincerity from the hearts of all present. Mr. Egerton Smith, of Liverpool, has proposed a new species of life preserver for persons going to sea. It consists of a collar of curk, two inches thick, and 19 inches in diameter, with * hole in the middle, large enough to let the head pass through. The collar lies upon the shoulders, somewhat like a tippet, and is fast ened to the body by strings passing from back to front under the arms. Its weight was 2 pounds. " This collar," he says, " supported me without any exertion on my part, and with my arms entirely out of the water. A young Gentleman also hung upon me in the water, and the collar sustained us both, withoufmotion on our parts, either of the hands or lee ; and I have not a i doubt that a collar of similar thickness, and of two feet diameter, would keep afloat three persons. I found I could swim as quickly, and I thought even quicker, with the simple apparatus than without it ; nor is this at all improbable, as the weight of the body being neu tralized by the buoyancy of the cork, the whole exer tion of the arms is applied to propelling the swimmer forwards. It is also a very great advantage of this col lar, that it enables the wearer to lie on his back in the water, and thus shift his position, which, if he were sub-* jet to long immersion, would be of great consequence." An Inquest was on Siturday held at the Black Horse, Poplar, on the body of T. Martin, a seaman, who, it was reported, died in foonaecinense of a , blow received from die mate of the Lend Hunglrford East Indiaman ; but it appearing in evidence, that von after the deceased received the blow he drank a large quantity of Bengal rum, by which he became insensibly drunk, and died soon after being sent on slo e. The Jury therefore re turned a verdict. Died from . xcessive di inking. A convivial Baron of the Exchequer, the i ther day, in reply to are observation, " that a certain quantity of wine did nu harm," said.. NJ, it WAS an ancerthin quan tity did el the mischief." PCOC E. INTELLIGENCE. . r • "oills‘eir . • - MAIIET„ON-HOMIL` Mn roar and Zalliena gnat, ids wife,, were brought up for Anal exaolutation, charred with having written letters to Wm. Knott, the prisoner's brother, a Gentleman of great respeetaMilty, threat ening to charge him with a heinous offence, for the purpose of ex torting money from him. The female prisoner admitted that she wrote the letters at the desire of her husband. The Loan MATO& ordered her to be discharged, advising her not to molest any of the parties who bad appeared against her husband; which advice she faithfully promised to follow.—John Knott was fully committed, A young man of education. and address, named parr, was brought before* the LORD Mayas, charged with having, by false representations, obtained from Mr. Geroek, of Cornhill, the sum of 20.. besides eating and drinking for two days. The case, from the evidence, appeared to be as follows : Mr. Gilligan called upon Mr. Gerock, who is a musical instru ment maker, and said, ° I am the son of Mr. F.rrald, a Gentleman in Ireland, who does a great deal of business with you. Mr. Gerock, who had considerable pecuulary transactions with Mr. Errald, im mediately invited his supposed son to dinner; the invitation was accept:7d, and the prisoner - not only dined, but drank tea and supped with the prosecutor. The next day the prisoner was ' equally obliging, having caned at dinner-time, and stayed till supper was over. He added another obligation to ,that which , his company conferred upon Air. Oernek, by borrowing. U. from him ; he also began to pave the way for more serious contributions, by stating, that be had been paying off the sum of £6OO to Mru Clemetni, for his father. The suspicions of Mr. Gerock, however, were by this time strongly excited, for he had, in fact, been led to pay a marked attention to the man. ner in which his guest had cleared away every thing in the shape of food that was laid before him. An officer was procured, to whom the prisoner acknowledged that his name was Gilligan, and that he had no relationship to, or acquaintance with, the Gentleman whom he had called father. Te unfortunate prisoner declared that be was led into error by the mere force of starvation. He was a member of the medical profession, but be bad not eaten a bit for three days before he called upon Mr. Gerock. Mr. Gerock—Ay, ay, me Lor. He did eat much, vere much ; I thought I should never ha done helping um.—( Laughter.) 314 prisoner was remanded tiU Tuesday. GUILDHALL Mr. Gouge, a Paving Contractor. appeared on summons, for re pairing the carriage way on Fish-street-hill, lit the day time, con trary to the Sewers' Act, which provides, that such repairs in the leading thoroughfares shall be made after six in the evening, and before eight in the morning. The complaint was laid by Few, the Mambalnian ; but Mr. Akkermau Wood states that It originated with him. - Mr. Deputy Saunders said, the C.entmlasioners of Sewers of the district felt much aggrieved at the interference of the worthy Alder man. The law allowed titan to sanction the working by day where she case was urgent, and they had given suck sanction in the present Instance, because the lives of the persons passing over the pavement were in imminent danget. The defendant produced his written authority from Mr. Joyner and Mr. Gya; and Alderman Wood was disposed to withdraw his complaint, If the paviours would work through the night as well al day; but Mr. Alderman C. &MU said, the regulation was so salutary, that be would not surer it to be broken; and he lined Mr. Gouge IW. The Sne was paid. BOW.STREET. Yesterday two stout lads, named Rickard Ring and Wes. Sconsecil, were brought before Mr. HALLS, charged with being contented hs the following robbery and outrage : About three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, three youths, two of whose names were Britton and Hill, of respectable families, were passing nee a pump, in a street adjoining West/abater. Abbey, when some of the gang of 14 or 15 lads, ail of them known thieves, who were standing by the pump, threw water over them. Britton immediately went up to them, and asked what they meant by such conduct. and was almost instantly knocked down. His companions came to pick him up, when they were also knocked down, and &w -hinnied by the whole gang, who beat and hisked.sissen,and turned their pockets inside out. Hill was robbed et seven Arnim ; the ether two had put what money they bad into their fobs, and it was Sae found by the thieves. They were all three dreadfully beaten, and Hill had one of his eyes completely closed sp. The thieves ran air in different directions, but Ring was apprehended soon after by Goddard, a Patrol, in Be. James's Park. Scannell was taken hits custody yesterday by the same dicer. The two prisoners were positively sworn to as being concerned in the robbery, Ring having been seen to thrust his bands into Hill's trousers' pockets, and turn them inside out ! and Scannell to pick up part of the money and run away. The prisoners admitted that they but denied the robbery. They were committed for trial. in tbe " row," John OTellaghals, one of the seven millions of the 41 finest pea santry on earth,' lately arrived in St. Giles's from the County Li merick, with scarcely a rag, or, we should more truly say, with nothing but ran, to cover his dingy hide, was put to the bar, charged With being concerned, with another of his countrymen, with attempting so rob a Gentleman of his watch and its append ;ages. The prisoner kicked ups dreadful H bubbabubboo“ during the whole of his examination, and continually ejaculated "Oh, my Gos; ob, wicked perjury ; I'm kilt, dead, and burled," &c. ate. If was stated byT several witnesses, that on Saturday afternoon, an elderly Gtutlietan , of most respectable appearance, was °linseed, in a SUM of ktordeatioo, walking from Tottenham Court-road towards St. Giles's. When he get to the iron railings, near St. Giles 's Church, the prisoner and his companion went up to him, and each of them took hold of one of his arms, and dragged him along. On the way the prisoner attempted to seize the Gentle man's watch and seals • bur not being able to get the watch out of the fob, he and hi s companion dragged the Gentleman up a gateway. There they were in the act of taking his watch, Sm. when a Mr. Townshend, a cooper, residing in Broad -court, Bow. street, and others who bad watched their audacious conduct, went to the Gentleman's assistance, and asked the prisoner what right he had to act in the manner be had done? _ The prisoner replied," By •--! he's my uncle." The by-slanders laughed, and said it was impossible that so respectable a Gentleman could be the uncle of so dirty and ragged a fellow, and seised the prisoner. He fought hastily, and'almost strangled Mr. T.wa.bend, and also Raven, the patrol, who came up very opportunely to assist ha capturing him. The prisoner in his defence said, that he was innocent, and that the Gentleman really was his uncle; that he was acquainted with those who were acquainted with John Wilson Crater, Esq. if they did but know him (loud laughter). Mr. Rani asked the prisoner who his companion was ? Pri soner Oh! my Lord Judge, his name is Mister Lane, and he lives very convenient to this place. Mr. Hats: Whereabouts ?—Prisoner : Oh, faith, that I can't tell, nay Lord Judge. Raves, the patrol, said, that tlaelarisoner's companion escaped, and that during the bustle occasioned by the violent resistance of the prisoner, the old Gentleman walked away. Mr. iiAtia ordend the prisoner to be committed. M AR L BOR OU G H-STARET. AN/aßah Del Cardo, a tattooed young African, brought from Borneo, an interior Mutat* of Africa, was yesterday one of the complainants against Jake listeall, the son of a Russian cook, well known to have been in the service of Count lateen, the late Charge des Ataires and Minister Pknipmentiary of the last Autocrat, Alexander. Abdallah was been& over by Major Denham, in one of his travels, and placed in the house of Mr. Dimond, a pecruquier, in Old Burlington street. He speaks very little English, and that English very bad, and, unfortunately for him, be understauds it worse than he speaks. He goes to church In this country, it is true, but it is something in the nature of a father of his family, who makes it obligatory on 'the part of his little children and domestics always to attend a place of Divine worship on the Sabbath; the first go peferota, the latter often to display new ribands. When Roe asked him if he was a Chi istiaa, he replied, " ees ;" but when questioned as to his knowledge of an oath, he knew nothing about it, nor anything of a state of future rewards and punishments. He said he knew the Turkish language, end we understood him to be a ninssulman. To administer the oath, Mr. Hos endeavoured to extract from Abdailah the form of appeal practised by the peo ple of Brirnou, but his defective knowledge of the English tongue impelling him to a description in his native language, the Magis trate and all were left at their witi-end as to Its import. In the end, it was elicited from him, that to tell ahe was "bad." The assault he had to complain of was exhibited by gestures; he struck his own face and shoulders to show the process. Bruises, if he had any, were not visible; he was black before the assault, and no blacker now.— We believe this was taken as evidence of an assauk 1 Protestant and Catholic boot the office had, and so also the Old Testament in Hebrew, but the Koran was in rite v..cative ease—it was wanting. The two other complaints wire made by Air. Dimond, who stated that the rrisinsel assaulted him, and said " a ha (the prisoner) bad, Mis will. he would .pt the house as ire, and triuirpti in r% The &theta thlprisoner, °rho spoke very had Englid., . 0 d be paid 70t. premium to Mr. Dimond, as an apprentice fee, and ttat his son was an treated in the way he ousht to septet fur Atm ainsideradea. Mr. Mee ordered the prisoner to end bail. A Mr. Broughton, of Kenton-itreet, Brunswiek.square, spynell to the Magistrates Wilds office, on Friday last, for a warrantagainse i a Mr. Barclay, a close neighbourof his, who, he stated, was amulet'', 1 , all the morale& to the great dancer and annoyance of his rs, with flint *tole loaded with ball, at a mark which be xed to a wa il coonected with hi e ( t h e complainant's) pro- Felß at Mims He also stated, that when requested to desist, Mr. Barclay Nang to do so, and said he should condiment amuse himself as he *Oen 6t. The Magistrate (Mr. Lento) refused to grant a war t* under the circumstances, but consented to Issue a stuntman* florae attendance of Mr. Barclay, who, together with site awn. pliant, came before Ike Magistrates this day. The complainact, . edie was evidently an exceedingly nervous and timid Gentleman, . repined his charge, and dwelt on the danger to which the neigh. bourbood was exposed if Mr. Barclay's practice-of shooting *kb pistols loaded with bail were persisted in. Mr. Barclay, in reply, simply stated, that having had the misfortune to own a dog, winds he had reason to believe was mad, he caused the animal to he re moved to the rear of his house for the purpose of destroying him, and. that the reports of the shots which be bred to effect this object were the sole cause of Mr. Broughton's alarm. He also asltled, den for the Ipt 15 years be had never fired a shot, and but for the cir cumstance which he stated the period would must likely have ex tended to the end of his life. Under these circumstances, the Ma. gistrate dismissed the complaint, observing that if Mr. Broughton wished, he could indict Mr. Barclay at the Quarter Sessions. Mr. Broughton, who seemed to feel a rabid horror at the sight of deadly iustruments, and whose dislike to gunpowder was equally apparent, declared his intention to publish the whole business in the newspapers, and to carry it to the Quarter Sessions if it cost him 101 MARY-LA-BONNE. Mrs. Sarah Anne Liddle, of Duke -street, Portland-place. pulled by her daighter Clara, about 17 years of age, applied alb. Itawunson for advice under the following circumstances: • She stated that her daughter had been married clandestinely, ahout two years since, to a person of the name of James Balfour. His treatment towards her was very bad. Under the preter..e of religious scruples, or some ridiculous system of philosophy, be lived wholly upon vegetable diet ; and obliged his wife to adhere to the same regimen, contrary to her wishes, and to the injury of her coo. stitution. Mr. 'Civets:non asked what business the strange man followed? Mrs. Liddle—A Methodist, a vegetable eater, a Jumper, and a— Mr. Rammer= said that that was sufficient ; but he sh ould like to hear about the marriage from the young Lady herself. The daughter said, that James Balfour came accidentally into the same pew where she bad been, in the Dissenters' Chapel, in Hyde street, at evening service, last Good Friday three years. He was attentive to her, gave her a hymn-book, and joined her in the psalm-singing. He appeared so pious that she was quite Wilted. He took ease to renew the acquaintance at the neat meeting, and followed her home every Sunday. She told her mother of the at tentions of the pious man; but the mother did not think the age of ' &sateen was a proper time for her to form an alliance with a man advanced in years • she was therefore sent to school for tw e l ve months more, it b eing the intention of her mother to send leer to France, after that, to fattish her edneation. Balfour. discovered the intentions of her mother; and, a short time after she left school, be prevailed ember to go with him to see some of his friends. She went with him to St. Giles's Church, where bans had been published, and everything prepared for their marriage.— The ceremony was performed; bit she did not understand it, as she expected to be left with her moth e r instil the age of It. ler mother was incensed at the trick. Mrs. Lidile.—h was not a lawful marriage, only a kind of spi. ritual one--a sort of infatuation that the girl could not rritt. lie had no regular employment since to support a wife. 11, xas mariner at one time, a finisher of ladies boots at another time, and then a dealer in .He starved the poor girl with his vegetable philosophy, and to reconcile her to it, by saying it was all in uledienas to thy pure workings of the spirit. She went about six weeks ago to see her daughter at Waiwortb, and found her, in appearance, like a spectra She brought her home ; but the husband followed her, and insisted upon taking her back, to which she would not consent. Mr. Lamaism did not think the marriage valid-..hut that was a subject for the consideration of Donors' C0U11139111. He would advise Mn. Liadie to keep her daughter at borne, and set Balfour• at defiance; and should be gh‘t them any annoyance, she should 1 1 get pruteatho from that aim • Hr. Beckwith, matchmaker in the Commercial road, was ordered to find bail for assaulting Edward Forster, who was passing in front of defendant's house on Saturday night, when he 'misted he should not pass that way ) and on complainant remonstrating, defendant knocked him down and bit him in the fleshy part of the thigh ; and also for assaulting tie patrol, into whose charge be was given. It has been sometimes thought that glass can be penetrated by water. Mr. CAMPBELL verifi d t'ie fact in his ►oyage to the South of Airica. He lal two spherical bottles, hermetically sealed, which he sunk in the sea. to the depth of 1,200 feet, by attaching sufficient weight of lead. When he wanted to bring them up again, ten men were employed in the opera. tion for a (maw of an hour. The two bottles came up full of water, which the enormous pressure of the liquid had forced through the glass.—Revue Eacyelop. - MARRIED. On Tuesday, the 4th itartsot, at St. Philip'., Liverpool, John Price, Esq. of Chester, to Matilda, daughter of the late John Wright, Est of Liverpool. DIED. At the Royal Arsenal,• Woolivkli, on Sunday sennight, Miss Jane Dickson, aged twenty•three years, eldest daughter of Colour! Sir Alexander Dickson, of the Royal Artillery, Aid-do-Camp to his Majesty. Friday ae'nnight, at his house, Little Ilallingbary, Rases, in his 75th year, Francis Horsley, Req. late of Bengal. NEWOATE Awn LBADENIIALL MARKETS, 4tuor 10. Beef... 3s 44 to 4s 441 Veal Mutton ........3s 04 to 4s 04 1 Pork 3s 04.1 to 4s 4d lamb 4s 44,t0 54 44. tICES or HAY AND IT. JAMS'S. w YF.STIAItbA - WM MECO ATM ' • Hay 31 les co . 51 Clover 41 lth to 61 94 ad Straw Il 16. to 21 0. oJ OF HOPS Hay 41 Os 04 to 61 Us Od Owes it Os 04 to II 11. 04 &raw 1114 s 64 to 21 os 04 PLUCK •itt# IPOCIEZTS. PIW 14104. Kent 2lOl to 2400 , Kent --- 189 , to no. Susses Essex Farnham fine 300. to 3400—lieconds. 210. to 360* . PRICE OF LEATHER. Ben Dressing Hides l3d to 154 Common Ditto lsd to 19d Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting Ditto 45 to 501bs .. . . 154 to lied Calf Skins, 56 to 401bs led to 244 Ditto 50 to 701bs Ditto 70 to Blebs Small Seals, Greenland). . . .. Tanned Hone Hides 124 to 144 Spanish Hone Hides led to 164 COAL MARKET. JULY 10. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. 42i Newcastle 27* 6 Ssndesland 6 Price. 261 Od to 376 5d 54$ 6d to 31$ Ott ,ILS -THIS DAY • 011. 1 0 1, . 0 Trani c Ham:wrch MIS. eve. 1 (1 0 1 Dublin atertbsd aileron/es aad Jersey 0 0 I Flanders o I,4song. o I Brazil 0 O 3 Jamaica o 0 O 0 Demos Ayres 0 G O 0 America 0 Gotteaburgb Malta Holland HIGH-WATER at 1140NDON-BRIDOZ As. Patty Morning. Wildman after 6 Afternoon 6 minutes after 9 liCißlice/TiilkfdTg. - Cf. KEA r.v , at Me Sma Vtrsh, No. I, rickele-Ftsct, Tearp:raar. y 0