Star. — London, England, 1830-09-29 00:00:00

I I ' l. r i .`i ' ;, j• • N FLOODS, AND THE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND. llee crop of barley, if well secured, is likely to he full as to quantity, lsw the absence of solar heat will probably be felt in an inferior pre pare:net of saccharine matter. Oats are bulky, but many of them very lest:, particularly in the higher districts, where early frost was severely felt. Pease promise tolerably well. Beans, though bulky, are ill podded. Poe.:tnes :i. t ve a goad a pp earance on d r y ;oils. Early sown turnips, on wali-prepared soils, are good ; the later sown are proportionally behind in ott.ting. The fallow, arc generally well forward, and the progress of whc;.: sowing about to commence.—lnverness Courier. It is W. beyond a doubt that the wheat crop in this neighbourhood, both in the canes and dryfield, will be much beyond an average crop. In thrashing, we understand, the pickles, owing to the rain, and want of vityrkine, are much shrunk, and that many crops, which in the straw look.%) uncommonly strong. turn out very ill on the barn floor. Beans are even much more deficient in quantity—few crops averaging more than horn three to rive bolls per acre, instead of six or seven. Barley is not nearly an deficient. In fact, oats are the only species of grain which will this au:um:; bear a comparison with former years.—Stir. Loy Juts enal. fkluging rains have fallen during the put night and most of this dad. The Tay and the Earn have been swollen almost to the extent of atrter floods. and quantities of cut corn have been occasionally floating down the current. The prospect is discouraging. In the more fertile and favourably exposed valleys of this county the harvest work is nearly tiouned ; but in the colder soils, and in the hilly districts, where bar. ley and oats are chiefly cultivated, considerably more than one half of the crops is yet standing. The quality of the grain is generally good; Cut it is only a speedy and favourable change of the weather that as Eon rve it so.—Perth Courier, Thursday. Of the general results of crop of 1830, it may be too early yet to speak ; but from the inquiries we have made in the most intelligent quarters, we feel strongly prompted to report as follows :—Wheat rather cutler an average crop ; quality various according to the soil and situa tion, but by no means superior on the whole. Barley a fair average crop ; straw clean, grain pretty plump, and likely to meal and weigh well. Oats considerably above an average crop. On this head we may add that an extensive shipper of our acquaintance has given bit as his opinion that slumbering wheat, oats, and barley, the return for the whole of Dumfrieshire will not be under the e.—Ditntfiies Courier. 1 NVllll,l29B.—Altbough no rain tell in this quarter on Wednesday evening, there was a great deal of lightning, and the gloomy appearance of the clouds indicated an overcharged atmosphere. Between seven and eight o'clock on Thursday morning the rain commenced, and until the afternoon fell in torrents. The water rushed through our ,streets in co. pious streams, and the rivulets in the neighbourhood were in a few hours much swollen. The mail due that night at ten o'clock did not arrive till seven next morning, having been detained at Forms, as it was impossible to pass to Findhorn. The Duke coach was also stopped on the and the Star on the north side of the river. The Spey overflowed its banks in various places, carrying along with it trees, soil, and great quantities of corn. The Garry had done great injury, and several fer tile fields on the banks of the Beauly, Conon, and other rivers in Ross shire, have sufferial severely. The Findhorn and the burn of Force s , covered some fields in the neighbourhood of the town, and left quanti ties of sand among the cam. The Lossie came down in a torrent, and spread itself over afield at Newmilla, but the crop had fortunately been cut and stalked, so that it suffered comparatively little injury. The Nairn swept so clean, and rendered the fields, on its banks so totally useless in August, that although it left its channels in various places, the damage is not so great as might be imagined. In many places the oats, wheat, and barley, which promised a rich harvest, have been flat tened to the ground, and can scarcely be expected to recover. Potatoes, turni2s, &c. have also suffered mach. The loss is altogether consider ? ble.— Inverness Journal. ABERDEEN.—A similar deluge of rain, accompanied by a violent ale from S. B. to W. took place here on Thursday, by which the rivers were very much swollen, and a considerable quantity of corn was swept of the low grounds, pal tieularly on Deeside. Again on Sunday the rain fell in torrents over all this district, by which much injury was Ilene to the standing corn, succeeded as it was by a perfect hurricane, which sprung up on the night between Sunday and Monday, and con tinued during the whole of the Litter day, twisting, entangling, and shaking the crop to a great degree. Of the violence of this gale some idea may be formed, when we state that two of the beautiful old trees in St. Nicholas Church-yard were torn up by the roots, and others so much shaken that it has been found necessary to cut them down. These trees were planted about the era of Culloden. Baarsr, SEpt.—While we notice with much pleasure the unusual r.bundance of the crop, and the activity of the farmers in the neighbour. head of Banff, we 'egret the frequent interruption the labours of the i'arvest met with from the inconstancy and violence of the weather. The late rains not only put a stop to the labours of the husbandman for the time, but we fear have also materially injured the green corn, and laid rr:d warped the crops in general, and retarded tilling. On Monday morning last, the appearance of the sky was very gloomy and threaten. ing, with the wind from the east and the barometer, which has been falling for some days previous, stood at 29.9. The rain began to fall about eight o'clock, anti continued to do so heavily till about twelve, whemthe wind veered round to the west, and both the wind and rain by that time had increased to a most violent storm. By two o'clock, the barometer having fallen to 28.3 b. considerable alarm was entertained that the strength of the tempest was yet to come : soon after, however, the barometer began to rice, anti towards evening the weather became tolerably quiet. Thursday proved mild and pleasant, and on Friday a good deal of corn was found fit for the stack-yard ; and should the weather continue good for a short time only, a large portion of this abundant crop may be expected to be safely lodged for use, and the poor may look for cheap meal.—Aberdeen Journal. STIRLING.—We tegret to state that the unfavourable state of the weather, mentioned in our last, has nowise improved. We have had much rain, and the rivers and streams in the neighbourhood love in some places overflowed their banks, anti done injury to the crops ; yet the flood has not been so great in this quarter as on the 17th or July last. At that period the Teich rose six inches higher than on Sunday and 'Aloralay last. Tne Allan was also higher, but we cannot exactly say how much. During one or two days much anxiety was felt lest the coffer-dam erected for the new bridge should yield to the im mense body of water pressing upon it. It has, however, stood firm, al. though at one time a great portion of it was several inches under water. The flood must prove some interruption to the Contractor's operations, as the dam is now full of water, which must occasion tome delay and labour before it can be removed—Stirling Ailrerliser. MACHINERY.—The parts of the country which have flourished most, and where the population has increased most rapidly, have been those which possessed the greatest quantity of machinery. What were Manchester. Bolton, Preston, Blackburn, Ashton, Stock port, Leeds, Iluddersfield,Bradford, Nottingham, Glasgow, and Paisley, previous to the application of the mechanical powers to the fabrication of cottons, woollens, stuffs, and hoisery ? The inventions of Arkwtight alone have given employment, directly or indirectly—either in the actual fabrication of cotton goods, the production of the raw material from which they are formed, the conveyance of it from foreign countries, the sale of it in this, or the construction of the beautiful, complex, and ex pensive machines with which it is fabricated—to millions of persona. The improvements in the woollen manufacture have been scarcely less important or valuable, and the application of improved machinery to the silk Rade, promises to give us the same superiority in that as we possess in other branches of industry, in spite of foreign com petition, and the manifold offences of Mr. Hnskisson.—Liverpool Tines. REDUCED PRICE OF PORTER,-.-On Friday and Satur day last, several of the publicans in the Borough, Lambeth, and indeed in varinus parts of the town, anticipating the opposition they are likely to meet with after the 10th of next month, when the new Beer Act comes into operation, crlmmer.ced selling their porter at 3d. per quart. Yes terday a great tna:.y of the licensed victuallers thtoug'nout the metropolis followed the example, selliog the porter at 3d. per pot, and we have no doubt that tad;,}, few publicans within the weekly bills will charge more than dint price.. The Honourable Society of Templara are, with a taste and spirit worthy of them, greatly improving and embellishing the Temple. A capacious sewer, extending from the Thames to the Strand, is now being formed. A new Exchequer-office, elegantly faced with Portland -stone, has just been externally completed, and a handsome, eulptantial, and lofty range of chambers is being erected at the south end of Mitre-court. An addition of about twelve feet in length and brsmlth, fae.ll with store, and ornamented with chastely executed Gothic windows, is also being made to the east end and southeast side of :11iddie Temp twin which a new and corresponding range of buildings extends towards the river. Throughout the entire of these new works nothing but compost is used for uniting the bricks and their whole aprenTance evinces the regard to comfort, taste, and durability, with which they arc being constructed. On Sunday afternoon three respectable-looking individuals, in a state of intoxication, were riding along George-street, St. Giles's, when one of them, who was mounted on a tine mare, perceiving some young womee standing on a cellar-flap. rode in among them. Imme diately the flap yielding, both the mare and rider were precipitated to the bottom of the cellar. Police serjeant Palmer. of the E division, who witnessed the occurrence, hastily descended into the cellar, and was just in time to rescue the rider front the trampling of the hoofs of the affrighted animal. The body of Mr. Edwards, of Fleet -street, hatter, who was drowned last !Huntley week, while crossing from Harwich to Ips wieh,with his wife anti the boatnian,wasdiscoverad floating nearLivingwn county of Suffolk, and was brought on shore, as was also the body of the boatman, near the same spot where the ill-fated Mrs. Edwards was found. An inquest was held on their bodies, when the Jury, who had no alternative left, all the parties in the beat having perished, returned a verdict of " Accidentally drowned, in consequence of the overturning of the boat, occasioned by tempestuous weather." The bodies of Mr. and Mrs.P.dwards arrived in town last night, and wsre conveyed to their late residence in Fleet-street. PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE Rumours have been circulated in Essex and elsewhere of the death of Mr. Weston, the member for that county. Such reports, we are requested to state, are wholly without foundation, as that gen tleman is now at Buxton, enjoying perfect health. A charge has been preferred at the Horse Guards against a commanding officer of a regiment on the Irish station, for applying public money to his private use, for encouraging his officers to gamble, and for making, as president of the mess coMmittee, an extraordinary demand for wine.—Cork Constitution. A serious accident befell Grenville Pigot, Esq. M.P. while Fhooting, on Monday last, with his Grace the Duke of Bucking ham near Stowe. Having cocked both barrels of his gun, and dis charged one of them, he incautiously rammed in a fresh charge without securing the other barrel by half-cockino it. The impulse given to the gun in loading with stiff wadding, discharged the contents through the right hand and wrist, and so mutilated it as to render immediate amputation of the band indispensably necessar y . —ittradins Mercury. As a fine team of four oxen belong ing to Messrs. Rose vear and Sloggatt, of Bocastle, were drawing, on their farm, a load of stones from a field adjoining the ground being slippery from the rain, the cattle were unable to prevent the carriage from going backward down the descent an which they were moving, and after a severe snug gle the whole fell over the precipice—.a depth of 50 feet—and were dashedl to pieces I A very handsome young horse was purchased a few days ago, by Mr. B. Badger, auctioneer, Rotherham, weighing I,ooBlb. at 6d per lb. This is the first time that we have heard of a horse being sold by weight.—Country Paper. A girl, ten years of age, daughter of a seaman named Goodling, belonging to the Preventive Service, at Port Wrinkle, poi soned herself with laudanum a few days ago, in consequence of having been ordered to wear her every day clothes on a Sunday, as a punish ment for having displeased her father. There have been some most tumultuous proceedings lately in different parts of the county of Kent, in consequence of the feeling of the agricultural classes against the thrashing machines of the farmers. One day last week a body of men, about 200 in num. bet, attacked the residence of several gentlemen in the country, broke into the barns, 'and destroyed the thrashing machines wherever they found them. A meeting of Magistrates and Gentlemen of the county has been held, to devise the best means of checking this bad spirit ; the consequence of which was, that a number of special constables were called in, and a reward of 5001.• has been offered to any person whose information may lead to a conviction of the instigators of these dis turbances. _ _ A serious affray took place last Saturday evening, about half-put eight o'clock, at the Blue Bell, St. Mary-street, between a party of the 47th Regiment and the Royal Marines. How, or with whom it originated, it is difficult to determine, but we understand that one of the 47th Regiment ran to his barracks, which are not more than 100 yards from the public-house in question, for a reinforcement, and in the course of three or four minutes 40 or 50 of his comrades rushed to the scene of action, when the door was bolted and the lights min guished, and had it not been for the timely arrival and inteference of a picquet, aided by some non-commissioned officers of the 47th Regiment, who were promptly on the spot, lives most probably would have been lost; as it was, four or five of the Marines were wounded, and 004 of them is now in the Infirmary with three or four bayonet wounds about the head—Portsmouth Herald. We have just heard of the shocking death of a young lady 'residing in Salford, from that most horrible disorder—hydrophobia.' , From three to four months ago Miss 11I'Clure, one of two very respect. able young ladies, sisters, who keep a school near the Regent.bridge, on the Eccles new road, was bitten in the leg by a dog belonging to a neighbour, at whose house she was about to call, which was subse quently suspected to be mad, and was consequently destroyed. Miss kl'Clure's wound, which was but a slight one, was cauterised by a sur geon in the neighbourhood, and it healed; and as no symptoms of illness chewed themselves, the fears of herself and friends were much alleviated. On Wednesday afternoon, however, while taking her tea, alarming symp• toms of hydrophobia began to exhibit themselves. Surgical and medical aid were immediately procured; but notwithstanding every exertion, the disorder rapidly gained ground upon the unfortunate lady, and yes terday, about noon, she expired, after suffering dreadful agonies . Manchester Guar dian. _ _ _ Thursday night, an elderly man of the name of Wintle, in independent circumstances, residing at Montpelier, met his death in a very suspicious manner. We understand that his wife and a female servant went out together in the afternoon, and returned about eight o'clock, when they were both very much intoxicated. A quarrel soon after took place, and the servant was heard to cry " Murder !" She afterwards came out of the house, and entreated some of the neighbours to go in. On their doing so, her muter was found dead in the passige. His face was very much bruised; and the servant accused her mistress of having killed him with a poker. They were both taken into cus tody, together with William Lowe, who lodged in the house, and were all committed to lawford's.gate prison, for further examination. —Bath Journal. A meeting of the inhabitants of this town is to be held at the Broad Face Inn, on Tuesday evening next, at 7 o'clock, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for a re peal of the most obnoxious and oppressive duties on houses, windows, and servants. Our great Creaaar, when all was without form, and void, said, " Let there be light, and there was light," while the enact ments of modern legislation exclaim, " Let there boa tax, or no light." The deficiency which such a partial repeal would create, appears from Parliamentary returns to be as follows : Duty on inhabited houses, 1,295,9721. ditto on windows, 1,164,3541. ditto on servants, MAUL or about two millions and three quarters. It is but fair to place splint this deficiency, the spur which industry would receive from the mea sure; the vast increase in the employment of shipping; the extra du ties on the importation of Baltic timber, and from our Canadian cola Dies ; the great additional demand for t hat heavily taxed article glass, for bricks and tiles; the extra consumption of iron and every other arti cle for building, and the supply of employment for the working classes, advantages which would compensate for the loss to the Treasury. Let us trust that a powerful and combined effort will be made by the pa. risbes in the kingdom to relieve the poor man of an injurious tax, and the trading community of 1111 impost which presets upon them with great severity. From a survey made this week, there are nearly 100 houses in this town now void, which tenanted would be liable to these taxes.— Reading Mercury. At our fair on Tuesday, 500 tons of cheese were pitched, being about 50 tons more than last year. The prime dairies were chiefly sold before the evening ; and although there was a considerable quantity on the ground the next day, it consisted of parcels in the bands of factors, who refused to sell at less price than the previous day's rates. On the average, prices may be stated front 2s. to 3s. per cwt. cheaper than last year. We note North Wilts from 40s. to 50s. loaf, 62.. thin, 355. 395. to 425. old, 50s. to 545. Somerset, 435. to 50s. old, 60s. 655. to 68s. These were the prices of cheese in the fair; of COWSe the select dairies, which are always taken by various shopkeepers in the town, rate a few shillings higher. The show of nag hones was very inferior ; there were some fine cart hones, which sold at high prices to some London dealers. We had a short supply of cattle, and in ge neral a very rough lot ; the few good mulch cows sold readily, but the inferior were heavy in disposal and cheap, several yearlings in calf not making more than 31. to 31. 3s. per bad; and the general run of the fair may be stated at 10s. per head lower than at Barnet.—lbid. STATE OF TRADE.—We have little to add to our former reports on the state of trade in Yorkshire except a new authority, whose confirmation of our reports wane not leis inclined to insert because our contemporary has often been at issue with us on the subject:—" We are happy to announce, upon good authority, that the stuff trade of Bradford and the neighbourhood is now in so satisfactory a state, that the working classes are fully employed on improved wages. The price of stuffs and worsted goods generally have been advancing for some time past." " Huddersfield.--There is still a greater demand in the market than can be supplied for low goods, such as broad cloths up to Os. 6d. to fa. a yard, the scarcity of which is likely to continue, as the wools of which they are made can hardly be met with at all, even at a consi derable advance upon the prices paid for them a few months ago. The wool trade is brisk, and the prices firm. The importations are now more free from the Continent—Leeds Imelliyencer. THE WE•THER AND THE HArtvEsT.—The equiuoxid tide has overtaken us, and still a very large proportion of the harvest north of a line drawn across the country, from the Alersey to the Hum. ber, remains in the fields—one-half at least ! The weather continues un. settled, scarcely a day passing without rain, and the corn that is ga. thered under these circumstances must be in a damp state. Though the weather has not been hot, the occasional gleams of sun after the rain, and the protracted harvest, have produced already a good deal of sprouted corn, which is daily increasing. In the midland and southern counties the crops have been generally well secured, and the supply is rather above than below en average. In Ireland the crops are not more titan half gathered, and the wheat is below an average. On the whole, we fear that a considerable importation of corn will be necessary to sup ply the deficiency of those islands during the ensuing year. We are always reluctant to speak upon subjects of this nature in a tone of de spondency. but we are still more reluctant to conceal front the (lovers. meat, or the public, the true situation of the country, so far as concerns its future supply of food.—Leeds Mercury. FAT•L ACCIDENT.-011 the morning of Friday last a scaffolding, on which five masons were at work, near the top of a house building tor B. Lyne, Esq. at the eastern entrance of the borough of' , Liskeard, gave way, and three of the men, with the stones, etc. were precipitated to the ground. One of them, named Boswathlek, was killed on the spot, by the stones falling on him ; another, named Beal, lies dangerously 111, through the injuries he has received ; the third es. caprd without any serious injury. The other two men threw them selves on the wall, on finding the scaffolding giving way, and thus es.' caped. It is singular that the sister of the man that was killed dreamt the night preceding that some accident had befallen her brother.— West Briton. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Tuesday, Sept. 28. Thomas Tovey, late of Cheltenham, Glocestershire, collector of the paving and watch-rates, was opposed by Mr. Coozx on behalf of the Commissioners of Cheltenham, by Edmund Lambe rt Newman, clerk to the Commissioners, appointed under the Aets of the let and itd of George IV. Mr.WOOD/OrTE supported the insolvent. From the examination of the insolvent by the learned gentleman (Mr. Cooke,) it appeared that he had been collector of the rates since 1821, during which period he bad become deficient in his accounts to the amount of 7001. and not being in a condition to pay the ba lance, they /the commissioners) had soused a detainer to be lodged against him for 5001 previous to which, on the 27th of June last, he rendered in discharge of his bail, in an action upon which he had been originally arrested. The commissioners, it seems, are required by the above recited acts to audit their accounts periodically, whereby they are the better enabledi to check the collector of rates ; but in the case of this insolvent, notwithstanding the powers given them, they had suffered the insolvent, from time to time, to collect monies, and apply the old rates in liquidation of the new. The last audit made by the insolvent was in 1830, when it was discovered that he was a defaulter to that amount. It also appeared that he had entered in his collecting book the names of several persons as defaulter', whom a person of the name of Russell proved by the insolvent's rate-book and receips in the handwriting of himself, his son, and a person of the name of Malley, had discharged all claims upon them. Mr. WOODROFtE, on the part of his client, said that the Commis sioners had proceeded against one of the insolvent's bondsmen (Tanner) for 5001. and that he had returned 5001. debts on his schedule which were due to him from the persons for whom he had become liable to the Commissioners, who if they had done their duty would not have suf fered the insolvent from year to year to have made default in the way he bad dope. Mr. Coosa, in a short address to the Court, contended.. that the in. solvent had been guilty of a direct fraud, and that he had made out a ease of embezzlement against him. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS, in pronouncing the judgment of the Court, said, that there was no doubt but that the insolvent had been guilty of a gross breech of trust. The Court, however, could not shut its eyes against the manner in which the Commiedoners bad suffered the insolvent's accounts for so long • period to go in wear : and the ease might be of some consequence to the Commissioners of Chel tenham hereafter, not only in auditing their accounts regularly, but in taking better security in future, as it 'appeared that one of the bondsmen had become bankrupt, and the other (Mr. Tanner,) whom an action had been brought, had not paid the penalty. a ri a t i :s t false that the insolvent had 5001. due to Mtn from persons liable to the payment of the rates, for he perceived upon looking over the insol vag's schedule, that no less than 3701. had no connection whatever with that sum. He would not, however, go the full length of the penal clause of the Act oftarliament, but he considered the insolvent merited a severe lent and adjudged him to 12 months' imprisonment from the time of filing his petition, at the suit of the clerk of the commis sioners under the Act of Parliament. POLICE REPORTS. Mansiox.HormE.—Arc IRISH DESEILTEIL-41 corporal of the Guards stationed at the Tower brought before the Lord Mayor an Irishman, who had the appearance of a wive, for having committed the offence of deserting from the 15th Regiment of Foot. The corporal stated that the prisoner had called at the Tower, and mentioned that he came to resigo himself as a deserta from the 18th Infantry. Witness had orders to take him before the Lord Mayor. The Loan 51•Toa wished for a little more information ; but the corporal had received his laconic instructions, and knew no more than he had already stated. Why, to say the truth, said his Lordship, I do not think it probable that this bog.trotting-looking follow could ever have been in a regular regiment. Only look at him, and tell me what regiment would have him ? (laughter.) The corporal turned about his head, but he turned about his body at the same time, and looked at the deserter from top to toe He then turned round as mechanically to the Lord Mayor, and said, I don't think, my Lord, that he would answer us; I fancy we would not have him, please your Lordship: (loud laughter.) The deserter was standing in a very unmilitary position during the examination : he was scratching his bead with one hand, while with the other he was preventing a pair of breeches, which were never made for a man of his size, from falling over his hips. Please your Honour, said he, it's a good while ago that I was serving his Majesty ; it's as good as eleven years ago that I belonged to the 15th Regiment of Foot, and I cut away from them from the depot at the Isle of Wight. By this time the corporal had relaxed considerably from his discipli. narian appearance, and his prisoner was still removing the uneasy sen sation in his head, when The LORD MAYOR cried out suddenly, in a loud voice, " Atten. tion r The corporal instantly started up erect, and threw down his hands to his sides, but the Irish soldier kept his body and hands in the favourite position, showing a total disregard for the word of command and well it was that he had no accurate recollection of it, for if he had obeyed the order, his nether garment must certainly have dropped to his heels. Now, said his Lordship, I cannot credit you in what you ay; it is impossible that you could ever have belonged to the regular service. The Deserter..-Why then, upon my sowl, your Honor, I did, but I went into the t'other service after 1 cut and run. The LORD MAYOI/.—lnto what service did you go then ? Deserter—l tuck it into my head to be a sailor then, my Lord, and Bo I went aboord of a ship. Mr. Nobler said he did not believe that the prisoner was, or bad been, a military man. It was probable that the man had pretended that he was what he was Dot, in order to obtain for some time the support of which he might be in want. Pray, said the LORD MAYOR, how old are you? The deserter re. plied that he was just 39 years old ; but the hand of disease, or some other calamity, must have been heavily laid upon hint, for a stronger contrast could not have been exhibited to the figure and countenance of the fine young man who had conducted him before the Lord Mayor. The LORD MAYOR told the corporal that he should detain the pri. toner for a few days, and if the officers at the Tower should think it worth their while to come forward and make any charge, they might do so, but if they should deem it unnecessary, the man should be discharged. The corporal seemed to be rather at a loss what to do. He seemed to be aware that his prisoner was of no use to the service, but his habits of discipline made him hesitate as to the course be should pursue. The LORD MAYOR then desired him to bear the message to his commanding officer, and assure that gentleman that the prisoner should I be kept in a place of adequate security. The prisoner stated afterwards that he had tried other kinds of life, but found great difficulty in procuring a livelihood. It at last occurred to him that the ill-luck was visited upon him because he had deserted from his post, and so he thought it the best plan to give himself up. The Irish soldier then went in the custody of an officer to the Compter, where he will, at any rate, have his belly filled. Mawr-La-sown iirricE.—On Monday evening, the case of Martha ddas ss. the young woman who was charged with steeling the child of Mr. Matthews, of Augusta Cottage, was resumed. Several respectable persons cams forward to speak in her favour, and her mistress (for she proved to be a servant in place) said she had con. ducted herself well in her service for eight months; and she believed an exceeding fondness r r children had led her into the indiscretion for which she was apprehended. Under these circumstances, Mr. Matthews did not wish to follow up the charge, and she was liberated. Mrs. Arm Waugh, the wife of a young butcher, who lives in Upper Park.place, Dorset.square, was charged yesterday before Mr. Raw. LIMON and Mr. GRIFFITH, with threatening to murder Charles, her husband, or do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Waugh had broken his knee-pan, and came upon crutches. The dress of his lady was very stylish, and her appearance somewhat older than his. " I think," said Mr. RAWLIYSOX to the complainant, " when you applied for this warrant, you told me, you had been married but seven months?" Mr. Waugh.—Yes, Sir, only seven months, and I have spent six of them in jeopardy. Mr. Rawittesow—What could you find to quarrel about so soon ? Mr. Waugh—Nothing in particular; she will have it all her own way, and she has repeatedly taken up a poker, and threatened to knock my brains out ! Mrs. Waugh—Never, Charles ! Never, upon my oath. 111 r. Waugh—And I am in danger of being starved by her. Mr. RawLinsox-1 never heard of such a thing. ‘Vhat starve a butcher with his house full of meat ? Alr. Waugh—Yes, sir, after I met with this accident, I laid upon the sofa, and she refused to give me necessaries. Mrs. Waugh—Oh, Charles I fie, Charles Mr. Kawuttsox begged him to relate the particular occurrence which led him to apply for a warrant. He said that, on Sunday, she took up a poker and brandished it over his head, and he expected every moment to be killed by her. Mr. RAWLISIIO X to Mrs. Waigh.—Why do you do all this? Mrs. Waugh.—l never did. e fancies it ; I love him to distrac tion. lam too fond of my dear Charles to do him harm. Mr. Rawirwsorr.—Come. then, shake hands and be friendly again. Mrs. Waugh—With all my heart. Here, Charles, (presenting her hand.) Mr. Waugh—No, we must be separated ; my future happiness de. prods upon it. Mrs. iVaugh.—Will you part with me, then, Charles ? Well, if bou wish it, I have too great a regard for your happiness to oppose it ; ut how is it to be done ? Mr. RAWLINSOW.—Your husband says your own fortune is settled upon yourself. Mrs. Waugh.—lt is, Sir. Mr. Waugh.-1 want her to be bound over to keep the pease ; will you hear my witnesses ? Mr. Rawtaxsorr.—l don't think you are in any danger ; she talks very kindly of you, and is much less powerful than you are. Mr. Waugh—l shall go in danger of my life. Mr. MAWLIIISOII—Not if you part with each other, as you seem Mr. Waugh and his lady both asked at the same time, how that way I be done? Mr. Rawrawsow told them by getting an Mang to draw up a deed of separation, and with that determination they left the office. Quitaw-Satroaz.—A young man, apparently in a very diFtres.ed state, named Frew* Lloyd, was charged with stealing a 41b. loaf of bread, out of the shop of Mr. Hall, a baker, in the New-cut. The pri. soner said that he could get no employment, and had not broken big fast since Sunday morning. He had applied to the Overseers of Lam. betb, and they had refused to relieve him. Mr. WHITE said that a hearty-looking young man like him was not a fit object for parochial relief. The prisoner said that he was willing to work, but be could not get any employment; he had even offered to break stones, bat the Overseers would not employ him. He was fully committed for trial. nemesis Poucs...—William Field, Timothy Donovan, and Jo, Crawley, natives of the sister kingdom, were charged with being druni and disorderly, and engaging in a " regular skrimmage" on Saturday night, in Ratcliffe-highway. Timothy Murphy, an bish policeman, of the K division, with a rid, Munster brogue, was the principal evidence against the prisoners, ane. from his account it appeared " they were having a regular skriminay. and knocking each other about most unmercifully. He interfereet,, protect the pace,' but was knocked down for his pains. With th, assistance, however, of others, he conveyed them to that bugbear to al! disorderly and drunken persons, the blackhole." " Pine yer Honour, it was all owing to the cheap beer," said the prisoner Donovan. Mr. BALLawerxr..—This New Beer Act, lam afiraid, will add t , our magisterial duties, already sufficiently heavy. Field said he bad only been in London six months, and during that time had only been drunk three times ; but it was the beer, yer honour did all the mischief. The female prisoner made a similar defence, and laid all the blame on Sir John Barleycorn. a Murphy, the policeman, said the defendants were hard-working p a . cable folks, except when they got a drop too much, they engaged i skrimusages. Mr. Bar.r.auTisur—Well, if I discharge the prisoners you must b, answerable for their future good behaviour, and not let them drink so much beer again. Murphy—l won't be answerable, yer Honour, while the porter's so cheap, for it's hard to find a sober person now. The prisoners, yer Honour, while the beer was in them, knocked down every person that thane in their way. Mr. BALLANTINZI am not at all surprised at that. An Irishman, when drunk, will let no one stand upright that lie meets with. The prisoners declared that they would keep sober until the porter had another fall in the price, and ultimately they were discharged m. this promise, on paying one shilling each to the King, in consequent of having been locked up two nights and a day. SCINTILLA'. BATTLE HYMN. They arc gone like the flash of a star from heaven, And our beautiful vale is mute ; Their trumpet its voice to the hills hath given, But busted is the gentle lute. They have thrown bright chains from their gleaming hair, And with blood their spurs are py'd ; And on they pour with their swords and plumes, As the ocean pours its tide. They shall fight as their sires have fought before, They shall sleep as their sires have slept ; And violets o'er their graves shall shed The balm by their blue eyes wept. Awake the mournful convent bell.-- Sing the requiem in the night; And the stars shall gleam on each warrior's bier With the torches' quiv'ring light. They come ! they come ! they have won the field, And redeem'd their native dell ; Then lay their swords on the holy shrine, And the hymn of triumph swell. Like eagles at noon to the hill they rush'd, And their plumes shone like a sea ; Then trumpet awake thy loudest lay, And welcome them home to thee. BIJONAPARTei CANNON COINING FOR THE FIZENCI. Ktuos.—The cannon taken at Austerlitz were not all made use of t erect the column in the Place Vendome. M. Gaudin, Minister of Fi nance, came to Napoleon to demand a score of these cannon for his own use. " What, then ! " exclaimed the Emperor, "is our Minister of Finance going to make war upon us ?"--' No," replied the Duke 'de Gaits, not upon you, but on some villainous old machines that kill the workmen in the mint ; and if your Majesty will give me twenty of these cannon to reconstruct the beams of the engines, I will have the name of Austerlitz engraved upon them." This appeal prevailed; Gaudin bad the cannon placed at his disposals and these gines are still used to stamp the beads on the coin of the prese nt kings of France Life of Napoleon. CORONATION CLAIMS.—AIIIOIIg the curious claims set forth at the coronation of 111. the Lord of the Manor of Bar. delph. (Surrey) claimed to Gi rnr, man to make a mess of rota in the King's kitchen. The Master of the Horse claimed to take assay of the King'. meat at the kitchen dresser bar. The Earl Marshal claimed to appease the debates that might arise in the King's house ; the Lord ol the Manor of Scoulton claimed to have the provisions left after dinner ; the Lord of the Manor of Heyden was allowed to hold the towel when the King washes after dinner. Surely most, if not all, of these practices would be more honoured in the breach than in the observance. M. GUIZOT AND THE CATHOLIC CLERGY.—Probably our readers will recollect that M. Guizot, the present Minister of th Interior in France, was a Professor of History, and an author, before In became a minister, and that moreover, he was, and remains, a Proms. tant—a circumstance affording a practicable illustration that in that country civil and religious liberty, toleration, and freedom of conscience, is no empty sound. This M. Guinn wrote a work, lntiticd, " Moyens de Gouvemment et d'Opposition," whereof the following rt. marbible passage occurs :—The Revolution has stripped the Catholic Clergy both of liberty and of power. This was too much by more tha.: one-half. I say one-half...for it appears to me vain to pretend now that Catholicism, with its numerical force, its internal constitution, its hitt. archy, its dogmas, and its recollections, is reduced to bare and simpl, liberty, and does not contract a closer alliance with the State, ahem , it exchanges a little of its independence for a little power. The Charter was, therefore, in the right to declare it the religion of the State. le. my opinion this is the fact, which it would be peurile, and even dar gerous to deny—for denying it is by no means destroying it. It has its dangers; who doubts it ? It is difficult, even very difficult, to deal with it. But the danger and the difficulty, all this proves the force ef the fact. If it did not exist—if Catholicism were not what it is. it would be of little consequence either to admit it into the State. or to 'but r out; but, such as it is, do what you may, it will still take a part t; must, therefore, be prepared for it. This, like every where else. is 4 question of limitation of measure, and of prudence—gown:nu HIS meth% with no others." Liberty of conscience is the prevailing religious iota of our times. It is on this score that we ought to arm ourselves agairst aggressive and insulting impiety. Wherever liberty of coma:ace pot avails, every religious worship, every religious creed, is justly entitled to the respect not only of the government, but also of the pub! c. Tit:- right to protection against outrage is derived from the same principt, as their right to liberty. The principle of intolerance his not changed in Its batiste in the eighteenth century from what it was in :he ri:cteoltE. When unbelievets are convinced, and get masters, they want et,ry one to believe in them, as they do. Labourers have for some time past been actively engaged in forming an extensive range of substantial, dry, and capacious vaults on the northern, eastern, and southern sides of St. :Um:in% church. The vaults on the north side, it is expected, will be completed h about another month, when the graves in the old churchyard (which. in con sequence of the recent improvements in that quarter of the town shertly to be built upon,) will be opened, and the bodies carcfullc ren uved t the new cemetery. BIRTH. On Tuesday, the 28th inst. the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel Uttencr. • Norwood-green, Middlesex, of a daughter. MARRIED. Yesterday, at Camberwell Church, Mr. Wm. Prater, of Weber den, Suffolk, eldest sou of Wm. Prater, Esq. Dalby-terrace, Tslingter. to Mary Ann, Sophia. only child of Joel Ray, Esq. of Peckham—The 27thinst. at Winchendon, Bucks, Thomas Hyde, Esq. Aylesbury. r° Miss Moores, daughter of— Moores, Esq. of Winchendoo. DIRD. The 28th inst. in Mecklenburgb-square, Eliza, daughter of the late J. Chambers, Esq.—The 27th inst. at his house in Artiilery•-plate. Finsbury, J. 81dward, Esq. in his 95th year, many years an acttre Magistrate for Middlesex, and a liber.l supporter of the charitable tr entutions of the metropolis—The 27th inst. Sarah, the infant daughter 81 Mr. Taylor. Portland-place, Clapham.road, aged two years and akin months—The 25th inst. Mr. I. Papprill, of Featherstone-build lags, Holborn, aged 6S---The 24th inst. Mrs. T. Creed, widow of the We G. Creed, Esq. of Wentworth-place, Mile-end—The 27th inst. at .Ratings, aged 40, Edward Frederick, fourth son of Mrs. Lazenby. of Edward-street, Portman-square—The 27th inst. at his house, Glou tester-place, J. Jebb, Esq. late in the direction of the Hon. East Intim Company, 'to which service a great part of his life was honourably devoted—The 27th last. at Clifton, in his 69th year, I'. Walker, Esq• late senior Register of the High Court of Chancery, from which eke he had retired above two years. Lonnox: Printed and rublished by Jona MATYZ, at the &rat- Orrtcr, No. I, Pickett-place, Temple Bar.