Star. — London, England, 1830-12-23 00:00:00

REFORM TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. St a,—Anxions to ascertain what were the sentiments of , the public, on this important subject, and fully impressed by leading your papers, and the last number of the Westminster Ilcriew, that man, e omen, and child, were all thinking of no nntbingelsrthanthe 'Jolla , 1 took it into my head to walk forth yesterday morning ; and by asking the opinions of those I should accidentally meet, endeavour, if I could, to form an estimate of the rex pop. li on this subject; and the result of my enquiries, I shall now communicate to you. The first person I met, at the door of the house in which I occupy apartment., as I was rthont to turn out. was Mr. Play fair, the comedi•in ; and after the usual salutations, I opened my enquiry, by saying—.. Well, Mr. Playfair, you've no doubt heard of the great change which has taken place ; and that what has been so long expected, will be absnlotely brought out after Christmas : pray, what do you think upon the subject ?"—" Think !" said he, " why, that it will never do —it will never please : the public expect more than the manager can give !"—" What l"—said I—" you think, then, that the representation will not be adequately corrected."—" Undoubtedly not ; there is too much favouri tism," said he.—" Whnt ? you think, then, that a reform will not do ?"—" I don't know what you mean by Reform: no doubt, the piece may he recast, and acted over again ; but it will never do, and it will again be damned, as it was be fore !" 1, at once, perceived, we had stumbled upon an equivoque ; and as I saw his head was full of his own busi nees—as it should be—and not full of the corruption of Parliament, I bade him good morning, and proceeded in my researches. The next acquaintance who caught my eye, as I went peripatetically pondering along Fleet -street, was Mr. Lilly crop, the stationer, a steady family-man of about fifty, and one of that class of the community who are sneeringly designated Saints by the Sinners, among mankind. Mr. Lillycrop divides his whole time between two objects—his . warehouse and his meeting-house ; or what, in old times, would have been called his conventicle. His close attention! to the former, as well as to the latter, makes him be considered by his censorious neighbours what is called by some wag— either G. A. Stevens, or Rowland Hill—a squinting' Christian ; who, while one eye is placed on Heaven, keeps this nether world constantly within the ken of the other. Now, thought 1, I shall obtain a solid, candid opinion.— Having shaken him by the hand, and got through the standing English formula for greetings in the market-place— including bad weather, bad colds, and bad times-1 went direct to my point, and said, " Pray, Mr. Lillycrop, what do you think of our new Minister ?" " Why, Sir," said be," I lament to say (looking moat gravely), I lament to say, I do not like him ; —he will never do with our people." " What, Mr. Lillycrop, do you not approve of reform ? " " Reform ! " rejoined he ; " Yes, I approve of reform, but not such reform as he would give us. It is the filthy rags of morality that he would have us trust to, instead of the sacred garb of the Gospel." I had heard quite enough -1 saw I was again mistaken ; and that Mr.Lillycrop, like my friend Playfair, had other matter? in his mind than reform in Parliament, and so I thanked him for hie opinion, and took my leave. I met no me ales that I could address on the subject, us til I came to St. Paul's Churchyard, when I luckily cut my eye on my friend, Flowerdew, who, I saw, was in mourning, and whom I lately heard, had come in to a good thing —as it is called—by the death of a distant relative. I observed my friend to be in what is called a brown study ; that is to say, looking rather black, or, as some will have it, looking blue. lam sure I shall now have, thought I, a discerning opinion on the subject, for I see he is studying it—nothing but the deplorable state of the representation could make him look so grave. " Well, my old friend Flowerdew," said I, accosting him, " what can make you so serious to-day—you, who have lately preyed one of for tune's favourites; are you afflicted with the disastrous times —are you sighing over our grievances I" " Indeed I am," said he, " and have good reason—the Commons is a per fect den of corruption, perjury, and all kinds of iniquity." 0 ! 0 ! thought I to myself, nu right at last; I'll stick to Flowerdew, and I shall get at least a clear account of his view on this vital subject. " I presume, then, Mr. Flower dew," continued I, " that you are favourable to reform." " Reform I " said he, " nothing else but a radical change— s perfect revolutionising of the whole system—will do any good. Do you know, my friend, that I have no less than six actions going on in this horrible Court against me, as executor to my Uncle's will ; and until they are all finished, Usha'nt be able to touch a penny of the old Gentleman's money." Alas ! alas ! I now saw he, too, had another subject in his head, than the vital one of the Rotunda. I then bent my course homewards again ; and recollecting that I wanted to order a new coat, I turned into Chancery lane, and called on Mr.Staytape, my tailor. His wife, a steady, middle-aged woman, offered a chair ; and while I waited until" the man of shreds and patches" should de scend from his attic retreat, I happened to say to the good woman, " These are bad times, they say, Mrs. Staytape ; how does your husband go on 2—does he ever trouble him self about reform?" " I wish he did, Sir ;" said she, with a sigh ; " he has much reason; but he is, Sir, I am sorry to say, too much an enemy of reform ; he won't let me have a vote, or all would go right." I was not quite convinced that this extension of the elective franchise was necessary ; but, in these intellect galloping days, I knew not what might be advanced in its favour; and so 1 continued the in quiry; and with a philosophical curiosity, I put the modest qnestion," What led her to claim the right of voting, with so much pertinacity ? "—to which she readily responded, by saying, that her husband would ruin his family by trusting every body, and giving such long credit; and, if he did not re form his habits, he would lodge his family in the workhouse. This was rather an uncomfortable turn to the conversation, and I must say tormented my investigation about reform, in that quarter. 1 could not but recollect my last Christmas bill was still unpaid ; I therefore enquired no farther, and as I felt the world had all other reforms to think about, than that of Parliament, I thought I might find some other reform to think about too,and so resolved from that day,to look at horn* and reform myself Perhaps, Mr. Editor, you, and some of your Readers might, with advantage, do the same. H. The interior of Hamilton Palace, when completed, will exhibit a greater variety of magnificent finishing& than is /whops to be met with in any other mansion. ♦ vessel bus arrived at Glasgow from Broadford in Skye, with ab,stit 70 tons of Hebridean marble of very fine quality, which is to b e use d in paving the entrance, stalls, and lobbies. The Albion, Lowton, muter, from Newfoundland, arrived at Teignmouth on the 12th inst. On the let in lat. 50. long. 20. she fell in with the Union, of London, from Pic ton, with timber, bound to Dublin, water-logged, and signals, Mulish-see dying ; took out the muter and 16 men belong ing to her, and a master and two men, late of the Kinnersly Castle. towed into Picton, water-logged, on the 15th Oat. last. Great pre* is due to Capt. Lowtoa for his exertions in rescuing the mews from a watery grave. and his great, kindness and humanity to diem during the time they were oa board his vessel. LAW REPORTS. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Mc. 22. (Before the Loin CH lIET JUSTICE and A Special Jury.) VIOLENT ASSAULT. lIIERNEY V. STARKER. This was an action fin compensation of damages for an assault coin. mined by the defendant on the plaintiff, who was a mu•ician on board an Indiaman, the Thalia, whilst lying at anchor in the Bay of . Bengal, on the 19th of April last. Mr. Hovcntiegow stated the case to the Jury. John Wilkinson examined—l was cook on board the Thee: In April last, in the Bay of Bengal ; the plaintiff, who is a musician, was ordered to have his hammock lashed on the morning of the 19th. He said he had no lashing ; defendant told him to get some ; he was then standing near the gangway ; he followed him near to the breach of the forecastle, and then collared the pliintiff, and threatened he would break his jaw.hone and throw him overboard ; he struck him violently on the head. Plaintiff offered no resistance, nor used any abusive language to him. Two other sailors, of the names of Lewis and Salmon, were called, and swore to having witnessed the assault. Mr. Sergeant TADDT denied the charge against the defendant, and said that he was entirely left to the evidence of these sailors. The LORD Cimr inastrcr observed that no officer ought to be allowed to maltreat any petty officer on board his vessel withoutithere was fear of mutiny ; in this case there appeared nothing of the sort. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 201. SOUTH WARN COURT OF REQUESTS. PURITY OT KLECTIOW-AUCZNI ♦. WOOLLOTON. This ease came on Monday for final decision. The object of the pro ceedings, it will be recollected, was to enforce the payment of fol. which the plaintiff alleged was due to him for having canvassed the Borough of Southwark on behalf of Lord John Russell, previous to the late elec tion. The defendant acted as chairman to the committee engaged in conducting the canvass on the part of the noble candidate. The plaintiff stated, in support of his claim. that in September last he saw the defendant at the Equestrian Coffee-house, and was told by him that they (the Dissenters) were mat anxious to secure the return of Lord John Russell, and in accepting the offer of the plaintiff's services as a canvasser, he said he would undertake to allow him 10s. a day, and more, if their cause turned out successfully. In consequence of this promise, he canvassed the borough for ten days. A Mr. Holland proved that this arrangement was entered into by the defendant. Mr. Woolloton in contesting the claim, stated that he had consi dered the plaintiff was a voluntary canvasser, and that, like himself, he was actuated by a love for liberal opinions and freedom of election. Besides, those who had been regularly engaged, were paid every two or three days. After some further argument, the Commissioners ordered the parties to withdraw, and having consulted for some time , the plaintiff was or dered to be sworn, when he re.stated his evidence. The Commissioners expressed themselves satisfied with the evidence, and gave an unanimous decision in favour of the plaintiff. 51r. Woolloton said this wu a hard case, as the above decision might bring 500 similar claims upon him. The Commissioners said, such an assumption was wrong, as every case would be decided upon its own merits. A few days after the return of Sir Francis Burdett for the county of Middlesex, ho received a bill from an attorney for services rendered during the election, which contained one very extraordinary item. The man of law had not been employed by the Hon. Baronet's Committee, but had volun teered his services ; and among the various charges of which his bill was composed there was so much for going from Brentford to Acton, from A cton to Brentford, and to and from other places, to bring up voters, concluding as follows : —" To an extraordinary quantity of mental anxiety on your account during ten days, 5001 !" It is, perhaps, needless to add that the Baronet himself taxed the bill, and that the " mental anxiety" was stank out of the account. LOSS OF THE SHIP ROBERT FULTON. —The schooner Alert, of London, James Chesser, master, of 68 tons burden, arrived in our halhour last evening from Faye], having on board 79 persons, who had been passengers in the American ship Robert Fulton, bound from New York to Liverpool, which was run down at sea by a vessel, name unknown. The injury which the former received was so great that it was with difficulty they could keep her afloat, and in doing so they were obliged to remain at the pumps without intermission for several days and nights, until they fortunately succeeded in making the harbour of Fayal, one of the Western Islands, which was the nearest land at the time of the accident, and which they scarcely had entered when the vessel went down, and the passengers had to wade to shore, some of them up to their necks in the water. They were sent home in the Alert, by the British consul, and are, as may be supposed, in a dis tressed state.— Cork Advertiser. THE LATE DR. COVENTRY, PROFESSOR OF AORI. CULTURE IN THE UNIVERSITY Or EDINEUROII. Ou Friday forenoon, he was seized with a severe paralytic attack, which instantly deprived him of the total use of his left side, and rendered him nearly speechless. He conti nued sensible for about an hour and a half after the attack, but after this gradually sunk into a stupor ; and notwith standing the skill and exertions of his medical attendants, expired at half past six o'clock in the evening. NEWCASTLE REFORM MEETING.—The gentlemen who signed the requisition to the Mayor of this town for calling a public meeting in favour of parliamentary reform, met this day (Monday, Dec. 20,) at the Turk's Head, to consider of the resolution; which had been prepared by the committee. James Losh, Esq. was in the chair. A letter was read from Sir M.W. Ridley, in reference to the proposed public meeting, in which the honourable baronet expressed his satisfaction that the principles of reform which he had long advocated appeared likely to be soon acted upon.— A letter was rend from J. Hodgson, Esq. the other member for Newcastle, who expressed his intention to be present at the public reform meeting. Six resolutions, prepar ed by the committee, were then submitted for the approval of the requisitionists. The first stated that the representation of the people in Parliament was defective and unjust, many places with few inhabitants sending members to Parliament, while others which were wealthy and populous seat none. The subsequent resolutions set forth the distress and suffering which the inadequate representation of the people produced, and besought the legislature to extend the elective fran chise, to do away the present inconvenient and expensive mode of conducting elections, and especially to consider if it would not be advisable to adopt the system of election by ballot. Charles Attwood, Esq. thought the language of the resolutions might at a former period have been strong enough, but now it was not sufficiently descriptive of the state of privation and misery to which the common people of England had been reduced by the corrupt representation in the Commons' House, or rather by the aristocracy put ting their nominees into that House who bad no sympathy for the rights and feelings of the people. He proposed an amendment, therefore, which was read, and in general terms expressed a persuasion that if the wretchedness to which the community bad been brought by the want of a proper representation were not removed forthwith, consequences might take place which could not be contemplated without &may. W. H. Ord, Esq. spoke in favour of the original resolutions, which he considered quite u strong as Mr. Attwood's, with the advantage of being more specific. He was himself favourable to election by ballot, but would wish that no division should take place among ref ormers , and therefore thought the resolutions which had been sub mitted to the committee should be adopted, as they entered into some detail, without pledging the parties to one plan of reform to the exclusion of others. Mr. J. Fife, and several other gentlemen spoke, some in favour of the committee's resolutions, and seine in favour of Mr. Attwuod's. The amendment was then put and rejected, and the origin a l Tim . lotions were, after much discussion, carried by a considerable majority. POLICE IMPORTS. I GUILDHALL.— A respectable looking man, named AIMS MOMS, who resided at Pommy'lle, was charged before Alderman WINCHES. Till, with uttering a forged request for the delivery of goods, an offence which was formerly deemed only a misdemeanor, but which has been made, by the late statute amending the law of forgery, a felony, punish able with transportation for life. The evidence was of considerable length. The use made out was, that on Saturday afternoon an order was delivered (it is believed by the pri. suer) to Messrs. Johnson and Hulmre, warehousemen, in Watling-st. purporting to be signed by " S. Howard, for Mr. Cannon," a linen. draper at Peckham, and requiring six pieces of Nainsook muslin, six pieces of cambric, and four pieces of Merino, to be sent to Messrs. H. and T. Wood, warehousemen in Red Lion-court, Watling-street, at which place Mr. Cannon was accustomed to have goods WI for him. The prisoner called on Mews. Wood, and intimated that a parcel of, goods would be sent there, and requested that, if he should be un. able to come himself for it, the parcel might be delivered to the he should send. The prisoner went the same evening to the i e i r n o p n and Hey booking-oiler, in Fleet.street, and despatched the porter with a note signed " IL Stanley," to Messrs. Wood's, where the parcel was in readiness, and was delivered. However, the genuineness of the order had been suspected, the porter was followed by a constable, and the prisoner was seised at the Kings and Key, in the act of taking possession of the parcel. The order was a forgery. The prisoner's defence was, that he was acting throughout under the direction of a man named Furby, who delivered both the notes to him, and pretended that business called him to an opposite part of the town. Prisoner knew Furby. from having let a lodging to him two years ago, when he was a man of undoubted character, and he undertook the trou. ble of delivering the notes and obtaining the goods, to oblige him. The prisoner was fully committed. BOW.STEZIETo—CAUTION TO LICENRED VICTUALLERS.—Mr. Houseman, the landlord of the White Hart. in bong-acre, appeared to an information charging him with having harboured and entertained three of the New Policemen while on duty, by which he had incurred a penalty not exceeding five pounds. State, a serjeant of the F. division, No 12, stated that at about Sve o'clock in the morning of Sunday last, he missed three of his men off their beat, and having gone to the statinn.house, and put three other men on in their stead, he went in search of the absentees. On passing defendant's house he saw one of them at the door (which was open), and, on going in, found the two others drinking at the bar. Their numbers were 94, 104, and 118. He reported their conduct to the Commissioners, by whom he was directed to lay the present in. formation. Mr. HALLS—Can you prove how long they had been in the house —for I presume it was not the intention of the Legislature that the men should be on duty all night in this inclement season without taking any refreshment. Roger*, an Inspector, said the orders were the men should not enter a public-house at all while on duty for the purpose of taking re freshment. Sir R. Maxis—Well, that is strict enough at all events.—But there is a question I should like to have answered—How was the defendant to know these men were on duty ? Rogers—All the men wear a band on their left arm when on duty, a fact which the defendant must have known. Sir R. Braxt►—lt is not impossible for the man to take the band off, I presume, previous to entering a public-house. Rogers—They can do so, certainly, but they are liable to be punished if they do. Sir RICHARD—The Act says, if any publican shall " harbour and entertain." Now, really, a man being at the bar a few minutes—will you call that harbouring? Rogers—'They have no business there at all. Mr. liht.r.s—l take it, that in ordet to convict the defendant we must have proof that he knew the men were on duty.—(ToStace)—Had they bands on when you saw them in the defendant's house ? Stace said he did not take notice, and could not take upon himself to swear that they had. Mr. HALLS—Then I think the ease has not been proved, and, if my brother magistrates agree with me In opinion, I shall dismiss it. Sir R. Maxi E said he concurred in the opinion of Mr. Ilau.s, and the case was accordingly dismissed. Mr. HALLS.—In future I hope all Licensed Victuallers, for their own sakes, will not suffer a policeman to drink In their houses who wears the band, which shewa that he is on du t y at the time. 11hitt.nottouGH aerr.—Yesterday, Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magistrate, was occupied foe several hours in the investigation of a cue respecting the identity of a dog, which involved the most extraor. dinary conflicting evidence that perhaps ever was produced In any Court. The dog In question, a remarkably fine Newfoundland one, was produced in the o ffi ce, and the contending parties for the poasesslon of it were Mr. Lang, the proprietor of a place called the shooting gallery, In the Haymarket, and the Rev. Mr. Evans, a clergyman, who keeps a school at Hampstead. Mr. Evans stated that he lost the dog now produced from his house at Hampstead in the latter end of last month, and that he had It in his possession for an uninterrupted period of two years, during which down to the last month it never was away a single day from the play-ground of the school, where its kennel was; that it had been stolen he had not the least doubt, as the collar round its neck had been taken off and left behind. Since the morning the dog was lost he heard nothing of it until he saw an advettisement In one of the newspapers offering a New foundland dog, answering the description, for sale, and on going to Mr. Lang's premises, where the reference was made to, he there instantly recognised his lost dog, the same now produced ; the dog was given to him originally by a Mr. Pratt, who bred it. Mr. Evans father, his brother, together with Mrs. Evans, and se. veral of the pupils and ushers of the school, all swore in the most mai five manner to the identity of the dog, and the animal also seemed to recognize most of the witnesses. On the other hand Mr. Lang produced a host of witnesses, who swore that the dog was brought up from Swansea to him, by the ship Jane of that place, Captain Hooper, the latter having bred the dog, and sold it to Mr. Lang in the month of July last, long before Mr. Evans lost his dog ; and one witness, an old lady, said that she should know the dog any where by its bark, for that it just barked like an elephant, and its name, she said, Nebuchadnesser ; but Lang explained that she meant Neptune. Mrs. Evans said that the dog's name was Cesar, and it never was called Neptune, and this Mr. Pratt, who bred the dog, also proved. In the end the Magistrate said it was impossible for him to decide on such conflicting evidence, and the dog, therefore, for the present re mains with Mr. Lang. The dog appeared to recognize Mrs. Evans the moment she spoke, and jumped towards her. UNION•HALL.--Yesterday a pawnbroker named Wiwi, residing in Bermondsey.street, was summoned on an information, for not speci fying the address and particulars on a duplicate of an article pledged at his shop. The informer's witness stated, that he pledged an article at the de. fendant's shop, and that the shoprnan merely inquired his name, which he put on the ticket, without specifying the address, or other particulars, required by the Act. The defendant's solicitor, after having taken several objections to the information, all of which were overruled, then contended that the omis sion of the party's address on the duplicate could not be construed into an offence, for there was no intention on the part of his client to commit any; and it all originated in the mistake of the person who had takes in the article. He expressed some surprise that the chief constable, who was the nominal informer in the ease, should have mixed himself up with characters such as common informers, who, it was obvious, did not adopt those proceedings for the public good, but in order to put a moiety of the penalty in their own pockets. The chief mutable said, that he had received directions to look closely after this description acmes, in consequence of several poor per. sons having been cruelly plundered of their property by some of the pawnbrokers. It was the practice of some of the trade merely to write the name of the person who pledged an article on the duplicate, and when it was to be redeemed, instead of getting the one pledged, the owner was put off with some inferior article, and compelled to take it, or go without ; whereas, if the ticket was written in the proper manner, the public would be punted against such acts. He did not mean to impute conduct such as that described to the whole trade, or to the d e . fendant ; but to some part of it. The defendant was fined 40s. and come. LAnstru-suntan.—A coosiderable_portlon of the time of the s i t . dog Magistrates of this ofilee, Messrs. lialDlllCa and WYaTT, was occupied In hearing a case of hibernation preferred again s t o one of the Arm of Messrs. Nith Co oleen and coal-merchants, in es-streetost the instance of one of the principal oases belonging to the Land Meters' Office, at Guildhall, charging the defendant who obeeneting an °Meer harming to that Mks in the discharge of his duty, fee which o ff ence , wider a dams in the Coal Act, be subjected himself to a penalty of 101. Mr. Bullock, the barrister, and Mr. Newman, the City solicitor, appeased far the prosecution, and Mr. Weoler for the defence. liflr. Wools,, previous to the ease being entered on, took several legal objections to the form of information, but they were all overruled by Mr. Hardwick, and the use proemial with. The brief facts are these. On the 15th of last month, a chaldron of code was ordered from the deforest and his partners, to be sent to the house of Capt. Langley, in Collettidete, Commercial-road. They were accordingly sent, a 4 on their steival there, u the waggoner w as a b ou t to sheet them, a Mr. Bradfield, who described - ltint. self is being tamely a coal merchant. recommended Ales. Langley to I V q the coals mound,. as he sespested the seeks did not cont a in t h e uantity. Mrs. Isaglay, lieskoml being at sea, took Brad fie 's advice, and at his eiggeedin vests get • soder., to be served on the vendors of the coals, gibs and a nog so the land meters' oflice,requesting that a ma shield be slot to measure the goals in ques. tion The fanner Brandi serval en the defendant, at his home, while be lift the waggon of co* In doge of • pollees's., until be returned. vavbi„,, a won bouvog to the Land blitee'rellse, deposed that, in consequence of the nedoeises alluded so, be want to the re. Adana of kits. Langley, so mast= a chalices sisals, mod as be hod got through 22 masks of thew, the ddiedsot arrived, and expee t tag loan doubt as to whether es net he should seer be paid fee the soils, insisted that no more of them should be measured, and desi re d t h e goner to drive off, which he accordingly did. In the 22 sacks who, he measured, he found a deficiency of seven bushels and a half. The statement of this witness was corroborated by a policeman, *be way present during the whole of the time. Mr. Woolen, in defence, contended that his client had offered no ob. struction to the meter, and that he had followed the coals, in con k , quence of a communication which was made to him atter they had be ta sent out, to the effect that they never would be paid for, and not from the notice which had been served on him by Mrs. Langley. To pro ve this fact, he called a wiener , . named Davis, who sells coals on corona. sion, and who stated that, on hearing that the defendant had lent a eiutldmn of coals to a person named Langley, in the Commercial -road, he went to his countlng.house and told him that be would never get paid for them, an the party owed him a sum of money for sometime, and he could not get It. In his crow-examination by Mr. Bullock, the witness admitted that Captain Langley, to whom the COWS were sent, was not the person who owed him the money, but that, on the contrary, he was a most respectable man. Mr. Haapw Ica considered that a ease of obstruction, according to the terms of the Act of Parliament, was clearly established. The im. putation endeavoured to be cast upon the purchaser of the coals was clearly an afterthought, and was in his opinion a considerable aggrava. ti on of the offence ; and under all circumstances, taking into consider. lotion the gross deficiency in the measurement of the wale, he caw no reason why the full penalty should not be enforced. Mr. WYATT said he perfectly agreed in the sentiments expressed by his colleague, and the defendant wan convicted in the penalty of 101. and costs, which he immediately paid. There was a second information against the waggoner, which, how. ever, the prosecutors did not pre.s. CORONER'S INQUEST. At inquest wok place yesterday evening, at Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Thomas iVebh, who came by his death in the following manner : John Condey, No. 48, York-street, near Westminster Bridge, is a machinist and engineer in Mr. Mainwaring's employment. The de. ceased was also in the same employment, and, four weeks ago last Friday, the witness and the deceased were engaged at Mr. Gray's, in New Bond -street, in placing two pumps in Mr. Gray's well. It w as necessary for the deceased to go do w n th e we ll, an d the witness was at the winch in the act of seising up the deceased from the well, when he unfortunately missed the weight upon the rope, and he heard the deceased fall a distance of forty feet. The witness went instantly down and found the rod of one of the pumps had entered his arm.— The witness accompanied him to the above hospital. The deceased fell into the well by the swivel of the pail giving way, and before going down, a rope was attached to it and a hook, for greater security. His fall was purely accidental. The pail and swivel were very much used, and the deceased ought not to have attempted to come up by such means; be ought to have held by the rope. The deceased was 29 years of age, and quite sober at the time. Mr, Wyatt, one of the house surgeons of the hospital, swore that the deceased was carried there on the 19th ult ; the witness found the left arm much lacerated, and his left leg fractured. The deceased was going on well for some time, but a fortnight ago a change took place, and his constitution could not resist the effects of his wounds, and he died on the 19th instant. 1 he Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."—Deodand on the pail live shillings. At Bow -street, on Monday, a gentleman gave an account of several fires and robberies which had taken place in the county of Hertford, and hinted his opinion that they were the work of an individual whom he described as a half-pay officer who had been driven from Paris during the late revo lution, and who had been seen under suspicious circum stances in the neighbourhood. The applicant having asked, wu told that he might, having been sworn in as a special constable, detain and search any suspicions person ; and as the individual in question had committed an act of vagrancy, by begging, he would have done quite right to have detained him. THE MAGISTRACY or CARLISLE—Consists, at pre sent, of the following gentlemen, vis : Sir J. D. A. Gilpin, M.hl. aged - - 85 years. John Heysham, SI.D. . - 77 Thomas Blamire, M.D. - . - 72 John Hodgson, Rag. (Penton) - - 70 Dr. Lowry, the Mayor (not resident) . . 66 Lord Lonsdale, Recorder, ditto . - 72 The Noble Lord last mentioned, who is also the Lord Lieu tenant of the County, has made an addition to the above, which will shortly he announced. The following are said to be the individuals selected : Richard Cum, Esq. aged - 77 years. John Forster, Eaq. - - 70 G. 8. ‘lounaey, 72 Thomas Atkinso n, Iraq. - 67 We think his Lordship must meditate the establishment of a " Council of Ancients," instead of giving us an active magistracy. Being put on the commission of the peace will, at this rate, he very soon considered tantamount to being placed on the superannuated list. One thing is, in our opinion, quite clear—viz. that his Lordship ought to have been placed upon it long since. We hope the Lord Chan cellor will show him that the selection of magistrates for I this and the neighbouring county can no longer be left with safety to the peace of the two counties in his hands.—The contempt he has shown to the Lord Chancellor's recommen dation shows that direct interference is absolutely necessary to compel him to do his duty.— Carlisle Journal. A very melancholy event took place on Thursday, the 2d instant, at Saltrum, one of the Coast Blockade stations of the Yorkshire coast, by which Lieutenant Ewen B. I Sutherland, R.N. and two seamen, were drowned, in a hard gale of wind and a high sea, within MO yards of land. It appears that, on the morning of the above day, Lied*. flint Sutherland observed a Dutch galliot standing in for Saltrum, at low water, when she grounded, and her crew deserted her. He considered that the crew had sacrificed vessel and cargo, as she had been with a fair wind within a few miles of the Tees. Actuated by that zeal and con tempt of danger, so characteristic of British seamen, the Lieutenant determined to board her in the hope of floating her off by the coming tide of Bow. Accompanied by two of his men, they got en the poop, and being broadside to the sea they let go her anchor, in hope that she would swing round se the tide made, but a heavy sea struck her, mulatto sunk. The lieutenant and his men clung to the mast, and were in that awful condition for an hour and a half, when a tremendous sea carried away the mast, and they were seen struggling for their lives ; at this moment a bons was seen to fall on the lieutenant's head, and killed him. Several vain endeavours were made from the shore to push off beam to their aid, but the surf ran so high, these filled instantly. The life-boat and another reached the spot at last from a different quarter, but too late. Lieutenant Sutherland was the third non of the late Capt. G. S. Sutherland, of Ithives, Ross-shire, and had served for sixteen years as a midship man, in the West Indies, South and North America, and. lastly, in Africa, where he was promoted to the Esk, sad placed on half-pay. He has left a widow and two children, the eldest not two years old, and the youngest not quit. three months. BIRTH. At bydneg, ea the 20th June lest, the Lady et Lieutenant-Woad Janus et the b7th Regiment, of a laughter. DIED. At New Hartford, state of New Teri., as the 16th Oct. in the 27 111 year of his age, David &addends, rag. formerly of Glasgow—At Pori Glasgow, on the 9th inst. G. Laing, 11. D. in the 38d year of hillrg• — • The 28th Dee. 1829, aged 36, at San Miguel de Tucuman, In South Anirsics, W. D. Lewis. Req. late Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Stir s and Physician to the Forces of General Jose Maria Paz—A fee dap since at Toe, Torquay, Mr. T. Rowe, aged 96, after a slim illness, retaining his faculties until the last. He had been married 70 yews, was farmed y an assistant surgeon is the navy, and since tuts held • pinta. don in his Majesty% Ousters. Hie general knowledge and super:jot ritalents gained hint the respect of the nobility and his sorra!s gt:0 1 a d al; he was a times peewit and a good friend. HIGH WATER AT. LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 16 limbs • 44 I Mumma 14111.110 X•: hinted and rubliabad by doer ilATirs, at tbe STAB:, Ovens, li.. 1, Piabot-pinee, Tomple:Ban I :11 ' 1 • $ 1 I I