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- FrA r 'l4l o~ 7'HE MAN OF LEISURE, IN CHELTENHAM. From the Cheltenham Journal_ No. 11. " Thus I entertain " The Antiquarian humour, and am pleased " To skim along the surfaces of things."—WoaDiWOZTH. have said that, in other times, I had found in CHILTZWILAX, •he favorite, because the most delightful haunt of young and happy days : and now I have returned to the scene of my early pleasures* unty to be the more painfully convinced that I have lost, and for ,ver, the blessed hilarity of spirit which then turned every thought to gaiety ; the vivid freshness of fancy which then, like the morn ing sun-beam playing upon a clear untroubled spring, sparkled upon the stream of life, till I saw every object and every image re flected in the laughing light of joy. But if Ibe changed, even so changed in feeling and in thought, how changed does every thing in nature seem around me now ! The spot which, when I last be held it, was, at the most, a country villagt—rustic and rude in its appearance—ttbseure in situation—difficult of access—inconsider able in size—and only brought into note by adventitious circum stances ; now appears to me at, extensive city—giving importance not only to the shire in which it stands, hut to the country itself— the dwelling place and the constant resort of all that is noble, pow erful, efficient, fashionable, gay, handsome—and distinguished in the kingdom—and the great object of attraction not to Englishmen alone, but to the people of every nation ; a'' shrine of Health" as it has been, somewhat poetically, but not unappropriately, termed, to which, as to the shrine of Mecca, unnumbered pilgrims throng from every quarter of the habitable globe. Sensations such as I experienced on thus contemplating a scene which set at nought all my recollections of the past, and all my most liberal calculations upon the progress of modern improvement, may be well contrasted with the feelings so ingeniously described by the young and really talented author of the " Alpenstock,•" a recent work to which I cannot even allude without observing that it is an honour to the genius of our country—and superior in my estimation to any con temporaneous description of the romantic land which it so faith fully and so vigorously depicts—it is, in brief, a work which the traveller should read for the simplicity and strength of its details— the philosopher for the delightful picture it presents of nature and of mankind—and the Christian for the unfeigned and cheering spirit of piety and devotion which breathes through every page. So much for the book itself—and now for the passage which furnishes so strong a contrast to my own sensations :—" I remember once, in Germany, pausing in a wide plain over the site of what had once been a smiling village, but which, during the late wars, had totally disappeared from the landscape : nothing remaining but the village well, and some of the foundation stones of a single cottage. It was with a peculiar start of feeling that I discovered among the tangled weeds which sprung about them, the wild and creeping branches of two tines, about a yard apart. They alone marked the former threshold." What Cheltenham now is, I shall not attempt to describe, be cause I feel the impressions of other years so busily obtruding themselves on my present contemplations, that to me the whole scene before me appears more like the work of magic, than the achievement of human industry, or the product of great public spirit :—But that my Readers may form some notion of what Cheltenham was, when I first wandered through the green lanes and hedge-row paths, which then imparted a delicious character to this tranquil retirement from " the crowded city," I will lay be fore them a brief extract from the popular " Guide" of that days for which its visitors were indebted to the literary research and personal observation of its accomplished and exemplary Master of the Ceremonies—Mr. Moreau :—ln that gentleman's " Tour to Cheltenham Spa," which had been published in 1786, but two years prior to the period I now revert to—we find that the num ber of houses was set down at 400—and the inhabitants were computed at 9,000. " The town runs in almost a straight line one mile in length, from S.S.E. to N.N.W. having one principal street, with some returns, lanes, and adjoining houses. Till within a few years, the water ran through the middle of it, and in a scarcity stagnated, and was offensive." And then we are told that " there is no doubt but the inhabitants, who, from the neglected state of this place for near thirty years, have been fear ful of risking any expense, will, from the great and regular increase of company resorting to it within the last six years, be convinced that it is their interest to render their lodgings as commodious, and every other circumstance as agreeable as possible." The Old Well Walk, and the approach to be the then solitary fountain of Ilygeia, were thus described—" At the South Westgate (of the Church-yard) a neat gravel walk leads to the Church Mead, and through this another to the Chelt, over which a slight draw-bridge is thrown to form a passage to the public walks, said to have been planned by Norborne Berkeley, the late Lord Bottetourt. The original design was to have continued the grand walk to the Church. if the proprietor of a small piece of ground facing the draw bridge could have been prevailed on to part with it. Many, indeed think its present state more beautiful than such a length of walk, as it now cannot be seen till at the bridge ; the effect it then has is not easily to be imagined by those who have not been on the spot. The church spire, rising on the centre of the walk, forms a very pleasing point of view from the Well; on the side opposite to which, the company have often expressed a desire that a dial with a minute band were fixed, and some of them have offered to contribute towards erecting it." I pause in my quotation, just to observe that " the desire of the company," has long been gratified, by the erection of a clock as well as a dial-plate with a minute hand"— but if report be true, the said clock, without which the dial-plate would be of little use, is henceforth only to give " note of times on week days and working days—and to enjoy rest and silence on the Sabbath, in conformity with the conscientious views of some of the " rigidly righteous." There was then, and indeed for years afterwards, but one " grand walk,' in Cheltenham—mow we have an almost endless variety of " grand walks" and ►ell wooded pro menades...the Montpellier; but that establishment has had its praises said and sung by so many laudatory bards and encomiastic penmen, that I leave its pretensions to be said and sung in future by others—the Imperial and Pittville are all creditable to their respective proprietors, and unrivalled amongst the adornments or watering places. To the " Royal Well" (as it is proudly and pro perly and signally styled)—to the Imperial, and to Pittville I shall dedicate my especial notice in due time—but for the present, I must pursue the order which I proposed to myself when first I meditated this series of descriptive sketches. In resuming the Tourist's delineation of what Cheltenham was, some forty years ago, I desire it may be remembered that in adopt ing his language, I seek the additional advantage which the corro boration of such an authority gives to my own detailed reminis emirs. It would have been easier for me to have committed to paper nothing but the impressions which my mind then received, and which it still most distinctly retains ; but when the whole aspect of Nature seems to have undergone a change—at least within a range of five miles from the centre of the town—l do not chose to commit my " report" to the public eye, without the strong con firmation of Mr. Moreau's statement. Let us now turn from the Promenades to the" Rides near Cheltenham"—and there we shall End that " the most common ride has generally been in the Marsh at the back of the town, a mile round, with a pleasant view of the neighbouring hills." The Marsh, be it known to all the modern visitors of Cheltenham, was at a little distance front North Lodge, the present residence of Lord Dunally, and formed one of the boundaries of Marie Hill, the seat of Robert Capper, E►q. Some years ago the Marsh ezhibited one of those awful spectacles by which the criminal law may be said to have extended its retributive vengeance beyond the exaction of life, and to have perpetuated the terrors of its outraged power i by requiring even more than " blood for blood." and gibbeting the carcase of its most atrocious victims. • ' The Alisenstnet, of Skinehr• of Ssri‘s Scenery and Blau. urn," by J. C. Latrube.—Srelry .tol Suns, London, 1829, A tablet placed over the vestry-door of the parish church, bears the following inscription : To the Memory of KATHERINE, The Wife of William P. A. a Court, of Heytesbury, in the County of Wilts, Esqr. Wbo departed this Life on the 23d day of Sept 1776, in the 32d year of her age The strictest Honour and Virtue, Elegance of Manners, Integrity of Heart, and Delicacy of Sentiment, Endeared her to a Select Circle of Friends and Acquaintance. She was cherished as an only Child by an indulgent Father, Beloved from Infancy by a tender Husband, In whose Arms She Died an unnatural Death Effected by Poison, Administered by the Hands of a Cruelly Wicked Livery Servant, Whose Resentment, at being detected in Theft, Prompted him to Perpetrate this Horrid and Execrable Crime. Circumstances, which it is now needless to recapitulate, led to the detection and consequent conviction of the murderer ; and between the day of his condemnation and that appointed for the execution of the sentence, he endeavoured to effect self-destruction—but failed in the attempt, and died the death of ignominy. His body was hung in chains and gibbeted as I have already stated. The Marsh became deserted, and was afterwards enclosed. Many of the facts of this ease—the incitement to revenge—the murder— and the attempt to commit suicide, bear a strong affinity to the fate of Cardinal Bainbridge, as that event is related by Aubrey, except that in the latter, the assassin perished by his own hands. In 1514, Cardinal Bainbridge who had been sent to Rome by Henry VIII. being one day in a violent passion, to which he was naturally subject, fell upon his Major Domo, one Renouad of Modena, and beat him excessively. The enraged domestic re venged the beating with a dose of poison, which he found means to administer to his master. On being apprehended, and imprisioned, Renouad prevented the execution of justice by hanging himself, My Readers must pardon this digression, which has almost uncon sciously engrossed the space which should otherwise have been occupied by a transcript of what Mr. Moreau modestly terms " the best idea he can give" of the other rides and roads in the vicinity. Of the appearance of the houses, even twelve years after the publication of " The Tour," an accurate idea may be formed front the description of a learned Antiquary, to whose amiable peculiarities of diction and of thought I may have occasion hereafter to allude ; for in his " Picturesque and Topographical account," the subject is illus trated, with an exquisite naiveté—and a felicitous eccentricity of expression, which delightfully dissipate " the dust of the schools." Anon, it may be, " I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban." .For the present, I will but glean a few sheaves from the ripe harvest of his wit, and bind them together with bands of straw—and thus he writes : In 1798, when the author first visited Cheltenham, the only conspicuous objects, as to superior character," (what the "con spicuous objects" of an inferior character were, deponent says& not,) " were Fauconberg House, and a double range of buildings in the High -street, above the Plough, which buildings, with the exception of one solitary brick house, that bore the air of a country mansion and was near the Old Walk, were considered to be the only habitations fit for the reception of high wealth and title.' , Mem : This " solitary brick Huuse," was called the Great House, and has since been distinguished as the principal Boarding House in the town : it was long conducted by a Mr. Fisher, and retain, all its celebrity under the superintendence of Mr. Lyddell. " These High-street Houses had balconies, for there was not a viranda in the whole town. The two turnpikes were indeed soldier-dress with whitewash, paint, gay lamps, and cheap tawdries of strong effect." (What the "whitewash and paint" had to de with a soldier's dress" in 1798. I pretend not to say—but in the " cheap tawdries of strong effect," it is manifest that mine author glanceth sarcastically at the fringe txssal and tinsel paraphernalia of the " Count Carmine." of our own day.) " The High-street was of motley character"—(" motley's your only wear," saith the philo sopher of the forest,) " the houses bring of all height., forms, and description." If this constitute .. motley," why the High-street is of "motley character still, and so is every street of every town in the kingdom. But now comes a delineation which no human intellect could compass without the "aid of Archeology." " A kw thached house with a gabled end, and antique bay windows, of horn-coloured glass, and leaden reticulations, adjoining a flat dwelling, which poked out two atop windows, and looked like a woman with milk pails!! and text to this, was a slim London three or four storied house, with a railed area, ascent up steps . narrow passage, front and back parlour, and so forth. The foot. way of the street was partially paved ; but towards the Gloucester end, there was only a gravelled causeway, intersected, at short in tervals, by open yawning drains, an inconvenience which rendered the path utterly unfit for a gossiping or thoughtful promenade, be cause absence or occupation of mind occasioned a fall into them." (What a novel property is here assigned to absence! None but an archaeologist could have discovered that the sure way to fall into a ditch was to be absent.) " Here and there in the fields near the town, sew built houses were seen standing alone, looking like per sons whistling in solitude and waiting for friends to join them, The roads to them had the aspect of canals, when the water is let off, and at certain seasons of the year, might have been made navi gable. Indeed all the roads about the town were execrable, for the native materials being only of the hardness of loaf-sugar, were pulverized by every wheel. In the winter every track became a gulley, and carriages were dragged along for miles in alarming atti tudes of obliquity and oscillation. Such was the appearance of the town itself." And such, really and literally, was the appearance of the town. Strip the description of the little eccentric " accompa. niments" which were solely intended "to give a literary characte r to the accounts of Cheltenham, by treating the subjecct acccording to the rules of great authorities in scenery and archaeology," and the picture is neither overcharged nor stinted in colouring—but it is a good picture enough. As for the " women with milk-pails , and " the houses standing alone looking like persons whistling in solitude"— " They are the Antiquarians, line for line, For God's sake. reader, take them not for mine." " Seeing what we have seen"—let us prepare ourselves " to what we now see." To the description of Cheltenham as it is, I should dedicate my next essay ; but my reminiscences of the scenes of its first splendor, when it was the residence cif Royalty, contend so strongly for utterance, that in the third number of these papers, I shall endeavour to set forth—not the " cuctoms of the country' , —the Customs of the Court at Cheltenham. THE MAN OF LEISURE. Cheltenham, Oct. 21,1829. At the Cork Special Commission, on Friday, John Leary, James Berke, James Magrath, and William Shrine, were in dicted for conspiring to murder George Bond Low, Arthur G. Creagh, and Henry Evans, Esqrs. at Doneraile. The principal evidence was David Shehan. an approver, who deposed to the meeting of the prisoners, to swear to murder the above gentlemen, for certain transactions in their public capacity, at which they had taken offence. Three shots had been discharged at a carriage which contained the prosecutors, and the servants were severely wounded. Several other witnesses gave testimony against the pri soners, and they were found Guilty. A report is very generally circulated in this city, that Sir T. B. Lethbridge has recently disposed of his Dunster estate, amounting to 5,000 acres, to a Staffordshire Gentleman, named Beach, for the sum of X 100,000; and should this prove correct, it may be considered as Indicative of the worthy Baronet's intention not to contest the representation of the county in the event of a dissolution of Paillameut.—Bath Herold. A RECIPE FOR, Tlll CURE OF POOR-RATES.—Take of large farms fifty thoesand, and split them into small ones of Afty of one hundred awes each ; let them to working tanners at mo derate rents. and the landlord will.then be duly paid. Erect cut.. rage papayas sulick—say one to every fifty acres; add thereto. three or four acres of groans'. and.lm them to such of can keep .a cow and a pig. Eruct smaller ones with a garden for the still More humble labourer ; and depend upon it your poor-rates In vil lages will soon be reduced. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OCT. 27. 11011111011 MID MOM= V. MUM MID 01311111. Mr. Serjeant Wring stated the plaintiff's case. The libel was published in the Morning Journal of the 18th and 19th of Novem ber, in reply to a letter in the Times, signed " Delta." It charged the writer with belonging to a house which was a receptacle for stolen goods; and asserted that a quantity of silk, stolen from Mac clesfield, was found en their premises, and seized by the Bow-street officers ; adding, that Sir Richard Birnie had said that some of the writers in the Tines were thieves—they knew them to be so. Robert Slater, examined by Mr. Duns*u, proved the names of the firm of Morrison and Co. and the handwriting of Mr. Dillon, one of the partners. The establishment consisted of about 150 per sons, many of whom every year set up in trade in many parts of the country. They purchase yearly, on an average, to the extent of X 1,600,000, a great part British silk. There were seventeen de partments of their business, each of which had a superintendent. They had nine buyers for the house. They had not pur chased less than eight or nine million pounds worth of Spi talfields goods within that last thirteen years. This trade was chiefly wholesale—only one of the partners bought—the buyer marked the invoices and handed them to one of the partners, who also marked it as approved—they then went to a clerk who journalizes and posts it—each purchase goes through at least six hands, and was two days in being passed the books—witness had read the articles in the Morning Journal of the 18th and 19th of November, and believed the house of Morrison and Co. to be meant in them—they had been in the habit of giving written instructions not to buy of unknown persons. George Brown, examined by Mr. Sergeant Gomintau, said he had been a buyer for the house for nine years—he always bought of respectable persons-a-be chiefly bought at Manchester and Mac clesfield—never heard of any bales of stolen goods coming from Macclesfield to plaintiffs' house. John Smith said he had been for three years in the employment of plaintiffs as chief clerk in the buying department, and had the paying for the goods—knew the persons from whom the purchases were made—they were mostly large manufacturers--generally they were persons who were known to them, and, if strangers, in quiry was made respecting them—never knew of any application or search for stolen goods in the house—must have known it if it had occurred. Mr. Serjeant WILDI said, that he had every buyer belonging to the house in Court, and would call them, if his Learned Brother required it. Mr. Serjeant Msexweruaa said, it was not necessary. Mr. Harrison, of the Times newspaper, produced a letter signed " Delta." Mr. Slater proved that it was writtten by Mr. Dillon. The proprietorship of the Morning Journal was then proved. James Harris said he was in the employ of plaintiffs from 1816 to 1821, and now lived in Fore-street. Mr. Alexander, of The Morning Journal, called on him in January last, and told him he supposed he bad heard that he was editor of The Morning Journal, and that Morrison and Co. bad brought an action against them, and that they meant to jusrity. He said that be believed that witness could give them essen tial information on the subject, but declined to say who told them that he could do it—witness said he did not believe the charge —Mr. Alexander replied, that they could prove it by a mass of evidence—witness said he could give him no useful information — he inquired whether witness was Oh friendly terms with the house? —witness said " No ; rather the reverse, and that he should have no objection to state any thing against them, if he knew it"—Mr. Alexander said that the house was in the habit of buying stolen goods, and be could prove it. The plaintiff's attorney's clerk proved 1 applications for time to plead in justification on the part of the defendants. The libels were then read by the officer of the Court. This closed the plaintiff's case. Mr. Serjeant Nlxamveanza, on the part of the defendants, said that he should have found himself placed in an embarrassing situa tion, had not the instructions of his clients relieved him from it. They were ready to do justice to the party they had in jured by every means in their power. Two of the de fendants were altogether removed from any share in the management of the paper. Mr. Alexander was the editor and he bad been misled by some of those false representations with which persons in his situation were always beset, but as soon as he had satisfied himself, by inquiries, some of which had been given in evidence to-day, he had published a full and complete recantation of every word that had been published to the plaintiffs' discredit. No actual damage had been proved, and he had been informed that the sole object of the plaintiffs was to vindicate their character,and not to put money in their pockets. Mr. Sergeant Wang replied—For once the defendants had ma• nifested a wish to do justice ; and if the jury had the same desire, he was sure the object would be accomplished by the exemplary nature of tbeir verdict. The LORD CHIEF JOST= charged the jury—They would not keep the retractation of the charges out of consideration; but they would say whether that was sufficient amends after the defendants had asserted that they had the proofs, and had sought evidence of them in January ? Verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, Three Hundred and Fifty Pounds. 4 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. RAMC Cu VW, Tomas Amnia:tit. We have to add the following to our list of arrivals :—Lord Henry Fitzroy, Lord H. lientinck, Lotd Charles Manners, Dr. Goodwin, General Grosvenor ; Messrs. Rush Houldsworth, J. Mills. Hunter, Batson, Waddington, Sloane Stanley, Stanley, Holyoake, Mark Singleton, &c. Count Montroud, Sir L. Glyn, &c. The proportion of female visitors is unusually large. The following Races were run for when our account left : Match. 100 soya h. ft. R. M. Mr. Greville's Blue Bonnet, Bst. slb, 1 Id Ranelagh's Imprudence, 7st. 121 b.. ... 2 The odds at starting were 20 to 11 on Blue Bonnet, who won by a neck, after a severe contest. Rode by &null, the loser by Buckle. Match, 50 sov. b. ft. Set. 71b. each, Last half of Ab. M. Lord Tavistock'c Taurus, by Phantom or Moricco.. Mr. Thornhill's Worry This match, like the last, was qeite unimportant. Betting 2to 1 and 5 to 2on Taurus, who came in a length a-head of his oppo nent, roaring terrifically. He was rode by G. Edwards, and Worry by Conelly. Match, 200, h. ft. A. F. Sir )I. Wood's Lucerta, Bst. 31b. Ld. Worcester's Felt, Bst. 71b... ....... . .. paid. Some heavy bets were made on this match, which possessed more than ordinary interest; but as it was generally considered an ill-made one for Felt, the forfeit created little surprise, however great the disappointment. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soy. each, 10 ft. for two-year olds. T. Y. C. Mr. Batson's Suffolk Punch, Bst. 21b ... 1 Mr. Roberts's 1. by Modals. dam by Skim, Bst. 71b. Mr. WSW:et e. by Tramp, dam by Shuttle, Bst. 51b. 3 Duke of Richmond's Aranda, Bst. 7Ib. Mr. Thornhill's 1. by Ernißus, Bet. 71b Lord Anson's Sister to Sontag, Ilst. 51b. 0 Lord Chesterfield's 1. by Merlin, and Mr. Forth's b. 1. by Cen taur, paid. The above is the order in which they came in, with the exception of Mr. Thornhill's, who was left behind. The start is disputed, and the race will be run again. Present State of the Betting. MIST. 7 to 1 sgst Sir M. Wood's rslummer 14 to 1 -- Mr. Dilly's Cetus. 13 to 1 -- Mr. Petre's Brunswicker 16 to 1 .-- Lord Exeter's Mahmoud 18 to 1 Mr. Chlfney's Cressida colt 8 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Mouthe 10 to 1 Lord Ezeter's Sbumla 12 to 1 Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly. All the rest as before. At one o'clock this afternoon the following entries closed for to-morrow Handicap Plate of ,E5O. A. F. , . Hindostan, Goshawk, Seraph, Ada colt, Miss Craven, Bolivar, Bobadilia, Brother to Lapdog, and Day Star. Subscription Plate of X5O, for two and three yr olds. 1 Cobweb filly, two yrs; Ambiguity colt, three yrs ; Pera ( Ad vance 1.). three yrs ; Sister to Moslem f. two yrs ; Augur, three yrs; Versatility, three yrs; Scymetar, three yrs; Harold, three yrs; Braham (Bravura colt,) 2 yrs ; Sister to Lapilog.,Azo-yrs. The following Matches have just been made :- 200, h. ft. Bst. 71b. each—Lord G. Cavendish's c. by Godolphin, , Espagunlle, agar Mr. Greville's c. by Moses— Sycoraz.;— To be run for to-morrow. 200, A. F .—Sir M. Wood's Lucena, Sat. 71b. apt Lord G. H. Osearodish's Mouse filly, Bst. 21b. (Saturday.) It Is expected that the Races will conclude on Saturday, and tSat it will be the best day of the Meeting. 4 PEDESTRIANISM. i Skipper, the pedenri.o, who has been amusing himself by walk , slaty miles a - day for six successive days (on the toad from , vier to Tiverton) completed his task on Tuesday Isar A liberal subscription was made fur him at Tiverton, to which town, at the completion of his task, an enlivening band announced his arrival. THE ENSUING OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. We have at length arrived at the eighth and con chsding Sestina of the Mayoralty of Wm. Thompson, Esq. and it affords us gratification to observe, that during the past year crime has diminished in the City of Lon don,: which is doubtless owing to the Improved state of the Civic Police. The Calendar of prisoners for trial is numerically heavy, when the short interval since the last Session is considered ; but with regard to capital charges, it is more favourable than we have beheld one for more than two years past, there being only 22 persons charged with offences which affect their lives. The following is a correct summary statement of the various of fences with which the prisoners for trial severally stand charged, via. Burglary, 3—Housebreaking. 7—Rape. I—Highway Robbery, 3—Forgery, ll—Uttering Forged Notes. I—Forgery, 2—Coining. I—s Stealing in Dwelling Houses, 3—Cutting and Maiming, 2 Embezzling, S.—Bigamy, 3—Stealing from the Person, 33—Re ceiving Stolen Goods, 3—Manslaughter, 2—Fraud, I—Uttering Counterfeit Coin, I—Larcenies, 207—Total, 280. Of the above number, there were 34 charged with the com mission of crime in the City of London, and 244 in the county of Middlesex. STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEWGATE, Om 27. ?Sales. Females. Prisoners under sentence of Death --------- Transportation for life 22 6 14 years .... 5 17 7 ditto ..... 33 32 Imprisoned for Felonies and Nlisdemeanors 3 0 ..---- for trial at the ensuing Sessions ... 210 68 —.--....-- committed under the Bankrupt -- Laws . 0 ----- whose judgments are respited ..... 3 0 ------ acquitted on the ground of Insanity and detained during royal pleasure .... ...... . .. 3 0 for trial for Conspiracy 1 287 123 Total tub POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.. Yesterday the driver of a van d Mr. James Shearman, of the Certain-road, Shoreditch, was charged before Mr. Aid. Tuoar, by 'Mosby, one of the officers to the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals, with mal-treating his horse, drawing the said van, on Blackfriars Bridge; he was reprimanded by the worthy Magis trate ; and on his promising not to offend again, and it being his first offence, be was ordered to pay the officer the costs, 45. and be discharged. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Nevitt, the landlord of the George. a respectable public-house at Hammersmith, came before Mr. Mnrsnutd., and asked his advice how to act under these circumstances : A party of five respectably dressed persons came to his house and ordered refreshments to the amount of 10s. which they paid for, but afterwards had grog amounting to 4s. 6d. and were about to leave the house when he stopped three of them, sod they swore they would not pay. One of them jumped out of the window, while another threw a glass at the applicant, which Ad not strike him, but broke to pieces on the floor. He finally got the amount he demanded, but on Monday morning he was served with a notice of action by one of the parties for an assault and false imprisonment. Mr. blrusnui.t. said this was one way of answering a just de mand ; bat observed that he could give the complainant no assist. ance • he must apply to his lawyer. The complainant said he had no fondness for lawyers, but sooner than submit to such a demand, he would employ an attorney to de fend the action. Mr. Bewee, am attorney, was brought up, charged with assault ing a Mr. M'Kay, the leaseholder of two houses in Thanet-place, Temple-bar. In the course of a long examination, it appeared that Mr. Bower occupied chambers In one of the houses rented by Mr. M'Kay, front Messrs. Child's, the bankers, and Mr. M'Kay was extremely anxious to get rid of one whom he considered to be a most troublesome tenant, he being in the habit of keep ing late hours, and bringing home noisy company with him, to the great annoyance of the neighbours. On Sunday night last, in the course of a dispute, Mr. Bower struck Mr. Id• Kay a blow which gave him a black eye. This was the assault complained of by Mr. &May, and in answer to it Mr. Bower said he had been annoyed in every possible way. Mr. M' Kay had endeavoured to stalk him out with brimstone ; to " burn him out" with blazing lanterns placed in front of his door; and to " stick him with a sword ; and finally, he had placed an earthen pot, full of combos tibls matters, under his bed, for the purpose of " blowing hint up."—(Lowl laughter.) Mr. Minimum, after a very patient investigation, ordired both parties to find bail to keep the peace towards each other. H ATTON-G A RDEN. Two men, named Russell and Blaclkurn, were brought before Messrs. Roosts and Lento, charged with obstructing police-offi cers, Cole and Osborne, in Horton-street, at about two o'clock in the morning. Cole (No. 14) deposed that as he and Osborne were on duty in Horton-street, the two prisoners assailed them with very abusive and disgusting language. Witness desired them to go away quietly, but they would not, and they took them to the watch-twine. Mr. Rooms (to prisoners)—What do you say to obstructing the officers?—We were drunk. Mr. Booths—So you think it right that a parcel of drunken fellows like you are to obstruct and abuse the constituted authori ties • you must find bail. authori ties; prisoners were them locked up..... • .. Adrianople was taken from the Greeks by the Turks in 1350, and continued to be the seat of their empire till the cap ture of Constantinople in 1453—an interval of IC3 years. This city was taken by Mahomet the Second, at the age of twenty three—one of the most rentaikable of the Turkish Sultans, and a native of Adrianople. This put an end to the Eastern Empire, which had subsisted for 1,123 years. THE GREAT SNORING COMMITTEE.—It is usual to designate patliamentary committees by the names of the bills, they sit to consider. A bill was some years ago introduced into the House of Lords, for enclosing lands in the parish of (+rest Snoring, in the county of Norfork, and was in regular course committed to a select committee. It is sometimes a practice to move that on a select committee all the lords who attend it shall have voices; and Lord Eldon, then bold chancellor, one day rose with the greatest gravity, and said, " I request your lordships serious attention to the motion I am about to put ; it is, that .11 the lords who attend the Great Snoring Committee shall have voices." The Tralee Mercury, in illustration of the blessings which Ireland derives from absenteeism, says that " Sir Edward Denny, not content with being an absentee himself, appoints an absentee agent. From 50 to 60 new leases were recently papered by the agent, and for every lease six guineas was charged fur law costs, and three guineas towards the expenses of Mr. France front Worcester to Tralee and back again. Sir Edward Denny draws out of his estates in Kerry about 14,0001, a year, and an additional I,ooof. a year for the sale of the borough of Tralee." It is understood that Lord Southwell and several Ca tholic gentlemen of the county of Worcester are about to be added to its list of Alagistrates. It is mid that Sir Edward Blouit, Bart. C. E. Hanford, Esq. R. Berkeley, Esq. T. C. Hornyhold, Esq. and W. Acton, Esq. will be of the number. BIRTH. Oct. 22, at Goodwood, her Grace the Duchess of Richmond, of a sm. DIED. At Gibs, rather suddenly, Catherine, sister to the present Knight of Min. At Pdeuntjoy-squue, Dublin, Robert, eldest son of Lieutenant- Colonel Te lly. Friday se'nnigbt, of a brain fever, at the house of her father, in Ennis, Anna :Stogie, third daughter of John O'Donnell, Esq. At Cuddalore, on the s th June last; John Hart Jullie, Esq. of Madras. At Homewood Parsonage, near Lichfield, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Harwood, D.D. In consequence of a fall from his horse, William iValker, Esq. of Sondsampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, aged 36 years. At Peterhead, Mr. John Smith, schoolmaster. aged 82 years. Mr. Smith bad been a teacher for upwards of 60 years, 55 id which • were in Peterhead. At Arbroath, Miss Hope Fildan. Many a traveller, when be casts his eye upon the record of this good ere:store's death will drop a tear of pity to her memory. Her kindneps'of uisposition was such. that she literally gave all she had to the poor. Lost, in going ashore from the brig Zeno, while in the Outer Road!, Off Brenos Ayres, on the 7th of July last, Mr. Allan slac- . 'Orient. son of 'I homes Mutation, Esq. Sttlebuitr- More, Argyll shire; Colin Brotrn,' M. D. son of Mr; &own; Catnidew, Argyll- Aire.; and Mr. David William Cisarteris, sun of George Charters, Esq. Andifteld, Dumfriesshire. rs vo' ATER at LON DON Bill DG *TO- MO it It OW. Morning ' 29. tritnopes . after iec Atternnuo , 47 musuatter 9 LOVIDOS Printed and Published by Joists Maass. at the Sus- Orme, No. l, Pickett placs,Temple Rat.