Star. — London, England, 1829-11-21 00:00:00

t ** THE LIMIETRO, AT LISBON. 'that useful and meritorious periodi cal, " The M i rror, " in giving a wood-cut, this morning, of the external look of the Lt Meet RO at Lisbon, has the following horrible, though interesting, description of the jail in w hich t o o 'alloy Englishmen have been immured—for what ? attachment to their own constitutional institutions, and for disaffection to the infamous—hated—and bloody courses of the most detestable tyrant that ever was suf fpred to exist in the face of the earth—from NERO, in former times, down to the. feudal GLENG &RAY in our own times. We acknowledge our obligations to Mr. Yu.; NO for information which we, ourselves, had no op roAnnity of acquirin; personally—though we have run our head into the Lion's mouth; and we applaud the cult and independence of " The Mirror" for giving its wide and influential circulation to a flatement that may tend, to give an estimate of Mu: crt.'s character—for more truly than all the jesuitical pA:aph'.ets that daily and weekly make their appearance pro and con on the same subject. We now quote : Locks, bolts, and bars ! what have we here ?—a view of the Ll motif°, or common jail, at Lisbon, whose horrors, without the fear of Don Miguel in our hearts, we will endeavour to describe, though lightly—merely in outline—since nothing can be more disagreeable than the filling in. For this purpose we might quote one of our correspondents, or a host of travellers, and residents in the Portuguese capital; but we give preference to Mr. W. Young, who had borne much of the hard fare of the prison, and can accordingly speak mere fully of its accommodations and privations. Mr. Young is an Englishman, who married a Portuguese lady in Leiria, and resided for several years in that town. He was arrested in May. 1828, en suspicion of disaffection towards Don Miguel's Gorernment. Nothing appears to have been proved against him, and after having suffered much disagreeable treatment in different jails in Leiria and Lisbon, he was discharged on the folio/ring Sep tember. on condition of leaving the country. He returned to Eng land, and lost no time in publishing a volume entitled " Portugal in 18E8 ;" with " A Narrative of the Author's Residence there, and of his Persecution and Confinement as a State Prisoner." The prison (says Mr. Young) stands on the highest ground In St • George's Castle, and is the first building on the south side toward* the Tagus. Near the entrance it is divided internally as follows &Leila (the small hall) ; Shila Livre (free hall), so called because visitors are allowed to go in and see their friends except when the jailer or intendant orders otherwise ; Salk Feat:do (the hall shut), so called because no communication is allowed with the prisoners in that hall ; Enchovia (the common prison), where thieves, mur derers, and vagabonds of every description, are confined. This last eceptacle is a horrid place, and is often made use of as a punish ment for prisoners from other parts of the jail. Hither they are sent when they commit any offence, for as many days as the jailor may think proper, and are often put in irons during that time. Besides these different prisons oat the ground floor, there are eight dungeons in a line, an nearly alike in shape and size ; but some are Superior to others as to light and air : and in proportion to the . degree they wish to annoy the unfortunate victims, so are these dungeons used. A few dollars never fail to procure a beans light and air, when properly applied. Three of done dungeons are about six feet higher than the other five. There is a corridor in the front of them, which is always shut when any one is vonfined in them, so that no one can ever ap proach the door of a dungeon. And to make this a matter of cer. tainty. whenever the jailer or officers of the prison carry prisoners their food, they lock the door of the corridor before they open that of the dungeon. The first of the lower five of these dungeons is in the passage leading from the Salle Lien. and next door to the privy of the pri son ;so thririt is never used as a secret dungeon. The lower four are enclosed as chose &boar, and are much darker than that in the passage. This latter is claimed by the book-keeper as his property. and I hired it of him to sleep in. and to be alone when I wished to be so. The dungeons are all bomb-proof, and over them is a terrace thickly formed of brick and stone • still I could distinctly hear the sentry walking corer my head whe n all was quiet at night. The walls of these cells are shoat de feet thick, with bars inside and out. The bars in the windows are three inches square, making twelve inches. in circumference,. and being crossed they form squaresof about eight inches; the windows differ very much in size, some not being half so large as others. Besides these double bars, there is • shutter immensely strong and close, so that when shut light is totally excluded ; the iron door basa strung bolt and lock, and outside of this there Is a strong wooden door ; in the front of the windows, and about six sect from them, there is a high wall, so that in the best of those dungeons there is only a reflected light. These are aU the prisons on the ground-flour, and when full— which they too often are—the wretched prisoners are forced to lie at night in two rows, with their feet to the wall, and their heads to the middle of the room ; this position they adopt on account of the cold and damp of the stone walls ; they touch each other, and the floor is completely covered. Nay, at times, so full is the jail, that they are obliged to lie on the corridors, and even on the steps. The Seletta will hold forty prisoners, the Sala Liere more than sixty, the Sails Feehado one hundred, and the Enchovia near One hundred and forty. When one prison becomes too full, they re. move some of the victims to another, or send them to the forts, or oa board the ships in the river. The first floor is divided into two parts, officers' rooms, and the Saila°, (saloon or large hall). This hall will hold about 150 persons, when full. BMde the Saila° and officers' rooms on the first floor, there lea room set apart for questioning people who are in the dungeons. This room has an entrance from the street, and another throtigh a passage from the dungeons, as well as one from the officers' rooms. The magistrate and his clerk enter from the street, and no one in the prison sees them. The prisoner is taken up stairs from the dungeon, and the jailer or book-keeper enters from the officers' sparunentss Every* thing is done in the most secret manner. If they cannot cause the prisoner to commit himself, by confessing to the offence with which he is charged, they send him back spin to the dungeon. The gaol of St. George's has a second floor, tier of offices; but that-Wongs to the governor and jailer; there are no prisoners above the ground and the first floor. None of the authorities ever inquire whether he has any means of subsistence ; there is neither bed, blanket, nor even straw, unless the prisoner can buy it, and then he must pay the guards to let it pass to him. Amongst the many thousands of unfortunate beings who are new confined in Portugal, peat numbers of them are without money or any other means' f subsistence ; and were it not for the charity of people fit general, starvation would necessarily - ensue. • The only authorities employed about the prison are a jailer, se cretary, and eight guards • of the latter three are always on duty k one of them being station ed at the first iron gate at the entrance of the prison, another at the second gate. and a third to attend the interior, each with a binch of keys. in his hand, which serve for nearly all the doors. The guards are relieved every night it nine o'clock, when, the man who •is posted at the outer door car ries a strong trots rod, with. which he strikes every bar in the windows and gates of the gad; and if any one of them does not vibrate, or ring, he carefully inspects it to ascertain whether it has heed cut with a saw, or corroded by any strong acid. This dismal music lasts an hour. The whole expense of the prison to Govern ment does not exceed 165. per day, and the few officers and guard., when Mr. Young was there, manage upwards, of 400 prisoners.— He was confined from June N. to Sept. 7, and his account of the myriads of bugs, rats, mice, and ether vernsin,istruly disgusting.— The reader will however readily credit this report when he has been told of the revolting state of the city itself. Mrs. Baillie, in her recent Letters on Lisbon. says," for three miles round Lisbon in every direction, you cannot for a moment get clear of the disgusting effluvia that issue from every house." Doctor Southey says "every kind of vermin that exists to punish the nastiness and indolence of man, multiplies in the heat and dirt of Lisbon." In addition to mosquitoes, the scolopendra is not uncommonly found here, and makes sometimes Intrude into the bedchamber A small media of red ant likewise swarms over every thing sweet, and the Porto. guess mangy is to send for the priest to camel,. them. The city, ; is still subject to shocks of earthquake; the state of the.police is hor,,, rible; . street-robbery ls common, and every thief is an assassin,.-3 The pocket-knife, which the French trrscsps ire said In have dreaded' more than Meth.: has Olftt* of either the bpanish or the rortninesei is here the ready weapon of the amassits; and the. Tagus receives many a cur* on stitch no inquest ever sits. The moral.. in feet, of all classes in LiAmoti, appear to I.e to a dreadful state. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING. The Craven Hounds meet on Monday, at Hunt's Green ; Wed nesday, at Standen House ; Friday, at the Monument, in Sari nake Forest; and Saturday, at Denford House. The Earl of Hariwood's Fox Hounds, on Monday, at North Deighton; Wednesday, at Hook Moor; and Friday. it CoUing ham Bar. The Hadsworth Fos Hounds, on Tuesday, at Pollington ; Thursday. at Bed House ; and Saturday, at Woolley Hall. Lord Petre's Fos Hounds on Monday. at Inptestone flail ; Thursday, at Woodbam ; and Saturday, at Stanford-le-Hope. The Somerset Fos Hounds on Tuesday; at Raleigh's Cross ; and Friday, at Lee Cliffs. Lord Kintore's Hounds on Monday, at Dockland Cross Roads ; Thursday, at Balking-green ; and Friday, at Whittenhant Woods. Mr Horkek's Hounds on Monday, at Limpley Stoke ; and Wednesday. at Gatcombe Wood, Christian Malford. The Conoek Hariers, at St. Anne's HiU,on Monday and Friday, at Haskings's Penning. The Cottesmore Hounds on Monday at Pkkwonh Town ; Tuesday, at Watchley Warren; Thursday, at Park House; and Friday, at Leesthorpe. Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds on Monday, at Ashton Wold ; Wed nesday, at Hammerton Grove; and Thursday, at kennel. Burton Hunt—Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds on Monday, at Faldingworth Grange; Tuesday, at Welton Mill ; Wednesday, at Brattleby; Thursday, at Halfway House. on the Newark road, and Kenwick-thorn Bar (two packs) ; and Saturday, at Stapel ford-moor. Lord Yarborough's Hounds on Monday, at Bradley-wood ; Wednesday, at Kingsford House ; Friday, at Blyborough Hall; and Saturday, at Swallow Cross-roads. The Doddington Harriers on Tuesday, at kennel; and Friday, at Lewin's Firs. The Earith Harriers, on Tuesday, at Dog House Prove, WU button ; Friday, at Swavesey-mill. The Worcestershire Fox Hounds on Tuesday, at Crow's Nest ; and Friday, at Churchill. Mr. Boycett's Hounds on Monday. at Spittle Brook ; and Thurs day, at Chiliington. Mr. Dansey's Hounds on Munday,at Saddlebow-hill ; Thursday, at England's-gate ; and Saturday, at Newnham-turnpike, The Warwickshire Fos Hounds on Monday, at Compton Verney. The Cambridgeshire Hounds on Monday, at Hayky Wood; Friday at ChUderley Gate. Mr. Mute's Fox Hounds on Tuesday, at &owlangtoft Spinney ; Thursday at Kennet Bell ; Saturday at Burrough-green. The Packeridge Hounds, Monday, at Glisten. Park ; Wednes day, at Peverelles ; Saturday, at Watton. The Royston Harriers, Tuesday, at Barkway Toll Bar ; Thurs day, at the Thrift. The Shropshire Hounds, Tuesday, at Cbetwynd Park ; Wed nesday. at Uffington Village ; Friday, at the 'fwesulows. Sir Richard Puleston s Hounds, Monday, at Overton Cross ; Wednesday, at Overton Scar ; Friday, at Bangor Bridge. Mr. Wicksted's Hounds on Tuesday, at Crewe; and Friday, at Hankelow. The Cheshire Hounds on Monday, at Barr Bridge; Wednesday, at Sluvingtun ; Thursday, at blarbury ; and Saturday, at Wrenbury. H. Jaffe, Esq.'s Fox Hounds on Monday, at Platt's-green ; Wednesday, at the Bell at °lnwood ; Thursday, at Nutfield Marsh ; and Saturday, at the Hermitage, Walton Heath. The Surrey Fos Hounds on Monday, at the Hal( Moon, Good stone-road; Thursday, the White Lion, Lock's Bottom; and Sa turday, at the King's Arms, Westerham. T. Meager, Esq 's Harriers, on Monday. Wednesday, and Friday, at Pet Place, Crokam. The Sanderstead Harriers on Monday, Wednesday, at Saturday, at Sanderstead Village. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 20. LIBEL: CL iaason tr. Lawson. This case came before the Court on demurrer. It was an action brought by the plaintiff. who is a proctor, against the " Times" newspaper, for a libel published in that Journal, stating that the plaintiff had been suspended three times from his office for extor tion—once by Lord Stowell, and twice by Sir John NichoU. The defendant in his plea professed to justify the whole of the charge ; but the alleged proof advanced in justification, extended only to a single instance of suepension, and not to three, as charged in the libel. The plaintiff then demurred to this plea as bad. Ir. Sergeant Canes was heard for the plaintiff, and argued that the defendant was bound to junify the whole of the libel, as he professed to answer the whole of the charge. Mr. Sergeant WILDII, in support of the plea, contended that the gist of the action. was the charge of extortion, as the plaintiff com plained that the defendant had caused the public to believe that be had been guilty of that offence. The defendant proposed to prove that he bad been guilty of it, and punished fur it ; it signified not whether once or three times, it was enough to justify so much of the libel as the plaintiff pointed out as its sting. The Learned . Sergeant, therefore submitted , that the defendant must have the judgment of the Co urt, as be did not profess to answer the whole, and had well answered apart. The Court, without calling upon Mr. Sergeant Cross to reply, held that the plea was bad. It was a much greater offence to say that a 'man had been punished three times than once, and therefore the defendant ought to justify the whole.—Judgment for the plaintiff. TOWNES V. CSATTSSTON. The Court delivered judgment in this case this morning—lt was a rule tri set aside a noesuit is an action tried before the late Lord Chief Justice Best on the Circuit. The point was, whether a verbal promise to pay a debt, otherwise void by the Statute of Limita dons. was valid in an action brought subsequent to the commence ment of the operation of Lord Tenterden s Act (Ist of January, 1829). 'whkh requires such promise to be in writing, the verbal promise being prlor to the coennsencemint of the Act. The Court dedded that the action and the promise .must both be before the lit of January last. The Court of King's Bench had held that the trial, as well as the verbal promise, must take place before that time, which was still stronger.—Rule discharged. . COURT OF KING'S 'BENCH,—Nov. 19. TNT SIMI V. 11021$ MAST9i ;IND MISR& The defendants, three countrymen. dressed in smock-frocks, were placed open the floor of the Court to receive judgment for a conspiracy to prevent a witness from attending to give evidence on An occasion where his testimony was necessary. Mr. Justice Passe, having stated that this was an informatir preferred by tie Attorney-General at the maims for the county of Sus.ex, read his notes of the evidence, from which it appeared that the prosecutor, a person of the name of Henry Mercer. hav ing been summoned to give evidence in support of an information against a person named Billing, for an illicit traffic in spirits, the defendants, with a view to suppress the evidence of the prosecu tor, called upon him on the day before the examination took place, made him drank, and very much ill used him, and, finally, trumping up an unfounded charge of theft against him, detained him forcibly at the t'me when his evidence was required—one of the party having sent for a constable, as it were to take the prose cutor into custody, while another was dispatched to all the con stable nest to come. The defendants tendered an affidavit. in which they declared that the violence with Which they were charged had not been preconcerted or premeditated between them with intent to de feat the ends of justice, bet had arisen from a sudden mis understanding lad intemperance, the parties having been all drinking together for several hours. They prayed the Court to take into its merciful consideration chat they had been attested on the 2d of June 'last, and had continued in the county gaol ever since. The affidavit of the prosecetor, Mr. Mercer, stated that he had been treated with great cruelty and violence, :hat be bad received much personal injury. and had not yet recovered perfect strength of his right arm, in which he had sustained a very serious hurt from the attack of the defttulatits. bit. Justice BATLEY, in pronouncing sentence, said that the de fendants had been found guilty under an indictment charging them with a conspiracy's() obstruct the course of public justice, and to prevent a person named Henry Mercer from giving evidence in a case where his testimony was necesaaty. There could be no doubt of their participatins in the offence with which they were chasged, and which was an offence of a very serious nature. They had al ready suffered a considemble degtee• of punishment in being kept from their wives and families since the 3d of June. lint the Court could not overlook offences of this kind, nor could they suffer it to be imagined that any attempts to impede the execution of justice would fail to bring down a heavy punishment upon all who were concerned in them. The Court therefore ordered and adjudged that the def.:attains should be imprisoned in the House of Correc tion at Lewes for the space of six calendar. months, and shoald give securities fur their good behaviour for two years, each defendant himself in in% and two,sureties in .CO2 each. ' ' rid memo' w CLATHAII. The Arromme-GanteAr, moved the aunt to pass judgment on the defendant, who, it will be remembered, had been convicted of obtaining a certificate to practise as an apothecary, by swearing that be was one-and-twenty years of age when such was not the fact. The particulars of this ease appeared In our King's Bench report at the tfaSseof Its occurrence. Affidavits from the most respectable inhabitants of Thorny, where the defendant resided. were read, which gave the defendant in excellent chi.racter. Mr. Bsooonate addressed the court for the defendant, and Mr. Kat.xy followed upon the same side ; after which The Arrosurr-Ganzaax addressed the court at considerable length for the prosecution, during which he took occasion to speak In very Battering terms of the respectability of the defendant's tes• timonials of character. ' Mr. Justice BATIXT then proceeded to pass sentence upon the defendant, and said that no man with a proper feeling of morality but must shrink from resorting to such means as the defe:Klant had been guilty of in order to bring himself forward; that it wa not a question of fitness or unfitness to practi►e as an apothecary. The defendanthad been guilty of a breach of the statute In which it is ex pre,sly enacted that no person shall practise as an apothecary until hr has reached the age of twenty-one. The defendant's character had hitherto been unimpeachable, but the present case formed a most momentous exception. Such a sentence, therefore, must be passed as would teach persons to do right, If they could not other wise distinguish between what was correct and what was wrong. The court, therefore, ordered the defendant to be imprisoned six months in the county prison at Huntingdon, and in the meantime stand committed to the custody of the marshal of the Marshalsea. COURT OF ARCHES, Nov. 19. Before Sir Jolts Menne& BUNS V. MM. Dr. LUSHIXOTON, on behalf of Mrs. Skene, brought in a respon sive allegation to the articles exhibited against her, in which a se paration was prayed, by reason of her adultery. The allegation stated, that the cause of Mr. Skene quitting the house, as pleaded in the articles against her, was not on account of his fearing per sonal violence Com the disaffection which she constantlymanifested towards him ; but arose from his violent and ungovernable temper, as on one occasion he bad struck her with a Sate, which was bro ken; and on another with a rolling-pin, which caused her great pain. Another of the articles went to impeach the character of a witness named Sarah Wright, who proved the adultery alledged to be committed by Mr.. Skene, with a gentleman named Pledger, as the said Sarah Wright was the inmate of a common brothel. The fact being elicited by interrogatories, Dr. Anoams appeared for Mr. Skene, and opposed the admis sion of the allegation, as many of the facts pleaded were merely historical, and irre levant to the charge of adultery brought against her. The JUDGE said, the suit is confined to separation by reason of adultery, and the allegation now brought forward contains an ex planation of the reason of Mr. Skene quitting the house, and re torting the charge of violence of temper, which is not at all import. ant to the issue of the suit ; and I don't think it necessary that the wife should enter into details of disputes to show the Court on which side the blame rested; this article, therefore, I do not con sider sufficiently responsive. The second article is a mere attack on the character of a witness who establishes the act of adultery against Mrs. Skene. If the Court sees d o n the gtat of the cause rests upon the testimony of this witness, Binh Wright, it will ad mit this allegation ; but the judgment of the Court is, that these al legations should be suspended until the hearing of the cause. HAMILTON IP. HAMILTON. This suit was assigned for information and sentence. Dr. Lumuntems, on behalf of Major Hamerton, stated the case. The circumstances of the suit were so fully before the Court, that he should confine himself to the additional evidence obtained frum Paris of the conduct of Mr.. Hamerton since her separation, and during the pending( of this cause. The particulars the case have been repeatedly given. The Learned Counsel having been heard, pro and con. The Jonas said, when this cause was first heard, the Court was of opinion that the evidence was ton feeble to establish the fact of criminality, but at the same time considered Mrs. Ilamerton's con duct so culpable that they granted permission to Major Hamerton to bring in further evidence, which was confirmed by the decision of the Court of Delegates. The additional evidence proved the continuance of the visiting intercourse at Paris, and of Nr. 13usbe being frequently alone with Mrs. Hamerton. Several witnesses proved having also frequently seen these parties together under very suspicious circumstances. These facts, coupled with the pre vious conduct of the parties, leave no doubt upon the mind of the Court that adultery had been committed. The judgment was, therefore, that Major Hamerton had fully established his case, and his prayer for separation was therefore granted. Mali COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Nov. 20. Before Sir Csatseornaa Roantrant. 21111 1100RMAHUL. _ _ This suit was called on last Court day, but further proceedings were deferred in order to procure the attendance of Trinity Masters, who were to decide a question of situation of peril, which would materially govern the adjudication of salvage. Dr. Donsos—The Noormahul, from Manilla to the port. of London, with a valuable cargo of coffee and sugar, was run fool ' of by an unknown vessel, on the night of the 13th of Marsh last, ' and received considerable damage. The accident occurred about 400 mites front the Scilly Island, in lit. 48. 19. 17. west longitude. The Wanstead, of three hundred tons, commanded. by Lieutenant Langhorn and 21 men, found her in this unsanageable state. 'and by their exertions succeeded in rescuing the vessel and cargo, and saving the lives of those on board. The master of the Wansttad went immediately on board the Noormahul, accompanied by Lieut. Colk, a passenger on board, and assistance was immediately began to be rendered. Spars were furnished, and the carpenters of the respec tive vessels made a survey of the Noormabul, and discovered her in a attatnate. From the 13th up to the 29th of March, the Win stead was engaged in towing the Noormahul ; the wind shifting and being within forty miles of the Irish coast, the Winstead put into port for provisions, and dispatched pilot - boats to the assistance of the Noormahul, but wit unable to get into harbour, from stress of weather, but ultimately Worked her way up the Channel, and ar rived in the port of London. The Learned Civilian submitted, from his statement, that the vessel bad been saved by the exertions of Capt. Langborn and men, and therefore were entitled to ample remuneration. The•Knio's ADVOe.ATIS rose and said be applied to the Court on behalf of air. Gale, owner of the Winstead, for compensation, inas much as be had sustained loss by the detention of his vessel, which bad a cargo of oil, &c. on board, valued at £4,600. Dr. Putti.nicias appeared for the owners of the Noorniabui, and called the attention of the Court to the situation in which he was placed by two actions having been so unusually brought by sepa rate parties who claimed remuneration. The owners of the Wao. stead began their action first, and were followed by the salvors ; not content with this, the charterer of the Wstmead gave on ap pearance, and came forward to ask compensation. The Noortna bul bad certainly been run foul of, and revel ed assistance from the Wanstmd, but there were affidavits before the Court which would prove that before her arrival the leak bad been stopped, and the only damage that she had sustained was confined to ,the rigging. The opposite party contends there was a leak hi the larboard bow. This is a point for the Trinity Gentlemen to decide. A tender of £5OO for recompense to salvors, exclusive of any further advance for damage, &c. had been made and rejected. He contended this was amply sufficient, and that the Court would rather decrease than sdd to the amount, Dr. ADDAMS read several affidavits, as to the dangerous state of the vessel ; and counter affidavits were exhibited by the opposing Counsel, which occupied the Court upwards of three hours. The Ktea's Anvocars inquired if it appeared its the act in ques tion that Captain Langborn had endeavoured to persuade the clew of the Noormahul to quit the vessel, by representing the danger to be greater than it was. Dr. Puu.intoatt said that this charge was only meant to rebut the assertion that the crew expressed a wish to leave the vessel. The KIWI'S Attsrocern said he considered the charge very serious and most improper. Dr. Donsos then resumed, and was followed by Dr. ADDAMS. The Knol's Anyone's (with whom was Dr. Lusunitarox), who appeared for Mr. Campbell, the charterer, and part owner of the cargo of the Wanstead, said the actual damage done to the cable and boat, with amount of stores furnished the Noormabul, was upwards of £lOO. A compensation for leakage of oil was also sought. The Amos consulted with the Trinity Gentlemen who sat with him on the Bench, and decided that the £5OO offered was sufficient t for the service rendered. Thursday evening, some persons contrived to enter the upper part of the house of Mr. Taylor, corner of King David-lane. Shadwell; they broke open every drawer, cupboard, &e. in the house, with the exception of the lower part, where were two of Mr. Taylor's men' sitting, whom the thieves did nut disturb.— The forced open the cupboard which usually contained the cash boa • to their mortification, it was not there, as it bad been left by accident upon the shop counter, and escaped the observation of the thi e ves ; but they succeeded in possessing themselves of a variety of property, with which they e•captd. A dreadful accident befel Mr. Godfrey, a respectable miller, of Duddington, near Stamford, on Tuesday last. He had trimmed his horse's tail, and was standing at a short distance be bind lt,witb bis head stooped, when the horse gave him a kick in the face with such force as to fracture the lower jaw bone in three places, and knock out almost the whole of his upper teeth. Mr. Godfrey continues speechless. but perfectly sensible, and some hope is entertained of his recovery. Monday last, John Bell, alias Peatfield, and John Brewitt, both of East ltrtford, were commits.] td the county jail for trial the next assizes, charged with having . bu rd tight. armed* with guns, unlawfully entered the reserves of Altborpe, at Scaftwoeth, together with several ether persons, to the number of eight, yet unknown, fur the purpose of destroying game. Present. however, while in custody of the consuble, for the purpose of being conveyed to Nottingham, nude his maps, and has not since been retakeu.—Nsuurk rims. ,~. POLICE INTELLIG ENCE. LAM BETH-STREET. ... t } lait ~ • . Romans DURING TUE Foo.—Yesteiday a more than usual num- • ber of informations of robberies committed in this district and that part of the adjoining counties to which the jurisdiction of the police Magistrates of the Whitechapel division of police extends. was re ceived at this office, all of which were perpetrated on Thursday - night, and yesterday morning, during the prevalence of the dense fug, with which the metropolis, and the eastern suburbs, in particu lar. adjoining it, have been fee ibe last three days visited. The one marked with the most daring atrocity, was committed on the per son of Mrs. Sarah Burney, an aged lady, in the Commercial-road. Between four and five o'clock on Thursday evening, while the old gentlewoman was returning to her house, No. 9, York-terrace, she was attacked by two unmanly rufilens, who levelled her with the earth, and robbed her of her watch, spectacles, and some cash. They left her quite insensible from their violence, and so brutal was it, that she is at present under the care of a medical man. John Marshall, the husband of a laundress, living at Cbadwell, near Epping Forest, while returning. at about six o'clock, with a quantity of clothes to be washed for his town customers, was robbed of a bundle from his cart, in which they were contained. A third information was laid by the waggoner of the Alkrton waggon, of Hadley, in Suffolk, who stated that, on that morning, while coming up to town. between Bow-bridge and Whitechapel, a trunk, addressed Mrs. Elisabeth Green, containing a number of lathe's' new-made dresses, was stolen from the rear of his waggon. Mrs. Levi, a matronly Jewess, was brought up on a warrant, charging bier with breeding a riot and disturbance about the house and person of a Mr. Pool, a pianoforte-maker. W. Pool stated that he bad repaifed a pianoforte, strings, and all, for the defendant, for the sum of 10s; but she, not satisfied with the mode in which he done his work, came to his house, and annoyed both him and his family. Mrs. Levy said she had given a planer to Mr. P. to repair, and paid him 10s. for it. She thought it, when it came home, a very good binstmment ; but a musical friend, who tried it, said it was not as good as before, and that the guts and dampers were taken out of k. She went to get them back, and Mr. Pool abused her, and threatened to knock her down, (turning to her daughter), didn't he, Maria, my dear ?—He did, Mama, and kept the dampers, and tbingumees what makes the planer go high and low. Mr. Pool—You liked it very well ma'am, when it went home ; and didn't'you ask my daughter to give Miss Maria some lessons, and didn't I agree for them at 6d. a-piece ? Mrs. Levi—l wanted none of your lessons; I could get a pre fersional gentleman to teach my daughter for 3d. a lesson. Give me back my guts and dampers, and that is all I wants. Mr. Pool, in explanation, said that what Mrs. I. called guts and dampers, he supposed to be the internal parts of a piano, which were worn out, and which he had thrown away. The Magistrate told him that he had no right to throw them away, they not being his property; neither had Mrs. Levi any right to demand them in a violent manner ; both were in fauh, and he would therefore dismiss the charge; leaving the expenses of the warrant to be divided amongst them. TOWN HALL rah Holland was charged with stealing two gowns from the shop of Mr. Daniel Fox, of Bermondsey-street. It appeared that on Wednesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, Mr. Fox missed two gowns from the inside of his door. which were soon afterwards found to have been pledged with Mr. Wharton and Mr. I'hiiput, pawnbrokers. The prisoner, on his way home, met with a girl, named Mary Rickets, to whom he gave the tickets as a stranger, who, attempting to redeem the articles, was stopped, and through her means the prisoner was taken. and identified as the party pledging. The prisoner was fully committed. Saturday evening three young men, named Roderick Young. James Al Dougald. and John Cameron, labourers. em ployed deepening the river Clyde. were drowned in the Stobcrou Slip Dock, Fionieston. BIRTHS. ----- ---. At Coo!burst, near Horsham, Sussex, the Lady of Arthur Chi chester, Esq. M.P. of a son. At Torquay, the Lady of Leutenant•Colonel Buller Elphln stone, of a daughter. MARRIED. M Glasgow, Alexander llacdougal, Esq. of the Island of To- bago, to Eliza, second daughter of Jam.. 51 1 Queen, Esq. of South Wellington place. At New Ashbourne, Captain B. C. Coffin. R.N. to Charlotte, daughter of the late W. Curry, Esq. of Southampton. DIED. Captain William Adamson. Hon. Bost India Company's set vitt, of Clapham. aged 57. In the 64th year of his age, the Hon. John Coventry, second son of the late Earl of Co►entry. At Fernando Po, on the 14th Sept. Colonel Edward Nlcolls, Royal Marines. Civil Governor of that place. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS, Nov. 40. Beef ..... 3s Od to 31 4d Veal ... 3s 8d to 4s 4d Mutton ... 35 4d to 3s od I Pork ... oil to 41 Sd PRICES or HAY mu) STRAW YESTERDAY. ST. JAMES ' S. WHITIEHAPIL. Hay 311 Os Od to 41 10s Od I Hay 21 5s to 41 41 Od Dover 5110 s Od to 51 5s Od I Closet 21 103 to 51 Os Od Straw 21 Os Od to 21 4s Od I Straw 11 Of to II 1011 01 PRICE OF LEATHER. Best Dressing Hides Common Ditto ......... Crop Hides, 55 to 40Ibs for cutting Ditto 45 to 501bs 174 to 194 Calf Skins, 56 to 401bs . ..... Ditto SO to 70Ibs Ditto 70 to 801b5 ... .. Small Seal., Greenland) . 2Ol to 21d Tanned Horse Hikes ... ... Spanish Horse Hides ......... PRICE OF HOPS, Nov. to. _ NNW POCKETS. MEW SACS. Kent 170 s to 1110 s I Kent ...... 150 s to 161 s Sussex Eases Fatnbam fine 280 s to 32011—Seconds. 220 s to 2604 Old Duty laid at £10,6664 PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP Scc. Town Tallow ... 42s Od Yellow Soap ... 781 Oa *. Yellow Russia ... 40s od I Mottled . 84$ od White ditto .. —s od I Curd .. . —s Od Soap ditto ... —s Od Graves Od Melting Stuff ..... . 53s od Good Dregs Ss Od Tallow Imported from St. Petersburgh, 7,710 Casks. PRICE OP OIL. Rape Oil, brown, 411. 69. refined, 4.11. 6s. Linseed Oil, 22L 104. Linseed Oil Cake at the MU, per thousand, 111. 115. Rape Cake, per ton, SI. 61. to 01. Os. PRICE OF SEEDS. Nov. 16. Our market continues steady since our last quotation. There is some demand for Canary, some shillings dearer. COAL NIARKET, Nov. 20. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. 54i Newcastle 32i I9i Sundrrbnd ISi 2 Yorkshire I 1 Scotch Coal O Stone Coal 0 O Welsh Coal 0 O Calm 0 O Cinders 0 4i Small Coal 11 Price. 28. 3d to 366 3 34s 9d to 361 9 336 id to 006'0 276 8J to CO. 0 426 Od to 004 008 Od to 501 0 001 Od to 001 4 006 Od to 001 0 004 Od to 916 0 COURSE OF EXC Amsterdam ...12 8 CF.' Ditto at sight —.12 5 Rotterdam 2 U 12 8 Antwerp l2 8 Hamburgh 9i U 14 1 Altona 24 U 14 li Paris, 3day'ssight 25 93 Ditto U 26 15 Madrid lANGE, Nov. 20. Seville ...36 Gibraltar .. 47i Leghorn ... 476 Genoa ... 25 95 Venice ... 476 Malta Naples Palermo .. ... 119 d pet UC Lisbon Cadiz ... .56 Barcelona.- - ..56 Sawa ... -116 Rio Janeiro 441 . Dublin - ... ... 11 Cork' . . .. 1 i PRICESOF GOLD AND SILVER. Foreign Gold in Bars' ... AS 17 9 Over, in Bars, standard. 0 4 9 , _ ... HI On.* ATER at LONDON BRIDGE TO,MOKKOW. Morning 5 miaow After II Afternoon 31 minutes after 11 . -.---- Larson Printed and Published by Joint Mamie, at tbe Seas-. 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