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,• RIOGRAPIIIAC4I. WK 1 TCli OF GENERAL MINA. s'4-- • AA' the present sion?tt x when the Government of Spain is likely !, , undergo some yeti. traordinary change in, its Constitutional „.,„001!'cy, Abet the recent:events in Paris, and the formation of a corps 'oethe patriotic emigrants of that ill.fatcd country, who were obliged to !if in Fe'gland And Trance, in consequence of the blood-thirsty tyranny of Ferdinand VII. and hic higoued advisers and priests, now being on ire: point of crossing the Pyrenees to attempt once more to hoist the flag of liberty in the en.laved Peninsula, a short biography of the brave Guerilla Chief who led her troops to the field, may not be uninteresting to our readers. Don Francisco Espoz y Mina, one of the most distinguished of the Spanish patriots. and who is considered as the Lavalette of Spain, is a native of Navarre. and was horn in 1782, at the delightful village of Yilorin, about two miles from Pampeluna. By some he has been ills. T y reprtsented as the son of a mere peasant, a circumstance which, :•:u., would only enhance his merit; but he is, in fact, of a family of ..,... s e c'rtsequence. During the war against the French, his nephew, Sevier Mina, then a Student at the University of Saragoesa, raised .. Guerilla corps, with which he performed several spirited exploits•. Xat .er being taken prisoner in March, 1810, the command of the corps was transferred to Francisco, who soon rendered his name the tenor of tin Fcench. Brave, active, indefatigable, full of resources, and pos. stssed of an admirable presence of mind—one of the first requisites for a soldier—he incessantly harassed, and wore down the strength of the enemy, not only in Navarre, but in the neighbouring provinces of Alava and Arragon. Such was the rapidity of his movements, that nothing could escape him—not a convoy, not a detachment of the French could move from one place to another, that he did not rush upon it, and in almost every instance he was successful. The loss which the French sustained by this kind of warfare was incalcula ble, while his was trifling, as the accuracy of the intelligence which he received prevented him from being ever surprised ; and when be was far out-numbered, his troops disbanded by signal, and re-united again in a few hours, and resumed offensive operations. It was in vain that, re solving to exterminate his brave corps, the enemy poured 23,000 men into Navarre—he not only stood his ground, but eventually remained master of the province ; he was, in fact, often denominated El Rey de Navarra (the Ring of Navarre.) In 1811, the Regency gave him the rank of Colonel, in 1812 that of Brigadier-General, and soon after that of GeneraL His force in 1813 consisted of 11,000 infantry and 2,500 cavalry, and with this he co-operated in the blockade of Pampeluna, and recovered Saragossa, Mormon, Tafalla, Jaca, and various other places. When the peace was concluded, he was besieging St. Jean Pted de Port. After having put his division into quarters, he went to Madrid, and had the mortification to find that he had been labouring only for the re-establishment of despotism. Disgusted with the conduct of Ferdi nand the Seventh, and having fruitlessly remonstrated with him, he en deavoured to persuade the other Spanish Generals in the capital to join with him, and made an effort in the cause of freedom; but his efforts were rendered abortive by the baneful influence of the priesthood. Mina then hastened to Navarre, with the in. tendon of putting himself at the head of his division; but he found that the new Captain-General had dismissed the troops that com. posed it. He, however, gained over the garrison of Pampeluna, and was on the point of proclaiming the (Constitution, and doing away with the abominable Inquisition, when his plan was frustrated by the pusil. lanimity of some of the officers. He had now no resource but to seek an asylum in France, and he reached Paris in safety. While he was in Pans he was arrested by a commissary of police, whom the Spanish Ambassador, Count de Casa Flores, had persuaded, or, more probably, bribed to commit this act of insolence and injustice. On this occasion Louis XVII I. behaved in a manner which was highly honourable to him. He turned the commissary out of his situation, insisted on the Ambassador being recalled, and not only released Mina, but granted him a pension of 6,000 francs. The Spanish patriot was not ungrate ful ; he refused to have any Intercourse whatever *with Napoleon, quit ted France, and joined Louis at Ghent, and returned with him (after the memorable battle of Waterloo, and the abdication of Napoleon) to Paris. Till the army of Cadiz raised the standard of freedom, he con tinued to live very privately in France; but as soon as that event took place he hurried back to Navarre, collected a few hundred of his fol lowers, issued a proclamation calling on the rest to join him, and was advancing towards Pampeluna, when a deputation was sent to him by the inhabitants to inform him that the city had accepted the constitution. After Ferdinand had submitted to the new order of things, Mina was appointed Captain-General of Navarre. His high military talents were, however, soon required in the field. A few fanatics, and lovers of despotism, having succeeded in exciting a formidable insurrection In Catalonia, Mina was entrusted with the command of the army destined to act against them. The rugged and mountainous nature of the coun. try in which he had to act, the weakness of his own army, and the strength of the rebels, rendered his operations seemingly tardy at the outset, and the Ultra-Royalists began to manifest the utmost confidence and exultation. But they soon discovered that they bad wofully mis calculated. Mina was too prudent to commit any thing to chance when a repulse might have been productive of disastrous conse quences ; but as soon as he had fully prepared every thing for the conflict, he attacked the band of traitors with his wonted im petuosity and valour, routed them in several encounters, and drove them before him, in the utmost confusion, over the Pyrennean frontier into the French province of Roussillon. These vic tories have increased his well-eamed fame throughout Europe. He is regarded as the most experienced Spanish General, and as the sheet-an. elior of the Constitutional cause, the dread of Ferdinand, and of all the Priests. When the cry of liberty once more proclaimed itself in 1823, Mina was one of the first to lead the Constitutional troops; he took up his position in Catalonia, and harassed the French in every direction. A large reward was offered by the Deseamirados for him, either dead •r alive; but he proved himself too good a tactician for the Servile., and fortified himself in Barcelona, where, after a long siege, be capitu lated to the French, on condition that he and his comrades in aims should enjoy all the honours of war, and be allowed to leave for England. The capitulation was agreed to, and Mina sailed for Liverpool, w he was received in the most enthusiastic manner by the inhabitants; from thence he came to London, and took up his residence in Black heath ; there he led a very retired life till the recent events in France. Considering the present crisis a favourable one to deliver his country from slavery, he left London a few weeks ago, in company with General Quiroga and a few other defenders of their country's cause, for Paris, and from thence he is gone to Bayonne, where he intends forming a plan for once more restoring liberty to his native land. From such a man the greatest enterprise may be expected, especially as now there are no French troops to impede his undertaking. • Don Xavier Mina was released at the conclusion of peace. Some time after he came over to this country, and formed an expedition, which sailed to the Gulf of Mexico, to deliver America nom the yoke of Spain. He was taken by the Spaniards, and inhumanely shot. COURT OF REQUESTS. ♦ TOUGH /TORT ABOUT ♦ TOUGH FOWL. ALLEX v. ROBZETS.—The plaintiff in this case claimed 4a. Bd. of the defendant, which was not admitted ; Allen was therefore called on to make out his case. He told the Court that his claim was for the value of a fowl which he had purchased of the defendant, who had warranted it to be a young cock, but so fax from its being a young one, it turned out to be the very Methusalem of the poultry tribe, and when cooked, was so tough, that he verily believed all the horses in Calvert's brewery could not have palled it to pieces ; under such circumstances, he trusted the Court would at once order him the money. The worthy Commissioners, however, are not in the habit of deciding without hutting both sides; they therefore asked the dealer in poultry what be had to say in answer to the plaintiff? He said, in the first place, the price for which he had sold the fowl was 2s. bd. and not 41. 8& but that the plaintiff had made up his charge by including cooking, sauce, 8w which he submitted he bad no right to pay for, even if the fowl had been it tough as was represented, but he altogether doubted the story of the extraordinary toughness, for though Allen had told the Bench that a host of brewers' horses could not have torn it limb from limb, yet he had every reason to believe that every bone of it had been picked, for it had never been produced, as it ought to have been, to convince him of the unfitness of it for food. Roberts was hereupon examined as to the fact of its having been eaten. but he was very unwilling to answer the ques tions put by the Commissioners, and wanted to make it appear it had been given whole to the dogs and cats; but the Court enquired how they could get it to pieces, if Mr. Calvert's horses could not; this posed him a little, and be was still more posed by the production of a lad on the part of Roberts, who had been a sort of errand-boy to Allen, who was now discharged and who had been a partial partaker of the fowl in question, and who deposed that " es how he picked a good many of the bones, which were very good bones, but his muter had left precious little meat on 'em, and that moreover he had cracked all the leg-bones to suck the marrow." The Commissioners seemed to think this pretty good evidence as to the fowl having been eatable, but asked Allen what he thought of it ? His only reply was, that the boy was such a hungry rascal, that he believed he would crack even a brewer's horse's leg for the sake of the marrow. This was rather too much, and the Court in stantly dismissed Allen's claim, ordering him to pay the costs. A horrible murder was committed a few days ago at Manic d'Artieres, department of the Puy-de-Dome. Most of the inha bitants of the village having gone to the fair of Chignat, two miscreants eatered the house of a lady who was left alone, and after stabbing ha in several places with a knife, and endeavouring to strangle her, threw her upon a dung-hill, where they left her for dead. They then fled, taking with them from the house the sum of B,ooofr. The atrocious deed was discovered by the sister of the victim, who, seeing traces of blood, was guided by them to the dunghill, where her sister was found. The unfortunate woman was still alive, and before she earphed was able to make known the assessins, for the apprehension of whom dicers have been sent out in all dbecdons.....GaNgemers Memenper. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Sept. 21. NEW COURT. ROBBERY BY TWO OF TUE NEW POLICE. Richard Barrett and John Lidiard, two officers of the New Police, were indicted for stealing a crown and two half-crowns, front the person of Matthew Murphy. The prosecutor stated, that early in the morning of Sunday, August flf, he was near Rosemary-lane, being at the time the worse for liquor; while there he met the prisoner Lidiard, of whom he inquired where he could get something to drink ; he took him to a public-house, when he requested that the landlord would change a sovereign, as he was fearful of losing it, and he wished to have some large silver. The landlord gave him in change, among other monies, the pieces of silver coin named in the indictment. Before he left the house, the prisoner Lidiard came in again, when the landlord requested him to see the pro secutor safe down the court, as he had property by him. Lidiard then went out with him, and the other prisoner shortly after joined them, he being then on duty on the same beat. On his way down the court witness heard money chink, and one of the prisoners said to the other, " Why don't you take more r and they then took the small silver from the purse. Subsequent to this, instead of escorting him towards his home, as' he had requested, they conveyed him to the station-house, and gave him in charge. The prosecutor was rigidly cross-examined, but nothing material was elicited from him. _ _ Mr. David Boys, the landlord of the public-house in question, proved that the prosecutor had changed a sovereign at his house en the night in question, and the description of coin which be gave him, and that Lidiard, when he came in, said, in reference to the prosecu tor, " It's all right." Robert Christian, the inspector, proved that the prisoners brought the prosecutor to the station-house, when he was charged with being disorderly, and that on searching him nothing was found upon his per son. The prosecutor said, that when he fell into company with Lidiard he had a quantity of silver, among which was a crown and two half-crowns, and also a knife, which he described, and he then charged the prisoners with having robbed him. Lidiard was then searched, and the prosecutor's knife found upon him, and the two half-crowns secreted in his boots ; he was afterwards seen to throw something away, which proved to be a crown-piece,. Barrett was apprehended in the course of the day. The prisoners, when called upon for their defence, denied all know ledge of the robbery. The COMMON SZVOLANT summed up the evidence, and the Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoners were immediately called up for judgment, and the learned JUDGI commented on the enormity of their conduct in plundering his Majesty's subjects, whom they had sworn to protect. Ile sentenced them to be transported for seven years. Joseph William, aged 39, a soldier of the Guards, was capitally indicted for a rape on the body of a child named Martha Allchurch, aged ten years. The prosecutrix, who gave her evidence with great clearness, stated that, on the day of his late Majesty's funeral, at aboat four o'clock, the prisoner, who had lived in the same house, called her down stairs to fetch him a pint of beer, and to bring it up into his room, which was the two pair back room. When the prosecutriz brought in the liquor, the prisoner locked the room door. She here detailed, at length, the nature of the assault committed on her, which, however, was not sufficient to constitute the capital charge. Mr. James Hume, apothecary at the London Infirmary, that he had examined the child about six weeks alter the epee was alleged to have been committed. There were no marks of vio lence, and he did not believe the capital crime had been perpetrated. The Jury, in consequence, under the direcdon of Mr. Baron BOLO LAND, acquitted the prisoner. COURT POR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Elisabeth Graces, who described herself in her schedule as a spin star, commonly known by the name of Emily Wilford, was opposed by Mr. Coons, on behalf of Mr. Joseph Rowley. The insolvent, who was dressed in the first style of fashion, excited the risibility of the Court by the flippancy in which she answered the questions put by the learned counsel. She stated that she had resided at several places in London and Brighton, and passed by the name of Wilford ; and on her being inter rogated whether she had not passed by the names of Fitz-Henry and Faulkner, she replied, " 0 dear, not I, Sir, I could not think of such a thing." She had boarded with Mr. Rowley's family, and contracted a debt to the amount of 401. for which she was arrested in March, 1829, when she gave bail, and pleaded the general Issue to the action. At the time she rendered to prison she had a gold watch, some trinkets, and furniture, which she had since sold, but for what sum she pretended not to know, nor when, but she smilingly said that the money was all gone. The proceedings in the action, " Rowley v. Wilford," were put in, and it was stated by the attorney's clerk, that Lord Tenterden, at the trial, said there could be no defence, and a verdict was returned for the full amount (411.) being 20L more than if the general issue had not been pleaded. dlr. Coors submitted that the insolvent had vexatiously defended the action, for which be prayed a judgment. Mr. Commissioner Hags is—This person has been in custody for about 15 months, and six months would have been sufficient for the defence. She was then ordered to be discharged, and retired laugh ing from the Court. IN RE GEORGE DARE AND JOSH BARRETT. These insolvents, a short time since, obtained a rule to show cause, calling on the Marquis of Anglesea (their detaining creditor) why they should not be discharged out of the custody of the Warden of his Ma. jesty's prison of the Fleet, or why the noble Marquis should not pay them a sum not exce eding 4s. a week, pursuant to the pre sent act of Parliament. The rule nisi having been regularly served, the insolvents this day moved to make thc same absolute, on the usual affidavit, which stated that a copy of the rule had been left at the residence of the Marquis, in Burlington-gardens, who was absent in the country, against which thc noble marquis had not instructed counsel to show cause. Mr. Woonaorrz said, that he had formerly the honour to appear for the Marquis in his opposition against the insolvent's discharge, and who had been remanded by the Court, but that he had received no in structions to oppose the present application, but that be conceived that the rule had been improperly served by leaving it at the residence of the Marquis, and that it ought to have been left with his solicitors. The Curzr Comnrstnowza, addressing the learned counsel, ob served that the Court made no distinction in persons : the rule had been properly served, and he must make an order that the Noble Mar quis do pay to each of the insolvents the sum of 3s. Bd. a week, to com mence on that day fortnight, and in defaultof such payment they would be entitled to be discharged out of custody. COURT OF REQUESTS.-EINGSG4TXSTRICET. Yesterday morning a man of extreme old age, named James Evans, was summoned before the Commissioners, foe the sum of 12s. Bd. due for beer, brandy and water, and pipes of tobacco, to a licensed victualler. The plaintiff stated that the old ne snleman was a customer to most of the public-houses in theneigh bourhood of Gray's Inn. lane, and usually paid for what he ha It was, however to be feared from his late conduct, that be was going to change ch;racters, with some notorious imposta ' for atter baring drunk and smoked to the amount above stated one night, be refused to pay, and actually bullied every one In the house. Commissioner—What ! did be incur this debt in one night ? The plaintiff—Yes, he is a most extraordinary person. When I thought he had his whack, I refused to give him any more; but he said that he drank to keep his bones free from rheumatism, and if be did not get his quantum, I should be summoned in a few days before the Coroner. (Laughter.) Commissioner—And so you allowed him to get so deeply into your chalk ? Plaintiff—Why, sir he is 107 years of age, and he was with General I Wolf at Quebec, and couldn't refuse him. The defendant—l owe no one more than six and a tanner, please your Worship, for I had only five glasses and six pipes, and a pint of beer, and old as I am, I dont like to pay double scores. Commissioner—Well, and you are able to pay that ? Defendant—Not a halfpenny, your Worship. I was so mad at being so treated, that I never stopped till I drank the rest. (Loud laughter.) The plaintiff, upon whose feelings the venerable ap of the old man had a visible effect, said, well, I will be sa with that. Suppose you pay part now ? The defendant replied that it was wholly out of his power, but he would endeavour to pay it is. per month. This proposition was accepted by the plaintiff, who, it "pealed, had summoned the old man merely for the purpose of preventing him from repeating such treats, for nobody could resist the eloquence of his snowy locks, or the downward attitude of hie shrivelled and bony frame. The Commissioner then asked the defendant whether he bad been advised by a medical man to apply brandy as a ears for the Awn. natism ? Defendant—No l please your Lordship, not to cure the rheumatism, for I never had it in my life, but to prevent it from coming at (laughter.) The Halifax Chronicle vouches for the fact of a female al that town going to a Mr. Wood, a druggist, and afta hargaining to have Ave teeth drawn for a shilling, which was accomplished, smugly vsturned, the pain not ceasing, and had a sixth and a seventh dawn, et two short intervals. POLIES REPOR I'S. OUILIDHALL.—Yestaday, a young nun, named Hort* Mist, was brought up, charged by Solomon Davies, one of the officers employed at the Hebrew Institution, in Randolph-street, Camden Town, with steal ing some articles of apparel from that Institution. The complainant stated that the prisoner was one of three young men who had run sway from the Institution a few days since, carrying away with them some apparel, and as he could not, he believed, make out a case against him, till the others were apprehended, he should not press for his detention at that time. The articles belonged to the Institution, the object of which was to furnish a receptacle to which any Israel its may resort for instruction in the Christian religion, and for con stant work and homely subsistence. Every inmate is required to learn or to exercise some trade, and the prisoner had been employed in shoemaking. A respectable Hebrew said the prisoner was a foreigaa, and did not know what be was charged with. He was mat by the com plainant, and invited to the Institution, with the promise of having clothes and food furnished to him, which promise was kept; but when he found he was to be baptised on the New Yearlnday, (with the Jews,) he became alarmed, and quitted the Institution, but he had committed no crime. Mr. Alderman TRORPIC said he would give the complainant an op portunity of making out his char by remanding the prisoner for fur. Cher examination at the Manaion-house, on Thursday. The prisoner was remanded. Bow•STAILICT.—Mr. Simpson, a tradesman in the Strand, came yes terday to complain that he was subjected to a great annoyance in umse queue of the conduct of one Mr. Pitt, a house-agent and a neighbour of his. Mr. Pitt, it appeared, bad lately taken a lodging in a court near Mr. Shnpson's house, and in his business-seeking advertisements he took the liberty of referring to Mr. Simpson's house as his own place of abode. The consequence was, that Mr. Simpson was pestered all day long with persons of all descriptions and denominations, who came to answer his neighbour's advertisements. One day Mr. Pitt had advertised three om nibuses for sale, and upwards of 50 coachmsaters, cab-men, and others, called during the same day, and many of them would not believe Mr. Simpson when he told them that he knew nothing of Mr. Pitt or the omnibuses. Next appeared an advertisement of a public-house to be let, and about forty publicans came ' • one of whom, who appeared to have imbibed no inconsiderable quantity of gin, stripped off his coat, and threatened to give Mr. Simpson a d— good hiding, for telling him a Ile. In short, Mr. Simpson said he was so pestered, that it occupied half the time of himself and shopmen to answer the applies dons for Mr. Pitt; and he hoped their Worships would assist him in putting a step to the nuisance. Mr. Idursiftru. said the annoyance was doubtless very greet, but a INgistrate could give him no assistance; his only tremedy was at civil law. MST-Lz-nosz.—Yesterday a hackney coachman brought a young woman named Baker, to the , for not paying him his fare. He said be was called that morning to take up the defendant, at the Ss racen's Head Inn, fAldgate, and drive her and two infant children, she bad with ber, to No. 65, High-street, Mary-le-bone. She told him she lived in Ipswich, and her - husband had deserted her, and she was come to town to find her husband's father that she might get support. Her husband's father had lived in High.street ; but he left it, and went into the service of the Duke of Bd&rd. He drove her then to the Duke's house in Belgrave-square, Pirnlko, and her father.' in-law was gone from there ; and after driving her elsewhere without finding him she had no money to pay him with, and he brought her be fore a Magistrate. Mr. 4311.1171 TH thought the coachman's hope was a forlorn one; but, finding she had two trunks of apparel at the Saracen's Head, the coachman determined to drive her back again, and try his chance there. Maur-mitows.—A good looking middle-aged man. in a black suit of livery, was placed at the bar. He had a large Bible under his arm, and throwing his bead and chest back, and folding his arms across his body, he assumed a most extraordinary attitude, and hearing the Ma. gistrate inquire of the police.inspector his name, be said James Corks Of this unfortunate person it was represented by Mr. John Poyyer Griffith, that he lived with John Poyyer, Esq. of No. 7, Russell.p6a, Fitzroy-square, as butler. He had always conducted himself with the greatest propri ety, but on Saturday, at lunching time, he used a most remarkable expression towards a young lady of the family. His appear ance was instantly that of a person deranged, and his conduct alarmed all the females, and threw one of them into fits. Mr. John Pearson, of Gower.atreet, dined with Mr. Poyyer on Sun day, and then again the family was thrown into consternation, and all left the room but the witness. The butler on that occasion took up a knife, and ran round the room with it, and when be found all had Bed excepting Mr. Pearson, he said to him, " Stand of, keep your distance, mind that," and it was necessary to have him secured. Mr. Rawimrsox asked the butler—" My good man, what is the occasion of this extraordinary conduct on your part ?" And he replied, with great solemnit Ask my GOD." Mr. Poyyer Griffith thought the po who secured him could, I give further evidence respecting the unsoundness of his mind. Mr. Rawr.ixsow said the answer he had given to his question was quite sufficient without any thing more; trod be was placed under the care of the parish officers of St. Pancras. Quzzw-satraaz.--Yesterday, Marten Fires was trouOt up for further examination, charged with the murder of James Parlor, a car. vier, at Fulham, in the month of Sept. 1828. The inspector of the V. division stated, that he bad applied to the Coroner, Mr. Higgs, and procured a copy of the depositions taken on the occaon. The inquest was held on the 18th of September, 1828, and adjourned to the 19th, when, in the absence of witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." _ _ It appeared that the witnesses who were examined at the inquest had been sent to, but none of them could be found. The only evidence given at the inquest was, that the deceased had, after returning from London on a Saturday, in the month of September, 1828, went out about eleven o'clock at night to second a man to light. There was a row amongst them, and the deceased was beaten in such a dreadful manner, that be was taken to St Georges Hospital, where be expired in about a week. - - The prisoner called two witnesses, who swore that be was in bed on the night in question, at nine o'clock, and never went out afterwards. The principal witness against the prisoner who accused him at the station-house has absconded, and the prisoner was discharged on his own promise to appear next Tuesday. LAYILOOTH-ITIZZT.—COMMITNENT Or Buzzer &NO His Assn. mess.—Yesterday, Sheen, Lpii, Stewart, and a woman named Souk wire brought before Mr. WYATT, for final examination, on a char of being concerned with a porter, named Smith, husband to the female prisoner, in an extensive robbery on Mr. Cohen, of Great St. Helen's. The female, on a farmer examination, had been admitted as evi. deuce, and had made some important disclosures. But Mr. Wooler, who attended for the prima% contended that her testimony was road. missible by Mr. Peels Act, which prevented a wife, under any ciraun. stances, giving evidence which would tend to criminate her husband. It was evident, however, in her examination of yesterday, that she had been tampered with, as she denied all knowledge of the transaction, re. fused to be sworn, and stated that her previous disclosures had been extorted from her by Mr. Cohen, who had threatened to transport her, unless she made a confession. Mr. WooLza said that her evidence, under that threat, if it were proved, could net be received ; and it was et length decided by Mr. Nobler, junarhe attended for the prosecution, to reject her as a witness, and to bib her in the felony as a parifeep orimitas. The pelealea, desire of Mr. Woola, declined offering any thing in their dines, a nd y the witnesses spina than being bound over to prostates, they were fully committed for trlaL COMPOSTS 0! THE TREAD-1 POLICE. Ths circumstance may be in the recolleedon of oar readers, that in the meth of July last a notorious character, named John Browses, was elagnituid to the Richmond Beidewell, for having committed de. predation to a considerable extent in the demolition of divers windows, Loriasipy . where the materials were of plats glass. The period of his expired on Friday, when, in consequence of threats he wate utter. be was brought to the Head Pollee-office, where the Gowan of the *Howell (hie. Purdon) and one of the deputies de. posed to the fellow havini s b as een ta heard to threaten to commit further da. mete when he should be On being intenopeed in the Board-room as to his motive for using such /boats, he answeeed, braking very cossequentially, " indeed, in ray epislin, this is a awe in which the magistrates cannot properly in. whys." Drentwo—You commit me, then; am I to understand that lidegisontes—We de. Heimaan Oh, very well—if you do. pray send me to BridewalL Maskezate. Why prefer &Woven P • Biennan. For a very natal cause, which is, that there is better potatoes and meat, with all the other *Awes, in Bridewell, than in ;t int er gaol in the nation ; and 1 have lived. sad lived well too, In )lapr, Compel, Ness, Trim, and Carlow, before now. Purden, has the phew been on the treadmill Ptudea—Obl Fs% be has, mad - been breaking stones also. Beesnan--Oh, by the Holy Nally," I don't care the midi' of a farthing rush-light fee as the treakelOs in Europe, or breaking stones into the bargain, while I get the Non and ?reties. The prisoner iris dually committed to Piserpte. Yesterdaite e tween Aye mid six o'clock, se some wotkmon Iron wog' Rod li.e&orgeot, 11116oilvsk to.lligirainy la = poo way frees tie rest of au oil isms mS impair, 5 ;1 mock ono of die mw, and ildilloyor, a nd Who blo Amos, mod otherwise " Wand hi. body. The _poor *ow, 'rho was not loos IL I s e.' &demur's llosidue, hog a simile: sooldoot, woo calved by his ccoorodes, so a show, w do Lagoa BooptiaL SCINTILLIE. THE .SECRET. In a fair lady's heart once a Newt was lurking, It toss'd, and It tumbled, it long'd to get out ; The lips half betrayed, it lay smiling and smirking, And tongue was impatient to blab it no doubt ; But honour look'd gruff on the subject, and gave it In charge to the teeth so enchantingly white, Should the captive attempt an elopement to save it, By giving the lips an admonishing bite. 'Twas said, and 'twas settled, and honour departed, Tongue qulver'd and trembled, but dar'd not rebel . When right to its tip secret suddenly started, And half in a whisper escaped from its cell. Quoth the teeth, in a pet, " we'll be even for this," And they bit very smartly above and beneath ; Bat the lips at that instant were brib'd with a kiss, And they pops out the secret in spite of the teeth. ABSENCE OF THE PULSE—The pulse is in some in stances entirely absent, without interfering with health. This circum stance occurred in the mother of Dr. S. of New York. The pulse dis appeared during an attack of acute rheumatism, which did not appear to retard her recovery, and it never returned du ring her subsequent life. She was active in mind and body ; and possessed unusual health. In no part of the body could a pier be detected,-. .dattrieas Journal .ftdioU Menem. MYSTIFICATION.—The following is a specimen of Irish logic :—.“ His landlady was what was termed a ' general dealer,' and among other things sold bread and whiskey. A customer entered her shop and inquired if else had any thing to ate and drink ? To be sure,' she replied; ' I have got a thimbleful of the cratur, my darling, that comes ounly to two-pence • and this big little loaf you may have for the same money ? Bed:two-pence ? Both the same--es I'm a Christian woman, and worth double the sum.'—' Fill me the whiskey, if you plase.' She did so, and he drank it; then rejoined—' It comes to two-pence, my jewel; I'm not hungrp—take back the loaf,' tendering h.- 4 Yes, honey, but what pays for the whiskey Why, the loaf, to be sure I But you haven't paid for the loaf.'—' Why you wouldn't have a man pay fors thing he hasn't eat ?'—A friend going by was called in by the landlady to decide this difficulty, who gave it against her; and, from some deficiency in her powers of calculation, jamitted the rogue to escape,"— Bernard's Retrospection,. TURLEY, THE GERMAN ORGAN-BUILDER.—(Freer the German.) —A singular instance of successful self- instruction is afforded by the late Johan Tobias Tuley, the German organ builder. This ingenious man was the son of a peasant, and was born at 'l'reuen briezen on the 4th August, 1773. On the death of his father, which happened when he was twelve years old, in compliance with the wish of his mother, he learnt the trade of a baker; but at that time , so great was his inclination and aptitude for music and mechanics, that he de voted all his leisure hours to those pursuits. His greatest delight was to make instruments to facilitate the labours of the household. In 1793. he became a master baker and burgess of his native place, and, without neglecting his business, pursued his favourite occupations with greater &Dienes than ever. lie made pipes for musital clocks, and having bought an old worn-out organ, he took it to pieces, and constructed a new one. This instrument stlll exists in the church of Brackwitx, near Treuenbrimn. The success he had already met with encouraged him to further exertions, and he undertook the repairing of organs gratu itously. In 1814, he abandoned altogether the baking business, and devoted himself entirely to an art which be had acquired without any instruction, and by the mere force of his observation, talent, reflection, and indefatigable industry. Even the instruments necessary for his own use were of his own invention ; and among these the press-ma chine, which contributed so greatly to expedite his labours, and give durability to his organs, particularly deserve to be mentioned. —ln 1816, Turley was alled by the government to Potsdam, to build a new organ for Hohenbruch, near Cremmen, under the supervision o. the music-director and organ-builder, Herr Wilke, of Neu Ruppin. It was to this disinterested patron and encourager of the ingenious in general, that Turley was indebted on this occasion for the first Im portant hint for the perfection of the art in which he afterwards made such great progress, that every new work surpassed the one which had preceded it. Tuley bad constantly great difficulty to content himself with the smoothness of the metal plates for his pipes, and to such a pitch was his fastidiousness in this respect carried, that in 1823, he caused upwards of a hundred weight of metal plates to be melted down, bearing the loss himselL Herr Wilke, who on this occasion gave a new l proof of his disinterested attachment to the arts, advised him to procure the required evenness to the metal plates by means of • cylindrical ma i chine; and on that hint, Turley went to Berlin, visited different ma • chines of the kind In the city, made a sketch of a new one, and afterwards a model of it in wood ; and from this an engine suited for his purpose, was cast in the Royal Foundry in Berlin. He spent two years In bringing his machine to perfection, and in seeking the best material in which to cast his plates In moulds of small size. He remarked, however, that the best cast plates, even when they came forth most smooth and perfect, had need I of an especial stretching machine; and such an instrument also he In. vented which exactly suited his purpose. He thenceforth, until the time of his death, devoted himself; might and main, and regardless of expense, to the production of perfect organs. Of these he built twenty to the satisfaction of all connoisseurs. The largest formed with cylin. drical pipes, is that of Joachimathal, which has twelve registers. He t completed besides the repairing of thirty other organs, and was engaged in the construction of two great ones for Perieberg and Pritrwalk at the , time of his death by apoplexy, which happened in April last. His son Frederick, who for the previous three years had worked and assisted his father, is charged with the completion of the organs which the deceased had commenced, under a testimonial as to his capacity from the before ! mentioned Herr Wilke. SwEDBB.—Tho commission appointed to examine into the returns has made its report for the year 1828 ; and the result that that year contributed far less to the increase of human souls than the eight preceding years, inasmuch as there was an excess of seventeen thousand thadis beyond the average of those years. This arose from the fatal ellkenCef malignant fevers which prevailed In all parts of Sweden. The :mensal Increase in the population did not,: for this reason, exceed twenty thousand souls, which Is one half less that the usual average. The year 1829 exhibits a far more cheering result; the increase during which has not been short of forty thousand. At the end of 1828, Sw ed en alone contained 2,848,002 inhabitants, which is above twenty-five thousand more than that country and Finland toge ther contained in 1786. In the year 1816, the population amo u nt e d w 2,482,164 souls, exclusively of Norway : and in 1823 it was as follows. Sweden, 2,761,682; Norway, 1,060,132. Total, 3,801,714. Wan CIRCUMLOCUTIOI4.—Observing one day an un usual commotion in the tweets of Deny, I enquired of a bystander the reason ; and he, with a mellifluous brogue, replied in the following me taphorical manner s—" The rason, Sir ? Why, you see that Justice and Little Larry O'Hone, the carpenter, have been putting up a pic ture-frame at the end of the strata yonder, and they are going to hang one of Adam's copies in it." What's that ?—" Why. poor 6lurdock O'DonnelL" Oh, there's a man to be hung ?—" Do they put up a gal lows for any other purpose?".—What's his offence ?—"No offence, your Honour; it was only a liberty he took." Well, what was the liberty?— " Why, you see . Sir, poor Murdock wa s in delicate health, and his physi cian a dvised that he should take exercise on horseback, and so, haring no borstal his own, be borrowed one from Squire Doyle's paddock ; and no NOW was he on its shoulders, than the Devil put it into the creche?s head to go over to Kellogreen cattle fair, where be had a good many acquaintances; and when be was got there, Murdock spied a friend at the door of a shebeen house, and left the animal grazing outside, whilst be went in to have a thimbleful of whiskey ; and then you see they got frisky, and had another and another, till poor Mur dock went to slape on the bin c h ; and when he woae up, 'he found the creche, gone, and his pocket stuffed full with a big lump of of money." In short, said I, you mean to say he has been " Why, Siff," he replied. stammering and scratching his head. " it so in England."—Berward's Retrospection,. BIRTHS. The 80th inst. in Wimp°leatreet, the lady of 0. Wigram, Esq. of a daughter.—At Brighton, on the 18th inst. the lady of F. 0. Trent, Zaq. of a son-....At Brixton-114 en the 29th inst. Mrs. Lawrence Phillips, of a son. MARRIED. Monday, the 20th inst. at Thighbone Church. Somerville William Harcourt Ramsbouom, youngest son of John Ramsbottom, Req. of Woodside, M.P. to Charlotte Jane, third daughter of Thomas Chun k; Emji. of Nottingham-place. Monday, the 20th inst. at Marylebone Church, by the Rev. George Preston, Rector of Lesdan, In Esse:, Mons. De Cerqueira Lima, At tache mut Legations de 8. M. I'Empereur du Brasil. to Harriet Ann, youngest daughter of Thomas Chamber, Esq. of Nottingham-place, they having been previously married according to the rites of the Ca thdie Church. At St. Mary's Church, Bryanston-square, C. Chichester, Esq. of Lincole's.ian, youngest sou of the late H. Chichester, Esq. of North ova-bore, in the county of Somerset, and Wood-house, Fars, to Mir Caroline Manners flattop, youngest daughter of his Grace the late of Canterb ury.—Friday, the 17th inst. at Market Hobo. A.....a. r01f* a • Rogers he+ of Newport Pared, Backs. to Maths, only of J. Goddard, req. of the forma place The 21st inst. at W. Webb, Req. of Litscebes.ien-ilelds, to LeddlN eldest daughter of N. Gress, Res. lug His Majesty's Corneal at Nice. DIED. At the *ate= of Hiatialbsak, sear Baas, as the 1M iota T. Iwo; IL* late of Stag4tall, ambles, sad at 6 Ith last. at Levet, Sulam, J. Hatrtaaa, Ea+ Itt glis a77l= edfaaLoquars, in his OM yake. LOUDON s Pasted end Published by Jowl Nauss, &ski No. 1, Piekett-plese Temple Bur. I