Star. — London, England, 1830-10-13 00:00:00

P S' • ell:V' t' ur. i 1 - 7YREADT,LIc,I VENT AT WOOLWICH BARRACKS. ,• .;;-.i.ltpshie excitement has for the last few days prevailed at Wool. seich ley :s.very.general rumour that Lieutenant Edward John Jones, of the Royal Horse Artillery, had been killed in a duel by a brother officer. • on Woolwich-common, and that the body had been privately • removed, - Meathe dad of night, to his apa.tments in the barracks, a that It was the intention of his friends to conceal the circum etas. ce from tht. public, :.rd to bury the corpse without an inns tipttion of the circumstances leading to his death. This report was so ci:teent that every person believed it. and the affair became the macrai topic of conversation. The beadle of the parish lost no licit, in makiug the mcessary inquiries, and succeeded in ascertaining that the report of the unfortunate gentleman having fell in a duel was without foundation, although he had died from the effect of • a etstol-shot under circumstances of the most singular and truly af ting nature. Notice was immediately forwarded to the Coroner, and a Jury, consisting of the most respectable inhabitants of the neighbour. hoot, was summoned on the inquiry, which took place at the King's Arens Tavern, before Mr. Canter, jun. when the following evidence riven in elucidation of the melancholy affair:--. `.Vtlii..m Sinclair examined—The witness stated that he lived as groom to :he late Lieut. Jones, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and be lived in ls e quarters at Woolw ich barracks. He (witness) occupied the room iso.;.etliately under that of his master. On Tuesday night last, the Sil. instant, about nine o'clock, he saw him going into his &part ite:3 for the purpose of dressing, to attend a party of his bro tl.er officers. Witness heard him go out in about an hour after and hr (witness) went to bed ; in a short time his master returned and again wcht into his room, but did not remain long before he left.— W,tatset went to sleep, and heard no more of him during the night. At about seven o'clock next morning he went into his room, as was his usual custom, to call the deceased, when, upon entering the room, he was astonished at finding two candles burning in the sockets of the can. dlesticks, and his muter not in bed, nor had he been, from the undis turbed state of the clothes. Upon looking behind the screen which di. vided the room, he discovered the deceased sitting on the sofa, with his head reclining over the side, weltering in blood, which appeared to have come from his mouth, although the lips were closed, and quite dead. He made an immediate alarm, and Captain Brydges came into the roots instantly, while he procured the attendance of the surgeon, who declared him to have been dead some hours. The deceased was und ressed, with the exception of his drawers and stockings. Witness afterwards found the puttol . now produced in his drawers, which were hanging about his legs. (The pistol was here produced; it was one of a pair of duelling pistols.) Coroner—What time do you think your master came home from she party ? %Vitness.--I cannot precisely say, but I think about one o'clock. Juror.—Did you at any time during the night hear any report of a pistol 1 Witness.—No, Sir, I did not. Coroner.—)have you noticed any thing singular in the manner of the deceased lately that would induce you to say he was of unsound mind ? Witness.—Oh no, Sir; on the contrary, he was always particularly cheerful, and very high spirited. Captain Edward Jacob Brydges was next examined. He stated that he was well acquainted with the unfortunate gentleman. who was only 20 years of age, and was very highly connected. When the alarm was made by the last witness that - his master was dead, he ran into his room, and was horror-struck at beholding him deluged in blood,without the remotest wound or mark of violence; his lips were closed, and when the surgeons arrived, they were at a loss to conjecture from whence the blood had flowed. However, search being made, the pistol now produced was found, which had recently been discharged ; and upon opening the lip of the deceased, the upper jaw was found to be completely shattered, and the ball had lodged in the back of the heed, and which was subse. quently extracasd. Witness was confident that the deceased never in. tended suicide, but that his death was caused in some way or other by accident. He was a particularly high-spirited young man, and the last in the world that would commit self.murder. In answer to a question from a juror, Captain Brydges said, he felt confident that the death of the unfortunate deceased was accidental, and he was strengthened in that opinion from the examination he had made of the pistol.:Upon looking at the ramrod, he found it was very dif. ti:olt to remove, and he verily believed that the deceased was about to craw the charge of the pistol, and finding he could not shift the ramrod w; :It his hand, lie had applied the teeth of his bottom jaw to a small led,:e near the top of it, and in doing so, the jerk must have caused the p;stol to go off, and produce the dreadful event. The pistol was closely inspected by the Coroner and jury, and the m:nrod certainly was difficult to remove without the aid of the teeth. Captain Brydges further said, that he never bad seen any thing in the conduct or general manner of the deceased indicating insanity. He could state that in all his experience he had never seen a man more careless of fire-arni4 than the deceased ; he was continually trying expo ri-vents with them, and he had no doubt whatever but that his death was occasioned in the manner he had described. Lieut. Benn stated, that he was at the patty with the deceased, who was in high spirits during the evening, which was with much conviviality. He le ft him at about one o'clock on W ednesday morning, to go to his quarters; lie was thenin full spirits and perfectly sober. The deceased had been out upon a shooting excursion the day before. and had missed killing a pheasant he had aimed at, and expressed his determination to attempt again on the following morning, and be invited his brother to breakfast, and to accompany him. and he accepted the offer. Witness was quite sure he never contemplated suicide. Coroner.—Were cards or any other game introduced during the eve ning at which the deceased lost any money Witness.—No, Sir, none whatever. Cow-cr.—Did the deceased drink much wine Wit',ess answered in the negative, there was very little drank amongst L -want :Luca that he was also at the party, and noticed low particularly elevenl the deceased was during the evening. Wit ness lent him a pint of pistols some time ago, and the one then produced ass on? of them. In the course of the evening lie requested the deceased to return them, as he wanted to take them with him to Barbadoes; he said he would send them home next morning. Witness was sure his melancholy death was caused by accident, as he was notoriously ha zardous and careless with fire-srms. Mr. Mahon and Mr. Durk, assistant-surgeons of the regiment, proved extracting the ball from the head of the deceased ; and after much deli beration, the Jury returned a verdict that the deceased was " accidentally shot." POLICE REPORTS. Mawstow.nouss.—Lereis Lyons, a Jew, was charged before the LORD MAYOR with having forged the Goldsmiths' Hall-mark upon a base metal watchcase, and with having defrauded a young man of the tam of 4L 6s. by pretending that the case was fine gold. The complainant stated that the prisoner exhibited the watch-case. which was brilliantly polished up, and looked for all the world like gold, to him for sale. Witness asked him whether be would warrant it genuine, and was answered in the affirmative, and the amount required, 41. 6s. was paid down for it. The case was an extremely heavy one, but it was in weight alone it resembled gold, for when it began to get accustomed to the complainant's pocket, it began to look very dull, and wanted another scrubbing up, to make it at all like what it had been when it was purchased. The prisoner refused, when in. formed that he had practised an imposition, to pay back the money, and as the defendant had judged very naturally that the Hall-mark wasin criterion by which to form an opinion, he did not make the accusation before a Magistrate until he had shown it to some of his people, a set very well qualified to decide. A gentleman from the Assay Office examined the mark, and said that it was an extremely well executed forgery of the Goldsmiths' Hallmark. The prisoner said he considered the case a very valuable one, although not gold. If it had been gold, it would be worth upwards of 121 The prisoner was remanded. Two men, named Thompson and Hall, were charged with having stolen no less than 45165. of beef from the stall of Mr. Hick inbottom, of Whiteehapel.market. Mr. Hickinbottom and other butchers had been frequently plundered by idle vagabonds, and a watch was set for them. Between 9 and 10 o'clock, the prisoners walked up like men of business, and in the pre sence of several persons, took up a buttock of beef, and walked deli. berately off with it. They turned down the Minories for the purpose, it k supposed, of disposing of it to some retail butcher, but was over taken and taken into custody. The ptuoners said they were both hungry ! They were fully corn. mined for trial. BOW-STlZET.—Yesterday, an elderly Jew, who gave his name Abraham Cornell, was brought before Mr Pollesnut.x. charged with having stolen a cup and saucer, the property of Mary Sheen. Mrs. Sheen is the keeper of an open-air coffee-shop, and her stand is placed at the corner of Southampton-street, Strand, where she was visited, a few nights, or rather mornings ago, by the prisoner, who, not content with devouring sundry cups of coffee and slices of bread and butter, decamped with the utensils. In the pursuit the prisoner dropped the saucer, but succeeded in getting clear off with the cup. He was met, however, yesterday, by Mrs. Sheen, who, the instant she saw, re cognised him, and gave him into custody. Th e prisoner, who put on the sir of an inserts person, behaved In the most impudent manner, and talked largely of his respectability, although literally in rags. Mr. Alinerstrxt. expressed his determination to commit him. Prisoner—But surely you'll take bail for a twopenny felony. Mr. MINSUULL said be would, provided his brother Magistrate concurred that bail ought to be taken. Mr BECKETT and Mr. MALLARD, however, declined to join ie admitting the prisoner to bail. Prisoner—Ohl very well, send me to prison ; I'm quite reedy to get on the wheel, to grind the wind. (Laughter.) The primmer was then committed. A middle-aged female, evidently labouring under the encheisent of cheap beer, was charged with having assaulted Nesbett, a constable of 1 St. Clement's parish. Nesbitt stated, that observing the defendant "kicking up a row, " outside of one of the newly opened beer shops, in Clement's Lane, he proceeded towards her for the purpose of mains ber "move es," when she flew at him like a wild cat, ad droll iis fine with her nails. He had great difficulty to extricate himself Inn Me gripe; and most probably would not have escaped with such trifling damage, had not one of the policemen come to his assistmee. Mr. HALL. asked if any new beer shops had been opened in St. Clement's perish ? Nesbett replied that there had, and that the neighbourhood in which they were presented a acne of drunkenness. Defendant—And here's long life and somas to those " vat" cheap ened the beer; for now one can have a drain in comfort at little ex. pears : but, your Worship, I did not mean to " insault" bit. Nesbett, I only wen n' to press him to have a pot of threepenny with me to I drink "God bless King Wi/liam." Mr. Ram.s.—But wh-m you found Nesbitt flagging in loyalty, you ought net to have persisted. You must put in bail. The defendant, who seemed very wroth at this decision, was coo. ducted from the office, inveighing bitterly against its justice. WORSHIP-STlLEZT.—Yesterday, Sans ?Unser was charged with stealing eight half-crowns from Mr. Henry Vickers. The prose cutor was on his way home on Monday night, when Selina took his arm, and walked a short distance with him, and he then discovered that she had taken his money and the key of his desk. She was , remanded. Mari AIM HUI, a child stated to be only seven years of age, was charged with committing a robbery. It appeared that the young pri soner had been locked up in the Station-house with a woman, who had been taken into custody for drunkenness. The woman stated, that when she was put into the lock-up-house, she had a bag in her pocket, con. taming some money, which she counted, and then went to sleep. She awoke about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and again counted her matey. When she awoke some time afterwards she missed the bft, and at charging the prisoner with having robbed her, the prisoner fdi on bar knees, and restored the bag. On discovering that some of the mousy had. been stolen, the woman gave the child into custody, and on searching the place, the money taken from the bag was found. The oars were well acquainted with the child and her parents. They said the father was a had-working man, but the mother was a worthless character, and encouraged the child to commit robbaiss. dlr. TwTroaD was unwilling to send the prisoner for trial, but observed .that Ito place her under the care of .Iwejnother was certain desweedon. The worthy Magistrate was then informed that SOON time since, when a child of equal tender age was sent to the Old Bailey, the Judges or. dered her to be sent out of the country for life, to prevent her cammuni. eating with the parents. The prisoner was then committed for trial. MARTLIDOXI.—Yesterday afternoon a tall atbisde young _man, who gam his name Wil li ams Hunt. was charged before Mr. Gabbs and Mr. Hoskins with breaking the peace in Oxford-street. He appeared in a white hat, decorated with the tricoloured cockade, holding in one hand a bundle of straw, and in the other a quantity of ballads, and his hat bore an inscription of gold upon blue, ' Hunt and, Liberty.° Where do you live, said Mr. Hoskins. Hurt—ln the New North.road, sir. Mr. Hosanrs—What are you ? Hunt—Nothing at all, sir. Mr. Ontrerres—Don't talk nonsense, man. Why don't you say how you get your living ? Hunt..—l am employed by the nobs of England ; they give me a pension. Mr. Gnarrrres—The what . ? Hunt—The nob. Mr. Garoorrus—The nobs ! What does he mean by the nobs ? Chief Clerk—The great people, sir. Mr. GRIPTITIES laughed. and the charg e was taken. Charles Loughton, a police constable, o. 48, of division D. saw the defendant at one o'clock selling straws, and giving away ballads, on the side of Oxford.street which was in the parish of St. George the Martyr. He waited until a crowd assembled around him so large as to obstruct the passengers, and a gentleman desired him to remove the nuisance, and then finding the defendant absolutely determined to remain whites he was, he took him into custody. Loughton said he brought him a month ego out of Bryanstone.square, before Mr. Rawlinson, for creating a mob in the same way, and he promised to sell no more straw in Mary-le-bone. Defendant-1 kept my word, your Worship ;lam a man of hamar ; I was not in Mary.le.bone to day when I was interfered with. William 81 , Kenzic, a policeman, No. 177, of division C, assisted Loughton in taking him out of the crowd, to the station-house. He asked the defendant who be wee ? and he told him he was Squire Hunt's son, the blacking-maker, and the man that talked on Kennington Com mon, and at St. Pancras meeting. Hunt said the police did not like him, because he wrote against them in the " Weekly Dispatch," and for that reason he was persecuted by them. The Magistrate examined his ballads, and found them to consist ef " A frog he would a wooing go,"—" I'll marry a soldier," and Obit harmless things,—aced they discharged him with a threat, that if he collected any more crowds in the district of the Mee he should be Mt to trnLy night, Sarah Cook, an elderly woman, was charged betas Mr. flounce with pot-stealing. At half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, a lady in Euston.cresent told John Scully, a police constable, that she saw the prisoner take up a quart pewter pot from the front of a house, and secrete It under bee shawl. He apprehended her, and when she was searched at the pollee station in Albany.street, a quart and a pint pot belonging to Mr. Clay. toy of the Plasterers' Arms, in Seymour.street, Somers Town, were found upon her; also a pint pot belonging to Mr. Hodges, of the Adam and Eve, in the Hampstead-road; and a pint pot belonging to Mr. Thomson, of the Duke of York, Osnaburgh.street North, Re. gent's-park. The above gentlemen attended the examination before the trate, and were bound over to prosecute her. She was committed to Newgste for trial. Harrow.eaapitsr.—A IPAIIICATZD ASPORTA report which, we believe, first appeared in some Evening Papers of Saturday, was copied into several Sunday Papers, and appeared in two or three of the Morning Papers of Monday, occasioned much inquiry at this Office. The paragraph begun as follows Hatton.tholes.—A young man, fashionably dressed, named Frederick Middleton, was ehar with having in a most gross and indelicate manner &c . Ike.. The Magis. trate ordered him to find bail, and to give 48 hours' nodes." Yesterday a gentleman applied at the oMce, who stated that he had read the paragraph, and baying a relative named Frederick Middleton, and observing that the Frederick Middleton, who was alleged to have eseumitted the assault, had been ordered to find ball, and give 48 hours' notice, be (the applicant) was desirous to know if bail had been ob. mined ; if not, he was prepared to air bail, if the party turned out to be his relative. The clerks, lie. Illallett and Mr. Edwards, replied that no such case bad been heard at the Office at all t and that the paragraph was entirely a fabrication of whoever had written it t but that the gentle man might be better satisfied, he was referred to Lee, the gaols, who could Inform him if such a person remained locked up for want of , bail. Lee gave him a similar answer. that no such person had ever been in his charge. The inspectors and the officers of the (I. Division were equally in the dark on the subject, as no such charge had ever been re gistered in their officmbook, nor did any one about the establishment know anything about it but what they had read in the papers, and the reeding had excited their astonishment. The reporters who attend the office regularly were likewise first acquainted with it by reading it in the Pate". The imposition on the papers must have been practised by same one who is not thoroughly acquainted with the affairs of the office, for Mr. Sergeant Sict.i.ow, the Magistrate, who is represented to have heard the;case, is in the country, and has not sat in the office for the last fortnight. Bass Cols.—Mr. Field, Inspector of the Mint, in attending to a chage against a person yesterday for uttering bass coin, remarked that more base money was circulated iu Smithfield on the market days, than in any other part of England. Ustrow-maxi..—Yesterday, Jambes Prince, a hackney-coach driver, was charged with cruelty to a horse. He was fined 20s. Geer,* Cook was charged with threatening to kill his wife. The poor woman, with tears in her eyes, declared that she was afraid to live with her husband, as he had on more titan ore occasion threatened to make her a " stiff-un " before morning. He was generally unkind to her at night ; and what made it doubly unpleasant was a habit that he had lately contracted of jumping out of bed, and exclaiming that the Devil was in the room, and wanted to any him off to the infernal re gions. While labouring under this delusion, she was afraid to be in the room with him, and If she presumed to algae with him on the ab surdity of his notions, he would threaten her. He was held to bail. Charles Phillips, the convict who effected his escape from Newgate a fcw days ago, having been ever since unremittingly pursued by the Governor and his oiliccra, was on Monday night te.captured by Mr. Harris, one of the head turnkeys, and safely lodged in his old quarters. A well-organized plan, by the convicts under sentence of transportation, for their escape from Newgate, as we learn, hag lately been detected by the vigilance of Mr.Wontner, the Governer. The arrangements were so secret and well conducted, that no suspicion was excited until those concerned in the attempt had been enabled to bring their plans to such a state of forwardness that they had bored holes in the wails, having provided themselves with a strong bar of bon, to answer either for a crow-bar or a weapon of defence. The full parti culars of the attempt have not yet transpired, but on Saturday last 21i of the most desperate of the gang were sent of to the hulks under a strong guard, and the expectations of the rest entirely frustrated. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday afternoon an inqukition was taken at the sign of the Minster public-house, in Willow.walk. Pimlico, before Mr. limos, on view of the body of an elderly female, name unknown. It appeared from the evidence of a man named John Mason, em ployed by the Chelsea Water.works, that be was proceeding up Willow. walk to Ms work shoat six o'clock yesterday morning, when MI atten. don was directed to the ditch near the temporary bridge, when he discovered the deceased lying on her face. Witness was alarmed at the sight, and obtained the assistance of another man, who helped him to take her out of the ditch. He examined the body, and foiled that no violence had been committed, nor any document about her person to lewd to a discovery who the poor creature was. She was re. e dressed, but no money was found in her pockets. Witness supposed she had fallen acddentally into the dike, and was su ff ocated by mud. He caused her to be conveyed to the above public-house. In the belief of witness he thought she bad been in the ditch several hours. One of the Jury said, this was the third person who bad been found deed in the same ditch, which was very dengerouwben dark ; he trusted, after this melancholy event had been made known, a railing would be put up, to prevent future accidents. The Coroner said them was no evidence to *hew by what Mmeens the demand came to her death, but expressed a hops that due are would be observed hereafter to prevent the lives of his Majesty's subjects be ing setsificed by such negligence. Verdkto-Accidental death. The ditch runs by the side of the path. Yesterday afternoons Corona's Inquest was held at the Prince Re cztivapeol-road, Islington, before:l4r. &m use, on the body of th Whltleld. Is appeared from the evidence that the deceased had formerly been in very respectable circumstances, but from unforeseen misfortunes had been eseled to seek an asylum in Islington workhouse. This re. versed tubas preyed upon her mind, and she became very low.spirtted, frequeady iisdeslft that sbe was tired of life, and wished she was in Heaven. OE ety morning she was found hanging in one of the rooms attbe weebbeese. She was immediately cut *lowa, and medical sasistaase mat he, but it was found that life was quite extinct.—Ver. diet, " Iseslty." EXECUTION OF CATHERINE DAVIDSON. (Abridged from the Aberdars Chroxiale of Sorusday.) To the appalling hareem of crime, and the unhsemil.of thandties which have distinguished this beyond any former plied, we leanest to add the sad, and in this plate unpenedmted, example exhibised hors yesterday, In the revolting spectacle of a woman enening an %per minions death for the mu rd er of her husband. Catherine Davidson, or Humphrey, who has thus subjected herself to the het peaky el the law, was, it is said, been in the perish of Kahl-ball, butt wine yet a child was, along with her father's family, rimmed to Abedisse. At an early age she married James Humphrey, the enhas a petner of her woes, then a private in th e Windsor Forest ha. arreby, eta. boned at that time In this place, accompanying Iths the regiment ; as also in the Abenkonshire Militia, into width he afterwards enlisted, and in which he served for live or six yams, or until they was disbanded. In the course of her following the army with ha husband, through the United Kingdom, for a period of 16 years, she lived in a state of connubial happiness with him, but from suspicions of his fide lity their domestic peace was destroyed during the mouthing 17 years they were together, and they led an unhappy life. Her unfortunate bus. band, at the conclusion of the late war, when discharged from the milt. ties, settled in this place as a butcher, to which it is probable he had mi. Finally bean bred ja his native country—England This occupation, joined to that of a publican, exposed both parties to the temptation of drinking, which, it would appear. neither of them bad been able wholly to resist. For many years the woman was addicted to a baneful propendty for liquor ; and the husband, yielding latterly to the vicious practice, al though it Is generally allowed he was of a mild inoffensive disposition, no good agreement subsisted between the parties. Frequent quarrels took place, attended with such exasperation as to produce ea strengthen those malignant passions against her husband which miens& M pelmets her mind, and to fix the desperate resolution at tispeldng him el Ns With this deadly enmity treasured in her bossily she was ala pa pered to carry into Ala the dire resolution she bed ftemed. Retest at last, and throwing down every morali=zei reatmline, the wretched woman proceeds, after to the sesame. wades of her guilt, and some sulphuric (*del) which bad, hat diaire, been purchased about s ix weeks reviews, ihr the al mess of taking off a wart, offers the ready means of carrying it into 'Hat. As her uaconsdous victim lay buried in sleep, with open atestk, on that bed which she bad shared with him for 3$ yeah she i softly mar the 'midnight hour, with the instrument el dmri !n her ad, add to the foelings of pity, or remorse, administers the fatal deseshe _shish was to burn up the source of life. The Nosy whisk immelleldp miteseded aroused the unfortunate man foss Ms shop ; be eseinime, that he is in tenure, and burning within ; gni sAse enduring the seem excruciating torment, which no medical aid, prom tly ad skilfully afforded, could relieve, death put an eadt i t wielip attest 48 hours afterwards ! Oa be Wal t the proof of guilt was brought home to the prisoner by each a smog &min of circumstantial evidence as carried candela' to the minds el an intelligent jury, who returned an unanimous verdict against the unhappy woman accordingly. This result seamed to be fully anticipated, as the only one at which, from the evidence, they mull arrive, by a crowded court, great interest being excited by the trial of a case so aggravated and extraordinary. The prisoner heard the verdict which Axed her doom with that composure which appeared in her demeanour during the proceedings, but, as she declared after wards, suffered such mental agony on reaiviag the awful sentence, that she did not attend to the day fixed for the execution, and inquired, on being carried beck to prison, when it was to take place ? After reedy. ing sentence, she generally evinced wonderful composure and resigns, doe, and while she showed deplorable ignorance, she at the same time manifested a &dee to receive instruction, and expressed thankfulness to those by wham it was communicated. The dying weans listened with groat interest to the admonitions of the minlinsm of the Gospel. On Wednesday she took anaffoeting leave of bee Mod& Daring Thursday night she slept but little-..n0 MOM than 10 ninsses g as the same time preserved an astonishing degree of coin. puma s no did the sound of the workmen's hammer, dimwit distinctly Immiln the call, when employed in erecting the apparatus of death, sewn to shake her firmness. Yesterday, at banquet 2 o'clock, the Lord Prime and Magistrates took their scats on the bench in the Old Court house t soon after which the criminal was supported into the court by the palm To a question from the Lord Provost, she answered that ohs jai boas well attended to, and addressing the magistrate in a clear Orin velse, ca pi s Zen s dames, you who have it in your power should look to those in the quarter where I lived, for many of them are in a alas,, and have much need to be looked after ; expressing a desire that **world would take warning by her cam The Rev. Mr. M'Combie offered up a very impressive prayer, and 'the melancholy procession then moved forward, and the unhappy ai. minal, supported by the Rev. Dr. Ridd and Mr. Murray, was conducted directly to the drop. Scott, assistant to the Edinburgh executioner, then proceeded to do his duty ; when the unfortunate woman, addressing a few words to the Rev. Dr. Kidd, and taking leave of him and Charles Dawson, the town.aerjeant,—the last words she uttered being," O I my God !"—dropped her handkerchief, and, at five minutes before three o'clock, was launched into eternity. Some convulsive struggles were observed, and her bands were raised, which occasioned some - aisappro. bation among the crowd, but life seemed soon extinct. The body, after hanging about forty minutes, was cut down, and conveyed to the anato mical clam in Marischal College ; but we understand the dissection will not take place until Dr. Pirtle commences his lectures on anatomy. The prisoner was genteel y dressed in black, and was about 111 years of age, a Sint woman, and seemed to have been rather good . loo king, with nothing In her countenance or appearance to indicate that cruel,. sanguinary disposition as could lead to the perpetration of such dr heinous crime as brought her to so ignominious an exit. Saturday night, the house of Alexander Cohen, Esq. 27, &Won-place. was robbed of plate and jewellery to a large amount. The thieves effected an entrance by getting into an uninhabited house next door, from whence they got through the garret.window to the pa -1 raper, and obtained access to Mr. C.'s house through the front attic win. dow. There was property, consisting of plate and jewellery, amounting in value to between 3,0001. and 4,0001. deposited in four large chests in the back attic. They opened a chest, and took from it various articles of jewellery and plate. The thieves were unexpectedly surprised, and in their hurry to escape they dropped upwards of 501. worth of the plunder at the back door. Wednesday last, u a train of waggons was proceeding on the railway at a brisk rate, from Liverpool to RainhiU, for materials, being propelled forward by the Dart engine, a wheel of one of the waggons broke, and the concussion was so violent that the tender, and we believe the engine also, were thrown off the rail. Several perons who were on the engine were precipitated to the ground with consider. able violence by the shock, and one of them, a boy, named Turner, had both his legs broken, bu: whether by the wheels of the engine going over him, or otherwise, we do not know. Another person had his arm broken, but the rest escaped with slight injuries. We believe no blame attaches to any of the persons connected with the train or the railway._ Manchester .-Nteertiser. EFFECTS OF INTEMPESANCE.—•An instance of mann; eholy death from indulgence in the use of anlent sp* ' occur re d at blusselburgh on Monday evening. Charles Al 4 Ewen, weaver, after drinking with two or three others, in the house of one Peat, a shoe. I maker, no less than three bottles of whiskey was found about eight o'clock lying at the bottom of the outside stair leading to Peat's house, with his skull feactured and quite insensible. He was carried home, and medical salaam obtained, out lie died nett morning at titre o'clock, without having spoken. Pest's son and M•Ewen had be e n previously quarrelling, and the magistrates are taking a preco gn i t i on as to the cause of his death.—/Idenburyh Observer. SCINTILLAL ALARMING TO THE MALTHUSIANS.—No less than 17 weddings took place at Waloot Church during the last week ! In the Danish Islands the Moravian congregati ons con tain nearly 10,000, in Antigua nearly 150,000, 11 1 re nitt's above 5,000, in Jamaica and Berbadoes about 4,000, and in &wham above 2,000 • In all above $6,000 Negroes : in South Africa about 2,400 Hotteitots ; in North America, Labrada, and Greenland, about 2,700 natives. Total, about 41,000 souls. A TENDER Wrsz.—At Hereford, Mary Wright was aoudad se the sessions, for want of ball, for dreadfully beating with a rolling pie her sick husband, who was unable to regime himself, and bad it met hem for the timely interference of his oslghlmers her rio. lake might hove proved fatal, for she bad got hips across a wheelbar. row, and bed en au In be band when they seised her ! A HiavY CHARGII.—A fellow being brought before a Jostles on a charge of steeling bed. the Magistrate shook his bead, looked at the culprit, and etteklmsd—" This is a ham charge, in. deed !"—Glasgow Fm Press. IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM IRELAND.--The following are the numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, Ilte. imported into Bristol from the Ist July to the end of Sep tembe r, as reported in the Bristol Pressniewnt r—Cows end calves. 6,338; pigs, 10,001; sheep and lambs, 11,048 ; bones, 72. Total nur.ther imported since the let January lest:—Cows and calves, 4,068; pigs 51,858 ; sheep and lambs, 15,134; homes, 240; mules, IS. FLYING. —A mountebank announced to the people of Plymouth, the other day, that he would fly from Prince Island to the opposite shore. The flying, as it was celled, was merely slipping along a to which he was attached by a ring; a feat which has often been cif Unluckily, in the present ease, the rope was not sufficiently tight; so that when he reached the middle, the poor flyer was soused into the water; and being unable to extricate himself, he would have been drowned, bad not a boat gone to his rescue. A COSTLY VIOLIN.—COUIM Von Trautmannsdorf, mas ter of the home in Bohemia to the Emperor Charles VI. purchased a risks mode by Jacob Stainer on the following conditions:—To pat down= ; to give him annually a gold4aced coat, and daily a good dinner, with a quart of wine, besides two maks of beer per annum for coma us bss:o provide him with lodging, feel. and light; to pay him a month; and in case he shoed take a wife unto = Mere him twelve bushels of butt every ear , besides sir beads 'flak for his old nurse so long N she should live, and as many boss as blonde's call for. The seller need le years after the purchase, ad the viola Net the purchaser, in consequence, a sum of no less than MIL le. IL The instrument k now in the possession of M. Frasseel, smith de smart, at Manbeim.—.4lthenentn. Dr. Heylin, in his Cosmography, tobserves " that the people of the island of Zante were very poor when first the English re. sorted to trade thither for their currants (about the year 1530) and that those islands:6 much wondered to what end they actually brought away such quantities, akin the English whether they used theft currants to dye clothes, or fatten heir bogs." PRINTING IN AMERICA.—In 1689 the first printing press was erected at Cambridge. Mr. Glover, at whose expense it was to be established, died 'upon his passage, and the printer's name was Days. The first work printed was the Freeman's Oath; the second was en Ala:snack, calculated for New England, by Pierce, a season. The third was the Psalms of David, newly turned into metre. Such were the beginnings of literature among the Anglo-Americans, sod its progress has neither been rapid nor extensive. No work of any dig. tlmiselsod meth has been the production of the western soil. Dr. 's History of America is one of the best, but its merits are only of a n inferior elan. The Life of Washington is ill-proportioned and 111.thecuted. Their drama is in such a barren state as Is calculated to reconcile us to that of our own. BURNING OF Till HUNAN BOOT BT HABITUAL Dan nazuxes.....ilary Clues, aged UN was much addicted to intoxi. cation. Her propensity to this was such that, for about a year, scarcely a day s samed in which mks iii not drink at least half a pint of rum or water. Her had& minimally declined; she was attacked with *mike, and was mins* is her bed : she still condoned her old habit efideldem. One morning she fell on the Hoar, and, her weakness hentag pringnisi hercti n st ra she remained so till some one entered end put her se lei. night she wished to be left alone. The woman, en citing hes, put coal on the fire, and placed a Uglit en a at the heel dile bed. At live in the morning smoke was ease lawatag theingh the wledlow, and, the doge being broken open, same unto which wets in the ream were soon ex iabed. Between the bed ad the chimney were hand the remains of the unfortunate (hiss one leg and a thigh were still entire, but there remained nothing of the skin, the muds', or the viscera. The bones of the cranium, the lamest, the spins, and the upper wren:like were entirely calcined ; the fuenitute had emendeei little injury. The aide of the bed next the Wenner bed NOW mat; the wood of it was slightly burnt, but the imam, &d m, end covering, were cafe; nothing except the body exhibited any Wrong tram of fire.—Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia. The Athenian maidens, when they become. anxious to get husbands, adopt the followi4 curious practice s—On the fir= =en• ling of the new moon they put a little honey, a little salt, and a piste of bread, on a plate, which they leave on • particular spot on the east bank of the Miens, near the Stadium, and, muttering some an. dent wads, to the effect that Fate* may send thesn'a handsaw young man, return home, and long for the falfihnent of the charm. On mentioning this circumstance to the travellers (Lord Byron and Mr. Hobhouse) one of them intOemed me that above the spot where these offerings arc made, a statue of Venus, according to FausauLs, for merly stood. It is, therefore, highly probable, that what is now a superstitious was formerly a ridigious TlM—Gaffs Lee Brea Extract from the " Heiress of Bruges, a tale of the year ler, by Thomas Colley Grattan, author of " Highways and Byways" r—" The state of Belgium at that period was one of doubt., danger, and confusion. The contest against Spanish tyranny had loosened all the ties which bound society together. In the fierce struggle for liberty, every ;prise: consideration was forgotten; and property of all kinds was left insecure, between despotism and anarchy. The city of Bruges, though still a place of great wealth, inhabited by many noble families, and in many ways distinguished, was rapidly declining. The turbulent spirit of its inhabitants, in its proud and palmy days, when it was the emporium of Europe, had, by degrees , deprived it of that high distinction. Paris was evacuated by the English in 1435. The con vest of Bayonne, in 1445, completed their expulsion from France. kew events could then have been deemed of more moment. Had &esteem= been as voluminous writers as they now are, their corres pondence could scarcely have handled any other matters. Of these events, thus once momentous, a well-educated man might now mistake the date to the =Wit of tea Ot twenty years. In the very year of the eva cuation of Paris, as we learn from the records of the city of Strasburg r a law-suit was carried on there between John Gutenberg, a gentleman of Menu, celebrated for mechanical ingenuity, and Driultn, a burgher of the city, who was his partner In a copying machine, of which Guten berg reserved to himself the secret of the contrivance. No litigation could seem more base and mechanical to the barbarous Barons of Sue. bia and Alsace. But the copying machine was the printing- press,which has changed the condition of mankind. The single and very simple operation of Gutenberg's invention in reducing the price of books. has augmented tenfold the mass of reason employed in human pursuits, and multiplied, beyond the possibility °leaked/Aim, the chances of active genius and wisdom.—Meekintosles History el England. A Goon SUBSTITUTZ.—A very worthy grazier in the town of Lichfield, of the name of Elwood, had intended marking a large flock of sheep. as usual, with the first letter of his name ; but un luakily, a few days before, farmer E one near of kin, and a neigh bour, had formtalled their =meson initial, for a similar purpose ; and to put our good man to the trumps for a mark. In this quandary, partly between earnest and jest, the sheep-tender was applied to for his opinion :on the subject. Announcement such as this, it must be owned, might cause a heart-ache to say he of " shepherd kind." Howbeit, " Ralph was not very likely to throw muck new light on the matter ; so just shook his head, rapped out a bard word es two, " dung it,"—(or with MOW such like phrase) and looked down rather sheepish.—• , 'Twas a hole made in his best coat." as Master Ford would say. However 9 the meditation of his Phis soon wore off; as if some bright Idea had dioi across his brain, he now again looked op, and with a boldness oohing short of one who bad just made out the longitude —or, (to use a figure a trifle nearer home) some modern Jason who had won a Thaw —be ralel " Whey, seater!M moms L stand for Elwood, barring %other capi tal ?" " Right, right (cried the grazier, relieved from the hitch), and taking a crown from his pocket—" put it in thine, Ralph," said he. " and speed down to the blacksmith, and get us some branding VII made out of hand—away ! The order was given, the brands were scot home, and smirking commenced on the following mono. From that day to this, the Flocks and Eine of bluster Elwood bear the impress of an L. as suggested by honest " Ralp Top," which serves more over to record the simple notion Ise entertained of the moral fitness !of things." F. F. BIRTHS. The 7th inst the lady of J. V. Tbomp.on, Esq. of Belgrave.street, of a wn—Tbe 9th inst. at Turville-park, near Henley on Thames. Mrs. Butlin, of a son—The 11th inst. at the Vicarage, Woking, Sur rey. Mrs. G. Farley. of a daughter—The 10th Inst. the lady of Dir. J. de Fontaine, of Finsbury-square. of a daughter. MARRIED. Yesterday. at St. James's, Ckrkenwell, Mr. Gresham, of Barsard's Inn. Holborn. solicitor, to Miss A. M. ♦rden, of Islington. DIRD. At Brussels, on the (3d ult. Mier-General the Lord Blantyre—'fienib lost. at MOredofl.lll Surrey, M ts. M. R. CampbelL Low Dos s Printed and rublisbed by Jona 11iT112, abtim Blma• Orrica, No. 1, Pickett-piece, Temple Bar• . . .' r ,