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THE VILLAQE CHURCH. Sweet home of peace!' the littering day Still plays upon thy turrets grey; But silent now the voice of prayer Which once uprose so sweetly there; The crkket's fitful cry alone . • Is mingled with the low mind's moan; • Sadly they seem to wail the fate, That left thy altars desolate! Sweet home of peace! how oft I've stood Amid thy little solitude, A truant boy, stolen forth to get The crane's bill and the And listened to the village bum Which on the quiet air would come, With the long echoing laugh and shout, Sent shrilly from the urchin rout! And oft at Autumn's balmy eve, When the bright flowers began to leave The faded grass, and gloriously The harvest moon went up the sky; Front the far distant greenwood tree, The kit's light notes of melody Stole upward to the holy ground, As joyously the dance went round ! Here, when the Sabbath-day was done, And ruddily the summer sun Shone o'er the little vale below— Uprose the hymn, so sweet, so slow, The traveller in the distant glen, Paused on his way to catch again The lingering notes, till parting day, Threw its cold shadows o'er his way ! Those days have pass'd; and mournfully The chilling wind goes rustling by, But finds not there those beauteous flowers It sported with in happier hours; And gentle forms who loved to gaze Upon their bloom in youthful days, Like them have passed away and died, And humbly here sleep side by side ! THE HAMPTON COURT BEAUTIES. rnnu THE NEW MeINTHLY MAGAZINE. (Continued from the STA II of Wednesday.) THE DUCHESS OF GRAFTON.—This beautiful woman, who appears to have been the favourite object of ado ration and celebration among the wits of her time, was the Lady Isabella Bennet, only d.ar:_;hter and heiress of Henry Benner, Earl of Arlington, one of that cabal of profligate Ministers, who are answerable for the politi cal disgraces of Charles's reign. As she inherited is her own right her father's title, as well as the immense for tune he had accumulated at Court, there were many competitors for so rich a prize, even while she was yet a child; bur the King speedily silenced all the aspirants by bestowing her on Henry Fitzroy, his son by the Duchess of Cleveland. At the time of his marriage, the young Duke of Grafton was only eleven years old; but he afterwards proved himself worthy of his good fortune. He distinguished himself greatly as a naval Officer, and was, says Burnet, "a gallant though a rough man : he' had more spirit that, any one of the King's sons." After the accession of James the Second, he was one of those who openly sheered their discontent at the innovations in Church and State introduced by the King. His answer to James on this occasion was much talked of.' The King reproached him with " factious behaviour," and said." he was sure he could not pretend to act upon principles of conscience, for he had been so ill-bred, that as he knew little of religion, so he regarded it less." The Duke replied bluntly, " that though he might have little conscience himself, he was of a party who had a great deal." He was one of the first who went over to the party of the Prince of Orange, who placed great confidence in him. In 1690, the Duke of Grafton at tended the Duke (then Earl) of Marlborough, to the siege of COI k, and while leading on the grenadiers to the attack, he received a shot from the walls, and fell, gallantly encouraging his men. He was in his twenty ninth year, and much regretted by all parties. His young Duchess remained for some time inconsolable for has loss, but afterwards married Sir Thomas Han auer, and died in 1722. We find this lovely Duchess of Grafton frequently alluded to by the poets of that age ; and until the four matchless daughters of Marlborough appeared at Court to eclipse all their contemporaries, she seems to have reigned supreme " Lady of Hearts." Lord Lansdown, in his " Proeress of Beauty," places her fist among the fair ones of Biitain— " Love in a shining galaxy appears Triumphant still. and Grafton leads the tiara. • • Ten thousand loves, • ten thousand sever al ways, Invade adoring crowds, who die to gaze,"—Ste. It must be confessed that " Love triumphant in a shining galaxy," is at most exceeding good sense-less;" but such was the affected style of the day. In another poem, Lord Lansdown celebrates " The hearing in the House of Lords of a cause between the Duchess of Grafton and the Lord Chief Justice," ►elative to a disputed grant spade by Charles the Second Odle first Duke of Graf. too. The Duchess pleaded in behalf of her infant son. What need of wilds with such commanding eyes? " Must 1 then speak. 0 heavens !" the charmer cries— " 0 barbarous clime ! where Beauty borrows aid " From Eloquence, to charm, or to persuade !" Of course the "ill-mannered monsters of the Bar," as his Lordship most irreverently terms them, are put to silence, and "tyrant Law" defeated by the " omoipo. tence" of Beauty. " Conquest can newer fail in radiant Grafton's eyes." She is also alluded to in Codrington's happy and beautiful compliment to Garth: 0 The nymph has Grafton's, Cecil's • Churchilfst char ms , If with resistless fires my soul she ' warms," ice. It may easily be suppo:ed that in that age of gal lantry and satire, her Grace could not escape unnoticed by mote licentious and ill•natured witi. There is a lampoon extant, which insinuates that her maid having unexpectedly discovered Charles Mordaunt I hid its her ckset, sercanied out, on which -" Tbe . DuciWss Hew to kis relief, - And saved his being niurkired for a thief." • The picture before us scarcely does justice to the beautiful original, either as a'painting or a resemblance. .e is standing rear a fountain. and is catching in a shell the stream which a young Trion is pouring from his v•rithed horn ; but as she is studiously turning her face the other way, no wonder the water runs over. The featutes ale fine, wi.h an expression of more hauieur than sweetiiesi, and the turn of the head and the whole figure have mort dignity than grace. The drapery is • Afterwards Lady R. a n t ) . t utheietta, daughter of the Duke of Marlborouslt. f Probably LAW Peterborough. r heavily painted ; the colours, brown and blue, harmo nize ill. In spite of these faiths, the picture pleases as a fine composition, and strikes yet mire as an engraving than as. a painting. In the mezzntinto a soft, light, satiny effect is given to drapery, which is not in the ori ginal, and the faults of colouring are not apparent. The Fitzroys of Grafton and Southampton, with all their collateral branches, are descended from this Lady, and the Dukes of Grafton inherit from her the titles of Eatl of Arlington and Baron Thetford, which she pos sessed in her own sight. Miss PITT, ASTERWARDS MRS. Scnoor.—Of this fair and gentle looking creature, nothing is known but the name or rather names ; k does not appear that a Miss Pitt, or a Mrs. Scroop, was attached to the Court of Mary in any ostensible capacity, So that her claim to be ad mitted into the Gallery of Beauties seems to hare rested on her charms only. She is here represented in a gar den, washing her hands in a fountain which Aushes from a lion's month ; the colouring has much sweetness and delicacy, and the drapery more lightness than in most of the others. The landscape is too dark; pet haps designedly so ; it was a well known practice of Sir Godfrey Kneller, to sacrifice thegeneral effect of his pictures, in order to bring out the head—a trick of art unworthy a great painter. THE COUNTESS or R ANELAGIT.—Lady Margaret Cecil, daughter of James Earl of Salisbury, and wifeof Richard Jones, last Earl of Ranelagh.—Mr. Noble, in his Continuation of Granger's History, has fallen into a strange mistake concerning this Countess of Ranelagh, which will probably be corrected in a future edition. He has confounded her with her mother-in-law and prede cessor in the title, Catherine Boyle, daughter of the great Earl of Cork, and sister of the more celebrated Robert Boyle, the philosopher and chemist. The old Countess of Ranelagh, as she was styled in those days, was in all Jespects one of the most extraordinary and accomplished women of the age in which she lived, emulating her father and brother in talents, in virtue, and in her long and prosperous life. She died very old in 1691 ; it is therefore impossible that she could have been included in the Gallery of Beauties, which was not begun till some time afterwards. Though a distin guished woman to the last moment of her existence, her beauty belonged to another reign, and a distant period. The young and lovely Countess of Ranelagh, whose portrait we are now considering, was married first to Lord Stawel, and afterwards at the age of nineteen, to the Earl of Ranelagh, who was then near sixty, but still " Frisky and juvenile, curly and gay," possessing to the last his fine person, his eccentricities, his wit, and his high animal spirits. Lady Ranelagh appears to have been a dazzling and disdainful beauty, and is addressed by her poetical adorers in terms of the humblest deprecation. Lord Lansdown celebrates her, in his 6 1 Progress of Beauty," in the most hyperbolical strain of compliment : 0 Fain would my mute to Cecil bend her flight, But ruins ostonish'd from the dazzling light, Nor dares attempt to climb the weepy height, ate." " Climbing a height" is much of a piece with "Cupid and his Galaxy;" but, as some pq.r subjects have been embalmed in the "lucid amber" of beautiful verse, so here the beauty of the subjects ma y be allowed, in re turn, to absolve the poverty of the verse. The husband of this beautiful Countess was a man of wit and pleasure in the Court of Charles the Second, and as such he figures in the Memoirs of De Grammont, under the dame of Richard Jones. "He had," says Burnet, "great parts and as great vices, and was ca pable of all affairs even in the midst of a loose run of pleasure and great riot :" he captivated Charles by his brilliant powers of conversation; pleased James by his dexterity in business; and was favoured by William as a useful political, agent. He designed and built for himself a beautiful house at Chelsea, and laid out the gardens with exquisite taste. After the death of his daughter Lady Catherine Jones, this domain fell into the hands of speculators, and was opened as a place of public en tertainment, and tea gardens, under the well known name of Ranelagh. The rotunda, the finest concert room in Europe, together with the house and gardens, were destroyed about eighteen years ago; the site is now built over, and not a vestige remains of the magni ficent taste of Lord Ranelagh and of the gay scenes where our grand-mammas, gorgeous in hoops and bro cades, and head dresses three stories high, swam round the circle, or flirted and sipped tea—scenes which Eve ' line and Cecilia and Clarissa rendered, in some sort, classic ground. One universal waste of brick and mor tar covers all. This portrait of the Countess of Rantlagh is men tinned by Horace Walpole as one of the finest pictures ever painted by Kneller. The figure is tall, slender, and elegant, the attitude easy, the neck and turn of the bead dignified and graceful ; the complexion is that of a brunette, with fine dark eyes, and an expression of smiling disdain on the full red lips ; the drapery is in tended to represent white satin, but the tint is that of chalk, and the texture that of woollen ; the back ground is well painted ; on the whole it may be pronounced a fine picture, and certainly the finest of all the 6 1 Beauties." (To be continued.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. - 4 .-- MA NSION-HOUSE. Flan Comarrar. OWDZIL a Naw AcT. —Elijah ?bane was charged by a clothier in the county of Gloucester, to whom be bad been an agent for some time, with having pledged two pieces of keneymere, which had been entrusted to hint in order that be might sell them for the benefit of the prosecutor. Mr. Nathaniel Shackell Nailsworth stated, that the prisoner was his agent. and was employed by him to sell goods. On the 2d 'gale present month witneu directed Daniel Taylor, a person also in his employment, to deliver to Piukney two pieces of kerseymere to sell on his account. Pinkney was his agent before this transaction, and was to bare two soda half per cent. commission, and he neither re ceived authority, directly nor indirectly, from the witness to pledge the kerseymere so entrusted to him. Daniel Taylor delivered the kerseymere to the prisoner. Joseph Burgess, shopman to Mr. Purr, of Loudon-wall, stated, that on the 2d of Oct. the pi isoner pledged the two pieces of kersey mere at. the shop, the one for 6/. and the other for U. The Lou) davoit stated that in an Act in the 6th of Geo. IV. cap. 94, there was a clause which made the offence just mentioned a misdemeanour. It was a singular fact, his Lordship remarked, that the Act came into operation on the Ist of Oct. and the offence imputed was said to have taken place on the 2d. His Lordship immediately committed the prisoner, under the above-mentioned Act, to Newgate for trial. A Gentleman was brought before the Loan MAYOR, charged by the street keeper of Cortihill, with having in a fit of intoxication en dangered his own life. Taylor, the street-keeper, stated, that on the previous evening, as he was walking along hi. heat, he saw the Gentleman following a hackney coach as if with the intention of getting the number of it. Witness called out to the coachman to stop, but he %hipped on his horses, although the Gentleman took hold of the reins and was ill great danger of being tun over. The coachman assured the Lord Mayor he had been very badly treated, indeed. Taylor—l assure your Lordship that this coachman whipped the Gentleman several tinsel, notwithstanding my interference as an and even snuck him as hard as he could with the butt end et the whip. The coachman loudly declared, that there was no tenth In this' statement. He had been most desperately abused by the prisoner. The Loan Maros—Do not, dare to caU the Gentleman a pri soner—you ought to stand before me as a prisoner. Coaebman—al, why, my Lord, I came here to be" illuminated" (remunerated) for my loss. I'll tell, you how it all vas, my Lord. Let me be sworn—give me the book. The LORD MAYOR—I'II not hear you as ao evidence. Here a person of respectable appearance stood forward, and stated that the street-beeper's statement was perfectly accurate. The Loan Maeoa—Now, coachman, hear your defence. The Coachman— Vy, your Lordship, you see I had a fare. As I was driving easy along the street, this here prisoner came up, and I be.took and broke the gbss of my coach, and he stopped my horses, and I might a broke my neck. So I says, let go the reins, master, and be would'nt do no such a thing. So I just touched him with my lash, but d never, so help me Gen, attempted to touch him with the butt end; and now I expects to be paid roe my glass and my fare, what I have lost, and my day too, by this here prisoner. The Lows Maros talked the person who had caused all this dis turbance, by his inebriety, what be bad to say He replied, that he hod taken too much wine, and that, as he was crossing the street, the coachman, who was driving furiously, struck him with his. hip, and repeated the blow frequently, when he seised the reins, in order to get the number of the coach. The Loam Maros—lt is evident that you were in a disgraceful condition, Sir. Indeed, I can no more take your evidence as to the occasion, than I can that of this coachman. I shall toe you Ss. for being drunk. The Coachman—Your Lordship, I hope I am not to be without my " illumination." The Loan Mayon — No, you shall pay those two men who have lost their day by attending here to represent your conduct, or you shall find bail. This decision gave the greatest satisfaction. The LORD Maros very highly commended the behaviour of the street-keeper upon the occasion. GUILDHALL. Iloyd, who was charged with perjury, in swearing a false in formation, respecting a pretended band of coiner. in Brackley-street, Golden-lane, was brought up for re-examination. After some conversation, the charge of perjury was given up as untenable, and Mr. Powell, the Solicitor, said, he would prosecute Lloyd for obtaining money on false pretences ; be bad received ss. from Hanley, the Worship-street officer.' On this charge Lloyd was committed. BOW-STREET. Minas Maltby, who bad been indicted at the last Session of the Old Bailey, for defrauding Major M'Kirdy out of the price of two horses, value 200 guineas, which had been entrusted to him, as livery stable keeper, for sale, and which he subsequently refused to account for, was yesterday apprehended on the indictment, and committed for trial. MARY-LA-BONNE. J. Ready and .7. Wilkes were fully committed, charged with stealing a bag, the contents of which are not known, the property of Mr. Routh, the Barrister, from the Harrow stage, on its progress near Rdgeware. Mrs. Williams, an elderly Lady, gave the following account of some property which had come into her possession. On Wednesday night, she stated, that she was passing up Oxford-street,when a well dressed woman, *ho appeared agitated, tapped her on the shoulder, and requested her to take care of a bundle which lay on the pave. ment,promising to be back LA a minute. She waited an hour, but the female did not return, when she cook it home, and found it to contain 60 yards of lace, and various articles of apparel. The Magistrate smiled at the strange way in which the Lady came into possession of the bundle, and ordered it,to be advertised. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday, Charles Thomas White, in custody on a charge of arson, was again brought before Sir Crows FAMIANT, the Magistrate, for a final examination. Six other witnesses were examined, but the only one whose evi tbnce contained any thing of interest besides what has already nTrWuk , ib orn . was Mr. Edward Gore, draper and tailor, residing in Gore, after giving a description, such as has already been pima, of the manner in which the fire originated at the prisoner's Mose os the last occasion, was proceeding with bis evidence, when be sumelved that Mr. Blunt, the solicitor of the prisoner, had given W Was interruption, and said to him, "you may threaten, Sir, ,tot you &di not intimidate me." Mr. Sem said he had used no threats, or intended to do so. Mr. Adolphus, who attended also for the prisoner, mid, " Mr. Gore, you seem to put yourself In a great passion about nothing." Mr. Gore—Then, Sir, I am sorry I am so much like you sometimes. Mr. .... r ims—come, Sir, give me none of your impertinence. Clear that fool's head of yours, and see if you can answer the ques. dons put to you. Mr. Gore—To clear my fool's bead, I wish you would give me a little of your ointment. Mr. Adolphus—Come, Mr. Tailor, I am not in the habit of holding dialogues with persons of your description. Mr. Alley, who appeared for the prosecution, said, " Oh ! Mr. Adolphus, pray don't be angry." Mr. Adolphus--" Angry, me angry, I am not in the least zogry." Mr. Alley then questioned Mr. Gore thui.-Did any conversa tion pass between you, Mr. Gore, and Mrs. White, the wife of the prisoner, and in the p risoner's presence, on the. subject of those re peated fires at the prisoner's house ? Mr. Gore—Yes, there did. Mr. Alley—Be so good as to tell us what that conversation was, and any communications Mrs. White made to you in her husband's ' •nd supported by an elderly Gentleman, who frequently visited her at her lodgings in Sydrierstreet, and king, as she conceived, with child, fearful of the shame which would attach to her on a ells. covert' of the fact, she determined on procuring abortion; bu t ignorant of the fatal erects of the poison she was advised to pro cure for that nefarious purpose, she drank so much of it as to cause her death in a few hours. Several other witnesses were examined, but nothing could be produced implicating the prisoner in the transaction, beyond a sus. ,picion that it was she who had accompanied her sister when the drug was purchased; but the testimony on this bead being unsatis. factory, she was ordered to be discharged. presence shalt those fires. Mr. Gore—l will not, by G—; no power on earth shall ever get me to divulge whatever Mrs. White communicated to me in confidence. Mr. Alley—But, Sir, you are bound to tell it, and the law will make you. I have every respect for the feeling that influences you, but you must speak the truth. Mr. Gore—You may send me to prison, Sir, if you please; but, so help me Gen! while there is life in my body, I never will divulge what conversation passed between Mrs. White and me ; what she communicated to me was in confidence, and on her bare knees, with the tears streaming from her eyes, she entreated of me never to mention it, and I placed my hand on my heart and pro mised her I never would, and, by G—, no human power shall ever make me break that promise; here Mr. Gore .became sensibly affected, and burst into tears. Sir dioxin Fasaaer--Wkatever promise you may have made elsewhere, you must recollect that you have here sworn to speak the truth, and the whole truth, se that you are placed in a very awk ward situation. Mr. Gore—l don't care for that, Sir ;be the consequences what they may to me, either here or hereafter, I never will divulge what I promised to keep secret—so h e lp me oo! Mr. Alley said, that at present he would not press Mr. Gore further on the 'object. Mr. Gore, with the other witnesses were then bound over in the sum of €4o a each to prosecutepand die pri soner was fully committed for trial. Mr. Gore said that he would not appear at the trial, as it was his Intention to forfeit his recognizance. The prisoner was then removed for the present to the New Prison Clerkenwell, until the removal day for prisoners to New gate. Before the prisoner left the othce, Mr. Adolphus said to him, Mr. White, don't alarm yoerself, your case is perfectly 'well nnder,tood, your defence will appear in due time; for the present it remains behind the curtain. HATTON-GARDEN. J. Thonryvan alias T. •TOPICS, was charged by Elia. Harvey, of Titchboursi-place, Holborn, with stealing a shawl and peUue. The prisoner took advantage of the confusion occasioned by a stack of chins:ties falling, to slink into the bottle, and steal the property.— Fully committed. T. Leeds was charged with stealing eleven silver spoon', the pro perty of Mr. Ryder, of the Charter-house. He bad basely pre tended to pay his addresses to the under-housekeeper, and took the opportunity of his visits to her to steal the property.—Remanded. Sarah Gay, a modest-teoking well-dressed young woman, was brought before Sergeant Ssixon yesterday, from Clerkenwell prison, where she bad been sent the day before in custody on a Coroner'. warrant, charging her with being accessory to the self-destruction by poison of her sister Jane Mitchell, on whose body an Inquest was held on Wednesday, at her late residence in Sydney-street, City-road. The first witness examined was surgeon Maxfield, who attended the Inquest, and opened the body of the deceased. He had al.o visited the unfortunate woman on Friday evening, when she was taken ill from the effects of the poison she had drank. From his testimony it appeared, that at the request of a sister of the deceased be called to see her, and found her in the most hopeless condition. The deceased told him that she had taken a decoction of meadow saffron, a quarter of a pound of which she had purchased at an herb shop in Cm-get-garden mdtket , in company with a female friend, in order to procure abortion. She refused to tell the name of the, friend who accompanied her to purchase t►e deadly drug, the effects of which were, in the witness's opinion, sufficient to kill her al. ,must instantaueously. She was, he learned, a farmer'. daughter, LoNnon : p t. 4 and Adds:lied kr J. EKitAis at Ike StAii— 1, Piaui-ilea:, 'Amp: Bar. UNION-BALL. licinswaasiainto.—Yesterday, a young man, rather genteelly dressed, named Jones Basilic, was brought before J. S. CALDWELL, Bag charged by John Sheppard, watchman of Compter-street, with attempting, along with three others, to break into the premises of Mr. James Dodson, an extensive hop and seed merchwit, to the above street. Sheppard stated, that as he was calling half-past two c,'clock, saw the prisoner lurking about the premises. Suspecting his du. sign, he retired to his box, where he watched him. In a revt mi nutes the prisoner, accompanied by three associates, passed hie], ..-te said, " Now .is our time, the rascal's asleep." Two of the t::1; then went to the premises, while the other two remained to give the alarm. He then slipped behind a fruit cart, which happened to be passing, and ran at the prisoner as he was forcing the door open with a crow-bar, and took him into custody. Committed to Brixton for two months. THAMES POLICE. Samuel Banks was charged with committing an outrageoUs assault upon Miss Duffield, a highly respectable maiden Lady, alietit 45 years of age, the joint proprietress of a seminary for young Ladies, iu the Commercial Road. Miss Duffield stated that she had known the prisoner for many years, every since his earliest boyhood. They are both front the village of Massingbam, in Norfolk, and the closest habits of intimacy subsists between their families. She 'and Miss Spencer keep a ladies' school in the Commercial-road, and have done so for sever .1 years past. The prisoner, about ten days ago, arrived from fifths, and called upon them. He asked her could they accommodate him with an apartment ? They agreed to do so. She raid that on Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, the prisoner returned house, and, after taking supper, he inquired where was bli.a Spencer? She replied that she was gone to spend the day at a friend's, and would not return that night. She then observed to the prisoner that it was time to retire; to which he assented, and she took the candle, for the purpose of lighting hint up stairs, as she had been in the habit of doing; and being apprehensive of fine, she always pliced the candle upon the mantelpiece in the tOOlll. Having dune so, on her wishing prisoner good night, he seized Ittr. She became alarmed, and asked him what he meant? lie ni ide her no answer. When she saw what his object was, she begged, 'he en treated, she made every appeal which humanity or reason cou!J suggest, but all in vain. She then screamed nut. He endeavoured to cover her bead, and swore he would smother her. He then tore a silk handkerchief which she wore round her neck, and forced it into her mouth, which had nearly choked her. She escaped from him, left the house, and went to her friends. Mr. BALLANTI3II said he was well aiirrre how repugnant it must be to a person of her education to state further facts than what she had already done, but she must be more particular in th e d eta il.— (He then ordered every person out of the office.) Miss Duffield, in the greatest distress of mind, and bursting into an agony of tears, was unable to proceed, except to say that site had been treated infamously. Mr. BALLAIITINIC inquired whether there were no persons in the house who might have heard her cries? Miss Duffield replied, that the kitchen was so remote, that it was impossible to hear her, as she was nearly smothered, and she believed the servants were out ; there were three children in bed above staic,. Mr.BALLANTINIC asked the prisoner what he could say for bituse it 1 The prisoner said, upon his honour he was sorry, very sorry indeed, for what had occurred; he must have been intoxicated. Mr. Bau.arrruts—Take the fellow out; I shall bold him to bail for the ruffianly assault, himself in 1,000/. and two sureties in SCOT. each. Miss Duffield I'll bind over in 3001. to prosecute, and Miss Spencer in 501. to give evidence. The prisoner was locked up until he could procure bail. LAMBETH-STREET. Alex. Smith was charged with bigamy. His second wife was a Miss Glasscott, whom be met at a Chapel in Lambeth-walk, where his devout appearance attracted the Lady's attention. The certifi cate of the first marriage was produced by Miss Glasscott's father.— Smith was at that time a Paymaster Sergeant In the 81st Foot.-- He is said to have contracted a third marriage in Scotland. He was remanded. WORSHIP-STREET. A great many stage coach cases were heard yesterday, upon informations laid by John Byers. In most of the cases the proprie tors were fined ; and one or two were deferred till to•day. . . . . James Gould, a shoemaker, complained that Cope, the street. keeper, had taken fifteen shillings from him when he was in custcdy on Monday. Cope said there was but nine shillings, and it was given to hint by Gould as a compensation for the assault committed on him when he was given into custody. " Mr. Twrvoan—" Give him the 9s. (This was done). Now, Sir, I'll hold you to bail for the assault." Gould was then placed in the dock, exclaiming, " Hold me to bail ? I was discharged the other day." After the depositions had been taken he was locked up. TO W N-H A LL. J. Couchmsn, the once noted Resurrectionist, complained that the Parish Officers of St. Thomas's had refused relief to himself and five children. The complainant, wbo once nbtained large sums of money by , his detestable profession, appeared now in a ragged, squalid, and deplorable condition, having given himself up to sloth and idleness, his spirit being broken by his repeated visits to the tread mill. The Magistrate said the sins of the father should not be visited on the innocent children, and ordered the Officers to allow them 10s. per week, they having no poor-house; but the father should bo left to shift for himself. The workmen of several of the principal cotton mills in the vicinity of Glasgow, have received warning of the intention of the prepriL tors to make a reduction of one farthing on the rates paid for cotton spinning. The rates paid to the power-loom weavers and dressers have in some instances undergone a reduction of about a third. To WRITE ON PAPER WITH LETTERS OF GOLD.--. Put some gum arabic into common writing ink, and write with it en the usual way ; when the writing is dry breathe on it, the warmth and moisture softens the gum, and will cause it to fasten on the gold leaf, which may be laid on in the usual way, and the sepernuous puts brushed oIE RIDING AT ANCHOR—When the Lanarkshire Al,ll - were stationed at Musselburgh, flagellation was nut resorted to as a punishment, except in very aggra vated cases—solitary confinement and the clog being substituted for it. Two sailors having been strolling through the town, one of them who was in advance of his comrade observed a soldier standing in the square with the clog, as is usual, attached to his leg by a chain. Associating this phenomenon with the element in which a tar lives, moves, and has his beinz, he sung out to his messmate in the rear—" Coom, Jack ! Coom !—Snlit my timbers but here's a soldier riding at anchor !" MARRIBI Wednesday, W. ft Aimsworth, Esq. eldest son of the I,!e Thomas Annssvorth, Esq. of Manchester, to Fanny, youngest daughter of John F:hers, Esq. of Sussexplace, Regent's Park. DIED. The 9th instant, Charles Smith, Esq. aged 80, late Captain of tits Royal Regiment of Artillery. Yesterday afternoon, after a loag and painful illness, which be bore with great fortitude, Mr. George Sent, many years Sporting Reporter to the Daily Journals. lAI LS ARS. NM 1 0 1 .1 0 1 `yit3n Dublin Wa:erturd Guernsey and Jersey 0 1 Lisbon 0 1 Donarhadee 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 0 Holland 0 1 France Harnhurgb Flanders Brazil Sweden America Bueruai Ayres A it I. our. o 0 1 (1 1 D O IP O 1 O 1 (. I HIG i.WATgIu LONDON itictuc E Morning 53 atter Aftnthoon • • • 16 our...tos after I