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IMPROMP fU, ON VISITING A GARDEN AT YOUGHALL, IN THE COUNTY Or CORK, REMARKABLE PAR HEIGHT, TASTE, ♦ND GRANDEUR. ANNO 1816. The orchards which round cloud-capt Atlas blooOlk And o'er Hesperia spread their rare perfume, Cease to admire; the richest fruits display Their golden treasures to the gad of day : On Ireland's coast a garden high appears, Which far trap' ends a llthos c of former years; Oh, Erin, witness in thy Emerald Isle, And look with Admiration's dearest smile, • This Corfu's pendant gardens once so floe, By ancient story prais 'l, succumb to thine ANCIENT NOTICES OF SPOTS INTENDED AS THE SCENES OF MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. RUNGERFORD MARKET, NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, Bm. A hospital, called St. Mary Rouncival, anciently stood on Gris spot ; and, with its gardens and grounds, occupied all the space between York House, or Villiers street, east, and Scotland yard, south-west. William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, one of the Knights Tern , plars,'buried in the Temple-chUrch, owned it in the . reign of Edward 111. and gave it to the Prior of Rosi daTalle, in Navarre; who thereon founded this as a cell to the mother.h Arse. It was suppressed among the Alien Priories by Henry V. and restored for a fra ternity by EdWard IV. In the year books of the reign of Henry VIL mention is made of the master, wardens, brethren, and sisters of St. Mary Rouncival. The fol lowing occurs, among other items respecting it, in the Churchwardens' accounts of St. Margaret, before quoted : 1517. Rec' the 6th day of Sept. of Elyzabeth Sneth, Robert Sydling, and John Knight, of the gift of the Fraternity of our Lady at Rouncyvale, zjs." One John Henburye appears to have been the master at or near the time of the Dissolution, bring mentioned in a Chafter of feoffment 25 Henry VIII. which con veys, among other premises, " All other messuages, cottages, tenements, gardens, lands, and wastes, late in the tenure of John Henburye, situate, lying, and b on the east side of ' the King's highway, leading from a certain croft or piece of land, commonly called Scot land, unto the Chapel of the blessed Mary de Roun cevall, nigh the cross called Charyngeerosse." This . John Henburye is afterwards described as master of the 'said hospital. ' The ",Tabernacle," or canopied shrine in which the patroness, St. Mary, stood, was, after the Dissolution, iemoved and set up in St. Margaret's Church, the ex penses of which transfer are thus noticed in the Church• ardens' accounts alluded to : " 154.1. Paid to Roger Weston for taking down of out. Ladies Tabernacle at Rowley vall, and for setting up thereof in the Trinity aisle of St. Margaret's, West. Minster, xiijs. iiijd." And again, •• Paid for repairing• the Chapel wall at Rauncyvall, where the Tabernacle stool, as by bill appeareth ) iijs. iijd." Eduard VI. bestowed the site of this Chapel on Sir Thomas Cawarden. from whom it came to the ancestors of the Northumberland family, who built the present mansion there. They had not originally, however, more than the spc.t on which the house and gardens stand; for the Duke only received a lease from the Crown of the intervening ground between them and the Thames, in the reign or George 11. " Aftetwards,' says Pennant, " an sibsaltre exchange of it was made with the Duke for certain lands in Northumberland to er•ct batter ie. on against fizeign invasion, at a period when the project of universal lortifization prevailed." The site of Hung. rford House aid GA:den (part of the grounds of St. Mary Rouncival) passed into the fa mily of the Hung , rforda, of Fatleigh, Wilts; a de scendant of which, Sir Edward Hungerford, one of the 13 aainets made at the corona:ion of Charles 11. built a h ;ndsrme mansion there, but preferting profit to a plea sant residence, be obtained afterwards, from Charles 11. an Act of Parliament to convert tie spot into a market and other buildings, as we now see it. This market, which it is now 'proposed to convert into a fish-market, was originally opened for the sale of fruit and herbs, and would at first, as Styrpe says (1720) in all proba bility have taken well. as lying so convenient for the gardeners to land their goods at the stairs, without the charge and trouble of porters to carry them further by land, as cow, to Covent-garden market. But being baulked at first, it turns to little account, as that of Covent-garden hath got the *start, which is much re torted unto, aucl well served with all fruit and he bs • good its their kinds." The old crazy market-house is stated to have had a French church over it. SCOTLAND. YARD Ora Scotland," as we have seen it. was called, was the site of a house for the King of Scotland, when he was attending the English Par liammt : of which, atter the conquest of that kingdom by EdWard I. he was considered a Member, as well as the Princes of W.,}es; and both of whom,in a print inPerkerton's Icono- . graphia Scotia (taken from an ancient limning at the Herald's College) ate represented sitting in the, Peril:a,. Lament of that sovereign, viz. Alexander .King of Scots on his right, and Llewellyi, Prince of Wales on his left. • ft is said by 'Styrpe, nit the authoriry of a Tract printed in 1518, to have been first given by King Edgar to Kenneth or Kynald, about the year 959, whom Ile held tributary, and who repaired here yearly to do Lim honiage; but there does not seem to be any corro bbrition cf this fact. The rage for mining seems at length to have reached Spain. In the Gazette of the 24:11 there is a long and elaborate account of the experiments already performed in several mines situated in Andalusia; particularly at Guadalcanal, worked by a Madrid Company, and in tbe mines of Constantine and Casalla, worked on ac count of Englishmen. The mines of Cantellana have also beentrought into notice, and, from the manner in which both letters and public prints speak of these operations, it would stem that the Spaniards are proud of still posse sing, .within themselves, the means of supplying their losses in America. Miners, in ail countries, are S 4 • guine, like men who risk their money in a lottery ; but, in the great concerns now, carrying on in search of subterranean riches, it is curious to see that neither South - Americans nor Spaniards run the risk of the stakes; Englishmen only have the courage to perform this part of the bargain. A recent private letter, alldding to mining in Spain, says, it "is nothing but a. mere puff—a bait to try to in veigle the credulous. There is, in Madrid, a nominal sor.disang Mine Company—names are not wanting; but as to funds or capita l, it is not necessary to be a very great conjuror in order to see dun coup &cell, that they are as aerial as the bait held ot,t." ata. COUNTY PROSECUTIONS. Extract from a Report of the Sateet Committee of . the House of Commons, on the expenditure of County ' Rates:— 44 They (the Committee) observe, with regret, from the iceounts of the Treasurers of Counties from 1792 to 1823, that a gradual increase has occuered in the expense" of prosecutions, both from the number of prosecutions and the increased expense of each. They refer the Elluse to the whole of the printed returns ; they have stated the amount in 1792 and 1823, as being the first and laA years; and the years 1816 and 1817 were taken to shew the increase in t:s o successive years. From 17 counties no accounts hate been returned; in 1792, in 1816 and 1817, four counties are .deficient in their re turns. With the allowances the totals for those ;ears appear as follows : 1792 • • "On 11817 . X 45,947 1816 • . 76,617 21,671 1.1823 The increase may no doubt be attributed, in part, to an augmented commerce and population, of which crime is too natural a concomitant, &c. partly, perhaps, to an allowance to prosecutors and witnesses, which has not always been sufficiently controuled. " Your Committee observe from the evidence, that the expenses of prosecutions at the Assizes are, collec tively, and in each separate indictment, much heavier than at the Sessions; but at both, the Court, by 27 Geo. 111. c. 3, and by 58 Geo. 111. c. 70, orders the Treasurer to pay each witness a reasonable sum for his time, trouble, and expense, which order the proper officer makes out and delivers to the person to be paid, who* receives it by himself, or through his agent, horn the Treasurer. Over the orders at the Assizes the Magis trates have no controul. It appeared to your Commit tee that the expenses of prosecutions are generally al, lowed in cases of felony; it sometimes happens that the poorer class complain that the sum awarded is insuffi cient ; and it is to be apprehended, that if too small sums were awarded to prosecutors, prosecutions would diminish, and crimes go unpunished. "Your Committee also ob e►ve, that since the passing the Act 58 Geo. HI. c. 70, fees on acquittals and on bills not found, are paid by the Counties; before the passing of that Act they were often left unpaid; for the claim was on the prisoner, who was generally unable to discharge them. Your Committee also observe, that the expenses of prosecutions are sometimes increased by more wit nesses than are necessary being bound over to appear at the trial. "Your Committee have a difficulty in suggesting by what means the expenses of prosecutions may be dimi nished; but they observe that the greater number of offences committed are aggressions on the increased and increasing chattel property of the kingdom, while the charge of prosecuting such offences falls exclusively on the Poors' R lie, which is dr! ived Almost exclusively from property consisting in lands and houses. "Your Committee observe, that the payment of pro secutors has kept pace with the progress of S )ciety,, which with its advantages has brought its disadvantage, increase of crime. Tire payment of their expenses first ) occurred in the year 1752; by 2.5 G. o. 11. c. 36. the expense of the prosecution of disorderly houses was al :owed; and by the 27 Geo.ll. c. 3, the poorer sort are, by a reasonable payment for their time, trouble, and expense, to be encouraged to appear as witnesses against offenders; hence, from the original payment of the p aster sorts it has become the practice to pay all sorts of pets ns ; and by 58 Ge 111. it is nowlawful to pay all witnesses. " Your Committee conclude their It port by observ ing, that by the statute of Richard 11. c. 10, each Nl,l - during his attendance at the 'Sessions, is al lowed tour shillings a day, and the Clerk of the Peace two ; which sums are severally payable through the Sherff—a circumstance now adduced to spew that the administration of ju tice was, at that time, in part defrayed by the State ; and it appears at the present time, by the 58th George HI. that the expense of pro secuting the several offences of house-breaking,bur glary, and horse-sealing, and some others, are defrayed nearly in the same way. Your Committee alio ob.erve, that the rewards that were allowed (or the apprehension of offenders were always paid to the prosecutors towards their expenses ; but since the repeal of that law, the expenses are all paid from the County Rate. " Your Commute, therefore, deeply sensible of the h irdship af throwing the expenses of prosecutions, great part, on the County Rites, are inclined to suggest to the House that a part of those expenses shouli, in luture, be borne by the general lands of the county; and they therefore rer.ommend, that those expenses of prosecutions, over vi!) ch the Magistrates, who may be said ro rep esent the land, have no controul, should be p i 1 by the Receiver-General of the county ; and that , thoseexper,ses which the Magistrates canorder and check, should be paid, as at present, from the County Rate, by the County Treasurer; the result of which recom mendation would be, that the expense of prosecutions at the Sessions would fall upon the COllllLieS, and that at the Assizes on the general funds of the country. " June 21, 1825." ARR ACAN. EXTRACT OF A * LETTER, DATED JULY 13. " My last letter to you was . dated the 7th of June, since which time nothing of consequence has occurred, therefore you must not expect. a long epistle, as no doubt you will hear of the great sickness prevailing in this quarter. I write only to let you know 1 enjoy very good herl-h ; but heartily wish thyself from here, it being a horrid hole, both for Europeans and Natives.— Out of a mice which was, three. months ago. 6000 strong, we could not now muster more that 1500 fit for actual service, the remain.fer being either in the finspit al, or dead. Oor corps still continues the healthiest, but by the end of the rains I am afraid we shall have lost an immense number of Sepoys, deaths occurring every day ; but that is not to be wondered at, when you con sider the great change from an active to an inactive' life, and previous exposure to damps, and being in tents at :he beginning of the rainc, that is chiefly the cause of the sickness, but the climate alone is almost enough to kill anybody, there being so much jungle around tic. Cattle as well as men die; my horse de. parted tliis life yesterday, which is a gte;tt loss, as ue are haul pushed at this time ln three or four months, I fancy the whole of us will be hard run for fresh meat ; we now only live upon fowls, and they are getting dearer every day, being three for one rupee, whe:eas in Bengal I might get tea. Perhaps you will have no compassi m upon us as long as we get fowls, but when you come to live upon nothing else for nine months, I think you would be t:red of :hem. vertheless, if we eat nothing worse, we shall be far bet• ter off than the force at Rangoon was last year. I forget whether I mentioned the taking of Prome in my last letter, but I am now happy to say it is in possession of Sir Archibald Campbell's forces, where they are to remain till after the rains, when, if peace is not made, they will push on for Ummerapoora; and if the health of this division permit, we shall join Sir Archibald There is some talk of peace, but it is generally th iught without any foundation. There is also a report ;hot the Chinese have joined the Burmese against us: if so, l we shall have some more fighting, and deprive you of the pleasure of drinking tea, as all commerce will lir stopped with - China. But I dare say this report is all fudge; it is not likely his Celestial Majesty will make a party against us CORONERS' INQUESTS. DREADFUL CATASTROPHE CATASTROPHE. Monday, at twelve o'clock, Mr. CARTER, the Coroner for Kent, and a most respectable Jury, assembled at the sign of the Eagle and Lamb, Damn), to inquire into the circumstances which led to the melancholy death of Mr. Edward Topham, who was accidentaity shot by his uncle. Mr. Samuel Whittaker deposed, that he had known the deceased for set eral years; he was brought up by his uncle, Mr. S:ephen Topham, of that town. Tuesday sennight witness was on a visit at tl:e above Gentleman's house :the deceased was Oleic On the following day, witness, the deceased, and his uncle, went into a pad, dock at a small distance from t!.e house, with theit guns, for the purpose of shooting pigeons, which .were 'to be let out of a cage. After same preliminaries, Shooting commenced, and several of the birds were shot.. The deceased was in th;!'act of opening the cake; "hen a pigeon escaped, and the uncle discharging'his ,piece before the deceased was 'mit of danger, - lodged' the contents in his head ; the deceased instantly cried out, Oh, my dear uncle, you have killed me." Wit ness ran towards the deceased, and prevented him from failing on the ground. The unto:mitre uncle appeared horror 'struck at what be had done, and ran; in a state of.distractton, towards the house, to alarm his domes tics ; in the meantime witness supported the deceased, wbo was perfectly insensible,. till the arrival of one of Mr.Topham's set vants, when they carried the deceased into the house. Surgical assistance artived in a short time, and everything was done for the deceased, but of no avail, as he expired in about two hours and a half after the calamity occurred. Witness is thoroughly convinced that it was purely acciden'al. Cososza—To your knowledge, were ther deceased and his uncle always on good terms ? Wit"— -Certainly ; they were remarkably partial to each other. rhat distance was the deceased from his uncle when Juror—At wl I the piece was discharged Witness—About 15 paces. A servant of Mr. Tepham, sen. was called, bet his evidence only went to confirm that of the last witness, as to his master and the deceased being on good terms. The Jury, after consulting about ten minutes, brought in a ver lact of—Accidental Death, with a deodand of on the piece. The deceased was the son of the late Colonel Topham, and a promising young man of 19 year. of age. An Inquest was held at the Carved Red Lion, Isling ton, on the body of T. Manton, who was drowned while passing under the Tunnel, on Friday night, when the Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Old Bell, Friar street, BlackfriarF-road, on the body of Joseph West. The decea-ed was crossing the road nearly opposite the Surrey Theatre, when he was accidentally run over by a hackney-coach, by which his ribs were fractured, and he sustained other serious injuries, of which he died in a few hours.—Similar verdict. A shocking a:xi lent happened about nine o'clock on Monday bight, in St. Giles's, owing to the slippery state of the pavement. A poor Irishwoman, with an infant in her arms, was proceeding along High -street, when, on reaching Tottenham.court-road, she attempted to cross, but, on gaining the middle of the carriage-way, her foot slipped, and she and the child fell to the ground with such tome, that the child was thrown some dis tance, and before the mother or any other person could pick it up, the wheel of a h.irkney-coach that was going up tle road passed over it, and it was killed. The coachman pulled up as soon as possible, and rendered every assistance ; but it being quite clear no blame was attached to him, he was permitted to go about his bu siness. An Inquest art on the body yesterday morning, ,and a verdict of Accidental Death returned by the Jury. Last week l as Mr.G.Crocker, ship-builder, of Bideford, and his apprentice were standing on the upper stage act a large brig, now nearly finished in his building-yard, adjoining Potters Pill, an altercation took place between GUILDHALL • them respecting some work, which was not to the bath- • was again brought up before Mr. Alderman Bunn yee terDda.yDeali ; faction of Mr. Crocker, who became irritated at the in' for fival examination, upon chsrgei of having robbed his em solence of his apprentice, and said he had a great mind 'doyen to a considerable extent, and was fully coMmitted for trial. to throw him off the stage, He had no sooner used the BOW-STREET. expression than the apprentice clasped him round the Was. Gm. gerridge, who, our readers may renumber, was some waist, and exclaimed, " Will you? then we will go to- days since remanded on a charge of embezzling ,Ci ne, the property gether ;" and immediately jumped down with him a of his employers, Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott, Solicitors, in New uepth of SO feet, up to their shoulders in mud. By Inn, was yesterday brought before Mr. Hain, the sitting .lagis ropes and tackle they were, with considerable di ffi culty, . . true, charged with forging the indorsement of Mr. Charles Nedum James, an Burden clerk of the same Gentlemen. Mr. Harmer, releasedfrom their perilous situation. accompanied by Mr. Butler, attended on the part of the prosecu- Five or six fellows are now infesting the Western ton. The following witnesses were examined: Counties,especially on market:days, imposing what they Mr- William Brown wu first callet—l am clerk to Messrs. call smuggled goods, in handkerchiefs, watches, seals, Fit t on ,Onde r ticit tar f e o r r st tlae Giwi cesterr Mr. Henry Hu t n ia per WiltowH i the &c. on the unwary, which are not worth one-tenth part ac i ae d a n county attaahawnt,intha of a Glo ucester , n is fd. year e i t h, l v l2u, . t- Vallia r n e . of the burn given for them. 1 Barnes, which was sent down by Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott, u. - - An Inquest was held on the body of R. Dennis, a Billingsgate porter, aged 70, who resided in L aye-court, Petticoat-lane, and who, not hiving been seen for seve ral days, his room-door was forced, when he was found dead, stretched on a miserable bed, with one side of his face, and great pirt of his tongue gnawed away, sup posed to have been by rats; but, on looking under the bed, a cat was di,covered, which had been a great fa-' vourite of the decea•ed, but which, impelled by hunger, had thus disfigured its benefactor. It being the opinion of a surgeon that death arose from natural causes, the Jury returned a verdict accordingly, and the cat was immediately destroyed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. No. 8, New lon, solicitors. It was in a letter, lend r.r £3.3 4s. 6d. in pursuance of a rule of Court, and for £9 16.. 101 costs. A levy was made under the attachment, and the money paid. On the 24th of February, 1823, I remitted to Jenkins and Co. by the post,* draft, which I believe to be the one now pro duced. It was for the sum of £SB Bs. 4d. which, without the stamp, was the amount of the money payable to them. That letter now produced I believe to be the one In which I transmitted it. By the return of the post, I received, on the 46th of Februaryb a letter acknowledging the receipt of the remittance. Mr. Jenkins, a partner in the firm of Jenkins and Abbott, was nest called. The letter marked A, never came to my hand; I can swear to that positively ; it was never brought- to the account ; the bill for 581. 85. 4d. has never been brought to our account; we had an articled clerk named Charles Nedum James. The indorse.. ment on the bill is not his h ind-writing ; I believe the indorsement ' to he the hand-writing of the prisoner Kerridge. The letter marked 1 B (that received by the last witness) is in the hand-writing Of the prisoner; he was not entrusted to indorse any bills which had been paid to the firm. Mr King, a Gentleman holding the situation of cashier ha 104 office of Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott, appeared. According to the course of the office, any bills which are transmitted to the find would come into my hands, whether they were received by chi principals or any of the clerks ; this bill produced never Caine inter my hands ; the amount of it was never taken into account; i kiwis; the band-writing of Charles N. James, who is an articled clerk td Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott ; time indorsement on the bill is not his; I know the hand-writing ut Kerridge, the prisoner, and I believe it to be his. Mr. Tewsley—l am a clerk to Mrs.'s Jottes, Lloyd. and CO. Bankers, Lothbury; they are avent. t.,r Wilton Aid Co. Gluticeit.. ter. CM the 6th of March, 169.3, that bring the day nil witic!a it would become due from the time for which it %Vas drawn, thy bill produced WWI presented. The person who presented it presented a check for .£7 Ils. at the same time. Jame a Ellery called.—l am one of the General Postmen, em ployed in the Post-office ; I was in that situation in the mouth of February, 1823. The house of Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott, No. 8, New Inn, was in my walk as a postman of the early delivery. I remember the prisoner ; I dellveted hint letters frequently ; I have likewise delivered him letters before I reached the elfin when I have met him, which were ' directed to Messrs. Jenks and Abbott. The letter marked A. appears to have passed through the General Post-office. I have, when I have met him, delivered him letters, which he has returned tome, and told me, I might carry them to the office. The last witness on this charge was James Gardiner, a very ac tive officer of this Establishment—l searched the lodgings of the prisoner, at No. 5, Princes -street, Waterloo-road, Commercial road ; I found the letter marked at, in a drawer, in the back room on the first flow. The cue on the part of the prosecution being now closed, Mr. Heim called on the prisoner to state whether be wished to urge anything in his defence at present ? The prisoner said he had nothing to urge; but he bad hoped, that as he had freely confessed everything, and had given up the papers, Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott would nor, from a recollection of his long services, have been induced to take such a proceeding as the present against him. HALLS said, those were topics on which he could hear no remarks. He had a certain duty to perform, which, however un pleasant to his feelings, was indispensable. Mr. Hsrmrr, as the solicitor of Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott said, his clients felt hurt at having au imputation like that which had fallen (rent the prisoner cast upon them. They had been so contimsally and so extensively robbed by the prisoner and other persons, that they felt bound to prosecute, as a duty they owed to the public and themselves. Mr. HALLS said, the most distant imputation of unkindness could nut attach to them. They had trusted a man in their employment, and he had betrayed that trust. They ought, therefore, for the sake of the public and themselves, to bring him before a Jury. How, in fact, were men in extensive practice, i;ke the prosecutors, to be safe from ruin when the very persons they employed confi dentially were their worst enemies? The parties were then bound over to prosecute. A second case of embezzlement of a cheque, for the amount of 19.01. was proved against the prisoner. Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott were concerned for the plaintiff, in a case of Payne and Perron, and in it their client was successful. The action was finally settled, and the cheque in question paid to the prisoner. For this be never accounted either to the partners or to the cashier.—The prisoner was that fully committed for trial at the approaching Old Bailey Sessions.—We understand that this unfortunate man has a wife and six children. 13,1 A RY.LA-BON NE. Yesterday, flick, the engine-keeper of Mary-la-bontte Parish, was again charged at this Office with gross neglect of duty, while attending at a fire in Wigmore.street, Cavendish-square, and making use of extremely violent and insulting language to several individuals who called upon him to perform his duty. ft appeared that after the alarm was given at the manufactory of Messrs. Harwood and Olive ' , in Harley-mews, the engineer was in attendance. and though there was plenty of water, he refused for some time to play the engine, though earnestly requested by se. veral inhabitants whose premises would have been endangered had the tames spread. And not only neglect of duty was alleged, but gross nsisconduet•and abuse. Alick is the same fireman who was charged on the preceding day with having forced himself into a drawing-room full of company, alleging that there was a fire In the house. The Magistrate severely censured the conduct of the fireman, and, as on the former occasion, recommended the Gentleman to lay the case before the Vestry. UNION. HAL L Jahn Goulsicerilty, an Ivory polisher, in the employment of Mr. Lacy, was charmed with having obtained money by false pretences, and also with r obbing his master of a quantity of ivory.—On Satur day night the prisoner. gave a note to a boy, whom he met in the street, and directed him to take it to Mr. Rees, of the Mitre, sank side. The note was signed by a tradesman named White, and requested the loan of 51. or 61. for half an hour. Mr. Rees, how ever, knew it to be a forgery, and he gave the boy into custody. The boy then said he had been directed to take the note by a man whom he had met in the street, and upon taking the officer to the place where he appoiutrd to meet him, there the prisoner was found and secured.—A similar charge was preferred by Mr. Per cival, a soap-bbiler, of Green -street, Blackfriars, who said that a man resembling the prisons', called at his house on Christmas•eve, and handed him one of 11r. Lacy's cards, on which was written, " Mr. Percival—Do me the kindness by letting the bearer have lg.?. for me, as I am short of cash, and have nothing but tool. bills in the holm.. I wish to settle with my men before I come out. If you will oblige sue, I will call upon you in an hour or two. .. J. LACY." Mr. Lacy said the letter was not in his hand-writing, and that he had never directed the prisoner to call on Mr. Percival and , borrow money. It also appeared, that upon searching his Jodgiuks , a quantity of ivory articles were found, which were identified by Mr. Lacy, who said he believed they had been stolen by tlpe pu saner. Several mites were also found, with different signatures attached to• them.—The prisoner was committed on the charge of having rubbed his employer. There are persons going about purchasing the notes of country bankers; and in order to obtain such notes at a low value, they throw out hints of a most dan gerous tendency, as to the credit of very respectable firms. Country people should be particularly on their guard against such dealers in notes. GIN.—By the market price, gin does not appear to be reduced more than one shilling per gallon, but, as the imperial measure has increased the gallon in size about one-fifth ;in effect the price is reduced about Ss. 6d. per gallon. DIED. Dec. 8, in RirkintiUoth, Archibald Douglas Rankin. a most interesting youth, only son of Mr. Rankin, ochoolmastrr and am Clerk there. —Also, on the 3d in t. Janet, his only dauglo• r. MAILS—THIS DAT. ALL 11111116 A .„3. tom °obits 1 Trines 0 0 Waterford 1 1 Haastoirgb . 0 1 auernany and !entry 0 2 Flanders 0 0 Ustioo 0 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Gottenburgh 0 0 America 0 1 Whim 0 1 Jamaica 0 1 Holland 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 0 HIG H- W KU at LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORBON. Morning . 23 minutes after 4 Afternoon • 40 minutes after 4 94 Dom J't trued and Publitiuyi by J. F.Kza LT, as t At Stan little", .VO.), J'icheit- lime, 7'emple-har