Star. — London, England, 1830-10-16 00:00:00

rs. ;, -* - t • ~~ . . ft•r",t • . I IIEL,IND. • • t '". A . MtkiViALITART OUTRAGES AT ARMAGH. eriiirrsta ftB highly coloured statement is given in a Northern Paper of a commotion in Armagh, on the 4th instant (last Motiday week), between a party of the 87th Regiment, quartered in that city, and certain Peelers, Orangemen, gaiters and turnkeys. It k even said that the City Guard charged :ae gaoler with fixed bayonets, and ioaicted upon him a severe wound in the neck. We were surprised, we confesa, that we did not hear of this outrage, until eight days after its alleged occurrence. Acconlinelv we made inquiries amongst our Orange and Liberal friends of the Not th, and though many of them are in the constant habit of receiving almost daily communications from Armagh, their letters ar • altogether silent on the subject. It is pose sible there might be sor.e (Int %ken brawl, which has been exaggerated iato a serious riot, hut we net, fly disbelieve the story, manifestly made out for the purpose, we are afraid, of maligning the character of a regi ment, one of the brareet, certainly, in his Majesty's service, and one whose discipline ion credit to the men, to their excellent and judicious Colonel, and to the officers of the corps. With respect to another cir cumstance, related in the following extract, we believe there is some truth in it ; and we really regret that it should be found necessary to change the custo ti which prevailed in England with respect to the mu. sic. We believe. however, that the representations of Colonel Blair were perfectly conect. Of this, at all events, we have not the slightest doubt, that the Connntight Rangers always will be distinguished In peace by as pita.etilioux a discipline, as in war they have been by their heroic iiravery.—Enening Post. It is currently reported, on yesterday and the day previous, that re serious mutiny had broken out in the 87th Regiment, which has been for a few weeks stationed iii this town. We have made all due inquiry, end the following is, we believe, a correct statement of the circumstances which occurred in the barrack-yard on Sunday morning, and which gave rise to the rumour above-mentioned : On the officer, whose duty it was to march the Catholics to Chapel,' giving the order to that effect, the party, refusing to obey the command, stood fast, and a few voices from the ranks cried out " Music " On observing which, the officer immediately reported the circumstance to the commanding officer (Lieut.-Col. Blair), who came on the parade and gave himself the necessary order for the men to form !bur deep, preparatory to marching off. They again hesitated obeying the com mand, on which Colonel Blair assembled the whole of the officers, formed the regiment into square, and inquired whether any man had any complaint to prefer P—There was no answer until the question was reiterated three or four times, when a soldier stept forward and said that the men were dissatisfied in consequence of the music not being per mitted to accompany the party to chapel, as in England. The Colonel replied, that the music was discontinued by his order for various res. eons, and that he and his officers held themselves responsible for the consequences. He stated some of his reasons—one of which was, that ....sere was not a sufficient number of drums and fifes at head-quarters to form an efficient band ; and another that he understood the inhabitants of Newry, and the North of Ireland generally, disliked the performance of military airs during the hours appropriated to Divine Service. The Colonel added, that if the men lead come forward in a soldier-like man ner, and made known their wishes to him, he should have endeavoured to comply with them, as he was inclined to grant every indulgence cone sistent with his duty. He, however, was determined that the hitherto orderly character of the regiment should not be compromised by their dangerous and disreputable method of redressing their imaginary griev ance', and he informed their that he would bring to a court-martial on the spot any man who continued disobedient. (It is reported, indeed, tnet the Colonel went so far as to order the whole apparatus of a drum head court-martial to be paraded in the centre of the corps.) These romps and vigorous measures had the desired effect. On the Colonel's , !peating the command to march, the men obeyed in silence, and marched ir to their place of worship.—Netery Telegraph. TO T.lll IRISH NIEUBERS OF THE UNITED PARLIA 31RNT (IF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. AT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN.The situation you have obtained, t} Guth proud, is painful—your selection evinces the good opinion of your ceuntrynten—it imposes duties as arduous and discouraging as were ever undertaken by responsible representatives. You have to plead the cause of your country before an unwilling audience—a pathetic, i not hostile—ignorant, if not prejudiced. In the very act of electing , you, the people of Ireland have proved their lively sense of the intliffer ente and neglect with which they have ever been treated in the English F;aliantent ; and you are called upon to raise your voices to a tone s - .lnewhat louder titan entreaty—to a tone that will command attention, Lowever ungraciously it may be yielded. The liberty of this address, e.Nnin:; from a peer, may seem anomalous and unconstitutional ; but it is known that the peers of Ireland, having sold their birthright, are as is dead body, anti cal only be re-animated thmugh the process of cor ruption and the trump of a private secretary whose selections have been hhheito unfortunate, if we may judge from the conduct of our repre sentatives in the Upper 'louse. An humble member of the peerage, but one who never for a moment faltered in Identifying himself with the people ; one, %Ito knows them, anti who is known to them, addresses you at a moment as interesting and important, as has occur red in the history of our ill-fated country. Mr. O'Connell, in a late address to the people of Ireland. mentions nie and John David Latouche, as desirous of tranquil. lity. I feel it a compliment to be joined with Join. David Latouche we did desire tranquillity, and we do desire it. We joined a society for the purpose of improving our country, by attention to her agricul. tura; her manufactures, her canals, roads, harbours, and, above all, for procuring permanent and remunerative employment for the people. In di:cussing these subjects, it was determined to avoid 'all matter of a controversial nature. Some of the labours of that society are before the public t they deserved a better fate than that awarded them by his late Majecty's ministers. That foe, and the inattention to our represents. eon., were, I believe, the causes which induced Mr. O'Connell (for I had no communication on the subjecewith him,) to wish for a modifica tion of the society, and a departure from the rule excluding political discussion. I, on this occasion, joined with Lord Downshire„ Mr. Latouche, and others. The society was induced to reject Mr. O'Con nell's propositions. In justice to Mr. O'Connell I feel bound to de clare, that his views were right. Our tame, milt-and-water represen tations, were not attended to, our deliberations were, in s few weeks afterwards, put an end to, by the appearance of a proclamation, (issued, I do believe, against another society,) which put any meeting of Irish men so much in the power of police magistrates, that it was deemed prudent to discontinue the meeting of the " Society for the Improve. mont of Ireland." It is true, I ant desirous, most desirous, of tranquillity; so arc all men of common sense, if they can secure or obtain it without a sacrifice of duty. I feel anxious to let the great measure of emancipation pro duce its benefits uninterrupted and unalloyed. I saw party spirit gra dually subsiding, generally replaced by mutual kindness and good feel ing. We had a local government wishing to act on humane and con. dilatory principles ; upright and able judges—a growing respect for the laws—a deference to public opinion, which, however desirable, I bad never before known in Ireland. These changes, the state of the King, of whose good will to Ireland I entertained no doubt, the financial dif ficulties and general embarrassment of the government. Induced me to lave to time, to the working of events, and to the good sense of Minis te.ra, the further beneficial measures of which I, for a moment, ceased to fed the necessity. My confidence in Princes and public men had Its usual reward. A committee was appointed to paralyse the efforts of eisalpus members. This legislative committee held out a prospect of slow inquiry and remote benefit the tardiness of beneficial measures was to be compensated by an immediate and excessive increase of tax. alien, as injudicious for the benefit of the State, as It was revolting to the wants and wishes of the people. This increase of taxation on Ire. land, proposed at a moment when England. was lightened of millions, beicaus:, the beer duty pressed bard upon the comforts and necessities of the poorer classes in England; end at a period, when the population of Ireland wsi in a state of the most abject distress—in many districts bor. Bering on starvation. I repeat, that such a period was selected to add to our already overwhelming burdens, and to aggravate thi feelings of disgust at such measures. We had a flippant declaration front the Prime Minister, that "starvation was periodical in Ireland ; was a matter of such usual course, that no measures for its relief were in con temptation." Thee was much of ignorant cold-heartedneas in the ob. servation ; but, thank Goa. it was not altogether supported by the fact. I have seldom been out of Ireland for the last thirty years, and misery so general as wail felt last summer has not been known within my taco!. I.etion. It is true, that on two former occasions great dearth, and con.. sequent suffering, was felt in Ireland ; but on either occasions, it was not so general as in this year. Allowing, but not agreeing, with the Duke of Wellington's statement, if, in a country so extensive and fer. tile as Ireland, famine can be annually felt by the bulk of the people, that distress must be caused by the mismanagement of the Govern. meat—and it is the first duty of the Government to prevent or to re. Here it. DIY LOADS AND GENTLINIEN—In the preceding observations, I have stated facts regarding Ireland ; and have made out a case requir ing your immediate attention, and prompt measures of melioration on the part of the legislature. Without giving up my own opinions, as to the best remedies for the many well.grounded causes of complaint af. ',Taft our country. or presuming to dictate to others, I sail', in a sub sequpit Jester, take leave to state the " palliatives" I think, under pre. sent cireusustatices, most worthy of your scrims and present attention. In the meantime, I have the honour to remain, My Lords and Gentlemen, Your faithful and humble servant, CLt oNCURitY. MAUL' H OF PATRIOTISII.—Jeremish Harvey, a led done aloe jfltitli of age, was indicted at the Itrtiorder's Court, in Debits* tin Tweeds/ for stealing a eilk handkerchief, the property of Ea wept Itoohte .Tweeds)), prisoner was amerced to Met years' trans. I pt.rtatles, 1 young wight did not seem to be at all 'Acted upon Iu sting the sesiumbe, and on being removed from the bee. be damned' wilt, *eagerly hut*, " Hurrah for Orsttoo—ooo cheer MOM" CILIRGE (Abridged from the Leeds Irateiligeneer.) On Friday last, an occurrence took place in Leeds which excited an extraordinary sensation, and has ever since supplied the gossips with abundant matter for tattle and speculation On that day, Mr. Stanley, a most respectable wool-merchant and broker, was apprehended on a charge of bigamy. Mr. Stanley came to Leeds in the early part of 1826, and was almost a stranger here. lie commenced business as a wool-merchant and broker, and opened an office and warehouse in Greek -street, Park-row. Hit business went on prosperously, and gradually increased up to 1829. In the beginning of that year he became acquainted with Miss Daniel, an amiable and accomplished young lady, who then filled the situation of governess to Mr. William (lon's children. Having married, he fixed his abode in ao elegant house, No. 13, Camp-road, Leeds, but better known as Critnbles House, the residence of the late Abraham Parkinson, Esq. In consequence of this alliance his commercial con nections increased. lie apparently lived In a very genteel style, keep ing up a considerable domestic establishment, horses, man servant in livery, &c. Thug Rowed the course of his affairs till the eventful Friday last. On the evening preceding that (lay, a bustling, good-looking female, attended by her son, aged 22 years, arrived here from Camberwell, near London. She broughti a letter to a respectable resident ; and ini mediately inteodudigl herself as the wife of Mr. Stanley, whom she married in 1806. She stated, also, that she had borne him eleven chil dren, six of whom are living, and the eldest of whom accompanied her. In support of these and other allegations, she produced a regular mar riage certificate. Having made the necessary depositions, and obtained a war. rant of Mr. Gott, that instrument was put into the hands of Mr. Sowry, the constable, about noon on Friday, and Mr. Stanley was taken into custody in his own warehouse, in less than an hour after, and conveyed before Mr. Gott in that gentleman's compting-house. Here he was confronted with his wife and son. He put a bold face upon the matter. He did not deny that he knew her; nor did he deny his son (who, by the way, bears an uncommonly strong resemblance to his father); but he declased that he had never legally married her. His accuser alleged that his name was not John, as he called himself, and under which he married Miss Daniel, but Joseph. This, too, he stoutly denied. As, however, Mr. Stanley had not the means of meeting the charge, he was told by Mr. Gott that he must be detained in custody till documentary and other testimony could be ad. duced to elucidate the question. To this hard necessity he submitted with a tolerably good grace : but knowing Mr. Gott, he begged per. mission to go, under the constable's care, to deliver some wool which he had sold to Mt. Willans. Mr. Gott assented. The wool was de. livered, and the officer subsequently conveyed him, also by permission, to his (Mr. Stanley's) own residence, where he busied himself for an hour or two In lookinglover and arranging his books and Papers. About six in the evening, Mr. Gott and Mr. Barr, the deputy town. clerk, repaired to Crimbles house, for the purpose of taking the usual informations in such cases. ➢liss Daniel--as we must call the second wife—was confined to her apartment by a severe scald in her legs and feet. The examination took place in a front room, in which Miss Daniel sat ; Mrs. Stanley and her son were in a back room adjoining. The constable remained without. During the inquiry, Mr. Stanley re peatedly went from the front to the back room, to speak to his teal wife, and made many endeavours to mitigate her anger, and her stem demand of justice. All at once he was missed ! It is supposed that he went out at the back door, got over a wall, leapt into a plantation, and thence effected a safe retreat. He has not since been retaken, nor is there any clue to the place of his retreat. His first act, after his escape, was a singular one, and in dicates a good heart and an honest principle. He hastened to the coun. try-house of a gentleman, of whose property he had from 1,0001. to 1,2001. worth in his possession. He briefly explained that circumstances had arisen which rendered a retreat prudent; and he put into the gen tleman's hands documents relating to the transactions between them, and instructed him how he might regain his own. Having per. formed this honourable and considerate action, he continued his flight, by what means the chroniclers have not recorded ; but on Saturday morning, at a considerable distance from Leeds (a.v appears from the document,) he executed a regular deed of assignment of all his property, in favour of his second wife's father, Mr. Daniel (who is, or wu then, at Bath,) to whom he owed a moderate sum of money which had been advanced to him by way of loan. Under this instrument, the household furniture and other effects were speedily announced for sale. Mr. Stanley's private affairs were in good order. He scarcely owed • pound in Leeds, or any where else, so far as it is at present known. All his furniture, which is elegant, has been paid for. In short, It appears from his books that his fair profits of business amounted to little less than one thousand pounds a.year.—Lteds lateWitmer. POLICE REPORTS. BIANSION.NOVSE —Capt■in Read, accompanied by Mr. J. L. Jones, one of the owners of the &lips' steam vessel, appeared before the LORD klaTost, to answer the complaint of a man named Noakes, whose barge had been sunk by the swell arising from the rapid pro. greet of a steam.ressel, and who had been in imminent danger of being drowned. From the evidence, it appeared that Noakes and his assistant were rowing the barge in the Thames, near Limehouse, when the Eclipse approached them at a speed much beyond the regulated rate of going. The bargeman called out to the Captain, and said he (the Captain) would sink the barge if he went on so rapidly, but no notice was taken of the appeal; the steam vessel dashed on at full speed, and just as she passed the swell overwhelmed the barge, and down it sunk. The two men sank with her, but were providentially saved. The barge was now at the bottom of the Thames. Captain Read said the vessel was not going at full speed. The Cap tain called witnesses to disprove the case against him. Thomas Nash stated that he was mate of the Eclipse these 18 months, and had been three years in the service of the Company to which that vessel belonged. As the steamer went along he saw the barge very deep in the water ' and evidently overloaded. The steamer put passengers ashore at Limehouse. and then the Captain de sired him to go ea easy. The vessel did not go at the rate of more than three or four miles an hour when she was passing the barge, and did not go at full speed. The City Solicitor—Do you remember, about three months ago, sink ing the boat of Joseph Haynes, a waterman ? 'Witness—.l do not. Another person employed in the vessel said that he saw the barge as the steamer went along, and that it appeared to be very heavily laden. He said toe gentleman near him that she lay very deep. He heard af. terwarda that ahe sunk. The Captain and the Owner said they were prepared to defend them. selves, as they by no means considered the steamer in fault. The LORD MAYoa—Very well ; perhaps the bat way is to have it settled ins Court of Justice. I trust that it will be tried, for I really begin to tremble fur.the public.: I have presented a petition in the Court of Aldermen on the subject of these vessels, sad I have no doubt the Court will adopt such measures very soon as will give some protec tion to the community. From what I have head, l have reason to sup. pose that the regulations of the Court sre as little attended to as if they had never been made, and I shall certainly use all the power of which I am capable, to remedy this very serious mischief. The parties then retired. OtriLDßALL.—Williases Bennett was re-examined, charged with stripping a furnished house, which had been let to him in the course of the summer, at Prestbury, near Cheltenham. The prisoner had been remanded, in order that the prosecutor might come to town to identify him. The complainant, Mr. Jonathan Briggs, of Cheltenham, stated t h at the prisoner hired the house from him, and decamped in the early part of last month with the greater part of the furniture, which he sent on to Londoo by a waggon, assuming the name of Warlters. Upon learning these flues. bs forwarded a notice to the Bell Inn, Wunieh. lane, where the goods would arrive, and were to lie tin called for. They reached this place on the 13th of September, and the prisoner, on apply. lug for them, on Tuesday last, was apprehended. The compl a i nant produced the agreement under which the prisoner was put into posses. slim of the turn tore, and also a warrant which had been granted spinet the prisoner by a local Magistrate. The prisoner produced a paper to shew that he had agreed to pur. chase a portion of the furniture, and said he could shew the rest of the property_ bad become his own. The complainant admitted a portion of the goods had been sold to the prisoner ; but the articles recited in the warrant had not been dia. posed of. The Alderman therefore ordered that the prisoner should be con veyed to Cheltenham. Bow-rracrY..—John Bennett, a lad apparently about 18. years o f age, was brought up on a warrant obtained against him by the officers of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-flelda, who charged him with being the fattier of an illegitimate child, of which • plain-looking young fe. l male, named Harriet Russell, had been delivered. The mother of the child swore positively that the prisoner was the father of her baby, but she could not bring to her recollection the time when their intimacy took place. The prisoner as pertinaciously declared that he was entitled to r.o such honour as that intended to be conferred upon him. He admitted, how ever. that he knew the complainant on the 31st of March, but he assured the Magistrates that their Intimacy was limited to that day. txsetut.r. asked if the complainant was quite sure that the prisoner was the father of the child, and cautioned ha to be careful how she swore ? The complainant answered that she was quite certain, and that her intimacy with the prisoner subsisted for more than three month,. Mr. lillsouttra., having consulted with Messrs. BLCKETT and Massage, county magistrates, agreed to make the order of affiliation. Mr. Palmer, the clerk to the overseers, hoped that nc more than Its. Id. a week would be allowed fur the mainttrance of the child, as the .• 111 , 1 •tV4I to 'll • • ,r , ti. h. 4! 14,11 y 2tl. a %e,k. Mr. M I 14911 U r.r. expressed very great reluctance to order any smaller maintenance than Ss; but under the impression that tile ptisoncr held been seduced by complainant, he at length limited the allowance to 2s. The prisoner was then remanded into custody, until he shall have sa tisfied the parish. BIAILY-LA•loxxr..—Silas Tilling, a man of sallow complexion, and marked with the small-pox, who appeared to be about thirty years of age, was brought vester&y morning from the Regent's Park, by the police constable No. 110, of division D, for creating a disturbance there. He claimed the Colosseum as his property, and demanded entrance that he might go to the top of it, and carry home the old ball of St. Point Church in his pocket. He also gathered flowers and broke the shrubs in a neighbouring garden, and he was taken into custody. He conducted himself like a madman before Mr. Hoskins, and with some difficulty was persuaded to give any account of himself; at length he said, 1 Uve at No. 9, G eorge-street, Portland-plats, and Isere is (throwing down a grocer's shop-bill advertising cheap tea), my title to the Colosseum, and who denies it ? Mr. Hoexitts ordered Keys, the gaoler, to lock him up, and he sent the policeman to George -street, to make inquiry respecting him. The policeman returned without any tidings, and all that could be learned of him was, that a person at the office knew him as a shoemaker in Somers Town, and a field-preacher. Mr. HOSKINS ordered the gaoler to bring him in again, and when Keys opened the door of the cell, the prisoner burst into a loud fit of laughter, and pelted him with pieces of his coat and hat, which he had torn into a hundred pieces. Mr. lionise told him he was very foolish to tear his clothes to pieces. " What shall I tear then?" said he. " This ?" seising the note-book of a reporter. Mr. Hoskins ordered the officers to remove him to the constable's room, and send to the workhouse for some one belonging to the parish to come and take care of him. They had some trouble in doing this, and when he got near the fire-place, he made a snatch at the poker, it was put out of his way ; he then seised the fender, and two men Wer. wards were obliged to hold him. Mr. Wiffen, one of the assistant overseers, came from the work. house, and said he should have proper attention, and he went quietly with him, declaring he would order Temple-bar to be pulled down after the King's dinner in the City, for that had brought on his disorder, and that if he had not watched the moon for 11 hours the night before very ausfully, the world would have been set on fire. BLIMLIIOIIOUGII-STREET.—Thursday Mrs. Sarak Collins, a lady of considerable property, whose case was a short time since given at considerable length, was again placed at the bar. It will be recollected that on a previous examination and full committal of this lady for the robbery at the shop of Mr. Ward, Piccadilly, a few yards of La had been found in her reticule, and this circumstance induced the Might. trate to order her to be again brought up In the hope that the lace, if stolen, might in the mean time be owned. A description of the lace was given, but no person came forward to claim it. Mr. Isaacs, sen. attended, as on the previous occasion, for the pri soner ; and on a question being put by Mr. Roe, the Magistrate, whe ther any person had come forward to own the lace, that gentleman re plied in the negative, and begged to ask the Ma gistrate if he would allow his client to be admitted to bail. Mr. Isaacs also stated, that the prisoner wax allied to a noble family, and was possessed of a fortune amounting to 100,0001. She had left Cork, her native place, only a few weeks, and had come to London on particular business, and since her arrival here had borne a highly honourable character. Mr. Roe said, that admitting all that Mr. Isaacs had stated to he true, still it did not tend to deny the specific charge. Mr. fuzes assented to the truth of this observation, but begged to call the attention of the worthy Magistrate to the fact of the lady expos ing her willingness to he searched ; and the circumstance of Mrs. Ward in her evidence having made use of the words, " When I was up stairs, I said to her, Now, if you have it, give it me, and I'll let you out by a private door, and no more shall be heard of it." He (Mr. Isaacs) had since learned that there was not a private door and this, in his opinion, threw some alight shade of doubt upon the question. If the probabilities of the case were to be looked at, a rea sonable being, conscious of guilt, would not have refused so good an opportunity to extricate herself from the dilemma. He must say, that in the course of the prosecution more than an ordinary degree of feel ing had been evinced. The observation respecting the private door warranted a belief that other inconsistencies might have been adduced in evidence. Mr. Rocs—lily object has always been consistency, and if I admit this lady to bail, all would claim the same indulgence at my hands. I must go on fairly and steadily, and cannot give way to my feelings, however much they may be interested. lam sorry to see a respectable lady placed in such a situation, still my line of duty must be adhered to. 31r. Isaacs—But some circumstances might warrant one in forming a reasonable doubt. Mr. Rot—l am told, sir, that the lace was found in her bosom, and lam bound to believe the oath of the individual who states that; and any questions of doubt must be a subject for another tribunal. If I were to let my feelings lead me here , should repent it another time. I am, on oath, told that 201. was offered by the lady if the constable would let her go at large. Mr. Issees—l believe, by the rules of the Commbsieoen of the Po. Hee, the constables are bound to report particular circumstances, and I feel assured that this alleged offering was not reported to them, but "got up" m an after transaction, and only told to the Magistrates and not to the Commissioners. Mr. Roe repeated, he was bound to believe the evklence on oath, and be ordered the prisoner to be remanded until the Sessions com menced. The prisoner, who appeared more tranquil than on her formerexami. nation, was conveyed to prison in a coach. Towx-HALL.—Mallhew Kelly was charged with assaulting police. man M. 130. James Broklebank, of the Red Lion, Honleydown-lane, said that at 10 o'clock on Thursday night the prisoner had some words with others at his house, and was about to fight ; when he attempted to get bim away, he assaulted him also, and tore his shirt ; he was very drunk. Sir John Panama and Mr. Alderman ASTILZY fined the prisoner 40s. and he was committed in default of payment. Presently the policeman returned, to say that he had been set upon by Bridget Kelly, the prisoner's mother, who raised a mob round him, and called him a perjurer and a thief. She had herself been several times com mitted to Brixton from this Office, where she was sent again for the offence. Urtiow-Rat.t..—Two men named Robertson and Steed, were charged with the following robbery, the examination of which disclosed a case of felony against the man who brought the charge against the accused panics. Richard Brooks stated that, on Saturday, as be was proceeding do w n the Kent-road, in his cart, accompanied by the two prisoners, he fell fast asleep in the vehicle, and that during that time he w as robbed of his watch, together with a gold seal and key. When he awoke and missed them, he accused the prisoners of the theft, but they denied it, and he gave them into custody, convinced that the offence could not have been effected without their being instrumental in it. Subsequently to their apprehension the watch and its appendages were traced to a pawnbroker's shop in the London-road, where it had been pledged by a person resembling one of the prisoners. To account for the watch not having been found in the actual possession of either of the prisoners when taken into custody, it is suspected that they handed it over to one of their companions as the cart was proceeding along. At this stage of the examination, the prisoner Steed's brother stepped forward, and stated that Brooks, the very man who now made the charge, was concerned himself on Friday last in breaking into the stable of a Mr. Layton, at Kew, and stealing therefrom a pet of harness. The informant then detailed the manner in which this robbery ass effected. He said that on the day in question Brooks, accompanied by informant's brother and a man named Lee, went down to Kew together, to dispose of a load of firewood to Mr. Layton, and that, after the purchase had taken place, the three of them went to a public-house in that I neighbourhood, and remained drinking there until twelve o'clock I at night, when Brooks and Lee went and broke into Mr. Lay. ton's stable, and stole the property alluded to. While :S t ooks and Lee were committing the robbery, deponent's brother waited in the cart until they returned with the stolen property, which they deposited in the cart, then drove to town, and sold it at an old iron shop on Saffion-hill. The above statement of the alleged robbery was declared to be true by the prisoner Steed, who, it appeared, had in formed his brother of all that had transpired since it was committed. To strengthen the statement against Brooks, the complainant in the other ease, Mr. Layton attended, and said that he perfectly recollected the day on which Brook.* came to his house at Kew with a load of wood; and on the same night his premises were broken into, and a set of harness stolen. Brooks was immediately transferred to the bar along with the other prisoners, and evidence is to be adduced on a future day to substantiate the alleged charge against the parties implicated. Trustee Foxing —Francis Trepartben was charged with robbery on board the Camilla, of Penzance. tle was found to have on three pair of trowsers, two jackets, two waistcoats, and two silk handkerchiefs. Tb. prisoner had left his own clothes behind. Clements, the officer, said the prisoner had admitted the robbery, and mentioned that he •as the son or a respectable ship-owner, but for some time past had been leading a dissolute life. His mother was now pregnant, and it was feared, if the information of her son's conduct reached her, bad comae. quenoss would ensue.— C.apt. Brener:t fully committed him for trial. Was. Bwaketastee, a waterman of the Custom.house Lower-stairs, was charged with demanding and taking more than his legal fare. The defendant was engaged to ta k e t h e complaicant to the Hatavier Dutch stennta oat, off Ur lort.stairs front the Customhouse. His legal fare was ed. but the complainant gave hint a shilling. The waterman mantled 2s. and collared him, and would not lit hint go until he paid the demand. Capt. kiennext. convicted him in the penalty of twenty shillings and costs. A society has been formed in Bristol to protect creditors front the schemes of fraudulent bankrupts and other insolvents A plan to prevent the harpies of the law horn Khios to their own aoleitee the roklue of ru;ner.l propetties, would be to the - full as beneilciaL A PPREE UNION OF ME RINGLEADER 'N TINY' uF 'MR COLuNIAL BRIG Yesterday, a person came to Queen-square Office at an early I.n: r, give information of the retreat of this man. The officcut with b.., little difficulty got into the house, and found him In a room up star, and took him into custody. He had on a shoemaker's leather apron, se; beside him lay his working tools. Being questioned, he said lie was $ shoemaker, and was not aware of any offence be had committed. Tlir officers now called up the landlady of the house, and she said that he had taken a room in her house at the rent of 3s. per week, but she did n., know what business he had in the room he was found In, as that belong. 'to her son.in-law, who was a shoemaker, and the tools were his. TI„ prisoner trembled excessively, and said his name was Watson ; and after searching the prisoner's own room, three pawnbroker's tickets were found; one of them was for a quadrant, pledged in the name of Will. Weldon, a few days ago; another was for a telescope ; and the third was fora coat. On the prisoner being brought to the office be w:: found exactly to correspond with the deacription given of Captain Wal. don, alias Swallow, alias Walker, alias Todd, and was identified s s being transported from this country by the name of Swallow. Tin prisoner was then taken into an outer room, and on being closely exit • mined a scar was found on his right arm, and also a small scar on the chin and nose, as described in the Rae and Cry. The circumstance having been communicated to the Magistrates, they ordered him to b• remanded, and in the mean time he was to be taken to the Thames pt. lice to be identified. HYDROPHOBIA A most awful instance of this complaint occurred in this town during the past week, as noticed in our last. The subject of this horrible di,. ease was a man of the name of Jacob Wilkinson, seventy-two year , of age, living in Golden Ball Yard, who had been severely bitten of; the right hand, in February last, by his own dog. The parts sue excised and freely cauterized, the wounds healed, and nothing further happened until Wednesday, when be began to experience slight pain in the cicatrices, extending up the arm, side, and fare, which continued increasing, with spasms about the threat, great difficulty of swirl. lowing, with convulsive heaving, when attempting to drink, quick and laborious respiration, and other premonitory symptoms, till the neat day, when all his sufferings became more urgent. He applied to the Dispensary for medical aid. When seen the hydrophobic symptoms were fully developed. He was bled to fainting, and other powerful remedies used, with immediate but temporary relief. The next morn ing he was in a most pitiable condition: a peculiar and most hurried manner of expression, with fearful agitation, convulsive paroxysm s,much increased In severity and duration, being produced by the air blowing upon him, attempting to drink, or even to speak. He rallied very much during the day, and in the afternoon was picking a little chicken, but unable to swallow, was quite collected, and rationally answered any question that might be required. He relapsed about ten o'clock at night, was more resolute and unmanageable, offering to strike and snap at the gentleman who was administering his medicines. Convulsion, more violent, longer, and almost constant, with great secretion of viscid saliva pouring from his mouth, total inability to swallow, evincing the greatest horror for liquids. He continued in this terrible condition till about nine o'clock, when the vital powers rapidly sank, and he died a little after ten in the morning (Saturday,) without a moan or a struggle. A long and most minute examination of the body was made twenty five hours after death by Messrs. Smith. Harrison, Owen, and Bateson, surgeons; but the dissection threw no light whatever on this truly ap palling and uncontrollable malady.—Lancaster Gazette. SCINTILLiE. FRAGMENT OF A ISU DISCOURSE. Be FATHER MURPHY. Don't be making such a noise over there, shutting and opening that door, while I'm preaching. It's hard for the word of Goo to be spread amongst ye when its chewing tobacco and spoiling your mouths ye are, instead of listening to me.—Shut your teeth, Jeminy Finn, or the Flies will get down your throat, and bother your stomach entirely. —Now, can any of ye tell me what's the reason that, when you've no. thing to at,—which, GOD help ye, is no fault of your own,—you don't die for want of nourishment P—There's a puzzler for you, Jem Neal, big as you are ! Now just turn that problem in your heads while I see whether the water is drying out of my new cost;—sure enough It's the only one I have. [A pause of wonder in the chapel, while the priest descends from the alter to see after his coat. It is evident, from the confusion visible in the fans of the audience, that the problem is a poser. The priest returns,l Well, there's never a one among ye can find out the reason of the life that's in ye, in spite of the starvation. Sure, that's the use of the priest, to show you what you can't sec yourselves. Did you ever hear of the moving bog ? It walked over Cavan and Armagh, dripping rain all the waand sorrow a clod of turf on it but belonged to the Orangemen. The cause of that is as plain as the blossoms on Psi Duggan ugly nose. You never knew of a min ing bog of real Ca tholic turf. No such thing. And that's the reason why the starvatior doesn't kill ye. But just try your hands upon the Bible—turn ovr to the Methodists,—and then see how a mouthful of cold wind will do you far your breakfasts. Once you think of fasting and turning ts, you're done forts neat and clean as if Ould Nick was drilling you through and through with a red-hot poker. Doesn'ot that expound to gleythe NOM of the eating and gormandizing of the Bruns, Ickers t eat and drink heady, ti see, because they know well enough, the 'Taiwan won't acknowledge it, that the true faith isn't in them, and that if t ey didn't feed like crammed fowl six times a day, and double as much on a Sunday, they'd pine away into the clay under their feet. But that tsn't the way with the true church. the faith keeps you up. Didn't the Santini of the world starve himself forty days and nights to show you the way to glory ? and sure there's many a one of you didn't pass bite or sup for months upon months together, and the never a worse are you for it in the end.— There's nothing can kill a Catholic but his own bad works. —The soul of me doesn't know but you'd all live for ever, only for something or other that happens to be just as you're nearly perfect, and whips you off with a fiat in your car. Och ! then, iE you could only mend yourselves, what a beautif u l race of blackguard. ye d be; that would want neither the meat nor the buttermilk, and that'd be as ould as the hills every morning ye'd see the grass growing. There ye'd all be on the day of judgment as hearty as a hive of bee.. with y gre our y hair twisted down into breeches and top-boots to cover your dirty Shame upon ye, that won't be Methuselah. every one, when you know you could live if you liked until there wouldn't be a living soul in the world but Alderman Bradley King, cocked up on the back of an ass to direct you on the road to Purgatory. Think o' that, and pay your dues, and there's no fear o' you. Yon remember, the other day, that the Biblemot challenged us to come to the fore in regard to the Scriptures. They wanted, you see, to prove as clear as mud that the notes were written with the wrong end o: a pea, and that they had as much right to the Old and New Testament, as we that had them from the beginning, and that only lent them out o'charity to the protestants, just as Molly Kierman would lend he pitcher to Kitty Nowlen, expecting she'd return it when she had done with it. But the protestant; made a bad use of the loan, and go. other Scriptures made from the pattern; just as you wont: get false ]eys made to pick a look; so POW they trum7 up their spurious books to us, that have the real books o' our own, and that never had any other. It is no wonder we are care ful of them, for we were treated so badly when we lent them in purr friendship, that it would be no sin in us to burn 'em alto get her, for fe3- we'd make such born tools of' ourselves again. You know I didn't go to the meeting, boys; and may be you thought it mighty ode that 1 staid at home, and let Father Audy go in my place. Be: I'll soon shew you the weaning o' that ; although one priest r.t A time is enough for a regiment of saints, and Father Audy is no biu! fist at a controversy. Indeed, Father Audy, you needn't look dos! , at your shoes, as if your shoes wanted tying; for its a vicar yi ought to be, and I a bishop, if every body had his rights.— Whittaler . MonlMy _gag. A most impudent robbery was committed some short titre back at Mr. Longhorn's, the White Bear, Bride-lane, Blackfriars. fellow cane in late in tl.e evening, and, having engaged a bed, went into the colfee.room, where he sat drinking till about twelve o'clock. when. at his request, he was shown to his bed. The following morning, to coming down stairs, the waiter was surprised at finding the lock of the street door lying in the ravage, and the door merely closed to. It ap peared on investigation, that the fellow who engaged the lard had. 0^ going up stair*, passed into an unoccupied bed-room adjoining his own. from the bed of which he stole a sheet, doubling the remaining one se 5 , 1 to give it the appearance of two, and, having served his own bed in the same way, sat up watching till he found all was quiet, when he time down stairs, and, the street door being double locked, and the key in custody of the landlord, he bad recourse to taking out the screws, by which the lock was fastened on to the door. Previously, however, in quitting the house, he took the liberty of removing a valuable timepiece, which was fixed over the mantel in the corer-room, with which and the !Ater property he got clear off. and has not been heard of since. BIRTHS. The 15th inst. at Audley.erld, Lady Braybrooke, of a son.—The 15th inst Mrs. R. Lake, of Kapple-sweet, of a daughter—The 15:h inst. in Bedford-plaet, the Lady of F. F. Rougemont, EN. of a son—The 15th inst. Mrs. Boustleld, of Chatham-place, of a son. MARRI ED. On the 14tIt int'. at Sher6elri,;l.iianghan, Esq. B.A. of Merton Coilegt, Oxford, to Lucy, eldest su rvivin g daughter. L . of P. Pigott, K. of Archer.loslge.ir the county of Southampton.—The 13th Inst. at the cltutch of St. Giks, Ctunbervell, Mr. F. Drake of Bouvcrie-stroet. aa licuor, to Franca, record daughter of Mr. W. LarceSekl. of the form , r DIED. Tie 13th Ws,. in Bohan -street, aged 23, Fdward Agtno^dishu'► Vest.), Esq. 4:1 hiN Ilajesty's Treasury, only surviving on of the Ivo I.j.4.oetural John Agniondiskam Vary'. I.onnom : and rubliahrd by Joan Marge, at IM Ihne• t:rrtct, Ns. 1, Piekc Tiza, Temple Var. i' I 1 -