Star. — London, England, 1830-09-02 00:00:00

PROI'I7 , CIAL I,VTELLI:',E.NrE• The Bishop of WirAcster has munificently added 1001. a year, from the it vertu:. of his see. to increase the hitherto scanty income of the Vicar of Christchurch ; the patrons of the llornagh are expected to do the trne.. on Sunday sennight the Church &Tyke at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, was performed by two golden en, both natives of the town— a circum•tanee rarely, Weyer, known to have occurred, either there or else A' Lett!. A clergyman residing within a f...w miles of this town has determined that for the futtt;e r.o Disserttr shall he buried in the churchyard of his parish. In the village alluded to there is already a Dissenting place of worship, and it %mild be no difficulty for this society to procure a piece of ground fur the interment of their dead. But, if this system of ex clusion be acted upon by the Clergy of the Establishment generally, we think it will cause a greater schism between our Church brethren and their fellow Christians of other denominations than already may es is t.—Brd ford Mereurll. An amusing incident occurred on Sunday fortnight, at a certain Church not many miles front this town. The young incumbent having been requested to supply a vacant pulpit at the north end of Liverpool, obtained the assistance of the Curate of a neighbouring Church to oc cupy his own, who gave the congregation a very masterly and eloquent discourse. In the afternoon the two divines changed places, the incum. bent thus resuming the occupation of his own pulpit : when, to the surprise, and no doubt great edification of the respective congregations, lot the same text was taken as in the morning, and the same sermon preached ver.intint —Liverpool Times. The effigy of the Editor of The Brighton Guardian was burnt be. tore the office of that paper, in North.street, on Wednesday evening, amid the huszas and hootings of a mob, consisting of seven or eight hundred persons, who afterwards proceeded to his house in Grenville place, and broke his windows. This ebullition of popular feeling was occasioned, we understand, by the Editor having published a libel against the King.—Brighton Herold. It is a statistical fact of some interest to our citizens, as connected with the manufacturing establishments of this town, that there are at present in daily use, in our different manufactories, foundries, &c. 26 steam engines, whose aggregate horse power amounts to 515, requiring a daily consumption of about 250 bolls of coals.—Merdeca Journal. One of the many whimsicalities of the late election was the following: —A freeholder proceeded to the poll mounted on a donkey. He dis. played on either side of his hat the colours of Adeanc and Osborne, while the headstall of his beast exhibited the purple and orange of the Court candidate. Coming in such a " questionable shape," it was na turally asked of him who he voted for? " Why," says the freeholder, " I am for Osborne and Adeanc ; but my ASS, like the asses of many other great men, is for Manners."—Cambridge Independent Press. The American horse Tom Thumb, which has become the property of Mr. Osbaldestone, was lately backed by that gentleman to trot 16 miles in harness within the hour. Mr. Osbaldeston also made a heavy bet that he would drive the same horse 161 miles within the hour on the same day. The match was decided yesterday on the Trumpington road, near Cambridge. It was arranged that the horse should go eight miles and a half out, then turn, and come back to within half a mile of the starting-post. He went over the 16 miles in 55 minutes, and finished the 161 miles in three minutes and a quarter under the time stipulated. The horse appeared as fresh at the end of the work as when he first came on the ground. The cart in which Mr. Osbaldestone drove him did not weigh quite a hundred weight. . . TIPPERARY.-11i. Wyse has been performing a tri umphal tour through this quiet county, for the purpose of expressing his thanks to his gentle countrymen. On Wednesday he visited Tem. plemore, which was illuminated on the occasion. The following day he proceeded to Roscrea, where similar honours were showered upon him ; and some say that he intends to prolong the ovation into Queen's County. for the delight of his tenants there, and the benefit of the chand. lees of Mountrath. The favourite song at Knocklofty is—" 'Tim good to be Prittie and NVyse." . . . . . At Thaxted, on Sunday evening last, about six o'clock, during s thunder storm, the electric fluid entered one of the largest barns in this county, standing by the side of the road, and belonging to the parsonage farm °coupled by Mr. Scruby. The barn had the pre. sous day been filled with corn. The whole was .instantly in a blaze, and, notwithstanding the assistance of a great number of persons and t.:veral engines, no part of the barn or its contents could be preserved. Several stacks of corn and hay, which were prudently set at a proper distance from the buildings, were at one time in great danger. The stables also took fire, from which the hones were with difficulty re moved.—Esser Herold. LORD 3IORPETH AND AIR. 8R017011A31. The return of these popular representatives to Parliament, after having filled the county of York with exultation, seems now likely to fill it with festivity. Public dinners to celebrate the event are announced at Leeds, Shef.ield, and Hull, the three principal towns of the county; and it will, we are assured, arise only from the impossibility of the members attendance, it similar entertainments are not given to them in many other places.... A: Otley, I)ewsbury, and Horbury, each forming • centre of a perfect hive of freeholders, the presence of the members has been dispensed with, and entertainments of the meat gratifying description have been given, which serve at once to celebrate the recent triumph, and secure their future victories.—Leeds Mercury. Mr. u atz.—We have much pleasure in stating that a meeting, at tended by between fifty and sixty gentlemen, belonging to this city and reighbourliood, took place yesterday in the Black Bull Inn, with the siew of taking into consideration the proposal of showing Mr. Hume, during the visit which he intends shortly making in this city, some token of their respect and high regard. A committee was nominated, of which 31r. Oswald is to he Convener, and Mr. David Bell, Secretary, for the purpose of taking the necessary steps for showing every demon stration of respect to the distinguished statesman at a public dinner, per fectly unrestricted with regard to the gentlemanly expression of political opinions.—Glasgow Free Press. We have sect: a letter from Athy, giving an account of some occur rences in the Kildare election. The writer says that numbers of the ten-pound freeholders had neglected to register, and that the supply of voters was consequently remarkably scanty. The next election for the county, he says, will find no less than five candidates, and "at least 2,500 voters." A curious scene, which occurred on the night of the 16th instant, is thus described by the writer of the letter to which we have adverted :—On his return to his lodgings he found that a certain Priest had forced into the shop (a respectable hardware establishment) two handsome young girls, whom his reverence charged with being street-walkers. A mob immediately collected about the door, and the two humble and trembling criminals, whom the Holy Father had a few minutes before " caught in a crowd," knowing they were on some bad design" (such were his words,) being surrounded by the women of the house, her daughter, a brace of servants, &c, his Reverence worked him self into such a fury, that he actually jumped at one of the poor pri soners, and addressed her in the following strain :—" Let me at her ! Now you're done, Miss Biddy Dunne ! I'll teach you your duty !" After the holy man had vented a portion of his rage in words, he ailed' for sheers ! Having obtained this implement, he roared out, " Let me at them, the b—thches," made the unfortunate beings kneel down, and, deliberately, with brutal violence, clipped, or rather tore, 'all the hair from the heads of both his victims ! He then, with both his hands, daubed their heads over with tar, and turned them out into the midst of the savage and bigotted crowd, who applauded the barbarous conduct of the Rev. ruffian ! What a barbarous state of society this depicts ! Dublin Warder. RELIEF OF THE BUSINESS IN THE COURTS OF LAW. After the 26th of next October the Court of Exchequer will be thrown open to the profession, and the attorneys of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas will be permitted to practise therein. It is much regretted by those citizens of London who are endeavouring to throw open al l trades, that this beneficial plan is not to be adopted in the Mayors' and Sheriff's Courts of the city. The practice of these two Courts holds out a cheap and speedy mode for the recovery of debts, and combines with that advantage the power of attaching property in the city of London, but the business being confined to a very few persona (eight attorneys in the Sheriffs' and Mx in the Mayors Court) the advantages which if the Courts were open would be most extensive are now scarcely worth naming. The regularly appointed attorneys in the Sheriffs' and Mayors' Courts engross the whole of the narrow business, and sel. dom or 'never will any attorney of the superior Courts bring in a cause in either of them, as no agency fees are attainable. It is a well. known fact that many of the respectable attorneys in London would gladly bring their causes into one or other of the above mentioned Courts, on account of the economical nature of the process, and the extraordinary dispatch used in bringing matters to issue ; but the doors are closed against them as professional men, and in order to live they introduce their clients to the superior Courts, where the expenses are enormous, and the delay intolerable. The throwing open of the Sheriffs' an d Mayor'. Courts would also contribute to relieve the superior Courts from the press of husineu which leads to that delay. A great number of causes set down for trial in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas are upon bills of exchange, mostly undefended, to recover one of which the plaintiff is put to the expense of 201. or 301. in costs, whereas if the City Courts were resorted to, his expenses would not amount to more than 81. It Is common with those who arc advocates for the system of exclu sion to say, " Why do not clients place their business in the hands of the City Courts attorneys, who are all respectable men ?" To tins it is replied that there is no inducement for the public to bring their causes into these Cowls, as they cannot do so without leaving their own pro. fesslonal and confidential advisers to throw themselves into the hands of persons of whom they are totally ignorant ; and there is, besides, exist ing amongst the public a very natural and wise aversion to the multiply. ing of lawyers round a man's affairs. Some members of the Corporation of London are endeavouring tom cure an enlargement of the powers of the Court of Requests, If they will turn their attention to the experiment of opening the City Courts to the profession generally, they will obtain ail they are now seeking for, and have the credit of upsetting a very Injurious monopoly, which has rendered the original intention of these Courts any thing but what they were intended to be. The number of the privileged attorneys was no doubt suilleient 150 years age; but the great increase of commercial business, population, and legal ques tions, calls loudly for increased facilities and economy. In the City Courts an action may be tried and settled in a month, while in the Court of King's Bench, or Common Pleas, it may remain twelve months, at the comparatively enormous costa of 401. bOl. GO. or 701. The citizens of Locdon, for whom the City Courts were originally in. ',Witted, would soon feel the advantage of the extension of the principle in the new Act. The following is the section of the act alluded to :—" That all per sons admitted or admissible to practice as attorneys in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, shall be admissible in like manner as attorneys of the Court of Exchequer, and be admitted and allowed to practice there as such upon application to the Barons of that Court, without being obliged to employ any clerk in court, in the capacity of attorneys in the Court of Exchequer, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding ; and that it shall be lawful for the Barons of the said Court, and they arc hereby required to distinguish by their rules and orders, the fees which shall be taken by the sworn and side clerks of the Court for the duties performed as officers of the Court, similar to the duties of the officers of the other superior Courts, from such fees and charges as shall be allowed to be taken by the attorneys *a admitted to practise, so that the amount of such fees and charges upon the whole do not exceed the amount and rate of such fees and charges as are now allowed upon the taxation of costs." COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—CoxcLuDED. The Commissioners in the Commission of Lunacy against Mr. Brand assembled again yesterday morning, and several of Mr. Brand's ser. •ants were examined. Mr. Brand expressed a desire to recall Mr. Dunn, the surgeon, who was examined on Tuesday afternoon in opposition to the Commission. Ruben Harrington examined by Mr. Brand—Am gamekeeper to you ; have known you sixteen years, have worked on your farm seven years. Never saw any thing in your conduct or language to make me suppose that you were mad. Remember being watchman in the yard on the night of Mrs. Dashwood's death ; remembers speaking to you next day, and attending the funeral a few days afterwards; did not see any thing in your conduct at the funeral to make me suppose you were in sane; I watched over the grave the night of the busying; saw you there that night; you told me I was asleep, but I was not when I spoke to you.—(Laughter.) I saw you the last time you were at Sutton ; re. member your feeding the fowls ; it rained very hard ; do not think you were insane to go into the barn to get out of It. Am no judge of farm. ing, but I have been a labourer, and think the farm doing very well ; recollect your planting trees; you superintend your own plantation, which I think thrives as well, if not better, than your neighbours'; should not be afraid to be in a room with you alone. I ;Cross.examined.—Have not remarked much difference in Mr. B.'s conduct since Mrs. Dashwood's dcath. Do not know whether I told any body there was a great difference in his conduct. I recollect saying he was very talkative. Do not know that Mary Thorpe is at Mr. B.'s house. :Sarah Matthews, examined by Mr. Brand.—Am wife of one of your gamekeepers. Have frequently seen you during the last two years. Have entered into conversation with you thirty times during that period. Never saw any thing in your manner, conversation, or language, to make me think you mad. Ilave .een you within the last four months—since you have been married ; you sat down in my cottage with your wife one day, when it rained ; did not think you mad at that time ; do not think you mad at this moment. If you were released, I should not be afraid to be in this room with you alone, nor in the plantations. (Laughter.) Cross-examined—Did not see Mr. Brand's marriage; did not see the procession ; saw Mr. Brand and his wife at my cottage on the day he was married ; do not recollect his making any particular observation. 1 keep Mr. Brand's fowls. Henry Matthews, examined by Mr. Brand--Am a gamekeeper. Have seen you frequently during the last three years. Have seen you a few times on the cricket-ground. Never saw any thing to make me think you mad. Cross-examined—Remember being out coursing with Mr. Hughes and Mr. Brand in ApriL Remember a greyhound belonging to Mr. Hughes. Remember Mr. Brand saying something about killing the dog. It arose in the following way : a wounded partridge got up, and the dog was just going to catch it, when Mr. Nand said, " Don t let him kill the bird ; kill him rather than let him do it." • I may h a v e sa id that Mr. Bran d was not the same man since Mrs. Dashwood's death. I have remarked that he has been very low-spirited since that time. He-examined by Mr. Brand I spoke to you on the cricket.ground on the day of the Bury match. You desired me to buy some guinea fowls. Mr. Brand—Arc you sure they were not peafowls ? Witncss—l beg your pardon, they were ; it is my mistake. Mr. Brand—Du you think me a goose—(laughter)—tor that?— No, sir. Mr. Brand—Did you think that I intended you to kill tile greyhound alluded to ?—No, Sir. it was only an exclamation. Mrs. Mercier examined by Mr. Brand—Have entered into conversa. tion with you during the last eight months more than once. Saw no. thing in you to make me suppose you were insane. Cross-examined—Am the wife of a gentleman who was examined here yesterday. It was in the spring that I last saw Mr. Brand. Mr. William Clarke examined by Mr. Brand—Am in no profession; reside at Cheshunt {_saw you last Saturday at Harris's Hotel, in Par. liament.street ; saw nothing to make me think you were insane or in. dined to be so ; should not be afraid to be alone in your company if you had a knife in your hand or a dozen pistols. Cross-examined—l think I was about an hour and a half in Mr. Brand's society. lam not an acquaintance of Mr. Brand's; I intro. duced myself to him, I wrote a note to him, and took it to the hotel myself. I gave it to the servant, and Mr. B. sent down word for me to step up. I wrote a note to him previously, and signed it a " wisher, though a stranger." I wrote these notes in consequence of Mr. Brand's stating that difficulties had been thrown in his way to obtain evidence. I ate no impropriety in visiting a person supposed to be a lunatic. Have studied books upon lunacy. Have read four or five books upon that subject. I conversrl with Mr. Brand on the symp toms which Harris the hotel-keeper said he laboured under. I would pursue the same course again if I heard a person say he had dlffi. culties thrown in his way. I considered Dlr. Harris's evidence ill. natured ; I only partially believed it. I cannot say that I knew Sir G. Tuthill had been examined. I knew (from the journals) that Dr. Paris had been examined. Even knowing that circumstance, I would have gone, but I must explain the reason. Here the Counsel insisted upon his right to go on with the examina. tion, but the witness refused to answer until he had explained. The Comatissioxnas at length decided that he was entitled to explain. The witness then said—l believed that the physicians had only seen him when he was labouring under excitement from policemen being forced into his house, and that they had formed their opinions at such periods. Counsel—Do you think :any person but a madman would have said, " If you come near me I will thrust a knife through your heart ?" Witness—lf any person came to my house, to take me in the same way from my home and family, I speak as the father of a family, I would thrust a knife through their hearts. (This was ►pokcn with emphasis, and persons at the end of the roars received it with applause.) The COMMISSIONERS ordered the officer to take any person into custody who interrupted the proceedings. Several other witnesses were examined, but there was no novelty or interest in the evidence. Mr. AUSTIN shortly afterwards rose to reply, and said, after the voluminous evidence which has been taken during the last eight dais, he should have to ask the indulgence of the Court, especially as he had lost the assistance of Mr. Sergeant 'faddy. It was fortunate for him, however, that this case was not marked by any of those circumstances which attended some investigations of a similar nature. The parties who were proceeding with this cause had no interested motives tonne, and the finger of calumny could not be placed on a blot in their charae: ten. The evidence of Mr. Moody that day had put this question at rest. The Roman law provided that those persons who squandered away their property should have restraints placed upon it, and that others should have the management of it. Mr. Fit:brand was the no minal party in this cause, but from lMr. Page had come all them°. ney, sod who would not derive one farthing advantage whatever the verdict might be. He had acted like a good uncle to Mr. Brand, in endeavouring to save 3001. per annum, which might be all that was left out of a large property originally possessed by Mr. Brand. The Jury had to consider whether ' acearding to the Commission, Mr. Brand was of unsound mind. The:proof of the existence of insanity had been mystified, but he thought Sir George Tuthill had placed the subject in a clear and simple view. It was discovered, when parties were found labouring under certain delusions over which tht y had no controul, that on other subjects they might be perfectly sane. The Learned Counsel then referred to the evidence to prove that Mr. Brand had laboured under many delusions ; that he had conceived he saw portraits of those who had been his companions in the disgraceful course of life he had led ; that he conceived he bad seen Mrs. Cur and blrs. Dashwood since death ; that his friends had all conspired against him, and, last of all, the melancholy delusion that unnatural crimes were to be attempted upon him. This disease had reached its climax when blr. Brand implicated the other sex in the same crime. This firmly marked the delusions under which Mr. Brand laboured,as well as the complaints made by Mr. Brand that smells in the hotels and elsewhere arose from personaof a particular description. The ben. gent. at great length,went on to em brace every important point of the evidence, and laid great stress ;upon the respectability of the witnesses, Dr. Paris, Dr. Sutherland; bit. Paynter, Mr. bloody, and othets, who were called in support of the Commission, all of whom had repeatedly spoken to the lunacy of Mr. Brand, and some of whom had sworn that it was a dangerous lunacy. He observed, further, that all the witnesses called for Mr. Brand, OZ. cept Alderman Wood and Mr. Ward, were obscure persons or servants, whose minds bad not been sharpened by education—he e x ce p te d, of course, the chime and cricket players. The learned gentleman concluded by stating, as incontretible proofs of Mr. Brand's insanity, the facts of his having squandered away 1,6001. upon one chess-player, 3,0001- for shells, wasted thousands upon one woman of bad character, promised marriage to another, and absolutely consummated that enormous folly by marrying a third. He called upon the Jury to save Mr. Brand from the effsas of his own delusions. John Smith, a surgeon, who was to have been called prior to Mr. Austin's addressing the Jury, was then called. He spoke to his opinion 1 of the sanity of Mr. Brand Considerable discussion took place as to whether the case should be proceeded further wish that night (it was then nearlf seven o'clock). The Commissioners earnestly pressed fee such a course, which was ob jected to by some of the Jury. The Commissioners alluded to the great expense attending an adjournment. The Jury then retired for a few minute. On their return they, by their Foreman, informed the Court that they had come to the unanimous opinion of not troubling the Commissioners to sum up. Being called upon for their verdict, The Foreman said that it was the opinion of the Jury that Mr. John Brand is a lunatic without lucid intervals, and has been incapable of managing his own affairs since the Ist of April last. The CHIEF Commissions:a—A verysatisfactory verdict, Gentlemen. Mr. Brand heard the verdict communWated with apparent indifference., and coolly took up his papers and left the room in company of his keepers, Immediately afterwards.—The Court then broke up. POLICE REPORTS. Mixatox-House.—Nrs. Martha Jackman, a married woman, was charged with having acted in a violent manner in the house of Mrs. Fisher, a woman of very respectable appearance, the wife of the owner of a shell-fish shop in the city.—She was held to bail. 0 tiILDUALL. Yesterday, Saudi, Wilson, and Phillips, were brought up for re-examination, charged with attempting to carry off the stock on the premises of Mr. Cleland, shawl manufacturer, of No. 19, Ludgate hill. The first witness called was Thomas Plessey, who said he some. times drove a coach or • cabriolet, and at others was employed by post.chaise masters. He knew the three prisoners, but had been ac quainted with Wilson only a fortnight. Phillips (Mr. Cleland's late porter) and Smith, were fellow-prisoners with him in the Penitentiary, some years ago. On the 10th of August, he accidentally went into the Cann public-house, in Tothill-street, and found Smith and , Phillips there. Smith asked him if his name was not Has. sey (thc nickname be assumed when he was convicted), and he said it was. They had a pint of beer, and Phillips calling him nearer to him, that their conversation might not be overheard, said he had " a con cern," if witness liked to he in it. It was " a bunt," (meaning a house-breaking job,) and he went on describing the house, and said there would be found 3001. in cash, and the stock of shawls. He said the warehouse was on the that floor of • house directly opposite the Old Bailey, and the rooms over it were empty. :The money would be found in a big desk in the counting house, just at the top of the stairs, and that about five stairs up, there was a door and staircase leading to the cellar. One person, he said, could inquire after the lodgings to let, or buy a shawl, and another follow in quick after him and go down the cellar stairs, and remain there from twelve till two in the morning, when he could come up and let in the party. Phillips said Smith would be one, and asked if witness could get implements, as a centre-bit and keys ? Smith was sitting at the table with them, and heard the whole of this. Smith said he thought it would do, ar.d having got his share, he should leave off and retire into the country ; to which Phillips replied he knew of another concern or two of the same kind. A few days after, he saw Wilson for the first time at the Cheshire Cheese, on Mount Pleasant. Smith talked to him on the business, and said all was right, and he had got the implements. Witness saw the keys in Wilson's hat; they played at skittles, and the robbery was fixed for Monday night, the 2:id ult. when they met again at the Cheshire Cheese. Witness and Smith had surveyed the house before this, Phillips waiting for them at the end of Farringdon-street. Saw Wilson the next day, when he brought some additional implements, some chisels ground down very sharp; they all four went to reconnoitre the house again. On Mon day they assembled at the Cheshire Cheese, and %'ilson, who had cleaned himself, went to inquire about the lodgings, and to intro duce Smith to the cellar. When he came out he told witness and Phillips that Smith was safe, and they all went back to the Cheshire Cheese, where they played at skittles. Phillips went home to sleep, in order that as suspicion might fall on him, the offi cent might find he was not of the party ; and it was settled that his share should be carried to him the next day at the Compasses, near White Conduit House- Witness asked for a pint of beer, complaining he had not had a morsel to eat that day ; but Wilson told him he must wait till the next morning, and then he would have plenty of every thing. At eleven o'clock at night they walked to Holborn-hill, where a coach was engaged by Wilson, who told the driver where to drive to, and where to stop; and at the top of the Old Bailey, they were joined by other parties who came in another coach, and who wanted to drive witness out of the gang ; but the other said he should not go away, and that if he did, they would plunge a knife in his heart. They then drove to the end of Bridge-street, where they alighted, and wit ness was sent up the Hill to knock at the door; but he passed without knocking. Then Wilson went up and knocked, and was taken. Witness and another was present at this time. Next day, witness went to see Phillips at the Compasses, and, as soon as be had sat down Forrester and Rose the officers came in and apprehended Phillips. Wit- ness appeared throughout w join with the gang, but be gave Mr. Cle land notice fourteen days before the attempt was made. Mr. Humphreys—For what good act were you confined in the Pene tentiary ? Witness—For stealing some knives. It was not for a good act. Mr. Humphreys—How many times have you had the good fortune to be transported ? Witness—Twice. After some further evidence, not material, the prisoners were re manded. BOW-STIEET.—.A man named Thomas SWIMS was charted before Sir R. BIRSIE and Mr. HALLS, with having created a riot in lewart's. rents, Dtury.lane, on Tuesday, nd also with having assaulted the po. lice constable in the execution of his duty. blagrath stated, that he went that night to quell a riot In Stewart's. rents. The defendant - was the ringleader, and in attempting to secure him, he was extremely violent and abusive, calling witness a b—y thief, and telling him that two of the d—d police had been committed to pd. son for robbery, and he Ito* they would all be hanged soon. He then struck at witness, and kicked.him violently on the legs. Another police constablelorroborated this statement. The defendant, in answer to the charge, denied that he was concerned in the riot, and said he was' standing quietly at the door of his own re sidence, merely looking on at the " scrimmage," when the policeman carried him of to the watchhouse. Mr. HALLS told the defendant that these repeated attacks upon the police could aot be tolerated, and must be put down. Blaming the whole body of police for the crimes and errors of a few, was both unjust and foolish. Sir R. 1111NIE observed, that in a body of three or four thousand men, it was scarcely possible but that some black sheep would be found. HALLS—It ought to be a subject of consolation to the public to know, that if policemen commit an offence, there are those who will show them as little mercy as if they were regular thieves. The Magistrates were then about to tine the defendant, but finally de. termined to hold him to bail, upon ascerutining that there was a regular fund subscribed for the purpose of paying penalties of this description. James Sullivan was brought before Sir It. Bllxix, for creating a disturbance in St. Giles's, by hawking bills about " for the small charge of one halfpenny," containing an account of the examination and com mittal of the two policemen, who were charged at Lambeth-street on Monday last with robbery. The defendant was discharged, with a caution how be offended so in future, and the Magistrates ordered his bills to be detained. Lasintrit-srazzr.--Yeaterday, a waterman named Gray, who plies at the Tower-stairs, was summoned before the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. WYATT and WALiza, for having demanded and received more than the legal fare. The complainant, a young lady, said that herself and her sister got Into the defendant's boat, to be conveyed with their luggage from a Hull steamer to the Tower.staira, a distance of a few yards only: when she had arrived on shore the man demanded 3s. for his fare, although entitled to only 6J. She paid him, to avoid certain abuse, and told him at the same time ber determination of bringing him before a Ma gistrate. The waterman, in his defence, said the ladies had hired his boat, that was licensed to carry six others, and therefore he was justified in demanding the 3s. particularly., he had acted as porter, and placed their luggage in a coach. Mr. Walker said it was a mere pretext for extortion, the *merman acting unsolicited as a porter, and as it became necessary to the public convenience that the increasing insolence of this clues of men should be checked, and it being clearly evidtutt that the imposition was practised because he saw the ladies unprotected, he should therefore fine him in the penalty of 30s. and costa, or in default of payment, to be com mitted to the house of correction for 14 days. John Ckweents, a boy of exceedingly diminutive stature, was placed, at the bar on suspicion of felony, having been found con cealed under the counter of a trat!esman in Ratcliffe Highway, at three o'clock on that morning. This boy, though of tender years, tact and cunning equal to one of the most expert thieves. Wo i rt ili t s ia peculiar sharpness and address, he is employed as an agent to certain notorious burglars, and as his size is so very convenient, as soon as • house is pitched upon, he contrives to secrete himself therein, and at a given signal to admit his associates. He has been twice committed from this office upon similar charges. The boy, in defence, declared he went there for the purpose of sleep ing. as he was without a home. From his previous character, the Magistrates decided upon sending him for three months to the House of Correction. •• —Bileir Murphy, not more than 13 years old, was charged with stealing several articles of plate from the house of Lucas Charles Humphries, Esq. of Duke -street, Westminster, and Hannah and Rachael Solawns, Jewesses, were charged with receiv ing the stolen property. Maryan Evans, a cook in the family of Air. Humphries, stated that last Sunday fortnight, during the time of Divine Service, the girl Murphy came to the house, and stated that she had come front the laundress, and wanted to see Mrs. Humphries. The girl was accordingly admitted, and remained in the kitchen until her mistress came from church. It, however, turned out that she did not come from the laundress, bat timely, fbr the purpose of begging, and after she was gone away, witness looked into the plate-basket, and missed the property, which she had po doubt the had secreted during the time she remained in the kitchen._ o ) l l i l a e i r ri Rayner, a police sergeant, stated, that on the pri soner b eing taken before Mrs. Ilumphries, she confessed the robbery. Richard Mace, Division A. No. 6, stated that he accompanied the prisoner ti, the house of Hannah and Rachel Solomon., No. 10, White Lion -street, Seven Dials, where she said she had sold the plate for five shillings. IHe searched the premises, but found nothing. Rachel Solomon., in her defence, stated that she had never seen Ellen Murphy until last Satur. day, when she came to her house with another woman, and offend a e a . luable gold ring for sale, which she refused to purchase.-31r. Mae. RIOTT said he could not commit the Solomon. as receivers on the evi. dence of a thief, and he should discharge them on condition tb,, t policeman accompany them to their house to search for the property.— Murphy was committed for trial. WONSHIPATIELT.—A woman named Sage, about sixty years id age, in apparent wretchedness, was brought before Mr. BENNET. The constable of the division N. No. 80, said he was on duty Tue.. day evening, in the Cat and Shoulder of Mutton fields, Hackney. The prismer was going at the time in the direction of the canal, when seve ral of the inhabitants called out to him to secure her, as she had pre. viously made two or three attempts to drown herself. He felt it his duly to bring her to the station-house. Magistrate—You acted perfectly right. Waters, an officer, said she was the widow of a very respectable and industrious msn,who was a silk-weaver in Rethnal.green ; but after hi. death he believed she became much addicted to drink. The prisoner denied the latter part of the oficer•s statement, and said that distress alone drove her to the attempt. After a lengthened admonition from the Magistrate, he onlered a summons to be issued to the parish officer, and that an officer should go with the prisoner for that purpose. SCINTILLX. TII E WORD " NATloNAL."—Cobbett says that the French have national guard, national colours, &c. &c. In England it is the King's standard, the King's army, &c. &c. In short, that ut have nothing national but the national debt. THE LAND OF LIBERTY.—We wish to purchase 150 likely young negroes, of both sexes, front 12 to 23 years of age, :it'll bands ; also mechanics of every description. Persons wishing to dts pose of slaves would do well to give us a call, as we are determined to give higher prices for slaves than any purchaser who is now, or may be hereafter, in this muk t t. Any comm un ications in writing will be promptly attended to. We can at all times be found at our residence at the west end of Duke.street, Alexandria 1). C. Franklin and Arm. field.-41userieats Paper. Lord ERSKINE, at the period he was most anxio us f or reform, cut down a la rge magnolia which overshadowed his dining-room, thinking it would shoot up again from the roots. Mr. Cox, who was at dinner with his lordship, and missed his favourite tree, made the following impromptu : Eager for reform, in country as in town, Lo ! Erskine's cut his tall magnolia down. If cool reflection come not to his aid, He'll lose the substance, as he's lost the shade. DE FA MATION.—The ladies in America, it appears, pay pretty dear for their tattling propensities, a young lady having recently been fined rive hundred dollars in one of the States there, for using de famatory language to the injury of the character of her neighbour. We presume that she did not belong to the Anti.talk.about.your.neigh. bout's business Society. MR. ST. JOHN LONG.—Tbe Cork Southern Reporter, in noticing the inquest on Bliss Cashin, says—" Mr. St. John Long, who has thus obtained a notoriety which is likely considerably to cur tail his practice, is, we understand, a native of this county. His father, we learn from an intelligent informant, resided in Mallow ; but removrd some few years ago to Doneraile, where he pur►ued, and still follows, the bulginess of a basket maker. Young Long assisted in this very un pretending but useful avocation, and having gone occasionally on sate errands to the house of some branch of the respectable family of the Hills in that neighbourhood, he attracted the notice of some of its young members, who at the time was learning to draw, and who showed hint their sketches. He took a liking to the art, began to practise on a slate with common pencil, and soon excelled his youthful instructors, who, seeing his proficiency, generously provided him with better materials. It was soon evident that the trade of basket making was not suited to the taste or genius of Mr. Si. John Long, and he repaired to London, where he lived for some time by his drawing productions. But, doubtless, perceiving that the medical profession was at a very low ebb, or, at all events, that there was an opening for a bold and adventurous person, who would venture upon a system of his own, he tried the experiment, and actually succeeded in obtaining most extensive practice, not con. fined to, or even amongst, the ordinary classes of society, but the higher ranks—the rich, the titled, and the nobility of the land." GENUINE LETTER FROM CAPTAIN MACHEATH TO SIR RICHARD BIRNIE. Slll Rtava*D—Having been nabbed in the row at Mr. —'s house, just as 1 was going to make across the water—l surrendered, as I found I cosild'nt get away—to one of the police, thof he had'nt got a warrant against me to 'hew. Now I supposes as how I've been nabbed by your orders, thof I don't know how it may be under the new " Regime" as they calls it-1 know this, that under the odd, it was always reckoned unfair to nab a man unless he was taken in what the lawyers in their lingo calls an overt act. I dent know what the gemmen of the office may say to this ;—but if so be as how you go to lay the affair of Mr---'s house to my account, I can only say you re under a bit of a mistake. lam u innocent of it as the child unborn, and as sorry for the row as your wonhip--and if so be, as mayhap it was, that some of my kiddies were there, it was only because they thought there was going to be mischief ! As for me, your worship—l was struck all in a heap as the saying goes—and when I seed the police and city constables, as I didn't know what the divil else to do—.why I tried to make myself scarce as fast as I could. This is all I knows about the matter Sir Richard ; and therefore I hopes your worship will release me in quiet to my shop which I once kept for ould clothes, and which I am just agoing to refit at Seven Dials, St. Giles' —. It always went against me that ever I took to any other oalliteg, as all as knows me can testify ; and to be called " Captain" I never could bear it. I've seen enow of the teaks long and long ago, Sir Richard ! In my tinder years I was twice pumped so I was.—five times in the house of correction, mores the pity—and once to Botany--and nobody can say that ever I revenged myself either on prosecutor or witnesses, thof 1 might have done it, over and over. Some folks may steal a horse when others may'nt look over a hedge ; and if so he every house of ill fume and every gemman that may have a trick of put. tiny his hands info his neighbours' pockets is to be indicted— there'll be a power of work for your Clark, Sir Richard !—and that's ail I say about the matter. If so be your worship's coarse to my going back to my shop at Seven Dials-I'm willing to quit town for ever, and live, with my Pal, in rural retirement at Horton. Howsoever , if so be, alter all, that your worship's determined to commit me—as Newgete's so full, 1 hope your worship will get me into the Surrey Compter, where I once made my escape, when I was once in for horse stealing—on suspicion. I prefer it to any other, because I know the gooier is an honest kind of a fellow, and because the Surrey air agrees with my constitution better than the Middlesex—for your worship I ketched a power of cold with lying all night in the lock-up, without a blanket at all at all, after being pull't about wi' the new police, divil burn 'an ! I'm no hypocrite, Sir Richard, as you knows—and I hope the mil fordo of an honest man that's no hypocrite will meet with some con. sideration before the London magistrates. flowsornever, I hopes, at no rate you'll not bring me to trial this sessions, when every body $ o hot against me, and before I've got any credible witnesses to swear an alibi. When a man's once been had up, he's a suspicious character, and all he says goes for nothing. But I hopes, Sir Richard, your worship won't burn my letter before you've read it—and that your worship will speak a good word for me to the other magistrates. I remain Sir, your servant to command, JULIUS MACHEATH. P.S.—Say by the bit of a epalpeen that brings this, that youve re ceived it. J. M. RI KTHS. At Clapham, 31m. M. Reynolds, of asst—The lst inst. Mrs. Ed ward Complin, of Charterhouse-equare, of a son. MARRIED. The Nth ult. at Wortley 11;11,1Orinhire, the Hon. J. C. Talbot, third son of Earl Talbot, to the Hon. Catena. Jane Stuart il'ortley, daughter of Lord Wharuchilb—The 31st ult. at Bexley, Kent, E. Evans, Esq. to Mho Shaw. of Henley—The 31st ult. at St. James's, ‘Vestruinster, W. Robinson, eldest son of J. White, Esq of Margate. to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of J. J. Nicholls, Esq. of Pali-mall — The 31st ult. at St. Pancras Church, Mr. 8. Levison, to Emily, third daughter of the late H. Headland, Esq. of Tunbridge, Kent—The 21st ult at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Mr. H. Woodyear, to Eliza, daughter of J. Patterson, Esq. of Kentish-town—The lat inst. at St. Margaret Pat ten; the Rev. T. Davies, of Royston, In the county of Herb, to Frances, eldest daughter of the late Mr. R. Hill, of Rood-lane, solicitor. DIED. At Baden, Mr. T. Shew, late of Bath—The 30th ult. Margaret, the infant daughter of J. Piekergill, Naq. of Tavistoelt.egaare—The Vith ult. at Bayswater, Mr.. 1% Morose, remedy of Bath, aged 71. Lottposr t Fitton! mad Published by JoNW MATNI, at the STAR. &met, No. I, Pickett-place, Temple Her