Star. — London, England, 1830-10-01 00:00:00

- 111 JOIIW MILf.III DNYLN A:VD MR. LAWLESS. Nothing could har , been more ab-nrd—more unjustifiable, than the attempts lately made to extinguish the freedom of the Press, and stifle the voice of public orinion. In the disgraceful discussion which fol lowed the recent Meeting upon the subject of the French Revolution,' there was a vapourirg affectation of seeking to make that a matter of private and personal feeling. which was nothing more than the fair legL.' innate consideration of men's conduct in their public political capaci ties and we do not ccnsider that any individual filling the Chair at, or taking a pan in, the proceedings of an open meeti ng , is bound to obey a call of a hostile r attire made by an indignant Orator, or a de feated Patriot—'o long as such proceedings are confined to the conduct of the persons in their public capacity. A report having been circu lated that Mr. Lawless had sent hostile messages to the Chairman of a late meeting, as well as to the mover of a resolution in reference to hi- propositions—and that in both instances themost ample "apologies" had been made :—we feel bound to say that no such message was de livered ; and that the hostile movements were confined to a question Acing asked to which an answer in the negative must have been the cnly obvious nsult--namely, whether the parties "intended any per sonal offence to Mr. Lawless, or whether they spoke of that gentleman in his public or private capa city ?" The Wowing letter from Sir John Miley Doyle, who officiated as Chairman on one of the occasions M inded to, has appeared in the Morning and Evening Papers : TO THE EDITOR. Saturday, September 25, 1830. `e Ft Having seen in the morning papers of yesterday, and in the Evening Post of Thursday, a statement which seems to imply that a hostile message, on the part of Mr. Lawless, had been delivered to me, •' consequence of its being reported that I had used some expressions personally offensive to him at a late public meeting, "however reluc tant I feel to intrude my name on public attention, a sense of the respect due to the people of Ireland, as well as what I awe to myself, obliges me to state facts. I received, on the 22d instant, a letter from Mr. Lawless, commencing "My dear Sir John," and concluding with •• Your's, my dear Sir, very truly, John Lawless." Not wishing to press upon your columns, 1 shall not transcribe the whole of his letter, which, I assure you, breathed any thing but hostility. Had it done so, I beg leave to state I should not have answered Mr. lawless in the manner I did, nor should I have commenced my letter with "My dear Sir," or ended with " Your's, my dear Sir, very truly." Had any other but a friendly tone of communication been adopted by Mr. Lawless to wards me, I should have pursued a very different line of conduct. Act ing as I was in a public capacity, and on public principle, I conceive it would be highly improper and derogatory to that strict feeling of honour which should animate the breast of every one who aspires to be con sidered patriotic, to view a public in the light of a private question. It was rumoured through the city on Thurs&y, that an apology was de manded of me by Mr. Lawless, and that I had immediately complied with that gentleman's demand. The words—apology and explanation, iequest and demand, are very different in their signification, ill possess, any knowledge of the English language. Mr. Lawless's letter, to which I allude, commenced and was concluded in the most friendly and gen. ticmanlike tenant, and I trust the answer which I thought proper to ad dress to him, and which I perceive was yesterday published, will be con sidered equally courteous, polite, and friendly. With a desire to sup port public principle, I attended the meeting, and consequently could not have intended to give personal offence to any individual connected with it. Had 1 done so, I feel I should forfeit every claim to the title of gentleman, if I did not instantly come forward to atone in the most :ample apology. This is the mode (to use an Irishism) which I con ceive a real gentleman should adopt, when he finds himself in the wrong, to acknowledge his fault, and never feel ashamed of retract ing his error. This is what I conceive to be the true and proper pride of a gentleman. I gave no personal offence to any indi. vidual, consequently I could not be called upon to account for an act I never committed. Public men have ever been considere4 fair subjects of :animadversion ; " woe to our country when this is not the case," and consequently I will never for one admit the right of any individual, however exalted In rank or respectability, to cavil at this most just and necessary censorship upon the public acts of men r it is the bridle b which turbulent and unruly spirits are most easily curbed. It was, I understand, reported that I had received a hostile message from another V:Anly respectable quarter, which I beg leave to say, is without the slightest foundation; and I think I may add, without fear of contradic t:on, no such intention: ever entered the mind of the gentleman al luded to. And in conclusion, Mr. Editor, I beg leave explicitly to state, that had any person thought it expedient to solicit me to accom pany him with a friend, to that most beautiful, rural, and romantic spot in me Phoenix Park (called the Fifteen Acres,) on this public occasion, 1 should have felt it my bounden duty to decline ; as I conceive no in ,:ividual should be expected to hold himself responsible, and become a target in consequence of advocating public principles, or condemning the acts of public men, whose imprudent, intemperate, and injudi e;ous conduct may be conceived injurious to the public weal. Allow me to recommend gentlemen who may hereafter be so situated as I was stipposed to have been, to follow the plan I bad intended to adopt, had slat been the case, viz. to solicit the friendly counsel and kind assist ance of Alderman Parley, or some of his Worshipful Colleagues, the respectable Magistrates of this city. I have many apologies to offer to you, Mr. Editor, and through you, to the People, for this long intru sion upon your and their patience. I trust this will be the last occasion on which I shall be called on to dilate on these unnecessary, protracted, and tiresome proceedings. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, J. M. DOYLE. Dublin Sept. 25, 1830. One hour after the differences between Sir John Wiley Doyle and Mr. lawless. as well as those between the latter gentleman and Coun. sellor Brady, were amicably settled, Mr. Lawless was arrested under • warrant from the Head Police Office. He was brought before Alder. man Dariey. who treated him with the greatest politeness: he then en tered into bail to keep the peace for two years, in the sum of 6001. Tuesday forenoon, while a number of boys were amusing themselves on the banks of the Leven, at Lumbrane, one of them fell into the river, in the presence of his youthful companions,when a fleshes belonging to Alexandria, leaped into the water towards the boy, and, melancholy to relate, they both suddenly disappeared. The flesher's body was found in the afternoon at Cordele Point, but the boy had not been recovered on Tuesday night.— Greenock Advertiser. Hon It IB LE ATROCITY.—It is with the deepest regret we submit the following painful statement derived from evidence now in our possession, taken before the authorities at Sierra Leone, ow the 22d July last. Towards the end of last year our friend and townsman, Mr. John Martin, as brave a seaman as ever stepped a deck, visited Sierra Leone for the purpose of purchasing an oak-built schooner, was seised during his sojourn with the fever of the tropics, and lay for months In a critical State. At length he recovered, completed his purchase, chris tened his vessel the " Maggie Lauder, " and embarked for England on the Ist or 2d of the month already n a m ed. The crew consisted of eight men, himself as master and owner; an English mate of the name of Adam Turged ; two Spaniards, Peppy and Idorillo, the latter second mate, and four freed blacks or negroes. Early on the morning of the 10th, after leaving port, Thos. Cole and Geo. Thomas, another black sailor, had charge of the middle watch, and while Cole was steering, Morino came up, took the helm, and intimated they might go below. They accordingly obeyed and retired to their hammocks, but had not been absent above half an hour when Morino came to the forecastle and called them up. On ascending to the deck they were taken into the cabin, which had be. come the scene of a most atrocious murder, and there beheld, with horror, the mangled corpses of the captain and mate, both deeply be- 1 smeared with gore, the one piled above the other. The poor men, in the simplicity of their hearts, inquired at Morino and his ruffian coon.' tryman, " what they killed the mate and captain for P" and received for answer" they were too saucy." This expression le repeated Ter. batim by three witnesses. Previous to this state of the bloody tragedy, another black sailor, of the name of Shaw, while sleeping on deck, un. der the boat, along with the cook, was awakened by th e sound of the mate's voice, exclaiming in his extremity, " Oh, Lmd I oh, Lord 1" He immediately ran aft, and on looking into the cabin, saw Morino and Peppy with knives in their bands, standing over the bodies of the captain and mate, which were then extended lifeless on the floor. In a bnef space the sanguinary ruffians told the trembling blacks what they had done, repeatedly threatened them with a similar fate if they refused to obey their new Inkster. • and made them assist immediately in throwing the bodies overboard. They then Imbed the cabin door, and buried in the sea the captain's books, papers, and clothei—in short, every article that might possibly excite suspicion, or lead to the de tection of the crime they bad committed. They nest altered the ship's course, intending to steer for the Cape de Vend Islands, and told the negroes that they would be better treated there than at Siena Leone ; or, if they wished it, would obtain a passage home. They also instructed them to soy, when they landed, that the captain had died after a long illness, and the mate from the effects of excessive drinking. But there is a Power above that sets all their villainous plans at nought-- that had seen them glide like ghosts to the chamber of their victims, and their ruthlessly stab them to the heart, while asleep and unconscious of the approach of danger. On the following day, Peppy went to the man-head to look out for ships.—Morillo to the cabin, to rummage for our murdered townsman's property; and, during the interval that en sued, the crew concerted how they could best regain the ship. Their resolution, it appears, was speedily taken; and when Morillo re appeared on the cabin stair, he was struck. And stunned by Thomas Cole, and while in that state bound band and foot. The next step was to watch for Peppy ; but he, seeing the fate of his companion, leapt into the open sea and was drowned, without an ale to pity him, or a solitary arm extended to save. The crew, however,. seduced in number, said altered the vessel's (*nisei set sail for Sierra Leone. and arrived (ha at the 22d of July. Murillo, when ermined, admitted his share in the bloody tragedy, was ordered for trial, and in all probability bas already expiated his crimes on the scaffold. The news of the 'acyclic we have recorded reached this town on•Yriday leas, and excited every where the deepest regret. Mr. Martin was a young man in the prime of life, of, great strength and personal courage; and had be been armed, or even warned, those who knew him best believe he would have driven dr assassins into the sea. In the circle of his Immediate Mends and Erik, his loss will be long and deeply felt, and more particularly by his is. plum sisters, to whom he has ever acted. not only a bomber's, bet patent's part.—Dumjiies Courier. • COURT OF RXCREQUER. SWEARING THE Sazzarrs.--Yesterday, acaxding to custom, on the 30th of September, the Lord Mayor and Corporation Officers went in the City Barge to Westminster, for the purpose of presenting the Sheriffs to the Canter), Baron, in the Court of Exchequer. The State Barge, and the attending vessels, made a splendid display, the flags and civic paraphernalia being new. The citizens landed, with music and banners flying, at half peat two o'clock, and having been formed in line, walked to the Court of Exche quer. The Sheriffs took their stations right and left of the Lord Mayor, at the bar of the Court. RaCoitiii,aadressing the Cunitor Baron, presented Messrs. Marshall and Polhill, the Sheriffs Elect, stating that these gentlemen had been selected by their fellow citizens to fill the high and important office of Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, which had been long vested in the City of London by Royal Charters. They had been raised to their distinguished situation by respectable conduct and commercial eminence.. Attachment to their Sovereign and our inestimable Con stitution, which opened the path of honour to every subject of the realm, had, and would be, the guide of their public conduct. Their fellow. citizens were persuaded it would be the care of the Sheriffs Elect to pre. serve the opulent City of London from disorder, and prevent those scenes of insubordination which bad lately occurred in a neighbouring nation. The late Sheriffs, Sir WWient Henry Richardson, Knight, and Thos. Ward, Esq. attended this high Court of his Majesty's revenue, to render over the issues and profits of their office for one year. The confidence reposed in those Gentlemen by their fellow-dtisens had not been disappointed. The peace of the Bwick had been faithfully pre served. Notwithstanding the occurrence of a general election, and an election for Coroner, they had the satisfaction of saying, that the public peace bad been maintained by those acting under their influence. Baron BANKS/ said, the high privilege which the Recorder came into Court that day, to claim in behalf of the citizens of London, had been so long exercised, and so justly prized as being advantageous to the public, that they might be assured it would be recognised by the Sovereign on the throne, acting under the legal advice of his servants. One of the happy advantages derived under the Constitution was the protection given to is and privileges. The civil rights of every rank and class were so well ceded, so long established, and so entirely woven and combined, that the rights of all were the are of all ; and every man was deeply interested in the preserved= of them. The manner in which the dudes of Sheriff bad been executed must give satisfaction to all persons in authority, as well as the public. With respect to the two gentlemen selected by their fellow.eitisens to fill the office in the ensuing period, be should say the qualifications which the Recorder, in the discharge of his duty, had specified, qu fied amain no ordinary degree to meet exigencies which might require energy and promptitude. It could not be but satisfactory to feel, that if such exigencies should happen, a remedy would not we wanting ; at the same time they might contemplate that under the blessings of Di vine Providence this country was not so liable to commotion as many others. The bonds of authority were so well understood, and known to be for the good of all, that no disobedience would arise. They might venture to congratulate themselves open one circumstance :—ln this happy country the adverse feeling which prevailed in other nations would not occur. The auspicious commencement of the reign of a beloved Monarch animated a dutiful and grateful people, and dia. posed them to rely upon the paternal care shown by their Ruler. He might congratulate the Gentlemen upon having been elected to office at a when there was no reason to anticipate obstruction to the public peace. Sir W. H. IticaAnnsox KM. and THOMAS WASH, Esq. were then sworn to their accounts, Ind after the usual legal proceedings, Al derman Sir P. Levan stood forward to do service for the City in count ing horse shoes and bob nails, andoutting a bundle of sticks. The ser vice, as our readers well know, is the tenure by which the Corporation holds lands in the county of Salop, and in the parish of Et. Clement Danes, Middlesex. The ceremony having ended, the Recorder invited the Naito' Baton to dine with the Civic Authorities. The dinner was at the London Tavern. JURISDICTION OF CORONERS. At the second Inquest holden by Mr. Baker, the lately-elected Coroner for Middlesex, his jurisdiction was called in , ie: e. l i o h u in a nun. ner to require his legal more than his surgical knowl • A workman in the service of Mr. Ferguson. a erehant, in Mark-lane, died suddenly in a :prethisea occupied by hti muter, in Well -street, Wellclose-square. A jury was in consequence sum moned by the constable of Whitechapd to make the neteseary en. quarks touching the man's death, and they assembled at the Horse public-house in We ll -atreet, for that rupee. After they were sworn, they proceeded with the Coroner le view the body ; and having done so, and returned to the Inquest-roan, evidente was about to be taken in the case, WWI livgood, the high constable for the precinct of the Tower aM the liberties of Wellclose-square., entered the room, and intimated to the' Coroner his belief that lie was exercising the duties of his office beyond the bounds of Ms jurisdiction. He (Hopgood) understood that the duo ceased died, and his body then lay, within the libertie? oC,the Towe r, which was a separate jurisdiction 4 sad had a Corimer, W. Malaise Thomas. especially appointed to thiiluty. The constable of Whitechapel, on the other hand, maintained that tbe man had died in his parish, and therefore the inquiry, as far as it went, was strictly legal. The Coaowza, however , to set all doubts on the subject at rest, MD quested that the jury would'take takes view of the premises and place when the deceased died. They did so, and after examining several witnesses on the spot as to the boundary-line of the parish, it was dearly ascer. tallied that the head, shoulders, and about half the body, at the time of death, lay in the parish, and the remainder of the body and lower ex tremities, within the liberties of WeUclose. The jury feeling that the deceased had died in .the parish, his head and heart, the principal seat of life, being in it at the time of death, they returned again to the Inquest room; but here a second obstacle presented itself, and of course a second objection to the jurisdiction of Mr. Baker, viz. that the public-house and the room in which the Jury sat were within the liberties of the Tower, and consequently the inquest, if holden, would be null and void. . . . The CUroner,:after some consideration of the subject, and in order to remove the objection, adjourned the proceedings to a public-home in the parish of Whitechapel ; and having there examined various wit. sasses touching the death of the decats, the jury returned a verdict of —Natural Death. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON BLACKHEATH HILL.- Yestaday morning, as Raikes's Dover Waggon, loaded with French eggs, and on the top,of which were several poor women and their chil. dren, was proceeding to town, at Blackheath Hill, which is remarkably steep, the driver neglected to skid the hinder wheel ; the consequence was that the waggon descended the hill with frightful velocity. The waggoner caught hold of the bridles of the wheeorses, but they were unable to check the progress of the waggon, and in their struggle to back, the breeching broke, and they fell down, and were carried by the I force of the waggon down the hill. Up= the arrival of the waggon at the brow of the bill it turned over with such violence that It was dashed - to atoms, and the two horses were killed on the spot t the whole of the me were broken, and in the fall of the waggon the iron lamp port and - palisades of Mr. Newton's house were torn down. Fenn ' nately for the women and children, they escaped without any serious injury TH . E WEATHER AND CRoPa.—While the mariaon is ad vane rag, aid thus abridging the opportunities of the farmer, the weather 1 continues as uncertain as ever. The fields ere completely maturated with moisture—have become like a sponge filled to repletion, that gushes out on the slightest tough; and hence the rapidity with which the streams overleap their banks at every fresh visitatioa of the elements. Repeat. oily last week the husbandman stood on the alert, upset the stools, pat the shillbends on the carts, and where ready to lead, when all their elites were rendered abortive by another angry storm of wind and rain. These repeated handlings have, or course, done the crops no good ; and in the ass of potato oats, the loss from shedding cannot be under from four to siz bushels per acre. In a few instances the bands of the barley sheaves were observed springing; but the damage done in this way is slight as yet, though there is no saying what it may amount to in the end, should the present miserable weather continue. Never was there a more tan talizing harvest. In proof of this we may quote the case of a farmer in or about Wigtownshire, who, out of twenty-three days, found by a careful calculation, that his shearers had only been able to work nine days and a half, at the rate of ten hours per day. This calculation was made upwards of a week ago, and since that time matters have become wane in place of better. Saturday last, it may be said, was the only fa vourable day experienced during the week. The morning set in with • 'tiff breeze, and although showers fell at intervals, not a moment wee lost from the peep of dawn till a late hour at night. In most places, the reapers laid aside their hooks to assist in opening and drying the sheaves; in moon light and star light the wains wererseen threading their way through the fields, and in all favourable 'hoodoos a gent deal of work ass satisfactorily performed. One fanner in this neigh. bourhood put up no fewer than nine stacks, some of them &her nightfall, and we could name many that succeeded in erecting three or four. On Sunday the glass mounted rapidly, and the weather con tinued dry throughout; but the effect was temporary, and yesterday the claimants were U unkind as ever. We have o ft en said, . that the crops are much worse in Annandale than Nithadale. The following,' from a correspondent :—" The weather continues diaastrous: in afew parishes, such as Dumfries, Tinweld, Kirkmaboe, pert of Clambers. Morton Tynron, Penpont , Mo ff at, and Kirkpatriek.Axta, wham the soil is light and warm, the crops may be tolerable; but over all the rest of the country the deficiency is to an extent unpisseant- to think of, to say the haat of it. On all damp and cold soils the failure is complete; perhaps it never was more so. It is particularly painful to think of the short-coming of potatoes as they now form too great a of the food of the labouriog clams, who, when this of portion t a ils, have nothing to descend to—and ascend to beef and wheaten bred, they camiot."—Dsnafrice Courier. POLICE REPORTS. eirghtes,GunDwALL.—Thowess Hoeglf his ram and wife, were charged with uttering a fictitious cheque for 501.105. at Messrs. Eadaile's. It appeared that the cheque was signed William Lindley, no person of that name had an account at the above banker's, and that the date bad been altered from 28th of September 1801, to 1830. The wife said she received the cheque from her husband, and at tempted to get cash for it, supposing it bad been paid to him, though he was not in the habit of receiving such sums. The husband said be found it in St. Martin's-court, and had DO idea of converting the proceeds to his own use. lie only wished to know if it was of any use. Mr. Alderman Amex said if his intentions were honest, be would have inquired at the banker's foe the drawer's address. The cheque was mere waste paper. The prisoners were admonished, and discharged. Bow-sestaxe.—Patriek M'Cabe, who, on a former day, was exa mined on a charge of having uttered a bill of exchange for 501. under went a further examination yesterday. The evidence of Mr. Clifford was read over afresh, and from it it ap peared that the bill was le ft with him by the primmer, for the purpose of being cashed. Wm. Quin deposed that the acceptance of the bill was not in his hand.writing, for in fact he could neither read ace write. Sir R. Brawls asked the witness if he bad authorised any person to put his name to the bill ? The witness declared that he bad not. The prisoner was remanded. Harron.Glannxx.—A WINN POINT IN DOO-STIMLININ—Yes. terdsy a person named Skinner, residing in Church-passer, Islington, appeared on a summons before the Magistrate. Defendant had a re markably handsome small bitch, of the bull and terrier breed, leading by a string in his hand. The complainant, Thomas Taker, Penton.place, Newington, sated that the bitch was his Property; be had paid a sus reign for it, and she had been stolen out of his stable above a year ago; be bad never seen her since till, a few days back, be heard that she was in the possession of Mr. Skinner. Complainant could swear to the identity of the dog, she was so remarkable ; and, besides, he hod the pima who bred be', who could also prove the right in the dog. The pasoo stepped forward and corroborated the statement of the complainent.. Defendant said, that he had purchased the dog in July twelve. to from a paean in the Old Bailey, sod paid him a sovereign for her. lie never kept her eouseled, but had when her all over the town since. Mr. Lux° asked Limbach, the Glaser, how defendant behaved when he called upon him ? Limbrkk replied that defendant had immediately acknowledged having the dog as soon as it was described, and he produced for in. spection. Mr. Lanai ordered the dog to be delivered up to the complainant. Defendant—l can have no objection to give him his dog; but I ought to be made some allowance, having bought the dog, and for its :17.tusto--Yoe acknowledge that you did not know the man from whom you bought the dog ; and if you ate so foolish as to buy dogs in that way you must put up with the loss. You and every one else must. know that the half of the dogs sold by these fellows at the coma of the streets; are stolen. Complainant—You know you woo one match of M. with her, and that was suakient payment. Defendant—lt was only 21. Complainant—Well, that was plenty. And, your Warship, she has four puppies now at the house of defendant. Am I also entitled to thein „This question sleeted to perplex the Bench considerably; and it was soma tinulbeforean answer was given. Mr. Lunn questioned the complainant if the bitch was with pippin when she was stolen ? Complainant replied that he did not know. Defendant set that question to rights, by a brief but ample detail of a portion of the canine natural history, which went to infer that no pep. pies were then in invisible existence. Again the Magistrates seemed perplexed ; and Mr. Room remsrh. eff that the owner ought to be contented with the restoration of his dog that be held so valuable. Complainant, however, made it appear that the puppies were only nine deys old ; and as an order of removal had been granted for the mother, Itwas necessary far hos health that the family, or at least a pert of it, ould h Deism Mended strenuously that complainant mid have no right to the puppies:nine days old. Complainant was desirous to have the order of the Magistrates es. "plicitly on the subject, but neither of the Magistrates was inclined to de so, and the diMaalty was compromised by the complainant cc - to be contented with one of the puppies, and on that.understaa difficult case was clotted, and the parties left the OM«, but to anon neither of them were Eirhedy eatierled, r..,-Weeteeday, t D:tai d d ifo t ; i d e ffi lli tting en aged Jew, and hie daeghta, wire brou gh with obstructing and assaulting several of the preens who cawing, the Lest Jury for the Manor of Stepney. From the state. Petit al - the foreman, and several of the membas of the last Jury, appeared that a abort time bars, they entered the shop of the blab defendant, who was a vendee of lollypops and potatoes in Petticoat-lane, and, finding ha weights and oda facareet, they eemismatel them, and ordered them to be taken away. While en. tlimeardeg to do this, however, both the defendants struck and clawed bees el several of their members. Marten, in defence, deeded that either the weights or scales of hie dlwasliter were Wigan ; on the contrary, these were part of the forma Wilsey, and as fee the J latter they were as even as a die. on the scales being condemned, one of the Jurors demanded five shillings from him; t thls he refuaed, being conscious that the scales were right and the demand unjust; and it was on this refusal that the scales were ordered to be taken away. He denied having committed the assault; on the tamely, both be sad his daughter were very ill-used; and all that be milked was, that the sales and weights mitt be brought before their Worships, in order that they might see how unjust die attempt to seise was. Magistrates observed that the question of assault was the only as with which they bed to deal, and it being distinctly proved, they sea on the defendants to put in bail to IVISWer the e eat the brim A very ordinary-looking female charged her husband, a strapping sailor, with having assaulted her on the previous day, in highway. The sailor plaided guilty to the charge, but asserted that he had been provoked tot tise his wife, from his discovering that she had been rathei too intimate with a brother shipmate. The wife confessed that, ►eing unable to resist the force of her affec tion, she had ran off with another man, who was waiting outside, and who would bear testimony as to the violence with which she had been assaulted. The brother shipmate was acceedingly ushered forward, and to the magistrate's surprise displayed a diminutive figure, and;a most hideous sable phis. The black Lothario with a grin confessed, in broken Eng fish, t ha t his brother shipmate bad tolerably substantial grounds for be lieving he had made free with his nightcap, and that this was the origin of the assault. _ _ The woman having declared that she could not be happy without her dear Mingo, the Magistrates recommended, for the sake of peace, that the parties should separate, and dismissed the cue. A young couple, whose honeymoon was barely in the wane, before the Magistr ate to detail their matrimonial grievances. appeared was about 18, exceedingly pretty and smartly dressed, and used a pair of sparkling black eyes in darting looks of disdain against her puny and somewhat shemisb.looking helpmate. The lady claimed the privilege of her sex, by first addressing the Magistrate, and with characteristic volubility a tirade of invective, in which she was ably supported by the f branches Ober family. Sbe said that her husband, who was a journeyman painter and gluier, had commenced ill-using her only five days after the marriage knot had been tied. Since then he bad condoned to heat one of the mildest (to use her own account) and most forbearing wives in existence. " Ask her how she got that fine bonnet and ribands, please your Worship," said the husband, angrily. The Magistrate put the clues. tioa as desired, and elicited that she had taken her husband's tools to the pawnbroker's to raise the " needful." " There," said the glazier, " that's only a part of her conduct. I comes home about nine o'clock Ikons work, and, when I wants my wife, she's gadding about wherever she likes, and comes home at all hours. I haven't a button on my shirt, or a pair of stockings that isn't like a cabbage net; and when I tell her to stay at borne, and keep me tidy, she fetches her three slaters, and they all fall upon me, and whop me out of the house. She told me, the other day, that if ever I met her walking with a gentleman, I was ago about my business, and take no notice at all about it." Mr. Wataza said this was a puzzling case, as the faults appeared equally divided. he should, hoWever, dismiss the warrant, cautioning the families on either side not to interfere, and, if possible, for the parties to live together in harmony. Timms, PoLzcz.—Yesterday John Sheay was charged with rob. bing Robert 'easgood of his hat, and some ocher articles. The prisoner was Bestowed to two months' imprisonment and hard labour, as a re. puted thief. FoaTtais-Tztitsa.--Saturday last a man named Mi chael ilurphy, was apprehended in Drogheda, by a soldier in the 87th Regiment, as being a deserter from the. 00th Rifles. This' person et fated to be deaf sod dumb, and has resided there for the last sit motitks l la the cipecity eta fortune-teller, the dudes of which be discharged with c k t nite suceses, sad much to the satisfaction of many highly 'respectable of most whom actually admitted him into their bed-roorne.— Since has got the use of his tongue. he has become very communica titre, and says that he administered the consolations of his art to 107 females of all ranks in the town, of which he has kept an active and most diverting registry.—Doblin Bonging Post. scurnmat. SONG. When palest stars are keeping Vigils through night-hours; When languid winds are sweeping Dewy, alumb'ring Sowers; When meekest moon-light streameth Through loin, ghostly towers ; When ev'ry lover dreameth Of his dear one's bow'rs Ten, with thy lyric voice, oh ! breathe Unto mine ear Some feeling lay, which I should All but die to hear. Some old, impassion'd measure, Which, from li like thine, Were,4n each wo rd, a treasure In doch tone—divine ! Sing de fond Forsaken, Of warm love's decline; And that sad song shall waken, Saddest thoughts of mine ; Until each mournful note, each Solemn, sighing tone — Each sob hem thy wrung breast be Echo'd by mine own ! EGO-EATING FORMERLY FELONY.—The b' of the Scottish clergy was so intense daring the reign of James V. that Catdi. nal Beaton on of denouncing the punishment of death by Atwood of goods, fagainst any one who should buy or eat an egg on forbidden days _ ! This we learn from Sir Ram% SAD- Llrell Siete Papers. Ax ZIPINSIVS TOT.—Lamia, mistress to Demetrius, another Ave& to her way, judging teem lest hut= gemmed IR ALCIPNIOIIII NAOS [ISO p. Be of the Englith oselitiss, ed. 17911 was extremely weD paid fie her tunderomelen ; fee, upon one oecasiou, Demetrius commanded the A th enian to dm Immediately the sum of 250 talons (i. e. 48,1371. 104. Od. mobs° when collected, be ordered it alio be given to Lamia and her tensimaism, to—fury soap ! _See PLUTARCH'S of Demetrius. NUPTIAL OlL.—Philostratus says, that on the banks al the Hnhasis grow some trees, hem whl h the Indians obtain a liquor used as a nuptial oil, with which new married people are an notated all ova, by persons appoi n ted for that purpose. See p. 125 of Szawicu's aarealetten. A similar custom appears to prevail smug the inhabitants of the Tonga Islands. See p. 126, 153, vol. i. of 31a. amines Tongs Islands, where he desaibea the ceremonies which usually take place at a chief's marriage, when the bride is " profusely anointed with c000a.nut;o11, scented with sandal wood." SUlClDE.—According to STRABO, book Jt. and 4 . .ELtan, Var. Ilia. book iii. ch. xxxvii. the Ccans enacted a law, by which all upwards of three score were obliged to drink hemlock jui c y. rarlifaxtmus relates, book it. ch. vi. that a poisonous liquor was kept publicly at Marseilles, and that it was given to all such as utiafied the Senate of the propriety of the reasons which prompted them to commit mdeide. According to PLINY, book iv. ch. Mi. when the H intended to commit suicide, they invited their friends to a oet, and when finished, threw themselves from a rock into the sea. A SINGULAR FACT.—It may be mentioned u an his torical singularity, that all the English Kings who married Preach Princesses incurred the displeasure of their subjects, and suffered sic. lent deaths; as Edward IL Richard 11. Henry VI. and Charles I. A LONG Suo.r.—ln the burial register of the parish of Beckenham, in Bent, is the following remarkable entry:—" Anne Isted, a child, killed by the careless discharge of a pistol at the distinct. of 337 yards!" At Holmpton, in Holderness, there has not been a death decor 1825. A woman of the name of Briggs died in July of that year, being the last Instance of mortality in the village, in which there Is a church, with between 40 and 50 houses. Holmpton lies very near tht ass shore.--York Paper. GIBBON CONVICTED OF A BULL.—" According to Plu tarch, Romulus allowed only three grounds of a divorce—drunkenness, adultery, and false keys. Otherwise, the husband who abused his supremacy forfeited half his goods to the wife, and half to the Goddess Ceres, and offered a saaifice (with the remainder) to the terrestrial deities." See Decline and Fall, ch. xliv. note h. It would be difficult to find the remainder of that man's property who had already forfeited two moieties of it. Drunkenness is not mentioned by Plutarch at all ; •and he plainly implies that all divorces require an offering of expiation to the terrestrial deities. THE LANGUAGE or limos. —Coeffetau, Reponse au Myeatre erlseiguite, p. 704, says, that one day a ',snow chirping in presence of several prelates, some asked Largesse, the Arebbiahop, and companies to Pope Benedict IX. what that bird said l and be told them, that the bird was &drag its companions to fly immediately to Porta Maggiore, when a cart, Ueda with millet, bad just broken down...- Upon hearing this, several oldie prelates west to that gate, and found that such was the fact. This story is evidently taken from Mos. trams, who relates, th i l a tarts Apolloolus was in the mile of his associates, a swallow so be present, and twittering , ld he told them that the swallow to other birds, that an ass fades with am bad fallen down ban the city, and that in consequence of the fall of the ass, the am was aped on the ground. Pusr, book x. ob. ilk. Mow of DmeeMme t that he used to lab that by Ea= to. el gether the bleed Peak which he named, a be se wenthend a prepay, that whoever eat it, would Valle et emlisseemd what the bids said to one another. " When Melange's Wad In the settee r, an oak lay before his door, in which several 'repeats hedaselsals his servants having killed the old serpents, be berm the other espiles, together with the wood, but brought up the yonesserpents. After they had now reached a reasonable she, they stood around him while he lay asleep, and resting upon each of his I shoulders, fell a licking his ears with their tongues. At last awaking lin a fright, be understood the language of birds as they flew , ovse his head, and be foretold to mortals the future events which he was informed of by them."—A eoLLonoaos, book i. p. 47. "An associate of mine informed me, that he once had a boy, who understood the meaning of all the sounds of birds, and who said, that all of them were and deelsrative of what would shortly happen. He added tira r t=s deprived of this knowledge through his mother. who, faring be would be sent to the emperor as a gift, poured urine into his ear when be wa' sleep." Tratalstion. —Poitennter on Absiiimos, book iii. § 3, p. 90 of TAYLOR'S Agourrics.—Captain Parry, in his Third Voyage, p. 58, relates that a conversation co u ld b e d istinctly carried on at Poet Bowes. at the distance of 6,600 feet. Dr. Clarke, however, mentions a more extraordinary instance of the propagation of sound. He asserts, vol. liG p. WI, that while sailing from the Gulph of Gleams to Alexandria, the firing of the English, in attacking the fortress of Rachmanie upon the Nile, was distinctly beard by all on board, a distance of ooc hundred and thirty miles ! A Lona TABLE.—A gentleman, writing the history of the Table, has made a curious calculation. Solomon the Wise gave a feast in the court-yard of the Temple, at which were consumed 22,00 u oxen, and 120,000 sheep. The feast, then, wield require tries acrd of ground for kitchens, *madam thousead emits, and, allowing ore pound of meat for each guest, and eiOteen inches for each seat, the table would extend the whole length of Solomon's kingdom, viz. frotr Dan to Beersheba, or from Whitechapel•chursh to Bristol-cross 1 ; ANBCDOTE 01' THE DIIIICE on WILEINGTOII.-011 the occasion of opening the Manchester and Idverpool liail.road the Duke of Wellington refused to leave his carriage on its arrival at Manchester. While his Grace was a silent spectator of the scene around him, an in. r touched man, wearin g th e W ater l oo me d a l, a pp r oached and his hat; his Grace observing some anxiety in the man's WWl team, and that he was about to speak, said. " Can I do any thing for you ?" The man answered by presenting some which his Grace opened and h ast ily, though attentively, read. 11 % el e s W long hare you served t" inquired the Duke; and the poor fellow immediately an swered by giving a short sketch of his adventures at Waterloo, explor ing where he retreated, how he advanced, where he met his Orate, be. Were you wounded ?" " No, your Orme." " And your service short ?` " Yes, your Grace." tbe Duke finished the papers, an d said, "I am sorry, then, that we cannot do any thing for you.". " was afraid so," observed the poor man, " Providence has preserved me so far; I must trust to that still ;" and the poor fellow was turning away, when his Grace recalled him. " Here, stay," said his Gran. and, as the man's hat was off, emptied the contents of his purse into " I am very sorry that, as your service was incomplete, we can do nothing to assist you." But the two or three who saw the tear glisten in the soldiers eye saw also the act of benevolence which is now for the first time retorticd.—Lady's Megasins. MARRIED. Thursday ' , at Islington, H. B. Alexander Esq. only surviving swot J. Alexander, Esq. of Kensington, to Carol ine, only surviving daughter of the late T. betdewell, Esq. of Clapham Common Thursday, at Trinity Church, Mary-la-bonne, R. Fewest, Seq. M.D. of Queen' street, to Cecilia Eleottora, second daughter of the Lste T. I- Labalmondiere, Esq. of Demerara. DIED. The 30th ult. in Waterloo-place, Pall.mall, Martial, .wife of P. C rEsq. in the 68th year of per age.—The 20th ult. ter &tampon. it:Telkeees, Marianne Harriet Gaillard, youngest d o ugh of the late .1. Gaillard, Esq. LONDON Piloted and eubliehed by Joss Merits, et the Mrs• °arms, No. 1, Pickett-plea, Temple Bar. `j~