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.~. .~ MR. COBBETT'S PETITION. I:: honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, In Parliament uaembled. :'b• petition of William Cobbett (farmer, of the parish. of .mes, in the county of Surrey,) being dated the 15th day of .I:ornery, 1830, .tort humbly showeth, That your petithiner perceives, with great alarm, that there are otrson. who appear to he combining for the purpose of indacing your honourable House to pass laws to cause the King's coin to be again supplanted by a fictitious currensy, consisting of worthless rags; a measure which, if adopted, would deprive the people of that pro tection which they derive from the most important of all the pre rogatives of the Crown, and would, in the firm conviction of your petitioner, finally and even speedily expose the nation to the bor. rors naturally resulting from an extinction of all measure of value. That your petitioner, in order to induce your honourable House not totally to disregard this his opinion, begs to be permitted to state the following facts to your honourable House ; that is to say, 1. That, in the year 1817, your petitioner., together with some thousands of the people of Hampshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and other counties, sent to your honourable House a petition, humbly praying, that you would be pleased to reduce the interest of the debt, and all public salaries and pay, in proportion to the then aug mented value of money; that you would be pleased to reduce the standing army ; that you would be pleased to reduce all the taxes, and to abolish the taxes on malt, hops, leather, soap, and candles, and that we the said petitioners, most humbly ;rod respectfully be sought your honourable house to believe, that unless measures of this description were adopted in time, the final consequence must be distress so general and so great as to expose the whole frame of society to dissolution. 2. That your honourable House was pleased to give to these humble repsesentationa and prayers, no answer other than that which the petitioners found in a law, which your honourable House hastily passed, to enable the King's Ministers to shut them up in prisons and in dungeons without being confronted with their ac cusers, without crime specified in the commitment, and without the power of appeal to the Act of Habeas Corpus ; and that in come. quence of this law, many of the petitioners were thus imprisoned, cut off from all communication with wives, children, and friends, and deprived of the use of pen, ink, and paper ; that some of these petitioners died in prison; that the rest, after long suffering, were sent forth from the dungeons, without any trial, without any hear. ing, without any knowledge of the offences imputed to them, totally ruined in their affairs, some finding that their wives and children had perished for want, and all cut off from the possibility of obtaining redress, your honourable House having in the meanwhile passed a Bill of Indemnity bearing harmless all those, of whatever rank or degree, who had, in their treatment of those unhappy men, gone even beyond the severity of the imprisonment l a w it se lf. 3. That, in the year 1818, your humble petitioner having fled to Long Island, in order to avoid the dungeons and the treatment aforementioned, and having heard of an intention on the part of your honourable house to cause a return to the ancient measure of value, lost not a moment in praying your honourable house not to cause such return, without, at the same time, parsing a law making an equitable adjustment with re gar d t o th e i nterest o f the debt,with regard to all contracts between man and man, and without a reduction of the taxes to, at least, one half of their then nominal amount, humbly beseeching your hon. house to be assured, that, if your hon. house caused a return to the ancient measure of value without adopting these concomitant measures, you would, in effect, more than double the amount of the taxes, cause a violation of all contracts, fatten the usurers at the expense of the industrious classes, and would plunge the country into confusion and misery indescribable. 4. That, in the year 1819, your honourable House, totally dis. regarding this solemn warning of your humble petitioner, though be had enforced it with arguments wholly unanswerable, actually passed a law for re-establishing the ancient measure of value, and that, too, without any of those concomitant measures so earnestly prayed for by your humble petitioner. 6. That in the year 1822 that distress, the coming of which had been so clearly and confidently predicted by your bumble petitioner, was spreading itself over the country with such fearful wades, that your honourable house repealed, in effect, the most material part of the law of 1819, leaving, however, other puts, which, in time, your humble petitioner knew must, if le ft without r e m e dy, tend to pro duce a convulsive revolution. G. That, in the year 1823, your humble petitioner, together with great majority of his brother freeholders of the county of Norfolk, sent to your honourable house a petition, praying you. while yet there was time, to pass laws for the making of an equitable adjust ment of all contracts, not excepting the contracts with those who were receiving interest on account of the debt ; praying you to abolish all unnecessary expenses; praying you to abolish the taxes on malt, hops, leather, soap, and candles; praying you to apply certain por tions of public property to public purposes : praying you to restore the people to the enjoyment of their right of freely chasing their re. presentatives in Parliament; and imploring your honourable house to believe, that without these measures, there would be great dan. ger arise to that constitution which had, in former times, been a source of so much greatness and happiness to England. 7. That your honourable House, while you received, and caused to be printed this our humble petition, did not condescend to pay the smallest attention to its earnest prayers and its solemn warnings, though these were speedily followed by similarprayers and warnings, expressed In petitions from the counties of Cambridge, Hereford, aat. Surrey. 8. That in the year 1826, the consequence of this inattention made its hideous appearance in a panic, which, according to the confession of one of the King's Ministers, had. at one time, brought the country to within forty.eight hoer: of barter," that in this state of alarm your honourable Horse passed a bill to abolish all notes under five pounds on the sth of April, 1829; that while the bill was co the table of your * honourable House, and before it was passed, your humble petitioner sent to your honourable House a petition, praying yon to pass the bill, but not without reducing the taxes to the amount at which they stood before the small paper money supplanted the coin of his Majesty, solemnly warning your honour. able house, that if the said bill were passa and enforced, without such reduction, it would produce throughout the kingdom ruin and wretchedness absolutely insupportable; that your honourablehouse, not condescending even after all that had passed, to listen to this humble supplication and solemn warning of your petitioner, passed and have enforced, the :said bill, and that the unhappy people are , now smarting and writhing under the consequences. That your humble petitioner, begs to be permitted to express a hope, that your honourable house will not, after the recital of this series of facts, at once so striking and so notorious, deem it an affront offered to the wisdom of your honourable house, if he enter. tains an expectation that you will now at last condescend to lend an ear to his humble representations and prayers with regard to the present and the future. That' it is his decided conviction, that, if your honourable House shall unhappily entertain, or give countenance to, any measure for again debasing the currency, without, at the same time, closing the bank against demands for gold, and making the paper a legal tender, there will be a general run on all the banks; that another panic will ensue ; that the gold will be buried; that there will be no mea- sore of value ; and that all law and all the rights of property will' yield to the ungovernable ravings of hunger and to the unbridled in dulgence of the dreadful pa.ssion of revenge. That, if your honourable House adopt the said measure of de basement, and at the same time close the banks against demands for gold, and that if you do this in a manner so sudden as to prevent the run above-mentioned, your humble petitioner beseeches your ho nourable House to reSect on the awful consequences of tae tibusset prices in all dealings, one price in paper, and another price in money ; an event which has always taken place under similar cir cumstances ; an event clearly inevitable in the ease contemplated ; an event that has always roved, and that always must prove, the depth of paperononey; an event that has never failed to be at tended with the total destruction of every thing called credit; an event that must, your humble petitioner is convinced, produce in this country, a convulsive, if not a sanguinary, revolution. That, however, your humble petitioner fears, as he thinks that all men must fear, that if the iting's coin continue to be the mea sure of value, without a reduction of the taxes to the amount at which they stood previous to the issue of the small paper money, ' civil society will be shaken to its very base ; that already, even though the law of 1826 has not yet produced one-tenth part of its inevitable effects, all property begins to feel its .insecurity; that the manufacturer, the merchant, and the trader, whether wholesale or retail, are caving on business without profit, and living on their capital, or on the capital of their creditors ; that the landlord finds es= the rigid law of distraint insufficient for the obtaining of his tarot; that die fauna finds his stoat and all his mane melt impart cepdhly away, malls the inclPPlas wants of the unemployed l a . b eam se rums the demands on those diminished means; and that, wins au dim damp on snarl% the anima of both bodily and wog anrohlt, they behold the resolvers of that mom than doubled &Mr tans wallowing in luxurious waste, and glittering in insulting splendour. That your humble petitioner hope* that your honourable House will not interpret into any want of respect towards your honourable Rouse an expredffion of his earnest hope, that you wM be pleased while there is yet time, seriOnaly to reflect on the eaketraphe to to which this state of things naturally tends; that, even at this mo ment, hundreds of thousands of the manufacturing labourers obtain their miserable pittance in great part from the voluntary count. buttons of those amongst the next clam whose means we not yet es. imitated, the sw having long since failed to enforce a collection of rates sufficient for the purpose, and that, in the manufacturinei dis tricts, to the doling. of charity on the one hand and the menace of military force on the other, is to be ascribed the keeping of the poke amongst a people the most industrious and the most expert and ingenious in the whole world. That, in the agricultural part of the kingdom, that is to my, In nineteen twentieths of It, the prospect is infinitely more full of peril ; that the people of England have a clear right, in law u well as in reason, to food, raiment, and fuel, out of the produce or pro. ceeds of the land of England; that if they cannot obtain these out of their own means, or by their labour, they have a right to them in the shape of parochial relief ; that they know their rights in this respect ; that already they have, in divers instances, shown a deter mination not to lie down and groan out their souls under the un speakable pangs of hunger; that already they hays, in several in. stances, enforced their demands of relief with cudgels in their hands; that, in every case they have been tranquillised by a yielding to their demands; and that your humble petitioner beseeches your hoc. Houseto reflect, while there is time for reflectionon the swiftness of the spreading of this species of contagion, and to rat to yourselves the solemn question of, what could be done (f half a ~sty here and half a county there mere in a stale qf etnasmtion, arising from hunger, and urged on by all the hostile paseiOns knew* to the breast of mon II That such is a possible and even a probable event, your humble petitioner believes that no man will deny; that, if. such as.evcnt were to take place, it is manifest that there would be an instant and universal run on the banks for gold, and that general bank. ruptey, adding to the turmoil, would hasten the moment when the word property would be without a meaning; and your humble petitioner beseeches your honourable House to reflect, that, in such a state of things, the choice would lie between universal violence and bloodshed, and a transfer of all rented property from the owner to the occupier, and thus, as the least evil of the two, making the rich and the poor change places. That your humble petitioner cannot trust himself to venture on a description of the scenes which the metropolis would present in case of any of the events above contemplated; that barely to hint it these will, your petitioner humbly hopes, be sufficient to induce your honourable House to lose no tints in adopting effec teal measures of present relief, and of security for the future ; and that, thorax*, in this hope, he humbly prays, that your honour. able House will, with all possible speed, pass a bill or bills, having the effect following t to wit, 1. To reduce the amount of the taxes to the amount at which they stood In the year 1791. 2. To take from the revenues of the Church,' from the Crown lands, and from mismanaged corporations and public charities, whatever sum may be wanted annually beyond the amount of the taxes of 1791. 3. To make a just reduction Of the interest of the debt, commonly called National. 4. To make a radical reform in your honourable House, so that the members of that House may be freely chosen by the people at WV* That it has been with extreme reluctance, that your humble ped. boner has thus ventured to trespass on the thne of your honourable House; but that, being fully convinced of the existence of the dangers of which he has spoken ; being little sheet el certain, that unless prevented by the measures which he has seggested, the es. tastrophe will be even more dreadful than that which be has attempted to describe; being thus convinced, he thought it &duty fine from him to his country, to add the present to all the pasevarnfisgs given by him to your honourable House, whom he, in conclusion, once more earnestly implores to save the country from all those horrors, into which he firmly believes it must finally be plunged by a re. jection of those measures which he has here so respectfully, and with so much anxiety, suggested for the consideration of your honourable House. And your petitioner will ever pray. WILLIAM COBBETT. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING. Mr. Osbaldeston's hounds meet to-morrow, at Ilisterton ; Thurs. day, at Clipston ; Friday, at Brockhall. The Duke of Grafton's hounds Wednesday, at Castle Thorp ; Friday, at Wolverton (heat Ground. Mr. Berkeley's bounds to-morrow, at Bletsoe ; Thursday, at Rox. ton Saturday, at Crantleld. Mr. Drake's hounds to-morrow, at Warden Kennel; Thursday, at Stratton Audley ; Saturday, at Gibraltar. Lord Anson's hounds on Wednesday, at Croft Hill ; Thursday, at Three Pats ; Friday, at hailstone Wigp ; Saturday, at Sibson. The Quorn hounds to-morrow, at Wichnerpool New Inn; Wednesday, at Carlton Clump ; Thursday, at Beeby ; Friday, at Nevill Holt. Mr. Illeynell's hounds at Sudbury ; Thursday, at Bradley ; Sa turday, at Black Slough. Mr. Wickatead's hounds Thursday, at Seigbford ; Saturday, at Willowbrldge. The Derby Stag Hounds Thursday, at Smitham Bottom; Satin day, at Lock's Bottom. Jolliffe's fox bounds Wednesday, at Ontwood. The Duke of Rutland's to-morrow, at Ropsley Kennel; Thurs day, at Waltham Town; Friday, at Belton House. Earl Fltswilliam's hounds Wednesday, at Hunt's Closes; Thurs day, at Thornhaugb. Sir R. Sutton's hounds to-morrow, at Saxelby ; Thursd a y, a t Winceby Village and Branston Wo od; Saturday, at Torrington Village and Stapleford Moor. Sir Jacob Astley's Deer Hounds meet on Friday, at East Barham. Mr. Caldirell's Stag Hounds meet on Friday, at 'Upton Ash Heath. Mr. Richard Ring Sampson's Hounds meet on Thum*, at Bourne f Saturday, at Mr. Ade' s Duffles. Sir R. Pulatott's Hounds meet on Wednesday, at Overton-telt* ; Saturday, at Hardwick. Mr. Boycott's Hounds meet on Thursday, at Holy Crops. A Requisition for a Kent County Meeting is in a coarse of signature. It has already been numerously signed by the freeholders. A report having been spread in Paris, that tickets of admission to the ball, announced at the Opera House for the benefit of the poor, would be refused to those incom parable artists, Mademoiselle MARS and Madame MA LIBRAN, on the ground of their being actresses, several members of the Committee of Management on Tues day waited ripen them to disavow any such determination ; and, to make the disavowal complete, tickets were imme diately sent to these ladies. Four persons have been lodged in the gaol of Sligo, under a charge of conspiring to murder William Weir, Esq. a magistrate for the county of Sligo. Mr. Cross ley, the stipendiary magistrate, has been engaged in in. vestigating the awful affair ; and the evidence received, wilfidly establish the charge against those apprehended. There are no less than five postmasters in different parts of Ireland now under suspension, in ionsequeace of having unofficial communication with a person who letely held a high situation in the General Post-Office. -r„ Limerick Evening Post. • It seams that, owing to the circuitous nature of the nods, .twenty-two miles are lost *est •and York, thirty-one between London and rt. four Wawa 10,49 n NO. Milashisier, itty between Lo.- don and Maisie; 44* . bolaiiin aspia la 084 Oftgow t , and sixty-seven between London and Ethalpiugh UNI VERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFOIiFi7. SID. Thursday the following Degrees were confined :* MACTIMI OP ARTS. Edmund Damon Legb, WWI College, grand compounder. Robert Evans, Fellow of Jaen College. Rev. Cherie, Williams, Fellow of Jens Col k Rev. Inn Smith Litchfield, Trinity College. secnsions Oi MITI. =ward ry Hussey, umphre Christ Atstuh, iSisidisenpoondsr. /Sainsbuys. Braosonose College. Arthur George Palk, Christ Chun& Horatio littutnel Fletcher, Queen's College. John %Oen, Trinity College. John Reed Munn. Worcester College. At an ordinadon held by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, in the Chapel of the Palace, on Tuesday, the.lid inst. the following gen. deraen were ordained Priests s John Foley, B.A. Fellow of Wadbum Why, Oz fbrd. Patrick Murray Smythe, N.A. auto awe* th i fg a d• Hugh Matthle, B.A. Pembroke Colby, Odwd. John Vernon, M.A. Worcester Cage, Ozlhrd. Hon. Lord Charles Paula, M.A, Ors Bal, Cambridge. Bighead Foley, M.A. Fellow of -ad College Cambridge. ZCCLZSIASTICAL PROMOTION/. Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Told was ordained assistant and enc. come to the Rev. Mr. J *Dundee. Rev. James Walker, D. ° V . :llle ll = h e sdie 'College, Gm is unanimously elected a Soli =by tho Andy of the in the room of Dr. Rev. Dr. Dealtry , l l i neneelhs of Whin= Whoa* II appointed by the Lord Blisp.of Methuen imam to din Inle Venerable Lasalles I so ass of the Prebendaries. Saturday, Mr. Georg* and Mr. Henry Berry Commoners of University Mei% were elected scholars on Ws Simon Bennett's founded= In dot society. The Rev. James Edwarla, M.A. Dewy of. Magda= ealliga t has been collated by the of Can=bmy to the. loseary of Newington, in this county, vacant by the death of as Ye Dt. Pen. In the Court of Delegates on Monday morning, the suit 4 Two w. Berme*, which has so often been before the public, cabse en again in the shape of an appeal, and after some arguments, dr judgment of the Arches' Court, which directed that Dr. Free shoe* be deprived of his living at Sutton, in Bedfordshire, forthwith, we/ confirmed. This living is in the gift of the President and Fan= of St. John's College. LAW I PiTELLIGEYCE. COURT OF lE1?18ll IiiNCII. Fn. 90. Lord Tenterden sat in Guildhall for the Triel of Loudon Com. mon Jury causes. V. rllHtll AND OTIMILS. This was an action for libel, brought by the plidadl4 a book aeUer, residing in Chancery lane, spinet the of the Mornkg Journal, foe the publication o f befeee the Magistrates at Bow-street police-office, in die= was; certain stated to have imp r op er ly withheld MU. of a person named Feratandig, a teacher of the German lanpron After the case wu opened, the Counsel on the edme sHe enammend that a verdict of 40s. damages should be entered whet this, which was agreed to. CONSISTORY COURT, Fan. O. (Ade,' Da. LUSIIINGTON.) ELLENBOAOUGH ELLENSIOIOUGN. This was a suit brought by Lord Ellenborough against his wife, Lady F. Ellenborough, praying for a divorce, on the ground of adultery having been commitW, with Prince Schwarttenberg son of an Austrian nobleman, of immens e wealth, and late an ;teethe to the Austrian embassy. From the arrangements betwixt counsel, the particulan of the alleged criminality were not, as is emfamory he dims pub licly argued, but the adultery was cha r have taken place in Barley-street, as the noble lad boa ass ash% the part of fi lls de ehatebre to dis oo r e g ues cem, SINNUE. stances which admitted but of one Dr. DOBSON briefly opened the case, sad was zeidted to i l the King's Advocate, who stated that Laiy Ellsebsaingh in saluted him to offer no opposition. The JUDGE said he had read the whole of the evidence, and found the fast of maniere clearly artablished.—Also, from the evidence, no doubt could exist of the imputed aiminality of the lady; therefore the Court felt itself bound; to pronoun sentence of divorce a mend el Shore, as prayed for by Lordship. Lady Ellenborough, w e b e li eve , is now in Switzerland. • As soon as the sentence of supsradon between Lord Ellenbetteggh and his Lady was pronounced In the Callback" Court,posesd inp were immediately sdopted to may the cause to the B ess of Lords, where it is fully expected that a Dimas Bill will psis Wok. out the least interruption, from the learned Civilians inS• behalf of her Ladyship. The document t be gi y Dr. ton, for the was on the somance ven to the paper ce at the House of Lords. As evidmos es the part o f the promoter of the CM was not gone into on amollei li Si. surance made by the King's Advocate, that no opposition would be offered, the details of the facts exhibited in the libel . IMO not stated Ito the Court. Led y Ellenborough was the daughter of Admiral Digby, and grand daughter of Mr. Coke, M.P. for Norfolk, and up to the present period when Lord Ellenbaough was informed of his wife's conduct, evinced great affection foe his Lordship. Prince Schwartzenberg, the party alleged to have been guilty of adultery with Lady Ellenborough, it will be remembered was in the suite of Prince Emeriti's'', last summer, and visited with the Prince at Lord Ellenborough's. On these oc casions it is believed the intimacy was commenced between the Prince and Lady Ellenborough, which was carried on for some short time, his Lordship being wholly ig norant of ths transaction. On the day his Lordship was informed of the fact, Indy Ellenborough met him on his return home with every apparent affection but was soon informed by his Lordship of what he had heard : and shortly afterwards her Ladyship pro ceeded in the caniage to her mother's residence, and steps were then taken by his Lordship to obtain the necessary relief. The evidence of the witnesses in proof of the articles contained In the libel goes to the full proof of the offence with the party alluded to, and who, as soon as Prince Estethasf learned the fact, was dismissed from all connexion with the k.m from Austria. The greatest difficulty has been experienced in obtaining the evidence to render the case full and complete, the witnesses having ban distributed in various places. There are seventeen witnesses In the whole, though but thirteen are alluded to in the proceedings of the Consistortal Court. The evidence produced is stated to be unique of the kind. Soon after the information bad been given to his Lordship by two friends of the conduct of Lady Ellenbormh, and after Prince Schwartzenberg had left the country, lady Ella borough alio pro ceeded to the Continent, taking her passage in the Earl of Liver pool, bound to Ostend. She was joined not long afterwards by Prince Schwartsenberg.—An expectation was at first entertained that her Ladyship would have defended the cause, in hope of having the alimony (1,0001. alear it is understood) continued. The pro. ceedings In the Consistory Court yesterday morning, however, did not occupy more than five minutes ; and although the whole of the witnesses are retained.—thould the House of Lords demand their examination in addition to the documentary evidence which will be laid before is not expected that one will be called. At the West-end of the town the cause has been the subject of much conversation. Fovea raTo.- lliilianLMeioiisainaWM Indicted for having forged an ossupthues to a MR of exchanp for 63t. 9e. (141., on the 14th blank leas, pops/nisi mbe ed by Messrs. Long aid Co. coadbmgme. of SSA. Martin's and passing lissome to Henry William Mn.., who keeps the Volunteer pis in Upper Baker-eteest. dogma witnesses were called, w b t P 14 :41 it to be la the imodwritiag of the pekoe, ; lead the Jury found him Guilty of ONO& let reesemmendsd him to mercy. Swimming.— William Maas Was indicted fat obtaining, on the 24th of November last, from Messrs. Spence, B as ely, and Weitall, cloth, value 211 L, upon the forpg o , I— " f lia= n i g idt Mo. 2S, 1829. " Iturzorin IFSDIa-Thou will please to fseward to us pr Smith, from the Ains mil &sex Tavern, Whitechopel, to.morrow by 4 o'ak., without 611, m under; and thou wihoblige thy Ns. " To Mes " &JESSOP AND SON. s. Span end Ou ling-street, Cheapside." ON end el stet blue cloth. The enter tra l arly mound, and a witness proved the receipt of it by th e who represented that he was the sou of a .11rs. Smith, at • va l ue% aunty. Swaney seven years' transpeetatise. On a gaged indimmeat the Wooer was again found Guilty of fraudulently obtaining e lFr at Pods, ths MartlY Masan. ilisphenaen, al , sod was sonseced upon this thdlosmset to emceed term WM years' transportation; making, in the vitae, fouttamirars. ~ Easthope voted in the • majiiity, and not in the minority of 59 against extending the eleetiVe franchise to the Build* of Be Claw. Petition; tole& Bemis of Parliament have been laid down at Taunton for alpatnrs, representing the general alba *retie** Oftreee et the eleunti:y, delft te tiki tli• Pia Alto .oat temederethet, 4kies , _ Valet , 'of . Yid}iF 4" it!! fT ikt bad aid ofiti • tt i f i ta t 4 0 I 4OWS Gni I he period, feller *met die 'newt oloasst.. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. _j.. _ .-.-,~,-w -_ --- --- GUILDHALL Saturday jams Tuck, a young shoran In CheapsMe, s.to charged with having stolen wearing apparel, value M. from the shop of Mr. Whittinghtun, who keeps a ready-made clothes shop, next door to the prisoner's master. The discovay was made by the prisoner's having offered some of the ankles in pawn, which were detained on suspicion. It was supposed that the prisoner entered Mr. Whittingham'a house on Sundays, by means of a false key. The officer who took him into custody stated that he found hi m i n b e d , w i t h a 10ad ., 1 pistol under his bad. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. BOW-STREET. FUROCIOUS ATTACIL UPON • MANISTRATE.—A woman, named Mary Woofing, was on Saturday c h arge d b y a po li ceman with being riotous and disordetly, and sassulthqg him on his duty. She had been discharged from prison ooly a day or two before. Mr. HALLS ordered her to be committed for fourteen days to the House of Correction. The prisoner then affected to cry, and in • very humble tone beirito be forgiven. llaras, however, said she must be committed; upon which the prisoner , who bad stood with her bands wider a large shawl drew forth a heavy quart basin, and hurl e d it di rec tly at t h e b ea d of the worthy magistrate, exclaiming, 1 , Take that, you fellow." Fortu. nately, Ford, the gaoler, was on the alert, and, lifting his hand, broke the force of the throw in some degree, but it strucx the elbow of Mr. Liras, which he had instinctively raised to defend his face, and the basin was broken to atoms. Ford immediately secured the prisoner, and Mr. HALLS told him to lock her up. The prisoner , _as she was leaving the office, used a mos t h orr ibl e expression to Mr. HALLS. If the Magistrate's elbow bad not received the missile, the conse quences might have been very serious, as she bad taken • perfectly true aim at his face. MARY -LAZONNE Josses Was. Porto, a member of a highly respectable family of that name was charged with hor. e .stialhig. It appeared, th a t on the Saturday before Chrhuntas day the prisoner was introduced to Ildr.lfhorn, stable-keeper, of Brighton, by a gentleman named Richards; and he made choice of a black horse, which he rode out on trial. He said be should not be able to pay for it until he had written to his father's agent. He represented that his father allowed him 50W. a year, and he said he should receive one quarter of it on the 27th January, and then he would pay for the horse, the price of which was to be 50 guineas. Mr. Thorn told him he would not give up pus. session of the hone until he received the money ; but he gave him permission to use it until the time appointed for payment. After that time had arrived, the prisoner took put the horse one morning, and said that he was going to Worthing. Mr. Thorn went to Worthing soon after, but could not find the prisoner. He at last found him in London. The horse was found at Mr. Swell's sta bles, in the Strand, where it appeared it bad been placed by the pri soner ; but he had since borrowed 201. on it of Mr. Phillip s , sales man, of Newcastle -street, Strand. Mr. Barry, who appeared for the prisoner, finding it impossible to shake the statements of the witnesses, who fully proved the above facts, entreated Mr. GRIFFITH, the Magistrate, to take a charitable view of the case, make an allowance for youthful indiscretion, and an impression which might be a delusive one, but which the prisoner declared was upon his mind, viz, that becaule he had been bargain ing for the horse he had a property in it. Mr. Gairorru said he was sorry, from the evidence which had been brought forward, that he must consider the charge against the prisoner to be substantiated. The prisoner was then committed for trial, and the Magistrate refused to accept bail for his future appearance. LAMBETH STREET. Philip Machinators, an elderly man of respectable appearance, an officer in the Customs, was charged with bigamy. Mr. Henry Linton, a retired tr ades man, proved that, in the year 1815, the prisoner married witness's sister, who is still living. Mr. Wm. Harrington proved that, in 1822, the prisoner married witness's aunt, with whom he is at present living. This witness stated that the prisoner has at present five wives living. The prisoner, in his defence said, th a t previous to his late mar. riage he had been told by his wife's brother that she was dead. It was stated on the part of the prosecution that he had corres ponded with his first wife after his last marriage. Remanded, to give time for the production of further evidence. It is generally supposed that a continuation of the street leading into the Strand from Waterloo-bridge, by Bow-street, through Holborn, formed part of the original plan, but that its completion has been prevented by the great expense which would be incurred by the purchase of the English Opera-house. That difficulty, by the late lamented catastrophe, is now, in great part, removed. There can be no doubt now of what are become of cer tain cribbings at the Piccadilly entrance of Hyde Park ; for drawing the public attention to which, two years ago, we received such a severe rebuke from some of those with whom " whatever is, is right." HEBDOMADARY. Tars DIAT.—The festival of the Charism was held on this day among the Romans, which began by compromising differences, and ended In feasting. The sun eclipsed --not visible here. Battle of Orthes, 1814. To-moneow.—Shrove Tuesday. Cato-street conspiracy disco. vered. 1820. WEDNZSDAY.—Fint of the month Adar with the Jews. The Romans celebrated the flight of Tarquinius Superbus, when the forms of government was changed to that of a Republic. This is Ash Wednesday, so called from the practice of putting ashes on the heads of the faithful, as recommended by Our Saviour. Duke of Cambridge. Birth-day. TIII7IIIDAY.—ErtI of Essex bebeaded, 1601. Paul, Emperor of Russia, murdered, 1801. FRlDAY.—Bonaparte escaped from Elba, 1815. Jupiter rise 4 17 min. pest 4. Length of the day 10 hours 36 minutes. Surnansw..—Hare.bunting ends. Sun rifts 20 min. before 7 sets 21 min. putt. BIRTHS. On the 19th Inst. at Lower Belgrare-.treat, the wife of George Arbuthnot, Esq. of a son. At Coekairny House. the lady of Lieut.-CoL Sir Robert Mow bray, of a daughter. At Hairre.de-Grace, the lady of Farquhar Jameson, Esq. of a daughter. The lady of Lieut. George Fraser, R. N. of his Majeity's ship Vi ct Ory of a son. In John-street, Berkeley-square, the lady of the Hon. George Talbot. of a son and heir. _ At Path, Lady Oakeley. widow of Sir C. Oakeley, Ban. of A daughter. The title which had not bean assumed since the death of the late Baronet, has thug devolved on his next surviving bro ther, the Rev. Herbert Oakeley, Vicar of Ealing. MARRIED. Rev. George Gregory, of Dunsford, • to Frances Lambert, of Douking, Somerset. Rev. T. Jackson, of Stockwell, to Miss Little; of West Brinson. Rev. Robert William Shaw, to Sophia, youngest daughter of the late John Cornwall, Esq At Nswtonbreda Church, Michael Hackett, jun. Esq. of Moore. park-House, near Parsonstown, King's County, to Martha, eldest daughter of William Crymbie ' Esq. late of the 64th Regiment. At Bath, Colonel Augustus Andrews, C. B. of the Hen. East India Concy'a Service , to Maria, daughter of the late Charles Couolly, .of Midforti Castle , Somerset. Kitten bright, Mr. Alexander Kirkpatrick, to bliss Marion MiLallan, both of the age of 80 ! At Dominica. the Hon. Dustald Stewart Lakilaw, to Henrietta. only daughter of John Peter D'Auglebanues, Eq. At Newcastle, G. L. Sinclair, Esq. second son of the late Jame; Sinclair, Esq. of Forss, to Frances Ann, second daughter of the late John Boastr.an, Faq. of Acornbank, Westmoreland. DI I.„D._ Rev. Thomas Tanner, Rector of Holy Trinity, Colchata, sad of Sarapford Brett. Fomentetshire. aged 76. At New Brunswick, the Rev. David Owen, senior Fellow ofllri. nitru t C y ollege, Cambridge. Wash Kemble, Rector of Little Parndon, and Curate of Bagwell and Ramsden Crays, Essex. In Gaol -street. Ennis aged 80 yesza, the Rev. Mr. 3PDotnigh, Roman Catholic V. P. Of that town. At Kinsale, Doctor Henry Herrick. aged 72. At New York, the Rev. John M. Mason, D. D. of New rock, lon one of the Presbytetbut =fen of tat City, and afterwards Theological Professor efiltio of Princeton. At Wase Berta, .jaaadwas Dle F- 0 9- 4 :fed 74 . 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