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• , ,i .7, 1 . • 1 • w i 'L. i ;.fit .„ • t, 1 ,t I ir l ~: ~, NEGRO SLAVERY. IR NM lINION. f s .1 , ;4 1' seetAttoocii bequests to Catholics. and the , )jest extend that see trity to English Catholics. There was no statute at present in force in England that had that effect ; and it was declared that the Court of Chancery could not extend protection to Catholic cha rities. The Relief Bill hid changed the spirit of the law, and Catholic liberty was no longer a toleration but a right. Persons who assumed trusts in Catholic charities in England, were in peril of having bills filed against them by the next of kin. He only proposed to put the Catholic charities on the same footing as those of Protestant Dissenters. fits object at present was to obtain leave to bring in the bill, to intro duce it the next day the house sat, and have it printed, and then allow it to lie over till ministers were in the house.—Leave given. Lord HOWICK moved for leave to render valid Acta done by any of the Governors of his Majesty's plantations, since the demise of his late klajesty.—Leave given. Mr. WILKES moved for returns of the mone7 received as church rates, and church-yard rates, or fees, in all the potshot in England and Wales, foe the last year. Sir H. INGLIS said, the return would require great labour. and the church-yard rates or fees had no relation to the church-rates. He hoped the hon. gent. would state what special purpose he proposed to efect by calling for such a return. Mr. WILKES said it was the practise in many parishes to apply the church-yard fees to the repairs of churches, and in that case it was impossible to know the expense of the church establishment without the return he had moved for. - Sir C. WRTIIRKELL was doubtful whether such returns could he made. Mr. HUMR said, if accounts were kept in the parishes, there could be no difficulty; and if no accounts were kept. it was the more neces sary that mums should be called for to compel the keeping accounts. Mr. O. LAMB said, the trouble of making the returns would be ex cessive. A similar motion was agreed to in another place some time ago, and about 14.000 letters were in consequence written, to the greater part of which no satisfactory returns had been received. Mr. WARBUR'fON thought it was necessary that all public offi c•rs should be made known, that they might be required to account. If no account were now kept, it would be a proper hint to churchwardens, that they might be called on to render an account. The expense of 14.000 letters was nothing to the saving that would be effected. Mr. OOULBURN said, the parish accounts were Investigated by the persons who paid the rates. and knew the wants of the parish. He thought the house should not take upon themselves parish business. He should oppose the motion. - - - - - 31r. J. WOOD said, the town he represented contained 90,000 lobs. bitanta. The rates were all levied, not by the people, but by 24 self. elected individuals; and the people had neither the means of knowing the amount, nor the expenditure. He believed it was common to levy money in parishes illegally. Sir R. PREL said, he understood the main objection to the motion was the expen s e. If the hon. gentleman would move for the accounts in which he was immediately interested, be (Sir R. Peel) would not ob. ject ; but he thought it would be better to withdraw the motion for the present, and in a few days the Secretary of State might be able to aseer. tain the probable expense, and the effect of agreeing to the motion. Mr. LEADER said, similar items had for years been made for the parishes in Ireland, and he could not see why the gentlemen of England should be satisfied with less information. (Hear.) In times like the present, the people should see that there was a scrutinizing eye in that house investigating all their hurdles*, and correcting all abuses. %Ir. S. RICE said, a general return would only confuse, let part!. cular returns be called for wherever abuse existed, then a benefit would be produced. Ile had not the slightest objection to the information sought, but wished it to be made in the most effectual manner, which was to move for returns where abuse was supposed to exist. Mr. WILKES said, he thought an expenditure of 700,0001. or, 800,0001. a year, which was the amount of the Church-rate, required investigations but in deference to the house he should withdraw his mo tion fot the present. Mr. S. RICE brought in a bill to apply certain sums of money out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the present year.—Read a lien time, and ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday. Lord HOWICK brought in a bill to render valid sets dons by Ho. vernort abroad since the demise of his late Majesty..—Read a Brit time, and ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday. Mr. S. RlCENnoved, that the house at its rising do adjourn to Tues. day. lie hoped there would be no objection un that day to agree to motions of course.—(Hear.) Sir 0. CLERK said he wished to mention that a petition had this evening been put into his hands by one of the patties to the Qucenbo. rough election petition, praying that the appointment of the committee might be postponed to the 2d of December. The reason of this prayer was, that last night one of the parties gave notice to the other for the fit-At time, that he should object to all the out-voters. This made it necessary to have a longer time to produce evidence for the support of those votes. He hoped. when he should present the petition of which he now gave notice, on Tuesday next, the house would have no objec tion to dedide on it. _ Mr. W. WYNN said it would be impossible to agree to the prayer of the petition. Sir M. W. RTDLEY thought that as the cue wu peculiar, there being a double return, the prayer of the petition might be agreed to. The motion of adjournment to Tuesday was agreed to. Mr. CA LVERT presented three petitions from Hens, for the aboli tion of slavery. Mr. KEMP presented a similar petition from Lewes. Mr. WARBURTON presented a similar petition from the Unitari. ant of Bridport. Lord W. PAWLETT presented three similar petitions from places in Durham. Mr. HU 51E pre.ented two similar petitions from Arbroath and HAM. mersinith. Petitions for the abolition of tvolor,ial slavery were presented by Mr. Severn, from a parish in Monmouth ; by Mr. Stanley, from Bolton ; by Sir William Jolliffe, from Petersfield ; by Mr. Burney, from Hor sham ; by Sir James Stewart, from Suffolk ; by Mr. John Wood, from Chorley ; and from a vast number of other places, by different hon. members. The Hon. Mr. BOYLE presented a petition from the Slayer and Corporation of the City of Cork against the repeal of the Legislative Ili t ion between England and Ireland.— Laid on the table. Sir WATKIN W. WYNNE presented a petition from IVrexham against the truck system. EX12111 , 0F: or PIINTIPO. • Gen. 0 ASCOIN R objected to the unnecessary expense incurred by hon. members moving for so many petitions on one subject to be printed. After a short conversation, it was agreed to without a divialon 'that only fuclt petitions as were on particular subjects should be moved to be printed. 31r. DAWES gave notice of leave to bring in a bill on Thursday next, to extend the 19th and 20th Om. 3, relating to the Established Church. ..ttorney. and congratulated by the Bar, many of whom shook hands with him on his new appointment. THE LINO V. PATTENIIIAITeII COMPAIIT OF LONDON. This was an argument on a rule foe a mandamus, calling am ebb l eompany to meet on the 25th of March next, to elect a Master so of the Wardens of the Company. The AFTOONEY-GENERAL and Mr. FOLLETT showed attar against the rule, on the ground that there was at present a *IS 91 the exercise of his office, and there was not suMcient ground lald bs the Court to presume that the Company would not proceed in use= lar way at the next election. On the contrary , the fair p reen was, that, as public officers, they would art legally ; if they acted otherwise, there would be a proper remedy by quo warrant° against them. ilr. CtIaWOOD stud that there had been no regular election for 91 years, and the Company had refused last year to comply with a demand made upon them to hold the meeting as appointed by charter. The Cotrwr could not presume that the Company would refuse to act legally at the ensuing election. If they did so, and an illegal appointment was to take plate, then the course for the present appli cants would he to move fora quo warrant°, calling upon the Master so elected to chew by what authority he acted in the capacity of Master.-- Rule refused. IMO V. HOLMAN. The defendant in this case was brought up to receive the sentence of the Court under a conviction for libel, which conviction took place at Nottingham two years ago, before Mr. Justice Holroyd. The libel, or rather libels, consisted of private letters and a placard reflecting upon a person of the name of Pashiey, who became a trustee to a person named Booth. The defendant put in several affidavits reflecting on the characters of the prosecutor and other pettier. The Court gave time until the nest term to answer these affidavits, and in the meantime the defendant was ordered to find bail for his ap pearance, himself in 1001 and two securities in SOL each. MANDAMUS. Mr. Hgtnzw, at the rising of the Court, moved for a writ of 31an. damn, to Sir Richard Birnie, lEnt. commanding the worthy magistrate to hear a charge of breach of the peace. The Learned Counsel applied in behalf of Wm. Carmichael Smith, of Furnivara.inn, whose affidavit stated that he recently went before Sir R. Birnk, for the purpose of proving that his wife, and others, had committed a breach of the peaa. by forcibly breaking into his house in North Crescent, and that Sir R. Birnie, who was one of the magistrates at Bow.strest office, refused to take cognisance of the charge, notwithstanding the Act sth Richard 11. gave him authority to ezamine witnesses. The Learned Counsel read the affidavit of the person in the house, who stated that Mrs. Smith and five others came on the 18th Inst. to the doors Alm Smith got over the palisade, and broke a pane of glass ; one of the men followed, opened the sash, entered the house, and opened the door. Lord TILISTEIDEN—Does your affidavit state what Sir R. Birnie said when he refused to take cognisance ?—Na Q. What does it say on the subject ?—lt said Sir Richard Birnie refused to take cognisance. Q. It does not state that you applied for a summons, or war. rant ?—No. _ _ ____ Lord Txturznozw.—You must state what his objection was. Amend your affidavit, and you may make another application. Mr. Heiden undertook to amend the Adult, as directed by the Court. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 24. CRUM CON. A more particular account of this case was in type for our publi. cation of yesterday ; but on account of other important matter, we were obliged to postpone It, and now present it in an abridged form. NAST Zall V. 11.111111111 LL. Mr. Sergeant WILD,: rose to show cause why a new trial should not be granted in this case. The action had been brought by the plaintiff against the defendant. who was his brother-In-law, for criminal convey. satiott with his wife. On the trial no one had appeared for the defen. dant, and a verdict had been given for the plaintiff—damages 3,0001. The defendant now wished the verdict to be set aside, on the ground of his having been precluded by the plaintiff's conduct from a fair oppor. tunity of defending himselL He stated, that on his arrival in Lon don, in June, to consult with his attorney about the defence, the plain. tiff tail placed men at the door of his hotel, and had remained In wait. ing to assassinate bim ; that he (Barnwell) being thus kept a pri. saner, and considering his life in danger, had been obliged to send for two police officers to remain with him; and, to avoid worse conse quences, had, under their protection, embarked in a steam-boat for Valais, about a week after his arrival, without having been once able to see his attorney. The Con UT here interrupted the learned Zert (who was to have Sergeant followed by Mr. Sergeant Spankle„) and ema.. Mr. Serjeent ZRZWITIIIIII4 in rapt who oentemilei that the perm. vexing system of violence and in pensmal by dm4aintier was calculated to render him unable to have shot aminali with his anomie. in the more advanced elope et the ems, but which they could have derived sufficient inatroodtow to Mod It with diet. All that the defendant now sought was, to be let boo et iota, to offer such explanation of his conduct as Mike, 1.1 opinion eta jury, tend to palliate it. At present the jury bed added on an es pork statement, and had even given greater damages than were laid in the declaration. The Loan Caner Joshes.—Would the defendant bring the amount of the verdict into Court, and consent to the declaration being amended by increasing the damages to 6,0001? Mr. flerjeant Alienzwxwniti would propose even that to his client, and state his answer to the proposition in the martin (" Ne, no," from the Court, and Mr. &Omni Wilde.) The det had been willing to come to any fair and reasonable terms ; he bad offered to pay 1,0001. damages, and give security for breaking off all connexion with the plaintiff's wife. That had been refused. He would now consent to the damages being assessed by any gentleman out of Court. Mr. Serjeant WILD* was aurpr4ed at such a proposition, when his learned friend knew what its effect would be with reference to an %the rior proceeding (in the House of Lords.) Mr. &dant Illzazwargsa thought It would be very hard to shot the defendant out from being heard, after the long course of violence he had endured at the hands of the plaintiff. kir. &twit Wit.Dx.—The defendant does well to talk of vio lence, after having shaken the plaintiff by the whisker in the public street. Mr. Sajeant Maar defendant with a stick. •Yes, deer the *hula had struck the Mr. Justice PAIR thought it by no mesas surprising that the plain. tiff should have given way to feelings of great irritation. Mr. Sergeant Wuxi said that the imprisonment of the defendant at Brussels had not taken place until after the cause here had been tried. Mr. Sergeant MCILIEWXYACII said that the defendant was in Bras. eels at the time of the trial, in consequence of the plaintiff's violence having driven him there. The learned sergeant, after further observa tions. concluded by praying that the defendant might be allowed to come in and defend the action upon payment of costs, or any other terms which the Court might think proper to suggest. The Copal were of opinion that no grounds had been laid for dis. turbing the verdict. On the defendant's own showing he had had plenty of time to instruct his attorney. He was discovered by the plain. tiff's attorney on the point of embarking with th; plaintiff's wife for Demerara. He then stated that he would not defend the action. He was afterwards for 12 or 14 weeks in prison, with abundant opportunity of instructing his attornies • but he neglected to do so until the eve of trial. When he was at the hotel, he might have procured protection from a magistrate ; or, at all events, he might have sent one of the waiters for his attorney. Although it would have been better that the plaintiff had pursued a different course, still it was not to be wondered at that he should have laboured under great irritation of mind at seeing the mother of his children debauched by his own brother-in.law. Still, however, the defendant might, if necessary, have had the protection of the law. It was to be hoped, amidst all the annoyances he had suf. ' feted, that his mind had been disturbed from another cause. Under all the circumstances, the Court had no hesitation in ordering the rule for a new trial to be discharged. LIBEL. MANNING V. CLEMENT, 111 this 12,11 e, which was tried last week before Mr. Justice Pear, and was an action against Mr. Clement for publishing an article in his paper (Bell's Life in London) very prejudicial to the plaintiff's bust nen, the short frets of the case were these :—ln a number of Beli's Life in London, a few months since, an article appeared charging the plaintiff with mixing injurious drugs, or manufacturing certain bitters, called imperial purl bitters, and with carrying on an unlawful trade.— A verdict was found for the defendant. Mr. Manning this morning applied to the Court in person for a rule to Mew cause why a new trial should not be vented, on the ground that the Learned Counsel had omitted to nil witnesse s w h o were in attendance in the Court at the last trial, whose evidence he eon. sidered was essential to his obtaining justice. He stated there were other grounds, but the Court interfered, and informed him that there was certain points deserving consideration, and therefore they should grant him a rule to Mew cause.—Rule nisi granted. The Guildhall was not oppesned yesterday to the public, the Royal Entertainment having come to a detaminatio; not to grant any more admissions for a few dams, in the exportation of a most gracious message from his Majesty. Should hiedi a ll i tea lay his intention to visit his faithful subjects in the iL doors will not be opened to the public until the entertainment shall h a ve concluded, and immediately alter wbidt the doors will be thrown open, and a much more magnificent exitibbine will take plass than is t o be Nen under present circumstances. ahead then be a farther pest. posement to a distant day, or should no cemmunieation be mode upon the subject. delfts will be issued after a few dips so the public', the Committee having resolved to do all they ewe to compenente their I fellow-citisens for the bitterness of the disappointment sepal/need on the Otb but. ... . . . ...1 .....it . .. '• , ' ..c , 14, 1 l' • -'N 1 • r ; .... . • Me . . OlifilINELI. moved for leave to bring in a bill in secure cba- COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Viltrruiserrrn, Nov. 26. 4i . t 4 „ ' r . ratable ba l sas, to Homan Catholic in England. In Ireland, the law Mr. DENMAN took his place in Court this morning, for the Brat seetAttmels bequests to Catholics, and the object of the hill was to time, as Attorney-General• and was addressed as such by the Court, „ extend that itetaritj to English Catholics. There was no statute at and congratulated by the Bar, many of whom shook hands with him present in force in England that had that effect ; and it was declared on his new appointment. desperate] t that the Court of Chancery could not extend protection to Catholic cha• THE ZINO T• }ATTENDANTS'S COKFANT OF LONDON. .4 + .. ii titles. The Relief Bill had changed the spirit of the law, and Catholic This was an argument on a rule for a mandamus, calling upon this T 1 1 ,5 c? on i i r w T an Ti li liberty was no longer a toleration but a right. Person ■ who assumed company to meet on the 25th of March next, to elect a Master out of Gray 11 " t L ' On Mom trusts in Catholic charities in h:neland, were in peril of having bills the Wardens of the C ompa n y. _s as_ e........... ..5........1 oarbse bed. tbe r PEW POLICE. Mr. WEEKES gave notice of a mogion for a return of the accounts, monies paid, and expenses of the police, before and after the introduc tion of the new police ; and a return of general orders issued and re ports since June, 1830 ; and that the preceding report be reprinted. LAW OF INNERITANCE. Mr. CAMPBELL gave notice of a motion for leave to bring in a bill for the amendment of the Law of Inheritance and Dowers, and to abolish fines of resovery, tic. The hon. member remarked that the bill would embrace many extensive changes in the law ; and it had the ap probation of the law commissioners. The S. RICE moved for a writ estpersilea for a new writ that had been issued for the town of Preston. The hon. gentleman stated that the hon. member for Preston, who had accepted the situation of Secre tary for Inland, was not in a situation at the immediate time legally to tenda his resignation, and the new writ had been in mistake asked for and granted under these circumstances. The writ of supersika was granted. The House adjourned at Five minutes to Seven till Tuesday next. LAW REPORTS. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 24. Mir being the day which Lord Brougham bad appointed for taking the oaths of office and his scat in the Court as Lord High Chancellor, the Court was crowded at an early hour. There was a full attendance at the bar, and the galleries were filled with ladies in py attire. At half csxtate3ne his Lordship entered the Court, accompanied b the Dukes of and Gloucester, Prince Leopold, the Duke of ire, the MarquisWellesky, the Marquis of Lanadown, the Marquis of Anglesey, Earl Grey,Lord Althorn, Lord Auckland. and nearly the whole of his Majesty's Ministers. Lord Anson, Lord Belfast, Mr. Caleraft, and other public characters were also present. His Lordship was attended by the 'faster of the Rolls, the Viee.Chancellor, Masters Stephen and Ferrer. - - The oaths were read by Mr. Wilbraham, the Clerk of the Hanaper, and administered by the Blaster of the Rolls, alter which the Royal, Noble. and 01Beial Personages present shook hands with his Lership. Owing to the crowded state of the Court, it was impossible to preserve silence, which wu particularly interrupted by cries of "open the door" hom stentorian lungs outside the Court. The Counasl ie the first cause in the list not being prepared to proceed, The LoaD CRAXCELLOI mid, that he had come into Court input irgt that he should be able to p on with the paper of appeals; sod he had made himself acquainted with the pleadings of the cause ; but from the state of the Court. and the hour of the day, It would be better not to proceedetill Saturday—his Lordship having to sit to.marow in the House of Lords. One or wo motions of course were made g and his Lordship rem about a quarter before two. .~.,-- POLICE REPORTS. Jort.datosx.—Yesterday Eleanor Wailing was t 4 imp Mt 11 instant , before Serg eant SELust and Mr. LAING ille ampistsly assaulting William Burn. The complainant stated, that he lodged at N 0.49, Liqueepsistislesst, gray's Inn-lane, and this the defendant b servant in AID On Monday night last, about 12 o'clock, after he had mad bed, the defendant thundered at his door, and in an espy isms le. modal admittance. Not knowing any cause for so extracodlnsay • visit, and supposing the woman to be mad, he refused to epos the door, upon which site resolved to carry his apartment by storm; sod accordingly having procured a poker she commenced base/leg down the opposing barrier, until at length she effected • breach. i unable, however, to force the lock she had recourse to stratagem, leh J brought up the landlord to request of him (the complainant) to open the door by pretending that he wanted to speak to him. This succeeded, and the instant the door was opened, the defendant rushed desperately at him (the complainant), and striking him with a two pronged bistro. mem, a fork he believed, in the face, nearly cut the eye out of his bead, and, at the same time, swore vehemently that she would never Os oar hostilities until she saw the last drop of his blood flow. This statement was corroborated by the landlord, who added, that es the previous night the defendant, with a knife in her hand, threatened to take his life, and so alarmed was he at her violence, that he sent for two police officers to take her into custody. Several other witnesses corroborated both statements. The defendant alleged that the complainant struck her in the first in. stance ; and, with regard to the landlord, she stated that she had four children by him, although being a married woman, and that sow he wanted to 6 , whistle her off," which threw her into a state of ion. .e Magistrates observed, that the conduct of the defendant was not the effect of sudden passion, but evidently of malice, and they ordered her to find bail. Woasatr-SraszT.—Yesterday Wiliam Davey, a retailer of beer, appeared before Messrs Butts T and &maim., upon an information laid by Foster, a common informer, for not having his name, &c. over his door, as required by Act of Parliament. Baker, the informer's witness, stated, that on Sunday a ft ernoon last, between one and two o'clock, he went to the house of the defendant, in Wellingion.street, St. Luke's, and was served with half a pint of beer, for which he paid one penny. Over the door be observed a large board, with the words " William Davey, named to sell Beer by Re tail," in gold letters, upon a rosewood colour ground, contrary to the Act of Parliament, which required that the words should be painted in black letters upon a white ground, or In white letters upon a black pound. Mr. BEXETT referred to the Act, and said, that he was not aware until now that the words were so peremptory : he feared he had no al ternative but to convict. He at first thought the information frivolous and vexatious; the penalty was very heavy—it was 101. and he had no power to mitigate it, or he would gladly do it. The offence was evi dently not done with any Intention to defraud the revenue. The defendant said, before the put up the board, he applied at the Braise Office to know whether be would be liable to a penalty for put dug up such a board, when be was informed that the intention of the Legislature was only to hove the letters of suffidont dimen sions to be conspicuous ; he had conformed in every respect with the words of the Act, except the colour of the board, and substituting gold letters for painted ones; the letters were even larger than the Act required, which did not thew any fraudulent intention. It had coat him much more money for the board he now had, than a plain black or white painted board would have done, thinking it would appear more respectable, and having seat many others of a similar de. seription. Mr. Buauxxx said, he thought the dstiodant bad acted strictly within the spirit of the Act, although not prarisely to the letter of it. It could sot have hoe done faiths pureed evading the law. If the letters were of proper ribarnsisas, ad wog tbig done which the Act required, except the osisnrot the varsly that would be within the spirit of the Act; the Isamu being in pia would reader them more' conspicuous than in black or white. He (Mr. Burnell) would rather defer giving judgment for a few days. Mr. BIRNETT perfectly agreed with his broths: Magistrate as to it being within the spirit of the act, and that it had not been done to evade the law—but the words of the act, which were imperative, had not been complied with, he, therefore, felt bound to convict ; but if his brother Magistrate should differ with him in opinion, of course the case must be dismissed. Mr. ButtxxLit. said he would give judgment on Wednesday next, and in the meantime would :commend the defendant to put up another board immediately, in strict conformity with the words of the act. UNION-HALLrFINAL EILIMISATIOX OP WITH 414.--Yester day, Thomas Witham, the husband of the unfortunate woman who was murdered at Lambeth, in August last, was brought up for further examination. _ _ Ever since the murder was perpetrated, notwithstanding the result of the Coroner's Inquest held on the body, various rumour were propagated in the neighbourhood &alma to be of serious injury to 4Vitharn, who, it seems, all along, as well as his employer, was anxious, if evidence could be obtained to implicate him, that he might I be committed to undergo the ordeal of a trial, which would esta. bilsb his Innocence, and remove the stigma which had 6o undeservedly been Ailed to his character. Several of the parish officers having also expressed a wish that the case might undergo a more minute examine, don, and Mr. Cdunbers having been apprised of the wish of all parties on the subject, undertook to silt the lustiness to the very bottom, and with this view he has been for the last three wean closely engaged in taking the depositions of all persons whose evidence was likely to throw any light upon the subject, and relieve Witham from the imputation under which he had laboured for such a length of time. The whole of the witnesses =embed at the inquest were re-examined again at this office, and their evidence did not vary from that which they had given on the former manic& Mr. CZAIIIIZIN having (=mined Into the whole case most minutely, and only finished yesterday, after a most laborious inquiry, discharged the accused, observing that no jury maid peesibly convict on such evi dence, and that the imputation spinet Witham would be removed by the steps which had been adopted. Mr. Filmy, std other gentlemen connected with the parish of Lm. beth, expresAd their thanks to Mr. Members for the attention he bad bestowed on the case. QUEEN-mean!.DZITZRATZMERL? ox a him POLICE CONSTABLE NT Inc MlLlTAlTe—Wednesday chi G i l,ir Smi th , a pri vate in the 3d Regiment of Foot Beards, wu with a violent assault on John Hines, a pollee constable of the B vWca. The constable stated that be was on duty on the previous evening in York.street, Westminster, when the landlord of the Crown public house gave the prisoner in charge for breaking a window ; he, however , paid the Latticed for the damage, and it was settled. He then broke the window of Mr. Williams, a grocer,who gave him in ebmge , and witness was conveying hint to the station-Moss, when he stopped at a butcher's shop, and said he would go no further. A crowd collected around them, and several persons called out to the prisoner " Hit him knock him down !" The prisoner, finding himself backed by the mob, knocked witness down three times, and then ten or twelve other soldiers made a rush at him. Witness, in his own defines, then drew his truncheon, and knocked the prisoner down I and then sprung his rattle for assistance, but no person came, and wino= was knocked down again several times by the prisoner, and eventually the soldiers made another rush at him, and rescued the prisoner from him. Witness then went to the station. house, when the superintendent sent a sergeant with hint to the barracks at Knightsbridge, and the prisoner was delivered up. Bannister, the inspector, said that when the constable came to the station-holm he appeared to have been much injured, and was in a faint. in g state t and ?Award Williams, grocer, of No. 56, York-street, corroborated the constable's statement. The prisoner, in reply, said that he was in liquor, and had n o cool. laden of what he had done. 'Mr. MARMOT? Sad that the cue was'of far too serious a nature to be settled before them. Re trusted that those soldiers who bad dis graced themselves by rescuing the prisoner, would be discovered. The prisoner was then delivered into the custody of his serjeant ; and the depositions were sent to the commanding omcer of the regiment, with a letter from the magistrates. QUELIF.IIQUAIIa —Jaw Merril. a servant to the Rev. Robert Ly. nem, of Lower Belgraen*ls r, Pimlico, was charged with stealing a puree, containing four sovereigns and a half, and four half.crowns, the property of Mr. Archibald Campbell, a pupil of ben mast e r' s . O n being questioned , she denied any knowledge of the purse or money. A search was made, and in the Finances work-box ihe rim of money was found. Mr. Campbell identified one of the sovereignty which had been marked with his initials, A. C. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Leassurx.rrarwr.--Anthany Lewitt a Herculean.looking bl ac k, wencher's& with M= several sendesOten out of mousy, clothes, &c. The prisons: ly aosemilhlmod Ids object by peesentlng tidous orders from different earins, Ise clothes mid money, and In most lustiness succeeded in obtaiing them. Boned the parties evinced a great want of caution, and the prisoner was ordered to And 'bail to appear at the sessions to answer any einarge that may be preferred against him. TOWN-HALL—. Wit Hess Casey was rammulned on the charge of a most desperate assault upon flannel Wald, now lying In a precarious state In St. Thomas's Hospital. The prisoner, with a part of a flag. staff which had been broken, struck the wounded man whh it wi t h pl a t savage violence, that he had only dim to exclaim—" Oh Ono !" be. fore he fell senseless on the stones, and was taken to the hospital.— Itamanded. In the course of the two last days, the Magiehleeast this dies have' committed 36 persons, more or lees coneemed lit es helitainhe ; lune for want of ball, and others to Mites tie throe ritiedia. lin_E SCINTILLA. THE PLEASURES OF THE PEDESTRIAN. No sad vacuities his heart annoy ; Blows not a zephyr but it whispers joy : For him lost flowers their idle sweets exhale ; He tastes the meanest note that swells the gale For him sod seats the cottage door adorn, And peeps the far off spire, his ev'ning bourn. Dear is the forest frowning o'er his head, And soft the green sward to his velvet tread ; Moves there admit o'er mid.day's flaming eye, Upward he looks mad 'trolls it luxury;' Kind charities Wa amp attend, In every bubbling brook he finds a friend ; While anemia, dteughts of sweetest use, bestow'd By wisdom, asemaliss his pensive road. Host of his welamme inn, the noon-tide bower, To his spare meal be calls th e pass ing poor He views the sun uplift his flee, Or sink, with heart alive, e Menmon's lyre ; Blesses the moon that comes with kindest ray, To light him, shaken by his viewless way. With bashful fear no cottage children steal From him, a brother of the cottage meal ; His bumble looks no shy restraint impart_ Around him plays at will the virgin heart; While unsuspended wheels the village dance, The maidens eye him with inquiring glance, Much wondering what sad stroke of care, Or desperate love, could lead a wanderer there. Werdstrertl. MAJOR. LONG-Bow OUT-DON z.—The inhabitants of Ceylon affirm, that the salt lake on the mountain of Colombo =um , wholly of the tears which Eve shed for 100 years together, because of Abel's death! "'Pon my soul it's true; what will you lay it's a lier QUICK WORK.—Dr. Nares, in his new volume of the Life of Lord Burghley, tells us that his Lordship used to receive " three.seore, four-seore, or a hundred petitions, which he commonir read at night, and gave every man an answer next morning as h e we , to the HalL" A fine lesson this to modern Chancellors !—a hundred petitions read and decided at night, and answered next morning going to the Hall ! INDIAN HOSPITALITY.—The observance of this virtue even towards an enemy, is inculcated by a Hindu author with gre at elegance. " The sandal nee," says he, " imparts its fragrance e ,„, the ale that hews it 1" - - - — A HIT;-42 Irish Counsel being questioned by a Judge to Mew "for whom he was concerned,' replied as follows :—.4 1 am ammemoed, my Lord, for the plaintiff, but I'm employed by the defendant:l ADVICE AND GOOD NATURE.— Madame de la Vapau• lista once pre to her husband, who was much addicted to gambling, a fish tray richly worked, with her own portrait on one side, and on the other those of their children, with the motto " Think of us." ANOTHER RIVAL TO LONG.—Over a door at Cricidade in Wilts, is the following notice .—" Shoes mended according to the latest and most approved method. Drowned persons, on application, immediately restored, so as to raven! the complaint returning.— N.B. The person must not be dead !" A COMPARISON. — It is with narrow-souled people . with narrow.necked bottles—the less they have in them, the more noire they make in pouring it out. t NDU PUNCTILIO.—The young Rana of Mewar hay. tog inadvertently inquired of an uncle, the natural brother of his father. the name of a particular tree, it was construed into a reflection on that respectable gentleman's pedigree, his mother having been a carpenters daughter, and the Rana was in conkquence assassirated A.D. 1419. This is even a refinement on our English proverb, which says " It ill talking of halters to a man whose tither has been hanged." SCOTCH NEWSPAPER.—The first newspaper which Wl9 printed is Scotland, appeared on Tuesday, 6th August, 1661, and inUtuled " A true Character of Affairs in England, Ireland, and Scot land: printed at Leith." Prince Talleyrand has, it appears, acquired so intimate , knowledge of our language, that at least half tne jokes he daily cracks are English. The following is his last :—An aristocratic friend was condoling with him on the accession of the Liberals to power, when the Prince gaily observed, " Oh ! I don't despair ; their administration cannot, in the course of nature,_ezist very long."—" Why so?" in quired the other in surprise, " Tis plain enough," replied Talleyrand, " Is it not a Grey-headed administration ?" LACONIC ORDER OF THE DAT..—Frederick 11. wrote one day to Gen Salmon, Commander at Cleves," My dear Salmon, if the Austrians come into my territories, tell them they have mistaken their way; if they begin to argue, make them prisoners; and If they make any resistance, cut them to pieces." Loss AND GAIN.—A Minister of War (the Count Germain) having said that to obtain a prompt promotion it was neces sary to have lost either leg or arm, Carlin made as addition to this, a few days after, at the Theatre !Wien :—" My dear Scapin t I am going to make a rapid fortune; I shall cut my arm off, then I shall be a Captain a leg, then I sh all be a Colonel ; and then my head, for them to make me a GennaL" HORSY-RACING By MACHINZRY....—The August Num. bee of the Americas Turf Resister (on our table) contains an article with the above title. But we have seen something more ingenious in New York. At the counting.room of a French gentleman, who has just returned from Paris, we saw a horse which a person mounted and 1 1 moved rapidly over thilloor, by the simple operation of turning a pair of cranks, fastened in the neck of the steed. It was on the plan of velocipede, but far more ingasions.—Albany, Advertiser. Tun CHZROKSZII.—The United States' troops hare again lately scoured the gold mines. At the upper mines, we under. maid, they arrested upwards of one hundred, including whites and Cherokees. The Indiana were released on the ground, after being kept raider gum& one night, and peremptorily forbidden to dig any more. The eddies were driven across the Chestitee, and they also were re leesed. At the Six's no Cherokee was arrested, but they were ordered en desist It now appears plainly that our great Fathers eon. eider as It i erght of intrude,,. A few weeks ago the principal Chief received a commu nication teem the Secretary of War, through the agent, which we pn sumo was intended for the benefit of the Cherokee people. kis a silly pseisotin fors great man. The Honourable Secretary rays, rou right well expect to see young turk e y s d o m est i cate d as to see t h e become civilized where they are." 4 . True enough," PA . { :4 One of the Mean pondents, " if you are continually setting dugs mad sassy begs urn them." fbe following curious comliment to the ftir sex is extracted from an old play, indtled Cupid'. Whirligig' Wbo would abuse your sex that knows you ? 0, woman! were we not born of yos--sheuld we not then honour you ? Nursed by you, and net reguid yew lb Made for you, and not seek yon ? And since we wee unit kw you, should we not live and admire you as the last and mew point work of Nature ? Mao was made when Nature wu but an apprentice, but Woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. By your love we live in double breath, even in our offspring after death.— Are not all vices masculine, and virtues feminine ? Are not the Masts the loves of the learned ? Do not all noble spirits follow the Orem because they are women ? There is but one phoenix, and ghee a fends. Was not the princess and foundries of good arts, Minerva, born dike brain of highest Jove, a woman ? Has not woman the face of love, the tongue of persuasion, and the body of delight ? 0 divine perfeetismg woman, if to be of thy sex is so excellent, what is it then to be a nom enriched by nature, made excellent by education, noble by birth, dont by virtue, adorned by beauty !--a fair woman, which is the esaamotef Heaven the grace of earth, the joy of life, and the delitlit of Ammo even the very summum bonum of man's existence." This di rhy written in 1907. sad falsely ascribed to Shakspeare, is rarely met and is not likely to have fallen into the hands of Burns who, bonen". in mettof his songs, has hit on the same ides, and almost the rem words, as in the preceding passage. Burns, speaking of Dame Now. says, Her 'prentioe han' she tried on man, And them she made the lames, 0 ! BIRTH. The 14th ult. at Haringey House, Middlesex, the Lady of Sir A. hleekensie, of Hairloch, Bart. of a son ad Mk. MARBLED. Col. Tikes°, of Watlington Park, Oxfordshire, to ilisobsdir sliest daughter of J. Blackstone, Bac. ut Castle Priory, WallingibeL-1 01 lath inst. J. T. B. Bellew, Req. of Newton-avenue, county 1 DM% t o Flora, only daughter of the late G. Passmore, Beg. The 184 lest. at Windsomer DIED. race,laithrthW, Maria Coarsest aged 28 years, daughter of she late Hon. Basil Cochnne.—Thernibir se'nnight, at Peterborough, M. T. Whitworth, formerly of the OW coke and Newark Company of Comedians —At Nice, In Italy, M.D. for nearly thirty years an eminent physician or Dublin— lhaerdyi Mrs. Lieveski. ninny yews many to the Foundling Ha. plod— he Ilith Inst. at skendleby, Llagelsehire, Frederick Chariot Imam son of Major E. 13rackenbury—Sunday, at Nowstead Abbey. Mrs. Wllimen, mother of Col. Wildatait—Hooday, at Dublin, the lady ofd. 8. Townsend, Esq. blaster in Chancer—The Ist inst. t' Aver and iellanwastion, at Killlaure, in the count y y of Cavan. in t he alidt pew of Me, U. F. 8011, Esq. The deemed was a member of 1810 Ikketels bar, and be purposed being called to the Irish bar io the Persont term. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW 10 . Mersin i i AT Minima Lospow s.Psiaisd sal Pubbaud by Join, Lantz, OtW STAB. Orries, NIA. 1, lielloullac•• Tea'Pk Igar' I !swarth. tants of o consists because of t's a lie?" e of the to receive commonly is he wert hundred ling going tits ri rt tie with great tee even to a Judge ed by the Vapau- gam Wing, and on the 3richlade Ing to the *ening.— oeople more noise var has- his father, ion on that rpetwer's I.D. 1419. sya " It is • hich rrat 1661, and , and Scot- otimote a aily cracks friend was wee, when tinistration ao ?" in- !alleyrand, 11. wrote ✓ Salmon, : mistaken a if they ount St. was Wei. to this, a I am going 'bell be a d, for them tat Mim- eo article genious in ou bu n hasjust ted and ling a pair plan of the opo hare we under- whites and being kept any more. 10 were re. we ordered misers eon. COMMu- eh we pry- k is a silly yb " rou to see the ' says (Inc tting dogs the hit rligig" : eve we not you, and d sines we e last and was but an r art. By t death.— the Maus he Otates s a foork. born of it love, Ihr ern/Wag e a worm rth, dolt earia of all till Flop use , honours the acute oe Natant, of Sir F. PIN (W I Isa.-11 11 if DWI% Cock -Thus- the Ps. July, T. Dublin— lling Hok k Chariots sd Abbey. üblin, the se inst. of in, in th e member of bar io t he gaow. imam - lie STAB* Rnr•y , sz. -