Star. — London, England, 1830-10-08 00:00:00

' LITERARY INTELLIGENCE FRAZER'S MAGAZINE. Perhaps a higher encomium cannot be paid to a party-writer than to say, that both sides are pleased to peruse his productions—the one because they admire the sentiments ; the other, because while they con titann the sentiments, they cannot but admire the talent employed to pervert what they deem the truth. The latter, we must confess, is the specks of pleasure we enjoy whet) perusing the political articles in this Magazine. We are decidedly of opinion the Duke of Wellington's Administration 11.,s hitherto proved the best this country ever had to direct its affairs ; and we are willing to give it credit for future good endeavours. We therefore cannot admire the attacks on it, made in no Lss than three articles; in the current number of this Magazine ; nor do we approve of the sentiments on Mr. Huskisson ; yet we would not like to Lave been without reading these articles, as there is a polemical smartness ahaut them which is eunusing,:if not instructive. The article on The Colonists" is likewise no great favourite as to its opinions ; but it Is welt deserving the perusal, even of antagonists. Both the Portrait of Moore, and the accompanying Notice, we think a littte leaning towards e.t.a:mine. Ardent admirers of " lAllah Rook," and its author, whom we place as now the first of living poets, we cannot relish any puny attempts to depreciate his merits; and we trust he has not yet tsl.4 crabbed, wrinkled brow, which is here given him by the artist. We saw him about a twelvemonth ago without it, and hope nothing has occurred to afflict him since, with so much of the yams irritabile yahoos, as is here attributed to him. The " Wheel Overboard" is a sailor's yarn of great merit, and the writer sketches from nature with fidelity. We recommend the article on "Hieroglyphics" to all who wish a Royal way to a most important, but difficult study. In this short essay is conveyed the outline of all the late discoveries on this :tibject. The progress of writing through the figurative, symbolic, and phonetic system of hieroglyphics, is truly curious. This essay is illus. tmted by a plate of the phonetic alphabet, and is to be continued. The let few of " Galt's Life of Byron" is a very fair appreciation of an able w.olzit. The American Tradition is an original, by Galt. We have, in the above review, passed over, perhaps, the most amusing article in the Number, entitled " Unpublished Poems and other Mis.. tortunes of a Man of Genius," and we have passed it over, because we are I'--tending to extract front it the sample which, according to our rule, we:are inclined to give of all works noticed in this department of our .i.tarnal. The paper is replete with humour, but we think the follow. i aft history of the rise and termination of a first attack of the tender s ion, will amuse our Readers:— " I was crossing a harvest field, and stumbled over a whcatehcaf into the arms of Isabella Carolina, the sole-daughter of a celebrated cow. keeper. Never had I seen her lovely face before, and the suddenness of Our present meeting only served to heighten charms, which seemed to we the pattern work of Nature's manufacture. My feelings choked my 1 , ma:ince—l 4:lt the blood in my cheeks, and my heart stood still. We looked into each other's eyes—and oh ! that first long look, who that has I'ver known, can ever forget it, or who, that could ever forget, can et. r know it? Sweet maiden,' said I, at length recovering front my leetable astonishment, sweet maiden, excuse my abruptness, I lieu; not of your being on the other side of the wheatsheaf. What may be tour name ?'—' My name,' replied she rosily, (as that undeservedly ii.u.cessful rhymer, Moore, would say,) my name is Isabella Carolina, and lily father is the great cow-keeper.' She could say no more, for at that moment her father came up, and, addressing her in a tone of parental remonstrance, told her to go home and be d—d. She obeyed the tint part of his injunction—the latter remained to be fulfilled 1 e. For, what was life without the light of Isabella Carolina 's •• This event formed a new era in my existence; and throughout the period of sweet perplexity which intervened between the kindling and estmetion of this my spirit's maiden passsion, poetry was my solace,. my sheet anchor, my never.failing stay. I was then to myself, as I dank not I shall be to posterity, a marvel and a mystery. I admired myself, and was admired by Isabella Carolina. Being no longer young enough to starve without repining, I bethought me of seeking some em ployment which might initiate my liver in the digestive process. This idea, once formed, could I for a moment hesitate whither to bend my , oil-pursuing steps ? No ! My heart was fond and bold, and bade me be a cowherd. The nonsense of punning I despise too much to de precate its exercise; therefore let the; word-eormeators make the moat of Inc courage and my selected avocation. To be a cowherd was to be a tender of cows...the great cow-keeper was in want of youthful servants, and who was the great cow-keeper ?—lsabella Carolina's sire ! I offered my services to him and was accepted. To those who have loved, or who are now loving, I need not say with what unutterable joy I dwelt all day, and dreamt all night,on the beauty of my bosom's queen. The various interchanges of affection, constantly carried on among the cattle and the poultry, were so many heart-thrilling proofs to me of the all pervading power of mighty love ; while the poetry of my passion was undisturbed by any of the realities so fatal to visionary minds. Very rarely had 1 tile happiness of beholding Isabella Carolina—that of speaking to her never. The state of dreamy delight was, however, des tined to have an end. The great proprietor went on a distant journey, and kis sponse bwins ibebella Carolina and myself enjoyed tle• mutual outpourings of our hearts in those evening perambulations which are so favourable to the fervour of first love. I was now a very fine fellow, endowed with many superior qualities, and above all with a delicate sensibility, which has been the source of all my joys and sor. rows. This sensibility had originally made me the slave of love, and to it I was also indebted for my liberation. In one of those delicious twilights. so often describea to little purpose, I was seated by the side ce• inc beloved, beneath the foliage of a beautiful arbour, and then it was that an ibtense conviction of our mutual dependence and changeless affection tilled our hearts to overflowing. Being more eloquent than Isabella Carolina, I undertook to give a voice to all we thought anti felt, end very well I did it. I detailed to her my ideas of human felicity, to which an union of interests, tastes, and affections were indispensable. She li stened with tearful attention. ' This continued would be r. our power—this would be a realization of poetic dreams, a perpetuity of joy beyond the reach of fate—would it not, my love?' Yes,' re plied Isabella Carolina, blowing her nose. Not the peaceful villagers at the sound of the martial horn—not the astonished dead at the sound of the archangelic trump--felt, or will fsel—fied, or will fly—as 1 felt and fled at the sound of Isabella Caro lina's nasal note. This was truly a blow to my hopes—the fairy fabric of my fancy's rearing fell before it—.and all again was desolation ! How could a man of my feelings support this ? Was it excusable ? Was it lemMine ? Was it human ? Could it ever enter into the contem. plation of a susceptible being, that Isabella Carolina's nose—that any pretty maiden's nose was made to be blown ? No—the thing is moon. teivable, unjustifiable, monstrous, and unpardonable. Thus, then, ended the first of that long list of love adventures which have been my bleating and my bane—which have called forth the eternal tones of my poetry, and the unimportant groanings of my grief." Justice requires of us to say, that we think the following is an un.• charitable attack on a class of literary labourers who have, as a body, no other distinction from other humble literary pioneers, than that they are in general very poor. We can see nothing in their species of reporting, which necessarily implies vice, more than in any other.— Now all this may be very dull, but it has the small defect of being all Scheer. The fact is, however, that parliamentary reporters are held in much disrepute, from being confounded with another class of men--the most degraded that walk upon the earth. I mean the penny-a-line reporters— the fellows who send the newspapers in a bill on a Saturday morning, to the following effect : To Diabolical rape ... Atrocious murder ... Sanguinary riot Dreadful conflagration a. (1. 2 3e 3 2 4 le 4 9 • Total ... 14 4 These are decidedly the lowest fellows breathing : you may talk of immures, hangmen. night-men, resurrection-men, and so forth : but they arc, one and all, gentlemen of nice sensibilities, delicate feelings, and high honour in comparison with these worthies. Some glimpses of human feeling occasionally break in even upon the bosom of the hang. man in his hours of retirement and repose ; but the penny-a-liner, like she spirit of evil, is destined to prowl perpetually amid scenes of misery and crime. The innocent joys, the happy passages of mortal existence' have nu charm for him. - To the penny-a-liner, as the poet says " A house a-fire is breakfast, and a rape • Serves for a luncheon—murder is his dinner : Welcome to him is clime in every shape, Woe and misfortune clothe and feed the sinner. Thieves ' scoundrels, knaves, fi nd morsels for his jaws, And as effect fast follows after cause, 'He grows the fine original he draws." Last night, about 11 o'clock, a serious accident befel a roman, in the employ of Mr. Cobley, of Essex -street, Whitechapel. who was driving his master's cart thsoiigh Fleet -street, in a state of complete intoxiration. While seated on a basket in his cart, with the ivies in his hand, he became stid4eilk incapable of keeping his hold, and was thrown upon the pavement just at the time when a hackney. coach was passing, the wheelcof which went over his head, which was lacerated terribly. He was attrrled to St. Bride's watch-house, where Mr. Hutchinson, of Farringdon-street, promptly attended and deemed his wounds. He appeared much injured. POLICE REPORT& 7 MANatow-nousz. —Jane Brown and Nam Field, two women of the town, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having robbed a little Jew, named Solomon, of three half-crowns, in the neigh bourhood of Petticoat.lane. _ _ It was stated, in the course of the examination, that many of the women of the town about Whitechapel regularly make assaults upon drunken or otherwise disabled men, for purposes of plunder, and that although they appear to be about the streets to pick up customers for another purpose, dick chief object is to pick pockets. The two prisoners. it appeared from evidence, were standing at the corner of Petticoat-lane, when the prosecutor was walking quietly home. Brown went up to him, and asked him to give them some gin. He refused to have any thing at all to do with her, but she took hold of him, and said she would compel him to act like a gentleman. He struggled to get away, but in vain ' • she held him tight grasped round the neck, while Field approached, and deliberately searched ltim, took all he bad, (three half-crowns,) from him, turned his pockets inside out, and departed. Brown then released him, but a watchman who was passing at the end of the lane observed the latter part of the transaction. The prosecutor appeared to him quite flurried, and was actually be ginning to run away from the two women, instead of endeavouring to secure them, and one of them was hallooing after him. When the watchman asked what the matter was, however, he was told by the prosecutor that the two females had robbed him. Upon one of them three half-crowns were found, wrapped up in the corner of her shawL They pretended to be wholly unacquainted with each other. Upon being put to the bar, they were immediately recognized as old , bands at this work. They both declared this was the first time they ever appeared, except for bits of rows in the streets, before a Magistrate. Some of the officers laughed at this statement, and declared that they were a most notorious pair, who would stop at nothing. The LORD MAYOI said it would be too bad to allow them to remain longer living upon plunder, and committed them both for A waterman was charged by two gentlemen with having demanded mac than his legal fare fot! conveying; them to a steam.vessel in the river. The complainants stated that as soon as they appeared at the whee l to take a boat to the Kent steam-vessel, all the watermen were anxious to have the job. They step pa into the boat of the defendant, who rowed them over, but refused to take less than a shilling, sixpence being his fare by Act of Parliament. lie was also very saucy. Defendant—'Tis false ; I wasn't saucy—and 'tie false to say I de. mantled more than my fare. This proof of civility did not much serve the case of the defendant, who made a curious defence. I rowed the two passengers across to the steamer as she was going along quickly, and so I ran a hazard with my boat. The LORD 111av0a...-But that did not entitle you to the double price. Defendant—But it prevented me from giving the gentlemen the change. They gave me a shilling, and just as 1 was putting my hand in my pocket to give them change, away goes the steamer, and your Lordship knows that if I did'nt get out of the swell I might be swamped. (A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR said that explanation would not do. He assured the defendant that if the watennen continued such practices they would lose their trade altogether. His Lordship then fined the defendant ten shillings. Onu.num.x.—Yesterday, Charles Woodssaa was finally examined and committed for trial, on a charge of obtaining goods front various tradesmen, under false pretences. Harrow-oaanix.—George Henry ding was brought up yester. day for re-examination. An elderly gentleman stated that he represented the house of White, Francis, and ‘Vhite, of Nine Elms, Roman Cement manufacturers. The prisoner, about the month of August, came to their house in a one-horse chaise, and gave them a small order ; he then said that he was a partner in the house of Palmer,Croker, and King, Solieitors,Oray's Inn-square. He himself was not a solicitor, he said, but they were in the practice of purchasing properties with doubtful or deficient titles, and making good rights; and his department was to superintend the repairing of build. lags on such properties previous to their being sold ; and in this way they had very extensive dealings. Some time after the prisoner obtained a larger quantity of goods on the same representation. On enquiry they found that there was no such firm as that represented by the prisoner. They were never paid for the goods so obtained. Mrs. Ledger, of Hertford place, Waterloo-road, stated, that the pri soner was a lodger with her, and bad run up a bill of 81. in her debt ; and one day two police officers came to her house for the prisoner, fur having pawned a piece of cloth (he was a tailor by trade) and the prisoner requested, as a favour, that she would let him have two silver spoons to pawn, to relieve him from his trouble. She immediately did so, and the pri soner promised that she should have the spoons returned in the-course of an hour; he never returned them, nor paid the debt: and this circumstance occurred, I believe, in the month of May last. John Hall, Livery-stable-keeper, Newington Butts, stated. that some some time ago the prisoner came to his stables and bargained for the use of a hone and chaise, for three days each week, for three months certain ; he said that he was a dealer in cigars, and had an extensive connection fifteen miles round London. The hire upon was 455. per week, or 151. per day. A deposit was dem from the prisoner, he being a stranger ; but this he managed to evade, saying, h e w a s going to receive a small bill of 101. and he would then pay a week's hire in advance. He obtained the horse and chaise, but instead of coming to pay the hire, he sent home the chaise with a stranger, the whip broken, and the horse bearing the most evident marks of cruel treat. meat. Mr. Hall had pursued him at a civil court for the debt tern the .expenses had accumulated to a considerable sum, and then learning the prisoner's character, he did not proceed to arrest him. Mr. Lento put several questions to the .prisoner regarding the late Essex and other elections, in which it appeared he had had or pre- tended to have had, some connection. The prisoner replied that he had connections all over England, hav ing formerly been a commercial traveller. In reply to other observa tions, he said that no one could give him a bad character, as no one in this country had ever known him to be guilty of a dishonest act. Mr. Lanni regretted that tradesmen should suffer themselves so easily to be thus duped ; and said that none of the cases were sufficient to send to a Jury. It was, however, improper that the prisoner should be suffered to go at large on the public, and he must find bail. The prisoner said he could prove in ten minutes that he was worth 8,0001. or 9,0001. Mr. Laura replied, good bail would be required, but he would not then name the amount. The prisoner was accordingly locked up. Mnir.woaouon-wrawnv.—Yesterday a number of the household ers inhabitants of the parish of St. James, appeared to answer um mouses served upon them by the collector of poor-rates for that parish, for their refusal to pay the amount of rate demanded and just now fallen due. The defendants, one and all, said that the rate now demanded of them was an enormously increased one u compared with any poor-rates they had ever paid before, and when they asked the collector tor some expla. nation as to the cause of the increase, he refused to give them any, and they therefore certainly refused to pay the rate without an explanation, and so they should continue to do. The collector said the increase was In consequence of the expense of the New Police, and he did not think any explanation was necessary, as the rate had been fixed, and he had nothing to do but to collect it. The defendants said this was the first time they heard anything of the new police in this matter, for in the notices, and the account for rates, not one weed was said about the police, but the whole was de manded as and called poor-rates. The collector said that although they were called poomates, they, in fact, were both police and poor-rates. The defendants said that ought to be stated, and no mystery snide about the matter, and several of them declared they should take time to 'onsider whether they would pay the rate at all or not, in its present shape; and so the matter rests for the present. Tat GILEtIf.IETED Mourrza.—An Wetly gentleman, named Macdonald, living in Wardour-street, Soho, was brought to this Office upon a warrant, charging him with having committed divers assaults upon his wife. The complainanant, a young and elegantly.dressed female, detailed numerous instances of her husband HI-treating and assaulting her. His passion, she observed, she attributed to a jealous temperament, without, however, the slightest cause, for he would upbraid her of infidelity if she but ventured to look nut of the window, or even to turn her head while walking along the streets with him. The defendant, Who during his wile's statement made frequent inter ruptions, now solemnly declared that he was a much-injured man, and that his suspicions of Mrs. Macdonald's infidelity towards him- were but too well founded, inasmuch u he had discovered that the complain. ant more than once, under the pretence of visiting an aged parent, had, in fact, been staying at the house of her paramour. Mrs. Macdonald vehemently denied the charge made against her by her husband, who, she said, had of late become most ridiculously jea. lour without any cause, and would scarcely suffer her to be out of his sight. The Magistrate observed, that the law was always open whereby the defendant, if he sustained any injury, could obtain redress, and directed him to find bail to be of good behaviour towards his wife, which not being provided with, he was consigned to the custody of ,Marsden, the jailer, until it should be forthcoming. Biany-te-Bouz.—.Yesterday, Charles Ellison, the driver of a Greenwich stage-coach, was charged before Mr. Garremst with having occasioned the death of Richard Taylor, a groom in the service of George Minshull, Eeq. the Bow-street Magistrate, by wilful mis• conduct in driving. It was stated by Mr. Minshull, that he and his family bad been spending some time at Stone, in the Isle of Thanet, and on Thursday last they left it, and came by a steam packet to London. On that oc casion he was driven by the deceased from Stone to Margate in a gig, and he ordered him to come on with the gig to London, and stay a night upon the road. Here all that came under Mr. Minshull's own Meer vation ceased, but as the case demanded that defendant should be held in custody to await the decision of an inquest jury, Mr. 31inshall was not required to produce witnesses, but give a recital of the facts as key had been represented to him. Mr. Minshull went on to state, that on Friday morning, at New Cross, between Greenwich and London, as the deceased drove steadily along, he was met by two Greenwich stages. driven by the defendant and another. The road bad been fresh stoned, and the Greenwich coachmen, being in competition. took advan tage of the two sides, wraith were more beaten than the middle, and the defendant tieing on the wrong side, ran foul of Mr. Minshull's gig, broke the near shaft of it, and the wheel of the gig went over his head, and seriously injured it. He was taken to a public-house in a senseless condition, and afterwards sent in a to Mr. Minshull's house in Bentinck.street, Mary-la-bourne. Great hopes were entertained that he would recover, but erysipills came on, and, notwithstanding the best medical assistance was employed, he died at ten o'clock on Wednesday night, and left a widow in the last stage of pregnancy, who is also In Mr. Minshull's service. The defendant said he believed he could bring evidence to prove that the accident was occasioned by the restiveness of Mr. Minshull's horse, which started out of its course while the coach was passing. Mr. Mirohull described the horse to be aged, and very quiet, and very unlikely to do otherwise than to go straight forward after a long journey, and he raid he placed the utmost dependence upon the prudence of the deceased, for he was a most trustworthy servant. The defendant's solicitor asked Mr. Minshull whether the defendant had not acted with great propriety since the accident occurred ? Mr. Minshull said, he came to him on Saturday morning, and gave him his address, and acknowledged that if the accident was occasioned by the Greenwich coach, he was the driver of it; and he believed be was extremely sorry on account of it. Mr.GairriTH said something must be done to check the impetuosity of the rival coachmen near the metropolis, or cues of this melancholy nature might frequently occur, and he ordered the coachman to be de tained. THANES PoLIcE Orricz.—Yesterday a lunatic, named Charles Hedges, a sailor lately belonging to the Lowther Castle East Indiaman, was brought before Capt. ItICHIBELL and lilt. BALLANTINE, for the purpose of being passed from the pariah of St. Paul, Shadwell, where he had become chargeable, to St. James's, Westminster, the place of his legal settlement. The unfortunate fellow, a fine young man, on being brought into the Office, uttered a few incoherent sentences, an d: stared wildly around. Mr. BALLANTINE directed that he should be removed and kept quiet in one of the private rooms of the Office, during the proceedings. Maria Hedges, a young woman, the sister of the sailor, who stated herself to be a servant in the family of Oladwin,lir.in Leioester.square, i said, that after the arrival of the Lowther Castle er brother had been laid hold of by a lodging house-keeper in Shadwell, who had received his wages at the India House, where he had taken her brother, and had brought in a bill for 111. 9s. for board, lodging, and clothing, although her brother bad only been in the house three weeks, and had no other clothes but what he stood in. Her brother was afterwards moved by an order of 111 r. Broderip's of the '1 homes Police, to Shadwell Workhouse, on her making an application for that purpose. She had heard that his insanity was brought on by the ill-treatment he had received on board the ship. Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if the young man was in good health before he left England ? The witness replied in the affirmative. Her brother was labouring under illness a few years since in Ireland, but his mental faculties were never impaired, and previous to his going on board the Lowther Castle he was in good health. Mr. BALLANTINE asked if there was any person present who was I aware of the lodgtng.house keeper's receiving the man's wages, and could prove hie derangement was, brought on by ill-treatment ? G. Lake, &seaman of the Lowther Castle, said, during the outward bound voyage, Hedges, the lunatic, was brought out to be punished by order of Capt. Bettie, the commander. His shipmate had only been taken off the doctor's list two days, and after he received nine lashes he appeared so bad that the doctor stopped the punishment, and Hedges was released. He was never right after he received the flogging. and became deranged. He was brought home in irons to prevent him doing any violence to the crew. Witness was present at the India House, and saw the lodging-house keeper in company with Hedges at the payaffiee, who was taken there to receive his wages. Witness never sate him with any other clothing but what he had on since he came on shore, but the lodghrg-house-keeper had charged for various articles of wearing apparel in the bill he gave to the sister. Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if Hedges did any work after he was fi Ve.—He did do a little work, your Worship, for a few weeks, although he was not very well ; but after that he went quite mad. He never appeared right from the time he was punished, and was unable to attend properly to his duty. Mr. BALLANTINE asked Mr. Sarjent, the relieving overseer of St. Paul's, Shadwell, the course he intended to adopt with respect to the unfortunatejunaticy. Mr. Sarjent replied, that he was about to pass the man to St. James's, Westminster, the place of his legal settlement. Mr. BALLANTINE—Have you any certificate of his insanity ? Mr. Sarjent handed to the Bench a certificate from Dr. Bateman, the parish eangeon, which certified that Charles Hedges was of unsound mind, and unfit to be at large. Mr. BALLANTINE said, the proper course to be adopted in this case was to send the unfortunate man at once to a lunatic asylum, and an order must be made on the parish to which he belonged to support him. Mr Sarjent said, the:course pointed out by the Worthy Magistrate I should be immediately adopted. The sister of the sailor, who appeared much affected at the situation of her brother, said she had reason to believe that her brother, who was insane, had never been provided with proper necessaries in the lodging. house by the landlord, who had received IIL 171. at the India-house, and brought him in , debt all but Os. Mr. BALLANTINE directed Mr. Evans, the chief officer of Thames Police, to make inquiries into the affair, and summon the lodging. housekeeper before him. Union- Natl.—Yesterday, a man named Mitchell, a glassblower, in the employment of Mr. B. Pellatt, of Holland-street, Blackfriars road, was charged with stealing a number of glass shades, the property of his employer. The estimated loss sustained by Mr. Palau, in consequence of the peculation of several of his workmen, amounted annually to between 5 and 6001. and the hours at which the business was carried on by night, as well as by day, rendered It a difficult matter to detect the plunderers. In the present instance, one of the other men observed the prisoner filling his pockets with articles of glass, previously to leaving the premises. The honest servant immediately repaired to the fore. man in an adjoining house, and having informed him of what he had seen, the latter procured a constable, who apprehended the prisoner, and in his possession was found the property which be was charged with stealing., He was committed. In the month of May last, the house of a tradesman, residing in HilLstreet, Fryers.street, was broken into and robbed by two men, I named Luppage and Spradbrou. A constable apprehended Luppage, with some of the stolen property in his possession, as he was leaving the premises, and be was subsequently tried and convicted of the offence. Spradbrow on that occasion made a most determined resistance, and beat the constable in such a dreadful manner, that his life was despaired I of, and the former effected his escape. He has been at large since the outrage and robbery until yesterday, when Chief Constable Hallappre headed him in the 'Edgware-road. He was committed. LANSET it•STItEET •Mee be the Captain of a West Indianan, appeared voluntarily before the Magistrates to answer the tom. plaint of his wife, who had made an application to the Magistrates on a former day, requesting that they would compel her hus band to support her. She then stated that her husband had re fused to allow her a maintenance, unless she became the inmate of the workhouse of the parish they then resided in, Limehouse. She, agreeable to his wishes, about six months since entered the work. house, and was there allowed lls. a week from her husband for support. A few days before, however, the overseer turned her out of the house, and she was then destitute of the means of support. Mr. WALKER thought the officers had exercised a sound discretion in discharging Mrs. D. from the poor-house, and said that he would make no order on the subject, nor would he advise the parish officers to interfere; and the parties left the office. Another inquest was held before the same Coroner asd Jury, on the body of John Carey, a bricklayer's labourer, 22 years of age. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was employed with others in pulling down some old houses in Hackney-yard, Old-street. He came to work on Wednesday morning, in a state of intoxication, and, in spite of the remonstrances of his fellow-workmen, proceeded with an iron crow-bar to undermine a stack of chimnies, which fell upon him, sad crushed him in so dreadful a manner that he expired in the an hour afterwards.i me r li Robert Wyatt, the house-surgeon, said that he had not been able to make a post smartest examination of the body in consequence of the friends of the deceased, who was an Irishman, having strongly obj ect ed to it; and they had even gone so far as to demand the body bdore if was cold, threatening to destroy the hospital if their request was not complied with. He had, ;however, but little doubt that injury to the brain was the cause of his death—Verdict "Accidental Daub." Yesterday afternoon an inquest war held before Tamar.' STIRLING, Esq. at the Bear and Castle, Oxford -street, on the body of Mr. John Tow, late landlord of the Bear and Castle tap. Hannah Phillips stated, that she was servant to the deceased. On Tuesday night, at eleven o'clock, she went to bed, leaving her master and mistress in the bar. Her muter appeared very dull that evening, but from what cause she did not know. At six o'clock the following morning she heard him go down stairs, and on witness coming down stairs shortly afterwards, she was surprised to find the bar.door open, and no one in the bar ; she went to the cellar door, and called to the deceased, to know if he was there, and he replied, " I am here." Shortly after this she heard some person groaning in the cellar, and or going down the stairs, found her master lying at the bottom of th stairs, covered with blood. She immediately gave an alarm to the in. mates, and a surgeon was sent for, but the deceased expired a few minutes afterwards. Charles Buckman, a lodger in the house, stated that on hearing the alarm given by the last witness he went into the cellar, and found the deceased lying as she had described. He was alive, and groaning dread. fully. On lilting the deceased's head up, he saw that his throat was cut. Deceased had for some time past appeared very dejected, but wit. ness could not state from what cause. - - Mr. logs, a surgeon, stated that about twelvemonths ago he attended the deceased, who was then labouring under a disease oiled "Delirium tremens," a nervous disorder. On Wednesday morning be vas sent for to attend deceased. Ile found him alive, but he died within half* mi nute after. Be had severed the windpipe, and all the principal arteries. There was a razor found close by his side. The Jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. CORONER'S INQUESTS. An inquisition was yesterday afternoon taken at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before Mr. Payne, to enquire touching the death of George West, aged 62. a compositor in the service of Mr. Fishes, printer, of Owen's.row. Clerkenwell, who met his death in the following way : James Burn, a youth employed at the above establishment, stated that the deceased had been in 3lr. Fisher's employ nearly thirty years. About nine o'clock on Saturday night the deceased was in the printing. office on the first floor, in the centre of which there is an aperture of six feet square, which had been made about three weeks ago, for the pus. pose of forming a staircase, but which was not yet put up. Witness was sitting on a bench by the aide of the hole, when the deceased ad. vanced towards him with some money i n hi s hand,which be was counting, and notwithstanding he (witness) apprised him of the danger, the unfortunate man kept walking on, and wasprecipitated through the hole to the floor beneath, a height of nine feet. He was picked up in a statetof insensibility, having pitched on his h ea d, arid, in thi s state, was conveyed to the hospital. By a Juror.—Three lighted candles were placed round the hole, which was always open, and unfortunately had been so from the time it was made, a period of about three weeks. The Jury said that they thought it extremely reprehensible to leave such a dangerous place without a plea for such a length of time. Mr. Fisher, who was present, here observed, that the workmen had been engaged in making other alterations to his premises, in consequence of which the stain had not been completed. He, however, muted the Jury, that in order to guard against any future accident of this kind, die hole should be instantly boarded over. Mr. Richard Wyatt, the surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, stated that he examined the deceased when brought in ; he was in a hopeless condition, and labouring under concussion of the brain, which terminated bls existence on Tuesday morning. Since his death be found that the skull was slightly fractured, and one of the ribs was broken. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. MARRIED. The 4th inst. at St. James's Church, Mr. G. P. Cooper, of Sorbing. street, to Miss Chisholm, o f S t . J ames ' s —The sth in s t. at Westburs, W. Fills, Esq. surgeon, of Clif t on, to Sophia. daughter of the late W. trine,Esq. of Guildford-strest--The 7th inst. at Islington, F. S. Smith. Esq. of Oundle, Northamptonshire, to Maria Whinnell, eldest daughter of J. W. Scott, Eof Barnsbury-park—.The .7th inst. at Brecon. C. Alters, Esq. of C st adoxton-lodge. and of Ildspenllwch, Glamorganshire, to Anna Jane. only daughter of the Rev. C. Griffitl.. of Brecon—The 7th inst. at Chiswick. Mr. J. Dresser, of Kensingtag• to Juliann', daughter of T. Gooch. Esq. of Tumham-green—The tot!. ult. at Rocking, Essex. T. P. Warren, Esq. of Highbury-place. Wilhelmina, daughter of W. Taylor. Esq. of Docking. DIED. The lit inst. at Tillingboarne-lodge, Surrey, Jane, third daughter 0: the late J. Kerrich, Esq. of Ilarleston. Norfolk—The 2d inst. Mr. C. Ayles, of King-street. HI& Holborn.—The 3d inst. at Stockwell, Sur rey, at an advanced • Na. Jane Birkett, formerly of Kendal, West moreland.—At lsestidwlp r an the 3d inst. C. B. Clifton, Esq. eldest B ft d son of the late C. of Demerara, in the 31)th year of his age. The 4th inst. at aged ea, the Rev. R. Jeffleys, rector of Throcking, near Herts, and late Chaplain to the Hon. East India Company.— *b inst. at York-terrace. Regeneolark , J . Inglis, Esq. amandi men of &sloe J. Inglis, Esq. a Director of the Hon. East ndia Company. Lownos Ihinted and Published by Mows*. aktbs &ran- OFFICI, No. 1, Piskilet-phier, Teeple Der. SCINTILLIL A WHIMSICAL INTRODVCTIOW.—BOSWILL, in his Jounsal of a Tour, ite. relates that Cooke, the translator of Hesiod, &v. introduced Foote to a club in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother !" A WOMAN KHO HAD TWENTY-FIVE HVSBANDS!-- EVRLYN, in his Memoirs, mentions the case of a woman in the Nether lands who had been married twenty-five times, and who was then pro hibited from marrying again ; " yet it could not be proved," he says, " that she had ever made any of her husbands away, though the sus. picion had brought her divers times to trouble." HERETICAL PARROT.—BEZE, in his History of the Realisation in France, Geneva, 1580, informs us of a curious cir. cumstance that occurred at Toulouse. A parrot that had been taught to my Pi de la ewe! was arraigned before the Inquisition, there con. damned, and publicly burnt by the executioner. What a theme for the witty author of Part vert I THE EGYPTIANS NOT BALD, AND welt.--The Egyp tians, if we believe 11E1m:torus, book iii. chap. xii. seldom went bald, and the reason which he assigns is, that they shared their heads from childhood, and thus hardened them in the sun. It is not easy to say how a man with his head shorn, could ever become bald._ ORANGE TREES.—The orange trees of St. Michael go. nerally attain the height of fifteen or twenty feet. The usual produce of a good tree, in common years, is from 6,000 to 1,000 oranges. Sonic instances of uncommon productiveness have occurred. Dr. Webster mentions that a few years ago 26,000 oranges were gathered from one tree, and 29,000 from another,! EGGS PRESERVED 300 YEARS.—II is asserted, that in the wall of a chapel near lauo Maggime,lbuilt more than 300 years ago, three eggs imbedded in the mortar of the wall were found to be quite fresh. It has long been known that birds' eggs brought from America, or India, covered with a film of wax, have been hatched in Europe after the wax had been dissolved by alcohol. ANTIQUITY 01 THE MARINE COMPASS.—Du Hada, In his History of China, adduces some evidence to show that the com pass was known and used in that country as early as the 22d cycle, or 1040 years before Christ ; and the observation of Sir George Staunton, in the Account of his Embassy to China, that the magnet is one of the attributes of their Neptune, and is placed in one of the bands of the idol, is not a little curious. THE PIG-FACED LADY.—The story of the Pig-faced Lady, so currently related, and occasionally so firmly credited, a few years since, originated with a quarto pamphlet, printed in 1640, titled, " The Hog-Faced Gentlewoman, called Mistress Tannakln /Rinker, who was born at Wickham, a neuter tonne between the Em. peror a nd the Hallander, scituate on the Rhine, and who can never re. cover her true shape till she be married. Also relating the cause how her mother came bewitched. With a wood.cut of the Lady and her Sutter." It was sold in 1816, for seven guineas and a half ! ORIGIN OF CINDERELLA.—The following story, which BURTON quotes from Man, is obviously the origin of one of outmost popular nursery tales :—" Rodophe was the fairest lady, in her days. in all Egypt; she went to wash her, and by chance (her midge, mean while, looking but carelessly to her clothes) an eagle molt , away one of her shoes, and laid it in Psammeticus, the King of - 4yr.... lap, at Memphis: he wondered:at the excellency of the shoe and pretty foot, but more argil. fades, at the manner of the bringing o: it; and caused, forthwith, proclamation to be made, that she that owned that shoe should come presently to his court ; t he virgin came. and was forthwith married to the king."—Anatomy of Melancholy. vol. ii. p. 404. DUEL IN BALLooNs.—A very extraordinary duel tool. place in Paris about —years since. 111. de Granpree and Al. Le Piqu. having quarrelled about Mademoiselle Tirevit, a celebrated opera dancer, who was kept by the former, but had been discovered in an in trigue with the latter, a challenge ensued. Being both men of elevated mind, they agreed to fi ght in balloons. Each, atte nd e d' by:a second. ascended his car, loaded with blunderbusses, as pistols could not be ex pected to be efficient in their probable situation. When they had mounted to the height of about 900 yards, M. Le Pique fired his pin: ineffectually ; almost Immediately after, the fire was returned by bl. Gramme, and penetrated his adversary's balloon ; the consequence of which was, its rapid descent, and M. Le Pique and his second wen. both dashed to pieces on a house top, over which the balloon fell. The victorious Granpree then mounted aloft in the grandest style, and de scended safe with his second, about seven leagues from the spot of ascension ! CoLzalDGE.—With extensive learning, an unbounded vigor of imagination, and the most ready command of expression both in verse and prose, this author has been uniformly deficient in the per severance and the sound sense which were necessary to ,turn his exqui site talents to their proper use. He has only produced in a complete state oue or two small pieces, and every thing else, begun on a larger scale, has been flung aside, and left unfinished. This is not all : al though commanding the most beautiful poetical language, he has every now and then thought fit to exchange it for the gratuitous pleasure o: introducing whole stanzas of quaint and vulgar doggrel. These are the passages which render learning useless, and eloquence absurd; which make fools laugh, and malignant critics " dance and leap ;" but which excite, in readers of taste, grief, and astonishment, as evidence of talent Misapplied, and genius furnishing anus against itself to low-minded entry. BIRTHS. The 6th Inst. at Tunbridge Wells, the lady of A. Akers, Esq. of a daughter—The 6th inst. at Upper Holloway. lilts. R. Dunn, of a daughter—The 6th inst. in Upper Berkeley -street, the lady of R. B. lll , Kenna. Esq. of a daughter.