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~.71:1'- tt c( for t .4 1 1 : 1 -1. - ::".• 1 ! * *.- • r ).. c ).S : , 1% —*/-‘' 4 ' .- ; v •s• • •!•,c 2 :1 I, . • LITERATURE. _.—......--- Ito, i r , ll , . l etteyelopedia Britannica. Whittaker, Treacher, and Co.—W e have no ordinary degree of satisfaction in calling public attention to the commencement of a new edi tion of this work, which has so long maintained an impor tant station, if it may not, indeed, be said to stand at the very head of the department of literature to which it be longs. We have now before no the first part of the say MR EDITION • and under the judicious superrmtendance of the learned Editor, Professor NAPIER, we can feel warranted in anticipating, that the forthcoming volumes of this splendid Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous ottelligence, will be worthy of the celebrity which the work has long enjoyed, and of the distinguished talents of its conductor. The Encyclopedia—particularly since the commence ment of the third edition, which, we believe, was in the year 1789—has invariably. been regarded as a standard work of the first order. Its enlarged plan, at that time, uas so skilfully combined, and so well adapted to the great body of general readers, that not less than from . 20,000—0 r we might rather say 25,000—copies have been sold, exclusive of the reprints which have been made in America. But even that popular plan which then recommended the work to public favour, has, in the present edition, undergone very considerable im provement ; the invaluable preliminary dissertations by Professors STEWART, PLAYFAIR, and LESLIE, which formed so great an ornament to the ,supplement of the last edition, together with a new* introductory disser tation br Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, are to constitute the first volume. We likewise find that each of the !fret twelve parts will consist, half of the first volume, and half of the second, or alphabetical part; the twelfth part will complete both first and second volumes.— At the same time, the text of the several articles—so far as we have seen—has been carefully revised ; and those on scientific and historical subjects brought to the level of the latest discoveries and the most recently ac pired information. In confirmation of this assertion, we would beg to point out to the reader,tbe interesting article on Abyssinia, in the part just published. So far as the specimen given enables us to pronounce, we think that the talented Editor and the enterprising Publisher have done their duty to the public. The paper, printing, and engravings are all—as they ought to be— decidedly superior to the last edition ; at the same time that the text page embraces more matter than before.— The extreme correctness of the typographical arrange ment entitles them to the highest praise ; and withal, the price —that very important feature in such a publication —has been made so reasonable, as, together with the con venience of receiving it in monthly parts, must bring it ithin the reach of the most moderate fortunes. Literary Remains of the late Henry Neele.—Smith, Elder, and Co. —The fate of NEnLn afforded one of the most melancholy instances of the perishable tenure of the fairest gifts of nature, and the brightest endowments of the human mind. CHA TTERTON perished by hie own hand, it is true—and so did Nast.a : but the former sunk in the morning of life, beneath the pressure of woes to which, as he had not worldly experience to reconcile him, so he had not fortitude to endure them. His hopes were scarcely formed, ere they appeared to his sanguine temperament, blighted by the indifference of the world. NEEEE'II ta lents had worked out for him a way to reputation, to lite rary distinction, and to wealth. His genius may be said to have reached its maturity—whereas, CHATTER:EON'S %as blasted in the bud. CHATTERTOW rushed to his cluem in the bitter anguish of disappointment, of which 1.0 had never allowed himself to calculate the possibility; -NEELE fell by his own hand, the victim of an over wrought imagination— " A fiery soul which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay." And thus, as his biographer observes, " in the very spring of life, with fame and fortune opening their brightest views before him, he perished under the attacks of a dis ease from which no genius is a defence, and no talent a protection—which has numbered among its victims some of the loftiest spirits of humanity, and blighted the proud est hopes that ever waked the aspirings of ambition."— Every memorial of such a man, possesses a mournful in terest for all mankind ; and the volume which has elicited these remarks, abounds with such evidences of the high and varied talents with which he was endowed, that a more grateful tribute could scarcely be offered to his me mory than the combined display of the versatility, as well as the extent, of his brilliant powers. The only extract for which we have now space, we select from " the Lec tures on English Poetry ;" and it is at once curious and interesting to peruse his remarks upon the comparative merit of CIIATTERTON, with whose name his own me lancholy fate has so painfully associated our recollections of HENRY NEELE. I have placed Chatterton amongst the narrative Poets, although he also wrote dramatic, lyrical, and didactic pieces. Perhaps there never was a more slender veil of forgery attempted, than that which he threw around his pretended ancient productions. He has written in the language of no one age, but in a piebald diction of all; made up of the phrases and idioms of various periods, and the reader has often nothing to do, but to strip his verses of their antique spelling, and he finds the language precisely that which is used in the present day. Take for instance, the opening of the Song of Ella:— " When Freedom drest in blood-stain'd vest, To every land her War.song sung; Upon her head wild weeds were spread, A gory enlace by her hung." The Poems themselves bear internal evidence of their bei::g the pro ductions of a boy ; of a marvellous boy indeed, but still of a boy. There are no traces of experience, of long observation, of a know. ledge of human nature, and indeed of acquirement of any sort. Cf strong natural powers, of talent, of genius, every page furnishes us with abundant instances. Chatterton's force I think was pathos; and had not hie mortal career closed so prematurely, he would pro. bahly have devoted himself to lyrical poetry. What he has left behind him is full of genius, but full of inequalities and faults. We have hardly sufficient data to enable us to judge what Chatterton's real character, moral or literary,—and it is difficult to separate them in our inquiry, —was, or would have been. I, for one, cannot help thinking, that the vices of the former were adventitious, and that ibe imperfections of the latter would have been obviated, or removed. His tale is but half told. Had not the curtain dropt so abruptly on the hero of the drama, succeeding scenes might have 'hewn him triumphing over all his follies, and atoning for all his faults. His ruling passion was the love of fame. The progress of Fame is like the course of the Thames, which in its native fields will scarcely float the toy-ship which an infant's hand has launched; but when it has once visited the metropolis, mighty vessels ride upon its bosom, and it rolls on irresistibly to the ocean. This Chatterton knew; ' and, in a blind confidence on his own unaided powers, rushed to the capital in pursuit of fame and competence. The result we all know was neglect, penury, and self-destruction. Nartative poetry has of late been a favourite and popular study, and his employed the pens of all the most eminent of our living writers. Although the limits which I have prescribed to myself in these lectures do not permit to discuss their merits, I may be al. lowed to say, that the narrative writers of the present day have done much to wean the public taste from the meretricious school by The Pleasures of Anarchy, a Dramatic Poem, by the Rev. F. Newenham , Mercer Citizen of London. —We have already eased our conscience by pleading guilty to an insatiable passion for, and after, literary curiosities ; we have unscrupulously " owned the soft impeachment," and therefore we may, with the better grace, expatiate on the delight which this most curious of all curious productions has afforded us.—lt outdoes all former outdoings. People may dream of a second love, or a fourth grace, or a sixth sense, or a tenth muse, but in this one exploit—the achievement of this Poem—all such wonders should be forgotten. We have had the Pleasures of Imagination—and the Plea sures of Hope—and the Pleasures of Memory, and—aye, even the Pleasures of Pain—but they are all moonshine compared to the Pleasures of Anarchy. in sober sad ness—as Cervantes wrote his Quixotte to laugh down Chivalry, even so did the Rev. F. NEW EN HA m, mercer citizen of London, write the Pleasures of Anarchy, a Dramatic Poem, to laugh down poetry. Our copy of the work contains some manuscript instructions with which the author has favoured us, touching our review of his labours— some hints for our better guidance in the path of criticism—a path we have now trod time out of mind ;—and we declare, so perfectly unique do we consider the production, that we would not ex change it—autograph and all —no, not even for the original manuscript of Professor GOWIELDORee forth coming " Travels in the Moon." As specimens of the learned and reverend author's style in prose and verse, we shall presently subjoin some inestimable extracts ; but we must say that, in doing so, we do great violence to our own feelings ; not that we are naturally selfish— far from it— but we find all our sympathies so irresistibly engaged by our poet, that we are almost too jealous to allow the gratification to be indiscriminately shared even by our " dear public." The work has gone through we know not how many editions; but they seem all to have shared the same fate. The author like all true poets, is too sensitive a man to submit his lucubrations to the vulgar gaze ; or, like Brutus of old, too inflexibly just not to consign them to their merited doom : and so we find that the first edition, which, he says, was " thick as the leaves in Vallombrosa," was soon but take his own words :—" Of the first edition, printed in 1809, some copies daily fed the author's fire (!) others were applied to a thousand different offices, with as little tenderness as had ever been shewn to the vilest scrap." What a remorseless parent I—a very vam pire would have had more heart—" And if domestic affairs were always fit for the public eye, it might be told what a large portion of them was put in preparation for manuring his fields I"—Now as the seasons have been charged with causing all the distress of the country, have we no political economist, liberal and enlightened enough, to propose the encouragement by the state of this author's plan for preparing paper for averting all the evils of bad harvests ? In this way, how might some Honourable Mem bers of a House that it is not proper to mention, be rendered conducive to the national prosperity by dedi cating the printed copies of their speeches to the same patriotic porpoise ! Well, the first Edition having been thus satisfactorily disposed of, the Author says,_ " the second met with no more success than the first.— And why should it ?"—Aye, why should it, indeed ? —That is just what we should like to know :—but that question we leave the learned in such matters to solve, seeing that the work itself is unique—a perfect phoenix in the wilds of literature.-.. The preface to this edition consists of twenty-four full-sized Bvo. pages of closely printed matter ; the poem itself occupies one hun dred and forty pages ; and the notes and appendix seventy-two.—Of the notes, one short specimen must suffice. "In sport alone," is intended to have the mean ing of only in sport." ow for our poetical extract, and we have done : " Now to the left, through yonder thicket, lies Our path. Take courage, ma'am ; thy son, remember, Is not a great way off; tad though 'tie steep, Smoother the road will grow as we advance; Besides, I know, hard by that frowning rock, There is a cot, secluded in a wood, Where we may gain repose. A good old man, (The shepherds call him father of them all,) Dwelt lately there ; and he still lives, I trust, To greet us with his hand; for since this bridge Was, but last night, erected by our foes, And only on the plain ('tis mud) they fight, None could, I think, be tempted there to range, To rob its poor inhabitants of what, All must needs know, they have nut got to give." We know not which to admire most—the accommo dating steepness of the road, that grew smoother the higher they advanced ;—the philanthropy of the good old shepherd, in whom the shepherds recognized " the father of them all ;"—or the penetration which argued security from the cunning of the thieves, who could not be tempted to rob the poor people of what they had not to give. PAYMENT OF THE WAGES OF WORKMEN. Abstract of a Bill to amend and render more effectual the Provisions of divers Acts, for securing to certain Artificers, Workmen, and Libourers, in such Acts mentioned, the due payment of their Wages in Money. Clause I.—Enacts a Penalty upon any Employer who shall di rge/1y or indirectly enter into any Agreement with his workmen as to the mode of laying out his wages. 11.—Penalty upon Employers giving Tickets to Workmen for obtaining Goods at any particular place, and upon Persons becoming possessed of, and endeavouring to circulate such Tickets. IJR.—Justices may summon Witnesses, and in default of ap pearing or refusing to give evidence, may commit for Three Months. IV.—All agreements as the mode or place of expending Wages are rendered void. V.—ln cases of actions brought by workmen for wages, the em. ployers shall not be allowed to set off any goods had by such labour. era on account of such wages. Vl.—Empowers a workman to make void any contract to work for a master, in cases where payment shall be made otherwise than in money. VlL—Extends the power of former Acts for Recovery of pe. nalties to this Act. Vlll.—Where a penalty is imposed upon every person commit. ting an offence, and the offence is committed by several persons, they shall jointly and severally be liable. IL—in all cases it shall be deemed sufficient service of any summons to be issued against offenders by Justices of the Peace, under the authority of this Act, if a true copy of the same be left at the places used or occupied by such *finders for carrying on their business, or at the place of residence, or with the wives or children or menial servants of such offenders, the same being di. rested so such offenders by their right or assumed name or names. X.—Justices may proceed and give j ent, notwithstanding defects of form in the infixmation or b logs. Xl.--This Act not to extend toany Agreement with Ser vants in Husbandry, or Menial Servants. Xll.—Admits of appeal on the part of Persons convicted. Xlll.—Relates to the form of conviction. XIV.—No Peron to be deemed an incompetent Witness on ar. count of his Wag entitled to the whole part of the Penalty. XV.—No conviction to be quashed for want of form, or removed by Certiorari. XVl.—This Act to extend over the whole of Great Britain. XVll..—This Act to commence at the expiration of three calendar months from the pawing thereof. • Yesterday morning .a ballot was opened at the Bank of England, for the election of a Governor and Deputy-Gover nor. As there is no opposition to the parties nominated, viz. :.—J. H. Palmer, Esq., as Governor ; and A. H. Thompson, Esq., as Deputy-Governor, they will Kt:Wien. ..♦ - EXTENSIVE ADULTERATION. . Mr. TazsLovz moved the court for the appointment of a receiver in this cause. It was a bill filed against Lord Perceval, Mr. Tier ney and others, as trustees of certain estates aarigned by the Earl of Egmont for the benefit of his creditors, on the ground that the trus tees bad wholly neglected their duty. Mr. PEsYs submitted that this motion could not be sustained, because Lord Perceval bad not been served with notice. Mr. Tazatovz replied, that they could not learn that Laid Per. coral bad any residence in England, and that they had reason to he believe that kept abroad for the purpohe of avoiding a service of the process of the court. His Honour the Vzcz-Cnawczia.oi thought that his lordship could not be deprived of his trusteeship without notice. if his lord. ship remained abroad in order to avoid the service of the bill the plaintiffs would be in a condition to get the bill taken pro oortfaro against him ; but, if not, they might serve him with notice. The motion must, therefore, be refused with costs. BOARD OF EXCISE COURT. Jesse Atkins, landlord of the Walnut Tree publie..house, Cam. den.town, appeared to answer an information upon which he was charged, in eight counts, for having illegally in his possession a quantity of molasses, sugar, salts and water, and other ingredients.- not malt and hops—for the purpose of adulterating beer. Eseise.officers deposed to searching the defendant's house, on the 7th of December last, and finding in a pail in his cellar a small quantity of adulterating liquid, composed of sugar, salts and water. The witnesses afterwards found about thirty or forty pounds of coarse sugar used by publicans for mixing with other ingrediens to adulterate beer. The defendant at the time, in reply to an observe. don that he bad been adulterating pretty largely, said he knew he had done wrong, and appeared much frightened. The defendant said in defence he was not aware of having acted illegally, for he had been in business but a very short time. The officers, in answers to questions from the Court, said the de fendant had ben in business since June 1828, and that he had sold about eight buts of beer a month, and was supplied by Reid and Co. The Court observed that it was clear he had been carrying on the pernicious system of adulteration for a considerable time, and must have been aware of its illegality. The absence of poisonous ingre. dients was a circumstance in his favour, or a heavier penalty would have been inflicted. The judgment of the Court was, that the de. fendant pay a mitigated fine of 501. William Clarke, of Wellclose-square, was fined 101. for a similar offence. _ _ _ _ _ William Hamilton, of the Green Dragon public.house, Robert. street, Kent-street, Southwark, was charged with having three quarts of beer colouring, or adulterating ingredients, In his possession. Robert Beckwith, an excise-officer, deposed to searching the de fendant's pretuisei - on the bth of December last, and finding, amongst some bottles of compounds, a two-gallon stone jar, or bottle, con taining three quarts of colouring matter. It did not appear to have been recently used, and the defendant said, at the time of the seism, it was in the same state as when he took the house four months pre viously. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said the bottle and its contents were appraised to him when he took the house, and that he supposed it to be spruce, but had never used It. Win. Green was called for the defence. He stated that the for mer landlord had often told him he used colouring matter, and adul terated his beer to the extent of 30s. per butt. The appraiser of the stock to the defendant stated, that such a bottle or jar as the one produced was amongst others in the cellar when the defendantuok the house. The stock of spruce was then in a tub. Colouring or adulterating matter was never appraised, but always thrown aide, being an illegal compound. The Cum, Countssiouna said, that in inflicting the very low penalty of 51. the Court was induced to pass that very lenient sentence in consequence of there being no proof that the def e ndant had used the adulterating mixture. It, however, should serve as a caution, and publicans would do well to examine the stock they took from their predecessors. Joseph Webb, of Banner-street, St. Luke's, pleaded guilty to a like oboe under similar circumstances, and was also fined 51. Thomas Cannon, the Windsor ex.pugilist, was fined 2.1. for hav ing colouring matter in his possession. A calculation has been made of the drain upon the country occasioned by absentees, which makes the amount of British revenue now consumed abroad to be not much under the cost of our whole actual public establishments put together. It is understood that not more than 25,0001. in amount was signed in the books at the Bank during yesterday, as dissenting front the Chancellor of the &chequer's project for converting the 4 per cents. By means of an instrument called a stethoscope, ap plied to the breast-bone, some modern medical writers pre**, to discover what is going on within. This new art is called sureties. tion, and the internal sounds pcctoriloquism. By means of thi, new discovery, a learned physician professes to have heard a " nice tallic tinkling" at the heart or in the lungs of a patient. A by stander, however, thinks the 6 • metallic tinkling" was onl audible from two pieces of coin which found their way into the pa lm of the doctor, The LORD Matron —Those who employ him will support him, you may depend upon it, in obeying their directions. The horse is thus still to remain in pound. It might be right is state, that Finsbury is completely infested by dealers in horse-flesh, and that, as the officer hinted, several accidents have arisen from the negligence of those persons. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a man namediiii;n,;asTharged with having com mitted a most brutal assault on a woman named Leary. From the statement of the complainant it appeared that she and the defendant's wife had some altercation together a few days ago, and the husband of the latter having been made acquainted with the nature of their dispute, immediately went to the house of the com plainant to demand an explanation. The complainant refused to gr a t ed any, upon which he immediately seized her by the neck, her to the ground. and, while in that situation, knelt upon her breast, and nearly choked her, besides beating her violently at the same time with his fiats. The Illagistrates, perceiving the woman to be in danger, re. marked that it was a case of such an aggravated description, that, instead of inflicting the highest penalty they were empowered to do, which was a punishment not at all adequate to the offence, they should make the defendant find sureties to answer the charge at t! sessions, and give 24 hours notice of the bail he intended to offer. which ft was directed half a century ago, and bring it back to a wholesome appreciation of the powers of those genuine old English Pacts, whose teacher was Nature, and whose study was the human bean." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BATH SPRING MEETING, 1830. WIDNINDAT AND TORILSDAY, APRIL CST min Ina. FIRST DAY. The Lansdown Stakes of 10 son. each, with 10 added, for horse. that never won (matches excepted); two yrs. old, est 1016; three, Bet 101 b; four, 9st 41b; five, 9st Illb; six and aged, lOst 21b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; heats about one mile and a quarter. Jockey riders. Mr. Peel's by Phantom I Mr. Thorne's Ghost Mr. Allen's Geoffrey Crayon Mr. Lucas's Maiden of the Mist Sir L. P. Glyn's by Moses I Mr. Wreford's Will Watch Mr. Brathwayt's Pauper Mr. Biggs's brother to Lusher Mr. Goldstone's Rosary Mr. Wilson's Sydney Mr. Snowden's Spark Mr. Twamley's Guido Mr. Benyon's Queen Bess Mr. Canning's by Young Sooth. Mr. Haverfield's by Whalebone sayer Mr. Goodleke's Figurine The Ladies' Silver Cup, value 30 sou. added to a Sweepstakes of b soy. each, for hones not thorough-bred; three yrs old, 9st. Sib; four, lOst. 31b; five, 10st. 1016; six, list. Sib; and aged, list. 71b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; any horse having won at any one time the value of 501. (matches excepted) to carry 1016. extra; heats, one mile and a quarter, Gentlemen riders. The second horse to save his stake. Mr. Codrington's Jack Ketch Mr. Martin's Patinet Mr. Codrington's The Cardinal Mr. Wilson's Vixen Mr. Bean's by Blacklock Mr. Phillopson's The Asps Capt. Huntley's King Arthur Mr. Anderson's Moses Capt. Martin's Little John Mr. Hayward's Fancy Mr, Hicks's The Tarter Mr. Williams's Mynydd-lellwyn Mr. Gwythers's Catanio Mr. Lawrence's Lucy Mr. Day's Ancient Mr. Piekanell's Repsima Mr. Cleve's Half Bred The Claret Stakes of 10 sows. each ; three years old, 9st. 121 b; four, list; five. list. 101 b; six and aged, l2st. 21b; one mile and a quarter ; Gentlemen riders. The winner to be sold for 200 son. Mr. W. Blathwayt's Guido Mr. I. Day's Busk Sir L. P. Glynn's by Manfred Mr. Finch' Hercules Mr G. T. Wilson's by Blacklock SECON DAY. The Bath Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 10 son. added, for horses not thoroughbred never having won at any one time the value of 501. (matches excepted,)' two years old, 7st. 31b. three, 9st. 716. four, lOst. 71b. five, list. 31b. six and aged, list. bib. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Heats, one mile and a quarter.— Jockey riders. Mr. Lawrence's Lucy Mr. Allies's Ashton Mr Day's by Harkaway Mr. Lucas's The Asps Mr. Thorn's by Blacklock The Hunters' Stakes, a Sweeps es of 5 son. each, with 20 son. added, for horses not thoroughbred, and never having won at any one time du: value of 50 Boys. (matches excepted), that have been regularly hunted with any established pack of fox hounds ; four years old, lust 7lb ; five, list 71b; six, lust 121 b ; and aged, I2st. Heats, one mile and a quarter. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Day's by Harkaway Mr. Martin's Patinet Capt. Huntley's King Arthur I Mr. lilargerum's Fancy Mr. Langworthy's Vixen The York Stakes, a forced Handicap of 5 son. each, with 20 son. added.—Heats, one mile. HUNTING. GALLANT Fox CRASE.—The twill° hounds threw off at Kentchurch-park on Monday se'nnight, and, after drawing a few coverts, unkennelled a fox in the Skerrid-wood. Reynard soon broke off, and away they . went at a killing pace, taking a northward direction, until they ar rived at Wormbridge; then balding their course to the right. to Mynd-park, climbing Orcop-hill, with the fleetness of the rein deer, they proceeded through Scudamore-hill. wood, and, crossing Orcop-bottom to Old-hall, Heynard was closely pursued. Leaving Garway-hill to the left, they reached Burnt house-wood, where his merciless pursuers got within sight of him, and, after viewing across Kentchurch-park to Hope's-wood, they ran in to him. Perhaps a more spirited chase than the above was never recorded; the distance run was above fifteen miles ; the time occupied was fifty-one minutes. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Aram 7 . BEALE V. LORD VISCOUNT PERCEVAL. FORCE OF IMAGINATION. On Sunday night last, an occurrence of a singular kind, and which it is more than probable will prove fatal, took place at the house of Mr. kfoxk7, an undertaker, No. 30, Duke. street, Limo About half-past twelve o'clock, Mr. 111oxley was awoke by the breaking of a pane of glass in the window of his sleeping room, which is en the ground How, and the fall of something heavy, whi c h was immediately followed by de e p gr o an i ng , apparently in the yard. Feeling some apprehension that these sounds might be a trick on the part of some thieves to gain an entrance to the house, be went to the front door and called in two of the police, with whom he proceeded to the yard, and there found Mr. Hill, a lodger occupying the first Boor, lying on the ground, with nothing on but his shirt, and bleed. y from a deep wound in the head. He was then Ines. and was carried up stairs and medical assistance sent for. The window of his bedroom was open, and his clothe s were lying on a chair, and it was quite evident that he must have leaped from the window into the yard. He recovered fur a short time, suficiently to state that some time after be had been in bed, he heard a noise in his room, and thinking that thieves had entered to rob. and perhaps murder him, be ailed for help. No one an. swered, but the noise continued, and he became so much alarmed that he jumped out of bed, and throwing up the wind ow l eape d i nto the yard, in doing which his foot caught die sill of the window, and he pitched head-foremost upon the pavement. A careful search of the whole house was made by the officers, but none but the usual inmates were found, and the desperate act of the unfortunate man must have been the Abet of a heated imagination. Mr. Hill is a person of respectable fondly, and has lost very considerable property in a long course of litigation, and his misfortunes have preyed much upon his mind. On last Sunday four weeks, the apartments of Mr. and Mrs. h e l b ß es on th e ground floor, were entered during th e i r absence at and robbed of bOl. worth of property (u stated in The Skis nett day), and since that occurrence, Mr. Hill has been in a state of nervous apprehension, repeatedly expressing his fears that he should be murdered in Ms bed. The surgeon who was sent for, found that there was a dangerous fracture of the skull, and gave but faint hopes of his recovery. He has been in a state of delirium since Monday morning, and yesterday the medical man gave it as his opinion that he could not recover. The height which he fell is nearly 90 feet. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A Gentlenum, who did not state what his name waa, aceompa. nied by his son, suddenly appeared before the Loin IIIAYOI to complain of what he considered to be a very gross breach of the law. He said, that as his son was riding at a very easy pace round Finabnry Circus, an officer named Peter Hilly went up to him, and compelling him to alight, deliberately rode off the horse to the green-yard, where he (the officer) gave it into sa f e custody, until certain ch arges should be paid. Why an officer or any other per. son should presume to take such a liberty, as to seise a horse under such circumstances, he did not know, and he came before the Lord Mayor in the hope to obtain his Lordship's interference for 1 the immediate restitution of the horse, and a security to the public against any future annoyance of the kind, in his Lordship's reproot of the officer. Kelly, who did not hesitate to attend at the moment to answer the charge, stated that the horre.deakra, of whom there were num bers daily in the neighbourhood, were in the habit, whenever they thought they could do it with impunity, of exhibiting their horse s there,—.a practice which was known to be most dangerous, as there were multitudes of children always in the way. He had been ex. preply directed to seize any horse he saw exhibited; and as the dealers cared very little what mischief they might commit so that they succeed in procuring a sale, he had determined to ledge ac many horses as be should see offending in the green-y ar d. The es Maxon asked the officer whether he really believed the horse was in the Circus for show. Kelly said he had no doubt of it. He had seen another person on the same horse in the early part of the day ; but he had no opportu nity of seising it. The LOILD MAYOI told the complainant, that he could not order the horse out of the green-yard, nor could he think of reproaching the officer for the strict performance of such a duty. Complainant.—Do you say, my Lord, that amen cannot walk his horse round the Cir:us without subjecting himself to a penalty ? The LOMD MATOI.—I say that if you think yourself injured, you have your redress against the officer in a court of justice. Complainant.—Yes, that would do very well if the man was worth powder and shot ; but he is not. If I proceed, therefore, no redress can be had. BIRTHS. At Brighton, the lady of Captain Maher. Barrack-master, Gre nada, of a son.—At Chatham, the lady of at—Colonel Paisley, Royal Engineers, of a son.—At Ebury-street, the lady of li. As. pain, Esq. of a son.—The wife of Alexat der Whitley, of Raines. county Fermanagh, of two girls and a boy, two of whom are likely to live, and with the mother, are doing well.--Wednesday s'en. night, a poor woman at Lane End, StebrdThire, of three sons; two died on Thursday.—At Latnbridge, the lady of the Rev. C. Paul, of a daughter.—Thursday, at Folly Lodge, the lady of Capt. Christian, of a daughter. IMut..Colonel Paisley, t, the lady of H. A. I Whitley, of Batsmen. two of whom are likely rell.— Wednesday s'en- khire, of three sons; to lady of the Rev. C. Age, the lady of Capt. youngest son of Wm. his, daughter of S. N. ntsday, John Humble Frederic Bream Glass. ;itina, only daughter of !lodge, Esq. of Anti. • of W. Hart, Esq. of c Madras army, to Ca. M. Egan, Esq.—At max artillery, to Frances, tort, S. H. Widdring- I, Capt. in the 53d te- le tat: T. Strickland, T. Proctor, M. A. to n, Esq. of Whitecross. rt. of Lissadell, Sligo. sergeant (toold. ney, late of the Bengal tf, Esq. of apoplexy.— )üblin, the Right Hon. , late Earl ct' ()monde, of Ormonde, and of t Weymouth, C. An. -11 n braid the Eden, ecoral son of Rear Ad. eleven days after kis vo- id the fever on board. ISKS, the eldest daughter t, in the Isle of Wight. n the civil service of the e.—Sunday night, after oungest daughter of J. square.—At ,Putton, at non, Esq. of Woking, Parker, formerly a gra. caving a numerous pro. I, Mr. John Maxwell rer known to be without .ran to an honest man, r mooing, Mrs. Rod- in endeavouring to save at Prospeet.plsee, hock, and the injuries previous, given birth to fate of her poor chit. she bad no idea they h, she expressed a great were quite well In the Ike. The children were on Sunday last, amidst ng is in a state of mind, aribe. Mann, at the *AA. :envie Bar. DIAItitIED. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Clement, youngest son of Wm. Wignay, Esq. of Brighton, to Haraitt S,)yllis, daughter of S. N. Cowley, Esq. of Heathfield, Surrey.—Ni'esintsday, John Kemble Chapman, to Miss A. Tree.—At Brighton, Frederic Bream Glass. poole, M. I). of that place. to Maria Georgians', only daughter of Colonel Macdonald.—At Edinburgh, L. L. Hodge, Esq. of Anti. gua, to Anne Elizabeth Hart, only daughter of W. Hart, Esq. of Madrae.—At Bath, R. W. Lang, Esq. of the Madras army, to Ca. roline Catherine, only daughter of the late M. Egan, Esq.—At Lyme Regis, S. S. Trevor, Esq. of the Madras artillery, to Frances, daughter of the Rev. J. Randolph.—At Amport, S. H. Widdring. ton. Esq. of Hauzley.hall, .Northumberland, Capt. in the 53d re giment, to Fanny Caroline, daughter of the late T. Strickland, Lsq. of Kendal.—At Ber wick, the Rev. W. Proctor, M. A. to Esther, fourth daughter of the late P. Dickson, Esq. of Whitccross. —At Dublin, Friday, Sir R. G. Bost+ Bart. of Lissadell, Sligo. to Caroline Susan, second daughter cf 3lr. Sergeant Goold. DI ED. At Cheltenham, Charles Cornwallis Chesney. late of the Bengal artillery.—At Shirehampton, Edward Sheriff, Esq. of apoplexy.— Saturday, at her house in Rutland-square, Dublin, the Right Hon. Anne, Countess of Ormoode, relict of John, late Earl ct' Ormonde, and mother of the late and present .Marquis of Ormonae, and of Hon. Charles Butler (Clar ke .) M. P.—At Weymouth, G An drews, Esq. late Master of the Ceretr.onies.—t In bond the Eden, at Fernando Po, W. Alexander (Marine, second son of Rear Ad miral Honyman, having fallen a victim in eleven days after his vo lunteering into that ship at the time she had the fever on board.— Sunday, after an illness of a few days, Clarissa, the eldest daughter of T. Penfold, Eaq. of Croydon.—At Norton, in the Isle of Wight. aged 76, William Michell, Esq. formerly in the civil service of the East India Company, and resident at Nagore.—Sunday night, after a few days illness, Blargaiet Evc Sophia, oungest daughter of J. Mitchell, Esq. of Charles -street, Berkeky-square.—At ,Purton, at the house of his son-ht-law, Samuel AVrightson, Eaq. of Woking, Surrey, in the Sikh year of his age-31r. Parker, formerly a gra. der, of Appleby, Leitxstershire, aged 90, leaving a numerous pro. geny.—At Tullyhubert, Moneyrea, aged 93, Mr. John Maxwell: comfortable In his circumstances, he was never known to be without geld in his house, never known to refuse a loan to an honest man, Ole lose a guinea by his kindness.—Sunday mooting, Mrs. Read. big, who was so severely burnt and injured in endeavouring to save ber dine children at the fire last week, at Prospect-place, Oki Droarpeee, expired from the effects of the shock, and the injuries she MI eastained, having, only a few hours previous, given birth a still-born female child. The melancholy fate of her then was kept quite secret front her, anti she bad no 16, Arteedead. A few minutes before her death, she expressed slab to see them, but wis informed they were quite ceitatry. These were the last words she spoke. Thee burled in one cofflet in Chelsea church-yard, on Sunday a large concourse of spectators. Mr. Reading is in a I from his severe afflictions, impossible to describe. Louse.: Printed and Published by Joni Mum, °trios No. 1, Piekett•piaye,Tempie Bar.