Star. — London, England, 1826-04-05 00:00:00

DEATH or CAPTAIN COOK AX OWfittiEL There are a number of persons at laavaroa, and other places in the islands, who either were present them selves at the unhappy dispute which in this vicinity terminated the valuable life of the celebrated Captain Cook, or who, from th..ir connection with those who were on the spot, are well acquainted with theparticu lars of that melancholy event. With many of them we have frequently conversed, and though their narratives differ in a few smaller points, they all agree in the main facts, .with the account published by Captain King, his successor. " Tne foreigner," they say, 0 was not to blame; for, in the-first instance, our people stole his boat ; and he, in order to recover it, desigited to take our King on board his ship, and detain him there till it should be re stored. Kapena Kuhe, and Taraiopou, our King, were walking together, towards the shore, when our people, conscious of what had been done, thronged round the King. and objected to his going any farther. His wife also joined her entreaties that he would not go on board the ships. While he was hesitating, a man cane running from the otlier side of the bay, entered the crowd almost breathless, and exclaimed, ' B is tear f—the I .reigners have commenced hosti;ities, have fired (Ala cart:: front one of their boats, and killed a chief."Th;s enraged some of our people, and alarmed the Chiefs, as they feared Captain Cook would kill the King. The people alined themselves with ston-s, clubs, and spears. Ka. nona entreated her husband not to go. All the Chiefs did the same. The King sat dowa. The Captain seemed agitated, and was walking towards the boat, when one of our men attacked him with a spear; he turned, and ith his double-barrelled gun, shot the man who struck him. Some of our people then threw stones at him, which being seen by his men, they fired on us. Capt. Cook then endeavoured to stop his men from firing, but could not, on account of the noise. He was turning again to speak to us, when he was stabbed in the back with a pahao; a spear was, at.the same time, driven through his body, he fell into the water, and spoke no more. _ _ ,1 After he was dead, we all wailed. His bones were separated—the flesh was scraped off and bsrnt, as was the practice in regard to our own Chiefs when they died. We thought he was the god Rono, worshipped him as such, and after his death reverenced his bones." Not only were his bones so treated, but almost every relic left with him. Among other things a aledge, which from their description of it, must have come from the north-west coast of America, left at the islands by Capt. Cook, or some of his companions, was afterwards wor shipped by the people. They called it, probably from its singular shape, Opaitauarii, crab or shrimp, for a Chief to rest on ; from opal, a crab or shrimp ; tau, to ro,t or sit ; and arii, a Chief. Many of the Chiefs frequently express the sorrow they feel whenever they think of the Captain ; and even the common people usually speak of these facts with apparent regret; yet they exonerate the King Taraiopon from all blame, as nothiny,. was done by his orders. I was once in a house in Oahu with Karaimoku, and se veral other Chiefs, looking over the plates in the folio edition of Cook's Voyages." They were greatly af fected with the print which represented his death, and inquired if I knew the names of those who were slain on that occasion. I perceived Kar.,imoku more than once wipe the tears from his eyes, while conversing about this m-lancholy event. He said, he recollected Captain Cook's visit, if not also his-person, though he was at Maui at the time of his death. More than once, when , conversing with us on the length of time the Mis sionaries had been on the Society Islands, they have said, " Why did you not come here sooner? Was it beause we killed Captain Cook?" We have sometimes asked them what inducement they had to steal the boat, when they possessed so many can , es of their own. • They have generally answe ei, that they did not take it to transport themselves from one island to another, for their own canoes were more, convenient, and they knew better how to manage them; but because they saw it was not sewed together, but fastened with nals. These they wanted, therefore stole the boat, and broke it to pieces the next day, in order to obtain the'nails to make fish-hooks with. We have every reason to beliese that this was the princiial, if not the only motive, by which they were actuated in committing the depredation which ultimately led to such unhappy consequences. They prize net's very ihig e hly; and though we do not know that they ever went so far an it endeavours to obtain a more abun .. . , #tsupply. as the Society Llanders did, who actually planted them in the ground, hoping they would grow 'like potatoes, or any other vegetable; yet suds is the value they still- set on them, that the fishermen would raih e er receive a. wrought nail, to make of it a fishhook according to their own taste, than the best English made fish-hock we could give them. • It has been supposed, that the circumstance of Cap lain dook i shones being separated, and Vie flesh taken fro n them, was evidence of a savage and unrelenting b:abatity ; but so far from this, it was the result of the highest respect they could spew him. We may also mention here t' e reason for %%Lich the remains of Captain Cook tecetve was the ease, the worship of a god. Among the Kings whi g'verned Hawaii during what may, in its chronology, be called •the fabulous age, was Itono, or Orono ; who, on some account, became offended wieh his wife, and murdered ha; but afterwards lamented the act so much as to induce a state of mental derangement. In this state he travelled through all the islands, boxing and wrest ling with every one he met. • _ He subsequently set sail in a singularly shaped canoe for Tahiti, or a foreign country. After his departure he was deified by his countrymen, and annual games of boxing and wrestling were instituted to his ho. sour. As soon as Captain Cook arrived, it was sup posed and reported, that the good Rono was returned; Levee the people prostrated themselves before him as he walked through the villages. But when, in the at tack made upon him, they saw his blood running, and heard his groans, they said, " No, this is not Rono." however, after his death, still supposed him to be Rono, and expected he would appear again. Some of his bones, his ribs, and breastbone. were considered sacred, as part of Rono, and deposited in a heiau (tem ple) dedicated to Rono, on the opposite side of the Island. There religious homage was paid to them, and from thence they were annually carried in procession to several other heiaus, or borne by the Priests round the island, to collect the offerings of the people, for the aepport of the worship of the god Rono. The bones were preserved in a small basket of wicker-Work, com pletely covered over with red feathers ; which in those days were considered to be the most valuable articles the natives possessed, es being sacred, and a necessary Appendage to every idol.—tikes Tear ire Uwhyhce. MIDDLESEX StSSIONS, Arm 4. ...emill. Them Sessions commenced with several cases of as. :auk, of no interest. 14 tlliaat Bureham was indicted for a misdemeanour, by intending to commit some bodily harm on the person of William Wond. Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS stated the case, and repre sented that the prosecutor was a very respectable MIN and 70 years of age. The defendant was a professional Gentleman, :4nd also very respectable.. The offence charged was, that by a letter written to the prosecu tor, by the defentlai.t, wherein he described him as a " dirty scoun drel," he intended to provoke him to fight a duel. After the case had been stated, Dlr. niacin conmlted with his client, and said, if Mr. Adolphus would say, as between Gentleman and Gentleman, that the defend ant had no intention to offend him, or to injure him, and had acted under a misrepresentation made to him, be would consent to with draw a Juror. Mr. Aooteuus did 30 to the full extent required, and a Juror was withdrawn. John Wallis was indicted for falsely imprisoning Martha Elizabeth Ritchie; and in a second indicment. with assaulting William Steadman Ritchie, her husband. The defendant went to the house of the pro:ecutor, and demanded of the wife, Ri she state-1, 7s. then .si. and then reducing his demand, step by step, till he came down to one penny; but she did not know what f. r; he then put a padlock on the door, and locked her in for half an hour. It turned out that 112 a+ as a collector o! taxes. The husband afterwards interfered, and som slight assault took place, as it was s aid. These were the offences Charged. The wife told her tale simply ; but the husband was very flipeant in his manner, and when asked by Mr. Anoimus, on his cross-examination, if he did not give the defendant a sound beating, the Learned Counsel intimating that he did so, he asked him " How do you know r Mr. Mauves shortly addressed the Jury, who found the de fendant " Guilty of the false imprisonment," and " Not Guilty of the assault." The CIUIRMAN fined hlm 131. 4d. and he was discharged. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS. George Riley, aged 26, was indicted for stealing a witch, the property of Andrew Titchbour no, mate of the New Darlington, of Stockton-upon-Tees, laying at Beales' Wharf, Tooley-street. The Captain of the vessel was awoke from sleep in his cabin, betv. een ore and two in the morning, and hearing some one breathing near him, leapt out of bed, and secured the prisoner while attempting to gain the deck, in who'e pocket the watch, wo.th 255. taken from thepresecutor's bed's head while sleeping, %%a< found. The prisoner made no defence, and was found guilty.—Seven years' transportation. Abraham Mears, and Anne his wife, were indicted for stealing six pieces of Irish linen, from Mr. It chard Stannury, of the Talbot Inn, in the Borough. The male prisoner bad been carman in Mr. Stacbury's employ for some years; and abstracted the property from a truss, ' sent down for conveyance to Brighton, from Messrs. Aldred's, Fish-street-hill, which the wife was employed to pawn. The Jury found the male prisoner Guilty, but acquitted the wife. The sentence of the Court was, that hebe transported for 14 years; when the wife uttered a shriek, and nearly fainted, and continued her cries round the lock up room fur a considerable time. Thomas .Thses was indicted, for stealing a silk handkerchief from the person of Joseph Thackragh, F:sq. hop-merchant, Tooley.street. Ths prisoner was detected in the fact, and was fouul Guilty, when the Ilicoanco, after telling him, that it was not his first at tempt by many, and that it was determined to clear the streets of such characters, sentenced him to transportation for life. Monday evening sennight a desperate riot took place in Thurles, between two factions, whg-are closely con nected by the ties of relationship, out air con•tantly seeking the destruction of each other. On the Police intel feting to prevent their murderous proceedings, they were assailed most furiously by the two parties,- and compel.ed to retreat to their tart racks. The rioters still pressing forward, and assailing them with eve: y de. scription of missiles until they were actually goaded to fire on them, which caused these disturbers of the peace very soon to disperse, but mat until two of them were shot dead, and many severely wounded. One of the wounded, a b ty of IS years of age, is beyond all hope of recovery, and the others are very danger ously wounded, from the che‘t of one of whom a bad was extracted.— Fourteen of the ringleaders are in cuttody. Friday, Thomas Shipman, and Mary his wife, living in the Barract-lane, Cnelmsfotd, at the instance of the Overseers, were brought befote the Magistrates at the Shire 11 sll, charged with having beaten, deprived of food, and otherwise shamefully and wantonly ill-treated their two infant children. The man was. specially charged with having neglected to apply a proper por tion of his earnings to the maintenance of his children, which had, in consequence, become actually charge able. The wife is the stepmother of the two children; she has one of her own, looking heathy and well fed, and she is far advanced with the second child. The ages of the abused children are slx and three. Tire infants were produced in Court ; the• exhibited *most ghastly and tkeleton like appearance, being little more than skin and bone. Great cruelty must have been exee cised towards them both, and the eldest in paiticular have shortly perished, but for the circumstances being di .closed by the neighbours. Several persons were examined, airily f. males, who spoke to having wit nessed the conduct of the father and stepmother: the latter, in addition to beating the children, putting them into tubs of cold water, and keeping them without food, had repeated so filthy an acr, that we can make use of no language to convey a further description of it.— Some of the witnesses attached as much blame to the man as to the woman, for his cruelty in tying them by the hands and legs, and for beating them. The eldest boy, on being asked which he liked best, his father or mother, declared heilid not like ' , none at all of them." Since these children have been in the poor-house, their Appetites have been most voracious, and th: re is alteady a visible appearance of improve:net t in both. So en. raged were the populace at the unnatural conduct of the prisoners, that it their persons had not been pro. tected, they would have been torn to pi:ces; and not. withstanding the gaol caravan was provided to c.nvey them to and from the prison, as a sevurity against popular fury, the constables had much difficulty in getting them in and out the vet cle, in the course of which the man received many insults. Ile is a labourer, but SO years of age; his earnings have been 10s. per week. They were both committed to take their trials at the ensuing Sessions, for assaulting and beating their children. The woman declared the charges to be all false, and that the whole originated in a con spiracy; but she did not attempt to account for the famine-like conditian of the children. On a Lady's entering the assembly room at York, Smut: asked bet same; be was tog it was a Mrs. Hasse ; on which be said, " be bad often hoard of Honor's choice, but he never saw it before." SPORTING IN"I'ELLIOgNCL TROTTING MATCH. Match betweeh Diadem and Mr. 11. A. Otbaidestnn's TlMi`st took place yesterday, from the 15th to the 25th tuiie-atone, ow tbe Egbant read. !Madan woe, performing the ten miles In a trot in 35 minutes. NORTHAMPTON, Aram 1. IMICHLET MONT RACKS. The re-establishment of these Races has commenced under the moat favourable auspices; the different Gentlemen in the vicinity have come forward in a ♦ery handsome and liberal manner, and their wishes have been met in a curs:•spoading ratio by the farmers in the neighbourhood. Our liace Course nn Monday was attended by such a numerous and respectable an assemblage as would not have disgraced the Autumn Races. Among the company we noticed the Noble Marquis of Northampton, who is at all times ready to unction with his presence and patronage any measure which may tend to the general interests of the town. Lord Lynedoch, several members of the noble family of Grafton, and nearly the whole of the Gentlemen in the neighbourhood. as well as many others from the respective hunts included in the racing articles, also honoured the meeting with their attendance. • The circumstance of the three prises being obtained by hnrses in the l'ytchley Hunt, will no doubt prove gratifying to Musters, whose attention to the business of the day, in conjunction with Mr. Payne, the High Sheriff of the county; must have met with the unqualified approbation o: every one present. Their polite atten tion, however, was afterwards extended to the 11.11 Room, where upwards of 200 Ladies and Centlenum assembled to enjoy the pleasure of dancing. cards, &c. and their urbanity and politeness was theme of conv,:rsation amoug the whole party. The company did not separate till a late hour. Mr. Iliggins !creed up a must excellent supper, in the same handsome style which he has so fre quently done on former occasions. . . 'Tuesday the Course %VAS ;It thronged as on Monday. Mr. Mus ters, willing to gratify all that lay in his power, had appointed his fox hounds to meet at that place • and we are certain that a similar field of fux- hunters nev e r attended the Pytchley bounds, nor pro bably any other pack, than met on Tuesday. Mr. Payne drove on the Course with his handsome stud of greys, four in band, having several gentlemen of the hunt in scarlet on the coach. Indeed the lout ensemble, the number of gentleman in scarlet, the splendour of the ladies, the vast'field of horsemen, from the Nobleman on his Arabian to the sweep on his Jerusalem, and the immense assem blage of pedestrians of every description, scattered over this ex tensive piece of ground, (117 acres), bad a very fine effect, when Mr. Musters rode upon the Course at the head of his hounds, at tended by his huntsman and whippers•in. The anxiety now was most intense, expectation was on the wing, and every one was asking for the fox—a bag fox; but after taking the hounds to toe front of the grand stand, they were ordered to Harliston Heath, and by far the greater part returned to their homes much pleased with the Pytchley Hunt Races. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-110USE. A boy name:l Sioke.t, of very respectable appearance and great antplicity of manner, neatly dressed in a braided jacket and trowsers, and a white hat, was charged with having been concerned in several of the robberies committed lately in the city. It ap peared by the statement of Brady, the street keeper, that the-buy, who does not appear to be more than twelve years of age, had been tried for robbery before. and punished in Newgate; and that all attempts to reform him had proved ineffectual. He had, on the present occasion, crept up the tops of several houses in Throg mottomstreet, until he reached one into which he succeeded in effecting an entrance. Ile found in the garrets only a few. silk handkerchiefs, which lie thought worthy of notice. Ile stowed them about .his person, and then moved to another house, and entered the ckandier of a young lady, where he pocketed all her trinkets. He, however, was interrupted, detected, and soon afterwards ap prehended on the top of a house by Brady, to whom he mentioned, with great simplicity, that he was merely looking fur his pigeons, and that he belonged to No. 13. • _ _ _ _ _ The Loan Mar - oa asked him where lie lived.—He replied, that he had lived with his mother until within the last three or four weeks, and that be had taken separate lod b -ins for himself in Petti coat•lane. The LORD MATOIL••••-11OR many of you lodge in that place ? I'tisoner—Why, let me see; there's four of us, but they are not of the trade I follow: they only beg. The Loan MAYOR—How long have you been at this trade of thieving ? Prisoner—Why, let me set; I 1111 about ten months, or thereabouts at it. The Lotto Mara—Were you not whipped in prison ? Primer —Ay, and well whipped too. The LORD Alit-mt.—And you still go on in the old way ? Pri-uner.—l ant juAt the same. The Loan 111avoa.— Where did you intend to go with what you stole? Prisoner.--That I cannot say. The LORD MAVOR.—I suppose you would have brought it to some place where you have sold property betore •' where is that? I'tbioner.-01t, that is somewhere about the I%linories ; as you go along you tutu to the right, and then to the left, and then you walk un till you come to a narrow lane, and then you walk into the next street, and you come to a man's house that sells things. This was the extent of the information given by the prisoner, who twisted his hat &lithe time he was speaking. The Loan Matron, in despair, ordered the unfortunate child to be remanded till Thursday. GUILDHALL Nennak Clarke, a female about :50 years of age, who formerly lived as servant with Mr. Sells)ley, the bookseller, in Paternoster row, wai charged with stealing a quantity of table and bed linen, plate, fize. Mr. Saoley stated, that he has a cottage at Da!stun, where the family reside in the summer months, and the prisoner having been with them three years, and possessing their full confi dence, was entrusted with the care of the house in town. Oa the 7th of November he informed her that her mistress would come from Masten for the season on the following day, and in the evening he went out to fetch home Mrs. S. who had dined with her father in the Minoties. Oat reachi:ig Paternoster-row at night, however, they found the pi isoner had absconded, and carried'off about 401. worth of property, and she could never be found until Monday evening, when a friend of Mr. Schuley's accidentally met her in llolhorti, and gave ►er into custody. About a week after she had run away, a purse was found among the shavings in one of the stoves, which contained the duplicates for the greater part of the property, which she had pawned in the neighbourhood. One of the pawnbrokers positively identified her person yesterday, as having pledged 15 articles between the months of April and November. Sir Jones Peening announced his determination to eommiCher, but she was again remanded. She appeared deeply affected, but offered no defence. I3OW-STREET. A yoking man named Gone Sidney Gilinsms, a biscuit baker, of Oxford -street, was brought up on a warrant, charged with a vio lent assault , upon an oilman of Drury-lane, named Wm. Moore. The complainant stated, that on Monday afternoon a person 'called at his shop in Drury-lane, and ordered a quantity of oil to be sent to the Minor Theatre, Catharine-street, Strand ; witness in the course of the etening sent the oil by a lad, with Orders not to leave it without the money. However, the youth, oa giving the message, was laughed at, and the oil taken from him and he was ordered to return to his master for two pounds of candles ' • on his return wit ness went himself to the Theatre, and inquired for Mr. Cooke, the :tame the person gave who ordered the oil; the defendant was acting as door-keeper, and oa his **Mg him his business witness was told to wait; this he did till near the hour of eleven o'clock, without being able to see any person who would pay him for his oil; at this hour be insisted upon seeing one of the principals of the establishment, and was about to enter the interior of the building, when about nine or ten perms, habited as petformersvattacked him, and the defendant was the most violent, having squck him several times in the face, and knocked him down the steps. The defendant gave quite a different account of the business, but Mr. HALL, ordered him to find bail for the assault, and advised the complainant to sue the proprietor of the Theatre, Mr. Cooke, for the amount of the oil, at the Court of Requests ; and observed, that be would make some inquiry into the establishment in question, as he apprehended it was a great nuisance in the vicinity where it was situated. A middle-aged man, of extremely respectable appearance, calling himself Win. Watkins, was on Monday evening charged on suspicion of robbing a gentleman named — Adams, of Towcester, Northamp tonshire, of a diamond pin. The prosecutor stated that he was going into the pit of the Add. phi Theatre, to witness Mr. Yates's performances that evening, when in the rush, as the doors opened, the prisoner (who was next to him) placed his arm across his breast, pressing him with some violence, and in a moment witness missed his shirt pin, which he had felt safe a minute or two before. He collared the prisoner, who attempted to get out of the house, and fought desperately to accomplish that object. It required the strength of several to secure him. (He is a very powerful looking man.) The prisoner was taken to the next publie-beuse to be searched, and in the ititerin the pie was picked up by two ladies. They were showing it, whet. a " gentientan l ' came up and said the °iset Wai tnown to hiin. he would take the pin to hint. Mr. Adams, however, never s...vr , the gentleman or the i in. . The prisoner deelared that he teas wrongly accused, and that Ws only reason for lighting was th:it he thought an attempt was being made to rob him of his watch, which he felt nearly drawn from his fob. In ansirer to some questions he said he was a sea-faring Man, and bad been several years in the service, of the East India Company, sailing to and from the Caps of Good Hope. He had been home .bout seven months. Sir R. Mauls ordered him to be brought up again yesterday. in the hope that the ladies who found the pin Might be forthcoming, but they were not, and be was again remanded until Thursday neat. He is not known to any of the officers. MARLBOROUGH-SMERT. One Barak Dawson was brought before the Magistrate yesterday; charged with having stolen a silver spoon from Inc father. Ther.: was nothing very surprising in that, perhaps, " 0 times go ;" but there WAS some little interest in this case, nevertheless, for the father is in his ninetieth year, and his daughter, Sarah, has ev.:r. threescore summers come and go, and still remains a !piaster; at , ' moreover the spoon she stole was the only one her father ever pas • timed, and it had been the pride of his little cupboard for n;,•:: tnan forty years. She had offered the spoon in pledge to 0:1•.• 1, Tines, a pawnbroker, and Mr. Tim suspected she hail nin.c4;..: • honestly by it—for Sarah is bet an uncleanly splutter, anti, at t.f‘ time of her offering it, she seas not remarkably Sobei.. op Tints took upon himself to titivitirin her about it, and she prevati. sited overnitich--somerintei eating it was her own, and then again saying she bad been tent tel pawn it ; and this prevarication can. firming 'Air. Tints's suspicions, he gave her into the i1a.3,11 of a con stable, who led her away to the watch-!souse, and there h. r courage for,csok her, and she confessed that she had Saiulisn it fromt her father's cupboard. The old man, bending beneath the weight of years, appeared before the Magistrate as the prosecutor of his ancient daughter.— ," She has been my housekeeper these thirty years," said he, " and she is a good wench enough, so long as she confines herself to one glass of gin at a time, but when she takes hoe she is wry incarnate." Another old man, a friend of theirs, corroborated - this; and went into a long comment upon poor Sarah's habits, by which it appeared that; like Tarn o'Shanter— " Wl' tipenny she fear'd no evil, " Wi suquebagla she'd face the tl.---l!" And n.oreover, he affirmed, that shy had not been " right sober" for the last fifteen days. Sarah, sexagenarian Sarah, had nothing at all to say in her de fence; for her dry lodging in the watch-house had reduced her spirits sadly. " Well, said Mr. Conaarr, the sitting Magistrate, " and do you mean to prosecute your daughter for taking away your spoon?" The old man hesitated—his daughter looked imploringly in his face—his ancient friend interceded in her behalf—and eventealle she was forgiven, upon her promising that, is future, she would never take more than one glass of gin at a time. LAMB] Yesterday, one of the Israelitish tribe, named Wolf Cohen, was brought up in custody of our of the 33ow•street patrol, charged bra simple.looking countryman with having swindled him out of £3 16s. The circumstances were these: The complainant, John Crow, was passit g along Sr. Nlary-axe, admiring, " as if," to use his own expression, " nothing was the matter," the different beautiful things in that honest par of the town, when his attention was attracted by two persons, one of whom was the prisoner, making a bargain for a watch. They disagreed about the price; and in consequence separated. On doing so, the confederate said that the prisoner Cohen should not have it even at :no. On this the prisoner came up to his Essex friend, and re quested hint to purchase it for him, saying, that he would give bins some shillirip for his trouble, at the same time describing it as a bar. gain, and that it went on jewels. The fiat was caught, and entered into a negotiation, which he shortly closed by giving .0 165. but, when he hoped to realise the benefit of his bargain, the prisoner had absconded, and was nowhere to be found. The prisoner, in defence, pleaded that the transaction had taken place in the City, and was in consequence transmitted thither for further tit .n►ination. UNION-HALL Yesterday morning a Gentleman gave information that while is the pit of Astiey's Amphitheatre the preceding night, he had been robbed of his brown Russia leather pocketbook, containing tie.: Exchequer Bills, value 1001. each, numbers 4,198, 4,199, 4,200, 4,201, 4,202, 4,203, 4,204, and 4,207, dated 27th September, 1825, besides a valuable gold watch, chain, and seals. He had seised the suspected person and endeavoured to detain him, but was obliged to Tiit his grasp, being beset by a strong party of men apparently belonging to the same gang. The Gentleman was then advised to have bills printed and circu lated, describing the robbery, and offering a reward fur the appre hension ofsthe thief; and also to apply at the Foreign-office, that if the Exchequer Bills were attempted to be negotiated on the Con tinent it might lead to a discovery. An errand cart was robbed on Monday evening, be tween Vauxhall-bridge and Kennington-cross, of linen of the value of SCI. the property of Judge BAYLEY. DEATH OF THE KING OF THE &Gomm—Sunday evening, Andrew Weden, a dwarf, of Great Guildford street, Southwark, who for some years had enjoyed the above royal title, departed this life under the following circumstances :—Andrew, who with the aid of his car- rage (a small cart), was not more than two feet high, and whose parson was very deformed, had been regaling himself in the City, as was his daily custom, and with great difficulty found his way to Blackfriars-bridge, where he was perceived by some coal-heavers, who pro posed taking him between them to his palace in a garret in Guildford-street. His majesty having stopped with his charitable conductors at a gin shop, drank so freely, that one of the party threw him over his shoulder, with his lead downwards, and conveyed him to his palace in that situation. When they arrived, and put down their load, it was found that Andrew was dead, the position in which he had been carried, and the quantity of spirits he hid drank, having produced suffocation. Me.lical assistance was procured, but too late, and the body of Andrew was put under lock and, key by the landlady of the house, to whom he was considerably indebted. The news of his maje.ty's death soon reached the hospitals, and a deputation arrived, proposing the sum of 1001. for his royal body. Mr. Gale, Beadle of Sr- S - _ay.; our's, having beard that the offer was likely to be accepted, went, whir a number of watchmen, and, possessing him self of the body by force, conveyed it to the watch. house, where a Coroner's Inquest will sit. Accounts from all the flock districts represent the lambing season as most prolific. Of one flock of 115, in Sussex, fifty yeaned twins. At Downturn Market, in Norfolk, six ewes of the Lincoln breed have pro duced nineteen lambs ; • and at Beaford, in Devon, seventeen ewes produced, in three successive days, forty two lambs. MARRIED. A few days shim, at Paris, Mr. Wakefield, brother to the person l whose adventure is now Wore the public, to Miss Sidney. seon. Algernon Percy gave the lady away. _ DIED. The !2d alt. at the Mount, Dickenson -street. Manchester, Mn. Sarah Richardson, widow, aged 101 years. She retained her sight and memory to the last. She was grand, great grand, and gnat great grandmother to 153 descendants, fifty of whom are now lining• WAILS—THIS DAT. alt. SOIL •VA , nu& Dublin 1 0 17ft/we 40 Waterford ' 1 0 Hantraarel 0 2 itiernsew sad Jersey 0 0 1 Flanders 0 0 ! i.drsoot 0 1 r Brazil - 0 0 Gottenburgb 0 1 Jamaica 1 0 alalta 0 0 I Leward Islands 0, 0 HoUani 0 0 Buenos Ares 0 0 . ___ aIGH- W ATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 17 minutes after 1 Afternoon • 59 minutes after 1 ' <mous . 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