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n SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LITERATURE. THE FOREIGN REVIEW AND CONTINENTAL MISCELLANY. IiT.ACE. TOMS awn TOVNG• The Members of the new Phrenological Society, who meet .ornewl,ere in the Strand, would do well to dip into tier first Article in the last Number of the Forrign Re • ;Pte. An attentive perusal of this valuable Essay would, in ail likelihood. save them a great deal of trouble. We cannot resist the strong temptation of quoting a brief passage of it ; and to give a helping hand in consigning this monstrous system of philosophy to the " tomb of all the Capulets :" " Every head possesses the development of several organs—a priori, we are unacquainted with the offices of any one ; how is it possible, then, to appropriate tither to a particular faculty and fix its peculiar office ? We may call that amativeness which is self esteem, that secretiveneu which is benevolence. Nor will the co incidence of the organ with the character avail of itself ; for it is the combination of the different faculties and their relative activity which determine the particular characters of individuals. Bene volence may correet secretiveness, amativeness. self-esteem. We are to strike the balance between the whole, and compare the re sult with what we know of the character of the individual. Now phrenologists confess, that if an unusual combination presents itself, the phrenologist will draw inferences not corresponding with the dispositions in nature, from not having had an opportunity of ascertaining the effect of such co mbinations in nature. Wen! no two skulls are alike—no two characters are alike. Almost every meta physician is competent to make the latter assertion ; the for mer position (though we know not how it is to be proved) must be held by the phrenologist, and, we believe, is. If it be not held, the theory is refuted by the want of correspondence with that ge tieral fact. Every combination must, therefore, be unusual. — Every man has his particular identity ; he is himself alone, and not another. So of his character—the influences which compose cha racter are differently combined in every different man. Thus,then, every individual development stands apart ; it is a fragment from the system ; it remains an isolated fact, and forms no portion of a general truth. The difficulty, therefore, of predicating the cha racter of an individual from his cerebral development is very great; but it is increased, when we recollect that it is only upon the examination of all the organs that the character can be esti mated ; for one compensates another, and this counteracts that. Now this is a requisition which it is impossible to fulfil. There are several portions of the brain, particularly at the base, the develop :nents of which are not ascertainable during life, of which pans, .ay the phrenologists, the functions remain to be discovered. In striking the balance, are not these to be taken into account? The convolutions of the brain ate not confined to its external surface ; hut there remains still a region for them to map out! Who knows what developments may here have taken place ? May these not have produced combinations which would materially alter the result ? ' There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' " Ay, and in the lobes of the brain too ;—ay, and with all your knowledge too of its structure, Doctors Gall and Spurzheim ; • What we know of the brain,' observes Richerand, ' serves only to spew us that we are ignorant of much more.' And those parts of which we are ignorant, would probably produce such disagree ments between the estimate of the phrenologist and the identity of the mental manifestations, as would puzzle the most sagacious dis criminator of character and the correctest handler of the human skull ; nay, the most accurate anatomist of the human brain." Towards the conclusion of this article, we have the following amusing but sound opinions in further illustra tion of the gross absurdities of the new philosophy: " Nothing may be more easily manufactured than coincidences. We once heard a Swedenborgian argue for the divine authenticity of their founder's new revelation upon the ground of a favourite coincidence. The inscription upon the Cross was written in He brew and Greek and Latin ; now, the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, the new in Greek, and Swedenborg's in Latin. Here was a coincidence. For what purpose could the inscription be written in these three languages, but to typify the three revels- Salons given to the world? Two are acknowledged,—and the third is proved by this most surprising and extraordinary coinci dence Away with such gross attempts at imposition upon super stitious and gaping credulity ! " Even so it is, throughout the whole phrenological contest ; we meet with nothing else but coincidences which prove nothing, far many other things are coincident, besides the shape of the skull, in the human frame, with the individual character. ' Chirontancy, or the inference of the character from the shape of the hand,' says Mr. Hamilton,' once possessed a very exalted reputation ; and long before the tricks of palmistry were played off by the impostor, grey-beard philosophers sifted intellects by shaking hands. And our contemporary, Dr. Haslam, thinks that idiots have a peculiar construction of hand, ' the sentient extremities being lest pulpy and expanded.' Indeed, so wonderful is the mechanism of the human band—so surprising its powers, that some philosophers have erroneously considered that in it consisted the superiority of man over the brute. But with these peculiarities of structure a multitude of other phenomena are always associated—these must be taken into account, and the connection clearly 'culminated between structure and its final cause, before a conclusion is pos sible.' Phrenologists have failed to show this connexion between the form of the cranium and the character of the mind—and now Mr. Stone has undeniably proved its want even of coincidence : I tell you once again, —that, at my birth, The font of Heaven was full of fiery shapes; The goats ran irons the mountains, and the herds Were strangely clamorous to the ftighted fields— These signs have marked me extraordinary.' Ii the phrenologists should thus, like Glendower, persist in answering us, we can only reply in the words of Hotspur— ' We think there are no men who speak better Welsh; And perhaps we may be tempted to advise them in addition, to Tell truth, and shame the devil.' Ben Jonton, also, in his Alchemist, has well exposed the ab• surdity of belief in mere coincidences— . Where have you greater atheists than your cooks? Or more prophane. or choleric, than your giaumen? More antiehrittian than your bell-founders? \\that makes the devil so devilish. I would ask you, Sathan, our common enemy, but his being Pee petually about the fire, and toiling Brimstone and arsenick ?' " Such absurdities, however, sometime', are not without their use. The i•eliet in Alchemy, by the experiments which it induced, led to important chemical discoveries. The anxiety of the two founders of Phrenology to demonstrate that we think with our brains, and cannot think without them, by leading them to dissect the brain, has caused them to make some laudable discoveries relative to the wrvous system. For these discoveries they deserve much credit, but they go not even to prove that the brain is the organ of the mind. They, indeed, leave this great question where it was left by the ancients, and it does not appear that any satisfactory solution of it is possible. Indeed it is our opinion that any attempt to locate the mind at sills false philosophy. " We Are told that • Dr. GA LL was himself so deficient in what are fancifully called the Organs of Form and Lacatitir, as not to recognize the persons who sat next to Lint at dinner, aftdr they had risen from the table, or the places which he had frequently visited. Yet he was the founder of a system which depends on the form and con figuration of the brain, and the situation of its different convolutions. Thus, the founder himself was all along a living exception to the doctrines which he travelled from land to land to promulgate and enforce. Never, surely, was there such another instance of self-delusion !P. ! Phrenology. The Dev ILLE of the Strand and all his Angels of the Phrenological Society, with (;EORG E Coots nu to boot': shall never conviuce us that ‘. • there is a particle of sensenses at a ship's load of their Cranio logical speculations. , Did our limits permit it, we should have much plea sure um4dification in quoting largely from . ois nwnber of the Foreign Remetv now before us. It is, replete with interesting. and Useful matter. Among other Articles, 0 u in n) EN x L's ilimoires—from which we gave a variety of extracts mate weeks ago—holds a*prominent place. We have likewise a number' of valuable, papers on the • trench Drains, Modern Italian COmedy, Political Eco nomy, and on the United States of America. In this last essay there is a Biographical Notice of President and General JACKSON, which cannot fail to interest the reader. SWAFFHAM COURSING MEETING, Nov. 10. In consequence of the absence of some o f the p tioci p al members of the Swaffbam Club, the number of dogs was not so great as In some former years. The morning being remarkably fine there was a great deal of cOnapany in the Weimar Field when the day's Coursing commenced: The sport was excellent, the bares being strong, and the dogs in prime condition. The Bails on Wednesday and Friday evenings are expected to be fully attended by the Nobility and Gentry of the neighbourhood. The following is an account of the sport : 70/1 THE COP. Lord Stradbroke's bl. b. Mouse beat Mr. Wilkinson's TA b. Clara. Mr. Caldwell's bl. b. Ruby beat Mr. Ewen's bl. d. Jupiter. Mr. Chute's r. d. Hotspur beat Mr. R. Hamund's bl. and w. 1. Quality. Mr. Redhead's r. b. Lara beat Mr. Young's Dr. d. Vesper. Mr. Gurdon's hi. d. Snowball beat Tyssen's wh. b. p. Gossamer. Mr. Buekworth's M. and w. b. Brief beat Col. Wilson's bl. and w.b. Novice. -.- - VIM MIMI MATCHEL Mr. Buckworth's bl d p Barber sgst Mr. Cbute's bl and sv d p Hornet, undecided Mr. Wilkinson's bl b Cassina agst Lord Stradbroke's r d Maho. met—no course Mr. Redbead's bl d p Lightfoot beat Mr. Gurdoti's blue d p Stanky Mr. Tyuen's bi b p Giraffe beat Mr. Chute's bl and w d p Hawke Mr. Gurdon's bl and w d p Sepoy beat Mr. Redhead's f d p Leech Mr. Caldwell's bl b Rarity beat Mr. R. Hantond's bl and w b Queen Mr. Buckworth's r d Brickdust beat Mr. Hamond's bl d Quaker Mr. Ewen's r d Jasper beat Mr. Tyssen's bl d Ganymede WISTACKZ BWRIPITAICIS FOIL PUMP. Mr. Wilkinson's blued p Claret beat Mr. Tyssen's bl p Gazelle Mr. IL Hatnond's bl d p Quicksilver beat Mr. Gurdon's r d p So vereign SECOND CLASS MATCHES. Mr. Wilkinson's r b , p Clay apt Mr. Gurdon's f b p Sontag—un decided Mr. Redbead's bl d p Lofty agst Mr. Buckworth's blue d p Ba chelor—undecided Mr. It. Hamond's r s J Quietus beat Mr. Gurdon's d p Soldier. that the defendants had been taken by surprise, a witness named Avon having been examined, contradicting the testimony of Mr. Hunt after be bad left the Court, and with whom he was not as quainted, either by name or appearance. Lord Tuscan's, thought it would be a very dangerous prac tice to grant a rule in such an instance. u the question of credit, to the testimony of Avon and Hunt had been left to the Jury. and they had decided to which party they ought to give credit. Rule refused. ----- LLOYD I ALDfitn. Mr. PLATT said he bad to apply fora rule Nisi in this case, which came before the Court undefended. The action was brought to recover the possession of a necklace, which the wit nesses at the trial swore the Plaintiff became possessed of by a curious stratagem. They stated that the Plaintiff went to the Defendant's house, and she was so eager to see the articles he bad for sale, tbat she desired him to be introduced to her in the bed room, and he actually saw her io bed. She then selected the necklace in question, and said abe must show it to a friend. She then put it under the bell-clothes, and he was too delicate a man to interfere with them to obtain possession of it again. lie (Mr. Platt) held an affidavit of the Lady, who was now married, which stated that she sold a dressing-case to the Plaintiff for £OO, and that when She bought the necklace she stated that she would pay him the difference, which he at first demurred to, but af terwards went away, and she did not he ar an y thing about him until he brought this action, when she employed an Attorney to defend it, and paid him money on accou nt, but that, through his neglect. it bad been tried as an undefended cause, a verdict bad been obtained against her, and she did not even know that it had been tried until she saw an account of it in the newspaper.—Rule granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—Nov. 11. On entering the Court, the Loan Curer Justice stated to the Bar, that a question hid been raised in this and the other Courts, whether leaseholders were eligible as bail. The Judges had con ferred together upon the subject, and decided that they were not ; and therefore none but householders or freeholders would in future be accepted. LIIPIRIAL DISTILLERY CONPARY—NONTITILI V. DUNSTAN. Mr. Sergeant TARDY (for some of the defendants) said, that as this case was similar to the one of " Fox v. Clinton," which came before their Lordships yesterday, be would not fully enter into its merits. The only difference was, that the parties dis posed of tea shares in this Company in 1823, and a question had arisen, whether a stamp was necessary to the contract in this tran saction. According to the opinion of Lord Tenterden and Mr. Justice Littledale, in two similar cases, it was not, as these were merely transfers. The rule for a new trial was therefore granted. LLOYD v. WIGNRY AND OURS. Mr. Sergeant Wane (for the Defendants) applied for a rule to show cause why the verdict in this case, which was an action tried during the Sussex Assizes before Mr. Justice Duette, should not be set aside, and either a nonsisit or a new trial granted. The action arose out of the formation of a sewer, in Ship-street, Brighton. and the Plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the New Ship Inn, sought compensation for injury done to his premises, for which a verdict for £lOO bad been given. Rule to show cause granted. The Court was occupied the whole of the morning in bearing applications for new trials. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Nov. lt. The LORD CNIEY BARON at in Equity this morning. sown v. WILLIAMS. This case stood in the paper for judgment. His Lordship, after going into a detail of the extraordinary litigation between the parties, said he could not satisfy his mind to pronounce a final judgment, until the cause had been again referred to the Master ; such had been the obstinacy on all sides, such had been the difficulties, perplexities, and labyrinths, into which the question in dispute had been brought, that, in its present state, it was im possible fur any Judge to decide with satisfaction to himself. Now (said his Lordship) I know it will be said this proceeding will cause another delay, and the Court will be censured ; but it is not the fault of the Court ; it is the fault of the parties. It is now twenty years since the bill was filed. Mr. War.xaa—No, my Lord, only fourteen years. CHIli BARON—WeII. never mind, say fourteen years, the whole of which time has been attended with ruinous expense, and the case now presents much greater difficulty than it did at its com mencement; and I again say it is not the fault of the Court, but of the parties themselves, for at the outset it might have been settled by a mutual friend in two days. His Lordship concluded by say ing, In justice to those who presided at the Equity Courts, he felt bound to state thus much. ARCHES' COURT, Nov. tI. This morning the Court sat—Sir Joint Nicnott. presiding. SIiAC ZZZZZZ In this case Dr. Lcsiancreon prayed for further delay, as time had not been afforded to receive answers from Paris to Mamie lions sent to one of the parties.—Case postponed. LIVING V. LIVING. The Court was prayed for further time, in order that the requi. shim might he received. Sir J. Nicoott said there really must be an end to any further delay in this case. The Court was informed, that by the Hamburgh steam•bost now sine, an answer was expected. After some short consultation, Sir JOIIN SICHOLL ordered the case to stand over till next Court day. There was no case of interest on the paper and the Court adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Thomas Holkck, a drover's assistant, was charged with stealing a sheep on the Sd instant. Thomas rroctor, a master drover, stated, that latterly two or three sheep per month had beta stolen from him, and he be lieved other masters were suffering as severely. The prisoner bad been in his service a consid.rable time, and on Monday se'nnight he left him in charge of a number of sheep, one of which was missed upon taking them our of his charge. Henry Simmous, in the employ of Mr. Giannelli, an image maker, in Cock-lane, said the prisoner was standing in the lase with a drove of sheep, on the day named, and put a sheep into Mr. Gianntili's yard. saying he bad perviously obtained leave to do so. It was marked down the face and nose with red-ochre. Another lad proved that the prisoner and another man fetched the sheep away, after dusk, the same day. Proctor said the sheep stolen was marked in the way described by the witness. The prisoner stated that the sheep he had left at Giannelli's bad strayed into the Soak, and was claimed afterwards Dy the owner. whose name or residence he did nut know. Mr. Alderman Warrassatr committed him for trial. BOW-STREET. The Police Officer, No. 74, was charged with having suffered a person who had been given into his custody on a charge of felony to escape. It appeared that a clerk in she employment of Mr. Hantiltoo, solicitor, of Southampton-street, Strand. had embezzled his master's property to a considerable amount, and had abwonded. A warrant was taken out at Bow street Office for his apprehen sion. and it was intrusted to Taunton jun. to execute it. He in formed the clerks of Mr. Hamilton that if they should see the of fender, they should give him into the custody of the lest police constable they could meet with. Yesterday morning two of Mr. Hamilton's clerks met the accused in Holborn, and gave him into the custody of Police Constable, No. 74, and at the sante time told him that Taunton held a warrant against him. The police constable stated that the prisoner requested him to allow him to leave a bundle at his father's house in Brownlow-street, Drury. lane, and told him that be was only in custody for an assault. He accompanied him to his father's house, and they entered a front room. The prisoner said that be had something to say to his fa ther in private. and they went into a bac k room. The father closed the door. In a few minutes afterwards the father came out and said that his eon bad escaped out of a back window. Mr. Haus asked if the father of the young man was present ? The officer said that he was, and brought the old man forward. who said that he did not know that his son was in custody on a , criminal charge. He supposed that his son had been arrested for debt, and connived at his escape, as every father would have door. Mr. Haus said he should look to the officer for the re-appre hension of the prisoner. and that be should not detain the father, who had acted from strong parental feelings. Mr Thomas, the Superintendent of the Police of the Districts said that if the Police Officer did not re-take the man who bad escaped, he should report his conduct to the Commissioner of Police. Mr. Hams advised the officer to do his best to apprehend the man whom he had allowed to escape. Pieria Papas, an old bald.lseaded man.. and Anse Pros, the father and daughter-is.lm of the boxer of that name s wbeitas recently transported for life for manslaughter, were charged with traitorously having in their posse a number of moulds.' flit the portals , of manufacturing base oohs. • The pollee. in consequence of information, went to a house in Chortle-street, fit. Giles's, where. in a room on the drat deer, oc cupied hy the prisoner. % they found several moulds foe casting shit-1 bum sad all tbe other apparatus usal,in Illegal coining. • ' • prisoners denied die sharp generally. and were remaoded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Learns was charged with the following robbery : Mr. John Normal, a gentleman recesitly arrived from Sigaer. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 11. meson sr. SAM The Loan CIIANCILLOR stated that he had read the bill and an swer upon which the Vice-Chancellor had granted an injunction. The order directing the injunction had been drawn up in a form different from the manner in which the injunction had been granted. The order was in terms that the Vice-Chancellor never could have directed, and which the Plaintiff, who was a Solicitor, ought to have known. Not only did his honour not make such an order, but no application was in Court on which such an order could have been made. An application was subsequently preferred to the Court below for the purpose of having the order set aside, which the Vice-Chancellor complied with, making the Plaintiff pay the costs. The present was an appeal from the last proceed ing, and upon the whole of the documents on which the Vice- Chancellor bad acted, his Lordship was of opinion that he had pro ceeded with perfect accuracy. The petition further prayed that a new injunction might be directed, but the case appeared to be so suspicious, there seemed so much appearance of fraud and trickery throughout, that the Court could not feel justified In interfering in the case at all at the instance of the Plaintiff. Under these circumstances the appeal was dismissed, the costs to be costs in the cause. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 11. JUDGMENT—MOTLEY V. DR CLOD'S& The VIIII•CHANCILLOR, this morning, gave judgment in this rase, which involved questions under the will of Mr. Philip Astley, late proprietor of the Amphitheatre. which still bears his name. The testator bad given annuities to his nieces of £52 a year each. and other legacies to the De Clieves, under certain contingencies. The questions raised by the biU were—first, whether the annuities to the nieces ceased upon the death of the son of the testator with. out children ; next, if they did not cease, whether they took for life only ; and the last question was, whether the gift over to the De Clieves was void. His Honour, after going at some length into the will, stated it as his opinion that the annuities given to the nieces did not cease upon the event that bad happened, that they took only life interests, and that the gifts to the Dr Clieves was void. The testator, at the time of his death, was in poiset,ion of certain leaseholds in Lambeth ; the interest in which his Honour considered was taken by the persons who took iu sixteenths under the will. The Court considered the next of kin, at the death of the testator, entitled to the residue, by whom also the costs must be paid. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—Nov. 11. LADY GRIOLDY. Mr. PLATY applied to the Court to enlarge the time for bringing up Lady Gresley to be discharged under the Lords' Act. Notice had been served on her Lady.hip that she would he brought up to morrow. The object in applying for enlargement of the time, was to afford Lady Gresley an opportunity of entering into a composi tion with her creditors. Mr. MOST, on the part of a detaining creditor, said his client would not object to the enlargement, but be submitted whether, under the provisions of the Lords' Act. the Court could accede to the proposition. The Act required the party to be brought up within the first six days of Term. Lord Tionesosz intimated that additional time hod been allowed in similar cases. Mr. Bosse said, when Lady Gresley came into Court, any indul gence which the Court might think proper could be allowed. Lord TINTIRDRN then observed, that no indulgence could be [ granted until Lady Gresley came into Court. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. ANDREWS moved to file a criminal information against the defendant, for the publication of an alleged libel in the Hombre don Goortge. of which he is the publisher and proprietor. The publi cation imputed to the prosecutor corrupt and partial conduct in the selection of a Jury to try a Corporation question. The motion was made on the affidavit of Mr. Manic, the Town Clerk of Hun tingdon, which stated that sonic disputes had arisen with respect to right of common belonging to the borough, In order to try the question between the parties a cow was driven upon the land, sub ject to litigation. Those who opposed the commoners drove her off to the pound, where she remained. Some violence ensued. and several of the Corporation party were indicted. at the Sessions, when the Bill was thrown out. It was with reference to the latter proceeding that the libel was published. Mr. Maule, whose duty it was to summon a Jury. was charged with partiality in his selec tion of Jurors. The panel was described as consisting of noto rious adherents of the Corporation, and persons who had a direct interest in the quarrel. Mr. Mauls, in his affidavit, denied an In tention to return improrr Jurors. The Court granted a rule to show cause. SWAYNZ V. INGILIST, DART This was an action brought by the indorsee of a bill against the defendant, one of the Directors of the Potosi Mining Association, to tecover the amount of a bill of exchange for ,E 142, drawn by one of the miners sent to America by the Company, accepted by their clerk, and made payable at their office. This cease was tried at the last sittings at Guildhall, when the plaintiff was nonsuited, as the presentment at the office of the Company could not be proved. Mr. GUMMY now applied for a rule to chew cause why the non sult should not be set aside. and a new trial granted, on the ground that the bill bad been presented at the office of the Company, and the notary had been reterred to the office of Mr. Gregson, the de fendant's attorney; but on the trial the special presentment could not be proved. He held an affidavit of this fact, made by the no tary who presented the bill at the office ; ;.nd under these circum stances he hoped the Court would grant a rule, on the payment of the costs of the trial.—Rule granted. 11011111111 v. WOOD. This was an action of prohibition tided at the last Assizes at Shrewsbury, before Mr. Sergeant TATIODY. when a verdict wan re turned for the Defendant. The object of this action was to try whether or not the City of Chester was from time immemorial part of the County Palatine of Chester, and within the jurisdiction of the Court of Great Session of the County. The Court was going to try the right of the Plaintiff to a situation in the Corporation of that Town, and it was therefore important to decide whether it had jurisdiction in matters relating to the corporate affairs of the town. Mt. Tamen now moved for a rule to 'hew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, on two grounds; first, because the Le arned Sergeant who tried the cause had Improperly admitted evidence adduced by the defendant ,• and, secondly, because he had rejected a roll of the sth and 6th of Ed ward 111. which be ( Mr. Taunton) contended ought to have been received, as it was the best evidence of the document that could bo produced..—Rule granted. Mr. TAUNTON observed, that there was another case relating to the jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer, which had stood over until this case was decided ; be Wiped the Court would permit that case to stand over again until the rule was disposed of.' The Court assented. a/misuse D. costar Aim omens. Mr. Dumas applied for a rule to *bow awe why the Varna* which was for the plaintiff, should not be set aside and s new ilia granted. This was an action on a bill of exchange, accepted by she defendants, and drawn by Mr. 1.. Hunt. The skips* to the action was, that the plaintiff had obtained the bill for an suirises i consideration. The Learned Counsel said, he moved on dos ground setshlre. stated that en Tuesday he dined at the borne of a friend in Edward-street, Portman-square. He was returning home about twelve o'clock at night, and at the corner of High-street, Sc. Giles. he called a crock, finding the wine he had drank had taken so powerful an effect on him that be amid not walk home. The pri soner, without any invitation, got into the coach with him. At that time he had eleven sovereigns in his waistcoat pocket, but when the mach stopped his money was gone. He then gave the prisoser in charge to an officer. George Green, the coachmen, stated, that when the prosecutor got out of the coach. he said tubed no 'ropey to pay the fare—the prisoner said be bad name either, but offered to give witness his watch. The prosecutor then said he bad been robbed, and gave the prisoner in charge. Bond, an officer, stated that he had searched the prisoner at the watchbouse, and found eleven sovere gut and the prosecutor's spec tacles, in his coat pocket. The prisoner in his defence. said the tunny was his own, and denied all knowledge of the spectacles.—He was fully commit:ed for trial. Mr. Henry Rawlins, a young man of fashionable appearance and respectable connections, was yesterday finally examined at Wt. Office and discharged, upon the charge of having committed a fraud upon Mr. Robert White, of Jermyn-street. St. James's. MARY-LA-BONNE. - - - Joseph Pneell, a hackney-coach driver, was yesterday placed at the bar before the presiding Magistrate, J. Ramansoo, Esq. charged with stealing a valuable gold watch and appendages, toge ther with some silver, from the person of a gentleman of fortune, residing at present at the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly. The prosecutor stated that at half-past eleven on Saturday night he got into the prisoner's hackney chariot, at the Tavistock Hotel, Covent garden, and desired him to drive to the Gloucester Coffee house, Piccadilly. Soon after getting into the coach the prose .eutor fell asleep (having walked a considerable distance in the cootie of the day, and having also partaken slightly of wine), and • was awaked at the door of the Gloucester Coffee-house by the psi - goner shaking him. He immediately roused himself, and on putting his hand in his waistcoat pocket discovered that his money was gone ; he also missed his watch, which had been cut from the guard. The prosecutor immediately charged the watchman with having robbed hint ; he however, replied with greet nonchalance." Oh, no, , I hav'nt ;it must have bees that woman you took up." The pro secutor replied, that he had no female whatever in the coach. The prisoner retorted by remarking, " Oh, yes, and you took her to Portland-place, where she left you." On the prosecutor again de nying this the prisoner said he could show him the house. A po liceman was immediately sent for, and they got into the chariot again; but on arriving at Portland-place the prisoner had for gotten the house. Being then searched, and the articles not being found upon him, he was liberated, but was within a few hours af terwards apprehended on a warrant, charging him with stealing a box coat. Mr. Smith, the principal waiter at the Gloucester Coffee-house, corroborated the Gentleman's statement in part, particularly as to the coachman having said that he knew the house where the Gen tleman had gone with the lady in Portland.place. . Mr. Ramat:son enquired what the prisoner had to say ? Mr. BURGOS, who attended as Solicitor for the prisoner, said that be had a witness who could prove that he (the pruner) drove a chariot, but always a coach, and also that the Gentleman old take in a lady in Coventry-street, Haymarket. Mr. Ramnison remarked. that by the late Act of Parliament he wss hound to send to the Old Baily the statement of a witness called for the prisoner, together with the depositions of the witness for the prosecution. He merely mentioned this by way of infor mation, and nut as advice; but in his opinion the prisoner ought to enter into some defence before he called witnesses. Mr. Buttons replied that he would call the witness to speak for the defence. Mr. Ramasson acquiesced, and the witness was called. Michael Fowler, a hackney coachman, said that he saw the Gentleman take up a lady in Coventry-street, and that the pri soner always drove a coach. Examined by Mr. RAWLINION—He always does drive a coach; he drove a coach that night ; that is, let me see, I think he did ; I wouldn't be certain.—(After a moment's pause )—Oh yes, it was a coach. Mr. Rawtitssoo remarked that the witness was intoxicated, which afterwards appeared to be the case, and he was ordered out of the Office.—The prisoner was committed for trial. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday, Robert Han Chid was brought up in custody by the placers of the King's Bench prison, where a detainer had been lodged against him, on suspicion of his being a deserter front the 9th regiment of Lancers. A letter having been received from the regiment, which was stationed at Nottingham, confirming the statement that the prisoner was a deserter, he was sent to Tot hill fields prison. TOWN HALL. Yesterday, Ann Bennett was charged with robbing Mrs. Har riet Hawkins of five sovereigns. The prosecutrix bad gone to Sadler's Wells to pay her rent, and there met with the prisoner, whom she hired as her servant, at the rate of ss. per week. They returned home in a coach to Mrs. H's rmidence, in Johnson's-buildings, Westminster-road. She lay down on a sofa and fell asleep, having the live sovereigns loose in her pocket, and three in a purse. On awakening, she 11+w the pri soner quit the room, and immediately missed her five sovereigns , the prisoner quitted the house, and was taken by an Officer, but no money was found upon her. The prisoner was then fully committed for trial. Wednesday morning last, Captain Dilke, Strathgarve, shot sale brace of grouse—an extraordinary feat at this advanced period of the year, and considering the wetness of the moors. SNRIOUS ACC I DEN T.--Yesterday morning, about &Ur o'clock, as Clements, one of the New Police, was passing through Great Pulteney-street, he discovered a Gentleman lying on the pavement, with no other covering than his shirt, and bleeding pro fusely. The window under which he lay was wide open. The officer immediately alarmed the inmates of the house, and procured the assistance cf Mr. Childcoat, a Surgeon. It appears that the Gentleman,whose name is Price, is a surgeon ; he bad been spend ing the evening with a friend, and they both returned home toge ther about three o'clock in the morning, in a state of intoxication. Mr. Price went to bed, but afterwards got up, threw open the window, and jumped out. Ile feU first on the iron railings, am' one of the spikes entered the leshy part of his arm, and lacerated it in a dreadful manner. His head was very much injured, and his body was bruised all over. He was afterwards placed in u bed, and Mr. Chilcoat dressed his wounds, but they are of so seri ous a nature that but little hopes are entertained of his recovery. A HIGHWAYMAN.—A toll-keeper lived in Dumbar tonshire, not many years since, who did not trouble himself ab3ut •the march of intellect," and bad never read " Cook's Complete Letter-*rite=." He bad occasion once to write to the Contractor far repairing the road, and when he had finished his billet, be ad dressed it thus—" To Mr. Duncan Cameron, iiighwaymen, Ren ton !"—Glinkow Herald. MARRIED. At Massooree, Bengal, on the 10th of April last, Major John Low, political agent for the Governor-General, to Augusta, second daughter of the late John Shakespeare, Esq. Secretary to Govern ment, Calcutta. DIED. At Round Haugh, Mr. John Leyden, father f the celebrated Dr. John Leyden, aged U. At Ayr, Mr. Hugh Donaldson. merchant, iced Mr. James Duncan, farmer in Palmerston, near Ochiluet, in the 71Ith year of his age, leaving a wik to whom he has been mar ried SS years. They bad seven children. 51 grandchildren, and 21 great-graedchUdren ! At Edinburgh, aged 27 years, of a lingering decline, Mrs. Jones. wife of Mr. Jones , late of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh , and, in the same hour, after a few days illness, their intint son, Richard Alexander, aged eight months. At Edinburgh, Miss Elisabeth Broughton, daughter of the late Henry Broughton, Bag. Collector of Excise. The Hon. Eric Geroge Midair. Royal Navy, fifth son of the late Earl of Caithness, in the itSth year of his age. He had early formed a predilection for the Navy, and his promig talents and conduct In his profession led to hopes of the proudest termination. He bore with a noble spirit and Christian fortitude an illness brought on by his services in hot climates, and was suddenly carried trilby inflam mation, whilst on a visit to his friend, Temple Sinclair, Esq. of Lybster, in the county of Caithness, on the 26th day of Sept. IS2II. The undisguised regret of his friends best speaks the valve sad esteem in which he was held. Monday last, Eugenia' Roche, Eaq editor of the Courier news paper. Mr. Roche became connected with the Press at an early age; was editor of the Day, which was afterwards sunk Into the Arm Mies, and, for several years. one of the editors of the ?We — To considerable literary attainments and great application he joined the utmost *modesty ; and such was the amenity of his misusers. and the uniffeeted kindness of his disposition. that he had the good word aid the good wishes ot every one who bad the happiness of being acquainted with him. HIGH-WATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO.MOEROW. - Memithic . 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