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r**" . , , .~ ~AU' REPORTS. I it: COURT OF CHANCF:RV, 3171. Y - 2(1. Ihi AIroRNEY-GENF.RAI... the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, and Air Tss ::ttetaled the Lottl CHANCELLOR iu his private room hefore the sitting of the Court, to takc the oaths as King's Counsel. is I .0,11:1 , :ltTrt CANAL t °MEANT V. LORD MANVEHS AND OTHERS. is I,..nrisitt r duetted two issues in this case, the particulars of which have been stated r the first to try whether the works proposed by the attendants, consisting of a floating boom and fender-piles, at the mouth of the warping drain, would have the effect of removing the obstruction to the navigation, which it had been the object of the injunction to prevent ; and secondly, whether, if they were not sufficient for that purpose, the use of the other expedient, consisting of a rope fastened to a pile on the bank, would be effectual. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he hoped the plaintiffs would riot inieist upon this as a preliminary step; but that they would permit the effect of the new works to be tried, and if they should be fue.:4l sufficient, that they would be content with them. His Lordship said he had before suggested the propriety of this lueasurt, and as a security, the defendants might deposit a suffi dent sum to indemnify the plaintiff's against any injury that could possibly be occasioned by the use of the warping drain. If this, however, did not meet the views of the parties, the issues must he tried. The parties did not come to an understanding on this point, and the order was therefore made. LEAR V. LEGGITT. This appeal was heard, the question being whether a legacy hieh had been given with a declaration that the bequest should be mid if the legatee aliened it, had been forfeited on his becoming bankrupt; and whether his assignees, or the parties to whom it was 4iveo over by the will, were entitled to it ? The Vice-Chancellor had decided that the alienation by means of the bankruptcy, not having been by the act of the legatee, but by the operation of law, the legacy was not forfeited. Mr. HonsE and Mr. KNIGHT were in support of the appeal. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. VrIGRAX supported the original decision. Mr. WooD appeared for the trustees under the will. His lonosuir deckled that the operation of the bankruptcy, by which the assignees had become entitled to the legacy, was not -uch an alienation as had been contemplated by the provision of the w ill, and that therefore the legacy was not forfeited. He therefore ,linnisscd the appeal with coots. RIVER WEV NAVIGATION. Mr. PEPYS moved to dissolve the injunction granted in this case, to restrain the owners of mills upon the stream from drawing off water from the river. The affidavits on the part of his client stated, that they had made no encroachments and that they had only exer cised the right which they and their predecessors had enjoyed as long as the river had been navigable. They were entitled to certain small payments from boats passing up and clown the river, by way of re muneration for the trouble occasioned by their penning the waters of their respective dams, so as to afford a water-way for the passage of crafts. This they stated they were willing to continue to do on having the same payments made to them which they had been me discerned to receive. Mr. RUSSELL was heard on the same side in support of the right contended for by the millers. Mr. SOLICITOR.GENERAL and Mr. WooD, on the othes side, insisted that, under the act of Parliament, the passage of the river ought at all times to be free, and that the millers had no right to the tell levied by them. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after hearing the matter discussed at great length, was of opinion that the demand made by the owners of the mills was lawful and reasonable, and lie therefore directed the injunction to be dissolved, the millers undertaking to pen up the waters so as to preserve the navigation on receiving the customary payments. HUMPNRIES V. VYVIAN. The SoLtmon.iiitTiaL.Moved, on the part of the plaintiff, (a partner in the English Mining Association) for an ex-parts in junction against the defendant, to restrain him from driving shafts, or working any copper or tin mines on the Bolenn.s estate, situated rear :o the Great St. George Mine, under various deeds of different Oates, by which it appeared (according to the Learned Counsel's view) the title was clearly in the plaintiff. Injunction granted, with a direction that service of the minutes of the order should be considered good service. ROLLS COURT, JULY •26. BUCELEX AND GEE. The Master of the Rolls said, that he thought he must consider ti:e property in this case as equitable personal property, and asked Nr. Wray whether he had found ahy authorities on the subject. Mr. WRAX cited several cases In which personal property had Let forfeited on the possessor being convicted of felony. The Master cf the ROLLS said, that on the authority of the clses cited, he trust declare the property here to be forfeited. His Honour was occupied all day in hearing short causes of no public interest. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HUNTINGDON, JULY 25. The commission for this county was opened by the learned Judges yesterday evening, and to.mortow their lordships will take their seats in court; but it will be pro fortna only, as this is literally a " maiden assize," there being neither a cause nor a prisoner for trial. The want of business on the civil side may be referable to the cir cumstance of the attorneys and others being generally engaged in he business of the coming election ; but the absence of a single pri soner in the calendar is a circumstance of congratulation, as rel. dente either t.t" an improvement in the morals of the people, or of the absence of general distress, which is the cause, undoubtedly, of much or the crime among the labouring population of the country. In Cambridgeshire and Suffolk the calendars are extremely light. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT,JuIy 26. Eliza Charlotte Hamilton, describing herself as a widow, came up on ha petition to be discharged, and was opposed by Mr. Scar. gill, a .oiicitor and creditor in person. The insolvent was of rather interesting appearance, and shed tears s hen ordered into the box. Mr. Scargill proceeded to address the Court. He said he had no wish to impede the insolvent's discharge, but that he was desirous of knowing the nature of the debt due to a Mr. Henry Symonds. The insolvent said. it was for money lent in defending a suit in the Court of Chancery. The debt had been contracted in 1828 and 1829, since the death of her husband, and she had never lived at the rate of 5001. a year. Mr. CooKE—There is a sufficient fund in Court to pay Mr. Scargill. The learned gentleman then proposed Mr. Symonds and Mr. Wells as assignees. Insolvent—l wish Mr. Wells to be my assignee. Upon being asked by the CHIEF Comtism/int if she had any furniture of her own, she replied in the negative, and said she had resided at Mr. Wells's, Little Ealing, in ready.furnished apartments. Mr. Scargill said, be had no further tkuestions to ask, and the insolvent was declared entitled to the beneht of the act. POLICE REPORTS. Alaerstow-liousr.—An application was made to the LORD MAYOR by the authorities of one pariah to make those of another parish pay for the nurture and maintenance of a child, whose legit'. macy has become a matter of question under remarkable circum stances. A young woman, who belonged to the parish of St. Botolph, Alfigate married an idle fellow named Gavin who was &soldier, but his ' habits at last led, to his conviction for highway robbery, about seven or eight years ago. His sentence, however, was commuted to that of transportation for life, and lie was accordingly sent off to Botany Bay. Mrs. Gavin, considering that such a dissolute fellow was wholly unworthy of her, and also that as he was dead in law, he was matrimonially dead, accepted the addresses of I more eligible person, a few months after her alleged widowhood, and lived with her new husband without the chance of being indebted to the same means for a third elecdon. But although the becond husband was better than the first, his ca pability of supporting a family was not much greater, and death came upon him before he was able to live without assistance from the parish. As Gavin had established a settlement in the parish, his two children became entailed upon it, and are now supported in the workhouse..—His widow became the mother of the child which formed the subject of the present application, in due time, after the second marriage, which was by banns, took place, and this child happened to be born in the parish of St. Catherine, Cole man-street. _ _ _ The officers of St. Catherine, Coleman.street, contended, as we understool them, that the child bad no claim whatever upon them ; and considered that the pariah of St. Botolph, Aldgate, was bound to discharge the expense of Its nurture and maintenance, as both father and mother belonged to the Kinneralev, the beadk of St. Botolph, Aldgate, said that the child was illegitimate, inasmuch ask had been born long after Gavin had been'adjudged as deceased in law, and therefore had no claim upon that parish. The woman said that, after Gavin's conviction, she went to Doc. tors' Commons with her new lover, and asked whether she was not at liberty to marry, being determined not to do wrong ? She was assured that Gavin was no longer a husband to her, and that she might take another to herself as soon as she pleased. She thought it improper to delay, and got married itpai receiving this informs. Lion, and she considered that Gavin hid no more claim to her now than any other dtad man. r. The Lord Mayor said the question was of too complex and deli. (ate a nature for him to attempt to decide 'upon. The parties late. rcs:(11 ought to apply to some eminent Civilians for advice in such a matter. lie should not say any thing on the subject. There bus, it is said, been no precedent by which a Court can be influenced in its decision on this case. It is well known that the Governor of the Colony has it in his power to pardon convicts if he see cause, and that on the return of such convicts to this country they beOome entitled to all the privileges of British subjects. The question then is, whether a person transported for life for felony, and afterwards pardoned, cannot, on his return, claim a woman whom ha had married in this country? The poor woman, it appears, has had some matrimonial offers since the death of her second husband, but as she does not wish to incur any penalty by infringing the law, she is particularly anxious to have the point decided. The Lord Mayor expressed an opinion that the expenses of the legal enquiry into the unusual circumstances of the case should be defrayed by the two parishes. The officers retired, and it is supposed that a compromise will take place, in order to prevent the probable enormous expense of an appeal to a court of civil law. A young man, named Pat-raft, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having threatened to do his father some des perate bodily injury. Mr. Ebenezer Saunders, a member of the Corporation of Lon don, stated that the father of the defendant had been obliged to take refuge in his (Mr. Saunders's) countinghouse, in consequence of the defendant's threat against his life, and it had been found neces sary to apply to his lordship for further protection. The defendant said he had no idea of doing injury to his father, but he had been greatly provoked by him. The LORD MAYOR asked the young man what conduct of his parent's could have provoked him to use threats ? The defendant said that his father had been long promising to make him a freeman of Rochester, where he had served his time ; but tkc promise had been as often broken as it had been made ; and now that the election was arrived, he was without his freedom, and, consequently, without the privilege of voting for a member. The LORD MAYOR begged to know the extent of the loss of the vote ? The defendant said that he set down his loss at 601. He consi dered a vote for Rochester worth that money. His Lordship thought the candidates who would give that money very liberal, but told the defendant he must remain in custody for the threat. The defendant declared that he used no threat of any importance.' He merely said that, for his father's conduct in getting drunk, when he ought to have made him a freeman, he should "do for him, by never giving him any money." The defendant was l i remanded. Gut LDIIALL...-.A RELIGIOUS SMORIXO.-Yesterday an elderly gentleman, of highly respectable appearance, who stated his name to be George Gunn, was charged before Sir John Paring, with in. terrupting the religious decorum of the morning service in St. Bride's Church, by snoring after a most uncanonical fashion. William Weller, beadle of St. Bride's, stated that, a few minutes after the commencement of the morning service on Sunday morning last, the gentleman at the bar came into the church, and endea voured to force himself into a seat which could contain only two per sons, and in which two were already sitting. The beadle remonetra. ted with him on his conduct, and used every argument he could to induce 'him to leave the church, as the elderly gentleman had evidently taken a drop too much ; but his remonstrances were fruit less, and the elderly gentleman would have this seat and no other. The persons who were immediately adjacent were seriously interrupt. ed in their devotions, and in order that the interruptions should not extend to the congregation in general, room was made upon the seat, and the elderly gentleman planted himself upon the vacant corner accordingly. But no sooner was he comfortably settled than the elderly gentleman's drowsy propensities got the mastery over him, and a deep nasal bass alarmed all those who happened to be around him. The beadle was again called into requisition, and finding it utterly out of his power to remove the snorer, was obliged to stand beside him during the remainder of the service, and keep the elderly gentleman awake. Sir J. PEnarwat—.Why 'tie not an offence which ought to be brought here; you should have taken him into the Ecclesiastical Court. Mr. 111. Scales, the Common Councilman of Aldgate, who was present on other business : pray, Sir John, don't send him there. 1 have been in the Ecclesiastical Court, and can assure you to get there is no luxury. The elderly Gentleman—l certainly was not drunk, nor is in toxication compatible either with my former education, or my sub. sequent habits. I walked from Sydenham yesterday morning, and tasted no liquor after I breakfasted except one glass of ale, which I drank about 11 o'clock at the Edinburgh Castle. The constable corroborated the beadle's statement, touching the intoxication of the elderly gentleman. Sir John Peering considered, under all the circumstances, that the night's imprisonment was sufficient punishment for the snoring, l and ordered him to be discharged. As he was quitting the culprit's bar, Mr. Scales said to him, " You mustn't go to church any more, my friend." CAUILTY TO A BCLLOCI.—John Wall and Williams Goss, two journeymen drovers, were charged by Mr. Scales with cru elly and wantonly beating a bullock in Smithfield-market, en Monday morning. Mr. Scales stated that he observed Wall and another, not in cus tody, beating the bullock with a stick each, the one striking him behind, and the other striking him on the head and horns i • " so that," said Mr. Scales, "if the poor bullock had the best dis position in the world to obedience, still being thus hit before and behind, the unfortunate animal knew not which way to go." The practice was one calculated to do a great deal of injury, as the beasts thus used are generally without food for 24 hours previous, and when beaten In this savage manner are worked up into a state of high fever, in which state they are slaughter ed. Mr. Scales remonstrated with Wall's companion, who at once desisted ; but his place was supplied by Goes, who declared that " a rap on the horns was nothing, as the beast felt it no how. But in Mr. Scales' opinion the bullock felt it most severely, at least, judging from its appearance, its eyes standing used in its head, and the poor creature exhibiting symptoms of great suffer ing. Mr. Scales did not consider the conduct of Wall so repre. hensible as that of his companion, and he was discharged, but . Goss was fined in a penalty of 10s. Goss declared his inability to pay it, and entreated Mr. Scale's interference in his behalf. Air. Scales very readily granted it to him, and the Alderman was about remanding him, as a punishment in lieu of the fine; but Goss, when he found all escape impossible, drew out the money, and paid the fine. Mr. Scales said, he had given two other drovers into custody, but they were not brought forward by the officer. He had taken notice of something like an appearance of settling going on between the prisoners and the officer, and had cautioned him that he would re. port his conduct to the Mclennan. Sir J. PERRINO directed inquiries to be made after the officer, that he may be brought forward to account for his conduct. 13011•STRZET.—John Field, a young man who had long been known to the police as a member of the swell mob," was yesterday brought before Sir IL BIRNIZ on a Bench warrant, by Taunton, the principal officer, chirged with having attempted to defraud his late Majesty King George the Fourth of 450 L The prisoner, in conjunction with a man named John Keane, it appeared, had forged letters of administration to a Field Officer, and by that means endeavoured to obtain a sum of 4501. due to him at the War.office. The fraud, however, was discovered, and the par. ties concerned in it were indicted for the offence at the Westminster Sessions, but having kept out of the way, a Bench warrant issued, against them, and the prisoner Field was captured under it, and in default of fin ding sureties to answer for his appearance on the day of trial, he was fully committed to abide that event. MaairLnnorrs.--Yesterday, Mary Marshall, servant to Mr. Harvey Baker, of Charlotte-street, PortLuxl-place, was charged pith stealing sovereigns and silver, from her master's iron chest. Mr. Harvey several times found his cash deficient. He marked 27 sovereigns and half-sovereigns on Saturday night, and on Sunday morning before he went to church, he placed one of his journeymen upon a broad shelf in the shop to watch, through a hole in the watts. cot, occurrences in the parlour, where the money was deposited. Soon after her master was gone, the journeyman saw the prisoner enter the room, and with a key of her own she proceeded to open a drawer, and ake out the key of the chest. From the chest she took something, he did not know what, and he ran sad beckoned his master out of church. _ -.- Dutch, one of the (Aileen, upon searching her, found two of the sovereigns in her pocket, and in ler box he found an earthen money jar, containing eight sovereigns more. She was sent to Newgate for trial. Daniel Maya& was apprehended in Hyde-park, during the re. view, picking the pocket of Mr. Francis Gazbell, a schoolmaster, at I Dal. Mr. Kawiaresos sent him to the House of Correction for a month. Daniel Mahoney and Margaret Skinner, brother and sister, were charged on suspicion u pickpockets. They were remanded till Wednesday. Union-Max.—Yesterday, a young man named George Arno, Robinson, a medical student, was charged with stealing a mold anufT-box, value M. the property of 31n. Ledgard, a lodging-house keeper, in Sutton-street, Southwark. The complainant stated that the prisoner lodged at her bones, and that on Saturday last she missed a musical snuff-box from the mantle.piece in the parlour. Knowing the prisoner was the only person who had entered the roam from the time she last saw the box until she missed it, her suspicions were therefore exdted against him, and the circumstance of his having slept from home the same night, tended to strengthen them, and she accordingly communi cated the facts to an officer. The complainant, who seemed much affected during the time she was delivering her evidence, at the conclusion of it, satd that the friends of the prisoner a ere highly respectable, but that he had latterly formed an acquaintance with • young female, and that ever since that connexion, he not only neglected his business, but seemed to give himself totally up to idleness. Mr. Hoxt, seeing the anxiety manifested by the complainant, remarked that the prisoner seemed utterly undeserving of the pity she appeared to feel for his situation. George Blackman, an officer, stated that, having received infor mation of the robber y from the last witness, he proceeded to a house in White-street, and there apprehended the prisoner, who was in bed at the time with a female, whom he also took into custody. The officer added that, on examining a drawer in the apartment where he found the prisoners, he discovered two duplicates, one of which was for a musical snuf-box, and the other for a telescope. A pawnbroker stated that the prisoner Robinson pledged the mu sical snuff-box at his shop on Saturday last. A young man here stepped forward, and said that the prisoner, whom he was acquainted with, called on him a few days ago, and very soon after his departure he missed a telescope. lie added, that he strongly suspected that the prisoner had pledged it, and that the ticket now produced was that which he received on depositing it in pledge. Mr. HONE inquired whether the telescope could now be pro duced and identified; as the case would then be complete against the prisoner ? Blackman said that he had not bad time to bring forward the pawnbroker with whom that article had been pledged. The female alluded to, and with whom the prisoner was found in bed, having been apprehended at the same time, the Magistrate in quired whether she had visited the prisoner at the house where he lodged, so that she might, by possibility, have laid her hands on the box ? _ _ _ The complainant replied that she had never entered her house. Mr. Norm then directed the female to be set at liberty. On quitting the side of the prisoner in the slip, she endeavoured to cry, but failed in the attempt; and she was afterwards observed outside the office, laughing and enjoying herself with some of her female acquaintance, apparently indifferent as to the fate that await ed her paramour. Mr. HONE then directed the prisoner to be remanded. James Nooks and Michael Brooke, drivers of two of the Dept. ford stages, were convicted, an Saturday, by the Magistrates in the' mitigated penalty of 51. and costs, for furiously driving through Rotherhithe, on the evening of the 15th inst. Not being able to pay the same, t hey were committed to Kingston gaol for the term of two calendar months. Hawwow-o&anni.--Yesterday, Thomas Mayne, a journeyman baker, was re-examined, charged with embezzling various sums of money, amounting in the whole to about 51. the property of Mr. Al len, of St. John's-lane, his employer. He was fully committed. Lastnrrn.s•rizsr.—.Yesterday, a stout, hearty looking and well dressed young man, the son of a master baker in Lime house, was brought before Messrs. Walker and Wyatt, upon the following charge: His father a respectable looking man, said that his son had been in several good situations, but through neglector inattention had been discharged from them ; and after spending whatever salary was due to him in an extravagant manner, returned to his house, and in. slated on his supporting him. This, from the slackness of his business,and his having eight others in family to provide for, be was unable to do, and having spoken to him on the evening before on the subject, he flew into a violent rage, and in a most determined man. ner threatened to do him (the complainant) some bodily injury. Fearing he would carry his threats into execution, he gave him in charge to a policeman. WALIZR, to the prisoner : What have you got to say to this violent conduct of your's towards your father ? Prisoner : 1 had no other home to go to, and wanting the neces saries of life, I considered I had a right to go to my father to seek them. Air. WA,Litzft...-A young man like you ought to be well able to support yourself, without being a burden to your father or to any one else. You may now go about your business, but if you again go to the residence of your father and annoy him, and are brought here, you shall be sent to the House of Correction. Prisoner—l must exist in some way, and having no employment at present, must, if not supported by my father, thieve for a sub. sistence ; therefore, if lam brought here for such an offence, you yourselves will be to blame, and under these considerations you will, I hope, deal leniently with me. Mr.WALKER—Do not deceive yourself with any such hope. All I can tell you is, that if you are brought here on a charge of rob. bcry, you will be sent to Newgate. Prisoner—Thieving for a subsistence, or starving, are the only alternatives left me • and I can assure you that I will adopt the former instead of the latter ; so that you may shorly, very shortly, expect to see me here again. The prisoner then left the Justice-room. EMIGRATION or Woanwtx.—Mr. Davis, jun. a sugar re.. finer, in the vicinity of the Office, waited on the magistrates for their advice and assistance, under the following circumstances : Mr. Davis stated that a man in his employment was prevailed upon by the agent or some person connected with a similar menu. factory to his own in America, under a promise of receiving higher wages than he (Mr. D.) paid, to quit his service, and emigrate to that country. The custom in the trade, when a workman was about to give up his employment, was to give a month's warning, or for. feit a month's wages ; and the same rule was imperative on the masters when they discharged a man. This notice his man neglected to give, nor would he consent to stop until the end of the month ; therefore his (Mr. D.'s) object, in applying to their Worships, was, to know if they could punish hint for not complying with the regu lations? The Magistrates, after looking ever the act which regulates the difference between masters and workmen, and finding that Mr. Davis had no written agreement from the man as to warning, &c. said they had no power to Interfere in the matter. THAMES PoucE.—Yestaday, Mr. John Dutton was charged with assaulting Wheeler, a sergeant, and Higginbotham and °Ammar, constables of H. Division of the New Police, who had taken two disorderly characters into the watch.house oppo. site the defendant's house, and were coming out, when he abused them and said he was compelled to pay rates to support such varment. He struck one of them a severe blow, and re. treated into his own house. They followed, when he wrenched the truncheon from one of the police constables, and beat them all very severely, and one of them received very severe blows on the arm. Mr. Dutton was eventually secured and lodged in the station house. The defendant denied that be assaulted the policemen, and said he was shamefully ill.used by them. Daniels, and a Mrs. Connor, a neighbour, confirmed Mr. Dutton's statement, as to his being pulled out of his own house and struck by she policemen. They did not hear him make use of any abusive language. The three witnesses differed from each other in some points, although they concurred in declaring that Mr. Dutton was pulled out of his house and very much ill-used. The Magistrate fined him 31. which he immediately paid. DISTRESSING FlRE.—.This morning, between two and three o'clock, an alarming fire took place in Berwick-street, the corner of Noel-street, which threatened destruction to the whole range of houses adjoining. The fire broke out at the house of Mr. AMous, an eminent pawnbroker, and although every exertion was used to frustrate the ravages of the devouring element, the interior of this large house, with all its valuable contents, were reduced to a heap of ruins. The shop was well stocked with jewellery, watches, and valuable trinkets of every description. The fire commenced at the upper part of the house, where most of the pledged property was deposited ; the fire was not quite extinct at eight o'clock ; the house was insured; there was no water to be procured for up. wards of an hour; we understand no lives were lost notwithstand ing the early hour at which the firs took place. W hat renders this fire still more distressing, is, the pledged • articles being the pro. pert of the workingelasses. THE SWEATING SICKNESS.—This curious disease appeared, for the first time, in the army of the Earl of Richmond, upon his landing at Milford-haven in 1483, and spread to London, where it raged ftem the beginning of August to the end of October. So formidable and fatal were its offects, that the coronation of Henry VII. the victor in the battle of Bosworth.field, was deferred till this strange pestilence had subsided. It was a species of malady un. known to any other age or nation, which occasioned the death of great multitudes. Caius describes it, as it appeared for the last time among us. The treatment of it is perhaps the most in. teresting, at least affords us the most amain particulars. It turns upon the sole ides of promoting the sweat, and Caiu. lays down the strictest rule foe avoiding any thing that might expose the patient to the least cold, or check this salutary and critical evacuation. On this point he is peremptory. " It' two be taken in one bed, let them so continue, although it be to their unquietness ; for fear whereof, and for the more quietness and safety, very good it is, during all the sweating time, that two persons lie not Ia one bed." To promote perspiration they are ordered to drink pout ale, made of sweet milk, turned with vinegar, in a quart Whereof p arsley and sage, of each half one little handful, lath been sodden, &c. If, under this treatment. loaded with bed-clothes, and :almost stilled with heat, they happen to feel faint, " elute them," says the doctor, " to lie on their right side, and bow themselves forward, call them by their names, beat them with a rosemary branch, or some other sweet little thing—do not let them on any' account sleep, but pull them by the ears, nose, or hair, refiring them in no wise to sleep, until such time as they have no lust to sleep; except to a learned man in physic, the case appears to bear the contrary. If under this dis cipline they happily move, and find their strength be sore wasted, let them smell to an old sweet apple, and use other restoratives of similar *Many ; for, " concludes Dr.Caius, " there is nothing more eonsfortableto the Wicks than good nerd sweet odourn"---J'assrly 'wary, No. 14. SCINTILLA. Like to the gras thuswly sprung— or like a tale that's new begun— Or like the bird that's here to.day— Or like the pearled dew of May— Or like an hour, or like a span— Or like the singing of a swan : E'en such is Man, who lives by breath— Is here, now there, in life, and death. The pass withers, the tale is ended, The bird is flown, the dew's ascended; The hour is short, the span not long, The Swan's near death—Man's life is done. AN APOLOGY is all that is necessary among men I): honour • it neither leaves dishonour with him who asks it, nor in fen de gradation on him who makes it. A parcel was addressed from Calais to Mr.--, the " Oxen Man and Still, Oxford-street, London".....thus A Monsieur—chez fhomme oert et tranquil, Londres." When a certain learned Lord brought in his " bill fox the regulation of the press, " an additional clause was moved—" th a t all anonymous works should have the name of the author printed on the title page !" A PUPIL at the Deaf and Dumb School at Paris, being asked the question, " What is Eternity ?" Answered, " The life-time of the Almighty." Every good man cannot be wise • but it is in the power of every wise man, if he pleases, to be eminent for virtut as for talent. EXAMPLE TO IRISH LANDLORDS.—When St, George Saville first went to visit his numerous tenantry in Ire. land, he one morning went to ride over his estate alone. He had not rode far, when he came to a mill ; the morning was cold, and the miller stood shivering at the door. " Whom does this mill be long to ?" said Sir George. " To me, Sir," replied the man. " And what is the meaning that your mill is not better thatched, and yourself better clad ?" " Sir, I have a large family ; we do not eat the bread of idleness; we rise early and sit down late. and yet the hand of diligence cannot make rich." " Why so ?" " My tenement is too dear." " Who is your landlord ?" " One of the bast men on earth, they say ; an Englishman, Sir George Saville ; but be knows nothing of our misery." " What do you pay for your land ?" " Sixteen shillings an acre. I agre ed to pay that sum, because 1 did not know where to go." And what co u ld you afford to pay ?" " Fourteen shillings, Sir, I be lieve." 44 Take your bill, then, and write I3s. for I ant yet landlord." The worthy baronet acted in the same way in pr portion to every tenant on the estate. To PRESERVE DEAD GAME.—The Journal dcs Connaiusnees Ustselks states, that if the entrails, Ece. of the game to be preserved be taken out, the inside filled with wheat, and the bare or bird afterwards placed in a heap of wheat, so u to be completely covered, it will keep fresh for two or three months. The skin or feathers should not be taken off. CANDIDATE.—Neither the ancient nor modern elec tion statutes mention, or imply, the existence of a candidate. The old laws direct that the representative shall be freely and indiffer ently chosen by the electors. The choice was of their own motion, and the person elected was passive. Even at the present day the law does not does not contemplate his asking for votes, and there. fore does not allow, after the issuing of the writ, sufficient time for a regular canvass. The term " candidate" had its derivation from the person being candidatus, clothed in white, as symbolical of the wearer's purity. PRECOCIOUS GREATNESS.—CharIes X. DAS much downcast for some time before the news of the surrender of Algiers *rived. His distress was marked, and pitied by the young Duke de Bordeaux, and the princely boy immediately set about relieving him. He entreated an audience of the King, and filling on his knees, exclaimed—" Sire, you are uneasy. I know the reason why. Permit me to go to Algiers. On seeing me the soldiers will double their: ardour, and every thing will be soon finished." " Adorable child ! what a King dost thou promise to France !" such was the answer of the Monarch. French Paper.—Our French neighbours sometimes amuse themselves with a little ',tattooist plaisonterie at the expense of their rulers. We suspect this story has 'ts origin in some malicious wag of the cote gauche. TILE HOAX AT CtticutsTErt.—At the Midsummer Quarter Sessions, the pretended agent of the Duchess of Kent, Mr. James Anders, whose hoaxing exploits made such a noise at Chi chester and Bognor last May, was indicted for obtaining money under false pretences from Mr. White, auctioneer and house agent. Mr. James Lash White proved that the prisoner represented himself as the servant of the Duchess of Kent, and that lie was employed to look out for a house for her Royal Highness. That on this repre. sentation he obtained of witness a sovereign. The prisoner cross. examined Mr. White with great ingenuity, but did not succeed in shaking his evidence. Indeed, his object seemed to be not to ex. culpate himself, but to throw ridicule on those whom he had duped ; in his attempt to do this, his impudence, and the absurdity of some of the circumstances he alluded to, caused a great deal of laughter. Mr. Roper proved that the prisoner was not the agent or servant of tke Duchess of Kent. The evidence against him having closed, the prisoner made an unconnected statement, the chief point of which was that he had only borrowed the money. The Jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and the Recorder sentenced him to two month•' imprisonment. HEIRS PRESUMPTIVE TO THE THRONE TIIE GRAND SEleilictit.—As soon as we had settled ourselves at the inn (at Syinferapol in the Crimea) we sent our cards to inquire if we might wait on the Sultan Krim Gherri Khatti Gherri, to pre sent our letters of introduction. The answer was, that the Sultan was from home. but that the Sultana would be happy to see us. The Sultana, who is a native of Edinburgh, daughter of Colonel —, received us with great affability and attention, quite in the English style. The history of her marriage with the Sultan is curious. When about fifteen years of age, the Sultan became acquainted with some missionaries, who had taken up their station near the Caucasus, on which occasion he embraced the Christian LI. ligion, left his native country, and proceeded under their protection to St. Petersburgh, which he shortly after quitted for Scotland, ana there he soon acquired the English language. habits, and manners. It was in Edinburgh that his acquaintance commenced with his lady. and eventually ended in marriage, though against the consent of her family. As he is lineally descended from the ancient khans of the Crimea, the throne of the present Sultan, Mahnioud, will be his on the extinction of the reigning family. He has sons, and should any of them hereafter ascend the Ottoman throne, the singe. lar fact will be presented, of a prince of British descent and Chris. flan profession, governing an empire of Turkish infidels.— Fres - Travels. - - DA VID Ht. M E.—We extract the following from the notes to the Dissertation, by Sir James Mackintosh. prefixed to the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia Brilannica. Dr. Cullen. ir. a letter to Dr. Hunter, states that " about a fortnight before is death Hume added a codicil to his will, in which he fully disco. vend his attention to his friends as well as his own peasantry. What little wine he himself drank was generally port, a wine Icr which his friend, the poet (John Home) declared a strong aversio:. David bequeaths to his (rend John one bottle of port ; and up:: condition of his drinking this wine at two down sittings, bestoss upon him twelve dozen of his best claret. He pleasantly adds, that this subject of wine was the only one upon which they had ever differed. In the codicil there are several other strokes of raillery and pleasantry, highly expressive of the cheerfulness which he then enjoyed. He even turned his attention to some of the simple amusements with with which he had been formerly pleased. —ln the vicinity of his brother's house in Berwickshire is a brook, by which the access in time of floods, is frequently interrupted. Mr. flume bequeaths 100 L for building a bridge over this brook, bat upon the express condition that some of the stones for than purpose shall be taken front a quarry is the neighbourhood, which forms a part of a romantic spot in which, in his earlier days, Mr Hume took particular delight. Otherwise the money to go to ti " poor of the parish." The Navy are quite delighted at the compliment paid to the service by his -Majesty's first appearance in Parliament wearing the proud investiture or " Britain's best bulwark." By a marriaze which took place a few days ago, the following whintsiCal connexions were formed:—The lady becomes mother to her brother, sister to her son, grandmother to her nephew, aunt to her grandson, sister to her daughter, and mother to her sister. The number of emigrants, (steerage passengers,) from Europe, arrived at this pit, since the Ist of April, is nearly 8,00*). --New York Advertiser of June 23. • BIRTHS. In New Norfolk-street, the lady of H. Etphinstonc. of a sor..— At Hanwell-grove, the lady of (3. Baillie, Esq. of a sor..—ln Cal. thorpe-street, the lady of T. Chitty, Esq. of a daughter. DIE On the 9th inst, at his residence, near Edinburgh, the Right lion William, Lord Nairne.--In the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, Eula ria Lady Dickson, wife of Col. Sir A. Dickson, K.C.B. Royal Ar. tillery.—At Kilburn, Leigh, second son of J. Jellicoe, Esq. of Upper li'impole-strect.—At Grosvenor-place. Camberwell, Susan. wife of Capt. N. Belchier, Royal Nary.—At Tokross, near Glas gow, J. Dunlop, Esq. of London.—At Boulogne-sur-Mer, F. 11 0 Duncombe„ late of his Majesty's 74th Regiment.--At Canal-grove, Old Kent-road, aged SS, Mr. J. Hibbett, formerly of court, Crutchodfriars..-At Guernsey, G. Bell, Esq. in the 10th yea! of his age. Lamm : Printed and Published by Juan! Marna. at the Sraa• Orme No. 1, Poehrtt-place,Tesagis de•