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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. YORK, AUGUST 1. Thomas Farraday, a decently dressed old man, was arraigned this day upon a charge of having had in his possession a bank bill, value 1001. which formed part of the notes stolen in September last from the betting.rooms at Doncaster. The prosecution was con. ducted by Messrs. Startle and Dodd, and the prisoner was defended by Messrs. Cottingham and Pateson. The evidence was of a very voluminous nature, and occupied the attention of the Court during the whole day. It has, however, been before the public on a former trial, that of Smart, who was supposed to have been the principal in the robbery, and to repeat it again would be unnecessary, as no fresh points occurred worth publication. The case was founded upon the fact of the prisoner having passed the note upon which he was indicted, to a bank at Stourbrsdge, near Birmingham. Two clerks were called whose testimony 'was not found sufficient to bear out the suspiction, and the prisoner was consequently acquitted. The Judge (Bilyley) opined that the prisoner ought not to have been tried before Madden, another of the supposed principals in the robbery; but sornehow.or other the indictment was brought on. Farraday was acquitted in sufficient time to allow him to fill his betting book on the course with odds of every description from the long to the two to one. Whether he was there or not is, however, not distinctly known. NISI PRIUS COURT. OSTTNIJ. Ten hours at Ostend, one half of which is spent in sleep, and I undertake to give a practical account of all its peculiaritice—praise be to the spirit of ignorance, which inspires my understanding, and blessed the memory of the various sages who have exhausted all that could be said on the subject of learning, politics, and morals. There is so much wisdom and knowledge In the world that the plain and common-place good folk, of whom I am enamoured, can rarely get a word or two which they can comprehend. Let them now read and be happy—the blind are about to lead the blind ; and, if sweet heaven spares me health and a steel pen, I mesa to inflict such doses of utter ignorance of all that is ancient and mysterious, that the most unlearned shall rejoice, and the most domestic shall be acquainted with parts beyond the sea. The Ramona, in which I began my course, is a vessel much to be recommended. She is a steamer which can command eleven miles an hour; and starting as we did, at eleven in the forenoon, she can drop you at Ostend in fifteen hours. Her captain is no fon, and he is more attentive to his ship than to his passengers, which is to me the very essence of a good captain. Unlike others whom we have seen, he avoids all idle communication, and, stand ing on the paddle-box, he is occupied with the rivercraft, whom he will not run down, and with the sailors, whom he blows up. Even at dinner he resists the head of the table, the Must seat of a cap tain's glory, and he stays on deck, watching like a gentle shepherd, as he is, the safety of the flock which feeds below. The steward of tee demons is in a doubtful state, which will be converted into that of censure, unless he breaks the heads of the two imps who serve ,:.,der him as devils, and unless he converts the frown of the lady : toward into cheerfulness. Moreover, we call his attention to the toughness of the boiled beef which the top of the dinner table, cud to the scantiness of the fare wrig e ;s provided for appetites in the river, whom the billows beyond the Foreland have not yet con tracted. Saving these reservations, we do commend the ship, and :nay our successors be as lucky as we were. Landing at two in the morning, it is sweet to hear the cries of the hounds which hunt the passengers for the different inns. That artoyance, which at all other times is a perfect misery, is at that moment a source of consolation. It conveys to the sea-sick pas senger the assurance that help is at hand—it speaks of tea, and :offee, and soup, and broiled ham, and of all the restoratives which the stomach craves; but the attainment of which is, at that hour, doubtful. Roar on, sweet youths, in French, in Dutch, in Ger .ltan, and English—your tumult is music to our ears—every inn is a pmadise, the nearest is the best. Here, gentle traveller, it is well, as Sir Francis de Sales says, to pause and consider. Be not taken in as I was, and place no confidence in the sign of the Hotel, being dear in British hearts, and to the fallacious inference that, because the house is English, the master is English, the servants English, that you will experience a moiety of those comforts which you might depend on at home. I will not name the inn, for it may be libellous to tell the truth, but the murder will out, if you ask for the dearest and the worst; and if you should not be told, you will recognise it by the waiter standing with his mouth open on the stairs, and the chambermaid gaping at the window. You will dis. rover it by the first spoonful of the soup, which is composed of pepper and hot water, and by the toughness of the cutlet, which they account for by saying that the meat is fresh, and that master's butcher is famous for killing none but fresh cattle. There is the Cour Imperial, which they now tell me le a good house • and the 4 ;olden Lion, which is well to speak of. Choose any but that which it was our fate to select, and your heart will be content, and your pocket more at ease. Ostend, buried in the mists of the morning, presents any thing hut an inviting appearance. The heart sickens at the foggy aspect, but, as the day clears up, and the sun reveals its trim-built houses, and its well-cleaned streets, it becomes not only a pleasing but a de sirable location. The place is a square of some extent, one side b. ing occupied by the Town-hall, and the others by lofty and hand some mansions. The leading streets are wide, and the shops and houses of a respectable character. The Wall,.—a terrace raised over the beach, is one of the grandest public promenades I have ever seen ; and the sands which lie beneath it afford the best accommods. non for bathing. They are firm to the foot, and, either on them or on the terrace, your eye is consoled by meeting ell the rank, beauty, and fashion of Ostend, however limited the number of the posses. sort of those qualities may be. The town is surrounded by ram. parts and batteries erected at the expense of this Government, under the superintendence of ours. They compose part of the line of for. t tticatiuns, which preserve die coast and frontier of the Netherlands ; and they have had the sanction of the Duke of Wellington ; but they have given way in one quarter of Ostend, and the sea has made dreadful ravages in that part. The contractors built them, it would appear, all seemingly to the eye, but, like the foundation of our Cestoin-house, the piles on which the fabric Jested were not sufficient to support it, and down it came; and one of the coo. tr.letors was tried for the fraud, and ordered fur execution ; but the sentence was altered into one of perpetual impel. roement ; and the other shot himself, to avoid the same fate. The Government are now employed In making a radical cure, and no contractor is likely to be hung for a weak foundation. The work will occupy three years, and, when completed, will be an honour and security to the town. About four years since the bar. many of Ostend was broken in upon by the accidental explosion of a powder-magazine, which threw down several old houses, unroofed others, and shattered the window.glass in all. It occurred about nine o'clock in the morning, and the confusion which prevailed, particularly among the English residents, many of whom were not risen, and others who were at breakfast, was amusing as well as ter. r , fic. They were seen running into the streets, half undressed, stn. knowing the cause of the alarm, and fancying that an earthquake had retitle its awful visitation. Very few lives were lost, and, as the pi ate losses were paid by the Government, the calamity became a I public good, fur the old houses were cleared away, and new were built, which are now ao ornament to the town. There is one addi tion to the drawing-room windows, wtikh is characteristic, and which might be well introduced in London, particularly in faalitonable houses, where the inmates are desirous to dis. tinguish friends from bores, and in those where unbiassed men are anxious to separate friends from foes. The addition I speak of is that of a small mirror, which reflects to the room every face which pulses in the street, and the whole figure of each person knocking at the particular dour. It is an invention equally amusing sod useful, and to you, Mr. Editor, it would be more than ordinarily advanta geous; by it you would be able to select the lucky few whom you wish to speak to, from the clamorous hundreds who wish to speak to you—and, when your mind was exhausted, it would, as you per. ceive, add to your reflections. The streets are well washed and swept, the outsides of the houses are orderly and well brushed, and the whole town convinces you that the great virtue of the people ts cleanliness. The only begrimed face I saw in Ostend was at our English hotel, and the only dirty people were the boys who plague you at its door. Our housewives-erill understand how scrupulous the people here are by the brightness of the brasses on the door, which I am told is the beau ideal of domestic neatness. Society is composed principally of English, some native Flemish, and a very few French. There is very little pretension and few affectations of superiority ; and, as a proof of equality, there are but three carriages in the town. The English circle has been select, and, until the last year, very agreeable ; but some bid subjects have ene ee "'" utem • bees lately landed, who are attempting to destroy good order, and BIARYLIBONZ.—Tuesday, Mr. W. Hodsale, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Hampstead, was held to bail to appear at the one or two duels have already marked their reach of intellect. The Sessions to answer to a charge of firing atW. M. Springett, a police. Flemish ladies are not many in number, and those whom my eyes man No. 133, letter S. with a pistol loaded with sMt. met were more good-looking than beautiful; and the whole order of womenkind can be classed under the head of comely. The men The policeman said he observed the premises of the defendant on fire, aim rang the bell in consequence. The defendant said that it have fine broad faces, rather heavy ; and they are, in fact, a well. was no matter, as it was only some rubbish burning, which had been behaved, a quiet, but a stupid people. from the garden. He got over the wall Mn by advice of Ostend, some years ago, during the American war of Indere. gathered other policemen, to see what was the matter, and the defendant told deuce, was an Austrian possession, and the great opening for British tprivate watchman, who was standing by, to take him into custody. commerce on the Continent. It was then a wealthy and a thrivini . ne (witness) said he could not . . The defendant then said with an place, and the English merchants built warehouses and mansions o oath, " I wall shoot you." Witness on hearing this threat ran away, great extent. At present its trade is of no consequence, and It is and was endeavouring to get over the wall when defendant fired at called by the natives a dead town. There is some business dim in the export of grain, and Loudon receives its butter and its cheese. him—Three other witnesses gave evidence. If there be a regeneration in Ostend, it will arise from the making Mr. Rawerosou said the case was very serious, and remarked of it a packet station; and when one considers the facilities it affords on its hein similar to Colman MOW& The def e ndant ' s solicitor said he should reserve his witnesses. for a communication with England, the opening which has been Mr. Herbale stated that there was no ball in the pistol, and that begun by the General Steam Navigation Company, will, in a short time, be much enlarged. The autam.boats from London arrive twice be was incapable of firing at an y One. The depositions were then forwarded to the Commissioners pee a week, and the mail from Margate tike also. There is no doubt vious to the constable and witnesses being bound over to permute. but that passengers would be found for two other days in the weep; A Mrs. &MIMI Hill complained before Mr RAWLI3IIIIOS yes. and if once a daily communication were established, the minds of a today, that she had been robbed of her reticule in Baker-street, the great portion of those travellers bound for the Rhine, and the whole Netherlands, who go to Calais. would be directed hither, from t h e receding evening. manifest advantages the route The fares must, in the Mr. Itawnu asked what the bag contained She said some first place, be reduced ; foe wrir s r each extremity, namely, at new lace she had just purchased, some lam caps, about sixteen shil. Rotterdam and Calais—there is cheapness and opposition, it will Bogs, and trifling articles. Edward Fletcher, a serjeant la A. division of the new police, newer do to pay high prices in the centre. As all things are de. ned by convenience elated be sew the robbery (*minima , end pursued the thief , Wlter en termi a house in a court, and he was so close behind, that he got his to the man of business i eves the slight one in appearance , though tered eve In reality—namely, the saving of body half in, but the thief closed the door upon him, and held him time in procuring passports in London will be appreciated by those between the door and the door post. Another policeman, wbe who have undergone that trouble. There is no occasion to lose two. was brought to the spot by the cry of Stop thief! took him intie days in going to Bryanston-square to obtain it, for you are allowed to land at t tstend without one, and the British Consul there is em. ensted7. powered to give them at a trifling charge. With regard to the Toot the hound instead of the fox, said Mr. RAWLINSON. prtation of menages, the beseht is still greater, for those which Yess_rePlied Fletcher, and before eeuld:eenvimet him that I was belong to passengers are admitted free of duty, and, with a fee of a an mace* myself , the thief made hie mes by the back door, after few francs to the Consul, for the certificate of ownership, you are stri_PPing off his jacket and cups which we produce. saved the deposit, and the final los, which the Customs of the William Hooker, a sergeant of division D. apprehended at a late French ports imposes on you. T he sea voyage—namely, from hour in the evening, a ?nun; man named Mumma Ward, whom he Margate, is but seven home ; and altogether, from experience, our suspected to be the thief. Mr. Rawnistsow asked Mrs. Hill Webs wisdom or our ignorance never mends the route. knew him ? She replied, I can swear to the jammet and cap, but he The limb of Ostend are but few in numb er, and I feel lt would be is not the mane her edit be was not a pity to waste all the fine things have to say upon othersof the etc the thief, but he was in compsay with same nature. Topics rush to my mind like the penes to the steam. him when the robbery was committed. boats—but avoid tbet, Satan ! There is a long journey before us, "r• RAwLrwmirr remanded him till Saturday, hopiog in the mean time to find the other. and we must hear and see more before we matte ourselves up foe mischief. The sun shines forth in all its glory—there is not a dead QUEZW•ISGUAIIIL.—Yestardiy, dire/tem Wordley, a police mow sky—we hue an Italian climate. Hew each weat h er h as c ons constable of 111. division, No. 168, was re-examined, char with to whit the to these countries ant truly ealled—while n g_ BilekhY. ,with his etelr, at the Review i n n Hyde Old Ragland is drenched in rain, I know sot ; but we shall are. rare, ion MUNI his nennliwn•"' .llo laid Ws. The North and Easiit:dingt;use-14thas been disposed of, and the West Riding cases have come on, to the number of 116, four only of which =special jury causes. Those which have been dia. posed of to-day are of the most paltry and uninteresting nature. RECORDER'S REPORT. Yesterday the Recorder made his Report to his Majesty of the prisoners capitally convicted at the list Old Bailey Sessions, via.— John Nash, aged 27; John Hurley, 23; Charles Cushway, 36; Charles Taylor, 29; William Lowndes, 28; and Thos. Lattimer, alias Westwood, 28, house-braking; Chides Clift, alias Camp bell, 30, returning from transportation; George Kirby. 45, cattle stealing ; David Richardson, 18, stealing in a dwelling.house; and John Ireland, alias Highland, 40, uttering counterfeit coin, having been before convicted. All of whom his Majesty was ;pit eously pleased to respite during his royal pleasure. ABSTRACT OF THE RESULT OF COMMITMENTS TO THE LAST OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Convicted. Acquitted. . 30 - 23 Worship-sireet 23 Hatton Garden Office— 15 Bow-street l3 Whiteehapel- Queeo-aquare Thames . Marylebone blarlborougl 7 4 Coroners and County Ma gistrates 10 135 Lord Mayor & Aldermen 29 .... ..... .. 8 Of the above cases— Baron Garrow tried Justice J. Parke . The Hi:corder . . 10 The Common Sergeant • 48 . 11 Sergeant Arabin . . 103 . 35 INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 3. Alexander Airdrie, a very inThl l r -- m man, who was supported into Court by two officers, was opposed by Mr. Cook; for the Rev. Edward Williamson. The insolvent, it appeared, held a lease of his house, and standing in need of money, he applied to Mr. Cook, the auctioneer, who advanced him a sum of money upon that security. On further examination it appeared that he owed the Rev. Mr. Williamson, his laildlord, two years' rent. lir. Cooke said, that the Rev. Gentleman would wave his oppo sition if the insolvent would give up his interest in the house, and three cottages, under the lease. The insolvent said, if the Court would grant him time for a month, he would give up the key ; otherwise his family would have no place to go to. Mr. Cooke said he must continue in prison until possession were given. The insolvent then consented, and 'gave up the key in Court, and when possession is had, he will be discharged. POLICE REPORTS. GUILDHALL. — William Briton, a pieman, residing in Field. lane, Holborn, was brought before Sir Peter Laurie, yesterday, upon a charge of knowingly receiving a gold watch, which was stolen from an Hungarian gentleman, named Toth, by his footboy, of which offence the latter was convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions. The principal witness against the prisoner was a shrewd little boy, about thirteen years of age, who had just been discharged from the House of Correction, and who gave his name William Edmead. He stated that on the 7th of June. Charles Wells, the footboy, came to him and said he had stolen his master's watch, and would be glad if he would assist him to get rid et it. Witness answered he did not mind doing so, and he WIN to the prisoner, who stood on Holborn-hill, and was in die habit of buying stolen goods from boys; Wells told him to oak I. for the watch, but he said he should ask 31. and did se I the prisoner asked him to wait while he went to see a man who would buy it, and witness tiatehed him to the shop of Mr. Reeves,' the pawnbroker,on Snow-hill. When the prisoner returned, ha gave witness a frilling, and Wells lis. tid. in part payment, sod they treated him with some ale at a public hods, in F leet . market. Soon after they called on him again, and he said he could net give more than 30s. for the watch ; he had offered it for sale, saying he had given fifteen pounds fur it down in the country, and be was laughed at, and told it was only metal, and worth thirty shil. lingo ; witness replied, that story would not du for him, sod be must have three pounds, and the prisoner then gave him a owes reign and a half more, with which be and Wells started foe Dips. ferd.fair. Wells was taken there, and committed for trial. ' Hess was apprehended next day, but was discharged, when be called on the prisoner, and told him what had happened. Prisoner then Agave him 7s. 6d. more, upon which witness bought one shilling's worth of his pies, and treated him with ale, and took bs. worth of things into Newgate to Wells. Richard Wells, the brother of the boy who was convicted, deposed that the prisoner had admitted to him he had purchased this watch, end sold it again for only 41. The prisoner declared be knew nothing of the watch nor the boys ; but Sir Peter Laurie, after questioning the parties at consi derable length, remanded the prisoner till Friday, that the prosecu. tutor may have an opportunity of tracing whether the prisoner and the boys were seen together at the places mentioned by Edmead, and whether the prisoner offered such a watch at the pawnbroker's LAMBICTSZTRIZT. Yesterday, William Walker, alias Black-eyed Billy, and Thomas Sheen, two notorious characters, were charged with burglariously entering the dwelling.house of Mr. Ticker, of Collett-place, Commercial-road, on Monday morning last, and stealing therefrom plate and wearing appsrel amounting to over 201. Mitchell, a police constable, stated that, in consequence of infor mation he received, he apprehended the prisoner on suspicion of being concerned in the above robbery. Blimbeth Williams deposed that she resided opposite the hones of Mr. Ticker. On Sunday night, she observed two men loitering about the neighbourhood ; and, between twelve and one o'clock, one of them got on the wall and entered the back premises. This person was the prisoner Walker. Mr. WYarr.--After seeing all this, why did not you give an alarm ? Witness: There are two maid-servants in the house, and I thought they were their sweethearts. Drew, one of the inspectors of K. division of police, said he had called at the house of Mr. Ticker on the Monday morning, and, from the manner in which the robbery had been accomplished, he felt satisfied that it was perpetrated by experienced thieves. Wr. WYATT asked Drew if he had given information of the rob. bery at this office ?—Drew replied in the negative. Mr. WYATT remarked, that his not doing so was exceedingly ir regular. All burglaries committed in this district should be re ported at the office, as by that means they would get inserted in the " Hue and Cry," so that every officer in the metropolis would, in a few hours afterwards, be in possession of the facts. Drew replied, that he was not at liberty there to state the reason why the information was not sent to the police offices*. Mr. WYATT again condemned the practice, and said it afforded great facility for burglars to escape. The prisoners were then remanded for a week. Mr. Saunders, who is discharging the duties as deputy constable of Whitechapel, waited on the magistrate with a pass of head-bo roughs, and asked if he had a right, in virtue of his office, to enter the Pavilion Theatre when he thought proper ? From his Maternal', it appeared that he had himself taken it into his head, some days since, that he possessed such authority, and with his headboroughs made an effort to get into the boxes. In this intention, however, they were frustrated, and after a desperate conflict with the check takers, &c. they were ejected vi el amis. Mr. WYATT said he apprehended they had no right to enter the theatre, except in cases of disturbance ; and this not being the case, he considered the parties trespassers. The headboroughs thought the case a hard one, on their parts. — Mr. Saunders had called on them to do their duty, saying that he had received directions from Mr. Burnell, a County Magistrate, to act as he had done; but that gentleman denies the fact, and an in dictment was now threatened against them, for both a conspiracy and tres_e!.. Mr. WYATT said that he could not help that; if they had mis conducted themselves, they were amenable to the laws, as well as other individuals; and the parties then withdrew. • The object of the New Police in not giving this information, is of a two-fold nature ; first, that the public may not be made ac quainted with the number of robberies which take place in the dis uict in which the New Police are stationed, and next to keep the business from the Old Police. EXECUTION OF SLAITER, THE MURDERER, AT YORK, ON AIONDAY. Ilondsy morning, the last award of the law was dealt out to the above wretched man, upon a new drop at the back of the Castle, in the presence of some thousands of spectators. The crime for which he suffered was:the murder of his own child 5 years old,which he accomplished by throwing it into the river Ribble, near Skipton. The criminal was a little past the prime of life, of a sturdy make, and, though short, of athletic appearance. He was a working man, and had borne a good character, up to the time of this dreadful transaction. His conduct in gaol, we understood, was rather ex emplar) than otherwise ; but, from the moment of his conviction, hs fell into a stupor, from which not all the exhortations of the Clergy man. or the more active adjurations of the attendants, to think upon his situation, could arouse him. Up to the moment that he had been led out upon the fatal scaffold he was obdurate and impenitent, maintaining a sullen and unbroken silence ; but it has been said that he at the last expressed some contrition, and acknow. lodged the justice of his sentence. He met death with considerable fortitude, and the vigour of his constitution made a struggle against dissolution which must have produced a painful effect, tor the body writhed a good deal. The fate of this wretched criminal, though justified by positive admissions of his own, and strengthened by secondary evidence of a very strong nature, was yet calculated to excite some pity for him. The victim of his crime was the child of a wife, who, by the violence of her disposition, her gross irregu larities while in his house, and her final desertion of him for a pa ramour, had soured his temper and affected his reason. He was said to be more or leas flighty since his wife had left him. He had always shown a great affection for the child, and it might have been in a paroxysm of insanity that he committed the crime for which he suffered. But no such case was proved at the trial, and the law, therefore, kept on its course, and criminal justice required its victim. A TOUR OF IGNORANCE. DREADFUL MURDER AT AUDLEM, CHESHIRE. It becomes our painful duty to record the premature death of a fellow-creature, at Audlem, near Nantwleb. The unfortunate suf ferer is the wife of Mr. Joseph 'Cheaters, butcher and publican, residing at the Phomix Inn. Audlem. Monday evening, Mr. Cheaters having completed his hay har vest, gave the mowers and assistants, among whom was his brother, John Cheaters, a harvest supper . About half-past 12, John Cheaters left his brother's house with the intention of going home, and was ac costed in the street by a person of the name of Thee. Hassell, who was accompanied by another person of the name of Sambrook Turbo, by the appellation of " old Bacon sides," with a request to be mild a small sum of money due to; him (Hassell) from Cheaters. Words ensued, and eventually John Cheaters collared Hassell, and shook him. The consequent noise brought Mr. Joseph Cheaters and his workmen to the scene of contention ; the wordy warfare was renewed, and John Cheaters struck Hassell and felled him. scale then took place. J. Heaton, one of the mowers, took an active part in the fracas, when Sam Heaton, another mower, interfered to prevent Hassell striking his father, as he suspected that was his intention, but Haman disclaimed any such notion ; and as Samuel Heaton was turning away, he received • wound in the back of his neck, from some sharp insuument, which made him very sick and faint, and which he believes was inflicted by Hassell. The con tinual hubbub brought Mrs. Cheaters to the spot, who told Ilaasall it would look better to pay what he owed her than to make a disturbance there. He raid he would, and, f r om the contra dictory reports prevalent, it appears that they exchanged blows. He was, however, afterwards seen to clasp her round the neck with his left arm. and in the struggle they both fell to the ground, Hasaall undermost. Joseph Heaton ran to her assistance, and on lifting her up, heard her indistinctly articulate,—" Oh, thou bast struck me I" and she expired soon afterwards. Sambrook Tuber was secured directly, and Hassell was delivered up by his father the nest day. tit the evening in question, Furber had bees observed sharpening a knife, which be states he afterwards lent to Hassan, on the way to the Goat's Head public.housc, where they spent theevening. and drank three pints of ale. The knife has not yet been found. The deceased was in her 29th year, and has , left one child. A Coroner's Inquest has been held upon the body, and the Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder , against Hassell as the princi. pal, and ageism Ferber as aiding and abetting, and they were sc. cordingly committed on the Coroner's warrant to Chester Castle, to await their trial. The are both young men under twenty years of age. —CAester Litir:eB7 COKONER.N' INQUESTS. An Inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Blue Posts, in Southampton.buildings, on the body of a stranger, unknown, who shot himself on Sunday afternoon. in the front room of that house. He had no property about him of any kind. lle had taken ale and bread and cheese in the parlour. and retired to the room up stain, where he had some gin and water and smoked a pipe. lie was about 40 yews old, had the appearance of a military man ; his stockings were marked W.P.S. No. 8, and his boots had the name of Ward Portaea, in them. Verdict, that the deceased shot him self but whether he was sane or insane, the juty had no evidence. Tuesday an inquest was held before T. ST taunts, Esq. Coroner. at the barracks, at Hounslow, on the body of Wm. Carroll, a Fri rate in the 9th Lancers, who shot himself through the head on Sun. day morning last. The deceased was a remarkable fine young man, 24 years of age, and was generally correct in his conduct, except that he was somewhat given to drinking. He was strongly attached to a young woman residing in London ; and. on the day of the re view in Hyde Park, he saw her ; but than was no evidence to prove what passed between them. The Jury returned a verdict of Tem porary Insanity. An inquest was held on Tuesday, by T. Stirling, Esq. at the Boat, Chetties-street. Bedfoul.square, on the body of Joseph Har ris, a lad of 13, who destroyed himself The deceased had been 18 months in the service of a gentleman, named Manley, in Thurnaugh.atreet, as footboy, and, during that time, conducted him to the satisfaction of the family. On Friday last his sister. who lives with her mother near Clapham church, called upon him, and said she could procure him a place near to their own house, and that it was his mother's wish he should come there. lie told this to Mr. Mawley's housekeeper in the evening. and she persuaded hint to remain where he was. The boy, however, seemed annoyed and unhappy at night, and the next morning be was found banging by the neck to a nail in the wall of his own room quite dead. He was naturally of a cheerful and obliging disposition. The Jury re. turned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." SCINTILLiE. A Pious PRINCE !--The golden rose, ornamented with diamonds, which is given by the Pope, to the most " sincerely pious" of Catholic Princes, has this year been presented, by his Holiness' commands, to Don Miguel I ! _ DUN AND KETcII. —A fellow named Dun, was the first noted finisher of the law. lie was succeeded by one Jack Ketch, whose greater notoriety gave his name permanendy to the office ; while that of Dun attached itself to the scarcely less ho. nourable office of bailiff's follower. AN EXPLOIT.—A labouring man named Squires, who resided in the pariah of Heavitree, hung himself in his bed-room. Report says that he arrived at home in a state of intoxication ; and on his wife accusing him of being drunk, which he denied, and saying she would rather hang herself than live with such a man, he turned the tables upon her, by hanging hiussey: A MEMBER.—The Whipper-in, from the nature of his office, is generally at the tail of the pack ; but in contradistinc tion to this, the whipper-in of the late House of Commons, has been the first Member returned to the new one. _ TIIE KinG.—During the expedition of the late Duke of York to Holland, he was accompanied by Prince William, his resent Majesty, who having, in the eagerness of youth, ventured yond the outposts, received more than one ball through his coat. TEA AND PEAS.—At the splendid dejnow on Tuesday morning in Kensington Gardens, his Majesty desired one of his si tes:Wants to bring him some green tea and cream, and although the attendant went off with alacrity to obey his Majesty's commands, a considerable time elapsed before his return, when at length he was seen hastening with rapidity towards his Majesty with a smoking dish of green pose and a cream ewer S The mistake afforded much amusement to those who witnessed it. Dust OF ORLEANS.—The present Duke of Orleans is the son of the well-known l'Egalite, who suffered during the French Revolution by the guillotine, and cousin to the ei.King. He I was several years himself a Colonel in the Republican cavalry, and fought various battles under the tri-ooloured flag. He was, after. wards, obliged to Hy to Switzerland, where he was a professor of ma thematics, and, some time after, came over to tits country, and took up his residence at Chiswick. On the restoration of the Bour bons he returned to France, and had the whole of his immense pro perty restored to him. A DISCOVERY.—The Zoological Society have made this wonderful discovery in natural history, that Thames flounders will live in a pond. We wait for the result of their important et punt:tents on " gudgeons." A Nsw HABIT.—One of our London papers adver tises an " Adelaide Habit Shirt." This, certainly, must be one of the best habits that can be worn, particularly in this " piping time." A NEw SCHOOL.—To such perfection have the Americans brought the pyrotechnic art, that an artist in that line iu Philadelphis produces picture*, anti even intricate landscapes, in fire-works. JOINING HANI)S.—A writing master having engaged the affections of a female scholar with a fortune of 20,0001. led her to the hymeneal altar. A few days previous he had been asked by her guardian how Miss came on in her writing ? To which he gravely replied, " Vastly well, indeed, Sir ; I shall soon have her Ira joining -hard!" WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN ?..—A re markable coincidence lately occurred at the Bristol Sessions. Three jurymen who were soccessively called into the box had each lost his left eye. A punster observed, that they could not fail to see the case in a sista light. VICTUALLING 01IFICE.—A young naval officer, of a spare skeleton figure, lately stopped to ask his way to the Admi ralty. " Are you not mistaken in the place of your inquiry ?" said the gentleman ; " I should think your business laid with the Vic tualling Office." A DINER-OCT.—A Scotchman (a regular diner-out) gave the following reason for visiting the Holy Land :—" I will go to Jerusalem ; for having seen it all, I shall, on my return to Edin burgh, be asked to dinner every day in (lie week. TRIFLE/.—ln the beginning of the French Revolu tion, when the belief in the existence of a Surinam BEING was (honesco referees !) abrogated by law, till Robespierre found it ex pedient to declare "lly a an litre Summits," different formulas of making oath became requisite. Men swore accordingly then upon what they thought proper, true, sacred, obligatory, and binding, as they are now said to swear in America upon Euclid or Johnson's bile tionary, &c. the same having all the force of law in Courts of Justice. It is recorded of one French General, who, on being sworn in, said, "Je jure sur won sabre (I swear by my sword) ;" whilst another more frivolous admirer of foppery made use of the expression, "Je jure sur ma moustache. ' British peers and Princes of the Blood Royal are privileged to swear, or rather to aver and declare. " Upon their honour." And though swearing upon their musta chios was not usual amongst the military officers of England, there were, no doubt, many who would not have parted willingly with a single hair of their beloved mustachios. The sacrifice of this mealy and soldier-like, or heroically-looking ornament, must, there fore, have cost bitter pangs to many a noble breast, and, perchance, childish mind. It appears, consequently, that this ready compliance with the King's dread command, and even the anticipation of his wishes, proves the omnipotence of the Royal pleasure. LACRTMJE DRACONICIE..-(FTOM IL Correspondent of a morning .)—" And all the Palace echoed, Shave the troops." I have with the utmost alarm in your paper, a paragraph which, no offence to you, Sir, I hope and trust is a lie—setting forth that the King is a sworn enemy and exterminator of whis kers and mustaches. It is not very credible that our most reli gious and King would make so light of Sacred History as to order fill: s ops to be shorn ; for surely he remembers Samp son and the nice wig-making of his days : nor can it be forgotten what a lift it was to legitimacy that Absolam wore his hair pretty much after the present fashion. All antiquity is agreed upon this one point, that a flowing beard (barbs sylvosa the learned call it) is to a man what a Inane is to a lion, or a comb to a cock--a sign and symbol of strength, spirit, and audacity. Your combless cock and your smooth-lipp*d boy are too often of the Craven breed. Dame Partlett would not select any suchAfor her chanticleer, nor would other dames, whom I might mention be very apt to choose a cava lier by the sanielmarks and tokens. Shall Ibe plain ? Tice ladies are taken by the beard. The golden beard of Esculapius was not more effectual to strike the ailing public with veneration for his art than is the mustache of a Hussar to win golden opinions from all eons of females. Many a goodly dower have I seen entangled in its busby meshes, and lung, long and thickset may it curl upon the upper lip of our British soldiery, the greatest, warmest, cheap est ornament of which the human face military is or can be suscep- Me. One of the wisest Kings. Lycurgus of Sputa, a man whose band was an apt emblem of his brains—toads a law for the growth and propagation of facial hair. He encouraged it for two mama, of a seemingly contradictory tendency—namely, to improve the beauty of the handsome, and to render the ugly more trightful In beide. The Spartans were such soldiers as on ne twit plus ; their mad at Thermopylee having been at least equal to the lines of Torres Vedras, and all because the silken dandies of Persia had no mess of a beard to swear by than the fair Rosalind herself. Fur the which reasons I judge that, if our good King did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard (I name no names,) that is no rea son at all for stripping the faces of his dragoons. Let him " shave the Marines," if be be so minded in his Royal pleasure but, if it please him to leave our countenances in their pre sent disguises, he shall find that we neither love nor serve I him one hair the less. What is the use of a military Cabinet if we cannot obtain this favour? Where is the Lord Hill—the Laid Rosslyn—the Lord Combermere—the gallant and hairy London derry—he that used to be bearded like a pant ?Is there no friend to Rowland—no aliquis de genre Itircati centurionuni—to stand up for the honour of Bears' Grease and Macassar Oil t All chop. fallen That smooth-ebeeked. whiskerless, Kaman* Peel—Ali, nimium lubricus avid !—must he carry the day, and reduce us to the deformity and weakness of nakedness ? Au .scours !—Men of whiskers ! ye who bate razors, and wish to remain as beautiful as Nature made you—rise up and protest, at least, against this cutting and clipping. SYLVESTER SCARAMOUCHE. Hibernicii for what Hf is. DIRT H. July 30, In Clifford -street, lady Jane Walrond, of a son and heir. MARRIED. 'Tuesday, at St. Ann's, Westminster, Walter Smith, Esq. mew. chant of the City, to Miss Ann Ton, eldest daughter of J. Tort, esq. Devon.—E. B. Stewart, Esq. am of the late lion. J Stewart, Judge of his Majesty's Supreme Court at Halifax, to Frances Isabella, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Jaisleel Brenton, Bart. K.O B.—At Wilco' church, Bath, Donald C. Baynes, Esq. of his Majesty's Odd Regiment of Von, to Anne Maria, youngest daughter of the late H. Buultoo, Eve of tleddington, in the county of Northampton. DIED. Saturday Wool lit, at Fordtuo Room, near Crediton. aged 31, Anre. the wife of Thomu Pring. Req. solicitor.—iaturday, At Ms father's residence, Wellington Cottage, Camberwell, of a &dim. aged 17, William Henry Rayner, only son of Mt. Rayner, the Comedian. At the early age of 14 he evinced extraordinary talent aaA youthful poet I at 13 he left his home to embrace the profv *ion of the mage.tommencing career, as " Giles," in " The Milker Maid," in which character he exhibited a degree of talent bidding fair to rival his father in that peculiar line of acuag. ^—,—• Lamm s Printed sod Published by Jour Wye., at tbe Stu- Orr = Nu. 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