Star. — London, England, 1830-12-30 00:00:00

A CORRECT I,IST OF THE NIETROPOLITAN SESSIONS January 5. February 16. March 6. To be held in the Year 1831. LONDON SESSIONS, To he held at Guildhall, London. May 11. October 19. June 29. I November 30. September 7. • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Held at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell Green. January 3, 13. 20. I May 4, 10, 19, 26. Sept. 5. 15, 22. February 9, 14, 24. June 11. 27. Oct. 12, 17,18, 27. March 3, 30. July 7, 14. Nov. 3, 23, 25. April 4,14,.21. I August 31. Doe. 8, 15, 28. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Held at Justice Hall, Old Bailey. May 12. October 20. June 30. December I. September 8. January 6. February 17. March 7. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, Held at Guildhall, Westminster. Janua.sy 15. May 5. 21. October 13, 17, 29. February 10, 26. June 23. November 24. March 31. July 9. December 10. April 11. September 1, 17. The above list includes the general sessions - the quarter sessions and adjournment days. the pewee, as well as ORIGIN OF THE OFFICE OF LORD CHANCELLOR. This office was known to the Courts of the Roman F.mperors, where it originally seems to have signified a chief scribe or secretary, who was afterwards invested with several judicial powers, and a general superin tendence of the rest of the Officers of the Prince. _ _ _ Under the Emperor Catinus, one of his doorkeepers, with whom he entrusted the Governmert of the city, was denominated Cancel/arias; and from this humble origin (says Gibbon) the appellation has, by a singular fortune, risen into the title of the first great office of State:in the Monarchies of Europe. Some say it was the Emperor himself who sat and rendered justice within the lattice ; the Chancellor attending at the door thereof, whence he took his title. Chamberlayne, in his Anglia Nattier, says " The Lord High Chancellor, Sununu, Canoellarive, so called because all patents, can. missions, warrants, coming from the King, and perused by him, are signed, if well, or cancelled where amiss; that is, creased out with lines across like crowbars, or lattices, called in Latin canselli ; or else because anciently he sat infra canceling ; that is, such a partition eel usually now separates the church from the chancel." Sir Edward Coke says, " it is certain that the Saxon Kings had their Chancellors." " From the time of Henry 11. (says Chamberlayne) the Chancellors of England have been ordinarily made of Bishops, or other Clergymen, learned in the Civil Laws; till Henry Vlllth, made Chancellor, Ern Mr Thomas More, and after him Sir Richard Rich, knight, Lord Rich, a common lawy er ; since which there have been some Bishops, but most lawyers." Camden tells us. " The Sunday after More gave up the Chancellor. ship of England, he came himself to his wife's pew, and used the usual words of his gentleman usher, Madam, my Lord is gone." LAW REPORTS. SECONDARIES' COURT.—Dee. 28. WILLATTS V. WUUTOW. This was an action brouglHiitheplain Willatts, an Ac countant of great respectability in the city, against the defendant, John Weston, jun. Tailor at the West End. for an assault. :in which judg ment had been suffered to go by default. Mr. PHILLIPS attended on behalf of the plaintiff; and was proceed ing to open his ease, when Mr. M , MAHow (interrupting) said he believed he could save the time of the Court and jury by the apology he was Instructed to make on behalf of his client the defendant. Mr. POTTZft observed that an apology in Court at this stage of the , proceeding could have no effect, as the jury knew nothing of the case. Mr. PHILLIPS said his client was very opulent, and it was not for money he had come into Court. If, therefore, the defendant was ready to make a public apology, and express his regret for the assault he had committed, which had deeply injured the plainttff's feelings, he should feel content. Mr. 111‘Mattort said that was just what he was about so do. His client acted at the moment under very excited feelings, from informa tion which he had received, and which on further inquiry he found to have had no foundation in truth. lie bad therefore instructed him (Mr. Willahon) to make this public declaration, that he deeply re gretted the assault be had committed, and felt sorry for what had passed. Mr. Panties was happy to hear it stated on the part of Mr. Wes ton that he believed the pkindff to be a man incapable of being the au -1 thor of any slander ; and after the apology that had been made, the jury were to understand that the plaintiff desired not to have one farthing awarded at their hands. Mr. POTTER directed the Jury, however, to find a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages is. Costs to be paid as between attorney and client. Two whet cues of not the slightest public Interest were also disposed of, and the Court adjourned. FEMALE MISER-SINGULAR ACCUMULATION OF RICHES. A curious case, respecting the validity of a will, came before the Prerogative Court, in which an Irishman, named Featherstone, sought to support a will against the claims of the distant relatives of an old beggar woman. It appeared that on the 26th of March, 1829, an old and pretended blind beggar woman, named Elizabeth Henrich, died, leav ing behind her, in Bank of England notes and specie, pro perty to an enormous amount (said to be nearly one hundred thousand pounds.) During her life-time, she had pur sued the occupation of a beggar, feigned blindness, in or der the better to excite commiseration, and had been in the habit of being led about from the door of one patron to that of another, to collect subscriptions for her maintemnee. She was an Irish woman and many years ago introducei herself to Lady Caroline Murray, stating that she had bean deserted by her husband, and left quite unprotected in this country. Lady Murray interested herself in 11.)-1 behalf, placed her name at the head of a list subscribers, and recorr.n., Tided her to several volent persons. In this wav u old woman obtained large sums of monk y, which she h rded up in a parlour and cellar, whiLh she rented in NN'arrcn-street, Golden-square. She was extremely cautio is of admitting any person into this parlour awl wrist` and w li, n the girl, whom she em ployed fr,r the Tnirpcwie of - woeping the former was engaged in that occupation, she constantly bold her by some p'ut of her dress, in order to prevent her from ap proaching some particular part of tho room. In this house leaving property to the amount above stated. She had, during her life, been in the habit of visiting Featherstone, in Saint ohn's-court ; had often been known to drink whisky, sod sing Irish songs with him, and had been heard to say she would leave him thou sands when she died. Mrs. Henrich did die on the 26th of March, 1829, from the effects of a 6t. On the property being discovered, advertisements were inserted in the news papers, advising her heirs or any of her relations to come forward. It was not till some time after this was done, Fea therstone appeared with the will in question, by which he was appointed universal legatee. The evidence for the defence went to show, that at the date of the pretended will (Fe bruary 13, 1829, and whidh purported to have been drawn up, signed, and attested at the residence of the plaintiff, in St. John's Court,) the deceased was unable, and had been unable for a long time previously, from a general decay of nature, to leave her own house. The defence, in fact, chiefly rested on an alibi. It was commented on as a singular cir cumstance, that to Green , the subscribing witness, since dead, nothing whatever had been left by the deceased. The case on both sides having been gone through, Sir John Nichol gave judgment against the will, and in favour of the defendants. The writ of Supersedees, directing that all proceedings under the writ for electing two Members of Parliament for the borough of Evesham should cease, was delivered at the Sheriff's Office in Worcester, by an official messen ger from town, at ten o'clock on Saturday morning, and, io obedience thereto, the Under Sheriff immediately for um-clod a precept to the Mayor of Evesham, be suspend the proceedings under the Sheriff's former precept. — Worcester THT► WEATHER. EDINBURGH, Dzc. 27. Contrary to expectation, from its suddenness and seve rity, the frost still continues its iron reign—abating nothing of the rigour with which it set in. The thermometer still ranges very low, being sometimes during the night 17 degrees. Most kinds of out-door labour have in consequence been brought to a stand still. On Saturday Duddington Loch exhibited a very animated appearance. From an early hour in the forenoon, a living stream of all ages, in cluding a considerable sprinkling of the fair sex, continued to pour towards the icy rendezvous, until the surface of this beautiful sheet of water was so completely studded and in stinct with life, as to indicate,when viewed from a short dis tance, but few traces of its existence.—Several curling par-1 ties were out, and the skaters were very numerous, amongst whom we observed several members of the Skating Club, who, by their easy and elegant movements, stood out in fine relief from the many awkward and floundering novices around them. Two members of Mr. Ducrow's company at tracted much notice by the freedom and elegance of their motions, figures, and evolutions; they were decidedly the best skaters on the ice. The Skating Club, attended by the dragoon band, were on the ice this forenoon. ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST. MIRA/7UL OCCUR/MICE—A Max KILLED IT 01$ WIT/. —Last night an Adjourned Inquest was bald at Guy's Hospital, before Mr. PATNI, on view of the body of John Friend Azhad, aged 40, who held a situation in the Excise.office, whose death MOB oat of the following lamentable circumstances : -- - - Mr. *tn. Tifen surgeon of Church-row, Newington, de posed, that on the 27th of October last the deceased came to him and complained that he had received an injury in the head, in conempsence of having fallen against a brick-wall, when in a state of intoxication. Witness on examination found a dreadful wound just above the left ear, and several pieces of brick firmly embedded in the skull, which was hectored. He extracted the pieces of brick, together with a portion of the fractured bones, so that a considerable orifice remained in the head. The deceased was then conveyed home to his residence in Ellis-square, Walworth-road. Witness called so ess the deceased the following day, when his wife confessed that she had given him the wound. She said that be came home tipsey the preceding evening, and was very abusive, when, in the beat of passion, she took up a plow of brick and threw it at him, which stuck En his bead, and she expressed sorrow at the event. Witness desired his removal to the Hospital, and he was accordingly taken then. Richard:Weir, a porter in the hospital, deposed that he went that morning to the late residence of the deceased, and informed his wife of the death of her husband, when she gave the same account of the occur rence u detailed by the preceding witness. Mr. W. B. Andrew, a dresser in the hospital, stated that the deceased was received into the Institution on the let instant. On inspection he found a considerable orifice in the head on the left side. He was put under proper treatment, and for some time did well ; but subsequently lints attended with erysipelas of the in. jured part came on—large abscesses were also forma near the wound— he sunk gradually, and expired from exhausdon on Tuesday last. On a post mortem examination, so abscess appeared In the brain, near the seat of injury, and in the opinion of witness, the wound was the primary canoe of the unfortunate man's dissolution. The jury, $I II short consultation, returned a verdict of man. slaughter spines Bridget Axford, the wife of the deceased, and she was committed, under the coroner's warrant, to take her trial at the Bunny &salons, which commence this day at Kingston. DRRADTUL ACCIDENT AT HUTTON MOOR, NEAR HlPOlL—Monday evening week, as Mr. Weatherhill, of Catton, near Topeliffe, and his servant, were on their return home f rom Boroughbridge, with a waggon and a cart, and had got to Hutton Moor, the servant went up to the waggon, which preceded him, and was driven by Mr. W. whom he found suspended by the leg from one of the shafts, in which be had got entangled. He immediately stopped the horses, and when he got him released he presented a most appalling spectacle : his leg was broken, and the bone obtruded. His face was most horribly disfig ured, as it had been grinding against the wheel for some time. His nose, lips, and nearly the whole of the flesh of his face, was entirely taken off, and in this deplorable condition he survived about half an hour, when death released him from his sufferings.—Hull Adver tiser. Monday week an Inquest was held before J. Branson, Esq. Coroner, at the Mansion house, Doncaster, to ascertain the death of Mary Shackleton, wife of John Shackleton, of that town, bricklayer. After a long and patient investiga tion, which lasted from ten o'clock in the morning until six in the evening, during which it appeared that Mr. Rae burn attended and delivered her of a child on the preceding day, but, having urgent business in another direction, left the deceased under the care of an apprentice, who, it clearly appeared, was incompetent to the performance of the duty with which be was entrusted, hemorrhage, and afterwards death, ensuing, the jury came to the following decision:.-- " That the deceased came to an unnatural death in conse quence of being left by Mr. Raeburn in unskilful hands after childbirth, and that a verdict of Manslaughter is returned a,Taih; t ac.:Jrdingly."—ffatifas Clirc vide. INTILABSTING AND ACIHIIVTIC STOAT OF THE SHIP RAVZNIWOILTH.—IU our paper of Nov. 18, we extracted from The New Year Gift a rather romantic story respect ing the alst e , * Rayanstiorth basking from her moorings and going to sea with only a little boy on board, which roe gessetl a local booreat Craw the event motet; occurring at Shields. We and tbet the circumstance excited a sersat•en here, and is perfectly remembered by some gentlemen older than ourselves. It may be inte resting, therefore, to record the facts which took place, as they differ from the fictitious narrative in several particulars. The Ravensworth, in the first place, was not an old Greenland whaler, as she is represented, but was a small ship of 13 or 14 keels, belonging to Messrs. Mosley and Airey, coal-fitters, of Newcastle, Mr. Robert Atkinson, commander, regularly employed in the coal trade between Newcastle and London. She was light, not laden, having just arrived from the metropolis. She was driven from her moorings at North Shields, while there was a strong fresh wind in the river. All the crew were at the time on shore, except the cabin-boy, a lad 11 years of age. This oc currence which, as we have observed, excited great interest in the neigliourhood, took place about 1792 or 1793. Soon after it was known that the vessel had gone to sea with the little boy only on board, the Unity, belonging to Mr. N. Clark, went out with Capt. Atkinson, master of the Ravens worth, in search of her. They did not succeed, however, in meeting with her, and returned. It is not true, as stated, that the Ravensworth was three weeks tossing about in the German ocean, and was then driven on the coast of Holland. The little sailor, who constituted her sole pilot, had the pru dence, as mentioned in the tale, to lash the helm so as to keep her from the shore, and he not onl7 hoisted the fore staysail, but hoisted what is called a " jack " on the fore topmast rigging. This attracted the notice of a Harwich smack when she was near Flamborough Head, on which she went to her assistance, and we are informed, took her safely into the harbour of Harwich, after she had been buffetting with the waves for five days. It is worthy of note that the ballast port was open at the time. The little boy was busy frying pancakes when the Harwich smack came to the Raveneworth. It is perfectly recollected here that when the young sailor returned to Newcastle he was taken to the Exchange and shown as a little hero, and several of the mer chants gave him silver in token of their admiration. The author of the story in the Annual represents hint as an old potion:lap * his wig recounting his adventures. This i s not quite corrects if he is now olive, be can scarcely be mere than 50 years of age.— Tyne Mercury. POLICE REPORTS. Mawsrow-nousx.—.Several beggars with clean shirts have been lately commlued by the Lord Mayor to Bridewell. It is a very pro fitable thing nowadays for the beggsn to appear at the corner of streets, holding well-written appeals to the humane before their faces, and ex. bibitiog well-washed sithts. The object of compassion is often a big able fots, and his appeal states that he Is the father of six or eight motherlees children. One a these baggers was brought before the Lord Mayor, with being a common impostor. He had been sitting, with ch id belly and • white shirt, on the step of a door, and be had fastened round his beads thick piece of paper, on which there was written a meg recommendation of his case to the Lord Mayor. Several females who were passing said what a nice clean poor man. Ab ! it is evident be does not spend his money In the pablk.house. This comment was usually followed by an alms, and so the affair went on trent day to day. lie was traced, however, to one of the best eating houses in the City, !Wm whence be repaired to a new beer shop, or what the coal-beavers call a " rot gut conearn," to smoke his pipe. He was quite regular in his habits, and a quiet, le, steady man s but the thought that. while be was ob himself to wink for his bread, it was too bed to see a man get better, far just putting on a clean shirt. The LORD Maio& found that the petition very much resembled in style of expression a copy of verses which had been sent to him a few days ago, covering him all over with praises, and actually pointing him out as a miracle of wisdom and benevolence. His Lordship asked who was the writer of the appeal, and was confirmed in his suspicion, upon being told the author of the effusion was a resident of a court near Barbican. Ob, said his Lordship, I have had three or four candidates for the City Laureatehip. lam extremely obliged to the gentlemen, one of whom signs himself " Writer to the Press ; but they really lay it on too thick. It Is pretty evident that the " Writer to the Preis" is the writer of this petition, for it is here mentioned that The poor man's prayer Is the seater of despair. And in the verses I have been honoured with, he says My good Lord Mayor Is the averter of despair—(langhtcr.) Mr. Nobler asked his lordship whether there was allusion at ail to pecuniary matters. The LORD Abatis said the fret letter from the writer steered quite clear of the very name of money. The second touched upon the mat. ter, but very delicately; but no answer having been given, a third ar rived, which spoke in the plainest terms possible. The writer also wished to know whether his lordship preferred the noes or Herald as a medium of introdudng the poem to the public, but advised that both papers should be supplied, lest the editors should feel any jealousy on account of . it. (Laughter.) His lordship hoped that the talents of his correspondents would in future be better applied, for he had made a vow long ago never to pay for poetry. (Loud laughter.) The defendant plead d hard to be discharged, but the Lord Mayer sort him to Bridewell for one month. s _ 800st17e1Dtseir was brought before the LORD Maim', charged with having been concerned in plundering the Synagogue, In Duke's-place. Elisabeth Siddons appeared as a voluntary evide nce against the pri soner. She stated that on lest Sunday afternoon she was in company with a man named Wilkinson, and one Simmonds, with whom she lived as a wife; they were drinking tea, when the prisoner and his brother entered. A conversation took place, in the course of which, one of the party /aid be was going to the Synagogue, and mentioned, that if the rest would go, he would hew them the way. The four men went out at half past four o'clock, saying they were going to the Jews' Synagogue ; they returned at half. past Ms o'clock, and one of them told the others to take everything ex. eept the boson. They afterwards went out; witness nest saw them at about ten o'clock. The prisoner first entered the room, and asked whe ther Simmoods was come home, and being answered in the negative, said, then he is taken, for the robbery has been done. On the Monday, the money taken from the Sy was divided between Wilkinson and Simmonds, who said disc y that he had had it from the Jews' Synagogue. It amounted to 191. Os. 7jd. and that ise.had got gold balls and other valuable articles in the holy place. Davies mother appeared, and stated that she beard the witness say that she would say anything that might save her own inan,"whe was in custody for another burglary. The prisoner was remanded. Ount.nstax.i..—David Stephen Howell, a middle aged man, was =C with defrauding the overeaters of St. Sepulchre's, by obt aining sad from then, at the same time that be was residing in and receiv ing relief from St. Labs's. Mr. Miller, the asslemat overseer d Bt. Sepulchre's, stated that the had bow berdwinsme almost anotantly sine June 1816, and I f f 11 :11 1 : r a podia* eismerous sad leenblemene mem Having some business with the owes= of M. Lake% be want to dries on their day, and vosesulseil wows tbeapplisimm Iberians:, who he sai rei raweasimally esseived roller fee a Wadi et deem end bed been ordered into the weeithease on one omesiem He peeked s misuse made by the vastey irk, tow dowsed, that the pelmet Mind to be • parishioner Imes Isis having keen born there, as hie tabor bed Mad liehimved in , sad not bev es 'pined a esetleepest for himself. He bad been re the p mesa. In reply to a question from Mr. Alderman Kelly, the complainant said be was not aware that the prisoner bad been questioned on his right to relief, since his claim was allowed by the vestry-clerk in 1816. Mr. PATEL remarked that there would be • difficulty in proving the representadon made by the prisoner, the vestry clerk being dead, which would have been avoid, if the wholesome direction of the stat ute, that the right deer pm should be inquired into at Easter every year, had been Pries, the tdievin overseer of St. Luke's, was examined as to the Mid given to the teaff, but he had omitted to bring his books, as desired, to show on what ground relief bad been given, and he stated his hawed's to be that the prisoner was coosidered a casual pauper. He been in the habit of relieving the prisoner for two years. lag confessed that he supposed Mr. Miller's object to be to discover the pauper's claim to St. Luke's, and shift the bunhen from Si. Sc. . s. Mr. Miller hoped a narrow feeling would not induce theofficers of St. Luke's to suppress the evidence in their possession, and screen such an offender. It was incredible that officers, who were, necessarily rigid in dispensing their funds, would go on for two years relieving a man who had no family nor affliction to arouse their sympathy, without in quiring into his settlement, and a conviction that he belonged to them. Mr. Alderman KELLY believed that these inquiries were so strict, that deserving obj vi zeuently could not get relief. The overseers of St. Luke's ought to es u their minutes. After some con the prisoner was remanded till Monday, and, a summons was issued against the dicers of St. Luke's. Bow-sTanT.—lleitry Acres, the maa who underwent exazninadon some days ago, on a charge of having been concerned with one Thomas West Price, now under sentence of transportation for robbing Mrs. E. Dyott of a quantity of jeweUery, and a valuable gold watch, was again put to the bar. .1 Ledbetter, the taker, stated that he had failed in tracing the p ro p er ty, and that be had no further evidence to adduce. Mr. HALLS said that the evidence as it stood was quite sufficient to warrant him in sending the prisoner before a jury. Mr. Harmer, who appeared for the prisoner, submitted that it was a ease in which bail might be taken. Mr. HALLS declined taking bail, as he could mot but regard the dr. comatances of one party being already convicted of the offence, and the prisoner having tendered himself as a witness foe that party upon his The prosecutor and witnesses were then bound over to prosecute and give evidence, and the commitment a the prisoner to Newgate was made out. Henry Oniey , , G eorge Rickards, Thomas Fletcher, and Charles Tho. mas Davis, were again examined, Oolsy and klckards on a charge of stealing 1500 bricks, the property of Mr. Wm. Whitehead, in Chelsea, and Fletcher aad Davis for receiving the same, well knowing them to have bees stoles. The two fitst-named prisoners were in the employ of Mr. Whitehead, and the other two prisoners were supposed so have purchased the stolen evidence haying been adduced, the prisoners ()lacy, Rick. ands, and Fletcher, were remanded, and Davis was admitted to ball. Illesisonocon.rrasirr.—A stout young fellow, wbo gave his name Chaise Dina. and who by his d6lftt appeared to be a west. countryman, was brought before Mr. Dyer, charged on suspkion of being concerned in some of the late outrages committed in the country. A police constable of the C division said, that yesterday evening he was on duty, and saw the prisoner loitering about. lie suspected some. thing was wrong from his appearance, and on his being questioned by the constable, he said he bed just come to London. The policeman took him into custody, and on searching him found a phosphorous box, a quandty of matches, and serial skeleton keys, which apparently hiedonly jut been asst. 1U risme said he bead the keys and phosphorus bottle in a barn neer Manchestar. The rimer was remanded, in ender re albed time for inquiry. Among other considerations which belong to this season, we think it our duty to call the public attention to our Hospitals. Very many miserable creatures find an asylum In them at such a time. Between 12 o'clock en Monday and the same hour on Tuesday, eight oases of fractures of the thigh and leg were carried to the Middlesex Hospital, some of them requiriag iMaNdillet amputation, and all of them inmost assistance. The number of shadier tackiest' *Meg the week have male It necessary to dismiss patients wlso, wader other eiresostances, would have been fit objects of the charity. SCINTILLA TITANIC GOD MID YOUR LORDSHI P.—A foolish fel. low l when addressed by a man of rank, used to answ er —" T hank God ' and your Lordship"—" How many children have you, bo nelt moo ., said a Grandee, " Two, thank God and your Lord s hip.* AGRICULTURAL PUN.—A farmer, in the neighbour hood of Doncaster, was lately met by his landlord, who accosted him thus—" John, I intend to raise your rent ;" to which John repli e d , " Sir I'm very much obliged to you, for I cannot mire it myself." GOOD RECRUITING .—A aerjeant, who was recruiting in Leicestershire last week, told his captain be had got him an e ur , ordinary recruit. " Aye !" said the captain, " what i s h e „ butcher, Sir, replies theierjeant, " and you'll And hi m very usefu l for we have enlisted two sheep starlets in the company before him." SIMPLICITY.—A countryman giving evidence in a Court . was asked by the Counsel if he was bons in wedlock ? " No, Sir," answered the man, " I was born in Devonshire." A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.—" How are you this morning ?" said a wag to a lawyer. " Why, not at all myself," r e . plied " Latitat. " That I heartily congratulate you," said the wit, " for be whoever else you will, you must be a gainer by the bargain: , A NOSE.—Lord Hood, who died lately at a very ad vanced age, had one of the largest noses in the kingdom. One day on a division in the House of Commons, an acquaintance said to him, "Hood, I'm surprised to see you among the Ayes! I should hare thouOt you would have been led by the Noes." Gzsyri LITT. —Chesterfield says—" Next to clothes be. !Riese, they should be well made, and worn easily ; for a min Is only the less genteel for a fine cost, if in wearing it he shows a raged for it, and is not as easy in it as if It were a plain one." MARCH OP INTELLECT.—SOME carpenters were WOrkdog at the Archbishop of Canterbury's house. On his Grace's pod % one of them whispered, " Tom, that's our Primate, isn't it ?"—. " Prime-mate ! no," replied Tom, " that's our masks, you fool." A PUNNING POST CAPTAIN.A ship of war captured a smuggler. The captain immediately, on the smuggler striking, Paid to one of his midshipmen, "Come, Sir, you are enkr . prising, I under. stand, and the sooner you eater that prize the better. ' A VERDICT.—A Frenchman in one of the Cafes ex plaining to his countrymen our laws respecting the inquest on the book, of murdered persons, also defined'the crime under the different head, of homicide, fratricide, infanticide, suicide, &c. &c. but he observed there was one very curious verdict brought in by a Jury at Brighton when be was there, and which he was totally unable to translate into his own ig=r" The case vas dis," said the Frenchman ; " a man tree oirthe Shain Pier, and vas drown--de jury vas d es i re to sit upon his both, and dey bring in their jugement d a t i t vas fell.i.de. sea-side." On the farm of a noble Duke near Winchester, it i 4 an nounced by advertisement that Mere are " a few dozen nigeoni to he sold." We would recommend Ms Grace's house steward to put them in a plc. _ A poor woman at Winchester is said to have been recently delivered of twins united in the same manner as the Siamese boys. L'Ecluse, who was at the head of the Varietes Amusan tes, used to relate, that young, and without fortune, he arrived at Lune. vine, where he obtained the place of dentist to King Stanislaus on the very day that the monarch lost his last tooth. A contemporary informs its readers that two fine bullocks wen slaughtered on - Wednesday last at Launceston,--one of them an ow and the other a cow d Such a statement in Ireland would have been called a bill. When Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, had an interview with the King of Sennaar, a Cadi, who was present, asked him when the Haginge Maginge were to arrive. " The Haginge 3laginge," said the Cadi, " are little people not so big u bees., or like the simb, or fir of Senaar, that come in great swarms out of the earth—aye, in mul. titudes that cannot be counted; two of their Chiefs are to ride upon au us, and every hair of that us is to be a pipe, and every pipe is to p lay a different kind of music ; a nd a ll t h at bur and follow themare carded to bell." " I know them not," said Bruce, who had assumed the character of an English Dervish; " and in the name of the Loan I fear them not, were they twice as little as you say they are, and twice u numerous. I trust in Oen I shall never be so fond of music as to go to hell after an us. for all the tunes that he or they can play.' The King laughed violently, and Bruce went away.—From Bruce's Life in " The Fansily Wray." The following right pithy and pleasant notice, appears in the advertising columns of th e York Gazelle (an American Paper 0— C/tunny—l hereby forewarn all persons trusting or harbouring my husband, John Kolb, on my account. He has spent my whole fortune, and now tries to give me a bad name every place he goes to. He had me published In the Awti-Repnbhoaw, that no person should trust me. I th in k no person of sense will trust him, uhe cares little whether he pays say of his debts or not. I for my part always pay as Igo along. AU that ever he bought, that he paid esah for, was of my money; now be tries to hurt my feelings wherever he can ; but people know him, and I think they will know how to treat him. I was a rich girl, and my fortune was good, And courted I was by a false young la; He courted me truly both night and day, But now be's got my money and skated away. York, November IV, 1830. M*ii KOLB. A CHINESE GANUTREB9.—Youvro Hoo T. OLD FAT. —Madam Fei-ehung.po, i.e. old Lady Fat, now in her 67th year, in her youth was the wife of a tea-merchant, and who, after bee husband's death, lived in the most distressing poverty foe some years, inasmuch that she often attempted to m a ke an e nd o f herself. Having come into possession of a small house, she sold it, and commenced gamester. She was successful, and became famous among all the Chinese gentlemen blacklegs. She gamed either with ladies or with gentlemen, and was I llbeval to the police, and daily increased in fortune, till she reckoned hearoperty not by hundreds or tho usan d s , b ut b y h un d re d s o f thou sands. However, Lady Fat is now In limbo. The notable magistrate of Pwan . yu dis trict has a prodigal son, who lost one night 1,000 dol lars in playing with Lady Fat. He was chagrined, raised the wind, and went to play again. Her ladyship was afraid of the magisterial gamester, and refused. Young Hoo became angry laid a plot to entrap Lady Fat—had her seised—tried to extort— tailed, and was forced to show her up to his father. The plot thickened —the father was enraged at the discovery of the son's turpitude—re. solved to punish all parties to the utmost rigour of the law—reporuel to his superiors —imprisoned Lady Fat, whose official friends stood glom in the day of need—and there, in prison, according to the last accounts. she remains—Canton Rs Seger. SIWGVLAIL DISCOVZHY.—•-htr. Horton, a gentleman ' who has been engaged in boring for water in Providence. ft. I. has presented to the public some remarkable resultt. In his second experiment in boring, he selected the extreme point of a wharf, many yards from the original land. He bored through a stream of mod then through a bog-meadow, containing a INOj peat—then through .and and quartz gravel. At eta point, water impregnated with copperas and arsenic. broke forth ; but determining to proceed further, Mr. Hors= next struck a vineyard and drew up vines, grapes, gray seeds, leaves, acorns, hazel nuts, pine nuts, and the seeds of unknown fruits, together with pure water. This was tbirm five feet below the bed of the river.—Baltintore Chronicle. BIRTH. At Falmouth, the Lady of Lieutenant Crooke, of his Majesty'. brig Emulous, of a son. _ MARRIED. The 10th Inst. at Tavistock. Lieut. Richanl Darke. R.N. to ilic 1 1. second daughter of the late (Jeronimo Greco, F:sq. of Dublin-7 4 10+ 6 Y , at Monks lUsbotough, Buckinghamshire, F. Gunning, barrister at law, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. to Maria, third daughter of the Rey. Z. Brooke. at the former plice. DIED. At Dumfries, on the 20th ult. the Lady Elisabeth Daheli , '"A t Plaistow Lodge, in the county of Kent. Walter Boyd. Eaq. ALP. (or' merly of du cekbrated firm of Lloyd, Benfield, and Co. governatal financiers. At Ediabuqgh, on the Iflah curt P. Pleaderleath, ILK. fa the 3 5 . 11 year of his age.—Saturday sennlght, suddenly. at Union Cottage. Storehouse, aged 42, Mary %nn, wife of Mr. Nicholas Lust:mob& landing-waiter of his Majesty's Customs at Plymouth, leaving ell" chikken.—At Trelinno, near Launceston, on Friday Warden. led ' 32, Outrude Honour, youngest daughter of the late Samuel Ph IP:, gAil• of Pendispu, to St. Rem—ln Jamaica, of fever, on the 01 Octobers Ma. JOS Sturdy, son of Mr. Oswald Sturdy, of Irvinavo"' eta . master.—NAt Florerwe,from mursiamirm, en his return to his bruit, Rds. ilatismerchant, O din 25. son of Captain Ede of Liston', Cornwall..—At hones in-stre, 11arrIalonne, or th' 21t6 luau. John Richards. Esq. Captain in his Majertys Royal NAT aged 70 yeses.—The 21st inst. at the Elms, Bedhampton, no* !larks, the daughter of bir Theophiltts Lee, aged seven years and fore mouths.—At Calcutta, of fever. on the of May, Mr. John Arcith hold, one of the Hon. 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