Star. — London, England, 1829-01-21 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Coors was held at Guildhall, for the dispatch of a great deal of public business. COMMUNICATION FROM MR. TEAL Wink 11111PiCT TO THE POLICE. A letter from the Secretaty of State for the Home Department to the Court of Aldermen was read in Court. It contained a proposition, which appeared to be upon the first glance a very equitable one, but the Court begged leave, respectfully, to decline it. Mr. Peel required to know whether the Court would permit warrants for the apprehension cf persons accused of crimes, to be available in the City of London without being backed by a City Magistrate ? The proposal was accompanied with a condition that all warrants issued by any Members of the Court of Aldermen should have effect in all parts of the country, without being backed by a Magistrate of the County in which the individual sought for happened to be. There was an unanimous feeling in the Court against coilcuiring in this proposition, and it was determine without hesitation to reject a measure which would be so decidedly an infringement of the privileges of the Citizens nt London. An answer in accordance with this feeling was then tcolved upon, and the proper officer was directed to transmit it to the Secretary. PRACTICE IN THE ELECTION Olt CONSTABLES. A practice has existed for a very great length of time in some of the Wards, which has been the subject 01, enimadversion repeatedly, but which, until ye-terday, was believed, like many other bad practices, to be im tnottal. It is with considerable ple sure we state that the ahuse received a death-blow before the Court of Alder men, who really expressed much indignation at the existence of it. The following is a shaft history of what we allude to: Mr. Bogies, an inhabitant of the parish of St. An. drew, Holborn, was at the lost Precinct Meeting of the Ward of Farringdon Without, voted to serve as Con stable lir the ensuing year—a proceeding to which he objected. inasmuch as dive were several other indivi dues id much older standing in the parish than himself who had never served, and he thought it rather um ea• sonabie to require him to precede those upon whom the Piecinct Nlieting omitted to call. He accordingly made his objection, upon which the Precinct Meeting did him the favour to demand of him the sum of ten guineas, as a penilty for refusing to serve. Noo , as Air. Rogers by no means relished this mode of (lisp( sing of his ten guineas, he refused to pay one fart ing,,and of course the matter came before the Court of Aldermen. His objection will be collected from the following statement—Six or seven Gentlemen bad been elected constables before he was called upon, and not one of them having any fancy to the office, would meddle with it. 6 . Well, then," said the Pre cinct M. eting. " as that is the case, pay us a fine of ten guineas each of you, and you shall be excused." This proposal was considered t e less of the two evils, and they paid the sum demandeJ, so that in a very short time the Precinct Meeting had 60 or 70 guineas added to its funds. A person who heard of such fines would naturally imagine that they were appropriated to the payment of substitutes; but this has not been the case. The moment one inhabitant refused to set ve, the fine was inflicted, and another was called upon, so that the payment of a fine imposed the disagreeable duty of constable upon several petsuns years before any equitable liability could be established against them. Besides, several of the inhabitants took it into their hesds, but for what reason he did not know, that the money collected in this manner from refectory inhabitants, found its way in some shape or other down the throats of some few of the persons who were foremost in enforcing this injurious custom, instead of being applied to the purpose above alluded to, or to the truly legitimate use of feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. Mr. Room did not at all relish the suspected appro. priarion. He requested to know in what manner the fines were disposed of the poor of the parish were benefi•ted by the imposition, and by what autho rity the redact put their hands into the pockets of in dividuals : and the answers he received by no means sa tisfied his notions of the integrity of the managers of the business. He was told that the precinct, which was composed of all the inhabitants, had determined upon pursuing the system, had made the rule for themselves. that the fines were not squandered in dinners, or " blows ,out," as bad been calumniously asserted, but were ap plied to defray certain contingent expenses tor the liqui d mon of which tlt re were no funds in the Ward. He re• fused to pay, and was then required to support his Ap. peal before the Court of Aldermen. The Lotto MAYOR asked Mr. Rogers why he refused to *etre the office of Constable ?—Mr. Rogers said that he had what he trusted would be considered adequate wounds for refusing to serve. He should not have the tightest objection to .tease in the duties of the Ward, if , he thought himself called upon irr his proper turn ; but he had been called upon out of his turn. Six or seven of ttose w ho ought to serve bef ire he should had been fitted ten guineas each, and the 54111 C fine was imposed 'upon him, as lie had refused to set ve the duty of con stable some years bef ire he could in justice be called upon , o serve. The LOliD MAYOR asked what sight existed for de. mending fines. He did not comprehend so strange a proceeding as the ii.flicting of penalties under such cir cumstances, anal by such a body. M ..faveon (one r f the Common Councilmen of the Ward) said, in reply, that the Ward Precinct had e.tab fished the custom amongst themselves, as the most ad mirable, in inducing individuals to serve. If there ap peared to be asy th . ng objectionable iu the practice, the anh .bitaiits themselves h.d the blame upon their own Lead-, As the fines were levied with their approbation. The LORD Mayors wished to knew in what manner the sums thus received were distributed? did any of the produce of the fines go off in dinners?—(A laugh). Mr. TAYLOR (as well as we could collect) said, that n pats of the fines had been appropriated to the pay ment if dinner bill, this year. There were expenses arising in the Ward, from the necessity of paying the collectors of rates, and of defraying the charges for advertisements. and those wete paid out of the fines, the appropriation of which. in every particular, was to he easily ascertained by any of the inhabitants, as the Common Council of the Ward, who had no thing else to do with the matter, kept the accounts. Them was no abuse whatever in the manner in which the suns seie distributed. • The Lord Mayor expressed his surprise at the ex istence of such a practice as that of fining. The per. so s who ought to serve as Constables, should be called upon to serve, and if they objected, they must procure substitutes, subject to the approbation , cf that Ci•uit. Some of the Conn spoke of the practice as one which most be immediately abolished; and it was at once de (ermined that Mr. Rogeis should be excused from serving the office of Constable ; that the individual who stood higfitst on the list should be called upon tourer ; land that the six or seven persons who had paid the ten guineas each to be excused should forthwith receive back the same from the bands of the fine-taker—an office to be considered henceforward of co efficacy or avail. This decision gave the greatest satisfaction, when it was made known outside the doors of the Court. WEST PORT MURDERS. The grounds upon which access has been refused to Burke, the murderer, we understand, are as follow— Some days ago, the unfortunate individual, tired of the importunate intrusions of the numerous visitants who were continually infesting his cell, intimated to the She iff, that, in order to put an end to them, he was anxious to emit a declaration before him of all he knew, con nected directly or indirectly with the recent atrocities. The Sheriff immediately complied with this request ; and oa the Sd inst. a document was drawn out, extend ing to 19 pages of manuscript, which being afterwards read over to him, was signed with all due formality. This document was immediately conveyed to the Lord Advocate, and a copy of it dispatched to Mr. Secretary Peel. Subsequently to this, application was made by Burke to the Lord Provost, in a letter not written but signed by him, requesting that the Gentleman alluded to in our last might be permitted to have access to him, in order to takedown another declaration,which we pre sume could be for no other purpose than that of publi cation. On receiving this application, the Lard Provost applied to the Lord Advocate fur his advice; and in the answer of the Learned Lord, which we have seen, his Lordship recommends, that as Burke has already de clared that he has nothing further to communicate, any new declaration, if it were not a repetition of what he had already said, and cons• quently useless, might by some discrepancies only tend to throw dos credit on that which had already been taken down with so much c.tte, at Burke's own request. The Learned Lord recommended, however, for the satisfaction of the Lord Provost, that the Sheriff should again visit But ke, again read over his declaration, and again inquire of him if he had any thing to alter or to add to it.— This propo..ed interview tse think should take place , in presence of the Reverend Mr. Reid, the Confessor of Burke, that the document may remain unimpeach able. It is certainly of some importance that this should be the case; and if we are right in thinking to, it may also be necessary to avoid, as far as is consistent with right and usage, the publication of contradictory and inconsistent declarations. From the foregoing. statement it appears that the Lord Prov:)st, guided doubtless by the advice of the 1.-rd Advocate, takes upon himself the whole respon sibility of refusing the admission which had been soli. cited ; but that responsibility will weigh very lightly it the public are in any way informed of the nature of the disclosures which this wretched man may make; and we think they are entitled to look for such a communi cation as soon as prudence or expediency will permit its being made.—Caledonivu Mercury. EXECUTION AT THE OLD BAILEY. This morning were mewed, at the frolic of Newgate James Coleman, aged 33, for coining, and James Wheeler, aged 21, one of the Bethnal-green gang, for highsysy robbery, on the sth of November last.— Wheeler's offence was one of peculiar atrocity, a gang of ruffians, known by the title of "The Bethnal-green," having mounted one of their companions, dressed as a Guy Fawkes, started through the City, and plundered in the most outrageous manner a great many persons, and in these acts Wheeler was proved actively to have participated. Coleman was apprehended at a miserable lodging near the Commercial Road, by the officers employed by the Mint, in the very act of colouring base metal, to ;mi. tate the shilling coin of the realm. At a quitter before eight o'clock the Under Sheriffs arrived at Newgate, 'and were conducted by Mr. Wontner to the Press-yard. Coleman shortly after was brought from an upstairs room ; he was a man of short stature, extremely thin, and miserably dressed; he looked with a sunken eke, and fsale•wan countenance upon the group of pert ins befo e him, and suffered his aims and hands to he tied without a single observation. That being over he was led to a bench, where he sat down, and closing his eyes, his lips appeared to move as if in prayer. 'Mr. Cotton spoke some words of religious hope and coosolation, and be bowed his head as if' in perfect resignation. Wheeler was then led into the room. He was an athletic hardy In king young fellow, and no doubt when without the range of such a dismaying prospect as was then before him, would perpetrate any act of despera tion without fearor hesitation. He appealed more firm than his fellow sufferer, and once or twice said, .1 I wish it was over—l am quite ready." As the Church chicks tolled the hour of eight, they were removed from the room, and the Sheriffs pro ! ceeded to the scaffold. Wi eeler several times en claimed, as lie walked through the prison avenues, " LOED have mercy. on me!" " Carota . have mercy!" " Oh Gov, be merciful to a poor miserable sinner !" A mistake was discovered just as Coleman was about to ascend the scaffold—the law requires, in cases of coining, that the convict should be drawn on a hurdle; it was, therefore, necessary to bring him back to the extreme leitcl of a long passage, where a small car upon wheels was placed; into this he was put, and the two' executioners drew him to the foot of the scaffold through the interior of the prison; he was then placed upon the drop. His countenance assumed an ashy hue, and he shook violently. The cap was immediately drawn over his face, arid the rope was adjusted. Wheeler was next placed by his side, and appeared to pray w ith great fervour. He closed his eyes, as if un willing to look upon the crowd, among which were some of his companions, who cried out, .1 Good bye, Jem Wheeler; good bye—Goo Weis you, Jem." Some women were heard screaming and were weeping bitterly. The Reverend Mr. Cotton read the conclusion of the funeral service, during which Coleman groaned once or twice. The signal was given, and the drop falling from beneath their feet, they were launched into another world. Wheeler struggled for some seconds, but Coleman died instantaneously. The morning was bitterly cold, yet the crowd assembled was very great. The execution was all over by a few minutes past eight. Yesterday a military funeral excited considerable interest in Maidstone. It was that of Mr. Campbell, Surgeon of the Cavalry depots here,who'died last week. Sir John Browne, and the officers of the Depot, with about one hundred and sixty men of the several Depots, attended to pay the last military honours to the dec .asvd, who was much respected. The last active part taken by the late Sir WILLIAM CURTIS in the affairs of the house of which he was the head, was during the panic in 1826, when be attended for snme days in person, and much assisted to restore confidence by the hearty and cordial manner in which he pressed bis customers to withdraw their deposits. DUDLEY DOWNS. FIGHT BETWEEN 808 YANDELL AND The match between these candidates for knuckular Lime was appointed to come off yesterday ; and the tos for choice of place having been won by the (fiends of , Dudley Downs, they named the neighbourhood Of Wingfield Plain, beyond Windsor, as the point of ren devour. This choice was guided, first, by its proximity to Dudley's training quarters ; and next, from a desire to give the host of the New Inn, at Siaines—a great favourite with the sporting circles—a strong turn— The men are not of high consequence in the Pugili,tic Calendar, but still they had their admirers; and al- though they fought for but 251. aside, the event become a very prolific source of betting, Dudley being the favourite at five and six to four. Yandell, who is a carpenter by trade, last fought with and beat Crayfer ; while Downs, wbo is a " man of letters," otherwise a compositor in a printing office, was not so fortunate; for in his late fight with Jack Tisdall, his fount was so much bsttered, and his upper and lower cases so much knocked into pie, that some time was necessary again to place his form in working order. On that occasion it was said he was not in con dition; and due allowance being made by his typo pal, for the etrors of a first proof, his .econd trial, or revise, was regarded as likely to place him in a more lel e:t• able light. Both men had trained with great industry, and no pains were spared to improve their physical powers ; but by those who had an opportunity of mak ing the comparison, it was discovered that Yandell had the advantage in weight by a full stoi.e, and this tact of itself was sufficient to induce many to take the odds, which was freely offered. The mot :sing of yesterday was both foggy and fmsty, and to this conjunction of disagreeables may, petha i ts, be attributed the absence of the usual muster of • the Fancy Coves, for we seldom wiatessed so tiiin an as semblage. Yan.iell took the road at an early hour under tt.e aospices of Jens Burn, and proceeded to the insure• diate vicinity of Wingfield, where in a convenient meadow the rin4 was formed. As the day advanced Dudley Do tens followed his example, and by otie o'clock the combatants and their partizans reached the scene of ,action, there being at this time scarcely sufficient spec • rators to form a single line round a very moderate sized circle. The sun at this hour shone sir it and the men lo.t no time i•i shying t sir ca-tors and reel;ng for action. The moment they were <tripped, the superior niu•cle and weight or Yandell was so obvious, that all foresaw Dudley had up hill wor k to perform, and his chance of success was lo7ilcrd as rather " Dicirry." Nev. 'tireless his game and well known science kept the confluence of his friends alive ; ani several bets at even money were laid. linden was attended by Jem Burn and Jack Carter, and Downs by Reuben Al.trtin and Tom (Lipner. THE FIGHT. On setting-to, both seemed cautious, and covered their points well. Some minutes were occupied in marceuvring, when Dudley planted his right on Yandell's ribs—a circumstance which product d loud cheers iron, the •' boys of Erin," who statist Dudley as one of their kindred. Yandell, in return, tried his left at Dudley's " meal bag," but he was cleverly stopped. Dudley made another body hit, but caught it in return on the 1 . phis." A close fol lowed, in which some fibbing took place, when Vanden slipped on his knees. The ice being thus broken. the turn got to work in good style, Yandell upon the cautious system, and Dudley the first to fight. The certainty as well as severity of Yandell's style of hitting soon became apparent, and his right and left visitations to poor Dudley's frontispiece became so numerous, as well as rift-c -ave, that a woful change took place In his 8 phisiog." The claret Came copiously from his nose, and a cut between his ogles added to the purple stream. To these disasters were added divers smashing hits on the body, and • quick ►uccesion of heavy falls; for Yandell invariably proved himself the stro n ger man.— ... . . . . . Dudley, during these deliveries. was not idle, he planted some good body hits, and tome pretty facers with his right hand ; but the effect a' these blows was any thing but conspicuous ; in tact, beyond a slight cut over his right eye, Yandell showed but little pitin.h nient—while his strength remained unimpaired, and Ins county' hits were unusually severe. Dudley vindic ited hir claim to scien tific krowledge by some excellent right and left stopping, and also proved that his game was beyond a question, by the re adsticss with which he renewed the encounter. list chances of winning were, however, gradually decreasing. when. in the thirty-seventh round, after fighting one hour and eight minutes, his " good genius," in the form of a worthy beak, suddenly snapped him, as it were, front defeat; and scarce had one of these friendly smelts finished his in carnation, when another appioached in a different direction.— Against allies so powerful it was vain toe ffer resistance The men, their seconds, ad their friends,.fled with precipitation, leav ing their Worships " all alone by themselves" in the " magic circle." A fermi el denunciation, was then uttered against similar misdoings in the same psti•h in future ; and the scattered thro n g having collected on the road, resolved to return to the New lots, Swine-, there to hold a Council of War as to what was best to be done, and, atter some delay, they set out to Sheppertun fiange, where a fresh rind was made. Dudley was dragged out of bed, and taken there ; but one cause of delay followed another, until it was too late, being hard upon six o'clock, and as it became so dark the timekeeper holding the watch could not " see time," and the battle, with some quantum of wordy warfare, was given up for the time being.—The fight now remains on doubtful ground. Tie MASTER of the ROLLS is considee.obly better, and has se much recover. d, that he will dispose of his fist of 'p e a_ ti,.ns at his house, in South-street, on l'hur,.lay evening. G Ivernment ha. mdeted teinlorcerneas of forty ad ditional constables to the public foie: of Roscommon County. in consequence of the Resolution of the Magistrates on the disturbed awe of some of its Baronies —Limasick Chronicle. The Society of A t, held a meeting nu Tuesday, the 13th, to consider the propriety of discontinuing the annual distribu tion of the rewards in the Kies's Theaire.. . . The Snbscstpti ,, n Monthly evening last s at the Green Man Hotel. at Blackheath, was attended by near'y three hundred FashionAhles. The new refreshment rooms proved a great acquisition to the numerous assemblage, and was much Admired. The whole went off with great eclat. _ _ Joai Ft/ LLA faun, - Esq. Advocate, has been appointed one 01 the Judges of the Court of Seuion, in the room of Lord ELDIN, resigned. Dispetches were yesterday r,ceived at the Colonial Office from :gajor-General Sir Joint KEAN., K.C.B. at Jamaica; from Barbadoes, St. Thomas's, and from all the Leeward Islands. Y.lsterday the disp.stebes were closed at the Ea't India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the following ships, viz. Far4uharson, Captain JONN CILUICIMANK ; Inglis, Captain Amami UUDXAN, her Bengal and China. Last night a Gentleman, while sitting in the Grand Jury box, Old Bailey, was robbed of his purse, contain ing fifteen sovereigns. His Majesty's ship Grasshopper carried, en the 23d of November, into St. Kitt's, a slave brig called El Fir man, with 486 slaves on board. The fever which had existed among the troops in gar- rison at Grenada bad been effectually arrested, and the casualties had been comparatively few. The Trinidad Papers mention the surprise and cap ture of the town of Guira by a party of insurgents and runaways, under CASTILLO. The Leeward Island mail has brought us dates from St. Thomas's to the 11th of December, and a vavery of late advice, from the different islands. The indivitiu4la composing the firm of Cabot and Co. had fled from St. Thomsis, and the Government had offered a reward fur their apprehension. A boy eleven years of age, livingja Axesnet, having rescued a add, nine years AO, wild Was:in -danger of perishing under theist in the winter of 1827, and having subsequently saved the same child from being drowned in a river, the Minister of the Interior granted him a medal, which was delivered to him a few days ago, in the presence of all the civil and military authothies of the towa.—Parir Paper. LITERATURE. THE TRIALS OF LIFE. Under this title, the authoress of De Lisle has just produced a new wink. In her former novel, we were particularly tuna: by the exclusively femicane cha racter which it presented. and we find the same peen. di-tinguishing he Trials of I i,.e in a no less Tema+ kable degree. We ha••e had enough, more than cnoug'i, of lashionahle novels, some rf which, and they not the wnr t, have been written by L sdies ; but there are qu tlities in this writer beyond the reach of her comp:•tntots, and which give a value and in terest tat her %%things that the others we have alluded to ate wholly tit ficit nt in. Her walks are as fas`vion• able as can be desired, and this for a very natural reason—because she speaks in the tone of the only society she knows; but, fn•r a better reason, and in better taste, she does not dwell upon the mere external modes of that society, nor indulge in descriptions which, however agreeable to the great or little vulgar, are so much in the spirit of ul•per servants and ladies' maids, as lead us to suspect that their supposed lady and gentleman authors are rather loilters-on at a dis tance, than actors in the scenes they aa'ect to paint. The authoress of De Lisle po , sesses profound powers of thought, with a closeness and accuracy of observa tion of a very extraordinary kind. These qualit;es she appears to have devoted very earnestly to the study ol• the philosophy of the female mind, and so successfully as to display women's thoughts, and feeli►►gs, and pas sions, more truly than any other writer we recollect. These powers are admirably adapted to the subjects on which she chooses to exercice them. They ate those romances or teal life of which Laid B)ton says, most truly, we hear and see more than we shall ever and their force is not diminished by out foaming that ,uch tragedies ate at t d in the strt•rts we dilly traverse, and by yeop'e whom we al•ut•st know personally. The present wink consists of two tales. The first is called n Lord A me%l,,t'i Family." It is ot.e of thote stories which, unhappily for human t►a:ure, are [no c mason, in which the c..ns qaences of sin are sorrow and bitte,ness, that reach beyond the per.ons an whom the punishment ough alone to fall. A stOject more difficult to be dealt wall can hardly be conceived. In common hand., the details, which ..re of a va:ure that cannot be dwelt u ► ►un without exciting very painful fteli-gs, would be unmanageable ; but by this author they are treated with so curious and delcate a skill, that the in•ensity of the griefs they desct Pre is fully ex pres ed without exciting alything of d;sgu,t. But thnugh the moths of describing the incidet is is not eq. remote to decency, the story itself is shot king. The writes—the !unity of who e object cannut be mistaken, does not manifest a stein and beccm , ng displeasure at the mischifvons vices which she polirtrayt; she rather appears to sympathize with the delinq ruts. This may tie cal—at all events it argues a Christian spirit; hut the indulgent tierment tf such topics is pernicious to the young of both sexes, who are the principal renders tiiese publications. We are no Put it.4os, ti,r do we l,,uk with a very fierce eye on the natural follies of )(such ; but there is a Ism t beyond hich folly ceases to b vi vial, And bee •mes a criminal, because a mo t dangerous and destructive habit; here our indulgence ceases: we may pity the weakness, but we would reprobate, and even punish the selChness of the delinquent. The I,4Ay, on the co•.traty, who has %%rift n the tale on which we at. sregkis.!, introduces a h sndsoine stt ipintg (on whose I estny, by the way, she dwells snit etrtii, too much in the aides t sr.) le of voting ladies in their tei ns, who falls iii love with his lithe wife, and why, alter inft cling unspeakable dis• :fen on all connected with him, i. rewarded with the hand or the only reipectable and amiable person in the nove'. Now we think that if chi. no, eful yowls had (in •plte of his beauty) teen, in the first place, tl:oroughly oisewlopped and dragged through a hone p nd, and then t•e..t, with a c mnission its a West India iegmient, to Wu bad. es or J 'mai( a, to die of rum punch, n uld have been a clsa•acteri-tic and worthy end for so selfish a sc• u 'diet; the tale would have lad An useful moral, and new fledged cornets and tender Is arced w i se s of elderly gentlemen wr old not rise f•om it with the con. s lat ry reflection that 1, all's well that ends well." We have no such objection to advance again,' the sec• nd tale; it is in every respect the better of the twi•—better in it object, better in the conduct of the story, and heater in the rtyie and ex•.ressinn. It is called And is tlie histay of a wi .man whom nt n her let mess beauty. nor 1,01 connexions, nor an amod.le temper, nor cx ilted tit toe, could WI from the most attar of the wothl's cri.ss:s—from anal p - .vesty, and an catty death. A great portion of its laciest is denied from the truth of the main features of the narration, and from the fact that its heroine is still reniem' eted. She was the wife of Mr. Ticket!, the friend of Sheridan, a man celebrated for his wit and talents, and belosed by all who k..ew him, but whose thoughtless estravaga! ce exhausted his 'united means, and who terminated his biiiiiant but brief %meet .by a death full of horror. His wife's mi ,fns tunes, wi ich began with his d.ath, did not then end, and the course tf her subsequent life was masked by d.ime.tic sorrows the haidest to be borne, and which the inconveniences cf poverty tendered still mote grievous. We have not room for any lengshened acc. unt of this or of the other tale, hut they are both, and the latter in a much greater degree, lull of thought, and 'tithe highest degree pathetic. In the con-tr uc.ion of these tales the authoress uses little art; she describes merely the objects she has beheld; and the deep inte teat %%Inch they possess is derived, nut from the skill with which the incidents ate connected, hut from the irresistible force with which they illustrate the effects of violent passion and ill regulated conduct upon human happiness. That they are sad is not to be avoided; for to describe the events of•life as they really happen, the disappointment and suffering which abound in them must not he omitted; but these is no affectation of ten• timent, no attempt to excite pity by woes which are only ingeniously imagined. The style in which they are written is almost wholly without ornament. It is like the flow of polished conversation ; agreeable, because it is perfectly easy—forcible, becaa .e it is correct—but no► striking from any effort to be graceful. The authoress is said to be a Lady neatly connected with a distinguished Peer; but, whoever she may be, she is deeply acquainted with the %takings of human passion, and seems thoroughly to understand (in spite of a disposition too amiably indulgent) the wisdom and necessity of coniroulling that inclination to evil, which is as natural to the human heart as the blood that warms it. In this restect her work is immeasurably superior to the ordinary publications of the sante class, which have been written by some conytton-place people both of the high and thellow vulgar. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE. Jas. st. The frost basing stopped the Inland navigation, we had petblog doing in our market this morning; therefore, prices most Mt nominally quoted as on Monday, for all descriptions of Gras. -- -- - IMPOSTATIONI MCI MONDAY Wheat, English (qrs.) 550 Foreign Irish —..— Oats, English Foreign 2.100 Irish Barley, Ralikla 850 Foreign Irish ...... Flour (sacks) 31 1,550 OL