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;Iv IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 16. Earl SPR4CER presented a petition from the inhabitants of Croydon, against the infliction of death for forgery; and a similar petition from a Wesleyan Methodist Congregation in the same place. —Beth laid on the table. The Earl of dIALMESBUSY moved for Copies of Returns made by the Bri.ish Consuls abroad, of the prices of Foreign Grain, in the Years 1828 and 1829. Those Returns were already before the other House of Parliament. and lie thought it would be highly advantageous that their Lonishipa should have them also.-- Agreed to. Counsel wa• heard and witnesses were examined in Bailey's Divorce Bill, and the further .hearing was adjourned to Wednes t next. Lord MORLEY presented petitions from certain inhabitants of l'iymoa.h. and from a congregation of Protestant Dissenters in that t..aa, against the infliction of death for forgery. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JuNE 16. Mr. G. 3100 RE presented a petition from the Weavers of Dub. referring to the state of Ireland. Lord MILTON presented a petition from certain individuals, fraying that the same indulgence might be extended to them as to the Quakers and Moravians, relative to the taking of oaths. t•lr KNATCHBULl:presented a petition from an individual 1( tiering to the superannuation' granted to watermen. Mr. TRANT presented a petition from Dover complaining that English soldiers were compelled to show honour to Pagan and idol atrous religious ceremonies. Sir J. SEBRIGHT said that such had long been the custom all over the world. _ _ . Lord MILTON said, that were he a soldier he should certainly object to such a ceremony being imposed upon him. Lord KILLEEN supported the prayer of the petition, Mr. TRANT said that he was not aware of any country where soldiers were required to pay obedience to a religion in which they did not believe. On one occasion the Sepeys in India had been re. quired to attend Christian worship, but Lord Wellesley, who was in command, severely reprimanded the officer who took such a step. Sir J. SEBRIGHT explained. The petition was then ordered to be printed. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from Coventry, complain ing of the low prices of wages. Mr. RICE presented a petition from John Gray, praying for the introduction of the poor laws Into Ireland—also a petition from a congregation of Christian persons in Ennis, who objected to the ad. ministering of oaths. Mr. STANLEY moved the order of the day for the further con. sitleration of the report on the ecclesiastical leases' (Ireland) bill. After a few words from Mr. Trant and Mr. Rice, Mr. J. Grat tan, Mr. Brownlow, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Colonel Trench, and Mr. Stanley, the report was read and agreed to, the bill and amendments were ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time on Monday next. ARRANGEMZXT Or 111.1111)fless. Sir E. KNATCHBIJULir;sed oniii;;iiht hon. gent. (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) the propriety offixing some day for the discussion of the beer bill. A conversation of some length then took place between that right honourable gentleman, Sir R. Peel, Sir E. Knatchbull, and others, when it was ultimately agreed that the Court of Chancery Bill is to be discussed this day Thursday); the Scotch Judicature Bill and Supply on Friday • the Sugar Duties Bill to stand, as before, for Monday: the Beer Bill on that day, without fail, to be discu ssed after the Sugar Duties; and the Supply to be again taken on the following Friday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was anxi. ous to take the beer bill after the Court of Chancery bill to-morrow, but finding that the discussion on that bill was likely to continue for the whole evening, he postponed the beer bill in consequence till Monday. Mr. BROUGHAM presented a petition from William Stewart Morgan, an individual who resides in Brighton, who prayed the extinction of the law which punished forgery with death. Mr. BROUGHAM also presented a petition from John Joseph gtockdale, the publisher complaining of the persecutions he has sustainefrom Sir William Draper Best, the late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (now Lord Vynford.) The petitioner stated that the Judge of whose conduct he complained had declared he could expect no redress in a court of justice, on account of the in famy of his character; and he offered to prove at the bar of that house the injuries he bad received in consequence of this decla ration. _ _ _ The SOLICITOR-GENERAL expressed a hope that his learned friend (3lr. Brougham) would not think it necessary to move that a petition of this kind be printed. Mr. BROUGHAM said his learned friend was quite right; he certainly intended to content himself by presenting the petition. The petition was then laid on the table. Mr. BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Baptists of Ipswich against the punishment of death for forgety. Mr. BROUGHAM presented a petition from Richard Cantle in favour of the Jews. The petition was very long. It entered Into the history of the Jews from the earliest time, and contended it was plain, from historical records, that they were not the murderers of Jesus Christ, and therefore that they did not deserve the persecu tion and exclusion to which they were subjected by the Christians. The petitioner offered to prove this at the bar of the house. The hon. member admitted he had not read the whole of the petition, but he believed it was respectfully worded, and there could, there fore, be no objection to its being received. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL thought that the hon. member should certainly have been able to say he had read the whole of a petition of this kind before he called on the house to receive it. Mr. TRANT and others also objected to the reception of the petition ; and Mr. BROUGHAM withdrew it, until be had an opportunity of reading it thoroughly over. CHANCERY HIM Mr. BROUGHAM presenteTlaisetitionfrom Mr. Rainsford and three other registrars of the court of chancery, together with the deputy registrars and the articled clerks, stating the expences they had incurred in qualifying themselves for the office of registrar, and praying that some of the new regulations with respect to the court of chancery, may not be carried Into a law. The Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the house ad. journed. LAW REPORTS. VIOE.CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Juwz 16. STAMM:MY V. GORDON.—Mr. KNIGHT stated that this was a bill filed by the plaintiff, John Stanbury, in which he stated that he was agent for conducting contested elections, and that he had into. rest in the borough of Tregony, in Cornwall with a party opposed to the sitting Members, in 1823 ; and that there was an impression in the latter end of that year that there would be a dissolution of Parliament. That in August, 1825, he was introduced by Sir Wm. Abdy to the defendant, and in a conversation between Mr. Stanbury and Dlr. Gordon, it was agreed that the latter should contest the election for the borough, and that the former should act as his agent in that contest. Mr. Stanbury, as he then alleges, was referred to Mr. Scott, as the solicitor for the defendant, and it was further that some friend of the defendant's should also contest the agreed l ln with the then two sitting Members, and that the plaintiff should be their agent in preserving and increasing the interest and Influence he possessed in the borough, for the purpose of securing the return of those candidates. The bill then stated, that sums to the amount of 4,5001. had been paid to the plaintiff, and, as he alleged, for the purpose' beforementloned, and that he had given bonds and mortgages on his property for the same, but that those se. curities were only executed for the purpose of the due management of the funds entrusted to him as agent. The bill then prayed that the securities might be declared to have been executed for that purpose, and that a reference might be ordered by the Muter to inquire whe. ther the balance in amount was in favour of the plaintiff or defend. ant. If for the former, that he might be ordered to be paid that balance, and the deeds and bonds cancelled, or the estates recon. v eyed. If the balance should be in favour of the defendant then that Mr. Stanbury might be allowed to redeem on payment or that balance. The defendant put in his answer, in which he denied the agency altogether, and stated that the money was ad vanced for the plaintiff's own purposes, and the securities taken as on a mere loan ; and submitted that as to the other parts of the bill he was not bound to answer, inasmuch as by so doing he might place himself in the situation of a person liable to pains and penalties, by reason of the transactions coming within the Statutes against undue influence in elections. To this answer the plaintiff excepted for insufficiency, and a reference was accordingly made and the Master reported that the exceptions were good (140 in numbest), and that the answer was insufficient. To this Report the defendant excepted, and the cause was now come on for argument. The SGLICITOR.GENERAL and Mr. Puavzs were with Mr. KNIGHT, in opposition to the Master's Report, and argued that the whole ttansaction was, from beginning to end, an attempt to obtain a seat in Parliament by means of the undue influence which the plaintiff possessed lu the Borough, and that he was willirg to sell that influence to the defendant or any other; that it was quite clear, whether as agent or not, the whole business aou!d, it' the defendant was compelled to answer the whole bill, render him liable to the penalties inflicted by the Act of Parliament, 49 (ho. Il li. c. 118 ; and, therefore, he was not bound to answer that part. Mr. HORNE end Mr. WAKEFIELD appeared in support of the Mattel's Report ; but— The Vica-CmaxcELLoa thought it unnecessary..no argue the case farther; although it was true, in a cue where an answer will, as to part, render the rty liable to penalties, if it fully answers the cue made by the b ill, the defendant may answer the part which will not have that effect, and refuse to answer the remainder, and need not plead (as in other cases) to the bill altogether; yet here the part admitted was so interwoven with the whole subject matter of the bill, that he thought the defendant, having admitted part, and only denied the agency for the election, he was bound fully to an swer the plaintiff's bill; and, therefore, he overruled the exception to the Master's Report. CODIIINGTON T. CODRINGTON.—This was a bill filed for the purpose of setting aside a deed, and it stated, that by a settlement made in 1764, Sir William Codrington and his son William had a joint power of appointing the fee simple of very valuable estates; that in 1776 the father prevailed upon the son to exercise that I power in consideration of 66,0001. by which the father became tenant in fee simple, and the bill prayed that the deed might be set aside, on the ground that it was obtained from the son by the undue influence of parental authority, and by fraud—the son being in great pecuniary distress, and the consideration being inadequate. The defendants, by their answer, admitted the existence of the deed, but denied the fraud, and insisted that the plaintiff had no ground for equitable relief. The plaintiff then amended his bill, and prayed a discovery of the fall contents of the deed executing the power of appointment. This the defendant refused to show, on the ground that it contained his title, and that the plaintiff; patting him self on his equity for relief on the ground of fraud, would have no right to see the title deeds of the defendant. Exceptions were taken to the answer, and the Master reputed that the answer was suffi cient ; to this report the plaintiffexcepted. Mr. KNIGHT and Mr. ldata. appeared in support of the excep. tion, and argued that the Master's report was wrong, and that the defendant ought to show by his answer the contents of the deed, in order to enable the plaintiff to discover whether his remedy was in equity or at law. The SoraciTon-GEfrznaL, Mr. PEPTS, and Mr. ALLISON, argued in support of the report, to the effect, that inasmuch as the plaintiff could not, by his bill seeking to set aside a decd on the ground of fraud (not alleging anything against the legal validity of the instrument), move for a production of it, he could not, by a course of this sort, get out of the rules, and amending his bill, get the whole substance of the deed, when he could not have compelled ' the production of it. The plaintiff stating the deed in his bill to be a good legal instrument, but seeking to set it aside in equity, and the defendant admitting the deed, it was his title deed, and, there fore, the plaintiff had not any interest whatever, was shown by his bill, for the relief he prayed. His Hoxoua decided that the plaintiff, relying on his equitable right, and not suggesting a word against the legal validity of the deed in question, had not shown a case for the Court to go out of its usual course in protecting parties in the possession of a security foe their title deeds. He, therefore, overruled the exception. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JVNE 16. Sittings in Banco. Dorroua v. OXENNEN.—This was an action on a Bill of Ex change, tried a few days before the first day of this Term, before Lord Tenterden. The keeper of an hotel at the West end of the town, which the defendant frequented, was called to prove the hand. writing, but he failed to do so, and the plaintiff was nonsuited. Mr. STEER now moved for rule Niel for a new trial, and stated that they bad numerous witnesses to prove the handwriting, but they did not subpwna them before, as they had no idea that the ho. tel keeper would have failed. Lord TINTERDEN adverted to the circumstances that the se. I ceptance was " accepted, payable at a certain place in Bond-street," without any signature or name, and called for an Act of Perlin. ment to see whether that mode of acceptance would do ? Having looked at the Act, he said nothing more on the subject—pule granted. Elam,' v. BROOKS AND ANOTNER.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff; Jonathan Eikey, against the assignees of his brother, John Riley, a Huddersfield merchant, who became bankrupt in 1820, on an indemnity granted by them to him, on certain conditions, which he performed, against all the liabilities which he might have incurred for the bankrupt. The plaintiff had become bound in three bills of exchange, along with his brother, to Bross and Co. amounting in all to about 1,9001. Bross and Co. I sued the plaintiff on the bills, and bad a verdict for 1,9661. which he paid, and then brought his action against the assignees on their guarantee, and had a verdict against them. Mr. CaxeniELL had obtained a rule to show cause why the vu. diet should not be set aside and a new trial granted, and Mr. POLLOCK now showed cause against the rule. The only question was—whether the plaintiff rendered himself liable in the bills without consideration front John, or only in discharge of a debt due by him to John ? The Court took time to consider. SCOTT V. DEIIAY. This was an action brought on a judgment obtained in Jamaica for 1,836 L 10s. Bd. currency, against the defendant, a banker, in London. The action was tried at Guildhall, before Lord Tenter. den, upwards ofa year ago, and a verdict was taken for the plaintiff for the difference between 13111. 13e. 6d. sterling, and 11021. I Is. 3d. sterling, with leave to the defendant to move the Court to set aside the verdict and enter a nonsuit. Mr. CAmPsELL'lhad obtained a rule accordingly ; against which the ATTOIWEY.OEXZIAL and Mr. HISBERT now showed cause. When the action wu brought, the 1,1021. 11s 3d. was paid into Court, which sum wu deemed by the defendant equivalent to the 1,8361. Jamaica currenc The plaintiff', on the other hand, in sisted that the equiva lent to the 1,8361. currency was 1,3111. 13s. &I. The ATTORNEY GENERAL, for the plaintiff, put the cue in this manner. The difference between the sterling money and the currency was as seven to five —.that is, 1001. sterling made 1401. currency; and, therefore, if one were to take 100 sore. reigns to Jamaica, he would get there for them 1401. currency. l l Such, he assured the Court, on his own authority, was the fact. When, therefore, the plaintiff had judgment for the 1,8361. currency, being a debt due to him In Jamaica, and which he was en. tided to demand there in specie if he chose, he was entitled to re. cover here as much as would make up the 1,1;361. currency in speck, and that was the 1,3111. 13s. 641. He might employ the money in Jamaica, or he might remit it to England in specie, and then the difference in the exchange would be the amount of the freight and insurance. But then the defendant insisted that, besides the con. version of the currency into sterling, he was entitled to deduct 19 per cent, being the premium on good bills in Jamaica on London; and this, which had nothing at all to do with the exchange, was the cause of the confusion introduced into the case. The position taken by the defendant took it for granted that when the money was re. covered in Jamaica, the plaintiff would have been obliged to remit it to England by bills. But what right had he to sup. pose so? No right whatever; and when debtors obliged their creditors to follow them to England, they were bound to pay, as they must have done if the payment had been made in specie lin Jamaica ; and this was all that the plaintiff claimed in this rinstance. Mr. Justice LIT TLEDALE—Suppose the currency of both coun tries had been of the same ♦alue, the premium on the bills would be the same. The AT ToaxEr.GENzaAL—To be sure it would, and that pre mium depended on the credit of the parties, the length of time to elapse before payment, and the difficulty of procuring bills, when so many more remittances were usually made from the one country than to that country from the other. Mr. CAYPSELL, for the defendant, °lnterred, that if one were to get a bill in Landon for 1,1021. on a Jamaica banker, he would get from the banker the 1,8361. currency, and it was on that prin. I ciple only, u the defendant contended, that he was bound to pay. The COIIIIT took time to coo►ider. STATUTE Or LIM rATIONSJUDOSIIENT. NO /MERIT V. SUNNING& This was an action on a proctor's bill for 2361. The bill was for business done for the defendant in the Admiralty Court, relative to a prize vessel, called the Woodbridge, as to which the judgment was given in July, 1822. The action was not brought till September, 1828, and the defendant pleaded the Statute of Limitations. There was one item for 11. in the account for perusing and answerinf a letter relative to the business after the judgment, to which the Sta tute did not apply, and this, as it was contended for the plaintiff, took the whole of the bill out of the statute. Lord TILI/TERDEN was of opinion that the plaintiff could only recover for 11. and verdict accordingly, with leave to move the Court to enter a verdict for the whole sum. _ The motion having been acconlingly made, and the rule granted and argued, Lord TENTEIDEX said, that he remained of the same opinion as at the trial, and thought that the rule ought to be discharged. The Proctor's duty was at an end when the judgment was given, and he had a right then to have his bill paid, and ought to have brought his action within six years from the time of the judgment. It was quite uncertain whether, after that, the Proctor should have anything to do, and there would be a danger of rendering the statute in some mea. sure nugatory, if the 'addition of an item for some accidental business after the judgment should take the whole out of the statute. The rest of the COURT concurred. —Rule discharged. IX THE MATTER OF THE C0311(18810XXIS OF SEWER/ OF THZ TOWER HAMLETS DISTRICT. Mr. CAMPIIICLL moved for a rule for a Certiorari. to remove the proceedings of the Commissioners of Sewers for the Tower Hamlets district in the imposing of :meson certain of the inhabitants into this Court, with a view to their being quashed. These Commis sioners, as their Lordships might remember, bad many disputes with the inhabitants of Hackney Level about the draining of the district. One objection to the rates was, tint they had been made for work done and to be done, whereas the assessment was only for work to be done. A sum of two thousand pounds was re trospective for work done, and a sum of 2,0731. was prospective for work to be done; and besides this, 1,8001. was imposed to de fray the expenses of the duties with t he people of Hackney-Level. Another objection was, that the rates were not imposed on each of the people in proportion to the advantage which he would derive from the works—and another was, that hundreds had been rated who could derive no advantage at all from them. He had, besides, affidavits that the work for which they had imposed rates to the amount of about 6,0001. could be done for 8001 Lord TaxnEanzw—We cannot Inter into the consideration of amount, and therefore you cannot have a rule on the last ground, but you may take it on the others. Mr. Justice BAYLEY s and state in your rule the grounds on which ft is granted, that they may know precisely to what they have to answer. ExpaßT HOLLIS.ThiII Via an application OD the part of llolles, an inhabitant of Colchester, for a certiorari to remove into this court the proceedings against him on an accusation of stealing dead bodies. The application was made on affidavits of an ap lon of partiality in the magistrates, and persons whose office rtt e : s to sum mon the jurors, and in the persons likely to be jurors. Rule granted. POLICE REPORTS. OUILDXALL.—A lad, about 18 years of age, named Frederick Joseph, an apprentice with Mr. Davis, a furrier in Bull's Head. court, Newgate-street, attended before Aldermen KIT and Sir J. Pimento yesterday, upon a summons for assaulting, or rather in -1 tending to seduce, two of his master's maid tenants. The first complainant was a tall powerful young woman, named Mary Steward. A solicitor for the prosecution desired her to state what had passed, beginning with the afternoon, to show that no encourage ment had been given to the defendant to take the step he did. Sir J. Peaßtita objected to the witness being led at questioned. She must tell her story in her own way, and the solicitor might afterwards, if necessary, put a question to her. The complainant proceeded to state, that she and her fellow ser vant went to bed about twelve o'clock, having fastened the room door. They fell , but about a quarter past one she awoke, and found the defendant l by her side in bed. She called to her fel low servant " here's in bed," upon which he started up and ran out of the room. Alderman lizir—What did you say to him P Witness—l did not say a word to him. Alderman JUT—Did not you express surprise ? Witness—Oh, yes, I did the next morning when we got up. Sir Jourr Pzaxixn--Then, what did you do after he ran out of the room ? Witness—We both went to sleep, and at a quarter before two we found him in our bed again, lying by the side of our Betsy. Betsy Roberts, the other young woman, immediately came for. ward to finish the story. When she awoke and found him lying at ber side, with his hand over her side, she gave him a smack in the face, and he rushed out of the room. She called out aloud, threatening to tell her mistress and master in the morning, and she kept her word. Sir John Perring asked the defendant if be should like to ask these young women any questions ? Defendant replied, he had no questions to ask, but be denied that he was in the bell on either side. He was on the edge of the child's bed on one side, and on the seat of the window en the other, which certainly brought him close to the parties. But why did you go into the room at all, said Alderman Key ? Defendant said If liberties had not been given to him, he should not have thought of taking any. The young women had said jocu larly that they were then pregnant, and talked very freely to him. In answer to a question from the solicitor, he said he was con cealed in the cupboard, in the maid's room, from half-past eleven. Mr. Davis said he was one of the most depraved lads in ex istence, and wished to state his general conduct, hut the Aldermen declined hearing him ; and after some consultation ordered the de fendant to find sureties to keep the peace for two years, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each. __„__ _ BOW-ST KEET.—lstuoitat. PUBLICATIONL—Yesterday, Jo seph Phair, a man who was convicted about 12 months ago of sel. ling indecent prints and publications, was summoned at the suit of Skinner, one of the inspectors of hawkers and pedlars' licenses, for vending songs of a grossly immoral description, not having the printer's name affixtd thereto. Skinner stated that he had taken proceedings against the defend ant at the express injunction of the Solicitor for the Stamp Office, who had received information that the metropolis was absolutely in. undated with indecent songs, which were sold without any printer's name attached, and could be purchased at the defendant's and other shops at the rate of ad per quire. A. man named Eames produced six copies of songs of the gross. eat kind, which he had purchased at the defendant's shop, No. 69, Great Peter-street, Westminster. _ . The defendant in answer to the charge said, he hoped the Magill trates would be merciful, as he had a wife and five children. Sir R. Brastur.--A wife and five children. Then your conduct is so much the worse in selling such publications as these. Mr. HALLS said, the case was fully proved, and the defendant having had the warning of a previous conviction, could expect but little mercy. He must know that the songs were grossly immoral; and how a husband, and the father of children, could reconcile it to himself to deal in such filth he could not imagine. An example must be made of him. The defendant was then fined 101. and ordered in default of pay. ment to stand committed to the House of Correction for three months, there to be kept to hard labour. 211•11LBOROUGH.STIS:ETCAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS,— A respectable looking man, named Thomas Barudl, who has been some clays in custody, charged with the following fraud, was yes. terday brought before hlr. DYER, the sitting magistrate, for ftnal examination. Mr. Aldous, a pawnbroker, residing in Berwick-street, Soho. square, stated that the prisoner had been for a considerable time put in the habit of pledging at his shop bars of metal of the description of those now produced, as bars of unwrought silver ,• and as they had all the appearance of this latter metal, and weighed exactly as silver did, he (Mr. Aldous) never suspected that there was any fraud practised, and lent the prisoner upon all occasions sums in propor tion to the current price of silver; and he was still more thrown off his guard by the fact that the prisoner used frequently to redeem some of the bars and repledge them again on a subse. quent day. At last he (Mr. Aldous) observed that the prisoner had considerably increased the number of his pledges, without redeem. ing any, and that advances had been made to him of nearly 501. al ready, and he determined therefore not to take in any more such I pledges until he bad ascertained that the metal was a pure silver ; and he accordingly took one of the bars to an assayer in Hatton. garden, who, on submitting the metal to the usual test, discovered that it was not silver at all, and was of scarcely any value ; so that he, Mr. Aldous, was completely defrauded of the sums he had lent on it. 'rho assayer stated that in assaying one of the bars of metal now produced, he ascertained that it was nothing better than a sort of metal known by the name of " German silver," as a compound of zinc and copper, and not worth more at the utmost than 7s. per pound. He was not however surprised, he said, that Mr. Aldous had been deceived by it, for he, the assayer, would have been equally deceived, if he bad merely to judge of it by appearance, and at was only by the process of assay ing that its spurious nature could be detected, because it was made up in bars of precisely the same length and thickness that silver was had exactly the same ap pearance in point of colour, &c. and weighed as heavily as silver did. It was very difficult too, he said, to detect it, even in the manufactured state ; for when made into spoons, forks, &c. it bore all the appearance of silver, and wore in use precisely as that metal did, never showing any different colour, as in the case of plated articles, it being a solid uniform metal all through. Here the wit. nee produced a fork made of the metal in question that had been in use for the last three years, and it would be impossible for any one not acquainted with the fact to say, from its appearance, that it was not genuine silver. Clements, the tracer, said, that he bad considerable difficulty in tracing out the prisoner, as he was quite unknown, except by his person, to Mr. Aldous ; but at length he discovered his residence to be in the neighbourhood of St. Luke's, in the city, where he car ried on a manufactory of various metal articles, such as tea-pots, &c. and was understood to be a very clever, ingenious man in his trade. One of Mr. Harmer's clerks attended for the prisoner, and under his advice, the latter declined saying any thing in his defence for the present, and he was fully committed for trial. WII MSICA L OCCURRENCE.—A Corsham Correa pondent says— " A pig at the Harp and Crown, in the parish of Coniham, was taught to drink beer out of a glass, and would ran from his company in the court-yard into the tap-room, and jump up into any one's lap for a glass of his favourite liquor ! Last week being Whitsuntide, 'Jim,' (for that was his name, and to which he would answer) had' quite a bout of it :' but not being satisfied in the tap-room, he got into the cellar, and drank of the beer drop. pine, till he died literally as drunk u a pig.'" LIVERPOOL AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.•-•A1118 railway is to be 100 miles in length, of double rails, on the plan of the Liverpool and Manchester railway. The capital is already rub. scribed. Another company is formed to extend the railway to the metropoli& : when that shall be completed, we have no doubt that persons leaving London in the morning, may dine in Liverpool.— That such expedition is practicable has been ascertained on the Liverpool and Manchester railway. Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Town Howl*, hfile.end-road, on the body of William Fisher, aged 29. The de ceased, who was a furrier, walked to London from Glasgow to pro cure employment. On Monday night, being very wet and cold, he went to the lime-kilns, near the Globe-road, where he fell asleep, and was suffocated. A verdict to that effect was recorded. MISCELLANEA. Friday evening the Royal Charlotte yacht sailed foi Belfast; she was accompanied by the following private yachts going to the Northern Regatta :—Ganytnede, Col. Madden; Paddy from Cork, J. C. Bearnish, Esq. Black Dwarf, P. Kelly, Esq. Vary). pure, Rev. Denis George; Turk, Captain Keane; Juverna, G eorg , O'Kelly, Esq. Peri, 21. Molony, Esq. Sophia, Lieut. Keame Gannet, T. P. Boland, Esq. A LAWYER'S LETTER.—" Sir,—l am desired to apply to you for 201. due to my client, Mr. Jones; if you send me the money by this day week you will oblige me, if not I will oblige you." CANINE FRUITFULNESS.—There is now in the pos session of Mr. Binwood, of Newton Abbott, Devon, a small bull. terrier bitch, which a few days ago whelped seven pups, and four hours afterwards produced a second litter of seven more, all of shidi are fine and healthy-looking. LONOEVITY.—June 5, died, at Shepton Mallet, aged 104 years, Thomas Taylor : he obtained his living by driving donkles to one of the neighbouring coal-pits daily, and disposing of the coals in Shepton ' • until the last inclement winter, h e reta i ned his sight and other faculties in a surprising manner : his daughter is now an inmate of the poor-house of Shepton-Mallet, in her 80th year. FROG MARKET AT BRUSSELS.—There is in Brits eels a market for frogs, which are brought alive in pails and can. and prepared for dressing on the spot. The hind limbs, which at, the only parts used. are cut from the body with scissors, by th. women who bring the animals for sale. SINGULAR CHARACTER.—There is now living at North.moor, near Oldham, Lancashire a venerable old man, nem": Jonathan liolstencroft, who, for the fast GO years, has regularly attended the races at Kersal.moor, each day of running. He walk. from his own house to the race ground each morning, and return home in the evening; so that he must have travelled, in all, no le. than 2,150 miles to see the races. C EA P Fto u it.—An account appears in the Monitcas of the discovery, by chance, of the means of making flour front wheat straw. This being chopped small, and passed through the mill-stones, yields a flour, coarse in appearance, but agreeable to the taste, and also nutritious. Made into a wash for pigs, or mixed with oats for horses, it is said to be an excellent article of food. The bread which is made from it is superior to much of the common bread eaten by the lower orders on the Continent. A CERTIFICATE EASILY G0T.—..A.8 M. G—, farmer at Duddington, stood at his gate, an Irish lad came up, and r!. quested to be employed. M. o.—Cio away, I will never emplo y any of your country again. Irishman.—Why, your boom sure we are good workers; GOD bless you, do give me a jol' M. o. —No, I won't ; the last Irishman I employed died upon me , and I was obliged to bury him at my own charge. Irishman.— ih I your honour, you need not fear that of me, for I can get you a certificate that I never died In the employment of any master I ever served. There was no resisting. Poor Paddy got employed a! once, and remained a faithful servant until his master's death. FEMALE WARRIOR.—Next to the captains, the priests are the chief men in the Afaniate wars, both in council and field ; and in the quarrels which so frequently occur between_ separate villages or families, they are generally the promoters and leaders o: the strife. To pull down the adversary's house is generally the ob. ject and end of the war. The sufferer is then conquered, ands:Mort. 'ventures to prosecute hostilities. The Manistee shew great courag, and obstinacy in their own way ; and these qualities are held in the highest estimation among them. Even the women emulate tle men in this respect. It is not long since a woman of Mount Tay. getum stood a siege in her pyrgo, against a body of Turks. Sh, I fired upon them from the windows, and kept them employed on one side, while,:at the back, she sent away in safety a female serv a n t with two children. Though her ammunition was in reality all spent. the Turks retired, fearing that she would blow up the tower if thet assaulted it. MODERN SPARTANS.—An affair which happened tw.) months since at Vathy, sheers the state of society in Mani. Ti.. see of a priest had by accident killed a boy, a relation of anotlur priest. The latter papas declared war against the former, which done in Mani in a formal manner, by crying out in the streets. Ti., first pastas went to his church to say mass with pistols in his girdle. such being a common custom in Mani ; but, as is usual in such eases, he laid them behind the altar, on assuming the robe in which the priest performs divine service. The other papas entered the church with some of his party, and the instant the office was con. eluded, walked up to his enemy, who was still in his robes, and fired a pistol at him, which flashed in the pan : the latter then running behind the altar, seized his arms, shot his enemy an d of his ad. herents, and drove all the rest out of the church. The affair was then settled by the interposition of the bey himself, in whose vii. loge it had happened. A composition in money for the balance of blood, is the only e ffi cient mode of making peace in these cases.— When one of a family is slain, the person who takes upon him to revenge the injury often vows not to dump his clothes, s ha ve, or eat meat, till his revenge is satisfied.—Leaks e Travels in the Ms:Wed. About a mile from Lynedoch Cottage, the romantic seat of Lord Lynedoch, in Perthshire, his Lordship has a yard and workshop for his joiner, who inhabits a neat English cottage on the borders of a plantation of oak-copse, hazle, and other trees and shrubs, amongst the branches of which the blackbird, the bullfinch. and the thrush, vie with each other in chaunting their varied meh,- dies. But robin seems to claim the peculiar attention of the wrigh• and his family. It Is no uncommon thing in winter for the red breast to be gathering the crumbs from the kitchcn.dresser, or the floor, while their human friends are breakfasting near the fire. Tin. gives but a faint idea of the confidence they place in their admirers one pair of them built their nest inside of a window in the work. shop, not a yard and a half from the foot of a bench, that was almost hourly used during the whole period of building and hatching, ard while the joiner's son had to pay particular attention to the diree• don of his spars, lest by some unlucky turn he should have cleared the window of Mrs. Robin's temporary nursery, with all its hair. feathered inmates ! THE MISER'S PRAYER. —Among a variety of cu rious papers of John Ward, of Hackney, Esq. M.P. (who being convicted of forgery, was expelled the House, and in the year 17 stood in the pillory), there was found, a few days ago, a paper in hi' own hand-writing, which we think may he very properly entitled th , 'Beer's Prayer—" Oh, Lord, thou knowest that I have nine houses in the city of London, and likewise that I have lately purchased ar. estate in fee simple, in the county of Essex ; I beseech thee to pre serve the two counties of Middlesex and Essex front fire and earthquakes • and as I have a mortgage in Hertfordshire, I beg thee likewise to itave an eye of compassion on that county ; and for the rest of the counties thou msy'st deal with them as thou an pleased ! Oh Lord, enable the Bank to answer all their bills, and make all my debtors good men. Give a prosper° :s voyage and re. turn to the Mermaid sloop, because I have insured it; and, as the:: halt said that the days of the wicked are but short, I trust in thee that thou wilt not forget thy romiee, as I have purchased an estate in reversion, which will be mine on the death of that most profligate young man, Sir J. L.—. Keep my friends from sinking, and pre. Iserve me from thieves and hou sebr eakers ; and make all my servanti so honest and faithful that they may attend to my interest, and neNer cheat me out of my property, night or day." BIRTHS. In the Cloisters, Windsor Castle, the Lady of the Rev. R. grave, of a daughter.—The Lady of T.W. Sherland, rsq. o a daughter.—The !My of T. P. Turner, of Ml!man-street. Esq. of ft daughter. — The Lady of Dr. Spurgin, of Guildford-street. of A daughter—ln Kilkenny, the lAdy of A. Denroche, Esq. of a daughter—At Tannavallo, near Listowel, the Lady of A. Elliott, Esq. of a daughter.—At Geneva, on the oth inst. the Lady of F. 13 Long, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. At Berne, on the 20th April, C. T. Bourke, Esq. of the gth Regiment, to C. Elisabeth. daughter of the late Dr. Dickson ' bishop of Down and Connor—At St. Mary.la-bonne, W. Harbut, Esq. of Percy-street, to F. Elizabeth, daughter of A. Whiffen, of Great . Portland.etreet—At St. Olare's, Hart-street, H. Tomkins, Esq. o f Burton-crescent, to Mary, third daughter of Thos. Davy, EN. or fJould.square—At Camberwell, H. IV. Woodbridge, Esq. of North Brixton, Surrey, to E. Sarah, daughter of the late C. Johnson, Esq. of Camberwell—At Skipness ' Arpllshire, K. 3laadister, Esq. of Glen Herr, to Min Campbe ll , of Skipness—At Aberdeen,W. Ross. El Rosemount , to Anne, eldest daughter of the late A. Cop . land, Esq. of St. Elizabeth's, Jamaica—ln Peter's Church, R. Holdernesse, Esq. of Manchester, to Sally, second daughter of the late Capt. Francis, of this city—At Cunyglass church, Cork. P. Foxall, Esq. of Killootry-lodge, Armagh, to E. Matilda. youngest daughter of R. Welsh, Esq. late of Dublin, banister at law—ln Mary's church, and afterwards in the church of the Cor • ception, W. H. O. O'Connor, Esq. to Catherine, daughter of J. Parker, Esq. of Great Britain-etreet, Dublin. DIED. J. H. Acklam, son of Mr. Acklam , of the Suand.—At Bow deux. Mrs. E. P. Lynch.—Charlotte, youngest (laughter of Winchester, Esq. of Buckingham street, Adelphi.—At Hastings. Mr. Burrows, of the Poultry, London.—Mary Eliza, relict of the late Vander Neunburg, of St. Martin's Stamford, Baron. of Northampton,: a lag i es b l u b2.—After a long illness, the infant son of Richard Ford, ....At Tain, G. Murray, Esq. of Westfield. aged 76.—At re, Mrs. M‘Culloch, in the 80th year of her age.—At Abodes; Mrs. Haudaaide, spouse to Mr. P. Brown, in the Mk yea other age. Loner : Printed lied Published by Joni Manta, at the Sts a. Orrin No. t, Pickettylace,Testpk B.