Star. — London, England, 1830-09-24 00:00:00

NT GER 111 D. THE PRESENT FRENCH MINISTER OF WAR. t . e •iffictT sass !,om in Lorraine, in 1774. He served the early :!,s of the Frric'l Revoitition. as Aid-de-Camp to General Her . is: •!:e. n,,w King o's Ssetien, and reached, through his extraordinary •or, the rink of Brigadier General, during the Prussian cirnpaign in 1801; Vert ',ion after this, he was made Commander of the Legion of Flo. t•,(411% AT..I placed v the head of the staff of the French army in Den. 'link. In 1808. he obtained the 1/anish Order of Danneberg. In the ,atitilaier of 1809 he distinguished hintselr at the combat of Urfar, in front of the bridge of Lintz, and particularly at the battle of Wagram, .:1 which he commanded the Saxon cavalry. His conduct in 1812, at , :he battles of Valentina and lloskwa, and,indeed, on every occasion, In. thiced Napoleon , who was considered the best judge of real mi litary to ;ire him the command of the division of General Gudin, who had been killed. At Frankfort on the Oder, General Gerard, with a small iitsly of troops, dzfeated 2,000 Russian cavalry, which attempted to hitt te-pt. his passage to Berlin. In the campaign of 1814, he gained teptravon at Dienville. at Nargis, and especially at 31onterean, at t high p: :re he took 5.000 Austrians prisoners. After the restoration of Lan , XVIII. Gerard wax sent to Hamburgh, on a special mission, brin; hack the French troops. and on his return to Paris was made a Knight •tf St. Louis, and received the grand cordon of the Legion of When Napolcon returned from Elba, and re-ascended the throne, 4;er Irit %maimed true to his former master, who appointed him General in-Chief of the Army of the Moselle, and at the head of that army, (Lanni carried the position and village of Ligny, near Gemappes, on .he 16th of June, 1815, and contributed greatly to the defeat of the Prussian-General, Prince Blucher. His corps next formed a part of the army of Grouchy, which manoeuvred on the Dyle during the battle of Waterloo, for the purpose of preventing a junction bettreen the Prussian troops under Blucher, and the British under the Duke of Wellington, and in this service he was wounded. On the retreat et Napoleon he returned to his country seat in France. On the mato ration of the Bourbons, Count Gerard remained tranquil until the Royal Ordonnance of Nov. 12, when the Chamber of Peers were di. acted to try the unfortunate Marshal Ney, Prince of Moskwa, who WAS executed on the morning of the 7th Dec. in his 47th year. Gerard was so completely overcome at such inhumane conduct on the part of a monarch towards one of his old comrades in arms, who by the law of nations and of honour was included in the amnesty, that he wrote a violent pamphlet, and hell up to public scorn the cold-hearted part sohich he stated the Duke of Wellington to have played in that unfor tunate affair, after promising his interference to the widow of the valo r, %IR and most persecuted victim of political vengeance, whom he al lowed to be shot, notwithstanding her heart-rending supplications, mostrated upon her knees before him with her two orphan children.-- Since then Count Gerard had never been employed by the Bourbons, and lived in retirement with his wife, the daughter of the Count de Va knee' whom he married in 1806. On the late Ordonnance being Issued by the infatuated ex-King, Charles X. and the glorious days of the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July, which restored liberty to France, and caused the tri-coloured flag once more to wave in his native country, the one that he had fought under th his earliest days, Count Gerard immediately took the oath of elle. giance to the Citizen King, Louis Philip I. and, at the suggestion of his old friend and comrade in arms, the Marquis de La Fayette, this Monarch, who well knows how to appreciate valour and talent, ap pointed him as Minister of War, in which situation no doubt he will do i his duty to his Sovereign and restored country. Although General Gerard bore the greatest enmity towards the British nation, in consequence of the conduct of the Duke of Welling too, it is said that, since the recent events, and the liberal manner this country has shown itself, by his Majesty receiving General Batt drar.d (who was sent over here by Philip I.) in such an affable manner, that un his return it caused that feeling which, no doubt, will be the means of promoting more and more the mutual intercourse between two .t :he rust nations in the world. UNCIAL INTELLIbENCE. NEWARK, SEPT. 22, 1830.—The market to-day WAS ~ _ a attended, but there was a dearth of business. The prevailing mc•lples were Old Wheat, and generally offered by those who bad over stocd their market. Some prime samples of New were produced, but IN looked upon suspiciouslyy, arising from the great rains that have t..llen. Barley remains in demand, and rather at an advance. Cur. rt.- , ey as under :—Wheat, 60s. to 675. Ditto, New, 575. to 655. Barley, Ne , ., 36.. to 30s. Oats, 24.. to 30s. Ditto, New. Ns. to 265. Beans, s. to 40s. _ _ _ NOTTINGn i, SEPT. 22.—The weather has been such AA to render the price of Cora most uncertain. Factors and farmers 4tt id more from the intention to feel the pulse of each other, than to .. , .sane purchasers. Notwithstanding, the sales that were effected were do-e at an advance of from 2s. to 3s. Much New Wheat was brought t. , market, but the millers found it not so dry as was expected ; and cl later harvest will be found still more damp. Barley is not so bright in colour, nor so heavy, as was expected, and much still remains urcut, which caused it to be upon the advance. Oats in demand, and bnsk. Currency as follows :—Wheat 645. to 725. Ditto, New, 695. to Cts. Barley, New, 365. to 41s. Oats, New, 21s. to 265. Beans 3t; , . to 41s. _ _ _ lIETFOED HOP INTELLIGENCE, SEPT. 21.-During the gin: week, the backward plantations have progressed towards maturity un-.: than the most sanguine could have anticipated, and will be ready to cull in a few days. The forward penis, however, have already lost pc.:l of their lead, and the pullers arc busy in securing the remainder. We have seen some samples which have been dried off, and they cep. tainly have a viewly appearance ; but, according to our opinion, they WC deficient in point of strength front what we have observed them to t'.. in years which were more genial for their growth. The planters al. rist:y complain that they come down lighter than they had anticipated. 071 arc different from most other descriptions of plants, for when they a light crop they are always deficient in strength, and when a heavy me eke rcrsa. LINCOLN, SEPT. 23.-The market was tolerably well atte-ded, and the samples of wheat were larger than was expected. The London market had not to-day the effect expected; whether from the repot of the wheats being generally housed, or from the anticipation of a gut of foreign wheat, the market was dull. The quotation for wheat IS rot an advance. Barley is reported not to be generally good, and the price increased 2s. to 3s. per qr. Oats in proportion. Currency as un er :-Wheat, 60s. to 67. Ditto New, sf3s. to 665. Oats, 255. to Mts. Ditto New, 20s. to 265. Barley, 355. to 38s. Beans, 38s. to 40s. itETF'ORD, SEPT. 18.-The weather during the past week. has been of an unpropitious kind, and very detrimental to harvest ; in consequence of which, we had a good attendance at this day's market. Good Wheat commenced at the closing prices of the im-ious market, but presently advanced Is. per load ; this observation wi:l apply equally to both old and new parcels : inferior descriptions ter. ain nominally the same. Old Barley is scarce ; but at present being in I .t.le or no demand, we cannot notice any variation in price : of goad new obtained an advance of full 2s. per quarter, with every • pre •ability of a still further advance, should the latter part of the bar. t not he more favourable for securing that which is still at large in :et fields. Old Oats look up, and Is. to 2s. per qr. more was obtained , 1.1, day ; new ones remain nearly stationary, in consequence of the moist condition in which they are brought to market. The unsettled ,•at. of the weather has had an effect upon the prices of good old Beans, f,e• which Is. to 2s. per load more was obtained ; and though the crop .!,is description of grain is uncommonly heavy, yet prices of old ,atr.les are likely to be higher, without a favourable change shortly , ak:s place. This observation will equally apply to samples of white Ind tray Peas. Rye and Blend-corn are in demand at a tifling ad. *any e. on the prices of this day se'nnight. Wheat, old 265. to 28a. per 104. Do. new, 245. to 258. do. Barley, 265. to 345. per qr. new, 325. to 38s. do. Oats, 245. to 325. do. Do. new, 228. to 28s. do. lira is, 15a. to 176* per load. Rye, 14s. to 16a. do. Peas, 12s. to 14 , 4. ditto. lln the night of Saturday last an armed party attacked the dwelliukhouse of Thomas Madden, at Knockroe, near Boyle, and demanded his arms. On being refused by Madden, they broke his wi:aiows, and endeavoured to enter the house by breaking the door with a h ocher ; they fired several shots through the windows, which were so ester tgeottsly returned by Madden as to cause the party to disperse. The following night an armed banditti of about 200 men paraded the nails near Croghan, and fired several shots through the country as they passed along —Roscommon Gazette. MYSTERIOUS DIbAPPEARANCE OF A CHILD.--MOSt Of out readers will have some recollection of a very active officer of the Nlanchesta police, named Bianchi, from our having had frequent occa. sum to mention him in out paper. On Thursday last a female child of his, about twenty months old, was lost in a very remarkable manner. Bianchi has a lad of rather obtuse intellect, between tea and eleven . t•ars a age, who generally takes out the child into the streets to play. Ott Thursday morning, about eight o'clock, he carried it out, and accompanied by another little girl of Bianchi's, about four years of age. Soon after eleven the little girl came home crying, and told her mother that a woman had taken the child from off same steps in the market : and added, " You will never see it again." HaFpily a woman, a neighbour of Bianchi's, and to whom the citiitt was known, was yesterday, about noon, in the Smithfield market. the place from whence the child had been stolen, when she saw the child in the arms of a dirty looking girl, of about 15 years of age. She in.' stantly apprised Hull, one ot the street-keepers, who chanced to be near the spot, and he took the girl into custody, restoring, at the same time, the child to its anxious parents. The girl, who calls herself Mary r-gory, ft times to give any account of herself, or how she became pos seuatti of the child, as, trout the description giver. of the woman who was seen on the steps with the child, she cannot be the same. It has, however, been ascertained that she took lodgings on Thursday night in , the house ot a poor widow woman, named Jane :IBC-arty, living in l'homson.s.reet, Salford, but which she left on Saturday morning. She . there represented that the child was her sister's ; that their parents were dead, and that she was endeavouring to get a pass to Ireland, in order to leave the child with her friends. She will be examined berme the Ma. gistrates.—Alonehester Mercury. OLD BAILSY, dept M. WlWens Hennsp, a shoemaker, aged 38, was indicted for maliciously stabbing his wife, Catherine Bectrup, with Intent to kill and murder her. The prisoner, on being placed at the bar, requested that his trial might be postponed, on the ground that his wife had plinked not to come forward against him, and that he was nnprovided # :th counsel. The REcoannt observed that the trial could not be put off. The wife was then called, but did not answer. Mary Gilbert, of No. 11, White's-alley, Coleman.street, knew the prisoner and his wife. The latter lived with witness, and slept in the same room with her. The prisoner did not cohabit with his wife. Saw them both on the 2d of September at her own room. When the prisoner entered the room he asked where are the seven persons who said I stole the shoes ? His wife called him a " prig" Z(thief), and asked what brought him there ? The prisoner then sat down by his wife and bad some talk with her. There did not appear to be any anger between them at the time, on the contrary they laughed and joked together. The wife soon after went for some shoe.binding, and bound one pair while the prisoner remained in the room. When she returned they had some gin, of which the prisoner, his wife, Mary Ann Shaw, and witness, partook. They then had some teat after which the pris oner asked his wife for some money to buy MN but she refused to give him any. Soon after the prisoner asked witness how often Mr. Kelly had been there, whose master used to give his wife shoes to bind. Witness re plied, that he had been there three times. The prisoner then said he would tell who had a pair of shoes that were missing, if his wife would give him a pint of rum. She refused, and the prisoner then said, " Are you not sorry for losing the shoes ? to which the wife replied, " Not at all." The prisoner then took up a knife from the window close to which he wn sitting, and stabbed his wife with it three times in the breast, but the busk of her stays prevented the knife from reaching her body. Wit. ness cried out, " Lord have mercy upon us, the man is killing the wo man " and ran down stairs, and as she was going she heard the wife call " Murder 1" She did not touch the prisoner while witness remained in the room. _ _ This evidence was corroborated by other witnesses. The prisoner, in his defence, said that his wife had sent to him to say that she had been in fault, and freely forgave him " the little accident" which had happened. The prisoner then went on to state, that while he was in prison, previous to this transaction, a person came and told him that he had seen his wife walking with Kelly in Finsbury-square, and.that he bad reason to believe that she had been unfaithful to him. The prisoner added that he loved his wife, and whatever he had done arose from jealousy. He concluded by throw ing himself upon the mercy of the court and j ry. The RECORDER summed up the evidence, observing, that in point of law, if death had followed from the wounds inflicted by the prisoner, there was no doubt but that he would have been guilty of murder ; and if the wounds were proved to have been maliciously inflicted, although death had not ensued, the prisoner was equally accountable in the eye of the law, and must suffer the highest punishment. His lordship, after observing that there did not appear to be the slightest cause for this murderous attack of the prisoner, whatever floating suspicions might have entered his bead, summed up the evidence, and left the case to the ju The Jury, after consulting for about five minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty. The REcoanza told the prisoner to prepare for the worst. He had shown no mercy to his wife, and mast expect none. The case, however, would be submitted to his Majesty in council, and it was not for him (the learned judge) to say what would be the result. He advised the prisoner not to indulge in hopes that might ultimately prove gr oundless. The prisoner was then led from the bar. During the w hole of the trial, he never raised his head, excepting when the judge asked him if he had any questions to put to the witness, and when he entered upon his defence. He, however, betrayed no particular emotion, but laid his head upon the dock, and clasped his hands together when the verdict was returned After the prisoner was removed from the - dock, The REcorturit directed that the recognisance of his wife should not be entreated. Although she had certainly neglected her duty to the public, in not coming forward to prosecute the prisoner, yet it ap peared that she had been actuated solely by the affection which she bore him—an affection which, although misplaced. was not the less amiable in her. NEW COURT. Before the COMMON SZAJEANT and a Middlesex Jury. Dennis Sullivan and John Silsby were indicted for stealing a quantity of iron grating, the property of the Metropolitan Commercial In this apparently trifling case there were no less than eight counts in the indictment. _ _ Mr. ADommus appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. PHILLIPS for the prisoners. During the investigation some legal sparring took place between the two learned advocates, in consequence of s play upon words used by the witnesses. _ _ _ _ One of the witnesses said that he came to " reduce" the property. Mr. C. Putnam's—To produce. you mean. Mr. ADotruus—He (witness) doss not talk such good Irish as you do. Mr. C. PHILLIPS--I hope he will lain more polite English than you are in the habit of using. To the witness—How can you swear to these gratings, are not all gratings very much alike? Witness—There may be a man inexistence very much like you, but it is not very probable. Mt. C. PHictirs—Why did you not select Mr. Adolphus as the subject of your witty remark ? Mr. ADOLpwas—Because he preferred you, Mr. Phillips. Mr. C. Purt.Lirs—Becsuse he knew it was useless to make an ex ample of you, Mr. Adolphus. Several persons were called by Mr. C. Phillips, who gave Sullivan a good character ; but the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both the prisoners. A dreadful accident happened at the Varteg Iron Works, near Pontypool, on Thursday last, occasioned by the bursting of one of the engine boilers, which had been recently mended. A poor woman, wife of one of the workmen, who was waiting in an office near adjoining, for an order on the Company's shop for his wages, and a child in her arms, were so dreadfully scalded as to expire shortly after ; and an agent also in the office, narrowly escaped with his life, but not without serious injury.—Combrfam It is peculiarly gratifying to his Majesty's loyal subjects to be informed that, in a letter to a Magistrate in this county, Govern ment have assured him that, with all the powers they possess, they will aid the magistracy and the gentry in repressing those Rockite outrages that the disaffected have commenced, and that are likely to continue from the inflammatory appeals made to the peasantry by itinerant orators and senseless creatures, who are flattered into acts of monstrous atrocity. No means will be left untried to bring to condign punishment the un happy men that have been concerned in the outages lately perpetrated in this county.—Clownel Herald. OUTRAGE.—On Monday evening some of the officers of the Leveret ( just put into port for p rov i s i ons ) dined as h ore at the mess of the sth ; a few of the sailors were also permitted, after the fatigues of their cruise, to enjoy a little recreation In the town. When the par. ties were preparing to return on board, one of the boat's crew having been sent to Eilroys for an officer who dined there, was, without any provocation, attacked by some cowardly ruffian, who inflicted two des perate wounds with some sharp instrument, one on the head, the other beneath the shoulder blade, entering as far as the rib. The Mayor has been on boon', and taken his depositions. The parties are known, and warranss issued for their apprehension—the sailor is bound to prosecute. —Western Argus. WA aznovsz Roßstatzs.—ln the interval between Sa turday night and Monday morning, two warehouses, each within about a hundred yards of the other, were robbed of considerable One was the warehouse of Mr. '4Vm. Newton, jun. silk -man r =rer .— , 19, Spring.gardens, which was entered by forcing the locks] of the front door, and robbed of 1951b5. weight of organs - ins and tram silks. The warehouse of Mr. James Cousin, of Fountain.atreet, silk shawl dealer, was also entered through the roof, to which the thins had got access by means of some unfinished bulklivi adjoining. nal& to a considerable amount were stolen, and semswere afterwards found left upon therooE Nothing has yet been beard of the thieves in either in. stance—Manchester Mercury. THE HARVEST IN InEr.sin.—ln Dublin it was appre hended for several weeks past, that the luxuriant crops which presented themselves of every species, and in every part of the country, at the close of the summer months, would be considerably injured by the rains of August. We have now7gr -ftt pleasure in stating that very few fields of corn have suffered fife least injury. The richest and most productive wheat crop reaped in Ireland for many years, is either carried home from the field, or secured from the west on the stubble. Although there were heavy falls of rain last month, yet, not being incessant, they produced no bad effect, particularly in wheat and barley fields. The latter aop has been rarely more calculated to delight the farmer than in the present season, and will, we think, nosed by sae fifth that of last sawn, while the wheat will prove still more poise tive. The oat harvest is, we are happy to say, as good as we remem ber to have seen it. This crop is now nearly reaped, and is expected to be unusually abundant. The potato crop, the staple of the Irish laboorerer's sustenance, has not been better sines the year 1822; but although the small farmer and the holder of a few wee Ig tread from the galling and miserable apprehension of distress next yammer, the abundance with which be Is now surrounded is unable to remove his solicitude. Money is exceedingly scarce in every quarter. The rents are in general too high ; for, rich and abundant as the mops in ge. nerd are, they will not be sufficient to satisfy the claims of the land. lord, supposing the price of grain to remain as high as at present, which is scarcely to be expected. There is no price to be obtained for the other various articles which the paw man some years ago prepared foe the market with such advantage. Ris resources are now nearly limited to the produce of the soil. It is, however, truly gratifying to be eas. m o d to s t a t e th a t that bee been seldom greater in this poor country than in tire autumn of 1830.-..Presonon's Jowwai. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. BRUTAL ASSAULT. aortas leFterlatse,;;;;hsgeTaricTiassitating Andrew Sullivan, and striking out his eye. The prosecutor, a lad 15 years old, was passing with his brother along Brook-street, Rat cliffe, on his way home, late on the evening of the 17th of September, when the defendant and another both of whom were strangers to him, stopped him, and him to wrestle. ' . He refused, and at the same instant, was thrown down, and as he was in the act of rising, the defendant made a thrust at him with a tobacco pipe, which entered the eye, and eabetually destroyed the sight of it. TM poor fellow was taken to the London Hospital, and placed under the care of Sir William Blinn]. A piece of pipe an inch and three quarters long was extracted from out of the eye. The defendant said, in answer to the charge, that it was not be, but his companion, who strucbthe prosecutor with the pipe. The Jury found him Guilty. The Chairman, in passing sentence, observed that be had narrowly escaped answering with his life for the dreadful f,njury he had inflicted upon the young man. The sentence of the Court was, that be be prisoned 12 months, and kept to hard labour. William Gussi was charged with attempting to defraud Mr. Brown- John of 21. 6d. by passing offs gilt sixpence for a half-sovereign. The Mint have always refused to prosecute in these awe, and the is the first instance In which a conviction has been obtained at these, sessions for this description of fraud. For the purpose of proving a guilty intention, Dutch, of the Ma.. rylebone pollee, was called, and produced a gilt sixpence which the' prisoner a short time previous had endeavoured to pass at another place. Verdict—Guilty. Sentence, six months imprisonment. POLICE REPORTS. Mari-LaqKnrine..—YesterdayEfiza Bintearbare was charged with felony. Hannah Maria Martin, Mr. Martin's daughter, of the King and Queen public-house, in Foley-street, Portland-place, stated that on Tuesday the 14th of this month, she missed the key of her jewel-box, and, after making a strict search, she found in the trunk of the pri soner, who was her father's servant, a key which would open it, and when it was opened, a gold neck-chain, a gold watch chain, and live rings, were gone. She afterwards found duplicates relating to some of the articles in the prisoner's possession, and she was given into custody. Edward Dyer, sborium to Mr. Dobree, a pawnbroker, in Charlotte. street, produced one of the rings, and stated that the pris oner pawned it in his master's shop, on the 18th of August, for 9s. He also pro duced the neck-chain; she pledged that for 301. on the 23d, as she said, fa her mistress, Ann Morris, of No. 46, Foley-street and on the let of September she got an additional 10s. upon it, because, as she represented her mistress wanted a bottle of wine; and another 10‘ on the 13th of September, to furnish her mistress with one bottle more. She was sent to Newgste for triaL Maturosounit.svazzv.—Yesterday a very tripectable.looking young man, dressed ass sailor, named Joseph Clarke, the mate of sWeA Indlaman, was brought before Mr. Roe, the sitting Magistrate, charged with stealing s hat under the following rather singular circum. • —. Mr. Stuart, a hatter, residing at Lambeth, stated that he had known the prisoner for some time as an intimate acquaintance, and on Tues day last he agreed to accompany the prisoner to his ship at the West India Docks, as the latter was shortly to sail on an outward voyage. On his return the prisoner accompanied him back again on his way home r but when they got as far as Soho-square, they found it so late that they took a bed at the house of Mr. Shelton, a Licensed Victualler, in Compton-street, where they also supped and breakfasted the nest morning. The prisoner persuaded witness to accompany him again that day to the West India Docks, which witness agreed to do, and having a hat with him that he intended to take home to a customer, rather than be carrying the hat again to the docks, he gave it to Mr. Shelton, the landlord, to take care of for him until his return. When they got a good distance on their way to the West India Docks, witness missed the prisoner, who suddenly quitted him, and he saw no more of him until he was afterwards taken into custody on this charge but when he, the witness, got back to Mr. Shelton's, and asked for his hat, he found that the prisoner had called for it in his name, and had taken it away, which witness gave him no authority what. ever to do. - - - - _ - _ Mr. Shelton said, that a boy first called for the hat that Mr. Stuart had left in his care ; but he, Mr. Shelton, refused to give it, until shortly after the prisoner called for it, and knowing him to have slept at the house the night before, and to be the friend of Mr. Stuart, be did not hesitate to give him the hat, and did not know there was any thing wrong until Mr. Stuart himself called for the hat soon a ft er. The pri soner distinctly said that he was sent by Mr. Stuart for the hat. The boy who first called for the hat at Mr. Sheltan's stated, that he was sent by the prisoner for the hat; but on Mr. Shelton refusing to give it to him, he returned to the prisoner, who stood waiting at the corner of the street, and then the prisoner went himself for the bat, which he brought out with him from Mr. Shelton's, and then directed the witness to go with it to a pawnbroker's shop in Princes.street, and pledge it for what he could get, which witness accordingly did, and pawned it for lfts. which be gave to the prisoner. The pawnbroker produced the hat, which he said the last witness pledged; and Mr. Stuart identified it as his hat. The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence, and was fully committed for trial for stealing the hat, the Magistrate being clearly of opinion that this mode of gaining possession of it was, in law, a stealth. Tows-Ifai.r..—Rver Sweeny and Dania Mahon', were charged with stealing a quantity of iron pipe, the property of the Gas Company, and of the value of 20s. The prisoners were committed. William Rippe* and Richard Anderson were charged, the first with stealing 321bs. of lead, and the latter with receiving the same. Rippon was committed for three months to Brixton. Anderson was discharged. Willians Smith was committed for stealing a silk handkerchief from the person of 111 r. Gaitskell. Peter Camel was brought before Mr. Alderman Ansley, charged with a most aggravated assault upon policeman DI, No. 02. The policeman stated that while on duty on Tuesday evening, in Union -street, one of the inhabitants required his assistance to quell a tumult in the neighbourhood. On arriving at the spot, he found the prisoner, ales householder, endeavouring to force his way into the house of his next door neighbour, with whom he had been previously quarrelling. A considerable crowd had assembled, and the'prisoner, on being remonstrated with, became still more violent, seised hold of him (the policeman) and" floored him ;'• but considering that he was some. thing the worse for liquor he looked over the violence offered to him, upon the prisoner's promise to become calm. About twenty minutes af terwards he was passing the same way, when the prisoner flew upon him, and again took him b the collar, while his wife, from behind, en. deavoured to prevent him from defending himself, and between them be was forced again to the ground, and while prostrate, the prisoner nearly tore his great coat from his back. On regaining his feet, the prisoner desired his wife to bring him a knife, and he would run It "through his —.. heart." She did bring him one, but it was wrested from her hand before any injury was indicted. The prisoner then struck him a des perate blow with a candlestick, which his wife bad brought out. Thinking it then high time to lose sight of clemency, with the ass sistance of a brother °lbw he conveyed the prisoner to the station. house. The other policeman corroborated this statement, and charged the prisoner with assaulting him also in the station house.. The prisoner pleaded that he was under great excitement at the time from his previous quarrel with his neighbour, and baring drank too freely. Mr. Aldermen Awst.zr told him that unless he made ample re compense to the complainant he should be sent to Brixton. Inspector Manning informed the Aldermen that no policeman was allowed to come to any settlement. Alderman Aim:Y.—Then what's the value of the coat ?...The In. l apse:tor said Ws. Alderman Awnsv.—.Which sum shall be paid, or the prisoner !nand committed. The prisoner was then locked up, but released in about twenty mi. mates, the 20s. being forthcoming. Ustrox-HALL.—In the month of July last, a man named Povey was committed from this office on a charge of bigamy; he was con victed at the lest Surrey Sessions, and sentenced to six months' impel. 'moment and hard:labour. Since his conviction, it has been ascertained that he has no less than five wives now living. Two of them, whom he had deserted some years ago, attended before the magistrate (Mr. Hone) yesterday, and stated that they had recently heard of the punishment awarded to him, which they considered inadequate to the offence; and they now cams forward to give evidence against him, in order that the term of his imprisonment might be prolonged. The Magistrate said that Povey was now undergoing the punish. mot awarded to him; and at the expiration of his imprisonment, if evidence was adduced of his having committed an offence, a detainer could be lodged against him. Both the wives then withdrew, apparently on very good tame with each ether. A number of men went on last Wednesday night to the home of the Carey'', who live near golden, and who were, about a 'y e a r ego, attacked at night by an armed party, and illegally executed a de an ; Seven of the party have been apprehended, and are fully committed to take their trial fort e offence.--Cionmai Herald. Informations have been preferred before the Prorint ana Magistrates of Train, against a 501. freeholder who voted at the last ' election, charging him with wilful and conupt perjury. The-sacand 1 a gentleman of highly respectable connexions, and of hitherto unbie. miahed character. The infonnetiom were read in open court. • The (unbar Considerations of this ease were adjourned to Thursday, when the Bench decided against taking the inhumations. The amused parry was Daniel lkyan Wriweeny, and the person charged With suborning him, Mr. Maurice Brennan, et it Limerick (Aroniele. . . THE YOUNG MOTHER, TO HER FIRST-BORN. My sweet wee nursling ! thou art sweet to me, As sun to flowers, or honey to the bee! Music in summer bowers, the freshening stream To bright wings dipping from the sultry beam ! Hope to the mourner, to the weary rest, To the young dreamer visions of the blest ! What art thou like ? nestling in slumbers there, So meek, so calm, so innocently fair, What art thou like? a dormouse, sleek and warm ? A prhurose duster ? or a fairy charm ? Yes, thou'rt a charm, a most mysterious spell ! Birds, bees, and flowers, can just as ably tell Why sunshine, scent, and streams, their pinnace lx As thy young mother why she dolts on thee With such unmeasued, fond, intensity. I cannot look on thee but springing thought Perfumes the air with blossoms fancy-fraught ! I cannot think on thee but life seems bright With gushing sun-beams, ever-new delight ! Thou daring simpleton ! thy vacant eye Can yet, to my long gaze, make no reply ! Breathing and crying are thy only speech— But oh ! for me what eloquence has each ! Sounds of my first-born ! bow my heart they thrill t Like the sweet bubblingg.s of a hidden rill ! A well of future blearedneas art thou— My morning star—my crown of gladness now !—R. Dumfries Cann On the mail-road near Blackthorn, Oxfordshire is lie-bouse, the sign-board of which has the following inscription ; John Uff; Sells good ale, and that's enough ; A mistake here, Sells foreign spirits as well as beer. Ili PROPRIA Pansolvm.—A farmer recently received very polite note•from a neighbour, requesting the loan of an ass, for few days. Being unable to decipher his friend's hieroglyphics ant wishing to conceal,)lll,,ignorance from the servant, the termer h astily returned for answer, " Very well; tell your master I'll wait upon him ruysejf presently I" CLERICAL WlT.—The Sunday succeeding Mr. Jonathan Peel's defeat at Norwich, a divine of that ;city took for the text a very excellent discourse, " I am grieved for thee, my brother In. nathan I" ALEXANDER'S HORN.—In a scarce work entitled " Se crets Secretorum," and falsely ascribed to Aristotle, there occurs 0., following description of a very extraordinary born belonging to Al , t. ander the Great :—" With this brazen horn, constructed with wonder. fit! art, Alexander called together his army at the distance of GO mike. On account of its inestimable workmanship and monstrous size, it ws. under the management of GO men. Marty kinds of sonorous rn , tst. were combined in the composition of it." CATALOGUE OF POPES TILL DOOMSDAY.--Tile ROM Catholics possess, by anticipation, a catalogue of all the popes frxr A.D. 1143 till doomsday. It was framed by St. Malachi , - who war born at, and Archbishop of Armagh, and was the first saint wtv received regular canonization.—See p. 472 of Burton's Antiquities Rose, ed. 1821. _ _ POPULATION AND GENERATION.—Father Peters, OA Jesuit, calculated that in two hundred and sixty years four men might have 208,719,000.000 descendants. Enough to people many sue/ worlds as ours. Sir W. Blackstone shows that in twenty generatim* every man actually has 1,048,576 ancestors. Thus the provisions r nature are made against every contingency. In the animal world, 342,144 eggs have been found in a carp only eighteen inches long snd 600,000 have been reckoned in the toe of a salmon. Tux JEws.—The Jews, it has beon commonly tartnet by historians, were introduced into England by William the Conqueror. This. however, is erroneous; for the industrious D'Bloissiers Tom?, LL.D. has proved in his "Anglia Judaic'," printed at Oxford in 1733 that they made a settlement in England a considerable time before th, Conquest. The earliest mention of them in the annals of Great Britain, is in the "Canonical Excerptions," published by Egbricht, ArchbiAo; l of York, in 740. ACT OF' PARLIAMENT IN Vettsze—At p. 150 of Dr . Cotton's History of Editions of the Bible, Bvo. 1821, may be seen tiv act for enjoining a public thanksgiving on the fifth of November, "win ted into easie meter. a song nicete for young and old." It is entrain: from H. Dad's translation of the Psalms. No place or printer's namt is indicated in either of the copies which are found in the Bodleian ant' Lambeth libraries; and Dr. Cotton states that the volume has much th, appearance of having been printed in Holland. THE SUN A BODY OF Ice.—Many opinions have beer formed concerning the sun which philosophers have sometimes ridiculed, land sometimes seriously refuted. But of all the paradoxical assertion,. Irespecting that luminary, none equal Mr. Palmer.,' for that gentlemar positively asserts it to be a body of ice I The following is the title of Mr. Palmer's books " A Treatise on the sublime science of Heliorn• phy, satisfactorily demonstrating (I) our great orb of light, the Sun. ti be absolutely no other than a body of ice. By Charles Palmer, Gent' Bvo. 1799. SCHOLARS NOT ALLOWED TO DEG WITHOUT r. Licxxes.—By the act 1449, c. 22, in the reign of the Second Jame of Scotland, it was ordained, " That all somas, ovalayens, and master ful beggars, should be imprisoned, have their ears nailed to the treat or till erne other tree, have their ears cutted off, be banished the country, and if they returned that they should be hanged." The later statute. 1579, e. 24, declares who should be reckoned vagrants ; and it is not .. little curious to find among them, "all vagabond scholars of the uni versities of St. Andrew's, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, not licensed by et rector and dean of faculty of the university, to ask alms." CsitocePnaLus.--" The imaginary animal, called cynocephalus by the Egyptians, was supposed to be an apt, with dog's head. It is mentioned twice by Pliny, and, I think, ow. b: Solinue."—Drummond's Peraius, p. 127, notes.—A lengthened ac count of the cynocephali is given by Clerics, op Pholium, 72, de but • cis. He says that their complexions are black, and that they occupy tract of country in the mountains as far as the Indus. He estimate. their numbers at 120,000, and says they frequently attain 200 years age. They are mentioned four times by Pliny. See 1. 6. c. 33 ; 1.7- c. 2; L 8. C. 80; 1, 37. c. 42. See also licrodolus.l. 4. c. 191. £l:en Ilia. Ass. 1.10. c. 25; L 6. c. 10. Ciccro's Kpist. ad. Attic. t. ep. 1. Horapollo's Hieroglyph lea, Ll. c. 14, 16. Bryant states tb: the eynocephali wee persons of great learning, and members of a inert. college I—An. Mythol. IL 26. INVENTION OF THE SPIIERZ.-- 14 The peoplo of CA . r . tyre attributed the invention of the sphere of the heavens to Namtess, daughter of Alcinous, King of the Plumes, in that island ; and it h most probable that she had it from the Argonauts, who in their mar home sailed to that island. and made some stay there with her father: —Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, p. 86, 4to. For this extraordiusr: discovery Newton refers us to Suidas, who states that " Attagallis, t female grammarian of Corcyra, ascribes the Invention of the spurs Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous."—Now if our learned astronomer Inc turned to Athenaus. (1.1. c. xii.) from whom Suidas copied the abet-, passage, he would have found that this astronomical sphere was really nothing more than a sort of tennis-ball, with which the daughter et Alcinous and be fair companions were wont to amuse themselves, ad' to which practice Homer alludes in the Sixth Book of his Odyssey. 100,101, 115.—This strange blunder was, we believe, 61.14 detected and pointed out by Dr. Chapman, in his " View of the Expediency art . Credibility of Miraculous Powers among the Primitive Christians,' 4to. 1752 • to which learned production the reader is referred for fur ther partic ulars. CORONER OF WEST MINSTRR. —lt appears that, tr. consequence of some neglect on the part of some of the officer; connected with the establishment of St. George's Hospital, the Co. roue of Westminster has latterly been subject to much lace: venience, as well as trouble, in procuring necessary evidence ups inquests attached to his district, whereby the euds of justice have net received that full and complete elucidation which was requisite toe pro per verdict. In consequence he has felt it a duty, incumbent upon him, in the execution of his authority, to write to theßoard, requestir , that it would order a more strict inquiry for evidence, in order chi , Juries might be able to give a satisfactory verdict. BIRTHS. The 22d inst. In Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Mrs. T. Moore. ': a son.—The 21Id inst. at Albion-place, the lady of Dr. B. O. Davis, a daughter.—Yesterday, in Great Coram-street, Russell.aquata lady of F. Allen, Req. of a daughter.—Yesterday, in Great Cumberlszti ease. Mrs. Leonard Currie, jun. of a daughter.—The 22d inib at tkr Vicarage, Tottenham, Middlesex, the lady of the Rev. H. Arm:arm - - of a daughter. MARRIED. The 91st Inst. at the Church of St. George the Martyr, 3liddleert the 1t.,. J. !limey, of London, to Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. M Graterlek, of Erich Parsonage, Kent.—At Lambeth, ou the Slut. ins► Lieut. S. Baker, R.N. to 3largaret, eldest daughter of toe late S. Bur nett, of Lloyd's Colfee-houst. DIED. The bth Inst. at Lenten, Nottingham, Mrs. I. Sharpe, aged 80••••• The 22d inst. Mr. R. Weller, Threed.beedle.street, and eldest min of W. Weller, Esq. of Amenham, Becks.—The 22d ham Mr. Crofts, Of Brlck.lane, Spital.fields, in the fad year of his age.--Tueedai;a t r y residence in Lower tiernour.etreet. the Dowsget Loy relict of the Rey. Sir John Knighdey, of Faireley-parlt, is the mom of Northampton, Bart. LOIIDON : Printed sad Published by Jones DM•sxs, Ilit tin ens. Orrect,elio. 1, Pickett-plea Temple Her. '~ : .