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POETRY. !ROM BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. I look it east, I look It west, . I saw the darksome coming even ; The wild bird sought its cosy nest, The kid was to the hamlet driven ; But house nor home aneath the heaven, Except the skengh of greenwood tree To seek a shelter in, was given To my three little bairns and me ! I bad a-prayer I would na pray, I had a vow I could na breathe; For aye, they led my words astray, And aye, they were connected haith With ane wha now was cauld in death. I lookit round wi' watery ee— Hope waana there—but I was laith To see my little babies dee ! Just as the breeze, the aspen stirr'd, And bore aslant the falling dew, I thought I heard a honn"-; bird Singing amid the air sae blue. It was a lay that did renew The hope deep sunk in misery ; It was of one my woes that knew, And a kind bean that cared for nie ! . 0, sweet as breaks the rising day, Or sunbeams through the wavy rain, Fell on my soul the charming lay-,- Was it an angel poured the strain? Whoe'er has kenn'd a mother's pain, Bent o'er the child upon her knee-- O! they will bless, and bless again, The generous heart that cares for me ! A cot was rear'd by Mercy's band, Amid the dreary wilderness— It rose as if by magic wand, A shelter to forlorn distress; And weel I ken that Heaven will bless The heart that issued the decree— The widow and the fatherless Can never pray, and slighted be ! HE HAMPTON COURT BEAUTIES. 'V FROM THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. • The Hampton Court Beauties, like the Windsor Beauties, owe their existence to a woman's pride in her own sex, not to the gallantry of ours. The thought was first suggested by Queen Mary, and its execution was begun dui ing one of King William's absences. The Beauties of Hampton Court are all full-lengths, l wish the excepti••n of Queen Mary. As paintings, they are decidedly inferior to the Windsor Beauties, and, with due deference to the vii tires of the Ladies they represent,' are certainly inferior to them in the interest and beauty of the subj .c . s. They have suffered too so much from the alternate dampness and dryness of their situation, that it would be invidious to criticise the colouring as the fault of the Artist; there is a chalkiness in the flesh, and a general rawness in the tints, which will not bear a comparison with the delicacy of Lely's carnations, nor even with many of Kneller's other works which have been better preserved. _ " Alas! bow little from the grave we claim: Thou bat prtserv'st a face, and I, a name," — Exclaimed Pope w his friend : and pity it is, that of several of the beautiful. women we are now about con sidering, the face and the name are all that remain to us. QUEEN Maxi, eldest daughter of James the Second, by Anne Hyde: half length, by Wissing. As this picture represents Mary, without any of her paraphernalia of royalty, and merely in the usual dress of a Lady of her time, we shall consider her accordingly in her most interesting and distinguished character—as a woman, and not as a Queen. Mary was married young to a man destitute of every quality which could recommend him to the sex; he was feeble in temperament, ungraceful in his person, and ungracious in his manners. Whatever we may owe as a nation to the public virtue or ambition of William, it is certain that the different notices of him scattered through the pages of Iris panegyrist Burnet, when brought together, make up a most unatniable and re volting private character. With regard to Mary's conduct towards her father and sister, it appears so inexcusable, that Burnet, with all his admiration of her excellencies, rather apologizes for her than attempts to defend her. On her first arrival at Whitehall, after the deposition of Jantes.the Second, her unconcerned gaiety was so like exultation, that even the Bishop was scandalized :—"I confess," he says, " I was one of those who censured this in my thoughts. 1 thought a little more seriousness had dose as well when she came into her father's palace. and was to be set on his throne the next day." The Queen afterwards said, that she had been commanded by the Prince, her hut. band, to " put on a cheerfulness, and act a part not na tural to her, for fear of disgusting their adherents, and that none knew what she suffered ;" and she might have Added, none believed. In this instance, as in many others, dissimulation, if it was such, defeatesrits owls purpose; for her conduct on the occasion exposed her .to general indign%tion, and for a time turned every heart against her.• Neither does it seem necessary that she .should have carried her dissimulation even into her own bedchamber. " I was one of those," says the Duchess of Marlborough, (who, though passionate and preju diced, is tolerably good authority for facts) "who had .tee honour to watt upon the Queen to her own apart ment. She ran about it, look ng into every closet and conveniency, and turning up the quilts upon the bed, as people do when they come into an inn, and with no other sort of concern in ber appearance, but such as they express; and," adds the Duchess, with naivete, " if .she felt no tenderness, I thought she ought at least to have looked grave, or even pensively sad, at so melan chuly a reverse of her father's fortune." Such hypo crisy would at least have served her cause better. The porttait of WILLIAM Tait THIRD is at one end of the Gallery of Beauties, near that of the Queen. The man ter in ss hich the pictures are hung is a good ex emplification of their domestic arrangements. The pa: trait of M .ty, a small unpretending half length, is modestly suspended by the side of her husband, whose majesty covers one end of the loom and half an acre of canvass. And though, as poets wine— " I leaven itself to Knelaces baud decreed To 6: great Nassau on the bounding steed," Heaven seems to have left him these, and denied its in spiration to his work. Ndthilg can be conceived more tame and spiritless than the whole performanCe, crowded with a:legorical monsters in the worst style of tasteless affect:Mon. As the man says in Where, "Nous evons ..chang6 tout vela;" what should we say now if the Pre sident 01 the Royal Academy were to exhibit a picture of the Doke of Wellington in a lull suit of tight regi mentals, sun ound, d by a host of Virtues and Victor and Valours and Temperances, and fat little Geni.ises • Sladanie de SevignE calls her "La second? Mlle," and there is extant' a furious satire, attrd.uttd to I /epic:), entitled " Tarquin and • leis." $o strong was p,ny brainy at that time, that one Clergy so; preached a sermon on h e r f unera l, f rom t h e t ex t i n t h e WA • Kings, "tome now let ug take this accursed 1,0113.1 D and bury tar, fur she Is a' King's daughter." . !wiolt light blue wings, flying and sprawling about in An directions? . _ The portrait of Mary is in better taste; it is very ladylike, and unaffected: the neck and bosom per haps rather too much exposed, considering that Mary in troduced a decorum in dress unknown in the last two reigns. The face is a complete Stuart face, and has a striking resemblance to 411 the pictures of the young Pretender. With considerable beauty, sweetness, and dignity, we find those indications of weakness and ob stinacy round the mouth, and in the lower part of the countenance, common to all the portraits of the Stuart. line. Tag COUNTtS3 07 PETERBQROUGA.—Carey Fraser, daughter of Alexander Fraser, and first wife of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth. Ntither the charms nor the virtues of this amiable and beautiful woman, had power to fix the heart of her inconstant and eccentric husband. He spent very little of his time with her, his restless and volatile spirit leading him constantly abroad. It was his boast, " that he had seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Eurtspe." Walpole calls him "as gallant as Amadis, and as brave el and Pope said of him, "that he was never born to die like other men, any more than to live like them."* Lord Peterborough's rivalship of the Duke of Marlborough, and his exploits while he was Com mander in•chief of the British forces in Spain, may be found in every History of England. • Married to such a man, the Countess of Peterborotigh must have derived what portion of happiness fell to her share from the glory rather than the tenderness of her husband, and the noble qualities of her sons, who were both of them distinguished by their gallantry and good conduct. She died in 1709, leaving also a daughter, afterwards Duchess of Gordon. The second wife of the Earl of Peterborough seas the celebrated singer Anastasia Robinson, of whom Dr. Burney has given us such an interesting memoir in his History of Music. In this portrait of the first Countess of Peterborough, the face has great beauty and a dignified expression, mingled, however, with an air of pensiveness, such as the wife of Lord Peterborough may be supposed to have worn habitually. She is leaning on a pedestal of the statue of Pallas: the attitude is easy, unaffected, and lady-like. The drapery, however, is a failure, being carelessly painted, and composed of deep shades of red and blue violently contrasted, which have a most inju dicious effect ; the folds have the stiffness and heavi ness of cast-iron : all the beauty and effect of the pic ture are confined, as usual, to the head, which is extremely well painted, and full of interest. (To be mutinied.) • See a most Interesting letter in the supplementary volume of Pope's Works, describing his visit to Lord Peterborough, a short time before the death of the latter. SHIPWRECK. FROM THE JOURNAL DES DEBATE. The Pharo of Havre contains the following details, which cannot be perused without creating a lively in terest :—A ship called " La Mere aux huit Enfans," sailed from Cape Haitien for Havre, on the morning of the 31st of July last, and during a calm, steered her course so as to pass betwixt the Caicos, and the great lnague. The day after her departure, the weather grew gloomy, so as to render it impossible to take an obser vation for obtaining the latitude; however, the wish of passing soon through, induced the Captain to enter the canal during the night. However a breeze having sprung up, and veering continually about, and a great swell of sea setting in, the ship found herself, towards ten o'clock at night, riven with an inconceivable rapi dity on the shoals of the Caicos, and struck violently upon a rock. Every effort was now made, but in vain, to extricate her from this critical situation ; and part of the cargo was thrown overboard, but to no purpose.— In the meanwhile day broke, and discovered the whole extent of the danger, and the utter insufficiency of the means of safety that could be depended on. A hollow sea, constantly breaking over her, threatened to wash away er crush the only beat that remained, and in which the crew might reach some inhabited land. It was there fote resolved to abandon the unfortunate ship. The crew, amounting to twelve men, took to the boat, carry ing nothing with them but the ship's papers, a compass, ' a chart, a quadrant, a bag full of biscuits, and a cask of water. A mast and sail were rigged as well as circum stances admitted, and thus the unhappy party steered for the first land that happened to be in sight, which was bearing N.N.W. at a distance of six leagues; but after several hours of dangerous navigation, they made a sterile land, and therefore set sail again, in the most terribly cramped situation, as the whole crew were obliged to remain sitting, and squadded down in the small boat, without the slightest shelter from the burn ing rays of a tropical sun. They now steered for Mo gana, for they were then at a distance of upwards ef 40 leagues from the coast of Hayti, and had not the slight est hope of reaching that island with a contrary wind, and in an open boat so deeply laden. The land which they next made, was likewise un inhabited and desart ; crabs and other shell fish fur nished them a repast ; but they presently set sail again, as their stock of water was diminishing rapidly, and the sea had so thoroughly soaked and saturated their biscuits, as to render them wholly unfit for eating. They now shaped the course of their bark towards Aklin, which they fortunately reached the next day, after a most dangerous night, pulling between shoals during a gale of wind. They found there but tuo English men of colour, who scarcely could supply them with any fresh provisions. They therefore set sail again for Crooked Island, de bilitated by the fatigues of their voyage ; their eyes and lips being inflamed, and their whole face parched by the sc' rching sun; their feet were tendered sore by the effects of salt water, and thus they were very appre• hensive of an immediate breaking out of the scurvy; for their legs began already to swell, and their bodies to be covered with pustules. A solitary human being inhabited Crooked Island. This man being the owner ef a small schooner anchored near the shore, was one of those seamen who live con stastly on these dangerous spots, awaiting the ship wreck of larger veisels, for the purpose of enriching . themselves by their fragments, when going to pieces— (n other words, he was a wrecker). The crew of the ship La mere aux huit Enfans offered to charter his small craft, to carry them to Providence ; but the men tion of their shipwreck made him for a long time hesi tate. He chn'e rather to go in seasch of the wreck ; and not u,ittl assurei that their vessel was totally lost, would he clnsent to furnish View the means to reach a country from whence they might return to Europe. ey got under weigh the next morning, but still with out any fres'r provisions, for the Buccaneer of Crooked w an d et ht r hadnone, did not choose to part with gaily. At last, on their Ihrival at Long 'shod, t .ey found some calabashes of milk, a most exquisite beve rage for wretches that had -been for more than eight days exposed to such terrible privations. 'At last they arrived at Providence on the eleventh day without touching a morsel of bread during twice four and twenty hours, and without eatables of any kind for a whole long day. BOLTON PETTY SESSIONS. THE TILDESLEY WORKMEN. Charge under the Combintion Act, sth Geo. IV. c. 95, and for the Riot and Assault at Common Law. SaxuaDay,Ocrusea7.—The presiding 'Magistrates, this day, were Colonel FLITCH/La, Major WATKINS, and JOSZPN RinowAr, Esq. At a little after twelve o'clock, James Green, Henry Pendkbury, Jciery Crank, and Richard Brindle, all of Tildesley, in this county., cotton spinners, were put to the bar, charged upon two informations, on the oaths of Thomas Fulshaw and Thomas Mullineux, with having, on the 16th day of September last, prevented informants from accepting employment at the Cotton-spinning Mill belonging to Mr. Jones, of Tildesley, which, under the above Act of his present Majesty, subjects the prisoners to two months' imprisonment. About a month ago, Mr. Jones gave notice to his workmen that he should, at the end of a fortnight from the date of the same, make a certain deduction in their rate of wages, which the men not agreeing to accept, unanimously turned out, and left Mr. Jones's employ. ment. At the time the reduced list of wages was pro posed, a good spinner, it seems, could clear, after all deductions, as much as 455. per week, and, in many instances, where the family of the spinner were em ployed, 60s. and at the reduced list a spinner would get with his family 40s. The old spinners having turned out, Mr. Jones found it necessary to supply their places with new hands, when many poor weavers readily sought employment, where they could earn more than double what they could in their own trade. Amongst this class of weavers were Mullineux and Fulshaw. To these men, it seems, the old spinners offered every species of annoyance, - whom they designated by the appellation of knob sticks !" and collected round Jones's mill for the purpose of preventing the new hands having admission there. Evidence having been produced and examined, the prisoners were bound over to appear at the General Quartet Sessions at Kirkdale, to answer any bill that might be preferred against them for the riot and assault, themselves in 301. each, and two sureties in 151. and the witnesses were bound over to appear and prosecute.—ln the course of the day the prisoners found bail. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. --r,-- GUILDHALL. A Gentleman applied to Sir Perm Lama for a warrant, to apprehend a person, who is, or was, a Solicitor, for surreptitiously circulating a bill of exchange, which was entrusted to him profes sionally by the drawer, for the purpose of being discounted, with out having given the drawer any account of, or consideration for, the same. The bill bore date the 19th of August, and was drmin on Mr. J. T. Grice, of Keppel-street, Russell-square. The appli cant referred to Sir T. Plumer's Act, 52 Geo. 111. Cap: 65 ' as one that exactly met his case. This statute requires that the person placing the bill in the hands of any attorney or agent for any pur pose, should accompany it with an order in writing, signed by the party so depositing the same, specifying how it should be applied. Without being aware that this form was necessary to protect him against fraud, he had entitled himself to the redress afforded by the Act, for he had inclosed the bill in a letter, in which he requested the Solicitor to get it discounted for him, and forward him the pro duce as soon as possible, after deducting his charges; but he had never received any value for his bill, nor could he meet with the person of his friend, the solicitor. Mr. Payne, the clerk, remarked, that there was no statute giving prties a criminal remedy in such cases. The clause in Sir T. Plumer's Act, which the applicant had cited, related only to the misapplication of money ordered to be laid out in the purchase of Government or other securities. Sir Pavia declined issuing the warrant. John Lock, cellarman to Mr. Reeves, wine merchant, Warwick lane, was brought up for re-examination yesterday, before Sir Prma Lams, charged with stealing 401. the property of his employer. Mr. Reeves stated, that on the 25th of Sept. he sent the prisoner to Lombard-street, and to Messrs. Lubbocks, in Mansion-house- street, to change some country bank notes, amounting together to 40i. and he saw no more of him until he was taken into cutody ; but, on the 26th of Sept. the prisoner's uncle called with 251. which he bad received, u he stated, from Lock, who informed him it was witness's money, and had begged it might be delivered to him. He had obtained the numbers of two lel. notes, that had been paid to the prisoner at Lubbock., and be found one of them in the 251. that bad been brought to him by the prisoner's uncle; and the other had.been paid ?to the Bank of England, sod traced to the prisoner. Remanded. BOW-STREET. Post Orrice Romaar.—Tuesday, John Goodman and William Garlick were brought up on a charge of having stolen a parcel coo taining a 1,0001. Bank note and other property,belonging to the house of Sparrow and Co. bankers, Newcastle-under-Lyne, on Its way through the Post Office, to the house of Sir R. Carr Glyn and Co. The principal evidence was Daniel Callaghan, a fislunonger, who keeps a stall in Fleet-market, and partook of the prey. He jated, that he was acquainted with a man named Walsh these twenty years, whose daughter was married to the prisoner Goodman. About 12 months ago he met Walsh in Holborn. While conversing with him, the prisoner (Garlick) came up and spoke to Walsh. After be went of, Walsh said, " that man could be of service to us ; be bas a situation in the Post Mice, and could get valuable parcels for us." A few days after be met them in Thompson's wine -vaults, in Holborn. On that occasion, Walsh said to Garlick, " You have a good chance of making money—and, if you meet with any thing, Callaghan knows where I live." About a week after that, be met Garlick in a public house, who asked him where Walsh was? as he had got a parcel, containing notes to a considerable amount. He then took him to Walsh's house, when Garlick opened the parcel and 'hewed it to Walsh ; it contained a 1,0001. oote and bonds to the amount of 2,0001. or 5",0001. which Walsh said be would keep, but Garlick said he would burn; be did so accordingly. He added, that they were from the house of Glyn and Co. had come from a great distance, and would not be missed for three or four days. Walsh took the note to Goodman, who came to where they were, and observed, that he would give 9001. for them; the prisoner said , that they would be content with 8501. Goodman agreed, and promised to call on Walsh on the morrow to pay it; he did so ; Walsh told witness that he had got the Dote changed at the Bank; witness asked who changed it ? Walsh replied, he did not Care who, and gave witness 2501. as his share. George Mills examined by Mr. HA Rwra—Was In the employ of Mr. Boyce, livery-stable keeper, Fetter-lane ' • lent a one-horse chaise to Callaghan, to go to Uxbridge, on the 110th of September last; Goodman, the prisoner, entered the chaise with Callaghan; they both returned at ten o'clock at night; could not swear that it was Goodman that had returned with Callaghan. James Parker, a surveyor, residing at Uxbridge, saw Callaghan and Goodman at the King's Arms, Uxbridge, on the 25th of Sept. Matthew Carter, a City constable, residing in Distaff Lane; was a sbell•fishmonger ; Garlick lodged in his house for three years; never saw Callaghan in company with the prisoner; never saw him more than two or three times in his life, when- he came to his house inquiring for Garlick. Several Clerks in the Post Office were examined to prove that Garlick was in the Foreign Letter department, and that on the night on which the parcel was stolen he had been sorting letters, and had an opportunity of taking the parcel. A Clerk from the Bauk of England deposed, that on December 8, a person got a 400/. Bank note changed, and gave his name Philip Murrell. On the evening of the same day another person got a 60til. note changed, and gave his name Joha Sparrow. The witness, from some circumstance, suspecting that there was fraud connected with it, asked hint why he gave a different name in the morning? He replied, that it was not he, but Murrell, who was there in the morning. To the best of his belief, Goodman was die person who gave his name as Sparrow. Several ether witnesses were examined to prove that the con neaion between Canaghan and the two ptisouers was kept up until a late period. The identity of the notes was estabikhed by Benjamin Longworth, at that period a clerk in the house of Glyn and Cu. Ellis, the officer, apprehended Goodman on the 4th instant, and nn the sth he searched his house, and found therein two pieces of wax, flatt e ned with the impression of keys on them, together with a bag containing three or four hundred sovereigns. He is suppo se d, ,to have planned aU the atAge coach vdhberies that have takeu place within theft twelve years.—Committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Sarah Smith, a fine looking woman, being charged by the watch. man with being drunk and disorderly, charged him in return with want of gentlemanly manners, and on Mr. Costive's telling her that she had no business to walk the streets that way, asked him whe ther he would keep her without? This the worthy Magistrate d e . dined. and sent her to study the arts of peace in Cold Bath-fields for seven days. Yesterday, J. Med.:, Esq. a Gentleman well known in tbe li terary circles, residing at No. 7, Bedford place, Bloomsbury, ap. peared before Mr. CONANT i the Magistrate, to pref e r a c h arge at assault against the Baron de gagger Lieutenant on isalf.pay of the Lo „ 48th Regiment. Previous to the case coming on, the Baron advanced to the table, and requested to be allowed to prefer his charge first. as they arose out of one another; but this, after some übservations from the M a r g!strate, was refused. Mr. Meth% stated, that about ten o'clock on Monday tv‘ was passing down Duke -street, &. James's, when he was suddenly . attacked by the person who called himself a Barer., and knnclted down ; his bat was cut through from the blow of the defendant s umbrella. He collared the defendant, and called the watch, and accompanied the party to the watch-hou , e, where a constable, of the name of Chapman, bailed the Baron, and at the bcne observed, that a Lady who accompanied the Baron had hettct charge him. This she accordingly did, and he was detained until Mr. Smith, the night constable, liberated him on his parol of ho.. noun The Lady, in the first instance, had not said a word about his having assaulted her. This person, who calls himself a Baron, I believe, has assumed a tide he had no right to: be states, that ha belongs to the 48th Regiment, and, on looking over the Army List, I can find no such person as Baron de Kruger belonging to it. Mr. Coverer—Are you a Baron? Baron—l am, Sir • for my name is prefaced with a De; witch constitutes my title Of Nobility. My affidavits are always signed Baron de Kruger. After being allowed to engross nearly an hour of the Magistrate's time, they were both ordered to find hail. The complainant then stated, that he was well known in the literary world, and that he had, since he left the office, turned his attention to the origin of names, and he found that De, instead of being a badge of Nobility, was no more than the t‘ son of." Ti:,, natives of Scotland and Ireland, who prefaced their names wiat Mac, or o', might say, with the Baron, that they were Noblemen, with as much propriety. The parties then retired. MARY-LA-BONNE. Several publicans were brought up by Johnsan, the Infonner,and fined for keeping their houses open till too late nn hour at night. WORSHIP-STREET. Byers, the Informer, took out 47 summonses against stage coach owners, on Saturday, for not having their ch ri rr ian and surnames painted on each door pannel, or the places from whence they start, as well as their destination, painted on the pannels. Yesterday the Office was crowded with these defendants,*and Mr. James, of Stoke Newington, and the Newman's, of Clapton, were fined 101. each fur two offences; and Gaywood,of Islington, £5 fur one offence. LAM BETH-STREET. A genteel young man stated that he had recently married Miss Shelly, the daughter of the late Parish Clerk of Whitechapel, who, by common report, ind the representations of her friends, was en titled to about 3,0001. Upon inquiry, however, he now discovered ber whole property was 600 t. vested in Bank Stock, in the names of Trustees, who, without the knowledge of his wife, had gold out 50f and they refused to give him any explanation; he therefore wanted a warrant against them. The Magistrates said they had no jurisdiction in the matter, and referred him to his Solicitor. TOWN-HALL. Mr. John Smith, jeweller and silversmith, High.street, in the Borough, informed the Magistrate, that on Saturday night a young man, fashionably dressed in black, drove up in a tilbury,amitmserli himself as the son of Captain Turner, of Thames•streer, and made choke of a dozen of silver table spoons, and a pair of silver salts, to the value of 111. ss. which were sent by a lad with him, who was to bring back the money. Instead of Thames. street, the boy was •;riven to the Temple, where Mr. Turner, jun. got out, and persuaded the boy to entrust him with the property to chew bis fl het. After waiting for two hours in the gig, with no hopes of ever seeing Mr. Turner, or the goods again, he drove the tilbury home to his master, who at present detains the equipage. But it will no doubt mon be claimed by some livery stable keeper, from whom it 114 been hired. This trick has been played 20 times in the Last few weeks. UNION.HALL. A young man named Thomas Scutt, who was implicated in the murder of Mrs. Richards, at Claphatn,in this mouth of April, 18.23, bet who was subsequently admitted approver against his associates, who were afterwards executed, was charged with stealing a watch. The prisoner called at the house of an elderly female, named Cri.p, residing atCamberwell, and said that he had procured for het son the situation of Overseer over the men employed at the new London Bridge. He requested to be furnished with pen, ink, and paper, for the purpose of writing the address where the young man WA!: to edl ; and while Mrs. Crisp left the parlour to procure the writing materials, the prisoner stole the watch, and jumped out of the win dow into the street. He was apprehene.ed at a house in Kent street, resorted to by none but thieves and prostitutes, and where be lived with a prostitute of the worst description. He was committed for trial. THAMES POLICE. Au' Davis was charged by William Rowe with robbing him of his watch and 30s. He bad treated her at a public-house with sins and water till he lost all remembrance, and when he recovered it, found himself locked up in his own apartment, without knowing bow be had come there. He burst the door open after finding that his watch and money were missing, and, on going our, met the prisoner coming out of a gin shop, when he gave her into custody. —Committed for trial. Monday an Inquest was held at the King's Arms Inn, Lancaster, on the bodies of a female and infant, which were di,. covered on opening a box, twenty-two inches long, fifteen inches broad, and forty two inches deep. addressed to Archibald Young, No. 50, South Bridge-street, Edinburgh. It appeared that the box came from Manchester to Preston, from whence it was forwarded by the coach; but on account of the dreadful smell, the passengers refused to travel any further, unless the box was removed ; and, accordingly, the same was opened and its contents discovered. No signs of unfair play appearing upon the bodies. the Jibe) , returned a verdict of" Found Dead." The bodies were afterwards interred. The business done at Braintree fair, and the immense crowds of persons assembled, exceeded all former precedent. Hops went off freely from 85s. to £5 per cwt. "At the Bridgewater fair, last week, cattle of all de scriptions sold at extremely reduced prices ; and this, which is one of the largest fairs iu the west of England, was s eldom, if ever, known so dull. Pamphlets are supposed to have first appeared shortly after the marriage of Puiur and M.sav of Spain ; CA A 01.4 :pelts the word pour, iet, and it means a small book, stitched pox utsfCei, with a single thread. THEATRICAL ANECDOTE.—AIittIe while since, it was I lthe fate of Richard the Third to he represented by a young man, welt known for his attachment to the stage, at a country theatre. OR Lord Statsley's entrance at the fourth tat, the tyrant demands— " How now, Lord Morley, what's the news?" The answer given was, it seems, a fact—" There's a man at the door says you owe him a crown, an d wbo swears be wou'r go away till he gets it.' A Gascon boasted in every company that he was descended from so ancient a family, that be was still paying, at that very day, the interest of a sum which his ancestors had hoirowedi•P pay their expenses wben they went to adore uur SAveacis. at Bethlehem. General Baron de Koller, I.Chief of the Austrian Army in the Kingdom of N.iples. Ile was the General Uficer who, in 3814, accompanied Napokon to the Island of Elba. _ MAILS -THIS DAI.7. ALM DUt. ',st. t er. Dublin 1 01Fisrae 0 0 Wcertt.rd I 0 Ilansbur i ;b 0 1 G,ernsey and Jersey 0 0 i 11414 is u to Lisbon 0 0 1 11r.zi1 0 0 Donaghatlee 0 0 Swtdt n 0 I Leeward Islands 0 0 Amedra 0 1 Holland 0 0 , Buenos Ayres 0 1 LUG WATER at LONDON BRIDGE 'lO 3.101t110W. Moruiug nialutcs ..:ter 11 Afternoon Ottliwtes :attr LONDOVI Dinka mut r ley J. F. licaLv, id the Sus Oirsys, We. 1, Atkx4d-itace, !!t►,