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THE GOSPEL ECHO. The following verses were found in a pew in the Church of Kirk ham, In the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, on Sabbath, the 17th September. Of the author we know nothing ; but, judging from the hand-writing, we should suppose them to be the production of a female, whose ear is not only tuned to wng, but whose -heart is warmed by the best feelings that belong to a Christian : True Faith, producing love to GOD and man— Bay, Echo, is not this the Gospel plan? Echo—The Gospel plan. Most I ay faith in Jaws constant thew, By doing pod to all, both friend and foe? Echo—Both friend and foe. When men combine to bate and treat me ill, Must I return them good, and love them stilt? Echo--Love them still. If they my fallings causelessly reveal, Must I their faults is carefully conceal? Soho-;-As carefully conceal. Mut if my name and character they tear, And cruel malice too, too plain appear ; -And when I sorrow and affliction knout s They love to add unto my cup of woe•; Say, Echo, say, in such peculiar case, Must I continue still to love and bless ? Echo—Still to love and bless. Why, Echo! howls this? Thou'it sure a doves Thy •oice will leave me nothing else but Love: Echo—Nothing else but Love. Amen ; with all my heart then—be It so— And now to practbe FIR directly gcsQ. - Echo--Ditectly go. This path be mine ; and let who will reject, My gracious Gob me surely triil proteet— Echo—Surety will protect. Henceforth on Han VII tut my every care, And Mends and foes, embrace them all In strayer. Echo—Embrate them all in prayer. NEWCASTLE, 'Ocroliza 76. Sunday; the body of fames M`Donald,a sailor, belong. to the ship Tyne, of Glasgow, was taken out of the river opposite that part of Newcastle Quay called Burn Bank. He was seen very tipsy on Saturday night, and is supposed to have missed his way. The Coroner's Jury sat on the body yesterday, and give a verdict of l'ound drowned. The body tf John Campbell, a seaman, of the ship Telemachus, was picked up at the Lime-kiln Shore, North Shields, on Friday last. He belonged to Blyth, and had been missing since the Friday preceding. Friday, as Henry Smales, Esq. Solicitor, Durham, Was returning borne on a spirited horse, the animal 'took fright at a waggon at the head of Framwellgate, and Mr. Smales losing his seat, fell . to the ground, and unfortunately broke his arm. . Thursday night, the house of Mr. George Booth, in Hier -street, Btshopwearmouth, was burglarionsly en tered, and a quantity of plate stolen therefrom: Game has generally been considered wilder this year than usual, on account of the earliness of the season. Same estraordinary instances of a contrary description have occurred here within the last few days. On Tues day last, four partridges, apparently in a state of great eshawtion, were seen running about tie Bigg-Market, in this town, and on being pursued, three of them sought shelter in as many different public-houses, where they were captured. The fourth did not share a better fate, having been taken by an old woman, who was passing at the time.- On Wednesday a young man at the Leazes, near this town, observing two partridges on the ground before him immediately ran after them, and succeeded in taking one of them ; the other escaped from him, but Was soon afterwards shot. A Gentleman caught ano• ther in the Manor Chase on Thursday, and afterwards liberated it. Others, we believe, have been captured in different parts of the town. It is singular that all these birds were full grown, and appeared to have received no wonitdi, AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Tuesday morning, between sire and seven o'clock, Mr. Joshua Baker, a farmer, at Wilsdon, was surprised by a Getaltman's carriage, post chaise, and hackney coach, stopping at the gate of his rick-yard, from each of which vehicles two per sons descended, crossed the yard into a field at the back of his house, and proceeded to measure the g•ound.— Mr. Baker, anticipating their object, info/ toed them that he could not allow any proceeding of the kind to take place upon his premises, and that he had sent for an offi cer; regardless of his remonstrance, the opposing parties took their stations at a short distance, and each of them tired their pistols in the air. The two antagonists had on camlet cloaks, and, when they had divested them selves of them previous to firing, appeased to be, mili tary men—one was an elderly tall man, tyre other was a young man, also very tall; the other lour persons ap peared to be two seconds, a surgeon, and a livery ser ♦ant ; the surgeon and livery servant came in the hackney coach. After fiiing the parties separated, and walked across the yard to their respective vehicles, ap parently by no means satisfied with the result; and it was supposed by the peisons who witnessed the trans action that the party, in consequence of being disturbed, left the spot to settle their differences in another place, where they would not be so liable to meet with inter ruption. Each of the antagonists had two brace of pistols. The names of the principals did not transpire. Saturday a little girl, about eight years of age, the daughter of a poor man of the name of Clarke, living in the parish of Holy Cross, Westgate, near Canterbury, was standing near the fire, when her pincloth accident ally caught tire, and she was instantly in one entire blaze; her clothes being literally burnt off bier back. She was immediately taken to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, where she died on the following morning. Mr. —, who bad three virgin sisters 4 a certain age, and wanted very much to palm one off on Captain - , launched out one day in a splendid eulogium on their virtues. Being a►ked particularly about the age of one, he replied, " She is just forty, but bears her age admirably." " Does she, indeed," said the Capt. " Well, that's more than I can." Jau BELCHER'S GRAVE.—Among a cluster of tombs, in the filary-la•bonne burial ground, Paradise-street, . Mary-la-bonne, is a mound of earth, distinguished by a white marble slab, which, to the stranger, points out the burial place of this brave pugilist. The following is the simple inscription : Sacred to the Memory of Ala. haw Buenas, Aged 30 years, who died In the year 1811, Huck regretted by an who knew bins. r lIIOTS AT TILDESLEY. BOLTON, Ocr. 9. Nu less than 23 men and women were brought up this morning, charged with rioting at the cotton mills gf John Jones, E , q. of Tildesley, on Wednesday last, where not fewer than 200 persons assembled, and with violently assaulting him and several others, its well as the constable, in the executian of his duty, in the appre hending of a person of the name of Henry Pendlebnry, charged with rioting at the same mills on the 23d Sept. last. There were no less than 12 depositions read of the ill-treatment received on that day.—The Solicitor on the part of the prisoners offering no evidence, they were bound in recognizances to keep the peace, and to an swer for the riot and assault at the next Kirkdale Ses sions, and the parties bound over to prosecute. No less than three hundred weavers entered the town this • morning, but every thing remained quiet up to the dine of petting this letter into the post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a young man, of very respectable appearance and fa- mily, was brought before the Loan MAYON charged with having stolen a gun, the property of Mr. Wilbraham, a gunsmith in the City. Mrs. Wilbraham, wife of the prosecutor, deposed , that th e pri soner came to the shop about amonth ago, and asked to see a per cussion gun. She shewed him one, and he put it to his shoulder, and said that it would exactly suit, He then asked whether he could try it? and she told him that her husband was on the premises in another street, and he might go there, with her husband's son, and make the experiment. The son of Mr. Wilbraham stated, that he went out of the shop with the prisoner, carrying with hint the gun, and that they had not gone far when the prisoner said to him, 's I want some caps, go back for them and give me the gun." Witness then gave the gun to the prisoner, and went back with a shilling, which the prisoner gave to him, leaving the prisoner in possession of the gun ; he had not, horeever, gone many yards cowards the shop when be stopped short, thinking he had not done right. The prisoner was rather too quick for him, neither he nor the gun was to be seen. Witness, about three weeks afterwards, saw the prisoner waiting in the street, apparently for a stage coach; an officer was procured, and he was taken into custody. The officer stated that he saw the prisoner on the top of a coach ; the last witness pointed him out from amongst four persons who were sitting together; witness asked the prisoner, but previously told hint that he was not obliged to answer the question, what he had done with the gun? The prisoner replied," Don't ask me any questions." The case had been remanded for some days, and it appeared that in the mean time the friends of the prisoner were not idle. When he was yesterday brought up, some respectable persons appeared, and interested thrmselves very much in his behalf. They pleaded his youth (he appeared to be about 23 or 24), and the re spectability of his connexions in his favour ; and his solicitor, Mr. Humphries, thought that the identity was not capable of being proved, and represented to the Lord Mayor the great probability that ;here was a mistake. The Loaf. Navin thought that, from what he had heard, there was no doubt of identity, and be called upon all the witnesses to restate their evidence. Mrs. Wilbraham, upon being asked by Mr. Humphries, In the course of the repetition of her statement, whether she might not be mistaken ? said, that she did not wish to swear the young man's life away. The LORD MAYOR—I see how this is-- , hem is a young man of respectable family, who has committed what appears to be a most deliberate act of felony; all the circumstances she* it; his friends intercede for him, and try to get him off on the score of respects-, 'Nifty. Is it to be supposed that I can countenance an attempt of the kind, when it must be obvious that, upon such evidence, I must have committed a person in low circumstances. His Lordship then asked the buy, whether he was not sure that the pawner was the man who bad taken the gun ? The boy rather hesitated. The Loan MAYO% then desired that the oath should be adminis tered to Mrs. Wilbraham and her husband's soit.—This was done, and his Lordship said to each of them—" Have you any doubt as to the identity of the prisoner ?" Both. of them said they were sure he was the person. The LORD MAYOR—I am sorry at being obliged to commit a person whose character, it is said, was respectable up to the time of this transaction, but it is impossible that I can do otherwise. The plan by which the property was obtained was one .f the Most de liberate kind. The prisoner was then fully committed to prison, and the parties were buuud over to prosecute. GUILDHALL Francis Waik.r, in elderly miserable-looking man, was charged *ids having stolen a number of important records uf the Common Pleas Court. The prisoner Was formerly a clerk in the house of Messrs. Evitt and Rixon, solicitors, Haydon-square; but latterly be was to be found constantly loitering about the Temple, asking charity as a discharged clerk. On Monday afternoon he was detected in car rying away the roll of the original rules of the Court in the year 1790 ; and upon examining the closet where these records were preserved, eight large rolls and twenty small ones were osissed.— The closet was situated in the waiting room, and there was no lock upon the door, but persons were passing and repassing every live minutes. The large rolls were the rules made by the Court, in eight different years, and were of very great importance, being the original records, which It was necessary frequently to refer to; but the small roils were termed dockets, and were merely indexes to ,other documents. The large roils were technically called " the Secondary's Remembrances." The value of the whole of the re- curds stolen would be 7s. estimating them as old parchment. When In the Compter he seemed determined to destroy himself. He first attempted to choke himself by thrusting his fingers down his throat, and then opened a penknife, which was instantly wrested from bim —He was asked what had become of the other rolls which were missed, but be declared he knew nothing of them. He was com mitted for trial. BO MSTREE r. AD EDITORIAL FRACAC-141% Henry Metcalfe w 3.1 yesterday brought up on a warrant before Sir U. llamas, to answer the com. plaint of one William Jefferies, from whose statement it appeared, that the defendant had succeeded him in the capacity of publisher of the English Gentleman and London Mercury Newspapers, though he (the complainant) is still In the pay of the proprietors of that es tablishment, and will continue to be so until Saturday next. Air. Wasirtirgh, the proprietor, here interrupted him, exclaiming, "Itis no such thing. You're a discharged servant—you were dis charged fur very good reasons." The complainant then proceeded to state, that so great was his (the defendant's) attachment to the shove-mentioned Journals, that though he had repeatedly received orders to go about his business, he still continued to interest hinted[. On Saturday, while opening the editor's box for the purpose of ascertaining whether there wire any communications, the defendant came up and pushed him away, which was the aspu l t complained of. _ __ _ _ Alr. kletcalfe, being called on for his defence, stated, that what ever complaints the plaintiff had to offer, he was quite prepared to answer, inasmuch, as, instead of his being the aggressor, he was merely acting on the defensive ; " for (said he) no sooner had I been appointed to fill his situation, than he went out to purchase a stick, which, be said, he gave two shillings for,' to break Aletcalfe's d—d thick head." " Two shillings!" observed Sir IL Maxis, " why, Dr. Johnson gave but one for the stick which he bought to thrash Macpherson with." and requested to see the stick, when a bamboo with a huge buck's born head, was produced. The worthy Magistrate having minutely surveyed the cane, said, the best thing that could be done, would be for each party to be bound to keep the peace towards the other; :which arrangement seemed to give perfect satisfaction to both parties, and having each made one of their best bows to the Bench, they quitted the office. An elderly female, of extremely respectable appearance, accom panied by a beautiful and interesting girl, of about fitteetiyears of age; her younger daughter, came before Mr. Pehesoutt and Sir R. Blame, yesterday, and In a state of agitation truly pitiable, requested the assistance of their Worships to procure the restora tion to her family of her eldest child, who was only eighteen, and the very counterpart of the girl who now accompanied her. The mother stated that she was a widow, and her two dough. ten were her only comfort. She had given them the best edam don within the reach of bee means, and had by the kindest treat ment tried all she could to endear them to her, and their conduct fully answered bet fondest anticipation. A few weeks ago, how. ever, she observed a sudden alteration in the manner of her eldest daughter, and antious of course to ascertain the cause , she goes domed her, but could obtain no satisfactory explanation. Her daughter became`More and more melanch.4 and Aunt ; and occa sionally very morose and unkind to her sister and' her nsOilier. A length ;thing a month ago, she left her house without any ;previous intimation of such an intention, and the applicant was totally at a low to account for her absence, until she learned, from a neigh bour that her elder daughter had been in the habit of having private meetings with a young man of very fashionable exterior, who was constantly hovering about the house. A • rigid inquiry was made after the unhappy girl, but it was not until that (yesterday) morn , lag that she was found at a "lodging-house fur women," in Duke's- court Bow -street, where it appeared she was fi rst of all taken by her heartless seducer, and after a few days intercourse, deserted. She did not know where be lived, nor even his name, so perfect was her confidence in him that she did not ask the question. The mother proceeded to state further circumstances, and added, that her daughter was still at the house in Duke's-court, whkh she re fused to leave until she was sompelled ; and the object of the ap plicant was to obtain the assistance of an officer to •force her from her disgraceful abode. The Magistrates at once sympathising with the unfortunate mother, sent a patrol to bring the daughter before them, and be returned in a short time, bringing with him a blooming girl of 18, who on seeing her parent, burst into tears. The poor mother and the younger daughter were almost overwhelmed with grief and shame at the sight of the wretched girl. The girl was asked if she would return instantly to the roof of her parent, who was anxious to receive her? wish to the surprise of every one, she replied in the negative. The Magistrates urged her, and endeavoured to convince her of the folly of her determination, but still she resisted, saying that she was too wicked to join her mother and 'dater until she had been placed hi some asylum where she could reform. In this determination she persisted, until she was locked up for a short time, and she then (dreading probably an imprisonment of a more rigid description), consented to accompany her poor mother end sister home, and they went away together. :NI A R BO . ROU G H-STRICET. Yesterday, Mr. Charks Thomas Whits, who underwent a first ex amination the 4th of this nionth, at this office, on a charge of having wilfully set fire to his dwelling-house and Waddler's-shop, in High Holborn, was again brought before Sir Cumu.as Faamstrr. the sitting Magistrate, for re-examination. Mr. Adolphus again attended for the prisoner, and Mr. Alley, for the first time, appeared for the prosecution, which, it seems, is carried on by the Parish Authorities of Sr. Giles's. The prisoner being placed at the bar, a great number of witnesses we* examined, and the depositions taken on a former day read over by Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Chief Clerk. It ippeared, by the evidence of two Clerks from the British Fire Insurance Office, that in the year 1823 the house, stock4n. trade, &c. had been insured in that office fly the mdther of the pri saner, at 1,0001. but that policy had expired ; and on the 30th May the prisoner took out a fresh policy, insuring the house, stock-in. trade, furniture; Ste. for 3,5001. naming the stock-in-trade alone at 2,vt. Two respectable booksellers in Holborn stated. that they Were well acquainted with the prisoner's shop, and bad often viewed his stock-in.trade, which, at the outside, could not be worth above 8001. Mr. Abbott, however, the Assessor to the British Fire Office, said, that in the hasty view he had taken of the premises, he did not at that time think that the prisoner bad effected a very excessive its. surance • but this was merely a passing opinion. A sh opman of Mr. Bradford, an oil and colourntan and who himself gave a similar evidence on the first day, state d, that the prisoner, he was quite satis fi ed, was the than who had purchased two lints or torches at the shop of Mr. Bradford the day before the first fire at the pr:soner's house, on the sth of August, and wbeu he purchased the links, be Wore a grey morning gown, such as witness saw him wear at the watch-douse the night of the last fire. The piece of link which had been found when the fire originated was here produced, and although much burned, the witness said be had no doubt but it was one of the two sold to the prisoner, as it longed to a particular parcel of links, that bad more pitch in their composition than is generally used in links. Another witness deposed, that although Mr. White and his wife and servant escaped through the roof of the house by a trap door, there was nu necessity for their doing so, because at the time the witness entered, the fire was at ha height, and had not at all commu nicated with the stairs that ran front the top to the bottom of the house, so as 1(4 prevent any one who wished from escaping that way. It also apikared, that when the prisoner was informed of the second fire at the house in his absence from town, hiving slept then at Kentish Town, he *hewed a marked indifference about it, and observed, be could not have set it on fire, as be must have had a long arm to do so; and it appeared that although the prisoner went to bed the night before, and got up on the morning of the fire, at Kentish Town, a garden door which was fastened inside every night, was found the morning after the fire, open. Tere was a great variety of other evidence gone into, and the prisoner was remanded until this day; bus all the witnesses who had given their evidence, were bound over to prosecute. HATTON-GA UDEN. Gee. Iltongle'd and Was. Parker wets charged by Blanco Layton, with robbing liim near Cow-aoss, on Tuesday night, of A silver watch, a silk handkerchief, and a carpenter's rule. The complainant was returning home, when he was accoued by Mansfield, who pretended to know him, and then accompanied him, till they came to Peter's-lane where he suddenly snatched at the complainant's handkerchief. Peter's-lane, the struggle Parker tansy up and knocked him - down. They ran away, and the complainant pur sued, with the cry of " stop thief," ohm two watchmen succeeded in taking both into custody. On the way to the watch house, the rule was sten to drop from the person of Parker; the handkerchief was found on the spot where the struggle had tikes place ; but when searched, no watch could be found. The prisoners denied the charge.—Committed. The landlord of the Crown and Woo!pack, Tottenham court. road, was fined in the mitigated penalty of 40s. for refu.ing to billet a recruit of the 35th Regiment of Foot, under the plea of the note not being signed by the High Constable. MARY-LA-BONNE. A case has been pending at this office since the Eth July last. re specting a load of bay sold by a mau nagged Samuel Kidney to a Jr. Jerram, a livery•stable keeper, in Upper Montague-street. The hay was weighed the same day after delivery, by a Mr. Towers, an assistant to the clerk of the Haymarket, and thirty-one trusses were found deficient in legal weight. An information was accord ingly Lid against Kidney for selling hay short of weight; and the. case has undergone several hearings before Mr. RAMUNSON ; but the decision bas been postponed, from various causes, until this day. The Act of Parliament states the penalty to be, any sum not ex ceeding five shillings, nor less than half-a-crown, for each truss. The defendant's Solicitor had taken several technical ocjections to the informations, but they were overruled by the Magistrate; and Mr. iltwusson fired the penalty at three shillings each truss, thus making it 41.135.—1 t was understood that the defendant would appeal against the conviction. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Edward Johnson was charged with stealing a writing desk from the shop of Mr. Day, A t Charing-cross.—The foreman saw the,prisoner lurking about, and being told by a girl he'had taken the desk, he had him taken into custody. _ _ The Magistrate strongly censured the practice of exposing goods outside the door, and ordered Mr. Day to attend to-morruw.-- Remanded. Mrs. Hurd, a chimney-sweep, was charged with ill-treating her apprentice.—The lad's mother stated, that he had scarcely ever been washed, had been kept extremely short of provisions that he slept upon rags in the cellar, and that, in consequence o f his ne glected state, his head was in a most dreadful condition from ver min.—Mrs. H. promised to be more attentive to him in future ; but the Magistrate discharged the indenture, and restored the boy to his mother. WORM! I P-STR It RT. Yesterday, after two convictions of 51. each had taken place against coach-owners, for not having their Christian and Surnames at length on the pannels of the coach-doors, at the suit of the noto- rious Biers, and his equally-notorious witness, Martin, the former wished to withdraw his information against a Mr. Green, qs he un derstood Mr. G.'s witness could contravert his evidence. " Oh ! then," said the Magistrate, " you fear your witnesi would be convicted of perjury." Biers replied, that if the cue was Withdrawn, that circumstance could not occur. The Magistrate observed, however, that Mr. G. was, at any rate, entitled to his expenses; but, however, as he was not present, the subject was dropped. UNION-HALL. Oa Tuesday afternoon, as this Ake was about to close, a man named Josses Gray. residing in Little Surrey-street, Blackfriars road, was bAsught before the sitting Magistrate, K J.CUANSIII4 Esq. charged with having committed a desperate amok upon his wife. From the statement of Major Reynolds, an °Meer in the Army,. is appeared, that as he was passing through Surrey-street, in a hack ney coach, on his way to Walworth, he beard screams of Murder ! proceed from one of the houses. He immediately directed the coachman to stop, and while in the act of alighting, he observed a female rush out of one of the houses, wboWperson was covered with blood, sersuning aloud for help, and followed by a man with a case , knife in his band. The female ran into a house next door to the one she had left, closely pursued by the man. The Major, apprehen sive that murder would inevitably be committed, and having n o stick or weapon of any kind, he supplicated some men who were present to enter the house and secure the fellow, who seemed to be bent on the destruction of the female; but they betrayed the most rank cowardice, absolutely refusing to interfere, in the dread of being attacked themselves. The woman's screams still continuing, at length two youths. accompanied by the Valor, rushed into the house, and, on their entranc e; th e man i n a f ury ran at the Major wi th the knife; the latter, however, being powerful man, seized the weapon from him, and, uring the contest, they both fell on she floor. At length, after considerable resistance on the part of the fellow from whom the knife was taken, he was secured, and given in to the custo d y o f a constable. During the struggle between the Major and his antagonist, the unfortunate woman, who turned out to b e hi s w if e , l ay on the flock insensible, from the blows she had received. Major Reynolds, conceiving a man capable of using one of the other sex in so brutal a Manner, deserving of punishment, insisted upon his being in. stantly brought to a police-office, sad accordingly the whole of the parties attended before the S la ting Magistrate. On the defendant being placed at the bar, he cut a most grotesque figure, bring com pletely covered from head to foot with Mud, in consequence of his attempts to escape from the constable on the way to the °eke ; both of them having had three or four rolls in the kennel. The above-mentioned circumstances having been stated by Major Rey nold's, the defendant's wife, who appeared to be weak from iota of blood, stated that her husband had latterly been much addicted to drinking, since his return from the Continent, where he had been some time residing. Formerly she said he had held a most re spectable situation in the Excise, but since his resignation he had conducted himself with the most perfect indifference towards his family, often quitting home for some days, leaving them destitute. —On the occasion in question, he departed from h ome i s tona l, and on his return the moment he entered he struck her a blow in the face, and seizing up a knife made two or three lounges at her, which she avoided, only receiving a slight wound on the arm with the point- of the weapon. He used dreadful imprecations at the time, vowing that he would murder her; and she, fearing that he would put his threats into execution, called aloud for help, when Major Reynolds appeared, and, she was convinisA, saved her life. She added that this was not the first occasion on which she bad been assaulted by the defendant; some time ago he stabbed her in the hand, in consequence of which she lest the use of three of her fin gers, and she was assured he would ultimately be her death. The defendant evinced no contrition for his conduct, merely say: ing that the facts . were exaggerated, and that he did not mean to do his wife any serious injury. The Magistrate having remarked that the defendant's wife was much Indebted to Major Reynolds, for his •ery resolute conduct on the occasion, committed the defendant to gaol for want of bail: Nothing is talked of in Lorraine at present but a sleep ing Beauty, who, it seems, wakes occasionally, and fells asleep again for several months I MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—The Inquest on Mary Ann Corrall was retotated yesterday, bat nothing transpired to shew how she came by her death. It was prov d she bad two Sovereigns when she left her mistress, which were missing when the body was found. At the recom mendation of the Coroner, the Jury returned a verdict of " Found Drowned:* as leaving the subject open for further investigation, if necessary. At a Petty Sessions held on Friday !act at Soittliamp ton, before F. L. BECKVORD, Foci. H. Eva*, Esq. and Captain RAINIER, R.N. three persons were sentenced to serve five years in the navy, and a fourth fined IOOk having been bound in a vessel off the Needles, having contraband spirits on board. White elephants are rare in nature, and so greatly valued in India, that a King of Pegu, hearing that * King of Siam had a pair of these valuable animals, sent a formal embassy, desiring his Royal brother to sell him one, and name his own price. The Pegu in Sorel reign being refused, declared immediate war, to chastise the insult. Burning with revenge, he invaded Siam, and after sustaining a loss of 500,000 men, he made himself master of the elephant, and retrieved his h moor. PARISIAN SWINDLERS.—Three fellows, named Du buisson, Flaguy, and Clement, have, some days since, been visiting the whole of the shops in the qoarter of Mlles, offering to exchange gold for silver. The rouleaus which they offered in exchange were set off with three or fonr 40 franc pieces at each end ; but the contents of the centre were copper. A number of mar: chants have b.en dupes of this swindling trick ; one person, however, who was sagacious enough to perceive it, almost as soon as played off, gave the alarm to the Police, and the three thieves were speedily seized. The sum of six thousand francs (2501.) was found in their possession, together with a couple of gold watches, and a chain of the same metal.—Etoile of Monday. Who, on seeing the acorn, must not admire and vie* it as one of the many wonders of this our earth ? The glossy green of the nut, bursting through the " rough and sober coloured cup" encircling it, presents one of the most beautiful objects of its species;. and its produce, the stately oak, furnishing materials for our pride and glory," the Wooden Walls of Old England." Friday evening Mr. Glenn, a respectable grocer at Knightsbridge, and his servants, smelt a strong effluvia of escaping gas, about halt an hour after the lamp was lighted. Mr. Glenn de4rous of ascertaining where the gas escaped, took one of the counter drawers panty out, and with a lighted paper was gaing to try the pipes, when the light coming in contact with the escaped gas, the latter exploded, by which Mr. Glenn was much scorched, and the large shop window blown out. The first charter to the city of London is written in the Saxon tongue, and was granted at the suit of Wil liam Bishop . of London, by William the Conqueror; " whose charters," says Speed, " were of a fore other tennur, forme, and brevity, than those teadious and per ' pined conveyances, since in use." It is " confirmed with green wax, whereas the Saxons before used only guilt crosser and suchlike makes." The following is a copy of it : " William Cyng greit William Biscop and Godfreges Portgerefan and ealle tha Burchwaren the on binden bean, &c. William King, greeteth WilUasn Bishop, and Godfrey Puetreve (the Chief Magistrate was then called Portreve) and all the Burgesses that in London be. French and English, friendly. And Ido you to wit. that I will, that you enjoy all the law which you did in the days of Edward King. And. I will that each child be his father's inhetitor after his father's days. And I will not suffer that any man yea any wrong offer. GOD you keep." The following is a poetical charter, equally concise ; I William King, the third yere of my raigne, Give to thee Norman Hunter, to me thou art both lecfe and deere. The Hop and the Hopton, and all the bounds rap and down, Under the earth to hell, a bove the earth to heaven. From me and mine, to thee and to thine, As good and as faire, as ever they mine were, To witnrsse that this is Booth, I bite the white waste with my Nadu, Before Jugge, Maude, and Margery, and my yongest soon* Harry For a bo we and a broad arrowe, when I come to hunt upon Yarrow• DIED. Sunday se'nnight, at Dumfries Mrs. Agnes Maxwell, relict of the late Rev. John Itobertson, Mit:Wet of Klrliconnell, aged 70 years. At Rangoon. on the ild of AC in ia g s, Lieutenant Wm. liabingtoo, eldest son of the Rev. C. M. on, Minister of the Episcopal Church, Dumfries. MAIL& Ana. 1:1011. Dublin 1 0 Watertur4 1 0 Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Donaghadee 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 0 Holland 0 0 IIBDA France Hambursh Flanders •RR. •U[. 1 0 O 1 O 0 Brazil 0 0 O 1 Buenos Ayres 0 1 0 1 HIGH-WATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORROW. blaming Afternoon 4 minutes aite► 0 32 minutes atter 0 suai : j'rinted and Peddisited by J. F. KNALT,iii the Su; Datum Nu. 1, l'itActatacc, Temple:llew. , r 1 3,