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WINTER CIRCUIT. MAIDSTONE, BATUIDAY, Dec. 18. The Assizes for this county stand adjourned to Monday, the 10th of January. The grand jury were not discharged , b't were told by the judge that, in consequence of the disturbances which had taken place in the county, they must hold themselves in readiness in the event of any fresh disorders. The petty juries received a similar intimation, and this circumstance, together with that of the three men who arc left for exam. Lion, will, it is hoped, be sufficient to check any future symptomsof out rage and disorder. It is reported through the town, that the convict Dyke has confessed his guilt, and that his confession involves some particulars respecting the burning'. The execution of the three men is to take place on Friday next on Penendeo-heath, and immens- crowds are ex pected to attend. The fate of the Pitchman', who at' mere lads, ex cites a strong feeling in their favour, owing principally 'so their youth, and also to the circumstance of their having been 'found guilty through the evidence of an accomplice, who was, in fact the promoter of the act for which they are to suffer. Under ordinary circumstances it is probable that their sentence would be mi. tigated to transportation for life, but in the present state of the country it is considered that examples must be shade, and the degree! of guilt cannot be taken into account, when once a conviction has taken place. It was under this feeling thati these two buys were coodemned to dealt, and the learned Judge who passed sentence upon them, appeareel to feel the struggle between necessity and compassion. His lor dsh ip was deeply affected, as was also Mr. Gurney, the counsel for the prosecution, and indeed the whole court participated in the feeling. It is, however. satisfactory to reflect that the mi.. dent of the accomplice Bishop was confirmed by other testi mony, which left no doubt of the guilt of the Packmans. Indeed, 1 have since learned that one of them has acknowledged that Bishop spoke the truth. John Beaman, who was so miraculously acquitted of having set Are to a stack of straw belonging to Mr. Jor dan, of (Mord, was tried this morning me • charge of having stolen a gun-barrel frown the premises ea the night of the fire. The case was fully peeved against him, and he war Immediately sentenced to be trans ported for life. The Judges proceeded ham this town to Levee, whore they will open the annatisaian fee Sawa on Monday morning, assisted by die. Sergeant D'Oyley. Tliasideader sliere,ll is said, is very heavy, said minims several asses drama ; siessudy assembling, dke. 1 i • ii . I ' i . I : : .. I 1., LAW REPORTS. WALTERS V. 5/4ITR. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 18. THE EINU V. This was an indictment against the defendant for refusing to serve the office of constable. It appeared that on last Easter-day, the Trustees of the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, who are the persons composing the Select Ves try of the said parish. appointed. as they were empowered to do by Act of Parliament, the defendant to fill the office of constable in the parish. The defendant refused to comply with the decision of the Trustees, and 1111rpiessot indictment was laid against him. The necessary proof of the power of the Trustees to make the ap pointment, and of the eefendant's having been elected, was given. Mr. P RENDSROAST addressed the Jury for the defence, and Mos/ ht forward evidence to prove that the notice usually served upon petsons called upon to fill the office of constable was not given to the defendant, and also that it was to prevent the defendant from being en abled to serve the office of Overseer, which once the generality of the pasishioners wished him to undertake, that the trustees selected him to Gal the office of constable. It was also proved that he was appointed Is the office in question in opposition to the usual course adopted by the trustees; namely, that of selecting the oldest parishioner in ro. Luton. Lord TZPITENDFN said that the defence set up could not vitlate die power exercised by the trtp:tces. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Guilty. This was an action to recover the sum of 431. 16.4 fur work and labour. The plaintiff was hired as dispenser of medicine to the Royal Western Hospital, in the vicinity of Bryanston-square, at a salary of Ws. per week. The Royal Hospital proved a very unprofitable specu lation, and the present action was brought against Mr. Osborne Smith, a highly-respectable gentleman, as one of the managing Committee, lot arrears of wages due to the plaintiff. To prove the liability of the defendant, a Mr. Slee was examined at so.ue length. In his cross-examination he admitted that he was the oitginator of the plan for the Hospital. He had one house at first, and afterwards the two adjoining houses were thrown all into one. The Ilospiral was under the patronage of the lace King and the late Minis ters : it had turned out an unprofitable speculation, and he (wiiness) had lost by it He nominated the Governors, in the first instance; also the Physicians and Surgtons. The management was latterly con fined to a Committee; the defendant had acted as one of that Com mittee. For the defence it was proved, that the plaintiff had previously brought an action against Mr. Robert Hunter, another of the Com. mince, and which action had been compromised on payment of 151. and 51. odd costs. It was contended that this sum was paid in full satisfaction of plaintiff's demand. Lord TE)ITF.RDEN considered that the receipt for the 151. was no re lease to the other members of the Committee for the balance due to the plaintiff. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount calmed, deducting the 151. THE XING V. HESSTON AND OTHERS. This was an indictment, on the prosecution of the assignees of 3lessrs. White and Metcalf, formerly linen.drapers, of Lamb's-conduit. street, for a conspiracy. The principal circumstances out of which this proceeding arose were detailed some time ago in the report of a trial of an action in the Court of Common Pleas against the defendants, at the suit of the assignees, in which the latter obtained a verdict for a very large sum of money. When the cue was called on to day, Sir J. SCARLETT stated, that as the money had been recovered in the action, he was instructed not to offer any evidence in support of this indictment. The Jury then, under the direction of Lord Tenterden, returned • verdict of Not Guilty. LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Dec. 18. CAIN. C0N.......1NAL01T1T AND BLOWS. Sarah Read was charged with an assault on Anne Davis, on the it h instant. Mr. PHILLIPS, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that the as. unit had its origin in what was, unfortunately, a prolific cause of strife among females--jealousy. Whether in this case the whole was a fancy K tot, it would appear from the punishment inflicted on the prose. accutritt that the defendant had, to use a low phrase, committed a little excess. The prosevitt ix, a little hard-featured woman, about 60 years old tame into the box with her nose covered with a white plaister and her eyes blackened. She seemed to have got a good share of punishment. She proved the aasault,and when pressed upon cross-examination did not deny that she had given some cause for jealousy. She was off and on at the defendant's house, who was a nurse at St. Bartholomew's. and on the occasion which led to the assault, Mrs. Read's husband had locked her in the room all night, and made her rest on the bed beside him— that was all. She liked him nothing the better for the usage he gave her. She came to do some of the defendant's business for her. The Jury found a verdict of Guilty, recommending her to mercy, one of them declaring his opinion that the prosecutrix had only got her de serts for " doing another woman's business in her absence. She was sentenced to a fine of la. and discharged. She anticipated some such sentence, as she had brought a single shil ling with her, tightly folded in one corner of a handkerchief, which she took out and handed to the °Seer of the court, who instantly returned it to her. The Recorder called back the prosecutriz, and recommended her rot to remain an close to another woman's husband again. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, Dic. 18. Samuel Mobs, a police constable of the C division, No. 62, was in. dieted for violently assaulting, on the 26th October last, Lydia, the ' wife of John Thurston who keeps a public-house in Berwick.street, Soho. Thomas Free deposed, that the defendant was called In to clear the house, as three men wanted to be served with liquor after the proper time, which he refused to do, and flourished his staff about, threatening to take the witness and Mrs:Thurston to the watchhouse ; and that he also pushed her in a violent manner. Airs. Thurston stated that the three men had been turned out, but when the policetnan forced his way in, they came in with him ; upon which a scuffle ensued, during which her gown was torn, and that he used abusive language to her. The defendant, in his defence, stated that the leg of one of the men was jammed in the door, and he was crying for mercy. The men per severed in forcing their way into the house, because the landlord had detained a hat and a handkerchief belonging to one of them. Had these been returned there would have been no disturbance. lie con. eluded by positively denying that he had treated Mrs. Thurston with any violence. Mr. Ron, the Magistrate, before whom the case was brought at Marlborough.street Police office, was on the Bench, and stated that be considered it too trifling to hold the prisoner to bail. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CUMIN/i ordered him to pay is. and be discharged. Thomas Moore was charged with being concerned in pulling the fence down at the corner of Southampton-street, in the Strand. On the 9th of November last, Mr. Nodes, tailor, deposed that he saw the prisoner assisting the mob In tearing the planks down from the fence ; that he seized him, and went with him to the police-station. The private watchman deposed that the mob pulled down the fence in question, but be did not see the prisoner there. Mr. ALLKY addressed the jary for the defendant. The jury found the defendant Not Ouilty. POLICE REPORTS. MANSIuX•IIOI7SE. TUE BITEIII Josins ADT Aciazw. The well-known Joseph Ads, of Houndaditch, who for many years has industriously employed himself in finding fortunes for the poor, was placed at the bar on the charge of having refused to pay the carriage and porterage of a parcel from Wolverhampton. The porter to the Swan with Two Necks, lad-lane, said he went with the parcel, which came to 2". E. He asked Mr. Ady for the porterage and carriage, which the latter said he should certainly pay. Mr. Ady—But it was a hoax. I have had six hoaxes played off upon me within a few days. One was a basket, as I hoped of game, a hare's head sticking out at one end, and a hare's foot at the other. Th ere was no body though to the hare (loud laughter). In another basket was a part of a dog (continued laughter.) The 1•011111 MaYoit—Let me see the parcel. On his Lordship un folding various pieces of coarse paper, out tumbled one of Mr. Ady's letters (Mr. Ady had not paid the postage), stating that if the party forwarded a certain sum of money. he (Mr. Ady) would tell him of something to his advantage. The letter was signed " Joseph Ady, 26, resident in Houndsditch, and personally known to all the Aldermen of London." Dlr. Alderman LUCAS, who was present, and the LORD MaTort, laughed heartily at this; and after sonic consideration, on a reference to the Aet of Parliament regulating the carriage of parcels, &c. ordered Mr. Ady to pay the demand, with iis. costa, in all 10a. 2d. Mr. Ady looked much confounded. and said he should appeal against the decision. GUILDHALL.—Mr, Gresham, the solicitor to the Commissioners for raisin* an annual sum, to be paid to the Rector of St. Andrew's, Hol born, in lieu of tithes, applied for distress warrants against some inks. bitants, who had neglected to pay the composition-rate. Mr. Alderman FAREIIIOIIIZII enquired whether the Rector was in attendance, to chew that the money had not been paid to him personally. Mr. Gresham explained that he did not apply under the general act, but a local act for settling a dispute betwe e n the parishioners and the Rector, according to which the latter received his stipend not direct from the inhabitants, but from certain commissioners. The Alderman, after carefully looking through the local act, admitted he had no option. This warrant and some others were then granted. HATTOW-GAIDEW.—Thomas Wal, a dealer in British wines in Chichester-place, Gray's-inn-road, appeared to two informations, charging him with having, on the 9th and 10th lost, sold and allowed to be consumed on his premises two gills of elder wine. The defendant, who pleaded guilty to the Hist information, was fined M. and costa. By the consent of the informer the second information was withdrawn upon payment of 4s. ed. costs. John Dartey was ch a rged with the following offence :—Jane Dareey stated, that about ten o'clock yesterday morning, the prisoner called upon her during the absence of her husband, and claiming relationship, pretended that he was sent from the country to bury her child, which he heard was dead, and make her a present of two sovereigns. She invited him to take breakfast with her, which he readily accepted. From the prisoner's conversation she ascertained him to be an impostor. The pri soner told her to deliver the child to him, and he would bury it at his own cost, and on Monday he would bring her the sum he had mentioned. She gave the prisoner into custody.—The Magistrate said he had no doubt that the object of the prisoner was to get possession of the child fur unlawful disposal, and ordered him to find bail. Not being prepared with the necessary securities, he was committed to prison. Qozwit-stivana.—George Hill, a dealer In marine stores, at Para dise-row, Chelsea, appeared before Mr. Matt stiovv, to answer an in fotenation laid against him by Byers, for purhasing some iron, and not asking the necessary questions of the seller, nor entering an account of the purchase in a book, accordinf to the Act of Parliament. Mr. Ma antot w convicted him in the penalty of 101. and costs. Thomas Malham, a marine store dealer, of White Lion-street, Chel sea. was also fined 10L for a similar offence. LAMIETH-11111EZT.-A stout-looking, weather-beaten tar, applied to Mr. WALLER, the sitting Magistrate, for his assistance, to compel the overseers of St. Ann's, Limehouse, to relieve him. Mr. Lilly, one of the overseers for Limehouse, promised to get him a ship, and in the meantime to relieve him and his family. Mr. WALKER, in a conversation with Mr. Lilly on the subject of the Poor Laws, remarked that, from the rigid system of economy observed for some time past both at this office and by the different parochial officers towards paupers, • very great saving would be experienced. lie should think that this system, which in reality benefited many persons who were in the habit of depending solely on parochial re lief, as it threw them on their own resources, would cause a saving throughout the district of not less than 20,0001. per annum. Mr. Lilly remarked that the benefits of the system were generally admitted in the parish to which he belonged. Towx HALL.--Jawsee Demist was charged with an aggravated as. sault upon Ann Martin. The prosecutor stated that she was servant to Dr. Ashby Smith, 12, Bloomsbury-square. On Tuesday evening she came from Croydon by the stage; at the Elephant and Castle the coachman left to re. turn to Croydon, and the prisoner took charge of the coach and drove her into the City, where he said he would take her by a nearer way than she knew of to Bloomsbury.square, and placed her inside of the coach (she had previously rode on the box). The prisoner, after driving through several streets, stop. ped, got into the coach, leaving another man to drive, and commenced taking the most indecent liberties with her perso n ; ;be screamed, and the prisoner then pt out, taking her parcel, containing a bottle of wine; and an officer hear in g her cries, came up, and took her under his pro. tattoo. Air. Alderman ANSLEY ordered him to give 48 hours notice of ball. Tasiess-Pouct.—Mr. Sparks. a barge.owner, was charged with unlawfully navigating a barge for hire and pin, ha not being a freeman I of the watermena company, by which be had incurred the penalty of 101. He was fined 101. and gave notice of appeal. George Baaks,a dredgerman and noted:river pirate, sou charged with stealing a beat, the property of T. Barton, a Waterman, some rope, and a pair of main-stay sheets, from the ship Neptune, lying of Bell Wharf, Shadwell. . . . Air. v enonzair committed the prisoner for trial on all the charges. INQUEST ON THE REMAINS OF A MURDERED WOMAN.-DEATH OF THE SUPPOSED ASSASSIN. Saturday afternoon, a Coroner's Inquest was held at the Black HOMO Queen-street, Seven Dials, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. Co. roster, for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances which lad to the death of the deceased female, whose teal name is Caruline Ma tilda Cooke. Henry Green, of 22, Queen-street, Seven-dials. sworn.—Was a la bourer, and lodged in the same house as the deceased, who resided in the adjoining room to his with a young man. On the alarm b e i ng g i ven that a woman had been murdered, he proposed calling in an officer, and went with the beadle to the door of the room. lie had previously heard high words between the deceased and her companion. Philip Riley. a parish beadle, went with the last witness to the room where the deceased lay. He deposed as follows: I °band the door of the first floor to be open about six inches. I found the deemed so doss to the door that I could namely enter the room. On going in, I saw the deceased, who appeared to be partly dressed. She was per. feetly dead and stiff. I then looked to see if there was any other per. son in the room, and I discovered a man in bed, covered with the clothes. I roused him about a good deal, and he, after some tints, made a noise like a drunken man ; he was lying on his face, and I tunnel him over on his side with his face towards me; I then saw a quantity of blood in the bed ; and on looking at his neck, I chained a drudful gash ;on finding that the man wee living, I proceeded to the workhouse for assistance. In about 10 minutes I returned with Ms. Buss, the surgeon, and two overseers. After the wounds of the men were dressed, he was conveyed to the workhouse. The room was de luged with blood. The Jury here proceeded to view the body of the deceased, which presented one of the most appalling spectacles we ever wimessed. The deceased appeared to be a very tine young woman. On entering the room she was lying on her back, her face and hair stained and clotted; the room was smeared with blood. The bed presented a similar appearance; on a clipboard there was lying open a history of the murder of Wears. The Coroner then arrived, and threatened to commit e p ew who was not on the Jury. After the room was clawed, kr. the Superintendent, who was very anxious to be called to give his Sri. denim, was desired to enter the room, and remained with the Jury for nearly an hour. M. J. B. Dix gave evidence as to the Boding of the body. He caused a surgeon to be sent to the man. In the window was a b ona with stains of blood upon the edge of it, and the water slightly disco loured. The man's shoes were lying at the further part of die room,— On the table was a hat with a nightcap and a peg of stockings in it. I directed a box on the other side of the room to be opened, and I found a numb. r of letters written to a person of the name of Jana, which were in the hand.witing of Jefedca. The letters do not bear upon this in quiry but they were of an amatory description, being such as man would write to a female with whom he was intimate. Those letters an directed to Mies Burroughs. I have seen the man se veral times since at the workhouse, and I have questioned him as se circumstances connected with the murder. Yesterday Jefferies made • the following sternest to me stated that • Caroline Burroughs was jealous of him. In the early part of the day (Thursday) he was ow I but at half-past eleven o'clock she came home, and asked him whether be bad brought any money for the tort ? He said not. She said, I must go out and get nuns. She did go out, and I went to bed. She returned again at half-pest one o'clock. When *be came in, I was not awake. She awoke me, and I told her to come to bed. She then said that she had my bet t er s to sleep with, but she brought no man into the room with bee. Sbe afterwards came on the bed, but was *et un dressed. I turned round and said, case Into bed. Upon dud. in she would net, I named myself mend again, and Imo t o sing„ I was rowed up by her cutting my throat, sad she wit eat of and went to the window. then heard her fall, and home she went round to the window, I mid twice, " Oh. my dear !" and twice attempted to get up, but could not. There was no light in the room, but the gas shone into it. I never heard any one at the door that morning. She was drunk when she first came home. She had often taken a knife in her hand and said that she would run It up as far as it would go. The stockings found in my hat were not those I had worn. I was in the habit of throwing my clothes on the floor. In the presence of GOD, and this reverend gentleman ( Mr. Charnpneys), I did not cut my throat; It was Caroline Burroughs. Jefferies was asked if the razor was in his hand that night, and he said it was not. He then called for some paper, and wrote as follows t—" I was going to shave in the afternoon, but I did not." There is one remark which I should wish to make—the head of the deceased appeared to me to have been moved after she was dead. Juror.—You have said there was some clotted blood on the coat ; now, was the coat in that situation that the blood could have got on it from; the stream Witness.—lt could not. Juror.—How did it get there ? Witness--If you ask me my opinion, I should say, that it appeared to me that two persons had been struggling ; and upon the person find ing the blood urn the coat it was thrown down. This morning, while Jefferks was at the workhouse, I observed there was blood upon his feet. The right arm of Jefferies's shirt was completely saturated with blood. Mr. Themes, the superintendent, sworn—Yesterday morning, examined the room in which the deceased was lying, and observed In one corner of the room a broom, which was smeared with blood, and some human hair, of the same colour as the deceased's, adhering to it. The rest of Mr. Thomas's evidence was a repetition of the former witness's. The Coroner here observed, that there were two or three circum stances in the case which had been corroborated. Jefferies, in his statement, had stated that the deceased was jealous of him ; now, in the papers which had been found, It appeared that the deceased had some cause to be juices, for in a letter dated the 10th September, he had appointed to take the deceased to one of the Theatres; but this promise he had not performed, although be went to the Theatre, and met another Caroline, with whom he went home and remained. He had also promised to marry her, but from some cause this set had not been performed. The Learned Coroner began to advett upon the evi dence in chief, when one of the Jury said he should wish to hear further witnesses. Mr. Thomas Buss, surgeon, was accordingly examined, whose evi dence was merely corroboratory of the other witnesses. Upon being questioned as to the nature of the wound on the deceased, be gave it as his opinion that she must have died after the wound had been inflicted. Juror—How long do you think the deceased had been dead when you saw her ? Wlineu.—l should think the deceased had been dead ais or seven hours. During the time Mr. Buss was giving his evidence, a message came stating, that Jeferles was in want of food. A medical gen deman went immediately to .attend him. In the course of twenty minutes, a messenger came to inform the Jury that Jeffries had just expired. Several other witnesses were examined, none of whom stated any ad ditional facts to what we have given above, excepting Mr. Reid, one of the surgeons, who deposed that be bad no doubt of the criminality of the man, as he was much longer answering any questions which re fleeted on him than on the deceased ; and from the nature of the wound on the woman, it was impossible for her to put the razor into her left hand. If be was called on to give an opinion, he should say that the female did not cut her own throat. The Jury was now re-sworn, to inquire Into the death of John Jef ferias. The whole of the evidence was re-taken, after which— Mr. TurnerJo( the Borough, with wham the deceased lived, came forward and stated, that the deceased had lived as foreman with him for some years ; that he was a married man, and had a wife and five children. The unfortunate woman has only been recently confined of her last child in Bermondsey workhouse, and at present is not aware of the dreadful end of her husband. The Coßows' briefly summed up, on which the Jury returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased C. M. Cooke was murdered:by Jefferies, who afterwards committed feb de sc." The Coto): ea informed the parish officers that he would send the warrant for the Interment of Jefferies, as it must be done Ina parti. cular manner. Jefferies, h Is stated, was once in good circumstances, and kept his horse and chaise. He is said to hue met the deceased at a theatre, to have been struck with her, and to have succeeded in persuading her to live with him, which has led to the above catastrophe. SCINTILLAL A FEW WORDS ON WOMEN. " In the convt 7 rs•tiOnof ladles, ;ail; an academy of virtue, I learnt nothing but goodness, saw nothing but nobleness; and one might as weU be drunk in a crystal fountain, as have any evil thoughts whibt in their company, which I shall always remember as the happiest and innocentest part of all my life.."—FLacxwox's Ertipmaticat Mame. Sam a 1888. I. 11eV and lia(f.--Pars.orrarrtre speaks of a woman who was black from her heed to her bosom, and white to her feet. See p. 127 of Bsawicw's busied= of Philostrotito 'a We of Apollontess. Fattened atromsla for 41farviepe—A girl after she is he. Imbed, is cooped up in a small room, shackles of gold and silver are placed upon the ancW and wrists, es a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, despatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore, are put upon the new bride's blobs, and she is fed until they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this custom, worthy of the barbarians, Is a seed called drmsgA, which is of an extraordinary fattening quality, and also famous for rendering the milk of nurses rich and abundant. With this sled, and their national dish esistiosee, the bride is literally cram. and; and many actually die under the spoom...See Maxi:uses docoaust of nook, 1811, p. 80. One who had twenty -fin Hosbends.--Ev ea.Tx in his Me. moire, mendons the case of a woman in the Netherlands, who had been married twenty.five times, and who was then prohibited from marrying spin, yet it could not be proved, says he, that she had ever made any of her husbands away, though the suspicion bad brought bet divers dens to trouble. IV. The war which abort avow mar tf pattette.—D'Assovet, in his Araisftwira, ti. 58, thus woks of his mother t—She was a Hide bit of an Ammar, Iterity disiesis, who to repair the defects of her dadaativo sin, was sash high pielems,that whoever would have taken the pains to stilt the such of dam s Might have may made very good 'shad hums of the. a so that she one pat them off, without losing just sae half if bar illostrious prom Joszes CAsaa *costes' says that the women of Italy wore such very high pattens, that his father used to say. that men who had such wives found but half of them in bed, the other half remaining in their patens..—De Ante Peeks, i. 13. FATHER daitassr., in his Dearing Cetriesse, p. 323. has the fol. lowing story :—st. Vincent Ferrier tells us, in one of his Sermons, that a gentleman, In his time, having married a woman by proxy, whom be had never seen but In a picture. of a and Rise. and tolerable height in appearance. found himself strangely dec. ir..d when he saw her in the chamber without patent, for she was diminished and shortened by ono half, which frightened him so that he asked bar, somewhat angrily, " Where have you le ft the tat of your porno ?" V. Bow to make a WOlllOl5 cosiest the Truth.—To obtain this very desirable end, Donocarros informs us. that nothing more Is ogees. *cry than to pluck out the tongue of a live frog, and apply it to h er heart while slaving. See PLINY, ass. if. 5, who truly observes, that if such lathe fact, - frogs might be rendered moss useful to mankind than laws; and, ht another passage :Av. 4, the sem writer ascribes a like virtue to rho heart of an ow which. if lahl on a woman's left breast while she was asleep, would make her reveal all her secrets. VI. Harman, masigleatiosu May aunt hove to he kordsoaar.— According to Joao Nova•ous Arrows:a, there are no less than 30 things necessary to maks a woman perfectly handsome: Let her who would be accounted beautiful have that thirty things—three things whits, three black, and three red ; throe long and three short; three thick, three slender; three narrow, three wide, and three smalL Thom of my readers who may be desirous of as explication are referred to the Sohn assistatis of the above author, or to a French work, entitled De to towage of anode dos dews. VII. What Mehepe sue of women. Thus Latimer It Is a great thing fora man to tub ono wife rightly and ordinately. For a woman la frail and podia unto all evils: • woman is a very weak road, sod may monde:ant a man, and bring hint unto eviL litany examples we have in Holy Scripture. Adam had but one wife, called Eve; and how soon had she t him to MIMIt unto evil, and to come to destruc. don. How did wicked Jesabel pervert King liacales bean from GOD and all godliness, and finally unto dasuuniso I It Is a very hard thing for a mat to rule wall one woman. Bishop Aylmer divided wo men into two sorts; "some of them wiser, better learned, disatetor. more mosthat than a amber of me n ," b ut the other he describes as being **ad, Oath, imam. ilibbergibba, tailors, triflers, wavering, witless, Masai onmsal e !table, carats% rush, proud, dainty, nice, tale. bearers, opas.dasppew twaramaissrs, eviLtongual, worse minded, and in way wigs diddled with the dregs of the devil's dunghUL—Sec ST aTrZ .O 1 4fr Of hiaters VIIL Paps hoisseat XL and opoisatiessins skewing their tweets. This Pops not big able to persuade the fair sox to discontinue ex. pang their lamb std anus. published a deers, November th e 30 t h. lin, by whish oil =dem mil woman were commanded to cover their shoulders aad breast to ink aesk sad their 'etas to the o s t b a, w i t h soma thick and untranspamith sail they that did not obey thi s o w n within slx days after les pablimdsa, wen a be occonsammakatod taw facto. so that the Pops algae had power to absolve them, unless they wen at the point of death. AU the potty women of wisely laughed at those tegriblo thrsateoiags, and tialithaleds the poor Pops sod his exannanoicaloa, to dross thamotals is wanco ft mum vs , awn suited to the full display of rhea &USW Witt be Waseversed lots we da the etbsr wood. Tb e same say that at the tour ardthal panto of the world that are attain sensate., the inhabitants whereof as fat a Masse it 1 , 4601 . 4 who,. by they enjoy a supreme felicity; that all who obey the laws of will, after this life, go up into those places; that they will be born a gain there; and that Fotoke will transform them, and give them thiriy.iwo forms or shapes, and eighty qualities, with which they shall live in perfect beatitude to all eternity. Women will not he admitted into 11, countries; but those who shall be saved for having obeyed Fotok t laws, will be transformed into men ! X. Allowed a plurality N huebarods. The women in Thibt t are allowed a plurality of husbands. Seentxxawr's View of iti n d osian In the tribe of the Naives, on the coast of Malabar. the men can hate only one wife; while a woman, on the contrary, may have many ho.. bands. See MONTEIQUIBU'S Spirit of Lows, xvi. 5. A sin illy anomaly prevailed, according to STRAZO, in some districts in 54,4 where, he says, each woman was cowpo'led to receive five husb:nth while in other cantons each man was expected to have seven wire J. J. W A FEW WORDS ON HAIR. " Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long 11.11. It in a shame to him. But If a woman have long hair, it is a glory t he►."—ST. PAUL. I. The Argives ' after the loss of Thyrea, cut their hair sh o r t , an • bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to allow it to grow long a l fore until they had recovered that place ftom the Lacedarmonians. sc, Heaoszorus, Clio, 82. 11. XENOPHON ' and also Pzirraacw, in his Life of Lysander —It.. forms us that the Lacethemonian custom of wearing the hair very long was derived from the institution of Lycurgus, who said, that " long km makes the hadsome more beautiful, and the ugly more terrible.' 111. The Abantes cut off their hair in order to prevent the enemy from seizing them by their locks. For the same reason Alexander made his troops cut off their hair. IV. All ranks and classes of females in Bagdad stain their Lair a red colour, for which purpose they use the Hannah plant. See &cn.s. wass's Mesopotamia, 531. V. The Siamese cultivate a lock of hair on the forehead, which lock they preserve from birth to the age of 12, 14, or 16, untouched. A. the expiration of this period, they institute a great feast : presents aro made by all the relations ants friends of the family, and the oc..a.sion is rendered one of great joy. The Brahman then, sprinkling a little water on the head, and repeating certain prayers, cuts the lock.—Fuszarsos's MMus to Sian, 160. VI. " Moreover, by some sepulchres, there hung bushes of hai r , which women, or maidens, had placed In testimony of their grief for the loss of their relations."—Bossagutues Travels, rs. Vll.—Lsvater says, " You must take care to distinguish the length of the hair, its quantity, quality, and color. It indicates a man', ow,. tees qffseling ! and kis insisiol faculties ! Long hair indicates weak ness ; a noble head of hair is of a golden yellow, with a soft ON.. Lank black hair denotes poverty of intellect ; but when thick and strong, assiduity and the love of order. Hair black and thin, on a hei bald head, a sound clear judgment; but excluding invention and the sallies of wit." He gon on thus to address Algernon Sydney : With no other inducement than thy hair, I should salute thee as an honm man, a zealous patriot, though, perhaps, over violent." It would he curious to know what judgment Layette would have formed of the pro. ple mentioned in the following passage from DANOILAII'S Memoirs: " A ship is arrived at Ls Rochelle, from Canada, with accounts that our [French] colonies are in want of speedy succours. The Bishop of Quebec has sent missionaries into parts which have been, hitherto, cos. sidered as imaginary. He reports, that he has discovered a people, whose hair, both of the head and body, is like the plitmapr of parrots ; and another, of which all the men are hump-backed, and all the women lame 1" Vlll.—There are some learned men who consider the human hair.— t tie, , iteable, and assert that it may be transplanted ! See 0/lORAT VI FARES, lib. 3, De Plantis, and Par ars BonaLLua, Hist. et 06s. Merl. Cent. 5. Oln. 10. 174-13. r. AUGUSTINE speaks of some who have the faculty of bringing their hair forward that lies behind, and Wee versa—without moving the head X. Saunas, in his liistory of Francs, says, that Queen Clotilda preferred having the heads of her young sons cut of, rather than that their hair should be cropped I which is strange, for the hair grows again. but the head never will. XI. Formerly it was a mark of great politeness to pluck a hair out of your friend's head. St. Germier had his pole thinned thus ; for Clovis having plucked one of the saint's, the courtiers (who always du as their king does) each plucked • hair ; and the Saint-Bishop wa. quite enchanted at it, though at the expense of a bead of hair. Cali. hula, not so polite, caused all to be shaved on the hinder part of their who were handsome, and had a thick head of hair : he loved to disfigure them. XII. Josent us says, that Solomon's life-guards had their hair very long and Boating down their shouldere, and that they every day pow. dered their hair with gold spangl e s, which glittered exceedin , 2ly in the sun. We are told, also, in GODWIN'S Moses and Aaron that Ab salom's hair weighed 41b. 2 os. and that he polled it every year. In these days, such an annual crop would be more valuable than that of an acre of land, the finest hair now selling at five guineas an o u nc e . N ot only Absa lom, but some of the Roman emperors, powdered their hair with gold dust, as Gallienus, Commodus, Nero, &c. XIII. Towards the end of the 11th century the Archbishop et Rouen declared war against long hair. Several bishops joined in this clerical seal; and it was enacted, in a council, that those who woes long hair should be excluded from the church during their lives, and should not be prayed for after death ! Sec ch. Bof Postaaasa's " Loire des Arch6e4ques de Rouen." XIV. Upwards of three millions of Frenchmen perished, because an Archbishop (Peter (Lombard) was offended with long hair, because a King (Lewis VII. had cut and shaved his beard, and because bit wife (Leonora of Aquitaine) looked upon short hair sand a shaven chin as ridiculous !—See the particulars in Cowar.rs and Mesza.r. XV. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, ventured so far as to pro. aounce the then terrible sentence of excommunication against all who wore long hair. Selo, a Norman Bishop, preached a sermon before Henry I. in 1100 against long hair, with which the King and (ot course) his eouniers were so much affected, that they consented to resign their lowing ringlets, of which they had been so vain. The prudent prelate gave them no time to change their minds; fur, distrusting We their sudden compunction, he instantly pulled a air f shears out of hie pocket, and performed the operation with his own hand. XVI Among the Romans, those who were bald, and would not wear a wig, had recourse to a very extraordinary expedient; they caused hair to be painted on their bate skull, with pe r fum es and essences corn. 1 , posed expressly for the purpose. Martial, In an epigram on Phabo. says, " 1 oar have no occasion for a barber for your head , Pluebus ; ye I may shave yourself much better with a spong e !" XVII. The powdering of the hair took its rise from some of the ballad singers, at the fair of St. Germaine, whitening their heads to make themselves appear ridiculous ; this was in the year 1614. It was first taxed in England, 1793. XVIII. The plucking off the hair was anciently a great disgrace among the Jews. See Nehemiah, aid. W. Baldness was also con sidered as a disgrace. 2 Sam. ale. 28. 2 Kings ii. 23 Isaiah iii. 24. On festive occasions, the more opulent perfumed thtir hair with Pageant unguents. PsaL xxiii. b. 6ecl. Ix. 8. Matt. vi 17. earl. 7. Black hair was esteemed by them the most beautiful. Cant. v.. 1 I. J.J.W. ALL-CoMPINNZNIIIIM ♦PQOIIIIII •YD THiItAUTHOIA I. livery bensan action is directed ea mime end.—AIIIIIITOTLE Itsperiment is an Indispensable instrument foe the extension of knowledge.--Ltoow. 3. The whole contents of the mind are derived ftom sense.—Locar. 4. Impressions made by the senses, and ideas which are the prnu. neat copies of those same Impressions, constitute the contents of tile v m t. b. The greatest happiness of the community is the only proper Intl ofveranient..—fit T all. 8 His own greatest happiness at each moment is the only actual erd Outlets in nay sensitive being.--Bzx THAR. 7. Understanding is led by will, opinion by interest.--lia.vitrier. 8. The three distinguishable sowers of knowledge are alienate*, observation, and experiment.—Bs THAN. 9. By attreetion, combined with original impulse, the maims of the heavenly bodies, (considered u wholes, or each in in its totality) are determined.—Ntw TON. 10. By attraction, combined with repulsion, the motion and situa tions of the several component parts of tub body an determined.- NZIVTOX. I BIRTHS. At Reading, the Lady of Capt. A. King, R. N. of s daughtes....At Statehouse, ISdi Dee. the • Lady of Capt. T. Wolrige, of a son. ~ MANKIND. Thursday last. the Rev. Carey St. John Blildmay. brother of 50 H. Si. John Ml'daisy, Bart , to the Hon. CarolineWaMegrave, youngts daughter of the late Admiral lord Itadatoek...—The Rev. S. R. Catdry% of Queen's College. Cambridge, to Mary Anne, fourth daughter of J. W. Thanlioson. Nag. of Clay, Norfolk. DI RD. On** 11th inst. at Cheltenham, In the 78th year of ber age, Mr , the widow of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Knell* Vicar of Hurfw°' is the county of Orkell—On board the ship Circassian, on his roc bona Bombay to Disk* after an absence of many years, Lieutenant Colonel D. Campbell, of the Has Ran India Company's Servire-n The Rev. IL altepherd. Vices of Hutton Itudhy, Perpetual Cures or 11114dIctonso. Levee, and Ram Boonton, Yorkshine—The het. It: Sailer, &A. of Ow Whitaine, N'arwicksbin—The Her. Mr. fR silk; ha Corsa Of lte. [DPelbel4 Curawall—At Copula Tense", [asbestos. she Rev. B. lenaett...-liaturday ee'snight, aged 84. 6014 a fail frau his bone. the Very Rev. N. Mellish, Dap of 'lemma. NICE INATIN AT LONDON BRIM/ TO-NORROW• a a. a la 111 Afteroma • Ai . 44100.1 s Poor llaTira, at Ass, Temple An. 01,101. No. 1, I