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•~ ~a...1. , 711BCOLLECTIONS. DT MRS. NORTON. 'fix,remeniber all the sunny places. in Slight days. long past, we play'd together ? Do you remember alt the home faces, That gatheed round the hearth in wintry weather ? Do you remember all the happy meetings, In rummer evenings, round the open door— ittnd looks, kind bents, kind words ' and tender greetings, A nd clasping hands, whose pulses beat no more ? Do you remember them ? De you renumber all the merry laughter ; The voices round the swing in our old garden ; the dog that. when we ran, still follow'd after ; The teasing (mile, sure of speedy pardon ? We were but children then, young. happy creatures, rat hardly knew how much we had to lose— Bat now the dream-like memory of those features tnmes bask, and bids my darken'd spirit muse. Do you remember than ? . Po you remember when we first departed Fvo-n all the old companions who were round us ; - 'ow very soon again we grew light-hearted, And talk'd, with smiles, of all the links which bound us ? ind after, when our footsteps were returning wir;th unfelt weariness o'er hill and plain, How our young hearts kept boiling up, and burning, To think how soon we'd be at home again ? Do you remember this ? Do you remember how the dreams of glory Kept fading from us like a fairy treasure ; How we thought less of being famed in story, And more of those to whom our fame gave pleasure ? Do you remember in far countries weeping, When a light breeze, a flower, bath brought to mind Old happy thoughts, which till that hour were sleeping, And made us yearn for those we left behind ? Do you remember this? Do you remember when ndsound 'woke gladly, But desolate echoes through our home were ringing, flow for a while we talked—then paused full sadly. Because our voices bitter thoughts were bringing ? Ah me ! those days—those days ! my friend, my brother, Sit down and let us talk of all our woe, For we have nothing MI but one another ; Vet where they went, old playmate, we shall go-- Let us remember this. LITERARY I.VTELLIGENCE. Whittaker's Monthly Mogasine,—for so it is best distinguished, —of the current month, commences with a Memoir of his present Majesty, in which we observe nothing new. We have, in course of duty, read so many Memoirs of his Majesty—besides adding to the number, by writing oneor two—that, although not sick of our King, we really become a little squeamish on being called to peruse ano ther mentuir. We must, however, expect fruit when is season, aud this has been the season for Royal Memoirs. The next article which attracted our attention, is the Eve of St. Simon in Colombia. This is a history which all who propose to become ntercenaries in foreign warfare, should read with atten tion. The scenes he relates are curious, and to us quite new. The character of Pan, the South American adventurer, we shall, per haps, on some future day, extract. The account of a Memoir of Buonaparte, by Constant, his Valet de Chambre, is replete with most valuable anecdotes ; and from this paper too, we shall be de sirous to make some extracts. The intrigues of the Court of Charles the Fourth, of Spain, give much curious information not gene rally known. We think there has been too much already said about Mr. Robert Montgomery and his critics, without this long critique. We never had favor for Mr. Montgomery's style of poetry ; but begin to think it must have some merit by requiring so much pen and ink to write it down. _ _ . The Review of Literature contains many good articles, and, the whole, the number is a good one, although we have seen m Apo riling from the same brim. As in these times we like to en liven our readers as much as possible, we shall abridge for him the Dimwit of a person, who, if he does not know, he must know many life. NVe mean SINGULAR SMITH—Is an individual of the genus Smith, a cognomen of so multitudinous an import, so wide-embracing an universality, as would render it no easy task to point out the Smith intended, were it not for the distinguishing epithet, Singular. Hah ! I perceive, gentle reader, by the puszled expression on your brows, and the effort you are making, as you run through the catalogue of five hundred and fifty persons of that name whom you know inti mately well, to fix upon " one bright particular" Smith, that you Jo not know my John Smith. Give him up at once, fin he is a rid dle you cannot solve, a conundrum you cannot guess. If you knew him, you would be in no dolderum as to which is he • you would have picked him out at once, as a shepherd selects a pa rticular sheep from a flock of five hundred. The Smith I shall here illustrate stands out, from the vast majority of Smiths, a truly remarkable Smith ; and you know him not, but shall, or there is no painting 'by the pen. John Smith was born in the humble walks of life, in Leather. lane, from whence the greatest geniuses have generally sprung. His father maintained a very large family of little Smiths, by bringing together unconnected pieces of thick and thin cordovan, in which the lieges of Leather-lane and its liberties contrived to amble. His mo ther was the "sole daughter of the house and heart" of Mrs. Selina Shred, the respectable widow of Mr. Samuel Shred, piece -broker, of Hatton Wall. Mr. Samuel Shred, born like his grandson, under the influence of Saturn, had a natural predilection for the elegiac muse, and was, if rumour is to be believed, the immortal author now no more of those true and touching lines, which have since taken root and loutish in every church-yard throughout England,— ' " Afflictions sore Long time 1 bore, Physicians were in vain," &c. It is, therefore, very reasonably to be inferred that our hero derived his tendencies and talents, as well as birth and being, by the mother's side ; his ancestors by the father's having been remarkable for no shing remarkable. The existence of the subject of this memoir was consequently essential to the glory of the Smiths ; and this desira ble consummation of all their wishes was brought about in Septem • bee, 1790, at three in the morning and 33, Leather-lane. The wet and-dry and pap.and.panada period of his puppyage passed with ,great credit to himself and satisfaction to Smiths in general. He was pronouced, ono yore, to be a sweet child, and a darling of the most dulcet dispositions. His childhood exhibited no extraordinary phenomena: the germ of his genius was yet in the ground ; but it shot out at last. The first manifestation of his versatile powers displayed itself in his 'thirteenth year, in an epitaph on a hopeful schoofellow, untimely choked in bolting the largest half of a hot-roll, which he lied pirated from a entailer boy. It is touching : and worth recording : " Here I lie dumb, Choked by a crum Which wouldn't go down, and wouldn't up come." The " needless Alexandrine" and the daring inversion " up come" did not escape the malicious eyes of the critics ; but after they had deducted as much as they could front the fame which this first attempt necessarily brought him, he had still enough to live upon handsomely ; and Holborn, wide as it is, became hardly wide enough for his spreading reputation. In his thirty.second year, the divine madness of the Muse carat upon him once more; and two sonnets, one to the Moon, the other to the Nightingale (original subjects, which; hibited the wealth of his invention in an exalted light), appeared he Gentleman's 31a. panne. Several years he passed in what he termed fattening h is mind ; during which process lam afraid it arrived at the scene of most other prize-fed perfectima—too much fat, and too little lean. llr .fohn Smith is now a bachelor, on the young side of forty. • He is in the prime of that happy period, ere the freedom of single blessedness has deteriorated into formality, that "last infirmity of noble bachelors." Caps have been, and are now, set at him ; but he is too shy a bird to be caught in nets of muslin, or imprisoned by the fragile meshes of Mechlin lace. Widows wonder that he does sot marry ; wives think be should; and several disinterested maiden ladies advise him to think seriously of something of the sort; and be, always open to conviction, promises that he will do some thing of that kind. In fact, he has gone so far as to confess that it is melancholy, when he sneezes in the night, to have no one, night- Capped and nigh, to say, " Ocin bless§ you!" If the roguish leer of his eye, in these moments of cornpunction, means anything, I am rather more than half inclined to doubt his sincerity. Ono ergo. mitt which he urges against committing matrimony is certainly un deniable—that there are Smiths enough in the world, without his aiding and abetting their increase and multiplication he says he shall wait till the words of Samuel, " Now there was no smith found *milieus all Israel," are almost applicable throughout all Ragland and then he may, perhaps, marry. "Smiths," as he says, "are as plentiful is Madtbaria. Throw a cat out of every MUM ' window from one end to the other of this metropolis, and it 'would fall ow the head Smith. Rush suddenly round a corner, and knock dome the eau ow you OW, he is a Smith ! be peer nates a second, the second a third, the third a fourth . the ninth a tenth—they are all and severally Smiths." I am indeed afraid that he is irrecoverably a bachelor, for several reasons which I small mention. He is, at this time, ". a little, round, oily man," five feet and a half in his shoes ; much given to poetry, pedestrianism, whim, whistling, cigars, and sonnets ; amorous, as the poets say, of umbrageousness in the country, and umbrellas in the town ; rather bald, and addicted to Burton ale: and a lover of silence and afternoon siestas--indeed, he is much given to sleep, which, as he says, is but a return in kind ; for sleep was given to the man to refresh 'his body and keep his spirits in peace; indulgences these which have any thing but a marrying look : so that no unwilling Daphne has lost a willing Damon in my duodecimo friend. It is too manifest that he prefers liberty, and lodgings for a single gentlemen, to the " Hall, wedded love !" of the poet of Paradise—a sort of clergyman " triumphal," to which his ear is most unorthodoxically deaf when time is called. He has even gone so far as to compare good and bad marriages with two very remarkable results in chemical experimens, by which, in one instance, charcoal is converted into diamond, and in the other, diamond is defiagrated into charcoal. The fortunate Benedict mar. ries charcoal, which, after a patient process, proves a diamond : the unfortunate husband weds a diamond, which, tried in the fire of adversity, turns out charcoal. Yet he is not unalive to those soft impressions which betoken a sensitive nature. He has been twice in love; thrice to the dome of St. Paul's with the three sisters Simpson, and once to Richmond by water with a Miss Robinson, in May, that auspicious month, dedicated to love and lettuces. These are perhaps the only incidents in his unchequered life which approach the romantic and the sentimental ; yet he has passed through the ordeal unsinged at heart, and h still a bachelor. Ho was, at one time, passionately partial to music and mutton-chops, muf fi ns and melancholy, predilections much cultivated by an inherent good taste, and an ardent love of the agreeable ; yet he has taken to him self no one to do his mutton and music, no one to soften his me lancholy and spread his muffins. It is unaccountable ; the ladies say so, and I agree with them. I have mentioned "the things he is inclined to;" I must now specify " these he has no mind to." His antipathies are tight boots and bad ale—two of the evils of life (which is at best but of a mingled yarn) for which he his an aversion almost amounting to the impatient. As I have said, he wrote verses, and they wen thought by some people to be very odd and unaccountable. He lost a Miss -- , who was dear to him, in trinket expenses more especially, through a point of poetical ethlifette certainly very unpardonable. In some HOW addressed to that amiable spinster and deep-dyed bar bleu, itched occasion to use the words one and two, and either from the ardour of haste, or the inconsiderateness of love, which makes the wisest of us commit ourselves, or perhaps from the narrovmsn of his note-paper, he pesos& the passage us " Nature has made us 2, but Love shall make us 1 ; I mind, 1 soul, 1 heart," tee. This reminded the learned lady too irresistibly of a catalogue of sale--; wartning-pan, 2 stoves, 1 stewpan, 1 smokejack, Ac. and she dismissed him in high dudgeon. In more stable qualities Mr. Smith is of a more stable nature : here, indeed, his true singularity lies. But I pass this part of his character, and come, lastly, to his waggery, which is perhaps the hest portion of it. His genius is nothing to his jokes. His friend Simpson, in allusion, no doubt, to the jelly-like tremulousness of his outw ard man when in motion, mays "he is all wag." Mr. Smith is very deservedly the delight of a pretty wide circle of admirers, and keeps all in good humour about him. Where he enters, let the company be never so grave, a preparatory smile wards round the room; every ear, to use a Lord Castlereagh figure of speech, stands on the tiptoe of expectation ; and his first remark, though it be but " How do you do, Jones ?" or, " Hah ! Simpson, glad to see you!" is received with roan of laughter. Silence sits pleased ; mouths, city mouths ! gape wide with a sort of greedy avidity to swallow, at a gulp, any mental morsel he may, in his condescension, throw down for the entertainment of his friends. If strangers are present, elbows on either side nudge the unconscious Perkinses into a proper attitude of attention : if they have never be fore heard of Mr. Smith, much wonder seems to sit on the uplifted eyebrows of those who know him well; and a due degree of infor mation as to his attributes is instilled in a whisper. lr on need not use a battering-ram to beat into the head of A. that B. is a man of extraordinary genius : tell him that he is so, and he believes you, because you save him the trouble of thinking for himself, an act of ratiocination which most men prefer to have performed for them by deputy : one half the world, indeed, takes its opinion of the other half on trust, and a very wise reliance it is. This brief memoir of Mr. John Smith, and mention of his par. suits, will serve to illustrate the versatility of his genius and the vastness of his acquirements. And now I leave the reader to ask " Wise is this Smith t" LAW REPORTS. COURT OF CHANCERY, Auo. 11. CLARIZ V. READ. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved that the bill filed by the plain. tiff In this suit might be dismissed upon Mr. and Mrs. Dew execut ing to Messrs. Clarke a conveyance of the estate which was the subject of the bill. This was a proceeding arising out of the cause of "Dew.v.Clarke," the particulars of which have been often, and at great length, der ailed. By the result of the several decisions in the Court of Chancy, and in the ecclesiastical courts, the will of Mr. Stott, under which Messrs. Clarke claimed to be entitled to his property, had been set aside, on the ground of insanity, which was ma nifested by the aversion he had always borne to his daughter, now Mrs. Dew. The consequence of these decisions was, that Mrs. Dew was declared to be entitled to his personal property. It had however been discovered that the testator was entitled to a small real estate, of the value of 3001. or 4001. and the present suit was filed respecting that estate, and for the purpose of trying the validity of the will betore a jury, by means of an issue from this court. An answer had been put in by the trustees of the will, to whom the es. tate in question was devised for the benefit of the Messrs. Clarke; and Mrs. Dew, who was also made a defendant, and who was the heiress-at-law of the testator, with her husband's concurrence offered to give up the estate in question, and a deed was executed by her to that effect, and tendered to Mews. Clarke, which they refused to accept, their object being, that the question of the testator's sanity shoul d be properly brought into discussion and tried by such evidence as could not be adduced either in this court or in the ecclesiastical courts. The counsel now insisted that this was all that could be required of the defendants, and that they had a right to retire from the litigation if they thought fit. Mr. GARRZ TT was heard on the same side. Mr. BLIoR opposed the motion, and insisted that the defendants were entitled to no such option; that they must either submit to such decree as the bill prayed, or go on to the end of the suit in the I ordinary course, when the Court would have ascertained what were the rights of the parties, and declare them accordingly. It was wholly without precedent and contrary to law and justice that a bill should be dismissed upon such an offer as that made by the defendants. The LORD CnaircELLoß said, the point being one of consider. able importance, he should inquire into the practice, and in the mean time ordered the matter to stand over. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. DURl — Vhtrro. 9. The commission was opened on Saturday by Mr. Justice BAY LIT, who this morning proceeded to dispose t the few causes (eight only) which are entered for trW at nisi prius. The LORD COMP' JUITICZ of the Common Pleas sat on the Crown side. and got nearly through the calendar, leaving only three out of eleven cases which are on the list, for disposal to.morrow.— There has, however, occurred a crime of a dreadful nature, the murder of a servant maid, on suspicion of which five men are in custody.—four Irish labourers, and the inan.servant of the house where the murder was committed. A Coroner's Inquest has this day been held on the body, but the result is not yet known in Dur ham, as the scene is some miles of. The grand jury it is supposed will be detained. None of the cases on the Crown side merit any particular mention. The following occurred at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice DATUM. HART v. YOUNG AND OTHERS. ' Mr. Blovonsx who stated the case to the jury, informed them that the partie s in this cause were neighbouring farmers, re. siding at Clifton, near Durham, and who WI been upon any other than neighbourly terms for some years. The cause of their dispute arose from the doubts which each party had concerning the boun daries of the respective farms. Upon the evening of the 6th of July last, the plaintiff sent out two of his workmen to make some alterations in the hedges which the farms, and these men were di c e at their work when the elder ante and interrupted them. High words ensued, plaintifjoinedi moo, which junction of fames was deemed su ffi cient to being whet him the whole array of the defendant's tamily i the Jotter, joined by two of his •daughters, came down, vi et emir ' with pitchforks, Sails, and other weapons of the homestead and bun-yard, and a fray ensued, in which some of the womea were severely handled. Blood was visible on the field, and figments of combs, locks of hale, torn caps and laws, adorned the trophies of the sombatants. Some of these were exhi. bited in court, and a cudgel was ales boss& huh in evidence of the Amazonian prowess of the fair I A surgeon aloe proved that the =was ceased some time 1 in consequent* of the Injur ies be .cloud. Mr. J. WILLIAMS, the dam. nOt 11 to the jury, *both*, from the tivMence before them, they trotild wet think that the pro vocation glien.was enough to WAIN My await like that proved t Mr. Justice BATLEY wandwed op, and leR it for the jury to an eider whether the mode in *MI6 the evidence was got zip, wee not symptoms* of lip attorneys NSW t Damages SOL 02010 E V. OILLING. Another action for assault, in which it appeared that the plaintiff is an attorney of Durham, who had bought a hone for 151. of the defendant. upon condition of paying for it by • certain day. flame difficulty arising, and the defendant seeing the horse at the Durham recce, took that opportunity of demanding it bock, or payment fee it. This was done by letter intrusted to a servant, who adhered so strictly to the letter of his instructions as ta insist upon mounting the hone and leading it home, with the plaintiff's saddle and bridle on it. This was the tomtit complained of. Mr. POLLOCK, for the defendant. said, his client had sent back the hone immediately, and had offered an ample apology for the un accommodating sturdiness of his servant, and under these circum. stances a verdict for the plaintiff was given, the costs to be settled out of Court. LEWES. (Before Mr. Baron Oaaaow.) THE MHO V. TERESA. This was an indictment against the defendant for conspiracy whereby to prevent the attendance of the principal witness in an ex cise prosecution. The facts of the case, as they appeared from the statement of Mr. On artElr for the prosecution and the evidence, were as follow : A man, named Billingness, bad had an information laid against him for selling brandy without a license, the principal witness against him being a man named Mercer. The day was appointed for the case being heard at Battle, and Mercer had received a summons to attend, and in order to prevent the conviction of Billingness, it be came an object to keep the witness, Mercer, from attending, which the present defendant, and others already convicted, undertook to do. For this purpose two of , the party_went to him and professed to be anxious to buy a plum tree. Mercer being a gardener, desiring him to take it to Ronde n.corner ; while he was proceeding to do this they got him to a house,where they stayed two or three hours, and during that time drank some beer. When he was going home they pre vailed upon him to go with them to a public-house, where they kept him all night drinking and playing at cards. In the morning, at about nine o'clock of the day on which the hearing was to take place, Mercer set off for Battle, distant from the sane of this trans action three miles. The defendant, seeing that if Mercer succeeded in reaching Battle, all his plans would prove abortive, resolved to resort to some other mode of detaining hfm. That the landlord was despatched after him to get part of the bill. This was immediately paid, and their hope of detention in this quarter failed. They then followed after him themselves, and charged him with stealing a bill-hook, telling him that he mast return with them to a con stable's. He answered, that they had better go with him to Battle, where they would find constables enough. This, for evident reasons. they declined doing; they, however, sent a person for a constable , andthen, after a time, they sent another to say the constable need not come. They commenced an attack upon him, threw hint down, and endeavoured to get the summons from his pocket. During this proceeding he was exceedingly ill used. They then took him back with them ; ultimately he made his escape, and found his way to Battle, about four o'clock in the afternoon, where he learned that the information had been dismissed, in consequence of his non. appearance. Evidence was given to show that the defendant had endeavoured to hire a room, avowing that it was for the purpose of detaining Blercer.--A verdict of Guilty was returned. CRIMINAL SlDE—(Before Lord Texistunnt.) Sassuct Richard Baynes was indicted for feloniously assaulting and committing a capital offence upon Mary Ann Hodgkinson, an Mat under ten years of age. The little girl gave her evidence with the greatest clearness ; but from the evidence of the surgeon, it was doubtful whether the capi tal crime had been committed. A number of most respectable witnesses appeared, to speak to the prisoner's character, who, after some consideration on the part of the jury, was acquitted. REPORTS. MANSION•MOuss.—The otliroad-street Ward called at the Justice-room, to state that the officer who brought up an unruly watchman the other day had made a mistake In saying that the de fendant belonged to that ward. The moment the report of the case appeared in l L isa Times newspaper an investigation took place, and It was ascertained beyond a doubt that no watchman employed by the authorities of the ward had misconducted himself. The Deputy hoped that as the imputation was calculated to do injury to the character of those who superintended, the error (committed no doubt unintentionally by the officer) would be corrected. Bow-srazEr.--Infomation having been received by Sir &. Birnie that a young man, named Knife, had died in his lodsfoa i• Little Wild-street, Long-acre. in consequence of some Jujube he received about a fortnight ago from a shoemaker, named Asses Lee, a warrant was issued for the apprehension of that penes en the charge of murder, and the prisoner was accordingly apprehended by Kingham, an officer of this establishment, who conveyed him, by direction of a magistrate, for safe keeping, to the police station is Covent-garden, where he will remain in custody until a coroner's jury shall have inquired into the cause which produced the death of the deceased. It was stated in evidence before Sir R. Birnie, that on the 25th of last month, the prisoner, and a man named Cobb, quarrelled and fought, when the decease d, who was a friend to the latter, took part against the prisoner, and received a blow, by which he was knocked down with great violence against the step of the door of the house in which he lived. He was removed nearly insen sible, and lingered until Monday last, when he died. Lesteess-Srxxxr.—A young woman, named AIM Thirigh who resided with her friends in Silver-street, Whitechapig, was brought before Mr. Walker. charged with having attempted to de stroy herself by poison. Failing in her purpose by this means, else next tried to hang herself, but was prevented. Her conduct is stag. bated to her having been seduced by a young man while at genies. Mr. Wexcon remonstrated with the unhappy girl, but finding that he did not seem to prevail with her in persuading her to aban. don her evil purpose, he sent her to Mile-end Old.town workhouee, l with directions that she should be watched,and taken propeet:A Harrow-seatsur.—Sertuel Crossland was yesterday up for final examination before Mr. Rouse and Mr. fierimal Sztot.ox, on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences. It appeared, that on the Ist of July last the prisoner b. sated the following advertisement in a morning paper s— " Wanted, a young man, who can write a plain hand, to at tend an office from nine till five o'clock daily. Salary one perweek. Securities and testimonials of character will L'ne l a uired.Apply to A. B. Magnet coffee-house, 8e.).. min-street, ClerkenwelL" In consequence of this advertisement, a person of the name of Cosgrove waited on the prisoner, and it wee finally agreed that Cosgrove should deposit 101. fn cash, with a note for 101. more, in the prisoner's hands, and that he should give him a cross bill for 20L payable at the expiration of 12 months. The agreement was drawn up, and every thing executed at•die chambers :TT Smith, of Chaterhouse-square, solicitor, and Capon was sent to an office in Berkeley-street, Clerkenwell, where the prisoner pretended be carried on the business of a hbuse-agent, adding that he bad a number of other offices in mental parts of the city. Cosgrove remained in the office for a week, but without business, and after the first day or two he saw no more of the prisoner, uatil be was taken into custody on the 14th by a city officer. Another young man, of the name of Joseph Worts, paid the pri soner 101. at the same time, under similar circumstances, but he re. ceived no acknowledgment for this money ; and when, on the follow. log day, Mr. Smith advised him to try and get back his money from , the prisoner, the prisoner refused to refund it, and told Worts to do his best an d his worst against him. A third individual, of the name of Henry Howe, delivered to the prisoner the sum of 2L under the pretence that it was necessary to pay the expenses of a bond, which was never drawn up, and he received from the prisoner a receipt for the money, but did not afterwards see the prisoner until he was in custody. Mr. Smith attended and assured the Ma gistrates that as soon as he had reason to suspect the prisoner's con duct and motives in this affair, he warned the other parties con cerned in it, advised them to get back their money if possible, and have nothing further to do with him. Mr. Bonsai declared to Mr. Smith that he had acted an honour. able part, and that no blame could pasibly attach to him. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. A person of the name of Thomas Mastiffs was charged under the following circumstances :—A policeman of the E. division, while on duty at :a late hour the night before in George-street, Broad-street, found the defendant mounted on a lamp-post, and sus pecting his intention was to extinguish the gas, he took him into custody. Night after night, notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, those lamps are extinguished, and on one night, only a short time before, sixteen of them had been put out altogether. The in habitants complained very much of the nuisance, and it was thought that some persons inimical to the gas company had set to work agents for the purpose. The defendant said he was in liquor at the time, and after a suit able admonition Prom the magistrates, he was discharged. QUItZW.SQOASE.— William Dennison, an elderly man, who gets his living by picking up bones in the streets, was charged with steabng a quart wter-pot from the house of Mr. Wood, of the Star and Darter, Slaene.quare, Chelsea. The prisoner was met by a police constable on duty, about six o'clock in die morning, within a hundred yards of Mr. Wood's house, and the pot was concealed on his person. Mr. MAIIRIOTT sentenced him to one month's im. - --went under the Police Act. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was holden at the London Hospital. blile.end.read, before J. W. lbw* Esq. en the remains of Mrs. Sarah Clay. aged 70 years, who woe to her death under the following melancholy abominates t.—Prep the evidence It appeared that. while alone, at her' mikes' is- Joha4treet, St. Goarge's in the Rat. en Thanday eenolos bet, r spark tons the Sr. fell apse her °What; width Wised lima, *and Win any ugh& s ace r ea be:, she was boot 61 as 'MAW a mama that io was onsidined neeeseary at ewe to tentave hero the here she lingered in the greatest aptly until Monday' mionlos, when death pet a period to her endhlings. Verdict, Anadomal Asada ' SCIVTILLX. VALOIS MOD CAPET.—With Hein 111. the race of Vidois became extinct ; and with Henry IV. t hat of Bourbon com. meuced. It is curious that the families of Capes and Valois both ended by the succession to the throne of three brothers, who all died without leaving kin male. THE KING AND TILE DEY.—A is said that the King of France and the Dey of Algiers have both chosen Naples as their place of residence : if so, the worthies may meet, and may, with great truth, greet each other in the words of Peachier" and Leckit— " Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong !" CoiNCI n a c I.—The 28th of July, 1830, corresponds with the 9th of Thertnidor, in the year 3 ; and thus the day of the fall of the Bourbons was the anniversary of the fall of Robe. spierre. LORRAINIL—When Claude Lorraine, who it is well known was not celebrated for painting figura, disposed of his pic tures, he used to say to the purchasers, " I sell you the landscape, but mind, I give you the figures." P RUSS I A.—ln 1819 there were 516 presses in Prussia; in 1822, 580 ; in 1825, 693. Of periodical publications of vs. rious kinds, there were 300 at the end of the year 1827.—Liferory Gazette. POLAND.—In Independent Poland, with a population of 107,934, the number of journals published is five ; in Russian Poland, with a population of 15,377,389, 39; in Prussian Poland, with a population of 1,984,124, one; and in Austrian Poland, with a population of 4,226,969, four; being 49 journals for a population of 21,696,416 ; or, on the average, one journal for 142, 784 persons. —Literary . Giulia,. WHAT A RAT !—A few days ago a gentleman in Bedfordshire, caught a pike, which was of such an extraordinary size round, that be opened it directly, when, to his astonishment, it contained in its stomach a full-grown water-rat. - Casanova, a Venetian, doomed to solitary confinement in the dungeons of Venice, in 1755, says, that in one of the only hooks which he was allowed to read, the authoress gives a history of the Virgin, beginning with bet immaculate conception ; every thing previous to her birth from that time being fully narrated. "At three years old," she says, " the Virgin swept the house, assisted by nine hundred servants, all angels, commanded by their own Prince Michael!" POPULAR PREACHING.—at was said b t z Jeremy Taylor, in speaking of popular preachers of his day, at they en tertained their hearers with " gaudy tulips and useless daffodils, and not with the bread of life and medicinal plants growing on the margin of the fountain of salvation." ABORIGIN A L JUSTICZ.—The following is handed down as a true copy of a warrant, issued by an Indian magistrate : —" You. big constable, quick, you catchum Jeremiah Offscow, strong you holdum, safe you bringion afore me.—Thomas Wa. ban, J. P." GEORGE 11. AID HIS Quetn.—Monday, 2d Sept. 1729, went to town. The nest day we saw the Queen at court : from thence we went to Sir R. Walpole's In his chariot, and dined with him and his lady only. On this occasion he let me into se. veral secrets relating to the King and Queen—that the King con. stantly wrote to her by every opportunity long letters of itwo or three sheets, being generally of all his actions—what he did every day, even to minute things, and particularly of his amours, what women he admired, and took as favourites; and that the Queen, to continue him in a disposition to do what she desired, returned as long letters, and approved even of his amours. and of the women he took; not scrupling to say, that she was but one woman, and an old woman, and that he might have more and younger women, and she was very willing that he should have the best of them. By which means, and a perfect subserviency to his will, she ef fected whatsoever she desired, without which it was impossible to keep him within bounds.—Lord King's Journal. Tom THUMB, dec.—lt is not generally known that lk, popular history of the " Seven Champions of Christendom " which has delighted so many generations of little masters and misses, was written by Richard Johnson, who was also fhe author of the first prose history of that equally renowsed hero " Thomas Thumbe," the first edition of which appeared in 12mo. 1621. The original edition of the " Seven Champions " ' is now $ greet mirky. The Nine Worthies of London,' 4to. 1592, and the " History of Toni a Lincoln," which was so popular in its day as to have run through seven editions in 1635, were also analog the productions of this author, whose first named work admits only " Robinson Crusoe," and perhaps " Gulliver's Travels," as rivals in the estimation of every rising generation. Swift, when he tram. posed the latter as a political satire, little thought that the chief scene of its triumphs would be the nursery. That Tom Thumb" is of Danish origin is notorious, and that he has remained in tea. ditionary existence here since the partial occupation of the island by his countrymen is probable ; Mr. Johnson. however, was his first biographer. Half a century hes scarcely elapsed since a little blue Gag-atone in the pavement of Lincoln was shown as his grave. stone ; asdlslocobt, it will be recollected, was one of the five Danish towns in England. PROPERTIES OP A PARLIAMINTMAN.-1401d Coke, in his fourth " Institute" defines certain qualities essentially requi. sits to constitute a good member of parliament, and he refers to a parliament roll, 3 Henry VI. which affirms that a parliament-man should have three properties ascribed to the elephant:-1. That he bath no gall ; 2. That he is inflexible, and cannot bow ; 3. That he is of a most ripe and perfect memory. 1. To be without malice, ran cour. heat, and envy; in elerante melancholia transit in nutri mentum corporis : every gall h inclination, if any were, should tend to the good of the whole body—the commonwealth. 2. That he be constant, inflexible, and not to be bowed, or turned from the right, either for fear, reward, or favour; nor in judg. ment, respect any person. 3. That in remembering perils past. dangers to come may be prevented. To these addition is made by Lord Coke of two other properties of elephants. The one. that though they be " maxims virtutia, et maxim' intellectus"— of greatest strength and understanding,—" tamen gregatim temper incedunt," yet they are sociable and go in companies ; for " anima lia gregalla non aunt nodes., sed animalia solivaga aunt nociva :" sociable creatures that go in flocks or herds are not hurtful, as deer. sheep, &c. but beasts that walk solely or singularly, as bears. foxes. ike. are dangerous and hurtful. The other property is, that the elephant is philanthropos, homini errand viam ostendit." And, in the opinion of Coke, these properties ought every Parliament.man to have. HYDE-PARK IN 1682.—A newspaper, dated Ja nuary, 1682, contains the following account of some of the amuse ments of which Hyde-park was then the field :—" This day his Majesty (Charles II.) with most of the Court, went into Hyde. park, where the Guards exercised before the Morocco Ambassador. His 'Excellency seemed highly pleased with our manner of military discipline. The soldiers were gallantly accoutred, and the caws magnificently. In return, the Ambassador's followers exercised, after their manner, which, though strange to us, was most excel lently performed, and with most admirable agility, their horses being very tractable and well managed. Some of their performances were throwing of lances ; which, with incredible swiftness and agility, they would catch again before they fell to the ground. They did, ewise, upon full speed, take off a ring (being hung up for that purpose) upon the end of their lances, very rarely missing. Scarce ern was seen in the park so great an ap pearance of coaches." A COMPLIMENT TO DEVONSIIIRE PROVINCIALISM. ...Judge Rolland told a witness in the Crown Court that he spoke the provincial dialect so bad be could not understand him. ANOTHift COMPLIMENT. —Captain Cooke, the re sumed emesender of the Javelin Men, during a trial on Wednesday. at Kuser, Ia which the risibility of some part of the audience in the /22:sa excited, said in a loud voice extending his wand in the boas whence the interruption pr oceeded •• I am sorry of your Deposals, behaviour when a man is trying for his life—if you had head the clergyman's sermon, you would have behaved yourselves WM ° Usztv L IN TORtdATION.—II appears not to be suffi dandy known that persons above 64 years of age, are not liable to Isine as jurymen at Sessions or Assizes. During the late Assists M Exeter, no less than four or five individuals, who had been aware et it, applied to be excused on that ground. Many have, no doubt, I anned considerable expense from their want of knowledge on this subject ; and in every case the Judge told the applicants that they should have previously ascertained 'it. Would it not be well for those who summon men to travel from a distance, to furnish them , with such information ? with 1 BIRTHS. On the oth inst. in Upper Ikkezatreet, the lady of Baron de Kutzleben, of the Hon. East India Company's service, of a daughur --Tuesday. at Bryanston, the Lady Emma Portman, of a sow.' On the 30th alt. in Clifotd.street, Lady Janet il r olronsl, of Ili" and heir. DIED. At St. James's, on the 7th instant, the infant daughter of Thee /durables, Esq. Sunday, at Onesley-lodge. Reading, the Hon. Mrs. John Sta. wife Lkut..Colenel Stapkton--Secklenly, en SatnidaY Alston, at * Seethe*, war Bids id, in the 44th year of his sr. CO'. Seek, R.N.—At E Itlintern.hettee, Das*, ea the'lllth ult. leanor, rake of theists Rt. Ron. Robert Digit), ,Into Admit* tithe Fleet. lanes s• &Wad am/ Pololbbed by JousrMaTws. at ihe emes N. t; Temple au.