Star. — London, England, 1830-09-16 00:00:00

• bONDON SESSIONS, SEPT. 15. These Sessions were held this morning, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor ' Recorder, Sheriffs , and Aldermen Thorp, Brown, Fare. rother. and Ansley. The Sessions papers, as Mr. Justice Park 'observed at the Hertford Attires, presented but " short commons," for the gentlemen of the long rube, there being only six charges of assault to be divided between thirteen Course'. 'flit. Recorder, in his address to the Grand Jury, said there was no rase in the calendar for the City that called for any particular observa tion. Although numerous, they were entirely of the ordinary kind, and not attended with any aggravated circumstances. !Miry Barron, was indicted for assaulting William Young. The protecutor said, lam clerk to Basil Montague, Esq. On the 27th of July I had occasion to call on a friend at the Hand-in-Hand Fire office. (rim(' walked out with me, and as we passed along Farrinff. don-street, (late Fleet-market.) I thought I would go into a jeweller s i.hop, and ask the value of a ring and key that I had in my pocket, and :it the game time ascertain whether they were gold or not, as I had doubts on the subject. (Laughter.) Accordingly I went into the shop at the defendant's master, and made the necessary inquiries of the de tentjant, who replied that the articles were rubbish, and a " pretty fool" must t.e to -.lst the value of them, and added that he would kick me out of the shop. RECORDEII—WeII, dfd he kick you ? Prosecutor—Yes, sir, in an " unnatural place." (Laughter.) R s:cohnEß—Have you any witnesses ? l'ioxecutor—l have t witness, named King, but he is just stepped hdo King.street—(laughter)—on a little business, but if you will have 1 the goodness to wait afew momenta. be will be sure to be here.— (Laughter.) RECORDER—The Court cannot wait, and called on the defendant for his answer to the charge. Defendant.—lf any assault has been•eommitted, it was by the prose. tutor. He came into the shop and abused me in the most gross man. nor. He said that the bills in the window announcing that the stock was selling off, was a " dead take in," and after my telling him that would not purchase his ring, which was only " petit d'or," he struck me a blow on the arm with his umbrella, which fractured it. REcoaDEß—Did you apply to a medical gentleman for advice ? Defendant—Yes, sir, I did, six weeks afterwards—(laughter). The defendant here became very clamorous for any gentleman of the medical profession who might happen to be present, to conic forward and examine the fractured member. No gentleman, however, presenting himself, the Recorder inquired if there was any person who could speak to the injury of which the iendant complained' A young man here stepped into the witness-box, and, after Icorrobo rating the defendant's statement, said I saw the prosecutor strike the defendant with his umbrella, RECORDER Did you see the arm after it was fractured ? Witness—Yes, Sir, there was a large bump upon it the sire of a walnut. (Laughter.) REcomma—And how long did the swelling continue ? Witness.-1 dare say nearly an hour.—(Laughter.) The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The other casesoihich were not of the slightest interest, were disposed of by 12 o'clock, and the Court afterwards was occupied in hearing pa rish appeals. WEXFORD PETIT SESSIONS, Sept. 1. WITCHCRAFT. Edward Sutton, Thomas Walker, and Wilmsdorf Richards, Esqs. on the Bench. As soon as the magistrates had taken their seats, a schoolmaster of the dame of Donnelly stepped up to the Bench, and searching his pockets, said he had to submit to the Magistrates a summons the most extinct. Binary which had ever been issued since the days of Joan of Arc, and he wtsited to know if he was to be detained there from his business at the .stance of a person who was deranged ? Mr. WALKER, after looking at the summons, said that Knox, the laintiff, had a right to summon him on such a charge, extraordinary as it might appear. He hoped, however, that his (Donnelly's) wife was not in court, as there was no necessity for her attendance. Donnelly said he did not let her come. Donnelly's wife ant) daughter were included in the summons. Mr. WALKER said, that magistrates were bound by their com missions to inquire into all cases of witchcraft. (In a low tone)—ls he here ? Perhaps we might settle it without inquiry. Knox here made his appearance by the side of Donnelly. He was active-looking man of middle size, with a dark visage, and about 40 years of age. There was no very peculiar wildness depicted in Ms countenance. Having been desired to state circumstances as briefly as could, he asked was Donnelly sworn ? M. WALKER said he was not ; and perhaps it would not be ns. essarv. If any one was to be sworn, it would be himself. What was the charge ?' Knox—Witching, your worship, real witching. (Laughter.) AAA Ikrt is a letter which I wish you would read, but it is too long. Mr. WALKER..—Was this letter written by the witch ? Knox.—No, it was written by myself, but it would be too long to read it all. Read it there (folding the letter) from that part down. Mr. WALTER declined reading it. Clerk of the Court—State all the facts now, and nothing else. Knox hesitated some time. Mr. WaLiLlt-What was it that occurred ? Knox.—Let him be sworn, or let me be sworn, and let him deny It, if be can, that he keeps it in his house, and that I have heard it every day, :•nd every night, and every hour, and every minute, and every other tune. (Loud laughter.) Th. WALKER.—Have you seen it? Knox.—Nu; I never saw it, but I heard it, and that five minutes be. tine I came here, speaking as plain as Ido now. (Loud laughter.) • Mi. WALKER.— ' What is it you heard? 'Hnos.—A weasel-(loud and continued laughter) or something, I dor.'t know what it is; but (turning to Donelly, whose risible facul ties were evidently in motion) I heard him say it was a weasel a hundred times. (Laughter.) It knows all my thoughts and every thing that I do. (Loud laughter.) I'm quite certain of that. And it knows what I •:ni speaking even• at this moment. (Laughter.) • Mi. WALKER. —Does it cut your cloth ? (Knox is a tailor.) Knox.—No, it does not. Mr. Wancza..—Does it do you any harm ? Anox.—Yes, it annoys my mind. It is not a pleasant thing to have my thoughts known. lam sure no one would like it. Mr. WALKER.—trave you ever any thoughts that you would not wish it should know ? Knox.—Yes, perhaps I have. lam a Freemason, and it would get the secret from me if it could. (Loud laughter.) Mr. WALLER--But it was never able to get that from you ? Knox—lt endeavoured to do it, but I kept upon my guard. (Loud laughter.) Mr. WALKER—WeII, I would strongly advise you, if you have any thoughts which you wish to keep secret, to have a guard over them for the future. ICnox.—l could not be always on my guard. Mr. WALKER—If Mr. Donnelly promises it shall not annoy you in future, will that satisfy you ? Knox made no ansitei. Donnelly said he would do every thing in his power to satisfy him. Mr. W&LKER — If he gives the weasel up to us, and we destroy it, will that do 1 1 - Knox—Well, let him bring the weasel here. Mr. WALKER—Oh ! you. know it is invisible, you have never seen it. Knox—Will he swear it is not in his house? Will he swear that ? Donnelly said he would swear if the magistrates thought it neces sary. He would not know a weasel, for he had never seen one in his life. He complained of being annoyed in this way by a madman, and stated that he had been kept idle by him during the whole week. Mr. WALKER regretted to have heard some of Donnelly's observa tions, which were quite different from what he had expected. He was sure that he would act with that humanity which one man owed to ano ther, and would not do any thing henceforth to annoy Mr. Knox. Donnelly said he had been as kind to Knox as if he had been his brother ; and would do every thing in his power to restore him to his sense... Knox (tossing his head and speaking in an under tone). .Oh I that is all nonsense—there's a mystery in it. Donnelly said he was certain he would still be annoyed by the _plain tiff, for when the case would be dismissed in this court, he (Mr. Knox) would immediately bring it into the Mayor's Office, and bring him befor, the Mayor also. (Laughter.) Knox—l will, into all the offices of the United Kingdom. (Laughter.) Mr. WALKER (to Donelly)—Well, you have only to send word to the different magistrates that you have destroyed the weasel. Knox—lt knows all my thoughts, and knows the thoughts of many other persons in Wexford also. Mr. War.nza said that the case must be dismissed as it then stood, but recommended Knox to employ an attorney, and then bring the case before them, when they might be able to deckle in his favour. Knox—ls there no law to punish a man for such annoyance ? Mr. WALKER.--We cannot afford you redress, as the Act of Pattie merit relative to witchcraft has been abolished. Knox—Then why not abolish the witches also ? (Bursts of laughter.) Mr. WALKER observed that the case 'oust be dismissed. Knox said he would go from Wexford to Dublin, and from Dublin to Carrickfergus, and from Carrickfergus _to London, and lay the entire case before the Duke of Leinster. (1094 laughter.) Mr. Cooper remarked that it was a wry deplorable we. He (Knox) ought to get a few pet rats, and *them Bose in the room where the weasel is l and when the weasel comes out, knock him down with a gaols. l uteL) 41 1 A r. chards asked Knox when he did bear the weasel the first time ? Knox answered a twelvemonth ago. Mr. Richards asked him had ba any quarrel with Donnelly ? He said he had not. The case remains over till the next Petty Bftsions.... Westford Raffia POLICE REPORTS. BOW-BTRlEZT.—Yesterday, Nary Ann and Sarah 'Pokily's, two sisters, were charged with having robbed a lady, named Sparks, with whom the prisoner Ann had lived servant. of a quantity of plate and other articles. _ _ lin;.ipsrits lived in Norris-street, Haymarket, and the elder pri. soner was her servant for about eighteen months. Articles of plate, consisting of spoons, &e. were missed, and the prisoner was charged with the theft, but she denied all knowledge of it, until it had been as certained that several of the articles were pledged at the gimps of dif. ferent pawnbrokers, who identified the younger prisoner as the person who had pawned them. The father of the prisoners also brought to Mrs. Sparks several duplicates which he had discovered in the possusion of the prisoners, who were thereupon given into the custody of Mr. Thomas, the supseintendant of police. No blame whatever was attri butable to the fat.. The property was produced by the ahoptnan of Mr. Harris, of Tothill-street, and fully identified by the prosecute's. Mr. Mirtslitru. observed, that pawnbrokers who took in pledges from children of the tender age of the younger prisoner were highly culpable ; and if it should turn out that she were under the age of 12 years, he would inflict the highest penalty on Mr. H. allowed by the Pawnbrokers' Act. _ _ _ The father of the little girl said he believed she was 12, but he was not quite certain. Mr. 3111MIULL said he would have this feet ascertained beyond a doubt. The case, however, was clear, and it was his duty to commit the prisoners, which he accordingly Ga. WOIIIIIINSTILEET.—John Denny and William Huston, ch. , with violating and robbing Mary Thomas, a soldier's wife, on Sunday morning, the 22d of August, were finally examined. Mr. Rogers, the Police Inspector, informed the Magistrate that the woman Thomas was not to be found, and there was no doubt that money had been given to her, and she was gone to Ireland. Mr. Broughton dis charged them assuring them, however, that they did not depart with cleared chara;ters- --- 6WrielliatWries, an interesting boy, 14 years of age, was charged with felony. --.:Wilkinson, a barber, in Whiteeross4treet, stated that the prisoner was his apprentice, and had robbed him of a pocket-book, con. twining 71. 12s. which he had left locked up In a drawer in the bed room, and also two new razors out of his shop. A female, residing with the prosecutor, deposed to having herself placed the money in the drawer, and having left the key in another part of the room. No one but the prisoner could have taken the pro. perty, there being at the time it was stolen no other person in the house, saving the prosecutor himself. The prisoner, who appeared quite unconcerned at the charge against him, declared his innocence, and, after crosa.examining his accusers in a manner, for his age, that astonished every one present, turned round upon the prosecutor, and accused him of having s tolen the money himself, in order that the woman who was living with him might not have it. Mr. BROUGHTON expressed his anxiety to have evidence of a more satisfactory nature. The conduct of the prosecutor, in living in the manner he did, was enough to injure the morals of any apprentice. No money bad been found in the boy's possession, therefore he should re. mend bim for another examination. Tuesday the boy was again brought up, when proof was produced of his being the thief. A pillow from his bed was brought by an officer, in which, amongst the feathers, was found a sovereign, which, unfortunately for the prisoner, had been marked by the fe male alluded to, and who swore to it as part of the 7L lils. The sovereign had been introduced into the pillow through a small bole in it. Prisoner (impudentl) to the prosecutor): Well ! and is it not as likely that you put it there yourself? The prosecutor declined making any reply to this insinuation, and tbrisoner was fully committed to New for trial. THAMES POLICE y Captain George Sherrord Battle, commander of the Lowther Castle East Indianian, was charged before Mr. Bartawrzsts with assaulting David Gristle seaman of that vessel, on the high seas, during the voyage homew ards . The complainant, a tall powerful German sailor, deposed that on the 7th of May kat all hands were called on deck. He was obeying the orders given him, and was under the necessity of leaning against some paint pots, when the Captain called out " You d—d Dutch son of a—, you have rubbed the paint off the side of the ship." The paint was wet at the time, the vessel baring been recently painted. Witness replied " Indeed I have not, Sir ; it is too bad to be called such names forma thing at all." Captain Battle immediately came down the poop ladder and struck him on the head with his spyglass. He asked " What do pia do that for ?" when the Captain struck him several severe blows in the face, and made his nose bleed profusely. Be was then taken on the poop as a prisoner, his nose still bleeding, where he remained about a quarter of an hour, when helm ordered to his duty. As he passed the captain, he showed him his trousers, to show that he had not touched the paint, when he was again sworn at, and told to attend to his duty. Samuel Morrison and Oliver Hildebrand, able seamen of the Low ther Castle, were then called in separately, and rigidly examined by Mr. BALLA/MINI. They gave exactly the same account of the affair as Gristle, and confirmed his evidence. Captain Battle, in defence, said the whole statement of the complain ant was false. At the time mentioned, one of the after-guard trod on Grirsle's toe, and the latter called the man by a very offensive and hor rible epithet. lie immediately called out, " Come, sir, I don't allow that language here." The complainant then abused him, and behaved very insolently, when he pushed him on one side, and ordered him aft. Captain Bettie declared that he never struck him with his glass at all. Mr. Gasman, the chief officer of the Lowther Castle, corroborated the Captain's evidence. The complainant was again called, and said nothing ofthe kind passed as sworn to by Mr. Gisman. Mr. Ballantine—Did any one tread on youctoe ? Complainant. —No one, Sir; nor did I have an altercation with any person at the time. Hildebrand and Morrisson gave similar testimony, and positively swore that Captain Battle called the complainant a d—d Dutch son of a b---, and, after striking him with his glass, knocked him down with his fist. The complainant said, there were other witnesses in attendance ; but Mr. BALLawviss declined questioning any more. Captain Bettie said the complainant was stopping all the work by the conversation, and it was necessary to check him instantly, to prevent worse consequences. Mr. BALLANTINg observed, that officers must do their bat to pre. serve proper discipline on board, but ff.:they exercised undue severity, the crew had a right to question their authority in a court of law on coining ashore. In this use the assault had been distinctly and clearly proved, and he should call on Captain Battle to enter into his own re. as to the amount of 501 appear to take his trial at the next an to Admiralty sessions. The magistrate said if any of the ship's =twiny insulted Captain Battle, or any of his officers, on leaving the 'Mee, they should be immediately committed to prison ; but no such attempt was made. Uatox-waix—Yesterday a young female, named Mary Guest, WAS brought before Mr. SWAVEY, charged with threatening the life of a young man, named Cannon, on the preceding day. From the statement of the complainant, who is a milkman at Wal worth, it appeared, that Mary Guest had for some months past annoyed him with her importunities to be married. Never having given her any encouragement to expect such an event happening, the milkman told her " plump and plain" that he would not have her at any price, adding, that if she was to remain single until he made her his wife, she would assuredly meet with a disappointment. Mary, however, would not take a denial on a ;subject which concerned her future happiness so much, and declared that unless be con sented to a matrimonial alliance with her, she would haunt Mon night and day. Alter having made this declaration, she rigidly kept her promise, and followed him like a spectre about to the houses of his customers, whom she took pains to inform of her attach. meat for him. To such a height did she cF nst o n this sus at *nee, that he was fearful it would operate his ergele, eel Ike be would ultimately lose his milk altogether, she was pawed wpm. vete in it. On the pre.. in day, she was at her post as his movements. and he spoke to her as calmly se possibrAl l agt hi Sr the absurdity of persecuting him, and his determined*" to live in single blessedness. The moment, however, he uttered th e nee d s , she got into a violent rage, and for the drat time exhildesd her tem per, which, he could assure the Magistrate, wee rest of the most agreeable kind, for she gave him • thump on the twee with such force, as to stun him ; and moreover, threatened, that elle or the other of them " should fall" before many days had elapsed. This threat implied that she would either kill him or herself. With nerd to his own life, he should not much relish to lose it yet, and there was no knowing what a woman might do while labouring under such ex cited feelings as she had displayed ; therefore he trusted the maps. trate would grant him that protection which he stood in so muc h need of. The defendant declared that the milkman bad acted the part of a faithless lover towards her, and that was the chief reason that induced her to follow him about. She had made up her mind to annoy him foe his conduct towards her, and considered she was justified in the way she had acted. _ _ Tne magistrate said, that notwithstanding the alleged misconduct of the milkman towards the defendant, yet she was not justified in pur. suing such • system of annoyance towards that person, and in order to restrain her in future she must now be made to put in bail. The defendant said she should prefer a gaol rather than procure bell for committing that which she did not consider an offence. She was therefore locked up. Qusax.liQuoar.—Pahick Mahoney, a tall athletic Irish mos. tor, and Terence Jupp, an Irish shoemaker, were charged before Messrs GazooaT and bloaarosT with a violent Insult on • waterman, named Joseph Groves. From the evidence it that on Monday night some twenty m Irishe and about six lish people assembled at the White Lion public-house, Vanith The Irish challenged the English to fight, at toes for some spirits. The latter was accepted, and the Irish became the losers, and refined to pay. Some angry words ensued, and the Irish boasting of their strength drank the English people's beer. This was followed by remonstrances from the English, one of whom was the complaiqant, and they were immediately at tacked In the most brutal manner by the prisoners' party, who struck the icomplainant on the head with a quart pot, which felled him to the ground, and rendered him insensible for some time. The prisoners, who were the ringleaders, would have murdered the ann. plainant, had not the landlord rescued him from their grasp, with the assistance of the constables of the new police. The compla ina nt appeared before the Magistrates with his bead bound up, and in an apparently weak state from the profuse loss of blood. The defendants, in reply to the charge, called witnesses, who deposed that both the English and Irish were in a state of Intoxication when the affray occurred, and that the English called the Irish an opprobrious epithet. The Magistrates ordered the prisoners to pay a fine of 110 s. each to the King, or in default of payment to be committed to the House of Correction for one month. They were locked up in default of payment. Tuesday police constable No. 118, L division, brought ups poor woman who appeared in extreme distress, and with a child about two years of age in her arms. He gated that he was on duty in Btam. ford-street, Blackhiars, about 10 o'clock the preceding night, when a lady and gentleman gave the woman into his custody, on a charge of having attempted both suicide and infanticide at Blackfriam bridge. He took the woman to the station house, where she repeatedly declared that it was her fixed deterrrination to drown herself and her child at the same time. The poor woman, in reply to Mr. &node, said that her name was Hannah Jones, and she was a widow. Her husband was a licensed victualler in the Borough when he died, and her friends, who are all dead, were very respectable. She bad not slept in a lodging for se. veral nights, and she and her child were starving for food. Mr. Grmorie ordered the poor creature to wait in the outer office, and he would consider what he could do for her. She, however, bad not waited long before she quitted the office. George Haien, a most notorious character, was charged by a police sergeant of the B. division, No. 7, with being found in the area of a house, No. 4, Colesh&street, Pimlico, under sustut circumstances. The prisoner was only discharged from this office about a fortnight ago, with seventeen silk handkerchiefs in his possession, on account of norzsecutor appearing. , in his defence, said, that a man had thrown his hat down the area, he merely got over to recover it. THE ALLEGED MUTINY UN BOARD THE INGLIS EAST INDIANAN. Yesterday another application was made at the Thames Pollee-office, to Mr. BALLIWTINZ, the sitting Magistrate, for a warrant to - head the seven men who were charged with mutiny, and liberated by Captain Itscassu. on Friday last, in consequence of no one appear ing against them. Captain Dudman, commander of the Inglis, now satisfied the Ma gistrate that he was not aware the men were In custody until he read the newspa • giving an account of their having been brought up and dis c. RALLANTInit said he understood from Captain Dudman, when the three seamen, Rose, Jordan, and Laney, were examined, and committed in default of bail, that they were the ringleaders, and the other prisoners whom be charged at St. Helena were inferior in point of offence. Was that the case Cr not ? _ _ _ _ Captain Dudman said the seven men against whom be applied for a warrant were certainly inferior in point of offence to the three committed for trial ; but were more or less active during the riot on board. Mr. Lawless, on behalf of Mass Borrodaile, the owners of the In glis, mentioned several overt acts of mutiny against the seven men.— One of them, John Carter, attempted to strike Mr. Herbert during the disturbance on load on the 7th of June last. Another, Wells, threw up his cap, gave three cheers, and said, "Are we all agreed ?" The names of the others were John Harrison, John Steel, Morris Mg/Un non, Samuel Cole, and John Murray, all of whom were more or lass se. tive in releasing Laney, who had been placed in irons, and setting the authority of the officio and commander at defiance. Mr. BALLANTINI inquired if the men did not do their duty, and navigate the ship to St. Helena after the disturbance Mr. lawless said they did; but the crew pizeL a orl e i released Lalley from his irons, and prevented him from being l Mr. BALLANTINZ said, he was satisfied the men had no felonious intent, if they had they would have run away with the ship, and offered violence to the officers; but, on the contrary, they bad cheerfully I obeyed orders, and taken the ship to St. Helena. With respect to the irritation used towards the crew of the Inglis, and which it was alledged had led to the mutiny, if half of what had been stated was true, be would trust his feelings on the subject in endeavouring to express his sentiments. He amid not suppose such a state of circumstances to exist on board a merchant ship, which rendered it necessary fora Cep. tain to Bog his seamen. The commander of a vessel might have occa sion to use coercive measures, to save the ship entrusted to his are ; but if he flogged his men, he did so at his ?ea Under all the circum stances, he should not grant a warrant against the men; he saw no se. onion for it ; and if Captain Dudman was not added, he could indict them at the Admiralty The parties then retired. Mr. Flower, of Purnival's Inn, attended to oppose the application. He has retained Mr. C. Phillips, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Curwood, on behalf of the three seamen, who are in confinement in Clakenweil Prison for want of bail. Their shipmates are supporting them in gaol. CORONER'S INQUESTS. An investigation was yesterday morning taken before Mr. &nous°, at the sign of the Pled Bull, Little Russell4treet, Bloomsbury, on the body of Elisabeth Coombs, who committed suicide by hanging herself. Elizabeth Ladds deposed, that the deceased lodged with her, at No. 8, (filbert-stmt. Yesterday morning they breakfasted together, and the deceased afterwards went up stairs. She said she had a head-ache, and witness thought she was gone to lie down. She bad been a servant, but was then out of Ow. A young women souse time after called to see the deceased, and witness went up stairs with her and opened the door. The young woman instantly screamed out, and ran down stairs, but wit ness went into the room and found the deceased hanging by the side of the door. She instantly cut her down, and a surgeon was sent for, but she was quite dead and cold. The deceased had lately complained much of her troubles, and was very demoted, She was married, but her hus band had deserted both her and her child, and had married another woman The deceased frequently tried to find her husband, but could not. She always said, if she found him she would not wish to prosecute A juror observed that her husband was no doubt a profligate fellow, and it was to be hoped would hear of the melancholy end to which his wee (probably through his desertion of her) had been brought--Ver -insanity. Anther inquest was also taken by the same Coroner, at the Royal George, George-street, Chelsea, on the body of Wm. Rider, who bad destroyed himself in a similar way. John Rider, of George-street, carpenter, father of the deceased, said, II saw him last alive on Sunday night, about ten o'clock, when I end my wife went to bed, leaving ldm up. In the morning, about seven o'clock, I came down, and in endeavouring to open the parlour door, found a resistesos, so that I could only push it a little way open. I then saw a cord ftom the top of the door-frame. I sent for a neighbour, who cut the cord, when the body of my son, which I found on entering I the room was suspooded therefrom, fell to the ground. He was quite dead and cold. For the last eight or ten weeks lse was very dejected on account of having no work. Several other witnesses spoke to having observed a great dejectedness of manner about the deceased of late. Verdict—lnsanity, A Hum TO SeonTsterw.—The following definition of han-hundng is gives by a writer of the year 1616 Is it not a valide peace of service for Sue or size men in the countrey (whose dwellings an four* or Sue miles asunder, to make a mad match) to meet together on such or such is morning to bunt or course a hare, where if sass be hunted with hounds shoe will lead them such s dance, that per. Imps a horse or two are killed, or a man or two spoii'd, or hurt with leaping hedges or ditches, at the least after four or Sue days preparation, and some ten pounds charge among them, horses and dogs. besides an infinite dealt of toyle and trouble, and an innumerable number of oaths and curses ; after this great deale of don, the main pur chase can be no more than a poor silly hare, which is but a dry mate, and will take more butter in the basting than her carcase is worth." _ _ --- SECURITY OF PROYEATT.—The Law their Second Report, " on the Law of Real Property," in p. 17, make the following consolatory communisation as to the securities of real property :—" The great difficulties which occur in selling estates and obtaining money on real security, the time which usually elapses before the compietion of such transactions, and the harassing expenses and disappointments which attend them, are evils universally acknowledged. They are by many persons considered the greatest evils belonging to our law of tell property. We believe it may be confidently asserted that, of the real property of England, a very considerable portion is in one of these predicaments ; either the want of security against the reter..ew of latent deeds renders actually urea e a tide which is yet marketable, or the want of means of procuring the formal requisites of title renders unmarketable, a title which is atthslantially seife Within the last two or three days the Carlton Palo.ee en trance into St. James's Park bas been set about In good tamest. The balustrade of the terrace has been taken down, so as to allow a uos sufficiently wide fora carriage way, with a footpath on either side of it ; and a numbs: of labourers are busily at work clearing away that un sightly embankment of earth, which, at so much expense, was throws up here for the purpose of forming this most eselaudee promenade. They am carting it away, through archways in the wall which supports it, for which purpose some of the cast iron columns have been removed, sad some of the original arches broken into each other, and they are deposit. ing it on the greensward in the enclosure of the Park. SCINTILLA. WOMEN WHEN UNHAPPILY MARRIED. — Medea de clares in Euripides, that a woman ill.married L :in =eh a miserable condition, that it is better for her to die than to continue in it—she can. aM, like the men, go abroad In quest of necomary consolation : " If, when The careful consort rules her household well, Her husband governs with a gentle sway s And courts her loved embrace—what &surfeit joy, What inward comforts seise her raptur'd breast But if, be scornful, slights her converse sweet, 'Ms better for her far to die than live. Man, when oppress'd with black domestic cares, Rangy abroad, to seek relief, and meets The baling comforts of a faithful friend, Or fellowship of some companion dear; But helpless, hapless woman, when denied These tender joys, which from her husband's love She justly claims, must seek it no where else.•' Bwripid in Media, v. MI. THz Ros lc RUSIAN s.—The Nam:Lefty, OT the oponiz of the lint book written within and without with the key of David, his pen resembling a wand : a book which h not only an lattogootko to the mysteries of the Holy Scriptures, and of all Nature, bet oho with the help of that morning star that was seen in 1572, dhows's*, wind coming of Jesus Christ, before the last day, in which, balm ilhohoyd the Pope, who is the man of sin, and Mabomet, his son of will restore his church, and the principalities of the that theme may be henceforth but one flock and one shepherd. Published for the good of the Evangelical militia that bears the Cross, by Simon Studien, among Scorpions. The Fiat and List Part. Nathaniel and Cleophso Ina:locums, 1004." Such is the title of a book written by one of the society of Rosiausians, as given by Frscauw in his History of the Divines of Wirlosolvoy, published in 1710. Studion's book was never printed. It was dedicated to Frederick, Duke of Wirtembcrg, and the crazy author affirmed that that prince would have the honour to crucify the Last Pope in 1612, and that Jesus Christ would begin his reign of a in HIM thousand years in 1620. Unfortunately for poor Studien, the duke died THE DEVIL IGNORANT or GAELIC.—" Having met, when in France, with a woman who was said to be possessed with the devil, and who professed to s pe ak all languages, he( Buchanan) accosted her in Gaelic. As neither she nor her familiar retumed)uty answer, he entered a protest that the devil was ignorant of that language.' Life of Buchanan, p. 5. CARDS.—Playing cards were first seen in Italy in the 14th century. The Abbe Longuerue states that he saw in his youth, a pack of cards, such as they were in their origin. They were eeilgghht inches long, with figures of a pope and emperor. and four which fought against each other, and which gave rise to our four colours. Cards were introduced into France in the year 1390, to divert King Charles VII. who was then in a state of insanity. Arglne, the name of the Queen of Clubs, is the anagram of regina. This was Maria of Anjou. Queen of Charles, to whom the painter Oringoneur dedicated the pack of cards which he subsequent]" introduced for the use of the court of France. Rachel, the name of the Queen of Diamonds, was Agnes Sorrel; the Queen of Spades, under the name of Pallas, denoted the Maid of Orleans. Isabeau of Bemis was represented by the Queen of Hearts, under the name of the Empress Judith, a very gallant prin cess. In David, which is the King of Spades, we recognise Charles the Seventh, persecuted by his father as David was by Saul, and forced like him to defend himself against a rebel son. The four valets, (knaves) Ogler, Lancelot, Lshire, and Hector, are historical personages : the two first lived in the time of bar.. lemagne ; Hector and Lahire were distinguished Captains undue Charles VII. The title of valet, formerly varlet, led to the order of Knighthood. The four valets represented the nobility; all the other cards were the soldiers, and the colours were the millttsarryy embletns. By the beam was meant bravery; the spades and diamaods were the arms, and the clubs the forage. The ace was the symbol of finances, which are the sinews of war. We know that among the Romans this was the name of a piece of coin. A fool was the first person in France who made use of cards. Are those who have imitated him a jot wiser 7—Cards have given rise to a great number of sayings : we say figuratively, that a man sees the cards undermost, when we wish to explain that be fore. sees consequences.—To give a carte blanche to any person, is to lin. = e him to act just as he pleases. A general has frequently a aorta for operations which will cost the lives of thousands; but a carte blanche is never given to an author who unmasks trice and rails at folly. BYRON—SCOTT...-.WORDSWORTII..—.-Lord Byron, who had always led a manly, rough life, was in the habit of expressing some indignant impatience at the fastidious complaints and disgusts of oars shoal inaccommodations experienced by the few literary Mends who visited him from Lopatin, and who were in the habit of dally luxurla. ting themselves at the tables and drawing-rooms of rich Earle and Duchesses—in the excess of all the ...racial habits of that corrupt and overgrown capital. Lord Byron 'could sleep, wrapt in his rough great coat, on the hard boards of a deck, while the wind and waves were roaring round hint on every side, and could subsist on a anst and a glees of water. The mighty bard led the life, as he wrote the strains, of a true poet. It would be difficult to persuade me, that he who is a coxcomb in his manners and artificial in his habits of life, could write good poetry. It may be said that (hay was so: but with him it was (such as it was, and It was a fault) m ere ly upon the mike : he led an independent life and would never mix with the silliness of fashion. Sir Walter Scott, the great living genius, is a man of may, careless manners, and takes life and society as it comes. Wordsworth is a man of great plainness, and manly disdain of fashion able life and those whom the thoughtless multitude, (with all their cla mours for equality) consider to be the great, and as such the objects of envy and extorted respect.--Sir Egerton Brydges. HustE.—Five days before ho died, David Hume wrote the following letter to the Countess de Boufiers :—" Edinburgh, 10th otedit a g a rt, 1770.—Though lam certainly within a few weeks, dear , and perhaps within a few days of my own death, I could not forbear being struck with the death of the Prince of Conti,--so great a loss in every particular. My reflections carried me immediately to your situation in this melancholy incident. What a difference to you in your whole plan of life ! Pray write me some particulars, but in such terms that you need not care, in case of my decease, into whose hands your letter may fall.—My distemper is a diarrhoss, or disorder in my bowels, which has been gradually undermining me these two years. but, within these six months, has been visibly hastening me to my end. 1 see death approach gradually, without anxiety or regret. I salute you, with great affection and regard, for the last time. D. H." ECLIPSES.—The eclipses which happened about the time of the Creation are little more than half way of their ethereal circuit : it will be 4,000 years before they enter the earth any more. A catalogue of eclipses was calculated to gratify the curiosity of the French King. who was anxious to know if a total or annular eclipse would soon hap pen, visible at Paris. From this calculation it appeared,.that only one annular eclipse would occur in the 19th century, and that it would take place on the 9th of October. 1847. The distance of the centres of the two luminaries will be only 10 sec. the distance of the south limbs, 1 min. 24 ea. distance of the north limbs, 1 min. 4 sec. helm; ob serves, that at the total ecliese of 1580, the darkness at Coimbra was greater, or at least more staking, than that of night ; and the birds fell to the earth through terror. At the solar eclipse of 1699, there was only 1-180th of the sun visible at Oripswald, in Pomerania; and the obscurity was so great, that the inhabitants could neither see to read nor write. Two of the planets, and two or three of the fixed stars also mode their appearance. In 1706, at Paris, the sun was eclipsed nearly eleven digits ; yet, although only one-twelfth of the diameter was visible, every thing could be distinguished as clearly as in the fullest sunshine. The sky an azure field display'd— "rwas aun.light sheathed, and gently charm'd, Of all its sparkling rays disarm'd, And as in slumber laid; Or something night and day between, Like moonshine--hut the hue was green. The grand eclipse of the 22d of April, 1715, presented most interest ing phenomena; it was observed, and minutely detailed, by Dr. Halley. His description of it is said to be the best cheat astronomical history al fords of this species of phenomenon. During the greatest obscuration, the planets Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus, and not fewer than twenty of the fixed stars, were visible; so that the sky appeared as starry as dur ing the night of a full moon. An observer at Zurich says , that the birds went to roost, the bats came out of their holes ' an , and the fishes swam about; a sensation of cold was experienced, and the dew tell on the grass." The next lunar eclipse visible in Britain, will take place February the 26th, 1831. Digit eclipsed 8 deg. 18 min. the moos will rise eclipsed. A very small solar eclipse will occur July the 27th. 1832; 12 min. 30 sec. only, of the sun's southern limb will be con cealed. A great solar eclipse, visible in England, will take place the 15th of May, 1830, when 11 deg. 10 min. will be covered. Another considerablreclipse of the sun will occur the 15th of March 1868, when 11 deg. 30 min. will be hidden. A still more remarkable eclipse of the sun will take place the 19th of August, 1887, when the whole of the disc will be covered excepting 2 min. A total eclipse without continu ance, will occur the 3d of February, 1910. The apparent diameters will coincide, and for as instant, there will be a total concealment of the sun's light. This eclipse will be the greatest that will be visible in England did after the year of our Loan 2,000. magninisisasozensee On BIRTHS. The 14th inst. in Audley-square, the wife of D. Baillie, Esq. of • daughter—The 25th of August, in the fifth month of het widowhood, Elizabeth, relict of the late Charles Julius Berguer. Esq. of a daughter. The nth hist: at Chipstead. the Hon. J. St. Clair, eldest son of the Right Hon. Lord Sinclair, and late of the Grenadier• Wards, to Jane, eldest daughter of A. Little. Raq. of Shabda-park, Surrey. Lowhotr: Printed and Published by JOHN MATNZ, at the Orrics. 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