Star. — London, England, 1830-04-23 00:00:00

THE KING. Tile short, but highly gratifying Bulletin of the state .{bisNI.UE.TV issued yesterday—“ The Kt NG is better" —servei to allay the feelings so painfully excited by the former Bulletins; and we are rejoiced to be enabled to add, that the fears thus partially tranquillized, are likely to be Aitog,ether removed by the speedy restoration of his M A J EST Y to perfect health. LETTER FROM WINDSOR. " Thursday Evening, April 22. " His MAJESTY, we are happy to state, continues to improve in health, though slowly ; and our inquiry was answered this morn. ing with the gratifying assurance that his MAJESTY had improved since yesterday. Sir HEKIT Hat.roun left the Castle at eight 3'elock this morning, and will return this evening. The Duke of Wat.t.twaTox arrived at the Castle this morning at twelve o'clock, tnd had an audience of his MAJESTY until two, when his Onset ~artook of refreshment, and left in his carriage for London." COUIT NEWS. HIS MAJESTY passed another good night on Wednesday, and yesterday morning the following Bulletin, which confirms the pre vious favourable statements of his MAJESTY'S health, was issued. It wiU be seen that only ono Physician now attends the King. His Alsresrr signed a number of official warrants and daluments on Wednesday, some of them relating to the Treasury. The Duke of WzitixoroN visited the KING at his Palace at Windsor yester day, and after having had an audience returned to town. Our readers will see from the Bulletin issued yesterday, that there is no longer any apprehension respecting his Ile-nteTT. The terms of the Bulletin " the Kix° is better," at once discredit the reports that connected the difficulty of breathing with a breaking of his MAJEST Y'S constitution. But we are assured on authority, which If we could name, would be deemed unquestionable by our :eiders, that the difficulty of breathing was asthmatic, and not at all what rumour described it. The most skilful and experienced Physicians are always cautious in pronouncing decidedly in cases of this kind, especially when the patient is, like his MArzsww, of an advanced age, and corpulent ; and hence the obscurity of the lan. guage of the Bulletins. We think, however, we may assure our readers, that It is really believed at present by his MAJESTY'S Medical Attendants, that there is no longer any cause for apprehen. lion.—Morning Chronicle. Yesterday's bulletin, with royal brevity,—and indeed with somewhat of oracular mystery,—told the people of England, in four words, that " The limo is better." But the previous bulletins forgot to tell us the nature of that malady of which "the limo is better." They spoke at first of a bilious attack, and then of an "embarrassment of breathing;' which latter mode of suffer. ins is nothing but a symptom and effect. We have yet heard nothing about the cause or causes. The liver, the lungs, the heart, have each and all, in the absence of professional information, been guessed at, accordingly, as the seat and source of the disorder. It is even said, but this of course we cannot know, that Iles MAJESTY'S Ministers,—those who form the link be. tween the Sovereign and his people,--are as much in the dark on this topic as are the peasantry of Wales; that in fact nothing is known, and hardly any thing said, beyond that little impenetrable circle of which neither centre nor circumference is visible to the general eyes of Englishmen. This is not honest in the first place, because the public has an undoubted right to ascertain the situation of the Monarch. It is, in the second place, very stupid, because more secrecy will not prolong the Ittwo's valuable life ; and those creatures whom the shield of Royal kindness now protects, may be called to a searching and severe account of the manner in which, being not officially responsible, they exercise a more than official power. There may be such a thing, if necessary, as an appearance at the bar of the Lords or Commons !—Times. Its fiIAJF.STY'S advisers have favoured the public with the following brief but remarkable bulletin t—" Tug Ksw CO SETTEz.".---The last bulletin intimated that his MAJESTY continued to suffer occasionally from embarrassment in his breath. ing; but we are not informed whether this embarrassment has In creased or diminished, or whether he is considered more conva lescent now than he was on Monday last. He may have been better on Thursday, though worse on Wednesday than he was on Tues. day; or he may have been better at twelve o'clock noon, than be was at twelve o'clock the preceding night. This evident at. .erupt to mystify the public is not by any means calculated so hilt suspicion or allay apprehensions. The most marked mil certainly the most unfavourable, symptom in the King's. case was his difficulty of breathing, arising from a cause %;:fficiently obvious, and rendered the source of increased anxiety 'tort the circumstance that similar distressing indications attended :t•e illness of the lamented Duke of YORK. We sincerely pray that :he apprehensions of his Majesty's subjects, caused by this painful and dreaded analogy, may prove unfounded. But the royal phy. leave us to our own conjectures, instead of removing all fears ht being more explicit, which it is reasonable to think they would •av' removed could they have been justified in doing so by the fa so...rable indications of the disorder.— liforniny Journal. The Princess AUGUSTA visited Lady C. WALDE t.; %AN . E yesterday, at her residence in Curzon-street. Her La:lyship is indisposed. l'he Russian and French Ambassadors had a con- Jreace with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the l'oreign Office. The Pnissian and Spanish Ministers had interviews v.r.! , the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday.' EsTuttiAzY was present at the performance Jr the Prague minstrels at the Egyptian llall yesterday. Sir G. MURR•Y has left town for Sunning-hill. The eldest son of the Duke of SomEttsEr will, it is +3:d, accompany Prince LEOPOLD to Greece. The Marquis and Marchioness of SA Lisnußy are ex- Lected in town to-morrow. Thu Russian Ambassador gave a grand dinner on Sun ,lay last, at Paris, at which, among. many persons of distinction, Prince ',Euro'. u of SA XE-COBURG Was ~, r esent. Letters from Lyons, dated the 14th instant, state that lasing the military men who had lately passed through that city was Prince JOSEPH CHARLES MAustacc Po oust( who arrived in an elegant post-chaise, fol loued by a large retinue. The Prince alighted at the Hotel des Amhassadeurs, and showed his passport, which auficated no other quality in the bearer than that of ser .-eatit in the 3d regiment of light cavalry. By a circular addressed to the members of the Artil .,ll Company, it appears that the order given for the Akio! ation of the King's Birth-day on the 23d (this day) 'as ',pet' countermanded. The circular is only dated on A dejetine was given on Wednesday at Free "L.,(nid' Ralf, Great Queen-street, for the benefit of the Charity schools, at which Mr. O'CONNELL wUS to have presided, but in consequence of his una `"'J.lblt absence, the chair was taken by CHAS. BUTLER, rupported by ALEX. DAWSON, Esq. M.P. Dr. kcawkw, the Rev. Mr. KELLY, &C. It is said that a gond deal of umbrage has been taken 55. the Bar attending the Middlesex Sessions at the in t:oduction of two perfect strangers (one of them the son if the Attorney-General) to conduct the Mint prose retions. At the audit cf the Duke of Grafton on Monday 'C :tight, a liberal abatement was made to his Grace's tenantry, although rnayn 'if the farms are held at a aptil rent. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, in Relgrave.square, from Tavistock, Devon ; the Duke of Leeds, and Lord O. osborne, at Whitehall, from Hoenby Castle, in Yorkshire; the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, in St. James's-square, from thei seat in Hens • the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury and Miss Wellesley, in ' Arlington -street, from Hatfield ; Lady Warburton, at her house in Albemarle -street, from Hulmewalfield, Cheshire ; Mr. Kennedy, M.P. in Dover-street, from Scotland ; Sir Henry Parnell, M.P. in Jennyn-street, from Birmingham ; Sir and Lady Sophia Greeley, in Saville -tow, from their sea., Itre r - low, Derbyshire ; the Hon. George Apr and Lady Georgina Ellie, in Spring-gardens, from Roehampton ; Captain and Lady Agnes Byng, in Upper Brook-street, from Wrotluun Park ; Colonel W. Hughes, M. P. in South Audiey-street, from his seat, Kinmel Park, St. Asaph ; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Doncaster ; J. Dingwall, Esq. in St. James's. street, from his seat in Surrey ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Jeffery ; at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street„ from Scotland; Sir Robert "I. phinstone, at the Brunswick lintel, from Scotland; Sir John Dalrymple, at ditto, from Scotland ; General Finch, at ditto, from Oxfordshire ; L. O'Brien, F:sq M. P. at ditto, from Ireland ; Mr. Leuchtenhurg, at ditto, from demtany ; William Campbell, Esq. at ditto, from his seat in Kent ; James Taylor, Esq. and Son, at Symmon's Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat in Warwick. shire; the Rev. B. Adderly, at ditto from Moseley Hall, Worces tershire ; W. Bloseley, Esq. at ditto, front his seat in Worcester. shire ; Mrs. Gregory and Miss Williams, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, from Paris; Mr. and Miss Benyon, at ditto, from a tour; J. Shirley, Esq. at ditto, from a tour; Lieut. Colonel O'Reilly, at ditto, from Windsor ; Sir George Crewe, Bart. at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. Mol. kit and family, at Talke's Hotel, Jermyn.street, from Birmingham ; Dr. Bumgarton, at ditto, from Huntingdon. CHANGES. The Dowager Lady Ellenborough, for Roeharnpton; the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Howard, from Grosvenor-square, to their seat, Ashtead.park, Surrey ; Maned Talbot, Esq. from Fenton's Hotel, to Bath; J. Coulson, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; the Marquis of 1 Douglas, from Talke's Hotel, for Oxford. ALMACK'S GRAND BALL. On Wednesday evening the first of a series of Files, upon a scale of increased magnificence, took place. The tooms having undergone considerable improvements, were illuminated in a novel and beautiful style. The dancing commenced at eleven o'clock. The selections were from the new French Operas entitled Guillaume Tell, Fra Diavolo, Le Dikllanle d'Anignon, Les Deus Nulls, and also a new set named Les Ecossair. Also new Waltzes, being a selection of Austrian and other German melodies; and several from Rossini's admirable airs. To these we may add all the new Galopailes. The new movements were admirably performed by— Sir Roger Gresley Lord Norreys Colonel Bowater Captain Eden Colonel Molyneux Captain Grey Marquis of Abereorn Count Donnioskold Considering that this was the first ball, and held during the parliamentary recess, it was very well attended. There were upwards of three hundred persons present ; among whom were— The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely. The Earl and Countess of Harewood.—Couturesses--Sefton, Antrim, Abingdon.—Loans —Eliot, George Beresford, James Fitzroy, Stanley, Edw. Somerset. —Lanixs—.Elizabeth Palk, Lucy Vaughan, Coots, Shelley, Far. guitar, Elizabeth Loftus, George Seymour, Eleanor Campbell, Augusta Chichester Hampden , Edward Codrington, Charlotte Bertie, Fitzroy So merset,i Caroline Barham, Mary Shepherd, Fiances Stephens, Harriet Frampton, Augusta Cotton, Phillips, Anne Beresford, Georgians Eliot, Charlotte Crofton, Borough, Rivers, Elizabeth Cornwallis, Caroline Percy, Cecil Delafield, Eli zabeth Paget, Glynn, Duck, Mary Rosa, Caroline Wrottesley, Alexander Hope, Augusta Pelham. Sias—William Riddell, Francis Doyle, Frderick lamb, Stephen Glynn, Richard Phillips, John Johnstone, E. Hering, J. Burgoyne, R. Chester, F. Burdett, Geo. Anson. CoLoxiis—Willoughby, Cotton, Musters, Elphin stone. Major Keppel. CAPTAIWII—AIIIdmay, Ellis, Loftus, Nu. gent, Carpenter, Helene, Milligan, Codtington ' Abbot, Needham. Missas--Charles Stanley, Maone% Hon. Robert Francis Mo lyneux, G. Knox, R. Foley, Edwards, W. Law, Augustus Lid. dell, J. Pelha.n, CampbelM —urratsers—Hott. John Gage, Hon. Leigh.—Dirsszs.....Cotton, C. Stanley, Pitt, Gage (two), Ross, Shepherd, Doyle, Somerset(three) Wrouesly, Borough, Geor gina de Roos, Geraldine de Roos, Park, Burdett (two) Frampton, Codrington, Hope, Barham, Shelley, Anson Campbell, Chkbester, Moreton, Stephens, Beresford, Glynn. Count Billabroke. Mon. sieur Erudson. Madame and Margarette Gonads& 4ADvaartsamENT).—On the 15th of May, I shall pnish, at my Shop, No. 183, Fleet.street, a new Szassow, en titled, " Goon FRIDAY; or, the Murder qf Jesus Christ, by the Jews." Price Sixpence. To be had of all Booksellers, in Town and Country. My other Sermons, twelve in number, may be had in one volume, price 31. COSSITT.— Lincoln, April 21, 1890. In the account laid before Parliament of the receipts and payment of the West India Dock Company is a charge of 1151. to one of the Directors " for a broken period." If all Directors were paid for " broken periods" —that is, as often as they " break Priscian's head"— the tax upon more Institutions than ono would diminish the profits exceedingly. As a striking specimen of the inconsistency in which the practice of hired criticism involves the press may be instanced a fulsome and laboured panegyric upon a work of the most profligate and abandoned writer of the age, in the columns of a journal professing to be especially dedicated to morality and the interests of religion. On Wednesday morning last, when the Lord Chan cellor was sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall, Mr. Gregg, of the Chancery Bar, a Commissioner of Bankrupts, had his pocket picked of his pocket-book. Immediate infor mation was given, but no traces of the offender or pocket book were discoverable. The following singular affair at present occasions con siderable gossip at the west end of the town. It will be recollected that a few days ago Mr. Andrews, the book seller, in Bond-street, attended at Marlborough-street to complain of having been defrauded last week out of some tickets for a private box at Covent-garden Theatre, by means of a note, purporting to have been written by the Earl of Belfast, which Mr. Andrews subse quently discovered to be a forgery. In order to detect the offender, Mr Andrews, accompanied by a police con ' stable, attended at the box-door of Covent-garden Theatre on the night for which the tickets to the private box had been obtained, and had not waited long before, to his great astonishment, he saw one of the box-keepers approach, conducting into the box in question, on the identical tickets alluded to, a noble peer of the realm and a party of female fashionables. Mr. Andrews, al though considerably puzzled at the moment bow to act, yet speedily protested against the admission of the noble party to that box, as the tickets had, he said, been surreptitiously procured from him, and declared that if they were admitted, he would not be responsible to the proprietors of the theatre for the price of the tickets. The noble peer, who was thus unceremoniously in terrupted, seemed considerably annoyed at such an exposure, and having prevented as much as possible the matter reaching the ears of his female friends, by hurrying them as quickly as he could into the box, his Lordship returned, and in no very measured lan guage addressed himself very warmly to Mr. Andrews, who, in his turn, did not much spare the hereditary le gislator, and it was not until after a great deal of loud and angry altercation that the n.atter was fur that night suffered to drop. Since then it is understood, or at least said, that circumstances have come to the knowledge of Mr. Andrews, connected with this transaction, and which , are pretty broadly hinted at, tending to allay any dis position Mr. Andrews might have had to make a further disposition of the matter; and the affair has therefore, it is understood, been suffered to drop altogether, leaving, however, two facts established,—namely, that the note sent for the tickets in Lord Belfast's name is a forgery, and that this practice is not confined to the democracy of the country. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD:Arum :N. This day being the tint of I. aster Tents, the following Gentlemen were admitted to degrees : BACHELOR or Civic I,Aw.—Rev. Frederick B.Twistleton, late Fellow of the New College, Grand Compounder. MASTERS OF ARTS.—Rev. W. G. Dymock„ Exeter, Grand- Compounder; C. P. Golightly, Esq. Orley, Grand-Compounder; Messrs. H. D. Stephens, Fellow of N e w C o ll ege ; R ev . J. Ushorne, University ; J. Fox, Queen's ; Rev. P. H. l.ee, Bratennose ; Rev. S. B. Shireff, Wadham. BACHELORS Or ARTS.—MCSOL R. Briscoe, Jesus: li. J. Nicholl, St. John's ; T. Fallow, and W. Marychurch, St. I.4lmund Hall. This day also, a subsequent ennvocati,m was held for ihe purpose of admitting to office the New Proctors for the year, who had been previously elected by their respective colleges, namely, the Rev. Jo seph Dornford, M.A. Fellow of Oriel, senior Yroetor ; Rrv. Tho tnas Townson Churton, M.A. Fellow of Brazenuose, junior Proctor. After • Latin oration delivered by the Rev. James Thomas Round, senior Proctor, on his going out of office, the senior Proc. tor, Mr. Dornford, nominated u his Deputies or Proctors, the Rev. J. P. Griffith, M.A. of Wadham, and the Rev. J. H. Newman, M.A. of Oriel. The junior Proctor, Mr. Churton, nominated his Pro's the Rev. F. A. Dawson, M.A. and the Rev. R. Harrington, M.A. of Drazennese. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Agenoria. Kolf, from the West Indies. and Herald. Gra ham. from Baltimore, have arrived of the Wight. The Lady Holland. Snell. from London to Bengal. was totally wrecked 13th Feb. near Saldannah Bay. Crew and passengers saved. The Caleb Angus, WhittaU, from Honduras, has arrived off Dover. The Premier, Rowland, from Smyrna, has arrived in the Creek. The Shepherd, Laws, from Sc. Kitts . arrived of Margate. Dam., Antic 22—Vfind S.W. to W S.W.—lt blew strong front the southward and westward last night. Arrived the David Scott, Jackson, from Bengal, Scc. and Antity transport, from the Mauritius, ace. _ _ Pownwourn, APRIL 22. —Wind W.S.W. blowing hard..—Ar.. rived the Childe Harold, Wett, from the Mauritius. Pr.varouvu, APRIL £l.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Cyrus, Kingston, from the South Seas. Pamorello, Aram 21.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W. fresh gale.. Arrived the Sandwich packet, from Lisbon—sailed the 11th inst. Off the port, the James, Russell, from Aux Cayes. Lueaaroot. ' Ara m 21.—Arrived the Grecian, Smith. from Valparaiso ; Earl Dalhousie, Barton, from Demerara ; Pyramus, Young, from Jamaica; Betsey, Maus, and Shakspeare, Goldie, from Mobile; Belle Isle, Lloyd, from New Orleans, and Iris, White, from Charleston. THE ARMY. The following movements of Regiments have been ordered :- Ist Dragoon Guards—From Longford to Caller. 2d Ditto—From Dublin to Manchester, to arrive at the cnd of the month. 3d Ditto—Frain Coventry to Exeter, to arrive on the 211th. 4th Ditto—From York to Edinburgh. sth Ditto—From Canterbury to Coventry. 6th Ditto—From Dorchester to Dublin, to embatk on the 23d. 7th Ditto—From Ipswich to Canterbury. Ist Dragoons—From Manchester to Norwich and Ipswich, on the arrival of the 2d Dragoon Guards. 2d Ditto—From Calk to Dorchester, to arrive at the end of the month. 3d Ditto—From Shefteld to York. 9th Ditto—From Nottingham to Hounslow, to arrive on the 26th. 10th Ditto—From Hounslow to Leeds, to arrive on the 29th. 12th Ditto—From Edinburgh to Ireland, to embark about the 24th. 14th Ditto—From Leeds to Brighton. 13th Ditto—From Brighton to Nottingham and Sheffield. 11th Reeerve—From Cork to Portamouth—ordered. 33d Ditto—From Naas to Bumley—ordered. 67th Ditto—From Landguard Fort to Chatham. 62d Regiment—From Cork to Chatham, for Madras. 72d Reserve—From Drogheda to North Britain. 76th Regiment--From Cork to Canterbury, for the Cape of Good Hope. 79th Reserve—From Glasgow to Stirling. 82d Ditto—From Chatham to Canterbury. 88th Ditto—From Teske to Landguard Fort. Slit Ditto—From Londonderry to North Britain. IMO DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF TWO MILL TARY _OFFICERS. We have peat pain in narratlirg t h e following shameful conduct, particularly as the persons who were guilty of it arc in the rank of life where we naturally expect to meet with individuals po ssessing something like the feelings of gentlemen. On Friday n ht three respectable ladies, accompanied by two gentlemen (one of t um bus band to one of the ladies), and a female servant, were returning home from a party at a friend's house ; and, when passing Donegan-street, they encountered two persons having the appearance of gentlemen, one being dressed in full military uniform, and the other an ath letic, powerful man, in plain clothes. The latter, in the rudest man. nee, seised one of the ladies' veils, dragging off her bonnet; and instantly afterwards, in a violent and savage way, thrust his clenched fist between one of the gentlemen and his wife, who was leaning on his arm. A scuffle ensued, in which we believe all the females were severely abused, one lady, enciente. being twice knocked down by the more powerful of the galkint officers ; and the gentle men abused very severely. A professional gentleman who happened to come up at the time, was also struck. IVith great difficulty, these two heroes were secured by the watchmen, who also came in for a share of the spree, and were conveyed to the police-office where the principal aggressor repeated his menaces ant. outrageous behaviour towards the gentleman who attempted to resist their savage attack on the females. We have been told, that, on deposit. ing some bank notes, they were allowed by the constable to do. part. They appeared next day before the Police Magistrate to answer for their past night's behaviour. The magistrate put off the hearing of the case until Mor.day ; when we hope ex aminations will be sworn, and these retard protectors of the people be compelled to answer fur conduct, which is as unmanly, as it is ungallant, unofficerlike, and unjustifiable. It is likely, the civil law must dispose of the gentlemen on half.pay ; but if the corn. mender of the district wish to secure the discipline or the soldiery, he will order a court-martial to investigate into the conduct of an officer, who sallies out in his uniform, to make ferocious attacks on the unefending wives and daughters of our very respectable townsmen, who are contributing to support him in his capacity as a soldier. If examinations be taken, we hope the magistrate will send them forward for trial to the assizes ; where, we speak it most reverently, local influence is not likely to .often down the castiga. tinn to which such flagitious conduct is so well entitled.-2Verther n Whip. Mr. Bit All.l xt.—Sorne of the London Papers sent this ' gentleman on a visit to Lord Harborough and Mrs. Granby Calcraft, but it so happens that he has not quitted London since his return from Scotland. It is said that the tenant of one of the houses on the south side of Pall-mall has received notice that great part of it is to be forthwith pulled down for the purpoe of making a garden to the new mansion of Mr. Hurries. ' The new rectory-house of St. Martin-in-the-Fielt!s is prececding towards completion ; but, contrasted v. ith the noble edifice of which it is an appendage, shows how little modern architecture has improved upon the grand and puler notions of times long gone by. The report is still prevalent that a recent visit of the Duke of Orleans to Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, had been made at the request of an august Personage, who declared that he should see with pleasure one of the sisters of the Duke de Chartres united to the Prince Sovereign of Greece. We believe that this visit, which 1 1 has excited general notice, has been a natural and sponta neous act of the Duke, who, in fact, is supposed to have a repugnance to the marriage in question, which the known anxiety of the Prince to keep aloof from political affairs sufficiently explains. Moreover, the future Sove reign of Greece is an old acquaintance of the House of Orleans, and in the different visits which he has made to Paris, has always frequented the residence of the Duke. In many of our salons we hear of earnestness shown by M. de Polignac to bring to a conclusion the negotiations relative to this marriage, which are said to have been undertaken by the express desire of Royalty. The Duchess of Orleans, on the contrary, urged the difference of religious tenets which existed between the illustrious pair ; but the advocates of the measure are stated to have replied, that in matters of public concern, policy should ever take precedence of religion.—Anti de la Chaste. OLD DAILEY NICW COURT--(THIS DAY) GEN tEIICILS. ninroi.ig, the Recorder pawed sentence Ou the prisertera coneseted at these Sessions, which terminated on Last evenivg. 9'h• following received sentence of death :—George Edwards, no; Losme tweaking— Sarah Norris, stealing above the value of Steckings. and Henry Wright Smith, ditto—Sarah ant' Henry Fyler, burglary—Philip Reily. above 51.—Jan:es I'ar!.l., burglary—Christopher 011ara, maliciously stabbing—D:4ll:ml Shirktield, horse stealing—John Jerkin, and Thomas and Janice Plunk, burglary—John 31`Durtald. forgery—Hannah Cotton, and James Clark. above 51.—Wm. Wilton, uttering counterfeit money —Wm. Thomas, above 51.—Mary Collins and Anne Ronan, rob. bevy--. John Brown and James Cooke, burgllry—Edw. Cullimore, horse-stealing—Wm. Bantadeer and Thomas Thompson, burglary —rumens Nlathews and Ann Mathews, robbery. To be transported for life—James Stacey, Alex. Fox, and Thomas Ponley. An im mense number of prisoners were transported fur 14 and seven years, and the remainder for terms of imprisonment from two yeari down wards. Several were ordered to be whipped, and the Sessions ad journed. CALAMITOUS FIRE IN FRTTF,R•LANR. Adjourned Inquest upon Serer, of the Sufferer.). Yesterday aftetnoon the Coroner and Jury tnet Lit St. Ilartholo- IlleW . Sl Hospital. to inquite into the death of the I.[VCI/ itichviduala who lost their lives at the fire in Fetter-lane. William Henderson, Mr. Grant's foreman, slept in the flout attic next to Mr. Smith's house. Went to bed at half past 11 o'clock on Saturday night. He was awoke by the cry of fire, and the ibis? of a watchman a rattle. There was smoke on his going to the win dow. He saw H. Wade in the street, standing opposite the parlour window ; he and the housekeeper got out at a trap door on the top of the house of Mr. Grant to Mr. Smith's house ; the hakehous: was not then on fire. The last time the witness was in Mr. Grant's cellar was at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, and he does not know how the fire originated. James Hill, an Exeiee-officer, of Nevin-Court, Fetter.lane, saw a light over Mr. Grant's shop door at half-past one o'clock on Sun day morning; be saw a man (11. Wade) conic out of the front door, it then shut as if by a spring; it was then broken open, as well es the shop and parlour window. Ann Baker, servant to Mr. fil'lreway, a first floor lodger of Mr. Grant's, went to bed at a quarter past one. Her mistress and Mi. Grant were the last persons she saw hetore going to bed; she w smoke by a watchman's rattle, and the cry of fire. She opened the first floor window, and is certain the smoke first issued (tom the par lour shutters. Her master, mistress, and children, and Mr. Grant. were in the first floor room after the alarm of fire was given, and es caped at the first floor window. Mr. 11I'Leway confirmed his setrant's evidence in every respect. A draft of the staircase and the ground floor passage was shown the witness, and he pointed out from whence the smoke and fire issued when first seen by him. Mr. Edmund Wilson, of Fetter-lane, six doors from Mr. Grant's house—He heard the cry of fire. Went to the spot, and saw H. Wade open the parlour window.sbutters on the outside. reached up to the sill of the window, and drew out a parcel of bed cloths front the patlour, which the witness took to the other side of the street. Wade told the witness that he was Insured. Wade was dressed when he opened the parlour shutters. The bed clothes were not tied up ins bundle, but loose, as if pulled off the bed. Mr. William Kean, of the White Hart, Fetter-lane, heard the cry of fire and the rattles sprung— went to the window and saw Wade and his wife come out of the private door of Mr. Grant's house in their night-clothes--fire and smoke appeared to be ii. Wade's parlour. Wade and his wife came in their night-clothes into the White Hatt. William M'Leunan, of Neville's-court, Fetter-lane, was employ ed in digging through the ruins, and on examining 'Wade's float found it much burnt—but the shop floor was not burnt ; there was a quantity of ashes like those of hay, on Wade's floor, who told wit ness that he was insured for 1001. Wade accounted for the hay as coming from the sofa The witness found Wade's watch in the ruins in his presence. He is clearly of opinion, from the appear ance of the ruins, that the fire originated in Wade's room. Harry Wade, a former witnesa, was re-examined : he admitted having opened the window-shutters on the outside, threw up the window-sash, and pulled out the bed-clothes, fte. as mentioned by Mr. Wilson. The witness was insured for lOW. in the Sun Fire Office, which will not cover his loss. He and his wife left the house in their night clothes, and got into the White Hat. Here it was stated, that all the witnesses who could give any evidence as to the manner how the fire originated, had been ex amined. The Coroner then summed up the whole evidence, when the Jury, in a few minutes, agreed to the following verdict : " That the deceased John Howard, Mary Howard, William Howard, Margaret Syrett, Mary Caney, Mary Ann Bursen, and Charlotte Bursen, came by their deaths by burning; but how the fire originated cannot be determined upon bZ the Jury." - - LUDICROUS SCENE. From the Edinbu rg Weekly Chronicle. The following ludicrous scene occurred at an Inquest before Lord Monate' on Saturday last, for serving an heir to the late John Granger, writer to the signet Alscer—Thomas....—, my Lord. But we must endeavour to describe the witness. He was a tall figure, whose dress corresponded with his countenance, which erns odd and ridiculous in the extreme ; he had a peculiar affection in the face, of snuffing up the air, and twisting his head at the same instant as if surveying the audience. His costume, which consisted of a snuff-brown coat and a red waistcoat buttoned to the throat. bespoke him the bellman in some borough town, or a retainer or dependent of the council. Solicitor-General.—Now, Thomas, speak so loud that my Lord and the jury may hear you. Witness.—l'll do that, RD it like your honours. Mr. Marshall.—Thomas, did you know the deceased Thomas Muir and his wife? Witness.—A wcel did I that, for how could 1 miss wiron I laved nest neighbour to them. (Snuff) Mr. Marshall.—We'll dispense with your remarks, Sir answer the questions simply as they are put. Witness.—lll do that, an it like your honours ; but ye wouldna' has me to swear till a thing I wasna positive about ; that's a thing no to be expectit. Solicitor-General.— Very right, Thomas. Witness.—Na, na, I'm no brought here, I reckon, to gang au after ony sic fashion, an it like your honours. Mr. Marshall.—This man is perketly incorftgible ; attend to me, Sir, Did you know their daughter? Witness.—l canna just say that I preceesely ony particular or yespecial aequantance wi' the young woman.—(Sr.tif and twist of the reek.) Cour.cll.—Do you remember her being martird and leaving Ha milton ?I Wie.ess—l mind her Tllllllin away wi' a scrjeant in Hay's Light Dragoons, an' it like y nur honours; bat' whether she was made au honest woman o' or no, it's no becoming in ire to itay, who was an acquantarce o' the family : but it's a thing I could :tot be positive about. It's a story aboen Stl year auld. and I was bit a boy at the time, an't like your honours ; I could not be posits vs, it's no a thing to be looked for ; I was bit a boy at the time. Judge--- It's in:possible to record the answera, if the witness is per.. mined to run on at that rate. Witness--Na, na, it's no a thing to be cspeckit when I .as a bit a boy at the time: I could not be pnsitive, for I was a bit a boy at the time : is s Uty years since it happened. an' it like your honours.—(Nose up, and quaint glance at the audience.) Coons.').—Do you remember the dragoon and his wt:e returr.ing to Hamilton Witness.—tae doubt but I mind that, and besAes they had a laddie with them, a thing to be capeck it an the comae o' cutt.r.„ an it like your honour*. (('p nose). Counsel.—Did you nes bear it, said that this child was a baron: %Vim , ss—Ne‘er till this tossinass began, whin I was taen afore the Mina, an like it your honours ; fur there ass an awfu' suits mash in the Town Council about it, tut atischtr the bairn as a bastard or no, I wull nut be positive; a May year mold talc, a:.' I was bits boy n)ysel' at he tiait, anal bad ;1•1( coni:ern in the be. gettioir o' the gallant ; that was a thing nu to be l ob kit f ur , an it like your honours, when I was bit a bur at the time. (Nose up., 7 he witceps was his, rid Jed to withiitate. Co RN.F.XCHANGE, ‘BANK-1..1NF:, A PAIL. 23. The prevaletee of contrary wields has rev, ete•t the ►hipp no. getting up the River, and we nave in consequence tat short supplies. There is • great quantity of Foreign l'orn in bend ; and as there is a small ►eduction in the duty. at anticipate many early arrivals. Should the weather prove fine and warm, we hate reason to expel that the at combination of cocuniNtauess will tend to reduce the prices of l'nm generally ; at present mare is little variation in best Wheat and Dairy from Monday's piers ; but inferior sorts are loser. Oats sfre at a swan advance. MIPOSTA 1110/14 uncle reowsuir. Wbro, &nib& (qrs.) . 5,050 Dailey, Foreign Foreign . 6,600 Vats, Ttnglish . fri4) . Frireign Boricy, Fights! . 3,7(4); bias 3,11:4 _ . . Flour loathe) • 2,700 COAL-ILICHANGR, Aram 23. Sixty new ships were at this. day's market, aad the supply of Coal coatioues to be pleatifuL Ihe Coal Exchange wee well et. tended by merchants. Ships arrived dadag the week ... 132 Ships arrived dories the newatb Best Wallatittl Coals 34e IL! 361 Id either sorts • 26 Sd 33e id tiltips as Market : Mt . frirb j , i