Star. — London, England, 1830-09-06 00:00:00

THE LEGACY OF THE ROSES. Oh. Cant them above me, the soft, the brigbt, The tottetud with the sunset's crimson light, The warm with the earliest breath of Spring, The sweet with the sweep of the west wind.. wing; Let the great bough and the red leaf wave, — Plant the glad rosestree upon my grave. should the nionrnful willow weep, trtr the quiet rest of a dreamless sleep? W.ep for life with its toil and care, Its crime to shun, and its ill to beat; Let tars and the signs of tears be shed Over the living, not over the dead. Plant not the cypress, nor yet the yew, Too heavy their shadow, too gloomy their hue, For one who is sleeping in faith and love, With a hope that is treasured in Heaven above: in a holy trust are my ashes laid— last ye no darkness, throw ye no shade. Plant the green sotl with the crimson rose, Ltt my friends rejoice o'er my calm repose ; Let my memory be like the odours they shed, lir hip t like their promise of early red : het ',mangers, too, share in their breath and b100m,.... Plan; ye the bright roses over my tomb. 1. E. L. THE SPELL OF GENIUS. They tell me, my love, that to choose thee is blindness, And marvel what charm my affection endears, Because thou has suffered from Fortune's unkindness, And thy steps have declined to the valley of years. Ah, little they know with what ardour my bosom,' Hu long the bright phantom of genius enshrined, And turned with disdain from youth's beautiful bosom, To sigh for the exquisite fruits of the mind. Ah ! little they reek of that bean's quiet feeling, Which riches and grandeur could never controul t Whose dearest enjoyment is Fancy's revealing, Whose proudest ambition—the wealth of the soul. The nightingale pours to the tome her soft measures, And sweetly and constantly warbles her lay, Though gaudier buds may expand their gay treasures, And the leaves and the bloom of bet idol decay. Oh, such is the spell that my heart has invaded, I languished the bright flower of Genius to see ; I have found it, alas ! with Its early bloom Laded, But I deem my lot bleat to have found it in thee. The following BPIIIITZD effusion of the " LYRICAL Muse of Dept. lord" has been sung about the streets, in honour of the Sallor-King tm- KING WILLIAM THE TAR. Air—" I've kissed and I've prattled with fifty fair maids." One William was Norman, another was red, And the third was a Dutchman, you see ; But this William's an Englishman born and bred— King William the Tar for me ! Queen Anne let the State heave so much to the Church, We had nigh ship'd a terrible sea ; But a Steersman like this never makes such a lurch... King William the Tar for me ! In our squares them are Georges, In brass and in stone, On high horses, as Germans will be; But our King shall be English—a deck be his throne— King William the Tar for me ! George the Third was for lavishing trouble and pelf, To prevent other folks being free; This King would the world were as free as himself—. King William the Tar for me ! The last was shut up in a ginger-bread house, With old women of high degree : For his Navy he cared not three skips of a —, Such a shore-going lubber was he ! But this is another guess sort of a man, On duty as brisk a 4 a bee ; And he'll help an old messmate whenever he can— King William the Tar for me. When the cream-colour'd horses his Majesty drew, 'Twould have done your old heart good to see 3 His trousers were white, and his jacket was blue, And he look'd as if saying—" Lads, how do you do " King William the tar—that's me." PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCS. Since the arrival of the 93d Regiment in Glasgow, there have been married 4117 privates, four sergeants, and seven nor. }orals ! Last week, six acres and a half of Talavera wheat, pro ducing eleven coombs per acre, were reaped, thrashed, sold, and carted from the barn door by the purchaser, at the price of 375. a comb. This great produce was from a farm in the town of Bury. The illustrious Baron Cuvier, one of the profoundest na tural philosophers, and most accurate comparative anatomists of the age, is now a guest at the palace of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Reading boys have presented their old preceptor, Dr. Valpy, with a silver tureen and two superb waiters, the former after the celebrated "Warwick Vase." Baron Bolland penned an appre priate inscription. Doc Fisu.—This voracious pest of our herring rivers is in great abundance in the Firth at present. On Monday evening two gentlemen caught 23 dozen and 7 off the Martello Tower, in two hone and a half. The new herrings must be suffering dreadfully from this prowler of the deep.—Seotmean. Warwick races are become an object of interest and impor tance to a vast number of the first sporting characters in the country, who are connected, in some way or other, with their result : four races on the first ; five races and a match on the second ; and four races on the third day. Sir John Gerrard will succeed Lord Anson in his hunt • and it is expected that the Dunchurch and other covers will be hunted as formerly. The Sheffield Courant says, that a Railway between that town and Manchester is likely to be carried into effect. Mr. Stevenson has madea very favourable report, and preparations are in progress for an application to Parliament in the ensuing session. REDUCTION IN ALE.—The goods effects of the new Beer Bill are speedily coming into operation in this city, as we find, from a notice in the window of a tavern, that good ale is selling at three. pence a quart—just half the old price.--Cormatrp Herald. POTATOES.—Tuesday last a root of 40 extremely fine potatoes was dug up in the garden of Mr. Wall, of Allesley, near Co. 'entry. ILLEGAL G•MING.—The magistrates of the borough at Doncaster have determined to suppress illegal gaming at the races, and to enforce the penalty of two hundred pounds against those who vi. olate the statute by keeping any house for the playing of any proM. bited game.—Doncaster Gazette. The directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad pertormed a journey from Liverpool to Manchester on Saturday after noon. There were three locomotive steam engines, with • long train of carriages, in which were between 200 and 300 ladies and gentlemen. The distance between Liverpool and Manchester was traversed in two hours and five minutes; but, in consequence of an accident happening to the boiler of one of the engines, the journey from Manchester to Liverpool occupied two hours and forty minutes. A remarkable change in the usual flowing of the tide took pl tee in the Severn, at Bristol. on Friday. Instead of high water being at 53 minutes after twelve, which according to the calculations of the tide table, was expected to have been the case, the tide flowed only till ten minutes before twelve, and then began to ebb, causing a ve nation of an hour and eight minutes. About threeyears ago an irregu larity of the same kind was observed in this port and other places, which was ultimately traced to an earthquake in the Peninsula. It is not un likely that the present variation in the tide has been caused by some dis organization remote front our shores..—Bath Journal. THE KING AND THE BUTTON MANUFACTURERS.— On Thurday week the Birmingham outton-makers presented to their Majesties various rats of plain, gilt, and plated buttons, enclosed in mo rocco cases, and the royal arms embossed in gold thereon, and at the same time a petition to his Majesty, complaining of distress, and be seeching him to patronise the Metal Button Trade, to induce the fashion able world to follow his Majesty's example. His Majesty said he ad. mired the fashion of gilt and plated buttons, and always wore them him self when out of mourning. An answer was sent the next day to the petition, which intimated, that after the mourning was over his Majesty would comply with the request of the petitioners. The Queen also ex pressed her determination, in a letter transmitted by her Secretary, to give the button-makers the benefit of her patronage. The five incendiaries from Kenn, in this county, lately convicted at our Assiaes, are, we understand, to be bung on Wednesday next. Both at the trial and since, the culprits bare betrayed the most hardened indifference, and are appare sly quite unmoved at the pros. pect-of their approaching fate ath Herald. MR. ST. JOHN LONG IN CUSTODY, AND BAILED. Saturday, this individual, for whose apprehension a warrant eau di rected to be issued, but which, from some cause, was not executed, the foreman of the jury, in consequence, on Friday morning, addressed the following letter to the coroner, Thomas Stirling, Esq. upon the sub ject : " Sir,—The jury not having yet been informal of the warrant for the apprehension of John St. John Long having been issued, claim from the corona the immediate issue of that warrant, and beg respect hilly to request from the coroner the reason for the which has taken place. I am, Sir, your's, very "To T. Stirling, Esq." BEN. ALTAR.* In the course of the day, the coroner returned an answer to the letter, in which he stated that the warrant for the apprehension of the person, who stood committed by their verdict, had been issued, and placed in the hands of Copes, the beadle, who, upon receiving it, endeavoured to execute it, but without effect. Mr. Long, on Wednesday evening, ac e by Mr. Carlow. his solicitor , who conducted his defence, ' proceeded to Hendon, the residence of Lord Tenterden, for the purpose of making such affidavits as were necessary to ground an application to his lordship to have a writ of certiorari issued, and to be directed to the coroner to bring the proceedings taken at the inquest before his lordship. Owing to the affidavits not stating Mr. Long to be in custody, his lordship declined to act. The requisite alteration was made, and a writ of habeas corpus directed to be issued to bring the body of the defendant up. Yesterday morning Dr. A. Thompson and one of the jury went to Bow-street office; stated the case to Mr. HALLS, and wished to know whether the delay on the part of the coroner was not illegal, sad whether an application to a judge on the subject ought not to be made? Mr. Hall would say nothing on the present case, but on one of a like des cription he would take that counts. This Dr. Thomson intimated would now be done. At three o'clock, Saturday afternoon, Mr. Long, accompanied by some of his friends in a carriage, proceeded to Hendon, where he surrendered himself w the officer ; the coroner also proceeded to his lordships' residence with the depoeitions taken at the inquest, as well as Dr. Alex. Thomson and Mr. Wakley. After the usual routine had been gone through, the following gentlemen offered themselves as bail, and were accepted t—Thomas Young Ottley, Esq. of Devonshire street ; Hugh Biers, Esq. of Dorset.place ; John Braithwaite, Esq. of Westbourne.green and John Carlow, Esq. of High.street. The ATTORZY-GENZAAL, we hear, has been Invited to conduct the defence, but in consequence of his demand of 300 guineas, with the brief, his services have been declined. POLICE REPORTS. WORIIIIP.ITREETCOMMITIKENT OF • MOTHER TOR CON. CLALING THE BIRTH OF HER CHILD....S•tHiday, MOM Gravat, a tingle woman, residing In Walbrook.place, New North-road, about 34 years of age, wasbrought before Mr. BROUGHTOY by the p arochial authorities of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, charged under thefollowing circumstances : It appeared, that on the 16th of August last the prisoner gave birth to a full-grown male child, unknown to the people of the house in which she lodged, and who were also ignorant of her being in a state of pregnancy. to the birth, the prisoner wrapped the child in a blue apron, and concealed it under the bed. In a few hours a ft er, she ad mitted the facts to a Mrs. Bell, and said that Thomas Powers, who was her sister's husband, was the father of the child. A few days after, a coroner's inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, when, after the exami nation of several witnesses, the jury agreed that " the prisoner was guilty of concealing the bi rth and the death of the child. but had not used violence, and that the concealment arose from the public shame of her brother in law being the father."—The parochial authorities, how. ever, have thought proper to institute a further investigation, and on Saturday—Eliza Bell said, she resided at No. 1, Walbrook-place, New North.road, and that the prisoner lodges in the same house. About three weeks ago, the prisoner (as was usual) came down stairs for a kettle of water fur breakfast. Witness observed, that she looked very ill, when the prisoner replied, she had been at her mother's on the day before, and had eaten herrings, which disagreed with her. In two hours afterwards the prisoner was going out, and witness seing her look so ill, and such an alteration in the of her person, was induced to ask her if she had been delivered The prisoner at first denied; but afterwards admitted the fact, and said her brother-in-law was the father. Witness then sent for the prisoner's mother, and on her going into the room she saw her bring out from under the bed a full-grown male child, folded In a blue apron. Witness saw the child the following morning, in the of the doctor, and she perceived some marks on the neck, as if presen cefiit:d with the nails of the fingers. She also noticed a slight scratch on the nose. The mother of the prisoner went to her daughter's for clothes for the child ; and to questions from the Magistrates, witness said the pri soner had a child seven years old, and was allowed ss. a week for its maintenance by its father, who is a ship-broker, and that she followed the business of shee-binding. J. W. Parkinson said, he was surgeon to the parish of Shoreditch ; on the 15th of August he visited the prisoner's room, and saw the child lying on a nest of drawers ; the child came to its full time, and was born alive ; there were no marks of violence. Mr. Bionomut delivered his sentiments at considerable length upon the law of the case, in which be separated the capital offence from the mtsdemeanor, and said he would send her to trial for the latter charge ; but she was entitled to bail. 44uinVr-Bnua ---- az.Mavatatotriar. Jags.—Saturday, Mr. Ed. ward Arthur, a solicitor, appeared before Mr. MARRIOTT, to answer the complaint of his wife. Mrs. Elisabeth Arthur, an interesting look ing young lady, stated that she resided with her husband, at No. 6, Hendon.street, Vauxhall.road ; but that latterly his conduct towards her had been so bad, that she could bear it no longer, and she went in fear of her life, from his violence. He certainly never beat her, but he was continually in the habit of seising her and pinching her in the most violent manner, until she was black and blue all over, the marks of which she now had about her. _ iii;:liAitazoTTLiedier. if she had not given her husband any provocation ? Mrs. Arthur replied that she had not. The defendant, in reply to the charge, had no excuse to make, and was ordered to find bail, himself in 50L and two sureties in 251. each, to keep the peace- The sureties not being forthcoming, he was taken to prison. LAU3ITN-lITILEI2.—THE SINATUOILD PUBLICAN, RIB Win: AND Mrsvarsa.— Mr. Elliott, the landlord of the Three Pigeons, Stratford-green, who, it may be remembered, had some time sines ap plied for and obtained a warrant at this office, against a manta tailor, , in the Strand, for eloping with his wife, and subsequentlyc a violent assault on him, was brought before Messrs. %Va= WYATT, on Saturday, on a warrant charging him with assaulting Anne Chapman. The complainant, a middle-aged and rather a respectable looking fe. male, commenced her statement by saying that she and Mr. Elliott bad liveitogether for upwards of 14 years as man and wife. It however happened that some two years since Mr. Elliott was sent to the Fleet. prison, and while there an acquaintance was formed between him and a female, also an inmate of the prison, who had two daughters, and the instant be obtained his liberation he married one of the latter and turned her (complainant) adri ft . She nos compelled to go to service, but though she had obtained good sltuationa, the defendant and his wife got her discharged from them, by representing to her employers her former situation in life. At length they prevailed on her to live with them as "bar mad." and in this situation she remained until Tuesday night last, when Mr. Elliott, after violently assaulting her, turned bee out eddeon. — Mr. Elliott, accompanied by his wife (who be alleged on a former day bad eloped,) and several other friends, in his defence said, that themes -1 t bad, on the night in question, kept his child out to a very late boor, on her coming in be checked her for doing so, on which she got into a violent rage, and flew at him, and all he did was merely to prevent ben from 'matching his face.—The complainant denied this, and said that she could show several marks of the severity of the defendant's ill-treatment, if decency permitted it. Besides, the child which Mr. Elliott said was his own, was not so, but one which bad been actually purchased when an infant, and Mrs. Elliot having gone through the mock ceremony of accoucherneat. it was reported that she had given birth to it. This, she said, was done with a view of securing some he reditary property which belonged to the family. After • good deal of crimination and recrimination, during which, however, no reference had been made to the story of the child, the Ma. giatrates ordered the expenses of the warrant to be divided, and dia. missed the complaint. &SOUL/1R COARSE or lloase-rriaLtso.-77sousas Stems, a simple-looking countryman, was brought up in custody of Norris, who charged him with stealing and selling a horse, belonging to Captain Powell, a gentleman residing near Tilbury Fort, Essex. From the statement of the officer, and the housekeeper of Mr. Powell, it appeared that the prisoner had been a servant for many years to that gentleman, but was at length discharged for dishonest practices. Since his as charge he went to the house of his late master, in open day, and took away a horse which he used to drive in • cart, and sold him for 6L The prisoner, in defence, said, that the captain had made him a rp neat of the horse and cart, and therefore he thought he had a right to dispose of them as he thought prerer. The housekeeper admitted that her master was very kind to the prisoner, but denied that he gave him the horse and cart. Mr. Walker thought there was no felony in the case, and therefore discharged the prisoner on his promising to appear at the office on Monday, when Mr. Powell will attend. TURAS, POLICE.—EXTSOORDINARY REvgass or FORTUYS. —Saturday Peter Tales, an elderly man, whose appearance and manner denoted that he bad seen better days, was charged with stealing three pounds of raw sugar from a hogshead on the St. Katharine Dock-quay. Two of the dock officers stated that about twelve o'clock that morning, they saw the prisoner standing alongside a hogshead of raw s ugar, from which be was filling his pockets. A ft er be had dace so, he away, and was going out of the dock gate, when they stopped him, and atipded his coat pockets of the sugar. The prisoner, who covered his face with his hands, and ap to feel acutely the disgraceful situation in which he stood, that urgent distress drove blur to the commission of the theft, and that whea l , he stole the sugar he had not tasted food for 24 hours. Benjamin Blaby, a Thames police officer, stated that ha had known the prisoner many years. He was formerly an extensive ship-owner and merchant, sported a carriage, and kept a large establishment. A ape. culadon in which he was en ma was unsueessaftd, and proved his ruin, and he had lately been reduced to a state or adversity. AIL R. Bagster, the superintendent of Bt . k police, sad the Company bad no wish to prosecute, and produced upwards of 100 duplicates for valuable articles be found upon the prisoner. The defendant said the pledges were the wreck of his property, which he bad pawned to keep life and soul together. At present he had nothing but what be stood upright in. Captain Ricnam.r. and Mr. Bionxitir, the Magistrates, told the prisoner that, as a well-educated man, he mutt have been aware of the consequences clench a theft, and he must not go unpunished. They sentenced him, under the Police Act, to six months' imprisonment, for unlawful possession of the sugar. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, Saturday. Talk not of the luxuries of a Bardanapalus, he was a besotted sen sualist—name not the pomp of a Nero, he wu a compound of vice and effeminacy—cite not the glory of a Cesar, his use of it made him die of a surfeit of cold steel—refer not to the gorgeous splendour of a Diony sius, his very sycophant prayed to be released from such awful happi. ness. In short, if you would picture the acm6 of enjoyment, you must get a well-fed, ignorant, and good-humoured Cockney, and put it in his power to go the circuit of the shows at Bardemy ,fair. His lack-lustre eye rolls from booth to booth, and his countenance is admirably illus. trative of delighted Inanity. The mind has nothing to do in the matter —it is pat excellence, an exclusively animal gratification. What, then, are the attractions which can impart such a degree of temporary bliss to a sight-bunter ? We will explain. A vast concourse of fools, drunkards, pickpockets, and ladies, assemble to jostle and annoy each other, and to throw away their hardly-earned, or suspiciously obtained, money, for the purpose of gazing on monkeys and mountebanks. In at tempting to squeeze through this living mass, a fellow, weighing 18 stone, treads upon your most dearly-cherished corn ; in endeavouring to extricate yourself, your snow.white deeesseies are Improved by coming in contact with a ch imne bags, while a baker gives you the finishing touch, by leaving a portion of the best flour on your bit of black. Bit WelHere be the players ! Gaze on that groupe of thoughtless, undone devils, parading in front of the portable theatre, with all the appliances of spangles and brick-dust. The Harlequin is upwards of sixty years of age; the Juliet is a very amazon; her eyes cutting most suspicious angles, and her breath richly impregnated with Hodges best. Thejtomeo has a most romantic obliquity of vision, and an extensive crop of whiskers s and Holy Friar Lawrence is romping with Lady Ca. pulet behind the curtain. With " even-handed justice" Macbeth is as foully murdered as Duncan ; and Shylock tosses with Cardinal Wolsey foe a rasher of bacon. "For the small charge of three-pence," you see a dramatic exhibition which you cannot witness elsewhere for any sum. Not that the actors are all so despicable. A leading man at Asley's was formerly Richardson's tragedian, and a a-dermal member of the same corps Is engaged for the walking gents at Dristy-lane. This said Richardson is a most eccentric character, and has contrived to pick up a considerable fortune. It is said that his dresses and pro perties are worth 4,5001 and he has the credit of being strictly honest in all his dealings. There are other theatres in the fair; Sam well's, Morgan's, Lams', Brown's, Re ; while Jack Clark hall a circus, where his daughter exhibits her wonderful feats on the tight-rope. Wombwell and Atkins are directly opposite to each other. Both, of course, declare that their collection of animals is the greatest treat in the fair, and they seem to find a good many believers. Con. jurors exhibit their feats of legerdemain to many, who think that they must have dealings with the devil, and to others who are paying more attention to the pockets of their neighbours, and exem plifying a law pleasant sort of sleight of hand. The publicans prove themselves sinners, and get rid of adulterated trash and bad victuals with amazing rapidity—having no remorse of conscience regard ing the effects on their deluded customers. As night approaches, quarrels enliven the scene, and black eyes and bloody noses give an in. teresting east to the human face divine. The wife and the husband evince their conjugal sympathy by getting religiesely drunk together, and the children imitate the worthy example with all filial devotion. They spend during their saturnalia what wield make home comfortable for weeks, and inflict anticipative misery es themselves, for the purpose of a little temporary and swinish gratilkadsu. The Lord Mayor, " dressed in his little brief authority," leplisss these excesses by his fiat, and personally proclaims the revel scum Every denizen should see it once, but he must possess very little senss if be visits it habitu ally. Such is Bartholomew fair—such arc is neseseWs of which it is oomposed—and such a scene commenced as Fdday last. It will termi. nate on Tuesday. Great consternation was speed among the pip who congregate at this scene of fun and folly, by a manaum put into practice by the new police. The city dicers, being nearly all aid bands, an well - known in the /4941. fingered world, and successfully avoided. The uniform worn by the new police is also a signal of danger ; but many of them have laid aside tiseir ap pmbedges, and, mixing with the crowd in plain dresses, have more offenders, the lint day of the fair, than the whole four ys of its continuance usually averaged, while the city Maus have scarcely succeeded at all. The &ism were wholly unpre. pared for this species of attack; and thus, being usable to distinguish between a police constable and another person, am sbn to give up business altogether, or run the risk of putting their Nada into the pockets of the enemy--a mistake which did positively occur in one in. stance !—Sunda, Paper. KENSINGTON ELOPEMENT.—A certain Grey lover is said to mean honourably. It is very consoling to a wealthy father to see his daughter induced to throw herself away on a man thirty or forty years her senior, and then to be told that he who thus clandestinely at. tempts to accomplish his sordid object, means honourably. Report says ber fortune will be withheld, unless the fair one tries her hand at a new elopement...4olday Times. A Besconfield timber merchant was on Thursday doge oat of 121 L by a couple of fiat-catchers, one of whom took a fancy to him in the street. The confederate in the public-house to which he was taken was also so struck by his pretty unsuspecting countenance, that he offend to spend 61. in a treat. The sensible tiaber.merebaat took all this gospel, proved his respectability by showing 6L and even. Cby leaving behind the sum of 1211. AUSE OF THE SUICIDE OF THE DUKE Da BOURBON'. —Some of the Paris Papers say the Duke de Bourbon hanged himself from grief for the death of his son, the Duke d'Enghein ; others, that it was from the excitement produced by the fists revolution. The first is, of course, a joke; and the second is, in all probability, untrue. Be was a man of pleasure, and was accustomed to use extraordinary stimulants that he might extend to age the dissolute pleasures of youth. These are said to have tended, not indirectly,to produce the catastrophe. MR. COBDETT.—The Morning Chronicle represents Mr. Cobbett to have almost lost his faculties. On Monday last be undertook to give a lecture, " the subject of which was to be the effects which the late Revolution In France Is calculated to produce upon the people of England; but (adds the waiter) after the first flee minutes he threw the whole of the French Revolution (with the exception of the tai-coloured riband which he wore in his button.hole) overboard, and talked one of his ordinary Registers full about the curses which the Aristocracy of this country entail upon the community." Thus bad begins, but worse remains behind, for afterwards we find him desaibed to have fully lost both memory and intelligence, and are told, "Mr. Cobbett digressed into the history of the glorious Revolution, and then to the alteration of triennial Parliaments to septennial, which he would have It took place in 1815, theagh he was assured over and over again by better-informed persons, that the year was 1715." NATIONAL DZDTS.—A statement by President Von Malebus of the debts of all the p re n States, 'has been put forth. The glorious pemaninenos of BogLod is most conspicuous. We owl boast of ow no lees than 819,000,0001. The only moderately genteel neighbour we Uve is France, and she cannot lay claim to more than one-fourth of our debt--hers being only 194,400,0001. SIR ANTHONY CADLISLII AND Gaw. BHARPS.TheSS gentlemen have been flatly contradicting each other through the week. The former denies the truth of what was described in the report of the Coronet's inquest to have been sworn to by the latter. The Genteel ' complains of this, and correcting the report in some instances, asserts that statements made by Sir Anthony are untrue. The bandying of contradictions has been seldom equalled, save a. ' except In that con. carted pine in Midas which so fi nely gives forth " You lie, you lie, you lie." BOATSWAIN SMITIL—Mr. Smith (Boatswain Smith, as , he 1$ sometime* called), has published a book in condemnation of the police, for the treatment he has received at their bands, on one or more occasions, when he thought it right to preach at the door of a well -1 known house of fashionable resort in Chandos-street. He has acted throughout with a great deal of resolution, but his taste is very ems nit. To common minds it would seem indecorous to utter a discourse on sacred things where it was likely to be interrupted by the impreca tions of profligate females and their companions, and downright pro taxation to attempt a religious sermon in a fair, where a call to the hear ers to seek Heaven might be followed by the cry of " Shew 'em tin, 'hew 'cm up," and the pious exclamation of " Glory to the Lamb," succeeded by an invitation to see the ram with two heads, or the horned tkff I On Saturday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, as Mr. James Munro, coal-merchant, of Selbridge-terrace. Kensin gto n, was driving his gig towards town, accompanied by his wife, the horse bum= restive; and on Mr. Munro using the whip rather smartly, the animal set of as a fusions gallop, but had not proceeded above twenty Etrd i s 4. lLltni it stumbled, and was thrown with great violence on its side both the shafts in its fall. Mr. and Mrs. Munro were preci:i 7tt - e7 a= the rood, and we regret to state that Mrs. hlunro broke bock the bases of her right arm below the elbow, and Mr. Munro re. ceived a severe cut and contusion on the right temple, which it is feared has produced a catenation of the brain. He was taken up in a sweet insensibility, and on medical insistence being procured, It was deemed necessary to convey Wen to the nearest hospital. SCINTILLA. GA LLANTRY.--QUiti being asked by a lady why it was reported there were more women than men, be replied, " It is in con. Remit) , with the arrangements of nature, Diadem; we always see more of heaven than earth." A LZOAL BULL.—Mr. Sergeant Wilde, at Bri(tol, while very whey on the absurdities of a Polish Jew, repeatedly re. marked on the difficulty of discovering the prisoner's Christi/us nam e . PARENTAL AFFECTION.—James Lane, indicted at th e Lancaster Anises for moldering his own son, by repeatedly heating hi m with sticks and ropes, pleaded guilty of Manslaughter, and was g e n. tented to transportation for life. The brute said, he only beat the boy to et the sulks out of him. TUBICISII CRUELTY.--When his Majesty's ship Rifle man arrived at Malta from Negropont and Napoli di Romania, at Ne. gropont she left a Turkish man of war and two transports, embarlin g the ordnance stores from that Wand. Twelve Greeks' heads adorned the portal of the sulky and bloody-minded Omar Pasha. The day be. fore their arrival he flayed one alive, and on the same morning hanged another ! SOUNDlNos.—Between Gibraltar and Ceuta, Captain Smyth sounded to the extraordinary depth of 260 fathoms, where found a gravelly:bottom, with fragments of shells! ACCOMMODATION.III Ireland, at the election of 18'26. a challenge having passed between two of the candidates, the Shetiff , with genuine Milesian courtesy and gentlemanly feeling, adjourned t h e election to enable the candidates to settle the &Stir. We are not vit t sure that the Sheriff did not second one of the candidates; but the dad was fought, and, neither party having been wounded, the business of ,h. . election was resumed as if nothing out of the usual way had *pellet:. PHOSPHATE OF QUINIA.—This new preparation of qi nia, when rendered slightly acid, is a much milder medicine than tie sulphate, or the free alkalL It is better retained on the stomach whe re irritation exists, or by nervous patients. Its use does not occasion th at unpleasant feeling which is sometimes produced after taking the hut. phase ; it does not so readily accelerate the motions of the heart, does it irritate the lungs. It should be administered in pills of from o e to four grains.—Belletin Universe& THE POPE AND THE Ex-KING.—The French prelates wrote to the Pope urging upon him the absolute necessity of interfering to induce the King to put a check upon the liberty of the press in Fran*. With a view to place in a conspicuous li g h t the claims of Charles X. upon the church, they gave a list of the donations and legacies made to the church during the short reign of Charles (of five years), which amounted to a sum ,A . 30,000,900 francs ; whereas in the whole nine years of the reign of Louis XVIII use legacies and donations amountel so only 12,000,000, and in the thirteen yet.rs of the Imperial government to only 2,000,000. iThe Pope resisted, for some time, :hese solicitations of the French prelates to urge upon the King a measure of rigour against the press ; and that at length, on yielding. he said to the Cardinal Albani, " May GOD avert from me the evil that may arise out of thi: measure !" Quiw, in his old age, every one knows, became a great gourmsnd, and, among other things, invented a composition, which he called his " Siamese soup," pretending that Its Ingredients were prin. cipally from the " east." The peculiarity of its flavour became the topic of the day. The " rage "at Bath was Mr. Quin's soup ; hut, as he would not pert with the recipe, this state of notice was highly incon. venient ; every person of taste was endeavouring to dine with him; every dinner he was at, on apology was made for the absence of the " Siamese soup." His female friends Quin was forced to put off with promises ; the males received a respectful but manly denial. A con. spimey was accordingly projected by a dozen bona oioans of Bath, against his peace and comfort. At home he was Sooded with anonymous letters; abroad beset with applications under every form. The posses. sloe of this secret was made a canker to all his enjoyments. At length be discovered the design, and determined •on revenge. Collecting the names of the principal confederates, he invited them to dinner, promis. log to give them the recipe before they departed—an invitation which wee joyfully accepted. Quin then gave a pair of old boots to the house. maid to scour and soak, and, when sufficiently seasoned, to chop up into tine particles, like minced meat. On the appointed day, he took these particles, and pouring them into a copper pot, with sage, onions, spice, ham, wine, water, and other ingredients, composed a mixture or about two (gallons, which wu saved up at his table as his " Siamese soup." The company were in transports at its favour; but Quin, pleading a cold, did not taste it. A pleasant evening was spent, and when the hour of departure arrived, each person pulled out his tablets to write down the recipe. Quin now pretended that he had forgot making the promise ; but his guests were not to be put off, and, closing the door, they told him in plain terms that neither he nor they should quit the room till this pledge should have been redeemed. Quin stammered and evaded, and kept them from the point as long as possible ; but when their patience was beating down all bounds, his reluctance gave way. " Well, then, gentlemen," said he, "in the fiat place, take an old pair of boots !" " What an old pair of boots " ' " The older the batter;" (they stared at each other)—" cut off their taps and soles, and soak them in a tub of water I—(they hesitated)— chop them into fins particles, and pour them into a pot with two gal. less and a half of water." Why, Quin," they simultaneously ex. claimed, "you don't mean to say that the soup we've been drinking was made of old boots r " I do, gentlemen," he replied, " my cook will assure you she chopped them up." They reqUlred no such attes tation ' • his cool, infiexillsb• expeenfon was su ffi cient z in an instant horror and despair were depicted, on each countenance, in the conviction they were individually poisoned. Quin, observing this, begged them sot to be alarmed, since he could contemplate no dangerous result from their dinner ; but if they thought It would sit uneasy on their stomachs, there was an apothecary's shop in the next street the hint was taken : an idea of personal safety subdued the rising throbs of indignation. Seizing their hats, away flew the whole bevy down the stairs, and along the street to the place advised, where ipeeacuanha and other provocatives were speedily pocured, and the " Siamese soup" (and all its concomitants) were spy diagoiged.—Bernard'sfietrospectdate Stag& A GALLANT TR•NSLATOlt.—Anthony Wydeville, Earl Rivers, in the reign of Edward the Fourth, was considered the most ac complished cavalier of his day. Sailing into Spain, and " layckyng syght of all Wades," he whiled away the time by translating into Eng -1111 a small treatise, lent him for the nonce by "a worshipful' ;gently. ,man called Lowys de Bretaylles." This work is entitled, "The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. translated out of the latyn into Prenche by a worshipful toan called Alessire Jehan de Teonville, Pro. vat of Paris." The gallantry of the noble author, however, is CO3. spicuous in his omitting to translate a part of it, because it contained sarcasms of Socrates against the fair sex. This book is supposed to be the second ever printed in England by Caxton, who seems to have felt none of his Lor dsh ip's scruples, for he did not hesitate to translate the satirical parts himmlf, and add them to the performance, not certainly without an ap ology . for the liberty. A highly interesting account of Lord Rivers' (then Lord Scales) celebrated "Passage of Arms at Smithfield," with the "Bastard of Burgundy," is given in the second part of the " Excerpts Histories," just published, taken from a MOD pair in the Arundel collection, preserved at the Herald's College. TRUTH FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.—Mr. Temple, the author of two volumes of Travels in Peru, recently published in London, tells this story of a shark and a Yankee:—" Several years ago, in the West Indies, a British ship of war fell in with an Americ..n merchant vessel, which, from circumstances, was generally supposed to be a good and lawful prize • but no papers being found on board to condemn the vessel, and he r Captain swearing that all was correct, the British Captain, af teri the detention of a day or two, was induced to re linquish his capture. Shortly after this—l forget the precise specs of time—a shark was caught by another British ship of war on the same station, and in cutting it up—a delightful operation seldom ornitteti...:, tin ease, containing sundry papers, was found in its stomach. They proved to have belonged to the merchant vessel abovementioned, and had been thrown overboard by the Captain when about to be examined by the British cruiser. The fact was soon discovered ; the papers wee taken se Port Royal, where the American Captain had actually cos, mewed an action for damages against the British Captain for unlawful leotnenthantion: whose sh ta ip ble: as w conde ere immediately " iate a ly good tur a t k on wful the r tt e o . nbti shark was one of the largat size, and the jaws are preserved to Ibis day in the Justice-ball at Spanish Town, to the annoyance of many aYankee Captain, who, when swearing about the destination of his ship and the correctness of his papers, is reminded of this extraordinary detection. t'y some one in coon significantly pointing to the jaws of the shark, axle saying—" Take care, the truth will out though fr om the bottom of th e sea." I have heard this story corrobora ted by several persons, and very lately by an officer who was acquainted with the commander of the ship, on board which the shark that had swallowed the timbox en' taken."—New York Clsr. Adv. MARRIED. The 2d inst. at Moreton Say, Salop, T. 011irant, Esq. of Mucha ter, to Margery, youngest daughter of the late W. Minor, Esq. of Ma ley Brow, near Market Drayton...She 2d inst. at St. George's, RIC'S" gate, J. Sikes, Esq. of Sudbury, Suffolk, to Mary, only daughter cf S. Churchill, Esq. of Hitchin, Herts.—The 26th ult. at St. Andr ew* Church, Plymouth. the Rev. T. Littleton Wheeler. M.A. Scholar Worcester College on Sir 'l'. Cooke 'it Foundation, to Ross Emu" - Lockyer, daughter of the late E. Lockyer, M.D. DIED. The let inst. at Lewes, Sussex, Fanny Anne, the eldest daughter of G. P. Parkin, E .of Weelwich.—A few days since, at the VloctogL. Warden, Bedtoedshire, Emily, second daughter of the Rev. F. H. Ne ve s Y. A. of Mama Collage , Oxford . — Rey. J . Thomas, of 111° New Chat =lmo—Rev y . T. Wilson, Vier of 'i ns tead, Kent—Rev. . M. hessel Rectos of Monigesnery.—Rer. A. Bird, of Purist Cambridge.—Rey. J. loam, M.A. Rector of Llangyn befid, At Llandegley, Radnorshire. the Rev. B. Sco tt, Vicar of mid Prior's Salford - , Warwickshire. Lo I DON t Rioted sad rublisbed by Joau blaYsti al the 5 " & " Omen, 170. 1, Pickatislose, Temp/one