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El ■ • '.ti.~:. -., =~ _s`~ , ~ , ", LA 17 INTELLIGENCE. GEORGE COLMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS OF GARRICK AS AN ACTOR. My fullest recollections of him, as a performer, are in the characters of Abel Drugget, Benedict, Don Fe fix, Lasignan, and Richard the Third. An actor an per-eminent in such difficult characters (to say nothing of Hamlet, Ledr, Kitely, Ranger, - and various others), must have possessed most extraordinarx powers of the very highest order •, and I shall remember him in them ' while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe.'— Ile did not quit the stage till I was nearly fourteen; and I have shown how well I mast have been acquainted with his featnres, hie manners, and his quirks and turns, in private life, which made me more particularly into. rested in observing him, when I had opportunities of ob serving him in public. I may venture, therefore, an opinion (if my opinion be worth anything), formed upon juvenile reminiscence. I have only, however, to repeat what others have said a thousand times, that Take him for all in all. • I ne'er shall look upon his like again. I have mentioned the uncommon brilliancy of his eye; but he had the art of completely quenching its fire ; is in his acting Sir Anthony Branville, a dramatic personage . who talks passionately with the greatest sangfroid, and whose language, op to his temperature, breathes lame like Hecla in rce sed land. In this part, I have been told, he made the twin stars which nature had stack in his head look as dull as two coddled gooseberries.* But his Deaf Man's eye (of which I once witnessed a speci men at Hampton) evinced his minuteness of observation and gift of execution. There is an expression in the eye of deaf personsil mean of such as have not lost all perception of sound), which, difficult as it may be to exhibit in mimicry, it is still more difficult to define in writing; it consists of a mixture of dulness and vivacity in the organs of vision indicating a desire to hear all, with a pretending to hear more than is actually heard, and a disappointment in hay ing lost much ; an embarrassed look, between intelligence and something approaching to stupidity ; all this he con veyed admirably; and if I could convey it in words one tithe as well, I should have made myself more intelligible. On the whole, with all his superior art in pnurtraying nature, it is to be lamented that he outraged her in one , character, and that was his own ; he over acted the part of Garrick; and it was very bad taste In him to be always performing himself upon a carpet, as if he had been a fictitious personage on the boards ; he converted his com panions into critics in the pit ; practised clap-traps upon them ; and the row of lamps in front of the proscenium was eternally under his nose.—Random Records. • This character was not, I believe. generally understood, though we are led to think otherwise by the Biographies Dransativa. Vide this work under the article of The Discovery, a Comedy, by Mrs. Frances Sheridan. COURT OF CHANCERY. MAicu 24. COOPER V. WILLY _ The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that in this case a motion had been made some time ago for a receiver. The ease was of a novel nature. The individual who held the office of asaistant • tart' counsel, at a salary of 6001. a-year, had assigned tfft il =y over to trustees, for the purpose of paying certain debts, and the application to the court was, under these circumstances, for the ap pointment ors receiver of this 6001. a-year. The office of assistant parliamentary counsel was not, properly speaking, an office. A gentleman wu appointed to give advice as assistant parliamentary counsel to the lords of the treasury on certain matters, for which he was paid a sum of 6001. a-year; but he was liable to be discharged at any moment, and the salary was piid out of fees. There was no permanent fund out of which it was payable. Parliament voted an. nually a certain sum applicable to legal services rendered to the' lords of the treasury • and they allowed 6001. a-year to the indivi dual who sustained ;he character la question . No action amid be maintained against the lords of the treasury, nor any suit in re sect of the same; therefore it was impossible for the court to ap .point the receiver as prayed. Were a receiver appointed the court felt perfectly satisfied that the lords of the treasury would not pay the money to him, but to the lndvidual whom they employed. TEMBILIL V. 11101IC4SWE =EAT REGXOI4. A gentleman behind the bar obtained leave to give notice of a motion for Saturday next, to discharge a writ of t le meat regno granted es-parse against the defendant by his lordship on the appli. cation of th e plaintiff. IV RE PEMBERTON, • lI•XIRETTr-CONXITXZWT TO YZWO•T Z. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied for the discharge of George Ellis, who had been committed to Newgate by the 14th Hit of corn enissioners for not satisfactorily answering questions put to him by the commissioner• respecting alleged concealment of the bankrupts' property. The witness had been a shopman to the bankrupt, who carried on the bushman; of a linen-draper; he had left that situ. ation two years and a half ago, and entered into the same line of business for himself; at the end of twelve months he became a bankrupt, and subsequently went to assist his sister in keeping the Eight Belle public-house at Fulham. Some of the goods of Pem berton had been sent (including an old horse and cart) to the pri- Purer, who bad prevaricated very much rapes respecting the nature and possession of them. The solidus admitted that the that examination could not reasonably have been considered satisfactory, but that on the whole the ultimate examination ought, and which be submitted to the eoutt. Mr. WAKEFIELD was on the same side. The LORD CHANCILLOR considered, without bearing counsel on the other side, that it was impossible to suppose that the pris loner did not know much more about the transactions than he had .slisclosed. lie had pursued, from beginning to end, a series of falsehoods, out of which, from time to time, he had been driven. The commissioners had done just what he elite led Chancellor) would have done ; and the priaoner ought to be kept in prison until be.bad given more information than he had yet done. Remanded, with a recommendation to the commissioners to give Win an opportunity of appearing before them moon again. RROONDARIES' OFFICE, COLENAW.ITRIET, lilmicu 24. LE PRINCE V. THIIILICRIZ. This was a writ of inquiry for the assessment of damages In a case in which the plaintiffsought the sum of WO!. for the tuition of the defendant's children. The defendant had been discharged under the insolvent act, and this action was brought in order to make good a claim upon his pension as one of the mowers of Sandhurst college. WALLiturrow was for the plaintiff. The account had been conning for a long time, and could be proved to be a most reason. .able one, being at the rate of about a franc and a half an hour for .Instruction in Latin, Greek, and mathematics. There was no written contract hi evidence, but there were several letters from the defen. slant, expressing great satisfaction at the progress of his children, and proving clearly the claim of the tutor to liberal remuneration for services rendered by him to the defendant's children, fur a period of time extending from 1820 to 1828. Monsieur Philip Francois Nelletnent, Vice-Consul of France in Landon, proved the hand-writing of the defendaht in the letters. which praised the exertions and talents of the plaintiff. Manakin' Pierre Francois Merle. professor of French in the Uni. Testily of London, proved that the charges of the plaintiff were moderate. • Dr. C. Hodgskin deposed, that the charge was most reasonable. Me had studied in Paris, and be paid more for tuition than the de fondant had charged. Mr. Coots was for the defence. The demand of one farthing would appear to the jury to be a most extraordinary one, when they should hear the account he had to Five of the facts. The plaintiff had undertaken, from motives of affection to the children of the de. Madam, in the first instance to educate them, and afterwards he had accepted a sat at the dining table as a recompense for the services he rendered. The whole of the account had been settled in France, where M. Le Prince lived on the most intimate terms with, and at the expense of, the family ; and it was particularly ungracious in him to appeal to a °nun, of justice under such circumstances, and when his friend was in palpable difficulties. The jury would, no thnobt, distinguish this cause, by giving the smallest possible demo. thination of damages. Ladislaus Iffdllerie, son of the defendant. deposed, that the plain. toff inetrected him and his brother, in 1820 and 1821, at Versailles, wbo was in very delicate health There they. lived with their mother, and embarrassed circurnstanca. The plaintiff said to him at one thate,.when reproaching him with inattention, " Hew ungrateful yon are not to mind what I say when you know am sacrificing my time without remuneration to you." II itnese's mother died in April, WM and in Nay his father arrived at Versailles. The plaintiff was writing down a list of hit father's creditors, and the defendant 'desired the plaintiff to pay himself same money which had been borrowed from him, and. if any thing was due foe instruction to wit. nese and his brother he (plaintiff) should be paid by instalments with the rest of the aeditots. At hearing this the plaintiff ap. peered quite shocked, and declared that an lts bed done had been done from a motive of serving them, and was quite disinterested. The defendant then put a gold watch and chain into the plaintiff's hand, and said, " Dear Le Prince, allow me to offer you the only article of value that reuudna of her we ham lost ;" upon which the plaintiff sprang up, embraced him and his brother, and said he :would not accept of any thing except a few trifles of their mother's. (Here a letter was read which witness raid was in the plaintiff's hand-writing. It stated that all he had done was done without the .remotest desire of a return.) Plaintiff dined with the family con stantly. Cross-examined—The plaintiff attended his brother from 1820 till 11126. Witness's instructions were not so regular. Ho learned mathematics and spherical trigonometry. After some further evidence of minor importance, Mr. WALLINGTON addressed the jury. He ridiculed the idea of a tutor's giving up hie time for six years, in consequence of the violence of his attachment to two strangers, foe nothing. This was too strange a story for Englishmen to believe, whatever credit the French might consider it entitled to. The use of the table was, next to the attachment, an odd sort of remuneration. As for the circumstance of the watch, and the language used on that occasion, was it because he had the delicacy not to make a demand of a debt • while the corpse of his debtor's wife was in the house that he ins to be considered as having thrust away his claim ? The fact was clear that the plaintiff expected either money or a si tuation through the interest of the defendant, and not having ob. tamed the latter* he naturally sought the formes for his six years' service. Mr. POTTIM the under secondary, lusting My clearly and itn. partiall summed up, The Jury awl the damages at One Farthing. LENT ASSIZES. SUSSICX ASSIZEIS.- - 17 - IHSHAM, MARCH 24. _ _ roar-orricz 10111ZRY. _ Join Haden, a schoolmaster, stood charged under the Post-dies Act with secreting a letter, containing a 101. Bank of England note, the of Samuel John Williams. r. Hunwsi and the Hon. Me. Law appeared for the prosecu. ties, and Mr. CLAMMY for the defence. Mr. Jobe Redfer, the Brighton Postmaster, proved that the pri- Pfeet was in his employ on the 24th September last. It was the duty of the prisoner to receive and give out letters at the post-office window. Prisoner left the post-office service on the 26th of Septem. ben ; he did not leave on account of misconduct. The prosecutor stated that he was at Brighton on the 24th of September last, and wishing to send a remittance to his wife, he enclosed a Bank of England note, No. 8489, for 101. in a letter which he took tQ. the post.office. The prisoner took the letter in at the posuotke, and was informed by prosseutor that it contained a 101. note. The prisoner said be did not think it could be received as a cash letter. Witness then desired that be would Rive him the letter back in order that he might put a shilling I rate it and thereby make It a money letter. Prisoner afterwards looked into the letter, and said it was "all right." Witness then paid the postage of the letter and it was marked with the letter P. (The note was here ptoduced sad identified by the prosecutor.) made up a clerk in the post-office, Brighton, proved that be made up the London bag on the 24th September ; there was no money letter for a Mrs. Williams entered on the bill. Cross-examined.—if a letter marked" cash" is found to contain a 101. note, then it is put up with the other double letters. Witness cannot in that ease say wnether a letter was sent to London or not. There have been three or four disturbances on the subject of money at the Brighton post-office; a clerk in the office was found to bel 201. short in his account. David King, of Brighton, stated that he was at the King sad Queen public-house, Brighton, on the evening of the 24th of Sep tember. Prisoner came in and asked the landlord to change him a 101. note for Mr. Harris. On being required to endorse the note he wrote the name of Harris, and added the initials J. H. Witness identified the note. Hauge Ruthven, a Bow-street officer, said he apprehended the prisoner at Dover on the 25th February last ; the Osoner was in a boat just landing from the French mail packet. This witness underwent a severe crose-esamination by Mr. Ctanesorr. He admitted having written a letter to the prisoner in an assumed name, to procure his return to England. The prisoner, in his defence, said he gave a Mr. Harris change foe the note in question, at the post-office; and in order to prevent any blame falling on him for so doing (it being contrary to the post.olliqe regulations), he had taken the earliest opportunity *- change doe note again, and replace the money in the post.offiat dli. He dented having received any letter from Mr. Williams on the Setttember. • Seven 4 ihntiedis give the prisoner a good character foe ho. natty: itlinit deo stated that he had a wife and six children to suppoet. The Jury hand the prisoner Guilty, and sentence of death was recorded. • Riatard Measor was capitally indicted for stealing thirty gold, silver, and metal watches, seven gold seals, and other property, to the value of 1301. from the shop of his master, R. M. Lashmore, of Brighton. The prisoner was found Guilty, and the Judge ordered sentence of death to be recorded. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 24, Mike Powell, a dairyman, late of Bennington, was opposed by Mr. COOKE on behalf of a creditor named Bigg s . It appeared that the insolvent, while labouring under embarrass. meets, in October last, gave his sister.in-law, Mrs. Fisher a war. rant of attorney for money which he bad lon g previously borrowed of her. Under that warrant of attorney Mrs. Fisher took possession of all the insolvent's cows, household furniture, &c. but for the purpose of enabling the insolvent's wife and children to support themselves (the insolvent himself being in prison), she allowed the cows, furniture, &c. to remain on the premises, and to permit the business to be carried on. However, during the insolvent's impel. sonment, all the property was gradually disposed of, and nothing now remained for any of the other creditors, some of those cows; so disposed of, having ban supplied to the insolvent by the present opposing creditor. Mr. Woonnorra, for the insolvent. submitted that nothhig had been substantiated to warrant a remand ; that the power ot attorney was given for a bona fide debt of 1401. and that Mrs. Fisher's permitting the property to remain for a time upon the premises, was merely an act of kindness, and to enable her sister to provide for her family. On behalf of the opposing creditor the Court were prayed to dismiss the petition, the circumstances under which the warrant of attorney was given having been omitted from the in eolvent's pe. tition ; at all events, it was a clear fraudulent disposition of party, to a very considerable amount, at a time when he was in a state of insolvency. Mr. Commissioner LAW observed, that he bad no doubt that Mrs. Fisher thought she was only doing dist in which she was jus tified, for the purpose of securing her own debt; at the same time, as far as the insolvent was concerned, he had no right, at that par. Sailer time, to do an act which gave all his property to one partial. Jar creditor, excluding the general body of creditors from any pard. cipstion in the property. It was a clear case of an undoeprefessnee, and therefore the judgment of the Court was, that the insolvent be remanded for a paled of seven calendar months from the date et tiling his petition. Jacob /friseerd Joseph was opposed by a creditor in person, named' David levy. After the examination of the insolvent had concluded, Mr. Commissioner Law said, there was a number of small mat. tens in this insolvent's case, which placed him in a situation much to bis discredit. His property was but small, and his dealings were but on a small scale; but it appeared that he had paid a sum of money shortly before going to prison which ought to have been paid into Court for his creditors generally. The judgment of the Court was, that he be remanded for a period of four calendar months gem the date of filing his petition. William Read, a tally-man in the linen-drapery line. was op po.. by Mr. Nicsior.t.s, on behalf of Mr. Simpson, and Messrs. Buuerworth and Brooks. The insolvent stated that his debts exceeded 460!., and there was owing 1,04 W. from no fewer than 948 persons. He was a licensed hawker, and used to sell his goods about the country. receiving his payments by weekly instalments. lie went to prison on the 30th of January, a short time before which he delegated a person named Nivea to go round and collect his weekly payments. He knew that Niven had received various sums, but he never inquired how much, because he understood it was unlawful for him (insolvent) to receive any of his debts after he had eone to prison, cense greatly he bad received nothing from Nivea. The insolvent said, he recollected when a brother tallyman, named Irving, was examined in this Court on his petition, in February last, on which occasion this insolvent was brought up from prison to be examined as a witness. He denied that on that occasion he said all the fur. 'dwelt) his house was his own; indeed, he could not say so, be. Cause it belonged to Ur. 31`Duff, who bad previously compromised with his eredilort. lie admitted that he had frequently represented all the furniture to be his, but that was false. Several feluales were called who had purchasid pods of the in polvent,tor which they were to pay by weekly instalments. Up to January 11, they paid their instalments to the insole/at, wed ever since then they had paid them to a person named Niven. J a m es Simpson. the opposin k creditor. stated, that the insolvent owed him OW. for debts which he had guaranteed fur the insol- Tem. In January, he 'fished the insolvent to sedge all his fur. Mime (which he always repratented as his owh) sod his book debts, for the benefit of his mallows genandly the ineuhant refused, and stated then, faith*. fuse dine, that the furniture was not his, having sold it to broker. As he refused to make an assignment, the witness enema.' indolvent, and on the follairing day he saw a cart.leod of imeaftute taken from the insolvent's home to the red. dame of Mr. almiseen, No. 980, Regentameet, whose daughter was Irving's sweetheart. Cross.examinei by Mr. Comm.—The insolvent had bought all the witness's boskAshOssfor OIL In October, 1828 t witness had previously height: its iselrent's book.debts. When he wished the insolvent m assign ell his property, it was he the purpose of dividing it arum the creditors, though he admitted that there were many credit m whom he hid not previously consulted. James Niven stated, that since the insolvent's imprisonment he had received on his account various instalments from diferent per. sons to the amount of • 41.• 4s. 6d., which he now handed in to the court. Other evidence was mil, and the ease was ordered to stand ad. jaunted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. OUILDHALL. Mr. Stanton and Mr. Sege, two livery-stablo.kespers. attended on summonses for conspiring to defraud Mr. George Salter, of Clap. ham, of a horse, value ISO/. Mr. Salter went to Smithfield last Friday to buy a good chaise. horse, and was recommended to Scott's stables in Jewin.street, where one was shown to him, and he proposed an exchange for one he had at home, which was not high enough for harness, but was worth as much, being an excellent hunter. On Monday complain. ant went there with his horse, and found Mr. Scott just going out, but he add he would be bound by any bargain complainant Amid make with Stanton, who looked like the foreman. Contaminant stipulated that they should try each other's horse, and that &den& ant should warrant his horse sound. Stanton rode the first and complainant then started with the one he was about to purchase, but he found very soon that the animal was a compkterearer, which staggered and foamed so as to excite universal attention. He re turned in a few minutes to Jewin.street, but his horse bad been re moved in the interim, and Mr. Stanton had also deported. He left the roarer, and had not been t: 'le to get his own horse, or the value of it. from either of the defendants. Mr. Butler, for the defendants; said the complainant's proper re. medy in this case was an action of trover. Both parties had been anxious to get the best bargain. Sir Jonx PEaarito, after consulting the chief clerk, said, there had been some chicanery in ,this case, but he could not take it up ss one of felony. Sir. Salter might indict the parties for conspiracy, or bring an action against them, as he should be advised. In retiring Mr. Stanton declared he had proof that there had been a fair " chop," and Mr. Scott, that be had nothing to do with the transaction, but Mr. Salter bad dealt with the owner of the house he bad pluelaised. Mr. Salter assured the parties he would Indict them. BATT( )1 4 1.0A RDEN. Mary Frost, a young woman of respectable appearance, was yes. terday placed at the bar for further examination, before 3lr. &leant Szt.Loor and G. B. Roams, Bag. charged upon sus picion with having administered poison to her child, aged eighteen months. _ _ The circumstances of the case are briefly theses—At the time of the child's birth she lived in the service of a gentleman named Rowe, and the infant was put to nurse with a woman named Clarke, with whom it remained till Thursday afternoon last, when the prisoner took it away, alledging as a reason that she could have it nursed at a cheaper rate. On the same evening she was observed with the child in her arms lying In Tottenham Court.road, intoxicated, and was taken into custody ; but, as the child appeared to be In straw convulsions. it was immediately taken to. Middlesex Hospital, where it expired on Sunday night. An inquest subsequently tat, and the jury, after some consideration, returned a verdict that " Death had been occasioned by a concussion of the brain, caused by a fall." In consequence of the decision of the jury, the prisoner was forthwith discharged. • R , , 7 , WORSHTP.STREET. Fonouit.—Yesterday Jobs Af'Donald, a young man, of re. airectable appearance, was charged before It. E. BROUGHTON, hog. with uttering a check for OW. 10s. purporting to be drawn by Sir John amtwood upon Messrs. Gosling and Sharp, bankers, Fleet-street. John Shaw, 16, Boot.street, Holton, porter, stated that he met the prisoner about a fortnight ago. near Covent.garden, who asked him to take a cheek to blesses. Goslings, and say it was for Sir John's eldest son, and then return with the money to an eating. house.in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden, where he would meet him. He firstAled the witness his name and address, saying, if he was not at the eating-haute be would call on witness for the money. Witness presented the check, and it was stopped. He re. turned to the eating-house, but did not find the prisoner. A few days afterwards he received a letter from the prisoner, requesting whom to pay the amount of the check to the bearer of the letter, and to deduct a half sovereign for his trouble. Witness refused to pay the money to my person but the prisoner, and on Monday last the prisoner crane himself to witness's house, when witness endea voured to keep him in conversation until he sent for seonstabie, but the prisoner suspecting all was not right took to his heels. Wit. nese pursued him, calling out "Stop him !" when he was stopped by one of the new police. Mr. Ewing'', clerk to Messrs. Gosling and Co. said, that Sir John Chetwood kept cash at their house, but the signature to the check produced was not Sir John's handwriting. Sergeant Bedford, letter N. No. 2, said, he searched the primmer, and found a letter addressed to the witness Shaw. 16, Boot.street, Holum, being a copy of the letter alluded to by Shaw t also a part of a catalogue, the other part of which be had torn and given to Shaw to wrap the check in, and which Shaw produced at the sta. tlon.house, and it corresponded. The prisoner first gave his name and address " William Thomas, 47, New Bond.street," but after. wards mid it was " John 111`Donald, at lir. Richattlson's, Oxford. street." He said a man gave him the check to get changed, bet was told that it was not right. ' Ile had not known the man more than two or three days. Mr. Harmer attended for the prisoner, and advised him to offer DO defence at present. He was remanded till Monday next. LAMBETH.STREET. Yesterday a Russian, named Abraham. Neisirow, was brought before Dlr. IlAnDWicw r under the following circumstances —I t ap. peered that the prisoner had gone into a house in Red Lion -street, Whim:hope), about eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, and bolted the door, telling the inhabitants it was all right. They, however, were of a different opinion, and gave him in charge to a policeman. He had been seen about the city during the day behaving in a vio lent and riotous manner. When taken into custody he acted the drunkard. the fool, and the ruffian by turns, and spat in the police. constable's face. _ The prisoner said he had been in England only five days, and be. longed to a ship which is lying in the kunmercial.dock. HARDRICILE ordered the prisoner to be committed to the House of Correction for three months, and directed the inspector of the police to make inquiries respecting him, that he might be sent out of the country as soon as poasible. A curious practice of the Jews, with respect to a certain form of marriage ceremony, Ras detailed in a charge of assault preferred by Rachael Simmonds against Moses Jacobs. The our, as stated be fore the Rev. Mr. MATHIAS by the complainant was that the de. feistiest had come to her house and struck her repeatedly. Rev. Mr. 111wrisims—.What was the cause of his assaultingru ? Complainant—Your Worship, 1 was his wife, but I have divorced myself from him. Rev Mr. Marnras—What divorce, yourself ? Then do you think you are at liberty to marry spin Complainant—Yu. Sir. A person present, in explanation, said the parties, being Jews, had married in the form called Meearlisli—a ceremony which takes place in the presence of two witnesses, and, though binding. yet, upon one of the parties disagreeing. the High Priest had power to divorce them; and this was one of those cases. . . Rev. Mr. ilAterstas —Why, the Jews are in a better situation than us Christians. If I want a divorce. I must apply, like Lord Ellenborough, to the House of Lords ; but the Jews have, it ap pays, a much shorter and leas expetudve mode of settling matters. I don't think they will gain much by emancipation, at least in this particular. Maria Reid war charged by Thomas Swatter with robbing him of the sum of ids. Id. and his pocket-book. Complainant said that he met the prisoner on Tuesday afternoon, whom he knew formerly when she lived at service, and told her that he was very ill and obliged to lean his ship,exid he should be glad to lay down for an hour or two. She told him be might rest comfortably at her house In Slim-gate-fields. and he went with her. In about an hour be was awakened out of his sleep by the prisoner feretting at his pockets. He got up and missed his money and pocket-book, but she denied having taken either. She returned his watch, which he had preyiou i fi l t i len her to take care of. ded the prisoner said she ab.. minded after the robbery w he wok her he searched her, but found aoditag. bow he could convict upon the terms in the act, which mid "put or paint." elielkint wax putting. The informers said that chalk was liable to be washed off, and it was not the inseation of the act that chalking should do. HANDWICKIL said he was not to say what the intentions of parsons were. He must administer the law as it stood, and should decide in favour of the defendant. This le an important decision, as numerous convictions have taken place on that; question. T HA ‘I E&OFFIL S. Yesterday Mass CiiP;irle:aii man, very shabbily drooled, was Mot before Mesas. BALL/amass ind BIODElltr, charged with ha ving committed a very brutal areault upon the per son of Mrs. Elise Wadham, the wife of a respectable tradesman in It appeared the complainant's husband was In the defendant's debt, and the latter called yesterday for his money, and was an. awned by Mrs. Wadham, who requested him to aft again, es her husband was from home. He then made use of the most oppro. brious epitkets towards her. and said be would not stir without his and to pet rid of him she shut the door in his fare. The defendant immediately borsch open. and with a cane struck the defendant over the head. He afterwards threw her across a table. and severely beat her on the bead end should've. Her screams brought the servant and a neighbour to her assistance, together with Mr. Drummond, a constable of Shadwell. Mrs Wadham appeared to have suffixed meagrely. her neck and shoulders being much lacerated. The prisoner, s person of good address, said he was a gentleman by birth and education, and was a coroner of the county of Galway. He had formerly been in affluent circumstances, but was now much reduced. He had been obliged to quit Ireland in consequence of an as of parliament lately paged depriving coroners in Ireland of the power of issuing writs of executions, which they formerly pa. seemed. This act had reduced his income and proved his ruin. IVith respect to the charge alleged against him the defendant, he said, had given the fi rst provocation by shutting the door in his face, an indignity no gentleman would submit to. The defendant here handed the act to the bench, together with other papers, from which it appeared he was in correspondence with many gentlemen in Galway. The magistrates said the aessolt was a very brutal sue, and that they were sarptieed the defendant should have been guilty of such en outrage. They should convict him in 40s. and in default of payment to fourteen days' imprisonment. The coroner of Galway not being prepared to pay the fine, was removed in the custody of the gaoler. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE WITH LOSS OP LIVES. MONTROSE, MAsca 20. On the afternoon of yesterday, a race between a boat belonging to the lilies Swan. whaler, and a pleasure boat, the property of Capt. Bobcat Mammy, took place on the river, which wax attended with most distressing circumstances. In such occasions, which are of rare occurrence her, great mul titudes of people assemble to witness the sport, and on the present occasion a mere than ordinary concourse of spectators were present : the view of the river and boats engaged being quite uninterrupted from the bridge, between SOO and 800 persons of all descriptions took their stations upon it. After the contest was over, and the victory gained by Captain Rainsay's boat, and when the boats were returning down the river, and had just passed under the bridge, the crowd pressed to the side of the bridge next the harbour to nail the victorious boa•, when, melancholy to relate, one of the great sue. pension chains gave way at the top of the north tower, and came down at the lower part of the curve (exactly the centre of the bridge, where the dense part of the crowd were assembled, and where many were leaning over the parapet rail, immediately under the great chain), and one man and two boys were killed on the spot, the immense weight of the chain having fallen upon their heads, which were crushed in a fearful manner. Several other boys have got arms and Ims fractured, and many are slightly bruised and otherwise injured. The noise occasioned by the chain giving way was like the discharge of artillery, and the alarm among the crowd caused an immediate rush to the end of the bridge. It is im. possible to convey any thing like a description of the terror and confusion that now took place. The multitude imagined that the whole fabric was immediately to give way, the rush became so great that the crowd trampled down and trod upon one another, and hats, bonnets, muffs, and reticules, were strewn on the roadway of the bridge, the owners thinking themselves happy to escape with their lives. :that fortunately, the end of the broken chain came into con. tact with, and rested upon the other chain, which runs parallel with it. Had the whole weight of it came down, the consequences would have been most appalling. The accident happened a short time before the arrival of the Mail from the north, and hum the Nate of the bridge, it was het considered safe to allow the mach to pass; the guard carried the bags across the south side of the river, where a post chaise from the south had just arrived, and he proceeded in that conveyance. In consequence of the chain giving way, other parts of the bridge have been much injured, and as it is greatly of the level, hanging to one side, the commissioners have given orders to stop all communications by horses or carrisges: and the alarm Is so great that the foot passengers are afraid to trust themselves on it, and many are ferrying over in boats to-day. Shim writing the above, another boy has died in the hospital from the severe bruises be received under the chain. The above accident is in every view to be lamented ; but we trust it will not tend to shake public confidence in these useful and ele. gent structures. It will be observed from the very distinct account given by our Correspondent, that although the upper chain on one side gave way, and the whole weight was consequently thrown upon the lower chain ' yet it was found sufficient to sustain it : and as Captain Brown is already on the spot. the damage will be repaired with the least possible loss of time. This bridge was pronounced to be one of the handsomest which has been erected in Britain—it was inspected by Mr. Telford, who reported his entire astisfaction with it to the Commissioners who in consequence took it o ff the contractor's hands, and settled with him accordingly. The chains were manufactured at the Chapel Oak factory, near Birmingham.— Ceskdostaa Mercury. It is reported that an autograph letter of Don Pruitt) has within a few days been win to the Sovereigns of the dire. rent Courts of Europe, notifying to them the establishment of the Portuguese Government, under Donna MARIA, at Tereeira, to which Weed the Marquis DR PALMELt.A has lately gone. BIRTHS. At Edinburgh, the Hon. Mn. Ramsay, of Barnton, of a still born child. At Lhtleimod.park, the lion. Mrs. Forbes, of Brun, of a son. Sunday, Lady Antrobus, of a son. Tuesday, In Whitehall.place, Ludy Wetherell, of a son. Mrs. Alurray, of Burton.cresccnt, of a son. Tuesday, at Milan, the lady of K. W. Jennings, Esq. of Doc. tors' Commons, of a son. MAX Hi ED. Tuesday. at St, George's, Hanover-square, Miga Fanny, dough ter of Mr. and Lady Theodosia Bligh, to George, eon of Sir Robert Wigram, of Wexford, Ban. and of Walthamatow-house, Eases. At St. John's, Hackney, John Cooke Price, Esq. of Stamford. MU, to Sophia, eldest daughter of the late Joseph Graves, Esq. of Stoke Newington. At Cneshunt, Herta, Herbert Mayo, EM to Sarah, eldest daugh ter of La. Harman, Esq. of Thcobold's farm. At St. James's, S. H. Sutherland, 1 rq. to Minn Adolphine Both. DIEM. At Calcutta, In the 25th yetr o. his age, Mr. Robert Shins Thomas, eldest son of Provost Thomas, Stirling. In Benue*, of a fever, in his 20th year, Lieut. George Kinloch, of the 71st regt. Bongs/ N. I. At his house, Slade's-place, Deptford. Charles A. Ferguson, Esq. in the 74th year of hip age. Of the scarlet fever. at Everton vicarage, near Bigglepwade, Red+. the Rev. Charles Augustus l)warris, yomigest eon of the late W. Dwatris, Esq. Golden-grove. North side, Jamaica. At East Langdon rectory, the key. Tomas Dolannoy, aged 70. At St. John's, N. B. on Sunday evening, after a severe lingering Illness, Muth Johnston, Esq. in the 74th year of his age. Illr. Johnston was a native of Morayshire, in Scotland, and went abroad in the year 1783. COURSE OF EX( • Amsterdam ...12 s C.F. Ditto at sight —l2 7 Rotterdam... 2 U 12 8 Antwerp .. . ... 12 8 Hamburgh Ul4 3 Altona 21 U 14 3/ Parii,3day's sight 25 80 Ditto ...0 U 26 5 Madrid ..... 351 Cadia ... 36 Barcelona... ..351 Bitboa ... ..356 !HANGS, March 14. Seville ... 351 Gibraltar .. 476 Leghorn ... 471 Genoa ... 26 10 Venice ... 471 Malta Naples Palermo .. ... 1164 per is Lisbon Rio Janeiro .. 221 Dublin Cork PRICRSOF GOLD AND SILVER. ForOr (kid In Bars Sliver, f r bilas — s, — auTad - ird ... .t 527 9_ ... 0 4 if The prionier raid the Tarr ma the money or any Ming else. She was otemnitted for triaL DECTSION.—The informers, Messrs. John and 'Gawp Wise, brought up a tarter far having the niunber en•his pet .wriuen in chalk only. The informer went upon the 18th George 111. by which a penalty of 40s. is Inflicted on persons Winding ',pima the act. Mr. lisanwicatt, upon looking at the act, acid he did not see B c, ri. W *Tinter L4)NDON.BRIDGR TO MOkkOW. 31eniimi 7 mums, atter 1 Afteronna 32 asuleves steer 1 • Loosest : Primed mid Published by Joint NUM. it the 0111111" Ornes No.l. Piekett•pime.Templs au. . _-. ..~~~. lung as MN pucaLcsak. sac F .., up ow au maps M. MUM . , 36 - Rio Janeiro - - liet-book, but she denied having taken either. She returned his Laatz eh, which he had previously her to take care of. B arce l ona _ -331 Dublin ... poliee.cunstable who • dal the prisoner said id she ab. Moo ••• -3 54 Cork • • .. ided after the robbery ; w he took her he searched her, but PIIIICRSOF GOLD AND SILVER. ul nothing. Forties Geld in Bars .95 17 'he prisonet said she never saw the money or any thing else. ilver in•Bn, standard ... 0 4 $ he was committed for triaL INIPOITAUT DECTSIOX.—The informers, Messrs. John And ki 'Gel.l9 *TB& at LONDON.BRIDOR TO MOItBOW. rp Wise, brought up a caner fer haying the nouniter en•hie can 3; o rnan g 7 nsewnw 4 ,„, gee In chalk only. Afterunna 32 wrests sew 1 'he informer went upon the 18th Oconee 111. by which a penalty Os. is Indicted on persona °Minding against the act. Lotman : Printed and Published by Jon, Maror at the *Mb. I:l4llDirtcalt, upon looking at the act, said he did not see Orrsca No.l, Pickett.place,Tentple . _