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LITERATURE. LECTURES DELIVERED IN LONDON. IN 1629. BY E. BIBER, PH. DR. CASE OF A DESTITUTE CHILD. Lt t us fancy ourselves in the condition of a child, born of vicious and criminal parents, in one of those lanes or alleys, in which the physical and the moral atmosphere are equally corrupt. What will be the lot of such a child? The tender and unconscious look of the suckling is never met by an eye, from which it may drink the gladdening rays of love; never does the soothing 'aloe= of parental tenderness calm ite soul in the moment of irritation; the brutal glare of sensual satiety is the loveliest object it ever beholds; the irritations of its nature are many, in consequence of the neglect which it suffers, and which must inevitably be productive both of bodily disease and of mental Indisposition, whilst every manifesta tion of those fretful feelings, which arise from a want of all that Is wholesome to the body and to the soul, is repressed, or rather pro voked at an increased *rate, by rude severity or wild passion. As soon as he is able to use his limbs, he is cast off by the unnatural mother, who hates his existence as an interruption to the fuU in• dulgence of her vicious habits; and a new epoch of his life begins. during which he passes his time chiefly in the streets, with assn' elates more advanced in age, and more tbeply initiated in the Myiteries of sin ; and the filth with which his body is covered, is but a faint analogy to the moral filth, which is thus gathering up in his soul, at that period of life when the mind and feelings of man are first expanding, to receive with . consciousness the im pressions of the surrounding world, and. when, from the suscepti bility of his whole bring, the nature of those impressions is almost finally decisive, at lean for this life, of his character and put suits. The parental influence during that period is almost en tirely confined to daily brutality towards the child, which increase, in proportion as the child acquires more power to provoke and to resist it; and it is but a sad compensation for this habitual bar. barity, that the child is occasloually dragged along by his parent to the public-house, and allowed to partake of that enervating aad brutalizing dram, of which a Christian GOvernment encourages the extensive consumption, bartering away for two millions of revenue the health of a whole population, and the morality, not to say the salvation, of millions of souls. In this manner the child may grow up to the age of seven or eight years, without ever coming into im mediate contact with, or falling under the direct notice of, any one else but the associates of ►is parents and their cffyring ; and if it should so happen, that a parish or police-officer penetrates into that world of misery and vice in which the child live., for the purpose of a seizure, an ejection, or an apprehension; the effect which his appearance will.produce upon the child's imagination, is not calcu lated to impress him with the brter state of that other world, from which he is an emissary, or to awaked in his mind the idea or feeling of any thing more lovely, more benevolent, more holy. A ghastly fear of the delegates of some mysterious power, which is to all that know it, an object of hatred and terror, is the only trace that such an event can leave behind in the' child's heart. Bat• , the time is fast approaching, when he WM have an opportunity afforded him, by his own experience, of conceiving .a more distinct notion of that power. He has now attained sufficient strength of body, and, as a practical consequence of his mod, of education, a sufficient facility of disguise, and rename or lying, to be trusted into the world. The time is come for him when he must earn his own bread, if he have not already been turned to account, by being let on hire to beggars, or sent out on begging errands himself. He is encouraged 'mills first pilfering expedition by his older associates, whose boldness, and good leek, excite at once his admiration, his envy, and his emulation...or, peso baps, introduced in a less buoyant manner to a career, the doff of which is so mournful—he is stimulated by hunger, nakedness, and cold. But whatever the stimulants may be, it would require a prodigy of morality—such as his education can never produce—to resist, not a mere temptation, but a positive impulse to crime. The voice of his Conscience is silent on the occasion; for it has never been called into action, and is, by this time, driven back into the deepest recesses of his heart, and buried under a man of selfishness, love of sin, and evil propensities of every kind; Which have been nurtured op. Thus he commits the first act which enlists him, in the eyes of the world, among the bad characters. Now let us suppose that the -happiest chance—at least what our moralists and legislators • would call so—turns up fir him : he is taught up in the very tact and dragged before a police-office. Imagine a child brought up in the manner.l have described—and how many hundreds of children are trained up in exactly the same situation—entering the date at 'Bow-street', or some other pollee-office of the metropolis; he is pushed to the bar through a crowd of persOns of the lowest charac ter, to whom the daily display of similar immorality is a feast for their : souls. Here there is no expression of sorrow for the pollu thin of so young a mind, of sympathy for the misery which his ap pearance bears witness of, nor that look of souistirring indignation, which.the idea of his transgression might draw forth from the eye even of the benevolent, if forgetting for a moment the unhappy dr- . comstatices of the case. All that he meets with there, is tbe fiend like merriment of the spectators, and the cold forms of the law, with'which he is received by the Magistrate, or his subalterns. He is then examined; witnesses come forward against him, in whose depositions, it may be, be recognizes as much treachery as truth; and he is ultimately committed for trial, or—which will be far less prejudicial so him, because it preserves him from the contamination of the prison—he Is harangued by the Magis trate, and some slight chastisement ordered to be inflicted , en him. Now, suppose the magistrate to be the humanest person that ever sat on the bench—suppose him to be moved by a real feeling of grief at the idea of such early delinquency—what effect can his exhortation produce upon the young thief, to whom, pro bably, even on account of the unusual language, the whole is as un intelligible, as an argument on morality in Chinese might be to any -of us? AU %that he will gather from the transaction is, that the power an the bench is the one which commands over all the others • in the place ; that hi is displeased with what he has done; and that be bas the power of getting those whipped with whom he is displeased. But there is nothing in the most impressive exhorta tion which can be delivered on ;Itch an occasion, under the forms. of law, from a magistrate's bench, that is in any way calculated, to lead the boy to a conviction of the unlawfulness of his act, or that at all opens to him the prospect of a different career, with sufficient inducements to quit the one, to which habit has attached him, for one so new, and so replete with self-denials ; or holds out to him even the bate physical possibility of subsisting in a different One. The only practical inference, therefore, which a boy can draw from this transaction, and the subsequent whipping, is, that it is a bad thing to be discovered in thieving, and that be must be more care ful, in future, in the exercise of his calling. And that this is the inference, which most of the unfortunate children, placed under these circumstances, draw from their first experience of the admi nistration of public justice, is millciesnly proved by the sequel of their history, which is Invariably to be met with in the records Id •riminality. But let ut see the boy again at liberty, after the pub . authorities have performed upon hinsoirhat is deemed their dbty. • change has been produced in his feelings? His evil propas• not been diminished ; it is well if they have not been by the addition of a feeling of revenge. Or, has any been done to enlighten him respecting his condition? All be learnt is, that he was not solkiently Cunning. Or, ue anima improved, temptations removed, _or encourage-, good conduct bell oat? No; he returns exactly to the posideoein which distress, thevientrund of his parents--en • the same means which society uses for the demoostrotion Is called right, in a police emus, or a court of law.-and the ezample of his emaciates, will aids urge him on to t►e commission of trintes. , 'opposite; even that his own inclination I dictate a Seiturary course. The warming he has received has him more cautious, and be may now go on for years, earning his livelihood by the same meene,without being ever caught inflogrand. At last, however, he will be caught up again, and again brought under the influence of social institutions. Let us suppose again the happiest state of things which can be imagined for him, under existing circumstances. Let us suppose, that a feeling of the misery and degradation, which attaches to his mode of living, has occasionally got hold upon his heart; that, by some providential occurrence he has been brought Into contact with in fluences, by which his attention has been directed to the possibility of a better condition, both as regards his moral nature, and bis cir cumstances ; let us suppose that confinement, previously to his final commitment by the magistrate,/ —halyards, to his trial, has abated the buoyancy of his spirits ; that he has become inclined for reflexion, and accessible to the kind exertions of some of those benevolent Christians who visit the prisons, to snake the saving health known, where it is most wanted; suppose all this to have worked together, to bring his soul to a sort of crisis, in which he is ready to throw off the bondage of iniquity, and to begin anew life. Suppose all this to be the case, does the law wait for the develop ment of this crisis, by which a soul may be saved ? No I it cond. nues in its cold, heartless, formal, and rigorous course ; he is brought up for re-examination, or committed, or brought up for trial, not as his state of mind may render advisable, but as the course st the law dictates. Or does the law, and the power that executes the law, take his state of mind into account, when deciding upen his • fate? No I Suppose he confess his guilt, melting in tears of re pentance—suppose he express his willingness, his determination to amend his life—suppose the Magistrate to be moved, and to hesi tate about the course which be is to adopt ; one of the tools of that heartless syetem will step forward—" Don't trust his. promises, your Worship, be is a notorious thief ; young as be la, we know him to be an old practitioner." This testimony, coming frime such I quarter, is sufficient to destroy the last chance that remained for the youth, to turn from his evil ways. He is fully committed; and if his repentance should last till the time of his trial, it will be of no avail. His sorrow for the past, his anxious look out for the future, are not regarded by those who—blasphemously, as they do it in the name of sU that is sacred—presunie to decide what he deserves, and what is to become of him. The circumstantial eel.' dence of the fact is all, that these judges of unrighteous judgment attend to ; and, as if there was no such thing as atonement and mercy, as if they needed it not themselves, nor could imagine that any one else needed it, they pronounce the " sentence of the law" upon the unhappy youth. Such is the spirit of our institutions, that even men, who in private affairs show themselves to be pious, just, and followers after that which is good, nevertheless unhesitatingly join in those, I repeat it, blasphemous, unrighteous, anti-Christian performances. It will be said, mercy may still be extended to him, for there is a difference between pronouncing and executing a sen tence. Be it so ; ibis may alter the case for the social conscience, whom it furnishes with a sophistical excuse ; but it does not alter It, at least not for the better, with regard to the individual, with whose feelings society the" plays, as the cat does with the mouse. The sentence is not pronounced with a view that it should have no effect; and unfortunately, the effect does sot fail to be produced. The repenting sinner has found his fellow-creatures turning a deaf ear upon his repentance, upon his better determinations, and his promises : an unforgiving Mirk has been gown, and the effect of this can be so other than to harden bint. His better feelings are inevitably chilled, and he returns to his prison with feelings voey different from those with which he came to take his trial. The cenaiquence is, that he now prefers the society of his wicked cons• panions to the convention with those, in whom he bed medidelmeo when he felt a favourable change operated in his dispedden, bet whom he now shuns the more, the mote they bad succeeded in ex• ercising influence over him. The exertions of Cluistian Moo are interrupted; the edge of love and truth is blunted; Mt whet a mitigation of punishment is announced to him. be will be. more induced to murmur against what remains of his' sentonnte • end to consider the alleviation of it as a happy escape, that has turned up for him by chance, than, in resigned submission to his fete, to persevere in his good determination, and to torn the time of trial and probation, which is impend upon him, to account tor the improvement of his life. But whilst society, by this unfeeling , cmediect, positively obstructs in him the rise of those feelings, which could bias him to a reformation of his character, it surrounds hint with every Influence that is calculated to foster in him the growth of sin. Prisons, houses of correction, and other similar inalte• dons, are so many collections of moral monstrosities; and the 'contamination and infection among such anumber of bad characters broUght into such close contact, must necessarily be more extensive and more dangerous than that which takes place amongst them when at large; for the restraint by which they are prevented from the outward performance of their evil thoughts, so far from being a . cite& upon evil communicatlin, operates rather as a stimulus to It. So that the youth who enters the place, with a heart disposed foe evil, and, to. a certain degree, familiar with the practice of it, leaves it, at the expiration of the time of his confinement, ten dates mote corrupted, and eager to palate practice the additional know. ledge which he hu gained. His situation is, at the same time, es devoid of all honest resources as ever ; it is not only hopeless. but •desperate. His inevitable fate is a renewed course of immorality; in which be will be ititerrUpted again and again by the arm of human justice; and to what end ?—to save him from destruction? No,, but is avenge More and more cruelly upon him the consequences of that state of destitution.and degradation, of which. culpable as be may be, by far the greater guilt rests on society itself. Thus he is driven 9n in the career of delinquency from step to step, till he is at length ripe for that last act of barbarity, which the community perpetrates upon its abandoned members, to whom it has never stretched out a hand of love. Is this the education which a Christian society owes to its destitute children? Is this the discharge of that sacred trust, which renders the community responsible for the temporal and eternal welfare of every one of its members? Whence does society derive the right of taking bloody vengeance upon those unfortunate beings, whole-chief crime Is, to have too well answered, by their conduct, the means adopted, either with the silent conseer or by direct interposition of siciety, for the formation of their cha racter If it isa bloody deed for an individual to take away the lie of his fellow creature, is. the deed less bloody because society pallet:atm:it; because it is not an act of rashness, but of premedita tion—en act systematically resolved upon, systematically executed, systematically repeated ? Or is it less bloody because society has, by its neglect on one hand, and by its oppression on the other, pre viously murdered the souls of those whom it thus prematurely hurries into eternity, to stand before the judgment seat of Goo? Does sot society apprehend, that whilst its victims will have to mount for their own transgression', the very history of their sins will be a loud accusation against those who bad the power,lim not the wM, to become instrumental in their rescue, and who seed the authority, given them from on High, not to uve, but to ruin souls? Do they consider, that the subtle forms of the law will leave no subterfuge in the eye of Hne, whose holiness win lay bare the iniquity of human justice—that " murder" will be written le laming characters upon every such deed, which it now sealed with the seal of lawful authority ? Does society think it a enliciest compensation for the neglect of that education to will& oliri individual has a claim, that the victims of Its sulfa are. by the convulsive fears of death, harassed Into .. efi s m).l penance, the sincerity of which it must be impossible for ostodiro novice In religious knowledge, under such Circumstances, to meet; tab ? Qr is Ir deemed a eatiefutoty atonement for the Obit minal violation of .GOD'S law, and for the blasphemous abuse made of his name, for the purposes of iniquity, that a Chaplain's ap pointed to read the burial service= those mournful occident? i criminality He authork What dm cities have increased 1 thing been can have Ids &cum mesa to I same posit forced by of what is awing centmisse would die rendered A fatal accident . happened on Friday =Ming to a :A s ape Muir stri,..ebotlt:Ma 7 w . ow. th. .. Af, Ar. f , 5•••• 11 •. • bouillee. er Asethietuti 114/0,. , p moth* doe mods leeed w oUrni o u s iafif -. . Lft TM over, and killed epee the spot. Tbe T r w eeo f ees al4 wm o i dreadful spectacle! LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, D. it. TB! 11101.1CITOI•011111111ML AND Sill C. WITIISIILL. ' Sir C. Waruaanz. took his seat at the bar before the Loao CNANCELLOa entered the Court; soon afterwards the Solidtor- General passed Sir Charles, and tooklis usual place, but the two Learned Gentlemen took not the slightest notice of each other. The Loan Cmascauns, after he bad delivered a judgment , said I have read in one a the public Papers this morning something that passed in Court , yesterday—certain expressions used at the bar. I certainly did not bear those expressions—l mean the of expressions—otherwise I should have thought it my duty to have interfered at the time. The Souciton-Gzattass,—lf your Lordship alludes to any thing in which I Was a party, I can only say I have not seen a Paper, and therefore I can make no timber observation. The Loan Cuancamoa--Something was said in an under tone that did not reach me. I 'think it my duty now to mention It. because it would have been my imperative duty to have interfered at the time, if those expressions had reached me. The Sor.rctroa•Gmsaut. said nothing more. Sir C. WITHIRELI. made no remark whatever, but listened at tentively to what fell from the Bench. The trios - went through his avocations as If nothing unpleasant had transpired. SCOTT T. MANSON. The LORD CHANCILLON said that in this appeal (arguments In which were concluded,) there were two quesdons ; first, whether a certain meadow had been fraudulently described in articles of sale as a water-meadow ? And next, whether a good title bad been otherwise made to the meadow? It was true that the owner had not such uncontrolled power over a river that watered the meadow as w enable him at all times completely to Irrigate It, yet he bad undoubtedly the ability of watering it to a certain extent. The meadow was to be regarded, therefore, as an imperfectly watered meadow, but net as a non-watered meadow. For the last century it had been known and passed by the name of a water meadow.— It was not the owner, but the assignees of the bankrupt owner, that had sold it. In the entries in the Court Rolls (three or four) since the year 1718, the meadow had always been described as the Mill Meadow, and containing six acres, althaigh in point of fact it contained fourteen , acres. In the arguments it had been sug gested that part of the meadow might be freehold property. This' was a possible, but not a probable circumstance ; so possible how ever, that the Vice-Chancellor had done right in directing it to go back to the Master on a further inquiry, for the purpose of re moving this slight doubt. Tue Court, under these circumstances, confirmed the judgment below, both as to the meadow being a water-meadow, and the' propriety of referring it back to the ' charter. The Sotachoa•GIUIZILAL applied for the cots on behalf of the Respondent. Mr. Vi'atowe opposed the application. His client had been kept out of a good title for nineteen years, which he regarded as no very trifling hardship. The Limo Cnexestioa ordered the deposit to be returned, but refused to give further costs. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dsc. 12. (Sittings at Nisi Frits, Westminster—Common Juries.) NUM V. WALKS'S AND °THUM This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Matilda Kerr, a minor, for an assault and false imprisonment. 'the ATIORNET.GANZSAL stated that the plaintiff was a minor, and assisted her mother Maria Kerr, and Pb.be Jones, who car ried on the business of ,dress-makers in the Strand, in making out the accounts and keeping the books. The defendant Walker re sided-in the Commercial-road, and had drawn a bill of exchange for £l5 on the firm of Kerr and Jones, which was accepted by the plaintiff as their book-weeper, and he said that they owrd him A 5 more. The mother sent to Walker to ask him to let the bill stand over, which he refused. When it became doe, not being paid , he endow a writ in the Palace Court for twenty pounds against Xerrand Jones, which was given to Driscol, the officer, to en force. The defendant Richards (Walker's clerk) went with Driscol, and meeting the plaintiff on this side Temple-bar, told the officer to take her, which be refused, as she was the wrong person. Richards than said that be would indemnify him, and Driscoll then took her to Glass's, a lock-up house. Richards, to intimidate the plaintiff s told her at as the acceptance was in her writing it was a forgery. During the time that Seett.ua Idend of the plaintiff, was endeavouring to Ind bail, the defendant Walker came, and said he did not cars, be would keep her as a screw upon the mo ther. Th e Learned Attorwereesseml went on to state that be un derstood that the defence 'weiribia she was known by the name of Mutsu well as Matilda. • Lord TIMMS= said that the plea put on the record did not agree with the writ, but he would retire and take the opinion of the Judges upon it. Upon his Lordship's return, she As:otter GOMM. said that they had determined to refer the case to some Gentleman at the Bar.—The Jury accordingly found a verdict for the plaintiff, sub ject to a reference. BOARD OF EXCISE, Dec. it Ur. John Mealdsouse, a.whpleule spirit-dealer, in Fair -street, Horsley:lows. was charged with retailing spirits without a license. Thomas Metcalf stated, that on the 31st of July he went to die defendant's house, and by representing that he came from St. James's-place, was supplied by the defendant with a gallon of brandy and another of gin, althoughthe defendant, who is a whole sale dealer, could not legally sell a less quantity than two gallons of each kind. The defendant said 'at the time that he did a great deal of business In that way. The Consummates lined him ,212 10s. for the offence. He was then charged on two other informations with having a deficiency of 17 paws of spirits, on the List June • and also* do. Magner of 11 gallons on the 24th' August, neithe r of which deli deuces was accounted for as having been sent out by permits. The penalty is 20s. per gallon so unaccounted for. The Conn Mod him ten shillings for every gallon deficient in the stock. Mr. Louis, landlord of a public house in Chancery-lane, was Mod 410 for having a bottle of mixture in his cellar, which is used for colouring beer. The defendant said be did not know that the mixture was in the cellar, and be supposed it was there when be took the house. . John Evans was fined £lOO for having in his possession 1071bs. of soap, on which duty had not been paid. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT.—CHELMSFORD, Du. 12. Before Mr. Baron Bot.ssen. John Ames. Williams Mount, Dania 4ffing and Willie. .111 1 Donald, were indicted for breaking open a silversmith's sbopuChelmstord, and stealing various:ticks of jewellery, the propeny of *Richard Theodore Walker, at Chelmsford. Mr. Bowsaw prosecuted ; Mr. RTIAND defended. The prosecutor is a silversmith at Chelmsford, not in very ex emmtve business. The four prisoners are London thieves, from the arrighbourhood of Rosemary-lane. On the evening of Monday, the 50th of November last, between seven and eight o'clock, the prosecutor had a square of glass broken in his shop window, and the articles mentioned in the indictment stolen through the apse lure. It was immediately supposed that this act was rather above the talent of country operators, and a feat& was commenced at the different low public-houses in the town, and it was not bag before the four prisoners were found together at the Fleece pub lic house; they were in company together. The prisoners were taken into custody, bet no part of the prosecutor's property was found upon either of them, but the circumstantial evidence against them was strong. The prisoners from their Ant apprehension, an stated they came from Woolwich, except M•Donald, orb, ace said be landed at Harwich and came to Colchester. Tbo FrYaners. when called upon for their defence, said the sense* re the Fleece public house, where they were takes, would priu them t. have been in the pahlie-house do:mahout the waft and therefore they could au have commitledris robber?. • • Mr. Berea Bottum iminserilauly seent Milieu to bring the went into Court. At the desire of the primmer" she was rumbaed ; but so far from supporting the statement made by them; she shdwed Ism clearly that they bad been absent just at the time the tobberrsias believed to baits been effected. Tbe Jar/ found them all Guilty. Baron Domain sentenced them to transportation for life. Saturday evening, as Jobe ftandalVa joiner by bade, wai coming from Wallingford to Reading, be wu overtaken Omhey-field by two men, who begged Amity, and' he pie etch of them a peony. One was an Meshing fellow, alfeet •Ilve Set seven, the ether about Is feet feu lashes high. On anteing Baslidoo.wood, the same men camped oat spa him, kaOebed him down, then filled his swath with gravel - ded Of in a handkerchief, and fastened his Wins behind' bleb 'with - a piece or strong tape. Having done this , they ransachedlis :pod" antribbed:WM 2 or fin sovereign s r and a baltisiumeinglwaseh, maker's name 4 1 swath' Li w po,e, ; a aminorgothup wok. comainlog . a &elites' card; printed 6 aohn Randall, tlninn - ened#7, Ritudnallon i"a bo9cla tied a yellow atd:vatliejidlietcddlt enlitt r t Irk at Wfrothier.. a• Bann skin, • ' Itterlocki. eiseaffloglAse elm uproar. Ozked 1 / 4 4: 0 00 11 Malgos t!Pgititl= Ral, 416 tbrr h i " was sees lying in rod ; wadi bees ' ow Auer, be would have bun _crated. Animism VC and, after some time, he ream:mi.—Wl Aver. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. • J. Taylor, about 20 years of age, was brought before the Lean Maros on Saturday, on a charge of passing bad money, under the following circumstances : Mr. Matthews. a stationer, in Budge-row. stated that the priso ner came to his shop between six and seven o'clock on Friday even ing, and asked for a quire of outside post, and put down a crown pletemrhieh the prosecutor knew at once to be lead. He had, he declared, taken no less than 14 bad crowns within a few months, in the course of his business ; and represented the practice of pass ing had money as being alarmingly on the increase in the City of London of late : shopkeepers were assailed with it in all shapes. The prisoner assured the Lord Mayor that be had received the crown at a house in Red Lion-square where he had glazed some windows; and that his brother-in-law, who had got him the job, would corroborate the statement. T he prisoner had but a few halfpence about him. It was mentioned by one of the police. that the bad money sys tem was now a complete one : an utterer never carried more than one bad piece about him, and the moment be succeeded in getting change he slipped the money into the hand of his pdncipal, who was in the neighbourhood, and from whom be received amber counterfeit. One dealer in this line acknowledged, a short time ago, to have, through various hands, passed in one day 37 bad crowns, which were not worth a halfpenny a piece. The prisoner was remanded. Stephen lOW was brought up on a similar charge. A leaden six pence was the coin passed on this occasion. He was also remanded. BOW•STRERT. The following shocking occurrence took place at this office, which called forth from the presiding Magistrate, Tuouas Hotta, Esq. very strong animadversions upon the conduct of parish officers A very dean and decent woman, about thirty years of age, ar rived at the office-door in a hackney-coach, about one o'clock, in the care of Burke, the beadle of St. Clement Danes, fur the purpose of being removed to her legal settlement, Pad dington. The poor creature was so very ill, that it was with much difficulty she could crawl from the coach to the Public office, and Mr. HALL§ observing her situation—though he had not the remotest idea of the real cause of her illness--very humanely suspended other business to dispatch her removal-- I After taking the usual oath, she appeared to be much worse, and as she was leaving the back office, she groaned deeply and became ghastly pale. On descending the steps she fell into premature labour and brought forth a still-born child.— The beadle lifted her into the coach in the dreadful situation in which she was, and took her instantly to Paddington, leaving the child—for it was perfect in all its parts, and appeared to have re tained life for some time—on the pavement. Goodson, the keeper of Bow-street office, removed the child, and informed Mr. Halls of the circumstance. - - Mr. Haws expressed himself quite indignant that the woman should have been removed in her situation, and complained, as he had repeatedly done before, that the Overseers of St. Clement Danes, instead of attending themselves before the Magistrates in person, or by some proper representative, sent a beadle only. He directed an officer to go to St. Clement's workhouse, and request the attendance of Mr. Crooke, the acting Overseer. Mr. Crooke in a very short time appeared, and Mr. Hairs said that it was disgraceful that the Overseers should have removed a woman under such circumstances; her death might be the conse quence of her being hurried out of the pariah all the way to Pad dington ; and if that should be the result, he would take care that the Overseers should be prosecuted. The scene which had been exhibited in the street in front of the Office was revolting td every feeling of delicacy and humanity. Mr. Crooke said that the woman complained only of a pain In her bobs, when she was at the workhouse that morning. Ilk. Hairs—She was not in a St condition to be removed, that 11/17 certain. Perhaps you were afraid of the child being born Io poor parith. Idr. Crooke—When she complained of being unwell a coach was ordered for her. Mr. Harm—She could not walk, and ought not to have been removed ; and I repeat, the overseers shall most unquestionably be held responsible if the poor woman's life should be sacrificed by their misconduct. Mr. Crooke bowed and quitted the office. On Saturday afternon, three men, in the garb of waggoners, named Josses &silk, William Denkiey, and William Byley, were brought before Mr. Hats, in custody of Thomas Thompson, the police constable, No. 157, F. division, charged with havin g at tempted to steal a corp. from St. Giles's churchyard. Thompson deposed, that u be was on duty in High street, St. Giles's, about twenty minutes after twelve on Friday night, he saw the prisoners passing by, and, knowing them to be resurrection men, hailed them. The prisoner Smith at once recognised him, and cried out, Oh,. Tom ! is that yott How are you, my old boy ! give us your hand. After a. cordial greeting of that sort, witness asked them if any thing was wrong, and Smith replied, oh no Tom; dash my buttons, no. What, do you think we would come to this part of the town to do the .trick' ob no, we are better judges than that. It was then proposed that ibey should have a parting glass, and whim's accordingly took them to a public-house, where they tressed him to a glass of rum, and soon after separated. Witness's suspicion being aroused, however, he dogged them, and after remaining concealed for some time, per ceived them to mount the churchyard railing, and jump down into the churchyard. As they approached • newly.made grave, be sprung his rattle, and the prisoners, who succeeded in regaining the street, after a smart duce, were finally captured, when they denied having been in the chUrchyard at all, and that they knew each other. It further appeared that no grave had been opened, but a spade and other body-snatching instruments were found near a grave where a body had been deposited that afternoon. Thompson said he supposed he should be called over the coals for haiing drunk with the prisoners, but he bad done so, in order the better to watch their alumina% The prisoners did not attempt to deny the fact, but prayed for mercy, on the grounds of their having wives and families. Mr. Haws committed them for two months each to the House of Correction under the Vagrant Act. HEBDOMADARY. Tau Mr.—Washington died, 1799. About this time fteldfares and redwings are numerous, and whole companies of rooks, jackdaws, and starlings. may be seen feeding among the stubble. Taatoazew.—At nine o'clock in the evening Otien's Belt may be observed in the south-east quarter of the heavens, at about a quarter of the space above the horizon, of the distance between the horizon and the zenith. Wierairanar.—Ember week, Cromwell declared Protector, Length of day 7 hours 46 minutes. Sun rises 7 minutes past B— eets 7 minutes before 4. Tumuume.—The festival of the Saturnalia commenced among the Ancient Romans. when the masteri waited on their servants, who wore the cap of liberty. and presents were rachanged, par ticularly of was candles, which were afterwards offered upon the altar of Saturn. The origin of this feast was to show the equality and happiness of mankind in the golden age. Farrar—Moon enters the last quarter 4 minutes past 6 morning. Saturn rises 4 . minutes past 8 evening. SATOSIMI.-11gs was the third day of the Saturnalia, and the fes tival called Opalis in honour of Ops, the wife of Saturn. BIRTHS. At Oporto, the lady of W. It. Hurls. of a son. At Wickham, Hants, the lady of Lieutenant Wainwright, IL N. of a ma. MARRIED. In the city of Baltimore, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, to Susan May, onlyAlaughter of the late B. Williams, of that city. In Londonderry, Surgeon Joba Canning, of Garvagh, to Mary, daughter of Samuel Moore, of Cliatuogh, Esq. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, F. Campbell, M. D. to . Selina, daughtsrof the Re.. G. Porter. At Liploon, Mary, daughter of G. D. Walsh, Esq. to Gerard 601110,.R5q. gi that place. At St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Hon. Robert King, M. P. for the County of Roscommon, to Miss Anne Booth Gore. 'At AB Souls Church, Marylebone, Francis Seymour Larpent. Rsty. of Putney Park House, Surrey, to Charlotte Rosamond, third daughter of the late George Arnold Arnold, Esq. of Halstead Place, Kent. • DIED. At Kenalottos . I,ady Murray. widow of Sir D. Murray. But. In Mount lae Rebmca.wife of Col Owen, of the Cgoartermister- al's Department. Cluitain G. Stuoit i late 'Blst Rest. from the effects of .woonds received Ia the monehmat Dane& Friday sinaigh tie. milittoo. the Rev. Francis Dish Woodward, ti• A. ;at, At Barren nut. •cotitity Tipperary, Francis Trench, Esq. bro ther aultpnwilptive heir to Lord Ashtown. Oaths *kik. in the commune of Vilivosquo. at the age 61101 Ifir• 4•,...llol4poOttAilmtelPOistUs Pelsker. Dhe was a Tsrl To the enti of bee Ufa mho enjoyed em l e y; and the equanimity 11 - Me* Marked 'fling art ti r ` — ii 7 js it tst Aft 1:04 - 0140' allieWlSAftle. 4 Is s 'G H. V *TAR at LON ppii i stti Narniok Limes Ptitttad and Published by Joan Wiw s, ac the lbw Orme No. t. Plekett•pbeeaseoghe Bar.