Star. — London, England, 1830-11-22 00:00:00

LA IF REPORTS. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 20. As soon as their Lordships had taken their seats, Mr. Brougham, who had come into Court, rose, and in an appropriate address announced Ida regret at being compelled to take immediate leave of the Bar. 'll.Lir Lordships., who rose simultaneously, appeared in some measure prepared for the separation, and, after a suitable reply, mingling coo. gn►ulations with expressions of their sorrow, Mr. Brougham bowed and retired. Ilit KING ♦ JOHN GOSS AND •NOSYit. Mr. Wightnian stated, that this was an information against the deendants, being the proprietors of a minor theatre in Manchester, for suffering certain entertainments and representations therein, the same not being duly licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, or protected by the King's letters patent. The information has already been tried at the Assists, and a conviction had ensued. The Learned Counsel con. tended that the conviction ought to be confirmed, as the provision of toe act 10 of' Geo. 2, chap. 28, under which the indictment was laid, had not been complied with. The second section ,of the Act stated, that no persons shall represent any theatrical enter tainments unless lfccnced by the Lord Chamberlain, and the sth section further enacts, that if they have the license, or King's letters patent, thioshall only be suffered to enact interludes, Ite. in the City of West muster, or within the verge of the court. The objection which would le tsken on the other side, arose out of the construction of the Act, in le ich it would be contended that his Majesty had no jurisdiction in the County of Lancaster, but he apprehended their lordship's would enter ta,n a different opinion, when the tenour of that and the previous Acts ~,re considered. Mr. PEEL followed on the same side, and remarked that the court, ley taking such a view of the Act as would necessarily reverse the con s iion, would be virtually repealing it, and putting a meaning upon it gayer contemplated by the framer. Mr. COURTENAY, for the defendant, submitted that the con. viction could not be supported; inasmuch as that if the charges contained in the indictment were all proved, yet, he contended, y did not constitute any offence against any known act of parliament. The defendant was charged with having suffered theatri. eal performances to take place without having letters patent from the King, or a license from the Lord Chamberlain. He denied that the Kiug or the Lord Chamberlain had power to grant such letters or license in the county of Lancaster, and he would undertake to prove that pro pu‘ition. The only competent authority to grant licenses for theatrical amusements were the local magistrates, and the indictment did not say one word about not having obtained their license, but made the offence sin offence by not having letters of the King, or a license from the Lord Chamberlain, which, he contended they had no power to grant. He proceeded to give a brief history of the acts relating to this subject. The first license we find under the privy seal was given by Jas. 11. to Fletcher and William Shakapeare to enact plays, and they were therein styled the King's servants. The King and the Lord Chamberlain, the learned Counsel insisted, had only jurisdiction over the household and the King's savants. If this was not the use, why had it been found ne cessary to have local acts to unction performances ? If the King had jurisdiction, his letters patent would have superseded the necessity of any acts. It was this reason that induced the Act of George 111. to be passed, giving power to the local magistrates to grant licenses for thea trical performances. The LORD CHIEF JussicE here remarked, that if the defendant had produced hb license from the magistrates on the trial of the indict ment, it would have been a good defence. Their Lordships, after some deliberation, confirmed the conviction. KING V. wit.martsort. This was an action for an assault committed by the defendant upon the Rev. Mr. Batson, in which the former was found guilty at Carlisle. The defendant was brought up for judgment this morning, when be put in an affidavit declaring that the assault in question was accidental. Mr. Justice PARE said that this affidavit was at variance with the defendant's conduct, be having refused, when called upon, to make an apology for the blow given. The prosecutor having, however, called upon the Court to pass but a slight sentence upon the defendant, they were willing to accede to the request, and sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 20s and enter into security to keep the peace for two years himself in 2001. and two sureties in 1001. each. The fine having been paid, and the necessary securities entered into, the defendant left the Court. BOARD OF EXCISE, Nov. 20. THE KING V. rlcTox. Mr. SHEPHERD, IS Counsel for the Crown, stated that this was an information charging the defendant and a person named Wakelin, who was not to be found, with having on their premises a quantity of spirits which had been illegally distilled. It appeared from the evidence of Alex. M'Knight, Joseph Frederick Linstead, Thomas Joliffe, Wm. Fitzhugh, and others, officers of excise, that the defendant was an entered dealer in foreign spirits and cyder, in Denmark -street, St. Giles's. Having received information that he also carried on an illicit distillery, the officers, ow the 2d of June, 1828, went to his house. In a cyder cellar they found several casks of cyder, and also several asks of wash, and on searching further they discovered that a still had recently been there. The defendant wished to show by cross-examination that the vault where the still had been did not belong to his house, but to the next, but he failed to establish that it was so. The Court ordered all the articles seized to be condemned, and mitt. gated the penalty of 200 L to 1001. POLICE REPORTS Maxsiox.xnusx.—Several boys were brought before the Loup Avoit in the course of last week, charged with having committed robberies. In some instances, the prisoners were accused of having encouraged other children to rob their parents and masters, and there perhaps never were exhibited more deplorable instances of the total absence of moral feeling. The acknowledgments of guilt were made, and the details of the various cases of plunder were told, with as much indifference as if they formed part of the sanctioned education of the un fortunate poor creatures. George Wood, a boy about 14 years of age, was charged by his master, Mr. Barlow, of 47, Cannon-street, with having appropriated to his own purpose the sum of M. 111. which had been given to him to take to the Stamp-office, Mr. Barrow had taken the prisoner into his service two days before, without, however, making the necessary inquiries as to character, and accordingly upon the very first opportunity the boy took advantage of the confidence placed in hot, and upon being sent to the Stamp-office to pay the abovementioned sum, walked off, and joined a set of vaga bonds. The police got notice of his conduct, and some days after the transaction found him under one of the dry arches of the Southwark. bridge, in the company of several young thieves. The boy bad pre. viowly lived in the service of the complainant's father, and it was be. hewed had plundered that gentleman. I he prisoner, upon being asked to account for his absence, said that as lie was going to the Stamp-office he met a new police officer, who prevailed upon him to go into a coach, and robbed him of the money. It was stated that the prisoner bad purchased a new hat and coat, that he had money in his pocket when he was apprehended, and that when he went into the service of the complainant he was not master of a halfpenny. The LOAD Maxon committed him to prison for trial. The cases against many other boys were not strong enough to send before a jury, but it was palpable that they had been carrying on a re gular system of plunder, and encouraging those of more tender years to rob their parents or masters. At such a timeas this, when the number of young offenders is daily increasing, the society hich Lord 13elgrave and Mr. Wilmot Horton advocated and established a few days ago for the reformation of juve. nile offendere, will, no doubt, be produuctive of the greatest possible ad. vantage. OuILDHALL.--A genteel-looking middle.aged man, named William Wilson, was brought up from Union-hall, charged with stealing a watch. Severil charges of purloining articles from poor couples of the Society of Friends (to whose dwellings he had introduced himaelf:with some fictitious story) had been preferred agal in Surrey, but the Magistrate considering a ease which had in the City to be the clearest, had directtd the prisoner to be taken before the sitting Alderman. John lice, who stated himself to be 7b years of age, said that he oceu. pies one of the ahns.houses in White's-alley, Coleman-street, and that, on the 7th of October, the prisoner called and went over each of the alms-houses, pretending that he was sent by Mr. Wyatt, the church. warden, to ascertain what repairs were required, but, in reality, to ob. serve whether there was anything worth stealing. He professed a great deal of consideration and kindness towards the aged ; and after learning witness's age, said he _was eligible to receive' a gratuity of 41. and be would put him in the way of , obtaining it. He came again the following day for that pur. pose, and was shown up into a room on the first floor, where he wrote a letter, which witness was to deliver personally at the Feo fee'e.wifice, in the Temple, prisoner accompanying him to show him the place. They started immediately, but on reaching the New Post office, prisoner told him to goon, and wait for him at the Temple. He waited there, however, for three hours, without meeting with him, when, having some misgivings, witness returned home, and found the prisoner had stolen his watch. After parting_with him at the Post. office the prisoner had returned instantly to White's•alley, and repre sented to his wife that he bad left a pair of gloves up stairs. She of fered to fetch them, but he cried, " Oh, no, poor old creature, I can go up quicker than you ;" and up he went, and returned in a moment, with a glove swinging in his hand, haying, " I have got it." When she next went up stain to Sell what the time was, she missed the watch. . . . Martha Lee, the wife, who was so old and decrepit she could scarcely toddle, corrobora,ted.tbe last witness, and declared that no other person than the prison* bad entered the house from the time when she saw the watch safe until she missed it. The first witness said the prisoner's story of having been sent by Mr. Wyatt wee entirely false ; but as Wis. Wyatt was net in attendamo to personally negative the statement of the prisoner, he was remanded until Tuesday. Charles Cullen, a young man who had formerly been employed so • porter by Mr. Davies, a hosier and draper in Aldgste, was charged with obtaining goods under false pretences. It was stated that there were several cases against the prisoner, but two only were entered into. In one of them, it appeared, the prisoner had, on the 12th inst. obtained two large table-covers from Messrs.Ward,Bretde, and Ward, of Wood. street, upon an order purporting to be written by a shopman in the ser vice of Mr. Davies. In the other case, he had obtained two large coon terpanes trom Messrs. Lainson's and Co. of Bread-street, on Saturday morning, by uttering a similar order. Mr. Davies proved that the prisoner was discharged on the 21st of June; that he had not been authorised by him, or any one in his ser vice, to obtain these goods; and that the orders were in the prisoner's own hand-writing. The prisoner declined saying anything in reply to the charge, and Mr. Alderman Baowx committed him for trial. Bow.svaEzT.—Saturday. Townsend, the senior officer of this esta blishment, who has latterly been attending Royalty, came to this office yesterday, and communicated to Mr. HALLS that a young woman had begged relief of him in the park. He was about to have ha taken into custody, when the affecting story she told of distress endured in conse quence of her having been deceived by her lover at Wootenedge, in Gloucestershire, arrested his attention, and being eventuallconvinced of the truth of her statement, he collected 51. fur her in the Palace, and now wanted the assistance of the magistrate to send her home. Mr. HALL. complimented him on the humane part which he had taken, and complied with his request. LAMBETB-STREZT.SilltUrday, a number of paupers were at this office claiming relief. Among them was an aged black, who hobbled into the justice-room, and, on approaching the bench, exclaimed, '• Vel, masse, what me do now ? No work, no money, no grub, no noting. Mc vent to the pooree-house, St. George, and they'd give me no more, nor a little sixpence." -- • - Mr. WALKEa—But don't you do something for your living ? Applicant—Yes, masts, me blackee shoes. Mr. WALKER—That must be a good business in the dirty weather. I dare say you can earn a good deal of money at it ? Applicant—lndeed, me don't, mama. Me only blackee two shoes to-day, and only four on Sunday. Mr. WALKER—But the people are very kind to you, and give you plenty to eat and drink. Applicant—No such a ting ; me can't get a bit. Mr. WALIEI said that u the applicant had been in the parish toe years, and u people could not do without clean shoes and linen, be and his wife being known, might, if they liked, earn a comfortable sub. sistence. He would leave him in the hands of the beadle. That functionary desired the poor black to go outside, and that be would relieve him with a sixpence. QUEZN.SQUAIIeiMPORTANT Cass.—Tarcis or Baoxtas. —Saturday William Hall, a broker, of Blue Anchor-yard, York-street, Westminster, well known at the office, was placed at the bar on the fol lowing charge of felony. Margaret Painter, of No. 4, William-street, stated that she bad lodged with her husband, at No. 11, Holland-street. On Monday morning last, a man named Collins came to their lodgings to distrain for arrears of rent, due to their landlord, Mr. Luff, amounting to 41.35. In about two hours afterwards the prisoner came and made out an inventory. which be gave her, and the goods were all removed into a back-room. There was a feather-bed, five chairs, and some other articles, which were not mentioned in the inventory. These she valued at about 21. It was stated that the bed had been cut down, and about 10 pounds weight of feathers taken out. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was not aware that he had seized a feather bed. Mr. Osznotti E.—Your best plan is to endelvour to makes jury be lieve your story, for I shall commit you to Newgate for trial. Prisoner—What ! Commit me for trial ! Good GOD !Is it poulble you are serious? You cannot mean it, good GOD ! The parties were then bound over to prosecute the prisoner fur steal ing. " For GOD'S sake," exclaimed the broker ; I hope you will take bail." " Indeed I shall not," replied the Magistrate. "If you had been an honest and respectable man I might have believed that you had committed a mistake in not inserting t h ese goods in the inventory; but you have been here so often for these tricks, and have been warned of it by me, that I consider it high time that a stop should be put to such a practice." The prisoner was then removed, exclaiming, " Good dos 1 commit me for trial—a respectable man to Newgate. Good Goal" Quzzx-sQuaas.—Miss Mary Fitzgerald and Miss Elisabeth Woodlake, as they styled themselves, were charged with assaulting John Rawlins, a police constable of the L divison, Na 100. It appeared from the evidence that the ladles at the bar having in. Bulged themselves very plentifully with cheap beer and Hodges's best, In the New Cut, were met by the constable, who took them into custody. Miss Fitzgerald fly showed fight, seized the constable's arm with her tooth, sad tom a piece out of his coat; and Miss Woodlake at the same time pummelled him with all her might. The ladies all cried out, "Down with the New Po lice, and liberty for the women i" upon which a mob of upwards of three hundred persons assembled, and It was with great difficulty that the ladles were taken to the station.house to answer for their misdeeds. No defence was made to the charge, and Mr. Marriott observed that as females had commenced attacking the police, he should inflict a fine of five pounds each. In default of payment they were both stint to the House of Correction for two months. MANES Poraca.—Tkoasos Adcock, a man in the employ of Messrs. Hoare and Co. brewers, was charged with strain' a Quantity of solder, the property of his employers. He wasconvicted of unlawful possession, and fined a sum of M. in default of payment of which he was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. klearox-GattnEx.-,A fellow named Jean Bricker, was ordered to find bail for an indecent exposure of his person, in the neighbourhood of Torrington-square, at the kitchen-window of a gentleman. The de. tails were disgusting in the extreme. WORM IP-11TRIEET.—.4dreardIlla and Alice Laren, woo brought up for re-examination on a charge of having robbed Mr. Hewn, who had unhappily fallen into their clutches, and died under draw. stances which made it suspected that he had been " hocussed," that is, some stupyfying drug put into his drink, preparatory to the robbery. A Coroner's Jury, however, returned a verdict of apoplexy. Wright, the police constable, said he had reset Tea information that Jemmet had before been in custody for attempting to " hocus" a young man, who was severely beaten for refusing to take the prepared drink. lie was ordered to search out the parties, and bring them forward. The prisoners were again remanded. COVETOUSNESS.—" The desire of stoney (says Timothy) is the root of all evil ; and they that lust after it, pierce themselves with many sorrows." Austin describes it, a madness of the soul; Gregory, a torture; Chrysoatorn, an insatiable drunkenness; Solomon, a con. untied plague and vexation of spirit. Damasippus, the Stoic, proves that all mortal men dote by fits, some one way. some another; but that covetous men are madder than the rut; and he that shall truly look into their estates, and examine their symptoms, shall find no better of them but that they see all fools, as Nebel was. They are commonly sad and tetrick by nature, as Achab's spirit was, because be could not get Naboth's vineyard. He is of a wearish, dry, pale constitution, and cannot sleep for cares and worldly business : and though he be at a ben. quet, or some merry feast, he sighs for grid of heart (as Cyprian bath it) ; he is sorrowful in plenty, unhappy for the present, and more un. happy for the life to come. He is a perpetual drudge, restless in hies thoughts, and never satisfied,--a slave, a wretch, a dust.worm ; and the more be bath, the more he wants, like Pharoah's lean tine, which de. voured the fat, and were net satisfied. They are afraid of template, f or their corn ; they are afraid of their friends, lest they should alt some. thing of them; of their enemies, lest they should hurt them; of thieves, lest they rob them; they are afraid of war, and afraid of peace,—afraid of rich and of of poor; afraid of all. Last of all, they are d ra w of want, that they shall die beggars, which makes them lay up Wu, and dare not use what they have • and were it not that they are l ot h to lay out money on a rope, they w ould hang forthwith, and die to save eharges.—Burters. LAWYERS: OPPOSITENESS OF THEIR INTEREST TO Tea thrivitassx byrzazsT.—The opinion of lawyers in a question of legislation, particularly of such lawyers as are or have been peao. tieing advocates, are peculiarly liable to be tinged with f a l s i ty by the operations of sinister interest. It is the people's interest that delay, vexation, and expense of procedure should be as mall as posaible:-.lt I. the advocate's that they should be as great as possible. As to un certainty in the law, it is the people's interest that each man's se curity against wrong should be as complete as poseible ; that all his rights should be known to him ; that all acts, wilt& in the case of his doing them will be treated as offences, may be known to him as such, together with their eventual punishment, thathe may avoid committing them, and that others may, in as few instances as possible, suffer either from the wrong, or from the expensive and vexatious remedy. Hence it is their interest, that as to all these matters the rule of action , in so far as it applies to each man, should at all times be not only covetable, but actually present to his mind. Such knowledge, which it Is every man's interest to possess to the greatest, it is the lawy er ' s i n . tern; that he possess to the narrowest extent possible. It hi every man's interest to keep out of lawyers' hands as much u possible ; it Is the lawyer's interest to get him In as often, and to keep hi m in as long as pinelble t thence, that any written expression of the words necessary to hap nes-lawyers out of his hand, may u long as Possible be prevented fran esig im existence, and when in existence as long as po ss ibl e kept It boil present to his mind, and when present front staying there. It is the lawyer', interest, therefore, that people should con tinually sulk for the aon.observance of laws which, so far from having received efficient promuliratioo, have never yet found any autho r i tat i ve expression in words. This is the perfection of °lli yet propose that access to the knowledge of the laws be affoTt re a ll y t tneans of a code —lawyers, one and all, will join in declaring It impossible.--BrwTstau. Book of Fallacies, p. 87. FATAL ACCIDENT.-STEAM-BOILER BURST. From the Leeds litielligetwer. Monday afternoon a shocking accident occurred at Stone-bridge.seill, near Fernley, in the occupation of Messrs. Pawsoo and Son, cloth ma nufacturers, by the bursting of the engine-boller. Nine of the workmen employed on the premises were scalded and otherwise injured, and they were immediately conveyed to the Infirmary. Their names were Wm. ;dole, 93, Worthy; Frederick Barnsby, 18, Birsfall ; James Clap ham, 16, Fernley ; James Fletcher, 63, Fernley. Joseph Galloway. 17, 1 Wortley ; Martin Bretherick, 18, Bramley ; Rdwin Sowden, 18, New Wortley ; James Saville, 58, Wortley ; and Joseph Saville (his son,) 13, Wortley. Frederick Barnsby died at the Infirmary on Tuesday I forenoon, and William Starkey yesterday morning. Yesterday evening an Inquest was held at the Griffin Inn, to inquire into the cause of the deaths of the two unfortunate men, when the following evidence was taken Richard am fireman to Messrs. Pawson, woollen manufac turers at Stone-bridge-mill, in the township of Wortley, and I attend to the engine at that mill. On Monday last, about 20 minutes past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I came out of the firing-place, having been in to open the fire doors. The engine had been standing about six mi nutes, and we were just going to set it on. We had stopped it because we could not keep the steam up, as we had very poor cai. The mo. meat I had got to the engine-house door it blew up suddenly with a loud noise. It blew up the Rues round about, and the steam.ehest at the top of the boiler was broken. I was about six or seven yards from the boiler, and was not hurt. I went towards the boiler se. veral times, and was beat back again by the violence of the steam and water. As soon as I could get to it, I found that nine workmen at the mill were scalded or otherwise injured. —The boiler was in the dry-house. Only one of the men , James Fletcher, had been in the habit of working in the dry-house; all the other men (but one, who was a cloth miller) were giggers, and when the engine stopped they went to the dry-house to warm themselves. I had seen the cloth miller just before it happened; he was on the engine house steps when I last saw him. I had not seen the two deceased men ; they were both sinus. I have not been able to satisfy myself as to the cause of the bursting of the boiler. We were then two inches and a half below the standard which we generally wrought at. The boiler, in my opinion, does not appear to have been a very good one. It has been in use four years, and has been constantly used since I have been there. I have known boners of that description in use for 18 or 18 years. Steam did not escape from the safety-valve before the acci dent happened. When I came to the situation, I observed that the seating, or under part, of the boiler, was much burnt, and they set about having a new one immediately. We should have bad it put up in a fortnight. In the afternoon of that day I observed that the water escaped very fast through a defective part of the boiler, but not the part where it burst. The safety-valve on the boiler which was burst was loose on Saturday night, and I found it loose the morning after the se cident ; but 1 cannot say that it had not been fast in the mean time. The water and steam came out at the bottom of the boiler. The top was sound. The house-surgeon at the Leeds Infirmary gave his opinion that the deceased had died from inhaling the steam. All the men were very severely injured, and one of them, James Saville, he feared could not survive the night. John Fat , cloth-dresser, who had been 13 years at the mill, spoke to the care which had been always taken to prevent accidents at the mill. He said that the persons injured were all able to walk away after the accident, except the two boys, Edwin Bowden and Joseph Gal. loway, who were fetched out of the boiler-bonse. After consulting together for a few momenta, the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death, with a deodand of One Shilling upon the boiler." SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE. Saturday information was received at the office of Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, of the following melancholy case of seduction and sui cide :—A short time ago the daughter of Mrs. French, of No. H, Sherboume.Lsne, City, formed an acquaintance with a young man who paid his addresses to her. Her mother and friends were quite ignorant of the circumstance, and latterly they observed a considerable change for the worse in ha mind and manners, which were originally mild, placid, and serene. On Friday night, after having received a letter, she left home, and had not long been absent whets she returned in haste, much agitated, and sat down. A young man entered, and called Mts. French, the mother of the unfortunate young lady, and de sired her to search her daughter's reticule as it contained poison. The deceased denied it, but, after retiring to rest, her groans disturbed the hourn—assistance was called in in vain, and she expired. It appears that the young man with whom she ;kept company is a manid man with a family, and having made pre to the deceased which weld not be manes* et legally ralised , she resolved on eeltdeameedes. LOUIS XIV. AND HIS MISTRESS, MADAME DE MAIII• Tzuorr.--The King lived in a perpetual violation of may vied duty s but during his effective reign of 56 years, be never Me mese en a fast day but when ill, and never was absent a single dos from num but once, on a very long march of his army.—MaL de mecum. lated all the outward mew ef hum= sujelnumt. Amending to the estimate of the world, she was the meet gewgaw Omens& But het own descripdons betray the dame* between prosperity and happiness. In looking Into a fish-pond at May, she mid to a ]you se how languid the carp are. They are like me ; they rep* their mud.* " What a punishment 1" she oh , m bitterly =claimed, it is to have to amuse a man who is no longer amusable !" QUEEN ELIEABETH.—The Queen did once ask my wife, in merry sort, bow she kept my good will and love, which I did always maintain to be truly good towards her and my children. My Mall, in wise and discreet manner, told ha Highness she had confi dence in her husband's understandi4 and courage, well founded on her own stedfastness not to offend or thwart, but to ehaish and o hereby did persuade her husband of her own affection, and in so loi ng did command his. "Go to, go to, mistress," sails the Queen, " you are wisely beat, I finds after such sort do I keep the good will of all my husbands, my good people g for if they did not rest assured of some special love toward than. they would not readily yield me such good obedience." One Sunday (April last) my Lord of London preached to the Queen's Majesty (Mimbeth), and seemed to touch on the vanity of ' decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladies, that if the Bishop held more discourse on such matters, she would fit him for Heaven, but be should walk thither without a staf4 and leave his mantle behind him. Perchance the Bishop never sought her Highness's wardrobe, or be would have chosen smother text.—sir John Marring- Sou'r Notes. A STRANGE 1011 A Or A MANIAC RIINOVED HT STRA• rAesx.--Ons of the moat eminent watchmakers in Paris became de. ranged, from prosecuting the idea of perpetual motion. His derange. meat was characterised by this singularity ; he believed that he had been guillotined, that his bead had been mixed with those of some other victims, and that the judges, repenting of their cruel verdict, had ordered the heads to be replanW on. their respective bodies. By some mistake, be conceived that the bead of one of his unfortunate comps nions bad been placed upon his shoulders t and this idea haunted him night and day. A convalescent, of a lively and jocular turn, was en. gaged to play the following trick upon the artist:—Their conversation was directed to the celebrated miracle of St. Denis, who carried his had under his arm, and kissed it as be went along. The watchmaker vehemently maintained the possibility of the fact, anti endeavoured to confirm it by an appeal to his own case. His companion burst out into a loud laugh, and said to him, In a tone of mockery, " Why, you fool, how could St. Denis contrive to kiss his own head? was it with his heel ?" This unexpected repartee struck the lunatic forcibly : he retired quite confused, amidst the laughter that it produced ; and he sever after spoke of the misplacement of his head.—.ilr. Pine: oa i n . stutity. LAST MOMENTS or Till PONT BU ANS.—From the day of his return home till the hour of his untimely death, Dualities was likes besieged place. It was known he was dying ; and the anx iety, not of the rich and the learned only, but of the mechanics and peasants, exceeded all beliet Wherever two nr three people stood to gether, their talk was of Burns, and of him alone; they spoke of his history—of his persce—of his works—of his family--of his fame, and of his untimely and approaching fate, with a warmth and an en thusiasm which will ever endear Dumfries to my remembrance. All that he said, or was saying—the opinions o f the physicians (and Maxwell was a kind and a skilful one) were eagerly caught up, and reported from street to street, and from house to house.—Hi s g ood h umour w as unruSed, and his wit never forsook him. He looked to one of his fellow-volunteers with a smile, as he stood by the bed side with his eyes wet, and said, "John, don't let the awkward squad fire over me." He was aware that death was dealing with him ; he asked a lady who visited him, more in sincerity than mirth, what commands she had for the other world—he repressed with a smile the hopes of his friends, and told them he had lived long enough. As his life drew near a close, the eager yet decorous solicitude of his fellow townsmen in creased. He was an exciseman, it is true—a name odious, from many assosiodons, to his countrymen ; but he did his duty meekly and kindly, sad reposoosd rather than encouraged the desire of some of his comps nisns to pooh the law with severity : he wu therefore much beloved ; and t e palm of the Scotch for poetry made them regard him as little lower than sOh inspired. It Is the practice of the young men of %Weiss os meet In the sheets, during the hours of remission from Maul and by these mesas 1 had an opportunity of witnessing th e rigsolicitude of all ranks and of His dWerenees with them nlet holmium points of hums agssaLtYm and religious hope,were r ow a n egg hat es ; they eshisylet only ethis genius —o the delight his eompaldass they talked of him with the same awe as of maw aqsankig off, who Woe was to them no more. Ifh lam mormata low never ben ascribed s e d ged laid his b aadadaih , se endow mark' dhoslitiots, when his attendant re. Nor bis nadir's, and field the cup_ to his t lip. He started wodder a p,dadasd the SW at a gulp, threw Ms hands Wore him like i ll a raaa t m in , aa g grows ltoro head to foot of the bed-.-f e ll with his face dorm, and esplsoirwith a groan. SCINTILLID. , im th e e . y spend Snla th y e is gr i n t act he ea Novas or R151NG....." The most curious statement th at I have any where met with concerning the apportionment of time I' o7 sleep, occurs in Dr. Clarke's Travels. Speaking of the Norwegian., Ile says, " The lower order of people, in summer. sit up the whole nigl. l , a i r e l ir ta de ke ep no in s g lee da p y f ; or i f a th con ey si d d o era not ble go len to gth chu o rch f t part of the Sabbath in sleep • and, in winter, they amply repay th en:. selves for any privation of their hours of repose during summer.•'—yo, x. p. 215. Archbishop Williams is said to have slept only three ho w , in the four-and-twenty, "so that he lived three times u long," sea ), his biographer, "as one that lived no longer." This is a m aree ll ouc fact, for - Willi ams was a man who employed all his waking hours. and , moreover, was not of the most tranquil disposition. But I believe that any one who should attempt to follow his example, would severely Ka u for his imprudence. The mind requires regular rest as much as Ilk body, and does not so soon recover from any excess of exertion. B ut i t is the tendency of the present state of society in England to product un natural exertions. Stage.eoach hones, and walkers against time, u , not the only creatures that are worked to death in this country. 31, 4 are the labourers (and it is the moo sober and industrious upon whom the evil falls), who, by task-work, or by working what are called d a y, and quarters, prepare for themselves a premature old age. And mane are the youths who, while they are studying for University honours, rise early and sit up late, have recourse to tut for the purpose of keeping their jaded faculties wakeful, and irretrievably injure their health for ever, if this Intemperance of study does not cost them their lives:'.... louthey's *, and Prospects of Society, voL 1, p. MG. Cardinal easarion to Demetrius and Andronicus, on the death of their father. Genistius :—" I hear that our common father and tutor, having put off his earthly body. is gone into Heaven, to dance with the heavenly gods the musical dance of Bacchus. I am glad have been acquainted with so great a man. Greece never produced a wiser man since Plato, if you except Aristotle ; so that if we admit the doctrine of the Pythagoreans, and of Plato, concerning the descent and return of souls, I shall not scruple to affirm that the soul of Plato, being engaged by the indissoluble bonds of destiny to serve in a human body to complete the period of its revolutions, pitched upon Genistius for its abode, and lived in his body."—Leonis Allatii Diatribe de Geer. Os, 1). 392 . On I'ACCOMMODE A Tour.—A singer at the opera, one Rosner, in the duchy of Brunswick, was married to a very comely wife, to whom the ex.duke paid particular attention. To the worst possible voice, Rosner united the next great drawback to a player of hie role, that of bad acting. Not a night passed but the poor devil was hissed almost beyond endurance ; which caused him in a spleeny fit to say :—" My audience (pardi) are more than half composed des ties (geese)." At length, finding that the tumult of disapprobation was not likely to subside, he determined no longer " to fret his hour upon the stage," but formally to quit. When the. duke heard this, and being on tokrably familiar terms, " Rosner," says he, (taking him aside,) " don't play the fool, and leave your corps ! follow my exam. pie rather, and stand fast." " What ! if the people do not /awl me,:is th at a reasonl should budge I—(Bah !)—.Napoleon's exclama don used here gives a good breathing pause, and our sequel n:ay be ea sily imagined. Rosner continued to sing, and to be riffled as us ua l ; and the ex-duke /audit a tour mimes, madame, a Cording:ire.— F. E.—Ora Nov. 9, 1830. THE RETORT MUSICAL.—About half a century ago, when Fischer, the celebrated hautbois player, was so much in vogue at the Rotunda in Dublin, and all the concerts given at that time, a cer tain lord, highly delighted one evening, made up to him, and, after a few compliments on his masterly art, invited him to sup on the follow. log night; adding, " You won 't forget, Mr. Fischer, to put your h3ut bois in your pocket." Fischer, piqued at this cavalier manner of bidding, replied, quite off.hand.—" My Lord, my hautbois never sups ! F. E. Croydon, Nov. 3, 1830. JEREMY BENTIIAM.—TiIe reputation ef Bentham as a lawyer does not belong exclusively to England : the Continent may claim its share; for such a translator as Dumont is in some measure a second inventor. But what is not generally known is, that Bentham, after having applied in his youth the prodigious analytical powers of his mind to demonstrations of jurisprudence, increasing in republican ardour at a time of life when the ideas of order naturally predomi nate over sentiments of liberty, has beeome in his old age the head, we may almost say the idol, of a political sect —Letters on England , by ie Steel. Da. JOHNSON." The late Dr. Samuel Johnson wa sa man of great parts, and was indisputably a great man, if great puts simply can make one : but Dr. S. Johnson was the meanest of bigots, a dupe and slave to the most contemptible prejudices ; and, upon sub jects the most important, is known to have held opinions, which are ab solutely a disgrace to human understanding."—Spita or the Wood, p. 343. This very amusing work was written by Dr. Heatheote, author of a spirited political pamphlet, entitled The Iretsarch. 14 HEBDOMADARY. To4:Lay, Nov. 83.—St. Cecilia. -- _ __ _ To4sonaow.—Lawrence Stems born. 1713. WiDirillDAY.—Peace concluded with America, 1814. THIIIIIIDAY..-.-Dr. Isaac Watts died, 1748. FSlDAY.Wiilialll Cowper born, 1731. Saw witzaw.—Bishop Louth born, 1710. Susway.—Advent Sunday. Sun rises 7 minutes before B—sets 7 minutes past 4. lIRTHS. The 17th inst. at AldwarlieTliOtherhant, Lady Bouverie, of a son —The 17th inst. at ChUdwall, Liverpool, the wife of the Rev. J. A. Wilson, of a son.—The 19th inst. at Bensbam.house, Surrey, the lady of A. Macdonald, Esq of a son.—The 18th Inst. at Higbbury, the WI; of A. Weston, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. The 12th Lou.t at Clontarf, near Dublin, F. H. Halpin, Esq. of the Hon. East India C.'s Service, to'Caroline, daughter of Sir W. Stamer,lof the above city, Ban.—The 20th lost, at St. Margaret's church, W. S. &they, Req. to Laura Anne, daughter of the Key. Dr. Dakin.. in Great Dean s.yard, Westminster. DIED. Ths sth inst. at Cowes, of a lingering decline, aged 39, the Rev. A Maccabe.—.The 18th inst. Mr. A. 111. Edmonds, of 31aiden.lanc, Cheapside.--The 19th inst. at the house of her mother, Salisbury. place, New..road, J. Neill, third daughter of the late Rev. Alexander Waugh, D. D. 4 Domus et places, taxor."—Hon. Thy house, and (ia the cup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. HAPPINESS " the gay to-morrow of the mind" i 3 ensured by marriage ; " the strictest tie of perpetual friend ship," Is a gift from Heaven, cementing pleasure with reason, by which, says Johnson, " we approach in some degree of association with celestial intelligence." Previous. however, to entering into the h a llow e d obligation of marriage, it become s an Impressive duty, not only to regulate the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the neglect of such uteudoo,are attributable many of those hapless instances which, while they excite the commiseration of the beholder, dwelt also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will effenainise the body--a residence in the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the pre mature infatuation of youth, too frequently compromise the natural dignity Into a state of inanition, from whence the agouised su ff ered more than doubts the ch ance of relief. To all such then, we address ourselves, offering bepe—energy—muscular strength—felicity; nor will our advances appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of twenty years' successful experience. The easy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by the so' pension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wrestb.—for the female habit is often constitittiooally weak—yet it can be strength ened, and deficient energy improved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as la every rebratiaa of the generative economy, we ple dge oar ability to cure speedily. and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling en l Ping from the position se presumptuously taken up, we deviate from genera principles with less hesitation ' • and confident in our own honourable integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the sera log community of either Sex (especially those entering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attendance is given for per. 'anal consultation ; and letters from the country are immediately an. severed ; these must contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine. describing minutely the case, which can be forwarded to soy _part of the world, how ever di stant . N o d i Seuky can otter, as the Maki" will he securely packed, and carefully protected from observation. GOSS and Co. (M.R.C. 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