Star. — London, England, 1830-09-04 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Colonel Baillie, who has succeeded Mr. Robert Grant for the lave:- nese boroughs, in returning thanks for his health being drank, wished that " his CREATOR might forget him if he ever forgot the obligations be was under to Provost Robertson and the Gentlemen who acted with him 1 !" Tai Caoes.—The crops every where in Dumbarton end Argyll shires, are healthy, full, and excellent, and in so great a state of forward. netts, that a fortnight of favourable weather is required to have them se wed in the bath y ard. Rarstswxu. INDUSTRY AND INGENIIITTe•-Tbe °INN OM a week ago)) as a young lady, Misswas taking a waTk ar l d M Hie respectable Keeper's garden, she observed 5..-,t following instance of the ingenuity of the spider. This blowing insect, had stretched he web across the garden-path (about 5 feet In breadth), the reticulated portion occupying the centre, and one of the principal threads to which this pert was attached, had a vertical direction. Upon examining in what manna this was fastened to the ground, it was found that the ingenious insect, instead of having permanently fixed it to the gravel and path, had coiled it round a stone, a little Larger than its own body, bad raised this fully 9 inches from the walk, where it was swinging in the air, giv lag the necessary degree of tension to the net-work of the web, but not affording sufficient resistance to the wind to octagon its destruction. Of couttie, this appeared the more extraordinary, owing to the late wet weather, and it is remarkable that such an ingenious web could for any time have stood the weather's inclemency. An awful instance of the frailness of mortality occurred in this city last week. On Friday morning, Mr. Thomas Todd, of Coppergate, sboemaker, had been standing at his door, smoking his pipe, and con versing with a neighbour, when he observed that be dwught he would go in and get his breakfast. He went into the house, seated himself in a chair at the breakfast table, and almost immediately expired. He was 60 years of age.—York Courant. A distressing instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred to a Magistrate of this county, at Riverhead, on Wednesday morning last. The children of Charles Carter Pettey, Raq. of that place, were eying a kite on the lawn, and Mr. Pettey went out to see their sport and enjoy their pleasure, when he turned round suddenly, and instantly fell to the ground a corpse ! The deceased, who was an able and much. respected Magistrate, was fifty-one years of age.—Maidbrotte Journal CRICIZT.—A great treat was afforded to the admirers of this. noble and manly exercise on the Broom, Eton, on Monday, 30th of August, between eleven gentleman of the Windsor and Rosa Club, against eleven gentlemen of the Canoobury Club, Islington, which was contested with great seal and spirit, as witnessed by a numerous and respectable assemblage of individuals, who appeared highly delighted by the science displayed on both sides, till night threw her sable mantle wound and put an end to the game, leaving the competitors nearly on equality with regard to the match, vs—Canonbury having 72 runs to obtain, and nine wickets to go down. Betting rather in favour of Ca nenbury. The parties and their friends retired to Mrs. Lillywhite's, the Swan Inn, Windsor, and partook of a most excellent dinner, wines, dm of the first quality, nd spent the evening tills late hourArthere good humour and harmony prevailed throughout. After which the Canon bury gentlemen took their departure for London, highly gratified with the kind and friendly reception they met with from the gentlemen of the Windsor and Eton Club and their friends. INTRODUCTION OF THE COTTON MA N UFACT LT RE INTO IRELAND.—The first water-mill erected in Ireland for spinning cotton-twist was built in the neighbourhood of Belfast. In the year 1771. at which time there was not a single cotton loom in the whole north of Ireland, the late Robert Joy conceived the scheme of intro. during into this then desponding kingdom the cotton manufacture, which had proved an unfailing source of industry and consequent opu lence to the sister country. Having, in conjunction with Thomas 11i Cabe. suggested that the spinning of cotton yarn might, as an intro ductory step to the establishment of the manufacture, be at once a fit and profitable employment for the children in the common wheel ; but the various machinery in England giving that country so great a superiority, it was found that no benefit could be gained without the introduction of it here. A spinning machine was therefore made in Belfast, under the direction of Mr. N Grimslutw, cotton and linen printer, from ; England, who had some time before settled in this country. And shortly after, an experienced spinner was brought over by lir. Joy hem Scot: land, to instruct the children in the poor.bouse. Also, under the same direction, and at the expense of the gentlemen mentioned, a carding machine was erected at Mr. Grimshaw's, to go by water, which was afterwards removed to the poor-house, and wrought by hand. A Bun was now formed of the original projectors and others, under the name of Joys, M 'Cabe, and 31‘eracken, who contracted with the same charitable institution for the employment of a number of its children, as well as for the use of its vacant 10011111 They also de -7= s skilful mechanic to England, who, at personal risk and con. expense, procured a minute knowledge of the most improved machinery there, which the proprietors and Inventors wished to have kept watt from this as well as foreign countries. But so far from coo. fining their hopes of gain to themselves, these gentlemen encouraged the public to avail itself of their improvements. They exposed their ins. chinery to open view, permitted numbers, even from distant parts, to be taught in their apartments, without any charge for such indulgence, and rlthe progress of the manufacture of cottons, dimities, and zeles ted quilting equally by example and instruction. These ex ertions were in time followed, on an enlarged scale, by Mesas. Na. Ithanid Wilson and Nicholas Grimelaw. To the talents, property, and adventurous spirit of the former of these gentlemen, and to the practical knowledge, genius, and industry of the latter, this country stands very highly indebted. The first mill fa spinning twist by water in Ireland was built by them, in the year 1781, fam which date the Irish cotton manufactures were considers' as firmly established. In the year 1800. only 23 years from the origin of the sot arise by Joy and IMITAibe, it ap ed in evidence before Parliament, that the cotton manufacture that had thus introducted gave employment to 13,600 working.people ; including all manner of persons occupied in va rious ways, to 27,000, within a circuit of only ten miles, but coinpra heading within its bounds the towns of Belfast and Lisburn. In less than ten years from their first introduction into the cranny, several thousand looms were employed in the manufacture of mass In the towns of Belfast, Lisburn, and Hillsborough; at peassat these me eight very large cotton mills in Belfast and its said seven others in different neighbouring isms s sad, slam* Musk so estimate the number of hands sniped is ins mills, it is —'r' those in and about Belfast glea omploymmt so upward, of 30,110 individuals.—Horde's Northern Tourist. FANTAZIA. For the Second of September. Well might the spirit of the Ancients swoon l!pon tl.e labours of the struggling moon, Yet passing lovely in her travail.—Well Might tney be anxious to dissolve the spell With noisy music to dissolve the charm, t If incantation giving her alarm A tweet relief, to have her silver light Amompany the sables of the night. Who can refrain from looking upon her, With pity for so fair a sufferer ! For China, persevering to the last IVith brazen vessels, and with trumpet Warn, Your sympathy shall be rewarded soon Ye Antidotards to the struggling moon. AMERICAN POETRY. The Printer's Hour of Pews. Know ye the Printer's hour of peace? Know ye an hour more fraught with joy, Than ever felt the maid of Greece, When kiss'd by Venus' am'rons boy. 'Tis not when round the mary eve, His nimble fingers kin the types, Nor Is it when with lengthen 'd face, The sturdy devil's tad he gripes. 'Tis not when news of dreadful note, Hiseolamns all with elision fill; "Pis not when brother Printers quote Tb' effusion of his stump-wen quill 'Tis not when all his work Si done, Tied and fadgued as any dog, And heedless of his coming dun, Grows merry o'er a glass of pea 'Tis not when in Miss Palley's glass Loog Adasrliseatists meet his eye, And seem to whisper as they pass, " Well grace your columns by and bye." Nor is it when with numerous names His lengthen'd roll of vellum swells, As if %were touched by Conj'ror's wand, Or grew by Fairies' magic spells. No—Reader—no—the Printer's hoot, His hour of real sweet repose, L not when by some magic power, His list of Patrons daily grows. But, Oh, 'tls when the weather's clear, Or clad in hail, or rain, or vapour, He hears in accents soft and dear— " I've come to PAY you for the PAP'S r LINEA DAITTIII TO A LADY IS DISTIDIS. There is a world where we forget The sorrows of this scene below ; There is a balm for all regret, A refuge foe the tears of woe. Ifs faint weary pilgrim thou, Enquiring where that realm may be, And where the hunted soul may go To hide it from its misery t Look up ! It is in Heaven above, Where grief is hush'd, and Gov is love How many:a year to sorrow known I wandered o'er the earth to find A breast whereon my heart might gross. Far from the murmurs of mankind. But all proved callous and unkind; illy anguish grew the more intense, And mutely bore my maddened mind ; Affliction's s uing sense.: I knew not then of Heaven above, Where grief is hush'd, and GOD is love. Loud shrieks the wintry blast beneath, And scowls the cloud, and roan the storm Fiera, mighty is the arm of Death,. Tho' mw., his victim, but a worm. Chafe the wild waves, with light•rdng warm, And drives the hail along the sky, And every gust but nevi alarm To all born scarce to breathe and die ! Still--all is calm in Heaven above, Where grief is hush'd—and GoD Is love. But to that realm can we attain ? Alas ! we can but weep and view. Ah ! say not so, or mourn in vain, For GoD bath borne this burthen too The scourge—the garden—and the wreath — The darkness—aoss—and soldier's spear; His sacred life—and silent death Proclaim—" A moment GoD was bore !* To man belong the realms above, Where grief is hush'd—and GOD IS LOVE. /. SUMMER ASSIZE& LANCASTER, Winits•DAY, tin?. 1. Nut Patus.--(11dore Mr. Justice &MM.) NAIIIALL V. SZAIFE. Mr. Por.t.ocz, with whom was Mr. Henderson, for the plaintiff, stated to the Jury, that the present was an action brought by Mr. Has sell to recover from Mr. Skids, a shipowner and merchant of Liver. pod, the amount of an insurance on a ship which, at the desired the defendant, the plaintiff bad caused to be effected. The facts, as they came out in evidence, were these. The plaintiff is an agent to the Al. Hence Insurance Company of London, and an insurance broker residing at LiverpooL On the 93d of February, 1829, the defendant (Mr. Shift) wrote to him desiring him to effect an insurance on a vessel called the Solon, bound on a voyage from Demerara to Liverpool, for the sum of three thousand guineas. This note was received about two o'clock in the day, and the plaintiff deeming it best, after some inquiries amongst the underwriters at Liverpool, to hays the Insurance effected in London, sent the order to his principals, the Alliance Company. In the mean time an unfavourable re port respecting the Solon had got attend, and the inseam lose from 30a. to 40s. (the ordinary rate at that period of the year), to ten guineas per cent. The Alliance refused to underwrite the vessel for 40s. per cent. and as the order to insure left the agent no alternative, he was compelled to pay the high rate of tan guineas p er cent; half of this amount was covered by the underwriters at Lloyd's, and the other half was underwrote by the Alliance Company. When the result was communicated to Mr. &kalif, at Liverpool, be refused to recognise the transaction, and said he would have nothing to do with it. He had pre viously heard of the arrival of the Solon at Wirers, off the coast of Ireland and the defence set up was, that he had ven no instructions to Mr. Hassell to send the order to London, but he (Mr. Haman) had done so in order to advance the interests of his principals, the Al liance Company ; the premium also, it was contended, was so un reasonably high ato be quite preposterous to expect Mr. Skiffs to Pay It. Mr. Him:roma* for the defendant, urged this topic very forcibly to the Jury, and called several witnesses, merchants and others, to prove that it was in the option of the principal in an insurance to refuse his sanction to any policy that had been effected at an unreasonable or un usually high rate s such had been the conduct of Mr. Simi& on the pre. sent occasion, and that conduct was justified by all the laws of the mer cantile world. PoLiocz ridiculed, very happily, this doctrine, which, if true, would leave the owner of a ship in the enviable situation of having it in his power to secure himself against all the risks of the sea, by refusing to recognise the act of his agent, supposing his vessel. whilst the order was recent or pending, or its completion unsanctioned by him, to arrive, as the vessel in question had actually done, in the interval The Learned JUDGIC summed up, and left it for the jury to decide whether the plaintiff was justified under the circumstances in sending the order for insurance to London ? The Jury deliberated for some minutes, and after ascertaining by a question to one of the witnesses, the class of the vessel (B 2) gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the whole cost of the premium, 3351. bs. The LORD Cams JUSTICE was occupied during the whole day in bearing two eases, involving disputes between some parishioners and rectors, as to the tithe medusas; the eases possessed no general interest, being mere references to records and church leases. MURDER AT CHARD. It has already been observed that the body was found by two on Tuesday morning in the following situation s..—The body te= on the back at full length on a slight declivity, the bead downwinis, and the left arm over the head ; the spurs were on, one of which was deeply indented in the earth, apparently in the last struggle ; the coat was nearly new, but torn across at the skins; one of the braces at some distance, the waistcoat was unbottoned, and the shirt disordered, as if the body had been dragged into its shoed's, head foremost. In the pockets cash to the amount of 131. 12s. 6d. was discovered, sad around the body some halfpence were scattered; the watch remained in the kb. The corpse being in a state of decomposition, and the eyes hubs bass devoured by the birds, presented a frightful apparana ; the bah ales was considerably tainted from the effluvia which arose from the body. Foe the convenience of the surgeons it was removed in a shell to the Red Lion Inn, and the inquest adjourned until nine o'clock yesterday morn. lag at the George. Wednesday morning at ten o'clock, the jury bola( sworn, the two re who bond the body were the first witnesses called.called. it l:und Bat* labourer, lives in the parish of Theudigtem I was employed in a field on Tuesday belong's' to Mr. Joseph Hash; was cutting wheat with Charles Hash; kis master's son had bean ens. ;obeyed in the same field on the pre; ions tti ai r ra2 a en t about ten o'clock in the morning witness discovered the body in a furrow, in the same posidon as was shown to the jury ; witness called his comrade; did not at first know who it was, but bad beard of a suspected murder; witness immediately despatched Charles Hants to his master, tor v v ed e information, and witness remained with the body until persons arr from Chard ; witness did not observe any tack lauding to the body, but the wheat around the body was rolled down for the apace of several yards. about fifteen feet from the body, a pocket.hendkerehief was found; towards the gate, one of the deceased's knees also lay en the ground, about five feet from the body, towards the In the direction of the gap in the hedge; on turning over the body sllsewaeda, In the presence of the jury, be discovered that the skirts of the mat were WA 'COM aadeeHarris conobovated the evidence of Edmund Maeda. John Coles, is a cabinet-maker, lives at Chard. Wen to a field at Dennington, on Tuesday morning, where it was reported a body been found ; discovered to a certainty that it was the body of Stuckey by his memorandum-book ; witness searched the rebus d the deceased, and first found the watch in his fob, and afterwards as. sisted in cutting open his right-band pocket with Mr. Wightman, when other property was found in &purse, els. two 21. notes of fitackey's bank. three sovereigns, and some silver, consisting of three half cow four shillings, and two sixpences, and some loose halfpence; also some keys; mane coppers were also found a few yards from the body, towards the hheeddggee , . ia th e direction of the bad; his pocket-book wee found in his leitutd breast pocket; Mantle, his gloves, a measuring -tape, and a piece of Indian-rubber, were also found. The heels of die deceased were indented Into the ground, and the OR spur was deeply imbedded in the earth. The shirt was pulled up beyond the waist of the trousers, so as to leave the body bare for about two inches ; the hinder part of his shirt was also pulled out and hanging over the trousers. Robert Perry, Amy Perry, and Essennalt Matthews, swam—Bobo; Perry, labourer, lives at the parish of Chillington, with hi e d aug h ter , in the toad leading from Dennington to Windwhisde. On the night of Monday, the 9th of August, went to bed about 9 o'clock; ab o ut 11 o'clock he heard a bone pass in a pllop, it appeared from the Done to be a small hone, but it seemed as if going towards Demniwon. Witness got up the next morning about haß.pest four o'clock, and left home to go to work about five o'clock, which is his usual time of going to work ; he went on the rood towards Dennington ; about 100 yards from his house, near the gate of Mr. DowaU's fields, on the left hand side, he discovered that a person bad been sick to some ex cess ; he ;hen proceeded until be came to a crook in the lane, about 140 yards father on, there he found a bat on the right hand side; be then carried back th e hat to his own house t he did not observe any bruises or din on the bat t told his daughter that if any one ailed and owned the hat, they were to have it. Amy Perry, aged 22, spinster, keeps house for her father; on the sight spoken of by her father recollects bearing a horse pass, and en t h e ta. lowing morning, about five o'clock, her tether called to her and said be had been in the lane and found a bat, which be left en the table. Wit. ness came down stain, and found the hat on the table, which was dusty and wet; there were three or four marks round the hat, which looked lihe the marks of a stick. She dried and cleaned the hat, exposing that it would be called for. Susan Matthews, lives at ChUlington t is a single waft& on Tuesday, the 111th of August, about balf-past eight o'clock io the morning, she went towards HM Farm, with her little boy's breakfast; she came into the road at Mr. owell's gate, very near Perry's cottage, and proceeded on the road a few yards, when she discovered that the ground bore the appearance as if there had been a scuffle, by clods of dirt and stones being kicked up , and she saw a vomit on the left side, about a yard farther on; and on the right hand side she disco vered some blood covering about the space of the crown of a hat. She then observed in the middle of the road, doss by, a mark, as if some timber had been dragged along towards the bridge; and about three feet from the blood she discovered a stick. The dragging track con tinued within a few yards of the bridge; she than returned to the vomit, and moved it with a stick, when it appeared so be trips ; she then threw the stick into the hedge. She went - into the field and told the people at stork what she had seen, and on her return she took up the stick and carried it home, which she afterwards pve up; between the blood and vomit she maw a large stone in the middle of the road, about the size of a man's two lists. Margaret Lucy, single woman, lives at Dennington ; remembers on the 9th of August she came from a neighbour's house (Joseph Wood land's,) and went into her own; she bad a lighted candle in her hand, and she tonne only to make fast her done; she saw a man sitting on a pony in the road about half pest ten o'clock, and he asked her the road to Chard; she did not think he was tipsy; she then told him the way ; he then asked her to go and put him in the right mad; she aid, " No, Sir, 1 shan't do that , and went in and fastened the door. The man had on white trousers and a dark coat. — loWeilt - iVomilead,Taioirer, lives at Dennington ; remembers the night at the lith of August last, when last witness want out of his house, and beard her speaking to some one; she had a candle in bar hand, which shone against the man and hares--it would have bees dark otherwise; the man was upon a s ir an e t it appeared he had a dark 1 coat and white trousers on ; when Lucy shut her door, depo. neat sew the man proceed on the to Chard. Woodland's cottage is about a mile from the bridge, where the blood, du. were found. Hugh Clerk is a master.useson ; recollects, Monday three weeks, that he was at the Windwhistle inn; he went to the inn within a quer ter. it an hour to six o'clock in the evening; deponent bad a pint of die; saw Simeon Stuckey come in about isalf-past six o'clock; he bad a pint of eider; before Stuckey left, he took out his puns and paid the the elder with a tist• ; be was sitting about six feet from depo nent ; It appeared to deponent that there was a quantity of money in the puns; knew Stuckey, but was not acquainted with him; be left Madera's& inn, about half-post seven, to go to J. Russell's house at 1 Cudworth, when be lodges; he there found Russell's wife and Henry Down, of Ilsainster.who was white-washing the house; be went to bed about eleven o'clock; Down was there then. Mr. Richard Sampson lives at Loamy Fans, in the parish of King. non. Oa the Wednesday after the body was supposed to be murdered, I went to the spot where the hat had been found; about thirty yards to wards Dinnhoron deponent saw a mark in the ditch, and an the bank ; it was on the left side, as if a person had been sitting there; on the op. podte side there was also evident marks where a person must have eat; farther on, opposite to the adjoining field to that In which the body was found, he observed another mark on the right side, baring an appear. ernes as if a person had reclined against the bank; he observed a mark about the aim of a half-crown of some moisture, opposite the first - named mark, which he concluded might have been blood. Mr. Rance, surgeon, of liminswr, on removing the hair from the head, with the assistance of Mr. Sylvester, discovered two wounds on the right side, one was smaller than the other, and on removing the scalp they found a very considerable extravasation of blood between the scalp and the skull, Immediately connected with the wounds; on mom ing the skin under the largest wound, which was at the beck of the head, they discovered a fracture to the extent of Ave inches and three quarters, extending to the ban of the brain; from this proceeded several smaller fractures, which would most probably cause instant death; and their opinion also stated that most probably the ftacture was inflicted by a blunt instrument. Mr. Rust= was of opinion that the large wound on the head would have cased a considerable Sow of blood, and a discharge from the stomach. Mr. Sylvester, another surgeon, said that the conviction on his mind was, that it was almost impossible for the deceased to have got to the place where he was found after the reed tof the wound. When our reporter left, there remained the depositions of two females to be made. It appears that they were returning home in the neigh. bourhood late on the Monday evening, and each of them distinctly heard a whistling, as if more than one was concealed. There can be no ques don as to the verdict of the Jury, which we can confidently predict from the evidence adduced will be-." Found murdered ;" and wilful murder declared JostrnaL against some . person or persons yet POLICE REPORTS. GUILDHALL.—Wm. Raelamp, a tneymu aboemakeg, about 40 years of age, was yesterday chimed with maliciously stabbing Ca th erine, ids wife, on Thursday evening. EX* the beadle of St. Stephen's, Coknsaa4dreet, said be found the prisoner in custody, and the poor woman being brought out ins chair to be carried to St. Bartholomew's Miguel, be learnt that she bad been living apart from her husband some time, and be was en a deft on Thursday, when, from =dyes of jealousy, be suddenly seised ber, and stabbed her twice in tbs thigh with • knife else was using in bee business as a shoe-binder. He also cut her down the the*. Wit ness put In the certificate of the house sows elf the beagital, that be did not consider tbe wounds at dlimpomm. dough we et them wee vary near the principal army of the Mary Ann Short, who lases in Me imosomellmowl this whims. Prisoner was remanded. Bow.srassx.—lnformation was meshed at this Ale of the fol. bob( skilful as impudent robbery, which was memobtai we the - so eta Mr. William Cooper, a tradrimes,mbillag at in the of Bucks, sod who, it is lementabie to add, bas;a wife and sisitt ehildrm depending on him for support. lir. Cooper, it se m, moo to tows on Welmaday late, to dispose at no timber, and gee be It a sum of OIL This mosey he had in his pact es be was eleading in Middleaser, Holborn, the same aftmusen„ leaking about him. While midis souse prints in a shop-wirier, be was accosted by a darksood sees, whose bright might be six fem. said whose dense barks bin to be a person of reepeeteMlity. Not lawaroos say fi Mr. Cooper and this person moillemul to walk about, sad finally adjourned to the Hercules Moe pabilabenee. in Great Quern-otrect, where they woe Maul by a low.eleed pale.vimged, but well. dressed man, who, after Stift about some hadut subjects for some little time, said that he bud just pined a lawns* and would not mind rdin6l. in drink out ofEn=t his success. At this juncture C° k e Pulled oat MI to put into it a 61. note, and having so, he *eel pocketbook beet again in his breeches pocket. In some bile time afterwards be retired MOM the room, and en his ream missed his companions, and subsequently discovered, that although his pocket-book remained where be bad placed it, its contents had by some means or another been abstracted, and he had no doubt that this was accomplished by the two men alludes' to. He lost a 401. note, three 101. notes, three 61. notes, twenty IL notes, ands note for 104. on the Burfroy Bank, together with six sovereigns, being every fraction oldie money he possessed 1 Mr. HALLS said that persons, puticular swingers , ought to be very cautious who they got into conversation wi th in London. Occurrences of this kind were continually happening, and still foolish pie would not take warning. In conclusion, the Magistrate directed the Clerk to take the necessary information, and ordered the requisite means to be taken for stopping the payment of the notes. Mr. Cooper thanked the Mate, and retired. This afternoon, Dr. Thompson, one of the medical gen. down who were examined on the inquest taken by Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, on the body of Miss Caahin, waited on Mr. HALLS, the Sitting Magistrate, to caqquire whether say warrant bad been issued at this office foe the app n sension of Mr. St. John Long, against whom a ver dict of mamknOter had been returned by the jury P Mr. Maoist 6folmd the Doctor that no vastest bad been granted at that elks, neither could there be, unless the cam was gone into upon inhandon. Be. Misspent Nil he had applied to the constable who summoned the anoint, hid had lamed that tee warrant had been given to him by the Coroner he the appeehende• et Mr. St. John Long. Mr. Rau.' advised Dr. Thinspeen to see the Coroner on the rub. feet t it was his duty to grant a warrant to the constable. LaxszTn.exaExT.—Yesterday Clinks Nash, Steward at the Sailors' Home, or Brunswick Maritime Establishment, in Well.street, Wellelose.equare, was charged with inhumanity to his son, nine yea= of age. The Magistrates convicted the prisoner in the highest penalty the law allows, viz. 51. he the vault, or two months' imprisonment in the Howe of Camden t and also ordered that he enter into bail, himself in 501. and two sureties in M. each; to keep the peace fee 12 months. Tower Mate—John Pearce, the landlord of the Bell, Falcon.court, Borough, appeared to a sammeas ranted on an information, charging him with keeping his house open during the hours of divine service.— He was waylaid in the penalty of 50s. and costs. Munn-Ham...MN Pratt, who surrendered himself about a week ago on a charge of murder, was again brought up yesterday for examination. Mr. Swears said that. in answer to the inquhies he bad directed to be made, relative to the murder which Pratt had voluntarily con. feared himself to have been implicated in, and which was committed in the county of Cheshire, it had been satisfactorily ascertained that he amid not have been the man, and that his statement, n far as regarded himself, was a nitwit:ado+ from begining to end. Pratt, who seems to have bad quits enough of a peleon, said, you may rely upon it, yew Worship, I am as Woman of the murder of Mr. Wood as the child unborn. I happened to have been at Man. cheater when the carder was committed, and therefore was aware of all the cireumstanam attending it, having heard and read a good dad on the subject. Mr. SWASIT asked the prisoner what be should do in the evert of Ms ? Pratt said dint he had a couple of shillings, he sh ou ld make the best of his way as where his Mader* lived, and that he bad no doubt they would obtain employment for him, as they knew be wee ►arest and indwells*. The Magistrate, having Owed oat to Pratt the absurdity of his conduct in making such a charge against himself, directed that he might be furnished with two shillings, and advised him to proceed to North. am ton as speedily as possible. Quinn...Qualm...Thursday Nathaniel Knight, a private in th e 2d battalion of the 3d regt. of Foot Guards, was br ough t before Mr. Gas. noun and Mr. MARRIOTT, by an escort of soldiers belonging t o t h e same regiment, under the command of the Adjutant, the H . Capt a in Montague, for final examination, charged with having violently as. linked Sophia Seta. _ The prisoner declare d his innocence, and was fully committed fur trial on the capital charge. John Sissr,a tannin in the employ of a gentleman n ame d Rh odes, = is upon a summons at the instance of the Society for Preventin g Animals. Mr. James Dugan, an en-Lieutenant of the 48th Regiment of Foot Guards, stated that as he was passing over Westminster Bridge on Friday afternoon, the defendant was most wantonly and cruelly beating a horse over the head with the double of the whip, because the animal bad not sufficient strength to draw a cart overladen up the bill of the bridge. He had not observed the defendant more than a few minute, when he taw him kick the horse under the belly, in the most brutal manner. In order to make the blows with the whip on the head tell with additional weight, the defendant threw of his jacket. Mr. Rhodes obtained permission to ask the witness any questions. The witness, in reply to his interrogatories, said be had been us e d to ride a base, and that in his opinion the animal in question was not restive, but most willing, and unable to proceed in conseq uence of the had being too weighty for its strength. Witness wa s not employed by any Society, nor would he derive the least advantag e if the defendant were convicted. It was distressing to his feelin gs to witness such wanton cruelty to an maimsl so useful, and he was induced by no other motive but humanity to attend and give ed. deuce. Denny, as alter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ant. male, confirmed the evidence of the preceding tritium. In reply to questions from Mr. Rhodes, ha said that he was paid a re plat 'filmy by the Society, and a moiety of the penalties when de. fladants were convicted, an d without conviction he was not paid. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that the horse was toy reedy on the afternoon in question, and he was compelled to beat the animal to prevail on it to stir, but he did not flog it unnecessarily nor cruelly.—Several witnesses were called on the part or the defendant, who swore that the horse was generally restive. Mr. Msiartrrr in commenting on the evidence, took occedon to condemn the practice of paying the witnesses when they succeeded in obtaining conviction. Such a system was liable to every see of abuse and corruption, which be sincerely trusted wo u ld be altered, and that disinterested witnesses would be alone em by the Sockty. Mr. Rhodes gave his 'servant an excellent character as to his humanity to salmis. 31r. MARRIOTT and Mr. WILLIAMS, a country magistrate, con victed the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 10s.which his muter paid. Jobs Meakertri* a police constable of the A division, was charged with riotous and di sorderly behaviour In the public streets, and aesaalt ing Mr. George Bradley,. grocer, In Dean-street, Soho-square. The complainant stated that, about half-past 11 o'clock on the pre views evening, the defendant and another person were creating a riot in the street close to his door. lie went out, and found that the defend ant was very drunk, and was molesting every person that passed. Se. veral other police constables came up, and he gave charge of the de fendant for Wing drunk, when be assaulted him, and it was with great digit:miry that he was taken to the station-house. William Deers, A division, No. 7, confirmed Mt. Bradley's statement as to the iseault. A police eargeant said that the defendant had been (Untamed from the police that rooming foe his misconduct. SCINTILLA. A SOCIAL MEAL.—When a trim. con. is detected in Banana, the laws of the country permit the offended party and his friends to kill the gallant and eat hies I—Phdos. Trans. A BROAD HINT.—It was formerly customary, on the manse of a Knight of the Bath, for the King's Muter Cook to take off the new-made Chevalier's spurs at the conclusion of the ceremony, and to retain them a a perquisite, saying, " I, the King's Master Co* am come to receive your spurs for my fee; and if you do any thing contrary to the order of the knighthood, (which Goa forbid), I shall hack jeer spurs from yaw heels." Lorraates.—The first Lottery in England was drawn in theie t s: o l:o9. It consisted of 40,000 lots, at 105. a lot ; th e p r i ses were and the profits were to go towards repairing the havens of the k . It was drawn at the west door of lit. Paul's Cathedral The drawing began on the I Ith of January, and continued Mehl end day till the 6th of May following. EARTHERwARE.—The art of making earthenware was transported from Etruria into Greece. The Romans also borrowed this invention from the Etruscan*, to whom Greece was also indebted for many of its ceremonies and religious institution, a 'cites for its me chanics end artificers. HARTHOLOMILW FAlR...—.Tbie fair was originally granted b b y e ad y v esi le e to the priory of fit. Bartholomew by King Henry I L to be at Bertew-tide, " for three days..-to wit, the eve, the day, and next morrow." monarchs have confirmed this charter, &elating that its dura tion be three days. The charter of Charles I. does not declare the period of its dilation, but being a charter of confirmation only, cannot authorise any subsequent ex tension. By this mistake it was continued for fourteen days. until, by a pro clamation in the Caulk of August 2, 1791., it was restricted to four ye. ANCIENT COCENZT Hentzner, In his " Journey to Ragland," published in 1768, says t—" Every yews It b usual for the Lord Ma of London* to rids into tweithfieltle, atteadid by twelve prineipsl dressed in their scarlet gowns and robes, and, whenever he goes abrade, a sceptre, that is to say, a mace, and cap, are borne before him. When the yearly faire is proclaimed a tat is pitched, and after the ceremony is over the mob begin to wrestle be fore them, two ate time, and the conquerors are rewarded by them, by mono thrown thrown from the tent. After this a parcel of wild rabbits are loose in the crowd, sad hunted by boys with great noise I re which the Mayor and Aldermen do much* besport themselves. Befogs this time them was an old custom, for the scholars of London to men at this Friary of St. Bartholomew, to dispute in logic and grammar. span a bank seder a tree : the b est of them were rewarded with silver bows and snows." The present march qf hedging has marched ewe, ma the logic and grammar, and made way foe— " Shelly fiddling, sharp fighting, and shouting, and shrieking: Fifes, trumpets, drums, bagpipes, sad berrow-giris squeaking." HORSE RACING IN CALCUTTA.—There are races in Calcutta during the cold season, but they are not very numerously at tended. The horses start at the inconvenient and antediluvian hour seven In the moming—a trying moment, we have been told, for Mask charms. Few ladles therefore attend, though occasionally the sport 0 excellent. In 1824, Arabella performed a mile in one minute fort,- eight seconds ; and the rate of !Master ,Edwatd, a horse bed in tie country, was nearly equal to the fastest horse at Newmarket. let tt not be supposed that ail talent in that line is in Tattersall's betting room on the other side of the water. The late Mr. O. had ands a match with Col. G. but his horse unhappily fell lame. The Colonel's horse died. Both facts were carefully concealed. Mr. a watt to CO 0. who, after some difficulty, was persuaded to accept half forfeit— " I rejoice," said little 0. " that you are content with half my money: for, between ourselves, my horse has not been able to stand fur the kat week." " And, to tell you the truth," replied the other, • mine he been deed three." ESCAPE OP GkOTWS PROM Paxsox.—Grotins freely allowed, during his close imprisonment, all the relaxation , of study. Bis friends supplied him with quantities of books, which war usually brought into tho fortress in a trunk two feet two ladies long, which the Governor regularly and carefully examioed the ant year. But custom brought relaxation in the strict Des of the prison rules; and the wife of the illustrious prisoner, his flabf k ol and constant shifter, proposed the plan of his escape, to which is; gave a toady and, all hazards considered, a courageous assent. Shot up in his trunk for two hours, sad with all risk of suffocation, and of I •D' jury from the rude handling of the soldiers who carried it out of the fort, Grottos was brought clear of by the very agents of his persoco• tors, and safely delivered to the ears of his devoted and duatet female servant, who knew the seam, and kept it well. she attended the im portant consignment in the barge to the town of Gorcum ; sad ire various risks of discovery, providentially escaped; Grodus at length found himself safe beyond the limits of his native land.—Cobinee &podia. XiNny qf the Nether/weds. BIRTHS. The let Inst. at Weybridge, the lady of Captain Beedly, R. N. ef I , daughter—The 9d last. Mrs. Robert Winter, of Clapham-common , e` a daughter—The M inst. in Bedford-place, Rusaell-square, bin . Hearse Burnand, of a daughter. _ MARRIED. The Ist inst. Mr. E. 11. Cooper, of Manchester. to Mal* clavil daughter tithe late J. Withington, Esq. of Ashfield.Pendlrton...T h 2d inst. at Moreton Say, Salop, T. (Meant, Esq. of blanches:et. to Margery, youngest daughter ef the late W. Minor, Esq. of Ma r, Brow, neat Market Drayton. —..—.....--- DI MM. The Ist inst. at Lewis, =, Fanny Anne, the eldest daoglam of 0. P. Parkin. Esq. of Woolwich—The 2dth ult. at the lee. C. S. Fanshawe's, Fawley Elis a b et h, & w ow of the late J. W. Williams, Lieutenant in the al 31arines.—The 2&h nit. at Ilbanklis Parsonage, Isle of Wight. in the booping.eough, Harries lb* youngest daughter of the Bev. Archdeacon Hill.—Yesterday. 111111 . dyer's bouse,ttKenningtamgroes, in the 27th year of his or. BIL I. Vanisyse, oi Little Tomishaiiii: Louses: Pointed sod rubbed by JOIN MAYNE, ei lb. Sims - Orrzcz, Na L, Plabst-place, Temple Bar