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r • ..- The London Bridge Committee have determined to open the splendid structure, which does such credit to their exertions, on the let of Au gust, and the ceremony will he performed with all the customary and requ kite formalities. In 1R24, his Royal) clighness the Duke of York went in state to lay the first stone of the Bridge, and the Committee, with Alderman Garrett, who was then Lord Mayor, at their head, re ceived the Royal visitor in their full dress gowns, with a magnific . nt display of flags and banners, bands of music. and every other demob. stration of respect and loyalty. The occasion of the opening will be distinguished by an exhibition of a much grander kind, because there Is a more extensive area ter operations, anti none particularly because it s believed that a higher honour will be conferred upon the citizens than the presence of any subject is capable of bestowing. The footway in each side of the bridge will be covered with flags and banners, an dis pelled as to have a sublime effect, without. in the slightest degree, inter cepting the view of the river. All the necessary decorations will be supplied by the various City Companies, and the high Metropolitan So. chiles. Tents and marquees will be constructed for the reception of the distinguished visitors, anti a sumptuous defrune a /a fourehelte .;i1 he prepared. The entr.:nees to the bridge from the river arc ac- Itt ouledged by the most eminent architects to be the most capacious oat noble to be seen in any part of Europe ; so that the spectacle of a i.tocession from the margin of the water to the middle of the bridge. .could probably have a mite) firer effect than the plan generally put stied. Weterloo.britige was. it will be recollected, opened by his Ma tt sty's predecessor, unor which occasion the most gorgeous display was :.tale. The London Bridge Committee az , resolved that the civic building. which surpasses its older neighbour in size and beauty, shall I e omit(' t. iw proportionate splendour. Ilia Grace the Duke of Wel. Jingtnn, wi a has taken a •!ree.t interest in the grard national edifice, and has constantly visited i• since the first stone was laid, narrowly in. spected it a few days ago, and in the warmest manner expressed his ad miration of the judicious conduct of the committee, who have so nearly concluded their labours. The hope that his Majesty will be pleased to honour the citizens by opening the bridge, is strengthened by the fact that it is impossible to mix up any question.of politics in the matter, whatever change may take place in the condition of public liberty before the eppronted day shall have urrived. The citizens look forwani to the ea) , in the earnest wish that the Ring will honour the new bonding, which will be ctonpleted at so auspicious a period, with his presence. Conjectures etc nlready made as to the way his Majesty will go, and it seems to be the cencral simposition, though not the general hope, that he will pass over his favourite element to pay the welcome visit. The ministers mid nobility, and leading men of all parties and principles, are to be invited, and the scene, no doubt, will be splendid in an eminent degree. The most experienced ;veteran in raising the elements of turbulence cannot introduce, upon an occasion like this, an expedient calculated to throw a gloom upon the prepara tions. The members of the Corporation and their ladies are to have tickets, but we believe that circumstances will decide whether or not they will to tend in the corporation COEiUITC. The London Bridge Com mittee will set ofd from the Guildhall early on the Ist of August, in carriages, and will be followed by the Lord Mayor, accompanied by the high city officers, in state. The river will, in the immediate neigh. bourhood of the bridge, he covered with boats. The barges of all tLe companies will be mooree at some distance from the bridge, at each side, and bands of music will play upon, the decks while the ceremony is going forward. a I • 01111.11 t dr, k _ I •:. 4 1 4° ' 1 44 jur g • ul ') 11240 411141 ZING OF LONDON BRIDGE. A CASE OF GREAT HARDSHIP. I t A poor man, named John Finch, is now confined in the gaol of Horsemorger-lane, for a debt of Ifs. being an arrear cf poorrates duc to the parish of IVindlesham, in the county of Surrey. The circum stances under which the unfortunate man has been thus incarcerated, furnish another instance of the mal-administration of the poor laws, and of the mode in which country justice is. we fear, too often dispensed. Previous to the seizure made by the parish officers, Finch, it appears, was distrained upon for rem, and all his little moveables were sold, to satisfy the demand of his landlord. A friend stepped forward on his behalf, and purchased for him a few stools and tables, and thus stocked he opened a school. lie had been, however, but a very short time in this line of business, when he was summoned to attend the bench of tragistrates at Guildford (a distance of thirteen miles from where he lived), to show cause why he had neglected to pay an arrear of poor. rates, amounting to five shillings, due by him to the parish of Win tilesham, in which he resided. The poor man had abundant means of moving his inability to pay the sum demanded; but, fearful that if be locked up his school to attend the summons of the magistrates, he should lose his scholars ; and being, moreover, in want of shoes to perform a journey of twenty-six miles, he neglected to obey the mandate, conceiving that the parish authorities were aware of his distressed situation, and would not urge him beyond his means. Ir this, however, he was mistaken ; for, after the lapse of a fortnight. or three weeks, a constable arrived with a warrant for his apprehension, signed by the lion. and Ittv. Mr. Onslow, of Guildford, and his reps. tire, Mr. Serjeant Onslow, both Magistrates of the Guildford Bench. The unfortunate man, sooner than he sent to prison, offered to give up the only property he possessed in the world, namely, a few tables and forms in his school-room, to satisfy the demand of the parish ; but the constable told him that these arJcles would not be sufficient—that the debt, including the cost of the summons, warrant, services, &c. and amounted to between 10. and 17s and that his orders were P convey him forthwith to the gaol of Horsemonger-lane.— (solar Finch, finding that he had no other elernative, submit ted to his hard fate, and the constable, having provided a horse and chaise, conveyed him as far as Hounslow, where a fresh horse was obtained, and he was finally conveyed to the prison, of which he is row an inmate, being a distance of thirty miles from his home. Now the cost of the journey, including tolls and other incidental expenses, cannot amount to much less than 3L and this sum, together with the costs of the proceeding, arc added to the original debt of ss. and the whole amount must be paid, or the un fortunate man is doomed to remain in custody, " without bail or main. prize," during whatever period the palish officers and the aforesaid bench of magistrates may think proper to detain him ; for the enormous expenses attending the proceeding have swelled the debt considerably beyond the sum for which, under ordinary circumstances, he might ob tain relief by remaining in prison for a limited number of days, and the benefit of the law as applicable to insolvent debtors is also denied him, inasmuch as a debt due for poor-rates cannot be liquidated by any given period of imptisonment, the debtor being entirely at the mercy of those at whose suit he is confined. The law, no doubt, has wisely provided that debts of this description should not be classed wit those contracted under different circumstances; hue it appears perfectly monstrous, that fur a demand of only ss. in the first instance, the ex penses attending the recovery of that sum should all at once &mouth to' , more than ten times the original debt : and that, as in this instance, an unfortunate man should lie dragged from his home, a distance of 30 nines, and confined, perhaps, for years, for the non-payment of a nominal debt of a few shillings, while the amount of costs for the reeosery of which precludes him from the possibility of making any arrangement to effect his liberation, and places him at the mercy of those upon whose sympathies he has but little reason to rely.—Morninif EN N IS, M AY 20, Id3o.—This day no less than six gen tlemen left Ennis for the county of Galway, for the purpose of at. ringing the late qua:rel in what is technically called an honourable way. The following is the present arrangement, but how many more duels will eventuate from the present set, from the excitement and exaspera tion among the Mends of the parties, it is hard to say. Ist. O'Gorman Mahon and Francis Mamma's, Esq ; 2d. Wan. R. Mahou and Maurice O'Connell, Esqrs ; 3d. Charles O'Connell and George Corn. m ns Esqs. One half of the boat in which Sir Joseph Yorke was sail ing, in company with Captains Bradby and Young, has been found - and from this circumstance it is conjectured that she was severed by same electric mattes, instead of being seized in a sudden squall, as was first supposed. It is rumoured in the higher circles, that in addition to the Marquis of Cleveland, and others, who are about to be elevated in the Peerage, are the following :—.The Marquis of Bath, as Duke of Bath an. Earl of Warminster; the Earl of Dudley to the ancient Dukedom or Dudley ; and the Earl of Winchilsea as Marquis of Nottingham. The celebrated Chinese scholar, Professor Neutnan,sailed fur England in the Hon. Company's ship Sir David Scott, ou the 17th of January. The professor has made a large collection of original Chinese books, and much exceeded the sum put at his disposal by the Royal academy at Berlin. Some of these are of a magnitude that none but a Chinese could write, or a German venture to read. There is a strange story extant of a certain illustrious personage, celebrated for the silvery hue of his mustaches, and his determined dislike of reformation, having lately become a very diligent tract-distributer, among the lieges between Hyde Park Corner and Brentford Butts, and the demesnes that there adjacent lie. Whether the tracts so distributed are religious or political we know not; but those persons who are best acquainted with the distinguished distri butor, affirm that they are much more likely to he political than reli gious.—Herald. The articles of sepal ation between Captain Polhill and Mr. A. Lee, have been executed, and the former gentleman has now the sole management of Drury-lane Theatre. There has been a great deal of gossip as to the causes which led to this separation, but we are assured, that a simple matter of buainces was the immediate occasion of it. The Treasurer of the Theatre, in the usual way, Indieseed the two lessees, that a large sum of money (about eight hundred pounds, we believe), would be required by him to pay the salaries., ke. so Sa turday last. Captain Polhill said he was prepared to furnish his pro. portion, which was one-half the sum, but positively refused to ohms a single shilling more than he was bound to do under his with Mr. Lee. In consequence of Captain Polhill's nu determination, the Treasury was closed on Saturday. Oa BMtatisp evening, however, Mr. Lee formally withdrew from the by signing articles of separation, and Captain Polhill has doesl Treasurer with the necessary fund. 1 by eignin the Tress i ) iihhhihia_ :~ . - . 473Pir • '1'1; •Z ~- GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The General Assembly met on Thursday in the Tron Kirk, Win borzh. The cirettin*tanee of the election of Prociirator taking place on Thomlay rend -red the attendance of members great almor beyond precedent on the lira day of the annual sederunt. The trooys lining the streets, and in attendance on the Lord High Conimissioner, were 'he 70th Highlanders and 91st. No cavalry were on duty, which sainovhat lessened the pomp of the procession to and from the high church. The coveoursa of spectators was, as usual, very numerous . , The most notable matters to come before the Hever:lid Court are the Row end Irvine heresies, and the Auchtergaven and Avoch cases. Th re is also, we understand, a very narrow piece of clerical scrutiny front Gleneig. His Grace the Coniniissioner (Lord Belhaven and Stenton) held his I .vee in the Merchants' Hall, which was very numerously attended. His Glace calked in procession with his friends to the High Church. Afxr sermon the assembly met in the Tron Church, and was consti tuted in the neat form; and on the motion of Dr. Singer, seconded by Principal Macfarlan, Dr. James Wallace, of Wliltekirk and Ty. ningham, was unanimously chosen Moderator, and took the chair an. cordingly. On the motion of Dr. Summit, a committee wits appointed to draw up an Address to his MAJESTY, which was scrooded by Dr. COOK, who stated. that it was also usual to present an Addrcas to the Queen. Dr. Coot then rose, and said, that by the death of Sir John Connell, who lied so long, so ably. and so tenderly ILIA the once of Procurator, the office had Income macaw. R:v. Dr. concluild by proposing Mr. I:ohcrt Whialtam, Adruca.c. as a proper person fur the office. Principal Macrae Lax seconded the nomination, and eulogised the character cf lute Pi °touter. The LORD Pazinwrwr proposed Mr. George Grant, Advocate. Dr. Stearn !scalded .he nomination. Dr. P.lllscrAnnsw proposed Mr. Itobnt Bal, Advocate. Lord hloncuturr scecanled toe norninat'on. Sir J. Comuumuu then proposed Mr. Alexander Dunlop, and vas also szeond:d. Mr. PAUL proposed Mr. John 'rawse, and was seconded by Dr. Dickson. The roll Wail then rolled, when 140 members voted for Mr. Bell, 107 for Mr. Grant, and 67 for Mr. Whigham. Mr. Bell, being declared duly elected, took the Procurator's Chair, and returned thanks.—Adjontocd. wp • a•—• - • oposou .. s~.. I " l ""W ir rrr . ir iTmiN General then proceeded to read the article which appeared in the Lancet the week preceding the liunterlan Oration, at the Col lege of Surgeons. The article called on the Members of the College to resist the innovations of "a desperate, dark-minded oligarchy," and to dictums the necessity of an address from the profes sion on the exclusion of Navy Surgeons from the Levee. The article contended that the Theatre of the College was the property of the pro fession, and not of the President and his Council alone, and declared that the Editor of the Lased would attend at the Theatre on the oc casion in question to discuss the above subjects. The article further added, that although the Council had the power to make bye laws, they yet never had made any that could operate against the profession to dis cuss any matters which affected their interests. The Learned Attorney , ob served, that this opinion of Mr. Watley was a most absurd one, and one which no other member of the College of Surgeons held. It might as well be contended that, because the President and Council made no bye law against cock fighting or boxing, that those disgraceful ex hibitions were to be permitted in the College. The learned counsel read the report of the proceedings at the College of Surgeons, which ap peared in the Latest the week following the meeting; and several articles which subsequently appeared in that publication, and com mented on them with much severity, with a view of showing that the disturbance was premeditated by the defendants generally. He adverted to the language used by Mr. Wakley and Mr. King at the meeting, particularly the expression," the cause which we have met to uphold •" which they used upon more than one occasion. The learned counsel, after observing upon the language contained in an article of the Lama, where Mr. Wakley called upon the profession, in case the theatre was not thrown open to the commonalty, to break open the doors and burl the council into the street, concluded by hoping that the Court would make this rule absolute. _ _ _ Sir J. SCARLETT followed on the same aide, and contended that the object of the defendant was not to dismal the Order of the Admiralty but to insult the President and Council of the College of Surgeons. lie =2:edto argue at length that it was not necessary that there should Furious concert shown to sustain a charge of conspiracy. It was quite sufficient if it were proved the defendants acted in concert at the meeting. Mr. POLLOCK and Mr. FOLLET, who were on the same side, de clined to occupy the attention of the Court on the subject. Lord TENTEEDEN, after consulting with the other judges, said the Court were of opinion that the rule ought to be made absolute, with respect to the defendants. T. Wakley and T. King ; but that the rule should be discharged, as fur as the defendants Dermott and Walker were concerned, neither of those being pre-sent at themeeting on the 14th of February. LAW BEPORTS. COURT OF CHANCERY, MAI 24. ELOPEXEKT. STAFFORD V. bTAFFORT). In this case two voting ladies are wards of Court, and In consetinenes of the warmer feelings of nature having beano to lay hold of their minds they have occasioned considerable discussion du the Lord Chan cellor's room. Yesterday. at the rising of the Court, his Lordship stated that on Saturday last he had received an instruction iha• one of the Miss Stafford' hart eloped from the schoolmistress tliese ore she had been left. She hail left a letter. simple saying she Not il.ought proper to quit her present residence, but that MI:: was Rafe. His loth. ship at the same time was asked whether ally thing. and what, could be dove in the way of recoverinq passessiou of the young fugitive ? He knew of aothing ,hat could be dune, or that he could authorise, except that of an application to be instantly made to the solicitor. and also to toe junior barrister who had been employed in the caoseo betalfof young ladies, and the former of whom, in particular, It had been stated, bad been paying his addresses to the now absent Miss. This inquiry his Lordship had ordered to be made, and he was surprised that in the coarse of yesterday he had not had any communication made to him on the subject. lie. however, desired to have it staled in Court, this morning, what the two gentlemen alluded to had to say on the subject. The SoLicyroa-Gxxxiat. said, that Mr. Cotton, die solicitor was now in Court, and that so far from his being to blame. he was the gen tleman who had conveyed the information to his Lordship. After some conversatiois between the bench and the bar, it appeared that his Lordship had received the information of tare elopement from two parties, one of whom only he bad seen. Mn Cotton stated, that yesterday afternoon he bad ascertained the ltdy bad gone off to France to her mother, and supposed to be accom panied only by a Emote servant. This hut had been communicated by the solicitor of the mother. Mr. C. had been no party to the elope ment rhatever—on the contrary, the instant he heard of it he waited on his counsel, and subsequently informed his Loritt.hip of it. A gentleman nt the bar also sated, that the barrister who had been alluded to knew nothing at all of the eeparture of the girl until some time after she had escaped. His Lordship expressed his conviction that neither the solicitor nor the barrister were implicated, and here the thing for the present rests. COURT OF KING'S BF.NCO, MAY 24. THE EINO V. DONTOYT. This teas an application made lust term by the Attorney General, for a criminal information against the defendant, who is a bookseller, residing at Boston, Lincolnshire, for publishing certain libels on a reverend gentleman of the name of Robinson, curate of Boston, which libels watt contained in certain small weeks., one of which was entitled " The Pink, a staunch advocate of slavery, and defender of ebu'cs in church, state, and corporations." One of the paragraphs in the publics. Hon charged as libellous was to this effect, " Shortly will be published (for the use of the fair sex), the Advantages of early Seduction, or a Gull.' to Ruin. A Novel. By a Journeyman Lecturer."... ' Another paragraph was this..." Our highly esteemed friend Squib has lately been on a shooting excursion, near Lincoln, when he waited upon the Editor of that enlightened Paper, called the ob scure Herald, to present for insertion a paragraph. written with his accustomed ability, to vilify the blues, Sec." Another pa. =graph was as follows:—" A short time ago, St. Matthew the Immaculate was shooting at Fishtoft, when some villain wilfully and I maliciously, by chance, frightened some birds away he was about to shoot at. This rev. gendennut admonished the scoundrel, by shooting at wounding him in the arm." A..other paragraph was, that "at pre- knee of religion Squib frequently nips (that is , squeezes) the hands of, females, and makes them repine," &c. In another publication it was stated, that at a meeting of creditors of N. M'Cullurn, Esq. M.P. " Mr. Squib" was clamorous for money due to huts as his family 1 were Increasing every day, and he nad been obliged to take in-s at Frith Bank, which was very expensive, for one of his &- I mily, where he hoped she would be comfortable, and be able to lay' ,, in an entire new stock of good health," ice. He begged _he might be paid, as he felt confident they could not plead minority as an excuse 1 1 for not paying, although he had known some scoundrels attempt to get :Shy means of that at Burton. The rule was granted upon the *Hi davits of the reverend gentleman himself and several others, all of whom declared that they believed the terms " Journeyman Lecturer—Squib, Matthew," &c. meant Mr. R. This latter individual also swore, he never was guilty of incontinence, as was imputed to him by the para graph, which adverted to a female lying-in at Frith Bank, which was a place deemed to he extra-parochial, and where women were in the habit of lying-in of illegitimate children. De also swore, tint he never wrote a squib fur the Lifted,. Herald, nor did he ever take advantage of his minority to get over a payment to a tailor of the name of Barton, as imputed by another paragraph, nor did he ever wilfully shoot any man in the arm for disturbing birds at which he was shooting. Sir J. Son I:tt shelved case inpinst the rule this day. and produced affidavits to show that n mail had been shot by the lies. Mr. Robinson ; that he nipped" the hands of females, and shook his purse a. them for the most improper of purposes; ilia, in one case lie solicitcd a bridesmaid who officiated at a marriage celebrated by the Rev. °elide. man toaccede to his wishes ; and that, upon the same evening, we be lieve ite had improper intercourse with a fond. in the church-yard. Several finales deposed to knowing the Rev. Mr. Robinson, under very unequivocal circumstances. Sir J. Scarlett allthled to the affidavits produced in support of the rule, and contended that they were not pia ciently strong .43 su.tain the ayplicatiop fin n criminal information. The only person who denied the Rev. Mr. Robinson's incontinence was that gentl,man himsclt ; and in reitly to this allidnvit were the several affidavits which he (Sir J. Sowlett) twesemted to the Court, which umonntell to fifteen. He thought that below this gentleman had come into Court to claim its protection for a libel. that ite should have done so with clean hands. But ' in fact, the whole of these s qu ib s occurre d at an election for Boston, and might to have been forgotten when the cause of them had pos.scd away. Mr. Pin t followed on the same side. The ATTORNEY GENERAL. in rtply, said that if such libel, u these directed against his client were allowed to pass unnoticed, it would be the greatest possible ahuae of the libetty of the public press. Ile contended that the agidavits produced in answer to the rule were the consaptencz of a conspiracy formal against the ltor. Dlr. Robinson. More false and scandalous libels never were published, nor ever at. tempted to be susteined by more perjured affitiavits. What man would be sate if such means to malign him were permitted ? The learned gentleman then went thmugh • review of the affidaTitA made in the ease pro and con. and concluded by calling upon the Court to make the rule absolute. Mr. Waddington followed on the same side. The Court took tithe to consider the case, and requested the various &titlarks be handed in. MAT 25. THE ZING V. HALEY AND OTHERS. This case, which was partly argued yesterday by Mr. Campbell and other Counsel, for the defendants, was again brought before the Court this morning, when The Aseoattze.datrzhat. said, he was anxious that the real facts of the ease should be laid before the Court ; for his learned friends had studiously kept out of sight a fact, which, if stated, would give a pecu. liar character to the case—namely, that Mr. Wakley had in his Lanai published a report of the disturbance. Hi s L earne d F r i en d ( M r . ), seemed to think that the order whish excluded navy sae. One lies the Levee could not have had the sanction of his Majesty, OW-wee hind, se great an ornament of the navy. B at his Learned Friend sosemil to forget that every order to exclude from the Levis must proceed from the Sovereign himself. The Learned Attorney- THE KING T. KM. This was an application for a criminal information against the de. fendunt, for publishing a libel upon the Rev. Dr. linatchbull, charging him nith exactiug tithes in a very rigorous manner. Mr. Platt showed cause against the rule, and contended that there were grounds for the statement. Sir J. Srarlettshewed, from the plaintifrs affidavits and that of other person•, that there was no ground whatever tor the imputations cast upon the reverend plaintiff: The rule was made absolute. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Ma 25. JOHN NT. NOON LONG V. CHUBB, POBI.IBIIEII. At the Ruggehtion of the Counsel for the plaintiff, this ease was postponed until Friday next. HILL. V. FEATHEITSTOWZHAUGH. Mr. Sergeant aloes moved to set aside the verdict which had been given for tite defendant in this are, on the ground that the Jury had been misdirected, or at least not sufficiently instructed by the Learned Judge wt•n presided at the trial. The action orate out of the charges in an attorney's bill being resisted by the defendant, because it was considered that the proceedings for which they had been incurred were unnecestou y. The Court held that, if an attorney or any other person undertook to perform a service to the best of his judgment ent; ability, be cannot re cover any expense. he may item, if in takin e any steps that could be of no service to the person who roan - employ bim ; therefore the verdict could not be disturbed. POLICE REPORTS. Gutuntai.L.—F. Scijeant was yesterday charged with attempting to tut his throat with a razor, at his lodgings. His brother stated the can : tier instrament was wrested frmn his hands at the critical moment. His mind had been much disturbed tbrough his wife leaving him, as he supposed, to live with another man ; and on Sunday morning hut he came home intoxicated, for the purpose of fetching his child, with the intention of drowning I', with himself, in the Thames. He was believed to be serious at the time, and vas diverted from his object with great difficuLy. He was ad dicted to drinking. The wifc declared that hi. suspicions were unfounded. He had so ill used her that she was obliged to go to service. The Alderman directed that lie should be brought up again in a few days. George Littlewood, a farrier, was charged with attempting to drown himself in the Thames, at the north side of Blackfriars-bridge, about ten o'clock on Tuesday uight. Wolf, the officer, said the poor man was nearly gone, when two persons drew him out of tha water. He had been wau,hing his oppor tunity some hours, and bad been twice interrupted. appeared to be lest, for want of a little parish relief. The prisoner, who seemed in good health, and In the prime of life, said he belonged to Mitcham, aril had lived there 20 years, but when he applied for relief last week, the avenuer told, him he should have nothing, and that he might go and thieve. Mr. Alderman COPELAND thought the latter part of his story in. inedible; but, after giving him a suitable lecture, he ordered some decent clothing to be given, and directed the coostable to take him down to Mitcham ' with a letter to the Magistrate of the district. A great number of the inhabitants of St. Duman, Fleet-street, et , tended on summons for neglecting to pay the Church rate. With one exception, the parties plaided their poverty. The case above excepted was that of Mr. Gowan, of Fleet-street, who read an energetic description of the audacity with which the prostitutes behaved in the streets In die daytime, and of the alarms they create at 'all hours of the night, pointing out particularly some houses of moor. inodation which are carried on without the least interference on the part of the parochial authorities. Mr. Gower concluded by declarin o m as the father of a large family, and as a Christian, he felt it his fluty to suffer his goods to be sold for the rate rather than pay a sixpence, so long as the above evils condone to exist without interruption. It was in vain that the Magistrates urged that this was not a valid objection against the rate, and that they must sign the warrant of dis. tress. Be was perfectly inexorable. Bow4TßlZT.—Yesterday, deformation was received al this Office that a farmer, named Naha Carwardine, was murdered near Here. ford, and that a female named Sarah Coley, was suspected of having been privy to or concerned in the murder. It appeared from the information that the deceased was, on the night of the 24th of March, robbed of a 51. note of the Kingston and Radnor. shirt Bank, in a house of ill-fame in Quakers'-lane, in the city of Here ford. From that period down to the 12th of April, the unfortunate man was missing, bat oo the last-mentioned day, his body was found in the River Wye, and, from the marks of violence which it bore, the medical gentlemen who examined it were satisfied that he must have been mar dered. Since then evidence, throwing a light upon the transaction, has been obtained, and the female, Sarah Coley, who has absconded, now stands charged npoo oath, not only with the robbery, but with having participated also In the murder. LANIZTH-STREEL—Yesterday, 11 - ifliasa Green was charged with the following most unmanly and unprovoked assault. Mrs. Burginan, the landlady of the Brown Bear public.house, in Lower East Smithfield, deposed, that on the preceding evening, the prisoner and two other persons came into her house, and asked for a saucepan to boil some eggs. This they were accommodated with, and as the eggs were nearly boiled, the prisoner Dime to the bar, and asked her for a spoon and some salt. The fanner she said she bad not in the bar, but the latter she was handing him, when he appeared to get into a great rage, and without the slightest provocation on her part he dashed an egg which he had in his hand in her eye, struck her a vio. lent blow on the side of the face, which knocked ono of her car-rings out and endeavoured to force Hs way into the bar. His object, she had no doubt, was that of committing a robbery, as his two companions contrived at the time to keep her husband in conversation in a distant part of the taproom, and his (the primmer's) aim, as he made a rush to wards it. was to get hold of a pint put which was full of silver, and which could be seen from the outside of the bar. _ A pot-boy in the service of the last witness confirmed her statement, and said, that he himself bad been struck repeatedly by the prisoner, while he was attempting to keep him out of the bar. The Magistrates, after commenting on the brutal conduct of the prisoner, convicted him in the penalty of bl. or, in default of payment, two mouths at the tread-mill. Five athletic German sugar-bakers were charged with nearly killing an Irishman, by first knocking him down, and then jumping on his body. The Magistrates ordered them to find bail, to answer the charge at the sessions, in default of which they were locked up. Thames Fames —Yesterday Captain W. J. Read, master of the Eclipse, Gravesend steam packet, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, with the mate, engineer, and crew of the vessel, to answer a charge of having run down a boat containing a waterman named Jeremiah Dunleary, and thereby caused his death, on the night of the 14th inst. J. (Angell, a Reiterate.). said he was coming up the river in a barge at ten minutes past 12 on the night named, and saw the deceased in his boat rowing towards Cuckold's Point. The Eclipse was coining up very rapidly, but on perceiving the boat they slaced their speed, and called out Keep astern 1 bat the deceased went a-head in the direction of the steamer, which then bore to the southward, but the 'merman still went in the earns direction, apparently from some mis conception, and the Eclipse's stern struck thew herry, which immedi ately sunk. The steam vessel was instantly stopped and a boat was lowered. but neither the body nor bo at c ou ld be fotLid. After being detained more than ten minutes, the steam vessel went on her course. CUMBERLAND HAY-MARKET—THIS DAV. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, 12 10s. to £2 tSs. 1.79 01 " ditto, Al 10s. to £3 ISs. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gro Hay, .64 Ss. to £4 10s. Clover Hay, £3 16s. to £5 Ss. Oat ` S tra w ' £1 12.. to 41 141. Wheat Straw, £1 161. to CS Os. per L'ad• Uzsainon—Wheat, per load (40 bush.) 414 Os to 1 . 20 1 0 s: B d. ley, per qr, Sits to 42s ; Oats, 29e to 344 ; Beane, 42. to 475; Pies. to --s. HsstEL Hsetesezen—Wheat, per load ((five bushels), 42 to Os: Beans, Ns to 29e; Peas, 26. to U. Barl e y, p er qr . 38 3 to ebt : Oats, 314 to Od. Bostroan--Wbeat, per qr. 62s to 765; Barley, Us to 478; 009, 264 to 34s ; Beans, 36s to 48s ; Peas, Us to 42s ; Rye, —1 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGET ----0 0410RR Morning ls. 56w. I Afternoon LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN DIANNE, at the he Orrice, No. 1. Pickett-place, Temple Bar• INWMP.FIr.V..f. 7..... The accident entirely originated through the conduct of the water ta „ in going a.bettel when ordered to keep astern, and afterwards .11:eita his comae when the steamer did the same, to avoid hi m . m t . t!a r !amine said the accident, it was claw, hail originated ...71.0 U t ::11 , drunkenness of the unfortunate man, who was incatmble of lo. 14%;?,, his boat in ouch a state, and die captain and crew of the steame r care exonerated from the charge of having been negligent. M r. 11:al, was not called upon for his defence, risen departed , with Id s f r i ends, HATTON•GAIDEIL—YestertIay, John Cron i n was finally examined charged with stabbing, with intent to murder, Thomas a voi , „ : man, on the 22d of April. Fuller has been ever since a patient is st Bartholomew's Hospital, in consequence of the wounds whi c h ti roller inflicted piton him. which he did with a knit'c in the breast, thic k penetrated his lungs. Fuller, in exnicati"g himself from the pri m „, who clasped hint round the neck while he stabbed him, lot wit), his staff, and on his calling out Murder ! the prisoner Again st4heit hi a in the back. when he fell from loss of blood, tiud was conve3ed t , St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The prisoner Was fully co i ,„„i t , ed for trial. QUEEN.SQUARE.-A little boy, nine years of age, reisctaitly titessed, was brought before Mr. Wurre, by police cons ta bl e T h.aelter 0 ,ha B division, No. 17, who found him wandering &tout Jews' nor, Chelsea, at two o'clock in tile morning . The poor li tt l e fellow proved to b' boat deaf anti dumb, anti neither by signs or any other writ could he give any account of himself. On searching him, nothing was found that could lead to a discovery of who his parents or friends were. Mr. WHITE directed him to be taken to Chelsea workhotibe, until some enquiries could be made respecting him. liroustar-ISTitErr.—On Monday evening, Charles Crowther, jun, well known to the police, was charged old. feloniously receiving a bon_ and chaise. the proptrrty of Mr. Macbeth, of Eagle-strect, Lal Lion. *genre, and a man namial -:ltearman was charged with stealin 4 the sam e , Three weeks ago Shearmatt htul bircd the horse and gig for one week, and agreed to pay 71; bet neithiir the property nor the person wa. heard of till a few days ago, when it appctred that Shearman had left the horse and chaite at stables in Fore-street, and had bold thus Crowther. Shcarman was committed, and Crowther was held to baiL Monday Was. Jones was finally examined before Mr. Twyford, charged with a burglary in the house of Mr. Charrington, a coal met. chant, at Hornsey. It appeared that on the night of the 16th, Mr. Charrington went to party, and took the key of a side dour to let himself in ; but upon hit return home, between one and two. he observed a light in the front par. lour, and rang the bell. The light disappeared, and presently after. wards the prisoner jumped over the palings at the side of the house, an I ran off. Mr. C. pursued him, when the prisoner turned and struck him with a hone, and cut him in the forehead. A desperate struggle thea took place, and they fell together into a ditch. Mr. Charrington caved some severe blows, but succeeded at length in wresting the bone from the prisoner, whom he in turn attacked with it. Some persons, who were drawn to the spot by cries of " Murder," and " Ttl eeel ,” found them both in a state of exhausdon, and covered with bin:xi. Th e was then secured in the cage, where his wounds were dressed L w y b rs e u r rgeon, and Mr. Charrington was taken to his home, where lu was confined to his bed for several days afterwards, in consequence of the injuries he had sustained. The prisoner. who had been a week in the prison Infirmary, was fully committed for trial. It appears by the latest accounts from Egypt, that the Earl of Clare, who procceded in August last by way of Alexandria and Cosseit to assume the Government of Bombay, has been detained at Jeddah,on the western coast of Arabia. awaiting a supply of fuel for the Hugh Lindsay steamer. upwards of seven weeks I His Lordship expected to leave Jeddah on the 23d of February for Bombay, where he hoped to arrive about the middle of March. Hia friends had been wondering what had become of him. MARCH Or INTELLECT.—The following is a literal copy of a love letter, recently sent by a " tight lovynge swain" to his in. amorata :—" May Deer.—l received your boind not that affording me mutch pletcher moy deer 1 docent think that aver i shall Mite you fot that wosni never bee the Heal with me for as you may put greatest dependent on me I bop by this time you have got my deter I hope it will please you for that is all mye Sturdy to please you mye deer for believe me to be truce for aver and always shall Ontil Deth good day mye deer from your aver true and affection lover °mi ll deth "—Dorset Chronicle. Chronicle. SEA MAN ' S COU RTSH I I , •.—A sailor of his Majesty's ship Windsor Castle, while lying In Plymouth Sound, asked the wife of his messmate to get him a wife by the time he came on shore, u he was determined to get married ; and he would have any decent woman she would recommend. In a few days Jack came on shore, and was introduced to the " fair one," he approved of the choice, and the next day they were married. The tar wu paid his wages two or three days a ft erwards, be gave his wife the money, returned on bo a rd the Windsor Castle, and sailed contentedly in her for Cork. A blacksmith in Alabama, having been slandered, was advised to apply to the Courts for redress. He replied with true eat. dam, " I shall never sue anybody for slander. I can go into my shop and work out a better character in six months than I could get in the Court-house in a year."—eteserican Paper. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—This morning at an early hour the body of Lieutenant Gulliver, R.N. was found suspended, by masons opposite Trinity Church, quite lifeless. This untbrtuarte gentleman arrived here only on Sunday last, in the brig Belle from Para, after having completed an arduous series of travels on the neighbouring continent, in the coarse of width be Is said to have trued the Negro to its source, and to have surveyed most of the branches of the great Amazons. The lots of a friend and fellow-traveller, who died about two months since, is reported to hure weighed heavily upon hit mind, and to have led finally to the melancholy catastrophe. A coati. derable sum of money was found upon his person, and a letter of credit upon Messrs. Camino of Barbados, in his desk, which also tea. tains the notes of his travels, are no doubt highly interesting. Tint awful and rare occurrence has excited the moat melancholy sensation._. ' Trinidad Gnordiate. Feb.lB. BIRTH& The 24th instant, at Tying. k, Herta, the lady of the Rev. J. E. Austen, of a daughter—The 24th inst. the wife of Capt. Thos. Blair, of the Hon. East India Company's service, of a daughter—At Ids real. demo, Brixton-place, the 23d inst. the lady of C. L. Newton, Esq. of a sass.—The 26th inst. in Albany-street, Regent's-park, the lady of F. Taber, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. At Malvern, C. W. H. Evered, son of J. Eveted, Esq. of Hill. house, county of Somerset, to Emma, daughter of H. Candler, Esi. grandson of the Venerable H. Candler, of Callancastle, in the county of Kilkenny, Archdeacon of Ossory.—The 24th inst. at Brighton, Go. Burroughs, Esq. Royal Artillery, to Celina, eldest daughter of the late Col. Childers, 11th Light Dragoons, and of Cantky, county of rock. —Tuesday, at Crompton Bishop, Somerset, Mr. Parson, of South. ampton, to Lucy Anne, youngest daughter of Peter Fry, Esq. of Comp' ton-house, A:bridge. DIED. The 20th inst. in Pratt-street, Lambeth, aged 63, Frances, the wife of Mr. Smith—The 26th but. aged 73, J. Walket Esq. of Liston. street, St. Marylebone—Tbe 20th of March, at Dominica, in his 76th year, Mr. C. Court, aen. COAL-EXCHANGE—THIS DAY. Ships arrived during the month During the week BestWalbmd, Newcastle, it Sunderland Coals.. 381 6d a4l. 0i Inferior sorts Bhlps at Market, 484. NRWGATE AND LEADENHALL—THIS DAT. By the Grose.—Per stone of Bibs. Beef 21 /0d 51 10d 46 Od 1 Mutton 31 sd 45 44 41 Id Veal Ss Od 44 ed Se 04 I Pork Ss ed 41 Id St 01 Lamb .... Se 4d ... 6. Od ... 61 44. FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAY. Bur—Finest Routing, Sd to 110 per It. Bolling. Sd to ed. Nct• roe—Leg, 3d. Shoulder, 7d. Vut—Leg, Sid. Fillet. 1 0,, PORN, 644 to 9d. Likmis,lo.l to Is. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, at 2 10s. to AS 151. Ustful ditto, ,S 3 Os. to £3 15s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gras Hit. at 3 154 to £4 4s. Clover Hay, ,es Os. to afs 10s. Oat Saav, ,E 1 Ss to Cl 12s. Wheat Straw, al 121. to XI 16e. per load. .