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AERIAL VOYAGE FROM. CHELMSFORD. On Saturday last, April 30th, Mr. Green, the aeronaut, ascended in his balloon, from the grounds of the Dominican Friars, at Chelmsford, accompanied by Dr. Forster. They left the ground at half-pre t live in the evening, and as cended very Slowly for several minutes in a single current of air from the S.S.E. which carried the balloon over to wards Writtle. At the height of about 1000 feet, a pecu liar motion in the car gave notice that the current was changed, and the balloon► veering round in a sort of crescent, or curved track, came towards the convent of Newhall, and as far as Springfield, over which it was vertical ; then changing its course again, it went towards Broomfield, when it ascended very rapidly, and at the elevation of about 6000 feet became stationary. The stillness and tranquillity of the balloon, and the grandeur of the surrounding scenery, were now truly .delightful, and Dr. Forster described the motion of the car to be quite imperceptible ; indeed, there is no doubt, from the observation of the aeronauts, that for a quarter of an hour the machine was quite at rest. The view was now splendid : balanced in the higher regions of the air. at an elevation of more than a mile, in a perfect calm, and with a beautiful panorama of prospect all around,. extending one way across Kent, another way to the sea at Harwich, and in every way studded with houses, trees, and gentlemen's seats, while the fields, coloured yellow with the flowering coleseed, green with wheat, or brown with fallow, chequered the ground-plot below, the aerial travellers enjoyed a scene only to he likened to being at the top of a mountain, and greatly exceeding in this respect, as they had no trouble in ascending or descending. The only dis agreeable sensation experienced was one, to ascertain the precise cause of which Dr. Forster partly ascended—namely, the pressure on the tympanum of the ear, and the deafness amounting even to pain, and evidently arising from rarificn fion of the air, since he said he had experienced the same sensation in descending Mount Jura, in Switzerland. Dr. Forster expressed his perfect satisfaction, that with an ex perienced man like Mr. Green, on a calm day, an electro phorus might be made great use of with complete safety, and some curious experiments made on atmospheric electri city. By a quarter past six o'clock, the extension of the tympanum of the ear was so great, that Dr. Forster was obliged to get Mr. Green to open the valve of the balloon; when, after a most gentle and agreeable descent, they landed in a field of oats belonging to Mr. James Cristy, of Broom field, who politely invited them to tea, and sent the balloon back in his own cart. From observations made on the effect of sudden rarification on the ear, Dr. Forster is induced to think it may be employed in the cure of certain kinds of deafness. We are promised further particulars of this voyage for a future number of our Paper. P.S.—One very curious fact was observed by Dr. Fors ter ; that sounds, however lend below, soon became per fectly inaudible, as the machine ascended in the air. SYENSIUN lIRLDU PROPOSED TO RE EASCTED OVER THE AVON IMOD CLIFTON DOWN. The first care of the committee was to obtain, from a se lect number of the most eminent engineers, suitable plans for a bridge of such a character as would meet the views of tie public, and at the same time should not, in regard to ex pence, exceed the limits which they might reasonably Imp to be enabled to compass. From the best investigation they were enabled to make, it did not appear to them that the undertaking could be effected at a cost much below 50,0001. upon nny plan in which due regard should be paid to the two main objects in a work of this nature, namely, solidity and strength of materials, and grandeur of design. The final result was, the unanimous adoption of the design submitted by Mr. Brunel, jun. By this design, as pillars are not resorted to, the site of the bridge will he varied n few yards from the spot originally proposed ; but such variation though slight, will, in picturesque effect, be productive of very great advantage. It adopts for the base of the supporting Tower, on the Clifton side, the boldest and most promineuily beautiful of the whole range of St. Vincent's Cliffs. From a lofty mass of perpendicu lar rock, which rises to the height of 230 feet above high water mark, projecting towards the edge of the river, and offering a natural and substantial pier for the purpose, the bridge will be carried to a pier or abutment, which is proposed to be formed on the rock on the opposite side of the river. By means of this artificial abutment, the distance between the two points of suspension will be reduced to six hundred and thirty feet ; a span to which, as the trustees have fully satisfied themselves, there is not, in the essential article of strength and durability any manner of objection. To this point they have felt it their duty to pay the most setnpulous attention ; and from the reverts made to them by Davies Gilbert, of the result of his calculations, it appears that Mr. Brunel has adopted such a degree of strength of materials as will greatly exceed the standard fixed by Mr. D. Gilbert 'lts requisite for every purpose-ofd security. it is also very far beyond the strength employed in any other similar existing work. In Mr. Davies Gill ert's Report it is recommended, that he strain which will be thrown on the chains, at the points el suspension, by the total eletolute weight, (compounded of the weight of the bridge itself, and the utmost possible ad ventitious loading; which could be placed thereoe at any .ne F ork(' of time,) should never exceed five and a half tons for every square inch of sectional area of the chains : arei it appears that, necording to Mr. Brunel's design, the strain so calculated would be very considerably under that standard, being no more than four tons me' 1-sth to every square inch of sectional area. MI responsibiiity, there fore, on this head, is entirely removed, and the trustees feel confident that a degree of strength and security will he at tained which will preclude all possibility of danger or accident. An iron bridge suspended amongst such stupendous I rocks, would in itself appear little wore than a Fairy web, thrown across the gul ph : hut this effect Hill be relieved, and a high degree of architectural beauty, as well as grandeur, im parted to the work, by giving to the towers for the sepportof the chains at each end, the form and proportions of Egyptien geteways, trken from the benutiful examples found in the i uins of Tee , tyta. Of the various forms there presented, the most elegant have been chosen as the model ; and that this style of architecture, from its grandeur and simplicity, is pe culiarly suited to rocky situations, is proved by the effect of the temple of the Island of Philee, which is a barren rock of the must broken and romantic outline. Mr. Brunel has been for a long time engaged in making the most minute and accurate inquiries into the expellee of the undertaking in all its details ; and from hisestimates, and the investigations made by the trustees themselves, they are satisfied that the whole cost of the undertaking, including the al - poaches, the experse of surveys, plans, act of Parliament engineers, clerks of the works, and every other incidental charge, will be covered by the sum of 57,0001. The advantages of the proposed work will be best ex plained hy the following recapitulation of the remarks in the prospectus published by the former committee : From the mouth of the Avon, to the Iron Bridge across the new Course thereof at Bedminster, a distance of nearly nine miles, there is at present (aide the exception of two ferries, not at all adapted for the porpose,) no passage for carriages of any description. The proposed bridge will be erected in a central spot between those pouts, admirably situated for combining all the advantages, which such a et! . nection of the two slimes mold Ftom Clittnn, and the wtstern side of Bristol, in which direc tion the population has of late years, owing to various causes, been gratitta!lv mcsing, and frtm the roads branching from thence to Winters- 1. and moth %Tidos, a direct communication will be opened with a vety extensive and popukusdis:rict of country on the Somerset. shire side of the river, bordering= the Bristol Channel, whereby the value of the land would be greatly increased, an additional impulse given to its improvement and cultivation, and important advantages af forded in the supply of agricultural produce to the inhabitants of Brie. tol and Clifton. Similar facilities will also be communicated to the country in the line of I the Ashton turnpike road, by moans of a brands road from the bridge, premed to be formed into such Turnpike Road, near the bottom of Itowoham "These arc t•cmc of the immediate benefits which will result from the undertaking ; but there arc others, in prospect. upon which the city might minden:. at no distant period, and the accomplishment of which this work would have a natural tendency to accelerate. Among these may be enumerated, the construction of a pier at Portisheatl, for the establishment of a mull steam-packet station with the south of Ireland ; also an important alteration in the comrounica. thin with Bridgwater, and the rest of England, by an extension of the Ashton line of road from West Town, through Yount, into the turn pike-road at East Brent, rhout four miles beyond Cross, whereby the sent hilly and difficult course over Bedminster and Broaufield Downs will be avoided. and nearly a level line of road obtained in its room, whilst the upon the whole would be shortened. In connection with this latter alteration, an improved Communi cation between the Northern and Western Roads might be effected, on the Gloucestershire side of the river, by means of n &anal, which the Bristol Turnpike Commis:44)nm are empowered to make fibre Due. ham Down, into the Glouce‘ter Road, at Horfield. 6, But in addition to all these considerations, it is obvious, that ano ther very important source of benefit to the neighbourhood and to the Undertaking, would be derived from the continual influx of Visitets, which a Structure of such unrivalled grandeur, magnificence, and beauty, could not fail to attract." PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. SHEFFIELDITETMY, APRIL 30. An Abstract of Expenditure on Account of York Castle, from Leut Asrizcs, 1830, to Lent Assizes, 1831 s— thinler Under Gaoler First Turnkey Second Turnkey Third Turnkey .. Porter ••• Matron ... • Night Watchman Day Watchman Chaplin Chapel Clcrk Surgeon .. Clerk of Gaol Sessions Gaoler, for incidental expenses ... Weekly allowance to the adminal prisoners Clothing, 6w. for ditto ... Bread Coals .. Bricklayer Plumbs and Glazier Joiner ... Whitesmith Stonemason Water Rent .. Lamps Li:;liting Printing and Advertising Stationer .. Sundry contingent expenses ... 000 100 .. 90 00 ... 00 70 ao 46 .. 46 100 . . 20 300 ... 80 38 ... 107 122 ... 519 108 ... 118 110 ... 68 34 ... 15 40 ... 69 68 .. 33 133 Total £3572 The excitement occasioned in Sheffield by the news received from London respecting the defeat of ministers, was ;'rester than we mould have anticipated. No sooner was it known that General Oascoigne's motion was retried in the house of Commons, than a meeting wee held praying his Majesty to dissolve Parliament. This niectiug wok place on Friday, and was noticed in our last. Lame, how.ser, measunat could be taken to transmit the petition to his Majesty, the intelligence of tee prorogation of Parliament reached ut,, when it was determihed to thank the king for lli ready compliance with the wishes of his people. ' The ietelligtece of the prorogation of Parliament had scarcely spread through the teen, on Saturday evening, when the b-lls of the Parbb Church commenced ringing and the singing was continued to a late hour, and was ueain T sumul during the whole of Monday. On Monday, ut twelve o'clock, a public meeting was held In Passe else-square, at which not lout than 10,000 persons were present; T. A. Ward, Esq. In the Chair. Dr. Knight, and Messrs. J. S. Bratnhall, Brantley, Palfreyman and Bailey took past in the proceeding, but as it was a meeting fur business rather than a display of talent, we shall not give the speeches. An address of thanks to the King was unanimonsely adopted, and the assembkel throng afterwards paraded the town Is lby a heed of music. BULNING AIN EFFIGY.-.-ThOlUal riINOW was summoned by W. Mason, for having, "on the 29th of arch„ by exhibiting and buns. ing an efliey, broken the peace of our Sovereign." It appeared thetas ' the 29th ult. two women went before the Magistrates to have their qua& rel settled, and as one " got off with paying," as she termed it, she was determined that the other should be burnt in effigy. Accordin*, an effigy was made ; and as the defendant lived directly opposite tom house, it was hung from his chamber window. A concourse of people assembled together in the evening, when Mason, the policeman, went and remonstrated with him on the impropriety of having such an wade bition, which created nothing but disturbance. The defendant, how ever, said he should do what he liked in his corn house, and In a 'hod time after the effigy was burnt. As the defendant promised not to engage in any more such exhibitions, he was discharged on the pay. meat of costs. EXECUTION AT FOR=...—The sentence of the law was carried iota effect upon Charles Turner and James Twibell, two youths 19 years et age, who were convicted at our late assizes of a highway robbery, at tended with personal violence on Jonathan Habershon, on the King's high-way, between Sheffield and the Intake on the sth of October. The casting shop and two rooms over it, on the premises of elem.. tl - arson and Bradbury, silver platers, in Mulberry-street, were endzdy destroyed by &re, early on yesterday morning. The total of the parochial expenditure for the last twelve months, ter the township of Sheffield, is 17,0861. 16a. 4d. Lead ore, during the last week, has, at Wirkewath and other plasm, advanced 4e. lid, a load. A large quantity of iron cannon, of from 28 to 36 pounds calibre, remarkably fine in appearance, caet and bored by Messes. Walker% of Rotherbam, were landed a few days ago, from one of the river sloops, on one of the quays on the garrison side, Hull. They are to be shipped for Belgium. RRIED.—John Moser, Esq. of Hodroyd Hall, to Ann, relict o; the late Mr. Willie:li Bradley, of &emit:v.—Mr. Mettliew Rhodes, to Miss Marie Fletcher, ...coed daughter of time Rev. Fletcher, Vicar Royston.—John Hall, Esq. of Ktveton Palk, w Judeth, second daugh ter or Wm. Hoyle, Req. ut Beeson Levee. DIED.—Mr. Henry W. Ward, of the !inn of bleeete. David 11 - art and Son, 28.—Eleanor, the wife of Mr. James Rusher, of Leethe 60. Jane, wife of 31r. John Potter, Treetop, 40. At Conielnougle Sarah, relict of the late Thomas Robinson, Gent. 81. FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, APRIL 31 . % Se Peter's Hospital, for the Bristol poor, from Ludy-day, 1830 •0 1831 expended 30,9871.-1 7 er food, 3,8141.; clothing, 1,2411.; meth -2e61. ; fin Jug, 4001.; ewes, 1241.; repairs, e.c. 1,1654; weekly relics, 15.0143. ; 1,5051.; jemmies and vetnovels, 4351. ; home 8871.; suedrice, 9001. ; law charge., 1,3361. (!) collecting, 8461. There were 86 bastardy cases, and the in and out poor averaged weekly 1,473. BaltoLOL AND CLIFTON &were—First MIT, Wednesday, April' 26.—Netwillstttneling the unpromising amino:wee of she weather, the course seas v. ry numerously and fashionably attendee!. The very heavy showers which fell at intervals drove the ladies fur shelter to their ear rt. got, and threw a (lamp to er the pleasures of the day, which would otherwise have been without alloy. Spite of the weether, however, the sport ran exc e llent. SECOND DAY.—TIK: morning being unfavourable, and many ad. miters of the turf engaeed in the esnvws for the election, the company, although numerous, wee not so large tie on the preceding day. The sport was on the whole very superior and highly interestitig to the spec tators, :apply r, paying theta for the Impleasanthwe of the weather. Too much praise cannot be gisen to the Stewards :and the Clerk of the Course for their exertions, the booths being better placed and tee creme kept more orderly than in any preceding year. Sir L. Glynn, Dart. and M. H. Cas,le, lesq. are nominated Ste wads for the taming year. tfn Sunday.wcck, severe., troops of the 6th dregoun guards arrived In i this city, hem Bath, and immediately embanked in steam-vessels for Dublin, where they arrived on the followine morning. The sloop Liberty, Henry Williams, master, a regular Bristol and 51ilford anti Haverford were trader, Railed from Milford at ten o'clock on Teur-day morning week, having on beard 700 bushels of barley, 450 buseels of oats, 28 casks aed 3 pots of butter, with 9 passengers and their luggage, bound to Bristol, with a line northern breeze. At half-past 12 ant noon, whilst peashig between the Crow Rock and Lin. ney Head, at nearly low water, a dangerous passage, she struck on a rock, called the Western Crow's Toe, and sunk in about half an hour. The passengers and crew, 13 in number, got into the boat, and were fortunately picked up by the Earl of Kingston, of Milford. Bristol trader, Bennett, master, who was only within a short distance, sand saw the accident, by whom the passengers experienced every kind treatment. Oxman, Aram 21.—This day the following degrees were con ferred s Masters of Arts—Hen. R. Beaumont, Christ Church, Grand Comp. Rev. G. P. Swpford, late Fellow of All Souls Rev. T. Humphreys, Jesus; Rev. R. F. Laurence, Student of Christ Church ; Rev. & R. Cartwright, Christ Church; J. C. Hayward, and Rev. W. Young, Oriel: and Rev. P. Turner, Pembroke. Bachelors of Arts—S. Taylor, St. Mary Hall, Grand Comp. W. S. mamma, aiim amok amid CM a. Burt =le MA G. Iblempod, owl T. T. ChM; Mi R. . &haler of Worestaisi A. T. engem Llamas 1 C. Worthy. Queen's i & eektrell, Pousbrae. Tb In Catiosetfou it wee agreed to Az the University Beal to a Pe tition wind the ltdorm 11111. The ambers were—Far the Petition, 76; Mang k ,APRIL 22.--OnWedowalay lest the fallowing degrees were conferred ; Doctor in Phyde—Gesege Burrows, Cala College. Masters of Arts—Rev. Jams L. Wallace, Trinity ; Rev. William Williamson, Bt. John's; Rev. Georp IP. Simpson, Corpus Christi ; Rcv. Ayhnsv Parquet, Jesus ; Rev. TMenas B. Lutner, Jesus; Rev. Rdmundßussell, Catharine Hall; Rev. John J. Smith, Fellow of Cahn HA Dadidoe In Civil Law—Rev. Daniel B. Langley, St. John's ; Rev. Edomed P. Nottige, Trinity Hall; Rev. Thos. C. Haddon, St. John's. Bachelors of Arts--Augustus Fitzroy, Trinity; Richud O. Jebb, Trinity; William H. Rough, Trinity ; Henry T. Simpson, Trinity Robert Wegg, St. John's; William G. Moore, St. Jobe': John Bill, St. John's; Henry V. Crotty, St. Peter's; Horatio Westmacott, Corpus Christi; Henry N. Bousfitdd, Queens; Edward B. Warren, itn's ; Peter Von Essen , Queen's; Thomas S. Bonnie , Queen's; Dawson, Catharine Hall; Joseph Oldknow, Christ College ; ;Warn W. Clarke, Sidney Sussex College. BRISTOL CORN EXCHANGE—THURSDAY. Pelee of Wheat pee s. 4 s. d. Pip' Poise per bush. Aoto 5 3 rack of 331 lbs. 48 oto 4B 0 Malt , Pale ditto 73t0 8 3 Foreign Wheat per aa „ s a a ---, Brown ditto 69t0 7 o Imperial but-hel '"- ' " Beau, .. ..... ditto 49W 5 3 English Wheat ditto 7 9to 8 6 —.-, Fottign, ditto 4 3to 4 9 Irish ditto ditto 66 to 7 6 Oats, Poland ditto 33t0 3 9 Wet h ditto ditto 6 9to 7 9 I—, Feed .. . ditto 2 9to 3 0 Malting Barley ditto 49 to 5 9 Vetches for Seed, do. 00to 0 0 Barley for Grinding 3 3to 3 7 Flour,fine,p. sack 1 49 0 to 52 0 White Pease, ditto 5 6to 5 9 of 2c. 2qr. sl bs. Ditto Boilers, ditto 63 to 6 9 ---, Seconds, 40 oto4B 0 MARRIED.—Robert Martindale, Esq. of Clifton, to Such liluia, second daughter of the late R. I. D. Ashworth, Esq. of Strawberry Hill.—David Jamieson, Esq. of London, to Mary, _eldeat daugitter of the late Charles McNish , Esq. of Jamaica.—W. Baker, second son of W. Baker, Esq. of Eat Brent, Somerset, to Celia. second daughter of Mr. J. F. Norman.—Mr. Henry Lewis, to Mary, third daughter of Mr. T. Jones, of Montpelier.—Wm. Batley, Esq. of Exeter, to Sarah Taylor, only child of R. T. Williams, Esq. surgeon . — Mr. Aubrey Catley, to Anne, only daughter of Mr. James Thatcher.—Mr. Joint Smith, solicitor, to Marianne, youngest daughter of the late Nicholas Stockdale, Esq. of Drimpton.—John Waage, Esq. of Pockeridge Bosse, flowhato, Wilts, to Mary Ann, daughter of the late Samuel , Yackney, Esq. DlED.—Captain David Prosser, of the ship, Ebcneser.—ln St. Au gustine's-place, W. D. Rolfe, surgeon.—Mrs. Ann Haynes, 79. -At Clifton, 24, Lydia, youngest daughter of Sarah LT., of Brandon Hill. —ln College-street, Sarah, wife of Mr. John Pereivall.-s-At Bath, D. Payne, Esq.—Jane, only daughter of the late Win. Hot ell.—At Bath, Dr. Hayward, 92.—Elizabeth Lovering, 18, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Thorne. MANCHESTER TIMES, APRIL 30. ASHTON AND STALTDRIDGIL—Trade is now gradually reviving here again, though a considerable number of the poorer class are far from having recovered from the erects of the turn-out. The spin. nee, as well as the other branches of the cotton trade, are now all working full time. A considerable number of the spinners, who have 'ordered themselves obnoxious to the masters through the turn-out, edit continue out of employment, and are, generally speaking, in a very deplorable state. About twenty of them are gone to America, to try to batter their fortune there, and there that hail the means, have taken their families with them. Six of the most distressed, have , B ad their expences defrayed out of the spinners' union. ROCHDALE.—Trade is still in a &torment and ruir.ons decline in the flannel manufactures of this town and neiehhourhood; the quern. tity at work given out to the weavers is weekly decreasing, and wager declining ; the poor weavers ate in a very destitute state. Some of the manufacturers arc only employing their hands half time ; others tire resorting to the more di:honourable practice of further reductions in the wages of their worlanen, whose privations are already most de. Suable. The numerous small manufacturers will shortly be driven hum the market, by the silent but progress ive advance in the 'pinning and manufacturing by power. On Wednesday morning, about half-past six o'clocl:, three poor men, maid Thomas Mansell, James Jackson, and James Partingtun, were eidewsly injured by the fire damp at Alkrington colliery, near Middle ton. Mansell died about twelve o'clock the mime day. DISSOLUTION 07 PAALTAMENTAfter the arrival of the intel ligence of the dissolution of parliament, and victories obtained by the brave Polish nation over the Russians, a number of persons formed themselves into a proceseion, and, headed by a band of music, pro eluded through the principal streets, playing ' OOD save the King,' and ether patriotic tunes, and cheered when opposite the newspaper offices which advocated the cause of reform. About twelve flags were also exhibited, on which were various mottos and devices. On one was 6 The King, God bless him ;" on another ' Success to the Poles,' &c. When opposite the Voice offs, and just when they were about to separate, the police interfered, and shortly after the immense crowd this passed to their several homes. MALLS IT THE Rahway.—One or two alterations have lately WWII place in the mails sent to and from Liverpool by the railway. The soma Liverpool mail now leaves Liverpool an hour later than formerly, namely, at 40 minutes past one, instead of 40 minutes past twelve. A third mall has been added which leaves Liverpool at five o'clock, and reaches Manchester post office at about a (plater to seven P.X. The departures' of the first and second bags for Liverpool re. maim as before ; but a third bag now leaves Manchester post office at ass minutes to five P.n. The recant escape from justice of the acting overseer of Wardleworth, for the starvation to death of the unfortunate pauper victim, who for a trivial accident occasioned by his infirmities, (without any magisterial order) was incarcerated in the town's prison, on scold floor, in an incle ment s eason, without a particle of fuel or bedding, for the space of 15 days, where he was so famished for want of food, as to cause him to eat his own excrement, and the two last days proved to have been without any human sustenance, is still fresh in the minds of the inhabitants, who are surprised to see an inhuman and equally guilty wretch still re. tattled in his situation of keeper of the prison, who could withhold that sustenance (no matter by whose orders) which is nut denied to the worst felon or murderer, and that too, on the alleged mandate of the petty tyrant ( who had placed the unfortunate suffe r e r there in defiance of the laws o the land) thus to torture an innocent, unoffentling, aid harmless fellow-creature, (.uffering much from bodily a ffl ictions) by a most cruel and agonising death. Justice may be withheld here, yet a most awful responsibility rests with those who do not prevent the guilty from escaping, when the strict performance of their duty requires it at their hand. Flax. ..On Thursday 'morning last. about four o'clock, a very alarm. in fire was discovered in Mr. Proctor's factory. Cheetham-street, Roch dale, which is supposed to &tee originated in the machine shop. Very considerable during: was eustained. Ltvea root., AvaiL 25.—Tuesdey's market was well attended, and fine Wbcnts were sold at psis I rather exceeding their previous cur rency ; the quantity of this description on the market is small. The principal transactions during the week were several large parcels of Odessa Wheat sold at 814. 10th. to 2s. 2d., and a few inferior Itieh mils. 'to Bs. 6d. The scarcity of fine Wheat is well supplied with American Flour, for which there has been rather more inquiry, but without any advance in prices. Middling parcels of Oats are offered fully Id. per ealbs. lower, but fine qualities command our previous quotations, and the best melding 4s. Malting Barley is scarce, and prices are sup. ported, but there is very little inquiry for feeding qualities, though offered on lower terms. Beans and Peas are each Is per quarter cheaper. Nothing material passing in Indian Corn. 31.eIRRIED....Thome% Jones Esq. of Kemmis, to Miss Martha 1.11! , , daiighter of Thome , E ll is, Esq. of Parwick.—john Foldya, F.sq. of Danes! iouse. to Bridget, fourth daughter of Edward Boardman, Esq. of Leyland.—At the Friends' Meeting Horse, Liverpool, Mr. Geo. Haworth, merchant', Rochdale, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mt. Joseph Johnson, of Evertor..—At Hull, Sir. Edward Grinkod, of Li. veipool, architect, to Mt s Mary Ann, daughter of the Rev. E. Grind. rod.—Mr. Frederick Robert Spencer, surgeon. to Miss Mary Witham, both of this town.—The Rev. Benjamin Wm. Pullen, of Didebury, to Miss Catherine Rovlance.—Mr. Hen. Buckley, of Oldham, to Nanny, daughter of the late Rich. Wilson, Esq. of Lord's- Hill, Oldham. DIED.—The Rev. Janie. Gatti& ; many years Incumbent of Gorton—On the 20th inst. in her 75th year, Mrs. Wrigley, wife of Jamie Wrigley, E•q. of Giga Mills, near Bury—John Bradshaw, late of New Cannonearcet, 68—J. 011erenshaw, Esq. banker, of Stockport, 63—At Leis.ster, Catherine, wife of Sir. John Sargent, of Leicester—Maria, the beloved wife of Mr. W. W. Spencer, 22— Mr.: William Graves, of Knott Mill, much respected, 44.-Mr. James Holden, N. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL—THIS DAY. By the Carca.e.—Per stone or fltbs. Beef 2s 10d Se 6d Se 104 I Mutton Ss 6d 4s 2d 4e 4d Veal Si 4d 40 8d 5s Od Pork 3s Bd 4s 10d Ss Od Lamb .... Ss 4d ... 6s 4d. FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAY. Bear—Flnest Roasting, 6d to Bid per lb. Boiling. 5d to 6d. Mu:- Ton—Leg, Bd. Shoulder, 7d. VrAL—Leg, 86d. Fillet, 10d. Pose, 6id to Pd. Lnsi, 10d to 19. SMITHFIELD HAY.MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £ll 51. to £2 156. Mehl* ditto, AS ISs. to Al 13s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, .14 Os to .14 4s. -Clover Hay, £3 Os. to Ad to.. Oat Straw, lis toll les. Wbeat Straw, £1 lat. to .C 2 Os. per load. ---- CUMBERLAND HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, A 2 Ss. to £2 15a. Useful ditto, £2 10$. to £3 IS& Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, 44 Os. to £4 4s. Clover Hay, A 5 Os. to 45 Os Oat Straw, ISI 12s. to Al 16s. Wheat Straw, Al to £2 Os. per load. LAW REPORT& SECONDARIES' OFFICE, BASINGHALLeSTREET. BREACH 07 rIIONTSE Or SIAIIIAOII. MORDECAt v. JACOBS. This was a writ for the assessment of damages in a case against the defendant for breach of promise of marriage, the defendant having al. lowed judgment to go by default. The damages woe laid at 2,000 L The plaintiff ant defendant being of the Jewish perstrasion, th e Court was crowded almost to suffocation by well deemed sons and daughters of Israel, who appeared to be strongly interested in the verdict. Mr. Curwood and Mr. Bodkin were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Charles Phillips was for the defendant. Mr. Curwood, in addressing the jury on a subject which, to do t h e people of the Jewish persuasion justice, was very seldom discerned is a court of justice at their expense, said he did not mean to give to thecae the declamatory character of the " worst in the world," usually be. stowed upon cases of the kipd. He would merely tell them that it wa, such as required their serious consideration. The plaintiff was a re. upectable and well-educated young woman, the daughter of a dealer in quills, turd the defendant was a seeps manufacturer. There was a differ. once between the pecuniary condition of the party, the young lady hashig none of the gifts of fortune to add to those more glorious gifts whicL nature and a virtuous education had bestowed upon her. The Jury Imew what great trades in a country like England were carried on in trifling articles, and the defendant was prosperous. The learned noun. eel said he would prove how effectually the defendant had gained the affections of his client by a long course of attentions, and then akan. dotted her from sordid motives. He spoke pathetically of the shock communicated by the perfidy of those we love, and intimated that in his culla days he had himself suffered from a disappointment.—(A laugh.)--He recollected the feelings of that period. Mr. PHILLIPS—Yin must have a confounded long memory then.— (Loud laughter.) Mr. Curwood thanked GOD that he had not forgotten the good feel. ings, the affectionate ebullitions of his youth. lilt. Pmeeirs--They arc very good things to recollect, but all I con say Is, that your memory is tremendous. (Laughter.) Mr. Curwood them produced two letters, which the defendant had written to the plaintiff when she was on a visit at Cambridge, and after describing the anguish caused by the sudden renunciation of her ac quaintance by the defendant, called witnesses. David Mordecai, brother to the plaintiff, examined by Mr. Bodkin. Was brother to the plaintiff, who was now 25 years old. In Aug. 1829, defendant told him he had it particular business to communicate, and declared his attachment to Rots, the plaintiff, and that be wished to pay his addresses to her. Witness mentioned all the obstacles ; his sister's went of property, and the probable displeasure of the defend. ant's father nt the match. Defendant said that he was 24 years of age, and a proper judge in so important an affair ; that he did not want stoney, and bad refused girls with 5001. He also said that he would not, like other young men, boast of his being worth 7001. or &A but he declared that in two years lie would no doubt accumulate 2,0001. and that he would then marry Rosa. Witness told hit sister what was offered, and by defendant's desire specified his willingness to sign a bond tot 2001. that he would perform the contract. Tice plain. tiff refused the bond, but accepted the addresses. They regularly corn. rounicated as lovers, and after the courtship had gone on for three or four months, defendant took supper at the plaintiff's father's haute every night (a laugh). The courtship continued till the 16th of No , vember last }env, up to which day the defendant visited regularly, but aft r that he never showed his face. Plaintiff had eone on a visit to Miss Emanuel at Cambridge, fur a month, while the courtship was going on. After the defendant had ceased to visit her, her health was very bad for a month. Here Mr. POT T ELL ' who tried the case, read the letters handed in. The lint commence d, "My beloved Rosa," and ea: couched in the hyperbolical phraseology of the passion, until the writer told his be. int ed correspondent that lie must give her the news of the day. Mr. Cu RWOOD.-011 ! that's all chit-chat. It is unnecessary to go further. Mr. Pitrnurs.—Excuse me, we'll have the whole of the letter. I know nothing of what it may contain besides what we has. heard. Mr. Potter read on " Sandy lute fell out with itch, 1.1. c, hi, and Plan Jacobs, the barker, has had a child sworn to hint :" (1311,:hter.) Mr. Phillips: Very delicate news, indeed, for the youn,.., lady : (a laugh.) The second letter merely gave the news that the defendant had been lately invited to a great meny marriage,' ; that the king, queen, and roy::1 family had passed through Jewry-street, in their way to the Tower, and that her Majesty's person was not decorated in a style at all enreesponding with her rank, her bonnet, gown, and shawl, tieing old black. and all destitute of regal elegance. Witness cross-examined by Mr. Phillips—A barker was a man cc. ployed outside a clothes shop, to a-k costa:tees in. Mr. Phillips—Upon your oath, is rot a barker a man employed to poll people in? IVitness No; not to pull them, but to request they will walk in. Mr. Bodkin—They are individuals employed for the purpose of so liciting the custom of the public. (Loud laughter.) Miss Emanuel, of Cambridge, deposed that time plaintiff had beer on a visit at her father's house, at Cambridge, and had received the letters from him while there. IVitness had observed the conduct of the defendant to be that of a lover, and his affeedon was returned by the plaintiff, who must have been much affected by the disappointment Mr. Phillips : Pray, Miss Emanuel, did you know Phin Jacobs, the barker ? Witness: No, I knew nothing of him. A brother of the plaintiff deposed that the plaintiff and defendant had had an altercation at n dance, and defendant went almost mad in cone. (pence of the quarrel, until n reconciliation took place. A cousin of the plaintiff stated that, after the 10th of November. he saw the defendant who told him the reason he stopped away way th at his father made him swear by the new moon, that be would not pay Miss Mordecai, or any et' her family, any more visits ; besides, she was a poor girl, and had no fortune. Another witness said that he had seen the defendant walking with Miss Davis seven or eight times, about a fortnight ago. Jelikinr, a medical man, said, he bud been called in to see the plaintiff :after the 16th of November, and found her labouring under at hysterical affection. %Vas told that she had had a disappointment, and believed the disease to be a constitutional one, aggravated by mental distress. Mr. Grant, a tobacco prover, deposed, that the plaintiff was a denim In tobacco, but not at all an extensive one. 111 r. Phillips addressed the jury in a very forcible speech. Althoaek his learned friend ( Mr. Conrad) had disclaimed the customary nuoe of enforcing a diesel's claim by a declamatory appeal, he had rot for gotten to give a dhstitatien upon disarpointecl hopes, mocked expec• talons, and bnhen hearts, which was calculated to answer the purpose full as well. But the Jury would, in forming their esti. mate of the injury sustained by the lady, rot overlook the citeute stances by which the case was distluoished. How had the courtship commenced. without the knowledge of the defendant's father? a fact with which the plaintiff and her family were well acquainted. What would any of the Jury think, if his son sera encouraged by &family. of whiclarhe disapproved, to visit a young woman day atter day, slid night after night, at the same time that he was kept deliberately in the dark as to the intimacy What would any of the Jury think of that faintly, after clandestinely promoting the acquaintance forte: year, endeavouring to compel a contract detestable to lam. Per ' haps in the hey-dey of his love, the defendant declared the: he could not eat, nor drink, nor sleep ; that his heart was breaking, aril that vll the oe:er symptoms of the ; scion were conspicuous in his r"- duet; wart he, when his father called upon him In the name of decent' and religion, to abandon the connexion PO improperly begun and can tina. d, to be drugged into a Court of Justice ? The leaned Ceurel then r:iiicsted that the Jury would not be deceived by the plemy peeoance of the female friends of the plaintiff and the dandy appestwact of the gentleman of Duke's-place, into an idea that the rank of the plaintiff was such as to make a were moderate sum an inconsiderable object to her. He then alluded to the letter, in which the barker's titin.ate paternity was described, and contended that the lady who we in the habit of receiving such intelligence, could not be very delicate.-- He concluded by calling upon the Jury to give the loneliest possible damages. dlr. POTTER. summed up, and the Jury assessed the damages at s^' BIRTHS. Yesterday, in Grcssenor.squarc, the Countess of Wilton, of a sae-. Thc Ist inst. at lax father's !souse, Saville-row, the lady of C. B. Pr bcrtnn, Emit. of lt daughter.—Saturday kg, at Clapham, Mrs. P. Hew. itt, of a ton.—The Ist inst. at Edgware, Mr'. Forte, of a son,—Tle 2d inst. in Susses.place, Rcgtnt'a-park Mrs. W. R. Phillips, of daughter. M ARMED. The 10th ult. at B.mlin, AdolphuS Goldsclunidr, Esq. of Great it. Helm's-passage, to Jeannette, second daughter of the late S. Jacob , snn, Esq. of the former place..-.Tlie 30th ult. at St. George's, Moor:- bury, Mr. Murdock, to Mrs. Brown, of Hunter-nreet, Bruoorics. square. • LIED. The Ist inst. at her house in Grove-lane, Camberwell, Surref, 07 `` both, eldest daughter of the late Colts Child, Esq.—The 29th ult. a: his seat, Wybrooke park, In the county of I)evrn, the Right Hi r Charles Lord Clifford.—The lst inst. at her house in Sad:vine-stree t . Miss MaxwelL—The 30th ult. aged 23, at her mother's house. Qut . "` square, Bloomsbury, Nannette, wife of 11r. C. T. Mason. folb`' rough, end youngest daughttr of the late Rev. D. Duff, A. late of Tooting, Surrey.—The 28th ult. in the 79th year of his H. Smith, Esq. of Stoke House, near Cobham, in the County of Semi. —The 26th ult. Margaret Thornton. second daughter of Joon Thi T. • ton, Esq. 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