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FRAREICA MAGAZINE-July. . i r. F • I- ITERATURE A') t.;CIENCE. ay this Magazine is distinguished abode all its co ip•oraries, for n merit which it has claimed for itself, and ' legitiula:e right t.', in this number—" the unie of its topic.." and consequent great variety of Its It likewise has another merit—we will not say r—hut in a distinguished degree, of admitting no wle:t are of a character to interest its readers. it is in the wrong, that is to say, differs from us, in opinion, and frequently is led by its peculiar _ too personally pungent for our maxims of les mara'es—but it is alwas entertaining. even in its wick- The most striking passage of this Number is" Pare tary Eloquence. No. 2," in which some of our sena sketched in a most original, but occasionally too sae '. The other political article is the first in the imber—a very smart commentary on his Majesty's —hich after all is blamed for its real merit, which it contained nothing to excuse a Tory Cabal— polemics the article on the late Oxford Contro. occasioned by Mr. Bulteel's sermon, will be found ' not correct, in sentiment. Of three tales there are oat equally interesting—one by the Ettrick Shepherd, suet style, and another a translation from Goethe. tales in verse, there are likewise two—one by Allan ‘tmextremely well told,and original in telling, al ! conceive, not quite original in its point; and splendid narrative from the pen of that meteoric .rcy Byshe Shelly. The critiques on Landor's t justice to that author's talent. We perfectly sc• the opinions on histrionic genius. expressed in the Mrs. Siddon's burial, on which the Times die. .ucli bad taste. A most able review of Mr. Hera- Discourses on Natural Philosophy will richly reward perusal. We do not exactly accord with the economy of the article on the Corn Laws, and we 'isapprove of the personal attack on Mr. Lytton Regina has no occasion to occupy its pages with coternporaries. The plate of the Earl of. Munster erbity of expression about the mouth and nose not belong to that nobleman. Indeed several of c sketches in this magazine are what must be termed tble likenesses of the individuals pourtnyed. 'AEEOVOINFLAMMATION OF POWDERED L. —Spontaneous inflammations of cbar- taken place in gunpowder manufactories Arent circumstances, but most commonly when this substance, introduced in pieces, was crushed by the first strokes of the bruiser. Spon taneous inflammations of pulverised charcoal, how ever, took place in 1802 at the powderwork of Essone, in 1824 at that of Boachet, in 1825 at that of Esquerdes, and in 1828 at that of' Metz. Various experiments were made at Metz to ascer tain the circumstances under which these inflamma tions took place, and the following are the general results given by Colonel Aubert. Charcoal tri turated in tons with bronze bruisers is brought to a state of extreme division. It has then the appear ance of an unctuous fluid, and occupies a space three times smaller than in rods of' from fifteen to sixteen centimetres long. In this state of division it absorbs air much more readily than when it is in rods : the absorption is, however, still very slow, and requires several days to be completed. It is accompanied with a disengagement of heat, which rises to 170 deg. or 180 deg. centigrade, and ought to be considered as the true cause of the spontaneous inflammation. The inflammation begins about the centre of the mass, at twelve or fifteen centimetres below its surface, and the temperature is always higher at this place than at any other.— There ought, therefore, to be established towards the borders of the mass a descending current of air, which bends itself towards the centre, and becomes vertical without penetrating to the lower parts of the mass, where the temperature rises a very little. It is from this cause that a portion only of the charcoal is concerned in the phenomenon. The rest performs the part of an insulating body, and preserves the heat at the centre. Variations in the barometer, thermometer, and hygrometer, ap pear to have no sensive influence on the spontane ous inflammation of the charcoal. If such an in fluence exists, the experiments have not been suffi ciently multiplied to enable us to perceive it.— Black charcoal, strongly distilled, heats and in flames more readily than the orange, or that which is little distilled, or than the charcoal made in boilers. Black distilled charcoal, the most inflam mable of the three, ought to have a mass of at least thirty kilogrammes,'in order that spontaneous in flammation may take place. With the less inflam. mable varieties, the inflammation takes place onl7 in larger masses. In general the inflammation Is more certain and active in proportion to the shortness of the interval between the carbonisation and trituration of the char coal. Air is not only indispensable for spon taneous inflammation, but it must also have free access to the surface. The increase of weight which takes place in the charcoal is owing not only to the fixation of the air, but also in part to the absorption of water. During the trituration the air experiences no alteration from the charcoal, nor even at the moment of inflammation. Sulphur and saltpetre added to the charcoal deprive it of the property of inflaming spontaneously, yet there is still an absorption of air and a generation of heat; and though the rise of temperature is not great, it would nevertheless .be prudent not to leave these mixtures in too large masses after trituration.—s. Ann. de Chimie, tom. xlv. p. 73. Mina's LIVE.—The publication of the life of Thomis Muir, very naturally gives rise to reflec tions on his prosecutors, and on the wicked sys tem of which he and so many others were the victims, some of whom are still living, while'others, have left injured familiei. .At least, the judgments ought to be reversed, and some atonement made for violences, which at that time were above the law. Hardy, Theltrall, Ridgway. Phillips, and. Cobbett are still living, and others have bequeathed families to the justice of their country. This is a question which sooner or later will claim attention, and one Which ought not to be neglected. The Manchester affair merits special • inquiry, and it will never be too late to insist on atonement and retribution. Other• cases of imprisonments under the Suspension Acts also demand satisfaction to the injured parties. ECHO•IN TILE MENAI SUSPENSION BRiDOI. —The sound of a blow on the pier with a ham mer is returned in succession from each of the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 576 feet ; and in addition, to this, the sound is many times re peated between the water and the road-way. The effect is a series of sounds, which may be thus described: the first return is sharp and strong from the road-way over head ; the rattling which succeees dies away rapidly, but the single repercus sion from the opposite pier is very strong, and is succeeded by a faint . palpitation, repeating the sound at the meat twenty-eight times in fire se conds, and *Licit therefore corresponds to a dia . - tance of 184 fee t, or very nearly the double inter val from the ioltd- ay to the water. Thus it ap pears, that in the repercussion between the water and road-way, that from the latter only affects the ear, the line drawn from the auditor to the water being too oblique for the sound to diverge suffi ciently in that direction. Another peculiarity de serves especial notice, namely, that the echo from the opposite pier is best heard when the auditor stands precisely opposite to the middle of the breadth of the pier, and strikes just on that point. As it deviates to one or the other side, the return is proportionably fainter, and is scarcely heard by him when his station is a little beyond the extreme edge of the pier, though another person, stationed (on the same side of the water) at an equal distance from the central point, so as to have the pier be tween them, hears it well. THE ROYAL PRINTING OFFICE AT PARIS. — According to the last inventory that has been pub lished of this establishment, it contains the types of 56 founts of oriental characters, which compre hend all the known alphabets of the nations of Asia, ancient as well as modern. There are six teen alphabets of different European nations who do not employ the Roman characters, and of these latter the establishment possesses forty-six com plete founts of various forms and dimensions. All those founts weigh at least 828,000 pounds ; and as an octavo page weighs about six pounds ten ounces, the Royal Printing Office contains types sufficient to compose, without distribution, one hundred and twenty-five thousand pages, or 7800 octavo sheets, which, at thirty sheets per volume, would make 260 volumes. There are in actual employment 114 hand-presses of the old con struction, for all sizes of paper ; six hand presses with different new improvements ; five mechanical presses which work the sheet on both sides at the same time; and one which works two sheets on both sides, also at once : these 6 mechani cal presses are all moved by a single steam engine. A hand-press is capable of printing 3000 sheets on one side, or two presses 3000 sheets on both sides, in a day ; and every mechanical press being able to print about 14,000 sheets daily on both sides, the Royal Printing Office is capable of working off in a single day 278,000 sheets, or five hundred and fifty-six reams of paper, which is equi valent to 9266 volumes in Bvo. of thirty sheets each. The immense means thus possessed by this establishment enables it to keep up, ready com posed, about 5,000 forms of the impressions re quired by the different Government Boards, and thereby secures a vast economy both of time and expense. These means of execution are sup ported by a foundry, which includes the striking of matrices, the casting of types, stereotyping, &c. Six furnaces provide employment for forty work men independent of the stereotyping, the perfection of which is so great as to cast in a single plate the largest form. The establishment possesses, be: sides, vast warerooms and workshops for drying, pressing, ruling, folding, sticking, boarding, and binding of the books and registers. The con sumption of paper at the Royal Printing Office in a single year amounts, at an average, to from eighty to a hundred thousand reams; or from two hundred and sixty-one to three hundred and twenty-six reams per day, which are printed for the use of the several public Boards. The number of workmen employed regularly is front three hundred and fifty to four hundred and fifty. NEW CEMENT.—A composition of marble, flint, chalk, lime, and water, denominated Vitru vian cement, when dry is capable of being brought to a high state of polish. The proportions are one part of pulverised marble, one part of pulverised flint, and one part of chalk, mixed together and sifted through a very fine sieve; to this is to be added one other part of lime which has been slacked at least three months. A sufficient quan tity of water is to be added to make the whole into a thin paste, and in that state is to be spread as thinly as possible over a coarse ground, and brought to a smooth surface by the trowel. This cement when dry may be polished with pulverised Venetian talc. STRENGTH OF LEA DEN PIPES. - Experi ments on this subject have been made by closing one end of a piece of pipe, and then injecting water into it by means of a forcing pump at tached to the other end, the force or pressure being measured by a gauge belonging to the pump. When the water from the injecting pump begins to press out the pipe, little or no altera tion is observed in it for some time. As the operation proceeds, however, the pipe gradu ally swells throughout its whole length, until at last a small protuberance is observed ris ing in some weak part, which increases until the substance of the pipe becoming thin ' ner and thinner, is at last rent asunder, when the pipe bursts with a crash, and the water issues with great violence. In the first experiment, the pipe was of one and a half inch bore, and the metal, which was remarkably soft and ductile, one.fifth of an inch in thickness. This sustained a power equivalent to that of a column of water, one thou sand feet high; equal to thirty atmospheres, or 4201b5. per square inch of internal surface, without alteration, but with a pressure equal to twelve hundred feet of water, it began to swell, or with fourteen hundred feet, or 6001bs. on the square inch, it burst. When measured, after the experi ment, it was found to have swelled until of a dia meter of one inch and three quarters. The edges of the fracture were not ragged, but smooth and sharp like a knife. fIiETOSIATO.—The tomato ripens with difficulty on the open walls in Staffordshire. About the 20th of October, Mr. M'Murtrie cuts all the fruit that may have ripened, and the best swelled green fruit. The latter he places in a stove or hot house, and in three weeks or a month they ripen as well, acquire as fine a colour, and are as good in every respect as if they had come to maturity out of doors. Another gathering, to be treated in the same manner, was made about the end of October. Those who hare not a hot-house, may hang them up in a warm kitchen. The consumption at Sling borough is about two bushels a-year, which are pro duced by about 80 plants.— Trans. Hortic, Soc. CAUSE or CANKER.—Mr. Blair is of opinion that the canker arises from an unfitness in both soil and climate ; and, as a bad soil makes a bad cli mate, he concludes that the best way to prevent the canker is to form gardens on only fertile soils.— Many hardy as well as in-door plants are liable to be infested with the red spider, of which there ap pear to be several species. Mr. Blair paints the bark of the stems and branches wholly over with a mixture of tobacco liquor, sulphur, and a little tur pentine during winter ; and no insects of any kind appear during the following summer.—Trans. Hortic. Soc. • •• , e ,..3 -... '4 . ••• ... ' Va". ~ •C......' Uji, n . 16 ;: tA' .. • 7 11. , . .I. ' • 4 I 1 r •,. 1 .: -. . . i ; ~ L LITERJ 1 t ti .r 1 Fa Certainly this t.i 1 '.. temporaries, for t proved its logitiu 31 venality of its to contests It like exclusively—but ....::, 1 30 ar ides but whi:t 3-, ! I ' - s l I 111 Frequently it is it i totemic). in opin views to be too 1 .', petits sinra!es—t cdness. The most liamcntary Rloqu 5. o f i tors are sketched castie style. Thc 3" , Number—a very . i it i speech, which aft :' i ' was, that it con .In religious poles t.' . verse, occasioned acute, if not conet two almost equall; in his usual style, , ' And of tales in ve 4. 'unningham.extr I i though, we concei . the other a splcnd resit's, Percy 113 ~ .. . . roetry does justic. i. cord with the opi. tot paper on Mrs. ! • 0 played such bad t , chelPs Discouries . ioi . .! an attentive penis political economy . I I " entirely disapprove 3:' Bulwer. Regina 1 4 Ails at its cotemp ... ! ! ' has an acerbity of which do not belt 3 3 the graphic sketch) unfavourable like: SPONTAICEO • : CITA RCOAL. • 4 coal have taken under different PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. ESSEX 111MITJuly 15. Taw liarraow WALDEN Drwwaa.— At the grand dinner given to Col Tyrell at Walden, the business of the chair was very ably executed by Mr. Wolfe ; and the speeches of CoL Tyrell, the Rev. Charles Abdy, Mr. Hall, and the Rev. Mr. Fiske, will be read with considerable interest. POPULATION %roux or TEE DIVISIONS)? BEACON. TREE, Esesx.—On Saturday week the overseers of the different parishes, in the above division, made a return, agreeable to act of parliament, of the population in each, to the magistrates sitting in petty sessions at the Angel Inn, Males. Females. Total. Leyton 1528 1795 3323 Decrease 21 Woodford 1299 1299 2548 Decrease 151 Walthamstow 1990 2268 4258 Decrease 48 Wen Ham 5436 6144 11.580 Increase 2000 Dagenham 1074 1044 2118 Increase 254 W,. m a°s.tead 604 792 1403 Not known Barking 4134 4752 8876 Increase 2180 01 The decrease in the agricultural parishes—the increase in the towns. A great sensationwas last week produced in the town of Bury St. Edmund's in consequence of the death of a young girl supposed to have died from cholera morbus. An inquest was held on the body on the following day, when it was satisfactorily proved that such was not the fact. So great is the influence of the absurd apprehension now prevalent, that every sickness is supposed to be the cholera, and every death the result of the same malady. In boring for water at Castle Rising, near Lynn, in Nor. folk, a part of the coast on which the sea has been for many years progressively encroaching, at the depth of 600 feet, several horns were band, supposed to be shoes of the uni. corn; they went straight, about two feet in length, and one Inch in circumference, and hollow, the medullary substance being petrified . At 640 feet numerous oysters were found; the s hells were half open. At the depth of 660 feet a large oak tree was met with ; it was quite black, and ha texture extremely hard. Chelmsford and its vicinity were visited by a tremendous storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, on Sunday last. The rain fell In sheets, completely overflowing the watercourses, and found its way into most of the cellars in the lower part of the town. A barn and stable at Sheering Hall, Salford, were ignited by the electric fluid, and totally destroyed. The crops suffered. GIAYSOIND if computed that the different steamers from London, brought up here, last Sunday, about 4,500 people. Walton on the Nase appears to have become a popular bathing place. CazunroaD.—St. Swithin commenced his " forty days' reign this day, and was most liberal in showers.— The market, notwithstanding, was well attended—and same good fat cattle were offered for sale, but few dealers seemed inclined to purchase. The commarket maintains its price; Flees may be quoted as under : Wheat, White, 704 to 74s Diets, Red, 64s to 70s. Barley 30s to 40s. Oats 26a to 30s. Peas, Partridge, 36s to 401. Ditto, White, 36s to 40s. Beans, Tick, 351 to 365. Harrow, Tick, 36$ to 40s. Tares, per. bushel, Ile 6d to 91 &L Rye, 5s to bs 6d. Canary Seed 7s 6d to 9s 6d. Rape Seed, per last, 301 to 351. MARRIED.—At Wanstead, J. Bartlett, Esq. of Queen's College, Cambridge, to Louisa, daughter of J. Bonk, Esq. of Hanley.—David Davies, gent. of Sible Liedhlgham, to Miss Elisabeth Ray. DlED—Anne Rishton, eldest daughter of the Rev. W. C. Ray, Vicar of Boreha m.—At Furneux Pelham, 21, J. Burrow Burford, eldest son of the Rev. J. W. Burford, D.D.—At Oreinton, Alicia Jane, daughter of Josias Not. ridge, Esq. of Rose Bill Place, Suffolk. MAJOR C.ARTWRIGHT. Yesterday a numerous meeting of the friends and admirers of the late Major Cartwright dined together in the large room of the White Conduit Tavern, Pentonville, to commemorate the erection of a statue in Burton-crescent to the memory of the above well known gentleman. A t about four o'clock, the hour appointed for dinner, be tween 000 and 600 persons were present ; Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P. in the Chair. There were also present, Sir Francis Burdett, M.P. Mr. Alderman Wood, M.P. Mr. Henry Hunt, M.P. Mr. D. W. Harvey, M.P. Mr. O'Con nell, 61. P. Mr. L. Bulwer, M.P. Dr. Bowring, Mr. Joon, Wooler, and other friends to radical reform After perishing of a plain, but substantial repast, the Chairman rose for the purpose of proposing the first toast and congratulated the company upon so numerous an assem blage of the friends to. the cause. The present occasion was taken advantage of to pay a tribute to the memory of one of the oldest, firmest, and most consistent advocates of reform whose whole life, in fact, had been devoted to the muse. The Committee appointed in 1824, who had been entrusted with the erection of a statue to that distinguished individual's I memory, did not contemplate any meeting like the present; but it had been suggested by numerous friends of the de ceased and he (Mr. Hume); amongst the number—as a fit occasion of paying a tribute to departed worth, the Committee bad therefore assented to a public dinner. The present opportunity, when the minds of the people had become so much enlightened, appeared every way favourable for widely extending the sentiment con veyed In the toast he was about to propose, and the time had arrived for removing the fallacy so long existing and prevailing in society as to lead to the belief that a Go vernment was established for•any other purpose than that of promoting and protecting the interests and advantages of a free people. (Applause.) The basis of the pyramid which supported the higher orders. who formed the apex, was now fully understood to be the people ; and, therefore, every one possessed of common sense must coma to the conclusion that the greater portion of power originated with the people. and the people alone. (Cheers.) He condemned, and would ever condemn, the system which taught a King of a free people to believe that his authority was derived from any other source. He therefore begged the company would not give the following tout as a mete common place one, but as a sentiment which would tend to remove the delusion so long prevailing from rooted prejudices. He concluded by proposing— " The pmple the only source of legitimate power," which was drank wi th times three, amidst loud - cheers. A Mr. &vast here' mounted the tattle, and attempted to address the company for the purpose of expatiating on the toast just given, but the majority of the company expressed their disapprobation of the attempted explanation by cries of • Enough,' •We all know it,' At. Ile at length, after fruitless eforta to obtain a hearing, resumed his seat. The Chairman next gave— " The King—we Near him the loyalty of lovers of liber ty" Drank amidst loud cheers. The Chairman again mile for the puipoie of proposing to the company the following sentiment: " The memory of him whom we celebrate this day, that virtuous reformer, Major Cartwright; the firm, consistent, and persevering advocate of universal suffrage, equal repre sentatioa, vole by ballot, and annual pulismenu. The Hon: Chaliniatt entered Into a detail of the - pal events in.llte polideslAtourse of this died in& vidual, who had terminated at the age of 84 years a life devoted to the servile of his country. It was at Lyme Regis that this gentleman then in the command of a revenue. cutter, first took slisgust at the mode in which the people of England were mistopresented by the rotten.borough system. He heard there, foe the first time, the since often repeated exclamation, "I havebought you, and by G—D I well sell you." He retired to his vessel in disgust, and from that day bad become a staunch reformer, convinced that, until• the people Possessed some control over those appointed to govern them, no redrew could be expected for their numer ous grievance. The statue which had that day been erected to the memory of him who devoted his life to the services of his country, would hand. down to posterity the worthy ex ample o( one who had advocated an important measure for the padre gtiod, and free from all personal advatage.— (Cheers.) The foregoing toast was drunk upstanding, and in silence. The Cnatastaw next gave— " The Great Cause—a cheap and good Government." In proposing this toast, the bonounible Chairman ob served thee no Government was justified in taking a penny from the pockets.of.the people but what was for the purpose of defaiding their rights, or maintaining the interests and welfare of the °Wintry.' (Cheers.) This toast was drank with similar enthusiam as the pre ceding. flir Fail Vere iiireatri* rose fee the popes et I a toast ns .whiehAttdorebt there - meld be Sp of opinion. After selstailig the =del Ode dieseeed;lMeire Cartwright, with whose the Iseseerablit beam had hen `so inthmetely toxevisted-fft; years br the stoat cause of re. •e...utren • tow n, he trailed that the people et Wok Ireland, and Beothnd, wadi esethme remind in the grand strug gle to isaldlats the lbsesigbemngers. If they did so, these mad nit be any doubt efissemi for nothing could resist the mesh of the Hof under the standard which 1111111 stow afitdse I 0 see France and England Weed In the psi mein and that the connection between the two senntelso ndgitt be drawn damn, that there might exist freedom et esessosree, freedom of trade, and every description of fession. He wished to see Poland enjoying equal liberty, and seasidered that the present straggle would justify any goverment in interceding in their baud,. He proposed, " Freedom to all nations. Brothers of the same grmt family, we are each interested in the happiness of all." (Loud cheers.) Mr. WARDEN here attempted to address the meeting, and the exhortation to unanimity just delivered by the hoa baronet appeared to be totally diffegardM. A state of much confusion ensued, from one party wishing to hear Mr. Warden proceed, the other that he should not be heard, Cries of " turn him out," and other hostile expressions, lasted for some minutes. The Caarastaw, at length, said that, if the Gentleman supposed to create the interruption would not remain quiet, he must be turned out. Mr. HETAZILINGTON exclaimed, "I will not leave the room ; who dares to tell me to leave the room ?" After Name minutes of further squabbling partial silence vas restored. Mr. °Tourism., after indulging in a long tirade against the greater portion of the public Press, to which he attributed all the misfortunes of Belgium, from its garbled statements in some instances, and total perversion of facts in others, proposed u a toast, " Belgium, may she pass unscathed through the furnace of the Holy Alliance." (Cheers.) Dr. BOWAING next addressed the company at some length, and proposed the " Vote by Ballot." There were some who laughed at the present Reform Bill, because it did not far enough. He, for one, would not rest satis fied unt the Members of the House of Commons turned out of t House, and gave up the key into the hands of the Speaker. (Cheers.) The people who were wise to-day, would become wiser to-morrow, and must ultimately derive all the fruits of their praiseworthy exertions. (Cheers and symptoms of disapprobation.) Sir Francis Btirdett, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Bulwer, and other Gentlemen of the House of Commons, here left the room. Mr. HUXT attempted to address the company ; the eon fusion which ensu ed in consequence is almost beyond des cription, and lasted for a considerable time, one party being' strongly in favour of hearing him, and the other opposed to it. Afta an interval of uproar Mr. Hume left the Chair, accompanied by several friends, and was about leaving the room, when he was persuaded again to address the company from the centre of the room. We understood him to say that Mr. Hunt had an undoubted right, as a public man, to obtain a haring; and he (Mr. Hume) would resume the Chair, if there were a probability of the business of the day terminating in the same spirit of harmony with which it had commenced. (Cheers.) Mr. Huss at length obtained a hearing, but was conti nually interrupted. There appeared , he said, a party against him in that room, similar to one in the House of Commons, who were anxious he should not be heard. He wished to put it to the vote whether he should be heard or not— (cries of " No, no ; on.") He proceeded to speak highly of the talents of Major Cartwright, in whose steps he had trod when alive , and had followed sines —(cries of " No, no.") He had neva advocated any other principles than those in commemoration of which so numerous and re- spectable a meeting was than assemblod—(criss of " Oh, oh I") He (Mr. Hunt) had on all occasions, through good and ill report, advocated the right of all men to possess poll• deal liberty (applause). After a few observations, be concluded by giving, ass toast, " The Press. May it be alike irresistible in the destruction of all that is evil, and in the advocacy of all that is good ;" which was drank amidst loud cheers. The next toast given was, " The United States of Ame rica—that the people may ever preserve that independence which they won with so much magnanimity; and may the States of South America become their rivals in the extension of human happiness. , •—Drank with three times three, and loud cheers. After some few observations from Mr. D. W. MARVICY Mr. WOOLIR vindicated. in a very powerful address,; the public press of this country. It was the press of France which had brought about the recent assumption of liberty in France—(c h eers. ) If the people of this country were put to the same be had no doubt but a similar commendable spirit would convey them through. He concluded by pro— posing ,4 Franca—may . the object of her late revolution be fully accomplished, and the pure blood of her patriots not have been spilled in vain," which was drank amidst loud cherrs. Mr. D. W. Hwaysw proposed the health of the hon. chairman, which was drank with much applause. Mr. Hums having, in an appropriate speech, returned thanks, the greater part of the company left the room. POLICE REPORTS. HATTON-GAILDIM-ROBBiIIY Or LADY Gazster's 'swam—Yesterday, Robert Donoghue, Kennedy Quin, and Caroline, his wife, were brought up from the house of Correction for re-examination charged on suspicion of ha,. ing been concerned in the robbery at the house of Sir Roger Greeley. it R. and Lady Greeley, and several other persons who had been robbed of their Jewels, attended the examination. Thomas Goodyer, a police constable, deposed that on Thursday morning last be saw the whole of the prisoners in Oxford-street, and suspecting that they had stolen property in their possession, followed them as far ;as Monmouth. street, where they entered a pawnbroker's shop, and in afew minutes afterwards he suddenly entered. and found their offering for sale a gold tongue-scraper with carnelian ends, a silver shoe-horn, and two valuable ear-drops brilliantly set with diamonds. He questioned them as to the way they be. came possessed of them, but they could not give a sad. tory account, and contradicted themselves. The pelmet Kennedy Quin said he had picked the whole of the pierity up in the street the day before. He (witness) bees* the whole of the party to this office, when in company of Halls, one of the °Meets of this establisement, they proceeded to the prisoner Quin's lodgings in Callmall-bniUMg (inhabited by the very lowest ceder of Irish people), an searching which they found a considerable sum el money in gold anil silver, and a memorandum book, from which it appeared that the prisoner Quin bad deposited upwards of SOL within a very short paiod in the Savings' Bank. Halls, the officer, stated that since the last examined.* he, with the last witness, had ascertained that the male pi. sonar Quin had been in the habit 'of workbag ins Wick. layer at imbrue houses in the neighbourhood of Sir Roger Greeley's. Sir; Roger stated that the thieves who stole the box of jewels on the night of the 26th of April task the property over the houses;. and, the box, which was leekeiat*e three, must have been broken opin, and , the jewels leke• The box was left on the top of Dr. Franke bouse,lelmee it was afterwards found by Dr. FroShal who had "Mho to inspect a part of the roof which required repair. The par ties at work on the premises could 'obtain easy mums into his house, and pluniheig. The articles produced were part* of the property stoke& - t • Mr. Rouses *milk it warms theeremens in the prisoner!'shooks et life have so sash mew in the Savings's ink med at Sir Roost esid these cergidely was no seidoselst pigment, and how the primers became possessed otthe poverty wee a matter of mystery. Mr. Rouses said the Firemen might be the imetrusent of others, and the case required farther mid NOW. sgwel. - &ration. He said he should certainly des mi di= and ordered that summonses should be madam to the officer ' to enable him to bring forward any ese who could throw the least light upon the subject. Bow-Sr axxv.—A little girl, eleven years of age, was charged with the following robbery t—h appeared that about six o'clock the r prisoner went into a house in Bucke- t -street, St. Giles s, and in the front room she took tempence out of the pockit of a poor woman wh o was l sleep. She then went into the back room, where she took e.half.quartern loaf, whisk Ascot in half an d buttered, and thee took a large piece ef nest. with which she sat down and regaled hereN,. bet..tappenbeg to let the knife drop, the noise awakened a ledpr ,e rr t up. and was very such surprised at finding the in the Ideation described. hir. HALLS asked who the girl was, and he was Iniiimeed that she was of very respeeteble peignet, bat so labeled to thieving that no sh e wait help hut In their eierke. In the pewee instance she had been digebegged ken a situation, method hems wand.* about the Meals a21 4 :111t, belied of g hams to her neon. 81te was to be locked up wadi he index IMO to take bar • INIAILLIOROVIIII-8T To.-7110 stewed d II WWII smiery, denominated the Operative MIMS' Institution, yesterday appeared before H. K. Dtrita, Tisq. to show MON why he refused to reinstate a member. The Complain s . bed been a member for upwards of eleven years, and in su:: sequence of being in arrears was expelled. The steward produced the articles, which were framed many years since, by which he showed that Compi s : nene ejection was in conformity with the rules. The Applicant did not deny that his expulsi on was ac. mew to .the old rules produced; but aid that they h ad only bean adhered to in his individual case. The socie ty bad acted on another plan entirely, and if th e arrears w ' paid up the parties were always reinstated. They h a d d,. permits= their accustomed method in his cas e , an d h e had beim traded unfairly. DYza was of opinion that affairs of this /law, should be conducted with strict impartiality ; but the use mum be adjourned for a week, in order to give time feu production sl the books. SCINTILLZ. WOMAN. Fair woman was made to bewitch ! A pleasure, a pain, *disturber, a nurse; A slave or a tyrant, a blessing, a curse; Fair woman was made to be-which, The joke which has run through the press about Signor Pagenini and pretty Miss Walas, arms in the fol. lowing manner :—At a dinner at De Begni's, whore pup:l the young lady is, Paganini was handing her from one roo m to the other, end she, lost in admiration of him, exclaimed " I wish I was your fiddle," (to be always, we suppos e , oa the arm she was then leaning upon); and the Signor in. standy replied, " And I wish I was your beau !" Two KINDS OF TENDER.—Mr. Garrow was once croes.examining an old woman, who was witness M a property_ cause. He wished to elicit from her that his die m had made a fair tender to the opposite party, which had be en refused, but was not able to get it out of her ; on which Mr. Jekyl wrote on a slip of paper, and threw across to °arrow, these neat lines : Garrow, forbear, this tough old Jade Will never prove a tender maid—(made.) A RARITY.—The silver watch, long the cow wion of the Rev. J. Wesley, and which that celebrated individual left by will to a favourite preacher of the p uce of Bradford, is advertised foe sale by a son of the latter ! COPERNICUS.II is rather a singular coinci dence, though 'perhaps scarcely words remarking, that Co. pernicus as well as Newton was concerned with the coinego of his country. He wrote a treatise, " Sur la maniere Woe. ganiser les Monnales Polooaises," which is still in being.— Fletcher's History qf Potersad. LAUGHABLE INCIDIINT.— , SOIIIO time ago, a wandering dealer in stoneware, alias a pigman, thought meet to exhibit for sale at the cross of a neighbouring town, a goodly assortment of his shining valuables. The hit gba of the dignitaries having occasion to walk that way, and ca. sidering it beneath his dignity to " tak onie ither road but the croon o' the causey," strode deliberately through the brittle ware; and, as might have been expected, did de. ' mage thereto. In a twinkling, the man of bowls and basins saluted his breech with a hearty kick, which made his h e . nour reel like a drunken ploughman on a handsel Mond a y morning. Such a gross insult could not escape punishroem, The court was quickly formed, and the brawny culpritpla m d at the bar. The case was easily proved, and as the ai m was of a reall heinous nature, the prisoner was sentenced to y pay a fi ne of Is. " One shilling," exclaimed the incer e i g i. ble I " Only one shilling for a kick at a Belle's --, dlep tak me, there's twa for wither." Down went the m one y on the table, and the next moment found his emi nent sprawling like a dying kitlin in the opposite coma of th e council.roan. No fa rth er notice was taken of the pig. moD . the court rightly considered that he had paid handso me ly for his whistle.—Perthshire Journal. Wat Tyler's rebellion broke out in June 1381. Reverse the figures, and they will eve the present yew 1831. Lord Elibank made a happy retort on Dr. John son's definition of oats, as the food of horses in England, and of men in Scotland r " Yes," said he; " and where ebt will you see such horses and such saes f" CVILIOUS HABlT.—Every evening, while I re mained in Whoa, 1 spent half an hotir in the Swiss Coffee. Mae, the only one in the town, and, are evening, I wu much sauteed by a very curious scene I witnessed there. Four gentlemen were seated at 'a eard-table when I entered the coffeehouse, and, at first,l paid no pa dealer attention to them; but. accidentally resting my eye apes them while sipping my coffee, I was sutprised to see one of the playas shut one eye, and, at the same time, thrust his tongue out of his mouth ; from him my eyes wandered usanedimotho, at the same moment, squinted with both eyes, and thrust forward his under-lip. 1 now saw that ft was a amain succession of fime.making, while all the while the game went on. It is impossible to describe the strange. ludicrous, and hideous facts of the players. I was, at first, dumb with astonishment, and then convulsed with laughter, and all the while dying with curiosity to know the reason of so grotesque an exhibition, It was a Biscayan game ailed mats; an swering to each card, there is a particular contaden of the face, which interprets its value; and the point of the gam consists in the dexterity with which partnes are able to can• vey to each other, by grimaces, the state of ouch other's hand. This is a favourite game in Biscay, but it is said to require a lifetime to become expert in it. 1 should think it requires, also, the natural gift of grimasee—iissefies Spats in 1830. ------ The 20th inst. at fit. - Bryanstoa-sqtuue, by his hem. the Venerabla the Archdeacon of Norwich, C.or. Illodsows, of die As a& Footless Guards, grandson of the Blimp-of Wiwi* w Jbtity, youngest daughter of Hem Villsboisi /sq. of Oisuototerldace, and hisesbens Houw. in the county of Norfolk. The 18th inst. at Hampton, to the 74th year of his age, T. °restores, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. Organist of Westminster Abbey, Conductor of his Majesty's Concerts of Antint Music, &c. late of Upper Norton-street, Portland place. THE LATE GENERAL LOTTIIIL.—The late Snag William Loftus was appointed Cornet Julie 2, 1770. snd had endy been in the gavial 61 years; Comet of the 17th 29th September, same yeas; Lieutenant November 28, 1776; Lieutenant of the 3d Foot Guards May 10,1777 ; Captain and Lieutenr- "-loud October 20, 1784 ; Colonel March 1, 1794 ; - ' the 3d of May Bo2 , 17 Colonel of the 24th Light 1 General 4011; ht Dragoons August 14, —.a; Lim —..-sseneral Bepteinber 26, 1803, and General June 4, 1813. The deceased served with the 17th BD=in America in 1776 and 13; he wrist the battle of hill, and afterwards he served at Windsor, Nova Scotia, as essistant-engineer. In the battle of White Vain be led the Hessian Ehrnedien across the River Hms law action, and was wounded. In 1707 be was Planed on the Irish Staff, and appointed to the command of Cork. In 1798 he commended the brigade at the battle of Vinegar bill, and in 1800 was removed to England. In 1800 be sea again placed on the stag and in 1821 changed bb for the 2d Dragoon Guards. LAI2 GENERAL SIR CHARLES CRUZ, BART..— salient officer entered the service In 1780, as s cadi: 1 T it Ihe Artillery, and was consequently at the time of 1211 issaltll years in his Majesty's servile: His successive step' W ireadal 31 Adj st Issa• August to, 1785 ; Lleutense.: Nov4l, 1. - par; iteast July 31, 1773; Oaptain Feb. 1775,. On the oprodag of the campaign in 1777 he lea ggisillsi Aid-de•emap to MajamOseseal Phillips, second ha saammail In Barpopwses expedidowi'wed at the conclusion of this disastrous asp saku was bohnled be the convention et Sieetogs until Theis 1778, whoa he was at:banged, and =to Ragland. In May 1789 hs raj o l us d th e 31s1 in He was helmeted Major March 19; 1713, and W and his Mojeder Fokessey IN& Ho was appointed Llssammit-Col oasIIKIK sad .asouseanded tbs. 30th Resi lient la eolloot Corsica la 1711 d. In 1798 be was ammted CIO 1iw.,.. of Camas to tht rank aras. h and gr ab " Dabber 1791 Colasel . J In 111th. was "pained moths saves mak sex the Scat in In land, and cammestod in Tipperary and Kilkenny s pro.baud to Mejos-Osseral In September that year. As° imooved to the $s at Dover wed DeaL In Jar. 1111114, he ea Raelmises to easimaad the troops im 'ths Leeward blab, and captured the Dutch colony of Se dum on the 4th of May that year. In flay 180.3, h• islessmd to Europe from 111 health, and soon after was ot• chi's- Baronet. From May, 1807, till May, 1808, te iseasnainsded at Malta; removed to the 18th Regiment Aug. Is,r; placed on the St a ff, an d a pp o i n t e d to the coul d the Northern District, March, 1812 ; annovell to Nor. 1813, got the 37th Regiment Feb. 17, 18 14 . inliketglimisotad General, Aug. 9, 1819. General Green IMO /1141611114 year, having been born Dec. le. 17411. " was alas in the British service, sad fell in the battle Ringbolt : Printed and rublished by Jona Maltz, at the Sean Orrics, No. 1, Plckett-place, Temple Dim