Star. — London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

THEIR MAJESTIES. WINDSOR, Arum 1. The KING returned to the Castle from St. James's, Wed nesday evening, at a quarter before eight, escorted by a party of Life Guards. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY took an airing in a close carriage, accompanied by Sir WILLIAM FREMANTLE and Col. WOOD; and in the after noon his MAJESTY again drove out with the Princess Au t; I:STA, the LANDGRAVINE, and Sir AUGUSTUS D'ESTE. The Qv ERN rode on horseback, attended by her usual suite and visitors. The Bishop of CIIICIIESTER, the Hon. Miss Fox, and the Hon. Miss ERSKINE, arrived at the Castle yesterdhy on a visit to their MAJESTIES, as did also Col. GEORGE and Capt. FITZCLARENCE. At 11 o'clock this forenoon (Good Friday) their MA JES TIES, the Princesses, Prince GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE, with .i.l the Royal Household, attended Divine Service, which was performed in the Grand Music Room in the Cas tle by the Bishop of CHICHESTER. After the sermon the Kiln, QUEEN, and Princesses, received the Holy Sacra ment, which was administered to them by his Lordship. In the afternoon, the QUEEN walked to St. George's Cha pel, attended by her Ladies in Waiting. After the Service her MAJESTY returned to the Castle in a close carriage. The KING, accompanied by his Royal sisters and Lady FREEMA NTLE, took an airing after luncheon in a close carriage. His MAJESTY proceeded down Peascod-street, into the Wingfield-road, and returned by the King's-road at half-past four. The Bishop of CHICHESTER will remain at the Castle till after Sunday, on which day his Lordship will again ad minister the sacrament to their Majesties and Household. During the summer Prince GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE will give a sort of fete champetre to the Eton boys, by permis sion of their Majesties. On the 24th of October their Al A JESTI ES will give a splendid ball, in St. George's Hall, to upwards of 1000 of the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. His MAJESTY'S stag hounds will meet on Easter Monday at Farnham Common; and on Friday the Bth inst. at the Black Dog at Bedfont— both days at half past ten. Prince Leopold is entertaining a select party of the no bility and gentry, on a visit at his residence, at Claremont. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have presented the Choral Fund with a donation of 101. The French Ambassador, accompanied by M. Perrier, who has recently arrived in town from Paris, visited Earl Grey yesterday, at the Treasury, and had a long conference with his Lordship. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from Lord Aylmer, the Governor of Lower Canada ; and also from fir J. Colborne, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. Yesterday being Good Friday, the various Catholic chapels in the metropolis observed the day with all their peculiar devotional ceremonies. At the Bavarian Ambas sador's chapel, the Duke of Norfolk and many other per sons of distinction were present. There is to be no Easter ball this year. Three years ago it was determined by the Chief Magistrate, to afford a precedent for the total extinction of the City Easter Ball. The present Lord Mayor is determined to follow the ex ample, but has been much beset by applicants for tickets, it being generally, but erroneously, supposed that the im mense influx of evening City visiters would be agreeable to the distinguished guests who are to dine with his lordship. —Amongst the guests of the Lord Mayor, at the grand Easter dinner, 1011 be his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, all his Majesty's Ministers, the Lord Chancellor of England, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Lord-Advocate of Scotland, Lord John Russell, Sir James Mackintosh, &c. We are sorry to observe that the corporation of Colches ter is adding to the obnoxious character of such bodies, by a litigious opposition to Mr. Mayhew. They have set up a candidate %the has not appeared. The Earl of Ashburnham, since the death of his father, took his seat in the House of Lords, for the first time, on Wednesday last. The Commons re assemble on Tuesday, the 12th April ; and there are already 63 orders and 39 notices on their books, engaged each day as far as the 17th May ; and, though only one day is named for the notices and orders, many of them will occupy several days. Mr. Grant will, on the re-assembling of Parliament, move " that notice be gi% en to the East India Company, which is required by the act 53d Geo. 111. c. 155, a. 3, as preliminary to the termination of their charter." Major and Mr. Charles Beauclerk, Mr. Bulwer, and Mr. Sheridan, have withdrawn their names from the Committee of the Parliamentary Candidate Society. Miss Lt. WOOD, whose new picture is astonishing the connoiseurs, began ber wonderful career nearly half a cen tury ago, and had her first select exhibition in London so long since as the year 1787. Her present extensive exhibition opened at the Hanover-square Rooms in 1800, and it is the only instance of a permanent exhibition being per manently popular and successful. The Nlarvis of Cleveland has subscribed 3001. for the relief of the distressed miners in Teesdale, a western district of the county of Durham, in addition to the large sum of 1,2001. appropriated by his Lordship for the construction of, a new road through the said district into Cumberland ; thus affording employment to those who are able and willing to work, and improving the communication of the country at one and the same time. Mr. Jephson has given notice that, after the Easter re cess, he shall move a resolution declaratory of the expedi ency of making provision in the reform bills, or in a spe cific measure, " requiring that all members returned to serve in Parliament shall, before they take their seats, mako oath that they have not, directly or indirectly, been guilty of bribery at their election." A Bill has been brought into Parliament by Mr. S. Rice and Mr. Ellice, to enable the Postmaster-General to sell the premises lately used as the Post-Office in Lombard-street, Abchurch-lane, and Sherborne-lane. As the premises long constituted a " republic of letters" distinguished throughout the world, would they not, in this literary age, form an ap propriate site for a New College? Mr. Campbell, perhaps, will " catch the idea."—Herald. On Wednesday night, or rather on Thursday morning, when the House had been nearly " left to Rickman and Lee," and to the Speaker, a new writ was ordered for Mahon, in the room of the liberal ex-Attorney-General Sir James Scctrlett, who, having sighed again " to take office under the crown," has accepted the Stewardship of his Majesty's " Chiltern Hundreds," the salary of the just steward of such place being 36s 6d per annum ! THE CITY REFORM PuriTioN..—Perhaps there never was any petition presented to parliament with the signatures annexed of so many eminent commercial men as that which now lies at the Mansion-house. During the whole of Thurs day the lower hall of the building presented an appearance of a fair, and several gentlemen were obliged to wait some minutes before they could reach the tables on which the parch ments lay. The Lord Mayor, anxious that the bulk of the petition should bear a fair proportion to its merit and impor tance, has determined to keep it open, to such commercial men as have not signed it, for some days. LITERATURE. • The Lady's Mayasine. Robinsoa.—April. This elegant Monthly Miscellany is this month peculiarlytpirieuelle, —although, when we say so, we do not mean to depreciate the former Numbers of a work, the proprietors of which appear anxiously bent on ensuring public favour, by deserving it. We have not room to com ment, but we cannot resist the temptation to enrich our columns with the following poetical effusion from the pen of Mrs. Opie. AUX POLONAIS QUI PARTENT. BY RIM OPIE. At length the parting hour is come ! The tyrant lifts his flag on high, And Poland calla her patriots home, To conquer in her cause, or die ! But I can speak no parting word To cheer you on your path to fame, Nor point to Sobieskes sword, Nor breathe Kosciusko's deathless name! My woman's heart, my Christian creed, Love not the hero's laurelled spear, And would the warrior's course impede, E'en though he Poland's banner bear. Yet, if again for deeds of blood, In Polish hands must edgy gleam, And Vistula's long peaceful flood Roll on, a war.ensanguined stream ; Take the sole aid that lan give, Nor you this humble aid despise— On morning's beams, on dews of eve, For you my constant prayers shall rise. ask that " GOD who heareth prayer," Ere yet in blood your banners wave, To stop the war-fiend's fierce career, And crown each patriot wish HE gave' Nor will my prayers alone ascend, So just the cause to Poland given, Myriad., for you, will suppliant bend, And call a blessing down from heaven. • • • • • I can no more ;—my song is sung; My lyre is mute ;—Loved friend, farewell ! The accents falter on my tongue ; The rest, these starting tears must tell. THE THEATRES. We understand that immediately after the Easter holydaya, Illassin gees Maid of Honour is to be revived at Covent Garden Theatre, the part of the heroine having been especially selected by Miss F. Kim nut for her next new character. The Managers of the various theatres are bestirring themselves with zeal for the approaching Easter bolydays. Never in our recollection were so many novelties announced in such a rapid succession. At Drury lane, on Monday. will be produced the long-announced new tale of en chantment, entitled " The Ice Witch; or, the Frozen Hand." A long programme of the scenery has appeared, and is said to be as gorge. ous as it is profuse. Mrs Waylett, Misses Faucitt and S. Phillips, Mr. W. Barrymore, and Harley, have pans in it. On Thurs. day is announced " Nettletely Hall ; or, Ten to One," attributed to one of the master spirits of the Age. (In the following evening a new tragic drama will be produced, in which Macready has a part, entitled "Tile Pledge; or, Castilian Honour; and on the next night, Satur. day, a new operatic drama, called " The Legion of Honour ; ' in which Farren, Dowton Liston, and Harley, Mrs. Waylett, and Mrs. Orger, have parts. This piece is said to be by Planche. Covent Garden Theatre shows an alacrity not unworthy of its rival. The new Easter melodrama is entitled Neucha's Cave ; or, the South Sea Mutineers," by Peake, and avowedly founded on Lord Byron's poem of " The Island." Splendid and appropriate scenery has bee prepared for it by the Messrs. Grieve, &c. Stanbury has pro vided the music ; and the piece is produced under the direction of Far ley. Miss Taylor is the heroine of the piece ; Keeley. it Is said, has been measured sad well fitted with a part ; G. Bennett will do the serious, assisted by Diddear and Mrs. Vining. On the follow ing evening (Tuesday) a grand three act opera, called *' Aso? and Zeniira ; or the Magic Rose" (a new version of the Beauty and the Beast) will be produced. The music is by Spohr, and the cast em braces the whole operatic strength of the company. Misses Inverarley, the Cawses ; Messrs. Wilson, Morley, Penson, tee. Ike. The Hanoverian Legation in London, of which Count Munster has so long been the head, has been abolished— supreme powers being delegated by his royal brother, to the Duke of Cambridge, as Viceroy. An unrestrained local go vernment will remove many grievances of the Hanoverians ; and the urbane character of the Duke of Cambridge will soon render his government popular. So many members have given notice of amendments on particular clauses of the Reform Bill, that all other public business will be postponed, if they are not promptly disposed of, or acceded to. The Lease clause certainly requires mo dification; and the further duration of Parliaments is a re served question. TILE BOROUGIIMONGERS.—Such have been the bless ings of their government, that we read in the Dorset paper of one hundred arriving at Poole in waggons, to flee to Canada; and in the Bath papers we read of 3or 400, about to leave From, for the same destination. People fleeing their country is a severe commentary on a go vernment. Let us hope that a reformed Parliament will better distribute our inexhaustible resources. Mr. EWART stands again for Liverpool, if the sins of the borough do not disqualify it, till the Reform Parliament meets. Mr. StIEPHERD, the eloquent Unitarian Minister, certifies as to the sound principles of Mr. EWART, who seems only to have trodden iu the steps of illustrious prede cessors. The honest Scots, who henceforward in spite of slander, shall be called the warmest hearts of the British Isles, have taken precedency of South Britain and Ireland, both in pe titioning for reform and rejoicing at its success. Is it be cause they have one-pound notes in Scotland and we have ! none that our spirits are not equal to theirs ? or is it that! their vassalage was greater than ours, and their escape from it so much more important ? Be it how it may, they have set a praiseworthy and glorious example, in which we ought to keep pace with them. We are aware that at the moment of the decision so much uncertainty prevailed as to ultimate success, that public feeling was reserved for the passing of the Bill by the Commons, or for the Royal Assent. We con ceive, however, that either the next division, or St. George's Day, will be a fit o:casion for a display of public feeling in London, and that the public offices and establishments ought to have timely notice, and all concur in the celebration. General Gascoyne declares he will move that it be an " instruction" to the Committee on the Reform Bill, that in any alteration or transfer in the elective franchise of the United Kingdom proposed by the Bill, the Bill should main tain the same relative proportion, as to number of Repre • i sentatives for each distinct part_of the United Kingdom, as was established and settled at the time of the Union between England and Scotland, and also at the time of the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland—a proposition which, if carried, with the present intention of adding to the number of Members for Scotland and Ireland, would lead to a pretty considerable addition (instead of large dimi nution, as is now proposed) to the number of Members for l England. He next proposes another " instruction" to the Committee, that they have power to insert a clause autho rising any city, town, or borough, having a population of not less than 150,000 resident inhabitant, and a conati. tuency of not less than 12,000 voters, to send four Repre sentatives to Parliament ; in other words, to allow Liverpool to send four Members, which, considering the virtuous Anxiety shown by that incorrupt, incorrupting, and uncor ruptible place, to send two Members, ought to be, and no doubt will be, properly and immediately attended to. THE CHURCH. There was a petition presented on the 25th of March, from North Wootton, Somersetshire, on the subject of tithes. It is now printed in the appendix to the votes, and the following is an extract from it :— " That the payment of tithe*, as now exacted, is hard on the agri culturists, and tends mnch to promote strife between the clergy and their parishioners, contrary to the doctrine inculcated by the holy scriptures ; that the petitioners know this to be the LIMO in their own parish. The petitioners have for the hat 20 years, and during the in. cumbency of the Rev. Mr. Barnard, their present vicar, paid annual sums in lieu of tithes, which, of course, the vicar considered fair, by his acquiescence for so many years; that some short time ago the vicar was made a canon of the cathedral church of Wells, and he is also vicar of Tattoo and Kenn, and vicar of Pilton, as well as North Wootton ; that, fulfilling the old adage, ' the more a man has the more he wants,' the new canoti gave petitioners notice to dissolve the composition and to set their tithes out in kind, and claimed his tithes in full, although there are modules existing in the parish ; that the petitioners deter mined to resist this new and unjust demand ; the vicar then required an advance of 'bold 301. per cent. on their former payments ; that the petitioners, at a vestry meeting held in December last, feeling every disposition to support the established church, offered to continue their former payments, though they knew such payments to be more than they could afford; but this the vicar declined to accept, and threatens proceedings against the petitioners, and that too at a time when uni versal distress is on all hands admitted to prevail, and when the bishop of the diocese has recommended to his clergy, In some recently published remarks on the existing distress, an abatement of their tithes ; that the petitioners have now a choice of two evils,—either to encumber their lands for ever with payments in the shape of tithes, to which they are not liable, or to involve themselves in expensive proceedings in the Court of Chancery," &c. THE ARMY. DUBLIN, MARCH 30. The 92d Highlanders, stationed at the Royal Barrack+, have received orders to hold themselves in immediate readiness to march—destination unknown, but the north is conjectured to be their next quarters. The 76th regiment, at Richmond Barracks, have also received a letter of readiness. -- ----- Two troops of the 7th hussars have arrived at Newbridge, from Dundalk. The sth Lancers, on being relieved by the 7th, at Newbridge, pro. ceed to Limerick. The depot of the 34th regiment. under the command of Captain Gastoyne, arrived in Limerick on Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, the three companies of the 59th regiment, which were stationed in Limerick fur the brat ten days, marched then= to Birr, to join headquarters. The above companies of the 9th regiment were overtaken on their march by a countermand, and returned to Limerick about one o'clock. An additional company of the sth regiment left Clare Castle, for Kilrush, on Monday morning. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. y . MAUI A RIURD Tots Der — D u - üblin, 2 ; Waterford, 2; France, 1 ; ' - • - America. 1; BuencrsAyrea. 1. DIAL. MARCH 31, AND APRIL I.—Wind PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31, AND APRIL I.—Wind his Majesty's ship Sapphire, for Bermuda ; Georgians, Thompson, for New South Wales ; and Berwickshire, Mad a n, f or L ondon. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Francisco, Goeja, from Genoa; Ocean, Bell, from Bilboa; James, Williams, from tequejada ; and Beliona. Ogvad, from Bourdeauz. BRISTOL, MARCH 31.—Arrived the Meridian, from &. Andero; Margaret, and Veloz, from Bilboa. LITIRPOOL, MARCH 30 AND 31.—Arrived the Arethoss. Nagle, from Trinidad and Barbadoes; Marshal Macdonald, Smart, from New Orleans ; Hyperion, Jcnery, from Charleston ; Julia, Stanwortb, and James, Cook, from Faro; Tom Tough, Williamson, from Charente; and Benjamin, Nicholson, from Gijon. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Rio Janeiro, dated 24th January :—" His Majesty's ship Lightning sailed to-day for Cape Frio, with a diving-bell, to endeavour to recover part of the dollars on board the Thetis frigate, of which there are pretty good hopes." The Pelorus, Smart, from Limps!, has arrived in Clongby Bay, with loss of rudder and considerable damage, having struck upon some rocks—bound to Liebau. LOSS OF THE FROLIC STEAM PACKET. FURTHER pißTicuLAte. The Frolic was of large size , Ofeigirti.llcone ---- Power, commanded by Captain Jenkins, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and had a full and competent crew, together with an experienced pilot ; so that the accident must be ascribed to the dark, dismal and tempestuous weather that pre. veiled at the time. Passengers from Milford, Tenby, and the sur rounding country usually came by the Frolic ; and we are sorry to say that she had a greater number of passengers by this trip than usual. It is quite impossible to state, accurately, how many were on board at the time, and there are very contradictory reports in circulation ; but from the best information we can collect, the number of passengers' is estimated to be about forty, and the crew fifteen. Sx. teen bodies, it is said, have been picked up. Nautical men are of opinion that she must have gone over almost instantly after taking the sands.—The body of Miss Henderson, eldest daughter of W. Hender son, Esq. (contractor for the vaults at Hobb's Point), was found by her friends on Sunday last, with her two trunks beside her. She was buried, at Cowbridge on Wednesday. The body of her brother ,a fine young man, aged about 22, has not yet been discovered. The Captain and steward (Pilchards) belonged to Haverfordwest, where the following persons em. barked :—Mr. J. Grit the, currier, of Prendergast; Mr. J. Lloyd, late i butler, to R. J. Ackland, Esq. of Boulston ; Mr. George Evans, of Haverfordwest ; Mr. John Bartham, of London, late of Lawrenny, near Pembroke; Mr. W. Griffiths, of Pentepatk Mill, near Haverford. 1 west; Ann Griffiths, of Portfleld, near Haverfordwest ; two servants from Picton Castle; and three seamen from the neighbourhood of Fish. guard, named Davies, Dunn, and Moore. Of his Majesty's Dock. yard, Pembroke, ;he only son and eldest daughter of W. Henderson, Esq ; and three young men of the names of Bennett, Richard-, and George.—At Milford, Miss Legge, a Hoe young woman, about 18 years of age, accompanied by Ales. Revnish of that town ; also Mrs. Hardway, and Mr. Jenkins, late housemaid and butler at Castle Hall. At Tenby. General 111.Leod (late of the lot Royal regiment of foot) Colonel Gordon. (late of the Queen's Bays) and ser. vant, Mrs. Colonel Boyd, Mrs. Richardson, and seven or eight others, names unknown. We have now completed the melancholy list, as far as our means of information and the nature of the disastrous occurrence will admit. It is impossible to describe the distress that prevails in the places we have enumerated, in consequence of the loss of friends sus tained by this unfortunate event. One of the captain's children was buried on Saturday morning, just after the intelligence had arrived at Haverfordwest, and he has left eight alive, and ,lire. Jenkins in the fa mily way. The steward has left a wife and four children totally unpro vided for ; but the inhabitants of Haverfordwest, with their usual promptness kr succour the distressed, have largely contributed to their relief.—Cumbrian. A 131:311EL or GOOD FELLOWS.—The editor of tha New York paper, in a tect.nt*xcursion from the city, skimmed over the cut river in a steam boat, belonging to one Mr. Peck, landtd on the wharf of another Mr. Pcck, hired a barouch of a third Mr. Peck, and dined at the hotel of a fourth Mr. Peck.—Boston Statesman. A Rev. Dean, who was very economical of his wine, de t.canting one day on the extraordinary performance of a blind man, remarked that the poor fellow could ttee no more than • that bottle.' No wonder at that, Sir, replied a minor canon. • for we have seen no more than that bottle all the afternoon.' Thursday there was a sale at the Auction Mart of a free hold estate of 3,400 acres, in the island of Jamaica, together with 190 negroes, and 100 head of horned cattle. It was knocked down at 11,400 guineas. Two persons cf respectable appearance protested against the sale, on the ground that negroes ought not to be sold. They denounced it as irreligious and unjust. The Epping Hunt, as Fitzatephcn informs us, commenced in 1226, when King Het ry 111. confirmed to the citizens of London free warren, or liberty to hunt a circuit about their city, in the warren of :Raines, Hainanit Forest (of which Epping Forest was formerly a part), &c. and, in ancient times, the Lord ;Mayor, Aldermen, and Cor poration. attended by a due number of their constituents, availed them selves of this tight of chase in solemn gui ' e. It has now, however, lost them in their corporate capacity, and the annual sport has de3enerated into a farcical show. HIGII VOICE:S.—Me Spaniards were particularly cele bruted for the extraordinary height of their falsettos, and were sought after to sing the upper parts. They were succeeded by the artificial so. prani, whose race, it is to be hoped, is well nigh extinct. The last fal setto Spaniard of the pontifical chapel, Giovanni di Sanctos by Dame, died 1623; and the first soprano, Padre Giroamo Rossini, was adulated in 1601.—Harmonicox. THE WINGED LION OF VENICE.—AU Imperial Am bassador once asked tauntingly of the Doge in what country such lions were to be found In the same country which produces spread eagles" was the happy reply. How TO PLEASE YOUR FRIENDS.—Go to India, stay there twenty years, work hard, get money, save it, come home—bring with you a store of wealth, and a diseased liver ; visit your friends, make a will, provide for them all—then die—what a prudent, good, generous, kind-hearted soul you will be ! AN ODD ACQUITTAL.—A girl was tried last week for stealing spate of black silk stockings ; but It being proved upon evi dence that they were odd ones, she was acquitted. Arguing that two do not make a pair, is as good as the Irish derision, that a dead duck was not a duck.—Costratry Paper. [Our country contemporary is ' wrong ; the celebrated dead duck decision eras not as hish decision, but an English one, solemnly delivered from the Bench at Worcester Assists, within these last three or four years.] LAW NOTICE& SAELS, 131 ITIONS, AND RASTER TERM PAPER, 1831, Before the Loan CstaxcEL4nn, AT LINCOLN'S INN. Thursday, April 14—The Seal before Easter Term. AT WESTMINSTES. Friday, 15—Petition Day and Motions. Saturday,3londay,Tuesday, and Wednesday—Appeah & Re.bearings Thursday, 21—Motions. Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday—Appeals ard Re-hearings. Thursday, 28—Motions. Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday—Appeals and Re.hearings. Thursday, May s—Motions. Friday and Saturday —Appeals and Re-bearings. Monday, 9—Motions. SEAL, PETITION DAY, AND EASTER TERM PAPER, Before the VICE CnaricaLEors, AT LINCOLN'S INN. Thursday, April 14—The Seal before Easter Term. AT WESTMINSTER. Friday, 13—Petition Day and Motions. Saturday, Monday. Tuesday, and Wednesday—Pleas, Demurrers, Exceptions, and Further Directions, to be taken before Causes. Thursday, 21—Motions. Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday—Pleas, De mutters, Exceptions. Further Directions, and Causes. Thursday, 28—Motions. Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday. and Wednesday—Pleas, De. mutters, Exceptions, Further Directions, and Causes. Thursday, May s—Motions. Ca Frid ses ay, G.--Pleas, Demurrers, Excepti o n s , F urt h er Di rect i ons , aril u. Saturday, 7—Short Causes and ditto. Monday, 9 Notions. In the interval between the end of Term and the First Seal, the Vice Chancellor will hear Bankrupt Petitions. ABDUCTION AND VIOLATION, AT THE KILKENNY ASSIZES. Michael Delany, John Brcnaw, and Michael Kee" were tried for feloniously and burglariously breaking open and entering the dwelling-house of Margaret Smith, and carrying away Mary Ryan by force out of the said house, and violating her person. This case excited intense in - termit, and the court was consequently crowded to ex cess. The trial commenced early on Saturday morning, and did not terminate until after three o'clock. Five or six witnesses were examined on the part of the Crown. Mrs. Smith, at whose house the prosecutrix, Mary Ryan, lodged, deposed to her house have been brokor open on the night stated in the indictment, and that some men entered it, and succeeded in carrying off the said Mary Ryan, without allowing her sufficient time to put on all her clothes. Mrs. Smith could not swear to the persons of any of the prisoners ; but they were fully identified by thu prosecutrix as three of the live men by whom she had been so shamefully abused on the night in question. We shall not sully our columns by publishing the disgusting and shocking details of this abominable transaction; suffice it to say that the charge contained in the second count, of the indictment was completely proved by the different witnesses on the part of the prosecution. The unfortunate woman was kept out by the prisoners for upwards of two hours. Her direct testimony was unshaken in any particular by the cross-examination of Mr. Hatchell. A number of witnesses, some of them as to character, were examined on the part of the prisoners, two of whom unsuccessfully attempted to prove an alibi. When the case closed the learned Judge proceeded to recapitu:ate the evidence, which he did most minutely, and with his usual perspicuity. The charge occupied at least an hour, when the jury retired, and after deliberating about an hour, returned with a verdict of guilty against the three prisoners. The scene which was exhibited whilst the judge was passing sentence on these unhappy men utterly defies our command of language, as it greatly surpassed any occurrence of the like kind which was ever witnessed in this city. The entire of the dense crowds which filled the galleries and body of the Court-house became agitated by the strongest feelings of grief and hor ror; and for several minutes the air was filled by the wild yells of the men, and the shrieks of the female relatives of the convicts, some of whom forced their nay almost up to the Bench, and poured forth their supplications for mercy with an earnestness which vividly attested the intensity of their affliction. The Judge and Jurors retired into the adja cent rooms. The movement of the entire multitude towards the dock, where the condemned men were taking leave of their friends, determined Mr. Duncan, the governor of the city gaol, to remove the prisoners instantly through the trap door into the gaol ; and, with the assistance of his turnkeys, this was speedily effected. In a few minutes the ball was cleared of the greater part of the crowd, order was restored, and the business of the Court resumed. The three unfortunate men were sentenced to be executed on Satur day, the 2d of April. A strong military guard was placed in front of the city gaol on Saturday evening, and which has since remained there. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR NF.AR OAKIIAII. About a month ago there appeared a paragraph in the ! d Cham pion anti the Newt, stating that " an old woman named Levison, w; o lately died at Braunaton, near Oakbaat, made confessien on her deatt , . bed to the minister, that she, along with her then master, one Smith, had been concerned in the bloody and cruel murder of a beast-jobber, a stranger who had conic to her master's resi lence to restive money; that she held his head while Satith beat out his brains with a coal-hammer." Mr. W. Hinds, late a schoolmaster, of Benton, having near 30 yearn since lost a cousin, named Samuel Johnson, who disappeared in a mysterious manner, seeing the above paragraph, immediately wrote to the minister of Besunston for further information relative to the murder; and the gentleman very politely answered his inquiries.— The result is, that Mr. Hinds has ascertained that the person thus mur dered was the identical beast-jobber, Johnson, aho left Freiston about Christmas 1801, with considerable property, and a qua ntity o f cattle to sell at Christmas, which it now app. ara he sold ; and on his return called at Oaktam to meet Smith and a man named Hackett, to receive money for beasts sold to them at Lammas pre • viously. Hackett settled with him, hut Smith failed to come, end in consequence Johnson went to Owston-lodge (about 2 or 3 miler from Oakhaan) to Smith's house for the money, but he never returned from thence. Smith and the woman lately dead—whose name the minister says is Levi robbed and .croelly murdered Johnson, and buried his body in the stack-yard. Smith, who had previously been in indifferent circumstances, launched out into business for some years, but after a time he failed and died a pauper, and was buried at the expense of the patbh. Smith used annually to erect haystacks upon the place where he had buried his murdered victim. On Smith leaving the place about twelve years ago, some men who were digging for gravel found the bones of parr Johnson, and they were collected, and atterred in Knossieo.in t hurcinyard, about two miles front a place called ()wenn \f .t where they were found.— Johnson was a man of good character, and had been intrusted with much cattle by many of the respectable gresiers round the neighbourhood of Freiston and Boston. it in supposed that he had about him property to the amount of 1,6001. or 1.1;001. The inhuman mur derer Smith has been dead five years last January, and his worm lace , died only a few weeks ago. Johnson's uncle, who resided at Freiston, had made himself responsible to several graziers for the amount intrue‘d I to hint nephew, of whose integrity he had such an opinion, Spat he paid nine hundred pounds to the graziers. Two letters, purporting to be written by the deceased, but which at the time were generally be lieved to be forgeries, were received by his friends at Pension, stating, that he had hired himself to a buzeher at Epping. It n. supposed these letters were written by the murderer for the pur. pose of diverting the attention of the deceased's friends. The above narrative proves that murder, although long hid, hi generally dim. covered, and brought to light ; and though, in this instance, the guilty parties escaped human justice, yet we find that a retributive Providence visited one with all the miseries of poverty in his old age, and the other with all the horrors of a death-bed repentance. The name of the. Oumng Outan, in Africa, is Rang Otou, which is believed to mean wild ann.' In confir mation of the name's signifying wild man,' the Africai.s maintain that there are two races, a black arid a white p which they consider as a harmony with what takes place is the int• man species; and it is true, as stated by some of the o voyagers, that there is a, popular opinion that the Ourang Outans are men, who refuse to speak, lest they sbouk be made to work.— Westminster Review. .~ t!I .3 1 1 i ..r