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SONG. ET JAMES HOOG. Ana,— , ' The Maid of Ida." • Wear away, ye hues of Spring, Ye blooms of Summer, fade away, Round the welcome season bring That leads my steps to Highland Tay! Dear to me the day, the hour, When last her winding wave I saw; But dearer still the bonny bower That lies aneath yon greenwood Shaw ! Aye we sat, and aye we sigh'd, • For there was sue my arms within; Aye the restless stream we ey'd, And heard its soft and soothing din ; The sun had sought Glen-Lion's glade, Forth peer'd the ev'ning's modest gem, And ev'ry little cloud that stray'd Look'd gaudy in its gowden hem! The playful breeze across the plain Brought far the woodlark's wooer tale, And gambol'd o'er the mellow grail; In mimic waves adown the dale: I saw the drops of dew so clear Upon the green leaf trembling lie; But sweeter far the parting tear That play'd within a lovely eye! When lovers meet, 'tis to the mind The Spring-flush of the blooming year; But, 0! their parting leaves behind A glow to Memory ever dear. Ettrick's fairy banks are green, And Yarrow braes are moou'd with grey, But gloaming fall was never seen Like that I view'd in bower of Tay ! SARDINIAN REVOLUTION. ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION AT GENOA. -- - (rr All rielf,-MITNItsb.) On the 15th of March, after a long delay, the Go vernor of Genoa published a Proclamation, an nouncing that at Tulin the Spanish Constitution was proclaimed, and that the King Victor Emmanuel had abdicated, appointing the Prince of Carignano Regent of the Kingdom. By the same Proclama tion the Spanish Constitution was . given to the Ge noese, and received with great joy by all the inhabit ants. Everything remained quiet at Genoa: it even aneared that the Genoese were willing to remain spectators of the struggle between Piedmont and the common enemy of Italy, Austria; when, on the 21st, a fresh Manifesto was published, as coming from the new King Carlo Felix, calling the Patriots rebels; and threatening them with the vengeance of GOD and the Allies, if they did not return to the ancient ; but without a word of amnesty. To this was joined a Proclamation from the Go vernor, praising the Genoese for their former tran quillity ; and threatening, if they did not continue it, to call in the Austrians. It was obscurely added, • that the Prince Regent had already conformed to the King's pleasure. As soon as this Manifesto appeared, there was heard in every part of the City a sullen voice of indignation. Twenty students ran tumul tuously to the Governor's Palace, and forcing him to grant them an audience, demanded the new Consti tution, the National Guard, and the Regent's letter. Two of their demands the Governor absolutely re fused : as to the civic guard, he promised they should be satisfied. On receiving this answer. the students sallied forth, and, assisted by the citizens, disarmed almost all the guards, who were soon replaced in great numbers ; and the Governor himself proceeded on foot to the Palace, to hold a Council, followed by great crowds execrating him, and throwing stones. Some tumult continued all night; but no serious dis turbance occurred. The next day two Regiments supposed to be disaffected, the Marines, and the Sa luzzo Regiment, were shut up in their quarters. Mi litary law was proclaimed, and a strong guard planted in every part of the city : on the Ponte Reale, opposite the Exchange, the cannon, loaded with grape shot, were turned towards the city ; and the soldiers had orders to fire on the least alarm. In the meanwhile the Genoese preserved a stern and reto lute silence, the constant forerunner of a storm in Italy: it was generally said that the city was sold to the Austrians, but that they should buy it dearly. At night, on some slight alarm, a pistol was fired near the Governor's palace, on which the cannon began firing ; and there being none of the citizens in the square, fourteen soldiers were killed, and some others wounded. On the morning of the 23d the same appearance continued in the city: the Gower nor's emissaries were at work, sowing dissensions be tween the soldiers and the people, and between the different regiments: on the other hand, a party of fifty students, who, having given a dinner to fifty Officers, in honour of the Constitution, were marked for vengeance, and were eager to increase the num ber of their adherents. It was at last resolved upon to quell the approaching revolt by the sword, when at twelve o'clock a cry or "-Long live the Constitution" was heard near the square of tie Exchange, shouted forth by the marines. The guard before the palace presented their bayonets: but at this moment the Officer commanding them was pushed against the wall by four Genoese, who, presenting a pistol at his throat, whispered in French—" Long live the Con stitution, and make your soldiers do the same, or you arc a dead man r"lhe Officer replied by instantly obeying the order; his example was followed by his troops, who threw down their arms, after firing a feu -de-joie, and embraced the people, who, assisted by the corps of marines, seized op the Ponte Reale, and turned the cannon again4owards the sea.— Apother party rushed into the palacetakil were drag ging the Governor down stairs with loucr*crations, when two young Genoese merchants, named Pera quallo and Chiaccalugo, forced their way through the crowd, and taking hold of the Governor, led him in safety to the house of Chiaccalugo, on the Piazza Campetto, where, under the bayonets of the self-constitutecf National Guard, who had taken pos session of the arms at the Arsenal, and amidst the shouts of an immense populace demanding his head, he signed a paper, resigning his. authority into the bands of a Junta, all Genoese. The Junta also pub lished a paper proclaiming anew the Spanish Consti tution: In two hours everything was tranquil, and the city was a scene of universal rejoicing ; part of, the soldiers dividing the duty of mounting guard with the citizens, and the rest singini.Fl:triotic hymns and dancing amqng the people. Officer com manding the small troop of Cavalry, as soon as he saw the cause of tyranny defeated, rode, full gallop, to his quarters, and ordering . his soldiers to mount, fled with them through a private military gate to-, wards Tuscany. The next day the Governor was carried to the Palace, where he remained under the strict custody of the National Guard. The Revolution was unpolluted by any act of plun der or revenge. Even the Governor's Palace was left untouched by the populace, who merely seized on the arms they found there, and threw his papers out of the window. A party of wood-sellers, having in telligence thai he had lodged 60,000 francs in the hands of the Captain of the Port, took them from him by force, and carried the whole sum untouched to the Junta. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL G. CHAIN CABLES. BRUNTON AND CO. V. HAWKE% In this cause a Rule was obtained last Term for a new trial, on the ground of absence of a material wit ness at the time the cause was tried, and also on the ground that the supposed improvement of the plain tiffs in the manufacture of the chain cables and in anchors was not new, and consequently not the suk ject of a patent. Yesterday and this day the Court was occupied in hearing the arguments of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Mr. GAszLze, Mr. POLLOCK, and Mr. STEVENS, in support of the Rule ; and Mr. ?MA RRYATT, Mr. GUR• NEY, and Mr. CHITTY, against it. On the first ground, viz. the absence of a material witness at the time of the trial, the COURT held that it was not satisfactorily made out, that due diligence had been exerci s ed to procure the attendance of Cap tain Browne; and further, that if he had been pre sent, it did not appear that his testimony was mate rial to the cause. On that point, therefore, the Rule was discharged.—The further argument on the other point was deferred till Tuesday next. OLD DAILEY. Yesterday, -Thomas Gunter, aged 16, was indicted for stealing from the person of Sir H. Dalrymple Hamilton, a silk pocket handkerchief.—The prosecu tor was called three times on his recognizances, but did not appear. It was stated that he was not in town. By the evidence of Hewer, Wren, and Cooke, three officers, it appeared, that on the 27th of February, the prisoner was seen in New liond-street, and being suspected, the above officers watched him; shortly afterwards an alarm was given of the prosecutor having been robbed, and the prisoner was taken into custody, with the handkerchief near him on the ground, which was afterwards sworn to by the pro secutor, at the Police Office. The Commos SERJEANT said, that in the absence of the prosecutor, the Jury must acquit the prisoner, there being no proof that be took the handkerchief from the person.—The Jury accordingly returlied verdict of—Not Guilty. The Learned JUDGE then admonished the prisoner on his way of life, and observed, that if Sir 11. D. Hamilton had been in Court, he must have been convicted, and would have been sentenced to trans portation for life. - The above was the last case on the calendar, and the Jury were then dismissed, the COMMON SER JEANT thanking them for their attention during the Session. The Itzcaanza then took his seat on the Bench, and proceeded to pass sentence on the pri soners, beginning with those capitally convicted, viz. Julia Cochet D'Ocrane, for stealing in a' dwelling house; Richard Jackson, Thomas Brooks, John Rees, Thomas Lee, and Thomas Langton, for burglary• ; James Jordan, William Donald, Thomas Steers, and Abraham Isaacs, far housebreak ing; Jabez Pickering, Henry Ilewings, George Davis, and William Pavely, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Wm. Chosely, for horse-stealing; Matthias George Driscoll, for stealing from the person ; John Smyrke, for a robbery on the King's high way ; John Childs, fur sheep-stealing ; Cephas Quested, for il legally assembling with firearm.' ; and John Snape, for forging the signature of the Captain of the Spartan, and other persons. The latter prisoner, who is a most respectable looking nun, on being put into the dock, read a long written paper, in which be contended that no fraud had been committed, and prayed for further inquiry into his case. Transportation for Life i—Mary Webbe. For Fourteen Years —Elizabeth Vincent, Henry Miles Fast gate, William Sears, Henry Stevens, John Frederickson, and John Knight. For Seven Years :—James Dwyer, David Douglas, Joseph Sanderson, Abraham Donier, John Taylor, George Hughes, William Adams, John Bird, John Brooks, Charles Wildy, Gro. Ellis, William Barnet, Tames Goodwin, William Harlton, Tho mas Newton, Henry Sanderson, Thomas . George, Timothy Caton, Thomas Platt, John Williams, Michael Twyeross, Eleanor Edwards, Margaret Murphy, Joh!) Hart, John Fell, George Crawley, Henry Allen, James Payne, William Cullen, Thomas Smith, Thomas Connell, John Tibbins, Joseph Peel ing, John Bitten, William Appleby, Isaac Crawley, Robert Callow, Joshua Jones, Thomas Jones, James Lacy, Henry Newland, Benjamin Stevenson, William Sack, George Smith, Ann Williams, John Smith, Edward Vale, Thomas Brans grove, and Samuel Aylett. Sarah Holt, Thomas Lake, Mary Ann Lorden, Thomas Evans, John Crawley, Michael Machin. James Dogherty, anti Martha King, were sentenced, the latter to two years, and the rest to twelve months imprisonment, In the House of Correction fur London.—Sixtl-four were ordered to be imprisoned in the House of Cofrection for Middlesex, and two in Newgate for various periods, several of whom were to be publicly and pri vately whipped, and several judgments were respited. Sessions adjourned to the 6th of June. PgRTH CIRCUIT COURT, APRIL 16. Ebenezer Brown was indicted for the murder of Wil liam Henderson, in Netherton of Dunfermline. Ann Henderson, is widow of the deceased,who has a daughter called Ellen, between whom and the pannel (a married man) an illicit intercourse had subsisted for some time, the former having been absent from her father's house, to which she returned in the month of July last. Witness went on to say, pannel sent for de ceased on the 13th of July to speak with him, in a public-house, at ten at night; witness said deceased, was in bed ; prisoner came and knocked at the door ; refused to let him in ; her children,Ellen,Ann,Marion, and James, were in the house at the time ; Ellen-said pannel should get in ; Ellen went out; witness and Ann followed; sound Ellen and pannel talking toge ther ; Ann threatened to throw a stone at paunch if he did not go away; pannel said if they came out he would make corpses of every one of them ; had a stick in his hand; witness's husband came out partly un dressed; orderectEllen to go in; she refused; prisoner gave deceased a push: Witfteit said el hold off a poet old man e. Ann pushed Ellen in towards the door ; deceased went behind Ann to assist her ; Ellen cried, " on, Eby r prisoner threw deceased over amongst some loose stones ; deceased fell on his face, raised himself up, then fell again ; did not see prisoner strike deceased with his stick ; Ellen went away east of the Netherton ; prisoner followed ; witness also followed them ; prisoner threw witness on the ground, and hurt her arm; returned to the house and found her husband in bed speechless; he had been that day in good health; was aged 63 ; was not subject to epilepsy or fits; was nervous when in a passion; sent for Dr. J. Stenhouse that night ; he did not come, but sent medicine, which her husband could not swallow, his throat being full of blood, and his jaw fallen ' • Dr. Stenhouse came next day; drew blood, which h ad no effect; husband never stirred or spoke; died that night ; Ellen never returned. Cross-examined.—Ellen gave witness "a little drive" as she went to the door ; door of the house narrow ; husband had no hat; when he fell the second time Brown was at a distance; deceased followed them a few yards ; was in a great passion ; daughter Marion had fallen down in a nervous fit ; did not say to Fer guson, who held her husband's head when it sins shaved, that this fit had lasted longer than usual ; heard that the deceased had had a fit many years ago. A. I ienderson corroborated her mother's testimony. Dr. James Stenhouse opened the deceased's head; made a report at the time, which was presented to him and certified—deceased met his death from a suffusion of blood in the brain, occasioned by a lace ration (If the brain by a piece of the inner coating of the skull, near the junction of the spinal marrow, being separated from the skull by violence ; this vio lence might have been applied to any part of the head ; a severe concussion in any way might hive oc casioned it ; bones of old people more brittle than those of young; a mark on back of the head; might have walked 60 or 70 yards after the laceration, and back again, as the blood suffuses from the small ves sels gradually ; does not think the appearance the brain presented would have been produced by any in ternal passiol or affection of the mind ; the suffusion of blood might have been hastened by it. Dr. Dewar, who opened the head along with Dr. Stenhouse, confirmed his testimony. Epilepsy would not have accounted for the laceration ; a man would not lie for 18 hours in an epileptic fit.—The following witnesses were called for the defence : James Ellis dwelt in the same street, opposite; saw Henderson with a stick following Brown; heard de ceased say if he got a stroke at Brown he would knock him to eternity ; heard Henderson speak when in the house; his tongue was not bit when he put him to bed; it was bit afterwards ; when neighbours said he was in one of his old troubles ; wife said she never saw him so long in one in her life. David Ferguson went in between four and five in the moraing ; found deceased insensible ; lying very similar to the way he had seen him in twice some years before ; held up deceased's head when it was shaved ; saw no marks of blows ; tongue bit. . David Ilutton.—Deceased's family not very peace able ; Brown a very quiet man ; served in the Fife shire Militia with him three years; steady soldier; sober ; Brown volunteered from the Fifeshire to the 79th Regiment ; Henderson a very passionate man. Provost Wilson, of Dunfermline, wrote to the Com manding Officer of the 79th Regiment, and got a very excellent character of Brown, which was read in Court. James Drysdale.—Deceased was subject to a fall ing sickness; deceased was servant with witness's father 54 years ago ; none of the servants would eat out of the same dish with him. The exculpatory proof was here clo•ed. Mr. MENzias, in addressing the Jury on the part of the prosecution, considered the fact of Henderson having met with his death, in consequence of the scuffle with Brown, as completely proved. Mr. WlLsos, for the prisoner, dwelt particularly , upon the evidence of Henderson being subject to fits; on the time that elapsed between the scuffle and his fainting fit ; on the prisoner's quiet, and on the de ceased's passionate disposition—and said, that had he been allowed, he was prepared to prove that Brown had come to Henderson for the purpose of restoring scme articles belonging to Ellen ; that he did not wish to take her away from her father's house ; that he separated himself from her immediately after wards, and that she was now living in the same house with his wife in terms of perfect amity. The law, as it stood respecting murder and culpa ble homicide, and the power of the Jury to bring in either of these verdicts, were laid down by Lord SUCCOTH, in summing up the evidence. The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, re turned a verdict of—.Culpalde Homicide, and the pri soner was condemned to seven years' transportation. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday, Mr. Gibson, of Trump street, was summoned by one of his journeymen weavers, for having paid •him a less price than is marked in the regulated scale, allowed by the Jus tices in Session. The information was laid by the Society of Journeymen, several of whom, with their Secretary, were in attendance, assisted by i% ALLEY, who stated the case at very considerable length.— Mr. BOLLAND observed, that the complainant had had work given him to be made of a certain quality, but he had made it much stouter, and then demanded the increased price. The question was, whether any thing was due, after having thus wasted his employer's material; and if he had any remedy, it was at the Court of Requests. Mr. Gibson had paid for the qua lity he had ordered. Mr; ALLEY contended, that if his client had a remedy at the Court of Requests, it did not bar the information. The rate of prices could I not be violated on any ground. Aldermen ROTH WELL and C. SMITH decided, that the case described was not one which came under the cognizance of the Act, and dismissed the information. Bow-STREET.—Yesterday, three well-known pick pockets, who have for a long time been a pest to the neighbourhood of Bond-street, underwent an exa mination before RICHARD BIRNII4 Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, and were fully committed for trial, being charged with picking the pocket. - of Mr. Richard Holt, of Orchard -street, Portman-square, of a pocket book, containing three one-pound notes. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—DISCOVERT OP A NEST 07 SHEEP-STICALERS.--This system of robbery has of late been carried ots is the environs of London, not only in the - fields, but from _slaughter - houses. in town. No less than eight persons are under nail* nation at this Office, charged with the above offence. —Eight sheep were stolen in the night from the slaughter-house of Mr. Garment, butcher, in Sou t h Audley-street, and they were traced to Dennington's house, where they were killed, and afterwards sold much under the value. The receivers are also in cal. tody. The said eight prisoners are alsO charged with stealing fourteen sheep from the neighbourhood of Notting-hill. These sheep were also traced to the wholesale market, in Chick-lane, where they were killed, and afterwards disposed of. The prisoners were all remanded, as the others concerned are act yet in custody. IRELAND.—Oornacrt..—On the night of Mon* the 16th instant, a most barbarous murder was cow mitted in the neighbourhood of Banagher,i n the King's county. Between the hours of twelve on g o'clock, a body of villains, in number about thirty. most of them armed with muskets and fixed bayonet'', attacked the house of a man of the name of Murphy. On their shooting the dog outside the house, Murphy took the alarm, and had scarcely put on his clothes, when his door was burst in, and five or six fellows entered, against whom, having seized a pitchfork, he defended himself with desperate resolution. The vil lains having retreated, had not courage to enter into the house a second time, but dispatched three of their gang to a short distance for fire, with which to hurl'. the house and its inmates, consisting of Murphy, hi s sister (t woman about forty years of age), his ag e d, blind mother, and his nephew (a boy about ten r a y s old). The roof being set on fire, Murphy's sister first endeavoured to escape ; but, on her coming eut, one of these savages stabbed her in the sle with a bayo. net, which pierced through to the back of her head, whilst others beat her about the face with the butt. ends of their muskets, until a musket-shot through the heart,• from the hand of another, put an end to the period of ,her existence! The house being in flames, and part of the roof having fallen in, Murphy heat rushed out, when he instantly received a mthket ball in his head, which traversed the skull; a second shot passed through his body, and lodged in a block of wood upon which he had fallen. The next Ades was the poor, old, blind mother, whom they carried to a deep bog-hole, into which they threw her. Oa departing, they struck the boy with the butt-end of a musket in the mouth, by which several of his teeth were knocked out ; they then fired at him, and lodged several slugs in both his legs. Colonel L'Estrange, of Moystown, as soon as he was. informed of the out- rage, repaired with a party, of his Staff to the house,, and afforded the unfortunate man, who was still sm. viving, every kind assistance, and had him conveyed • to the Barrack at Banagher, where he now lies with out hope of recovery. Nearly twelve months ago, the house of Murphy was attacked by a body of Rib bons:len, who demanded his fire-arms. The assailants were repulsed, and finally beaten Off, which is sup posed to have been the cause of this dreadful outrage. A few days since, the body of J. GOWAN, Esq. a Lieutenant in the SOth Regiment of Foot, was dis covered lying dead, on the road from the town ci Goree, Ireland, to the seat of his father, Joss HUNTER GOWAN, Esq. in the county of Wexford, but without any external mai ks of violence, from which circumstance great doubts were entertained as to& manner of his death; but it having been since clearly ascertained, that at the time he set out from hose he had about him a silver hunting-watch, a mo:octo pocket-book, containing notes to a large amount, and a purse containing several gold sovereigns, which had been evidently taken from him, as his pockets were turned inside out, there can be no doubt that he fell a victim to the sanguinary cii , positionofsonse wretch, who knew of Mr. GOWAN carrying property about him to such an amount. Sunday, W. Jenkins, ferryman, at Lawrenny, Car. marthenshire, took a Gentleman and his horse into the boat used for conveying foot passengers from Loot and Lawrenny ; when about 400 yards from the shore, the horse became restive, bilged the boat, and leaped into the tide. Jenkins used all exertions to regain the shore, whilst the Gentleman kept throwing out the water; but the wind and tide being againa them, it became completely water-logged, and was sinking, when, about 30 yards from the shore, the Gentleman leaped into the water, and gained the land by swimming; but Jenkins sunk to rise no more. Tuesday, while the steam-engine of the copper'- works, at Morriston, near Swansea, was at work, a poor boy very inadvertently placed his foot upon the safety-valve, which occasioned the barrel to explode, and there being three men at work in another pac t or the engine -house, the steam, from tile sudden et• plosion and consequent rarefication of the air, fie,' carried one of them to the stairs, a distance of no less than seventeen feet; - the others were pressed violently against the door , leading to the office. One of the windows was shattered to pieces, and the wall much injured. The men escaped unhurt, and the boy is likely to recover, with the exception of the loss of his right leg. Yesterday afternoon, a woman with a child in bot Arms, going along Holborn, near Furnivals Inn, hap pened to slip, from treading on an orange-peel, and was thrown forward with great force, the child was pitched out of her arms, and, falling on its head, fractured its skull. BIRTHS. Wednesday, Mo. Bally, of Stantford.bill, of a son. , Wednesday, the Lady of Captain O'Connor, Royal Nciii. Hereford-street, of a daughter. At Italbegno Castle, on the 11th inst. the Lady of Orga . Ramsay, of a son. At Roscommon, on the 1I th Inst. the Lady of Cafilik ilk lace, of the Kiug's Dragoon Guards, of a DIED. April 12, Sir John Clarks Richardson, Bart. Commands the Royal Navy. On his return home from the Island of Ceylon Ca Thurlbw, of the 16th Regiment, second son of th e Rev. r, Thurtow, Prebendary of Norwich Cathedral. Marti 2, on his passage home in the 27th year of Wine, James Carnegy, Rs* late mercha nt MAILS Inn DATe.-ANIL DM MIL N S Dublin 0 1 Lisbon 0 I Waterford 1 1 France 0 ° Guernsey and Jersey co 0 Hamburgb Holland 1 0 Gottbnburgh 0 I Flanders Malta 0 1 0 t e , , , ,a y ri o. libuid. : : HIGH-WATER at LONDON tsitlDGElo-AAtlt 0*• Morning, - 54 minutes after 10 Afternoon . • " 11- • LOIIDOS : Plated and putirislier, ?id" nage, Teniple•Dar.