Star. — London, England, 1823-10-09 00:00:00

COFENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The School of Reform was performed last night ; and Mr. RAYNER, who had already acquired a high repu iation on the boards of the English Opera House, made hi ar ssfirst appeance at this Theatre, in the arduous cha racter of Tyke. The very mention of the name of Tyke brings along with it that of EMERY, who had made it so completely his own, that any performer on the Lon don stage had better have appeared in Macbeth, than encount ered his chances in a part which was in fact made by the actor rather than the dramatist. Even no w that we are for ever deprived of Mr. EMERY'S talents, his memory remains as an obstacle in the way of a successor. This bold undertaking Mr. RAYNER undertook, and he acquitted himself with more ability than we were disposed to anticipate, even from his for mer exertions. Of course we mean nothing like a corn pari,on between him and the late Mr. EMERY; but that recollection apart, it is no flattery to Mr. RAYN E R to sa y th e I his Tyke s an admirable effort.—He entered so completely into the character, and felt so perfectly at his ease throughout, that we cannot state a single in stance in which he deviated into the offensive, but too common, transgression of over-acting. In the principal scenes, the feeling displayed by Mr. RAYNER reminded us of his predecessor. Mr. BLANCHARDS General Tarragon was, as all the characters he attempts turn out to be, a well conceived and well executed portrait. Mr. JONES, in Ferment, exhibited the restless disposition of a man who might be happy, but will not. He kept op the uneasiness of the part in the most ludicrout com motion from beginning to end. Mrs. Gums, as Hrs. Ferment, was by no means slow to second his endea vours, and between both the effect was in the highest degree comic. Airs. DA VENPORT'S Nicely was truly laughable, and Mrs. PEARCE'S Shckh excited the amusement which always attends the correct Lepresen tation of liish character. There is no Lady on the Stage so capable of sustaining the droll peculiarities which Theatres arc in the habit of ascribing to the fair ones of that country.—When the curtain fell, and another piece was attempted to be given out, the call for Mr. RAYNER was so general, that the intention was aban doned, an dhe announced the School of Reform. After the Play was perfornisd. a new Afterpiece, of the ro mantic kind, entitled, Ahe Beacon of Liberty, was in troduced. When we state that it was the old story of WILLIAM TELL, our readers will not demand any de scription of the plot. They will probably feel some astonishment at the adoption of a story so familiar to the Stage; but a little reflection will be sufficient to convince them that it is no uncommon thing for Mana gars to prefer what is threadbare to what is original. It was very splendidly got up. The scenery an I deco rations were of the most brilliant kind, and the per iormers exerted themselves with a zeal becoming the high-sounding title of the drama. Master LONGHURST, as If alter, the son of William Tell, and Miss R. BODEN, as Wilhelm, two children, sung a duet in very good taste. It was loudly applauded by the audience. The whole was well received, and the house was better attended than since the opening of the present season. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Flora. BLOVA lb, from Rio Janeiro to Copenhagen, was to tally wrecked the 26th ultimo, near Thisted—crew and part of the cargo saved. ALMOUTH, °masa 7.—Wind &W.—Arrived the Brutus, Hos annas, from London for New York ; put in in consequence of several bottles of aquafortis having burst, by which Means the ves sel took dre—the vessel is discharging. Sailed the Mary, FAO,. cLotten, for St. Michael's- PLexouvw, OCTOI2II 7.—Wind W.S.W.---Arrived the Vigilant, CUURCH, from London for Barbadoes; City of Edinburgh,Wrsemair, from London for Calcutta—out fourteen days : on the sth instant, being then as far West as Cape Finisterre, the vessel became leaky, making about seven inches water per hour, when they bore up, and from the leak' decreasing on going before the wind, it is supposed that the principal and only leak is in her stern-post ;it will, how ever, be necessary to unload some part of the cargo, consisting of bale goods, &c. in order effectually to stop it. POLTSMOUTH, (kronen B.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Ellen, DOUGLAS, from Sumatra in one hundred and thirty-six days ; his Majesty's brig lizowtso, from Cadiz ; and his Majesty's brig HELCON, from a cruise. Sailed the King George the Fourth, Pats me, for the Mauritius. Dam., Omura B. Wind W.S.W. Came down from the River and remain, the Rock, TOM:WS, for Fayal; Charles WCarthy, ELD RIDGY, for Sierra Leone. Also, and sailed, the Betsey and Sophia, GA If KOWAY, for Dominica. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Surrey, Gaaaurr, from Honduras ; West India packet, Museor, from Jamaica ; and Philip, FORSTIR, from Cuba. liolltnAlr, MAY 31. The ship Cornwall, Riche anSON, arrived here on her voyage from Mocha to England, struck on a bank off Cape Aden, and sustained considerable damage. On the 29th of March, at 8.35. r. m. the Cornwall, in the act of tacking, struck on a Knoll, with only 2; fathoms writ, five fathoms inside and round it, and a regular bank of soundings, from four to twenty-three fa thoms, extending about five miles ; lat. 13.2. N. long. 45.30. E. Cape Aden in sight, bearing S. 52. W. a large white tower above the low coast, bearing N. by compass ; the beach low, with a heavy swell running on it. The ship struck repeatedly, and broke the main piece of her rudder, as well as all the pintles short off; sprung a leak of two feet per hour, which increased when it blew hard. After getting the ship off, made a temporary rudder in three days, with which she got close to Maculla, when, from heavy seas, and a gale from the eastward, the temporary rudder broke ; she was obliged to bear away for Aden Bay, where she arrived the middle of April, .steering pith the assistance of the sail, ; another temporary rudder was then nude, which brought the ship to Bombay. Twenty men died with fatigue during the voyage, and seventeen were landed sickly the day after her arrival, four of which are since dead. CUSTOM-HOUSE, OCTOBER 15. - Stun Ermagn Icwitans—The Nielson, from Jamaica; Alliance, from ditto; Perseverance, from llamburgh ; Rebecca, from Ant werp ; Alpha, front the Cape de Verdi ; Hoppet, from Antwerp ; Vrow hiargaretha, front ditto; and Harrison, front Quebec. CLiaattu; °wawa ans—The Fountain, for Naples ; Phyleria, for Santander; Zeemeuw, for Amsterdam; Aimwell, for Hamburgh ; New Comet, for Lisbon; St. Elias, for Stettin; Fortitude, for St. Mitt's; and Superb, for Seville. Altaiven—At St. Helena, 4 Attrevedo, —, from Manilla; Venerable, Dixon, from Neouth Wales; Alexander, Marcus sen ; and Arab, Brown, from Batavia; Frances, Watkins; and Ellen Douglas, Rice, from Sumatra; Thames, Gibson, front Pe nang ; and Caledonia, 'Cant. from Madras. At Hane, Adolphe Eugene, from Buenos Ayres; Olinda, from Guadaloupe ; and the Physicienne, from At Madras, Kellie ,Castle, ; and Eliza, Watd, from London. At the Mauritius, Charles Grant and William Miles, from London. At Bengal, Kent, Cobb ; and Ge neral Kydd, Nairne, front London ; Olive Branch, Kinnard, from the Cape of Good Hope ; and Nantaise, from Bourdeaux. PIRACY. Extract of a private letter, dated Por Praya, St. Jago, Cape de Yerd Islands :•46 In the night of the twenty-second of April last, the British schooner Swift, Captain HONEY, of Sierra Leone, at anchor in this port, was boarded by about twenty sol diers of the garrison, and some renegado French sailors, and taken out of the harbour, without being discovered from any of the batteries, and it is supposed has gone on a piratical cruize, as she is without papers to protect ber. Captain H. was at the time on shore. The mate and all the crew, together with a young man from Bos ton (United States), were all on board, and it is sup posed the latter and the mate, with such of the crew as refused to join them, have I:keen murdered." THE ARRIVAL or A WHIALER.—A stranger who has never witnessed the arrival of a well-fished whaler has a treat to come greater than he imagines. No sooner does the report of a vessel of this description being in sight begin to citculate, than sweethearts and wives of all ages, sizes, and complexions, crowd to the piers or the South End, for the purpose of welcoming home a lover er a husband. Interviews between the parties are such as 46 plain unsophisticated nature" dictates—the squeeze, the kiss, and the 44 what cheer, mate?" No eti quette pervades the deck of a whaler ; and though the odours proceeding from below are something different from the 0/fumes of Araby," yet there is a sincerity of affection depicted in the countenances of those who meet there, that amply compensates for the want of it. An absence of six months affords sufficient space for the occurrence of new events, and therefore the joy mani fested by the strangers and their friends when they once again see each other in health, is by no means serpris ing. Sometimes it unfortunately happens and what state or rank is exempt from vicissitudes?—that the Dukineas of the enamoured seamen play them false in the interval which occurs between leaving port and making it again ; but this is of every day's occurrence in high life, and therefore does not, nor should it, pre vent the mariner from softening his boisterous nature by the all-powerful influence of 66 sweet woman."— Hull Packet. ARCTIC PnzsozazoAi—oMr. SCORESBY'S Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale Fishery, recently pub lished, contains mnch information respecting the retrac tions which are usual in high latitudes; one very singu lar instance deserves to be noticed g , On my return to the ship, about eleven o'clock, the night was beautifully fine, and the air quite mild. The atmosphere in con sequence of the warmth, being in a highly refractive state, a great many curious appearances were presented by the land and icebergs. The most extraordinary effect of this state of the atmosphere, however, was the dis tinct inverted image of a shin, in the clear sky, over the middle of the large bay, or inlet, before-mentioned ; the ship itself being entirely beyond the horizon. Appear ances of this kind I have before noticed, but the pecu liarities of this were—the perfection of the image, and the great distance of the vessel that it represented. It was so extremely well defined, that when examined by a telescope, I could distinguish every sail, the general g rig of the ship,'aud its peculiar character; insomuch that I confidently pronounced it to be my father's ship the Fame, which it afterwards proved to be; though on comparing notes with my father, I found that our relative positions at the time gAve our distance Irons one another nearly thirty miles, being about seventeen beyond the horizon, and some leagues beyond the limits Of direct vision. I was so struck with the peculiarity of the circumstance, that 'I mentioned it to the officer of the watch, stating my' full conviction that the Fame was then cruising in the neighbouring inlet." • BOMNAMBULISAL The following extraordinary case of Somnambulism ' IS, we are assured, quite authentic. It is principally important in a medical point of view, on account of the successful use of bleeding as a remedy. It oc- tarred on Sunday evening last, October the sth, to a lad named George Davis, 16i years of age, in the sec., Tice of Mr. Hewson, butcher, of Bridge-road, Lambeth : n about twenty minutes after nine o'clock the.lad bent forward in his chair, and tested his forehead on his hands; and in ten minutes started up, went for his whip, put on his one spur, and went thence to the stable; not finding his own saddle in the proper place, he returned to the house and asked lor it. Being asked what he wanted with it ? he replied, to go his rounds. He returned to the stable, got on the horse without the saddle, and was proceeding to leave the stable : it was with much difficulty and force that Mr. Hewson, jun. assisted by the other lad, could remove him from the horse ; his strength was great, and it was with difficulty lie was brought in doors. Mr. Hewson, sen. coming home at this time, sent for Mr. Benjamin Ridge, an eminent practitioner in Bridge-road, who stood by him for a quarter of an hour, during which time the lad considered himself stopped at the turnpike gate, and took sixpence out of his pocket to be changed; and holding out his hand for the change, the sixpence was returned to him. He imme diately observed, " None of your nonsense—that is the sixpence again, give me my change;" when Sid. was given to him. He counted it over, and said, " None of your gammon ; that is not right, I want a penny more e' making the 4d. which was his proper change. He then said, " give rue my castor" (meaning his hat), which slang terms he had been in the habit of using, and then began to whip and spur to get his horse on; his pulse at this time was one hundred and thirty-six, full and hard; no change of countenance could be observed, nor any spasmodic affection of tile muscles, the eyes remaining closed the whole of the time. His coat was taken off his arm, shirt sleeve stripped up, and Mr. Ridge bled him to thirty-two ounces; no al teration had taken place in him during the first part of the time the blood was flowing; at about twenty-four ounces the pulse began to decrease; and when the full quantity named above had been taken, it was at eighty, a slight perspiration on the -forehead. During the time of bleeding, Mr. Hewson related the circumstance of a Mr. Harris, optician in Holborn, whose son, some years back, walked out on the parapet of the house in his sleep. The boy joined the conversation, and ob served he live& at the corner of Brownlow-street. After the arm was tied up, he unlaced one boot, and said he would go to bed; in three minutes from this time he awoke, got up, and asked what was thAmatter ? (having then been one hour in the trance), not having the slightest recollection of anything that had passed, and wondered at his arm being tied up, and at the blood, &c. A strong Opening medicine was then administered, he went to bed, slept well, and the next day appeared perfectly well, excepting debility from the bleeding and opera tion of the medicine, and has no recollection whatever of what had taken place. None of his family or him self were ever affected in this manner. Poor Wlxv.—By the last Mail from Lisbon we ha , received a letter front an English house at Oporto, of MAIL COACH ACCIDENT.—The delivery of the letters which the following is an extract : from the Post-Office, this morning, was later than usual , N OPORTO, SETT. 18.—We have seen a Desree from the King of : Portugal, dated 2ist ultimo , reinstating tat Royal Oporto Wine Com- owing to an accident which happened to the Pool Mail , Pan in all former privileges and authority, with the excepdon of on its way to town this morning. In consequence of die monopoly of retailing wines in the City, and of shipping them some obstruction which it encountered it was overthrown, ciezi.iiirty to the Brazila. By this measure our Wille trOC here is and a Lady, who was an outside passenger, and the 4 gaiu placed under rebtrainta; and I ant afraid sal' step, so advan- guard, were both sever el y in Ligetwa to the Company, will not fail to procure foe its Wines. In mail jured. The former thi Erglish market, apreference over those Of the Factory Houses% had her thigh broken, and the lam; a limb fraCttlted. CORONERS' IiVOUESTS. Yesterday., an Inquisition was taken before Mr. UN WIN, Coroner, at the Black Bull, Old Montague -street, Whitechapel, on the `body of John Rowe, a journey man' whitesmith, in the employ of Mr. Schooling, of Great Garden-street. It appeared that on Monday evening the deceased came home into x i ca t e d, an d h a d a v i o l ent q u a r re l w ith his wife, in the course of which he beat her. Peace was, however, restored by the interference of some neigh bours, and they sat down in a room on the first floor to spend the remainder' of the evening with a party of friends The wife having occasion to leave the room, went down stairs, and the deceased hearing the yard door shut, asked where she was gone ? and being told by a female, one of the party, that she was gone out, but would be back again in• a minute, he instantly jumped up, and, rushing to the stairs, attempted to de scend ; but missing his footing at tlee second step, he tell, head for emost, to the bottom of a flight of nine or ten stairs, and was found there lying completely doubled up, with his head undermost. He was im mediately raised and carried up stairs to bed ; his neck and under his ear appeared to be much injured ; but he was perfectly sensible, and spoke rationally and collectedly. The next day, about five o'clock, he de sired a young woman, who lodged in the same house, to read to heed, for he was sure, he said, that be was dying. A person was accordingly called in, who prayed by his bedside, and a doctor was sent for, who pre. scribed some powders and a draught, which were admi nistered ; but about half-past seven o'clock he breathed his last. The witnesses concurred in ascribing his death to the fall, as he was in perfect health previous thereto, and in stating that he was intoxicated at the time. A malicious and ill-founded rumour having been spread abroad in the neighbourhood, ascribing his death to the violence of his wife, the witnesses were particularly ex amined to that point, and all agreed in the fact of her being outside of the house in the back yard, the door of which was shut, at the time of the fall. Verdict—" That the deceased came by his death by accidentally falling down stairs, being intoxicated at the time." Another Inquest was held last night, at the Ship, Vauxhall-road, on the body of Mrs. Louisa Rivers Ham mond, wife of a respectable inhabitant of Garden-street. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased had for some time laboured under a continued stoppage in her stomach, for which she was in the habit of taking opening pills, and bitter apple pills. On Thursday last she sent her sister, a little girl, for a pennyworth of bitter apple pills, but the apothecary not having any prepared, gave her about ten grains in powder, caution ing the girl how it•was to be made into pills, and its dangerous effects. The deceased, on receiving the me dicine, mixed it with water in a cup, and swallowed the contents. Shortly after she was seized with violent pains, and died she same evening. Verdict—" That the deceased died through taking a large quantity of bitter apple powder, not knowing at the time it would occasion her death." PUBLIC BAPTISM.—Great interest was excited last 9bnday.at the Episcopal Jews Chapel, in consequence ofthe Rev. Mr. HAWTRY announcing the intended pub lic baptism, that day, of a foreign Gentleman of the Hebrew persuasion. On the doors being opened in the evening, the concourse of persons assembled filled every seat. It is computed that upwards of 1,000 persons were present ; and in that number, about one hundred Jews and Jewesses. The Gentleman about to enter the pale of Christianity is a native of Poland, about forty, and connected with some of the first families on the Continent. He arrived in England about three months ago. The organ, by a solemn air, announced the com mencement of the ceremony, and Mr. Hawrny then read the prayers appointed for the service, in a manner that appeared to inspire the congregation with reveren tial awe. To the solemn questions propounded by the Clergyman, the convert answered with a firm and-audi ble voice ; and on being sprinkled and marked with the sign of the Cross, he appeared to be deeply affected. In the prayer that followed he joined most fervently, and at the conclusion he seated himself near the font. This is the second adult that bas been baptized in the chapel within the last month. After this part of the service, Mr. HAWTRY delivered an excellent Discourse from the forty-fifth chapter of Genesis, fourth and fifth verses. The great progress of Christianity in this country, and other parts of the globe, was dwelt upon with much force by the Rev. Gentleman. The individuals of the Jewish persuasion present at the ceremony remained during the whole of the service. Tin WESTMINSTER HAWK.—There is to be seen on Westminster Abbey every day a noble hawk; which is known by the neighbouring inhabitants to have resided there above thirty years, %there he reigns despotic mo narch. His territories are shunned by all the feathered race; and if by chance a pigeon or other bird alights' there, he pounces upon it and tears it to pieces. He seldom roams any distance thence except when com pelled by.hunger, which as soon as he satisfies he re turns. .His favourite station on the Abbey is immedi ately over the clock, where be is sure to be seen daily. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has signified his intention of giving up Lotteries, in preference to any ether tax; and the Revenue of the present Quarter having increased to such an extent as to render the pro fit on them of no object to the nation, there is good rea son to expect that this will be the last time that the British Public will be enabled to gain an independence by risking a small sum. Two out of the five days of drawing are now over, and yet the Wheel contains Three Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds, One of Ten Thousand Pounds, Two of Two Thousand Pounds, Four of One Thousand Pounds, Seven of Five Hundred Pounds, besides numerous small Capitals. The Tickets and Shares are cheaper than for the last Fifty Lotteries at the same period of the drawing. The demand has been great, and there are but few Tickets on sale ; which of course will be still further reduced before the Third Day of Drawing; which is THURSDAY IslExT, the 16th instant. NiGHTSRADE.•-Last week two poor women and five children, who were gleaning in a field near Landwit Major, in Glamorganshire, ate the berries of the nightshade, or soloing:lt, and were made so very ill as to be incapable of walking home. Towards the close of night some persons went in search of them, and found them lying on the ground unable to move or speak, having their eyes wide open. They were taken home in a cart, and Mr. Thomas Davis, of Cowbridge, the sur geon, was sent for, who on his arrival administered the usual remedies with success to the children, but the two old women have still (though six days have elapsed) a great deal of delirium, accompanied by involuntary motions of the hands and feet. SPORTING INPELLMENCII. PERTH RACES.—Tituasthiv, Ocvoure 2. A Sweepstakes of Ten Guineas each, with ‘749.. Ws. added by David Moncrelffe. Mr. Dowbiggin's Baron Bower, walked over the Course: A Plate of Fifty Poundr, given by the Hunt. Sir David Moncreiffr's Strathearu - • Sir Alex. tianisay's Pansuute Sir Robert Dick's Slivadore t 2 2 - 3 dr Da. Sricrax.--This Celebrated animal, after passing the winning peat at the late Richmond Meeting, and winning his twentieth cup, fell with his rider. The greatest anxiety was felt both for man and horse; but such is the estimation in which he is held in that cove- try, even by the fair, that the feeling was little for the farmer -0- 1- pared with that fur the good old Doctor. TROTTING MATCHES. The match between Mr. Jones's pony mare and Mr. Davis's elch pony, to trot twenty miles, for WO sovereigns, took place yesterday on the Lea-bridge-road, from the three to the fourteenth mile -stone, and back again to the fifth mile-stone. Ail the trotting fancy at the Pact end of the town were present, aad heavy bets were pending, the mate being rather the favourite. At starting, the mare made the play, and kept the lead throughout, closely fol lowed at that speed which left most of the gallopers behind. At the fourteenth mile -stone the ponies were together, bet on the re turn the mare gained a little, and her jockey, from superior speedi was enabled to ease her. Ile did not let her loose till near the end of the race, and she won it by about 100 yards. The time occu pied by the winner in performing the match was one hour and fif teen minutes. Sixteen miles an hour for ponies is a master-piece of performance. Tuesday a trotting match took place do the Lea-bridge-road, be tween a broken-kneed mare and a puny,the property of !Mr. Perry, • of Ilackney-road. The match Was forty sovereigns. lane sums were pending. Nearly a thousand horsemen were present, and from the known goodness of the pony, great interest was excited. The distance was twenty miles, ten out and in. At starting odds were ili favour of the pony ; the latter turned five times, and the mare twice, during the match. The mare performed the 20 miles in an hour and 14 minutes, winning by 30 yards. BOXERS. Our Readers have seen the important correspondence between the would-be belligerents Spring and Langan, in our Paper of Se turday last. Langan is unknown to the London ring, but Is de scribed to us as a very handsome and fine young man He it-s na tive of that Dublin suburb which bears the classic name of 11118181 Island. Langan has been long looked upon in his own neihbour hood as the best pugilist from Ballybough-bridge to Dolphin's Barn ; yet (no offence to the P. IL) held, until lately, the opinion, that prize-fighting was not, perhaps, the most honourable dacription of warfare. Being much pressed to come to London to 1819 (in imi tation of his friend Donelly), Langan refused, although tempted by large sums, and preferred a campaign in the cause of liberty ; he left Dublin in that year as Serjeant in one of the regiments raised these by General Devereux, for the Colombian Republic. Langah it one of the very few survivors of that fine, but 111-fated army. MATCtt DITWEIN JOSHUA HUDSON AND WA number of the patrons of these tip-top boxers met over a dinner of substantial wear and tear, at Shelton's, in Gate -street, on Tuesday, to make the de posit of ten sovereigns a-side. Fifty a-side for the fight which is to take place on the 11th of November. The remaining fifty a-side to be made good at Randall's, on the day fortnight before the battle. This is the most interesting match that could be made with big men of about equal weights. Joshua, the lion-hearted, is too much famed in combat to mention more than his name. Ward is a master of arts, who bas got a character by losing his reputation in combat with Abbott. The money was made good over the sparkling glass, and betting was 5 to 4 on Ward. SPARRING. Sampson bad his benefit at the gives Cdurt yesterday. There was a tolerably numerous assembly. The s;:ts.to were between** . Reid and Kitchener; Cooper and Stockman; Betwato, jun. and Gipsy, jun. Wirer and Whitehead; the General ut the Tribe and &mains ; land Sill4llSols and Crawley. WRESTLING. The great wrestling Matches at Carlisle, nn Wednesday and Thursday se'nnight, were the means of assembling a vast concourse of people together. The competitors, nearly a hundred in number, were in general men of great bodily strength, with much science; both of which seemed to be exerted to the utmost. On Wednes day, the chief prize of eight guineas was finely onto ted for be tween John Weightman and John Robson, and won by \Veight• man. Robson, the second best deserving, received two guineas. 'The same day, a match for one guinea, between two noted players, Graham and Liddle, was won by the former, who threw his anta gonist three times successively (out of five). On Thursday, the se cond prize of four guineas was wrestled for by the standing men of the preceding day, which was gained by William Sands, of White haven, throwing John Robley, in the last round. The prise for youthful wrestlers was spiritedly contested for. Sir JOHN Fixityis Lycra's's, Colonel of the Cht.hire Yeo. manry, bring requested last week by some friends at fabley, ts chew a specimen of his skill with a single ball, sent fur his favourite pistol, which he had not fired for some years, and taking a water. wagtail on the green for a mark, passed a ball through itt body at the first shot; distance afterwards measured was 16 yards. . , STOCK EXCHANGE FRACAS.—The heroes of this tale (for heroes they proved themselves to be), are Mr. A. A. G—dsm—d and Mr. J. L—u—da, jun. both of them distinguished members of the Hebrew persuailon. It appears that the foe mer of these Gentlemen was, yes terday afternoon, differing in opinion with another Gen- - tleman on the Exchange, as to the terms of a bargain, when the latter of the two heroes, who was standing by, volunteered his opinion on the subject without being asked to do so. This displeased Mr. G. and he imme diately informed Mr. L. ,that he considered his inter ference in the dispute was highly improper. Mr. L. rather warmly persisted in his right to interfere; and this called forth the epithet " scoundrel" from the lips of Mr. G. Mr. L. who is renowned for his high spirit, of course could not endure this indignity and blows would have been the immediate consequence, had not the interference of the friends of both parties prevented it ; for a time the two heroes seemed to be appeased, and appeared to bear their wrongs with a Christianlike fortitude ; but at length Mr. L. took an opportunity of calling Mr. G. aside, and telling him that he insisted upon his publicly recanting what he had said, or he must take the consequences. To make- a public apology did not appear to suit the taste of Mr. G. and in a moment the foreign market was amused by a regular turn-up (to use a sporting phrase), between our two heroes. Away they went at it, thump and bump, hit and stop, until the interference of the by standers again separated them. The affair was a source of codsiderable amusement to the lookers on, but we doubtwhether the heroes themsel v es were equally rammed, for a blow fr'm the fist of Mr. L. knocked off and demo lished the spectacles of Mr. G. and a similar visitation of the fist of Mr. G. darkened one of the day •lights of Mr. L. Whether or not the affair will stop here, we understand is very doubtful. • DARING ROIHISRT.—On Tuesday night, as MI.JOHIt• sots, of Lambeth, was returning hpme with his wife from the Theatre, he was surrounded in Brydges-street, near the end of Little Catherine-street, by a number of young prostitutes and thieves, the latter endeavouring to pick his pockets, and the former to embarrass him. He however extricated himself from the gang, when one of them snatched at his watch-chain but failed in the attempt to take it. Mr. JOHNSON now made an alarm, and the paroles coming .up, the robbers dispersed in randy, but not before they had taken Mrs. JOHNSON'S reticule and her husband's handkerchief Prom the con fusion that prevailed at the time, it was impossible to secure any-of the offenders. 1