The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-01-09 00:00:00

Er - r 1 • e_ t • : THE STATESMAN No. IV. Oa come and Charge on the Consolidated Fund in the-Quarteraended sth January, 1523 and 1824. Moue and Unarge ou ...s. --..--•.--___ _ .+.____---------' Quarters ended bah Quarters ended sth . January. January. • ' INCOME. , CITA i BOE. -- 1823. 1824. , 1623. 1824. --- .1" 2 i 2 S Customs.: ...................... ... 9,169,948. 2,686,317 Exchequer Annuities 27,914 3,831 EA eise ..... ....• ••• •• • .6,847,248 6,142,0;6! South Sea Company .. 35,440 0,708 Stamps .. .........• • .... . . ...... . • ... 1,430,13971 1,1168,510 Bank on their Capital. 89,125 59.10 Post (Mike 324,000 301,000 Dividends Tones 2,613.231 1,916,084 . National Debt 3,159,090 1,2 11 , 700 Miscellaneous 144.312 800,664 Trustees for the Payment of Naval and .........--• ---.l Military Pensions . . • 11,301,764 13,131,970 I Civil List I 211.600 212,600 Tuntire Money 11.40 11.406 Pensions I 92,160 91,062 q` c Cash brought from theCivllList,bel Imperial Annuities.. . • the Surplus of the Third Class 1,11 90 7,191 Other Charges 147,616 165,199 I n Cash brought to this Account, to r ' -- ;lace the like Sum issued out of t I 12,517.34011 2 .38 0 , 000 Cli owing Produce of the Consolidated' Surplus . 92,8321 3,104,773 Fund . n Ireland for Public Services.) 293,89.4 334,134 -- -- 12,609,972113.484.773 112,509,972,13, 4 8 6 , 773 ---__— -- Exchequer Bills issued for the Consoli dated Fund, at 10th October. 1523, and paid off out co! the Growing Produce of that Fund In the Quarter ending athJa• nuary, 1894 .. 1,712,310 Surplus as above stated 3,104,773 Deduct Monies issued in further part of 18,700,000, estimated as the Surplus of the Consoldatol Fund for the Year! 9,937,146 1823 Total, at 6th January, 1824, to be pro. ---- 107,027 tided for by Exchequer Bills, charged on the Growing Produce of the Conso lidated Fund in the Quarter ending 6th April, 1824 . 1.661,683 • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JAN.B. Adolphus. He certainly did not think therelwas evidence against either Evans or Sargeant ; bat he had no doubt the depositions were sufficient to warrant the committal of Burn, and he should certainly commit him accordingly. Mr. ADOLPHUS said. that he hal of late beard several complaints from the Court, of some committals by magi strates, and it was not unlikely but this might be another subject for the same remarks, when neither the prosecutor nor his witness came forward to 'abject themselves to a WILLIAMS P. MULLING.. This action was brought to recover the sum of 12,0001., alleged to be lent by . the Hope Insnrance Company, of which the plaintiff is the chairman, to a gentleman COD cert.eil in the East India trade. It appeared, that while the defendant was absent from this country, the sum in question was raised by Mrs. Mulling' and others to whom he had given a po wer of attorne y , on the fait ' ', of a mortgage, which he ultimately refused to execute. r The LORD Cities JUSTICII held that a power of at. torn'v did not authorise an agent to borrow money; hut tt.e plaintif f relied on letters of the defendant to show that me had recognised the loan, and applied the proceeds to his own nse. . The defence, besides the denial of the recognition, was fuueded on the circumstance of the defendant having pan tile*, who ought to have been joined in the action. It was, ' however, contended, that this loan was an indivitluil Iran• section, at:d also that the del rnce was precinded by am order a Mr. Justice Holroyll, made on the amendment of the • pleadings. Payments, reducing the claim to 3,0091, were at% proved. The jury, under thedireetion of the Loan Cuter JUSTICB, found a verdict for the plaintiff for SOW., snhject to the opinion of the Court on points of law relied on by the to'ounsel for the defendant. eroae-examination. Mr. CONANT replied, that as to any observations from the Court, he hoped they would never have the effect of interfering with what a magistrate considered to be his duty as to sending a prisoner for:trial or not. With re. spect to the non appearance df the prosecutor or his witness be (Mr. Conant) held in his hand an anonymous letter,which fully accounted for their absence—that letter distinctly stated, that both the prosecutor and the witness had received a considerable sum of money for keeping away, and asked the prisoner Burn, if he knew a man named Austin, a horse dealer? Burn replied that he and had seen him since he had been in prison. Mr. ADOLPRES now represented, that as the prosecutor did not come forward, and as there really appeared no proof that the prosecutor had such a sum of money at all in his posses sion as he said he lied lost, and as Burn's wife was in a very Ilungerous state• of health in consequence of this charge against her husband, he hoped the magistrate would admit Born to I bail, and as there were persons, now present, of the first re spectabiaty, a ho were ready to bail him to any amount. Mr. Long, thellotel keeper of Bond-street, and Mr. Wil liams. a respectable wine merchant, among many others, step ped forward and offered themselves for that purpose. Mr. CoNAST said, that although he had no doubt the psi. deuce was quite strong enough to warrant him in committing Burn, yet as such respectable ball was offered, and the pro secutor not coming forward, he would accept of bail for his POLICE. Blltr-STREET.—JuAn Williams, 3 man of short stature, in a traitor's drew!, teas yesterday brought before Sir It. Starks. charged with defrauding several persons of small items of money, in rather a singular and ingenious manner. It appeaord that early yeeterday morning the prisoner twat to the shop of M r. ;Jones. a tailor, in James street, veer the Coburg l'heatre, and informed him that he had pet arrived in London, from Portsmouth, for the purpose cif ieceiving the sum of '2791., due to him at the Navy, Pay Utter, foe service in a voyage of discovery, from which he had lately returned, after ao absence of six years ; lie was not merely employed as a seaman, but occasionally assisted in drawing maps, charts, &c , or his demand would not have amounts.] to so much. He intended, he said, to place $OOl. in the flank, and to expend the 791. in clothes ii Ml otoer necessaries ; and his object in calling upon Mr. Jones, was to request him to accompany bim to Somerset • House, as he was fo irful of being robbed or cheated if b e . wen t atone. There was one part of his statement wbick sounded very pleasingly to the ear of Mr. Jones, and be ionoediately consented to go with him, at the same time Mating that lie should be happy to serve hini with any little thing that he might happen to want " in his line," • " Certainly, - said the supponel seaman, " that is what 1 intended ; and I may as well give you the order new, for I want to make myself a little smartish, and I should like, if melt a thing were possible, to have a coat awde by to night." " Say no more, Sir, (moth the worthy • tailor," itsloati be done." The prisoner then gave orders forcoats, waistcoats, and trowser. in abundance ; and when the altitude and circumference of lois proper person bad • been duly Measured, Mr. Jones said, "Perhaps, my tine fel. low, you have nut breakfasted; come,yon may as well take a • tit with me." No objection ir:tA made, and after making a comfortable repast they proceeded to Somerset House. At the 'lcor of the Navy Other, the prisoner said lie must go in alone, and desired Mr. Jones to wait a few minutes. Ile returned very shortly, and said he wanted some money to pay for stamps, for they would nut pay him without, and requested Mr. Jones to lend him fifteen shillings. The letter hail only eleven shillings in his pocket, and prisoner said he would prevail upon them to take that sum. In a few tomato* one of the porters came to the door, holding tbe prisoner by the cellar , a nd asked Mr. Jones if he had _liken him money ? He replied in the a f f i rmati ve ; and was th en inform ed that the prisoner had no claim for ' Money, and that be was a common cheat and impostor, whom they had long- been endeavouring to catch. Mr. Jones looked exceeding black at this piece of information, . out be was sufficiently collected to get back his I ls. The porter.who seized the prisoner produced a list of the names of persons who bait been tricked In a similar manner, and miid that the practice of the prisoner was to slip oat at as opposite door front that which be entered at and sneak off. • While his sloop stood gaping at some object or other in the square. The second charge was preferred by Michael Slattery, a simple, good-humoured young Irishman. who sell. fink in St. Wks's. The prisoner went to Michael's landlady on Saturday. and with the same story prevailed upon the poor woinsn to hosed and lodge him until be could receive leis money. On Sunday evening he said to Michael, " Mich. I shall want you to go with me to mor row to take my money, and I will give you ss. for your day's work." Poor Michael, glad of the job, went with him and nas " diddled,! . after the old fashion, of 55.,a1l the money be had about him.• The prisoner made no defence, and was frilly committed on both eliargw. 51ausnoti000a Steeirt..e•On Thursday last Benjamin 'Barn, the pugilist; Alereeth Brans, who stated himself to have loran first a priva , e soldier, and afterwards in the einards, and afterwardsbau ensign in the fileriosethshire and Sergeant, a jeweller, !to had been in tostody upon the • °barge of having robb-d a man named - 11 1•)exter of -eight-selvereigne ;in the Tap Room of Bangs Lease, the Rising Sun, in Windmill Street. were brongbt up for Anal examinetlei. • Mr. Adolphsw,• the barrister, wended on the part of thl•abilee prisoners, but neither she prosecater ereeelals:iltilaties; whose depositions were c lakes e k al os.etteliefwet iseei.aaistited, made their appearesee and after waiting a cooskier,,ble elose t lit. • Vegan/ tthe •' - idagi;teate, -ta bilmeided to 310, sitimetiedleektwhlob,,tioat Otisliiiews : cesstawl4d s Owe. there ewes wed soridaewww II lollies to eiamnatt mik •of , the petits for-tai.d..serts a.,Javt -Cie Mr. Coaster said. Mast Le differed very much from hfr. appearance. fir. Long and Mr. Williams then entered into bail, 1n the tom of 1001. each. and Stwn himself In !Nal/. and be was dia. charged. Evans was ordered to enter into his own recog nizance' for 1001., and Sergeant was discharged without any bei'. James Welsh. a young man dressed in the first style 0 fashion, was brought from St. James's watchhouse, charged with an attempt to rob the mail coach, just as it was on the point of starting from the Gloucester Coffee House, In Picea• dilly, the night before. Mr. Flowers, the principal clerk at the booking office in Pic cadilly, stated that the prisoner came on the Herter Auxiliary Mail, from the Bell and Crown, in Holborn, where it starts to the office at the Glocester Coffee house. This coach does not become a regular mail until It arrives at Salisbury ; and all the mall packages conveyed by it are deposited in the hoot under the coachman's seat. Just before the coachman got upon his box, he observed the prisoner, who sat there, wrap himself [ up in the coachman's box coat, and at the same time stooping I and assisting a rnanwho stood on the offside to pull one of the mail bags out of the boat. The coachman immediately seised the prisoner, hut the other man made his escape, and they can• not as yet tell at the office whether any bag was taken out or not, until the coach arrives at Salisbury, where it becomes a regular mail, and the parcels are examined. The cm:nehmen, being obliged to go with the mail, conic! not attend at present, but would be up lu town in a few days. Mr. Cosrssr asked time prisoner if he wished to say any thing at present to this charge. lie said that he took his seat on the coach at tie Bell anti Clown, for the purpose of going as far as Hounslow ; bat as to the els.age against biw he knew nothing of it, nor did he know the man who stood ou the other side of the coach. Here Mr. Flutters said, that when the prisoner ea. taken he acknowleded knowing the other man, but not where belived ; indeed he could not deny this, for be %as seen spcakin,l to him. Prisoner denied having made any such acknon irdgment. He said he is a shoe talker residing in Northampton, and goes about the country for orders. Mr. Conant here asked him if he had not once been at this office before, and what it was fur? Prisoner said he should decline answering any questions until he had the advice of a solicitor. Mr. CostasT inquired if any of the officers knew the prisoner ? Wales, an active officer, on whom the prisoner had kept 1 his eye steadily fixed from the moment he entered the office, stepped forward, and said that he had the prisoner in mato i dy under the hammie of Wells souse time ego, on a charge lof passing forged notes on time Bank of England. He had reason to recollect him; fur when he app r e hended him 1 with two others in Oxford Street, the prisoner made a desperate resistance, and he (the officer) was compelled i to knock bins down with his staff before he could handcuff him. The prisoner exclaimed violently 'ag ainst this sub j ect beingintroduced, as be said it had nothing to- do with the present business, and there was no foundatiou for the charge alluded to. Sereral persons beloogin4 to the office in Piccadilly recognised the prisoner as a person who had been frequently seen lurking about the mails in the evening. The prisoner, on being asked, refused to tell his address in town, and was remanded until the coachman of the Salis bury and Exeter Mail can attend. ILNIONIH•ta..—A young woman, named Ann Hogan, was brought before L. B. ALLEN. Esq., charged with having robbed a child, tinder the follow tug circumstances : Mr. Nonkelew, the falter of the child, who resides in Berinondeey New•road, stated, that on Tnesday morning, b. tween 9 and 1 o'clock, his little daughter Elisabeth, who is only three years of age, left home for the purpose of etesiding a day school to that neighbourhood. Between 12 apd 1 o'clock the same day, the child was brtraght home by a boy, str'pped of her shawl and gold ear-rings. The boy said a young woman met hies io Bermondsey ,Street, and gave hint a penny for taking the child house to Ater parents. The account the child gave of herself no*, that in a. few minutes after she left her father's house, I young women came up to her, gave her on apple, and taking her by the hand led her up an alley out of Ber eiontlatrstreet, where. ithe took she err-ring n from her eats, and the shawl Iron? filer back, and then went away. The prisoner teal ippreltended soon after the robberg, l o lfl.lesitifled by- bbirth "both she hat given unit c hild io ginage, And also by the little girl herself, The prisoner in her defence, dewed it in the most posl.ive manner. baring robbed the child, but admit d te that she had seen her wande rin g about the road,' when site paid a boy for taking her home, and this boy, she s.id, inugt have been the robber. prisoner was ordered to be searched, and the officer uho performed that duty, discover,d the chil's go ld ear-rings concealed under her garters. She w d as fully committed. ....~. , iwilmmemiiii•im --- FIGHT BETWEEN SPRING AND LANGAN. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) IR our report of this battle yesterday we detailed each round to the 46th. with the result of the contest. The subsequent rounds were nearly all in favour of Spriug. The last three rounds. viz. the 73d, 74th, and 75th, were very punishing. — Spring had it all his own way, sod in the 75th round, he struck a right handed blow on Langan's jugular, when he fell, as if struck with a shot, and was deaf to the call of " time." Josh. Hudson and Reynolds, his seconds, on finding him insensible, proposed to carry him to a surgeon's to get him bled. Time being again called, Spring's seconds asked if Langan was coming up to the scratch? Joel. replied, " No, we give it it,:; he shan't cone again." Langan, who, from an application of cold water, copiously thrown over his face and head, recovered a little. was told lie had lost. wheel he said. " No ; I can tight on, I will not give in ; but he could not raise himself on his legs, and upon the umpires being referred to, they decided Spring was the conqueror. • The battle would have terminated mach smiler could Spring have used his left hand effectively : but after the eighth round he could use it only defensively, having hurt his knuckles by hitting a tremendous blow on Langan's head. Another car curestance that retarded the final issue was the destruction of the inner ring; the combatants were so closely surrounded, that they had not room for action, which was greatly to Spring's disadvantage. Langan has proved a perfect glutton, en 1 that he is the best man that ever came from Ireland. After the fight he was exceedingly ill.--Ile was put to bed, and thirty leeches were applied to different parts of his body. He an 1 Spring will both "show " on Tuesday next at the Flve's Court, should Langan's health permit. We lament to state that not fewer than one hundred persons were injured during the fight, by the falling of the temporary hustings on the Race Course. and that two are dead, and 17 in Worcester Infirmary, with broken limbs, &c. and others at different Inns and public houses. The fight lasted two hours and thirty minutes, and ended at a quarter past four. Another fight was to have taken place In the same ring between Belasco and Neil for 501. aside ; but the dusk of the evening had approached, and it was prevented.— Owing to the serious accidents that occurred, the Magistrates, we understand, refused permission for them to fight on Thurs• day, and it is believed that they will fight on Monday next, either at Warwick or near Birmingham, when Cabbage of Bristol, aad a promising youth Irons Cheltenham, are expected to contend for a purse. A great deal of money has been lost, notwithstanding the victory of Spring, by the backers of this ehamplon. There are many bets that he would beat the Irishman in 20. 25, and SO minutes. The Springers were confident he would beat the Irishman off band. The Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, will begin on Monday next, the 12th instal', when the trials of the traverser. and others out on bail, on matters of assault, nuisance, and misdemeanour, will be proceeded upon. Removal. of vie PRISONERS. —Yesterday the prisoners who stood coniuritted on charges of felony, were removed from the several gaol. in the City of London and County of Middlesex to Newgate. preparatory to their trials at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, where the Sessions will commence on Wednesday next. On Monday afternoon last, a decently dressed couple, the woman having an infant in her arms, were walking along Piccadilly, when, as they were passing the gate leading iute the Green Park. she suddenly rushed towards the canal, placed her child on the ground, and plunged into the water. Her husband, who was a step or two in advance when she left him, turned his head, and seeing her perilous situation, he ran towards the canal, intending to leap in hinted, but Wooton, one of the Bow Street daypetrol, seized him by the coat and jumped in himself, and rescued the woman at the risk of his own life. The husband could not swim, and be and his wife wonld probrl bly have both been drowned, but for the conduct of Wooton, who ti abort time before performed a similar' act of courage and bomanity. A quarrel between the husband and wife w4is the cause of her attempting the dreadful act of suicide. TRAWLS, Dec. 31.—0 n the night of Sunday last we were visited here by a tremendous tempest (from W.S.W.) attended by thunder, lightning, hail and rain, as awfully dreadful as any remembered for many years past. — The hurricane was at its height about five o'clock on the morning of Monday, and from the violence with which it raged for the whole of the night of Sunday, and the greater part of the following morning, it was consider. ed impossible that any vessels on our coast could have weathered the storm. We are, however, happy to say, that we have no account of any loss either of life or property. — (Western Herald.) UNPARA WALED Ouinaose—A few nights sive., some nocturnal depredators entered a school house, which had been erected at considerable expense in Saggard. by the Governors of the Trinitarian Charity, as an asylum fur one hundred orphans. and levelled the entire building to tne ground, The heartless and unfeeling wretches did not reflect that they were perpetrating an act. which, if the effects he not averted by the commiseration of a humane and charitable public, which has for the space of twenty seven years supported that charity, might be the means of leaviog one hundred little innocents without support or shelter.— (Dublin Morning Post.) During the awful thunder•storio on Sunday evening week, the Flag-staff of Duncannon Port was shivered to pi-ces by the lightning.—(Deblin Mail.) Among the instances of the mildness of the season, the following is sot the least remarkable; on the 30th olt, in the garden of Mr. Thomas Jefferson, Highhead Castle, on the edge of Broadtield, in this county, was pulled a tea-cup full of ripe strawberries, and the plants not bearing fruit, were mostly in fell flower. On Wednesday night, as one of the Blackwell stage coaches was returning to town, et the Commercial Road, near the turnpike gate, it received a sudden jerk, by which one of the outside passengers (apparently a sailor, who seemed to be a little intoxica ted) was thrown from his seat into the street, and the whee passing over his foot, so shattered it, that after being conveyed to the London Hospital, immediate amputation became necessary. The girl at Lawton is still in a very doubtful state. — She says that Sime not only asked her to drink of the vitriol, but thrust one of his beads into her mouth, in order to keep it open, while, with the other, he endeavoured to ,pour the liquid down her throat. He also, after having cat her throat. wanted het to go down with him to Lunen Water, that he might cleanse her of the blood ; but she refused to comply, fearing that he might attempt to drown her. - (Dundee Adeerlieer.) The Directors of the Lunatic Asylum at lioniisburg have established the game of nine pins, for the amusement of the unfortunate inmates. The desire of winning, as well as the anxiety displayed in taking good aim, and the init. rest excited in counting with precision the number of eitit• ties overthrown, oblige the players to fix their thoughts upon a particular object. Order and tranquillity have al• ready succeeded the noisy confusion which first attended the opening of the games, and happy results are expected from this experiment. Three children of Daniel Butler, of Broughton, just below the Bank Mal, Salford, were suffocated in their bed on the evening of Christmas Day. The bra rug, by some unaccounted for wane, hod taken fire, and there being no chimney in the : ehililren's room; and the door closed; the poor creatures WWI putilivd by suffocation. —(Maneliester Herald) • ST. MARY'S, MIVANSTONE SQUARE The Consecration of this Church took place nn Tuesday, b y the Bishop of London. Tne exterior and interior arc equally plain, hut of a simple, c.thedral like chsract-r The building is of a grey brick.--The principal front (taring Wy ed t im Place and Itryanstone Square) consists of a semi-ciremar por tico of ionic pillars, in hisb relief. 'There is but one gallery, which is spacious slid deep; and at the extremity, near the organ, there arc 300 free sittings ; and in the C en t re of the aisle there are not fewer than 400 additional freesittiars. The Church wi.l contain IMO sitters. it is understood that th e affairs of this opulent parish are administered wioi a 'stria re gard to economy; that is to say, where it may be eantcnirnt, the present instance, very ample provision was male for the refreshment of the Bishop.; the Clergy, and the Vestry:ey e; but it was considered,to give any thing to refresh the children of the Charity and National Schools, of whom 3 .0 yv-re. sent, and added very considerably to the effect of the eery. loony, would have been a most ttagrant waste of the P.:ro Funds. Consequently these infants. 1101025. s had been broken in upon for the purpose of their b• ing brought to this ceremony, were kept fasting from their first nasal n.lll t e , g beyond the hour n t urniJi the parents may be sit i t o os,d 40 , 14 ,4 and were then sent hone hungry, while the Vestrymen p ro , ceeded to lake a luncheon at the Parochial expense.—Sa :arch for good management ! INQuEsTs. On Monday afternoon, a barbarous occurrence taok place iu Barrack Street, Glasgow. Two brothers itt L v had been drinking together, and having had some s r iei iiz disagreement, a SeUtiLl eneued, when one of them .4.l hold of the other (who had lust an arm) threw i l i a , ‘,„ floor,sand having got above him, he caught his under ha between his teei It, and actually bit it clean 011: Magistrate has sentenced the delinqaent to GO tiays eonfor men% in Britten ell. he anfortunete sufferer was conveyed to the Royal infirmary, where the mangled won't I It tit to he cut even round, and bound up. The wan is, of unable to speak a word. Last w. err a desperate gang of poachers, who have fit some time infested the woods anti premises of Sir Edward Strachey, Hart. of Rackheath, wets heard ithaorirt4 i n a plantation at Sprowstan, Norfolk, upon wisieli the gime• keeper with three ur f stir other persons went in (pest of them, and on the keeper with one of his comp:inio• coming in sight of the depredators, one of them excleim”.l. " There is a fellow, shout hint ;" when in.tintly two of them fired, and shot the keeper iu the side, who tell to the grouts'', and the poor man remain. in a slanger.int stare ; the face of one of hie companions WisS al:u grazed hr th e , shot, but not materially. An lnqttest was held on Wednesday last, at the Mi..re, Highgate. on the body of Mr. Thomas It•nson. It ap peared that the deceased bad upwards of thirty year. re sided in Tottenham Court Road and Battle bridge, earryi • -g on the business of a cheesemongrr. Latterly he itas observed to labour under considerable depression of spir i t=. On Sunday week, about nine o'clock in the morning, he left home, obsessing to leis servant that he was going to purchase a newspaper. He, however, never returned, every inquiry had been made after hint, but all proved unavailing until 'Conley last, when a titan, aecuielt ni by a boy, went into the fields near Ilishap's Woad, High. iate. The boy happened Ito separate from hi s mast-r nto an unfrequented part of the wo where be beheld the deceased suspended front a tree. He did not wait to cut him down, or ascertain if he Was death ; but, hastening to his master, be informed him of the dreadful sight. The man immediately acquainted the Magistrate of the circuits. stance, when the body was taken down, and on being taken to the Mitre ion, was recognised. it was alo• proved by a relative of the decesed, that in the year ISt9, be laboured tin ler a derangement of mind, and latterly he was observed to be particularly reserved in his manner. Verdict—" That the deceased hung himseit, being at the time in a state of temporary mental der•lngimient." Another inqiest was held as the Freemason's Arm,. Hampstead, on the body of Job Jenkins. It appeared from the evidence of the deceased's lon, that his father had bred much distressed in consequence of not obtaining work, and of his incapability to support his family of six children. At length, after having applied to the perish for relief, which hail been refused him for his eta:Tine family, he left home, and had not been heard of until he was hound in a pond in Hampstead. In the absence of ev - &rice to speak to the deceased's state of mind, the Jury re turned a verdict of—" Found Drowned." Another Inquest was held at the Elephant and Castle, St. Porous, on the body of John Watkins, who drowned himself. The wife of the deceased said he was latterly in a inelenelsOlf state, in consequence of his ill success in his business of a waiter. Verdict—" Insanity." Tits CONIIIT.—The motion of the Comet is very . rapi I. Within these few days it has changed its place at least half a degree. The curve its path describes would appear to be very considerable. SOLAR SPOTS.—The large spots which appeared on the disk of the sun about the beginning of December (or 0: .sumewhat similsr) has again made its appearance near also eastern edge of the solar disk. It was first perceived on Wednesday,the 31st December, at about a thirteenth pa• t the sun's diameter from his eastern limb, and consequently most have emerged above his eastern margin on the pree .a. ing day. It disappeared from the western limb ab, , ut tie 14th ult. and consequently has occupied nearly sixteen doll in traversing the opposite hemisphere, which is above two days more than lies been generally reckoned for hull the period of the sun's rotation. When ex ,mined by a solar telescope, in a dark room, where othe sun's imnzie memir. ed about two tenths of an inch, and of course is abont the hundredth part of the solar diameter, 8030 miles in breadth. It will arrive near the middle of the tun's disk about the 6th current, when its shape and that of its urn' bra will be most distinctly perceived, and will probably disappear from his western edge about the iiith of Ow present month. Mr. 'rhos. Gastard, one of the brethren of St Editannd'i Hospital, Gateshead, having attained his 100th year, on Saturday last, the Rector of Gateshead celebrated the event by a dinner at the rectory, fur all the brethren , t he old man sitting at the head of the table, and the Rector hunouring them with his presence.—(Neweastle Courant.) 'His Majesty has been= graciously pleased to grant 3 , reprieve for Robert Wade, convicted at the last littr Assizes, of setting Ore tire ' barn in the occupation of Elizabeth Smith, at Tattingstone, near Ipsw.cb. stotatte.—On Tuesday, the 6th instant, at Dasligh. De• von, George Watts, Es. of Slan- street. Chelsaa, to Chu. toile, eldest daughter o f the late o Sir John Everitt, of the place. On Saturday last, et St. Botolph, Alderszate, litl7. Bogert Cheapside. to Miss Vickress, Aldersgate street. Oa Thursday, the 6th instant, at St. Giles'i, COmberueli. Mr. Charles Buzzard, of Jewry street , A id g ate, to Mal. fifth daughter of Thomas Bond, Esq. of Nutt Green, Peckham Rye. On the Bth last. at Throwley, Kent, Christopher !Woos. Esq. of Great Dean's yard, W es tminster, to Nilo WI!, of Wagon upon Thames, Surrey. Yesterday, at Chsrtsey, Edward Reddish', Esq. o f the Int Temple, to &is*, eldest daughter of Thomas La Coste, Cherisey. DIED.—On the oth instant, Mr. Ifenry Dihdin, one of do members of the Common Council, of the cit'. of London. Oa the 27th ult.' at the'Swan Inn, at iledford, where he t. gone for the pnrpise of collecting rents, Mr. James Liltutriei pf Southlll, sgett-07; upwards of 40 years steward itt the o fWhitbread: Esq. M.P. Oa the Si lest. tither haute la Upper litepentir street. P,,cl ightyppers,the potterer Vrly Button, seed SO. Loti iSriatia tina s PhiAlieri at the °Mee. NO. ill:Straw' by R. Wiall.DiCLL, LL.D. Propr• J ~:~+- .. Vithin these few days it has (mange(' its place at irasa• - I degree. 'the curve its path describes would appear to ae very considerable. SOLAR SPOTS. —The large spots which appeared on the lick of the sun about the beginning of December (ur 0: e 'wombat similsr) has again made its appearance near tl,e eastern edge of the solar disk. It was first perceivcd on 1 Weduesday,the 31st December, at about a thirteenth past the sun's diameter from his eastern limb, and consequetoly moat have emerged above his eastern margin on the pree si• „ ing day. It disappeared from the western limb ab, , ut ii 14th uIL and consequently has occupied nearly sixteen d 011 a in traversing the opposite hemisphere, which is above too t days more than has been generally reckoned for hull the L period of the sun's rotation. When ex ,mined by a solar telescope, in a dark room , where ' the sun's imazie 'swayer. t ed about two tenths of an inch , a nd of course is abunt the t hundredth part of the solar diameter, 6030 miles in , breadth. It will arrive near the middle of the son's disk about the 6th current, when its shape and that of its uni• r bra will be most distinctly perceived, and will probably disappear from his western edge about the 1301 of tit r present month. Mr. Thos. bastard, one of the brethren of St Etliannd'i Hospital, Gateshead, having attained his 100th year, on Saturday last, the Rector of Gateshead celebrated the event by a dinner at the rectory, fur all the brethren , the : old man sitting at the head of the table, an'l the Reefer honouring them with his presence.—(Neteeastle Courant.) 'His Majesty has been graciously pleased to gra nt 3 el reprieve for Robert Wade, convicted at the lest Ihtrt Assizes, of setting fare to' a barn in the occupation of Slti. e a• Elizabeth Smith, at Tattingstone , nea r Ip sw.cb. stotatte.—on Tuesday , the 6th instant, at Mahe,. 9e. .w von, George Watts, Esq. of Sloan- street. Chelsea, to chu• lotte, eldest daughter of the late Sir John Everitt, of the 5,1 w: II :, e u . rd to s place. Ch O ea n ps S i a d t y h i l a is s s t. % ° 'i t e S kr t e . s il s, °t A ° l l d P e h rs . Oa Thursday, the 6th instant, at St. Gileei, Camberwell. ,‘ Agildteersogreaetet., 1117. itOgert. It; Mr. Charles Buzzard, of Jewry street, Aidgete, to A klois g V e. fifth daughter of Thomas Bond , E s q . of INiuu Green, Pec Rye. On the Bth lost. at Throwley, Kent, Christopher Hodson. 1 , 4 , ' Esq. of Great Dean's yard, W es tminster, to Miss o; 1. 7 Wagon upon Thames, Surrey. o f the Ines. 42 Temple, to Eiisa, eldest daughter of Thom as La Coste, Esq. Yesterday, at Chartsey, Edward Reddish, Esq. ltd Cherisey. • DI2O.—On the oth instant, Mr. H e nry Dihdin, one of tie is, members of the Common Council, of Ilse city of London. Oa the 27th ult.'at theSwah Inn, at iledford, where he hs 14 .0 gone for the pnrpuse of collecting rents , M e. James Lithium Alt of Southlll, egest-07; upwards of 40 years steward ill the fali.il Oo the 11 inst. it her house la U of K. 11. Whitbread: Ern. M.P. S e ymnew street, Put eyj 9sa . esinore,the powers. Lady Sutton, aged SO. . in seammeemse* • Loudon : a s Phiaitalted at the 01Bee, Kn. 907,11 ram era • . 'by R. WiaDiELL, LL.D. Proprietor... sir eel ei c pi ea, • • . . . w