The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-22 00:00:00

ffeedba, does Pat nothing at all for the Coontry Banks. The law as it stood before authorizes them to make • itnall notes and to issue them, until 1823. The new law emends the period to 1833. It was intended to introduce a clause to authorile Country Bankers, to refuse to pay their notes in gold after the first, of nett May. Bat this clause, which would have been, in part, arr peil of Peas's Bill, was given np by the Ministers, from the apprehension of actually seeing the Oriditon hoisted in Fleet Street.—Tet, we are told that many of the Country Bankers think that that deltic is in the Dill. If this be theme, there will bee pretty ensasblk take place soon after the first of May. However, it will all be as it ought to be, ruin ought to be the effect of inch an iniquitous iystemi and rain will be the effect of it. - Paris papers Lave arrived to the 20th instant front which we have extracted. In another solemn,. two articles of considerable interest. Front the ow", though the style is obscure, it wiii be seen that the English tiovernment has declared its determination to mist Portugal, id case its independeoce Is attacked. From the other we may learn the effect that has been pro doced upon the people since the independence of Spain Las been menaced. AU party distinctions at Madrid isms re here vanished at the same rate as the Holy Allies threaten to withdraw their e r ouotenance. :The- Awash Minister, It appliars, has claquatchtidi courier, with iostructioas for the French Ambassador to leave Madrid. The other Ambassadors had already obtained their passports, and were expected to depart on the 13th or 14th. A Spanish Journal remarks, that in the seats appropriated to the Foreign Ambassadors in the Hall of the Cones, the English Ambassador, his suite, and some English travellers, were the only f.)reign. re present during the memorable sit ting of the nioth. It is added that oar coun trymen manifusted the sympathy of freemen. —The capital was perfectly tranquil, though the public mind had received an extraordinary impulse. Prepare. .tions for war are making in every quarter. Besides the Bowies Aram mentioned in the above extract, as assembled in Poland, we are informed that 50,000 Aus trian troops are eantoned on the frontiers of France to aid the 1 Hires. Five millions of cartridges,it is said, are ordered to be made at Bayonne. The Holy Allies have cut out abundance of work for themselves, and will it is said, soon have another meeting at Vienna. STOLIC EXCHANGE, HALF PAST TWELVIC o'ctocc—The greatest bustle and confusion prevailed in the above market this morning, owing to several expresses from Paris, bringing the French Finds at 83 50 t and Spanish Bonds 44. In conseqaence of this,Spinisb Bonds open ed at 43i, and Consols at M. Balinese to a very great extent was done in the earlier part of the morning, but a report having been spread, that the French Minister . was sot going to leave Madrid, as soon as was expected anti the policy of our government towards Portuga bring known, Spanish Blinds rose again to 47 46f 46 1 ' • and Cnaaalt to 77ilf. An opinion still prevails in the city, that a war will not take place. Chill, 7i—New Spanish, 451—01 d, 61—New Prussian. —Old. Bi4—Ruckla, 80—Danish, nothing done—Napoli tin. 7$ —Peruvian 75—Colombian, nothing done—Spanish Seri] dis. . No Debits paplks have reached esible *using ; bat those we had reeeived for some days put,. and the pro sTiacial Pumas whielshave autud (cone lielmal to day, ; Alsatians to present the most painful evidence of the die. tractions that prevail throughout the country. The Orangemen of Ireland, according to the Waterford Chronicle are rallying round the standard of their poll. glad faith. At Cavan, they have boldly thrown off the mask, sad displayed themselves in their genuine colones. It is stated, that the Gentlemen who framed an address. scarcely escaped personal violence, and the High Sheriff wee obliged to diuolve thq Meeting, without effecting the object fur which it had been called together. The concluding scene at Sheriff Cooper's dinner, in Dublin, was another display of like principles and actions. At this dinner were Mr Rice, the member .for Limerick ; Sir Robert Skate. the member fire Dublin; Mr. Luke White, the member for Leltsim ; and about 250 Protestant and Catholic Gentlemen. Mr. Rice and several other Gentlemen retired at about half past twelve er one; when a Mr. Warren held between both . his heads a small orange handkerchief or flag, inscribed with " the Charter toast." " The Glorious, Pious. and Immortal Memory of King William the 3 d." This be. • came the signal for the exultation of some, and the exe cratioas of others of the company. Mr. Pim called on the Chairman from the secon d table (at whirl) were seated about forty Gentlemen) to give the toast from the Chair. This Mr, Sheriff Cooper most firmly refused. Mr. Pins then proposed it—all the Gentlemen who eat at the same table with him, rose and drank it. —The Chairman expressed great disapprobation, and . .remonstrated most warmly on what bad just passed. Mr. Pim sharply replied, and told the High Sheriff that he was a disgrace to the city of Dublin. Great ensued, and Alderman Archer called Mr. Pim to otalar r and urged the Chairman, by asserting his right et h - Lost, tofrevent the assumption of power by any gentleman, or by any faction. Mr. Pim• and all the , gentlemen at his table then rou t aed a seas of gesual discord followed, in whioli several personal can ' /lids took place. Mr. Pie', howevert2-anestioigetide.l man's coat were completely torn in the rencentse..Sach was the termisation elan Irish festive scone.and Wetted of -I this will probably be but the occasion of some fresh disorder. The manner in white this spirit is kept up is shown in the copy of a hand hill we have insetted in another column. In the mean time, Government appear determined to keep the spirit down. For many years, it is said, the army has been more or less tampered with by thettrangetnen of Ireland, and, in many of the regi. meets there, of the line as well as of the militia, there were Orange Lodges. Recently, it appears, a circular Las issued from the Wm. Office, requiring information en these heads ; and the-Conimandiog Officers who have , been enabled to report their corps free from the contami• nation have, it is stated, received letters of Giulio. while answers of a different kind have been sent to the Officers of the infected Regiments. • Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hunter, the King's mes tenger. left town with despatches for Vienna. On Monday, Mr. Kaye, the King's messeoger, arrived is Dowoing, Street, with despatches from Sir IV.A'Court, • air Minister at Madrid. Soon after the messenger left Madrid he was sopped and robbed by a gang of robbers. Extract of a lettter from the Agent at Lloyd's. at Lis ' osn;dantd Jan. 6 :—"Arrived, the Concicao. in 43 dais, from Bahia • she brings accounts of an attack by the farces ander aeneral Madeira. on the troops that saironnded the city, which were completely routed, and a geniality °hank broaglit in. The DonJoas Sexto, sad a frigate. were immediately to blockade Rio Janeiro. The loomnparavel is arrived, to 36 days, from •Per oaosbaco, all gaud them. ~~-'-_ .. y. - ~u lON 114TELLOENCE. (mom TIM axone.) SPAIN. " The Sitting of the Lantiaburian Club drew, en the 11th, a great concourse of spectators. g. ; Alloritrio Goers occupied the tribune during almost the abide evening. He read the Note addressed to Cdant de Las garde, and commented upon it, phrase by Omit. He reproached that Minister with having favoured the fie. don, and particularly the events of July, and expressed hie wish that Government would send him his passports. He then examined the chimes of war on the side of France. The seas will soon be covered with letters of marque from the Spanish Government. The produce of these letters of marque might serve to organize a multitude of guerillas. We ought to take for our system of defence, not to fight any general battle on the Pyren• flees, the Ebro, or the Tagus, but even let our enemies penetrate, if they wish, to the Gnadallets, a river of Andalusia. The further they go into Spain, the lees chance will they have of getting. out. He•proposed, let., to settle speedily the claims of England. " 2. To conclude a new alliance with Portugal. " 3. To unite more closely with the United States, who would furnish a great number of privateers. "4. To conclude with South America a melt of six years, during which peace may be made on the beet terms. The Russian army assembled in Poland is 100,000 trong. (FROM TIRO COURIER FRANCAIS.) • PORTUGAL.—(BY EXPRESS.) " 'AMON. J eri. 3.-1 n the sitting of the Cortes on the 31st of December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs presented a Memoir upon the political relations of Per toga% with the other Powers of Europe. It was ordered to be printed : and the Minister afterwards gave the following exposition to the Cortes His Most Faithful Majesty having required from the friendship of Great Britain a frank declaration, he doubts not, that with this guarantee Portugal may dis pense with contracting new alliances; bat his Britannic Majesty did not consider it consistent with the princi plea of his actual policy to make the declaration required also by other treaties with other Powers, and found it impossible to give to Portugal this new proof of friend- ship, and to all the world, au instance of his respect for the natural independence of nations. His Most Faithful Majesty . did not, however, consider that the commercial and amicable relations between the two nations. would be altered ; but be saw himself obliged to seek in fresh alliances, the aid which the Peninsula requires at this moment, when it is menaced by the formidable league of four great Powers, which assert the right to decide, among themselves, as to the nature and form of the Governments of Europe.' " To this confidential. sincere, and amicable comma cation of his Majesty, the British Minister made the following reply : The English •Government having solemnly declared in the face of the world, that it does not assume the existence of a right of intervention in the internal concerns of other States, England will feel her. self obliged to lend to this kingdom all the succour of which it may stand in need, as often as its independ ence may be menaced by any other Power, in any manner whatever. This promise, whioh is only the repetition of that which England has made under other circumstances and at various times, has no relation, and can have none, with our political institutions; its object being simply to declare that those institutions have not changed, in any manner, the relations which heretofore existed be tween the two countries.' " Such, Gentlemen. is the eliimatens of Great Bri tain. All Europe will see what we have to expect from that Power, In the great struggle, in which we may be elstserd. " His Majesty's Government, convinced of the dislio r 'Mons of the Cabinet of his Britannic Majesty, in con sequence of this explanation. so explicit, and of its pre ' ceding protestations. will always bear them in mind in whatever measures be may have to adopt to secure the independence of the Portuguese name. They shall be communicated to the Sovereign Congress in propor tion as the negociations ot which they depend, may proceed." BRIGHTON, JAN. 20.—His Majesty's health continues to improve ; the account yesterday evening was still more favourable than that in the morning. It is said to be his Majesty's intention to heave the Pavilion for Lon don, a few days previous to the meeting of Parliament, and that he will not return to Brighton any more this season, unless it be to spend the Easter holidays. Tun DUKE or Yortn.—When his Royal Highness left London on Sunday se'nnight, on a visit to the Earl of Bridgewater, in l'fertfordsbire, he was afflicted with a slight cold, which increased during his stay with the noble Earl, and induced him to return to London on , Monday for the purpose of consulting his own medical attendants. Sir Henry Belford, Mr. M'Gregor, and other medical gentlemen, deemed it advisable that his Royal Highness should not leave York House ; and in consequence his Royal Highness did not hold a levee yesterday as was expected ; but, though confined to the house, bus. Royal Highness transacted luminous with Sir Herbert Taylor, his Military Secretary. The Earl of Liverpobl, who came to town yesterday, and a number of others, sent to make inquiries as to his Royal High ness's health. His Serene Highness the Lanclgrave of Hesse-Hom burg, has recently contracted with Mr.tioll, the hanker of Frankfort, for a loan of half a million of florins,abont 50,00 W. sterling. Tfo companies ot Royal Sappers and Miners have just received orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark for foreign service, via.—Captain Stanway's at Chatham; for Gibraltar, to relieve another on that station coming to England ; and Captain Cardew's at Portsmouth, to succeed Captain Haigh's ordered home. An Article from Hanover of the 2d inst. says :—" It is thought that the States of the Kingdom will assemble at the beginning of neat month. It is reported that a general survey of all the estates In the kingdom will soon be commenced, for the purpose of establishing, is the sequel, a basis for the Land Tax." According to a notice , issued at Stockholm on the 2tl of this month, the 'passage of the packets between Ostad and Stralsund is suspended on account of the frost. Some new regulations respecting smuggling are under discession at Stockholm, as also a petition for the abolition of the export duty on tar. intelligence from Colombia of a recent date has been received. The Bogota Garette, of the Bth of Septet's ber, contains an account of a meeting between General San Martin and the Protector Bolivar, at Guyarptil, on the 26th of July. Bolivar went out in person to meet the Protector of Peru, whose reception was most enthusiastic The next day they dined together, and amongst the toasts was drank —" To the heroes of America, to he•r Liberators, to the brave men who have fought in nurn, berless battles fur the American Federation of the South, and may there be one American nation composed of many fatnilies."—The province of Guyaquil has been corporated with Colombia. The port of Esmeraldas, in the province of Quito. has been opened, and is declared free from all direct or indirect contributions for ten years ; a road is also to be opened from the im terior to the' port ; and an absolute exemption of all taxes is granted to ail those who may go and settle in the vicinity of the road, on condition that in the settlementt they make they isnihl houses, and remain there. This grant it to last far twenty years. I 0 SHIPPJNO 11 ail, LA J 11.--Cams dogs fivii ' the river this after.. b 11•118;lied s Ilid the Chittii; Ja*alea t and miiin Le the Ir 4 loWns, the Ajax, for St. John's, and three more WON particulars anknown.—Wiiid E.N.S. Poarsmourx, 4sts. 21;—Arrlved the• Edward; Girman, . . from Sileida, for Jamaica; the Bridges, Johnson, from the • coast of Geiya, for Lond on; sa d Martha, Strachan, from Mission, for Do.-0111(N..E. tsziougn, Jig. 19...irrived the Stingier paiket from Lisbon in is days; sailed the Princess Elizabeth Packet; for • the Brailli.—*lnd S. to E. • Pzgrouiii, JAN. 50.—Arrived the Looks, Dickinson, from London for Cipe Conk; Pomona, Gay. from the Bra. ells, for London; Salassanchs. Young, Marcella, for Do.; Harmony, Stevens, from Newfoundland for Poole; Freda rlckston, Barnett, from St: John's, N.B. for Stockton ; He lena, Pearce, from Poole for Neifonadlanct; pet • back the Blossom, Hero. and London for London ; and Per/aeon. Balfour, from Zante; George, Gleland, from St. John's, N.B. for Shields; nod Norfolk ; Hero, Sapeworth, from St. John's, N.B. for London.-I•Vind E. The Earl Edward, Rosa, from Oottenburg to Guernsey, was lost on Monday night oti the Long Sand.—Crew saved. it is reported, that in the event of a vacancy in the office of High Steward for the University of easnliri4ge, that the Marren of Huntley will be a candidate for that distinguished situation.—(Edisrbargh Star.) • • .DRUIIT Lela. TOgATIM—The Comedy of TA. Musa ssr Scandal was performed at this Theatre last *Wit The only novelty was the first appearance of Mr. Tenet, in the character of Sir Oliver Surface, on those boards. He played with spirit, and that judicious tact which usually distinguishes the comic efforts of this merito. dons actor. The dry and sober humotir of his manner told effectively on the audience ; he gave the sacsatie passages with polite asperity, and was animated and natural in the expressions of sententious experience. The applause of the house did justice to his exertions. Mr. ELLirrox appeared for the first time since his ill ness in Charles Surface, and gave the generous India. cretion of the character with great success; but like some other actors, though not wanting in a clear con ception of his part, he was deficient in that distinct articulation of many passages which the language of genius deserves. We were happy to see the part of Sir Peter Teazle performed with great energy by the veteran Mutrnax, the truth, richness, and variety of whose acting was most warmly applauded. Mrs. DAVISON, as Lady Teazle, was as usual full of life, grace, and fashionable vivacity. The play throughout gave general satisfac tion. CITY 111/81:4S1S.—Yesterdayot Court of Aldermen was held at Gnildhall, which was numerously attended. The thanks of the Court were tmanimonsly voted to the Lord Mayor's Chaplain for the excellent sermon preached by him on Plough Monday. The sons of 5,7001., part of the Orphan's debt, was ordered to be paid off and the Chamberlain was ordered to give the parties interested notice thereof. The Court was then occupied until a late hour on the petition of Mr. Britten, against the re turn made by the Alderman of the Ward of Bassishaw, of Common Council for the said Ward ; and after bear ing counsel on both sides, and examining sundry wit nesses, adjudged the return to be correct, and directed a precept to be luued for a tVardmote to be held for the election of one Common Couucil-man for that Ward, there being an equal number of votes for those eandi- J dates at the last election. A Court is appointed to he held ea Tuesday next, io hear appeals against Ward Officers, and on other business. At the meeting of the Geological Society of London, an lasiday last, it mere's; read NOB the bed! of Lime stone and Clay, which alternate with the Iron Sand of Sussex, by ti. Mantel!, F.L.S. &s." The object of the memoir was to chew the extent and position ofthe strata which the author bad described in his works ea the Geo- logy of Sussex, under the name of the " Limestone of Tilgate Forest," and to prove their correspondence with the beds of calciferous sandstone that occur at Hastings and Winehelsea, on the eastward with those of Hor sham on the west, It seems probable that the whole of these strata, may with propriety be considered, as forc ing a series of deposits, subordinate to. and included in the iron Sand formation. Numerous localities of the Limestone are given, which may ultimately ha of consi derable jot in our economical as well as geologica l point of view. The paper was illustrated by several drawings of the most remarkable organic remains disco vered in these strata • consisting of bones of alligators ; and turtles the teet h of unknown animals ; and se.' veral vegetables of the palm tribe. At a wee ing of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on Monday last, Captain Scoresby, whose name is so well known as connected with the History of the Whale Fish ing, exhibited some very interesting experiments on the magnet. His observations have been made principally with the view of correcting the errors of chronometers, which, he has found, are frequently occasioned by the most simple and hitherto unlooked for circumstances such as the position of the material of which the ba lances are constructed at the time they were made. He showed that, by tbe blow of a hammer, the polarity of a bar of iron may be reversed, according to the end on which it is struck—that if a bar of iron is bent in a horizontal position, it does not become magnetic; whereas, if it be held perpendicular when bending, that it does so with the negative or positive ends, according to their being uppermost or undermost • and as a simple stroke of a hammer is capable of rendering iron mag netic, as well as turning, polishing, and burnishing, in the event of a boat being forced to sea without a com pass, it is no very difficult matter to construct one, for temporary purposes, from the blade of a knife or pair of seisms. The following party-squih has been lately posted op itt the streets of Dublin : New Theatre Royal (by spe cial command). On Monday next will be performed — Mach ado about Nothing, the characters ; by the Lord Mayor, the Attorney General, Captain Johnson. Mr. Millikio, &c. fim. End of the Play, " The Drop of a Bottle," by Mr. Barton ; after which Killing 110 Mur der; the characters by Messrs. Hanhirlge, Forbes, Gra ham. &c. To conclude with a new Farce, called Time Grand Jury, or Esit in a Rage. Midas, Mr. Justice Moore, with an introduced song of " The Charge is pre pared ;" Ex-eieio, Mr. Plunkett, who will introduce "The. Humours of a Playhouse," and "Oh, What a Row ;" Edward, Captain Johnson, with an entire new song, called M v Father's Life I've saved, to me your Thanks are due; ' Cossino, Alderman Flemint,with the " High mottled Racer," and " My Cards I've badly played;" Veritas, Mr. Milliken, with the songs of— " twee you. Sir," " By Heaven and Earth 1 ,wea:," and " To Court I'll swear my war."—Soldiers will be stationed through the Meant. No police admitted.— Cards of admission to be had at the Mansion-house. Early on Saturday morning se'nnight, a stable situate in a field at the beck of Bloomfield-place, Bath, was broken open, and two horses stolen. A small dog be longing to a labourer named Ricketts, which he had fostered in the stahle,freturning home during the night, and scratching at Ricketts's door, excited his suspicion, and he immediately hastened to the spot, and searching in the adjoining fields he disturbed the thieves, who tied leaving the two horses behind them. ' Last week, atpig of the improved breed, of very extra. ordinary dimensions, was killed by Mr. R. Hodgson. of Ongliterby, parish of Kirkliampton, Cumberland. The animal, which was bred by Mr. William Hodgson, was no more than fourteen mouths old, sad weighed thirty six stone. • OLD BAlLEY.—Tirts MOllNitto. • 4•••=41111.6 . Patrick eraidey end Janie, *64, t lads, were in• . , dieted for stealing £ olbs. of rope, the, propertls of The. • • Mae ps, • , • kir Phillips a lighterage, and oe the loth bee: • lilt WI w a s seat For to the Thanies Police, Where be sane bellfait" belonging to one of his lighterf, was lying fa lig Uty Canal. A iteteltingn Of the Canal heard sOmewhisperingio the dark on the 9th Of bereinber: He challenged the par ties and took the Prisineki into cuitsidy, who had the ropli coiled round their bodies beneath their !mock frocks. • • •• • , . . . The jerk Amid both the prisoneri Guilty; when the "tomtit sentemeed thews to be whipped in the neigh : bmrhood of the Cad, and to be conned six months In the House of Correction, tied there kept to hat ' "sbour. • • , . Isaac Butemasi; was indict e st for stealing a beadle; containiaz three pocket handkerchiefs; and other arti cles, die property of Joseph Bromley.. Front the evi dence of the prostenter,it appeared that he was a prints, 1 the 14th refit. of bigi.t nit I or.s, gild had tsken a lege on the 14' worth coach, to go to his minuets. Ti.., he.i. le cu, t sing tl e artichii in question was pl iced ors the proof, -by his side. Tim prisons/ was also k Ot.rbker. The coach stopped.alt Tornham Green and prosecutor got off for a few minoteelearide the prisoner end his bundle on the coach. On.bis "retsirn he found that the prisoner had gone offend taken his inandle wilt him: A Patrol belonging to Bow Street, stopped the prisoner about a quarter of a mile from the place where the roach had stopped, bet on prisoner's telliee where be live!, be suffered him to proceed. A few minutes afterwards the coach drove op, and en quired of hint if he had seen a person with a laund?e, and On learning that he had either taken it away in mis take or stolen it, he went to the hones where the prisoner said he resided, and found him with the thing in his possession.--He was very much intoxicated, and bad left a box belonging to himself, in the Coach. The lirigoner in. his defence declared that he bad no intentioe df stealing the pm pent and that he took it away by mistake. He also received a good character; front some persons who hail known hies for upwards of three years, and who wets on the coach at the time. , After the itaciaenuit bad gummed tip, the Jury ac quitted him. The ship Kinnersley• Castle 400 tons register, Henry Crouch, master, sailed from eaeith Roads, on Monday 13th Jan. 1823, bound for Poyaia direct, with nearly Sid) passengers; her cargo consists of a great number of agri cultural implements, machinery, eirtheawate, tinware, hardware, a complete set of piloting presses, both com mon and lithographic; stationary, books, clothing, Sac. and &apply of at least twelve months provision. Tile vessel has been arMedi under an order of Gotticil, with eight.guns, besides small aruis and cutlasses.—(Edia burgh Observq.) ' On Monday, the 13th; a meet * lng took place near Gil barn, on the Edgeware Road, between Mr. T. and Mr H., an officer on half pay:_ The parties exchanged tau shout at the second tire Mr: H. was shot through the body. He was 'lmmediately conveyed off the ground, and is not yet proigoenced out of danger. The dispute originated about a lady. - (Pres the Nisi York PeN, Dee: 161)-- , Dogii1tare-le sense of time so as to count the dayi df the week. 31y grandinothet had one, *ho trudged two miles every Sa turday to niatket,to cater for himself in the shambles.— I know another more ektraordinary and well auilienti cated example. A dog which had belonged tome !Hitt man, which was sold by him in. England, would never touch's morsel of food upon a Friday! the Irishman 11.4 madd him as good a Catholic as he was himself. This dog nevet forsook the sick bed of his list master, and, when be wad dead, refused to eat, and died also.—(Ust. Pat.) [tVe kite* a dog in this town, whd every mirning went round to the front J,eor of the Louse, and weiic.l there till his mister came otit; whom he followed through the day. But on Sundays. nothing could entice hilt from the back yard—instead of going to the front door, he would lid down quietly in his kennel near the ba;•I: door;—and this before the ringing of the bell could gi►e him any notice of the return of the day. We writ remember witnessing his perpletity on a Kist 114 y, which was Thursday. Ile went as usual to the fro:3 door ; waiting there till the bells tang for meeting ; Cien went to his kennel; then changed his mini and followed his master oat—but with hesitation—accompanied hint halfway to the meeting ;' stopped, and listened to the bell : then turned about, and notwithstanding the repeated calls of his master, went home and spent the day in his kennel.] —(Portsmouth (N.H.)Joarnal.) Ve are informed from Qtteensferry, that the herring fishing in that neighbourhood is still likely to prove .productive t on Tuesday all the boats feli in with 50, but those who fished to the west of the Ferry were un commonly successful, and it is the opinion of the most experienced fishers that there is at present more her rings in the Forth than has appeared for many years, and it is obvious too that the quality of the fish is sd perior to what they used to be. The herrings were sold at is. per 132 to carters, but several boats were obliged to sell to curers at a still lower rate.--(Edia. Star.) . . We understand that three men were apprehended on Sunday last,und lodged in Stirling jail, charged u ttt has.* broken into a house and threatened the lives cf the ittraates.anti with having pat a peat stack on her, under Very' aggravated circumstances. We forbear t.) give currency to the rumours afloat, as the matter i'i meanwhile subjected to an official investigation, and the parties will, in all probability, be brought to a eritnin,.i trial.—(lbid.) CORN EXCHANGE.-4n come:pence of the frost. the river is unnavigable. and business here remains neatly at a stand. The prices of come remain unaltered, e% cept to a few necessitous buyers, who are obliged to an r ohAse front the granaries. BELIE? IN WITCHCAAFT.-03 11:e 3Uth ult. the magi.- trates of Alilverton, Somerset, committed to prisu:t ) woman named Brysnr,and her three daughters, for ;•u -ting and maiming an inoffensive creature who earns .t livelihood by collecting rags It appears that one ,:* her daughters had for some time lab tared under violent attacks of fits, cid she and her mother unacconntaVy ' conceived that the poor old woman, the rag-gathere.. was the sole cause. In consequence they applied t.) Baker, the Devonshire conjarer,who, after drawing fra.n them their suspicions, told them that she was certaiu'y the cause of the daughter's illness, anti that the ;.s wonld be removed by drawing the blood of the wit:h. On their return they agree! that the next time the e'-1 woman came near their dwelling, she should be attn. tri for the purpose of carrying the receipt into effect; t''s soon reached the old woman's ears, who, alarmed ct bring branded by suet) an opprobrious name, took :a acquaintance with her. and proceeded to Bryant'shocut to ask particulars. No sonnet bad she approached t..e door than they felt on her with the utmost viol•nee, cutting her arms in a shocking mangier. with pine, rails, an d , e i ' . and had not the old woman anti ber woos pinion alaimed theerighisonre, the COMPtittefial ......14L tiave been sin sots dreadful. . A', 1 7