The National Register. — London, England, 1819-12-20 00:00:00

DEC. 20 LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS. The Recorder and the Jurymen emninoned attended et the usual hour on Friday morning; Mr. Sheriff Par kins was also in his place; but no business could Is: proceeded upon, on account of the absence of the Al- dermen on the MU. Within a short time Mr. Alderman lleygate came into Court t every endeavour was us:d to procure the attendance of the other inaAistrates, but without success; and after waiting upwards of sit hour, and the retuou of the messengers, Mr. Recorder, in a short speech, dismissed the jurymen,aod a‘ijourited the Court. - l'here were six prisoners,. viz.—fire men and one woman, for trial on trilling charges, principally for assaults, all of whom, front their inability to procure bail, had already suffered imprisonment, More or less; and who, unless they obtain bail, which is very unlikely, will, in couseipiencc of this adjou ttttt lent, be detained in prison until the 12th of January next. Volta. (GUILDHALL. A yawn; man named Herring, was charged by Mr. Schuh!, Assistant Secretary to te Irish Society, with having stolen a bag of keys, upon the suppositioastluss it was a nag of money. A gentleman stated, that as be was passing Doctor's Commons, on Thursday, to the llorets Tavern, it oc curred to hint to call upon 11r. Slade, Secretary to the Irish Society, man' a little busioess: Ile patted from the street into the office oldie Secretary, and observed the prisoner, who had entered • kt another door, taking a bag, %ablest jingled like money, from the desk 1V ittiess thought he belonged to the house, and asked 1 • whe ther Mr. Slade was at home, to which the prisoner an swered in the ne g ative, after which he walked off with the bag. Winless suspected that the prisoner had no more right to the bag duo any other stranger, and in formed sonic oldie clerks, who pursued i the bag and keys upon his perscoi. The prisoner said it was his first offence, and begged to be forgiven. lle was fully en d for trial. An Irish woman, named Donnelly, was brought up by two officers, under the following rather queer circom stances t—A great mob was col lected on Thursday even ing about a drunken woman, Ilea St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, who was carrying a basket covered. She was grabbling the rails as she staggered along, and vagabonds of all kinds were assembled, some for the purpose of laughing at her, and others with the view of stealing her basket, which, however, she kept firm hold of. The rfficers, for the purpose of prevetning any disaster, took the woman to the Cottipter. Upon enquiry, they found, that she had kit her basket, some time before, in the care of a gingerbread-seller, fur the purpose of getting a glass (tight, and that upon her worn she was almost as drunk as a lord. Curiosity led the officers its search her basket, in which they found six brace divans idles, two hares, and some fowl. The Game Act subjected her to the penalty of Sul. or to imprisonment for five yeras and a quarter, tear having game in her possession to this ex tent, and the Tippling Act made her liable to a fine of as. for being drunk. She declared that a gentleman had employed her to carry the basket from Covert'. Garden-marker, and that all was tonately was taken with a giddiness when she arrived at the church, and was not well able to carry the load till she took a glass which, but for the officers, would have enabled her to do her business.. Alderman Atkins, a ter hae ing enquired into her cha racter, and found that she had the reputation of hone.- ty, although of drunken habits, told her that she might go away. She begged for the lame fowl; but Alder man Atkins told her, if she declared they were her pro perty, he should certainly give them back to her, lois I.e. should at the same time fine her 501- She said " No, my Lord, 1 thank you-1 'icier saw them before"— ctuteied, and walked off. Mr. Smith, the deacon, who was lately detected purloing from the charity collection at St. Michan'■ Church, Dublin, was tried for the offence on Satur day se'nnight, found guilty, and sentenced to seven years transportation. He is nearly 70 years of age. Three young ladies, of respectable connexions, lately took the veil in the Convent of St. Ursula, at Killarney, in Ireland. The Convent was crowd ed to excess during the solemn ceremony, and most of the ladies present were in tears. 'lwo of the new Nuns were Misses Harriet anti Margaret Lom bard, daughters of G. Lombard, Esq.; and the othet was Miss Calaghan,_daughter of a gentleman of the county of Cork. In the Court of Chancery, Thursday, a motion was made, that a Mr. and Mrs. Staples, the parents of a laiy, who it is supposed, had accompanied a young gentleman who is heir to u large fiirtune, of the Hanle of Dean, a student of CaluLridge Univer sity, a minor and a ward of Chancery, on a matri monial trig to Gretna-(ircen, might have further time unfit Tuesday next, to appear in Court, to an swer fur a contempt of Court, in having countenan ced the e:opciucnt, which was grunted. We under stand that Mr. Wetherell a few days back, on behalf of the father of the minor, a respectable clergyman, applied to his Lordship in his private room to com mit the parties to the custody of the Warden of the Fleet tar the contempt, ard his Lordship directed that Mr. and Mrs. Stsples should appear betide him on the above day. He did not issue any order in respect to the young lady, as she was supposed to be Mari the jurisdiction of the Court. THE NATIONAL REGISTER: We stated somo time ago, that bands of unem ployed weavers were in the habit of parading the streets of Glasgow and its suburbs, as " Public Beggars," on the p' ea of " Want of NVork." On I riday about one hundred of them were brought be time the Magistrates, Sheriff, and Justices, as the Police-Office ; and, *tier a serious admonition La to the impropriety of their conduct, they were dismis sed,•with the assurance that all such as were weav ers, and could product:satisfactory references, would immediately be provided with work. WHITEHALL.—ACCOrding to the plan for improve ments romigusous to the Hurl Palace, or Banqueting house, Whitehall, the houses long .ded together, are to come down, in order to forwua square of new first rate boildinp. The square is• nearly opened, by the removal of the State Paper Office. and the premises at the bock of the house inhabited by the King's Almoner. Thisseite was the Conn of Jaunts the Second. It is now the residence of several of the Nobility. The Edit of Liverpool, Prime Minister, is the principal per:4lllov.. Foreigners who inspect the back boat of the BAlltillet. ins-house, and the range of buildings thence to cot latul-yattl, are struck by the inelegant abodes of greatness. The only inducement for a matt ul quality to live there must be the convenittice of tile situation for business. We expect :owl to see that once distin guished pan of IVestniiiister assume a more airy and se; ilar appearance. We understand that Miss O'Neil is speedily to be led to the hymeneal altar by William Becher, Esq. M. P. for Mallow in Ireland, a gentleman of great opulence, and who proved himself last Session to be us eloquent in the Senate, as the Ludy is on the stage. Mr. Becher allows Miss O'Neil to settle all the fortune she has acquired by her talents on her family, and he makes a handsome settlement on herself. IVe believe that notice has been given to Covent Garden Theatre, that she does not mean to appear again. This will be the only subject of regret to the public, for otherwise they must rejoice in her good fortune. About six o'clock on Monday evening, as the Highgate stage, on its way from town, was driving along Gray's-Inn-lane, one of the fore braces, which supyorts the body, happened to break, by which accident a very respectable looking woman, who sat on the outside, with a child about a month old in her arms, was thrown off. So careful was she of the child, that it did not receive the slightest hurt ; but the unfortunate woman, besides having an urns broke, received several severe contusions on the bead and other parts of the body; she was carried into the shop of a surgeon, where she had her wounds dressed, after which she was taken inside the couch and proceeded home to Highgate. A letter front Bristol, dated Dec. 15th, says,— " We had a tremendous tire here last night in High street, which it was thooght would have consumed the whole of that section of the. street extending from the upper coiner of Corn-street to the market gate; it broke out a quarter before nine, corn. mencing at Mr. Whinnarsh's, a tea dealer, or rather in a small manufactory at the buck-of his premises, used for the stoving of straw bonnets. The flames raged with fury until four o'clock, when, by the exertions of the firemen, their progress was stopped. The following, houses are destroyed, with property to a considerable amount, via-- Mr. Reeves, a res pectable bookseller and stationer; Whinearsh's, a tea de ler; /trains, a large shoe warehouse, and an empty house, formerly occupied by Mr. Ashmead, haberdasher. No lives providentially were lost. The whole city was in great alarm, and apprehen sions were entertained for the Castle Bank." PrRSIAN GULPII —We are sorry to learn by let ters received within the last few days front Bushire, that there is every reason to believe that some unfor tunate females have fallen into the hands of the pirates, during the present season, and have actually • been sold in the public bazaar, at one of their prin cipal stations in the Gulph. Two of them are said to be• Europeans, and the remaining three natives of India. We sincerely hope this report nay prove to be without foundation; and we do so with the more confidence, si.are• we have never.heard of any persons of this description being missing. They are said, however; to have been taken in a boat coming to .Bombay, front some place on the Malabar coast, and that the wale Europeans in attendance on them were put to death. In the mean time it may be satisfactory to know, that Captain Loch, in his Majesty's ship Eden, in company with some of the Hun. Company's cruisers, has proceeded to• the stations frequented by the pirates, to demand. their. immediate restoration, should the account prow• to be founded in truth. The career of these. cruel free booters will, we sincerely hope, be speedily brought to a close. The hosier Inanumi goseris cannot surely be allowed to exist in the immediate viciuity of the British power, and in the very truck of oue of the principal branches of its trade. Wednesday a Coact ut Directors was-held ut the East India House, when the followiug Captains were sworn into the command ut their resit( etive ships, vis,—Cuptain J. Stewart, of the Lady Mel ville, fur St. Helena, Bombay, and ( 7 i: in ; Curtain J. lanes, of the Prince Regent, fur Madras. 417• At an Ordination held by the bad Bishop of Nur wick. on Sunday la►t, the following persons west senlitted intoly Orders: DEACONS. James Thomas Bennett, A. B. Bohol College. Oztord. William Collett, A.B. Sidney Sussex College. Cambridge. Ileaton Champion dc Crespigny. Student in Civil Law, Trinket Hall, Cambridge. Henry Du more, A.B. Caius College, Cambridge. William Thomas Goodehild. Joseph Haddock, Pembroke 11111, Cambridge. John Charles Herring. Wiliam Hiltlyard, A.B. Trinity College, Cambridge. George Frederick St..lolin, A.B. Baliol College, Oxford. William Nfargesson, Chri►t Church, Oxford. henry North. James Hall SampAon, Trinity College, Cambridge. Edward Thurtell. • John Tilt, St. Alban's HaH, Oxford. • John Neville White. St. Peter's Calkge, Cambridge. William Farley Wilkinson, B.A. flene't College, Cambridge. ESI'S. Diehard Altlous Arnold, A.B. Trinity College. Oxford. ltithard Atkinson, A.R. Catharine It all, Cambridge. Robert linthurst, A.B. Christ Church, Oxford. Frederick Beatty. A. 13. 'trinity Culiege, Dublin. William I lennell Mack. Jeremiah Burrougher. - A.B. Einnumtiel Collc7e, John Clarryvince, A.M. Cahn College, Cambridge. John Wareyn Darby. A.M. Jitto. Andrew Edwards, A.M. Dem' , of Magdalen College, Oxford. • Henry Freeland, A.B. Emanuel College, Cambridge. Charier Goodrich, A.B. Christ College, Cambridge. John Knight Grerham, Jesus College, Cambridge. William Jackson, A.M. Lincoln Cull:ge, °afoul. Charier Leicester, Student in Civil Law, Trinity Hell, Camb. John I.dwall. Thomas Back, A.M. Caius College, Cambridge William Pa'grate alanclarke, A.B. Jesus College, Cansbriilipl. Moses Marcus. William Thomas Myers, A.M. Jesus College. Cambridge. Charles Joseph Oman, A.D. Sidney Sussex College, Thomas Schreiber, A.U. Si. John's College, Cambridge. P. Ward, A.B. Trinity College. Oxford. Edward Carus Wilton, A.8.-Queen's College, Cambridge. On Monday last the Rev. Robert Bathurst, clerk A. M. was collated to the Wenn) , of Toperoft in Nor- • folk, in the gift of the Lord Bishop of Norwich. anit was instituted to the Vicarage of l)Jcking, in the same county, on the nomination of the bald Lord Bishop. • and presentation of the Prmost and Fellows of•Etou College. On the same day the Rev. Henry Free:and. A B. was instituted to the Rectory of Fbsketon in Suffolk, on the presentation of Mrs. Sarah Freeland of lkilham. AIM on the same day the itisv. Win. [lemma Black. was licensed tr. he perpetual Curacy of ‘Vortogay in Norfoik, uu tl a donation of the Lord Bishop of Norwich. In consequence of the great depression in the price of I :1.16101w Rev. Archdeacon Wollamon, Rector of East Dereham, at his mite audit, held on Tuestlay, generously returned 5 per wit. to the fanners—wit es. , ample worthy of tr o ut anon. Tmsdry seinitglit the Rev. Mr. Bryant, of Alburglt leit his house, anti nut returning so ' , ion as was expectec. search was made, and it is supposed, ow ing to tn.! dJrkness of the night, he fell into a ditch, iu which Le was found drowned. On the night of Monday sen'night. some person or psi viols stole 20 hells, f as out-house behrou.ing to Mr. James Barnard, of Great I:Hingham, and in he a.ait.e week 8 %salmi were stolen from Mr. B. Bur :oughts, oil Atilehorough • and a considerable number of acne from Mr. M. 61811 of Shropham. On the morning of Sateirday the 4th, betweeweighi• and nine o'clock, some villians entered the house of :Matthew Honk, labourer, at West Bradenliani, during severe storm 01 rain; he being gone to work, and his wife also ithilellt every box and drawer in the house was forced Olen, and cash and notes, to the amount of 701. besides six tea-spoons, were mole!). 064 Tuesday a poor woman who died in Lynn Work house was buried.; and during the time the service was reading, the husband of the deceased expired, alter a snort illness. ETON Pit oVIDENT FUND. —The weekly distribution • of coals and bread, to the poorer classes of Emit, com menced MI Friday last, on obit plan of charity which • bears the same features of benctulence and wilily woo' • many mite's lately established the The poor annually, during the last three %minuets have contributed according ro :heir ability, and number 11► • Iroin dd. to V.s. 6.1. tier week each, for twenty weeks ; and double the 3104)0111 of their respective coo- . tributions is supplied to them, Ly 11111C4114 of subscript Mos from the more.optilent and respectable unl►abituus, 1.1 coals or in hicad, as they peeler, during sixteen necks the wilder. Upwards of 130 pow families hate thus contributed, front their weekly earnings., during the last summer, no lets a snot Olaf) f 461. and will in this in clemesit period reap the belictit of their priidetice. The advantages of such a plan over indiscriminate charity. are obvious; it tends to create those habits of re6ularily and prospective resource which are so desiral.le in the lower order ; it leads them so exert themselt es, in order to secure the willing assistattce of others; and it dint's. nishes, if it does not destroy, the probability of that. misery, which has in some seasons arisen to them, (rout the arcatscatcsty of that prime necessary fuel. An• anonymous information was conveyed to the Manchester Magistrates, that in a certain houso which was accurately described, ti ree cannon might be thund, together pith one in a state of forward ness, of the owner's mail g. Accordingly a pooese of peace officers was sent to search the house tot these trea.onaLle weapons. They found the owner at his ordinary work, and they produced their warrant to search for the tremendous arms—►ilea the poor man, after h;s consternation had subsided, s aid, " I see how it is--my name is Cannon, I ..ush t hree children, and my wife's wi' baina," -t