The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-02-16 00:00:00

'1 1 ~~~; I:3i 1 4 ,$ , ~ !..' ••• • ••• .;• :;• Ii i,_ • • horses and chaise, and the other expences. When Prohert received his share, be hel d out his hand . and said, " This is a bad leek ont—thisis hardly worth coming down for, Jack." Thurtell a nswered, " It cannot be helped, I thought, Bill ,we should have had a hundred or two at the least but we must now make the best of it we can. This watch you most recollect, Bill, will fetch twe n ty o r thirt y pounds." " Very true." said Probert, " and the gun if it, Is good for any thing, will fetch ten pounds;" and then ad dressing me. be said, " Go Hunt, and fetch the gun. and all the other things, and let's see what they are worth." I accordingly went into the stable and brought the gun. a small box, and a travelling bag. Probert looked at the gun and said, This is one of Manton's make; it will bring at least ten pounds." He then laid hold of the box, and said to Thartell, " This is the backgammon hoard you were speaking of Jack." " Yes," said Thurtell, " that is the board to pick up a flat with." Probert said, " Corn*, Jack, let's open the bag, there may be some mo ney in that." Thurtell then took out of his pocket a hand somer penknife, which be said he bad taken from Mr. We're's coat pocket, and cut the bag open while Probert held it up. The bag contained some linen, several waist coats and a shooting dress; also, two pair of dice, which I understood were loaded, and two or three packs of false cards. One pack of the cards Prohert kept. the others were put again into the bag with the linen. Probert also took a yellow silk handkerchief, which was marked Kith Mr. Weore's name, and Probert burnt out the mark over the roadie. After this division, it was proposed to go and fetch the body, and accordingly we all three went to the stable, and the bridle being pat on Thurtell's horse. he and Probert went across the ploughed field, while I re mained near the house to see that all was quiet, and if I found any sine stirring, to give an alarm, and prevent their being seen on their return." In a short time they came back, Thortell leading the horse, and Prohert holding the body so as to keep it across the horse with out falling. The horse was led into the garden near to the pond, and the body was there thrown from the horse's back into the greensward by the side of the pond, when 'Thurtell observed that the body would not sink unless some stones or something heavy was put into the sack, whereupon Probert said he would get some of the large flints from his shrubbery, and he accordingly went and brought several large stones, which were pot into the sack, and the body was thrown with a swing, by Thurtell and Probert, into the pond. Before the body was thrown in, Probsrt said the feet would probably rise up, unless some thing was done to keep them under water. a nd to p revent it, be tied one end of a string to the dead man's legs, and kept the other on the bank, and when the body was sunk, be drew the string so as to keep the legs down, and fas tened the end to a particular spot by the pond side, where he said he could readily find it, and draw the body ashore whenever be wished. After the body was thus disposed of we returned into the parlour, and Probert said he would go np stairs, and see if his old woman was asleep; be remained absent a few minutes, and on his return we entered into conversation, and sate drinking until about two o'clock, when Probert left us and went to bed. In the course of this conversa• tion, Mr. Probert said, "There cannot be a better place in the world than this, to get rid of that b—y thief, Hold ing ; you know how be has robbed me. Jack, and it will be easy to get him here and finish him in this parlour, and as you know I must soon leave this cottage, it must he done quickly." Thurtell said, " You have only to say the word, Bill, and it is done." nos ends the history of this eventful night. (To be concluded next week ) emeneemessmimmeswess. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM YRS PARIS PAPERS OF THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. (FROM THII JOURNAL DS PARIS.) Nuassinsau, Fes. 7.—We learn from Dresden, that a very important discussion has suddenly cutnmenced in the meeting of the States of Saxony. A proposition has beet) made that the tax on fixed property ;hall be equally levied on all classes, whether the property belongs to nobles or .to person. not Nobles. As the Nobles, and consequently the partisans of the Feudal System, are very numerous in Saxony, some curiosity is excited as to what will be the result. (fRO)t THE JOURNAL DES MOATS.) PARIS, Feu. 11.—One of the Journals makes some severe remarks on the speech delivered by Mr. Canning in the House of Commons on the third inst. For our parts we prefer directing the attention of our readers to the praise which the eloquent orator bestows on the conduct of our army in Spain. When we recollect what took place last year, and consider the difference between the language they held by the British Ministers, and that they note use, we cannot but rejoice at the happy change, and we hasten to remark every thing which can encourage the reciprocal good-will, and preserve harmony between great sovereigns and great nations. Nvarunenc, FEB. 4.—A new secret saciety is said to have been discovered and denounced to the Central Com mission at Mayence. For some time r.o information could be obtained on this matter, hut now it is said that several papers have been seized, which gave very circumstantial information, and that the principal memliers are thus known. The most of them had left the Universities, but they preserved a connection with several persons at the Universities, and of the latter many have been arrested, particularly in Western Prussia. Several young men who have not completed their studies are implicated in this bu siness. All those who have been arrested have been sent to Berlin, where an inquiry is to be immediately set on foot into secret soeieties. This is a melancholy thing fur the friends of order and of monarchy. FRENCH FUNDS on Thursday at four o'clock.—Five per cent.. 98.40. Bank Stock, 1,715. We received last night Bayonne parrs to the Stb inst. , They contain intelligence from Madrid to the 3d which seems to announce a triumph for the Constitutional cause. as one of the most violent ultra Journals, the Reataurador, had been suppressed by the Ministers. Its place. it is true, was to be supplied by another publication, but its Editors, (whose names are given) are men of more moderate prin ciples, and belong to the class of Afrancesados, which may be considered as forming at present the middle of mitre party in Spain. Meanwhile, dissention prevails amongst the Ultras. and the Apostolic Junta, or Assembly of De puties from each of the Chapters in the kingdom, having been dissolved by the Government, and driven from Ma drid, had taken refuge at Valladolid, where it seemed dispos ed to set up its authority in opposition to that of the Ring. A considerable body of Constitutionalists had suddenly . advanre , l to Ciudad Real, in la Mancha, beaten and pursu ed t► e Karl troops ',liar as Manquanares, and ,replaced the Stone of the Constitution in both towns. The majority of the population are said to to have joined the Constitu tionalists. Much alarm was felt by the Royalists at Ma drid, lest the French °nerds should be obliged to execute the orders which they bad received to return to France. and communications had been sent to Paris on the subject. A singular and unprecedented circumstance occurred a few days ago in the Macquarie district. A fine horse, w orth 100 guineas, the property of a gentleman residing in that district, had been missing for 1 days ; when, to the astonishment of many who saw it, the animal was rode at a full gallop down a valley in view of Allendale house by a black native girl, with a long tether rope round the horse's neck. A servant was immediately sent on horse back in pursuit of the fair Tasmania jockey (the first of her race who has perhaps ever before been seen on a horse at full speed) ; but owing to her riding the animal so won. derfully fast, the man sould nette up a pursuit of four day( ffobcome with her, after THE ST. MAILS. •an. Dos. I Asa. DIVI. I....Deblia 0 1 —.Holland 0 1 ...Waterford.. • ..0 o....Hambro 1 1.... G & Jersey. • ..0 I I....lfnutoe 0 0.... Lisboa 0 I ... Flaadan .......0 0 ...Onttenbere 1 0. • . -Malts .O —•,. IF STOCKS. 1 New 4 per Cent. .. MU Long Annuities 22te 7.12 G India Ronde .... .... Exch.Bills 2d. 10001 24 20pm. ....10214 Console for Aeorpent .. ow PRICE 01 Rank StuCk 237 2381 3 per Cent. Reduced. •.. 92x S per Cent. Consols.... 9133 3 per Cent. . • 4 per Cent , Mattaniati# MONDAY EVE NO, FEBRUARY 16, 1824. STOCK EXCHANGII, TWILYZ O TLOCIL—CoesoIs opened this morning at 91 ld, and soon after rose to U, with a good deal doing. The Expresses this morning have brought the French Rentes at 99. 30. after 'Change, and Spanish at 271 FOREIGN FENDS.—A great deal of business has been doing in the above market this morning, particelarltia the South American Securities. •!':!r.:•-:- - Owing to a report that a decree is in tom( from the King of Spain, acknowledging the Independence of South America on certain conditions, some fluctuations bare taken place in Chili and Mexican Bonds. New Spanish, IS —Old opened at 251, and was dose as high ap26ll,,hut again fell to 25i—Colombian,23-11ussian, 94t —Mexican Loan, St to 9 —French Scrip, 11 ti—Nlexiran Mines, Hullet,) grew.—Anglo Mexican Mines, Si to 9. We have this morning received, by Express, the Etoile of yesterday's date, and the Journal des Debate of Sam - day, from which we estract the following : Malmo, Feb. 3.—The following article, the Restau rador published on the 31st of January : Our readers should be apprized more and more of the mischievousness of our Revolutionists, and their attempts to cause disorder. They use every foal means to mccomplish their horrid wishes. We accordingly pub lish the following article from the Echo du Midi. In its ►ast number, it wishes us to believe, that there is a party forming in Spain to dethrone Ferdinand 7th, and to give the Crown to Infant Don Carlos.• The same Journal states, that the Police of Madrid surrounded the convent of Franciscans, wherein they found copies for a number of Proclamations ; but we are assured that all this is false• and has been invented by the Revolutionists. Cam, Jars. 18.—Letters from Smyrna announce that the Tnrkish squadron, which was coming to . the assistance of Smyrna, has been surprised in the sea of Marmora by a storm, and has been nearly destroyed. Five frigates and 6 brigs have run aground tiff the coast. (emu THa JOURNAL DCE DIBATS.) Six sqnadrons of Curaisseurs have received orders to re inforce the Army of Occupation. For Cadiz tba 3dsquadzon l of (Masseurs of the Meuse ; for Madrid the 4th iquatiton of Cloasteurs ; for Burgos the 4tb squadron of Chasseurs ; for Vittoria the 4th squadron. These six squadrons will arrive at Bayonne on the Ist and 2il. They write from Perpignan that 300 men have arrived in that town of the 13th of the line returning from Spain. On their route through Valencia, thew experienced in that beautiful climate, a frost more seveae than any that has been known in the memory of man. The Etoile repe2tc the accounts previously known here of the misunderstanol;ng between the Dry of Algiers and th e American Con‘ul ; and of the assistance rendered by Lord ll}ron to the Greek range. It is reported this morning in the city the a copy of a Decree has been received in town from Madrid, by which it appears that the King' of Spain has granted a free trade. to Sou America, to England. Austria, Russia and Prussia. A pri►at! letter from Paris states, that it was reported there that the Old Spanish Loan was in a fair way of being recognised. Low taxation and a small expenditure. are the best of all possible proofs of the freedom and prosperity of a country A high revenue, among its other evils, has a natural ten dency to draw around it a host of hungry, rapacious adven turers, regardless alike of principle or conscience, and who, being scarcely alive to any feeling higher than mere animal enjoyment, are wholly intent on contriving and se curing means to swell that fun." which administers to their wants, and supplies their extravagance. To a great re venue, this devouring class of beings are as sure to crowd, as the vultures are to flock to the field of the slain, after a sanguinary battle. Public misfortunes are nothing to them, for they suffer not from the general loss; and as pensions, salaries, and emoluments, must he kept ap,the increased pressure of public burden, which weighs the produc tive classes to the earth, can be felt in no other way by these 4dle drones, than by heightening their vanity, from the more Striking contrast, which the suffering condition of the people exhibit, when i Sewed with that of their own. This is one evil inseparable from high revenue. But there is another not less to be deplored, springing from the same source. Public men, by dug largely from the distribution of high revenue, become indifferent to duty. and insensible to honour. Hence, without raking up the ashes of the dead, we may find abundant living examples of persons, who, after having long straggled in the cause of liberty, have, without blushing, rushed into the arms of corruption, and brought political spostacy into fashion. This also is a sore evil, for which there is no other remedy than low revenue. But there is another evil growing out of the same baneful root io proportion as the revenue increases, the power of the people over its expenditure, is in the same proportion diminishes. Hence it is, that from the omnipotent influence of revenue, the Com mons House of Parliament has lost almost all controls' over the executive. Are these views of high revenue the mere reveries of a romantic brain ? then look at the following facts as a practical illustration of their truth. America has a population of ten millions, spread over a surface at least six times as large as the British isles, enjoying all the blessings of rational free dom and good Government, at an expense of only 4,180,0001. per annum - about one tenth of the price which England pays. for the same professed purposes. With a revenue, amounting altogether only to 4,500,0001. the United States are rapidly extinguishing their debt, while the heavily taxed nations of Europe are annually increasing the amount of their's. This is the language. and these are the great truths to be found in the recent exposition of the state of American finance, and which at , this time will, we hope, re ad a seasonable lesson, sod operate as a powerfel stimulus toexertion, with the friends to ,iberty. retrenchment, soil economy in both Houses of Parliament. 'ESM AN Jamaica papers to the 13th ult. arrived yesterday at the Jamaica Coffee-house, which bring the issitsfactory intelli gence of the restoration of the island to tranquillity. The late insurrection appears to have bees wholly eonfined to ' the parish of St Mary; for though &no meetings of the Negroes took place in other districts, they led to no result, and the Negroes are represented generallg as sensible of the delusion under which the insurgents acted, and fully disposed to order and snbmission. Letters from Rio de Janeiro, to the 17th December, were nie-ived on Saturday by way of iiiternsey, but they are en tirely destitute of political information. There was an arri val on Saturday, also, from Prrnatnbuco, of the date of the 27th of December, which represents the state of that province. respecting the adherence of which to the capital much doubt had been expressed, as remaining perfectly tranquil, though some of the merchants declare their ap prehensions that a separation and an independent Govern ment will take place there, unless the future conduct of the Emperor shall be regulated by better principles. By • Flanders mail received on Saturday we have accounts from Stockholm and St. Petersburg. By them' accounts we are informed that the weather in the northern parts of the cow fluent has been as mild all this winter, as with us. Atiolittetk holm, it is said, the winter has been a mixture of autumn and spring ; they have had neither frost nor snow; and whet Is a rarity there In winter, fresh vegetables are cried about the streets. From St. Petersburg we learn that the silver ruble is henceforward to be received at the Custom Houses, after the rate of S rubles, 60 copecks, in paper. What must be the situation of a country where its paper currency Is so depre ciated in value. Mr. Wiogfield has been appointed to one of the vacant Mastership's in Chancery. We are assured that it is the inteation of Mr. John Pane, to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of this county, in the room of his late father, as soon as decorum will permit him to make his intentions publicly known Mr. Dashwood, of Kirtlington Park, has announced him self a candidate.—(Oxford Paper.) - - nr IS T INDIIII.—APPOINTMENT OF TWO 818U0P5.-•—it is 11 arranged that two Bishops are to be appointed to superb--, tend the affairs of the Church in that qoarer of the world, one to the Leeward, the other to the Windward A residence is to be appropriated for them, and *Leh is to he allowed 4,0001, per annum, with a retiring pisiaiott of 10001. per annum, after twelve years residence. JavfLnica is to he the bead of on. See, and Barbadoes and St. Vin cent's the moveable seat of the other. Two most excellent men are already nominated—the Rev. Mr. Sumner. Pre bendary of Worcester (Durham) and the Rev. Mr. Cole ridge a gentleman of superior abilities and high character , joint hecretary to the Society for the promotion of christi an knowledge, and a near relation to the Poet Coleridge. —(Chester Chron.) Pon !amours, tileturday.—The slaves which were released hotly from the hands of the Tunisians, by the British squadron, under Captain Hamilton, of the Cambrian, were cane Greeks, who had chartered a vessel, under British colours, front Malta, fir a passage to one of the Greek islands, and instead of making such a voyage, the Maltese captain, who commanded the vessel, shaped his course for Tunis, where he sold the vessel's stores, cargo, and passengers, and ran away with the proceeds. When the Medina left Tunis, on the 3d ult. the Genoese Fleet was going into the Bay, to demand satisfaction for two Genoese subjects who had been killed by the Tuni sians. The Q bury packet arrived on Friday morning at Falmouth, in thirty•four days from Jamaica. Air. Hurtado, the Co'ombian Minist-i, is not on board, bat Mr. Ambles, one of the Colombian Ounnuissioners, has reached England by this conveyance. * The iostramen'a to be used by Captain Parry on the new expedition are ordered to be shipped by the Ist of May! so that we may presume it will sail about the middle of that n o rib. alna recent regulation of the Lords of the Admiralty. aster's Mates mad M;dolaipnien. belonging to ships paying off, who rased fur Lieutenants prior to tit.' year 1821!, are eligible to receive appointments from their Lord ships as Ad oiral:y Midshipmen. The former regulatioo only extended to blidsli pmen who had passed prior to the lit of Jan.lBl9. A gentleman of this neighbourhood. who has two sons at school at Caen, in Normandy, has recently been advised. that, by a llovernasent Older, all children. without re ference to nation or litigious opinions, educated at the French Schools, must attend the celebration of Mass—in other word., he initiated into the principles and practices of the Catholic creed. The Committee fur building the national Scotch Church have announced that they are about to lay the foundation of it in Sidinouth-street. Fonn•lling Hospital. They had previously, we heard, contemplated a scite for it in Hol born. occupied at present by the old buildings, which constitute Little and New Turnstiles, &c. Had this plan been adopted, it would have of oded them the advantages of a mere centrical situation, & have furnished the public in general with a much wanted wide access from Holborn into Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Committee scout, as might have been early anticipated, the report of Mr. Irviag's in tention of leaving London. The follooing is related respecting the late Sir Henry Bate Dudley:— " It is a curious circumstance, that the lady, about whom the quarrel, and subsequent battles and duels of Sir Henry (then known as Parson Bate) with Messrs. Miles and tritsgerald. took place nearly fifty years since, was the beautiful Mos. Hartley, the actress, who died on the same day last week with Sir Henry." A correspondent of the Fife Herald observes, that vast numbers of Irish halfpence are brought over to this country by the skippers of the coal vessels,* ho gain eight per cent. by the importation. as the copper coin of Ireland is of less value than ours by one twelfth. Fur the purpose of ascer taining the amount of Irish copper currency, he embraced toe opportunity of attending to the weekly collection for the poor. in a church in a remote part of the Presbytery of Cupar. During twenty-two conseca.ive Sabb,ths, the sum of 21. Bs. 41d. was collected in copper. and of this 12s. 31d. was of luish money! From this, it appears that alsJut one fourth of the copper currency of Fife is of-lrish origin& and there is reason to Where that a much greater propor tion prevails in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, Ayr, and Dumfries. It appears from the Goal Returns. just published, that. during the last thirty years, more than 36,000 persons 'have been committed to prison, in Manchester. Of these. 12,636 have been tried for felony, and about one in ten transported. On the other hand, the document above alluded to chews that all the prisons of the Counties of Bernick, Haddington, and Fife, (three maritime counties of Scotland stretching from the Tweed to the Frith of Tay,) contained at no time in 1820, more than 63 prisoners, that is little more than the half of the persons imprisoned in one English County, (Suffolk) for poaching alone. The advocates of the Vagrant Act, seem now inclined to attrihn'e all its faults to the Magistrates and watch men. This is very much like abusing the actors in a bad Play. Mr. Peter Peering Timms. printer to the Honourable East India Company, at Macao, son of Mr. A. Thorns, senior chairmaker of this city, bas procured and sent to England a model of the monstrosity which has been ex hibiting in China for some years past, accompanied with an explicit description of the same; and three superb printed volumes in the Chinese Language.-1 a Treatise on the Globes, with Maps of the different Provinces of I on Divioity, and the 31 on Physic, enclosed in &handsome case. They were brought to this country by Mr. Rd. Ballet Richardson steward lof the Honourable East India Company's ship Thames, son of Mr. Abraham Richardson, millwright, of St. Sidwell's, sod are intended as a present to the Devon and Exeter Institution.—(Ber/ey's Euler News.) SHIPPING INTELLIGENCX ......rsim-- DIAL, Feb. 14.—The wind shifted to the Eastward this day about 5 p.m., when the whole of the outward hoard sailed; the Resolution, Gibbs, arrival this morhlri g from Jamaica and remains, having been sepplird with a new anchor and cable.—Feb. 15.—Wind, N.E.—Arrived the Frances Henrietts,Diekenson, from New York, and sailed for the River. A fleet of outward bound vessels passed about coon from Ramsgate harbour, and several v a a s o, are passing at the Lack of the Goodwin Sands, bound don Channel. --------- PORTSMOUTH. Feb. 15.—Arrived the Duke of Bedford, Cunningham, from London for Madras—all the outward bound have sailed for their different destineims, ex cept the Duke of Bedford, which ship remains for pliefragers. PLYMOUTH. February 14.—Wind N.—Sailed the Commerce, Adams, for Oporto ; Fortune, for Palermo ; Mari!, for St. Michaels; Prince Coburg, Tremayne, for St. Michael s; Brothers, Lawson, for Ferrol; and Duchess of Somerset, st d . sena. for Charente. FALMOUTH, February 14.—Wind N.—Arrived the Essex frigate, and Dwarf cutter, and sailed again for Dublin ; Mar guess Queensbury Packet, from Jamaica. sailed 13th ult.—. Sailed the Doke of Marlborough Packet for Lisbon ; Prori• deuce, Antelope, and Industry, for Lisbon ; Zephyr, Walton, for Sierra Leone ; Lord Mulgrave, Greenslade, for Leeson; Perthshire, Sangster, for St. Michaels ; Gond Intent, Tonkin, for Terciera; Fanny, Guild, for Seville; and Riga, Royal, for Tobago. Cowes, February 13.—Wind N.E:—Sailed the whole of the outward bound. Tho Themes, !Also% which was on shore near Margate, hos been got off without clamours. The Naiad and Cainelion, are said So have gone to Al. a peY l he u r . e e. o r n ie N e llenday to superin• glees on an offi c ial l ia pp l ga v vo i y s f i t t iwi t e i i i ii t it i be i o e y yacht, Samar•tne gun-hrig, which vessels were taken frigate, and Marti te a er l ietpreaoomff tend i r t h H e e e n i: P p h p thin lead or tin, or composition into dock this afternoon. each e ii e copper, p r sheet ,eeBs .p r and o. that u e e e u e n de a metalrsspt understa nd brio;:ide i of s s simplyom f e am n a i ling different under tnhaeat nature galvanism, which prevents the salt water from decomposing e e fuyufao r acts y : rttntieL t eeeps h :n. asa s taffbL ash s etooai as st se n mble the Frith of Forth. season e T s rding bt t u l hk i e e eem emnti nhtb fi : elif s reoe h ;s fr . herb r tolui n tel r e wsyo n olmnsbe r . teor e er err m aworotei a i I, • yr: ge r ti b i the ats s s ilta a lc h g aa i Y . c c °h se beenll r tleryfime:vyavai herri ng reire remain.—About t y e cn — t Y i n aP r t b A e fior ventured from the different ports of the Frith, of which 26 b. long to New haven. The number generally taken by one amounts to two,ontoing c chiefly three, or four low thou ti s d a e n e d. an O d n th l e 'u s eld tro a 4 h gales of wind, none of the boats obtained more than 200. As was anticipated last week, a fall in the price of bread has taken place of 2d. in the 16os. Loaf. A further reduc tion is expected in a few days. RIESURAICTION MIN.—A short time ago a stranger Wl', feasting his eyes with the grand prospect, from menial: church-yard,of the south &west mountains; &occaeionally indulging his sensibility in reading the "frail memorials ' of the dead; wlien his appearance attracted the attendee of the villagers, and on a close inspection of his countenaaes it was the general opinion that be looked like a resurrec tion man. This opinion was beginning to be acted op, the mob increased every minute, when the stranger, astonished and confounded, at last discovering the cause of the contu melies heaped upon him, made good his retreat from the place of suspicion, without suffering bodily injury.—(Cere lisle Journal.) PRIIIVCO POPULATION. —The Parisian Papers tell ni, that in the five years from 1817 tulti2l, inclusive of the popsbi. tion of France increasing nine buodred and forty-alas these sand and four hundred and four souls. A gentleman. residing not 100 voiles from Whitehaven lately sent for a cooper to tap a pipe of wine. The cooper seemed tither lung in boring the bole, when the gentleman observed :—" Your tool is certainly not sharp, you are so long in getting through."..-" Ab, Sir," replied the cooper, " it IS the thickest head I ever saw;" " Don't you know," said the other, " that wine requires a thick head?" •• No," exclaimed the cooper, " but I know that thick heads get by far the greatest share of it." ROBUST Oho A os.—Yesterday week, two liusbadmen, the one of the name of Samuel Lamb, in the 80th year of his sge, and the other John Schofield, aged J 7, were at work in a strong rushy field, of two acres, at Whilestone clongh, iii Sowerby, graving for oats, an occupation which they have followed for sixty years. (Leeds Mercury.) CONVICTIONS !MUSK THE Gases LAWB.-011 übe 27th ult. Elizabeth Silver.ides, the wife of Richard Sileersidrs of the township of Rasingerold, innkeeper, was convictid, before one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace, of har ing in her possession three pheasants, she not being quali fied by the laws of the realm to have the same in h. r pos session, and she having refused to pay the penalty, 151. was committed to the house of correction for three months. Also on the sth inst. Richard Woodcock, of the city of York, coachman, was convicted of having three pheasants in his possession, at Essingwold aforesaid, and fined 151. for the said offence. On Monday afternoon, an amusing wager of one lain deed sovereigns was decided in the neighbourhood of tiles gow, which showed the comparative swifturss of a man to a horse. One gentleman undertook to run seventy yards before the other could gallop one hundred on the best hunter that could lie got. The ground was railed off. A gentleman at the end of the course gave the signal, the parties started, and the gentleman beat the horse by about fire yards. Legal proceedings. it is reported, have just been institu ted against an individual well known in the sporting world, with a view of recovering penalties against him to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds, on account of a gambling establishment recently opened by him at the West end of the town. A saucer of red currants were in Corwit Gard. a Market on Saturday, and the price was onl y a sovereign. C OR N EICH•NIIII, THIS DAl.—The arrivals of all ends of Grain last week were very large, and this morning there is a fair quantity of Wheat, Barley, Deans. an d Pease, fresh up from Essex, Kent , and Suff olk ; sod ' ever& mo at re vessels with Oats from the Ncrth. — O u Friday last, was was reported cheaper; but h av ing bad some cau tious Buyers at - Market on addition ti ou r Town Millers , t his has increased the demand for Wheat , a nd the p rices of last Monday are folly supported. Barley i s more in m a ndn to-day, and these articles have rather exceeded quotations. Beans do not go off freely, and they h.ive de clined in value Is. or 24. per quarter since this day se'noight. Boiling Pease do not sell freely, and they are reduced lye Ny l a s t No demand for Rye at present , hut are now ver per quarter. Grey Pease support the prices last quo . t_rle and they have given way Is. or 2 s. pe r quarter. since this day se'onight, at which reduction some extensive Sales have been made. Flour rem sins unaltered. SMITHFIELD /RAWEST. 16th Feb.—The market was well supplied this morning with all kinds of cattle, except calves, which were retiree. Owing to the cold weather, the prices were much the same as on this day se'nnighf, but good South-Down sheep obtained a high price, thong b the trade was rather heavy in the earlier part of the morning The rain that fell on Friday alteration has been produce live of much mischief in the lower parts of Rotherhithe, KW' ping, and places adjutant ; the lower parts of some of the houses having from two to three feet water in theme The residents near the river side should be apprised chit for two or three days, about this period, the tides are ex pected to be extraordinarily high. Yesterday afternoon, the flood tide reached to the uppermost step of the st ow stair at the Peuitestiaey embankment. 1 i~ to bi tv to tii $1 123 of is g II it II