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MO ` , DISSOLUTION OF nut __-______ The Grn , tl Lodge having met, pursuant to adjournment, on Friday, then 18th inst. Colonel Pratt, Grand Master, county Cavan, In the chair, the following Address' ryas' unanimously agreed to:- 4. .Idress of the Grand Orange bodge of Ireland to the various LoFier's thereof, and to every individual Mauler of this Loyal le-sitorsonc Dear ttrithren,--Tew if any periods since the first formation of o Loyal loyal Institution have been so replete with transactions of so vi c weurnt and importance as those to which the Grand Lodge urn ibesit to refer in this their Report to their brethren thearglieur the kingdom. During the period in which we have beeposenhers of the Grand Lodge, we trust it will appear that we bays wa•cti.al user the true interests of the Society with parental efiest•ain and unprecedented reel. .Theprereta ,year hem been a distinguished one in the annals of etur century, Reproducing such effects upon. the Orange Society as to render the present appeal absolutely necessary. Sineethat period we have the satisfaction to add, that the Insti tution was never in a more flourishing condition, or more respects biliot or nnestices added to its ranks; notoithstand'ng which, the Parliament of the United Kingdom have considered it necessary that all poll:rail societies 3:: . .,u161 be dissolved; of course our Society is icielited. It therefore becomes our duty, in consequence of that confidence you have repealed in us, to infotni sou, that any Lodges meeting after this day commit a breach of the law, and ate liable to ill the costesuent penalties. Vie therefore exhort you, that in the present I:0dr of our affairs, you will not suffer that fidelity and devotion to the support of the Government and the maintenance of the laws, which eYrt characterised our Society, to be tarnished, but that you ael yield a willing obedience to what is now the Law of the land, thereby proyirg to your enemies and to the world at large, how tatijord aid malignant have those charges been which represent our Society to be established for the purpose of opposing any descrip tips. or class of our fellow-countrymen, but that our principle and practice 14, to sappett and protect every body and denomination of loyal subjects. We regret, indeed, that Government should deem it expedient to include our Society, or that the calumnies of our enemies should be so fee credited' 5.% even to suppose that there was a necessity for so deing 4 but we are confident that the inquiry which will speedily mkt place into the nature and objects of our Arsociation. as well as tats the state of Ireland generally, will exonerate as from even the lamilskauee of guilt, and prove to the Government and the British prahhe how malignant and groundless have been the ehurges of our emernies. . Though from this day the Grand Lodge ceastal to exist as a body, '. yet we can truly pledge ourselves to our brethren, and to the empire allarge, that as indivitinals we cherish the same principles a: heart, bird, ohouhl domestic treason or foreign invasion ever again render •our services necessary, we will be found at our Nets, regardless of every earthly consideration but that which behoves us as loyal sub. Jetty of the Crown of Great Britain.. For the support of those principles we have laboured since the liest.osorement of our Institution ; for them we base suffered both friaries and insults ; but still we are pledged to them : that pledge is inviolable, and we shall feel pleasuie in inculcating them to our neighbours and friends, and instilling them into tire infant breasts of our children, so that they may grow with their growth, and strengthen with their strength, and be handed down enure and un impaired from generation to generation. 'Nell AtSOCIATION. INDIA. LATE 3111. - TINA I FITARRACKPORE. OENCRAL ORDER- Fort William, Bengal, Nov. 4, 1824. It is with ninth regret the Right Honourable the Governor (jenital, in Council. tech himself called on to announce to the i army the consequences of the most disgraceful mutiny of thlr'th regiment of Native Infantry, at llarrackpore, on the Ist laistaan in which the corps wits. joined by a number of Sepoys, *gaol to about two companies, of the ti2cl, and perhaps twenty men of the 26th Native Regiment. • Trim: corps had been under orders of march for some time, and had experienced some difaeulty in procuring carriage; this, how 'sr, was immediately removed, on its being brought to the notice f f Government, by an advance of emit to each corps, to aid the ::boys in procuring the tietessary carriage cattle for their baggage. its the etent however proved, the difficulty timed but to cover a hubterritge. A bad spirit possessed the troops, aid when all diffi culties acre removed, and it was no longer possiitle to practise e,sasion, tiler refused on the parade to march, with the exception of *bout 130 men, and the non-commissioned and commissioned native off itOTS. On the receipt of a report to this effect by the t:ononander-in- Chief. his Excellency iounediately adopted the necessary measures to bring those misguided men to a sense of their duty. He in stantly proceeded to lisrrackpore, and on the following morning, having made a disposition of the troops at the station, and those which had arrived fluting the night, the Adjutant-General and the Quarter-Master-General of the Army, with his Excellency's Per sian Interpreter, and the Officer commanding the 47th Native Legiment, were deputed to make a last effort to induce the mud steers, drawn up, loaded, and in regular parade ordein to lay down their arms, but without effect. Nothing then remained but to inflict the punishment so justly merited. The Commander-in-Chief gave the pre-coneerted signal for an attack I ', a part of the force • the mutineers instantly broke and betook themselves to flight, under the fire of the troops who at tacked them ; and such en et:think was niatie on the spot as the necessity of the case and the infamy of the regiment merited—the moat gudty of those who were made prisor.ers having been subse quently executed by the sentence of a Court Martial. That a t•ansactiqn so unnmural in, and disgraceful to this army, could have been planned and carved into execution without the knowledge, rot to say the participation of the native commissioned and non-commissiored officers of the corps, is not kr a moment to Le credited, composed as the native regiments arn in Bengal. Con nected by relationship. and livings's the native officers and &pops do, almost under the same roof, it is not to be believed for a mo ment that the grossest neglect of the duty which the former owed to the State has not been shown by the parties in question. The Governor-General in Council consemzendy considers the 17th Re giment Native Infantry, including its native commissioned and tion.commissioneo officers, to be disgraced—directs that No. 47 be struck out of the Army List, the native commissioned and non commissioned officets to be instantly discharged the service as to silty unworthy the confidence of Government, or the name of sol d)ers ; and that a new regiment, to be numbered 69, to which the I:urvatin officers of the late 47th will be appointed, be immediately Titised in its stead for general service, agreeably with the detail as laid down in General Orders of the 11th July, 1323. No. 63. To the native commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Bengal army, the Governoi-Gaueral, in Council, now more puts-' noisily addresses himself. He is perfectly waked that no instance of insubordination can take place in a corps without such coming to their early knowledge. Ile hereby demands from them a rigid execution of their duty, and observes, that even on the rur.our of any discontent in a corps, it is thole particular duty to communicate it instantly to their European officers, and to exert their utmost en deavours to put down in the first instance any appearance of com bination. His Lordship, in Council. further desires it to be dis tinctly understood, that, in failure of that line of conduct which is 'expected from the native commissioned and non-commisslimed pincers of the Benspal army, they will be held personally and col lectively responsible for any misbehaviour of the men, who are more immediately under their eye and command in the lines than they can be under those of the European officers; and that the moat prompt dismissal from the service will be the inevitable consequence of any want of exertion and zeal, or any abandon ment of duty. In short, he warns them to profit by the example of the )17th. who have drawn down on themselves a punishment they must justly merited. 1 be Governor-General in Council, in order to make known the sentiments of Government to the Native army as fully sad =- needy as possible, is pleased to direct that this Order shall be translated into the Hiodoostannee language, and printed in the 2'4'o:me characters, for the purpose of transmission to corps respec tively, through the Adjutant-General of the army, under the orders of the Commander-io-Chief, who will be pleased to issue such subsidiary Orders as his Excellency may consider necessary, drauohting the privates of the late 47th., whose fidelity remained unsh.dcen, into such regiments as may appear most expedient. THE SEPOYS. The unit battalion of Sepoys ever raised in Bengal was that catiled the Lal Pultan, or Red Battalion, which distinguished itself hi the battle of Plessey and on other great occasions ; but in 1764 It mutinied on the pretext of some promises that were made to it hiving been broken. It was easily reduced to obedience ; but Sir Rector Munro, who then commended tl:e army, thourht a severe crimple necessary, and twenty-eight of the most guilty were trod by • Drum-head Court 51ar.iel, and sentenced to death. .11.'fight of these were directed to be immediately blown away from the ions of the force then at Cheprsh. As they were on the point of - esteeming the sentence, three grenadiers. who happened to be amongst them, stepped forth and chinned the privilege of being blown from the right hand guns. " They had alwrys fought an the right," they said, " and they hoped they would be permitted to die at that post of honour." Their request was granted, and they were the first executed. These was not a dry eye among istropaens or Asiatics, at the death of these fine fellows; but no disturbance whatever ensued. The battalion next raised was Wend Mattbetes's Battalion. In 1759, it *hewed equal gallantry ',A the English soldiers, in storming the strong fortress of Me.. auliparam, defended by a French garrison. This battalion was one of three which mutinied In 1782, under ea apprehension of being embarked for foreign service. The mutiny was suppressed, the battalion broken, and drafted into other regiments, and two Native olhoers sad °near two Sepoys were sentenced to death, by ben* blown away from the mouth of a cannon. The sentence was wise) into execution in tie presence of those troops which had Matilde& and of one other regiment only ; and it was effected waken the Smallest opposition. or even a murmur. The same lberyilien had also mu ted in 170, but was soon recalled at that tint!: Wits duty.' The last instance that we shall mention is, the too celebrated ins at Vellore. After the native garrison of that forams glad pieced diernselvis in a state of open mutiny, the Madras native cavalry and the 19th regiment of English dragoons were sent against them; and the pus of the fortress were blown ionise, and the native do ary acted with quite as much rleciiiion mid bravery, fib attacking their misguided countrymen, as did the Lr.imsn aoldiera theamehnse . - ?bc King of Naples has prevented the King of Prussia with the Neapolit a n Orders, having previously received those of Prussia. 4~7 LAW INTFLLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, TUESDAY, MATICR 2t FRIXTICE OF HEARING MOTIONS. Great inconvenience has lately tern experienced in Counsel Oct knowing what motions would be heard by the Court. His LOllO3llll , said, formal/ it was the practice for the senior Counsel first to make all his motions, at,d then for the other Counsel to go on according to their seniority ; and it was supposed, the senior Counsel would not prevent other Counsel being heard, by oc tuning too much time himself. Complaints, however, were made to the Court, stating, that as long a s this practice continued no Counsel, except the senior Crunsel, could get a motion brought on. Ilis Loedship then dirocted that the t. otions should be called on according to their dates, but to this there were objections. Ilis Lordship was now perfectly agreeable to do that which the Par and suitors considered best. He kriAw Calais where the Bar was or,dered t. 3 do as the Judges., pleased ; but he wart anxious himself to be ordered, provided the Bar would only abide by the coterie they agreed upon to point out. Similar observations were made a few days ago, and thin morning his Lordship directed the It!gistrar to take down a declaration, that all Solicitor:, do deliver in to the Registrar the titles and dates of all their motions, and that the :tuitions do in future be brought on only according to their dates; motions for injunctions, and to prevent waste being esmraitted, cletpted. MEXICAN MINES. Via LORDSH I r said he believed to-morrow world be the day appointed for the hearing of Kinder v. Taylor and Others, but he had just received a notice to attend the Recorder's Report at one o'clock. therefore it was for the Learned Gentlemen to say, whether they would go on with it to-morrow, or delay it till Friday. 111 r. So LI erroa-GF.x Eit•l. begged that lie might be at liberty to mention It again in the course of the day, after having consulted with others respecting ir. Ilia LORDSHIP then said he might do so, or go on with it as far as they could during the morning. Soktcrroa-GetrEttat subsequently said, if his Lordship would permit, the parties ware anxious that Counsel should be heard as far as they could go during the titni7 Lis Lurtlahip might sit to-morrow. His LORDor IP amien!cd. RATTS AT V. GEORGE. This parr-heard rause petbion occupied a considerable portion of the morning. The peridim stated that Mr. Rattrap had, ninny years ago, cipolii:,ed Mr. George as Hs yrufessional adviser, from whom he borrowed various sums 'of money, to secure which he executed holentures of lease and release of certain premises of which lie was seised ; a bill wan fled, and, by the consent of all parties, an order of reference to Mr. Cooke was made, to ascertain the state of accounts, all matters in dispute, Jac anti to ;•siartl accindingly. Mr. Cooke awartiet: that four thousand pounds and a fractioo was due for the principal and interest to Mr. George, and the present application was made by the trustees of !Jr. George fur an order to have that sum paid to them out of the fond in Court, there having been an interim order obeaMed, directing the premises to be sold, and the money to be brought into Court. The principal contention at present eas, upon the question of interest. It was argued by Mr. Hart, on behalf of :114. Rattray, that the debts on which the award proceeded did not carry interest. The Soaretvon-GENxitax rottra contended, that 9001. in particular of the principal awsnled due to Mr. George was s debt carryirg interest, as appeared on the face of the deed securing the payment of the money; that another component part of the princi pal was a floating balance for money lent ; and a third constituent part was, a taxed bill of upon all of which the Learned Soli mu-General considered interest ought to be paid, and therefore hoped the Court would so decide. His LonDantp promised to give judgment on Saturday. Ile would just say there was another view of the case to be taken be yond what had been agitated at die Rar, namely, what interest would be allowed by a Coon of Law, provided an action wee brought upon the awed ? INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MASCII 22. Anthony Barasehims, late of Gravesend, upholsterer, &c. was opposed by 31r. Cooke, nn behalf of Thomas Atkinson, and also by John Grew.lcy, who appeared in person. The insolvent was rigidly examined, but his answers were so satisfactory that the Court did not require Mr. Heath to reply on behalf of his client.—Discharged. James Illunnens, late of Ellemstreet, Whitcchapel. torn carrier, who was remanded on the 28th ult. for pertinaciously refusing to answer interrogatories, was again brought up. At the previous investigation the insolvent gave an extremely contradictory account of the manner in which he disposed of his horses, tarts. and other property. The Cuter COMMISSIONER read his previous notes, but as the evidence was so irreconcileable with truth and probability', 31r. II EAT II now proceeded with the examination of the peti tioner de sot o. The insolvent stated, that from time to time he borrowed money of a person of the name of lumeaux. which being unnble to pay, he. in November last, disposed of his horses and carts to him, when, according to the price egreed on, Furneaux became indebted to him (insolvent) in the balance of 241. 10s. ; the bargain was struck between the parties, and 3s. was given y the purchaser to ratify it, at a public-house railed the City of Carlisle. The ba. lance was paid pursuant to stipulation on the 20th of December last. Notwithstanding the insolvent had thus disposed of his horses, &e., he continued to use them as his own until a short time before he went to prison. Furneaux, who had been stibpsenaed, was ordered to leave the C. during the subsequent examination cf the insolvent. The insolvent was then questioned as to when and in what man-' nee he received the 231. 10s. He stated that be received the sums of 101. and W. between the time of sale and the 20th of Decem ber, when lie obtained the balance. It appeared by the evidence of 31r. Tills, an accountant, that in April last he was instructed by the insolvent to write to his ere dimes, in drder to beg time to pay a composition to them, when he stated his furniture to be worth 1201.; but on examination this day the insolvent gave • most unsatisfactory account of the manner in whichit had been disposed of. 31r. Tills further stated, that the insolvent said he had a free hold estate at Hackney ; but this the insolvent now denied, and said 3lr. T. was • very wicked man for saying so. The witness, how ever, persisted in the accuracy of his statement. After a tedious inquiry relative to a warrant of attorney given by the insolvent to Mrs. Foulkes, his landlady— Thomas Fumeaux was called in, and stated that he bargained with the insolvent in November to give 72/.los. for his horses and carts, which left a balance of 251. 10s. due to the insolvent, after deducting the 1;1. which he owed witness. The balance was paid on the _llth of December, all at once, in the parlour of the public house called the City of Carlisle • he never paid him any thing at intermediate periods ; never allowed the insolvent to work the horses previous to the 20th of December, because be did not consider that he had any contract over them. The witness went on to state, that he never showed any person a receipt for 1401. Is. given by the in solvent to him, In consideration of the sale. He then produced a pocket-book, which he said he had had far four years, in which he entered his memoranda, but unfortunately this statement on oath was not borne out by the dates. Mr. Edward Martell. and a respectable witness of the name of Simpson, swore distinctly that they saw the receipt for 1401. Ss. In the hands of Fumeaux, which he acknowledged to have received from the insolvent. The last witness said he thus saw it during the present month. FUTIMMIX to the Court—" What these witnesses say is all false." . _ . 'TIT. HEATH—Do you mean to persist in that statement? be cause if you do, you will be re-examined ; but I caution you to remember the pillory, for every word shall be taken down. The witness then proceeded to state, that the paper he showed to these gentlemen, purporting to be &receipt, was in his own hand -1 writing on a blank paper-she did this as a deception against what he thought intrusive curiosity—the paper now produced is the same. It being ordered to be put in, was read:—" Received, Dec. 20. Ind, of Mr. Thomas Furneaux the suns of 1401. 56. the price of three carts, two waggons, &c. &c. The signature am Imp off, but the witness could not assign an reason for it. The witness proceeded with considerable effrontery to impugn the evidence of the opposing creditor. The evidence haring been gone through, Mr. HEATH addressed the Court in aggravation. The learned Gentleman submitted to the Court, that a case concocted with more consummate fraud, and attempted to be bolstered up with perjury more wilful. never was brought under the observation of the Court; he (Mr. H.) therefore hoped, that the Court would inflict a punishment commensurate with the fraud and wicked conduct of the insolvent. The CHIEF COWHISSIONE3 observed, that when an insol vent presented himself before the Court to receive the benefit of the Act, it was required of him that he should give a full, true, and fair account of his estate and effects. Supposing, however, that this was done, and the insolvent had committed a fraud against an individual, not erecting the bulk of his creditors, the Court hail a power to remand at the suit of that cre ditor. On the other hand, where there had been a preconcerted and deep-laid plan of concealment of property, with a view to defraud every creditor to whom he was indebted, then the Court had power vested in it to refuse the application of such insolvent. The present appeared to the Court to be one of such cases. In the first place, there had been a deep laid couspiracy to defraud, and then perjury in all shapes was called in to support it. The insolvent had not only thus steted himself. but had called a witress of the name of Fur nano:, whom none could believe; tor a more wicked attempt to impose on the Court by perjured evidence could not be well con cetved. Under these circumstances, the Chief Commissioner con.. sultred that he should not in she least degree exceed his power if he ordered the petition to be dismissed. Dr:arii BY Flowri NO.—On Monday morning last two young men, butchers of this city (Chester), named Ilalland Or ford, had a quarrel, which ended in • fight. After some time Or_ fore said he would fight no more, and in two Minutes afterwards he appeared lifeless, and in twenty minutes be was • corpse. Every intention was shown by Hall to the deceased, by taking him upon his It:tee, and rubbing his chest before the fire ; but it was unfor tunately of no avail, although surgical attendance from llawarden was promptly had. A Coroner's - Inquest was held, at which, after along deliberation, • verdant of " 11 analaughter'! was neeerread, awl Hall was immediately eastatiosad fiintspot, warm seat at tls • Inquest, mai& Wiwi sit boors, and appeared io be great firtef.—Clader Chroakie. THE BRITISH PRESS. POLICE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday. before the public business of the Judea—room tom. menced, Mr. Harrild, of Friday-street, entered the room in great agitation. with the neckcloth and breast-pin of another gentleman in his hand. Ile had, he said, been most violently assaulted by a great number of persona who had the appearatice of gentlemen no the Stock Exchange, and he held in his hand (exhibiting the neck. cloth and pin) what he found It necessary to drag front the neck of the most furious of his assailants in his own deteice. As the Charge was en seriously brought, and such a number of gentlemen of respectability were involved in the imputation of a barbarous end unprovoked attack upon a single man, the Marshal was immediately sent to the Stock Exchange, to request the pre sence of some of the members who might be able to describe the occurrence, and to bring the owner of die trophies which had been torn away before the Lord Mayor. Several of the most eminent Stock-brokers immediately attended, and the case was gone into. Mr. Harrild stated that he walked in, or rather was hurried in with a current of people to the Exchange. He met no opposition at the door; but he was not long in the room when a gentleman walked up to him and asked him whether he was a member? lie made some reply which he did not recollect, rend immediately a cry of " seventy," or some other number was raised, and oft went Ms hat. In astolishment he looked round for the aggressor, but the moment tie did so he received a shore from one, a push from another, a blow from a third, and a kick from a fourth. Ile was then by a vast crowd of persona (between 000 and 300 he conjectured) shoved into the middle of the TOM, where he was beaten and kicked without the least ceremony by the multitude. He however was not idle all this while. As soon as he received the first insult he re. sisted; he called out " murder" frequently, and seized • young man named Langhorn by the neckcloth, which he held tight, and would have continoed to hold along with the owr.er, had not 'tome body cut away the neckcloth behind and left it in the consa pi tinont's sole possession. Some gentlemen cried out " shame ;" but without the least effect. The officer in attendance witnessed ! the outrage, but refused to interfere in apprehending Mr. Lang. horn, whose arm was raised to strike a blow at the moment the wit hers got him by the throat. Finally alr. Harrild was thrust out of I the door, where he challenged the person whom he had the prin. cipal conflict with to stand forth snd claim his properly. He was then booted with cries of " thief, pickpocket, &c." and was obliged to seek protection at the Blansion-house. Capel, of the Stock Exchange, said, the treatment with which Mr. flarrild had met wag, he was very sorry to say, of fre quent occurrence in the Stock Exchange, but he begged to be un deratood to confine the imputation of such conduct to the very young members. All who were present in the Justice-room were I most decidedly opposed to every thing of the kind, and it was well I known that 31r. Hammond would readily give a thousand pounds out of his own pocket to check so diagraceful a practice as that of insulting a lounger for entering into their e.tom. It would, he believed, be found that in this case there had been both mistake ar.d exaggeration, as Mr. Longhorn Was a gentleman of great re spectability. and of course incapable of the violence attn"buted to him, and M. Ilarrild might have been led to think that he sus tained more injury than really had happened to hint. Mr. Clarke, who was then introduced to the Lord Mayor as one of the most respectable men on the Stock Exchange, stated, that he saw Mr. Harrild three or four minutes before the cry of " Murder !" was uttered, and asked him whether he was a meroter ; to which he replied that he undoubtedly was. Witness went then about his business, and soon after he saw Mr. Harrill seise Mr. Longhorn by the neckcloth. Ile saw no blow given upon either side. Ile regretted to say, that the younger members and clerks were is the habit of knocking the hats oft' the heads of strangers who went into the room. Mr. l'iumon, also a respectable member of the Stock Exchange, stated, that he went up to Mr. Harrild, and said to him, " Sir, as you appear to be a stranger it would be better for you to go out ;" to which that Gentleman replied as if he slighted the advice. A turtle took place soon afterwards, and witness saw 31r. Lang ' horn's throat in the grasp of Mr. Harrill, who nearly committed strangulation. Mr. Longhorn, of No. 13, Bloomsbury.square, stated, that he was standing near the door of the Eashange when Mr. Harri ll seized hint by the throat. He declared that he neither struck, nor kicked, nor shoved, nor raised his hand to the complainant, and that he might have been choked if somebody had not cut his neck cloth behind. Other evidence to the same effect was heard. It was admitted that Mr. Harrild's hat was knocked off, and that he was shoved about very unceremoniously, but nut one saw a blow given. Mr. Harrild repeated, that he had been struck, kicked, Ike. and he intimated that he should appmi to another authority if the Lord Mayor refused to interfere. 'f he LORD MAYOR said he was convinced, from his knowledge of the respectability of the parties who were ready to make affidavit of the correctness of what they had stated, that they had made a most impartial representation of the facts. Ile strongly reprobated the tingentletnanlike, the barbarous practice which he had known long to exist in the Stock Extbange, of insulting persons who might walk in accidentally ; hut he was sure that the very young members alone were chargeable. He hoped that the exposure of what had taken place, and the strong reprobation with which the untuanly violence had met from the most respectable members of the Stock Exchange. would for ever put an end to the disgraceful system. His Lordship then said he should discharge the party accused, as the testimony in his favour was of so powerful a nature. Mr. Harrild gave notice that he should indict Mr. Langhorn at the Quarter &salons: he felt, be said, the effect of blows and pushes in his arm and side. GUILDHALL. rt 0 PIE II Y BY A SZRT•lll%—RdbilrePearee and Robert Partly were brought up for final examination yesterday before Mr. Alder man A TL I xs, the former a porter with Alessrs. Ashford and Ray ner, of the Steel.yassl, Thames-street, charged with robbing his employers, and the latter with receiving the stolen property. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. HATTON-GARDEN, CRAMGE Or EXTENSIVE SYSTEM Or E XBEZXLEMIXT.— Nathaniel Alumittfbrd, • respectable-looking young roan, was brought up in the custody of Read, jun., charged by Messrs. Cu. hitt and Co., architects, of Gray's Inn-road, with having embez zled money to a considerable extent while in their employ as a con fidential !my-clerk. The Timoner was ordered to give twenty-four hours' notice of bail. each surety in a hundred pounds, and himself in two hun dred pounds recognisance' for his appearance at the ensuing Sessions. WORSHIP-STREET, CHA Ell E Or Tday, being the day appointed for the further examination of Wtn. Darby and Sarah Darby (alias Clrahurn), his wife, who had been remanded under a charge of stabbing a person of the name of Wm. Wine, this office and the avenues leading thereto were at an early hour considerably crowded ; and this anxiety became much increased upon the ap proach of Wine, who was carried into the office is the arms of an °dicer. He appeared to be in a very weak state, and after he was placed upon a chair Mr. Tw xi•tts 0, the Magistrate, ordered two officers to carry him into the parlour, for the purpose of receiving his depositions. The prism era were also ordered to follow. Win. Wine deposed, that lie resides at No. 10, 'Turk-street, Bethnal.green, and was by profession a gold and silver wire drawer. That about Fix o'clock in the evening on Tuesday, the Ibth instant, while be, his wife, and child were lying on the bed, they were aroused by a tap at the door, which his wife opened, when a Mr. Green first entered, mid was followed by the prisoner, Wm. Darby, and his brother. That Green said, in the presence of the Other two, as there had been some old grievance between the panics, he wished they should go out and take a little beer. That witness refused going with their, but did not resist the introduction of • pot of porter and half a pint of gin into the room. That Mr. Green then said, Wm. Darby had told hint that he (witness) in tended to take away the life of Darby, to which witness replied, that it was not likely any man would risk his own life to takeaway another's. That shortly after the female prisoner entered the room, when she (after kissing Darby) addressed the witness in low and vulgar abuse. That he (witness) said he would send for a constable to take her into custody, when Darby said she should not be taken. The prisoner then endeavoured to strike witness, but was pre vented by his wife and Mr. Green. That they were with difficulty got out of the house ; and he sent his wife to apprise his father of the manner they had treated hint ; and after his departure he left , his lodgings for the purpose of going to a public-house opposite. and not more than three doors from his residence. The party being in the street, a fresh altercation then took place, when the female prisoner new at witness and lie struck her down. After she rose, and upon a second attempt, he knocked her down a second time. Darbr then rushed upon him, and in a close, having one arm round his waist, he (witness) thotight he felt the prisoner striking him on the lower part of his belly near the groin. Wit ness then threw him on the ground, and live or six times suc cessively knocked the prisoner down, who being exhausted went to the other side of the street. Witness, upon going home, fourld that he had been stabbed, and was perfectly satisfied the prisoner had repeatedly struck him on that part of his person. Throughout the examination the witness wu so weak as almost to render his voice inaudible. Under 'he circumstances of this extraordinary ease, the Magis trate remanded tile prisoners for further examination. UNION-HALL. Yesterday morning, as soon as the Sitting 31agistrate (R. J. CHAN/MRS, Esq.) had taken his seat on the Bench, two very dc. cent looking young women entered the office, one of whom stated her name to be Elizabeth Slide, and complained that an attempt had been made the day before to poison her, and also her fellow servant. The Magistrate desired her to state the particulars. Slade then said, that she and the young woman by her aide were both in the service of a Mr. %Vestal!, who keeps a board and lodg ing-house at No. 14, Illackfriars.rmtd. On Saturday last. in the course of her work, she observed a bottle on the sideboard table, which she supposed to be empty, and on that account took it dawn stairs, and put it upon a shelf in the back kitchen ; however on the following Monday she had occasion to go to the shelf, and having more leisure for observation then she had on the Saturday, she per. mired the dreg of some liquor in the bottle, which she concluded was gin. She accordingly proceeded with the bottle in her hand into the front kitchen, where her fellow-servant was, and poured the con tents (about a glass full) into a mug, and she drank one half of it, and the other young woman drank the remainder. carcely tea minutes had elapsed from the time they had swallowe the d•aught before they were both taken alarmingly ill, particularly her feHowserrant, who was writhing in agony and pain. As they were both similarly effected, they at once attributed their tortures to the stuff which they had just thank, and imagined that it must have be poison, and that their latter cud was fast approaching. All the fatally being out at the time they were unable to assist each other, and a knock happening to come at the street door, she with dif eulty managed to crawl up stairs, and irt opening the door it was her mistress, to whom she said, " Oh, :lla'am my fellow servant and I hare been taken suddenly ill; I am afraid we are both going to die." lice mistress did not express any astonishment at the intelligence, but walked down stairs into the kitchen, and there obpersed the situation in which the other girl was, upon which she asked if they had not been drinking something, and being an swered in the affirmative, she said, "{'hat out of the bottle on the indoor sideboard ?" ".Yes" was the reply. " Then you are both poisuned, for it contained one of the strongest poisons. and it serves you right ; what business had you to touch it." After some hours of severe suffering, Slade added that she and her fellow servant recovered from the effects of that which she had no doubt was placed on the sideboard mirrosely for them (the servants) to take, case either of them soot ld touch what was contained in the bottles or decanters. The Magistrate inquired whether either of the girls were in the habit of draining the bottles placed on their mistress's sideboard ? Both of them &elated most positively that they never had done so before. The 3lagistrate Ear it appears to me that a dose of j&iap or some other strong purgative, was poured into 11. e bottle, in order to dose those who tied no business to meddle with the coatents. Slade said—" Bless you, Sir, although it operated on us both in much the same manner as jalap, yet the racking pain that accom panied it proved that it was arsanic, or some other deadly poison." Mr. CHAMPERS ordered one or the officers to fetch Mrs. Wean&ll to the office, to explain the matter; but that lady being from home, the investigation was postponed until tamorrow (this day), and the complainants were ordered to attend. - - -- ADVIL. TISEMIXT EQUITABLE LOAN BILL. TO . T 111; EDITOR OF THE BRITISIIPRESS, Sta.—As an old Member of the Corporation of London, I beg leave. through the medium of your very respectable Journal, to tall the attention of my fellow-citizens to the following circuits stances. Ido no, because I think they tend to involve in no alight degree the character of the City as a Corporate Body. Any person who visited a certain Committee-room in the Douse of Commons in the course of last week, may have seen two lead ing Members of the Corporation actively engaged in fighting the battle of tits Pawnbroker' against the Equitable Loan Hill—these are no less personage" than the late Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Ifaithman) and the Recorder. The former. as every one knows, is not a professior.al man, acting as Counsel for the Corporation!! and the !atter is a Countel learned in the lawthe first Law Offi cer of the City of London. lied a Judge of the land, acting as agent for the . pawnbrokets !! ! These are strange times, Sir, and we who live in them hare scieciimes to witness, and often to won der at strange event, ; but among the many novelties that hays lately conic forth, this is perhaps one of the most anatesing—Al dcrman NVaithman acting as Counsel for the Corporation of Lon don ! ! ! (path, Tudor ! ) st:d the Recorder of Londort—a Judge (a Judge, too, before whont more frequently than before any Judge of the land CUTS in which pawnbrokers and their servants are deeply implicated come for trial) takirg a brief ftir those same pawnbrokers, ado,pting them as his clients, anti fighting their battles in a Cot:mance of the House of Commons ! ! Let roe not be misunderstood. Ido not assert that the Recorder has scantily been paid by the pawnlerokete, because I hare rot the means of proving it ; but I beg to ask the Learned Judge a few questions ; let any of his friends answer for him, if he will not for himself. When and by whom was he appointed to attend the Committee of the Mime of Commons ? V. as it to attend to the interests of the City of London ? If at, how did it happen that he was not instructed at the time the deputation waK named by the Common Council, not to oppose, Gut to watch the progress of the Equitable Loan Bit/9 How did it happen that he did not make his appearance when Alderman Waithuian was heard before the Committee asserting his claim to act as agent for the City ? Did the Learned Recorder ever make any claim of the kind ? In what character then does he appear ; as the volunteer Counsel on behalf of the pawnbrokers, or as their paid agent ? If in the latter capa city, I would ask him, is it the common practice of Recorders to take briefs except as Counsel for the city of London ? In either ease I would demand whether it isdecent to take a fee(if he be paid) from those whom he may have to try in their character as pawn. brokers before the present Bill can go through all its stages? But in any case, fee or no fee, does it look like that impattial feeling of justice for which tile Judges of this country hate ever been dis tinguished (with perhaps a few exceptions hi the worst times of the Conetitution), that a legal officer of hi. rank shall enlist himself with all the zeal of an advocate this week in a cause In which he may be called upon to give his solemn decision as Judge in the next? These are qn cations which for the character of the City of London —for the character of the learned Recorder himself, ought to re. ceive an answer. If they can be answered, I will only add on this subject, that if it should appear that the Learned Rteorder has taken* tee on this occasion, the Corporation should speedily in quire whether he may not have been forced to this mode of increas leg his income by the scantiness of his salary from the City ? If that should be the fact, then it is high time that a more liberal al lowance should rescue him from the necessity of such dependence. 1 do not for an instant suppose that he could, even if that were 'beast, be swayed by any improper motive; but human nature is the same nearly iu all men, and the bait of us are liable to be bisesed in our moat important judgments by feelings which operate without our knowledge. The further, therefore, a public man is removed from situations where such feelings may be excited, the better for himself and the community, whose interests may be af fitted by his decisions. - Se much for the decortler•. With respect to the situation in which we find the Er-Lord Mayor, however much for the sake of the respectable Court of which he is a member I may regret it, it is one which does not at all surprise me further than as 1 have already said—that any Body should ever think of selecting him, or that even he himself should ever think of acting in any cane as Counsel ! There seems a great dispesition in some of our Ex-civic digni taries to act the " public man" in their own name, after the ex piration of their office has deprived them of the opportunity of act mg in the name of the community. Ex-Sheriff Parkins has im mortalized himself in this way. lie interfered in every subject : in every cause which occupied public attention, from the Princess Olive to Hannah M'ltite, he has shone conspicuously. But the worthy Er-Sheriff has reaped sufficient glory, and quitted the field, leaving behind him a name which will be read with interest as long as any of the newspapers—the happy records of his achieve ments--continue to exist. Now forthcomes the Ex-Lord Mayor, and, though a veteran in yearn, pants with all the ardour of a juvenile aspirant after the few laurels which Ex-Sheriff Parkins has left ungathered ! lair, to this, as a member of the Corpora.. tion, I could have no possible objection. Let the Ex-Lord endea vour to outshine the double Ex-Shcriff. Let him act in his vocation as zealously as he may, I care not; neither will I here inquire, whether his motive be the pure love of fame, or a wish to secure a few additional pawnbrokers on his Committee, or to catch a few additional votes from their friends at the next gctleral election, when he is to become a candidate for the City again. All this would be a matter of perfect indifference to me. The Ex-Lord's exertions in the Committee would be as little in my eyes as theLere laughable in those of the individuals before whom he exhlna, were it not that somehow he It.a got dubbed " Agent for the City of London" on this occasion, and his acts will unfortunately be taken in some degree as the acts of the Cor poration. This is the mischief from which I would wish to see the Corporation rescued, and from which I call upon my brother livery men to extricate themselves while it is vet in their power. I would I say to them, " Call a Meeting of the Common Council, and revoke the authority which has never been sought for, or used for the pro tection of your interests (for they were never in the slightest degree affected by the Equitable Loan Bill), but which has been used by the worthy Er-Lord for electioneering purposes, or perhaps sonic other motives not so defensible." 1 will put the matter to issue at once, and ask the wort h y Ex-Lord whether, from the moment his claim to act as agent for the City was allowed by the Committee, he ever put a single question tending to show that the interests of the Cor. potation could be injured by this Bill ? Oa the contrary, have not the whole drift and object of his cross-examination, and his speeches, been to prove, as far as he could, that the Bill was not necessary, or that it would operate injuriously to pawnbrokers ? How can this be said to be defending the interests of the Cor poration ? Let that body, if it value its reputation with the public, rescue itself from being made the tool in such an unworthy pretence. Sir, if the character of the Corporation were not involved, I would never disturb my friend the Es•Chicf Magistrate in the course which he might choose to pursue for the advancement of his interests, or the spreading of his fame. On the contrary, I would, in the sincerity of my heart (for I really admire the great abilities of the man). say, go on in the path of fame, proceed in the pursuit of that eminent glory which nature, by haling gifted you with such transcendent talents, seems to have destined for you—make friends by every means—get back into Parliament— and there astonish the world even more than you did before. Study every question—speak in every debate--silence Hume_-confound Hobhouse—excite the admiration of Burdett, and even the envy of Brougham—and when you have done this, you will be still far short of that high station which I would sincerely wish to see you occupy in the public opinion ; only let me advise that when you hare attained this mighty eminence, if giddy with the height, or dazzled with the splendour of the prospect before you, your head should become delirious, cure the dangerous symptom by allowing your anticipations of the future to be corrected by some recollec tions of the past. Take a glance et times gone by ; look even !tastily over the caw of " Waithman v. Birch," and one or two other cases, in which your name appears, and you will remember that " we are all mortal, and that however great we may become it is prudent sometimes to look back to what we were." AN OLD LIVERYMAN. London, Saturday, March 19, 11!25. • It is a melancholy fact, that out of 222 trials at the Old Bailey for felony during the Sessions in 1824, and inclUding that of Ja nuary, hells, no less than 3d4 Pawnbrokers were examined, and, I with only 20 exceptions, the property was found on the felon or pawnbroker, but more generally on the latter. Most of these cases were tried by the Recorder ! We umlerstand a very unfortunate occurrence has taken place in Mountrath. A member of persons were drinking in a public-house, when they were fired at through the window, and (as our Informant says) two shot dead, and another, in making his escape, was stabbM. Sig of the peepetraton of this out. rage hare been apprehended and identified, and their arms (which ware those of the yeomanry) taken from them.—Drit./ht EVIn. kg Post. ►►'EXFORD ASSIZES. CRI3I. CON. • rrossis v. asupenwit. This was an action brought by Doctor Stokes, .f Enniscorthy, against Mr. Bradshaw, a baker of Arklow, for criminal conversa tion with the plaintiff's wife. Damages were laid at five thousand pounds. Mr. SCOTT rose, and said he had the satisfaction to state to his Lordship and the Jury, that this cause was to troceed no further, an agreement having been made between the parties. Though the circumstance might disappoint many persons who had come for amusement on the occasion, yet it would relieve the Gentlemen of the Jury from the painful necessity of having to listen to a long. tedious, and disgusting trial, which no man of any sensibility could listen to with pleasure. Mr. DICICONS stated that the parties were very respectable, and that the plaintiff would have had to produce the sisters and other relations of the lady as witnesses ; and it was to spare the feelings of the relatives of his wife that the plaintiff had couseuted to drpp the prosecution. DINNER TO THE EARL OF FIFE. Thursday a congratulatory dinner was given in the Royal Hotel, Edinburgh, by a number of distinguished gentlemen, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Fife, in celebration of the recent succesatill issue of his au ion before the Jury Court. The chair was very ably tilled by Sir 3lichael Shave Stewart, Bart. supported by the Earl of Fife and Lord Abercromby. The cloth being drawn, and the , sKing," and the ~ Duke of York, and the rest of the Royal Fa mily," having been drunk with all the honours , The Cliat IMAM rose to propose the health of the Earl of Fife : in doing which, the Honourable Baronet feelingly adverted to the tranquilliy of mind which had sustained his Noble Friend thiough a long and arduous contest, and passed a warns eulogium on his generous and friendly character. In conchrnon, he thought they were bound to thank his Lordship fur his acceptance of their invi. talon, and he hope.' he might long lire to enjoy his possessions. The toast was followed by long and loud applause; atter it had hut aided, The Earl of Fier rose, evidently under feelings strongly excited. and said, that no words, no language, could convey the sense he entertained of the honour then ,lone him by so partial an expression of opinion by a company codabining all that was noble, great. learned, and good. His Lordship, in terms that did equal honc.ur to his bead and his heart, took a restrespective view of the pest, and, as to the future, said it would be his pride to endenvout to render all under his protection as happy as possible. Ilia Lord ship gave the health of " Sir M. S. Stewart," and sat down amidst loud cheering. Air—" Fife, and a' the lands about it." The health of General Duff was given by the Chairman, who warmly eulogised the generous feelings and disinterested conduct of the Gallant Officer towards his Noble Brother. General Dr r r said he felt himself under considerable difficulty In expressing his thanks tor the high honour just raid him. but still he found his nerves braced in such a cause. Being a soldier, he was unaccustomed to public speaking ; but what he had to say was sincere, and, though n Royal Archer, sithout drawing arcing bow. Pis ble Brother and himself had embarked early in the same boat, and he trusted they would steer threugh life in brotherly love. (Very great epplause.) Mr. GRANT the younger, of Kilgniston, proposed the health of Sir Walter Scott, which was drank with very great applause. The Worthy Baronet briefly returned 'habits in his usual happy manner, and expressed his satisfaction at the termir.ation of a cause which had given opulence to a hand that wcs never closed to distress. Sir Walter then said that he had to beg to propose a toast rot. less interesting to the meeting than that of the Noble Earl himself. He had witnessed the kindness of his Lordship to all his depcn. dants, whose happiness was deeply at his heart, and he should therefore propose— " The Tenantry and Vassalage of the Earl of Fife." A number of other toasts followed, and the evening palsetl most pleasantly. FUNERAL OF THE HON. LADY JERNINGHAM. On Monday the 7th instant7lle remains of the late Lady ler. sin ham left he Ladyship's house in Bolton-row, tOr interment hs the family vault at Cossey. The funeral procession was met on the following Thursday evening by Lord Stafford, Sir Richard Iledingfeld, and their sons, in mourning coaches, with a few of their intimate friends ; his Lordship's tenantry attending on hone. beck habited in deep morning. The procession passed through the park to the gothic chapel attached to the mansion, where the body WAS deposited with much solemnity far the night. Th e c h a p e l being lighted up and hung with black cloth. having the armorial bearings of the deceased lady disposed thereon, and Fix large golden candlesticks with wax tapers burning round the pall ; the funeral service commenced at nine the following morning. by a solemn Requiem and High Mass chaunted with the organ; im mediately after which followed the burial service, when the coffin was lowered into the vault. Lord and Lady Stafford anti their family, Sir Richard and Lady Iledingfeld and their eldest son, emending to pay the last duty and tribute of respect to a beloved and venerable parent. The late Lady Jerningham possessed a mind the most refined and cultivated enriched with the treasures of polite literature, and the MOT* useful study of the truths of theGespel, to which she endeavoured to conform her life. The charities dis pensed by this benevolent lady, during her long residence at Cosset', will be long remembered with gratitude, as the respectf u l attendance, and fears of a numerous assemblage at her funeral can testify ; nor could any one approach Lady Jerningham without per. ceiving that charity of the mind which always sought for an ex cuse to cover the faults and imperfections of others—being herself a mast tender parent, a faithful hired, and munificent benefac trews. Lady Jerningham was daughter of the eleventh Viscount 11)illon, by the Lady Charlotte Lee. eldest daughter and co-heir of George the last Earl of Lichfield; and grand-daughter to the lady Charlotte Fitzroy, daughter to King Charles 11. by Barbara Duchess of Cleveland. He, ladyship married Sir William Jer ningham, Ilan. of Cossey Hall, in this county. who was descended by his mother (the niece to the last Earl of Stafford) from the Lady Ann Plantagenet, Countess of Stafford, eldest daughter and heiress of Thomas of Woodstock. Duke of Gloucestik and Earl of Buckingham, King Edward the Third's youngest son. Sir William died in Itinn, leaving by his widow the present Lord Stafford and Charlotte Lady Redingfeld : also two sons, William and Edward Jerningham, Ears. deceased, in the flower of their age, and each leaving a numerous family to mourn their irrepa rable loss.—Nurfolk Mercury. 1 4rt• THE ARMY. The Depots of the 37th (North Hampshire), the 06th (Durham), the 70th (Glasgow Lowland), the 71st (Highland Light Infantry the 74th, the 76th, the 81st, and ii6th Regiments of Foot, arrived, in pursuance of previous orders, on the 17th instant, at Winchester, from Albany Barracks, Isle of It' ight. A Detachment of Recruits belonging to the East India Com pany's Service, marched yesterday morning, under the command of Corporal 111`Kay, from Westminster, for the purpose of embarking at Billingsgate for Gravesend, on route to the Company's Depot at Chatbstn. CAPTION OF • REVEREND DELINQUENT.—II will be in the recollection of our readers, that, about a twelvemonth ago a Rev. Gentleman, who held a living in Essex, was taken into custody by Scanlan, one of the patrols of Castle Baynanl Wart!, having been found in a disgusting situa tion in a lane leading to a wharf in Upper Thames-street, and taken before Mr. Alderman 'Wood, the sitting Magis trate at Guildhall, where he was held to bail for the offence, himself in 1,000/. and two sureties in 1001. each, from which he absconded. Information having been received that he was to be found near Reading, in Berkshire, a pro per officer was despatched with a Bench warrant, accom panied by the patrol to identify him. They succeeded in taking him about six o'clock on Monday morning at a vil lage about three miles from Reading, and lodged him in the gaol of that place. GLAgoOW COTTON M•RIET, MARCH 19.—The busi ness done this week has been limited—buyers ars unwilling to meet the demands of holders, who, on their part, seem indifferent about selling. The rates of last week have been fully maintained in the operations of the week. The sales amount to 803 bales, as fol- lows :-29 Sea Islands, 2s. bid. fair, 2s. 7d. good fair, 2s. lied. good ; 47 stained ditto, 13d. o r di nar y, Isd. f a i r , lfid. goo d fair -413 Boweds, 13d. middling, 14d. sir, and lid. good--47 Orleans, 154 d. fair to 161 d. good—laa Egyptians, Dd. fair to 'Sid. good fair-32 Demeraras, 161 d. good-40 Mamma, wed. faii•4s9 Surat% 91d. common, 101 d. fair. BIRTHS. On Monday, the 21st instant, at Cheshunt, Hens, Mn. Charles knight, of a son. On the 12th current, at Ardincaple Castle, the Right Hon. Lady John Campbell, of a daughter. .At Windlesitam, near Bagabot, the wife of a humble shoemaker named Rolls was delivered a few days back of four children; one was still-born, the other three are living and healthy. MARRIED. At Edinburgh, on the 14th instant. the Rev. D. Campbell, j un . Auchnellan, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the deceased Dr. Wm. Moodie, late one of the hlinisters of Edinburgh. DIED. On the 20th instant, at Shelswell, Oxon, aged 83, Mrs. Lamb, most sincerely regretted by her afflicted family and friends. On the 18th instant, at Goodnestone Fenn, Lady Bridges, relict of the late Sir Brook Bridges, Bart. On the 7th instant, of the small-pox, aged 22, Mr. John Howe, of Godley Green, near Hyde, Cheshire. He was to have been married on the oth instant, arid his funeral was attended by her who should have been his bride. On the 13tb inst. Henry Walford, Esq. Attorney at Law, Ili. tester. He had sat down to dinner in his usual state of health, and had scarcely begun to dine ere he was seised with a St aad ex. piretL He was between 60 and 70 ran of age. --e HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning 6 min. after 4. I Afternoon II min. that 4. Printed at TH K BRITISH PRESS Othee, by J.W. CARLTON, 181, Strand, sad published by R. Curies, same rhos. ~~~