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triumstancee. but (cen't,recnifect whether ed not I ever heard the efendant say he knew the fact. I shbuld thir.k the plaintiff and *fondant are about the same age. Te• letters quoted in . Mr. Sergeant Pell's opening, were then ste in and read by the Officer of the Court. It was admitted an the pert of the dcfnce, that the defendant married his present wife on the 3d June, 1324. Mrs. Jackman. a most interesting young lady, of very prepos belling mammal and eppearance, but who appeared much indis posed eta health, was then called anti exanined—l have been mu ted about two years. And my maiden nerve was Mem*. i know Mr. Bruford. the defendant. My acquaintance with him com ment/A In the latter end of 1812, when I was on a visit at his Another's house* Towards the close of December, 1823, the de fendant paid his addresses to me, and one acquaintance continued sill the tinseled of the next January. I have heard him mention the to of !Ohio Caroline Well/nerd on one or two occasions, and be sold mar he had been 'riga-zed to marry her, but broke off the courtship. rhimately I d'acontinned try aerpotintsnee with him.' tannest/Marred he was at that time engaged to Miss Welk/lord. I sernmunicated to him my reason for ',making off nor acquaintance. alr. Edward Clulow.-1 am acquainted with Mr. Bruton!, the deraadant in this action, and have heard him say the Corporation te Bristol offered him 6,0001. for some houses he had. This was only trix months since. Crosadexamined.-1 am acquainted with the t:efe-udant, and know ids pneent wife, but can't tell whether he got any fortune ei , h her Of net. When he spoke of the ofler I have nientumed, he told me nothing of innimkrances on the property respecting which the offer was male to htm by the Corpovition. Re-examined.—That is sot his only property ; lie has other pro perty distinct from the houses. - This was the COW for till plaintit Mr. Meatwursten 'addresser the Jury for the defendant. Caw such as these were generally raise itisunguished by the strong sentiments of feeling they were calculated to excite than by other quality. This was the ground and object of all actions • description, and he did not see that the present differed in from other actions of the same kind. He admitted cues were always bf an unpleasant nature, but they came before a Court under circumeutrees of aggravation them doubly distressing. But no such aggravating cir. attended this case. le had not been shown that the pre tiff had sustained any grieve a injury in her chase. feelings, through the abandonment of the defendant, or that bed eras keed any considerable lose in point of property. The alte the Jury was shortly this—Did the defendant make the gagged P and as It was clear—and he (Sir. alerewether) yen Wain he had—then to what dama,geo wu the plaintiff Abide entitled for the non-performanre of the promise. His Wed Friend (Mr. Sergeant Pell) knew—no man better— to be Ilelioll4 and where to be sarcastic and lively; • Set did he soppily that in the present case he should benefit - the interests of his client by turning the defendant and his letters • Lao objects of merriment. The Learned Sergeant had truly stated ! • that the defendant wrote these letters, containing a for of mar -• rhich he afterwards refused to fulfil. Bin for what had the Sergeant ridiculed and vituperated his client . 9 Was it wrote three letters ? or was it only because he had not i . the promise contained in them ? The object of the Sergeant appeared to be to corer the defendant with ' contempt. But if Mr. Bruton! was a ridiculous •rahle creature, how little could be the amount of • hiss ? insinuations and calumnies had also been whom ? By the plaintiff** C.iunitel. Had anybody ./ of court, heard of such thing*? lie was instructed But the Learned Sergeant not only talked of insinu. he went further—he challenged his own insinuations ! words, he raised a shadow, and then fought with it. t of this statement was clear enough; it was intro. • the feclinp of the Jury, and offer an spolegy for and the late date at which it hid been commenced. Ile _ Jury would see that such an apology was necessary, by reference to the dates of these transactions. The letter in defendant broke off the engagement was written on the ,nit 11328; the defendant wax married in June 1824, and no action was not emnmenced till June 1825. He repeated insinnatinna had been made, and none were now intended On the contrary, the defendant had specially instructed • merely to offer no insinuations *gout the plaintiff's to repel them if attetripted to he offered from any This young lady, once addressed and fondly be. defendant, was possessed of mental and personal Sc. of the highest order, and which the defendant now much of he had, formerly admired. Loving this female e sacrifice the defendant had to make in separating _________ _ _ her WIN geese. The motive under which he acted was explained in the last letter that passed between the parties, and 'ported* the Jury would think the r-ason for discontinuing the Sc. duainta.nce therein alleged a very su ffi cient one. The letters of the efendant had excited considerable laughter, as was to be expected, because, probably, having been written in sincerity and warmth of they were not calculated for the chilly lonosphere of a court Letters like these were only intended for the perusal of whom they were addressed. They had never been de. were not fitted for public inspec•ion. As to the rest, the Jury smolt] come to the sane conclusion as himself Welimont had sustained no such injury in mind or called for heavy damage* to repair it. Gas ette charged the Jury, who retired, and after of nearly two hours, returned a verdict fur the plain. 5581. CROWN SIDE. Before Mr. Justice LIT TI.V.DA 'RDINA KV CASE OF SHEEP STEALING. the ease of the Brooks's (father Pnd son), which was ' alluded to in Mr. Justice Littledale's charge to the on Tuesday and appeared to excite considerable in _ ~ the very peculiar circumstances of the case, and the the prisoners, who were farmers in a respectable situation The prosecutor, who is an extensive former, had for some at large numbers of sheep from time to time, without being discover by whom the depredations were committed. In sheep were stolen out of a flock of 120, and the dis o of the missing sheep in the prisoner's grounds led to being attached to them. and flaally to the present pro- The prosecutor lives at Compton 31artin, and is the -1 fanny, and the owner of seven or eight hundred prisoners' residence was at Cheddar, what the elder a farm of about fill!. a-year. Both the prisoners are e well-looking men. particularly the younger Brooks. prisoners on their arraignment ' , leaded Not fa. Brooks and Rolorl Brouks (the son) were then put to indicted for feloniously stealing, en the lit June, at Chcd.' county, two sheep, of the rah e of 20a. each, the pro. .Iward Cole. In a second count of the indictment, the laid as the property of Henry Baron Mendip, and in a t as that of Henry IVelbore Ellis, Viscount Clifden. three other indictments against the prisoners for similar :vane conducted the prosecution, and Mr. EibtlNl ! ! /I:REMY the defence. (lowing witnesses were called in support of the prosecution. Cole—l live at Compton Martin, about live at six miles ', which Is a parish in this county. lam an eaten and keep 700 or 800 sheep. I know prisoners at the father and sou, and both farmers residing at Cheddar. rent a farm of about 411/. a. year, and keep about 140 ) they delusion, out the right hand side. as you go up Ic I h .se known Walter Brooke 90 years. I formerly leader parish, which I left for Compton Martin last The sheep-mark fotnierly used by Brooks was J. W. hoth sides, and two strokes of redding (red ochre) ...older. I sold W -Ittv Brooks six sheep in 1822, they "...mouthed ewes. and one two-toothed, coming two They were marked E.C. on the off horn ; the top of was cut off, and a hole in the middle of the off ear, were redd.ll or the poll. There was also an E, in a both sides, which was the usual mark of all my sheep. oor three years ago, and after I sold hint the six sheep, made an alteration in the marks of his sheep. Pri redded his sheep in the pole, like mine ; and on the sides he in a circle, with a piss delis a; top. This was put on , about the middle, like mine. It was made as nearly as possible. I had an enclosure on the left side of Ched. .s, into which, on the 7th April last, I turned out 128 sheep. the 9th or 10th ofJune, 1 took them home, and on on going m missed XI of the number. 1 consequence of some in . received, I went to a field of Walter Brooks, between .nd Draket. This was on the 20th June. I found six mine in the field. I went to a Magistrate, procured a and at 7or 8 o'clock next morning, I went to the field Hunt, a eonstable, and my brother. We took the at: Cheddar. They were redded in the pole, and malted with each horn ; the near ear was as 1 left it, with the top cot e off-ear was also cut oil below the middle, but part of still risible. Two of the airs sheep were marked with le, on both sides ; the others were '5l left them, with. .1 mark on either side, as we had not so marked all the 120 Some of the 120 sheep which had been turned out were - back as 1322, bat none solar as 1810. We took the six Inn at Cheddar. Previous to this, and before I got to A took Robert Brooks in Mr. Starr's slate (sheep pasture). toot him I spoke to him ; 1 said, " you're among the - said " yes." I asked if he had seen any of my sheep e answered, "he hail not." I then dismounted trout and took him prisoner. He asked" whet I took him foe?" I only take you far a small child :" he said, very yea." 1 had not taken him forty yards betake, won't go any further with you ; d—n you, you sal .. for sheep stealing." I said " Brooks, 1 hare not saU thing to you." Jaynes Cole then met us, and me Imit, he George. at Cheddar—prisoner repeating to every Wily' that we bed taken him for sheep stealing. I delivered ...cr over to James Hunt, the constable. 1 then went and took sheep. The father, Walter Brooks, was afterwards taken, and prisoners were brought together, and the warrant read to them. about an hour we all left the Inn together, and I proceeded to itialdegraves, the magistrate's house, which is about six mile,' from Cheddar. The prisoners were examined. week ago I showed the six sheep to a person named Win. There wee only one lamb in the field sling with the six The lamb was the Tao of the ewes were time tt wo years old condole three) and the four others were six (three years old). The two four-tnothed sheep were marked in a circle en the sides ; bat the rettainitig lour co marked. All the six cheep were showed to he touched one of the two marked on the side, and the horn of that sheep which he now has. .samined.-1 had lire I at Cheddar three years, and Compton Martin last Lia iy-tLiy. I had previously lived Brent, and rented a farm from George Symmons. o farms, one called Kingdown and the other Citroen. i rent one of them still, the other I gave up v. I had the ruislortune to be a little in arrear to Lord . — 3lr. Edward Clulow defendant In this action, e Bristol offered him G only sell months sine,. Ctosa-examined.-1 a th present wife, but ea! ) myna. When he spoke nothing of ineumbrance • was made to htm by the Re-essmined.—That petty distinct from the I This was the case for • Mt. )12atwurstri Cons such as these 1 strong seotimente of ft hot other quality. Th yf this description, am thi s respect from other Wet these ewes were 1 some I mes came before that made them doubt orn eunss hei tan eti t attended thi, me t oe a f n lire die PI ee ings,htdth sun a toll nit c W e the Jury I Weillied ? am E7red. Walk he I I Alaaskr . . entitled for the I W e t } bsre ien seri d o ( i 3 is lt 1 .be did he soppy the interests of his clic • Lite Wires of merrime r OW the defendant wrest rig's, which he afterw Learned Sergeant ridi because he wrote these petformeel the promise Learned Sergeant eta ridicule and contort. , and dishoncrtraide ere eti the plaintiff's loss ? talked of. By whom I else, in or out of court, I • • 1 to say ro. But the I tlons, but he went ft or, io other words, he ' , i Mut the object of this dueled to rouse the fee! Wis setioe, and the Ist thought the Jury wool I • brief reference to th which the defendant b Pith Arocost 1023; the t the present azninn was so such insinnationa lii to he made. On the re Inset/91nel not merely character, but to vets • other quarter. This Loved by the defendan complisnmer,ts of the I . I respected as much ai h We he did, the sacrific Idlneelf from her was i 1 MS explained in the Is '/whams the Jury . trout • i uatrawce therein alle defendant had excited because, probably, ha heart, they were not ea of justice. Letters lii the party to whom the; signed, and were not he thought the . Jury v li . —that Miss II elimon fortune as called for he Mr. Justice GASELI t . a consultation of resell tiff. Damages 5501. i • Before • EXTRAORDINA ' f his was the ease c t particularly alluded tc Grand Joey on Tuesd serest, from the eery 1 II rank of the prisoners, in Me. The pretend years lost large numbe able to discover by wl lase April 33 sheep w eatery of 25 of the mi , sutpicions bcirg mote' reedings. The prose holder of three fanny, Weep, and the prisons Brooks tinted a farm e respectable well-lookin • The prisoners on the •• Waiter Ihmkst and , the bar, indicted for le , der, in this county, CI , petty of Edward Cole sheep were laid as the , t third count as that e There were three oche offences. Mr. On-:rretro con and Mr. June MY thl The following wino. t , Edward Cole—l be I, $, from ~ ..hetid, r , which sive farmer, and keer bar, who are father a i relieve th '7. rent a i sheep, which they ere it. Cheddar Cline. 1 his it resided in ( le...Mar p Ludy -,' A y. The ant i iii pa,c'd. on hoth Gala egress then .'alder. stbre five 1.".-mouth gears old. They we , lit• mar per was cut i Old they were red(' Wl* eel both sides, *bent ins or three v Ittsdk's made an a la eons' resided his she, vtampai B, in a tires both sides, shout the ! like mines' possible 1 der Cliffs, into which Aboot the 9th or 101 to wash them missed i flarmation I received, Chedlar and Draket i sheep of mine in th , a. warrant, and at Toe j l i * 111th James Hunt, a sheep to Cheddar. 1 W. B. ten each horn off ; and the off-eat the hole was still risi B, in • circle, on bo ! out a pitch mark on ' , beep. Some of the barn es far back as I *heel to the Inn at I. • ) . the field. I took Rot Before 1 took him I sheep ;" he said '.' ; there F He answere i my horse and took h !Weird, " 1 only .I 1 that I all, its very w 1, hateld, " I won't . taking me fee sheep all emit thing to ye him to the George, , he met that we be, pthannet over to Jan the sheep. The fat the prisoners were hi la about an hour we Captain Itiaidegrayt i or seven mike trot t About • week ago I Haw. There was t i sheep. The lamb i t'n•hed (two years of i t.mthed Ohm' Team with a B. in a ci were not co mark .t /tam, and he touch i % 1 sawed off the horn ~ / ' Cross-examined.— I , went to Compton WI ' • at East Brent, am t rented two farms, or frown fan, Clifelen. I ' et laady-day. I has i 1 Clifden. In 1821 I was in difficulties, and a distress was taken fo rent ; some of my *beep were seised and sold by auction in lots. The remainder were handed over to Lonl Clifden'a steward, as I owed hie Lordship some money. Before that my meek was E, in a circle, but afterwards, for two years, C, ins circle. Last t I resumed my old mark of E, in a circle. I had E. C. on before 1821. So:ne of my sheep are so marked now, ' few of them. I never allowed any of my workmen tr ht payment of wrote. I don't recollect doing so, positively. in 1822 the prisoner, Walter Brook, sheep from me. Walter Brooks changed his marks. Other people may have changed their marks also. Brooks' was B. in a circle. I don't know whether the younger keeps sheep nr not. The place where Brooks keeps hi only separated by one ground from that where I keep mi cooly - 1 marked my sheep with an E., then with a C., again with an E. I also sometimes did not put a pitch them at all. The greater part of those I turned out Cliff had no pitch mark at all. The prisoners' had. By the COrtlT—Four of the six ewes I recovered marked with a pitch brand on the side. Those I turned cliff were generally without a mark on the side. Cross.examination resumed—Both the prisoners . their own, on Mr. Starr's slate, but I don't know that use of different marks to distinguish them. People gene. when they put sheep nether. I sheared the sheep, and after some persons aied to look at them. 1 never refused to show them. Tney a sked me to go and point out the sheep I had taken front the prisoners. I did not. I mid the sheep are on Charter. house Warren, Chedder-liiil, and Milk.way. I expressed my readiness to show them to any every day in the week, at my own expense, but wished to take my solicitor with me, and if they would pay his expenses I we. ready to go, and was on horseback at the moment for the purpose. Symmons had seen the sheep in the woe). before they were shorn, but Day and Horsington did not. The latter are farmers, the former an attorney. 1 suppose Day and liorsington know more of sheep than the attorney. I re covered the sheep on the .20th of June. and they were shorn before old Midsummer day. Symmons, Day, and llorrington, afterwards produced en order from Capt. Waldegrave too see the sheep, and then I showed them, but not till then. Liam saw the sheep only about a week ago. Wm. Ham—l live about two miles from Cheddar. I know a place a called Lippell and occupy land there. It is about a mile and a quarter from Cheddar. I know Cole's field of Kingdown, on Cheddar cliffs, and have seen his sheep there. I have a field near hr. Cole's sheep have frequently got into my field. I re marked three ewes particularly, on Monday. Mr. Cole showed me two of them. I had frequently driven sheep off my premises. When they were shown to me on Monday. I cut oft one of their horns. It is the horn of one of the sheep which trespassed on me land, and which I saw on Brooks's land, about a fortnight before they were shorn. I saw it several mornings after and attempted to catch it, but did not. However. I saw a fresh burned mark on the horn. I would know the ewe among 5,090. Cross.examined—The younger prisoner manages his father chief ' , business; but I don't kung whether he has sheep of his own. Kingdown is a large sheep run , and part of Mendip-downs ; bt t I don't know the number of tierce it contains. I can positively swear to the sheep, the horn of which I produce, although I only saw it two or three times, when trespassing on my grounds ; and once when I thought to catch it. Re-examined—l know a sheep after it has been shorn and all the marks removed, by its countenance and the turn of the head. By Mr..IF.AEMY-1 am not a shepherd; a shepherd knows a sheep by its countenance. I have been long accustomed to sheep, and can swear positively to this one. William Evans—l know the prisoners at the bar, and saw them with seven or eight sheep at their barton, in June last. Two of the sheep were red on the poll, and, as they passed me one of the sheep's right ears was bleeding. This was early In June, but what day I can't swear. Robert Brooks took the sheep away ; he had a pair of !sheers in his hand. Cross-examined—This occurred at Brooks's halloo. The pri soner drove it up the public road to the sheep slate. They were only a moment in my sight, yet I observed the car of one bleeding, and a horn off another, with a pitch plaster over it. Henry Thomas—On Monday last six ewes were shown to me by farmer Cole ; rant was there ; I knew one of them ; and had seen her in the latter part of Meech in Cole's land, at Foothill Gate. I cut °tithe ewe's horn, which I now produce ; it Is marked W. R. and the mark is a fresh one. She was one of Cole's sheep. Cross-examined—l live at Cheddar, about a mile and a half from Brooks's and four or five from Cole's. I look after the sheep of Mr. Budgett, and frequently pass through Mr. Starr's gate, where the prisoners keep their sheep. I never saw the ewe except at Praha! Gate, and again in the constable's hands on. Monday. It had strayed away wheo.l saw it at Foothill, and I took it hernia went accidentally to where the sheep were, and it was not sent for by Cole. A great many persons were going there, and I went with a friend. 1 said I could swear to the ewe, and picked her out of two or three hundred. I can swear to her among 10,000. She is a nice pretty clean-faced ewe. John Budget.--I was at the George inn, at Cheddar, and saw the prisoners at the bar there on the 21st June. Robert Brooks told me " the six sheep were his," and he said, " he had bought them at Wells with fourteen more, making a score, which were in Mr. Starr's slate, from a man whose name he did not know ; but if he were to see him he'd know biro.' He farther said, " the man lived somewhere about Tuton Mendip." which Is not far from Cheddar. I observed, "I hoped he would be able to prove whom he had purchased the sheep from," and he made no observation in reply. Cross-examined.—This conversation was with the younger pet. soner. I don't know that he keeps sheep himself; but he manages his father's. I live within 300 yards of the prisoners ; I don't know that the prisoner mentioned the time when he purchased the store of sheep. A man might forget the name of the person he bought sheep from If he did not book It. dlr. Cole has been in embarrassed circumstances, and his sheep were sold off. I know Mr. Cole well. I hem not been on good terms with bins of late. I would believe him on his oath, though I tray have said when in a passion I would not. George Hill proved having taken the al:sheep before the Magis trate on the 31st June. James Hunt deposed to having apprehended the prisoners, and on taking them to shepton Mallet" to gaol, it was closed on account of the late hour. They put up in the Bell inn, where the prisoners slept in a double-bedded room, and in the morning the younger prisoner was min*. Ile had escaped out of the window. Cross-examined.—This was previous to the committal or final examination, and Robert Brooks appeared when it was necessary to attend the examination, without being retaken. James Cole recalled.—The ewes from which the horns were cut were both four-toothed and two years old. Cross-examined.—Captain IValdegmve did not direct me to keep the sheep separate. I did not take the sheef away, but they west sent home by Captain IValdegrave's order. immediately washed and sheared them, although the lives of two men were depending on the identification of the marks. Two persons of the name of Ricketts had previously examined the sheep. Prisoners said they had wintered the sheep with the Ricketts s. One of them said in the presence of the prisoners, none of the six sheep in qua. don were ever wintered on his farm. The other said he would not swear he did or he did not winter these sheep ; but he had wintered sonic very much like them. Re-extunined.—lt was the stoutest of the Rickettses said he lead not wintered the sheep. The smaller man said he had wintered some like them. I replied, " I believe yoll have, for I have seen some in Mr. Seam's shoe that I believe you have w I tiered." I fur. they asked, "if he had not wintered 'loll kind Mendip ewe with a plg-mouthed rain-lamb?" His answer was, I did." 1 ob. served two of these six ewes never had lambs. By the Cot:RT.—The number of ewes wintered by the Rickettses was mentioned, but I do not recollect what h was. The prisoners being called on for their defence, b•nh said they would leave it to their Counsel, who called the following witnesses for the defence. Henry Symmons.—l attended as Solicitor to the pt.soners on the occasion of their second examination before the Magistrates, on this charge. Captain 11'ahlegrave directed the sheep to he kept by themselves, and said the prisuner'e attorney should have access to them. Mr. Cole was then in the MOW, hof whether he heard that or not, I cannot tell, for there were a great many people prewnt. After this, I went with Day and Hurstrgton to Cole's, to see the sheep on the 29th July. The appointment for this meeting was made between me and Mr. Walker, prosecutor's attorney, on the Tuesday before. I should state that the day after the Prisoners were committed, I went to Cole's farm where part el the sheep a ere, to examine, whether they correspor.ded with Cole's description. / saw two or three hundred sheep, and Thomas Cole objected to touch the sheep. The roan I had with me looked out eighteen sheep— they all had their coats on ; the down may be eva,lity or ninety acres in extent. The six sheep, the subject of this charge, wets not there ; the eighteen were the subject of another charge. Subse. fluent to this, I made the appointment with Walker, Day, and llorsington, two extensive sheep femme, to go and examine the the sheep. This appointment was for the 29th, and when I atteuded It, Cols said, " I have no objection to your seeing the sheept they are at such and such a place, men uonlng three, and it you can find them you an examine them. They were par. at Mendip.hlll, part at Charter-house Warren, and the rest of Broadmead." He would nut show the sheep except in the pre. 1 senor of his attorney, and said, " he was willing to give up his time, but expected his attorney to be paid ;" he tlather said, " he was acting under Capt. WAldegrave's direction." I said " I should go to Capt. Waldegrave." I did so, and oink/hied Lis or. der to see the sheep. We did see the sheep in coLsequence of that order, but they were then shoes. Mr. George Forde, resident at Cheddar, deposed. that he knew the elder prisoner, Walter Brooks, fur thirty y ars, tied during that time he had always maintained an honest character. Mr. Henry Starr, a farmer living in the same neitbourhood, and Mr. Symmone, hoth gave evidence to the ionic effect. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE charged the Jury, who retained a a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners, but recommended them to mercy on the ground of theirprevious good character, in which recommendation the Jury were joined by the prosecutor. The pri soners were then removed from the bar, and it was understood that the three remaining Indictments would not be pressed against them. lialv Ea r.—Tbe weather for these ten days past has been every thing the farmer could wish. NS e have had light refreshing showers, with moderate winds, and a good I deal of sun. The grain in this quarter is assuming the j yellow tint of autumn very rapidly, and reaping is now ge j nerally begun.—Culedorlian Mercury. A meeting was held on Friday night at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, consisting principally of the shop men of retail linen-drapers, when it was resolved to apply to the master drapers, and request that they would shut up their shops at seven in the winter, and eight in summer, and thus enable the shopmen to have some time for mental studies and improvement. OXFORD CIRCUIT. GLOUCESTER ASSIZES, SAT UDDAY, Ave 13. with having b.. , place 32 years ago , defence, said, that 32 nr IR, and that he was fell into company with s, being a servant, he . that early the next • constable sent for, who charged with any specific he was told by the , being then young, and he married his first twenty and thirty years, found that she was ill - and he then married witness, who proved all to the manner in which the first marriage took place; bat this witness denied all that he al leged about the cause of his leaving his first wife. The Jury found him Guilty. Title Learned Mannar, after forcibly commenting on the enormity of his leaving a wife with whom he had sn long lived, and without the slightest well-grounded imputation being cant upon her, mid observing that at hin time of life transportation would, in all like lihood, mach abridge the probable duration of his existence, sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to bard labour for twelve calendar months. CIVIL SIDE. I • Before Mr. Justice Buftsiouost and a Special Jury. CHARGE or NEGLIGENCE AGAINST Ax ATTORNEY. woonwaßD e. YOUNG. Mr. CARIIIIIOTON opened the pleadings. Mr. Cuawoon stated, that the plaintiff had been in an hum. ble situation in life, but by Industry, and some' bequests from relations, he had got into the possession of about 3,0001. In the the year 1314, he applied to the defendant, who was an Attorney, carrying on business at Dursley, to invest it in freehold security. The defendant at first proposed to lend it on two factories, but the plaintiff' refused to lend it on any thing but land, and the de indent said it should be lent to two gentlemen named Olive, who lived near Gloucester; and subsequently the plaintiff met those gentlemen at the defendant's house. The 3,000/. was advanced On a wat . rant of Attorney. The plaintiff objected to this, and lie was told he should have a mortgage in a few weeks. After a lapse of sixteen months, the mortgage deeds were sent him, and for some years the interest was regularly paid, but in Ina one of the bor rowers became bankrupt and died, and it was discovered that a great i part of the lands on which the plaintiff had this mortgap, were n fact not the lands of the borrowers of the money, but of I other persons not at all concerned with the transaction, and there fore the mortgage was to all then lands a mere nothing. This it was the defentlanet duty to have looked into. By this neglect the plaintiff was reduced from what in his situatian was of to comparative poverty. Esther Woodward, the daughter of the plaintiff, proved the facts opened relative to the advance of the money. Mr. Henry young, the defendant's son, who was at that time his clerk, and since that his partner, was also called. His eridenee was a good deal different from that of the former witness ; he stat ing that the plaintiff showed great eagerness to lend the money, and would not have taken even the warrant of attorney if it had not been insisted by the defendant that he should do so till some other security could be prepared. At r. Justice II u a ROUGII intimated that the statute of limitations, which had been pleaded by the defendant, was a bar to the action, as the tratisactiona took place more than six years ago ; but at the instance of Mr. Curwood his Lordship said he would allow the case to proceed, giving that gentleman leave to make an application to the Court above. Evidence was then adduced at great length, to show mat Me l lands mortgaged at this time to the plaintiff, were then the pre: lerty of oilier persons, and that therefore the security on then! ands wan of no value to the plaintiff; and It also appeared, that those lands had belonged to the father of the borrower of the money, and that when lie sold them to the subsequent owners, they allowed him to remain the ostensible owner, by leaving him In pos session of the lands and of the title-deeds under which he and his ancestor had purchased them. Mr. TAU N T ow, for the defendant, said, that anon the evidence, so far from the defendant being a party to any imposition on the plaintiff, that he used his endeavours to check tne plaintiff, over a confidence in the Messrs. Oliver, the borrowers of the money ; aad that if it bad not been for him, the plaintiff would have lent the money without soy security at all ; and as the persons who had bought the lands of the father of Messrs. Oliver, had allowed them to remain the ostensible owners, no care on the part of the defendant could have prevented the injury to the plaintiff: Mr. Justice BuRitOUGH gave it as his opinion that the defend. sot had acted fairly towards the plaintiff, and directed the Jury to find for the defendant. The Jury after a few minutes deliberation, found—Verdict for the detendant. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. —.......-- WESTMORLAND ASSIZES, A pri.zar, Avourr 12. Last night Mr. Justice Bayley arrived from Carlisle, and opened the Communion. This morning Mr. Baron Ilullock arrived, and both the Learned Judges attended divine service. Mr. Baron Hur.Lock congratulated the Grand Jury, of which Lord Lowther was toreman, that they would have only ten bills presented to them, none of which required any observation( from him. _ _ . . lifory Ann Quin was indicted for a misdemeanor, in having a quantity of forged notes in her possession. It appeared from a lengthened chain of evidence that Quin had been engaged with a man of that name, residing at Belfast, in fabricating forged notes of the Leith bank, the Huddersfield bank, and the Irish Linen Company's Bank, to a very considerable amount, and was only detected upon the information of an accom plice of the name of Telford, who repeatedly met with Quin at Belfast and Kendal for the purpose of bargaining for the purchase and sale of such forged notes ; but having reason to apprehend that his (Telford's) conduct and occupation hod reached the ears of per sons connected with the different firms upon which forgeries were committed. made the necessary communications to them, and Quin and the male prisoner of that name were apprehended. Since the imprisonment of the prisoners the male prisoner Quin died, and the ()rand Jury threw out the bill for the capnal felony, but found that for the misdemeanor. _ . . The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and she was sentenced to [brae months' imprisonment, having been alt,atly nearly twelve months In confinement. _ Before Mr. Justice BATLEY. GREEN% 00D v. sCARRBO' AND ANOTHER, This wa;;;action brought by an attorney to reccver the amount of his bill of costs. It appeared in the evidence that Taylor, one of the defendants, fancied himself the heir to some of the itrattrickshir• estates be longing to the family of the celebrated Atidison, the author of The Stectatar, and had employed 1.11,, piaii.tiff to 'mike inquiries upon the subject, and to proceed with a writ of right. &arbro', the other defendant, being married toe relation of Taylor's, spe cially retained the plaintiff' in writing to clan •ge the cause and take it out of the hands of an attorney, named :11 des, who ILA pre viottsly conducted it. Taylor allowed judgment to go by default, and a verdict wa, Ova, against Scarbro' for Mini. the fair amount of the attorney's There were only two other eases entered on Ine list ; and the Civil bulkiness of the Assizes terminated at one o'clm.k. LAW INTRI.LIGE COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, A VOW ST 13. IX TIII INATTKIL or 11A2$H •NDt . 'P73. Mr trz stated, 'hit several short petitions in this matter were apiwyinted to be heard on Tuesday, and he had row to apply' that anther petition(not yet presentv.l)of expartt Hume and Good. child, 'n the same matter, might be putuitted to come on on the =lnt day, upon a very abort point. Lea..e granted. HMIDERSTE7t - av efirisritx. The LORD CHANCELLOR in Me case said, a petition had been presented, upon which the Court felt hound to make an order, as, Prayed. but at the same time the Loon was most anxious to have it publicly understood, that such an order was not usually to be ex., pected. The prayer was, that a solicitor's bills of costs, for the length of a dozen years back, should be referred to the Master to be teased. And this prayer was founded upon this circumstance, that the solicitor, whose bills of costs were now comylained of, had been for that time the sole solicitor in the lunacy of Middleton for the estate, the committee, the next of kin, and all parties ; and that he had talon from the committee a bond securing to him all costs that he might not be allowed before the Master ; which was just as touch as to secure to him every farthing, to be paid out of the lunatic's estate, that he thought proper to charge. This the Court certainly considered a sufficient grourti for making the order prayed. At the same time it was incumbent upon the Court to recollect, that while it owed a duty to suitors, in guarding them against improper charges made by solicitors, yet it woe necessary that the Court ought not to entertain unfounded complaints ; but in this case, his Lordship could not think the templet:it at all ou tmoded, or that the prayer ought not to be granted. AD3IISSABLE EVIDENCE UPON DEARING AP- ....... _ _ PLA I,S. Mr. 111uxrasv, in the course of an argument said, it had some times been complained of in other parts of this Court that his Lord ship received affidavits upon hearing appeals, which had not been produced at the original hearing, upon which The Luau 1:111•NCELLOR said it was most important for him to state that the representation of such a practice was entirely a misconception of the real practice of this Court, because the rigid course here was, never to receive one affidavit, or one particle of evidence upon hearing an appeal that had not been before the Court that made the order appalled from. There ought to be no mistake upon this point, either in the other branches of the Court. at the bar, or with the public, as it was a very important point of practice, and invariably attended to. - A whaler has just brought home a native boy from Owhyliee; he is like all young savages, a great swimmer and diver, and is desirous to be taught a mechanical trade, for which his natural quickness seems to qualify him. no: k was L, to Last autumn CROWN SIDE. C. on tlichorm Before Mr. Boma (}allow. low, but only a BIGAMY. nto have sheep n 7. wen:Am/on,. aged 55, wee charged wi but wont swear Phoebe Taylor, his former wife being alive. , purchased six The first marriage was proved to hare taken I .5. and so did I. the Second, *Rhin the last four years. Brooks's mark The prisoner, when called upon foe his deft veneer prisoner years ago, he was quite a lad, being only 17 or eps his sheep is returning home late in the evening when he fell rep mine. For. the person who was his first wife, and that she, aC. and now accompanied her to her master ', house, and pitch mar k on morning his &hoes were discovered, and a cons iut on Cheddar took him into custody. He was not charged offence, but, when taken before a Magistrate, vered were not Magistrate that he most marry, and that he. irned out on the agreed to do so, and a license was procured, and wife. They lived together for between teem s keep sheep of and had seven children, and he then found that they make tempered, sod he was obliged to leave her, a ple generally do Phoebe Taylor. p, and after that The prisoner called a very respectable witni refused to show the circumstances that he stated relative to the r LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVSNING. Wind, W.N.W.—High-water 34 m. 09. Arrived last night the Minerva, hlyers, from New York--sailed 21st July; Molly, Sinclair, from Africa. Arrived this day the True .Blue„ Bigland,lfrom hliramichi ; Alliance, Grif6th, from Richebucto; Hercules, Berland, from Finland; Maria Sophia, Hagstrom, from St. Petersburgh ; hlargaritha Charlotte, Nelson, from Helsingfors ; Charlotte, 31'Carter, from Strangford; William, Fulford, from M aranham. SATURDAY, AVOCST 13. Wind W. fair.—High-water 18 m. p. 10. Arrived the American, Moon, and Flora, Mansfield, from New York; Georgia, Varnian, from Savannah; Crown, Robertson, from New Orleans; Amity, Vaughan, from Macaio ; Lady Dun more, Owen, from Demerara; Robert, Evans, from St. John's, N. 8.; Lady Hood Kenzie, M'Kenzie, from Archangel; Ca nadian, Udny, from Quebec, in 19 days ; Java, Rich, from New York; Salamanca, Hull, from Almeria; and Crown, Wilson, from Treiste. AUGUST LI Sailed the Sarah, Nutchy, for Genoa ; Luna, Young, for Riche bucto ; Joseph, Yetts, for St. Petersburgh ; Thorn, Dickenson, for Rio Janeiro; Lydia, Robinson, and Friendship, Meath, for 31iramichl ; Ayrshire, Messenger, for New Brunswick; Mary, !bee, for Richebucto ; Comely, Grey, for Naples ; Robert son, Arnold, for New York; Therese, lfumtn, for Revel; Tuzall, Genthe, for Stettin; De Jersey, Paton, for Gasper; Thomas Giliton, Watson, for hliramichi; and Mary, Tucker, for Trinidad. The True Blue, from Mirsmichi, left nine vessels loading for England. LIVERPOOL MARKETS, SATURDAY, Arouse 13. British Plantation Sugar has not been itt such extensive demand as last week. The sales do not exceed 900 Mids., at the full prices of last week. 340 boxes of Havannah were brought to the hammer on Monday last, but withdrawn. Some have since been sold, 50 boxes white at 501. ; and 50boxes yellow. at 38.. 6d. Nothing done in Brazils or Lust India Sugar. 40 puncheons Demerara Molasses sold at 345., and 10 punch. Barbadoes, at 32.. 800 hag. Havannah Coffee offered by auction, was taken in, being held as pricesabove the market. 50 tierces Jamaica have been taken by the grocers at fun priers. Nothing done in Ginger or Pimento ; 100 bags Para Cocoa sold at 40s. In Rum very little doing, but prices remain steady. In Dyswoods there have been sold 540 tons Campeachy Logwood at 7/. 15s. a 81. is. 6d. ; 40 tons Jamaica at 61. 15s. ; 12 tons Spanish Footle at 71. 19,. ; and 25 tons Carnwood at 231. 17s. Gd. a 241. 2s. Gd. per ton. In Ashes have bean sold 600 barrels Montreal l'ots at 30s. a 31s. for new, and a few old imported at 295. ; 200 barrels Pearls at 325. a 325. 9d. ; 470 barrels States Pot at 31a. a 31s. Gd. and 50 barrels Pearl at 325. per cwt. 1,200 brig. Stockholm Tar sold at 15s. 3d. a 161.; 1,900 brls. A merican at 16s. Gd. a 17s. per. brl. 4.600 brls. Turpentine, at 9s. 3d. for inferior, and II s. 3d. a I Is. 6d. for good. Rice continues to Improve; 700 casks of Carolina have been sold at 173. a 225. per ewt. Very little doing in Hides--600 West India at Gd. a 74d., and 300 Salted East India, at 64d. per lb. About 471 chests°, East India, and 212 tiepins Spanish Indigo were brought to the hammer, and 400 chests sold at 41. sd. a Hs. 4d. per lb. in bond, and 242 scions Spanish at s*. 10d. a 1 Is. per lb. duty paid, which we consider fully 6.1. a 9d. above the London market. 25 scions Cochineal, inferior to middling black sold, at lie. 6d. a 20.. 21 per lb. duty paid. Querchron bark is in request, 236 !Aids. 34 barrels Philadelphia, sold at 13.. Gd. for common quality to 15s. for fine, and 15 Idols. New-York, at l Is. 3d. Nothing dune in Argol. Persian Yellow Berries in request, 10 bales sold at 211. per cwt. ; but Tuskey are neglected. A. few casks Cream of Tartar, sold at 955. The tales of Brimstone are limited to a small parcel of Tuscan, fine at 10 guineas, and 15 tons Sicily at 91. Galls are lower; 47 bales Dutch Madder Roots at 41s. Olive Oil dull, only 12 tons Gallipoli sold at 421. a 431. Saltpetre, 650 bags, have been disposed of at 245.' Tobacco was dull, but prices corm ue steady. Our Cotton market experienced • gond demand the two first days in the week, but the failure of some American Houses on Monday and Tuesday caused a suspension, and the market be , came very dull, and on Wednesday 4000 bag. of Egyptian were taken on speculation, at 11 id., with 3000 Brazil, at Is. tor Maran hams and Bahia., 120., for Pernarns and sonic other business, at a halfpenny per lb. decline. About 6000 bales Upland and 500 Sot Islands were declared for auction on Friday, which at. tracted a numerous company, anti 5,000 of the Uplands were sold with spirit at the full market prices, and somewhat higher than the public sale of the 29th ult. varying from Oil. to II I. for good. ; the remainder advertised were withdrawn. Besides the above have been , sold 2,000 Buweds Rd. a 10;]d. ; 900 New Orleans 9id. a 13d.; 1,500 Alabama at Bd. a 91d.; 100 Sea Islands at Ind. a 2s. . • 100 Stained Sea Islands at 9d. a 13d.; 1,000 Pernambucos at 124(1. a I3d. ; 900 alaranliams at I2d. a 134. • 300 Bahias at 12d. a I3d. ; 75 Dente ! raras at 'l a d. a 13d.; 550 Egyptians at.l2d. a 1:10. ; 20 Bar , badoes lld.; 25 West Indiaa 144. ; 260 Surat., 7itl.a 60. and 130 Bengala at 7d. ; making a toudo, 19,800 bales. EAS7' INDIA SHIPPING. The Enterprize steam-vessel, bound to Calcutta, passed Dart. l mouth on Thursday, at ten a.m., and was expected to arrive at Falmouth the same evening. She was performing eight and a half miles per hour against a fresh breeze at north-west. She would sail from Falmouth on Friday, and has on board sixteen pas. sengers. The Victory, Farquharson, front London to Madras and Bengal, was on the 111th ult. in lat. 311. long. 13. She spoke on the 10th the Rapid Steamer, Thatcher, towing two entail vessels bound to the Barbary coast. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM HOUSE, AUGUST 12. SNIPS MITI:APO INwartps.—The Fame Anwyl, from Oporto; Rachel, Chadwick, from Ilaniburgh ; George Hibbert, Drdale, from Antigua; Samuel and Sarah, Campbell, from Lima; Nancy, Bailey, from Archangel ; Schofield. Evans, from Rio Ja neiro ; Helens. Coley, from Cephalonia ; Desire, Valembrouck, from Calais; Good Intent, Fox, from Ilamburgh ; Dorothy Cook, Mather, from Petersburg!'; Elisa, Nsgret, from Calais; Atalanta, Byrne; Violet, Charrostn; and Friends. Power, from Harlingen; Helen, llunt, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Earl Talbot, Everard, front Madeira; Holdemess, Brown, and Nelly, Pullen, ger, front Petersburgh ; Sally, Allen, tram Dublin ; Eliza, Beigh front Wexford; Olive Branch. Angel, from • ‘Vaterford ; Martha, Snow, from New York ; Lark, Paul, from Liston ; Better Luck Still, Bowie, and Erato. Blair. from Petcrsburgh ; James Dunlop, Hart, from Shediac, New Brunswick; Anne, Pentreath, from Villanova and Benirarlo; Favourite, Burmester, from Archangel. ENTERED OUTNARDS.—The Win. Manning, Smith, for St. Kitts; 'tenons, Regeset, for Stettin ; Ktng of the Netherlands, Slater. for Rotterdam ; Brothers, Ilenderson, for Gibraltar; Re gent Packet, Collings. far Valencia; Eliaa, Negret, f o r Ilavre and Rouen ; Times, Clarke, for Waterford ; Jane and Ellen, Parry, for Dublin ; Resource, Tonlin, for Calcutta. CLEARED OUTWARDS FINALLY AT GRAVESEND.—The Earl Bathurst, Pound, for Rotterdam ; Hebe i Trist, for Lisbon. CLEARING OUTWARDS. —The Eliza, Dixon, for 111adras and Calcutta ; King of the Netherlands, Slater. for Rotterdam ; Levant, Mart. for Nevis and St. Kitts; Anna, Fink, for Bilboa ; Colum bia, Taylor, for Quebec; Mary, Taylor, for Dantzie ; Harmony, Mearns, for Cadiz; Mary. Wardle, for Miramichi ; Lorton, Snow. don. for St. Domingo; Busiris, Gardner, for St. John's, New Brui.swick ; Jess, Brown, for MAlaga ; Sprightly, Newton, for Villavicloas. IItOSI LLOYD'S LIST. FALMOUTH, A uo. ll.—Arrired off the port the Skylark, hum liaitpoli. Sailed the Zephr packet, for Jamaica. DARTMOUTH, Auo. Il.—Arrived off here the Enterprise ste.at vessel for India. all %el!. She has embarked passengers, and proceeded on for Falmouth, to receive on board the remainder, and her despatches. _ _ PORTSMOUTH, A vo. 12.—Arrived the Toward Castle, Jet.' fery. from the Downs, for New South Wales ; and Duchess of', York transport, from ditto, for Cowes. Sailed the Ash, House, for the South Seas ; and Pilchard, —, for Malaga. DIAL, A vo. 12.—Passed through the river the Friends, Clark, for St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. Guar LUND, Au*. 12.—Arrived the Vilna, Payt, from Rio de Janiero ; Tyne, Addison, from Quebec ; Palambsm, Nash, frotn do.; Zenophon, Barker, from do.; Brunswick, Page, from nuncio ; Good Intent, Fox, from Hamburg's; Young Dixon, Henderson, from Petersburgh ; Heroics, Hawes, from do. ; Her cules, Larsen, from Almelo'; Funchal, M'Pherson, from Ma deira; Atalanta, Byrne, from Harlingen. Sailed the Alexander Adam, Peter, for Lima ; Dickens, Proctor, for Gibraltar; Rolla, Allen, for New South Wales ; Jane, Wilson, for Riga; Gower, Tart, for Malaga ; Jane, Riddle, for Quebec; Oporto, Covey, for Figueira ; Sir George Osborn, Thomson, for New South NVales ; New Harriet, Swale, for Smyrna; Stokesby, Corner, for Miramichi ; Sappho, —, for Petersburgh ; Aimwell, Houtton, for Ilamburgh. NORTH SIIIILDII, A vo. 11.—Ifesterday the Plough, Thomp. son, of Perth, in coming down the river, ran foul of the Frau Ca tharine Maria, Kroks, and carried away her mizen mast. 'William Tayler, Tailor anti Breeches-maker, 72, iVim. pole-street, Cavendish-square, most respectfully returns his sincere thanks to the Nobility and Gentry, for the very great patronage he has received during the late season, and begs to assure them that his business will sontinue to be conducted on the same principle, that is, of making the very beat articles for a much smaller profit than is generally charged:— - t..d. The eery best extra Saxony superfine Coats, of any mimes, except blue and black 3 3 0 usually charged 4 10 0 Double-milled kerseymers or cloth Truswrs - 1 II usually charged 2 0 0 Waistcoats - - 0 13 0 usually charged 1 4 0 s. d 8 9 6 usual charge - 8 2 0 William Taylees charge for the nm• •5 9 6 Saved in only one snit - - 2 12 61 Extra Saxony blue and black Coats, 31. Ifis. ; Trousers, IL 166. ; milled superfine Great Coats, with bark and front skirts lined with silk, V. 4..; shooting jackets, and every other article of Gentlemen's Dress. Ladies' Habits, Children's I)resses, &c. &c. 'of the very first quality, on equally moderate terms. A suit of Li. very complete, 41.4 x, ; a Stable or NWorking Dress, 11. Ss. None but the very best materials used, therefore only one price charged at this Douse.-72, is or.c door from Queen Anue-strect. COLONIAL OFFICE. Colonial Office has of Isle yeas increased so much, that it became necessary to have an ad ditional Under Secretary of State, and we some time ago announced. the appointment of R. W. Hay, Esq. to that Office. The business of the Office has been divided be tween Mr. Wilmot Ilotton and Mr. Hay, and it will be seen by the list of Colonies assigned to them respectively, that there is ample employment for both. The following is the arrangement that has been made : R. W. HORTON, Esq. R. W. HAY, Esq. Under Secretary of State. Under Secretary of State. Jamaica. Gibraltar. Barbadoes. Malta. St. Christopher, Nevis, and Tor- lonian Isles. cola. Morocco. Antigun and Montserrat. Algiers. Dominica. Tunis. Grenada. Tripoli. St. Lucia. Missions to the Interior of St. Vincent. Africa. Tobago. Sierra Leone. Trinidad. Gold Gold. .. Cape of Good Hope. Ileligoland. New South Wales. Van Diemen's Land. ikm .... etar; and Essequibo. Berbice. Honduras. Bahamas. Bermuda. Lower Canada. Upper Canada. Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. New Brunswick. Prince Edward's Island. Ceylon. Mauritius. East India. Commission of Inquiry, Cape, Afaurinus, and Ceylon. Sierra Leone. IN% tt ••••%4"....%•••• Commission of Inquiry, Crirr.l- nal Justice. West Indies. Apprenticed Africans. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. The Rev. R. B. Paul, M.A. Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, has been presented, by the Rector and Fellows of that Society, the Vicarage of bong U'ittenham, Berko. The Lord Bishop of Gloucester has been pleased to collate the Rev. Samuel Lloyd, M.A. of Magdalen College, Oxford, to the V iearage of Horsley, Gloucestershire. The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted the Rev. I Win. Pyne, M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, to the Rectory 1 of Pitney. The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted the Rcr. Charles Tynte Simmons, B.A. to the Rectary of Shipham, void by the death of the Rev. James Jones. The University of Cambridge have, with great liberality, granted to Mr. Vincent Novello pemaasion to select and publish such parts of the music contained in that rich store, the Fitzwilliam Museum, as he may think will be acceptable to the lovers of ancient sacred music, many of whom may know what to anticipate, when we sp rite them that among the principal names in that magnificent col lection are those of Clan, Canssimi, Leonardo Leo, Palestrins, Padre Martini, Durance, Jomelli, and Pergolesi. The works are all in MS.. have never been published, and even in MS. ars rare jewels. We can very safely congratulate the University upon their selection of the Professor tor the present undertaking, no one, per. haps. bein g . better calculated, from the nature of his studio', to do ample justice to this delicate task than Mr. Novello, whose mss. terly performance on the organ, and excellent compositions for the church, will long be remembered with delight by those who attend ed the services in South-street. When we recollect the elevation of style and ingenuity of contrivance for which the compositions of the old church writers of Italy are so distinguished, uniting in their works all tLat is grand, from its simplicity, to that profound and elaborate construction, which is the dtlight of the true musician. we are sure that the lovers of ecclesiastical music otay expect a rich nest from the forthcoming publication ; and we cordially wish Mr. Novello all the success which his continued and meritorious e'er tiers for the advancement of his art deserve. All of the Masonic Lodges of 11'itis have opened sub scriptions in favour of the Greeks. At a late meeting of that called the Donne Union a considerable sum was col lected, which was immediately platted at the disposition of the Society in favour of the Greeks. A subscription for this jpurpose has alsO been opened at Gannat, in the depart ment of the Allier, and another at Riom. The influx of strangers into Edinburgh this summer is very great; indeed, since his Majesty's gracious visit, a tour to Scotland has become quite fashionable. Notwith standing the increase of stage coaches in every direction, they are all crowded, as are the steam boats, the latter daily conveying an unusual number of sportsmen, on their way to the moors. On Thursday night last a tine French lugger, with above 300 kegs of spirits on board, was capturred by de Arrow cutter, Lieutenant I'owney, and taken into Hast ings the following morning. Rain water is far preferable to any other for watering plants. It is peculiarly adapted to promote vegetation. It seems to contain the food of plants, which it gets in its passage through an atmosphere loaded with putrescent particles. All hot-houses may easily be supplied with rain water. When a hot-house is building, by bestowing a very trifling additional sum (which would save a con tinual expense afterwards), the rain that falls on the roof might be brought into a cistern placed in any part of the building. A large hot-house at Welbeck is so constructed that all the rain which falls upon the roof, which contains above 3,000 square feet, is brought into a large cistern in the front bed ►n the middle of the stove. 'f eaN ruts. ROADS.—It appears by a statement, that there are 18,329 miles of Turnpike Roads in England, .2,391 do. in iVales, and 3,611 in Scotland—total 24,331. The annual income on the average of the years 1616, 1819, and 1820-, was, England, 970,6181.; Wales, 31,6724; Scotland, 129,6351.—t0ta1, 1,137,9251.—8ut this income, besides the necessary expense of continuing repairs, w burdened in the year la2l with the following debt: — England, 3,814,9.33 k ; "%Vales, 901,962/. ; Scotland, 1,124,2731.—t0ta1, 5,200,490/. In Norfolk, the number of miles was, 271, the income per mile 381., the expenditure per do. 261., excess of income 121. In Suffolk, the num ber of miles, 279 ; income per mile 341., expenditure per do. 311., excess of income, 3/. On Saturday morning, in the Tardbeads, Leith, a young woman, in a ht of delirium, attempted to put a period to her existence by cutting her throat. She was, however, discovered in time to prevent serious consequences; and, a surgeon being sent for, the wound was dressed, and she was about to be removed to the Infirmary ; but no sooner was she free from restraint than she tore off the dressiags, and it was only by securing her hands that she was pre vented from accomplishing her own destruction. It ap pears that her delirium had been brought on by grief for her aged father, who was threatened to be imprisoned for a debt due by a person for whom he had been security. — Caledonian Mercury. A large serpent was seen a few days ago in a field called " the Lots," near Crowhnd, supposed to be nearly eight feet in length.—SlarnPrd News. BIRTHS. On Tridsy, at his house in 1 'pper Seymour street, the lady cf the lion. W Jerrie, of a son lima . ..On the 2ith of June last, at Const.. itinople, the lady of the RV. H. D. herrn, of a daughter. On the 7th inst. at East End, near Lyminkon, Harts, the lady of Alexander Gordon, Esq. of the Royal Engmeers, of a dasghte• On the 9th Met. the lady of George ' Jackson, Esq• of iseni' wick-,quart, of a son. On Friday. the 12:h inst. in Tavistoek.iquart, the lady of Ben jamin B. %Miami, Esq. of a eon. MARRIED. ..... On Wednesday last, at Portsmouth. the Rev. Wm. Wesson Deacon, A.M. of Madeira, to Ann, daughter of Wm. Reeks, lit Agent Victualler at that port. On the 11th inst. the Rev. Stephen Langston, minister cf 51 . George's church, Sheffield, anti late Yellow of Wadham Carat Ozford, to Maria, daughter of the late Stephen Canley, Ertl " Camberwell. On Wednesday se'nnight, at Brighton, the Rev. Wm. Sherbet Carey, M.A. tVtcar of Ashburton, Devon, to Eliza Cowling, so' eond daughter of the late Richard Schneider, Esq. of Putney. On the 11th inst. at I.a.icaster, Richard Godson, Esq. Barrio°. at. Law, of Weburn.plsce, Russell-square, to Mary, only dolt:tft of the late James Hargreav e s, E sq . o f Sp r i ng fi e ld Hall. lornrad:dr. DIED. On Thursday last, Petty. youngest daughter of the late Frart o Market; Esq. of Meopharn (7ourt Lodge, in the county of Kew. On the 10th inst. at Great litanmor e , iltildlearx, du 77th 7M` of her age. sincerely lamented. Catherine, widow of the late 10 01 ' Andrews, Esq. surgeon. of the abuse Place. On the 11th inst. at Mann, House, nesr Reading, Belk!, !stall. the wife of Robert Hopkins. Esq. On the 10th inst. at Lincoln, flereklali brown, Esq. On the 7th inst. at his hou s e, Argyll- street , Henry Ilet l4 ' Esq. aged 33 years. On the 12th inst. in the 27th year of Ida age, Robert Igo. f';'" 4. son of rite late Relit. Lee, Esq. of Walthamstow, Eines- In Tasistock.place, on the 121 h inst. in the 43d year el :As or, lir. Durkin Fenn, late of the Legacy Duty-ofllce. On the 12th (east. at Mitcham, Elisabeth Judith, wife° , " 4..1 Furber, It N., and daughter of John Da:, Esq. of Slay-wee: Lincoln'. inn. 111011 WATER AT LONDON DREDGE THII4 DAY. Morning 4.1 rain Art IL I Evening 16 sin. On 3- Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS Class, by J. W. 0117 oi 131, Strand, &LEI published byß.C•int Oil IP . Pl6e.' . Tloat II C `. t.' 41 , ONO •••••••••• Bcliwg St. C Na soy t el quif t tees ~~ irb want Wail iota 1 tan sp °RI Tab Ain