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I I . LIVERPOOL, FRIDAT EVIOII/10. -.1....-- Wind N.N.W.--Iligh Water 45 minutes past I. Arrived the William Pell, Wilson, from Trinidad; Julian, Williams, from ditto; Mart. Beacheroft„ from Barbados; Sarah Aftri. Stetson, from Wiltilington ; George Canning, - 11 k/Lillibtallar ; John Bugg, -, from California and Rio de . ;avast*. Mfred. Madden, for Oporto. '4 :dt,iksle, from Alaranham, on 9th Aug. in lat. 41. 10. long. 49.10. e t eke thatilea. from Lisbon, for Newfoundland. On the 15th, al. U. 22. long. 32. spoke the Seotrt6eld, from Jamaica, for lidos, out 66 days. On the 17th. in lat. 47. 55. long. 55 40. spoke the Shakespear, from Quebec, for London. lama Mackenzie, from I)em . sailed 15th July. On the fah Atagast,,, in lat. 37. 6. long. 53, b fell in with a long low black segramicr, with one gun, and about forty men on board, supposed to be a privateer. Fiances, horn Barbadoes, sailed 28th July. On the 10th Aug. lat. 35. f. 2. long. 86..30. spoke the brig Mersey. front Demerara, fad Liverpool. On the 14th, in Ist. 41. 31. long. 46. 30. spoke the Ship Pomona. from Trinidad, for Bristol. On the 23d, in lat. 441. long. 19. spoke the brig Mary, from Liverpool for New forpoillamd. On the 25th. in lat. 94. 49. long. 18. spoke the brig POrewerf Orange, for Prince Edward's Island. lb. Isabella. from St. John's. N.B. on the 19th August, in lat. 41/ king. 24. M. spoke the Edward Bonaffe, front New York, toe Plasm Os the 13d, in lat. 60. 13. long. 15. spoke the Jane, tram Newry, for Rkhehucto, and tire Jean, front Greenock for Qpebee. On the 27th, in lat. 50. 30. long. 12. 25. spoke the Belle Isle, tutu St. John's, N.B. for Cork ; and the Phoenix, from Li verpool, for New Ymk. On the' Ist, in lat. 49. 5. long 20. fell in with the wreck of • deep waisted brig, her stern burnt out, both tosses gam. bowsprit standing, and from the appearance of her wieterials, was new when wrecked ; she had been abandoned at least all months, and was stripped of every thing. Sart: RDAS. Wind N.W.-Highwater 19 m. p. 2. Arrived the Sicilian. Lingless, from Trieste ; Der Lowe, Hat fettle, from Dantzic ; Perseverance. Suitt, from Odessa ' • Supply, Mullah, from Whitehaven ; Eliza Ann, Wade, from Bahia; Com. 'Stem, -, from Archangel ; Maria, -, from !Messina. One ship,. Ore brigs off the port. Private s ignals, Messrs. W. and S. Stokes, Mr. Charles Law. Plea. Tbe Eliza Jinn, from Bahia, on the 26th August. in lat. 51.36. l Meet. 64. Ye Emulous from Liverpool for New York. a B. P. 'market continues with a fair demand at steady WM: then bid& ban been sold. Nothing done in fonriirn •.e ea Meffeeam. Ms We in Cocos or Clinger. About 100, Cabs 0811aftwal erdiasry at Ills., and some small sales of 1/41 0 , apitierer prices k iell oi l r n . fs P a i i m m en; t o u a n t , 9Ld v . e a , ll.ld een . p eo er k l i b.: sibsetat *tin* Trlbili. Dvelood continues much depressed. The sales axe, 1011 was Oaspieeelly Larrood at 71. 17s. 6d.; 50 tons Spanish Posis'eallf. ige. a 71. Illa 4 sod 10 tons Jamaica at 71.1 ie. per ton ; 314. _book Arda . agel Tar at illi., and 40 barrels Stockholm at 16%. Per Mil 91102 barrels American Turpentine at 101. 6d. a Its. No. abfag &eels bides, except 1000 Odessa at Bid., and 800 dry salted • . 51 at lit TM ass market is dull, and only 20 casks sold at 221.--I5 COllOlllll Indigo sold yesterday by elation at sa.Bd. a 105.2 d. -la 441141telitiOn Bark only 30 hds. sold at 12s. ad. a 15s. from Phaedelphis.-ln Ashes the demand has somewhat abated. 30 bands old Montreal sold at 295. 6d. ; 350 barrel, new at 30.. fid. a Ifs. but more than 30a. could scarcely be obtained ; 230 barrels Montreal Pearl sold at 32a. 6d. States Pots are in request, but mamas 69 barrels old sold at 31s. 6.1. 30 barrels Pearl at Us. fkl. a tittle bower.-A small lot of good Silver sold at 201. paid. In Brim stone some few sales hare been made at tor. r i lie Oil In more demand. 10 tuns Gallipoli sold at 4. I:1-i? 1..30 tons Sicily at ot. anti some small parcel. LOSER at 411. In Saltpetre very little doing. In Sumach the sable are limited to 100 bags Verona at 10s, 6d. a Ils. t i 130 ba gs L list i z e t n lid otiiin a g l7l. 3n , e Bo wm ir y i ovrynotoridcetna7rycarno remaina t u ..- n. abided. A small quantity of Dome-hair, offered by auction, has . Ws sold at an advance; Short llid.. and all Tails ibid. per lb. ; as tons Dutch Oak Bark sold at il. iig. a 71. 10s. Grain is on the Our Cotton market has been very heavy this week, and prices ate id. aid. lower. Our stock of Uplands is nearly all of inferior quality, which Is neglected, and poem gradually decline, which operates upon all other descriptions. The sales am, 3300 bags Up lands Georgia at 44. a Ild. ; 1310 New Orleans at thl. a I Id.; 701 Alabatnas a: lid. • 100. t 20 Sea Islands at 18d. a :a,; 70 sunned Sea Islands at ltd. a 16d.; 11;8 Pernambuco at 12d. a 13L 1100 31aranhams at Did. a 12id.; 650 bales salt .a 12 .; 106 Para at ltd. a 110. • 700 Egyptian at 114 d. • :II mares at lOid. a 12d.; I;Barbadoes at 10 0.; 30 cal 4 sms at ild 400 Soul at did. a 7d. and 50 Bengal at 6d. a 11116.. WC s total of about 9,700 bags, of which 500 Egyptian, oaf Ile American are on speculation, and 1,000 of the latter de sedsrtion for export. The Favorite, from Nlaranhern, Railed 16th July. The Wake field was to sail in three days; the Caroline and Grecian were to mil in ten or twelve days for Liverpool. On the 27th, in lat. 50.30. lon. IL 11. spoke the Belinda, from Workington ; the William Fell was in Company. The Carricks, from Liverpool for Quebec, exchanged numbers with the Caledonia, Buphain, on the 29th Aug. 20 miles West of Cape Clear. The Carnocus. Harem, fee Oporto, exchanged numbers with the Caledonian on the 30th Aug. 30 miles N. E. by E. of Tusks,. IMPORT OP COTTON INTO LIVERPOOL THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF EACH YEAR. In last Total 4 Alonths Impts. 1326 18'24 1624 1824 Aim Savannah . . MI I 62833 SIO 65 . 249 • Charleston - - 989 3 1 7591 3 7370 83493 Pierthern Ports 911744 25249 1.`.968 41214 New Orleans and Mobi le 84362 62723 2197 64920 Peen ambito - . 32661 22480 19894 42410 Bahia . - 30302 26015 12310 37426 11arashant . - 31518 32590 13198 4.798 Rio and Pars - - 3898 6483 4138 10421 West India, dte. - 67611 9111 We 12659 Mamma, aw. . 9300 51183 91 9 7602 Egyptian . - 611127 6433 161113 22622 !tomboy, 4tc„ - 4270 7782 1116/ 9637 Calcutta - - 3019 3918 608 4626 Total - - 632021 845178 102782 4471160 Jiang 84661 already imparted this year more than in all the last COIIrii•PIOX Or PRICES. Sept. 1, iir2s. Sept 1, 182$. s. d. s. d. a. d. a. d. %ea filmes - I II a 2 II - I 05 • I 8 Sunned dims - 08 a II - 0 8 • 0 114 11'= . - - 071 a 0 10 h . 074 a 0 9 and Mobile • 7 a 0 105 - 0 7i a 0 85 Nap (Mesas . 08a 10 - 08 a 011 Paammbuto - 10411 -011 a 10 alatga - . 0 11 a 1 0 - 010 a 011 ltlanatiom - - 011 a 1 0 - 0 105 a 011 Nam mod Para - 0 SI a 0 II . 0 8 a 0 10 Datagram - - 011 a 1 U - U9sa 0 II Waiasadia, &e. -09 a 0 II - 07• 0 10 - . 0111 aI 0 - 010 a 011 M .d a i mtl a Madras -06 a 0 9 - obf• • 7 alltd . - 0 6 a• 8 - 0 45 •0 7 •• luny convictions have taken place in Ireland under Ms. Martin's Act. The Newry Telegraph mentions three is dist town. Soafe idea may be formed of the prodigious rate a which Manchester and its neighbourhood are increasing in wealth and population, from the facts that the asses meat :for the poor-rate in the township of Chorlton-row (wig& forms one of the suburbs or the town), for the pre side" year, exceeds that of the last year by one - seventh --de 'increase arising entirely from the election of new buildings, as the rate is made upon a diminished, rather tli an augmented scale. If the township should con tinge to (increase at the same rate, the value of the pro.. per 4 in it will be doubled in about five years and a - thereat BuTxaa.--Notwithstanding the heavy duties ledkt on Dutch hotter, it can be sold about SOs. a cwt. under the Irish or Scottish butter. It appears it is brought ovrefind entered in the bonded warehouses under the name of grease. A dealer examines and purchases a number of cask!. Intimation is given to the excise -officer, who comes and-puts • quantity of -train ail on the top of each cask, and goes away. The dealer takes the first opportunity to pocir eff the oil, and takes off all the butter that is injured, and the remainder is packed up and sold as good butter. It is bought at from 80s. to SU., and sold to shopkeepf rs at Ms. It is retailing in a number of shops at one still harper pound, under the name of Aberdeen butter.— airsiVto Chronicle. Oft Tuesday a ft ernoon, a marred woman from Edin burgh, who lives in Bridgeton, and who had followed her husband most part of that day, while he was in company with another woman, having found them in the lower puke the green, she attacked her husband with a poker, wi3Ch she had carried with her for the purpose, and, ac ooetfing to the confession she made to the superintendent, at itt* him three times on the bead and face, and cut Leis Most severely. The wounded man was carried to the Calton Police Office, and was subsequently removed to the P.oyeti infirmary, where he remains in a dangerous state. 1 tea two women have been sent to the County Fiscal.— (Aber iv (Area icle. 1 ylt Saturday morning, between one and two o'clock, a, fire broke out at a public-house in Long-acre, the sign of tho Coseh-makers' Arms, at the corner of Hanover-street, ke9S.by Mr. Hatton. The watchman gave the alarm, and the, arrival of the engines being prompt, the dreadful West of the devoering element was fortunately arrested halm much damage was done. THE BRADFORD CONTEST. Affairs at Bradford arc drawing fast towards their cata- Istrophe. Last Monday the masters held a meeting at the Sun Inn, and came to two important rcsohlions. First—To resume the working of their mils, 'which are now again in operation ; and Second—To address a circular to al; the Worsted Spinners and Manufucturers in the neighbouring towns, explanatory of their views, and calling for the co.opration of the Masters in the same trade. This document is in the terms following : CIRCULAR. " The Turn-out at Bradford amongst the Cambers and Wearers having now existed for more than ten weeks, the associated Worsted Spinners and Manufacturers of that place, feel it to be their duty to address a Circular to all the IVorstcd Spinners and Manufacturers in the neigbouring towns, explanatory of their own view*, and requesting the co-operation of those whom they address. . . . " TM associated blasters beg leave to suggest, that if the ad vanced wages be given at Bradford, the same AMPS will be demand ed in the neighbouring towns ; and that therefme to make com mon cause with the Association at Bradford, will be the best way to secure the permanent interests of all. " The only measure calculated to secure the suppression or the workmen's union is, as the associated masters think, by .tupping their wo:ks altogether. They have therefore determined to invite the neighbouring sp i nners and manufacturers to cooperate with them in carrying into effect that decisive measure, and take the liberty of adding, that it is their intention to regulate their fu ture proceedings by the general tenor of the answers they re ceive. The above circular w•as accompanied by a letter from the Solicitor to the Association, of which the following is a copy • Bradford, Aug. 29, HQ& Sll,—The associated masters at Bradford request yon to fa. your me with au answer to the annexed circular on or before Satur day next. I am, sir, Your very obedient Servant, W. MOULDEN. These documents were forwarded on Tuesday to the principal Worsted Spinners and Manufacturers in Bandon, Bingley, Cleckheaton, Darlington, Halifax, Keighley, Lancaster, Leeds, Merton, Rochdale, Steeton, Sutton, and Wiladen ; and it is, we believe, well understood, though not expressed, that if the master, in these places generally consent to make common cause with the mas ters of Bradford, and to atop their works altogether, the resistance against the Lnion will still continue, and the field of contest will be thus greatly extended ; but if, on the contrary, the manufacturers in these other places do not generally consent to make common cause, the Bradford manufacturers will dissolve their Association, and make the best terms with the men they are able. In other words, they will, for the present at least, give the advanced prices required by the men, without regard to the workmen they employ being in the Union or not. Afterwards, if they can afford to pay the advanced prices for weaving and combing, they will continue to pay them, but if they cannot they will gradually diminish their con cerns, till there becomes a redundancy of hands seeking for employment, and till the thing in that way regulates itself. Notwithstanding the length of this contest, we are told that worsted stuff pieces sold last Thursday at lower prices in Bradford Hall than were obtained fur them immediately before the strike; and that yarn has also fallen about five per cent. without any reduction whatever within the same period in the price of the raw material. Owing to some delay in the circulars reaching their destination, and to the intervention of the Halifax and Rochdale markets, the answers from the manufacturers cannot be received so soon as Saturday (this day), but they are expected to arrive on Wednesday or Thursday, and the Meeting of the Brad ' ford masters will necessarily be adjourned from Monday to some later day in the week, probably till Friday, when the final decision may be expected to be taken.—Leeds Mercury. The churchwardens of Crowlaud have taken down the old abbey face, it being in a very dilapidated state.—Hunt ingdon Gazette. We learn that the boiler of the steam-packet, the On dernerning, which plies between Amsterdam and Ham burg, burst near Stade, on the Elbe, but with so little noise that the plssengers were made sensible of the accident only by the slackening of the progress of the vessel. The boiler was immediately repaired, and the vessel was to leave ilamburgh on,thelth to return to Amsterdam.—Brursels Paper. LOMPIN•TION AMONG THE SHEARERS.—An immense concourse of shearers assembled yesterday morning in the Grass•market, and two shillings and sixpence were gene rally offered early in the day as wages, at which rate many were hired. These persons were proceeding, in carts, to their respective destinations, when about half a dozen of stout fellows, Irishmen, interfered, and would not permit any to leave the Liarket, who Were not to receive one pound per week, or three shillings and four pence per day, with victuals. This caused considerable confusion, and prevented those who were willing to work, at the wages offered, from leaving the market. One fellow, who seemed particularly active, and who upset a cart, and assaulted the driver, was brought to the police office, and fined ten shillings and sixpence by the sitting Magistrate. The fine was paid by one of his companions, and the party returned to the market, but did not proceed to further acts of vio -1 lence. A strong body of police were by this time, (twelve o'clock), perambulating the Grass-market. The great body of the shearers were then hired at 2s. per day.—Edinburg,h Paper, A ug. 30. LICENSED GAMINH.—II appears that in some of the United States of North America gaming is permitted, as in France, on payment of a license duty to the local govern ment. The following paragraph is extracted from the Huntsville .lelvoente, published in the new State of Ala bama :—" We learn that there are now in this town the fol lowing licensed gaming tables, viz :—One Faro Bank, one roulet table, and three billiard tables—all of which have been licensed under the late act of Assembly, authorizing their establishment by paying a tax of 600 dollars each, 400 dollars to the state, and 200 dollars to the county. Thus we are this little village contributing, within a few weeks, no less than 3000 dollars to the public revenue, at the expense of the public morals. Qnerefi Which is most creditable to the State—a full Treasury obtained by immoral means, or an honest, industrious, and sober popu lation ? The answer is too obvious to require comment:" ECCENTRIC Gases—On Saturday lasi died, in the 70th year of his age, at his lodgings, in St. Peter-les Bailey, in this city, Constantine Demetriades, a native of Greece. This very extraordinary character was born in September, 1755, at Naupactus, now called Enebect or Lepanto, which gives its name to the Corinthian Gulf. He came to Eng land, several years ago, with Lord Elgin, since which he has chiefly resided at Reading, and in this city. He pro fessed to he a teacher of languages, and, we believe, had, occasionally, a few pupils. He was well acquainted with his own language, the Modern Greek ; and also with Ita lian: but his knowledge of other languages was very limited. He was penurious in the extreme, and chiefly lived on the contributions of the humane,who pitied his ar parently helpless and miserable condition ; yet he was in possession of considerable property (upwards of 10001. in the Bank of England), which he has left to four holy fa thers, papas, or patriarchs of the Greek Church, with di rections that his soul, and the souls of his father and mother, may be prayed for continually, during one bun dred years after his decease. His executor is a gentleman of respectability at Reading, in whose hands he had de posited money for his funeral expenses, which were not to exceed eight pounds; and also for his occasional wants, from whieh fund he drew with great sparingness and com punction, and only when he was unable to draw on the compassion of others. But for the humane visits and di rections of some gentlemen of this place, he would abso lutely have been suffocated in filth, for 1w had no idea what ever of that English virtue called cleanliness. He hail a great antipathy to any portrait being taken of him. This was effected, however, acme time since, by stratagem ; but he convivial all the parties concerned in the contrivance, more partieblarly the artist, to perdition, and excommuni cated them in the names of all the saints of the Greek Church; which written excommunicatien he caused to be exhibited in some of the shops of this city. He was about five feet high, always wore a very long brown coat, closely buttoned, and halt-boots ; walked rather stoopingly, with a stick, and had a red blotchy face.—aviiiird herald. Henry Wm. Younger, of Thatcham, near Stratford, a youth of eighteen, was wounded by the discharge of Lis brother's gun, when out shooting on Friday, and he died yesterday morning to the inexpressible grief of his family. The brother Edward was getting through a hedge, the dog being at the full point in the next fidd, when his gun went off, and lodged the greater part of its coetents in the deceased's side, at a few paces eft: OUTIL4G7sS IN IRELAND. (From the Limerick Chun:Wel. - _ On the day after the fair of Rathkeale, a barbarous murder was ascertained to have been committed en a young man of the name of Charles Robertson, steward and gar ' defter to Sir Aubrey Hnnt, Bart. of Curragh, who was found lyina dead in a field at Cappalt, not far from the s: ens of Major Got ing's murder. He was at the fair the day previous, and, on his return home in the evening, was way-laid and killed by some sanguinary wretches, who are I not yet discovered. Ilis skull was beat in above the left ear, as if from the blow of a stone, and the fatal wound is i believed to have oricirated in malice. On Sunday night last, a strong party of insurgents, all armed, attacked six farmers' houses on the lands of Mr. Rose, hear Elfin, in this county (Limerick). They beat most akerely, with heavy spade handles and short clubs, two of the farmers. Robert Tucker and James Casey, be sides a man named Clohessy, who was in the house of the former. They forced an entrance by breaking the win dows and doors. Major Maxwell. as a Magistrate, pro leeeded next morning to inquire into the circumstances, land learmd that the party took some of the inmates out , side, and showed them a well dressed man on horseback, ' with a white sash and,white band round his hat, saying I " Captain Rock is still ali'.e." They demanded firearms at two of tilos? houses, and ordered them, under pain of destruction to themselves and families, not to charge their workmen more than five guineas an acre for the first crop of potatoes, and 31. for the second crop. On retiring they ' , stook off' the farmer's horses, which wire found next morn i ing on the road to Doneraile, near Ballvhoura mountain,' ifrom which circumstance it is conjectured they time from the county of Cntk. In their return they met a steward of Mr. Hill of Doneraile, uho was distraining for rent, and deprived him of his gun, which they carried away. : On Monday night, the 22d instant, a man named Ben- jarnin Reardon, of Roughal, in the county of Kerry, near Newmarket, returning from the fair of Dromagh, in the county of Cork: teas so severely beaten in his endeavours to protect a female from . violation, that he only survived i four days. An inquest was held on the body by William Allen and James Cronin, Emirs., Magistrates of Kerry, in the absence of the Coroner, and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned against a man whose name for the pre seat must remain concealed. DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN WHITECHAPEL. On Saturday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, Whitechapel-road, and the numerous streets that abound I there, were thrown into the greatest state of agitation, by the inhabitants experiencing a most tremendous shock, as if caused by a volcano or an earthquake. The houses for a considerable distance were deserted by their inhabitants, and men, women, and children were seen running about in all directions, under an impression that the world was at an end. It was soon ascertained that their alarm was produced by an explosion at the factory of Mr. Brock, the artist in tire-works, at No. 11, Baker's-row, White ehapel-road, nearly opposite tile London Hospital. The following particulars, relative to this direful disas ter, have just reached us:—Mr. Brock has resided for the last five years in Baker's-row, and at the back of his dwel ling-house is his repository for fire-works, where they are manufactured. This building is about 55 Let by 20, and contains three magazines, which arc lined with lead, and would be perfectly secure from fire, should it occur, on any of the adjoining premises. In these receptacles were depo sited all the powder, composition, and, in fact, all the com bustible matter, and Mr. Brock was remarkable for the method lie had taken to prevent any accident occurring on his premises. A few weeks since he had taken two boys out of the poor-house to instruct in the art of firework-making, and he kept them chiefly employed in filling and ramming the cases of the skyrockets. serpents, squibs, &c. &c. The latter part of this stage of the work is done by a funnel, or piece of tin made in the shape of an extinguisher, and a small piece of iron wire, about a foot long, which is used as a ram-rod. The small end, or stipple, as it is called, of the extinguisher, is introduced into one curl of the rocket or squib, anti tie b oys ram the powder and wadding down with the rain-rod. Sa turday, at the time above stated, Mr. Brock and his men left the factory to go to breakfast, keying the two boys en gaged at the work-board, ramming the sky-rockets. They had scarcely sat down to their meal, when they, as well as the inhabitants around them for some distance, heard a sort of rumbling noise, as if of distant thunder, and the next mo ment a tremendous and deafening explosion followed, and the air was illuminated with of various descriptions, and accompanied by continued reports. The concussion was so great that the inmates in the different houses were shaken from their seats, many of whom were sitting at their breakfasts, and the table and tea things were upset and broken to pieces. The window frames were all forced out, and the brickbats and materials were flying about in every direction. The roofs of Mr. Broek's manufactory, and the factory of Mr. M`Devitt adjoining, were blown a considerable height, an the falling materials did very great mischief. After the agitation was somewhat subsided, an inquiry into the cause of the accident took place, when it appeared from the statement of the two boys (who were blown a considerable height and much injured) that they were at work, ramming the rockets, when the ram-rod struck against the funnel, and the friction caused a spark, which flew into a bowl of gunpowder that stood near them ; this soon exploded, and ran like a train to all the other lire-works in the factory, and at length communica ted to the magazines, which caused the disaster. Mr. Brock, however, declares it could not have arisen in that that way, as the nipple of the funnel was copper, therefore a friction world not cause a spark. One poor woman, sister to the beadle, who lives next door to Mr. Brock, was so dreadfully injured by the broken glass, that she lies in the London Hospital without hopes of recovery. The, following houses have been injured by the explosion—in Baker's-tow, Mr. Anderson, butcher; Plunkett, beadle of Whiteeliaptl ; Prendergast, coal-dealer; Livesay, baker. In Princes -street, Mr. Davies, coal-dealer ; Kenning, tal low-chandler; Boswell, ironmonger; Constantine, tailor; Philemon, clothes-dealer ; the King's Head public house at the corner, and about sixty other houses, most of which have their windows demolished from top to bottom. We arc sorry to state that Mr. Brock, who is considered a most ingenious artist, is by this accident reduced to ruin, as he was uninsured, not being able to pay the premium rt quired by the Insurance Offices, his business being treble hazard ous. His loss is estitnated at 8001., and he has a wife and six small children. He states that he had only 2S pounds weight of powder by him at the time, but the mischief was done by the quantity of fire-works that were on the pre mises in an unfinished state, and the powder and composi tion being thus confined was the cause of much mischief being done. On Tuesday week a young man, apprentice to a black smith at Langwith, near Cockney, in Notts, slightly scratched one of his fingers with a rusty nail, which soon caused an extraordinary degree of inflammation along the I arm. In a few days the complaint reached the head, and he died on the Sunday following. A most disgraceful occurrence took place in Phillips burgh Avenue, Dublin, on Sunday night. A wedding had taken place in a house, towards the tip of the Avenue, and a gangof men, perhaps fifty or sixty in number, assaulted the inhabitants, and insisted upon money and drink. It terminated in n brutal attack on the premises—the windows were broken, and many of the slates torn down. The lives of the men were saved, by the presence of mind of the females, who actually locked them up in a back room, or they would have been murdered ! The party then pro ceeded to a garden, which they robbed. A remarkable accident happened lately tonne of the eons of a respectable trade/nail in Stamford. Walking in- the! meadows on the banks of the Welland, he approached a person who was angling in the river, and he stood for a few gerin(ln to look on ; the angler drew out his line, and pave it the usual swing, with the intention of placing the float in a new situation, when, by an extraordinary acci dent, the hook struck the youth who was looking on, and actually fastened together both the lids of one of his eyes, so as completely to close them. It was feared that the barb had also penetrated the orb of the eye, but it was found practicable to extricate the hook by a simple cut of the eyelids, and that the eye itself was not at all injured. It is supposed that the youth involuntary winked as the line was whirled by the angler, and that at that in stant the hook entered and fastened together the two eye lids. CHINESE CRIMINAL LAW. The following is a cot" of a paper, printed in English type, on Chinese paper, at Canton, raid delivered on board vessels arriving there, for the gutilance of all concerned. The law! , therein mentioned, it appears, are rigorously exe cuted. It will he recollected, that the whole commerce of England with China came near being interrupted not long ago, in consequence of a Chinese being killed, accidentally, it was said, by something being thrown into a Chinese boat from nn English : COI'Y OF TRANSLATION OF EXTRACTS FROM TILE CHINESE. CRIMINAL CODE OF LAWS. " Transmitted to the President of the Select Committee, by the Viceroy of Canton, in April, 1800. 4 ' 1. A man who kills another on the suspicion of theft shall be st ff rangled according to the law against homicide committed in an " ara 1 . A man who fires at another with a maker, and kill* him , thereby, shall be beheaded, as in cases of wilful murder ; if the sufferer is wounded, but not mortally, the offender shall be seal into exile. " 3. A man who puts to death a eriminal, who had been opera !tended and made no resistance. shall be strangled, according to the law against homicide committed in an affray. " 4. A man who falsely accuses an innocent person of theft, le cases of greatest criminality, is guilty of a capital offence ; in ail other Casts, the offenders, whether principals or accessariex, shall be sent into exile. " h. A nv.n who wounds another unintentionally shall be tried according to the law respecting blows given in an affray, and the punishment rendered more or las severe, according to the degree of injury sustained. " If. A moo who. intoxicated with liquor. commits outgoes against the laws, shall be exiled to a desert country, there to remain in a state of servitude. " The foregoing are articles of the laws of the empire of China. according to which judgment is passed on persons offending, against them, without allowing of acy compromise or extenuation.', CHESTER CIRCUIT. CHESHIRE ASSIZES, CU ESTER, Ssrz. L This mitt-fling the Court sat precisely at eight o'clock, when IVnt. Br•oks, who had been found guilty of cutting and maim ing alargare: Rhodes, was ordered to be put to the bar. The Clerk of the Amigos said, " William Brooks, what have you to say why judgment of death should not be passed upon you according to Low ?" Prisoner—l have served a long time In his Majesty's service, and I hope your Lordship will be merciful to me. The CHIEF JUSTICE then proceeded to pass sentence of death on the prisoner, in the moat solemn manner, as follows:—" Wm. Brooks, you hare been tried on an indictment charging you with wilfully and maliciously cutting and webbing Margaret Rhodes. with an intent to murder her. The Jury acquitted you of the tirst part of the indictment, a^d found you guilty upon the second, of the cutting and maiming the said Margaret Rhodes, with the view of dole!? her some bodily harm ; and there is no doubt that ii her. death had followed. that you would have been tried for wilful mur der. The Court delayed passing judgment in hopes that some thing might trammre Nvourahle to your character. This has been the ease, and we have thought nnxiously whether we could come to the conclusion of recommending you to his Majesty's gracious mercy, which we shall do, but whether you will be considered a fit object of the prerogative of the Crown, I cannot take upon me to say ; let me, therefore, beseech you to employ the short time you may have to live in this world in prayer and repentance, and not to indulge in the hope of mercy on this aide of the grave. My, painful duty is now to pronounce the awful sentence of the law upon you, which is. that you, ‘Vm. Brooks, for the crime you have been found guilty of, be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be banged by the neck until you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul." The prisoner looked dreadfully pale, and kneeled down the whole' , time: lie trembled exceedingly. His execution (if not respired) is expected to take place on the Illth. lIELSLY AST) ANOTIMR V. 3IFAIIS AND OTHEDS. This was an anion against the Liverpool and II olyheAd coach proprietors. Verdict for plaintiff; subject to a special case to the Court above. MADDO'I V. SADIE. ' Verdict for plaintiff in a similar action, for the loss of two parcels of gold and ►ilver watch-cases. Total damages, &4U. WANTON MISCHIEF. Last week, a respectable family in Rutherglen were molested with rather a singular species of annoyance. Their dweliMg-house is enclosed with walls. part of which form a back area or court, containing washing-house, byre, Ace., and into which the kitchen windows look. The door into this area, which is a little way front the house, locks from the outside, and has an iron bolt far occasionally fastening it inside. Tuesday night the servant, soon after being in the court, had occasion to return, but, upon attempt ing to open the door. found, apparently, to her great astonishment. that it was bolted within ; access was obtained however by the win dows alluded to, wilco there was nobody found in the court ; this was repeated several times in that and the succeeding night, until the family were puzzled, annoyed, and the younger branches and women somewhat frightened, and the servant, a stupid looking girl, from the neighbourhood of Glendaruch, almost in hystetics with terror. Matters became worse, a pane of glass in the kitchen and some articles of earthenware in the court, were aniaahed In the same mysterious way ; milk was transferred by Invisible hands, from the tubs used to contain it, to places where it had no right to be, and butter, kept in a place off the byre (corn-house, ) was found in the boiler in the washing-house. At last, on Fridny, as some of the family were in the kitchen, about dusk, with the lower sash of the kitchen window up, an iron four pounds shot, such as is sometimes used for breaking coals, was thrown through the window, breaking two of the panes in its passage, and striking the wall close to where a young girl, one of the family, was standing. This was a little too serious —the neighbourhood was in an uproar, and as they had not been able to detect any human agency, the effects were ascribed to witch craft, ghosts, or the Devil in propria persona. One of the sons having been led by circumstances to guess from whence the whole procreded„ concealed himself amongst some hay, on the ensuing evening, within the area, determined to seize or shoot the tormentor, if it should appear again. The householder, cne of the borough magistrates, had quietly drawn a cordon of the civil power round the house, and every thing that human and magisterial sagacity could suggest, was put i 3 practice to render the plans effectual. Scarcely had evening begun to spread her dusky mantle over the earth, however, when the kitchen window was slowly and eau. tiously raised, and the servant, whose apprehensions had been ' so violent and clatnorous, crept nimbly out, and slipping softly to the door, had inserted the bolt as the first act of the drama. but before she had time to withdraw her hands from the latch, the anibu•coile, pistol, and all were at her side. The usual circum stances followed. She was at first obstinate and sulky, but when the Bailey and the city guard appeared, showing a view of Bride well in the distance, she confessed the whole. Upon being ques tioned as to her motive, she could give none, and had nothing to I complain of against the family. She, however, succeeded in soft-1 ening the heart of the worthy Magistrate and his lady, who, as- 1 cribing the whole to the influence of the arch enemy, instend of sending her to Bridewell, as she richly deserved, kept her till Mon- 1 day, and paying her the balance of her fee, dismissed her, with an advice to behave better in flume. In return for this excess cf for bearance, we understand, the damsel has been very active in de nying to every one as having had any hand in the business, and ac cusing her master and mistress with having extorted a confession of guilt by the terror of Rutherglen gaol.—Glasgote Paper. SINGULAR ESCAPE AND RECAPTION OF A PRISONER' A daring attempt at escape was made on Saturday from the Po lice-office, Bow-street. Mary Anne Smith, a woman about twen ty-five years of age, was committed to the House of Correction for an assault upon a watchman. Previous to her removal she was locked up, to wait the convenience of the officers, in the gaol yard, the place usually allotted to those prisoners who are not in custody for any criminal offence. This yard is twenty or thirty feet square, and surrounded by a brick wall of twenty feet in height, and it was over this formidable barrier that the prisoner. Smith, resolved to effect her liberation. Taking advantage of the tem. perm., absence of the gaoler, Ford, she placed the wooden bench, upon which the prisoners sit, upright, and using this as a ladder, contrived to reach the shutter which encloses the grating midway. in her escent, and thence to gain the top of the wall. From this elevation she made her way over house and chimney top, until ' she had attained an open window on the back part of the house of Mr. Day, bootmaker, in Russell street. From this window to the landing place of the stairs, a distance of some feet, she must have made a dangerous leap over an interval, de. scending the whole depth of the building.' This unexpected chasm indeed had neatly proved fatal to her pursuer, and had the woman missed her footing in any part of her track, instant 1 death must have been the consequence. In the mesh time, no tice having been given of the escape, Ford commenced a pus. snit by the game mute. When he reached the window in Mr. Day's house, he threw himself in, and losing his balance fell, and would have been precipitated hcad-foremost to the foot of the building, had he not providentially arrested his desent by holding on with one foot to the ledge of the window. In this perilous position he remained hanging for some moments, when by a des perate effort he contrived to spring up, and succeeded in grasping the balustrade of the staircase. by the help of which he soon re. gained hie lees. It the house of Mr. Day considerable alarm was created by this aerial invasion of the premises. The woman I K it to the street door unnoticed, when she was m e t by M r . Day. To him she confessed her purpose; and he told her that the best plate for concealment wax the cellar, into which she almost immediately distended: but the officer was already in the house, and overhearing the dialogue, followed up and secured the pri soner. Mr. Ilinshull. upon being informed of the particulars, went to visit the fugitive. The poor creature stated that she had been driven to rick her life in the manner she had done, on sc.' count of two infants, who depended upon her for sustenance, their '1 tether having died three weeks ago. In consideration of the woman's distress. and the perils she had encountered for the sake of her liberty, Mr. Alinshull, with a suitable admonition, hu manely ordered her to be discharged. He considered that the terror at 'the situation which lice 'hazardous enterprise evinced would operate to deter her from future offence. The wall will be im mediately made proof against further attempts of this kind. Not one of the many desperute characters confined in this place ever ventured upon such an undertaking, and up to the present mo , sum scaling the wall has always been considered impracticable. POLICR. LOVE IN TOE KITCHEN. Bow•STREtT, SEPTEMBER 'd.—An unfortunate wietd, wy o called himself Samuel I.eehmore, an engraver, all the way from Ballyporeen was brought up in custody of the guardi ans n: tae night, charg ed with heing found at an tuateasonable hour, k ., d under somewhat suspicious circumstances, in the kitchen of td, Edward Bright; of Castle-street, Leicester-square. The watchman, after producing his man, agreeable to esta blished usage, informed the Magistrate that the gentleman till s gave him in custody on the previous night did not wish to press the case any further, as on inquiry, there did not seem to be aay nious intention eontemnlated. "Then," said the MAGISTRATE, very naturally, . 4 How faz, he there ■t such an hour ? " Why then, Sir," replied the watchman, scratchin g his ?e,d, and looking, as he conceived, very archly st the culp r i t, s. 1 bt. Here it was only a small bit of a courting match that h e was ear. hands, and tri t e Tying on with the cook; but if your Worship likes to he ar h er, tee lady" herself is waiting outside. " Oh I by all means, let us hear the lady," returned b., Worship, and a messenger was straightway despatched t o requ i te Ler attendance. The lady came in " blushing," not like th e " rose, " but as our friend Sam says •' like a head of yeti cabbage," ard having made one of her most greasrful dips in the pra—at the b it we mean, she turned round and cast such a look of unutterable es. quisite tenderness on her inantorato, that it 1/111 , seemly necessary o to f i , n . q v ui o re y o o n u w k h i o a w t t t e h r a na t s m tl a i n ey r lt , t , s od he c ; ir b i o p t rd in l ie r e e f p a l t y to the qu est i on 1 impassioned energy exclaimed, " Know hint I 0 Lord pr eser4 us imp assioned I do. Sir,—it would be very strange indeed if a body I did'nt know her own sweetheart." A general burst of laughter fol. ' lowed the delivery of this irgenuoua confession, which helped t o paint with a deeper tint the ample cheek of the gentle maid, an d involved the amorous swain in the most pitiable confusion, Had ' Welch, the comedian, been there, he must almost involunt ar il y have burst into hi s admin.ble FO! g of " Fat Dolly th e C oo k , ad 'the Dripping-pan Lower," of whom this " fond pair" were net. tainly the prototypes. Our Dolly gave a history of the business, which carried conviction with it, merely from its artless simplicity, After the ordinary avocation of boiling and baking was oier, g is I sometimes indulged.filr. Lechmore with an hour of her society at night. lle used to say such sweet soft things in her delighted ear, ' that she " took no note of time," and in one of those prolonged " moments of prattle and pleasure" were they detected on Friday night, by her mistress, who, however, was now quite satisfied aids the explanation given. The Magistrate must needs be of thrums opinion, as the moat determined sceptic cannot deny the sovereignty of the Mighty Ruler of Hearts; and Dully and the Dripping, pan Lover lett the Officet ogether, a happy pair. PATENT TOOTH DRAWER. HATTON% 0 ARDEN, SE PT. 3.—A publican, named cuff, maid. ing in Cow.cross, was brought up by Lee, the officer, on a charge which very seriously affects the interests of modern dentists, but widen, if once brought iota general practice, would be conducive of the most essential benefit to such of the human race as are fated to feel the torturing agony and sleepless sufferings produced by "a raging tooth." The complainant in this case was an elderly man, named Rooth, anditis complaint was to this effect. A few nights hack he went, it seems, to Mr. Cull's licivae, fur the express purpose of employing his teeth (of which he fl attere d himself, at that time, no man of his years could boast a more powerful set), on a very excellent tender rump steak, to which, by the way, he did ample justice ; after diluting it with some copious draughts of stout, he went to the bar to settle the shot ; but, in so doime, a dispute arose betwixt hint and his host, when t h e l atter struck hint a violent blow in the mouth, which sent two of his very beat friends to the " tomb of all the Capulets ;" in a word, the front teeth of his upper jaw went clean down his throat, and ever sires he had been " quite chap fallen." Evidence was produced in con firmation of the assault, though the witness who proved it could not speak with any thing like certainty as to the extraction of the teeth. The defendant stria, he was prepared to admit a blow having been given, but then Pt was of so very gentle weight, that it could not possibly have disturbed a tooth in a much more antiquated jaw. However, as evidence was, at all times, better than bare as sumption, he was ready to prove that those two identical teeth, which the complainant now so pathetically righed after, had de. serted their residence full twenty years before. A professional gentleman.'well known as a surgeon-dentist in the neighbour lucid of Cow-cross, then came forward, and placing what the Smithfield horse-dealers call a " grin".on the nether lip of the beast, the gentleman, after attentively examining the vacant call. ties, gave it as his firm opinion that the former occupants had been a long time absent from home. 31r. 'Peaks, a chimpedist. who has also a very . extensive practice in the way of cuppine, bleeding, and tooth-drawing, stated that he had a stunt tune since pre.lessionally operated on 31r. Rooth, the complainant; that then the front teeth were perfectly sound and firm as a rock ; indeed, It would have required a very great muscu lar effete to extract them. even with the aid of the regular Mgt.'. ment ; but what rendered the loss of still greater moment was, that one of those valuable articles happened to be what is learnedly elle] the dear sapient's, or tooth of wisdom, without whicha man is n.s better than a fool For the Magistrate's satiaftetion, the complainant's mouth was then Arawn to 1 s utmost expansion, and so fur as our visual per. ception served usoire certainly agreed in the opinion of our friend the surg2ol -dentist, that many of the cells had been long tenantlesi, and that all tlio , t , teeth remaining had seen active service, and aut. fered great dilapidation. . . The'M gistrite said that, in some respects, he saw great diffi culty in fairly deciding on the merits alma a case. The evidence of the protessional gtnticmen being at variance, he should draw a line of demarcation bttwiit surgery and justice; in the former no. thing had been proved. but in the latter there had, bemuse an assault was sworn to. That the teeth were even unbroken there appeared to be some dcubt ; but that the peace was broken there could be none whatever. The defendant was therefore ordered to find bail, UNION-HALT., SEPT. 3.—lnformation wan given at this °Mc: of the following robberies :--On Thursday night between nine and ten o'clock the apartments of Mr. Edward °lrene one of the brethren of Dulwich College, were broken into. and the following property carried off by the thieves, viz.—One five pound flank at' England note, thirteen sovereigns, two half sovereigns, a silver watch, together with half a dozen of linen shirts, and a quantity of muslin handkerchiefs. The Corporation of Dulwich College and the Dulwich Association have offered a rewind of NJ. for the ep. prehension and conviction of the of or offenders. The following morning at an early hour, as a gentleman named Boyle was crossing the Waterlos Bridge, from the Strand to the Surrey side, on hi. arrival at the toll gate he took from his pocket a very elegont gold snuff-boy and presented the toll collector with a pinch. The box being observed by two men of respectable ap• pearance, who followed Air. Boyle over the bridge, one of the m, after lie had got a little distance down the Waterloo-road. requestel in a polite manner to try the quality of the snuff. The request was no sooner made than the box was produced, and the moment the fellow beheld it he snatched it out of Mr. Boyle's hand, threw the amain his eyes, and ran off, followed by his companion. The surprise and pain occasional by such un audacious attack rivetted Mr. Boyle to the spot, who was unable to proceed after the per• petrators of the robbery, and they unfortunately escaped. LtviNcirrow CODE.—It has been stated in several pa pers—and, we believe, the statement has been copied in this Journal—that the Code of Laws prepared by Mr. Liv ingston for Louisana, had been adopted by that State, and carried into operation. We have reason to believe that the statement is Hot entirely correct. The Legislature of Loui siana authorized the preparation of a Civil as well as a Cri minal code for the State. The find, which was confided to Mr. L. conjointly with Judges Derbigny and Moreoo, has been adopted, and is now in force. The preparation of the Criminal Code was intrusted to Mr. Livingston alone; and ' this it was which was destroyed by fire in New York last year. The Legislature require the delivery of it on the Ist of January next, and though it will, no doubt, be se verely laborious to Mr. Livingston, it is generally belitved that he will be ready by the time prescribed.—Washington Journal. On Wednesday last, another very large pike was caught, by a party from Aylesbury, at the Weston reservoir, near iirendaver. The fish weighed nearly twenty-seven pounds, and measured three feet nine inches and three quarters in length. Thirty-eight persona partook of it. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst. in Stratford-place, the lady of T. A. Warre. Esq. of a son. At the European Hotel. Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the 2d ult. the wife of John Hewett, Esq. of Crofton Hall, Kent, of twins. On the 26th ult. at the Caledonian Cottages, St6ke Newington, Mrs. William Fraser, of Demerara, of a son. On the Stith ult. the lady of Joseph Weld, Esq. of IY.rwell House, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. at Statenborottgh Rouse, near Sar.dsich...! . c lady of John Godfrey, Esq. of * daughter. MARRIED. .......... On the Ist instant, at st. John's, Hackney, Charles E.g. to Sophia Isabella, only daughter of Robert Wright, E,g Hackney. On Thursday last, at St. Martin's.ln-the-fields. David llsrti. nesu, E. of 'fialse.hiU, to Catherine Edgar, daughter 01 Ih• Hyde. of Paris. Captain Gilson R. Fox, of the Hon. Company's maritime servo, to Barbara. daughter of William Simons, E.q. of Mile-end. On the 28th ult. the Rev. John Coker, B.C.L. late Fellow of New College, and Rector of Radcliffe, Buckinghamshire, to Charlotte Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Major-Genera/ Dewar. On Saturday, at Ilittry-la-bonne Church, by the Rev. William Canning, tie Right Honor a bl e St rat f or d Cann ing, his Majesty Ambassador at Constantinople, to Eliza Charlotte, eldest daughter of James Alexander, Esq. of B:martian, Kent, M.P. and fist maw to the Earl of Caledon. DIED. Leta! at lakanser Castle, County Art:lm, Mrs. Mao:sane? Hume, niece and heiress to the late Earl of Macartney. On the Ist inst. after a short illness, the lady of Reginald Wia hams, Esq. of Upper Ikdford-plaee, surgeon. -.sot - - --- HIGH WATER AT LONDONBRIDGE THIS Morning 36 min. after if. I Evening 4 min. after 7. Printed at THE - BRITISH PRESS Office, by J. IV - • ll isaros , 181, Strand, and published by R.CANSON, same place. s 41 4.1 Ta • Cut Da Du, h Be Ca Dr L to' be( vece CXCI whi •41d iolt I is a Imo ing fora marl• hag I I thel e!tpi 'esti • oth • ten • alter odor den N beta C Nh Meet o'clo whit have that • by it mach • Ores of 3,1 Tt by it P teq, ..n g TI hot 7t) it et • ti 7• 4 . rr‘ an, A bey al •