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W . - . • i • 7 . COPPERING SHIPS' BOTTOMS. There are few measures of policy, and few discoveries in science, however obvious, that, on their first being made 11 [ 1 1 0 1 ,10 t- are not opposed by some individuals, either from mistaken or interested motivic ; to what class we arc to attribute the constant attacks in some of The Papers on Sir Humpbry Davy's improved method of coppering ships' isottoms, we know not; it is our business to show that they are unfounded, It is already known, that many months ago the Sama rang was fitted out at Portsmouth, on Sir I lumpliry Davy's plan; and that she has recently returned to that pert, fsot l n a voyage principally undertaken to put the experi ment to the test. About a fortnight ago the Hampshire Telektaph, noticing the return of the Samarang, stated, that though " the oxidation of the metal (a slip of which is, aesording to Sir umpliry's plan, placed on the edge of the copper sheathing), is prevented by the defensive action of the iron, the animalcule, which this oxidation used to destroy, now prey in such security upon the vessel, that the bottom of the Samaraug is covered with worms, bar nacles, gild seaweeds, to a degree which prevents her being steered with necessary safety. She has, therefore, returned to F e aglitnalm rethwked and re-copperetl.7 To this statement we gave, on the best authority, the most positive contradiction, and should scarcely have re curred to this subject had not the Timis of yesterday morning prefaced another article from the Hampshire Telegraph, by afFecting to doubt the accuracy of our refutation, as the source of it was not mentiooed. It is true we did not give our authority, but it was not anonymoue ; and we now do not hesitate to say that it was such as the l'imes would not for a moment have daqbted : we shall now, however, give other evidence in support of our statement. The Hampshire Telegraph, without noticing the direct contradiction of its former paragraph, gives, " from a Correspondent," ar.other article, asserting that the boa , m of the Semarang ." is In ithe same state as any other ship without the protectors—that the weeds Lave grown about two indlies. in length—that the protectors themselves are decomposed ;" and that "an mlicer belonging to her states, that he saw, in the clear water of Bermuda, that her bottom was covered from stem to stern, from two feet be low the waft:-lice down to the kelson, with weeds front 12 to 15 inches in length. The Alp was then so incapable of being steered, that the Bermudian pilots would not take the charge of navigating her into that port." These are positive assertions; 'they are, however, as posi tively trontradicted by the HampchireChreuicle (an equally good authority as the Telegraph) received yesterday loom ing, in the following paragraph The Satherang has been docked, for the purpose of inspecting tbe stetter her capper, which is found to be perfectly free (rem all accumulation of binnacles, tec. as was at first reported. The iron plates fixed In her km .i, very notch corroded. but the copper is as clean ae when ft was first tried: the experiment, we understand, was made with old cropper." The 'same paptr contains a report of the meeting of the Portsmouth Philosophical Society, which is still snore Ile esive, anti. is confirmed by a letter we have received from a known correspondent in that town, which we subjoin. Mr. Cull, the President of the Sobriety, took the opportunity of contradictine the erroneous statements which bad gone forth. He said ,' "he had minutely examined the Samarang since she came into dock, and he-said it on the authority of naval gentleman experienced in the subject, as well as on his own, that no ship in his Majesty's navy ever came home from a foreign station, with a dearer copper, or in a better state ef bottom. Nothing, in fact, could be more satisfactory than the appearanee of the ship's copper. The accumula tion of weeds or shells was peculiarly small, and little else but a few of the minutest limpets had become attached in the space of several months." The President also denied that the Semarang had been sent home in consequence of the failure of Sir Humphry's plan, or that it failed at all. We now subjoin the letter from our correspondent, and leave the lierripshice Teit ,feraph and its correspondent to defend its charges as they can. " Portsmouth, Sunday Evening. " Sta—Various reports being in circulation relative to the state of his Majesty's ship Swimsuit, docked here on Thursday last, and the subject having excited the liveliest interest in this neigh bourhood, I beg leave to hand you some remarks made by the President of the Philosophical Society of this town, on Friday evening. " The President (James Cull, Eaq.) remarked—. I wi,h respect to the experiments of Sir 11, Davy. I thine it would have been much more in accordance with what is due to this able experi mentalist, that no observations should be made on the success of these esperimenti till Sir Prirnvy had Waidleret thaw, as ass* , give his own tesimony as to their importance, and the value to which t h e y a re entitled. Considering, however, the degree of in terest which these experiments have excited in the public mind, it was not, perhaps,. extraordinary that persons, whose province it is to make communications to the public. should have allowed them tofives to be misled by the representations of persons who wete pro bably but ill qualified to report on such important and delicate sub- Jests, and which must require some degree of chemical knowledge to aid their observations; nor should I have thus publicly noticed these things, if the reports had not originated in these towns.' " 1 have carefully examined the bottom of the vessel, and instead of the experiment having failed, the contrary is most decidedly the case. The Semarang had been represented to be so fool that she would not answer the helot, and the pilot of Bermuda refused to take charge of her, so that it became necessary to bring her home and dock hem The lovers of natural history here were milt en the alert, expecting to find an association of everything curious in the marine world adhering to her copper ; when, to the astonishment of all, she was found to be in a very considerable degree less foul than ships in general are, returning from this station, after such a space of time as she bar been out. A Naval Captain, of the highest rcputation, made at the same time a like observation. It was quite appar,nt that a very active principle had been in fell and vigorous operation. The Iran plates were softened into a spongy mass • and, for some distance round the plates, the iron was as larigfit as when it first issued from the rollers of the Dock-yard a very few small barnacles were attached to the copper in the inure d:ate vicinity ul the plates; and in no part of the ship did the va l et- Linen exceed two incites in length, and it was of the most minute kind, and of the greatest delicacy 01 structure. '' Sir 11. Davy is expected here to-morrow, to view the ship." Sit C. GSA NT.—We are concerned to state, that this gallant officer met with a serious accident on Wednesday. .lifter attending the morning parade at the Royal Barracks, be was about to return home, when his horse becoming restive, threw him violently, and the animal itself falling, railed over him. Sir Colquitoun was with some difficulty Aliened from his dangerous situation, and conveyed to bra house, when surgical aid was immediately procured. We utdcrstand he is very severely hurt.—lrisA Times. DEVIZES, SUNDAY NiI:MT.—RU TII L ILFORD V. HAYNE AND OTIILRIL—The public curiosity respecting the trial far the assaith in this case, which was to have been tried st air approaching Sessions an Tuesday, is not likely to he gratified. A paracraph asipeared respecting it, by which it was evi.lent Mr. Bayne intended to prefer cross bills against the prosecutor. The circumstances were inquired into, and an arrangement commenced, the result of which was, that the attorneys for the prosecution consented on the part of the proseeutor to withdraw his proceedings on payment of their costs. This stun, amounting to 601. was this eveni _ paid them, and the husir.ess settled. Time LATE Ma. LEE.—We noticed in our last paper, that the Inquest held at Rossinptnn-bridge, on the SsAth ult. on the body of Mr. John Lee, of Awkley, who was found drowned, had bseu adjourned to Tuesday last, at Doncaster, ha consequence of the absence of evidence which was deemed material. At eleven o'clock in the morning of this day, the Coroner and Jury assembled at the Mansion gouse ; and after a long and elaborate investigation, the 411EY retired for a few minutes, and, on the evidence before r t teem, returned verdict of " Wilful murder against B. Adams and r e, his wife, of this place." The Jury war compotk -of highly respectable gentlemen of the :own and neighbourhood, and, it was After midnight before the Coroner closed his professional duties on this Inquisi sap. i We forbear entering into the evidence at prosent. ars prisoners were committed, under the Coroner's witrrant to York Castle on Wednesday, to take their trials at she miming Assizes.—Doncaster Gaiette. kisser. I NST•S; C K or SUDDEN DE•Tli.—StthdAy morning a Lady who war attending with her family the peeferrnauee of public worship, at Dr. Rees's Chap el, Jew in-street, fell down in a tit of apoplexy. She was standing in the act of prayer at the time. Medical aid was latmediately called Al, but to no purpose • the spark was quire extinct. The Rev. Gentleman who Officiated for Dr. Item; at the conclusion of the sermon, alluded to this nit laischoly evert in a very feeling and powerful manner. hissisc lisrissictocs.—Copper OYES sold at Redruth, ...lao:t i ins, 9.525 tons. Average produce, 7s. Quantity of fine capper, 191 tons 16 cwt. Amount of sale, 17,/1341 lag Average standard, 1261. .e ~ ~ li 7 - 70 ~.~Ow'~' AN ANIMAL CLOCK. ..!~ --~- The note, of which the following is an abstract, was sent to the Society of Natural Sciences of Switzerland, and is inserted in the Bibhotheque Universelle, vol. xxvii. page 160. Monsieur Cheeannes, whilstresiding during last summer' at Waartens, near EcheHens, ha: occasion to hear some account of a man, who, without any uncertainty or mis-' take, could indicate the precise hour by day or nighty and even the minutes and seconds ; and this, it was said, he did by consulting his pulse. Induced by these reports to make close inquiry es to theAffoundation, he visited the man and'obtained the following results:— His name is Jean Deniel Clievalley, aged 67 years. In his youth, the ringing of bells and vibrations of pendulums constantly attracted his attention, and he gradually con tracted a habit of counting isochronoua vibrations, and dis played considerable ability in calculations. When strong enough, he took pleasure in sounding the bells at school and in church ; and in his nut ution to town and church clocks, he observed, that the beats were 20 or Z 1 per minute, but more particularly 20, counting from the moment of de parture to that of return. After this he endeavoured to force his attention to the reservation, as long aspoasible, of an interval movement, similar as to the extent of time and number of vibrations. "At first," he says, "by adding 20 vibrations to other 20, or minute to minute, he could easily arrive at the conclusion of an hour, and mark all the subdivisions which he wished, and that without confusion ; but the thoughts and corporeal occupations suffered by this attention. By degrees 1 was able to count whilst thinking and acting; but I could not proceed far, because my mind, making a certain effort for a length of time, though but slightly serelible t' myself, became fatigued, and dropped the chain of c'lculation. Nevertheless, in 1789, 1 suc ceeded in acquiring the invariable possession of this faculty, which has never since left or deceived me." Ile was then 22 years of age, and occupied at a school ; but, in consequence of some singular habits, as that of sounding belie, and of some mystical notions he had ac quired, and also certain disputes about the erection of the village clocks, he was dismissed, and went to his mill, where continuing to sound his bells and make his clocks strike, he was nicknamed the Mummy of the Mill. Being on board the steam-boat on the lake of Geneva (July 11., 1823), lie soon attracted attention by his re marks, that so many minutes and seconds had passed since they had left Geneva, or passed other places; and, after a while, lie engaged to indicate to the crowd about him the passing of a quarter of an hour, or as many minutes and seconds as any one chose, and that during a conversation the moat diversified with those standing by; and further, to indicate by the voice the moment when the hand passed over the quarter minutes, or lialf-minutes, or any other subdivision previously stipulated, during the whole course of the experiment. This lie did without mistake, notwith standing the exertions of those about hint to distract his attention, and clapped his hands at the conclusion of the time fixed. M. Chavannes then reverts to his own observations. The man said, " I have acquired by imitation, labour and pa tience, an internal movement, which neither thoughts, nor labour, nor any thing, can stop; it is similar to that of a pendulum, which, at each motion of going and returning, gives me the space of three seconds, so that twenty adieus make a minute, and these I add to others continually." The calculations by which he obtained subdivisions of the second, were not clearly understood by M. Cheyennes, but the man offered freely to give proof of his power. On try ing him for a number of minutes, he shook his bead at the time appointed, altered his voice at the quarter, half, and three-quarter minute', and arrived accurately at the end of the period named. Ile seemed to assist himself in a slight decree by an application of mnemonics, and sometimes, in idea, applied religious names to his minutes up to the fifth, when he recommenced ; this lie carried through the hour, and then commenced again. On being told that the coun try people said he made use of his pulse as an indicator, he laughed at the notion, and said it was far too irregular for any such purpose. He admitted that his internal movement was not so sure and constant during the night; " nevertheless it is easy to comprehend," lie said, " that, when I hays not been too much fatigued in the evening, and my sleep is soft, if, after having awakened me without baste, you ask me what the hour is, I shall reflect a second or two, and my answer will not be ten minutes in error. The approach of day renews the movement if it .has been stopped, or reetiliewit, if it has been deranged, for the rest of the day." When asked how lie could renew the movement when it had. ceased, or was very indistinct, he said, " Sir, I am only a poor man ; it is nut a gift of Heaven ; I obtained this fa culty u the result of labours and calculaCons too long to be described ; the experiment has been made at night many thugs, and I will make it for you ashen you please." M. Cheyennes had not, however, the opportunity of snaking this experiment, but lie felt quite convinced of the 111311 s powers. Ile states that the man is deaf, and cannot hear, at present, the sound of his clock or watch ; and further, that neither of these vibrate twenty times in a minute, which is always the number indicated by the motions of Clievalley when he wishes to illustrate his internal move ment; and he is convinced, according to what he has seen, that this man possesses a kind of internal movement, which indicate:, minutes and seconds with the utmost ex actness. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY, JAx. 10. • - - - - - --- ST•TE OF rue COUNTIII.—We cannot allow a single post to pass without warning the people against the arts of the faction to entrap them into some situation, by which their own safety would be compromised, and the peace of the country endangered. It is delightful, notwithstanding the efforts to drive the pcople into rebellion, that there is an almost general tranquillity throughout the island. There is one unhappy exception, the particulars of which have not yet arrived. In Clogher, ft appears, there has been blood shed, at:alive* have been lost.—Cork Southerl Reporter. llre understand that Bills of Indictment have been sent up to the Grand Jury, and returned found, against Mr. Nicholas Murray Mansfield, Under-Sheriff for the City of Dublin, for a conspiracy to impede the exercise of the functions of the Commissioners of Inquiry, by refusing to give information, at the suit of the Attorney-General, touching the abuses of the Sheriff's Office.—Dublin Free-1 Mall ' s Journal. We have learned, that Mr. Henry Staines, at the in stance of the Attorney-General, is joined with the Crown Solicitor in the prosecution against the Morning. Star.— Paper. Roca NoriCE.—(From the Waterford Mail of Satur day.)—Yestertlay morning, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, a. Y. a Rock notice was served by an armed party on Michael Finn) (tenant to Alderman Mor gany of shim city,) who hell lately gone to reside on the lands of Kilmacomhe, in the barony of Gaultier, county IVaterford. The notice was nailed up against the dwell ing-house, and the psrty on going away fired several shots. There was something peculiarly daring in this outrage, as a reward has been for some time offered for the discovery of the perpetrators of a similar offence against the same in dividual, and there is a police station within less than two miles of the spot. The Magistrates who usually act in this barony sat yesterday to investigate this affair, and proper steps have been taken to protect the present occupants in their farms. The following is a copy of the notice:— " I see that ye are not said by that notice Weave you, so this is the second We are Giving you. and the Jut We Will Give you, and I do assure you, that ye will die the Cruelest of deaths, if ye do not surrender this °mond immediately, for We Will perform an Event. With the Greatest Severity and Maliciousness if ye do not surrender. So As not to spare the life of man Woman or Child A four looted beast belonging to you, an this is a good precaution for you, And even there Vere some of the Fraternity Who Did not approve of Giving you this notice for they are so malicious against you, Sine, ye made nothing of the first notice, ye got. And exclusive!, these Destructions, We will not leave an indivi dual house in that town without burning, so that nothing but Shrieks and Lamentations will be Instil in that town. So it is yourselves hare to avoid these Destructions by Leaving that place. " CAPTAIN HOCK." The burials within the London Bills of Mortality have this year deereasod 350. In Chester they have materially increased. Some attribute our local mortality to Gas—our opinion is, it is owing to a deficiency of Gas.—Chester Cliroukle. We are assured that the cuckoo has been heard in the beginning of the present week in the western part of tii:s county ; and a wren's nest was found last week with vas in it in this neighbourhood.—t-Ercter P4ing Pest. THE BRITISH PRESS. Sittings at Guildhall, &fore LORD Came JUSTICE ABBOTT and COMMON Jacks. LAME V. DE0II0IITON• Mr.Cu ler TY opened the pleadings. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation in damages for slanderous words spoken by the defendant to the prejudice of the plaintiff, in his calling as a salesman of cattle. The defendant pleaded Not Guilty, upon which issue was joined. Mr. Gra kur stated the case to the Jury. The defendant, Win. Broughton, la a farmer, residing in Norfolk, and the plain. tilt Wm. Lamb, is a salesman in Smithfield cattle market. The defendant's drover delivered to the plaintiff, on the oth of February last, nine head of cattle, which the latter took to Smithfield market the next day to sell fur the defendant. The plaintiff, in the course of the market hours, met the defendant, and told him by mistake that be had sold six of the rattle:—two to Mr. Miller, fur 511. • 61. two to Sir. Collingwuod, for 4 ; and twe to Mr. Joiner, for 511 f. The tact, however, was, that the plaintiff had sold only five of the beast,., Mr. Jenner having been the purchaser of one at 231., instead of tan, as stated by him to the defendant. tie discovered the mistake shortly after he left the defendant, but did not deem it necessary to inform the latter of it at that time, as the defendant had seen four of his cattle driven from the market unsold. On the Monday following the plaintiff sold for the defendant the re maining four beasts, and lent an account of the proceeds, with a check on his banker for the amount, to the defendant. This ac count, however, not being satisfactory, the defendant, on the 23t1 of the eame month, applied to the plaintiff for an explanation, on which occasion the plaintiff informed him of the mistake which he had made, in stating that he had sold six of the cattle, when he had in tact sold only live of then). The defendant d id tot feel satisfied at this representation, and called plaintiff' a rogue and a cheat, and threatened et the same time that he would arrest him for having pocketed his money. Nothing further ensued at that time; the account still remained as already delivered, and no proceedings were taken on either tide. On the 15th of April following, the plaintiff and the defendant met at a cattle-fair. in Norwich. De tendant, in the presence of several persona there, asked the plain tiff when he would pay him the money lie owed him. The plain tiff asked what stoney ? saying lie did nut understand hint • upon which the defendant said, ••• You are a thief and a rogue, and have taken me money, and put it into your own pocket." Plaintiff then observed to some of the persons present, who would be called as I witnesses to prove the facts, that he should certainly enter an action against the defendant, and desired they would take notice of the words spoken by him.. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to observe, that those words were calculated to do the plaintiff - very material injury in his business as a.salesinan, inasmuch as they Jens putetl to hunt a fraudulent act, which of course would prevent other deals from consigning cattle to him thereafter. Ile should be able to establish, by the evidence of the persons whom he had named—Miller, Collingwood, and Jenner, that the plaintiffonly sold five of the defendant's beasts on the oth February, instead of ' six , as erroneously stated by the plaintiff to the defendant, and that the account delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant was a cor rect one. Il'hen be should have done this, he then should require of than such damages as would be sufficient to mark theirsense of the unjustifiable conduct of the defendant, and at the same time serve to set the plaintiff 's character in such a light before the world, ea would do away with any injury that might have attached to it In consequence of the slanderous and claummous expressions used by the defendant. Several witnesses were then called, who proved the different sales made by the plaintiff, as stated by the Learned Counsel, and also the slanderous words used by .the defendant. They all said the words were, in their opir.ion, spoken in reference to the particular transaction as to the sale ut the defendant's beasts by the plaintiff. Mr. SCAIILETT, in addressing the Jury on behalf of the defend. ant, observed, that the nature of the defence he had to make was, that the words complained of by the plaintiff in his record did not have reference to the character of the plaintiff gererally, but to a particular transaction, and might therefore be explained. The evidence went to show that disputes had arisen between the plaintiff and the defendant respecting the sale of some beasts ; the plaintiff having represented that he had sold six of the defendant's beasts. and then subsequently that he bad only sold five on that occasion ; whereas the dettrulard insisted, or at least had reason to believe,' that the former statement of the plaintiff was correct. At all events it was clear that the parties could not agree on the statement of the accounts; and the defendant, conceiving that the plaintiff had not given him a true account, requested an explanation, but this not being satisfactory, and still thinking that the plaintiff owed to - him more money than he had accounted to him for, did, on the occasion alluded to, at Norwich fair, ask the plaintiff when he meant to pay him the money he owed him. The answer of the plaintiff was What money ?---1 don't understand you ;" and then it was that the defendant made use of the words complatned of. Now it must be evident to the Jury that those words were not spoken by the de. fendant as of the plaintiff's character generally, but had reference solely and entirely to the matter in dispute between them. If so, the words themselves amounted in het to no more than this—•• I think you arc indebted to me for the value of one beast, and I have I applied to you several times for an explanation, but you have not 1 yet given me a satisfactory one, and, until you do, I shall consider 1 you intend to cheat me, and that you are a rogue and a thief." It certainly would be hard to say that words spoken under such sir cumstances made a man liable to an action for slander. Besides, it really did appear by the accounts, even supposing that the plain -1 dire • gmewskrthat glue wia • sum of 4a. under -1 charged by the Mr. GiJanlifte here huserupted the Learned Counsel, and ex plained that pert ( the aunent, by showing that it was merely an error in casting up the items, the sum being in the account, but not included in the total. 1 Mr. I',CARLETT continued--Ainother reason why the plaintiff' was not entitled to the verdict of *0 Jury, was, that the defendant I had offered, that if the plaintiff would swear to the correctness of his statement, hue should be vatisfited: and yet the plaintiff had DOI done this. it was fair to infer that his reason wait, he would not sweat to a falsehood. Upon the whole, inasmuch as the plaintiff had, on his record, complained of the words spoken as having been said of his character generally, whereas he (Mr. Scarlett) had, he trusted, most satisfactorily, shown ehat they had reference solely to a particular transaction, and were in fact spoken hypothetically-- that so long as the plaintiff refustd to explain his accounts, the defendant should consider that he meant to cheat hint (defend ant) out of his property. The Learned Gentleman did hope the Jury tumid consider that the plaintiff had failed to support Ilia case, and that therefore the defendant was entitled to their verdict. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, In summing up the evidence, ob served, that the Jury had heard a very ingenious argument on the part of the defendant, that they were not to understand the wends as being used generally of the plaintiff, but with reference to the particular transaction which had been so fully explained to them and the Court, and that they amounted to this—that the defendant not being satisfied with the plaintiff's accounts, said to him, " If you do not give me a satisfactory explanation, you arc a rogue and • thief." His Lordship really did not know that a man was, under any circumstances. justified in saying this to another per•on ; that, however, was a point which be should leave for their consideration. If they thought the words acre meant to impute to the plaintiff the intention of pocketing the money of the defendant, then their ver dict ought to be for the plaintiff; with such temperate damages as they should deem the justice of the cue to demand. The plaintiff was certainly entitled so their verdict, unless, indeed, they could take the words in that hypothetical sense in which they had been by the defendant's Counsel represented to have been spoken. The Jury, after consulting a few minutes, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 51. costa 40s. Several other cases were disposed of, which partook of no public interest whatever, the greater part of them being actions op bills of I exchange, and requiring only the proof of the signatures of the dif ferent parties, and of the necessary notices, to entitle the plaintiff in each case to recover. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. IMPORTANT RULE FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF ATTORNEYS. The Cuter COMMISSIONER observed that the Court had fre quent cause to complain of the careless manner in which insolvents' schedules were framed, and the unsatisfactory statements which they contained. It generally turned out, when inquiry was de. mended, that the principal was absent from Court, or, if present, he was unable to give the explanation demanded, but referred to some one or other of his clerks, who he alleged to have read over and settled the schedule with the insolvent, previous to its being filed in Court. The Court had endeavoured, from time to time, to introduce re gulations in this particular, which, however, had proved inefficient; hence it was, that they had come to the determination of protuul paw a further Rule of Court, whiehthey were sorry to observe Would give some additional trouble to the assiduous as well 5.1 t• the careless Attorney. It would seem that sonic of the Attorneys of the Court decimal it enough that their names appeared on the rolls, which being effected, they left the entire management to clerks; hence those blunders and omissions which were alike di.- graceful and disreputable. The following rule, the observance of which would be strictly enforced, would, perhaps, remedy the evil some degree :- 11'hereas, by the Rules and Orders of this Court, it is amongst other things ordered, that every schedule and balance sheet shall be attested by the attorney, and that the schedule shall be signed by the prisoner on every side of every sheet thereof, and at. tested by his attorney ; such signature and attestation to be verified by affidavit of the attorney, to be filed with the schedule. It is further ordered, That frorn and after the Ist day of Fe bruary next, every schedule and balance sheet, and all amendments thereto, be not only so signed and attested by the attorney, but also read Over to the prisoner before his signing the same, or by or in the presence of his attorney, such reading over of the same to be verified by the affidavit of such attorney, to be pr?pared, sworn, and filed with die schedule, pursuant to t h e rule of Court of the 2fith of January, By the Court. LIMERICK, JAN. S.—The Mayor and Magistrates of this City, at a meeting on Monday, resolved to apply to his Excellency, the Lord Lieutenant, to withdraw the In surrection Act from that part of the Liberties now under its operation ; this step has been resorted to In consequence cf the truivillity that has existed for several months back.—Liarcrick Chronicle. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 10. James Pollock was indicted for an assault upon Mr. Bayley, col lector of the water rates. It appeared that the prosecutor made application for the rate; the traverser asked for the receipt. and having received it, he dis charged a bucket of water is the lace of the collector. The latter felt indignant at this mode of payment, and preferred the present indictment for the assault. Mr. ApoLyttus stated the case for the prosecution. The pri• toner was defended by Al r. r. tit vs. The Jury retuned a verdict of Guilty. The traverser was fined 121. with leave to speak to the prose cutor. POLICE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Anne Smith and Mary C,m , ior, two very young girls, were brought before Sir It. litrtr ix. charged with stealing, in con junction with another girl not in custody, 12 diamond and other rings, value 291. and upwards, front the shop of Mr. Vining, a jeweller in Pall-mall. • The prisoners, and a third girl about their own age, went yester day morning into Mr. Vining 's shop, where his daughter only was then in attend:loco, and requested her to show them some gold seals which they pointed out in the window. They looked at them, but, when told the price, said they were too dear, and one of them ob served that she had seen some others in the window which she thought were cheaper, and she would go outside and point them out. At the saute moment the girl not in custody requested Miss Vining to allow her to mire for a minute to the parlour at the back of the shop, to adjust some portion of her dress. Tics Vining gave her permission, and went with her ro assist her, desiring her toothier, who was sitting at the parlour window, to have an eye to the shop. While she was engaged with the gi rl in the parlour, her mother saw one of the other two put her hand to the glass-case in the shop window, and take out a red jewel-casket. In consequence of a pa ralytic affection of the organs of speech, Mrs. Vining can articulate but slowly • and before she could make her daughter understand what she had seen, the two prisoners had left the shop, and were quickly followed by the girl s ho had pretended to adjust her dress. When Allis Vining understood what had happened, she pursued the three girls along Pall-mall, calling to a youtg gentleman whom she saw passing to assist her. They came up with Connor and Smith in Warwick-street ; and the gentleman seizing Connor, while 31 it4l Vining held Smith, asked her what she had done with the casket Y She said she knew nothing about it, but the gentle man observing her endeavouring to conceal one of her hands under her dress, compelled her to open it, and there found eight rings, which Miss Vining identified as being part of the contents of a casket which was in the glass cue just before the prisoners came into the shop. There was nothing found upon Smith. The third girl escaped. Another ring was found dropped in the shop, and the casket was found in the street. The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and were about to be fully committed, when.— Mr. Vining said, that to get clear of a large crowd which had assembled round his shop, he sent for a coach, and came with the witnesses, an officer, and the prisoners, to this office. When he 12ft home, he had a sovereign, unmixed widi silver, in one of his pockets, and since be left tho coach be missed it. Whether or not the ladies at the bar contrived to ease him of it by the way, he could not tell, but he certainly sat next to theni in the coach. The prisoners were taken out anti searched, and though Mr. Vining's sovereign was not forthcoming, something of much greater value was found, in the shape of another of the diamond rings, which dropped from smith's dress duriug the search. The prisoners were committed to Ncwgate for trial. MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE. Yesterday, John Ch;rlreffedtil, a 3oting ... man of very shabby appearance, was charged with picking pockets in the Spanish Am bassador's chapel, during the celebration of high mass. It appeared that the prisoner and another person were observed in the aisle of the chapel, and their manner excited suspicion ; and ' while the congregation were kneeling slitting the consecration, Thomas Ailsbury, valet to Walter Blount, Esq. of Blandford street, mined his pocket handkerchief, and suspecting the priso ner, he left the chapel, and at the door met a constable, who was immediately called in, and the prisoner pointed out to him, his companion having contrived to escape by some other door. The constable took him into custody, and as he was conducting him to the watch-house, he perceived the stolen handkerchief slip down the leg of his trowsers. The prisoner had nothing to offer in his defence, and was fully committed to Newgate for trill. John Cox. • young man dressed in the garb of a groom, was brought up for examination from Gerken well prison, on a charge of robbing a groom named Samuel Clark, a servant to Captain Astley, of Green-street, Grosvenor-square. On the first examination of the prisoner, it appeared that he was allowed to sleep with Clark over the stables, but one morning of the last week he decamped before day-light, with • silver watch and 2L 6s. in money, besides a suit of clothes and other apparel, and a pair of spurs. Clark awoke as the prisoner was going out, and called to him, but he made no answer, and on ascertaining his loss he made application at this office, and the prisoner was apprehended on the sane evening at a house in Bryanstone-street, by Gibbs, and on searching him, the spurs and some trifling articles belonging to the prosecutor were found. lie was remanded, but on being taken to the prison he evinced symptoms of the wildest derangement. having torn his elotbes all to shreds, and burned holes in his boots, and with the utmost desperation felled every one of his unfortunate companions to the earth, until it was found necessary to place him in solitary confinement. Even here Lis extravagancies did not cease. and be destroyed the prison drat which was given him. Ott his being brought to the office he knocked the gaoler down, and alto gether behaved so outrageously, that it was thought expedient too to bring him before the Magistrate, and he was again remanded. UNION HALL. Li the course of yesterdayinformation was given at this Office, of a rely eaten...ire burg lary and robbery, which was ow. 'flitted on Sunday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, in the premises of Mr. Redhouse, a tailor and draper, residing near the Deaf and Dumb School, in the Kent Road. The amount of the property stolen is between 4001. and SCOI. worth, and consists of rolls of broad and superfine cloth, and kerseymere. THE LATE• MURDER AT WHADDON. FRTHER ERTICLARS,I 'We learn that UF U Lynn and Hogg were coopers, employed in the distillery of Sir Robert Burnett and Sons, up to the period of their leaving London. L t ynn, who is between 27 and 25 years of age, is the son of a widow Who keeps a pastry-cook's shop, at the corner of 31orehall-place and the Vauxhall-road, opposite the principal en trance to the Gardens; Hogg has two brothers in the cement fat tory of White and Co., the Lambeth side of Milbank ; his fsther is dead ; Ilogg's lodgings were in the Vauxhall-road. Sunday week a man, who was generally called " Long Dan," and who was employed in Sir Robert Burnett's distillery to carry' out samples of spirits, was missing front his employ, and although revery inquiry has been made after him, he has not since been heard of. It was reported that this nian had conic to a violent death, and this report being mentioned to Lynn and Llogg , they suddenly left town for Liverpool. The friends of Lynn say that he had a quarrel with his family on Wednesday morning, and left immediately in company with Hogg. Lynn stated to his friends on NVednesday morning, that he and Ilogg intended to proceed to Liverpool, and pursue their business in that town, and that he should take the gun with liim, which tic should be able to dispose of if lie and his companion were short of money. TAMING TIIA HYENAS. Yesterday being the day fixed for the decision of the wager, as to whether the keeper of the beasts at Exeter Change had so far overcome the ferocious nature of the hyenas, as to venture into their den, a very considerable number of persons, led by curi osity to witness the performance, in addition to a number of sport ing characters, attended at the above Menagerie. For the greater safety of the courageous keeper, it had been deemed necessary to to have persons so stationed with spears, as to prevent any ill con sequences from the attempt, but this precaution was unnecessary, at, to the utonishment of every one, he played with them like spa. nicl dogs. As the tune of feeding approached, the room became completely thronged, and seldom have we witnessed :note anxiety evinced for the issue of a performance. The unwires were in at. te , idunce at the appointed time, and Toni, (the keeper) in order to 'how that his confidence was unshaken, offered to stake an addi ii():lal corn. The teens of the wager, namely, that he was to go into the den, the male and female being therein, in the usual state, to lock the door of it, and then make both animals walk round him, were read ova. . . . The beasts being fed in regalar order, the keeper approached the dim, and informed the company that the gentleman who had wagered with him had forfeited the stakes; but added, so confident was he of his own power over the animal., that he would not disappoint the company. In fact. he would now do more than lie had promised, for he would first throw them their suppers into the den, and then close the door on himself and them, and bring the food out again. He kept his word, and all present expressed themselves highly satisfied with the exploit. So confident was lie, that he actually appeared quite at home, and declared his intention of regularly performing the same feat. Mr. Freeman, who was robbtd and so cruelly used on Friday evening, at Old Brentford, was still alive yesterday, but in so precarious a state, that strong fears were enter tained for his safety. He was too weak to be able to give any further particulars of the transaction. The police, however, arc making every inquiry in their power. Cosines Dist:Lose xe.—The trial of Macan and Forde, two thieves, before the Commission, could not fail to have excited the attention of the reader. A peace-officer asserted that a fellow came to him to let him know that he was going to rob, and to ask lo borrow money to assist in the commission of the . felony! lle told the Court and Jury that the fellow was not taken up as a vagrant, or held to , bail, or proceeded against in any ',halve ; and next he re vealed the fact of this same fellow having wsited upon him, on a former occasion, to apprist. the police of Ins having been concerned in posting Rock notices in Cbapelisod ! Really these are curious disclosures l—Dublin Morning Rry6ter. es. - MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, Jaw. 10. The arrivals of Flour, as well u every description of Gram (except Oats) have been very extensive since thixday week. The Wheat trade opened extremely heavy this morning, And to effect sales Is. to 24. per quarter less than las , Monday was submltted to on tine wimples, and Is. to 4s. on middling and inferior ones. The price of Flour was nominally the same as last week. Fine Malting Barley was extremely dull and Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper, an d other tors 2s. to Ss. per quarter lower titan this day week. Th e " was little doing in the Os business ; pricer ruled much as lu t week. Beans sold readily at last Monday's prices. Pease of hod, sorts heavy sale and the turn lower. Linseed and Rapeseed beck dull sale, and the latter rather cheaper. Our prices of bonded gra.n must be considered quite nominal, as front present appearance, there is reason to calculate the ports will not open for an 7 a l in e ! ! hut month. WTI CO% Kent and Esse:. (red) Its to 7bs Do. (white) - 6ls to 78s Suffolk (red) 6ls to 74s Ditto (while) . Ills to 76s Norfolk and Lincoln. WALT. Essex 60s to 416, Ditto, brown - ans to t Suffolk & Norfolk 601 to ;o Ditto, brown . bOs to 60s BRAME. English - 261 to 30, Foreign . 26s to tit LINSEED. English -44 s to 4:lt Foreign - 403 to 444 ITEMPSEED. English (per qr.) Ins to 444 Foreign - 4.1) to 441 TAltrs. English (per qr.) 3lis to At Ditto, new -44 s to 486 Foreign . 34s to 311 Ditto, new - 401 to 44* SEEDS. . - Cls to 72s 5k to 63s 36s to 40s Rapeseed (per last) 261 to ri ustardseed (brown) per bushel . 121 to 131 Ditto 4 White L 1 to l it Clo►er, red (per cwt. )-4,54 to to: I Ditto, white - 401 to 761 Trefoil 901 to 56/ Coriander . 91 to 111 Conaway 401 to 461 OTT. C•Lt9. _ - Rapeseed (per ton) 13}1 to rt Linseed (ditto) lel t o Wit /ID. Jas. 8. Rye - 01 Oe to 01 Os Barley . 11 141 to 21 10e Beans . 11 Ns to 21 lot Grey Peu . 21 to 21 se shire (red) Irish HrS - BARLEY. 10s to 16s 33s to 361 Making Grinding . OATS. reed, Essex &Kent 221 to 26s Lincolnshire 22s to 27s Yorkshire 22s no 26n Irish white 2its to 241 Ditto black 213 to 2hs Poland, Lincolnshire 23s to :911 Yorkshire - •22s to 27s Potato, Lincolnshire 24a to 30s Yorkshire 231 to 29s Scotch . 26s to 32s Irish - • Mto 2.7 s DEANS. Ticks, net► . Ms to Ditto, old . 444 to•bIM Pigeon .ins to b•2dt Ditto, old . 47s to 623 PEAS. Hog - 30 s to 38s Maple - - Sys to 40s White . Cis to 50s Boilers . 414, to Ns GUILDFOI Wheat per 1. LS/ Os to 201 Os Oldditto - 01 Os to 01 Os Oats per qr. II 2s to II I.ls Old diuo . 01 Os to 01 Os IIERTFORD, Jaw.B. Wheat, per load of Beans, per load !ns to S5l five bushels -38 s to 621 Yeas `222 to Ws New - . —s to —4 Rye - —s to —a Barley, per qr. . 36s to Lis Tana . to SMITHFIELD. MONDAY. Jaw. 10. There is a considerable supply of excellent Beef and Mutton in Smithfield this morning; and among tte f.rmer we observe a number of good Norfolks. The purchasers at the late high prices not haying been able to remunerate themselves, there was a tardi. nesss in the sales, which could only be effected at a reduction of 2d. per stone for both Beef and Mutton of the best qualities, and other sorts in proportion—Veal, in consequence of the few Calves brought for vile, readily maintains Bs. per stone.—. Porn is without alteration. The numbers of Cattle and Sheep brought to this market in the year 1824, were as follows : Cattle - - 200,372 Sheep . - - 1,506,130 Beef - 4s Od to 4s 101 I Vcal - Ss 01 to 61 Od Mutton - 4s Od to 4 1 10c1 Pork - 4s Btl to bs &l BEAD OF CATTLE TILLS DAT : Beasts, 2,491 I Sheep, 18,520 1 , Calves, 130 Pigs, 180. Hay (Old) New Inferior Clover (Old) _ Ditto ( aferior) - Straw . . 11AY.MARKET. 4/ lts 65 to 5! Os Od -3! 5s Od to 41 7s 64 51 19s 6d to 61 6s Od 4! 5s Od to la 51 Od 11 16s Od to 2! 2s Od NEWIiATE AND LEADENHALL—(BI the Carcase). Reel . 2s ad to Is 3d Veal - 3. 4d to 5s 83 I Mutton . 31 Id to 4s 44 Pork - :is Id to Ss ad PItICE OF BREAD. The highest Price of Bread in the 3letropolis is 11Id. for the four-pound Loaf. There arc others who sell from a halfpenny to three halfpence below that rate. PRICE OF POTATOES JAL Ilk Potatoes -3/ IN Od to 41111. Od pet Ton. Yorkshire Kidneys 41 lOs Od to 51 Os Od ditto. PRICES OF liA ST. JAMES'S. Flay to 110 a Od Ditto (New) Od to —a Od Clover . 72s Od to 110 s Od Straw . 36a 6d to 42a Od PRILE OF 110 PS, POIKETS. Kent 61 Os to 81 04 SUAIIeX - 51 16s to 6/ Ns EMI 61 Os to 71 10i Farnham, fine 101 Os to 121 AND sTKAW. WHITECHAPEL. Hay . 63s Od to 100. Inferior - — 5 ttd to —a *d Clover - 91 s Od to 1294 ad Straw - Nis Od to 421 et per Cwt. JAY. ie. 3AGI. I Kent . 51 lOs to 71 0. Sussex . 51 Se to 61 66 E i gez . St 10i to 61 105 13-4 4 ecrynds 91 Os to 101 Os PRICK OF RAW FAT, per Stone of 81b. Price by Tallow (u stated by the Tallow :Welters), ts did PRICE OF TALLOW Town Tallow - 46 A 6d Yellow RUSliii . 41s Od White ditto -38 s Od looap ditto - 371 Od Melting Stuff - 3 s Od Ditto Rough - lBs Od ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow Soap . 72* Od Mottled . 110* Od Curd Od Graves 16s Ud Good Dais - Cs Od PRICE OF CANDLES. Tho price of good Store Candles in the retail shops is as follow : Candles, per dozen 61 to is Moulds . . Vs RAC►' D.S. Best Heifers and Steen. Ordinary . 2. 4d to 2, 81 per stone 31 Od to 3s 64 Market t alf (eacli) . Its Od Middlings - 2.4 9d to 3s Od SHEEP SKINS. Paid, bs Od to Gs Od I Sheep, Os Od I Downs, 2s Ad to Os 6d Fells. Us Od to Os Od I Lambs, Os Od to Os Od PRICE OF LEATHER, pw lb. Butts, 50 to sfllbs - - -20 d to 21d Ditto, 50 in 661bs - - . 2 2 d to 234 Dressing !fides - - - - I&1 to 1&I Fine Couch flicks - -19 d to 2 1, 1 0: 1d • Light Crop Hides, for Cutting, 33 to 401bs -151 d to 17 41 Ditto, 45 to 5411b0t - . - - (ltd to Calf skins, 34i to 401bs - - 111(1 to 24d Ditto, 50 to 701bs - - - - 234 to 26d Ditto, 70 to 001ba . - - -22 d to 24d Stnall Seals (Greenland) - - • 17d to 184 Large Ditto . - - -16 d to 184 Tanned Horse Hides - . . 13d to 16d Spanish Horse Hides - - lid to Sid - Ships at Market. 63 Newcastle 14 Sunderland COAL SMARM Jear. IA Skip SAL Price. - 39, Od to 414 Gd —s Od to 434 Od Satzens or Pntas.—We have just seen a letter from Carlow, in which it is stated that five hundred pikes had been discovered in the possession of an individual in that neighbourhood ; and that a man was taken in the very act of manufacturing them. We have reason to believe that the foregoing statement is correct; Time:. BIRTHS. Friday, at Bath, the lady;elieuicni.nt-Colonel Daubeny, of s daughter. On the Bth instant, of a son, the wife of Capt. John Lamb, oF the Palinita. On Thursday, at Sueteliley, near Worcester, the Lady of Robert Berkley, jun. Esq. 1!:1lIght On the Ist inst. the Lady of Thomas Burch Western, 1:s1 e . Tattingstonc-place, Suffilk, of a son. 61 A RUED. On the 6th inst. at Plyroptee, the Rev. John Collier Jones, D.D. Rector of Exeter College. Oxterd, to Charlotte, relict of Capt.- Crawley , R.N. and daughter of the late Rev. Duke Yonge. Vicar of Cornwood, Devon, and Sherlock. CornwalL On the 4th last. at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, Chair. Bar ber, 31. A. of Trinity College, thtfOrd, to Caroline, daughter o. Theophilus Richards, Esq. of Edgbaston. DIED. On the Bth Inst. Sir. Storey, of Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. In his 68th year. At Chelsea, at the advanced rge of 83, Samuel Hewlota, Esq. of the Island to Jamaica. At Brussels, on the 27th ult. Charlotte, wife of Edward James. Esq. late of Trelawney, In April last, at Ceylon. Henry, second son of the late Lewis Wm. Ilrouncher, Esq. of l'alllasus, Ihnsetshire. 01 the Slat alt. moat deerly lamented, Barbara, the wife Cl Hugh IL Hughes, EMI. r. 13..1 Zia, Cheshire. At Alnidstone, on the C'h inst. l'abert On Thur•dny, Fanny, trite of Geo. Usher, Esq. Grove.end-plarr. St. John's %Vaud. _ - RION WATER THIS PAY AT LONDON BRIDOIL !darning 37 nails. aria & I Akernoos 5 lOW. 2111111 7• Printed at Tll AKITISH PRAM Mar. by J. W. Canines, Isl, Strand, and publisbed by & CAn*AJli WV Pte• 1 1 ~~ ',e In lily opposite be roost paid to t with all so as to eryance t wren th consequi went th e ucte c n rea d din time fin( ADC2ItI The u the Lin forming of all di Board o Directot %ad disn acts wit ing the act, Tf which el blemen try ove and of he colic for then The I (f the ui London, Noblem (not exe ittninp eeds, t the Boas to have t and to number orighbot ~. I gm T ~-- co l a'' wit .iii sela Sql Lit' - 7134 7 , soul E - A i loSent sale F , ehamed on the N.B hada enabled great pp I and the imported . contact duets, b. ra!ue to rountry London other at ing the the Ths other. It Altho tine, it 1 persona, is clear] forttnriti ment at Sir Ei John 111 r. A T. A. I. L.l NVillii Messrs. erns. 3 IRMIJ DERBY AlAxcii XOTTI: it/EFFI The airide i •he Boai %erred I become roads wi possible Parties to b e i count of the din (wired mous p