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~. e 110138811183. -am 11111P111 01 • NAVAL INTR L LIGENC ein l , - gn •ii , nn for the Jury to deride was this; whether the evideore satisfied them that the story told by the Defradmit &boot the robbery was a fabriestioa, invented fo r th e p ar poses of fraud. If they atoll out satisfy themselves that it was false, sod that there had hams en robbery, they moat And a verdict for the Defendant, MIL* deed would then be vali.l biat if they were satisfied on this point, the Plaintiff would be entitled to their verdict for the differesee between in the pound mid the whole amount of his di tit, which 14•14 4110!., as the deed would be wall and void on the grohnd of its being founded upon a fraudulent consideration. the Airy, after deliberating about tee laimiti a, timed a ya rd:et for the Plaintiff—Damages 400/. About eight o'clock es Tamils, emmiag, Mr. Maurice Howe, of Park-street, lslingtest, WWI stopped in Hulywell. L. , tr, Shoreditch., by three Militias, me of whom kniteked him d. on, and the gas% robbed him of a valuable gold repeetiog oateh and .ppeudages, sod 15s. is mosey, with which they memos!. The same eight the math-home of Mr. Peters, motto. tanker, is Sueth Amllep.street, was broken lute nail eteMbod of eight plate claws, a dashing ben cowered with poessill leather, anti two sew leather ammo frees gigs. Wren... Hay some daring 'Maim fuesed - imans is ester the Mem of Willow', Palaneee•terrate, labegien; the cloth um laid in the perkier fur discs, in which there waa no • prim as the time, and • valuable act of eight ramom, tiehly rnoutited in silver, with a silver stand, was married of by Ike thieves. A few evewiegs ago Mr. Stone was idepped• at the cud of the Terrace, tame his own house, and robbed of his watch led mosop. LIST OP THE AMERICAN NAVY, 1821. Fit fo► Nsis Independence 7B Wag hingion. ,ran li ha ....... . ..... 78 Colombo' 7O Chippewa 7B Plea 1►r1ean....... FRIGATES AND 'Loops FIT TOR SBA. Frigates. Costliest, ..... 3$ Cun►titotioa 5B Muwhask 3B Unity.' St stos ......... 58 Cayenne . 31 Cue/vivre . Jaya .. 58 Peacock .. 10 Magedniiis . .. Conatell.iiisin . 48 Prulirk Congress Tag LINE. Badding. Virrioia .. 78 Penoom!yogis .......... 78 N. York Masao-lunette 7s New Hampshire 7s Aodseveral sonalkr vessels, le;sides guards eostal, &e. The French a•ry consists of 5S sail of the line and 40 frigates. Russia, Denmark, and Holland, are in • very ef fective state. °arose* 3. Arrived t►e Royal George yacht ; cud the Active, Liffey, And Caen I. on, Croat France ; Kenn' front Halifax ; and Ana. &nee, from Dantsie fur ()porno. Sailed the lionthireteth, Sampson, fur Cork and New Soeih W 4611. IPALIIOIITN, OCTOBER 2. Arrival lb. Nottioghaat, Corset, from Loeidun fur Liver. 10044. YARMOUTH, OCTOIRRIL 3. The Juke and Ann, Robinson, which was on shore at the bask of the Pier, has been got off and brought into the hartiour. The John David Campbell, front Newcastle fur London, pat it, here os the let instant, with loss of both anchors. Nana wit, °mogul' 3. Arrived the Prince of Orange packet oaks mail from Hal. id. Soiled the Nocella Claa•loite packet for ditto. aad Lord Panics. packet for Coxbarew—each wish a mail. MAMMA/W. OCTOBEM. 3. Arrived the Andrea, Pauline, from Gale, leaky and soils *phi; London packet, Owen, l o om Lond o n f or Car. marttwo, with loss of anchor, &r.; Frances, Brown, from fund,. land, trek,; and Thames, Wsrderi s from Whitby, with eivoinyird and trustlttrce broke; oleo several vessels fur *hr.litr. Down', OCTOBER 3. An arbor of I 'cwt. Iqr. 01b. with 13 fellsoms of buoy Awe, and six or seven fathoms of old csble, has bees picked up in Door ..vs reads and landed here. Nu marks on it, RIBOOTO11) Loghall made. imax, ()crown 3. S•il. d for *Lc River the Moira, Htsrublow, from ludic, and dm whole of she homeward-buund except the An■ and Am►lia, from (skull.. Put back the Spring. Grove, for the Sontb Seim and re. Walt./ wish the Woodstock mot Lady Popham, fur America; t.eorge, for Cape Coast, and several other.. Seven o'Clock —Wind W.S.W.—Blows wrong and shirk w, saver, with rain. worratr, ocroara 2. Y. sterday it blew a straw gale from the north-west, and several light collier* parted from their anchors, thrre of which drove put the harbour to the souttivrard. The follow log gut in hen with low of an audio, and cable each 1— Cumbertan,l, of Scotus Sluice; Charlotte, of Shield.; Wood hoax, of Buruhasa ; and !Vary, of Burlington. GRAVESEND, OCTOBER 3. Airiveil the Manta", Wilkinson. front Bend. Wednesday the neighbourhood of St. Giles's was throw• into the giestest confusion, in coasequence of the fullowiag circumstance:— A young ems decently dressed was observed going along the streets, knocking down the stalls of china anal apple women, and in other respects conducting himself in a ir.ry si liege sort of m . Ile stewed to have an .ettraurdmaly antipathy to china, fur wherever he Male near to a dal! or chins-shop, he would seise on the •wicks and dash tit. ea ua the ground. A estortl of persomt awsemblad, at.d Bartlett, with Benrick, the beadles, on passing by seat 1.. take him in custody, but he took to his heels, and in flio mid-thee( be rushed into a cellar, where, after relnaias ayg fur some time, lie Caine up armed with a knife, which be bi audishel, and dashed through the crowd, by whom he was Gnawed ; he ran us with the greatest fury, Muslim blows at 'cry body be came near, and clearing all before him. He triad. ail aim at one buy, who narrowly escaped. lie was at I. nth taken into custody after • desperate resistance, and the knife taken from him. He was brought to the Police Office, Alarlborough-elrett, where be was recognised to be the son of a must reapertable gentlemen bolding a public iv:a dims, and was stated to be insane. He was ordered to .1 Wil , and hos friends to take care of him. Tire is in an orchard belonging to Mr. MA lITYII, at Newport, by Linnet-ston, an apple-tree in bloa som, n;iilst a quantity of ripe fruit remain on its branches. There is now standing in a garden belonging to Mts. Detinurr, 1 - ligh.street, Portsmouth, • Bur ins') tree, which is now iu full bloom, being these• sound lime this season. A radish, weighing eight pounds and a half, raised in New Jersey, is now exhibiting in Phila. iltlpt:ia. Last Fiiulay, at the Kilkenny Assizes, Michael flahlan, Jan heuly, and o'. Deluxyorcre tried fur • taiing; a house belonging to Sir Witssr.t• Luifti, at Greeuhridge, in the charge of WIL -3.1.1111 Kturoims, and hurglarinasly entering the rubiong it of firearms, and violently as. smoking KrLiotru, on the night of the 19:h august last. At hulf.past three the Jury retired, sod a a short time returned with verdict of not C•i/to. ritalN nisiekrtMe. (Continua free Pia' illraf pap ) At Sligo, it is stated, that the labours of the Visiting Committee have greatly prospered; the conduct of the prisoners has been wonderfully im proved, and the greatest decorum now prevails in every part of the building. During the last year, the number or commit. merits was less than one-half that of former years, and not one of those who received inistructino has been re-committed for any offence. Several de praved females, it is known, have resisted to the p a th s of virtue and industry, in enneequence of the humane exertions of ladies visiting this prison. At Kilmainham. not one of the prisoners who were the subjects of the Committee's lithours, have been recommitted to it, since their discharge; though in every other class of prisoners, where their time is devoted to idleness and guilt, frequent and melancholy instances have occurred of their return into confinement, under fresh and aggravated charges. At the lite assizes of the county of Antrim, the Learned Judge (Ur. Baron 81•Clrlisisd) remarked, a great improvement in the educetion and moral habits of the prisoners has recently taken place, through the exertions of a gentleman in establish ing a school in the county gaol ; and I am happy ti observe, that the most beoeficial consequences are likely to result from it; and that even some of the convicts have been ou much improved. and such an effect produced thereby on their mind., that disposed to interfere to have their punishment mitigated." In the connties of Tyrone, Londonderry, Mo nsghan, Lei.rion, Donegal, Carlow, Wteklosr, We learnt!, and the King and Queen's cow ties, the er. ction of new, or elite ameudment of old. gaols. are projecting, or hare been determined on. In these alterations, inspection, claireficarion, and em ployment. will be steadily kept in view. In the Dublin Bridewell, and a few other prisons, a complete system of employment has been intro duced fur prisoners of both sexes. The happiest effects continue to result from the benevolent trier. tions of the Ladies' Aourciarion visiting the prisons in Dublin, and many gratifying instances of per manent reformation of character appear to have been produced amongst the objects of their care. The improvement of the prisons, and of the prison laws iii Ireland, has. during the last Session of Parliament. furmed the subject of legislative ensctinent. The Act abolishing goal fees has been extruded to that cumitry. Another Bill for the erection of District Peniteniaries, is also in pro gress. These prisons will probably be constructed and managed iii such a manner, as will render them worthy of general imitation. The peliameritary Committee appointed in the year 1819, to investigate the state of the gaols throughout the kingdom, have not resumed their labours since the publication of their first Report; but a Bill has been brought into the Douse of Commons, by his Majesty's Government, for con. solidating and amending the various prison laws at present in existence. This Bill, cm its iutro doctor)°, was referred to a Select Committee for revision, and from the experience and intelligence of the gentlemen composing it. there was every reason to believe that the measure would receive Nee consideration which its importance demanded, and be founded on those just and enlightened prin. elides of criminal jurisprudence, which now hap. pity prevail. These anticipations have been rea lized. The Bill is evidesitly the result of much patient iravestigation, and practical kuow ledge of time subject. The preamble declares, that the existing laws fur the goveroment of prisons are complicated, mod have, in many cases, been found iueffective, and that in comecpietice there is reason to apprehend that offenders hurt been hardeotd in their vicious habits, to the great detriment of the state ; that it is expedient to reduce the said laws into our clear and distinct act ; that it is right and just such measures shall be adopted us shall hot wily pro vide for time security, but also tend to preserve the health, and to improve the murals of the pri inners; that due classification, Mailer:then, coustant ' labour or employment, sod religious sod moral in. struction, are essential to the disciplioe of a prisoo, and to the reformation of offenders; that the pre. sent laws directing the separation. superiutendence, employment, and instruction of the prisoners, re quire to be amender:laud enlarged, mid to be wore uniformly and strictly carried tutu effect ; and that it is therefore expedient that the several Acts, at present in' force, should be repealed, time must use ful clauses its the same consolidated lido one Act, and such new provisions added as may conduce to the good order and regulation of all presents. lu every prison separate and &eruct places of confinement and dry and airy cello are ordered to be provided, in which the several prisoners of the following description may be confitied, viz.- Ist. debtors ; 2d. prisoners convicted of felony ; 3d. prismiers convicted upon trial or minor offences; 4th. prisoners under summary cutivictious; Stb. pri soner* con 1111 l tied tin charge or suspicious of felony; 6th. prisoners committed of charge ur suspicion of minor offences ; 7th. vagrants. The males, in all cases, to be separated from the kande*, so as to prevent, as far as possible, any communication be tween them; a separate place of colifinemeirt for such prisoners es it is itileotled to eautuitie as writ- Iltlibt* on behalf of any proweittiori, and such fur. flier means of classification' as army be deemed prac ticable ; separate infirmaries or sick wards are to be provided for the men and women, and conve. Meld warm and cold baths; and ulso a chapel, with separate divisions fur male and female prisoners. lu the choice of plans fur the wee of new and the amendment of old prisons, the Justices are required to adopt such as shall ,gold the most effectual means for the security, iinpection, classi fication, employment, and labour ul the prisoners. Due provision is required to be made leer ratite. ing herd labour in the cases of such prisoners es are sentenced to that puutehruent, mud fur the em ployment of such other persons as may be com pelled to work, or disposed to industry. 'Elie Ultillte of he'd labour are to be provided, said re quisite materials fur the empluyineut of prisoners purchased. It is directed that there shall be a competent somber of cells or roomy, adapted to military con- Aueineut s for the puntshoseut of refractory pri- .1/:. goner•, and fos such persons as may by law be coo• fined therein; also. places for labour and industry; and proper yardaefor the prisoners to take ex ercise in. No prisoner is to be put in irons, unless he at tempt to escape, or be refractory. Suitable bedding is ordered to be provided. Each prisoner is to have a separate cell at night, where the arrangements of the prison render it prat• ticsble. No prisoner is to be kept in any apartment built in so low a situation as to be damp or unwhole some. The obvious propriety of giving the management of female prisoners to persons of their own sex, is recoanised ; and it is provided that ■ matron shall reside in the prison, whose duty it shell be to super intend sod inspect the conduct of the female pri soners. Female prisoners are, in all cases, to be attended by female officers. The following clause bears honourable testimony to the benefit* which have resulted from the labours of voluntary associations in improving the condi tions of prisoners, under the superintendence of the visiting magistrates 44 And whereas the reformation of prisoners has in many iastswees beta maternity unlisted by the voluntary mud gratuitous exertioas of benevolent person', in instroeting the said prisoaers, end improving tit it religious and moral pietism., and the most beoelletal eoarequeness have 'rive, therefrom : Be it enacted, that in cases where each benevo lent persons are willing and ready to instruct the prisoners he any gaol, bridewell, or house of corrective, with the eon. wet of the visiting Justices, or the Chaplain—but where obstacles may be presented by the rules and regulations pro. tided by Ibis Act is respect S. the hours of labour, the dis posal, of lime, sod the distribution of books—it s h a ll an d may be lawful for such persons to apply to the visiting Justices, who, with the consent of the Chaplain, may refer to the Justices at Goners! or Quarter &Thous assembled, for leave to dispense with any of the rules cad regulations touching l b . before mentioned subjects fur such time as such benevolent persons shall continue th eir care *ad attend ance as such prises. The visiting Justices at every General or Quarter Sessions, are required to make a report in writing of the state and condition of each prison within their jurisdiction; of what repairs, additions, or alterations may lie, required; and of any abuses which may be observed, or of which they may have ►eceived information, in the management of the prison ; of the general state of the prisoners, as to morals, discipline, employment, and hard labour ; and the observance of the rules. A general Report is also to be drawn op by the Clerk of the Peace, before the Michaelmas Quarter Session, on the ►eport of the visiting Magistrates, and on the certificate of the gaolers, and containing all that is important therein. With the view of insuring the execution of the law, or at least of detecting its violation or neglect, ■ Report is required to be made annually by the Chairmen of the several Quarter Sessions to the Secretary of State fur the Home Department, on the state of the prisons and the observance of the Act. This return is to consist of answers to a series of questions involving the most important points in prison discipline, and will he found in the Appendix. The return is to be laid before Parlia ment. The Chairman of the Quarter Session is also required to transmit to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, ■t the close of the first Session held after the pawing of the Bill, a copy of the rules in force in the several prisons in that county, ■nd within three months after, plans of such prisons; the said copies and plans to be care. fully preserved in the Secretary of State's office. To enter into a further examination of the vs. lions clauses of the Bill, would be to digress too widely from the object of this Report. The Com mittee may, however, be permitted to express their regret, that in some parts of the Bill which might have been rendered specifically binding, • discretionary power is unnecessarily vested, and • looseness of expression 'observed, which by merely rendering that lawful which should he imperatively required, may, in some cases, serve to disappoint the views of the benevolent framers of the Bill. For instance—it is enacted, that the substance of certain rules of admirable tendency, and which are calculated for all prisons, should be enforced, when to the uniform and literal observance of such regulations there could exist 110 possible objection. The duty of the keeper is prescribed, and his obe dience to certain rules laid down, as far as is prac ticable. It is provided that pritoners shall be allowed as much air and exercise us may be deented proper, for the preservation of their health. Prisoner* are to be allowed a sulfrcie►rt quantity of plain and wholesome food, to be regululed by the Justices in General or Quarter Sessions, upon a written report of the burgeon that such allowance is sufficient. Prisoners of both sexes are to be instructed in reading said writing, to such extent as the Justices may deem expedient. The deplorable condition of the Borough gaols is well known.. Owing to the smallness of their size, and the general inadequacy of the funds ap plicable to their amendment, no material improve ment is practicable in these prisons. Until they be abolished, the prisons of England call never be, what they ought to be, at once the terror and the reformation of the criminal. It does not appear inched that any necessity whoever exists fur the continuance of these defective places of confine ment, as the persons usually committed to them might be sent to the costa) , pole. In the Bill in . question, there is a clause which suggests the ex pediency, and renders lawful such a transfer, god points out a mode of arranging the .=pence. But it is apprehended that the benefit of this clause will be very partial, as the recommendation will be ne glected by those who are indifferent, and opposed by ethers who are unfriendly to improvements is prison discipline. The advantages of the clause bring thus lost, the Bill will become a dead letter us to the government of a great proportion of the gaols iii the kingdom. The Committee cannot refrain from adverting to a subject u►►touched by the present Bill, rod wh►ch, in the►r opinion, is intimately connected with the interests of justice. The present delay in the gaol del►verier is productive of evil.. the extent and im portance of which give them a claim to the se• moos and immediate ■ttentiou of his Majesty's Giseerument. From the leog period which ellipses between the Summer Avian to um year sod the Lent Assizes in the year following, msuy prisoners lire bequeath! r ,~,~. exposed to an imprisOnment of three. six. and even eight month., before they are brought to trial ; a severe hardship, to be defended on no jail grounds. arid indeed in direct opposition to that maxim of English jurisprudence, which considers even• man innocent till proved to be guilty. By this prac tice. however, a heavy punishment is inflicted, not only before the law convicts, hut in massy cases where it eventually pronounces an acquittal. From papers laid before Parliament, it appear, that at Maidstone Lent Assiv.s, in 1819, there were 177 prisoners for trial ; twenty-nine of these had been in confinement before the Ist of October, • period of six months. Now it is well known, that for many crimes six months imprisonment is considered a sufficient puni•hment. and it is a fact that. at the same Sessions; twenty-five felons were sentenced for different terms, not exceeding that period. Yet, here, twenty-nine individuals are pu nished with the same severity before trial. as that to which twenty-five felons are subjected after he ing convictiol of a breach of the laws. It is still more worthy of remark, that of these twenty-tiiiie. seventeen were declared innocent, or d:schargrd without prosecution. At the some Assizes, at Chelmsford, the injustice of the practice was as strongly illustrated. Of 166 prisoners brought up for trial, twenty-five were in prison before the Ist of October preceding. Of these, eleven were acquitted or discharged by pro clamatiou. Two had been in confinement eight mouthl, three upwards of seven months, and three upwards of six mouths; while sixteen eouv.cted of felony were sentenced to shorter lengths of impri sonment than these had sheady suffered. Nor is this evil so grievous in one or two pain. cular itistences only ; for, from the parliamentary returns, it appears that the whole number of pri- Porters tried at the same Lent Assizes in England and Wales, exclusive of Middlesex, was 2,700 ; 405 of whom were in confinement before the pre ceding Ist of October, which number was increased to 1,270 by the lit of January. Thus it appears that more than one-seventh of the whole number of prisoners, innocent or guilty, had suffered six to eight mouths imprisonment before trial; and nearly one-half, from three to six months. The sense of this evil is indeed so apparent, that it frequently induces a Judge to mitigate the sea. tence of a prisoner when convicted. A criminal whose offence is considered by law to deserve twelve mouths' imprisonment, is frequently sentenced to six months only, in consideration of the confinement he has already undergone. This practice is cer tainly just, and qualifies the evil when the prisoner is convicted, but no reparation can be made, sup. hosing him acquitted, for subjecting him to half the punishment of guilt. And even in the first case, it is evident that the system must be bad, which compels the administrator of the law to strip it of half its terrors, in order that its letter and spi rit, thus set at valiance, may in some measure be assimilated. But the injustice of the present arrangement is not the only argument against it. Its effects on the prisoners, both on those who are guilty Lind on those who are innocent, demand consideration. It renders the sentence of the convicted comparatively light; its character being aoltened by the reflec tion that the innocent have shared so largely in she punishment, while the long interval before trial necessarily tends to separate in his mind the con.. uexiou which it is desirable to preserve between the punishment and the offence. On the other hand, the hardships endured by the prisoner guiltless of the crime imputed to hint, ■re too obvious to require a single continent. It would be sufficiently grievous were the gaols of this coun try under the most effective discipline, when the deprivation of his liberty would be all he had to endure ; but his punishment is infinitely aggravated by the evils arising from idleness and vicious. assuci •soa. Though innocent, lie is placed in a situa tion of all others the best culcelsted to render him guilty ; and thus the defective discipline of our prisons, already too capable of corrupting, gaits, by the tardy administration of justice all that is requi site to give its demoralising tendency complete effect. The increasing number of committals has rem. dered it necessary in most counties to make mate rial additions to the common gaol•, but by a more frequent delivery of them, the number before trial would be materially reduced. In twenty-five prisons, principally county gaols, which are calcu lated to contain 2,636 prisoners ; there were at one time, in the course of last year, no fewer than 4,858 prisoners iu confinement. Were there another gaol delivery in Jemmy, the number of prisoners before trial would be lessened one-half, and a nasterial saving would consequently be effected : a subject worthy of consideration in many counties, where their maintenance and the provision for their ac commodation is an object of serious expense.— 'I he decrease thus occasioned in the number of pri soners at one time, would also provide the means of a more extended clas►ification. It is not for the Committee to suggest in what manlier the proposed amendment could be effected : this is a subject for the consideration of the Legisla ture. But they earnestly trust that ■ measure of such importance will soon receive the attention which it demands. The awful extent of juvenile delinquency in the metropolis has of bite attracted so much o m en _ boa, that it would be unnecessary to dwell at length upon the subject. %Vitt) the view of ascertaining the causes of the increase of youthful criminal., the Committee, at the earliest period of their labours, investigated the cases of nearly 9,000 boys who were coufined in prisons of the metropolis, or at large, actively en gaged in the commission of crime. These lads were examined as to the names of their parents ; the employment and situation of their family and friends; whether they had received any education; the means which they had pursued to obtain a lihood ; the masters by whom they had been em ployed ; the crime.; for which they had been ins. 'mooned; and the circumstances which led them into vicious courses. The immediate causes which appear to have produced these habits, were traced to the misconduct of parents, the waist of educe. Lion. and especially of religious instruction; and the difficulty of obtaining suitable employment—. causes which have at all times • strong moral in.. Ilweace on the lower orders of society, but which hare been impelled into extraordinary action of late years, by the increase of popultitiint, and the unusual prevalence of severe distress, As a preventive remedy, the education of the poor unquestionably stands pre.etnitient ; so tilucistioe not simply elementary, but such as shall et mtuu nicate moral instruction, and deeply impress the heart with religious feeling. Much has, within these few years, been done to promote the educa tion of the poor, yet little comparatively has been effected for the improvement of the most sudigesit classes in the metropolis. To secure the attend. ance of children of the lowest description much personal exertion on the part of the public is ab. soltitely necessary. It is not sufficient to build schools, nr to ',townie gratuitous instruction; • ryas tem must be established of domiciliary visiting to the abodes of wretchedness and crime, and nitre. mittinq exertions used to procure the attendance of the children. In labouring in this great work, dia. COUnlgello4llll most be expected to arise from the ignorance, extreme poverty, an‘i depravity of parents. The degrading tendencies of the poor laws; the pre valence of improvident marriages; the pernicious use of spirituous liquors; sod other causes which serve to deteriorate the moral character of the poor at large, present formidable obstacles to the education of their children: these impediments can only be re• moved by the persevering elfdris of the unwearied 10 well-doing. Let the friends to the moral im provement of the poor, however, unceasingly . per severe; for they may be twinned, that the m en lightened labours milord to the rising generation the surest preservative against crime that reason or ex perience ern suggest. (To 4o connived ) AN EXTRAORDINARY SHRUM—A woman now re►iding in liailiffote, in Newcastle. named ELtr. NOR NORRId, his hren regularly employed us a ►hearer every I. for eighty year,. She went first into the harvest field at biz years old. is now 88. and earned half-a-crown a-day for several days during the present brawn. It was some time ago suggested by certain mem bers of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, that considerable convenience would accrue from hav ing the city steeple-dials illuminated after swipes. The idea has been entertained, as the Magistrates have allowed, and the Board of Police been at the expense of fitting up the west dial of the Trots steeple es an experiment. The apparatus. con• structed under the superintendence of the sag gesturs. 1111111 illuminated for the first time on Tues day night. Should it succeed, the Glasgow Gas. light Company have agreed to furnish this steeples with light gratis. The apparatus consist of a No, 1 argent' burner, placed • few feet out front the top of the dial, •nd enclosed in a nearly hemispherical lantern, the front of which is glazed; the back forms a parabolical reflector ; the dial receives nut only the direct hut ■ conical stream of reflected ears ; and is thus so brilliantly illuminated that the hours and hands can be seen with nearly the Kline distinctness at a distance as through the day. By a simple contrivance the clock disengages, about sunrise, • small detent, something similar to the larum in wooden clucks; this shuts the gas.. cock, nod so instantly extinguishes the Ldißbairgh C•rrixt.) MEETINGS OF CRRDITORS AT OUILDIL4LL Tills DAY. R. *. W. Hai'stout,Medial', grocer 1 1 W. Cadger, late of Bloomsbury, boot maker 1 1 J. H. Aruold, Llaubletbian, nattlejobber ... 1 1 L. TO ■ouow. E. Howard and J. Gibbs, late of Curk-street t moneys se-rimers . 3 If G. Fry. Newbury, mercer . ... R. Hittites, lame( Great Turnstile sad High Holborn, b4tier 3 It G. Cooper, jou. Old Ford, farmer ...... 1). E. Cotalon, Islingtoe.road, upholsterer 3 II H. Taylor, late of the Coannereial-road, roaster ma ___ . . . --- flat,' 3 ill J. Taylor, New-eel, Lambeth, iruomougrr 3 11. G. Alexander, Aldernasubnry, linen-draper I 12 J. Gamma, Sonth.street, Finsbory-square, merchast 1 12 A. Ryder, Commercial Sale Roosts, cotton merchant 1 12 C. Brown, late of Dundee, inerchaist 1 10 W. Hailstone, Mildenhall, grocer 2 10 W. Colyer, late of 1114mosbitry, boot-maker. M. Rowley, list of Bear.street, dealer.... J. H. Arwuld, Llanblet bias, cattle jobber I 1* I'. Jose', West Smithfield, and Chigwell, stationer S 12 S. Hancurk, late of Si. Pancras, hardwareu,aa 2 10 DIVIDENDS. G. Bog, Alderscate sine., jeweller J. Bates. Bishop ►tortfurd, draper J. H. PI itthard, late of Caerleun, lio-plale-oaaafactunr 10 CERTIFICATES. C. Niblett, of Grildford, Surrey. mousey-scriveaer.-11. Beane, of Hickline, Norfolk, shopkeeper.—J. Smash, now or late of Earl's court, Bedwardire, Worcesler, dealer in Tibbutt and S. Tibbull„ of Leicester, booksellers. —T. Reynolds, of Highsvorth, Hilts , draper.—G. Woolricb and J. Woolrich, of Spital.sepiare, Middlesex. silk-manu farturcrs.—W. Beath, and J. B. Perry, of Birmingham, imerrbams. PRICE OP A YESTERDAY. 3 peret.Cuns.77 76177 A I Ex.Bilrs,ed. 1;0001...2 5 perCt.N.ika. 110 1091 I 3 pr. India Stock 235 i Ditto. 500/.....2 4 pr. India 80nd5...61 66 pr. I Ditto, ba5a11....4 5 pr. Lottery Tickets 19/. 18s. I Coos. for Ace... 77U1 BIRTH. 0. Wednesday, in lliti street, Berkeley.sqeare, the of H. Brougham, Esq of a daughter. MAIIRIAGES. Or Moodily inoraiug last, at Beaver, wear Dent . ..rd. Femmes Maria, second daughte► of R. W. Elbolos, Sir it• ford.plaee, to Mr. Charles Marrnsduke Wilson, of You 1.• street, Podium-square. On Wednesday, at Streatham Church, by She Rev. Herbert Hill, Lieutenset.Coloriel D•rliag, to Mrs. O'Rourke, si.4 l only daughter of OA Ross. Robert Reid, President of hi, Majesty's Cassell in the Island of Dominica. DEATH. At his boom at Clapham, in the 75th year of his age, James Brewer, Esq. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE. Mersin 7 after B. I &coin 41 idler S. PRIOR OP POTATOES, from 'err. 14, to Som. 21. Illsols Wars Potatoes, from lasso sad Quebec Poloist* Woo f from 40. so 20s per to. Mara Champitios, al Meted sod robßobed at THE BRITISH PRIM sod TER GLOBE Odieo, Na. 117, aiz.ad, by C. CORNWALL, of t►e Resod. Aug !•,1 IP. Mr Nil AC C. tu tbre , Eng ►pp sr ales Hs( Prot' Hwy D hi , way rm IN %i ;I Si r. Fro. P. ill 1:, t.oi inkri !lies al 1I A !Mr. Nov urn IM I H E' TEI .11.11 ,eetal Novi IN* •