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CITY OF LONDON TRUSS SOCIETY. The anniversary festival of this laudable Institution was celed brated an Wednesday evening at the Albion Tavern. Aldersgate strzet, where a numerous and highly-respectable company attended, and partook of a sumptuous dinner, the Loon Alaa on in the sup7orted by Alderman Lucas, Alderman Crowther, the Rev. Crosby, and several othcr clergymen and persons of dis tinction. .Itler the cloth was removed, Non .NoMs was sung in excellent style by blesses. ltroadluirst, Phillips, and Smith ; and after the usual toasts, the Secretary read the lleport, which r•as of the most Haltering description. The Revert stated, that in one district in the westem pan of England, comprising 204.000 inhailitents, onwards of one in live laboured under this malwly. The number of patients relieved by the Society. from 111011 to the present yew. amounts to 37,451. In $3,1197 patients, 27,197 were nudes and ti. 700 were females : 2.753, multr ten years of are, have been re lieved with trusses, and a considerable number teem forty to nine ty and one I unfired years of age; and that thereeeitra and disburse ments of the aociety from the anurnencernent, were 24,3.01. 17s. 3d. LOADON VACCINE. INSTITITIO..V. Yestcrilay the Governor and Minutia, of this Institution met at the City of London Tavern. for t'ov purpose of rectiying the An nuot Int e ract Mayon was to have taken the Chair, but in Mk , gurney of his bring obliged to preside at the Court of Common Council, the chair was taken by W. D. Cordell, Est. The CHAIR wax said, in addressing the Meeting. that the Re port wenhi give great satisfaction to the friends of humanity. al though the p-ejudire in favour of the small-pnv still continued to be the satins, ulitortunately, of sacrificing the lives of thou- Doctor Il'axarit, Cie indefatigable and zealous advocate of the Jennerian "stern, read the report. It rated that the benefits of vaccination were diftbsed to the inhabitants of every land ; but in this metropolis the fornitcr of the small pax still lurked amongst the ignorant and prentdiced part of the population ; 774 persona fell vi time to the dreadful disease in the course of the last year, withln the bills of mortality. and the deaths of many are not in.' eluded in those annual registers of departure from life. The ma. , nomt continue to watch the departure d vessels to foreign nations, as well as to all the British colonies, and continued to afford rasp- Mies the vaccine ietior for the protection of the colonies from the small pox. I)ming the last year there had iseen vaccinated by Doctor Walker. 34'.r1 ; by the appointed Irorulators in the metro polis and its environs, 1/1.8117. fly the appointed inoculator. in rac country, 21.454. Prom the begbmirg, by Doctor Walker. 51.11 f. From the beginning, by the town inoenlatorti, 1115.285. From the beginning, by the country inoculate's, 4:14.1;33. Dottier Walker had supplied frran the begmeirg 98.8;0 applicants. The receipts of the institution since the last year's report amounted to 8671. Ifis; the disbursements to 10!,'71. 19s. 31.; balance against, .the institution, ?ltd. 3., aL; the receipts_ of the institution since its formation, in 17106. animated to I I,reot. ; the disbursements to I 11.9171. 3s. W. Maur IV Al.ar.i IVAtNi, that the Prusaian Minister of State. l'annt Iloosherx. had absented that in times when, frees causes without example. the numbers of the human race were diminished. the consideration of greatest importance was, that the more general the adoption of the vaccine Inoculation, the mere practicable would .it he totep up the enmplement of the necessary or mes. Doctor IIvAN laid before the Minister of the Interior of Ens- Count Komehuby, a plan, whereby, through a more .t-.enerul extender' of vaeciration, the ravages of the small pox in Russia might Aridly be exterminated, and he the means of preserving Calf' a million of men to combat the enemy. A fifteenth of the population of Russia, amounting to 2,208,060. were susceptible of the mull pox. 'lite mortality of one-fifth of those from the small pax amounted to 440,0611. If the loss of a child in Russia be es limited. as it was, at 23 rubles, the rate lost by the disease 11,100.ne0 of rubles. Vaccination assured this sum to the State, or 40.001 effective men. Docor IVALsan lead extracts from several medical men in other countries, descriptive of the never-failing efficacy of vacei.' eat ion. who "toted, that foe many years they were in the habit of testifying the efficacy of the vaccine virus, by exposing their pa tients to the variolous matter, and in no case was the small-pox tommuniested to the constitution. ....... The Report WAS then unanimously approved and adopted. ' The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the thank.; of the meeting to Doctor Walker, complimented the venerable Doctor upon his per arrerance, zeal. and skill ; and observed, that the system bad hn crawly benefited by his exertions. , The thanks of the meeting were then noted to the President, Vice President, and Managets of the Institution, and the dleeting se 'armed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, THERADAY, FEB. 12, MN. The Subscription Room was not well attended, and but few en- 1 pArell)entll 11/(14. made. We account for the slackness of betting, worn horses, as is customary at this season of the year, being put in physic, with only gentle exercise ; and until they resume their vain. and strong weak, adventure/sea the Turf will not be me sway enabled to form arrangements for further speculations. The alterations is the ditirstsia4Ppliss , sea little_ or none. anti for the }w ent general state °rhea, we refer out sporting readers to oar full :vcaunt of Monday Inat. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK. I ~° Mr. lileynell's fox hounds will myt on Monday, at Longford ; Thursday, at Catton ; and on Saturday, at ilenhurst--at half-put ton. Sir George Sitwell's fox hounds on Tuesday, at Scarellif Park ; and on Friday at Norton—at ten. Mr. Musters's fox hounds on Monday at Stowe Wood; Tuesday, at Kehnarsh t Thursday, at Hardwick Town; and on Friday, at Althorp Park--at half past ten. Sir Bellingham Graham's on Monday, at Shipley; Wednesday, at Castle Hill, and Friday, at Broad Oak (late—each morning at eleven. ear Richard Pulleaton's on Monday. at Oteley Park; Wednes day, at lacoed Park ; and Friday, at Duekington—at eleven. The Colwell and Matlon (Worcestershire). on Monday, at ett.ome Perry Wood; and Thursday, at Wall ills--at nine. The East Sussex on Monday. at Pat and Sall, Dicker, at ten. The North Somerset on Monday, at Dunkerton, at half-pest ten. The Cheshire on Monday, at Sandiway Head; 'Wednesday, at Saltersfaed ; Friday, at Peover ; and Sattuday, at Toft—at "half. Past ten. The Ludlow on Tuesday, at Stoke's Wcod, at ten; and Friday, 13,tterley Village, at eight. A Wow deer is to be turned gut to Mr. F. flawke's harriers, at Ott-metier, on Thursday. Tln Brighton harriers go Silt regularly e►er► Monday, Wednee. day, and Friday, at Fatchem, near the Race.course, and at the Dvhe—at half.oest ten. Tt•e Rrookside every Monday, on Newmarket ; Moines. dAy, at the Kennel ; and the alternate Wednesday, at Lewes Race. ce.ase ; every Friday, at Telescotube Tyo—at ten. St worman Rex.—Last week the IThitehetreh barriers started ilgre, which they ran nearly an hour, when paw, *ruling her a:!! chisel! pursued, wok refuge in a public-house at Penblaith, sum Monmouth. and hid herself behind some wood in the corner of.* back-kitchen; the hound% were in consequence thrown off their ..ant. Whilst they were at fault, s Inbourer st work • Alert diewnee off descried a fox, which ho titipreed to be the object of their search, and instantly gave the alarm. The sportsmen were soon colleens: and the 'wands put upon the scent, and this.' piles was freed from her implacable enemies. But although by her in graiMy she escaped the dogs, she did net long enjoy her good for. tune, as she was soon doomed to experience an equally mud fate, for the landlord of the hett,. hating obeerred the whole !Wale, as soon rs the bounds were fairly out of sight, secured the unfortu rate hare, and forgetting the laws of hospitality and the game laws, ee.lr T et, the poor animal, which had sought the protection of his viol in vain.—Heriped Joervai. Glattriarr HEN WITH Ma. LITTT.T.TON'S 131-CI H017147/9. ._4frn Saturday. the Stet alt., Mr. Littleton's buck hounds met at Aster, near Storm, in consequence of information that the buck, was turned out at Tittenser on the tith ult., and which was tom after a long run, was in • cover near Pirehill. The same bounds had run him since he was first turned nut. and again lost 1:2•11 after a harder chase than the fleet. On Saturday they found on again in the same cover. and ran him • buret ter Aston. Lnsor-3lnor, and Mennen, SCVC.W. Tillington to Stafford race course, where they viewed him ; from thence back to Marston, Enion-Moor, and Rtustm, down the side of the Trent, which he mimed at Aston Mill ; from whence he took across the ems] toe Orange Hays and Samson; where he turned to the left over liardi wick Heath, by the Hollywood, Peak's MI, and Ilildentone, in the direction for Coton, where he braked ; here again the bounds viewed him, and ran him back for Uik'ersteme, across a very hilly country, for Draycott, near to which place the bounds ran in to him, titer a mom severe chase of three hours. During this apace the bounds were only twice at check for n few minutes. The firet burst of eight miles was trentendoue, and thereat was all hard miming : The deer was so game he would not be eineht alive, and fell dead before the hounds. It was calculated by the Gentlemen who were out, and who knew the country, that he could not hare run lea Golf thirty miles. As the appointment was not much known, the field, we understand, was not numerous, and few were up at the death..—Waiverkaatpiott Paper. The Select Vestry of Cbippenham have determined not co relieve a per That keeps a dog. WoodcoeM are now, and have been all this winter, unusually scarce in Devonshire. 1' ACE N z'a DA Y.—Several supernumerary letter carriers, in the twopenny-post delivery of letters, are engaged for to-morrcw, in consequence of its being St. Valentine's Day, when several thousand letters (not on business, but filled with amorous declarations, as usual .in that day), will give them sulßeient employment. The John, Dunbar, from Cork for this port, was totally lost *near Holyhead, on the 6th instant : four men, two women, and five children (passengers), with two of the crew, were drowned ; the master, mate, and four seamen casks of butter, and a few sacks of flour, Lireriieel Advertiser. LAI" INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, TfitIISDAY, Frs. 12. This being the hat day of Term, the greater part of the morning was spent in hearing motions of course. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. COWST HARRIS. Mr. llAny-31y Lord, you were platted to terminate your judg ment on the case of Const and Hams, by a recommendation to the parties to meet and come to an amicable adjustment. You also made, I think, an &Verb,: order, that the receipts of the theatre shoukl be concerted only to the purposes spcciti.:tl in the deed of 1.t12. and not applied to any uses of the lessees. I am now in structed to state to your Lordship, that Mr. Coast, my client, has received a letter from Messrs. Nen:ble, Willet, Forbes, and others of the lessees. intimating their intention of holding no meeting, and of concluding no arrangement with Mr. COW. Loan CHANCELLOR—Vert' well, MT. Hart, very well; then will most certainly take an early opportunity of hamming these Gentlemen •hat I intend to do with them. . . SITADWELL—My Lord, I have received no instruction from my client, Mr. Harris; I suppose be knows noising of this letter. Mr. HART—Mr. Harris is gone to Inland; my client has re ceived a letter from Mr. Harris's solicitor, stating that Mr. Harris has nothing to do with the matter; and, my Lord, this statement is certainly a fact. Mr. Harris has delivered himself into the pos. session of the lames, and they think, aye, and know, they can treat him as they please; hut I trust, my Lord, that the interest of Mr. Const may receive that protection to which, by virtue of the original deed, he is legally and justly entitled. Loan CKANCEI.I.OII-1 will take awe of that, Mr. Hart. Next Monday is the day which I appointed for the communication of the result of the recommended meeting to the Court. If you will take "the trouble of mentioning to me on that day what shall here been done by the parties before then, I shall let those mis. taken Gentlemen know what are my opinion and intention relative to their conduct, and whether they shall be permitted to follow up the injudicious course of proceeding which they have thought pro per to commence. AZT expressed his intention of introducing the case to his Lanlship's notice on Monday next. raved. About 800 gave bow eaved.—. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, TntriteDAT, Fxs.l2. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. SCARLET? said be wished to apply to their Lordships to enlarge a rule to shew cause. which was obtained by the Attorney- General, why a criminal information should not issue out of this Court against the printer and publisher of the British Press news paper, for a libel on the character of GeregeChetwynd. Esq. Mem. her for the borough of StoWord, and a Magistrate. He moved to enlarge the rule till next Term. on the ground that notice of the granting of the rule had been serrod only on Friday evening last, and that time might be girrn :o prepare affidavits, on which the de. Pendants meant to oppose the rule. Lunn Cuter JuST I c r —You move to enlarge the rule till next Term, there being no opposition. The Attorney-General was silent. Mr. It, or irsm—There is another criminal information against another Paper, the British Tti,zsrlier, for copying the same arti cle. and on which a rule nisi has 41:41 Bien granted. The news paper to which I allude is published by a person of the name of John Stokes. Your Lordships will permit me to notice, that the same obserratioos apply to this paper. Rule enlarged till next TWO. THE VINO, ON THE I.IIOSECIITION ON JOSHUA COHEN V. A•RON SOLOMON. —.„.— .—..--. This defendant was brought up to receive the judgment of the Court, for an assault upon Joshua Cohen. The prosecutor and defendant were members of a Benefit Society &led " The Friendly Brothers." The Society had an annual dinner and ball at the White Conduit Tavern in August lust. The defendant was one of the stewards. The prosecutor, on entering the ball.room„ found strangers admitted ; he remonstrated with the defendant, who, in return, struck him a blow on the mouth. This was the assault, to which the defendant pleaded guilty. Judgment--a fine of Gs. lid., and security for one year, himself in 201., and one sufficient surety in 101. STAFFORD PEERAGE. Whilst their Lordships were deliberating on the above, Mr. Csstrunt.r. said he wished to mention the application to change the ;vase from Shrewsbury to Middlesex. Ills client, Baron Strif. font, was sitting by him, and wished to impress their Lordships with the importance of this application. Baron Stafford—lndeed, my Lords, if your Lordships don't per. mit the trial to take place in London, there are so many Jurymen under the influence of Sir George Jerninghann, besides h old ing those very estates which 1 claim, we apprehend it is impossible we can have a fair trial. The Co u RT here called " Silence,"—you interrupt the proceed. ings of the Court—we have now other business before us. Mr C.vmenut.t. requested his client not to proceed, and the question wax dropped ; but the Court subsequently changed the venue to Gloucestershire. OBSTRITTION IN THE TYNE. THE KING r. RUSSELL, ESQ. SCAILI.ETT showed CROW against a rule obtained for re- moving the venal- in this case, from Northumberland to York shire. The obstruction was teeny en abridgement of labour, by facilitating thc landing of coals; but, under prelim:eel' °btu-tic ' deft lathe navigation, an indicsaseat was brought foe a nuisance.' The county of Northumberland contained gentlemen, numerous enough and intelligent, to afford an impartial and special jury. dlr. BROUGHAM contended that to make the trial more satis factory. the rarer must be clanged. The Loan Cn tar JMITICE.—The change of venue implies no Imputation against the gentlemen of the county. Rule made abaohrte. VIAON OF JUDGMENT. Mr. ADOLPHUS, being called on in his ceder, said if John Hunt was in Court he wished him to appear. He had mentioned the case yesterday. The LORD CHIEr JusTsca.—Yes, and I told you it would be impossible for the Court to take it. Mr. ADOLPRI' s.—Yes ; but you were pleased to say that he rbould become bound not to publish any thing respecting the Asso ciation. Mr. SCANT.ETT.-4 have cotivetsed with Mr. Hunt on the subject. He hes a feeling respecting the Association, whether right or wrong this is not the time to discuss. Rut if your Lord ships, on your own authority, order Mr. Rom not to publish any thing respecting them, I become bound that he willottend to your order. The LORD elms' JUSTICE—That is quite satisfactory. Mr. ADOLPHUS submitted he ought to enter into record. The LORD Cnrer Justrcr.—Bfr. Scarlett% pledge may be more effectual even than that. Mr. Z'CAR LETT.-1 know Air. Hunt's honour, and I can pledge my word for him. The Loan t'orrr Jrrettt —Vre have no dcnibt of it. Mr. ADOLPHUS uttered something which we did not hear. The LORD CHIEF Jurrlcr.—Tf he publish any thing like what you apprehend, you am : bring it forwent when judgment mines robe given. Mr. SCAR LI:TT—A - CI, to be jugs, my Lord. IX TIE MATTER OF tlir IflncrllAX LOAN. The role f'r vcating the babsea q( this ken in Exe.hequet Wile we made absolute. -------- .TILE EMT. V. a:a xpt.to.. In this ease sn affidavit wan put TO and rend on the part of the defendant. and the Court deferred its judgment till next term. This being the last day of tannohe Court sat till a late hour. In the King's Bench on Irclinesday. the King a. Sir Charles NVotaeley, Mr. Russell moved for a rule calling on Sir Charles Wolgeley to show cause why c. criminal information should not be evhibited against him for it libel on Mr. ('hetwynd, chairman of the Stafrord Sessions, in a letter published in the British Press. The libel was, in substance, the same with that fur which Mr. Chetwyad moved before, but with this aggravation—that Sir Charles had caused the letter to be copied into the Lichfield Mercury, a paper circulated in the neighbourhood of Mr.Chetwynd's resldettat. There were similar affidavits of denial of the chamm. Mr. Justice Bayley asked hew the publication was brought home to Sir Char*? Mr. Rawl' replied, that it was sworn that he sent a rimy of the Reirislerryir toe FAiWe of the Lichfield paper, saying—." course-7mi insert my letter."—The Court granted a rule to show cause. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. TUCEIDAY, FEII. 12. JUDO3IENTS. CARMEN v. NtE•BI711:. This was a question of award arising out of an action brought to recover the value of • quantity of indigo shipped cm board a ves sel lost in the Mauritius. A verdict was given for the plaintiff generallr. The question now was, whether the arbitrator, in as sessing damages, had taken a sound view of the case. The COURT decided he bad done so, and confirmed the award. LENEkt V. VAUGHAN. The LORD Cuitr J varier read the Dotes of the triaL The plaintiff was a native of Heligoland, and intending to come and reside in England, ecanntiwitmed a Landon merchant to obtain for him &licence from this Government. There being some inv . . gularity in this transaction, it led to the present question. The Cot at heW. that under all the circumstances, a lihcral construction should he put on the case, and confirmed the verdict in farotir of the plaintiff. OTWAT T. CITAYSZNS. In this case the question turned upon the construction of the te►ms of a will, and related to certain binds described as apper teiniug to other property in the Isle of Sheppey. The COURT, after quoting various authorities, confirmed the verdict. V. SIR T. CItAMPICEYS. Mr. Sergeant PELL, on being called on in his turn, said he was sorry to bring before the Court the name of a person who had been so often before it, that of Sir Thomas Champneys. This gentle man. the beamed Sergeant continued, had long been in a state of embarrassment in money matters, as well as in others that were, or ought to be mare important to him. It appeared, from the Learned Sergeant's address. that this unfortunate gentleman is now in con finement in Ilehester gaol, under very great distress ; but that his affair. live been put into the hands of a very respectable solicitor, Mr. Tindall, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, for the purpose of an ar !rangement. The Learned Sergeant had to move, that an order be serves' on the defendant, obliging him to pay the arrears of certain annuities, within a period limited by the Coat, which time cx- Ipined this very day, should be suspended. Re tnoind this on an affidavit, which stated that the defendant had consented to amigo over his estate*, in order to extricate him from his difficulties. If the rule in this case were not suspentlell, the defendant would lose no less a sum than probably eight thousand pounds, which would involve him in irretrievable ruin. The Learned I'm:mei, there fore. hoped that the Coutt would allow the rule to be suspended until the first day of next term. Mr. Sergeant Ons Low opposed the application, lie admitted his brother Pell had put his application in the most powerful man ner. He (Mr. Sergeant Onslow) had attended particularly to the affidavit on which the present motion was founded; and he ob served, that it dial not state that a single deed had been executed, er was ready foe execution ; but merely that the defendant had consented to certain arrangements. 11'hat would be the situation of his clients in the event of the defendant's death ? Their Lord. ships would recollect, that the annuities were upon two lives, and in the event of the defendant's demise before the proposed arrange. ments were completed, they would sustain a great leas. The Learned Sergeant urged the delay and inconvenience his clients had already experienced, and also the loss they had suffered by the change in the value of money. Mr. Justice lir int otiGn observed, that the defendant was known to have large estates in Somersetshir". Mr. Sergeant OwsLow was about to resume, when The Loan Ciller J tisYtc E said, the Court could not certainly repeal the situation of the plaintiff, or that of the defendant; but perhaps it would best answer the purposes of justice to both patties, by suspending the rule now, and making it peremptory on the first day of next term. Rule enlarged. This being the last day of term, their Lordships did not rise till six o'clock. SHERIFFS' COURT, TetrasnAr, FEB. 12. WINUIELD.r. DR. CLEVF.LET. Tile Jury were here called upon to-assess a compensation in da mage*, for the wanton and negliTent conduct, whereby a house, the P y of the plaintiff, had beCome considerably dilapidated. I er r. t COLLETT opeaed the case to the Jury, wherein he stated, that the defendant had for a term of years occupied a house in 3lontagu-snset, Bloomsbury. which, according to the terms of the lease, was to be put in good and tenantable repair ; upon quitting, the defendant did not comply with the record, but left the house considerably dilapidated, and in a state that no one could occupy it. A surveyor would be called, who had surveyed the dilapida tions, and 'multi give his estimate; there was half a year's rent owing. which also would be .claimed at the bands of the Jury, amounting to 75/. 3lr. George Wigg, surveyor, deposed he had surreved the dila , pidations; the winder shutters wanted repairing, the walls were amaidetably damaged, and the house altogether in a ruinous State. The least estimate be dould form was 181.25., which would scarcely put the house in good repair. The det,ndant set up a defence that no notice had been given to repair, nor had he had an opportunity to contrast the plaintiff's estimate with another surveyor. The Jury assessed the damages at 1231. 2s. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, THURSDAY, Fze. 12. Philip Jenkins, whose case was adjourned until this day, was brought up for judgmeat. The CUM' CONMIASIONER said, the facts of the case were shortly these :—The insolvent had formerly been discharged under the Act; directly after which, although possessed of no property whatever, he took a house at Walthamstow, representing himsdf to be worth 3001 per annum, besides being extremely well off in other respects, and, by such representation, his opposing creditor was in duced to credit him to the amount of 331.; the insolvent then dis posal of his house. and, fur two or three years, he was not to be found. The Court could not overlook a transaction like this, which had been contracted fraudulently, and without the probable means of payment. The judgment of the Court, therefore was, that he be confined within the wal s of the prison for a period of six months from the date of filing his petition. The following insolvents, against whom no opposition was en. tered, were ordered to bs discharged forthwith, viz. : Wm. Smith Henson, Gent., one, ire., Charles Vivian Colwell, Samuel Parker, George Gotta, Samuel Ellcock, Bartholomew Rosselloty, Samuel Branton, Philip Jenkins and Elizabeth King. John Underwood, whose case we reported last week, by whi t it appeared he had been in the habit of advancing loans to 3lr. Stafford Cooks, of Stafford, appeared fora final hearing, but owing to the absence of a material witness, a further adjournment took place. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT BLACK ROCK, BRIGHTON. A dreadful catastrophe occurred on Wednesday afternoon at Brighton. As five labourers were employed in digging for flints at the base of the cliff, between the Royal Descent and Black Rock, the overhanging earth and stone suManly fell in, and crushed and buried the whole of them. A sixth man, on the margin of the steep. was precipitated to the beach by the fall, but descending on the summit of the immense weight of rubbish, he escaped without broken bones, or any very material injury. No time was lost in digging out the ethers, but the whole of them were dead ; they are considered to hart perished instantaneously. The following are the names of the aefferen, viz.—William Smith, aged 40 ; John Raterits ; John Aloslings, 38; John Jaile, 25 ; and William Oorr 19. Above one hundred loads of enth are supposed to have en. Three of the men were found nearly straight ; but two were sitrablottentrdser a a• shocking manners -Some of them had their tools in their haneftlirlfir fouled. William Smith has left a wife and child to deplore his Ors ; all the others were single men. In the evening the bodies were removed to the Town Hall, said a Jury was summoned by the Coroner, to hold an inquest on their bodies, at the Gun Inn, the following morning, at eleven o'clock. The Jury accordingly met, and after being swam, and viewing the bodies, adjo urned , the witnesses not having strived, till two o'clock. At that hour they re-aseembled, when— Thomas James.being sworn, deposed to the following effect:— That on Tuesday afternoon be was at work with the deceased, in getting flints from the cliffs for sale. He was employed at a 11/41- m* at the edge of the cliff, to draw the atones up in a basket, whielt those bele, Idled. He saw the cliff suddenly give way, and fall within a very small distance from the place where he was standing. He saw the deoesoed, William Smith, attempt to run away, but in a moment aftsdrarils he lost sight of him amidst the ruins of the cliff No stakes or crow-bars had been driven to loosen the earth front the face of the cliff. They meant the next day to have driven the staked to detach what they had under. mined. William Knight wee at work at a curb a short distance to the westward of him, and both fell with the earth, and Knlzht was thrown on the beach below. The witness was employed by John Jai*, who he understood had leave to dig the cliff in a cer tain direction for stones. They were not employed by any persona building hottest, but dug the cliff for the stones, to sell to the builders; the s mall stones they sold for the mending of the roads. He did not expect the cliff to fall so soon ; supposed it fell sooner than be expected front the nature of the soil. About fifty yards in lalfrth, and eight feet in depth was undermined. W. Todd, labourer, was at work with the deceased ; when he saw the cliff fall, he ran away; the earth fell on him and knocked him down, but he received no serious injury. The five deceased men were working in a row under the chit, which fell on and bu ried them, without giving any warning. lie worked for Jaile, who had permission to dig for the stones. Heard no cries ; did not see any one attempt to run away. It happened instantly— nothing had been done on the top of the cliff to loosen the earth. Edwanl Jaile, brother to the deceased John Jaile. was at work under the cliff with William Lee, who was wheeling the dirt away ; but little of the cliff fell where he was. John blearing said, he had frequently cautioned the men in un dermining the cliff, of the danger they incurred. In former in stances, when the cliff' had been undermined, stakes had been driven on the top ; none were driven in the present instance. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of —" Accidental Death." SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening, as Mr. H. Harrowby, the cocker, was returning front 'M olesey finest, with a friend, they were overturned at the bridge, between Twickenham and Brentford, in making way for some persons coming at a quick rate behind them, and ahieb set their horse refractory. The con sequence was, th at both Mt. H. end this friend, Mr. Frampton, were taken up speechless, from violent contusions on the head ; the latter remained in a state of stupor yesterday, and is not ex z=totecover. The eogrussion was so great that the gig was from the aha6a 4 •llll the home ran away with them. BAD &writ El a • 6.—Yeatenlay morning, at ten o'clock, • another trick, which might to operate as a public caution, was plated 1 off upon Mr. M'oolridge, poulterer, Everett-street, Brunswick.: square, by those sharpers, who are in the habit of sending into circulation base and counterfeit sovereigns. A female very de- • gently attired, entered Mr. Woolridge's shop and ordered a brace ' of fowls, to be sent to Lansdown-place, No. 2 ; the price was agreed upon, 6s. fad. and the lady retired, saying the servant was I to bring change for a sovereign with him. Soon after Mr. Wool. I ridge sent his servant and change for the sovereign, and just as he I gut to the end of Evcrett.strcet, the lady met him, exclaiming, Mercy, you have been a long time." She then took the 13s. tid. change, together with the fowls, gave the servant a sovereign as he supposed, and then departed 4 the servant brought home the sovereign, and Mr. NI - oolralge immediately discovered it to be a counterfeit. and hastened o ff to No. 2, Lamtdcwn-place, to inquire I for the female, but no such person lived there, or could be at all 1 heard off. She was attired as a country lady, with a flush upon her countenance, and rather lusty. We understand this practice has of late been so prevalent at the west add the town, as to place I ' tradesmen in doubt of takinggoki. DRE*DFYI. AFFRAY. — On Tuesday evening last, as a strong yen' , of bailiffs were distraining for Mites on part of the parish of Kam:ea-ration, between t'aber and Cashel. while driving away some stork, they were attacked by a body of the peasantry of Itallygar raid, on whom they were obliged to fire in their own defence; when, we understand, a man of the name of Looby was shot through the body; another, of the name of Costigan, was also severely wounded • and a man named Gorman had his upper lip and two o: his teeth carried away by a ball. We have not heard of any da mage sustained on the part of the bailiffa, save only that daring the action the women and children of the neighbourhood carried' away the stock that had been seized. —lrish paper. I Now that the Lottery system is drawing to a conclusion, it must be a subject of proud exultation Me Mr. Stvcw a:6 lIT that he took the last,Contraci„ and by garnishing his Scheme with Seven 20,0001. Priam, has Ineceelled in rivetting the attention of the Public, in a most unusual degree. Neat Thursday, Fe bruary 16, will be the First Day of Drawing, and a memorable day it will probably prove to many , for the Two First Prizes aye each to have 20,0001. extra i and all that are drawn Blanks will be put in the Wheel and drawn again. so that if they miss the Two Firs, they will still have a chance for Tire other Prizes of 20.0001. POLICE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, a curly-headed, Berkeleperavated, WeUington booted, superfine young Corinthian, was charged with assaulting a Cyprian damsel of the ntme of Bicknell. ft appeared by the evidence produced, that Miss Bicknell, in company with another frail fair one, were taking their drops at Jones's wine.raults, at the corner of New-street, St. "lartin's lane, when a dispute arose between them, which running rather high, the young gentleman unfortunately meddled in the matter, and struck Miss Bicknell in the face, for which he was conveyed for nubile safety to the buttom.most apartments in St 31artia's watch house. Tie gentlemen, in defence, declared that :Ulm; Bicknell was the first oft:alder, saying it was tar from his disposition to strike a female, or be guilty of such an unmanly action. Sir ItICHARD illliNie, after observing that he had no business to interfere with other people's quarrels, ordered him to find bail for the assault. There were a great many other night charges heard by the Sitting Alagistnue, but none of them of any importance except to the parties concerned. IiATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday the notorious flat ry Judd (who had been examined on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mrs. Hominy), together with Frederick Cale, alias Phillips, a hackney coachman, and well-known pal of the former, were brought up with Thomas Smith. a farrier, charged by William Frederic k& Kelly, Esq., Cap_ taro in the Royal Navy, with having assaulted him with the intent of robbery. The Captain stated, that yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock, as he was returning home from the west end of the town, to his lodgings, 2.), Tabernacle-row, Finsbury square, in passing from Holborn by the gate leading into Gray's lno, the pri soner Cole presented himself before him, and dropped some money. evidently with the intention of inducing the Captain to stoop to pick it up. The stratagem not succeeding. as the Captain withdrew from the pavement he was followed by Cole in a pugilistic attitude, bat the Captain still confronting him, he kept him at bay, until per. ceiving the other prisoners coming up to the assistance of their asso ciate, he called the watch. The Captain gave great credit to the active interference of the watchmen, who immediately secured the parties. On the Magistrate inquiring of the officers as to their know. ledge of the parties. Judd was of course recognised as an old of fender; Cole as being connected with hint in a late attempt to rob a gentleman in Red Lion-square ; but Smith was un known. The latter prisoner was ordered to find bail; Cole to give twenty. four hours' notice of the same; and Judd was committed as a reputed thief, for six weeks, to the House of Correction. John Lloyd, a youth about seventeen years of age, was brought up by the officers of the Ilendicity Society, charged with being found begging in Montague street, Russell-square. it appeared from the statement of the officers that every exertion had been made on the part of the Society to relieve him, and to reform his habits, but without success. He had been twice impri. soiled in the House of Correction, once for the period of a month, and afterwards for three months. The illagirtrates, after commenting on his incorrigible habits, sentenced him to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. Janes Barnet, William Gill, and Jolts Pike, all lads, were charged with stealing a quantity of fat from the slaughter-house belonging to Mr. Collingwood, butcher, in Lamb's Conduit-street. The prisoners were stopped by a person to whom they offered the fat ter sale, who suspected it was stolen. The prisoners being all neighbours' children, who hail free access to the slaughter-house, Mr. Coßingwood interceded with the Ma gistrates in their behalf, and, after a suitable admonition, they were discharged. AIARV-LA-BONNE. Love an) Mann ess.--On Wednesday afternoon, in conse quence of the complaint of a young gentleman, named Marty n, a warrant was lowed against a young lady, of very respectable font. ly, named 4 uejJon, and she was brought to this office by Hooke*, on a charge of having attempted the lite of the complainant. From the detail of 11r. 31artyn, who is an engraver, it appeared that he had made himself a proficient in his business, under the di rection of the young lady's father, and having completed the term of his apprenticeship :, he entered into partnership with his master ; " but uniiwtur.ately, said be. " that young lady imbibed a vio lent passion, called love,' for me, and such were the extremes to which this • heavenly' passion drove her, that she actually wooed me, and to my face said, 'Dearest, I am thy devoted le:cress and endearingly cried, Won't you have me ? ' , But it appearedi to be a passion unrequited, and be most ungallantly said " No, at first imagining it to be a joke, as in appearance he is rather sin gular. Finding, however, that the young lady most perseveringly hunted him from the shop to the parlour, and from that everywhere, and in fact was his very shadow, he began to get uneasy, and re. rbonstrated with her on such impropriety, mentioning some sensi ble reasons that perhaps might assist lies in getting rid of the "heavenly" pass ion; but here was a "love" that absence or time could not subdue, and, with vehemence, she assured him he should marry her, and no one else. On this declaration he began to get very much alarmed, and ver y . de fi nitely mentioned the affair to her father and mother, who Interposed their parental influence, which it appeared, had a greater effect than all Mr. Martin's sensible reasonings, as love quickly took the wing, and hate supplied the mischievous urchin's place. The appearance of things now bigan to be very serioas: the lady, in a brooding manner, still siomil tho gootleman, and on Moody evenuig made an attempt to stab him with $ slight but destructive instru ment. Seeing her intention, he avoided the blow, and fled into a comer; she followed, and again struck at his back, but the point of the weapon most fortunately only grazed the skin. lie then seized her, and handed her over to her mother, finally determining upon adopting the present course. He said that from this circum stance he was under the necessity of dissolving partnership with her father. . The young lady, who in apparnnee exemplifies all that one would imagine had been adopted by dame Nature in une of her frolic some mooch, denied the change, and most energetically accused the cruel Alwyn, who had treated her so. The Magistrate said she had acted very improperly, and had it not been for the interposition of Providence, might have stood there to answer to a more serious charge. He, however, on re ceiving her pledge never to molest the ungallant Martyn again, sent ha home with her mother. As she quitted the office, she said, " Oh ! that my love—any heart, should be thrown away upon such a spiteful ninny." Mr. Martyn appears to be a very sensitive gentleman ; he was under the necessity of sucking an orange, to prevent him from fainting. The affair excited much laughter in the office. ELOPEMENT.—The Nobility and Gentry in the neigh bourhood of tirosvenor-square have for ten days past been consi derably agitated in mind and conversation In consequence of the elopement of a young lady of aonsiderable fortune, and not less beauty and accomplishments. It appears that for some years past a Lieutenant belonging to one of the East India Establish ments, and bliss resident in a street not far from North Audley-street, bare long been attached to each other. About three weeks ago the Lieutenant came home from his regiment, and de clared his pretensions to the friends of the lady, but was repulsed. Means, however t were devised to bring about a meeting, by the lovers, and last t.urday they met in the Park, but the father of the lady surprised them, and after addressing some bostilelanguage to the young soldier, he took his daughter home. Still the lovers were determined not to be baled, and a plan was arranged ac cordingly. The young lady, while walking with her father in I Bloomahury-square, cetera a house close by, passed through a small lawn or garden behind, out into the street again, where the Lieutenant was in waiting, and both entered a coach and drove oft The father, on hearing these tidings, supposed naturall y had taken the North road ; he therefore, without returning, that way, but could obtain no clue to the fugitives, witrO; his return, he by some stratagem ascertained were abo ut to start from the neighbourhood of Golden-square, whither, at an early hour, he repaired yesterday morning, anti surprised the parties. We are told that a contest took place between the father and the Lieutenant ; but the result was, that the lady was conveyed to her lather's mansion. We regret to state, that in the heavy gale of the Gilt instant, the Minerva, Captain Radley, which had gone down to Dunleery for the purpose of assisting the sloop Providecce, Capt. Evans, which had sunk, and the sloop Union, which was likewise endeavouring to assist the Providence, both drifted on the pier, where the Minerva shortly became a total wreck, a small part of her rigging, together with her anchors, being the only articles saved. The Certain, finding every effort unavailing, thought it most prvdent to heave the vessel off to her anchors, when the sloop Union, that was likewise endeavouring to raise the Providence, and was also making sail to get off, in a heavy squall, drove on board the Minerva and parted her from her ground tackling': they drift ed against the pier and sunk. It was an appalling sight to behold two vessels sinking close to the pier, and one of them, the Union, enveloped in flanies.—Dublin Journal. REMOVAL. OF THE PRISON ERA.—Yesterday the prisonera who stand committed on charges of felony, were removed from the several gaols in the city of London and county of Middlesex, to Newate, preearatory to their taking their trials at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, which will commence on Wednesday next. A gang of swindlers arc now circulating base sovereigns and silver coin in south Wales and the artioinmg counties; they are easily distinguished from the true coin, being defective in the weight and ring.-11creford Journal. DREADFUL. Al'I'.%TR AT WORCESTT.R.--011 Saturday night last, as three men and two girls were walking in the streets of Worcester, the men bejan to quarrel, when two of them seised the third, and with a knife cut him across the throat, the chest, and arms. He was taken to the Intim - tare. and the other men and the women are In custody'.—Chcifenlions throxiele. Yesterday (Sunday) a melancholy accident happened in the Castlehill. A tradesmen residing There, while going up the stair which led to his house, early in the morning, fell backwards, mad fractured his skull. In spite of instant surgical aid he died in a few minutes, leaving a widow and several helpless children— Cokdowinit Mercury. AUDACIOUS AND INEXPL/CASLE ROMDESY.—On the night of Friday last, some villains climbed over the outside gate of the Cheltenham prison. and actually stole a game cock and two game hens from the dark cell where they were roosting. There were at the time nine prisoners in custody in the upper cells, by some of whom the thief was heard. A reward was offered next day, and on Satimlay night the fowls were replaced !—the robber returning in the sante manner, and escapirg a second time without detection ! THE ARMY. The depot of the 75th regiment of foot is ordered to pro ceed from Albany to Gosport barracks. Detachments belonging to the 30th, 41st, and 4Gth re giments of foot, now at Chatham, will embark abou• the 40th inst. for India. Detachments belonging to the .54th and 1 4 9th regiments of infantry, and a detachment of the 13th litglit dragoons, will embark, about the 20th inst. on boaru the Fairlie, Indianan, for Madras. A detachment 'belonging to the royal staff corps, under the command of Ensign IVestmacott, will embark on Saturday next, on board the Orpheus, for the Mauritius. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCR About seven or eight months since, two large cases were deli. vered at the Custom.house, from on board a Dutch lugger, coo. signed to the care of a mercantile house in the city, and addressed to a gentleman well known in the literary world. On examination 1 those cases were found to contain a number of paintiags, some fos sil remains, a few volumes of rare books, printed at .Inisterdent and other Dutch towns, almost immediately after the discov er , o f the use of types, and were, perhaps, more ven era bl e f ortheir an tiquity than estimable for their literary importance. There were also some coins, of Roman and Athenian origin, easefully secured I in a small casket of porphyry. and many other articles of redo, all plainly indicating the same refinement of taste which had assisted lin the selection. The pictures. which exhibited every appearance lof having been long neglected, were, notwithstandin g , exc.:leat preservation, the frames alon e h av i ng su ff ere d from the rust of time. They were about forty in number, and were chiefly from the classic pencils of Claude Lorraine. Poussin and Titian, with two or three aßembrandt's happiest mhos. Some cabinet paintings, deposited in a small pertfolio, were evidently the production of a female pen. cil, and were remarkable rather for their elegant and imagitatire character, than for studied preparation. But the puzzle was, to as. certain from whom or whence they came, or what motive could bare induced the original ipomentar to pert with an inestimable a collection. No intimation whatever had accompanied them, that might inform the present owner to whose generosity he amod debted for so choice a gift, if such he might conceive it. After carefully examining their contents, the cases were again carefully closed, as the gentleman was rather !erupt. leus in exhibiting as his oftn what might be reclaimed at some future period by their mysterious owner. Month alter month rolled away, without affording the least clue to this singular ad. venture, and the gentleman at length concluded that it was a piece of pleasantry put upon him by his son, who is a Manor.fleneral in the British army, and then holding a situation in India; be sc. cordingly wrote to him on the subject, but theGenaral, in reply, expresses an equal degree of wonder at the information, and pledges his honour, that he knows nothing whatever of the transaction, and * concludes by saying, that if his father find. th e g ift o f hi s un k nown friend as the slightest ineurnbrance, he shall feel particularly happy in relieving him from the trouble of its acceptance, and take all responsibility from his shoulders. General - further adds, that he remembers, during the Walcbcren expedition, haring haat an opportunity of rendering a trilling service to a wealthy Flan/sit merchant, merchant, who was at the time highly grateful, and took his ad dress both in London and Somersetshire, where his father's estates are principally situate; but he could never, for a moment, pre. sume that the lhitchman's gratitude was so untading as to induce this valuable proof of its existence after the lapse of so may yam The General's father, who is an ardent admirer of the am, begins to relax in his scruples, and thinks of new framing and regreildxg such of the pictures as have suffered from lying by ; and it is es. pected that the entire will be opened to the inspection of the cog. nowenti and virtuoso, as soon as the work of resuscitation shall hare been accomplished. MURDER AT SHOLDEN, NEAR DEAL. Perhaps no murder, not eves that of 3lr. Weare, has exerted pre horror than the one just perpetrated st ShoMen, and attended with as great barbarity as any of those it has been our melancholy linty of late to record. Elizabeth 3larah, the victim on this occasion, lived at a cottage of her own, in a sequestered situation, and for a !toga Otiose Isai excited the conversation of the neighbourhood, by the eccentric, bat inoffensive nature of her habits. Her cottage was the joist tenantry of herself, and the animals she had domesticated, and the knowledge of her possessing sane small property, both in houses and money, seemed to have pointed her out as a peeper object of the ruthless wretches who have committed the inhuman outrage. On the 24th ult. her neighbours were alarmed by obiening the door of the cottage on the .iar, and the shutters shut, contrary to her usual practice; and a man of the name of Marsh, by the re. quest of a .Mrs. Mackay, who resided a short distanee hone the spot. was sent to the house, in order to ascertain the cause of this unusual appearance. On his enuring the house he found leaning against the door an iron coulter, belonging to a plough, which had evidently been used to break open the door ; and also a bat, fitted up as a dark lantern, which immediately excited suspicion that something unfortunate had happened to the unhappy woman. Ho Immediately called in the assistance of a person named Chandler. to accompany him in examining the premises, wise, ere eateme the bed-mom of the woman, found her in bed ; the left temple depressing part of the anterio r interior angle of the parietal boor, and part of the frontal bent depressing the brain ; a wand en the left fore-finger, separating all the integuments from {lee ea, dividingthe that from the second ghalans of the askidlnefineWs her arm broken, no doubt from the resist tee site wogs to the human murderers. tto the murder becoming known, great alarm was necessarily n. cued, and the neighbouring Magistrates immediately gave nonce to the Coroner, Mr. T.T. De Lomax, who attended with all fawn nient speed and the Jury was immediately summoned of the mast respectableinhabitants of Sholdea, accompanied by several of the professional gentlemen in the neighbourhood, the Rev. Maas. Deckhouse, Pennington, Mullins, and several other distinguished gentlemen residing on time spot, and after several days investigation. James Clover, Joseph Shelvy, Stephen Shelvy, and Hester his wife, were cumnittesl on the extraordinary evidence elicited in the course of the examination. It appeared from the evidenceof several of the witnenes, did two persona answering the description of James Clover and Jew* Shelvy, were near llowe-wall-bouse, at eleven o'clock on the n* of the murder, (which it is necessary to state is situate so the high road between the house of Stephen Shelvy and the oxlip dt the deceased), and who, both before and after the murder, had best concealed in the house of S. Shelvy for tan suocesaive nights. though both S. Shelvy and his wife distinctly swore, that neitberd them had seen Joseph Shelvy since the 23d of De cember hat, td J. Clover for live years. Notwithstanding this, on their apprehension by Langley,* principal and indefatigable constable of Deal, accompanied Smith, a police-officer, a prayer-book was found (which was sun to ty a young girl, aged 13 years, who attended oacasianally opt: Airs. Marsh) and tire buttons, exac corresponding with it button which 'had been ingeniously sew ed on the hat (which formed the dark lantern before alluded to) to fasten the door and two pieces of sack farmed to serve the purposes of sandsh, sad whit* it would seem had been worn by one of the persons contented ta the outrage. In the summing up the evidence, the Coroner adverted to the wanton barbarism of the murder of an aged woman, who will make no resistance, and who, it is likely, met her fate through * cognizing the persons of her murderers ; and then by an clause and ingenious exposition of the evidence, stated his full comtitlioa that sufficient evidence had been shown to warrant the Jury in t♦ turning such a verdict as should enable hint (the Coroner) to trod the prisoners for trial. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned the following sera diet—" 11 ilful murder against James Clover, Joseph Shelve. mod Stephen Shdvy, and against Hester Shelvy as an accessary 'be the fact," who were in consequence committed to 3laidatone Owl on Thursday, Bth inn. The cottage itself exhibited a scene of dirt and desolation on (l amination, this poor woman having been accustomed to house he stock within her lower rooms, front which several loads of ma nn have been removed. The body eau found stretched upon the bed, with nothing t'S rags for covering, and with a piece of cloth over her face, which had no doubt been placed then! by the murderers. The room a* festooned with cobwebs of immense magnitude. and trot little bind as discovered, owing to the age of the victim—Kentish Goo*. A curious coincidence occurred in Doctors' Commons en Tuesday last. Prnhatr (of a will) was actually granted r two executors, named J. 7'hurtell and Joseph Ifurt,i3ch• vichuls not at all connected with the parties concerned the late infamous murder of Mr. Weare. The grand fossil skeleton, found by Mary Ann'np rf Lyme, in the blue has, a few weeks since, has at lc"=th been disposed of to the Duke of Buckingham. The p was Ha—Taunton Paper. BIRTHS. On Tues4lay last, in Strattaa-screet, the Lady of Otos": Olen, Esq. of a son. I Ik:sq. nr Tue6aa , 3 Y last, a d hish rogb ie ter in . lini.steeet. the Lady (..1 Stuart, MARRIED. At Inatherhead, on the 29th ult. by the Rev. James Dslbws , : Vicar, Francis Rudall, Esq. of ('lament's Inn, to Donna, tiv s ' daughter of Joseph emnler, of hcatherhead. At Ilfracombe, Devonshire, Lieut.. Col. Newton, to Ellen , er l 7 daughter of Major Legrand, of Ilfracombe, and of Partathegte e • Ireland. DIED. On Tuesday last, of an apoplectic attack, while attending tl West India Meeting at. the City of London Tavern. lU Bullock, Esq. of Upper Bedford-place, in the s*l yawed his 1 6 6 0 Lately, at Derby, the Rev. Henry Taft, ALM, *got 32 . (I " the Ministers of the AWesleyan Methodists in Birmingham. On the ad inst. the infant son of Lieut—General Sir John Osay of Dunnikier. On Tuesday last, at his house in Piccadilly, in his 80th Ye°. Sir Wm. Paxton, of Middleton Hall, Uarmartheashire. . _ HIGH WATKR THIS DAY AT LONDON-131 11 PO S ; Horning, 47 rain. after 12. I Afternoon, 19 Min. lOW I. - . Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS Office, br NV. V" 1 }0 10!, Strand; and Published by S. 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