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,r'~=~- I The PTOVlgional ,aregement of industry and Reduction of Poor's Rates, fear. to that circumstances will tend to prevent that attention to our political economy which the condi. turn of society and the multipliCation of poor's r ates demand, desires to invite the prompt notice • t ' friends and the public to the folios. k objects 11 having been ascertained that labourers are pe n n y inclustrioss, thrifty, and moral in their cundoct, no ring race , vente d toms relianc e On Puor's Rates, and th h er eby famished with a suitable employment, wife, Occupy . OK small portion s of land It is proposed that antpplication s hould be made to floc I,4jAasere to appoint canininuers, both general and loyal, the latter to be (biro by parishes, o r by the 'toothed, fur the purpose of applying agricultural labourers, in p r oportion toAttoilf Tatailies, with small por. hone of land for tit e dification of their leisure hours; atm, w h ere ittlisary, erecting a cottage upon the same. ti AY, - to large sod populous places, having • number of unoccupied pour, that lands, principally waste lands, as near vs possible, shalt he provided for the employment of the sum, under suitable soparintemknce ; the required building. WO COI inKCS bt•iug to he erected, add prow wage.. ysid ; the Eminniosi bbbb CI'S being also empowered to set out inase partial's of Well waste tondo as shall be eligible for moll farm', villas, Ate. a That fee providing the Ilre 00000 y fonds for these ins. ritio t porpoises Exchequer Bills should be issued, tinder arrangemmts similar to the provisions of the Exchequer Bill Loma Act, and the juiciest of which to be paid half. r ": • Pa r. ring ties prorogation of Parliament, and previous to . pmsaotat • •I•'" the •h•we Preollisesdicions opinions, b wi ng upon the same, will be appreciated, such being ad dressed, post paid, as under. Committee congratulates the country urn' ihe p r inciples of equity discoverable in Many landed P ro prielors upon the subject of ten's, whereby land-owners sad their tenantry will realise that happy union of interests so tong the glory of one favoured laud. • That the number of small farms augments, and that the use of the spade increases, there ran he no doubt ; and which meats are calcolated fur the benefit of all, through the increase ef Istmur, sad the additional profits which by such insamensent secobtaioed. • For the Provisions, Committee, •BENJ WILIA Roe. See. " Mays Head, Poultry, December, 1520." Tice armistice between the Royalist General, Montt°, an I the Insurgent Chief, BOLIVAR, is eon:ironed. The following is an extract from a letter, written by a British Officer. dated off Cars. thireeeetia, October 2 1 : " ' All the people here blame &Hew for acceding to an armistice with Murillo. It applies, however, only to lbes armies smiler these two Chiefs. " The duties hers are at the enormous rates of 33i per (cot, and yet the importers from Jamaica are realising ISO per cent mr the cargoes lately landed. " 11'e have made every impair, rerpecting the affairs of the Main. and as the American accounts have represented the situation of the Insorgents as desperate, we extract from eloeumants scut directly to this country by Bolivar and his adherents, the reported condition Of the armies of Co. lumina, as transmitted to their agents in London, who re present that the proposition forellie armistice came from General Morello, mud winch, after some delay, had been acceded to by Bolivar with the watlersi angling that the 10. dependence of Columbia ifoald be recognered. " The main army was rider the President near Rosario de Cucuta, consisting of nearly 11,000 men; the second in coratasod, Urdaneta; the third, Ortonel Pages. The op posing forces of Murillo were at Valencia, consisting by report of nearly 6,000 The reseed army of conareinence v•"•"*" (vrtn.49 estaNsi Pas a. whirls rem sialtd of nearly 4,000 met., t ic what is termed the British Legion. The other forces were in different divisions of one mad two thousand men ; one of which, tinder Colone l Montilla, war closely besieging Santa Priente letters from Ltma, dated Sept..lo, receiv ed et Jamaica, and brought by the Jamaica Mail. announce the !eliding of the expedition under Ge nteel Sr. MeaTts. at Piece', a poet to the south ward of Lima. The event appears to have tales ',Nee only three days before, and to have been coat inurricated by an express from Pim - o to the Viceroy of Lima, where the newt of ST. MARTIN'S disease birkaiinri produced a Ter/ powerful impression.— • entlier attack upon Callao was.apprelseuded -as one of :he first consequeoces of this operation. AL Pauama, from whence the same iistelligence bud been communiceted to Jemmies, it bed been seg mented, in this latter instance, by .the themetions between the civil and military authorities of the place, it having been amtouitced there that Lord COCURASE was actually blockading Callao. sod that lie meditated tin attempt on Panama. — The resources of the 'ilteititoir of Lima are de scribed us fan more abentlant than recent report had represented them ; some of the accounts stat ing the force in the neighbourhood of that city sit 8,500, and others as high as 14.000 effective troop!, supported by a considerable fleet in the her hour, among whicir were the threefeigates Enters& dn, Vergassa, and Pryers. On the lath rest. a fishing-boat. named the Per. fridge, of Saudgete, was seized with 17 cases of to. fierce°, most ingeniously concealed under her lining. It was not found until all the nets, ballasts, and bulkheads were removed, and the lining ripped up; and it is presumed very specific imfortartion must have heel) given of the place of concealment. There " ".. 1 ""*. that similar frauds have been commit ted to a greet eaieEol „ nerd Revenue officer. are active in their endeavours to discover them. ESGLISU SPIRIT.—At Newark • party gave umbrage to the " powere that be." by the manner in which they celebrated the triumph or the Quetta, and three were committed to prima. Oa Tamer" last these men were liberated, apd while missing I hroielli the yard.' were pointetkout by tbe keeper tut several gentlemen as the Queen's men. One of the gentlemen addreesing them. said. " Well, my men. you will be the King's men law, and sing nod sage 114 e King." To this One of them nobly a id semi* re:phed- 64 Ste. if I were roamed for fon:teen years. instead of fourteen days, /1 world not • tater tap principles, end a prison is floe wrong place ,for Reform, 11 waists good men bad, and far/ worm." Out gaitriog the mitre& of the prism' welt, they gave three lirizzei, arid al ted ( save the Cr/areal " —(Aceceude Paper.) _ _ Committed to York Castle, Mark Fletcher, for a mild cruel and violent assault no a poor black mo m iu a public-house, at Bradford, who obtained a liviug by selling outs; the unfortunate black was knocked down by Fletcher, who shamefully arid I tusillanimuusly intoned upon hint with his knees while on that defenceless situation, until blood esme ouvof kir month ; all his ribs except one are Woken, and very faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.. Fletcher is one of the tnen who were tried last Spring Assizes tit York, fur the murder cf. woman, by damming her into a pit, at Wibeeys .• . 4 1 ..1'45441000104.' . SMI DERBY. I N 1 opt Gustavo, 115 to 1 apt Partisan. OAKS. 510 1 apt My !Ad, lltto 1 apt Emily. 9 to 1 apt B RIDDLESWOILTH. 3 to 1 opt Selina I 5 lo 1 api Morel. MT. LIMP.R. 9to 1 apt Jack Spiggot 116 to 1 apt My Lady. 15 to 1 apt Colwell ' ' • it• 'OE .. , 1" . • PUBLIC ADDE 'LBS. 3 THE TUN?. uni Conimittee for Encouragement InniNG-ROO3l, TATTERSALL'S, Ds•saista U. I)es i LITERARy sHORMAKRRS. The fraternity of shoemakers have, nneptestinnably, given rise to some characters of worth and groin.. The late Mr. flolciiift was originally I shoemaker; his dramatic pieces moat rank among the heal of those on the English stage. Robert Dlounifidd wrote his poem of The Porter's Roy, while employed at this business; and Dr. %Valiant Carey. Protestor of Nanscrit and Deng:are, at the College of FO! William, Calcutta, and the Mole and indefatigable translator of the Scriptures info many of the eastern languages, was in early life a shoemaker in Northamptonshire. The present Mr Gifford, the translator of Jorenell, and the supposed editor of the Quarterly neriew, open, some. of his early days its learnimt the " craft and mystery" of a shoemaker, as he tylla us, to one of the must interesting pieces of stsio.hin. graphy ever penned, and ',refixed to bit uses you. sod depot ',non el the prat Roman *a" irist. BOXING. The battle between Mors, the rim, and mu ltitheards, the Bath butcher, took place on IYednesday, fur frog.. on Hain Heath, four tusks from Haslentrre, Bucks. Both bad milled their way into notice Edwards was considered an elegant, rather than a powerful boxer: the gipsy, on the contrary, bad proved himself a rttfli in, who would not be denied. A ring of IS feet was the space fur combat, and the men entered it very street oil themselves. Richards, the cricketer, seconded Edwards, and one of the giry tribe seconded Mrs.—F.ven betting. In the first round Et!wants reworked hi• advereary's claret, which flew about copiously, and %loss in lonise In was floored by a right-handeol leaser in the body, which *titled first blood and the knock down. I. The mail got more steady at their work, and r very gal. lant round Was (0111,001, %flee exchanging counter hits at the head. In rallying winch ruffiamoon took place on the part of the gipsy, who displaye.l much of the Randall lactic,. Ed. wards at length stopped his aolversary • oi action, by getting his herd under the left arm, and wearing at it until he paid him, trick and lie, at the bleeding game The giry got away, and both broke their ground for a fresh turn loose. The gipsy placed a heavy hit no Edwards 's oight aide, which be did out seem Si. relish, and bored him down, but. both were weak from the exertions of the round, upside was all fight for sears misrules. 3. Moss was Minot of the right eye and the lance was ap. plied, but it was a hogging round, and both fell 4. Edward' fought with much golly mid science to gel at his opponetit's left I ye, hot he would nut hare it. Edward: had the best of in and nil fight:lig, and drepped Muss for , ward by a neat hit in the wad. 5. Muss led in this rotund and knocked his 811 y down bye heavy bit upon the jaw, and it won him the fight, fn. Edwards being dins crossed in leading, like many of his superior., did not (miry it, and he was %cry shy at nine in after. lie was thrown a cross.buttuck, and it was even bet ting that be would not come again. 6. This round ended the fight, in nineteen minutes. Mom was the worst beaten. but Edwards 'violently waisted Cll4l. rage. or he could not have lost it. Moss won the battle by a slight blow with which his adv y weut down, awl would tout appear in time. A second battle was fought fora pane of fire guineas, be. tweet, a 9.4408 e Jew and s tt.sione countryman, which was won by the Jew in seven iniuitos. In the first round the c ttttt drys's° delikerzitely ...eked away to wipe the blood off his nose, and in the third hr gave its. HJIMHIHIaa MEETlSH.—Extriict of a letter from Winchester. December 26:—" I take the earliest npportuotty to inform you that the Shetiff of Hants has consented to calla Comity :Reefing, for the purpose of prtitionnig the two Houses of Parliament on the subjeEt of the late impolitic mid disgraceful proceettings against the Quays, and praying them" to take such steps as may repeat wisest and most ef f ectual to remove every obstacle to • final and satisfactory arrangement, as well as to prevent the renewal of any measures whatever against her N111.111..Te. The Requisition is signed by— The Earl of Carrasivoo. the How. George Herbert, the Hoe. Newt** 'relieves, Sir H. Tichbornr, Hart. Sir Charles Mill, Bart. Sir W. C. ale Crespigny, Hart. N.P. William asaaahrrlayar. M.P. Newry Bariug, Esq. M.P. Jobs Car. ter, Esq. M.P. W. P. Pooleill, Esq. Henry Bonham, Esq. J. Mills, Esq. A. Atherley, Esq. mad several other Gentle men' of the masinly. I have no doubt that we shall have a large meeting. as I hear from all quarters of the county of the in tetanal of gentlemen. ttadesineu, and yeomen, to be present." - • The paragraph we copied from another Paper respecting a son of Alderman WOOD having ben drowned, is, we find, untrue. The Alderinats, it appears, has no son absuail at present. Mr. J. CHAMBER , . said to be the oldest provin. cis' comedian in the ksigdoin, died lass week at Shrewsbury, on which edge he had appeared during the last thirty years. We are extretnely sorry to state that the Dr.von shire bank, which hat hitherto rusititaitrol, awl we believe justly, a respectable name, was miller th e n ecessity, on Wednesday last, of suspentliog its payments. The cause is attributed to onfouird ed and mit 'scions reports awl anonymous tenets, de rogatory to the credit of that establishment, slid whiclatraturally produced su immediate rut, OU it as extrusive as utiesprcteil. A reward it offered for the propagators of inch stories. which it is hoped will be successful, Dud the Bask resume its payments. The proprietors confidently raised that they hove ▪ ineani to fulfil their engagements to the ful lest extent.--(Eseter Alfred.) On Friday il.e not inst. the Airdrie troop of yrominiry csvalry were inspeetell at Bothwell Castle by Major...Gerieral KEYNELL. who expressed himself to theta in strong terms of approbation. lie gave them the highest credit fee their appear ' slice in the field. the regularity of their move ments, and the neallese in their uniform arid appointments, and assured them, that it was his intention to report the sense to the Gen.rsl cow mending the (Weer in Scotland. After the inspec• 'ion, the troop received refreshment* from Lord DOUGLAS, and giving the. General three c h eer s, they drunk the health of their Officers with the none token of estertn, and returned to their re spective homes highly delighted with the very fiat. terieig encomium passed on them by •the lasot. General.--r Glasgow Herald.) ' , 4 .._~ .. M 4 POLICIL CHRISTMAS WAITS, OR WAKES. The practice of bands of various instruments serenading the inhabitants for some time previous to Christmas-day, in the night time, is very general throughout !hie country as a matter of sejoicong on the approachnig natal clay of our Saviour. Those persons who pursue this practice in the Cities of Lowden and Westminster are of *different sleacrip lion to those of sissy other places. In Condos they are par- ! chased place., and are filled by very respectable persons. In Weatminoter they are appointed by the High Steward and Court of Burgesses. In the latter !place it was heist by •p. poiutment from that Court by a mall of the moue of Clay, who losing his sight, the mop° 1111 l lle'llt was ueglected, with the eights and privileges attached to it. 00 the death of Clay, who is lately deceased, Mr. Monroe applied to the Court of Burgesses to lowered tlw late Mr. Clay, and was •ppointed accordingly, his warrant •teoeil by Mr. Fawley, the Deputy Town Clerk, and silver hailm with the Westminster arms on it, and a Onto to weer round his neck. This is the find Christmas festival since his appoint twist : he engaged a numlier of partici to go is s different paste or the city and tibirty of IWeeinsinstar, to serenade the inhallitsols, trusting entirely to the liberality of persons for Cluiesmas homes as • reinunstation for their err• vice•; but he learnt that a number of other parties we.e going about unauthorised, which hail been the ease for some year., by the neglect of the late Mr. l71.1y; mud in eon servo nee, as the time was approaching for collecting Chriel mas home, on Friday Mr. Monroe applied to Sir Robert Baker, the sitting Magistrate, for his • l nee to suppress the intruders upon his rights and privileges. Sir Robert Baker roof...sea hie tenorance that smelt an rip pointmeut or power was vests., its the Court of Burg ; however Mr. Monroe cosivincril him of the correctness of his Fe.genertit, by prissiness.; • waresist **tested by Mr. Fisrley, the Deputy Town Clerk, soil also a silver badge, with the Westminster arms engrateu on it, and a chaos ettacheil so it, to enable him to wear it round his neck as the insignia of his office. Sir &xel Baker then promised to nee'st him in the suppression of the intruders upon his rights and privi leges, and gave directions to Perry, the conductor of the patrol, sceos At au early hone on Christmas morning, Perry met with a party of three performers, in Brewer.vireet. Golden. square, who hail been previously perforsuilig in Vigo-lane; lie questioned them as to their possessing any hake or au thority for what they were doing, sad they nut possessing either, he took them tato custody, and conveyed them to the watch.holise. Is • short time after Perry (sharer...l a hand of vocal and instrumental perfumers, to the number of 28 ; he dispersed the vocalists, mounting to '23, and the instrumetital performers to five. Their piaci. of per formance was Berkeley-square, sail adjoining urighourhuod i One of the five instrumeatal performers bsing known to die master of Thomas's Hotel, he noidertinik for their appear. lace Hext day at the above oiliest, which they uccorilingly did, as well as the three men who bad hero lake.. in Brewer sirtet, wisest Mr. elourue, the hermit wait ur wake fin the the City mid Liberty of Westminster, attended, to mike good his charge against the parties, that they having been acting without any authority from him, hail committed an act of vagrancy, which was sanctioned by Sir Robert Baker. Mr. Monroe Mated, that his object was not punishment against the mess in custody, lost to cosiviuce than they were as s,tig. Sir Robert Baker told the men in custody, that if they collected money se the wails or wakes “f the City tool Liberty of %Westminster, they would be obtaining it miller false pre kiwi:v. lie admitted that they might collect Christmas bum a in their own individual names, but uut es Westmiu titer waits or wakes. John Aldenharn, a man of colour, was brought to die office by Ellis, Ilia patrol, Cling. with being concerned with Dumber 111911 in horgdirionsly breaking open the house of Sir Charles Pole, at Atidenhant Nib:l,mnd stealing therein a large quantity of valuable property. ti Ellis stated, that from private lamination he had re. etived, be believed the Prier-twee eta haicelseeetted in the above robbery on the night of the 21st Institut. A prison answering the descripttts• of the Prisoner was seen near Aildrolisin Abbey a short time after the robbery is supposed to have taken place, anti was then in possetainn of the stolen property, and applied to • Niggler to carry the !mintiest—which the boggier reheard to do, but rect6wrnend. ed 1 • and his companion In • carrier to take their bundles. The higler suspecting them to be robbers, and the properly they had with them to be stolen, gave informs. bon to a watchman; in the mem:time the robbers had put ' the bundles into a hay.eaet e anti afterwards hearing an alarm was raised, ran away and left the bundles iu the hay. earl. BATTON GARDEN. Yesterday Joseph Harris appeared toe ismonimis, on an inforassiiim changing him with haring some contrebsod gooib is bis possession contrary to the statute. The Defendsot staled, that he Meg valet to a Mr. Jervis, who lodges at the Clarendon Hotel, to Bond street ; that he had only tweedy guineas a year wager, and fifteen shillings a week board-wages, awl had a wife and two chilitien to keep, and at that 11111111eld his two children were confined in the iumoles. He was Ire years fa his weaeter's service, sod arrived iii Portsmouth, from New Yurk, as the 3d of Jaw* ; that the articles stated is the itsformati tttt were made him a present by his friends in Ncw York, for his wife; he had not them for sale. and be was really ignorant that he was offending against oh ; lie hoped the Magis trates would take his case into their cuisaiderminu, and be merciful.—The property contrasted of gown.pieces, shawls, lee. value 121. 2s. The Magistrates, on referring to the Act of Parliament of the 11th of George 1. chap. 30, ace. 10, found that the penalty was the forfeiture of the goods and three times their • leith • aiseretionary power in th..io to reduce the pe salty le one•half, bet nut lees; and after regrown that they could not reduce the penalty less, the Defendant was oesteoeril to ply 10/. 3s. being tba ore-halt, and the for feiture of the goods. The Defearlant being usable to pay the penalty, was given iota she malady of as Officer. AQUATIC CHASE. rienrr Rrnera, alias William Holland, well-known at the 'tails of Blstkfriara.biiilge as Jack is Ike Water, was brought before Caplatu It.rhbeis, mid John Langley, Esq. ithsracil with uttering a forged It. note, purporting to be of tbe bank of England, under the following circumstances: Satnrelay last the Prisoner, who was iu a skiff, landed at Cuckold's Point, and pYorieeded to the Horne public. hawse, where he purchased a plat of runs, in payment for winch lie tendered a If. note, at the same time saying he he. longed to the barge Wham, ling dose by, and requesting • pen and ink, endorsed the note with the name ot " Ho' land, Dukeiatreet, Lambeth." Mr. Eilicumhe, the landlord, gave him the change, and he jumped into his skiff and rowed up the River. Soon after hi. departure, the landlord, suspecting the note to he had, took ■ boot, sold, in company with three watermen, went in pursuit of the Prisoner, sod iiu their gettiutt in sight of him, he, suspecting that they were in parsnit of him, Moonily ►owed suiting the shipping, thinking to evade hi. pur suers, hut they rowing with great velocity, final!), bore him down. On their approaching within a few y;trils of him he jumped un board a collier, alongside of nhielt lay a griantity of barges which communicated with the shore, hut hie plan was fit:strait-4, Ma his pursuers succeeded in securiug him. fie took something finm his pocket which he threw into the water ; it floated on the surface, and on bring picked up it proved to be a small canvass bag, con taining four If. notes. He was taken to the office and searched, when another If. note was found in his waistcoat pocket. 1 Mr. Glover, one of the Bank Inspectors, attended and proved the whole of the notes to be counterfeit. Mr. Royal, a boat.builder at Lambeth, attended and owned the skiff in which she Prisoner endeavoured to escape, whit b he had hired of him, for the purpose, be said, of fetch tug a bed Irons Blackfriars. I The Magistrate ordered the boat to be restored to Mr. Royal, and committed the Prisoner fur further examins- I 11011. _, ~ _ . ~,. PrIPP I NQu Lsra. TesterdsY a Coroodu's Inquest was held at the Roes sad Crowe puhlie haute, in Ranh,Wrote, before J. W. Cowin, Req. on the body of Martha ningletua, the smfortionste promos'- of CharleeTaylor, who was shot its Rlssules'-fiehh, Ilene Holiton. The dairy took • Cite of thg body. In the week were shire sushi, apparently made by some sharp in strument, or a pair safari ;on the left arm was another wowed of the sense ',afore. Ose the right arm Were several large cuts, apparently from • knife. The /berated was about IS years of age, and wb• a Ant young woman. The first willing called was a ;resole than named William • Walpole,• who stated that he lodged at 'he Rose and Crown. On Monday morning, at about twelitt. minutes after ten o'clock, he was called upon Is, the landlord to assist him is • getting into the mows occupied by the deceased, as the door was fastened itoide. The witness ftweed losneelf tato "WI room through a walasrut parlitioo. When he gut in ee saw some lihnol at the bottom of the bed. He let in the landlord null aurae other preens. The deceased was in haul, and spoke to the wilsoeia, to whom she said she was dying. He saw a sruntid in her neck. She survived about taro, minutes after he first saw lier. Mr. Pearcy immediately rau for a doctor. The attires' did nut slay is the roust the whole time that the deceased ssirviveol. J. Navy, the lassallord of the house, deposed, that the deceased had lodged at his house about twelve weeks, and had hero iptroduced as • married woman. He saw the body of the deceased Climates Taylor at Shouctliteh Church, and immediately recognised him. The last time he saw Taylor was on Thursday, but he miderst I that he left the house fur the last time oie Trolley mu 11l lig The althea» told the deeeesrol un Sunday night that he thought the man who had bran killed •t Huston was her hasbasol. She had appeared ext,emely uneasy from the time of his absence, hot on bearisig the iutelligeoce she looked din. framed. She expressed • wash to go and see the body that 'sight ; but lie told her that it was too lair, auol apoint ed to go with tier the nest moraine. The swat moo wag, at about twenty minute@ sifter ten o'clock, he wrist sap to her room to ask tier if she was ready ill go.; Is. knoektd at the door bat received no answer, and found that the door was fast. Ile then went Into his own room rind knocked at the partition, which divided the two rooms, just over the head of the bed. Receiving no answer, Ilse psititioo was forced aisle, and lie got into the room, whets Ise saw her in bed roorertol up with the clothes in the ',Magary man nee; he at first perceived nothing particular, and requested her to vs up, when she mode uo answer. The first aitsesa, Walpole, told him that the deceaioest had bird he r self, when the witness Anonediately rat. to Mr Smith,thr Parish Doctor, who did not come. lie then sent five a coach to take the decraosed to the Honopital, hat torfure the enacts arrived the de ceased was dead. The witness ilocis spoke as to the state of initial which the deccesed had been in ',revives to the es testrnphe. She hail hers very uneasy during the whole of Friday, and at times talked incoherently. Upon the whole, he thought that she was not in ai sound dale of milts'. John Hall, our of the beadles of the parish, staled, that he called at she Rosa and Crown on Christmas-day, a little after use o'clock. The deceased was still lyiag in hood, hut life was oopoOte extinct. lie saw some blood upon the Moor, wt.! hear to it a knife, with marks of blood, which was produced. It was a common table-knife; a pair of sci mark,' with blood, tepee .haul fossud mounget the berteloilios In looking' mend the room, lie perceived • letter on the table 116-31V41 1119 with black erase He also found tot her pockets a seal, which corresponded wills the impres sion on the letter. The letter was stated to he in the hand-writ'sie of Taylor, sail appeared to have hero intended to be sent to the frieoshr of the deceased and Taylor, as the title, of Loth. It was directed to Richard SoaTleloit, at Mr. Charlet' Campbell's, Be • owl l'ark, hear Steteohge, Herts. The following is a copy t— " DEAR nICIIARD.-1 have taken this nopoituni y to ill. form you that your sister Martha is tarp welt, and she hopes that her father and mother, and all of you make yourselves as comfortable as the case will admit, eat I not to think that she will he left without a friend iu the sot Id, as that will never he the case while I have the use of my limbs to work for her; and what we have done we beg will in time be overlooked. Please to give toy love to them all, which I hope they will accept, and you the same. Ask Charles if he will come and live with me in the spring if 1 Send fur him up; sad please to send use a.. answer hark as soon as you can, as 1 don't know that I shall he in that part of London where 1 aln now very little while ; 641 I shall expect an answer back by the !Ater roil of the Christmas week. " Fruin your loving sister, &c. " MARTHA SINGLETON." Signed in the panic hand-writing. L. Crochwell, one of the beadles of Shoreditch parish, slat ed, that in consequence of Mr. Pearey having been to the Church and recognised the hotly of Charles Taylor, the wit• acts thought lie hail got a clue to the case of that unfortu n■te iudtviduil ; he came to the Ruse aud Crown uu Sun day, and was introduced to the deceased, when he question tit her as to the time whets she last saw Taylor? She stated that lie should go to ■ Gentleman its Rishorgate-street, that he had left her on Friday moraine, and that she had sot seta. 11103 sneer; that he was by trade a bricklayer, and had left her on the morning of Friday, saying, and try to get which was due to him far work done in re pairing a house at Norwood. She said to was seven or eight weeks since Taylor had had any work, and that in the mean time they existed upon her own property. She begged earnestly fer permission to see the body. The witness said she should, and appointed the followin*day, at about eleven, fur her to come in company with Mr. Paarey to view the body. The witness asked the decent(' whether she had been married to Taylor, how lung, and at what church? She said she had been &tinseled to him abort seven yearn, and was married at the next church to Whiteelispel church. She was in the greatest agitation throughout the whole of this conversation. On being further questioned, site replied, that her maiden name was " Wright." [T to witness here remarked that " Wright" was the name greitteu on the in side of Taylor's coat ] On being asked whether she had any father, she replied in the negative. She appeared to be in the most pitiable 'wettish. The father and sister of the unfortunate woman were both in attendance, mid appeared to be very defelit people. The Jury, from a deltcecy towards their feelings, abstained from questiouing them further than asking the father whether the letter found upon the table was in the hand writing of his daughter. He replied in the negative, and said that she could nut write. Her name was Siugletou, which was also his name. Mr. Smith, jilts. the son of the parish Doctor, stated, in explanation, that whim Mr. Prarcy called upon his father, he merely stated that ■ female had bled herself, but by no means represented the case in so serious a light as it was, or there would out have been the slightest hesitation is at tending. The Coroner then addressed the 'guy, who returned a verdict •' that the deceased bad come to her death by her own act, she hut being at the time in a sound state of mind." An Inquest was also held on the body of a new burn infant found floating in the basin of the City Canal by a waggoner. no marks of violence appeared to be on the body. Verdict—" Found drowned." Yesterday evening an inquisition was held before Thomas Stirling, Esq. Curvier, ■t the Gower's Arma publie.huuse,' Gower-street, Beilfdril.square, on the body of John Griffiths, coachman to Sir Hobert Wairen, who destroyed himself we the preceding Jay at bis master'* stables, by cutting his throat with a razor. Several wiiiaesses deposed as tu the manner and general character the deceased burr in the family, where he had lived fur a number of years highly respected. Clie Jury being fully satisfied with the evidence adduced, returned a verdict of—insanity. INQUISITIONS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, LATILLY TAMS!! ST WK. SM. C 01103611. • On ilte7lls inst. at Bishops Froome, on the body of Rickard Pitt, who was drowned io the river Frame, into which be is suppiowd to have walked in the night, having no is•ed the path leading to a bridge near the spot whore he was found; when discorered t •he was in an erect position in the water, WI y. • . • his walkietelich hatie ILI, end s Wadi, whirs he had purchased al s strap is the neighlstemased is the whey. Os the itoir inst. et Stsitspirrair, oil lawdy of Wilhasis Bythelt, who was drowned with biomes is setempt ing to ride through the river Wye. at Bridge Saline, ow the 21th of October last, sinew nbirh lime the truly had remain• ed in the river. Veidiett.—Aerldeelel Deetis Os the , lath inst. at items, sin the bed, Oilstone* tierjeant, wh.ne death was soppm.rd to hare !wen occasioned by the on.sll - fel use of inedirinea, which slid aol appear to he the c.itc. Verdict-111'M by Ike Visitation of God. CIIUONEICS INQUEST. IiUDLIN. nn M lay, the 11111 Decembe►, instant, an bigoted was held by Arthur U. !boss e, Ews. nue of the Germ'. re l'ir comity of Dublin, on view of the body of Geo gc Au la , ter, at the new harbour at Month, In the moo y of Dolditu Jsmes Rushton, one of the 3d befit drag yes,uteted in • Dublin leans, ha, identified the body of the deceatett, hula the duets, Mr. the body being in a aphid state, to he that of George ArldasteT, a aivate in witness's company, iu the same segment. *kiwis knew the del-eased .to have hten weeping for about Pore weeks ; the Jerenned haul a Moot time precious, when in Dublin, informed the witl mu that he was ■boor to to to Eoglauul with, Iwo OifiClT.' horses; de ceased had about him Yf. Irish money, sod If he had inure, otitneas would have known it. _ . .- ”.. . George (smoky, of the aims regiment, identified the dr. ceased 111 Ih4 same manlier, and knew him lobe missing for about the ISM(' tome. 11 , nj omits !Markham, of the loath Harbour host, idesti. hed the hody_of deceased to be that of a nail whom he had l Ast seen at Hoards Woolson oil the evenitag of Site fob of Nortmller last ; tkreaseil tool a horse that be was about to ',hip on board the packet, " the Montrose Packet," that was to sail that night, and got the key of the crane; it woos re ported that the man was noising, and that the packet had La iimi without hint ; bolt on search was Made, and *ilems limier saw him afterwards until yesterday ustormoz, whoa the dead body was found floating in the hailsootr, rat tether an upright position, and the witness, assimed by others, pocked up the body, and lauded it on the new Pier. Charles Taylor, of the Howth lialbour.bost, mid Boirihn. Inmate , Goff, rorroluirmed the last wilnem as to the noodling of Site dead body in the water, roil stated that they load -se Mated Reajamin Markham its takiug it up and lodgiutit upon the Pier. ' Gothrm Bratty, of El 011 th, aboist four wet ks bat-k to thr best of his recollection, saw a maul, whose Lerdy he supposes the de ceased to lor, at iloailt, goiiig towards the par ket, on horse back ; Ihr man said lie was going to ship lb. horse, nod was perfectly sober at the time; the man had no comrade sills hint at that lime ; a aim...1.11.3rd the packet man say that a per son, a him he supposes to be the nun alluded to, was himself In goo tin hoard a tilt the horse, load gone to the hotel for bay, but had oot returned; none:she:fool the three a.t ail ...MPS to take up the h o ly of the olt crowd where f"tta.l fl.4t mg ; wit me., on the taking op of the deceased, fogad iii loos poc ket If. B. in Ruttish shillings, and Ito. is copper, along with a forloolozlo, or team, of Moo no., whiets was produced, mod appeared to have burn emoted to the deceased. ' • 51 oth,w SPAotally, of HlPNiii, assisted the other men in taking op the deceased; saw the body at arched, and the money hefute lurid mooed found its the !owlet of the deceased. Edward Bailey, of Howth—Aboot a month ago, between. four and five o'v.loek in the evening, saw a swan at Howell. who hail the appouraure of brio.' a sohoit r ; he had on a great coat; ti WA. tattler dark; the man hod with Mtn tiro her!; and dAcal the *dues. was the packet guiiie to *ea; with's* directed hint where to go, he appearing to be a straitly r; the Moitiroae pick. t was iu the baboon' that night, bet did cot sail until next night. • The first wanes., Ilishlon, from Mt description, did sot think she prison allud.d to rould have ti-eu the deceased; the dress was nut the came, aim the appearance of the de ceased at Month was mi the evening at which the Montrose pieties sailed, which by the tri-fence of Edsard Riley,i did nut sail antil the Muhl aft. r he 114 W the pass, and it was conjectured that the in,.. with the two horses was an 06-' cres 'errant, bringing dorm the horses previous to the de ceased's going on Ward. The Cormier salil, that he raw no suspicious eirennistanere induriiig him to think that any violence whatever had been' committed oo the deeeased, who appeared to he • 'tramper id that part of the country ; that the ulij.rt Ow whit* he came there had het u meowed ; that three was no evidence of sof ipierrel'or enmity having perviously subsisted between the deceased and any other person; that there was not any e►i dence °renitence or robbery,or t•vrn a sospfcioo sf any thiag of that kind, and that ecru bad any suspicion of the Lied existed, It would hart been utzsiired by the circusastaisce or the money found on 'cinching tl.t body of the deceased, which. allowing for some Wiling matter the deceased might naturally he supposed ip have spent for refreshment, and the changing of Irish money eta.. English, previous to his ern. harle.t inn, which also was a most twine, elrenwistatice, cor responded with the stint proved to have been in prarsessiois of the deceased, previously to his quitting Dublin, and it appeared that from the appenraisers of the place near Si which the body was found, accidents, particularly nn dark nights, might too often occur, if persons going that way were not very cautious. The Coroner and Jury concurring in opinion, a verdict was drawn up to form by the Coroner, and apprOved of, and Sigurd and acknowledged I.y the Coroner and Jury, stating, is effect, that the deceased George Arblaster, on the if tb day of November, in the first year of his present Majesty's reign, at the parish of Routh, whilst proceeding to go on hoard the Montrose Packet, then lyin4 in Howth Harbour, accidentally, casually, and by misfortune, fell •iisto the waters of the sea, and was by 111C11111 thereof suffocated and drowned, and so mime to his death, and not otherwise; arid that his body was them famed floating and dead un the 10th instant. THAVIS-01FICS. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. An Lorca, was held al Gala Burton, Livening Lire, on the 14th mat by Mr. Bunyan, Curunrr, on the body of Christopher Mum, 42 years of age, whose parents hs.e at Martin. The poor fel:ow had ineantiou.ly mounted a borer belonging to Mr. Scott, of Gate Burton, V/1111011i 01.41GeN. i1e1111.0 . 1% knowledge, and was instantly thrown tff and dragged by the stirrup to Martin, a distance of lia!f a She Inner being at full gal:op, kicking and plunging the whole of the way. Ile was seen by a, erral persona, but without any possibility of retitle' ioug I assistance. Floe body was Wei ally dashed to pieces, acncely a whole being left, sad the whole of his clothes acre stripped cti . except the shirt wristbands! Mr. Scutt. previously to the decision of the Jury, ordered the horse to be killril, which bas since [rico dime; the animal was known to he eicioa... Mr. Scott liemsnrSy paid the expehare o f the [ ahe m, the parents of the poor boy brill:: in iadigrot eircuiniaaores.—. Verdict —Accidentally killed. MELANCHOLY CIRCURST.4 NCR. Sum( weeks ago • nuns diabolical Wet% was not& on Miss Aim Craigy, a puma 11My Joint w veutecii, who lie, with her friends on 64110311dirry-wall, oloch bas produced cousequences of a very aulieting nature. A buy kaveked at the do .1. of Mr. Craigy'a house, sod no 'Miss C. °Freiberg it, the villain, who immediately ran away, threw a CAI 13 her face, by whose talon* it was shochilutly lacerated. The fright of this unexpected and uaaecouitiable violent - you.- duced strong fits, which lasted two day" and .ifighis, and with which she lees beta dace at interval; ufilii VAS. On Christmas-day the limey, while at *liaises, wer.et.firoxiit into the greatest slams by the oufiseleina.te toeing Iroinsu being seised with hyilieeptioltia,. which 411 C ep-liitAkcel by biting her arum, snapping at. wit/staves tame mar to her, ind malting hideous swim , ' similar to theme wing u( nstir,which increased to such a du grey that it was *lessieed. 'peculiar, to have a strait waistcoat put ow her—tad. ehriellimr4o, she *till continues in this deployable state The pe, pitr for of Ibis wanton, and, we believe, Obal6ClUil% au,, evaded apprehension; but we earneel ly itore.lottli s !toup be brought to condign punishment. ~~ \ --- w MI %Aft # Y: '' :' I • AIIIL-