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_ - .alt fishermen practice into the ..cin persons --stied _ de customers, `• those and II! . g 1 , f : i . _.l.r._ -L a - r Lonrloo, which iailml 12th instant, ygroandled et the Lee Bank in a",!: out., end was obliged to be Viewed ; she got over the her on the 15. h, afld proceeded The Griffon, arrived m the rivet. from the South Seas,brings the toNomne account of the ships, from the fishery :—The Saran had I ' • see barrels of oil, in January. The Harleston, 900 ; Mercury, 14 WU; • Ranger, 400 ; P r inc e s s ploy , no oil; all in Muth. The Lynx had just arrived in the Straits of Timor, in Muth r saw the Ramblte in her passage out. i i The Clyde. Munro. bound to Bengal, which was on the mud in ' ll; lifugsby's Hole, on Friday, was got or." during the night. She has 1 • iwen Surveyed, and tonnd to hate snettmed no damage. NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE, ' , . OCTOBER 9, 1325. t 1 (Awes, OCT. B.—Arrived the Brandywine, Lieut. Gregory, i I:rated States frigate from Havre; Betsey, Haskell, English schooner. from Load,On, for 31ogadore ; Thalia, English ship, trot, London, fue Buenos Ayres; Janet Jan, Jan Schoen, Ha- t..idiali packet. from Rotterdam, for Brat; Kangaroo, Donnell, for Leghorn; Driver, HoLgson, front Rotterdam for Haven- imit—At old bound; Potion, Didion, Havennab ; English ship, front Quebec, Mr London, loss of anchor; Hudson, Champ. • (at. American ship, front London, for New York; Sublime, tt l e u tt e l l n, Aspoatklectre brig, t7,l'. George rtf,e,:tfe:wanhip i n 13 26 . , ondayllentifeuvrnd ton lat. 40. 50. long. 21. 26. all well on the 2410 et. in lat. 48. 17. long. 18.21. the Clarissa Ann, of Bo ston, from Liverpool, for Boston, on the 4th Oct. is tat. 48. long. SS. the Eliza, of Portland, five days from Cork, fee New York ; spoke on the 7th, off the Start, the Hyperion, of Baltimore, front Bremen, for Baltimore. LIVERP OU/., F i;tnar . EYEN - 'No ----esant--- Wind W.N.W. blowing hanl.—lligh Water. II m. p. 7. Arrived the Warrior. Brown, from Buenos Ayres ; America, ) , i Davies, from New Orleans ; ounty Hall, 111`31aster, from Je- mmies; Endeavour, Parry, from London; Oscar. Id'Cartoey, from Maranharn • sad Aldebaran, Gault, from New York. The &Avg, Bleasdale, from Liverpool, arrived at Aladeire ) , 10th September. The Hardware, Ebomll, from Liverpool, has arrived at Lisbon. 'flat Mary Aim, Calahan, Ball, Williams, Swift, Treveres, . i Hibernia. Morgan, Two Slaters, Covey. • 1 Gleaner, —, from i Liverpool. have arrived at Waterford. t i i The Smyrna :or at Waterford. at T W h 'r e ste iN r i f od orc e l ra . r , Bi g c-n e i b al b, ffrromm Liverpool for for fot S Lo t:: l e ce es, has h" arri ani ved ved ' , The Harmony, APOovtan, Britannia, Campbell, Argo, Curran, 1 i 'William, Newel, and Alicia, Shuttleworth, from Liverpool, have arrived at Limerick. I The Neptune, from New Orleans for Liverpool, was seen by the Bradoek oft Belize; she was putting back with four feet water In het hold. • , . The New York.packot, front Jamaica fur Bristol, was spoke 15th September, in ket. 37. 32, beg. 64, with her wizen-mast cut away. The Hope (ship), from Matanzas for Cowes, was spoken with lath September, In Inc. 38. 34, long. 50. 56. / The Thalia, from Bristol to New York. was spoken 18th Sept. is lat. hit 30, long. 42i. The John Hayes,. from Liverpool fur Berbadoes, put into Holy- head sth inst.; taw the Higginson, for Barbadoes, the same day. i 1 LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, OCT. 8. • Wind . . S.S.W.—High Water, 21 m. p. 8. Arrived the Btlitol. Richie, from Alexandria ; James, Kay, and •' Greyhound. 111• Donald, front Londonderry; L ima, Fife, from l ' i Leith : and Isabella.—_, from the Mediterranean. , At tire o'clock two ships and twenty brigs off. The Belritlct3, Newby, from Liverpoool, has arrived at St. 31 cry's, Africa. • The Montrose. Davies, from Liverpool, arrived at Madeira the ; ltkh, and sailed for Antigua the 19th August. i Th"e Star, Bond. trom Liverpool, arrived at Madeira the 22d. and sailed for the South Seas the 24th August. ' The Vittoria; Holland, from Liverpool.hes arrived at Malaga. i I . The Cherub, late Brownrig, from the Gambia, arrived at Cowes.. I The William Byrnes, hence for New York, put back last ll / night, having slippeid her chain cable in the Bight of Hoyle; she tut her hemp cable in the Prince's Duck Basin. ‘ I The St. Patrick. Slid, from Liverpool. has arrived at Newry. ' 1 i The Eliza, Hervey, from Newfoundland, has arrived at Madeira. t' The Alert. froin St. John's, N.B. for Liverpool, arrived a Holyhead the 7th inst. At Holyhead the 7th inst. at sit, A. M. It blew a hard gale front N.N.W. end thick weather ...at three, P.M, the gale moderated', • i • and the weather clear—Wind N.W. THE WRECK OF THE COLUMBUS. ) ) 1 The following has been communicated to us by alias- senger in the Euphrates, recently arrived from India. Our correspondent states that the wreck alluded to was generally considered by those on board the Euphrates to be iI) part of the large timber ship Columbus:— About the forenoon of the 25th of September, an alarm of a *rock was given, and it became general throughout the ship. Some • , ti • as . serted that there were twenty men on it, others ten ; indeed so it firs did appear. The t feeling of every man on board was to save than lives. We were at the came under a very heavy press of sail, gorr.g about seven knots, with a heavy sea. With great difficulty we gm in sail and backed the maintopsail and brought her up. From the extreme helm sea, we bad great difficulty , . in getting the boat down, when she sensed officer and four sailors Jumped into it, at the risk of thelplives. We were at the time about a quarter of a iwile trout the wreck.; it was then rolling ate tremendous rate, and , looked truly awful. The officer in the boat dared not appioach very near. hot was able to see that it was an enormous mass of timber bolted through, with two steles; one on one side, and live or am large timbers socking upne lit. lam happy to say there f were no men on tt. The officers in the beat say it was about Nor t 50 feet long and 60 broad, but I think mach larger. We fell in with at about three of four hundred milasfrom the land, in the ex. , 11•.: track of the boamward.bound ships front the East and West i .• ladies ; and should any ship go on board of het, I would not give Muth for the vessel afterwards. There is no knowing what injury ibis floatreference machine may do. By a referen to Captain Meade, cominaciding the Euphrates, her exact situation may be known, and steps should be adopted to destroy or bring her home : she would well pay fur the undertaking. I In the evening of Siturday se'nnight a man, dressed as a sailor, with red trousers, decoyed two little boys (the eldest about six years old) with the promise of money sad gingerbread, from the Quay, Bristol, to the field on Kinesdown, leading from Cotham-lodge to Redland- i court, where he stripped them of their clothes, and left them entirely naked. Shame at their nakedness prevented tie poor little fellows from leaving the spot, though at no great distance from Mr. Creed's tunipike and milk-house ; and the eldest covered his companion and himself for the night with the waste fodder he could feel around them, snider a hedge. There they were discovered on the ii Sunday morning by the dairy woman who attended the .9 ' cows in that field, and testored to their parents.—Both Herald. &NUL t•R ROBIERY.-081 Tuesday, Mr. Johnson, a respectable farmer, of Trowel Moor, was robbed at one of the principal inns, in this town, under the following cir- csuestances:—lie was accosted in the street, by a gentle- man, with " How do you, Sir? You come from Trowel, dm% you ?" " Yes," waa the reply, " but you have the • i adtantage of me, for I. don't know you." "Oh," says the grfrtlerrian, " I know you well, and will be obliged if you will carry me a letter to a person (whose name was men. Gourd) at Trowel." Mr. Johnson with pleasure assented. I The gentleman then proposed going to an inn to write the note, where they had not been seated many minutes before two ethors came in, and the conversation turned on losses so twist machinery, and general roguery. At length it was agreed to order four glasses of brandy and water, when the villains (for such they turned out to be) took the opportu. , nity to put some narcotic substance Into Mr. Johnson's `f 4 glass, which, after he had drank, caused him to fall into a 1k - Lupot, from which he could not be roused for scrotal hours., It was. then discovered that he had been robbed of I if. in cash.—NottingAam Journal. CRUELTY TO CRABS AID LOSSTERS.—A considerable . number of the respectable inhabitants of Bath have sub. . s.:ribeil arid circulated a hand-bill, addressed to fishernoeu , and fishmonger, in which they state their opinion that all +i tiunecessary rain towards the inferior anim a l s r e eprehensible I ' in'a moral view ; and that the very disgraceful practice common on the coasts, of p utting wooden pegs into the great claws of crabs and lo bsters, instead of tying th e m / with string, to prevent their injuring each other, or person s I I i'''.- • employed in handling them, causes great and protracted suffering ; and, besides the cruelty to the animals, they arc, as articles of provision, sometimes material/ injured, tune flesh being inflamed, wasted, watery, am in some P' cases suppurated, and rendered unpalatable, unwholesome, and disgusting. Therefore, in order to discourage the i practice, they declare that they will net in future buy any • stabs or lobsters in that pegged or tortured state, and that they will use their influence with others to adopt the same resehttion. The fishmongers have also published a de- elation in approbation of the resolution of their customers, i aqd promising, as .far as practicable, to deal with those ) • fishermen only who shall tie the claws of their crabs and letwiers. . . ! .!- k . . ..- . • ~ 4 ,1. , ~ 7,- ' • , F. • 1 • . , . , • -7 :• - •' : r• . • ___ TRIAL OF MILITARY PONTOONS. An Evening Paper publishes the following account of the trial of military pontoons, before his Grace the Duke of Wellington aria a Select Committee of Officers, at Chatham, on the 26tb September : " The copper and wooden rafts started fairly together, the Admiral's barge precedirg them, till they arrived at that point of the river, on the right bank, where Rochester bridge first comes i n s i g h t, an d w h ere t h e t id e - is stronger than at any other point on the river ; here the struggle began ; the wooden rafts had already gained considerably on the Admiral's barge before arriving here ; and the copper rafts were fast coming up. A swarm of boats, all thrown back by the set of the tide, were so entangled with the first wooden raft, that the copper ones came close up, so much so as to be entangled with the second wooden raft ; upon disengaging, however, from the boats, the first wooden raft shot a-head, pa ssed the difficult point, piffled over the hawsers extended from the shore to the vessels in the middle of the river (serious impediments in such a cur rent), gained on the Admiral's barge, and was hailed by it. In a few seconds more the rafts passed the barge, the twelve oars of the Admiral doing their utmost. The rafts then crossed the bows of the barge, and pulled right for the centre ouch, whew it was immediately joined by the second wooden raft, which hail left the copper pontoons behind, after being actually entangled with one of them at the point before-mentioned, where the struggle com menced. The third anti fourth wooden rafts were equally well up on the Strood side, and having all gone up to the centre arch, and as close as the starlings would allow, the whole of these rafts were on their return from the bridge, and lying on their oars, when the first copper raft arrived in the eddy of the starling nearest the Rochester side, where it was made fast by rope, previously placed. The wooden rafts had no preparations of this sort ; they were fairly pushed into the m a i n s t ream , where they were distinctly seen on their return from the centre arch, before a single competitor was near. " The moment the first raft passed the Admiral's barge, and crossed his bows, the barge pulled in for the landing stairs on the Rochester side, where the Duke and suite disembarked. " 'fhe tin pontoons, which are to all appearance copied from the cylindric wooden figures tried last year, (although stated to be so light that four men can carry them ersily, and that they will bear a much greater weight than either of the others) did not pore themselves so capable of moving, even with the same weight, for the copper and timber rafts performed their parts in the push for Rochester Bridge in the manner above stated, but the tin one did not arrive until long after his Grace's departure, and never came near the current of the bridge at all, until the fol lowing day, when they came to the bridge with the flood, and remained till the tide began to fall. An attempt, we believe, was made to track une of theatup against the tide, when the struggle commenced with the other rafts, which failed." A serious accident has occurred to Sir Rose Price, Bart. who has been for some time on a shooting excursion in Norfolk. By the bursting of his gun his right hand has been shattered to pieces, and when the last accounts were received serious apprehensions were entertained for his life. A few days ago Sir Robert Peel, while riding in his park at Drayton, fell from his horse, or rather his horse fell with him. We feel unfeigned gratification in adding that the worthy Baronet sustained no serious injury. The horse, a spirited animal, reared and fell backwards with Sir Robert. By an accident precisely similar a professional gentleman of Tamworth, only a few months ago, lost his life.—Lichfield Mercury. The greatest curiosity was excited at the Custom-house for several days by the arrival of a beautifully-modelled anatomical female figure, in wax, from Paris. It is of the size of life, copied from the famous statue of the Venus de Medicis, at Florence. The body is made to open, and dis plays the entire internal structure of the human frame, with a precision suitable for a surgical lecture. The pro prietor (M. Esnaut) reaped a golden harvest, by being permitted to exhibit it at the Custom-house. Sir Astley Cooper was stated to have been one of the visiters. The following relation of an extraordinary case of lon gevity occurs in an Italian Newspaper :—Andrea Mance nelli was born at Naples on the 30th of November, 1716, and began life as a coachman ; but, surrendering himself to dissipation and debauchery of all kinds, his health was as sailed by a variety of disorders. At twenty-eight he took up the trade of arms, but, persevering in his bad conduct, he was driven with disgrace from his regiment. Condemned twice to die, with several other individuals, whose num bers suggested a species of decimation according to the mi litary law then in full force, be had the good fortune to escape the fatal lot. In spite of all these troubles, and his still unceasing dissipations, this man lived to the age of 109 years, and died on the Wilt of August in the hospital of Syracuse. NIOUDE NE•R ROCNDaLe•—The Leeds Mercury states on the authority of a correspondent at Rochdale that " a person of the name of Diggle, a near neighbour, is in cus tody, upon strong presumptive evidence that be was ac cessary, if not a principal, in the horrid deed. He was apprehended at Royton, a village, near Rochdale, in which place be had offered some clothes for sale. In the pocket was found a pair of spectacles, with deceased's name engraved thereon; this was told to the constable, who took him into custody. 'lire spectacles and clothes are retained," The following is the account of this horrid transaction as given by another correspondent :—" A brother of the de ceased bad been spending the evening with them (as was his usual practice, living very near) all being pious ' characters. Before lie left, they joined in prayer to Almighty God, and committed each other into his hands. In the morning lie passed the door, and perceived some blood : he opened it, and to his astonishment found them lifeless corpses, and much mangled. From their situation it is presumed the murder must have been committed im• mediately on his departure, they not having got to bed. It is thought the perpetrators of this horrid deed ex pected* large booty by finding a considerable sum of money in the house. In this, however, they were disappointed." On Monday last a man named Willard undertook, for a trifling wager, to think a gallon of beer in five minutes, at the Black Horse public-house, Climping, being then in a state of intoxication. When in the act of drinking the sixth pint, he fell on the floor insensible, and in that state was carried to his lodgings, where he died in a few hours. —Brighton licsald. An inquest was held on Friday evening at the Red Lion, Poppin s•court, Fleet -street, upon the body of Mary Wal ters, the servant of a Mr. Brown, who in a fit of remorse at having robbed her master, although she was forgiven, ab sconded, and took poison. She was found in Fleet-street labouring under its effects, and died on the following morning. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity." COACH ACCIDENT.—About half-past five o'clock last night, the Duke of Norfolk coach, front Sheffield to this town, was overturned, on this side of the canal bridge, at the half way between Ashton and Manchester, owing, as we are informed, to the breaking of one of the axktrees. There were several passengers, both inside and out; and three of the latter, namely, two men and one woman, received very severe fractures and other injuries ; but we believe none of them are likely to be attended with fatal consequences. anchester Guardian. RoBBE ItY EXTRA CHM N•ItY.-011 Tuesday evening lash, as Mr. Joseph Nadin," the late deputy constable of this town, was assisting the beadles to turn three or four drunken men out of a public-house in Deansgate, some daring marauder gratified at once his hatred of thief takers and his-love of plunder, by picking the worthy ex deputy's pocket of a purse containing two .5/: notes and ten sovereigns. —Ma nchester paper. On Sunday last three persons, in the garb of gentlemen, made their appearance in an open carriage and four at the Tiger Inn, Beverley, where, after regaling themselves and some of the bystanders with liquor, they resumed their seats in the carriage, and, by way of a parting salute, fired a couple of pistol shots through the sign of the inn. At this time there were hundreds of people in the street. We learn that previously to their arrival at Beverley, they had been shooting signs at Hull and Dritfield, besides breaking the windows of a dissenting chapel, and of some private houses at the latter place. At Minton, however, they were taken into custody, and carried before a Magistrate, who, we understand, fined them 301....:Leeds Mercury. POLICI. • MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday Ambnute Oliver, it person of highly reqieetable connexions, and • clerk in the Su* File Assurance Offices MIS brought befure the Lord Mayor, chewed with having appropriated to his own use upwards of 3,00 W. tisw property of the Directors of that Establishment. The depredations were carried on for up, wards of three years, as the proprietor have afleady ascertain& ; but as the prisoner has been in their employment upwards of thirteen years, there is great (Madly in teaching the full extent of the plunder. Oliver, although he has been so long a clerk in the eats. blishment, and had a wife and three children, was allowed no more than 1301. per annum •, and yet be contrived, we are told, to keep a lady, and an establishment for her,, and to dash away in ' great style. Indeed, the figure he cut, and the expensive plea sures in which he indulged, excited the suspicions of strangers, one of whom wrote an anonymous letter to the managers of the office, advising that an immediate investigation should take place into the minutia of the department which the prisoner tilled, as his ex , peruses far exceeded his mear.s, upon the lowest possible calculation. fhe managers entertained not the slightest suspicion of Oliver, whose conduct was always marked by a strong apparent interest in the welfare of the concern, and who had given security for 800 L upon being appointed to the situation. They, however, proceeded to examine the accounts, and found certain variances, which could only be accounted for by a systematic aurae of robbery. The pal. sotto was immediately apprehended, and brought to the Mansion House. He seemed to suffer great agony of mind, and did not raise up his head from his hand during the examination. The justice-room was crowded with respectable persons, many of whom were the friends of the prisoner. Mr. Eden Harwood, accountant in the Sun Fire Assurance Office, stated that the prisoner was employed as clerk, and it was his duty to rective the money paid upon premiums on policies of insurance, and to hand it in at the banker's. He (witness) had ex amined the books of the of f ice, and found that the sum of 611. had not been entered on .the 17th of April, as paid by Air. (gardener, a bookseller. in Paternoster-row, nor had any such sum been en teral at all. (Here a receipt for the sum of tolL with the prisoner's name attached to it, was put in.l Witness knew the writing to be Mr. Oliver's. D/r. Gardener, of Patemootter-row. bookseller and stationer, de. deposed, that on the 17th of April he paid into the hands of some person in the office the sum of 611. and received the receipt produced for it. He was not sure whether the prisoner was the person to whom he had paid the money, but he recollected that the prisoner was in the office at the time. The aunt had been paid on account of the University of Oxtbrd. It was stated, that upwards of 150 cases could be produced against him. tie declined saying anything, and was remanded for further examination. A big Lancashire man, named George Anderson ' was charged by Mr. Bennet, a res p ecta bl e merc h a nt, in Broed•street, With having committed a violent assault. The landlord of the Fleece public-house stated that he witnessed the assault, which was most violent and unprovoked, committed upon Mr. Bennet, who seemed to labour under some painful nervous affection. The prisoner bad walked into a room in which Mr. Bennet was sitting taking wine with some friends, and asked him for money, upon 111 r. Bennet's refusal to give which, the fellow immediately knocked him down. Mr. Bennet said he had engaged the defendant and some other men to go to South America, to work his brother's mine. The terms upon which the defendant hail been hired was 100 guineas a year, and some incidental advantages, and a comple te out fi t . Il e (wit. ness) had paid hint regularly since his engagement at the rate of 21. IN. per week, but the:defendant was very extravagant in hie ha. bits, and upon being refused two sovereigns until he should be so. ber in the morning, he cursed witness and knocked him down.— The Lord Mayor expressed his surprise at this account, accused the defendant of ingratitude, and was about to commit him, *hen Mr. Bennet said he had only determined to dismiss him from his en gagement, which was not ratified by any written agreement. The fellow was therefore discharged, and Mr. Bennet had the liberality to pay his expenses back to the place from which he hed come to London. Thcmos Rol , inron, a young man of gentletnanly deportment,_ ap peared to answer the complaint of Mrs. Sophia Bloomfield, a lady of very prepossessing appearance, who stated that she was married. about eleven years since, and that shortly after her husband had occasion to go abroad, since which time she had not heard of him. About two years since the defendant occupied part of her house, and shortly afterwards paid her particular attention, but she de. dined teething his addresses; and informed him that she was al. ready married. This answer did not satisfy him, and after quitting her lodging, he continually annoyed her with protestations of his love, &c. and refused to quit the house unless she consented to complete his happiness by marrying hinu,urging thetas her husband had been so long absent the law would allow her to do so. She re fused to comply, on which he conducted himself in a violent nos. ner ; and she was compelled to send for en Aga and give buss into custody. He was afterwards brought before a Magistrate and held to bail, to keep the peace towards her for twelve months. After the expiration of that term be renewed his assurances of fidelityood love. Ile swore he would not quit the house until she consented to be his wife. Finding she could not otherwise get rid of him, she on Friday night again sent for an officer, by whom he was convoy. ad to the watch-house. The defendant (who during the examination cast several amo- rous glances at the object of hie love) being asked what he had to say in his defence, replied, " I don't know," and in a very melon. cooly tone said, " If I am discharged I will not annoy the lady again." She lady, however, said she was not satisfied with this as. surance, and he was then ordered to find bail to keep the peace to wards her. GUILDHALL. „ . _ On Saturday John Thomas Johnson and James Rimier Grey, both well-known persons, were brought up in custody on a charge of having obtained goods on false pretences. Mr. H u HPUREYS attended in support of the prosecution, end Mr. HARMER for the defendanu. Nicholas Hoskin, shopman to Mr. Wilde, 341, Ozfonl-street, stated that on Wednesday a person, who said his name was Yates, came to the shop and purchased a desk and dressing-case, which came to 161. 10s., and desired that they should be sent to the counting-house of Cragga and Yates, 205, Upper Themes-street, precisely at four o'clock, when he should be there and would pay the bearer. The articles were accordingly sent, but he had never seen them, nor any money, nor Yates after. The-person who took the goods stated that he found Gray in the office, who said he had received a note, which he produmd, from Mr. Yates, saying that he could not be at the office before eleven o'clock the next morning. Gray, at the same time, answered the witness, that the things he brought would be perfectly safe if he left them there. Mr. Johnson came into the counting-house at that moment and gave him the same assurance, in consequence of which he left them. He called the next morning, and saw a wo. man who lived in the house, who told hint that the people who had occupied the counting-house had gone away, no one knew where. There were a variety of things in the counting-house when he left his articles there the evening tiefore, but in the morning it was quiteempty. Mr. HUMPHREYS here said he had a great number of cases against the prisoners, but as they had only just then been appre. hended he was not prepared with the evidence, but supposed he had proved enough to have them remanded. Mr. Creed, an active member of the Society for the Prosecution of Swindlers, who was present, stated that the prisoners were con. nected with Costar, and had succeeded in obtaining goods to ■ large amount, both in Liverpool and Bristol, and that the charges that could be proved against them in a few days were both nume rous sod serious. The Alderman said, he could feel no difficulty In remanding them. particularly as be was informed that Gray had been publicly whipt. HATTON-GARDEN. LIFE IN LONDON.—Saturday Henry and Frederick Allan, par +labile frotruer, with a young lady who called herself Elizabeth Carrot, were brought before Mr. Lama, charged by Ayres, a watchman, with having assaulted him the previous night, about IS o'clock, while on duty at Salfron.hill. The complainant's statement was to the effect that, while petsm. bulathig his beat, like " an ancient and most quiet watchman," as he is, the three defendants came up to him, and, without any sort of provocation whatever on his part, began to queer him, calling him Charley, and making several allusions of the grossest nature possible. If e.aram in consequence induced to put hie rattle into full play, and by the free use of that instrument (scarcely less potent than the wand of the enchanter) soon raised to his aid, not perhaps • " spirit of health," but "a goblin," in the shape of the ugliest commie we ever set eves on, and whom the parties complained against soon took care should be"d—d" enough. This was not all t " loud and deep" as their curses appear to have been, they followed up every pith'sl anathema with the arm of the flesh, and laid nbout them most manfully, t'le lady taking part in the fight like a perfect Rradamante. But alas, as the old Spanish ballad significantly asks—. '• Who ran war with thousands wage?" More watchmen poured in " to the rescue." and the two heroes, with their lowly ally, were incarcerated in the parish watch. house. The grisly comrade corroborated this account, as far as he was concerned, nor was its general correctness objected to on the part of the defendants, the males candidly admitting that their '• fair coo. sin" having lately arrived in loan on a visit to their mother. her maternal aunt, they wished to show her a little of " Life in Lon. don," and thought they could not begin better than by treating her to a spree ,with a Charity, an amusement into the spirit of which the young lady entered certainly with a degree of en '<waning they had not ventured to anticipate, Both the gentlemen, however, protested that it was not their intention tohurt the watchman, nor should they have done more than just tease him a little, had they not, on the irruption of others to the onslaught, been compelled to fight in their own defence. Miss Carrol lisped out that site had just left her place in the country, and was come up to town to visit her relations, and see a little of the world before she engaged in another. Some doubt, however, appeared to exist in the mind of his ‘Vorship relative to the exact degree of consanguinity between the parties; he therefore pressed the lady strongly on this ptoint. " Pray, Miss, what is the elder Allan to you P" was a question she was very reluctant to answer, tor was it till after considerable heal. Minn that she at length replied, " Nothing as yet, Sir." It ap. peered, however, eventually, that maiden bashfulness had led her to misconceive the drift of his Worship's question, for on the aunt being sent tor, she established by her testimony the relationship be. yond all question, and was allowed to carry Miss Carrol off with with her, while her gallant cousins, for want of bail, were re-com mitted to " the place from whence they came." A very respectable man, whose name and accent import Italian extraction, presented himself at the bar of this office, having iu las arms a beautiful dog of the English, spank* breed, which had just been stabbed in the belly by a butcher on Eyre.street.hill. Signor Disteffoni, the complainant, described the animal as one of the most hermits,' and inoffensive crcaturesin the world, and expressed his firm conviction that this barbarous act was perpetrated merely from the habitual propensity to sticking, which the butcher acquir. ed from his profession. He wished to know whether the Magis trate could grant him any redress. Unfortunately, however, in this case nothing could be done, except by an action at law. Signor Disteffoni retired, declaring he would bring an action &pipet the butcher, coat what it would. QUEEN-SQUARE. ATTEMPT TO Sluauf:a A POLICE oEl'lcl:ft.—A fellow well known in Westminster, named Henry Hain:worth. alias Bluth Bob, alias Dusty Bob, so called from his being a chimney sweeper, and a notorious running dustman, was brought up before Mr. White and Mr. Markland, the Magistrates, or. Smut day, charged with attempting to murder Joseph Cooper, an active officer of this establishment, on Friday night. Cooper is so dangerously ill from the wounds he has received, that he is unable to attend at the office, and therefore was not present to give evidence against the prisoner. It appears that on Friday morning last, the foreman to Mr. Britten, the contractor for the dust in ht. Margaret's parish, ob tained a warrant against two men named Blower and Taylor, no. torious running dustmen, for stealing a quantity of dust ; which warrant was put into the hands of Joseph Cooper, who received information that one of the individuals named in the .warrant (Blower) was in the house of the prisoner llainsworth, No. 4, St. Henban's-hill. Cooper repaired there immediately in company with the foreman, and found the door fastened inside ; he called to those within to open it, stating who and what lie was, and what business lie had come about. The prisoner answered that no per son should enter, on which Cooper forced the door open, and pushed into the room, where I.e was encountered by Black Bob, who was joined by live or six women that were in the room. The prisoner took a knife from the table, "rifle' he used most desperately on Cooper, and with his own (C.'a) truncheon, beat him over the head till be was In a gore of blood. ‘i'hilst this was going on; the foreman to the contractor secured the man (Blower) • and atter Black Bob had beat Cooper till he could beat him no longer, be made a plunge with the knife at him, which fortunately the foreman stopped, by letting go Blower and securing Black Bob ; and Cooper, with the blood pouring from his head in torrents, put the handcuffs on him ' and the next moment he fell to the ground from the loss of blood. The prisoner was carried to the watchhouse. and Cooper to the hospital, where his wounds, which consisted of two very extensive ones on either side of the skull. and a desperate one over the bridge of the nose, were dressed, and he now lies in a very bad state. The Magistrates were of opinion, that the officer had acted wrong in going at such an unseasonable hour—viz. between eleven and twelve o'clock at night—to execute his warrant; but they were told that it was Impossible to meet sith them at any other, time. The prisoner was ordered to find bail to answer the charge at the Sessions ; but before he left the offic: he was convicted of stealing dust from the house of Dr. Furnival, in Duke-street, Westminster, the property of the same contractor, and he not being able to pay tha 101. penalty, he was sent for six weeks to hard labour in the House of Correction. The prisoner will be Indicted capitally for the assault on the un fortunare officer at the ensuing Westminster Sessions, which will be held iu a very few days. LAMBETH-STREET. On Saturday Tom Cooper, brother to the pugilistic glpsy of that name, and himself an aspirant in the fistic an, was brought up for final examination, before 111. WYATT, Esq. upon a charge of highway robbery, on the person of Mrs. Sarah Page, of Cannon. street-road. The prosecutrix and her husband are in the habit of attending the different fairs In the neighbourhood of the metropolis, with a booth for the sale of bread, beer, ando ther refreshments. On the 6th of July last she attended at the fair of Romford, in Essex, from whence she and 'ner brother were returning on the evening of the same day, in a chaise cart, when they met the prisoner between that place and Ilford. On meeting him, he asked her to give him a ride to town, • request which she complied with. When they arrived at Ilford they stopped at the Coach and Horses, where they had a pot of beer, to pay for which she took out her pocket. book, and gave the landlady sixpence t the prisoner observed at the same time, " What, I see you have got some sovereigns, have you?" To whirls she made no reply, but returned the bo ok into her pocket. They then proceeded on their journey, in the course of which, feeling the prisoner's hand several times near her packet, she said to him, "Surely you are not going to steal my pocket-book !" When they had reached the hlile-end turnpike the prisoner leaped out of the chaise -cart, and ran away. She then instantly missed her pocket-book, in which were deposited seven sovereigns and some silver. Her brother went in pursuit, but did mot succeed in overtaking him; and though information was given at the police offices, he was not apprehended until Tuesday last, when, recognizing him at Croydon fair, she gave him in charge to an officer. This witness was cross-examined at considerable length by Mr. Price, the prisoner's solicitor; in the course of which she admitted having told some persons that it was the prisoner's brother, Jem Cooper, who had robbed her, but she afterwards corrected herself, saytng, that though she knew two or three of the brothers by sight, she did not know them by name. She was satistieslas to the iden tity of the prisoner. Mr. Price said that there were eight brothers of the Coopers, who all bore so strong a resemblance to each other that it was a diffi cult matter for even those who had known them from their child , hood to distinguish one from the other. Jack Cooper (better known by the name of Gipsy Cooper) was ! then called In, and placed beside the prisoner; and, with the ex ! eeption of a slight difference in their stature and in their dress, nothing could be more complete than their likeness. Mr. Price further said, that he could (but for certain reasons), produce other members of the family, who bore a stronger likeness, if possible, particularly as to site ; and added, that he was pre. pared with evidence, should the Magistrate think it necessary, to rebut the entire of the prosecutrix's statement; and prove. to the satisfaction of his Worship, that she was grossly mistaken in al leging that his client was the criminal. The Magistrate said that a prima facia' case had been made out, and the prisoner was accordingly committed on the capital charge. TOWN-HALL.... _ _ On Saturday Thomas Jackson, a mere child, not more than nine years of age, was charged with committing a burglary on the pre. mises of Mr. James Whitelock, a master builder, 7, Griffith's. rents, St. Thomas's parish, Southwark. The merits of the case stood thus :—Mr. Whitelock resided in an old mansion, formerly an inn, which he had divided into two separate tenements, occupying the one part himself, and letting the other to the parents of the prisoner. In his division he had depo sited building materials to a considerable amount, one cwt. of which, in iron hold-fasts, hinges, nails, clamps, &c., he missed on Thursday last on his entering the room, the door of which had been blocked by a large copper, and the putitionidoor forced. The character of the prisoner being of the worst description, he was apprehended; when he confessed he. had taken all the property missed, and disposed of it to a woman named Priscilla Fletcher, the keeper of a marine store, 31, Joiner-street. The receiver, who is the last of a long family that has not been either hanged or trans ported, refused to swear to the prisoner, though she admitted she believed he was the person she hsd bought the pro petty produced from, at the rate of Id. for each three pounds of 13, the weight produced. It was proved to be worth lid. per pound. Ald. J. J.SwiTn regretted that the deficiency of evidence prevent. ed him from sending the young delinquent for trial, and thereby res cuing him from an ignominious death, and told Mrs. Priscilla, who was all modesty, that he was convinced she had perjured herself— not to exult at her own escape, from transportation, a reward be could not help considering she richly mer it e d, an d which, in due season, doubtless she would receive. The hardened child laughed during the hearing, and on being sentenced by the oath of the officers as a reputed thief, spit at his accuser, and exclaimed, as lie was taken from the bar to be con. veyed to Brixton—" Is this all ? I'll torment you yet." UNION.HALL. On Saturday, Mr. George Coatler, a shipwright, of Bother hithe, appeared at this office under the authority of a warrant, be. fore the sitting Magistrate, M. Swaby, Esq. charged with an al leged assault upon the person of Barnard Farley, one of the men in his employment. From the statement of the complainant it appeared that he, with several other men in the employment of Mr. Castles, were engaged at the rate of Ss. ftd. per day to unload the ballast out of a vessel preparatory to her going into dock for repairs. On Tuesday last, while he (complainant) was engaged at this work on the main deck of the ship, Mr. Castles, without any just cause, that he (Farley) was aware of, approached, and struck him a violent blow, kicked him, and afterwards sent him on &here, declaring that ha should no longer work in his service. Mr. Castles having been called upon to give his account of the circumstances of the assault, commenced by alluding to the incal culable Injury sustained by persons of his business since the spirit of combination had shown itself amongst the various classes of workmen employed in their yards. The complainant, be said, in this case, was employed with a number of others in preparing a vessel just come off a voyage, to go into dock for th e purpose of being coppereti and sheathed. Previous to the job the defendant and hie fellow workmen were engaged at the rate of3s.lid. per day to heave the ballast out of the ship, a scale of wages, Mr. Castles ob. served, that was considered high for work of Ibis description, How. ever, they had not been long engaged in the vessel, when he had complaints made to him that Farley was endeavouring to instigate the rest of the workmen to " strike," unless their pay was posed from 3s. Gd. to 4s. per day. The defendant could scarcely believe the report at first, however, upon interrogating the major part of the men, he ascertained that what be had heard was true, and that Farley had actually went so far as to threaten those with vengeance who refused to comply and agree with his proposition. Mr. Cu. ties said, that having made himself acquainted with the conduct of the complainant, he went on board the vessel on which he was at work, In order to discharge him instantly ; he, however, had scarcely got upon deck when Farley came up to him, and In an in. solent tone, demanded another &I. pet day, in addition to hi; pre. sent wages, declaring that neither he nor the rest of the men would work any more in clearing out the ship, unless their wages were in. creased from that day. Mr. Castles said he was extremely irritated at the demand, as well as the manner in which it was conveyed, end admitted that he struck Farley, and &fireweed& tuned him out of the ship about his business. The complainant here declared, that he was not the only person in Mr. Castles' employment who found fault with, and wag Bison. ', tented at, the wages. All the men agreed, he said, in col-rodent:2 31-6 d. per day as too mans temeneratien for such w an k as baldestheaving. wanted tclli for suit, Two robust-looking Irishmen. who happened to be i n the office when - Farley complained of his wages, remarked, th a t t h ey should be wart y ig a ht s that itl ad the complainant Mr. Castles here produced a paper signed by several of hi s work. h p s ia couple init of shillings o have a raisedda day ea os. men, which stated that Farley threatened them if they did not " strike," in case their employer refused to increase their wag es . The Magistrate observed that Mr. Castles was perfectly right in discharging gush a man, who was so dangerous as example to the other workmen, from his employment. Ilad Mr. Castles, in the first instance, applied himself for a warrant against the complainant for intimidating and threatening his men, it should certainly h ave been granted. flowerer, as this proceeding had not been adopted, and as the person who had the most right to stand before them in the character of defendant was now present, he (the Magistrate) would take the opportunity of addressing a few words to him by way of advice. Should any complaint or application for a warrant be made at this office by any future master, into whose service the complainant might enter, for threats or intimidations directed to other men, in the same employment, he (the Magistrate) should, without hesitation, have him taken into custody, and in the event of the charge being proved, send him for three months' hard labour, for the benefit of the country. The warrant against Mr. Castles VMS discharged. -.0•11-t the the you before losses ' WU the they I ured, ,e, die any that . SPORTING INTEI:LIGE.VCE. The return match at cricket between the Hoddesdon ant Went. worth clubs took place on Saturday, foe 100 sovereigns, in Aron Park, Bucks, and was closely won by the Boddesdon players, is follows : BOnDESDOW. AVENTWORTIL Ist Innings . 167 Ist innings 2d - . 148 21 714 • 158 - I'4 312 Mr. G. West completed his task at one o'clock yesterday morn ing, of travelling on foot, from Worksop, Nottinghamshire. to Kingsland, 141 miles, in 38 hours, for 200 sovereigns. He did 08 miles the first 24 hours, to Papworth, northward ot Huntingdon. He halted half an hour, and continued his labour, occasionally making a lounging run of a few yards, and he reached ‘Valthani. cross at a quarter before ten'clock, and the pedestrian accompli►hed the remaining eleven miles in two hours and forty minutes, win. ping the match with 20 minutes to spare. THE LATE RIOT AT OXFORD. OXFORD, OCT. 7. It was anticipated that further attacks on the house of Mr. Hunt, in the High -street, would have been made, but the riot concluded with the breaking of a few windows. The acquaintance between Mr. Canning and Mr. Mulock commenced alien the former gentleman was a candidate for the representation of Liverpool; and it is said that Mr. Mulock often advocated the Right Honourable Secretary, on electioneering matters. They afterwards met on the Continent, and travelled together; and since that time a correspondence has been occasionally kept up, but in no wise connected with religious subjects. Mr. Mulock com menced preaching in Oxford about twelve months since, in a publiz auction room. He had a previous acquaintance with Mr. Hunt, a chymist and druggist, who invited him to Oxford, and soon gained him another disciple, in the person of a young gentleman of considerable academic ac quirements, whose knowledge of the I.iteree Ramaniores might have placed him in a class, and who was particularly distinguished for his steady and moral conduct at Lincoln College, of which society he was a member. Just on the point of taking a degree (having finished his reading for that purpose), having concluded an expensive collegiate education, his father anticipated the advantage and the honour that awaited his son ; but, alas ! all his hopes were at once crushed; the young man beard Mr. Mulock and Mr. Hunt, became a convert to their dark doctrines, struck his name from the College books, and fixed himself as a dependant on his father—for such he must remain, unless he becomes an itinerant preacher. Soon after, another young man, terrified by the horrid threats held out in the discourses of the soi-disiint sole teacher of the Gospel, became his follower. He is the son of Mr. Arnot, one of the Clarendon readers, a man highly fitted for the situation he holds, and eminent for his integrity and good conduct. His feelings, when he heard that hia son - had determined on following Mr. Mulock, may be imagined—they cannot be described. The three persons above mentioned are the leading members of Mr. Mulock's communion. Since hit return to Oxford, where he has lately preached, in a small room in Queen-street, he has gained few converts, except among the lowest and most ignorant classes, but we find that his preaching has produced much evil. An honest and industrious workman, in possession of some little property, who had lived happily with his wife anti family for fifteen years, has been induced to desert them, from a conviction that heshould not hold communication with the flesh, with tho reprobate, with those doomed to eternal perdition—(his wife would not become a follower of Mr. 'Unlock). lo a late Ox. ford l'aper we saw the advertisement of this deluded fanatic, which proclaimed his cruel desertion, and warned all persons against trusting his unhappy, wretched wife. The complaint of the poor woman was heard before a Ma. gistrate, in the Town-hall; but she could obtain no re dress, as it was proved that he bad appropriated the re ceipts of rent for some small tenements for her use and that of his family ; and therefore, that she was not thrown on the parish. The unhappy consequences arising from the doctrines held forth by Mr. Mulock were conspicuous ; they were visible to persons of every description. The separating of wives from husbands, and children from parents, which evidently proceeded from the preaching of the leader, and from the terrific persuasions of his principal followers, at length aroused public indignation, which burst forth in the manner we have already described. FURTHER PARTICULARS, FROM THE OXFORD imam. Thursday . evening last, a scene of extraordinary riot and confusion took place in St. Thomas's parish ; a re• port having been circulated for some days past, that Mt Mulock, who has been preaching in Oxford and its vicinity at different periods for the last twelve months, or more. had, with the assistance of some of his followers. induced several men, whom they bad converted to their doctrine, to leave their wives, because they would not conform to the new creed which their husbands had adopted. A-vast concourse of people, consisting of men, women, and children, collected in front of a house in which the new sect was assembled, and commenced hostilities by making a bonfire of wet straw, in order to smoke them out, as they termed it ; they then assailed the house with the most dis -1 cordant sounds of tin kettles, horns, &c. and after some time succeeded in dislodging them ; when, in their retreat, they were attacked with every species of missile, and:tenni times rolled in the dirt. Two of th e p art y, followed by 1 the people, took shelter in the Town Hall-yard, in a moil deplorable condition, their coats being nearly torn off their backs, and their persons completely covered with mud and filth of every description. On their leaving the Town Hall-yard, they were again pursued by the mob, and hooted and pelted with mud and other missiles until they effected their escape. We . think it necessary, by way of conclusion to this paragraph, to give, for the perusal of our readers, a clause from Blackstone 's Commentaries, book iv. chap. 4.—" Of Offences against God and Religion"— " A seventh species of offenders in this class are 011 religious impostors; such as falsely pretend an extraordinary commission from Heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciw tions of judgments. These, as tending to subvert all religion by bringing it into ridicule and contempt, are punishable by die temporal Courts with tine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment." MARRIED. On Friday last, at Loughborough, Thomas B. Miller, FA., only son of Thomas Miller, Esq., Agent for Victualling the bt'Y at Plymouth, to Susannah, relict of the late Thomas Laud, Erg. On the 4th inst., at Sithuouth, Devon, Captain Aldose, of the Bengal Army, to Ann Maria, youngest daughter of the late Jan Morris, Esq., of Staines. Middlesex. On Saturday, at St. Oeurge's, Hanover-square, Edward R' Tunno, Esq., of Upper Brook-street, to Caroline, second claughic: of J. M. Raikes, Esq., of Portland-place. DIED. OR the 4th inst., in M'impole.street, in the 3Sth year of hasp', Anne, wife of Captain C. S. J. Hawtayne, of the Ro) di N 4 'l' daughter of the late Commissioner Charles Elope. On the 3d inst., at Southampton, Richard Higginson, Es, , of Bath, in his GM year. 11011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TRIF DAL Morning, 12 min. after 12. Evening, 41 min. after 12. Printed at THE BRLTISH PRESS Office, by J. W. C A BLTOXF IC, Strand, and published By R. Ceintox, same Opt. of por the pal Lwn is T Sill toril wa , Men than eessl Tres sphe heat ledg is all TI the 1 boia. men with in 16 Mull this from Or of lb a Plom eor are it autig Kt" onh ttitto out. in erehtir les. to Pik& our col The fop ■qq month No. 44