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TA UICHALL GARDENS. Tbid delightful place of public amusement was l ast night crowded to excess. Long before the commencement of the evettlog'sam userrien t, numerous groupsof fashionable visiters were seen in all directions, with minds unbent, and features thatheapoire the absence of all care, seemingly desirous only of rinsing a few hours in uninterrupted enjoyment. The gala-night—se it is denominated to distinguish it gar creel lence from the• many other gala-nights of the season_ which commemorates the birth-day of our gracious Sore- r e ign. has been always, from c h o i ce as well as duty, the occasion on which every effort of tht Proprietors of these Gardens Ins been called' forth, and is ther e f ore i nt • ariahly th e most agreeable orthe period, which the wind and the ra i n of winter only limits. Last evening all was done that could be done to render tbe scale attractive, anti to pay homage to the patron of t h e w h ole. The loyal and national A nthem," God save the King," and the Carmen Triura= composed for the occasion, were sung with consi derable (lie by an increased orcheitra ; the various insig nia of Royalty, in variegate! lamps, were scattered over the gardens, and the words, The king, oar Patron",, natal day," forming the half of a very good couplet, were displayed to very great advantage, in letters, as it were, of liquid fire, surrounded by a brilliant wreath of laurel, and surmounted by the .crown and star. Many of ..the trees were beautifully illuminated, and the addition of several thousand lamps gave to the scene a more than usual degree of splendour. In the Rotunda the arms of the Royal I)4t - ei and the principal Nobility of the kingdom were exhibited on painted banners. The entertainments- were very nu merous, and conducted with great spirit. Mr. Wilson performed upon • the tight rope, and danced with much grace mad agility, We should imagine there were not less than MOM persons in the gardens : among the other per sons of rank we noticed the Marquis of Hertford, the F of Westmorland, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Er Charlsmnpt, the Lords Montfort and Colville, Ludolf, &e. YURI RACE'S—Al7Ctrsr MEETIXG. (BY EXPRESS.) The betting at the new Betting Room, In the York Toren), has beets very extensive since our last, on the St. Leger. and, as we pirdicted, has thrown Altisidora back, the odds having irnmediately reached 33 to 1. The St. L'lrft betting becomes every hour of greater importance, the horses continually chabging places, some of them with little appearance of reason; Cleveland, in particular, is continually altering, and those who affect to he wise on it, attribute it to his being a roarer, a report which we will not vouch f or ; is a very fi ne co l t, b ut many say that he is too large. A . south country horse of Mr. Wyndham's, brother to Mays, who it will b e recollected was beaten by Enamel, at Newmarket, has got up surprisingly lately, and is much bucks?, as well in the north as the south ; and from the favour in which he is held by the Yorkshire people, great things are augured of him. Barataria's wianing the T. Y. 0. on Tuesday, brought Trinculo for ward; but we do not think he will remain long a great fa• voarite. Eacape's victory yesterday was a surprise to the sporting world, for as yet h e h as b een known as a general loser; it will be seen below that be has been beat to-day. which leaves his chance very poor for the St. Leger, and will. very probably, prevent Altisidora running for that' ;takes. The following is the betting this morning:_ 3 1 to 1 agst Memnon 20 to 1 agst Ihiuntless 7to 1 sgst Alderman 23 to I eget Trinculo to 1 agst Redgauntlet 23 to eget Honiet 164 te 1 apt Addy 211 to I ago Pastime lei to 1 ago Cleveland 30 to I agst Brownlock 18 to 1 ago Dube of. Leeds 35 to 1 apt His Grace The course :o-day-was attended by His Grate the Duke of Leeds.. 3farquis of Queensbemy, Lords itmilliam, Milton, Dundee, Down, Kennedy, Kelburne, Hare td,&e. ; Sirs W. Milner, W. 11. and J. H. ; E. ottoreeth, flyrw, Eedeaseiidthlart letetourablee Petre, 0. miett -- Bud e Mean% Lineobton, Wortley, Wilson, mill, &e. ece. The running was u : us last year of the renewed 2dge. subscription for horses. &c.-- years 01.1 colts 7st. 21b. ; Rifles Ist. 111 b. ; four years old colts, let. 31b., and Cites, gat ; live years, gat. 101 b. ; and aged, list. wo Lserbton's b. c. Buzzard, liv Bleeklock, 4 yrs. r Scarborough's b. m. Fate Oherieese.-01 yrs. Me following also started, Clot were net placed . Ferguson's ch. f. Equity, by Octavian. 11 y es , B. Milnes's ch. c. Actsoo. by Scud, 3 yrs. .linuldsworth's 3filler of Manidield, 4 p as d fitzwilifam*s b. f. Beatrice, It yrs. lon tlipfield, 3 to 1 ageism Fair Chefotte. 3 to 1 against the ler, 10 to I against Actaeon. and 100 te 5 against Equity. rattier made running sal kept the lead - for nearly a mile, n Fair Charlotte owe pp, and besded, closely pushed by Buz until the turn oldie wapaat the top of the course, the others as the Yorkshire term it, all of a loomp." mart now got clew to aseterhette's heels, keeping cloee to gi rt n o w shy near sig. of dam; and whilst Nelson was eyeing icy, he quietly slipped by. tut won the race, which was most tifully and closely contested, 11/ only half a head. Many per_ near the grand stand. on the hems were posii Pair Ch ar l otte would tu passing it, t did win, and in consequence l aid d ds. ponies. and hundreds , at TO to 1 on her, for which they dearly. Robinson rode the winner ; Nelson, Fair Ch ar l otte; • Ikultr ; Templeman, Action; Boyce, the Miller; and T. Beatrice. Prakeo of thirty sons each. ten ft. for 3 r wlds ; colts Alb.; slat. 21b. Last mile and a quarter. Twenty-eight Subs. Keimedy*s b. e. Homer, by Cattoe, of Leeds's b. e l'rowcacher - .smbton*s ch. c. C ount P orto 2 • f ollowing started, b ut were not plated 3 d Kelburn's eh. f. Purity. l leoldsworth's.br. c. His Gram. Crompton's eh. c.-Alphosso, by Amid's. liouldsworth'ltb. e. Escape. Penes b. c. by Salim. I sant 1 l at (Homer Irace ; 4 to 1 sot Cowcatcher; 4 t o 1 agst : to a; 12 to 1 ape Escape; 14 to 1 agst Grace made severe running at starting, Homer following has heels, .nd thenthere neat at hand, until a little before ante, when he let lonse,_aqd won a tine race cleverly by a rode by Ja7ksoo ; Crowearther. by Smith Porro, by Ha h! , L7e; His Grace, by Nelsen ; Alphenso, by Escape. by (lift ; and Selim by Boyce. Prey by the Cur, added to a Purse, for all eges-4 Miles. LiascoieneN Lashed' walircd one. Plorsimart, Voung &Nett. • The Milks of Manslis)d, iVhiskerandos, and I were drawn, - I • • 2 INICMIDAY NIGH T , 8 olhoes. FURT.HER PARTICULARS. day was beautiful, and the great intercst excited by toys, stakes, which to greatly inflences the future lions on the St. Lever, brought $ more numerous age of grandtur ilia.; ou either of the preceding As soon as the races were over, and the books set e departures were very numerous amongst the nobs se shooting, which cemmences to-morrow ( Augu s t' Richmond, Pickering, Middleliam, and the north th-eart of Yorkshire Inc**. It is said that the re numerous, and very strong on the wing. e termination of the tlay's sport the betting men net!, and a great deal of conversation on the great place. Many were watching Homer's coming in. laid that it would be "bellows to mend," but )t JO h. was all right, and was only touched once uhip, to which he instantly answered, and could I the race, If akad pleased, more althan than lie armor: t hance of astallion than racer, but 1y capable of a deal of wear and tear ; It is thought Crowcatcher and Escape lost greatly at the start. 11 bern some very heavy betting this evening, !prophesied yesterday, Homer Immediately got up I. Crowcatcher* was also named at 40 to 1, il His Grace being out of the question. Cleve ins as before. It is said that there is more money on this horse's running for the St. Leger than nown on one horse —full a milli on. Should he ' 11 be a very heavy sessions. Memnon must go e following is the betting when the account erman agst Homer Altmde:llnoni rnm Itedganotlet tim e , Cleveluld I 18 to I apt Addy 20 to I agar Whisker 20 to 1 apt Dauntless 25 to I agat Trlnculo 28 to I apt Pastlrr.s 40 to 1 apt Crotrcatchse. f l! Hs or hfaar-Li-Ilows.—Th e mo m 1 Mar ary-le-boThe Is a p ervers i on ; it was origi y-le-bourne, or Mary on th e brook, from afire of its being belle on a brook, which still lam/mead, across the New-mad, through All ft, although it is now of course arched over. a brook, and it is a very common termination lof English str eets and towns. Holborn was lei' o:llbourne, from its standing on a broJt. ) Eastbourne, Sittingbourne, &c. MIDLAND CIRCOrIt . . --me— WARWICK ASSIZES. Warmed/. At.. Oa.. CRIMINAL SIDE. • Before air. Justice Hoertown. John Sharrndn, aged 45, Was capitally indicted under iotd FA lenborough's Act, with having wilfully and maliciously stabised• John T u d ge, with intent to murder l ot disable him, or d o hi nt loom grievous bodily harm. . . . • John ?edge examiner! _. jam by trade 0 eordwainet. • ~. By the evidence of the p rosecutor, it appeared that the Whole* Tree committed after a dispute had taken Otte between hit!' • the pri soner , w i th whom he had been drinking in a pu blic - / 0 m& The prison er said that the *knees had sw orn falsely in sev l9o Oral particulars. The beginning of the array .was °cautioned • hy witness's sneaking of his (the pri soner ' ea a f fair ,. - the The witness._[ did not make the /east remark about him Or his affairs, but begged him to be quiet. Prisoner. - 1 advised the witness to go to bid. • Br the COURT —Did lie advise you to te • at tunes —No bed ? ,my Lord ;he of and struck me J utted .that ball th e di ff erence. g up go • trieoner—l could not pass by him unless I went into the fire and,a, I attempted to go by hint, be knocked me down, and gar, me four or five very severe blows inhe temple. lie then put his hand 'Mny throat and almost throttled me, Saying he would show me a little of the " Lancashire fashion." Witness-e-lt ' t Lancashire play was quite th e contrary, for he was showing m e ." HT . the CbUIXT—Did you strike him? M atness-4 did the best to deem! myeelf of course.By the Coune—lVlienj•ou were down, did he kick violently ? Witnese--Yee mg Lo t . ~., By the Cotfav—Andt.d you not in tu rn struggle with him ? White's—Undoubtedly, my Lord. • And did you, in doingdo so, give hint eever4l blows? an d have oubt that I pre him a scratch or two in the face in my endeavour to keep him unwn, or he wouldhave to- • jured tne. Instead (Amy taking hold of bis throat he had hold of thine nearly all the time we were down, and I dare eny that made Imensore severe with him than otherwise I shoul d hare hem. By the Caufti—Then you we re severe upon hint ? - Witness --Wily I wet obliged to be so. tnees ay the Cotriere-Do you thi n k you hurt him inusth ? . • - niFor toy own . part I don't did ; fece wee bettiSed a little, but [einem tell Whether it 2. think ll3 l lay his .his own knock ing 21,031 or ity mine. : • Did yob say anything street the Lancosiiirefinkion f Witimeo—No, bin he did. Will you swear you die not ? • : Witness--I cannot, exactly ; for I dare say I ;mid riieny ieorde. in the heat of the moment that I have now forgotten. After the evidence of aeurgeon as to the nature of the Welind, the dagger was produced. It was a curiously wrougli instrument , and apparently of Spenish manufacture. It litui a tietnershapeet blade, about eight inches in length, and two inches in width at the . hilt. The sides of it were convexed, so as to nuke !t double edged, and the hilt ws of buckhorn, inenioirely Cured; Th.? prieener, in his defence s said that g the proseeutor bad call e d on hint since lie hail been in gaol, and promised not appear against him if he would forego a debt of 7s. which W 23 due to h the prosecutor for rent. Had ,lie hut a w!tuees, ha was sure r ! should be able , to get off from thi'. Affair. The Jury censelted a short time, and foiind the prisoner Nc? Guilty, AVG. 11. Jame, Pettera, aged 21, •a coarse , ill-looking, labouring fellow, was capitally indicted for conneittieg a most aggratated aseeult on , Ann Atkins, at Edgbaaton, in the county of War w i c k, on the 7th of May la s t. He 'wound Guifty. John Reyngldt, aged ft 7, was convicted of titteritig, at Birmiag- - ham, on the Kith July last, a counterfeit shilling, to one William . Harris, knowing the same to be Wee and counterfeit, and also of having other counterfeit money in his possession. Be was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, end find itnetiail for ono year more. • • PRIZE FIGITINO. The Forem an i f the Grand Jury nsw delivered enteral trite bind to the Clerk of toe Assize, and also returned no true bill ost Edward Stockman, for the robbery of Crouch, at the late fight at Warwick. . . . . Mr. N. R. CEMILE applied to Ids Lordehip d o b e h alf of the . prosecutor, that th e expenses attending the preferring the indict ment might be allowed him.. . . Mr. Justi ce lloenorn did net thi n k the pros ecutor entitled to have his expenses defrayed by the count's., considering the circum stances under which the money was obtained by the oro secutor, it being evid ent l y t h e fruits of the plunder he had made at she fight by gambling; and even supposing it not to have been so, there was great impropriety on./i 3 part in geniis to such a place with so large a sum o t money strut him ; the consequences of his own tonduct therefore must be borne by himself. This charge had excited a good deal of interest among that chine of men with whom the prisoner Is rissoeiated. and the Collets were in consequence much crowded by person. belonging to the P. It. as the eiarg phrase is, in expectation of this trial coming on ; but the relied seemed to give them greater satisfaction than even the interesting detetile of a long Legs' inveetigatien would Mae done. Roil theyhe departed with hearts ay light as theisfingers,givino, how-; r occasional shrug of the thottldere, when the recollectioa came across them of the severe anathema pronounced at the COM: mencement of the Assizes against prise fighting. CIVIL SIDE. Before Mr. Justice Pante. ~ 'nets r. GREEN AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the plaintiffas principal againiti the defendants es his ship agents, to recover a sum of ',NA', ere. ceived by them •on his ntcount. Mr. Ctartiex stated the case to the jure. The plaintiff' was an extensive merchant, alt preterit recidinx abroad, and owner of the ship Sally. The defendants were also ' Merchants, living in London, anti acted as ship agents to the plain ' tiff. Previous to the ship Sally tearing this country. the defend-, eats, no such agents; effected a policy of insurance on het. Where the ship arrived in the Rio de la Plata, which was in Os , direct course of her voyage, a storm arcer, and She. and het cargo were lost. The defendants had teemed from the under.: writers of the stun of 1,7001. in virtue of the policy; but, although; repeated applications had been made to them by the plaintiff to have the money paid over to him, they at frequently refund m pay it, alleging, that h e was ndt entitled to receive th e Money. al hte in:. tercet in the ship was not of such a nature as to give him a keret claim to it. They also intended to show that there Were other persons whose right was paramout to that of the plalritilli He should, however, establish very satiefatecitilje not only the pleititilre titich but that as the defendants had acted solely as agents for hens in of cting the policy, they were not justified in witholding the money received by them under that policy from his diet t, whateirer might be the interests of other persons in the ship in question. Those interests he did not intend to inquire into; they were wholly distinct from the present question—which was, were the delimitate authorised to retain the money received by them as agents foe the plaintiror not? The policy had been elected by thrift ih his name. the money hail been recei ve d b y them in hie name, and he. therefore, co nten d ed; that the right of the plaintiff to ret money was eonclusitre and irresi st ible . ort!' the Witnesses were then called to prove the polity of ifisurithhe,. be the name of the plaintiff, anti the receipt of the money by the defendants under it. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, as Counsel fbr the defendants, did rob deny having received the money ; nor was it their wish to withhohl It from the person to whom It legally belonged; but as the bad strong reasons for beli ev i ng t h at there were other peteoni olio had a better right to the mone thate the plaintiff's, they very nsterady felt ditinclined to pay it ov y er t 6 hin t ; when, the might they koew. they might be called upon the next day to pay it egsin te acted ether pereons. The policy of insurance had been effected, It was true, in the name of the pleietiff; but the ship in revert of whistle it was made, and all the interest in the cargos belonged to imbiber t person, for whom the name of Mr. Jones was used. That getable man was a South Amerlettn merchant, Don Petted etyma, *be i was with his ship in the Rio de la Plata. at the time she was &trended and lost, lie escaped from the ehip, bet only to meet hie death in eviler way, for the boat had not gone any great diem/ before it svramped, and he and several others were drowned: Tee plaintiff; sailing himself of this calamity, and of *he eircurnitabet of his name being used In the policy, applied tp the.defendahM fee the money which they heel . receered of the endetirruem In boo epseoce of the loss of the ship. Tte defendants, however ; beef* full knowledge of all the facts, very properly refused to coMply *1 his request. It was quite obvious, thin untie, eirrattistandei tiZ these the tights of the plaintiff' could nett be rev/gutted lie * it Court of Law. The only situation which *Quid amide him to,ffse money would be that of being the perehmil repteeeptatire df MO Pedro but as he had not thoeght fit to take out athuisietratioff IV his effects (if he had the _power to do so), he could hot establish bus tight on that ground. There were, howeeer, other . reationt *Mat induced his clients to withhold the money from Mr. Jones. Antbal i thins was that of a notice served on them by Mao Jacob W and Co: who were merchants in London, stating that they had a claim in the amount received by them under the policy in reeped of a sum of money lent by them to Don Petito Aram to *nab* him to purchase the very ship which bed been lost. Thr defend. ants informed M. Jones of this notice, and p a ying to Submit the ease to Counsel ns to the propriety of their paying the motley oree to him ; he however persisted in his claim, and es Messrs, Jetioht Wood and Co. would not withdraw that which they had 'refitted, the defendants, deemed it the safer course to let the /Latvian be de e tided in a Court of Justice, and One be protected by the teediet at a Jury in the disposthon they should make of the money, than tel take upon theTeelves, amidst these conflicting claims, to decide as to the ownership of it. Proof was then offered to show that the reeney in question had been attached by a pence's out of the Lord Mayor's Court by etne house of De Taatet ; and also the a notice hail been served by Jac cobs Wood and Co. on the defendants not to pay the most; to the plaintiff; but otsieetiers were taken to the sufficient' , of the proof into , : proof of the attahm.n , been suffisteel • t it would bare been unneceseery for dig defendants to hare sehown either the right of Don Pedna Ayaned, et; I . l .l c u a s les' tice the notice from Mears. Jacob Weed end Co. because throw. an p d A t n h a e ('Dort held ti e l l f 2 o t ttic t t h i e o r n: h ro ad be geed. .., . te,o.lnitiiendwihtowseittoidde withholding moms nefouweasy gate would i a v n th a e tta p c e h r ment ha . t 1 i ssu ed. But as DO lit4l evidently t i t n i l et e h t e h e. at t s h u a c t h 1,3471. I.IL fed, a claim . p lal j,,eb Verdict ts fur uffl c eye i e p od: in i tiff_dernate, of that fact had been adduced, the defendants coald sot resist that Mr. Justice PACK having disposed Of all the onuses dullrd3 trial on the Civil Side, sat this thermion to *wise hie Lear Brother, Ale. Justice HOLuotri, in Dying criminal oas es: fa Fit ears rhistlahwayto liasteroent 4Pan trdialliti for wilful and corrupt perjura; in *taking a m a k ttfltillzmlirilt confined in Winn& gaol, in which he Imre drat one at Checketes was indebted to him in a seams' atm and upriarde, --Hiees an sittorsoy, of Woitolok, eassniood-ialao ole CO.IIBINAriox AND RIOr OF WORKMEN IN FRANCE. The com mune of Houlme, situated in the va Rouen, Aue.lley7. of Deville, ha s become the theatre of a ret•olt hith er t o w i t h ol i t /thexample. For some time past the workmen employed in e numerous cotton manufactories in this valley demand es! an increase of wages. They did riot hesitate to employ violence, in order to fix at their own rate the price of every kind of work, end to overthrow entirely the rules esteblished up to the present time in these manufactories. Some mnater cotton-spinners were Weak enough to give way to their menaces. M. Levavasseur, one of them, be lieved it was dangerous to yield to their measures ; and af ter having !satisfied those demands which appeared to him just, he refused to submit to dictation. It was thus , 1 that the r evo l t d eclared itself, which had been organized ' fee some time past by conspirators, who happily have been market!. On Thursday last the workshops were deserted at a given signal. Express orders were given to the workmen I who had taken no part in this affair to discontinue their labour, and such was the terror inspired that no otte dared to ills:they. A purse had previously &en made up in all the manufactories for those workmen who, in default of work, should be left without resources. On the following day the workmen formed themselves into parties, and did nct proceed further than to make menacing demonstrations; but on Saturday, being pay day, the proprietor of the manufactory whose men were in i a state of revolt, having repaired to the usual places for,' paying his workmen, the coalition assumed a more serious ' character. A vast number of workmen belonging to the different manufactories of the valley, provided with staves and clubs, made an attempt on the Jife of M.-Levavasseur, who, he wevcr, escorted by the gendarmes that ocean ponied him, returned to his house safe and sound. The tame evening, a crowd of seven or eight hundred workmen proceeded to the manufactory and broke all the windows of the ground floor and of the first story, after having broken and thrown down the walls of the enclosure. .4 detachment of the Royal Guard, who were in garrison in Rotten, and who were despatched to the place, succeeded in stoppin g t h e further cecesset, of these madmen, wh o ' would have destroyed from top to bottom one of the finest establishmentS of the valley. Ili, Akjesty's Procureur, informed of what had taken place, proceeded thither yesterday, accompanied by a Ma gistratte After depositions had been received from various persons, It was manifest that scenes of a still more violent description_ were meditated. The workmen of all the fac tories in tile valley, and even those of Darnetal, Pavilly, and Barentin, were to assemble at Houlme, and proceed to the place of revolt. Every thing was to be feared from the excesses to which this furious multitude would TWoceed. Unforturtately these anticipations were realised ; there was a concourse of some thousands of workmen : early in the 11110 Thing they dispersed themselves in the neigltbouring smeds, from whence, as it seemed, they intended to direct their attacks. The armed force remained on the grouted to mist the attack, with which the factory of M. Levivasseur , . 14 4 1 1111111 Ceil ; but a d etac h ment of gendarmes, and two'' compani es of the Royal Guard, were insufficient to repel this Inns of rioters. By the help of the stones, sticks, and pitchfork, with which they were armed, they managed to make head Alipilast the soldiers. Some workmen, armed with muskets,, Jemmied in the woods, even fired upon the militate% ad a gendarroe, who was remarkable by his intrepid , exertions to quell the riot, received a ball in his head. Hit' life is despaired of. Other gendarmes, and some soldiers belonging to the Guards. were wounded more or less se' verely by the stones which fell in showers from all quarter, and by the blows which were aimed at them by sticks. At length the arrival of a new detachment of the Garde Royale pet an end to this contest, which might have been more bloody, but for the energy displayed by the autho-, rities of Rouen. The gendarmery havest returned into the town, bringing with them upwards fi fe rty workmen,. Oaken in the midst of the rioters, with arms in their hands. Justice is upon the track of the culprits, and every thing announces that a severe example will be giren. . Note.—lt is ascertained that, to day, other scenes of de %gelation have occurred in the Communes of Pavilly, Ea rentin and Desville, by the workmen of the cotton maim factories. The Prefect of the Department has proceeded to the valley of Deville, and has taken such measures as prudence snggested to be necessary under circumstances of so grave a nature..--Etinle. AWFUL TXUNDER STORM' AT LITER, _ _ ---ses.---- On Friday morning last, about two o'cleck, this town was visited by one of the most awful thunder storms ever experienced here. Two claps, in particular, were most terrific, and made the stoutest heart tremble. The first 'occurred at a quarter before two o'clock, • When mankind were wrapt in seep, And , worldly Fancy fed on golden dreams." The thunder burst forth with the most sublime yet terrific grandeur. The clap was so loud that it awoke almost every inhabitant. IVe have heard the peal compared to ,the sudden crash of falling houses; but it resembled kI snore the discharge of a heavy piece or rather pieces of ordnance, immediately under your window. The light ning which preceded the second peal was so vivid as to de prive of sight, for a few moments, any one who had the temerity togaze upon its dazzling and appaling brightness: it was just as if a glowing sheet of flame had passed before the eye of the beholder. The whole town was seen as in a blaze of the meridian sun. The 'fawn of Liverpool steam packet was on her passage from Dublin at the moment, and the Captain describes the lightning as having been tbe most awful and terrific he ever beheld. The thunder ims mediately broke forth, not with a rumbling noise, as during ordinary thunder storms, but in one loud tremendous clap, shaking the very buildings to their foundations, and striking terror and dismay into all who heard it. The rain, during this time, descended in torrents. The light ning which succeeded the second terrific clap was but weak, compared with the sublime grandeur of the flash by which it was preceded. The thunder also became feeble, and soon muttered and died away in the distance. As is usual after any awful visitation of nature, a variety of rumours of the damage produced by this storm of thun der and lightning were in circulation ; but we have not learnt that any very serious injury, as respects eitherper son or prop erty , has been sustained i n t h e town or neigh bourhood. A respectable man, who lives In a street leading from St. James s -street to Wapping, states that he was awake before and during the atom. His bed-room win dow commands a rather extensive view to the north and Northwest. He says that; the window-blind being drawn up, he saw, the instant the second terrific flash took place, something resembling a ball of fire, about as large as a foot-ball, come over Sparling-street, in the direction of his house. He trembled with fright, conceiving that he could not escape the swift destruction which was approaching. The house, which stands alone, slightly, but perceptibly vibrated as the electric fluid passed by; and the bed on which he lay moved as if violently shaken. This awful phenomenon was also beheld by a person who lives on the opposite ride of the street, and whose bed-room window commands a slew in dweller* direction as the house of his neighbour. He had given the inmates up for lost, so am sicced was he that th electric fluid, from the direction in which I*ssw it aur , would strike and destroy the opposite house. For y, however, it passed over the building without cau any injury, and continued its course towards the son t. '1 he Town-hall is, we be lieve, Qie only building that experienced even a slight in jury. It must, apparently, have been enveloped in the electric fluid ; which appears to have made the circuit of the dome within the stone balustrade, where there are four ked pipes at intervals to convey the water from the domej down upon the foot -walk of .the balustrade. About six inches from the bottom of this walk, the fluid appears to have gone wholly round close to thu dome, and flattened each of the lead pipes, leaving the appearance as of • bullet, two inches diameter, having been forced between each pipe and the donne, then passed inside the lantern, ;and came out through the upper part of the window (breaking seven panes of glass) into Castle -street. The sign of a public-house, in Great Crosshall-street, has been , discoloured, by the action, it is imagined, of the electric' fluid. The iron-work to which an artificial bunch of grapes is suspended, was supposed to have been bent by the same powerful agency; but this appears a mistake, the bend having, it is evident, been made by the blacksmith who manufactured it.—Liverpool Courier. . . . • PRE AAIERIV:IN Jr,- xr Nu CO& PA XII' S. ___„,„„. The circumstance of the numerous Mining Companies already.organie t el and in progress in the different sections of the New World, and the continued increase of their number, must naturally attract the attention of every person who has in airy degree studied the science of Poli tical Economy. , The natural consequences of so much English capital and skill being embarked in these enter- 1 prices, will obtiously be the pneluetiorl of a much larger quantity of the precious metals than heretofore. That this greatly increased production will deteriorate ! , th e valu e of money is as little to be doubted as, that when a harvest liaa been particularly productive, or a large importation of grain has taken place, the price of corn will be Consider ably reduced. The question, then, as regards the public utility of these Mining Associations, is, whether a great increase of bullion imported into Europe is likely to be attended with beneficial effects to the community at large, or otherwise. In considering this question which is doubt less one of very great importance, we mat bear steadily in Mind the maxim, that the interests of th'e minority should yield to those of the majority. Thercean leg no doubt that while the great and leading interests of the State, the land ed, agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing interests, will no doubt be greatly benefited by the increase of the precious metals. Persona of fixed incotnes, arising from mortgages or the funds, being obliged to pay out of a li mited sum a higher price for the necessaries and conveni ences of life, will he, to the extent of the depretiation of the currency, sufferers by the change. But if we look to the general benefit which will result from the abundance' of money, and consequent high prices, not .liereafter liable to the pernicious fluctuations which occurred during the paper circulation of the Bank of England, and also at the small number of annuitants as compared with the umer ous classes of persons engaged in the four great i n te rests above enumerated; though we cannot help regretting that any part in the community should suffer in cense(iuenee of the prosperity of the rest, it would be carrying our sym pathy a little too far were we to desire that no additional importation of bullion should take place, lest a few indivi duals should thereby have their incotnes reduced, because the inconvenience they may experience will bear no propor tion to the benefit accruing to the kingdom as a nation, as well as to the great mass of its population. That the increased production of the precious metals in the New World will 'be immediate, there seems to be no reason to doubt, but that its effects will not be materially felt in Europe for many years may he inferred from the fidlowing facts :—ln 1809 the Revolution commenced in Mexico (where more than four-fifths of all the silver raised in tire New World was produced). It has been calculated that at that period from 36 to 40 millions of dollars worth of silver was raised annually, including the quantity smug gled off in bars, upon which no duty was paid. 'I his vast quantity diminished in two years to nearly one-tenth, and taking an average of the silver coined in the royal mints of Mexico, between 1810 and 18'23, am seen by the official tables published in Sir Wm. Adams's (now Sir Wm. Raw sod's) pamphlet " On the actual state of the Mexican mines,' it appears that not one-fifth of the produce prior to 1810 has been produced since that date. It follows therefore that! four -fifths of the Mexican mines must be pia into activity before the production of silver can be re stored to its former state. This is by no means an easy operation to effect, when we recollect that Baron Hum boldt enumerates the valuable mints of Mexico at about three thousand in number! Having, however, overcome this impediment to pro duction, we must next endeavour to ascertain . the amount of defalcation of the precious metals, arising from the long cessation of mining iedustry. In his admirable work on high and low prices, p. 382, Mr. Tooke quotes the opinion of Mr. Jacob upon this point, who estimated the' deficiency at 7 2,000,0001. Now to put four-fifths of all the Mines of the New World into their former activity, by freeing them from water, constructing the requisite ma chinery, smelting-houses &c., the greater o f w hi ch must necessarily, durin g the I;stititeen years, have fallen into decay, and afterwards to produce 7 2,000,0001. beyond the newel animal production, which is necessary, in order to place the quantity of the precious metals upon the footing it would have been had there beeu no Revolution in South Anntrica, is obviously not the work of a day, or even a few yenta. Therefore as no inconvenience was felt from over production prior to 1810, while the precious metals were senteo Europe annually in the quantities then produced, it is qvite clear that we are not likely to suffer much from a superflux Of money, until the quantity exceeds that which would have reached Europe, had there been no check to mining indufiy in the New World. Other causes will, also co-operate tr in putting off the evil d a y to the annuitants.' The New World itself has suffered for the want of bullion in a much greater degree than any part of Europe. There fore, until the new States have a sufficient curren established, a less quantity will find its way to Europe. A vast consumption of silver also takes place in Sheffield anal Birmingham, in our manufactures. From these cause, combined, we may look forward to a very distant period, before the woful time arises, when we shall 6nd silver too plentiful in Europe for the purposes of currency. Long before that (lay arrives, the pres en t annuitants will have ceas e d to f ee l any regret for so mundane a concern, whilst in all transactions in future, the depreciated value of money will doubtless be taken into due consideration. _-.„..,„.....„2„............... [From the London Price Current. Aug 1] COTTON. —Ther e h ave b een considerable export o 2. rders in town for some time past, but they are so limited as to prices that they I firm, cannoand Cott ons a t be executed et present higher to any prices extent th ; thi the currency s market continues the an e outports. The letters from Liverpool this morning state the alarm as to failures had rather subsided, and there was again a great dis position to purchase Cottons. On Wednesday 10.000 to 12,000 bags were sold, of which 8,000 were Egyptian, at 12d, SUGAR. —An extensive sale of Must:ovules on Tuesda ban eminent merchant, h a d the effect of damping the marke t; i n se- vera! instances Sugars were sold on lower terms; since that time the request has improved, and the market has regained the farmer' currency. The Refined market was rather heavy in the early part; of the present week; this morning, however, the demand appears reviving; and scarcely any brown lumps could be purchased at ,I 88s. lid.; tine goods are also more in qu i red after, end are fully ail high as last week. Molasses 325. A cargo of Havant:eh Segues, about 1000 chests, reported sold, but the prices have not transpired; yellow may be elated 405. a 413., white 635. a Hs.; Broil whits, 445. a Oa. By public gale this forenoor, 2,6 , 10 bags Mauritian Sugars sold Is. 6d. a 2s. above the lust sale rices; b rown and yr . Low 64 5 . a flBs. 6d. p COFFEE.—The Coffee market continues to improve ; the pub. I lie sales go off with briskness, at r at h er higher prices, and theta appears to be an extensive sepeculative demand for Foreign Coffee; i St. Domingo at Os. : Br az il 61 s . Gd. a eds. Gd. There were two ectositlerab!e public sales this forenoon, mostlyßritishPlantation.l cc, which sold at very full prices t some tine fine ordinary Cubs 1 b. The Coffee market is firm and improving ; there is an eaten.' Ilkpue speculative demand for Coffees St. ,Domieg. coald seared, rchesed at the clove of the market under 625. 6d. for parcels, Rj. 7 I{.l, BRANDY, end 1101,LANDS.—There are rather more p il e= ° to fte h r o ad lit foroo tole l al to e 7 t , h oo i s 0 week, pureh e enodn st,hehasi;e"eu;ianteed°"'sliouhroeadri.vpo.re. !skim to effect sales, but only at full market prices ; it is still da -1 ' cult to purchue Leeward' motifs at 25.; the fine Jamaica Rums are not so moth inquired after for home consumption i_ 90 to 31 over 3s. a 3s. 3d.; favourite marks 3s, dd. a 3s. till. Brandy is firm, bat there is tittle business doing; the new housed 3s. Id. The prices of Geneva have advanced In Holland, but there is little vs riation hero; off the quay sales at is. 10d.; the quotation of pale Is. Ind. a 2e. HOPS. —The accounts fVom the Bop districts ends the plant quite black, and too late to recover ; the vermin are dead ; the only appearance of • crop are a few Dope at the ea:remit:es ; the prices of the market are little varied. TOBACCO. —Th e sales of Tobacco this week are confined to email parcels of five and ten lihds. to the trade and to maaufac tureneat very full prices. TALLOW and / 10 . 1 1P.-7allow is heavy; the new Ws, 84. 975. Hemp at 31. The celebrated optician, Sfrayel, of Bale, has just fi nished an improved telescope, 64 feet long. It is said that with the aid of this enormous inatrurnent seve ra l l earne d perions have been enabled to discover animated beings, roads, monuments, and temples i n the moonc--Brumis Paper. The following paragraph from a Brussels Journal will be news in this country :---A journeyman baker of London has just gained, by lottery, the herony of Forkleschen, in the principality of Anspach, and is nowjh possession of lto,ooo francs. The first use be made of his riches was to buy 7 0,000 loaves of ry e b rea d , which he distributed to the poor, with a pot of beer to each. There lives at present at Marseilles an old and skilful watchmaker; eto, to put his conscience on a level with his work, charges one franc for every hour's work, let it b e what it may. A s h ort time back he refused to take snore than one franc fifty centimes for the repair of a watch, which elsewhere would have cost more than six francs. Ile aecounted for his refusal, when questioned, by saying that the repair had only taken him an hour and a half. wresTiaLV crna S6AIERSET BRIDOWATICE, A its. 10. --- CIVIL SIDE. Before Mr. Justice GASF.LtE. There was no case of the slightest public interest In this Court • Ji.HIIIVN SIDE. toolay. Before air. Justice LITTLEDALE. flanno AINISLAUMIT ER., lt r(1101?(1'1 woe put to dor bar, indicted for killiqg and slaying her husband, Henry Taunton, a tV 7 ,lllcot-parail e , , n this county, on Sunday, the 13th of May last; .14 . throwing him wit h mortal and violence upon the ground, witerekethe received d:ven mortal wounds, brunes, and comusions, She di he languished and died on the 18;11 of May following. wir. afro charged on ' the Coroner's Inquisition with the same offence. , Mr. rhesus at mar rie the, bar, who it appear e d was about 63 yeare of age, h a d b eep d to the deceased, a man of 95, in .-1 pril la s t, a b out six weeks before the 'occurrence of the circumstance which gave rim to those nromedings. They were both paupers residing at Bath. On the evening of the day laid in the indictment, at about half past nine o'clock, they were seen walking from Bath nt a place called Walcouparatle, which was an elevated terrace, with two flights of 13 steps each, and communicating with the London -road. I Vhen,they came to the top of the step, the deceased stopped short, and desired the pr toner to go down first. This she refused to do, and accompanied her refusal with a push which hurled the de. ceased down fr om t h e top to the bottom of the tint fight of steps. Ile watpermitted to lie there without any assistance being offered on the part or the prisoner, till some persons came to the spot, who eooveyed hint home. The deceased then took to his bed, and his death occurred within about 56 hours of the accident, on the mornt, in of the litth of May. The following witnesses were then called and examined for the Prosecution :.—. Elisabeth fimith—l was at Walcet-parade, at half-past nine In the ravening of the 15th yAls , and saw the prisoner %I the b companied by The towards'demesed walking side by side. They comtng from Bath Lon. Deceased vas a very OK and feeble man. They did not seem to be on the [test terms. r heard prisoner Mitten; the deceased in a very grosi and inner manner. fie made no reply. They then proceeded to the tap ' the steps which lead into the London roml, and at that time I woe within tin yards of them. Deceased said to the prisoner, " You Conte first;" her answer was, ••• No —you go on." This wasjuat at the lop of the first flight of steps. The deceased then proceeded to go down, and before he could put hie foot on thecae p, prisoner gave him a push between the shoulders, rather high up, and he fell down usa, to the bottom. iid pitched upon his head and then tunnel over flat on his back, and lay stretched ozi the landing. Prisoner remained at the top. ~,I asked her, what she did it for. She nade no answer. I Jwent, down and RIM' a little blood where the deceased I lay. He apperred sensible, and I Raked if lie wns hurt, he! tortreireldiers"onos n e j tin . t i e sea‘ to l ; '' whiche nil war la abouttre tailigutahretesruorgfero.nn r o d ur s a or te e r i the accident. After prisoner had pushed the deceased, .she came I wn 7of the steps, and then went up again to the top, where the ermined without o ff ering to assist her husband. ' - I ' W. Hawkins -4 ant tithing-inan of the perish cf Wolcott, and was sent for to see the deceased on the U'unday after the accident. I i/ found him lying in bed. Ile appeared very bail and u s e of t he I pas dying. Ile said, " that woman. my wife, is the cause of this, eh threw me down the steps, and I'll never forgive I made answer, " it is a pity you can't live corntnrtably, like other people, without raising those disturbances." The .deceased complained that he was suffering severely from thirst. I told die prisoner to get him some barley -water to moisten his lips. She answered -- Mr. lIALCO3III , who was for the prisoner, here inset:red, and asked if his Durdship thought that line of examinat:en should be Ll , persevered in, as material to the inquiry how before the Court? Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE thought it material to discover the disposition manifested by the prisoner towards tbo deceased subse quent to the transaction in question, in order to conjecture what it might have been previously. Examination resumed.—Prisoner answered—" Oh I Mr. Hate. kins, it is no good to give my husband anything ; for if I gave him one thing he'd want another." The deceased said "he was dying t io I for want of something to moisten his lips with." Next morning, at about half-past mix, the prisoner came to my shop, and said. she rep Well l , Mr her. Hhawkinsusband , lie i gone. had pre v i ous l y expected to ied was dead. I remarked it wa s on l y what I the night b e f ore. hear, from th e s i tuation I saw him in Cross -examined—They had only lived in my neighbourhood three weeks, and a great many disturbances had taken place be. tween him and his wife during that period. It. Stallard proved that he was present et Walcot-paratle, and saw the deceased lying on the landing of the steps. He afterwards visited him at his house when he was lying abed. Prisoner said her husband was subject to fits, and would be better by.and-by. George Brown, whom name was on the back of the indictment, was ogled, but Counsel for the prosecution declined asking him any questions. On his examination by Mr. Rescoatn, he deposed to having' known the prisoner for eight orj nine y ears , and the deceased for a shorter period. They had been married a b out a month before the , deceas-W game to his death. The character of the prisoner was always unimpeach e d prev i ous to this occurrence. He did not know that her hu s b an d was a passionate man. 1 Mr. J. Alansford examined—l am a surgeon practising at Bath.' I saw the deceased, on the night of this recurrence, on the spoil where it happened. I examine ti hint superficially on that occasion. My attention was principally darn e d to a cut on his forehead. On his being taken home 1 examined him more particularly, and found, in addition to the injury on the forehead, bruises and contusions on the chest and hip. There was one bruise on the shoulder, another, which was slight, on the abdomen, and three or four along the s d er ne t, he all triflinsegd in s their a ppearance. I did not at ( h at time con decea' to be in danger. I saw body the deceased afte r hi s d eath, and opened it. I dissected the the head of , and examined the bruise on the forehead. I found no internal injury corresponding with the external one. The only unheelthy appear ance in t o he head consisd in a small quantit of ser nm, whic was elTused n the ventricleste of the br a i n . Thi s could not have h been occasioned by the cut on the head. None of the external injuries had produced corresponding injuries within, and I don't consider any of mite contusions, separately, sufficient to occasion death ; b ut I think, w h en taken collective ly , they were s u ffi c i ent to produce gethat effect up on a subject so aged and infirm as the deceased. The neral shock t h e system must have r ece i ve d by the fall might cave been sufficient to cause death in such a Subject, or at lost to shorten life. I think it did do so. Cross-mtamlned—l cannot positively swear that the deceased (lied in consequence of the accident, but 'I think he did. This is ml opinion ; which I beg to qualify by another, namely, that I don't think the deceased could have lived long even if the accident had not happened. I form this opinion front the on age of the de ceased, and the appearances of decay visible on dissection, particu larly the reruns effused upon the brain. The deceased could not have lived many weeks, independent of this accident. The cale for the prosecution being closed, Mr. Hat.COMB raised several technical objections to the form of the indictment. He contended that the mode in which the deceased came by his death was not set forth with sufficient accuracy for a case of homicide. Mr. Justice LITTLVDALE held the objections to be incapable of support, and considered the indictment perfectly valid, because it was in conformity with the ordinary mode in which. indictments I were framed. Formerly it was thought necessary to describe the j react length, breadth, and depth of the wound in cases of murder or homicide, but that had latterly been ruled to be unnecessary. , 1 hes The prisoner having b een ca l led on for her defence, protested dental. , innocence, and 'described the whole tra nsact i on as purely acci-1 /11r. Justi ce L ITTLIDALT charged the Jury, who returne d a verdict of Girifte. Mr. Justi ce LrrreW.Detw, in pa st i ng a b ntence upon the p et - ! seller, observed, to consequence of her extreme age, he shottldj only sentence her to six taxman' imprisonment in the lime of Correction. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN. Jesrph Marsh and Aforguret !Words, his wire (a pretty genteel looking female were put to the bar, charged with uttering to n e e John Elba, at Pechnltiater„ in this county, oa the kith of Jun, five pieces of counterfeit money, purporting to be the legal silver min of this realm, calked a ha t -crown, at a lower value than they imported to be, namely, for M. Joseph Marsh pleaded Guilty to the indictment. Mr. Justice LITTLIDA,LE adetenished the prisoner that his plea would not avail in procuring a mitigation of puniebment, and called on him to reconsider it. The Prisoner having =suited with his Counsel, persisted in the same plea. The female pleaded Not auilly. The prisoners were Olio charged on a second indictment with the commistion of a similar offence, as the same plate and time. The prisoners pleaded as belfore. The prisoners were indicted a third time for a like offence, to which they both pleaded Not Guilty ; and no midence being ad duced in support of it, they were .Argisitted under the direction of the Learned Judge. Margalwt Marsh was then put on her trial on the two first incite*. Merits, and no evidence being given to subst ant i ate the damp, was 4er/fat/rd. Joseph Marsh was ordered to be brought up for lesietatta to. morrow. ' Jetwet Hughes was indicted for stealing a goW watch, two some ' reigns, and other valuables, the property of John Robinson, on the 15th of June, in the parish of St. Peter and Paul, Bath. The circumstances of this robbery, which occurred at the Chris. topher Inn, in Bath, Were as follows :—. Mr. Robinson, the prosecutor, slept in that house on the ni che bed the 15th of June, and on going to bed placed hie clothes by the bed side . In his pockets were contained the articles laid in the in dictment. When he awoke in the morning he discovered that his, watch had been taken from his pocket in the course of the night, 'together with his purse containing two sorereiems, a ring, and va rious other articles. The pro/water immediStely gave the alarm, and in consequence of some euspicfbn that the prisoner was the thief, ees sought for ; and It being discovered that he had left Bath that morning by the Cheltenham coach, a Constable was sent in Pursuit, who aPPreliended him In the latter place on the same; evening, with the stolen property In his possession. The prisoner, who was a lad of not more than 16 or 1; years of age, appeared to have been lurking about the inn, and seized an opportr n n e tty to carry away th e property, but in what manner was not meta d. Gnilty.—Sentence of death recorded. The indictment against Ellmbeth Bunten for child murder was, i • by the Grind Jury this day; and in the case of the canar y birds alluded to yesterday no bill was fain "p is= `l,i