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1 " i . YAMMA AND CAPT. 8. 771TPON7'/INT IMPROVA'AffHT iN THE CON .wTHUC floN 01: 11.111. WAY C4HRIA6E4. Autimmelve various !wakes" which have beer Marled/ty fdhlir esnmanles within the lust two years, there are none ia. emir opinion, have such decided claims to potato • queer as those which aim at the formation of rail-reads, Mane bas of COllateTatiell altogether the pnvtits that tiny or maw s sat sterna to those who emhark in those unelected.. Inge, their vast utility sod importance are as obvious, that irerwiritlerune • rims doubts csa he enterisined upon the doh' •eve. IF canals he useful and important. it has been Orr•innitrared that rail-mad. are capable of becoming much over• am by the increased vapidity and diminished expense, witt shirk the transit of merchandise can he rffectvl on the'. Of entree, there will exist much hostility to their for ostion. both on the part of. Canal Proprietors, whose insereetr•arr immediately concerned, as -well as by the areamaimel creepier* At the soil .through Which. the line of ailwav oust peas. With .respect to the first class of a cor a , the simple answer to their complaints is, that ro4iet •Must . always prevail over private joist N. it did when canals were first made, and which AY fotuse interfered with whatever was the then eXillt• Ilif mode of lantl.earriage, in the same way as rail. reeds .are likely to do now with canals. Pursuing the lime mode of, argument, we should necessarily maintain ItiaN, lifer yeses hence, a still sepeelor mode of convey or Cana Campania, 1 • 14,- , 11. 1 , was asseroal by the a 1... who &lone' of tenth we cannot iv, that it would amount to r.eoenet. le/aging In the line between Birmingham and Liverpool, and wend(' he ofinal In rite expense of totting a trerieh 17 feet Ilea" alone the whole fins. When. Is siditiso to this, the cumber of !year. neemoars for thectutting doles en many bills and the filling up • ro many volleys. the great male assendant ityon the settling of the earth in the embankments far many veers, the difficulty of passing .templbe.seenta sal rivers, of toning to this sod that direction. 5. ciersenatanees might require. and other dillicaltien of a similar kiwi. ewe taken lout urnsidevatiem. It an. not to be wondered .at that the militia mind botanist doubtful of the nitrite of rail roads. • 0114 the' a degree of getters' asipiwenera succeeded in the place of .4 at enthirsiewitt omildanee whie.ll was mated soon after the Bir reinfilium sari Liverpool line miser t pmjected. We are inclined 10 think. however, that all these difficulties are now obviated. We have ...en Mr. James's models ascend elevations of one one yard in twelve, or. of four hundred and forty feet in the mile, with perfect en^ and we ate given to understand that the simple machinery by winch this accomplished. is attended with no waste of power eh.tever. We have also seen the action of the wheels in turning ortles. deviating 14 inch in the yard from a straight line, without ant more friction ihan is necessary in passing straight forwards. The hitter of these objects is accompliohed by simply causing the wheel. of one aide of a Wain of carriages to travel over the side, - Ira lewelllngs "lag I.lverpertt'will be full tes-ebirdw l'lne emitter In the Leis re; qquilte fbr Laying dun the rend he madden touch avenue. We • ale not protean to judge how tar he may be sanguine in hia deka hniseart, hat-from our inorpeedree of hie ntodela (which are each up- Wed. of fire itet in length, and wring upon an inclined rail-way /erfiltreeet), we here we reason ta doubt their correctness; and it • 'elllnifew tea reinserts Own?, as find that experience 'entire= our 6 11eillesnik-inapnisiaes. The mottle are now exhihitiag at Mr. exiserther's ileafier-yard, near the Crescent, where they may pm bald: hula a few days longer, about 12 o'clock in the day. ..t t.. • . I :The troth of the following interesting btory is avouched by the author of the volume in which we Sod it. It is Imp riches arid Toles O . a &Min's Life, by the author 'uf Pi er n Years in India " my friend towards the Parsee cemetery, on the sea shirr. The Parsee writhes bury .aor-hurn the bodies of their dead, but expose them in two Weeptacles, one for • ithdes and the other ter females, maisaf solid masonry, and open only at the top, for the adeglision of birds of ,I..gep,, Hayin g deposited the corpse faille of these sepul -dun, through a door at the bottom, it is left, slightly euenc ,i wi t h a unwire cloth, to bedevoured. The bones are then carefully colleeted, and buried in an urn, with certain ceremonies. Thin mode of sepulture was common ifk i aument tunes, in some parts of' Persia. It radio sur prise now; by its seemiagUebariam ; and that it should be practised by such an enlightened and humane tribe as the Fences of Smithey, who are very justly called the Quakers the cast, is strange. Precept and example will how ever school the human mind to any thing, and therefore, nse nerd not wonder at strange customs, when we reflect tarn our own are considered surprising a nd ridiculous in their turn. " As we wets nearing thin curious golgotha we beheld about forty men anti women, whom we recognised. askew ing a Parsee funeral nronsvintr. Amidst them watt maple, which we afterwards found to be the body of a young teanit, on a cut, or tow bed, that served for a bier. They all seemed to be her near relations, and iustead of the • 'Anna decency which I had before observed at such tame .•;itertAties, this exhibited hurry and secrecy : the hour was „operate:ly early ; the lamentations were not loud ; there was no heating of the breast by the women ; Itut in long ilresses sheared with ashes and paint, and with dishevelled Lair streaming• to the morning breeze, they were uttering s worn; and imprecations. Tears were flowing copiously •liiirn two of the women's cheeks, and we could hear them Yarns that ever they had been born, and utter wildly.. huppressed rejoicings, that she whom they bore along was drod. When they arrived at the receptacle, instead of un locking the door, and placing the body on the platform,with "'hallanness, it was thrown with apparent detestation from .. 4 sisgsgrapet, and we heard the echo of its fall with a chill of honor. • t Iris amorally mused iny curfiesitjOillr.ulfoußb the juxtrunienialiiy of Ilurmongee snit Miniagae, to the ' !sink Of whom I promised my Inter* respecting the can• tom, • hy way of I,.ibe fur divulgiug the Secrets of his' fret, I received the following particulars, which I have every 'MIMI to Lehi. %e perfectly true, and in strict accordance 'tittle Parses usage. Limgee Donilljes, a respectable trader in jewels * had • seelmenhsr.calied 'femora, whose beauty equalled the lustre • le she Oa.* diamond. She appeared among the vi ins • .01 is. r tribe. as a gion of t.;(1.1coorls. amidst beads of glass. meatus saw i• lon, as iu a fanning mirror, their V 1 env( ;moils from one manufacturing town to another, or front maitufacturing to sea-port 'towns, were discovered, ysibalods. most give way, for the public bare a right to that which is best. Were, it not so, indeed, improvement of every kind meat be stopped at once. The actionsi class of oblectots are to be inet, of course, in a &Arent way. 'Fleet have rights and inter wt which will be protected by the togitistore. Fair and reasoueble computation must be Made to them for that portion of private property which they surrender, to enable the community to enjoy the beneiti of nn improved mode of communication. We hare been led ludo dame observations by the perusal of the eithjoined description of a new rail-road carriage. x•hiel► we find in a Blemingisam Paper, and front which it •e-ms that one of the greatest obstacles to the adoption of 't..'-rovrte has been nverehime. We hope most cordially it 'tea •t , tie found to answer every expectation : base berm bieturad Milt a mew of Mr. W. 11-James's er lernienved raft-mad carriages, working both upon 1 , T . • 'I'M am* enrved neil.rnads. which are es:culated to ascend end deweend hills .4 any elevation, and to turn at any angle which • I , +ite he rimsired for the tail.rosd to assume. These groat er's•dfscal oI ebe rail-mid arum appear to hive been fully ac. .morlis‘ed bv Mr. James t and. if we ate not deceived in our tirutst•onii. their effect upon the formation of rail-roads in this ...pint , " will he very rest Milts-to it has been found irn. raHeable finr loonmonvo engines, or steam horses, as they are 4 "Ital. in amend may of greater elevation than ten or fifteen t v i in ri , e mu ~ E rna any remoderable burden attached to them. 711 E r, Ol -rods a t prawn formed, therefore, have all been executed e.4 ,- "t newly dead revels, wh;ch have been obtained by the cutting t' f MN and the filling up of valleys ; or the rail-road car- ry-. bare %Pen enabled to ascend the hills by the assistance of ritatitwiary steam engines, or ether competent but expensive power. The enennona expense attendant upon thus levelling the country, 1 , ..• teen Ciotti, soch as elmost to strangle the railroad system in . Penh. It wine...wed by the agents of the Canal Companies. round faster titan the wheels on the otiter —r sitie, according to the curve they have ,to describe in changing the direction of the road. The tame .beet of ascending the hills. is effected by causing the ectlz upon m.ery wheel of a train of carriages.. so :,.. ~..a , 41,, _• wheel a pe:fect rotatory motion of its own, which C . e sward/ without being dragged by the loco- . . -....-+, ' -as is neeessarf Is the present system. Thus every yr mimes boa the same power of ascending hills A ,aa the wheel. of the loco-Motive engine Itself, which, it is well is koowc, whew not retarded I y a burden behind, wilt ascend eleva- liens of 500 feet in a mile. It is tine that *greater power is necessaary ',..19 stable the cosine to climb hills than to travel upon a level plane, ,t s l i tthia is in part. if not whoily compensated by the lesser power • ira in: descending stub hills ;or at any rate we should pre- ' iuite.• that in the numerous advantages ',Mich roil-roads present, the expanse of a greater as lesser power in the loco-motive engines cannot be of much conseqoenee. The grand object. we conceive, is ... to diminish the expel* attending the first outlay . of the rail.resals ; Ethen if it should hereafter be found that it is advantageous to 1,1 the ground upon which they are laid., it is easy to accomplish ' \skillet when the tonnages upon the !Menke!l have famished the ' handl* tin& ' Mr. Junes estimates, that the savings that mar ... I)entsde in the levylilnirs_ and earth work, between Birmingham .... . . . . i - . r'r.:i~ . fondest wishes. They pearled her jet black hair with 'many $ coati) transparent row; their rubies in burning low, were iktitlant frcm her delinte'ean ; their sapphires from her gracefttl nose; while many a far-famed mine Flit- 1 tercel on het bowon, sparkled on her finger* end arms, and shed its light on her toes and ankles. Gold and silver 1 1 gave splendour to her dress, in short in the impassioned phrase o f Lord Byron, a n d p er h a p s , w i t h l eas o f poet i ca l yperbole-- She was a Porn of life and tight, That seen ()creme a part of right !" This charming young Pante* or Peri was about fourteen year, old, an age at which the female figure attains the sound I:infection of 'beautiful ripen es s, in I n di a . Indeed 1 marriages take place at a much earlier period of life; but, in Yarrerna's case,, the young man to whom she was affianced had been detained-it Surat nearly two years by important commercial affairs, in which he was deeply con cerned, and the expensive ceremony on solemnisation of wedlock had been postponed from time to time, in anxious expectation of leis return. " Yamma's prospects were height es the star of Venus. In her tribe women -are treated with great consideration. They act an important part in the public and private con cerns of their husbands, go unveiled, and, in point of personal freedom, they are under no restraint beyond that which delieacy and the-custom of their mothers impose. The Parsee usages,- with respect to marriages, are founded upon the happiness of domestic life, ins they provide for preservation of purity in the fair sex so effectually that it is the boast of this admirable class of the Indian community that their wives never. prove unfaithini ; nor is there an instance of prostitution among their daughters. Indeed, their character in this respect is so well established at Bom bay, that it is believed:every aberration from virtue in their tribe is punished With immediate death, and the notoriety of the family disgrace carefully suppressed. The Parsee lawaand usage...ay ao well framed fur the prevention of crime and- the adjustment of disputes, that an instance scarcely ever ocean of a reference to British justice. A Parsee can have but one wife. If she ate, her family are bound to find a 'widow for the forlorn one's second mate, for he is not allowed to marry a young girl, as with up, in his old age, nor is be obliged to marry again, should he be desirous of preserving fidelity to his departed half. The same rule holds, if the husband di e; hi s f am il y are bound to find a widower, in compliance with a wish on the aultjeet, indicated by the lady a friend.. By this ju dicious arrangement, the frailties :of human nature are restrained, and even converted into public. benefit. The Parsee women receive the ativantagrs of education ; many of them can read, write, play on the Indian guitar, make up accounts - accurately, and in some transactions I hive had with them, they appeared very sensible and intelli gent. All public business, however, is trensacted by the men. fhe women do not appear in mixed company, but in influencing affairs, and in private negotiations, they are powerful instruments. " Such was thAovely Yacnnta, and such were the pro mises of hope, when it was her fate to be rescued from im minent peril by the intrepidity of Capt. s—. She had accompanied her mother, in a covered and gorgeously deco rated }trickery, to a garden which belonged to her father, on Colabah. They staid' in tht-garden rather longer than their attendant* wished, pleased with its cooli ng f ru it s , neat walki, : silver streams, and shady tr e es. The golden banana !glittering mango, and imperial jack attracted their gaze and touch. At length their bullocks, in splendid hous ings, proud of the music of the silver bells which played in ofspension from their necks, approached the bed of the title, which I have before described as separating the island of Colabah from Bombay. The raft was beginning to ply in that lower part of the channel, but the carriage road, along the crest of the high rock, was practicable, though the rising tide might be seen glittering in streams across its black ravines. The drivers and runners calculated that the bullocks would cross before 'the title covered the rocks, and they urged them at full speed. A strong breeze., how ever, came Into Bombay harbour with the flow from the ocean, and before the hackery reached the shore, the ladies ' saw with terror that the devouring element was floating them, that their footmen were swimming anti in great agi tation, striving to keep the bullocks' heads towards the land. Alarm soon finds utterance. The mother and daughter mingled their cries, and wept in pity more for each other than for themselves ; but their agony wee drowned by the roar of the floo d, and the crowd at the ferry were too much absorbed in their own views, and too distant, had it been otherwise, to afford them aid. " At this awful moment Cant. S. was galloping from the fort, and hopingthot he should be in time to cross the rocks, he made. directly- for the course of Abe 'hackery, saw the life struggle of the alien, heard. the piercing cry for help by thy women, anti plunged in to their assistance. His hone was I strong docile Arab, and Captain S. being ex ceedingly fond of field sports, had accustomed him to swim rivers, and enn the lower part of this ferry, though a quarter of a mile wide. The horse, therefore, swam as directed to the haekery, and Captain S. having perfect con fidence in his strength and steadiness, placed the daughter, -who was as light as a fairy, before hitn; and with the mother clinging behind, gained the shore in safety, while the hackery and bullocks were swept away by the force of the tide. The terror of the animals preventing their effectual struggle, destroyed them ; for, a moment after the perilous escape of the ladies, the hackery was upset, and the bullocks were drowned. " Many battles and dangers require a longer time in drscriptiot, than in action. It was just so in this case. Short, however, as the time had been, a crowd was gathering, and not only the ladies, but all tongue 3 spoke aloud in thanking Captain S------ for his gallant conduct. Meanwhile he gazed on Yamma with won der, ■nd she on him with grateful surprise. Many of the Parsees have fair complexions, and Yamma's was transparently so. Indeed bhe looked. though pale with fright, and dripping with brine, so much like Vennb ris ing from the ncean's bed, that S---- pronounced her, in his own mind, the loveliest of the creation. He gallopped to 1 the fort, procured palankeens, and saw the fair Parsecs conveyed home in safety. " I wish, for Capt sake, I wish, for the sake of a I happy termination to my story, that his acquaintance with Yamma had here terminated ; but I am impelled, by the laws of history and the nature of my intermation, to pro-' ' meal, not with the wing of fancy, but h•ith the plume of 'plain matter of fact. In short, then, Cal rain S. used every means in his power to win the love of Yismina. He cor responded with her through the medium of fikiets, or re ligious mendicants and fortuneltellent. He loved her to distraction ; he offered to marry her ; for 8. had a soul too noble to ruin the object of his adoration. She listened to the male of his addresses; she forgot all the customs of her tithe; s'ae affbrded her lover opportunities of seeing . l her; he visited her in the disguise of a ilinaloo utrologer, and she agreed to leave father and mother, and follow him for life. Unfortunately they were discovered, and so promptly followed by three stout and well armed Parseea, S was nearly killed in an unequal contest to preserve his prize, and poor Yamtna was returned to her enraged and disgraced family. " The heads of the tribe were assembled, and an oath of secresy having heen taken, the fair Timm* was introduced, arrayed as a lnide, and decorated as the daughter of the rich jeweller Limjee Dorabjee. After certain ceremonies, her mother and grandmother approached her, where she sat like a beautiful statue ; and presenting a poisoned bowl and a dagger, s a id in a firm cone-' take your shoicc.: ' ' Farewell, mother! farewell, father! farewell o worl4.!' • replied the heroic Parsee daughter ' taking the deadly sup Fate ordained that this s h ou ld heYerrima'a'rnarrisge, and she drained its contents.' Her leaden eyes were watched till they closed in death ; she was theti ateip.ped, arrayed as a corpse, and conveyed to the receptacle of,ihe dead, as I have described. " When S— heard that Yamma was gone, and suspect ed that she had been murdered, according to the customs of the Parsecs, the noble fabric of his brain gave way, and I reason fell from her throne. ' NI) horse, my horse ! elied he ; and u he patted his war-neck, the seise saw the tire of his tear-starred eye and trembled. Away went horse and rider—fat behind ran the groom. He 'heard the hoof of thunder on the ground, and his master's voice urged his spirited steed towards the foaming surf—then a loud ex plosion, at of breaking billows ; and on gaining theta:Julio:me. he saw a black . point on the stormy surface of tile OCean, 1 but he never saw the brave and his Ar..la more." -#' .-* T . sonnEr sessioss. The General Quarter Stiminne for the Co.'uty of Sptiry com menced' it Kinvon, on Toeudey, before lifthnottex U Esq. the Chaimtin. and • full Beech or Mintsttatet. • KINGSTON PRISON. Me. Pad.uest, in reference to a lideirs that had 'been presented to the Court, by a Committee to whom it had been roterred. to en. quire .intn she espedieney nt di..continuer: the further use of the above prison, sail that IV had a p peared, by l/ .the evidence adduced before the Committee. that the total expense of that prison amounted to the annual aunt of something oifirive Mt and he Ifi.‘ of opinion, that as this sum did not exited half a farthing in the pound on the reunty rates, it was below the coosideration of any gentleman in the county, who was disposed to make any interlace for public convenience. If eennomy was the ohjtet that had prompted the abolition of this place of punishment, it was very sarpeuung that it had not been tneught of before so mach money had been expended in the repairs. and before a sum exceeding he believed 60,01511 had been laid out in building and altering the other houses of correction belonging to the county. Another point worthy of mature attention was, that it was the only prison in Surrey where the system of voluntary! /about had been introduced , and all who had at all watched its influence in improving the con dentin of the inmates of a gaol, would acknowledge the great be. nellis shit had resulted from this species of labour over that of compulsory employment. Th e question before the Court was one that was simple, but was still of great importance in its nature she principal point, he understood, was to save the tourtfy ex penses, for he had never heard the slightest complaint uttered against any of the officers connected with the establishment, and, indeed, every individual who had been in the habit of visiting that prison, would at once say that the duties of the gaol sere performed with the utmost diligterce and correctness. He hoped, for the honour and consistency .of character in the mu gistracy of the county, that this meanie* would not be adopted They had been going on year after year in spending money about this building till th e y had made it quite complete,, and now that it was all that they wished, they seemed to hays' a desire to say .` now we have no use for It." proceedings would, he teased, attach to their .IClier• the inepatation of the unsteadiness of a asbool.boy, whip to-day would do duet which - te-morrow he would say was useless. Besides, he considered that It was not adting fairly by the present officers, Those persons had, it was well known, been decently appointed to their tituatinns, and they hid given up the avocations or engagements they had embarked in, on the presumption that they wave entering on a permanent undertaking. Since it had been an agitation to remove the-prison ers entirely from Kingston, a great portion of the surrounding gentry and inhabitants had represented that t h e prison had keen viewed as a great public convenience; and as these respectable applications were deserving attention, he hoped the Court would see the propriety of attending to them befo re i t came to a resolu tion to break up a prime that had bun- in use for the last seventy years. Under these circumstances, he had not the slightest 'hesitation in giving his concurrence to the suggestion the Commit tee had made, in their report, of continuing in use ibis old ma brnhed place of punishment. Mr. CIAWFORD said the idea of removing the prisoners from this town arose train the circumstance of 20(. being wanted for re pairs, aqd large sums of money having been previously expended in repairing the building, the question was rained, whetha• the pri soners usually sent to this place could not be provided toe in the other Houses of Correction In the county. The subject was refer , red to a Committee, for them to inquire into; but as he candeeived the matter had not been fully looked into, he would owe, is an amendment, that it be again referred to a Comodiute, fbe. Blither investigat ion. • . Mr. Bit vacoe supported the report, principally on thy statement that the Kingston gaol was the only tife 'nigh - o.'oore the -w, nt ' which , • E t. .e system voluntary labilar "Peen ed, and by man, though not committed to herd r, might. if be chose, employ himself, and at the expiration of his punishment receive a portion of the modocts of his labour.' He thought WWII/idea to the dignity of the County Magistrates that they should not forsake this place, after they had at different times voted large sums of money for its repairs; or if they did, he considered, at least, .that they should come forward and reimburse these sums out of their their owe pockets, as they would be now declaring that the place was altogether useless, and not worth the money they had been lay. in out upon it. hlr. Hot.mx Stratstn could not COMM' in the motion for the confirmation of the Report, because he did net me the utility of thi, prison. The object, it would be seen, in discontinuing the use of it was to save about 3-301. to the county fur its standing eapeases, and also an annual increasing expenditure for repairs. TM" ave rage number of prisoners confined in this gaol did not exceed 17, and he could see no objection to them:viral of the mitionetti, on the supposition that they could not be classified with so muds's:rootlet, elsewhere as in this place. This bad been started as a great diffi cult y, but he could readily imagine that an ar rangeme h t . eou ld b e wedeln any other house of correction for keeping thole prisoners who were not committed to hard labour distinct from others who were sentenced to compulsory employment. He objected to theprin ciple of keeping up this establishment because its expenditure bore lightly on the county rates; if it were useless, it ought to be dispensed with, and If the prisoners could be provided for in any of the other houses with the same advantsges they possessed in this, he saw no reason why the Kingston House of Correction was to re mains burden to the county. Mr. Dxxisox voted In favour of the report. If the prime, he said, was to be rebuilt, he would vote against doing so, biss. that was not the case, and it was camddered as a convenien Wed the surrounding country, he hoped to tee the Report emsllnneda though Ito did not approve of the principle of keepingigqi* this establishment merely because the expenses were senall—ok4prin ciple once admitted might lead to dangerous consequences, and on the result SUMS of large magnitude mqtlit be involved. • Blr. KEWIIICE supported the amendment, conceiving that fur ther in quiry was necessary before any decision on a question of so i mush mportance was determined on. After some further conversation, the sense of the Court uses taken, when it appeared that there were seventeen Magistrates in favour of continuing the prison, and ten for the amendment fur fur ther inquiry. BRIXTON HOUSE OF CORRECTION. Mrs. Green, the wife of the Governor of this gaol, was unani. mouldy elected Matron of the Prison, there being no candidate to oppose her. POLICE. MA Information was yesterday given to the Lord Mayor of a new way of raising the wind, and we take the opportunity of, as speedily as pbssible, announcing it, as the Charitable Institutions of the metrnpoli‘ may be imposed upon by similar means, if not cautioned against a plan which is certainly very ingenious. and which might in this case have turned but more profitable to the man who hazarded his neck fora mere trifle. The Superintendents of the Royal Infirmary for Children, in Waterloo-rosd, were waited upon by a person, who said his name was Newton, and that he led been commissioned be a Mr. Bailey to pay into their hands the amount of a legacy, left to that Institution by the late Mrs. Bernard, of (pewit& He plumed the letter which he said commenicated this instruction to the Se cretary, who was grwtified at hearing of so kind and likeral a con tribution to the funds. It was as follows t-- " fpawich, October 3, 1825. s• Mr. Newton—Yon left home foe town befor e I had fully told you all I wanted you to do. You ought to have come up to me before you started. You know I am execute/ for the late Mrs. Frances Barnard, formerly of this place, who dist' at Mitcham. She has let) by her will 251. to a chantable iditituuon, callied the Royal Infirmary for Children, Waterloo.road.- 41 undermine err Waterloo.bridge.). As this legacy is ordeeed to bef-fild iMrii matt), I wish you to go and pay it, sod reeled/ gotedbillamlephell .krehreikera in London foe that purpose. Thiteiegece . diftellaki hojtald free of duty, so you must ask the Henlielnelt. 'Treasurer. to take the trouble to N T the duty - for me at Hie office, and he can send me the fennel rem* when,that ft one. L aw (Mr. Hammond infernos me that einnot be dime yet Ur have not got the probate.) You must therefore pay to the. insikillion 211 and U. 10s. and get the Secretary - to acknowledge it to-you in mu of their printed forms. " Yours obediently, . : `• J...Bitett." There were two or three diad em "which - were partially erased, but they were intended to favour the iospesome, and treatedof cont. mercial transactions, viz. the eels of a, Cargo of wine, which the writer's brother had for sale. The letter mantahled a hill of ex. change for 291. dce wbich was dated Ipowichi,4lth eighth month, 189 t. and disown upon the house of !gnarl Chateau; backers, Miliired.court. Foultrg. by William- Koos. pod , e word*, "Accepted, Fry and Co." were written across the face. There was net the stighteel Cuspiclon of the'l/douinigiees of the all. and tide difference between theameent of the.peeteatied legacy, including the ditty, was handed-over with the meet enteere and hearty thanks t* the welcome wisher. who pocketed-no more than 1!. 14, by this hazardous enterprise, and who certainly mightlave u safely speculated upon treble that sum. The bill Wes, we be lieve, passed into other hands, when it Wee found that the accept. 'nee was a forgery. Remy inquiry was made intolbe circum stances mentioned In the letter which contained the bill, but it was ascertained that the detail was in every particular a•fabrication. At the Bull Inn, Aldgate, to which this letter Was directed, the lent:lord knew nothing of the person named Bailey. and it Os eon ;toured that the man who committed the forgery had waited about tae door and taken it from the postman. • . I . The I.4licrill•YOß. who is Treasurer -to the abovementioned Institution. eenrroted his apprehension Wet other inatituuoos had been impose! on in this specious manner. HATTON.OARDEN. Simercern AluenElt.—Yesterday Avery and Thompson, of the .Bow-street patrol, appeared before the pitting Magistrate, W. I, Rooeus. Esq. and stated that they had received inform'. tion on the previous night, which led to the suspicion of a person having been murdered somewhere in the vicinity of Bagnilege.wells It appeared, that as a young men was going over a temporary bridge. a sheet distance from the Bagnlgge-wells tea-gardens, he ' observed a man's shirt floating to the water, which, from the partial ghm pee he ...aught of at, as u was whirled airily by the stream, seemed to be stained with blood. He made an efort to ouch it, but without effect; and he finally communicated his star.miss to the patrol stationed et Battle-bridge. In consequence of which Avory and Thompson proceeded in the direction given by the piling man; stud aßer dreggiug the water course for a °Mei. dash,* distance, they at length succeeded in getting out the shim. which they now prodoce46 It was, notwithstanding being so long immersed in the Wg:Cl, evidently mined with blood, and here mid, . . there portion, of human hair, and particles somewhat resembling flesh were obaervahle. It appeared to belong to • full-sized man, was of coarse texture, and .without any mark whereby the owner might be traced. The officers stated, that they had made every inquiry in the neighboterhotwl, but as vet had not been ablo to obtain any clue that was likely to lead to a discovery. Mr. HooEas observed, that although it, might ultimately amount to nothing. yet it was cenainly calculated to excite no small degree of suspicion, ■rid recommended every office of the establishment. as well as the Qatrol on duty in that neighbourhood, to press the investigation with all possible diligence. The shirt remains in the possession of Thompson, who pulled it out of the water. Mr, Thos. Squires, a respectable livery stable-keeper, residing in Hunter`a-merra, Brunstrick.aquare. was brought up under • warrant, granted on the complaint of John Hayes, • broker, of Wellington-square, Gray's Inn-lane. Have,. who appeared to be a very irritable sort of gentleman. stated, that lie had been employed to levy a distress for the sum of 1/. 1:1%. ad. for taxes, or arrears due to the collector of the parish of S.. George, Illoombitry (Mr. Barron, out of a house in Hunter-strett, now in the defendant, possession ; and that when in the execution of his duty the defendant had assaulted hint, and used such threats as put hint (Myr.) in bodily fear and danger of li- life. complinant produced no Witnesses in support of the charge. Mr. Spinet being called on for his defence. simply denied the charge of assault, and said that he could brit .g forward several witnesses to prove that if any assault had taken place, it was he (defendant) who had a right to complain. if any threats had been used, or any violence offered, it was by Hayes, and that the alto e proceeding, from first to last, was of the most arbitrary and unjust character. The arrcar due of the house in Hunter-street had been left by a former tenant, and he (Mr. Ft:l - tires) had taken the pre. wises under a covenant from the landl, rd, which exempted him from the payment of all taxes and part child charge: however, he did not mean to set up this exemption as a ground of defence, but he contended that the seizure h lying been made not on the fre mixes in Hunter-street, but in Hunter's-mews, which are in the parish of St. Pancras, was in itself an illegal act, and again, he considered, that it wan not a justifiable proceeding, inasmuch as he had never been screed with a summons to show cause why he did not pay the demand ; but, by some surreptitious means, a wrrrant had been obtained, and Hayes. armed with this "brief authority," had invaded his premises in the most insulting manner, and when he (Mr. Squires) ventured to remorstrate, Hayes took him by the collar, shook hint violently, and offered to fight him for ten sovereigns. Mr. Squires, without accepting the challenge, merely replied that he would make him repent his conduct. Mr. Roc EUS asked Mr. Squires if he had any witnesses? Mr. Squires said he had several. Mr. Hctozns said, that one would be quite enough, as he saw pretty clearly the temper of the man. ft was then proved that Hayes had collared Mr. Squires without any provocation, and that he had repeatedly offered to fight for ten sovereigns. Mr. Hoc Ens thought this quite enough—if a man was willing to risk so serious an encounter for so trifling xi, he could scarcely venture to swear that he felt his life in any great danger. The warrant was accordingly dismissed with costs to the angry broker. Yesterday a young man of genteel appearance, giving his name trillions Curr. was brought up, charged by a Mr. Wm. Fitchen with having, on Tuesday night, about twelve o'clock, most grossly insulted his wife anti her sister, while on their way home from Annell-square to the New-road, using most offensive language, and also handling them in a very rough and ungentlemanlike man ner. Mr. F. was at his window awaiting the return of his wife, and by the light of the gas he perceived a person following the two ladies. lie immediately went down stairs to meet his wife, who informed him of the conduct of Mr. Carr, and on the complain ant's remonstrating with him, he received a severe blow, and in an instant had his shirt torn to pieces. Mrs. Fitchen's sister fully corroborated the above statement, adding, that all the way from Russell-square to the New-road, the defendant treated them in a manner that no gentleman would offer to the meanest nro•titute, using the most disgusting tangs:age, and insisting on walking between her and her sister. Mr. Roonts asked the defendant what he had to say for such unpardonable conduct ? Mr. Can, placing himself in an attitude of defiance, firmly denied the charge of having intentionally followed the ladies, and said it wax his way home; and as to using the language stated by the 1 complainants, he expressed great indignation at the charge. He admitted having struck the complainant, but said he should tot have done so had not Mr. Fitchen seized hint by the collar, without atafignlng any cause. Mr. ROGERS ordered the defendant to find bail ; but Hr. Fitchen said, that, hoping Mr. Can would take warning front this, and be careful in future in addressing females who casu ally may be without a protector, he would not press the case if Mr. C...would there publicly apologise to his wife and her sister, for his shameful behaviour towards them that night ; which the defendant very reluctantly agreed to do. Having made an apology, the Magistrate offered a few admoni. tions, and the parties withdrew. Abraham Beltran' was next brought up, charged with having a hare and pheasant in his possession, and refusing to give any ac count as to the manner in which he came by them. He now stated, that his master and mistress having had a " little bitof a squabble," were living separately, anti that his mistress desired hi n to take the game in question to his master, but to be sure not to let any one know from whom he got them. He was accordingly discharged, and hurried off to execute his commission. BOW-STREET. Yesterday an information was heard before :Ile Halls, against Lord Listowel, for having his name on a cart in letters of chalk, in. stead of paint. as directed by the Act of Parliament. Tile information was laid by the well-known Johnson, whose men, Shingall and another, a short time ago. saw a cart belong. ing to hi. Lordship in the high road, near Kingston House. Ken sington, his Lordship's residence, with " Lord Listowel" chalked upon it A Solicitor, on behalf oftlte noble defendant. at once admitted the offente, and stated, that it was entirely owing to ignorance, or carelessness on the part of the servant.. The cart had been newly pinta!, anti the servants wanting to remove it only from one Seld to another, thought it would be sufficient to chalk the name upon it. He merely stated these facts that they might operate in mitiga tion of the penalty. Mr. Hs Lrs said there was no alternative hut to inflict a penalty, but under the circumstances he should inflict the very lowest, namely, 4414. and cotes. 'fire penalty and costs were immediately paid. Malty Taylor, a known thief, though a mere lad, was brought up, charged with stealing a watch, the proxrty of Mr. Rose, a watchmaker sod jeweller, in the Strand. The prisoner went into the shop yesterday morning, and asked to look at a mourning ring, which he tried on; but it sou too large, and he was leaving the shop, when a young man, named Tokely, who happened to be standing at the door, looking at a double-barrelted gun, saw hint take a watch from the counter, and put it into his pocket. He seized him by the collar as he was issuing from the door, and taking him back to the shop the prisoner took the catch from his pocket, and attempted to put it in among some others that were lying there; but was prevented by Mr. Thacker, the manager oe the business. The prisoner denied taking the watch. He was fully committed for trial, Thomas Thompson, &journeyman farrier, in the employ of Mr. Wonnlin, a veterinary surgeon, in Long-acre , was brought before Sir Richard Brittle-charged under the Combination Act with de serting and neglecting to finish his work. The defendant was quite an old man. It appeared by Mr. Woodin'a statement, Rath Is the custom lit the trade to engage workmen by the work, and it is considered itn• putative on the journeyman to remain for the week, and equally so upon the master not to discharge the journeyman until tire Satur day night. The prisoner was engaged for a week, and came on Monday, but left early in the afternoon. told he and the rest of the workmen were getting drunk together the whole of Tuesday. and refused to return to their work, to the great injury of Mr. M oodin, who sea obliged to send several horses away without being attended to, and who had lost one or two valuable customers In consequence. Sir R. Hume told the defendant ihat unless he could give a very good answer to this charge, he should send him, under the Act of Parliament, to the treadmill for three months. Thompson pleaded great contrition. and that the other men set him the example of going to the public house to get drunk, and as he could not work by himself, he went to the public house and got drunk with thews. He was not aware that the law weir seettevele; he RIM an old man with a large family, and if his irotahip would forgive him he would never offend again. Sir IL Drawer—You are entirely at the mercy of your muter, If Le desires it s however painful it may be to me, it is my duty to commit_ Jou to hard labour for three months. Mr. Si'oodin said he had suffered severely from the conduct of the prisoner and the other workman; but on account of his age, and his family, and his seeming contrition, he was unwilling to press for the infliction of punishment. Perhaps the narrow escape he had met with would deter others in the trade from offending in the like manner. Sir R. Etta wir.. after a sharp admonition, dim-barged the de fendant, telling him, however, that he was entirely indebted to the humane forbeerance of his neuter for his mope from the treed mill. He might, however, tell all his brethren of the trade, jhat if any of them came before him (Sir R. Brinie). for neglecting their work, they would most assuredly be sent to prison for the full term of three months. QUEEN,SQUA RE. EXTRAORDINARY vec te•riox.—Yesterday, 110011 after the Magistrate, Mr. WHITE, had taken his petit on the bench, a fe male, about the middle age. came Into the outer office, and applied to Pace, the officer, to introduce her to his Wor s hip, sayne g th at she wished to state to hint the grievances she had long laboured under, and that she wished for a summons to procure the attend ance of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, to show cease why he detained some manuscript poems of her'e, whereby she was deprived of their worth, which was something very considerable. Pace communicated the nature of the application to Mr. White, who ordered her to be immediately admitted ; and on her taking her station in front of the table, she began, at a very quick rate, hi narrate her story : She introduce herself toe one of the fleet poets in thi or any other country ; d and whethe r it Ran his Majesty, the Dukes s of York or Clarence, or the Catholic Aftintiation, that she ought to proceed against, she km* tot ; bat she was odd that it was the Duke if Clarence that ehe ought to hring forward t but, said she, " I bare bent robbed of my AT:tier—l have been the habit of writing sad • • reading from my childhood, and my works have been aeknowledg ed to be the finest of any yet produced, and are worth 20,000/. These works, which are chiefly poems, have been stolen from RIC and are now In the hands of some of the Royal Family ; but whether in the possession "tithe King himself, the Duke o' York, or the Duke of Clarence, I can't tell. but I think they are in the hands of Clarence; and although time after time I have applied for their restitution, I cannot get them back. As I said before, lam the greatest poet of the age, end have been told so by some of the high. est statesmen in the country. and it% very hard that lam to be made such a tOOl of by the Royal Family, who have oppressed me for smite time, and Lept me out of my rights, and had I not put. chased an annuity of 4 0 1., 1 should have become a pauper in a charity." Mr. WHITE—Who told you all this ? Some person has told you wrong. Applicant—l know the Royal Family have got thern—l will swear it—l have seen then., and have spoken to the Duke of Cis. rence about them, and he said that I was not to fear, that he would remunerate me fourfold tar them. 3lr. Witt - re—l fear you are mistaken. A, plicant—No, I sin not ; the Duke of Clarence has published them against my knowledge, and most of my poenui have been made Into plays, and are now performing at the theatres. Mr. WRITE-4 don't think the works have been published at all. Had you not better write them over again ? • Applicant—No, I won't; I won't write them over again • I'll punish them all as far as I can. There's M 'Donald. the publisher of one of the newspapers, 31•Carthy, a botanist, and Kean, the actor, 1 understand. have conspired against me. (Here she went into a long history of her travela, when she was Interrupted by the Magistrate, who told her he leared that he could not resider her any assistance.) The applicant here turned round, and, making towards the office door, departed, saying aloud she would have justice done her, and seemed quite enraged at her application being refused. There can be no doubt that the unfortunate woman is a lunatic. • LA AIDETILSTREET. PAROCIT/AL A tistruw.—A female named lilegowt. who, it may be remembered, made her appearance at this oft/. during the last week, charged with an attempt to poison her husband. by the Infusion of oxalic acid into his tea, but who, on that occasion, was discharged in conseqttence of there not being sufficient evidence to substantiate the accusation. again came before his worship, ac companied by Stone, the parish officer of Mile-end Old-town. The object of her second appearance was, as far as the clrcumatanor transpired, as follows :—lmmetliattly after leavirg the office on Thursday last, she repaired to the parochial overseers, from wham (they not being in possession of the circumstances of what bad oc curred in the fore part of the day), she having made a fictinous re. presentation of desertion by her husband, and consequent Worm. tion, obtained a temporary relief. Her attendance now was for the purpose of swearing to the affidavit necessary to the grnntingef a warrant to enable the pariah officer. to bring the husbaad before his worship, to show cause either for the desertion of his wife, or give security for her future maintenance. The warrant had scarcely been honed, when Mr. Hingehnet, die husband, a most respectable man, voluntarily came forward, end expressed his readiness to go into the merits of the case. se The parties were at once ushered Into the juatice.mose, when din Magistrate (Dlr. U'esrT), who happened to be the same undei whose cognisance the former charge was brought, being apprised of the nature of the present application, immediately recognised the frail, though fair applicant, who was attired in a style of does cow. responding in elegance with that which she wore on the formate,. occasion, and turned to Stone, the officer, whom hp told that he dir, not consider the present a case calling for the int er f erence o f t. I', parochial authorities, her conduct appearing, on a late inquiry,' such as to divest her of all claim upon her husband's affections et , protection, lie having found her, with her paramour, in a situation t which admitted of no doubt of her Infidelity to his bed, end there being strong reasons to suppose that she contemplated a crime of a still dper dye. His worthip concluded by observing, that abs had a right on the parish, who I would recommend. aid he, If they interfered, to take her into the workhouse. which, Illadont. 7, said he (turning to Mrs. II.). is a plum that will ill accord with , your dashing appearance, but which, nevertheless. I do not think ." equal to your.deserts. Mr. H. *as accordingly discharged, and the parties withdrew. Co ants eit's INQUI!T.—On Tuesday evening an inqui sition was taken at the Gun, public-house, Wapping, before J W. Unwin, Esq. the Coroner, touching the death of Mrs. Martha Duff, the wife of a respectable teudesman residing in that neigh. bourhood. There was no evidence as to the mode in which she met with her death. The body was found lying in the mud be. twern Wapping and Execution Docks- On stripping tier, there were no marks of violence on her person, hut to her right side was at tached a heavy clock.weight, a it to her left s part of a bolt, and some other heavy substances. James Duff, the husband of the deceased, stated that they had had an altercation in the morning, when she intimated that she would destroy herself. There had been a change in her manners lately, which was very perceptible. She was about thirty-six years of age. She had frequently ex.. pressed, on former occasion s , ch i t s h e was very i nd iff erent about life. The Coroner, in summing up the evidence, observed, that he had no doubt himself of thedeceased'e insanity when committing the act. The Jury were of the same opinion, and returned a ver. diet of—" Suicide, committed while in • state of triunity." SUDDEN DEATII.—On Monday evening, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, as a middle-aged woman named Mildred Marriott, a laundress residing in Canterbury-place, Lam. beth, was going to fetch a pint of porter for her supper, from the Csck and Bottle public-house, In the neighbourhood, she was ob. served by a little girl to stagger and vomit, and in a few moments she fell (loan within a few paces of the rune-house. The girl thought that -the poor woman wrs•intoxicated, but on cumin. ing the spot, she perceived a vast quantity of blood, and being great ly alarmed, she ran to acquaint Mr. Taylor, the landlord of the public-house, of the circumstance. He instantly went to the poor eresture's assistance. In the mea n ti me a y oung woman h a d arrived, end with her assistance they raised the laundiese, but it being dark, they could not distinguish her features until a light was brought, when the young woman cried out in an agonized tone of voice, "Oh ! it is my poor mother 1" The landlord thole:ailed some persons to aid him in carrying the laundress home. The blood Rowed very much from her mouth, she having burst ablood-,easel, and a very short time afterwards, on being placed upon a bed, she breathed her last. An inquest will be held upon the body m-day. DEATH FROM PARALYSIS.—About ten days ago, Mr. Croome, a perfumer residire near the Rev. Rowland Hill's Chapel, Blarktiiars-road, wl.o had been many years tax..gatbsret for the parish of Christ Church, was seized with a paralytic stroke, in the neighbourhood of his residence, after transacting some rate business, and was conveyed home speeehlees, as well as having lost the use of his limbs. Since that time he continued in the greatest agony until Monday morning last, when death put an end to his sufferings. Ile was a man somewhat advanced in years, acd ass universally respected in the parish. ACCIDENT AT KILRURN CHAPEL.- - Yesterday an In quest was held, before T. Higgs, Esq. at the Triumphant Chariot, Pembroke-mews, Upper Drosvenor-place, on the b,dy of Jeremiah Riley, aged 26, Irate a patient in St. Decirge's Hospital. The deceased it appeared was in the act of proceeding ups ladder with a hod of mortar, when it accidently struck against the brace, overbalanced it, and on the deceased's endeavours to hecure the hod, he unfortunately fell to the ground. A fellow.laboeree. named Desmond, instantly ran towards him, who found the deceased doubled up, with Sit face and hands under him. Be was then conveyed in a cart to the above Hospital, where an immediate ex. amination took place, whet it was discovered he had received so severe a fracture of the spirt, that no hopes were entertained of his ultimate recovery, and lie lingered in a state of paralysis until Tuesday last, when he expired.. Verdict--" Acsidental Death— deodand Is. on the ladder. CORN EXCHANGE, IV•Ensgshay. OCT. 19. We hate been moderately supplied with Grain since 31onday. Grain in general. of fine quality, sold freely to-day as full am good terms am on Monday. There was a brisk demand to-day for Barley, at front 19.. to Us. per quarter in bond, which makes the market for such lull 2s. per quartet dearer than last day. COAL MARKET, OCT. 19. ,Cl•ift at Market. Ships Sold. p, ley 44 Newcastle . 39 - 3da 6d to .I'2l hd 1 Sunderland . II . . 34a tid to 43s lU I Cannell Coal . it - —s Od to —$ BIRTHS, At Connaught place, Lorly Wigram, of • son. On the Ifith inst. at hie seat, Stanley Hall, Shropshire, the Lady of Sir Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart. of a son. On the 17th ins[. at Brentwood, the lion. Mrs. Charles Notre, of • daughter. On the 16th inst. at the Rectory House, Sten:teed, Suffolk, the lady of the Rev. S. Sheen, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 17th inst. at Sbiplake, the Hon. and Rev. Fred. Bettie (brother to the Earl of Abingdon), to Georgina A. E. Kerr, seeend daughter of Admiral Lord M. Kerr. On the 17th inst. at Ht. Msrgaret's, Westminster, Lieutenant John Taylor, R.N. to ?dies Bayne, daughter of the late Donald Bayne, Esq. On the Ithb inst. at St. George's. ilanover-scluate, Henry Penny. Esq. to Jane, relict of Bmjamin Thompson, Esq. At Castle Ward. In the county of Down, George Nears. fq of tlurraghmnre, in the cavity of Waterford. to Sarah f'athettue, daughter of the late Hon. Edward Ward, of Cantle Ward. 1)1 ED. On the Ifith inst. at his residence, Ealing, Middlesex, Rietard Gray, Esq. in the 72t1 year of his age. On the 17th inst. at Norwood-hill, Surrey,, in her 45th year, Priscilla, wife of Mr. George Bacchus. On the 11th inst. after a severe illness. in the 50th yea? lis age, the Rev. Wm. Pant, Rector of °tarot,. Surrey. At Lvanngten, to Hampshire, on Friday last, Mrs. Sarah Bur rani, sister io Sir Harry llurrard Neale Bart. On the 17th hat. Alias Fell Harwo od Carteis, of DtVOnbitlfe• Mara HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TIOS DAY. Morning, 43 min. afuk 8. 1 Evening, 13 min. after 9. Pziated at TI! BRITISH PRRSB Q%ce, by J. W. Csavrox, 181, Strand, sad publtsbed b> R. Caxeux, saws place.