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ileenbet of the College of Snrgeone, or in practice before Aurae Evident* was then adduced, showing that the plaintiff had been is procriee sixteen or seventeen years: and the plaintiff's appren. rtes proving the delivery of a bill, and • promise of payment by the defeedont, a verdict was given for the plaintiff, CROWN SIDE. Jake! Marl, who was tried on Friday last and acquitted, for presenting a loaded gun, with intent to murder or de some grievous bodily harm to one Anthony Ruahforth—(see Bririrft Pius of the 77th)—was again put on his trial, with another person named Tho me* Allen, under 50th Act of Deo. 111., which makes it a tran. operable offence to be caught in an eneosare killing game. lir. lbw DI stated the ease for the Crnwn. The prisoners had keno:tut on the night of the !2d December, when a person named Gott', in the employ of 'Mr. N heard a report of a gun, summoned his party together. went in pursuit e( the poachers, and, coming up with them, nine in number, a fl i ght ensued. Anthony RushAwth stated, that when he came within twenty yards. he sew the tail of a pheasant hanging out of one of the pri soner's pockets- ' they were armed with guns and sticks. On see. the us they set off. 11'e gave chase and came up with thorn, when alight ensued. and James and John Bentley were hurt very much, James on the head and John stabbed in the belly. On his erms.examination, he denied flat he said he would take the prisoners dead or alive, or that he would finish them ; but ad mitted they were so much hurt that they had to be conveyed away in a cart. . . heveral penmen* gave the prisoner a good character. Mr. Jost Et. for the prisoner. addressed the Jury, and said, that regarthr.g the policy of the Game Laws, so long as the legislature *suctioned them, his mouth was sealed; but with respect to the proseew ion itself, he thought it a cruel proceeding. He rested the ailtt4l of the prisoner on the informality of the indictment. His Loanentr observed, jn his charge to the Jury, that there was but one count in which the indictment could be supported, as the name of the enclosure of the prosecutor (Mr. Hider) was not mentioned.„ and it did appear to him that the place where the pri soners were found was not to enclosure. The Jury found the prisoners Not evilly. BIGAMY. Hawisoh Whitake► wu indiet . ( l ;l for intermarrying with one 1/0•11ph Robinson, on the 24th of July, 1223„ her tomwr hos- NW. John %'hitaker, to whom she was married on the kith November, 11113. being still alive. From the statement of Counsel for the protorution, it appeared that her first husband went to America in 1219, and that he frequently wrote letters, and sent borne money. In the spring of last year he wrote to her, saying he hoped soon to be In England. In July last, however, she w , arricil Robinson, and In November following Whitaker returned home. ln her defence, she said, her first husband told her, previous to his depsrture, that they were nut legally married. Tne Court sentenced her to nine months' hard labour In the Castle. _ . _ - Joseph Robinson was then put upon his trial. and found pithy of being aceequiry to the fact, in marrying the said Hannah 1t hitaker, knowing that her huvhand was then alive. Ile was sentenced to twelve months' unprototanent in the Castle, and to be kept to hard labour. _ This day. his Lordship, in passing sentence of death on the three following prkotters (having previously put on his black cap) said—John Little, you have been tried and convicted of a highway tobbery, under circumstances of a very during and aggravated nature. To the object of your criminal attack you gave no notice of what you Intended to do. and of the ball, which you fired at hint in so cowardly and infamous away. had not taken a slanting direction, his life would have fallen a sacritice to your violence. lions conduct admits of no palliation, your punishment of no mitigation ; you must therefore suffer the extreme pent.lty of the law. lose no tin:e, I beseech you, but make your peace with God, for in this world you have but a very abort time to live. His Lordship concluded by pronouncing the dreadful serve ;ce. 7 1 ; 0J0hn .... /Iti;nson and Joseph Lee (alias Lees), his Lordship ged—Prisonent, you hare hen severally convicted of horse steal. frig; the milder punishments. to many instances, Inflicted upon persona found guilty of this offence, have had no effect, and it there. Pre becomes necessary to make a dreadful example, to deter others. 'rite forfeit of both your lives is due to the violated law, and the her must have its course: be. therefore, prepared for your enrol fate—seek the mercy of that God whom you have offended, and way God Almighty hare mercy on your WAIL Hie Lordship's voice faltered In delivering these sentences. The prisoners stood per.ectly mute during the whole tigle. IRELAND. At the fair of Woodford. neanrtunt Shennon. county Galway, oo Saturday. two formidable factions assembled to fight. The Pruteatant and Homan Catholic clergymen of the parish, with the police. attempted in vain to prevent s hostile reneontre. The per suasion% were treated with insult, and both parties joining their Soria, assailed their pastors and the police, struck down the elet semen and the chief constable, and put the entire to Hight, The police were pursued to the barracks, where every window was broken with atones and stick, and the infuriated mob were finally proceeding to tear the roof ofr the building, when the police, in de fence of their lives, were compelled to fire, and the consequence ieu, three men were killed, and sevettil others wounded.-4 dila i'oirer of &foretop. lhi Senday evening, ten men from Kilmacthomas were commit. ted to the county (Waterford) gaol, and from what has since trans. pired relative to this transaction, we think that the circumstance is hkely to excite a considerable sensation in the country. We shall he content with giving a simple statement of the affair, and will leave sue readers to form their own opinions. tin Saturday last lite. Swan left Waterford. on his way home from the Assizes. When he arrived near Kilmaethomas, he wa. met by a vast con. et.airac of the people of that town, who availed themselves, as • squat. of every opportunity of testifying their affectionate attach_ meat to this popular young gentleman, and to the principles he penggeasa. The crowd was immense, but every thing was conducted in the most orderly and peaceable manner. The procession accom panied his carriage half way from Kilnutethomaa to the house of IP. James Barron. of Saraliville, rending the air with the usual . ehouta of •• Stuart and Liberty for ever"—.' Villiers Stuart and Catholic Emiuscipatioo !" Mr. Stuart took leave of the people, aid they returned peaceably to Kilmacthomas. Here, hoverer, a , effort was made to provoke the people to a quarrel, by a man commonly called Keating, but whose proper comic is Collins. Os this fellow's character, though tolerably well acquainted with it, if is ueneceuary for us here to speak; he is well known to the Mat gistrates sod Police of that neighbourhood. Having failed in hi.. attempt to provoke the people. he went into the house of Brown, the .Poeternoter of Kilmacthomu, and, having procured a gun, be bred out from a window ! The slugs with which the gun was loaded entered the house at the opposite side of the street, and lodged in some of the ftirnitore. This fact will be proved on oath. Atter the that shot was fired, a crowd Immediately assembled, and they saw-Keating deliberately tire a second and a third shot ! ! ! A reaction was immediately and naturally produced; the crowd at tacked the house, or rather the window from which they saw Keat ing present tile gen. They broke the window with atones, but did rot, ea might hare been expected, attempt tonna the house.-- Wattefuni CArvait fr. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MURDER. MUNSTER CIRCUIT.— TIiLET, 111.ticu 21.1 Thomas Leven and Johanna Lovett, his wife. wattindicterl fur the wilful murder of Thomas Crane, the late husband of the pri sower Julianne, at Gellert's, in the county of Kerry. l'his prosecution was ordered by the Attorney-General. and cniptueittl by the Crown prusecuturs. It excited great public at tenune._ . - Mr. O'Cow was the sole Counsel for thesprisonets. John Creane—llelievcs lie is about ten or twelve yeses old ; is won to Thomas Cresne, who was murdered. Recollects to have ..SSW the prisoner, Thomas Lovett, frequently at his father's Knipe ilortng his life-time, when his father, who was a carpenter, used to be is the country at work. Witness saw the prisoner, Thomas, in bed with his mother two or three times before hit father was killed. Witness recollects the night on which his father was murdered. in *a evening of that day the prisoner came to their house. His la th:, desired Lovett to go home, saying it was tun late for hint to be es the house. as be wanted toga to bed. The deceased at !hemline time desired the prisoner, Johanna, to prepare for bed. hhe an. sleeved that there was time enough. The deceased went to bed, leaviag the pioneers together. Beibre the deceased went to bed., Thorns.' Lovett said, in answer to the &vented, who wanted hitn in go home, that be would not ; that he would remain there at long as he likei. The deceased, after he went to bed, finding that the prisoner, Johanna, was eot disposed to go to bed, and that the ot:,er prisoner was still in the hoe*, came from the bed.room Into she kitchen, where they were, and threatened to go to the brother Ohio wife, and Inform him of her roniluct. Ile went out accord. 'ugly, but he MOM returned back. The detested was angry and unsay, and attempted to go out a area: d time, but was prevented by the prisoner, Thomas Lovett. The de lased again asked Lo. sett whether be would leave his h o use. L oee s t refused, saying that he would rennin there as long as he thought proper. Th e sit. ceased then left the house. Before the deceased won out, he came se witness its the bed. and desired him to go into his bed until the do, - eased returned. When the deceased left the house, the pri. sneers sat down together at the kitchen tire. Witness could see Chain from the bed. 'the candle remained lighted in the kitchen tor mme time. They conversed with each other in so low a tone, dist witness could not hear. In some time after the deceased came dose the tesl.rotEri where the witness lay. through a window from die offish's, arid stood concealed at the MOM door, where here. 'stained for some time, listening to what the prisoners were saying. At this ti.ne the candle was extinguished. Ile droned witness not speak that he might hear them. He remained a Considerable time there. and des,;ed prisoner to go home instantly. Lovett re. fused. After bovßt had so refused, the decease d stood in the k.tcben near to where the prisoners were sittits;. Thom.. L a v i n Rut up and laid hold of the deceased, and tripped him, by which the fell, with Thomas Lovett over him. 'the deceased re. ye...tartly called out to the prisoner to let him go, and not to kill At this tima witness came from the bed to the door of the hsd.roont, and cried out. lie ruled to the prisoner Lovett to let pa fisher. Tice prisoner. Thom* Lovett, said that his father had got a colic, and that he (Or prisoner) was taking hint off the ground. The other prisoner, Johanna Lovett, desired witness to go To bed, and rug to reinain in the kitchen. The prisonerJu horns. as the deceased lay on the ground with the prismer. Lovett over him, in the art of choking him, misted the other prisoner. hhe went to the other side of the body, and squeezed his throat, un der the ear. The prisonee.lsovett was lyinx upon the body, with kuees pressed upon the stomach. The outward door was fastened. ll'itness became frightened, and did not endeavour to go out to give the liberal. After they bad :okilled his father, the prisoner Lovett raised the body and plated it in a corner of the kitchen, having desired the prisoner Johanna to go and call in the brother of Lovett, who lived the next dour to them. The head of the deceased, when Lovett ranted him, was down on his chest. The prisoner Johanna accordingly went out of the house, and in a few minutes returned with James Lovett, the prisoner's brother. They lighted a candle. James I.ovett came to the body and raised the head, and discovered some marks on his neck. lie asked what scraped the neck of the deceased ? to which either Thomas or Johanna Lovett answered that the de ceased had fallen during the night, and received the scrapes. James Lovett made ne further observation. The prisoner Thomas Lovett shaved the deceased preparatory to their layirg him out as a corpse. At this time day.was approaching. The witness would have told T. Lovett's brother of what had occurred, but he was io diced to do so, Johanna having cautioned hum not to tell any one what he had seen. IVitness is the second eldest child of the deceased. There were four children ; the eldest is rather an idiot. The child next in point of age to witness was about four years ; another was still younger. In about a week after the decenscri was interred, the prisoner Lovett, and the prisoner Johanna, told witness, and Michael, the idiot, that they could not remain with them; that they should go and live with their uncle, Thomas Moriany, but that the two youngest might remain with them. Witness accordingly did go to Moriarty.—Moriarty, in a feW days afterwards, asked witness did he know anything about his father, whether he died a natural death, ur otherwise? Witness then detailed to iloriar:y the circumstances of the murder, who said that his mother was a bad woman, but cautioned witness not to tell the nutter so any other person, as she might be hanged if he did so ! This witness wait crass-examined at considerable length, by Mr. O'Coatareee—He was never sworn till to-day. Yeetenday he was sworn also. Yesterday was the first time that lie was sworn. His fattier was dead long before he went to swear. He was dead more than a year. Witness stated that he never told it to any one for more than a year after his father's death; yet he did tell it to Moriarty ; what he said in that respect was therefore not true. Witness was More Mr. Cruise. He does not know. that he took an oath before yesterday. He now recollects that he did take an oath. Witness makes mistakes. His brother is a fool. His father had complained that his bowels were ill. His father had the caneplaint twice. Witness had said that he saw his mother and Lovett in bed together, before his father's death. He said so to Mr. Cruise. It was after that he saw them in bed together. He told Mr. Cruise a lie; it was a foolish lie. He does riot know whether it was more foolish or wicked. He wore to many foolish lies. He swore tome lies and some truth ; he thinks he told more truth than lies, bur will leave it to the Oentleinen of the Jury to decide that. Ile dues not !Mow how many lies - he told. He swmeinfomutious before Mr. Hickson, who is the prawn High Sheriff. In answer to a Juror—Witness is quite sure that what he swore, regarding what he saw the prisoners do to his father, was quite true. No one assisted Lovett but witness's mother. His father came In through the window to listen; his father never went out after begot the trip. Lovett'' , was the next house to his father's. AU the parties were sober the night of the murder. They choked the deceased with nothing but their hands. Catherine Fitrgerald—Witnebs recollects the time that the d.. ceased sou interred; when she heard that the deceased wellhead, she went to his wake, as is the usual practice in the country. When witness went to the wake, she was asked by a woman, who was a near relative, whether she had observed masks which were on the neck of the deceased ; witness, at the request of that woman, went over the body, and removed the cravat from the neck. W keel's discovered neon the throat of the deceased a red circle, and there was a mark upon the chin, as if the deceased had been slightly cut. At that time the witness made no observation, not having had any suspicion of the cause of the death. The deceased was killed, as she understood, on Wednesday, and he was buried on Friday. On the Sunday after witness, for the first time, heard that it was sus pected that the deceased was murdered by the prisoners; it, slier that, became quite public. When the witness was making inquiries as to bow the deceased came by his death, the prisoner Johanna said he fell down in a tit, and that it was the prisoner Lovett diet brought him in, and that his neck was scratched in the fall. On her cross.examination by Mr. O'CO g x ELL, this witness said that there was no concealment whatever of the body; it was ex posed. The wake was a public wake. Michael Creane—Witness was brother to the deceased. He died four weeks before last Christmas was a twelvemonth. The de. ceased was married about four years before Ile was married to Johanna Moriarty, the prisoner, now the wife of the prisoner Thos. Lovett. Witness recollects having been sent for to go to his bro ther's wake; it was the first intimation witness had of his death. Witness, when he was at the wake, saw some woman looking at the body, on the neck. Witness looked at the neck also, and he observed a black stroke under the neck. Witness slept with his brother three nights before his death. The deceased was not in bad health. He did not complain of being ill then the witness and he slept together. They slept in the house of witness. Joseph Hobert Cruise—Witness is chief constable of the Barony of Corkaguiney, where the death wok plate. Witness recollects that in the month of May, witness was Accompanied by Mr. Twins on their way from Leteragis to Dingle. Witness saw two persons, a man and a woman, standing behind a rock in a suspicious MUIR don. On seeing them in that situation, witness concealed himself under a ditch on the road. until they came out on the road. That man and woman were the prisoners. Witness had heard of the murder of Creane, and knew that the male prisoner was suspected of that murder. %Vitness asked Lovett who the woman was that was with him? He answered witness that she was aria wife. Wit ness after that instituted an inquiry into the circumstances attend. leg the death of Creane, when he traced the murder to the pri soners, but slid not act upon it till the prisoners got married, on the lath of June following. When witness had ascertained that they got married, he had them apprehended. The case having closed, the Learnet: Judge charged the Jury, reciting the evidence at great length. The Jury retired for &short time, and returned a verdict of Guilty. Baron PENNEFATIMR then proceeded to pronounce the awful sentence of the law :—The prisoners had been found guilty of the most dreadful crime that human beings could commit—that of murder, aggravated by adultery, and still more aggravated by the murder on the part of the female of the husband which at the altar she had solemnly rowed to cherish, to love, and to protect. The life of that man was sacrificed by the prisoners to their shameful and abominable lust. The trial and conviction afforded a striking proof of a very general opinion, that Providence will not suffer the foul crime of murder to remain unpunished even in this transitory world. A boy, the offepring of the wretched prisoner Johanna, was spared to bring to light the foul decd. The prisoners thought that the youth of that child, or his incapacity, would have pro tected them from a discovery of the murder of his father, but God ordained it otherwise—that boy was preserved to relate the horrid transaction, which he stated to the Jury, whose verdict had been just recorded. And here he wished to observe, that the verdict which they pronounced met with his full concurrence. His opinion of the guilt of the prisoners he did not express before the Jury had returned their verdict, because his business was to lay down the law to the Jury; but now that the verdict was returned, it ass not wrong that he should say he concurred entirely in its justice. If the story which the prisoners would tell were true, that the deceas ed had fallen in a fit, how did it happen that the prisoners had not called at the adjoining houses ? Why was not the brother of Lovett produced ? How came the marks upon the body of the deceased ? No—irwas impossible to believe the statement made by the Pri soner& They were found guilty, and the law ordained that they bhouhl not be permitted to remain to pollute the VOW for more than forty-eight hours. They gave not five minutes to their vic tim—no mercy in this world could be extended to Them. After earnestly and eloquently exhorting the prisoners to prepare for death, the Learned Judge pronounced the sentence. The following is a copy coi tint Resolutions agreed to at a Meeting of the British Merchants, held at Buenos Ayres, on the gel of January last:— Proceedings of a General Meeting of British Merchants, held at Buenos Ayrea, the 2d of January. 1b26. let. Resolved—That Mr. Parish, his Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, be requested to use his endeavours to procutc from the authorities of the Government of his Brazilian Maiesty, a prolum gation of the term specified In the proclamation of Vice Admiral Lobo. dated 21st December last, by *WO the space of fourteen days is prescribed as the period only withal which all neutral cos. ails carrying cargos must depart from the port of Buenos Ayres, in consideration of the circumstunce that this proclamation did not rem-h 'Buenos Ayres until the 31st December last, being ten days after its mconalgation in Monte Video. 2. fttsolve.l—That the request for an extension of time to finish their loading should extend to all British vessels, at present laying in this poet, aeconling to the undeementioned list.—Diligent, Maria, Doris Forager, Sesames, John, Ant, C. d e Li ma . J ames Mysidtord, Larch, Margaret, Berndt*, Cotintess of Liverpool, Arethusa, Eliza Ann., troenati, Brother, Upton, Mary Ann. 3. That. on a question of so much importdoce to Bluish interests in Boenos Ayres, this meeting cannot but feel surprised, and cx. press their regret that the notification of the blocka.•e, which beam date the 21st December last, and wan made known to his Majesty's Consul at Monte Video on the following day, should not bare been immediately transmitted to Buenos Ayres; but that • period of e.gtat days should be allowed to pass over before such communica tion was vent from Monte Video. 4. Th►t Mr. Feriahhefur;;Trequested to endeavour to procure from the authorities of his Brazilian Majesty, at Monte Video, or other ports within the dominions of his Raid Majesty, a more favourable stirangement than at present exists, with respect to the deposit of British property. CouN LANs.—A public meeting was held at Birming ham on Friday, at which a petition for the repeal of the (brit Jaws was unanimously agreed to. A. Spooner, Esq. objected to the &it resolution profaned, because it did not merely ask for a re. formation of the Corn Laws, but contained a general expression of approbation of the conduct of Ministers, with which he was un. Willing to concur; he therefore submitted an amendment, expres sive of the opinion of the meeting (hat sufsrient attention had not been given by Government on the subject. This was agreed to by a large majority.— Oloneurer Journal. About two months ago, a public dinner was given at Port.au-Prince, which was attended by the Gonsubt front the dif ferent nations who have residents in Ilayti, and by the leading mereluurts of that: countries who have not sent,Coosuls.. The Ali nisters of the President were there, all proposed several toasts, among which wai Charles X. The King of England. however, was not given. Mr. Canning was proposed, and the toast was drank with enthusiasm, it being considered that he is the only Mi nister here who ban recommended the adoption of a 'Maul policy towards St.J.Mmirgo. THE BRITISH PRESS. POLICE. (WILDMAN& - Irm. Haley, one of 1 aritleN shopmen, who was convicted at the Old Bailey, in ,tune 11124, of publishing blasphemous libels, and sentenced to three years imprisonment, was brought before Mr. Alderman LUCAS yesterday, in the custody of Harris, the turnkey of Newgate, to et:ter into his own recognisance in 11,01., to be of good behaviour the rest of his life, which was a part of the set• tence of the Cotail his Majesty having been pleased to relieve him from that part of ate judgment which directed that he should be imprisoned until June 1827. The rignature to the document, winch was dated the 27th instant, authorising the prisoner's libe ration, was in his Slnjesty's ordinary firm, free and graceful style. The prisoner went through the necessary form and was dis charged. Th, re remain In Newgate four of Haley's coakrju' . tors, two of whom were sentenced to un equal term of imprisueptent willi James rvoyi., a young Israelite about 11 yeals 97 age, wee elvirged -with stealing three boots from the premises of Messrs. iladden and Co., solicitors, Angel-court, Thro::,ttiortoff ftreet. Dodson, the potter at No. d, in the Court, which is let nut in Chambers., found the prisoner. about seven o'c.‘ck on Monday evening at the top of the attic stairs, with the boots in his powder- Mon. He immediately called for a light, and the porter's wife, in brir.ging it up, was passed by another boy in the passage below, who made his escape. Upon examination it turned out that the prisoner came through a trap door on the roof, from the adjoining house, Mmes. fiauie's, and that the boots belonged to Mr. Hadrien. jun. and Ayres, the porter there. Three other boots were missing, which there was no doubt the prisoner's companion had escaped with. Harrison, the Illarshalman, said a number of complaints had been lately made to the Police of robberies committed in that aid nit!. by forcing trap Ancor, and a:tic windows. Ganaway's coffee house hatf been visittd in this way, and coats, boots, silver spoons, sheiting, Ste. to rt considerable amount carried off. Boats attics in Sweetil i p-alley had also been plundered. The o ,er who had the prisoner in charge, said he had Info,. matt m that two hays, answering the description of the prisoner and his associate. had been observed crawling over the roof of SieNllll. Katie's offices on %Vednesday last. The prittontr offend no defence, and vas remanded for another examinuMn. QUEEN-SW.7A RE. JUVENILE DEPRAVlTY.—Yesterday, David Rich a , d son, under 14 years of age, was charged by his father with robbing him of various sums of money. It appeared from the statement of the father, who resides in looman's.row, Brompton, that the prisoner was tha eldest of six children. For several months past he had been entrusted to pay to Mr. Pnyr ter Ss. 6.1. per week for the hire of a hone, in the course of which, it seems, that the prisoner invariably gave the money short. ISe would then abscond for weeks together, on one occasion he left his home for six weeks, but at length complainant found him, shout eight o'clock in the morning, near the Dank of England. Witness then brought him home, chastised him severe.• ly, and he promised to behave bettrt in future, since which he has ran twice away with different sums of money. Witness be. ikved, did he not rustle this charge, the child would come to a had et.d. Indeed. the prisoner himself has often been heard to say, that he should come to be hanged before he was fifteen. The conduct of the prisoner was so depraved that he could do nothing with hun. The prisoner, who cried bitterly, admitted the truth of his father's statement , and said he would be good in future. The itlAgistr.ite ordered him to be sent to the /louse of Correc tion, and there kept in solitary confinement. 111ARYLEBONE. ..... Yesterday fret. I lynn, an Irish labourer, was brought to this Office, charged with having stolen a quantity of bricks, the property of Mr. Smith, builder, of the Regcnt'a.park. The prisoner was also charged by Henry Buckeridge, the appre hending officer, with haying violently assaulted him while in the performance of his duty. It appeared, from the evidike of %lr. Smith, that he had a quantity of bricks, &r. at the back part te his premises; and on iilonday afternoon he 84r the prisoner filling his hod with the bricks. He was about to carry them away, when he stopped him, and ordered him .o replace them. He did so without hesitation, but did not seem to be sersible of his having committed an offence. Witness sent for Buckeridge, and gave him in custody. The wit ness added, that it was not for the value of the bricks that he had brought him forward, but that their Wor,hips might prove to him that he had done wrong. The prisoner, in reply to an inquiry why he had taken the bricks, said, "Berate they were ofno value at all." _ _ Bir. GRIFFITH° said be had been guilty of an offence that would warrant his committal, if the prosecutor pressed the case. Prisoner—Sure I did'at stale the property. Mr. Gatret'rua—Did not ! 1% hat could be more plain, when you was found taking them away ? Prisoner—But sure I did of take them away ; and how could I staff them (laughter.) • . • Mr. GRIFFITIIS said he depended entirely on the mercy of the prosecutor. Mr. Smith did not press the charge, and the prisoner was dis charged. Buckeridge now charged him with the assault. He stated, that on mildly telling the prisoner that he should ' , oak with him to the Office, he seized hold of him violently by the collar, and afterwards took up a large spade, with wfdch he made an attempt to strike h is heed, which must hare klled him had it struck him. The prisoner was about to make another attack, when he called on a young man present to aid and ;midst in the King's name, and eventually they succeeded, but with exceeding difficulty, in taking the spade front him, and took him to the watch-house. The prisoner expressed great contrition for his violent conduct. He was °Stirred to find bail. Timothy Burley, one of the persons concerned in the dreadful outrage in Oilmen-buildings, was brought up and committed with the rest, until Mary and others of the desperadoes can be brought forward, Fain Qtrahnt rs.—For several days past, the whole of the Magistrates at this Office have occasionally had their attention oc.- mimed by the ludicrous quarrels of Mr. Hudson, piper...eke?, of Belton -stria:, Paddington, and his wile and a host of relations and friends. to the no mall mirth of the auditory. The unfortunate Mrs. Hudson, who k a lady of iinmer.se dimensions, has, it ap pears, Mitt treputroly to n.ake complaints against her husband, who in point of size can only be compared to the third part of Mrs. 11., and not at all likely, from appearance, to make strikingimpressions on her gigantic form. Bet a abort time ago; in order to subdue the towering -pint of his wife, he rationed to the remedy of thrash. hog her with's red-hot poker, and other things not pleasant to her feelings, which caused her to usher Mr. H. before their Worships, through the medium of one of their warrants. On that occasion, it appears, an agreement was made, by mutual consent, th at t h e y should live separately, on condition that Mr. H. should allow her half a guinea per track to maintain hersel:. Mr. H., however, seemed to think " second thoughts the best," and in a short time stopped payments, to the great surprise of his wife, who stated that be could clear seven guinea; a week by'pipe.uiaking. To her ap plications for the weekly allowance she invatiably received more " kicks titan halfpence," and hence she was driven to the necessity of again asking " the purtection of the Magistrate." Mr. Hudson denied the char ge, and reproached his wife with violent conduct towards him, w hich gave rise to excessive recrimi nation; and the vcitibility of the females, together with the rough and discordant sounds of their male friends, created the greatest noise and merriment. The Magistrate, thinking It useless to interrupt them, suffered them to continue until fatigue made them stop. Mrs. Hudson—Look there, sir (crying, and handing a newspaper to Mr. itawlinsen) Nee how he has advertised me, after refusing to pay me what he agreed to. (It was an advertisement, cautioning the public not to trust her, as he would rot be answerable for debts she mightcontract.l The Magistrates ordered the defendant to find bail, and decided that he uught to pity the weekly allowance. Ou leaving the Mice, Mrs. Hudson made an attack upon Mr. H. and scratched his face, on which h. returned, jp grief, to claim protection of the Illagistra:e, and the parties appeared again yester day in the Office, what. Mrs. H. had ag:.iti to complain that she had received another basting. Mr. 11. said, that on the evening after the decision of their Woe ships, Mrs. 11. came to his plcce, and smashed all his windows. The Marsdates, conceiving that they might he for ever pit.- Sexed by their minutiae, dismissed the cue without hesitation. WORSHIP-STREET. DARING ROBBERIC..-1 ester* a your,(; man, named Wilkin son, underwent an examination before Mr. liENETT ♦ the sitting Magistrate, charged with the commission of a daring rubbery. Isaac -tninh, owaer and navigator of • StafiUntstiire barge, the prosecutor (whose tentimony was in part confirmed by other wit.. noises) stated, that on Saturday evening he and another navigator, named Collins. arrived from Staffordshire in their respective barges it Alison. Whitehouse and Co.'s %tag, Regent's Canal Basin, Citymead• On Mond►y evening the two countrymen strayed along the City-road, rod it was not long ere they were picked up ley a pair of the hundreds of prOlilitUte3 who nightly perambulate that district, and decoyed to an infamous (louse in Ilenbow's rents, (3uiden-lane. Smith afterwards quitnsl the house, leaving his companion there ; but in the court (the rents) he was attacked. by four or firemen, one of whom knocked him down, and Le held him on the ground while another of the gang (the prisoner) took r milk handkerchief from his neck, his het, containing another hand. kerchief, from his head t pulled off his smock truck, which had cost him !Is. Gd., and rifled ►is pockets of eighteen 1/. !firming. ham bank-notes, two sovereigns, and other money. After having thus robbed him, the whole of the gang retreated into the broth.A. ------ A young woman here stepped forward, and said she lived on the spot, and had seen the assault; and site could swear it aus not the prisoner who atruck the prosecutor, it was a taller man. 111 r. BENETT—IIe does not say it wan the prisoner knocked him down, but that he was the person who robbed him of his property. The Magistrate was informed that this female is a common pros titute repotting at that place. The prosecutor was re-examined, and positively swore it was the prisoner that robbed Min, as described. lle knew him by his features. A watchman stated that he itceompanied the prosecutor to the brothel, and in an upper room they found the 'prtsonet, whom the prosecutor instantly identified as the man that rubbed Wilkinson is a respectable kinking young nun, and was stared to be of a reputable family, but he is well known as a dissolute character. was remanded for further examination. Five men and a female were brought before the Magistrate on suspicion of having robbed the house of Mr. Reece, Artillery-row, St. Luke's, on Saturday last. It appeared that a pang had been observed lurking about the house, and one of them was wen coming from the area with a basket. Information of the robbery wis given to some of the parish officers, who apprehended the prisoners, and in the room of one of them, nulled Parkinson, a number of housebreaking im. plements were found, but not any of the stolen property, which COO mated chiefly of plate. Three of the prisoners were identified as having been seen at Mr. Reece's house. They were remanded. UNION-HALL. Yesterday morning, scan after the'Magistrate had taken his seat, a young roan, who gave his nine Whitaker, entered the office, and, with tears in his eyes, asked how he should proceed for the re covery of 101. of which he had been cheated a short time before, by a man whom he represented to be a foreigner. He stated that, as he was standing at his door in Wittwelfth, a man addressed him in the accent of a Frenchman, intimating that he was just arrived from the continent with a cargo °flue, silk, cachmere, and camels' hair shawls. The latter articles he described as having been for warded over land from Persia to France, and from thence by him smuggled into this country. Notwithstanding the brilliant descrip tion given of the goods, and their costly qualities, the applicant was unwilling to have any dealings with the foreigner, alleging that he had no money to expend upon such commodities. How ever, his scruples on this point were silenced by the Frenchman, who, observing the appendages of a watch. consisting of a gold chain and seals, dangling from the fob of applicant's small-clothes, said, " Never mind money; you can let me have your trinkets, and I wilt give you in exchange a camels'-hair shawl of the finest quality," then producing a shawl of apparently very line texture and splendid colours, he proposed selling it for seventeen pounds, and offered to accept of the chain and seals until the applicant could pay the money. His grand object in raising money at so considerable a lons to himself. he added, was for the purnoss of as sisting in paying MT the Captain's debt by whom lie and his cargo were landed in this country. Mr. Whitaker paid the fellow really told so plausible a story, that he was induced to strike a bar gain with Min for the shawl, which he represented as worth so much money. After much parleying, it wan at length agreed upon that the shawl should be given up to applicant ompayment of la which sum was instantly paid down, the buyer of course supposing that he had made a noble bargain. Soon after the transaction wit ness took :he article to a friend, in order to know his opinion of it, when, to his consternation, he was told that its utmost value wu seven shillings instead of seventeen pounds. The applicant here produced the shawl, which was of a gaudy pattern, and, to the eye of a novice, well calculated to pass off for the real camels' hair. The Magistrate having patiently listened to the above tale, as well as examined the shawl very minutely, asked the applicant ghat he could do for hint. Whitaker replied, that he wanted to get back his 10/., and to punish the fellow who had committed so abominable an imposition. Magistrate—" Then I can 410 neither." It was astonishing, he observed, after the repeated cautions given in the newspapers on this subject, that people could he so foolish as thus to part with their money. Had the applicant, he added, had Me foresight of a child, he might have discoseredtheobject of the impostor. Mr. Whitaker was evidently disappointed. Ile, however, gave a description of the mock shawl merchant. who, it appears, has taken in a great number of poor people in that district in precisely the same manner. CORONERS' INQUESTS. MELANCHOLY EFFECTS Or NYOTICATION.--AN inqulai lion was taken before Thomas Biggs, Eaq. the deputy Coroner for Wystminstrr, at the White Lion, Hart -street, Covent-garden, on the body of Mrs. Catherine Rowe, the wife of a respectable tradesman residing in that neighbourhood. The case afforded a melancholy istatanceof the fatal consequatees which are likely to ensue Rona a too fres use of ardent spirits. The deceaacd, who, from the evidence, it appeared had been in a state of continued intoxication for several days past, was found sitting in a chair quite dead. The medical gentleman, who had exerted himself to the utmost w restore animation without effect, gave it as his opinion that she had died of a fit brought on by her previous irregular habits. The Jury returned a verdict to the affect, that the deceased died of atifibattion, occasioned by excessive drinking. 111 ELANCHOLY DEATH IN A WATCH-110I'SE.--A Coroner's Inquest was last night held on the body of Henry Price, aged about 75 yearn. who was found dead in the lock-up room of the watch-house of the parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, about seven o'clock in the morning. The unfortunate old gentleman had for merly moved in a very respectable sphere of life, but had of late become so extremely addicted to drinking, that it was frequently found necessary to take him to the watch-house. On Monday night he had been taken to the watch-house in front of the Church, charged with being drunk, vitt as a vagrant, and was then placed in the lock-up room in Strand-lane for the night. Dr. G. F. Collier. of Norfolk -street, stated that he had known the deceased, who was by profession a solicitor, and one of the most eminent in the county of Brecon.; for the last five years his habits were those of a drunkard. and he was positive that the cause of his death was apoplexy, produced by inebriation and cold. The Coroner and several of the Jurors expressed their sense of the exposed mate of the lock-up-house, being open to the keen air of the river, and without windows, and directed the officers to make the parochial authorities acquainted with it; and the Jury found a verdict—" That the deceased died In a fit of apoplexy, occasioned by cold, brought on by continual inebriation." LATE DREADFUL SHIPWRECK. Captain Kendall, of the ship Frances Mary (lately found in extreme distress by the Blonde), the sad story of whom and his wife and companions ate before the public, has written the following letter to Mr. Henry Denmeade, of Limerick. Mrs. Kentlall, one of the survivors, is the daughter of Mr. Dentneade Portsmouth, March 14, 1826. " Dear Father,-1 forward this to inform you of our safearrival here this day, on board the Blonde frigate, under the command of Captain Lord Byron, who picked us up in lat. 44, N. long. 22, 30, W., after suffering hunger and starvation for 32 days. Ten of our crew died. Three sailors, my wife, and myself, and a young woman, a passenger, were saved. We were all very weak, but the kind attention of Lord Byron and his officers, for the eight days we have been on board, has almost brought us to our natural strength. Lord Byron had nothing nourishing or good on board hat what he gave us. I would be obligedto you to go to the Mayor. and get him to return Lord Byron thanks for his kindn• as. " A sea struck us on the sih February, carried away our tiller, rudder, companion—stove in the stern counter, rudder ease, and swept the decks, hut did not wash, at that time, one man over. board. In less than two hours she was full of water, and I was obliged to cut away the masts to keep her from upsetting. We were part of the time all hands on the main-top, which was the only mast we had standing. I suppose you could not believe Mary could stand aoyoucti hardship, but she is now stronger than I am. For the first fifteen days we had not one dry stitch on us; the latter part of the lime living on human flesh, and for four or five days together nothing to drink for want of rain. I think the night after we were picked up would have finished us all. Lord Byron was from the Sandwich islands, after delivering the de ceased King and Queen. " JOHN KENDALL." CULTIVATION OF GRAPES: We have been requested by an Innistiogue correspondent to insert the following communication, which demonstrates the possibility of growing grapes, by an improved mode of culture, without artificial heat:— " Towards Ole close of last par all the Irish newspapers no. ticed the singular success which, for five years, had rewarded the exertions of l‘lr. John Prendergast, in cultivating large crops of well ripened grapes in the open sir, without any artificial heat whatever, at Innistiogue. Mr. Prendergast is now so fully per. waded of the practicability of producing abundant crops of this much-esteemed fruit in warm situations in the county of Kilkenny, trained near to the surface of the ground, by an improved system of culture, and the natural influence of the sun alone, that be is pro. pagating plants from these very prolific vines, to stock a piece of ground containing about a quarter of an acre, which he means to mil% in the Continental style. Judging from what lie has already ex perienced of these vines being capable of doing in the open air, he calculates that this quarter of an acre so planted will leave him a very considerable sum in three gram, besides paying ground rent, and every other expanse. Hitherto Mr. Prendergast has thankfully receivisi many valusbie hints from others, and, trona the present occasion. he professes himself anxious to obtain information from any gentlemen who may have happened to notice tile process of making wine on the Continent from ripe grapes, or from that whirl is denominated varjuice."—lrish Paper. The vicinity of the Royal Exchange has been placarded with a serious advice to the citizens to beware of a secret coalition of the three W's, who me represented to he the friends of the Pope. The suspicious candidates are Wood, Weithmen, and Pl'enables ! Last week, the IVheat-Sheaf Inn, Tewkesbury, was broken into, and a considerable ?Rim of money, together with all the stock of spirits, stolen ; a desk, lit whidli were the landlord's ac. courits,and some papers of consequence, were also taken away ; and a pair of new boots were wantonly cut to pieces. DARING Bo AGLABY Ara ROBBERY.-011 Monday night, or Tuesday morning, the home of Mr. William Chamber. lain, of the Earl St. Vincent, Stepney.lielits, was broken into by forcing one of tile back parlour windows, and plunderer) of a variety of property. Independent of committing the robbery, the thieves determined to spend the Easter holidays comfortably. for they helped themselves plentifully from the viands which had been provided fur the enjoyment of the family. Information of the circumstance was yesterday morning received at Lainhetli-scree Office, and the officers are on the alert iu pursuit of the de. predators. OR Friday night, soon after ten o'clock, as the Bristol mail was waits way to this city, the coachmen, having pulled up at NVldtminster Inn, about eight miles front hence, was in the act of remounting the box, when the horses taking fright immediately slatted off at full gallop, and the coachman being thrown down, his head was saverely fractured. A person on the box , in endeavour. ing to get the rents, lost his balance, and fell off, and two other itassertgert on the outside, in jumping off, were much injured. flie guard, in attempting to get into the dickey, loosing his hold, tell down, and the home were not stopped in their course until their arrival nt the turnpike near this city, which they reached without any further accident. The guard having procured a horse, arrived here a few minutes aftetwards.—Gloucester Jounsal. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER HUNT RACES, 1826. FIRST DAT, NoNLIVI, MARCO 27. The weather, which in the morning wag frosty, and the groupg onemd with snow, cleared up before tie running commenced, and the tow s all bustle and gaiety) the bazaar in particniar (conducted by bener s h,, t ladles) wan crowded, and the sides extensive. • The race ground presett,p a very lively appearance, and the lower tier of the Grand Stand WI , ' di , There were plenty of rouge et noir, une deux cloth and other pro,. booths pickpockets, fru., and, in fact, all the usual acconmaphp r ,,,s 4 racethourse. The sport was excellent, an trilows : The Union Stakes of 7 soya. each, and 10 added by the Oargen to . eyr olds I Ist. ; yrs 1 Ist. Sib. 6 yrs 12st.; and aged 12 st.2th • • koiy • , allowed Sib. Gentlemen rider., . Two miles. Mr. Brown's ch. h. Woodpecker, aged (Mr. R. Haywood; ......... Air. Clark'. cb. b. Harlequin, aged (Sir H. Burney, ................ • ... 2 Mr. Flower's eh. h. telyboots, yre (Mr. Hind) .......... . ... ...... 3 Mr. Ful ) ambe's ch.'. The Fiddler, ye (Captain Dansdep ; 4 The horses went off at a slow pace, scarcely raising a gallop till anthis half a mita of home. They gut together at the Stand, and • sladlan g ensued between the tirst two, Woodpecker winning cleverly. A Cup, value I•Ogs,, given by G. S. Foljimthe, Esq. for bones re g c" honied *lift Lord Scarborough bounds. Two miles. • ' Mr. Fo•der's be. m. Diana, by Kerby 6 yrs (Mr. Harrison) .. ... Mr. B. Roomer's b. h. Ge org e, a ge d t.Mr. R. Haywood ) ... ... .......• 2 Mr. Barlow'. gr. h. Sir Harry, by Sar H. Dimsdale, h yea !owner) Mr. J. Merles b. nu 'The Duchess, by Accident, 6 yrs (Mr. Four others started, but were not placed. All eight Went of et 4 cv George taking and keeping the lead until near i ng the Rid ilams:; . si r H wy . w h o bud a bad start, and had gradually regained WO ° ^ d . came up, and a severe race on the fiat followed between therm tan: when near ending, however, Diana came out, and a on ca-ily, The Bad worth Hunt Stakes of 10 nov.. each. fleets, two aw e. Captain Eltneall's b. h. Stride, aged r owner, ................... I Air. G. Hall's ch. h. by Cana°, 5 yrs (Mr. Adricyman) ..... Tht .. ; ough starting at hill speed they had som e t rou bl e to clear the tam both running close so the rails. The che , nut trot , rot ahead, bat beidre reaching the Red House the Captain brought up bin horse. Passed big, and won easy. ----- SHIPPINO INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, /MusD Ar, 16iIilCit 27. Arrived the Gazelle, Bean, from Whitehaven—a new vessel; Cosent; —, from Finland. The Janrwtt, APAlllater, from Liverpool, has arrived at yl ayt i . sailed 26th Mareh, the Edith., Bewoon, for Barbadoes Ant Packet, Smith, Antigua Barkley, Miller, for !ornate"; Peter Chieser, for New Orleans; Loyal bum. &reser, for havannah ; Columbus, Vebett ; Day, Luce, for Bay of Choic er • D e J e ,„,,, Cape Breton ; Oridgent, Hyrlow, for iklifax , ALT mret, ase t ra. 4 f or Newfoundland ; Severn, Field, for Gibraltar; Ann, Seniors, for Breaks; and Gleaner, Bardortle, for Rotterdam. FALMOUTH, MARCH 26.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Shamrock from a cruise; the Onyx. Lunettes, from London, for H on d uras ; and the an Forrest, from Limerick for Portsmotub.—Wind N.E. stroni ewe s , PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 27. Arrived the Erni:ratite. Warren, fre t , Oporto. The Woodbridge, Venn, fur Sierra Leone, went out of harbour, and remains at Spithead.—Wind E.N.E. Dem., Blanca 27.—The wind hes been fresh throughout the dim from E.N.E. to N.E. No arrivals or millings. His 314mty's stri p Moldier remains. li , R ' e n 27.—Arrived the ./Eltletia, Norfar, from Mufti; ABM', Sap, from Groningen; Hope, Ormiston, from Toning. fished the Walmer Castle, Bennett, fur Vera Cruz ; Fredeetes, Hawkins, (or St. Michael's ; latter sailed 23d inst. and has put back w;th loss of as amber. YARMOUTH. 31Ancst 27.—The Sarah, Scate, from Neweadle don, struck on the Corten Sand yesterday, and got AT, but sunk Lefige she could be put on shore.—Crew saved. Oran, M.sacw U.—Salted the Hope transport, with troops, for Herb ford. The Bern Casadoret, —, from Amsterdam to Coruna and Lisbon, was totally lost on Sunday night, on Nargate baud. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The • Coreak, Petrie, from Singapore, has arrived of Penzance; the sailed front Singapore the 3d December, IS'2 ; pasind Anjeer the Lith December, IS2S ; and St. Helena the 4th Frbraary, Iff26. ARRIVALS AT ST. EIRLINA.—The Innis, Serie, sailed on the 4th y e . binary, for Landon. • The itepulse,'Pattrson, and Bridgewater, Mender. sou, from China ; the James sibbuld, Forbes, from. Bombay; and the late Fotherby), from Batavia. List of Passengers per ship Duke of Bedford, Captain Tweet), sailed front Portsmouth 21st March :—For Madras—)lra. Taylor; Munn Bins Scott and Emily Johns ; Captain William Taylor and Ensign Edward William Snow, Hon. Company's service ; Assistant-Surgeons Augumu Milligan and WilliamMutier ; Cadets—John Chnrles Fortowne, Thom; Back, Edward Hughes, Arthur Heywood, Thomas Homy Woodbome, William Henry Atkinson, Robert Bradstreet, William Henry Beanie?, Charles Wake Walker, Hugh Montrurnery, Robert J.:cordon, John noun. sun, Daniel Hayes, and Thomas -Morris. For Denzal—Mesdames bonds Betts, Elizabeth Turner, Aurelia Phillutt ; Misses Mary Steer, Lucy )::Ira Rand, Julia Louisa Colebrooke, Eliza Yates, Charlotte Turner, Elito Turner, Mary Turner, Margaret Turner; Messrs. Edward Mitchel Beth r(ree merchant), Robert Patton (ditto , Charles Grenville Mareeil (writer„ Jeffry Baud, Percy John Boiler, Ronald M'Douell, William J, Jones, Robert William Patin, Pringle Shostread;cadet.), Jahu Leahy, John Turner, John Lanes. JI.dRICISTS. [From the London New Price Currest.i. 1110 Ar , , mums COTTON.—We had a steady export demand for Cotton last was% as well as for home consumption ; the sales amount to nearly 2,000 hales, viz. t-400 Penmen* 100. a lOid. ; 730 Surats 4id. a 52d. ; 340 Bengali 43d. a ;rld. ; 1,0 Madras 6ed. ; Rowe& 7.0. a 71d ., in bond; and dirty paid, paid, 100 Egyptians Sd. a irld. ' and 400 Smyrna', 104 d. a lid. SL GAB.—The demand forhiuscovades rather gave way lest week, het there was no reduction In the prices. The good and tine qualities coed. nue scarce, and all Sugars from 60s, and upwards sell at high rates, 'lle very low browns are in large supply, rate low in proportion, and are very difficult to sell. There are no Sugars on show this morning, on account of the holidays. The deliveries from the warehouses are favourable for the Sugar market the quantity last week exceeds the corresponding week of last year by 1,300 castle ; the stock is only an excess of about 3,0t0 his& The inquiries alter Refined goods became languid towards the close of last week, but the stocks are so much reduced, that no lower prices were submitted to. Brown Lumps were nominally Ns. The wholesale race purchased fine goods on a very limited scale for the home consumption. Molasses were 2tis. a 280. 6d., and West India 265. a 2Ss. h e Refined markets continue closed, on account of the holithsya. East India Sneers have been in souse request, and the sales reported lonsiderable. There are very few Foreign Sugars on sale, and the holders are still anticipating higher prices. COFFER.—The public sales of Coffee brought forward last smelt went off heavily. The ordinary descriptions of the British Plantation sold ai a decline of 2s. a 3s. per cwt. • good ordinary Jamaica 525. a 545., foe old!. nary 565. a 60s. The Foreign Coffee brcught forward was taken in, and generally there was a very languid market. Previous to these sates St. Domingo in several instances bad sold at 555.; the price afterwards be came nominal. For good ordinary Brazil only 5a.,. was offered. There were no public sales this forenoon. and nee purchases by private contract were reported. St. Domingo bold yesterday at 34 5 ., an d there ars dill sellers at that price ; the nearest quotation 532. Generally the Coffee market Is exceedingly henry. TOBACCO.—The Tobacco market remains In a very depressed state; there are no purchases lately reported. There are two public sales tf Tobacco advertised. TEA.—Boheas and low Congoua continue to bear led. to 2d. advance: the Congou kinds of Bohn from 2d. to bd. per lb. profit on the Irva House prices. HEMP, FLAX, and TALLOW.—TaIIow Is Ills. a 925. 6d.—Reap 4lt. 10s, a 421.—Fiax at the late n3tnlnal quotations. OILS.—The 011 market is esccedlftgly heavy, and purchases may to made on lower terms. bILK.—The market remains In a very depressed state. Raw Mar are a shade lower ; In thrown a considerable reduction must be muted. RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—The Spirit market remains In very depressed state, but we think the holders of Leeward, are not Tree— ing sales soinuch as formerly. Proof., which were sold at Is. Sd. the o. gallon, can scarcely now be purchased under Is. 9d.—Brandies remain M a nominal state, but few holders press sales, otherwise a reduction must have been submitted to.—Geneva Is still dull al the late nominal price. FRENCH DECREE.—The operation of this Decree (to which we bare so often alluded) takes place from the 6th of April. It Is a mater detest surprise that so few shipments have been made to Prance before the com mencement of this Decree, so fatal to the navleation of this country; a. after that period, no article can be imported Into French ports for home consumption, except direct from the piece of its growth. The only ship ments of consequence from this port are of Cotton and Tobacco, but no doubt they would have been extensive had not the commercial embarrass ments of this country continued. FltUlT.—There is more request for Fruit ; the demand is both for shipment end for home consumption ; th e holders are now anticipstni higher prices. THE FUNDS.—The Money market was shut both yesteresy and thi+ forenoon. A considerable assemblage of the jobbers took place on the Royal Exchange ; the only vitiations in Consols are 771. to 751. ; Prevent price 75. In other clocks few transactions are reported ; Russian it N . to 753. • Mexican 67. SALPETRE.—The quotation Is 224.6 d. SPICES.—Light Pepper, eid. Nutmeg., nominally 3s. a n. 2d. Pi mento, bid. a 10d. All other Spice. ere nominal. INDIDO.—The prices are nominal, on account of the spereachiLl East Dune sale ; the brokers are valuing the Indigo Zs. cal. a 41.6 d Per lb. under last sale prices. IRISH PROVISIONS.—FIne qualities of Butter continue wove. and rate high ; the quotations of Bacon are the last realised prices. By lOW sale this afternoon-66 tierces prime India Beef, 61. a tit. S.. ; 21 tierces prime India Pork, 61. a 61.5,.—0n1y three lets sold. BIRTHS. At Wimbledon, on the 25th hlt, the lady of G. C. Carpenter, EK• of • daughter. te On the 25th inst. at Ruth, the lady of W. P. B r i ga tock, Esq. a• -- 4wit Hill, Surrey, of a danghter. On the nth inet. the lady of Dr. Warren, of twin girls, one lirinib the other .till born. Recently, at Paris, Mtn. Henry Robinson, of a daughter. On Sunday, at Brighton, the lady of J. Newton Wigney, FN. of • t"' MARRIED. On Monday, at Godmancbester, Huntlnedowhire, Mr. John I'4 , ' , o f Wistiech, Cambridgeshire, to Mrs. Sophia Puncher, of the same plair• On the same day, a St . Mary's Church, Marylebone, the --e r • Heal Perceval, sun of the late Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, to Cathertor„ 1. - belle, second daughter of Andrew B akeley Drummond, Esil• Cad land, land, Hampshire. DIED. On the 11th of Sept. 1523, at Prom.. Lieut. John Skellington . rwl';' of the 3itth Regim en t o f F ont , e ld est sun of Lient—Colonel Torrent.. • On the :Nth inst. Mr. George Abel, of Rugby, WarwiLkshire, in the year of his age. On the 13th lust. Mary, wife of Mr. William Jone , , of Florn•ti - r° 34 In her 67th year ; and on the 26th inst. Mr. lVihlsm Jones, husband of the above, in ids 70th year. On Tuesday, In his 70th year, Tyrwhltt Smith. F:sq. one of the Alder men of Lincoln. Mr. Smith served the oilier uf Mayor In 1791, aed 3 g 4in lu 11,20. GoodSrlday Ur*. 'front, %rife of Mr. Trout, Leeds. On Sunday, at Ida brother's house, 22, Wood-Areas elles P Fitle ' nen" Parker, lately from St. Petersburgh. bo O w n ur S h at o u f rd N a e y . ,.. , Jt i tn e.. ea l smith, Esq. Alderman and late Mayer of the HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Morolog ..... after A I Afternoon 34 OW ° Printed ',THE BRITISH PRESS °Mee. by J. W. CARLTON, P lo . l° '' Strand, and published by A. CANNON laps Om* IF l , I,g ,