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can novice, and determined to return very shortly to the United Statei, and that he has taken his passage tut that purpose in a brig to sail in two %%kr. Very little attention was shown him on his arrival at Vera Crux. The officers of the Mexican men of WIT in port had nearly all left the service in disgust, and about one hun dred and fifty of the seamen hrd sailed for the United States. Several English and French ships of war arrived while Captain Cry* 1141 in port : and the 3lesicans being apprehensive they werc,Sparstiirds in disguise, ordered dent down to t 4 acrificies. Cap tain Crape represents the country as befog druat in a state of ar.ariby." TRADE IVITII MEXICO. Wastianvoc, JUNE 23. We publish to.day an official communication from Mr. Poinsett, our Minister to Mexico, enclosing a decree of the General Congress, w:dch declares that all I .;nods, the produce or manufacture of the Mexican States, except gild and silver, coined and in bars, may be exported free of deity. PCIII.ISIII'D EY AUTHORITY. The M. E. President of the United Illex'icon States ha: been ?testa to tideless to me the decree which folio as : 'ills President of the United 3lexican States to the inhabitants thereof—Know ye, that the General Congress have decreed as fullers : All geode, ymoductiorne, and effects, of national growth or manu facture, which may be exported. shall be free of duty. and neither shall the State through which they may pass, or the public autho rities on the coasts. impose on thorn any duty of whatsoever descrip tion, except the following Coined gold, two per cent. 4 Ibld is - bars, or otherwise, two per cent. Silver, coined, in bars, or otherwise, three and one half per cent. Lorenzo De %avails. President of the Senate. Tymardo Goneales Perez De Angulo, President of the Chamber of permits. Denieerio Castillo. Senator Secretary. Jesqu:n Miguel Guttering Deputy Secretary. ‘lliereupon / direct the same to be printed, published, ar.el cis -ciliated, and that the same be duly fulfilled. Palen of tbe Federal flovemroent in Mexico, 10:h May, 182 d. 15141.baset.uoz VICT ORIA. And I :73i4tr.:t the same to you to be iartiol into effect. God a:•.d I.Pocrty. Mexico, May Ili, MA EST EVA. NAY?!. Vint° STATES---We bare moiler' a port-att-Prince news pacer of June 11, and tniOalete the ta:loring : The following Amerlews vessels, whirl. are in our harbour, have been bought by two Beytion'commercial Itouso of this place, and are destiotd for voyages to do: United States of it;:ierica ; one the .berm , brig Cadmus, end the other the Aurilla. They changed Me name of the first to rArtibunite, and that of the otts. , T to Co- Oo tbz l9th of June tise Secretary-Genera gave dinner to the tonsl-Bencral of Orem Britain, wlirch was well a•tended. Mr. Dlackentie was detained by illness; and the Consols of the other ra•ions, says the Fratige.de Commerce, acre doubtless id, as they LIA: not attend. Nonrote. U. S., JULY I. WO learn from Captain Wliteinn of the schooner Monroe, which arrived here vesterday, from Jeremleit;:, Bor.,inics, via Eleuthera. tour days and a half from the latter, that intOrniati.in rsached Je. mete on die 12th inst. of the arrival at the sea: of that anent of a British frigate with a British Ambassador (a celnur rt! man), with whom tine negotiation of a commercial treaty had been enrereil upon. the terms of which were very favourable to England, bur against which a strong ?monstrance had been made by the Pettit Charge d'Affaires. We also learn from Capt. Wheeler. that the British brig of war Lion sailed from Nassau, New Providence, about ten days since, ic pursuit of a long black brigantine, manned principally with blear. which It was reported had committed acts of piracy on a &MI gad American brig, off Ileneagua, and murdered the whole of th: crew of the latter. The Speedwell sloop of war was to sail with the same object in a few days after the Lion. There was a great scarcity of provisions on the eastern part of Eleuthera, owing long4aatinued drought. COLOMBIA. News from La Guava has been received at Baltimor e to the Bth June. General l'aez has been called to Valen cia, by an express., on the 6:h, in consequence of some dis turbances which had taken place in that city. The muni cipalities of the towns in the province were to hold their meeting there on the 4th, to take into consideration the coalition of Venezuela, and to devise measures for its se curity and relief. It is understood that the neighbouring provinces are opposed to the violent course adopted by Venezuela ; and Geoeral Bermudez has placed himself at the head of six thousand men in Cusnana, to prevent the revolutionary spirit from spreadin,g into that province. Ile has very promptlFaistl Ueda* placed hitnaelf in a posture of de lenee, and raised a standard, with the words " Bulivar and the Constitution." The Caracns Colomhiano attacks the administration at Wgota as corrupt, and speaks in the plainest terms against General Santander, who lately resigned the Vice-Presi dewy. D 025 the province expect more security or consti tutional liberty under such a man as Pacz, or better results from an unconstitutional appeal to arms under his direc tion? Not that there appears any danger of bloodshed; the troops have the ascendancy In Venezuela, and the voices of those who may be (poised to them and their Gezira' are not heard. It is evident however that Pacz has not entire sway ; for he has appealed to Bolivar, and Bolivar, he knows, will never unction his conduct. The condition of Caracas, in a commercial point of view, is represented as very discouraging : money is very scarce, and debts are not paid. The tone of Pacz, in his letter to Bolivar, is quite apo logetic and submissive. The Liberator will probably re store everything to order on his arrival. A letter from an officer attached to the United States frigate John Adams, writes under date of Stli June, that the ship " arrived a few days since; all on board well." She touched on her passage out at Matanzas, Ilayannah, Omoa, and Carthagena, where she landed Col. Williams, Charge des Makes to Guatemala. At Cantle sena lay the Colombian squadron, consisting of a number - ot fine ships. "The Flag-ship," says our letter writer, " a sixty gun frigate, built at New York, is one of the nic3t splendid ships I ever beheld." Col. Williams's private Se.r,tary, Mr. APlntosh, left him at ilavannali, having necorne tired of the voyage, and disliking the manner of travelling, as described to him, on mules, over the rugged wountaius of that portion of Sofa America. SUMAI'R.I. MASSACRE or AN ENGLISH CREW.—Captain Endicott, of the ship Packet, arrived at Boston in lt9 days from f romuontl, west coat of Sumatra, reports that an English brig was cut off. about the Ist of January, near l'ulo Murky, where she anchored in a calm, by one I'onyah Hadjut (brother to the ltrjah of Troumond) and his boat's um They had joined tl.e vessel at Troumond for the psi:paste of Insisting the Captain in procuring pepper a:Asaltan, and on the way treacherously murdered him, his supercargo, officers, and most part of the crew. The v:ssel was mcsptured the next day by an English ship, and carried to Calcutta. Understood that a plan was laid by - a nuarb.r of natives, headed by one IVarbob, to cut off the American ship Maine, Captain Davis. They embarked haard too prows, with some pepper, as they said, for sale, atx.i scent from South Tally Pow to M ingin, where the ship was I! iitg ; they went alongside and offered to sell their , pep slying them prows were loaded with that article • Capt. . readily admitted part of them on board, but iaeing a :aide suspicious of them, they being snore numerous titan wl::n nothing but traffic is intended, he examined their rrJWS mid found but few bags of pepper and plenty of a'ms, he at once drove them from his vessel and escaped the danger.--"bnericas Paper. Captain Endicott, who arrived at Boston yesterday from Sumatra, was informed at Troninond, by the Rajah, that the Dutch had taken possession of l'ulo Nyas (a vale, able island off the west coast of Sumatra), and Barrow a small place between Sinkel and Tappannoly, both belonging to the natives ; that the Malays were much disturbed at this outrage, and would, if they had the 'means, attack the invade:lt without delay ; and that the Rajah had written to the King of England, soliciting his interference to procure the restoration of both places to the Malays; and Captain E. saw the letters which were for warded in an English vessel via Calcutta.—Front another .4merican Roberts, the inventor of the safely hood, is now exhibit ing iu Paris. He has made a successful experiment by order of the Board of Health, in a sewer which had long been ailed up, as no person could enter it with safety, owing to the hydrogenous sulphuric gas which it con tained. Roberts, however, penetrated more than 100 lards, without txptviencing inconvenience, and remained nearly half an hour. Two men who accompanied him a few yards only were nearly suffocated. He is next to Make the ex p er i men t with fire, after which he is taught to cxpnt a reward flout Government. Baroness Willoughby de Eraby is entertaining a numerous party of distinguished visitors at her seat, firintstliorite Coade, Lincoln- NIOVEM KNTS. The Duke of St. Alban's bass left town on a visit to Sir Gilbert East, Bart., at his sent Hall Place, Berks. Lord and Lady l)un dss have left their scat, Aske, Richmond, Yorkshire, fur Mask Hall, Guisborough. Lady Charlotte Seymour has left sown nn a vi‘it to Baroness Willoughby de Ersby, at her seat, Griinsthorpe Castle, Lincoln shire. ....... The Hon. Wm. Burrell hat left town for Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. ........... The Hun. Rev. George Bridgman has left Wigan, Lancashire, for Castle Brumage, Sir Thomas and Lady Farquhar left town yesterday, for General Tretor's scat in Sasses. . _ . J. Calvert, Esq. M.P., Mrs. Calvert, and family, left town yes- terday. for their seat. Alhury hall, Herm Frederick St. John, Esq. left town yesterday, for Grimsthorpe Castle. The Reverend Mr. liawtrey left Eton College yesterday, for Hastings. Captain Fiekling, R.N., has arrived at his house in Sackville. street. from Richmond. Coptain and Mrs. O'Brien, and Miss Walmsley, left town yes tent ty, for their seat in Herts. Captain F. C. Smith arrived yesterday at Fenton's New Hotel, St..famea's-a.reet, front Windier. L. IS. Leicester, Esq. 31. P., left ditto for Poole. Arrivals at Long's Hotel. Bond-street:—Stratford Best, Esq. from Brighton ; Chevalier ',miner, from Paris. Departure Captain Montgomery. for Scotland. Arrival at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square :—Lord Kilmorrey, and the Ladle* Needham, from the Continent. Departures:— Sir Thomas and Lady Ileathcote and frmily, for Paris • Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie and family, for ditto ; and R. H. Vatic, Esq. for Ireland. Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street • Mr. and Mrs. Deering and family, from Brith ; Captain Gray, 'front Dub lin ; and Wm. Unwin, Esq. front Scotland. Departures :—Wm. Selby, Esq. fur his seat in Scotland ; and Wm. Lowndes, Esq. for Brussels. Arrivals at AI ivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street : —Sir E. Mos. tyn, Bart. from Ware, North Wales; Mts. 11 almiley and die Misses Slaughter, from ditto ; Captain Mostyn and J. Slaughter, •••, from ditto ; I, yard Ferranti, Esq. and Mrs. Ferrand and f am ily, f rom Sc. I ves , y„,,!shire ; the Countess of Mansfield and family, from Richmond Park ; ;general and Mrs. Chowne and fa mily, fro:n Witham, Essex; Mrs. gausien, from Brockman's, 1 Hens. On Nlonday evening his Royal !fig::!less the Duke of York rode out in Ills open carriage, and passer through St. James's Park, &e. Yesterday Sir Herbert Taylor and Sir Willoughby Cot:- don (Quartermaster-General) transacted military business with the Duke of York at Mr. Greenwood's villa, Bromp ton Park. Yesterday morning the Princess Sophia Matilda arrived at her house in Curzon-street, Mayfair, from Blackheath, and returned in the evening. Yesterday morning, soon after ten o'clock, the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Feodore and the Princess Victoria, left the King's Nine at Kensington in her Royal Highness's carriage and four, and proceeded to the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, on a visit to the King, where the Royal Duchess and the Princesses are expected to remain a few days. The Duchess of Gloucester arrived at the Royal Lodge about the came time from Bagshot, to meet the Duchess of Kent and the Princesses. The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Royal Lodge on Monday, on a visit to the King. Mr. Secretary Canning and Mr. Iluskisson have been on a visit to Sir George Warrender, at Ctifeljn, near .Maidenhead. The Right Honourable Secretary is ex pected at the Foreign-Office to-day. The President of the Board of Trade is also expected to leave Cltfden this morn ing for his seat, Eartham, in Sussex. Yesterday, about twelve o'elock, Mr. Secretary Peel left town, for his residence near Ramsgate. Yesterday morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer ar rival in town from Charlton, Kent, and after translating business at the Treasury, returned in the evening. A Board of the Lou's of the Treasury was held yester day morning, at the Treasury, Whitehall. Count I.ieven. the Russian Ambassador, arrived at the Royal Lodge on Yonday, to be presented to the King on his Excellency's return to England. The Countess of Lieven accompanied his Excellency, and remained on a visit to his Majesty. 'fire interment of the remains of the late lamented Marquis of Waterford took place on Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, at the burying-ground adjoining the Church of Clonegam, in the demesne of Curraghmore. The funeral procession, which consisted of about twenty carriages, fol lowed by a vest multitude of people, having drawn up at the church, the coffin was called into the aisle, and laid down upon forms. The Rev. Mr. Monck, rector of Clone gam, then read the funeral service in a solemn and impres sive manner. The church was hung with black, and the scene altogether was of the most affecting description. The two elder suns of the departed nobleman—the now Mar quis and Lord William—Field Marshal and Lord George Beresforel, attended as chief niourniers, and appeared in the deepest affliction. The congregation assembled was as great as could be admitted within the walls of the church, and a tone of the most solemn feeling prevailed univer sally. When the service had concluded, the coffin was carried out, and the grave shortly after closed on the mortal remains of a tender father, an affectionate husband, and a generous and amiable nobleman.—Waterford llf ill. Be terent TV.—lt is a fact that the Marchioness of Water ford, whilst proceeding to Curraghmore, with her lovely and interesting young family, after landing from the packet on Sunday evening, was insulted as she passed along ! Neither her widowed tears, nor her weeping children, pro tected her in this moment of affliction on the instant of her return to her native land ! Good God ! What fiend in human shape could have been guilty of this stain upon our country, and disgrace to manhood ? We were slow to be lieve what we felt to be a foul and heretofore unheard of stig ma on the Irish name; but sad and irresistible testimony forced upon us the reluctant truth, clothed, too, in all the abomination of religious fanaticism and bigotry. We would not trust ourselves with the disgusting details.—Water lord Mail. KEAN.—NEW Yona, Jnt.v B.—Mr. Kean has left town for Montreal, but proceeds thither by . way of Niagara, and lis expected to open in Montreal on tne eeth instant. We understand that Mr. Clark and Mr. Lee, of the Park Theatre, have accompanied him. The doubt relative to the marriage of a celebrated and highly popular vocalist, with the branch of a diitinguielied dukedom, has entirely subsided, and the amiable lady is now acknowledged and received in the highest circles as a married woman. We understand that Mr. Blackwood, the publisher of the Edinburgh Magazine, has purchased the copyright of the Scoh Magazine for 25/.—lreek/e Cheenicie. AN INDVSTRIOCI Berenen.—Beniamin Bunker was fully committed for stealing some planks belonging to Mr. iVahnsley, of Turnham-green. The prisoner is by trade a bricklayer, and has lately built one house, it is strongly suspected, without buying any materials, and another was springing up with a mushroom sort of growth, when he was taken by Cousins; the property was found under a trap-door on the floor of his kitchen. When asked if he hail any of Mr. Walmsley's property, he replied, that "he could not exactly say." About eleven o'clock on Monday night. a young woman, dressed in a red gown and dark-coloured shawl, apparently about twenty years of age, threw herself from the under parapet of Illackfriar's-bridge into the river. Loud and repeated cries were immediately raised by several individuals who had witnessed the event, for the purpose of attracting the notice of some of the watermen. One of them soon approached the spot where the unfortunate woman had fallen into the river, and asked what was the matter. The answer was " a young woman has just leaped over the britlge."—" Aye,' said be, " there are too many of them," and imme diatel y rowed apparently to many s the other side. The tide was running up with great rapidity. A number of boats soon collected about the spot, and waited for some time, but they were of no use. The sufferings of the young woman were by that tbne over, and the tide lir! most p r obably carried the body a lo; g way up the river. THE BRIT), PRESS. BEIGIITON RACES. AFTERNOON, 3 O'CLOCK. Much anxiety was felt yesterthly evening in consequence of a rumour having gone abroad that thin would not he any races to-day. 'Fo those who recollected the third day of last year's Meeting, there was not any thing surprising in the repot t, but there were few who did TMt regret that the thousands now at Brighton and in the neighbourhood should be deprive:l of any portion of that amusement which had been held out as an inducement to them. Participat ing in this feeling, we Made inquiry as to the truth of the report, and found that there certainly had been some show of reason for it—but, at the same time, that it was rather premature. A determination not to start their horses to day had been expressed by several gentlemen ; the solici tations, howtver, of the Stewards prevailed on two or three of the more spirited to alter their intentions • and, accord ingly, the public was this morning favoured with a true and correct list of the running,weighis,ages and colours of their riders, & c. as usual. It attaining this desirable object, Mr. Tube, clerk of the course, was very assiduous. There cannot be a doubt as to the true cause for the de falcation of sport above mentioned. There is evidently a want of spirit or money, perhaps of both, on the part cf the Brighton people; if of the former, which we strongly suspect to be the case, it is inexcusable, inasmuch as few racing meetings are 60 numerously or so respectably at tended. Surely when such large sums are annually ex pended here on these occasions, it would be good policy to subscribe liberally to the fund, and enable the stewards to give the races a more decided character in the sporting world. Their neighbours at Lewes manage much better. If the races are dull, the visitors are otherwise, judging by the avidity with which the amusement, are sought after and encouraged. The race ball last night, under the pa tronage of the Stewards, was a very spirited affair; nearly all the fashionable* at Brighton were there, and dancing was kept up till an early hour this morning. It took place at the Old Ship. Ireland's Gardena, the theatre, and the libraries, were crowded. To provide for the grosser appetites of our visitors, we have a detachment from the pugilistic corps, consisting of Harry Holt, Reuben Martin, Gaynor, O'Neil, &c. who this morning received company at the saloon in Ireland's Gardens, entertaining them with a display of that elegant science which has been so much, so undeservedly, decried of late. The races appointed for to-day are, a handicap plate of 60 sovs. added to a sweepstakes, for which Skiemisher, My Lady, and the Pan Colt, are entered, and a maiden plate; both mile heats. Neither of them was decided when our account left. . c's zi " k 4•ke, r_FA: A N I , . 1 ,1,14 C -9v DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE. Yesterday being the first of August, the annual scut wagcr for the coat and badge given by Mr. Thomas D aggett , the famous comedian, in commemoration of the h appy aaccas i a ,; of the family of his present Majesty to the Throne of Great Br".;tain, and two prizes given by Sir William Joliffe, viz., 4/. :v.!• 6d. to the second boat, and 4/. 12s. Gil. to the third, were ::.^ntested by the following six watermen, just out of their appreit!cesbir James Cannon, Tower; Thomas Sewell, Poplar; d. Joseph Bretton, Nine Elms; John Robert Scott, Hunger:ord John Nett, Bankside; George W. Hemmings, Rotherhithe. They were all fine young Men, and when stripved for the contest, had together with their elegant wherries, a inost gratifying appearance to the admirers of the manly aquatic sport. They were to start from the Swan at London Bridge, and pull up, against tide, to the Swan at Chelsea. At half-past five the signal-gun was fired, and away they went in gallant ctyle, Cannon taking the lead; but he was soon headed by Scott, who, on arriving at Blackfriars Bridge, was run foul of by a galley: Poett then got a-head, and kept it all the way in most admirable style, coming in first at the Old Swan, Chelsea ; Cannon was second, and Hemming third. The river was crowded by cutters, wherries, funnies, and boats of every description, all anxious to keep *ay with the headmost man, to his no small disadvantage, or. casioning so much swell upon the river. DercosaaLt: AltsroaTosts..—A constant reader in forms us, that he witnessed the melancholy consequences arising from neglecting to insure, but a few weeks since, in Surrey, where the property of a miller, of considerable eminence, was destroyed by fire, in a few hours. The in dividual was reduced from affluence to estate of necessity, and the reward of many years industry was snatched from him, but which might have been provided against by the payment of a few shillings annually. To add to the ca lamity of this unfortunate person, he was, at the same in stant, deprived of his books, papers, and about 1001. in Bank-notes, which, in all probability, would have been preserved, if they had been placed in an iron chest, a pre caution which our correspondent earnestly recommends. Ex ECUTION AT CHELMSFORD.— The unfortunate youth Smith, condemned at the last Assizes at Chelmsford to suffer on Friday last, excited but little curiosity in his dying moments, and we fear that his fate as an example will be but of short duration. His father is an industrious labourer, residing at Winston, in Suffolk, where he has worked upon one farm between thirty and forty years. The youth showed no vicious habits until within a short period, after he had been enticed away and enlisted. In appear ance and in age, being only seventeen, he was but a boy ; as regards intellect, he was little better than an idcot. His crime cannot be mentioned in human society ; neither can it be palliated. We may, however, be excused, for our sympathy towards one of so tender an age, whose future conduct, had his life been spared, under a proper guidance, might have offered some atonement for his offences, the flagrancy of which his ignorant mind was not sufficiently impressed with. Two vessels, in the ilervice of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, have lately traversed the Pacific Ocean. After leaving the Island of Washington, they found it necessary to steer on the seventh line of South latitude, sailing to wards the East, the same direction in which Captain Egg, of the sloop-of-war Pollux, thought lie could discover an unknown island. On the 14th of July, 1825, after sun rise, they saw an island very low, lying E. by S., at two miles distance. The land appeared to be covered with cocoa, and miter trees. About noon they approached is. Its longitude and latitude were determined with as much accuracy as circumstances would permit; and no other Island appearing in the same position in the charts which they had on board, they, of course, supposed they had discovered a new Island. The nearest land to it wns Pfister Group, hut there is fifty minutes difference in their latitude. Its form resembles a horse-shoe, and it is about eight miles in extent. On the eastern side is an indenta tion terminating in a lake. The inhabitants who were seen running along the shore while the vessel coasted by, ap peared to be very numerous, and some of them seemed to he armed with long clubs. An armed boat was sent to wards the shore. The number of inhabitants collected there might be about 300—of a brown or copper colour. They were large and well made, very few of them being less than six feet. The women were likewise robust. Some of them were tattooed, hut not quite so much as at Nachwa. Their dress consisted of a few leaves wrapped about their body, and some of them hail a rind of the cocoa covering their middle ; the heads of others were ornamented with plumes ; their manners seemed to be fierce and savage, and they even attempted to possess themselves of every thing within their reach. The boat-hook soon disappeared, and they even attempted to wrest the oars from the hands l of the sailors in the boat. An old man with a white beard, in I' and respectable deportment. with a green bough hi s hand, was at their head. Be continued to sing in a me lancholy tone some monotonous verses. They exchanged cocoa nuts and tools for old handkerchiefs and empty bottles. Their language had some resemblance to that of Nachwa. When the boat hail again put out to ern, we fired some shots, but the inhabitants exhibited no symp torn, of fear, and appeared totally ignorant of the effect of European arms. Na canoes were seen with them, nor did they make any attempt to approach the vessel, though the weather was favourable and the sea very calm. The cap tains of both vessels regretted very much that a scarcity of water obliged them to continue their voyage.—Brussels Paper.—The North Point is in lat. 7 deg. 10 min. S. and the centre of it in lon. 177 deg. 33 min. 16 sec. E. from Greenwich. It has been named the Nedmiandich Island. —2l . :•tv YerL Paper. MEETING FOR Tiff: RELIEF 'OF TIIE DIS TRESSED TRADESMEN AT DUBLIN. At two o'clock on Thursday, the meeting for the relief of the distressed manufacturers, which had been advertited to take place for some days, wax held in the Royal Exchange, but the ittendance of persons 11'.1!I most scanty. About that ltpur the Lord Mayor was moved lido the Chair by the Rev. Mr. grove. As coon as his Lordship had taken the Chair, he requested Mr. Grove to read the Report. Grove accordingly commencedmiding . the Report of the proceedings of the Committee since the last day of meeting; but this gentleman began to read the Report in oo hurried a man. ner that little could be gleaned of its substance, as far as he read. We understood him to state from it, that the amount of the sob sctiptions collected was stout B,OOOL, of which a certain portion ite*e s expended in road nicking, and other purposes of ercyloyinent, PO ;13 to relieve the prevailing distress, leaving a balance in hand of about 4501., scarcely sufficient to cover the expenditure of one week. Mord) , atter filr. Grove had commenced reading the Report, the Lord Mayor rose and observed, that as the meeting appeared so very thin, it might, perhaps, be better to postpone the proceedings for another week, and he was willing to hear the suggestions of any gentleman as to the propriety bf adopting this muse. The lion. Col. Gott E propoeed to have the Report read through, and, perhaps, by the time it was finished, the meeting would in crease. Mr. H. O'Cottrrort regretted the circumstance of the meeting being so thinly attempted, and concluded some oty,ervations by moving thut it should be adjourned until that day week. Master ELLIS seconded the motion, and the meeting was accord. ingly adjourned until the day annotin.:ed. SURREY, SUSSEX, AND SOUrITT'ARK lIEE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Yesterday a Meeting of the Directors and Shareholders of the Surrey, Sussex, and Southwark Fire and Life Assurance Com pany., was held at the Three Tuns Tavern, High-street, South wark, for the porpoise of taking Into consideration the affairs of the Company, and the expediency of dissolving the 'same. C. CALVERT, Zig in the Chair. The Secretary read the Report, which was extremelvlvoluminous. It commenced with detailing thimosperous state of tile Company's fonds on its first formation. It also eulogized the conduct of the Directors in the management of its affairs up to the present crisis, and dwelt at considerable length on the severe losses that had been sustained, one of which was instanced, namely, the deatrnctio.t, by fire, of the premises belorging to Mr. Curling, situated in Ber mondsey parish, on which insurances were effected in the Surrey, Sussex, and Southwark Company, to the amount of 17.0001. The Report recommended a dissolution cf the Company, and also that the poFciea of insurance already effected in it should be transferred from thence into that of the Protector Assurance Office, the Direc tom of which had consented to manage its affairs. Mr. PAt.aiza moved that the li!port be confirmed and ap proved. Mr. BLACKET seconded the motion. and said. that with a view of moving a step forward in his effort, towards effecting a dissolk tion of the Company this day, he should second the Resolutions' which the Meeting had just heard read ; and he also expressed a hope that the acting Directors would agree to the recommendation specified in the Report, namely, that of giving their sanction to the dissolution of the Surrey. 'Suttees, and Southwark Fire and Life Assurance Company, which he begged leave to introduce as en amendment to the original motion. Mr. PALMErt pert's-chi agreed to the proposition, and observed that it would benefit the Proprietary at large. He then mores' that the Report, together with the statement of the Company's ac counts, be printed and distributed among the Sharehoklers. The motion was agreed to unanimously. The Copy of the Company's balance sheet was then read, after which it was resolved, that another meeting should be held, for the purpose of confirming the Resolutions which were approved of by the majority of the Shareholders present on this occasion. Thanks having been voted to the Cheirman, the Meeting broke up. BOULOGNE-SUR-211ER, &LI - 27. This favourite Continental bathing-place has Ihereased in popularity since the visit of the Duchess of Berri last season, but there are not so many Enelish at present as at that period or the preceding years. This is mainly attri butable to the rise in the price of lodgings, &c. and the inhabitants would do well to reduce them to that standard which they had adopted for many years. A splendid suite of rooms for the accommodation of the bathers has lately been erected here, and reflects great credit upon the entre preneur Monsieur Vcrsial. They are much frequented, more especially in the evening, when they offer an agree able promenade to the visitors and residents of Boulogne. Although the spot selected for bathing is almost unexcep tionable, yet so many accidents have occurred from persons incautiously venturing out beyond a certain distance, ►hat a Ilumanelociety has been formed, at the head of which tha Preet 0.20142 of-this toot,. It is most gratifying to find that the contributions, received by the Gentlemen employed in making the general collection in behalf of this Society, have been given with a cheerfulness and liberality that most abundantly bespeak the cordial and universal in terest which both the residents and visitors in this town have taken in this benevolent enterprise. The activity with which the objects_of this institution are pursued by its zealous functionaries, under the superintendence of the Chief Magistrate, as its President, has been rewarded by an honourable proof of its utility in the protection afforded by its nageurp(or swimmers) to two women, whom their prompt inenstant succour at the critical moment rescued, a few deli ago, from a most perilous hazard of being drowned by the tide surrounding them near the Fort on the Sands. A life-boat on the most approved principles is also in a forward state of preparation, and will be launched in a few weeks. Preparations are making for the annual fair, which is held early in August, at which period it is confidently stated that the King of France intends honouring this town with his presence, for the benefit of sea-bathing. Ile has chosen Boulogne for this purpose, at the recommenda tion of his Physician, who affirms that Boulogne is the most healthy place in France. A grand Military Fete is in contemplation in honour of his Majesty's visit ; troops are to be brought from camp at St. Omer s (a town about 30 miles from Boulogne), and the town of Boulogne is to be taken after a siege of some days ! APPREIIENSION OF A FORMIDABLE BAND OF TIIIE V ES. Incredible as it may appear, a numerous gang of robbers, with the necessary appurtenance of romance, a cave, has existed at Wickwar, in this county, for more than seven years; during which period, although they have been the terror of the neighbourhood, and have extended their de predations over an extensive tract of country, they have contrived to elude the prying eye of justice. Last week, however, in consequence of some suspicious circumstances, the police were induced to pay a visit to Yate Common, where they took into custody an old man of the name of Mills, his wife, and their four sons; and immediately after their apprehension, these persons disclosed the history of the lawless community with which they were connected. The whole gang is supposed to have amounted to 10 or .50, of which number we understand thirty-one men and wo men have been apprehended. It appears that, connected with a kitchen in old Mills's house, on Yate Common, these well-organised bandits had constructed a subterraneous cave or store-house, the en trance to which was behind the fire-place, where the soot and a large pot effectually prevented the slightest suspi cion; and in this cave the officers found twenty sides of bacon, quantities of cloth. wheat, barley, oats, malt, cheese, two bedsteads, and 50/. chiefly in half-crown pieces. The accounts which have reached us of the depredations of the gang almost exceed belief. It has been no uncom mon thing for a farmer to rise in the morning, and find the greater part of his furniture, fat pigs, poultry, cheese, &c. swept away ; and the cave or depository for the stolen goods was so well contrived that all search for the property was invariably made in vain. Besides the family of Mills, a man of the name of Gardiner, his wife, mid two sons. are in custody. We understand that among the prisoners is a parish-clerk ; and that a respectable shopkeeper at Wotton-under-Edge stands charged with having been employed in the purchase and sale of the stolen property. —Bath Journal. CIIAROE or mare.—We have already to notice the committal of a prisoner, charged with a most flagrant offence. John Frost, a labourer, aged 17, for an assault and rape, near Ilenham, in this county, upon a woman much older than himself. What renders the prisoner's situation extremely fearful, if convicted, is, the circum. stance of his having been tried upon two indictments at the Assizes here, in the conrse of the year ts'z.l; one of 1 the charges was similar to that with which be now stands indicted; he was not found guilty, however, on either case. This youth appears to have had but a bad example in the father, who was a member of the notorious gang of sheep-stealers that infested Ilenham and that part of the county, in the year IBIS, and who were so daring as to bocame the terror of the neighbourhood ; they blacked their faces, to preve . :t their persons' being knowtt.— Eisex Ifcraltl. IVES7'ERIV CIRCUIT. Erna, MortnaY, /UV! 31. now? D. nitENToW, This ppm Mts., after nearly two days' hearing, soliottrnag . Saturday, RA was before stated, in consequence of the sudden • position of one of the Jurors. This morning, at the o'clock, Mr Justice I.; 'tTI,ViDA I.E was in Court, but it having been eetti6eo that the Juror was not able to attend, the Jury was discharge* be consent of the parties, and the cause Is left as a remoter! to nen . Assizes, when It will commence de noro. The expenses of (M. partial and now useless proceeding exceeds, it is said, altogether,. 6,0401. !lONE elliCwr. Ltwrs, TUESDAY, AVOEST 1. CIVI I. SIDE. [Before Mr. Justice Llo La 01(1) and Special Juiiit.l THE NINO v. SADLER AND ANOTHER. : This was a Customs' ProseeCtion against the defendan ts for toctithing two of the Smuggling Preventive Service on the t. Afset a trial of considerable length, the dsfendanta were d Guilty. THE KING r, DORIIAM AND SIX OTHERS. This was an Excise prosecution against the defendants foe a tint at !lasting., and for assaulting Ann Shawford and others, on the 213th of December last. Mr. Sergeant ()totem, Mr. MARREAT, Aft. tIORVEY. sod Mr. llor.La NI) conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Anomrlitts appeared for one of the defendants only. The others 101 l DO . CtUnmel. The case, as opened for t!..e Crown, was represented to be Mut of the most outragenua and tifngllKENl ever stated In a Cohn of Justice. It appeared in evidence, 'that on the 28th Of Methane last, a woman, named Sbawford, had been brought ogee ftem Battle to Hastings for the purpose of giving evidence in tuptort OS ale or seven informations lodged with the Justices, for offences against the Excise Laws. Some of the butnblet C/66411 Of naadeelps (*Met was designated by the king's Sergeant as the mobs Hinfarebt. place in Cite county of Saws) felt erwrilderebly gad.' by thus 4.. peerance of Mrs. Shawford, and knowieg the pyrpose for which she was brought over, determined to molest her is her way no the Town-hall. A considerable numser of persons being collected. the magistrat es dery ted a body oftonatables to prcitect Art. Shawfold from the Swan Inn to the place of their sstung. The moment she seared, the erowd commenced an attack upon bet and the constables with mow-balls, and pelted her violently. The women were most active in the affair. some of whom proceeded to tear her clothes from her back, and in a few moments she was almost denuded ; her cap and bonnet were torn from her held. These acts were accompanied by language of gross inst.:tire ana abuse, and the officers had great difficulty in preserving her front bodily injury. The officers themselves shared in she vinseneAg: at length antecede!. in placing her in the Town Hall. The Cubans was stated to him beep the most conspictsous in the Mu rage. Acts of violence were a.so attributed to two other of Lb, fe.. I male defendants ; and the men, three in number, were sworn to have been present, aiding and encouraging the wombh to carry on the attack with vigour. One of the officers had Lis little finger slightly scratched, and 'nether narrowly escaped from a snow-ball. which was supposed to have been charged with a piece of stoup bottle. 31r. ADOLPH es addressed the Jury with vigour and ingennity on behalf of his own client, and incidentally touched uplas the caste of the other defendants. The Learned Jtinox summed up the case roe the Jury, vacs having retired for half an hour, acquitted all the defrndanta ex cept the widow Borham, against whom the/ r.t steed a Ilit4r. t of Guilty. I COHEV r. Lgiata. This was an action for words impating•robbery 0 the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded the general issue Both parties were persons of the Jewish persuasion. living at Brighton. Before the case was gone into, pacific overtums were made by the defendant. and it was ultimately arranged tiros ate apology shoold be made, and that the defendant should pay the cost. of the proceedings. Mr. Sergeant Taimyr, on behalf of the defvodint, stated pub. licly, that his client did not mean to use the words impaled to hin. in the sense In which they had been understood by the plaintiff He regretted extremely that the plaintiff should have construed the words, as meaning an attack upon his integrity. He now retracted the expressions, and apologised fur the language into which ha had been Letrayed in ah unguarded moment. Mr. MARGYAT, far the plaintiff, art-cried the apoldgy, sod said that as the sole object of the plaintiff was to vindicate his cha racter, that object would be obtained by the concession now maths by the defendant, and therefore the Jury need not be troubled with the case. It was then agreed that the Jura , should be dbratarged from giving a culler. aortic bARTIT. x 944. Cltrt TAM V. GOIMIMITII. This was a gat tam action, by a country gentleman and a Ma gistrate of thin county, to recover a penalty of 5/. under the statute 5 'tnn. c. 14. for keeping a lurcher clog, the defendant not being qualified. The defendant pleaded the general issue, ail debet. Mr. MARTIVAT and Mr. LONG conducted the plaintiff's Cage, and Me. la tk a wet at the tiefeha wee,. 1t appeared that the plaintiff; who is a strict preserver of game, lives at Mark Lye, in the parish of aVarbleton ; and that the de fendant lives with his mother, a byick-maker in the plaintiff's neighbourhood. In the autumn of last year, the plaineff hearing that the defendant kept a lurcher bitch, sent a peremptory' towage by his gamekeeper, requiring him to dispose of the dog, ataatapead of an action for penalties. The defendant, willing totm*, With i t e the mandate, raid, that if the plaintiff wouldprocuta him. chaser, he Would readily part with the dog at toe Price elf ' neas. This sum was thought too much ; a guinea was offe the defendant at last agreed to sell the dog for SOs. A perebassP was procured on these terms, and the defendant parraW with his dog. It seemed, however, that the bitch had two puppies, and it was then insisted that the puppies must also be parted with. To this the defendant ha t to objection, and he ac tually disposed of one of them to satisfy the commands of the plaintiff; but in the month of February, the plaintiff, finding that he had not ported with the other, proceeded with the pre. sent action for keeping the mother, in the month of October pre ceding, although the animal had then been sold. There was not the slightest evidence to show that the defendant kept the lurcher for the purpose of destroying game. The only evidence ' tending that way was an admission made by the defendant ta the plaintiff's gamekeeper, after the action was brought. The gamekeeper called upon the defendant, and told him that he had. seen the dog hunting a hare, on a particular day, in a airectiou towards the plaintiff's house. Upon which the defendant said, he wished to God the gamekeeper had shot the anin al. and then he (defendant) would not taws got into trouble about her. It had been represented that the dog had been in the habit of killing a great many hares. The defendant said he be lieved she had not killed so many as had been supposed, but was willing to do any thing in compliance with the plaintiff's wishes. It did not appear that the defendant had used the dog, or had kept it for the purpose of killing game. He had indeed inquired of the tax-collector what duty he should have to pay for keeping a sport ing dog, and what for a dog not used for sporting. Ile was tut:, and then desired to be charged with a dog which he did not mean to use for the destruction of game. Some loose expressions were give!, in evidence to show that the defendant had boasted of the prowess of his dog, which lie said coula destroy seven hares in an hoar. Mr. Gir na EY, in an animated address to the Jury, contended, that the defendant was not liable to the penalty sought to be reco vered, miles% it distinctly appeared that the defendant actually kept and used the dog for the purpose of killing game. All the evidence for the plaintiff tended to negative that the defendant had any such purpose in keeping the dog in question. The game leas might be an essential part of the jurisprudence of the country— nay, as some people thought, the frame of society could not be maintained unless they were strictly enforeed ; but as they were highly penal. it was the duty of the Jury to take care that the party accused of violating them was clearly brought within their operation, before they subjected him to penalties wbich must doom him to a gaol. It appeared to him that there was some thing oppressive in the conduct of the plaintiff towards the de• fendant. The plaintiff was a man of fortune, and a Magistrate ; the defendant was a poor man, living on the bounty of his mother. Nothing could be more compliant or yielding than the conduct of the defendant, in endeavouring to satisfy the demands of the plain. tiff. The very moment he uttderatood the plaintiff to be dissati.- fied with his keeping a dog, the animal was disposed of ; but truly. because lie dared to resist his further demands, then he was to tin dragged by a most expensive proceeding into a Court of Justice, al though the original cause of offence had ceased. Instead of sum moning him before a Justice, a qai tent action must be brought, hoping.. by double costs, which the Statute gave, to crush the de fendant in his mastimption. Such conduct in a country geatlemse, whose wisest policy must be to live on terms of kindness and ma teetion wilt his inferiors, savoured strongly of oppression ; and ne minted that a Special jury of the county of Sussex would not, be their verdict, sanction a proceeding founded so little in justice anal humanity. Mr. Justice flot.Rorn charged the Jury, that in point of law they could not find the defendant guilty, unlace they were sa. fished that he had kept or used the dog fur the purpose of killing gatne. The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found their verdict far . the defendant. The business on the Crown side ended on Saturday, with the as sistance of Mr. Sergeant ',awes, who tried several prisoners fur Mr. Baron GUAIIAM. The causes were all tried by three o'clock this afternoon. when the Assize. concluded. The execution of Daniel l,eany, for the murder of Beniatra k Russell, has been respired :ill Thursday. Hannah Russell's exe cution has been respited .bie die. SINGULAR OCCURRUNCL.—About twenty-four yea: . ago, a female in Kilwinning, then only a few years mar ried, lost in her garden her wedding-ring, and though :lE.- gent search was made for it, at the plan. where she wa:. sensible it had been lost, and the part digged every yea! since that time, it never e )uld be found. iVithin titcstl few years, however, one of her daughters, who has see:, just about as many summers as the ring has been lost, ha% ing occasion to do something in the garden, was so fortunate as to find the ring. It is singular that the young W 011134 who found it was only within a short time of seeing t: light of this world when it was lost. 1 o ut of ns of rer4l (i• ed übiie Naval m the or.. iows. . Ail OUS A the f'o:'. cv!e rora (fruit in any be re. alto lie cs: melon to be United an the Ire Tea. rtenst. &nano e b:ca tel the , Vera l ay the )lence; a day. hours. and it Nc>i•