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FASIIION4I:LE INTELLIGENCE.. . The Martini. and Marchioness% of Camden left town yesterday for t h,ir nit, the Wilderness, Kent. 'the K ar i of farts has arrived at his hewn In Berkeley-square, nem his seat. Wstau, Salon. The Earl of Darnley hat left town for hie seat, Cobham Hall, T, e Earl of Egrernont has left town for Newmarket. Leal and Lull Clive have united at their bowie in Grafton inn their seat, Poets Castle, Montgumcryllii7e. L./. lantern, Esq. )I.P. he arrived at hi hinke in Portman quire, front his seat, 'f eddesler Park, Statfunist,i„. So William and Lads lane Houston have arrived at their house york.street. St. James's, from their Mt., A visfiltd. Sussex. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. 11. P. and family hate arrived at their beast in Charles-street, St. James's.equare, from their scat, Tap. l e e, Bake. Captain Ilyng left St. James's...quire yesterday for Yorkshire. lard liavarden has arrived in town from a tour. Henry Clutterhurk, Esq. arrives/ yesterday at renioll . ll New Ho.. eel, J a mrs's,treet,.from Bath. Game Bice Trevor, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Trevor have arrived ihrit house in Stratton street, from Gloucestershire. no Thomas and Lady Cennard have arrived in town from their not, Bell Hist.e. Eases. • Arrivals at Kirkham 's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Sir Moo wve elvdmelry, Bart. from his seat in Lincolnshire ; Mr. mid Hrs. Robinson and family ft...1-n Yorkshire ; Mr. and Mn. Welsh from s tour. Departure:—Henry Grimes, Esq. and son, fur Paris. Departure from the British Hotel —Captain and Mrs. Power, for Brighton , William Shaw, Esq. for Bath ; and J. Vaughan, Esq. no a tour. Arrivals at 3livirt's Hotel, Cower Brook-meet :—J. Worley, Seq. and Lady Sarah Bayley, and fatuity, from Sasitititotthou ; sad T. 1.. Parker. Esq. from the Vest of England. Departures : Mrs Richard Walker for Michel Grove Park ; E. Fantod, Esq. aid Mrs. ' , errand and family for St. Ives, Bineley. Yorkshire ; as E. Munro. Itart. for Leicester ; Corti Foley for Witley court, Worcs.tenhire ; Hubert De Burgh, Esq. for Melton 3low bray g and Gasmen, for Hertfordshire. Ihe taunters of Isistowel has Issued cards of invitation for an evening party ou Monday next at Kingston House, Knights bridge. Sir George Warrentler, Bart. entertained a distinguished party st dinner yesterday, at his home, James Swint, E.q. M.P. had a select party at dinner yester. day, et his house in New-street, Spring.gardens. COVENT-GARDEN THE.4TRE. The agreeable opera of Guy Mannfring. was performed last night at this theatre, for the purpose of introduein4 Mr. Braliam, this season, to the metropolitan public. It was announced in the bills to be seven years since lie last made his appearance on these boards. He was received with the warmest welcome by the house, which, though nut crowded to excess, was respectably filled. We were glad to find that the astonishing powers of his admirable voice were not in the slightest degree impaired. We never heard him to better effect. The airs he sung were ex ecuted with consummate ability. A dreary void will be made in this department of public enjoyment when this areamplished singer may he cutnpelled to resign the dis tinguished station he holds. He is the legitimate lord of song. How vastly inferior to him are all those who aspire to dispute the palm with him! Brahain has ■ mind as well as a voice, while his rivals, if we most in courtesy so. teen them, have but voices el pre- Peels nihil. Rayner played Dandle Dinmont in an excel lent style. He possesses great merit, and will usuredly rise to a high pitch of popular favour, but his lucky hour has not yet arrived. Farren's Daminie agrees well with the author's design in many respects, and is altogether a much more correct and finished pi - -e of acting than Luton's, though we are compelled to admit that it fails exceedingly in provoking mirth compared with that extra ordinary performance. Alia Pawn, as Lucy, was super latively excellent, and Miss Hammersley was entitled to no small degree of approbation for her personation of Julia Mannering. We have seen a better Meg Merrilies than that of Mrs. Faucit. CHORAL FUND. On Monday evening the musical society called the Choral Fund, patronised by his Majesty and several of the Royal Pukes, had their annual concert at the English Opera House, which was very respectably attended, but not sufbeitntly to afford any material addition to the fund. The funds of the Society have been greatly exhausted from the numerous claimants, among which is one the oldest Aorta singers in London, of the name of Willoughby, win' for some yea', previous to his late decease, when lie was beefeen 70 and 90 years 4 , 1. principally existed by the annuity fism the fund of the btki.te ; there is another writtbrr, who has been a claimant for a Ici. w h o f ti me . about the same age, now nearly blind. The swamis are very numerous. the instrumental baud had to boast of as excellent an anemblage of talent u could be collected under similar circumntancrt, chiefly from the Italian Opera House and the Academy, which were moat ably led by Mr. Cramer, and the whole conduckd by Mr. Greatorex. Mr. Kemble very kindly gave permission to some of his singers to perform, asdid Mr. Ebers for those of the Italian Opera. The Society were particularly indebted to Miss Paton, Mr. Bellamy, and Mr. Sapio, for their exertions in many respects. Miss Paton was particularly kind and accom modating in agreeing to sing an Italian song announced to be sung by Madame Bonini, who was prevented from attending by indisposition ; and after the apology had been made, and Miss Paton had been led on to sing, it was found that the musical parts from which the band were to play, were not in the theatre. She was obliged to with draw while the music copyist went to procure them, but he was gone such a length of time that Miss Paton pro- Posed to sing " Mary of Castle Carey," which waa readily accepted, and rapturously received. She sang the admired ballad, " Sweet home," in the most chaste and finished style, and was encored twice in the duet with Signor de " Ciovenette the fate," the effect of which was considerably increased by the superior comic powers of Si;,-nor dr W•gnis. The. Society were also indebted to the following vocal per firmer, :—S:gnor Begres, bliss Hamnsersley, Miss Vents, bliss %Villis, Miss Pali, Mr. floulden, Mr. Atkins, Mr. 6)olson, jun., and a young gentleman it hose name we understand is Francis. Alias Vents sang very correctly " Let the bright Sera phim;' accompanied on the trumpet by Mr. Harpur. Mr. Atkins, who possesses a very firm, full-toned bass voice, made a bold attempt to display it in the recitative, " Rejoice, my Countrymen," in which the late Mr. Dart lernan so eminently excelled. In this attempt Mr. Atkins acquitted himself extreniely well, and gave it very cor rectly. The vonth of the name of Francis sang " Angels ever bright and fair" in a very expressive style : he also gave the " Solditm tired," in which, with the exception of the failure of a few notes, he surpassed every expectation, as it is not a song calculated for a boy. The accompaniment on the trumpet by Mr. Harpur was a masterpiece. Air. S. W sley gave an extemporaneous performance on the organ, in which style of playing he eminently excels. A great novelty of the evening was a duet for two Into]• pets, by Signori Garobati, from Florence. The execu ti•in anti variations were astonishing, produced by a nom- Llr of keys on their instruments, which have more the apirelranc e of large bugles than trumpets, and the tones produced from them MOT , * resemble those of the former than the latter. They were several times greatly applauded. - -- Yesterday. at half-pant four o'clock, the Duke of York, as Commander-in-Chief, held a Levee ar his office in the llorsetuards, which occupied his Royal Highness's oaten ti in shout an hour. The following were among those pr : .ce n t : (kw-rail Earl Cathcart. Etrl of Cork, Lord Foram. if Miles Nightinwale, Hart, sod Scott ; Lieutenant-Generals Sir Thomas. 1131 . , 0 rat 11,111; 2ilajor-Ctencral Stevenson, Load Gwydyr, and about thirty others. The Duke of Clarence returned to Bushy on Monday afternoon. 1 esterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York, at his house in Snith Audley-street. Yesterday morning the Duke of Glo uces t er arr i ve d i n town from Lulwotth Castle. Prince Leopold left his residence in Pall-trial yesterday everLti g , for his seat at Claremont. The report yesterday of the state of the Lord Chan. cello: was, that his Lordship had passed a very good night, k rd and is a great deal better this morning. Gralthatn arrived in town on Salutes; from ANRCDOTE Or Tl h LATE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. At a moment when the death of the Emperor Alexander is the mulliret of univeraalregret, the following anecdote will not be read without interest. " In 1808, the Emperor, in riding from Kowno to Wilna in Lithuinia, had gut before his suite • he sittldeill y per ceived several p e rsons on the b a nk s o f the Wilna, who were employed in dragging something out of the river. His Majesty dismounted, and perceivt.tl en approach tog that it was a corpse. The Emperor was alone and unknown to the peasants, who did not know what to do with the body. When it was drawn out of the water Alexander caused it to be extended on the ground, assisted himself in undressing it, rubbed the temples, the hinds, and the soles of the feet ; but all these means were useless. Some inouwnts after, whilst the Emperor Was still em ployed about the unfortunate person who had been drown ed, his suite arrived : it was composed of Prince Wolkon sky, Count Lieven, and the English Doctor Wylie, sur geon to his Majesty. All meant of re-animation were again tried; the doctor tried bleeding, but the blood would not flow. The Emperor continued rubbing, though the body gave no signs of life. After more than three hours' labour the Doctor declared, to the great regret of his Majesty, that all farther attempts were useless, and that the unfor tunate person was undoubtedly dead. " Fatigued as the Emperor himself was, he begged the Doctor not to abandon the undertaking, and to try bleed ing a second time. Mr. Wylie signified by a nod that he was persuaded of the uselessness of any further attempts, but yielding to the wishes of the Emperor, he tried to bleed him a second time. The blood flowed, and a sigh was heard. No language, says the Doctor, can express the , emotion and the joy of the Emperor. He raised his eyes to heaven, and exclaimed, My God, this is thr happiest day of my lite,' and the delightful tears of gratitude bedewed his cheek. The zeal and the efforts of the attendants were redou bled; the physician thinking that a sufficient quantityof blood had been taken from him, endeavoured to atop it ; the Emperor tore his handkerchief, and bound up the arm of the patient with his own hands. The latter, full of wonder and of joy, saw himself in the paternal arms of his sove reign. His MAjesty would not leave him till he saw him out of danger, and had caused him to be conveyed to a house where he could have all the attendance that he stood in need of. The Emperor, with great generosity, paid all the expense of his recovery, and provided afterwards for his maintenance and for that of his family. The Royal Society of London, established to save indi viduals apparently dead, having learnt this anecdote, una nimously resolved to present to the Emperor, through the medium of the Earl of Douglas, the English Ambassador in Russia, the gold medal of that Society, and to beg that his Majesty woull permit his name to be inserted among the honorary members. The Society caused this fact to be published in a separate publication, under the title of A Case of Resuscitation by his Algjesty the Enwrap. of Russia, Sc.—London, 1814. The medal has on one side the figure of a child endeavouring to rekindle by blowing a light which has just been extinguished, with the following motto: Late! scintilla . forsan, and below the inscription Soc. Load. in reviiseitationern intermortuonsm, instil. 1774. On the re verse is a crown of oak leaves, in the middle of which is the following : Alexandra Imperaturi &wields Regia is maau donut. The Duchesv de St. Leu and her son, Louis Napoleon have arrived at Rome. We hear from good authority, that Viscount Granville, half-brother to the Marquis of Stafford, is tk succeed the IVarquis of Wellesly in the government of Ireland. Lord Granville is a can ningite, which augurs well fur the Ro man Catholic cause.— Drogheda Journal. It gives us sincere satisfaction to state that Sir William Curtis is nearly recovered from his late severe indisposition. The worthy Baronet is still at his Marine Villa. • The Lord Mayor, the Lady Mayoress, and part of their family, attended the evening service at St. James's, Clerkcnwell, on Sunday last, of which service his Lord ship's Chaplain, the Rev. R. C. Dillon, is the Minister, appointed lately by the Bishop of London. We are glad to see this service so well attended, as Mr. Dillon appears to us to be a man of talent, and, what is far beyond talent, in earnest in the discharge of his duty. A new writ was on Monday ordered to be issued for the county of Northumberland, in the room of Thomas C. BraniliinT, Esq. deceased. iVsawica.—On Saturday the Hon. George Wynn, ac companied by some friends and dependents of the Earl of Warwick, began a canvass of this borough. Being a per fect. stranger lie introduced himself as a follower to the great Lord Sutnerg, and as ad. cided enemy to Catholic eman cipation. The election begins on Friday. The reason ►hy the speech.i at the " Grand National Dinner" in Dublin were not reported in the public prints,' was, that the managers of the dinner, while so liberal of " honorary invitations" to persona resident in England, were too sordid to give their friends of the press in Dublin a complimentary ticket. In consequence of this the re porters attended merely as visitcrs, and declined writing any of the speeches. Mr. Sapio is engaged at Drury-lane, and makes his first appearance in Bishop's new grand opera of Aladdin, with Mr. Sinclair, Miss Stephens, &c. Am ERICAN TIMATRICAII.II.—The managers of the Phi ladelphia theatre had concluded an engagement of twelve nights with Mr. Kean. His first appearance was to be on the 11th of January. Mr. Hamblin had mule a very succesaful debut at New York as Hamlet. Paul Pry was playing there with great;success. The principal character aru performed by Hilton of the Park Theatre. THE ossar STACPOOLL CAUSE.—A singular circum stance occurred in this city (Limerick) at a very early hour on Monday morning last. A gentleman, who mar ried one of the co-heiresses in the Stacpoole cause, and who received 28,0001. in her rsght under the dectee, was ar rested, with his wife, on a writ of Ne erect liegno, at the suit of the solicitor, Mr. Antony Hogan, for his costs, just as they were stepping into a carriage, as is generally stated, intending to go to France. This scents verf extraordinary, as we understand Mr. Hogan established for the claimants near 300,0001. in interest alone, after several years' expen sive litigation. Mr. Hogan, we are informed, intends to follow up his claim for coots against the rest of those pst ties who have acted so ungratefully and unjustly towards him.—Limerick Chronicle. HOIRIB/.11 Occuaarwcx.—On Wednesday night, at eight o'clock, a most horrible occurrence took place in the town of Newcastle, county Limerick. Rerjeant Holland, of the 62d Regiment, who was stationed there on the re cruiting service, was walking up the street with a young man who had offered himself for enlistment ; when they got to the top of the square, and not one hundred yards from the barrack, the person he had been walking with stepped aside, and joined three other men, who imme diately approached flerjeant Holland, and deliberately fired a shot at him, which took effect, and the contents struck him in the left arm, between the elbow and the shoulder, inflicting a most desperate wound, the entire of the flesh having been torn away from the under part, and the balls or slugs passing through at the upper. From the extent of laceration it appears probable that it was a blun derbuss those nightly assassins made use of to carry their diabolical purpose into effect. The poor man lies in a wretched stste.—Lirnerick Chronicle. filigatmAa OCCURRIxes.—The following remarkable circumstance took place under the observation of the gentle man who has favoured us with the particulars : Last spring, when walking in the flelds, be saw a small hawk at tempting to soar aloft with some prey in its mouth, but evidently the weight of its capture prevented its efforts, and dragged is towards the earth. It was pursued by a hare, which ever as it came within her reach attacked it with her paws. The hare eventually succeeded in knocking it down, when its prey fell from its mouth. At this mosnent the gentleman ran forward, and the hawk and its pursuer both made their retreat : upon his arriving at the spot where the prey bed been relinquished, he found it to be a fine leveret, whose anxious parent had interfered in its be half. It was wounded in the side of the head, and was bleeding, hut the gentleman left it laid in a furrow, where it would doubtless receive those further attentions from the hare which maternal solicitude would prompt, but which his presence prevented front being bestowed.— Ork Herald. TIE BRITISH PRESS. TUN PAW:I'I4N LOAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. SlR,—Oberving in your Paper of Saturday some obser vations on the price of Peruvian Stock, I tun induced to address these few lines to you, being one of those unfor tunate per. ins who purchased it long since, when it bore the highest quotations. I regret to find that most of the holders cannot coincide in opinion with you, that the divi dends will be paid punctually, for the following very sub stantial reason, viz:—That this Government has already scandalously failed in its engagements contained in the formula of the Bonds, to remit to England, by tile end of the year 1825, the sum of thirty thousand pounds sterling, ,to be applied as a sinking fund ; the first redemption to be made on the Ist of January ast, which all the world knows has never been done. g 0 far from which, it ap pears, by the latest advices from Lima, that the money set apart fur that porpose has, by order of Government, been returned into tne Treasury, leaving their unfortunate creditors in Europe to look for their dividends where they may. • Upper and Lower Peru have who separated, and (mined themselves into independent Staten ; but nothing is as vet known what is to be done with the debt con tracted when they were united. In short, Mr. Editor, thin Government is on the very verge of bankruptcy, and its credit all but annihilated, not less from political cir cumstances than from its experienced had faith. It is even now said that the April dividends will not, because they connot, be paid. _This Stock would not be depressed in a ratio so disproportionate to all the others, were it not for some Galt comae which I trust the contractors will ere long he called upon to explain at a public meeting, that will shortly he held. By inserting these remarks in your journal you will greatly oblige your obedient servant, Bth Pebruary. INCA. Query. Is any part of the two millions of dollars lately brought by his Majesty's ship Tartar, destined for the repayment of the Loan ? PRACTICE OF THE IN,VOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Si a—The readiness with which you have inserted se veral suggestions of mine upon the practice of the Insol vent Debtors Court convinces me you are sensible of the great importance of the subject, and how loudly its daily abuses call for some alteration. When I heard the Chief Commissioner give notice of his Rule of the Stith of last month, relative to the future retainers of attorneys, to commence from the 10th instant, I could not avoid pub licly expressing my regret that, while censuring an evil and applying a remedy, he should, in the same breath, so strangely delay its operation till three days before the end of the present Hilary Term, thus allowing the agents the exclusive benefit of nearly all the cases to the Pith of April next ; and that by confining his attention to this one Rule he should think others unnecessary until they arose out of sonic fresh case. Accustomed as lam by educa tion, but more by experience, to look rather at the dut;es than the outward professions of any public men —yet, delayed, and even disgusted as the Commissioners of this particular Court must daily be, at what they very properly call the ignorance and meanness of those persons by whom they are surrounded, I cannot but think they are sincere in wishing to see their practice more respectable. But if so, why not throw the business open? Why not see that those who practise, and their clerks, are qualified to do so, by some or all of the very plain remedies I have sug gested? Why tell the whole profession that because some miserable clerk forged the consent of a creditor to the waver of a notice, no attorney should be competent to verify such a consent even upon his oath? Why prevent the attorney from serving his own notices, or checking and correcting the conduct of the messengers even on the last days of service? Many an Insolvent gets remanded for no other reason than because the attorney cannot transact his own business, while much valuable time is wasted in useless attendances at the Messenger's office. IVhy not, by proper and timely recommendations to the different gaol . ra, accommodate and protect the attorney in the dis charge of his duty at the prisons, and why not afford him the same remedy for his full costs to the last stage of the business, as in the superior Courts? Surely nothing can be more easy to accomplish than all this, and at once—in stead of by the slow and partial method hitherto used. The fault rests entirely with the Commissioners, for till this be done, though a few respectable men may rarely at tend their Court, and they may rail against the rest who are absent without distinction, for carelessness, by far the greater number who do attend will be men of a very oppo site description, and such as with their agents are already well-known to them. I am, Sir, Your obliged and olledient servant, February 6. A PRACTITIONER. THE CONGIIFSS OF MILAN. [From the Currier Frareair.] The intention of Austria was to procure for herself the cession of the city and fortress of Placentia, with a pail of the duchy of the same name. As a compensation to Maria Louisa, she was to give her Spezzia, and a part of the river of Genoa, which she would previously have ob tained from the King of Sardinia, to whom the Emperor proposed to cede the Novarrais, the Milanais, and other districts, besides a pecunisry indemnity. Austria designed to make Placentia a fortress of the first class ; the Aus trian engineers had already drawn up the plan, and the estimates which amounted to sixty million florins; it was even proposed to make the Po go all round the city. All the princes of Italy were to contribute to defray the expense. The object of this scheme was to op pose a barrier to littreimortane invasion and to protect ■ part of the Imperial dominions and all Lower Italy: Metternich's principal object in going to Paris was to sound the French Ministry concerning this plan ; but he could get nothing from them but an evasive answer. When the Congress of Milan was opened, the greater part of the Italian princes were favourable to the plan of Austria; hut the King of Sardinia objected that he would no longer have any kingdom, if the enemy were under the walls of Placentia ; lie was seconded in his opposition by a note of the French ministry, which declared against all innovation and all transfer of possessions among the states of Italy. This circumstance disconcerted Metternich's plan ; the Congress &permed, and the only advantage that Italy derived from an assembly, the expense of which she defrayed was the commutation of punishment granted to some carbonail of Lombardy, 'Parma, and Modena, and the recall of the Neapolitan exiles. Piedmont and Rome were inflexible. The Emperor Francis was so chagrined at this result, that when invited to lay the first stone of the magnificent bridge of Trebia, which his daughter Maria Louisa was about to build, he would not even enter Plauntia, though only at the distance of an Italian mile and a half. STRIKE OF THE COTTON SPINNERS IN BIII.EAST.—•• On last Tuesday a Meeting of the Spinners, who have lately turned out fur an advance of wages, twit place in a ball court in Smithfield. We applied for admission, but were refused, in consequence, as we were told, of the af fairs about to he dismissed being of a private nature.— A orMere A most distressing accident occurred this week in the county of Clare, which has involved several families of re spectability in profound grief. Coleman O'Loughlin, Esq. of Port, brother to the Counsellor of that name, and two young men, lons of Andrew Kerin, Esq., of Ballyallah, near Ennis, went on Wednesday morning, with a servant of the former gentleman, on a sporting excursion. On the lake of Dromore, about six miles beyond Ennis, for the purpose of duck shooting, they entered a small boat of a flimsy light construction, and pushed from the shore with the intention of remaining out for some time. Unfortu nately, from that moment none of the four persons wyre seen alive, nor any vestige of the boat ; hut next day, (Thursday), two of their hats were recognised floating on the water; the worst fears of their friends were instantly realised, and every exertion having been used, in the course of yesterday two of the bodies were found, Mr. O'Lough lin and one of the young Kerins. The other brother and servant have not been yet discovered.—lriolt Paper. .47'ROCIOUS MURDER IN FRANCE. The Court of Assists 3f the Department. of the Doubt have lady been occupied with a trial resulting frous.a crime happily as rare as it is atrocious. The foilowing are the particulars extracted from the Petit Al!pint Frame- Cumb,i3 " The woman Mottct, widow BoyOntl, was convicted of the premeditated murder of her husband. She had men tioned as her accomplices, first, a person called Carte, who had formerly had an adulterous connexion with her; and ' afterwards another called Boyard, who at the time when the crime was committed still kept up with her an inter course which she had the effrontery to acknowledge before her Judges. • " Many particulars. even after the trial,• remained still unknown ; but those which have come to light are of the most shocking description. It is uncertain by what means this woman effected the murder of her husband, whom site had long overwhelmed wall insults and injuries ; it is known that the body was dragged froiathe stove to the kitchen, and then to the cellar, where it was cut in pieces with a hatchet : the arms, the hp, and the head, were se parated from the trunk, which was first put under a shed and covered with earth and faggots, and afterwards car ried near a wood, and buried under a heap of stones. The limbs are supposed to have been consumed in an oven; but the evidence was not conclusive on that point. " Fifty-eight witnesses were heard, and the trial lasted three hours. " Carre was acquitted. 13oyard, whose sunken eyes are shaded with bushy eye-brows, whose restless eyes seem to shun the glance of justice, whose mouth was cominu'ally agi tated, and all whose features mark the villain to whom crime is familiar-130yard could not be convicted of having assisted in the murder, but merely of having aided in mutilating the boi. 'nd he was only condemned to two years' imprivonmem ..e is exposed, however, to several other capital charges. The woman Beyond, unanimously declared guilty of a crime rendered more atrocious by the circumstances which accompanied it, was condemned to death, and thii sentence will be executed in the same village, and in front of the house which she inhabited. She is between 3. and 40 yeats of age, and has endeavoured during the trial to put on an appearance of tranquillity, but has frequently be trayed very different feelings. She had the effrontery to appear before the audience in mourning—a sad example of the truth which the Advocate-Gener a l Sermage has pro claimed—" A first fall always draws another after it, and often leads to' crime. Licentiousness admitted adultery into the house of the unfortunate Boyond, and his abandon ed wife did not stain the bed of her husband with blood till she had already soiled it by another crime." PERSIAN JUS !ICE. From the Cakutto Government Gazette.] The Hurkaru of Tuesday contains a communication from Persia, which narrates the circumstance of an atro cious murder at Ispahan. The murder was committed on the body of Simon Hyrapiet, a respectable Armenian, by the orders of llatiji Hashitn Khan, the chief of a tribe of Shirhoonces, and brother-in-law of Amini Dowlah, the governor of that city. Batt it does not distinctly appear whether the Armenian's life was taken to revenge some real or supposed injury, or whether it was purely a wanton exercise of power by a ferocious chieftain. The audacity of this Ilailji is said to have been carried to such a height that he often made incursions into Ispahan, plundered the shops, burned the houses, beat, stabbed, and killed many persons, and then escaped with impuuity. The scene of the horrid outrage above noticed was the convent at Julpha, one of the suburbs of Ispahan, and only two miles from the city, but divided from it by the river Zinda-roud. Mr. Hyrapiet was first seized by the servants of the Khan, and forcibly tied up at the gate of the convent. The bishop of the religious establishment solicited pardon in vain, he and the other clergymen being driven back into the church, while the unfortunate victim was taken down from a tree, to which he hail been subsequently bound, and shot with a musket. The head was then separated front the body, and both were cast into a pit. This atrocity had thrown the whole population of Julpha into the greatest consternation and horror. The letter describing these particulars is dated the lsth of March last, and there is another from Bushire of the 13th of May, which gives details of the signal vengeance that had overtaken the principal criminal. , The following is an extract : BUSItIRE, MAY 13, les. I am extremely happy to send you the satisfactory in telligence of the arrival of the King of Persia at Ispaban. His Majesty entered the city with great !moors, and with a pompous retinue, on the Holy Thursday, and visited Juipha on the Easter Sunday. On his entering into the convent of the Holy Saviour he began to inquire of the venerable Armenian and the respectable gentlemen of that nation relative to their situation and manner of living under his protection. His Majesty said, " I have heard that Hadji Hashitn Khan has caused you great molestation anti injury, and has murdered a respectable individual of your nation." The Armenians, on hearing this expres sion from the mouth of the Shah, all of them fell on the ground in silent prostration. The Shah issued orders for the immediate arrest of that wicked man Hadji Hashim, who was brought into the presence of the King in very short time, hound in fetters. The King, after having previously investigated the matter, and found Hadji Ilashim guilty of the blackest and most unheard of crimes, ordered him to be exposed to the rack, and that the severest torments should be inflicted on him. Ile accord ingly suffered the utmost rigour of the law : his beard was shaved without water`, and with a blunt razor ; his nose was slit open, and a black cord was passed through it ; he was placed on an ass the wrong way, holding the tail of the animal in his hands, and carried throughout the bazars amidst the scorn and ridicule of the wicked. He under went the severe punishment of the hastinado on the road called Fhaysery. His eyes were plucked out anti his ears cut off His body was branded with hot iron, and he was compelled to eat his own ordure. He was fined 10 lacs of rupees and three hundred head of cattle. He is now con fined in the criminal gaol, and the first week after the fes tival of the Ramazan, is appointed for his execution. The father, uncle, and the 'whole of the relations of the cri minal, arc also in continetnent, together with all the re spectable people of his tribe. We do not know what will he the fate of the prisoners ; but there is a general belief that none of them will escape death who may be detected to have been his accomplices. The property of the cri minal was seized by the Government, among which were discovered goods belonging to different individuals, whom the ruthless Hadji bad despoiled and robbed. The goods were returned to their respective owners by order of the Government. 'l he people of Lomboon fed on learning the arrest of their Chief and leader Hadji Ilashim. The Government have sent out a detachment of troops to over take them, and to bring them to condign punishment. Time Governor of Ispahan, Amini Dowlah, is deprived of his office, and Enaoof Khan is appointed in his stead. The Peshnemaz has interceded with the Shah in favour of Hadji Hashim ; but the King is determined to put him to death soon after the festival. The Shah has causal a proclamation to be made through out the city, that whosoever dare hereafter to molest his subjects, or to injure the Artneniana, he will he made to suffer similar punishment to that inflicted on the wicked man fladji Itashim. • The Asiatic method of shaving is by moistening the hair with water. ATTEMPTED ADDUCTION:A party of fellows attacked the house eta farmer named Patrick Griffin, on the lands of Ballylopin, about two miles from Charleville, on Monday night last, it is supposed, to take away Griffin's daughter. They met with such resistance from John Griffin, son to the farmer, who behaved uncommonly well, armed with a' pitchfork, that they set fire to the house, which was totally consumed, with every article of clothing and furniture the poor people had. One of Griffin's sona made his escape through the thatch of the house at the time it was attacked, and went to Samuel Maxwell, Esq. a Magistrate, to give information; hut, unfortunately, trom the darkness of the night, he lost his way, and did not reach Charleville until four o'clock on Tuesday morning. The poßce from Char leville were on the spot in boss than twenty minute s — t h e y found the house and every article of furniture totally con sumed—they also found a sledge, with which the fellows attempted to break the door.—Limerick Clo soclarr FOR TrIR EmPL - ormr.vr AND R - FORMATION OP OFFENDERS. On Monday afternoon a meeting of the subjeribers,to the Sorrel' Society rot the Employment and - Re.foftreition of Offenders died charged from the County (tool, and frown the [louse of Corrittetiort at Brixton. was held at the 4essionsshousei Iriewingtort, John Sen. yen, Ro. chairman. In the Spring of 1824 this Society was first estahliqesi. TM object of It is to furnish temporary essiatanoe to' those individdelst I who, on their discharge from the County goal in tiontemohger.letwn, and the house of currestinn at firixton.'beingrfeedtute of die means oft mpinyment, are frequently driven by necessity to peek aupport in their former courses of probiesey ; wud teprernote as far as may be practicable, the reformation of the j(rienile ofientifirs discharged from the above prisons. The Seen ETAS! Y read the repent, and stared sOme extietneV interesting eases, 11 which relief had been afforded. One (*.those, eases was briefly this : A yourg women named Galloway, having b .en lettered under a promise of marriage. and becinning pregnant o tiros thrown out of &situation as • dotne•ticbervant. In nude/to stip port her child (the wretch who had accomplished her ruin having entirely.forsaken her) she used every exertion, but being unable to do it, she stole some articles. and was tried anti convicted for the offence, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. While is confinement she conducted herself in a very becoming mittmer, and her conduct wart stated to the committee of the society, who prncured her a situation in the enuntryi Vul she was now an industrintut servant, sod gave great satisfaction to her etrployers. In the courre.of last year a vast Litinher were relieved al being dies. charge-1, and it is confidently believed they returned td habitat of industry. There is a building now erected, in which miffy of t both sexes ate to he employed until rittovions can be obtained for them. The women are Instrticte4 in household duties. and 'die men in trade& of a sedentary desc;iption. ; There is likewise a school, in which they are taught td feat[ and write. Afore discharging all the expenses of last year. there is a rural, decal balance in fiend, notwidunar ding a sum of about 3001. being in the hands of one of the batiks which has stopped. One of tie entunmittee thought some of the charges in the atm counts for printing somewhat high, an d on i ts rreihg pruposed to print the cases, be recommended their being curtailed. Tins eta. podtion was overruled. Alt. Raent.E JAcesost congratulated the country on the estis blimdment of a society like the present, conceiving it, although small in extent and limited in means, ass great desideratum, and likely to lead to very beneficial results. It was a truth that required Ivens:id* lion that from small beginoings In good undertaking; impottant and highly advantageous consequences flowed. There *we people lOW readily anticipated failures from institutions hire the p and who, seemed even to delight in such notions, but time benevolent Weak% never permit men of thee character to influence their eontlert. Is was fearful to contemplate bOw many human beings Were iiisehargid by proclamation every year, And who, being t h us l et lire upon society again, withotu the means of supporting themselves nonesdy s fell intiObeir old dishonest practices. Although there were "hone 60 millidna annually paid for the maintenance of the poor in floe country ; notwithstanding this cast !sum so expended, were it not for private benevolence and charitable institutions, greater misery would prevail than now exists, and the ills of society would be more obtruded upon us. If the Society merely stemmed the toe' rent of human misery it would ',ace created a benefit on mankind a and if out of the individuals who had been relieved, fifteen only were rescued from deep destruction, hot , gratifying was the on. beeriest that some good had sprung from its exertions! (Cbeers.) Mr. WooLLE le said that the Institution had been strongly los commended to be adopted by Mr. Baron Ostrow at the thieving towns on the Circuits which that Learned• Judge visited. The CHAIRMAN related some casts in which Individuals bed reaped considerable benetit front the Society on their being dip. charged from prism, and in which the parties returned to habits of industry. The names of several Gentlemen were now proposed, among whom was the Bev. Rowland Mil, to fotm a Committee for the present year, in the place of the lion. Grey Bernet, M.P. and some others. Mt. CORDON suggested that a chaplain should be appointed tO the Institution, to whirl] the plc sting as%ented. The CHAtIt MAX maid that the funds were in a low ccmditioo l and it could not of course be expected that a very tibetal remaneys. tion could be given. The Rev. ROWLAND ri/T.T, said that In Shrewsbury (we bee lieve) where a similar institution existed, some Reverend Gentle. men performed the office of Chaplain gratuitously, and perhaps is the present instance some one would be found to undertake the duty in that manner. The SECRETARY was ArltiOUS to have a Chaplain appointed. Prayers, he said, were regularly read every morning to the indivi. duals. It tray at length agreed, after a short Iliscutlior, to defer the fif. pointment of a Chaplain to the next committee day. The Rev. ROWLAND nix'. was desirous not to he plsced on the Committee; he being now eighty-two years of age, and having other duties, he should be unable to attend. One of the Gentlemen p►esent said that he must permit his name to remain now it wa.s insetted ; and the Chairman tad him that be would not he expected to be always in auendance. After a liberal subscription, the meeting broke up. SUPPRESSION OF TUE GUIANA CHRONICLE. We have received a copy of the number of the Guided Chronicle of November le, the publication of which gars occasion to the suppression of the paper, and the commit ment of Mr. Stevenson, the editor and proprietor, in the common gaol. It appears that the editor had entered into a dispute with a Mr. Maccomb, the projector of a Steam boat Company, in the course of which he made the follow ing remarks, which lei to the results we have mentioned:— " Mr. Maccomb is not to terrify its by the mention'of his Excels lency the Lieutenant-Governor. IVefi . or no man, howcver exalted his rank ; hut we would respect and wish to esteem the person who is ruler over us. It is true, as Me. 31accomb observed, that hoe Excelle ;cy has endeavoured " to control the press under velum circunts•ances." But why should that excite, as he said, *• his say. prise that the Governor should pass such an arti c l e: by, an d sot scratch it through with his pen ?" If any thing could have lulled to our present profound feeling of contempt for :gr, litaummb, this would have worked with its fullest powers. Whit, because his fisceltency, in the discharge of that which he, no doubt, considers to be his uuty, has placed certain restrictions on the press—is he to arrest all public discussion. all animadversions on public men, ot all investigation as to their professed abilities and seientitiocharaa ters ? Those who expect this, we imagine, know little MS(' Ben jamin D'Urban. We acknowledge that we feel every interference on the part of his Excellency, as irksome and injudicious—bus so it is—and unless we can obtain instructions from the Authoritiesin England, we have no desire to oppose the Colonial Government ist what they may conceive to be the discharge of those sacred t tions with which they are entrusted. Still we have a duty to per form, and however thwarted. however obstructed, we will endea vour to do it to the utmost extent of our ability, little as it mar be valued and still less esteemed. There are many eyes in the colony upon us, and there are an equal number in England whe are p-e. pared to co-operate with us an our claim for those privileges wilt :II every true-born Briton ought to enjoy. These would'be ready at all time* to condemn us for improper motives, but they will stets...- lastly uphold us in thnt which is right. We will therefore ence again tell Mr. Maccomb that his Excellency would have compro mised his character had lie lent himself to any party, spirit ex feeling." The law of Maryland which disqualified the Jews from holding offices on account of their religious opiu!ons has been abolished by the legislature. They are now placed upon the same footing, and pos.sess the same civil rights, as every other religious denomination. Population of Upper Canada, 1 t025-11ales 78,296—Fe males 74,238—T0ta1, 157,541. The increase in one year 6,444. EXTRAORDINARY SCENC. —On Friday last, Sir Richard Vyvyan gave a dinner at Penzance to his friends and such freeholders of that place and the adjacent parishes .as were disposed to partake of his good cheer. On his right hand sat the Rev. C. V. Le Grice, and on his left a stranger, who was, as it turned out, inconsiderately invited to partake of the baronet's hospitality. After the cloth had been removed.. and the worthy host had given the usual toasts, the Rev. Gentleman rose, and in a most animated harangue descanted on the errors of Popery, and the dangers to be apprehended from the Catholics of Ireland, in the event of their attain ing emancipation ; and concluded with strongly stating the necessity of supporting the Hon. Ilaronet at the general election, in preference to the other two candidates, on the ground of his being pledged to oppose concession to the Catholics, under any circustanetat and at all hazards. Hs .then proseosell a suitable toast which the company were abont to drinnk,when the stranger rose and begged permis sion to address a few words to the assembly. 1k said he was an Irishman and a Catholic, and had heard with surprise indignation the speech of the Rev. Gentleman : a speech in which he bad foully misrepresented his religion and aspersed his country. (The confusion and tumult tbat followed this unexpected address may be more easily.co.n ceived than described.) The stranger, who appeared no to be deficient in nerve or spirit, though surrounded by men inveterately hostile to his country and to his creed, continued. The assertions of the Rev. Gvntlentair were false and slanderous ; the Catholics held not the abhorred tenets imputed to them, and the Irish people. if kindly treated and restored to the privileges of the Constitution, would support the rights and the interests of Great Britain with a loyalty as ardent and a constancy as unshaken as the proudest of their slanderers. Here . the confusion became so great as to put an end to further diseussion,—onler was L o w e y ( r restore d by the withdraw ing of the strap r, after 'which Si r Ri c hard and his Re -4 verend Fried Niger' in v e h e m en t declamations against . the Catholic Oa; as and the pret e nsions of Mr. Paularves, without intontrion.-111,mrpith Herald.