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COVE/VP-CARDEN ritEA IRE. . - ... Last night,The Road to Ruin attracted a numerous audience. The cast of this play is too well known ' to the public, and the merits of the respective iwr formers, who sustain the principal characters, have so tifwe already been made the anbiect of com ment, that it is ...necessary for us to take much notice of either. Mr. Mumma was, as usual, ex cellent in Old Dorntun. The fond father, strug gling with the incensed and runled mall, was most skilfully pnurtrayed in many of the scene, ; but is none more than in that with Smith, where he replies " Very well." Mr. Jones was very suc cessful in Goldfinch ; Miss NOILOO, in Snyhio ; Mrs. Davenport, in the Widow Warren; Mr. Eme ry, in Silky, and Mr. Brunton, in flurry Dorn ton. The three first acts of the play went off very quietly, save when any speech on the stage could he interpreted into an allusion to the existing cu.. ennintances at the Theatre. Thus, when Old mentors reproaches his son with being imposed on inn •. Jews and swindlers:" and when Silky asserts one-third of the principal to he a very fair profit," oppositionists applied the p stages to their own case, end hailed them with shoots or taunts. Our regret at being precluded, by the arrival of the noisy half-price men, from hearing the last two acts disunetly, was much increased by the pleasure we had continued to receive till that period from the spirit and discrimination with which every actor sus tained their parts. They appeared desirous of per formiug PO well as to be able to calm the voice of tumult; but this exertion, as well as every preced ing one, was lost en the callous minds of those who frequent the Theatre fur the purpose of gratifying private spleen, and hangnail); the inoffensive portion of the community. The lot hail some spare room at the drawing up of the curtain, hut kept gradually filling till half price, sod then became completely crowded. The boxes were fashionably and respectably filled from the beginning. Thus we see that the efforts made to overthrow 114111111. now generally allowed to he just, have totally ; and indeed so far are these excellent calculators from injuring the Pro prietors, that the latter have to thank them every night for crowded houses and plentiful receipts. The cry of "Orders!" like that of Jews!" cannot imp impose upon any one; for no person can look rodud the house, without la-ing convinced that it contains more money, for the last few nights, than it has done since it nsienesi. The Managers, there fore, were money their only consideration, might laugh at this method of forcinz them to comply with unreasonable demands; but it must be very near their hearts to he on good terms and well in the opinion of the public. fairly so denominated. The only person who made himself conspicuous before the Play concluded, was a very old man, in the side boxes, on the second tier ; by waving his bat, he encouraged those in the pit to hum and shout, setting an example very indecorous for a person at his period or life, who ought rather to think of quiet and retirement, than of becoming the inciter of riotosuil the limit in mischief. It is most pro- bible that this person, like others, on former nights, who, from their dress, we should have believed to be respectable women. had not their behaviour taught us to discredit their appearance, bed been pat forward with the design of bringing odium upon the Managees, in case they resorted to legal measures, either against a man of his years, or those of the gentler sex.---We hope none of these stratagems will prevent the Managers from persevering in what they consider to he right, for the preservation of their property, and the arunseinesit of the public. A man in the pd, with 0. V. ill his hat, also contributed mach to the confusion, and his appearance gave rise to a great tumult, an an attempt was made to dreg him out. We did pot perceive whether or no he was secured. During this tumult, a Lady fainted in one of the boxes, and it was a lung time before she 'hewed any symptom of returning animation. On being somewhat restored, she was removed from the Theatre. Such are the effects of the gal. lent and generous exploits of the enemies of the Theatre, and the patrons of native talent. On the falling of the curtain, the pit joined in singing God save the King, and were shortly ac companied, by other parts of the honse, in theis 'opal exertions ; the pealing organ itself Could not equal the majestic swells of their vociferated an them. A little after they had exhausted their lungs, in this their first formidable effort for the night, the placards began to be displayed, and hand-bills to descend in showers from the upper boxes, among a squalling bawling ciowd, whose mouths, as well as hands , were ready to receive them. A person with, the letters 0. P. affixed to his hat, stood upon one of the benches in the pit, and was hailed with a shout, which indicated the strength of the half-price men. He was hurried along from the back seat,_wliere he first rose, to wards the stage, with considerable velocity; and when he was supposed to be in a situation suffi ciently conspicuous for his merit, was permitted to remain there. The placards, which had been In therto, like momentary meteors, utipeuring and di, appealing, ton rapid almost for observation, begrin new to assume a snore settled form, kind we sere enabled to dervither the following:— . Taro out the Jews. " nut let the Police intimidate you, fur your cause is (owl." " This House to kt —lnqvirr at the Stage-hoz." " Old Pries.—No Hirelings" " New Pries.; or, The Road to *YIN ." Another represented the head of ra man looking through it pair of spectacles, the eye-holes of which represented the letters 0. P. They were most of them received with applause, iii which, we are sorry to add, the Boxes took part. Whets the curtain rose, the placards were with drew'', cud the whole attention was directed to the Farce, if that can Ise called attention, the object of which was to prevent it from being heard. lit this they succeeded. Peeping Torn was not allowed to speak a word in hie defence; and every personage in the drama, woolen and all, were iir effect dumb for the rem limier of the evening. After wane time, the Boxes, not satisfied with bring only secondaries in the iierformance, kicked up a row of their own, and the l'it seemed perfectly contented to he led in stil of leading. The letters 0. P. were exhituted by the half-price men with great effect. The house was inn t \lntuit of applause; for the same discontent hubbub with which they 'spree their resentment •-~ a~~~-: against the Nianagere, serves them equally well to signify their apprub-tion of their assuciater. We were happy to obrerve, upon the whole, that though the noire was great -tovinhi the latter end of the night, it did not by any mean.; equal that of the preceding ; they appeal' to be comseiLns that they have bat a few nights longer to gain admis sion, and are determined to make the beat ure they can of what ft:111*111* to them yet. There were some disturbances in the pit, occa sioned by the resistance made to the officers. who were endeavouring to take some of the moat ae five and notorious rioters from the house. The national air of Bale Britannia, was a par ticular favourite with the half-price men, who, while they sang its praise of freedom, did not seem to be aware that they were guilty of a gross abuse of it. IVhen the curtain dropped, the usual bawl of victory was set up, to the delight of the inaisen sical, and the vexation of the rational and the just. As soon as the curtain dropt, the half-price men sat down by the orders of a ragged old man, who was the moment before conversing with the stately man that wears spectacles, decorated, as usual, with book in hand, and ink-horn on button ; his command was obeyed, in some measure—but not without the strenuous efforts of the man with the barnacles. A youth then presented himself, and, we are ashamed to say, in the uniform of a Midshipman, with his hair powdered for the occusiou. He expatiated largely on the unwarrantable liberty that bud I een taken with him, by some of the public prints, in their doubting that he was a Midshipman. Ile assured them he haft the honour of being one. (Load applatite.)—He then continued " their cause was a just one, d—n him, and they would shew them they were true blue. (Lord hitzstu !)—They have referred their cause to the Bow-street Magistrates, butt we will apply to the Port Admiral, and over , haul them by a Court-martial. Then. if Capt. Jack will not strike to our flag, but rather contend the matter, we will let both flags fly together." Here this youth was obliged to be prompted by the rag ged friend of the stately man, and after a vast deal of verbiage and nonsense, he concluded with re questing three huzzas for the King, .6 who watched over their public rights ; and as to their privet,/ ones, they would take care of them themselves." This received loud plaudits from the pitites ; after which, they sang Cod save the King. The wifor tunate boy whom they had encouraged to orattaist, got frightened—the stately man, cod the ragged man, called out, " Take care of him ; take care of him ; see him sate." A body of the half-price men accompanied hint out of the pit ; after which the house became quite quiet, and by eleven o'clock it WIC, cleared. The orator, in midshipman's uniform, was taken into custody and conveyed to Bow-street office, where he underwent an examination. lie was at tended by several gentlemen. At first he refused to give his name and address; but when the Magistrate was going to commit him, saying he could not hear of bail for a person who refused to disclose his name. he then condescended to acknowledge that his mane was Samuel Due Meld, assistant to Messrs. Kirk and Co.. of No. 93, Bislieptigate-street, druggist., and that lie lodged at Mr. Barber's, in Bniihill-row.— Upon this disclosure, there was a general laugh throughout the office. His friends immediately de serted him, and when the question was asked, " will any Gentlemen bail this man r all were silent, and he was accordingly enniintted. The Magistrates of Aberdeen have conferred the freedom of that town upon Lieutenant-General Sir DAVID BAIRD. The gallant General left it on Enda% seftnight, on his way south, from the seat of the Earl of ASCRDERN, where he had been on a visit. A most distressing accident happened in the poor-house, at Liverpool, on Wednesday last. A tine boy, about nine years of age, was playing near a man who was doing some work with a pitch-fork iii his hand, and having given him Verne offence, the man most inhumanly ran after the boy and ran the fork into his back with such force, that it passed through his heart and came out at his breast. The poor child lingered about twelve hours, and then died in great agony. The !Ilan was immediately taken into custody, and will be committed for trial. The Rev. GIRARD ANDREWS. Rector of the pa rish of St. 31111251, Westminster, is nominated to the Deanery of Canterbury, in the room of Dr. Powys, deceased. We understand that the surplut of the Consoli dated Fund, for the quarter ender' the 10th Octo ber, 1809, amounts to 3,100,0001. The following is an abstract of the account, as compared with that of the corresponding quarter of last year : ix vise Q FIrDED Ott au , 1001. Oct 10, 18119. Income L 9,062,117 L ton Charge 6,247,:e7 V.7,s',' no Surplus Lisa 4,33 u L 3,143,300 Besides this, the War Taxes hare produced, in the last quarter, 6,6/18,6271. being 285,6001. more than their amount in the quarter ended the 10th Octo ber, 1909 ; and the Property Tax has produced near 600,0001. more to the Exchequer than It did in the October quarter, 1408. There is certainly in our day an alertness of action, a concentration of exertion, unknown to oor ancestors—.l telegraph co.ninunicates news like thought—machinery constructs in • minute what formerly was produced by the labour of weeks—and a Lottery, which used to " drag its slow length along" for forty days. is now dispatched in a few hour.. CARTIC, No. 19. Chariug-cross, requests thou who wish to be in the way of Forturies Shower to adopt this modern alertness, for those decisive hours approach very fast. The Public have for some time past *hewn an eagerness to have Four Tickets of a Number, which the Ofice-kecpers could not deliver them, owing to a regulation in the Busk, net to let the Tickets in Class D he issued, until those in A, B, and C, were disposed of. The Bank, within these few days, have begun issuing the Tickets to the Office-keepers in Clan O ; therefore, such Ladies or tientlemen as choose to have Two, Three, or Four Tickets of a Number, may he supplied in great variety, at the Old Established Offices of T. HISH, 4, Cornhill, and 9. Cturinz-cross, till nest The rrday sight. - - • -*'^ POLICE. int &Dna t.t., OCT. 17. Mr. newilaty, perfumer, of Fleet-street, Lharged three *omen ,tf the loam as enitoos and disoidetly. Us scald this neighbourhoial are Lightly annoyed by the disturbances ue• easiouml by females of thia demi iptiuti. Last night Iles. Pritoneis were so turbulent, at a late hour, wheu he ens au tug to bed, he was cittli;;ed to open his window, and give them iiito eitaody of the satchntau. The Prituners re torted the alias ge apou him. As they wile pasting along, they were saluted, from his windows, with a delude, not CO pure at the rain from heaven, by which their siik pelisses, which they affirmed had co-t them above five pounds each, were materially injured, both in colour and smell ; snit they bed only knock , d at hic door to learn the author of their ihs. grace, when all the irdriss they received was being scut to the wateh.hinrce for the night. 1 he worthy Aldermau (tiettuLtY) ilcelareil, that however anxious Ire was to protect the public from the misconduct of such description of females, he could not Lit reprobate the present proceeding. If they wire found disturbing the pub lic peace, the law was open for their piluishment; but, abused as they were, they had dune nuthmg but what any person would naturally, cud bad a right to du. Ile demisted the charge. Green, and Mary, his daughter, were charged with robbing Mr. MMUS, a working silversmith, in St. Anne's lane Falcon-simare. Mr.i Adams stated, that having been plundered of late of silver, by some of his wurkuieu, of whom the Prisoner was one, It , , a considerable wuount , and suspicion faking upon the Prisoner, he, last night, masked tome silver, and left it among other, as usual, in the shop. This mornbig the Pri soner came to his work, and the other men, who we r e in tbe Se- CICt, left bon alone, and retired to a place where they could watch him. lie immediately took the opportunity of pocket ing some of the loose silver so marked. Ile afterwards made an excuse to r , house, whither he was followed by two offi cers, procured fir the purpose. ' Upon searching the room, which he said betouged to his daughter, a silver spoon, the property of Mr Adams, was found. Hui, upon a second search, the silver that bad been marked was discovered in a tea-cup The silver was identified, and the Prisoners were fully committed fur trial. COVENT•G AR DEN THEATRE. Mars efartia weed/air...l with ranking a disturtesace iu the Our.Sbilbug Gullet y, by springing • rattle. Robert Fry, one of the patrol.., said, that he was in the One. Shilling Gallery, sod observed the Prtsoner was aentung a prat noise, by batlu•iug, shouting, and springing • small rattle. 1 he Prisoner said, a young man, sof the new, of Saab, i■ authaeoptowstreel, lent her the 'mile Robert French, a Car neater, belonging to Covent garden 'hew*, confirmed Fry's statement. Ordered to hod bail. F.ateu Hull was brought in the custody of Anthony, who said, that the Prisoner was at the door of the Office when a man was thought Mtn the Office in custody, and, his being refused adruittauce, insisted upon coming an, say ing it was a public office ; he made a great noise, and svcited a number of persons, who gathered round the Other, in consequence of this dist.obance at Covent-garden Theatre, to hoot, shout, and make a peat distuibanee. Ordered to find bait. anew Trieher,of Worship-sireet,Sboreditcb, was charged by M,. James Brandon with making a disturbance in the Theatre. Mr. B. stated, that at the begivaing of the fourth act of the Play of Richard the 1951.41, sail while there cis great n iae of whistles and catcalls Ili the Two-Shilling Gal lery, be went op with Joseph TownseuJ, the patrele, to the back of the Tiru.Shilling Gallery, and $4. the Prisoner ►lowing a whistle or catcall, fur *Vire a quarter of au hour. Joseph Towuseud confirmed the shove. Ordered to find hail. Jame. Callan was rharrd with hreakiug open the dwelling house of Mr. hlabuny, the sigu of the Cock, iu Totteuhaus assort-road. Thomas 'limn, of John-street, Tottenham-court road, pander and glazier, mail, that shout half-past two o'clock, us Sunday rummies, as he was passing through Tutteobam conit•rua.l, ht sow the head mid shoulders of a man, iu the teller of Mr. Mahony ; is consequence of which, he *rut close up to the cellar, and saw out of the, daps of the teller lifted up, and three bottles of wine on the other Bap, and the Prisoner in the set of getting out of the cellar ; he attempt ed to lay hold of him, hut he made a spring and ran away. The willies* pursued him sod callrd out" stop thief," mad was never fire yards from him, till he was stopped, and se. eared. Thomas Sykes, a watchman, sa,d, that hearing the cry• of " stop thief," sad seeing the Pi ii 01.7 running, be endeavour ed tostop him; bat the Prisoner knocked Lion down. lie get up agsiu as quick as possible, followed him, sod was pre sent whew he was secured. Mr Mahony proved his cellar, which is part of ►is dwell ing -house, to have been broken open, and a quantity of wine stolen. The Prisoner was committed for trial. • Yesterday, JoAn Munensier was brought to the Office, charged, on suspicion. with fetoniously stealing a variety of good', the property of Mr Meaty Bond and Co. leather mi lers, of Leiceeter-place. It appeared that t►e Pri ouer was porter to the Proseentors ; they were *rumble that they bad bees ruldsed fur acsiisidcrable time mod, but could not disco. Ter the ro►ber*. On !Wortley esornitag early, Mr. Bond adopted the schebse of concealing himself In the warehouse; when the Prisoner came in, and tore off several yards of vel veteen, from a piece, pat them lulu his breeches, in a cos cealed manner, and walked off. Yesterday mousing, between is and seven o'clock, Mr. Bond cinicesled himself in his warehouse again, when the Prisoner soon after eam,• iii, and took two pairs of boot-legs, and put them into his breeches ; and then took a pair of hoot-straps and pet them into ►is pocket, and thee left the warehouse. The Prisoner was in a short time afterwards taken into cue• tody by Atkins, olio searched him, and found the bout legs in his breeches, and the straps ill bus pocket The Pri soner was committe I tot triad. LSIOVIIALL, OCT. 17 Jane Well, and .4 em Tompkins were brought before the Magistrate, by imckie, charged by James 'Thompson, one of five brothers, all ',reread dumb, with stopping him near Nelsuri-muare, in lilackfriars'-road, end rubbing him of a one-pound note, and some silver ; they were remanded fur another examination. ARLooIitot:GII.sTALET. The second examinatioo of the penoo calling himself Sir Plenum .ifacklii, Knight of the Polar Star, took place yesterday. Among the Gentlemen who attended was Golowei Young, who bilges at the Hetet where the Primmer ass. mitted his last depredations The trunks of this Gentkoian were broken open, and various articles of ireariog apparel were stolen, but there was no proof adduced to spew that the Prisoner had committed the then. The only charge that could attach to Lim *3l thii —He bail gone into tlie waiter's bed-worn early in the morning, supposing him to be asleep, and w4lll in the act of eodcavouring to nioeit *if his watch, which hung at the bed's head, when the wader, who was aurae, finding it very tiroely stretched forth his baud, and seized the Prisoner, but he escaped from _ . bts vaarp, and left the house. He atteisrards rationed :shout one o'clock, w►en the waiters followed him up stain; he tiid himself (from the search which ensued) in the wsteeclustt. Vpoo this evidence lie was committed, to answer the charge of the 'misdemeanour. William 'Treble, against whom so many charges have been made, particularly on suspicion of ridden An Arundel mail, of notes to the amorist of 7tisol. underwent another domi nation. This esaininatiou, soil the evidence produced against him, occupied the attention of Mr BRODIE, the presiding Mac:strate, 'nearly the whole swills, day ; but, as t►ere were many other charges expected to he made against him, the further hearing ors deferred, is order to give the parties an opportunity to appear. A gang of thieves cotnmitted several depredations. on Monday : night, in litiyes's-Mesra, Berkeley. square ; they stoic the leaden pipes belonging to the stables of the Earl of DARSL6II7. Lady Mi lli:M. Mr. BAKER, &c. with which they got off: A coung nine of high respectability, Secretary to Nobleman, stands charged with forgery to a con rider:l6lc exteut, and has abs onde+ - . r►~. I LLI.V4SLOE ;Ain. irra...c.r Or A LETTER. I MOM A COIIIIIL/IONDTNT AT ••LI,IN•4LOr, (Sc?- 9. Lord Clamarty opened hrs *seeable! Park fur the meet,- ' HO, of sleep, uu Tuesday ; the day proved favourable, mid it was a most lutereating sight, to view near 50,0110 of those awful creatures, %stitch afford as food, li let, nod raimeut, scattered, to lois, cater one green field, each lot kept sepa rate front the test by the altepheria with their crooks there were sold, during the fair, 71,62, sheep. Unsold.. I,z9tt • . • 'total 73,145 Being near 5,000 fewer - that. were sold at the last October Fair; the prices were somewhat higher lima last year. There were bullocks sold Unsold.... tem 114411iWt:. 114":1111111. About 400 more than last year. The graziers mad apple- headed a greet fall in horned cattle; but some speeuleturit caste into the Fair, and it was calculated that they averaged , a guinea per bead more than at the Fair cat !due. • ei The Farming Society bad a numerune Meeting, and wes • observed a great mar y Noblesneu anti Gentlemen ut fortune among them—Mr. Poster, President of the Society; the Marquis of Sligo; Lords Clancarty, Russusure, Cloithroch, Aslitown, and French; Sir Thomas G. Newcouten, Sir 1.4. ward Crofton, Sir Samuel O'Maley, Sir Hugh Gltet;ly, Right Houourable Denis Browne, Mr, Freracts, Mr. Haua Hamilton, ,Jr. Bowes Daly, and several other persons of that e twitted The Shew wow the hest we have ever seen since the esta blishment of the Society. The different varieties of horned cattle acre brought forward in great slumbers, and there were few iudiffereat oats among them ; but the questioo re insane still tiodecided, whether the twig-homed middle horned, or short-horned cattle are the best. The liongliorus and North Herons seemed to be, is general, the favourites. There were *reeve{ gaud new Leicester read South Down sheep sod our curiosity was gratified, by seeing a Met AMP rasa, imported direct from Spain . kis wool was of superior quality, and his carcase moon, better than we extweted.— The very high price of wool of every kind bast attracted the attention of most of our breeders ; they see the necemity of covering their I.ettesier sharp With heavy deecui, of long. brie, cambia. wool ; sod the friends to South !Mon sheep, having greedy heated tted by the price cal their clothing wool, aisle to iaciease its quautity, amid lir prevent% to try whe ther that ohject can he attained by a LIVIA with the Meristo, withuat reaterially iiijartier the carcase. Applitationt, we hems, have lees made by the Society to Sir Joseph Haulm, foe some of the Meriuu sheep, which His Majesty has been gra ciously pleased to distribute ainuos his subjects; we will venture to ,ity, they Cllti.ll/1 be deposited is better hands. We are sorry to rind, that the liberal premiums °tiered by the Society (Cr draft station.% have net induced any uew Candidates tostart. All the horses which were strewn at this mertiag, appeared here at the two last shoes The yob- Lc mind Is riot yet tirade up As to the comparative meta of the different breeds Ihe Judges were last year decidedly in favour of the Suffolk Putteh— . ibis y• or other Judges hare deterniiaed with equal deeision in faiour ot the black Lauer tershire di aft homes. The Society encourage every good tweed of lisre-stoct but cautiously avoid coninottiu7 themselves in respect to the sureriority of any tine lined over smother. 1 lie Swim were better than dined exhibited at any of the SUrltty'S hit user shews--they are dioperseug the improved breeds of this ea luable animal through every, part of Ii eland. We were happy to find several strangers, part 11.telislitnen, who were pleased to approve of every puit it she t shih:tion, and e>.- premed do if ST)lprile at thy ferllll•ity and raped.tiun with which so wany cattle, sheep, we. were arranged. The Society dined together every day Jamie the week, and the usual harmony prevailed. The health of our beloved So. vereign, who is approachiog the soth year of his retire, wane drunk with every expies: ion of duty sad aliectios—.after which Mr. Griereem gave " God Nave Great George oar Wittig," with the addition of several beautiful verses of hie own, mud was joined in fall chorus by the whole Society. %Vista the memory of the Marquis of Sligo was drunk, every Member stood sp, and eriaceo, by silence, their sorrow and regret. We were sorry to see the harmoneof the Society interrupt- - ed daring the dile, and their attention withdrawn from the greet objects of their uselitistems, by a CAerail Ate the *Mee of Secretary. There was a general meeting of the Society ea Friday, at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, when a report of the Commit. tee WAS received, containing a full and very satisfactory nee coact of the proceeding" of the society fur the last twelve montlia. A proposal isas MAUI to Lord Clancarty, the pro- • print..; of this tow it, to change the wool fair to the let old The Soc.rte then proceeded to a ballot, for tic election of a Vice-Pres:dem, in the room of the late Marquis of Sligo; fur a Secretary , in the room of the late NI r. Hamilton ; and of seven new Members fur the Committee. The ballot was nut mole up till ten o'clock me Saito ay sight, when Mr. IVyuae. was unanimously elected Vice-Pi•esideut, and Mr. Dix was elected Secretury.-19i mutters toted. I I 11 , 1 Yesterday, as a sufficient number of Aldermen did not attend to form a Court, no public busine e was trafisacted: • The Misr*la and Wanoras of the Bakers Company waited on the LORD MArot, yesterday, to set the assize and price of 'Need. His Lordship, after examining the Mea{weighers' report, was pleased to order the prices ofbreari to be reduced to is. 4 1 (1. the quarter° loaf; wheaten. and Is. 2.1 d. household; to take place to-morrow. His Loidsiiip directed a Court of Aldermen, to be summoned for Tueiclay next, for dispatch of business. On Monday, a most unfortunate accident hap pened at Weymouth. As a boat was coming on duty to the harbour, from Ilia Ma.revry's }edit Royal Sovereign, in limiting the Bar, a squall of wind upset the "boat, and Mr. JOUR Bt RRARDi Midshipman, and son of General Sir H. BURRARD. was drowned. Through the exertions of other boats, from the shore and shipping, the test of the people were saved. The Lords 'of the Admiralty have odered 40 guineas to be distributed among ta ~ crews of the several boats that afforded avoidance.. A Gentleman *skid a Lady, witbsithom he woe walking, a few nights ago, during a storm, if she *as afraid of the lightning?—'• no; "replied she. I am afraid of nothing With such a conductor." Pardon me," retorted the gallant, •• it is you ' that possess the pourers Ifatersciiva. " Coats —Our report of the proceedings of the Mansion-House, on Saturday, on an information against Moms. RUSSELL and Mawr:tam, merchants, we understand, is in many respects er roneous. The information was not by desire of the Batik Directors, but was preferred - bytin informer of the name of Wills, and was quashed, ivithout hear ing any evidence en bther side. ltdkither was al. leged, nor attemptee je be proved, that the coals were sold as pool-measure, and sent as wharf measure; nor was there any imputation of fiend against the Defend Ints. The Bank Directors. af ter a full knowledge of the whole transaction; paid Messrs. BURRELL and MAcaEarras for the coats. The information was, for selling and sending in wo chsldrons and a half of coal•, in a waggon. end delivering a vender's ticket, without baying. the tiame of the labouring meter thereto, who superni ' tended the ndmeasureinent." An offence rather proceenliag from inadvertency, than an intention of fraud. The erroneous report a loch we inserted, did (lot originide in TUE BRITISH PRE" but MOO coried from a Paper of the preceding day. • 7.. 4