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. OA k... *AS going Inwards Xetising • *War r tO And the owner, when l lilted the prison*. whit brought him al —" . _ replied, that lie went to. -T had to clean fur his Marshaot ; and the, play such frolics-in i-STREET. `S EGANISMS, In be the favourite tly and most appro• Iropolitan mechanics; ,* the Christmas b.xes famed del, there are obtained to this great pintoperied on (hearth fuer-and-tweet, hours in this young man out of plume , res pectableappearanee,were - the same time. The Best ' on paying the ex its it appeared that lice loitering about means of support. aus surety. Marlborough-street, who Darnel Stevenson a farrier, charged with the same discharged on paying St. Giles's w0rk ...1 • 1, iolent assank, testilied, fur oae side , near a dead wall (bat cam. up to him and or complainant not immediately ttchman struck bios a most complainant struck weapon about his bead n. 'r, the Governor of J said be was a peace. ifferent view of the con. use Governor evidently watchman to And two on complainant far beyond -shod in Ivy-street, • the purpose of giv. in that neighbour. Morse*, who he _ _ patrols, to have made afternoon, between three -oad -street. The evidesios rening, was so clear and, ipprebend the prisoners at a dread of molestation ry young are conned. yultiliAte cause lie before the Magistride s the one he gore to tbe he was threatened more ;:amination, even yesterdee , most patiently ie. something like a cue. who said lie bad borer \I of their compiiniuml. ,r,t, and that when IN ' attempted to shales., only got pert of itl watch, the broken. to 80'w-street on the hatnds next, am! an or examination with the watch morning' was taken up •%ut or the sprees and e.dward Wells, a tailor; Areet-keeper. in Red Lion. -doe o'clock the preceding A Lion-square, lying dead Ail Miner hat, shoe, or )iile out. Finding the the watch-house. had to say for himself, o boxing night, and . overcame him, and his shoes, bat, neckerchief.. robbed and locked A lon a caution to him then discharged UM Irishman; he mai bead bound round and a black eye. — ;man of his own, a ins house, knockiag' breaking t he windows, desperation. The charge be ,' what they had to my the other pers-ns who I.id no charge to make prisoner were keeping Irinking together, nod a , yr acre sure poor Pat happeued, and they press the charge ho did timber of his eosins ,its repaired to (hi hies iu libations or remanded, charged ',moth, of his watch, Inn-lane. lE. more than nine sears charged with robbing parents iesided. The docent•looking woman, said that the present iature that had been wish ut ber and her et honesty and judos , ; there was not an any other person's, place to which the sent him before a . prison, but ibis has parents were t►erefore if the prisoner was Itentiary at %alma ; aut convich-il felons AgistrAto then reckon garde lu the Reverend fug.• fur the Destitute, that Institution. her resdi ess to eon child's support, pro- Id nitwit it buy to prisan fur a [OND. united a ilemoitost belonging to the for. Gain the latter to the ed. a yard; the stone- I to hare credit for the paid the guinea, but the , ighout the remainder of to return the guinea given in charge, and ipiaint. ate. the hawker pve iquisheti all bis inter ended. ET. a four-horse Stratford Iwe,liorse Stratford charging them with inday, the isth instant. that on the night of 'cluck, a small taxed 4 by a mats named Ed coach, aid upset ; the ipersens in it received an ideal:coed state of 1 • very bad state from I. from Mr. Burt, sur , was still under his care, accident the coaches, ' and racing at full gallop.. Dicke and Mr. Wyatt, said, sustained by Mrs. Molise, notwithstanding this man man named Reynolds, a Ate box with him, to dis• other side ; but he cen t) wrong si de, and they elated Cbe start woo .n. • - . . •• . :..... , • . .. . • , . .. • r • „ i gt2p - 64, : :: : bl.w.. going I 'loorideavour to lint mated the prisoner whit =aoll Friday night. He replied, mmo. fetch a bonaet they had W e l , anation satisfied Mr. M, , Mier g admonished nut to pl • S t . , was aid at liberty. MARLBOROUGH-STREE . . AMONG wr . THE CHRISTMAS El Sealskin the CJouleye lanterns seemed I `sae of Thursday night, which is quaintly aplialely Wild basewit night, by the met rop m we bare se ~t, independent of the tipt arm gives Mid *received on that fern i';, Med Maims heeds mot bloody moos *Mal li . Mee t assdrisi on thu WIWI* Ow plow] I . ilipo in any other fon r-asilstis Alt masa' journey. e • Willisaleyht coachman, a young 'sew and a youth of very respectable wil Osier this charge at the Sarni ad Nit elr Mt peimgessep .ie we discharged 0: ..... 011116 wee iired to And bail, as bad bees a ireatirdly noticed by the Petit straMs dressed, without any iisible - 4 11 rile* is !hem...le-street became his a `see ant a Mr. Noverre's, in ?decibel dhie snide _Witham Casey, and MIMIC: $ eßtereimgh.mears, were also charged ItAlisehle mesa' wit. They were duel SSW 111101116/14/14 TM.m eater:, a private watchman of was accused by James Burnett of the eamplaisant's face rointly testi Y.Fir as a mosso( coegabited bl st ood. I 1 Bunten stated, that he was standing nee' 1 • adjoins the workhouse, when Gilbert came staved him to go away, and upon cumplainan 'comp)ying with this order, the watchman sl violent brew with a knotted thick stick. The watchman, in his defence, said co - him first, and be was Only plgy rag the weep, Ma_prevent Burnett from closing with him. The watchman called Benjamin Walker, . • Bt. Oiles's workhouse, in his behalf, who eel Mile bed imorensive person. i The Magistrate, however, took a cifferen tr ime rOMsert to the one the workhouse 0 him' tipiske, and ordered the watcl • * : aunties in MC each for aii attack on compl . . trig a ti4ewelimet had warrited. ti , ,Tlieisse, who keeps a coalksh t ' Obergestrwel, Raven Dials, appeared fur tl itlislidallietrilust two lails, well known i ' 4,- bead by %be sew* of Harry Flynn . and Hill, Mated to lohorts,une of the St. Clilee's pat • .. -minatehld his watch on Thursday *Remo' i . . ( .mad liar *Meek, in Middle-row, Broad .str heipare ti time n icer, on Thursday evening, , . MlSolissisa as to induce him to appreben , . ti*l lodging& But, whether from a drei (RN it appears the prisoners although very 3 , , .. eat wit! a desperate gang), or teem a less je varied in his account of the transaction befo 3asterday morning, so widely from the on °Goer the preceding evening, that he was Allan once with committal. His examinant) morning, was most contradictory. The worthy Magistrate (Mr. CON ANT) I i' . I . Castigated the case, and at list got some .y- Ilia eel stitement from the witness, who • ' • drinking with the prisoners and several of -,' - , at the Blue Posts iu Monmouth-slriet, i witted the house they follows d him and at jps w hot the chain broke, and they of aseseefthe seals attached to it. '1 he --. ' ' Med remainiug seals his wife took I evening, and deposited them in th . . MM eimt " A7 mmi t uldises i m e r s e to re :lte Died lid th t e " e l i i M u rn e :iitli ii est HATTON-GARDEN. . BOXING DAY. ': . .. Yesterday the principal part of the now us hiaring watch-house charges, arising oul bumuurs of hosing night. The fret charge brought in was Edwar be was charged by John Cook, street-keep square, who stated, that about nine ii'clr ' might be found the prisoner in Red Lion, I 2 "'. Amok clops to the iron railing, without cii L i neckerchief, with his pockets turned inside prisoner in that situation be took him to ll r 1 The prisoner stn being asked %b a t lie had 1 .. Amid he had bee i with a party kee l ing up from thinking too much mixed liquors it c r, he lay down and was robbed of his shoes, gad what money be bad about him. The Magistrate said he hoped his tiring I op in a Bo ld watch-house all night would b 'oat a future boxing night, and be the prisoner. The neat person charged was a sturdy is • brought into the ~flier, v. ith,ut a coat, his with a handkerchiefenvered with blo:id, et ' . The pilaster was charged by a countr yr publicist, with kicking up a row in his down several persons in the tap-room, bra . i ' and doing several other acts of desperatiui 1 i . : . .. sag reed. the complainants were 4-ked al ag,aiiiat the prisoner , the landlord and the were brat by the prisoner, said they had n . ' against him, that both they mid the priso sap bosinganight ; that they were all drinki - lot of a row was kicked up, and they ' ;meant no harm, and was sorry for what hi forgave him. . The Magistrate said if they did not press 1 not, sod discharged the prisoner. The prisoner was accompanied by a ot • trymen ' end he and the complainant. i 41mbie house to drown their aniusositii 'porter. : Sarah Paget' and Lary Spencer were 1 • with rubbing Benjamin Sinseutt, a blacks . . M a house in Charlotte-buildings, Gray's I DISTRESSING CASE ti urchin of a boy, no mi of age, and not higher than a tattle, was oh illbs landlady of the house where hit par, mother of the title prisoner, a very doce rattended before the Magistrate • she as . Was nut the first charge of a si milar oat a /aside again.) ner son ; it hail been the a i . husband to bring the child up to habits of I try, but ad their efforts pored fruitless , • • Article of A slue, either of their own ur of ?'that was ore whilst it rens:tined in any I 1 • bad access; they had once [ . , who had committed hint to i -sae- any .'lh-ct upon hour; his pare . ' - •se alms for his future safety. Mr. Rogers, the Magistrate, inquired . eligible to be admitted into lic Penile' het to this it was replied, that ',one to ''•" • were eittnissible there. The worthy MA; .1111111ftded that an application should tie no. • Robert Crosby, the Chaplain to the Iteitig is order to set Me child admitted into 'hi The mother of the child expn.swed hi . tribute a weekly allowance towards the el i f 'aided the t.ovr rears of the Refuge would i 1 The Magistrete then rammode.' the I wick, in order to give time for the smith 1 . 11. .. N ' DIAMOND CUT DIAMI • t a; .' A working steeecalter comp/dined 4iloker, fur detaining the sum of its. hi loser. They had airecil tor the sale free . . , • termer, of a t wee of Irish linen foe in. CA . . demon wan Impel tine nonce dos a, and t ! Imirtue of the pore of the listen; he pair ti . I bewker refused to g , he lip the cloth wits( die money was paid ; tie 1111110 refused to 4st hail received. lit) was cutisequently p *at was the ground of the present comp' I • 11 : . Upon th, suggestion of the llagistral tapp the guinea, and the stonecutter relies .•01 to the purchase, and thus the matter i 4 II , I l' t , . LA 'II4ETII-S V TRE - FURIOUS DRIVIN't Yesterday Wiliam Watkins. driver of a coach, arid Jusepa Dwight, driver of a vetch, appeared to on MI/amain,' c - . feriously driving their roaches on Sunda , it appeared by the evidence adduced; Use above-nientruced day, at eleven o's .. . -cart containing ;seven persons, driven L ' wards, was run foul of by Watkins's co I digit was dashed to pieces, and theft •eieral contusions; one female, in as milignaocy, clamed Mayhue, lies atilt is i 'a , • !'. the (Stets of the fall, arid • eertibeate gram, of Whiteehipel, stated that she wa . . mid uuable to go oat. At the time of the • . woes on the wrung side of the road, and , The Magistrates (Mr. Ilardwicke a i that with respect to the injury intestine as adios by civil process will still lie, isiteremilina. The defendant Watkins milled a mat metrics/. of West Ham, who was ea the I peare what had been stated on the nth teem/ that the coaches were en the w: rime prisocediag at good *peed. Mso eta Il k 1 . • .... p tot obsoried estil thelsisd wheel of the smith elleltht sat lipset it. The witnesses is aria Iles iefersitists hailed, NW neither of ate easel= is see the 41•1111 p the. had oeresteeed, het *eel Utak hostess verse. If tteedee its had tit mete have yea the damp they had dew, lie net been h& The seetrisied the defedaseb is the fell pe aty sf 1 1. aNreart4ted le this sue they costa set let a hillside ha If tip peedkies were mot pall is 1 /4tek• 1 !" it would be seat to Shelia's* of meet*. - ALARMING FINIS. Yesterday a number of firemen attended at this elite to lake the usual affidavits to a are which raged theism height hbout six o'cloek on Thursday night, in the premises of ,Mr. Cagill, of Great Hermitage.streel, Wapplag. The Ore broke out in the eellar,but bow or in what manner we scald wet tears; it, briefer, soon spread to the kitchea adjoining, and threatened inevitable destruction, as the flames were be ginning to spread very fast. At this moment the Aidgre, Royal IC:change, Imperial, neer:, and other lire engines arrived; and there beim' a plentiful supply of water, they =with great rapidity; but the Ire being in the arts of the house, they could not get at it, till the Ire- Med had torn up the flooring, which made room for them to to hare full effect, and the flames were in a short time get 'adder. The damage is considerable, but nothing to what might have been expected. • Before the affidavits could be sworn, another alarm of fire was given,and the aid of the firemen ass called, which proved to have test burst forth in the chimney of the premises be longing to Mr. Hollady, No. 333 . Wapping, and was spread• leg to different parts of the house, when the timely arrival of ,the engines deterred the fury of the raging element., ithout very serious damage being experienced. The firemen them returned, and their anklavits were received; but ere they could again depart the office, sesend messengers arrived with the tidings of another very extensive Ire in Angel-gardens. Agra each of the parties proceeded with full speed after their respective engines, to take to the spot. The particulars of 'lbis lire we have not been able to ascertain, but it appeared, hem report, tube very serious. GANG OF BURGLARS. Benjamin James', a most notorious ullioder, was yester day brought Ix lure Captain Riehbell, having been stopped on the preceding night by Smelly, an Akar, with KM, of his burglarious prey. John James Ford, of the Lessfori, lying in the t's Canal, stated, that be kept on hoard or Thursday e rrand sot long after he was ins bed he heard a parson come down into the forecastle, and he suspected it might he his brother, whose name he called twice ; but or reeeivieg no answer be got up, and a new suit of clothes had been roles; when be cut on deck he heard some one hollow to him, and ask if be had lost .say thing ? to which he answered, " Yes." The Meer With gun got the grieoner, and the wearing Vowel now predated was his property. Jobe dedgosoost tits harp tins met, said. tag ita Them. day night whoa Imi what to bid tarz i j; groat god his side; when he await* es May he wies it liemeseer stolen, together with Ye whelk emit Weibel ale *AM and stockings bad hew dengpod by mos sae ea bawd the Langfurd, and was retuned to bias g 'there was is. ty. la the coat pocket ; that produced by the darer is his property. Beachy and Clarke said, that wham the prisoner saw them he ran into the White Hart publiehame yard, and threat the property behind a water butt, which they took, together with the prisoner, and conveyed to the watch-Morse. The prisoner pleaded drunkenness in his defence, and tieing deaf he appealed to the Magistrate to know if it was likely a deaf person, who must of course subject themselves to de tection, would go robbing ; he was innocent of the offence. This the Magistrate did not believe, and fully committed Wei to Newgatc for trial. I.TNION-TIALL. Robert Skinner was charged by Care, the constable, for en rious robberies in the country. He was remanded till Monday neat. Elizabeth Brannon was also remanded on a charge brooght against her by Mr. Birkin, a cheesemonger of Waliliorth for stealing • couple of fowls. THE ACCIDENT. Yesterday a man named David Emilio, an ancient Briton, was brought before Maurice Swabey,jun. Esq. on the charge 'of obtaining • large qiniutity of East India hemp, under a false and fraudulent pretence. Mr. Davey, of the Arm of Davey and Co. Sat and hemp dressers, res ding in Kent street, Southwark, stated, that a few days ago the prisoner came to his premises, and said that he was commissioned by Mr. Leah, a respectable emarla her, residing near the Marsh-gate Lambeth, to purchase East India hemp low. Witness produced many somplosossil et length the primmer made choice of one at us. per met. He said he should take a ton of it, but he would only then treat for a hundred weight, and that he would, if that wee approved of by Mr. Leah, return for the remainder of lb* ton, and bring the cash fur it. Witness told him he did eel soder his goods to ff., out of the house till paid for. " Ohl then," said he, " let your man go with sac. and 'IA air_ back with the money." Witness thought him t even this proposition, and thereupon called upon his eeteinliento company him, but with strong injunctions sot In •011111 IN* without either money or goods. On their reaching Mr. Leak's factory, the 'prisoner tea the hemp from t h e man, and went backwards with It, feasts' him in the front shop. and presently he returned witliosit saying, " What a pity we shall have to wait in the cold fne about half an hour, for Mr Leak has just sat down to dieser; but never mind," said he, "we wil l go into some pulse,* house, and have something warm, and by that time he lON be down stairs." Accordingly the man went with the pel: seller, and after stopping some minutes he got up and Irmo out ; some time elapsing, and he unt the Me went to Mr. Leah's to inquire for him, when he returni ng , learned that he had been there, and had taken a load of hemp away wIN him. The man inquired if he had not been instructed by.M47 Leah to purchase any, when he was answered in the negative, that the prisoner was not known there, but that he had roil quested to leave the hemp on the premises for a short time. Witness had never seen him since tilt the officer appre hended him it,, the *mint. The prisoner said that when he left the young man in the public-buuse he went to Mr. Leah, who would not give the preen for the hemp . ; that he took it somewhere else and sold it, and was rebut ti ing to Mr. Davey's with the money, when he met with an accident. Magistrate.—What was the accident ? Prisoner (smiling, and holding down his head.)—l am ashamed to tell, your Worship. Magistrate—Why should you be ashamed; what was the accident ? Prisoner—l met with a women, Sir. Magistrate—ls that the accident you allude to ? Prisoner—Yes. your Worship, because she made me spend all the money but bs. Thu Magistrate ordered the prisoner to be remanded for further examine:ion. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Between eight and nine o'clock last night a fatal accident occurred at Somerset House. John Onis, an assistant porter in the Navy Pay Office, bring in a state of inebriety, get on the iron railing, for the purpose of raising the sash to get ad mittance into the hall, overbalanced himself and fell into the area, a depth of forty feet, and was killed on the spot. The unfortunate man was Immediately picked up, and carried into an apartment in the office, and a surgeon was immediately sent for, and Mr. Kenny, assistant to Mr. Staunton in the Strand, attended ; but from the nature of the injury he received, his skull being fractured in several places. he could tender no assistance, life being totally extinct. He was about thirty years of age, and has left a widow and two children to deplore his loss. There will be an inquest held on the body this evening. Mr. HALL has sent us the foll Owing correction a l nue report from Bow-street police-office or. Saturday, De cember it. Our reporter appears, from this correction, to hero mistaken the question—" Were . you ever a 1144111. droper?" for " Were you ever indicted?' Reading—Mr. Hall, were you ever a linen-draper? Hall—l was. Reading—Did you lire in Barbican? Hall—l ReLlinit—Were you a bankrupt? Hall—l was when under use, consecinently before I was retitled to an interest in the property of which you (prisoner) defrnuilcd me. Reading—Did you, Hr. Hall, ever take the benefit of Insolvent Act? Hall—No, I never did. Another accident occurred yesterday by an Imprudent ven ture on Ice. A respectable youth, of the name of Leather barrel, was amusing himself with fetching a bung to play at hockey, on a sheet of ice, to St. James's Park, which was not bearable. It gave way, sad a person (rote the bank of the canal rushed into the water to save the youth's life. This humane endeavour failed at the risk of his own life.—The body of the youth was taken up and conveyed to the Ship, at Chair ing-cross, for the inspection of a Coroner's Jury. The scarlet fever, which was lately very severe in the town and neighbourhood of Brechin, is now con siderably abated. We are sorry, however, to state that a species of inflammatory fever is prevailing there at present, still more fatal in its consequences. The dumber of deaths in Brechin for the year is generally rtom 100 to 110, but during the last time months up wards of 100 persons have died in that town sad pettish,—Ediaborgit Observer. . . •-r --.--7,, T c.,-- ... ,- EARTRQUAIc IA SYRIA. The following are extracts from ClifiCi3l toniliuni ciations of Mr. Barker, the Consul at Aleppo, to the Levant Company, describing the late dreadful earth quakes in Syria :- 4 ' goartbe ruins of Antioch, September 13, MI. " It has fallen to my lot to relate the particulars of an event that has thrown most of the families of this part of Syria into sorrow and mourning, and all into the greatest difficulties and desires.. l' - On the 13th August, at half past nine in the evening, Aleppo, Antioch, Idlib, Rtfia, Gissa Shocr, Darcoush, Armenas, every village, and every detach ed cottage in the Pashalic, and some towns in the ad joining ones, were in ten or twelve seconds entirely ruined by an earthquake, and are become heaps of stones and rubbish; in which, on the lowest computa ion, 20,000 human beings, about a tenth of the po pulation, were destroyed, and an equal number maimed or wounded ! The extreme points, where this terrible phenomenon was violent enough to destroy the edifices, seem to be Diabekir and Merkab (twelve leagues south of Latuchin), Aleppo and Scauderoon, Kith: and Kahn Shekoon. All within these points have suf fered so nearly equally, except Orfa and Latachia, which have not suffered much, that it is impossible to fix on a central point. The shock was seusibly felt.at Damascus, Adeno, and Cyprus. " To the east of Diabtkir, and north of Killis, am not yet well informed how far the effect extended in those radii of the circle. The shock was felt at sea so violently, within two leagues of Cyprus, that it was thought the ship had grounded. Flashes of fire were perceived at various times throughout the night, resembling the light of the full moon, but at no place to my knowledge has it left a chasm of any extent, although in the low grounds slight crevices are every where to be seen, and out of many of them water issued, but soon after subsided. " There was nothing remarkable in the weather or state of the atmosphere. Edifices on the summit of the highest' mountains were not safer than buildings situated on the banks of rivers, or on the beach of the sea. " It is impossible toconvey an adequate idea of the scenes of horror that were simultaneously passing on the dreadful night of the 13th of August. The awful darkness, the continuance of the most violent shocks at short intervals, the crash of falling walls, the shrieks, the groans, the accents of agony and despair' , of that long night, cannot be described. When at length the morning dawned, and the return of light permitted the people to quit the spot on which they had been providentally saved, a most affecting scene ensued. " You might have seen many, unaccustomed to pray, some prostrate, some on their knees adoring their Maker. Others there were running into one another's arms, rejoicing an their existence. An air of cheerfulness and brotherly love animated every countenance. " In a public calamity, in which the Turk, the Jew, the Christian, the Idolator, were indiscriminate victims, or objects of the care of an Impartial Provi dence, every one forgot for a time his religious ani mosities, and what was a still more universal feeling in that joyful moment, every one looked upon the heaviest losses with the greatest indifference. But as the sun's rays increased, they were gradually re minded of the natural waists of shelter and of food, and became at length alive to the full extent of the dreary prospect before them ; for a greater toast of human misery has not been often produced by any of the awful couvulsions oe nature. A month has now elapsed, and the shocks continue to be felt and strike terror into every breast. night and day. The fen that they may not cease before the rainy season commences, has induced those whose business cannot allow of their quitting the ruins of their towns, instead of rebuilding their houses, to construct temporary ho vels.of wood withoutthe walls, and many families who thought themselves before this calamity straitly lodged in a dozen of apartments, now exult in the prospect of passing the winter in a single room 20 feet square. " The spacious mansion that has been the residence of the British Consul at Aleppo fur 230 years, is coin pletely ruined. The houses of all the other public agents and private European individuals at Aleppo have been likewise entirely ruined. At Aleppo, the Jews suf fered the must, on account of their quarter being badly built, with narrow lanes. Out of a population less than 3,000 souls, 600 lives were lost. Of the Europeans, only one person of note, Signor Esdra di Picciotto,' Austrian Consul General, and ten or twelve women and children perished, but the greatest part are now suffering from ophthalmia and dysenteries, occa sioned by their being exposed to the excessive heats of the day and the cold dews of the night. When it is considered, that two thirds of the families in Aleppo have neither the means of making a long journey, to remove to a town, out of the effect of the earthquake, nor of building a shed to keep off the rain, it is im possible to conceive all the misery to which they are doomed the enusing winter, or ever to find more de serving objects or the compassion and charity of the opulent, whom it has pleased God to place in happier regions of the globe. " Here planks and fuel are cheap, and the people have the resource of tiles, which they were taught to make by the crusaders, in their long residence at Antioch; but in Aleppo, where wood is very dear, they have no contrivance to keep out rain but free stone walls, and flat routs 'made of a very extensive cement." " September to, len. " I ern sorry to say that shocks of the earthyra e continue to be felt to this day, the thirty-eighth after the principal shock, anal no change has taken place in the state of -desolation that the dreadful catastrophe has produced." • " October le, Int. " Till the 9th inst. slight shocks ofeanhquakes con tinued to be felt ; since that day they have entirely ceased, but confidence in a continuance of safety from that dreadful calamity is not restored, and although the rains and cold weather render our temporary sheds very inconvenient habitations, no body is yet inclined to sleep under a roof supported by walls." CHRIST'S HOSPITA L.—To•morrow evening, and every Sunday evening from Christmas to Easter, the boys in Christ's Hospital will sop in public, and sing an anthem. Tickets to tins very interesting sight may be had of the Governors. The premises at Chard, in which the very large woollen cloth factory has for many years been carried on, but which base been lately abandoned in consequence of the general decay of that important branch of trade in the West of England, have been taken hr some manufsrturere of patent lace. Upwards of 1,300 hands are to be immediately employed in this concern, which has been undertaken by some of the emelt now or lately connected with a similer establishment at Tiverton. A stantim engine and gas Importune are erecting on the premises, the latter being for the purpose of furnishing gas, through the we Mane of which the lace is rapidly passed, for divesting it et IM I downy filaments. The net is subsequently sent to Pease*, where it receives a rich and elegant improvement, by the midair,. elf curiously wrought foliage and Mowers, and it is dise le .m , eo44ri We wintry, in which, notwithstanding this elakeeteesetiee t k ex* realises the hopes contemplated by the i Tim glagetta••r win is Attie( qo the am 117=to thie , eadettekles mei the . esieptkes 41 t the tereletieet ' et the suet hay earbilikabe W laid* the Preasl4lll the Mt= Selleme he he wing—isher Parer. . . 41{ ^^~ 1 EXTRAORDINARY CASE VP LIBEL. Dominica, Ocr. 3.—One of the most singular, 'and, in fact, unprecedented trials for libel has just been decided here. The parties were S. Bridgewater, Esq. Collector of the Customs, plaintiff, and the pro prietor of the Dominica Chronicle, defendant. The libel was contained in a notice to correspondents in the following words— " Castigator is wholly inadmissible. We bare nothing to do with the robbery at (I—n—a, some ye ars ago . It is a Work force' business , and should hare been tried in that Colony." This notice, it was supposed, alluded to some com munication handed to the Editor of the Chronicle, re lative to a transaction which occurred durirfg the resi dence of Mr. Bridgewater in the island of Grenada, the place implied in the notice. It appears, that during Mr. B.'s residing there, he received tome information that the premises of a resi dent on the island, named Waugh, had been broken open during the night and were in the act of being robbed. Under that impression, he repaired to the spot with his servants, to render Waugh such assist ance as he might stand in need of ; but Waugh, under some misapprehension, and ignorant of the persona designs who were thus disturbing him (for the robbery was a fabrication), called to the military guard, and gave Mr. Bridgewater into their custody, and ac cordingly conveyed him to the guard-house. Waugh, however, in the space of ten minutes followed him there, accompanied by the brother of the plaintiff, and apologising for his hasty conduct, satisfied Mr. Bridge. water, and the whole of the parties proceeded to their respective homes. The paragraph above alluded to appearing to con vey an intimation that Mr. Bridgewater had gone to Waugh's house for the purpose of committing a bur glory, that Gentleman instantly commenced an action against the proprietor of the Dominica Chronicle, for libel, and laid his damages at 5,0001. The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 5001. Upon this decision, the defendant moved an attest of judgment ; but failing in that, put in a Writ of Error, and the cause was argued before the four Judges, viz. :—the Earl of Huntingdon, Mr. President Reid, Mr. Lockhart, and Mr. John Ludlow, and after hearing the case minutely, the Court divided, when it was found the votes were equal, the two former Judges being in favour of the proprietor of the Paper, and the two latter against him. This places the sentence in state quo, there being no other power of appeal, and the case has caused a considerable sensation in Dominica and the neighbouring Islands, as it is totally a novel and unprecedented occurrence, for which the Legislature has made no provision ; and the defendant has been deprived of that benefit the law intended should operate fur him, when the Act which empowered him to appeal to a Court of Error was framed.—( Glasgow Courier.) INQUESTS. _—„so, On Thursday last an Inquest was held before Stirling, Esq. Coroner, at the Belvidere Coffee and Tea Oardens, Pcntonsillc, on the body of Mary Leek, a handsome young female, who bad put a period to her existence by hanging herself. The evidence produced was of a very affecting nature, of which the following is the substance : —The deceased had been about a year and a half in the service of Mr. Scott, one of the churchwardens of Clerkenwell, during which time she had kept company with a young man in the neighbourhood, and was much respected by beremployers, and bore the character of an honest and industrious girl. She was, it appears, to have ' been married to the young man with whom she kept company on Christmas Day ; but on Monday morning last she disco vered that all her affections had been misplaced, the man being already married ; upon her return home it is supposed she committed the rash act, being riund a short time after wards suspended by a rope from the rails of the kitchen area Upon this evidence thcJury, atter minsulting together, found—" That the deceased put an end to her existence in a ;slate of mental derangement, produeed by disappointment in her expectation+, from the unprincipled conduct of Francis Mem, also had keel company with her for several months and bad lately married another person." The man has abscond d, and spplication has been made for the interference of the Magistrates upon the subject. AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH. Yesterday es ening an Inquest was held before Mr. Him. Coroner for the city and liberty of Westminster, on the body of Mr. James Cull, a gentleman lodging at a public house in Long-acre, ho was found dead in the street nn Thursday night. The deceased was sixty •siz years of age. Robert Taylor, a atchinan is Bow street, deposed that be observed the deceased going along the loot pavement at twelve o'clock ; in about ten minutes afterwards he found him at the corner of Hart-street perfectly senseless ; be sprung his rattle, and bad him with assistance conveyed to Covent-garden watch-house. A medical gentleman was sent f-r, but his efforts to restore him proved abortive, he never recovered his speech. Mr. Remark!, surgeon, in &Alford-street, stated that he had been sent fur, and found the deceased in a dying state. He did every.thiag in his power to restore him, but without effect. He thought death was produced by apoplexy. Thorn was a bruise on the deceased'. free. The son of the deceased, a rvspeekble shopkeeper in the Strand, attended the inquest ; he thought the deceased's body still felt wgrns, and if proper means had been resorted to, ho considered animation nuts he restored. The Surgeon expl.ined, and the Coroner and Jory ex- pressed • wash to adjourn the Inquest, in conformity with the wish of the deceased's son, in order that any experiment he chow might still be tried. The deceased's son on oath de posed, that the deemed left his house at a quarter before twelve o'clock on the preceding night, when he left him in perfect health as usual. The Jury consulted, mud returned their verdict—Neural Death. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT OF COMMISSIONERS OF BANKRUPTS, THIS bAY. --... 2. tc. T. Parker, jno. Wood. street, hosier R. Jame'', Stanford Baron. veterinary surgeon R. Graham, 'Flirogmorton street, stliek•brotter J. 0(911601, Dorset-street, cotton-manufacturer 3 11 D. Eduardo, Gloucester, tea-dealer C. R. Husks, Newcate.street, VI holesalc glover W. Collins, eras ford-strect, linen draper 3 li J. H iron Banbury, grocer - 3 13 W. Orit eths, lab., a Abergavenny, seedsmas W. Wel s, licadon, hay salesman s t B. P. Eton'. late of Freeman's-court, law-stationer 1 11 R. G. Spcdding, jun. late of Rickmansworth, coal merchant . W. Childs, Whitehall, victualler :,/ - 1 11 or W. °moue'', late of Combat, merchant I 1 DIVIDENDS. J. R. Benson, Finsbury-square, merchant 1 J. M. Fuller, late of Worthing, Goan-draper lt D. G. Stet rns, Harlow, linen-draper W. Lloyd, sen. Peettarn. and W. Lloyd, jun. late of Loner Thamea.strect, slopsellers la J. Maley, late of Bankside, corn m. r e li an t 1 W. Law, Tbroginorton-street, merchant l2 CERTIFIC4TES. J. Kewer, Little Windmill-street, Golden -stoat*, Middle sex, carpenter.—J. C. Bounith. late of Bristol, but now of Bath, dealer.-0. 11. Edwards, Craren.street, Westminster, winc•merchant.—J. Beley, Birmingham, dealer.—J. G. Bid well, Exeter, merchant. PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS YESTERDAY. Preach, Of. Ex. U f. 0 e. I Ditto, of 1622, 66 Rutsion 8 per Cent. Ditto Scrip, Ditto Metallic, of Haring' Daa.rh, in I Isterling, In Ditto of Silems Ditto, in Marcy lianeo, Ditto, of 1842, Si I S 3 Columbian, 66i Ditto Scrip, Chilian, 73 Austrian, Peruvian Scrip, 79i Neapolitan, 7 Poyaia ditto, Ditto Scrip, 7 6 6 1 / 0 771 n Poyais ditto, Spanish, of IS . , 6! American 6 per Cent. Ditto, of MI, 54i Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Scrip, of 1622, lite die. Ditto 3 per Ceot. Prussian, of 1818 ast Ditto Bank Shares tem The Favourite. Livingston. from Liverpool to Gibraltar, has put into Holyhead . /laving waived her upper weeks la deg at LivarPool. MARKETS, CORN ILILCHANOR, tarsi, , Dungen ti. Wednesday having been a does holiday, a e had more bail. new transacted in our market this morning than ordinary. and the consumers being fearfull that the navigation would be closed, bought rather more he ly yet our prices are the same as on Monday for prime samples of Wheat and Barley, al though our supplies are abundant; hut Oats, from the niagei tudn of the arrivals, are heavy sale, and a %hada lower. la Beans, Pease,and other articles there is little or no alteration. VXBRIDOE. Corn Inspector's Return, TRVIISOOY, Die/utast Na. Wheat, per loqd New Ditto 111 ns to 141 ea Barley, per quarter us od In Slit od Oats 8ean5............. .......... tes od to 3011 od Pease ...... —...... no ato as si 'NEWBURY, BERES, Docams is. Wheat sta od to 49$ od I OM/ I4S od to 444 od Rye —s od to —s od Beaus aea od to no od Barley ens od to too od Pease ...... .ssa od to 30$ od Bread, per gallon, toed lo DEVIZES, Dec zzzzz IR Wheat ..... ...tts od to vas od Oats las od to us od I Barley tts ad to sos od Beans lts ell to is. od tsn Sacks of Wheat sold at the average of las ty, HUNGERFORD, Dc nn so. Wheat 30s od to iSts od I ...... ita od to !Ss ea Barley ass od te tes od Beaos to aas Od SALISBURY, Direamsaa v 4. Wheat vss od to 43$ od I Beans Oats ias oil to Su Id tes od lo s6s od Barleyus od to us od SMITHFIELD, Planar, Deccatasa IT. Although we had a small supply of all descriptions of Meat this morning, yet as a good deal remained unsold from last market day, Beef was ad.. I'eul 4d., and Pork ad. per atoms cheaper; but Mutton sold lively at an advance of ad. per stone. In Hay, Clover, atid Straw, there is no 'Heretics. The following is as accurst: statement of the prices and RUM hers:— To sink the offal--per stone of sibs. Beef ea ed to 4s ud Veal Mutton as 4d to ss od I Pork ss ed to 34 •S Head of Cattle this d*y. Wallis, 146—Sheep, I,63o—Calves, Ite—lrtp, 90. PRICE OF POTATOES, per ton, roailsif, Ducastast IT. Marsh Champions Marsh Shays ........5,18 od to OW OR Upland Champs ...............„.......„..........:*as Sd to I 06 Upland Shaw* ...... .."..Saa Od to spa Quebec' Yoritabire Kidneys ...----• ad I. Apple u. Potatoes .111 ad la am ad Oytoobles MS ad p Ma al COAL MARKET, Doc aaaaa t 7. ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 03i Newcastle 44 Sunderland 4 Yorkshire I Scotch Coal o [From the "Leave New Price Correst."] FRIDAY, DECRIERS& 27. Corrow.—The extensive speculation in Cotton bas betel continued; the quantity purchased by one house is now esti. anted to emceed to,oon bags, about 7,000 bags Bengali from lid. a sad., the remainder Surals sd. a sad. ; about I,seo of liso Bengal. were taken on Monday last. The only effect produced by these sales is, that it is &Walt to purchase at the previous rates, but no actual advance has been realized. The prompt day at the India House, it is now en icipated, sill go off without producing the effect generally looked for g large parcels forced on the market, to meet tire prompt day, at lower prices. The letters from Liverpool, received yesterday, state the Cotton market rather improving. C There have been no public sales of Coffee this work, no purchases by private contract are reported, very gre parcels are lately offering for sale; generally a favourable *plaits's is entertained or Cones as an article of speculation, . and there have been considerable inquiries for St. Domingo Coffee this forenoon. ducisa.—There have been no Muscosades oe show this week on account of the holidays. In Refined Goods very few purchases are rerted. The prices are without variation. /E Some coutracts for spring de livery are to-roe; reported. The inquiries after Foreign Sugar continue, and for • large parcel of good yellow /farewell to, has bistro refused. Run, BUNDY, and Hewn isa.—Tbc prices of Brandy must be quoted id. a yd. per gallon higher ; at the former advance there are considerable buyers, but few pant Is °For at that rate; for the best marks as. sd. is currently reported. Rem is without variation. There is little Geneva at market, and prices are higher. Gits.—There is no advance in the pricetof Greenland Oil; the request has materially improved. lama PIROTISIONs.—Beer and Pork are little varied. The weather bating set in very seserely, a considerable advance in the prices of Butter is anticipated. &gem—Pepper continues very heavy, and parcels for shipment may fro purchased on very low terms; ordinary and light Pepper offers at sd. a sad. Pimento is scarce, and much inquired after; a considerable sale of good quality has been effected at led. Tatsow.—The demand fur consumption has lately bees very considerable, the prices bare been in c equerice sTa dually advancing; the nearest quotation for yi Iluw candle is sea. ad. a 395. Tobacco.—Tobacco continues heavy; the only parcel of any consequence lately disposed of is about see hints. Virginia Leaf ad. a sad. BIRTHS. On Sunday last, at Farnacres, the Lady of the Hon. IL T. Liddle of daughter. On the 7th inst., at Dulwich-hill, Camberwell, the lady of Ralph Ricardo, Esq., uf a son. On the soh inst. the Lady of R. Stubbings, Esq., Doswell. road, of a son and heir. On Tuesday last, in Dneghty-street, the Lady of Lieut.- General Bell, of Madras, of a son. MARRIAGES. On the loth instant, at Northop, by the Hon. and Rev. George Neville, the Rev. John Husband, Fellow orMagdatene College, Cambridge, to Cherlotto., youtogeznitdnatity oi F ghter ii ii a. l t ' the Isle Ldward Junes, Esq., or Wepre, in b On Thursday List, at Richmond, Surrey, Thomas Arthur Stone, Esq., of Argyll-street, to Frances Maria, eldest daughter of the Rev. Robert Green', of Richmond. On the 17th iust , at Durrow Church, in the King's County, John Frolliott, of Hollybrook, in the Comity or Sligo, Esq., and or Lit khill-house, Worcester, to Maria, second daughter °rase late Herbert Rawson Stepney, oh Durruw, iu the Kiog's County, Esq. On Thursday last, at Hampton Church, John Harding,Esq.. to Frances Russell, relict of W. H. Russell, Esti , or Powick Court, Worcestershire, and yoringest daughter of George Thornhill, Esq., of Diddington, Huntingdonshire. DEATHS. On the 16th inst. in Bury-street, St. James's, Colonel John Maclends, of Colima. With him aspired the last of a branch of an ancient and distinguished elan. Al Leamington, on the 54th inst. Arthur Wm. Gregory, Esq. of Veranda, near Swansea. On the sifts inst. at Cavendish-place, Bath, Elisa, the wife of Phineas Bury, Esq. and daughter of the late Edward Stuart, Esq. of Lancaster. On the 6341 inst. Mary Charlotte, the oldest twin daughter of Thomas Staikie, Erg. aged to months. On Tuesday last, at his seat, Langton, Dorset, George Snow, Esq. in the lath year of his NCO. On the sth of April, at Allahanad, Lawrence Keeintway, Esq. of the East India Comp a ny* Civil Service, third son or Sir John Kennaway, Bart. of &not, Devon. At Llangollen, much lamented by his employers, Siam Roberts, for more than thirty -five years gardener to Lady Eleanor Boller and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby. At Burisfuot, in the perish of Stapleton, on the lsth inst. Mr. Geo. Taylor, aged 103 years, much respected by aft who knew him. About a year ago be mowed in a field along with his nephew, George Mingles, and the shine year bound sad stocked 36 stooks of oats is mu day. Ile was never known to have mere than two days sickness till within the lit three months.— Tear Mercarry. On Tuesday, in the slat year of his age, at IA father's house in Surrey, Roger, only son of James Moths, Esq. East-hill, Wandsworth. On the nth instant at Camberwell, in her 67th year, Lillis, wife of Mr. Alex an d er Williamson, of that place. d lately of Sydenbsm, a, nt. On the rut instant, in the avth year of her ige, Bow, the site of Mr. Daniel Harris, of the New-rued, Oxford. On the 13th ult. the Rev. Evans Evans, A.B. Rector of Hiranaut, Montgomeryshire (a gentleman in the meridian of life), retired to rest is good health, and was found a corpse in the morning. On the lath instant, at Netherhury, Mrs. Rachael Mai*. 4 14t0 4 1 et. She has lett no less than 163 children and grind children, and was conveyed to her grave by six granchoes of her lent born, whom she nominated some time since tor the prarpose. HIGH WATER AT LONDO\•RRII)QI DAY. Morning 9 atia. after 2. if Afternoon 38 ads. after 9. Printed and Published at the BRITISH PRESS sod THE °LOBE °thee, No, in, strand, by CILILELSO CORN • WELL, of the Strand.