The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-22 00:00:00

know ,chlevous. SPilx.lT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURN ALS. A letter from Mexico was yesterday receiver in town, which, if its statements may be relied on, discloses a very curious negotiation which has been carrying on between that Government and the Minister for the United States. The letter, we understand, is addressed to so respect able a quarter, that its authenticity is hardly to be doubted. It is affirmed, that a proposition has been made by the American Minister, in conse quence of the threatened invasion of Mexico by the Spaniards, to lend assistance to counteract it, io the most effectual way, by a large advance of money, but not, of c ourse, without a valuable consideration." Mexico, it is proposed, shall make over to the Government of the United Suites, for a term of years in the first instance, the province of Texas and the peninsula of Cali fornia. If at the end of that time the m oney ad vanced shall not be repaid, the possession of those rich and extensive countries is to vest in the United States. The sum to be advanced under this guarantee is stated at between 10,000,000/. and 12,000,0001. sterling,—quite sufficient, if properly applied, to bring that country into a state of prosperity as great as it has ever enjoye d. The temptation, however, might prove too great for the virtue of those who administer its affairs. It is not stated in what manner this proposition has been r eceived h ow by the Mexican Go vernment. We suppose, h ever, unless the bait of so large a sum of money completely blunts their understanding they will }cave the sagacity to guess at the motives of the Government of the Union. Mexico, unfortu nately, lies too convenient to the great Republic not to excite a constant longing for its rich ter ritory and fine harbours. The Government of the Union is too cautious to make known its purposes abrup tl y or ostentatiously, but let it .once have where to till put it its s entire foot, awill entry a nd it w not be e a,:ily removed c complisliO. .For such a consummation, how ever, much :Ime is requisite, but tiler! is nothing more likely :9 acc elerate it than the insane project of a Spanish invasl".—Yinies. o ur duty We have repeatedly consid ered ' h tn press' upon the directors of medical coM,C: - tion the propriety of requiring higher qualifi cations from the candidates for their medical certificates, and of conducting with more rigour an examination into their proficiency in those brandies of knowledge already declared in dispensable. To the full extent which we de. sired, we have reason to believe that our advice has been appreciated ; and that if our recommen dation has not had a corresponding effect on the result produced, it has at least; coincided with the deliberate opinions of those who bare the pov , er of carrying it into execution. We point i 4 out let year certain omissions, which we thought defects, in the course of study decided upon by the authorities of Apotheearies'-liall. We then mentioned that a little more scholarship or know ledge of the learned Itinguages should be re9uired of persons who devoted ibeir lives to sciences which generally borrowed their nomenclature from the Greek and Lat in ; and we suggested it as no unreasonable proposition, that attend ance on a course of midwifery might be exacted of practitioners avho could, upon leaving their examination at the Hall, proceed home and place au accoucheur over their doors. A more strict examination, moreover, into all the branches of knowledge with which candidates were pre viously required to be acquainted, and a pre- set iption of a longer attendance on courses of lectures, if thought necessary, were among the subjects which we proposed for the con sideration of the Court of Examiners. We have lately been favoured with the sight of a table, containing an account of the number of candidates examined, with the number of certi ficates given and refused, which testifies to the conscientious severity with which the examiners perform their difficult duty. Since 1815, when the certificate of Apothecaries'-hall was rendered indispensable to the general practitioner, this severity has been augmented for the advantage of the public and the respectability of the profes sion. In 1820, nearly 300 candidates were examined, and only 13 rejected, or, in other words, the admissions were, to the rejections,' L amely as one to 23. In 1827, the number of tes examined was 510, and the rejections 7 . ' k it or one to ; arid last year the num were as for admission was 3 65, and the leer of clan. a tresses" were 65, or as one t o 5 rejected ads. B_l: l ths. Thus the number of unqualified per ' e a for certificates ha s so ns wn, o stood an 5 to nearly 20 per cent. risen from less than 5e ,,,,„ or e i s ,- . lit years ; and as we within the last: cann ot presume !'ha t the exam l iners are too fas tidious now, we mt:st conclude eii:l.er that they had been too careless bef9re, orthat the J:.andard by which they now estimast the proficiency persons to whom the public health is intrusted has been raised in favour of the public security. We are quite aware that objections may be made jo this inference, and cavils offered to this state at ; but until a case of p artialit y can be made out against the Court of Examiners, of w hi c h w e have never heard a suspicion, we must presume that' the examinations have been fairly conducted, and That the country has been, by them, save from the fliction of 65 incapable dprac titioners ; while , on the -tires hand, it can scarcely be pretended tat the cotes:" of preparatory study is too long, or the test qoa:fication too rigorous, for the generality of those wiJO have succeeded. In any other profession we might be disposed to leave the practitioaer who de pend& upon public patr ona g e to acquire, of his own accord and for his own interest, those qua , lifications which fit him for public confidence. Lawyers and divines cannot very obviously do any irremediable wrong to their clients or their hearers, and therefore may be left without inter ference to find employment according to the be lief which they may establish in their capac;tv after a long experience : but it is otherwise with the surgeon or medical practitioner, whose first operations may be fatal, and from whose instru inents or prescription no appeal can be made. There can be no doubt that to some of those medical candidates who triumphantly pass the ordeal of exs:.mination, the prescribed period of study and full alt2ount of lectures or attendance may be a hardship, because to them they occa sion unnecessary expense and delay ; but no system of education ought to presume extraor dinary talents. It is made for the general mass, and ought to proceed on the hypothesis of ave rage capacity. Some ardent spirits, like the horses of the Sun, may require no ,extraneous stimulus 1, Sputa sua properant, labor est inhibere volanteg;" but the great body of students need the spur more than the curb, and we can find an adequateadequate cjmpetisation for a year's restraint imnpoed on even skilful practitioners, in the rejection o f a eonsiderableal . ledge or ca :na6A, i t i ; lie °l,,,,i3.ll7:llt(.lllll,llslttayecotnb.weyn;isait.t,deemt oear l e te e hx s ec t eo l t a sh n eesr t .ot in-that tlt tt —lbid. a ft.., of m e•lnit:rliatnY'd' rath ertwil to at it is We ha , to be at the preset whether settle int. tT" ter fere eit ber o " t • TS that is hoped a onsequellt upon the elation of were natu. ally and t he vexation and irritation of th e o ne party, ot h er , will be but temporary , and that both par ties will, in time, be gradually sobered down intoj peaceful fc rbcarance. We are assured, that in ' the North ( 'f j island from 250,000 to 300,000 ; that the Orange party, almost to. possess arm: a man, have muskets, and make up for their nu 3ir y lip b st y .shm t e l c e roe s u, n na p t e yr r e i s o ok ril e t y i) t of their Magistrates_ merical inferi , Monaghan, it cipline. Lon Governor itten to Government, suggesting and Go appears, has w, own his tiie personal latelrs,ar the propriety of disarming this highly excited' stating, tran e l d rorn during multitude, and knowledge (havin g many of them hi, "'self), that there are few men better adapted for harp-shooters or guerillas in the world than they are. Government, how ever , have refused to act u Pon the suggesti ons w hi c h his Lordship and otli, •N• Magistrates have trans . I mitted, though few can! b supposed to know •ih e state of the country hal.ter' than those wir o are on the spot, or to p ( _Ant out a wiser c'nurse to a vert the threatened calamities. As autho rities of the North of Ireland a re, ni afortunately, almost exclusively Orange, we should have thought that Government would have been glad to avail itself of the influence of men lik e Lord Rossmore (who is known as a large and liberal landholder), who- is ready to join cordially in drawing the teeth of the exasperated faction. If the one party engross nearly all places of au thority, and are determined to use their power - against the Catholics, and the Government are afraid to purify the Magistracy, it is a strange sort of impartiality which would decline the co operation of those who are desirous of throwing themselves between the oppressors and the op- pressed.—Morning Chronicle, The French Ministers are manifesting their • love cf freedom and liberal institutions, by the - *1):-.er.:11t1011 Of ail sfonotlox Journal, the Aims fi tolique, which oppresse d them of eiou; but injurious friendship, in publishing in their de fence an artide ascribing the chan g e to the in : terposition of Providence , an d declar ink that Religion in tears, after forty years' persecution, claimed a new older of things;" and that the origin of time evil proceeded from a Charter, and from several thousand laws prepared and drawn up by men without faith and religion." Such prosecution might originate as much in a feeling that the publication of such sentiments at the moment was unseasonable, as in any dislike of the opinions themselves; and, at all events, it is tint very gratifying to reflect, that it is deemed necessary to prosecute every opinion not palatable to time men in power, Is there no way of re futing error but by an appeal to the Tribunals ? Is it necessary that every man IA ho lives under a Government should believe that it is the best possible ? The .4postolinue may have sincerely deemed the late change interposition of Pros vidence. There are many thousands of pers. sons in this country who believe that the late Sainti who died in so edifying a manner in front of Newgete, are in an enviable situation compared with those who died unprepared in the Brunswick Theatre, and who conceive Pro, vidence bound to interfere in furthering all their views. It has long been an understood matter in wars between France and England, that on the other side of the Channel Providence is with the French, while op this side Providence is with the English ; and there might might be , I prosecutions going on at the same time in France for makin g Providence an English partisan, and in England for making it a French partisan. Is it not giving too much consequence to folly to prosecute it ? In the same manner a man may disapprove of the Charter, and may publish his disapprobation without meriting prosecution. If we must disapprove of nothing that is established we can never change that which is bad for what is better, The stability of the Charter does not depend on the opinion of the writer of the Apos tolique, but on the attachment of the French people to it. If they We attached to the charter, the adverse opinion of a miserable fanatic will not surely destroy their attachment, There is stv.',yys more ground for apprehend ing that men will feign actiniescence in the pre vailing opinions of a people., than that they will feign disapprobation of them. There is no In quisition in England, and very little risk of pro secution, at present, for opinions; and yet the ingenious Mr. W. Taylor, of Norwich, observes, that " the English ans.l the Spanish are the m oat pious and the least tolerant of all the Eu ropeans ;" and because the English shore this distinction with the Spaniards, insincerity in ~,n-iters will, from instinct, naturally be on the side or intolerance. The prosecution of the Aposidique however, no doubt a rust, in ;..7; order to render the i; . rosecution of the Journal des Dehats less odious. ;,";;_e Ministers, caring • nothing for the Apostolique, are not trobled with anyserdples in sacrificing one for whom they have no regard, in order to reach one whom they hate. The Charter consecrates the principle of Toleration, which is a very odious principle to the greatest part both of Catholics and Pro testants. The Catholics and Protestants differ merely in this—the Catholics deem it a sin in Catholics to tolerate Protestants, but nroper in Protestants to tolerate Catholics, where f;n.-;!estants deem it a sin in Prote st a nts to to lerate Cathoiteß, but proper in Catholics to tole rate Protestants. ff 4 e,o,!holic believes it a sin n less than to tolerate a Protestant, how can ire I believe that the Charter which consecrates the principle of toleration was " drawn up by men without faith and religion ?" No church has ever formally recognised toleration ; but as zeal has begun to cool, and a disposition to tolerate each other has gradually st9len upon the dif ferent sects, the cnuenhmen have connived at the i nno v a tion. Joseph the Second, as is well known, nearly produced a rebellion in Hunga r y by the Edict of Tolcrtivn, 4ftpc his death, when, after an interruption of Afteen years, Diet was called by Leopold, in 1790, it required all the wisdom and firmness of Leopold to make head against the danger. The whole of the clergy, with the exception of two Bishops, with eighty-four lay votes, demanded the re peal of the Edict of Toleration. We have no doubt that habit has since wrought a great change in the Hungarian clergy, as it ha; done in the Scotch Presbyterian clergy, who were long unable to brook the tole ration, which, after the Union, England core . nelled them to swallow. Time is the great phy, sician in :ill these mental diseases. Why should not the Fanatics in France have Liberal organs ali as well as th e Liberals ? Let the sby ' A v & , unliyzx witO, fi'rom want or • ‘7 7 m ust have been min means be allowed the right of cracking jokes and uttering epigrams against the Fanatics : but let the Fanatics in return maledict the. Charter and the Laws, which allow Protestants to enter publicly their temples. This is what ought to be ; but, alas ! fear is a bad counsellor; and we sus pect, whenever parties are under apprehension, the law will be appealed to in aid of opinion. We owe our present security not to the law, nor to the sentiments of Judges, who are as tyran nical as ever, but to the persuasion of our Mi nisters that they are too secure to be injured by the Pres s . Th e F renc h , at all times, are somewhat less fi rm i n t h e urr:ves than the English ; and in periods, of excitement, • their apprehension leads th . -6, to greater acts of imprudence than our public men would think of. It is well for Catholic Emancipation that the change of Minis try in France did not precede the event. Had it been stated, before that event, that Charles the Tenth was induced to dismiss his Ministry, from their refuslil to authorise the publication of the Pope's Bull, in which he anathematized every religious sect, and condemned every liberal in stitution, but with the usual reserve, of protest ing apinst whatever it contained hostile to the Ga l :tican Church, and contrary to the laws of the S.tate, what a clamour would have been raised against poor Popery ? In vain would it have been urged that there is no security against folly and fatuity in Monarchs ; that if an individual invested with political infallibility is set up, the character of the mind of the individual will de termine the character of the manner in which the infallibility is exercised ; that if our Monarch is swayed by a Pope or a Jesuit, another will be swayed by a mistress or a flatterer. Loyal sub jects must submit with patience to the folly of their Sovereigns when they are fools, and thank heaven for their wisdom when they are wise. A Protestant Bishop is pretty nearly as dangerous an animal at the ear of a Sovereign as a Catholic Monk.—lbid. We are glad to find that the Select Ves 4 . ry o f the parish of St. Marylebone are not for some time to be allowed to r e p ose on a " bed of roses." The Parochial Con , - engaged in making prep ar anittee are actively ations to resist by every legal means, in m niu r .ction with the great body of the inhabitants their usurped authority. Five district Cojw- • anttees, as we are informed, have bee " aP" f ointed, with power to nominate collec lebj, to provide the " sinews of war," by receiv ing such sums and donations as the inhabitants may choose voluntarily to subscribe in aid of the proceedings necessary for the vindication and maintenance of their rights. Each collector is furnished with a book, signed by the Treasurers of the General and District Committees ; Monthly Meetings will be held of those Committees and the Collectors, when the re ports of the amount of each district subscrip tion will be announced, and other business connected with the great object of delivering the parish from the domination of the self-elect ed, tax-imposing oligarchy, will be transacted. With regard to the private characters of the in dividuals composing the Select Vesiry of this or any other parish we have nothing to do. They may be all for what we know, most respectable and worthy persons in the private relations of life-,-,our opposition to Select Vestries, of the nature of that in St. itiaryiebone parish, h founded upon broad constitutional principles. We hope the day will never come when English men will tamely submit to the grievous oppres sion of taxation without representation. Such a power, when acquieSced in, argues the highest authority of the tyrant and the meanes.t submis sion of the slave, .;t i 4 a power repugnant to common sense, inconsistent with common secu rity, and opposed to the spirit of the British Constitution. So carefully did our ancestors guard against the introduction of this principle into the machinery of the State, that they would not allow the HOuse of Lords—honourable and exalted as the members of that branch of the Legislature are—to originate money-hills, or pro pose any measures for the taxatrnrdsobf the people—and why ? The House of Lo (with the exception of the Bishops) composed of hereditary legislators, who represent only their own order, could not impose taxes on the people without violating the great maxim, that English men shall not be taxed without their own con sent, signified by their Representatives in Parlia ment assembled. What can be more absurd than that the petty government of a parish should arrogate a prerogative which neither the King nor the House of Lords can exercise without subverting the very foundations of the law by which all power is established If the people must pay taxes to Select Vestries, they. ought, at least, to have the appointment of them ,--they ought to have that salutary control over them Which constituents can exercise over their Representatives. Whenever the power to tax is assumed without the responsibility to account, it is a duty to resist it, and, in such a case, re sistanee cannot be persevered in without eventual success,--Morning Herald, SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT—HEREFORD, Aua• 19. pßi'DoEs V, SKEPP. . . _ This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a gentleman of great re4pectability residing at Led bury, to recover a compensation in damages from the defendant for an unprovoked assault. The plaintiff was a man advanced in years, and the defendant was a - young man. The assault took place at the coffee room of the George Inn, Ledbury, where the plain tiff had gone to read the newspaper. The defendant entered into conversation with him by inquiring the price he agla“.l for a blood mare. The plaintiff, re plied 301. The defendant said !!9 had offered her for 20/. The plaintiff said he never had offered her for less than 30/., and would not sell her for las,— The defendant said he would not give 5/. for her; but he would bet him 101. he had offered her for 20/. 'Pisa nlaintiff declined any bet, and the defendant, Inn his knuckles into the being much irrit plaintiff's face and down his nose. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages one farthing, Thomas Budge was tried for stealing five sheep, the property of Mr. Wilkinson. The evidence was too clear to admit a doubt of the prisoner's guilt, and the Court sentenced him to be transported for life, Samuel Snzith, aged fifteen, was indicted for the manslaughter of a boy of the name of John Wat ';!ps. aged 13. primper and the deceased were at play to gether on Sunday evening, the 11th of May. and in consequence of some p r o v oc at i on, the de.se4sed threw a stone at the brother of the prisoner. The Klepper then threw the deceased down and kicked king in his side three times, and again threw him down three times. The deceased went home in very great pain, and lingered until the Thursday fol lowing, when he died. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Court censured him for his barbarity, and sentenced him to six months' hard labour. john Wilson and George Wilson, father and son, were indicted for uttering base coin. They pleaded Not Guilty; but the prisoners be ing privately informed that if the prisoner John Wilson, the father, pleaded Guilty, no evidence would be offered against the son ; lie was allowed to withdraw his plea, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour. The son was discharged with a suit able admonition. John Wainwright was indicted for, on the 14th of April last, violating the person of Mary Pullen, of Muchcowan, against her will. Mary Pullen, a young girl about fifteen or sixteen years of age, deposed as follows :—My father and mother are both living; I was in the service of Mrs. Perry, and was the only girl in the house; I had lived there more than a year and a half; I had to make the beds of the men who slept in the house; there were three men and two boys, and the prisoner was one of them; the bads of the men were over the back kitchen, in the foremost room; there is a skylight, and no window in the room ; the back kitchen is separated from the front kitchen by two walls, a lath wall and a stone wall, with a passage between, and two doors, one in each ; I went to make the beds between two an d th ree o ' c l oc k on the 14th of April, on a Sunday; I left my mistress in the kitchen, sitting by the fire and preparing the dinner; I had had my dinner, but the men had not; while I was making the beds I was singing; I could get into the back kitchen without going through the front kitchen; John Wainwright came up into the room while I was singing; he caught hold of me and held me; I was standing at the foot of the bed, and I said I would call the mistress ; he said he was not going to hurt me, and he then pushed me back upon the bed.—(The prosecutrix here de scribed the offence.)—He held both my hands with his; I called out " Mistress !" three times; the prisoner then went away down stairs : I remained up stairs, and made the three beds; when I came down stairs my mistress and a workman were is the kitchen ; I was crying, and the workman asked me what had happened to me, but I did r,ot tell him; my mistress took, me into the parlotn., and asked me what was t 3 , - ,2 matter, and I told 'her what the pri soner hr,il done; my mistres.F, sent me home to my mother. Cross- examined—l 'aid not see Woodhouse in the kirchen, nor did T .. say anything to the prisoner in . I `;oodhouse's presence before I went up stairs ; 'mere is no dorm from the back-kitchen into the room where the beds are, and the kitchen clock can be heard to strike there; the clock is by the stone wall in the front kitchen, and could be heard if you were in the first room up stairs, but not in the se cond, although there is no door between the two, but only a door-case. The prisoner and I were not very good friends before this; we never had a quarrel, but I never liked none of them—none of the men, for they would not leave me alone; they were romping with me, but I did not romp with them; Woodhouse was always playing with me, and would never let me alone. Catharine Perry—l am a widow ; Mary Pullen lived in my service on the 14th of April ; the pri soner and a person named Woodhouse were in my service also. On the 14th of April, Woodhouse came home first to dinner; the girl had gone to make the beds; the kitchen door was shut ; I could not hear what took place in the furthermost bed room, nor did I on the occasion in question; the distance is about 14 yards ; Woodhouse had nearly done his dinner before Wainwright came in ; he took some dinner and then went away; the prose cutrix soon after came down crying; I took her into the parlour, and asked her what was the matter? she told me; the witness then described the state in which the prosecutrix was at the time. Cross-examined—My son came in while Wood house was at dinner; the house is an old one, but the boards fit very close ; there is nothing but the boards to separate the bed-room from the kitchen underneath; I reckon the 14 yards from the front kitchen to the middle of the back kitchen. Both of the rooms up stairs lie over the back kitchen. There is a different staircase to the rooms over the front kitchen; I heard no screams at the time in question. Mrs. Pullen—l am the mother of the prosecutrix. She is 14 years old; I worked for my daughter while she was at Mrs. P.'s; she came to me on the evening of the 14th April, crying; I asked her what was the matter, and she told me; the witness de scribed the state of her daughter at the time; she cried almost all that night, and the next morning also; I took her to a surgeon a week afterwards, but I do not know his name; he said it was too late.— This olosed the case for the prosecution. The Counsel for the prisoner then called John Woodhouse-4 lived in the service of Mrs. Perry on the 14th of April ; I came home to dinner with Wainwright about three o'clock ; I heard Mary Pullen call John Wainwright up stairs; he went up stairs, and I went to my dinner; I heard no cries, although I can hear the kitchen clock. By Mr. Seijeant TADDY—I have heard the kitchen clock strike in the farthest room repeatedly. John Morris—l know Mary Pullen-.-1 had a con• versation with her about the prisoner; she met me as I was going to work, and said she was to be called on to go to the Assises; she then said she was fond of 'Wainwright, and she would not appear against him if her father and mother had not persuaded her. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. Serjeant TARDY told the prisoner to be cau tious as to his future conduct,. for he now perceived the danger he had incurred by his former indiscretion POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A decently dressed middle-aged man, who gave his Dame Robert Clark, was brought before Sir J. SHAW yesterday, on suspicion of stealing a purse, containing .50/. in Bank notes and two sovereigns, from the person of a country attorney, recently ar rived in London upon business. Sir JAMES SHAW said he would give the prisoner the option of being remanded till Saturday or Mon day, to produce his witnesses. The prisoner fixed on the latter day, and was re manded accordingly. WESTERN CIRCUIT-BODMIN, A. 19. The Civil Court was occupied the entire day with a case of no public 'interest. It related to the ownership of a vessel. Our only reason for men tioning it consists in the circumstance of the Jury complaining that they could not hear Mr. Justice Burrough's charge, ill@ case being concluded, the Learned Judge proceeded to sum up and comment upon the evi dence. At the conclusion of the charge, one of the Jury said--" My Lord, I am very sorry to be under the necessity of addressing your Lordship upon the subject ; but the fact is, neither my bro ther jurymen nor myself have been able to hear a single word of your Lordship's charge, and we very much wish to hear it." Mr. Justice BußßOUGH—Gentlemen, I am very sorry for the circumstance. What can we do? The Juryman—Perhaps the Jury might move nearer to your Lordship. Mr. Justice Burtnotion—By all means......let room be made on the bench f u the gentlemen of the jury. This was dime, All the ladies upon the bench were turned out of their places, which the jurymen quitting their box occupied. They stood close by his Lordship's side, and receivo his. dilutions as to the ease.' Unfortunately, however, the Counsel engaged in the cause, and the parties, were similarly eircum, stanced with the Jury, previous to their change of position : they could not hear a word, We regret to say that the inaudibility of the Learned Judge was not ascribable to any defect in the construct►on of the Court. Similar ground of co mplaint has existed throughout the entire circuit, although the complaint has not been before pub, li c ly made. In the Crown Court two persons were tried for assaults on children--one, William Hilliard, was ac quitted; and the other, Wiliam Stephens, was con victed, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, The details of both cases are unfit to meet thu pub, lie eye, NEW ANECDOTE OF BURNS.—Being in church one Sunday, and having some difficulty in procuring a seat, a young lady who perceived him, kindly made way for him in her pew. The text was upon the terrors of the Gospel, as d,.nounced against sinners, to prove which the preacher referred to several passages of scripture, to all o f which the lady seemed very attentive, but somewhat agitated• BURNS, on perceiving this, wrote with a pencil on the blank leaf of her Bible the following lines " Fair maid, you 'seed not take the hint, Nor idle texts pursue ; 'Twas only sinners that he meant— Scotsman. Not angels such as you." BOW-STE EET. A little Jew, named Abraham Simmons, was charged by a respectable horse-dealer named Peir son, who resides in Castle-street, Oxford -street, with assaulting him under the following circumstances:— The complainant, it appeared, was proceeding peaceably along Monmouth-street, when, in passing the old clothes shop kept by the defendant's father, he chanced to jink some sovereigns that were in his breeches pocket. The defendant, attracted by the sound, immediately laid hold of the complainant's skirts, and invited him to buy a great coat. The complainant replied, that he did not want one; but the defendant still stuck to his skirts, and insisted upon his becoming a customer. Upon being remon strated with by the complainant, who insisted upon being allowed to proceed upon his business, the de fendant let fly at him suddenly, and struck him a blow in the mouth that brought him to the ground. Sir R. BIRNIE, in holding the defendant to bail, observed, that it was a most aggravated assault. William Hughes Jones, who stands charged with an extensive forgery upon the Customs, in which department he had been employed as a clerk, under went a second private examination, before Sir R. BinNtr, in Mr. Stafford's office. No less, it is said, than twenty-three witnesses were examined for the prosecution, several of whom were finally bound over to give evidence on the trial. The prisoner, however, is not as yet committed, as, upon applica• tion to Sir R. BIRNIE, the reporters were informed that the publication of the evidence in the pregent stage of the inquiry, might tend to defeat the ends of justice, there being other parties concerned in the forgery, who are as yet at large. The prisoner, we understand, is related to a gentleman holding a high situation in the Customs. MARYLEBONE A stripling came before Mr. HOSKINS, about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, whose agitated frame denoted that he was under the apprehension of something dreadful; and after declaring himself to be deeply in love with one Miss Dowler, he told the Magistrate he had just received a challenge by the twopenny-post to fight a duel on Sunday morn ing next, at Chalk-farm, with his rival, young Mr. Earnshaw, the watchmaker, of Holborn. It was very shocking to be obliged to fight a duel, but much more shocking to be told that Miss Dowler hated him, and considered him a good-for-nothing fellow. " Here is the letter, Sir," said he, " and if you will condescend to read it, you will see my situation." " Friday Morning. " Sir,—l have lost no time in answering four note I got late last night, in which you ordered me not to pay my addresses to Miss Dowler; and like wise you challenge me to fight you a duel on Sun day morning next. " I acknowledge that I am a novice at fighting duels, but in such an honourable cause as that of fighting for myself and Miss Dowler, which I ac knowledge I tenderly and sincerely love, and there fore will sooner lose my life than think of parting with her. I am determined to punish your pre sumption for saying that she has vowed she loved you, and last night she told nte it was false, and said you was a good-for-nothing fellow, and she was a great mind to fight you herself. " Perhaps, Sir, you think that you are sending a challenge to a fool or a coward, that would not ac cept it; but you will not find that person in me, for I have been practising pistol shooting for this last three months. I think, therefore, that I can shoot such a booby as you, and your seconds afterwards. I am, Sir, determined ,to accept your challenge; I will therefore meet you at Chalk-farm at the time appointed with my seconds. I shall bring pistols with me, and you can do the same. Mine will be loaded with grape-shot and a bullet.—l am yours till then, F. EAINSHAW. " P.S.—I am determined to conquer or die for my dear Betsey. I will have blood for blood, therefore do not fail to meet me, or you must take the consequences.—Holborn." The letter bore the Holborn post-mark, and was directed " To T. Mason, at Mr. Stewart's, carver, 40, Windmill -street, Tottenham-court-road. Mr. HOSKINS told him it was a challenge accepted, and not given; and asked him if he had interfered with Mr. Earnshaw, or sent him a letter. " Never, Sir," he replied. " Some one has writ ten in my name to give him a challenge." Mr, flositiNs—Theii, if it is explained, you have nothing to fear. You are not obliged to meet him at Chalk-farm. The applicant declared his life was in danger, and, after dwelling upon the terrors of grape-shot and a bullet, Mr. HOSKINS ordered Webster, one of the officers, to bring Mr. Earnshaw before him in the eveniug. Webster went off immediately with a peace warrant, and Mr. Earnshaw, jun., (not Eainshaw, as written in the challenge,) appeared in the eve ning at the office. He was acquainted with the young lady in question, and had for a short time kept company with her, but the letter was not in his handwriting,and he said he knew nothing about it. Mr. HOSKINS concluded it to be a hoax upon both the parties, and he_ dismissed the case. QUEEN.SQUARE. Yesterday Thonzaa Coggan, the driver of one of the Fulham stage-coaches, appeared to a summons obtained against him before Messrs. GREGORIE and THlssEuroN, by Mrs. Elizabeth Edmonds, a lady of respectability, residing at Keppel-house, in the Ful ham-road, for assaulting her. There was also another charge of assault preferred against him by Mr. Thomas, of the same place. It appeared from Mrs. Edmonds' statement, that last Sunday she was returning from town to her own home, in the defendant's coach, and when she got down 2s. was demanded as the fare. This she resisted, whereupon the defendant got off the box, and abused her in the most insolent manner, and assaulted her. She at last paid him his demand. Mr. Thomas corroborated this statement, and said that when he was about to remonstrate with ;be defendant, he pushed him in the rudest manner, although he offered to be answerable for the fare.— Mts. Edmonds was greatly alarmed at the defendant's conduct, and had suffered severely from the rough usage she had received. The proprietor of the coach stepped forward, and said the fare was 2s. Some person in the office de nied this. _ . . Mr. GREQORIE observed that the short stage fares were not regulated at all; the coachmen were all very civil to get persons to enter their co ac h es , and when they got them to the cud of their journey they were insulted and abused if they did not comply with their demands. The assault was, however, of a trivial nature, and he should flue him 10s. for the assaults, and 7s. costs; and he might consider him self fortunate the complainant . had not laid an in formation against him far his insolence. The money was immediately paid. UNION-HALL, i t o h o e . landlord m,as of summonedthe h er of for r f Yesterday Charles Cottrell, a yo u th , the son of cruelty Waterloo, to ertz stated, that on Saturday, as he was ail‘ p ni r cir o l‘t: c hl e C:k e : d eW:Y i t t ,ra g etnlielr a : long the Waterloo..road, his attention was attracted towards a donkey, upon which a boy was riding accompanied by the defendant, who walked by his side. The rider of the animal first commenced beating it with a whip, for no earthly reason he (Mr. Gompertz) could cliscol ef L . when he was tired of flog g i n g it, the defen dan t the whip himself, and going behind the donk e y' gan to flog away in the most unmerciful to The whip used on the occasion was either It or a chaise whip, he could not say w hich. .A I , In reply to the M ag i s t ra t e (Mr. Sw4lo",e'.. witness admitted that h e did n ot discern aq ui on the animal after the alleged flagellation, i) The defendant's moth e r produced a sma ll lea to thonged whip, such a s th o s e exhibited for sale ia , Tunbridge ware shops, and used by little IAY play. She stated that the donkey in questions purchased for her son, a boy in a very d e licate , tt of health, to ride up an d do w n the road. Thell fellow was on the animal at the time in qu est° accompanied by his brother, and the whip nowt 01011 duced was the only one used on the occasion. 4„ The little fellow was here sworn, and he O . : that when he was riding the donkey, it becatne" stubborn, and instead of keeping in the road, o: get on the pavement, and tried to run into a sho maker's shop. In order to prevent it, he beg an 10 ing it with the whip his mother bad shako , 0 could not keep it off the pavement; upon iv- cll, oto, hi brot her lash o ton theaks okthe fl w n hip u f n r t o i m l he made him,an it get it the road again. 10' 1 A. man named Bishop, who witnessed the into road 41 swore that the whip now produced was the or lo , on the occasion. Th ere was no unnecessary violetr. exhibited by either of th e boy s towards the do nito i•• which was very st u bb orn . f l r O iv s o . lo u u p s o a n nd y Mr. SWABE; said that a more frivolous or re‘a ti t case was never brought before a Magistrate."." 7 ing the whole of the circumstances into onside il tion," said the Magistrate, " I shall P uta , fine rhil you, Mr. Mr. Gompertz appeared confounded at t he 0 cision. When he recovered in some measure fr,0,1 vexatious Gompertz, chargeag ai n f s o t r ih b e ring . bringin g r!, the surprise into which he was thrown, he saitb if shall take further advice on the subject, aa' a P P ' to the Court of King's Bench." ' int• P Mr. Cottrell, .the father of the defendants - 0 mated his determination to indict Mr. GornPe rts ,o assaulting his son on the occasion in question %- his umbrella. defendandl TOWN-HA LL. On Thursday a respectable-looking woman, {►i'e t , Ann Clarke, made the following statement to Alderman J. J. SMITH : She said that an unfortunate female, in the year of her age only, whom she had known for 50 ' 00 time, came to her house about a week since Wit h infant six months old in her arms, the fruits, of illicit amour, imploring shelter, having re turned, d she said, f r om a j ourne y to th e north in search k the child's father. Sh e was d es titute, and she of r her in from sheer motives of humanity, affording net every relief her humble circumstances admitted °; The following day she made her case known to officers of the pari s h sh e re s id e d in (St. . 09 : Horslydown), who not only then, but several tin; 0 since, refus e d a ll re li e f, b ut th reatene d her with t f l og pains of the treadmill, an d th e p e n a lty of 501 ' Ler harbouring her. With all th ese terrors before ij she refused to outrage humanity by thrusting thel t i happy creature, at the point of death, as she heli eq d and her innocent off s p r i ng , f rom h er door, and co ve t the Alderman's interf erence . Thi s was her statet nell ; Alderman J. J. SMITH, in consequence, or dereu r Mr. Newman, th e p r i nc ip a l c l er k, to a ddress a let to the overseers of St. John's parish, recommendint immediate attention to the case with the infortna ti° 4 that if their neglige n ce s ho u ld b e at t en ded with $l 4 . serious result, they wo u ld b e h e ld answerable' t1:1, with this, Kinsey, the officer, was i n trusted, wit , - 0 strict orders to investigate the truth of the woman statement. Yesterday morning Kinsey r e p or t e d to gr. — Ars derman ANSLEY (put in possession of the peri lcu. lars), that he saw the mother and child last evening! in the presence of the parish officers, who left ow' shilling for their support. lie considered the ther the time to be at th e point of death, andol pressed such to be his b e li e f. That morning lust fled his apprehensions—he fo un d h er a co rpse !1 ° his belief, and the belief of all who saw her misert'i remains, was, that she died f r om wa nt o f need. ° attention, her remains being little more tha n skeleton of the human body.' The woman Clarke then presented herself, W Jt the infant child of the deceased in her arms, gin , said, that the pari s h offi cers h a d sen t a coffin Ins th mother, it was true, but had told her t hat s might do what she liked , with the child, they 'iff°llo,,td; have nothing to say to it : and as she held It UP the Alderman's view, prayed him, for the suite the Almighty, to interfere. We do not exaggerat e w h en we say that ALDERMAN shuddered and exclaimed, " T h t !- shocking indeed !" and i n con j unct i on with the' e „, ings of all p resen t, or d ere d an i mme di a te 81; 00 ; to be issued for the attendance of the parish once A few days since a large pike Was found dea r u : in a pit at Horseway near Chutteris, which measured 10, wa.rds of three feet in length, and weighed upwards of , pounds—he had long been a terrible enem y to the d u gA lfr Cambridge Chronicle. t he • For some time past, two appl e -t r ees, one 1 " oe' garden of Mr. W. G W INNELL, and th e o th er in the g" it h of Mr. W. BISHOP, of this town, have been c overed If i or blossom, though hearing a Sue crop of fruit at the time.— Cheltenham Chronicle. On the 21st inst., in Queen BIRTHS Ann-street, the lady of C ' Pepys, Esq., of a daughter. of . On the 19th inst. Mrs. Evans, of Fisb-street -hA a daughter. MARRIED. On the 20th inst., at St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, 11 the Rey. Josiah Pratt, M. A., P. H. S. Colson, Etol• si r geon, Old Jewry, to Pleasance, second daughter of Parrish, Surrey-street, Strand. On the 20th inst. at Peterborough, the Rev. Chart °, C. Edridge, eldest son of the late Rev. Dr. Edridge, Vi daroline Elizabeth Manners, only slaughter of the Rev. Lockwood, Prebendary of Peterborough, and Vicar, Lowestoft. On the 20th inst. at Greenwich, Thomas Oswald, oil of Lewisham, to Harriett, the fourth daughter of J. Co ffr tar, Esq. of the former place ; and at the same time t Farrar, Esq. to Eliza Mace, the fifth daughter of JoseP Carttar, E.g. - DIED. On the 19th inst. at Lancaster, Abraham Rawlin s°l7l Esq. of Fakenhatn, Norfolk. On the 19th inst. Anna Maria, wife of G. Carting t°l4 Esq. of Missenden-abbey, Endo'. r Red" On the 21st inst. a ge d 58, M r . Ed w . Si tn kin, 0. cross-street, Cripplegate. On the 19th in s t., I sa b e ll a Frances, daughter a n, " child of Mr. M ere di t h, o f t h e Gl o b e , N ort h A u dley- 9 t r— Grosvenor-square. EAST INDIA.—DEATHS. At Benares, Feb. 15, Lieut. Burford, Adj- Oh' Begt. N.I. aged 29. At Moul me i n , F e b. 9, M a j or Thos. Hilton, late in comm At an 45 th Foot. Triehinopoly, Jan. 29, Frances Cath. Smith, 'r if t Qf Major Henry Smith, of the I s t Regt. N. l . of spasm cholera. At Vizagapatam, Mara 4, Mr. T. Ander son, of the Surveyor's Department. At Sattarah, Feb. 23, Lieut. D. Manoe, of 2d Greys dia. Regiment of Native Infantry. At Mhow, Feb. 25, Lieut. S. A. Crofton, . 10th Bee' N. I. aged 24. At Jooteeghatn, in Khgndes, Feb. 28, W. J. Gra l '! l* Esq. aiusl 20. At Rundara, near Nagpoor,l2, T. T" rnt(Pri : Esc s t M.D. Asst.-Surgeon of the Madras E.tablishole.ll' and in the service of his Highness the Rajah of NagP °6l l,.. At Quilon, March 12, the lady of Capt. John It'"° D. At A. Qr. Mr. Verdaputty, March 3, Ensign G. Clarke, of 11 e 15th Regt. N.I. March 8, the Rev. Henry Allen, M.A. Military Cl - lain, Cuddalore. At Madura, March 17, Ensign James Carman, :.egt. N. I, PAINTED and PußLlsHau by 1111/RDO YOUNG, aelb e OFFIOE, 1 12, STRAND, LONDON. tz A