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gulated free port, all fears as to the illicit intro duction of tea and India manufactures would be obviated, and the market of Canada would, in reality, become to the United States what those States were, till lately, to the colonies,—a mart for the supply of Eastern products. Objec tions, of which we are not aware, may be started to this project by persons who possess local in formation ; but it appears to us to deserve at least consideration.—lbid. .The French liberal Journals continue their bitter invectives against the new Ministry ; and if we may judge from the extracts from pro vincial Papers which they give, the Editors of the latter are determined not to be outdone by their brethren of the capital. Literary men, too, who are seldom overstocked with money, refuse even to be pensioned by the Ministers. It is a proverb, that lookers on see most of the game ; but we suspect an Englishman, whatever atten tion he bestows on the game now playing in France, is not likely to understand it. The bitterness of the Papers supposes a general con- viction that the present change is in fact the harbinger of a revolution. The Journals are in a state of feverish excitement, which seems un favourable to us, who cannot appreciate their grounds of apprehension. Oiie thing is certain, that those to whom the Journalists aultdress themselves in such warm language, must share their apprehensions. The great point is, how will all this affect the Mi nistry ? Will the latter, by remaining passive during the effervescence of national feeling (for violent excitement is necessarily of short dura tion), after the fury has exhausted itself, be enabled to make head against their opponents ? We all know the fable of the boy and the wolf; and it is possible that this early alarm sounded go perseveringly through the country, if not jus tified by any overt acts on the part of the Minis ters, may be in time followed by an apathy fa vourable for the appearance of the wolf in the scene. But as we know neither the extent of the means of the Ministers, nor the extent of those which the Opposition can bring to bear against them, it would be idle in us to indulge in farther conjecture. The Constitutionnel, with the characteristic ignorance of all Frenchmen of the state of our Empire in India, repeats the old tale of . the danger to be apprehended from the Russians in that quarter. This is about as formidable a danger as that to which, according to an article imputed to Mr. Barrow, in the Quarterly Review, the United States of North America were exposed from an invasion from the Russian settlements in America.—Morning Chronicle. 'We have never shared the apprehensions of those who see in the present operations of the Russians the probability of such an accession of power as to make them dangerous to their western neighbours. In the Foreign Quarterly Review, No. 8, just published, there is an able article on the Russian conquests on the Black Sea and the Caucasus, which, to those who wish for in formation oFt this subject, conveys some curious matter, derived from the recent publications of" the Chevalier Ganiba, Colonel Rothers, and M. Klaproth. That the Government of the Rus sians, with all its defects, appears to great ad vantage, when compared with the Governmen of her Mahomedan neighbours, is pretty wel evinced by the eagerness of the Armenians to be placed under the sway of Russia. " The Cara vanserais," says the Reviewer, " and other im provements to which M. Gamba refers, were not begun till the year 1820. In the year following, a complete freedom of trade was granted to Tiflis by an Imperial Ukase, and every day the popu lation of the place is increased by the arrival of Armenians, who seek refuge there from the tyranny of the Turks, and the vexations of the Persian Government. The Armenians, so cu riously distinguished among Asiatic nations by their pacific temper and patient industry, are na turally rejoiced at the extension of the Russian power, which substitutes security and pei feet to leration for anarchy and extortion. They are the most valuable subjects of the Caucasian Pro vinces ; and when we consider how numerous they are on the frontiers of Russia, Persia, and Turkey, we need feel little surprise at the rapid increase of the former power at the expence of the two latter, while the Armenians fly daily to the protection of the Russians, and carrying with them all their wealth, industry, and intelligence, leave to the brutal government they desert nothing but depopulated provinces." The sentiments of the people of the frontier provinces of Persia and Turkey are generally favourable to Russian rule, to which they look forward as a relief. But the acquisitions, however gratifying , to the ambition of Russia, are a source of weak ness rather than of strength. The tribes of the Caucasus are savage and restless, and their sub jection to any Government is merely nominal. " the number of troops usually stationed in the Caucasian Provinces is 60,000, almost all Cos sacks ; but at present it is probable that the army on the frontiers is much increased. In order to maintain so large a force in a country so ill culti vated that, with all the gifts of nature in profu sion, it affords but a precarious supply, provisions are obliged to be sent across the mountains ; and as the revenues of those countries are by no means adequate to meet their expellees, Russia is obliged to remit on their account about eight millions of francs per annum." We are not of the number of those who would perpetuate op pression, and prevent the progress of civilization, from an apprehension of Russian greatness. We do not advocate a right to Russia of encroach incre, on the territories of her neighbours on ac count of the qualities of her Government. To lay it down as a rule that a State might, with a view to introduce ameliorations, invade its neighbours, would be santioning a very danger ous doctrine. But there is a material difference between encroachments on savages or half savages, and encroachments on civilized States. The Americans, and even our Government, are con stantly encroaching on the Red natives. We make no scruple of seizing the lands over which the Black natives of New Holland and Van Diennan's land have roamed for ages. The en croachments of Russia towards the East are somewhat akin to the above. They are hailed • by the natives, to whom any sort of settled Go vernment is a blessing. Under such circum stances, the nations of the West of Europe ought not to be too forward in opposing them selves to the designs of Russia. The only intel ligible ground of interference is a regard to self reservation. But what have the States of the est to fear from any access of power to Russia from her conquests ? " Throughout all tile Southern provinces of Russia (says the Re viewer) travellers are obliged to carry with them their bed furniture and provisions ; the accommo dations of innsand public conveyances are still un known. There is nothing more remarkable (says M. Gamba) than the contrast in this respect which is offered by two new countries—the United States of America and Southern Rus- sia. In America, as soon as a tract of country is cleared and occupied by the colonist, inns and public vehicles are immediately established, and travellers are relieved from the necessity of bring ing with them a►► expensive and troublesome equipage. In Russia, after twenty years of settlement, we find no such facilities—no means of lightening the expellee or relieving the fatigues of travelling. It cannot be concealed that this difference proceeds in a great measure from the circumstance, that in one country the colonists arc emigrants from a nation which has reached the highest degree of civilization ; while settlers in Southern Russia are either drawn from Russia itself, where the habits and tastes of nomadic life are still predominant, or they are men broken by misfortune, and forced, by their distresses, to quit Germany ; or, in fine, they are merchants and agriculturists, who coming only with the in tention of a temporary abode, trouble themselves little with improvements which do not promise immediate profit. I may add, among the circum stances which oppose the amelioration of which this country is susceptible, the want of support in the local Administrations. Thus, while the g reater number of the Governors-General and the Heads of Departments are distinguished by their upright character and their zeal for the ser vice—while the Sovereigns of this vast empire neglect no means of preventing every abuse of power, the underlings of office, in the thirteenth and fourteenth-- degrees, abuse unceasingly the a t o m of authority with which they are entrusted. These vexations are incessant, in proportion as they are obscure ; and, from their Covert nature, completely elude detection." Alas ! if the de velopment of society is to depend on the aid ol Administrations, how distant must be its con summation. Such a stimulus to enterprise and industry is never dreamt of on the banks of the Ohio or the Missouri. But in Russia, as M. Gamba well knows, whatever does not proceed from the Government itself, is looked on with suspicious eyes. Jealous of its patriarchal cha racter, it allows no man to think for himself ; and those impertinent interferences with private spe culation, of which M. Gamba complains, are not to be ascribed so much to the incidental faults of inferior officers, as to the nature of autocracy, itself. The spirit of industry is damped under a Government which is careful to engross all praise and all profit. An Empire so constituted, how ever great may be the virtues of its chief, is but an ill-judged Promethean experiment, in which the vital spark is confined to the head, and hardly gives animation to the limbs. Though, therefore, the Russian Government gives a de gree of security unknown in Turkey or Persia, it is still but a very imperfect instrument. So far from dreading the development of resources from her accessions of territory, our only regret is that . it will not be greater. The people of England are but too apt to confound the capability of Turkey in their own hands and in the hands of the Russians. Even the French, enlightened as they are, languish under that system orcentraliza don, which is the curse of Continental States. Delegated authority must be abused. When Prefects, Sub-Prefects, and all their subordi nates, are invested with powers of suppressing exertions, industry must labour under great dis advantages. England has no cause to dread Russian greatness, whether Russia keeps within her old frontiers or extends them.—Mid. It is time that the vending of poison in this country should be put under some salutary re strictions. The facility with which the most deadly drugs can be procured at the shops of chemists and apothecaries affords too easy an opportunity of carrying into effect the most guilty intentions. The dark, malignant, and cowardly crime of assassination by poison is more heard of in this country of late years than it used to be. This crime, which is more diffi cult to guard against than any other aiming at the life of man, ought to have as much impedi ment thrown in its way as possible by making the means of destruction so difficult to be obtained that the exertions necessary to procure them might operate in some degree as a prevention. At present, any person who conceives the horrid design of destroying another by poison has only to go to a chemist's shop and make use of the stale pretence of wanting arsenic to kill rats, and he is at once supplied with the means of effect ing his diabolical purpose. T he chemist, indeed, who sold poison to Stratford, the murderer, made it a practice to require a witness to come with the person wanting to purchase the de leterious article—even this precaution few or no other chemists adopt ; but this is a very in sufficient measure. It is rather of use to es tablish evidence of the fact than to operate in any way to prevent the criminal intention from being carried into execution. In our opinion, no poison should be permitted to be sold to any individual without the precautionary step of the purchaser going before a Magistrate, and ob taining a certificate, enabling him to purchase, the granting of this certificate would depend upon his satisfying the Magistrate of the innocence of the object for which the poison was required. The vender should also be compelled to keep a book, in which should be entered the names of those so purchasing deadly drugs, with the date of the transaction, and the exact quantity sold. The interrogation before the Magistrate, and the difficulties of the proceeding, might serve to awaken reflection where the mind was not thoroughly depraved, and thus a locus penitentice be afforded to those who, though they might have hardihood enough to rush into sudden crime, might not be so desperately infatuated as to be capable of persevering in the guilty design, where the first step was calculated to rouse the conscience, or awaken the mind to the enormity of the act, and a sense of its consequences.— Morning Herald. Though we give all the credit which is so justly their due to those arrangements by which, on the opening of the new Post-office, additional conveniences are to be afforded to the public, yet we cannot but express a hope that, on the other hand, these are not to be accompanied by ally curtailment of those which at present exist. We have heard, for instance, that the present number of receiving houses is to be diminished, and the collection of letters by the bellman to be abolished. Neither of these reports we hope is true, as they would greatly diminish, if not in fact overbalance, the advantage likely to be de rived in other respects from the more late recep tion of letters than at present at the new sorting houses. These latter must, of necessity, be in some degree local in their advantages. An in habitant of the Regent's Park or Paddington, for instance, will gain very little by letters being received an hour later in Vere-street, or those in Slmine-street or Pimlico by a similar arrangement at Charing-cross : but the certainty that up to the usual time letters will still be re. I ceived at the usual places, and that, on pay meut of a penny a letter, even an hour after that, may be given to the batman at the door, are great and acknowledged conveniences, of which, we trust, it will not be found necessary to deprive the public. 'We would take this oppor tunity too of saying another word in behalf of our poor half-starred, slip-shod friends, the two penny post-men, many of whom appear to have no flesh upon their bones, or clothes to cover them. As servants of a great public department their appearance is a public disgrace, and, from its being so general, must, we should imagine, arise from the inadequacy of the remuneration which they receive. Surely a livery like that (riven to the General Postmen might be ,be stowed upon them, were it only for appearance sake ; though we should rather say that, upon the principle of the lhourer being worthy of his hire, these persons, who labour so hard, ought to be adequately paid. The truth is, the Post office has always been looked to too much as a mere source of revenue ; while, in fact, that ob ject ought to be subsidiary, first, to the conve nience of the public in every possible way, and ;hen, among other things, to a just remunera ion to those who are engaged in carrying its iseful details into effect.—lbid. The permission which has at length been granted by the East India Company to English residents, to hold lands in their own right for various agricultural purposes, is a most impor tant step towards the improvement of that highly favoured and extensive region. Much, we readily allow, has been done by the Com• pany in various ways, to ameliorate the condi tion of its peaceably disposed and industrious inhabitants. The administration of justice has been greatly improved—the possession of pro perty rendered more secure—protection afforded against foreign violence, and, in a word, the peace and tranquillity of all secured in a manner so much superior and so much more satisfactory in every way to any thing previously experienced in any part of India, that its most intelligent inhabitants would think once and again, before they lent themselves to the furtherance of any scheme which had the overthrow of the Eng- lish governnent of India for its basis. Still, it must be owned, that while the Company refused permission to Europeans to hold land in their own right, one great mean of improving the country and spreading know ledge and the arts of civilization more ex tensively was withheld. Those who went to India repaired there for the purpose of making their fortunes, and afterwards returning to spend them in their own country.—Their in terest in India and its inhabitants was equally limited. Landed property could not be held in it, and one great motive for residing in, and im proving, it, was not only in consequence with drawn ; but the country, its inhabitants, and its resources, viewed simply as the means of con tributing to one great, but individual object. Now, however, that prejudice has given way to reason, and mistaken notions to a wise and be nevolent policy, we may confidently expect to witness not only a great improvement through our every pat tof India to which Englishmen and English capital have access, but a manifestation of greater benevolence to its inhabitants, and a more cordial intercourse between them and their protectors than has hitherto taken place. The former have many vices of character, but they are vices superinduced by bad government, and which will readily give way under the influence of kind treatment and judicious management. — Morning Advertiser. SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT—SHREWSBURY, Auo. 15. DOE, DEM. TILE MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF CAR NARVON, V. POWELL AND OTHERS. Mr. J. JERVIS opened the pleadings. Mr. TAUNTON (with whom was Mr. Campbell) said this was an action of ejectment brought to re cover the possession of certain premises now occu pied as the Custom-house of Carnarvon. They had been formerly demised by the Mayor and Corpora.. tion to a member of the Wynn family, at a rent of 10s. per annum. When originally reserved, that rent was probably the value of the land, as the building which now formed the Custom-house had been since built upon it. Lord Newborough was now the head of the Wynn family, and let the pre mises to the defendants at a rent of 6.51. per annum. The Corporation considered the premises were worth more than 10s. a year, and directed an ap plication to be made to his Lordship on the subject, but he disdained holding under the Corporation, and claimed to have the premises in his own right. This disclaimer rendered it unnecessary for the Cor poration to give him notice to quit, and therefore this action was brought to ascertain who had the best right to the property. The premises were oc cupied partly as a Custom-house, and partly as a habitation for the clerks. The defendant, Mr. Powell, was the principal officer, and Mr. Goddard was the chief clerk.—Verdict for the defendants. OXFORD CIRCUIT-HEREFORD, AUG. 18. Mr. Seijeant TADDY opened the commission here yesterday afternoon ; and this morning, after attend ing divine service, at the Cathedral, Mr. Baron VAUGHAN took his seat on the civil side, and Mr. Serjeatit TADDY on the Crown side. DOE, DEM. OF MASTERS, V. GRAY. Mr. CAMPBELL said, this was an action of eject ment to recover from the defendant the possession of a cottage which had been sold to the plaintiff so far back as 1785, by two individuals of the name of Phillips, for the sum of seven guineas. The premises had been in the occupation of the Phil lips's for upwards of 50 years. The lessor of the plaintiff had been in possession of it since 1785, till very recently, when the parish officers of the parish in which the premises were situated, went before a magistrate and claimed the cottage as the property of the parish, and without any further in quiry, under the 59th of Geo. 111., c. 12, the ma gistrates delivered possession of it to the parish officers. Several witnesses were then called to prove that the premises had been in the occupation of the plaintiff for many years, and the conveyance to him in the year 1785 was put in and proved.—Verdict for the plaintiff. We noticed last Monday, an atrocious case at Manchester, i❑ which a woman was remanded for a second examination on a charge of acting as procuress to an eldtrly man, whom she called her uncle. A letter since disco vered upon her has given a clue to her hoary employer, who, although he suddenly left the town On the report of the woman's being in custody, is yet well known in Man— chester, and the parish to which his unfortunate victim belongs are determined to take every step towards bringing him to justice.—Manchester Paper. Great preparations are making at Ading bourne for the approaching nuptials of Lord ANDOVER with Miss ISABELLA, second daughter of Lady 1-IRNRY HOWARD, and niece of the Duke of NORFOLK. We hear, that for the occasion the pulpit, desk, and altar of the church are to be newly covered with cloth; that the clergyman is to be presented with a new surplice, and that to be dressed in Ifivfhtyiteli:taleregeirls from aehto the carry charity-school,agardanda bask e t o f flowers toto strew the path, which will be covered with scarlet cloth, from the place where the carriag e will stop to the church door. The marriage was to have taken place be fore the races, but is postponed until the end of this month. ,Portsmouth Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday some gentlemen, the friends of a citizen of respectability and affluence, waited upon the LORD MAYOR, accompanied by Mr. Holder, jun., for the purpose of requesting his Lordship's inter ference in a case which appeared to them one of great hardship and injustice. From the statement made to his Lordship, the following particulars have been extracted : The gentleman alluded to as the person on whose behalf the application was made, had, in conse quence of some disagreement with part of his family, left his house in the city in which his mer cantile business was carried on, and taken apart ments in a hotel in Holborn. He had not, however, been long absent from home when two mad-house porters seized him, and by force conveyed him to a private lunatic asylum in the neighbourhood of the Regent's-park, where he was kept under restraint. lie, however, had opportunities of communicating to his friends, and he wrote to Mr. nobler, jun., requesting that gentleman would act as a solicitor, and endea►•our to get him out of the dilemma in which he was placed, his property being now in the hands and under the complete control of other persons, and his own person being under a sort of interdict which he could not by his own unassisted powers remove. The LORD MAYOR asked whether in this case the Act of Parliament had not been regularly ob served ? It was well known that there were certain regulations with respect to the confinement of per sons alleged to be lunatic, which, if they were not observed most strictly, those who caused the con finement of individuals on the ground of lunacy were liable to most heavy penalties. Mr. Hobler, jun., said that the whole proceeding appeared to be a most extraordinary one. The only document producible at the house in which his client was confined was, a mere note from a physician, authorizing (if a note of the kind was an authority) certain persons to take care of the person of the gen tleman. He (Mr. Hobler, jun.) had visited him, and he was astonished at the charge of insanity against a man who was able to transact the busi ness to which he hal been brought up, even by the acknowledgment of those who thought him deranged as well as ever. The friends of the man said to labour under the mental malady, then stood forward to add their tes timony to that of his solicitor. One of them said the accused of insanity was now as well able as ever he had been of conducting the extensive business of the house. It had, in fact, been found necessary to send him, two or three days ago, to make out some particular accounts, which no other individual was able to accomplish, and he performed the duty with as great facility as usual. There was, in fact, no difference between his former and his present conduct, except that his mind was now in an irritable state. The witness had known him for some years, and observed that there was no difference except what he had described. Mr. nobler, jun. put before the Lord Mayor a letter which he had received from his client that morning. It was written in such a manner as would prevent any man who knew how to write, from form ing a very high opinion of the pen of tie writer; but there was a consistency in it all through which it would be well to see in the effusions of gentlemen who contrive to get a livelihood by literature. The unfortunate man was most anxious that a commis sion should be called to decide at once upon the state of his mind. Mr. Holler, the chief clerk, said that the Lord Mayor could not interfere on this occasion. If those by whom the gentleman was confined had been guilty of assault and false imprisonment, the most heavy punishment would await them if an investiga tion took place. The LORD MAYOR advised that application should he made to the Lord Chancellor. GUILDHALL The arrangement made at a private interview between the LORD MAYOR and the deputation of butchers, respecting the disposal of unsound meat, and which promised so many advantages to the butchers, does not work well, and seems in danger of being defeated. The arrangement appeared to secure to them,—first, the value of the unsound meat as food for dogs, if it should happen to be noticed by any meddling fellow before the sausage and soup makers came to market ; secondly, it spared them the scandal and mortification of having their meat roasted before their own doors; thirdly, it saved them and their country correspondents harmless from the penalties against selling, or sending for sale, un wholesome meat—this was a very material point; fourthly, (and this was considered infinitely the greatest advantage of all,) it saved them from having their respectable names exposed and bruited about in all the newspapers in the kingdom. Yesterday, however, a journeyman butcher stepped in to rip up and expose a thing which had been very snugly dis posed of according to " the arrangement." This journeyman butcher, who gave Ins name Joseph Spencer, applied for a summons against Mr. Harris, of the firm of Harris and Challis, meat-sales men in Newgate and Leadenhall-markets, for selling in Newgate-twarket yesterday morning, a lamb which had not died by the hands of a butcher, and was unfit for human food. He said this lamb was "a reg'lar one, that had died by the visitation of God ;" and seeing a person whose address he knew, buy the carcass at 3d. a-pound, when, if it had been sound it must have fetched 7d. ; he accosted him, and told him it had died a natural death, and was a casualty. The person thereupon declined taking it ; two con stables were called in, whom Mr. Harris beckoned aside and spoke to, and then the lamb was sent away for dog's meat. As Mr. Harris actually sold this dog's meat for human food, he thought some notice should be taken of his conduct. Sir JOHN PERKING said, the applicant should have a summons against Mr. Harris, free of all expence. John Brown, a labouring bricklayer, was ordered to find bail for his appearance at the sessions, charged with ill-treating his female child about two years ago, when he resided in Glovers'-Hall -court, Beech street. He had been out of the way since that time, and the child had been maintained in Cripplegate workhouse. Ann Cheshire, the wife of the common hangman, was brought up for re-examination, charged with as saulting four children. A poor woman, named Cahill, who lodges in the same house with the prisoner, in a court in Gilt spur-street, had complained that the prisoner came home drunk on Saturday afternoon, and after knock ing two of her children down while they were play ing in the court, picked them up and threw them down an area into a cellar ten feet deep, and then flung two other children upon them. Neither of the four, however, were seriously hurt, and as the prisoner had suffered4o hours' imp r i sonmen t, th e complainant did not wish to press any charge. _ Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said this was such an out rageous act, that he could not allow it to be passed over in that way, and he remanded the prisoner for 48 hours more, that she might have some punish ment, and that the mother of the other children might come forward to complain, if she chose. Yesterday, when i the pri soner was b roug h t u p, Mrs. Cahill was n the sam e f org i v i ng temper . Old Mr. Cheshire, as sum i ng an over-kind good natured manner, assured the Alderman she was re markably attached to children, and gave them many halfpence, and it was because she had no halfpence to give them on Saturday, and they therefore bawled after her " Jack Ketcli',"'that s h e became irritated, and accidentally knocked them down the cellar. Notwithstanding her pretestations, the Alderman would not part with her until site had given sureties for her future good behaviour. BOW-STREET. Various complaints have been made at this office by persons who have been robbed at the Insolvent Debtors Court, Portugal -street, Lincoln's-inn-fields , at which place, it appears, a gang of thieves are in the habit of attending for the purpose of plunder ing the public. On Tuesday last, a solicitor from the country, who 1:a.1 business at the Court, had his pocket picked of a purse containing upwards of 50/. principally in sovereigns; and on Wednesday, Mr. John Scott, an elderly gentleman, residing in the Lower-road, Islington, was robbed of a gold watch, seal, and key, value forty guineas, while pass ing from the body of the Court to his gig, which was waiting for him in Portugal-street. Mr. Scott, upon discovering his loss, procured the assistance of an active officer belonging to Bow-street, named Wheatley, who, upon proceeding to the Court, found two of the " swell mob" (tip-top thieves) . . . mixed in the crowd, apparently waiting for a fivour :able opportunity to " draw" the pockets of the un wary. Wheatley immediately removed them from the Court, but not being enabled to prove that they were convicted thieves, he had ro power to de tain them. The constant attendance of an officer wonld prevent such depredations in future. Al A RYLEBONE. A charge of a serious kind was brought forward yesterday against a very respectable-looking man named Thur tell, who is represented to be a musi __ cian of good abilities, holding apartments at No.ll, Osnabuigh-street North, Regent's-park. The accuser was Charlotte Rawlins, his own maid servant, about 15 years old; and she stated that she had lived 18 months with her mater, and he never behaved rudely towards her until last Wednesday week. He then came down into the back kitchen at six o'clock in the morning, where she slept with two of his children, and awoke her by pulling down the bed-clothes. He afterwards behaved with greater impropriety, and made her get up and dress - in his presence. He went into the country on that day, and she said nothing about it to her mistress or any other person. On Sunday night last her master had company—a gentleman and a lady. He sent her to bed at nearly upon ten or half-past ten o'clock; and soon after he came down and took liberties which rather exceeded the former, and in the morning she told a laundress working for her mistress of it, and also her aunt, and she told her father; and he said he would hare her master brought before a Magis trate. She added, that while he was with her on Sunday night, his bell rang twice before he would leave her. Mr. HosmNs, addressing the defendant, said " This is an important charge, what answer do you give ?" Defendant—lt is one of which lam per fectly innocent ; and I shall be obliged to you if you will hear my witnesses. The laundress was first examined. She went at half-past six o'clock on Monday morning to wash for the family, and she was surprised to find that the complainant had not, as was usual, lit her copper fire. The complainant excused herself by saying, her master had hindered her by coming down, and behaving very impudently to her while she was in bed. The laundress advised her to tell her mistress of it. " No," she replied, " I will not say any thing about it to my mistress ; I will tell my aunt ;" and her father fetched her away the same evening. The laundress gave the following particulars of a subse- fluent conversation : The complainant to her—" Is there not money to be got when a man behaves in this way to a young girl ?"—" I don't know."" I have seen it in the papers."—" I hope you don't mean to take a false oath ?"—" No, but I should not mind telling a few stories if I could get some money by it." The girl denied that she had ever mentioned money to the laundress. Mr. Samuel Calkern, a person of genteel appear ance, whose address was not required, gave the laun dress a charaCter for probity. The landlord of the house where Mr. Thurtell lives stated that it was on the precediNg Wednesday, and not on Wednesday week, that Mr. Thurtell went into the country, and he did not return until 11 o'clock on Sunday night last. Mrs. Thurtell was put to bed in the morning; he apprised Mr. Thur tell of it when he returned, and his bell did not ring after he entered the house. The complainant, in his opinion, was not to he believed. He never in trusted her with a message to her master or mistress, but always communicated with them himself. The defendant requested an opportunity of making his answer more complete, by other witnesses, and Mr. HOSKINS thought it right that he should be allowed a second hearing for that purpose. The father of the girl, who is a gentleman's ser vant, opposed it ; and, under the advice of the Ma gist rat e, Mr. Thurtell entered into recognizances, himself in 100/. and two sureties in 501. each, to meet the charge at the Sessions. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Henry Jarvis, charged with violating he person of Miss Louisa Damenbergen in a field dear the Hackney-road, was finally examined before . - Mr. BROUGHTON, who, before he entered upon the case, strongly reprehended the conduct of some anonymous and injudicious persons, who had writ ten seven letters to him with a view to prejudice his mind on the subject. The Magistrate having conjured the prosecutrix in the most solemn manner to speak nothing but what was strictly true, asked her if she still ad hered to her former statement ?—She said " Yes ;" and declared that she resisted the prisoner, and screamed in vain for assistance till she fainted, and when she recovered had every reason to believe that he had completed the outrage. It was stated that a person who had prevented the young lady from drowning herself in the Re gent's-canal, two days after the alleged violation of her person, was expected at the office to give evi dence to that effect, but he had not yet arrived. The Magistrate said that he should send the prisoner to trial, when the whole case would be submitted to the consideration of a Jury; but hav ing consulted his brother Magistrate, Mr. TIVY FORD, they had determined to admit the prisoner to bail. There were two reasons for doing so: first, that the alleged violation appears not to have been mentioned to any person until two days afterwards ; and, secondly, the extraordinary evidence of the sur geon (Mr. King). The Magistrate was presently afterwards informed by Mrs. Damenbergen, that the person who had saved her daughter from plunging into the canal was then present. Mr. Hughes, a tradesman, was accordingly sworn, and identified the prosecutrix. He had never seen her till Thursday evening three weeks ago, when he saw her walking on the bank of the canal, wringing her hands, and seeming in very great distress of mind. He thought from her manner that she was about to drown herself, and he watched her for about an hour. Mr. BROUGHTON—What was she doing all that time ? ,The witness said she was walking back wards and forwards, and he described her as occa- I sionally raising her clasped hands, and looking up wards, apparently in the greatest anguish. Had she any bonnet ? Witness—No, Sir, she had not; I did not see any bonnet. Mr. BROUGHTON—What did you do, after having watched her so long ? The witness fir3t called out to her, and then went up to her. She asked what he wanted with her, and told him he had no right to interfere with her; but he saw that it was u! s ,fe to leave her there, and he therefore took her to his house, where she had a fit. Mr. BROUGHTON—Did you think that she really intended to drown herself? The witness said, he had every reason to believe so from her appearance and manner. When he took her into his house, she fell down in a fit, screamed, and af erwards ap peared lady's insensible.d sister D al so m Dr. King was to h i s sent fo r , house. and the young T h e prosecutrix was soon after taken to her own home. One of Mr. Harmer's clerks, who attend e d on the part of the priso ner, said it was not very likely that she really intended to drown herself, if she walked about the canal for an hour. Mr. BROU GHTON said, that persons who bad re solved upon self-destruction sometimes passed seve ral hours before they carried the fatal resolution into effect. He himself knew an instance of the kind several years ago. The individual was an officer of rank in the army, who had made up his mind to de stroy himself. He had the loaded pistol by him for S the purpose at ten o'clock at nifo,,b4„( ll o shoot himself till the following morning. The clerk replied to the instance which the MV gistrate had mentioned by as observat,:on to all effect that the prosecutrix hairtahonOur to*lose, low said he could produce witnesses. Mr. BROUGHTON—Your remark is a very imP r per one. Take the prisoner up stairs, to have the depositions written ; and, Mr. Bayles, observation is repeated while you are doing so , st°P the proceedings, am) report it immediately to m e • The pri•oner was then removed,and in the course of the evening substantial bail was given for °P. pearance at the Sessions. if any his suc h UNION-HALL. Mrs. Judy Cavanagh, a dapper little Irishwornaui was chug( d by one of the honest guardian' of the night with having kicked up sich a row as he never in all his born days heard, either afore or sinc e, an d for siii , , 2 ing singing sich song, whilq she (the sa" Mrs. Cavanag h) was going along. the -streets at midnight, with two or three other soldiers and their wives, as was terribly unproper and 'indelicate. A The eyes of Mrs. Cavanagh (" though yea rs ha' rolled o'er since the days of her teens") st ill shon e as bright as the morning star, and during the tin ° that " Charlie" was telling his story they were our ployed in darting forth glances towards. his honou that " would have melted the heart of a stone. Mr. CHAMBE "' RS—Well, Mrs. Cavanagh, " a " have you to say to this row ? Mrs. Cavan a g h' Row, yer honour ! is it that you mane; bad luck r ° the man that says Judy Cavanagh ever kicked uP $ row ! It was only, plase yer honour, a little ru,rrAr making for ould Ireland. The Duke o' York---1171 bless him—he was always the soldier's frind, an the army in general. Magistrate—Then I suppose, Mrs. Cavau n gr il ' you are the wife of a soldier ? Mrs. Cavanaghr.i l3l be sure I aro, yer honour, the lawful wife fr om Cavanagh, as brave a lad as ever drew bla de his scabbard. ~a• Ca- Magistrate—Where is your husband, g. rs. vanagh ? Mrs. Cavanagh—My husband, yer hog pace rest his soul, he died like a hero at waterlo; He was in the guards, plase yer honour, and °to kilt in the charge against them big cowards that vi o f , covered wid iron. (Here Judy dropped a t ear affection to the memory of poor Tim.) Yest eo ver honour, I met wid Davy Conran, Paddy 0366 j O'Neale, all wid their sweethearts al, wives. They had all been at Waterloo, and I‘r there too, yer honour, and my Tim was knocked,e o his horse, and kilt dead close by the side of Ph e'l,o O'Neale, who was in the same regiment, and so : 0 was drinking success to the glorious day whe n l e won the victory ; and we was drinking a healthar, the army in a little cognac, for since we was q d to tered in France I prefers cognac., yer honour! 0 whisky. As for the singing the iniligant songs lot an untruth, yer honour; bad is never the wo rd Judy Cavanagh says. Magistrate—Suppose I send you over to Ireland? Mrs. Cavanagh—lf yer honour will, I'll glory in , egg, It is Dublin's sweet city I want to go to ;h0 I ha ve - son there in Dublin bank, and by my sold Y e t he nour, he'll rejoice to see his ould mother--hY word of a lady, that he will, yer honour. „ 0 0. Magistrate—Then I will make out a pass f _ nr a ,"' s Mrs. Cavanagh—Whisht, yer honour, tne r 7 A l n d w it i t s l h e t ill o o g n o ey ji, n t o y w et i . n th et is p post for r u m p e, b a y nd ro l j 7 11 sosi it wouldn't be dacent to take it back to han would insult him, yer honour. here Iklagistrate—Well, take care how you g et agai n. Mrs. Cavanagh—Glory be to heaven, so I d.,./ yer honour ; but when I meet wid a soldier 1 0 - 0 t ould heart is so happy, for then I think of PI P O l Tim, who was kilt dead fighting for his king a ould Ireland. Good day, yer honour. - A ins" RAT-KILLING EXTRAORDINA.RY."-,-i. i • e! tel bitches, the astonishing number of 170. 9 named Thos. Fowt.s, who resides at Malpas, ill '''" el. ,:al has destroyed since la 4 New-year's-day, with turd -many the killed of them of an enormous size ; of these one of killed 1282 to her share.—Liverpool 41bicri. LAMBOURN THE MURDERER.--ThiS tr:i happy man is now in that dreadful state that hie deilT ill daily h oked for ; he gets lower every hour, which is /len attributable to a violent diarrhea:A with which he b e ,,, sen attacked for the last three or four days. He is clu' t and sihle, but speaks very little. He-prays fervently aigh oor him, to whom he has exprresed himself day for forgiveness, and is attended constantly by they with lain to the Hospital. His children are thatfrequen. b e shall end his (lays in the hospital, and not on dl e cn l na lly A man is always in attendance upon him, and ne , e to with reads prayers, which the miserable man het en- _ me rcy' eager attention, frequently ejaculating, "Lord ha y ' 1, re t- st upon me; pray God forgive me." He is fulll 0 : 3 , 01 0. the Maidstone Assizes have begun, and whe ° n 1 . e sli d , the constable, called upon him the other (MY' e : yo u?' " Master BENFORD, you have not come forme' I , )al t - e; con' BENFORD told him lie had not, and desired hi° yrs , D ot pose himself. The miserable man, on hearing b e d. It i 8 then to be removed, seemed to be quite overjoie ho pitslf the general opinion of persons connected with th e that he cannot survice many days longer- satisfied . his will A few days ago a young citizen, on rot iou to Burlington, had, by the indecency of his eoavehi, (el and behaviour; rendered himself so obnox ious t° turned low-travellers, that while his hack was ac cidentally hie a plot was laid to punish him. When b e res?',; b or place, each was complaining of the disorders AP. l3 ' re 000 tied them to Burlington, in hopes of finding A V at 0 54 bathing in the sea; and a dismal recital it was, ." ine , i", alas ! slid an arch wag, are your misfortunes tom boa comparison, but a mere sing song ? It has bee_ l ,', / c oa t fate to be most terribly bitten by a mad dog, s ", st . Go° every moment to feel the direful effects of it. pray 1 ., the 1 may get to Burlington time enough to be dipPe!ncleded vis tennl and t he P ° : be salt water before the fit comes on ! The schem;ne, bail p n a m le i a n nd a( s im ile h n a t t . to their utmost wishes, and the hero, whose t : - t oree d be frightened, for if it should happen, o o hic ill ha ve tirse while we are in the coach together, 'barkw lou d, like the OS ) for bid, enough to e,eape, for I shall certainly ve.ray little re' dog, before I bite any one. Matters bein . g _ _ aro pear conciled, all went on pretty peaceably ionNoafy,hipsraoywsnir:visat,ysin a moan, do o' 4 apparent agonies, and convulsive den a most dismal howl and barking b!g an ' s ni . t h e kin a large slough Or pond), near Berm:Jt t w i i n i u t l i' i f : t : l o l ti d' g The company seemed to be sadly frightenel to choose Cockney, judging it prudent of two evi 8 , a k ra ther than run the hazard of a bite of so fe a rful a helf; bit, which he scrambled out in the best manner . o 7, e q usl. 6 least, jumped into the pond almost to h's aa ee _.,.., do r But, unhappily, the story was there beforreungi in i l ii , es 0 that he so° continually, even by the boys in the streets, be lose 0f ° wasand t s o o ok pe t r h w e c fi u r t s ed t abnydhian,o,isntgre“adbymcvo,nvvoe;:nach.o::_nd he decamped, leaving the company to deplorek th e facetious and accomplished a beau,--Yor G On the 15th inst., at Camberwell-gro 01 _ . f Jolt Gray, of a son, since dead. Hats, the ladyo On the 12th inst., at Woraaley, Key, Esq., of a son. BIRTHS. . ye, .". jobo T ook's•court, Chancery-lane,_ MARRIED. of On the 18th inst. at Ilarwich, Air. R. Fennings, eo l _ o daughter of the late Capt• Nathaniel Saunders, of LP f rmer o we . of On the 19th inst. at St. Giles r, Mr. J. P • Bank Greet Queen-street to Miss Henderson, of Upper Rano' lags-street, ' Pimlico. On the 19th inst. at Brixton, N. Griffin, Ee9• of Pert' to Elizabeth, young., sea, to Emma, third daughter f the late Capt. J. Wilsouf of Denmark-hill. DIED. oungest son o f On the 18th inst. H enr y George, y 11 5 1. ; Willi a m Wright, of the House a L or ds, in the 6th Ye of his age. Hon. Edw a rd EBdrivfrlairtdonH, eonnrytheEld6wtahridnesst:,eiodfoat rssiopiaidofdetchlierifte,igtri Hon. William Lord Kensington, aged 31. 7 On the 1 7 th ins t., at Chiswick, in her sth yea r, Mrs' Mary Lott, wife of Mr. Daniel Lott. At Paris, on the 23d of July, aged 18, Lavinia J03111'.11: third daughter of the late Rev. Edward Forster, c hap to the British Embassy at the Court Mof Frsuice, Szc• Ds° On the 18 th inst., at Newington, r. Edward of Longford, near Gloucester, aged 21. PIU a nd P U BLI SHXD by MURDO YOUNG, At O FFICE , 112, b'XIO.I4Py L.ONDOIis C. 5~~~ T' Tu ßm .Te rt k .of t h e iu the 8 0c XOl f, T 12 TO CL itud Te n CLO ~,... the 14 Tuiti I, k t t a ,