The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-14 00:00:00

ToTAI. DESTRUCTION OF 'MR TITtATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW, BY FIRE. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) On Saturday,about twelve o'clock at noon, smoke was observed to issue somewhere about the roof of the Theatre, but none of the spectators imagined it \vas anything more serious than a foul vent in the house i mme di a t e l y a dj o i n i ng . Thi s conjecture, how ever, soon proved to be erroneous, for in twenty minutes afterwards the whole extent of our large and beautiful Theatre was enveloped in fire, presenting such an appalling appearance as to set all human ex ertions to extinguish the flames at defiance. The whole of the engines and water-butts were on the spot while the smoke was as yet issuing from the roof; but so instantaneously did the fire pro ceed, that a minute after showed Mr. Davidson, the active Director of the Fire Department, and all Present, that it was entirely hopeless to attempt to seve the building ; and although water was con tinued to be thrown on the flames through every erevir,:, it was only for the purpose of diminishing the fury of the element, in order to preserve that fine line of buildings which extends the whole length of, and immediately adjoins, the Theatre. The ap pearance of the inside of the house from the large back door, at this period, was awfully grand. The whole of the interior presented one mass of living fire ; and now and then, when part of the galleries and boxes fell down into the pit, the flames arose from the building to a height and with a fury that created the greatest apprehensions not only for the safety of the contiguous premises, but also, at one period, for the new Exchange, erecting at a short distance. The calamity was so sudden and unexpected, that we may safely say mot a particle of all the property contained in the house has been saved; for although, Ly the exertions and meritorious daring of individuals, numerous small articles of dress and decoration were thrown from the windows ; they were, comparatively speaking, mere trifles. We understand it is pretty correctly ascertained that the fire was occasioned by the carelessness of a person unconnected with the Theatre, who had charge of the gas, which, in a pipe at the top of the gallery stair, had been allowed to burn all night without the jet; and when the pressure came on, the flame of course blazed out and set fire to the roof of the saloon. The casualty was first discovered in the interior by the performers, while engaged 'a the rehearsal of Blue Beard, (which was to have been brought out on Nlonday, with most magnificent scenery and deco rations) and a carpenter was instantly sent up to look after it, but it was discovered that the fire had made too great progress to be checked, and the per formers were glad to save their lives and any little articles they could lay their hands on in tho panic of the moment.--In the midst of this calamity there exists a universal feeling of sympathy for Mr. Sey mour, the Manager, who has lost every article of property he had in the house, amounting, we believe, in value, to no less than 2,0001. ; but we sincerely hope, in fact we have no doubts on the subject, that the people of Glasgow will find some means to benefit him, and enable him to koep on the performers till they get other engagements, or till he shall open another house. Mr. Seymour has long been a most faithful, indefatigable, and unwearied public servant, struggling almost continually with up-hill work; always failing to enrich himself, but never failing in his spirited endeavours to please, and to procure for the gratification of the public the very best per formers, of every description, of which the land could boast. Every article, we have said, belonging to Mr. Seymour, has been destroyed —the whole of the va luable wardrobe, besides a set of new scenery which was to have been shipped in a day or two for Belfast, for the purpose of opening there with Miss Foote, and a complete assortment of new scenery for a little theatre in the island of Bute, to which Mr. -Kean had subscribed .501. Oae chest of music, va lued at', 2001., shared the same fate as the other Property, as well as the whole of the books and Papers in the Treasury, and a small sum of money Mr. Seymour had left on his table while he went to the Bank for cash to pay the wages of the per formers, and where he was at the time the fire broke oat: had likewise about 2001. worth of wood on lua u in the house, fitted up for the performances of Mr. Ducrow, which is also all destroyed. We un derstand that Mr. Seymour had Madame Catalani, with Mr. Yaniewiez, &c. engaged, and that they were to have commenced performing on Wednesday week, and that Mr. T. P. Cooke and Mr. Young were to have appeared in the course of the season, as well as Mr. Adams and his equestrian troop, be sides a large stock company for the winter. The expenee of erecting the theatre was 18,0001., but it has always been much too large for this city, and ul timately diminished in value to about a third of its original cost. We understand the proprietors have 't insured at 5,5004 in the following offices :-2,500/., ie the North British; . 4 2,000/. in the Atlas; and 1 ,000/. in the Scottish Union ; but Mr. Seymour We regret exceedingly, was not insured for a single Penny. It is almost invidious to mention names, where e very individual exerted himself to the utmost stretch o f his ability in endeavouring to keep order, and pre serve individuals, who, from the most ardent 6 Yrnpathy for Mr. Seymour, in many instances put t hemselves in the most imminent danger to save tiites ; but we should be doing injustice to our feel ings did we omit to mention, in a particular manner, the praiseworthy conduct of the Lord Provost, Bel lies M‘Lellan and Paterson, as well as the cool and intrepid deportment of Captain Graham, the Super intendent of Police, who was amongst the very first to .':.,,'over the fire, and who, on more occasions than one, from motives of humanity, placed himself in situations of great personal peril in order to pre vent others from endangering their safety. Altich apprehension was entertained. during the conflagration that the south w a ll wou ld h ave fallen d °wn, in which case a great number of finely carved Ca pitals for the new Exchange, which were in a shed " d er it, would have beeu destroyed, but fortunately this did not take place. By the advice of Mr. Graham, and the example of Mr. Devid 'Bell, who lives in the large range of bui;.:.ng adjoining the Theatre, the iuhabitants were persuaded not to remove their furniture; which have very fortunate, as nearly as much l oss m i g ht naYe been sustained in the hustle and wreck of re- Meval es would have been done had the tenement caught fire. By this casualty, in little more than two hours, our beautiful Theatre, which, we believe, was amongst the largest in Britain, was reduced to a heap of sr..oking bu: magnificent ruins. We cannot neglect to notice, with approbation, the spirit e d b e h aviour of two lads, who, having pro cured a ladder, at great risk succeeded in saving a bass fiddle, worth 30/ and two or three trunks and chairs. a Most provid en ti a ll y no li ves were lost, neither did any person receive the slightest injury that we have beard of. The Lllowlag ( 4 ‘seription of the Theatre is given is Dr. Cleland's Annals of Glasgow : " The Theatre in Dunlop-st iee t h av i ng b een found inconveaieilia:el too small fo r th e accommo dation of the ptb t li a magnificent one has b een erected on the west side of prin c iple of transf era bl e shares of 251,aa -s e t a r c e h e t, f on d t l e t e 4igns by Mr. David H am i lton. The 1 1 : o u r "i ild . ...- is 158 f e et l o ng and 70 f eet wide, calculated to contain 1500 persons, or about 2501. per night, being of greater extent than any of the provincial theatres. The east front of the building lii comp ose d o f an arcade basement, supp or ti ng s i x lonic columns, 30 feet high, with corresponding P i lastures, entablatures, and appropriate devices. 't ile centre, or principal vestibule, which leads to the b c'es by a d(suble flight of stairs, is separated from 'e tl corridors by a screen, interspersed with Corin thian columns, which gives the entrance a very im -leB6ive effect. The spectatory is of an elliptic form, d r ul 'PluYing two tier of boxes, slips, anti galleries; the proscenium is 30 feet wide, enriched with antique ornaments ; and the stage b:llconies are done up in superior taste. Tile si ! oni;o4 ,emery is from the pencil of the celebrated it ml is greatly admired; his lend-cape scenes in partimdAr, fine specimens of the excelleoce of his taste ; the drop scene, which eAiliiis the pieture,que view of the Frith of Clyde from Da!nutter Hill, is nut ex celled by any thing of the kind in the country. The building and scenery cost upwards of 18,5001." THE ARMY. The following circular has been issued to all the Colonels commanding the staff of tlYe Irish Militia Regiments, by which it is now evident that the system of reduction an nounced is England is also to be extended to Ireland : " Dublin Cutle, Jan. 5, 1829. " Sir,--The Lord Lieutenant has directed me to state, in obedience to his Majesty's command, for your it.srasa tion and guidance, that Government having taken into eonsideration the expence of the Staff of the Militia, have determined to submit to Parliament x Bill for the effecting some reduction in that branch of the public ex penditure. "According to the prupoaed measure, the future esta blishment retained on permanent pay at head-quarters will be for each corps—one adjutant, one serjeant-major ; one serjeant, for every forty private men, one drummer for every two companies, with an additional drummer for each flank company ; over and above which, in regiments con sisting of eight companies and upwards, a drum-major will be allowed. "It is not intended to discontinue till the 24t14 of June neat, the pay of those members of the Militia Staff who will be included in the proposed reduction. "The neceeeary communication will be held with you, it is concluded, by the Secretary at Wur, on such financial points se relate to this arrangement. " 1 kave the honour to be, &e. " LEVESON GOWER. " To the Colonel Regiment of Militia." Limerick Chronicle. EXTRACT FROM Mr. JONES'n NEW TRAGEDY, " THE STEP-110TPIER." (The on of the Stop-mother," by her first Husband, pleading for her life, after she is convicted of the murder of her second one.) Sir ! I have found your temper most forgiving, For it bath overlook'd mine own offending. Now, I would fain arouse compassion in you, For one, the least deserving ;—as our God, By force of meditation, spares ourselves, So, thro' the suppliant mediation of a eon, Snatch from the pains, and utmost penalties Of that which is full justice, my—my Mother— Tho' that long usual name sounds foreign now, My memory clings to her, still calls her "Mother." I would not thus disttarli your meditation That wraps you up in bitter grief profound, But that she is my mother—my own mother— Put yourself in my place—fancy your mother— High, among angels and archangels, thron'd, And the innumerable bast above ; Fancy her, meek and peerless as she was, By a fanatic impulse of her brain, Wound to this bloody feat—thee, fancy me Yourself, brave, generous, merciful as you are, Commuting, for the blessed sake of mercy ; Consideration of relationship ; And strong naov'd pity for imploring kindred ; The extreme sentence that your mother die— On my tanblernish'd honour ; on my soul ; As I would be believ'd, I du believe It were not even acceptable to him The illustrious mighty man she put to death, You should to death of ignominy doom Her who once bore the title of his wife-- lie would'not any of his family, Ever so criminal, met a felon-doom— If you must have it so, Sir ! blood for blood, You shall have mine, that I may close my eyes Upon the degradation of my mother— I cannot bear the thought, that she who bare me, And, with great pain, and greater fondling love, Rear'd me from helpless, tiresome infancy, And, if she lov'd no other, still lov'd me, I cannot bear the thought that she, so kind, So mother-like, so tender unto me, Even should die a natural common death. For Jesu's and the blessed Virgin's sake, Ere you depart this spot, unseal your lips; Say she shall live--say, even, she shall die, So you disperse this mood of dumb affliction. ;During the latter part of this address, Alon; - ,o paces the cham ber, concealing 11;s fare in his mantle , and a t l eng th qu it e it without replyiug to Bertram, who follows him. The atten -dants bear out the corpse.) Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Vesev Fitzgerald, visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, ac companied by their son Prince George, will, it is expected, come to England in the course of six weeks or two months. The Governor and Deputy-Governor or the Bank of England, the Governor of the Bank of Ireland, and the Chairman of the Commissioners of Customs, transacted business yesterday at the Treasury, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Despatches were sent off on Monday night by a inewenger from the Colonial-office, Downing-street, for Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The messenger, it is understood, also took despatenso fur Mr. Stratford Canning. Sir George Murray has been confined to his residence in Whitehall-place, for the last two days, by a bilioaa attack, Sir George was, however, better yesterday. Earl Bathurst, Lord Ellenborough, and Mr. Croker, risited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the ofnee of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. To-morrow his Majesty will hold a Council at 'Windsor, and, it is said, will entertain a distil:: : sisbed party - to dinner.—Morning Paper. The Duke of Newcastle has founded three scholarships at Eton school, each of the value of 501. per annum. One of these will be contended for al.nually by boys of a certain standing, and will be held by the success ful candidate for three years from the period of his leaving school. The examinations will embrace both scriptural and classical knowledge.---Morning Paper. INVERKEITIIING.--There have been cleared outwards, to foreign parts, during the year ended sth Ja nuary, 1829, 157 vessels, amounting to 7191 tons; out wards, coastwise, 1875 vessels, 96,596 tons ; inwards, ditto, 216 vessels, 18,537 tons. We believe there is no port in the Frith, except Leith, that enjoys the same ex tent of ()outing trade.— Caledonian Mcrcury. TWICK ENIIA M.—A curious circumstance has just-occurred here. Rutliven and Bishop, the two prin cipal officers of Bow-street, took into custody a man of the name of Stevenson, under the supposition that he was the fugitive banker, and kept him in durance ♦ile for about three hours; and it was not till the Rector and Clerk identified the prisoner as a dustman and the grave digger of the parish that be was released The late Mr. Henry Minain, of Enniscor thy, having, far some time previous to his death, been af flicted with erysipelas, called in Dr. White, of the same place, who, after some consideration, felt it his duty to relieve by the lancet the patient from a considerable secre tion of purulent matter in the face. Some idea may be formed of the virulence of the secretion, when we state that during the operation, Dr. White having wounded himself with the point of his lancet, discovered the next morning a small black spot upon one of his fingers, which at once excited his surprise and alarm. He immediately sent for his friend, the Rev. F. W. Geddes, to whom he net only communicated the circumstance, but expressed his conviction that the event would prove fatal. The doctor declared his willingness to sulnnit instantly to any operation that might afford the remotest prospect of saving his life; he was, however, too deeply satisfied that it would be unavailing, and prepared to meet the final issue with the firmness of a man and the resignation of a Christian. He died in a few days after, expressing his hope of sal vation through the merit.' and death of his Redeemer. We scarcely need add that the patient himself, skortly after the operation, died ; and what adds to tha calamity is, that the attendant who held the basin during the opera tion received upon his hand a single drop of the deadly poison as it flowed from the face of Mr. Minchin, and has since, front its falling upon a❑ unhealed scratch, been numbered with the dead. Dr. White was interred on Sunday last, in the presence of a great number of mourners and spectators, who, according to his request, were ad dressed by the Rev. F. W. Geddes. A considerable number of Reman Catholics were present, who remained during the interment, and who listened with undivided attention to the address,..—lmiin iVurder. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. " A BIT of Futst."—Mrs. Olivia Brown—a very brown Olivia—was charged before Mr. Alderman BIRCH', yesterday, with having feloniously deprived one Mr. Richard Puttick of a black-hafted knife and fork, value sixpence. " May it please your Worship," said Mr. Put tick, " I am a cook ;"--and there he stopped, as though he expected his Worship to say whether or not it did please him. His Worship, however, gave no sign, either on e wh y or the other; and Mr. Put tick proceeded :—" I am a cook, and carry on the cooking trade at No. 81, Smithfield. Last night this lady (meaning thereby Mistress Olivia Brown) comes into my cook-shop to take her supper. She had two penn'orth of leg o' beef and cold potatoes —all which was very well ; but, when she had ate up the two penn'orth of leg o'beef and cold potatoes, she pocketted the knife and fork, and would have given me leg bail, if one of my waiters had not ran after her and brought her back." This was Mr. Puttick's case. Mrs. Olivia Brown, in reply, admitted the leg o' beef, but she positively denied the leg bail. " I tuck two penn'orth o' leg o' beef, certainly," said she; " and, what's more, I paid for it honest; but as to all that about the knife and fork, I only did it for a bit of fun. Do you think I'd go to steal his nasty knife and fork? Not I indeed ! They wasn't worth the stealing. I popp'd 'em under my apron, uot into my pocket, for I've no notion of putting greasy knives and forks into my pocket indeed ! And you may take my word for it, your Worship, that it was for nothing but a bit of fun." " What are you ?" said the ALDERMAN.—" Why I have been a servant ; and you may depend upon it this was only a bit of fan," replied Mrs. Oliiia Brown. "Can you get:any body to give you a character ?" said the ALDEUNAN.-" Why I don't know," re plied Mrs. Olivia Brown; " I don't think I can; and if I could, I shouldn't like to trouble 'ern about such atrifle :" " Well," said the ALDERMAN, " I shall not press the eharge.against you if the prosecutor does not." " Your Worship," said the prosecutor, " one knife and fork is a trifle certainly, and I should not have troubled your Worship with it if I was not robbed in this way continually. I have been robbed of more than thirteen dozen of knives and forks within the last twelve months, and I don't know how I am to pay my rent and taxes if people are to be suffered to plunder me in this way." " Well, I'll remand her until Thursday—let her be brought up again on Thursday," said the ALDER MAN ; and the prosecutor went away, seeming by no means satisfied with the issue of the " bit of fun." HUMPLRYS V. JOHNSON.—In this case Mr. Wm. Johnson was charged with having assaulted Mr. Benjamin Humphrys with a certain out of the way weapon—to wit, a saucepan of potatoes. " Mr. Johnson owes me money, which I can't get it by reason I can never find him at home." said Mr. Humphrys in his opening. " But last night," he continued—" last night as ever was, I hears him and his wife talking, by reason they live in the next room to mine. So I goes in ; and Mr. Johnson,' says I, I'll thank you to pay Oh, yes,' says he, ' 11l pay you ;'—by which means he snatches a saucepan iof boiling hot potatoes off the fire, and gives me such a whack on the mouth with it, that I thought ali my teeth were going down my throat t. But, as good luck would have it, they're still in the right place, though desperate loose, and my lip was cut, as your Worship may see."—As you may plainly see, he might have said ; for his upper lip was so swollen that it looked more like the upper mandible of that amply-beaked bird the tancan, than the lip of a Christian creditor. Mr. Humphrys, in reply, admitted having gi sett Mr. Johnson " a whack" on the mouth with his saucepan of potatoes; and he contended that the whack and the weapon were both justifiable under the peculiar circumstances of the ease. " I were in bed," said he, " with nothing on but ray shirt, whets Mr. Johnson comes and bustes-in the door of my department ;—by means of which, I gets up, with nothing on but my shirt, and tells him, Mr. John son,' says I, I thinks you moughten ha' come at a more decenter time,' says I; by which means he runs at me, with nothing on but my shirt, and pushes me right over the table, and broke it all to smash ! by means of which I gathers myself up, with nothing on but my shirt, and returns the compliment with the potatoe-saucepan—which it stood handy by, and I could see nothing else to return the compliment with —in regard I had nothing on but my shirt." Mr. Johnson, in his replication to this defence, solemnly denied that he either burst open the door or smashed the table. " I am on my oath," said he, " and Mr. Humphrys is not." " I think I must dismiss this ease," said the Al derman to Mr. Johnson, " for you see you are con tradicted ; und, at all events, it was very unseason able to demand money of a man when he was in bed." And the case was dismissed accordingly, Mr. Johnson taking nothing by his motion but the whack on his mouth with the potatoc-saucepau. BOW-STREET. Yesterday George Wood and Thoinar Varney were placed at the bar, before Mr. HALLE, charged with horse stealing. The prisoner Wood had undergone several exami nations, he having been separately charged with hav ing stolen a black gelding, the property of a Mr. Coleman, who resides at Mitcham. It appeared that the robbery had been effected so tar back as January, 1826 ; and that in the following May, the animal was sold by the prisoner fur MI. to a Mr. Satchell, in whose possession it remained a short time, when it was claimed oy Mr. Coleman, from whom it had been stolen. The prisoner Wood having heard of this circumstance, returned the 151. to Mr. Satchell. He absconded soon after, and had not been heard of since, until he was taken into custody about a fortnight ago, by a Surrey constable named Gough. It having been ascertained that a man named Robert Finch was confined in the House of Correc tion, Clerkenwell, and that he having been tried a short time ago at the Old Bailey, with a man named Roe, for stealing a horse from a butcher named Turtle, residing in Tottenham-court-road, was likely to afford some information with respect to the pri soner Wood, Finch was accordingly examined upon the subject, and the result was that he made a voluntary confession, in which he stated that the prisoner Varney, in conjunction with himself, Roe, and the prisoner Wood, planned and executed the robbery of Mr. Turtle's horse. In consequence of this information, Varney was taken into custody, and the r.pprover Finch was brought forward from the House of Correction to give evidence against his associates. Thomas Turtle stated, that on the night of Sa turday, the 10th of May last, at eleven o'clock, the horse which had been stolen from his father v,as safe in the stable. At four o'clock the following morning witness discovered that the stable had been broken open, and that the horse was gone. William Turtle deposed to his being brother to the last witness. On the night of the 10th of May, between 11 and 12 o'clock, be went to the New Inn publie-houro, where he saw the prisoner Varney in the parlour, who asked him to take share of a glass of brandy and water, saying, " Come, Kill Bull, you shall drink along with me." The prisoner made him drink several times; and after leaving the New Inn they went to another public-house, and had more to drink. Robert Finch, the approver, having been sworn, stated, that he was a hackney-coachman out of em ployment. The prisoners Varney, Wood, George Roe, and himself, were in the habit of meeting each other at Smithfield-market. It was there planned by Var ney to steal Mr. Turtle's horse, which he said was a very valuable one. On the night of the 10th of May it Was agreed to do the job. Wood, Roe, and the witness went to a public-house in Tottenham court-road, and Varney went to the New Inn public house, for the purpose, as he said, of detaining young Turtle there, and keep him from going to the :table. Roe and the witness broke open the stable-floor and took the horse out. They brought it to the corner of Beaumont-place, New road, where Wood was waitin g ; to receive it. Wood mounted the horse, and rode away, saying, he would send up the saddle, which belonged to Varney, by the Leicester coach, and that the money which he re• ceived . for the horse should he se we d • up in the lining of the saddle. Witness and Roe were taken into custody next morning. They stood their trial for the robbery at the Old Bailey, when Roe was convicted, and the witness acquitted. Mr. HALLS observed, that the acquittal of the wit ness afforded an additional proof of the uncertainty of a trial at the Old Bailey. He then asked ii any other evidence was intended to be produced, ob serving, that the confession of Finch formed no ground whatever for detaining Varney. Fagan, the officer, replied, that he was not pre pared with any other proof at present. The prisoner Wood was then fully committed to take his trial for stealing Mr. Coleman's horse, and Varney was ordered to be discharged. DIARYLEBONE. Yesterday Frederick Byrne was re-examined, and more charges were brought against him. Mrs. Krentzkie, of No. 8, Northumberland-street, said he came to her for a lodging, as being the son of a gentleman in the country ; he gave her a false address, and after he was gone a waistcoat was missed. He went to Mn. Brodie's, 15, Great College-street, 'Westminster, arid pretended to hire apartments for the Member for Preston; and Mr. Stanton, surgeon, 25, Parliament -street, then her lodger, lost a case of razors and a green trinket-case, which, with its contents, was worth 51. On the 22d of November he went, in the dusk of the evening, to No. 38, Duke -street, St. James's, to look at apartments for his uncle, a Member of Par liament. Soon after Mrs. Huckel, the mistress of the house, had let him out of the street-door, ha knocked again, and requested the servant to go up stairs for a pair of gloves which he had left there, and while she was gone he ran away with a hand some Spanish cloak of Mr. Huckel's, which hung up in the hall. The prisoner said, to save trouble, he would prove that a black coat and velvet waistcoat, which had been pawned at Mr. Turner's, in Brydges-street, Covent-garden, were his own, and he called forward Mr. Horton, of No. 10, Green -street, Golden square, to do so. Mi. Horton made them for the prisoner, but charged him with obtaining them under a false 'pre tence. " Why," said the prisoner, " did not my father promise to pay for them ?" " Not for this, but a former suit," replied Mr. Horton; " and these articles you said you wasted, in consequence of the death of your brother, and that was not true." Mr. Horton requested that the coat and waistcoat might be returned to him. Mr. HOSKINS said, he had not power to do so ; but he advised Mr. Horton to attend at the Old Bailey when the prisoner is tried, and the Judge under such circumstances, perhaps, will order the pawnbroker's ticket to be given up to him. The prisoner is suspected of having stolen plate to a considerable amount from the house of Mrs. Poole, in Norfolk -street, Strand, into which he gained access, in company with a confederate, under pretence of hiring aprtmeuts for a nobleman. If the evidence in this case is obtained in time, he will undergo another examination at this office; and if not, Mr. Hoskins told him he would be committed to Newgate upon some of the charges already made, and take his trial at all events in the sessions which are about to begin. Richard Newberry, a pot-boy, was charged with running away from the service of Mr. Edward Dal ton, of the Black Lion, Bayswater, three days after he entered it, and embezzling the money which he received for beer: and a much more serious crime is imputed to him ; for, on the night of the 24th of December, when he absconded, a blue box coat, worth St., belonging to Mr. ex-Sheriff Wilde; was stolen from that gentleman's carriage, as it stood in Mr. Dalton's yard. Mr. GRIFFITII committed the prisoner for re-exa mination at a future day, and ordered the officers of the establishment to use every endeavour to traco the coat. UNION-HALL. A young man, named Thomas Walker, was yes- terday brought before R. J. CHAMBERS, Esq., on suspicion of being implicated in the extensive rob bery which was effected, about a month back, on the premises of Mr. Loudan, a silversmith aural watchmaker, living in Great Surrey-street. Mr. Loudan said that he really believed the pri soner was acquainted with the parties who had ac complished the robbery. " I understand, Sir," continued the complainant, " that the prisoner was confined in one of the sick wards at St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, in which a young man mho has been occasionally in my employ was likewise con fined. When theme the prisoner asked a variety of questions relative to me, my property, and the situation of my premises. He asked whe ther any body slept in the shop, where I was in the habit of placing my cash at night, and other singular questions which the young man an sweredas correctly as he was able. About a week back I had a conversation with the prisoner in the hospi tal, who said he had seen the accounts in the news papers of the robbery, and observed that the reward of 1001., on conviction of the offenders, would not do; if I wished to get back the property, I must pur sue a different course. He told me that he thought he knew where the watches, which had been stolen, were, and probably could get them back. I n a d a y or two afterwards I received a note by the twopenny post, which I hold in my hand, arid I suspect that he must have had knowlete of the parties, if he did not plan the robbery. One of his brothers, you may remember, Sir, was in custody, but was afterwards discharged. There is another circumstance I may as well mention, that the prisoner exchanged a coat with that young man since he had been in the hos pital." Mr. CHAMBERS then perused the anonymous note, of ,which the following is a literal copy, with the or thography preserved : " Sir—i hove been spoke to bout your things, but i ant sorry to inform you it is too late, for they are disposed with, if the application ad been mad too days sooner, they could have been saved. " Address Mr. Loudon, watchmaker, nearly opposite Christ-church, Bls e ki r i srs - rea d." _ _ Mr. Loudan said that he had never addressed a word to any person respecting obtaining his property, but with the prisoner. Mr. CHAMBERS now asked the prisone" if he pleased to give any account of himself, at the same erne cautioning him against committing himself, for if he should utter any thing prejudicial, it might be hereafter used to his disadvantage. " Please, your Worship," said the prisoner, " I was in the hospital when the robbery was done, therefore I could not have (lone it.? "No, you might not be actually engaged," said the Mag►strate; " nevertheless you might pun it, and from the information which you obtained by the interrogatories you put to the youth, you would be enabled to do so." The prisoner then denied having any thing what- ever to do in the affair, but admitted having exchang ed coats with his brother, who he said was poor, and wanted to go out on Christmas day. The prisoner was to hare been discharged that morning from the hospital, which fact having reach ed Pople, who has been very diligent in endea vouring to trace the guilty party, he went and appre hended him. He was now remanded, to give the prosecutor an opportunity of further investigation. In the course of the day a middle-aged man ap plied for a license to hold a meeting for the pur pose, as he said, of worshipping God, and delivered a manuscript, of which this is a copy, to the Chief Clerk : " To the Right Rev. Father in God, by Divine permis sion, Lord Bishop of Lambeth. I William Clark (the naniie of the applicant), of the parish of Lambeth, widower, do here Ey Certify that a certain building, heTng A Cot tage Situated in the parish of Lambeth, at James Street, No. 4, Now in the occupation of Ann Burrow, Is in tended, for with to be used as a plane of Religious wor ship, by an Assembly or Congregation of Protestants, and I hereby Requite you to Regaster the same according to an Act passe , ' in the Fifty Second Yere of the Reign of His Majesty Gem ye the Third, Intitled an Act to repeal cer t a i n !laths relating to Religious Worship. " WILLIAM CLARK, 4, WILLIAM W. HOOPER." The applicant, who said he had recently atrived in town from Norwich, was told that he must pro cure a proper form, which was to be tilled up before the Magistrates could sign it; then he would have to appear before the Clerk of the Peace, who would grant a license such as he required. O►a hearing this the applicant took hit ill-spelled document and quitted the office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. lILTNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPEHNTMENTS FOR THIS wr.Ey. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Maidenhead Thicket; and Friday, at the Crooked Billet, lyer Heath— at half-past ten. If not prevented by the weather they will meet at the same place on the following day. The Westacre Stag-hounds, on Monday, at the Kennel ; and Friday, at flouellton-on-the-Hill---at half-past teo. General Wm. Fitzroy's Hounds, on Monday, at Mr. Brown's, Weasenllam ; Wednesday, at Spoil Mill ; and Friday, at West Lexharn—at eleven. The Shropshire Hounds, on Monday, at Cound Vil lage; Wednesday, at Huston ; and Saturday, at the fifth mile-stone on the Ba•church-road_-at half-past ten. Sir Richard Puleston's Hounds, on Monday, at Emral ; Wednesday, at Acton Smithy ; and Friday. at Carden— at eleven. Mr. Mey-nell's Hounds, on Monday, at Holly Bush, at half-past ten; Thursday, at Kedleston, at eleven; and Sa turday, at Langley Common, at half-past ten. Lord Scarborough's Fox-bounds, on Monday, at Gate ford Tull-bar ; Wodnesday, at Rossington Village; and Friday, at Haughton school—at half-past ten. - - The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Sandiway Head ; Wednesday, at Tolt ; Friday, at Peorer ; and Sa turday, at Kinderton Guide-Post—at half-past ten. The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Wadesmill ; Wednesday, at Stanstead, Essex ; and Saturday, at Cum below—at half-past ten. Mr. Boycott's Hounds, on Monday, at Chillington ; Tbur.day, at Woodcote Green; and alurday, at Island— at half-past ten. The Warwickshire Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Snitter field ; Wednesday, at Wolford Wood ; Friday, at the Ken nel—at half-past ten; and Saturday, at Alveston Pasture, at eleven. The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Pateham ; Wed nesday, near the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke— at half-past ten. The Brookside Harriers will continue to meet every Monday-, at Newmarket ; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race Course ; and Friday, at Telleacembe Tye—at half-past ten. Mr. Lester'a Harriers, on Monday, at Parkstone; Wed nesday, at Corfe Hills ; and Saturday, at the back of Al derney Cottage—at half-past ten. The Anglesea Hounds, on Monday, at Maenaddwyn ; Wednesday, at Botledern ; and Friday, at Llanbedr—at half- past ten. Sir Rich. Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Skelling• thorpe ; Wednesday, at Newsham Lodge ; Friday, al Thonock Grove ; and Saturday, at Swallow Cross-roads —at eleven. The Granaden Hounds, on Monday, at Coton ; and Friday, at Patton Wood—at ten. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Ludbo rough ; Wednesday, at Newsham-lodge ; Friday, at Tho nook Grove ; and Saturday, at Swallow-road—at eleven. The East Sussex Hounds, on Monday, at Nutley ; Thursday, at Southease ; and Saturday, at Abbott's Wood —at a quarter before eleven. The 131acknsoor Yale Hounds, on Monday, at Point in,don Ridge; and Friday, at Holton-street.—at ten. b Earl of Derby's Stag-hounds, on Tuesday, at Epsom Downs ; and Friday, at Foxley Hatch—at ter.. The H. H. en Tuesday, at Hintotr; Thursday, at Preston °aid, ills ; and Saturday, at Minchin' s Barn--at ten. - _ Mr. H. M. C hadwirk's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, al Bull's Head, Shenstone ; and Friday, at Cantwell Inn—al half-past ten. The Latnbton Pox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Rainton bridge; Thursday, at Burnopside ; and Saturday, at Caw bey—at ten. The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Paper MP's, SLepreth ; and Thursday, at the Red Lion, Reed Mill. The Worcestershire Fox-Bounds, on Tuesday, at Bishop's Wood; and Friday, at Biedon-hill—at half-past ten. Mr. D a nsey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Hope Turnpike; and Thursday, at \Vestbide Village--at ten. The Somerset Subscription Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Bagborough-house ; and Friday, at Week lark, Stogursey. Mr. H. Villebois's Harriers, on Tuesday, at the Cock, Methwold ; Thursday, at Stoke Ferry ; and Saturday, at the Kennel—at eleven. The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Fenwick, at half-past ten; Thursday, at Nustell, at twelve; and Sa turday, at Cudworth, at half-past tell. The Cadbury Harriers, on Wednesday, at Silton ; and Saturday, at the Dowu-house. The Marquis of Cleveland's Fox-bounds, on Wainc-sday, at Noinan's Moor ; Friday, at Pepper-hall ; and *attn.- day, at Leeining—at eleven. Mr. Wicksteid'a Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at lleleigh Caatle ; and Saturday, at Seighford—at hall-past ten. Mr. 3leager's Harriers, on, Wednesday, at Addington ; and Friday, at Crown Aah-bid--at half-pant nine. The Sander stead Fhtliecti, on Wednesday and 6aturday, at the V:eauel—at ten. Mr. Nicoll's Hounds, en Wednesday, at the Kennel; and Saturday, at Heathy Dilton. The liinnbledon Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at West and Telegraph; and Friday, at Ifolywell-house--nt half- - H. JollitTe, Esq.'s Fox-bounds, on NTerineeday, at Healey house; and Saturday, at the Hermitage—at eleven. Mr. O'Kelly's Buck hounds, on Wednesday, at Muston Down, at half-past ten z and Stiturflay, at Mill Down, at half-past eleven. Lord Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Hook Moor; and Friday, at the Wild Man—at ten. The Northumberland Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Oakwood-gate ; and Friday, at Hart - burn-bridge—at ten. The Hayden Hounds, on Wednesday, at Corvie Syke; and Saturday, at Wood Shields—at n;ne. The I .llorpeth Harrier!, on Thursday, at Pigdon; and Saturday, at Newton—at ten. The Sinuington Fux-hounds, on Thursday, at Riccall, bridze—at ten. The Cleveland Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Roseberry —at ten. The York and Ainsty Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Pill Moor; and Saturday, at Strensall—at half-past ten. The Surrey Fox-hounde, on Thursday, at Addington Lodge Bottom ; and Saturday, at Litnpsfield—at hAf.. past ten. 'Elie York City Harriers, on Friday, at Rufrorth Toll. bar--at half-past ten. The Borcughbridge Harriers, on Friday, at Alinskip... at half-past ten. The I4urworth Fox-hounds, on at Low 'Mid dleton—at ten. The HoWernees Fox-hounds., on Friday, at Glans moor—at eleven. Sir G. Sitwell's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Handsworth Bar—at ten. TWO FIGHTS YESTERDAY. The admirers of milling had a high treat yesterday oz CoJury Heath, within four miles of South Minims. There were two fights, the first between Young (tile Sun-yard Swell) and Lamb, a butcher from the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, his first appea:arce in the P.R., which was decided i❑ favour of the latter, after 30 severely contested rounds, occupying 34 minutes. The second fight was be tween the Bristol Baker mad a Knight of the Last, in which the former was the victor, after fighting 43 rounds. At the 30th round the Baker was not expected "to come again," but his second (Curtis) roused him in good style, and the strength of the other gave way in tarn. The following specimen of the ." march of intellect" was posted at a public-house in Surrey : " Piddgou Piddyon shut will take place at the Jolly Farmer on tersday 6 day of Janry. 1829 for any pursox whough who will like to shut 2 dos. of piddgen and 2 doz. of rabbets and allso sparrows." An anecdote is told of a captain in the ser vice, mince dead, that whilst carrying out a British Am bassador to his station a'oroael, a quarrel arose on the subject of precedency. High words were exchanged be tween them on the quarter-deck, when at length the Am bassador, thinking to silence the Captain, exclaimed— " Recollect, Sir, I ant the representative of his Majesty." " Then, Sir," retorted the Captain, " recollect, that here lam more than Majesty itself. Can the King seize afel low up and give hiss three dozen ?" Further argument was usciess,-the diplumatist struck. SPIRIT OF TEE ►_ONDON .101711NAI.S. If, as we cordially wish, the. Duke of Wel lington's political character is to pass with pos. terity for direct and undesi , ning, the evidence for ceding to him such a reputation must be pu rifled from much, to which, on a transient view, a diKrent effect might be ascribed. When his Grace first entered upon office, he found it ne• cessary to propitiate the public mind of Eng land by displaying the liberal colours of a Can ning Government, pretty largely mingled with his own and with those of his Tory adherents. We make this assertion not unadvisedly, 'be cause it is notorious that the Duke of Welling ton, so far from openly seeking at the outset to. displace the coadjutors of the deceased Prime Minister from his Cabinet, besought them to re tain the departments which they already held ; nor were these of a trifling nature. The Foreign Affairs and the Colonies—the two most impor tant (save only the Treasury) in the whole Admini- sivtirra. Ilusks O e , ti n oLd t i i i l et n e l d en by o L f c o ie rd ei D de t d id a le h y i ' l , i a ty nd ai b u ,e; usefulness. The office of President of th e Board' of e Trade was filled by Mr. Grant, a m an o f lib era l views and extensive information. Th e D u k e o f Clarence, appointed, with the King's concur rence, by Mr. Canning, was left at the head of the Marine. Lord Anglesea, elected also by Mr. Canning for the Lord Lieutenancy of Ire land, though not formally inducted until after the decease of that Statesman, proceeded to his Irish Government almost simultaneously with the Duke of Wellington's accession to that of England. Such, then, was the infant aspect of the Wellington Cabinet, bearing a mixed resem blance to both its parents—to the dead Liberal and to the surviving Tory. As the child grew, however, the complexion betrayed a mournful change ; for a negro bantling will show at its birth no more than a slight shade of dinginess, not blackening thoroughly but with time and exposure. The truth seems to be, that the country was not ripe at once for the endurance of a complete expulsion from power of all men professing those liberal principles which had re commended them to Mr. Canning's partnership, and the early promise and development of which had diffused real gladness over the empire. 'it was, therefore, obvious to any comnon obser ver—even to one who looked at things throu g h a Tory medium—th a t th ere might be danger in too sudden and violent a revulsion ; a dex terous manceuvrer might easily flatter himself that circumstances, after the Government should begin to work, would ere long enable him to elbow his uncongenial associates off the, stools on which, for temporary convenience, -he had seated them ; and so it happened. No Tory or Servile has been disturbed by the Duke of Wellington, and every Liberal has been, by some movement or other, ousted. Every trace of Mr. Canning, on both sides of the water, has been, with curious diligence, swept away. Lord Dudley has been displaced : the navy has been ' once more borough-logged by Lord Melville ; new job-master-general has been provided for the Ordnance; and Lord Anglesea, from no ade quate reason but his demonstrating the manly determination to think for himself and to rule the people of Ireland through their grateful and kind affections, is now the last sacrifice to the half-Tory, half-military jealousy of every man who dares to hold passive obedience in con tempt, and to value at their native worth the confidence and attachment of a gallant people. That the general, the systematic motive, how ever, for Lord Anglesea's recall, should b e frankly acknowledged, he must be an ignoramus who expects. Even those minute and Petty circumstances which were made the studied and progressive steps towards a quarrel previously resolved upon, will be denied with stout pertinacity, and with a certain sort of impunity, by those olio have it always: in their power to supp ress t h e evidence by a re f usa l of papers. It therefore cannot be made public officially, whatever moral conviction may exist upon the subject, whether or no some points were urged upon the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which his political ho nesty would not suffer him to_yield, and others at which his pride and high spirit as a gentleman revolted. There will, 'undoubtedly, be no ma terials furnished from the official archives, for ascertaining what was the name of a lady, or what the amount of Irish pension demanded for her, by peremptory and supercilious letters front England ; which lady was riot deemed by the Government of Lord Anglesea to have per formed any meritorious services, and which pen sion was therefore by his Lordship conscienti ously refused. Nor will the tactics of Downing street admit of the production Of any corre spondence between a meddling chief on this side the water, and the no less proud but more dig nified representative of his Majesty on the other, the subject of which is reported to have been an interdiction of all acquaintance between the gal lant Marquis and the most popular member of the Irish peerage, from whom the Lord Lieutenant had been in the habit of obtain ing highly useful knowledge upon the st a t e o f the country whi c h h e was deputed nominally to govern. It will we apprehend, be with. equ a l repugnance that Ministers are likely to hear questions asked as to any intrusive remon stances of theirs against a sovial visit to the pro hibited house of Lord Cloncurry by the Lord Lieutenant and Lord Chancellor. Bow could persons of their high rank answer to such en croachments upon their personal free agency, but in terms of cool and haughty protestation against the forwardness of the unlicenced in truder? So, with regard to Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, when the law-officers of the Crown de clared their inability to punish that gentleman further titan by depriving him of his commis sion of the peace, the Government will hardly bear witness to its own reasonableness, in cen suring Lord Anglesea for his forbearance to wards the deprived county Magistrate ; nor do we care whether such official testimony is with held or not. The correspondence above-men tioned may have preceded the recall, but the re- ' call was not the fruit of the correspondence. The London letter-writer tray have been que rulous and troublesome, the Dublin one haughty and unbending; still we say that Lord Angle sea's crime was his frank, conciliatory, and po pular heariw,. Pie was t oo muc h id ent ifi e d with the conquered and stranger nation : lie be longed too little to the faction which held that nation in abhorrence, and was abhorred by it, " For God's sake," exclaimed a witty Irish woman to Lord Anglesea, " don't make your self so much beloved by us all : do something unpopular, that you ma y b e l e f t h ere a li t tl e longer." The Irish l a dy, un d er cover o f a wit ticism, implied a melancholy truth. On com ing home from the infected soil of Ireland, Lord Anglesea, like Lord Wellesley, will no doubt be put under quarantine, and never be admitted to