The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-20 00:00:00

MANCHESTER POLICE INTELLIGENCE. NEW BAILEY, Auc. 8. Mary Ann Welling, the woman who was remanded on Thursday, on the infamous char g e of seduction, was again p u t i n t o th e d oc k , an d th e girl underwent an examination by Mr. Foster, and Mr. Stanfield, Who had, since the last hearing, been retained on the part of the prisoner. Nothing additional to what Was before stated was elicited; but Mr. Foster made particular inquiries as to her age. Both she and her sister said that she was above sixteen years of age. Mr. Foster said that the age of the girl was very material in the case; he had attentively considered it ever, and had once thought that the Prisoner might have been indicted for conspiracy; h e now thought differently, but he had no doubt her offence was a misdemeanour at common law, and he should require her to enter into sureties to answer that charge at the Sessions. Mr. Stanfield observed, that he was not there to justify the con duct of his client; base as it was, he could not do that ; but it was his duty to see that she was pro tected as far as the law permitted. He begged Mr. Foster to consider the evidence of the girl; the transaction, on her own showing, was al most incredible. In the first place, it was scarcely to be believed that any person could be found capable of such baseness ; and in the second place, it was scarcely to be credited that, supposing the girl to have been treated as she alleged, she should not hav e made the slightest mention of the circumstance until the arrival of her friends. Mr. Foster replied, that he had no doubt upon his mind as to the truth of the girl's story; and, addressing the woman, said that she had been guilty of a most shameful and dis graceful offence; and one for which she might rely upon it she would have to answer. But he was afraid it was of no use talking to such a woman as she was. The prisoner was about to make some observations, when Mr. Stanfield advised her to be quiet ; and Mr. Foster ordered her to enter into sureties, herself in 404 and two sureties in 20/. each, to answer`a charge of misdemeanour at the sessions; and to give Mr. Lavender 24 hours' notice of her bail, that he might have an opportunity of in quiring into their respectability.--She was then re moved below. The "gentleman" to whom this Poor girl was so basely sacrificed, is, we believe, tole rably well known, and repeated efforts were made to get a sight of him, in order that the girl might identify him; but he had received a hint from some quarter or other, and carefully kept cut of the way. Some emissary, however, most probably sent by b iro, succeeded in findi ng th e g i r l an d h er f r i en d s on Saturday evening; and used such cogent reasons (amongst which, we believe, a handful of sovereigns) to induce them to depart, that they went off with communicating with the police on the subject.- 41Z aachester Advertiser. THE FEMALE SWINDLER. Mrs. Johnson, alias Watkins, alias Gibson, alias Williams, has laboured in her avocation for several Years past, and in most instances she has been re- Inarkably successful in defrauding tradesmen of every d escription, by her gay exterior and insinuating ad dress. She is invariably attended by another female, I h° personates the character of her servant, and they freq uent l y represent t h at t h ey are strangers in wn, and in daily expectation of the arrival of Mrs. Johnson's husband, who is in an exceedingly infirm state of health, and is coming to town to consult the Most eminent medical practitioners, in whose immt diate neighbourhood they occasionally take up their residence. In May last, this female diddler hired a suit of apartments in Dover -street, Piccadilly, near the h ouse o f D r. A yrton P ar i s, for which they Undertook to pay ten guineas a week; and, on the lady applying to Mr. Swales, who keeps a highly re spectable lodging-house in Clifford -street, Bond street, she represented that her husband was anxious to reside, during his temporary sojourn in London, hear Sir A. C ooper, in Conduit -street, as the worthy Bar onet was goingto perform an operation upon hi m . m e i s "lost particular in dealing with the trad esmen .h i° s upply the master or mistress of the house, and rra i .__ d ier Ily requests one of the s ervants to intro "nee her to them. In this manner she duped the Majority of persons who executed her orders whilst she remained in Clifford-street; and though her so journ there was extremely brief, she succeeded in tr ansmitting a considerable quantity of goods to the dpot, or receivi ng -h ouse in Fitzroy-market, con ealed in the pair of monstrous pockets which were exhibited before the Magistrate; and other articles del ivered convey e d away b y a t hi r d party, to whom she • 'livered them in Oxford-street, the gang consist 'ng of half-a-dozen individuals, the majority of whom befemales. Amo ngs t th e tra d esmen w h o supplied Qt Mr. Swales's, were Mr. Ratcliffe, wine-mer chant, of 164, Regent-street; Mr. Burton, a tallow uindler, in Regent-street; Mr. Joshua, a grocer, S il Vigo-st reet; M r. Sil verton, a fishmonger, in Illver-street, St,. James's; Mr. Holmes, a butcher, It? Silver- s t reet; M r. Hi gg i ns, a cheesemonger, in I.e s ame place. M an y o f th e i nc id ents connected 1 , -. }i i th i. th e f rau d s were of a highly ludicrous nature. 8 ! fishmong er was wa i te d upon b y Wil son, t h e lady ' s ) i-disant servant, who ordered him to send five dozen 7.sters to Clifford-street on Saturday evening for her ennstress's supper. The oysters not being forth ss the exact h our , Wilson returned t o th e h ti M onger's, and threatened him with the loss of ter Mistress's c us t om f or not h av i ng b een more i e uet ual- She insisted on c arr yi ng h ome t h e oys foils herself, and ordered a fine salmon for dinner the ° Wing day, stating that the family were all in- Nida • y, • s ee , andlived chiefly upon fish. The salmon was ei. ( g d ingly supplied, but soon after it was sent to (4' l o r d - street Mr. Silvester learnt the real character 601,18 customers, and he hastened to recover the A , l . ‘'hich Wilson was preparing to cook for dinner ex ecuted 4 ". Swales's kitchen. Mr. Holmes the butcher, fPart Mrs. Johnson's order of a sirloin of beef, la i l, of which he recovered on the following day, it v.'"g been roasted for their dinner on Sunday. a _As the prisoners were committed to Tothill-fields Iline their own acknowledgment of having no visible e ° 44 of obtaining a livelihood, they will remain in ,fineinent until the gaol delivery in Westminster, ~T 1 e h a tue 6th of September, unless they should be dis - The on bail before that period. tne following description of the lady may, per bos,operate as a caution to persons in trade :—She , etv, ut the m iddl e height, and slight-figure, appa i, _ I Y abo ve fi fty years of age, and her count enance expres s i ve of impudence and ill humour. • 11 '01. COLLEGE.— We have heard that th_ eon tenaplation to establish a college in this city, for t ot „.„,_ 'tiV e ., st rse of providing the sons of subscribers, in the data; Engl an d , with the means of obtaining, at a mo tioir ePetise, a co m pl e t e c l ass i ca l an d sc i ent ifi c educa -414844 as can only b e acqu i re d at t h e U n i vers i t i es at a f.,-IPen°4'.---Batii Chronicle. ucester and its neighbourhood w ere an 444to,,l!isited by one of the heaviest storms of ra i n, b eudn.ac -41E4 by thunder or lightning, ever remem ad er an P ar r B of the town were completely inunclat 1.1 to btiztiZted that the storm will prove seriously detrune!il of farmers in this vicinity.—Bath Chronic le . hi tve AKE is remarkable that lakes which Ittt 4 ° it'sue are salt. It is probable that all rivers c . 01 , - p e , e s t . a io portion of salt from . the soils through which and where there is no exit, it accumulates. (ladtl'i ,ense, the sea may be considered as a great lake, ri ots 11!eoultequently increase in saltness. It would be know Whether the cause is a d equa t e t o t he pro - b of t o n' saltness alt ogether.—. Westminster R ev i ew . tr iti k;r• lALl Es•—•One of the oldest woods in the l the New Forest; th e o ld est cana l near Lon eW River. 14 4 p i 44 ° 4 " O ctob er, as B INCE, Esq., of Pulfo r d, ,„ 44 e i' se „ Mr. )3 u of Doddleston, were engaged Rb CygZ the nei gh bour h ood s of the latter place, they setved two robins, wh ose feathers were milky "Pe* . 1 :;"" red breasts—one of them bad some delicate o Corn.- ;I' ran .t2le wings --:and both 'Of these were fight in g in -*d-breaosttiast the assaults of several of the comm hite This is the first time we ever heard o f a w SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TUNBRIDGE WELLS PACES. WED N ESDAY, AUG.. 12.-The Manor Stakes of five sous, each, with 45 ad , !vd. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Harrison's Kean, 6 yrs I I Lord Stradbroke's D;cky Dowlas, 3 yrs Mr. Farrel's Chrysalis 5 yrs Mr. Howard's Lady Jane, aged 4 dr Mr. Smith's g. h. 5 yrs 5 dr The Visitors' Plate of three sous. each, with 40 added. Two miles and a distance. )Ir. Willard's Jumping Jenny • 2 1 1 Mr. Harrison's Kean 1 2 2 Mr. Pegg's Young Harry Mr. Maplesden's Eliza • • 35 dr Mr. Brown's Emil- • • • • • -- 4 3dr Mr. Blackman's Fimny 6 dr TiltritsoAY, At7c. 13.—The Ladies' Plate of five sova Heats, two miles and a distance. Mr. Haines's Rembrandt, 6 yrs I 1 Mr. Smith's g. h. 5 yrs Mr. Howard's Isabella, 4 yrs Sir. Hawkins's br. h. yrs The Half-bred Stakes of three soya. each, with 40 added: Heats, two miles anti a distaiace. Mr, Codringtnn's Fitz William, aged Mr. Spencer'a First Flight, 4 yrs 1 2 2 Mr. Willard's Jumping Jenny, 5 yrs 2 3 3 Mr. Brown's Emily, aged 5 4 4 Mr. Blackman's Fanny, aged Mr. Pegg's Young Harry, 6 yrs Captain MTall's Baronet, aged WORCESTER RACES. TUFSDAr, Auc. 18.—Produce Stakes of 50 F ovs. each,. h. ft. for 3-yr-olds. Mile and a quarter. Lord Warwick's ch. c. by Centaur walked over The Worcestershire Stakes of 20 sous. each, with 20 added, h. ft. Two mil e s. ._ Lord Deerliurst's Hesperus 1 Sir T. Stanley's Mayfly, 6 yrs Mr. Griffith's Musquito, 4 yrs 3 Sweepstakes of 10 ROM each, with 10 added, for 11018 8 not thorough-bred. Heats, two miles. Mr. Hick's The Tartar, aged I I Mr. Umbers's David, 5 yrs 2 2 NAVAL FETE UPON THE THAMES. A most extraordinary and novel fete is announced for Friday (to-morrow) in honour of the birth-day of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, and under the im mediate patronage of the Coronation Fleet Club. It is a match from Waterloo-bridge to Putney, and back to Lambeth-palace, between twenty fishing-boats, (each being limited to the use only of a spritsail or trysail) and foresail ; no booms or paddles are allowed ; and any vessel wilfully fouling, to be thrown out of the match al together. Mr. Nelson, the Deputy Water-bailiff, is to have the superintendance of this interesting match. It has already excited so much interest, that the En deavour steam-packet is to accompany the race with cem pany. Mr. Sandwell, of the Dog Tavern, Holywell-street, has the arrangements of the dejeune on old Thames, which will take place in the steamer in honour of this occasion. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Duke of Devonshire, yesterday, from Chatsworth, to Bolton Abbey, in Yorkshire ; the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Mor peth, and Mr. Howard, for Castle Howard, in Yorkshire; the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesea and the Ladies Paget, yes terday, for their seat, Beau Desert, Staffordshire; the Earl and Countess Gower, for the Marquis of Stafford's seat, Trentham hall, Staffordshire; Major Francis Vincent, from Lisbon, in Arlington-street ; Captain and Mr. Langley, from Tunbridge Wells, for Ramsgate; Major Campbell, in Bruton-street, from the Netherlands; Lord Melbourne and J. R. Milihank, Esq. yesterday, at Whitehall, from Tunbridge 'Wells ; Henry Sey mour, Esq. in Abingdon-street, from his scat in Bedfordshire ; . Colonel Caulfield and Mr. Mallet, at the British Hotel, Jermyn street, from a tour; Spencer Mackay, Esq. at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat, Bookham Grove, Surrey; John Todd, Esq. at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, from a tour ; H. and J. F. Todd, Esqrs. at ditto, from a tour; the Hon. Edward Jervis and Robert Ricketts, Esq. from ditto, on a tour ; R. D. Oswald. Esq. jun. from the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Esher ; General Sir William Sheridan, Bart. from Fladong's Hotel, to Scotland; Captain Tisdall, R.N. and the Misses Ha milton, from ditto, to the Continent ; the Rev. R. Mrs and Miss Norris, from ditto, to Brighton; Lord and Lady Kensington and family, at Fenton's Hotel, from Brighton ; the Rev. George and Mrs. Haddington, at ditto, from Northwold, Suffolk; the Rev. James Slater, at Syrnmons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-street, from Ireland. ARRIVALS AT BATH. Lord Llandaff, Hon. Miss Burton, Lady Bolton, Sir G. and Lady Ricketts, Sir H. and Lady Vickerey, Sir E. Denney, Sir Morris Ximenes, Sir J. Knight, Lady and Miss D'Urban, Gen. Macauley, Colonel Crofton, Majors Cos, Brooks; Captains Sa vage, Haynes; Rev. Messrs. Wiggett, Robinson; Mr. and Mrs. Acraman, Et' twins, Frederick, Smart, Tylee, West, Trail, and Farrand. ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM. Earl of Wiltshire, Lord and Lady Lisle, Lord Decies, Lord Bishop of St. David's, Le Comtc de Lorenzo, Lady Newbolt and family, Hon. and Rev. George Burke, General Capel, Lieut.- General Gerard, Colonel Cross, Colonel Short, Lieut.-Colonel Shewen, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, Major and Mrs. Snowpaul, Major Cumberland, Rev. Mr. Cumming, Rev. Mr. Sheehan, Rev. Mr. Corrie, Rev. Mr. GifPard, Rev. I'. Fuller, Captain Fenton, Captain Harvey, Captain Waller, Captain Light, Cap tain Brooks, Captain Le Couteur, Captain W. S. Webb, Capt. Lucas, Captain Lowe. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE came to town yesterday morning from their residence in Bushy Park. Their Royal Highnesses paid a visit to the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, at their residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. At half-past four o'clock , their Royal Hi g h nesses l e f t town on the i r return to Bushy. St. George's Hall at Windsor, together with the Ball-room and Guard Chamber of Windsor Castle, are allowed to be shown to the public by permission of his MAJESTY. Viscount SI'RANGFORD had an interview yesterday with the Earl of ABERDEEN at the Foreign Office. The Earl of CHATHAM (the Governor of Gibraltar; transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Office. Lord Viscount DUNCANNON is shortly to be entertained at a public dinner in Carrick-on-Suir, near the residence of the Earl of BESBOROUOII. Mr. O'CowNELL is to be present. The Learned Gentleman will pass some time before the close of the autumn on a visit at Besbo rough House. The Right Hon. Sir W. GARROW has been staying a few days at Dr. BA DELEF'S, in this town, on his return from the Norfolk Circuit. On Sunday morning his Lordship was among the congregation at church, and yesterday his Lordship visited the county prison at Spring field Hill.—Essex Herald. His Majesty's brig Briseis, 10, was commis• sioned yesterday at Woolwich, for the packet service.— Lieutenant S. DOWNING and Mr. T. E. RING, Assistant. Surgeon, are appointed to her. EXTRAORDINARY DESPATCH.—The Aber deen and London Steam Navigation Company's steam ship, the Duke of TVellington, sailed from Aberdeen about three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the 15th inst., and arrived at London at one o'clock on Monday fore noon, the I7th inst., performing the distance of about 540 miles in 46 hours, beating the mail about 17 hours. Salmon caught and grouse killed on Saturday forenoon were delivered at their respective destinations on Monday afternoon. The O'CONNELL testimonial subscriptions proceed but very slowly, which is ascribed to most of his partisans having been drained of their cash by their contri buting to the Catholic rent, an account of the receipt and expenditure of which they expected to see published before there were any further calls or encroachments on their pockets. Dr. IRELAND, we find, has refused the friends of the late Mr. SHIELD permission to erect a tablet to his memory in Westminster Abbey. The ground of this de nial is stated to be an objection to the word " gentleman" introduced in the inscription. As it would have been im possible for the venerable Dean to have refused this title to that eminent composer and truly respectable man while he was alive, we conclude that he proceeds upon the same principle which lately actuated a learned Judge in deciding that " a duck is not a duel when it is dead," while a bul lock and a sheep, as is notorious, under similar circum stances, merge their pristine designations in " beef" and " mutton." The learned ecclesiastic is said to be a dear lover of precedent. Globe. Surely there must be some mistake in this account.— Times. A correspondent observes that the confectioner at the corner of the Inner Temple-avenue offers Greek bread for sale, which he presumes is intended to prepare the Students of the Temple for their examinations. The papers of the metropolis are daily trum peting forth the alarm of a bad crop, and bad harvest alto gether. The writers of such articles, no doubt, have their object in thus proclaiming, and endeavouring to enforce a belief of, that which is not founded in fact. The produce of the corn crop, from the best authority, we pronounce to be good in general ; and the wheat better and more weighty than usual. Three }tundra Coombs of this year's red wheat were• sold in Tuesday's market at Newmarket, by Mr. KING, of Brinkley-hall, at 355. ;at the same time undertaking that it should weigh 19 atone 31b. a coomb.— Bury Herald. FINE ARTS. We have just seen the Fourteenth Number of Mr. Frank Howard's " Illustrations of Shak speare," containing twenty-two Outline plates, the subjects of which are drawn from King John and Corioiann , ,. They are executed with all this artist's wonted animation, and with more than his wonted fidelity to Shakspeare's text.— The illustrations of king John are more in detail, and the outline is more filled up, than has been, the case with Mr. Howard's former Illustrations. The grouping, too, on the whole, is better contrived, as an instance of which we may refer to the very first specimen, where Philip, King of France ; is represented as demanding-the dom of England from John in right of Arthur. The engraving is here completely crowded with characters both in the fore and back-grounds, yet notwithstandin g this numerous assemblage, there is not the slightest confusion ; to each in dividual is apportioned his proper and fitting station, so that the strictest harmony and uni formity are kept up. The conference (No. 5,) of Hubert with King John, where the latter darkly hints his wishes, as regards Arthur, to the former, has much energy and boldness of expression. The nature of the conference needs no explanation, it is fully revealed in the sp ea ki ng countenances of the . Monarch and his confi dant. The leap of Arthur, (No. 8,) from the battlements of the castle, though the illustration possesses but one figure, has a very striking effect. The little fragment of sylvan scenery at the bottom of the Castle walls is ingeniously introduced, and gives at one glance an imposing idea of the vast height of the battlements. Of the illustrations to Coriolanus we may say that they seem to con rev (to those, who like ourselves, have never had the good fortune to see him) a tolerably correct notion of what the late Mr. John Kemble might have been in this his favourite and most successful part, at least if dignity and grandeur of air were his two chief characteristics. The interview of Corio lanus with the Plebeians is exactly like what we have heard so often described as Kemble's repre • sentation of this scene. It is replete with stern patrician haughtiness of look and gesture. A ROMAN EXECUTION. It is the practice in Rome to heighten the agonies of a criminal by the excitement of ima ginary terrors. Th e f ata l sentence i s not revealed to him until the night before its execution.-- Suddenly, at midnight, he is conducted to a room hung with black drapery: a skeleton, hold ing a scythe and hour-glass, starts from the wall, while, at the same instant, a deep sepulchral voice exclaims, " Thou shalt (lie !" From this moment, however, to the last of his existence, the offender is constantly attended by his " com forter." These comforters, who are masked, and are usually persons of high rank, avail themselves of these opportunities to perform a meritorious and acceptable service, thinking, probably, that they can thereby expiate their own offences.— Early on the morning of the execution, several masked individuals, some of whom are usually men of rank, walk through the city with boxes, and collect alms for the condemned criminal.--- he amount thus collected is given to the rela tives of the sufferer, by way of compensation for their loss ; and they are moreover con veyed, before the hour of execution, beyond the city walls, and provided with meals for the day, to save them from all risk of witnessing a spectacle so trying to their feelings. The gallows is erected on the previous evening in the Piazza del Popolo, and guarded throughout the night by Shirri; and the doorway of one of the contiguous houses is hung with black, that the delinquent may receive there the sacrament im mediately before his execution. On the follow ing morning, the criminal enveloped in an old cloak, was brought in a cart to the doorway hung with black, through which he passed into the house, and immediately after his descent the cart was crowded with spectators. After the sacra ment had been administered, the condemned man was led to the gallows. He mounted the ladder, and the executioner, after fixing the rope, called out to him, " Credisne to in Jesu Christo ?" the criminal answered in the affirmative ; the hangman pushed him from the ladder, and step ped upon his shoulders to accelerate his death ; then sliding down the rope, he embraced and kissed the dead man, according to established custom, and in proof that he had entertained no malice towards the criminal.—Blackwood. Mr. CHAMBERS, Biddenden, has at the pre sent time three young squirrels, taken from a' nest a few days since, and are now being nurtured by a cat and a rab bit, alternately, for, when the cat is not to be found, the squirrels are put under the fostering care of the rabbit, and each one is equally tender over its strange charge.—Mixid stone Journal. GARRICK gave his greatest actors only a handsome living salary, and his lowest a decent existence, and Illicit the same. Few had above 10/. or 12/. a-week, and none lower than 30s. We bear of the former now having 50/. a night, and the latter 15s. and IL a-week. No wonder there is a dearth of theatrical merit. At Bristol, carts going about the streets with bars of iron make an intolerable clatter. "Is this what you call Bristol music?" said a stranger to a Bristolian. " Yes," answered the latter, " but it is ironically." The garden of the Earl of FIFE at Mar Lodge has been entirely swept away by the late flood, one of the bow windows of the Lodge driven in, and an accu mulation of mud and gravel deposited in the lower part of the house to the depth of two or three feet.— Caledonian Mercury. On Saturday morning, the Bth instant, about half-past two o'clock, three men got into the yard of Mr. WILMOT, currier, of Kirkby, Nottinghamshire, and his daughter, a young woman about 21 years of age, hearing a noise, went out, and saw one of the men mount the brown pony; she immediately returned into the house to alarm her father, who was in bed, and, taking the dog with her, immediately went in pursuit down the gang road. On getting near, she encouraged the dog, who Set on the man, so that he speedily dismounted, and the three cowards gave up their prise to the heroine and her dog, and they were coming back in triumph when met by Mr. WILMOT, three quarters of a mile from his own house! The rascals disappeared in the wood, and could not be found.—Boston Gazette. PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES.—At the end of the reign of GEORGE 11., When a complaint was ;lade by a hot-brained Member of Parliament of a breach of privilege by the publication in the Magazines of some of the speeches made in the House of Commons, though given under feigned names, Mr. PELHAM, the Govern ment leader of that day, quashed the motion with the fol lowing observation :—" Let th em alone, " said he, " they make better speeches for us than we can make for ourselves." IRISH LIBERTY.---The Earl of MEATH'S liberty is the lowest part of Dublin, and is at present in .a state of great distress, as may be gathered from one of the Dublin papers, which says, " . We are sure we d o not exaggerate when we say one half of the lib er t y i s i n pri son !"—Aforning Paper. FIRE.-PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND. On Wednesday, the 13th May, a house oectiphal b y t h e f am ily of Captain Peter Stewart, Epp,' Artillery,..vas destroyed by fire. Captain Ste :Ist was at Halifax; the family had retired to rest. 'Mr,. Stewart, alarmed by a dog, discovered the tire. On the escape of the i!nuates, Led-a (one of the chii,!sen aged nine years) remained in the burning mass. She had been asleep in the upper part of the house, and the stair-case was on fire. Hugh, another of the Children, t‘velt'e years of age, with an intrepidity worthy of the son and g±titidmin of British officers, rushed into the fire to look for his sister; he waS brought out by the by-stander., when, seizing an opportunity of an unwatchful moment, the undaunted bay again rushed into the flames, the roof fell in, and the heroic youth and his sister perished together. They Were grand-Children of Mr. Stewart, late Solicitor-General of the Island, and of Capt.Baker i formerly of the 27th Regiment. The harvest, which was proceeding briskly in this neighbourhood up to Friday, has, we are sorry to state, been totally arrested since that day by heavy and almost continued rains. —Burg Herald. The stock of sheep throughout the country is raid not to have been so low as at pres,nt for many years. For this various causes are assigned —among others the poverty of the farmers, the loss by the dry rot, and the ex portation which has taken place to Van Diemen's Land and other settlements. —Morning Paper. The weather has at length become calm and settled, and the temperature of the last two days has done much towards ameliorating the condition of the crops, which have been so dreadfully injured by the late storm and heavy rains. Many farmers whom we have conversed with are of opinion that if the weather continue dry for a fortnight, the harvest will, after all, lie early and abun dant. —Du/lin Freeman's Journal. The weather has been very unfavourable for the approaching harvest during the past week. On Wed nesday the wind got round to the east, when the horizon became black with clouds, and early on Thursday morn ing the rain began to fall very heavily, and continued to come down with little intermission till Saturday evening. The crops are consequently much lodged, and fears are entertained that the wheat will be greatly injured. The weather became fine again on Sunday.— Tyne Mercury. The weather on Wednesday last, the first day of grouse shooting, being unusually propitious, the sport on the moors was excellent for those who quitted their beds at an early hour. As the day advanced, the birds naturally became wild, and few were shot after the sun passed the meridian. One gentleman of this city, we hear, killed 22 brace, another 203 : brace. Many other sportsmen, though less successful, bagged a plentirul supply of game. Among the unfortunates we have to mention three gentlemen facia Liverpool, who, desirous to give their friends a treat, had ordered six boxes ta be prepared at Stanhope, each calculated to contain four brace. The boxes were made, but, alas ! the trio, on their return to the inn, after a hard day's fag, could muster only a single bird amongst them ! Yesterday the weather was so ex tremely unfavourable that scarcely a sportsman had the courage to venture abroad, and the birds, which the day before escaped tire, were in danger of being destroyed by the equally destructive element—water. —DurhainAdvert. We learn that great damage has been done by floods in several parts of the West Riding. The waters were out on Friday in the neighbourhood of Ripon, Bo roughbridge, Harrogate, &c. to a great extent : at the lat ter place many fields and gardens were entirely inundated. Between Harrogate and Spofforth the country had quite a terrific appearance, from the extent of the inundation.— The waters of the Crimp!e were swollen to that degree that the bridge over that river near Spofforth was com pletely blown up, and a large wall, not far from the town, was forced into the road, and not a stone left standing. At Skip-bridge, the river Nidd has broken down its banks, and inundated the country to a great extent. We under stand a respectable farmer at Skewkirk has sustained in jury to the amount of nearly 3,0001. Others have lost nearly all their crops, and the damage done is immerse. The Monk-ton lugs are under water several feet.— Hull Packet. At Leominster there is an hospital for poor widows, founded by Mrs. HESTER CLARK, and in the centre of the building is a statue, in a cocked hat and a wig, like JOHN WESLEY'S, brandishing a hatchet. On one side of the statue is this inscription : He that gives away all before he is dead, Let 'era take this hatchet and knock him on the head. The Tipperary Assizes commenced on Satur day evening, at Clonmel, which had been for some days previously the scene of unusual bustle, owing to the im mense number of people who arrived from all parts of the county. These Assizes are regarded with much more in terest than any others on the Irish Circuits, in conse quence of the great number of criminal charges for trial, and the very aggravated character of the majority of them. The trials for murder are nearly a third part of the entire. —Tipperary Pree Press. On Saturday 200 male convicts were em barked on board the Sarah transport, Captain COLUM BINE, for New South Wales (100 from the York, and the same number from the Leviathan, convict hulks in Portsmouth harbour), under the charge and superin tendance of Mr. ALEXANDER OSBORNE, surgeon._.. Among the nwiler was CHARLES RODIUS, a foreigner and teacher of languages, who, it will be remembered, was convicted of stealing a lidy's reticule at the Opera. STACEY, the elder, is not yet gone, but will not in all probability be long left behind.—Portsmouth Herald. ROBBERY OF THE ST. NEOT'S BANK.- On Tuesday, a long and most interesting examination of THOMAS HOLLINSHEAD, alias BUGLY, took place at the Town-hall of Huntingdon, before JOHN TEATON and SAMUEL NEWTON, Esqrs., the two magistrates before whom the prisoner had been brought at St. Neot's, charged with the robbery of the bank at that place. It will be recollected that the hank at St. Neot's was broken open and robbed of between 6001. and 700/. some time ago. Mr. GATES, the solicitor to the committee of hank- ers, at the moment he heard of the robbery, sent off the most active members of the police N scout after the per sons suspected. For some time it was supposed that the thieves had escaped, and the search was believed to have been relaxed, if not abandoned altogether. There was, however, a mistake here. HOLLINSHEAD was appre hended about a fortnight ago, and sent from the Mansion house, where he underwent a private examination, to the place in which the robbery was committed. As some other. persons who have not been laid hold of were con .. cerned in the plun.ler, it has been thought necessary to sup press the particulars of the examination, which lasted a cosiderable length of time. The magistrates, without hesitation, committed the prisoner for trial. A laughable incident occurred in the Crown Bar Court, at Exeter, on Wednesday morning, which for a few minutes placed an honest-looking and unsuspecting young countryman in custody on rather a serious charge.— Among those called to be arraigned was HENRY PRESTON, on the Coroner's inquisition ; the person charged having been on bail was unknown to the gaoler or his servants, and on the name being called, a young man, who had got into the dock, stood up, answered, and pleaded " not guilty," and the arraignment being closed, was, of course, taken into custody. Terrified at his situation, the reason of which he was unable to understand, it was not easy to come to an explanation, but this being at length effected through the gaoler, he was again brought into court, the circumstance represented to the Judge, when it appeared that he was in attendance as a witness in another case of manslaughter, and that his name was PRESTON, and that hearing something about " manslaughter" and the name of PREST ON , h e h a d no id ea b ut it re f erre d to himself, and answered a ccor di ng l y . Th e J u d ge l aug h e d h eartily, as did the whole C our t, at t h e dil emma t h e young man had got into, and with great goo d h umour di recte d hi s discharge.— Morning Paper. At Uxbridge we took in a batch of insides, of a most lordly and ladylike bearing. From the " austere regard of controul" with which they scanned the whole squad of external vulgarians, before ever they set foot in the Union, it was plain that they meant to cut us all at the very first point of contact ; and when we stopped for supper at Oxford, we were cut sure enough—they would not so much as s i t at t h e ta b le w i th us, and the ol d d andy, who did the Chaperone, made an audible apology for ting ing, after our example, his g l ass o f water with a sli g ht colouring of th e t hi ng you Englishers call brandy. They could not b e t rue noblesse, that's flat ; for your true noble man, or woman either (if she condescend at all to travel in a stage-coach), will take care not to remind those who use the same conveniency, of their inferiority. In the se quel we discovered that these grand folk were crockery quality belonging to Wolverhampton, where they bestowed their absence upon us... Warning Paper. MATLOCK. ! There are here two petrifying wells, where small stOwerices, deposited for {:lie or two years, become len deeed or inerit-ted, or petrified, as they call it. I sn,,t imp , ,rtarir c-xperir,ent !nitric for some time has 1) r-n at: on igS, which, after a sojourn of two Years in the well, c ame out a dignified specimen o f the powers of these waters. The curls were all pre: , ,erved in their proper places, and the crown retained its legitimate shape. The wig was for some time exhibited in the shop of the owner of the well, but it has lately been removed, much to that ingenious person's prejudice. It is amusing to hear him dilate with the pride of an artist on the success of this master-stroke, arid I am sure the poor man would ilo content if he saw the petrified wig onc e pl ace d i n it s forttrer station, on the brows of the Learned Judge. A Judge with a wig of stone is a reform in the administration ofjus tiee not eOnt&Erplated by Mr. Peel. There are several :Thorn where the Derbyshire black marble, and the Fluor spar, worhied up into vases, pillars, and ornaments, are sold. The prices are enormous, and there seems to be no limit to the avarice or the imposition of the dealers in these zirtide. They have the conscience to ask two, three, and five guineas lot a pair of small black vases, and from ten shillings to thitty shillings for liitle slabs of marble, with sketches of scenery worked in. They have, however, the merit of not asking a second price. It is to this obstinacy in error, I suppose, that the slow progress of improve ment at Matlock is to he attributed. Good effects, however, arise from this peculiar spirit, and Matlock retains that secluded and romantic charattet which always constituted its great charm; and which it is likely to preserve, unless all the Learned Judges follow the example of Baron Vaughan, and send their wigs to be petrified, in which ease a wilderness would become thronged.-111orning Paper. IRISH POLICE INTELLIGENCE, (From the Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday.; HENRY-STREET POLICE-OFFICE, Auo.. 17, A PHILOSOPHER.—Patrick Tuohy, a stout little fellow, dressed in a long frize outside coat, a body coat of the same materials, thick corduroy panta loons, and worsted stockings, and having an O'Con nell green handkerchief tied loosely about his neck, was brought before the Magistrate on three specific charges—being drunk, ill-behaved, and noisy. MAGISTRATE—WeII, Mr. Tuohy, what have you to say to this? Tuohy—All I have to say, your Worship, is, that it may be true, or it may be false, I wont dispute about it. I know this, however, and I am quite positive of it, that last night I took as much whiskey as would make three men, twice my size, drunk; but for all that, I don't remember being drunk, I don't remember being ill-behaved, and I don't remember being noisy. Watchman—l never, in the whole course of my life, saw a man so drunk. Tuohy—All that may be true ; hut if you were o kill me for it, I could not say whether I was or not. MAGISTRATE—Very well, Mr. Tuohy, I shall send you to Newgate. Tuohy—Very well, your Worship, I am thankfst to you, whatever you do ; if you massacred me, 1 would say I was obliged to you; I drank an im mensity, your 'Worship. MAGISTRATE—Remove him, I shall consider what to do with him. Tuohy—l am really obliged to your Worship; but the whiskey was very good, and I drank plenty of it; I drank twice as much as I could hold. A PHILOLOGIST.—A man, named Nolan, a mas ter tailor, complained that an assault had been com mitted upon a child of his, by a workman in his employment, named Tinzothy Ussher. Ussher was a man about six feet high, having his body enve loped in a large blue surteut ; his hair was grey, and he has it arranged in a most extraordinary man- ner; it first fell down in an enormous queue, which reached to the middle of his back, while the hair upon the sides of his head fell down in large masses upon either shoulder, and gave him the appearance of a Cherokee warrior; from his chin there de pended a mass of grisly beard, which would have done honour to a Jewish high priest. MAGISTRATE—What have you to say to the charge made against you, Ussher ? Ussher—l have a profundity of the most glaring, self-evident, and demonstrable proofs to defend myself. Imprimis, your worship, every human being that is personally known, or acquainted with Tim Ussher, knows this of him, that I am of too subtle a nature to harm a gassoon—that is a child, your worship; it come from the word goose, meaning a chill as simple as a goose, and is particularly refer rable here, your worship, for the father's a tutor. — (Here Mr. Ussher smiled at his own wit.)—And, secondly, your worship, even if I did give the child a lick with my fist, surely every one must compre hend, that has any understanding at all, that the blow could not be meant for the bassoon, but his father, who is a great big basthoon—that word, you see, your worship, comes from the Latin word bas. You see I know a little Latin, sir; and bas is the Latin for cow ; that is, ignorant as a cow as the old proverb predicts—" he knows no more of such a ihing than a cow does of a holiday ;" meaning that a cow doesn't know Friday from Christmas•day ; that is, that it has DO sense of religion, and that's what I say of Nolan, who wouldn't discharge the debt he owed me on a Sunday, and that's what made him kick up this conflagration on me, and that's all I have to say to his charge. MAGISTRATE--Take a peace-information against this man. Take me out of this, said Ussher, after that con- demnable misnomer. It's mighty impossible en tirely to find an individual that knows a word of English. Sure, if 1 kept the peace there ought to be no information against me, and if I broke it, ought it not to be called an assault information ? peace information, indeed? HEAD POLICE OFFICE, Aua. 17. A Turkish merchant, who calls himself Mus tapha, was brought to the above office this morning by Mr. Francis Tardy, a highly-respectable gentle man, who stated that, in passing throngh Graf ton-street, he observed a large crowd of people around the Oriental stranger, several of whom were insulting him, and some few were pro ceeding to acts of violence, when he inter posed, and brought him for protection to the Magistrates. Mustapha, who was attired com pletely a la novae, stated he was a merchant, and had brought a quantity of goods from Constantinople to London to sell; but, owing to the low state of the market in the latter, he had brought his stock to Dublin in the hope of meeting a better demand. He has a Greek servant habited ala Grecquc. You will observe, by our Morning Papers of this day, that an insane shoemaker from Dundalk, dressed with red shoes, red cap, &c. interrupted Doctor Murray, the Roman Catholic Bishop, in the per formance of High Mass last Saturday, at Marl borough-street Chapel, and was subsequently libe rated on bail. The mob, on perceiving Mustapha, cried out he was the Orange cobbler from Dundalk, who had attacked their Bishop in the disguise of a Turk, and under that impression would have inflicted summary puishment on him but for the interference of Mr. Tardy. Mr. Graves, the Magistrate, told Mustapha, who speaks French tolerably well, that an officer should attend him until the novelty of his foreign costume had worn away, for which the frightened Mahometan returned thanks by a grand salaam. Since the middle of last week the weather has been showery and inclement. On Sunday morning there was a frost, which, on low situations, blackened the potatoe sterns— The heavy crops are generally laid. • .‘ A number of fields of barley and light wheat have been cut; but it will be a fortnight before we have general harvest. The Irish reapers for the Lothians have slackened on the reads, and the Highlanders are .taking their place.— Glasgow Chronicle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. i It will have been observed that one great pre tence of the violent abuse which the people of Paris, both in society and in the journals, are pouring forth against the new French Ministry, is the supposed influence of the English Go vernment over the Court of the Tuilleries. It is broadly stated, and seems to be generally be lieved, that the Duke of Wellington is in inti mate correspondence with the King of France. Our own confident belief is, that there is not the slightest foundation of truth in the rumour, —that it is a mere liberal, or more probably Russian, story, fabricated for a purpose which it is not difficult to divine. We do not believe that the Duke of Wellington has written a single syllable to his most Christian Majesty since the latter has sat upon the throne of France, upon any subject whatever, much less upon a subject so essentially French as the appointment of his Ministry. But though our Government has of courae abstained from any impertinent meddling with the internal government of France, it is not improbable nor unreasonable that a Ministerwho like M. Polignac, is known to befriendly to Eng land, and to entertain the same honest an] rat onal wishe3 for the maintenance of a general peace, should be agreeable to the English Administra , tion,—at least till his policy shall appear to en danger those objects which it is equally the inte rest of France arid England to attain. We do not presume—indeed it would be great presump tion—to advise the French nation, but we may venture to hint that, even with respect to the obnoxious members of the new Cabinet, Boor mont and La Bourdonnaye, it seems but coin . . !non justice to wait till they have committed some act in their ministerial capacity which may afford some show of reason for the extraordinary virulence with which they are assailed. The circumstance of so respectable and unobjection a man as Admiral de Him declining to become a member of the Cabinet is unfortunate, but his refusal is, we have good reason to believe, en tirely founded on private and domestic consi derations. lie is known to be the firm political friend of the new Ministry. It is also under stood, on good authority, that the Premier re ceives daily assurances of support, which inspires him with a resolute determination to face, and a reasonable hope of weathering, the storm. With out going minutely into details, we suspect the French writers are very much mistaken ea to the real influence which led to the appointment of Bourmont. Suppose the suggestion came from a quarter usually deemed " liberal ?"—Times. Mr. Buchanan, recently a British commer cial functionary in the United States of America, has suggested a plan whereby he conceives the British provinces of Canada would be consider ably enriched and strengthened,—namely, the opening of the navigation of the St. Lawrence to the trade of the United States. At a time when narrow jealousy of other nationa has ceased, with us at least, to be a fundamental principle of political economy,—when the removal of all obstacles to the free scope of trade is justly con sidered to be consonant with the wisest policy, —and when we are actually searching for means of improving the condition and resources of our American territories, such a proposition as this possesses a strong claim upon the attention of Government, especially since it is offered as the result of local experience and observation: The prodigious advantages which have accrued ti 7 the western states of the American Union from the free navigation of the Mississippi, notwithstand ing the efforts of the Atlantic states . , by means of canals and rail-roads, to draw off a part of that commerce, seem to demonstrate the policy of th e measure proposed. The St. Lawrence and the lakes with which it is connected present a navi gation of about four thousand miles, running into the western states, and reaching towards the Rocky Mountains. The states in the west, however, are not the only parts of the Union which would be interested in this great measure those of New York and Pennsylvania, by their canals, would be enabled to participate in the benefits of a free navigation of the British river. In a political point of view, it is an object of great importance to possess such a hold upon the commercial interests of the American people. " It cannot be understood by any but such as have been resident in the United States," says Mr. Buchanan, " what an amazing influence a small interest, cast by a judicious policy into the scale of any party, can produce on the public measures of the Republic." The commercial advantages on the side of British America are many. In the first place, the transit of such an extensive traffic as would take place in the event of the Americans possessing such an outlet must enrich Canada. The —concession may also naturally be expected to lead to a corresponding arrangement on the part of the United States, in opening the canals of the Union to British boats, whereby a new channel of intercourse, by means of the Erie Canal, would be gained between Canada and the West Indies. Flax seed for Ireland, which could be raised in large quantities in Upper Canada, and for which 150,0001. is now an nually paid to the United States, could be sent by the same route; the late period at which the St. Lawrence is free from ice precluding the ship ment of that article from Canada at present, until a season too far advanced for sowing in Ireland. It might be hastily imagined that the balance of advantages in this measure would, however, be on the side of the United States ; and that the Americans would compete with our merchants, and introduce French and China goods into Canada, and that a contraband trade would grow up to a ruinous extent. These ap prehensions the proposer considers to be entirely groundless. As to the admission of American produce into Canada, this he thinks a chimerical notion, inasmuch as the American manufacturers deem the protecting duties and charges on Bri tish goods, amounting to 50 per cent., inade quate to enable them to compete with the Bri tish merchant : " in fact, there is no article of consumption in the Canadas that may not be af forded by the British much lower that by the Ame rican manufacturer." The opening of the naviga tion in question would, therefore, create really an t a u Y reensu intot6 r the w e introduction u o c f t i o t h n eso o ,ki: f a ß inltil r te i lei t rc i ir s a h s i e n tie a ns i e : manufac tures Iu regard to a contraband traffic, Mr. Buchanan t to to, either t reo h ftri e hlp i l r eaYarg i ct e t:l sP nas e sialti c idi t tda i el v :re e etyodi:rPaolri)d'eeuvt siseceane:prevent countriesv: s f s o e r l s it firso an m carry privilege by g of, and the supplies essen tial part of his plan that the:Americans should be confined to carry to the sea the produce of their own soil only, and to bring up such articles only as: are to be landed in their own ports; t ß o ri c t o is i l i i ve v y es t s o el t s h being, e i i , i o ig rt , s like iu t u m n a i i t i e n d er s , t pe ate rn s i s it u te ci cl i articles only as are supplied by Canada. By throw ing open the India and China trade to the Ca nadian merchants, and by making Quebec a re