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all ranks are trained, till they either complete their course of preparatory studies for the university, or exchange the acquisition of the dead languages for the active pursuits of life. The High School of Edinburgh, which is entirely a day school, has subsisted for two centuries, and has till lately been attended by the sons of all the more wealthy classes of the town itself, and by the children of the aristo cracy. Nor is it necessary that an establisment of this kind should be more promiscuous in its admissions, or less select in the quality of its scholars, than other great classical establishments founded on the principle of monastic residence. In such a metropolis as London for instance, there might be several schools of this kind esta blished for the benefit of different quarters of the town and of different classes of society. On thii point we may again appeal to what has lately taken place in the northern part of the island. Complaints having been made by some of the upper classes in Edinburgh, either that the situation of the High School was incon venient, that its management had deteriorated, or that its admissions had become too hete rogeneous ; and the establishment having thus falle❑ (whether justly or not we shall not stop to inquire) into a kind of disrepute with the aristocracy, a new classical aca demy was formed about six years ago, on the same principle of day tuition, which, being freed from the objections made to the former in stitution, has now become the rival of its early success. Sir Walter Scott, and many of the men most distinguished for rank or acquirements in that capital, zealously promoted the erection of the new school, and its success has been such as leaves nothing to desire. It last year, we are in formed, had attracted 520 boys of the best fami lies in Scotland, with a considerable number from the north of England. We have received a plan or outline of the system pursued, and of the expenses incurred, at this establishment, which, like every thing else connected with im• provements in the efficiency or economy of pub. lie instruction,cannot fail to interest a great class of our readers. It is intended for boys from between eight or nine to fifteen or sixteen years of age, who are taught the English, Latin, Creek, and French languages, geography, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and writing. It is placed under a body of directors, a rector, four classical and four other masters. The classes into which the pupils are divided are seven, beginning from the youngest ; the hours of attendance are from nine in the morn ing to three in the afternoon. The vacation lasts for two months in the year. The whole expellee of the school, for all the branches of instruction above numerated, is as follows : there are no other payments for any purpose whatever, nor are any presents or gratuities by the pupils per- mitt . First class £7 0 0 for the Academical Session. Second ditto 9 0 0 ditto. Third ditto Fourth ditto ll 10 0 Fifth ditto . Sixth ditto ditto. ditto. ditto. ditto. Seventh ditto ... 11_ 10 0 ditto. • _ The number of pupils in each class are limited to 110, and as the establishment has been formed by a capital subscribed by shareholders of 501. shares, the children and grandchildren of Pro prietors have a preference, provided their names be given in to the Secretary three months before the opening of the school after autumn. There are no boarding houses attached to the aca demy, but the masters are not prohibited from taking boarders. We can only find further room for the programme of what is taught in the two tipper classes : SIXTH CLASS. ,L ATI x. —Virgil Horace Livy Compositions in Prose and Verse—Recitations—Antiquities. Gagric.—Xenophon's Anabasis—Homer and &phocles —Compoiition in Prose. ENGLISII.--Milton or Shakspeare, and Composition. ARITHMETIC, as far as the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots—Algebra, as far as Quadratic Equations. GEOMETN.Y.—The Firbt Three Books of Euclid. Gxoo:tartm—Anci , nt and Modern. Faxmc fr.—Elementary instruction in Grammar, and wading au easy author. SEVENTH CLASS. LATlX.—Virgil—Horace—Tacitus—Cicero, and selec tions from Juvenal—Composition in Prose and Verse— Recitations—Antiquities. GRSX K. —Herod lotua—Homer—CE4chylus---and Com positions in Prose and Verse—Recitations—Antiquities. FRENClL—Rending Prose and Verse, and Recitations. 31 ATH EMA TICS.The First Six Books of Euslid— Plane and Spherical Trigonometry—Conic Sections— Algebra, as far as contained in our most approved Treatises. Hitherto the course of instruction carried on in this establishment has succeeded to the entire satisfaction of its patrons and of the public who are admitted to witness its examinationz. After devoting so considerable a space to the descrip tion of this example of a day-school institution, it would be needless to add, that we think the subject of no small importance, and that, in our opinion, a similar establishment would have at least as good a chance of succeeding in this me tropolis as either the King's College or the Lon don University.—lb id. The Standard of last night has the following passage : " The new police is not similar to, but worse than the gent d'armerie. It is professedly a corps of spies, which the gent d'armerie is not. In a little time it must be, not a national body, but an Irish Brigade, while the gens d'armerie is a body of Frenchmen, homogeneous to, and naturally sympa. thising with, the people among whom it acts; we eay that the police must soon become an Irish bri gade ; and to prove that it must, we have only to eke the fact, that every decent Englishman, even to the degree of a day labourer, enrolled in the body, is already retiring from it. Its ranks mast, therefore, of .necessity, be filled by those who take the lowest wages, and perform the drudgery of the metropolis, viz. the Popish labourers imported from Ireland. Now, though it may be highly important as in the eyes of the John Bull it would seem to be (not being of the silver fork school, we lea incom petent judges) to mortify would-be fashionables,' and the rejected of clubs,' we apprehend that it would be paying too much even for that high object to pm-chase it at the expence of placing the metro polis, and all which it contains, in the hands of a body of Popish Irish spies, subject to no civil con rout, and at the command of his Grace the Duke of Wellington! What would the Parisians say of gem; d'armerie recruited in England, or Prussia, or Switzerland ? What would our ancestors have thought of such a project, had it been broached by one of the Popish advisers of Jarae;; the Second ?" In the above remarks two objections are tak.en td the New Police ; one having reference to the 1 prine;pr• itself, aceoraing to which crime should be preventet.:, and the other to the particular mode of carrying :./'e principle into execution. To prevent the comtnijon of crime supposes the observing criminals. But, _tl order to kekow . who are criminals and who are hones: men, it is . necessary that an eye should be kept on all meri. The persons to whom this office of observation is entrusted may be called spies if you please. No men like their actions to be observed by those who are opposed to them ; and as most Govern ments hitherto have been opposed to the people, and consequently distrustful, they have usually raiployed pet sons to watch suspected individuali and to insinuate themselves into their confidence. The persons so employed are called spies, and our contemporary is too well aware of the im portance of names, not to know that. to call the New Police by this odious name is not calcu lated to add to their popularity. But in order not to be carried away by words, let us inquire what there is in the New Police which is ana logous to that of spies. They are not acting against the people, but for them, endeavouring to defeat the machinations of the evil-disposed against the well-disposed. They are instructed to make themselves acquainted with their respec tive neighbourhoods ; but they appear under no disguise, and the law gives them no power to dis turb the privacy of peaceable citizens. There is no part of the task assigned to them which may not be defended by the most scrupulous moralist. Persons who live by plunder may dis like being known to the Police, and may have objections to being watched, and their hostility to a preventive policy is quite intelligible ; but we really cannot see how the well-disposed should have any objection to the employment of the only means by which they can live in peace and security. For it has come to this, we believe, that the old system afforded so little security to the inhabitants, that for many years there has been a constant outcry in all quarters against it. The thieves have literally had it all their own way ; and if it be objected that the depredations have not materially affected the prosperity of the metropolis and its neighbourhood,' we may an swer that thieving, like every thing else, seems to have its limits ; and that when the trade is overstocked the thieves must counteract each other. Certain it is, that if the maximum •of depredation, has not been reached here, we are not indebted fur the result to either Law or Police. In several parishes the inha bitants were told to protect themselves, and the in habitants were found to mount guard, as it were, by turns. This is certainly a state of things by no means to be envied. It became, therefore, a question whether society could not have some thing better to rely on than the moderation of thieves, or the impossibility of their ever existing in numbers bearing more than a certain propor. tion to the numbers of tile people. We are aware of no other means than those pointed oat in the Instructions to the new Police, namely, throwing difficulties in the way of the exercise of thieving. Punishment, by way of example, we know, goes a very short way with men who are disposed to prey on society. They consider an occasional execution in the light in which soldiers look on a casualty in the field of battle. Allow them to plunder with facility, and they will have no objection to a liability to the chances of jus tice. But Police is another affair. The diffi culties may be so increased as to render the trade of thieving more laborious than that of regular industry. Adieu, then, all the allurements! The poacher only considers his life a pleasant one when he can easily find game. The most inveterate fisher may be at length disheartened by the scantiness of the finny population. We do not mean to say that in a metropolis like this, where there are so many means of conceal ment and escape, and were property is so much exposed to attack, the Police can ever be so per fect as to prevent a great deal of thieving ; but if much of what now takes place with impunity can be prevented, surely that is a great good. If we recollect right, our Contemporary, some days ago, recommended as a specific the moral im provement of the people. If we could make the people moral, of course they would not steal. But we fear the improvement of the,people never will be such, even under the most favourable cir cumstances, as to make it prudent to leave pro perty to the mercy of those who tnay be disposed to obtain it without a legal title. The Clergy of the Establishment and of five hundred sects are constantly labouring in their vocation to make men righteous ; but their exertions will never, we fear, supersede the necessity of Law and Po lice. The other objection is more easily ob viated. The pay (says our Contemporary) is so low that Englishmen will not take it, and there fore the ranks must be filled by Irishmen. The pay is certainly low, but then extraordinary re wards are held out for diligence, as evinced by the state of the division or sub-division assigned to different individuals. Besides, there is the pros pect of rising by merit to the highest situations, all of which are open. We know little of the character of our countrymen if such a system would not be more successful in procuring able and ambitious young men in the rank of life from which the Police will be taken, than much higher wages without any prospect of advance ment. To take as an instance what is observed with respect to gardeners. The wages at Kew, if we are correctly informed, were always con siderably lower than elsewhere ; but it was usual for gentlemen in want of gardeners to make ap plication to Kew, and young men aware of this were content to take lower wages, in the hope of future compensation in a profitable situation. A young fellow contented to take for life twice the sum to be paid to the Police Constables, would probably be a very unfit person for the situation. But whether the men be English or Irish is a secondary matter : the great object is to have them efficient. The Blockade duty is, we be lieve, principally discharged by Irishmen ; and we have always understood that that duty was admirably executed, If these are the only ob jectiona against a new Police, Mr. Peel has little to fear. The hardest trial, however, yet remains —the trial of efficiency.--Morning Chronicle - . We never could comprehend what, beyond the payment of a paltry fee, the Established Church would lose by the legalizing the marriages of Catholic and other Dissenters ; on the contrary, we should look upon it as a boon which would do credit to the liberality and tolerant spirit o the church ; while, as an act of justice, policy, and humanity, its benefits would spread them selves over a wide surface. To the wealthier classes of Dissenters, of all denominations, the rule in this respect acts as little more than a con straint upon conscience, which, in any matter, but more especially on the subject of religion, it must 1)(2 admitted, is evil enough : but on the poorer classes it bag the most revolting effect, by rendering that, which is inter - Wed to be an indis soluble and solemn tie, in reality no tic, or pn,9 dissoluble by either party ; while on the inno cent offspring it affixes the brand of illegitimacy, robbing both the mother and children of all their civil rights. The liardshjp of this state of the law devolves principally upon th numerous lower Irish who resort to this country, either for temporary employment cr permanent residence, and wbp are placed, often unconsciously, in this singular situatipn, that, though subjects of the ,Thred Kingdom, their marriages, which are . ► .are held invalid' here ? or ti • . valid in Ire:.7"d) cruel advantage is con,- necimen of whi c h s ti t i a , t u e al o ly i as taken ; striking we need only inaau(P a cas e which oc curred at the Alansion-tioose , A few da)? since, in which the stewards of a bene6 oety re- fused to allow a woman the usual contribution from the funds incident to child-birth, because she had been married only according to the Ca tholic form ; and this after having quietly taken the husband's money, without asking any ques tions. Alderman Atkins, with great humanity and good sense, said he would not be a party to this act of injustice. The legal adviser of their Worships appears to have intimated it as his opi nion that the objection taken !by the Society, however dishonest, was at least legal, and that no order made by the Magistrates would stand. There are other persons, however, who look upon these marriages as what the law calls " voidable, but not void," and that, till set aside by due course of law, they must be presumed to be as good and valid as any other. Indeed, it would be preposterous in the extreme that the mere clerk or steward of a benefit club could have the power, by his ipse dixit, to pronounce upon the validity of that which, till dissolved, all laws both human and divine, hold to be of the most sacred and indissoluble nature. The subject, we imagine, is at any rate one which it would well become the Legislature calmly and dispas sionately to consider ; nor would those who have been such bowlers for what is called Ca tholic Emancipation be ill employed in consi dering whether this is not a topic of infinitely more concern to the lower class of Catholics than the empty boon they have obtained for them.--Morning Herald. The Whigs and Liberals are attempting to raise a clamour throughout the country against the Duke of Newcastle, on account of his Glace having recently given notice to quit to a considerable number of his tenants in the town of Newark. This, like most of those set •up by the same parties, whether founded upon local or general topics, is, we do not hesitate to say, a dishonest, hypocritical, and contemptible , outcry—an outcry which, even admitting the facts to be as they describe them, cannot injure the Duke of Newcastle for a single moment in the estimation of any reasonable man, or produce any other feeling in the public mind than that of scorn and indignation towards its authors. ; The accusation against the Duke is, that he has I taken the necessary legal steps to remove from the occupation of his houses in the Borough of New- I work about two hundred persons, who derived their right to vote from such occupation exclu sively, but who nevertheless thought proper to • exercise it on the last election in opposition to the Candidate whom his Grace was understood to filvour. This is the whole matter of charge, I and for this the Noble Duke is overwhelmed with a torrent of invective, as if he were one of the basest and most atrocious criminals. It is I unnecessary, in addressing a community in which the rights of property are respected and under stood, to waste much time in the vindication of the Noble Duke. The houses are his, and he has an unquestionable right to determine and to act upon the determination, that they shall be held only by tenants whose political opinions are similar to his own. This right he would have, as an inseparable adjunct of property, even if the houses in question did not invest their te nants with any portion of political power ; but as the occupation of these houses does in fact confer political power of some im portance, he not only possesses the right, but lies under a moral compulsion to exercise it, believing, as no doubt he sincerely does, that the ascendancy of the political principles he him self professes, would conduce to the welfare and security of the Nation. Those who lavish their abuse upon the Duke on account of what he has done, are not in truth as they would pretend, the fiends of purity and independence, but the ene mies of consistency and zeal. If the fact be as the assailants of the Duke assert, that two hundred of his tenants voted for a candidate known to hold principles diametrically opposed to those which he believes essential to the welfare or salvation of the country, the inference would be, not that his Grace is au arbitrary and tyran nical landlord, but rather, on the contrary, that he has not heretofore been sufficiently rigidi in exacting conformity to his own opinions, consi dering the warmth with which he professes them, and has encouraged dissent among the vaers he can make and unmake, by the prospect his past conduct has afforded of excessive toleration and indulgence.— The clamour now raised against the Noble Duke for conduct which w ould naturally have been expected in similar circumstances from any other man, is certainly favourable to this view of the subject. Who ever heard, or ex pected to hear, of any considerable number of the tenantry of the House of Fitzwilliam voting against Lord Milton in the county of York, or of the tenants of Lord Thanet voting in favour of Lord Lowther at Appleby, although the right to vote in the cases we have mentioned is not, as at Newark, dependant upon the tenantry ? The Duke of Newcastle, we greatly fear, has not been sufficiently tenacious of his rights, or pe remptory in upholding his own excellent princi ples. He might have taken earlier—and we re joice that he has taken at last—a valuable lesson in these respects from the Whids But whatever may be thought of the Noble Duke, there can not we think be much difference of opinion as to the merits of his two hundred tenants, who, in opposition to their landlord's judgment, pre ferred Mr. Serjeant Wilde to Mr. Sadler for their Representative, or as to the motives and principles of those who make• so clamorous-a demand of public sympathy •on their behalf.' These two hundred persons thought once, as the Duke of Newcastle, whose opinions have undergone no change, now thinks upon political affairs, or they became his tenants at first by • meana of a deception the most offensive to him and the most dishonourable to themselves. We willingly adept the former of these suppositions, as it is unquestionably the more charitable of the I I two. We should like very much then 'to hear what account these persons have to give . of their simultaneous political conversion, and we hope it is for the purpose of satisfying the natural • curiosity of the public, as to the causes of so ex traordinary a phenomenon, that they have called a meeting of their fellow-townsmen. It cannot be that their former principles were discradited its their estimation by an y persona l disqualification on the part of the eandidate who appealed to them at the last election, since his opponent who obtained their suffrages is in no respect his superior, and in point of talent about as much his inferior as the Bristol Alderman, who said ditto to Burke, was inferior to that accomplished orator and sticesmau. A cloud of Imystery hangs over the affair, which, before they I utter a word of complaint against their landlord, They have very Wilde to attend zo ir ss e i x b p l e ia T a a t t ip h n e , i r t hrepipr behoves gmr them to c . es it : e r rii i ep i an t eeting, OUL—Morn may be able to assist them if he can be prevailed on to speak ilia Post. •I POLICE INTELLIGIENCE. GUILDHALL. EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTOR.—Etizabelb lor, a woman about 35 years of age, was placed at the bar on the following most extraordinary charge of imposture : The prisoner had two children with her, one about five, the other about seven years of age, which she held by their hands with great appearance of affection, while the witnesses were examined, pro bably to excite compassion. Joseph Horton, patrol of Cripplegate Ward, stated that about three o'clock on Saturday after noon his attention was attracted to a crowd col lected in Whitecross-street. lie immediately went to the spot, where he found the prisoner sitting on a step, apparently in great agony, and all the women in the crowd exclaiming against the parish officers for allowing a poor woman to walk the streets till she was taken in labour. He instantly ran for a coach, and put the prisoner into it, and one of the women in the crowd with her, and had her taken to the workhouse, where he helped her out, and left her in the care of the nurse. The next witness examined was Mrs. Elizabeth Crowder, who stated that she is a midwife, and that a little after three o'clock on Saturday, she was sent for in great haste to attend a woman in labour in Cripplegate workhouse. She went instantly, and found Dr. Langstaff there before her. The prisoner was the woman they were both brought to attend; and she brought forth a sheep's liver which was then in Court. This statement was followed by one universal burst of laughter. Mr. Alderman BIRCH, who endeavoured to main tain his gravity amidst the pealing laughter by which he was surrounded, as soon as it had subsided, ad dressed Mrs. Crowder, and observed, that notwith standing the merriment her statement had excited, the matter under consideration was of a very grave and serious nature; as if the woman at the bar had practised such deceit, she must be severely punished. He must therefore require the witness to state on her oath, whether from her professional knowledge she was enabled to state that the prisoner had prac tised deceit on the parish officers. Mrs. Crowder replied, that she could positively swear, that the prisoner had practised deceit. When the witness first spoke to her, she said she had mis carried; but she (the witness) was now able posi tively to swear, that the prisoner had not miscar ried, that she was not in the family way, and what she had pretended to have brought forth was a real sheep's liver, as every person present must be con vinced when it was produced. The Alderman endeavoured to preserve his gravity, but we believe he was the only person present who made the attempt—certainly he was the only one who made any approach to success. The nurse of the workhouse next came into the witness-box, with a handkerchief, in which some thing was very carefully tied up, in her hand. The ALDERMAN asked what she had in the hand kerchief ?—The sheep's liver, please your Worship, responded the witness. The effect was indescribable; the risibility of the auditory cast off all restraint ; and even the worthy Alderman found it impossible to resist the force of the explosion. The nurse proceeded to describe that after the prisoner was put to bed on her arrival at the hospi tal, during which operation she moaned and groaned most piteously, and before the arrival of Dr. Lang staff or the midwife, she said to witness, in a faint voce, " Thank God it's all over, she had not come to her time, it was a miscarriage." Witness, on making proper examination, found the sheep's liver she had in the handkerchief.—(The laughter was renewed in all its force.) The witness was proceeding to open the hand kerchief to satisfy the Alderman that what it con tained was really a sheep's liver; but the worthy Alderman, who appeared very desirous that justice should be gravely administered, said he was quite satisfied with the testimony that had been given, and would not allow the liver to be exhibited. Elizabeth Balmer stated, that on Friday morning she was at the house of the Mendicity Society, in Red Lion-square, where a crowd of applicants were assembled for bread and cheese distributed by the Society. The prisoner and the two children with her at the bar were amongst the crowd, and while they were waiting for the delivery of the bread and cheese to commence the prisoner appeared to go into a fit ; she was immediately brought into a room, and, after some delay, but before any one else received any bread and cheese, the prisoner came out with three allowances, and witness also under stead she had received some money. On Saturday, about three o'clock, witness was in Whiteeross street, and heard a cry that a woman was taken in labour in the street, 'he ran to the place, and saw the prisoner sitting on a stone, and appearing to suffer greatly. Several persons gave her silver money; a coach was brought by an officer, and witness helped the prisoner into it, and at the desire of the officer went into it with her. The prisoner moaned very much, and appeared to be in great pain, on her way to the workhouse; on arriving there witness helped to put her to bed, and was present when the sheep's liver was brought forth.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. Simpkins, the Churchwarden, who attended the prosecution, said Dr. Langstaff. considered the whole affair so very ludicrous, that he thought his presence could not be required, particularly as he had Fro hand in bringing forth the sheep's liver, and was only in the room when it was produced. The pri soner was so far from being in the weak state she pretended, that after the imposture was dis covered, and an officer was sent with her from the workhouse to the Compter, she showed fight in the street, and endeavoured to excite the mob against the officer, by telling them that she was taken up only for asking charity in the street. Thorn, the officer, corroborated this statement. The prisoner said nothing in her defence. Mr. Alderman BIRCH said, the prisoner's conduct deserved the severest punishment it was in his power to inflict, and sentenced her for three months to the discipline of the tread-mill. MANSION-HOUSE. MR. HUNT AND THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. —Mr. Ht,nt applied to the LORD MAYOR, with whom Alderman 'FAREBROTHER was sitting at the time, for a warrant .against the City' Chamberlain, or for a summons, if his Lordship thought it the most courteous way; that City Officer having re fused to pay the sum of 2001. due to the auditors of the City:uccounts, for their labours for two years. He consilered that the Chamberlain was responsible to the Lord Mayor for having, notwithstanding re peatedapplications, d eta i ne d t h at sum o f money after it had been ordered by a Court of Common Council to be handed over to the gentlemen who had performed the duty of examining the City ac counts. The LORD MAYOR said that the application was certainly a very new and unexpected one, but he waa convinced that he had no power to act. The Chamberlain was not responsible to him, and the case was not onP with which a Magistrate could interfere. The Court of Common Council had the antliori•y to enforce the payment of the sum ; and if Mr. Hunt would petition that body, redress or satisfaction would, doubtless, b e a ff or d e d . . _ Mr, Hunt said that it would be extremely absurd in him to petition the Court of Common Council, of er having been appointed by the Livery to inves tigate a system of delinquency with which the former body was chargeable.—(L ou d l aug h ter. )—H e and his 'brother Auditors had detected the Common Councilmen in certain mistakes, and it would be in deed extraordinary to ask them to interfere to ob tain for those who were supplied with the weans of exposing the system the reward of their zeal in such a cause. He trusted the Lord Mayor would endeavour to prevent the necessity of making a pain ful complaint in the Common Hall which was about to be held,;---(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR said that the matter was one o f debt; and if Mr. Hunt did not like an appeal to the Court of Common Council, be could try the effect of a civil action. Mr. Hunt—My Lord, I must then apply to the Livery. LOW-STREET. Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, waited on Sir 11. BIRNII and Mr. HALLS, yesterday afternoon, to say that the parish officers of Finchley had applied to him for the depositions taken at the inquest which sat to inquire into the cause of the death of Mrs. Phillips, but that he had declined to give them up except to Sir R. Birnie. Sir R. BIRIIE said, that he would rather be without them. 7he parties had applied to him, and were to appear again on Wednesday, but, unless they should take upon them to charge some person with the murder, he certainly should not administer an oath on the subject. Mr. Stirling observed, that it was very strange, undoubtedly, how the laudanum got into the me dicine bottle. Sir RICIIARD asked if it appeared that any person unconnected by blood, or not acting in the capacity of a servant, was in the house at the time. Mr. Stirling said, he did not know of any such person being in the house. Mr. HALLS thought a Magistrate could not inter fere without a direct charge, and that the Coroner's depositions could not be of any service. The poisoning a whole Select Vestry, of which an ac count was given in the newspapers, was the best thing of the kind he had ever known ; and for his Part he thought the writer deserved a patent.— (A laugh.) Mr. Stirling then retired, saying he would be in attendance again on Wednesday. HATTON-GARDEN. ST ABRING.—John Annear, a lad of 16 years of age, was yesterday brought up by Blake, the con stable, charged vtith having on Sunday stabbed in several parts of the body with a penknife, James Gorman, a lad of 14 years of age. Gorman was unable to appear. A certificate from a surgeon was produced, declaring him out of danger, but as the certificate had not been furnished by the surgeon on the part of Annear, Mr. LAING did not consider it satisfactory. It appeared that in a field in Maiden•lane, called Laycock's field, which is much resorted to by boys, that the prisoner had been beset by the others, who were teazi-g him, and be took out the knife and threatened to stab the first who came near him. Got man disregarded the threat, and prisoner, using the knife back-handed, plunged it into his ribs, and about the groin. The point of the knife bud been broken in the act. Prisoner said he had done it in hit own defence. He was remanded till Thursday; and us the wit nesses seemed unwilling to appear, summonses were issued for them. Edward Edwards was brought up, charged with stealing a watch from a person in White Lion-court. Duke, the officer, at first thought that Edwards was a returned transport, but Raven, the messenger, recognised him as the man who nearly three years ago was convicted for having stabbed Pople, the officer of Union-hall. Edwards was then sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which term he corn pleted about nine months ago. lie was remanded for evidence to be produced. Bill Butler and .Tack Campfleld were charged with cruelly assaulting William Long, and with rob bing him of 245. and a silk handkerchief. The prisoners were on Sunday in the act of re moving their goods, as was supposed to evade the payment of the rent, when Long, who was ac quainted with them, made some remarks. The two prisoners then furiously attacked him with a pewter pot, and beat him in a dreadful manner about the head, and it was stated robbed him in the struggle. There were about three hundred persons assembled in the street, opposite the house, No. 3, Gee -street, Goswell-streer, who were determined to prevent the prisoners being apprehended, and the neighbourhood was a complete scene of riot between twelve and one, when Davis, the constable, forced an entry through a window, and succeeded in taking the prisoners. They were remanded on both charges, and search ordered to be made for others of the rioters. MA RLBOROU GMSTREET. Yesterday a well-dressed man, about forty years of age, who gave his name Thomas Browne, was brought before Sir G. FARRANT, charged with the following atrocity : A youth in the service of Mr. Nicholas, a con fectioner in Piccadilly, stated that upon several oc casions the prisoner waylaid him when he was going on errands for his employer, and urged him to quit Mr. Nicholas,and go into his (the prisoner's) service, describing himself as a gentleman of fortune, and the situation of any young man in his service would be most comfortable; and at last, at the earnest solicitation of the prisoner, witness accompanied him to what he called his house, but what in fact was a public tavern, where it appeared the prisoner lodged. The prisoner took the witness up stairs with him, under the pretence of engaging him as a servant, and then introduced wine, fruit, &c. of which he made the witness partake, and next proceeded to conduct himself toward the witness in so atrocious a manner that left no doubt of his intention to commit an abominable assault. The witness here described the conduct of the prisoner, which fully bore out the state ment lie had already made. When the witness got back to Mr. Nicholas's he told his master the mea ner in which the prisoner had behaved to him, and Mr. Nicholas had the prisoner taken into custody. Mr. Nicholas confirmed the boy's statement, as far as related to him,and said that it was at his instance the prisoner was apprehended at the tavern where he lodges. The prisoner, who described himself as a gentle man of independent fortune, did not at all deny the boy's statement, but said that he really did want to hire him as a servant, and the liberties described by the boy to have been taken with him, was merely to ascertain if he was a virtuous lad. Sir G. FAItRANT asked the prisoner if he had not been at the Office before On some occasion ? The prisoner replied that he was once, when be called to see a young man who was in custody for ❑n assault, whom he named, and referring to the books of the office, this young man was found to have been charged with precisely the same offence now alleged against the prisoner himself. The landlord of the tavern where the prisoner lodges, and who is a respectable man, attended, and said that the prisoner had been but a very short time at his house, and he did not at all like him as a lodger; the prisoner came there as a gentleman of private fortune, arid had a youth there with him as a servant, but the landlord was greatly surprised to find that the " gentleman of private fortune" would occupy only one small bed-room on the second floor, where he and his servant slept in the same bed together every night; and he was therefore deter mined to get rid of him, if this occurrence had not taken place at all. The Magistrate asked the landlord if Browne was the name the prisoner gave at his house ? The landlord said that Browne was the only name he knew him by; but whether it was a false one or not he could not say. The prisoner, who seemed to treat the whole matter with the utmost indifference, was ordered to find very sufficient bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 50/. each, to answer the charge ut the Sessions, arid to give 48 bouts' notice of the bail he intended to propose. Thomas Kirkman, who has been in custody for some days, charged with pledging for his own use several watch-cases belonging to his employer, Mr. Pawl, u watchmaker, in Cleveland -street, Fitzroy square, arid which had been given to him to (Iffy to a watchcase-maker in Clerkenwell, for alteration, was brought up for re-examination, and remanded. WORSHIP-STREET. R oß ßEity AT TETE EAGLE TAYERN.—Yesterday morning Edward Nevin Was placed at the bar be fore Mr. 13rtouGHT0N. Mr. Thomas Rouse said he was the proprietor of the Eagle Tavern, City -road. The prisoner bad been in his employment for nearly eight years, in the character of pot-man and assisting the waiter; generally. He knew the prisoner was an habitual drunkard, but he never had any suspicion of his moral integrity until latterly, when Mrs. Rouse saw in his possession some tin tickets, which are Ores to the waiters upon their paying for the beer at the bar, and for eaclf ticket they receive at night R IO' penny, as a reward for their industry, and a stimn' Ins for their exertions. Several articles had boo recently missed frOm the bar, and Richard fu r wood, the marker at one of his billiard tables, hat' ing seen the prisoner at an early hour coming out 0( the bar, had communicated the fact to him. 00 Sunday morning Mrs. Rouse rose early, and placed herself in the front parlour, where she had a view of the bar, without his being able to observe her.' About seven o'clock the prisoner came down stairs, and deliberately took a key out of his pocket, opened the bar-door, and drew himself a quantity of brandy in a pint pot, and then opened the copper till, and took out some halfpence. Mrs. Rouse's patience being worn out, she ran and secured him in the bar, and called for assistance, when he (Mr. R.): ray down, and found him in the situation described. 0 0 t hen sent for an officer, when the prisoner gave the false key, and on searching his trunk the found Bs. in farthings. He could not say the length of time the prisoner had carried on such practices. , Mrs. Rouse corroborated the statement of her husband, and the prisoner was remanded for a we ek,' A young man, without shoes or hat, or a particle of covering of any kind on his person, except a worn' out coat and tattered pair of canvass trowsers, was brought from St. Luke's watch-house, having beet' found late on Sunday night sleeping in a brick field. He gave his name William Roberts, said he was native of Bedford, and a tailor by trade, but had been a length of time in London without work, and without a chance of getting it, for nobody wo uld employ a person in his miserable state. Mr. BROUGHTON—Where do you live ? Pri soner—l have no home. Mr. BnouGnToN—Where have you been sleeping • of late ? Prisoner—Sometimes in Fleet-market, sometimes in the fields, or other places. Mr. BROUGHTON—You should apply to your parish, and they must relieve you. The prisoner said he had some friends in Bedfordshire, but he should be ashamed to see them in such a condition/ and indeed he could not get there. Mr. BROUGHTON—HOW have you maintaine d yourself without work ? Prisoner—l sometinles picked up a little job in the streets, and lately I hale • been obliged to beg. Mr. BROUGHTON—I shall send you for a fortnigh t to the House of Correction, where you will hate clothes, be fed, and made clean and ss holesome. the mean time inquiries shall be made, and ghee you come out we will see what can be done for you. The prisoner expressed his gratitude, and WO committed. SHIPPING INTELLIGENC2. Extract of a letter on board the Indemnity, ar• rived in the Downs from Demerara :—" Ship Is' , demnity at sea, at 30 p.m., discovered a rock on the starboard beam, distant about three ships' lengths; we were then going at the rate of about two and 0 half miles per hour, with a heavy swell from the N.W., with each succeeding swell it was entirell covered, but at intervals it showed several feet a bove water, and perfectly perpendicular. From the mast' head it was seen to a great depth below the water, and appeared to be in the shape of a cone . At the , preceding noon our latitude by observation wo 43. 20. N., and longitude by chronometer 25. 10. r. Signed R. Woodall, master; F. E. Chalmers, mate; ' Wm. Meech, Geo. Rendall, M. Elkin, passengers.' PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 26.--The Stephen, from New' castle and Falmouth to Pictou, has put back here , the crew having refused to go on. JERSEY, SEPT. 23.—Last evening, between s ere° and eight, several guns were heard, supposed fro/. ship in distress. A King's cutter and some AO boats went out, but without making any discovery. ST. CRUZ, CANARIES, AUG. 15.—The Lady Hoe, arrived here on the 11 th inst. from Portland, an° sailed for Lanzarotte, where she has been wrecked. ST. MARY, GAMBIA, AUG. 13.—A piratical relate', with 18 guns and 60 men, has been towed into Gores in a sinking state by a French ship of war. GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 7.—TheEnvy,of and from this port to Rabat, has been detained by one of th e Austrian squadron, and sent into Algesiras t fot having 10 tons of bar iron on board. LEGIIORN, SEPT. 14.—The Tripolina eruist o have taken a Russian vessel, laden with provisions - TENERIFTE, AUG. I.—The L a dy H o p e , arrived here on the Ist of August from Portland, sailed for and was wrecked on the Coast ofianzarotte. A few days ago, the wife of JOHN B R OAD: BENT, a poor weaver residing at Mytholmroyd, near thin town, was delivered of twins, for the third time in sue' cession. —Halifax Chronicle. DUNDEE.—The flax spinners have this vreg l ‘ reduced the rate of their servants' wages one seventh. The spinners and others employed at several of the wig struck work on Monday morning; but upon consideratil they returned to their empl o y me nt in the course of tb day.— Caledonian Mercury. STATE OF BARNSLEY.—The difference. between the master manbfacturers and th e i r weav ers 0 a- tinue unadjusted, and th e p ros p ec t o f a rec e nc iliaS t r seems rather diminished than increased during the pr ik s week. When our Reporter left Barnsley yesterdar eleven o' c l oc k i n th e f orenoon , t h e town was perfec t r S tranquil; and we have since rec e iv e d a l e tter, Bernsley, four o' c l oc k, p . In ., w hi c h states that i t st ill cli" tinues in the same state.—Leeds Mercury. BIRTHS. On the 26th inst. at Tring P ar k, H er t s , th e 'ally G ftpe Rev. J. Edward Austen, of a eon. _ of On the 28th inst. the lady of G. Simpson, Esq• Charles -street, Middlesex-Hospital, of a son. On the 27th inst. in the Cloisters, Gloucester, the 1. 14 / Frances Bankes, of a son. At Lausanne, in Switzerland, on the 11th inst. the 141 of T. M. Gray, Esq. of a son. On the 26th inst. at Camberwell, Mrs. Wanostrochh 0( a daughter. MARRIED. On the 24th inst. at Malposs, Monmouthshire, ,by tb a : Rev. J. Prosser, the Rev. David Llewellin, of Lanarit' - Miss Georgians Reynolds, eldest daughter of Wo' aphis, Esq. of Malposs. • l v„ a of On the 28th inst at St. Pan cras , J. B. Hyde,''",`: Worcester, to Eliza, young e st d aug ht er of-the . Fraser, Esq. of the Six Clerks.office.• On the 28th inst. the Rev. W. St one , M . A. Fe ,,1 , 1° ,,":fi. Brasenose College, and Rect or o f Christ-church, D"" sex, to Louisa Toogood, only daughter of the late G. Downing, Esq. DIED. On the 25th i ns t. a t Cl ap t on , L ou i sa M ar y, I.4° s , daughter of th e l a t e Ald erman Le Mesurier, of Lo n aged Ot4tsiirse2t Eur o pean oth Re inst.in Pulgmteineeyn-t, o st re: t,L of the l the Madras Est°b , meat. This gentleman, so distinguished among 0 brother officers by the soundness of his judgment, int rt ld spirit, and zeal for the service, was not less dear those who had the honour te, be connected with big!. 0 1 him the parent always e njoy e d an affecti ona te and sib le o, child—the brother and sister an enthusiastic prott The fruits of a long and arduous military service ins r ° country, were devoted to the happinees of his familf . " 7. ‘' s sa greatest source of pleasure being their independent, pk happiness. Lieut.-Col. Lawless passed 23 years Of 7 4 ,1kie1 l in the service of the East India Company, during - „fer long period he was often honoured by the strongest Or 00 sions of respect and regard from his Commander s. p it it one remarkable occasion, General Sir Thos. Hislop .fbd his duty to pay him a public compliment at the be a d r, regiment. The Lieut.-Colonel has a younger hr . °. end Captain, at present in the King's service in 10",17,0g at another, First Lieutenant in the Rarnilies, 1 0 ,110 Deal. To them his memory must be peculiarly des r o s eir they reflect on the universal respect with which i t Yy sod spoken of by all those who stood in the seine t e ight fought in the same field with their brother. At t od,l l -. months after his arrival in his native country, 4 .1 be b was struck with a paralytic affection, under wileast . " . long suffered, with few intervals of health. 1 1 _ _ age of 42.—Bath Herald. Paints AND PULL SHED BY MURDO TUE °MOE, 112 2 &MAIM; 1.0"9141