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r ~. ~._~, 40 , , d 4. 44A' 411111111 :• ft,..ttzstvrvp.. 4W4'.• 1417=1. ( T „' • N, „ I . 7 .• „.. „ • , • • T-4 4 A 47, • • • , •,.‘) . ;*, • • • 4 i• 1 ,1 .4* , 44*,1:40:4 , . k) 0t)1111 4 7,4ar 0 _ • . , . 15/E, , . 1 * LAMBETH- STREET. Yesterday, shortly after Mr. HARDWICK had taken his scat on the Eench, George Clutterbuck, a young man about nineteen years of age, was placed at the bar before him, on a charge of stabbing and inflicting a serious wound upon the abdomen of Thomas Havre, a young man of whom he was jealous. The Magistrate having proceeded to the hospital, and taken the deposition of the dying man, returned to the office, and remanded the prisoner for a week. HE EAST INDIA HOUSE, DEC. 13, 1837. "E COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST T , INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, the Forms to be observed by Holders intending to apply for Ex th,nig,e of Company's Bonds under the Court's Advertisements of 15th ultimo, may be obtained on application at the Accounts t l anch of the Seeretary's O ffi ce. ti c : adjusting the proportion to be exchanged upon each applica b„ all fractions of less than 1001. will be omitted , and dischar g ed a cash payment. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1837. PRICE 5d No. 14.120. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY. No. 09, CORNHILL, LONDON, At d 38, WESTMORELAND-STREET, DUBLIN. Capital, 100,0001., is 10,000 Shares .f 10/. each. Th • Deposit V. is per Share. Ail Direetors ef this Soeietypive Notice, that NOFURTHER LICATIONS for SHARES in the Capitul of F this Society 4 % 11 be rece i ve d a f ter t h e 11 t h .f this month (December), when "i Allotment will take place. By Order of the Board, F. FERGUSON CAAIROUX, See. AIETROPOLITAN INFIRMARY for the tit,'lf STREET CURE of STRICTU OXFORDRSTREET E of the URETHRA, BLEN , . PORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. switemow. FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, ESQ 42, Great Marlborough-street. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. TREASURER. MR. JOHN WATTS, 4, Berners-street, Oxford-street. • HONORARY SECIIETARY. N. WEHNERT, ESQ. 2, Craven-street, Strand. • e friends of this Charity earnestly and respectfully solicit the liFort of th e p u bli c on its behalf. I This Infirmary , after havin g ell°, established two years, during which 'period it has afforded to upwards of two hundred patients the greater part of wom t 't failed t o o bt a i n a cure at other ins ti tute ons,) has becomehne ti;!sarily closed for the want of funds. tlnder t these circumstances appeal is confidently made to the charitable and affluent. stl aubscripti ons a n d Donations thankfully received by the Tree- Honorary Secretary, and Surgeon. E ASY MODE OF SECURING THE BONUS ON EQUI TABLE POLICIES BY THE I T NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London; ~,dished by Act of Parliament, for Assurances o f Lives and I ° ll rvivorships, and likewise for the Granting and Purchasin g of , 110NORARY PRESIDENTS. of Mend Lord Viscount Eastnor, M. P. 1 4rl of Courtown Lord Viscou nt Glandine "'ad Leven and Melville Lord Elphinstone Lord Viscount Falkland Lord Belhaven and Stenton. • Sir J. H. Dalrymple, Bart. JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman. W. PLASKET, Esq., Deputy Chairman. The accommodation now offered to the public by the following Nulition will be found particularly convenientcund well worthy the consideration of parties who may wish to secure to their families the bonus expected on equitable policies, Jan. 1,1840, and, Y adopting it, not only will.that object be obtained, but they may tlail themselves of continuing the insurance for the remainder of I T. at the premium of their present age, whateyer may be their of health, after having rsceived the bonus of the Equitable : " When an insurance is for life half the premium may remain la. id for five years at interest, to be deducted e ventuall y from the icy or paid off at convenience, it being perfectly understood that the partj discontinueethe iLiwance, the Company " have no claim hi m for the portion of the premium that is unpaid. li e T hne . a gentleman of 45 may be insured for the whle period of 3/. 10s. 6d. per cent., and btpaying fe at 1/. 15s. 3d. 0 for the first 's years, he may discontiam his insurance as soon as he has re °eiyed the bonus of the Equitable, or may remain insured for life as I° °'ve explained. This Company grants liberal Annuities upon ages of 65 and up te parties themselves, but not assignable, and every infor tion will be afforded on personal application at the office, or by *tees addressed to the Resident Director, Edward Boyd, Esq., 8, w aterloo-place, Pall-mall. CITT AGENT.—Edward Frederick Leeks , Esq ., Solicitor, 2, Charlotte -row. 1 otte-rOw• IEART-RENDING CASE OP FAMILY AFFLICTION AND DISTRESS. " N Advertisement was inserted in the Time s an d Morning Herald of the Ist instant , deta ilin g the state of , ietion and suffering into which a family had been plunged by disease and death, from which statement it appeared that in the 'Pane of a fortnight the parents had lost four children by malignant so re throat and• fever. The father was then in the Fever Hospital, Where he and another child have since expired within a few days of other. Thus has the mother by one stroke from the hand of p rovidence been bereaved of her husband and five children, and the youngest child is now attacked with this dreadful disease. She is c ompelled again by the pressure of her destitute situation t o a pp eal ' the sympathy of the benevolent and humane for their assist tnee in thi s hour of overwhelming calamity. This statement will e verified by J. Burnell, Esq., 131 , High - street , Whitecha p el ; and t f r. G. Brooks, builder, 21, Queen - s treet, Golden-s q uare. Messrs. ti 41 ankey l , bankers, Fenehurch-street, and Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, Charing- cross, have also kindly consented to re ceive further contributions. The following contributions are now gratefully acknowledged:— A. V C. £1 0 0 E. W 2 0 0 • Anonymous 0 10 0 G. Brookes 1 0 0 J. Burnell... A Friend 0 10 0 At Messrs, Cocks, Biddulph, and Co. 11 . M Anonymou5... IN. R. P. Beachcroft 0 10 0 i'eneral Bradshaw . '"onvmous ..... itt o D:. ............... Lady._ .............. ................ • Harrison Ladies at Eltham At Messrs. Hankeys'. Cash per P R. F. L Friend to the distressed... 1 0 0 O 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 O 12 6 1 0 0 6 0 0 O 10 0 BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. NOTWITHSTANDING the publicity for many ,p given to the superiority of BETTS'S PATENT British DISTILLED BRANDY over every other spirit, Adritish or Foreign, it is yet but partially known : J. T. BETTS I t i nd Co. therefore will • feel it a duty they owe to the Public and ..ernselves, to invite a comparison between the PATENT a nd the F rench Brandy, until every Family in the kingdom , i n which 'Brandy is consumed, have made trial of their PATENT BRANDY, nd consequently discontinued the use of the foreign article.- -their respective merits are fairly developed in the following Testi konials, to which they again beg to refer. EXTRACTS FROM TESTIMONIALS. • " Your Brandy is free from uncombined acid and astringent katte r , which exists, more or less, in most of the Brandies im- Ported from France. " JOHN THOMAS COOPER, " To Mr. Betts." " Lecturer on Chemistry." " I am bound to say, and do assert it with confidence, that, for brit y of s pi r it, this cannot be surpassed ; and that y our Patent Lloirandy is also quite free from those acids which, though minute in quantity, always contaminate the Foreign Spirit. " JOSEPH HUME " J. T. Betts, Esq." " Chemist to his Majesty." " I do not hesitate to express my conviction that your Patent Brandy is'fully as free from every thing injurious to health, and 'el 3 rltains as pure a spirit, as the best varieties of Foreign Brandy. " EDWARD TURNER, " Professor of Chemistry in the University of London." " John T. Betts, Esq." • - It is this perfect freedom from the above objectionable qualities, t..!1tl its agreeable similarity-in flavour to the finest samples of Cognac ' l3 raudy, that constitute the peculiar value of the PATENT bRANDY. To prevent imposition. J. T. BETTS and Co. fell it important to observe that Brandy is the only article they sell, and also to im tPss upon the Public the fact that th ei r on l y Establishment is the istillerv, No. 7, Smithfield Bars, adjoining the Cattle Market, Where the Patent Brandy may be had, either p ale or coloured, of th e., highest legal strength, in q uantities not less than two Gallons, :Eighteen Shillings per Imper ial Gallon, del ivered free of ex- P"se to any part of the Town, for Cash on delivery. PATRONIZED BY THE ROYAL FAMILY. YARMOUTH THORN'S POTTED ill BLOATERS, for Toast, Biscui ts, Sandwiches, and Wine, Pots, Is. and os. each. d The igh repute and immense sale of this delicate preparation has U ced several would.be tradesmen (who, not having an idea of their own) ee i tittranpt imposition, by labelling a pot exactly like h ied to e tt! de. f 0.." the public and knowing im (having actually applied to his printer 4 that puT"' well they cannot prepare the Fish, the receipt .gan ol family one, and the secret in the curing of the Herring, by .. 1 ‘ h its rancid qualities are destroyed, and it becomes so delicious a 0 v._.11. It is easily detected by observing his signature, ALEX. THORN, u tt,e side, and on the top, Propriet n• of the celebrated THORN'S TALLY HO I SAUCE, I ° Fish Game, Steaks, Wild Fowl , and all Made Dishes, i m parting a a pest not otherwise acquired—the mo.t economical now in use :in Bottles Ti z ,l,nd 4s. each, warranted in all climates. ,HighWholesal he Manuctory, of all i's Oil, Italian, and Foreign Warehouse, 225, Holborn; also ig ,,1l wholesale oilmen and druggists • and retail by all respectable oilmen, users, and druggists in the United 'Kingdom. BRITISH WINES. l' he Oldest House in London for British Wines. Warranted four years old, 18. s. per dozen. —...... FOGS AND DAMP AIR. IiARCLAY ' S ASTHMATIC CANDY has, for many years, been proved an effectual preservative from the 111 effects of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter S eason , are so , gevalen t in this Climate. Its effects are to expel Wind, to preserve the rg!Tiach fculmro the admission of Damps, and to relieve those who suffer biffity of Breathing. 4 , lt irepared only by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street, London ; a td Sold, by their appointment, by all respectable Stationers, Druggists, tic. Medicine Venders, in Bases, at 2s. 9d. and Is. I %ad. each , duty udd, „ ire ( A ) serve—None can be enuine, unless the names of Barclay and Sons" the Stamp affixed g to each Box. " Semper nocuit differre p . aratis."—Lticais. • THERE is perhaps no situation in life so full of eob., embarrassment as when the over-sensitive feel themselves ti,„Peled to reveal their moral indiscretions, or their physical imperfec -I,'4± to others. Day after day does the burros of exposure accumulate nn . e. morbid imag nation, while increasing disease augments the suffer th•t,,?r the body and the irritability Of the mind. Sensible of the anguish "' Protracted; we have adopted a system which lorw practical experience ~Proved to be highly successful, and which precludes . the absolute cc pi e. ,, of personal communication with those who recoil fro such mode afnn,sultation. A full and minute description of the case , . written in ar,d . t ia nguage, will enaLle us to treat the patient with delicate sccrecy ; s miet uth has been the peculiar nature of our Kactice, embracing every Ite m i of difficult creumstances that the mo*t timid may feel encourage -1,,,. 11 the opportunity a n afibrded tbem. fr, An :ntY-five years of practice, exclusively devoted to diseases arising b.,, indiscretion, gaiety, or climate, whereby the constitution may have ~,,r l e ei.feehled, enable us to promise a restoration to health, without m i e _terference s,i.h the ordioary diet and hahits. Lc.COSS znd Co. are to be consulted , as usual, every day, at L c . t res;dence; and Patients in the remotest parts of the country can al e jfated successfully on their describing minutely ` the case, and en .‘! ti ,l a remittance for Advice and Medicine. ifficulty can occur, tio, e .,.' Medleiles will be securely parked, CO carefully protected from • Vitt ion. GOSS and CO , M.R.C. Surgeons, from v , . No. 7, lyincasicr_place, Strand . London. ai • -Just published (Tweuty-third Edition), Ist. The -EMS of LIFF, 14 4 Illiar commentary on the above Diseases.-2.1. HYDE! &NA, act ti '''',„ c d Prelusively to the f - al '4. , x 3d. The '4‘ PHI LIST, a Trea t4:',n fox,en erea Gono s- r ‘n rlir:a ' & c .— May he h ' ad at 3, Paternoster 4. and ol ' all llook.selle ' rs, 'Price - ss. each. • . • On Wednesday, December 20, will be published, in 2 vols., post Bvo., beautifully illustrated with wood cuts, b y S. Willliams. T HE RURAL LIFE of ENGLAND. BY WILLIAM HOWITT, Author of " The Book of the Seasons," &c., &c. CONTENTS :—Life of the Aristocracy ; Life of the Agricultural Population ; Picturesque and Moral Features of the Country ; Causes of the strong Attachment of the English to Country . Life ; The Forests of England ; Habits, Amusements, and Condition of the people. London: Longman, Orme, and Co. In 3 vols., post Svo., MRS. GORE'S ~ MA R Y RAYMOND ," AND OTHER TALES. IS NOW READY, And may be had of all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Mr. GLEIG'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in li vels. post Bvo., TRADITIONS OF CHELSEA COLLEGE, Including ANECDOTES and ADVENTURES of MILITARY LIFE. By the Author of " The Subaltern," Country Curate," &c. " Full of incident and adventure." —Sunday Tinaes. " This work affords the best picture we have ever met with of the varied and adventurous career of the English soldier."—Edin burgh Evening Post. We can most conscientiously recommend this interesting work. It will prove a rich treat to the reader."—John Bull. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE PARLIAMENTARY POCKET COMPANION for 1838. Now ready, in 32m0., price 4s. 6d. bound and gilt, rip HE PARLIAMENTARY POCKET a COMPANION ; comprising the House of,Lorels as well as Commons. Containing considerable Additions and Improvements, and the latest State of the- Representation. " This is the original, the most useful, and the Vest executed of the many similar works that have issued from the press."—Times. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane. NOW READY, FOURTH EDITION, In 12m0., price Is 6d. sewed, AWEATHER ALMANAC, On Scientific Principles, showing the State of the Weather for every day in the year 1838. By P. MURPHY, Esq., M.N.S., &c., Author of the new Theory of Meteorology and Physics, on the principle of Solar and Planetary Reflection, and of different works on these subjects. " His calculations have been verified so as to place beyond doubt the correctness of the principles of calculation resorted to by him." —Times. Whittaker and Co., A' e Maria-lane. THE FREEMASONS' ANNUAL. On the Ist of January, 1838, will be completed THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW, in which will be found a collected mass of exclusive Intel ligence of the highest importance to the Order ; affording to the Mason the history of the Craft all over the world for the previous twelvemonth, in combination with the Contributions of the living Master-minds of Masonry, whether distinguished as Masonic An tiquaries—as Moralists—Essayists—or Poets. The ensuing Num ber (the 16th), price 35., will be dedicated to the Grand Lodge. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row ;J. Churchill, Princes-street, Soho; Parbury and Co., 8, Leadcnhall-street. BUCKE'S HARMONIES OF NATURE. In Three Volumes, Svo., price 31s. 6d., in cloth boards, IFHE BEAUTIES, HARMONIES, and SUB LIMITIES OF NATURE; with Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations; and occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Habits, and Manners, of various Nations. By CHARLES BUCKE. A New Edition, greatly enlarged. " A work singularly , rich in all that can touch the hear t and in terest the imagination. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, Cheapside ; and sold by all booksellers. COMPLETION OF MOULE'S ENGLISH COUNTIES ; or, A DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGLAND. Illustrated by New Maps of London and England, and a Map of each County, with beautiful Corner Vignettes of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Mansions, Pic turesque Ruins, also Armorial Decorations, chiefly from the Seals of County Towns. By THOMAS MOULE, Author of Bibliotheca Heraldica, and Editor of several Topographical Works. Complete in Two Volumes, handsomely printed in quarto, and bound in cloth, price 31. 3s. ;. or with beautifully Coloured Maps, 41. 14s. 6d. London : George Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane, and all Booksellers. Forty pages of beautifully printed Letter-press, and Three Humourous Engravings for ONE SHILLING. On the lst of December, (to be continued monthly, and to be com pleted in about Fourteen Numbers) was published, THE BLUE-COAT BOY, N 0.2. or, DOMESTIC REMINISCENCES of MISTER THOMAS BOUNCE, By his friend and associate, ABEL FUNNEFELLO. With Three illustrative Etchings, by ANDREW CROOKED SHANKS. " Pickwick having breathed his last, (observes the " True Sin" of December (3, speaking of No. 2.) at least in the form of a monthly—what will the town have next? The Blue-Coat Boy, undoubtedly. We know not where to find a more fitting successor. Although the author has not entered deeper than the outskirts of his story, he affords too abundant evidence of that power of mind, which with equal readiness assumes the droll, the serious, and the satirical, to leave the most remote room for doubt of his ultimate and most triumphant success. Many a rich scene is evidently in store for the readers of this publication. The characters of Bounce, and his half-and-half genteel-vulgar better-half, are de veloped with fine skill and discrimination. The etchings, of which there are three in each number, are of themselves worth double the price of the publication. Abel Funnefello deserves his name richly, and will soon be heard of from the Lizard's point to the Orkneys." London : Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, and all Booksellers. ROW TO KNOW POISONED CANDLES . There are only Three Classes of Candles besides the Com mon Tallow Candle, viz.:- 1. WAX, having ROUND Wicks. 2. SPERMACETI, having FLATTED Wicks, aad are trans parent ; when coloured, they are called " Composition" Candles. 3. STEARINE, or Pressed Tallow. These have Platted Wicks, like the Spermaceti ; but the Candle being OPAQUE, is in a moment distinguished from Spermaceti. The Stearine CaWax, ndles are sold under various names, viz., G e rman Wax d Imperial Wax, Pearl W ax, French, Tropical, Venetian, Ada mantine, &c. The Report Of the Westminster Medical Society declares, that Wax an d Spermaceti Candles are free from ARSENIC, and that Stearine Candles contain it in great abundance._______ c THE ONLY GENUINE PECTORAL BAL I - vented bSyASilirl J O O F HN HO H N IL E L Y , ,for M.D.Coughs, Colds , Asthma s& , . Sir John Hill, who wa s a very eminent Physician, recommended this for a excellent preparation a s th e mo s t salutary and effectual remedy disorders of the Breast and Lungs : and many years' e xpel iencel has con firmed firmed the recommendation in the immediate relief and gradua cure Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, and Consump , ions. It is the greatest preserver of the Lungs ever di.covered, and contains all the healing , softening, aria soothing_ qualities of that salubrious extract of FLtrWERS, call. d FI(INEY. Professional Gentlemen do not .hesitate to recommend it, as it never disagrees with the Stomach, and common Colds, in most cases, yield to its beneficial effects in a few hours. No medicine was ever so universally counterfeited as this, a..d a few years ago, the Wife of the Rev. Robert bowler, of Peterborough, had nearly fallen a sacrifice to a spurious Balsam of Honey, sold by a Chemist and Druggist in London. It is necessary, therefore, to notice, that the genuine prepara ion will have engraved on the Government Stamp, !. EVAN EDWARDS, 67, St. Paul's." Price 3e. M. and 2s. Pd. per Bottle. Sold by K Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard, (on the Footway). Stradling, Royal Exchange-gates, Cornhill ; Sanger, 15°, and Chandler, 76, Oxford-street, CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Dec. 8, tin'', made up from lami the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and T ewns in Eng Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat s2s ild, I Oats B a rley 22s. 2d.l Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat s2s. I id. I Oats Barley 3os. ld. 1 Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat. 34s. Bd. Oats 5s :d. Beans lss Bd, 8ar1ey......... I 6 I s. led. Rye THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) RAY MARKETS.—(Atoer Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Coarse heavy Lowlan d Meadow Ha y „ .. ,, .£ 0 0 4 0 t. £4, 5 New Meadow Hay 0 5 4 10 0 Useful Old Ditto 4 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye - grass Hay • 4 10 415 4 15 5 10 Clover Hay Oat Straw ...... ...XI 14 to £1 161 Wheat Straw ll6 1I: SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £4 0 to £4 5 00 0 0 !dew Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 4 5 410 Fine Uplansl Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clever Ha extra fine ......£5 le Generally .. ...... 410 5 0 Oat Straw 'l 12 '..£ I 141 Wheat Straw ll4 116 WHITECHAPEL. Coarse Meadow Hay ..i4 0 to £4 5 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Itye.grass Hay Clover Hay Old Straw . ..£1 10 to £1 12 l Wheat Straw COAL MAR Per Ton. s. A. Chester Main Leaze's Main ....... l9 6 Pr saw 2l 9 Russell's High Main l9 6 1 South Hartley 22 0 Willington 22 l , Wylana 22 Walls End Chirton l9 6 Walls End Gosforth ' W 6 Walls End Grace 6:9 y Walls End Heaton 23 0 Walls End Hotspur .. . Walls End Killingworth Walls End Bensham Walls End Walker 22 6 Ships arrived since t KET.— Dec. 13 . Per Ton L .1. Walls End Belmont Walls End Braddyll's Hettou 23 6 Walls End Haswell 23 6 Walls End Lambton .13 6 6 Walls End Stewart's t . ,3 Walls End Butterknowl Walls End Adelaide 22 Walls End Gordon "2 6 Wally End South Durham.... 2 9 Walls End Tees 'A 0 Walls End Devonshire 2l 6 Blythe i9 ti Cowpen 2l 6 Elsicar last market-day, 28 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEE Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. I Beans. Pease. I Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. 0. to s. a. to s. a. to s. 44 50 30 , 34 ' 22 . 30 38 Andover 47 52 29 31 25 43 Birmingham 35 48 30 40 26 14 2 39 30 '2 33 Bridport ............... 38 50 32 36 Ci re ncester 44 51 27 32 20 25 32 40 Faringdon--.—. 35 46 213 30 26 30 46 Guildford ............ 38 54 2 8 35 20 30 40 42 58 26 32 23 26 43 Hereford 36 49 26 32 22 29 411 40 Hig h wort h 42 60 32 42 28 34 511 Maidenhead 32 58 24 343 20 28 31 44 34 38 M0nm0uth......—... 46 43 32 34 22 29 34 40 Reading 34 57 25 35 1 2.) 27 .33 42 35 44 54 30 34 20 23 41 46 Southampton 45 sn. 33 40 28 33 42 Stroud T ew kesbury 59 35 22 32 40 Uxbridge 40\ 48 28 32 17 28 40 42 Wantage—....... 32 52 24 34 20 25 33 42 33 48 Warminster 30 40 27 34 22 26 36 40 21 22 W0rce5ter.—.......... 53 51 32 36 30 32 46 146 48 LEWES MARK.EI.—Dec. Per Quaver. s. d. to s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. to sd. Wheat. White ... 56 0 53 0 Oats lB 6 21 0 qel Per Quaver. Wheat, White . ..—.— Red er. s. d. to s d. .. 18 6 21 0 ...32 0 34 0 us. per Thousamd. ~ 56 0 59 00, .51 0 54 0 Pei 32 0 33 6 Oil case it Cake...ll/. Barley CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. S. d. to s.d Pet lb. d. to d Wh ea t barley 3 0 46 1 M i nton Oats 3 0 40, Veal Beans Pease. Hay 6l. Os to 61. 10s. Od. p r ton • H U LL M A RKE P.—Dec. 5. Wheat, Old s'ls. 533. 555. ......New 44s. 50s 545. Foreign —s. s. —s. ln bond., —s. —s —s. Oats, Poland -- Small or Feed.... —a. 16s. 183 —s. —s. `.2os. -- Foreign Barley, Norf. & Suf Foreign ,.., -a.- S. —S. Beans 355. 3Ss. 403 Foreign ---9 s -.3. Pease, White....._. 4-Is. 455. 4ils. Grey :Its. ads. 383. Tares „, 3ss. —s. 37s Foreign ...... ... 365. 38s. 4Cs. Rapeseed. In bond none Free, per last 23/. 251. Os. DELAY IN THE ARRIVAL OF THE MAILS.- During the past week the London letters have frequently been delivered half an hour after the accustomed time. This delay has principally arisen from the non arrival of the mail at Bir mingham; by the appointed hour, seven o'clock. On Tuesday the train waited 20 minutes. Wednesday 15 11, Thursday 34 • Friday 35 „ Saturday 30 ~ Sunday 30 „ Monday If 20 „ —Liverpool Courier. A proposal has been made for shortening the com munication with New South Wales, by steam communication with Acapulco to Vera Cruz, touching at Otaheite for coals, by means of which the voyage might be accomplished within fifty days. A plan by wh i c h the whole course may be com pleted in from 65 to 70 days, is by way of the proposed steamers to Jamaica, and thence, through Panama, to Lima and Chili, from the latter of whicn an extensive intercourse is carried on with Australia in wheat. The coal at Chili is found well adapted for use in steam-vessels. Yesterday the United Service Museum was ho noured by a visit from its vice patron, the Duke of Wellington, accompanied by Major-General Sir John Macdonald, and other distinguished officers. His Grace was received by the council and officers of the institution, and remained nearly two hours examining the various collections. The sword worn by General Wolfe when he fell at Quebec having been pointed out to the Duke, his Grace kindly consented, at the request of Major Shadwell Clarke, to present to the Museum, the sword he wore at the battle of Waterloo ; an interesting relic, well suited to the professional character of the institution. THAMES TUNNEL. —The public can again be ad mitted to view this supendous undertaking—it appearing that the whole of the water and strata of sand, clay, and gravel which had forced their way into the tunnel during the last irruption of the river have been entirely cleared out. Along the comparative short distance which the works have now to progress to low water mark at Wapping, a more effective co vering over the bed of the river is about to be deposited, by permission of the Thanies Navigation Committee. The following has been communicated to us by a gentleman connected with the Peak Forest Canal Company. The workmen at the Christ quarry at Bugsworth, which be longs to the canal company, have a horn in which they keep oil for the axles of their waggons, &c. which they have been in the habit of placing on the ground in an upright position. To their very great surprise, they have several times recently found the horn filled to the brim with very smell stones, and nearly the whole of the oil gone. This circumstance puzzled them exceedingly ; and, in order, to discover the way in which the oil had been abstracted, they placed the horn containing a quantity of oil in its old position, and covered the ground abotit it, with soft clay. The next morning they found, as be fore, that the horn had been filled with stones, the oil was gone; and the clay was covered with impressions evidently from the feet of rata.—Manchester Guardian. IRISH VERSUS ENGLISH ORATORY.—A meta phor, universally admired as characteristic of the old Irish school of oratory, has so generally been curtailed of its fair proportions, that it is quite time to restore them. In a note to the Fudge Family, Moore says, " Alluding to a hypocritical pretender to charity, the celebrated Counsellor B. asserted to the jury, that' he put his hands into his breeches'-pockets like a crocodile.' " The figure really employed by the eccentric Knight was much more complete. A man of property had affected to sympathize with the sufferings of some poor people, aided them with mo ne y , and eventually seduced their d a ughter. Sir J. knew that the way to inflame the minds of a jury of his country was to leave something to their ima• ginations, an object which would not be attained b y present ing simple facts and reasons, nor even by a perfectly intel ligible and natural metaphor. What be actually said was : —" He put his hands into his breeches' pockets like a a crocodile, drew forth his deceptive gold, and feigned to shed fictitious tears." There cannot be more beautiful disorder than this? The crocodile's breeches'-pocket is a self-evident proposition, compared with the feigning to shed tears; which, however, must have been shed, because it is maintained, they were tears of a spurious composition. There is, also, in a tangled w ay, the admitted affinity between a crocodile's lachry mation and deceitful weeping in general. If the very same thought could have struck an English pleader, he would pro bably have arranged it differently. " Gentlemen of the jury, the defendant put his hand into his pocket, and drew forth the gold that was intended, in the guise of compassion, to destroy the peace of this poor family ; while tears as treacherous, and as much at command, as tl.ose supposed to ba shed by the cro codile, when he strives to allure victims by his wail, convinced the confiding and grateful creatures of his sincerity." Thus amplified and evolved, the Monaghan jury would, most likely, have given as damages, a twentieth part of what they did give. —From Frazer's Magazine for November. A CURE FOR LOVE.—About two O'clock on Sa turday morning, the 2d of December, the inhabitants of Steep - hill, Lincoln, were alarmed by loud and apparently sepulchral eres f.r help. Several people left their warm beds, and were directed widow ,wb by e the nce screams h ikat e s a f rd for t h h e e l p cries to eea well before the house a of a ladder at the end , was put down, when n a a c n Rogers, was pulled up shivering with cold. Th e swain, who proceed. A y r man, ope is between GO an d 70, had had a tender appointment wi t h the fair bereaved , who is less than h a l f his ag e, but, having been :I ‘ a i m t e d h tempted to drink a little too much, instead of getting into the fair one's window he slipped into the well. The venerable inamorato swears that nothing, but the above related accident I could have cooled his love for the widow. —Boston Herald. THE BRITISI RY LEGION. " I have, under this day's date, communicated to the Military Intendant-General the following : " I have submitted to the Queen Regent your letter bearing date the Bth of the current month, relative to the claims of the officers and other individuals of the disbanded British Legion, some of whom are resident in England, and others in the fortified town of St. Sebastian. Her Majesty, having well considered your letter, decrees the following : " 1. By a royal decree of the 11th of the present month, she has been pleased to accept the resignation of Don An tonio de Mores, appointed by a royal order of the 18th of September last, •to act in conjunction with her Majesty's Minister in London, for the purpose of regulating and paying off all claims of officers and other persons of the disbanded British Auxiliary Legion.' In consequence of which Don Eusebio Xialines, Commissary of War, will proceed to that capital for the purpose of executing that important commission, with an addition to hispay of 12,000 rials annually. During his absence his place will be filled by the principal Minister to the new British Legion, Don Baldomer Martin Lopez, as acting Commissary of War. " 2. It being indispensable for the examination of the accounts of the creditors of the Legion, as also for the purpose of granting the necessary certificates of pensions awarded to those disabled in the service, to the widows and orphans of those killed in action during the campaign, 4c., the whole of the accounts and documents now in Vassessibn of the—English Commissaries , Anthony Fax hardo, Robert Grindly, and Charles Black, I direct you will compel to be given over to the above-named Commis sary Ximines, with an inventory of the same, for the pur pose of arranging the accounts so sacredly entrusted to the above-named English Commissaries. " 3. If Commissary Ximines is opposed by the English Commissaries in complying with the above order, he 'is authorised to apply and get resources from the General commanding the coast of Cantabria, to enforce this Royal Decree by military authority, this being not only to do justice to the individuals of the old Legion, but also to insure a speedy and immediate payment. " 4. It being of the greatest urgency to proceed with the embarkation of such officers of the said legion as remain in St. Sebastian awaiting the settlement of their claims, you are hereby directed to place in the military chest of St. Sebastian the necessary funds, giving to each officer a suf ficient sum to procure a passage ; the remainder of their arrears will be paid in London _by the Commission there as sembled for the satisfaction of all claims upon the govern ment on account of the Legion. "sth and last, the General Commanding the army of ope rations on the coast of Cantabria will place himself in com munication with the Minister of Finance in St. Sebastian, for the purpose of c ompelling all officers and individuals , by military authority, to embar without delay. " I communicate this to you by order of her Majesty ; and you are hereby directed rigorously to comply with the 3d and sth articles particularly of this her royal order. " God preserve you for many years: (Signed) " RAMONT, Minister of War. " Madrid, Nov. 20, 1837." " To the General Commanding the Army of operations, coast of Cantabria." LAW OF LIBEL. Mr. O'Connell has given notice of a motion for to-night, for the amendment of the present Law of Libel. We ap prehend that the Bill about to be proposed by the Ho nourable and Learned Gentleman is a resumption of the measure he brought into the House last year, and which he carried to a division. There is no man living whose qualifications are better adapted for accomplishing the im portant object thus announced than the Learned Mem ber for Dublin—and that whether we look to his legal ex perience, to the influence of his position, or to the constant association of his great and splendid talents with the cause of popular liberty, wherever it is endangered or infringed —" in whatever battle," as Grattan said, "it is cloven down, or On whatever high place its standard of redress of grievance is to be installed." The absurdity of the present law is not greater than the extent of individual and social wrong which it inflicts. It is bottomed in falsehood. In that respect it resembles a similar invention engen dered by the boasted " wisdom of our ancestors"—arrest on mesne process ; it being requisite to make a per jured, and false allegation of criminal violence, in order that a barbarous statute law might not too obviously violate the provisions of Magna Charta, and the com mon law of the land, of which Magna Charta is a merely written incorporation. There is scarcely a declaratory preamble in the criminal law which is not false. A similar enthronement of falsehood characterises the libel law. No doubt the half-civilised barbarians who invented these legal encroachments on the inalienable privileges of the subject —freedom of speech and freedom of person—and couched them in a barbarous jargon, as if to degrade language as well as liberty, cared as little for the moral evils of making law a public lie, and of basing it on perjury as they cared for the rights and comforts of the serfs and vassals whom they trampled upon by right of conquest, and whose limbs and labours they deemed their property. Our law de nounces truth as a libel. Not satisfied with this startling proposition, some of our judicial functionaries have gone farther, and asserted that " the greater the truth, the greater is the libel." All the evil consequences flow ing from the present law of libel may be traced to this polluted source. What a legislation must that be which proclaims its vital essence to be falsehood? What benefi cial system of general education could be coupled with the authorative inculcation of such a axiom? What respect for the tuition of useful truths could be maintained in the face of this legal abomination ? Far different was it with ;he legislator of one of the best conducted empires of an cient times ; whose sole axiom and basis of government was " Truth." Teach truth, was his doctrine,-to your chil dren—imbue them with it from their cradle—make them hate a lie above all things as the greatest of social evils. This was the whole of that ancient legislator's " national system of education." But our legislators assert that you must not speak truth, except under such ridiculous and frustrative exceptions as remind us of the exception to plain speaking enjoined to Voltaire's Candide on his arrival in Spain. You may use liberty of speech, said his infor mant. Liberty for ever ! It is here like the air you breathe ; only you must not breathe a word about the King's mis tresses, or your body may lose the capital excresence which you now wear on your shoulders. The libel law ex ception to free speaking in England, is much the same. We believe Mr. O'Conmcll, in the Bill brought forward last year for reforming that libel law, introduced a clause for allowing truth to be pleaded in justification. But there were exceptions to the invariable application of this principle. We do not see the necessity for the exceptions. No good ever ultimately came from falsehood ; no ultimate evil ever came from truth. That it prompts to a breach of the peace is a mere forensic evasion, like the lying pre amble of vi et arniis alleged against a defendant arrested on mesne proCess. No man was ever injured by having the truth spoken of him ; or, perhaps, we might add, with Godwin, to him. If a. man's past life will not bear sifting, why should he not stand in his own shoes ? But we believe the entire truth told of every man's past life (taking it with all its accompanying and qualifying circumstances, either of a defective education which be could not controul ; or of a subsequent self-reform, which he could controul), would be beneficial to him. It is not the entire truth which would injure any man. It is the garbled, detached, suppressed, mutilated, or distorted truth alone which injures. So much for the abstract principle which we say ought to govern, and might safely govern, a radical reform of the law of libel. We might proceed (if we had space) from gene ralities to specialities, in order to show how the parent falsehoood infects the whole framework of the law. But we will conclude with an especial example of too common occurrence, in which the absurd anomaly of th e p resent law of libel is not more conspicuous than its disastrous effects upon society and upon individuals. Every one must recollect the case of Probert, Hunt, and Thur tell, threatening the press with actions for libel after the commission of their appalling crime. If we, in this journal, under the present law of libel, were to say of a notorious robber at a police-office, that he was so— confining ourselves to the unembellished truth—if by so do ing we were by publicity to prevent burglary, robbery, or murder, there can be no question that we should be liable to an action. It is true that a jury might net give either to the plaintiff or to the lawyer who might be prompted to farm his case by managing it, more than a farthing da mages. They might, however, give forty shillings. In one instance we can state that they did give forty shillings to a subsequently convicted burglar. But whether a farthing or forty shillings—the result would be the same ;we should have to pay costs for doing a common duty of honest citi zens in frustrating crime and in warning or protecting so ciety. We should probably have to pay one hundred and fifty pounds for being declared innocent. So much for the present libel law I We apprehend we need not add an other word !—Morning Advertiser. Mr. H. Phillips transfers his ser.ices from Cove garden to Drury-lano after Christmas, AUXILIA LAW EN CE. COURT OF CIIANCERY—Dsc. 13. LUMSDEN V. FRAZER. This was an appeal from an order of the Vice-Chancellor directing the defendant to pay into Court all the moneys received by him in respect of the rents and profits of the estates of the late Mr. Farqhuar of Fonthill Abbey, Wilts, who died intestate in 1826. The property was claimed by seven of the next of kin, and Mr. John Farquhar Frazer, the defendant, took out letters of administration of the real and personal estate. The present bill, which is one of se veral to which Mr. Frazer has been made a party, was filed by Mrs. Lumsden and others against Frazer, together with the Marquis of 'Westminster, Mr. Bennett and others, the purchasers of a part of Mr. Farquhar's estates. The bill alleged that Mr. Frazer and a Mr. James Mortimer, who claimed to be co-heirs of the testator, had agrecti that the proceeds of the estates contracted to be sold should be con sidered personal estate ; that the administrator was at pre sent in possession of the rents and profits of these estates ; and it therefore prayed an account of those receipts, and the payment into Court of the money received. Mr. Jacob contended, in support of the appeal against the•order of the Court below, that the parties to the dif ferent suits carried on against Fraser, as the administrator of the estate, had put that estate to heavy costs, and that one of them, the widow of Mr. George Mortimer, already owed a sum of near 60,0001. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the order of the Vice-Chancellor must be affirmed. h would be for the interest of all parties that the money should at once be paid into Court. VICE- CHAN CELL OR' S COURT Dim. 13. SWEET V. SHAW. _ Mr. Knight Bruce moved exparte for an injunction on behalf of Mr. Sweet, the publisher, to restrain the defen dant, a bookseller, in Fetter-lane, from printing or selling any copies of a legal publication, alleged to contain reports of cases in the Courts of Queen's Bench and Exchequer, and which the plaintiff swore were pirated, with colourable alterations, from reports published by him.—His Honour granted the injunction. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEc. 13. PAULE V. GUNN. This was an action for differences and commission,brought by the plaintiff, a broker on the Stock Exchange, against the defendant, who is a person of some property. The defendant had a wish to try his hand in stockbroking trans actions, and he accordingly purchased sundry Portuguese and Spanish bonds. He continued to do so until he got out of his depth, as it is technically termed, and then the bonds were sold out at a loss. The result was, that the defendant had refused to pay the amount of the difference between the original purchase and the sum for which the bonds were sold,which,together with commission, amounted to 6721. 16s. ; in consequence of which refusal the plain tiff, who was the defendant's broker in the several trans actions, brought this action to recover the above amount. The Jury Mound a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. Richard Sadler, a well-dressed young man, aged twenty, who was remanded from the last session, was indicted for stealing a quantity of silk velvet, the property of Mr. Ben nett, of Spital-square. In this case, which was not con cluded yesterday when we went to press, the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. ROBBERY OF ENGRAVINGS.—.7ohn Walton was found guilty of stealing eight copper-plates and one steel plate, the property of Messrs. Hodgson and Graves of Pall-mall. The plates were estimated to be of the value of one hun dred pounds, as they were engravings of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The prisoner had been convicted at a former sessions of stealing books from Messrs. Rivington, of St. Paul's Churchyard. The Grand Jury having returned a true bill finding John Leggatt, coptain of a merchant vessel, and James Neshett, his mate, guilty of Manslaughter, in causing the death of a man named Brown by the infliction of cruelties upon his person et sea, the Court ordered the case to stand over until the third day of the next sessions. THAMES OFFICE. Captain I , l‘Bonald, master of the ship lades, lying in the St. Katharine Dock, was charged with having a quan tity of gunpowder on board, contrary to the Act of 1 3 ,u.- liament. Mr. BALLANTINE fined the defendant 9.05., which be instantly paid. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. On Wednesday, Joins: Elkins, a boy only twelve years of age, was indicted for stealing a glass jar, value 12s. It appeared he immediately sold it to a marine store-dealer for sd. The jury acquitted the prisoner on the ground he had been made the dupe of other parties older than himself, and expressed their regret that the receiver of the stolen property, was not put on his trial, instead of the boy. The Chairman stated, that the magistrate who committtcd the prisoner, fined the receiver 5/. for 'his share in the trans- action. Mary Ann Collins, a young girl of very decent appear ance, was convicted of shoplifting, and the jury strongly re commended her to mercy, on account of her youth (she was only 18). The Chairman was sorry he Could not attend to their recommendation. The prisoner had been tried in that Court three times before, and, on her last appearance, he told her that if she came there again she should certainly be transported. After making that fact known to the jury, he was sure they would not be surprised at his not attending to their recommendation. Some of the magistrates, how ever, expressed a wish that the prisoner should be allowed one more chance of reformation, by the Court sentencing her to imprisonment only. The Chairman thereupon took the opinions of all the Magistrates present, and the result was that the majority were in favour of a sentence of transportation for seven years, and which he accordingly passed upon her, at the same time observing that it was the most merciful course that could be adopted towards her, as there was not the slightest hope of her ever doing well in this country. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-ROUSE. Alfred Hationdale, a jobbing conductor of an omnibus was charged by a gentleman named Meriton. According to the statement of the complainant, Mr Meriton, he got into an omnibus belonging to James Lang ley, at the bottom of Newgate-street, having been informed by the conductor that th " buss" was going to Oxford street, in which street he (Mr. Meriton) was to be by appointment withing a certain time. The omnibus, heir ever, turned round into Farringdon-street, and Mr. Meri ton called to the conductor to let him out, as he could not go in that direction. Not the slightest attention was paid to the request to be let out. On the contrary, the conductor slammed the door in the face of Mr. Meriton, and actually insisted upon his remaining in the " buss." The unwilling passenger determined to release himself from such disagreeable confinement, opened the door him self when the omnibus stood for a moment, and, begging that the conductor would allow him to get out, succeeded in advancing to the step. The instant he was about to step into the street the conductor " gave the office" to the driver, who lashed on the horses, and. down Mr. Mahon fall in the mud, while the conductor laughed heartily at what was very near being a most serious calamity. Mr. Meriton, by a great effort, succeeded in procuring the number of the omnibus, and after the excitement was abated found that he was much injured. The surgeon to whom he went for advice told him that if he had not fallen in the way he described the probability was that both of his legs would have been broken. Mr. Meriton saw a lady, a few days ago, thrown upon her back in the middle of the street, and the omnibus pass on rapidly, leaving her in imminent danger. The LORD Mayon. asked how it happened that the con ductor dared to treat the gentleman in such a manner ? A man who said that he was the bona fide conductor of the omnibus, stated that he was elsewhere engaged on the oc casion he had employed the defendant to go the journey, and he had no idea that such a trick would be played. The defendant, however, had no recollection of any thing of the kind, and therefore it was probable the gentleman was mistaken. The defendant—Really, my Lord, I think the gentleman must mistake the " buss,"- for upon my word and honour I have not the least recollection of anything of the kind. The LORD MAYOR — What ! the gentleman tumbled from the omnibus into the mua, and you did not see it ? Defendant—Please you, my Ltird, I go a great many jour neys, and I do assure you I re.collect nothing on earth of the kind. If he fell I did'nt 'observe it, The LORD MAYOR—I suppose you treat so many in this style that you don't remel nber tb.a vartieular case. Defendant—lf it happened I am. sorry for it, my Lord, that's all. The LORD .MAYOR—I fine -you 2/., and costs. Defendant—l can't pay a Lalfpenny, and I have got a wife and three children. If Cie gentleman fell in the mud I am sorry for it ; but I can't. pay anything. The LORD MAYOR—Then you must go to prison for a month. Mr. Meriton requested that if the penalty were paid a moiety of it should go to thei poor, CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday an inquest was held at the sign of the Crab tree, Fulham, on the body of Thomas Jackson, aged 16 years, who wss dross tied on the 15th ult., off Putney-bridge. The jury proceeded to view the body, and on their return found a verdict of " Accidentally Drowned." Yesterday at two o'clock an inquest, which did not termi nate till a late hour at bight, and had been adjourned from Saturday last for further evidence, was resumed before Mr. STIRLING, at the Guy Earl of Warwick, Belton-street, Long-acre, relative to the death of Bridget Coffee, aged 50, alleged to have been occasioned from the brutal treat ment of her husband, James Coffee. Evidence was ad duced which showed that the deceased's husband had been guilty of habitual ill-treatment to her. The jury returned a verdict of " M Inslaughter" against James Coffee, the husband, who was committed to New gate for trial. • A DOUBLE PARRICIDE. On the 6th instant Charles Refray appeared before the Court of Assizes of the department of Sarthe, in France, accused of have attempted to poison his father and mother, and of having, during the Night of the 31st of July last, find a musket at his parents, killing his father, and wound ing his mother severely. The countenance of the prisoner is represented to have been calm, but there appeared to be some wildness in his looks. The first witnesses heard were four medical men, to whom the prisoner was known. They agreed in describing him to be subject to frequent epileptic fits, which, they believed, had had the effect of weakening his intelligence, without, however, destroying in him a sense of right and wrong. One of the physicians said that in epileptic patients there was a continual tendency to mo ral degradation ; all generous passions gradually became extinct in them, while they grew irritable and violent to an excessive degree. It appeared that lie was scarcely a single night without having one or more attacks. The next te;tness called was a small landowner, of the name of I3audry. During the night of the 31st of July he heard a noise ; he opened his window, and one of his neighbours said there had been cries of " Murder 1" (a l'assassin). His garden joined that of Refray. They took a ladder to look into the courtyard. Immediately after wards they heard the report of a musket, followed by stifled • cries. Madame Refray then called to them from the win dow, "If Igo down stairs they'll murder me." The gen darmes thereupon arrived, and broke open the door of the kitchen with a ladder. On going up stairs they found the elder Refray stretched on the ground and bathed in his blood, and his wife, who had been wounded, was walking in the room. They sought the assassin. On going down stairs the servant rushed, half' distracted, out of a closet, in which she said the assassin had taken refuge. He was soon taken and disarmed by the gendarmes. Prisoner—They did not take my gun from me ; I gave it up of my own accord. What I have done I would do again.—( Movement of horror.) The President then commenced the examination of the prisoner. To the first question, the latter replied, I was born at Lude, and shall be 29 years old on the 28th of August next. Till what age did you reside with your parents ?—Till I was put out apprentice. Why did you not love your parents ?—I loved my father and mother, as it is the duty of a child to do. Yet you have killed your father, and attempted to kill your mother.—l tried only to hurt my father, because he never would give me any thing. What was the amount of your fortune ?—When I married I had only 400 f. a year, out of which I had to pay 110 f. for rent. But you received several sums of money froin your father.—My father gave me this year 300 f. over my allow ance ; but it was not a gift, only a loan, for he made me give him a receipt for it. Why did he give my brother and my sister 3,000 f. when they married, and to me fair du temps 4 - - 'Cell us what happened on the 31st of July. I went one day to Lude. On my arrival my mother invited me to breakfast. I told her of my distresses, but she refused to give me any money. I then went to M. Hery, to ask him to advance me 1,000 francs, in part of 10,000 francs that Madame Malherbe owed me. He promised to so, if my father would become security for me. My father refused to do so. I applied to M. Fremont, the notary, and he also refused. Having thus no resource left, I was led to commit the unfortunate act. I asked several people to lend me a horse to go back to La Fleche, but nobody would let me have one. At La Fleche 1 went to a gun smith, and asked him to let me have a good gun, saying I had been cotnrni‘sioned to buy one. I bought one for 140 francs. He hesitated to let me have it, but I gave him my watch as security. I went home, and took some powder and percus,ion caps, without letting my wife know, and then I walked back to Lude, where I arrived at ten in the evening. When did you first resolve to kill your father ?—I don't exactly know. It 'was very wrong of my father. It was his own fault if I killed him. It was no more trouble for him to give me a thousand or twelve hundred francs than to lift up his hand. When I got to Lude I took a ladder and got into the court-yard. The dog, who knew me, said nothing. I was ill twice in the court-yard. I went into the cellar and drank two godets of wine, and eat a mouth ful or two of bread. The trial occupied two days. The Jury declared Refray guilty of having killed his father, but admitted the exist ence of extenuating - circumstances. He was in consequence condemned to hard labour for life. CORONER'S INQUEST AT BRIGHTON.—On Mon day afternoon a Coroner's Inquest was taken at Brighton, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Richard Frankland, a shorthand writer in the House of Commons and Courts of Law, whose body was found in the sea, near the Chain Pier, in a state of decomposition, on Saturday morning . last. His establishment consiste d of a housekeeper, two ser vants, and a clerk. He was thirty-seven years of age, and his general state of health was very good, On the sith of No vember a friend of the deceased came up from Shrewsbury to witness the procession of the Queen's visit to Guildhall. De ceased was very abstemious ; but his friend lived freely, and they drank together for some days. At length deceased, in a fit of derangement, got up one morning and left his home. and he was traced to Brighton, and from shence to Shore ham, On the 13th of November witness (Edward Heise) • asked deceasA to dine with him, but be declined, observing that he was, unfortunately, engaged. Seeing that he looked unwell, witness asked him what was the matter, and he replied that be had " got the blue devils," and was very low, and could not sleep at night. He left his home on the 15th. Witness was quite satisfied that the body was that of his friend. He further stated that the deceased was in no pecuniary diffi culties, and that his profession returned him not less than 1,000/. a-year. The Jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned, but by what means he came into the water there was no evidence to show." Monday morning, between 1 and 2 o'clock, as the watchman on duty at Westminster-bridge was proceeding over it, in passing the recess in the centre of the bridge on the left side leading from Parliament-street, he observed a brow n paper parcel lying on the seat. Seeing no person there he immediately took possession of the parcel, and conveyed it. without loss of time to the police station-house in Tower-street. Lambeth. The watchman here delivered up the parcel to. Inspector King, who on opening it found it to contain the dead body of a newly born male infant. There were marks of violence perceptible on various pays of, the body, but more particularly one which appeared on't l se left temple, which was cut open, and from which the blood bad flowed. The wound appeared as if it had been infr,eted with some sharp instru ment, and was considered by ';rose who examined it as of such a nature as to be the prine:„pal cause of the child's death. The body when found was w-,-apped up in two large pieces of coarse sheeting, and the arms and legs tied together with pieces of tape. The outsi ' 4 O covering of the sheeting in which the body was enveloped. was a larg e sheet of brown paper, carefully tied r ound with, a piece of cord. The police inspector subsequently apprirsd the parish officers of the circumstance, with a view 1 that an immediate inquiry might be in stituted t o di sc over the parties concerned in the suspected murder of the infant. SINGULAR DISCOVERY.--A singular discovers' was made in Bhten-y-rant lead-mines , near Mold, Flintshire, a.few days ago. The workmen at the end of one of the levels were surprised, and obliged to run for their lives, in conse quence of an immense rush of water suddenly bursting in upon them. After three days the water totally disappeared; and, on cautiously proceeding to the place, they found an opening through which the water had issued, of about four inches ill diameter. Hearing a sound as of a heavy run of water inside, they enlarged th. aperture so as to a3rnit of their passug tht ()ugh, and found that it was the bed of a subterranean river, which in all probability affords the principal supplies to the far-famed St. Winifred's Well, at llolywell, from which it is distant about twelve miles. The stream being then shallow, they explored it about jixty yards down, and were astonished. to find several large ea. erns to the right and le ft, from the roofs and sides of which were suspended numerous and beautis. ful specimens of white spar or stalactites. The company were in hig spirits, these appearances being considered favour le i for a l h arge lodgement of ore. —Shrewsbury Chronicle, Published this day, The Third Edition of the Second Volume of COLONEL NAPIER'S HISTORY O F THE lJ WAR IN THE PENINSULA. Volumes I. to V. sold separately, price tOs. each. TO BE COMPLETED IN SIX VOLUMES. T. and W. Boone, 29, New Bond-street. MR. HORACE SMITH'S NEW NOVEL. Nov ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., A NE L OM A X; Or, a MOTHER'S CRIME. By the Author of " Brambletye House," " Reuben Apsley," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This clay, in 2 vols. post Svo., THE BENCH AND THE BAR. By the Author of " Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons," &c. 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