The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have received a letter from Sir Francis Burdett, addressed to the Electors of Westminster, which will be found in another column. It is rather an uncom mon specimen of a very common style of literary com position—appertaining to an •ancient and respectable variety of the genus twaddle. Sir Francis certainly takes a very different, and in fact an entirely opposite, view of things to that of his elected foe. O'Connell declares that the political warfare in which he is en }aged, is a war "of things and not of words." Sir rancis appears to have persuaded himself, and would fain persuade the electors of Westminster, that the battle is entirely one of words, and not of things. And, by the way, for a person who sets himself up as the arbiter elegantiarum of political literature, our ci-devant Liberal is . not particularly happy even in his choice of words ; however, we sup pose we must take quantity and variety in lieu of quality and selection, and then certainly we have no great ground to complain. In classical epi thets the Baronet is unusually lavish. A question is stript "as bare as iEsop's crow." O'Connell is likened to Jupiter Tonans and Jupiter Scapin ; and the electors, who are not versed in mythological lore, are instructed by the information that the thundering Jove assumed the form of a bull—not an Irish bull, nor a Pope's bull, but a John Bull. Next, O'Con nell is a fine gentleman, using monstrous long words, with Garagantua's mouth and Lord IZurleigh's shake of the head, and his productions are immorta lized in the chastened page, as a " skimble-skamble epistle," consisting of " gaudy rhetoric," " poetic prose,"" braggingbalderdash," "fustian," and " goose's gabble." The Baronet himself is metamorphosed in his own estimation into" Horace's Just Man, so ludicrously translated by Mr. Creech ;" and the only consola tion to the Electors, amid all this change and con fusion of names and things, is that their courtly representative is determined to stick to them to the last, which will doubtless be thought parti cularly acceptable. On calmly and seriously reflecting upon this production, we apprehend that the parties to whom it is addressed will agree that it is calculated to produce a feeling of deep and painful regret. It is im possible not to look back with some degree of grateful remembrance to the days when Sir Francis stood forth as the champion and forlorn hope of Reform ; but, alas, how changed ! Sir Francis says his war was with the Boroughmongers, and they are vanquished. True, but did the electors of - Westminster intend to stop short at this stage of Reform ? Did they exert themselves year after year to acquire a Reform in Par liament for no other purpose than that they might say they had beaten the Boroughmongers ? Was it even any one particular measure of Reform to the acquire ment of which they looked as the prize for which they strove ?—or rather was it in the hope and expectation, aye, and in the serious and solemn determination of using the machinery of a Reformed Parliament, to pro cure and maintain a permanency of good, equal, and liberal policy, carried out by honest and enlightened Statesmen, and bringing the searching light of inquiry and reform into all departments of the Church and the State ? Does the present Government go too far in the way of Reform ? Are Lord Melbourne and his colleagues too great Reformers for the people of Westminster? Are the electors prepared to incur all hazards in order to maintain the abuses of a sine • cure Church, at the cost of the Irish Catholics ? Do they think it just that the respectable and intelligent Catholics of Ireland should be excluded from all cor porate offices, and the whole country be for ever kept prostrate at the foot of Orange ascendancy ? Have th . -3y no sympathies with O'Connell, his struggks to obtain for his countrymen those rights and privi leges, that civil equality which ought not to be withheld except from imbecility or crime? Are they prepared, finally, to fold up their hands and await, in the indolence of selfish repose, the effects of intrigue and treachery upon the forces and prospects of Reformers ? Are they really so reckless as to whe • ther a Liberal Whig Government or a conforming Tory one is at the head of affairs ? Let the Electors of Westminster remember the long period in which they were placed, as it were, in the very van of the conflict ; they have obtained the machinery—let them resolve to maintain in power those who will honestly use it for their and the public benefit. They know that, though the boroughmongcrs may be dead, their spirit still lives, and a host of corrupt and factious par tisans are actuated by it, and form a compact and pow erful body, which, added to the gains acquired by treachery, and intrigue, and reckless apostacy of princi ple from the Liberal ranks, are sufficient to impede any course of equitable policy, and, if the people were to be • apathetic or lukewarm, entirely to defeat the prospects of Reform which arc identified with the maintenance in power of a real Reforming Government. Is it to be supposed, then, that Westminster will long submit to have its forces paralysed, and its votes neu tralized or wasted, in deference to a garrulous Repre sentative, who, after much wavering and inconsistency, must now be regarded by every one as entirely changed from his former self, and with decayed intellect and perverted principle taking his final station among the ranks of the subservient allies of that Courtly faction, which, though it may conform for the moment to gain its ends, has never failed, when it has had the power, to evince its downright hatred to the very name of Re form, and determined opposition to every principle which their Representative once professed ?—Morn ing Chronicle. A letter from Sir Francis Burdett to the electors of Westminster, published in this day's Times, confers a great deal too much honour oil one especial portion of the said electors—namely, that low and malignant, but utterly insignificant, synod of some two or three dozen of Destructives, who lately met to record their solemn judgment on the spirited and patriotic Member for Westminster, and through their Chairman, Mr. Devear, addressed a letter of rebuke and menace to Sir Francis. Things are come to a magnificent pass with these - high-life-below-stair politicians. Here is a repre sentative for Westminster, a man of high rank, of un impeachable independence, of unshaken consistency, of known experience in public difficulties, and the most intrepid courage, moral as well as personal ; who has devoted a long life, if ever man did, to the maintenance arid extension of constitutional rights, and has grown gray in the service of the people—a man who risked more in the course of his public career, and sacrificed more in warfare with political corruption, and with boroughmongering in all its branches, than any other Member of Parliament within the last half century. If any man, therefore, deserves the gratitude, the respect, and deference of a " Liberal" Constituency, it is such a Representative as Sir Francis Burdett. What, then, has been the conduct of that clique among the electors of Westminster by whom the Hon. Baronet is provoked to write the letter we have just alluded to ? Sir F. Burdett, in his quality of an ac knowledged gentleman, anxious to preserve those laws and usages of society which constitute the civilization of English life, makes a public appeal to 300 or 400 other gentlemen, his own associates, forming a club, which was established for carrying on, in a manner the most convenient and agreeable, a daily intercourse of conversation and courtesy among its members--an ap peal, wherein he charges a certain member of the club with language and demeanour which prove his unfit ness to fulfil the obligations imposed upon each mem ber of that select community, and undertaken by him at his entrance into the club. Every candid person will confess that this was a proposition affecting O'Connell, and Sir Francis, and the club itself, ex clusively in their social character, and not at all as partisans or politicians. We stated as much on reading the first letter of the Hon. Baronet, and this his last latter confirms fully the view which his former one suggested to us. He says in this present address, that the question is, " not between Mr. Daniel O'Connell and me, but between Mr. Daniel O'Con nell and civilized society." But it does not suit the abettors of Mr. Daniel O'Connell to take that plain and simple view of the proposition made by Sir Francis. They dare not do it. As a question between gentlemen, and regarding the rights and interests of gentlemanly society, it would not bear a moment's de bate. On the other hand, there was a second appre hension the Ministers of the day durst not be other wise than abettors of O'Connell in any and everything which he considered to be of importance to himself personally. These Ministers durst not view the matter in its social aspect or circumstances, because then they must have done a thing personally and heinously offen sive to O'Connell. And had they asserted their rights, and discharged their duties towards him as a gentle man, he would have punished them as politicians. This is the key to the whole mystery—that O'Con nell, whom every man in the Cabinet, nay, probably in Brookes's Club, holds, as an individual, in de testation and abhorrence, should still be upheld by both Club and Cabinet in a character, that of " Gen man," which no member of either accords to him in private—because if they oust him from the Club, he will dismiss them from the Government. Is this a position for men of honour to be placed in ? But if any other proof were wanting, is not this one fact re dundant evidence to the close partnership between O'Connell and these Ministers ? He actually holds them in a political durance so vile and unrelenting, that they are not masters even of their own acts as gentle men, lest they should lose their places ! And what is the meaning of the step now taken by this coarse end of the Rump of Westminster ? Messrs. Devear and Co. have no more business to obtrude themselves upon the notice of Sir Francis Burdett, or of the public, on this occasion, than they would have to sum mon before them the Committee of Brookes's Club, and prescribe to them what line they should adopt in their treatment of the proposal of Sir Francis. What have these meddlers to do with questions between gentlemen, who, as gentlemen, have no concern with any Westminster pot-house politicians ? Sir Francis Burdett, we presume, made no compact with these mob autocrats of the Rump of Westminster how he should demean himself towards O'Connell in any re spect, and least of all as a member of Brookes's or any other club. Yet the Devear faction, as if they had been (and no doubt they have been) prompted or bul lied by some of the O'Connell junta, venture not merely to distort this social question into a question of politics, but to connect it with the cause of Reform, and to abuse the Hon. Baronet as an enemy to Re form, (he having done more than any man to obtain the reform which has been accomplished, partly through his means) for no other reason but that he has a dis like to blackguard and ruffianly behaviour. 'Who among all these gadflies of pretended liberalism will stand the trial with Sir Francis Burdett, as to the stea diness and strictness of his political principles ? Which of them all will compare his exertions for a redress of real grievances, and his devotion to the cause of liberty, to those of the Hon. Baronet for a period of 40 years ? And now the miserable, conceited, capricious, and per verse fools, call upon this old English gentleman and unflinching patriot to resign his scat, forsooth, be cause he disdains to bow the neck to O'Connell ! Who is O'Connell ? and what ? but an enemy to England, and a rancorous hater of the British name and nation ? Is he yet lord of this great country, which hold in abhorrence the sway both of Popedom and anarchy, which execrates, above all things, hypocricy, selfishness, and falsehood ? Is there an intrigue to transfer to Westminster some joint of the tail about to be dislocated from its Irish socket ? Is Daniel himself about to be set up for Westminster ? We would that he were representative of the Rump, hut of the Rump onlg. What precarious tools he would make of them I—to what a rofitabie market he would bring them I Oh that we could see him levying a smart tint upon the Rump I But this indecency of an in significant gang of pedlars in the small wares of de mocracy must not be endured. We have some infor mation upon the state of Westminster, and can tell the Rump that they rule the roast no longer since the last registrations. The letter of Sir Francis administers the lash so freely and adroitly to Mr. Daniel O'Con nell, and winds it so very near the purlieus of the Rump itself, as to save us a good portion of our own diurnal exercise. The "faded gentleman" makes a tolerable use of his declining sinews. So farewell Daniel, Melbourne, and Co., till to-morrow.—Times. We stated our determination yesterday to notice the shameful and ungrateful manner in which Lord Brougham had been treated by a certain portion of the liberal press of the metropolis ; and our intention was to have pointed special attention to two journals which have fought nobly in the cause of Reform, in Church and State—the Spectator and the Examiner—from which better things were to be expected. One of these, the Examiner, headed an extract from a severe attack upon Lord ' Brougham in the Chronicle of Fri day last, " The Intriguer at his work again ;" and the other not only gave all the currency that it could to the mistaken insinuation of a morning contemporary, that Lord Brougham was the writer of an article which appeared in this journal a few days back, but insisted that the Chronicle ought to have pointed out his Lordship by name—adding, " By the way, to those who arc fond of noting remarkable coincidences,' it may be mentioned, that Lord Brougham was in town, at the Privy Council, on the eve of the publication in the Advertiser. We dare say Lord Brougham did not write the article—of course he would not." No— he did not write the article, and by the followins , letter which he has addressed to the Chronicle, he has attested, we doubt not to the satisfaction of all those silly persons who were foolish enough to believe that he (lid write it, that, to use the language of our own immediate disclaimer on Friday last, " the article was neither a Ministerial manifesto, nor written on infor mation obtained from any Member of the Cabinet, or party directly or indirectly connected with the Go vernment." This disclaimer ought to have been sufficient, inasmuch, as it was, on the one hand, voluntarily made—and, on the other, that we know of no law by which we are bound to deny or to admit the authorship of any article, be its com plexion, its merit, or its demerit what it may ; and we cannot, in consequence, but express our surprise that journals which have so eminently stood by the cause of Reform, should exhibit such ex treme eagerness to fasten upon the ablest and most tried friend of the people an accusation, which, in their estimation, they deemed to be disadvantageous or dis graceful to him. Lord Brougham may or may not be always of the same opinion with that entertained by his Majesty's advisers, or by Reformers generally ; but no one can call in question his devotion to the cause of Reform, or to the support of any Administration which shall have that cause at heart, whether he do or do not form a part of it. We trust, in consequence, that these journals will see the propriety of retracting their hasty insinuations against his Lordship, and of not only in serting his own personal contradiction of the assertion made by the Chronicle, but of doing that justice to him which a long life devoted to the service of the public so amply merits. The base insinuation of the Courier of last evening is unworthy of notice. Its source, as well at its motive, arc well known to us. The following is Lord Brougham's reply to the assertion of the Morning Chronicle : " Lord Brougham presents his compliments to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, and begs leave to inform him that there is not the least ground whatever for the suspicions expressed of Lord B. having written or suggested, or been in any manner of way concerned in the paragraph copied from the Morning Advertiser in last Friday's Chronicle, and that Lord B. never saw the paragraph in question, nor was aware of its existence except by reading it in the Chronicle. " Petersham, Dec. 13, 1835." The commentary of the Chronicle on Friday last is ably commented upon in the Sun of last night, from which we copy the following extract :—[Here follows the article in yesterday's Sun.] Our Contemporary ought to have said, " How deplorable to see Mr. O'Connell calling out with one voice for union among Reformers, and with the other sowing disunion among them by a re-agitation of the < Repeal question—how miserable to witness him professing the strongest at tachment to the Government of Lord Melbourne, and at the same time insulting not it only, but the whole of the Liberal representatives of the United Kingdom." The folly would be pardonable were it not mischievous -,--and had it not been mischievous to the character of the. Government, it should, with us at least, have remained as unnoticed as the idle wind, of which no one taketh heed.--Morning Advertiser. There never was a period at which the study of history could more effectually assist in the formation of opinions on public matters than at present. We are well aware of the art f u l a tt em pt s of moder n philo sophy to consign to oblivion the records of past ages, or at least so far to dep rec i a t e th em a s to rende r th em matters of curiosity rather than of utility. The mo tive for such a course of proceeding is to be found in ~,~~'~~. ~~~ THE SUN LONDON, TUESDAY, the avowed belief that we are indebted to our anceetors for nothing but the absurd prejudices which retard the progress of equality in civil matters, that is Republi 7 canism ; and of universality in the support of religious opinions, that is infidelity. We remember (and who does not ?) the declaration made in the House of Commons by one now in power, " I wish there was no such thing as history." In spite, however, of the efforts of modern philosophy, in spite, too, of the authority of the " man in power," we persist in recommending: at the present crisis an atten tive perusal of English history. " Hoc illud est prcecipue in cognitions rerum salubre ac frugi ferum, omnis to exempli documenta in illustri posita monumento intueri : inde tibi tuceque rci publica•, quod imitere, capias : inde fcedum mceptu, fcedum exitu, quod vites." If the Roman historian, whose knowledge of man's nature was confined to ex perience, could thus feel the advantage of history, shall we, who have the highest authority for believing that man's nature is the same in all ages, hesitate to avail ourselves of the records of cause and effect in times gone past ? We shall endeavour to enforce our re commendation by an illustration. Take, for instance, Burnet's " History of his Own Times." In account ing for the Irish massacre in 1641, Burnet tells us (vol. 1., p. 56) that the Priests " were the chief men that set on the Irish to all the blood and cruelty that followed." Can we wonder at the misgiving of the Irish Protestant in the promise of peace held out on the condition of apprOpnation ? Can we be astonished at his saving— '( There is a thing within my bosom tells me, That no conditions of our peace can stand ?" And well may he so say, for well he knows that the enmity of the Priest against Protestantism can be quenched only by its extermination. The next point for which we shall produce a parallel is O'Connell's advocating the voluntary principle in his mission through England. It has been commonly remarked by careless observers since that mission, " that it must be a mere calumny of the Protestants to impute into lerance to the Roman Catholics, seeing that O'Con nell, who is the champion of Popery, is for the vo luntary principle, that is, for the total absence of all religion in connection with the State." To this we shall merely reply by an extract from Burnet (Vol, 1., p. 263) :—" And now that the main principle of religion was struck at by Hobbs and his followers, the Papists acted upon this a very strange part. They went in so far even into the ar gument for Atheism as to publish many books, in which they affirmed that there was no certain proof of the 'Christian religion, unless we took it from the authority of the Church' as infallible. This was such a delivering up the cause to them that it raised in all good men a very high indignation at Popery, that party showing that they chose to make men, who would not turn Papists, become Atheists rather than believe Christianity upon any other ground than infallibility." The following pas sage may be of service to those Churchmen and * Dis senters who join the ranks of Popery, vainly suppos ing that a house divided against itself can stand : " He (Peter Walsh, a Priest) told me often there was nothing which the whole Pepish party feared more than an union of those of the Church of England with the Presbyterians. They knew we grew the weaker the more our breaches were widened, and that the more we were set against one another we would mind them the less. The Papists had two maxims, from which they never departed. The one was to divide us, and the other Was to keep themselves united, `and either to set on an indiscriminate toleration or a general prosecution, for so they loved to soften the harsh word of persecution. And he observed, not with out great indignation at us for our folly, that we, in stead of uniting among ourselves, and dividing them, according to their maxims, did all we could to keep them united and to disjoint our own body."—(Burnet, vol. 1., p. 273.) We shall conclude by adding one passage to those we have already extracted, a passage so remarkable for its application to the practice of Popery in these times, that the reader might easily per - - suade himself to believe it the production of yesterday rather than of the early part of the last century : " Learn to view Popery in a true light, as a conspi racy to exalt the power of the cler : iy, even by sub jecting the most sacred truths of religion to contrivan ces for raising their authority, and by offering to the world another method of being saved besides that pre scribed in the Gospel. Popery is a mass of impos tures, supported by men who manage them with great address, and impose them with inexpressible severities on those who dare call anything in question that they dictate to them."—(Vol. IV., p, 415.) So unchanged is Popery !—Morning Post. The paragraph inserted last week respecting the elopement of Miss Coatsworth and another young girl from a school in the neighbourhood of Portman-square, in company of two men of fashionable appearance, &c., turns out to be in part unfounded. The simple facts were, that two children, of the age of thirteen years, left their school at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, the 4th instant, and proceeded across the Park to Brompton, and from thence to Wandsworth, where they arrived be tween seven and eight o'clock, and upon applying for a lodging at the Bull Inn, the landlady, suspecting they had strayed from their friends, put them to bed, and sent for a constable, who advised their detention for the night ; and the next morning he took them before a magistrate, who sent them home to their parents, where they arrived about noon on Saturday. Saturday an inquest was held at the Swan, Hamp ton Wick, on the body of Mr. John Minton, aged thirty seven. It appeared that the deceased was brother to Mrs. Marshall, the landlady of the Swan Tavern, and resided in her house. Latterly he had become dejected in spirits and rather incoherent in his language, but from what cause no explanation could be given. On Friday he was so much indisposed as to be obliged to keep in his room, and in the afternoon of that day he terminated his existence by cutting his throat in the most frightful manner. He was discovered by the chambermaid, lying on the floor, with the razor in his right hand. The Jury returned a verdict of " Mental Derangement." A JUDGM EN T.—A swindler describing himself as a naval officer, patronized by a Noble Duke, lately visited Glasgow, under the pretence of having a commission to purchase steam vessels. In one case he affected to make a purchase, and got the loan of 2/. from the seller, with which he decamped. He was sometime after seen by the dupe on Greenock Quay, and brought to the Broomielaw, where he was obliged to leave his greatcoat in pledge. The night being dark when the swindler left to go ashore, he mistook the road, and walked over the paddle-box plump into the river. On being taken out, and put on shore, he was ad vised by the bystanders to run off as fast as possible to re store animation.—Glasgow Herald. SHI PWREC K.—On Tuesday morning Mr. Mills, owner of the brig Majestic, received letters from the master, David Leslie, announcing the loss of his vessel at Summer's Island, in the Gulf of Finland. The crew left the ship, and landed safely on Summer's Island, a barren spot, and destitute of inhabitants. Fortunately, a wooden hut was discovered on the rock, and afforded a slight shelter from the inclemency of the weather to the shipwrecked mariners. —Fife Herald. We find it stated in the Dublin Evening Post, that the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan is allowed a sum of 2,0001. a year out of the Conservative funds while on his present mission of Christian charity and good-will in this country ! No wonder that clerical agitation should thrive under such circumstances. The revenue of Mr. O'Sullivan's parish of Killyman, makes another thousand a year, which, de ducting the expense of two Curates, he receives for doing nothing. MEETING OF THE COUNTY WESTMEATH TO ADDRESS THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.--Thursday last a very numerous, and respectable assemblage of the gentlemen, freeholders and inhabitants of the county Westmeath, was convened at the Court-house, Mullingar, pursuant to public requisition, to adopt a congratulatory address to his Excel lency Earl Mulgrave, on his appointment to the viceroyalty of Ireland. At about half-past one o'clock the meeting was attended, at the appointed place, by all the rank, wealth, and respectability of the neighbourhood. The Chair was taken by Sir P. Nugent, Bart., High-Sheriff of the county. An accident, attended with the most serious conse quences happened in Whitehall on Friday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, to a gentleman of the name of Kimber, who was driving a spirited horse from Charing-cross, when the animal took fright, became unmanageable, and ran against a lamp-post with such violence, that Mr. Kimber was thrown nearly ten yards from the spot. He was taken to Mr. M'Cann's, surgeon of Parliament-street, totally, insensible, and it was found, on examination, that his skull was frac tured in such a dreadful manner, that a portion of bone was driven into the brain, which Mr. M'Cann found necessary to remove by the operation of trepanning, which he did so skilfully that immediately after the operation, Mr. K. began to show signs of animation, and continued to improve so as to be enabled to be sent home in a coach. CHANCE This was an appeal from' a decision of the Vice-Chan cellor, declaring that stitic of 7,0001., bequeathed by a Major Home, in India, to his brother and sister in Eng land, was not liable to the payment of the legacy duty in England. The sole question at issue was, whether there had been an appropriation of the money in India, or whether that appropriation had been made by the agents to whom the money was remitted in this country for distribution. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, having argued for the appel lants ; and Sir C. WETHERELL in support of the order of the Court below, Sir C. KEPIS said their Lordships were clearly of opi nion that the money had been appropriated in India, and so clearly separated from the corpus of the estate in that country as to exempt it from the payment of legacy duty in England. Under such circumstances, there could be no question that the order of the Vice-Chancellor must be affirmed. VICE-CHANCERY-MONDAY. BRINE V, FERRIER. this was a suit for the administration of the estate of a Norwegian Gentleman named Gram. One of the ques tions in the cause arose in this manner :—The testator Gram, by his will, left all his residuary estate to his wife ab solutely. There were found after his death some testa mentary papers, of which, together with the will, probate had been granted, and in one of these he left his residuary estate to his wife and another person, in trust for his wife for life ; and upon this the question arose to whom the resi duary estate was to go on the death of his wife ? Under the will of the wife, which appeared in the same pause, there was a gift of 5001. out of a mixed fund, arising from real and personal estate, to a foreign charity in Drontheim. It was discussed, the personal estates being insufficient, whether this bequest was void, as respected the lands, under the Mortmain Act, or whether the Crown was not entitled, as in the case of a devise, to a foreigner. After hearing the arguments of Counsel, pro and con, on the subject, His Horcourt was of opinion, as all the testamentary papers had been proved as one will, they constituted one instrument. Then it was a rule of law that the prior part of a will was revoked by a subsequent part inconsistent with it. In this case in the prior part the whole legal and beneficial interest was given to the wife. The wife was therefore entitled to the whole beneficial interest. Upon the other point his Honour held that a devise of lands in England for a foreign charity was void under the Mortmain Act, and the Crown had no interest in the lands as in the case of a devise to a foreigner. But his Honour gave leave to Mr. Wigram to mention the point again, if be should find any authority the other way. KING'S BENCH.-MONDAY. PINK V. SMITH AND ANOTHER. Mr. MATTHEW HILL appeared for the plaintiff. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover from the defendant the sum of 1001. In February the warehouse of the defendants, who carried on a very considerable business in silk goods was broken into, and several. hundred yards of silk were carried off. The plaintiff was a police officer of the city, and in March he saw a large placard posted about the streets, offering a reward of 1001. to any one who would discover the robbers, or give such information as would lead to their discovery and conviction. For some time no infor mation could be obtained, but in April last the plaintiff re ceived intelligence which induced him to watch two persons named Levi and Lazarus. The information on which he acted was not very precise, and therefore he ran some risk in doing what he did. He took them both to the station house. He communicated with Mr. Tibbald, the Marshal, and with Messrs. Smith, and these parties having all gone before the Magistrates, the result was that Lazarus was committed for trial on the 14th of April. That trial took place, and a conviction followed. The great object of the defendants having been obtained, they ought not to have hesitated to make good their contract. Evidence having been called to substantiate the plain- tiff's case, Sir F. PoLLocK stated the case for the defendants. Evidence was then called for the defendants, and Mr. Hill having replied, Lord DENNIAN summed up the whole evidence, and The Jury returned a verdict for the defendants. COMMON PLEAS.-MONDAY. STOVELD AND OTHERS V. UPTON. This was an action of debt upon a bond brought by the Messrs. Stoveld, bankers, of Petsworth, in Sussex, against a Mr. Upton, who was surety by the bond to the plaintiffs, for the due and faithful performance of duty by a person of the name of Osborne, who was clerk in the plaintiff's office. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. LAVERS V. IVES. This was an action of trespass brought by the plaintiff, a carpenter, residing at Latham, in Essex, against the de fendant, a butcher in the same place, for wantonly shoot ing at and killing a dog belonging to the plaintiff. The defendant justified that the dog was in the act of worry ing his sheep at the time, and that he could not prevent th sheep` rom being worried without the destruction of the dog. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 101. Damages. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The 14th Sessions of the Central Criminal Court com menced yesterday before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Sir John Key and Lainson, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, Mr. Sergeant Arabin, and the other City autho rities. Andrew Colla and William Green were indicted with others for a conspiracy, in charging John Day with an un lawful exhibition and sale of improper books on the 15th of September. Messrs. CURWOOD and DUNBAR conducted the prosecu tion, and Mr. CLARKSON the defence. The Jury acquitted the defendants. The Court ad journed at 5 o'clock. 'E OF THE VARIOUS OFFENCES WIT] A SUMSIARY STATEMENT, DF.SCRIPTIV. WHICH THE PRISONERS SEVERALLY STAND CHARGED. Assault with intent, &c. Burglary 2 Ditto, by Servants' l6 Uttering and having Counterleit Stealing in a dwelling -house Coin in possession Conspiracy 1 Stealing from the petson Cutting and maiming 2 Sending a threatening letter ... 1 Housebreaking 1 Misdemeanour 1 Shojihreaking Totl lO3 London prisoners l5 Middlesex ditto 74 Essex ditto 1 Kent ditto Surrey ditto -2103 STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEIVGATE, MADE UP TO YESTERDAY EVENING. Males, Females. Prisoners under sentence of death Prisoners under sentence of transportation for life lO 6 14 years .... 3 5 -10 years .... 0 0 ' - 7 years .... 24 14 Ditto, sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, having been convicted of felony, &c. l2 0 Ditto, for trial at the present Sessions Ditto, acquitted on the ground of insanity, but remain dur- • ing Royal pleasure 6 1 Ditto, whose judgments are respited 4 0 Ditto, committed by Commissioners of Taxes 1 0 . Total 151 50 COCKERMOUTIL-Mr. Moorsom has offered him self for this borough. --- We have to record another instance of the gross superstition which, even in these days, continue to prevail in many parts of France. A child, seven years of age, at Anduze, in the South, having lain so long under a linger ing complaint as to be supposed beyond the reach of medicine, its parents bad recourse to a species of magical process, which consists in having the patient conveyed by the mystical number of seven persons, at eleven o'clock at night, to a point where three roads meet. He is there stripped of his garments, on which one of the party in flicts a certain number of stripes with a rod, observing a regular cadence, while the rest h o ld t h e su ff erer b y th e hand, all preserving a dead religious silence. This exorcism completed, the poor patient is again clad and carried home. In doing this not one of the assistants must turn his back, nor must they go home by the road they came ; for if they did, the charm would be destroyed. On the occasion in question, in consequence of the situation of the house of the parents of the child, which is in a narrow court, the party were obliged to come in at the opposite end of the town, and knock at the back door of a neighbour's house, the in habitants of which, not being, aware of the intrusion, were struck with dismay at seeing this solemn silent procession enter and pass through, bearing what appeared to be a dead body. This mummery commenced on the 2d instant, and was to be repeated for seven consecutive nights. We are, of course, unacquainted with the result, but may ven ture to predict, that it will end in the death of the miserable child who is the subject of it. L AND AND SEA TALES," by th e Old S a il or , ap propriately called " the Sea Stuollett." The admirable humour so conspicuously displayed in " Tough Yarns," has long been well known on shore as well as afloat, and we ars much gratified at seeing these warm-hearted, genuine, characteristic effusions in so accepta bl e a f orm. and highly char The worth of these volumes are incalculably advanced by some masterly etchings by George Cruikshank. Several of the Tales exhibit very marked e xce ll ence, an d are thrown off with a liveliness and vigour, and imbued with a degree of humour we have not found surpassed in any Tales of either Land or Sea. CEMBER 15, 1835, COURT.- V. FAIRLIE. MONDAY SPORTING INTELLIGENCE TATTERSALL' S. TILE PORTLAND MANDICAP, P.P. 4 to 1 offered on the field, and offers to back Mundig against any thing. THE DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Mummy—taken in hundreds 11 to 1 agst Ld Jersey's Bro. to Nell Gwynne—take 12 to 1 13 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Riddleswortlt—offered 17 to I agst Lord Chesterfield's Babel colt—take '2O to 1 20 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Emiliana colt—offered 1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Batson's Taishteer—taken 1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley—offered 35 to 1 agst Mr. Forte's Seamew colt—take 40 to 1 5,000 to 125 agst Mr. Greville's Treadmill—taken At Manchester Whaley is quoted as low as 20 to I—taken. At the same place Tournament and Palatine are stated at '27 to 1 each, and The Captain at 30 to 1. A provincial paper contradicts the report that Beresford has quit ted Mr. Houldsworth's service • he will train a portion of that Gen tleman's stud at Newmarket, where he has now six or seven horses. Mr. Theobald has purchased of Mr. Watt the Sister to Bubastes and the Baleine filly, both two years old. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The King's Stag Hounds meet on Friday at the Horse Shoes, Warfield-half-past 10. The 'Monmouthshire Hounds on Thursday at Llansaintfraid --half-past 10. Mr. Carr's Hounds on Thursday at Trow Green-at 10. The Llanblithian Harriers on Friday at Corntown-at 10. Mr. Morgan's Hounds on Friday at St. Melons-at 11. Sir J. Cop's Hounds on Thursday at Bremshill ; Saturday, at Row Hill Cross-half-past 10. TheYorkand Ainsty Hounds on Thursday at Darringhouses ; Sa turday at Providence Green-hf-p. 10. The Eddlethorp Hounds on Friday at Selbrington Beacon-hf-p. 10, The Sinnington Hounds on Thursday at Edstone-at 9. The Bedale Hounds on Friday at the Oak Tree, Learning-lane ; Saturday, at Swinton Park-half-past 10. The Galewood Hounds on Friday at Rodes Whin-half-past 10. Sir M. Ridley's Hounds on Friday at Pigdon-hf-p.lO. Tho Alnwick Hounds on Friday at Edlingham-at 10. The Hurworth Hounds on Friday at Moore Bank-at 10. The Haydon Hounds on Saturday at West Diptim- at 9. The Duke of Buccleuch's Hounds on Saturday, at Chapel. Mr. Codrington's Hounds on Friday at Sutton Ivers-at 10. The Craven Hounds on Friday at Throop ; Saturday, at Coombe Wood-half-past 10. The H. N. H. on Saturday at Landshire Lane Gate. The Cleveland Hounds on 'Thursday at Coatham-hf-p. 10. The Boroughbridge Harriers on Friday at Rookerhill-hf. -p. 10. The Morpcth Harriers on Thursday at Stannington-at 10. The Tivyside Hounds on Thursday at Dolhaidd-half-past 10. The Pembrokeshire Hounds on Thursday at Woodstock-at 10. Mr. Phillipps's Hounds on Thursday at Chapmanswell-10. Mr. Cohain's Hounds on Friday at Pitney-half-past 9. Sir W. Carew's Hounds on Thursday at the Thorns-hf. -p.lO. Mr. Bulteel's Hounds on Friday, at Ivy Bridge-half-past 10. Captain Weir's Harriers on Saturday, at Ridgeway- at 10. The Duke of Cleveland's Hounds on Wednesday at Story's Whin ; Saturday, at Gaunless Mill-11. The Lambton Hounds on Friday at the Barley Mow ; Saturday, at Esh-11. Mr. Craven's Stag Hounds on Thursday at Stephen Castle Down. The Puckeridge (Mr. Dalyell's) Fox Hounds en' Wednesday at Peverills ; Saturday, at St. John's--half-past 10. Mr. Giles's Hounds on Friday at the Ist mile-stone on the Wor cester road-at 10. Mr. Giles intends hunting the Gloucestershire country on Thursdays ; the home country he will hunt on Fridays, as usual, for the remainder of the season. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds on Wednesday at Castle Thorpe ; Friday, at Whistley Wood-hf-p. 10. Mr. Errington's Hounds on Thursday at Shearsby ; Friday, at Bunney Park ; Saturday, at Wartnaby Village-quarter to 11. TheiHolderness Hounds on Thursday at Kilnwick Percy; Saturday, at Rise Mill-11. Sir C. Constable's Stag Hounds on Friday, at Riston Village-11. Mr. Muster's Hounds on Wednesday, at Lowdham ; Friday, at Holme Pierrepont-hf-p. 10. The Rufford Hounds on Thursday, at Carburton Lodge; Satur day, at Kirklington-half-past 10. The Heythrop Hounds on Thursday at Long Hamborough ; Fri day, at Stockbridge-hf-past 10. The Berkshire Hounds onWednesday at Lew ;. Friday, at Coombe Wood-half-past 10. Mr. Moreton's Hounds on Wednesday at Ashton Keynes ; Friday, at Shirvenham ,• Saturday, at Burderop-hf.-p.lO. Mr. Face's Harriers on Thursday at Wapsgrove -lane ; Saturday, at Crowmarsh. Mr. Richard Bagge's Harriers on Thursday at Dersingham Dun Cow-11. Sir J. Flower's Harriers on Wednesday at Shelf hanger ; Friday, at Illington-11. The Warwickshire Hounds on Thursday at Ufton Wood ; Satur day, at Wroxton New Inn-qr to 11. The Atherstone Hounds en Thursday at Baxterley ; Saturday, at Wharton Village-qr to 11. The Oakley Hunt (Mr. Dansey's Hounds) on Thursday at Rox ton Wood ; Saturday, at Tingright-quarter to 11. Mr. Leche's Hounds on Friday at Tilstone, near Malpas-hf-p.lO. The East Essex Hounds on Thursday at Oldham Hall ; Saturday, at Boreham Cock-hf-p. 10. Mr. Payne's Hounds on Wednesday at Misterton ; Friday, at Brumpton Bridge ; Saturday, at Pytchley-half-p. 10. The H. H. on on Thursday at Preston Oakhills ; Saturday, at Illinchin's Barn-at 10. The Hambledon Hounds on Wednesday at West End ; Friday, at Broadhalfpenny Down-half•past 10. Tho New Forest Hounds on Thursday at Alderholt ; Saturday, at Lyndhurst-hf-p 10. The Tickham Hounds on Thursday at Norton Court-hf-p.lO. Sir E. Dering's Hounds on Thursday at Hothfield Heath -11. Mr. Drake's Hounds on Thursday at Chesterton ; Saturday, at Thame Town End-hf-p. 10. Mr. Meynell's Hounds en Thursday at Rolleston ; Saturday, at Black Slough-half-past 10. The Wynnstay Hounds on Friday at Penley-at 11. The Inglewood Hounds on Thursday at Armthwaite-at 10. Sir R. HUN Hounds on Thursday at Hawkstone ; Saturday, at Bettisfield-half-past 10. Mr. Wicksted's Hounds on Wednesday at Creive ; Saturday, at Stallington-half-past 10. The Albrighton Hounds on Thursday at Teddesley ; Saturday, at Sutton-hf-p.lO. The Herefordshire Hounds on Friday at Buckhall Wood ; Tues day, at Brockhall Turnpike-10. Mr. Browne's Hounds on Friday at Bishop's Froome Village-9. Mr. Heanley's Hounds on Friday at Haugham Pasture-at 11. The East Kent Hounds on Friday at the Kennel. The Cottesmore Hounds on Wednesday at Holywell-qr. to 11. Sir R. Sutton's Hounds on Wednesday at Gate Burton ; Thurs day, at North Springs Wood ; Saturday, at Snarford Bridge-at 11. Lord . Yarborough's Hounds on Wednesday at Thornton Village ; Friday, at Thorganby ; Saturday, at Alesby Mill-at 11. Mr. C. Brock's Hounds on Wednesday at Croome Peary Wood; Friday, at Hanbury-hf-p. 10. The Easton Hounds on Wednesday at Redwood ; Saturday, at Wawdy Wood Park-at 10. Mr. Vyner's Hounds on Wednesday at the Clock Inn, Bicknell at 11 ; Friday, at Stoneleigh Abbey-half-past 10. Lord Petre's Hounds on Wednesday at Hadleigh Gate; Saturday, at Puddle Dock-hf-p. 10. Mr. Farquharson's Hounds on Thursday, at East Compton ; Fri day, at Cerne Park-hf-p. 10. The M. H. Hounds on Wednesday at Bulbarrow, near Stoke ; Friday, at Godmanston Town. The Burton Harriers on Wednesday at Beaminster Down. The Sandbeck Hounds on Wednesday at Rossington Bridge; Friday, at the Clown-half-past 10. Mr. Foljambe's Fox Hounds on Wednesday at Eaton; Friday, at Barnby Moor-half-past 10. Mr. H. Villebois's Harriers on Wednesday, at Bilney ; Friday, at the Kennel-11. The Cheshire Hounds on Wednesday at the Manor House, Mid dlewich ; Thursday, at High Legh ; Saturday, at Sutton Pinfold ; Monday, the '2lst, at Miecledale ; Wednesday, at Tatton Park ; Thursday, at Peover Hall; Saturday, at Weaver Hall-half-past 10. Colonel G. Windham's Hounds on Wednesday at Erringham ; Friday, at Applesham-hf-p. 11. The East Sussex Hounds on Wednesday, at Windore Hill; Thurs day, at Abbott's Wood ; Saturday, at Street ; Monday, the 21st, at the King's Head, Chailey-10. The Badsworth Fox Hounds on Thursday at Bretton Hall ; Saturday, at Shafton Two Gates-half-past 10. Th• Knaptori Harriers on Friday at Northrepps--I 1. The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Wed nesdays, at Lewes Race Course ; Fridays, at Telscombe Tye-half past 10. The Brighton Harriers meet every Monday at Patcham ; Wed nesdays,at the Race Course; Fridays, at the. Dyke. The Thanet Harriers meet on Monday at Monkton Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills ; Friday, at Nash Court Hill-at 10. The Norfolk Fox Hounds on Wednesday at Craw Fish, Thursford; Friday, at Wesacre-hf-p. 10. Mr. S. Owen's Hounds on Wednesday at Condover Hall ; Friday, at Wolf's Head Turnpike-hf-p. 10. The Cambridgeshire Hounds on Friday atthe Hardwicke Arms half-past 10. Mr. Hall's Hounds on Friday at Stock House; Saturday, at Red linch Turnpike Gate-half-past 10. The Cadbury Harriers on Wednesday, at Milborne Wyke ; Satur day, at Sparkford Bridge. Mr. A. Smythe's Hounds on Thursdayat Finchley Down; Friday, at Boscombe -11. Mr. W. Horlock's Hounds on Wednesday at Bittlesea Wharf ; Friday, at the George Inn, Sandy Lane-half-past 10. The Cheltenham Harriers on Wednesday at Prestbury; Saturday, at Kilkenny-11. The Ludlow Hounds on Friday, at Gateley House ; Tuesday, the 22d, at Blakeridge ; Saturday, at Wigmore Rolls-10. Mr. Mure's Hounds on Thursday at Borough Greet-hf-p. 10. The Burton Vale Hounds on Saturday at Landshire Lane Gate. The Tiverton Hounds on Thursday at Hampton Down-hf-p.lO. The Langport Harriers on Friday at Pitney-at 10. The Devizes Harriers on Friday, at Wentworth's Plantation-11. Mr. B. Fretwell's Hounds on Wednesday, at Knowle Hill Farm ; Saturday, at Stow on the Wold-at 11. The Wigton Harriers on Wednesday at Coekbridge ; Friday at Broadmoor-at 10. Mr. Murray's Hounds on Thursday at Dalton Village; Saturday, at Comlongan ; Monday, at Millhouse Bridge-10. The Vine Hounds on Wednesday at Hursbourne Park ; Friday, at Westheath-half-past 10. Mr. Portman's Hounds on Thursday at Shillingston Cliff-at 11. COURSING. At the Lowther Meeting last week the Cup was won by Mr, Benn's Sherwood, and the Stakes by Mr. Cannalt's Isleworth, Mr. Falcon's Derwent, Mr. Jefferson's Grace, and Mr. Clapham's Fly. Several matches were run. Two young men were drowned last week in the river Spey. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 14.—The sessions commenced this morning, but the Court was principally confined to the swearing in of Jurors, routine business, &c. The trials for petty larceny were of no interest. The pri soners were reported to be all well. The Calendar and the offences are light. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Friday afternoon, be tween three and four o'clock, a beautiful little girl, about two years and a half old, belonging to a man named Lam bert, residing in Plough-court, Fetter-lane, fell from the bed room window, Which is upon the second floor, and was nearly dashed to pieces. The mother of the poor infant was at the time attending to another of her children, who was suffering, without hope of recovery, from the small-pox, THE.MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 0 0 (1 " Useful Old Ditto 3 10 3 15 rine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clover Hay 4 5 5 10 Oat Straw SMITHFIELD. Coar,e heavy Lowland - Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 5 Vvw Meadow Hay . , ~. U,0t,1 Old Ditto 3lO , 3 15 Vinc Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Ci,vor Hay (extra tine , •.5 5 . Generally .„ ~,... 4 0 5 0 'at Straw .1 50, ..E1 8 I Wheat Straw 1 8 1 10 11 UN GERFORD. ---. Coarse Meadow Hay __. _---- -. £2 10 to £0 0 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover Hay 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw £l to £1 6 1 Wheat Straw PRICE OF The highest price of Brcad in the Where are others who sell from a I that rate. F BREAD. 14etroio7s is 7d. for the 41b. Loaf. half-peony to three half-pence below ,EEDS.—Dec.I4 Per Quarter. St. Foin _— s. —s. —s. Rye Grass —s. —s. +S. Pacey Grass —a —s. —s. Linseed, for feeding s4s. 565. 68s. Ditto, for sowing Ditto, for crushing —s 50s. 545. Canary —s. 44s 455. Hemp _ _ —s. 465. 503. Per Bushel White Mustard 6s. Od. Brown Ditto Tares 4s. Cd. ss. Od. i t) 331. Out. Foreign 371. 391. 101. Os. 01. Os. to 111. Cs. 34 103. 4'. 4s. to 41 10, 51 ss. 61. 03 to 71. Us. 3!. 5,. 41. Os. to 4/. 4, 01. Os. 31. 5:. to 4/. W. 01. 0;. •2s. to 4'. 6, NV HITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.;--Dee. 12 Hay Straw 24s RI to 325. Od PRICES OF POTATOE York Reds (from vessel) Scotch Reds ditto . Common Reds Marsh Champions Shaws Middling Chats. riticE OF Per Cwt, New English Red Clover6os. 70s. 85s 0141 Ditto Ditto 565. 635. 70s New Foreign Ditto —s. —s. —s. Old Ditto Ditto —S. —S. —s. New White Clover 565. 60s. Ws. Old Ditto Ditto —s. 51.5. 68s. New Trefoil . I•As 20s. 235. Old Ditto —s. 14s. I£3s Trefolium - , 3s 32s 65s English Carraway —s. 565. 66s Foreign Ditto —s. 535. 5- ) s. Coriander —s 10s. 14s Rapeseed, English fine (per Las PRICES OF Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) Kwin Pockets ...... Choice ditto Kent Bags Sussex Pockets. Superfine ditto HOPS —Dec. 14. s . d. S AT SPITALFIELDS Per lb d. to d. Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b each 11 13 ► 50 --- ----50 60 l3 17 Bull Hides Butts, Vitriol - English. ll. 25 Foreign .......... 13 18 Foreign Hides . . 10 12 Dressing Hides _. . Shaved l3 16i Be.t Saddlers Hides Horse Hides, English • If rounded 2d. ti Shoulders 31. Os. to 4/. Os. per toil 21. bs. to 31. Os ditto ... t 2/. ss. to Id 10s. ditto Os. to. 41.. Os. ditto 2'. Os. to 21. Ms. ditto 11. 10s. to 01. Os. ditto 1/. 108 to 01. Os. ditto PRICES OF LEATHER Per lb. d. to d- Horse Hides, German l4 21 Spanish Calf Skins, 30 to 401 b. (doz )*l4 22 40 51 , *l7 25 50 60 oci 25 -- 70 190 *ll 21 Seal Skins, large.... ll 15 small lO 11 .....7 12 to 4d per lb more Kips Basils 7 14 Bellies PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 50z 03.—Refined, 521. W.—Linseed Oil, 401 W. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000 , 121. Os —Rape Cake, per ton, 51 ss. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 141 b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Mel ters) 43.8%d. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow 4iis Od. Yellow Soap Yellow Russia White —s. Od. Curd —s .Od. Soap Ditto —s. Od. Graves l4s. Od. Melting Stuff 33s. Od. Good Dregs 5,3 Pd. Otto Rough tils. od PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles in the Retail Shops is as follsws Candles, per dozen, is. Od. ; inferior, Os. (U.—Moulds, Ss. tid. SixpenCe per do'zen discolint for cask ET. —Dec. 14 Per Ton. Walls End (lark and Co 2O 0 Walls End Gosforth oo 3 Walls End Heaton. 2l 9 Walls End Hilda ........ Walls End Killingworth 2l 0 Walls End Northumberland , 21 0 Walls End Perkins 2l 0 Walls End Hasa ell Walls End Hetton 22 6 Walls End Larnbton ..... Walls End Russel's Hetton 22 Walls End Stewart's Walls End Braddyll's • 2 6 Walls End Adelaide , 1 9 Walls End Butterknowl Wets End Gordon. 4 - 2 u Walls End Tees Walls End St. Helen's Tees .2 0 Walls End West Iletton Walls End Henderson 2O 6 last market-clay, 5. COAL MARK Per Ton s. d Adair's 2l 0 Bensham m l9 3 Burden 20 6 Bradley and Stanhop , .. Co 2O 0 Ch a rloite :II 0 East Percy 20 0 bburn Main 2O 0 4olywell ., 6 ..„. Ditto Reins l9 6 Ord's Redbugh ''o 0 Russell': High Main South] Hartley '2o 3 11)ipcoe t 19 0 -.- Tali field West Hartley Willington - - 2t 3 -. _ Wylaril 21 6 Cowpen Hartley .. Silkstoue Biram lB 3 Walls End Bewicke and C 0.., 21 9 Ships .arrived sins SHOCKING MURDER BY POACHERS.—Four men arrived at the Castle, Lancaster, on Thursday se'nnight , committed on the Coroner's warrant to take their trial on a charge of wilful murder. The parties who are supposed to be implicated in this diabolical act, are well-known poachers 4 and the offence for which they are sent to take their trial was committed at two o'clock in the morning.-- Kendal Mercury. WHITE HARES.--The mate of the Phcenix, 0 f Whitby, a whale ship, states that hares are uncommonly numerous in Greenland, all of which he says are perfectly white, and much tamer than those in this country. CHANCE, THE FIREMEN'S DOG.—This extraor dinary specimen of canine eccentricity, whose strange fond ness for fires and firemen has formed the theme of repeated paragraphs, died recently from mere old age, and has since received a more splendid embalment and encasement than often falls to the lot of any of his race. The dog had ale tached himself more strongly to the twelve firemen forming the corps of the Central Station of the London Establish ment in Watling-street, and they, in consequence, honoured his fidelity by subscribing each a sovereign to have him stuffed by a regular professor, and placed within a splendid case, having a plate-glass front three feet six inches long, by two feet two inches wide, with enamelled and gilt border' Above, on a scroll, is inscribed, " Chance, well known a 5 the firemen's dog, died Oct. 10, 1835." Below are the words "This is humbly inscribed to the Committee of the , ; London Fire Establishment, by their obedient servants. On either side are the names of six of the twelve firemen- The case and contents, although long since promised to be sent home by the artists employed, were not got possession of till one day last week, when, by an accident, the cause of delay was singularly enough explained. Chance was being , with all his splendid finery, exhibited at a show at a distant part of -the town, where crowds flocked to see him, at A penny a head. A disguised fireman, by paying his pen* got admitted ; he prudently retired, saying nothing, but soon after returned with a strong body of his fellows, and de" manded and obtained the property. Chance now stands en . a table at the back of the long room of the Watling-stree t station. The showman offered to pay twelve guineas if they would resign the property, but the offer was indignantly re jected. The men have, however, wisely availed themselve s of the hint, by placing a box, having two money slits, caPr ble of receiving any piece not larger than a penny, close 1)1 the stand. On the lid of the box some wag has written il l chalk—" It is all a chance." It is a singular fact, as WO" trating that the " Ruling passion strong in death" is a trait that dogs as well as men can evince, for within less than a u hour of his death, the dog, hearing the well-known rattle 0e the engine, rose from his comfortable bed to follow it, an d having followed to the door, attempted to proceed further, but fell, and was carried back. Chance left a son and quite a puppy, which was made quite a pet of, till som e ancier took a fancy to it, and stole it. (ADVERTISEMENT. - T. COX SAVORY, Goldstratp , &c., 47, Cornhill, Lon on, informs the Public, that he hoe considerable variety of SECOND-HAND GOLD WATCH.V: any of which he offers at EIGHT GUINEAS each. They b al ' all been carefully overlooked, and are warranted.—Watches P chased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., at Barbson, the lady of Sir Thomas Sabioe Pasley, Bart., of a son. On the 3d inst., at Perthyterfyn, near Holywell, Mrs. Cop' ° Oldfield, of a daughter. J On the 13th inst., at the Hero of Waterloo Inn, Waterloo-ro ad ' Lambeth, the wife of Mr. N. K. Okey, of a son. On the 12th inst., in Hunter-street, Mrs. J. W. Flower, of,' MARRIED. On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's Church. Cheltenham, Geo l . ', Frederick , Bloxsome, Esq., of Dursley, Gloucestershire, to VI g Anne, eldest daughter of John Curwood, Esq., of Bourne B O Worcestershire. At St. Stephen's, Walbrook, Mr. George Seymour, of It° ll/ " . ford, to Mrs. Sarah Hall, of the same place. DIED. This morning, in his 37th year, Mr. James Smith, surd No. 7, Lancaster-plaCe, Strand. On the 6th inst., at Paris, aged 17, Rosa Maria Twopeny, daughter of the late Nowell Twopeny, Esq. On the 13th inst., at Sompting, Sussex, and of Tring Gro Herts, in his 83d year, Edward Barker, Esq. le as On the Bth ult., at Naples, Captain Joseph Packwood, Na vy. On the 13th inst., Mary, wife of Mr. Henry Harrison, of ti ll New Hummums, Covent-garden, in her 42d year. On the 11th inst., aged 34. Mr. S. M. 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