The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Satisfied as•we are that the peaceful and constitu onal triumph of the Liberal party, and the safe pro press of wholesome and energetic reform under the p uidance of a sincerely liberal Government which that triumph guarantees and proclaims, afford the best and only security for the permanent welfare, concord, and prosperity of the country, we hail the intelligence , which we are this day enabled to lay before our readers of the results of some of the most important munici -pal elections under the new Act, as a theme for un- ' nixed congratulation , and an omen of future result's, the most beneficial to the people of these kingdoms. " Re-action," the favourite " flash phrase" of the Tories, is about to visit the " Conservatives" with a vengeance. We have recently heard enough of. two or three of their triumphs in counties, and in Oldham where the reformers were divided ; but we suspect this week the Tories will have . their eyes opened to the real state of public opinion. The elections of the new Town Councils, in all the reports we have yet re ceived, have been triumphantly carried by the Li berals ; and we do not doubt that daily, with few exceptions, we shall have to record the success of the Reform party in all the important Parliamen tary Cities and Boroughs. Leicester is at length delivered from the plague of an oligarchical and tyran nical Corporation, which long grossly misgoverned a populous community ; a Corporation which perverted the administration of justice, and some of the mem bers'of which habitually bribed and unconstitutionally influenced the Parliamentary constituency. The Lei- cester Town Hall is " clean swept" out. Not one of the old Corporators remain to taint the new body. Nine only of the old brood dared present themselves as candidates before the electors ; though the Conser vatives contested every Councillorship in every Ward, all were contumeliously rejected. Every device was adopted to intimidate and " thumb" the electors, but in vain. Our report will show that the self-denying old Corporators : rescinded their ou n shameless pension and plate votes, and repudiated the gifts which they doubtless discovered they could not legally keep. But all would not do ; the roost was cleared, and the Bo rough of Leicester will now be honestly and faithfully governed by liberal Justices and a Reformed Town Council. Nor can the Tories in this instance defame the Reformers, when we see intelligent and opu lent bankers and 'manufacturers elected—such men as Mr. Thomas Paget, Mr. Isaac Hodgson, Mr Bankart, Mr. Brewin, Mr. Coltman, Mr. IVlellar, Dr. Noble, Mr. Oldacres, Mr. Hudson, and Mr. Whetstone, including other leading master manufac turers in the great local staple trade, employing a large portion of the working population, and enjoying po pular respect—gentlemen long excluded from muni cipal power by the Tory usurpers, heretofore the monopolizers of this notorious party Corporation. The Tory Press has beer. recently extremely partial to quo tations from the Commons' Report on Bribery and Intimidation at Elections. We recommend our con- temporaries to refer to the evidence of Mr. James Hudson (page 120), in which they will read a curious account of the base influence of the Corporation, which, at the last election, succeeded by brii)ery and corruption in returning ‘fr. Serjeant Goulburn and Mr. Gladstone, and which, by means of charities, pub;icans licenses, and the iudieious distribution of other well-known favours, was estimated to coerce or seduce 600 votes. Farewell, therefore, Messrs. Goul burn and Thomas Gladstone, returned the last time by a small majority against the real sense of the Lei c:.ster constituency. We will now test the integrity of the veracious Town-clerk and his select witnesses, who, before the Lords, on the Corporation Bill, ap peared to gainsay the Report of the Leicester Cor poration Conimissioners. First, Mr. Meredith swo'r: that— " lde thought the woraing of the system good, and ade quate fur the wants of the population. The Magistrates were generally men in a.respeetable rank of life." Secondly, the self-eulogising town-clerk, Mr. _ Thomas Burbidge, modestly deposed, that " The Aldermen are the respectable tradesmen of the town, and persons of substance. The Common Council are selected, early in life, from the respectable freemen. They have practically been worthy, effective, and respec table officers a the town, acting as Magistrates with per fect impartiality to all. The system works well. The funds are purely and honourably administered." ,tier was this self-eulogy without other vouchers. On the conclusion ,of the inquiry, in 1833, by Mr. Whitcombe and Mr. Cockburn, the Corporation " got Bp" an Address from their subservient and party deceived idolators, as follows : " We whose names are hereunto subscribed, inhabitants of the town of Leicester, state, that we are perfectly satis fied that the Magistrates of this Borough administer justice to all parties with impartiality, and discharge the duty they are called upon to perform with intelligence and discrimi nation ; that they are at all times assiduous' to preserve good order in the town ; and that, we can safely place con fidence in them." Well has the Corporation Bill justified Ministers and the Reformers. Only one Magistrate, and only ten out of the seventy-two members of the old Corpo ration, dared to appear as candidates at the open hustings I Thus self-condemned, and now exposed to the contempt of the whole country, is this local clique of Tories—unscrtpulous partisans in the borough and county of Leicester, who prostituted the public purse and their municipal authority to party corrup tion. Can we wonder that such short-sighted men, who thus abused their trust, should now " in turn" be rejected by their fellow-townsmen ? We will only counsel the Reformers of Leicester—the new Town Council—to complete the cleansing-out of this Au gean Stable of municipal corruption, by " compen sating" the Town-Clerk, and every officer of power, of whom a riddance will be cheap at any price. Leicester was a foul rookery of corruption ; and the Liberals should not only destroy the ,eggs, but every fragment of the nest. In Leicester, Coventry, Nor wich, Cambridge, and Liverpool, they will be justified in raking out even the ashes - of the old body. We say to the Liberals, in such instances of corruption and party tyranny, mete out to the Tories their own allowance—" reward her as she re warded you." The Leicester Correspondent of the ' Standard of Thursday last, when boasting of the " walking over the course" of the ,Northern Division of Leicestershire, by a brother of the Duke of Rutland • (in a county where his Grace's influence is notoriously paramount), supplied our contemporary with the fol lowing sanguine prediction as to the" result of the coming election. " The all-absorbing topic in Leicester is the election of Town Councillors under the new law ; and in this local struggle it is confidently stated that the Conservatives will be quite as victorious as they were last week in the ad joining county of Northampton." We hope the Standard will duly set off the result of the Borough against the County ; and we shall be curious to know what turn in favour of Conservatism, what " re-action" our contemporary can deduce from the Municipal contest? Will the success of the " Whig-Radicals" be set down to the account of Mr. O'Connell ? We think it ought, to keep up the bug a-boo. In the luxury of our triumph over the funeral of the Leicester Tory Corporation, we have done injustice to the political victories in Liverpool, Coventry, Norwich, Cambridge, Leeds, Ports mouth, Windsor, High Wycombe, ' and other towns. Liverpool is emancipated from Municipal thraldom, and the Lords may now see, in • the mirror of this election in the second Port of the empire, a true reflection of the local character of the depatred Corporators. The Cambridge Self-elect are also all safely dismissed to the comforts of private life ; not one exists to follow them to their municipal graves. In Coventry, all the old servants, who gave such high testimony in _favour of themselves in the House of Lords, are condemned by their discriminating and public-spirited fellow-citizens. Will the Hereditary Peers of the empire read a lesson, and take counsel in time ? What a proof do we here see of the insane opposition of the Lords to the.great legislative measure of Municipal Reform ! They knew or apprehended its consequences ; but did the Reformers know their own power ? We confess that we hardly anticipated such an extraordinary and iiicontestibie demonstration of public opinion against the Tories. How striking will be the supremacy -of the Reformers in all the towns, when the new - Town Councils come into play. Sir R. Peel was less blind than his insane followers ; but as he glibly commented on Portsmouth as a " Whig Corporation," we ask him to observe Mr. E. Carter, notwithstanding, placed at the head of the poll of that borough. Such instances mark the political discrimination of the new Municipal electors ; and we will venture to predict that Notting ham, Derby, and York, will in like manner display their appreciation of men of liberal principles, thus distinguishing between the old system and those Cor porators, who, though liberal, nevertheless belonged to particular self-elect bodies. Lord Lyndhurst, with all his cunning, has made a miserable bargain for the Lords. Public report says that the subtle Baron ,as sured the Tory Peers that he had just sufficiently mu tilated the Bill to insure its rejection by the Com mons ; but the Commons were too prudent to " turn up their noses" at the reduced measure. Will not these tidings add another grievance to Ireland ? Can the Lords refuse Municipal Reform, now enjoyed by England,. Wales, and Scotland, to Ireland ? \Ve warn them against the attempt. This country will not allow the insult or injustice of perpetuating the close and corrupt Irish Corporations ; and the Tories will ere long regret that by abuse and attempted prejudice, they have raised the power of Mr. O'Connell, for whose country the new Town Councils of England will seek Irish Corporation Reform.-11forning Chronicle. It is with great pain - that we submit to our readers another letter from one of that most unfortunate and ill-used class of persons, the simple-contract creditors, principally tradesmen, or the widows or orphans of tradesmen, who have claims—we blush to say still un satisfied, though acknowledged, claims—upon the estate of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, de ceased. The distress and destitution which have been eamed by the extraordinary postponement of the re paration due to these unhappy creditors with their fa milies, we understand to be wide-spread and almost in describable. There is no reason why the subject should be taken up with any acrimony towards the de ceased Prince. His Royal Highness expressed by his will a deep anxiety that " all his just debts should be paid with all convenient speed after - his decease,"— " and a sincere and confident hope that the produce of his real and personal estate would supply a fund amply . sufficient for that purpose." In this last expectation it appears from the averments of the petition which we this day publish, that his Royal Highness was abundantly justified. On the 13th of June, 182 G, seven or eight months before the death of his Royal Highness, he received by letters patent from George -IV. a lease for sixty years from that date of certain mines in Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton, which are altogether ascertained to be of immense value, far above the amount of his debts, and by the opinion of Sir Edward Sugden and other counsel the title of the Duke to that estate is clear and unquestionable. Why it is that with redundant assets the just and lawful demands of such a number of cre ditors, many of them in • humble life, should have re mained to this late hour unliquidated, we are not fully enabled to explain, even by a reference to the, details set forth in the petition. Enough appears, however, to show that the executors of his Royal Highness are not the parties to whom the chief blame should be affixed. The Government officers, in some depart ment or another, seem to have thrown untenable ob structions in the way of converting to the uses of the will, the funds of which the mineral property in Nova Scotia -ought to be productive, inasmuch as even since the decided opinion of Sir Edward Sugden, establishing on the hialiest authority - extant the title of the executors to the estate, the Government has not thought - fit to reconize that title. Perhaps, beset as Lord Melbourne is with embarrassments affecting himself and his partners more nearly, it might be too much to solicit from him even five minutes notice on behalf of a poor body of petitioners, whose sufferings have not arisen from their own misconduct ; but we would remind his Lordship, that as this is a question on which the Treasury, by its agents, has already in terposed and effected a delay of justice, a little energy and humanity might be riot at all unpopular, when employed by him in redressing a grievous wrong. The case, we repeat, is one of more than common enmity. Here are possibly hundreds of poor fami lies, 'deprived of that on which alone the - y depended for their bread—the fathers of some among them having died broken-hearted—others being reduced to -bank ruptcy and beggarv--411 having drunk deep of wretch edness and despair—because great personages, who ever they may be,-do'nt choose to relax the rigours of their uniCelina indolence, or to take the trouble of think ing about what happens within those homely walls, whence no complaint of hunger or nakedness can pierce the lofty chambers of Downing-street. It now wants but very few days of nine years since the Duke of York expired. Imagine, reader, the . pingiition of industrious tradesmen's families deprived doriog• such a dreary period of their subsistence, and it may be for years before. Conceive how merry must be the Christmas of such forlorn creatures. It is a crying shame ; and one respecting which Parliament must busy itself, if indemnification for such injuries cannot be obtained throtigh a less. .momentous agency. We trust, however, that what has now been said will work in the cause of justice,-charity, and honour, nay, of compassion towards the memory of the deceased Prince, whose reputation must suffer, albeit unde servedly, from this disgraceful non-fulfilment of his conscientious and dying commands.—Times. Mose in Egitto was brought out at . Naples in 1818. In this piece Rossini has attained an elevation of style which is not to be found in any of his other produc tions. The cliorusses are profound and majestic. The sublime prayer of the Hebrews, when preparing to cross the Red Sea, was an after-thought. Notwithstanding the transports with which the opera, in general, was received, the attempt of the machinist to represent this scene, never failed to excite the risibility of the audience. This conti nued during the first season. " The following season," says M. Stendhal, " this opera was resumed, with the same enthusiatic admiration of the first act, and the same bursts of laughter at the passage of the Red Sea. The following day one of my friends called about noon on Rossini, who, as usual, was lounging in bed, with a . dozen of his friends about him ; when, to the great amusement of every body, in rushed the poet Tottola (the author of the drama), who, without noticing any one, exclaimed, " Maestro ! I have saved the third act !" " Well, what have you done, my good friend ?" replied Rossini, mimicking the half-bur lesque, half-pedantic manner of the poor son of the muses. " Depend. upon it, they will laugh at us as usual." " But I have made a prayer for the Hebrews, before the passage of the Red Sea," said the poet, pulling a bundle of papers out of his pocket, and giving them to Rossini, who im mediately began to decypher the scrawl. While he is reading, the poet salutes the company all round, whisper ing every moment in the composer's ear, " IVlaetro, 1 did it in an hour." " What! in an hour !" exclaimed Rossini. " Well, if it has taken you an hour to write this prayer, I engage to make the music in a quarter of the time ; here, give me, a pen and ink." At these words, Rossini jumped out of bed, seated himself at table en chemise, and in eight or ten minutes composed this most sublime movement, without any piano ; and without minding the chatting of his friends. " There," said Rossini, "there is your music—away about your business." The poet was off like lightning, and Rossini jumped into bed, and joined in the general laugh at his parting look of amazement. The following evening I did not fail to repair in good time to San Carlo. The first act was received with the same transports as before ; but when they came to the famous passage of the Red Sea, the audience showed the usual disposition to risibility. This, however, was repressed the moment Moses began the new and sublime air, " Dal tuo stellato soglio." This is the prayer which all the people repeat after Moses in chorus. Surprised at this novelty, the pit was all attention. This beautiful chorus is in the minor key ; Aaron takes it up, and the people continue it. Last of all, Elcia addresses the'same vows to heaven, and the people answer. At this moment they all throw them selves on their knees, and repeat the same prayer with en thusiasm ; the prodigy is wrought ; the sea opens to present a passage to the people. The last part of the movement is in the major key. It would be difficult to give an idea of the thunder of applause which resounded from every part of the theatre. The spectators leaned over the boxes to applaud, exclaiming, " Bello ! hello ! 0 the hello !" Never did I behold such an excitement, which was rendered still more striking by its contrast with the previous merry mood of the audience.—Hogarth's Musical History. A few days ago J. Moulton, a wild-fowl shooter of • Boston, went to Nocton-upon-Teed in order to pursue his business of fowling. After being out during three suc cessive tides without being enabled to reach any harbour, he was seen in his small gunning shout by a captain •of this port, who immediately went to his assistance. He was, however, only ablo. to mutter a few words, which could not be understood, and died instantly. The long exposure to the inclement weather was evidently the cause of his death. —Lincoln Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, MW THE LATE DREADFUL ACCIDENTS. INQUEST ON . THE BODIES OF THE PERSONS DROWNED IN ST. JAMES'S PARK. On Saturday Mr. HIGGS, the Coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at the King's Head, James-street, near the old Westminster Hospital, on the bodies of three persons who met with their death while skaiting in St. James's P4rk on Christmas Day, named James Wells, a painter, residing in Cooper-street, Westminster.; Charles Morpeth, a cabman ; and a man unknown. Charles Bell, police constable 95 C, deposed that he was ordered on duty in the inclosure near Buckingham-gate to assist the Humane Society's men. About four o'clock in the afternoon he heard the ice crack, and a number of per sons fall in ; the life-boat was at the other end of the in closure, and a ladder was thrown into the water with a rope attached to it. The men struggled violently, and many were saved by the ropes ; but two were taken out dead, and conveyed to public-houses in the neighbourhood ; one had been immersed 20 minutes, and the other three-quarters of an hour. The witness added that there were a number of persons skaiting and sliding at the time of the accident, notwithstanding placards had been posted. round the Park warning the public not to proceed near various parts -consi dered dangerous. John Mumford, policeman, 33 A, stated that he assisted in taking out another body, which was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital. This was previous to the other persons falling in. There were several persons in the water at this time, but through the exertions of a waterman named Moody, who behaved in the most resolute manner, four or five lives were saved. About forty-eight persons were immersed in the water on that day. In answer to questions from the Coroner and Jury, the witness stated that the utmost exertions had been used to prevent persons skaiting near those parts considered dan gerous, but all proved vain, many, out of bravado, going over those particular portions of the canal that were unsafe. It was impossible to keep the ice clear, and the Humane Society's men were only laughed at while cautioning the parties. Many parts of the ice were rendered dangerous in consequence of the rising of the springs. Several parts of the canal had been broken to make room for the water fowl, and also to prevent persons letting upon the island. Thomas Moody, a waterman, residing in Belvidere-place, Pedlar's-acre, deposed to plunging in- and rescuing several from a watery grave, for which praiseworthy conduct he was highly complimented by the Coroner and Jury, who hoped that the Society would reward him. The Jury then returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." The father of Wells was in the inquest-room, and ap peared deeply affected at the loss of his son, who was a painter, and who has left a widow and several children. The deceased Morpeth was a cabman, in the service of a person named Draine, residing in Black Horse-yard, West minster. He was a single man. No property of any de scription was found upon the other unfortunate mnn that could, in the remotest degree, tend to the discovery of who he was. He appeared to have been a tailor, and was about 33 years of age. INQUEST ON THE BODIES TAKEN FROM THE SERPENTINE, HYDE-PARK. Saturday night, Mr. Hmas held an inquisition at the Barley Mow, Mount-street, Gresvenor-square, on the bodies of Henry Schooling, aged 24, a sawyer, residing in Bull Inn-court, Strand ; William Cave, aged 27, a bootmaker, in King-street, Golden-square ; a lad, named Jeremiah O'Connor, of Calmel's-buildings, Oxford-street ; a young man, the son of Major Barron Heath, of . Connaught-ter race ; William Burton. an apprentice, residing at No. 35, Great George -street, Portman-square ; J. Kew, aged 19, who lived at a baker's, in Cumberland-street, near Hyde Park ; and a young man, named Douglas Campbell, a11..0f whom were drowned in the Serpentine River on . Christmas Day, by the breaking''of the ice. The Jury having -been sworn, they'proceeded to view the seven bodies, which had been conveyed to the workhouse in Mount-street. The unfortunate sufferers lay stretched on the ground in one of the rooms, and the sight was an appalling one. Oa the sheets which covered the bodies being removed, various se vere lacerations were perceptible on the chests of several, caused, it would appear, - by the drags in getting them out of the water. Many gentlemen were affected to tears, and several were obliged to retire from the room soon after en tering it. 3:Batson, one of the Humane Society's men, was the first witness examined. He stated that the accidents com menced as early as nine o'clock on the morning of Friday, when three or four persons were rescued from death from the north and south shore. The ice was considered very dangerous, and every caution had been given to prevent persons venturing on it. Boards with the word " danger ous" were placedou those .parts. deettied unsafe, and coils of rope deposited on the banks in readiness in ease of acci dent. About twenty minutes before one witness was at the Receiving-house, and at this time the first man was brought in without any signs of life ; he was stripped and put into a hot bath, and Mr. Wooley and Mr. Sawyer, the medical gentlemen, attended immediately, but all attempts to restore animation proved fruitless. Within a _quarter of an hour fifteen other persons were brought into the Receiving house, nine of whom were . resuscitated by the exertions of the medical men ; but life was extinct in the remaining six. Two minutes only elapsed before the first body was placed in a warm bath, every thing, in fact, was in readiness for the reception of those who had the 'misfortune to fall into the river. Witness was certain that the boards with the word " dangerous" were fixed at an early hour ,in every part considered .unsafe. It was the duty of witness to see to this regulation before he took his station in the Receiv ing-house. Allen M'Castie, a drummer in the Scotch Fusileers, de posed that on Friday, about noon, he was at the Serpen tine river. ,At that time he saw nine persons fall through the ice, about twenty yards from the bank, and one hun dred-distant from the 'Receiving house, on the same side of the water. There was no assistance near, and he jumped in to save them. When in the water one of the Society's boats was brought to the spot by a lad, who was of no assistance whatever. Witness got into the boat, but before he could get near those in the water, which was ten feet deep, they had disappeared. Ropes were near the spot at the time, but the bystanders could not throw them far enough to be of any service. Witness was of opinion that had prompt means been taken at time of the accident no lives would have been lost. After the alarm was given, it was some time before the necessary implements to rescue persons in danger arrived. Six persons were got out before witness left, three of whom recovered. One man it appeared had partly fallen through the ice, and the others went_to rescue him, when a great many fell in. In answer to questions, witness stated that ropes were lying coiled up on the shore, but the bystanders could not throw them far enough for the sufferers to lay hold of them. The place where the acci dent happened being so short a distance from the Receiv ing -house, witness thought the Society's men were very dilatory in coming to the spot.' Ten minutes he thought elapsed before one of them rendered assistance. Ulti mately three boats, or punts, were brought to the hole, but twenty minutes, or half an hour,- might have expired. before the second boat was brought to the place where the men went down. The Coroner and several of the Jury remarked that witnes in his agitation might have considered the time longer tban it really was before the Society's men ren dered assistance. The witness further stated that by his own exertions he got two of the bodies out of the water ? and helped to get a third into the boat, when he was obliged to leave for fear of being censured at the Barracks, he having stopped over his time. Mr. Thomas Higgs, of Park-street, Lisson-grove, de posed that he was at the Serpentine River about half-past twelve o'clock on Friday, and saw at least seventeen or eighteen persons in the water at one time, six of whom dis appeared undei the ice. The last witness took off his coat and courageously plunged in to their rescue, and in every way most manfully rendered his aid to preserve their lives. Several of the by-standers endeavoured to throw the ropes far enough for the unfortunate men to reach them, but without effect. Witness was certain that not one of the Society's men was present till some time after the.ac cident. Every attention was paid and unremitting exertion used at the Receiving house when the bodies were conveyed thither. Witness had been at the Serpentine River for the last thirty years when it had been frozen over, and had hitherto seen ropes placed across the river, with a man in attendance at each end, so that the ropes might be drawn over any part where the ice had given way ; and he re gretted that the Society's men had discontinued so good a practice. A gentleman belonging to the Society, observed that the practice would not have been discontinues had it been pos sible to keep the ropes across the river. The skaiters cut them to pieces, and they were otherwise destroyed - by the mischievous. The ropes were exceedingly expensive, and the Society could not afford to be continually purchasing new ones. The witness (Mr. Higgs) remarked that chains could not be cut, and advised the Society to go to that expense. The gentleman, in reply, hoped that Mr. Higgs would contribute, and enlarge the Society's funds, that they - might be enabled to meet the suggestions of the public ; but still he considered that chains would not answer, as great dif ficulty would be found, from their weight, in running them along the river. James Hanbury, one of the Park4ceepers, deposed that on the alarm being given he ran to the spot:and saw nearly twenty persons immersed in the river. ,He endeavoured to throw the ropes to the sufferers, but the crowd on the bank was so great as to prevent him using his arms, and he was himself pressed into the water, and obliged to send for the assistance of the police to keep the vast assemblage away from the spot. A Juryman asked if the Society's men had been present could they have saved the persons in the river ? The witness replied that they Could not unless they were swimmers ; but had a rope been placed across the river many, no doubt, would have been rescued from a watery grave. Witness had previously cautioned the skaiters, but they heeded him not, and daringly pursued their amusement. A Gentleman in the room ohserved that the evidence of the last witness in a great measure did away with the charge of neglect which had been imputed to the Humane Society's men. • The CORONER said that the only question for the Jury to consider was, whether the death of the unfortunate men was the result of accident. Any neglect of the men was a subject for the Humane Society to look to. A Juryman remarked that they had no proof of neglect. A Gentleman belonging to the Society said that he had attended the inquest, in order that the conduct of the men on this occasion might be fully investigated, and that if any neglect were proved against them to adopt measures to re medy.the evil in future. Ropes had for years been placed across the river, but they were found to be of no use, they having been cut and destroyed in the manner described, and this year large coils of rope had been placed in different parts in readiness in case of accidenl. It was true that five or six of the Society's men could render but little as sistance where thousands were asSembled, and the accidents were so very frequent ; but the society had done all it could do, and he only wished it was in their power to do more. The Jury then returned a verdict of " Accidental Death ;" and the Coroner issued warrants to the friends of the sufferers, giving them permission to remove the bodies from the workhouse. The investigati6n excited great interest, and the room was crowded to excess by persons . desirous of hearing the evidence. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 26.—The Racer, 16, Commander James Hope, sailed on Monday to Sheerness, to be paid off, taking supernumeraries to the Scout. The Gossamer (tender to the _ flag ship) returned from Sheerness on Sunday. The Seaflower cutter, Lieutenant Roche, sailed yesterday to Falmouth, .to convey the next mail to Lisbon ; Lieute nant Courtenay Hayes took passage in the Seaflower to join the Hastings on that station. The James Watt steamer sailed from Santander on Wednesday, with army accoutrements for the Queen of Spain's service. This vessel was also the bearer of dis patches from our Government to Lord John Hay, of the Castor. The Erebus, bomb vessel, has been taken into dock in this harbour, for the purpose of being got ready for accom panying Captain James C. Ross, in search of the frozen-up whalers, in Davis's Straits. The Terror, bomb vessel, is fitting at Plymouth for the same service, and both will be filled with clothing and provisions. They will, depart in a month or six weeks. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Rio de Ja neiro, October 23, 1835 :—" We expect the Satellite sloop of .war, with treasure, from the South Seas, about the middle of next month. She will be dispatched in a few clays after her arrival for England. A new Regent, of the name of Fiejo, has been appointed to the adminis tration of the Government of this country, with the powers of a sole Director ; and it is expected he will exercise his authority with great talent and energy for the good of the country. fie has the reputation of beinr , an able and honest man, and is by no means a bigoted' one ; he is a strong advocate for a departure from the usage of the Church of Rome, having written a pamphlet in favour of the marriage of the priesthood. Only three days before his appointment as Regent, he was nominated Bishop of Marianna ; and it is expected this nomination will lead to important events, the Pope having already refused to con firm one Bishop nominated by the late Regency, on ac count of his having espoused the same opinion on which Feijo has written. ,Should the Pope refuse to confirm this appointment, no doubt a declaration of independence will ensue between the Brazilian Church and that of Rome, at least as regards discipline and sub Ordination." The Wanderer, 16, called at Madeira, on her way to Brazils on the 11th of November. The Thunderer ar rived at Nassau on the 2d of November, Charybdis at Fer nando Po, August 27. Talbot, Harriet, and Cocatrice, arrived at Buenos Ayres, September IS. Gannett was at Honduras October 14. Actseon was at Pernambuco, No vember 1. The Royer, 16, left Rio de Janeiro for the Pacific pn the 14th of October. • The Sulphur, surveying vessel, Captain Beechey, witl her tender, the Swallow schooner, sailed on Tuesday lase for the South Seas. Ai),PotsTmENTs.—Lieutenant Douglas to the Speedy, vice Sillli:eau ; Mr. F. G. Leigh to be College Mate of the Excellent ; Mr. E. Crouch, Midshipman to the Ex cellent, vice Leigh, appointment cancelled. The effective Warrant Officers have been placed in three classes :—First class, line of battle ships ; second class, fourth and fifth rates ; third class, all other vessels. During the past week the Royal 'George Revenue cut ter, Lieut. Steine, when about mid-channel, espied and gave chase to a French smuggling cutter, and after seve ral hours manoeuvring, the Royal George was gaining on her so fast, that the smugglers thought it prudent to de stroy her cargo, which they did by throwing a very large crop of tubs overboard. She proved to be the Le Jean of Cherbourg. On Tuesday night, about eleven o'clock, the Eagle revenue cruiser, Lieut. Umfreville, fell in, off Port land, with a French smuggling cutter, supposed to be the Eliza ; and succeeded in capturing a tub boat, containing 83 tubs of foreign spirits, which have been deposited in the Custom-house at Weymouth. The night being very dark, the boat's crew• and the cutter escaped. Drowned at Rio de Janeiro, on the 12th of October, whilst bathing, in the 19th year of his age, Mr. G. D. Blake, Midshipman of his Majesty's ship Dublin, eldest son of Commander G. C. Blake, of Gosport... The circum stances attending this fatal occurrence were these:—A party of the officers of the Dublin went on shore on the 12th of October, and after taking their walk, determined on bathing. • All had come out of the water to dress, ex cept the deceased, who , was then observed to have got out of his depth by some unknown cause, and to be in distress. • Lieut. Montresor and Lord Frederick Kerr immediately plunged into the water to afford him assistance, but their efforts to save him, which were gallantly made at the im minent risk of their own lives, were ineffectual, and he was drowned. Lieut. Montresor and Lord Fred. Kerr, from exhaustion, reached the shore themselves with difficulty; the latter having been twice pulled down by the deceased, and otherwise so hampered by him, that it is miraculous he extricated himself. Lord Frederick Kerr is very young, and the wonder was bow he was able to perform what he did ; his intrepidity entitles him to the warmest praise. The decased was a youth of very great promise, and his amiable qualities had greatly endeared him to the officers of his. ship. The body was found on the 14th October, and consigned to its resting place in the Eng lish burying-ground at Rio, with every mark of attention and respect. " IN HARBOUR.—Britannia, Royal George, Excellent, and Cracker cutter, tenor to the Seaflower, in dock. PLYMOUTH . , TIIURSDAY, Dgc. 24.—The Starling, cut ter, arrived yesterday, from P o rtsmouth ; she will wait the arrival of the Sulphur surveying vessel, to which she is tender. The Sir Charles Malcolm, freight ship, was docked on Saturday noon's tide, after 'starting all her water and landing her stores to lighten her. She merely had her bow and wood ends caulked, and was taken out again on Monday evening. Every means are resorted to to get the ship- ready for sea. The troops will, accordingly, embark as soon as possible.—Hampskire Telegraph. UNINVITED GUESTS.—Plutarch, in his Sympo pacs, Book VII., treats of the origin of the custom of guests taking other persons with them to a feast who were not invited to it. He says this custom took its rise from Socrates, who, being invited to an entertainment by Aga tho, persuaded. Aristodemus, who was not invited, to go with him. It happened that Socrates, stopping by the way, Aristodemus came in before him, whence he obtained the name of umbra, or shade, because he came before the person Who invited him, as a shadow goes before the body that follows it. Plutarch then p roc eed s t o l ay d own some rules for the regulation of this custom.. He tells us that he who invites others to go with him to a feast, should not invite many, lest he should seem desirous to treat his friends at the expense of another person. He says, also, that he should take the acquaintance of his host with him, and if he cannot do that, he should endeavour to suit the persons he takes with him to the genius and disposition of his friend. He then goes on to prescribe some rules to be observed by those who are invited in this manner. He says, that if a great man, who is delighted with pomp and much attendance, invite a person to feast at another's table, the person invited must immediately refuse. If friend or ac quaintance ask, we must not easily assent, unless when he appears to have occasion for soma ; discourse that cannot be deferred, or is returned from a journey, or is going abroad, or when he only takes only few more oryis only along with him, or when he designs to introduce us to some worthy person. For if they be bad men, the more they seek to engage us, the more we should resist them. It is also ab surd, says be, to go to an unknown person, unless he be one of excellent virtues, with whom you may begin an acquain tance by this means. We ought likewise to go in this manner to those whom we will permit to bring others to us in the same way. W e ought, sa3s Plutarch, by no means to go to Generals, or rich and pr.werful men in this manner lest we should appear impudent, unpolite, or ambitious. The custom of taking persons who are not invited, to entertain ments prevailed also amongst the Romans, as appears from Horace, Lib. 11., Sat. VIII. Quos Alrecenas aduxerrat umbras." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDHALL. . Margaret ballaghan, formerly Owed with having soli cited alms in Skinner -street, with two infants, about a month old in .her arms, for the purpose.of .exciting. commiseration, was Au ° ain examined. One of .the children had been bor rowed at the rate of eight pence a day. Ellen Fitzgerald, the mother of the borrowed child, was also examined, and pleaded that she was obliged to put her child out, that she might look for a situation. Fitzgerald was committed to prison for one month, and Callaghan for two. • DAY, DECEMBER 28, 1835. BOW-STREET. The Magistrates were occupied nearly the whole of the morning in disposing of the night charges, which, as usual at this season, consisted of persons who had been " drunk and disorderly." The usual plea of" Christmas-time, your Worship—never did so before," was, in most instances, al lowed as an excuse, and the parties were discharged on pro- mising to "go and sin no more." Among the motley group was a man whose shabby-gen teel appearance bespoke him to be, what he afterwards an nounced himself,.namely, one whose business it is " to teach the young idea how to shoot," as usher in a respectable se minary, or, to use plain language, teacher in a school. To the charge of being found in Long-acre, incapable of taking care of himself; the assistant pedagogue said he must admit he was non tempos mentis, but he hoped that some little relaxation might be allowed to one whose labours only permitted him to enjoy the society of a friend once a quarter. _ _ _ The worthy Magistrate said be hOped none of his pupils had seen him in the state he had been on the previous night. " No, thank God," said he, " and I hope they will not see me, or I them, until the close of the vacation. God knows I have seen enough of them during the last three months to tire the patience of Job." " Will you promise not to offend again ?" said the Magis trate. " You appear to be respectable, and ought to know batter." The tutor upon hearing this, began the old excuse, nenzo ntortaliu►n (minibus, &c., but his address was cut short by the Magistrate telling him that he was discharged ; and, after bowing in a style that would have done credit to a dancing master, he left the Office. HATTON GARDEN. A man, named Biencoe, was charged with having stolen a large quantity of crape, shawls, lace, handkerchiefs, and other valuables, from the stock of Mr. Stone, silk mercer and draper, of 126, St. John-street, Smithfield. The prisoner's defence was conducted by Mr. FloWm It appeared from the evidence that a commission of Bankruptcy had been issued against Mr. Stone, whose as signees had disposed of his stock in trade to Messrs. Hall and' Freeman,' Manchester House, St. John-street. The latter gentlemen are selling off the property, and the prisoner, with several other persons, was entrusted with the care of it. The articles alluded to were stolen from the premises on Thursday night, and Sergeant Ashton, No. 11 G, a very active officer, having been employed to make in quiries respecting it, he apprehended the accused, who, it appeared, had fastened all the doors, and was .the last out of bed on the previous evening, and was the first down stairs the next morning. There were many other circum stances of strong suspicion against him. The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. William Summers, a banker's clerk, was brought to this office, having been sent from Quebec to England by the au thorities there to answer the charge of having robbed his employers, Messrs. Ashley and Co., bankers, No. 135, Regent-street, of bank-notes and gold, amounting to 3,725/. The manner in which the capture of the prisoner appeared to have been effected was as follows :—After absconding with the large sum above named, he contrived, after se creting himself. for some time, to reach America. Hand bills. offering a considerable reward for his apprehension, were circulated immediately by Messrs: Ashley, one of which reached the banking-house at Montreal. A young man having entered the bank and offered a 50/. note for sale, the bill Was referred to, and his descriptiOn being found to tally with the information, he was questioned by. Mr. Simpson, and taxed with being the person who had robbed Messrs. Ashley. The young man became violently agitated, and after some hesitation admitted he was the offender, and expressed in the strongest terms his penitence and his deSire to do_all he could to repair the injury he had inflicted. Having given up all the money then in his possession, Messrs. Ashley were apprised of his capture and re-embar kation for England. Mr. James Ashley, banker, Regent-street, said that the prisoner, up to May last, had been for 'some months in the employ of the firm, as out -door clerk. On the Gth of May last the prisoner absconded with bank.notes and gold to the amount of 3,725/. Witness caused handbills to be printed and circulated, and some time in October he received the following letter by post : ;‘ Montreal Bank-office, Oct. 15, 1835. Gentlemen,—l have the pleasure to inform you that Wil liam Summers, the person described in the handbill, dated Police-office, Marlborough-street, May 6, 1835, as having ab sconded from your employ with a large sum of money in Bank of England notes and sovereigns, has been safely lodged in the gaol of this city : and further, we have received-from him 1,2901. in cash, as stated at foot, which we will hold until we receive your instructions, unless some favourable opportunity should turn up for forwarding the money to your address di rect. • I feel satisfied that he has delivered up all the money he had left, and he also appears deeply to lament that he has so far deviated from the path of rectitude. Whatever further steps are necessary will be followed up by the authorities here, on whom I shall urge the propriety of sending him to England this fall, as 'he may assist in searching for Jackson, the other offender.—Your's, respectfully, " Messrs. Ashleys, bankers. " A. SIMPSON." Witness answered the above letter, and in due course received a second letter, acquainting him that the prisoner was on hii way to England, and transmitting a copy of his examination before the Bench at Quebec : " Examination of William Summers, late of the City of Lon don, banker's clerk, taken before me, Noah Frier, Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, Oct. 16th, 1835 : " William Summers being charged on oath before me with having, on the 6th of May last, feloniously stolen a large sum of money belonginr , to his employers, Messrs. Ashley, bankers, London, voluntarily and freely declared that he was clerk in Messrs. Ashley's employ, and that on the day in question he did absconirl With a sum of money, of which the notes now pro duced were a part; and that for this act he, being desirous of making all the amends in his power, by delivering up notes and gold in his possession, amounting to 1,3001. has done so; and further declares that he had been acquainted with a man of the name of George Jackson (formerly of the Metropolitan Police) for about ten years ; that they were in the habit of frequenting gaming-tables together ; and that his salary of thirty-six pounds a year being insufficient to meet his expenses, he was instigated by the said George Jackson to commit the robbery ; that George Jackson had said to him he had ample opportunity of making his fortune ; that with the booty he could obtain from Messrs. Ashley they might both go America and be independent ; that he did commit the robbery, and at two o'clock the same day he went to a coffee-shop in Long acre, and met Jackson there by appointment ; that he and Jackson took a private lodging at Dockhead, and remained for about three weeks, When both went to Dublin ; that they re mained there about two months, when Jackson, during the ab sence of witness, robbed him of 300 sovereigns, and 2,015/. in notes, and left Dublin, and he had not seen nor heard - of Jack son since ; that it was agreed between him and liekson they should go halves ; that after Jackson left Dublin, witness took a passage to America, under the name of William Smith, in the Friends, Captain Duncan, in October last. That this statement was carefully read over to the prisoner, and he per sisted therein, and signed it." One of the notes received back by witness was for 501. ; this had the prisoner's hand-writing on the back of it. Mr. DYER told the prisoner he was at liberty to refuse to answer any questions put to him, but if he chose to make any additional statement he could do so. The prisoner said he had nothing more to add to the confession which had been read, and which contained - the truth. Mr. Ashley—Did you change any of the notes? Pri soner--I changed a 201. note to buy a gold watch, which I gave up. I also lost a 101. note. , Mr. Ashley—ls that all ? Prisoner—Yes, Mr. Ashley. Did Jackson negociato any of the notes ? Prisoner—l believe he did. The prisoner was then fully committed. He is respect ably connected, and states his parents to be of the. Baptist persuasion, and of 'strict religious principles. Although the prisoner'was a frequenter of gaming -tables, it is not a little singular that all the books found in his possession were of a religious character, and a manuscript in his hand-writing was filled with tests - of Scripture. BoxiNG DAY.=-One of the most amusing circum stances arising out of the determination to evade the annoy ances of Boxing Day, is related by Sandys. A person in trade had imprudently given directions that he should he denied on this day to all applicants for money ; and amongst those who presented themselves at his door on this errand, was, unfortunately, a rather importunate creditor. In the height of his indignation at being somewhat uncourteously repulsed, he immediately consulted his lawyer, and having done that, we need scarcely relate the. catastrophe. It follows as a matter of course. A docket was struck against the unsuspecting victim' of Christmas boxophobia. Boxing day, however, is still a great day in London. Upon this anniversary, every street resounds with the clang of hall door knockers. . Rap fohows rap in rapid succesioa ; the harsh arid discordant tones of iron ming!ing with those of rich am! sonorous brass, and Er,ivirig a degenerzte imitation of the brazen clamour of the trumpet which farmed the summons to the gate in days of old,' and which, together with the martial music'of the drum, appears to have been adopted, at a later - period, by the Christmas boxers, on St. Stephen's Day.—Thi B of Clai nias. • • THE MARKETS._ COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. 1 Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. BeanA. Pease. l'er Qaarter s. to s. js. to s. to s. s. 3. s. to a. 40 —1 27 19 36 31 -- 1-lexliani NI irpeth ...—..„— 32 34 j 23 23 13 16 32 54 30 1 1 3 Penrith —„— • 42 I 28 21 33 41 : 31 I '2O 40 39 Winchester --. :32 -391 27 33 25 26 42 44 Per Bushel. a. if. sod.' s. d. it. g. d. a. it. a. u. sd. 540. Carniartlien.--.1 4 9 53 26 30, 14 20 00 00 00 01 Cowbridge—. I 0 0 603 9. 0 2 9 3 0 5 6 0 0 0 0 0) Newcastle (Stall) 0 ti 0 3 6 4 0 30. 3 4 5 0 5 3 0 0 0 Northallerton ;6 0 7 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 5 6 6ti 0 0 0 8 0 8 6 4 0 4 8 3 0 3 4 6 0 6 7 0 0 0 0 Ewansea 56 59 99 30 2.6 3.9 00 00 00 00 • Warwick 80 9 0 3 0 4( 20 32 56 60 00 01 Per 8011. I Barnardeastle.— 86 110 80 86 50 70 86 100 00 00 Durham— •90 103 69 80 40 70 79 90 76 83 Richmond 8 6 11 0 7 0 7 6 4 6 8 0 8 6 10 (1 0 0 0) Stockton —. . 86 90 86 90 44 50 80 BCj 00 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET 24 Wheat, Red, Norfcis aril 8111101 k • —a. 31s. to —a. fine 341. --- Lin. and Cam. ------: Yorkshire —s. 335. to —s. fine 345. . . Lin. and Cam. —s. t.'.os. to —s. tine 345. ------: Yorkshire —s. 335. to —s. tine 345. . • ---.:.-- IN hi te . Foreign, heti —s. --s. to —s. fine —é. --------- White —s. 4 .5. to—,s. one —s. Barley, Norfolg and Suttbik --- Lincolnshire gls. to 345. tine:Mi. --- Yorkshire Weld --- Foreign ' Beans, Old 39s. to 4Ss. fine —s. ----- New 365. to 3Ss. fine —s Oats, Potato to 245. fine 03. Poland —s. —s. to 245. tine 995. Friezland and Small Healing Shelling —s. 375. line 435. per Load. Itape,eeti SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. - Barley. Oats: Beans. Oatmeal. Aberdeen 2S to 32 2? to 25 14 tJ 19 —to 24 to g 2.9 gertVick '22 2; 15 19 , 13 _l3. 22 24 28 32 Coldstream - Cupaf (Fife - Dundee 4B 58 30 33 20 21 30 31 40 50 24 20 16 20' 23 3) Inverness 3O 40 23 I'o 20 24 32 33 Kclsc. 25 29 17 21 14 16 19 21 Kirlcaldy 50 Ni 23 26 20 -22 22 25 The siz.: of the measure varies throughout the country. EDINBURG. We haul r m &Ling supply CORN MARKET. ' all kinds of Grain t( .Dec. 23. lay, and !hi le sales wer rather heavy. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 408. d.. 21s. 6d. 248 Oct ..... 3; 0 2i 0 u • Third . ... 32 0 23 0 18 (1 Average price ui Wheat IL PRICES OF PROVISIONS, Pease. B.ans 1.45. ( 1 / 4 1 34i. 9d. 3. 0 32 0 30 0 30 U 16s. 40. C. Hee', per lb. ««« Os. 0 4d. to 05.6.4. b'reshliutter,lb......os Bt. to s. 10d. 4 0 6 i Salt Ditto— 0 8 0 10 6 0 8 Ditto, per 0 9../ 3 0. 5 i Eggs, per tips-- 0 .41 1 1 per -- 0 (I 0 0 OzitSt.rawtlip.)-- 8_ B ,10 0 0 07 0 iVheat S 0 10' 0 1,0 a(» ;./ 5 0 5.1. ILrley Ditto...—. 6 0 7 0 I -- 0 -f 0 0 0 11 1 0 EMNBURGII - SIEAI There was a middling supply of Oi i , alea were rasher heavy. Per Sack of zBilin. Imp. f irst Oatmeal ,tSecond darn..,. L MARKET.—Dec. 22. latineal at this day's market, and the 1 Per Stone of 141 b Imp, First Oatmeal £0 I 8 Second ditto , 0 1 0 13arleytneal Peas,nteal I, 12..-3.1, I4s —4th, 16..—Peal I, Is., MARKET.—Dec. 23. - 15arleyzneaL_..,. ...... 1 3 0 Peasett , eal 1 3 0 I'.arley—N•. I. ti , .; c,vt. GLASGOW CORN A moderate business doing in Wheat, pa !•;,*(31), s. d. • s. rt. British, old ' 21 0 to 22 0 —,--- new • 140 190 l'anada, free 230 25 0 Irish • Barley, per 3201 b English 2.3 9 26 0 Scottish,.. 2O 0 21 0 lrtwh ra;n little alteration in prices. Oats, per '2641b. s. U. s. (1, Irish l5 to 18 0 British Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish l6 0 19 0 Pease, Scottish 15 0 18 0 Oatmeal, per 14411 b 14 0 17 0 Flour, per 280 lb ..... 0 32 0 CORNWALL MARKETS. Calculated at :24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. Oats. 8. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. s. (1. to d. • Truro.. : — 0 16 0— 0 9 0— 0 Helstone S:. Austell... Unchain T,iskeard 0 13 0— 0 6 3 0 ti 0 Launces'on — 0 19 6 = 0 9 0— 0 0 0 Camelford l4 0 16 0 8 6 .9 .0 6 0 6 P.mzance :6 0 16 6 0 8 0 0 '7 6 MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Qrs Guantit.• of Cc,ppet Ore sold 2 095 21 0 Quantity of tine Copper .176 18 0 Average Produce Bl4 Amount of Sale, 11,562:. I.ls. W.—Average . Standard s 113/. 14s. 04. 874 ,5112:. l's. Gd.—Average . Standard s 1131. 14s. ot. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW. B. Ridge. general factor, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury 2 at 1 A. Molony, wine -merchant, Sherard.street, Soho o 11 2 J. Bevil, auctioneer. Harleyford.place, Kennington l2 W. 1?. Ogilvy, grocer, Oxford-street ' 2 II J; It'Jernyn, hosier, Threadneedle.s•reet J.-Grant end Co., ship-owners, Mansel-street, Alinories 1 11 It. W. Walli , , engraver, Colebrook-row, Islington J. 11111, woollen.araper, Cheltenham MINCED PlES.—ChristtTias Day being esseutially a day of feasting and merry-making, it may not be . amiss to give some particulars respecting that ancient and. delec table mixture the mince-pie, which is de riguer, upon the occasion. The origin of this famous dish, like that in the heroic in all kinds and classes, is involved in fable. By some it has been supposed, from the oriental ingredients which enter into its composition, to have a reference to the offerings made by the Wise Men of the East ; and it was anciently the custom to make these pies of an oblong form, thereby representing the manger in which on that oc casion those sages found the infant Jesus. Against this' practice (which was of the same character with that of the little image called Yule Dough, or Yule Cake, formerly presented by bakers to their customers at the anniversary of the Nativity) the Puritans made a vehement outcry, as idolatrous. Of course it was supported by the Catb.oEce with a zeal, the larger part of which was derived froln the opposition of their adversaries ; and the latter having pronounced the mince-pie to be an abomination, th e eat ing thereof was immediately established as a test of or thodoxy by the former. Sandys Mentions, th:at even when distressed for a comfortable meal, they would refuse to partake of this tempting dish, and mentions Jr,hn Bun yan, when in confinement, as an example. H e recom mends that, under such extreme circumstances, they should be eaten with a protest, as might be 'done by $ lawyer in a similar case. The delicious compound, the mince-pie, however, has come down to our days (stripped of its objectionable forms and most mystic n leanings, from the moment when they ceased to be topi cs of disputa tion), and is freely partaken of by the most; rigid Presby terian—who raises no question thereon for " ccrascience sake." CORONER'S INQUEST EXTRAORDINARY.---DUV ing the week before last, a sensation was excited in Chatham and its neighbourhood, by the fact of some bones, to g ether with an axe, having been accidentally disin'terred in the Maidstone-road. Various conjectures -were afloat, as to who was the unhappy person whose remains Lid been so sin' gularly discovered, and it was confidently asserted, that some fearful murder must have been committed, Ly,id that the assassins had buried their victim in that sr,ot, where his bones had so long remained undisturbed. Th ,e Coroner was informed of the circumstance ; and to res' Ave the doubts which were prevalent, and if possible to br iJag to light the shedders of blood, a Jury was summoned for. the purpose of holding an inquisition on the sad remains of mortality. The Coroner and the Jury assembled in the vicinity of Chatham , fully impressed with the solemnity of the duties they had to perform. The bones itad been entrusted to a suron,tha t he might decide on the sex, and o n th e p ro b. ible ge of the murdered party, and now his certificate only was requisite, prior to the commencement of the Inquest. At length his certificate appeared, and it at once destroyer .1 the romantic interest which had been created, by declarin: the bones to be those of a greyhound ! COTTON NANUBACTURE.—An en terprising dividual at Dursley has resolved to approp kiate his mill' hitherto used for woollen goods, to thiamin; 'facture of COt' ton twist. (ADVERTISEMENT.) KING'S PATTERN SILVER HANDLED CUTLERY. The durability of which i s near] ), double that 0( ivory, is now offered at the followin g re d uce d p r i ce ;: Silver-handle , ' Table Knives 3 Guineas per Dozen; Dessert K: lives 2i Guiae o per Dozen ; Carvers 155., per pair. T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, a nJ Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. A pamphlet giving a detailed list of the prices of Plate, Plato.' Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis.. BIRTHS. On the 27th inst., in Wyndham-place, the 11 sight Hon. Ladl Charles Churchill, of a son. On the 26th inst., in Montague-square, the lady of Edwar d Mills, Esq., of.a daughter. • On the 25th inst., the lady of Joh n Ba rnar d, :sq. , Cornhill, f o a son. On . the 26th inst., at the Earl of Derby's, Gros frencr-square, the Right Hon. Lady Stanley, of a daughter. On the 23d inst., in Albion-street, Cumberland !-gtite, the lady 1 : 4 R. Du Pre Alexander, Esq., of a son.. IA On the 25th inst., Mrs. William Bradshtv.v, c if Hackney, °' daughter. MARRIED., On the 25th inst., at St. John's Church, Mai gate, Jesse Cat l Esq., of Russell square, London, to Sarah, d al tghter of Edwa rd White, Esq., Marine-terrace, Margate. t_ DIED: On the 24th inst., at .Tunbridge Wells, Lieut Rnant •General S i t r , John Hamilton, Bart., G.C.T. S., Colonel of t/ le '69t li Regln' e !' and Governor of Duncannon Fort. -On the 24th inst., in Dorset-street, Port ni as:-2quare, 311+ Lewis, relict of J. Lewis, Esq. ber On the 23d inst., at Datchet, M rs . C a th er i ne e e l a V aux , In 78th year. On the 22d inst., at Kiddington House, Oy lordshire, Slo ll ' wife of. D. C. Webb, Esq. On the 25th inst., Mr. C. H. Simpson, l a t e Ti t as t er o f tne Car e ' monies of tli6 Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. 0 111: 1 On the 19th inst., at D ung l ass .• N ort h B r ', ; t i n , A n na, daughter of S:r John Ar.:l Lady Hall, aged H. On the-21th inst., at Kilburn, the wife 0f. 1 !,1r. I.:ch. Salter , ' eft .; On the 2,i!h inst., in his year, Jtr.ne.:a, chi: at sots of Wilson, Esq., Greek-street, Soho-square London: Printed and Published by ;AMMO Y OUNG, of 4 ot i 112, Strand, at The S'utt Office, so. 112, Stran tl, in the co. of Middlesex. Amb Cockl ' Cund • Daffy Dalb3 'Days Dixo. 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