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to the keeping up pikes - and rents, have hitherto been attended , eith so little 'success. We arc all agreed on the necessity of' an. adequate pro tection to agriculture, and of the expediency of keepiog up rents, and the only difficulty is as to the means. Agriculture would seem to be as wayward under protection as some other objects of the protection of our great Lords. Prices eeill not rise and rents will not rise, even backed by an Act of Parliament. The fact stated by cur contemporary, that Corn does not rise as it ought to do, is, we fear, a melancholy t ru th. One little omission has led to this evil. The Landlords protect themselves against the Poles : but they have forgotten to protect themselves against improvements in agriculture. Now, if we admit that rents ought not to fall, and that the capital laid out on the land ought to -be made to yield a fair return—a position en faaced by the Duke of Wellington, with nervous and sinewy eloquence (we think these were the terms applied to his Grace's oratory by a con temporary)—precautionary measures should un questionably be taken against future improve ments. To what purpose protest we against a lazy Pole, if after laying out fifty or sixty thou amid pounds in purchasing an estate, this estate is reduced to halt its value by the discovery of some new process, by which land, hitherto un productive, or slightly productive, is made to 'yield abundantly ? The principle of production is either admissible or it is not. if it lie admis aible, then the agricultural improvements, which, as Mr. Ricardo and the other economists all -,ay, prevent corn from rising as it would other wise do, ought to be checked. Nay, our an cestors in their wisdom, were fully aware of the mischief caused by agricultural improvements, and of the inadequacy of all protection which did not aim at the prevention of improvements. We do not allude to the Acts for keeping out Irish provisions (for Ireland was then a sepa rate kingdom), nor do tve allude to the attemists of the landholders of Middles*, and Surrey to prevent tLe snaking of turnpikr-roads, which would expose them to competititn with the dig.. Cant counties; but to the gallant attempt which was made by the landholders to prevent the in /reduction of the Flanders husbandry—a mea tire essentially necessary to the protection of the then existing British husbandry. In Worled,o,e's Husbandry, of which the fourth edition was published in 1697, this attempt, so creditable to the sagacity of the landholders of England, is thus recorded,- p. "26 :—" It is found by daily experience, not only in foreign parts, but in our own country, that a very great improvement may be made on the greater part of our lands, by altering the space of such vegetables that are naturally produced, totally suppressin g the one and propagating another in its place, which may rejoice and thrive better there than that before, as we evidently sec by corn sown on land where hardly grass would have grown, what a crop you reap ; but these are but annuals; but which raises the greatest advantage to the husbandman is what annually yields its increase without renova z ion of expellee in ploughing and sowing ; as we find in the Clover-grass or great Trefoil, Saintfoin or 1 loly-hay, La Lucerne, Ray-grass, Spurrey-steel, Trefoil, Nonesuch, &c. For there are many farms in this country that have not any meadow, either wet or dry, belonging to them, that may by the new improvement of some of these seeds or grasses be able to make hay enough of their own, without fetching it at a dear rate many miles from home, to their great d van t age and many dry farms are so improved at this time, which hath been the cause of the great fall of meadow land in the southern parts of England, where have been the most of these grasses propagated, and was the occasion elf the ninny endeavours that were used by sonic northern graziers to obtain a law to suppress the improvement in the southern parts, least grass or grazing grounds should become as plentiful in these as in the other parts. It was also the cause that there was so plentiful a stock of hay and-grass, in that fatal winter, 1673, that it preserved'ahnot all the cattle in those coun tries or place* where those grasses were most sown ; and_ hay at no great price ; when in the westent and northern parts of England, through the defect of hay, -and scarcity of pasture, the greatest part of their cattle perished, and were forced to seek a supply from those parts whose markets they used to fulnish." Here we have the tccrct of prices not rising. Now, if land lords had stood out as they ought at that time, and prea7libited the .artificial grasses, and the po pulation had continued to increase, prices would have ri.: - xn enormously, and rents been equally enormou s . But by-gorses are by-gones ; how ever, they should, for their connnon interest, determine that improvements should not be car ried further in agriculture., If' the very media nics have the sense to see that power-looms keep down the wages of hand weavers, the agricultu rists may surely see that improvement may more than-counterbalance the tendency of rents to rise. Every thing should be sacrificed to this great cbjec t.—Morning Chronicle. 'There is one principle which, in respect of the Notes Bill, we hold to be indisputable. rf the circulation of one-pound notes is to cease all, it must cease wholly—utterly. The Bank of England, the Bank of Ireland, the Bank of Scotland, must all follow in the train of the English country banker. The proposition to allow the Batik of England to issue its " flimsies," as they are emphatically called, after the issue of paper similar in value had been closed to the country banker, is so monstrously unjust, to say nothing else , that it cannot be listened to for a moment. As little are we to be told that in Scotland the one-pound note must continue to prosper business, as it has been de monstratively shown to have done hitherto, while the people of England are deprived of its advantages. Either Ministers must make up their minds to carry the new system into full et joct in every quarter at all hazards, and in the teeth of all opposition, reasonable or unreason able, or they must be content to retrace their steps and recur to the old, tried, and sane plan of using, for the purpose of a circulating medium, that species of cum reucy which costs Tittle and wears long, instead of t hat whi ch costs much and wastes speedily. We say this, not only because it is not obvious to the most blunted apprehen sion, that if we are to have a gold currency, we must give up our currency of paper, and that the attempt to keep up one in one part o f t h e _ island, and another in another, would be as foolish and impracticable as to attempt to keep up one in Threadneedle street and another in Piccadilly, but because it is our wish to impress on the public—on merchants and manufacturers in ever y part of the empire—the propriety and duty of uniting their endeavours to procure a repeal of a measure which they must look on to be as pregnant with injury to all who buy and sell as it must inevitably prove to the Bankers. For it would be a very narrow and contracted view of the subject to regard it as one in which the latter alone were interested, and, much as we respect their useful b o dy, were their welfare exclusively at stake, we should cer tainly be but little inclined to devote our columns to its diScussion. We regard the Small Notes' Bill as one which will inflict on - the cuminunity at large a serious and lasting injury— as one that will materially embarrass and con tract the trade of the country, and in its mis chievous operation interpose between his con venience and comfort, and the poorest member of the community. And in addition 19 the im pediments which it throws in the way of , the home commerce of the empire, a metallic cur rency, while in its consequences it will leave a much smaller profit to pay the taxes of the State, cannot fail, in its mere tear and wear, to add another tax, heavy and grievous above all the rest, because neither imposed by necessity nor justified by reason. IN ere it necessary to de duce any argument, against the attempt to give to the Bank. of England so monstrous an exten sion ofits monopoly as to permit its small notes alone to circulate, other than the plain one, that such a permission would be, to all intents and purposes, an abandonment of the Bill, we might urge the dreadful increase of the -crime of forgery which such an extension would naturally and ne cessarily tause. No expedient, whether of com plicated pattern, or of costly engraving, or peculi arity of paper, can diminish that crime—nothing is effectual but a limited round of circulation. What is the reason that a country banker's notes are so seldom forged ? Because there is rarely one into whose hands they come that is not prac tically an ." inspector." And let the public for a moment judge what would be the degree of universal confusion were an idea to go abroad through the country that its, only medium of cir culation was extensively forged ; when in addi tion to the distrust, which • such an extent and complication of business might not unreasonably attach to a genuine bank note, was added the much stronger and better-founded distrust in spired by the ignorance of those who happened to hold it whether it were genuine or not. But it is unnecessary to argue against what cannot be contemplated, since it cannot be carried. 'What we most wish to impress on our readers is • the injurious effect of the Bill in its present form ; and what we would most like to stir up in them would be, a movement as general as are their feelings on the subject, to have it instantly and totally repealed.—New Times. Some of the Professors and Students of Me dicine and Surgery have recently, as our readers may have observed, preferred complaints to the Legislature, of the difficulties under which they labour in procuring the necessary supply of human bodies for the pursuit of their anatomi cal researches. The subject is not by any means an agreeable one ; and if there had not appeared a determination on the part of some of those who are most immediately interested in it to force it upon the attention of the community, we we should very willingly have refrained from agi tating it. The object of our remarks will be, to induce, if possible, this class of persons to review their determination, and not to prolong a discus sion which may do harm—which may, and we believe will, increase the difficulty of which they complain ; but. which cannot, as it seems to us, by any possibility do good. The prayer implied in these complaints, although the complaints cauti ously abstain from giving it distinct utter ance, is, that Parliament would legislate with a view to diminish the_ veneration of the people for the rites of sepulture, and the sanctuary of the tomb. This is their meaning, or they can have none. The feeling we have mentioned is the admitted source of the difficulties complained of, and it is not dissembled that the relief to be afforded must consist in enactments calculated and intended to weaken or undermine it. We venture to assure those complainants of a fact, of which indeed the slightest reflection might have convinced them, that there is scarcely a man in Parliament, or in the country, who does not sin cerely rejoice to find the strength and universal prevalence of this feeling among the people of England, attested so unequivocally as it is by their complaints, or who so far from studying to relieve them from their present difficulties, would not even be glad to see them, so far as they spring from this source, go on year after year increasing. It is unquestionably a consola tion, amidst so many statements of the general increase of crime, to find upon testimony so un doubted, that there is one crime at least, to the continued perpcuation of which a progressive increase of temptation is required. The sciences of medicine and anatomy are doubtless very good and valuable things, and all honour is due to those who successfully cultivate them ; but there are some things connected with the feelings and manners of mankind, and es sential to human welfare and happiness, which are still better and more valuable. The emo tions, for instance, with which men read Gray's Elegy, or look at 'Westminster Abbey, ought, it will be generally agreed; to be reckoned in the latter class ; and it can only be considered as a remarkable illustration of the partiality which men are prone to indulge towards their own peculiar avocation, when we find any portion of the Physicians or Surgeons of Great Britain Soliciting the Legislature to dissolve, if it can, the spell, which gives to the touching Elegy all its interest and beauty, and imparts to the vener able edifice all its moral grandeur. For what, after all, is the national evil, when viewed in its extreme exaggeration, to remedy which the Legislature is in effect called upon to sanction and promote the habitual violation of the tomb, and to extinguish in the minds of the people the natural sentiment of regard for the remains of those who have been dear to them in life ? It is at the utmost this, that if this social and kindly- sentiment—this sentiment, incom patible with great moray debasementthis senti ment closely allied with honour andiWith -virtue —should go on increasing. its strength, as it 'ap pears, to, have. done in British . society Great Britain will finally be, reduced to the necessity of importing a proportion of her.surgeons, as she now imports her .Opera Dancers, from France. We venture tei . say, that the 'nation will contemplate without terror this distant and con tingent and , that the mournful represen tations-of life-Medical profession, however gene ral they may become, or whatever aid they may receive from the verbose inanities of a certain EX,Minister of State, will remain for ever in effectual.—Morning Post. As the period approaches in which the Char ter of the East India Company will expire, the question as to the future fate of a hundred mil lions of men presses heavily on our attention, and demands all the contributions of knowledge and benevolence to for 'for their felicity as de pendents, an d for our ,prosperity as rulers. We hope that the well-being of so vast a population will not be lost sight of in the discussions which must soon be commenced.. If errors have .been committed in the past, we trust that they will be provided against in the future; and, whatever may be theform of Government established for our Indian fellow-subjects, that it will have their security against oppresion for its object, and pro vide for their moral advancement. - Increasing commerce will grow out of increasing civilization, and the seeds which a beneficent Administration may scatter will produce rich harvests of wealth and enjoyment. Great delusions have existed with respect to the inhabitants of India.— They have been deemed incapable of im provement. Flung by the - fatalism of castes into the depths of hopeless degradation, and shut out from the influences of instruction and the excitements of civilized desire—that is to say, they have been supposed to be moulded of other materials than those which constitute man. But these delusions, which we are sorry were coun tenanced by many of those who gave evidence during the last Parliamentary inquiry, are rapidly dispersing. The interesting details given . by Bishop Heber show that, the same wish to im prove his condition, which operates elsewhere ou the whole race of man, exists in full activity in Hindostan. He represents prejudice as gra dually fading away. - Whatever else be done, we trust that the happiness of the Indian people will be kept in view. A great responsibility rests upon those whose decision will make o r mar their felicity. It is not the question of a family—of a tribe—of a district—of a nation ; it is one of the most extensive territory--of the greatest number of human beings that were ever subjected to the sway of a conqueror.--Morn ing Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 16. VIGO V. BURGE. This was an action of trover by the Commissioners under the Paving Act (suing in the name of their clerk, Mr. Vigo), to recover the value of a quantity of paving stones. The defendant, it appeared, was a contractor under the St. Katherine's Dock Company, and had re moved the stones in question for the purpose of making certain excavations specified in the contract. By the Pavino. Act the Dock Company are bound to pay to the Commissioners the value of the stones taken for the purposes of the company's work. The defendant, as contractor, had taken the stones in question without making any compensation to the Commissioners, and the present action, therefore, was brought to recover their value. The sum claimed was 58/. 12s. 9d. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages .58/. 12s. 9d. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, ArBIL 16 COCHRANE V. LONG. Mr. RICHARDS opened the pleadings. Mr. Sergeant TADDY stated, that this action was brought by the Hon. Major Cochrane, against tthe owner of a wharf in Rotherhithe, to recover the value of certain anchors, stanchions, chains, cables, &c., which were his property, and which he alleged the defendant had improperly converted to his own use. Major Cochrane was the owner of the Irre sistible, a steam-vessel which, towards the latter end of last year, was burnt to the water's edge and sunk. She was, however, subsequently raised and placed on ways off the defendant's wharf, and by an agree ment entered into between him and Major Coch rane, he engaged to permit the vessel to remain on his ways, upon payment of Bs. per day. The vessel did accordingly remain there from the early part of November until the 11th of December, during which time a number of men, provided by the defendant, had . been employed upon her to get her cleared out. On the llth of December this object was effected, and she was put up for sale, when Mr. Long, the defendant, became the purchaser ; but, not thinking fit to make good the purchase money, Major Cochrane was ultimately obliged to re move the vessel from hi; ways, which he did on the 4th of January. Mr. Long, however, at this time seized the articles which had been removed from the vessel, and which were lying in his wharf; in satis faction of the account he had against Major Cochrane. This account being found incorrect, a tender of 501. was made to the defendant, but rejected by him, and he still retained possession of the good Y... Major Cochrane, however, conceiving that 50/. was fully sufficient to satisfy any claim against him, brought the present action to recover the property so MI. properly withheld by the defendant. Captain James M'Pherson was then called, and said, that by the agreement between Major Cochrane and the defendant, it was agreed that Bs. per day was to be paid for the ways, watching, wharfage, and every thing ; and that 3s. per day was to be paid for each of the labourers. Unless a claim for wharfage were admitted, the tender of 501. would have been more than Mr. Scrjeant WILDE, for the defendant, argued at considerable length on the improbability of the defendant's ever having intended that the charge for wharfage was to be included in that of Ss. a day. A witness was called to prove that while the vessel lay on the ways, the wharf was continually made use of. The Jury being of opinion that the defendant was not entitled to make any charge for wharfage, re turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Is., the defendant entering into a rule to give up possession of the property. INTREPID COURAGE.—ALEXANDER Sint, a private in the 92d Regiment, at the imminent risk of his life, rescued the daughters of General STEWART, who, with their governess, were crossing the river Lossie, over the ice, during the winter of 1826, when the ice gave way, and they were all precipitated into the river, and would certainly hare perished but for the undaunted bravery of this soldier. The Humane Society has awarded the ho norary medallion to the soldier, and his Colonel, the Hon. General Dun', has granted him leave to attend from his regiment, now at Edinburgh, to receive the medallion from the Duke of NOTVIIIMBERLAND, at the anniversary dinner of the Humane Society, to-day, at the City of London Tavern. THE NEW POST OFFICE.—The whole of the scaffolding is now removed from all parts of this public building, so that an uninterrupted view of this edifice can now be had. Many mouths must yet elapse before business can be commenced, although the interior arrangements are in a forward state. Nearly all the different apartments, which are very numerous, have been plastered, and the wood-work completed, and all the windows, excepting those in the areas, have been glazed. No building in the metropolis presents such a number of windows as are placed in the back of the new .'opt-office. It is not ex pected that public business will be commenced in the new building during the present year ; but by next spring it is understood the activity which has for so many years pre vailed in Lombard-street, will be removed to St. Martin's le-Grand. The beauty of the principal fagade.of the ,nevi building can now be seen . to advantage, and ti A. 'portico is fully displayed. The length of building is upwards of 400 feet, and of the portico 70 feet. The basement is of granite, but the superstructure is of brick, faced with Portland stone. How TO FARE BETTER.—The Quakers call our hackney-coaches "leathern conveniences," but this is by no means a description so satisfactory as the ap; pellation given to them by foreigners, viz. " little stables in which you certainly get littered up, only the stable at night has the advantage over the coach at the same hour, in point of clean straw and less filth generally. But the information we wish to convey is, as to how you may ex tend your ride in one of these delicate vehicles, and pay only half what you must otherwise pay. It will be best explained by a fact which occurred the other day. A gen tleman who had to go to an evening party, just across the New-road, opposite the gate which leads from Burton crescent, alighted, and tendered a shilling. " 'Two'nt de," said Jarvey, " it's after the hour—l'm titled to another shilling back-fare." The gentleman's answer to this was, getting into the coach and ordering the man to I drive him to Burton-crescent, where, in half a minute, he got out on the stones, and paid , his shilling, which could not then be refused. We hear of going further and faring I worse, but here, by going further, the fare's better. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—SimueI Barnett, a Jew, was charged with committing a highway robbery upon John Danger field, a carpenter, residing at East-Hain, Essex, ou Mon- day evening last, near Limehouse Church. Mr. John Biggerstaff, a banker in *Smithfield, stated, that early on Tuesday morning Danger&ld called to give notice that he had been robbed en the previous night of a cheque, dramin by Mr. Rhodes, of Islington, for V. About ten o'clock in the morning the prisoner preSetited the cheque to be cashed, and witness asked him how he came by it. The prisoner said he found it near Temple-bar, at ten o'clock on the previous night. When asked whether any friend was with him when be picked it up, he answered that there was not ; and when told that he would be de- tained, he did not show any symptoms of alarm. John Dangerfield, a powerful-looking man, deposed that he had received the cheque at nine o'clock in the morning, at Mr. Rhodes's house, in Wellington-street, Strand.= Between seven and eight o'clock in the evening be was beset near Limehouse-bridge by three, four, or five men, who knocked him down, and rifled his pockets. They took from his right-hand breeches pocket a handful' of quack doctors' bills, which he had received in his peram bulations that day, some loose silver, his hat, and carpenter's . rule, and the cheque in question. He had been drinking a little, but had a perfect knowledge of what was doing. He made no outcry and but little resistance, because they might have rolled him into the Thames in a moment, and he was so terrified at the thought of it, that be went away quietly as soon as they would permit him. Had no recol lection of the prisoner's person, nor whether the robbers looked like Jews. It was quite dusk. Not a word was spoken by either of the party. Mr. Alderman Scrior.Ev asked the prisoner to write'his name and address, and his memory was assisted as to the name of the place wherein he lived by a butcher, who was standing near the bar. This butcher was immediately called forward that Dangerfield might view him, the Alderman suspecting he might have been one of the party, Dangerfield (lid not, however, recognize him, and the butcher stated that be bad come to prove an alibi for the prisoner. He said he kept a shop in Petticoat-lane, oppo site the house of the prisoner's brother, and saw him at his brother's, on Monday evening, from about seven till eight o'clock. The ALDERMAN put a number of questions to the prisoner, in reply to which he said he picked the cheque up at ten o'clock on Monday night, at Temple-bar. Ile was going to his cousin's, in Bedford-street, Bedford-square. Did not sleep at home that night, but at his uncle's, at a baker's, in Greek-street, Soho. Did not tell his uncle what he had found, but showed the cheque to a young gentleman in Petticoat-lane, at nine o'clock next morning, and was told by him he might get 2/. for it at the banker's. He reached Soho about half-past eleven. A Mr. Wolf saw him at his brothe►'s, in Petticoat-lane, at seven in the evening. Mr. Wolf received Si. there. Mr. Alderman SCHOLEY said the prisoner had net gives a satisfactory account of himself and his conduct, and there fore he should commit him for trial. HERBERT v. HERBERT.—In this case Mr. James Her bert, a sturdy operative in the coal-trade, was placed at the bar to answer the complaint of his wife and his landlady. " And please you, mygood Worship," said the landlady, a wee-faced sickly little woman, " this gentleman and his wife are lodgers in my house ; and I'm very poorly, your Wor ship—indeed I'm undeethe good doctor's hands now, and have got a blister on my stomach to show at this moment. Last night, just as we'd got to bed, we hears a great scuffling and screaming in their department; with which I jumps up in my chemise—begging your Worship's pardon ; and my husband jumps up in his shirt, and up stairs we runs into their department, and there was this poor creator, his wife, just trope under the bed for protection from him, and he rampaging about the room like a roaring lion. By which means my husband—all in his shirt as he was—laid hold of the poor thing by the two shoulders, and draw'd her from under the bed ; and for that he run at my husband like a mad bull, and gave him such a kick upon the leg that the print of hobnails were plain to be seen for two hours after."—And thereupon, it seems, the watch was called in, and " the roaring lion," alias " the mad bull," was lodged in the watch-house for the night. The wife—rather an amazonian one—corroborated the landlady's account; and added, that her husband was a hard-working man, but that he drank all his earniugs, and gave her nothing but blows. ' The ALDERMAN asked Mr. Herbert what he had to say in his defence; and, hitching up his ground-lanab unmen tionables, he replied, " Why the case is as this ere. When I come home from my work, What have you got for supper?' says I. Supper!' says she—but it's no use; I won't dirty my mouth to say what she says ; I'll leave you, my Worthy Alderman, to judge ; you knows what women is, I dare say." And having so said lie turned aside, and leaned upon his elbow carelessly, as though he thought be had said quite enough. " Let women be what they may," said the ALDERMAN, 4 ! it appears to me that you are a brute; and I think it my duty to call upon you to find sureties for your better behaviour." "Very good," respondcd Mr. Herbert; "but, my Worthy Alderman, if you lock up all husbands as have a few words with their wives, you must have prisons as big as all Lunnun !—that's all what I've got to say about it." And he was locked up for bail. 130 W-STREET.—Two most distressing cases were heai-d at this office yesterday. In the first, a very respectable widow lady, residing in the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, whose name we omit to mention, came forward to prosecute her son, a very fine lad, upon a charge of robbery. It appeared by the evidence of the unfortunate mother and other witnesses, that the prisoner, from his childhood upwards, had con ducted himself with great propriety until his father's death, which occurred about eight months ago, when, finding himself in some measure at liberty, he became very aban doned, kept company with loose women, and resorted to public-houses, where he spent the best part of his time.— To supply himself with the means to carry on this extra vagance, he began by pawning every thing he could lay hands on belonging to his mother, and when this resource faller: him, he stole from the room of a gentleman wilt) lodged in the house one shirt and five silk pocket handker chiefs, besides a variety of articles of a minor description. The prisoner was charged with stealing the above articles, and also two volumes of " Gifford's War," and a table cloth, the property of his mother, all of which he had pledged at the shops of different pawnbrokers. The case was fully established against the prisoner, who was fully committed for trial, and sent down in the course of the day to the Old Bailey, a true bill having been found against him. It is impossible to describe the distressing situation of the, unhappy mother. She wept incessantly while giving her evidence. The prisoner, on the contrary, evinced the ut most indifference, and seemed equally regardless of the misery into which he has plunged his family, and the dis grace which he has brought upon himself. The next case was a charge of assault against a young man of the name of Limb, who resides in the Pancras road. - The complaining parties were the mother and sister of the defendant. The mother, a respectable-looking woman, who seemed weighed down by illness and anxiety, was obliged to be led into Court, supported by two women. According to the statement of the sister, it appeared that the prisoner hid .frequently assaulted both her and her mother ; and such was the violence of his temper, that they both considered their lives in the utmost danger. Oa a late occasion he pursued his sister with a carving knife, which he flung at her with so much violence that it stuck in the door, where it "quivered," and it required an effort I of strength to withdraw it again. On Tuesday the de fendant repeated his outrageous behaviour, and not only struck his sister a severe blow upon the face, but flung a stone pitcher after her with such force, that it broke the panel of the door against which it struck. The young woman added,, that the defendant had often sworn he would be the death tither of her or her mother, and expressed his belief that he should,he hanged at the Old Bailey for mur dering one of them. When he was removed for want of sureties, both the mother and sister came forward, and said that unless some stronger measure were adopted, the, prisoner as soon as he procured bail, would inevitably murder.either of them, and they accordingly implored the Magistrate's protection. " If that be the case," said Mr. HALLS, " he shall give 24 hours' notice of bail, and in the mean time, I advise you both to proceed to the sessions, which are now holding, and exhibit articles of the peamagainst him." With this intention the mother and daughter withdrew. MARYLEBONE.— Thomas Carthy, a jobbing gardener, was charged yesterday morning, before Mr. Hos xins, with robbing a uursery-ground.—The prisoner was fully committed. On Monday night, Mr. Bull, another nurseryman in the Hampstead-road, lost 30 peach, apricot, and nectarine trees. A parcel of mischieVous boys 'have been endeavouring to " smoke out" Francis Primer, an inoffensive old man, who keeps a shop at No. 86, John-street ; and for that purpose, have, at all available times and seasons, tried to fill his house with the fume of tobacco. This the old man endured ; but yesterday, finding smoke would not do, they threw dirty water upon him, while he was cutting crimson shaloon, and spoiled 7s. worth. David Hounslow, the most daring of them, was taken into custody by the street- keeper ; and Mr. HOSKINS ordered the gaoler to lock him up in the cell, until. he pays for the damage. QUEEN-SQUARE —Yesterday, amongst the disorder lies from St. Margaret's watchhouse, was a young married female, in a respectable line of life, charged by a watchman with being drunk and disorderly in the streets. Wright, a watchman in Downing -street, stated, that about half-past 12 in the morning, at the corner of King street and Parliament-street, he saw the defendant and another lady fighting. He ratted them. The other lady went away ; but the defendant, who was drunk, would not go home, and he was forced to take her to the watch house, which took him nearly three-quarters of an hour. The defendant hung down her head during this recital, and seemed conscious of the disgraceful situation in which she appeared. In defence, she said she had been to the theatre with a party of friends, and after coming out of the thOatre, she had no recollection of what had taken place. Mr. Maaararr ordered her to pay for being drunk. HATTON-GARDEN.—A boy of the name of Win. Bennet, 13 years of age, was yesterday brought up in the custody of Duke, au officer, and charged before Mr. Ser geant-Sefton, on suspicion of having stolen three gold seals, the property of some person unknown. A pawnbroker from Goswell-street here stated, that the prisoner came into his shop that day, and offered them to him in pawn for 20s. ; but he suspecting that they came through some illegal channel into his possession, imme diately secured and gave him in charge. - When Duke took him into custody, and understood from him where his father, a respectable shopkeeper, resided, in Bethnal-green-road, he went to inform him of the dis graceful situation in which his son was, and having done so, the father's feelings were so powerfully wrought upon by the intelligence, that he was instantly seized with a strong convulsive fit, and continued in that state for up wards-of three hours. A number of , persons having col lected in the shop, some from motives of curiosity, and others to render their kind assistance, all was nothing but a scene of bustle and confusion, which afforded some evil intentioned person an opportunity of stealing the afflicted Mr. Bennet's watch from his fob. When he came to the office, he appeared to be in a very delicate and languid state, and hoped that the Magistrate, in pity to his pater nal feelings, would not exercise any severity upon the boy ; alleging that he was certain the boy had not himself stolen the seals, through whatever channel they might have other wise come into his possession. The prisoner having been then examined, stated, that ou Sunday last, near Shoreditch church, he purchased them from another boy about. his own age, for ris. Mr. Sergeant SELLON said he did not by any means believe this statement ; but was fully convinced that he was sent to pawn them by the person who had actually stolen them ; and that he must have known that person. However, he would, he said, in mercy to the father, deli ver him up into his care until Thursday next, to be then brought forward for further examination. Sill PPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY, Aran. 15.—High Water 57 min. past 11 o'clock.—Wind South.—Arrived the Birmingham, llarris, from New York, with cotton, bides, &e. ;'Brothers, Bleas dale, from Mobile, with cotton ; Columbia, Ferguson, from Alexandria (Egypt), with ditto ; John Heyes, Worthing ton, from Calcutta, sailed 27th December, with indigo, saltpetre, &c. ; Everton, Neverson, from St. Vincent, with sugar, molasses, &c. ; Earl St. Vincent, —, from Mar seilles ; Tryall, Milburn, from Isleman, with. wheat and Pour ; Nymph, Aitkenhead, from Londonderry, with oats ; Runcorn, Hughes, - from Dundalk, with oatmeal ; Jordan, from Dublin, with grain; Highfield, Brown, from Dublin, with sundries ; Coipmerce, Bibby, from ditto, with ditto; Falcon, Burrows, from ditto, with di to ; Cortute:s of Lonsdale, Marshall, (steamer), front Whitehaven, with ditto ; Comet, Phillips (steamer), from Dublin, with the mail. . Three ships, three brigs, off at half-past seven o'clock. Private Signals.—Messrs. Cropper, Benson, and Co.'s, For the Bengal. Messrs. Hayes, Litherland, and Co.'s. . _ - CLEARED Ot:Twaitys.—The Lavinia, Higgin, for St. Thomas and Tortola ; George Canning, Forsyth, for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ; Mope, Clifton, for Elsineur ; Enchantress, Pennington, for Hasnburgh; Prince. Leopold, Wilson, for ditto ; Janus, Prowse, for Newfoundland ; Anglini, Bell, for ditto; Duchess of Athol, Christian, for Douglas. ' Telegraph Office, April 15. Messrs. Cropper, Benson, and Co.'s private signal west of the Floating Light, on a British ship, with figure head, and painted ports, the Bengal. At fifty minutes past four, No. 287, Regent British ship, off east of the Floating Light; three ships and two brigs off. At forty ruin. past three, one brig east of the Floating Light, with Messrs. John Heyes and Co.'s private signal ; three ships and three brigs off at ten ruin. past three. The following is the copy of a letter recently received by one of the Public Companies from Mr. JonN WILKS, jun. " Sir—l find in my multitudinous papers various agree ments, a lease of Bridge-wharf, licenses, bills of exchange, and other deeds and papers respecting the Medway Lime Company. Upon receiving from you a letter, by return of post, informing me where the papers shall be sent to, and inclosing two Bank of England notes for IF. each (to gether 2/.), I will instantly forward them. In the event of not hearing by return of post, as I am about leaving this place for the south of Europe, I shall sell the papers with other heaps of waste paper. ' 0 I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " Bruges, March 21. (Signed) JOHN WILKS, jun. My address is—Monsieur Wilks, Bruges, Nether lands." Addressed" (Augleterre.)—To the Secretary of the Medway Lime Company, Water-street (or lane), Thames-street, Blacklriars, London." The company, believing that he had no papers belonging to them in his possession, and that it l was a mere effort to raise the wind, did not, we understand, reply to his letter. From the haste of his movement towards the south, and his thorough disgust at the conduct of his Christian acquaint ance, it is suspected that he has it in view to proceed to Constantinople, and negociate a loan for the relief of the Turks. MUSCULAR STRENGTH.—The muscular power of the human body is wonderful. A Turkish porter will run along carrying a weight of 600 pounds ; and Mmo, of Crotona, is said to have lifted an ox weighing upwards of 1,000 pounds. HALLER, mentions that he saw an instance of a man whose finger being caught in a chain at the bottom of a mine, by I.ceping it forcibly bent, sup ported by that means the weight of his whole body, lb° pounds, till he was drawn .up to the surface, a height of 600 feet. AUGUSTUS II.; King of POland, could, with his fingers, roll up a silver dish like a sheet of paper, and twist the strongest horse-shoe asunder; and a lion is said (Phil. Trans. No. 310) to have left the impression of his teeth upon a piece of solid iron. The most prodigious power of the muscles is exhibited by fish. A whale moves with a velocity through the dense medium of water, that would carry him; if continued at the same rate, round the world in little more than a fortnight; and a sword-fish has been known to strike his weapon quite through the oak plank of a ship. SURREY DISPENSARY.—The anniversary dinner of this Institution was celebrated on Tuesday at the City of London Tavern, FLORENCE YOUNG, Esq. in the Chair. This ,gentleman has been upwards of fifty years a member and supporter of this charity, and discharged the ditties which devolved 'on him on this occasion, in con sequence of the absence of the Noble President and Vice Presidents, with credit. to himself and satisfaCtion to the Company. Several toasts were proposed by the worthy Chairman,. with appropriate 'remarks, and thaaks returned by the Physicians; Stewards, and others whom it concerned. He then very gallantly proposed " The Health of the Ladies .of Surrey," whose beneficence he hoped he would, on another anniversary, have the pleasure of recognising in that Assembly.—(Drunk with enthusiastic cheers.). —The Secretary read the amount of subscriptions given in the room, to himself and the Stewards, which was 317 7 , Some were afterwards added, making, we suppose, alto- ose o gether, about 350/. • E XTENS IVE BURGLARY. —Saturday, a very extensive burglary was committed in the dwellin Mr. STYLES, an opulent silversmith and j ewe ller, g-hresui g f din in King's-road, Chelsea. Among the nu m erous articles s in to o l u e r n n a in re g, 4 p o ea s r i l l: e a r nd wa g t o c l l d , es r , i nlrs,o6goolsly as eals a g n o ( l i d ke3-s, 200 ear-rings, 100 pearl and stone brooches, with numerous other gold and silver articles. The robbers had entered by an unoc cupied house, and scaled three high walls to reach Mr. STYLES' house ; here they cut away the shutters of the kitchen-window, and after boring various holes in the door, forced the bolts; The villains having succeeded in entering the house, repaired to the shop, where all the property was deposited, and ransacked of every valuable article. Mr. ' STYLES gave information of tke robbery at Queen-square Office, and from that gentleman's statement, there is no doubt that the villains were disturbed while plundering the premises. CORONER'S INQUEST. In the forenoon of yesterday an inquisition was• taken before J. W. UN'P'IN, Esq., and a respectable : jury of the adjoining inhabitants, at the Champion: Tavern, Goswell-street, on view of the remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Catlin, the wife of a gentleman con nected with a mercantile house in the city, and re sident at No. 75, itayhere-street, in that neighbour 7 hood, who terminated her existence by swallowing a: quantity of narcotic poison. As explanatory of the occurrence, Anne Morris, a: servant to the deceased, deposed, that on Sunday evening she entered the bed-room of her mistress, who had retired to it some time before, 'to call her to tea, which was then ready. Oh her going into , it she found her in a state of complete Stupor, andt quite incapable of utterance, in consequence of which, she immediately informed her master of what she, had seen: He lost no time in ,sending for medical: assistance, which was immediately procured, but. notwithstanding every kind of effort bad been made„, she expired in a few moments afterwards. The deal ceased was frequently low spirited and dejected, but she (witness) could not say that there .was any cause for her being so, neither was she aware of her bring in any way.in trouble. Mr. Joseph Benson was a surgeon and apothecary in Goswell-street, and on Sunday evening the hus- I band of the deceased called upon him to visit Ws wife, whom he described to be in a very dangerous state. On arriving at her hotise, he found her i state of insensibility mid heaviness,, and quickly ap proaching her end; and on examination pf her bed room he discovered on the table two small bottles labelled "laudanum," and a wine glass, the ei:* tire contents of , which appeared to him to have been drank off by the deceaSed. Judg ing by the quantity that the bottles would con tain, he thought that she must have taken half an ounce, which in his opinion was quite sufficient to occasion death. During his acquaintance with her, he never recollected her speaking irrationally or un connectedly ; but she was at intervals subject to epileptic attacks, and was also of a violent and irri table disposition. This certainly migbt haVe affected her intellect, and caused an aberration of mind. The Jurors, after a orief consideratinny recorded a verdict of " Suicide, committed while in,sane," MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—FRIDAY, APRIL 18.—At the Court of- Commissioners, Basinghall-street Ackroyd and Co., Long-acre, carpenters l O, Applegath, A., Stamford-street, printer Bishop, li., Fordwich, soap.boiler ' lO Collens, F., Pall-mall, man-milliner l l C., Rochester, carver ll Cox and C., Little Britain. bankers l2" Creswell, T., Cross-lane, fishmonger ll COUNTRY DIARY.—SATURDAY, APRIL 19. Cook, S., jun., Moorbarnes—Otlice of Mr. Wratislaw,' Rugby Edwards, It. and .1., Hales Owen—George, Bewdley ll Minshull, C., Bordesley, Birmingham—Royal hotel, Bir-. mingharn 41, I2 Murray, A., Liverpool—George, Liverpool Peirce and Co., Merthyr Tidvil—Castle, Merthyr Tidvil Sherwin and Co., Shelton, Staffbrdshire—Clarendon-build ings, Liverpool l2 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal.street, Lincoln's-inst.field3s April 22, at Nine. • Armitage, Thomas, Louth, brasier Blake, George, Langport, printer Butler, William, Hampstead-road, china-dealer Cooper, William, Bedfordbury, fruiterer Hyman, Solomon, Whitechapel, hairker Hewett, Samuel, Stockwell, stone-mason . Kinson, William, Bath, shopkeeper Lamont, William, Brighton, commissary-general Lee, Thomas, Pentonville, spirit-dealer Loader, Thomas, Devonport, agent Mason, Charles, Covent-garden, medicine vender Oxley, John, Newington, tailor Pimlott, Caroline, Adelphi, spinster Powis, William, Somers' town, clerk Rees, John, ATdgate, cheesemonger Scrrell, John, Camberwell, carpenter COUNTRY.—AL the Courthouse, AL Stafford. April 110. at Ten Taylor, John, Wolverhampton, accountant Goodall, John, Stafford, shoemaker Hodgkiss, Thomas, Great bridge, coke-burner Farmer, James, Yingswinford, collier Robinson, William, StAlfbrd, victualler Gordon, Jathcs Nantwich, tea-dealer Hale, Thomas, ' Wednesbury;•blacksmith - • Oakden, John, Kingsley, schoolmaster Woodroffe, William, hiarchington, farmer On Monday, the 31st of March, the ceretriuny cf laying the foundation-stone of the new parish church of Staines took place. The day was very fine, and the con course of spectators considerable. The character of the church is plain Gothic, to hold 1,000 persons, and the cost 3,000/. Yesterday' a man of the name of EDWARDS , . while working out a barge laden with coals at QUeenbither . had the misfortune to slip off the plank into the river. - H-' companions,•on hearing the plash in the water, ran. to his assistance, and instantly succeeded is getting hold of hi* jacket, but instead of immediately dragging him out, they barely kept his head above water, and began vociferating ' " beer, beer." The man in the water in a short time en , - deavoured to speak, but had no sooner opened his mouth. when a wave, owing to his head being kept so law, gently glided down his throat,' and prevented him ; be was then allowed to stand up, the water being at the spot about four feet deep, but not to get out, and as well as the water in his throat would allow, •bawled out- " beer." His black companions, on hearing him mention the . word "beer, immediately assisted him in getting into the barge, and the , whole gang of them shortly after repaired to the Farnham- Castle, in Trinity-lane, and ordered the landlord tnsendin a gallon of beer, On inquiring into these curious proceed-- ings, it turned out that the coa:heavers had a standing rule, that if any man falls overboard be is to be fined is gallon of beer; but as. many of them, after being safely got out, have refused to comply with the rule, they now keep the unfortunate fellow in the water till he gives his consent by calling out " beer," when they take him out, and proceed. to a public-house, and drink a gallon at his expense.... BIRTHS. On the 14th instant, in New London-street, the lady of W. N. West, Esq., of a daughter. On the 12th instant, at 't% esterham, Kent, Mrs. Charles Thompson, of a daughter. On the 11th instant, in St. James's-square, Lady Bar bara Ponsonby, of a son. MARRIED. On the 15th instant, at Christ Church, Surrey, by the Rev. J. 11. Mapleton, Mr. R. L. Hicks, R.N., to Emma, second daughter of William Smith, late of the city of Durham, Esq. On the 9th instant, at Eccles, near Manchester, by the Rev. Thomas Blackhurne, M.A. Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, of the 9th Infantry, to Sophia, second daughter of John Bar ton, EN., of Swinton. On the 14th instant, at Mary's Church, CheltenbanP by the Rev. Charles Griffith, A.M., George Woolgar Grit% tith, Esq. of Llwynluris, Cardiganshire, to Henrietta Jus tine, eldest daughter of M. Reynolds, Esq. M.D. On the 15ffi instant, at Wimborne, Dorset, Mr. Ellie, of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, to Miss Sarjeant, daughter of the late Mr. James Sarjeant, of Wimborne, On the 15th instant, at St. George's, Southwark, Jame, Miller, Esq., of Rye, Sussex, to Miss Sarah Russell, of Croydon, Surrey. DIED. 'Lately,•together with a brother officer and his liat s e• crew, w hilst surveying a sunken rock at the back of the island of Jersey, Mr. Richard Brathwaite Hall, midshir man of His Majesty's cutter Sylvia, late of His Majesty s hip Albion, second son of Benjamin Edward Hall, Esq.' of Paddington, Middlesex, in his 20th year. On the 12th instant, aged 63, at Brompton, whitheehe had been removed on account of his health, of a lingerist illness, Samuel Frederick Gray, Esq., well-known as the author of the, " Supplement to the Pharmacopteiss," and of various other medical and scientific works. • On the 14th instant, John Adams, vestry clerk and may ter of the Free Grammar. School of Edmouton. On the 12th instant, at Mandan% in Dorsetshire, in his 84th year, the Rev. Harry Place, many years rector 0' that parish. On the 9th instant, at Edge-hill, near Liverpool, OP Mary, the wife of John Vanzeller, Esq., aged 31. On the 12th instant, at his house, Brotapton-squar e t Capt. Adam Brown, aged 52. On the 16th instant, in his 14th year, Edward, e lde o son of Mr,. Fincham, Charing-cross. On' the 10th instant, at Stirling, Mrs. Small, widow 4 ". f Rev. Alexander Small, D.D. Kilconquhar,'Fifeshire. On the 12th instant, at Edinburgh, Miss Murray, doe' ter of the late. Lord Henderland. On the 3d inst., at Poolhullock Cottage, near 'Ros s i' Herefordshire; Charles Avelino, Esq., late of Caraberwe l ' in his 68th year. - • • ije PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUN G , at 'th SUN OFFICE, No. 112 Stoma 4f *Ongvit t, Agi Affida of the Ralf. SOth S epte , maY desire Billi of g x transmit thi to the Tree; Navy pal BRE THE and 1 . 4 OPEN I rr the even TO b( those norticultur c iPleo of s uperior pri i !teing ben " I .ivithou th at they ca %he action PiPei is the }7 lt4 d, "to now of earth u P r oductive 4 " grown `'eutiu he si4 *, rnelo 44:Etio upwarr THE denc about ten y zula. 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