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SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS, The recovery of the Earl of Liverpool from the melancholy malady' into which be fell nearly two years ago, being from the first hopeless, its termination in death was an object rather to be desired than deprecated ; and now that the event has actually taken place, we should consider it as a relief, and not as a new affliction, to his surviving friends. When the mind of man is - gone, the vital functions cannot cease too soon, and the body sink into its kindred earth too ra pidly. A living monument of departed genius ssr talent, or even of ordinary human intelligence, is a 'slistressing object to view. The situation which Lord Liverpool was reduced by a stroke of apoplexy tsn the 17th of February, I-827, is well known to the public. We shall subjoin an account of the event, as it was reported in the journal at the time. And the bodily sufferings of his Lordship were closed yesterday morning at an early hour at Coombe-Wood. The slay of death is with some the season of panegyric. It is, no doubt, the time at which all enmities should be appeased,—all injuries forgiven ; but there is no era at which the truth, the unadorned truth, ought not to be spoken of public men ; and Lord Liverpool neither provoked enmities nor inflicted injuries. Of all the Statesmen who have lived in our day, he was the one who di verged least from his course, to excite indigna tion, or instil hatred, by personal attack or wan ton insult. It was his habit simply and frigidly, to ti.,:fend his own measures, and to oppose those of his political antagonists, by time best reason ing of which he was master. For the purity of his moral conduct, the rectitude of his mind, and the uniformity of his political principles, he was much and deservedly respected. Indeed he was never tempted to swerve from the course which vs'AF. prescribed to him by his father, and was adopted in early life, by any extraordinary ir radiation of genius, any burst of fancy, or any sudden perception of innate and late waked sagacity. But if every thing with him was moderate, every thing was steady, sedate, and even dignified. He commenced his political career under Mr. Pitt, who, though he admired and approved of his industry and integrity, had no high opinion Of his talents; neither could that more eminent statesman have believed it possible, that the councils of this great nation should have been directed by one of Lord Liverpool's powers for the space of fifteen years. The exclamation which Mr. Rose imputes to his dying patron—" Oh, my country ! my country !" and which he asserts to have been the last words spoken by Mr. Pitt, would have been absurd if he who spoke them had thought that a survivor whose principles were so much identified with his own, had possessed also the necessary capacity for giving them effect. Still, with but a short interval that almost escapes observation on a cursory review of time past, Lord Liverpool has been Prime Minister of England from that tune to time present. Aft e r the animated debates on the subject of •the second Regency, • his Lordship glided, by an easy descent, frem the councils of the father to those of the son, whose change of sentiment, natural if not commendable, made an opening for the new guest. The state of Europe continued to be most tempestuous for many 'years afterwards ; and if the native energies and unconquerable spirit of the people were their chief support ; during - the .arduous struggle in which they continued to be engaged, time character of their Prime Minister was gene rally unsullied by any of those intrigues, cabals, and Court factions, in which politicians are too apt to be immersed. His views were simple, and his soul sincere. He did the work of a statesman with unremitting industry, and sunk the victim of his own labours. (From the Times of Monday, Feb. 19, 1827.) We are concerned to announce that the Earl of Liverpool was, about noon on Saturday last, seized with a fit of paralysis, and that his physician, Dr. Dreyer, hardly expected him to survive the night : arty thing like recovery was held to be quite out of the question. The Noble Lord had been sitting alone, and so sudden was the attack, that he had not time to ring the bell, but was found by some of his family stretched upon the flocr, and speechless. He continued yesterday in a hopeless state, the use of one side quite gone, as well as the power of speech. This result of the bad state of health under which his Lordship had long been suffering was by no means unlooked for by his medical advisers. For three years past the average rate of his pulse had not exceeded 45, and - from other circumstances attend ing the circulation, such a catastrophe had been ap prehended as has just occurred.—Times. We briefly call attention to a Parliamentary paper of the very highest moment, presenting a statement of the labours, so far as they have gone, of the Commissioners for investi g ating b b the public charities throughout England, and for ascertaining what means have been actually pro vided by law, for the e- ueation, gratuitous or otherwise, of Enalish youth. Fif teen counties in England and 'Wales have not yes b een re ported, but in those counties and cities which have been already examined and reported on b y readers say to th e the committee, what Will our POLICE INTELLIGENCE. AIANSION-HOUSE. A scene was yesterday represented at the Justice room, which further illustrates the very unfair prac tice of paying the male pauper of one parish to take the burden off another parish, by marrying a female who claims upon the funds. Charles Clarke, one of Saunders's equestrian troop, and Ma►y, his wife, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having solicited charity in the streets. Allen, the °Ulcer, found them begging be fore the gates of the Mansion-house, and took them into custody. The LORD MAYOR immediately suspected that this wedding was concerted by a parish, and desired to know whether Clarke had got any fortune with his wife. Clarke said he, married for loa e, not for money. • In order to ascertain how the matter stood, 11:s Lordship desired the pauper to mention the parti culars of his marriage. Clarke—Why, your Lordship, I belonged to the Saunders's troop, and we went down to Greenwich about a year and a half ago, for to show off at the fair. So I saw this body (pointing to his wife) there. L► the night I was in want of a bed, and I went to a house and asked the people of it whether they could let me have a place to lie down in. They said no, but I might lie down before the fire, and who .should be lying on the chairs but herself. (Laughter.) So I axed her to get me a little sum mut to think, and she did so very kindly; and after we drinked, I some how or other found my head upon her pillow. (Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR asked whether he found hiA head in that situation the first time he beheld her ? income amounting to the enormous sum of be tween 480,000/. and 500,000/. per annum ? How magnificent is this fund for public edu cation ! How ample, if well applied, to edu cate nearly the whole rising generation ! How frightful must have been the amount of malversation which could have produced a necessity so glaring for the commission first moved by Mr. Brougham ; and how mortified the stubborn anti heartless arrogance of those by whom it would, if they durst, have been defeated ! —Rid. As the Parliamentary season approaches the Duke of Wellington begins to feel sensibly the impossibility of maintaining the campaign, with the undisciplin e d and inexperienced troops which he commands ; and for some time past various rumours have, in consequence, been afloat re specting the alterations which he intends to make in the Cabinet. Few of these, we suspect, have any solid foundation, or are very likely to termi nate to the satisfaction of those who originated them. There is little doubt, howev er , t h at pro posals have been lately made to Mr. Uttsk-isson, to Mr. Charles Grant, and to Lord Dudley, to j and that they, ,loin their former c olleagues, on . the other hand, have signified no unwillingness t o accept the office on condition that such measures shall be pursued as will not compromise their principles. But in case of such a coalition bein g formed, a difficulty of no small moment still to be overcome ; we mean, that of find ing places for them ; for, on the one hand, the buke cannot well turn round upon those who adhered to him " iu his hour of difficulty," and tell them that he has no further occasion for their services, and, on the other, unless he dis misses them he has no where to bestow his new auxiliaries. Tha creation of two or three additional Secretaryships of State after the example of Mr. Pitt, would certainly solve the difficulty ; but the country in these piping He replied, that he certainly did; but then, as an excuse for that, they were both so poor. (A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—But when did you marry her? - Did you follow up the courtship from that moment ?—Clarke : I went away next day, for we was to ride at another place in the troop, but I came back to Greenwich at the next fair, and I axed for her. So they told me she was in the workhouse, and as I was badly off myself, I went off to her and axed her to marry me at once. (Laughter.) She said she coud'nt without the consent of the master. So I goes up to the workhouse-keeper, and tells him I wanted her. " Wants her," says he, " what do you want with her? Do you want her to be your servant,or doyou want to live scandalously with her ?" (Loud laughter.) . " I wants her for my wife," says I, "and I'll take her away now if you lets me." The LORD MAYOR—And so they gave her to you ? Clarke : The workhouse-keeper wouldn't do anything, for he thought I was a rogue. So I went to the overseer, and proposed the marriage to him. " Very good," says, " but you had better wait for three Sundays, and then you shall have .5/.;" but I wouldn't consent to no such delay. The LORD MAYOR—What ! not for 5/. ?—Clarke —No, your Lordship; her fortune wasn't my object. So I told him I was quite uneasy, and I knew she was uneasy, too, to get married (laughter); and then he bought the licence, and we was spliced at once. (Continued laughter.) The LORD MAYOR said that this mode of getting rid of paupers was extremely reprehensible. Clarke declared that it was not to oblige the parish he married—it was because he was in love. (A laugh.) • The LORD MAYOR—And the match was really a love -match ?—Clarke said he was perfectly satisfied. He was as poor as possible; but riches did not make people happy; and if he had five shillings, he and his wife would go down and visit their parish at Norwich, and stay and die there. The LORD MAYOR again reprobated the pauper marriage scheme; and giving Clarke five shillings, advised him, not to meddle with any more paupers, nor to appear in London again as a vagrant. A poor man, named Long, was charged with hav ing stolen a cod-fish at Billingsgate. He was appre hended with the fish in his pessession, an d h e ap peared dreadfully agitated, but it was evidently not on his own account. Upon being asked what he had to say, • The unfortunate man said, that his wife and three children were starving at home, and he had com mitted the robbery to support life in them. R e was ashamed to apply for parish relief, and had no other means of obtaining victuals. The LORD MAYOR ordered that inquiry should be made into the case. Booker, the beadle of Bishopsgate,,stated, that he ascertained that the prisoner and his family, who belonged to his parish, were in the most deplorable condition, and that they had not applied for parish relief, which, if they had sought it, would have been most cheerfully dealt out to them. The unfortunate man had been most respectable. The prosecution was not persevered in, and the prisoner and his family were received into the work house. times of pe ace , o f h eavy t axes an d s t agna ti o n o f she questioned the prisoner upon the subject, and trade, would not be much inclined to patronise after some heitation he acknowledged to her that he such a step, and, indeed, the cure might in was married to another woman at the time he mar ried h er . Th e p r i soner t h en pro d uce d a p a p er, an d the long run be worse than the diSease. It is be b sides inaderstood, that Lord Melbourne and his directed her to sign it. The prisoner explained t h at i i r: i g m that paper she promised never to app ear brother coLsider themselves as having strong against (the prisoner) on account of his having claims to be included in any new arrangement imarried he r at a time when his first wife was li v i ng . that may be made, and that these claims are i The witn e s s consented to sign the paper, on condi powerfully supported in a quarter which can give tion that the prisoner should bind himself by a so them effect. Such, we have been given to lemn oath never to desert her or the child she had understand, is the present situation of affairs. borne him. The prisoner took an oath to that effect, The rumour of Lord Sidinouth's return to and she signed the pap er . w 11 . .. r r. MlN N •s r uuLL—And did he keep his promi se ? an active part in the Cabinet is wholly destitute ao ' d t b 7s iTeve o r , .Sir; he deserted to n: s e ,ar y of foundation. His recent interviews with thedesrythson" after, Duke of Wellington related, it is understood, o f his n h e e penny liiies I was in th e e , Te p a p te o s r t t entirely to his son, Mr. Addington, who, it is distress. Had he kept the oath he had taken, and understood, is about to be appointed to a new been kind to his child and me, I would not have ap embassy.—Morning Advertiser. peared against him. Thomas Ayling, the young man who on the first DEATH OF THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.-- d ex d am o examination objected to be sworn, alleging that he This truly amiable and excellent Nobleman was t believe in a future state of rewards and pu yesterday relieved from all sublunary cares and nishments, was then called forward, he having been afflictions, when his pure spirit departed hence a subscribing witness to the first marriage. As the for " another and a better world," there to re- oath was about to be administered to him, the Ma ceive the due reward of his virtues in eternal gistrate observed, " I have directed that you should bliss. His Lordship had, through a long and be sworn in the usual way, because lam unwilling laborious political life, successively filled nearly to believe that any human being, pos , essed of com the whole of' the Great Offices of State. Under mon reason or common sense, can in his heart , be an the virtuously fost er i ng h an d o f th e i mmorta l Atheist.—The witn e ss m a d e no re ply. Mr MINSTLL then directed that the register of William Pitt, who e a rly discovered his high .RI marriages solemnized i n the New Church of St. Pan ,he was invested with important eras should b e p ro d uce d, b y w hi c h it appeared that political trust, and gradually passing through i n J une, 1823, a marriage was solemnized in that all the Principal Secretaryships of State, a t c h urc h , b etween Daniel Heath and Caroline Char length became the Prime Minister of Great neau, to which marriage Thomas Ayling had sub- Britain, in which high and arduous Office scribed his name as a witness, together with one he acquitted himself at once with di s ti ngu i s h e d Sarah Elizabeth Moor. Mr. MINSIIULL asked Ayling if he recollected advantage to his. own country, and acknow be.ing present at the ceremony ?—The . witness re- Following benefit to Europe and the whole world, 6 • plied that he was present at the wedding, and that Followm , the virtuous and patriotic example of 0 the signature in the hook was his hand-writing. He the great and illustrious Saviour of his Country (the witness) gave the bride away. (whose last prayer was piously offered up for her . Mr. MINSHULL—Can you, of your own know glory and prosperity),. he intrepidly pursued his ledge, say that she was living on the 26th Septem wisely adopted path, in fearless defiance of the bee, 1826 ? Witness—l really cannot undertake to most determined systematic opposition, and at say whether she was no was riot. length accomplished the proud triumph of the Mr. Thisselton, the parish clerk of St. Pancras, principleS of Pitt, in the overthrow of the most was asked if he recollected bring present at the marriage of the prisoner and Caroline Charneau.-- implacable and formidable enemy with whom Mr. Thisseyon replied that he had no recollection England has ever had to contend, and the eon of the parties, but he rather thought he could not sequent emancipation of Europe from the tyranny have been present, as his name did not appear as a and oppression under which it had so long and witness. Upwards of 4,000 marriages had been so painfully groaned.—Morning Post. solemnized in St. Pancras New Church since 1823. Mr. MINSIIULL—Haying now sufficient evidence before me, I can certainly feel no hesitation in. re manding the prisoner to a future day. The prisoner was then rep oved in custody, and will be brought forward again on Wednesday next We understand that up to the period of his appre hension he was a clerk in the office of Messrs. Big. - tell and 10berts, solicitors, Lincoln's-inn. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday, William Smith, Esq., an East India merchant, and stated to be a gentleman of very extensive fortune, residing at Euston-place, New road, was brought before Sir GEonta; FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate, in custody of \Vestcott, the dicer, under a warrant, charged with violating the person of a young female, named Jane Byrne, un der the following very extraordinary circumstances : The complainant, a good-looking young woman, about 25 years of age, deposed that in September last she observed an advertisement in the Times newspaper, stating that a housemaid was wanted in the establishment of a single gentleman of fortune, where a regular set of servants was kept; arid, in consequence, she applied to the address given, and having referred for her character to where she had before resided, she thus found her way into the ser vice of Mr. Smith, who was the gentleman that ad vertised, and Mr. Smith expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the character given of her by those to whom she had referred him. On the 9th of September it was that she went into Mr. Smith's service, and although after a little experience she did not much like the place, site continued there without any thing particular happening until Saturday last, the 29th of November, but on that day the occurrences of which she now complains took place. About two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, while she was engaged in sweeping and cleaning rip Mr. Smith's bed-room, arid not know ing that Mr. Smith had yet returned from the city, where he had gone in the morning in his gig, she was suddenly surprised, not . having even heard him corning up stairs, to see Mr. Smith enter the apart ment in his dressing-gown, and without saying a word he at once locked the room door; he then seized her with great force, arid twisting both her hands behind her back, he threw her upon the bed, and perpetrated the offence charged against him, en tirely without arid against her will or consent. (Here . the witness gave to the Magistrate that mi nute description of the capital offence which the law requires.) She made, she said, all the resistance that she possibly could against the attack upon her virtue, and frequently screamed aloud as much as she could for assistance, but as there happened to Le no one in the house at the time besides .them selves, except the housekeeper, who was then down in the kitchen, and this violence having taken place on the second floor in a back room, nobody heard her cries or came to her aid. As soon, however, as Mr. Smith suffered her to disengage herself froin him and quit the room, she ran down stairs irame diately, and told the housekeeper the shocking man ner in which she had been treated, and boils the housekeeper and herself quitted the house altogether on the same day. Elizabeth Roebuck, a very respectable-looking matronly female, stated that she also had got into the service of Mr. Smith by means of an advertise ment in the Times newspaper about three wombs ago, and had continued there in the capacity of housekeeper till Saturday last, when she quitted the house as stated by the last witness. About two o'clock on that day, as she was doing some business in the kitchen at the bottom of the house, she heard suddenly the loud screams of a female above stairs ; and as she was going up to ascertain the cause, she met the complainant running down the stairs, scream ing aloud, her hair all hanging about her, and her clothes in the utmost state of disorder; and on questioning her as to the cause, the girl .exclaimed that Mr. Smith had utterly ruined her, for that he had forcibly violated her person. Mr. Smith came down stairs shortly after, and abused her, the wit ness, in the most gross language, so that she quitted the house on the same day, as did also the com plainant. Witness knew nothing whatever, she said, of the complainant, nor did she ever see her in her life until she met her at Mr. Smith's house. There were about 100 young girls came in conse quence of Mr. Smith's advertisement for a house maid, but the complainant was selected by Mr. Smith himself from amongst them, as preferred. Mr. Smith, who seems to be a gentleman about .50 years of age, and of a very nervous habit of body, stated in reply to thecharge,that this was art accusa tion entirely got up against him with a view to ex tort money from him, because he was known to be a man of large fortune, and he therefore earnestly entreated the Magistrate to investigate the case fully and sift it to the bottom before lie entertained such a charge against a gentleman, a man of fortune, arid a man of as high honour as any Englishman ever possessed. Sir G. PARHAM' should certainly investigate the case as far as his duty as a Magistrate enabled him to do; but if the evidenc e of these two women re mained unshaken and uncontradicted by other evi dence, however painful the duty, he must feel him self bound to commit Mr. Smith to Newgate, to take his trial for the capital felony. Mr. Smith then stated the facts to be, that this woman, the housekeeper, came into his service by means of a false character, and upon detecting that, he ordered her to quit his house within a given time, arid, moreover, he found out that she was an Irish woman, arid every body knew that the less people BOW-STREET. Daniel Heath alias John Lo/d, the young matt who stand s charged with bigamy, %vas yesterday brot.ight forw ar d f or a re-examination. Mr. Mmsnuu, directed Margaret Evans, the se cond wife, to stand fat ward. Having cautioned her to speak the truth, the Magistrate asked her how soon after she had married the prisoner did she dis cover that he had another wife living ? The witness replied, that in consequence of some reports which were circulated in the neighbourhood., had to do with any one from Ireland the better. With respect to the complainant, he said, it was utterly false that she came into his service through any advertisement; for the truth was that he actu ally picked her up in the New-road as a common prostitute, where she walked nightly, and he, very imprudently he admitted, took her home to his house, and made her his bed-fellow, and she continued to sleep with him every night, while she rema;ned in the house, in his own bed, until three days before the occurrence of which she now complains. He acknowledged that on that day he had an intercourse with her, but it was entirely with her own free will and•consent. She was quite a destitute creature, he said, when he picked her up in the street, and had scarcely a rag of clothes on until he provided, at his own expense, proper dresses for her, some of which she wore at this mo ment. Indeed, so destitute was she of even an un der garment, that for the first three or four nights that she slept with him he was obliged to put one of his own shirts on her every night. The house keeper, he said, soon got jealous of all this przfer ence to the housemaid, for she herself had made se veral attempts to gain admittance to his bed, but she always called the other " Madame," and having construed that term to mean a gentleman's —. These quarrels at last rose to such a height upon the score of jealousy, that he told them both they must quit the heuse ; and, in fact, so far from their havin g left him at th e i r own d es i re , h e i t was that turned them out of his house; and in revenge for his having done so, it was, that they now joined to either extort a sum of money from him, or else make an attempt upon his life by false swearing.— There were plenty of women to be had, he said, in the neighbourhood in which he resided, without running the hazard of a man's life by a violence of this kind. Sir GEoaGE now questioned the complainant very closely upon this point, but she in the most unhesi tating and solemn manner declared, that she never did sleep with Mr. Smith in all her life, nor did she ever suffer him to take the slightest liberty with her person ; neither did he ever attempt any until the day that he had committed this offence. He never did, she declared, pick her up in the New-road, nor did she ever in her life walk that or any other street as a prostitute ; on the contrary, she was respectably brought up in the dress-making business, by . the Misses Baxter, who resided at No. 223, Tottenham court-road, and with whom she always continued to live and to sleep hf their house up to the very day that she went into Mr. Smith's service ; and to those ladies it was that she referred Mr. Smith for hercha racier when she answered his advertisement in the Times; and shat she never had been in any service as a domestic servant before. She declared in the most solemn manner that every syllable Mr. Smith had uttered respecting her was false from beginning to end. .The housekeeper also declared that every thing which Mr. Smith had said respecting her was equally false, for that, se far from her going into his. service with a false character, she referred him to two ladies named Powell and Bladen, who keep a large and re spectable boarding-school at Clapton, whose service she had just then left, and who gave Mr. Smith a most excellent character of her, and before she went to reside at Clapton she had lived, she said, i n th e _ _ family of the Rev. Mr. Fogarth, in Essex, and be fore then she kept a shop of business in Queen street; but not being successful, and being a widow without any children, she gave up her shop, and went into service, and although she was an Irish woman, she defied any one living with truth to say any thing else to her disadvantage. Mr. Smith repeated in the most solemn manner that the complainant slept in the same bed with him every night during the whole of nearly three months that she was in the house; and snatching up the New Testament that lay before him on the bench, he said, " Sir George Farranr, I have ever been brought up all my life as a religious and a moral man —as a member of the church of England—and (kissing the sacred volume) so help me God! that girl (pointing to the complainant) slept with me every night nearly while she was in my house." Sir GEo. FARRANT asked Mr. Smith if he could bring forward the evidence of any other person in the house to prove that the girl slept with him, be cause the contrary was so clearly and distinctly sworn to by the two females, that he (Sir George) could not do otherwise than act upon their oaths as truth. Mr. Smith said that it was impossible for him to produce any evidence, for these. two women alone, besides himself, were acquainted with the fact. Sir GEORGE FARRANT—Then; Mr. Smith, how ever painful fo me, I must certainly commit you for trial. Mr. Smith—" For God's sake, Sir George, think what you are about to do; I beseech you not to believe these profligate women; give me at least some time to make inquiries as to their characters, and to obtain legal advice in the serious situation in which I am placed." Sir GEORGE said, that the characters of the wit nesses would be a matter more properly for the con- • • . sideration of a Jury, and legal advice could not alter the positive testimony of the prosecutrix, to which she so distinctly adhered. Mr. Smith was then committed to prison on a capital charge, and the prosecutrix and the other witness bound over to prosecute; but at the request of Mr. Smith, he was nominally remanded to another day, as he was desirous that the present Old Bailey Sessions should pass over before his trial should come on in his present unprepared state. A great number of most respectable gentlemen and tradesmen attended with Mr. Smith, and offered to the Magistrate bail to any amount for Mr. Smith's appearance; but the Magistrate referred them to one of the Judges for that purpose. Mr. Smith was then removed from the office, in custody of the gaoler. The quantity of rats with which the neigh bourhood of Bury is infested has become a very serious evil. The fields and hedge-rows swarm with these noxious ver min, and their ravages in the new-sown wheat and the turnips have been very considerable. Upon one farm, near Bury, not less than two thousand hare been killed, awl upon another eight hundred since Michaelmas. It is the common practice of farmers to offer a bounty of twopence each on the tale of rate, to all who may choose to bring them ; and at this rate a number of persons have found ample employment. In consequence of the dryness of the autumn, the vermin have not yet taken shelter in the barns but when they do, the mischief they will occasion, unless materially reduced in number, must be immense. One cause of this plague, for such it may be termed, has been the wet summer, always favourable to the multiplica tion of the species, but a still greater cause is the destroy tion of stoats, weasels, polecats, arid other animals naturally preying on the rat, for the purpose of preserving game, which thus becomes doubly injurious to the produce of agriculture.—Norwieh Mercury. The following curious story is told of an old I n dy living in Buckinghamshire. Some time ago the hus band of this ancient dame died without making his will, for the want of which very necessary , precaution his estate would have passed away from his widow, had she net re sorted to the following expedient to avert the loss of her property. She concealed the death of her husband, and prevailed upon an old cobbler, her neighbour, who was in person somewhat like the deceeAcd, to go to bed at her house an d personate him, in which character it Wal agreed that he should dictate a will, leaving the widow the estate in question. An attorney was next sent for to draw up the writings. The widow, who on his arrival appeared in great affliction at her good man's danger, began to ask ques tions of her pretended husband calculated to elicit the answers she expected and desired. The cobbler, groaning aloud, and looking as much like a person going to give up the ghost as possible, feebly answered, " I intend to leave you half my estates, and I think the poor old shoemaker who lives opposite is deserving the other half, for he has always been a good neighbour." The widow was thunder struck at receiving a reply so different to that which she expected, but dared not negative the cobbler's will, for fear of losing the whole of the property, while the old rogue in bed (who was himself the poor old shoemaker living opposite) laughed in his sleeve, and divided with her the fruits of a project which the widow had intended for her sole benefit.....-Rucks Gazette. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 4. MACDONA LD V. DALE. The defendant in this action is a cart-owner, and engaged with the plaintiff to carry twelve puncheons of turpentine from Battersea to the latter's warehouse in the Borough, on a certain day. The defendant did not do so, and the plaintiff now brought his action for breach of contract. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the defendant. LIBEL. -BROWN V. BUDD AND WILLIS. This action was brought by Samuel Brown, a chip and straw bonnet manufacturer in Old-street, St. Luke's, against Budd, who also carries on the straw business, in the same neighbourhood, and Mr. Willis, an attorney, to recover damages for a libel published in the form of a baud bill. The plaintiff, it appeared, had extensive dealings, and at the end of last year, a failure having taken place in the sale of the articles in which he dealt, he became embarrassed, and Budd sued out a commission of bankruptcy against him. Budd was then made assignee, and Mr. Willis the attorney under the commission. Acting in those situations, they considered it their duty to publish handbills, offering a reward of 20/. to any person who .might discover and convict individuals suspected of having fraudulently obtained the bankrupt's property. The and-bills were circulated in the east end of the metropolis, and posted near the residence of the plaintiff. The hand-bill «•:►s described to he a se rious and unjustifiable attack on the plaintiff's cha racter, and it was contended that the jury in such a case ought to give ample damages. The .Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, as against Budd.---Damages, .50/. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 4. LIPSCOMB V. GRAHAM. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, for merly a labourer in the defendant's service, to re cover compensation in damages for an arrest arid false imprisonment, on suspicion of having stolen lead and other articles from the defendant. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS stated the case, from which it appeared that the defendant was a gentle man of property, residing at Cranford, near Houns low, and having been robbed of lead, his suspicion fell upon the plaintiff, hearing he had spoken to a man named Cliceseman, who had absconded on the morning of the robbery, and on that suspicion he gave the plaintiff in charge to an officer named Vincent, representing lie suspected the plaintiff be longed to the Fulham gang; the officer, of course, thought lie was a desperate character, and to make his prisoner secure, handcuffed him ; but after he had detained him at the public-house three hours he discharged him, because the defendant would not pursue the inquiry against the plaintiff. If he proved these facts the plaintiff would be entitled to a verdict. Evidence was called to prove the arrest and sub sequent discharge of the plaintiff; after which the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff---Datnag e; :, Twenty Pounds. HEAD POLICE-OFFICE, DUBLIN.- Pouncs.---Two ragged old female politicians, named Bridget Murphy and Dorothy Mooney, ap peared before one of the Magistrates of this office, on Friday last, to have his decision as to an assault alleged to have been committed by Mrs. Mooney, on the person of Mrs. Murphy, out of motives purely of a political and religious nature. Please your Worship, said Mrs. Murphy, here I am, 1 am an Orangewoman and a Brunswicker since I was born. All belonging to me are Orangemen and Orangewomen, and I'll stick to the Brunswickers as long as 1 live. The MAGISTRATE requested her to come to the charge. Mrs. Murphy—l'll come to it time enough, I have a son an Orangeman, and another lad of mine died in the good old cause. Now, •our Worship, this is Mrs. Mooney, who is quite a different sort of woman, she's an Emancipationer. "MmasTßATE—What has that to do with the as sault ? Every thing in the world said Mrs. Murphy. MAGISTRATE—Indeed. Mrs. Murphy—Oh I believe it, she swears that when the Americans come over, that we will lose our Constitution, that we are a parcel of heretics, and that every Protestant in the world will go to the devil. MAGISTRATE—shockino.. Mrs. Murphy—(lna half whisper.) They all believe it your worship. Down with the poor Pro testants is the motto your worship, we were together On Thursday morning talking about politics as usual, when I began to sing King William over the water to rise her, you see. Mrs. Mooney—Yes, and you gave me a slap in the face along with it, you see. Mrs. Murphy—l know I did. But I had not got on with the first verse when she called me an old Protestant something that I won't mention, kicked me down stairs and hauled me into a yard, where she sheaved me an oven, and swore that if it was hot she would roast me in it until she made me a kiln dried Protestant. There's emancipation for you, said Mrs. Murphy, flipping her fingers. Mrs. Mooney—All a joke, your Worship, I'd die for my country, but I had no more notion of roasting Mrs. Murphy than I had of roasting your Worship. MAGISTRATE—This is the entire of your com plaint ? Mrs. Murphy—Yes, your `Worship; all politics. MAdtsTitATE—l am afraid that in order to put an end to those political differences, I must bind you both over to keep the peace. Mrs. Murphy—ls it me ? usage for a friend to the Constitution. Mrs. Mooney—lf we had Emancipation I would not be treated this way. Peace-officer Heartly here took Mrs. Murphy by the shoulder, and had achieved the .difficult task of getting her to the lobby, when she complimented him with a smack :on the chops which drew tears into his eyes, and swearing that he was as big a Papist , as any in the country, flew over to Lynch, sen. (who is a Roman Catholic,) and after invoking a blessing on his honest Protestant face, declared he was exactly the sort of a man she would wish to go round the world for sport with. Mrs. Mooney, on her removal from the Board room, assured the officers that there was no justice to be had for people of her persuasion in this coun try. She however declared, that the moment she got out she would fee Counsellor O'Connell, and if he didn't make them all smoke the world was at an end. Both ladies were bound in their recognizances, and suffered to go abroad to settle the affairs of the nation as they pleased.—Saunders's Dublin News Letter. Several persons have been seen, within these few days, crying primroses about the streets. HUNTINGDON GA 0 L.—William itichford, one of the four prisoners who made their escape from Huutingdon Gaol, has surrendered himself: Ile states that, after getting clear of the gaol, they wandered in the fields all night, which was extremely dark, that they lost their way, and in the morning found themselves not more than four miles t - rotti the prison, They walked all day, and towards evening reached Milton House, near Peterbo rough, where Smith, the horse-dealer, being a Yorkshire man, introduced himself to some Of Lord Fitzwiliiam's Yorkshire servants, by whom the whole party were re galed. The next day they reached Stamford, but were afraid to enter the town, and passed it by the outskirts.— They soon after sold the knife which had assisted them in their escape for threepence, with which they bought bread. Their hunger became so great that Smith said they meat steal another horse to get the means of support ; but the difficulty was how to pass the turnpikes, as they had no money to pay the tolls. That night they slept in a lane, and Weldon) became alarmed at the projects he beard his companions suggesting, and determined to give himself up. lie accordingly made back to Stamford, and delivered him self up. It is expected the other three will be soon ap prehended. SHIPPING INTELLIOENCM LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, DECEMRE-R. 8.6. x' water 51 minutes past three.—A, rora, Rawlands, from Pietou ; Margaret . from Messina ; Atlas, Dixon, from Pares -- from Lisbon ; Dido, —, from Rankin, Wishart, New Brunswick ; from Quebec ; Regent, Cargill, from M rite, Irons Charleston ; Peter and Johr Padstow. CLEARED OUTWARDS.....-aho Jams Demerara; M'Master, for Africa. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Dec. This day's market exhibited but a throughout ; each kind of meat met ready sale, at the following prices per go; the Wilds:— Beef --3 s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. I Mutton -- 3 6 4 6 Pork ----. The foregoing quotations are, Veal at an al s'one ; Beef, Mutton, and Pork the same as night. A considerable number of Sheep and market tinso!d. HAI I,SHAM MARK ET.—Dee. 4d. to 4s. 01. I Mutt0n.......-- 3 8 4 8 I Perk ...—..— A great supply, and a very dull Our Christmas Cattle Show, which tool emhraced a great number of remarkabh The finest heifer prize was awarded to ringe, of Hellingly ; the first ox prize Langford, of Eastborne ; the second heil Ful'er ; the best runt Prize to Mr. John Pu lington ; the best cow prize to Messrs, Dempster ; the second to Mr. B. Black steer prize to Mr. Daniel Lade; the eecol man ; the first two-years-old sheep prim man ; the second to Mr. Hurst ; the first Lamb ; and the second to Mr. Wm. Arkc, - os.(P, nd S. S.F."'; Irrired ill • i d • d • A Higbfiele) ; ansibo ; • m Newk. , Promise, Mirstnicki; ins tit kit Dec. 3. w;• t, moderate with a ins of 81b. 4s. 44. to I 4 if advance , is on this .nd Beasts • )ec. 3. .. - o 0s: oil t o trade. ook place bap fine %. ) Mr. Jacoi r to Mr. ifer, prize ; Pollard, el , I , re. Deno . , e 4 •krnau )nd to Mr. to to Mt. teg pry .col. • , ec. 'o os. ai. 0 ) • 1 STEYNING M A RKET.—Dec. 3s. (id. to 4s. &I. yeal Beef ..- Muttoi A moderate supply, ARUNDEL M, 8gef„............. 3s. 4d. to 4.3. 4d. Mutton ...—. 8 6 4 ti Supply good. 1 4 4 and a sluggish trade. CHICHESTER M ARKET.—Dee. " i Beef .—..--- :Is. `.M. to 4s. 4d. Veal Mutton —...---..... 3 .6 4 4 Pork— A go - d — supply, and a dull tra e. In Lean ''' RUMFORD MAltl(l7l'.—Dee. r. d. to s. d. Beef 1 2 4 4 1 Veal Mutton 3 4 '4 6 Pork *tickling Calves from Its. tons.; Quarter of Supply limited, and trade IN ARKET.—Oec. 2. , 0 01 1 Od. - Pork 4 0 , and trade dull. —Dec. 3. to e , ' Stoci ' C ' little O t Dec. & I ra• Figslss to 1 tk, brisk. Kq ING 'THY. Oat& Ber kei t , to a . s, ` illl 11 24 :10 40 t 24 Kt 48 5 ..? 90 30 34:,4 1 20 24 23 Is 39 4 11 22 28 40 ; C 19 27 4 0 , 28 ••• 18 25. 3 1 . 22 36 ••' • .._ 25 22 24 5 ! X2_ 26 26 Lv 13 26 op -Dec. $. 'heat, and b$ ' ities may be 4 ,n; xiptions vref e l ek. Altbour . . r e best son& ' t ; • ind middlieod, ;belling, and T laterial alter' .. .. 725. to • 4 ..... 355. to 1, I ........ 34e. to ' ▪ 40e. to Sts. I▪ STI isd. to i 64 mo t to ir —l. I' * 4 CI it. 11s. Od.1 0 : 10 9 -.I • 10 a II) 6 L k 0 10' 19 0 COUNTRY CORN MARKITIS DUI4I 'Wheat. BarleT. rer Quarter. s. to s. 8. to 8. 8. Blandford 77 71 80 35 '4O 24 Cambridge---- 77 35 Chard —...---_ 55 70 32 38 24 Huntingdon...—. ffi 70 29 30 90 Long Sutton-- 56 74 20 Louth Lynn— 60 70 32 34' Z 1 Newark 70 77 36 38 19 Nottingham 79 47 Peterbormigh * 73 37 40 18 Plymouth 65 80 35 42 22 Pontefract— 76 :i9 Sleafoni lit - 0110am —.— 73 84 33 42 26 ‘Nisbech 64 75 92 28 15 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—D We bad but a inniisrats faiinnly of Who. We bad but a moderate supply of WI air demand for that article, good quail Is. per (pram r dearer, but other desci at much the same prices as last week. arrival of Barley was not large, yet the slow side at Is. per quarter decline, an! samples were quite unsaleable. Oats, 8 were in very limited request, and no mal their prices. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffiilk, 601 b. • York. and Lincoln. 60Ib. Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding • Beans 63lb. Oats, I'otatoe --Mealing, Foreign 15d. to 1b34d....En103711 . Shelling Rapeseed, English, 28/. to 3. - 0. Foreign, Barley, LIVERPOOL CORN =CHANG WHEAT, English, White, per 7011). Red - Scotch, Wcich, and Manx .... ... Irish, White Foreign OATH, English, Welsh, and S^otch, ter 4519.... 4 0 - Irish - Foreign lO j BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 44 0 il --- Scotch and Irish, per 6011.4. ... --- Feeding 5 0 13isaxs, English, per Imperial quarter .. ....... - Irish, &c. - Foreign 1 PEA se, English, per Imp er i a l q u a rt er 4B 0 ij Foreign English, per 2801 b. 6O 0 a do" - 0.1 , ---- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 24Mbs 36 0 .s ~-. INDIAN CORN, per 440th. 3l 0 4 $ o RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, par Imperial quarter IMPORT Or GRAI N f or th e W eex en di ng D ec. 1. Wheat.l Oats. Barley. Fl our . . 0 Qrs. Qrs. Qr s . !Foreign, 13es 'lrish, &c. St-1t5.91 7,464 4,095 1;93 - 3,403 MANCIIESTEh sm TH F lELD.—Dec. S. , At per lb. sinking the offal. l e; 3,filS 4id. to exl. I 22 yo b 769 Cattle —.. 3 51 I 192 Pigs MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET.—Nev , Potatoes, ss. Od., (is. Od., and 7a. al. per load of IS AT, 121bs. ; New ditto, Os., Os. Od., and Os. Od. per ditto ; ss. at., (is. Od. and is. fxl. per load of 16 pecks; Onions, Its. Od., and 10s. per 12 score. MANCHESTER YARN MARKET —Dec. 9. r '' ,, tl 40 .....—.... II `! 50 * ll . ' vii 70....... lt 80........... 2 g• i ) ht • 100 ....—..9 8 . t,i. I .120 —.—.. 3 - I ~ t .eti ts 10......... 1. i' 14 --... tir (24 --...10 . i . • --, ------ si , ' K MARETS.—Dec. I. - ,;„ Oatmesl, per st. *Ad, 'i• I.f, fr Peasemeal. 2 0 1 't Pot .Barley, crit.ls 0 ... s , Pearl ititto 22 e 06, tit Grey Pease 9 0 -1 , White ditto 0 0 0 4 , ~1 Blue ditto. ti ts ' HOP INTELLIGENCE. 0 t , k io l \Voile IrSTF.R., DEC. 3.—On Saturday last, 44if /: - . 4 1,ii, 4 , 1 were weighed ; line samples are more plentiful ;,.. stationary. The average prices of fine ant 80s. tio,-,.. : inferior 50s. to 70s. • e • S loi _ ~• . 4 0 On Thursday Mr. Gardiner was sentenql 1 1 ,, be confined three months in Sligo gaol, and to pil i tliv Itiq' for language having tendency to provoke Mr. Weirs ~.t gistrate, to fight a duel.—Tipperary Free Press.. A LA 7 , kk No. d. d. Th rosd e Twist, 20 .... lei to 11 40-151 1 Mule coprwisti ...ill 121 for waip 40 14 15 50 171 20 (i 0 —2O 2 2 • 70...23 2E/ 80 _27 30 Mute Cop wart.; Weft from waste GLASGOW RETAIL Beef ..per lb. N. sd. toO'. Sd. Mutt0n........... 0 4 0 6 Veal ......... 0 7 0 9 Hams 0 5 0 7 Lamb perqr. 0 0 0 0 Quartern Loaf—. 011 0 0 Flour, 1:r stone 2 0 2 8 Rye BIRTHS. f O r On the 2d inst. the lady of George Watts, E s q. 0. tester-cottag e, Clifton, of a son. a t eli er ; On the 2d inst. at Coborn-place, Mrs. James i - ,fori, land, Of Fenchurch-street, of a son, being the aniTif' both of her own birth and marriage. ' :•• MARRIED. On the 3d inst. at Marylebone Church, by 01 license, Henry Mixweil, Esq. M.P. for the collar Caran, eldest son of the Rev. Henry and Lady Anti e _ t e, well, and nephew of Lord Farnham and the'EarLP-40 0 rick, to the Hon. Anna Frances Hester Stapleton,ee daughter of Lord Le Despencer. The ceremony '0 11. ... formed lay the Hon. and Rev. Miles Stapleton, M. ig o On the 4th inst. at Whitchurch, by the Hon. an" hi Spencer Rodney, the Rev. David Rodney MUTTSYr I , eP ijf. of the late Lord Ellbank, and Rector of Brampton 01, Herefordshire, to Frances, third daughter of Jobs P. Esq. of Fret:folk-house, Hants. DIED. On the 4th inst. at Canal-grove, Old Kent-rasa' . Elizabeth Hibbert, only child of Mr. Joseph Flibbe i l t " of Hylord's-court, Crutched-friars. acharissa, only daughter of Mrs. Hibbert, of Lang, se place, London, anal of Thomas Hibbert, formerly . 0' Island of'Jamaica, deceased. • On the 27thult. after a painful and lingering 0,1? Mr. Wil Twyfor d ,n, aged 31 years, se collu surgeo_ of Mr. Josiah Twyford, Manchester. rool On the 3d instant, at his house in Gloucester plata, of, man-square, James Sutherland, Esq., formerly o f Boni aged 29. itatO On the Ist instant, ;n Park - crescent , Thomson ...- Esq. of Elnistead, Kent. t On the 2d instant, Charles Edmund , age d 12, eldest of Mr. A. A. Surtee , , of Camden Town. _.........;1001 • 01 . PEINTED and PuaLisum by MURDO YOl5l l N OFFICE, 112, &SAND, LONI/026 L'hk It , I A