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there being present, the Rev. F. Edgwortk, the Rev. M. M'Donnell, and the Rev. P. 0. Far rell, while only one clergyman of the establish ment stood forward in defence of the Reforma tion, and he deemed it prudent to disappear on the second day. There were, indeed, some•Die senting clergymen present, and one of them, the Rev. Mr. Phillips, relieved Capt. Noel in the chair the first day, and it was taken by another Dissenter, the Rev. Mr. Hall, the second.—. The Bristol Mercury introduces a long ar ti e l e with the title " Reformation Society defeated." —A resolution had, it seems, been pass e d f or forming a committee for managing the affairs of the Society, to which Mr. 'W. Harris moved the following addition : " That. it be an instruction to the said Committee to examine the Liturgy of the Church of England as by law established at the Reformation, and in use at the present day, and to report to the next General Meeting of this Society, w h et h er th ere s till rem a in in such ' Liturgy any relics of Popery, and whether it would be conducive to the principles established at the Reformati on , an d to t h e interests of this So ciety, that such veil,- of Popery should be expunged from the Liturgy, and to consider of the best means by which such expulsion may be secured." This, of course, was not the Reformation which was in contemplation, and the proposition dispersed the Meeting immediately, so that no thing was determined. The Clergy of the Es tablishment must have had a suspicion of the danger ; for, notwithstanding the boast of Capt. Cordon, that he was countenanced by the most influential Clergy of the diocese, they prudently kept out of the way. The Bristol Mercury re marks on this—" It was an odd way of counte nancing them to turn their backs upon them." The beat of the matter was, that the cause of the Established Church was thrown upon the-Popish Priests. The Rev. Mr. M'Donnell, conceiving that the Reformation Society, in a Report, had libelled the Established Clergy, pro ceeded to vindicate that body in a very amus ing manner.—" The paper I hold in my hand," he said, " is the Catholic Journal for the 24th May, and in it I find extracts- - from the Report of this Society, which, I maintain, are foul Miele on the Ministers of the Church by law established. The Committee (says the Report) cannot take leave of England without remarking, that the British Reformation Society opens the only probable channel for the con veyance of scriptural truth to the lower orders of its Roman Catholic inhabitants;—(Hear, hear.) Sir, I deny it—the Clergy of the Established Church are well known to be a pious—(A laugh)—a learned—( A laugh)—and indefati gable body of Christian teachers.—(General laughter.)—ln particular, Sir, they are univer sally celebrated for their attention to the poor— (Continued laughter)—ever willing to deprive themselves of the comforts of a well-provided table to administer to their temporal wants, thus proving the sincerity of their compassion for the spiritual infirmities of their people.—(Great laughter.)—The Committee proceed While this class of our fellow-subjects in the sister country are contemplated by every religious in stitution, and are beginning to be viewed by the Established Clergy as part of their parochial charges,' &c. What, Sir, are we to be told, that after having for nearly 300 years watched over the Reformation with pious assiduity, the Established Clergy are only beginnisig to regard the benighted Papists as a part of their parochial charges ? Sir, this is too bad—l stand up for the Clergy of the Established Church—(great laughter)—and I maintain that they are calumniated by this So ciety." The truth is, and Captain Gordon and Captain Noel have found this out ere now, no doubt, that the Church of England is more favourably disposed towards the Catholics, than to the circulators of Bibles without note or comment. The Church of England is con eidered by Foreign Protestants generally, to be not Protestant, but fundamentally Catholic, the King supplying the place of the Prince-Bishop of Rome. " The English Church," it is said in a learned and eloquent volume, published at Heidelberg, in 1826, entitled Considerations on Protestantism, " as it builds upon tradition as a substantive rule of belief obligatory on the conscience, thereby evinces her complete coinci dence with Catholicism, and acknowledges a doctrine not only foreign to Protestantism, but absolutely hostile to it." " In this Priesthood our attention is above all called to that im mutability of its nature, which fixes it under all the mutations which time brings forth to the place first chosen, which bids defiance to every innovation, whether truth or error, and amidst the incessant changes of opinions and events of a long series of generations, remains uniformly the same even in the most accidental of its forms, and At the very time when it seems to yield to the destiny with which it combats. A certain lave innocuousness into which the Episcopal Church would seem for several generations to delight, may at first sight be deemed a proof of her Innocence ; but in her interior she conceals the same poison, from which the remaining part of society was only able to free itself after con vulsions of 100 years. The same exclusive estimation of her hierarchical form agreeably to which she will recognise no visible worship of God, except that in ceremonies, and those cere monies her own ; the same claims to -authority, founded on a divine commission, which makes every independent re li g ious conviction, as a p re tension which in injur in g her, is i n j ur i ous so the Divine Majesty ; and with respect to h er relation to the State, always the same repugnance to the principle of civil liberty, and her hereditary predilection for the doctrines of unlimited poli tical subjection ; because, in the eternal concate nation of things, the latter is favourable to pros tration of mind, and the former is favourable to freedom of conscience. Its; e y a Prince like one of the Stuarts, ad a Parqoires onlliament like some of those which were at their command, to revive a Laud and a Sheldon, and it would not he necessary to seek in the personal qualities of esich men, the motives for an activity, which is to be explained by their office, and only by it, In All times th e English Clergy have had not fewer members distinguished for :virtues, and %;ot more members distinguished for vices, than the Clergy c)f other countries ; but the good or the former was peculiar to them individually, whereas the bad of the latter was a common property of their Corp orat i on ; an d h oweve r much the members of this Church may change and improve and be deserving of esteem as men, they must cease to be Priests before they can cease to be bad." Such is the opinion eeter taMed among Protestants on the Continent, of the Church of England, which, in constitution and in principle, they contend, is nearly as muc h Catholic as the Gallican Church. " A distinct al idea of the nature of the EpiSC o p Church," adds the writer, " is the more important to triery Protestant, as the more clearly will it ap pear to him from this example, that Protest. antism by no means consists in the mere set tine aside of the authority of the Pope, or a l mere changes of certain hierarchical forms. More or less incompatible with all changes, it never owes its existence to the mere absence of any one of these forms. Religi ous restraint may be found in London as well as at Rome ; as despotism may be found in Republics as well as Monarchies. And as that people only deserve to be called free in which in dividuals are free, so that Church is alone de serving of the name of Protestant which is not only independent, but also free in each of its members, and in which the rights of conscience of each individual appear secured against do mestic constraint, as well as against foreign do minion." The very principle of recognising the authority of tradition, will always render the Established Church slow in circulating Bibles. The English Church owes the most of its peen , liarities to tradition, and appeals to a Church ' which existed and promulgated the Christian re ligion, long before,any of the Books of the New Testament were written. The consecration of the Bible alone as a rule, would shake the au• thority of much which the Church wishes to be held sacred. It is therefore quite obvious that the Reformation Society will never be cordially supported by the Clergy of the Church of Eng land, who must always be more inclined in their hearts to the Catholic Priests, than to lay inter lopers like Captains Gordon and Noel.—Morn ing Chronicle. Our readers - will observe, from our report of the proceedings of the Vice-Chancellor's Court, that the Lord Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor have very properly preferred the interests of the public to the convenience of the three distin guished Barristers on whose representation the original intention of meeting in October had been abandoned. The Vice-Chancellor informed the Bar, .yesterday, that it had been agreed on with the Lord Chancellor, that the sittings of the Court should commence on the 16th of October, and the reason assigned was, that from the great time employed in motions and cause petitions, and from little progress made in the bankrupt petitions, it was necessary that the sittings of the Court should be resumed at an earlier day than the beginning of November. What we stated with regard to the dissatisfac tion of many members of the Bar at delay is confirmed by his Honour, who very properly observed, in answer to Mr. Sugden, that " how ever personally inconvenient the earlier meeting might be to the Bar and to the Judge, there was some sacrifice due to the public." We are glad to hear that suitors are at last allowed to be something. One would have supposed, from the language previously used, that suitors were merely for the convenience of the Court and the Bar, and not the Court and Bar for the conve nience of suitors.—lbid. Though there has not been the same degree of mawkish sensibility shown in the case of Corder as there was in that of Thurtell, there has been by far too great a disposition to credit his asser tions, and, as it were, to sympathise with his sufferings. Among other things, his confession has been taken for granted; though it is just as likely to have been untrue in its detail as his de fence was. They were both made under the same asseverations of truth. The one is now acknowledged and proved—what no one ever doubted it to be—a vile and wicked fabrication ; and so may his assertion be that he had not the poniard about him at the time of the murder. Can any one doubt that he inveigled his victim from her home on purpose to murder her ? Does any one believe that he took with him the loaded pistols for any ether purpose ?—And yet he would have the world believe that " when they left her father's house they began quarrelling about the burial of the child, and other sub jects ; that a scuffle ensued, and that at the time she had hold of him, he took the pistol from his side-pocket, and fired; that he had no sharp instru ment about him at the time ; and that no other wound but that made by the pistol was inflicted by him." We do not deny that circumstantial evidence must always be received with caution ; and that, in the case of the post mortenz examination of a corpse so far decomposed as this appears to have been, great reserve should he attached to the testimony of even surgical witnesses. But if this man's confession is to be believed, why did he not explain the purpose for which the sword had been sharpened, and the purpose for which the pistols were - loaded ? and why did he not ac knowledge or explain away the lie by which his victim was induced to leave her home, in the disguise, too, which he compelled her to assume ? In Short, where a whole transaction is bottomed and carried on in falsehood ; and when, after his doom is irrevocably sealed, the hard-hearted monster has the hypocritical assurance to treat confession as a Popish ceremony, to which his fine Protestant feelings are opposed, it is not at all too much, or at all uncharitable, to assume that he who has been " a liar from theibeginning," may have been so to the last ; and that the very last falsehood he utters is resorted to to throw a doubt over the testimony of those whose evi dence went so far towards producing the just judgment with which his crimes have at length been visited.—Morning Herald. The resignation of the Lord High - Admiral, and the causes which led to it, are the subject of universal remark, and we may also add, so far as we have been able to acquire a knowledge of the general feeling, of universal regret. The conscientious and upright manner in which his Royal Highness discharged the duties of his high office—the determination which he mani fested, from the commencement, not to permit any undue influence to displace the juster Claims of merit, as a certain Hibernian Se cretary can testify—the numerous wrongs which he redressed, and was engaged in redress ing —the uniform attention, bringing with it, as a necessary consequence, attention on the part of others, which he bestowed on every department of the Navy—and last, ' though not least, the affable and condescend ing manner in which he listened to the oppressed and to the needy—all tended to render his Royal Highness as great a favourite with the Navy as the late Duke of 'York was with the Army, and to inspire the country with hopes that it would be rescued from the state of degradation to which a nd T,estorei . once mor e t o i ts f ormer al it '6 3 4 been consigned by th e m i n i ons o f corrup tion,soepa.a.oveur.4 m ß i t i l i t t.ar t y h e ve s e r e m hopes ier n h d a v a e d _ciency at.militar G 1 d that the army s h a l l hav e Government — it at the flors Guards the ascendancy, and the Duke of Cl arence, ovNeVreumhen is the or d er of the day in accordance with it, has been dismi sse d.— The next step, we presume, will be to pl ace a General Officer at the head o f th e Navy— at least there will be no more isonsisteney in such a step than in having a military chief as the head of the Government, and another as Secre tary for the Colonies. The b a nk-paper gentry ought, therefore, to be on the look out ; for as times go, here is no hope for them. The present Premier is a man of decision ; and it cannot, ill consequence, be suppos:ed for a mome nt that he will tolerate in his Cabinet gentlemen who haVe not made up their minds respecting what they are to do. The next question is, who will be Lord High Admiral ? We answer, no one. The same jealousy which dismissed the Duke of Clarence will effectually interpose to prevent the appoint ment of another. Mow then is the Navy—we write the word advisedly—to be disposed of?— To Lord Melville ? The very name stinks in the nostrils of the country, and is a terror to every well-wisher of the Navy'. Who then ? We know not ; but that it will be a creature of the great Chief there need be no doubt ; and that Chief will be ousted in no great length of time is as certain, as that in no instance but one has he wielded the immense power with which he has been invested, either to the . satisfactio n , or to the benefit of the country.—Morning Ad vei fixer. CORDER. 1 t is desirable, before tl►e Phrenologists can sit as a Jury upon the head of this miscreant, or interpose their sophisms between the public eye and his heart, that his real character should be embodied. The subject is, indeed, revolting, but it may be rendered instructive. Many of the facts of the case are fraught with weighty and solemn warnings. What could more clearly demonstrate an overruling Providence than the ground taken by Corder for his defence ? He was not ignorant of the difficulty of identifying the body of his victim. That ground of defence if not tenable, was tempting, in a case so despe rate ; whereas the pretence of suicide had, in the form he advanced it, all human probabilities against it. And yet this cool, calculating villain was not permitted to see this self-evident fact. The God who de►►ounces murder in his Word, pre vented, by his Providence, the murderer from escaping ; and made that line of defence which convicted him, the means of bringing him to confession. The idea of leaving the odium of self-murder on the memory of his victim, found one unbroken chord in his conscience, and wrung from it, in spite of all his hardened effrontery, a fidl acknowledgement of his guilt. Is not this the finger of God ? Men may flatter themselves in an opinion, that they could resist or evade any process of conviction in the case of an un witnessed crime ; and, had the Omniscient Wit ness no power over the strength and stratagems of a vitiated heart, they might, at times, defy detection. But all hearts are in the hand of God, and he can turn them from their purpose in a moment. By recalling an old feeling of past times, or by awakening a new fear of eternity, he can make the most col lected and callous sink like Corder, or start up in their true character, like Satan at the touch of Ithuriel's spear. "Be sure your sin will find you out," is one of the general laws of the Divine government, which neither felons nor fiends can resist, when the moral purposes of that Government require their confession or ex posure. Corder could out-brave his conscience at Ealing, although, like the retreats of Nero, it must have rung with the shrieks of his victim by night and by day ; he could outface all the soleninities of his trial and condemnation, and attempt to play the hero before scowling thou sands ; he could cant against popery, and express his scorn for Methodists, (save the mark !) whilst the sentence of death was on his head ; but one simple and natural thought—the blasted memory of his victim, broke up at once the whole prison-house of his desperate soul. Much has been said as to the moral influence of the speech addressed to Corder by the Judge. The hope that a better world was opening to receive the murderer, if penitent, has been arraigned as unwarranted, and as necessarily in jurious to society. And it certainly was unwar ranted by any thing in the character or spirit of the murderer. He had manifested no signs of penitence or principle at the time. Indeed, all penitence, in such cases, is a Very equivocal thing. The duty cannot be too warmly, if wisely, pressed upon felons: but the less they say about the symptoms of scaffold-repentance, the better. The Saviour alone had a right to say to a dying malefactor, " This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." It must be admitted, however, that a Judge is placed in a peculiarly delicate position, when passing sentence of death. Were he to manifest no sympathy, he would be regarded as unfeeling. It should, however, be rigidly confined 'to wishes, prayers, advices, and warnings, and never become the open expression of hopes. Hoping may allowed to alleviate, in the mind of the Judge, the pain with which he per forms his trying duty ; but he as much owes it to his country to keep his hopes within his own bosom, as to himself to indulge them for his own relief. The public need no help in the matter of hoping the best. They will go quite far enough in that exercise without an example from the Bench. That example is, of course, always well meant, however unwisely shewn. It is not, however, the only thing connected with the death of felons which requires to .be modified ; for, if the hope expressed by the Judge tend to lessen public horror or dread of felony, what must the administration of the Holy Sacrament suggest ? It is, us appointed by Christ, the emblem, pledge, and seal of eternal salvation ; and whilst that is given to felons, it is worse than folly to condemn the warm-hearted hopes of a Judge. This act would defeat any impression that a Judge could make on the public mind, were he even to express the strongest fears of the final state of the murderer. Whilst the Clergyman is bound to carry the Sacrament to the cell, it is of little consequence what is said on the Bench,—unless, indeed, the Bench should thunder a solemn pro test against this use of the Sacrament. When it does that, it will be echoed back by louder thunder from all the Oracles of God ! One thing must be added to these hints. Who was the first seducer of Maria Marten ? Is he alive ? Has he a conscience 2 The Red Barn is the goal of that career into which he led her ! He thought not of this, nor intended it. True : but it is not less true that all seduction tends in some way to this issue. And what a hell on earth must every man endure who lives to see the victim of his lust become the victim of another man's blood. thirstiness, and that man hurried into Eternity to meet the spirit, which he hurried into it more suddenly ! Truly the way of transgressors is hard ! And by nothing is this more clearly seen by realizing what must be the conscience of a seducer when his victim is murdered, and her murderer executed.— The TUE H A RVEST.—The weather, we are sorry to say, continues unfavourable ; very few of the farmers in our vicinity have made wheat-ricks. We still believe that the injury sustained is not extensive. At Mark-lane on Monday, the sales were very languid. The prayer " for fair weather" has been read in some of the Churches of this city and neighbourhood, The Assize of bread has been raised here one penny in the quartern loaf.— Worco - -- ter ,hurnal, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—A young -Irish girl named Eliza Dillon, was charged with endeavouring to defraud a young woman, under the old pretence of fortune-telling. The complainant is a married woman, with two chil dren, and keeps a shop in the neighbourhood of Moor fields, where she sells parasols, umbrellas, gloves, &c. On Thursday the prisoner came to the shop under pretence of having an umbrella that wanted mending, but she soon made it appear that this was a mere subterfuge, for she shortly set about inquiring whether the complainant was at all desirous of being apprised of her " future luck." The complainant, with ;the curiosity attendant to her sex, appeared to desire to alive into the secrets of fu turity, and the would-be Sybil, catching at the opportu nity, observed that her charms could not he set at work without the possession of gold, and she intimated that a sovereign would be necessary to be placed in her posses sion before she could, perform witchcraft, as she termed it; the complainant, however, did not possess a sovereign, but she took her wedding ring from her finger and de posited that with the prisoner; with this the charm was tried, but with no effect, and, after muttering some unin telligible stuff, the prisoner declared that the ring was not gold, and therefore the charm would not perform, and before it would perform she must have some silver. The complainant was. not supplied with any silver coin even ; but the prisoner, nothing daunted, see seeing a silver thimble on the counter, observed that that might even have the desired effect. The complainant was silly enough to let her have the thimble. She then left the shop for a minute or two, and returned, saying that the complainant would receive '7l. very shortly-21. she would find in a day or two under the counter, and the remainder she would receive by a pound being sent to her every month. The complainant was very much pleased with this piece of news ; and the prisoner suggested the pro priety of her consulting the oracle again, but intimated that she must have a pocket-handkerchief that she saw lying nu the table to tie round her neck, before she could again pro duce the charm. This was complied with, and the pri soner returned again, saying that the complainant would marry a second husband shortly, and would have seven more children. Mr. Alderman FA RESROTHER—And pray when did you lose your first husband ? Complainant-s-Oh, Sir! he is alive, and in Court at this time. Alderman l'Anrnamana—Well, then, this was very pretty intelligence for him, certainly. The Complainant--Yes, Sir—(loud laughter) ; but I was not going to be cheated by her ; for she then asked me a third time to consult the oracle, for the doing which she took an apron which she caught her eye upon, and left the place, and was just making off with it, but I gave an alarm, and had her stopped. Alderman FAREBROTHEIR-And about time, I think ; for you must have been a very weak woman to have endured it so long. . . The applicant, who was the only person who kept a steady countenance during the whole of her narrative, re plied, yes, Sir, it was time that I put a stop to it. :Mr. Alderman FA REBROTHER—Nocv pray, Mistress Conjuror, what have you got to say to all this ? Prisoner —Why, sure, I merely weut in to ux the price of mending the umbrella, and then the woman would give me the ring from:her finger, and threepence into the bargain to tell her her fortune, and that is all I have to say. Complainant—Oh you bad woman, did you not promise me it I would give you something more, that you could get the witches to grant me any thing that I wished ? Alderman FAREBROTHER said that it was a pity that the prisoner had not cast her own nativity before she set about that kind of office for others. There was sufficient evidence, certainly, to commit her for trial for, larceny, in stealing the articles mentioned; but, perhaps, the shortest and best way would be to send her at once to the tread mill for three months, and that would give her time to re flect. He therefore adjudged her to be committed under the Vagrant Act to Bridewell for three months. An old Irishman named Denis Mahony, who was for merly in the Navy, applied to the Alderman for " a little bit of relief." Mr. Holder (recognising the applicant as an old cue• torner), why, Mabony, you are a long while before your• time. You know when you were here last you signed a promissory note not to come again for twelve months, aid that will not expire until November. Mu.hony—Ali, true; but look how bad the weather has been. Alderman FAREERCYTHER-But what has the weather got to do with your application 7—Mahony—Qh! faitte and it has every thing to do with it ; but I would have no occasion for relief if you would only just recommend me to the Duke of Clarence, the Lord Ili& Admiral, who would put me in a place directly. Mr. Holder—l am afraid you are rather too. late, for I am just informed that his Royal Highness has resigned his office. Maliony (scratching his head significantly)—Then faitte I think he is a fool fur his pains; but, how ever, if I had what I deserved, I should be appointed in his stead ; and I did once apply to the King about it, but he was going through the Park in such a great devil of a hurry, that he would not wait to speak to me. After a few jocular remarks, Mahony was furnished with some few articles of clothes and a trifle of money ; but he departed, nevertheless, still thinking that he had some chance for the office of Lord High Admiral. BOW-STREET.—A native of Switzerland was this mornings brought before Mr. Hails, the sitting Magistrate, charged by the proprietor of a public-house, with ordering gin and beer for himself and four others, and afterwards with refusing to pay the same. This was positively denied by the foreigner, who insisted he was a stranger to the persona who ordered the spirits, and that he was merely invited to partake of some with them, when they ran off and he was secured. The landlord should have taken his money when he gave the spirits. Mr. HALLS did not believe the prisoner's statement ; but could not interfere. Then, turning to the prisoner, in an angry tone, he said, " be off, Sir, and pay the man, or your coat will be taken off your back." fhe foreigner then retired, still insisting that he did not order the liquor. MARYLEBONE.—Francis Darling, a porter late in the employ of Mr. Scatre, of Paddington-street, was charged with the murder of Mrs. Parker, the wife of a broker, of No. 60, East-street. Margaret Hergest, the niece of the deceased, lived with her aunt. On Saturday week, about eight o'clock in the evening, the wife of the prisoner, who lodged in the house, way in the kitchen when he returned home. He came to the kitchen to her, and wanted some money of her. She refused to give it to him, because he was tipsy. He wanted 6d. or Is. and Mrs. Parker gave him 4d. Directly she had given him the money he pushed his wife into the fire place. Words had before this passed between him and his wife. Mrs. Russell, another lodger, was also in the kit chen, and the prisoner also gave her a push on her inter fering between them. The prisoner then became quarrel. some and called her a —. She desired him to leave the kitchen if he did not know how to behave himself, and she then left the kitchen herself to procure the attendance of a constable, and that was all she knew of the matter. Buckeridge, the officer, said that Mrs. Russell, who saw the whole transaction, was not here; he believed she was purposely kept out of the way. Mrs. Edwin was at Mrs. Parker's house on the evening in question. She saw Mrs. Parker, Mrs.,Ratssell, and the prisoner, scuffling together. She was an ,natich alarmed' that she got out of the window and cried out " Murder h and that was all she recollected. The, prisoner caught hold of her hand, but she believed it was by mistake. George Hooper was then called. He lived at 62, East-- street, and heard the alarm of the murder. On going to the house be saw Mrs. Parker walking in the passage in a state of stupidity. Ile inquired what was the matter ? Parker said lie be if he knew. He heard the cries of murder in the kitchen, and on going down, lie met Mrs. Russell with nearly all her clothes torn off. He met a young man named Dobson at the foot of the stairs. The kitchen-door was shut, and there were cries of murder within. He assisted Dobson to break open the door. The prisoner immediately came to the door with a poker in his hand, and struck Dobson with it on the head. Mrs. Parker also came to the door, and while she was standing there, the prisoner lifted up the poker with both his hands, and struck her on the right side of the head. She staggered against a wall ; she gave a deep groan, but said nothing. The pri soner did not say anything. The prisoner bad followed a young man named Casilick into the area, and had gut him down, and was about to strike him with the poker, when the other persons prevented it, and took him into custody. George Dobson heard the cry of murder, and on going to the house, he met a person, who said, for God's sake don't go down stairs, he has got a pistol, and will murder you. He did go down, and almost immediately received a blow from the prisoner with a poker, which stunned him against the wall. He afterwards recovered, and follo•ed the prisoner into the area, and stayed his-arm at the moment lie was making a deliberate blow at Casilick, who like himself had gone there to prevent, if possible, the prisoner's doing mischief. Mr. Spencer, living at 66, East-street, said, that he heard the cry of murder, and as he was leaving the house, his wife said, " Oh, never mind, it is nothing more than is customary at Parker's." He, however, went. He saw :M1•. Parker intoxicated ; he had just got cut of bed. He saw the scuffle below stairs, between the persons who were trying to secure the prisoner. He saw Mrs. Parker stand ing in a nook at the foot of the stairs. She said, for God's sake come down stairs and take him. Darling then struck her on the side of the head with the poker. The moment she received the blow she sunk about half way down, and groaned heavily, but said nothing. The prisoner was after wards secured in the area. lie (the prisoner) threatened vengeance against those who took • him. He was drunk, and his whole conversation was that of an angry drunken man. Joseph Casilick confirmed the statement of the two pre ceding witnesses. He gave the prisoner into the custody of Buckeridge, whom they found in East-street. Margaret Hergest re-examined—Said that herself, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Edwin, Mrs. Parker, and Mrs. Darling, were in the kitchen, when the words first commenced, but before the blows were given she left to fetch an officer, fearing there would be a disturbance. Mrs. Edwin re-called—She was on a visit to Mrs. Russell. Mrs. Parker had asked them to dine with her. Mrs. Darling was also with them, and they had all been drinking. Darling came in and wanted money. She re fused to give it, and a dispute arose. Darling called Mar garet Hergest a bad name, anti Mrs. Parker told him to go out of the room, but whether she pushed him or not she could not say. She left the room before they had pro ceeded to blows. Buckeridge said the prisoner was given into his custody on the evening of the 2.1 inst. fur killing a woman. The prisoner said he had been very ill-treated, and came with him as quiet as a child. When the deceased was taken to the hospital, the surgeon said she would not live. She lingered in the hospital till yesterday, and then died. lie produced the poker with which the injury had been inflicted. It was bent, an nearly broken in two at the . lower end. This, at present, was all the evidence brought forward, and the prisoner was remanded till to-morrow (this day. ) MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a poor little child, not five years of age, was brought before Sir GEo. FAR KANT, by Chifney, one of the officers of the Alendicity Society, under the following circumstances :—Chifney stated, that in consequence of a gentleman tellling him that there had been a miserable little child exposed, for the purpose of exciting alms, for the last ten days, in the neigh bourhood of Hanway-yard, Oxford-street, he proceeded thither, and brought away the little girl now before his Worship. He had learned from the neighbours that the poor little creature had been exposed for the last fortnight to the incessant rains, without shelter, barely clad, and scarcely any shoes to her feet,—and this to satisfy the ra pacity of her unnatural parents. He (Chifney) had learned from the child that she seldom took home, daily, less than two or three shillings, and that she was sent out to beg in the morning at an early hour, and did not return home till the evening. . . . The child, who appeared in an ill state of health, but possessing an interesting countenance, replied to a question put by Sir Gvo. FAKRANT, that her mother's name was Catherine Wilcox, and lived in Church -street, St. Giles's. Chifney was sent to this address, and shortly returned with the mother, whom he recognized as an old convicted vagrant, in his custody. He stated that, upon entering the woman's room, he found her and ten other beggars feasting off hot joints of meat and no inconsiderable quan tity of beverage, to make the carousal complete. He added; that it was impossible to imagine the money these wretclies obtained by exciting the commisseration of the public in behalf of their miserable offspring. Sir GEORGE FA RRANT asked the woman, who is a native of Ireland, and well clothed, compared with her child, why she did not apply for relief to the parish?' The woman said she had, but was refused. Sir GEORGE FA RRATtIT.......That is because you refuse to be passed to Ireland. I shall commit you to prison for one month, and if you are found again offending, you will be sent for a longer period. She was committed accordingly, and the child directed to be taken care of at the workhouse. . • MARCEI OF PIETY. TAUNTON POLlCE.—Joshua Berle was summoned before the Bench for assaulting his rib. Charlotte Merle, a young woman of sallow complexion and lugubrious aspect, with a crooked nose turning upward lihe the handle of u pruning knife, was the complainant, who WU interrogated by the Bench as to the charge she had to prefer against her husband. Complainant—Why last Friday was week, and please your honour, iu the evening, he struck me with his fist and with a stick, and threatened he would stab me in the body with a knife. MAGISTRATE—Did he commit any violence afterwards ? Complainant—Oh no, please your Worship, I have not been with him since. The defendant was asked what defence lie had to make against this charge. A simple looking countryman then stepped forward and replied :—Please your Worship, I say it is all against the meetings, going about in the night, that I be so much against, when I and the children be in the bed and asleep ; we should live very happy else. Now what do you think, an please your worship ?—She stays out till eleven or twelve o'clock at night, and sometimes till two in the morning, and t'other day she and I went to meeting together, and meeting was over by half-after eight, and she told I to go home and put the children to bed, and go to bed myself, 'cause she wanted to stay about the collection and. sakerrnitent or what 'twas. MAGISTRATE-How long did she stay after you went home? Defendant—l don't know, an please your Honour. I was asleep when she came home. Complainant—An' please your Reverence, I'll tell you what 'tis, he is against the people of God, he is a persecutor, and I did'nt stay only till half-past nine. MactsrnArE—Well, you should not have stayed so late ; he is not against your going to meeting if you go home in proper time. Defendant—Oh, no ! Gentlemen, we should live happy enough if she did not stay about so late at night, as I said ; your Worship, she told me to go home and put the children to bed, and I thought to myself 'twas a very curious thing to I, that she should want to send I home to bed, and she to stay behind ; why your Worship, I cur woundily afraid, with these Methodees I should lose my wife altogether one of those days; and if I have a wife, I should like ror her to go borne with I. —(Laughter. ) Complainant (lifting up her hands, and casting a look of wrath at her Lord and .lfaster. )—He do belie me, Gen tlemen, an, please your Honours, I would be parted from him; he have misused me many times before I went to meeting. _ . Defendant (leering cunningly at his discontented better half.)—Lord, my dear, how can you say so, I never dis. used you in my life, and please your Honours, gentlemen, I stayed at home several times and dressed the dinner, while she went to church, and now I be disused for my goodness (with looks of anger.) Ah, you obatropolis woman !—(Much laughter.) illautsTaArE—Will you promise not to ill-treat her in future, if she will be more regular ? Defendant—Yes, your Worship. Complainant—l should wish to be parted from him, your Worship ; 'twas by law we was joined together, and by law I would be parted from him, that is my desire. Maws-TRATE—That is very uncharitable, when he pro mises so fairly ; we cannot interfere in these trifling dis putes between man and wife; you had better both go home and try to live comfortably together. Complainant then left the Court, saying she w ou ld h ave her spouse sent to prison, that she would—" I see how 'tis," said she, heaving a sigh, " they are all against - the people of God."—Dorset County Chronicle. MATCH MAKING. —Miss -------, a lady bordering on the age of desperation, and a terrible shrew to boot, was lately married to a notorious. gambler.--A gentleman expressed his surprise that she should be guilty of such an indiscretion, as it was certainly a very bad match.—" Not at all," said his friend, " for you know cards and brimstone make the best matches !".—Leeds In telligeneer. SALE OF A `MIFF.—One of these disgrace ful exhibitions took place at Over Darwen, on Monday last, in the market-place. It appears that a party of the aboriginal inhabitants of Be'thorn were regaling them selves at the Red Lion Inn, with sundry potations of " Sir John Barleycorn," when one of them, known by the cog nemen of " Soudger Bob," proposed to sell by auc tion hi s loving spouse, Air,cE o' ButiNocxs. An.cu, on her part, being, we presume, not over full of love to her liege Lord, and consequently anxious to change her mate, seemed over ' joyed at the proposal ; and without further ceremony, the Town's Crier was called in, and a paper drawn up, and solemnly signed in presence of the company, declaring that the partnership of matrimony, heretofore subsistin g be tween Soudger 808 and Attca o'BuNtsoors, w as t h„ and there dissolved by mutual consent.—AlLcx, then as suming the usual habiliments on such occasions, proceeded with her late helpmate to the market-place, where, after much bidding, she, together with her looms, clothes, pat tens, and eteetras, was,knocked down at the sum of ss, to JEIL ()TICKS &GRACE O'NUTTALS, who, forthwith took peacea bl e an d quiet possession of the lovely DESDEMONUA, and her accompaniments, declaring it was the sixteenth brick he had preen red in the Earni! way, ...—Blockbunt Muil. LONI??N.MARKETS. (From the Zondon7irek,Price Current of Friday.) Thmi, BRANDY, ANb IiOLLANDS.—The dews for Rum continues, and the late prices are fall, maintained. The sales of this week consist of Jr maiea, 34 over at 4s. 3d.; 30 over at 45.; 1713 3s. 9d., and some Le ewar d s , 7 over , at 2 s . 4d.1 Brandy is held with much firmness, but there ' few transactions to report. G eneva i s unvar i e d. ' HOW, FLAX, AND TALLow.—The demand Ali prices for Tallow continue improving;, an a dvan of Gd. to 9d. per cwt, has again taken. place, and tilt, market is firm at the improved p r i ces . Hemp rather higher. Flax unvaried. The letters from S' Petersburg!' are dated the 30th ult. Exchange , 10(1. 13-32. Tallow, 101. Bought, 1,000; ship' ped off 76,250 casks Tallow. Hemp 96 to 10.0. INDIGO.—The market continues firm, hut. there are no transactions to any extent. The October sale, is declared; it is expected the Company will 1 0 1 forward 5,000 chests, and the private trade fully 7,000 chests. ..i RICE.—The prices of Rice have advanced full, 2s. per cwt ; Carolina, 265. At the public sale yesterday of 2,400 bags Bengal middling sold 14, 5 . { a 15s. At a late h our thi s even i ng we est i mate 011 sales of Rice yesterday and this day at 10,000 bags Bengal, chiefly middling to good, 14s. a 15o.; parcel between ordinary and middling, 13s. 6d. We are not aware of any sales of ordinary ; for cargo Rice 10s. has been refused. TE.l.—Common Congous are in considerable de. mand, and bear 4d. to Id. advance on sales cost , Twankays are offered at ld.Ter lb. discount. OILS.—The prices of Sperm and Seed Oils are advancing, and the Market is firm at an improveJ quotation. Common Oils are more firm, but bye cannot quote any general advance. IRISH PROVISIONS.—In Beef or Pork there is 10 alteration. Bacon is rather more in demand. Butter` ate unvaried. COTTON.--An extensive parcel of Cotton, about 1,500 bags, has changed hands. The other sale for the week ending last night inclusive consist 0 1 630 Bengal, 41d. a 44d. ; 2,340 Surat, 3/d, a sid.i 30 Manilla, 6/d.; 630 Bowed, 50. a6ld. 70 Or leans, 6/d. a 74d.; 60 Grenada, 6,1-d. a 70. TonACCO.-•-A. sale of a parcel of Maryland fo!' export is reported at low prices, fine coloury sag yellow at 5-id. a 6d. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 19d. tot 0 3e 41b. Loaf: There are others who sell from ;,d. to I%d. WO that price. PRICES OF HOPS.—Aug. 15. Kent P0cket5........ Si. 3s. 31. Ms. to Sussex Ditto 31. Si. 81. to 3/. W. 31. 12r. to 01. Os. 51. 124. to ........02. Os. 41. 10s. to ~. 2/, Ms. N. ss. to 21. 11:1s, 31. Os. to 21. 12s. 3/. 3.. to Old Duty laid at £140,000. HA Farnham Ditto, Fine.: Seconds Kent 13, :Sussex Ditto 1 , -,sex Ditto.. 4/. 10$. 3/. 19s. 4/. 4- 1 . 61. 1O • 61. Os. 41. Os. 3/. 16s. 31. 163• WIIITECHAPEL Y 111 A RKE'r.--Aug. Hay 705.r04:ttr:931: Od. j_( lover —84 s. Od. to 112 a. I' 325. Od. to 3&. Ott PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 331. 6s. Refined -,-.£35 • Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 10 10 Rape Cake, per t0n,.,.,..we*...nr.".•••••.. 5 PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 15. New Ware 3l. 10s. to 41. 10s. per t0nL....„, PRICES OF "I.EATI4Eit. Per th. d. to d. I'er lb. d. 0 6 ' 9 8utt0.......-50 to 561 b.... '2B 21 Tanned Horse. Hides., 151 to 661 b..... 22 •' 23 Sptnish Ditto 22 Dressing Hides 15 17 Per dozen. Fine Coach Hides Skin. . ,, 19 21 "Calf 5ki.....36 to 40lb. 19 . 7 1 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 18i Ditto 50 to 701 b. 24 2 to 501 b. 1811 .21 Ditto to 801 b. 22 Si Ditto _ 20 22 - All Seals, reenland 12 Stnill RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s.sl. to s. d. Per Stone. s. tog' ti Best Heifers& Steers 3 4 3 0 Ordinary 2 0 5 0 Middlings.. .2 10 3 2 Market 8 oes PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121b.—Auip 1 5 ' 0 j. Town Tallow 425. Od. Yellow Yellow Russia.,--......385. &t. Mottled o j, White 14d Od. While . o j. Soap Ditto 375. Pd. Graves 404 " od, Melted Sas. Od. Good 5 4 * Ditto Od. PitICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, !s as follows Candles, per dos. 7s. Ckl. to Os. Od. I 'Moulds, per dozen PRICE OF RAW FAT, COAL MARX Adair's Beaumont 30 0 Burdon Charlotte 32 32 0 Heaton 35 9 Hebburn Ma! n 0 Kenton West II 6 Killingworth 35 0 Liddell's 30 3 Ord's Redhugh ...---- 29 9 Percy 29 9 Pelaw Pontop Windsor ......... 3l ti Witlington .35 '3 Wylam :3l 9 Walls End Bell and Co. 35 9 Ditto Bell Robson &Co. 35 9 Ditto Bewickeand Cu.... 36 9 Ditto Brown's, ,34 6 Ditto Burraton 34 9 Ditto Carr and Co. 33 0 Ditto Clarke and Co. 3t 0 Ditto Crarnlington , 30 6 Ditto Hilda 33 6 Ships at market, 131y,--Shii itoneot 1311).—Aug. 15. allow Mellere) Yi.'s, :El'.—..tug. 15. Walls End Newtnarcli.., 35. , 0 Ditto H0t5pur....—...., 3 4 Ditto Jeszoond Ditto Northumberland 34 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. 3 5 g Ditto 3 5 0 Ditto Russell's 3 7 0 Ditto Walker 3 1 Neskam Main*. t 5 $ I, Fttweett Main 3 2 0 Russell's 3 5 0 Walls End 3 7 q Walls End Lanibton..... 0 Walls End Lyons...—. 3 . 9 Walls End Stewart's —3„ :51., Russell'sHetton'sW.l. 0 Alloa 3 0 31 r Cowpeii _ 3=l 0 Fort. 21 Main , Hartley 9. ti Silkstone Wall 4 E. Old Etherley J• Tantield Trader , Liddell's Trader 5 ° Lord Durham's W. E. small ps sold 97 4—Unsblti. 4 t• ,- • • • COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WY-0:- Be+ 0* Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Ashburn 56 60 24 29 48 40 Basingstoke 62 '74 28 34 21 24 37 44i Bath Bridgewater —.......... 54 (2 21 26 3 5 44 Bristol 59 513 30 32 20 24 4 0 42i Chesterfield ....... 58 64 — 4 O Derby 64 66 24 27 45 ' Devizes 50 60 26 :12 23 30' 4 9 Doncaster 56 07 28 30 20 2# 43 52 . Dorchester. 5O 64 26 29 23 2 , 7 45 62 && 80 32 2.2 24 Gloucester 52 58 36 44 24. 32 36 6 8 Hungerford 48 63 26 32 IS 31 :3:3 61 31 30 -- Newbury 52 87 :30 33 22 • :34 40 Itonisey .... 55 58 30 33 26 24 Shaftesbury .......... -- 59- 25 -- 40 Shenton Mallet .. 52 58 28 30 20 30 • 35 444 Sherlsorne ...........,... 52 58 94 28 2`2 27 41 44 Taunton 51 00 26 30 20 24 40 42 Yeovil 56 GO 2t3 31) 20 26 38 4. Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 15.d.5.0. s• ‘ 1 U Zhrewsbury 10 6 11 0 00 00, 50 7u 0, BIRTHS. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Thomas Boys, of Pa ° f a son. On the 14th inst., at Burton, near Lincoln, the 'a-e o the Rev. G. Davenport Whitehead, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Bruges, the lady of G. 'PAP" Esq., of a daughter. Ho On the 13th inst,, at Densten-hall, Suffolk, the la d . * S. J. Benyon, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Warley-house, the lady o f Sit John Hawker English, of a son. On the llith inst., in Welbeek-street, the lady of ONre Blaer Hall, Esq., of a daughter. o f On the 15th inst, in Bromptan-square, the la d y i Commodore Patrick. Campbell, C.B. R.N., of a bon 11 n heir. el On the 12th inSt., at Copal!, the Countess Ito% et a son. MARRIED. On the 23d July, at Penryn, in the county of CA rfl : wall, by the Venerable Archdeacon Sheepshanks, the it e j Robert Newstead, of Cheltenham, late of the Island Ceylon, to Susan Mitchell, fourth daughter of the late Vi''' Richards, Esq., of Penryn. ri On the 14th inst., At Brighton, by the Rev. Robeoi Carr, IV. Brackenbury Felix Frederick Bean, Egl",t Clapham-house, near S ea f or d, t o F ranc es, eldest daugh t r of Joshua Walker, Esq., M.P., of Clifton, near Roth e ham, Yorkshi re , an d o f B runsw i c k-t e rrac e , Brighton. A On th e 12th inst., at Windsor, Charles Jam O' es Fr M.D. , of Hawley-square, Margate, only son of Dr. e of Plymouth, formerly physician to the London HosFis to Anne, only daughter of Capt. Guiati, R.N. . _ DIED. On the 15th inst., at his residence, Park-street , berwell, Robert FiHingham, Esq., in his 43d year. o f On the 14th inst., at an advanced age, Mrs. Tucker' Manchester-street, Manchester-square. fr / ' On the 14th inst., at Springfield, Upper Claptoll Sharp, aged 75, sincerely regretted by all who knew Sher.f 1,0 On the 14.1 k inst., at Brighton, in the 28th ye ar . .„ fl es , age, Mr. George Downes, eldest son of Mr. John Do Lawrence Pountney-lane. • On the 12th inst., at Ringle Crouch, Sandhurst, James Collins, Esq., aged 63. t , O f On the 14th inst., a t Bl ac kh ea th, of apople%/' : ro e house of his s Wro. Mello, Esq., Robert , 1 3 Esq., of Holley-grot;e, Worstead, Norfolk. t PRINTED and P UBLISHED b y MUItDO YOUN G, OrFICE, 115 i, STR.Axv, Lor4Purr, Ti on T tf ceas e Tw c , Fiv e Fou r TW g TlVerit '-~ on ili T~ i r~ 1 i„: , ski, ;°), t,, ha t, hu t , is th tun, vari,