The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(TIIIS DAY. BOW-STREET. This morning as a gentleman named Wm. Thos. trancl, was crossing the end of Cockspur-street, he felt a slight movement at his coat-pocket, and on t urning round was told by a bystander, that a man Whom the latter pointed out had been at his pocket. He seized the thief and found his purse in his hand. It contained about twenty-six shil lings in silver, and had been placed in his coat pocket to keep it separate from other money. The prisoner begged hard for forgiveness, but was given t int° the custo d y o f a consta bl e, w h o b rought him t u ere- He gave his name Willi am Whi te, b ut was "'A% to some of the officers by the name of " Elackey." Mr. HALLS immediately committed him for trial, and bound over the witnesses to prosecute. PARISH OF ST. PAUL, COVENT- GARDEN.-(THIS DAY.) for e 5 1 00.) 167 Fe, b o At ten o' c l oc k t hi s morn i ng T . H ALLS and G. at I:, t b e r 41 HI NSON, Esqrs., Magistrat es , h e ld a P e t ty S ess i ons, 1,10 ( it I t Bow- street po li c e-office, for the purp ose o f .ards ale hearing an d d eterm i ng several summonses, issued o f against certain inhabitants for no n -p a y ment o f rates. 8 f The Magistrates assembled i n th e public office, was veord Clerk iel were attended by Mr. Ro c h e , th e l ate V estry for est' " 4 11/ Mr. Corder, the present Vestry Clerk, who had sma ll 4.1. r,eeeired information from some of the defendants to way ..A or that they had been summoned, accompanied by corn eat, a ce 'rjr! Plaints of what they termed the unfairness of the expe the Proceeding, was also in attendance. ltraryt As soon as he was seen to enter the office, Mr. Roche whispered to the Magistrates, and they in for the taediately retired to a private room, into which the Pinnanio n s ji Parties summone d were ca ll e d one b y one . M r. iorn Ol Corder ent ere d w i t h t h e fi rs t d e f en d ant , on w hi c h , s. l lr. Roche said, " here is Mr. Corder !" off bri ° o Mr. HALLS asked Mr. Corder if he was sum sorts. 00 rnoned ?—Mr. C or d er : N o ; b u t I am t h e vestry were clerk of this parish, and, in a matter of so much ich 6 . 0 ' it i i t aPortanee a s t h e p ayment o f i ts rates, I consider I fHlre a right to be present to watch over the inte ices < 6. re btS of th e p ar i s hi oners at l arge. I attend, besides, yna), _J n the request of severa l o f the parties summoned, Sag%, I _who considered themselves aggrieved by being sum !. per 0 4 , .toned prematur e ly, and others by being called on is freer, f oi pay the ch urc h war d ens ' rate, which Mr. Roche P t and "lows has been declared illegal. „ j t , Mr. RocnE—Well, well, I'll abandon the church Oils IS tate ; perhaps that will satisfy this person. And in. yin t tcmv, I submit, that he can have no business here _ .ti e any l onger. ecline Mr R Mr. Corder if he was a so .eu i_relt °SIMON asked l and bei ng answere d i n t h e negat i ve, the irket sa me Magistrate asked him if h e cou ld po i nt out any cwt , i " Which directed the presence of the Vestry Clerk HerflP 1 2 4 such occasions ? Mr. Corder said he could not, ‘rld it u as then intimated to him that he must retire. 7 onDEn. said he had obtained an important the abandonment of the churchwardens' having no further wish to remain he should He then left the room. broadly stated that the parishioners sum were those who had voted for Mr. Corder. ter peace of mind nor health of body the lot of him whose life is perpetually in rou te that of other men. lave conversed with a very intelligent experienced gentleman, who has recently returned vrance, and who fully confirms what we previously both from the tone of the foreign journals, and probability of the existence of such sentiments. No assures us, is more dreaded in France than the that the British Government will concede Ca lancipation ; and the late symptoms of approach.• illation are viewed by them with apprehension proportionate to the advantages which we should , rn the cordial co-operation of millions of British ho are now disaffected, and who would, indeed, -.gall to make oppression bitter," were they not reWs tleart.—Lieerpool Mercury. On Sunday se'nnight, STANSBURY and APGILL, male and female nurses of one of the ;Ards of S t . P eter ' s Hospital, in this city, either fired by 4c'e warmth of passion, or tired by the fatigues of their in testing official duties, eloped from the Hospital, an d h ave t ,. since been heard of whether they hav e crosse d t h e h tut bs and completed their union at the h an d s o f t h e ,' t) rthern rivetter of hym e n ea l c h a i ns , or h ave taken a Otherly tour, and added to the wond er an d aston i s h ment j ett uur Gallic neighbours, remains yet a mystery. The . Ilteous fair was not young, but " love is never old ;" 4 ' l , If we may judge from the present case, not very 1 1 1 ':uPulou s where he fans his wings. The flannels and Yo ' o f th e interesting M aar were left i n the ward °' 23 , as a prize to her successor. —Bristol Journal. 6,, On Thursday a respectable b u t c h er, o f t h e ediat e neighbourhood of this city, age d 67 years, was k n 'igued to Carlisle gaol, by Joins HEYSHAM, Esq., for k:ther examination, chargtd with having assaulted, on y, tu rday night last, his servant girl, aged about seventeen 411 4r ° only, during the absence of his wife. The offence is get ted to have been perpetrated near midnight ; and the ;wears that she made all the resistance in her power, i 6d mereamed aloud ; but no one heard her. She says that ti t „ B _ 4 ,t up all night, an d ear l y on Sund a y morning men ',(l the circumstance to more than one person ; and, I,,vt consulting her friends (who reside at Wigton), applied eMagistrate in as short a period of time as possible.— ..4,141e Patriot. (k ATTEMPT AT MURDER. --DUNDALK, 6 . —On Sunday evening last, between the hours of tl, e 4 nd seven o'clock, private RICHARD APCORMICK, of t kin 1 7th Lancers, in a fit of desperation at not having oh iwed satisfacti on f or compl a i nts which he .s hasl.preferred at k t 4 nis times for the last three mont h s against Captain 4 „4) , t and Troop Serjeant-Major O'KEICIFE, of the i t ‘'e corps, entered the Serjeant-11Lijor's room, and delibe ilte,lY fired a pistol loaded with ball at the Serjeant-;lla ht Fortunately the ball passed by the side of hie ql,d) and grazed his hair. It entered the opposite wall, ere it w as w i t h difficulty extracted. 111‘Cons ricr , w h o 1, 1 1 fate young man, about twenty years of age, and con t l'ed one of the finest and best disciplined men of the s ti tnent, was almost instantly secured and lodged in the hole.-11e was taken this morning before the Magic -4r and fully cotnmitted to Dundalk gaol to take his p, l, for an attempt ut murder.—The nature of his coin itL4ds is not precisely known ; but lie charged the Ser- Q t- Major with various offences—with having struck and overcharged him for necessaries, &c. Hi s f r i en d s k lh ighly respect a ble, residing near Dublin.—Th el pri- Z , on his examination this morning before the Magis tZ. declared, that from ill usage, his life had been a q e n to him, and also declared that he was sorry from It.,.eart that the shot did not take etrect.—Saultders' 44 Letter. At a. meeting of the London Medical So -441, 0 0 the 6th instant, one of th e su bj ec t s discussed was NiNuiry whether there was any foundation for supposing N I , !surpri se , d es i re , or any emotion of the mind of a I)tcould have influence or effect on her child in utero. th q NtotONS said the subject had been a great deal before Skt tl hlic of l a t e , th r ough the medium of the newspapers. tlt r 14, be ascertained that children , could be born with '.ees,,itner's name, for instance, distinctly written in their qui; k b ' on their foreheads, this might produce a very se tau. re sult as to a number of those yet unborn,- 4 1oe hter .)—Mr. IVALLEit considered the notion to be „2 Without foundation ; first, because of there bei ng t."„Tous communication between the mother and child t A i r m % beea tie man women were frightened, and h a d t ‘ ) ,": °f diffe r e nt sorts, whose children were born without 'tp tt kd; and thirdly, because marks were found upon ~, periods of gestation, and where no particular 'l"tiO " all Of the mi n d cou ld b e di s ti nc tly traced to have It. 'd in t h e mother. Several members spo k e on t hi s c je a c _ ll , a nd many cases of marked children were brought ' - ; som e o f t h em l u di crous enough. A woman , f or i lti nc e, on the day before her deliv e ry of a nine months' wall frightened by a sailor mendi c ant raising the 1 11 P °1 his right arm before her, th e arm h av i ng been titat edt and the child was born without its right arm ! 'an cackling at another woman, a month before "it, and the child, though the mother denied .. -htened, was web fingered ! Another a mouse on its face, and whenever a e part of the image on the face the mouse's tail, curled up ! ' , Sion was, that the fact of i '-s is indisputable, but involved in pro- TEPI v ; bird, I Or hie 119 C 1 0 5 :,,, ' g it a°'" maintOS 4r• C o 3id. to pointrt In • e' and I itOljfis Ib Ptdraw. on see. th „ was ach dos° ' d ied wc tscltio anected Ne . tl Ai r ( 44 I le t r ;vet . be ituiction t CaStlef W e ide, aodil e rare fesoo from F rancP net the o f 41sp ecte d, i men 0 16 f , the probabi pectator tLio g , he a - - (who h oi: it., %or Emar Possibility djor), it 1 , me in 1"4 sews pro iens and s , tt ,L v e from Cilmsiob F e 1 . r et % wh seat sketc,,, tth..ek all I I [S , f 36 Trusse‘ ...... 16 5 1 ...... 15 ....... 3 raw 1 ' l9 w 2E. Pe r l" I I° 3 b I ° y 5 v i raw • ci i ; in I"' 'CLOC IC. a mot e , t ; unde r h ) J a w, 1 "` The f 1,000 rp ctive false g A deco. .7a/doso iotiroosl) the 1)0 10 , 1 s chilJ ti nlines9 an en ts. mti•ca rr rt h e r ro'', e a irrA ti) ice * 4°l° t which bl ii ! a il fr e „ n /gee s ''' . ppellati° IMPUDENT ATTEMPT AT FRAUD ON THE EARL OF DERBY. A. few clays ago the following, impudent a' daring attempt at fraud was made upon the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, which was fortunately discovered in time to prevent the desired object of the impostor, and to check the nefarious practices of a notorious gang of swindlers. His Lordship received a letter at his town residence, written in a manner calculated to excite the deepest sympathy, and begging the most trifling aid from his Lordship ; and in it was enclosed a certificate, purporting to be signed by several respectable individuals, and corrobo rating the statements made in the letter. His Lordship immediately forwarded the letter to the Mendicity Society's office, Red Lion-square, for investigation, enclosing 101., vith directions for that sum to be handed over to the party ap plying, if found to be deserving. The following is a copy of the letter : " No. 6, Corntvall.road, opposite the Universal Dis pensary, New -cut, Lambeth, Surrey, Sept. 21. "My Lord—lt is with poignant grief I presume to address your Lordship with these lines, the sub ject of which will, however, I hope, plead in exte nuation of the liberty I take in thus obtruding my self on your Lordship's invaluable time and goodness. " Allow me to inform your Lordship, that I am a native of *Warrington, Lancashire, a clergyman of the Established Church, unbeneficed, in the 81st year of my age, confined to my room by a long and serious affliction, and from which I expect never to go out alive (being perfectly reconciled to the wise dispensation of God, whose will be done—on earth as it is Heaven). It is now a great many years, my Lord, since I had the pleasure of visiting my native town or county. I had the honour of being per sonally known to your Lordship's uncle, the late Earl of Derby, and with whom I had the honour of two interviews in the year 1771, in reference to a preferment in the church. Since that period, my Lord, I have served a Cure, in the county of Nor folk, upwards of twenty-seven years, and one in the county of Essex upwards of eighteen years; and have performed divine service in London and its vicinity upwards of ten years; but I am now, my Lord, rendered wholly incapable of attending to my clerical duties, as the enclosed certificate will fully confirm; and unhappily, my Lord, by various mis fortunes, I am reduced to a state of almost unpa ralleled distress. " In the month of March last, I had the misfor tune to be one of the sufferers in the late fire in High street, Shad well. In that dreadful conflagration, my Lord, which has already been several times an nounced, and which burned three houses to the ground in a very short time, I unfortunately, not be ing insured, sustained the loss of every thing I pos sessed, oven my wearing apparel ; and it was with the greatest difficulty imaginable, and at the risk of some of the poor firemen's lives, that I was saved in my infirm state from falling a victim to the devouring element—an event that I shall never forget, or, I think, recover from; and I deeply regret that it has never been, nor, I am fearful, never will be in my power to reward those poor men, whoso daringly ran through the flames to save my life; but that God, with his infinite goodness and met cy, may reward them here and hereafter, will be a part of my daily prayers the short time I have to live in this world. " A very little time before the dreadful event, my Lord, it pleased the Almighty to take from me my wife, and in her decease I sustained a loss of an an nuity of 801. per annum, leaving me without any means of support ; and that having sustained these and a number of other misfortunes, I am now driven to the dire necessity of appealing to a few known benevolent characters for a small pecuniary assist ance; aad I do assure your Lordshp, in truth, that I have suffered more distress and privations than the human mind can imagine, before I could sub due my mind to make an application of this nature; and, as yet, I have not received the least pecuniary aid, and my immediate sufferings, my Lord, nre more .than I can describe, and more than I should wish to wound your Lords!:ip's honourable feelings with. I don't recollect having had the honour of seeing your Lordship since you was a very young man—that was at Preston, a short time after your uncle's decease; and little did I think then, my Lord, that I should ever be under the necessity of trespassing upon your Lordship's beneficence with an epistle of this descrip tion ; but alas! I have no other alternative. Were I not so very infirm,l would endeavour to find my way down to Warrington, where, perhaps, I might meet with a few old friends or acquaintances, that might avail me some little benefit; and I think I could find an old friend or two living at the villages of Woolston and Thelwall, by the Mersey, near Warrington, but I am fearild of making the attempt ; and, indeed, in my present distressed circumstances I cannot. I am now, my Lord, in arrears of my rent upwards of 6/., for which my landlord, although he is a very humane and good man, I believe has of late become very pressing, so much so, my Lord, that his very foot steps agonize my feelings, and I fully expect, this day or to-morrow, a notice to quit at the end of a week, to be obliged to do which I should be ex tremely sorry; for I should then sustain the loss of the services of a good neighbour, an inmate who attends me in the capacity of nurse, and without whom, and whose care, I know not what would be come of me. . _ . " I will uot trouble your Lordship with a further detail of my misfortunes and sufferi ngs , for they are manifold, but conclude in appealing to your Lard ship's humanity for a small pecuniary assistance, to help to save me from falling a vict i m to want in tisy reduced and distressed circumstances , and at my ad vanced age, and in my infirmities; and I trust that the bumble supplications of a poor c l ergyman, un beneficed, thus unhappily situated, will not by your Lordship be suffered to be made in vain. Whatever pecuniary assistance that your Lordship m ay i n hu manity be pl ease d t o re nder me, will make me com paratively happy and comfortable, and impress sense of gratitude on my mind that nothing but my death will ever obliterate. " My Lord, with every apology, the greatest de ference, and profound respect, I beg to subscribe myself, my Lord, your Lordship's humble servant, " EDWARD WATKINS." The certificate was written in a different hand, and was signed by forged signatures. It cor roborated the statements made in the letter. The names with which it was signed were, RICHARD JOHNSON, A.M., Rector of St. Antbolin, Watling-street ; and WILLIAM CHAMBERS, ROBE RT Sp EN , ER, Churchwardens. The usual visiter was accordingly despatched in order to make prope r i nqu i r i es as to the situation and character of the unfortunate clergy man, and on his arrival at No. 6, Cornwall-road, as wa s expected, it was discovered to be a coffee shop. On the proprietor being questioned re lative to Mr. Edward Watkins, he stated that he knew no such person ; he never had lodged in his house, but he had heard of the name from a tall stout man, who had been to his shop once or twice to take a cup of coffee, who had re quested him to take in any letter or parcel which miht arrive there addressed to Mr. Edw ar d Watkins, and left Is. 6 d. to cover the expense of postage or carr i a ge. He stated his n ame to be Beresford, and that Mr. Watkins, who was his brother-in-law, had advertised for a situation, and they expected an answer. He had since called, and on one occasion sent a boy, to know if any thing had been received. One letter, a franked one, from a well-known humane noble- man, had been received, and handed over to the party applying for it, and no doubt contained a handsome sum of money. . The description given of Beresford answers in every respect to a notorious impostor, named 1 Underwood, who has been connected for a con siderable time with a gang of swindlers, and who is well known to the police, who ar e a t present in active pursuit of him. The visiter also made inquiry in the city, and it has been ascertained that the late Rector of the parish of St. Antholin (the Rev. Richard Johnson) died about 12 months ago, and the names of Chambers and Spenser were wholly unknown ; the present Rector's name being Gordon, and the churchwardens are Messrs. Croucher and Hall. A gang of these miscreants are in the constant habit of pursuing their avocations in the neigh bourhood of the city, and have made a plentiful harvest of the nobility and gentry, who h ave relieved them without previous investigation. AFFLICTING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken at Mr. Gurney's, the Masons' Arms, Upper Berkeley street, Edgeware-road, before Tilos. STIRLING, Esq., on the view of the body of Ann Moore, a beautiful young woman, about. twenty-two years of age, who terminated her existence in the following melancholy manner : Isabella Gordon.—! have knawn the deceased for some months; she had very respectable relations. The deceased left an excellent situation, where she was a nursery-maid; but owing to her despondency, which was excessive, at the request of her parents witness allowed her to sleep in her master's house, the family being out of town. On Tuesday last she came down in good spirits, and said she would take a walk into Portman-square. On Wednesday she complained of a giddiness in her head, and that her inside was constantly in a work; 1):2r father called on Thursday, and informed the deceased that her aunt, who resided at Stanmore, had written to him, and requested that she would come down and stop with her for a few days. The deceased appeared to be much delighted by the invitation; she retired to rest considerably more ,composed than she had been for some time. On Thursday morning she awoke witness, and told her she had a very restless night, in consequence of an extraordinary delusion which she laboured under. The deceased then proceeded to state to witness, that while awake she feared that she had fell out of the window, and after being sup ported in the air for some dine, had returned to her bed without having experienced any injury. About eleven o'clock that morning she left town by the stage for Stanmore, to stop for some time, but, to the witness's great surprise, returned at eight o'clock the same evening. On witness asking the occasion of her abrupt return, she replied that she could not stop there, as her friends laughed at her for her low ness of spirits. She became much depressed, and went to bed about ten o'clock. All Friday she com plained of a violent pain and giddiness in her head. On Saturday afternoon she went to lay down, and about half-past five o'clock witness went up stairs, and was shocked at finding the deceased hanging to the rails of the bedstead. The Jury returned their verdict—" That the de ceased committed the act being at the time in a state of mental derangement." Yesterday his Excellency Baron BuLow, En voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia at the Court of London, jointly with Mr. M. N. ROTHSCHILD, and accompanied by Mr. JOHN VENN, notary public, cancelled and de posited in the Bank of England the amount of 49,6001. in special bonds of the Prussian loan negotiated by Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD in London, being the second half of the sum fixed for the redemption of bonds in the tenth year, and also the saving of the interest on the 955,000/. redeemed to the lst of April last. A gentleman once called upon MATunts, who found him in his study, perusing the letters of his li terary correspondents. " The perusal of letters from our absent and deceased friends," said MATURIN, " often creates reflections that are painful to memory and friend ship. I seldom in my life felt more gloomily than Ido at this moment." " Engaged as you appear to be," re plied his friend, " 'tis natural that a number of recollec tions should revive in your mind, but I trust they are as sociated with no hitter or painful reflections?" " I have more to complain of than the degeneracy of friendship. Do I not," continued the dramatist, " look more gloomy than usual ?" " I must confess you do," replied his vi siter, " but I hope you have no serious reason for appear ing so ?" " I have many reasons to appear gloomy, nay, more, to be discontented, when I reflect, that, as curate of St. Peter's, I have only 1301. a year, while the bishop's cook is allowed 1501." . It is amusing to ob serve w h at strange Mlle', deuces arise occasionally, out of this state of war and no war, when politics and commercial affairs come in contact pith each other. We learn, for example, by accounts re- ceived to-day from Petersburgh and other parts of the Bal tic, that almost at the very time when the Russian Am bassador was pressing on Lord ABERDEEN the expediency of submitting to a blockade of the Dardanelles, to prevent the entrance of warlike stores and ammunition into Con stantinople, his own Government was actively engaged in chartering English vessels to carry freight of that nature into the immediate vicinity, for the use of the Russian fleet. The demand for shipping to the Mediterranean was so great at Petersburgh, much employment for it having previously arisen for the conveyance of grain to Eng land and France, that the price of freight had risen considerably. The Sultan, who has frequently before identified the acts of British merchants with those of their Government, will probably complain of this as a breach of faith towards "an ancient ally," but with out justice ; for trade, according to the modern prac tice is of no side in politics, and if he can afford to pay for them, they will no doubt supply him also with warlike stores in spite of the Russian blockade. But a contract with the Russian Government, of a still more remarkable kind, has come to light in the course of the day, in which, if report is to be trusted, the chief agent and contractor is no less a person than the Duke of WEL.. List:Tot; himself. It seems that a contract was proposed for 5,000 barrels of gunpowder, and the great manufac turers of that article as usual became competitors for it. One of the most eminent among them put in a tender on terms so low that he made perfectly sure of obtaining the contract ; but his surprise was extreme at finding that the Duke of WELLINGTON had tendered still lower, and that the whole of the 5,000 barrels are to be supplied, in fact, from the Government mills. The " dealers in old stores" will no doubt congratulate themselves on the acquisition to their fraternity of respectable a member.— Times. Yesterday, in the middle of business at the Mansion-house, the place was thrown into a complete con sternation by the sudden appearance of a mad ox in the front of the house, accompanied, or rather followed, by some hundred of the lowest rabble of the metropolis, yell ing, and bawling, and whistling, in the most horrid man ner; and be appeared to have an inclination to take up his residence at the Civic mansion —for, under the balustrades at the corner of the house facing Charlotte-row, he made a dead stand, having previously tossed two females who were crossing the road, and who were compelled to be taken to the hospital. The people all thought, by the quiet manner in which he stood, that he was completely exhausted, and a butcher of the name of SMITH was about approaching him, when he instantly darted for ward, and attempted to butt at him. The poor man had the most fortunate escape that ever man had, for he managed to clear the horns of the beast, who thrust them through the shop-window of a dra per, the corner 'of Charlotte-row. He now took an other start along the Poultry and Cheapside, to the great terror of all passengers. However, he seemed still to have a longing inclination for the Mansion-house, and very shortly returned, and got opposite to Bond -court, in 'Wal brook. H ere h e b ecam e completely exhaust e d, an d f e ll down, and was haltered ; but he had not strength to move, —all attempts to drag him were vain, and all parties were placed in a pretty dilemma, for it was understood that he had been to Tower-hill, to Whitechapel, and to all parts of the town, playing such tricks, and doing so much damage that no person would own him, and therefore there was no person to kill him. However, after a lapse of time, some butchers' men came forward, and the unfortunate ox had his throat cut, by the direction of the Sitting Alderman, on the spot which is immediately in front of the house of Mi. Alderman ATKINS, mid in the presence of Messrs. BROWN and COPE, the City Marshals, the beadle of the ward, the Marshalmen, City and Ward officers, &c., so that it may be said that no unfortunate ox was ever killed in so legal a manner. :COVENT-0 ARDEN THEATRE. IIL•. KEAN appeared here last night for the first time for the season, in his favourite part of King Richard the Third. He was received with un bounded applause; which was increased when the audience discovered him looking so much better than they had been prepared to expect. His person, par ticularly his face, is plumper than it used to be; his eye has recovered all its wonted fire ; but his whisper--so emphatic a portion of his acting—has become rather indistinct and inefficient. On the NV hole, however, we may safely state that he is looking better than he has done for years. His performance of last night was remarkable for the careful and diligent way in which it was elaborted. He seemed desirous that every point should tell, and seized every opportunity—no matter how trivial —= of rivetting the attention of the house. We need scarcely add that in this he happily succeeded. The audience, clamorous and noisy at first, and even at intervals throughout the tragedy, were silenced as the part grew in interest and animation ; in the tent scene, where the murderer starts from hurried slumber under the influence of a goading conscience, KEAN put forth astonishing energies, and delivered his fine soliloquy, " I'll forth and walk awhile," in that pensive and ruminating tone by which it is so ha pressively characterised. His bye-play throughout was as adroit and marked as ever ; but he lingered rather tediously in the death-scene, which was, how ever, more than redeemed by the amazing grace and activity of his fencing. Miss LACY, as Queen Elizabeth, distinguished herself by the spirit and propriety of her acting, and could she have abridged that particularly difficult scene where she parts with her children, would have left us nothing to wish far. The Richmond of C. KEMBLE was, as usual, spirited, with a high chivalrous bearing about it for which the embryo Henry the Seventh was no ways dis tinguished. With respect to the character• of the Lord Mayor, it was personated in a manner which even that consummate historian of civic grandeur, the author of the " Lord Mayor's Voyage to Oxford," (a work which we take this our first opportunity of recommending), must have pronounced faultless. The house was crowded in all parts. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis of Wellesley, in At. James's-square, from a tour ; Lord Poulett, at the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street ; Colonel An drews, at ditto ; the Earl of Cardigan, in Portman-square, from Deere Park, Warnsford ; Mr. Richard Penn, in George-street, Hanover-square; Captain and Mrs. Vaughan, in Baker-street, from I'aris ; Major Robert King, in Jermyn-street, ftozu Dublin ; Captain Harvey, in Regent-street, from the Netherlands; the Honourable Miss Elliott, at Baroness Willoughby d'ErestWs, Whitehall, from Scotland} Robert Smyth, Esq. M.P. in Bel grave-place, from his scat in Bucks; Captain Williams, at Lower Brompton GroVe, from a tour; Robert Gordon, Esq. Dirs. Gor don, and funily, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Wilts ; Major Fancourt, at ditto, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, at ditto, from Wales ; Lord and Lady Chetwynd, at Cook's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their seat in Essex ; Charles Dolby, Esq. at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from his seat in Reeks ; James Jordan, Esq. at ditto, from Berks ; Lord and Lady Lorton, and family, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley. square, from Edinburgh ; Mr. and Mrs. Goddard, and family, ai ditto, from Wilts. _ DEPARTURES. I _ Prince Esterhazy, from Chandos House, on a visit to the Mar. qu is of Hertford, at Sudbourne Hall,Sufolk ; Major and Mrs. Mor gan, for Queen -square, Bath; Mr. W. WI anghatn, from Grosve nor-street, for his seat in Devonshire; Mr. Tunno, M.P. from Upper Brook-street, for his seat in Leicestershire; Hon. W. H. Irby, for his seat near Newmarket ; Captain and Mrs. Black burne, for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, from Bruton-street, for Clifton Hot Wells ; Mr. and Mrs Bristow, for Brighton ; Major Mills, for Cork; Captain and Mrs. Young, from Chatham, for Bath ; Colonel Molyneux, for Ireland ; Major and Mrs. Gas coyne, from Regent-street, for Brussels ; Mr. and Miss Douglas, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Brighton; G. H. Heneage, Esq. from Fenton's Hotel, to his seat in Lincolnshire; E. Doughty, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; J. H. Crossett, Esq. from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Chichester ; Colone, and Mrs. (Silbert and family, from Symmons' Hotel (late Jor dan's), St. James's-street, for Bath ; Sir C. Grant, Bart. from the St George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Weymouth ; Sir Chas. Chad, Bart from Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, for Pinkney Hall ; George Ormerod, Esq. Mrs. and the Misses Ormerod, from ditto, on a tour ; Rev. Thomas Roper, from ditto, for Sussex ; H. Aldham, Esq. from ditto, on a tour. CHANGES. The Earl and Countess of Derby, at their seat, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, from Ireland ; the Earl and Co un t ess On slow, from their seat in Surrey, for Hastings ; the M arqu i s o f Exeter, at his seat, Burleigh, Lincolnshire, from Newmarket ; Mrs. Woodmass and family, from John Wetherall Smith, Esq.'s, to Leamington Spa, Warwickshire; the Hon. Mr. De Roos, from his seat, Mildenhall, Suffolk, for Newmarket. His MAJESTY, «•e are happy to state, took an airing yesterday in Windsor-park, for the first time since his recent indisposition. Intelligence of the decease of her MAJESTY the Queen of WURTEMBERG (formerly Princess Royal of England) was received in town yesterday. Her MAJESTY expired on the 6th instant, after a very short illness. The disease which proved the cause of her death was understood to he dropsy on the chest. The QUEEN was in her 63d year. l i The young Queen of PORTUGAL remained in her apartments at Grillon's Hotel yesterday, although considered convalescent by her medical attendants. The number of inquiries among the Nobility and Gentry after the health of her MAJESTY was very great. A messenger arrived in town yesterday with despatches from the Irish Government to the Duke of WELLINGTON. The messenger was sent with the de spatches from the Duku's residence in Downing-street, to Sudbourn hal], Suffolk, the scat of the Mar‘.juis of HERT FORD, at which place the Duke of WELLINGTON was ex pected to arrive yesterday, on a visit to the Noble Alarquis. Mr. LAWRENCE (late Charge d'Affaires from the. United States to this Court) left town yesterday for Paris. The Russian and French Ambassadors had a long conference yesterday with the Earl of ABERDEEN. Sir E. CODRINGTON visited BURFORD'S Panorama of the Battle of Navarin yesterday. The Earl and Countess of BeESSINGTON are arrived at Paris from Italy. They are on their way to England, to be present at the marriage of the Right lion. the Speaker of the House of Commons and Mrs. PUR via, sister of Lady BLESSINGTON, which we understand is to take place very shortly, and which these personages have long pledged themselves to the intended bride to honour with their presence.—Sunday Times. The Duke of RUTLAND continues with his family at Cheveley, and will not return to Belvoir Castle before the first week in November, when his Grace com mences hunting for the season. In 1206, King JOHN granted to WILLIAM DE CAMMLE a license to destroy game in any of the Royal forests, thus showing the antiquity of the Game Laws. A new opera, the music by Messrs. LIVJSRATL and LANza, is in preparation at Covent-garden. Another, by Bisicor, is expected to be produced at the same theatre in the early part of the present season. A young lady of the name of BYFIELD ap pears this evening at Covent-garden Theatre, for the first time, in the Opera of Carron &de. It will be her first appearance in any theatre. Mr. BUNN, our Lessee, is recovering from his late severe indisposition, and the most active prepara tions are making by hint to open the ensuing winter cam paign with great eclat. Engagements have already been concluded with Miss PATON, MSS Love, Miss Fount, Mr. BamtAm, and other stars. —Dublin Paper. Overtures have been made to Joy MUNDEN, by the ➢Managers of Covent-garden Theatre, to perform a limited number of nights, and to receive SO/. for each per formance, which, it is said, this unrivalled actor, who is in the full possession of all his powers, will accept. COVENT -GARDEN MARKET.—TiIe pro gress of the workmen employed in erecting the new market in Covent-garden, has, within these last few days, been very rapid, in raising the brick-work. The plan of the subterraneous apartments is now clearly developed, and at the North-west side of the Garden, the wall, in several places, is even with the street. The Garden, when finish ed, will afford twice as much accommodation as it does at present ; and it is therefore hoped, that in future the public nuisance of carts being drawn up in the streets, front which vegetables are vended, will be removed, and their sale con fined to within the market. Another great nuisance is the market for oranges, outside the Garden, and the plea of orange boxes, in the streets and on the roofs of huts, which have a very unseemly appearance, while the passen gers are often insulted by a parcel of blackguards, who pelt them with decayed oranges. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The only Stakes mentioned in the town betting yester day was the Garden Stakes, for which two or three changes are observable. Bobadilla was backed at 3to 1, and Rapid Rhone at 7 to 2 ; the offers against the others were 4 to 1 against Brocard, 8 to 1 against th.! Alderman, 9 to 1 against Shakspeare and Rough Robin, and 20 to 1 against Ridicule. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. NENS'MARKET, MONDAY EVENING. Since our last report the arrivals have been very nume rous, including the following :—Duke of Richmond, Duke of Rutland, Duke of Grafton, Marquis of Worcester, Mar quis of Tavistoek, Marquis of Exeter, Earl of Jersey, Earl of Southampton and Countess, Earl and Countess of Sef ton, Earl of Verulam, Lord Anson, Lord Lowther, Lord J. Fitzroy, Lord Manners, Lord Charles Manners, Lord G. H. Cavendish, Count Montrond, Sir John Shelley, Sir George Pigot, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon. B. Moly neux, Hon. Mr. Pierrepoint, Colonel Russell, Captain H. Radcliffe, Messrs. Deline Radcliffe, C. Wilson, Holyoake, Udny, Payne, Scott, Stonehewer, Irby, Green, Lyne, Stephens, Greville, Hawker, &e. The number of private dinner parties occasioned the at tendance at the rooms to he very thin, only six members being present : they were the Duke of Richmond, Lord Southampton, Messrs. Hawker, Stephens, Irby, and D. Radcliffe. The day's races were decided as follows : Match.-200 sues. h. 1. A.F. Lord Southampton's Lepanto, Bst. 81b.... received ft. Duke of Portland's brother to Ernitins, Bst. 21b. pd Match.-200 soya. T.M.M. Mr. Wea►therley's Tokay, 9st. and Air: Forth's Grey Surrey, Bst. 31b.—Off. One-third of a Subscription of 25 sovereigns each, for three-yr-old colts, fist. 91b., and fillies, Bst. 61b. A. F. (bona fide the property of subscribers). Duke of Grafton's Turquoise ... Colonel Wilson's gr. c. by Young Gohanna 2 Won easy by two lengths. Lord Wharneliffe, Lord Jersey, Lord Egremont, and Mr. Greville, paid. The Garden Stakes, of 100 sovs. each. T.M.114, Mr. Pettit's Rough Robin, 3 yrs, 7st. 81b. Lord Verolarn's Brocard, 4 yrs, 7st. 131 b. Duke of Richmond's Alderman, 6 yrs, Sat. 101 b. Lord G. H. Cavendish's Rapid Rhone, yrs, Sat. 61b 0 Lord Sefton's Bobadilla, 3 yrs, 7st. 81b. Lord G. Cavendish's Ridicule f., 3 yrs, tilt. 111 b 0 Mr. Payee's Shakspeare, 5 yrs, Bst. 101 b. Mr. StoDehewer's Kildare, 3 yrs, Tat. 81b. Duke of Grafton's Nutmeg, 3 yrs, 6st. 51b. Won by a head. Match.-200/.--Mr. Payne's Belrani received 75 sove reigns from Mr. Pettit's Zoe. The Match for the Whip will not be run, Memnon having paid. For the Clearwell Stakes Scymetar and the Bombasin colt have paid, and Green Mantle's starting is doubtful. The following arc the appointments for to-morrow ; The Clearwell Stakes, of 30 sovs. each, for two-yr-old colts, Sot. 51b. and fillies, Sat. 21b. The winner of the July Stakes to carry 71b. extra. T. Y.C. Duke of Richmond's Scymetar Mr. Udny's f. by Etnilius—Antiope Duke of Grafton's sister to Latimer Lord Exeter's f. by Sultan—Advance Lord Exeter's Green Mantle (71b. extra) Lord Grosvenor's b. c. by Master Henry—Zadora Lord Grosvenor's b. c. by Master Henry—Bombaoin Mr. L. Charlton's b. c. by Master Henry—Zadora Lord Jersey's Will-o'-the-Wisp General Grosvenor's Daystar Mr. Rogers's Verderer Mr. Rush's f. by Reveller—Romp Mr. Scott Stonehewer's The Lion Mr. Scott Stonebevier's b. c. Chiron Mr. Prince's b. c. by Centaur Mr. Sowerby's b. f. by Tiresias—Scratch Mr. Hunter's gr. c. by Gustavus—Peablossont Mr. Meynell's b. c. by Gulliver—Mandoline Mr. Meynell's b. f. by Gulliver—Parma, Sweeptakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. for fillies, Sst. 71b. T.Y.C. Lord Exeter's Green Mantle Lord Orford's Tancreda Colonel Anson's f. by Tramp—Prius. One-third of a subscription of 25 sovs. each, for four-yr• old colts, Sst. 10Ib. fillies, Fist. 71b. D.I. Fifty Pounds, for two-yr-olds. T.Y.C. Handicap Sweepstakes, for all ages, D.M. JIUNTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING.—We request our Sporting Friends to forward to us early accounts of the " ForitutEs OF THE HOUNDS" during the approaching Hunting Season, and of all the "'Scopes by flood and field," that may occur in the Chase during the en‘uing six months. ATFOINTMENTS FOR. THIS WEEK. The Brighton Harriers, to-morrow, near the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke; at eleven. Mr. Lester's Harriers, tc-morrow, at Coombe Cover, at ten. Lord Harewoed's Hounds, to-morrow, at Fowlson Lodge ; and Friday, at Bickerton ; each day at ten. Sir T. Sykes's Hounds, to-morrow, at North Grim ston ; and Friday, at Gaily Gap; at ten. The Martock. Harriers, on Thursday, at Barrows Hill, near Hizlebury. The East Sussex Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at Exceat Bridge, at half-past ten. The York and Ainsty Hounds, on Thursday, at Vilbix ley ; and Saturday, at Wheldrake ;at half-past ten. The Lambton Hounds, on Thursday, at Elemore; and Saturday, at Seaham ; at ten. The Cleveland Hounds, on Thursday, at Kilton, at ten. The Northumberland Hounds on Thursday, at Wide Open; and Saturday, at Mitford; at ten. Mr. Farquharson's Hounds, on Thursday, at Bore Wood; and Friday, at Duncliffe ; at t en . ___ The Worcestershire Hounds meet on Friday, at Bredon Hill, at ten. The Blackmoor 'Vale Hounds, on Friday, at Copley Wood, at ten. The Holme Harriers, on Friday, at Rushton Common. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Friday, at Broom Hill Hut, at half-past ten. The York City Harriers, on Friday, at the fourth mile stone on the Tadcaster-road, at half-past ten. Mr. Codrington's Hounds, on Friday, at the Black Horse, at Teffont, at ten. The M. H., on Friday, at Piddlehinton, East Down. The Hurworth Hounds, on Friday, at Newshaw Bank, at ten. CRICKET. The grand return match between eleven of the county of Kent and an equal number of the county of Surrey, commenced on Thursday se'nnight, at Sevenoaks Vine, and concluded, after some excellent play, as follows : K XNT. $U Ist Innings 177 Ist Innings 66 2d Ditto B4 2d Dittos 4l Kent Winning by 154 runs. time of the year, and the co bility, and numerous throng 1 107 The weather was fine for the 'luny of the utmost respeeta out the game. The celebrated TALLEYRAND is said to have completed the Memoirs of his eventful life and times, which he is said. to have bequeathed to his nephew and stic .cee sor, under an i n j unct i on to pu b l i sh them ten years at ter his decease. Mr. WYNN.—The Right Hon. CHARLES time, particularly as we W. W. Wv xx, the late President of the Board of Control, know he was here a fevon w th am s statesman of great experience and of the most liberal politics, arrived in town yesterday'. His arrival at this ago, is regarded as an event not altogether without object. Indeed, reports of the most interesting nature are current on the subject, —Dublin _Evening Post. THE FRIENDS OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOU S LIBERTY. -- This Shilling Debating Society held another noisy and tumultuous meeting last night, at the Mechanics' Institution. Mr. BECK W ITH was called to the Chair, i n the absence of the Rev. Mr. SrooNER. The meeting in miserably attended. The bankers at the west end of town have it i n contemplation to open their houses at ten o'clock, and close at, four instead of th e p resen t h ours of nine and five; which will save the dinner-hours of the clerks in the middle of the day, and in other respects be more suitable and con. venient to their general business. This regulation will com mence on the Ist of January. A FAMILY of GREAT MEN. --In Denton, near Manchester, resides a family of the name of Howa RD. hatters by trade, of whom the father and two sons together weigh 1,0301b5. ; the mother is only five feet two inches in height, and weighs no more than I Olin. SPIRIT OF THE LONDON .TOURNALS. We have derived very great gratificatio n from the perusal of a Sermon preached by the present Bishop of London on the 22d of June last, for the benefit of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Dis cipliie, and for the Reformation of Juvenile offen ders. The Sermon breathes throughout a spirit of genuine philanthropy, and is altogether so different in character from any thing proceeding from the Episcopal Bench, which has of late fallen in our way, that we must be pardoned for considering the appearance of such a production a new era in the Church. In the Charges and Sermons of Bishops we have almost always f oun d t h ose exa l ted per sonages looking with ill-will at t h e i mprovement of tl:iieicfheo wereN s•a irreconcilablye es as if th e i nterest of the opposed t o t h e i nterest of the people—as if the safety of the T emp l e were best secured by its being surrounded by thi c k dark ness. The predecessor of Dr. Blomfield, now Arch bishop l -creatures, (, bishop of Canterbury, in a far-famed charge, en joined the prostration of the will and the understand ing, and in another spoke of knowledge as being an antagonist power to religion. The present Arch bishop of Dublin, in his examination before a Com mittee of the House of Commons, in 1825, when asked " Does there exist in the minds of the people an anxiety for instruction ?" answered—" Thelower classes in Ireland are extremely desirous to have, what they call, learning ;" and again, " 'nen, should their education increase also, and their exclusion continue, does not your Grace conceive that thfs progress of education will also measure the in creased dissatisfaction which they will feel at ex clusion ?" answered, " I am sure that an over edu cation of the lower orders will, under any cir cumstances, create dissention, and produce mischief." It was but the other day that a Bishop in weighed lustily against Mechanics' Institutes, as one of the channels by which the antagonist power, above alluded to, was fed. But the 9ishop of London's Sermon is conceived ie what we should have been led to consider a most. anti-episcopal spirit. His:Lordship strenuously ad vocates the diffusion of knowledge, and the Reform of our Laws, with the defects of which he is evis dently well acquainted. When individuals in his exalted station are actuated by the noble ambition of endeavouring to leave the world better than they found it, and the ambition is seconded by com manding talents, the good they ma y d o i s i mmense . We hail, then, he appearance of this Sermon, as a source of hope and consolation for the country, as the harbinger of a better spirit in the religious structors of the nation. Speaking of Education, his Lordship observes, with obvious reference to the evidence of some of the witnesses before the Police Committee—" It is marvellous and larnes:ttible that even at this time of day persons should be found who maintain that the increase of juvenile deiiiis fluency, if it has not in part been occasioned by tlit general diffusion of education, has at least received no check from it. I would fain be told by what, process of inquiry they have arrived at this conclu sion ; not certainly by examining the Returns made from the different gaols ; still less from an investi gation of the books of our schools; from which it would appear that the proportion of criminals who have been educated upon any thing like a right sy.l.- tem, or to any considerable extent, is very small. Unless crime itself can be eradicated as education extends itself through all classes, the proportion of educated delinquents must increase. Surely the fair inference is this :—if, unhappily, the number of offenders is so great, in spite of the advantages of education, how fearfully great would it have been, had no extraordinary efforts been used to comitinni cate religious knowledge to the poor." 1 - low short a period has elapsed, since the endeavouf of Sir Samuel Romilly to apportion punish ment to crime, that the connection between crime and punishment might be more certain, was scouted, in the House of Lords, as a wild and visionary in novation ! How cheering the contrast presented by the language of the Bishop of London ! "It is no longer necessary," he observes, "to prove by argument, that the true end of punishment is the prevention of crime; or that such prevention is to be accomplished principally by two methods; the correction and reformation of the criminals them selves, and the religious and moral improvement of those classes which are most exposed to temptation. These methods I consider to be incomparably the most effectual, without overlooking the importance of a due apportionment of punishment to crime, and of establishing in the opinions and expectations of the people a certain and uniform connection. be tween the offence and the appropriate penalty."— It is profitable occasionally to look back from the point we have reached to the ground we have passed over. It is assumed by Dr. Blomfield, as a matter no longer to be disputed, that there should be an uniform connection between the offence and its aps , propriate penalty. Now, in 1811, when Sir Samuel Romilly's Bills were before the House of Lords, only ten Peers supported Lord Holland's motion for a second reading, and they were consequently lost by a great majority. We remember well the insulting tone of the late Lord Ellenborough on the occasion. The Bills, quoth he, went "to alter those laws which a cent ury had proved to be necessary, and which were now to be over turned by speculation and modern philosophy."— Lord Eldon saw " the wisdom of the principles by which our criminal code was regulated," and op posed the innovation. Lord Redesdale was also op posed to innovation. Lord Liverpool told us that our " Code had succeeded as well as it was possible for any system of Criminal Law to succeed. lie should, therefore, oppose the Bills, which, while he was sure they could effect no good, might . be pro ductive of very great mischief." There was no Doctor Blomfield on the Bench of Bishops to utter any of those enlightened arguments which his Lordship now urges so triumphantly; and the here ditary Legislators went to their homes in a state of trepidation, on account of the alarm into which they had been thrown by this daring, attempt of " specu lation and modern philosophy. Now, it is a great encouragement to men to persevere in a good cause, were main however unfavourable appearances may be at the time, when we find that in a few years such has been the change wrought by reasoning, there is not one individual of any note to be found in the coun try,tained by the Ministry, the House of Lords, and the ul t d he ha p ve rin t e h i e plesss•hi c h Judges of the land. Where is the man in the pre sent barefaced audacity to day who tell us, as Lord Liverpool did onlw a • few years ago, that our Criminal " Code had succeeded as well as it was possible for any system of Criminal Law to suc , seed." Any man who should display such extra ' ordinary ignora nce, or such extraordi• nm • d would be ho ote d out of societ We believe it C hise y.y. ' r Lordship t o h ave been merel • no antgros y ignorant. B ut this is a proof that we have: made advances; for no man of his Lordship's industry would now maintain that the system had not wrought most detestably.- Dr. Blomfield adverts to a gross defect in our criminal system, which remains yet to be remedied. " Upon the treatment which a youth ful delinquent receives (he observes) when detected in his first offence, depends in all probability his character and conduct for the remainder of his life ; and his prospects in eternity. To consign him, when only suspected (arid therefore presumed by the law to be innocent), or even when convicted of a slight offence to a common punishment, and an indiscriminate intercourse with the most hardened and abandoned criminals, is to force him into moral contagion, and probably upon spiritual destruction." And in a note to this passage, he observes, " This is, perhaps, the greatest practical injustice which oc curs in the execution of our criminal law. Commit meat before trial, except in the case of graver offences, ought surely never to be resorted to where the appearance of the accused to take his trial can be secured in any other .vay." This is indeed a grievous blot in our criminal procedure. Our prisons'are crowded with individuals committed for paltry offences, and unable to procure bail, at an enormous expence of contamination and of pecuniary burden. 1114