The Sun. — London, England, 1824-12-31 00:00:00

TnE LONDON JOU[tNALS. DAILY Kt - tracts ,from the - Morning Papers, Dec. 31. • DAMMING CIMONICLE.I Greek Bonds yesterday rethained!without nny further improvement, notwithstanding the favour. ;lute news Which has beet' latterly reeeived from alt parts of Greece. The reason why they do not advance is a rumour which is confidently cir:. ti•nlated in a quarter, in which correct informa. I ion on the affairs of this nation has heretofore bi , en found,-" that a new loan for Greece either has been already,, or speedily will he concluded I?* t tli some ent:ilent Parisian batikers As this circumstance %Oil increase the debt of - Greece, her Bonds in England will be affected by the rumour, until the terms of the new contract be wade public,••or its•existence contradicted in the proper quarter. There is also a disappointment expressed by some of the friends of Greece, be cause a remittance of produce has not yet been received. This is, however, certainly .being un reasonable, for shipments made a year hence will be quite in time for the payment of the dividend due in July, 1826, and surely the pre. partition of a year and a half for the remit. tance of the paltry sum of 20,0001. is not neces - !Ail to the Government of Greece, rich in corn, silk, fruit, wool,•wine, and all the most precioui gifts of nature. The whole public debt of Jibe.' - rotted Greece is not equal to the Capitation Tax alone, which was annually remitted to Constan and which was only a trifling portion of the robberies and exactions of the Asiatic barba rians, by whom that fine country was lately oc. copied. Portuguese Bonds are one half per cent. ieurer. Some time ago it was understood that a negociation conducted in London betwixt the Ministers of the Brazilian Empire and those of the kingdom of Portugal, under the auspices of Eti Britannic Majesty's Foreign Secretary, for the acknowledgment of the independence of the fOrmer by the latter, on certain term, had been brought to an. amicable conclusion. Letters, however, received on Wednesday by the Mail f!oin Lisbon, announce that this Treaty hail not Ateeti ratified by the King of Portugal, at the. in. s'igatiou of the Ambassador of his Most Christian Majesty. The consequence was, the adoption of a determined iiite of conduct by Sir W. A'Court, and it was even confidently asserted, that his Excellency had demanded his passports before the dispote could be filially arranged. M. Hyde de Neuvtlle find taken his departure for .Paris, Ostensibly to attend to his duty in the Chamber of Peers ; but it was, more generally supposed that - the real and true reason lay in the ultimate triumph of British principles at Lisbon, over those of the Holy Alliance and the Bourbons.— Tlw next arrival from Portugal will 'deal , up this misunderstanding. , Austrian Bonds are a shade higher, and 'so also are French Bolles. In Northern Securities no alteration can be quoted. [Mal TlBil Pit ESS.] The Paris Paliers of Tuesday, which arrived tact night, do not contain any intelligence of much interest. We are glad to observe, that the continued exclusion of M. (le Chateoubriand from office has the effect of turning the mientiOn of the Paper immediately under his influence to sub- jects in the highest degree entitled to public --consideration. The Journal des Daats, accord ingly, has an ably written article on the Wl'. mous system of secret police, which, on the Continent, is every where substituted for the Open and regular proceedings of the Govern mi.!nt. This " political inquisition," as it is very properly sly led, id energetically condemned as calculated only to renew the scandals and mischiefs of the Roman Empire, dur'ing its most degenerate ages. But the French Jour- 'Hist remarks that the evil does not rest here. This police, hitherto the humblest and bnsest slave.of power, now aspires to guide and 'direct it : it has become the jlcobinism of despotism.— The public authorities are reduced to the alter native either of trot existing at all; or of existing by and throtigh its means. Its triumph is com plete. Under pretence of defending the Sceptre and Tiara, it has seized them both, and wields them for its own purposes alone. The arrest or M. Cousin, by the Central Commission of Ma yence, was an instance of the monstrous jurisdic. lion claimed by that body. More recently, a . .ott of M. Duvergier de llauratme, a royalist de puty, of moderate principles, has been denounced sias_ a secret agent of Ike Buottapartists, because he was travelling in company with Count de Mural, the French Secretary of Embassy at Rome. The identity of the name with that of Napo iftoirs brother-in-la w,'lntd induced some ignorant spy to giro information to the Central COMITIii. *lion, that one of the emissaries of the political clubs at Paris was employed in ferwardiug the revolutionary intrigues of his party I If M; de H. do Ihturunne had been u person of less conse quence, he would probably have been seized, and consigned to some secret dungeon, in which the best years of his life would have bestir wasted. On Monday the Daupitio visited the Military Prison of Montuii n. it was expected that . his Royal Highness' would bait,' examined all the pots of the capital, but the influence of the Mi- ! uistry seems to have thwarted his intentions. From ' Spain we learn, by a proclamation of the Captain- General of Valencia and Murcia, that ou the 9th instant the Constitutionalists - , 9-00 in number, landed in the 'vicinity of the Castle of Santa Pohl, but were obliged hastily to re-embark. The Captain-General considers that nothing less than the special interference of Divine Providence could save the two thrones from so foraillAle an inva sion! By whomsoever they may be equipped and furnished, it appears that the Constitutionalists yet hover round the coasts in numlii4s:sullicient to ittfuse terror into the adherents of the abso lute system. What would be the state of things if Ow country were quite cleared of the French troops ? Estontmao . rosin.], French. Papers to the 29th inst. and the Rloila of Wednesday reached us last night by Express. 'They have brought intelligence of a fresh defeat suffered by Derwis6 Pacha, who having re. "1 ceived powerful reinforcements had once more re ! sumed the offensive, and attempted to penetrate to the western coast of Greece, in order to raise the siege of Lepanto, which was closely pressed, and in danger Qf being forced to surrender. For this purpose he assembled his best troops, and began his march towards the middle of October; but the result proved as disastrous to his army as that of his former expeditions. Attacked in the passes of Salona, he k said to have been com pletely overpowered. His artiller,-, together with the large convoy of provisions which it was his ob ject to introduce into Lepanto,fell into the hands of the conquerors, and his loss in killed alone amount ed to one thousand of his bravest soldiers. Obliged to retrace his steps, and tq evacuate Bceotia and Phocis, his retreat amidst mountains and through narrow defiles was a new series of conflicts and disasters, *hid) so entirely broke his strength, that when he reached the open country, and a submissive, if not a friendly population, he was totally unable to turn round on his pursuers to get rid of their molestations. The captured artillery and the other spoils of the defeated Ottomans had reached Missolonghi about the end of November, and afforded convincing evidence of the reality and magnitude of the new victory gained by the Greeks. They had re. sinned the siege of Lepanto, and had begun to invest Patras more cloSely than before. From the impulse given to their mind by the results of this year's campaign by sea and land, there is no doubt that they will not spend the winter in in action, and that before the spring returns they will have become masters of the few places still holden by Turks on the coasts of the Morea. The intelligence from Madrid contained in these Papers states that the King complained openly of being surrounded by as 66 bad a set of Minis ters as in the time of the Constitutional adminis tration." Mr. Zea was daily losing ground in his favour and fresh changes in the Cabinet were confidently anticipated. It appears from a Pro. clumation issued by the Governor-General of the Kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia, that a small band of Constitutionalists effected a landing on the 9th instant. in the neighbourhood of Valencia, but were afterwards compelled to re•embark by the military. [bIOIIN]NG HERALD., The state of France at this moment is one of the most striking illustrations of the advantage a Government derives by favouring the free expres sion of men's thoughts, or the Liberty of the Press , . Charles X. is certainly not a great Mo. much in any view of his character. Few Princes, it is well known, have a scantier share of admi nistrative capacity—and he came to the throne with no prepossessions for him. But he abolished the Censorship ; and this single act has rendered him personally popular— so much so as to make the people contented with his Government exercised by Ministers who are notoriously unpopular and decried.— Madame Campan says, that Napoleon, in the plenitude of his power, feared public opinion, and it only, because it was not to be fairly fought with muskets or artillery,und because it was only irritated and strengthened by any attempted re.. streint. It was his misfortune, in this instance, as in others, to see the right and follow the wrong. There is no doubt that his imprisonment of public opinion contributed materially to his fall. What a striking proof of the folly of res. training the Liberty of the Press, results from contrasting his with the present Government of France ! Under him, before his sudden and ra pid disasters, the nation was united and the army all powerful, but he would restrain opinion, and it recoiled upon him. lie had the littleness toattempt silencing a woman of some wit, more talent, and still more of presumptuous meddling ambi tion. What was the consequence i She was en abled to denounce him throughout Europe in books, which, if published in France, would have as few readers on their appearance as they have at present. Look at Charles X. ; without imposing talents, with an army not numerous—at least not overwhelming, and which, notwith standing the campaign in Spain, has yet to make its character—nith his people divided into par ties, yet is he on the best terms with public opi i►ion, not only secure on his throne, but even his decried Ministry safe front the thetirie of M. de Chuteaubrirtnd, and all the pamphleteers of his party, merely because the Press is free.— Another contrast highly favourable to the FrencliGovernment is exhibited by that ofAustria. The exercise of its authority by the latter is nut merely mean but ridiculous proscribes in dividuals even beyond its reach upon grounds the most absurd. We recently stated the names of some foreigners proscribed from the Austrian territories, among others a young man, the son of M. Dutergier de Ilaubanne, a Royalist Deputy. He was denounced as an agent of the Ex-Royal House of Murat. The young man declared, and every body believPd, that he knew nothing of them. But the mystery is now explained. Ile travelled from Naples with a (1 oiv it Murat, be. longing to the French Lego Oen rt Itorne, and the name of Murat wa enough iftv the of the Austrian Police. ['Nit /1 It is state& in the IrA new, a.perzt, that at I the sessions under the Ihsurre lion Act," foci the county and city of \inerick, which stand adjourned to the 3d of 3 leery, there is not a single person for trial under that Act, in either county or city gaol I In the county or city of Limerick—not one prisoner to be tried under the Insurrection Act ! liver this, Mr. Salida, and ye eaters of beefsteaks, and my Lord Clancarty an d C o . " Where he your insurrections now f" Where the rallying point for your Orange regiments ? Where your prophecies of Pas torini ? Christmas-eve s of Die year 1824, was fixed, you know, for the commence went of the famous Popish massacre. The solitary fact, above related, of tranquillity reign ing throughout the county of Limerick._ the grand focus of rebellion before Mr. Saurin was dismiss ed—speaks a language not to be misunderstood or perverted. One of the journals mentions a report that Sir Harcourt Lees is reserved for a bonne houclie by the Attorney-General if Mr. O'Connell should not previously have proved too hard of digestion, and spoiled the Right Hon. Gentleman's stomach. A prosecution of Sir Harcourt Lees carries burlesque upon the face of it : yet if this mercurial parson should have really found any portion of his countrymen so much farti n gone astray than himself, as to be actually under the influence of his ravings, a pub lic trial, and a conscientious guardian, appointed by the proper authority to take care of him, may help to keep the honest fanatic from doing or suffering harm. As an addendum to the evidence l of restored subordination throughout Munster,we would point out to the attention of sober men in Ireland, of the King's Ministers here, and above all of the Irish Government itself, the speech of that great statesman . Sir George Hill, delivered at Derry, on the Apprentice-boy Anniversary of the shutting of the gates last Saturday se'nnight.— This man is Vice-Treasurer of Ireland.— Verily, the most knowing 'prentice that ever wore a pron,or swept shop, could not have excelled the sage Baronet on that occasion. Of all the topics of alarm that had been rung from Lough Svv illy to Cape Clear since 1689, not one, no, nor half a one, save only that of a Popish Pre tender, was omitted by the King's Vice-Trea surer; but to compensate for that one omission, we had the " Popish Parliament"—the tremen dous " prophecies." Oh, ye Gods ! the Pasto rini-prophecies from a Member of Parliament, and of the Government ! And this to frighten an Orange mob, and to secure their votes for another election. Why does not Sir George Hill, too, come upon Ministers with his proposal to raise a No-Popery regiment ? " Sure enough " (as his countrymen say), there is precedent for so generous an offer. If we were given to blush. ing, we might change colour at such dirty sights. [NEW TIMES.] We are told by the Irish Papers that this As sociation is regarded by the Catholics, high am low, " with unliMited confidence." If this be true, we are very sorry for it. We deem the Association most prejudicial to the reel and best interests of Ireland, inasmuch as its tendency is to sow irreconcileable division between that coun try and England. Commercial enterprise, the pro gress of science,and the practical improvements in troduced into the laws and institutions of the coun try by his Majesty's Government, were making, and, if unimpeded,will continue to make rapid ad vances toward a melioration of the lot of the People of Ireland. Look only at the steam boats between Ireland and Liverpool! Contem plate their effect in bringing the Irish cultivator and the Irish manufacturer nearer to ther respec tive markets ! The personal intercourse of the inhabitants of the two Islands in that direction has been multiplied within the last six years at least twenty fold. To render these circum stances available to the benefit of the Irish People, nothing can be so conducive as tranquillity and order. To answer the ends of the leaders of the Catholic Association, ir ritation and confusion are absolutely essential.— Their interest, therefore, is directly opposed to that of the People ; and we must take leave to think that some , amo ng them are by no means blind to that opposition of interests. " I am surprised at your violence," said a Gentleman the other day to a very active agitator in Dublin ; " you used to he quite a moderate man." "To be sure I was," replied the other ; but what did I git by my moderation ?" floret too, ortHn lies the secret in these multitudinous Associa tions ; the leaders are only hunting after what they can ; while the mass of their followers " look up to them whi► unlimited confidence" as pure and disinterested Patriots. The account given of the Association goes on to say, " the number of its Members is now considerably above a thousand, and embraces all the Catholic Peer age, Baronetcy, and Gentry of Ireland." We have great respect for the Catholic Peerage, Ba ronetcy, and Gentry ; but though they may be among the Members of the Association, they most assuredly are not its leading Members ; they do not fill that station in tit& Society to which they are entitled by their birth, their fortune, their rank, or their legitimate influence. They ap pear at best as mere sleeping partners, while the heads of the firm are Messrs. O'Connell, Shell, Lawless, and Co. This surely is not as it should be. It rather resembles a democratic torrent, in which the higher classes are swept forcibly along, than a fertilising stream guided by the hand of a judicious cultivator. " [MR PUBSLEDGEII.] The Turkey Mt which arrived yesterday, has brought advices from Constantinople to the 26th ult. The Captain Paella had arrived there a few days before, with• a single ship of war (a two decker), and some fishing-boats captured off Ipsatq l which were pompously denominated Greek prizes. But this farce was not calculated to delut, e even the rabble of the Turkish capital, of whom lte most ignorant could not fail to draw mortit:im, conclusions, when they contrasted the sin g l e which the Captain Yacht had brought bat. 1. with the imposing force he had under his comtnand when he set out with the avowed purpose and confident hopes of terminating the war before the end of the Yintr. , However, his escape from capital punishment tCAront , trait in the politics of the Divan ; and Si) extraordinary that we cannot fathom the Mo tives. Of the Egyptian squadron, which had been joined by the remnant of the Turkish fleet, there was no certain intelligence ; and its strength, as well as the intention of Ibrahim Pacha, were objects rather of vague rumour than of positiv4i information. A report, however, pre-. VU combined squadrons had left Bou i t' their destination n ot hi ng certain was known. -- '-The Germ an Pap ers , w hich ar rived yesterday, sa y, that they directed their coarse for Candla ; and add, upon the autho rity of a person in the suite of the Austrian Oni. cer who commands in the Levant, that they were beaten by the Greeks oft that island. The action is stated to have taken place on the Ist of November, and twenty vessels, fall of regular troops, are mentioned as the prizes which, ac. cording to this account (that of an eye-witness)) have fallen into the hands of the victorious' Greeks. It was not expected at Constantinople that Lord Strangford would return ; and the re moval of all his Lordship's effects seemed to con firm this opinion. It was even currently: re ported that he had been appointed to another mission ; and, as part of his effects had been shipped for Odessa, it was supposed that the Embassy at St. Petersburgh was intended for his Lordship. There is one slight objection to this arrangement—we mean, the nomination of Mr. Stratford Canning to that post, who has besides set out in order to occupy it. This difficulty, however, has not been overlooked by the authors of the report ; and they have hit upon a most conven►ent mode of removing it—that'of send ing Mr. Stratford Canning, when he should have had some communications with the Rus sian Court, as Ambassador to Constantinople. This arrangement is very specious ; yet it strikes us as very improbable, particularly as it is not consistent with diplomatique eti quette ; and who ever heard of a diplomatist be ing removed to an inferior mission to that he had occupied before. There is a graduated scale of dignity in these matters ; and the Embassy to Russia is considered as , more dignified than that to the Porte. It strikes us that this rumour has been got up to disguise the fact of our altered relations with Turkey ; aid it is probably deemed more convenient to say that Lord Strangford has been recalled in the usual way, than in consequence of a change in the sentiments of the English Government towards the Porte. To the latter so many circumstances point, that it would he vain to try to conceal it; and it is at the same time necessary, in order to give uniformity to our foreign policy. What could be more inconsistent than to see this country up.! holding one set of principles in South America and another in Greece ? The latter has as much claim to our sympathy, and the same right to an interchange of good offices, as the former; and she might, without fear, challenge a compa ! rison with any State in the New World, as to the courage, perseverance, and ardour she has dis played in her struggle for independence. She is contending for what has been ever held sacred in the estimation of Englishmen ; and moreover, the success of her present efforts is absolutely neces sary to prevent the whole of Turkey in Europe from becoming an appendage of the Russian empire. BARBAROUS MURDERS. (From the TVolverhamplon Chronicle.) A cottage, called the• Gorse House, in the pa rish of Bushbury, situated on the turnpike road leading to Cannock, and between three and four miles only front this town,. became on Wednesday week the scene of a most diabolical murder, perpetrated lathe broad light of day upon Ann Spencer, a poor and aged woman, the wife of Edward Spencer, a labourer, the circumstances of which are ,as follow :—About 3 o'clock on the day mentioned, one of Col. V. Graham's ser vants called at the cottage with a peck of salt as a Christmas present for Spencer and his wife; the door being open he went in, and upon the kitchen floor . perceived some blood, which ex cited his alarm, and receiving no answer to Ills call for the in mates, he proceeded up stairs, where the dreadful spectacle pre sented itself of the murdered body of the poor old creature, still warm, lying on the chamber floor, her long hair being turned over her face so as to over it ; her head was dreadfully mangled, anti there was a violent wound under her right ear and a severe bruise upon the back of the hand, which she must have receivedirt, endeavouring to ward oil the blows of her in human mnrderer, which are supposed to have been inflicted with a hammer, or ome heavy instrument. There is little doubt that the horrid deed was committed in the kitchen (a consider able quantity of blood being smeared about the floor), and the body afterwards dragged into the chamber above; and the stairs being steep and narrow, it is thought that more than one must have been concerned, from the great strength it would require to convey the corpse up them. The unfl?r tunate victim had been at a neighbour's house, at a short dis tance, for some time, and which she left about half an hour only before the discovery ; it is therefore certain that her own dwelling had been entered during her absence, and on her e re turnforcer open t i l.e niu l r v i i l t e b ro a us po a ta tta to c c k fo w rk as : the made.nirk The the th d e oor prongs hati being been en indus trious couple was the villainous object of this attrocious case is evident, because the house had been stripped of several articles of wearing apparel. A reward of 501. was immediately offered for the discovery of the perpretators; and on Thursday morning Mr. It. Diggory, an active Assistant Constable of this town, tound that at Mr. Moore's, awnbroker in Darlington-street, seve ral articles, viz. a blink coat and waistcoat, a pair of cor duroy small clothes, a shirt, two shifts, two shawls, and a handkerchief, had been pledged ou the preceding night, and they have all been identified as those which were taken from the cottage; and the same night he succeeded in apprehending T. Powell, the person who had pawned them in his own name, but who. then denied the circumstance, thou g h M rs . M oore was quite positive as to his identity. The next morning, however, he acknowledged having pledged the articles, and said they were given to him by W. Edwards, better known by the name of " Codsall Will," who has since been apprehended, but he denies the transaction altogether. A Coroner's Jury was sum moned by Henry Smith, Esq., on Friday, to the Mitre at Essington, and the Gentlemen compo s i ng i t too k a view of body, which was also inspected by a surgeon, but no examina tion was entered • into, and the inquiry was adjourned to Fri day next (this day.)—On Sunday, the interment took place at Bushbury; and after the ceremony, the Rev. J. Close address ad the spectators on the subject of the melancholy scene they had assembled to witness, by whicl• they were deeply affected. —The deceased was upwards of 70 years orage, and was the mother of' several children, who are all in creditable situations. The cottage has a garden in front, and though on the turnpike road, is in a lonely place, on the edge of Hilton-park, there being no other house very near, and it had before been robbed twice within the present year. Powell and Edwards are both kept in safe custody in - this town. The former is about thirty years of age, rather short and stoutly made, very fresh coloured, and has remarkably straight black hair ; he comes from the neighbourhood of Staftbrcl, and on Monday under went an examination at our Police-oflice, and was committed on a charge of breaking into the house of Charles Marshall, near Penkridge, on the 13th instant, and stealing some articles of wearing apparel and a gold ring. ANOTHER MUUDEtt.—An Inquisition was held at Tipton, o b n od t y lie 01 2 . 1 ‘ s v t iI ir by s ., o a w n a d terw , adhjeon a verdicturnmentto ll of lo l n v d i a lf y .ul la il st fu u ra p e o r n w tl as ie returned against J as . Lunt, under the following circumstances, as detailed in the evidence :—On Saturday, the 18th instant, a pit's company, consisting of thirty men, who worked at the Moat Colliery, assembled in the hovel at six o'clock in the evcning to drink, and several of them, among whom was Bo water anti II tint, remained till twelve at night, when they all left, and no quarrelling had been heard between them. hunt and Bowater proceeded towards their homes at Cosely, and when on the road were heard wrangling, and Hunt used these expressions—" If you don't be saiet, earsing and blackguarding me, I'll strike you ;" and " Bill I am not able to stand against you."—Shortly after Bowater was found lying upon the ground, the blood- flowing copiously from the left thigh, and being asked what was the motif., replied, " Oh 1 good Lord, he has stabbed me." Hunt was standing by, crying and tearing, his hair. A chair was procured and the wounded man was taken to a house which was near, but in so exhausted a state from the loss of blood, that the only anewer he medalo questions put to him was, " Let me lie down ;" and in about 20 minutes after he expired before surgical assistance was obtained. Hunt ap peared in a state of great anxietyand distress, and repeatedly called to Bowater, " Do, God bless , you, Billy, speak to me ;, but lie wits so taint that lie could not reply. From the exami nation of the body by a surgeon, it app4hrs that the wound on the thigh is about two inches and a half leak and three inches deep, which seems to have been inflicted V a knife, or some very sharp instrument, and there is also a wound in the inside of the left arm. Hunt has absconded, and has not since been beard of.. FOR THE SUN. MORE FAITHFUL THAN FAVOURED. MR. Eiwron—At Ditchley, in Oxfordshire, there is a picture of Sir HARRY LEE, ancestor of the Earls of Litchfield, with a large mastiff b y his side, and the words above as an inscription. — This picture was painted to commemorate the following singular circumstance : Sir Harry Lee had' a large Mastiff which guarded the house and yard, and:had never re• ceived any marked attentions from his ma ster. One night, as his master was retiring to bed , the mastiff. silently followed him upstairs, whic h he had never been known to do before, and to his master's astonishment seemed desirous of en ter. ing the, bed room. He was, however, immediately turned out; upon which the poor animal began violently to scratch at the door and to houi loudly for admission. Though more than once driven away by Sir Harry's Italian valet, he r" turned again, and becoming more importunate, was ordered to be admitted. This being done, the mastiff, with a wag of his tail, a nd an , affectionate look at his master, walked'into the room, and creeping under , the bed, seemed deter' mined to take his night's lodging there. To sav e further trouble he was permitted to do so. In the middle of the night the room door was open' ed, and Sir Ilarry, who bad started from his sleep, heard a person stepping across his room; but the dog springing from his place under the, bed, seized the nightly intruder, and pin ioned him on the spot. The room was quite dark) but Sir Harry rang his bell in no small trepala• tion, whilst the person who was seized by the mastiff roared loudly for assistance. When lights were brought in, this was found to be no other• than the faithful Italian valet of the worthy Baronet, who had entered his master's room, little For expecting to meet with such a reception . this unseasonable intrusion he attempted toen il! some plausible excuse ; but the hour of the ni g ht , the evident embarrassment of the man, and t h e very singular importunity of the dog t o be,ni • lowed occupying a post which had proved so ACC' viceable to his master, were circumstances th at awakened strong suspicions in the mind of 0 1 ° worthy Baronet, who determined to submit t h e investigation of this tr4steriott's affoir to a Mug"' trate. By the dread of -punishment, and throug h a hope of pardon, the perfidious Italian was 1 1 length induced to confess that he had entered the room for the sole purpose of murdering his master, and of robbing the house. The most ex* traordinary and instinctive attachment of th d e dog to a master that had not hitherto shov e him any kindness, frustrated this diabol ical de. ,sign, and thus was the life of Sir Harry mo s t pro. videntially saved. The more one reflects upon this well wit hal !" cated fact, the less possible it is to comprehend How could the faithful animal acquire, 101°`" lege of the intended murder? What p oweral motive could induce him to bear with the blow he received for his well meant services ? more than all, what could urge him to seize as ap enemy a favourite servant of hi s m aster, °l a _ from whom he had most probably rec eived illur o kindnesses than his master had eve r shown,,, him? These are questions which may reasonaou be asked, hut which it is impossible to answ, e , r ; Certain it is, that what has been here related d i d occur, and that it was for the purpose of counar rn orating at once the gratitudelt I , lie master, 11., perfidy of the servant, and the fidelity of tmf dog, that Sir Harry had a MI length portrait ° himself painted, with the mastiff by his id e ' and the words, " more faithful than favoured. A droll adventu re Acurred last week at the Edinburgh police-office. A blood, re eling he nl ,; tipsy, wanted t o l oo k at hi s Watch by the li g ° of the lamp, but the chain by some means havi n g dropped do wn t h e f o b, he concluded that he. had been robbed, and staggered to the poll office, whe re , w i t h some difficulty, he con trive to make the officer on duty . understand the ea: tore of his loss, and the name of the watchmak erg from whom he had bought the tattler. The nin , c „ e r got a description of the watch from the ma A n d and sent it round to all the silversmiths a.ilig pawnbrokers, with the usual caution of steep ;" the bearer, &c. The next day, when the chanalian was sober, he found his lest prope rt y the proper place ; and forgetting t he adven tre of the preceding night, and finding a wan yc i h cash at the same time, he actually took the watch to.a pawnbroker, to raise the wind upon it 'li:0„.. the self. The pawnbroker at once saw it w'r,„ok identical watch described in the bill , and `"110 the unfortunate drunkard in custody to to police-office, whence he would have been sent t, prison as a thief, if luckily the officer n o du the preceding: night had not come in and rec ° g ti .f nized him. BIRTH- the lady ef On Wednesday, the 29th inst., in Euston-place' Jackson Walton, Vsq., of a son. MARRIED. Nott i coug ngl isali ge - On the 29th inst., at Basford, in the count/ of John George Shaw Lefeyre, Esq Fellow o mini , i . , tirr et, Cambridge, to Rachel Emily, fifth'daughter of Ichabo" ' of M n e ri.sapperley, Esq. ... the , . ..., On the 20th inst., at St. Peter's, NVallingfor u l ,„.030. 51 ',' Rev. John Holding, M.A., of Oakley, Hants. te.„7, n gore• daughter of the late Robert Lovegmve, Esq., of II a"' c harcilf On Wednesday, the 29th inst., at St. Ocork es N ide, Ig Bloomsbury, Mr. William Tarn, of Milk-street, l Cl'earwitl . Flora, youngest daughter of the late Lieutenant. Col on e ham, of the Coldstream Guards. , m On T chu hursday, the 30th inst., at St. George .11, P it ' . Prosser, of Porthamell, Breconshire, to Miss 0° /140 Gunter, of Albemarle-street. _.r."'_.r."'l DIED. S l t ' On the 30th of June last, at Rangoon, of the c.hele r i a lp e ; Alexander Cumming, Assistant Commissary-Gen er3 e - of th e I miltary . establishment of Fort St. George, and in charloyed Commissariat to the force from that Presidency, e ul P the Burmese war. Jr. il enr/ On the 27th inst., in the 18th year of his ag e, place, London, formerly of Kingston, Bowden, son of the late James S. Bowclen, Esq., of f , fo rk- On the 13th inst., at Brighton, John Burke, Et!‘lll,outics' in the island °I vote° On the 21st inst., in Arundel-street, strand, Mrs. 'r Young, relict of Captain Young, of the Royal Nav„.. 0, E. On the 21st inst, at Soutlnvick.park, Hant, Juw' Payne fifoOO aged - 47. 0 0 ' un um 27th inst., at his residence, Court -lodge, A.-- Sussex, John Since, Esq., in the2fliyelt' of his SP Printed and Published for the PROPRIETOIM 110. St OF rICE. NO. 112, Strand, by J. B. CiatirtAl* .4.