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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY --- Extracts from the Morning Papers, Nov. 12. [BRITISH BaEss.] We really thought the public press had scout ed, as it were, with one accord, the correspond ence of Mr. Parkins. IVe believed that he had been sent to Coventry by common consent, and yet we perceive that his epistolic trash still finds admission into the Morning Chronicle„ when all otherjournals shrink from its contamination; but " Bruin's not nice about his food," and therefore it is that his coarse appetite gives a ready reception to the on' which other appetites reject. This said Mr. Parkins, whose conduct in the affair of Byrne is still fresh in the public memory, has done the Chronicle of yesterday the honour to forward to it a critique on the letter which appeared in the Morning Herald, signed " Henry Fauntleroy," which letter he IS pleased to conjecture, with great gravity, must be spurious, after he found the hoax was detected, and had excited a general feeling of disgust. And the said Mr. Parkins appends to this his sage disquisition on the authenticity of that epistle, three or four letters, purporting to be genuine, from Mrs. Fauntleroy to her husband. Now, as this lady has no acquaintance with Mr. Parkins, and as we are quite sure she would be anxious to rescue herself even from the imputa tion of having any, it seems natural to ask, could any such lettess, had they been genuine, have found their way into the custody of this worthy scribe ? There is no man bearing the character of a gentleman but would have disdained to betray the contents of any letters of a wife to her husband, written on subjects of a most domestic and private nature, and which were never intended to see the light. And it is with real regret that we see any respectable Journal willingly prostituting its columns to the worst of purposes, that of treacherously publish ing private letters, more especially while the parties are living—an act repugnant to every honourable feeling, and in which the accomplice is as bad as the principal. As to the letters in question, the channel through which they were obtained is sufficient to render all discussion about their authenticity superfluous. The Chronicle and Herald may compare notes, and refer it to Mr. Parkins to settle the balance of credulity between them. [MORNING CHRONICTA.I It is rumoured that the Judges on the Northern Circuit, in justice to several Barristers, who are sufferers from the accountable delay that has taken place in promoting Mr. Brougham to the rank of King's Counsel, deemed it their duty to, support a Representation on that subject to are Lord Chancellor. The etiquette of the Bar, as is Well known, will not allow a senior Counsel to follow his junior, except the latter have a silk gown, and as Mr. Brougham's talents have raised him to the first rank in his profession, the conse quence is, that his less distinguished but senior brethren, who would often receive briefs in the same rause with him, but to whom, when a choice between them must be made, he is naturally pre ferred, are deprived of their fair share of busi ness. This injury has long been a subject of loud complaint, and has more than any one thing ex. asperated the Bar againEt the Lord Chancellor, who, for reasons best known to himself, has al ways refused to do this act of justice. Into the rumours of the ground alleged by the Lord Chancellor's friends, in his justification, we will not enter. It is flaw, however, understood that the Lord Chancellor has at length seen the ne cessity of taking a step which ought to have been taken years ago, [TII TI MEL] It should really appear that the French(excipien dis exceplis) are going to quit Spain ; and the Paris Journals, each in its respective sense, are elo quent and argumentative on the subject. The Journal des Debuts dreads the return of anarchy and the revival of the Liberal Party. The Con stitutionnel, on the contrary, fears for the Li berals, whom the presence of the French troops protects from massacre. 44 Leave them all to themselves," we again say. If the Constitu tional Party cannot defend itself, then has its attempt to impose a limited Monarchy been pre mature and ill-judged, and its members must suffer the ordinary fate of unsuccessful reformers. With respect to the Royalists, also, or Ultra- Royalists, or by whatever other title they are designated, they have obtained all that they asked—the liberation of the King's person : they, therefore, have been long without a pretext for opposing the return of the fo reigner. We think the Spaniards will know by this time—if any thing can enlighten their stupid pride—who it was that drove the French out of the Peninsula before. The period fixed for the evacuation, according to treaty, is the I st of January approaching—an awkward time for the passage of the Pyrenees : and it still appears tha: the invaders are to retain some of the strong places. We wish to see the foreign force re moved, and Spain left to herself. Whatever then may be her fate, we shall be content. if she shalt prove unable to work out for herself a free constitution, that inability will prove her un worthy of it. Tyranny, Popery, and the Inqui sition will have sunk her sons below the level of free men. There let them remain, till some happier occasion shall awake their genius and energies. As soon, however, as the foreigner shall be withdrawn from the Peninsula, we trust that the Spanish refugees in this and every other country will think it their duty to press home ward, and take a part in the troubles (if we must so call them) of affairs of their country. The Journal des Debuts thinks that these will be danger to Me Royalist party from the evacuation of Spain. When will there not be that danger When will the period arrive, lt which those who have introduced a foreign army Into their country for the support of their cause, can safely confide in. the love , of their countrymen, and deprive themselves of their foreign protect'ors ? We answer boldly—never, till alt those by whom the entrance of the foreigners was opposed are massacred. If the French, therefore, mean to leave Spain tranquil, in their sense, and the despotism secure, let them begin their work of destruction to-morrow. Their stay upon any other terms does but augment the danger of their departure. [MORNING POST.] A Brazil Mail brought yesterday papers from Rio de Janeiro to the 19th of September. They contain no political intelligence,and no details of the reduction of Pernambuco, which having taken place only on the 17th, was of course not yet known in the capital, on account of the distance which separates the two cities. Restored to in ternal peace, the Brazilian empire begins to put forth symptoms of increasing prosperity, and all seems to announce that its advancement in every thing that constitutes greatness will be sure and rapid. It was the fault, or rather the misfortune, of most of the present European States, that they were founded in barbarous times; that is to say ,in times when the fair traces of Roman civilization were quickly disappearing under repeated inun dations of barbarians from the North. Hence their first elements were rude and shapeless, and it took ages of stormy struggles and events to bring them into form, and to raise them to that height of wealth, power, knowledge, and social perfection, which they have now attained. The Empires and Republics of the New World spring up on the contrary in the midst of general civil ization. They have, if the expression may he used, no infancy, no season of ignorance or of weakness. With all the experience of the past before them, with all the arts of Europe in their hands, with immense natural resources at their disposal, and the knowledge and ability requi site to turn them to the best advantage, they may at once choose the wisest institutions to se cure, their internal happiness, and lay a broad and solid basis on which to erect the edifice of their power. Their first step as States carries them as far as six hundred or a thousand years have done older nations under l es s f avoura bl e . circumstances. They seem destined therefore to a growth as gigantic as the productions of na ture iu their country ; and amongst those that have burst through all the shackles and perils of youth, none seems likely to attain the maturity of its strength so rapidly as the empire of Brazil.— On the 7th of September last, the anniversary of its declaration of independence was celebrated by order of the Emperor with due solemnity, and the people, th e M onarc h, an d t h e I mper i a l fa mily displayed an unanimity of feeling on this occasion, which is an additional pledge of future greatness and prosperity. [NEW TIMES.] We yesterday gratified a correspondent by in serting his communication on the Police of the City : and we must this day take notice of a few of the remarks to which our good nature has ex posed us. One friend congratulates us on having obtained Ex-Lord %VAITHMAN for a contributor to our columns. Another asks what we charge for the puff. A third is happy to find that his Ex-Lordship's bitter abuse of The New Times, on ell occasions public and private, does not prevent our returning him good for evil. Now we must candidly confess that if the account in question did really issue from the corner of Bridge-street, it is more than we know. We certainly made no charge for the insertion. We neither inserted the article to conciliate the angry Ex-Lord; nor should we have excluded it on account of any severity in which he may be apt to indulge in his remarks on our public labours. The document was a curious one in itself : it was still more curious for the skill with which Certain allusions were made in it to the late Mayoralty. Whether our Correspondent intended them for compliments to the Ex-Lord, or for sar casms on his misfortunes, we shall not say. For instance, it is gravely observed, that " the man who wishes for a second illayoraky deserves to undergo its fatigues." Did Ex-Lord Warm- MAN wish for a second Mayoralty, or did he not ? If he did not, then his withers are un. wrung by the allusion. Again it is observed, that a former Luau MAYott was occabionally as sisted by some of his brother Aldermen. Was this meant to imamate that none of Ex-Lord WAITHMAN'S colleagues liked him well enough to relieve him from any part of his duties ? "If a Loan M A YOH happen to have a reputation for acuteness," says our Correspondent, " many ad ditional cases are brought before him." The reputation of the Ex-Lord is well known, but whether for acuteness, or for other qualities, our Correspondent saith not. Upon the whole, perhaps an experienced eye might detect in the article referred to as much of ironical as of seri. ous commendation : and we confess ourselves still in doubt whether it was meant to exalt the reputation of the. Es-Lord. [HORNING IIERALDI f a the Report of Crown Lands and Quit Rents in Ireland, just printed, pursuant to the order of Parliament, there is quoted the following entry of a Crown Lease, granted in the 25th of the late King, to George Capel Coningsby, commonly culled Lord Viscount Malden ; the Honourable Charlotte Boyle Walsinghtim ; and Richard O'Bryan Boyle, Esq. respecting of property in Meath :—" All that and those houses and mes. wages irtthe town of Navan ((herein mentioned), held by 14 tenants ; and all the days' works and labours in autumn of said 14 tenants; and also an other house in Navan,, formerly intenure of John Philpot ; and all' 'customary duties of mowing of corn in harvest for one day, and for any other day's work in making of hay,reserved on any de mise of the premises; and one hen from every one of the said fourteen tenants yearly at Christ mas, and also two other tenants 'there ; and all those cottages lately built without- the walls of said town, in 'a certain street called the Canon row ; and alsO a fishing weir ; also a house in the town of Slane ; also a messuage, and five acres w formerly of waste land, with the appurten ance s, in the town of Finaockstown, and a house in the town of 'DoWnainore, and another house in the said town ; also a house in the town of Ardmule charm; and also one customary galon, commonly called a Mary galon, of the best beer of every brewing, made to be sold in the town of Nava n aforesaid, all parcel of the revenues of the late dissolved monastery of Novan." And a rent of 6/. [THE PuntAc LEDGER.] Every arrival from the new States of America brings intelligence more or less gratifying—some new pledge (we shall not say of their indepen dence, for this is already placed beyond the reach of accident) but of the happy destiny that seems to await them. They have shewn so much fortitude in difficult circumstances, and such mo deration in prosperity, that we are not surprised at the solidity which they have acquired in so short a time. Their very existence too has been identified with improvement ; and they had no sooner thrown off the fetters of the slave, than they began to entertain projects of high, comprehensive, and durable utility.—Amidst the loudest din of arms, they found leisure to attend to the pacific arts; and notwithstanding the expenditure of a desolating struggle, they could find funds for works which usually require a period of prosperity and settled quiet. ‘Ve have here, perhaps, the grand distinction be tween free and enslaved nations ; for improve ment and freedom are synonimous, as an enslaved state is equivalent to misery and degradation.— These remarks have been elicited by the intel ligence brought by the Mail from Rio Janeiro, where, though all alarm of a hostile visit had not subsided, yet we see the Go vernment occupied in undertakings, which, if a Statesman of the old school, and in any of the Monarchical States, were to propose under similar circumstances, he would be treated as a wild visionary. The advices by this convey ance are to the 19th of September, and they re present the Emperor in the act of laying the foundation-stone of a dock for the building and repairing of ships of the line. The ceremony took place on the 27th of August, when his Majesty was accompanied by the Minister of the Marine, and several Naval and Military Officers. The Dock is to be cut in a rock of solid granite, and it is expected that it will be finished in a few months. Moreover, a University is to be immediately founded, which will secure to the Brazilian youth the means of acquiring a liberal education, without the expence, trouble, and contamination, of seek ing it in foreign countries. Thus this new State, like all the others ou the same Continent, is lay ing the firm basis of its future prosperity, and advancing with rapid strides in the career of civi lization ; whilst Spain and Portugal, under their crazy despotisms, are as rapidly declining in wealth, power, and consideration. Yet the latter have the unparalleled modesty to pretend to hold the former in subjection ! FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A SPRING GUN. SWAFFHAII, Nov. 10.—We trust that the following melancholy event will have the effect of abolishing these murderous machines : On Sunday afternoon last, about four o'clock, Wm. Brown sell, who for a very considerable number of years has been in the service of Win. Mason, Esq. of Necton (four miles from Swell. ham), as a hurdle-maker, went into one of that gentleman's plantations to examine what timber would be fit to fell for hurdles, when the poor fellow, through ignorance of the place where the gun was set (and one would naturally suppose that such a weapon would not be planted in a road), as he was cross ing the road trod upon the wire, and the gun went oil; lodg. ing its contents in his body. On Monday horning he way found in dreadful agonies, and conveyed to the nearest house for relict, but in vain; he shortly after expired. An inq ues t was held last. night, at the Three Tuns at Necton, before W. B e ro E sq . Co r oner, wh en i t appeared in evidence that the p gun was heard about. f our o ' c l oc k on Sunday after. report of noon ; but as the occasion was not suspected by any one no notice was taken ; that on liionday morning about eight o'clock, as the gamekeeper Was going his rounds, he found the gun sprung, and about eighty yards further discovered the wretched llrownsell weltering In his blood, but still alive. It would seem that the deceased, who must have lain sixteen ' hours In agonies which cannot well be imagined, had rolled round through briars and brambles to a tree near the spot, where the ground appeared as if a h orse h a d b een tied there and pawed the earth all round ; he had afterwards crawled upwards of eighty yards to a hollow part where there is a seat for the keeper to watch, and where he was found nearly insen sible, muttering only " Let me alone."—After some delibera tion, the Jury came to the following v er di c t, w hi c h o f i tse l f speaks volumes r--" Accidentally came to his death by a spring Mn set in a cart road leading t h roug h a p l antat i on of Mr. ! elon's, called the Furnace, adjoining the boundary of Sp or l e ." ---It is but right to a dd, t h at Mr. Mason, who had a very high opinion of the honesty and industry of Brownsell, is now abroad on a tour, and it is said that the spring guns have been set since his absence. We are confident that our readers will par ticipate in our feelings of surprise and indignation when we tn. fonn them , that the Jury, on ins p ect i ng t h e s pot, found the gun again loaded. A sailor, named Barney Gough, fell from one of the Bath coaches, two miles from Colnbrook, on Wednesday morning, and a Coroner's .Jury found his death was accidental, by being drunk. O ne o f t h e w i tnesses prove d h av i ng seen him drink seventeen drams in a short space of time. On Sunday last, as a waggon conveying the scenery, &C. of the Norwich company of comedians from Bury to Colchester, was descending a hill near Cock&ld, the driver having omitted to clog the wheel, the vehicle ran down with such velocity as to kill one of the horses, and seriously injure two ethers. HORRID CRUELTY TO ANIMALL—On the forenoon of Tuesday last two butchers, named Menders, residing in Free-school-street, and `'Volley, of Geinsf or d- s t reet , b o th of S t. John's, Horsleydown, proceeded each with h is mare, in harness, from the m il e -stone, Opposite Stepney Green, 5 miles out, and the same distance home, on the Ilford road, for a bet of 50 sovereigns. Both parties started at a pace, al though their horses were considered good bot tom, too quick for any cattle to continue such a distance. W a ll ey took the lead, and by the time the 9.5 miles out were done by him, he was betw een two and three miles a- h ea d o f hi s opponent. M enders, however, overtook NV olley when the latt er pulled up, and gave in, as his mare could not proceed farther with any chance of success ; indeed, he left the poor animal behind him on the road, and came home by some stage-coach. 1 1 / a ntlers con tinued, however, as well as his mare could go, until his arrival at Ilf or d , w h ere h e b a it e d h er ; but on proceeding for the winning-post, the mare could scarcely walk, and the poor distressed ani mal was near 3 hours in going the last 6 miles. Menders, however, won the bet, but his mare, on being unharnessed and put into a stable, dropped down dead in a few minutes aftewards ought to be stated that each of these humane competitors had a friend with him in the chaise to act as umpire on this disgraceful occasion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDIIALL.—Yesterday Mr. Wilkins, a respectable car case butcher in Smithfield Market, was charged, at the instance of Charles Wheeler, Mr. Martin's inspector, for ill-treating an ox in the market.—Mr. Humphries attended on his behalf, and objected, first, that the Magistrate had no jurisdiction, inas much as his client was not legally before the Magistrate.— Mr. Martin's Act expressly directed that a complaint on oath should be made, and it was in the discretion of the Magistrate to issue his warrant, which in this case had not been done, the defendant having been taken into custody upon show of the offence. Wheeler on this occasion, shifted his ground.— Mr. Humphries, he said, was mistaken. He was not proceed ing under Mr. Martin's Act, but under what is called the Smithfield Act, 21, Geo. 11., which gave authority to any per son to apprehend the offender.—Mr. Humphries—Then I object that under that statute you are not a competent witness, inas. much as you are the person making the complaint, and, on conviction, one moiety of the penalty is by the Act awarded to you : you have therefore an interest in the conviction, and cannot be a witness. Wheeler said he had no witness, but he had been grossly abused. The penalty was no object to him, and he was ready to give it up immediately.—Mr. fIirMPIIIIIES said that in cases of this sort, halt' the penalty must be awarded to the informer, nor could he be released, in order to give evidence. The CITY SOLICITOR was sent for, and when he arrived, he said the objections made by Mr. Humphries were fatal, and that there could be no further proceedings, as the case then stood, either under Mr. Martin's or the Smithfield Act.— Wheeler applied for a summons for another offence, and Mr. Wilkins and his solicitor left the office. The objection taken by Mr. Humphries rendecs Mr. Mar tin's Act altogether nugatory, for there is scarcely one case in fifty that have come before Magistrates, where the offenders would not have escaped punishment entirely, if they had not been apprehended upon the spot. Scarcely any but the drovers, who happened to have their badges on, could ever have been brought to justice under it. Al an Lnonou on-ST REET.—Yesterday Sir William Bur. roughs, Bart. residing at No. 53, Grafton-street, Bond-street, came to this Office, and applied for the advice of the Sitting Magistrate how to proceed respecting the following robbery : Sir William said that he had for sonic time past hired stables and a coach-house of a Mr. Thompson, in Green Dragon-yard, King-street, where his carriage and horses have been kept. Ilis coachman has lately complained that the lock of the coach. house door was very insecure, and Mr. Thompson was 4poken to on the subject. On Wednesday the lock was removed, with a view, Sir William supposed, of substituting a better one, which, however, was not done that day, and the conch house was left all night without any lock at all; the conse quence was, that some thieves entered, and carried off a part of the harness and the traces of the carriage, to the value of about Si. and as he suspected the robbery must have been com mitted by some one acquainted with the absence of the lock, he (Sir William) wished for some assistance in endeavouring to trace out the offender. The Magistrate asked Sir William if the coach glasses had been broken.—Sir William replied, that they had not ; and when he heard that the stable had been entered, lie very much feared that they had been taken away. The Ma gistrate observed, that it was clear the thieves, whoever they were, could not be experienced ones, or they would not have ' left the coach-glasses behind. An officer was then directed to ' proceed to the premises and investigate the affair; and Sir • William was assured that every assistance should be afforded him in discovering the offenders. • For some time past the parish officers of St. Oiles's have been very active in bringing , to justice all sorts of tradespeople —butchers, bakers, &c. within their authority, who have vio lated the Sabbath, by pursuing their worldly calling on Sundays, during Divine Service. The parish of St. Anne's, Soho, has, it seems, become jealous of this activity of their neighbours, and yesterday they completelyfilled the Office with defendants of this description within their district, and amongst many other tradespeople, there was no less than 27 butchers from Newport Market in one lot. Most of theth pleaded guilty to the infor mations, and were all fined ss. each, and costs. P-STIIEET. Yesterday Philip Chambers and Lloyd, the termer a porter, and the latter a cook, in the employment of Mr. Paul Mullett, were brought before Mr. Benett upon a charge of robbing their master; as were also William Pearson, a broker in Old-street-road, with Mary his wife, charged with receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Mullett appeared, from his testimony, to have been a cabinet-maker and upholsterer in a very extensive line of busi ness, at Finsbury House, South-place, Finsbury-square, which house, with the warcrooms, is at at the corner of Wilson-street. He also occupies as a warehouse the premises at the opposite corner, which are distinguished from the former by the name of the " old warehouse." On both these premises it appeared that a most extensive syst em o f p l un d er h a d b een carried on. Abraham Scriven, a man in the employment of Mr. Mullett, and an accomplice with the prisoner Chambers, disclosed a most extraordinary succession of acts of robbery committed at various times tbr a long period. The goods were disposed of to the prisoners Pearson and his wife. The prisoner Chambers was committed for trial for stealing, and Pearson and his wife for receiving goods knowing them to be stolen. Eliza Lloyd was remanded. UNIoN-11ALL.—Eleurior Lord, the girl lately in the service of Mr. II indson, the Sheriff's Officer, of South-place, Kenning. ton-Common, who was brought up a few days ago, charged on suspicion of having been concerned in robbing her master, with a man whom she concealed in the hay-loft, who was discovered there by the wife of the c ompl a inant, underwent another exa mination yesterday. Mr. CHAMBERS then asked if she was disposed now to dis close the truth, and state where this man was to be found. She replied, that she had no knowledge where his residence was; that he had paid his addresses to her for the last four months, and she was sure that he was incapable of practising a dishonest action. The MAGISTRATE said, that he was of a very different opinion, as it appeared he had been discharged from situations for dishonesty. However, as no prosecutor now appeared he irould not detain the girl any longer ; and she was then discharged, after having received an admonition for the future not to introduce such sweethearts into her master's house. BELL Room LIGHT•HOUSE.—The late high winds and heavy seas have, as usual, been very sens ibly felt by the inmates of the Bell Rock Light-house, as appears from a letter to the en gineer from Mr. Macdonald, one of the superin tending artificers, who had been there during the storm. He writes as follows : " ARBROATH, 21st OCTOBER, 1824.—1 beg to let you know that I came here with the Pharos, having made a finish of the painting and other works at the Rock for the season. The gale at N.N.E. which commenced about the Bth of Oct. has been more severe, and the storm of longer duration than any I have hitherto met with while at the Light-house. The water came upon the house in an unb ro k en state to the he i ght of the kitchen windows (fl 4 feet above the Rock.) At times the billows, for I cannot call them spr a y s , t h oug h o f a w hi t i s h colour, came above the library windows, and struck the cornice (90 feet.) Indeed the appearance, in all directions around us, was at times more dreadful and terrific than I have ever seen it before. I really think, upon the whole, the house feels more firm and entire than when I first knew it—shortly after it was finished. The lamp-glasses in the light room, and the utensils ill the kitchen, were frequently heard to make a tingling noise during the gale, caused by the vibrations of the tower. I left every thing in good order, and the light-keepers in good health, after a residence of seven weeks and two days." A fire broke out between 11 and 12 o'clock on Wednesday night, at a linen-draper's in Oxford-street ' two doors from O rc h ar d- street , w hi c h threatened destruction to the neighbourhood. Owing to the nature of the materials with which the shop was stocked, a sudden and tremendous burst of tire issued from th e s h op window,i and it was with difficulty the tamily could escape. There was, however, an abundant sup ply of water, sufficient to keep a dozen engines in play, which fortunately confined the tire to the house in which it broke out. BRUTAL AND DISGRACEFUL OUTRAIIE.-1t has been often our disgusting task to notice the nuis ances in Warwick-lane, through the sufferance of slaughter-houses in the heart of the city, and this in the teeth of an Act of Parliament pro hibiting the same. The inquest of the ward have repeatedly presented this intolerable nuisance ; and yet, strange to say, it is still suffered. Yes terday afternoon four bullocks were hunted down the lane, into Warwick-square, followed by a posse of butchers and a mob of many scores, yel ling, and infuriating the tortured animals; and, as a climax to the scene, one of the beasts was hamstrung, and then stunned by a poll-axe on i the spot. During the above e x hi b ition, all in gress or egress to the square was totally impos sible, and the lives of his Majesty's subjects thereby shamefully and wantonly endangered. LOTTERIES IN ENGLAND. The first English Lottery was drawn A.D. 1569. It consisted of forty thousand lots, at tea shillings each lot. The prizes were plate, and the profits were to go towards repairing the havens of this kingdom. It was drawn (as Malt land from Stow informs us, vol. i. p. 257.) at the west door of St. Paul's Cathedral. The drawing began on the 11th of January, 1569, and con tinued, incessantly, day and night, until the 6th of May following. At this time there were only three lottery offices in London. The proposal for this lottery were published in the years 1567 and 1565. It was, at first, intended to have been drawn at the house of Mr. Dericke, her Majesty's servant (i.,e. her jeweller), but was afterwards drawn as above-mentioned. Dr. Rawlinson shewed the Society of Antiquarians, in 1748, a copy of the preceding lottery scheme, and it is thus entitled—" A proposal for a very rich lot tery, general without any blankes, containing a great number of good prizes,as well of ready money as of plate, and certain sorts of merchandizes, having been valued and prised by the command ment of the Queene's Most ExcellentMajestye' s order, to the intent that such commodities as way chance to arise thereof, after the charges home, 3 , havens c a such other good works. The numobriedr o n i d ive st r r t e e i d ig t t o h w o a f rd a s ia ti r le aaime, reparation of the shall'be forty thousand, and no more; and every lott shall be the summe of tenne shillings ster l a l. only, and no more. To be fi lled by , the feast ot St. Bartholomew. The slew of Prizes are to be seen in Cheapside, at the sign of the Queene's Armes, at the house of Mr. Dericke, goldsmith, servant to the Queene. Printed by Henry 13 1" towards a l r a d ts s neman, 1567." In 1612, King James, for the special encouragement of the plantation of Eng lish colonies in Virginia, granted a lottery to be held at the west end of St. Paul's. One Thomas Sharplys, a tailor, of London, had the chief prli e, amounting to four thousand CrOWIIS in 46 fare the necessary ic ; to th su ay pp w re a s r s e plate." In the reign of Queen Anne, it was the a g bt George I. re lotterie s vi ved iat the reign off_ ROMAN CATHOLIC BURIALS. ___.-..n0w.........._ . After the extraordinary deman ds that have been made upon the credulity of the public by the wonder-working Prince Ilolienlohe, and die account of smothering the poor child by a in Ireland some months back, perhaps the follow ing relation may not astonish the word :-it is communicated by a correspondent. It is suffi" ciently notorious, that in former ages an absurd custom prevailed in Popish countries of clothing persons whose death seemed at hand, in the er pearl or uniform of the various religious orders -- ensuring a " black, white, and gray" —thereby passport to another world ; to which that stard! Protestant Millon refers in the third book of lot Paradise Lost, where, describing the limb ° ° Vanity, he speaks of some, --- .. 'Who, to be sure of Paradise, " Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic • priest But perhaps it may not be generally "Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised." , ,01 un dersov - ° that a practice somewhat similar to this still obi' tains, it is said, universally in Spain ; nor is much probability that this important oerem°l , will be discontinued, from the circumstane its being a most fruitful source of profit t° th e church, for the following reason. Every gl:a Catholic is consigned to his long home, tot f.,q, in a shroud as with us, or in the garments wil!_';lt he wore when alive, as in some countries, P, clothed in the discarded vestments of "ine the Monk, which vestments are the perquisi tes °I: these and thus War Generals of the several orders ; revered persons, ludicrous as it trey !O le o by tty fa , r th t a t t )e h m is dealers . to us, are literally very extensive F ran ciscan: i f old clothes. The General of the t d o . thrive so lucrative a trade in this e legant een" e d whose reversui; o i s n t, co n m um e eisroaussgeortre d d er by in so S m po e in t : e is li ! s is L l : l e e , l_r . e .. that of the Archbishop of Toledo, were laid at 50,0001. per annum. Th e intrifi not value of the worn-out garments of. Friars condo, be great ; but it must be understood that. .." to price of a suit of grave-clothes is in proportiofltie the wealth or pious liberally of the friefi(s laLe the deceased. In Cadiz, the custom is top it, dead body in a coffin without a lid, tind ca , # nro . uncovered, to the burial-ground. During I'S he b t he gress thither, it is at intervals lowered by bearers, and a short halt made, so that i t t ime :, be viewed by those who are passing at the d o of hence a stranger, unacquainted witli' this ni t :nsive sculpture, naturally concludes that an es, c i e , sinstics, l, from seeing . every corpse than This is one among innumerable naortallity has occurred in the ranks of the e ' d. ',...- Wl e _ .h. surdities that prevail in the Roman Cs! a 0( church,and of state of min a proof the gross , its members.—(Morning Paper.) • superstitiol y tc , - .------- itle r " NARROW ESCAPE.—Sunday evening, be ad f Thomas•court ? in Thomas-street six and seven o'clock, a gentleman passing near the c le 114 . joining Cathenne's church, which' had been artly W en e• P fie WO for the purpose of . , diatet alarmed a number of persons coming that "i t h. en° heal barely • . time to escape the impending danger 9 l / d i ii ml sn Cro- 11 :„ i tire gable-end fell into the street with , a treo l ,...,e"7l:popf" fortunately without doing any further injury.- 41 " - _.... -.------- perceived an 01d...0u qme• Lion-street, BIRTHS. of He ti On the 11th inst., Mary, the wife of Thomas WelL , , o f it Wapping, a of Plaistow, attorcrat"'"' daughter. at ho On Tuesday, the 9th inst., CI h m the lady of t Joseph Simpson, of a son aP a sir ti p t a tl t t r e ic P k al l a to c ss e,. Corfu, on fi l l e7M P utt., CAPt f air ;gro l fA ci a lrsP-1111 Lioghnt Tuesday, to Amelia, eldest daughter ° ' the 9th in . st., at 0, han y. • Brassey t, Clarks on, , i Esq., o f trlhelEStiOlc.il;°llbcridgbe' Su.finbnikelsjtrorbe: On 1 e nesuay last, at his house In Queen .c. . C le.. a ni. v :i e n n tte li , s ,o, h ion a n q te u ili a e re j29a , rt tif eys t „ I o n o fc s i gi t l 'e si so v n e a r gc , I:l:rtiegaoiormdusee Ilenewir.leiechirtici I , i . n ms - to n -r e. ' , colon" liuldlesex, Aide-de-Camp olGentral Montilla, ot t bian service. Printe6lraAdcsP,ublioa.hleldl!osrtrathned,l'ittratvtoull, ag il l SU*? J. B. CAnsTAIn t 441 111 4ltQj