The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-25 00:00:00

TE. Three. that which atent to be Kingdom of lignity of s )rumniond, Esq. Ca P t. JaWf Ujill Leh Walker n6i bit; Leine d, big wife ' Jame' for hie ma. dral ols ' 3 the St° Idle Teolie' hire, groc er ' urt of Co'v ewin-street! JAB* 9 ' I° ' Adiingtoo9 York dijr , " the Wh i te J waniht.# t t street Fitz' rritt TOW'. fender, Jan nukedcn G",Y: No p i rig, at tWelvel rgb, Dee °6I 8, at twehe, a rripe d ,orps route to I 56th -Foot, Rid* A C"P fr Brigaue, lent of P o o; m aing, fr sent of fl g ; rtatioster, bous 1° t. FridaY' 10; 14. [ay. Jan. )6; -Io' FrO Jan. 14' —Wedne#l6P Jan. 18' IL L Na , SH Ar jee gro d . t. to th e Ai x), .a c e. a Arai pah', ill L^C`'"nttch " ; u Lodge' to will re tin a e re )r. W bs f tp -1,, ea o stai n m been ma of thew otile al , bu t (le' trates, We too e matter Christro o . s l 0 iai shlu ei9 r si which i n general the ease , (e 'd ie progret / ser i ous iojd'i A ry-hili, rid , ra vers rough t seve r ., eting thew übe,r of 1 "°:11 c 1 Of What t h e Lell frO le ca 011,05 lianlea t upintais • 1 war 11 riag e ' •► the br . r oo le bri de; ol d ,„ naine s / we te regi't er d, .iler a ' N ST III t. 1 , ) , I on Ijo_ , take" i i ,„ ; oolors 0 6) :e 1g! ! vrbeigoo shepher d / on saturty ,ed An d / Ito ° legs o f 0 1 1 0 ,4 ) per, an a d id their aninv 7th, to 6 00 aroused 00, f e Gu3 o9 0 0' a t their a f) 10 0' of the ' t ie of to ther r° to ci )1 their cl a Jo these `,`fie ; a a statc,.,," having er . " fi r st di r o, 0 5-street• ild , j o sod also v, 4 ular t ta L g O l. - the 0 9 71 his Or e " ai r ' Lid of the,. / and skl LITERATURE ; EARLY PROSE ROMANCES. Tam / A a - - ..-''' OF READING HELYAS, KNIGHT OF THE c At this —ANNE—GEORGE-A-GREEN. _ merry lviliti ea Chris tmas-time, when gifts and are imiversall in fashion,we know of . ~ 11 0 more Y. fesent than - aeCeptabl e or appropriate p . !Illis entertaininer collection of 'English fictions, 4 w hich the familiar customs of our forefathers :re delineated in a - - manner amusing from its lenill lin 'Plicity andquaintness. A fire -side too, ; "eat old Enalish-fire-side, with a gr oupe of ,i i e ") laughi ng li tt l e f aces seated roun d i t, is o f n v .„ 6t h ers th e p l ace i n w hi c h t h ese l egen d s pill tell with particular effect. They have . _ n ee 'd ee d the stately and impressive magn fi The A rb .. °I those fascinating volumes—" .. ~ ' leve Ti ll Ni g hts '" or the " Tales of the Germ, — d x.7_,,rt. Bless they are remarkably amusing, an , "tilt characteristic '`ays of ' sketches of England, in the 1. end its chivalry and romance. We recom ll them, they as a very acceptable pre- Young from 3 father to the most deserving of his Young family. erMiir. Tilt, of FINE ARTS. Fleet -street, has just 'published-a: 1 i Y h• linw urokts set of Illustrations of the divert- 4 1 g istory of John Gilpin, which are peculiarly ,n 11 13 11 1.° Priate at this laughter-loving season, illustearta. are when glad, or would be 'merry. the i ti i rati4 2 are six in number, is Itut f l . ibl,, designed by . eti are of Cruikshank, whose genius Nub' , e .: - / unique in the portraiture of grotesque and . c :. "hielt he touches off in a rich, wiled, qil at jiinal vein of comicality, well - cal el ) ''' to set the table in a roar. in 1. Pilings are - on wood, and executed 1 ,I"ruldred spirit with the design by Thompson, 4 11 4114 ", Wright, Slader and White. 111 ,IPlessiolis on India paper ' are as good as coppeir -11 at e , li , . 1141tieUtratiOlviise think that Mr. Tilt should get 1 p of Tam O'Shanter, as an appropri- A very rl e aee°lll paniinent to the present neat an... v,,, l i e 1( 414 ' but cheap, edition of Gilpin. 11 theta'tiewildness and horror of midnight e ;term.. ~ y night, with such sublime agency as scenerys vel 'f i e° of the Air holding his nocturnal Xi r r t 'II the ruins of Alloway s auld ha . unte:, Cr u jj,,,,,aord a fine scope for the seinuf s i s , ve l , oilee - tiai l i c to embody „ 4 . the strangely impre 1 4 'l ? 11 % of the poet -vi, ,:: %air ' horrible and awfu' , ~ ' '' e ll tee: toname wad be unlawtu . Th, - D ude *l e I>3 o. CLARBNCE arrived , at his seat p I}-14 °, yest er d a y, f rom Plymouth., Alarib rinse • LEOPOLD arrive d at his' residence, '*4t it Cl aremont ) iis r4 gLilouse; yesterday morning, from • 1 / 4 t t aw, le btAke o f -G,oucEsTER arrived at his seat 1 I'7'4-Dark y es t er day, from LulWorth-castle. h a,i veil "Ike. of BRUNSNOICK is stated to have pe, tlo na 41 Vito o n the 10th inst: His stay, it was ex ir ef I tild be short. • G bUDLEY had an interview with Viscount 0 44 iR„ IC H yesterday, at his residence in Downing-stract. - 'ollllt' PALM Satur ERSTON left town- on ~ at Broadlands, Hants. Mr. HusxISSON Sunday on a visit to the Noble Viscount, fir. lilt CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER left N Saturday, for his seat at Montrail. Hi s 4AJESTY'S Christmas Bounty was distri 114vill'I'ktday "at th e Al monry Wine, Whitehall, by Mr- Doo r Dos: 1; Secretary to t h e L or d 'Hi g h Al mo ner, to 900 1`, 4 1 : an d wmonn, each of whom received ks. Olelk 4(IoNaBLE ARRIVALS. —Major Bur- : tiou.,ln Regent- s t reet , from Paris ; Captain an d M r s . and gins, is Brook-street, from Cheltenham ; Mrs. 84pi! 1 ,ita Maxwell, in Q ueen Anne-street W es t, from ar;,:44; the Duke of Norfolk, at his house in St. the ii :Ll kquare, from his seat, Arundel C ast l e , Sussex; kty,f q ? . Colonel Anson, at hi s h ouse i n Curzon - s treet, Ctio si r, from the Duke of Bedford's, Woburn Abbey; etar4atid M rs . Campbell, i n Wi gmore-street , f ro m e Hon. Charles Jerningb am , i n S t . James's ,'ege4,7ol Paris ; Lord Henry Ker, at Warren's Hotel, from Dowager Lady Suffield's seat in Nor-: ''' ) laltPtain Porter, at Stevens's Hotel, Bouti-streil Bt, j °rltallire,- Mr. and Mrs. Fry, at: Fenton's Hotel, ditt, aPea's-street from Norwich ; Captain Calcraft, at Itatl ;'• he -Hon. and Rev. Dr. Marsham and , '4 gtll l 4 .1 11 t n at the-Burlington Hotel, Old Bur- C ork - s treets, from Kent ; Major Bo d, at the ' ' 1 41;2 4 . 5. Jern s lyn-strett, from , Suffolk ; Mr. and Mrs. titt. from Suffollk. 41, 4 t• 411 '4TREs.—The M4cluisEarolfGeLwearl,lsto ;he BewOod Park, Wilts ; 1: -.4(1 Y (4 Sta fford's seat , West Hill, Surrey ; Dowager s' ) r P I...taucrougli fur Brighton ; Major and Mrs. ;: ore, fttld Gf - i mor pitkington,. for . Gana! ta mrs. M and . 144$ re. for the New Steyne, Brighton , I/4144rd, for Bath • Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Tynte, nt, from u, 114 . Mr. Tay ' lo e s sea t , Hollyconsbe , n _II , a , 11 , 1 tad Burr ell, - to William C a nspbe.. l 4 043 's seat, Childe . rs, from ins 4.4;"'", Kent; Mr. and Mrs. W. tolostii,"Ws. Hotel, Jermyn- street, fromSpalding,}furling too Li p/1—; the Co o f ishburnham, the ut t l 4 . C ount ess 4 for .or her seat, Ashburnhain House, BTattlTe,reriSr4us fro,.sex 0010 4el Wood, from ditto, on a tour ; T . ditto,' 011 - ' 4 13 tight 4 ; to i n r ; Throckmerton, Esq. from ditto, dit to, for Cheltenham ; Captain Ball, from for . Es ftom the British Hotel, flor o 4 , ; 'Mitchell, Es q .. from ditto; E LF isft cl ; ti tto; 013 seat in Hants; the Earl and V01u2,7- 14 4 , 13 h ir e-e, from Buxton, for their seat, Cottesmore, 11/ . • Axi"... c,,, t , .ar„Aity 0 , 1 . TIAE TI S zc, 1 T 6 T ...... 1N R G 0ari4 01,,T 81 H: stiari 1688.—Lo woo . Nor.s. , 11Y 1 in-accents oi 7 ,eied by small artillery nom ramparts),the. lv tli - ri Tita o ,,,,,, k to .the irdiabitaats, is greeting tit:al Th m e th m e o r t e to - . bt an anniversary justly dear to them all. . _ _ s d has just been Pac t't °lll * Virgin City, " No surrender !" would have :4 each of the Gates—the effigy of him who hoisted • t;c4Y(vl the City to its implacable,enmi. has heet „d di tt R ''!' I, in 'WILLI t m's Square, to dangle in the 'um- ?,_. f oi r v i: i t pi; ,l o ll, le„ as:l ;; cl : l 4 ", :n r ti — i -a t cr - ao n tu d ,gieb t , b i ettbgsge,al streets,i a otPrebnealticei:igoytsraanrsei:raelnacill . ise tt,.. . , E ve , y thin.,.., _ . and ho p r zeed by amateur bands . gives cheering promise Ir t the r ---t bt: :: 3 - B " ;: e P: i a i J nL y co o w il ur o ii n i w a be i i n g e : p ll; :astiseldE4Bpassage with iin greatestea ;D o n enthusiasm.a(vlaur iix. 0 t e;,. ---- ' The year fon a Z z ation to the affair at .. gays the , 11l chapter, the captiyo, 4 * relating Lis adventures, vz.iPtaiblalley, and thethaieilt4satatanNdlovhaserirnv'edrotwhiengopiln)orta" i.iity that Was then lost of taking the whole Turkish b nav n y 4 °ll ' Poi all the Levantines and Janissaries* o b i: v oa ery l hari x t f°r granted they should be attacked in t mit or silo% ) i a ud had their baggage and their pararaal y II 4 readiness for running away immediately by - Christendom, ",' iliveti ordered it otherwise, for the sins of 41141 b e , 4l. _ .... 0 . land. 1 ' e that there show alw ays v _ d permits and ori am ~ 40. _ ...... i an( ! T,k s, " *erne Scourges to chastise D 3. --* .47PI"'" dr jay l) in l o B rnin 4 gEttilsTlioGP On Sun 'Ptford C I ItCU iil S TA NCE.-- , wee entered b of. l4 , !r n s i . e J r o uffi sl a s n , s N an o d .l .sca , B ree roo ly n a tfi: e l in ds - , a u l left of her entire sto y ck of millinery ' and hosiery. raltol4:4 a ease of peculiar distress is, that the owneri Mrs. What all 14 4 widow, and left to support two young children, 0/.4,,w'rldly wealth Consisting of the stock of this shop. formed I tt tplitation of the thigh was lately per gony, ti,a,j,l"l/41it,ice, by Mr. leVituatits iswet., of Tre ordiu• ; —'• 11 .olia T EDDY, of this town, in an extra ' 6 ;a r ia t o lt f al,: Afiliskelse of the knee had existed in a lad, bad g r atitially -J' ';' upwards of nine months, by which it test t en ,r : v. : 4 :1: 78 - : f :', 4 to an enormous size, involving the rvelghed 1 thigh.iii•ji,r.ciiTtilif:etr,e,antce, f Iv()--th ; Il i - j .' tme The tumour measured two th e limb • and after the operation, eniaci itted 1 1 the „, sase, b e L li t t il l , l ll •lc: i I t r:s ilu ex ‘ c v e e e il d7 :a g c ly e. the 'ilk.val of tI,Q iitij,,,,,c,R,Lue,i',.;l Ga;ette. CITY ELECTIONS. FARRINGDON WITHOUT: „ This .election terminated yesterday, but owing to some mistake among the check clerks, the Chitivman and Candidates did not enter the Church ma' half past - six o'clock, when Mr. Alderman IVAIelastAN declared the result of the aggregate poll at follows : *kir. Bousfield. ...... . 535 Mr. Butterworth ' .461 Ti o i mer 534, Vale 496 8arnahaw.,.........53 6 *Harms 443 Harmer 521 "'Price 404 Taylor 485 Obard ,•.3.91 Blackett 4Bl Robeits Bedford 495 Galloway . ..... .....390 Figgins 472 Savage ..385 Beekwith 450 *Hunt. , 348 The worthy Alderman then stated that the. can didates elected were 16 out of the 16 names be had read. Mr. Hunt and Mr. Savage were the two-un successful candidates. Mr. RAMSIIAW and Mr. BOUSFIELD then severally' came forward, and thanked the electors for the very handsome manner in which they had been elected. Mr. TicKNßit next presented himself to the meeting, and thanked them for having for the fourth time returned him as one of their Common Council, and especially for the highly flattering manner in 'which they had conferred the appointment. Mr. RAM4UAW returned thanks to the electors, and pledged himself that his time should he devoted to their service.—(Applause.) Mr. BoUSFIELD thanked the meeting for the honour they had conferred on him, and pledged himself that his time should be devoted to a strict discharge of his duty. Mr. HARMIIR pledged himself, that no exertions he was capable of should be wanting to render him worthy the confidence of those who had placed him in so exalted a situation. Mr. Deputy VALE felt grateful to the electors for returning him for the 14th time, to fill an impor tant' office in the ward: his future conduct he trusted would merit their future approbation.—(Bravo.). 4 - Mr: BEDFORD, Mr. FIGGINS, Mr. .TAYLOR, and Mr.. BLACKETT, severally returned thanks. . Mr. BUTTERWORTH should continue to walk in the track he had chalked out at the beginning.— (Applause.) Mr. ROBERTS returned thanks on behalf of him self and Mr. Obbard, who was absent in consequence of a domestic affliction. Mr. HARMS, Mr. BECKWITH, and Mr. PRI . CII,ItIO made their respective acknowledgments. Mr. GALLOWAY then came forward amidst consi derable hissing, and some applause from his friends. As soon as the uproar had subsided, he assured the Meeting that they had his sincere thanks for the honour which they had conferred by the exercise of their just prerogative. If the slaves of the world could see the benefits derived from [Here the noise and confusion increased, and several persons called out " the Greeks, the, Greeks ! where are the steam-boats ?" and at length he retired without being able to obtain a further hearing.] Mr. SAVAGE (one of the unsuccessful candidates) addressed the Meeting. He had been before them 14 times, 13 out of which they had elected him, and although he had lost his election, he felt confi dent that no man had done his duty better than himself !—(Laughter.)—He should be glad at any future day to serve them. Mr. HUNT next ceme forward. For several mi nutes the cheering prevented him from addreSsing tbe meeting. At length, tolerable 'silence having been obtained, he commenced as follows :—" Ladies and Gentlemen—(loud laughter)—lf I were not fully sensible of the kindness I have received 'at your hand, I should be unworthy of the character of a human being. Those gentlemen Wll,O have pre .... ceded "me have announced their intention of "saying but little; in that they were wise, and doubtless re membered the old adage, that " the least. said is soonest mended."—(Laughter.)-4 stand before you on the.present occasion certainly at the bottom of the poll, as a defeated candidate, 'litethat circum stance by no means casts me down.—(Bravo.) —He then remarked that Mr. Burke had once said, when defeated in one of his motions in the House of Com mons by a small majority, "If this is a disgrace, it's a noble disgrace; if this is termed .a defeat,i it's a glorious defeat indeed."—(Bravo.)—What; indeed, could he .expect but a defeat, unknown as he waieto the inhabitants of this respectable Ward—coming in, as he did, not at the ninth, but at the eleventh hour, after many of his competitors had not . only . been bearing the burden and heat of the . day, but had, in some instances, been canvassing the Ward for the whole year ?—(Laughter, and cries of " You must come in next time.") —He said, labouring under all the disadvantages he did, and with all the prejudice which' existed against him, he had obtained no less than 348 unsolicited votes.-- (Cheering.)— This unexpected proof of their regard had raised him higher in his estimation than he ever stood in his life. It was well known that there had been great mismanagement in the city funds, and this had been admitted by some 'members of the corporation. They had acknowledged that they were a corrupt body. (Heir, hear.) His only object therefore, in offering himself as a member of the little City-Parliament (laughter)," was to purge the stains which attached to that great body, which was composed of the most respectable individuals. He had in his hand a few documents relative to the abuses to which he alluded, (he pulled out of his pekes a roll of papers) : I mustreaid he, " use my spectacles, I find ; I cannot forget Ilehester to 'wit. I was, you know, confined 898 days in that gaol, and loCked up in a dungeon at four o'clock every evening, until eight, o'clock the next morning, Without beholding a human being." (Hear.) He had not, however, suffered any thing which would prevent his exertion in their cause, further than the trifling injury of his sight being a little impaired. (He then read some documents relative to the sale of the office of Secondary). That office, and many others, had been openly sold, and yet no measures had ever been taken to check so great and so growing an evil; and,situated as he now was, he had no more power to examine these accounts than the humblest or moat powerful person (not a Common Councilman) he - was then addressing.—(Hear, hear.) Perhaps when, as auditor of accounts, he made his repdrt, it would not be very palatable; but he must take things . 191 . h e found them, for the eld saying was, th ” at "a silk pnrae could not be made of a sow's ear. —(Laugh ter.) Here were several chances in favour of his being returned at a • future time; for Mr. Morgan had calculated that one out of 13 of the population died within the year. The gen tlemen he had the honour to address had elected 16, and he (Mr. Hunt) thought that he was not likely to require the services of Mr. Bedford for the next eight or ten years . (This excited much laughter, Mr. Bedford, one of the s uccessful candidates, being an under taker.) He took this opportunity of canvassing them i n a body for the next vacancy that might happen, a nd he hoped that he should be credited when he said that be should do his duty as fearlessly and conscientiously as any of those who had made similar professions. Mr. Hunt then retired amid loud plaudits. and Mr. HUNT seconded, Mr. TICKNER proposed, a vote of thanks to the Alderman for his impartial conduct, which was unanimously carried. Mr. Alderman WAITRMAN returned thanks, and the Wardmote was dissolved. The church was thronged in every part : such a congregation FhAasitrßairNelGYDboeeNn WITHIN. The. poll having closed and the books cast up, Mr. Alderman CROWDER declared the numbers to be-- . Mr. Daw 256 Oldham a 0 Dunnett 248 Kelly 2 I/ If. Pritchard 243 Westwood 241 Dunsby 240 Williacao 238 Fdby 238 Hayward 236 The first 17 were di Mr. Deputy DAW adi Mr. Ridley Q 34 Jackson 233 Dlureett W. Pritchard 220 *Southgate 192 Beveridge 167 *Thompson 157 *Fisher 145 Hartley 46 dared duly.elected. hosed the Ineetiug. assured them that, he felt as he ought to feel, and was grateful to them for having placed him so high upon the poll. Mr. OLDIIAM said, if the worthy deputy - who had addressed them had reason to congratulate himself upon . the situation in which he was placed upon the poll, bow much more ought he to be grateful to them for placing him where he was—second best.— (Cheers.)—To the worth . ) , deputy there he would yield; but he would yield to no man in the exercise of the little talent be possessed.for the benefit of his constituents.—(Repeated cheers.) Mr. DUN NETT returned his grateful thanks to the Wardmote for having returned him for the 19th time. Mr. KELLY (ex-Sheriff,) assured the meeting that he felt most grateful for theilistifiguished honour that had been conferred upon him, by his being so high on the list of the poll. After a vote of thanks bad been unanimously passed to the Alderman, and he had acknowledged the same The Common Councilmen elected having been sworn in, and the routine business gone through, the meeting was dissolved. ... BRIDGE WARD. Mr. Smith ' 91 I Mr. Saunders B6 Locke 9O Bovill W. Child Green 9O Knott Voss B9 Pewtress 7B Joyner, Deputy.... 89 Jones 77 Cartwright B9 *Hatton 39 Child, jun. B7 Chatfield 32 The first 15 were returned. • PORTSOKEN WARD. Mr. Colebateh... ....... .190 Mr. Smith , 169 Perry 177 Prested 164 Carter 172 *Soule. 92 The first 5 were returned. BISHOPSGATE WARP. Mr. Bennett 939 Duddell 322 Dowler Sir W. Rawlins 3ll Peacock 304 Stephens 100 Weston 299 Day 292 The first 14 v CRIPPLEGA' Ken l5O Smith 126 Jaques .126 Wiltshire 121 Beeton 119 The first 8 u TOWER Mr. Skipper, Deputy 266 I *Howell 258 C. Wright. 255 Drinkald 252 Robinson 240 Smith 233 Gnat . 221 The first 12 VINTRI Mr. Benyon 287 Stirterant 273 Thomas Windus 250 B. G. Windup 240 Clarke 237 Greenaway 218 Patten 212 rere returned. rE WITHIN. Mr. Palmer ...114 Waterhouse 104 Richardson ()9 Field B9 °Brass 79 ere returned. WARD. Mr. Stuart 229 Noy 222 Cawthorn 209 Hant 196 Dixon Hull l5B rere returned. WARD. Mr. Whitby 43 Coombs , 42 Conway. Elmee 4O Marsden The first 8 w BREAD-STRI Mr. Firth 37 Mathie (Deputy) 55 Bridge " Hailam ....... 34 Legg B4 Scott 34 Burrs B3 The first 12 Mr. Ingalt 37 Martin 37 Marshall 37 . *l'Ous 34 Crook ll -ere returned. EET WARD. I Mr. Degrave 33 Cope 35 Coleman 32 I ' Davison Hooper SI I Shoobritige 8 rere returned. LEICESTER POLICE. A female, the wife of a framework-linitter, residing in Oxford-etreet, made her appearance, Ful. 401441 to the Mayor that she wanted to be paxted.from' her husband. The MAYOR—My good woman, we da not sit here to unmarry people. What is your complaint ? Woman—My husband has sold all the furniture out of the house, and gone.to.live at lodgings, and he will not maintain me. _ _ _ The husband, on being introduced, said his wife was in the habit of starting oft; and leaving his house for days together; that on her going away this time, which was for five days, he had sold all his furniture, and gone to lodgings. He was willing to allow her so ninth . a week, bu live with her he never would. The MAYOR-;-Wilat is the reason that you leave your husband for five days together ? Woman—Becntisi ; Ice cuts all the crust of Vie loaf! This last sentence, made the Bench smile, and, the parties were advised to go to.an attorney.to draw up a deed of separation for them. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday evening an inquisitidp was taken at the sign of the Welsh Harp, Eisex-street, White friars, before THOMAS SHELTON, Esq., the Coroner, on view of the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Lockyer, aged 48, a lady of great respectability, whose death took place under the following distressing circum stances. _ _ James Sheffall, of No. 8, Temple-lane, White friars, depoSed, - that the deceased had occupied an apartment in his house k for the last ,three months; she, appeared a well-bred woman; and opened a school for female education. Within the last three weeks or a month the deceased had become exceed ingly singular in her manners, and very depressed in spirits. In consequence of her very singular habits, she lost the whole of her scholars. On Saturday morning last, about ten o'clock, witness, by desire of a person named Hodge ' who lodged in the house, went up to the deceased's door, and, having knocked repeatedly, at last broke the door open, and dis C overed the deceased lying on . the floor, apparently dead. A • medical gentleman was instantly sent for, who, on arriving, pronounced the deceased quite dead. Mrs. Rachel Welch, a lady of genteel appearance, deposed that the deceased was her aunt. The de ceased had, a few years back, lived in the greatest respectability, at,, Chard, in Soinersetshire; but, in consequence of the failure of some banks in the said county, during the great panic of 1826, she had been reduced to comparative indigence. In August 19.'4, she came to-town, and took a lodging in the last witness!s house. Witness called upon the deceased a few days previous to her death, and took her some wine and other necessaries. Mr. Hosking, surgeon, of Fleet-street, gave it as his opinion that the deceased died from water on the chest. Verdict--' -" Died by the visitation of God." It is true that Lord HARROWBY was sent for in the beginning of the week , and that he accompanied Mr. Flusicissom to Windsor. But it is not true that the office of Premier was offered to that Nobleman. He was sent for to consult upon a new arrangement of the Cabi-' net, and pressed to resume the office of President of the council ; but nothing further. It is equally untrue, as some pipers have asserted, that Mr. Husxissox was tempted with the offer of the brilliant post of Prime Mi sister.-- Week/y Messenger. Our Milford Corres'pondent writes—We have had almost constant gales of wind ever since Thursday se'nnight. The gale of Wednesday morning last was ac companied by the highest tide recollected since the year 1812, ~ The streets and many houses at Hakin, were tilled with water on the ground-floor; a valuable gig-boat was car ri e d o ff an d beat to pieces, and a number of pieces of timber drifted off from Mr. Robertson's yard ; but the shipping have rode out the gales without damage, nor have we heard of any wrecks on the coast-- Cambrian. WIT AMONG PORTERS.—Some few days ago a couple of porters ran their heads violently against each other in turning a corner. "Ay ! m an ," exc l a imed one of them, 'recoiling from the blow, "you've Bart my head ling.' , g 4 That's a sign that your head's boss, " said the other a rc hly—" Did your's not ring ?" replied thefor mer.—" ' a nswered his companion. " Then," sai d he of the boas head, with a shrewd air of triumph, 4 , that's a sure sign y ou r head's crachie r s-Pumiee Cowie. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—DEc. 24 We are unable to give any statement of odds from the betting to-day, for it was alike flat and unimportant ; the only alteration 'is in the Sorcery colt, against whom 1? to I was laid; 4 to I.was laid against Mr. Thornhill's Lot; 700 to 10 agst Merchant, for Derby, and Lord Grosve nor, for Oaks ; and 1000 to 10 against The COlonel and Zoe, for Derby and Oaks.. Mr. Thornhill's three Derby colts are named both for Doncaster and Newmarket St, Leger. For the first-named Stakes (Doncaster) 20 , t0 1 was offered against The Merchant, and 40 to against each of the others, but no takers. HIGHCLERE COURSING MEETING. FOR THE GOLD CUP, Rm. Mr. Ball's Bruno beano beat Mr. Pouchee's Hecate Mr. Goodlake's Gleam beat Mr. Evans's Elastic Mr. Long's Lily beat Mr. Evans's Skip Mr. Shippery's Senator beat Mr. Meyrick Marian Mr. Bigg's Bolanos beat Mr. Hatchet's Easy Mr. Etwall's Emily beat Mr. Binning's Bessy Mr. Briscall's Bohea beat Mr. G. Evans's Emilius Mr. Etwall's Matilda beat Mr. Pouchee's Piper TIES FOR THOCUP., Emily beat Bolanos Matilda beat Bohea SECOND TIES. I Matilda beat Emily MAIN FOE THE CUP. Matilda beat Gleam, and won the Cup—Gleam the rant Jelly Boat. CARWARVON STAKES. Mr. Shihery's Sally beat Mr. Briscall's Boreas Mr. Goodlake's Gender beat Mr. Etwall's Eliza Gender beat Sally, and won the Stakes. BEACON-HILL STAKES. Mr. Shippery's Sprite beat Mr. Pouche's Squib Mr. Etwall's Express beat Mr. Bigg's Belzoni Sprite beat Express, and won the Stakes. Gleam beat Bruin Lily beat Senator Gleam beat Lily * Ur. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS FOR TUE PRESENT WEEK. The Earl of Derby's Stag-hounds meet on Friday, at Banstead, at 10. The 11. H., meet on Wednesday, at Bramdean Com mon ; Thursday, at Herriard Common ; Saturday, at Kempshot Park-10. Mr. Muir's Hounds, on Friday, at Stowlangtoft Church —half-past 10. The Vine Hounds, on Wednesday, at Paul' s Wool ; Saturday, at Sherborn St. John-10. ' The Blackmoor Vale Hounds, on Friday, at Yarnfield Common, near the Bradley Woods. The Marquis of Cleveland's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Thornborough Bar ; Friday, at Bedale ;• Saturday, at Sleningford Park-11. The Lambton Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Murton le-Whins ; Friday, at Brancepeth ; Saturday, at Cocken The Hurworth Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Neasham-1 0. The New Union Harriers (Suffolk), on Friday, at Tressingfield, Swan, to run a doe:-11. Mr. Long Wellesley's Forest Stag Hounds, on Saturday, at Kennel, "to turn out the Wiltshire stag—half-pastlo. BLUMENBACH'S , MANUAL Of NATURAL HISTORY. (From the London Medical Gazette.) In an interleaved copy of this work, which was used by an eminent philosopher whilst attending Blumenbach's Lectures, we find a few manuscript notes which may amuse our readers, and be of use to the editor of a future edition of the work. We shall extract them, affixing the number of the paragraph, and the subject to, which each note relates. § 16. INFLUENCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES ON THE FORMS OF ANIMALS. Little birds fed in chambers constantly on hemp-seed, become black. There is no more striking instance of de generation than the common cock and hen, compared with ' the original in India. The wild canary is brown and green, and it has not been in Europe for three hundred years. There are some with plumes on the head : such is the bird in a state of nature. Between the skull of a Negro and a European the difference is little, indeed, com pared with the difference between that of the wild and do mestic swine. In 'Syria, animals, goats, cats, rabbits, acquire a beautiful long silk hair. § 17. NUTRITION. The elephant is purely a graminivomus animal, an& therefore composed entirely of metamorphosed grass. What a miracle ! Rabbits, which are warm-blooded animals, and caterpillars, whose fluids are white, both can .exist their whole life on cabbage. This is still more wonderful in plants of . various kinds, which grow in the same bed, perhaps, in which the nutriment is converted, in one instance into rile, in another into wormwood, in another into peas. § 19. REPTODUCTIOX. Saw at Blumenbach'S four 'sea-stars, 'one perfect--=the other with four rays only, another with three, and the last had lost all but one ray ; but all were in a state of re- producing the lost parts. The last had therefore lost four fifths of its frame. § 20.. GENERATION. • In the, animalcule of infusions the shape is oval—then comes a furrow ; this furrow gets deeper and deeper, and the points of junction smaller and smaller, till they divide, and thus become two creaturrs. The same is the case with the bell-forined polypus, and then the furrow is longitudinal. § 21. TIIE 'NATURAL ACE OF ST AN. Blumenbach thinks eighty-four the natural close of life; is reasons lie did not give. 25. VoicE. Voice is attributed to such animale only as have lungs; lungless animals are either dumb, or, at most, sound, not voice, is attributable to them. The hissing of the rattle snake is voice, his rattle is only sound, , 'Some fishes have sound—none voice. • § 32. HIBEtqI'ATION. Of the hamster, opened rapidly and neatly during its winter sleep, the heart beat& only fifteen times in a minute. When the venni animal is opened in summer, the heart beats one hundred and fifty times in a minute, so deep is their.winter sleep. As for the length of it, in the Blanche, an ice-valley, covered with ice, all but a few.spots that are melted appear little islets of green, but never longer than, eight weeks in a year. Here are marrots that slepp all the rest of the year except July and August. One night last week a farm house, in the parish of Kippen, was entered by a window, and 103/. part of the payment of the farmer's produce, taken out of a drawer. Two individuals were sleeping in the apart ment at the time ; and in one adjoining, a young couple sat •a' wooing," but who, it seems, were too much taken up with thei► own concerns to be in a listening mood for the entrance of • thieves.— Cakdonian Mercury.' We understand that it is in contemplation to apply to Parliament for an Act to cut a canal from the river Don, at Bailey, near Doncaster, to open a communi cation with the river Trent. The proposed cut would pass through the Corporation Lands, by way of Rossington 'Bridge, and through the townships of Cantley, Awkley, and Finningley, in a line to join the Vicker-Dike, which empties itself into the river Trent, at Stockwith; about four miles below Cainsbro'. Should this project be carried into effect it would afford great facility to the conveyance of merchandise from the counties of Lincoln and Nottingham to Wakefield and the adjacent manufacturing districts.— Leeds Mercury. In consequence of the late rains, the river Taff, in this county, has been flooded 'for several successive days to an extraordinary, degree; in consequence of which, on Wednesday last, the centre pier of Cardiff-bridge gave way, carrying)vitli it part,of the parapet on the north side, and it is now impassible for carriages, &c. The mail and other coaches are obliged to retrograde on arriving at Car diff, and can only get to the Cowbridge-roan by a c ircuitous route through Llandaff, and from thence to Ely. Consi derable damage has been done to the works of H. BLAKE MORE, Esq. at Pentyrch, tl'e • embankment having been carried away. The Merthyr mail did not arrive at Car diff on Wednesday, the road being flooded for a considerable distance at Nantgarrw, and the bags were conveyed by man and horse along the canal bank from Newbridge. Cambrian. NATURAL CURIOSITY.—There is to be seen in the neighbourhood of Kippen, a partridge which seems to have forsaken her companions in the field to associate with the barn-door fowls of an adjoining farm. It is not, a little singular to see her come in the morning to feed along with the fowls, and after spending, the whole day hi their domestic circle, retire in the evening to her native wilds. So unusual an occurrence has attracted consider able attention ; and it is worthy of remark, that when the shades of evening induce the fowls to roost—the partridge, though it has never 'yet entered the p o ultry-house, makes every 'exertion to detain its inmates from retiring to rest. —Stirling,Journal. , THREATENED EXTINCTION of the kIUMAN RACE in these KINGDOMS. The Glasgow courier has- found a reason for a change of Ministers, which, if it does not take effect upon the nation, will show at least that the nation will bear' any thing. We are rapidly approaching to 'extinction, as he clearly proves from the registerS -of the city of Glasgow,' the barony, and the Goibals ! The notion that we shall soon have neither. food nor. clothing is less alarming, as it justly insinuates, than that there will be soon neither mouths to eat•the one nor backs to wear the other. The following is the article we refer to We lay before our readers the Mortality Bill for this city and suburbs, for the present year, own up with Dr. Cleland's usual accuracy., It is a document that merits the attention of the public, and which Malthus and the Emigration Committee may peruse with satisfaction, because the details go to remove their fears and to ren der their labours unnecessary. Hitherto we have oily contemplated the pernicious march of Our liberal system, amidst our trade, our re sources, and • our political interests ; but Dr. Cleland enables us to put its effects amongst the human race to the test. To show this in a striking point of view, we have gone over his returns of marriages, births, and deaths for this city, for the last six years, three of which preceded, and three of which followed, the introduction of recipro city, free trade, and liberal ideas. And, mark the consequences—while the number of deaths are nearly doubled, the number of marriages and births are proportionately decreased. In those good old times, when Tories, who increased po pulation and provided liberally for it, ruled over us, each marriage produced, throwing fractional parts aside, two children within the year ; but under the opposition rule, they produce one- F third less,, annually decreasing ; while the deaths, which in those days were only about 20 per cent. above the births, are now nearly 90 per cent. more ; the mortality amongst the females, and which tells two ways in the march of depopula tion, compared to the births, increasing in a fear ful ratio ! In short, 'Dr.' Cleland's tables de- . Monstrate, in the most unanswerable manner, that to preserve the human race in these king doms from becoming extinct, we must have a change of Ministers and measures, when the country will again have mouths to eat, and backs to wear, her surplus produce and manufacturer. The following are the returns alluded to : BAPTISMS. Years. 1822 1823 1824 1 825 1826 1827 Males. Females. 1,573 1,399 1,462 1,489 1,565 1,537 1,689 1,420 1,599 1,401 1,523 1,297 MARRIAGES. TotaL 2,972 2,9 M 3,102 3,109 3,000 2,820 1822 ....... 1823 1,650 1824 1825 182 G 1827 ' 1,576 1,635 1822 1,898 1,801 3,690 1823 2,423 2,204 4,627 1824 2,355 2,315 4,670 1825 2,393 2,505 4,898 1826 2,355 2,183 4,53$ 1827 2,664 2,472 5,136 We were somewhat relieved from the alarm which this statement produced, by turning to Dr. Cleland's own account, which the worthy editor of the Glasgow rourier seems to have overlooked :—" The ntrOer of burials," he ob serves, " and proclamations of 'marriages, may be relied on 'as correct, bat the registration of baptisms does not give any :idea of the births," as, indeed, is quite obvious from the whole of the tables. Though the statement does not quite prove that we are about to become extinct, it affords another example of the check which the increase of population receives in manufacturing districts by the acute distress sometimes felt in them The decrease of marriages in 1826, as compared with 1825, was nearly one-fourth. LIFE OF. MAHOMET AND RISE OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE. This great impostor was born at Harib, near 'Mecca, in Arabia Felix, on sth May, A.D. 570, and notwithstanding his followers will have him to be of royal extraction, and have deduced his genealogy from Adam, he was the son 'of Abdala, a Pagan, who married Emina, a Jewess, and they Were obscure individuals, and poor. Poverty at first obliged Mahomet to serve Kero Padicha, an Arabian merchant, after whose death he persuaded his mistress to marry him, which put him in possession of his master's riches, and being naturally ambitious, he called 'in the assistance of his mother's brother, who, pretending to ,be a great astrologer and magician, predicted that he would become a mighty king and lawgiver. After this, assisted by Bathos, a Jacobite, Sergius, a Nestorian heretic, and some Jews his acquaintance, he compiled the Alcoran, a volume full of incoherencies and absurdities, composed in Arabia', pure as - to the' style, but void of me thod, forming a jumble of incongruity, yet it is held in such veneration, that if a Mussulman, or True Believer, as they call themselves, handles it Without washing his hands, he is reputed a cri minal; and if a Christian or Jew touches it, un• less he changes his religion, he is put to death. All who do not believe in it are held in detesta tion ; all who oppose it are executed without form of process or trial ; and they pretend that God sent it to Mahomet by the angel Gabriel, written on a parchment made of the skin of the ram which Abraham sacrificed instead of his son. Having thus made up his religion, partly of Judaism, and partly of the ravings of condemn ed heretics, adapting it to the sensuality of cor rupt nature, he caused a parcel of vagabond rob bers, by the powerful argument of his wealth, and sly insinuations, to embrace it. With these men lie had recourse to arms, and by degrees subdued several nations, more particularly those of Arabia. He had under him ten chief lieutenants, Abu bekin Cedie, his father-in-law, Omar Ben el Hatab, Odman Ben-ater, Ali Ibri Abitaleb, Moavia; Ali Zubeir, Abiazed, Abiazid, Ali Obeid, and Abutal Heel An4iri alias Zeid Aber Cehel all these were his prime doctors or vines as well as commanders. The three first successively became Caliphs after him of all the dominions he had ruled over, contrary to what he had appointed, namely, that Ali his son•-in law should succeed him. Mahomet in a short time was followed by a vast multitude, and the more effectually to blind and deceive them, being troubled with epilepsy, he had a tame pigeon, which on such occasions would come and peck his ear, and that he per. suaded his followers was the angel Gabriel, sent by God to tell him what he was to do. It is also reported, that having once caused one of his companions to hide himself in a dry well, he ordered him to cry aloud .as he passed by, 1,4'70 ; o ~., ) ...., .4 '. • I : %-r 4 ti is at t a • ; c l7`'. 'fi Mahtimei,,i37-trapiophet." This man did So, and th'& people fief3k t the wonder, hut the impostor fearing his knav er y 'would he discover ed,d immediately caused the well to be filled with stones, and the wretch within it perished. The Arabs being font.l of' Novelty followed Mahomet, but his countrymen, when they per ceived his design was to set up for a prophet and lawgiver, expelled him with scorn, and he was compelled on the 16th of July, A. D. 622, to fly from Mecca, and take refuge in Medina, at Nabi (the city of 'the . prophet)„. distant 176 miles, and from that day the Mahometans reckon their Hegira, that is, their computation of time, as Christians do from the birth of our Saviour. He had several wives, yet left only one daugh ter, Fatima, who married Ali before-mentioned, Mahomet died on the 17th June, A.D. 631, having reigned 8 years and some months, and lived 67 lunar or Arabic years. Since that time his followers have made themselves masters of Palestine, Syria, Persia, Egypt, Greece, &c. and a very great part of the world has submit ted to his law. His body is deposited in the principal mosque of Medina, called Mos. al Kiber (the mosfholy), which is supported by 400 pillars and illumined by 3,000 silver lamps.. A little tower covered with plates of silver, hung with cloth of gold, and guarded by 40 eunuchs, contains the coffin under a canopy of silver cloth, embroidered with gold, yearly sent by the Bassa of Egypt, at the Grand Seignor's expense. The coffin is not sus pended by loadstones, as some have said, bia rests upon very small columns of black marble', encompassed by silver banisters. The Turks are obliged by their religion to undertake a pit-• grimage once in their lives to worship the tomb, but at present only the meaner sort perform it: The rich easily,obtain dispensations from the Mufti, who is the high priest of the Maho metans, and no Christian is allo*ed to go with in fifteen leaguei of the place, under pain of death. EXPEDITIONS, TRAVELS, &e. The Malacca Observer and Chinese Chro nicle of the 13th March ult. contains part of a Journal of Mr. Gray, who proceeded on a mer cantile expedition across the country from Ma lacca to Pahang, aid back again. His course lay down the rivers Soorooting, Braugh, and Pahang ; and as this route is little, if at all, known to European geograplly, we select the most prominent entries from the conclusion of the Journal (the early portion not having reach ed us). . . " The river Soorooting, the lake of Braugh, and the river Braugh, fall into the river Pahang, which empties itself into the sea. " From the Rajah's house, on the banks of the river Soorooting, to the end of the river Braugh,' I suppose to be a distance of 200 miles;as I was five days going doWn to the end of the river Braugh, and having eight men pulling a small boat, with the current , in oar favour. On my journey down to Pahang, I suppose the depth. of water to be above 40 feet in most parts, ri)6t ; being able to reach the bottom with a forty feet pole. • In some parts of the river Soorooting and river Braugh a brig might go up, and in other parts nothing but a small boat, on account of the water being above the fallen trees so that the boat must be lifted over before it can pro ceed-, on aceount.Of the banks of the river. - We re mained (luring the' night on the banks q the river Braugh, near which there is a large village called Campong Braugh, containing a number of inhabitants under the control •of the Rajah of Pahang. " JAN. 14.—Left the banks of the river Braugh, and arrived at the river Plthang about ten o'clock. 4 * • * • " From the river Braughto the settlement of Pa- hang, the river is wide and deep in this season of the year. I suppose it to be not leis than sixty feet Jeep. " In the river of Pahang there are eight or nine most beautiful islands, covered with cocoa-nut and betel-nut trees ; but in December and January these islands are all overflowed, on account of the nume rous falls of water from the interior." After paddling down the Pahang for a day and a night, Mr. Gray reached the village Pahang on the morning of the 15th; his journal continues— " 16th. Met the Rajah of Pahang, by whom I was well received. I requested Permission to pro ceed to the gold mines •to dispose of my goods, which he refused to grant for the ftilloWing reasons : —l. It being very troublesome; and not to be per ' formed in less than forty days' hard pulling. 2. Be ing a stranger, and a European, some unforeseen ac cidents might occur, and my disposing, of my goods to the natives in the interior might cause trouble. " I am informed by the merchants, that they have discovered a tin mine near the river Lappa, at the distance of two days' pulling from the settle ment of Pahang; it is expected to turn out favourably, and to be opened in the dry season abdixt• 800 Malays, besides a number of Chinese." Having transacted his business, sold opium for gold dust, &c.; Mr. Gray set out on his return on January 22; . but his course being against the streams, his progress (with a sail as well as paddles) was comparatively slow. 'On the 23d he mentions: " During the night we were alarmed by the elephants, which were not a gun-shot from,the boats. " The information which I received concerning the gold mines is, that from the mouth of the river Waugh to the village of Jelley, is nearly 12 days' hard pulling; and from thence to the mines, one month's pulling. Jelley is the village where the trade in gold is carried on. " Fish is very cheap up the river. For ,two chupaks of rice we got as much as was sufficient for ten men, from a sort of men termed Orang-Hutan, or men of the woods." It is very curious to find humEtn beings eAisting under a name heretofore only given to animals! Mr. Gray arrived at Malacca on the 6th of Fe brua►y ; and we regret to gather from the obituary that he died of the jungle'fever on the 2d of the en suing month. On Wednesday, the 12th inst., ill arga? et Parr, residing in College-lane, near St. Helen's, was brought before Lord Stanley and John Clarke, Esq., two. of his Majesty s Justices of the Peace, charged with having destroyed an in fant, to which she had lately given birth. Col. Williams, of Woolten, for whose general services that district will ever be indebted, received in, formation of the affair in an anonymous letter. With his usual activity and zeal be immediately which he appreh ' set an investigation on foot, and ai l il i e , bgereonupnedrs for the apprehension of the unnatural mother were soon elicited. She, fora, long time, pe r sisted in asserting her innocence ; but, when the evidence against her :became too strong for fur ther denial, she admitted that she had Itad a child, and had destroyed it by putting f it 6n the pfieretriated Though atbrtn itghii.ist previousuntiiralt o dr i e d r elision, before the magistrate s sound, in the t p l a ie rt c o o f ns th ta e b b le a , ck o a n :dit ex s a h n i i n in b .a:i n o e n s: she was ash-hole, a after wards T roducA in evidence 'before the Court. • The- effect on the minds of . all p • i esent may . he more easily conceived than described.. The >»- human mother was finally committed to ,La"" caster, to -take, her trial. ---Li verpo.a i Nero ry• 1,732 1,982 7211