The Sun. — London, England, 1834-11-10 00:00:00

JOURNALS, The late conduct of the Heads of Colleges, with re spect to the nomination of a Vice-Chancellor, has in duced us to look a little into the origin of the power which they thus possess. According to the ancient statutes of the University, all those elections in which they have now the power of selecting two candidates were open to the whole body of the Senate. No such power is given them by the Antigua Statuta, orby King Edward's statutes. But in Queen Mary's reign, when it was thought necessary to exert an arbitrary power to overcome the consciences of men, the Heads of the University were found to be the fittest tools for such a purpose : Cardinal Pole, when he reformed the Uni versity, was the author of the statute which first gave them this power :---- " Hwc autem forma in ejus (Vice-Cancellarii) electione servabitur. Pridie festi omnium sanctorum convenient prmpositi collegiorum, item omnes cujuslibet facultatis doc tores et baccalaurei theologise, qui turn in Universitate aderunt. Hi duos vitae et morum honestate, literarum scientia, et in rebus gerendis magis aptos et idoncos eligent et nominabunt." That the Cardinal was wise in putting power in such hands for the accomplishment of his purposes, no one can doubt, when it is known that the Heads of the University were the persons who demanded that the remains of Bucer and Fagius should be disinterred, and burnt at the market-cross. The following is an extract from the diary of the proceedings of Queen Mary's visiters, which is still preserved : " 12th Jan., 1556.—1tem. At one, the Heads met in the schools, where and by whom it was concluded that for as much as Bucer had been an arch-heretick, teaching by his lifetime many detestable heresies and errors, suit should be made unto the visiters by the University, that it might be taken up and ordered according to the law ; and like wise P. Fao-ius." When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, the Senate recovered their ancient rights ; and in the body of statutes given to the Univcrsity the first year of her reign, the election of the Vice-Choncellor is made an open election. But in the 12th of Elizabeth, when her Majesty and her Ministers were anxio:ls to crush a spirit of civil and religious freedom which was rising in the University, they resorted to the same means as Mary had done before them. In 1570, a new body of statutes were sent to the University by the Queen's au thority (having probably been drawn up• the Heads themselves). In these the Cardinal's mode of electing a Vice-Chancellor is restored, but in a more arbitrary manner than everhe hadproposed. According to Queen Mary's statutes, Doctors of all faculties, and Bachelors of Divinity, resident in the University, were admitted to the nomination ; but this was not sufficient for Whitgift. the Master of Trinity, and his brethren the Heads : they succeeded in having the nomination limited to themselves ; and at the same by another statute secured to themselves the power of ap pointing the Caput ; and by a sweeping clause in the 40th statute, that all elections " de quibus aliter a nobis non est provisum sequenter modum et formam in clectione Procancellarii prcescriptum," they obtained for their successors the power of nomination over va rious professorships and other offices. That the Uni versity will long continue to submit to a power thus thus obtained and employed, is scarcely credible. We trust that not many weeks of the approaching Session of Parliament will have passed over, before a petition has been presented to the Legislature to take such steps as may lead to a total revision of the University statutes. —Morning Chronicle. The solemn and secret investigation which the Privy Council have been engaged in, with the inten tion of discovering whether the destruction of the Par liament edifices was the work of diabolical incendia rism or of criminal neglect or connivance, has not yet absolutely terminated ; but as yet they have only in volved the affair in greater mystery. The two great points, we believe, which occupied the attention of the investigators were to discover whether those fires were the work of the political incendiaries and emissaries who had been so successful at Bristol, Derby, Not tingham, &c., or whether it might not have originated in the cogs cupidity of some one or more persons whose perso'nal interests might be greatly promoted by such a sweeping destruction of public property. These are the two queries to which the inquiry is now pon fined ; for as to the !mil stigma that was attempted to be thrown upon the whole body of English workm e n in the building line, that ig now given up, as utterly without a shadow of proof, oncl was most probably invented by the culpable party to screen them • selves. Some very curious, and ;ether startling information has, it seems, been Aicited in the course of the delicate investigation ! But as the characters of certain parties are implicated in it, and as the subject may, and indeed ought, to come before the highest tribunal in this country, we abst.'un, as a matter of delicacy, from saying more on this pait. of the business, but we are quite sure that the investi gation latterly should not have been so very delicate. Had any of the hard-handed, " unwashed artificers," been concerned in this diabolical act, the delicacy of the inquiry would have been dispensed with, and we think this circumstance is tolerably decisive as to the working classes not having participated in the dis graceful crime. The Members of the Council, how ever, were very prompt and punctual in their attend ance, with the exception of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Now on such occasions we cannot admit of any excuse for so gross a neglect of public duty, ex cept very bad health ; but in his Lordship's case there was no such excuse, nor indeed any excuse offered, for he was in town, and in good travelling condition, as, on the next day after the inquiry, which he did not at tend, " this feathered Mercury" who held the nation's purse, flew, as his friends say, " on the wings of love" to the north, when, we say, "he should have been in the south," and the Right Honourable and Noble holder of the nation's purse-strings took very good care to keep out of the way of investigations which are troublesome things, and should not be al lowed to interfere with the tender sfections of the offi cial heart. It is a pity that his Lordship's friends should, by those flimsy exc7ises for his neglect of duty, have held up their patron to public ridicule, if not something worse. We regret that it should be so, but . - certainly some rich men are very unfortunate in the sort of persons whom they honour with their friend ship, The voluntary absence of any member of the Cabinet at such a moment is, however, universally condemned upon principle, and as a bad precedent in future. Meanwhile the shells of the two precious vampings for the Lords and Commons are nearly corn pleted, and are covered with common barn roofs, with dripping eves, instead of being guttered, as would have been more proper and secure. Into these contrivances, which, with their recesses, &c., remind us very much of abattoirs, are the I\lembers of the different Rouses to be led or driven, accord* to the most approved me thods in such cases, for the purposes of grave delibera tion ! But we live in an age of prodigies. From these camp structures orders are to issue for the erection of substantial buildings, to replace tiose just de stroyed. All the ground between Palace 7 prd and the river belongs to Parliament, and, including CoL 4 :011- garden, is quite ample for every purpose of Parlia mentary comfort and convenience, provided that very sufficient lot be laid out with honesty and sound judg ment. It would he a rational source of pride to the nation to see their Legislative As sem bli es e l egan tly, as well as conveniently lodged ; and all this can be done in the most complete manner without meddling, in the with the an c i en t, b eaut if u l , an d interest slightest degree, ing chapel of St. Stephen, its noble crypt, the hall of Rufus, or the splendid and inimitable cloisters and oratory that surround the quadrangle at the Right Hon. the Speaker's house ; but we cannot expect any thing but a vile job and spoliation, unless every fair opportu nity shall be afforded to the whole profession of archi tecture to come into the field of competition ; and, as a sine qua non, the candidates should be bound, not only not to remove a single particle of the noble structure just mentioned, but should give full proofs of their capability for restoring those monuments of historic grandeur to something of their original state, in a per manent manner ; and all these can be rendered most useful for public purposes. The chapel might be restored as a place of worship, and its ever-endur ing crypt would be invaluable, wherein to depositgboice documents of state business. The public dining-rood; which forms the east ern h a lf o f it, m i g ht s till be . ap propriated to its present rational purposes ; indeed this part of the building is perfect, notwithstanding that the fire brought the enormous weight of the House of Commons down upon it, with a sudden and tremendous crash I and the flames actually burned its doors ; yet, from the wonderful skill with which it is constructed, the furious element was completely set at nought. Yet what one of the most furious elements in nature could not touch, the hand of the Vandal spoiler threatens with destruction, for we have been informed that the architect who is directing the present operations in these precincts has given orders to have the doors of the Speaker's public dining-room taken of their hinges, and the splendid window taken out. This seems evidently a preparatory step to demolitiOn, and certainly was a most arrogant piece of presumption in any man, and, if it be the case, the orderer must rank as a perfect barbarian ; but we hope the Speaker will send his warrant to arrest any man who shall dare, upon any pretence, thus wantonly to destroy the most valuable public property.—Morning Herald. A heavy responsibility will attach to Ministers in the next Session of Parliament respecting Canada. The mercantile letters received on Saturday are very interesting. 'We have several now before us, giving detailed accounts of the rapid improvements making in steam navigation and other internal works. But of what avail is this if the system of revolution, and con sequently of desolation, is suffered to continue ? The French faction is now uniting with the Irish in beard ing the Government, and their present object is to get an Irishman returned to the House of Assembly. In short these revolutionists are doing all they can to thwart the Government, the British American Land Company, and all the useful institutions of the country. --Morning Post. We are compelled once more to return to the affair of the Central Criminal Court Act, and to the share of the Chancellor in that measure. Upon the appear ance of a letter, signed by Mr. Charles Phillips, the Old Bailey counsel, we felt that it was a duty we owed as well to our readers as to ourselves, to inves tigate the circumstances of the case as closely as possi ble : because, if the statements contained in the epistle of that learned gentleman were true, we must have been most grievously misinformed, and it would have been required of us, in common justice, that we should have made a full and candid admission of our error. Now we do not mean to.say that Mr. Charles Phillip; has willinsly and knowingly made a statement at vari ance with the truth ; but at the same time, recent and careful investigation of the facts, and infonna• tion from authority far superior to that of the learned counsel, justify us in declaring that he has, by speaking rashly and hastily of matters not within his own knowledge, given to the public an ac count of the matter which it would be a departure from the precision of language to characterize as other than grossly mistaken and incorrect. We, too, it will be obvious, are about to speak of matters not within our own knozvledge, but in repeating the circumstances of the case as we have heard them narrated, on what we believe to be competent authority, we shall at least bring the question to a point which, if it do not settl3 the matter in dispute, ought at least to provoke a set tlement of it, as our readers, we think, cannot fail presently to see. 'We do not, of course, pledge our selves to perfect accuracy in every individual and mi nute detail of the narrative we are about to place befor.3 the public, but with regard to the essential facts, — and most particularly those that relate to Lord Brougham and his share in the preparation of the Central Criminal Court Act,--we openly and freely confess our strong and entire belief in each and all. We there fore call upon the parties who will be named in our narrative as taking a personal and active part in the affair to contradict, if it be untrue, the statement that follows :—When Mr. Const resigned the chair at Clerkenwell, a struggle for the vacant seat took place between Messrs. Rotch and Marriott. The sup porters of Mr. Rotch, finding themselves not so strong as they supposed they were, proposed that there should be two Courts, and of course two Chairmen. Business, we take it, was to be made to keep these courts going. This plan, however, was foiled, princi pally, we believe, by the very praiseworthy exertions of Sir Peter Laurie. Intermediate sessions at Hicks's hall were then resorted to, and it became necessary in consequence that the Aldermen should appoint ses sions to be held more frequently at the Old Bailey. Early in January, 1833, we think it was on the 6th day of that month, Sir Peter Laurie, who was then Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Wood, and Mr. Clarke, the clerk of arraigns, waited on Lord Melbourne, the Home Secretary, and stated that the civic authori ties had no objection to hold Sessions more frequently, but that it would be necessary to pass an Act, enlarging the powers of the commission ; because, as the com mission was one of gaol delivery, it could not try petty offences without delivering the whole gaol, and for that the presence of the Judges was essential. We have not been able to ascertain exactly at what time the draft of the Central Criminal Court Bill, the disco very of wilLth was no secret, was communicated to the Government; at all events, it is certain that the draft of the bill was rommunicated in the first in stance to Lord Melbourne, ne... to the Chancellor, and these troubles as to S ess i ons were t h e rause of the com munication which c a me f rom t h e c i ty o f London .1. through its officers and functi onar i es . W e b e li eve t ... ~ t Mr. Clarke was the organ of communication, and that he acted under the direction of the civic authorities in making it, Well, the draft of the measure having been so communicated, Sir F. Roe, and Mr. Under-Secretary Phillipps, and Mr. Clarke, were for some time busily occupied in perfecting the details. When these learned gentlemen had put the Bill into a complete, and as it seemed to them, a satisfactory form, then, but not till then, it was sent to Lord Brougham. What is more, it was printed at the private press in the Home office before Lord Brougham ever saw it, and it was sent to him only because the Attorney-General was not in Parliament. Had not Sir John Campbell been without a seat, the Bill would have been transmitted to him and introduced in the House of Commons, not in the House of Lords. Lord Brougham havin7 made some very trifling alterations in the draft so amended jointly by Sir Frederick Roe, Mr. Under-Secretary Phillipps, and Mr. Clarke, it was returned by Lord Brougham to the City autho rities. It was considered and debated at several meet ings of the Court of Aldermen, and from them sent back again to the Government. Thus, then, stands the case :—The bill was originally drawn, some years ago, by Mr. Shelton, and it was revised by Sir Johi Sylvester ; it was recently communicated, in conse quence of the circumstances we have mentioned, ly Mr. Clarke to Lord Melbourne : its details were fur. ther revised and amended, and adapted to present exigencies by the united labour of Sir F. Roe, Mr. Under-Secretary Phillipps, and Mr. Clarke: it was then :shown to the . Chancellor, and by him ap proved, with a few trifling alterations : lastly, it was discussed and agreed to by the Court of Alder men. Can it - then be doubted, that if Mr. Charles Phillips had any part in this performance, it was . - . . about as important a one as that of the Cock in the dramatis personae of the play of Hamlet ? As to the share of Lord Brougham in it, over and over again have we been assured that the alterations he made in the bill vv•re of the most trifling nature. One, and only one, of theni will we particularly designate, and we mention it, first, because it is eminently character istic of the man, and, seconcly, because the city autho rities tho ug ht i t o f a c h aracter by no means , trifling. In fact, they considered it not only not trilling, but, on the contrary, so important as an invasion of the privileges of the city, that they compelled Lord Brougham, much against his will, to withdraw it. The alteration to which we allude was, that Lord Brougham put HIMSELF at the head of the commis- sioners appointed by the Act to be the judges of the court. Now, as the city claim by charter precedence for the Lord Mayor for the time being, " the heads of the city" remonstrated with " the head of the law" on the subject, and Lord Brougham promised to remove from the Bill the enactment complained of. However, the committal of the Bill took place ; the third reading was appointed for a given day, and still the Chancellor had not performed his promise. The city took alarm, a petition to the Lords was drawn up, and some of the civic authorities lia,qtmed to Westminster, where they intrusted their petition to Low 4 Wynford, making his Lordship filly acquainted with the'whoN 44ir. They determined at the same time to give the promising but forgetful Chancellor another challcs of avciding sge.4 tar,. an expose as the petition must bring on, and the head of the House of Lords at Westminster finding what step the heads of the House of Lords at Guildhall were about to take, wisely obviated the necessity of the presentation of the petition by consenting to withdraw himself from the eminence he had usurped from the other great functionary, the Lord Mayor. Here for the present we are inclined to pause, once more challenging authorised contradiction to the nar rative which agairr we declare that we believe to be the true version of the matter ; but at the same time cau tioning all whom it may concern to recollect, that among the parties we have now brought upon the scene, there are men too honest and too high-minded to allow false statements to pass as true, and who will ring without ceremony, and show for mere brass, any Brummagem counterfeit that may be presented as cur rent coin of the realm. In conclusion,—will Lord Melbourne or the authorities of the Home Office, — will Mr. Under-Secretary Phillipps, Sir Frederick Roe, or Mr. Clarke,—will Sir Peter Laurie (as Lord Mayor at a time of which we have spoken,) or Mr. Alderman Wood, or any of the Court of Aldermen who discussed the measure,—will the Remembrancer who attended at the House of Lords at every stage of the bill, and who drew the petition that was given to Lord Wynford—will these collectively, will any one of them individually, contradict one essential fact in this statement ? If not, we must still be permitted to be lieve it true.—Times. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, Nov. B.—We have received letters from Jamaica to the 24th September. The Admiral (Sir George Cockburn) not having returned from his periodical visit to the North American coasts, Commodore Pell, C. 8., was in command, whose ship (the Forte) was lying in Kingston Harbour, and the Fly, Rover, Larne, Racehorse, Arachne, Rhadamanthus, and Magnificent, were at Port Royal. The Cc uiser, 16, Commander M'Causland, had sailed for Ber muda ; and the Tweed, 18, Lieutenant Austen, acting, on the 2d September, for Halifax and England. The latter ship had fifty men in the hospital after her arrival at Port Royal for Nassau, who were infected with fever. The Cruiser, during her last Cruise, unfortunately grounded on a shifting bank, in attempting to enter the harbour of St. Juan Nicaragua, though in charge of a pilot, and out of any danger pointed out by the Admiralty Charts or the Co lombian Navigator. After five days' incessant exertion, being lightened eighty tons of her top weight, and materially assisted by the French brig La Jules, of Bordeaux, she was got off. The Swallow packet sailed on the 29th of August for Mexico, and the Firefly for St. Jago de Cubt... W. G. Nunes, Esq., had been appointed Secretary to the Governor, in the absence of Colonel Doyle. This morning his Majesty's ship Tweed, Commander Henry E. Hamilton, arrived from the West India and North American station. She sailed from Halifax on the 21st October, when the President, Captain James Scott, with the flag of the Right Hon. Sir George Cockburn, and the Comus, Commander W. Price Hamilton, were there, refitting ; the latter having returned from a cruise round Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador, where she had been employed for the protection of the fisheries ; also the Gannet, Commander Maxwell, and Pincher (tender to the flag-ship), Lieutenant Dowse. The Tweed has suffered very severely from yellow fever during the last two months of her servitude in the West Indies. The disease first made its appearance after she left Belize, and continued to prevail during her passage from that place to Nassau (New Providence), and from Nassau to Jamaica. Scarcely as individual escaped ; she had in all 160 cases, out of which number seventeen died on board, and a great many were left dangerously ill in Jamaica hospital. On her passage from Jamaica to Bermuda seven died, but since leaving the latter place, on the Ist October, she has been perfectly healthy. At Bermuda she left the Cruizer, repairing the damage she received by getting on shore at St. Juan de Nicaragua. The Tweed left her guns behind at Halifax, to be conveyed to the Cruizer by his Majesty's ship Gannet, as that ship was obliged to throw her guns overboard, to lighten her. Amongst those who died of fever on board the Tweed, were Commander Bertram, Mr. Wm. Bothwell, Surgeon, Mr. Henry Holmes, Assistant-Surgeon, Mr. Budd, Mate, and Lieutenant French, Royal Artillery. The malignant cholera, which had carried off upwards of 600 people in the town of Halifax, had entirely disap peared when the Tweed left, and fortunately had not ex tended itself through the province of Nova Scotia, but had made its appearance at John's, New Brunswick. The Pre sident was the only ship in the squadron that suffered from this disease : she had altogether about sixteen cases, of which number three died. No officer was attacked. Lieu tenant Parnell, late of the Racer, Captain Kelly, Rifle Brigade, Mr. Lawson, and Dr. Charles M'Arthur, late surgeon of the flag-ship, came home passengers in the Tweed. She also brought home seventeen invalids and ten convicts. The following promotions and appointments have lately taken place on the North American and West India sta tion : Lieut. H. G. Hamilton (Flag-Lieutenant) to be Commander, and appointed to the Tweed, vice Bertram, deceased ; Mr. Henry Wellington, mate of the President, to be Lieutenant, vice Hamilton, promoted ; Lieut. Willis, of the Skipjack, to be Flag-Lieutenant to Sir G. Cockburn, vice Hamilton ; Lieut. Bosanquet, of the Pincher, to the Tweed ; Lieut. Rich. Dowse, to the Pincher, vice Bosan quet ; *Mr. James Go r d on , t o be Surgeon, and appointed to the Tweed, vice Bothwell, deceased ; Mr. J. Robertson (6) to be Surgeon, and appointed to the Racer, vice Wesley, El:ceased ; Mr. Aug. H. Gilbert, Purser of the Racer, to the Tweed ; Mr. Jeffrey, Acting Purser of the Fly, to the Racer ; Mr. William Orr, Assistant-Surgeon of the Tweed (who was Acting Surgecn during nearly the whole period of her sickness, the Surgeon having been one of the first who died from the disease), has been appointed Assis i- Surgeon of the flag-ship. The unremitting professional exertions OA e +1 is officer , who had him se lf a se vere attack of . • the disease, and n,": humane attention to the sick were be yond all p ra i se , an d w ill l on g be gratefully remembered by all on b oar d. Vice-Admiral Sir Geo. Co c kburn, Lady Cockburn, and family, had returned from a tour in Nova Scotia, and were expected to p rocee d t o B ermu d a , i n th e Praskleflt, in the first week of November. The Pacific, a vessel taken up by Government to bring home invalids from the Royal Artillery, 83d, 96th, and Rifle Brigade, and the widows and orphans of the soldiers who died of cholera at Halifax, under the charge of Lieut.-Col. Earby, of the Royal Artillery, an officer lately promoted, was to sail from Halifax Nov. 1. Yesterday, the American line-of-packet ship Montreal, Chadwick, (vice Champlin, left home sick), arrived in twenty-one days, from New York, with one hundred pas sengers, more of whcm having landed here the ship pro ceeded on to the river. The following appeared in the United States Gazette : " The Marine Corps—We understand that when the Pre. sident returns to Washington, there will be a re-organiza tion of the Marine Corps, by which that branch of the national defence will stand as an army regiment under naval laws, when afloat or in dock-yard. This will create the necessity for new appointments, of ten Second Lieu tenants.'" This morning arrived the Stentor transport, Lieutenant Davison, Agent, from Gibraltar, with part of the '23d Regiment of Welsh Fusileers on board. The Mary trans port, with the remainder of the regiment, is hourly expected. This regiment will be quartered at Haslar and Fort Monckton. The 86th Depot will be moved from Hadar to Forton; and the 68th Depot from Forton to Cambridge Barracks. The 23d Regiment will ultimately remove to Vvrinchester. They have been eleven years absent from England. The Stentor left Gibraltar on the 29th ult. by the assistance of the Jasseur, Commander Hackett, whose zealous services in the Gut are highly praiseworthy. • The Guardian, Holland, from Malaga, with fruit and wine, for Yarmouth ; and the Columbine, Brown, from Leghorn, with timber, for Portsmouth, have arrived and received pratique. Yesterday the Marquis of Anglesey's yacht the Pearl, arrived from Naples, which port she left on the 19th ult. The Noble Marquis has been cruising since April last, during which he visited Castclarnare, Messina, Malta, Syracuse, Palermo, &c. ; and, we are happy to hear, with considerable advantage to the state of his health. The yacht has proceeded to Hamble for the winter. The Lufra yacht, Lord J. Scott, arrived on Sunday from the Black Sea. She touched at Malta and Gibraltar, and experienced very bad weather. His Majesty's ship Revenge, and the Nile, large new steamer (built in the river Thames) left the Tagus on the 10th ult. for the Mediterranean. The Hastings.(flag), Stag, and Castor, were in the Tagus on the 26th ult. The Blonde frigate (Commodore Mason) arrived at the Falkland Islands on the Ir:th of July, and was to sail the next day for Valparaiso. On Sunday the Salamander steamer, Com. Castle, sailed for the River. This afternoon, the /Etna and Raven, went oat of the • Harbgnr, fitted for surveying th e C anary Islands, and shores of Western Africa. At Spithead—La Regina (Sardinian), expected to sail to-morrow for Sheerness, Tweed, Xtna, and Raven. In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Royal George. Two packet brigs to be called the Dolphin and Bonetta, have been laid down at Sheerness Dockyard. They are to be 90 feet on the gun-deck, by 29ft. 3in., 320 tons burden, and to be constructed similar to the Pandora. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 6.—Letters from Gibraltar state that the 'Uedea, Jup4er ? And Romney, had passed up for Malta. The Andromache, with Lord Napier and suite, for Canton, was spoke, all well, in May. The Dublin was undocked on Monday. Came in the Lister, from Oporto, with wine, in twenty-five days ; and the Euphan, Drysdale, from the Canaries, for Newcastle, with barilla, having been run foul of and damaged off the Lizard. In Hamoaze—San Josef. The Madagascar, Captain Lyons, from the Mediterra nean, and the Pearl, Captain Gordon, from the West Indies, are hourly expected home. The Britannia, 120, Captain Spicer, is expected home about the middle of De cember. The America and Melampus are in a very great state of forwardness, and it is expected they will be taken out of dock about Christmas. The classification system in the different dock-yards, which caused so much discontent among the artisans, has been greatly ameliorated of late. In this yard there are now only five shipwrights, out of nearly 600, in the third class, and no smith, joiner, or sawyer ; and by recent in structions, the apprentices of good character are to be placed in the second class as they conic out of their time, instead of the third. The latter class is in future to be considered as appropriated to very inferior workmen, or as a punish ment to those who commit offences or have injured their character by habits of intoxication, or other improper conduct. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieuts. J. S. Godden, Edwd. Biffin, W. S. Petch, and W. Pender, to the Coast Guard Service ; Lieut. Peter Duthy, to the Vernon, vice Gordon, whose appointment is cancelled ; Mr. J. Frazer, Assistant-Sur geon, to the San Josef ; Mr. H. G. Shute, to be Mate of the Racer. ROYAL MARlNES.—Captain John Campbell is placed on the retired list, vice Major Atcherley, deceased ; Captain Haig, from half-yay, to the Plymouth division. COWES, Nov. B.—The Portuguese Government has given permission for vessels of the Royal Yacht Squadron to enter the ports of that kingdom, on the same footing as men-of-war. On Tuesday the Janette schooner (R.Y.S.) Captain George Wyndham, R.N., arrived from Bourdeaux. Sir William Maxwell, Bart., has purchased the Ganymede, formerly Col. Madden's. Yesterday arrived the French ship Juniper, Le Sage, Master, sixty days from Guadaloupe, for Havre de Grace, with a cargo of sugar, to wait the rise of tides at that port. She landed passengers here. Also arrived the Norwegian. brig Caroline, Johnstone, Master, from Porsground, for Truro, with timber and deals, wind bound. On Wednesday, at five A.M., the schooner Falmouth, of and for Falmouth, Nicholls, Master, from London, with a general cargo, carried away her fore-stay, and the mast soon followed. She was afterwards taken in tow by the Ranger pilot vessel, and brught in here. SPIRIT OF T THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1834. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 8. CROSSLEY V. THE DERBY GAS COMPANY AND ANOTHER. This was an appeal from an order of the Vice-Chancellor continuing an injunction against the defendants to restrain them from using a gas meter of which the patent was in the plaintiff, and also directing an account of the profits made by the use of the invention for six years previous to the filing of the bill. Sir W. Horne, in support of the appeal, said that the patent was obtained in 1815, but that the defendants had not used the meters before 1821, when their agent, Mr. Wigton, one of the defendants, obtained a license for the use of,the meter for one year. After that period they pur chased two meters from the plaintiff, and then, conceiving that they were fully justified in doing so, they commenced the manufacture of meters to their own account, and sup plied them to those persons who used their gas in the town of Derby. For six years the plaintiff took no notice of the alleged infringement of his patent until 1828, when, having succeeded in an action brought against a person, named Beverley, for using his meters without a license, he filed a bill and obtained an injunction against the defendants a few days before the expiration of his patent. The injunction thus obtained was ex-parte, and it restrained the defendants from continuing to use the meter, as well as from disposing of any of those which they had manufactured for sale. The Learned Counsel now contended that the plaintiff's bill could not be sustained, because the specification of his pa tent was defective. Sir E. SUGDEN contended, on the part of the plaintiff, that the form of the appeal precluded the defendants from going into the question of delay. They did not object to the injunction, and, by not doing so, they in a manner ac knowledged his right to it, and, as a matter of course, to an account during the time the patent had been infringed. The LORD CHANCELLOR should hear Sir W. Horne in reply on Monday morning ; but merely on the same point of time.—His Lordship rose at three o'clock. IN RE CHAMBERS. It was this morning arranged by the Counsel in this case, that the application for superseding the bankruptcy of Mr. Chambers, the late proprietor of the King's Theatre, should be made on an early day next week. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 8. TUELLUSON V. WOODFORD. In consequence of the late Act of Parliament, by which the estates of Mr. Thelluson were ordered to be leased to Lord Rendlesham at. 11,5001. a year, the present petition was presented by the late receiver to pass his accounts and vacate his recognizances. The trustees objected to his dis charge, on the ground that the lease to Lord Rendlesham was not actually executed. But his Honour observed he did not see why the trustees were so anxious to intermeddle with the estates. COURT OF KING'S-BENCH, Nov. 8. THE KING V. EIGGS. Mr. PLATT moved for a habeas corpus to be directed to the keeper of Maidstone gaol to bring up the body of Lewis Biggs, whom he described to be a boy of fourteen years of age, now confined in Maidstone gaol upon a charge of ma liciously shooting at two persons named Owen and Timmer. The defendant was the son of a landowner in the neigh bourhood of Sundridge, and was permitted by his father to use a pistol in shooting sparrows. On the 25th of October last he was returning in a van with his brother and a ser vant to his father's house at Hyde-hill, after having been amusing himself in shooting sparrows all day, when Owen and this other man passed them. When these persons had passed about thirty yards, the boy, for the purpose of frightening them, fired off his pistol. He had sworn an affidavit declaring, in the most positive manner, that he only fired off the pistol to frighten these men ; that he did not take aim at them, and did not intend to harm them, and that all he thought of was alarming them. He was a day or two afterwards taken before a Magistrate, and was committed upon the charge of maliciously shooting, to the custody of the gaoler of Maidstone. There was an affidavit of the brother confirming, us far as it was possible for him to confirm, the statement of the defendant, and besides these affidavits he had that of the father, who swore that his child waf+ of a human? disposition, and perfectly in capable of seriously intending to injure the men, Lord DENMAN—Take a mile, RIDGWAY V. THE HUNGEEPORD MARKET COMPANY. Mr. FOLLETT moved for a rule to show cause why the damages in this case should not be increased to 1501. This was an action for salary brought by the plaintiff, who had been a clerk in the service of the defendants, and who claimed three-quarters of an annual salary, fixed at 2001. a year. The case was tried at the sittings after last Term, before Lord Denman, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff for the sum of 121. Sir James Scarlett had moved a few days since for a rule to set aside the verdict for the plaintiff and enter a verdict for the defendant, and in sup. port of his application had stated that the plaintiff was discharged from the service for a series of acts of miscon duct. There was no evidence of any such thing at the trial, and on the contrary, one of the grounds on which he rested the present application was, that there was no reason for dismissing the plaintiff from the service, for that be had not been guilty of any misconduct whatever.—Rule granted. It was arranged that the peremptory paper should be taken on Monday, and that the special paper on Tuesday after the cases respectively appointed for those days had been disposed of. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 8. CREASE V. This case came on for trial before Lord Lyndhurst dur ing the last Western Circuit. The action was brought for the purpose of recovering certain tolls on tin. A verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages 6141. Mr. Sergeant COLERIDGE moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the grounds that his Lordship had rejected proper and received improper evidence ; and, further, that the verdict was contrary to the evidence adduced. From the statement, which was very long and intricate, made by the Learned Counsel, it appeared that some tins paid a toll of one-tenth to the Lord of the Manor, whilst others paid but one-fifteenth. The Jury in this case awarded an amount in damages equivalent to one-tenth, The COURT granted a rule to show upon tlio points of the sessional rule, the tenants' answers, the testimony of a M r . Rashleigh in proof of the boundaries of the land, and the reduction of damages. - MONSIEUR DE MALSAIGNES.---A French gen tleman informs us that the anecdote we gave in Ne ! 0,, fr the Memoirs of the Ppphpo of Abrantes, is not quite correct. It would appear that the Malsaignes' adversary pinned him to the door ; and finding that he could not on the instant disen • gage his sword, prudently retreated a few paces nut of harm's way . In the mertnwhil. Ai I -A.84101163, hrainiiihing his w@apen, gloried in the advantage which he imagined he had acquired; rnd addressing . his antagonist, said, " Ha 1 Monsieur, you can have no exit interest throu g h th e d oor, and then I s h a ll repay your thrust with !"- _The Parterre. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 211ANSION-HOUSE. Saturday the Lord Mayor closed his Mayoralty. Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers for Bishopsgate, was summoned before the Lord Mayor for having refused to give assistance to Mary Hodges in her necessity. Miss Hodges, who has been from her infancy living upon the bounty of the parish, had applied to Mr. Booker for a few shillings with which to purchase a pair of shoes and other clothing, and that lie refused to give her those neces sary articles. The LORD MAYOR—Why, you are able-bodied, and can't require the assistance of the parish. The Poor Law Bill will impose a penalty on the parish officers if they give money to such a powerful young woman. You are the very picture of strength and laziness. Miss Hodges—Please your Lordship, me and my Tom was looking over this here Bill, and he says I have a claim because my case is a case of " mergency." Mr. Booker said that several of the claimants had con trived, by a subscription, to buy a copy of the Act, and they were constantly at work in scanning the provisions of it. The young man, whom Miss Hodges called " her Tom," had been brought up in the parish, and was never known to take the trouble to read anything for years until the new Poor Law Act was published, and then he was never easy until he got a copy. He had tried to apply various passages of it to his own peculiar case, but had failed, and he gave a great deal of trouble, by persuading the paupers that they had a right by the Bill to more than they were entitled to before the Bill passed.--(A laugh.) Miss Hodges—Why, how can you refuse to give me the price of a pair of " mud pods ?" The Commissioners says that you are to give us money when we are in necessity, and I 'ant got a fardin in the world. Mr. Booker—l have got you into employment a hundred times, and it is all useless—you never will work. Miss Hodges—Work ! How can I work without shoes or a shift ? You don't think I can go to work like a Scotch piper, do you ?—(Laughter.) Mr. Booker--The young man who keeps her company pushes her forward to raise disagreements and opposition. The LORD MAYOR—Pray what is this man who gives you this legal advice ? Miss Hodges—Who is be ! Why, he is a man. He arn't no expense to nobody, barrin my self, now. The Loan MAvoa—i-Well, as you are able to provide for him, you can have no great claim upon the parish, and I hop. that you will both act like independent people, and leave it altogether. Miss Hodges—Ycs, your Worship, we will leave ; but I'm blest if I don't have a little conversation with these here infernal hofficers first. Mr. Booker charged a young man named Burnham with having forged an order for one shilling. The prisoner, who was an out-door pauper, applied to him for money, and he gave to the man an order to receive half-a-pound of bread. The prisoner, however, blotted out the words "half-a-pound of bread," and substituted, in a light coloured ink, and in writing of a very superior character, the words "won shil ing." When the order was presented at the Workhouse, the forgery was detected, and the prisoner, who swore that the writing was all witness's, was detained. The prisoner was committed to Bridewell for three months. GUILDHALL. Mr. Teague, the keeper of the Giltspur-street Compter, informed Mr. Alderman ATKINS that about nine o'clock the preceding evening a prisoner named Brown, the wards man of the Infirmary, was walking in a yard, when another prisoner, named Hetherington, rushed upon him from one of the rooms and inflicted a wound. He was evidently in a state of phrenzy, and was not secured without considesra ble danger and difficulty. The surgeon who was called in to attend Brown did not consider the wound to be a dan gerous one. Hetherington was ordered to be kept in close confinement. Hetherington was formerly a Manchester warehouseman in extensive business in Cheapside and King-street, and has latterly been subsisting on an allowance of ss. per week from the Commercial Travellers' Society. He was brought up in custody for continually besetting the office and annoy ng the Secretary of that Society. BO W-STREET. On Saturday, William Johnson Neale and Melville Neale, appeared to answer a charge of assault preferred against them by Captain Marryat, author of the " King's Own," &c. The complainant, on Wednesday last, was walking past the New National Gallery, when he met the two defen dants. William Johnson Neale, addressing him, said, " Captain Marryat, I believe." " Even so." The de fendant then said, " You are a liar and a blackguard, and only want the courage to become an assassin." The de fendant then raised a thick stick which he held iu his hand, and attempted to strike him, but he warded off the blow, and knocked the defendant down. A scuffle then ensued, and the defendants ran away. The defendant (Mr. Neale) was proceeding to enter into some statement respecting former proceedings which had taken place between him and Captain Marryat, but the MAGISTRATES refused to hear it. The defendant then proceeded to say, that he had taken every means to obtain the satisfaction which one gentleman had a right to expect from another. The MAGISTRATES heie again stopped the defendant. Both defendants were then bound over to !Keep the peace and to answer the charge at the Sessions. HATTON-GARDEN. Mr. James Ogden, a young man of respectable appear ance, and a master jeweller, residing in St. James's-walk, Clerkenwell, was brought before Mr. LAING, charged with having unlawfully transposed a certain Hall-mark of the Goldsmiths Company to a gold ring. The case excited considerable interest, from the known good character and respectability of the prisoner, who was attended to the office by numerous friends and relatives, whose anxiety was evidently manifest, as it was made known to them that the prisoner was to be charged capitally, and, in the event of conviction, was subject to death without benefit of clergy. Mr. Flower, of the firm of Alderman Harmer and Co. attended for the prisoner ; and Mr. Lane, the solicitor of the Goldsmiths' Company, attended for the prosecution. The Master and Wardens of the Company, and the Soli tor of Stamps, were also present. Mr. Lane, the solicitor, called the following witnesses : Mr. Beeby, silversmith, &c., 67, Red Lion-street, Clerk enwcll, about three weeks ago received an order from a gentleman, named Gleeson, for a gold ring, and he called on the prisoner, and directed him to make one, giving him at the same time a paper containing the instruction as to weight, &c. The prisoner undertook to send it home in eight or ten days, which he did, and furnished with it a ticket, stating the weight of it, with, other work done by him. Witness forwarded the ring to Mr. Gleeson, who sent it back to be made fifteen grains heavier, and it was returned to the prisoner for that purpose. The prisoner subsequently brought it to witness, it then being of the weight required namely, six penny-weights and fifteen grains. • Mr. FLOWER, at this stage of the proceeding submitted to the Bench whether any charge existed against the priso ner, as it appeared from the evidence of Mr. Beeby that the ring in question did not weigh seven pennyweights, and that by the 12th George 11., chap. 26, sect. 6, small arti cles of gold under ten pennyweights did not require to be marked at the Goldsmith's Hall. Mr. LAING would not take upon himself to decide the point, which must be discussed before a higher tribunal ; he should take the evidence. Mr. Beeby then proceeded—The ring had the Hall mark upon it, and was the colour of a wedding ring. Mr. Josiah Sharp, Deputy Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company, deposed that on the first of November a Mr. Maxwell brought the ring (now produced) to the Hall to be examined, as he doubted the genuineness of the Hall mark ; the ring was left with witness, who subsequently discovered that the mark had been transposed from another piece of gold and inserted on the ring alluded to. The witness was about to state a conversation which he had had with the prisoner, when Mr. FLOWER hoped the Bench would not permit it to be received as evidence. The prisoner, he observed, had been induced to attend the Goldsmiths' Hall through a let ter he received from Mr. Lane, the solicitor, and, when un prepared, a statement was made by him which he now de nied. Mr. Flower here handed the letter to the Magis trate. It had been written courteously to the prisoner, and anything drawn from him under the circumstances aught not to be received, and he should decidedly object to it, Mr. LAING, however, ordered the witness to proceed. soner Witness stated that when it was ascertai ne d the 'pri had made the ring he was sent for, and while at the Hall he confessed that he took the mark from a wedding ring. Mr. Leslie Alexander, Prime Warden of the Goldsmith's Company, deposed that h 9 Showed the prisoner the ring (now produced), and asked him if it was his manufacture, and he said it was, Witness then gave him into custody. William Bateman, Warden to the Goldsmith's Company, said he was present when the prisoner said lie had taken the mark from another ring, and introduced it to the one now produced. Mr. Gleeson and the other witnesses hero identified the ring. I.4ane said that the Goldsmith's Company wished to deal as leniently as possible with the prisoner, and intended only to prosecute for a misdemeanour. Mr. LAING understood that the Commissioners of Stamps would prosecute the prisoner for the forgery of the assay mark, which would subject him to the extreme penalty of the law if convicted. The Solicitor of Stamps remarked that it certainly was their intention to act as the Magistrate had intimated. Mr. Flower argued that it 11'44 luito incomrteut fir the V to parties to pursue such a course. It was contrary be pilt principles of English law and justice for a prisoner t° in jeopardy a secon d ti me f or the same offence. r rh e ed i t ol sinith's Company h a d t a k en upon themselves the _O r .electing the p rosecu ti on o f t h e p r isoner for t, clx offence, and it was now t oo l ate to co me forward t° P cute for the capital charge. m isse Mr. LAIN G sa id thatifrequested by the %A in of Stamps to commit for the felony, he must do ' pet. order to let them have ample time to consider the su l o ce he should remand the prisoer for few days. Il' • had to 53) . ,. ever, would then hear any thing the a accused ea le is , ' Mr. Flower--I advise him to say nothing fore a Jury. see 41 • Prisoner (with great emotion) —I hope,. Sir , i d n ' e gold , take bail. I protest the ring was pure andgerb and was marked at Goldsmiths' Hall. W Mr. LAING had no power to receive that he stood in a ver y awkward situation. Ha r te ea d the ne on' Act of Parliam en t, which set forth that eve r y Per r d o ffer victed of the off e n ce i m p u t e d t o th e prisoner s h° ' a ,,, nd death without the benefit of clergy. ba cli Mr. Flower—lt is the going too far for two pow e " " under the infl uence ofcrown to prosecute for theo alleged offence. (LW" The prisoner, wh o seeme d t o b e d r eadfully aire ct i e vtb then fully com m itt e d f or t r i a l on t h e c h a rge prefer s! ' ;Pi a de Goldsmiths' Comp an y, b u t was rema nded on ' charge at the request of the Solicitor of Stamps. ItIARLBOROUGH-STREET char Saturday Don J ose Ruiz d e L uzur i ag a, a SPa ril " b a rge' brought before M r . C ONANT , on a peace warrant , e Go ]derr by a gentleman named Merry, residing at No• square, with having written a letter to him c° ll threat of a very strong description towards him.,, fl ed 11 Mr. Francis Merry a short time ago was cha e- t ing' ) ", the defendant, and in consequence a hostile „M ee ns teo; curred between them at the Spaniard Tavern, Ill; pest He received the defendant's fire, the ball from ?, ca t of e l rr having passed close to his ear ; but from a ' e tempt as well as compassion towards - the dele u np laill i n would not return the fire, and, after receiving th, e . of both seconds, he permitted the contents of be fired in the air. The defendant exhibited n° ' l ' l ;g C' te i feeling for thi s cons id erate proceed i ng, b u t, r us ll e d ward, lie made a p ersona l attac k , w hi c h W as rep left th resented, and then complainant and his friendst rec ei o e ground. Shortly after this occurrence c omplain: ll ' w toi l , a letter from th e d e f en d ant, conta i n i ng an esPre ss A l c , effect that "it was i mposs ibl e b oth o f t h e m coulu 4 . 0 to live in the world." • s ion Mr. CONANT having obtained a sufficient gin ° , writ t ;,/ the defend an t th a t t h e l etter in question had b e ,l es is by him, di rec t e d t h at h e should provide two su re 'l e eP each, and enter into his own recognizance t° peace towards all his Majesty's subjects. foru l ' The wife of a tradesman applied to Mr. C oNs r l eir cdft. advice and assistance under th e following sing ular ( be stances : 'ea A French f ema l e f or a b out two y ea rs had 0. 11 bel l , business of a d ressma k er i n her h oose , and ha vin ' c oarl'; acquainted with a foreigner, a jeweller, after 11 ; $ 1 eo r a la of a few weeks she was married to him. Ab nu ' months after marriage, her lodger was delivered 'Ti 0 1 ' Vie 1 0 child, and a nurse was engaged to attend it. ore` i tl , having found the child suddenly unwell one da,l'aleell he r emetic, and then ascertained that laudanum ° t h e m e te ministered to it. On mentioning the subject to to t, ': o f she replied, that if one did not die the other I n . e - r de` fr nurse almost immediatelyafterwards her lodg ers . The lodgers, with the child and tim e, male servant, th en went away, and, a f ter some oorn. procured apartments in the neighbourhea d ,l, 1 1 ly The child, i n a very s h ort per i od after t hi s , st d ` gain be peared, and then all parties returned to lodgt Theo: 1 ; ? ,1 the applic an t. N ot perce i v i ng the ch ild I P . "' made some inquiries, and insisted upon kunn il l ie r, 31 1 it become of it. She received no satisfactory an usl'as;3l a day or two afterwards, not seeing her lodg ers o benLia was found necessary to enter their apartmen t 1 , a t discovered that they had suddenly left the 11 °,U1,.1i11 ° 40 0 learned from a boy in their service that, ', the I 'l6:r Hornsey, the servant girl had been seen to les% ds A n' a ve with a bundle, and, on her return, that her h¢ ger-nails were covered with a sort o f reddis" '' t bat p e g i t trace of the infant having been discovered fl'o n , d dee° suspicions we re excited, and she (a plicant) proper to lay th e ma t ter b e f ore a mag i s trate• A warrant h av i ng b een granted against th e ' fi t, F rac 0 ,1 question, Balla r d, an o ffi cer o f the establishn", e ,j, to execute it. H e di scovered that the hustro,ll° servant, had, on se p arate d ays, procure d P asse all left the country. lo ge! `lll, UNION-HALL. _ a rp- i re o A tall man, o f gentlemanly appearP.nce,l' o , '"- ° l ' from the Elephant and Castle Inn N e witiotio l ' v ine had made a determined attem t at self-des tr .a, F ilic 'the chambermaid going' T to h l is room on F ri did' 4 ' 4. she found him 1 pocket -handkercb;.el being firml tied ronfl u i„' l 9 ' a tte % t° ying on the floor nearly S trand reci"ticog surgeon was i'mmethately sent for, y and II ": be b ee i v t° the straP - e Ter was restored. So esirous 11 : 1 `` ore il 3 0 ,1 prev:nt the discovery of his relations, th 4 l ii i s lette' on. lo •• .ne attempt upon his life he consumed all, . o ftle „tore papers, and cut out the marked initials of n' s wa s th e 'j e nd shirt. He refused to tell who he w as; lie; despond kept at the Office, where he exhibited gr eat of mind, and frequently burst into tears. Tit r v S CAPTURE AND COMMITTAL O• BURGLARS. Inspector [lam,Ot Saturday and il Ch a A ri" B r a V n ii n ii i a st n e z r l) , of o b the , l37;:il : CI; :1 1 1er °11 1, tic ": :3° `' )de' s p ve n t;i n t t a r long examinatio"gbaesfo"r•eereS'ecolelvlceY:r(yi t°l3":teri:::ivillait. .;n a te t re t d ile burgia e riou E sl s y q Richmond, on the night neighbourhood, and also I.o'efstthriye-r2:77h, u c it h . a Ls rge rre d : ;:h i_ a nilti o e :jy, the house of Mr. °n'' tha t j As many burglaries have lately been cotton the l'ri; out prisoners created i c n o the town, and forthe of 1501. had been offered o n tz e r r p a a b rt le s s o e f wa n tiiona ti t i o r o e ° ,t , te : o s; of the su tution, William the vestry-room wag crow" e ; 0 19 1 ' 1 ,., A reward by the . 0 01 e ;1 5 1 apprehension of the burglars. Aft el ; . ; 0 0r 5 ; 0 After loi admitted evidence t o n g .n o g p a e b n 0 u t ht until sae against his asgociates• , o cv, sworn, and stated that c 1 ult. he ore on the —7t 3 for t he P u ile r ' panied Bryant - d an Gray to Richmond, t he b to tF e of breatain - Douglas, one of the Pr' s lie c }mu and witness was desired to get on a via l ; 0 eat rs be of the se house to keep watch. Gray then force ( ' &JO e J at o the back window, and got into the hous e ', rel nal n eo late M ho r u . r , L t o b n e g ; sc o e t n t t li c l ' l , 3c e; .npetnieedthe back door, and let Bryant in. I l l io j wi t s le r in house about three quarters of an hour , i , na 13 , 0 , waited outside. When hat' o r , ot they came out they bro ke 1 o of silver spoons and some boxes, which theY ' g o , ' b p but they only contained a little TheY then ov st3. g the London-road,and tea. cdice c. Mt' were stopped by a p ~ o w to on duty, who • ' so, insisted upon searching them , an° Hiteitenor Branty contrived, un •d by the P ° n 0 percetve „ L oa . t t throw the . spoons over a fence. The P ° A " t heY . 1 , ' 3 searching diem, suffered them to go on, Gray" - i reot o h London. The next morning Bryant and i3roncl'( a p n erso named John Hill, in King's Head-coat Ma l t% $i d got him to divide the tea into parts betwee'; ol d " ,, f ar t. John . Hill deposed to the prisoners nr.v a h n took" 200 coining to him to weigh some tea, and they eac," i n f o rta';fr , Inspector Bannister stated, that he received ,",,, o to that the prisoners had committed the burgl 3r • rt igl) t et Longs, and that it was their intention on Fri daY 0 55 , ate b O, to break open the ost-office at Richmond. A l% I° '" eo rr for them, but something prevented them from ~,,n Or Richmond. The foil - - • rs wer e day the pris one r s ,gllid hended at Knightsbridge. ° t.,, ba— t be It f t ... .. ther appeared that, on the night after the o pen A , at Mr. Long's, the prisoners attempted to bre ak borpl b a d house of Mr. Gilpin, at East Sheen. TilnY d' td a '' Oei numberof holes with a centrebit, but the noise ha P e ' e the inmates of the house, and they made their ese' ke n a., had • also, in company with another housebreaker br° re tb" the house of Miss Robinson, at Isleworth, but th e ro4 l , ,111 were_ i also disturbed, and only stole an ivorY °Pesever TI e latter cases were not one into. The prio ners ol gitt deni d e the charge. cori °. se r The M • agistrates, having consulted together, ,31101,,, Bryant and Gray for trial, and discharged Ha .y 0 IP immediately re-aPr,rehended Ham for the boreal worth. _______-------------- a 818 TITS. Tar - W'llia'" On the Bth inst. at Leyton, Essex, the lady of - 1 v Copeland, Esq., M'.P., of a daughter. r of I"' ' On the 6th inst., the wife of Mr. Stevens, surveyo-, Place, Paddington-green, and Oxford-street, of a daughter' DIED. the w ife ° I On the Ist inst., at Wolverhampton, Jemima, Charles Mander, of th at town. 0 1°' auc tioninirr , On the 25th ult. , Mr. Robert Peake, ver . Abbey, and Mark - lane , a g ed 58. e On the 4th inst., Mr . Marchant, of Ttp7:4lgar-terra smith. ,0 London ; print — 1 , and Published by-MI:1 S p d, at Ilse Sun Office, No. 112, tr4l2 on the .green, wire o. ....• , place, Paddington- and Oxford-street, of a daug"— os MA RR lED. Wil lia ‘ gr. 1 ' On the 6th inst., at Trinity Church, Islington, idetat Follett, of Harpur-street, Bloomsbury, tog ary Eliza , ' e 1 ter of Joseph Peal, Esq., of Barnsbury-pk, IslingOnianel , / -', o ' On the 10th of April last, at St. James's Church, 0.; to p , 0 ) South Wales, John William Gosling, Esq., eldest son nileborer, ling, Esq., of Gloucester - place , New-road, St. Ma i :3 0 01 0 Catherine, second daughter of James Raymond, Esq. , ' o f General of that Colony. f,, 4 1' 0 ,1 On the 6th inst., at Whitby, William Clayton Walters'. L,41'0, 1 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Fellow of Jesus College, Cainm.icli* barrister-at-law, to Esther Elizabeth, second daughter v Chapman, Esq., of the former place. sir' I) i p n • .L,.wife of .