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LONDON JOURNALS. • . . DAILY Extracts from the illorrung Pvers,iluly 16,1825. . . [THE 'MMES.] By advices from i3oqota, dated early in May, we learn - that the very extra - ordinary rumour had reached that place of an attempt having be , m made to assassinate the illustrious Boliver in Lima—in the capital, in fact, of that country just freed from• its degrading subjection to Spain by his efforts.. Monstrous and improbable as the event may appear, we are inclined to believe, from the channel through which it has been re ceived, and some details with which it is acCom panied, that the rumour is not destitnte of-found ation. It is stated that the attempt {4 as made as the President was on his way to a ball, or other public entertaiament, accompanied by M. Mon teagudo, '-the Secretary, we believe, to the Congress. The latter was stabbed by the assas= sins but the confusion which followed pre vented their carrying into effect the intention against the President. The Secretary is said to have expireel the same night, of the wounds lie received. On the following day, a procla mation having been issued, offering a large re ward for the discovery of .the assassins, an inha bitant of Lima, who carried on the trade of a cut ler, gave information that he had receritly.sharp ened three poniards for a black ma❑ of suspi cious character, and it was ascertained that by one of these the Secretary had been stabbed., Orders were in consequence given to assemble the whole of the blacks in the great square of Lima, where they passed in succession before the cutler, who pointed out the individual for whom he had sharpened :he poniards, who was immediately taken into custody, and is said to have revealed a plot for the destruction of Boli var, in which several of the principal persons in Lima were implicated ; but the immediate insti gator of the crime was said to be Rodil, the Spanish Governor of Callao. We have no infor mation of what measures had been adopted by the Executive at Lima in consequence of the dis covery (.f this diabolical plot. " It is remarkable, that the intelligence of such an event having oc curred was not generally known in Bogota itself. [NEW TIMES.] We yesterday received Calcutta papers, con taining dispatches from Sir Archibald Campbell, of the 15th of January, being one day later than the preceding advices. The immense army of the iVlaha Bundoola, which had advanced (as some other Invincibles did in former times) to " drive the English into the sea," were fast dis persing. New Commanders had arrived from Ava, at Procne, to collect fresh forces ; but with little hopes of success. They said they would make the attempt, but if not victorious they would yield. Inclosed in Sir Archibald's dis patch are two very remarkable documents, is sued by the Maha Bundoola. Otie of these is a letter to some European merchiirks at Ran goon, begging them to inform him iv by tine English have invaded the Burman Empire,.and intimating a belief that it is on account of two Chiefs of Munipoor, who had fled for refuge to the English territories, and , were refused to be given up. Why this should indu4e the Eng lish to invade the Burmese Empire; the Maha Bundoola does not say, nor is it easy to conceive ; but he must know very well thatthe real grounds of complaint, on the part of on.E.G.Kernment, had been repeatedly stated to the Court of Ava, and repelled with the greatest insolence ; that the Burmans had commenced hostilities by many acts of aggression ; and that it .was not till after years of forbearance that we determined to punish their outrages. The other document issued by the Maha Bundoola is still more important. ft is addressed to his soldiers, and affords, perhaps, the most striking prpof on record of a ferocious savage being compelled to observe the laws of civilised warfare. It is well known, that at our first attack on Rangoon, several of our Sepoys fell into the hands of the Burmese, and were all inhumanly mangled,, and left to expire in torture. Alluding to this fart, the Maha Bundoola says—" As for the foreigners, who, during the present war, may have been taken, and put to death, or ill treated, that is now irrevocable ; but henceforth, should any of them fall into . your hands, take care that they are not killed, or maltreated in any. way." Of the rapture of the fort of Syrian) by the British, on the 11th of January, our readers are already informed. It was carried with the loss of 2 killed and 33 wounded. [MORNING POST.I Tii,e pressure of Parliamentary subjects at. the time prevented us from making any observations on the honours conferred on Messrs. Hume and Brougham by the Scotch Universities. We do not even'norfpretend to know exactly the degree of honour conferred by the Lord Rectorship of a- Scottish • University, or the Academic qualities which entitle persons to . becoMe candidates for the Office. As Mr. Hurhe, however,has been chosen Lord Rector'of the University of Aberdeen, we presume those Learned Bodies look upon the ap pointment asa sort ofCollegiate sinecure,the holder of which may have as little talent to recommend him as be has duty to perform. We should hence conclude. tha t Brougham bestows rather more renown upon the University of Glasgow, in ac cepting-its tirthar Government for twelve months, than he. has received distinction by the election ; for he certainly possesses considerable parts and attainments, and' as a public character a station of some pre-eminence. At the same. time, we think that the Sag's of Glasgow would better consult their own interests end reputation were they to accustom , themsel ves t o c h oose Lord Rectors who were more of schnlars and' philoSophers, and less of partizans and politicians, than Mr. Brougham and his immediate predecessOrs, What charms, indeed, could • the Hon. and Learned "Member for Wiocfmlsea have .had for the Professors and Students of Glasgow, 'nit thOse - derived from his being alternately the chivalrous chaMpion Of the Operative Whigs and of the Operative Mecha nics I Without going into the ininutim. of his talents, we-may safely p ronounce that.hehpaex. -0 , hibited himself solely as a senatorial pugillist—a political gladiator—and although he has not in a single instance come off victorious, he has un questionably fought many battles. We have accordingly sought - him in vain throughout the Inaugural Discourse which "he delivered on his installation at Glasgow, for the general lights of knowledge with which the Head of an Uni versity might be expected on such an occasion to irrad i ate .the intellectual sphere wherein he- had just risen. Alas! the Lord Rector has not less disappointed others than he is himself disappoint ed. Why, then, leave his natural domicile, the thick fetid haunts of ignoble squabbles, for the cool, salubrious, sequestered shades of the 'Aca demy ? But we rejoice the experiment has been made. We always wish to see a performer in a new character before we decide on his general talents.—We are happy to have met with Mr. Brougham as a Lecturer before we stamped him a Statesman or a Sage. [TTIE PUBLIC tEDGER.I By an arrival yesterday of Buenos Ayres Papers to the sth of May, the long-expected, but still gratifying intelligence has been received, that the war in Upper Peru has terminated.— We learn from the same source, that Olaneta perished ingloriously, as he was flying with the wreck of his corps, after the severe defeat he had received from General Sucre. He was try ing to escape with about 700 men, when he was intercepted by a band or Patriots, who amounted to 300 at most; and this braggart, who had a few months before arrogantly promised in his Proclamations that he would shortly restore the authority of the arbitrary King, fell mor ' tally wounded at the onset of the attack.. The fate of this man, who had cruelly harassed the Upper Provinces for the long space of 14 years, and whose misconduct was only equalled by the tyranny of his proceedings, conveys an excellent moral lesson ; for he fell, as we said before, in an inglorious manner, leaving the whole of the plunder he had amassed, during a long course of vexatious administration in the hands of his enemies. We do not know what ho nours are reserved for his mer.-.ory by the pre. sent Government of Spain ; but if it were ca pable of estimating men according to their real deserts, we know the posthumous honours it would confer on a man, who, by his insubordina tion towards his superiors in command, and by his overweening confidence in his own talents, may be justly accused of having been one of the chief causes of the reverses by which the Royalist Cause has been annihilated in Peru. Had he combined his forces with those of La Serna, as his duty as a Soldier and good Spaniard sternly prescribed, it is doubtful whether Bolivar would have advanced into the heart of that fine coun try ; and if he had, it would have been a pro blem if he finally succeeded. But by the un paralleled misconduct of Olaneta, the Roya lists could only employ half their strength against the Colombian army ; and it was by a sort of miracle that the latter triumphed over it. We look therefore upon the manner in which that man died, as a retribution for his desertion of his colleagues ; and next, for the treachery with which he violated the repeated arrange talents he had made with the Liberating A ony. [MORNING CIIRONICLE.I We have long thought that the Lord Chancel lor was resolved, come what might, to die with harness on his back, and now he unequivocally intimates that such is his fixed resolution, to the unspeakable dismay and discomfiture of all per sons who feel interested in the reform of abuses in the Court of Chancery. In the cause of Barker v. Ray, his Lordship, speculating on an appeal at some future period, said, " that, if one were brought, and he should happen to be living at the time, he certainly would require the attendance Of the Twelve Judges upon the case."' This is plain enough. If he should be living when a certain event should happen, he would require the attendance of the Twelve Judges; thus we observe that his Lordship con templates the possibility of death, but not that. of being out of office. The very idea of that retire ment, of which he was once accustomed to speak in a paulo-post future tense, is now altogether dismissed ; and we see in him a firm determina tion to live and die in his place, which he holds, as it were, in fe.e, and which he wilt surely give and bequeath, in extremis, after the manner of poten tates of old, who appointed successors to their possessions. It is certainly curious that the Lord Chancellor has contemplated almost every possible termination to his politico-judicial career, except one. lie talked very rationally of the Old Bailey; and has spoken of his falling under the assaults of , his enemies as the greatest of all calamities, and one which would just bring heaven and earth together, break down the whole fabric of society, and make beggars and vagabonds of all the Lords—but in his wildest moments he has• never, of late, alluded to re tirement. [MORNING HERALD.] A paragraph in our yesterday's Circuit intelli gence, stated that Mr. Justice Park had passed sentence of death upon a person convicted of for gery at the Northampton Assizes—and further, that this convict was left for execution. It was expected, after a recent case, that capital, punish ment for this offence was virtually abandoned. But at all events, no ,one could suppose that the punishment of death would be inflicted upon any person convicted of forgery, without the fullest explanation of the motives which induced the commutation of the- sentence of Henry Savory. There is, at first sight, something ungracious in calling public agentioii to the fate of this un happy person—from the pain it may be expected to give his relatives and friends, who are highly respectable, and perhaps from its looking like disapprobation of the mercy extended to him. But as to the first consideration, private feel ings should not stand in the way of general justice and humanity—and, as to the second,. it is not that. the discretion exercised towards 1)6 is disapproved, but tkrt the _Executive Go vernment is called upon to be consistent. Se veral versions have been given of the grounds 'upon which the life of Henry Savory was spared. But all of those were not only no thing more than unauthorised paragraphs in the public papers, but further, they have all been formally contradicted. Of the circumstances under which the crime was committed by the person left for execution at Northampton, we know nothing at the moment. But taking it as a case in the abstract, it may be asked with what show of reason and impartiality can the sentence of death be executed upon him, after the life of the other convict has been spared. It is of the essence of criminal justice that its execution should be impartial. But until the grounds upon which the sentence in the Bristol case was corn muted be fully and authoritatively known, the public must see a most inviduous and alarming distinction in respect of persons in these two cases of forgery. It is unpleasant to be obliged to repeat that there were—at least that there made to appear, no reasonable circumstances of mitigation in the former, and that its a matter of commercial policy, to which the severity of the law upon this Offence is usually referred, it was of a serious and aggravated character. Per haps, however, the life of the latter convict will also yet be spared, for the day of execution is not named. [BRITISH PRESS. j A Meeting of Catholics took place in the Corn Exchange, Dublin, on Tuesday last. It was convened merely for the purpose of pre ' paring Resolutions for the , adoption of the " Aggregate Meeting," which is appointed for an early day. The 'charge of drawing up the Re solutions was confided toa Committee. Mr. O'Con nell figured on the occasion in an address not re markable for its temperance. He appears to have taken the field again in earnest, for he showed himself on the Exchange in the " Association Uniform," and we regret to find, that with his old habits has returned his former model of speech, so that we find Min talking as glibly about tyrants, oppression, and injustice," as he did before he came over on his late mission to England. His course at present is singu larly inconsistent. He evidently dreads, though he affects to despise 4 ' the undergrowl of Jack Lawless." Thug, while he insists upon the propriety of the " wings," he promises his countrymen that lie will for ever forswear them. " A clamour," he says, " was raised against the proposed payment of the Clergy, and he was, therefore, firmly persuaded, and ready to concur in opinion, that the Catholics ought in fu ture to pursue that course for emancipation unen cumbered by either of the late measures." He eulogises the defunct Association, and enjoins all legally practicable resistance to the " atrocious Act "by which it .was suppressed. The Catho lic Rent, is, in fact revived. The Contributions are desired, by public Advertisement, to be sent to the " Hibernian Joint Stock Company." Subscriptions are announced from Sir Charles Wolsely and the Rev. Mr. L'Estrange, for tl►e parishes of Ballina and Boher, Tipperary. MATH icmt.—The Journal de l'Aube contains the following account young man of Brienne, named Lebeeuff, not more than 22 years of age, has lately killed his own mother. It is attribut ed either to love, a long serief: of ill usage, or a vice of his nature. Several times before, and even within a week of the murder, he had beaten one of his little sisters. His passionate temper was so well known that his father had been warned of it, and he had, in consequence, thought of get ting him put out. On Monday, July , I,a dispute arose between the unfortunate man and two of his sisters, about 10 and 12 years old, concerning an omelette he wished to make; his mother coming in to appease them, he seized. the barrel of a gun which had been turned in a bellows, and struck her two blows on the breast with it : the poor woman ran away. but he pursued her, and at thirty steps from the house brought her to the ground by a blow on the head. He then struck his two sisters in the face with the same weapon, reproaching them as the cause of his having struck his mother. She did not survive his ill-treat ment three hours. The young man was taken up by the Police, and is now in the hands of jus tice. In the meantime the father returned, and saw his wife bathed in blood.; he hastened to see his son, but was refused admission into the prison. The eldest girl of eight children left by the un fortunate woman, hearing what had taken place, hastened to the spot, where the horrid sight depriv ed her of reason, and obliged her to have medical attendance. These are the first fruits of this shocking affair,.whieh will no doubt be attributed to d blind passion. ft is said, however, that when the accused was canducted to recognise the , corpse, he made a speech which added greatly to the horror of the crime. —(Courier Francais.) PROTESTANTS' SONG.--MS Roya 1 Highness the Duke of YORK having been pleased most graciously to allow. a , 'spiendidly embellished copy of the " Protestants' Song" to be present ed to him at his Levee, it may now be seen at the Office of the English Gentleman, No. 7, Bridges-street, Covent-garden, where it- is pub lished. 'lt may be alio•had of every respectable Book and Music-seller in Town or Country.— Price Half-a-Guinea.' The Duke of YORK'S Speech accompanies the Song. A few days ago; Mrs. na.owr, of Beeston, had occasion to have her chimney swept, and employ ed a lad and a young man who were_ travelling through the village in that profession; the lad was in the chimney an unusual time, of which she complained, and when she afterwards went up stairs, she found that somebody had gone down the other tunnel, and been over the floor, for she could trace the foot-marks, and some sil ver was taken from her drawer. It was also discovered, that some pers'on had been down the chimney of the next house, but found the fire place fastened up with a chimney-board, which probably•frUstrated the design. On Friday se'unight, a wan mowing grass h) a field near Paisley, cut off the head of a partridge sitting in her nest, which contained nine eggs. On the eggs being broken, three of them were found to contain two bird'', each. " FORTY DAYS RAIN AFTER ST. SIVITHIN." Now, if on St. Swithin's feast the welkin lours, And every penthouse streams with hasty showers, Twice twenty days shall clouds their fleeces drain, And wash the pavements with incessant rain. Let no such vulgar tales debase thy mind : Nor Paul nor Swithin rule the clouds and wind—Gay, Mr. HOWARD, in his " Climate of London," has attempted the following explanation of this very popular superstition. " The opinion of the people on subjects con , nected with natural history is commonly founded, in some degree, on fact or experience ; though, in this case, vague and inconsistent conclusions are two frequently drawn from real premises. The notion commonly entertained on this subject, if put strictly to the test of experience, at any me station in this part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our sum mers, a showery period, which, with some lati tude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, 1 does come on about the time indicated by this tradition ; not that any long space before is often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. " The tradition, it seems, took its origin from the following circumstances. Swithin,orSwithum, Bishop of Winchester, who died in 868, desired that he might be buried in the open churchyard, and not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual with other Bishops. This request was com plied with ; but the monks, on his being canon ized, considering it disgraceful for the Saint to be in a public cemetery, resolved to remove his body into the choir, which was to have beet, done with solemn procession, on the 15th of July; it rained, however, so violently for 40 days together at this season, that the design was abandoned. Now, without entering into the case of thei'Bishop, who was probably a man of sense, and wished to set the example of a more wholesome, as well as a more humble mode of resigning the perishable clay to the destructive elements, I may observe, that the fact of the hindrance of the ceremony by the cause related is sufficiently authenticated by tradition, and the tradition is so far valuable, as it proves that the summers in this southern part of our island were subject, a thousand years ago, to occasional heavy rains, in the same way as at present. Let us see how, in point of fact, I the matter now stands. " In 1807 it rained with us on the day in ques tion, and a dry time followed. In 1808 it again rained on this day, though but a few drops ; there was much lightning in the west at night, yet it was nearly dry to the close of the lunar period at the new moon, on the 22d of this month, the whole-period having yielded only a quarter of an inch of rain ; but the next moon was very wet, and there fell 5.10 inches of rain. " In 1818 and 1819 it was dry on the 15th, and a very dry time in each case followed. The remainder of the summers occurring betwixt 1807 and 1819 appear to come under the general pro position already advanced ; but it must be oh. served, that in 1816, the wettest year of the series, the solstitial - abundance of rain belongs to the lunar period, ending with the moon's ap proach to the third quarter, on the 16th of the seventh month, in which period there fell 5.13 inches, while the ensuing period, which falls wholly within the forty days, though it had rain on twenty-five out of thirty days, gave only 2.41 inches. " I have paid no regard to the change effected in the relative position of this so-much noted day by the reformation of the calendar, because common observation is now directed to the day as we find it in the almanack ; nor would this piece of accuracy, without greater certainty as to a definite commencement of this showery pe riod in former times, have helped us to more con clusive reasoning on the subject. " Solstitial and Equinoctial Rains.—Our year then, in respect of quantities of rain, exhibits a dry and a wet moiety. The latter again divides itself into two periods, distinctly marked. The first period is that which connects itself with the popular opinion we have been discussing. It may be said on the whole, to set in with the decline of the diurnal mean temperature, the maximum of which, we may recollect, has been shown to fol low the summer solstice at such an interval as to fall between the 12th and 25th of the month call ed July. Now the 15th of that month, or St. Swithin's Day, in the old style, corresponds with the 26th in the new; so thit common observation has long since settled the limits of the effect with out being sensible of its real cause. The opera tion of this cause being continued usually through great part of the eighth month, the rain of this month exceeds the mean by about as much as that of the ninth falls below it." THE MILTONIAN MANUSCRIPTS.—The recent discovery of the Miltonian MS., in the State Paper Office, at. tracted the notice of his MAJESTY, under whose auspices the work, so long lost to the world, is about to be published. We understand, in consequence of this and other interesting dis coveries, made within the last few years in the same quarter, 'his Majesty has been pleased to appoint a Commission to examine the documents in that valuable clFpgsitory of the re. cords of former times, with a view to priding the most im portant of them. The Corninissioners named are, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Secretary Peel ; Mr. C. W. Wynn,. Mr. Croker, and Mr: Hobhouse, Mr. Lemon, the Deputy Keeper of the State Paper Office (by whom the MS. above mentioned was found), has been appointed Secretary to the Commission. POLITICAL ECONOMY.-Shortly after the com mencement of the last war a tax was laid on candles, which, as a Ricardo lecturer would prove, made them dearer. A Scotch wife, in Greenock, remarked to her chandler, Paddy Macbeth, that the price was raised, and asked why. " It's a' owin' to the war," said Paddy. " The war ! " said the astonished matron, grficious me ! are they gaup to 'fight by candle light ? " A young student, between fifteen and sixteen years of age, threw himself four days baCk out of a window of the Santa Agnese Se:ninary, and was killed-upon the spot. It has been remarked that suicides have multiplied in Rome in an ex traordinary manner. These unhappy persons are not deprived of the privllege of being buried in consecrated ground. By Fl bull - of Pope Be nedict XI V. they are considered as having lost the use of their reaEutl,—( Universal Gdzette of -Rome, June 20.) ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS, JULY 15• EXTRAORDINARY FR A UD.-TIIE KING V. CIIAIIO° - - 8.1 YLISS. This was an indictment at common law against the defendar A for an ex t o r ti on i n o b taining from James ille:)bs, in the par of Great It, .iurstead, the sum of 121., under a threat of ii.°sl; outing him for a tt empt i ng to violate the chastity of defendant, wife. Sir. JESSOPP and Mr. Kraor conducted the prosecution , f The prosec u t or , an infirm old man, u p war d s o f 75 years ° t age, deposed that he was possessed of considerable property Billericay, and lived on an independence. The defendants t< s bricklaye r ' s l a b ourer, was his weekly tenant of a cottage in t; same town. O n t h e 14 t h of October last, - he called upon t he defendant t o rece i ve some rent which was in arrear : the ie" fendancput him offuntil the lath, and told him if he called e n that d a y h e s h ou ld h ave the money. Accordingly, he call!' on the lath, but found the defendant from home. The ,a . , e ; fendant's wife, however, invited hi m t o s i t d own i n the keel"",,4° room, in whi c h was a b e d , and told him he should have 1" money presently. The .wife quitted the room, and soon'af te l; .- wards returned, leaving the door partly open. To u 0 astonishment s h e t h en t h rew herself on the bed, i n most indecent manner, and proposed that he should something not t o b e ment i oned. Shocked at her conda.t, he was about to quit the apartment, when she jumped.l seized him by t h e arms, and dragged him on the bed, 813 placed him i n a pos t ure with regard to her person, which, to 0 , suspicious mi n d, wou l d he thought unequivOcal. In this Preto dicament, the defendant, who was supposed to be lurking the adjoining apartment, watching proceedings, thrust head in at th e d oor , A nd o b serving the scene, muttered a co,.rs, , and withdrew. Wi tness hav i ng disengaged himself from Pte e . position, quitted th e h ouse as soon as he could, overcol % with the vi o l ence o f t h e wife, and astounded a t he r c ondue Next morni ng h e saw t h e defendant, who, adverting to the gry pleasant affair he had witnessed, told him th a t if he did not F. him 20/., lie would prosecute him for the att ac k on his wi'e, chastity. Wi tness dreading such an exposure, though celpo !. scion of his innoc ence , to ld the defendant he would meet " in the afterno on , i n a ne i gh b ouring lane, and speak witlihtlo on the subject. Accordingly he met him, and the defendtr e , renewed his d eman d an d t h reat. Under the influence of, t threat, lie paid the defendant 121., and the latter gave lit,. t°, receipt for the m oney i n t h e evening. In a day o r two „ wards he got the receipt back again, under pretence of ado t "ti " junior" to his name, his father's name bein/ - e also " Charie s t.: As soon as h e got possess i on of it, however, lie tore it in piec es. The defend ant a f terwards obtained several sums of rnoti e, t e ' from witn ess , un d er s i m i lar threats, amounting in all to 40‘., He also. obtained.from hi m an acqu i ttance for rent, and a P O,, c i e , miss to occupy hi s cottage f or the future rent free. The fondant h av i ng subsequently demanded a sum of 501., he thought it right to consult his attorney, who advised this P o ' ceeding. On hi s cross - exam i nat i on, by Mr. Dowling, wit ° • said he was an elder of a Dissenting congregation in Billerl1 0 .; Had sometimes called at defendant's cottage when he was J ir o home, but denied any familiarities with his wife. i• e vi ti consulted any , of his family, although he had two gr ° , s t sons, with one of whom he lived. Declared positively t l ' o f he gave the defendant the money from an apprehension to being prosecuted. Nothing was extracted front the witness shake his credit. s t The constable w h o too k t h e d e f endant to prison, prove- di ,c 1 on the ro a d f rom t h e committing Justice's Office, he chat , c j the defendant with having obtained 101. from a sus eon. Billericay, un d er a similar thettat, which h e did not denle.o, The wife also, in the defendant's hearing, reproached him*lr having re ce i ve d several sums of money from the prose,"to ? - iithotit giving her any part of the amount. Strong observations were addressed to the Jury on belialf' ° o ; : : the defendant : first, as to the insufficiency of the evidencl i a; sustain the ch arge; an d , second, as to the utter improbabl,,; • of the story, u ncon fi rme d as it was by disinterested testirricia,, b e Mr, BaastsToN, the Ch a i rman , summed up the case the Jury, wh o , a f ter some deliberation,' found the &Oild-'01: Guilty. The Co u sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonme nt. The defend a n ts w if e was then indicted tbr assaulting the r e e t secutor in the m a n ner a b ove d escribed ; but the Jury fount 9" Not Guilty,- Mr. MutEnousE was for the - defendant in this case. •i • The wife of a private belonging.to the 1 1 °Y s i Fuzileers, wh o recent l y embarked for M a i° te r called on an . Overseer in the vicinity of Clies' (on . her re t urtrto Ireland' her native country) fa the usual rejjyf alloWeti 44... the . law, when s. he gave expressionto - her - ' ief in the followi ng . terms :—" 0 I date :tilt' it ever think .1 will voil e • • • f. . .I;gr to this, and,- the.gil,•that does marry a solo , - ought to,-be hattg - ed.Lthe-night before ! " Ott111)T1ilve ba iss g' ued to th e p o li ce over the VVllol67:r ii 2o ° M . . to pr.eyent;a.ll party pr ocess i ons . The OP r: o, of the Attornj:yand S,olicitpr-General has been had by the igo. • vernment 'tinfttlich processio ns are ill ega l. O rders haver.:' been reCeiveilllyilhp;cernmanding officers of yeomanr, to p es vent any dike mdividuals• of their corps joining in siß' cessions.—(Thiblio . 4vening Post.) 1 01i' Suaday -11;g6t,,. a man of the name of dill' mow y, a pensioner, residing at Dalkeith, while in a 6,t;pe furiatedintoxic.iTon;.:struck father on the head wiLO A l o to: . of tongs so violently, that the old man died almost innoeu e re . r thereafter. We have'been informed that this unfortuna t botl 9e counter took place from the son coming into his father's fat her.: in a state of i ne b r i ety , an d maltreating his sister. The biro lifted the tongs to intimidate the unruly son, and to forice, the to desist front ill-using the sister ; th e son, however, pull thy, tongs from his fathe r , an d struc k hi m a bloW on ' the head 480 felled him to the earth, from which the poo; man never he for 4 rose. The unhappy cu lp r i t was on Monday examiri4 the Sheriff, and is now in the Lock-up-house.—(Ed' g • Observer.) COAL MARKET, JULY 15. Ships at Market. Shi ps so l d Frit: 6 ; 39 ' 9 , i 4 N Newcastle - - 4 -32 s 0,1 to Sunderland - - 8 - . ~.. COURSE OF EXCHANCiE, July .15.. - -c, 12 ' i E. 12 1 9 1., 3 •• - -12 3 of VP ' 36 10 . ;OiS• ' 1 ... 3tl 11 , . b • CP ' . ''. • 2•. '2O i Co. ~, , ... 25 .45 „i a ~ 25 45: v Berlin Flank foam' the Main ' •• 'lrv:, 1 4 ;.• '. ... 4 Peteisbitrgii Vienna 9 56: Trieste ' 956 CIO Sri . ` y Etr e ' • -e - Madrid , - Stl 4 ..,., •tts Cadiz Bilboa , Barcelona Seville ... Gibraltar . ... Leghorn ' Ge/lII.a . 45 1 -Xrdniee, flat. Lir. 27 Malta Palermo Lisbon O • Porto , Rio Janeiro ' Bahia . 52 Diablin ..... 91 Cork 9 pei Cent. Ato<teidafil Ditto, at Sight itottet dant Antwerp Aliotia Vat'is, 3 Day's sight .. Ditto Soilideaux, ditto ... 3til , 0 11' L,O 0 3 Ii 101' • ~ s 1 5 3 0 4 l'# 0 ° New Dollars. Silver Standard in Barg. BULLION. Portugal Gold, i n Coin. Foreign Gold, in Bars., New Doubloons BIRTHS. f ct i orlef On the l4th inst., the L a dy o f J o h n B arnes , E s q.° Wood noUse Harts, of a son. vat On Thursday, the 14th inst., at Dur a nts, Enfield, the of W. Connop, Esq. of a daughter. __/' MARRIED. Ni" 11 On the . 12th 'inst. in Dublin-Stre e t, Edinburg- , t i ter - 0 Little, Esq. of Chapelhill, to Mary Ann, second bug the late John Small of Overmains ,Esq. DID. org iu On Thursday l as t, a t his residence in .Lamb's-C q ii ge a street, George C a l ve i t , Esq , Member of the Royal v ° c good' Lately, aged 30. co° cl• Lately, at th e a d vance d age o f 9 8 years , Mrs . Nary ' er, wards, of Garsington, Oxfordshire. r O On the 2d inst., Mr. John M'Lean, fishing._ _d-W3', North-Bridge, Edi n b urg h . At sea, off Berwick, on the 3d instant, Mrs. M• /). Giles.' wife of Mr. James Giles, lately of Greenwich, Kent. °IP Pritited and Paiiiisbed tor the PROPRIETORS, at the Comet, No. Jl2,.Sirnd, by J. B. 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