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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extraelt from the Morning Papers, Sept.2l, 826 tMORNING CHRONICLE.] By our former observations on the ruinous war waging by our Government in India, we must, in a great measure, have prepared our readers for the accounts lately received, and we fear yet more disastrous intelligence is to be expected. It is an old adage, but not a true one in the present in stance, that "no news is good news." Had any thing favourable to our cause lately occurred, the head of our Government in India would have taken care to transmit it to England by several routes ; overland we could have had it in little more than two months ; but we think we may predict, that with all the obstacles to the opera. Lions of au army in such a country as Burma, no thing but disaster can arise from the attempt to advance into this hitherto unexplored region ; this \ye may be almost sure of, that a great part of the country through which it was intended to advance, would be completely inundated during the month of April, and that the periodical rains would set in in May. The last account left one division of our invading army sticking in the mud, and in a state of starvation. Sir A. Campbell's small division had in nine days ad vanced fifty miles! It had, at the most moderate calculation, four hundred and fifty more to march to the capital, with several strong positions to pass. I3rigadier-General Cotton had not kept pace with him, although he had the assistance of the tides ; how is he to get on higher up the river without a tide, and against so rapid a stream ? Will he attempt to tow his flotilla in a hostile country, and in such a country, with the whole population in arms ? We are also told by the Calcutta Gazette, that the enemy were col lecting between Sir A. Campbell and Rangoon, where his chief, indeed his only depot of ammu nition and provision, is placed ! It is much to be wished that the terror of our former exploits, when our gailantarmy was not required to perform physical impossibilities, with the hostile demon strations of his tributary neighbours, may frighten the "golden-footed Monarch" into suing for peace, otherwise we may expect a similar finale to that experienced by Buonaparte in Russia, and that our gallant army will be sacrificed to satisfy the senseless ambition of a twaddling individual, sent to India to accumulate a fortune at the expellee of the best interests of his country. As Parlia ment is not now sitting, we hope some indepen dent individual will, at the next Meeting of Pro prietors of East India Stock, seek for information as to the probability of peace being concluded with Burma, and also as to the massacre at Bar rackpoor. The proceedings of the Court of In quiry on this subject, we suppose, are now in possession of the Directors. The death of Mr. Adam. on his passage from India, is to be deplored, for many reasons. He was a valuable public ser vant, brought up in the political school of a great East India Statesman, and well qualified to give an opinion on every subject connected with our East India Empire. He was a Member of Coun cil in Bengal when this disastrous war was de termined on, but as he was absent from the seat of Government at the time, lie was not consulted on the subject. We trust, however, that he }:as left some document behind him explain ing the view he took of an enterprise, which, looking to other results, has already cost the East India Company several millions. MORNING HERALD.] A strong sensation appears to have vebeen excited by the new Act of Parliament, creating the rob bery of gardens a felony, which had been here tofore only a misdemeanor, punishable in a sum mary way before a Magistrate. This Act, if we remember rightly, arose out of a sort of compro tnise in the last Session relative to the proposed law for putting an end to the setting of spring guns in gardens and other inclosed places. A good deal may fairly be urged on both sides of the question. On the one hand, there is, in the abstract, no valid reason that we are aware of Why property in gardens should not have the same protection as that of any other descrip lion. The peas and cabbages, the melons, grapes, and cucumbers of the market gardener, as well as of the private individual, are just as valuable to him in proportion as the sheep and oxen of the far mer, or the cloth and linen of the manufacturer. But then it is said that robbing orchards has always been considered a, childish offence, and ougltLnet to be treated with too great severity. We think that no. offence should be treated with too much severity ; and would rather see our criminal code curtailed than extended ; but still we wish to see the laws equal, and are sur prised to see it held out as a reason why this kied of robbery should be called by some other name, and treated with more lenity, because young noblemen and gentlemen are apt to .commit it. Is it because seduction and adultery are committed by noblemen and gentle men, that those are offences unknown to our cri minal law ? Or is it because hares and partridges belong to those classes of the community, that our gaols are to be crowded with poachers while the rifler of the poor man's apple trees is to en joy comparative impunity ? Or is it reasonable, we would ask, that while the law subjects a poor hungry wretch who filches a loaf from a baker's basket to be dealt with as a felon, that he who steals cauliflowers and nectarines from no such motive should be treated as something else ? But though the law itself cannot well discriminate, we dare say that individuals and our Courts of Justice will, and we trust there is not much dan ger of this Act being wrested to purposes which it was never destined to reach. Looking, how ever, at the quarter from which the opposition which has given rise to these remarks proceeds., we cannot help adverting to the manifest incon sisteney which it conveys. Here we have the same persons strenuous advocates for the sum mary powers of Magistrates, and against extend ing,.those of Juries, who have for a leilgth of time been constantly arraigning the one and advocating the other. We confess that we are among the number 'of those who look with no small degree of jealousy and alarm at the manner in which the one has been of late years subverting the other. And when we consider of what materials some part of the Magistracy is composed, and how completely they are, in every part of the country, judges in their own cause, we are anxious to see their powers contracted, and the wholesome pro vince of Juries restored, wherever it can be done. We are astonished too to see the observa tions to which we are alluding accompanied by a severe and uncalled-for attack upon the Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions, who tried the first case under this new Act of Parliament. We cannot help thinking (in which all who know the per son in question will join) that a long life of pro fessional eminence and of unaffected kind-hearted ness ought to have restraihed any thing like aspe rity towards him upon the occasion. But passing by its had taste, the injustice of such an attack is equally apparent. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that the law may be wrong or too severe, what has the Judge to do with that ? He does not make the law. And it is somewhat in consistent to see an Advocate applauded to the skies for decrying the case which he is retained to defend, while the Judge is blamed for execut ing that very law over which he neither has nor ought to have any controul. [NEW TIMES.] Without at all entering into the general merits of the question of the Greek submission, we may safely say that the protest is rather impertinent. The French Philhellenes have, by their own ac count subscribed to the Greek cause about four thousand pounds, and sent to Greece exactly sixty-eight officers (inclusive, we believe, of the General) ; and the American aid has been equally magnificent. Now, we confess no one can have a less respectful opinion of the Greek Au thorities than we have ; but we must, neverthe less, think that the interference of a couple of people like Messrs. Roche and Washington into the affairs of the nation, or fragment of a nation, which they, uninvited, came to assist with means so excessively paltry, is insolent and ridi culous to the last degree. They must have a poor opinion of the country for which they engage if they think thata few thousand pounds, and a few dozen men, give a claim to tho-e who contribute them, to the regulation of its Government. In justice, however, we must admit that our own Philhellenes behaved just as absurdly when in Greece. We have said already that we think the acquisition of Greece, enviable as it appears to be to our neighbours, a matter little to be de sired by us ; and we are pretty sure the answer of our Government to this Greek Act will not disprove our assertions. For the sake of huma nity we should wish a satisfactory conclusion to the internal contest which now desolates Greece with all the horrors that attend the civil wars of barbarous people ; but further than that we can have no very direct interest in the result of the war. Our maratime superiority is secure in the Levant, without any further acquisition. [MORNING POST.] We received last night by Express French Papers to the 19th inst., and the Etoile of Mon day. All doubt respecting the appeal made by Greece to this country is now at an end. On the sth of August " an Hydriot Brig sailed for London, having on board the son of Admiral Miaulis and Botassi di Spezzia, Envoys, charged to present to the British Government the Act by which the Greeks voluntarily placed themselves under the protection of Great Britain." Al though neither the Brig nor the Envoys are yet arrived, an official copy of this important Act has reached us through the medium of the French Journals. In whatever manner the step may be received by his Majesty's Miniiters, it is one highly honourable to our country, for it is an homage to the strict honour and integrity with which she, alone amongst all nations, has con ducted herself and maintained her professed neutrality since the commencement of the Greek contest. This Act is that of the Clergy, the Re presentatives of the People, and the Civil, Mili tary, and Naval Chiefs of Greece. After con trasting our just and liberal policy with the con stant violations of neutrality committed by other Powers, the infamous intrigues carried on by their agents to sow dissentions amongst the Greeks, and the appearance of their Officers at the head of the Ottoman armies, it declares that " Greece voluntarily entrusts. the sacred deposit of her liberty, her national independence and her poli tical existence, to the absolute defence of Great Britain." This Act, which we subjoin, is follow ed by an intemperate Protest against it from the pen of General Roche and Mr. Washington, who, though mere agents of Parisian and Ame rican Philhellenic Committees, take upon them selves to act as if they were authorised Envoys from their respective Governments. We have no room this day for their Protest, which is justly condemned by several of the French Papers as an intrusion which nothing could justify, but their being invested with a diplomatic character. With respect to the conduct expected from our country on this important occasion, it is thus described by anticipation :—" England will tell other Go vernments, join with me, if you think it proper, to support the claims of justice and humanity, and enable the Greek natio❑ to establish tran quilly the institutions which befit her. If you will not do so, I shall do it myself, and I shall have nothing to fear, as every generous soul in Europe will approve of my conduct." [Tut: TIMES.] The West India. Papers received since our last notice the departure of the Lord Bishop of Bar hadoes and the Leeward Island for this country, but assign no reason whatever for his absence, nor intimate how long it may continue. His Lordship arrived in England on Sunday last. From the terms of an address which was presented to him by certain gentlemen of the island, and which we published in our Paper of the 13th inst. we are half inclined to suspect that the Bishop has not met with the full measure of support, or of will. ing acquiescence in his plans for the propagation of religious knowledge among the slaves, which he or the Government had anticipated. When the gentlemen of Barbadoes assure his Lordship of their readiness to promote religious instruction, they qualify the promise by continuing it to the furtherance of all " prudent" measures for that purpose. There appears no reference, it is true, to any actual disagreement between the parties, but then much seems implied by the want of any expressions indicative of concurrence or co-ope ration in the measures proposed and acted upon by the Bishop. His Lordship, in explaining his designs for the future, speaks only of such " plan " tations as may be thrown open to him ;" whence we may pretty confidently assume that all the plan tations in Barbadoes and the contiguous islands had not been so thrown open. We are afraid, indeed, that notwithstanding the temper and discretion with which the King's Ministers have conducted themselves throughout the whole of this dispute with the planters, an equal portion of the same good qualities is not always to be looked for from the latter. It seems as if any change attempted upon the old system of slave management, however gently administered, or wisely calculated, .nust work its way through a host of prepossessions, and perhaps through a long series of years ; but, upon the whole, we persuade ourselves, that as this germ of a church establishment was almost the only expedient left to Ministers, it will at last prove to be no less effectual than it was beneficently and philanthro pically intended. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received The Austrian Observer to the 9th instant. Besides other intelligence, partly favourable, and partly unfavourable, to the Greeks, it contains an extract from the Oriental Spectator of the 17th of August, confirming the report of the Greek Government having resolved to seek the protection of England. We were anxious to see what the organ of the Austrian Government would say on this most interesting subject; but it has disappointed our curiosity ; and without expressing either approval or disapproba tion,it merely states that ithas received several let ters from the seat of the Greek Government, an nouncing the same intelligence. It pledges itself, however, to discuss the matter formally upon a fu ture occasion; and,in the mean time,we cannot help imagining that the intelligence is not disagreeable to the Patrons of that Journal. It is not the independence of Greece which constitutes the bugbear that has so long startled the Austrian Court, but the democratic character of her institu tions; and, if it could but once see this obirction removed ) and a less obnoxious form of Govern ment substituted, it is our belief that it would not excessively repine at the success of her struggle. Should England accede to the wishes of the Greeks, they would, in all probability, receive a political organization, somewhat similar to that of the inhabitants of the lonian Islands, which, besides relieving the wise men of Vienna from their apprehensions, would be better adapted to the wants of the Greeks, and more rapidly deve lope the resources of their country, than their present disjointed form of Government. The least consideration with the Austrian Government, in its view of the subject, would be the accession of power, which might thus devolve upon Eng land ; for of all the Continental Powers, there is perhaps not one that views our national great ness with less envy or alarm. In this there is no generosity—no chivalrous feeling but a sound view of her own interests; for Austria knows, that she can count upon the friendship of this country in any of those great emergencies, in which her interests should be identified with the general security of Europe. As to the French Government, it might dislike the transaction, but it could not directly oppose it- with any good grace, seeing the part it sets in the affairs of Spain; and, be sides, involved as it is in the maze of Spanish politics, it would scarcely venture to entangle itself in another dilemma. Russia alone might treat the question in a serious point of view ; but if her displeasure were the only objection, we do not think that it ought to deter our Government from acceding to the wishes of the G reek nation. [BRITISH PRESS. In the French Papers which arrived last night we have a copy of the official act by which the Greek Government solicited the aid and assistance of Great Britain. The enemies of Greek independence have called it an act of submission, but no misrepresentation can be grosser. The Greeks do not offer to become our subjects. On the contrary, they ask us to de fend their " liberty, their national independence, and their political existence." We have also the protest of the French Gen. Roche and the Awe rican Envoy, Mr. Washington. These gentlemen seem a little to have forgotten the character they were sent to maintain. It was their duty to have rendered all the services in their power to the Greek for the establishment of their indepen dence ; but, with regard to the internal adminis tration of the country, or its foreign relations, they had clearly no right to interfere. They were not official representatives of their nations. They were simply agents of the friends of Greece, specially dispatched to watch over, the application of the means entrusted to them for the benefit of the patriots. The terms in which these gentle. men thought fit to arraign the act of the Greek Government are harsh and offensive. In con clusion, they hold out a threat, that if Greece persists in looking to England for aid, they will 'withdraw theirs. We do not deny that General 'Roche has been useful to the Greeks, but if he and all his countrymen wilyeave the Belligerents to fight out their own battles, the Patriots will sustain no diminution of their physical strength. It is notorious that for every French volunteer ranged like General Roche, on the side of the Greeks, there are ten officers bearing commissions in his Most Christian Ma jesty's army, arrayed under the banners of the Mahometans. There is no intelligence from Spain. Some of the martello towers on the Sussex coast, built in the year 1805, just t wen ty y ear s ago, by direction of the Duke of RICHMOND, are now occupied in the Preventive Service. There were ninety-one in number at their first erection for the protection of the coast ; they were all of brick, 12 f ee t d eep i n t h e i r f oun d at i on , and cir cular in form, to be served by great guns. The Duke's estimate for the whole a mounted to 900,0001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MR. MARTIN AND MORNING CHRONICLE. BOW-STREET.--Yesterday, when Sir RICHARD BIRNIE had disposed of the night charges, and there was little or no thing to occupy his attention, Mr. R. Martin, M.P., entered the office, and having exchanged a few whispering words with the Chief Magistrate, the Hon. Legislator took a station in the centre of the Bench, and delivered himself to the following effect :—" Sir Richard Birnie, I have called here this morning for the purpose of informing you of my intention to appear be fore your honourable self and your colleagues to-morrow, at tended by my solicitor, in order that I may have the advice of the first bench of Police Magistrates in Europe, as to the best mode of making the proprietor and editor of the Morning Chro nicle newspaper, Mr. Clement and Mr. Black, amenable to the law for publishing a series of libels, reflecting in a high degree upon my character as a man, a gentleman, and a legislator.— It is by this time pretty well known, Sir Richard, all over the kingdom, that lam the author—the father I may say—of an Act of Parliament, for the prevention of cruelty to animals ; and I think it not a little hard, your Worship, that because I have chosen to interpose my humble exertions for the protec tion of the inferior animals against the brutality of the supe rior kind, called (sometimes nicknamed) men, I should be held up to public ridicule and contempt, an d libelled in all sorts of ways in the columns of the Morning Chronicle. Such however is the fact, as I shall shew you by and by. I shall shew you that Mr. Clement, and his man, Mr. Black, have pursued a systematic course of libellous abuse and invective against me. It is well known that I have very often had occasion to appear as the prosecutor of offences under the Act which I was the means of bringing into Parlia ment, and I appeal to every Magistrate in London before whom I have appeared, whether I have not always conduct ed myself with fairness and moderation ; and yet I am al. ways abused and libelled in the Morning Chronicle. It is no matter whether I charge a man with battering the ribs of a half-starved cow—with half fracturing the skull of an over driven sheep—with endeavouring, by the use of the whip, to make serviceable, as an animal of draught, a poor devil of a horse that is fit only for the knackers, or with beating out the eye of an unhappy ass--it is all the same, the Chronicle is sure to be at me. Now, mark what this paper said the other day, when I prosecuted a ruffian for beating out the eye of an ass ; it commenced its account of that transaction with " Mr. Martin and another unfortune ass"—meaning, of course, to couple me with the long-eared quadruped. Whether I de serve to be placed on a level in character and intellect with that very useful but much-abused and unfortunate animal, the public, in the course of the long life which Providence has enabled me to enjoy, have had an opportunity of judging ; if they think I do bear any affinity to the ass, why I must e'en be content to sit down quietly under th e burden ; but if they do not think so, I shall be perfectly satisfied with their opi nion in opposition to that of the Morning Chronicle. Any abuse which that journal may choose to heap upon me I am aware can do me no harm : it falls, I may truly say, like the dew-drop upon the lion's mane—'tis shook into air ; but still Mr. Clement, who I believe is a great capitalist, had better cease his invectives against me, or he will be injuring his pro perty very materially; for I appeal to the public—that public to which the Morning Chronicle is indebted for its very exist ence—whether the Journal, in its abuse of me, is not running counter to the good sense of all the nation. I verily believe that all the good part of the community think my efforts laud able, and if the Morning Chronicle continues its virulence against me—if, I say, it persists in opposing, by every species of calumny, that which by the community is deemed laudable and praiseworthy, he will in no very long time find that the 40,0001. which' he says (how truly God only knows) he gave for the Chronicle; has been thrown away, and that 40 pence is 3s. 4d. more than it. will be worth. No, Sir, to show the animus, I will mention to you another article which has appeared in the Morning Chronicle ; but at the same time I beg to acquit Mr. Clement or his Editor of being the author of it, because it is avowedly copied from a very scurrilous publication called Blackwood's Magazine. Now, this ar ticle is not confined to mere abuse, it does not merely hold me up to public ridicule, but, your Worship,—and, per haps, you will scarcely believe such a thing—it contains an attempt to excite and stir up a certain description of persons to commit the crime of assassination. And this, please your Worship, is not an indirect attempt ; the exhortation is not put hyperbolically; the article does not say, as a man might in mere figure—" Hoot him out of society," or 44 tear him in piedeS," or " exterminate him," or " annihilate him ;" but it goes at once plainly and undisguisedly to say, 44 Why don't you kill him ? ' " Why don't you kill him ? ' repeated Mr. Martin, in a subdued tone, three times over. I s h ou ld t e ll your Worship, however, that the Chronicle (and I cannot help admiring its moderation) does not actually insert this atrocious, this murderous toaragraph, but stops short at it, and says, 44 the rest is too terrific for us to trust in our columns." But then your Worship will see that it immediately tells its readers where the remainder is to be found by referring to the pages of Blackwood's Magazine. This, Sir, is the libel of which I have more particularly to complain. After talking of my punishing a man for beating the sides of a fat ox, the article says, 44 why don't you kill him at once ? " Sir R. BIRNIE.—Pray, Mr. Martin, may not that mean the ox, and not you ? Mr. Martin.—Oh no, my dear Sir, it means me—clearly me. In conclusion Iwoubl observe, that men in my rank in life have another mode than that I have adopted of seeking; re dress—namely, by an application to the Court of King's Bench for a criminal information ; but I claim no other privilege than that of a man, and I shall seek no other remedy than that which would be open to the compositor who set the vile libel of which I complain into type. Sir R. BIRNIE.—I apprehend, Mr. Martin, that you have mistaken the regular way of proceeding. Your proper course would be to go at once before the Grand Jury, and prefer an in dictment. „Mr. Alartin.—l am informed it is too late for this sessions.— Ibive taken counsel's opinion, and am prepared to make de position of all that I have stated ; and to-morrow I shall take the liberty of attending here with my legal adviser for that purpose. Sir R. Br dare say you are well advised, Sir, and I shall of course listen to you with attention. Mr. Martin.—One word of advice to Mr. Clement, in con clusion. If he likes his property better than Mr. Black and Mr. Blackwood—and I am informed he likes his money pretty well—let him cease to cherish those gentlemen, or he will be deserted by all the three before long. KIDNAPPING A LITTLE BOY. UxroN-HALL.—Yesterday, a woman, named Sarah Nero cart, was brought up in the custody of Kirby, a constable, be. fore the presiding Magistrate, R. J. CHAMBERS, Esq., charg ed with having kidnapped a little boy, apparently between nine and ten years of age, named Isaac Welland, for the purpose of exhibiting him at fairs and other places of public resort, as a tumbler. Frem the statement of Kirby, it appeared that the boy had been apprenticed, some time ago, to a Mr. Price, a scalebeam-maker, residing in the Borough of Southwark.-- He, however, had not been long hound to the trade before he absconded, when, after considerable pains, he was restored to his master by an individual who happened to have been sitting in the tap-room of a public-house at Romford, into which the boy entered for the purpose of tumbling, and exhibiti ng ot h er tricks of. agility. H a ving performed some very dexterous feats, the little fellow went round with a hat and collected a nice little sum from the company, who considered him a pro digy in his art. After the collection, the individual alluded to observed the juvenile tumbler retire to a corner of the room overwhelmed in tears. Inquiry was made as to the cause, when, he confessed that he had been enticed away from his apprenticeship in London, by a woman named Newcart, who having met him in Whitechapel, asked him if he liked fairs ; and on being answered in the affirmative, said, that if he ac companied her lie should wear a spangled jacket, be taught to dance on the rope, and • that he should have plenty of money in his pockets. These inducements were too great for the little fellow to resist ; the idea of wearing a jacket decorated with spangles, and travelling about to fairs, at once influenced him to listen to the promises of the woman, who at length prevailed upon him to leave his master. Having gained her point, s h e conducted him to a miserable abod e in Duck-lane, where he was concealed for some days, at the expiration of which she disguised him in the best manner she could, by changing hia decent clothing for tattered garments, using walnut liquor for the purpose of producing a change in his complexion, and de ceiving those by whom he might happen to have been known. After he had undergone the necessary alterations in his dress, and in the colour of his face, she then f ear l ess ly l e d hi m a b ou t t o wn, and at home instructed him in feats of activity, in which she was already an adept herself, having practised it from her childhood, until he became a proficient in the art. He was then taken into the country, and exhibited at various fairs in the character of the "extraordinary juvenile tumbler from Lon don." Having travelled about in this manner from town to town, his mistress being joined by other strollers of the same description, at length they arrived in Romford, at which place he had his orders to visit the different 'public-houses in the town, tumble before the company, and to be sure of bringing home the proceeds. He performed in this manner until the occurrence took place at the town above-mentioned, when he was conducted back to Southwark, and given up to his master. The woman with whom lie had been hearing of the circum stances, suddenly left the town, fearing that she might get into trouble, and no tidings were heard of her until within a few days, when, believing that all was blown over, she ven tured into Southwark once more, in order to try to get back her young tumbler ; and for this purpose she lingered about his master's house until nightfall; when an opportunity offer der o ing, she a se con d t i me preva il e d upon him to qu i t the ab th: O ti s ; his master. Th e same n i g h t h e was missed, Kirby', stable, was informed of it, who, by dint of perseveri ne f t 'the length discovered the woman Noveart's Bef ore the boy Welland s both of whom he took into custay. ith Magistrate, Newcart declared that the boy consented t 0 g o „Da her a-tumbling spontaneously. This, however, the Wag tradicted, when Mr. CHAMBERS being informed that s he ,, er to a most abandoned and profligate charicter sentenced " three months' confinement in Brixton, as a rogue and 11- bond. BR r U F ' i I e ' A E TL. I gSAULT. Ay r bro i o werA MARY LEBONE sterday re" • the r ' young man of decent o appear a n ce , Ed wai d , Flowers, ins (red w ith and William Gottrell were brought to this Office, ch ar i ii vit n, having committed a brutal assault upon Mary Su' d young woman, who, in consequence o f t h e ill usa ge she " perienced, was unable to attend. we st Mary Sullivan, sister-in-law to the injured woman, that she and her sister, accompanied by their hush sll "„ B ' e Os returning home about one o'clock in the morning, mi,Til e re'g a ford-street, when have risoners accosted them, saYmg' .o c d h e o s ic is e t , , w as e c th a e n irhasb o aa n c e is a-piece." IVitness cautawandediftkthheen; were on before them, insulted them they would repent it. They, however, t e°-- i n :t notice, and continued insulting them, and on their arriva___,,, the corner of Berner-street, witness again cautioned them; T o ing, " This i s my h us b an d , and don ' t i nsu l t me." It instantly ensued between the prisoner Alfred and IllorY,,' the ir van's husband, and while struggling they fell down, and Xs hats were dashed off. Mary Sullivan asked for her hushnD ,„ hat, upon which the prisoner gave her a dreadful kick on 1 1 1 ; abdomen, which injured her considerably she being at t n f time in a state of pregnancy, and within ' a short period - lying in. Frith, a watchman, stated, that about the hour of one h e soll the party in Oxford -street. He was led to the spot in cense ; quence of hearing a no i se , w h en h e f oun d t h e injured wer e !, lying in a most piti a bl e con di t i on on t h e paveme nt, being ti, , I}:able to move, an d we l ter i ng i n blood, which covered the gr° and was flowin g copiously from her. He did not see the it. given, but the prisoner Alfred, and the two others, were thetr.c_ and they we re g i ven i nto his custody, and lie took them to :71 watch-house. The wom an was conve y e d home, the blood eLI continuing to flow as she was conveyed along t h e streets. ,_,!, Mr. Fenner, a surgeon, was next called, and questioned v Mr. Gull - Fin-IS, as to the state of the unfortunate woman, sTS replied that sh e was i n a d rea df u l state, a severe heniorhagell' taken place, and inflammation was apprehended. to Mr. GRIFFITHS asked him if the poor woman was a ble attend. He repli e d, C er t a i n l y not--she was so very ill , 87'"ii,j, and c u i would tr d e dangerous tph b r e iessemntoemd ehrilst wt t h o i fee remove her. Neither she nor the was expected to live. stated that he saw the detailed. k ck e Mr. GRIFFITHS said it was a most horrid thing to -I fi nd prisoner w to o mbaen Alfredns h a u v sb e r a ky n i c d bka e di entered r ou e n, d idf the tioa: . o: ofi c ir e e ; woman in her delicate state, and ordered the prisoners to e re , good bail, and to give sufficient notice, in order that th spectability might be inquired into. nn t in EXPEDITION TO NORTH AMEIZICA. — C . r - , n FRANKLIN and his exploring party are to proceed by the , u r c , canal, Lakes Huron and Superior, to Fort-William, and then to to Winipeg, A tabasca, and the Great Bear Lakes, flo r a e which place they are to winter. In the spring the P 3r1 1 , - re to proceed down lll‘lienzie's river to Behring's Straits, w 4 a ship will be in readiness to transport them to India, wit o view of getting into the South Sea. Dr. Richards° of party will separate from C a pt a in Franklin at the mo uth tile M'Kenzie's River, a nd explo re the country as far As de a Copperminc River. Captain Beechey, after having. 1311 f a r Captain Franklin at Canton, will t a ke in provisio Parr, Behring's Straits, wher e h e ex p ec t s t o meet Captain rio:ti —The Agents of the Hudson Bay Company hav e f f the depots of provisions for the whole route. The want o canoes, which were abandoned at Cape Turnagain from we__' s; ness and fatigue, proved a terrible bar to the crossing of riv Pr o, but on this occasion a wate r -p r oof ca nvas boat has bee 3 . ,Pi n to rifled, so admirably contrived that it may be sepratetilop, pieces, one of which each of the party may stow in his sack, or carry in his pocket I—(Ra/tin/ore American.) tworiundred the last Ithe P t be reward of guineas is offered ill Gazette for the apprehension of son or persons who lately set fire to t5"O Of : ti l l :. new houses erecting near the end of Grals-'11" lane. d r last EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—OD Thurs-,;;Aney, two young men were firing a gun in a back lane at "-- t he all, s a t hot at a piece of paper fixed as a mark on garden back of a house, about 30 or 40 yards froam-the house; th ir e s ctli flew over the wall, through some trees and shru bs ' cl. r sli c striking the windoi, i v ltm o t f te a re r c o i om in which a fsmi l Y ° C i l l P e oor sib s individuals asli-s Ciiare s h ad werethbut haPi vi l l t ni. flying about the table, and all over the room, personal injury was sustained. Had this happened a ' e r ' sar Js ~ momentthseat splinters downto an dinner.d p.t icfc ' s v n - f...g is n s t s 7 flutes before, the window being then oper, and several Pe . 00 0 standing before and about it, Ind in differ ' ent parts of, :trbste where the shot must have passed, the conse uencesnugh". ght been dreadful. Due contrition being shown -q bY the t'lluire lessly offending party, and damages of windows prorDP • ft we paired, the offence was forgiven in the hope that it in 3 Y .a P o tloa gun s, also 3 caution a warning to all improper meddlers with of care to those better qualified in the use and safe thsP a ' . • of such dangerous weapons. _.--•••••°°. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Sept. 20. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight l2 0 Rotterdam l2 4 Antwerp l2 4 g i (1/ , Hamburg!' 37 0 .1, 0 t , Altona Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto Bottrdeanx, ditto 0 6 1 s i . e . i Berlin ....... Frankfort on the Main Petersburgh . o 52 _ _ . Vienna - ,- - 951 fpcti rs Trieste 3 , F, L ect! , 0 Madrid - Cadiz ' g Bilboa 57 .. Barcelona Seville ........... .............................. 31 Gibraltar Leghorn ..................... 27 ............ 491 G enoa 44i--Veoicep Dal. Lit'. Malta --Naples 4Ol of Palermo Lisbon Oporto 49 Rio Janeiro . • ...... 52 Bahia . Dub " •• • . 9/ ........ Cork ...... 9/ pet Cent . . - BULLION. gr O is Portugal Gold, i n Coin .................. L.O 0 01 1 Foreign Gold, in Bars ................ New Doubloons .................. .• .. 0 i;) 0 New Dollard ............................ 0 4 I l i t Silver Standard in I3ars, .................. o___:s___________/ 13IRTI1S. On the 20th inst., at his house in Cornwall -terrace, the of John Thornhill,Esq , of a son. 14 " ft On the 16th inst., at . Tonbridge 'Wells, the lady of Alexander, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. Aleo ° l eldest,Oh i n te t a h a e Eu gls7qht.tl,eri solicitor, o inst. fß o a b t elrltGaclreresaalbtv Crabtree, ~ H Ei e n si ge S l:l u : s fr o,t o . L oo k , r c des o o h r : :ocrilt t li o , . ; °1 ; 01 : .* Esq.,on 0111oHntdmayti,ngtdhoenl9th inst., at St. Martin 0 0 1 1 of 65 mont, only son of the late 'William At DisViia, cutta, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the ltev. J. .'• the Journals of n) aOdnretslildee(ll9atththinastt.l,3la/Iclea.ry Elizabeth. wife °- f John 6 rho' DIED 1 Mr. J°"-outll' ~, r iar, lßipros,doief, Esq., Barton, Suffolk, and daughter o . , .-0 vs . be i ir i wg , , b i c li On the 23d July, at his house at Smyrna , . 0 of W 1 1 1 3 sc i, at the advanced age of 86, sixtplive years ~1 105 , 0 . te, te to Bucking,harn-,,3 pia, On the 14th inst., in James- street, i n g an cowl.'" lite of On Sunday eldest last, at Mitcham, Ilarriett, James R. G. F • _ ricker, Esq., Leadenhalkmarket. yeas o f his age , ‘.. • thea nynyoeuasresoefmzolrodyse.d in do g ~,linn Sunday, the 18th inst., in tile 21st lPtterSe3. ire Of O P tj ,%sleY- yourwest son of Mr. Matson,2. _ aroo n,, vi Sh " e n arman, Bromley, Kent, aged 51. -----M,- SO . Monday', the 19th inst., Mrs. snu ______, I —._•_•_____ - - - at t e a ..10 , Printed and. Published for the PaoPi t i 0 , akits l— OrricE, No. 112, Strand, by a"