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LONDON JOURNALS• DAILY Extracts ft um the Morning I)(Ters,Marchlo,lB2s. ['Fur: TIMES.] We refer our readers with great pleasure to the discussion in the House of Commons on the concrolidation and revision of the statute relative to Juries. Oar Statute Book is full of bar barisms and contradictions,and our much-boasted common law is, to use no severer language than that of the present head of the law, far from being " the perfection of reason." It is a dis grace to a country like England not to have a clear intelligible digest of its laws ; and we rejoice to see that Mir. Peel is anxious to wipe away this shame. We agree with him that the alteration must be gradual, for the immensity of the heterog,en9oUs mass cannot be reduced to system by one operation. Much, however, might be done in no very long time, by a divi sion of the labour, assigning specific branches of .civil and crirrinal law to be classified by specific individuals. And as the common law is no longer what the old lawyers used to call it " the " lex non scripta," (for lawyers now refer to their reports, as if they were of equal authority with statutes), why may not statutes be framed declaratory of all the leading principles, tech nical or moral, which are assumed and quot ed as the basis of the common law ? If there are any principles which appear (as lr. Pcel seems to hint) too trifling for the solemn sanction of a statute, it will argue little wisdom and little courage to hesitate to abandon them. The intanee selected by Mr. Peel is not, perhaps, the one that we should have chosen ; but we see no reason why it should not be open to discussion and revision if necessary. From the general amelioration let us hope the Court of Chancery will not he e7 , :clnded : the principles of Equity, and the jurisdiction of the Courts of Equity, require to be .defined with folly as much precision as the principles and jurisdiction of the Courts of Law. [vrw TIMEs.I In the House of Commons, last night, on the sr'cond reading of the Peruvian Mining Company Bill, Mr. Hobliouse declared his fixed determi lion to oppose the passing of this Bill to the ut most of his power, as he was convinced no pro fitable speculation could be grounded on the Mine in the PaseoMountains. The Metropolitan ._Fish Company's Bill was read a second, time on the motion of Lord J. Fitzroy, u hen Mr. Cal craft stated his objections to these trading Coin pnnies,as interfering with the honest gains of indi dual traders, and expressed his disapprobation of , one of the acts of this Company in appointing their Manager, with a salary of (2,000/. per annum. One ,of- the most important and beneficial measures that has in our day heeu presented to Parliament, `Avas introduced last night by Air. Peel, for the consolidation of time different Statutes respecting Juries, so as to. reduce them into one clear and intelligible Statute, which every man may read and understand, instead of the multifarious and inzonsistent enactments which at present govern our practice. We refer our Readers to the de tails so ably and eloquently developed by the „Right Honourable Secretary, and feel fully persuaded that the Bill he has proposed will produce the great and salutary results he has In view ; and at the same time will, when added to 'What he has already done in the service of his country, cause his name to descend to posterity with imperishable fame, among the great benefactors of mankind. Indeed those who have been hitherto time most violent and bitter opponents of Ministers, are now forced to speak only the language of panegyric and aise, as was -exemplified last night in the eu logies pronounced by Mr. Ilobbouse and Mr. u me. [BRITISH PRESS.] The intelligence received yesterday from India `announcing the mutiny of some native troops near Calcutta, produced a deep and extensive sena tion, which was considerably increased by an imperfect and exaggerated account posted at one of the coffee-houses. According to the official statement, which will be found in another co !limn, it a ppears that in consequence of the refusal of the 47th native regiment then stationed at Barrackpore to proceed to Chittagong, the King's troops were compelled to reduce them to obe dience by military execution. Some artillery from Dumdum took up a position in the rear of the mu tineers, and after two signal guns had been tired, opened upon them with destructive effect. They Instantly fled. Many drowne3 themselvesin the ri ver; about 50 others, we learn by private letters, were killed, and nearly the same number put to death by sentence of Courts 31artial. Two other regiments of native infantry, the 26th and 62d, also under recruiting orders, were present, and behaved with the most perfect fidelity and stea diness. No great alarm seems to have been felt at Calcutta, from which city Barrackpore is only l 4 miles distant. The Government paper fell only one per cent. on the arrival of the news. The sepoys appear to have disliked the service on which they were going, but the dreadful though necessary punishments inflicted upon the muti neers will, we have no doubt, prevent the recur rence of a crime striking immediately at the foundation of our Oriental empire. That the feeling of disaffection or apprehension, or what ever it might be, was not general, we know by the part taken in the suppression of the mutiny by the other two regiments of Sepoys, who were under the same orders. Tranquillity was re- . stored and all disquietude entirely removed. — intelligence had been received at Calcutta on the Ist of November, that the Burmese forces in Ca char had evacuated the posts of Tilayn and Dood patlie, and retreated to Munnapore. • [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We know not how to express in language suffi ciently warm our gratitude to Mr. Peet, for the important measure respecting Juries, Ichich he submitted to the House last night for the first time. The measure itself indicates a confidence ire the Justice and discretion of the people which we are sure is not misplaced ; and the speech with which he introduced. it is one of the most manly and candid ever delivered within the walls of the House of Commons. We should be ashamed of ourselves, if we had any hesitation in rendering the Right Honourable Gentleman the justice to which he is entitled. The Right Honourable Gentleman justly observed, that " it was impossible to contemplate the vast mass of laws in our Statute Books, without feel ing that great ad vantage might be derived from extending the principle. The criminal code should be the first, for it was of the last hn portance that the subjects of this realm should have a facility in knowing the laws which they were bound to obey." He noticed the extent of the laws regarding forgery, which filled one en, tire volume, and suggested the expediency of a Commission with a 'view to investigation and consolidation of the lass, not merely re garding forgery, but other matters. It was impossible, he said, that the Lord Chancellor, the Attorney General, or any professional men could devote sufficient time for such a mi nute investigation. We have long been sa tisfied that to render the Parliament adequate to the wants of a great and civilized country, the great business of legislation for which it. is ob viously unfit, ought to be devolved on a Commis sion of men of high acquirements, and as disinte 'rested as possible, responsible of course to iteif. In most civilized countries, a permanent commis sion of the first men in the State exists for such a purpose. If in this country the Judges had not assumed to themselves the business of legis lation (a great evil no doubt, for it gives to law an ex post facto operation) matters would have been infinitely worse in this country than they are. But Judges and practising lawyers have al most always an interest in-rendering time law ad vantageous to themselves, and as expensive as possible to the public. A man may sometime* sacrifice his interest to higher feelings ; but the trial is too much for human nature. \Ve have not space at present for entering into the consi deration of this important subject with the details which it merits. \Ve shall return to it. FMORNING POST.] The Unlawful Societies' Bill did not receive the Royal Assent till yesterday. It is now the law of the land, and will, we trust, prove suc cessful in putting down the great national nuisance which had started up in Ireltand, to the injury even of the Catholics themselves. In the Corn- mons, Mr. Secretary Peel introduced a very use ful and important Bill, the object of which is to consolidate and amend the existing laws relative to the impaneliiiig of Juries, and to collect into one consistent statute the various regulations on that important subject, which are now scattered in no less than eighty-five Acts of Parliament, from the time of Henry 111. to the present pe riod. Of these he proposed to repeal twenty, and to consolidate sixty-five. He then described the emendations which he intended to effect. The first was in the mode of summoning Juries. The list was made out at present by the Petty Constable, who was open to seduction ; its formation should in future he entrusted solely to the Church wardens and Overseers of each parish, except in cases whore there be no Churchwardens or Overseers. The next should be a more dis tinct enumeration and specificatioe of the qua lities necessary to serve on Grand Juries. lle should always extend the number of individuals qualified to act as Special Jurors, by adding to the Esquires, below which rank no one could now serve, all persons under the desig nation of Merchants and Bankers. But the most important improvement of the whole, one indeed which excited general approbation and gratitude in the House, and which will place Mr. Peel's name high amongst those of the most sincere friends and promoters of the liberties of this country, is the following regulation for the formation of Juries. He proposed that the names of the persons duly qualified should be inserted alphabetically in a book, stating their profession, &c., and that to each name should be attached in the book the number in which it stood in the se ries. Ile next proposed that a number of cards equal to the number of names should be provid ed, having imprinted on them a figure or figures, corresponding with the numbers attached to the names. These cards he would have placed in a box, and drawn out by a proper officer, till 48 were thus impartially obtained by ballot—which 48 should afterwards be re duced in the usual mode to 24, and sub sequently to twelve. In making this arrange ment, he conceived that nothing was lost to the Crown,—for, by placing the numbers of Juries above all suspicion, a weight would be given to whatever verdict they returned, capable of deep ly impressing it on the public mind. This alter ation in the law he intended should be always imperative in criminal cases—in cases between the Crown and the subject for political offences, such as libels, &c. But he wished to make a distinction in its application between criminal and civil cases. In deciding questions of mer cantile interest, it was only perhaps persons ac quainted with commercial affairs that could pro perly understand the subjects at issue, and he therefore proposed that if both the plaintiff and defendant consented in writing to such a step, the Special Jury should be formed in the old way. Should these considerations and amendments prove beneficial, the . Right Honourable Secre tary did not mean to step there. He hoped that Parliament would follow him through the whole mass of our ponderous Statutes with the same object, and ou similar principles. The various laws on libel—on forgery, and in short the whole of the Criminal Code, were, he thought, entitled first to attention, because when people under severe penalties were re quired to obey the law, every facility ought to be afforded for enabling them to know whether they were transgressjug or not, and every means taken to remove au ort i o li es. —This statement was re ceived throughout with repeated cheers, and all parties joined in declaring with Mr. Holthoose, that it was cc the g rea t e st and most salutary re form which had been operated' for ages ; and that if the. Right Honourable Gentleman went on with the rest of the Statutes throughout, his fame would not be confined to , the perishable records of that House, but he should long live in history as one of the greatest benefactors of his country." It is really gratifying to see that whilst other Governments are engaged in either preventing the growth of civil and consti tutional liberties in the States over which they preside, or in reducing those which they had been obliged to concede, the Ministers of Eng land are doing every thing in their power to extend and consolidate the rights of the subject, and in encreasing the sum of freedom and prosperity enjoyed in this great and glorious country. [MORNING HERALD.] In the House of Lords, last night, the Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Bill " for Suppressing Unlawful Societies in Ireland." — That Bill is now law. The Commissioners were Lords Eldon, Winchester, and Bathurst ; and there were four other Lords present, Lords Cath cart, Courtown, Corbury, and Radnor. The Speaker was attended by eleven Commoners-- Mr. W. Peel (the Home Secretary's brother), Mr. D. Gilbert, Sir Edward Knatchbull, &c.— There were only six or eight strangers be low the Bar, but none of them were of any distinction. Mr. O'Connell passed down the passage of the House of Lords, from the Com mittee Room, just as the Bill was receiving the Royal Assent, but be did not go into the House. This was the first Bill that has received the Royal Assent this Session.—ln the Commons Mr. Hobhouse expressed his disapprobation of the " Peruvian Mining Company" Bill, and said the House ought not to sanction such a measure. He should oppose the second reading. The Pasco Mountains were 13,500 feet above the level of the sea ; the mining of them had been tried over and 'over again ; then, he asked, what could be expected from the scheme ? The " Metropolitan Fish Company" Bill was afterwards read a second time. Mr. Calcraft designated it as a measure to authorize certain persons to " catch" 300,0001.; and observed that the par ties had already proved what good use they would make of the Funds, by appointing an agent at 2,0001. a year. " That (said Mr. C.) is the first job." lie declared that he would make the promoters of the Bill prove in the Committee, that the truth of their Prospectus; If they failed to establish its truth, he would " blow them and their schemes out to sea." —Mr. Secretary Peel obtained leave to bring a Bill to " consolidate" the laws regarding Juries, and to regulate the a ppointment of .')pecial Juries. This is the first Government measure for the consolidation or classification of the laws ; and Mr. Peel expressed the hope that so much success might attend it that it would encourage the Parliament to acquiesce in other consolidations of the laws, for instance, respect ing larcenies, &c. In ;his Bill, he proposed some alterations of the existing laws touching Juries, particularly cc Special" Juries ;—an ex tension of the Special Jury Book or List, in the several counties, by directing the names of "Jlankers," " Merchants," &c. to be placed there, as was the plan in the city of Lon don. Ile instanced that in Warwick, on the occasion of the late trial of Major Cart wright, there were only fifty-three names, exclusive of those of the Grand Jury who had found the Bill, out of which the required forty eight names were to be selected. That showed the necessity of extending the Book. The next amendment was regarding the appointment of the Special Juries. He proposed that against all the names in the Book, there should be figures, as 1,2, 3,4, and so on, that there should be cards with corresponding numbers, but with no names on them ; that those should be put into- a box and that the 48 cards taken out of the box should constitute the first list. The list, when4B names had been so obtained, was to be reduced as heretofore, This system of ballot in civil cases, and where there might be a succession of causes, might be depart ed from on written consents being given on both sides; but in trials for political offences, Mr. Peel said his plan proposed that such regulation should never be departed from. Dr. Lushington ap plauded the proposed amendments, and expressed the hope that they might be extended to Excise cases. Mr. Ilobhouse also eulogized the intended ballot, and observed that it must delight all the friends of the liberty of the subject; and declared that the Bill would introduce one of the most salutary reforms witnessed in this country .for many ages. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] Much sensation was excited yesterday in the City, by the receipt of intelligence from India, of the mutiny of one of the native regiments. The first version of this unpleasant affair was marked, as is usual in such cases, by gross exaggerations; and under the impression of the first alarm, there was a heavy fail of India Bonds ; and Consols de clined nearly one per cent. However, as the truth began to be known,confidence gradually re turned, and, in a day or two more, there may not be a trace of the panic. In confidently calculating upon a re-action, we do not wish it should be inferred, that we look upon the news from India as unworthy of serious consideration, but such is the stability of the market, in consequence of the prosperous state of our affairs generally, that this intelligence, unpleasant as it is, will have no other effect upon it than breathing would have upon the surface of a bright mirror. In another place, we have given such particulars as have reached this country, and from them it will be seen, that the mutiny was confined to a single regiment of Seapoys, though, at the time, there were two other regiments of the same description at Barrackpore, where the mutinous troops were stationed. This circumstance has materially de tracted from the importance of the affair ; thou g h it is a questio n whether the mutinous sp irit would not have sp rea d , if i t h a d not been for the prompt and energet i c manne r, after ordinary means had fail e d, in which it was put down. The mode was, certainly, the m ost 'm it was als o th e most other courge, e ff ic acious, as we ll as the lent and su mmary t h at co uld be adop ted ; h ut safest. A n y all probab il ity, would hav e occas i one d a far greater lo ss of life, besides conf oun di ng t h e innocent w ith the guilty; whereas we have 01 11 Y to regret the Loss of two lives on the part of the troops employed to' coerce the mutineers ; and this too the effect of mere accident. Otherwise the consequences might have been such as no one could contemplate with out shuddering ; no lEss, in fact, than a communi cation of the mutinous spirit to the whole of the native troops, and the placing of our Indian empire in imminent jeopardy. When we consi der what might have happened, lye cannot say that we regret the remedy, sharp as it was; for, in this case, if the treatment do not exactly correspond with that generally used in the case of a bite of a rabid animal, there is little or no chance of sub duing it. The part, which is infected, must be cut out promptly, or the fatal virus is sure to commu nicate to the whole body. This remark more particularly applies to troops in the field, and to the Sepoys more than to any others, for reasons that are intelligible to every one. Our empire in the East is of one opinion, in a higher degree, than belonged to any other, ancient or modern ; and therefore it must be administered with a more firm hand. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY, INIARcu 9. THE MELANCHOLY AFFAIR AT ETON. At about half-past four o'clock Lord Nugent, Col. Browne, and Sir John Dashwood King, Magistrates for the county, Mr. - Rickford, M.P.,' Colonel Wood, and several Gentlemen of dis tinction, entered the dock with Master George Alexander Wood, 'son of Colonel Wood, and Master Alexander Wellesley Leith, who stood charged, on the Coroner's inquisition, with killing and slaying the Hon. F. Ashley Cooper on the 28th of February last at Eton, in a pugilistic contest. The young gentlemen having surrendered, were placed at the bar to take their trials. The Jury having been empanelled, the Clerk of the Arraigns called on the prisoners by their names. who answered by holding up their right hands. They pleaded " Not guilty." Mr. Wood is a youth of elegant appearance, apparently not more than 14. Both his eyes were very much contused, and the right sleeve of his coat was ripped, in consequence of the injury he re ceived in the fight. Mr. Leith, we should suppose, is about 19 years old. On the arraignment of the prisoners, Mr. Justice GASELEE asked who conducted the prosecution. The Clerk of the Arraigns said, no gentleman appeared on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Justice GASELEE.—Indeed! Then call Christopher Teasdale, (the name of the person who gave evidence before the Coroner at Eton). His name was called three times, but he did not appear. Mr. Justice OxsELEE asked if the Coroner was present ? Mr. Chearsley, the Coroner, came forward, and, in answer to a question from the Learned Judge, said_ he had given the wit nesses notice to attend. Mr. O'Reilly, surgeon, and Dorothy Large were then called on their recognizances ; and not answer ing, the recognizances were ordered to be estreated. Mr. Justice GASELEE said, there being no prosecution, the prisoners must be acqttitted. A verdict of Not Guilty was ac cordingly returned, and the young gentlemen and their friends quitted the bar. An application was made to the Court to read Mr. Wood's defence, but it was understood that the Learned Judge refused the request. Colonel Wood and his son immediately left for London. The following is the statement of Mr. Leith, which he in tended to offer in his defence, had the trial proceeded : " 3.11" LORD —I am anxious to state a few words, which must not be considered as an attempt to justify the part took in the late unhappy event, but arising solely from the very great de sire I feel to remove some impressions which have been cir culated to my disadvantage in the published reports of this most lamentable transaction, which 1 feel I do not merit, and which are calculated to increase very materially the distress of my present situation. 1 never can enjoy happiness again till these impressions are removed, anti 1 hope therefore that your Lordship will allow me to make a short statement of a fact which has been so cruelly misrepresented : that I did admi niver brandy to the unfortunate deceased is true, but the ex aggeration of the quantity in the public prints has been a source of much disquietude to my mind, and I feel my self called on to make the followins.; statement, in justice to my family and myself :—The quantity of brandy brought into the field did not originally exceed two small wine glasses, of which the lamented school-fellow sipped at inter vals, but in all not more than one small wine-~;lass; in proof of this, I must mention, that I wetted my handkerchief to rub thelface and hands, and none was given by me without the knowledge and approval of his other friends. I beg lead also to observe, that in former fights at Eton I have seen (and which can be proved by witnesses now present) spirits given to the parties ; this will prove that the giving it in this instance was not a novel practice. I have, my Lord, further to remark, that I was not the only second to the unfortunate and much-lamented deceased ; that, in point of fact, I only gave him a knee the two first rounds, and that, for the last ten minutes of this unhappy fight, I was employed entirely in keeping the ring. I acknow ledge I was very:much interested that my brave little companion should obtain the victory, and it is probable that this anxiety may have led to the expression used at the Coroner's Inquest—that I was the avowed second. Having expressed my anxiety that my brave liitle. companion should obtain the victory, I cannot omit this opportunity of bearing testimony to the generous conduct of the adverse party in this fight. I shall conclude my observations on this point with declaring most solemnly that 1 was never se cond to any boy at Eton, except once for a couple of rounds, and those the two last, when 1 gave in for him, seeing lie had no chance; and I appeal, with confidence, to the whole School, when I say, that under the peculiar circumstances in which I was applied to to attend as second, by and with another, whom, for obvious reasons, Ido not name, I could not refuse being so in this case ; and I beg leave to add, that during four years I have been at Eton, 1 have never fought with one of my school fellows, though on one occasion, when I thought a little boy had been ill-used by a man, I naturally took his part and fought the man. As if misrepresentation had not already been sufficiently used, n l it eo hasn thisbee stated h ead ho ),ctthot I was ugb, party to a co indeed, justiceh nd as i s c i t neebee done a between two boys of a marked disparity of age : this was not the case; and I only advert to it now, lest there should be some here who had seen the imputation, and not its reftttation. In conclusion, I have attaches only tom that ; abdymni there means does,intenda n and most assert e that eply do no blame I lament that a shadow of blame should do so. But, my Lord, let me not bear the whole blame ; and to whomsoever it may attach, let it be attributed to the real cause—inexperience." THE MURDER AT ASTON CLINTON. John Allen, aged 30 ; Thomas Reeves, aged 22; and Thos. Collier, aged 34; were put on their trials for the wilful murder of a man named William Morris, at the parish of Aston Clin ton, on the 19th ult. It appeared by the evidence that the deceased and another man had followed the prisoners for some time, who were on a drinking party, and that a scu ffle took p l ace , in which Morris received - such a deep wound on the head as caused his death. All the witnesses swore to precisely the same facts. They all heard the blows and the scuffling, but none were present, nor child they from the darkness of the night disti ngu i s h any of the party but by.their voices. The prisoners being called on for their defence, they severally addressed the Court, declaring that the deceased and William Reeve followed, and not only pulled them about, but attacked and beat them. It was a kind of running fight for some dis tance, when, as they termed it, " the unfortunate accident" took place. Several witnesses were called, who proved that the deceased and William R eeves, one of th e witnesses , had been the first aggress ors, and not only challenged the pri soner All en to fi g h t , but grossly insulted him ; some of th e w i tnesses gave them a ll a most excellent character. Mr. Justice GasE LEE summed up the evidence, and the J u ry found the prisoners Guilty of Manslaughter.—Allen transported for life, and the ()diets for 14 years each. CHELMSFORD, MAncn 8. John Taverner was indicted on the statute of 57 George 111. c. 91, s. 1., for being found armed with intent to kill game, in the night time of the Bth of December, in a wood at Kelvedon, the property of Charles Canis Weste rn , Esq., one of the County The prosecutor's gamekeeper, ano ther witness, proved that on t h e n i g h t in quest i on h e was on the ,watch for poachers in hi s master ' s woods, an d h ear ing some shots fired, he went to the s p ot an d saw the pr i sone r and two other men. The vrisoner was who was confirmed by armed with a gun, and on seeing the keeper, drops his weapon an d r , n o fr . H e was pursued and s.:cured. The Jury, upon the proof of these facts, without any evidence to the contrary, found the prisonergoi/ty. The Learned Jtrpor:, upon being informed that the prisoner had been once con, f s icted of stealing, and had on a no ther occasion suffered three mont h s ' i m prisonment as a poacher, sentancect him to seven ye ars ' transportation. FOR THE SUN. LOGAN STONE. MR. EDITOR—In a moment of folly and of vanity, it pleased an Officer of his Majesty's Navy to level with the ground a monument of anti quity, which had for ages been the pride of Cornwall, and the admiration of each succeeding generation. The rash end silly act was•univer sally reprobated, as it well deserved to be ; and the perpetrator of it, either awakened to a due sense of his unpardonable folly, or impellod . by superior orders, set about repairing the misc - hief • he had wantonly committed. This Wes all the atonement in his power to make, and the anti quary has reason to rejoice, that through the in • tenuity and skill displayed by Lieut. GoLD SMITH, the Logan Stone is replaced upon the , commanding spot which it had so loog and so proudly occupied. But Lieutenant GOLD slum', duly anxious of effacing the rernetn 7 brance of his former fault, has performed a task • not less difficult, and equally acceptable to the • antiquary. Near Penzance once stood the .Lanyan Crowe. Zech, which weighed not less than thirteen tons. This Cromlech was blown down on the Lgth of October, 1815, during a most violent and des tructive storm of wind. By the indefatigable exertions of Lieutenant GOLDSMITH, and of a Captain Ginny, and with the assistance of the same tackle and machinery employed in replac ing the Logan Stone, the Lanyan Cromlech has been restored to its former station. As I took an early opportunity of reprobating the conduct of the gallant Lieutenant upon the first occasion, I think it an act of justice to notice the service he has now rendered to the antiquary, as soon as it came to my knowledge. A. P. The Earl of ROSCOMNION has resumed his claim to the House of Lords, which has been considered in previous Sessions, to vote for Representative Peers for Ireland. It is referred to a Committee of Privileges, and such Com mittee is ordered to meet on the 24th instant, further to consider the claimant's petition and prayer; and Mr. Eustace Stawell and Mr. Thomas Raymond Alsop are ordered to attend the House on the 23d, to be sworn preparatory to being examined by the Committee. On Monday last, the ceremony took place of laying the first stone of the new Church of LITTLE HAMP TON. The building is to be erected on the site of the old parish church, but on a larger scale, in order to corres pond with the increasing population of the place, and for the better accommodation of visitors. The stone, in closing the coins of his present Majesty's reign, was laid by R. Watkins, Esq. in the absence of the Duke of Nor folk, the Lord of the Manor. His Grace, however, has sub scribed 1001. in aid of the building, and several other subscrip tions have already been received for the same purpose. The. ceremony concluded with an appropriate address by Mr. Wat kins, and a prayer by the ilex. A. P. Kelly, Vicar of the Parish. The company afterwards dined together at the Dol phin Tavern. • Accounts from Copenhagen of the 221 tilt. state, that in the tempestuous night of the 3d February, the North Sea broke through the narrow slip of land near Ilerboote, and joined the narrow Bay of Lymfjord— a very remarkable event which may. be attended with important consequences to the inhabitants of Thye. The Canal which the North Sea has thus opened is said to be thirty ells broad, and seven or eight deep. l'Ap.tvoiNE, the murderer, has since his con— demnation had several paroxysms of fury in prison, so that they have been obliged to put on hiM the camisole de fer (the iron waistcoat). Ile at first obstinately refused to appeal to the . Court of Cassation, saying, " I should wish to die to-morrovi the sooner it is over the better." But M. Paillet, after repeated supplications, at length wrung a consent from him, by s a ying, if he refused to appeal, his mother would die of grief. When the iron waistcoat was loosened for a moment, to allow him to sign the necessary instrument, he fell into an excess of rage. his hair stood an end upon his head, he vociferated the most horrible imprecations upon those around him, and menaced them in the most frightful and convulsive attitudeS. Ile - even made a desperate effort to rush upon the two sentinels that watch over him. He has declared his intention not to sea. . Priest. About ten days ago, a dish of excellent new potatoes were dug up in the garden of the old Academy, Annan—a remarkable instance of the mildness of.the season. DESTRUCTIVE 11 IR E.—Yesterday morning a most alarming and destructive fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Whiting. a Venetian blind-maker, in Rose and Crown court, Moorfields. The flames obtained such an ascend ancy, as communicate with the house of Messrs. Knight and Company, . tea-dealers, corner of Broad-street-build ings, then to the house of Mr. Debrek, merchant, No. I` 3, Broad-street-buildings ; and even the opposite houses in Broad-street-buildings occupied by Mr. King, City Surveyor and Architect, and Mr. Allford, Sock-broker, also fell a preY to them. A woman and two children got out of Mr. Whiting .s dining-room window, on the leads, and were rescued from their perilous situation by the exertions of the people, No lives' were lost• Last week, while a mason at Bantaskine House was driving a stone out of a wall with a pick hammer, a labourer was passing behind him, and just at the moment the instrument was thrown back to give a blow, the sharp-pointed end struck the poor man in the eye with such force a 5 knocked him down, and totally destroyed his eye ; part of it being forced out of the socket, was found fixed upon the point of the ham Mer after the accident.—(Stirling Journal.) COAL MARKET, MARCH 9. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. . 4 8 Newcastle . - 4i -31 s Od to 34i; DC: 1 Sunderland - 1 - —s Od to 41s 0- BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., at Sussex-cottage, Kent-road, the lady or Mr. William Jones, solicitor, of Threadneedle -street, of a son:. ' On the 6th inst., the lady f Sir Thomas Farquhar, Bart., 01 a daughter. On the Bth inst., at her father's house, St. Leonard's, Na' ing, Essex, the lady of Captain Caulfield, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 26th ult., at St. Oswald's Church, Durham, by the Rev. E. Davison, jun., recter of Harlington, Mr. Robert ?roc' tor, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr', John Wolfe, of the former city. On Tuesday, the Bth inst., at All Saints, Poplar, Mr. Ed' ward Godson, of Aldersgate-str ee t, t o M art h a L ou i sa , s econd daughter of John Mills, Esq., Canton-plac e , E as t Intfia.ro3d• DIED. On the 18th December, 1824, at Wynberg, Cape Toiv°,' . (three weeks after the bi r th o f a d aug h ter , w h o surv i ves bet',/,' Henrietta Frances, age d 19, w if e o f Ed war d P ep l oe Esq. of the Bengal Civil S erv i ce , an d d aug h ter o f Charles Bayley, Esq., of Bengal. On the sth inst., at T en by, i n t h e 42d year o f hi s age, Fr"', cis Manners Sutton, Esq., late Lieutenant-Colonel in t 3l ' Guards, and second son of his Grace the Archbishop of Cal' terbury. On Sunday last, at his house in Great Pulteney-street, 58. James's, Samuel Jackson, Esq. On the 11th ult., at Lubeck, John Geor e Arnold g Brokes, Doctor of Laws, and one of the Senators of that fr ee Hans -town. On the 13th ult., at the Hague, the learned professor, I, T Harnett. At her house at Westoe, near South Shields, on the 7th Mrs. Ingham, relict of the late William 'lngham, Esq., fo merly a surgeon of great eminence in Newcastle-upon-Tyne Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Sl tlld OFFICE, NO, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS, I