The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-13 00:00:00

THE LATE FATAL DUEL. SURRENDER OF MR. WILLIAM LAMBREACH, CHARGED WITH TIIE WILFUL MURDER OF MR, OLIVER CLAYTON. About nine o'clock last night the above unfortu nate gentleman, whom the police have actively been in search of for these three days past, on a Coroner's warrant, surrendered himself to a police constable, who immediately conveyed him before inspectors Blackman and Cosser, division C, at the metropolitan station, Vine-street, Piccadilly, where he announced himself as the individual who, in Battersea -fields, shot Mr. Oliver Clayton, saying, " lam now here, and ready to abide the conse quence of my act." From the appearance of the unfortunate gentleman it was manifest that he had suffered much mental affliction, and his haggardness of feature indicated that he had been some time without rest. He was evidently under the influence of great excitement, which induced many persons to attribute his conduct to intoxication. Prosser immediately ran off to Wood's Hotel, in Mutton street, and returned in company with a person whe knew both parties, who immediately accosted him, and certified his identity. Mr. Lambreach gave an involuntary shudder when he was addressed by the individual, and appeared to feel acutely the situa tion in which a false notion of honour had placed him. His age appears to be about thirty-five, sharp visaged, and with an obliquity of vision, almost amounting to blindness of the right eye. He was then secured, preparatory to his being taken before a Magistrate in the morning. At Union -hall yesterday a gentleman of the name of Byrne was brought up, charged with being an accessory before the fact in the late fatal duel. The only circumstance, however, which inculpated him was, that he went to the groud in the carriage with Mr. Clayton at his particular request. He was upon the ground for a few minutes, where he attempted to reconcile the parties; but finding this useless he left the spot, and was at some distance when the shots were fired. He was, we under stand, committed, but upon what account‘we are at a loss to guess. THE NEW POLICE. On Monday some conversation took place at Guildhall between Alderman Wood, who sat as locum tenens for the Lord Mayor, and the members of one of the ward inquests, from which it appears Probable that the new system of police will be intro duced very speedily into the city, in many parts of which the guardians of the night retain strong marks of the distinguishing characteristics of those " sleepy shepherds." While the Alderman was occupied in addressing some of the ward inquests, it occurred to him that as the ceremony of swearing in the constables was.now going forward, he could not arrest a better opportu nity than the present to speak of the want of activity in the - city officers comparatively with that of the new police in other parts of the metropolis. He particularly noticed a robbery which had been re cently committed at the house of Mr. Whiteaves, the silversmith, and he expressed his suspicion that notwithstanding all that had been said of the neces sity of a perpetual watch, depredations were still committed between the hours at which the day patrol terminated and the night patrol began their duties. This laxity was the more to be regretted, as the new plan was obviously succeeding, in con fortuity with the expectations formed of it. One of the inquest- of the ward in which the rob- bery alluded to was committed stated, that the. non prevention of the robbery was not so much attri butable to the want of activity and zeal as to the conduct of the servants of the concern. Some gentlemen of the ward expressed themselves strongly in favour of the new police arrangements.— , before those arrangements.had been made, the city Police far excelled all the other officers in the metro polis ; but the new plan infinitely surpassed any old °lle, and therefore it would be most desirable to have It introduced as soon as possible. Alderman WOOD said, that even at the time of his mayoralty he had encouraged the idea of 'making the necessary changes in the city ; but there were then in surmountable difficulties. He should now use his utmost exertions to introduce the new plan ; and he hoped, with the assistance of his brethren, to ac complish it. MATRIMONIAL BROKERAGE. M. de Foy, the proprietor of a " Bureau de Mariages " Paris, br oug ht an actionin the'Fri. 11 "a' of ' the First Instance, against M. Berchaud, a little cutler, for neglecting to pay him GOOf., the Price of his agency in procuring the said Berchaud a wife. The little cutler, it seems, not finding trade go on se briskly as he could desire, and being, be sides, in debt to the amount of 1,400 f., thought he /night manage to retrieve matters by making a prudent marriage and so appli e d to M. d e F oy, t h e Matrimonial agent," who gallantly receives nothing from the ladies who employs him, making it a rule only to charg e the men. The little cutler would be well sati s fi e d , he said, to get a wife with 3,0001., but the gallant matrimonial ngent was so obliging as to find him one worth 12,0001.. and for such a kind service the li tt l e cutler promised him GOOf., to be paid after the celebration of the marriage. That proattnise h e had, h owever, refused to fulfil, all e gi ng Bthe barg a i n was a scandalons and u n lawful o n e . eside s , if it were lawful, it had not been fulfilled, (he contended, on the par; of the matri mo nial agent. O f the wife herself," said his counsel, " I shall illaY n othing ; my silence will, no doubt, be properly 11 ! te tpreted, b ut her fortune, instead of being 12,000 f., Th aS found after the marriage to be only 300 f." C ourt decid e d i n f avour o f t h e matr i mon i al ee ", as a di st i nct bargain had been made between I ; 111 and t h e cutler , but, in conside ra ti on o f t h e fttees OO disa to ppoint ment reduced the sum t o b e p a id r°4l G nor. SUICIDE OF THE MISSES BOTH. Un Monday night, between the hours of eleven twelve O'clock, the neighbourhood of Albany 114tet, Regent's -park, was thrown into confusion by discovery that the Misses Both, the Hanoverian t ld 'es, had poi sone d themselves. The daughter of I}sile landlady where the unfortunate ladies resided, at to . 157, Albany-street, Regent's-park, on retiring i r ;b i ed, heard the sisters groaning in their bed-room ( I f ,. t ile most dreadful agony. She immediately ran Oto stairs, and alarmed her mother and others, t h":). hastened to their assistance, and bursting open v bed -room door, found them lying on the floor, 4 s rently in the agonies of d eat h. M essrs. Elk in I:l:l,Larnb, surgeons, Osnaburgh-street, Regent's- Were immediat sent for, and attended with ; m u other surgeons. The stomach pump was applied e ki la quantity of laudanum was discharged from . off sf t ' of their stomachs, but all endeavours proved in it,letual to restore Miss A. Both, who expired . at li es Past three o'clock yesterday morning. Her sister 1 4 , 1 ', Without hope of recovery. The unfortunate t e 'L e s took an equal quantity of the poison, and in -1,,-'ed to die in each other's arms. They were li,.titute of a single farthing in the world, and were it hout a morsel of food to eat. t.ll o ur readers will recolle c t th e a tt e mpt made some th °l . lo ll ago by these unhappy ladies to terminate to e ' . exist ence b y flinging themselves out of a boat ti2 °4 ite Greenwich Hospital, an o th er s is ter at that 's Perished. t - hree other persons accused of being con -I,4t4'd in the murder of the unfortunate HANLON were Pon t i i a l on S a t ur d a y. There was a very long and 4ci 'e tit i nqu i ry, w hi c h en d e d , we are happy to say, in the L t i„ ll "al of the prisoners, the swearing of the informer not borne out, is on the other trials, by less tainted or evidence. The conduct of the Crown has been P IN Y meritorious and praiseworthy throughout these tr~e f ki I trials, but the period seems to us to have arrived 4:, 11 a justifiabl e an d most sa l utary r i gour may, w i t h out . .,4toinising the interests of society, give way to clemency. kblin Morning Register. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGH. War-Office, Jan. 11, 1830. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Veterinary Surgeon J. Mellows, from the half-pay 18th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice J. Jones, who exchanges, dated Dec. 21. 7th Dragoon Guards---Cornet H. W. Atkinson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Osborne, promoted, and H. C. Singleton, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Atkinson, Dec. 17. Ist Regiment of Dragoons—E. Littledale, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Nlainwaring, whose appointment has not taken place, Dec. 24. 2d Dragoons—Captain G. Hobart, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice W. H. Oram, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Dec. 17. 7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—G. Ellin, Gent. to be Veterinary Surgean, vice 11. Dorville, who retires upon half-pay, Dec. 17. 16th Light Dragoons—Cornet J. Agar to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Seward, deceased, Jan. 5 ; T. W. M c Mahon, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Agar, Dec. 24. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Quarter master Sergeant R. France to be Quarter -master, vice Ferris, who resigns, Dec. 24. Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieut. Col. C. S. Campbell, from the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Armstrong, who exchanges, Jan. 24. Hospital Assistant J. Steele to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Brydon, deceased, Dec. 17. 2d Foot—Lieut.-Col. J. G. Baumgardt, from the 31st Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Williains,deceased, Dec. 24; Ensign L. Craigie, from the 14th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hutchins, who exchanges; and J. Hall, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Crai,gie, who retires, April 28. 6th Foot—Ensign J. T. Latham to be Lieutenant with out purchase, vice Thompson, appointed to the 26th Foot, April 20; and T. G. Egerton, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Latham, Dec. 24. 14th Foot—Ensign H. T. Hutchins, from the 2tl Foot, to be Ensign, vice Craigie, who exchanges, April 27. 17th Foot—C. G. Campbell, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gosset, appointed to the 54th Foot, Dec. 24. 26th Foot—Lieut.-Col. It Armstrong, from the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Campbell, who ex changes, Jan. 24; Lieut. Michael Pointon, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Alarshall, deceased, March 12 ; Lieut. E. R. Gregg, from the 30th Foot, Jan. 21 ; Ensign T. Succombe, Jan. 31, xnd Ensign T. E. Welby, vice Boyes, deceased, June 15, to be Lieutenants, without pur chase. Ensign 0. G. Perrott, from the 30th Foot, vice Strong, who exchanges, April 17, and A. Forbes, Gent. vice Welby, June 25, to be Ensigns, without purchase. Serjeant-Major A. M'Donald, vice Pointon, promoted, March 13, to be Adjutant, with the rank of Ensign. 30th Foot—Lieut. J. Poyntz to be Captain, without purchase, vice Mann, deceased, Dec. 28 ; Ensign R. H. Strong, from the 26th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Perrott, who exchanges, April 17. 31st Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel S. Mitchell, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Baumgardt, appointed to the 2d loot; Ensign J. C. Stock, to be Lieutenant, without puttbase, vice Strode, appointed to the 16th Foot, Feb. 1 ; and F. Spence, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Stock, Dec. 24. 33(1 Foot--Ensign A. Whitfield, from the 86th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fhke, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court Martial, Dec. 24. 38th Foot—Lieut. H. Bi istow, from the 47th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Waddell, who exchanges, Dec. 20. 40th Foot—Lieut. W. Serjeantson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Alorow, who retires; Ensign T. J. Valiant to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Serjeantson; H. F. Wakefield, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Valiant, Dec. 17. 41st Foot—Captain W. Dempster, from half-pay, to be Captain, vice Guinness, appointed to the 94th Foot, Dec. 17. 44th Foot—Lieut. A. A. Browne to be Captain, by purchase, vice Clarke, who retires; Ensign E. Stuart to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Browne; and J. Dunne, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stuart, April 27. 45th Foot—Captain E. F. Boys to be Major, by pur chase, vice Hilton, deceased, Dec. 24. 47th Foot—Lieut. W. R. Waddell, from the 38th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bristow, who exchanges, Feb. 20. 49th Foot , --To be Lieutenants, without purchase, En sign A. Daniel, Feb. 1 ; Ensign J. Macnamara, vice Stean, promoted, April 1. J. M. Montgomery, Gent. to be En sign, without purchase, vice Macnamara, Dec. 24. Ser jeant-Major A. M'Ewen, from the 98th Foot, to be Ad jutant, with the rank of Ensign, vice Simpson, deceased, Dec. 24. 54th Foot—To be Lieut.-Colonels—Lieut.-Col. M. Fane, from the 98th Foot, vice Kelly, yrt.o retir e s, D ec . 24 ; Major R. M urra y, b y purehase, vice Nott, who re tires, Dec. 25. To be Major, by purchase—Captain J. Clarke, vice Murray. To be Captain by purchase---Lieut. Alfred Lord Harley, vice Clarke, Dec. 25. To be Lieute nants—Ensign F. J. Chinnery, without purchase, vice Henderson, appointed to the 49th Foot, April 20 ; Ensign J. R. Wheeler, by purchase, vice Lord Harley, Dec. 25. To be Ensigns—D. Macdonald, Gent., without purchase, vice Chinnery, Dec. 20; H.D. Williams, Gent., by pur chase, vice Wheeler, Dec. 25. _ _ 62d Foot—Liett. G. Kirkaldy, from half-pay 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice J. J. Brett, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Dec. 24. 63d Foot--Major J. Logan, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Battereby, who retires, Dec. 17. 64th Foot—Captain J. E. Freeth to be Major, by pur chase, vice Johnson, promoted ; Lieut. J. Draper to be Captain, by purchase, vice Freeth ; Ensign G. Duberley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Draper; Ensign G. B. Gossett, from the 17th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Duberley, Dec. 24. 77th Foot—J. E. Lewis, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Whalley, promoted, Jan. 12. 81st Foot. —To be Captains—Capt. E. R. Hill, from the half-pay, vice Ogden Creighton, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference, Dec. 16 ; and Capt. J. Ogilvy, from the half-pay, vice W. H. L. Brooke, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Dec. 17. 86th Foot—J. Scott, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Whitfield, promoted in the 33d Foot, Dec. 24. 90th Foot—E. Eyton, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice White, who retires, Dec. 17. 94th Foot—Capt. A. Guinness, from the 41st Foot, to be Captain, vice Sadleir, who retires, Dec. 17. 98th Foot—Lieut.-Col. E. Fitzgerald, from the half pay, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Fane, appointed to the 54th Foot, Dec. 24; Assistant-Surgeon R. Turnbull, from half-pay Cape Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lawdcr, promoted in the 59th Foot, Dec. 25. Rifle Brigade—To be Majors—Capt. A. Stewart, by purchase, vice Logan, promoted in the 63d Foot, Dec. 17; Capt. W. Johnson, without purchase, rice Mitchell, pro moted in the 31st Foot, Dec. 24. To be Captains—Lieut. J. S. V. Saurnarez, by purchase, vice Stewart, Dec. 17 ; Lieut. J. A. Ridgway, without purchase, vice Johnson, Dec. 23. - To be First•Lieutenants—Second Lieut. .1. Dolphin, vice Saumarez, Dec. 17 ; and Second-Lieut.T. W. Smith, vice Ridgway, Dec. 24. To be Second-Lieutenants—G. H. Cavendish, Gent. by purchase, vice Dolphin, Dec. 17; and Gent. Cadet R. Petley, from the Royal Military College, without pur chase, vice Smith, Dee. 24. The under-mentioned Lieutenant, actually serving upon full-pay in a Regiment of the Line, whose commission is dated in the year 1509, has accepted promotion upon half-pay, according to the general order Dec. 27, 1826: Lieut. F. Grant, from the 24th Foot, to be Captain of Infantry, Jan. 12. UNATTACHED. Major R. Johnson, flora the 64th Foot, to be Lieute nant. Colonel of Infantry, by purchase, Dec. 24; Lieut. J. Osborne, from the 7th Dragoon Guard's, to be Captain of Infintry, by purchase, Dec. 17; Ensign G. Whalley, from the 77th Foot, to be Lieutenant of Infantry, by pur chase, Jan. 12. MEMOR A ND U M. Lieut. P. Murdoch, upon half-pay 35th Foot, has been allowed to retire from the service, by the sale of an Unattached Commission, Jan. 12. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Samuel Strangman Davis, Joshua Strangman Davis, and Joshua Robinson, Liverpool, merchants. Samuel March, Kennington, Surrey, lace-manufacturer. BANKRUPTS. David Crole, Sureeting's-alley, Cornbill, exchange broker, to surrender Jan. 19, 26, and Feb. 23, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Paterson and Peile, Old Broad-street. Daniel Smith, Walham Green, stage-coach proprietor, Jan. 15, 22, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Willis, Sloane-,quare, Chelsea. Richard May, Devonport, tobacconist, Jan. 25, 26, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonpol t. Smith, Basinghall-street ; Husband, Devonport. Andrea Gaetano Ripamonti, Fox Ordinary -court, Ni cholas-lane, merchant, Jan. lb, 22, at ten, and Feb. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Coombe, Token house-yard. Thomas Ellarn, Liverpool, bricklayer, Jan. 25, 26, and Feb. 23, at one, at the Clarendon Roams, Liverpool. Cort, Liverpool; Chester, Staples-Inu, Lindon. Joseph Birks, Wickersley, Yorkshire, maltster, Jan. 16, at one, IS, and Feb. 23, at ten, at the Guildhall, Doncas- ter. Lever, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Fishw - , Doncaster. Joseph Robison Stephenson, Manchester, ironmonger, Feb. 1,2, at three, and 23, at nine, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Hampson, Manchester; Ellis, Walmsley, and Gorton, Chancery-lane, London. _ Robert Franklin, Southampton-row, tailor, lin. 15, at twelve, 22, at eleven, and Feb. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Brough, Chancery-lane. Thomas Crump and John Cramp, Tewkesbury, woollen_ drapers, Jan. 28, at four, at the Fleece Inn, Tewkesbury, 29, and Feb. 23, at ten, at Brookes and Hays's office, Tewkes. bury. King, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street, London ; Brookes and Hays, Tewkesbury. Thomas Packwood, Welchpool, Montgomeryshire, inn keeper, Feb. 2,3, and 23, at one, at the Globe Tavern, Birmingham. Tooke and Carr, Bedford-row, London ; Griffiths, Birmingham. William Dawson, Tetford, Lincolnshire, carpenter, Feb. 10, at seven, 11, and 23, at eleven, at the Masons' Arms Inn, Louth. Pye, Louth ; Young and Vallings, St. Mildred's- court, Poultry. Richard Geddes, Fenchurch-street, wine -merchant, Jan. 15, at eleven, 22, at ten, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Murphy, Castle-alley, Cornhill. S mmel Cooke, Coventry, ribbon-macufacturer, Jane 22, at three, 23, at eleven, and Feb. 23, at ten, at tha King's Head Inn, Coventry. Austen and Hobson, Gray'. Inn ; Troughton and Lea, Coventry. Thomas Bellamy and Willisna Clark, Woodbridge, Suffolk, drapers, Jan. 15, 22, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Jones, Size-lane, London. James Horridge, Liverpool, confectioner, Jan. 26, 27, and Feb. 23, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Smith, Chancery-lane, London; Bristowe, Liverpool. John Wood, HaddenLam, Buckinghamshire, baker, Jan. 15, 22, of nine, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Lovell, Gray's Inn ; Nash, High Wy combe, Bucks. DIVIDENDS. T. Kay, King-street, Covent-garden, linen-draper, March 30, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—J. C. Fuchs, Finsbury-square, merchant, Jan. 26, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Simonds, Wangford, Suffolk, innholder, Feb. 5, at ten, at the Angel Inn, Halesworth, Suffolk—J. Stevens, Plymouth, shipowner, Feb. 3, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth—W. Yates, senior, J. Yates, W. Yates, junior, and B. Yates, Cleckheaton, Bristol, Yorkshire, cloth-manufacturers, Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Sessions-house, Wakefield, Yorkshire—J. G. Cal breath, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, grocer and draper, Feb. 2, at one, at the George Inn, Newcastle-upon- Tyne—A. M. Carver, spinster, Leicester, milliner, April 16, at two, at the White Lion Inn, Leicester —T. Sumner, Clithero, Lancashire, ironmonger, Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Globe Tavern, Birmingham—J. More ton, Manchester, shop-keeper, Feb. 1, at ten, at the Star Inn, Manchester—T. Borkwood, Norwich, beer brewer, Feb. 4, at five, at the Bell Inn, Orford Hill—W. B. and C. B. Tarbutt, St. Mildred's-court, merchants, Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Clarke, Regent-street, linen-draper, Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—T. Tindall, Hastings, Sussex, linen-diaper, Feb. 2. at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners—H. Jackson, Mincing-lane, merchant, Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—T. R. Smith, Cheapside, warehouseman, Jan. 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—F. Fredericks, Crickhowell, Brecon, banker, Feb. 17, at one, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol —A. and C. Sheath, Boston, Lincolnshire, John Steel, Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, and J. Wray, Lincoln, bankers, Feb. 4, at eleven, at the Saracen's Head. Inn, Lincoln— W. Roddis, Byfield, Northampton, baker, Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Red Lion, Banbury, Oxfordshire. CERTIFICATES-FEB. 1 T. Green, Coleman-street, Blackwell-hall, factor—R. Banks and A. Richardson, Boston, shipwrights—F. Ewer, Lad-lane, warehouseman—A. Berry, King-street, Port. man- square, poulterer—J. Burtenshaw, Darlington-place, Southwark, builder—G. Knight, Blackman-street, South wark, carpet-warehouseman—J. Hart, Great Chart, Kent, corn-dealer—A. Duncalfe, Great Suffolk-street, Surrey, hat-manufacturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. Jose and Joze de Mello and G. Robertson, London, dealers—G. Robertson, M. J. and J. deMello, T. Robert son, and J. D. Langdon, St. Salvador, province of Bahia and Brazil, dealers—E. Curtis and W. Way, Middleton. street, Clerkenwell, dyers—l. Hebberd and W. Thomp son, Air-street, Piccadilly, sword -cutlers--E. Gillespy and W. Wattell, King-street, Cheapside, dress-makers—J. J. Barker and H. Agate, Newington-causeway, Surrey, linen-drapers--I. Brown and J. Webster, Brick-lane, tobacconists—A. W. Lesser and E. Wade, Union-street, Bishopsgate-street, turners—J. Tonks and H. W. Howe, Birmingham, brass-founders—J. and J. Thompson, dealers --U. Price and T. Pugh, King-street, West Smithfield, ironmongers —G. Lowe and W. Gough, Plumber's-row, City-road, linen-drapers—F. Smith and W. Eldridge, Seddlescombe, Sussex, tanners—M. Atkinson and W. Jones, Carlisle, hat-makers—E. Holt and W. A. A. West, Liverpool, dealers in crown-glass—M. Franceys and W. Spence, Liverpool, statuaries—T. H. Brock and S. Hurt, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, surgeons--E. and W. Prichard and J. Harvey, Kidderminster, wine -merchants —J., J., and S. Meredith, S. Clinton, and S. Lawrence— J. and D. P. Day, Linton, Cambridgeshire, carpenters H. and H. W. Webber, Newport, Monmouthshire, sta tioners—G. Clapham and R. Holden, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, ironmongers—E. Taylor, R. W. Kennard, and R. Kimpton, Crescent, Jewin-street, wholesale jewellers—E. Greenwood, J. Calvert, J. Coates, and A. Sugden, Ribchester—C. Higginson and J. Rawlins, Rupert-street, Haymarket, herald-painters--C. Font and L. Edridge, Camden-place, Peckham, bricklayers—W. Maplesden and G. Mercer, Tunbridge-wells, veterinary Surgeons. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Sir PETER LAURIE sat for the Lord Mayor, who is too unwell to venture into th e Justice-room. In the course of the day it was stated that the Committee of General Purposes in tend to take into consideration the propriety of giv ing convenience to the public, and of providing a more decent and wholesome Court for the Chief Magistrate, and others, who are compelled to attend him there on public business. One or two members of the Committee, it was stated, have spoken of the expense as an insuperable objection. It was re marked that, to render the administration of justice respectable (so far as a suitable place for the pro ceedings contributes to respectability) every week day during the year, would not, perhaps, cost one half the amount paid for a large city dinner, or one grand day's expenditure in feasting. George Anderson, a young man, of a grave exte rior and smooth address, was charged with having stolen a large quantity of books, the property of the Mexican Mining Association. The Secretary of the Association stated that they had, from time to tine, missed books from their offices, and at length set an officer to watch. The officer stated that, on the evening of the 9th instant, he stopped the prisoner as he was quitting the offices of the Association in Broad-street. He found upon him some volumes of Humboldt's Travels, and went and searched his lodgings, where he found a large quantity of the covers of volumes of Reports belonging to the .Association. The contents had been taken out, and (as the officer in ferred) sold for waste paper. In the prisoner's possession he also found a considerable number of duplicates of books pledged. These books were re ligious works, with which the Association had no thing to do. The Secretary of the Association identified the books found in the prisoner's possession ; and stated that it appeared he had formed some connexion with the servant-girl who had the care of the premises. He had been in the habit of visiting her repeatedly, but she declared that she knew nothing whatever of his having taken the books. The prisoner declared that he took the books for the purpose of reading, and then returning them. He stated, in answer to further interrogatories from the Magistrate, that he was out of employment, that he had been in great distress, and that his mother, having had no food during two days, they had made application to their parish officers for re lief, but were unable to get any. Neither his nor h er appearance, however, indicated that they had been subjected to such extreme suffering. Sir P. LAURIE inquired what the prisoner could want with the great quantity of religious books, of which the duplicates were found in his possession ? The Prisoner--They were for my studies. Sir P. LAURIE—Your studies ! Pray what are you studying for ? The prisoner replied that he was stud to yin :4 to become a missionary, and pr eac h t h e Gospel the heithen. Sir P. LAURIE-But tkat surely has not been your only avocation ?—The prisoner replied that he had been apprenticed to an upholsterer. Sir P. LAuRIE—And disliked working with the plane, preferring the more easy and flattering trade of a preacher, eh where did you get education for that good purpose, if you have had any ?—The prisoner replied that he had received instruction from the various worthy Divines to whose discourses he had given a zealous attention; but he had subse quently resided in the Church Missionary College at Isl ington. Si'i. P. LAURIE inquired how many other young men there might be there.—The prisoner replied that when he wai there there were 35 educating as Church Missionaries. Mr. HOBLER observed that young men of a pious exterior, and (as we understood him to say), as some thought, of sinister aspect, might be seen walk ing about the vicinity. " Young man," said he to the prisoner, " you would have done much better had you continued to work honestly as an upholsterer." Sir P. LAURIE wished to know how it was that the Church Missionary Society had not given him relief when he was in the state of distress in which l►e alleged he had been ? The prisoner— Some circumstances occurred which occasioned the connection between us to be dissolved. Sir P. LAURIE—That is very adroitly and smoothly answered ; but, pray, what were the circumstances which occasioned the connection to be dissolved ? The prisoner replied, that he had formed a connec tion with a female which was Uot approved of by the Society. Sir P. LAURIE—Was that female the one by whose means you intruded yourself into the pre mises of the Mining Association ? The prisoner —No; another. Sir P. LAURIE—Then it seems that, during your preparatory course, one female would not satisfy you. Really, it is lamentable to see what an in creasing aversion there is now amongst young men. of your class to honest and beneficial labour. Ido not know what will be the result of the progress of this state of things. I have failed to elicit any thing from you that is satisfactory, and it will be my duty to commit you to take your trial. The mother, who was in attendance, besought that her son might be pardoned, for their sufferings had been most severe, and she assured the Magis trate that he was a young man of pious ways. Sir PETER LAURIE regretted her sufferings, but stated that she had herself to blame for it, in not having kept him to work, in industrious ways, as an honest journeyman upholsterer. Surely a man who set himself up as a guide could not claim even the favour given to the ignorant. The prisoner, who conducted himself with the greatest calmness, was then fully committed to Newgate to take his trial. BOW-STREET. A paragraph appeared in the Age of Sunday last, in which the Magistrates of this office were required to put down a gang of persons who had nested themselves in Charles -street, Drury-lane, and who, under pretence of telling fortunes, committed the most atrocious crimes, and were more instrumental to the demoralizing young females than almost all other means. On reading this statement, Sir RICHARD BIRNIE despatched Taunton, the senior officer, to ascertain the truth of this statement, and that active indivi dual soon discovered that a fortune-teller named Bale resided at No. 15, in Charles-street. Taun ton accordingly devised a plan for entrapping the sybil, which finally succeeded, and he brought her up in custody yesterday. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE immediately recognised her as an old acquaintance, and a member of a tribe of gypsies named Love!, Many of whom have made their exit from life in front of the Old Bailey. Susan Jeffery, a middle-aged woman, stated that by the desire of Taunton she went to the prisoner to have her fortune told, and paid her for the exer cise of her sybilistic powers a half-crown, which Taunton had marked. The prisoner asked her whether she would know her future destiny by means of the planets, cards, or palmistry ; but, without waiting for a reply, looked her steadfastly in the face , and with an abstracted ai r sa id, " Oh, your husband is dead, but you are not happy with the man with whom you are living." Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked if this were true ? Witness—True ! No, your Worship ; a bigger fal sity could'nt be invented. My husband is alive and well. Mr. MiNstiuLL—But, did she promise you nothing? Witness—Oh dear yes, Sir; she told me I was to have a young sweetheart before the year was out, and plenty of money.—(A laugh.) Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked Taunton whether he had seen bull-dogs or bullies, as described in the Age?—Taunton replied not. He, however, pro duced a book, entitled " Satan's Invisible World, or a Proof for Atheists that Spirits exist," which he had found in the prisoner's lodgings. This book contained a collection of anecdotes on the subject of witchcraft, and other things connected with the " black art." The prisoner said, that she was a fortune-teller. She said that the witness called upon her to know if she was to have a young sweetheart, and she told her it was a shame for a woman of her years think ing even of such a thing. Mr. MiNsuuLL observed, that women of her de scription did more mischief among young females than almost could well be believed. She deserved, therefore, to be punished. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE accordingly committed her for three months to the House of Correction, where she is to be kept to hard labour. It is wonderful that she did not know her own fate. DREADFUL FIRE.-•FIFTY HOUSES BURNT AT SIIEERNESS.—We lament the obligation of publishing an account of a most destructive catastrophe, which oc curred at Sheerness on Friday night, by which fifty houses were burnt and destroyed. The calamity was dis covered at a quarter-past eleven o'clock on Friday night, at which time a watchman, on going his rounds, disco vered smoke issuing from the top of the shop door of Mr. MuNK, grocer, in Union-street, Blue Town. On look ing through the key-hole, he perceived the shop in flames, and instantly took the necessary measures for alarming the inmates and the neighbourhood. The authorities of the Garrison and the Dock-yard speedily lent their assistance ; but the violence of the flames was such, that they could not be arrested until 50 houses, as stated above, were de stroyed. The greatest thanks are due to the Commis sioners and Officers of the Navy and Army for their exer tions in causing the men to render every available assist ance. The property is principally insured in the Sun, Guardian, County, and Norwich Fire-offices, and a small part in the Kent. The Independent Chapel, as well as the house of the Minister, the Rev. J. PRANKARD, was slightly injured. The fire was stopped here by the appli cation of wet blankets ; and it is a remarkable circum stance that at the last fire, when many houses were de stroyed, and which approached the chapel in another di rection, the flames were subdued on reaching the building, which was then only slightly damaged. We are happy to learn that no lives were lost on this melancholy occasion; but, in addition to the 50 houses, two coal-sheds, contain ing a large quantity of coals, were destroyed, and the fire was not entirely subdued till Sunday night. A subscrip tion for the sufferers was opened last night, at the Foun tain Inn, and we understand the loss will be little short of 20,0 00 /.-I{luidstone Journal. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND came to town yesterday morning from their residence at Kew. Their Royal Highnesses left town in the afternoon, on their return to Kew. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday after noon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which was at tended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLING TON, Earls RossLyx and ABERDEEN, Viscount MELVILLE, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Mr. Secretary PEEL, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr. iIERRIEs. The Ministers assembled at half-past two o'clock, and continued in deliberation till a quarter past four o'clock. The American Minister had a long conference with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his ',fie, by Thomas Moore, has but this moment reached us. As respects both the subject of this work, and its part editor, part author, their names are sufficient to explain the anxiety with which it has been looked for ; and from even the glance which we have yet been enabled to bestow upon the first 50 or 60 pages of the book, we are tempted to pronounce that this piece of biography is eminently calculated to attract, engage, and rivet the earnest attention of minds of all orders and capacities, whether those whose intellectual pleasures are incomplete when unaccompanied by a frequent reflection upon their sources, or those which more humbly receive the delight prepared for them, and are content to be gratified without once asking why. Mr. Moore has undervalued his own share in these volumes by designating it merely as " no tices" of Lord Byron's life. These " notices," however, seem to us to constitute one of the most pleasing and interesting biographical memoirs that have ever yet been published. No one need be told of what a range of composition Mr. Moore is capable, when be gives the reins to his ambition. Even when the effort is manifest, in his hands it loses not the power to captivate or strike. But in his present production he ap pears to have essayed a new mode of writing ; for if there be one quality more predominant than another in all that we have yet read of his early history of Lord Byron, it is the unpretending, easy, and beautiful simplicity, with which he has constructed his matter and clothed his style. There is not, as far as we have yet proceeded, a single paragraph laboured into artificial splen dour ; nor is there one deficient in that higher class of animation which leads the reader in voluntarily onwards, and makes it almost impos sible to criticize the work until he has first de voured it. We cannot yet speak of more than two or three of Lord Byron's own letters, which professedly form the chief portion of the book ; but they begin with his boyhood, and terminate only (we take for granted) with his life. Further opportunities will be afforded us of dwelling on this valuable accession to English literature, of which we must now take a reluctant leave ; at present we cannot find room for more than the dedication and preface. " TO " SIR WALTER SCOTT, BARONET, " THESE VOLUMES " Dec. 1829. " ARE INSCRIBED, " BY BIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, " THOMAS MOORE. " PREFACE. " In presenting these volumes to the public, I should have felt, I own, considerable diffidence, from a sincere distrust in my own powers of doing justice to such a task, were I not well convinced that there is in the subject itself, and in the rich variety of materials here brought to illustrate it, a degree of attraction and interest which it would be difficult, even for hands the most unskilful, to ex tinguish. However lamentable were the circum stances under which Lord Byron became estranged from his country, to his long absence from England, during the most brilliant period of his powers, we are indebted for all those interesting letters which compose the greater part of the second volume of th!s work, and which will be found equal, if not superior, in point of vigour, variety, and liveliness, to any that have yet adorned this branch of our literature. " What has been said of Petrarch, that his' cor respondence and verses together afford the progres sive interest of a narrative in which the poet is always identified with the man,' will be found ap plicable, in a far greater degree, to Lord Byroh, in whom the literary and personal character were so closely interwoven, that to have left his works without the instructive commentary which his life and correspondence afford, would have been equally an injustice both to himself and to the world."—Times. The latest accounts from India evince a spirit in the army deserving of the severest reprehen sion. The orders issued to effect reductions, so far from having been peaceably complied with, have been resisted in some instances by troops who have wrought themselves up to a state of positive mutiny. The question with regard to the establishment in India is soon stated. The military and civil servants of the Company in India have divided among themselves the whole territorial revenue. Nay, they have even drawn from the country more than it was able to pay, for it has been found absolutely necessary to re duce the taxation in mercy to the people. 'What is it that these men would have ? Do they wish actually to divide the territories among themselves ? They at present engross the whole revenues ; and if with this they are dissatisfied, the next seep must be to proclaim themselves complete Sovereigns. The present conjuncture of a peace has been deemed by the East India Company favourable for the reduction of a por tion of their immense army. Can anything be more reasonable than that a Government, forced to increase its army to a disproportio►►ate magni tude during an expensive war, should attempt reductions on the conclusion of peace ? Such, however, is not the way of thinking of this deli berating army. Several battalions have wrought themselves up to the pitch of audacity of actually resisting the orders to reduce, as if a soldier ought to have any suffrage in such a case. It may be very inconvenient to officers to find their battalions reduced ; but if it is to depend on them whether their services are or are riot to be dispensed with, there is at once an end to all military subjection. Any man who has seen any of the officers of the Indian army immediately after their return to this country, must have been struck with the absurd extravagance of the ideas of their own consequence they bring back with them. To hear them, every thing that could possibly be done for them is far beneath what is due to their extraordinary merit. They leave this country boys, find themselves suddenly elevated to command among a race little disposed to question their superiority, mix only with each other, and thus the delusions of self. love and self-conceit strike deeper and deeper root, finding no corrective in the wholesome admonition administered by rival vanities and rival ambitions. It is obvious, that under such circumstances, the least encouragement may soon lead men so little disposed to under-rate their own consequence as absolutely to forget them selves. The first symptoms of disobedience must, therefore, be attended to, and promptly and efficaciously repressed. We have no idea of soldiers constituting themselves a deliberative body; and if we would not tolerate this any where, least of all would we tolerate it in so dis tant a region as India. The least concession to such a spirit would only provoke further de mands. If they will proclaim themselves So vereigns, the sooner we know what they would be at the better. Do ►►ot, however, let them run away with the idea that they are indispensible. In this country there are at present, unfortu nately, but too many youths, whom their parents are unable to provide for, and nothing so easy as to supply the places of those who are tired of serving longer in India.--Morning Chronicle. We really do not see any thing so very at tractive in the situation of Prime .Minister of this country at the present moment, that we should attribute to the Duke of Wellington a disposition to baulk the ambition of any one de sirous of supplying his place. There may be in dividuals who think that a hard measure is dealt out to hi, - 3 Majesty in reining in so tightly his desire to spend money in baubles and Palaces, and who would have the courage to tell Parlia ment on its assembling that far too little has been laid out on Windsor, the Cottage, and Pimlico; and that his Majesty—God bless him !—should not, in his age, be allowed to feel too much of the distresses of his people, by experiencing their re-action on the indulgence of his own habits. A nobler occasion could hardly be conceived for the indulgence of a lofty vein of loyalty than the present, when, with a falling revenue, one part of the country gentlemen are calling out for a reduction of seven millions, and the other part calling out for an attack on the Fundholders. In sober seriousness, who would continue to fill the office of Prime Minister, at the present moment, on any other principle than that of a belief that duty prescribes such a sacrifice ? Reforms and reductions are demanded on all sides. The Country Gentlemen and Yeomanry are impa tient. The Church is assailed from without and within. He must be a bold man who can humour his Majesty, gratify Parliament, and persuade the People that taxation is not too high, and that there are not too many Bishops in the Irish Church and too few working Clergy. His Majesty may find such an extraordinary man in his wide-spread dominions ; in which case, we are quite sure the Duke of Wellington, who, we suspect, is by no means so sanguine as to his power of working miracles, would willingly make way for him. Those who believe in such a possibility are also, no doubt, prepared for the opening of Parliament with a new Ministry.-- /bid. We are given to understand that Sir Janie Burrough resigned his place, as one of .they Judges of the Common Pleas, upon the sth instant—certainly not an hour too soon. We know not how far our comments upon the man ner in which the last v acanc y upon the Judicial Bench was filled up, may have been agreeable to the present fastidious Supervisor of the Press ; but sure we are that it is not by animadversions upon the legal appointments made within the last ten years, that the journals of this country have rendered themselves liable to the reproach of licentiousness which the Whig Attorney- General made against them. In reference to this subject, the forbearance of public writers has, indeed, amounted to something like a de reliction of duty, since there is no function of the executive which, alike from its importance and its delicacy, demands a more jealous and vigilant scrutiny, than the selection of those Magistrates, who are, more peculiarly under the British system of jurisprudence, the living oracles of law ; and as regards the commerce between man and man in the private relations of life, in a much truer and more extensive signification of the title, the legislators of the country, than the Houses of Parliament. In thus refraining to canvas the merits of judi cial appointments, the Press betrays the in fluence of that morbid tenderness for per sonal character, which, if generally allowed to prevail towards individuals in public employ ments, would paralyse its functions. '1 he fact is, that sufficient reliance has not been placed upon the criterion of merit supplied by the pro fessional estimation enjoyed by the objects of legal appointments among their brethren. When we speak of merit, we must not be supposed so little acquainted with the present frame of society as to indulge the Utopian expectation that the highest degree of absolute merit shall in every instance meet with preferment ; neither do we imagine that the advancement of any individual has been brought about by the base, sordid means intimated in the silly apothegm of Corpo ral Trim; but a well informed person would have little difficulty in specifying circumstances concerning most of the men at present on the Bench, the coincidence of which with great in dividual merit is at least one of those facts well deserving the notice of a philosopher imbued with Doctor Pangloss's professions in favour of the arrangement of things in this best of all pos sible worlds. Thus it happily fell out that there was not a member of the profession so well adapted from his previous occupations, and so eminently qualified by profound knowledge of common law to preside in the Court of Ex chequer, when Chief Baron Richards died, as a close intimate friend of the then Lord Chancellor Eldon ; just as recently, in the case of Baron Bolland, it was impossible to name a gentleman so likely to raise the character of that Court as an individual, in like manner, at tached to the present Chancellor, Lord Lynd hurst ; nay, to fill a former vacancy in this iden tical Court, who so fit as was by general ac claim of the Profession, the brother of the King's favourite physician ? Again, one of the very best Judges on the Bench is the brother of a gentleman enjoying considerable influence in the ()Teat commercial town► with which the Minister (Canning) under whose government his appoint ment took place, was closely connected ; and, un der a succeeding Administration, was not the best of all imaginable Vice-Chancellors found in the parson of the auditor of a Lady, the aunt of the First Lord of the Treasury ! These are, it will he admitted, coincidences sufficiently feli citous, not " tending (Heaven forefend) to bring the Government into contempt ;" but to show, Sir James Scarlett must allow us, how perfectly compatible with the discharge of a high public trust, on principles the most pure, lofty, and patriotic, may be the indulgence of private predilections and the gratification of private in terests. Mr. Serjeant Bosanquet and Mr. Taun too are, it is said, the competitors for Sir James Burrough's vacant seat.—lbld. We have long dwelt on the necessity of a Poor-rate in Ireland, both with a view to the improvement of that country and to the welfare of this. In Ireland the subject is frequently agitated. We are glad to see the country gen tlemen of England alive to the evils which the agriculturists of this country suffer from the anomalous condition of the Sister Kingdom. We have before us a small but well written pam phlet, published by Mr. Ridgway, in the shape of " A Letter to the Agriculturists of England, on the Expediency of extending the Poor Law to Ireland, by a Landowner." The author, in the body of the pamphlet, describes himself as a Wiltshire landowner. The English Agricul turists suffer at present from a variety of causes. We fully agree, however, with the author of this pamphlet, that they suffer more from the want of a provision for the poor in Ireland than they are aware of. 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