The Sun. — London, England, 1833-08-23 00:00:00

. . , SPIRIT OF THE - PUBLIC JOURNALS, the intercourse be not disturbed, it will become of VICE-CHANCERY COURT, AUG, 22. prisoner came to the door, and, knocking violently, de- Mr. LAING Raid, What is your name? Soldier-.My THE MARKETS. - . great importance. But it is not from the good ---. 8 .---. mantled inunediste admission. Her brother had just name is George Warren. --......- , os il The Bank Charter Bill, it w ill b e f oun d by o ur w hi c h we rece i ve f rom i t that lam so anxious about EQUITABLE G AS - LIGHT COAIPANY v. COMMISSIONERS fallen asleep, but was awo k e b y t h e nose. Addressing her- Mr. Lunn-What regiment In you belong to ? War- SOUTHALL MARK ET.-Aug. 21 ' eau , et This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep a nd Larol -: t o Parliamentary Report, was read a second time yes- the fate of Constantinople. It is more from the OF SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER. • self to the prisoner, she told him he was very unkind ; ten-The 21 Regiment of Coldstream Foot Guards. tetchy in the House of Lords, and the principle of it knowledge that the acquisition of the capital of this His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR heard Counsel at he had awakened her brother, who he knew was dying. Mr. LAING- 'Then depend upon it I shall report you o ur f e l i Calves a cu a d n e d d P b o o r t l t er i s , but oo limited, /he marketbuyer will the his private house in Harley street, i n thi s case , u p on an He still, however, insisted on being admitted, and pro• to your Commanding Officer for a • pearin ; g bl d it ru l n , k li in rep m or y t will be debated this afternoon, either in Committee, empire is the great object of Russian policy, and the trade, owing to many o )y f the formnera%av7igunpuTchase4 t p ; s t 1 application to dissolve the injunction, which had been ceeded to use force. With much difficulty she dragged a presence. dull t o h e ru t u h g ei h r u e u v t e , ek at 's - t s h to e ck fu a l t iu S u m u i i t g h tiperlideesonpehrlesntudnaYe,,o..A. lei or on the question for going into Committee. On only thing required to make her the most formidable' ~_.granted ex-parts against the defendants by the Lord heavy bench up against the deur. He at last succeeded in Warren-I drunk !I am not drunk P sink the offals :- that measure there is, we apprehend, but one opi- naval as well as militarypower in the world.' It is Chancellor, _ on the last day of his sitting in open Court. crushing in the door, and attempted to force away the you to my Commanding Officer. I'm under the protection this splendid prize which an emb ss that we under- 1 e i e a r t ..........-- 3s. Od. to 4s Od f Veal-.....-‘,32. 10d 6 • /4 1, ,. ,. , " ---- ii,amub 4 6 I 4s. fns. to ss. a Y nion among most dispassionate persons, which is, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr. KNIGHT, and Mr. bertch, but she resisted the attempt, and was much and o f the Duke of Cambridee; he's the man to see me that th e B an k of England has b een treated with stand costs the country about 20, a 00 y 0d. a year has al- PHILLIMORE appeared for the defendants, in support of seriously bruise-I by his violently forcing the bench against righted -(He quitted the Court, expressing his deter- M R ' •cheaper than quota . tions , we . re Beef and . Mutton much favour, which might more justly have been lowed the Russian diplomatist without a struggle to the present motion ; Sir E DWARD So D , DEN and M r . her side. r. Roos, a lodger, hearing the noise, got up mina'ion to report Mr. Laing for not answering his (pies- A than on this day se nnight ; prices otherwise •' considerable part of the stock left the market my o r bestowed upon the public, and that the bargain is wrest from us. Our Ministers, who so foolishly and un- JAMES were on the other side. and let in the police. The prisoner, it appeared, at this tions, and said that he would be again at the office with HAILSHAM MARK E c.-A u g. 21. ~i , altogether one of the least creditable to a Finance profitably have intermeddled for nearly three long The injunction was ranted upon the application of the time had only his night-shirt on, and his excuse for the his sister on Tuesday next.) Beef -6.6.-6.5. 3s. 20. to 4s. Od 1 Vea1,.6,................ 481 Mutton--....... 4 0 410 . 1 Pork 3 ti Minister that ever was submitted to the approbation years in the affairs of Belgium and Holland, Were the plaintiff s , who area a company (though not incur a- outrage was, that the prosecutrix had stolen his prop, rty. It is but juetice to state that the applicant was not Lamb .....-............. ss. Od. to ss. Bd. ,ioi, of the country or of Parliament. There was no rated) of individu ds, styl e d th e Eq u it a bl e G as Light The following morning early he again attempted to get re ally drunk, but what his comrades would dub being a Supply moderately rod throughout ; tiatle withf ... .l deaf to the Sultan's call when he solicited our sue into the room; and from this time till the death of her little fresh. bri•k, but otherwise dull. reason, so far as we can perceive, for tampering with coot. A few line-of-battle ships sent into the Bos- Company, to restrain the defendants from pulling the outlet of Kings Scholar ' s Pound poor brother, on the 20th of April, both she and him Mutton -.,.. 3 La 6 mb 46 I P0rk........-e--- 4 ' ' 1 ARUNDEL MARY ET -Aug.' 2o . „, a id,t4e 4 the currency at all in this transaction. The circa- phorus at that juncture would have prevented the dowa a wall at- Sewer, near Vauxhall-bridge, that the same might be were subjected to the most wanton and barbarous annoy- SUICIDES IN FRANCE.--During the year Beef --66.-...... 3s. Oil. to 46.0 d. Veal .. • ..).• ji r. lation was in a sound and healthy state; every occasion which Russia has, with such ptomptitude rebuilt upon the pound, that if the wall was pulled down, ante from the prisoner. It also appeared he had gone to 1831 there were 285 bodies exposed at the Morgue, i f man who wanted money for legitimate purposes and adroiness, turnd to her own account. The the friend who employed her, and foully a sp e r se d ber which 197 were recognized ;in 1832 there were 341 4s 4d. to 56 4d. ...),(' and the foundation of the new wall carried so low as was Supply good, and trade rather dull. , ~1 1 and could show anything like security, might have Sultan, i deserted .. a s h e w as by England .h and France, • proposed by the plans, a stratum of quicksand would he character. exposed, and all but 32 recognized. CHICHESTER Al ARK KT -Aug.2k m .toto it at moderate interest. At the same time the im Rideau (Canada) Canal was opened for M utt -M..._.., 3s. Od. to 4s. 2d. V . 32 „ • a ,`"••• -at at tie critical moment, and when is very capital penetrated, a n d th e consequence wou ld b e , th a t th e R e t or t The prisoner, in his cross-examination, asked questions Th e pediments to a fictitious currency existing in the - was threatened by the victorious Ibrahim Pacha, House of the plaintiff's, (of an immense weig'it) and tending to cast a slur upon the prosecuti ix's character, but Mutton .....-- 364 6 I Pork. -,., - free convertibility o f a b an k note i nto gold were threw himself as a matter of necessity upon the other buildings would in all probability be brought to steam boats on the Ist of July. Lamb _, 1 the the ingenuousness and modest firmness with which she Supply of both fat an d l ean s t oc k goo d ; tiade+ . ground. e lujunctien also went to restrain the de salutary checks upon indiscreet speculation, upon treacherous ' f Russia. Vcraftily The • • • l protection o Very d' • answered the questions caused them to have quite an op- The sixty-reed cut (muslin trade) was about throughout. .....iy i desperate adventure, and unfounded credit. By has the Russian Autocrat taken on himself the fendants from doing any thing to the mouth of the sewer, posite effect. forty years since 395. 34. ;it is now, it appears, ss, 61. RU M FORD MAR KET..-Aug. 21. 'j, R. 0. cos, d. s. 8 It the clause for making Bank of England notes a legal charges of the expedition. That iS a finishing calculated to prevent the plaintiff 's coal bargee from The Jury unhesitatingly found the prisoner Guilty. The wages of the weaver of 12•4,the bed quilts have, in f , pf . 3 0 4 0 I Veal .................. ‘ 5 , 6' tender, and limiting their convertibility to the single stroke of policy, to secure the gratitude and fasci- entering and lying on the spot heretofore appropriated for The CHAIRMAN, after an impressive address, in the the same time, been reduced from lls. to ss. The latter Mutton lamb 3 4 4 4 Pork . ....... 6,... ....... . i 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ~,,tot them. Upon the present occasion it was contended course of which he highly eulogised the conduct of the manufacture is almost exclusively confined to Balton. Suckling Calves, I4s. to 365. ; Quarter old Store Pigs, '-• spot of Threadneedle -street, there appears the pro- rate the weak understanding of Sultan Mahmoud. on behalf of the defendants, that the state of t h e prosecutrix, sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned six REFUSAL TO GRANT A CHURCH RATE.- Supply moderately good, and trade dull. ~ bability, in the first place, of an insufficient supply Never were our foreign relations more egregiously sewer (whi c h i s of a v er y ext e nsiv e description, one lis •to pav a fine of 50/ to the King; and to be Als. of gold; and, in the next place, of a clamour for 1/. mismanaged, and never was the House of Corn- branch - ofwhich further n'ont ' imprisoned . till . .. the same was paid, and to enter A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of the parish StIS VI COUNITY CORN MARKETS DURING T iv e 1 . comes all the way from Hampstead), .of Aston, Birmingham was held last week, to grant a notes, to supply, as before, the want of it. There mons so destitute of men of political intelligence to required the repairs and alteration which were now pro • into a recognizance in 100/. to keep the peace for two years, 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. . ......1 church rate. The Rev. Mr. Mottoax, the vicar, took is still hope that the House of Lords will throw out expose the blunders of a Government or rouse it to jeered, and which had been going on for nearly twelve - ---e--- ~ the chair. After some discussion it was moved that a rate - 1 7 7;er _7tarter. ,1 s. to s. s. s. a. to & • ..."' ; months. No less than 8,000/. of expense had already POLICE INTELLIGENCE. this obnoxious, because alarming, and eventually a proper sense of its duty. When any remark of twopence in the pound should be granted An amend- Blandford -......-.. - 54 - 26 - 2 ° 30 is pernicious, clause; and, indeed, if the Bill could able piece of folly happens to be achieved, some been incurred in the works. It was stated by the defer- - ---6.6--___ Bri gs" .. !40 58 36 40 Hi .. 4 15 W - 1. be thrown over until next session, we suspect that Member rises in his place, perhaps, and asks dent's engineers (men of the greatest experience), that MANSION- H 0 USE. mint was then proposed postponing the consideration of Cambridge the rate for six months, which was carried. ge .1 - 55 - 22 - 56,1 Chard .----6.......... 52 58 21 28 18 22 „, 31.4 the country would be no small gainer.-Tinter. a question of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, if the projected banks were carried on and completed i n REFUSAL TO PAY A FIRE ENGINEER.-Yesterday the an ordinary careful manner, no injury would be sustained Churchwardena of the parish in which the Mansion-house MYSTERIOUS CASE.-Some weeks ago a gen- Huntingdon -.,....... 58 63 21 23 14 ~,.,.,, 31 4 Long. Sutton.....-- 56 64 - - 17 -'' 391 Not a little astonishment seems to have been felt which is sure to be met by some evasive an stands appeared before the Lorin MAYOR, to resist the tlemaninMiller-streetreceived several 100/.l3snkof England 1 1 1 , t i ii.--.--.... 50 i:) 2 g 7, , I , F ; lg r o / 1 in the House of Commons last night, when, in the saver; or he is told it is " premature," and the time tt:rdtlide that the premises. The Learned Counsel con _ ~. - 42 61 22 29 14 ,2, 1 .0 Nottingham Committee on Mr. Blamire's Bill, Mr. D. W. Hat- is not yet come for disclosures. Down sits the the this being public servants, and carrying on tins necessary work for the benefit of the the parish theerr engine at the prompt appearance ot r , a . f . notes formingin chbi: msedtlilnatat7l47l:l7lZ e t i l , itan t i li n e a pl e n t n t y er p= .. - 41. 60 25 27 18 ..: gl. vey appeared in the new cha , acter of Champion of intrusive interrogator, half ashamed of being too public, were in ' their - e in g ' the discharge of duty, even if the row, the Poudry. ler-street, but that the letter was so soiled as to be useless. Werborosigli -. 43 60 23 28 13 2 . , , ....,,0 )im nth ----...... 50 64 30 34 20 ,‘‘..), ....; i the Church. The Hon. Gentleman thought suitors early in the field, when, in reality, he is too late plaintiff's premises should be brought to the ground by Robert Collins (engineer), between cue and two o'clock Having anticipated that remittance from Machester some Pontefract -87 43 -2 , 4 1 0 could be exposed to no great hardship, as no Jury for any good purpose. Has the country ever y e t it bound to go on, and that there being no wantonness, on Sunday morning, got up in consequence of an alarm days, it was suspected some attempt at appropriation had Sleaford 65 70 36 38 22 2 8 39 0 48 57 24 35 16 2 4 30 es,, f fire th . . b, 1 d . _ made in i __ _ . . . .. , . Utipinghain ............ een made in he Post-office, and inquiry was instnu.ea. s t would find a verdict without a ease were well este- been put in possession of what was truly the object malignity, or fraud in the conduct of the defendants. o re from e neigh mr ton o the premises of the b % isbech 48 C 9 2 • 14 2 2 ... .,,./. i- 0 33 blished, and few actions could b e tri e d b e f ore th e of Lord Durham's mission to the Emp eror Ni- the Court ought n o t t o i n t er f ere . Besides, the plaintiff British Colour Company. Upon going to the place be The result has not transpired, but a clerk and a stamper LEEDS CORN MARKET. - Aug. 20 . 6O passing of the new Tithe Bill. He lamented, too, h c_olas, which cost the nation so many thousand had bad notice of the works, as was clear by the statement fund that a cellar had been just broken open, and one of have been dismissed.-Glasgow Chronicle. Wheat, Norfolk and Suflirlk, 60Ib. ---- York. and Lincoln, 60Ib. 355. ee , in their own bill since , September last, and as they h a d the men was pulling out a basket in which were some At the Thames Police-office, yesterday, bu in good set terms, the tendency which Mr. Bla- pounds ? It was boasted that his Lordship tea- Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk only come to the Court at its very rising fur the injunc- combustibles on fire. No part of the liou.e wag on fire, einess was at a complete stmdstill, in consequence of the mire's Bill must have to add to the existing dispo- veiled with a retinue of six carriages -and-four on 2 ,..,. 5. ta m o but . the b asket which containe d the burning - Grinding *on it was to be hoped the injunction would now he dis- 045. (0. i sition to look on a property in tithes as less sacred his return ; but the question is, what did he carry solved tl' with c cost. The plaintiff's Counsel admitted the lying under the house and close to sonic casks, which LANTINE and Bitonearr) arrived at eleven, and waited Oats, Potatoc 185.5 pe;,l than other property. No wonder that Sir John home ? Certainly net the ratification of the Bel- • notice which it was alleged they had had, but argued that would, if the fire had not been. so soon detected, most till hal f.past twelve, but no clerk appeared. At length -11ealing,For.12d.toltld Eng. 91 to 1070,; 1 1 N I Campbell should "congratulate Itai.esCed, English, 25 , . to 27/ Foreign, --1. to -"' ' the Clergy on their new defender, and hope that taken more years to fabricate than Orloff 's treaty extent to which the works to be carried, ror w Mr. Thomas, the vestry clerk, ob • ected to the claim stat . i i 7g that hrilad unablebyand was to . leave . his 1 pear wii EAT, English, White, per 70Ib. ford University and Colchester might prove last- the Autocrat to the restoration of Poland; that effect of such operations would be the destruction of their to do with the fire in the house, and argued that the Act r. SYMONS, the chief clerk, had left the office --____ Red m g . -(A laugh.) How is it that Mr. Harvey has country has been since that time more cruelly premises. They had no objections to the works of the of Parliament requited that the fire should be in the house v er y u II IM • l• --- ScotchWelch dlt• nwe on tle preceding day. The tigistrates t is. ~ an i anx Irish White 8 3 7 1 7 4 I 1 such a sympathy with this particular class of suits ? treated than ever. We do not know whether he defendant's being ended on under the inspection of some in order to entitle the engines to the usual reward. posed of some p:tty cases, and sent those which required _ , ' Red However, the Solicitor-General said, " that it was apologized to the Czar for the epithets applied to experienced engineer, who should have the power entrusted The Loan MAYoR said that what e v er might hav e been that the depositions should be formally taken down, t o - Foreign 9 0 1 the immediate cause of the fire, the engineer had certain) HATs, E r nglish, Welsh, and Scotch, ucr 451 b 2 12 ' 2 'l. true tithes were property, but they were to be dealt him in the House of Commons. We only know to him of confining their extent so as to leave the Retorty Lambeth-street. The parties who bad been in attendance I ish done his duty in promptly attending to extinguish it. with as other property., Land could not be recovered by the results that neither Lord Durham nor Lord House, &c. in a state of safety. Surely the Court never all the morning complained bitterly of their loss of time. - Foreign The engineer said the materials in the basket were of BA RLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 3O 0 • 4 0 would ermit time to p defendants carry on proceedings that An affecting circumstance relative to the awful after twenty years' quiet possession, and it was only Ponsonby were fit to cope with such diplomatists would Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. themselves capable of igniting without coming in contact endanger not only the security of most expensi ve Feeding 3 lO 4 0 0 visitation of the Almighty occurred on Tuesday morning proposed that a custom of paying tithes in a particular as Russia employs, who certainly earn their salaries • • premises, but in all probability a vast number of lives. with fire in any way. • at Islington. As the corpse of the wife , of a lahouring iteetss, English, per Imperial quarter 37 0 51 0 manner should not he disturbed after it had existed by their talents and their vigilant zeal in the service His HONOUR stated that, beside, having heard counsel, The parish was ordered to pay the reward. Irish, &c. man lay in the coffin previous to interment, the afflicted - Forei gn 3 5 0 411 4 0 06 p for 60 years." In fact the right of which it is pr o - of their country.-Morning Herald. on b oth sides. lie had read the hill and nfni466i,. ~hiel. 1.6 d PAROCHIAL RATES.-Mr. Wilson. one of the inhalbi_ The Bank Charter Bill, it will he found by our Parliamentary Report, was read a second time yes terday in the House of Lords, and the principle of it will be debated this afternoon, either in Committee, or on the question for going into Committee. On that measur e t h ere i s , we a pp re h e nd, but orie opi nion am ong mos t di s p ass i onate p e rsons, whichis, that the B an k o f E ng l an d has been treated with much favour, which might more justly have been bestowed upon the public, and that the bargain is altogether one of the least creditable to a Finance Minister that ever was submitted to the approbation of the country or of Parliament. There was no reason, so far as we can perceive, for tampering with the currency at all in this transaction. The circu lation was in a sound and healthy state; every man who wanted money for legitimate purposes, and could show anything like security, might have it at moderate interest. At the same time the im pediments to a fictitious currency existing in the free convertibility of a bank note into gold were salutary checks upon indiscreet speculation, upon desperate adventure, and unfounded credit. By the clause for making Bank of England notes a legal tender, and limiting their convertibility to the single spot of Threadneedle -street, there appears the pro bability, in the first place, of an insufficient supply of gold; and, in the next place, of a clamour for 1/. notes, to supply, as before, the want of it. There is still hope that the House of Lords will throw out this obnoxious, because alarming, and eventually pernicious, clause; and, indeed, if the Bill could be thrown over until next session, we suspect that the country would be no small gainer.—Tintes. Not a little astonishment seems to have been felt in the House of Commons last night, when, in the Committee on Mr. Blamire's Bill, Mr. D. W. Har vey appeared in the new cha , acter of Champion of the Church. The lion. Gentleman thought suitors could be exposed to no great hardship, as no Jury would find a verdict without a ease were well este blished, and few actions could be tried before the passing of the new Tithe Bill. He lamented, too, in good set terms, the tendency which Mr. Bla mire's Bill must have to add to the existing dispo sition to look on a property in tithes as less sacred than other property. No wonder that Sir John Campbell should " congratulate the Church and the Clergy on their new defender, and hope that the recent friendship of the Hon. Members for Ox ford University and Colchester might prove last ing."—(A laugh.) How is it that Mr. Harvey has such a sympathy with this particular class of suits However, the Solicitor-General said, " that it was true tithes were property, but they were to be dealt with as other property. Land could not be recovered after twenty years' quiet possession, and it was only proposed that a custom of paying tithes in a particular manner should not he disturbed after it had existed for 60 years." In fact the right of which it is pro posed to deprive the church is not a proper incident of property. The proposed law is in the interest of property in general, which ought not to be d sturbed by a species of gambling actions. The claim that has not been mooted for 60 years, has not, of course, been taken into consideration in any transactions on either side during that period, and has not entered into any estimate of the value. It seems, however, according to the Solicitor-Ge neral, that a modus, which had existed for hundreds of years, had been set aside within the last two years. It would appear, from what fell front Mr. Blamire, that the statement of the number of suits originally made, so far from being exaggerated, is below the truth. Thirteen counties are known to be disturbed by the suits, and the number is now estimated at 9,000.-Il4orning Chronicle. In moving the third reading of the Chancery Offices Bill, the Solicitor-General made some state. merits which, from an unwillingness to interrupt important public business, had been withheld on the fornLr stages. Our readers will, from this statement, be able to appreciate the disinterested conduct of the Lord Chancellor in this matter. Not only will the saving in money be great by the measure, but it will be of perhaps still greater benefit in promoting expedition. All the profes sional gentlemen in the House were loud in their praises o f the measure. Mr. D. W. Harvey "con gratulated the House the more, on the great and substantial improvements which had been effected, inasmuch as it was impossible for th em to conceive the great difficulties with which those who had done so much had been surrounded. Al though he highly appreciated the measure in a financial point of view, he trusted that i; was only subordinate to greater improvements that were still to take place, and was to be looked noon only as an earnest on the part of that distinguished individual, who held the highest office in the law, of his sub stantial, sincere, and honest desire to make this Court one which he proved in reality and not in name a Court of Equity." The Solicitor-General, while he admitted that the present Masters in Chancery were able men, in noticing the improve .. ment which would be the result of transferri;ig the appointment from the Lord Chancellor to the King, observed that the whole Ministry would now be responsible for the appointment, whereas, it had been hitherto considered by the Chancellor as pri . vase and personal. We suspect the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had in his eye a particular ap pointment of Lord Eldon, who showed his grati tude to a half-pay officer, who had assisted him when his carriage was overturned, by making him a Master in Chancery. A Cabinet would hardly, even in Tory times, have ventured on any thing like this.— Morning Chronicle. The important news which we, exclusively, gave to the public of a treaty, offensive and defensive, having been actually concluded between Russia and the Porte, without any previous communication with the representatives of the other powers, is confirmed by the Allgemeine Zcitung of the 16th instant. That Journal contains intelligence from the Turkish capital of the 25th of July, which not only puts beyond doubt the fact of the treaty having been concluded, but substantially corroborates the abstract of so much of its contents as had trans- pired, which we published on the authority of our Correspondent at Constantinople. The German organ of the " Holy Alliance" says that Russia engages t o a ff or d every ass i stance as k e d f or b y the Porte, and that the latter undertakes, in the event of Russi a b e i ng a t war w i t h an y P ower w o. "": Yer, to treat that Power as an enemy. Correspond en t said the treaty was to en dure for ten Paper, limi ts the writer in the German the duration to eight years; but either term is sufficient to mature the designs _ of Russi a upon Turke y. In fact, at the pre " sent moment, the ttom an empire only exists in name by the suffera nce present prote c t or . Th e ?fits an c i ent r i va l an d diplomatists of England and France have so manage d matters as t o th row Turkey completely i nto deadly emb race o f t h e most inveterate foe o f their own " interests, an d t h e uncompromising opponent ofE'n uropean civilisati on . Our Correspondent says, and stantinople should be rung in truly ti says, " Con- Ministers every bout in the d ay, fo:!1 ears of our be allowed to be domesticated there ,vdliseZelet 110:e"sailal but is, she will have that want s u p hitherto held her ambition in check —she will which ha finl abundance of seamen in all the islands of thrl.Alr Arc hi. pelago to man her fleet. With the a maz i ng sources of timber which Turkey has on the 131::1-t Spa at her command--with the passes of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in her hands— with one of the best nurseries for seamen in Europe at her service, she will becom e a first-rate maritime power, and supply the only arm of warfare in which she is now defi cient. Look at the position of C‘instantinople, connecting two continents, and uniting the com merce of the wealthiest portion of the globe, and can we allow it to slip altogether from our hands ? As a depot f o r British commerce, it is becom in g every year more valuable, and our manufactures, as they become known, are spreading in Upper Asia and in Asia Minor. The trade doubles itself every I NATURAL CURIOSITY.—Upon Westwood farm, near Stirling, there is a remarkable oak, upon the side of a broad ditch. The trunk, it is conjectured, had either bent spontaneously, or been bent across the ditch, forming a bridge about 10 or 12 feet span, which now affords a secure footing nearly three feet wide. Having rested an elbow on the opposite side of the ditch, the oak again re-crosses to his legitimate territory, and then grows upwards and spreads his foliage crown after the fashion of hi.' neighbour potentates. The tree is certainly a great curiosity, and worthy the attention of naturalists passing in that direction.—Scotsman. Another prospectus for a joint-stock bank of deposit, to be called the Imperial Bank of London, has been circulated this afternoon. Its capital is also fixed at 10,000,000/. With respect to the London and West minster 'link, mentioned yesterday, we are assured, what we were not aware of at the time, that several of the members of the committee whose names appear to the prospectus are distingnshed by their knowledge of business. In point of property, as we have already remarked, the list is a highly respectable one. It is not to be expected, however, under ail the circumstances, that large profits will for some years to come be derived from any such un dertakings.— Times. A GLORIOUS NIBBLE.—A gentleman from a fishing excursion in the Highlands had occasion, on his return last week, to pass through a crowd collected at the fair. While in the midst of it he felt some nibbling be hind, fully as hard as any he had felt on the banks of Loch Eck, and on looking about he saw a young thief who had just got possession of his bandana caught by the fin. gers with some spare fishing-hooks that had been stowed away in the same pocket. The gentleman, after unhooking the young rogue, pinched his ears soundly, applied a cane, and sent him off smarting to brood over his luckless ven ture.—Paisley Advertiser. WESTM IN ISTER NEW HOSPITAL.—The exterior of this building is already completed, with the exception of some few ornamental details. It is situate to the north-west of the abbey, arid occupies part of the site of the ancient Sanctuary Church, traces of which, and also of the Sanctuary wall, were discernible in digging the foundations. These remains of ancient architecture were of brick, and of great solidity. The freehold of the ground was purchased for its present benevolent object of the Crown for 6,0001. Ihe building is of white brick, and is in the Tudor style of architecture. The principal front faces the residence of the Dean. It is four stories high in the centre, and has an embattled porch, with three front and two side entrance arches. Above is a handsome oriel window extending to two stories. There is a similar window in an angle at each extremity of the front. These windows and the porch are of freestone, and richly orna. mented. The windows are 40 feet in height, and the whole extent of the frontage is 200 f ee t. Th e b u ildi ng forms nearly a squ a r e , an d is surmounted with an em battled coping, with chimneys to correspond. The stone work in front is enriched with bosses of the Westminster arms (the portcullis) and other embellishments. The Hospital will contain nineteen wards, each 42 feet long by 23 feet wide. It is calculated they will hold nearly 250 beds. In the central area of the building a circular theatre is being erected for lectures and operations. The roof of the building is flat and covered with lead, and will be appropriated as a walk for those patients who are ap proaching to convalescence. Its extent is nearly half an acre, and from the height to which the embattled parapet is raised, is rendered perfectly secure. IMPRESSMENT — PeopIe in inland towns know comparatively nothing of the terrible effects of this degrading system. A man that happens to ha at all con nected with the sea, or who follows any occupation on the water, is not secure for a single day : the hellish press gang, who are always armed, more like an FaHan ban ditti, than "the free-born guardians of the sca.girt isle," will enter his fishing-boat, his cabin, or his mansion, at any hour of the day or night, drag him away to the tender where he is kept until they have got a sufficient number ; they are then sent on board a man of war, and locked under hatches until they put out to sea. All communica cation with their wives and families is denied them ; awl it is frequently the case, that their relatives remain fur years in utter ignorance of their fate. We do not state this on mere rumour, as several instances have come under our own observation. During the last war, an only son of respectable parents, but devotedly attached to the sea, was pressed from a merchant vessel on the West India station ; and after several years cruising in that quarter, the ship returned to Portsmouth. During this absence from home he had lost his father ; he was therefore de sirous of visiting his aged mother and an only sister. He asked leave of absence; but being an able and steady seaman, was refused. A few days after wards he left the ship, and travelled over land from Portsmouth to Edinbugh, where he was received with open arms by his forlorn relatives ; but twenty-four hours bad scarcely elapsed before he was again dragged by the miscreant press-gang on board a tender in Leith Roads, and has never been heard of since! The consequence was, his moth er never aga i n h e ld up h er h ea d : i n a f ew mont h s !inhst,new as carried t o th e grave ! W e may ment i on ano th e r Westce, somewhat diff eren t, b u t equa ll y crue l : th e son of a India inere'aarit in Leith, who had been to In verness-shire for the benefit of his health, was returning home i n a small coaster, when, in the Firth of Forth, they we same bloody gang , an d a l t h oug h th e young gentleman as had n e v er b een profeiin a d e li cate state o f healt h , an d drawn cutlasses, on boardailli at sea, h e was h urr i e d, w i t h sloop o f war then in the roads, and before haea, had ti me t: niciunicate with his friends, was in the North Seas. the vessel sailed on a six wee e l7 ano.onhj.et; his father son g ' a s i bee n st drag ge d i the then In this casg, however, money accordingly commenced an action ' a but also Port- Admiral, and net only effected his got damages. But how many thousands haeveathi°eeen like felons from their homes, who had not th procure their liberty, but were doomed to lead anant:ittto glorious life," and in too many instances were never again beard of ?.....Shiffield Iris. The injunction was granted upon the application of the the plaintiffs, who are a company (though not incorpo rated) of individu As, styled the Equitable Gas Light Company, to restrain the defendants from pulling down a wall at the outlet of Kings Scholar's Pound Sewer, near Vauxhall-bridge, that the same might be rebuilt upon the pound, that if the wall was pulled down, and the foundation of the new wall carried so low as was proposed by the plans, a stratum of quicksand would he penetrated, and the consequence would be, that the Retort House of the plaintiff's, (of an immense weig'it) and other buildings would in all probability be brought to, the ground. The iujunctien also went to restrain the de fendants from doing any thing to the mouth of the sewer, calculated to prevent the plaintiff's coal barges from entering and lying on the spot heretofore appropriated for them. Upon the present occasion it was contended on behalf of the defendants, that the state of the sewer (which is of a very extensive description, one branch of which comes all the way from Hampstead), required the repairs and alteration which were now pro. jected, and which had been going on for nearly twelve months. No less than 8,0001. of expense had already been incurred in the works. It was stated by the defen dant's engineers (men of the greatest experience), that if the projected banks were carried on and completed in an ordinary careful manner, no injury would be sustained to the plaintiff's premises. The Learned Counsel con tended that the Commissioners being public servants, and carrying on this necessary work for the benefit of the public, were in the discharge of their duty, even if the plaintiff's premises should be brought to the ground, by it bound to go on, and that there being no wantonness, malignity, or fraud in the conduct of the defendants. the Court ought not to interfere. Besides, the plaintiff had bad notice of the works, as was clear by the statement in their own bill since September last, and as they bad only come to the Court at its very rising fur the injunc tion, it was to be hoped the injunction would now he dis solved with costs. The plaintiff's Counsel admitted the notice which it was alleged they had had, but argued that that notice did not convey to them a knowledge of the extent to which the works were to be carried, nor were they aware, until within a very short time since, that the effect of such operations would be the destruction of their premises. They had no objections to the works of the defendant's being carried on under the inspection of some experienced engineer, who should have the power entrusted to him of confining their extent so as to leave the Retort House, &c. in a state of safety. Surely the Court never would permit the defendants to carry on proceedings that would endanger not only the security of most expensive premises, but in all probability a vast number of lives. His HONOUR stated that, besides having heard counsel, on both sides, he had read the bill and affidavits which bad been sent to him, and that he was now clearly of opinion that if the application had been made to him in the first instance for, the injunction, he would have refused it. It was clear that the plaintiffs had had notice of the works now complained of going on for a long time previous to their application to the Court, although the only date which in their affidavit they bad affixed to the period of acquiring that inlormation, was " lately." That word was of so vague an import, that no judicial attention could be paid to it in a case of this sort. It was evident that the defendants had important duties to discharge for the advantage and safety of the public health, and tbat in the prosecution of those duties, they ought not to be lightly interfered with. Upon the whole, his Honour felt bound to dissolve the injunction, with costs. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, AUG. 22. BANKRUPTCY OF MESSRS. ALEXANDER AND CO., OF CALCUTTA. A meeting for the further proof of debts on this estate was held to-day, before Mr. Commissioner PANE. No thing of importance transpired in addition to the circum stances, of this extensive failure, fully reported in the Tames of the 3d inst. 40,0001. was the amount proved for this day, making the total sum now proved in this Court to amount to about half a million sterling. Mr. Waiter Hughes, the solicitor under the fiat, ad dressing the Learned Commissioner, observed that he supposed it would be necessary to send over to India a certified list of the debts proved, but he was at a loss to know whether the parties wished to receive their divi dends here or in India : the Act 9 Geo. IV., chap. 73, renders it imperative on those creditors residing within the limits of the company's chatter to prove only in Indi t, but those living without the limits of the company's charter might take their election, and prove in Calcutta or here, or in bath places if they thought proper, but he apprehended that they were only entitled to receive a di vidend as if but one proof had been made. Mr. Commissioner FANE—Are there any persons who have sent out powers of attorney to prove in India, and then come for the same purpose here ? Mr. Hughes—Yes, several have done so. _ _ Mr. Whitmore, the official assignee, thought it right to remark, that there seemed to be a general misund.:rstand ing en the subject, some persons imagining that if they prove in India, they have only a claim on the property situate there, and, vice versa, if they prove here, they can only claim on assets arising from property situate in Eng. land. But he understood that the property of the estate, no matter where it lay, was equally available for the be nefit of the creditors at large, without any reference as to where they proved their debts; the assignees in Cal, utta and in Europe must account together, and a cividend rateably made, after the accounts on both sides are fully and satisfactorily compared and investigated, boas to em body all into one single and general account. However, to facilitate as much as possible the business of t'ie estate, it was his intention to address a circul,r to the creditors, who have already proved in this Court, stating that it was necessary they should elect whether they would receive their dividends through the Court here or in Calcutta. Mr. Hughes observed, that there were several other important questions yet undecided—fur instance, as to computation of interest on the accounts proved. Was the interest to be calculated from the time of the declara tion of the insolvency of the house in Calcutta, or from the issuing of the fiat in this country? Mr. Whitmore thought that question would be easily disposal of when the balance sheet was completed to the day of stoppage at Calcutta. REFUSAL TO PAY A FIRE ENGlNEER. —Yesterday the Churchwardens of the parish in which the Mansion-house stands appeared before the LORD MAYOR, to resist the demand of the fire-engineer for the prompt appearance of the parish engine at a house at the corner of Charlotte row, in the Poultry. Robert Collins (engineer), between cne and two o'clock on Sunday morning, got up in consequence of an alarm of fire from the neighbourhood of the premises of the British Colour Company. Upon going to the place be found that a cellar had been just broken open, and one of the men was pulling out a basket in which were some combustibles on fire. Nu part of the holm was on fire, but . the basket which contained the burning materials was lying under the house and close to some casks, which would, if the fire had not been. so soon detected, most probably have taken fire. Mr. Thomas, the vestry clerk, objected to the claim upon the ground that the fire in the basket had nothing to do with the fire in the house, and argued that the Act of Parliament requited that the fire should be in the house in order to entitle the engineer to the usual reward. The LORD MAYOR said that whatever might have been the immediate cause of the fire, the engineer had certainly done his duty in promptly attending to extinguish it. The engineer raid the materials in the basket were of themselves capable of igniting without coming in contact with fire in any way. The parish was ordered to pay the reward. PAROCHIAL R ATES. —Mr. Wilson, one of the inhabis tants of Tower Ward, was summoned for refusing to pay 5/...101._ 6d. watch rate for warehouse and vaults. Mr. Wilson felt justified in refusing, upon the ground that the authotities o! the ward had promised him, when he took the premises, which were very extensive, and wanted great reptir, not to ask for the watch rate until he should have completed them. Now they were not completed, and he did not know when they would be competed. Lie was, however, willing to be rated from Michaelmas for the warehouse alone. Alderman LUCAS said that the authorities had consented not to rate Mr. Wilson until the premises should be in ouch a condition as to be turned to account. Now the fact was, that though not finished they were let off in rooms to individuals, and large profit was derived from them by the owner. Mr. Smith (the wbarfinger, formerly a Common Coun cilman of the Ward) asked Mr. Wilson whether his warehouse had not been occupied in any way in 1831 ? Mr. Wilson—No; it was not, except by kick and mortar. Mr. Smith—HA you not 486 cases of guns put in at one time? Mr. Wilson—Why, yes. Mr. Smith—And had not you 186 Claes more put in soon afterwards? Mr. Wilson—Perhaps there might. The Loan MAYOR—And do you do these things for nothing?—(.A laugh.) Mr. Wihon—l get a mere trifle. Mr. Smith—He has, we positively know, let out part of his premises in tenements at 4s. and 3s. 6d. each room, and we only rate him at 2001. a year, while he turns his preiiiiies to acc,unt to the tune of 800/. The creditors, without hesitation, signed the certificate, and the best understanding seems to exist between the bankrupts and their numerous creditors. MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS. ATROCIOUSLY CRUM A SSAULT.-,-. T. W. Beville, was indicted for assaulting, on the Sth February last, Miss Mary Grose, a female of delicate ladylike appearance and manners. An affecting circumstance relative to the awful visitation of the Almighty occurred on Tuesday morning at Islington. As the corpse of the wife of a labouring man lay in the coffin previous to interment, the afflicted husband drew near to take a last farewell of the once- loved partner of his joys and sorrows. At this awful m o ment, when his eye was directed to the inanimate re— mains of his departed wife, he suddenly dropped down, and before medical assistance could be procured, expired. He bad been united to his wife upwards of fifty years, and what is strikinly remarkable in the annals of the marriage state, daring so long a period, the noise of dissension had never been heard betwee❑ them. There are some who stubbornly maintain that the lowly and ignorant are incapable of the nice touch of feeling inserir able to intelligent minds; the recital of the above must alter this position. THE INHUMAN INFANTICIDE AT RAT CLIFF-..-ADJOURNED INQUEST ON TUE Bonn.—Tue4day night, at nine o'clock, Mr. BAKER, the Coroner, and the Jury previously impanelled, reassembled at the Duke of York public-house, Salmon's-lane, Limeholice, further to prosecute their inquiry touching the death of a new-horn male infant, whose body was picked up in that neighour hood on Wednesday night last with the throat cut, and mutilated in the most shocking manner. The first witness called was Mr. BELLINGHAM, a surgeon, residing in Assembly-row, Mile-end, who read to the jury a minute technical statement of the appearances of the body, which he tliscovered on a post-mortem examination. The jugular was completely divided, evidently by a sharp instrument. There were also several other wounds on different parts of the body, all inflicted by a knife or other sharp instru ment, and both arms were broken. It was his opinion that the child was born alive, and that its death Was pro duced by the separation of the jugular. The deceased, he should think, was three or four days old, and the injuries he believed to have been inflicted before death, and bad been done with the intention of depriving it of life. Mr. CLELAND, another surgeon, corroborated the testimony of the last witness. His decided opinion, he sal, was, that, the deceased infant was born alive, and that its death had been occasioned by violence, The wound in the throat was an inch and a quarter in length, and an inch in depth, and was sufficient to cause its death, particularly in so young a child. Juror—What age do you suppose the child was at the time it was destroyed ?—I should think from three to four or five days. Other witnesses were examined, but not a tittle of evidence was given to implicate any person in the foul deed, and the Jury, at a quarter to twlve o'clock, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." Mr. Wilson was then called upon to pay the sum of 31. 195., the rate upon the warehouse alone, and having refused was convicted. He then gave notice of appeal to the Court of Aldermen. The defendant has long bten known in this Court as an attorney. A TEMPERATE VILLAGE.—In the village of Amesbury, Ma'sachusetts, containing a population of 2,000 souls, and which has two public taverns and 14 stores, there is not at this time a single gallon of ardent spirits of any description whatever. The people are al temp‘!rate. —New York Advertiser. Foreign 9 0 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, ucr 451 b 2lO 0 ' Irish - Foreign BA RLEY, English, Maltin g , p er I mp. quarter 3O 0 • * - Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 3lO 42 IleAris, English, per Imperial quarter 37 0 3 1 r -----. Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 4 0 I - Foreign n 1 FLourt, English u , per 2801 b. 44 "„ 4 , ---- I riSll °ATM FAL, English an d I r i s h, per 2401b s 2O 0 0,1 INDIAN CORN, per 4444 b. LIVE, per Imperial quarter Nlavr, per Imperial quarter . te ' 1 MFORT OF O Aug 10 V RAIN fur the Week ending AU Wheat. Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. ( Foreign , Brls.flrish y grA i Scks• 0 7 ,, 6,827 5,V8 , 459 -- LORD ERSKlNE.—Describing the state of mini of a luishand, who fun•ily attached to his wife, suspects her fidelity, he painted the different workings of his soul in the most aiLeting colours, and in the tno , t pathetic language—the agonies of suspense—the feverish irritation of unrelieved doubt—the struggles of the the wounded spirit, as to a fact which, while the heart wi,hed to disbelieve, his mind told hiin was hut too true. The jury followed him with fixed attention, and the audi ence with deep solicitude for the verdict. He closed the statement with Othello's words, from Shakspeare, which so well applied to his case : " But, oh ! what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doubts, believes, suspects, but strongly loves !" MEETINGS OF CREDITORS ,0 AT THE COURT, BASINGLIALL-STRI' . . , This was pronounced with a considerable degree of pathos. " But," continued the eloquent advocate, "when suspicion is realized into certainty, and his dishonour is placed be yond the reach of doubt, despair assumes her dominion over the afflicted man ; and well might he exclaim, from the same page— Had it pleased Heaven To try me with affliction—had he raised All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, Stccp'd me in poverty to the very lips— Given to captivity me and my hopes— I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But now-----" The prosecutrix, in an artless and simple manner, de tailed her sufferings. She was a dressmaker, and was employed by many respectable families, and wholly de pendunt on her own exertions for a livelihood. In Feb. last, she occupied an unfurnished apartment of the defend ant, at No. '7, Henry-street, Hampstead-road, where she had with her a brother, wh o r , she had released from Whitecross-street prison, an who was fast dying of consumption. Her brother was entirely supported by her exertions, and by the making away with what little pro perty and trinkets she possessed. The prisoner offered to cure her brother for 1/. 55., and she accepted his services and paid the stipulated sum ; but, finding afterwards his prescriptions did h arm i nstead of good, she called in the aid of Dr. Thompson. The prisoner afther this rather abruptly demanded the arrears of rent owing, although the time stipulated for payment had not arrived, and threatened if not paid to put in a distress. She procured the money and tendered it, but he several times refused to re ceive it, under various pretences. He at last took it, and told her either she must quit, or pay an advanced rent. She appealed to his humanity, observing that he knew how she was situated with a dying brother, and that she could not afford to pay more; but the appeal was lost upon hien, and she therefore gave him notice of her intention to quit. At this time her brother was in such a state that the physician said it would be unsafe to move outhim ntisi t ' l e se, O wl v B er which the prisoner had n ghed, ther e fore, to oh ar moinsteO and lioth this ro om h er b rot h er was remove d on in a lito of iir room jee blanket, trt ohre h and .o Into on the same afternoon the poosecutrix tendered the weeks rent owing to the prisoner's wife, who refused to receive it, as she did also a few paltry articles, not worth three shillings, which she had previously lent to the proseetitrix, under the plea that she could do nothing in the absence of her husband. Under these circumstances the proaecutria, for greater security, removed the articles to her new apartment. The same morning about three alclock, as she was sitting up watching her brother, the (From the London Gazette.) ti• TO-MORROW, Am 21. I I L. Wood, cow.keeper, T a ber nac l e - wa lk . .. ........... : ........ DIVIDENDS. 0" . A. Henderson, linen-draper, Walli ngford, B er k s hire. ..• ~0 I ). Currie, army-accoutr e m en t- ma k er , Regent-street •••••,,,, J. Blake, eh) mist, Norton-falgate ............................. o' :., - - The' legal opinions on the extent of 1 vileges of the Bank of England have been verf.l fol'owed up by arrangements for establishing a P in bank of deposit, prospectuses for which have b ee ll r i lating to-day in the city. It is announced as on a ` en 0 / scale, with a capital of 10,000,0001., and is to b e 0, c o the London and Wesminister Bank. In the lie ( : ite 1 given as the conductors of the undertaking are 0 ;0. of rank and great property, but not such as the e s pil.; l talists would be disposed to place confidence in, to t n; ing the requisite knowledge for such an uride' et to . s which can only succeed by the union of great tOe t i with a great talent for b us i ness. It i s nece ssaryt, to ii to caution the publi c , w h o may otherw i se be ineLleut rush madly into suc h un d ertak i ngs, t h at t h e rierrj basking in London are very low, and must be „ t r reduced by those who would engage in competi t 'iee? Y the banking establishments which already exist. 00 , ' first few years, we suspect, there will he more pub,oo( ) than private advantage result from such under t 'A They may offer, with good management—not othe r e A a fair investment for money, but it would be th e K A of folly to reckon on exorbitant gains from thee'. f $ should not confound such a bank with the Bank :far. land, whose chief profits are derived from the iss ue 1 and the Government business.— Times. T.. DI ofi r THE LATE MURDER AT SLADP•": A. bIO,j I Thursday's paper we briefly noticed the ne'„" t dirtt murder of WALTER BREEN, a young lad ah l2- 0 ,0 0 years of age, and son of a very respectable : I :P(4 Slade, in the county of Wexford. The n i " - eri committed on Sunday night, or rather early " I ' d 4.1 morning, while the deceased lay asleep in h e , r ge t yl younger brother. The deadly weapon was a 1,1/ 41 1 1 4 harrow pin, with which only one blow was i e ;:hle°o l fractured the skull, and rendered the victim sP ee- I'6 o o' the short time he survived the assassin's s troke. be trial discovery of the murd e r w as a b ou t 5 o ' c l oc k in the theOt ing, when the younger brother awoke and font' l e 0 deluged with blood. He then gave an alai .° jel e ol fema'e servant and mother of the deceased Id ist7f, room. The cause assigned for the horrible de oo l o l o' to: deceased, who had only returned from Oh 001 er days previously, during vacation, had observed 5 019 propriety between BRIEN (the supposed murdl e re idi female servant in the house, of which he in''' et f il mother, and for which she discharged the female O,4 and obliged BRIEN to sleep in an outhouse., or morning of the murder a female servant We b early, and whilst going for some water to a nelg o o 0 4 boit well the murderer entered the house,- and it i'„ o'9 not to make any noise by hi e Oi l i° c ht o ea m kfe m einl i o t ov t iff ed i wnthltihieleerkleietdc going.he nuOppnuottfttLejtlti. bo( B sihieu a dort r ehi BRIEN, after imi'rle a Ci f c t : c hanh r beols p iserea u ;w t ec putting had n t g on his shoes, immedirtel X t se t or house, hut returned about 12 o' c l oc k, and her°oloe W messenger despatched for the poli ce h e a O', Dl f , sconded, when an immediate pursuit after bi° l o o , Ilse menced. Sergeant MORTON and sub-constabln e oie e c e and BRIEN, of Whitechurcb, who aooorq o .o o 4l. Mess's. BARRY in the pursuit, were on theirr e ;o o after a long search, and, whilst passing throng ori ll end of the village of Ferrybank they observed 6e Al or. sons congregated together, looking over a wal l * the 40. by the crowd, Sergeant MORTON t heyapproacbed pi ke and, to his surprise, be saw the very fellow ore/ long in pursuit of, laying under a hayrick, o es 0 0 1 ; stupified from the effects of whisky. He was 'tle A i ,„ and conveyed to our county gaol, and was Y r es 'igsn: ' r i d ,' mitted to Arthurstown, and thence to Wail " e f 1 , inquest was held on Thursday on the b°"Y re tufe ceased, and a verdict of Wilful Murder wa g • ie. / the jury against BRlEN.—Waterford Chrool o -,.- __......" lie stoppe I, and the effect was visible in every eye in the Count. The language of Shakspearc, ever true to nature, never fails to make its way to the heart. No one knew how to give it that direction with more truth and effect than Erskine.—Fraser's Magazine. On Tuesday morning, about half-past five o'clock, as a man named SMITH, in the employment of Mr. WittGra, landlord of the King George IV., on Brixton•hill, was going to work in a field near his mas ter's house, he observed what appcared a large parcel of silk floating on the surface of a deep pond, situated in Cie fi e ld. He immediately procured a rake from some brickmakers, and with the rake drew the body of an &duly female on shore. When the body was taken out of the water and examined, there appeared a cut on the left temple, and the face was much swollen, and a portion of one of the cheeks assumed a dark blue colour, approaching to black. From the general appearance of the deceased, it was strongly suspected that she had been beaten about the head and face, and afterwards thrown into the pond, and these sus picions were strengthened in consequence of a wound which was perceptible on the top of her head, and from which blood was flowiog when she Wai dragged out of the water. The Coroner for the county being apprised of the circumstance, attended yesterday at the George the Fourth, in the Brixton•road, for the purpose of bolding an inquest on the body. Several witnessi;s were examined, a! 1 amongst them a serjeant and cot stable i belonging t o th e P Division and from whose test i mony t appeared that the deceased had been observed in the Brixton-road, On Tues- day morning, at half-past one o'clock, evid e n t l y un d er the influence of liquor. The serjeant spoke to the deceased, offering his assistance to conduct her tri the road home, but she rejected his offer with contempt, say i ng that she • was quite capable of taking care of herself. She was then left by herself to pursue her journ e y, an d nothing more was heard or seen of her until she was found the same morn ing in the pond. A surgeon, who examined with great minuteness the wounds, pronounced it as his opinion that they were caused by falls, previously to her having got into the pond. After a lengthened investigation, the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally drowned." On the 21st i ns t., a t K en ti s h-t own , the la" -- Pr , f t ' ,4. BIRTHS. 4 g r. , Bull, o of Holles_street, Cavendish.square of a s",;011, fz ii On the 19th inst., at Blackheath, the ' lady of '. 1. Esq , of a son.,tAi° CA I di On the nth inst., at Twickenham, the lady of ' A uA re' Sharp, of a daughter. ladyO n of t j li , e )hi tll o st ar i r l a is t t r . : Eizsiq.C,hoefstaerd-saturegehtt,erß. e/gr ave I, 1 44 MARRIED. A , 310 1 1 rC t ', On the 22d inst., at Christ Church, Surrey', , ' - ‘ !„,,1- ,-r l i t , Esq., eldest son of Thomas Horne, Esq., of Stan w ", - 0 0 g i l Mary Ann Lawson, of Garston-hall, Surrey, e lidc' a el A . , the late James Lawson, Esq., of Norwood. or ? Pdro, On the 122 d inst., at Marylebone Church, l! e , h 11 , - O r i ijs , ,,, son of the late .Major-Gencral Darby Gr ill " ' to ~, Guards, of Padworth_house, Berkshire, PO 0.. 11.1 youngest (laughter of the late Thomas Bainbridge' ~,,00d, lodge, Surrey, Esq. I 11. f ° l; i ' l On the '22d inst., at Croydon, Lieutenant ~,, ...,ige , P Mary Ann, daughter of J. Birkett, Esq., Beaulie -1., A le DIED. , voiro -° * if On the 21st inst., in New Burlington-streel , 4#' Esq , surgeon. , of VIA' (l eg On the 21st inst., the wif e o f Mr. W. Be nll3 o ctis road, London. , p tal'' i „ On the 20th inst., at Saxinundliam , Su abi tist a i ;WC Z ° Baynes, Assistant Dock-master at the Last In/ _----- Al l MIR _____...--- ,I; , ---- ~- y 0 V ' PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU RD ~., Sus OrEI co, 112, STRAND. year—vessels even go direct to Trebizond, and, if HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Mr. Thomas Scott, an extensive watch manuf.ctuicr, residing at No. 20, Salisbury street, Strand, was brought to the office in a hackney coach, in the custody of Robinson, of G. division, followed by an immense crowd of persons, from Rosoman street station house, charged by Mr. James Morgan, a master tailor, of Meredith-street, Clerkenwell, and James Wallace, police constable 152 G, with having assaulted them in a most indecent manner. The case excited considerable interest, and the office was excessively crowded by respectable in dividuals, After an examination which lasted some time the pri soner asked if be could put in bail? Mr. Sergeant SELLON-Certainly, it is a bailable of fence; but it, must he vety good bail, and forty-eight hours' notice of it will be required. The prisoner was then removed from the bar am! locked up by Waddington. Jane Gunne, a woman of prepossessing appearance, about twenty years of age, was charged by George Findley of G division. The officer at about two o'clock yester day morning found the prisoner crying and wandering about in Calthorpe-fields, and, believing her deranged, he took her to the station-house, whrre it was discovered that she had cut her throat, upon which there were three slight wounds. The prisoner was in distress, and had been from Ireland three months. She norked at her needle; but not being able to get work she had been without food for two and three days together. She had no friends, and she con templated self.destruction, and had made the wounds on her throat with a razor, but her courage failed her. Mr. Sergeant SELLON reprimanded her, and said she should not give way to such foolish idle notions. Prisoner (burstinst into a flood of tears)—l am not idle ; I am willing to work. Mr. Sergeant SELLON-Then why make such a horrid attempt upon your life, and rush into the presence of God with your sins upon your head ? Prisoner (trembling and crying)—l was destitute and could get no work. I had no food, and rather than do any thing to disgrace my self I thought of killing myself. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Had she been drinking? Pri soner—Oh dear no, your Worship. Inspector Busaine—l can only say, your Worship, that she did not smell of liquor when she was brought to the station-house, but she portrayed evident symptoms of insanity. . . Mr. Sergeant &LLCM asked where she lived ? Prisoner --I have slept at Mrs. Cronan's, No. 8, Fox-court, Gray's Inn-lane, since I have been in London; and I wish to go back to Ireland. Mrs. Cronan was sent for, and soon afterwards she ar rived, and described the prisoner as an industrious sobs r girl, a beautiful hand at her needle, but could get no work, and she gave way to melancholy ; she bad been here three months ; in fact her description exactly corresponded with the prisoner's, and the sympathy of Mr. Sergeant Sellon and every body present that could feel was excited. Mr. Sergeant SELLON asked her if she was comfort able at Mrs. Cronan's? Prisoner—She did everything to make me so, but she is a poor woman, and I did not like to press upon her. I hope I am not going to be locked up with thieves. Mr. Sergeant FELLON ordered that:half-a-crown should be given to her, and she was relieved temporarily by other persons. Ile gave her feeling and appropriate ad vice, and said he would make some future inquiries about her ; and if she took care of herself and would shun such foolish notions he would procure her a pass to her own country, and render her further aSSiStanee. MR. LAING, THE MactsTa..s.TE, ASti) GEORGE WA R.. ' , E N, A PRIVATE SOLDIER.-011 Thursday evening last, when Mr. LAING took his seat on the Bench, a private soldier entered the Court, and in a Yorkshire dialect said, Plaise yer Worship, I want to ask you whether if a woman has been brought to bed of a child two years she can swear it to the feather ?"—(l.aughter.) Mr. LAING—You had better send the woman herself to ask the question. Sddier—Why, d'ye see, it bees tnoy sisther, and I only wan t to know whether she can tin the loike? Mr. LArso—Then I refuse to answer you the question. Slldier—You do, do ye ? Then I'll report you to my Commanding Officer (leaving the office.) Mr. LAING—HaII, bring that fellow back. ; Ball brought him back, when .~ r. si Pei Co to t be of th e to ‘ 4 . 1 1