The Sun. — London, England, 1833-11-18 00:00:00

:,,, ..../7-t-ti/e) ~... . NA AL INTELLIGENCE. ,; ,-. -- . F ., "C f. ) ( ,4. 1 A;t 11 - 3 - - PoßTsmornr, Nov. 16. —The Algerine, 10 ~,,„„f k. ,..., , -7 , 4 %.74, `C> . o..tri, - , 1 / 2 , . , r ~.`'.",, ' t Hon. Commander de Roos, arrived to-day from -1% i, >4t _ . ~-,4- T IF :/.,'IN k ....."'- , . 4.. -...0,-..-44_ , ~., ''''' ', Ol i :eglz \ \ *, '"'"-e.O- 7 , , . ' ' '‘ l___ , 7 _ ~4 1 1 4( , , nasil ,L f 5.7 7....... : ' --. ~, - 4:— . ol•4 _l r . ts,:n \1 ,.,, ,v South America, h4ving left Rio on the 211 Sep .., -.... • $ -: .' sr. l' t4 s:::,. ' ::- , r ‘ ,. * •-•:. ~,. , -, , tember, on which day Rear-Adm:ral Sir M. Soy •-..* 1 - , .. , ...,v, ~F - . •,s's: , - ,•, - - ---, : ~., .„..,;,' bit 11 , 1*sty'_s ship Sparriate 74, sailed on ,• .t.,- , ... e , ' , - - o ,ls v.,, ,,,.... ? 0.! , •$ s.'/- t ... ) ---rr ...", .. - :,,,,5t-,L,..„ 4 „. . , ... ... $ . • • . ~,A., ..,...,04.- , . .„ „ A a b ... . ... ---•.- t,.____ r . I t 7; ."- 4,,, , ..,":. „ i / - - 7 - Ss"'' ~. .??,,,Z, ft. 7 0,:•••'"' 7 .., 7 1.) .i - s":"•----... s: ,5 - . 1 r . :„.:._ ~_ - - 0 - - -- . - - , ~, , T t: - - ia . . ~. . . "I"'" 41' ' t 61f - on e . r- . ep ember - ... _ ' .....„ ..—... - _ though the d e preciated st a t e o f t h e ' $1 / e, 12,851.) LONDON MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18,- - 18: —,—.. 3:? , . , , --- ------ (PRICE 7D.) still keeps the northern provinces i '.- . ,-.l4ste 1. merit, and interfove. 1113 4444- 10;: , commereuil --„ . • TT - ~... -- .. , ik ~ ~. „ . r m ortu ga l h a d cawed.-- relations. TrilvVeitk s,ilP° ADMIRALTY. Nov. 15, /833. 7'o NAVAL AND MARINE OFFICERS ON HALF-PAY. ttlE RIGHT HONOURABLE the it„ LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the ADNII : ,114iLLTY her e b y g i ve not i ce , t h at i n f uture th e rotat i on i n e " lia!f-pay will be paid to Officers will be as follows: l Class--Pursers, Masters, Surgeons. Clus—Lieutenants at ss. and und'ar. Class—Lieutenants at 6s. and 7s. ; and Chaplains. ,th Class —Admirals, Captains, Commanders. t mill therefore be necessary, in order to prevent s iaY and inconvenience to the Officers themselves, that effiday. should be delivered into the Wages Office, e Admiralty Offi ce , S omerset -h ouse—or forwarded itt t _ue Secretary the Admiralty—or t o th e i r respect i ve t io : t te7---as soon as possible afte: the last day of every It 80 metimes happens that Officers apply personally fiu tifirilr half -p ay , w i t h out h av i ng prev i ously sent in their I.l 4 vils, as required by the usual advertisement. Any or inconvenience to which they might be subj-ct by t o ' ,, l 'versight it is in the power of the Officers themselves A ""ern, by an adherence to the existing regulations. o‘,angetnents are in progres3 which it is expected trill of the Payment of Half-pay always commencing on I tlth day a f ter t h e en d o f eac h Q uarter, i nstead of at kic U ncertain and more di s t ant per i o d s h ereto f ore custo bh'Y'—of Which, however, due Notice will be given eri the next Quarter's Half-Pay is advertised. By command of their Lordships, JOHINt BARROW. utea 71. lII ' ) 9. 0, I. 94. ) 1 ( 4 ' 1 5`' P. )., 6 1 . 109. )I' 2l ' 1" . . 0 11 ' tS OLD ESTABLISHED COMMERCIAL INN. CROWN AND THISTLE. NEWCASTLE. UPON-TYNE. e ALPH WALTON, having taken and entered upon the above well known Inn, which he has completely repaired and refitted with new Furniture of the best Description, respectfully informs his Friends Commercial Gentlemen, and the Public trenerally, that his leading object has been their accommodation, and with this v;ew he has directed his attention most particularly to the sleeping department, which will be found to corn- Line every comfort and convenience. R. W. begs to assure them that his Establishment shall be conducted upon a scale of liberality, which cannot fail to insure their Patronage. R. W., having paid due attention to the selection of his wines and spirits, feels confident that they will give satisfaction to those who may honour him with their favours. ▪ f 54 0 • 1 51 0 , er ton' ,ittd• with the Lord Mayor. While living ‘"vitli the pro, sccutrix she became acquainted with another lodger named Mrs. Thompson, employed by Mrs. Newton, a furrier, who understanding that she wanted a beautiful fur tippet, introduced her to Mrs. Ne wton. She was entertained by the creduloua furrier to tea and supper, and she then gave an order for a tippet, value .51. 10s., after which she returned to her lodg ing, and kept her bed until last Friday. She then directed her landlady to carry several notes, which sh e said she had written to get some money from Mr. George at the Belle Sauvage, and her friends. The notes were, however, only scrawled over with a pen and ink ; and it subsequently turned out that th e fair deceiver could not write. The prosecutrix had just left the house, when the s i c k l a d y t h rust her head ou t o f the window, and said," Mrs. Beau mont, I think my appetite is returning, so you may bring a pound of pork chops, some pickles, and fresh butter home for my breakfast." The pro secutrix had taken the precaution to lock the room door; but, on her return from her fruitless journey, sh e found that the wary damsel had forced the lock, and absconded with a bundle of wearing apparel. She was, however, tracked and apprehended. The defendant, who looks very innocent and simple, was fully committed. little excitement, although the return of Don Pedro to Brazil is still expected by a large party in that country.—The Snake, 16, Commander Rob, , rson, had sailed for Maldonado!, with stores for the Beagle ; and the Sattllite, 18, Corn. Smart, was stationed to protect British commerce in the north ern ports. The Dublin, 52, Lord J. Townshend ; Sarnarang, 18, Captain Paget ; Pylades, 18, Corn. Blankley ; and Tyne, 28, Captain Hope, were in the Pacific; the latter was expected from thence in December. The Lapwing packet sailed for Bahia, Pernambuco, and England, on the 20th Setnember. October 30th, lat. 36 N.-long. 30 W. .poke the chip Intrinsic, of Liverpool, hound to Liverpool, 30 days from Bahia. The ship Lame arrive,/ the day before the Algerine left Rio. 7th November, lat. 46 N. long. 24 W. spoke the Spinster, 40 days from Demerara. MANSION- HOUSE. - - --- On Saturday Mr. George Pratt, of No. 13, Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, agent in London to Messrs. John and William Taylor, manufac turers of sewing cotton, of Leicester, applied to the Lord Mayor under the following circumstances: — Mr. Pratt stated that a foreigner, who went by three names, which he changed from one to the other according to circumstances, and to answer the purposes of imposition, bad procured a quantity of goods from Messrs. Taylor, who discovered that their customer the moment he received the pro perty sent it up to London for sale. Dombrowsky was the name in which he dealt with the house, Lieven was that in which he transacted business in other parts of the country, and Adolphus was the third name, which he used occasionally in aid of his swindling manoeuvres. He had resorted to the old expedient of ordering and paying for small quantities of goods. At last he gave a large order, which was sent to him at Nottingham, and for which no money had been received. This order there was good reason to suppose had been at once brought from Nottingham to London, and immediately sold. He (the agent) having received intelligence of the transaction went round to those in London who dealt in the article (Persian thread), and applied to Messrs. Leaf and Co., B ,Watling-street. He was suc cessful in this quarter in finding the very thing he sought, but said nothing as to the manner in which Donbransky had got possession of it. Having ap peared merely as a customer, he was at once shown the article, and asked for it just 35 per cent, less than the price at which Messrs. Taylor could have sold it. OFFICIAL. Pf ur , l3 Y AUTHORITY OF PARLIAMENT, U I E SECOND GLASGOW LOT TERY will be Drawn at Coopers' Hall, in the I ,of Lo n d on, ou WnNEsDAY, the 22d January next. Ve Sch eme, which may be had gratis at the Lottery , contains Prizes of -, ( 1 5,000 „t 3,000 XIO,OOO I £2,000 1,4 X 5 ,000 £1,500 e value of each Prize may be He to o \a as drawn, if preferred. N.B. First-rate Stabling, and a careful floeler. Now reedy, in I vol. 9e., board 9, T HE REFORM ; being the MEMBER and the RADICAL. £l,OOO X5OO &v. &e. ived IN MONEY By JOHN GALT. Printed for James Fraser, 215, Regent -street ; and a 1 BoAsellers. Iwo' 66 F 6 • 10 g wor.- 15 p roll , ' 11 3 I and ' l a 6 C ° ' I 9 p 'o.**'l o 6 19 ie 6 • 91 51 5 !tton• 39 3 n 's... 51 9 196 CnoW I 19 5 lam 0 6 61▪ 1 lb NATIONAL SOCIETY for PRONIOI ING t h e EDUCAT NIO of the POOR in the Prin• l e t' of th e Established Church. 1 1 4 "rmitquence of the grant of 20,0001. recently voted P arliament, in aid of private subscriptions for the rl 'e4t i°n of Schools for the Education of the Poorer a this Society is now prepared to receive and trans 't the L or d s o f hi s M ajesty ' s T reasury, M emor i a l s f or l i nce toward s th e erect i on o f S c h oo l- rooms f or th e 4 ° s f 8 . unday and daily or Infant Schools iu union with 4411 of Applitration may be procurt d of the Secretary. J. C. WIGRAM, A.M., Secretary. ?th Central School, Sanctuary, Westminster. "., 1833. CANNIBALISM. The LORD MAYOR—Donbranski had established a regular credit with Mr. Taylor, and I can there fore afford no relief. Had you a reference with him ? Mr. Pratt replied in the affirmative, and stated that the house referred to had lost 600/. or 700/. by the swindler, who, the moment he got the property into his hands, started off, when he could get purchasers at an easy rate, and disposed of it. The LORD MAYOR—The reference is undeniable proof that the case is one merely of debtor and cre ditor. ALB lON HOUS O E, 77, and 78, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 4 31,E1' and MILNER beg respecifully 1 10 announc e th a t th e y h ave no w rea dy for i n sp e cti on !ti t . ' , 131 t exten s i ve an d f as hi ona bl e di s pl a y o f F ore i gn an d rin " Shawls ever offered in the metropolis, which i t te itY, variety, and elegance, cannot he equalled. B. 'ti t . Pledge themselves to effect for ladies purchasine at !tt:llablishanent, a saving of at least 50 per cent. The allowed for Foreign Shawls. Mr. Pratt—lt is very hard that Messrs. —, who must know the value of the article, are now underselling us in the market with the very article for which we received nothing. The LORD MAYOR—This is a matter of mere conscience. It is certain that you have sold the goods. SHAWL WAREHOUSE. 4 E SSRS. J. and J. HOLMES' Establish ent . being now so justly celebrated tor the beauty t 44 4 tieetron of its SHAWLS, they deem any remark to general general Stock superfluous; at the same time they al lude to th e E nve l oppe d e C ac h em i re , which has ~ltg e t 13 erri so much notoriety as designers of novelty and otWlsand Ladies wishing to p a rt with th e i r I n di an 'l 4te I '4ll b e mas t lib e rally t reate d w i t h e i t h er i n ex °l. Purchase. ..„..171 and 173, REGENT-STREET. Mr. Pratt—lt must have been known that Messrs. Taylor were the manufacturers of the goods. The LORD MAYOR—You can consult your attor ney on the subject of an action in trover, but I can not do any thing. I lament that I cannot assist you. Mr. Pratt thanked his Lordship for the interest he kindly took in the case, and stated that Mr. Parker, his solicitor, had given the same opinion as his Lordship had given, and it was not by Mr. Parker's advice that he applied at the Mansion house. '714. N. to,, Ss " ,- 3 g 15 6 0 19 BEET' ,t t eet , ,i n sto•:, 0 rare , ......... is no' be npo ° kfriach --*'‘ .''' ,,l Ap AND POPULAR SERIES OF SACRED ,th e , MUSIC. : v 4" of December, No. I. (and continued on the first iineach su ccee di ng M on th), price Is. 6d., printed 4,' , c Foli o s i ze, o f t h e ‘ -; ItED MINSTREL ; a comprehensive I('llection of the finest and most admired SACRED ed of the greatest Masters of all Ages and Nations, 't it 4 s Solos, Duets, Trios, Choruses, &c., and with th,P4nitnents for the Piano-Forte or Organ : adapted t t ," cl u6 e of Select Parties and of Families. 't oo John W. Parker, W es t Stra n d. Edi n b urg h ; -,:,.„ -41 L130 ) -d. Dublin : NV. Curry, jun., and Co. Just ready, in 2 vols. post Svo., 'VAL ADVENTURES. t. - i. By Lieutenant BOWERS, R.N. I ng Narrative of 35 Years' Service in various Parts of the World. • !il ! l ithard Bentley, New Burlington•street. for Scotl an d, M essrs . B e ll an d B ra df ute , Edi n - Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. 1 , 16 Just ready. I\ti t4 and Fourth Volume., being the Conclusion of EAST INDIA SKETCH-BOOK ; f Or, LIFE IN INDIA. e lt Copies may still be had of Vols. I. and 11. I ttp R ichard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Or Scotlnd, Messrs Bell and Bradfute, Edin jreland,a Mr. John . Cumming, Dublin. one, d ~c r(4 ;tO-, d A, 15e C°1) of th e 4 °° )evi %e lti ,r e l chitTep.po d° o " rf al‘i ° O P( CP' et P " Pdi r gh ter l oi' ti t' 10' Viel O ot j‘t i (A r 7 to € Itin v ' iif t ret tet' lo tik hn V IC4I Of o, oo ° ot te, _pel 4. ' co t u jot _Ac e ; e; di:ll°Y(f. - ,1 $ 0' tt 11 Ai" Iy I3 RITISH PLATE Manufactured b I *,, y EVERED and CO., 148, high Hal_ `to th e r auted super i or to any ot h er M eta l hi t h erto i k It it Public as a substitute for Silv e r or Pl ate d •,' t o! a solid metal, quite as durable as silver, will A t as well, and all the articles made from , r o tt ti , 41;13t there is no liability of its breaking. ' t followin low • . 0 g prices . It.i i Fiddle King's , I tt 411,1 m Pattern . Pattern. 10. Poons Per Dm-4'2s Od. it ° . ." ....30 0 1. .. ......... ... ............. Ditto 4B 0 , ......................... Ditto 16 0 3O 0 N'ili.q.:_. ........................ L ' t itt,',44n i clitt o Ditt0...... 2 0 .... ..... 3 0 '''li:tltll 3 'I , Knife Ditto 14 0 lB 0 t ~ .. .... utter ditto --Ditto 5 0 ......... 7 0 t ,. ...................... „Ditto 3 6 6 0 ,°) ',... .................. Per Pair.— 4 6 YIN 4 `ePots, Candlesticks, and every article rstail.--.148, km ° iu Silver, at the same economical r a t e , High Holborn. The inspector appointed for this district, under the Factory Bill, met the manufacturers in Taun ton on Saturday last. They represented to him in strong terms the utter impracticability of the measure. The provisions, they say, are so vexatious, that masters will I.e unable to escape the numerous penalties to which they are made liable. A general notice has been given of a reduction of wages, which has, of course, occasioned much discontent among the workmen.—Sherborne Journal. MAKING THE MOST OF THINGS.—A piece of fossilized wood that was lately found in Cragleith quarry has been surrounded by a wooden tenement and made a show of—no visiter being admitted by the Cer berus placed over it unless be is soothed by the sop of a shilling. No wonder that there are complaints of the little taste displayed for national science here, when such selfish restrictions are resorted to, which keep the public from profiting by the inspection of national curiosities,— Edinburgh Observer. FATAL FOX-HUNTING ACCIDENT.—LiSt Friday Mr. Hammond, a member of Merton College. Ox ford, went out with Lord Radnor's fox hounds, and, we are extremely sorry to say, in taking a leap over a a low fence, in company with Mr. Goodlake, near " The Sands" farm, wis thrown from his horse, when he pitched on his head, and so seriously fractured the skull and injured the brain, as to render him totally insensible. He was taken to Mr. Mattingley's house, near Shiliingford, where he died the same evening. —Doncaster Gazette. COURTSHIP IN AMERICA —Cobbett says " The girls are beautiful and unaffected : perfr ct'y frank, and, at the same time perfectly modest ; but, when you make theirs an offer of your band, be prepared to give it— for wait they will not. In England we frequ , ntly hear of courtship of a quarter of a century ; in that anti- Malthusian country, a quarter of a year is considered rather lengthy !'" ARRIVAL OF MR. O'CONNELL.—Mr. O'Connell arrived in town yesterday evening at his house in Merrien-square, in his traveiling carriage. The Hon. Gentleman, we understand, came direct from Frenchlawn, in the county of Roscommon, the scat of his son-in-law, N. J. French, Esq. We were happy to hear that Mr. O'Connell appeared in the best possible health and spirits. —Dublin Freeman's Journal, Saturday. DREADFUL SUICIDE IN THE FLEET PRI soN or THE REV. J. B. 131N6LEY.-00 Saturday evening an inquest was held in the Fleet Prison on the body of the Rev. John Borthwicke Bingley, aged bO. The body of the deceased was• prostrate on the floor of one of the upper war4ls of the prison. The head was nearly severed from the body, and the place covered with blood. The de ceased, it appeared, formerly held a living in Yorkshire, where his family, who possess considerable estates, resided. Prior to his arrest he was known in the sporting world, in which he betted largely, and was unsuccessful. His misfortunes reduced him, and brought him within the walls of the prison about seven years aKo. He was subject to fits of epilepsy, and frequently laboured under a delusion of vision. He imagined that he saw visions before him, and he would often seize the poker and strike at every thing about him, calling out " Murder, murder !" as if some one was attacking him. He had lately been excited in consequence of a Captain Foster threatening him with a prosecution for slander. A prisoner, called Captain Roberts, had taken his penknife and other dangerous weapons from him, but on Friday evening he borrowed a razor from a person named Moffington, and shortly after was found in the water-closet with his throat cut He was heir to the Borthwicke estates. Verdict--" Tern perdu insanity." Ott Wednesday evening Captain Foreman, of the steam-packet Transit, bound to Hamburg from Hull, was standing near the binacle, the vessel being about 20 miles from Heligoland, when a tremendous wave struck the vessel on the counter, and causing her to make a heavy lurch to larboard, Captain Foreman was thrown backwards against the quarter rail and chain, and thence over into the sea. The mate ran towards the rail, saw Captain Foreman on the surface of the water, and heard him say twice, " My lads, save me," after which he disappeared. The coop and other moveable articles were thrown over• instantly, and the engine was stopped, but every attempt to save the unfortunate sufferer was useless. Captain Foreman was about 60 years of age. On Monday after noon the Duke of Wellinyton steam vessel was proceeding from Hull to Goole, when she caught the sand at Whitton Middle. The master, Captain Potter, ran upon deck, and at the same moment the vessel heeled down almost on her broadside, and Captain Potter was thrown over the rail into the river. Before assistance could be rendered, he disappeared. On Wednesday morning the Gainsborough steamer, Mercy, was proceeding along the Humber, during a thick fog, when she came in contact with the sloop George, Godfrey, heavily laden with seed, and having two casks of brandy on deck. By the concussion, the casks were stove, and the brandy running down into the cabin, took fire from the cabin stove, and set the vessel pat tially in flames. They were, however, soon got under, but not before Captain Godfrey had been slightly burned and in his fright, and to extinguish the fire which caught his dress, had leaped overboard. He, however, did not sustain any particular injury, but the machinery of the steam vessel was damaged, and she was obliged to return. —Hull Packet, SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.- About eight o'clock on Saturday morning a young woman of very interesting appearance, between 22 and 23 years of age, named Ann Matilda Martin, was brought into St. George's Hospital, in a state of extreme agony, having swallowed a dose of oxalic acid. She was directly placed in " Burton's Ward," and attended by Mr. Hicks, but such was her determination to destroy herself, that although suffering extreme torture, ebe resisted every endeavour to save her life, and it was at last necessary to place her under restraint, by strapping her down to a bed. By means of the stomach-pump the poison was extracted, and she eventually recovered, but remains in a state of great exhaustion. It appears from her statement that her parents were respectable, and that she had lived in service in several families of distinction, and had borne an unex ceptionably good character. About nine months ago she left her situation to attend upon her only surviving parent, her mother, who was labouring under severe illness, and continued with her up to the pepiod of her death, which occurred in about two months afterwards. She bad in the interim, however, the misfortune to form an acquaint.. sure with a young man of loose character; but of this fact she was not then aware. He succeeded in gaini ng h er affections, and, after accomplishing her ruin,:prevailed upon her to live with him. They bad resided together since then in Union•court, New-road, Sloane-street, Chelsea, where she has endured the most brutal treatment from her seducer, having been left for days without the common necessaries of lifc , and frequently beaten in such aninhu man manner that she has been left lying insensible on the floor, weltering in her blood. The disgrace she had brought upon her family prevented her from applying to any of her relatives, and she bad silently borne this state of excessive misery until her sufferings bad wrought up her feelings to a state of frenzied distraction, and induced her to form the resolution of ending her existence by sui cide. The young woman is still covered with the marks of the ill-treatment she has received.—Dispettch. G UILDHALL. EXTENSIVE SWINDLING AND ROBBERY-Alex ander Boyd was charged under the following cir cumstances : Captain Bratrah de Ella (of the Brazilian service, we believe) as he was passing along Fleet-street en Friday was accosted by a man, who pressed him to buy some excellent segars. He accompanied him to a room on the first floor at the Harrow, at the bottom of Water-lane, Fleet -street. Here he was shown not only segars but two very rich India shawls, for which 2.5/. were asked, but 201. were ultimately taken. Some pieces of Irish linen were also produced, and he made purchases to the amount of V. or 51. more. .1 he articles were packed up and sent to his Hotel; but, on opening the parcel, he found that common Manchester shawls bad been substituted for those which had been exhibited to. him; nor was this all, for he discovered that his pocket had been picked of five 201. notes, two 51. notes, and some sovereigns and private papers. The prisoner, who was apprehended from description, was one of the three men present in the room,— Remanded. B 0 TV- S TREE T. PARISH OF ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS.—The Vestry Clerk of the above parish attended, to re quest that the Magistrates would sign a poor-rate of 18. 9d. in the pound agreed to at a public vestry held on Thursday last. The Magistrates signed the rate, and Mr. Fenn gave immediate notice of appeal against it. The parties then left the office. HATT ON- GARDEN. The overseers of various parishes in the county of Middlesex were summoned to enforce the pay ment of the county rate, when Sir R. Buller, the county treasurer, attended. Mr. 111urph . y and Mr. Scadding, overseers of St. Pancras, were summoned to show cause why they refused to pay arrears of 1,3001. Mr. Murphy said that the parish was in such po verty that the inhabitants could not afford to pay the heavy taxes levied upon them. The inhabitants refused positively to pay their rates, which placed them (the overseers and directors) in an awkward dilemma. Mr. LAING made an order that the whole of the arrears should he paid in seven days, or they must take the consequences. The parties then quitted the office. UNION-HALL. Patrick Fitzgerald, a body-snatcher, was brought up on a peace warrant, charged with threatening the life of a Mrs. Hill, a delicate-looking female. The defendant had incurred a debt at her shop, and she called on him for payment. Instead, how ever, of his having settled the demand, he com menced abusing her. With this she would have borne had he not declared that he should never rest until he had her body. He then swore that he should deprive her of her windpipe, adding that when stretched in the dissecting-room, he should glory in seeing the students busily engaged in sepa rating her members from each other, and delivering a lecture over her mangled remains. The defendant, in answer to the charge said, that he was a trifle in debt to the complainant, and she pestered him about it, and in the height of anger he might have dropped words about her being a good subject for the surgeons, but it was absurd to suppose that he intended to " Burke" her. The defendant was held to bail to keep the peace towards the complainant. WOR SHIP-S TREE T. AN EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTER IN Low LIFE.— A young woman, named Mary Veazey, was charged under the following circumstances :—About a fort night since she asked a female in Milton-street where she could get a lodging, having just arrived from the country. She was recommended to Mrs. Beaumont, a laundress, in Britannia-court, Milton street, who consented to receive her for one night. The next morning, however, the lodger said she was too ill to stir, and she represented that she had come to town to look after some money in the Bank, and that she had her luggage at the Belle Sauvage, and a gold watch and money in the hands of a Mr. George there. The prosecutrix was completely taken in by her innocent appearance, and she made no objection to her further stay. She kept her bed until the following Sunday, when she got up and walked with the prosecutrix to Ludgate-hill. Otf coming out of the office ,she stated that the The following notes of a paper, by Mr. Bennett, on the mode of preparing human heads among the New Zealanders, with some observations on canni balism, will be read with interest :—lt is now fully ascertained that the natives of the New Hebrides, the Marguesas, New Zealand, and other Polynesian Islands, are cannibals. Yet it is among the New Zealanders only that the custom obtains of preserv ing the heads of their enemies as tokens of victory, and as objects of contempt. The New Zealanders sometimes, however, preserve the heads of their friends ; but for very different purposes, those of pay ing respect to the memory of the deceased, to show to their relations who have been absent at the time of their death, and that lamentations may be renewed over them at certain periods. The preparations of the head amongst the New Zealanders most effec tually prevents decay, and is at the same time com patible with the preservation of the features. The process as practised among them is as follows :—After the head has been severed from the body, the base of the skull is broken by a stick or stone, and the brain removed; the cavity of the cranium is then frequently washed out until it is well cleaned. The head is then dipped for a few minutes in hot water, which causes the cuticle to peel off: they are careful at this time not to touch the hair, es by so doing it would readily come off; but it afterwards, when cool, becomes more firmly fixed than before, as is well ex emplified in the specimens brought to this country. A piece of thin stick is then placed up the septum ?atrium, for the purpose of keeping the nose in shape, aided also by another piece placed internally to bear against the nose as a preventive against its sinking. The nostrils are also stuffed, with flax, or pieces of soft wool, for a similar purpose ; the eyes are taken out (if those of a chief they are eaten— if otherwise, they are thrown away), and the eyelids are stitched up as well as the mouth, fur the purpose of preserving their shape. A pit having been pre viously dug, hot stones are placed in it ; this pit, which is, indeed, the usual native oven, is so con structed that it is covered over, with the exception of an aperture above of sufficient size to permit the bust of the head to rest on it. Water having been previously thrown on the hot stones, and repeated as often as is considered necessary, a steam is pro duced which is also increased by the addition of leaves moistened with water to keep up the requi site heat and steam during the process, being re newed as often as required by the person in attendance until the preparation is completed. The person whose duty it is to attend to the preparation of the head is careful, when any of the skin of the face ap pears to wrinkle, to smooth down and preserve it in shape. The time occupied in this process pre vious to its completion, is from 21 to 30 hours. After the head is prepared, it is removed from the even, plac e d upon a stick in the sun, and is frequently oiled; but this latter process is not considered necessary for its preservation, but is intended to give it a more finished appearance. The adoption of this simple, but, at the same time, excellent mode of preserv ing human heads, would enable a valuable series to be formed, illustrative of the varieties of the human race. The New Zealanders care not to conceal that they are cannibals ; they relate the atrocities con nected with the practice without any appearance of shame or remorse ; they only eat, however, of the bodies of their enemies. if an enemy of rank is slain, the eyes, hands, and feet are presented to the highest chief of the conquering partp—as they ob serve that with the eyes their enemy saw his ad• versaries, with his hands he fought, and with his feet he invaded their territory, and bore him to the combat. Cannibalism does not appear to be prac tised amongst the New Zealanders in consequence of hunger, but fom believing that by eating the bodies of the valiant, as all those are considered who die in the field of battle, they become inheritors of their courage mid valour. The horrible practice of cannibalism having been found existing in the most fertile countries, we must seek for some other motives for the custom than mere hunger. To ear the bodies, however, hunger would be requi site, combined with the revengeful feeling— all provision being sent away from the field of battle, with the women and children hunger becomes a concomitant with the revengeful feeling, but not the sole-exciting cause. After a battle it is cus tomary to &Meet all the dead bodies of the enemy togethce, and the heads of those intended for pre paration having b, , en detached, are delivered to the persons who are habituated to it ; the bodies are cut open, the viscera extracted, and the remainder cut into pieces; they then proceed to cook and pre pare the banquet, in what manner they are not par ticular: it is seldom, however, eaten in a raw state; but it is a common and general custom, on an enemy falling in battle, for his adversary, excited by the demoniacal spirit of revenge, to rush immediately towards him for the purpose of sucking the blood from his throat before the vital spark has fled. They also dry the hands of their enemies, and fasten them near their huts, the fingers having been previously dried in a contracted form so as to be used as hooks on which to hang their baskets, &c. They also preserve the fat from the buttocks, and the internal fat they melt down and eat with their potatoes; this i s more generally done when the person is a powerful chief; and they always express it as being a mark of great contempt towards him. The bones, if of a chief, are preserved; those of the arms and legs being used for making flutes and ear ornaments; it of a common individual they are thrown away. With respect to the taste of the food they describe it as being superior to pork. One of the Chiefs at the River Thames, of whom Mr. Bennett made the in quiry whether he had ever eaten the flesh of white men, and whether it was better tasted than that of a New Zealander, replied that he had tasted of the flesh of Europeans, sometimes he found it good, sometimes bad, but generally very salt. It is a cu rious circumstance that the natives of New Zealand always express a dislik e to salt. Sunday last, at two o'clock, there was a meet ing held at the Linen Hall, for the purpose of collecting 'h e annual tribute for Mr. O'C onne ll, when 301. was nub q;ribed.—Drogheda Journal. The state of our marriage laws• antccetTcnt to the Act of 1753 (26 George IL, c. 33), and the infa mous system of legal prostitution which that Act extinguished, are sufficiently- notorious); From the novels of Fielding and Smollett, and the scarcely more faithful details given in the periodical publica tions of the day, we become tolerably familiar with the doings of the Fleet and King's Bench parsons, hackney and sham, with their tavern chapels, where the clocks never went beyond the canonical hour; where contracts of convenience might be made and unmade in a trice, and where children could be le gitimated at half an hour's notice, and for a few shillings, without troubling Parliament about the matter; all these things are pretty well known. Few persons, however, are acquainted with the fact that registers (such as they are) of these mar riages exist ; that a large collection, purchased by Government, are deposited in the registry of the Consistory Court of London, and some still remain in private hands. Mr. John Southerden Burn, to whom the public are already indebted for a curious history of parish registers, has directed his researches into this devious path of reading, and from an ex amination of these extraordinary documents, as wed as the parsons' ‘. pocket-bocks," as they were termed, and from a variety of historical and antiqua rian records, has compiled an amusing as well as useful little work, comprising the history of Fleet marriages, the parsons and marriage -housekeepers, and of the May-fair, Mint, and Savoy chapels, with extracts from the regi s ters. The earliest Fleet register in the London Re gistry is dated in 1674; but there is evidence of a Fleet marriage in 1613, amongst the Lansdowne manuscripts. With a single exception all the Fleet registers commence about the period of the order of the ecclesiastical commissioners against clandestine marriages, in 1686, which checked the celebration of such marriages at Duke's-place and Trinity Mino ries, when it was taken up by certain real and pre tended clergymen in and about the prisons, not ; however, on account of any real privilege or ex emption attaching to these prisons, but because the parsons, being generally prisoners, had nothing to lose by ecclesiastical proceedings against them. The infamous character of these men, their em ployers, plyers, and bullies, and the class of people who usually resorted to their aid (some were people of rank), are pretty plainly developed in the entries, comments, and memoranda contained in the regis ters. The parsons took the fees, allowing a portion to the plyers, &c.; and the tavern-keepers, besides sharing in the fees, derived a profit from the sale of liquors drank at the wedding. In some instances they kept a parson on their establishment at a weekly salary of 20s. The fee, of course, varied in amount ; the parsons got as much, and the parties (generally) paid as little as they could; ss. or 6s. seems to have been about the ordinary fee; and a memo randum by Parson Ashwell, described as " a most notorious rogue and imposter," who floe rithed between 1734 and 1743, shows the mode of division: " the turnkey had is.; Boyce Is. clk. ye plyer Is.; and I had 3s. Bd." Parson Wyatt, who " had a great deal of business in this way," rills left a memorandum in one of his pocket-books, whence it appears that, in the month of October, 1748, marriages were celebrated by him every day, at home and abroad, and his total receipts for that month amounted to 57/. 12s. 9d. The same parson, in another pocket-book, candidly confesses that he ex torted money from silly and unwary people " by ly ing,bullying, and swearing." It appears from some of the authorities cited by Mr. Burn, that these "cler gymen" were in the habit of " boxing" the bride grooms who were not over ready to comply with their demands. On the other hand, they were in turn (as appears by their memoranda) served in the same way, lacing occasionally beaten, and sometimes forced to refund the fee. One of the notes shows the cunning mode in which they were revenged : " N. B. Some material part (of the ceremony) was omitted." The Grub•street Journal of January, 1735, eon. tains a description of the manner in which person• were sometimes married in spite of themselves, a set of drunken swearing parsons, with their myr midons, that wear black coats, and pretend to be clerks and registers to the Fleet, and who ply about Ludgate-hill, pulling and forcing people to some peddling alehouse or brandy-shop to be married, even on a Sunday, stopping them as they go to church, and almost tearing their clothr-s off their backs." The indecency of these practices, and the facility .hey afforded for accomplishing forced and fraudu- lent marriages, were not the only evils attending the state of the law. Marriages could be antedated. without limit, on payment of a fee, or not entered at all. Parties could be married without declaring their names. It was a common practice for women to hire temporary husbands, at the Fleet, in order that they might be able to plead coverture to an action for debt, or to produce a certi ficate in case of their being enceinte. These hired husbands were provided by the parson for ss. each ; sometimes they were wonzen. The hopeful condi tion of the brides was often so apparent to the par- son (when not a Hind parson, or not too drunk to see it) that he noted the fact in his entry. For ex ample :—" After marr I perceived it to be a hired job. He a thin-jaw'd mean-looking fellow, Irish or Scotch; she gravida, and very gent." Procrastina tion was sorn..times carried too far. A case is men tioned (p. 61) in which the bride was delivered during the ceremony, leaving the legitimacy of the child a very nice question. It appears, moreover, that for half-a-guinea a marriage might be registered and certified that never took place at all, even in form ! The marriage at the Fleet of the Hon. Henry Fox, son of the first Lord Holland, to the daughter of the Duke of Richmond, in 1744, and the increase of these irregular practices, led to the introduction of the Marriage Act, which, strange to say, passed with great difficulty, and which Blackstone, with an obliquity of judgment not unfrequent with common lawyers, seems to condemn as an " innovation upon our ancient law and constitution." Mr. Burn has given a very particular account of this important enactment. The interval between the passing of the Bill and its coming into operation afforded a rich final harvest to the parsons of the Fleet and May-fair. At the Fleet, it appears, from one register-book alone, that on the 25th of March, 17.54, the day previous to the Act taking effect, there were no less than 217 marriages. Clandestine marriages continued, how ever, at the Savoy till 1756, when the transporta tion of a minister and his curate, under the Act, put an effectual stop to them. The surviving registers may probably supply some valuable evidence as to marriages not recorded in the regular registries, and Mr. Burn has pub lished the names of a variety of parties (some people of rank) who found it convenient, for some reason, to avail themselves of the services of the Fleet parsons. The appendix to the work contains a draught Bill for amending the law of parochial registration. C ARDIGANSHIRE.—County voters registered in the 74 parishes, I,o4s.—Cardigan Borough, freemen 171, occupiers 132 ; Adpar, freemen none, occupiers 69; Lampeter, freemen 254, occupiers 29; Aberyetwytb, freemen 34, occupiers 216 ; total 905, —Shrgtesbury chronicle. By the last packet from St. Thomas's, we learn the arrival of the Serpent, 16. Commodore Sy monds, at Trinidad, on the 21st September, from Halifax and Bermuda, and proceeded immediately to Jamaica ; the. Arachne, 18, Commander Azar, arrived about the same time from Curagoa, Cu mana, and Porto Cabello ; at the last place she took on board the bowel anchor the Herrnione was riding by, when cut out by Sir E. Hamilton. The report of her being in a leaky state, owing to the Columbine getting into collision with her, when heating out of Demerara, is incorrect. The AracLue, which was on the starboard tack, lost her jib-boom; the Columbine lost no spars. The Sipphire, 28, Captain Hon. G.R. Trefusis, and Victor, 18, Com mander Russell, were at Trinidad The Gannet, 18, Commander Maxwell, and Racehorse, 18, C,m wander Cotton, were at Barbadoes. The Arachne was to sail immediately, to visit all the Caribbean Islands under the English Government. BRITISH MEN-Op-WAR ON FOREIGN STATIONS.— The Belvidera, 42, Captain Dundas, left Madeira, 15th Oct., for Lisbon, and the Renard packet left Madeira on the same day, for the Brazils; the Plover packet arrived at Vera Cruz on 2lst Sept., from Falmouth. The Sparrow cutter arrived at Lisbon, on 31st Oct., with the mails; and the Cat , - ron steamer, on the Ist Nov., both from Falmouth. The Orestes, 18, Com. Sir W. Dickson, sailed on Wednesday, for Falmouth, to take on board Mr. Grant, Secretary of Legation to the Embassy at Lisbon, and then proceed to Lisbon. Mr. Grant left town for Falmouth on Wednesday evening. The /Etna, 8, surveying vessel, Com. Skyring, with the Raven, Lieutenant Arlett, sailed on Wed nesday, to survey the west coast of Africa.—Hanzp shire Telegraph. His Alajesiy's ship Sparrowhawk, 18, is ordered to be commissioned in a day or two at Portsmouth, by Commander Charles Pearson, and the following officers are appointed—Lieutenants Edward T. Har ris and S. F. Harmer, Mr. Rankine, Surgeon, and Mr. Samuel Allen, Assistant-Surgeon. The Cruiser, 16, arrived yesterday from Sheer ness, on her way from the West Indies. The Rolla and Saracen, 10-gun brigs, were taken into dock Friday, preparatory to being commissioned —the former instead of the Magpie cutter, which is ordered to be paid off, and Lieutenant Glasse will take command of the Rolla. The Caledonia, 120, Captain Thomas Brown, ar rived at Malta on the 23d Oct., and the Firefly ciz the 18th. Satellite, 18, Corn. Smart, was at Bahia on 7th Sept. Imogene , 28, Capt a i n Bl ac k woo d , was spoken with off Sydney Head, on the sth July, from New Zealand, all well. Wasp, 18, Corn. Bur ney, was to leave Lisbon for Bermuda on the 28th ult.; her crew had entirely recovered, and none of the cholera cases had proved fatal after her arrival in the Tagus. The Wellesley, 74, was undocked at this port on Thursday last. Remaining in Hamoaze--San Josef, Andromache, Athol!, Magpie, Speedy, Sylvia, Marquis of Huntly transport, Industry naval transport, Duck, lighter. In Catwater—Orestes transport. In the Sound — Cruizer.—Devonport Telegra 'HE NATIONAL TRIBUTE.—The general election of all the parishes in this city, for the O'Connell fund, took place on last Sunday. The sum will, we un derstand, amount to nearly 150/.—Kilkenny Journal. At the Cheltnsford petty sessions Mr. Jesper, miller at Stebbing (Essex), was s ummoned by Mr. Overall, overseer of that parish, to show cause why he had not paid 21. I6s. 3d., due from him for the labour rate. The overseer produced the rate-book, in which Mr. Thomas Jesper stood rated to that amount. Mr. Jesper said he considered the demand very unju.t. " I went (he said) to the vestry, and having no labour whereea to employ a man, inquired whether, if I found work for a labourer belonging to our parish elsewhere, thit would be considered a compliance with the rate. They were agree able to my doing so, and I found one of our labourers, who was then at work for a farmer in an adjoin. g parish, who was about to leave his master. I agreed t give that farmer one shilling a week to employ him, an continued to do so for six weeks, after which they raid I should not go on upon that system." Bench—Did the par' o refund the six shillings ? Mr. Jesper—Yes. The Bench were about to order a distress warrant to be issued, when Mr. Jesper observed that some magistrates had refused to take that course under similar circumstances. The Act was then referred to, and, after some discussion, the magi!. crates were of opinion that they bad not the power under it to issue a warrant. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT KfisoISTON.--• It is our painful duty to record a deliberate a tempt at murder, which took place at Kingston fair on Wednesday afternoon last, under aggravating circumstances. The unfortunate victim, who up to last night remained in imminent danger, and, as far as medical judgment goes, it is almost impossible for life to exist many days, is Jas. Gardener, a young married man, about 28 years of age, of somewhat respectable connections, residing at West minster. It appears that the unfortunate sufferer, who was brought up to the business of a plasterer, it being his father's trade, who (the latter) had been many years fore man to Messrs. Francis Bernasceni and Company, plas terers to his Majesty, and other branches of the Royal Family, in Tottenham-court-road, arrived at Kings on Town on Tuesday evening, in company with his wife, for the purpose of visiting the fair, which commenced the following (Wednesday) morning. On Wednesday after noon, as he was passing along th at part of the fair ground where cattle are exhibited fo r sa l e , he met with one of the known thimble speculators, oambol enrg, he lower orders o f soc i ety b y the nickname of Cobbler Will,"named Jam es Wil l i ams, but better when, after som e li tt l e conversat i on,. words arose, after which they parted. About three o'clock they again met in one o f Groolay'e accom mo d a ti ng b oot h s ,' elien other words of an aggravating nature on both sides ensued, consequently it was finally arranged that the dispute should be terminated in a pugilistic contest or one sovereign aside the following Tbursday morning, to come off at or bear Kingston, and as Gardener (the 'offerer) was about to lay down his stake-money, the fellow (Williams) ran to the bar of the booth, a distanc e of about ten yards, and seized a large sharp•pointed carving knife, which he instantly, in a most deliberate manner, plunged into his (Gardener's) left side, just below the heart. The poor flow immediately fell senseless on the ground, bleeding profusely. The prisoners who was attired in the first style of fashion, is about 30 years of age, sallow complexion, and stands at least six feet high. On Thursday the prisoner was taken before Shrubsole and Thomas Fricker, Esquires, the town Magistrates, who assembled At the Town•hall expressly to hear the circumstances connected with the atrocious act, when witnesses were examined in confirms oration of the foregoing statement, after which he (the prisoner) was comm i t t e d to the Bridewell prison for re examination next week, aed, if in the mean t i me death should occur, to await the result of the Coroner's inqu es t. The sufferer, wh „ s e agonies are gr eat , st il l remains at the Harrow public-house, where every attention is p iid to his perilous situation. His wife is, unfortunately, pregnant with the seventh child. 4b STEAM CARRIAGES. 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