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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY : Z.XTRACTS FROM THE 7 MORNING PAPERS, May 26.' [MORNING POST.] 4Advices from Naples of the sth instant arrived yesterday. It had been officially notified that 116 Sicilian Majesty would return to his capital on the 15th, and great preparations were making for.-the occasion. The ceremony was expected to be of the most splendid and imposing descrip tion. The Prince of Calabria and alt the prin cipal Nobility and Gentry were to set out in the morning to meet. his Majesty on the road, and ac company the grand procession . to the Palace at „Naples. There was no arrival .of French ,or 'Spanish Papers yesterday ; but private letters from Madrid fully sanction all that has already been communicated relative to the present dis turbed and alarming state of, Spain. The King still remained in the capita], but . was daily ex pected to remove to some place of greater per- . sunal security. .the House of Commons, last night, Mr. tbuthnot gave notice that the Chancellor of the .I.lchequer would bring forward the Budget on Friday next. We have reason to believe that it will prove of a nature highly satisfactory to the cauntry. A great variety of business was trans acted in the course of the sitting, but no impor tant discussion took place.—(lbsd.) " [MORNING CHRONICLE.] 'By recent accounts from Zante we are credi brV-infortned that no fewer than 15,000 Greek reittgees, , from the Morea chiefly, have thrown themselves on the protection and humanity of the lonians Governinent. They consist of men, wo- Men, and children of all ages, completely clesti= tuto of every means of subsistence, and they have dispersed themselves in all the different Islands ; but by far the greatest numbers have found refuge in Zante. All the lonian Isles ,enjoy perfect tranquillity. ' There is no parti- Cular information of the passing events in the Morea ; but, from the amount of the emigration, it may be inferred that the alarm is excessive among the 'Greeks. It was indeed confidently stated, that a revolution !had taken plaCe in the Wand of Hydra, on of the richest in the A.:•- Chipelago inhabited wholly by Greeks, and to Which the' greatest number of vessels under that flag 'belong. It appears that this revolution has been brought about by the lower order of the people, on the Spencean principle . of an equal division of property, and consequently of spolia tion. If this scheme 'of rapine , should not be suppressed, the Island must be ruined, as it to tally 'depends on its shipping and commerce in grain, of which they are the chief carriers. The Board of Ordnance has commenced its petty savings, by advertising for sale, as old Metal, a considerable number of finely phased brass cannon, the trophies of many a hard-earned victory. It is a pity that these renowned relics, the sight of which must be cheering to every British heart, being also, in their form and exter nal ornaments, so very beautiful, were no: per mitted to remain in some conspicuous place, where they could be visited by the public general and where their particular history, which is most curious, could be known ; for, after all, in the present depreciated value of metal, the amount of the proceeds of this sale will be quite un worthy and contemptible, in comparison with the generous feeling a sight of them would never fail to create.—(lbid.) [MORNING ii E1i.1L9.~ Sir J. Mackintosh brought up, , - last night, the Report of his Bill for mitigating the punishment of ,Forgery. This subject, which has been one of rr;ore than disgust to the public for some time, se ms to have at length taken some hold of the r;..-.:son and humanity of the House of Commons. F:4 , :ceptions and modifications, however, pour in in such force, as almost to overwhelm the prin ciple of the Bill. Sir J. Mackintosh makes con ce,3sions far beyond his conviction, with a view to mace a beginning in the work of amelioration.— 'the Report, with several amendments, was or dered to be re-committed 'on Monday, and dis. cussed, in full, on the third reading. [THE TIMES.] The Grampound Disfranchisement Bill, or we thay now with more propriety entitle it the Yorkshire double-enfranchisement Bill, was brought last night from the Peen, and it is to be read on Wednesday next ,in the House of Corn r:apns. The safest and most expedient way is now, no . doubt, to acquiesce in the change made ip the Upper House, and, under any circumstances, toget the Bill passed,. There can be no difficulty in voting for four members, every elector having so many votes, in the same manner as the mem bers are chosen for the city of London. As to dividing the county into two parts, this should seem preposterous, the county being already per tioned into three parts, plied Riding.:. 114c1 hour members instead of two been added, there could have been no difficulty in apportioning two members to each Riding : but if the two new tpembers are added to the West Riding as the most populous, the enemies of the further pro gress of Parliamentary ,Reform may feel some alarm. it would seem as if the third Riding, were kept waiting for the spoils of the next con iterrmed borough, We rejoiced to hear Lord Londonderry Speak of the measure as useful, opt! deprecating any motion which might frus k.,ate it. (NEw TIMES.] The Grampound Disfranchisement Bill was re turned to the House of Commons last night, as amended in the House , of Lords. It was sug gestvd that it would be advisable to postpone the discussion for a few days, and Lord J. Rus fell moved that the Lords' Amendments should he taken into consideration on Wednesday next. lord Milton intimated his intention to bring in a Bill for regulating and arranging the taking of the Poll in the County 9f York. The Report on -the Bill for mitigating the Punishment for For gery was.then brought up, and three Amend t4ents were introduced by Sir James Mackintosh, who stated, that in proposing theit be sacrificed his own opinion. They except the forgery of wills, marriage-registers, and transfers of stock from the operation of the Bill. There ap pears to be something like inconsistency in this, for if the lighter penalty be calculated, as had been maintained, to discourage offenders by its greater certainty, it is difficult to, understand why au exception should be made in matters of such moment. An amendment moved by Dr. Lushington, substituting hard labour for ten years instead of transportation, as the punishment for forgery, was agreed to. Mr. Cripps express ing a wish to introduce a clause, placing the for gery of Banker's Bills and Checks on the same footing as that of Bank of England notes ; and it being considered desirable not to delay other business, the Bill was ordered to be recommitted on :Monday next. The House then resolved it self into a Committee of Supply. [BRITISH PRESS.] Mr. Scarlett's Bill will be committed on Mon day in the House of Commons, when the clauses will be discussed separately, and such alterations adopted as to the wisdom of the House may seem fit. We are not aware, however, although the se veral clauses are about to be considered in a Com mittee, that the prin'ciple of'the measure has as yet actually received the sanction of the House. We must confess that until this first point be ascertained by the House, we do not see any advantage to be de rived from discussing the clauses separately, for as the Bill appears to us, it forms a system which ca-inot be discussed with so much propriety by taking the provisions separately, as by viewing them with reference to the whole measure collec tively. We further think that so necessary is the relation which each part of the Bill bears to the rest of it, the exclusion of any one part of it would not only render the system defective, but would make it absolutely injurious. For in stance : we think that the establishment of a maximum would per se be not only very im politic, ,but be calculated to produce much cruelty in its operation, unless it were connected' with the provision for giving free circulation to industry and labour; and tile same observation we should make with respect to the provision denying parochial relief to all persons not actually incapa ble of labour, from sickness, old age, or accident. The converse of these propositions are open to the same reasoning, for taken by itself nothing could be more absurd or unjust than to allow an individual, no matter what may be his passion for idleness, or his inability to support himself by labour, to choose at his pleasure the place of his settlement, and impose the burden of supporting him, with perhaps a wife and family, on any parish in the kingdom. The existing system prevents such an abuse, by interdicting the free passage of per sons likely to become chargeable from one parish to another, but such an interdict is in its principle tyrannical, and often unjust and cruel in its action. Mr. Scarlett's Bill permits the free passage of the persons, wherever they may please to transfer themselves, but it guards against the possibility of abuse by establishing a maximum of poor rates; - and this limit will, more effectually than any other kind of provision, prevent the inconvenient accu mulation of paupers in any given parish. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. , We wish we could throw a veil over the disas trous events which happened at Manchester, on which the public mind had sunk to rest, satisfied that it had been disturbed by the falsehoods and exaggerations of Party. As, however, the pre tended friends of humanity, though really the Apostles of Party, have revived the subject, in order to excite and to foment the spirit of dis content, we extract with pleasure the following remarks from The Hull Packet of Monday last. Heartily do we concur with that respectable Journal in its estimate of the character of the presegt OPPOSITION, with the exception of a very few well-meaning persons, who have been misled by its artifices, and who, conscious of a regard for the public welfare themselves, give it a generous credit for the same patriotic feelings and principles. We, likewise, from all the ac counts which we have received of the unfortu nate transactions at Manchester, as well from the most authentic general reports as from the in formation of those who were on the spot, and fully possessed of local knots ledge, conceive that the brief sketch contained in the subjoined ex tract is founded upon truth, and-not influenced by any partial or interested bias : _ " THE MANCHESTER MEETING. " The miserable qiiestion arising out of the Manchester Meeting was revived in the House of Commons, both on Tues day and Wednesday last. We regret the revival of this ques tion, because it was . tiriginally and evidently intended for no other purpose but to inflame the public mind ; it was calculat ed to excite indignation against those who, in a critical moment, undertook a hazardous responsibility, and not to bring the guilty, if guilt there was, to justice. In short, we look upon the proposition of a new inquiry as nothing more than a feeble attempt to revive that tone of inflammation and irritation which for some time disturbed and distracted the country. The country had been delivered from a state of inflammation by the firmness of Parliament; that inflammation which at last broke out into open rebellion. It was delivered, by the wisdom and firmness of Parliament, from the delusions of another great question. The same firmness upon the present question will lead to the same results. We look upon the agitation of it at this time as nothing more than a feeble attempt to revive that agitation and those tumults which had fortunately subsided. And what did the proposition of Sir Francis Burdett elicit ? Myriads of men had assembled at Manchester on the 16th of August, amounting to 80,000 in number, with clans or bludgeons in their hands. The Magistrates, who had the care of the town, had good 4-round for alarm on ' beholding such vast numbers of men. entering the town in mili tary movements. They felt that the seizure of the leaders would be the best means of preventing any tumult. They sent a body of Yeomanry to take them and their banners. Those men had approached, and had been greeted by the people by cheers, as some call it ; by a shout of defiance, in the opinion of others. They had been allowed to enter through the crowd to the hust ings, and they had seized the leaders arid the bankers, and then the rush of the people had commenced. Then had the Magistrates been justly alarmed respecting the Yeomanry, and then had the military been called upon to come forward, and then those pro ceedings of which complaints were made had taken place.— That those proceedings had been warranted by the illegality of the meeting, was contended for and maintained ; and was not disputed, even by the leaders of the debate. The revival of this thread-bare question, the pertinacious hostility of Mr. Httme„ and the general conduct of the Opposition in Parliament, dis pose us ti be convinced that at no period of our history had we a weaker, a meaner Opposition to the measures of any. Mini stry. We speak not of an Opposition power by Members ; were the present stronger in this point of view, it would be a plague. But we speak of an Opposition powerful by talent and efficient by its union. We are of the number of those who, upon rational grounds, think an Opposition necessary as a check upon the measures of official men—to serve as an excitement to vigilance---a .d to form a Constitutional body for the purpose .of :scrutinizing their actions, their inN tives, and their objects. But we cannot concede the cha racter of usefulness to an Opposition disunited, acting upon individual prineiples , . and seeking Only personal popularity.-- , - Such an opposition is the present. To say nothing. of the dearth of talents it exhibits, the want of tact in public affairi, and the ignorance betrayed by it upon every question it interferes. with, it is yet weaker from•the too obvious fact which forces- itself upon every man's attention, that each Member of which it is composed, with the exception of a very few, holds in view his own particular interest only, forgetful that when he entered the ranks of Opposition, he was pledged to a great national party, who were bound to support the Constitution in all its parts— Now a pledge to support the Constitution, pre-supposed a strong, firm, irradicablc attachment to the Throne, with all the prerogatives and privileges, an attachment as.strong at least, as any attachment to the people. But the short-sighted Statesmen, who form the majority of the day, , seem to think that this sort of attachment to the Throne is directly at was with Parliamentary Opposition, and, therefore, casting off this great ruling princi ple of the Whigs, they have attached themselves to the people alone, and thus have degraded the character of Constitutional Patriots into that of advocates for the mob. Such was not the opposition of a Burke or a Fox. While, with the strength of a giant, they stood forward at once the champions. and the bulwarks of the people's rights, they were ever ready to-ex tend their arm to repel the w a ve of the multitude and protect from invasion the just prerogatives of the Monarch. But be sides this error in principles there is yet another source of weak ness in the present Opposition, independent of want of talents, experience, and actual ignorance ; it is disunion. This is caused by what we have already alluded to, the personal am bition of individual popularity. This petty feeling has de prived the Opposition of a leader, or what amounts to the same thing, has rendered his situation nugatory. Does Aor B or C want to distinguish himself, he must advance out of the ranks of his party, and move forward singly to the engagement. If he remained there, it is true, by a combined movement with the whole body he might do some good, but then he would lose his darling object, the gratification of his own perional vanity, and the ambition of being distinguished. We believe the pre- ' sent is the first Opposition whose leader had to stand up in the House and declare, night after night, that he knew nothing of motions brought on by persons professing to be of his party, until he heard them in that place. But the acuteness of a Tierney, and the'statesman-like mind of a Mackintosh might discover something very frivolous and puny in those hobby horses upon which men of inferior intellect are willing to ride to—fame, we were about to iv—perhaps the public may read it shame.' As to the instances of their ignorance, want of talents, and inexperience, they are too numerous even to insert a catalogue of them ; suffice it to say, once for all, that they have considerably strengthened the hands of Ministers, by, calling upon them to defend themselves in quarters where their integrity was least questionable, and their honesty most con spicuous." MR. WALLACK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. May 24, 1821. SIR-It is with regret that I feel compelled to trouble you by soliciting you to insert in your Paper the inclosed Letters, which are correct copies of those addressed by me to the Editors of The Times. An explanation is a duty which I owe to the world and to myself. I will not trespass on your kindness and the patience of the public by any further remark upon the con duct of The Times. as their want of candour speaks so loudly for itself. 1 have the honour to be, Sir, _ _ _ Your much obliged and humble Servant, JAMES WM. WA LLACK. Theatre-Royal, Drury,Lane. " Tuesday, May 15, 1821. " Sin—l feel much astonished to see in your Paper of to day my name -introduced in a manner so totally different to what I could expect from the real nature of the circumstances of last evening. According to the established rules of Thea tres, it is the duty of an Actor to proceed in his performance, until desired by the Manager to pause, and it is incurring a very considerable penalty to deviaterfrom that rule. I was in duced to address the audience on account of having been more than once struck with parts of oranges thrown on the Stage; the precise meaning (and I would almost say the very words) of my expression were as follows Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here fulfilling my duty to the best of my ability; lam not aware of giving offence, and therefore am unconscious of merit ing this treatment.' The very different statement in The Times of to-day, giving a political tendency to the affair, must arise from some unac:ountable mistake, which I rely upon your can dour to correct immediately. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your humble servant. " JAMES WILLIAM WALLACK." " Saturday, May 19, 1821. " Sin—On Tuesday last I addressed a letter to you, in con sequence of a mis-statement concerning me in your Paper of that day, and have been surprised to find it unnoticed in your succeeding publications. Hoping that press of matter, and not want of inclination to do Inc justice, has prevented the insertion of my letter, I wait until Monday next, in full confidence of seeing that extraordinary error rectilkd. " I have the honour . to be,Sir,your, humble servant, __ " JAMES WILLIAM WALLACK. " Willow Cottage, North Chergn, Surrey." " Theatre'Royal, Drury Lane, May 22. " Sul—l know not to what lam to attribute .the very ex traordinary conduct manifested towards me by your publica tion. You have permitted an erroneous account of my Ad dress to tlie audience, on Monday the 14th, to appear in your Paper, and totally disregarded .my explanatory letter of the next day. You have treated, in a similar way, my second letter, written on Saturday last, again requesting you to rectify the error. Such neglect of common justice and common feel ing I could not have expected from any British publication. Your mis-statement is calculated to injure me extremely, and was last night the cause of great annoyance to a very numerous and respectable audience. The words imputed to me by The Times, do not bear the slightest resemblance, either in sense or sound, to those I uttered. I have, Sir, now merely to say, that unless in your Paper of to-morrow, I perceive that I am justifi ed by the insertion of my first letter_ or by some means equally satisfactory, I shall seek in the pages of some other for that candour and . liberality which has been denied to me by The " I remain, .Sir, &c. &c. " J. W. WALLACK." COURSE OF EXCHANGE, MAY 25. Amstetdam Ditto, at Sight l2 11 Rotterdam l2 15 Antwerp l2 10 Hantburgh 3B 7 li Us Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 80 0 Us. Ditto flourdeaux, ditto Frank fdrton the Maio .. . .. Madrid Etrecti;e ' Cadiz Bilbua 351 Eilectivt Barcelona Seville . Gibraltar 3O Leghorn Get r , a 3i-Irerliee, Ital. Liv. 27 60 Malta 45 -Naples 391 Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin .... 9 BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 per 02 Foreign Gold, in Bars l7 104 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bare, Standard 0 0 0 CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 25.—The Wheat trade was heavy this morning, and only fine qualities could be dis posed of, which obtained Monday's prices ; but there was no demand for inferior samples. Barley was very dull sale, and rather cheaper, having a good supply fresh in from Suffolk. Oats are a little lower than on 'Wednesday, in consequence of large arrivals from the Yorkshire coast. White Pease are 2s. per quarter lower. In Beans and Grey Peas, there is no alteration. SMITHFIELD, MAY 25.—There was a hill mar ket this morning of Lambs and Sheep, also a good supply of Beef, but the market appeared rather dull, and with difil?.ulty Monday's prices were obtained for prime articles. Beef - 3s fid to 4s 6d Veal - - 4s 6d to 5s 4d Mutton -, -3s6dto4s 4d I Pork_ _4sGdto 5s 4d Lamb - - - 5s ed to 6s 6d. Yesterday (Monday, the 2lst instant), a division of the 19th Lancers, under the command of Colonel Wyndham, arrived here from Manchester, for the purpose of embarking for Ire land.--(Liverpool Courier.) - The orchards in Herefordshire and Devonshire have partially suffered by the late storms, in con sequence of which good cyder has advanced to three guineas and three guineas and a half per hogshead. A MAN. SHOT BY 1115 WIFE. TOWN HALL, SotrrnwAßk.—Yesterday morn ing Mrs. Eliza Harmer was brought before Al derman J. J. SMITH, at this office, charged with the wilful murder of Samuel Harmer, her hus band, by shooting him through the head with a pistol, at their residence, 6, Weston-street, South wark. The following was the evidence produced on the occasion : Hannah Stiidd stated, that she lived ser vant of all-work with the prisoner and deceased for the last fortnight, previous to which she liVed in the family of Mr. Delahunt, the prisoner's father. Between twelve and one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, her mistress went out, and did not return till between seven and eight o'clock in the evening. Just before her return, the deceased ordered witness to make tea, which she did, and they (witness and deceased) were drinking it at the moment the prisoner rung the bell ; witness let her in, and, when she came into the room, the deceased said, in a mild ton e , " I thought it was some impudent faggot like you." . He spoke this in a jocular, mild mariner. - Witness did not.take her seat again, but waited outside the door in the passage; in a few minutes her mistress called her, and told her' to finish her.tea, and the deceased again jeered her, say- . ing he wished " she had not come home, as they (witness and himself) were having their tea very comfortably." Mrs. Harmer replied, "So you can now, or at some other opportunity ;" and . then he asked her where she had been, and if it was where .she intended to have gone ? She replied in the affirmative, and added, that .she had been to Clifford's Inn. The de ceased then said in the same tone, " I wish_ you had not come home," and Mrs. 11. replied, " Well, I can go again ;" and she called for the shoe-horn, to pill up her shoes, which were down at the heel. Witness gaVe her the shOe horn, and tea being ended, she took the tea things down into the kitchen. The prisoner then came downstairs, opened the street door, and closed it after her with groat violence, and wit ness thought she was gone out ; but in a short time afterwards, when she went up into the par lour with some glasses which she had washed, she found her mistress standing behind the parlour door, as if she was endeavouring to coneeal her self ; at this time her master was sitting at the table in a chair. She went . down direCtly, .and soon afterwards she heard them at high words.; the prisoner, she thought, spoke in a loud tone, but she could not distinguish what she said.. In a few minutes the deceased elevated his voice, and she plainly heard him exclaim, " G—d b—t, I'll shoot you !" She ran immediately to the stair head, and heard a pistol go off; it did not make a very loud report, so she thought the - re was .nothing. in it; it made " a click," but no report, and she did not believe there was any powder in it." The deceased and his wife fre quently played with a pistol, pretending to shoot each other, and the noise on this occasion was the same, or appeared the same, as she had often before heard it, when they have been so playing together. Mr. Harmer had frequently _done this, and the prisoner usually. ran away froth him, pretending to be frightened. She always thought they were in joke, and never remembered the pistols to have been loaded before. On Thurs day she saw the deceased with bullets lying before him on the table ; he had cast some on Tuesday night, so the circumstance did not par ticularly surprise her. She did not see him put either powder or ball into the pistol, although at one time he did put a ball into the mouth of a pistol, but she is not certain whether he left it there, because she did not remain a minute in the room, but just put some coals on the fire;and went out directly. He generally kept the piStols in the parlour cupboard, but she could not say what he did with them after he loaded them. After she had heard the pistol " click," as ready described, she sat down at the front kitchen window, thinking no harm had happened, and in a few minutes heard a loud report of fire arms. She ran up stairs *immediately, and her mistress screamed out " Oh ! I have murdered my hus band ; he is dead—run for somebody—fetch some one directly"—and she appeared in the greatest agony imaginable. Witness ran down stairs, and told the first man she met to run for a doctor ; she then returned to the house, and when she got back she found .the prisoner at Mr. Crichard's, next door but one. Witness then ran to-her master's house, and was followed by her mistress. When they arrived, they found a doctor in the parlour with the body of her mas ter, which was placed in a chair, apparently as when he had been shot. She did not go further than the room door, and her mistress kept in the back parlour. She would have gone into the room, but the doctor would not let her. Mr. Joseph Grindley, of Richardson-street, a. pupil at Guy's Hospital, deposed that he was passing along Weston-street on Thursday even ing, when a female accosted him respecting a surgeon, and on his saying he was a surgeon, she desired him to step in as there was an accident. Witness. went in, and found Dr. Jamieson before him, he having been called in first. On his going into the parlour he saw the body of Mr. Harmer in a chair, and at Mr. Jamieson's request he went to fetch Dr. Grainger, but he was not at home ; however, he met Mr. Price, one of his pupils, and they returned together. The handkerchief was taken off deceased's head, and there ap peared au oblique wound over the orbit of the eye, which penetrated into the brain. Witness felt his wr.ist, but pulsation had ceased ; has no doubt but the wound was the occasion of his death. John Kinsay, the officer, stated, that he was sent for between eight and nine o'clock on Thurs day night to the deceased's house, No. 6, Wes ton-street,Maze-pon d. Mr. Jamieson, the surgeon, admitted him, and he found the prisoner in the back parlour crying and stamping like a maniac. He inquired what was the matter, and she replied, in the greatest distraction, 44 I hive murdered my husband !" In the next room he saw the body of the deceased on a chair, with a hand kerchief over his face ; pulled the handkerchief off, and found he was dead. Several Gentlemen were in the room, and three pistols were placed on . , • - a tag& tr ih The cocks all doWn, and- one of their' hid - the'aPpe'tifialCe''Of having been recently. dis charged ; thelitlfers did not appear to have any, priming in them ; at all events there had been no flash in the' pan. They are both loaded with ball—[here they : were produce-d] • —and , the charges are still in them.' Aft er th e S urgeons had retired, - witness, with the assistance_ of Joseph Welch and W.Kinsay, took the body of the deceased up stairs and laid it on a mattress, and searChed the pockets. They found on his person a silver watch, which was still going, also l9s.in silver, and is. 10clein copper, and amongst the-latter•ftve pistol balls and a piece of lead ; the bUllets fitted the pistols. In his great coat pockets they found two pair of pistol bags, containing two bullet moulds, and two powder flasks full of powder, and also a .pocket-book. lle then sent for a coach and took the prisoner to the Borough Compter, where she remained all night. The officers then took charge, of the house and furniture,gand Mr. Bunny, the senior overseer of the parish, sealed the doors and property, till the result of the present charge should be ascertained. —No further evidence being forthcoming on this occasion, the unfortunate. prisoner was called on for her . defence ; hut, by the advice of her Soli citor, she declined saying any thing. • She was then ordered to be remanded till next Mon day, and was accordingly conducted into the Ma gistrate's private parlour, where she remained till four o'clock, when she was cnveyed in a coach to the Compter, attended by Mr. Lilw, the keeper of the prison, the two Marshalmen (Messrs. Reeve and Wise); and the, paiish offi cers. Mr. Alderman Smith had given particular orders for rendering her situation as comfortable as the circumstances of the case would admit of. The curiosity of the crowd to obtain a view of her person was so great, that on the way the coach windows were all•.broken by the obtrusive crowd. In the course of the afternoon the High Sheriff of the County of Surrey came to the Office, and tendered the use of the County Pri son, if it Should be more convenient ; but 'the offer was politely declined. The prisoner is '2:3 years old, and of interesting appearance. She was married to the deceased last New Year's Day, and they have since carried on a very profitable business in the hardware line.—The Inquest will sit at six o'clock this evening. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • COURT OF -KING'S BENCH, MAY 25. CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION. . THE KING V..JOHN LINDSEY TURNER. • This defendant was brought up yesterday to plead to an in diCtment preferred against him by the Constitutional Assoc?: tion, .fbr.publishing an alleged libel, and having pleaded a mi. , - flamer, he was des.ffed_to be prepared this rfiernmg with an affi davit, • verifying the plea. At, the Sitting of . the Court this morning, Mr. TINDAL, as Counsel for the Associ a ti on , moved, that the defend a nt b e ca ll e d u pon his recognizances. 'He was called accordingly, and not answering to his name, his recog , nizances were ordered 'to b e O s t reate a i n t o th e ExZhequer bsl the motion of the Learned Counsel. LIBEL ON THE QUEEN.' THE KING V. TIIE.REV.W. 1114AC0W. Mr. nROUGHAM was heard in reply to the cases cited by Mr. PARKE. The Learned Counsel contended that his Rule for a Criminal Information ought to be matle.absOlute: Mr. DENMAN was also heard on the same side, an d ,the Court took time to decide upon the application. CONSISTORY COURT, MAI , 25. LORD ERSKINE V. LADY ERSKINE. Some time since proceedings were instituted in the Spiritual Court by Lord Erskine against his Lady, he praying for a di vorce by reason of her adultery. On the part of Lady Erskine a responsive allegation has-been given in, of a recriminatory and defensive nature, retorting uponhis Lordship charges ofadul tery and of cruelty and the case was a s signed to be treued. This day an application was made by the Proctor of his Lordship, praying, on his behalf, that the Court would be pleased to dismiss all parties from further obserVance of the suit. The application was opposed - by the - Counsel for Lady Erskine, and by her proctor, who prayed the Court to admit an affidavit (sworn to by himself and clerk) to be read, which, be sides setting forth - a conversation (of which the particulars did not fully transpire) between the proctor and the mother of a witness (the niece of Lady Erskine), which conversation was al leged to be of the highest importance to the case of the defend ant, went to impute to Lord Erskine an attempt to keep back the testimony of the said witness. It farther declared, that the evidence of this person, a young woman, was materi:ll"to prove the adulterous connexions which his Lordship was said to have farmed, and the fact of her being taken by Lord Erskine in a carriage, for the purpose of being carried to a house cf an un becoming celebrity. Dr. SIVABEY objected to • the affidavit being read, aq a pro' ceeding altogether irregular. He objected also to the hnl'u t= '" tion thrown out against Lord Erskine, relative to an - attetiiPt to withhold a material witness from this cause; the fact was , . that she had been served with a compulsory (this is - a species of peremptory citation), and had been produced in consequence. He owned it did appear extraordinary to him that this witness. could depOse to the particular house to which they were in the carriage, seeing that that very circumstance was likc't 'to prevent her knoWing. Moreover, these facts should ha" been introduced into the cause, not in this irre&ular manocr' but by . plea, which would have afforded Lord Ltskine an tiP" . portunity of replying to it by a counter plea. Dr. LUSTEINGTON contended that the affidavit was 'perfec- 41 : in point, to show that Lord Erskine h a d e nde a v ou red to lue'r this witness out of the way. Sir WILLIAM ScoTT thought that this affidavit could 1 3 :1 be admitted. The proceeding was irregular, and if the f5..,,c7 were meant to be pleaded at all, they ought to be put in a LP'. ferent way.-- The affidavit was therefore rejected. Dr. ADAMS and Dr. JF.XNER, fa Lord Erskine, and V ie r a SWABY and Dr. LUSHINGTON, for Lady, then plocetu ct i to argue the question on the dismission cf the suit, as pr!Y by los Lordship. Sir W SCOTT said he would take time to consider the bet and allegation, and give his judgment on a future day. BIRTHS. On the 4th instant, at her mother's hosts ' II•nt-ctrcet, Bloomsbury, Mrs. Robert Parker, of Hareden, Yorkshiv, '' safely delivered of On the 18th inst a nt Southampton, the lady of M. Maddi s( ' jun., Esq., of a daughter. • ' On Thursday, the 24th inst., Mrs. Thos. Arnott, of Bril° rise, of a daughter. _...-- MARRIED. On Thursday, the 94th inst., at Crawley, Hants, Jobn, a ff4 thane, Esq., Fellow of 'All Souls' College, Oxford, f w i son of John Latham, M.D., of Harley-street, and of l'lr3" "Id hall, in the county of Chester, to Elizabeth Anne, cl daughter of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Dampier. On Thursday, the 24th inst., at Brighron, James ' e Tabois, Esq., to Elizabeth Anna, only daughter b Chevalier Luppino, of the Steyne, Brigiiton. . • of On Thursday, the 24th DIED inst., Mrs. Hannah e, York-buildings, New-road, widow of the late John Esq. On the 16th, at his seat Bodnod, Denbighshire, Joh n - 1...°r-L Esq., aged 08. tio , ' hoer.' On the 22d of November last, at Bombay, f tlut Morbus, Elizabeth, s+ the wife of Thomas Norri, E ° Presidency, late of Lower Berkeley-street, Lond° ll ' • - • - r ~ r LONDON : Printed 110.13. CA lIST AIRS. of Nu• t Ormond-street, Queen-square ; and published oubliShcd bv SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Mo .. 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