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• 5 1 2 _ k • , r r Ak ,; • 40.' t(Aat4 l 4 _ • t -0 • x., •7-7- • •- ,//, , , We.ky ":1 4 Lic a t ••'. • , / • , 4 7 1 . , • _ 0 s*:- 4 , • /Aw. -• 1 X ll tiik ill isix .4) .• -it 0 - 1 r., I,‘t '7l/ 4V1'4‘19 'hough requested to leave, shellsiiki . 16 1 " -- 34i,r remained there while a friT was overhauled, and on seeing a bag of sovzi - cg,;ii, she remarked ‘` I „ should lik e to p ut my h an d i nto i t , an d ta k e out a thousand." Mrs. Humphries at length left the room, followed by the prisoner, who suddenly exclaimed "Mrs. Humphries, my mother calls von ; she is down in the kitchen." She expressed her doubts of having been called, but at length, after inuch persuasion, she went down stairs, where she saw the mother, who said she had not called her. She then went into the school-room, and in a few minutes the prisoner came in, but went out again directly, and on making inquiries for her in about an hour after, it was ascertained that she had left the house. The prosecutor had occasion to go into his bed-rootn between 12 and 1 o'clock of the sane day, .vhen he discovered that some one had been to his trunk and opened the bag containing the sovereigns, and on counting them he found a deficiency of 25. (he prisoner was at once suspected of being the thief, and on bar return, between 1 and 2 o'clock, she was questioned as to where she had been, when she became very bounceable, and asked indignantly what business they had to question her. On bring told she was suspected of having stolen 25 so vere;gns, she coloured in the face, became extremely tgitated, and, without making any reply, went and locked herself in the kitchen. Police-constable Miller, - if the E division, was called in, and he requested to be admitted into the room, telling her that he was an officer, and that in case she refused he would force open the door. To this she made answer, hat if he dared to attempt to early his threat into execution, she would " bury a knife in his breast." The officer was not to be intimidated, and he ulti mately got through the window, and took her into custody. On searching the room, he found con cealed under a bed a purse containing 15 .iovereigns aid some silver. It further appeared in evidence, chat 101. was paid to the landlord of the house, No. 6, Chad -street, by the prisoner's father, within a few hours after the discovery of the robbery ; and also that one of Mrs. Humphries's pupils saw the prisoner come out of the room the money was stolen from, during the time she (Mrs. Humphries) went down stairs, on the alarm of having been called by the prisoner's mother. Mr. Wooler attended for the prisoner, and asked if bail would be taken for her appearance to take )ter trial, as there appeared some doubt. Mr. LAING said, certainly not; adding, that, al though a case of circumstantial evidence, the per son entertaining a doubt of hrr guilt must be dull indeed. She declined saying anything, and was fully com mitted. ufmt \;1 —and MR. LISTER'S NEW NOVEL. This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo. A. rt LING TO N, By the Author of " Granby," and " Herbert Lacy.' Published for H. Colbusu by R. Bentley, New Burling. ton.streer. HANTS.—ESTATE AND MANOR. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Messrs. CRAWTER, At Garraway's Coffee-hnu-e, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, on TUESDAY, October 30, at Twelve, in Lots, THE Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE of HALL PLACE FARM, with the thriving Wood lands, containing FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY ACRES of desirable Arable, Meadow, Pasture, and Woodland ; to gether with the Manors of BENTWORTH AND BENTWORTH HALL, with the fines, quit rents, aad heriots attached thereto; the whole situate at Bentwnrth, near ALTON AND BASINGSTOKE, in the county of Hants. N.B. Part of the purchase money may remain on mortgage, if required. May be viewed by applyin 4 to Mr. Cowdery, of Hall Place Farm; ani particulars had at the Swan, Alton and Alresford; George, Winchester ; Coach and Horses, Southampton; Angel, Basingstoke; Bush, Farnham ; of Messrs. Paington, solicitors, Preston, Lancashire; Messrs. Blakelock and Fiddey, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street ; Mr. James Molyneux Taylor, solicitor, No. 12, Furnival's Inn ; Mr. Taylor, No, 20, York. place, City-road ;at Garraway's ; and of 'Messrs. Crawter, Cobham, Surrey, and Southampton -buildings, Chancery-lane. • (No. 12,.517.) LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1832. (PRICE ID.) NEW WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " SPAIN MONUMENT TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. name which appeared on the face of the supposed forged cheque ?—Mr. Bush answered that he did not belong to the firm, and could not answer the question ; neither did he think Mr. Isaacs had a right to put such a question to him. Mr. Isaacs was aware that the question cught to have come from the mouth of the Magistrate, and that he was only entitled to put it through courtesy. Mr. MiNsuuLt, observed, that the answer of the question could make no difference as to the result, as it was clear that the intention of the parties who presented the cheque was to commit fraud. Mr. Isaacs submitted that it was no act of in tentional fraud on the part of Lloyd and his brother prisoners, although he admitted it was a very mis chievous trick. IN ISRO." This day was published, in vois. post Sen. 275. bds. NEW GIL fiLAS ; or, PEDRO o f PENAFLOR. " Full of characteristic sketches, and abundant in excellent and striking descriptions."—New Monthly lagazine. "'Throughout the three volumes the interest is kept up."— Athermum. (Abridged from the Glasgow _Herald of Friday.) iIIANSI ON-HOUSE. A poor black fellow, named George Thompson, a native of St. Kitt's, applied to the LORD MAYOR for assistAnce to obtain redress under the following circumstances of hardship : Thompson had been pursuing the trade of a shoe maker at St. Kitt's, where he was obtaining a decent livelihood, until he received a letter, addressed, " George Thompson, Esq," from London, lam-ming him that he would hear of something considerably to his advantage by application to " Joseph Ady, of Houndsditch." 11r. Ady's letter stated, in a postscript, that Alderman Copeland would be re sponsible for his respectability to the amount of 1,000/. The applicant handed about this letter— but, although several persons knew that there was such an individual as Alderman Copeland, nobody could give him any information respecting Mr. Ady. The manner in which the responsibility of the Al derman was exhibited, however (for it appeared in print), was so imposing, that the applicant deter mined to come off to England, to lay hands upon the good luck which Mr. Ady's communication pro mised. He acknowledged that the superscription " George Thompson, Esq." had also a strong effect upon him; for he thought that if he was not a man of fortune he never would have been written to by a London gentleman in so respectable a manner. The LORD MAYOR—And so you actually came over upon the strength of that letter ? Thompson said that he unfortunately relied upon it. He con trived to get his passage by acting as steward, and the Captain of the Susan, in which he sailed, gave him a written character for efficiency and honesty, thinking that some disappointment might take place as to the fortune. London: Longman, Reeq, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. . . By the same Author, SPAIN IN 1830. " We recommend these volumes to our readers."—Edinburgh Review. Just published, in Svo. with Plates and Wood Cuts, 18s• cloth, INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. By JOHN LINDLEY, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. and G.S. Professor of Botany in the Uni versity of London, &c. Mr. Mmsttur.t, would have the question for a Jury to decide, for he considered it his duty to corn mit the prisoners for trial. SURREY.—ESTATE AND MANOR. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Messrs. CRAWTER, At Garraway's Coffee House, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, on TUESDAY, October 30, at Twelve, in Lots, rcHE Excellent FREEHOLD ESTATE ; comprising the Upper and Lower Farms, Banks's and Lee Woods, sundry cottages, and detached lands, con taining upwards of EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY ACRES of valuable Arable, Meadow, Pasture, and Wood Land ; together with the MANOR OF EFFINGHAM, with the quit rents, fines, and heriots, and extensive com mon rights, the whole beautifully situate in the most pic turesque part of the coutty of Surrey, and intersected by the turnpike road from London: Longman, Bee., Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. . Mr. Bush then requested that the prisoners might be remanded until Thursday, as he hoped by that time to get some further evidence against them—a request to which Mr. Minshull acceded, and di rected them to be remanded accordingly. The father of Jephtha Lloyd, a respectable look ing man, would give bail to any amount for his son io appear at the next examination; but Mr. Min shull refused; upon which Mr. Lloyd said, that he himself would rather be imprisoned than his son, who was of more importance in his business than him self; but this Mr. Minshull also refused; and the prisoners were then taken from the bar. They were ordered to be brought up again on Thursday next. By the same Author, INTRODUCTION to the NATURAL SYSTEM of BOTANY. 12e. SYNOPSIS of the BRITISH FLORA. 10q. 6d. OUTLINE of the FIRST PRINCIPLES of BOTANY. OUTLINE of the FIRST PRINCIPLES of HORTI CULTURE. 20. GUIDE to the .ORCHARD and KITCHEN GAR DEN. By G. LINDLEY, C.M. H.S. Edited by J. LINDLEY. 169. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of " HAM BABA." In 3 vols. post Bvo. ZOHRAB, TH'E HOSTAGE. By the Author of " Hajji Baba." The attention of the Magistrates was occupied nearly the whole of the day in disposing of disorderly charges, which had accumulated since Saturday night, but none of them presented any feature of novelty. LEATHERHEAD TO GUILDFORD: well timbered, and aboundin g with game, in a sporting part of the county. N.l3.—Part of the Purchase Money may remain on Alortga b •re if required. May be viewed by applying to the tenants, and particu lars had at the Spread Eagle, Epsom ; Swan, Leather head; Red Lien, Dorking ; White Hart, Guildford ; King's Arms, Godalming ; Griffin, Kingston ; at Messrs. Pilkin e tin), solicitors, Preston, Lancashire ; Messrs. Blake lock and Fiddey, solicitors, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet -street ; Mr. James Molvneux Taylor, solicitor, No. I 2, Furnive s Inn ; Mr. Taylor, No. 20, York-place, City-road ;at Garraways ; and o f M essrs . C rawter, Co b ham, Surrey, and Southampton Buildings, Chancery-lane. " In the choice of his subject this delightful author is again at home. The scene is laid in Persia ; his opportunities of stu dying the manners and feelings of that country have been so abundant, that even the mysteries which belong to its policy, its female seclusion, and its character in every respect, have been ably penetrated, and are here developed in a most spirited and entertaining narrative."—Literary Gazette. QUEEN- S QUARE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Late Colburn and Bentley.) THE FOREIGNER AND THE PRETTY IN' IDOW.— Yesterday Charles Mild, the Hanoverian, who was a short time since held to bail for assaulting Mary Ann Arthur, a widow of some personal attractions, was again placed at the bar, charged with a simila► offence. It will be recollected that the fair corn plainant was confined in Whitecross-street Prison at the suit of her landlord. The defendant, who took peculiar interest in the widow's affairs, paid the amount of the debt and costs, and on her libe ration took up his residence with her ill Godfrey• street, Chelsea-common. Although the widow had, in consideration of the defendant's " manifold kind nesses," consented to allow him to fill up the va cuum caused by the death of her husband, the a-- sumption of master and the authoritative manner of the defendant did not altogether coincide with her feelings, and high words, which frequently termi nated with blows, were the consequence. At length the manner of the defendant became so arbitrary, at least so said the widow, that an assault warrant was granted against him, and he was brought to this office and ordered to find bail to keep the peace to wards all his Majesty's subjects, but more espe cially the widow Arthur. Two tradesmen became sureties for the defendant, and he was liberated. So attached, however, was the foreigner to Mrs. Arthur, that, in spite of all remonstrances, he could not keep away from her house, and on her re fusing to allow him to enter on Saturday, he broke open the door. He was divert ; .ntn tie wits praceu at the bar before Messrs. MAR RIOTT and WHITE. It would appear, however, that the defendant, previous to being conveyed into the presence of the Magistrates, had had an opportunity of " holding sweet converse" with the complainant, and at the critical moment she was found " back ward in coming forward" to prefer her charge. The defendant was consequently about to be discharged, when his bail made application to withdraw their sureties in his behalf, on the ground that they were not safe, in consequence of the apparent impossibility of keeping the defendant away from the widow. Mr. MARRIOTT acceded to this request, and the defendant was locked up until he could procure fresh bail. MR. JAMES'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo. HENRY MASTER TON; Or, THE YOUNG CAVALIER. UNION-HALL. LARGE ROBBERY.—Yesterday Eliza Brown, a girl of bad character, was charged with robbing Nlr. Henry Waters, a farmer, of Hailsham, Sussex, of 1031. in Batik of England, Cambridge, and Hast ngs notes. By the Author of " Richelieu," " Darnley," &c. Also, New Editions of the Author's former Works, via.— RICHELIEU, a Tale of the Court of France. 3 vols. DARNLEY, or the Field of the Cloth of Gold. 3 vols. DE L'ORME. 3 vols. PHILIP AUGUSTUS, or the Brothers in Arms. 3 vole. Published for Henry Colburn by R. Bentley, New Bur • linoon-street. CAIIINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, 71, LEADEN- The complainant, who is about sixty years of age, came up to town on Saturday, in order to deposit his money in the banking-house of Messrs. Everett, in Lombard -street, but he was two minutes after banking hours. On Sunday evening he met with a triend, and as they were entering the Rockingham Aims, at the corner of the New Kent-road, the pri soner and another girl accosted them, and prevailed rn them to go to a house in Thames -street, Poplar road. The prosecutor had not been many minutes in the house, when the prisoner suddenly left the own. He involunta ily clapped his hand to his breeches pocket, and, to his dismay, found his purse, which contained 1031., gone. He speedily pursued the prisoner, and she was stopped by a policeman, who saw her drop the purse. The MAGISTRATE asked how the complainant could enter a house in such a woman's company ? —He said he went in out of a bit of curiosity, and 'rot ,,. w e titiheartne tact ybadinoteintthine adv e nture.g. ‘ ‘ am N PrV sorry." ,e The prisoner was committed for trial. This day was published, in 3 vols, pe s t S vo . rrHE LIVES AND EXPLOITS OF -R- CELEBRATED MILITARY COMMANDERS. By the Author of " Richelieu," . " De L'Orme," " Philip Augustus," &c. Including Henry V. of Endand ; John Duke of Bedford ; Gonzalves de Cordova ; Ferdinard Duke of Alva ; Oliver Cromwell ; the Great Conde ; General Monk, Duke of Albemarle ; Marshal Turenne; the Duke of Marlborough ; Prince Eugene of Savoy; the Earl of Peterborough; Marquis of Granby; G , neral Wolfe, &c. Published for H. Colburn by H. Bentley, New Burling. ton-street. THE LOVES OF THE POETS. Second Edition, in 2 vols. post Bvo. MEMOIRS of WOMEN celebrated in the WRITINGS of the POETS, among whom will be found—Petrarch's Laura, Dinte's Tto.t.•;.— r.'- r:praldine Tasso's Leonora. 1,17011.r.'- S icharissa, Swift's Stella anti v anessa, Lany w ortiey Montagu, and Martha Blount ; also, Sketches of the Lows of Modern Poets, viz.—Lord Byron, Moore, Wordsworth, Klopstock, Alonti, Barry Cornwall, Sze. &c. By Mrs. JAMESON, The Authoress of the " Beauties of the Court of Charles II." " Memoirs of F,lnale Sovereigns," &c. &e. " Heureuse la Beaute que le Poke adore! " Heureux le nom qu'il a chant'e Published by Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington street. HALL-STREET. MR• THURNELL respectfully solicits the Nobility and Gentry to inspect the largest and En t -selected Sto c k of Cabinet and Upholstery Goods in gland, at the C ABINET-MAKERS' SOCIETY, 71, Leadenhll-street, City, w hi c h S oc i ety i s enro ll e d agree ably to Act of Parliament, and founded for the support and encouragement of industrious Mechanics, who all COM- bine to produce only the very Land Articles, pe for its I llenibers in sickness, old age, and burial, and rov for id survivors at death. By order of the Trustees, THOS. HASLER, Secretary, 71, Leadenhall-street, City. Full sisemahog ny four Servants' chest of post bedstead ............. 13 15 0! . drawers k‘2. '2 0 Ditto tent bedstead ... .. I 6 fl; Pembroke Ditto with furniture .. ...... 3 15 0 Mahoganytabe Bordered straw mattress to . tit ........................ 1 1 3 1 16 0 0 1 01 I Mahogany dining table... 3 Bair mattress to lit - D P i i g t Ditto sofa rn ah t ° o g m m a ) tc ' Featherbeadi free f . r .9 a . :11 ICellaret sideboard 6lO 0 c h hairs 5 10 C du5t........ _ 10 Oyedestal ditto Three feet six featherbed 2 12 0 Set °flour feet mahogany }:our fe • - hair 10 10 0 etsix mattress 210 0 dining tables, 11 feet Four feet six best ditto, 6 long l4 10 0 in tick feet.............. ..., 33 0 Small tl:tto ixitent .. 810 o Four six flock . ~' Music stool . , rzi morocco; :I a _ and bolster ................ 1 10 0 Sandwich tray 1 8 0 ix japanned chairs in oil, Butler's ditto anY Colour 1 6 0 Eight Trafalgar chairs 10 10 0 Beat 'spanned .. .ti . r . C;;Vii . g . Dittodrawing-roolre, each 0 18 0 table ....... . .. ......... 016 0 Drawing room couch Ditto r• Wash-h ......... . ditto ... 016 0 Best horse-hair cushion 0 , 5 ( 6 ; s.a.inurion ditt o 0 8 0 Common ditto 4 Ditto dress-g table Three feet i ohest maim- card, and sofa 19 0 0 ..,gany drawers 219 0 El egy t 2l 10 0 I oree feet six ditto 316 0 Elegant drawing-room 66 0 Mahogany w ' - '• , ox la - s two curtains i‘ drawers .. - g .. ' '• .015 0 Rosewood caddies, of lahogany ....... . .......... I fancy wood, from I , Bs. to 1 8 _mence. ..................... I 4 &Imitation ditto, Canter- Ditto with three steps 112 0 bury Canter- Ditto bidet and pan ... 1 6 0 Mahogany ditto 'tiro ditto ...... ..... . ...„ 1 16 6 Japanned rosewood chif- Bed-roor sofa berlst . e.(l .. • fonier frenchMattress to fit,with top 3 8 0 Ditto ditto 3 10 0 bedstead, ja- Lady's work table, ma Palmed ...... ... " 2 2 0 hogany Bamboo tent becl;iea . cl . . ... 1 12 0 Ditto, silk and fringed.- 3 3 0 Five feet mahogany four- ' T..arge winged wardrobes. Jost and furniture, ' Japanned book shelves O6 0 a ies and 010 6 silk trip Rosewood ditto ger.4..17..r. ........... 14 14 01 Loo tables... (upwards) 6 0 0 All featherbeds warranted free from dust and smell. * a* Old Furniture taken in exchange' ADVICE.—Witen Men of Education an d ": ""- professional skill se persvering ndavours o discover the most safe and certain method s of e treating t a f ew prevailing diseases, the successful result of their expe rience is the best proof of superiority. t Me ssrs. GOSS an d Co., Surgeons, have been induced o m a ake th e cure of the following the object of their par ' to n a moment of i n t ox i cat i on, an d i ts concom i tants, Stric urea and Gleets, which, by an improved plan, are speedily and effectu ally cured ; as a l s o d e bility, wh e th er a ri s i ng frorn Bacchanalian indulgences, long residence in warm climates, or a secret solitary vice, too often unhappily pur sued by the youth of both sexes, in the one causing steri lity or ba rrenness, and in the other a numerous train of nervous diseases, which, if not timely reined!ed, term'. Ir b ates in iinpntenee and consumption. In that distressing ate of d e bili ty or deficiency, whether the consequence of u'ch baneful habits, or arising from any other course, by '4l 'ich the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, as angularly' ed ucate d Surgeons of London, they offer a firm, M, and speed restoration to sound and vigorous health. essrs. Goss y and Co., exclusively professing the cure t t'lthese particular complaints, in order h th o a b t l they `nay not lby a mistaken few, marked . with the oquy i think it but justice to a tt ached to the ignorant em in a r v ic e e been properly educated an d to state, that they h initiated into every branch of the profession (certifi cates of which, from different HOSPITALS, and testi 4'onials from the most eminent Professors, they have to :°ovilice any inquirer) that the success resulting front their 411e avours first induced them to quit the practice of the general practitio ner ; an d they presume that their preten °" con stitute a fair ground for the unprecedented confi . rally c with which th e y h ave, b y t h e P ubl i c, b een so libe honoured. ti lie result o f a l ong and extensive practice has enabled e i n' n ; plaint 1 a superior method, to remove Venereal Coin -1,,,,ins however inveterate or complicated, without sub . t; g the Patient to the least restraint in diet or exer ..,e • , t riad ; "no in recent cases, where an early application is discovery of the infection, they frequently perform enter do il ent , d i n the short space of a few days. The unprece 14,„"k:uccetia of their mode of treatment, which has never ttreboottt y s ears, in known t° f ail in one single instance in a practice of which period many thousand persons . tintl4 n ethos have been cured, even after severe and Mitt ‘,,,. , ' e ods had been pursued by other practitioners kl i v ln ie l t i . t effect, induces them to thus publicly offer their , 4 To be consulted daily, by Patients of either Sex, with , jtecY) delicacy, and attention.—Letters front the country, t&untaining the particulars of the case, enclosing a remit ,,,e, duly attended to, and Advice and Medicine for- I rded to any part of the world. , r doss and Co., M.R.C. S urgeons, - 0,0 . 11, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London. 1. Just published, Twenty-first Edition, "rove D Theise"' MIS of LIFE, a familiar c ommentary on the as ' es. Th e SYPHILIST, r. Treatise on Ven erea l Coin -414t". And 4 \ 6HY GEIANA, add resse d exclusively to the Female Sex. lay b e had at 23, Paternoster -row, London ; Porter, 4' Gr afton -street, Dubli n ; 86, Trongate, Glasgow ;at tkCalt on - Street, Edinburgh ; Wrightson, Birmingham ; Bath ; Brown and Reid, Bristol ; Weller, Owl ; Loder, Brighton ; \Yowl, Huntingdon ; Hatt, te'bridge ; Trewinan, Exeter ; Deck, Ipswich ; Hobson, I 4 0'; Gore and Son, Liverpool ; Sewler, Manchester ; IQ and Todd, Sheffield ; B acon and Co., Norwich ; 11 4 l on and L ewn d es, and Slatter, Oxford ; Brodi e an d bs'Oillg,Salishury ; Oxley,Wiudsor ; and of all Booksellers, lice bs. each. ROMANCE OF THE OLD CHRONICLES. This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo. STORIES FROM FROISSART. By the late BARRY ST. LEGER, Esq. Author of " Gilbert Earle," &c. CONTENTS. —The Riffle of Poitiers—Peter the Cruel— The Black Prince in Spain—The Court of Gaston de Foix—The Companions—Aymergot Marcel—The Border Feuds between England and Scotland—The Battle of Otterbourne—The R-ign of Bajazet I.—The Siege of . Nicopolis—The House of B urgun dy—Th e Last Days of Charles the Bold, &c., &c., with a Biographical Notice of Froissart. " It is a re a l serv i ce t o lit erature to ren d er t h e an i mate d an d picturesque narratives of Froissart (whose writings may truly be characterised as the Romance of history) familiar to the public generally."—Globe. Published fur H. Colburn by R. Bentley, New Bur lington -street. HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND..--The novelty and utility of this undertaking combine to invest it with no common claims to public attention. The highly influential and extensive class to whom it refers have at present no work of refe rence exhibiting an entire and authentic account of their respective Families, although it is obvious how large a share of interest attaches to such an object, both for th e pieties themselves, and for all connected with them, by the ties either of alliance, friendship, neighbourhood, pa tronage, or political constituency. That so desirable a dig.st should not before have been executed, has been doubtless owing to the extreme labour and research de• mantled for the purpose: but this obstacle has, it seems, been in the present instance overcome by efforts and ar rangements of long continuance, the effect of which, it is fully trusted, will ensure the steady and satisfactory ful film.-nt of the design. A celebrated phrenologist once remarked, that neither the cat nor the horse deve!oped the organ of music. " Very strange," remarked a hearer, " since we mike music of the guts of the one and of the tail of the other." SINGULAR CUSTONIS.—There is a custom proper to Sicily, which I must not forget to mention This is a right of purchase of a singular kind. If any man buy an estate, be it house, land, or vineyard, the neighbour of the purchaser, for the space of an entire year afterward, may eject him by an advance of price. In vain would the first purchaser give more to the original owner. This singular law is generally evaded by a falsehood. The purchase-money is stated, in the articles cif agreement, at a higher sum than has been agreed upon in the presence of four witnesses. There is another no less singular law in Sicily, according to which any 'titan can oblige his neigh bour to sell his house, if he will pay him three times its value. The intention of this law was the improvement of the towns. It was to encourage the possessors of large houses to purchase the humble abodes of the poor.— Count Stolberst's Travels. CAUTION TO MUSHROOM EATER6.—On Tuesday the 25th ult. the son of a labouring man residing at Ponsanoath, on returning home from Pengreep, ga thered a number of large mushrooms, which he gave to his mother, by whom they were dressed as a stew. The whole family partook of the stew for supper. The woman only ate a little ; and the boy by whom the mushrooms were gathered partook more sparingly of the stew than the rest of the family. In the course of the night they were all taken ill. In the morning they sent for an emetic, which they took. Aft rwards a medical man was sent for, but lie did not arrive till the evening, by which time the younger child, a fine boy of three years of age, had die;l. Every assistance was given to the other sufferers, but, notwithstanding this, two others, a girl about five, and a bay about seven years of age, died on Thursday morning. On Frid a y a g i rl of ten years of age expired ; and on Mon day last the father, who was supposed to have been better, also died. The mother has not been very ill, owing to her having only tasted the fatal meal ; and the boy who gathered the supposed mushrooms was so far recovered on Tuesday as to be able to go to the spot where he found them. On examining som e of a similar kind found there, they proved to be large fungi, five or six inches in dia meter, sprouting from the stock of au oak tree that had been cut down.-- West Briton. At two o'clock yestet day one of the most respectable and numerous meetings that ever took place in Glasgow assem bled at the Town Hall, to consider the propriety of itnrne diately commencing a subscription for a monument in this city to the memory of Sir Water Scott.—the Loan PRO VO T in the Chair, supported on the right and left by Mr. Sheriff ROBINSON and Mr. CAateatt.r. of Blythswood. The LORD PROVOST introduced the business nearly as follows :—Gentlemen, it would ill become me to antici pate the details of this meeting, and to attempt an eulo gium on the illustrious character whose memory we this day delight to honour. I know no theme more inviting, none more inspiring, none better fitted for the pen of the poet or the tongue of the orator, none more calculated to rouse every Scottish mind, and to warm every Scottish heart.—(Loud cheers.) In this very place it became my duty, a few evenings ago, to venture on a faint outline of the genius of the mighty magician, and to throw out the suggestion of a monument in our own city, which, I am happy to observe., has met with almost unanimous approbation. (Cheers. ) Sir DANIEL SANDFORD spoke nearly as follows :—My Lord, every act of homage to the greatest genius of our age and country is an honour to our city and ourselves. It was right, perhaps, that the foremost step should be taken elsewhere; we will not, in this matter, grudge precedence to the capital—in his own chosen and cherished residence, in the heart and pride of Scot land, it was a meet and graceful thing that to Scot land's brightest ornament the first honour should be shown. But had the metropolis stood alone in its devotion to that glorious memory, we might have blushed for our city—we might have blushed for our intellectual character; we might have continued still to be the rival of the capital in splendour, opu lence, and numbers, but never more could we have nisei' up our heads in the rivalry of taste, or claimed equality with her in the appreciation of mental excellence. But, toy Lord, a glance round this room is sufficient to show me that that opprobrium is already escaped. Here, in a seat of honourab'e traffic, not unadorned by science and by literature, I see before me men of all professions and pursuits ; here, at a season of the keenest political ex citement, I see men of every shade and aspect of political sentiment and feeling. This is what I looked for—this is as it should be. Ou other questions, and at other times, we can encounter in open manly opposition—but here a sacred armistice prevails—we throw away the weapons of hostility, and kneel down—as sometimes in the pause of battle, to drink at the same stream, which has its source in all the purest and beet emotions of the heart of man. I gladly dwell fist a moment upon a part of the mental cha racter of Walter Scott, to which justiee has sometimes been denied. I never have admitted—l cannot admit— that the tendency of his writings is unworthy of a free country, or that there is anything about them repulsive to the friends of liberty. I know that the recollections of past pomp and grandeur were dear to him; lie may be almost said to have lived in an age of recollections; his imagination revelled among scenes of feudal glory, anti deeds of chivalrous enterprise—but with the grace and the grandeur of times that have passed away he forgot not to blend the gloom. If he showed you the chief in his pride, he showed you too the serf in his bondage ; if he traced for you the gallant deeds and the high bearing of the warrior, he threw no veil around his vices and his crimes. If he painted Marmion with his ban nered train, did he forget to paint in Constance, the victim of his baseness? or have you forgotten that immortal portraiture of loveliness and woe ? If he delighted to exhibit the Monarch in his circle, the Knight in his career of arms, or the feudal Baron in his ball, has he drawn with less vivid colouring the captive in the dungeon, the persecuted Jew in his terrors, or his elprioty scorn repulsed and reprobated chivalry? I fain would have concluded this feeble tribute to the genius and cha racter of Walter Scott with sonic observations on his private excellence. But I had not sufficient knowledge of his personal character to do anything like justice to such a subject. Virgilium tantum oidi—though I shall always esteem it a matter of pleasing recollection that I have grasped the hand of the grey-hair, d minstrel and exchanged words with him in the intercourse of thought. Sir Daniel conc'uded by moving the first resolution, and sat down amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. Principal IMACTARLAN seconded the resolution. Mr. SMITH, of Jordanhill, moved the second resolution. He said, where would they find human nature reflected in colours so vived and yet so true as in the page of Wal ter Scott? Here he was not excelled by Shakspeare him self. lie would give an anecdote, to show that there was no part of the world, however remote, into which his fame had not penetrated. Mr. Smith here read an ex tract from a letter from our distinguished countryman, David Douglas, who, lie said, was carrying the torch of science into the remotest regions of the new world—ac quiring fame for himself and conferring benefits on his country—enriching our forests with the tallest pines, our gardens with the fairest flowers—be writes to a friend of his from one of the remotest missions in Upper California, from a place into which indeed the rays of British genius had penetrated, but which had never before been trodden by British foinsteps,—that there he had experienced kind • ness and friendship as the countryman of Walter Scott, and that on the table before him was lying a Spanish translation of Ivanhoe, which his host preferred to every book of the kind, except Dim Quixote, an exception which, in a Spaniard, only strengthened the general rule. He would quote his friend Sir Daniel Sandford, and never would forget the electric effect with which, after quoting th e lines, " Three poets in three distant ages born," he boldly named the three great names, " Homer, Shak apeare, Scott."—(Great applause.) The force of Nature could no farther go ; To form the third, she joined the other two." And assuredly, in the wide realm of literature, no writer could be Mund who united the excellencies of Homer and i Shaksp eare , b ut Si r Walter Scott.—(Great cheering.) i‘ r. ALEXANDER GRAHAM seconded the motion of Mr. Si Dlr.. ROBERT FINDLAY, after some appropriate obser vations, moved the appointment of the Committee, which was done with great cheering; and after several Gentle men had put down their subscriptions, the assemblage broke up. ENGLISH SOCIETY IN INDIA.---" Though it is well known that the habits and manners of our countrymen and countrywomen are materially changed by a residence in the East, scarcely any lively and satisfactory description of Anglo-Oriental society has yet been given. " The East India-Skeich-Book," which has just appeared, is reported to he the work of a lady, who seems, with the privilege of her scx, to have noted the pecuiiarities (to give them no other name) of the English in India, which she has drawn in a very diverting spirit. Whatever may he said of her discretion, she is thought an any rite to be correct in the main, and to have depicted stubborn like nesses of persons and coteries now existing in Calcutta, Bombay, &c."—Morning Post. Last week as a female residing at Defford, i❑ this coun•y, was stooping down in the garden gathering potatoes, she was suddenly struck in the neck by a bullet, which tore off part of her ear, and took a direction round the back of her neck, ultimately lodging on the opposite side, under the collar hone ! Had it entered her neck within a quarter of an inch of the spot where it struck her, death must have ensued. Though she is not out of danger, hopes are entertained of her recovery. She is the mother of eight children. On inquiry it has been discovered that the shot was fired from a musket by a young man named Ha wt. Err, who was firing at a mark.— Wor cester Journal. BITE OF THE TONGUE,.--A young woman was admitted into the Hotel Dieu li:st week, under the care of M. BuEscurr, complaining of a severe wound of the tongue. She lived, it appeared, with a man of a violent and jealous disposition, with whom she had frequent quarrels. In the midst of one of their family jars, the man suddenly seemed app•ased, and offered to make it up with a tender embi ace : the simpll girl had soon cause to rue her consent, for the fellow seized her tongue between his teeth, and nearly severed it in two ! The pieces of the tongue were put together by sutures ; and the patient was reprted to lie going on well in the course of a few days. Wounds of the tongue get well without much dif ficulty. Besides the great number of vessels which the organ possesses, and the vital activity with which it is endowed, its surface is consuntly Moistened with saliva, a liquid very proper for keeping the divided parts it) a state favourable for cicatrisation,—ltredical Gazette. The LORD MaYoß—Well, and how did you pro ceed when you came to London ! Thompson—l went to Mr. Ady, but the moment he saw that my face was black instead of white, he said, " Poo, poo, you are not the man," and wouldn't have any thing more to say to me. Mr. Hobler—Did you pay him any money ? Thompson—No, Sir, I paid nothing but the post age; I thought that the recommendation of an Alderman was quite enough. One of the principal officers informed the Lord Mayor, that Ady, who was in the habit of looking over names in the " Unclaimed Dividend" book in the Bank, and against whom numerous complaints had been made at the Mansion-house, had given the reference to Alderman Copeland, not only because such a reference would assist in the " humbug," but because the Alderman had sonic time ago used very active arid honourable exertions to punish him for the distress and annoyance occasioned by him to several poor people. Mr. nobler stated that Mr. Ady used formerly to refer to Alderman Heygate for a similar reason ; and that the Alderman's franks were frequently ex hausted by applications made to him from all quar ters, in consequence of Mr. Ady's communications. The City Solicitor and Mr. Hobler were then consulted by the Lord Mayor on the liability of Mr. Ady, but the result was that the Lord Mayor told the applicant he could have no redress. His Lordship, however, gave him a letter of introduc tion to Mr. Pixie, the late Sheriff, a gentleman by whose beneficence a Jkreat,, 4,the,,ttarin g h.tPc circumstances of the case, immediately gave the un fortunate black a passage back to his native land. SHOCKING BRUTALITY.—A drover, named John Collier, was charged with having used a sheep with extreme cruelty. An officer saw the defendant carrying a sheep on his shoulders, and afterwards stick a knife in it, and actually kill it. in the street. A gentleman named Windsor said that before the defendant teak the sheep on his shoulders, he acted in the most brutal manner to the poor animal. The sheep had been going along, but rather at a slower pace than the rest of the flock, when the defendant gave it a desperate blow with a thick stick, and smashed the leg. The sheep of course dropped, and then the defendant began to prick it in the body ; but finding that it was wholly disabled, seized it by the legs and threw it over his shoulders. The drover's employer said that his servant had acted from mere humanity.—(Loud laughter.) He knew it was from nothing but kindness, "because, as the sheep was tired, he took it upon his shoul ders for to make the passage easy." The defendant—l assure you, my Lord, that ere gentleman has told you a lie. Y ou see, my Lord, the sheep, as he goed along you'd insist upon walking upon the railings, so he slips his foot, and he cracks it, and that wan't none of my fault, so I tuck him up and carried him. The LORD MAYOR—I shall fine you to the utmost. I see a good many of your brother savages here waiting to hear the result of this, and I advise them to take warning. The defendant was then fined 209. and costa. B 0 W-STREET. DANGEROUS JOKE.—Joseph Lloyd,Thomas chan dler, and James Green, who stand charged with having uttered a forged cheque for 150/., purporting to be drawn by a person named alley upon Messrs. Coutts and Co., the bankers, in the Strand, were yesterday again put to the bar along with a fourth man named Bale, who had been apprehended since the former examination. Lloyd, who is a hair-dresser, living in Bell-street, Edgware-road, presented the cheque for payment, and Green and Chandler were subsequently taken up, upon (heir own confession, of having been privy to the transaction. Bale wa; arrested on Saturday under the following circumstances:— On Saturday, Robinson, the officer, in company with Mr. Bush, the solicitor for Messrs. Coutts and Co., went to a beer-shop in Stingo-lane, Padding ton, for the purpose of endeavouring to make some discovery respecting the origin of the checque.When Robinson went into the house, he, from some in formation which he had received, called out a young man named .lephtha Lloyd, who was seated there. Upon corning out, Mr. Bush asked him if he could give hint any information respecting a cheque for 1501., which had been presented at the banking house of Messrs. Coutts and Co. ? He said lie could ; and stated, that some days before, having an old cheque-book of Messrs. Coutts and Co. in 164 possession, he produced it in the presence of a young man named Bale, who took it to a desk, and wrote something upon one of the cheques. He (Lloyd) then went into the brewbouse, at the back of the premises, when Bale coming to him, and presenting to him the cheque, which he had filled up, and which was made payable to Mr. .lephtha Lloyd, he said, " Here Lloyd, here is some money for you." His own name, Bale, was signed to it; but he afterwards added the letter y, thus making it Bliley. This cheque they mutually agreed to di - op in the street, for the sake of a lark, and ac cordingly dropped it near to the door of the pri soner Joseph Lloyd, and this was all he knew of the case. Bale accidentally came in at the moment and confirmed Lloyd's statement, upon which Ro binson took him into custody. Jephtha Lloyd yes terday attended for the purpose of giving evidence to these facts, when Mr. INlinshull, being apprised of the part which he had taken in the transaction, desired him to be put to the bar with the other pri soners, not a ►ittle to his consternation. Mr. Isaacs, the attorney on the part of Jephtha Lloyd and Bale, asked Mr. Bush, the attorm y for the prosecut►on, whether there was any such firm in existence as Messrs. Thomas Courts and Co., the MARLBOROUGH-STREET. IMPORTANT TO COACH PROPIETORS.—Byers, the well-krrown informer, attended yesterday before Mr. CONANT to establish an information he had laid against Mr.Johir Littlewood, the proprietor of a pair- Iroise Richmond coach, for what his ingenui y had interpreted to be a violation of the 38th section in the new Act of Parliament. The point was entirely novel, and its decision was awaited with some inte rest. The 40th section of that Act permits an ad ditional number of passengers to be carried, pro vided a license is taken out at the Stamp-office, which privilege Mr. Littlewood availed himself of by taking out a proper license, and getting his coach constructed with a basket behind in order to add to the security and convenience of his passengers. The 38th section, however, enacts, that if the additional passengers are to he carried, there shall be seat, provided five feet wide on the front and on the back of the roof. The offence which Byers sought to prove was, that the seat was at the back of the roof, and not on the roof itself. Mr. Harmer, for Mr. Littlewood, remarked that it would be absurd to suppose the Legislature, whose object in framing the Act had been the secu rity of the passengers, should have intended to mak, that an offence which added to such security. Byers replied he had nothing to do with the in tentions of the Legislature; he depended upon the construction of the wording of the Act. The coach, of Mr. Littlewood, he maintained, was not a pro perly constructed carriage. Mr. CONANT was of opinion that the object it, having the seats on the roof was for the purpose of contra'Aing the space for the luggage ; therefore ht must consider the seat at the back instead of on the roof to be an offence within the meaning of the Act, and, consequently, he should impose the lowest pe nalty, 255. and costs. George King and James Young, a couple of country lads, without shirts or stockings, Were charged by Colley, who represents himself to be employed by the Stamp-office Solicitors, with hav ing sold The Poor Man's Guardian. From their miserable appearance, Mr. CONANT was induced to ask them how they became pos sessed of the money to buy the papers. They re plied, that about ten days ago they came to town, and were wandering about, when a well-dressed man accosted them, gave them each a shilling, and desired them to go to Kingsgate-street, to get sorrn of The Poor Man's Guardian, and to sell them in the street. They denied they had been promised any money if they got convicted and sent to prison. They were then committed for 14 days each. HA TT ON- GARDEN! Elizabeth Sinith,ayoungWOman about 22 year of age, and of a respectable appearance, was yester day charged by Mr. Thomas Humphries, of No. 6, Chad's-row, Grav's-inn-lane, with having stolen 9, .J sovereigns under the following extraordinai) circumstances : The prisoner had been keeping a seminary fo young ladies at the house now occupied by the pry• secutor, and had disposed of the same to Mrs. Hun ptiries for the sum of 35/. The bargain was corn pleted, on Saturday se'nnight, on which day po• session was given up : On the Monday followin, the prisoner (being still in the house) grew very it: quisitive,and followed Mrs.Humphries wherever sin went, expressing her willingness to ass►st in un packing and putt►ng in order certain boxea, trunk &c. She was frequently told that her services wer not required, but she would not be denied, and fol lowed Mrs. Humphries into her bedroom, and al FAT LIVING.—The vicarage of Wyburn, it Winsburn, Cumberland, is of the following tempting value :—Fifty shillings per annum, a new surplice, a psir if clogs, and feed on the common for one goose. This avoured church preferment is in the midst of a wild country, inhabited by shepherds. The clerk keeps a pot hauae opposite the church. The service is once a fort dglit ; and when there is no congregation the Vicar and Moses regale themselves at.the bar.—Mirror. DEATH OF A CHARACTER.—JOHN KEN NEDY, long known as one of the most venerable members , f the now defunct civic corps, the ."cown Guard," in Monday at the very advanced age of 86 years. JOHN was " a soldier in his youth," and had heen in sever-A actions. He served twelve years in the 21st foat, and was aken at Saratoga with General 131.1aGovN a, an I remained same years a prisoner of war. In October, 1783, he was discharged with a pension of 6d. per day, which he enjoyed -ill his death. He entered the " Town Guard" in 1784, (,ha , is to say, about 48 years ago), and continued a m so ber of that body till its reduction in 1817: but so attached was he to his favourite post of guarding King Cliaittts n the Parliament Square, that be continued to linger about the spot after the Guard was disembodied. He was, however, subsequently appointed watchman on the law imildings in the Parliament Square. Jolt's was somewhat of an eccentric; and his name and that of the " Town Guard" are inseparably associated in the minds of most if the grownup natives of Auld Reekie. He was a great hater of changes, as a proof whereof, he resided, since his irrival in Edinburgh in 1783, in the same house, Hume'e Close in the Canotagate. He retained the use of his facul ties to the last moment, and expired without a groan. He even took his accustomed walk to a friend's house in Mor rison's Close on the Saturday previous to his death, and hen appeared in his usual health andapirits.—Edinburph Evening Courant. THE RESURRECTIONISTS.—Some of these desperate men, who heretofore have lived by the plunder of the grave, have been endeavouring, in various ways, to innoy and disturb the anatomical teachers in the metropo li.. In some instances they have endeavoured to create disturbance, with a view of extorting money ; in others, t'ley have tried to obtain employment at their old occu pation, offering to furnish "subjects" for two pounds each, instead of twelve, the average price of last year. Think ing the temptation would prove too strong to he resisted, a party of them last week went one night to several schools with two bodies, offering them for any thing or nothing it last they pressed one gentleman for heaven's sake to tike the bodies, were it only to bury them, for they were fearful of being detected, as no one would give them ad mission. We can confidently state, that the determination -ieremptorily to decline all connection with these men, has not been deviated from in a single instance, and thus he public has been the first to gain by the new Act ; for he temptation to rob the grave ceases with the possibility .f disposing of the plunder, and thus may the friends of the deceased feel assured that their " requiescat pace" will not he in vain—that hereafter the grave will, indeed, ie sacred.—Medical Gazette. PROGRESS OF IRVINGISM. Pl itvingites are making great ifforts in order to f urt h er the " mighty work" of the tongues; anti they pr e di ct t h at " such a light will be ultimately raised as ne i t h er storm, nor wind. nor rain, will put out." They affirm that " the knell of Satan's kingdom is already sounding—the shroud of this world's wickedness is already prepared." In addition to the new church in Newman street, which forms the head-quarters of all the district north-of the Thames, a chapel in Deverell.stveet, Dover-road, has been taken as 'he rallying point of the southrons. The Rev. Mr. ARMSTRONG is the pastor of the flock in this quarter, with the occasional assistance of the "High Priest," as the former gentleman sometimes designates Mr. last O, Mr. ARMSTRONG h a s not yet succee!le. l , Ike his superior, in raising up prophet, speaking . in the longu es; in come qu,nce of which, Mr. htvriso, in his w ea kly v i s i ts to Df . verell-street, is always accompanied by a detiichment of his " sacred battalion." Manifestations in the known and unknown tongues are thus partially supplied to the southern +strict. B, sides the four Sunday services in his own church, beginning at half past 6 in the morning, and ter •ninating about 9 at night, Mr. lavtNc propiis, , s to con tinue his open air preaching at the House of Correction, commencing at " high noon," at which liot:r the " young brethren," nutnliering some 40 or more, are to disperse themselves for the purpose of ministering in the streets tad highways round about the City, Cr,aiing-c•oss, Smith field, &c. Yesterday, owing to the new arrangement not lavin4 been properly timed, the taii hf.l who ataemi)led t e House 01 Cutrection were left to their own resoin era for upwards of an hour, during which the met its of ti e new faith were sbarpir canvassed,