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7- 1 P" * • MASONIC' NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. ENGLAND. 3londay, July 22, LONDON. Nos. 4, 46, 71, 104, 305, 321, 407. COUNTRY. Nos. 320, -190, 546, 578. - 23, LONDON. Cot7,NT RN% Nos. 38, 67, 145, 427. Welnesday, - 24, LONDON. Nos. 2, 12, 36, DI, 233, 3-19. CouNTR.v. Nos. 84, 215, 314, 414, 440, 4-12, 478, 548, 661. Nos. 7, 82, 36, 142, 156, 216, 222, 327, 431. Gen. Corn. Female et 12. Cot NTRY. Nos. 110, 153, 176, 178, 269, 453. - 26, LONDON. No. 421. • CouNTnv. Nos. 53, 236, 283. - 27, Lo` - Doti. 4 CouNT ay. Nos. 412, 492. IRELAND. S3trinlay, July 27, CORK. No. 27. Tuesday, Thursday, ----23, LoNuoN'. Friday, Saturday, YORKSHIRE. litr.L..—On Wednesday, the 3d inst. the Worshipful Mas ter., Officers, and Brethren, of the Phoenix Lodge of this place, commemorated the sth Anniversary of its opening, by dining `-oc:ether. in. the Lodge Room, No. 11, Iligh-street. Nearly forty of the "mystic tie" sat down upon the occasion, amongst -whom were some of the Officers and Brethren of the Minerva Lodge, Bull ; those of the Constitutional Lodge, Beverley ; and several other visitors. The diiiner and dessert were excel lent, and the ~ vines choice. Numerous appropriate toasts and tongs were 'introduced, and the affectionate cordiality which Prevailed thl-oughcut the whole evening, most fully. evinced !` J. - low good and pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together In unity." • NORTHUMBERLAND. MonrtTfr.—On Thursday last, an adjournment of the ge neral quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Northum t,erland, was holden at this place, for the purpose-of laying the - . - uundation stone of the intended new gaol, house of correction, t , .nd sessions house, at Morpeth.. About 12 o'clOck his Gracethe Duke of No RTIIUMBERL AN D, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county, arrived at Mrs. Sunderrand's, Queen's heal Inn, when, soon afterwards, the procession pro ceeded to the scite of the said intended building, in the follow .aug order The Bailiffs of the County, three and three. • Sheriff's Trumpeters. Gaoler. Under Sheriff. Bailiffs of Morpeth. Gentlemen and Clergy, two and two. County Treasurer and Clerk of the Peace. Magistrates-of the County, two and two. If is Grace the Lord Lieutenant, supported by the High Sheriff and Chaitman of the County. Architect. A large and elegant assemblage of ladies filled a temporary I c•allery, purposely erected for their accommodation, and well • i..17-tpted for a general view of the ceremony. On arriving at the spot, the following coins of his Majesty were placed M a glass vase, namely, one sovereign, one half sovereign ; (gold) one crown, one half-crown, one shilling, one , - sixpence,.one fourpence, one threepence, one twopence, and one penny (silver) ; one farthing, the only copper -coin issued in the present reign. As also three beautiful coronation medals of gold, silver, and bronze; a brass plate, with 'the following inscription engraved upon it:—" This stone was- laid by the •• Most Noble Hugh Duke and Earl of Northumberland ,‘ Earl and Baron Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpayne, Bryan, Latnner, and Warkworth, and Baronet, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotu loruin Of the county of Northumberland, and of the town and county of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Vice-Admiral of the same and the Maritime part 'thereof, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c. &c. &C. in the pre sence of a Bench of Magistrates of the county of Northum berland, the eleventh day of July, in the third year of the reign of his present Majesty King George the Fourth, A.D. John Dobson, Architect."—Which plate was placed in a glass vase and deposited together with the coins, in a cavity in the stone, made to receive. it. A large and massy stone of one ton weight was then raised, and being lowered to its proper place, was adjusted and laid by his Grace in the usual form. The silver trowel was presented to his Grace by the Chairman, THOMAS CLENNELL, Esq. on which occasion he • spoke to the folloWing effect " Mar LORD,—ThiS trim:l, with which you are to lay the first stone, at least above ground, of this inten d e d new court house and gaol, 1 present to you from the beach of Magistrates, at whose request your Grace has come forward to perform the ceremony, and in their name 1 return you their sincere thanks for your condescension on the occasion. My Lord, it gives me the greatest satisfaction to be able to state, that the plan in tended to be followed in this great undertaking has been mi nutely examined by, and met with the decided approbation of, ahose patriots and philanthropists, who are emphatically call ed " the Gaol Committee." From them some hints of improve- meet have been thrown out, which will be duly attended to by the magistrates. The Judge of Assize also expressed his ap- • probation at the last assizes. Indeed, my Lord, the plan, under the able management of the architect, comprehends all the improvements of the modern gaol. By it security is afford ed to the gaoler, and those employed under him ;—by the ready means of inspection order anti decency will be preserved in the different wards the regular classification of the pri soners contamination will be divided, and the hardened convict will not be allowed further to mislead the juvenile offender ; by a judicious apportionment of labour, the daring villain will be restrained, and the less reprobate offender, by a proper de gree of labour, will be trained, it is hoped,, to habitual industry. Their religious improvement will be sedulously attended to.— Thus, if the plan succeeds, the gaol will become a gOod school of reform, and to reform, rather than to punish, ought to be the great object of the criminal law ; and surely the retbrmation of a criminal is a duty dictated by humanity, enjoined by religion, and urged by every motive which the regard to the moral wel fare of the prisoner can suggest." The Duke then returned thanks to the numerous assem blage present, and to the .Magistrates in particular, for the com pliment paid hint in inviting him to perform the ceremony now about to take place; that he always was particularly attentive to every wish to serve the county; that it gave him the greatest pleasure to attend as far as posSible to their wishes at all times ; that he felt the greatest pleasure in learning from the Chairman of the County that the calendar •for the ensuing Assizes was only defaced by one capital offence, a great proof of • the good morals of the County at large a and concluded by trusting that when the building was finished, it would be the only house in the County unoccupied. KENT. • CANTERBU hY.—The first stone of the New Fish Market of this City was laid on 3lbiitlay last in the presence of WX. HOmERsHAM, Esq. Mayer, the Sheriff, and many other respeCtable citizens, by Mr. Alderman BRoWNE, who, upon proceeding to lay the foundation-stone, addressed the Meeting in the following language :-- " MR..MAYOR AND GENTLENEN—It may be said by some persons that as the sum of money about to be expended here is not very considerable, it is, not of consequence suf ficient to have the ceremony of laying the foundation stone, but in this I should certainly differ With them, situated as our City is on the banks of the 'Stour, in the midst of a pleasant fertile valley, with, a magnificent structure in the centre, towering, above the summit of the surrounding hills in'majestic grandeur, with an abundant supply of . excellent water from them : it is of the greatest importance to our large and populous City' to establish good markets, under such regulations as Will induce a constant and aniple supply of every article of provisions, by which the necessities of poor may, in some measure, be ameliorated, the comfort and. convenience of every class of society ensured, and an additional incitement held out to the wealthy to come and reside ainongst as by these means Canterbury may continue to fake its proper rank amongst other great cities of the British Einpire ; with these feelings, I shall now proceed to lay the foundation stone, and I hope the work we are this day promoting will, under Divine Providence, prove highlybetieficial to our native City,"-After the worthy ' , Alderman i•lad concluded, ,the Mayor, Sheriff, .with the Gentlemen of the Committee, repaired to the Fountain Ta vern, and partook of a dinner served-up in Wright's usually excellent style. SO M ER SETSHIRE. FROML—areavpieparations are making in this place, for a Grand Provincial Meeting - of all the Lodges in Somerset, ap pointed by the K.. W. P. G. Master, C. K. K. Tynte, Esq., M.P., on the 30th inst. ' which it is expected, will be most nu nierouslY attended, and the regalia very magnificent. THE LONDONJOU.RNALS. • EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY '3101:NINO PAPERS, July 18, 18'22. [MORNING POST.] PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. -- Mr. Hope and Mr. Menzies attended last night at the bar of the House of Commons, in pursuance of the Speaker's order to that effect. Mr. Hope was first introduced by the Serjeant at A rms, to answer for the alleged breach of privilege ; and this Gentleman gave so satisfactory an explanation of his conduct, that it was agreed no further pro ceeding should take place. It is due to Mr. Hope to observe, that his firm, yet respectful ex position of the high-minded and honourable feel ings by which alone he was actuated in writing the letter alluded to, together with the frank and gentlemanly propriety of manner with which he made that exposition, produced a most powerful impression in his favour. — The various and important considerations which influenced this Gentleman are such, we do not hesitate to say, as every man conscious of ho nour, and to whom justice and an unsullied cha racter are dear, will properly appreciate. Mr. Canning placed the painful delicacy of Mr. Hope's situation in its true light, and also his reason able claim upon the protection of Parliament. — Upon the whole, however, we cannot regret that the subject has come under discussion, for we conceive that the debate of last night will prove eminently advantageous to the interests of the l'ublic.—After Mr. Hope had finally withdrawn, the preliminary forms were gone through, and Mr. Menzies called to attend at the Bar. The explanation which this Gentleman gave was so perfectly satisfactory, that on the motion of Mr Courtenay, he was instanter• and unanimously dis. charged. [THE TIMES.] A petition was last night presented to the House of Commons by Mr. Brougham, from the Proprietor of the Irishman, a Journal printed at Belfast, expressing the surprise of the petitioner that means had not been taken by the Executive Government of Ireland, to prevent the insults and outrages offered by Orangemen to the Ca tholics on the 19. th of July ; and praying that the House would consider about the application of some remedy. The surprise of the petitioner is no more than natural, and his prayer one which, in our opinion, it would- become the House of Commons to comply Ns ith. It is deeply to he lamented that the inevitable evils under which Ireland seems doomed to suffer, should be in creased by these wilful and wanton aggravations, i which a very slight regard for the public tran quillity, or for the comfort and happiness of the people, would long ago, as it appears to us, have induced the Executive Government, or, if not within its competence, the municipal authorities in Dublin and elsewhere, to provide against.— NN'e have long since pressed upon the feelings of men in power, the disgraceful perversion of the name and character of William 111. to these mean factious purposes. That Sovereign came amongst us to put down intolerance—not to use so- base an engine as the support of his Go vernment, or to soil the glorious record of the Revolution by connecting with it a system of petty vengeance, and perennial vexation, against any class of his subjects. Much mischief has been done to the general interests of the empire by thus stupidly identifying, i❑ the minds of the Catholics, the origin of British liberty with that of Irish persecution. It has deprived both nations of the advantage of drawing their constitutional sympathies from the same source, and has sensibly impeded the growth of the Irish Catholic in those political principles and attachments which would have fitted him for the enjoyment of higher privileges, and for the exercise of more extensive and more active powers. [NEW TIMES.] The affair of Messrs. Hope and Menzies, as will be seen by our Parliamentary Report, has been terminated without any attempt to proceed to extremities against either of those Gentlemen. We ventured yesterday to say that it appeared to us to be totally unfit for further prosecution; and such seems to have been the pretty general im pression of the House of Commons.—We fully agree that both Houses of Parliament ought to entertain a constant and watchful jealousy of any infringement of their privileges ; and, far from thinking that they carry that jealousy to an ex treme, we think theii• practical error is 'on the side of excessive indulgence. At the same time it will not be denied that there are many incon sistencies in this chapter of Parliamentary His tory : very venial matters have been treated as grave offences, while some gross breaches of pri vilege have been passed over without notice. It would almost seem that there are some privi leged offenders in this line ; for instance, The Times, which (as was shewn by an Evening Pa per of yesterday) first put words into the Marquis of Londonderry's mouth, as having been spoken by him in Parliament, which words he never uttered, and then broadly charged him with falsehood in having uttered them ! We know not exactly Why The Times is indulged with this peculiar licence ; but we very well know what would have been the consequence, had we taken the same liberty with the speech of any Opposition Member. [MORNING HERALD.] It appears to us strange that, in the present day, while there is so much profession with respect to the universal toleration of all religions 7 of whatever denomination, whether Christian or Anti-Christian, that in Dublin there shOuld be these feuds between Christians called Protestants and Christians called Catholics. If the Protes tant Christians, or the Orange party, as they nick name themselves in Ireland, do dregs up a statue of King William on a particular - day in the year, with the intent to insult their Catholic Christian bre thren, who are equally fellow-subjects of King George the. Fourth—which King, when lie was in Ireland, had the wisdom to pay as much atten tion to the Catholic Nobility and Gentry as he did to the Protestant Nobility and Gentry—we do think that if the Irish Protestants on that day do it with such an intent, they are highly blameable. In England there is little or nothing remaining of that outward miserable show of difference, in Christian profyssion. Last year it was ven tured on in a trivial instance, but it was treated with the only treatment it deserved—ridicule. If a man in London were to attempt to dress up any statue of King William in orange ribbons, he would be in danger of being taken to Aldgate pump and be well pumped upon. The people of that neighbourhood would have no more mercy on such an unlucky fancier of orange-coloured ribbons than they would on Mr. Achilles, had he fortunately been stuck up in the Minories, instead of being placed in one of the King's Parks. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Greek question was brought last night before the House of Lords by the Earl Gros venor, who expressed himself with respect to the Turks in language such as became an English Nobleman. lie had no doubt, he said, that though there might have been some cruelties com mitted by the Greeks, " they were infinitely exceeded by the horrible atrocities committed by that detested race, the Turks." In fact, as is Nv e 1 1 observed by M. Raffenel, an eye-witness of the principal circumstances, in his candidly written llistoire des Evimenzens de la Gr.ce, re cently published, the cruelties of the Greeks are attributable solely to the Turks.—" How could (he says) the Greeks shew themselves generous and magnanimous towards monsters, who would only have paid these benefits by the blackest ingra titude ? The known character of the Turks could only give to this war a degree of unheard of violence ; if the Greeks wished to escape death themselves, they were obliged to sacrifice their enemies ; by sparing a sing!. Ottoman, the Greek was sure, in some sort, that he was assas sinating a Greek, as the Barbarian, on escaping death, thought only of the means of destroying his benefactor."—llis Lordship deemed the forma tion of an Independent Greek State the best means of preventing Russia from carrying her ambi tious views into execution, because, though that Power might easily deprive the Turks of their possessions, were it to set its foot within the confines of independent Greece, the whole of its gigantic figure would be paralysed. His Lord ship alluded to the Turkish frigate now fitting in our ports, and manning with English seamen, and to the report that the unfortunate Sciot hos tages had been guaranteed by the English Am bassador at Constantinople, and concluded with a motion for Copies or Extracts of Despatches from the British Minister at Constantinople re specting the murder of these hostages.—Lord Li verpool admitted that the conduct of the Turkish Government, in executing the Sciot hostages, was most flagitious, and observed, that every one who knew Lord Strangford would readily believe that his humanity would prompt him to use all that personal influence which circumstances might have given him with the Turkish Government to prevent it ; but if the motion was passed, the humanity of Lord Strangford would, in future, be of no avail, as the Turkish Government would pay no attention to any of his representations, and " the misery of the unhappy Greeks would be still further increased." He gave a new ver sion to the affair of the Turkish frigate, and stated, that au application—made to allow her to take on board ammunition and warlike stores — had been absolutely refused. His Lordship made strong professions of the strictest neutrality, and, upon the whole, his speech was much more recon cileable with the idea of such a neutrality than that of Lord Londonderry's the other night. [BRITISH PRESS. , The Northern Advocates were brought to the Bar of the House of Commons last night, pur suant to the notice before given. The public know the nature of the question. Mr. Hope ex plained so much to the satisfaction of his friends that they cheered his conclusion—a precedent which would be inconvenient for the adoption of the lower Courts, in regard to individuals brought before them. What a spectacle, if the Judges, forgetting the gravity of their functions, should on any occasion in which they sympa thized with the accused (and the Constitution commends this in them on all Crown pleas), should join the shouts of the by-standers, and clap their hands in compliment to the dexterity of the defence ! We do not mean to say that this is not proper in Parliament ; that might be a breach, of privilege, and it is not every one who can come to the Bar of the House with the same ad vantages as Mr. Hope, since the time of Mr. Wood fall. But times are much changed : no thing can be more lenient than the opinions on the privileges of Parliament to which this very ma nifest breach of it gave rise. The liberality and kindness of Ministers are so enlarged on this question, that it might well make one doubt if these are the same public officers who caused the Parliament to enact the six Acts of 1819. Mr. Canning, who made such stout fight for the Bill for constraining the Liberty of the Press on that occasion, declares it now to be a graft of the Constitution which it is neither desirable nor practicable to remove. We would rather thank the occasion than the speaker, because the avowal went upon the supposition that the reporting of debates was a breach of privilege of the same guilty nature with the angry comment of Mr. Hope, or any other self - sufficient-man, who, in his zeal to uphold the laws, endeavours to set himself above them. The discussion is a triumph for the freedom of discussion out of doors, but in effect a very dangerous mat ter for that which will go on within doors. Mr. Brougham • observed, that after this the House would never be brought to the harsh injustice of committing a printer of a news paper,for an unintentional inaccuracy in a report. The discussion ended in calling Mr. Hope to the Bar, and informing him that ' the House, under all the circumstances, saw no reason for proceed ing further in the business. Mr. Menzies was discharged, after being heard in contrite expla • nation, without eYpostulat►on of any kind. EAST INDIA HOUSE. A Special General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock was yesterday held at the Com pany's House, in Leadenhall-street, for the pm.- pose of considering the Draft of a Bill now pend ing in Parliament, for the adjustment of the long existing account betweeH the Company and the Public. The Chairman (J. PATTISON, Esq.) having stated the business which the Court was summoned to transact, acquainted the Proprietors that certain proceedings in the Court of Direc tors, and a correspondence which had taken place between the Company and his Majesty's Ministers, relative to the adjustment of the ac count between the Public and the Company, should be read for their information. From these documents it appeared that the debt claimed by the Company on the 30th April, 1821, was x'18,5-19,059 The debt due by the Company to the Public was —.1206,843 Balance in favour of the Company £5,682,216 But Government had objected to various items included in this balance, by deducting which from the sum claimed by the Company, the balance had been reduced to £1,300,000. The result of the negociations was, that the Government agreed, Ist, To pay £1,300,000 to the Company, to be applied by the latter in liquidation of the loan of 1812. 2d, The public property now in St. Helena to be given to the Company. 3d, All drafts on account of public service in India, up to the 30th of April last, to be paid by the Government as they became due. 4th, Outstanding claims for hemp supplied by the Com.: pany to the Navy Board to be liquidated by Government. sth, The Government spices, from the Moluccas, now in the Company's warehouses, and the net produce of such as had been sold, to be made over to the Company. On these conditions, all claims between the Company and the Public, up to the 30th of April, 1822, to be finally settled. On the other hand, the Company to forego the claim of any expence incurred at St. Helena, subsequently to .1821. - The Papers having been read, The CHAIRMAN shortly called the attention of the Court to the adjustment of the account between the Company and the Public, which he described as perfectly fair and equitable toward both parties ; and he concluded by moving, " That the Court do approve of the Bill intro duced into Parliament on the basis stated in the negociation, for adjusting the claims between the Company and the Public." The Deputy Chairman (W. WionA.3l, Esq.) seconded the motion. Mr. LOWNDES congratulated the Court on the beneficial nature of the accounts which had first been laid before them. In recovering possession of St. Helena, they ought not to forget that the monuments of that illustrious and extraordinary man, who would to the latest posterity be con sidered one of the most wonderful beings that ever existed, fell into their hands. That was no small treasure ; for he believed there were many people who, on speculation, would give 2,000,000/. of money to procure possession of that illustrious person's body, to shew it about from one king dom.to another. Mr. TUCKER expressed his satisfaction at the arrangement which had been effected between the Government and the Company. In his opinion, the thanks of the Proprietors ought to be given to Mr. Bosanquet and Mr. Robinson, who were selected as Commissioners to act for the Court of Directors on this occasion, and also to the Directors themselves, for the efficient manner in which they had conducted and con cluded the negociation with Government. The motion, approving of the Bill now pend ing in Parliament, was agreed to. Mr. TUCKER then moved the thanks of the House to Jacob Bosanquet, Esq. and G. A. Ro binson, Esq., and also to the Directors, en masse, for their able and efficient services in .the course of, the negociation with Government. Mr. BOSANQUET was anxious to decline the honour, and he believed if his friend Mr. Robin son were present, he would express the same sen timent. if lie and his Hon. Friend had suc ceeded in rendering any benefit to the Company, the recollection that they had done their duty was sufficient reward. Mr. TRANT expressed his approbation of the conduct of the Directors. After some further conversation, the Resolu tion of thanks was unanimously agreed to. Mr. BOSANQUET returned thanks for himself and Mr. Robinson. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks on behalf o himself and his Colleagues. CLAIM OF THE CALCUTTA BANKERS. The CHAIRMAN informed the Court, that cer tain Papers which were presented to Parliament since the last Court, were now laid before the Proprietors for their consideration. Those Papers were of very great importance. They related to a claim of very great magnitude, which had been made on the Company by Mr. Prendergast, as the Agent of certain Bankers in Calcutta. That claim was now before a Committee of the House of Commons ; and without meaning to provoke any discussion on it at present, he must say, that the Court of Directors, satisfied of the injustice of the claim, would give it every opposition in their power.—(Hear,:hear !) The titles of the Papers were then read, and the documents were laid on the table for the use of the Proprietors. EAST INDIA TRADE BILL. Mr. TRANT inquired whether the Resolution of the last Court, relative to India Built Ship ping and the duty on East India Sugar, had been communicated to his Majesty's overnment and if so, whether any answer had been received ? The CHAIRMAN said such a communication had been made, and an answer, which should be read, had been received by the Court of Directors. The Clerk then read a letter from I'. P. Courtenay, Secretary to the Board of Controul, in which he stated, that it was not the intention of Ministers to press forward the Bill, for con solidating the East India Private Trade Acts this Session, but that it was their determination to bring forward that desirable measure early in the ensuing Session.—(llear, hear !) DISPUTE WITH CHINA, Mr. LowNnEs wished to know whether the dis pute with the Chinese had beeh amicably settled? and whether the Company's ships would bring home as much tea this year as they were accus tomed to do?—ln consequence of the dispute, it had been rumoured, thatthe Company's ships would not bring home so much tea as heretofore, and the tea-dealers had immediately raised the price of that commodity. The CHAIRMAN said, the Hon. Proprietor must be aware that it would not be prudent to answer one of his questions, and with respect to the dispute with the Chinese, it had been amicably settled. Mr. R. TWINING defended the Tea-dealers from the charge of having raised the price of Tea. —The Court then adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 17. No case of any public importance occurred this day.—At the rising of the Court, the sittings were adjourned to Monday, the 28th of October. SUSPECTED MURDER. Yesterday a bricklayer's labourer, .named Peter Jennings, was brought before Sir K. BIRNIE, at Bow-street, and underwent an exa mination, on suspicion of having been guilty of the wilful murder of Francis Withy, a boy about 13 years of age. 7 —The evidence against the pri soner was merely circumstantial. It appeared that he and the boy Withy were both in the service of one master, and were at work together doing some repairs at the house of a Mr. Smith, at Kensington Gore. The prisoner, from some cause which was not explained, had a very strong dislike to the boy, and _ _ had repeatedly threatened to do him some harm; at one time swearing that he would throw him off the scaffold, and " break his b--1 neck ;" and on another occasion, that he would be the death of him the first opportunity. On Saturday afternoon last, the boy, whose particular duty it was to wait on the plasterers with the materials for their work, was seen by one of the workmen at about four o'clock, standing on a part of the scaffolding which was within the level of the wall of the house, and in- a few moments after, having occasion for something in his busi ness, he called to the boy, but receiving no answer, he looked upon the scaffold, and saw, the prisoner standing there, but the boy vias i absent. The prisoner was standing within a yard of the spot where he had., just before seen the boy. 'I he prisoner was employed in different part of the house, and had nothing to call him to the scaffold where he was seen. The man called to him, and asked him where the bog was, and he said he did not know. In a fe' minutes from that time the unfortunate lad was found on the ground, underneath where he ha d been seen standing, with his skull dreadfully fractured, his wrists dislocated, and otherwis e shockingly injured. The prisoner was inve . diately suspected of having thrown him from t hB scaffold, and was given in charge by the work' men to Hull, a constable of Knsington. Th e boy meanwhile was conveyed to St. George's nos; pital, in a state of insensibility, and he continued speechless until his death, which took place 0 ° Tuesday afternoon. Every possible effort wa s , made by the medical gentlemen of the hospit al to restore his senses sufficiently to obtain some information from him, but in vain. The sli t) where he fell was minutely examined, and it af"; peared that he had fallen through the branches of a tree, at a short distance from the wall, and car°, down at the foot of it. Some of the branch' were broken. Ile was found in a crouching po s-- ture; and from all that appeared,he must have fail ° head foremost. It is a remarkable circumstan ces that the spot were he was found is upwards e e six feet out from the wall, within which the scaffold he must have fallen from is erected. T he ~. ground there is quite level, and the consta ble and others who saw it, and measured t he distance, declared their opinion that it w as ha ve utterly impossible that the boy could o . fallen upon that spot without some propel l ' e c i force. He could not, they said, even havejul e he the distance, if he had thrown himself off. t height of the scaffold from the ground was a bu t 33 feet. No cry was heard from the boy. These facts were deposed to by several witnesses' The prisoner merely declared that he was qu ite , innocent.—Sir R. BIRNIE said it was a v e ry mysterious business, and must be rigidly 1. 11 ; quired into.—The prisoner was committed i° re-examination. se• Yesterday some malicious person stabbe d t th e ven horses in different parts of their bodies, in a field a bo t head of Burntsfield Links. None of the horses are dea n , they are so severely wounded as to be incapable of working' (Edinburgh Edinbnrgh Courant, July 15.) HOP INTELLIGENCE. • ig in SOUTHWARK, JULY 15.—We have very Hops, and if a sale can be made it is at considerable less I P ney. Duty at 135,000/. MAIDSTONE, JULY 15.—The late warm rains and - but weather have much improved the growth of our hop bilie%ric the branching, generally, is very bad, and the bloom r,, e133 81re ably thin and no forwarder than it was this day wee"' 0 01 d, have a great deal of short run bine, rather an increase of In and no less vermin. little dou _O. COAL-MARKET, JULY 17. Ships at Market. Ships sold p r ice. s 3cl 20: 4 ; Newcastle - - 14 -31 s (id to CJ s 9a 9 Sunderland - -33 s Od t° BIRTHS. Wednesday, at the Bishop's Palace, Waterford, the 1-1,510571 Robert Uniacke, Esq. of Woodhouse, county Waterf oro, daughter. esterday, Mrs. Royes, Charter-house-square, of a MARRIED. f iftsV Yesterday morning, George Rowley, D.D., Master of versity College, Oxford, to Juliana Elizabeth, youngest: - ter of the late Rev. Thomas Ripley. ita Cr Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-squar e, . 1,,r Robert Tichborne, Esq. fourth son of the late and hreiti'sl, fi the present Sir Henry Tichborne, Bart. of Tichborne OVA 1' the county of Hants, to Rebecca, eldest daughte r or 4- Nunez, Esq. of Belmont Park,. in the same co unty.„....- DIED. r ont'-' 5 On the 30th ijlt. in Donegal-street, Belfast, An n, `i o i i e pr e ' s of Annesley; She was born in 1732, and married to bol d.: sent Earl of Annesley 1770. She was then young an d c oal fill, the only child of Robert Lambert, Esq. of Donladi, Down, and heiress of 1,5001. a-year. 1-4/ n _ rt i On the 16th inst., Charlotte, wife of the Rev. Vicar of Crosthwaite, Cumberland, and daughter of tSreio;a Bishop of Carlisle. Her death was occasioned 11 ba c. cold water when very hot. Her husband and 12 Olu' , to deplore an irreparable loss. e o and son, the 14th inst., at Shenley-hill, Herts, at the lot l i s t b, ar son, Thomas Bradbury Winter, Esq., of Haminerstv Kimberworth, Yorkshire. genti i i n ,, h g; On the 16th inst, at his house, Harleyford-Plai e, kr. Jy ton, after a long illness, borne with great fortituue, 1 05, Busher in his 66th year. aBl On the 10th inst., a Chelsea, of a decline, age • a 0 a the eldest son of Alexander Bruce, Esq. u gent, o rt, On the 14th inst., at Mrs. Newman's, A.). ri,veo o lingering illness, Mr. Richard Chambers, late sp of Lombard-street. the 14. Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. C autilm, PTinted and Published' for the PRoPRIETOItS, tr:nt. 7 AR Th the