The Sun. — London, England, 1822-09-14 00:00:00

THE LONIXYN, 49U,,R,NALS. tXTTtACTS FRONI THE DAILY MORNEIG PATERS, S'epteinber 14, 11i22. [NEW TIMES. 1- It:is said in private letters from Snain r that the flotilla which was prepared by order of the Minister of Marine will cruise oil the coast of Ca,tolonia for the purpose of assisting the Consti tutional troops and of cutting off the escape by sea of the . factious. The Proclamation of the Political Chief of Pampeluna, requiring that parents should be responsible for the acts of their children who should enlist in the ranks of the factious, has caused a gread desertion from the Royalists. All the men residing in the places i : ear their troops. retired to their homes on finding that the Constitutional troops had entered Navarre. The Trappigt is stationed at Agoiz, and Quesada at Ochagaria; but there is a body of 2000 Con stitutionalists in their rear at Sangueza, and General Espinosa is before them with 3000 men, and is prepared to attack them. Colonel Gri inarest and the Carmelite Chaplain of the band under hjs command, have been taken prisoners at Villafranca. A band of near 600 factious was dispersed by the chasseurs of Seville.—Among the prisoners conducted from Santander to Co runna, were remarked the stepfather of Quesada, the Chief Chaplain of' the Franciscans, four Canons, the Judge of the First Court, the Civil Intendant, &c. &c. THE TIMES.] While the vigilance of the press, and the force of public op:nion, are directed from day .to day against conspicuous and avowed offences, ,whether political or moral, the growth of others remains entirely unchecked. Practices the most ruinous are permitted to spread and flourish in conventimfil obscurity. Although their exis tetice- is known to all men, and their conse quences are dreaded by all good men, they in sinuate theinselves every where, and whatever they touch they devour. The improvidenceor wicked connivance of the police spares these abo minations, while the indolence or timidity of pri vate persons becomes their easy prey. At the head of these mischiefs stands the public gaming table. The attention of our readers may have been drawn, with more than ac. custorned seriousness, to that source of evil, from seeing a recent statement in the police re ports, that some individuals connected with a gaming establishment had been seized by the officers of justice. But we have reason to be lieve that this great metropolis would furnish ma terials, every night in the year, and almost in every street, for a similar interference of the Magistrates. The notorious increase of these pests of society, proves that the laws against them are not rigorously executed, and that the interests of domestic life, and of the rising gene ration, do not occupy that share in the solicitude of the police to which they are so eminently en titled. The houses thus destined for the de struction of the fortunes, the morals, and the happiness of youth, are ope‘ed by men of des perate circumstances, and abandoned principles. They are more numerous, and their occupiers more audacious, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Palace of the King of England. The gaming-houses are called " hells ; " they fill St. James's-street, Pall-Mall, &c ; and sure we are that the Court must feel itself in purgatory, \vial such habitations so near it, The doors of these nefarious workshops are open day and night, the Sabbath included. [MORNIXQ POST.] The Radical Gazette of yesterday devoted the ]ongest leading article in its columns to a corn toOnt on the visit which Sir Watkin W. Wynn and his Lady, are about to make to his brother, our AnThassador to the Swiss Cantons, The Journal in question could not surely be aware of the compliment it was thus paying to the Govern- meat, by tacitly admitting the absence of all cause of public compliment, except that arising out of the visit of a private Gentleman to his brother. ,g - ut . then that brother is guilty of the unpardonable offence of holding a public situa tion, and of being also one of the Grenvilles ! We hope Ministers, from a regard for their own safety, will prepare themselves for an awful debate on this subject in the course a next Session.--IVlr. Hume will probably be able to calculate to a single bawbee the items of expence attending this visit; and when he shall have informed the House of the tottle, as he calls it, we fear the dreaded arid redoubtable Mr, Henry Grey Bennet will dart up in a passion, declare that he never, in the whole course of his Parliametary experience, read of, or heard, or conceived such an instance of barefaced profligacy ; and then, to use one of 1 1 4 Cobbett's phrases, he will " in a low, slow, solermi and prophetic tone," remind Ministers that the day Of impeachment is not far distant, nrid that this transaction %%ill, not be the least in the dark catalogue of their enormities. • [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We refer our readers to a Petition presented to the Commissioners of the Admiralty by Mr. Lawe• (sec another column of the SCN), a South American merchant, and the Answer. We are glail ,to see that the Government is beginning, 'Oough slowly, to come to a sense of what it owes to the Traders of the Country; for this 4zplication has been favourably received, though a 'former one • to the same purport was rejected.—Alitherto the British traders have been Oiore indebted to' the natives of America and France for protection,, than to the navy of their own country. English traders looking up to a French.navy ! Sorely a portion of the revenues of the country ought at least to be expended on its navy, the: source of its chief glory. Instead of wasting the money of the country on foolish missions to. Congresses, and planning how they bi,al.l . most effectually aid . the Holy Alliance in pretentinz - •the spread of knowledge; Ministers might be better' employed - in concerting with the L nited States' Government how, by their joint efforts, they might sweep the American seas of the Pirates who have so long infested them. [BRITISH PRESS.] We list night received German and Dutch Papers•of recent dates. The latter give a new editioni of the military operations of Chourschid Pacha, in• which it is stated that he had passed the Straits of Thermopylae without opposition. — The foreign accounts upon this subject resemble the works of Calypso—they contradict at night what they assert in the morning. The Emperor of Russia arrived at Warsaw on the ,96th last, on his way to Vienna. Paris Papers to the 11th inst. contain further evidence in confirmation of the defeat of Chours chid Paella. The doubts so long entertained on the subject appear to have arisen in part from the confusion of dates, in not discriminating between the old and new style. The difference is exactly twelve days. The battle, therefore, fought on the Bth July in one account, is the same stated in another account to have taken place o❑ the 20th. The present Papers add, that another battle was fought on the Ist of August, in which the Greeks were equally successful as in the former.—(lbid.) MORNING HERALD.I The enumeratio❑ of the manifold mischiefs that arise from the verboseness, intricacies, and obscurity of our modern statutes, might fatigue one's patience, but the subject is otherwise in exhaustible. The doubts and difficulties of our law proceedings are not imputable to the Com mon Law, but to the innovations and altera lions made in it from time to time by the Legislature. The greater part of our ancient statutes are, like the Common Law, entirely free from objection. In number few, in language precise, in meaning clear, with well-defined ob jects and lucid method, those venerable monuments of the wisdom of our ancestors may be said to constitute the very perfection of reason--the rule of right and the fountain ofjuscice.—The study of them as of the common law is as pleasant as it is instructive. They amuse the mind by the remembrance of old words, and the portrait of ancient manners. They inculculate the soundest principles of Government and morals. It is not difficult to account for the acknowledged excel lence of the old statutes. When a new law, or an alteration of an old one, was deemed neces sary by either, or both Houses of Parliament, a petition to that effect, in general terms, was presented to the King. If he assented to the prayer of the petition, - his assent was recorded ; and at the close of the Session of Parliament, the Act was drawn up by the Judges and others, masters of the law, and were, therefore, ex ceedingly well penned, short, pithy, nervous, and perspicuous, striking at the root of the evil, and introducing no new ones. But the verbose, intricate, and formal, ill-penned statutes of later days, drawn up in the Houses, have given occasion to multitudes of doubts and suits, and often, as a great oracle of the law quaintly observes, in stopping one hole, opened two. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. CONSPIRACY. Yesterday Thomas Combes, Thomas Mance, and Elizabeth were indicted for conspiring together, to cheat and defraud Jacob Russell, of the sum of 31. ss. on the 11th of May last. Mr. ALLEY appearing- , as Counsel for the prosecution, stated the case to the Jury. appearing; of the defendants, it appeared, were informers, and the ether (Mance) , was a messenger belonging to 'Worship-street Police-office. The prosecutor Russell, was a pawnbroker living in Shoreditch, and against him various informations were laid by two of the defendants, for charging more than the legal interest upon goods pawned at his shop.— The charge against the defendants was for compounding for these informations, and conspiring to compel the defend ant to pay the sum of 31.55. in the reign of Elizabeth a statute passed, subjecting informers to severe punishment for the offence of compounding informations; but the common informers, who now practised the trade, by a late decision were found to be exempted from the penalties of the statute, and had therefore openly carried on the business. It was to be hoped that the present prosecution would put an end to such nefarious practices so long persisted in in defiance of all justice. After a Jong trial, the jury found Mance and Combes and acquitted the female. Mr. BRODERIP exhibited articles of the peace against a young man of the name of Charles Campbell, for threatening to toke away the life of a Mr. Wright, in consequence of some dis putes which had arrisen. Mr. Campbell, a very young man, who it seems has been in the army, appeared at the bar, and complained of having been unjustly confined for eight days, and his bail refused. Mr. BRODERIP said the bail turned out to be sham. The articles of the peace were read, and:the Court ordered the defendant to find bail, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each. REFORMATION PRODUCED BY TIE BRIXTON MILL.—On Thursday the ToAvn-hall, South wark, presented the rare novelty of a maiden Session, there being no charge either of felony, misdemeanour, or assault, within the whole ex tensive district of the five parishes, from the night before ; and in consequence the strong room, or gaol, was thrown wide open. The worthy Alderman (J. J. SikuM took his seat on the bench at 11 o'clock, and disposed of an affair of no interest whatever, in which the cita tion had been granted on a former day and about a quarter before tiVelve he went away altogether. —That a wonderful diminution has taken place in the business of this office, and of Union Hall too, within the last year, cannot be denied, especially in the number of felons committed; and it is equally certain that this decrease is en tirely owing to the heavy and tedious labour im posed upon prisoners at the mill. When an of fender is sensible that the sure punishment at tendant upon the c9mmission of crime is very hard labour, it will,req,uire very little exertion of his philosophy to convince him that it would be as well to work for himself as for others, from whom he gets no remuneration. A mill has been, or is about to be, introduced into Tot hill-fields Bridewell and Coldbath-fields' House of Correction. We have heard many damsels, most of them to be sure, old enough to know better, declare they would sooner " live and die in single blessedness," than submit to the horrid regula tions of the New Marriage Act. To such we must needs say, it has been an act of grace, in having once more enabled a parcel of old maids to give themselves airs, after years of utter hape lessness.—(Mecclesfield Courier.) CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. Letters were received this afternoon, via Hol land, from St. Petersburgh, dated on the 23d August.• Far ther purchases of Tallow for British account had been , made, and the Exchange remained at 100. The sale of every arti cle of imported commerce was as dull as possible, and nev des potic Government could have, succeeded in rendering,the people less prosperous than the anti-commercial regulations of the CZAR of Muscovy have made the inhabitants of the Russian Empire. In the interior the want of liberal intercourse was as calamitons as in the capital, and Tallow could be purchased so low as to cost in St. Petersburgh next season not more than 90 roubles. The quantity was most abundant, but as nothing of British growth or manufacture was permitted to be sold without the impost of heavy duties, no remittances were ne cessary, and consequently, there was no demand for any of the internal productions of the Empire. Such are the effects of Government interference with commercial pursuits ; for they as surely entail misery on the people, as they prove in the re sult adverse to the objects for which they were intended. Late letters received yesterday from Rio de Janeiro state that a frigate, a sloop of war t and several transports had sailed on the 14th July for Bahia. They contained 300 seamen, 300 soldiers, and great number of officers, and would be a most im portant reinforcement to the Constitutional army. A Portu• guese frigate sailed from Lisbon about the middle of June, with four transports, containing about 700 men, for the same destination,' to assist the Royal troops. These adverse ships would probably meet off Bahia, and at present there are strong grounds to fear that very unpleasant events may have been the consequence. It must, however, be satisfactory to know, that a French line-of-battle ship has generously of fered protection to British property, which, at Bahia amounts to little short of half a million sterling. The feelings of Englishmen will, no doubt, be somewhat hurt by the reflection that British commerce is at present protected in every quarter of the globe by the French and American navies. Round Cape Horn, by the latest letters, the only chance of protection to British property depended on the arrival of an American 74 gun ship. In the Gulf of Mexico the American ships are the only guards against piracy, plunder, and murder ; at Bahia and in the Levant the French Navy protects British lives and merchant ships ; and in no part of the world are British ships of war to be found equal to the duties of their stations. The Ministers of his Britannic Majesty, however, have far more important interests to attend to than the safety of the property of merchants. To dress a regiment of soldiers in fashionable clothing, to give them an imposing appearance, to record the glorious actions of the different battalions, to correspond with the Holy Alliance, and to maintain the present system in Europe, are, in their estimation, far more important objects than the glory of the British Navy, or the safety of British property. In the beginning of this week the demand for sugars was ex ceedingly dull, but yesterday and this day there is an improve ment in their value of about ls. per cwt. and nearly 3,500 hogsheads have been sold. Coffee is very dull ; fine quality is scarce, and consequently dear, which prevents the dealers from purchasing beyond their immediate consumption. In Ruins very few sales have been effected. In consequence of the bad news front the fisheries at Green land and in Davis's Straits, Fish Oil of fine quality is worth 261. to 281. a ton. The arrivals of grain this week in Mark-lane are uncommonly small. They consist of 5,600 quarters of wheat, 500 quarters of barley, 7,400 quarters of oats, and 1,990 quarters of the same article from famished Ireland, with 4,900 sacks of flour. Fine qualities of new wheat bring fully as much money. as they did last Monday. Barley is 2s. dearer for the best new samples, though there is not any demand for the growth of last year. Fine Oats arc quite as dear, but the supply of every de scription of {rain is so small that no confidence can be placed in prices until the effects of full markets be ascertained. The average prices of the week ending the 7th September, in Lon don, are—for Wheat, 405., for Barley, 20s. 6d., and for Oats, 19s. 7d. a quarter. The English Funds continue very dull this day, and they are not considered an object worthy of the attention of the capitalist. The opening price for Consols on account was 81i, and they closed at 811, sellers. In the Foreign Securities the abundance of money continues to find abundance of employment. The Spanish Bonds are in great request, and a farther improveme ment has taken place in their prices. Their valu is enhanced by the close connection which at present exists betwixt Spain and Portugal, it being generally believed that the Government of the latter Kingdom will find plenty of money to borrow from their own merchants, on terms mteh more beneficial than a loan could be procured for them in England. The current prices are as follow :-- French Five per Cent. with Dividend from 22d Sept., Exch. 25. 40. 93. Prussian Five per Cent. of 1818 in £ sterling, with Div. from Ist April, 91. Do. do. of 1822 in do. do., with Div. from Ist July, 88k. Neapolitan Five per Cent, with Div. from Ist July, Exch. 4 40 and 25 65. 77i Spanish Five per Cent. of 1820, with Div. from 30th April, Exch. 43. 6* Do. do. of 1821 in X. sterl. with Div. from Ist May. 651. Danish Five per Cent. in £ sterl. with Div. from Ist July, 89i D . o. do. in Banco Marks, with Div. from Ist July, Exch. 37 4. 861. Russian Six per Cent. with Div. from lstJuly, Eich. 111. 82. Ditto Five per Cent. metall. with Div. from Ist Sept., Exch. 31. 80. Do. Five per Cent. in £ sterl. with Div. from Ist Sept. 8-a. Austrian Five per Cent. metall. with Div. from Ist June, Ex. 10 4. 81. Colombian Six per Cent. in £ sterl. with Div. from Ist May, 86A I. ehilian Six per Cent. in X sterl. with Div. from 30th March, 841 United States Six per Cent. of 1812-1815 with Div. from Ist April, Ex. 46. 92 9*--( Morning Chronicle.) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CURRAGH SEPTEMBER MEETING, 1922. MONDAY, SEPT. 9. Mr. Watt's b. c. Sardanapalus beat Mr. Bateman's b. f. Nosegay, Bst. each. Two-yr-old Course, sgs. h. ft. Mr. unter's Antar, Ist. 91b. beat Lord Cremorne's ch. f. Zamira, 7st. 21b. Old Two-yr-old Course, 50gs. h. ft. Lord Sligo's b, c. Contour beat Mr. Gore's b. f. The Mouse, Bst. each, 20gs. p. p. Two-yr-old Course. Sweepstakes, 20gs. 15 ft. Post on the Flat.—(Six Subscribers.) Mr. Kirwan's Dandy, 9st. 31b. - - I Mr. Caldwell's Noble, Bst. 91b. - - '2 Mr. Prendergast's Baronet, Bst. - 3 Won by a head. NORTHAMPTON RACES.-SEpT. 11. Gold Cup, value 100 gs, added to a Subscription of lOgs. each. Mr. Henbuay's Norna, 4 yrs old - - - 1 Lord Altborpe's ch. f. Betty - - - - Mr. Doddington's ro. f. by Rubens - - - 3 Mr. Braithwaite's Vanloo - - - 4 Mr. Bouverie's Arbutus -- _ - . 5 County Plate of 50/. for all ages. Mr. Field's Chew Bacon - - 1 1 Colonel Yates's Sporus - 2 2 LICHFIELD RACES, SEPT. 11.—(SECOND DAY.) The Noblemen and Gentlemen's Plate of 701. for all ages.— Two-mile heats. _ .._ Sir T. Stanley's br. c. Aimwell, 4yrs old 1 1 Mr. Painter's b. g. Coxcomb, 4yrs old 2 dr Mr. Jackson's b. m. Minerva, 4yrs old 3 dr Mr, Pintoff's b. g. Hassan, 3yrs, old 4 dr The first was as fine a heat as we have seen for some time.— Aimwell agst the field at sto 4-3 to 1 agst Minerva.-3 to 1 agst Coxcomb, and 6 to 1 agst Hassan.-2First heat won only by a head. A Gold Cup, value 100 gs added to a Subscription of lOgs. each, the surplus in specie.—All ages. One three-mile heat. Mr. W. Sneyde named b. h. Tarragon, 6 yrs old - 1 Mr. Martyn's ch. h. Teniers, 6 yrs old - - - 2 Mr. Mytton's br. h. Anti-Radical, 6 yrs old - . 3 This was a fine race, and cleverly won by a length. Teniers the favourite-2 to 1 agst Tarragon, and 3to 1 agst Anti-Ra dical. Thirteen others were drawn. PRESTON, WEDNESDAY-, SEPT. 11. The Gold Cup, value 100 Ts the gift of the Tradesmen of Pres ton, for horses, &c. of all ages that never won a Cup.—Heats a mile and three-quarters. Mr. Ferguson's b. c. Champaign, 4yrs - - 1 1 Mr. Simpson's b. f. Bonny Bess, 4yrs 1 - 2 2 A good race. A Handicap Stakes of sgs each, with 20 sovereigns added. Mr. Field's ch. g. Mercury - - - - 1 Mr. Seele's b. g. by Sorcerer, Gym - - - 2 Mr. Newsham's bl. m. Little Martha, aged .. - 3 Mr. C. Tempest's b. h. Ranger - - - 4 Mr. Whittaker's g. by Citizen - - - 5 A well-contested race. The Main of Cocks, for lOgs a battle, anti 200 gs the main, between the Earl of Derby and T Thomas Legh, Esq. was won by the former. NAMIS OF STIMETS. SHOREDITCH=CORNHILL—STRAND, &c. The origin of the names of the differeni streets in the metropolis, their ancient state, and the historical illustrations by which the accounts of many of them might be extended,it was the late Lord Orford's opinion, would form the subject of a very amusing work; and he mentions Les Anec dotes des rues de Paris, as a pattern for it. The following slight notices of Shoreditch, Cornhill, and the Strand, three of our most frequented thoroughfares, are offered upon this idea. SHOREDITCH. The supposed derivation of the name of Shore ditch, from Jane Shore, the ill-fated mistress of King Edward the Fourth, has its foundation from the following stanzas of an old ballad, intitled " The Woeful Lamentation of Jane Shore," .cc. which was printed in Dr. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, from an old black let ter copy in the Pepysian Collection, at Cam bridge I'm weary of my life, at length I yielded up my vital strength, Within a ditch of loathsome scent, Where carrion dogs did much frequent, The which now since my dying daye, Is Shoreditch call'd, as authors say ; 'Which is a witness of my sinne, For being concubine to a King. This story has gained firm footing in the parish, and is countenanced by the sign of a public house, nearly opposite the Bell in Shoreditch, called the Jane Shore, where there are in the windows two small signs : the subject of the one is this unhappy favourite in the height of her splendour; the other represents her, when un friended and worn out of acquaintance, lying in a forlorn state, and a baker relieving her necessities with a small loaf, for which, according to the tra dition, he was afterwards hung, by order of Crook backed Richard, and the unfortunate fair one pe rished for want of food. By this public house is also a small court, called CC Jane Shore Alley." The song of Jane Shore, just quoted, somewhat varies in relating this circumstance, and describes the person who relieved her as a particular friend, whose life she had saved, whilst in the meridian of princely favour. Sir Thomas More's account of her, in his Life of Richard the Third, totally destroys this favourite story, and he was living in her time. That historian, describing her, says, " Proper she was and fair—nothing in her bodie that you would have changed, but, if you would, you would have wished her somewhat higher : thus say they who knew her in her youthe. Albeit some that now see her (for she yet liveth) deem her never to have been well visaged, for now she is old, lene, withered, and dried up—nothing left but riguilde skin and hard bone." This place is supposed to be alluded to, in the Vision of Piers Plowman, in the reign of Edward 111., in these words " To the sortry of Southwark, or of Short-ditch, Dame Eve." It most likely received its nameafrom shore ditch (sewer ditch) ; whence also the name of Sir John de Sordig, (anciently Lord of the manor here.). It is called in old records, Sordig, Sor. ditch, Shoresditch, and Shortditch. CORNHILL. Cornhill was so called, from its having been antiently the great city market for corn, the principle factors or dealers in which article, had theit stalls or standings on market days in the middle of the street. Its inhabitants at this time were chiefly drapers, who were so numerous, that they formed themselves into a fraternity, or guild, under the name of the " Drapers of Cornhill," which was existing in 1361. The drapers gave way to a lower order of tradesmen, about the reign of Henry VI. called " Frip perers or Upholders," who dealt in second-hand clothes and household stuffs. Speaking of these, Stowe says, " I have read of a countryman, that having lost his hood in Westminster Hall, found the same in Cornhill hanged out to be sold, which he challenged, but was forced to buy, or go with out it ; for their stall, they said, was their market. About this time also," says he, " the wine drawers of the Pope's Head Tavern, standing without the door in the High-street, took the same man by the sleeve and said, Sir, will you drink a pint of wine ? Whereunto he answered, a penny spend I may,—and so drank his pint; for bread he paid nothing, for that was then al lowed free." It recovered its respectability be fore the reign of Elizabeth, and has ever since boasted, as now, of the residence of the first and most opulent citizens. In Cornhill, were anciently several curious buildings, as the Pope's-Head Tavern just mont tioned, which was a large stone mansion, thought to have been once a Royal residence, from having had the King's Arms carved in the front. This stood on the site of the present Pope's-head Al ley. The Weigh-house, where merchandise, brought from abroad, was weighed at the King's beam. This stood near the middle of the street, and was built by Sir Thomas Lovel, mentioned in the play of Richard the Third, who gave it to the Grocer's Company, of which he was a member. The most distinguished buildings, however, were the Tun, the Carrefouse, and the Royal Bourse, or Exchange. The Tun was originally a sort of cage or pri son, and was so called from resembling in shape " a tunne standing on the one end." It was built of stone by Henry Wallis Mayor, about 1282, for the confinement of night-walkers, and other disorderly characters ; but in 1401, was convert ed into " a faire conduit of sweet water castel lated," which was conveyed in pipes from Ty burn, and was thence afterwards named the Con ; duit in Cornhill. The well, or spring on the spot, was on this occasion, planked over, and a cage, stocks, and pillory placed on its site ; but they were subsequently removed more west wards, and a pump erected in their stead. This is the same spring which supplies the present pump in front of th Royal Exchange, and which was discovered some few years since. The Tun was an object of which frequent mention is made by our early topographical writers and annalists. The Carrefouse was a water stand, which stood at the parting of the four ways formed by Gracechurch-street, Bishopsgate.street, Leaden hall-street, and Cornhill. It was invented in 1552 by a German, and was supplies' by means 'ld an artificial fOrcer with Thames Wafer," w hi ch n, ran every tide through four spouts, pointing t ~ wards the four streets. Being found an inc e % venience, from its frequently overflowing, it nest 4 „ 5 I several times presented by the Ward Inqueel a s a nuisance, and was at length totally retnol e he It is generally called in these presentments, tuf Carrefouse, the Foure Spouts, &c. and LIPP°. from old representations of it, to have b eeol when standing, a great ornament to the spot. Of the Royal Exchange, the history is WAeio known. It was began in 1569, and finish e r,4 a twelvemonth, when Queen Elizabeth visi t ed it in great pomp, and named it the Royal ed change. In some old works, however, it is call " Britain's bourse." The original structllT which was only of brick and timber, stuccoe d parts to resemble stone, was burnt in the fire London, and the present building erected. STRAND. tr eet The name STRAND, given to the great 8'• connecting , e the cities of London and Westre inst g bespeaks its origin by its situation, being ' • high shore or bank at that part of the Thsrneif to which river, in very ancient times, it leY, e b n i; tirely open. At what period it assume d . 0 name is uncertain, being sometimes called, sit old writings, the High Street, and the Or e Street of Westminster. They more usually Lied signate it, however, by the name of Le Si t a n g f and its church was anciently called St—iialfl, Atte Strand, and Apud Strandam, at least as I". back as the reign of Edward I.; nor is it Orel; sonable to suppose, as strictly appropriate, tu t 0 , might have been so named much earlier. V flie a very remote period, the Thames side at be Strand was built on, and presented, towards a river, a splendid row of Noblemen's houses age palaces; but the street itself remained a nr op country road until after the year 1300. Ae"00 its north side were cottages only, and the wa ne of Covent-garden, until as late as the reign Edward VI. The most remarkable object in the Strand la; eiently (exclusively of the mansions just }, ea, tioned, and which would require a separat ° , te c. tory) was the STRAND CROSS. This ar ciii t he tural ornament was of stone, and stood !wa r ne r. site of the present New Church, where; ° iv wards, the great maypole was erected. 0 , King's Justices, in early tiriies, sat at thi s cr :lt and administered the law of the land ; a q c ls was not also unusual at the same time, for "i ng i e • to be signed and delivered " apud crucetn dem extra barrani non Templi," particu l l 3 d. grants to religions houses. This cross was s ill ing in the reign of Edward VI. , n oon The buildings to the north-west of 117 te r are increasing so rapidly that one of the S i lt; Companies have it in contemplation to no reservoir at the top of the hill which Of" Primrose-hill, and which is called Blood -hik g eo An unfortunate occurrence took place at ~ Coote, Ireland, on Monday night last. T he jj , r ift: Mr. STRANGEWAYS, brother to Lord 1Le 05 , 5 ,; hit at present on a visit at the Castle, rose 4 A - ov ia sleep, and, opening the window, leaped""vire a height of nearly 30 feet from the ground" n jA are happy to add, that though the Gentlelo"of severely contused, there is no apprehea si°l/ more serious consequences. t the An Inquisition was taken yesterday 8- got, Britannia, New-road, St. George's in the a s ter on the body of Mr. William Early', rg,,ia cooper, aged about 51, late of the af° re . t b;a place, who, on Tuesday morning, when I' ll f e ll a few doors of his own house, suddesilY 1 ,01 down, and almost instantly expired. h e or y , been in as good health and spirits the same ' A ing as he had enjoyed for many years befe re n . g of surgeon, who examined the deceased, bellivi opinion that he died of apoplexy, occasie n A e the the rupture of a blood-vessed in the Jury returned a verdict to that effect. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, September 13 'e. Ir• Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight l3 5 9 Rotterdam 1i 6 Lry Antwerp o ei ;4„ Hamburg') 39 ii Altona : 3B 1 O UP Paris, 3 Day's sight o6o i 00. Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto *' fa' • - 43 f 5. sectsl Frank fort on the Nair Madrid 6 Cadiz .6 ttecti t Biltocia 361 Barcelona 15 Seville Gibraltat Leghorn 474 ..... ~ G. 44-Venice, Ital. Liv. 27 6° Malta 45 -Naples 391 h et 0 9 Palermo Lisbon 52i Oporto , - - - - 48 • Rio Janeiro 4. Dublin .... 92 Cork 94 pet Cent. $1 BULLION. P si C .... I• Portugal Gold, in Coin 0 0 m • .. e , Foreign Gold, in Bars $ 1 t 0 New Doub •.. • 0 loons 9 0 New Dollars 1 0 4 " w Silver in Bars, Standard COAL-MARKET, SEPT. 13. p r ice o . :41 Ships at Market. Ships sold 3.5 s Od toes 42 Newcastle - - 34} - - od to.. 16 Sunderland - - 14 36s . _ tf. BIRTHS. Cel l ! ! a ~,, A On the 4th instant, at Annaghmore, in the ICl r t.„ e rit ' the Lady of Captain Biddulph, of the 25tli regh`" ' o f daughter. t t ile Id / On Tuesday, the 10th inst. in Weyinouth.stree / . , B. Barnewall, jun., Esq., of a daughter. „ billf MARRIED. , te r as4 e is On Tuesday, John Leycester Adolphus, Esq. ba r fl a rs 0 10; and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, t° suety os, daughter of the late Rowland Richardson, EA' 0- Ikt''''OP . On Tuesday last, at Ham, James Dawkins, E"'' o f• 00 Upper Norton, Oxfordshire, to Maria, dimglitel Gordon Forbes. i i" tii b DIED. tre et Li eu -ai 4 On Monday, at his house in Herefords/ th . e precrit a' h G ofi e st n hh e ee r a a Kl l te S ha. i n r H. Oakes, Bart. lie arrixed in towli t hebe l3 " - Saturday from Ramsgate, where he ha d been for - ° op" 4' 4 • On Wedn ,s es h d i a ea y d ei r r i e ,, n lv in er g n , , Mrs. John e nveneY ' Jane'-•--160 On Saturday, the 7th inst. Russell -court' -biO vv:F W 9 relict of the late Mr. Richard Collett, of the Cuar;l g ton , '" On the 10th inst. in his 68th year, Thomas S D pit' late of East-end, Finchley. at Oefo iff. 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