The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-28 00:00:00

VP 144 ING EDI-141 - r AL AND MILITARY INTEL LIGENCE. -~---~ it - t seven weeks ago Captain Gray and a detach :3l the Royal 11Iirines were ordered to hold them in readiness to proceed from Woolwich to do duty mbroke, and relieve a detachment of the Ply- i - oa.,th division stationed there. The Vesuvius steam vessel, Lieutenant-Commander W. S. Blount, was or dered to call for them on her return from disembarking a division of the 29th Regiment at Leith. On the ar rival of the Vesuvius at Leith, she was ordered to pro ceed to Hull to convey the depot of the 77th Regiment to Dover, and has been since constantly occupied in conveying betwixt Ireland and the ports in the English Channel, and consequently Captain Gray and the de tachment of Marines still remain at Woolwich. On Wednesday the Alban steam-vessel, Master John King, which only arrived on Saturday from San Sebas tian, was ordered to be in readiness yesterday (Thurs day) to receive Captain Gray and the detachment, and convey them to Pembroke. These orders were counter manded, and the Alban left Woolwich without the men on Wednesday night, and proceeded for Dover, where She will embark a company of the 77th Regiment and convey them to Southampton, where they will be em baeked on heard the new Merchant steam-ship the Orien tal, and she will sail on Tuesday, the Ist of September, for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. It thus appears that weeks may elapse in the movement of troops on home stations, while those intended for the Mediterranean service are despatched with the greatest speed, without waiting the opportunity of Admiralty vessels proceeding to the same destinations. The quantity of military stores forwarded to Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports within the last seven weeks has been considerable. The Numa transport, Coleman master, Lieutenant Howe, R.N., agent, arrived at Gibraltar on the od inrtant, with 3,500 barrels of gunpowder and other naval and military stores on board. Each barrel con tains 90ib., and as l lb. Boz. is a sufficient charge for a 3.2.-pounder, this quantity would be sufficient for 210,000 charges. The Index, a hired schooner, is on her rrogress to the Mediterranean with a similar cargo. The Vanguard, 80-gun ship, Captain Sir David Dunn, is at Spithead, and wili , imniediately sail for Gibraltar, wlica she completes her number of seamen. She takes out detachments of the Royal Artillery and Royal M rives, and has 800 barrels of ball cartridges on board. 'Lc Inconstant, 36-gun ship, Captain D. Pring, was or.:cred round from Cork last week, and is in Ply mouth harbour receiving two companies of the Royal Artillery for Gibraltar, and she has 400 barrels of ball cartridges on board, besides other military stores. Each bare; of ball cartridges contains 500, making 600,000 rounds, on their way to the Mediterranean. As British so:diers on foreign stations are rot generally recruits, they do not require such a quantity of ball cartridges for prac!ice, and it is not probable they are only in tended for firingfeux de joie. REVIEW AT WOOLWICH ON SATURDAY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was U.) pleased with Us recent visit to Woolwich, that he p‘trpoied paying it another visit, and yesterday was ori cinully intended for the purpose. It has, however, been ultimately fixed for Saturday, and the orders have been issued to all the troops in the garrison to be pre parcd for the occasion. His Royal Highness will ar rive at Woolwich about 11 o'clock, and will visit the saricus objects worthy of notice. He will then inspect th, Regimental School ; and the field batteries will counnenee precisely at two o'clock, and conclude with a splendid scene on the common and firing in the It is to be hoped the weather will prove fa vourable on this occasion, that the public may not be ppointed in witnessing the whole proceedings. MEETING RESPECTING INDIA. AIANCEESTER, WEDNESDAY EVENING. ➢IR. O . CONNELL IN ENGLAND. This evening, at six o'clock, a public meeting was LL-A.. in -the Corn Exchange in this town, for the pur pc,:e of firming an association, to be called " The Nortltern Central British India Society," which, in ad dition to the importance of the subject as extending the field for the production of cotton, derived some portion ,of iiderest from its being announced that Mr. Daniel VConnell would be present. The large room, which is t":lculated to hold about 2 500 persons, was well filled, by parties whose political opinions seemed generally to cc i,, e cle with those of the agitator. The chair was taken by Mr. John BROOKS, borough reeve of :Nlanchester. The chairman stated the object f or which tLe meeting was called. The society which was to he forroz.d would have for its object the ameli oration of the condition of the people of India. An other object would also be effected by it, namely, the .extinction of slavery in the United States, which at pre zect existed to a fearful extent.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. GEORGE HADFIELD then rose to propose the first resolution, and concluded by condemning, in strong -servos, the exl! , -tence of the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Mr. CAtENDIET. seconded the resolution. C. TuomesoN. the anti-slavery lecturer, then p resented himself. The resolution referred to the mode the largest portion of the British empire was governed ; it pointed out many and extensive evils ex that country,, and it referred to one in particu lar. in order to induce a confident expectation in those larhd have t a ken op the question, that, if its merits be .c&ndidly and extensively canvassed, the people of this 'country will unavimously, promptly, and strenuously ea.l upon the Leg islature to free India from the evils that now afflict her population, and elevate it !to that station of social comfort and political freedom to which, as subjects of this realm and enlightened people, 'they are entit:-Id. Mr. Thompson then referred to the fact that since his lectures had been delivered on the subject, they had becn published in a volume in Ame rie,i, as a proof that the society was gaining ground, mid to the feeling manifested at the Anti-Slavery Con vention, by the delegates from the United States, who, without exception, reiterated their opinion that this great measore of justice to India was the sheet anchor of their hopes—that they looked to it as the great and potent measure of their hearts' desire. The speaker then at great length produced authorities to prove that the great impediment to the eultivat'ont of land in India by the native population was the present mode of letting the land and claiming so high a land tax us about two-thirds of the produce. Every kind of cotton required by the spinners of this country would be produced in India, of the best quality, of unlimited extent, and a constant supply, were it not for that in cubus oc Lhe soil in the shape of land-tax. At present the amount of exports to India did not exceed 4,00 000 Cr 5,000,000. The motion was then put from the chair and carried. \VATKINS proposed the second resolution, to the effect that if the evils now existing in India were r, moved, it would greatly augment the resources of tlis country. Ti.e motion being seconded, Mr. JosENE PEACE moved the appointment of a Committee for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects the society had in view. The motion being seconded, Mr. O'CoNNELL rose, and observed that the subject was ab? most important he, at least, had ever been en gaged in ; it involved the happiness and prosperity of nearly 1"0,000,000 of human beings resident in the Ei,tlndics; awl would increase the comfort of the la bourinz population at home. He would now address liiinstof to the threo points he had proposed to lay before them. The first of these related to a subject which, .at first view, might appear trivial it was salt. Tiic people of India fed principally on vege tabios ; rice was their main food, and it re quired, for the preservation of health, a portion of that ingredient. What was the cenduct of the Go wrnment? Had it allowed the people to take the salt and distribute it? It had done no such thing, but bad taken ail itself, and not left the poor even salt to their porridge. No person is allowed to take the salt on bats of death. The next point of misgovernment to winch the Hon. and Learned Member referred was the opium monopoly, and to support the horrible traffic in this we wore to incur the expense, and perhaps the dis grace of a war. India would produce cotton, rice, and indigo, in abundance ; but the Government interfered, ,and would not allow their cultivation, but compelled people to produce that poisonous drug.—(Cheers.) next point was the land revenue. The great tax io India was the land tax. The Government was sup ported by a certain quantity of the produce of the land. The ancient chiefs of India took from the people one sixth of the produce. They were succeeded by Ma homed, who increased it to one-fourth. Then came the tgovernment of England, and they insisted on having ene (calf, and that half was what the children in Ireland callad the biggest half.—(Cheers and laughter.) The manner in which the tax was collected was most oh aioxious. A young man whose friends had patronage was sent out to the East Indies ; he was placed in power 4 o fix what should be the proportion paid by the and mo re he made the tax the more likely fzivlLL ,s he to be noticed by the Government.—(Cheers.) The Non. and Learned Gentleman then quoted from t he instructions of the Government to their taxing offi wers, to show that the s} stem was one calculated to pre t.•et the cultivation of th e soil of India. That country * E ,3 the most producti v e on the earth, it would bring ket... , three crops 3 year ; but ruthless man had interfered oroi turned that heaven into a chaos of Britishfirst obtained tio:_sessjon of the country. In 1764 a famine broke out, till 1766 ; it spread through the entire anentire. coast of Coroto-.ttndel, and 1, 000,000 die sweepingd. In other fami ne oceu"."red in Bengal Pr e sidency, off at least t h ree m i l i'ons of human bei::'ss. — (Utte.. of " Shame.") " Murder, i say (said Mr. O'Connell) and not 'shame, for it is to be attributed to British misrule." Their warehouses were full of food, and yet the i_•.eople were left to starve. The next famine began in 1772, and concluded in 1782. It extended through Coromandel, and not less than half a million perished. In 1792 and 1798 there was another, and again in .180-1. In 1820 anotller great famine ravaged the country, again in 1823, and in 1833, 1834, 1835, and iS;.',6 a repetition of it. Again it broke out in 1837, :and is still raging. And during these famines it was toot an uncommon thing for women to offer their ail dren for sale into perpetual slavery in order to save their lives, and soldiers were obliged to be stationed on the coast in order to prevent mothers from drowning their infants rather than the morning's sun should dawn on their famished existence. This was result of Bri tish misgovernment. The resolution having been carried, Mr. BROTHERTON, M.P., proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. O'Connell, which was seconded by Sir THOMAS POTTER, and carried. The meeting shortly afterwards separated. BARBAROUS MURDER OF AN AGED COUPLE AT PEOVER, CHESHIRE. On Monday night two murders were committed at this place. Peovcr is a delightfully secluded spot, dis tant about two miles from Knutsford, and the scene of the murder is the green lane which skirts the noble park and ball of Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bart., and forms the bye-road from Knutsford to Macclesfield. The victims are Mr. and Mrs. Cook, a retired farmer and his wife, one in the seventieth and the other seventy one years of age. He married late in life, and the house in which he dwelt consisted of four bed-chambers up stairs and three rooms and a scullery underneath. His household consisted of himself; his wife, and a servant girl, of about fifteen years of age. On Tuesday morning the alarm of murder was given by the ser vant girl, and on the neighbours entering the cottage in the house part, or kitchen, they found both Mr. and Mrs. Cook lying murdered on the floor. Mr. Cook was partly dressed, having his trousers and waistcoat thrown lightly on. Mrs. Cook had nothing on except her usual night attire. They had evidently been both in bed. The body of Mrs. Cook was nearest to the door. She was lying nearly on her face, and her husband quite so. Her body was in one corner of the room. There was a stream of blood on the floor leading from Mrs. Cook's bady. Her skull was dreadfully fractured, the brain protruding, and, in addition, two heavy wounds were inflicted on her shoulder and under one of her ears. Mr. Cook's skull was also fractured, and other wounds on his head bespoke the barbarous at tack that had been made upon him. On the table was placed a heavy axe besmeared with blood, and bearing such other marks on the heavy or hammer end as to leave no doubt as to its being the instrument with which the murders had been perpetrated. It was im mediately identified as Mr. Cook's property, and was usually deposited, along with a saw and other tools, in the shippon adjoining the house. In the course of the morning the bodies were exa mined by Mr. Dean, surgeon, of Knutsford, and he did not hesitate to assign the cause of death to the blows inflicted, or to say that the death of both parties must have been almost instantaneous. The bodies were not moved until after they had been examined by the Coroner's Jury, which met at the inquest held in the afternoon of Tuesday, at the Mainwaring Arms, before C. Hollins, Esq., Coroner of that district. The Jury, after a full inquiry, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against some person to them un known. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. THE LATE TROTTING MATCH OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR OVER TWENTY HURDLES FIVE FEET lllGll.—Yesterday, Mr. Thomas, Secretary to the So ciety of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, applied to Mr. Hardwicke, at Marylebone, for a warrant against Burke, of trotting-mare celebrity, who, for a bet of 501., undertook to ride a horse twenty miles over twenty hur dles five feet high within the hour, and which wager went off on the Gth of August in Jackson's grounds, when the poor animal, in attempting the eighteenth wile, was so distressed that it could not reach 100 yards beyond the winning-post, and, on reaching the stable, it actually fell down from weakness. Death soon put an end its miseries. Mr. Thomas stated that a summons was granted by Mr. Rawlinson, and which was to have been heard last Thursday. The defendant did not appear, and in con sequence he applied for a warrant. He then, while alluding to the difficulty he should have in finding the defendant, as he had no settled place of abode, di rected the attention of the magistrate to a clause in the late Police Act, by which a charge may be heard in the absence of a defendant, provided appli cation was made to his last place of residence. Mr. Ravdinson observed that, before he acted on his own opinion, he should wish that he (the secretary) should get the opinion of counsel as to the power of a Magis trate in such a case, as it appeared to him that the object in view (the subject of the application) was something similar to a horserace. He (the secretary) had since applied to Mr. Adolphus, the counsel, who had given his opinion on the case. He gave the brief to the Magistrate which contained the opinion. Mr. HARDWICKE, having read the document, said there was a difficulty in determining where to draw the line. Where one saw a person with a goad strike a sheep or a horse, and who bad no other object in view than the gratification of a brutal feeling, that was un mixed cruelty and wanton in the extreme ; but where a person had in view the accomplishment of a particular object, as in a horserace or steeple chase, the case was far different. Mr. Thomas—But in these instances the horse is trained. Here the horse was taken out of an omnibus without any training, to undergo excessive torture. The horse was urged on when it was incapable of performing the feat. The first ten miles it did in twenty-six mi ' nutes and a half. Mr. HARDWICKE—The act was very cruel, cer tainly, but it comes as near as possible to that class of matches called horseracing. The thing to be consi dered is whether the act can be looked upon as palpably wanton ; that is, wanton without any object. Mr. Thomas referred to a case where some gentle men drove a coach from Cambridge to London within a certain time, for which act they were fined 40s. Mr. HARDWICKE—BUt when you refer to matches where thousands of pounds are at stake, you will never find penalties of 40s. to check the vice of these persons. There is not the least doubt of the cruelty in the pre sent case ; but when you come to the idea of wanton ness, what. signification will you give to it ? Mr. Thomas then withdrew. FLANDERS PAPERS. BRUNSWICK, AUG. 14.—We lately read an article in the Bremen Journal announcing that our Duke was about to marry. This news caused great joy here, but we are to learn that it is unfounded. HANOVER, AUG. 19.—We hear that there is a sitting of the Council of State to-morrow, in which the ques tion is to be discussed, " How far it:might be advisable, necessary, or useful, now that the new Constitution is published, to grant an amnesty, to those who have op posed the Government, through attachment to the Con stitution of 1833." HANOVER, AUG. 2—The King returned yesterday from Brunswick. ALTONA, AUG. 22.—Their Majesties the King and Queen of Denmark arrived here at 1 o'clock this morn ing from Itzehoe, with a numerous suite. They were received at the gates of the town by the Governor and the principal civil authorities. This morning the King visited several public esta blishments and held a levee. The town is to be illumi nated this evening. ODESSA, AUG. 7.—Count \Ville, general of ca valry, died on the second of this month, at his estate, Oreanda, on the south coast of the Crimea. HAMBURG, AUG. 25.—Their Majesties the King and Queen of Denmark visited our theatre yesterday even ing where at their desire the opera of Guido and Ginevra was performed. For some weeks past there have been reports that Count Von Sedenitzki, Prime Bishop of Brcslaw, has resigned his high dignity. It is added that his Majesty has given him the title of Excellency, and appointed him Privy Councillor and Member of the Council of State. This prelate has most probably taken this de cisive step to avoid a collision with the Court of Rome. —Harnburgh Papers, Aug. 25. BRUSSELS, AUG. 26.—Their Majesties arrived at Oftend the day before yesterday, at nine o'clock in the evening. Several individuals, implicated in the affairs of the meeting in the Rue Haute, were set at liberty the day before yesterday. We were assured on Friday last, that Sir Hamilton Seymour, Minister Plenipotentiary of England at our Court, had 'announced to all the English officers at Brussels that they were to pro ceed to join their respective regiments. We would not repeat this report without having ascertained its correctness ; but in the meantime the Emancipation mentioned it, and we then said that we had heard of it. From subsequent information we are able to say that the news was not correct, and we are authorised for mally to contradict it. ANTWERP, AUG. 26.—The Marquis of Londonderry arrived here yesterday on board the Staad Antwerpen steamer. Letters from Louvain say :—" In pulling down the walls of a ce ll ar i n t h e fi s h -mar k et, a vase has been found, con t a i n i ng a b out 5,000 small p i eces o f si lver coin of the 12th and 13th centuries, belonging to Brabant, Hainault, and Flanders, most of them in perfect preser vation. This is a m os t h appy di scover y f o r the numis matical history of our country. We cannot conjecture how such treasure could come to be concealed in such a place, for at the time whon it was buried there it was equivalent to a large fortune." —Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, Aug. 27. The Hull letters from London are now con veyed by raway the entire distance, and are due to the Post-office at ten minutes after nine in the for enoon, d aft the ar e r rnoon, in stead of a quarter to duce in the afternoon, th an e mail for London leaves Hull at half-past four in instead of ball-past eleven forenoon. By this merit Hull is brought a day tearer to London thananfgoer merly, there being ample . time to reply . the same day. - Thus, though above 40 miles more distant than Lincol Hull is practically an hour nearer t . o Loudon than we are. How long is this to continue 2—Lincoln Gazette. • SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS oF YESTERDAY. (From 'the Globe.) The arrivals from the Levant, of which we give the the details in another portion of our columns, convey interesting particulars of the present state of the Eastern question, which the French papers, received this morn ing, are also occupied in discussing, on the data supplied by the correspondence from Alexandria, which was brought by the Etna. M. De Lamartine has also thrown down a golden apple of poetical descant, and political discord, in the shape of a letter to the 'Journal de Saone-et-Loire, on the conflicting interests involved in this question, which he would reconcile by a grand partition of the Ottoman Empire into four Protectorates—Constantinople and the Black Sea to fall under Russian protect:on, Egypt under that of Eng land, the shores of the Adriatic under that of Austria, and Syria under that of France. This is a poetical , method of preserving the integrity of the Ottoman em pire. We do not mean to sneer indiscriminately at M. de Lamartine's ideas, after the fashion of some of our Parisian Contemporaries. There is certainly too much imagination in them for practical guidance ; but imagi nation, after all, is the only faculty by which we can gain any insight into the dim future of Eastern destinies. The imaginative flights of M. de Lamartine have been at least taken from Eastern ground, and are founded upon local: impressions. Where he errs is, perhaps, chiefly in projecting his views too boldly into a far fu ture, and prompting lines of conduct not justified by the necessities, or policy, or rights of the present, however they may, or may not, result from the slow process of years, or ages. The Journal des Debats observes justly, " The question of the East is, at this day, the great question of the world. We are well aware that the status quo, even if it can be once more maintained, is, after ail, only an adjournment of that question. But what is peace at any time but an adjournment of war ? We have already adjourned it for ten years ; if we should only adjourn it by the maintenance of the status quo a few years more, humanity and civilization would be greatly indebted to us." (From the Standard.) The press rarely escapes censure and punishment when it transgresses, or which is practically the same thing, when malice or vindictive spite can bring it within the clutches of the law. Even its best services are partially and parsimoniously acknowledged ; the mere talkers who steal and parrot its reasoning, running away with the far greater share of the public gratitude, and for that which it does not do—though much the greater part of virtue lies in forbearance—the press obtains no credit whatever. Justice to " our order," calls upon us at this moment to try, at least, if we cannot obtain for the press of England that acknow ledgment which is unquestionably its due. if the British Empire and Europe escape the cala mity of a war, of which no man can calculate the duration or the event, the blessing will, under Pro vidence, be mainly due to the British Press. Had we, instead of avowing our dislike to war, instead of em ploying towards the French people and their King the language of respectful friendship, while we manifested a perfect scorn of the fear of hostilities—had the Press of England, instead of pursuing this conciliatory and manly course—a course in which we rejoice to say the press of all parties was unanimous—had we, instead of this, merely imitated the press of Paris, no human wisdom could have saved Europe from the scourge of a desolating war. It was only necessary to retort upon our French contemporaries their own arts—to arouse the people of England and to provoke the people of France to feelings that could be extin guished only in seas of blood. There was no want of topics exactly reflecting those which the Paris Journals did not scruple to employ ; but to particula rise these topics would be in part to incur the guilt of employing them. Let the consideration be dismissed with this remark—that if Great Britain has her weak points, her censurable errors, her seeming divisions, France has more of both, greater and more real. They have not, however, been touched upon by any single British Journal of which we are aware. But the services of the British press in this momentous crisis are more than negative. We have reasoned with the French people, in a tone of respect and earnestness, to assure them at once of our friendly feeling and of our sincerity ; we have let them see that we consult their honour and welfare, next to our own ; we have let them know that we can distinguish between a people and its corrupt minister—must we add, between a people and its corrupt press! (From the Courier.) The Church struggle in Scotland is, we see, progress ing, and the attention of the people, for some time past so much turned to the contest between the civil and ecclesiastical judicatories, as it manifested itself in the case of the Strathbogie minister, has received, since the last meeting of the Commission ofthe General Assembly, a new direction. A presbytery in the west of Scotland —that of Irvine—was proceeding in terms of a law of the Church lately passed, to detach, quoad spiritualia, a portion of the parish of Steuarton from the charge of the parish minister, and to erect it into what is called a quoad sacra parish, when the patron, and we believe the principal heritor of the parish applied for and ob tained an interdict from the Court of Session against their doing so ; and this on the ground that it is not competent, under the law of Scotland, for the Church, of her own authority, to make this disjunction. We believe that in this view of the law the patron is right ; and that, without the co-operation of the Court of Teinds, the erection of even what is called a quoad sacra parish, where all the temporalities of the benefice remain in the hands of the minister quoad civilia, is beyond the reach of the Church Courts. But, be this as it may, the interdicted presbytery did not go into the Civil Court to show cause why the inhibition should be removed. They went, like good ecclesiastics, to the General Assembly. The Assembly remitted the case— most important as it was—to that doubtful and conve nient body, a commission ; and the last commission, in perfect keepinc , with the spiritual independence now claimed, ridiculed the idea of submitting to the Court of Session how far the law and statutes, founded on by Mr. Cunningham, of Lainshaws, justified the resistance he was making to the proceeding of the Church Courts. The interpretation of these laws and statutes the com mission took at once into their own hands : it would not even refer the matter, on the motion of the Procurator, to the next Assembly, but at once directed the Presbytery to proceed in the allocating of the quoad sacra parish, nothwithstanding the interdict of the Civil Court! This deliverance, no doubt, was guarded by directions to take care that they did nothing that could be re garded as an infringement of civil rights, or beyond the strictly spiritual domain ; but within these limits, the Presbytery being left to define them as they may see fit, they are to set at nought the decrees of the Civil Court ! This is " going it" with a high hand on the part of Mr. Dunlop and his coadjutors ; and we shall see, by-and-bye, what the upshot of all this is to be. AN IMPUDENT ROBBER.—On Wednesday after noon, a gentleman, named Menzies, residing in Osna burg-street, Regent's-park, was crossing Finsbury-square, on his way home from the Bank, where he bad been to re ceive some money, when he was accosted by a tall, gentle manly-looking man, who politely requested to be informed the hour. Mr. Menzies immediately took o u t his catch , and while he was examining it, the stran ger exc l a i med, " Good God I what is the matter there ?" M r . M enz i es turned his head in the direction indicated by the stranger, who instantly snatched the watch from his hands, and mad e off with it in the direction of Sun -street. Mr. Menzies instantly pursued the scoundrel, but though several persons joined in the pursuit the thief eluded them all in the nume rous alleys with which the neighbourhood abounds, and got safe off with his booty. The watch had only been pur chased a few days previous, at Barraud's, in Cornhill. It was a silver hunter, and cost fourteen guineas. The loser intends advertising his toss and giving a description of the robber. The Watchman says that John Thorogood, the Church-rate prisoner, has been released from Chelmsford jail, his friends having paid the rate and costs, in alt amounting to SO/. or thereabouts. This is said to have been done without his knowledge or concurrence. A CONSCIENTIOUS BRIGAND. —A letter from Temeswar, in Austrian Servia, bearing date the 27th of July, relates the following trait of the notorious Berzewitch, chief of the Bosniac brigands :—A young man named Yarkitch presented himself before him, requesting to be enrolled in his band. On being asked for the proofs of his bravery, he replied that he had just assassinated the father and two brothers of a young girl, whom they had refused to him in marriage; and that the girl having de clined to follow him, he violated her, and then set fire to the house. " I see," said Berzewitch, coldly, " that you are a man of courage ; but you must pass through an other trial to prove it, and for that purpose you must go up to the mountain with one of men." Berzewitch then whispered a few words into the ear of one of his brigands, and Yarkitch and the latter set off together; when they bad reached the summit of the mountain, the robber com missioned by Berzewitch blew out Yarkitch's brains with a pistol. Shortly afterwards the brigand chief wrote the following note to the Temeswar Magistrates :—" The assassin, ravisher, and incendiary, Yarkitch, has been punished with death by my order. BERZEWITCH, Captain of the Free Bosniacs." The bearer of this note disap peared immediately after its delivery ; and Berzewitch has since been called throughout the whole district " the grand justiciary." Mr. J. Howard Galton, of Haddon House, Worcester, has declined the invitation to stand on the Ra dical interest for the borough of Droitwich. A circumstance in itself so singular as almost to be unworthy of credit bas lately occurred in this city (Constantinople). Two Persian gentlemen, each pro vided with credentials from bia Government, at one and the same time demand to be acknowledged by the Sublime Porte in quality of Charge d'Affaires. The Porte unable to decide as to the one most worthy of credit has, in this embarrassing position, proposed that their claims to be submitted to an arbitration, and they having assented, it was determined to entreat the assistance of a delegate from each embassy, whose jiint decision was to be final in the settlement of their claims. We have not beard if this nomination has been accepted by the dole. gates, who have already been addressed on' the subject by the P o rte. This surely is a case without parallel in diplo matic history. —Manzari Shark, or Oriental Observer, of Aug, 8. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Daniel Davis, who was some days ago accused of having uttered a forged bill for 1081. 12.5., purporting to be drawn by Messrs. HinchelifTe and Co., paper stainers, of Golden•square, and addressed to Mr. Smith, painter, St. Albans, was brought before the Lord Mayor, by Cuthbert, the officer... Mr. Charles Phillips appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Jones attended on behalf of the prisoner. After hearing evidence which led to no result, the Lone MAYOR remanded the prisoner till Tuesday week. THE LON'LION, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28. IP4OI • ; .; GREENWICH POLICE. On Thursday Mr. Malalieu, the superintendent of the R division of police, came before the Magistrates to report the decision of the Commissioners of Police in reference to the case of Thomas Smith, one of the constables of the division, the circumstances of which have already appeared. It will be recollected that the constable in question made a charge, at the last meeting. of the Magistrates, against a man ❑amed Benjamin Allen of having assaulted him, and he swore that he was called in to clear the Pilot public-house, East Greenwich ; and that in endea vouring to do so, after hearing a cry of murder, he was assaulted by Allen ; and he also swore that he had not been in the house at all before on the same evening, and that he had never drawn his cutlass, or threatened to use it. Several respectable witnesses that were produced on behalf of Allen, proved, however, that the constable had been drinking for nearly two hours in the Pilot public house, and that he had drawn his cutlass and threatened to run it into Allen, and that t hi s caused the disturb ance ; and the Magistrates thereupon dismissed the charge of assault, and directed that copies of the depo sitions should be forwarded to the Commissioners of Police, in order that they might take what steps they considered proper in the matter, on behalf of the public. Mr. Malalieu now informed the Bench that the Com missioners having attentively perused the depositions, were of opinion that the circ umstances of the case re quired that a furtherinvestigation of the matter should take place, in order that the law seould be put in force against the constable, either for the offence of perjury, or for misconduct in his capacity of police constable, and he therefore prayed the Magistrates to appoint a day for the investigation, and to determine whether they would proceed upon the charge of perjury, or upon that of misconduct. Mr. THACKERAY, the Chairman, said that the course the Commissioners had adopted, was no other than he should have expected from his knowledge of their anxiety to protect the public by every means in their power, and to remove from the force under their control every individual whose conduct rendered him an object of suspicion. At the same time he must express his opinion that there would be technical difficulties in the way of making out the charge of perjury, although, cer tainly the charge of misconduct was one that could well be sustained. Mr. Malalicu said that the moment the Magistrates gave their decision upon the former occasion, the con stable was suspended ; and he was now in custody, await ing any charge that might be preferred against him. The CHAIRMAN then directed the summonses, and the other steps necessary to be taken, with a view to the charge being gone into against the constable, and an early day was appointed for the hearing of the case. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT, Aua. 14. MATTHEWS V. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. In this case Edward Mathews, a grocer and cheese monger, of Shrewsbury, was the plaintiff, and the Right Rev, Edward Maltby, Lord Bishop of Durham, the defendant. Mr. DENNY stated the plaintiff's case. It was an action brought for the recovery of the sum of 91. 18s. due to plaintiff for various necessary articles of food, supplied to the defendant's son, from the 23d of August 1828, to the 6th of December following, while at school with the Rev. Dr. Butler in Shrewsbury, consisting of bread, butter, herrings, and such edibles as usually form the stock-in-trade of a huxter. The son of the defend ant, who was about 16 years of age at the time men tioned, came in company with a young gentleman named Telliard to the plaintiff's shop, and telling him that they wished to be allowed to open an account with him, as the " milk diet" did not exactly suit their con stitutions, he consented, and during a period of nearly six months they were supplied with the va rious articles forming a portion of the subject of the pre sent action. Mr. Telliard very honourably paid his por tion of the account, amounting to W., while " Master" Maltby left school without paying a fraction. As a con trast between the conscientious principles entertained by a Bishop and a schoolboy, he (Mr. Denny) should read the two letters addressed to Mr. Mathews and his at torney, in answer to an application for payment to Mr. Telliard and the Right Rev. Bishop. (The letters were then read. The first was from J. A. Telliard, acknow ledging the debt, and transmitting 51., and the other was from Dr. Maltby, announcing his determination not to pay for articles furnished without his knowledge or that of the Rev. Clergyman under whose care his son was placed.) The Learned Counsel said his was not one of those justifiable cases where parents refuse to pay the bills, with which a wine merchant or a tailor may some times mulct the striplings of the aristocracy, but it was a case where a Prelate of the Chad] of England—a Spiritual Lord possessed of an immense revenue, comes into Court, not clothed in " sackcloth," but in purple and fine linen," to refuse payment to a poor struggling cheesemonger, for supplying his son with articles which no habits of intemperance, but the cravings of nature induced him to seek. Much as the Apostles of the (Aden time were favoured with the gift of miracles, he had yet to learn that one of their descendants—a Bishop's son—could live on suction. The articles sup plied were articles of absolute necessity, and under those circumstances be hoped the Jury would do justice to his poor client. Samuel Thompson examined—l was a shopman in the plaintiff's employment for twelve years. Recollect having served the young gentlemen alluded to, with several articles, and my master having given them credit. I entered the items in a day-book. Mr. DENNY—Read some of these items to the Court. Witness (taking up a large and greasy looking folio) r heard August 23d, a pound an d a halt of butter, Is. ( Loud laughter)—h er ri ngs, 4d. ; August 26th, bread, 4driviUnder-Sheriff r. eggs, p 0 6 c d o . c—Kt(6d.—(Renewed es sed f h r is t h opinione e a n es " ed laughter)—Augustdefendant; t that at 2t there nr h ed , halt wtiales a pound of sugar, and two ounces of chocolate. no case to go to the Jury. The Jury, however, deliberated for an hour, and re turned a verdict for the defendant. NEW KINGSTON.—Here is an evidence of the wonderful changes which railways are destined to effect; it is not two years ago that this spot was covered with orch. ards and meadows, and now a town, which when completed, will consist of 1,000 houses, has risen as if by magic. New ~ Kingston is so close to London, and yet so healthy and rural in its character, that it must become a favourite resi dence for those whom business compels to breathe the con fined atmosphere of the metropolis, throughout the day. The growing importance of the place is shown by the fact of the South Western Railway proprietors having removed their Kingston Station to the entrance of the new town. The distance is eleven miles from London, and can be reached by railway in half an hour. There is is an excel lent hotel upon the estate. SWALLOWING THE NEWS.—AS Mr. Driver. bu g t i i b t l a fishm onger i n Sh a d we ll, was engaged in his business, he had t o cut open a co dfi s h, i n th e stomac h o f w hi c h h e dis covered a b a ll o f p a p er compress e d together very close. He succeeded fishsuceeeded with great difficulty in getting it partially open, w h en he found it to be a copy of the Chronicle. The paper . is as stiff as p arc h men t, b ut t h e rea di ng i s tolera bl y ! has and beenfrom i n theits appearancemaw of the there fish a car , be considerable t doubt im e . The i e was c aug h t o ff t h e S cotc h cast, an d i t i s supposed that the n ewspaper must have been blown overboard from some ship a n d h ave b een gorged b y t h e fi sh, th i s species invari a bl y swimming with their mouths wide open. It is no uncomm on t hi ng to find stones, nails, and piec es o f wood insid e a codf i sh. D ESTRUCTION OF HORE'S WHARF.--In one of th e accounts sent to us yester d ay o f th e fi re , i t was stated that 100 puncheons o f whiskey,, t v h a u lu s e s d av a e t d 7s fr / o . m ea t c i l i t e , were roll e d out i nto the street, an d jaws of the devour;ng monster"—fire, who, as the Yankees would say, is no teetotaller. BILL SWINDLING. Wednesday a gentleman, who did not give his name, a pplied at Ylarylebone Police office for advice. He stated that he saw. an advertisement in a London paper, in which an offer was made to lend money to the amount of a thousand or two thousand pounds, upon a conditional advantage being allowed to the advertiser. He answered the advertisement the previous dap, when he was called upon to know the amount of the loan he required. He proposed that the party should lend him 3001., when, after a short conference, it was agreed that the advertiser should receive a bill for that sum to run aw s i na x ds m wi o th n ime th ha s dh , ee and that he (the applicant) should receive a check for 2slot t the 20/. being the discount to be allowed. The advertise,. called that day with the bill ready drawn, and received a check in return. Mr. Hardwicke—Where At Messrs. Child's, married check, aaryTr ihenad dE wi whenLaot mil the bankers. I called there soon after I obtained the Charles Hughes, by whom the check purported to be drawn, kept account at their house ; and they also stated no person of the name o f 1 that other persons who had been defrauded in a similar teleoaln?dt)thiAlaapdtpioincalynt_to sign, which he did, him assistance at present. The mentioned in the advertisement, which is No. 116, The applicant further stated that he had been to the refer ence Jermyn.street, but could obtain no account of the parties. the fire reached the Mr. Hardwicke told the applicant that he could not afford presented checks signed by the same party. ES h T o ß us u e C o T f l N v o E . 4, FIRE IN DUKE STREET, B LOONISBURT.—About a quarter of an hour before a yT n :Pa : awpl w aD.Pa h slbi o had resided there for several years, applicant then left the Court. Museum-street, a was delivered of a child. Mr. Eldridge, of No. 10, Parker-street, Drury-lane, at considerable risk, secured I the bed by ropes, and, assisted by a nother person, let the poor woman and her babe from the second-floor window in safety. While Mr. Eldridge was holding the rope at tached to the b e ddi ng, som e of the burning rafters fell upon him SINGULAR PHANTASY. The tribu.,al of Correctional Police (says the Gazette des Tribunaax) has just been occupied with the most bizarre age - it which we have had for some time to re cord. Isido:c Burnier was beset by a most singular monomania. He was terribly afraid of having no per son to attend his funeral, and, like the poor man in the s t o ry, of being followed to the grave only by his dog. To prevent, as far as in him lay, the occurrence of what he deemed a most fright ful calamity, Burnier had tnade a little paper book, and written these words at the head of the first page :—" I hereby engage, on my honour, to assist at the convoy, funeral service, and interment of M. Isidore Burnier, when we shall have the misfortune to lose him, in the event of my surviving him") and M. Isidore Bur nier engages on his side to assist at my obsequies, should I die before him." Armed with this document, Burnier went to all his friends and acquaintances, with a view to obtaining their signatures at its foot. Burnier never went from home for an instant without his paper book in his pocket. If he was in an evening salon, he entreated the signature of every person present ; if at a dinner party, he never waited beyond the dessert to beg of the guests, young and old, to join their names to those who had already entered into the solemn engagement. Every individual whom he happened to meet once, and whose signature he had not an opportunity at that moment of soliciting, was sure to receive a visit from Burnier, took in hand, like a man whn goes about looking for sub scriptions. One morning he presented himself in this way at the residence of M. Lombard, a respectable sexagenarian, whom he had seen the evening before for the first time in his life at a cafe, playing a game of dominoes. Upon seeing the 300 or 400 signatures which Burnier dis played, M. Lombard naturally thought that he was so liciting a pecuniary subscription, and received Burnier very drily. Not at all recognising his person, he simply said, " Sir, I have my own list of poor." But being presently put upon the right scent by his visitor, he judged that Burnier had only come to ridicule him, or that he must certainly have lost his senses ; and he therefore declared that he never would sign so ridiculous a document. At hearing these words Burnier became violently enraged, and, seizing the old man by the throat, would have infallibly strangled him, but that M. Lombard fortunately rang the bell, which caused his servant to run to his assistance. The servant, a tall and powerful Picarde, after having disengaged her master from Burnier's hand, told him stoutly that she would not suffer him to budge from the spot, and sent the porter to summon the garde. Burnier was arrested, a proces verbal and a trial ensued, and Burnier pre sented a most piteous figure on the bench of the accused. The deposition of M. Lombard was not the least amusing part of the transaction. " Gentlemen," said he, " I must tell you, par parenthese, that I think the ac cused is downright mad. His application to me was the less apropos, since I must inform you, par paren these, that I have a horrible dread of death. I can't even think of it for two minutes together without my face turning white, green, or yellow, according to the season. It was in vain that 1 drew his attention to this circumstance, and added, par parenthese, Sir, I hap pen to be GO years old, while you are only 40. It is not, therefore, to be presumed that I shall be able to go to your funeral. For pity's sake do not come to me as a memento niori, and do me the favour to make your self scarce, par parenthese.' His sole reply to this cour teous observi.tion was a most horrible strangulation." President—Have you been unwell in consequence ? Complainant—Most certainly, Sir ; and, par paren these, I was obliged to apply no fewer than 20 leeches. The complainant's servant confirmed his testimony. " When I entered the room," she said, " Monsieur was on the point of giving up the ghost. Had I waited two minutes longer I should have embraced a mummy." Defendant—Undoubtedly, although it was a vil lainous trait in the complainant to refuse me his signa ture, I should not have treated him as I did, but that he insulted me grossly by caring me " stupid," and told me, moreover, that if I did not go out through the door, he would send me through the window. President—You are sentenced to pay 150 f. damages and the costs besides. Burnier counted out the money, and then coolly walked up to the President and requested his signa ture. The President refused it with a smile ; and Burnier left the Court, looking most scornfully, and shrugging his shoulders. A PATRIOTIC PARISIAN. A ridiculous scene took place a day or two ago before the Conseil de Discipline, a species of civic court martial, of the sth Regiment of the National Guard of Paris. One Monsieur Vidal is noted in his company for want of zeal, and for never answering the calls of the serjeant major when invited to mount guard.. Vidal, summoned once more for those reiterated ne glects, presented himself before the Court, holding in his hand, to the astonishment of all present, a London newspaper. President—Explain to the Court why, after having been so often punished for not mounting guard, you still continue disobedient to orders 2 Vidal—Because, Sir, we live in dangerous times ; things begin to look very serious indeed, and it is now the duty of every zealous Frenchman to show himself. President—lndeed, but far from showing yourself, you never come forward to do your duty at the guard room. Vidal—Why, Sir, I despise the vulgar everyday duty of standing sentry at some garden gate in the heat of the sun, or at night, of parading the streets and picking up drunkards. I haxe a nobler ambition ; I feel I could do the state better service. President—What do you mean ? Vidal—l beg to inform the Court that from my ear liest infancy I hate, most cordially, whatever bears an English name. From this general and patriotic feel ing, I accept only ale and Cheshire cheese, against which I never entertained any animosity—quite the reverse. President—To what does all this tend. Vidal—Sir, it tends to Ireland, Scotland, and the East Indies, to everything that is British. I will stir up Botany Bay, Dublin, and Edinburgh to play Eng land a trick. I must stir up something We are go ing to have war, and I will march to the frontiers. President (laughing)—lt is not to the frontiers that you are required to march, but to your guard-room. Vidal— \V hat, gentlemen, will you have me wear out my burning zeal, my glowing patriotism, in the sth Parisian Legion only ? I am, I know I am, called upon to save France, with the assistance of others, of course. No, gentleman, I cannot limit my enthusiasm to so narrow a field of action ; I will be placed upon active service if we go to war with England, and take my station in the front rank. President—England has nothing to do in this busi ness. You are before the Court for neglecting to mount your guard. . - Vidal—Sir, I will volunteer to mount guard ten times for one on board the packet-boat that shall take me to glory. lam quite ready to sail in the service of my country, for I am never troubled with sea sickness. In spite of these patriotic dispositions Vidal was sen tenced to twelve hours' confinement. On leaving the Court Vidal exclaimed, " You sen tence me, you make a malcontent of a volunteer who would have carried on the war at his own expense. You will have to answer for this to our country, who is greatly to be pitied, for one of her most brilliant stars is set.' "—(General laughter.)—Audience. A ROMANTIC ALDERMAN.—Perhaps the most curious instance of true love for a Royal beauty was that of an alderman of London, who, having at a great cost procured a highly-finished miniature of the Queen's lovely aunt, the Princess Amelia, always wore it in his bosom, and resisting all fascinations of the fair citizens his compeers, lived and died a bachelor for the sake of the exalted and unconscious object of his admiration.—Queen Victoria from her Birth to her Bridal. CENSORSHIP IN MILAN. With axtreme caution must those books be treated which touch on the limits of temporal and spiritual power. Writings that in culcate the doctrines of Socinianism, deism, or material ism, must be repulsed. Nothing is to be printed respect ing the emperor and his family, however laudatory it may be, without express permission. The theatres, also, are subject to a strict censorship, since much may be printed that must not be performed. Sanguinary and inhuman pieces mu st be rejected, and modesty is en j o i ne d i n ges tures, dances, and costumes. A worthless king must not be presented as the principal character, unless there be a good and just king in the same piece, to counteract the evil impression produced by the former.—Raumur's Italy and the Italians. AN EXCELLENT BROIL.--Lord Hertford, Cro ker, and myself, were at an exhibition of pictures. One of them, a domestic scene, I think by Mulready, repre sented a husband carving a boiled leg of mutton. The orifice displayed the meat red and raw, and the husband was looking at his wife with a countenance of anger and disappointment. " That fellow is a fool," observed Lord Hertford, " he does not see what an excellent broil he may have."—James Smith's Memoirs, 6.c. Dr. Lardner will, we hear upon good authorit), be removed from the Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at the ensuing meeting at Glasgow. He has always been conspicuous fur the pro minent part he has taken at the head of the Mechanical section, and has had charge of many money grants con nected with steam improvement and mechanical discovery. —Provincial Paper. From a ref urn just presented to Parliament, it appears that the general survey and valuation of Ireland are completed in eleven of the northern counties of Ire land —the number of acres in which amounted to five mil lions and a-half. The eight counties now in progress of survey and valuation, with an acreage of three millions and a half, will be completed in 1842; but it will require six years from the present time to finish the whole eleven remaining counties of Ireland. The Sdiblk Herald states that Fisher the master of the Sudbury Union Workhouse, has been appre hended, and was committed on Friday the 14th instant, to take his trial at the next October Bury Sessions, on a charge of ernbezling goods, the property of the Guardians. Ile denies the charge. ASSIZE IN TELLIGENCE NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Llrsnraor, AUG. 2C. Jain Fagan was indicted for the murder of James Sheridan, at Liverpool. It appeared that the deceased, Sheridan, was a mas ter Jumper, and employed the prisoner and his brother Charles in the way of his business. About two years ago they were thus engaged, and having finished a day's work demanded payment of the amount earned. The deceased had no money, but applied to the captain of the ship on board of which they were at work, who re fused to pay until the job was completed. This pro duced some angry words between the deceased and the Fagans, but they finally adjourned to a public house, where they had some ale. The discussion recommenced, and both the Fagans assaulted the deceased. The police were called in, but the quarrel seemed to be over, and they were allowed to depart. Shortly after the deceased entered his own cellar, accompanied by the two Fagans, and complained to his wife that they had cruelly ill-treated him. They then attacked him again, saying they would either have their money or his life, and beat both him and Mrs. Sheridan in a very cruel manner. The deceased lingered for some weeks, and at his death it was found that numerous abscesses had formed in his bowels ; his liver was gangrenous, and one of his kidneys was destroyed. These injuries, in the opinion of the medical men, had been caused by ex ternal violence. For this offence Charles Fagan was, a considerable time ago, transported for life. The ques tion in the ptesent case was one of identity, it being contended for the prisoner that a third brother (Patrick Fagan) had been the party who committed the offence. The prisoner was identified, however, by Mrs. Sheridan and other parties, who were present at the first or second affray. None of these persons, however, with one exception, bad ever seen him before. This person was a police-officer, who was stationed at the dock, and had merely seen him going backwards and forwards with other labourers to the ships. According to his testimony he was usually called Patrick. He saw the prisoner in the early part of the day demanding his money from the deceased. It appeared from the statement of the de ceased, made shortly before his death, that Patrick and Charles were the persons whom he accused of injuring him. None of the Fagans, however, were in custody at the time, so that the precise individuals cannot be iden tified by him. It appeared from other evidence that the two parties who committed the offence were very shortly after in the house of one of the witnesses for the prose cution, hiding from the police officers. While there, they addressed one another by the names of Charles and Patrick. Some conversation with the prisoner the day following this occurrence was sworn to, tending to show admissions on his part that he was engaged in the transaction, and a woman, in whose house he subse quently lodged at Preston, and who finally gave the in formation on which he was apprehended, stated that on one occasion a person calling himself Patrick Fagan vi sited the prisoner, and that she overheard them beneath the window talking in Irish. Patrick was reproaching the prisoner, and saying it was very bard for him, Pa trick, to leave the country for what the prisoner had done. Mr. MURPHY addressed the jury for the defence, and called a witness, who stated that she knew all the Pa gans, and that she was present outside the cellar of Sheridan when the occurrence took place. She declared that it was Patrick, and not John, who was the indivi dual sworn to by the witnesses for the prosecution, as having come up out of the cellar with his shirt off on the occasion in question. On cross-examination, it appeared that she had been at that time living with the prisoner as his wife, and that their residence was at a considerable distance from the cellar occupied by Sheridan. The Jury finally returned a verdict of Guilty of Manslaughter. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life. Catherine Murphy was convicted of concealing the birth of her child. She was sentenced to one yea►'s imprisonment. Jane Bannon was indicted for the murder of her in fant child. She also was found guilty of concealing the birth, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Thomas Wilkinson was indicted for the murder of Maria Connor. it appeared that the prisoner lived with the deceased, and occupied the upper room of a small house in Man chester, the lower part of which was occupied by Jo seph Witherington and Ellen Hamson, who were living together on the same terms. On the evening of Satur• day, the 21st of June, the prisoner and deceased came home intoxicated. The prisoner lay down on Wither ington's bed in the lower room, and fell asleep. The deceased, it appeared, who' had already received a shil ling from him to procure supper, took this opportunity of taking some more money out of his pocket. When he awoke they both went up stairs. A quarrel ensued about the money which the woman had taken, when Wilkinson beat and kicked O'Connor in a most cruel and cowardly manner. She soon after died. A. verdict of " Guilty of Manslaughter" was re turned, and his Lordship sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life. CIVIL SIDE.-MORRIS V. BUTTERWORTH. This was an action on a bill of exchange. The case, which was against the drawer of the bill, was proved in the usual way, and the defendant's handwriting was sworn to by the bailiffpf the plaintiff's attorney, who had become acquainted with the defendant's handwriting in the course of some legal proceedings, in which the wit ness had officiated. From the cross-examination, it ap peared that the genuineness of the handwriting was dis puted, ant! the plaintiff's attorney was put in the box to prove that the plaintiff had tailed with another party at his office, to make some arrangement about the bill, and had not then at all objected to it as a forgery. The witness admitted he had asked to see his hand writing to it. It appeared also that two actions had been commenced on the bill, one against the acceptor, and one against the drawer. The acceptor had paid the amount and the costs in that action. The present action was brought for nominal damages to recover the costs in the second. Mr. Whiteley, the acceptor, was put in the box, who stated that the body of the bill was in his handwriting, and that be saw the signature of the drawer attached. That it was not so attached by Mr. Butterworth, nor by his authority, but by whom it was so attached he would not say. The Jury having returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with nominal damages, his LORDSHIP immediately inquired for a Magis trate ; and the attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Butter worth, and the other parties who could give evidence on the matter, were sent before him, his Lordship stating that it was clear the witness had been guilty of forgery —of uttering, knowing the instrument to be forged, and of perjury ; and it was his duty to have it inquired into. The witness Whiteley, however, who had stood in the witness-box during Mr. Alexander's address, disappeared during his Lordship's summing up, and when the parties went before the Magistrate he was non est. ADAMSON V. MITCHELL AND ANOTHER. This was a Special Jury case. The object of the action was to recover 81/. for 27 days' demurrage of a vessel which had been chartered to bring a cargo of hemp from Russia to any port be tween the Humber and the Tay, the captain to call at Elsineur for orders. He did so, but found none. Hav ing put to sea and met with an accident, he returned to Elsineur, and finally sailed to Hull without any further orders. On his arrival nobody came forward to claim the cargo. He then advertised it on the Exchange, and the defendants claimed it, and directed him to go to Kirkaldv. lie objected, unless they would repay 281. paid for port dues and the demurrage then due. They offered a part, which was refused. Eventually the factor unloaded the cargo at his own risk, rather than allow the demurrage to go on any longer. The JUDGE said he thought the captain, in the ab sence of instructions, had exercised a sound discretion in going to Hull. 'rhe Jury found a verdict for tLe full amount. ANCIENT BOOKS.—Pausanias relates that a book by Hetiod was written on leaves of lead, and Hero ' dotus mentions the use of skins by the lonians when pa pyrus was scarce, which seems to show that he wrote on papyrus, or the manufacture of the paper "reeds of Egypt," which grew by the brooks. Pliny mentions linen books, and Virgil alludes to books that were made of the inner rind of the elm. The waxen hand tablets of the ancients arc well known, which were inscribed upon by the point of the style, and smcothed with its flat end. SIIAKSPERE'S D EER - STEALING.—MaIone, it is known, threw doubts on the fact of Shakspere's deer stealing in his early days, thereby offending the poet's ad mirers, inasmuch as otherwise the bard's attack upon Lucy of Woodcote seemed unaccountable ; and the reason he gave was that the offence could not have been committed, inasmuch as Sir Thomas Lucy, so Malone averred, had no deer-walk to be poached upon ; but Time, the great settler of all things, has set the matter, 82 well as the com mentators right; for it appears from a record of those who sent presents to Chancellor Ellesmere, when he enter tained Queen Rlizabeth at his scat at Harefield, that among the givers of bucks on the occasion was the afore said Sir Thomas. This corroboration of the poet's deer. stalking is now on veritable record among the papers pub lished by the Camden Society in their last volume, from " the Egerton papers," furnished by Lord Francis, the owner of these curious and hitherto unknown documents. AUSTRIAN NOBILITY.—Our Government se riously entertains the project of re-establishing the consi d ration and power of our noblesse as a rampart against the encroachments of Liberalim. With this view, it in tends to found within each province of the empire a species of Golden Book, similar to that of the ancient Republic of Venice, in which will be registered the titles of such nobles as shall have proved their right to their quarterings. All persons who shall arrogate to themselves any titles without being inscribed in the Golden Book, arc to be prosecuted before the criminal tribunals. After having restored the Order of Malta, the Emperor of Austria will re-establish the Teutonic Order in his German provinces, and the patent for this appeared two days ago. This last measure is not without its political importance, for it was suggested by that old diplomatist, Baron de Gagerin, as a means of bringing back all the noble and influential families of Germany i nto a solid federation against any possible invasion from Russia on the one hand, and the propagation of French Radicalism on the other,"...-.Letter front Vienna. EVENTING ,<«<l.l.<<• < <,•<<l<, A IPLI.CATION OF ATMOSPHE' RIG PRESSURE TO AGRIGULTURAL PUP' POSES. A number of ladies and distinguished personags' amongst whom were the Am er i can Minister, Dr. personals kinson, Professor Graham, Mr. Jourdon, and other terary and scientific men, on Tuesday paid a 'visit t ° the Colosseum to inspect the model apparatus and ex perimental demonstration constructed by Mr. Piekul , ,. for applying atmospheric pressure to the purposes ol agriculture, as well as a substitute for steam, in Pr ° , - pelting carriages on railways. Should the prioniPl e prove available in practice for either of these purpose?, it will render the present age the most remarkable in the annals of mankind, and more especially so, if i t , should prove available f or a ll th e var i e d purposes ol field husbandry, contemplated by the inventor. k It is proposed to employ a stationary engine, worked by steam, or even a waterwheel, where available,. t° work an air-pump or pumps, to rarify the air in Ingi ng or pipes, to he l a id un d er groun d, as i s done for the transmission of gas; in like manner as mains and pipes diverge in all directions ,from a centre for the trails' mission of gas, so may they be laid from a stational: engine working air-pumps along the headlands every field, w ith va l ves a t g i ven di s t a nces, t° , l which valve a flexible air tight pipe, compose of leather and caoutchouc, will coil round a drain of the machine, to which plough-shares, Wi dely ' hoes, or any other implements may be attached as t b : case requires ; this is a brief sketch of the principle, 8° as far as we have had au opportunity of reflecting 1 . 1 1 ) 1 . ° it, we see no insup era bl e o b s t ac l e t o it s p rac ti c al sPP' cation to all the purposes contemplated by its a uthor) but we believe it has not as yet been put to the test 1(1 , any practical operatio n o f agr i cu lt ure ; if suc cessful , 5 will prove of inestimable value to our Colonial Pr o prietors, especially to those who have already stea uv engines erected on their estates. We believe a Coot' pany is already formed for applying it to railways, ail if successful, it will a dd great ly t o th e agreea blenegg° railway travelling, inasmuch as it will obviate tu ° annoyance resulting from the escape of steam, smo ker and cinders. STATISTICS OF MARRIAGV. HINTS FOR THE LADIES. (From the Scotsman.) We published some years ago a table of the probalik ties of marriage at the different periods of life, in th : case of females, f or w hi c h we h ave no d ou b t t h a t tir ladies of Britain feel grateful. It was founded W.: ever, on limited d a t a , w hi c h were d er i ve d ent i re ly f„,, 11 ",, records of marriages among the working classes. table published in our leading article of Saturilay st3f° plies materials for more accurate conclusions, gran? k on returns which comprehend all classes ; an d we thin we shall confer a favour on our female readers by Pat i • l the results into a m ore di s ti nc t f orm t h an t h e table 01 its original shape affords. If we take 100 to represent the whole of a %vault! chances of marriage between the ages of 15 and 79, 4 :5 proportional chances in each period of five years 01 . be as follows : AGE. CHANGES OF MARRIAOB* , 15 and under 20 14i 20 " 25 52 25 " 30 11 30 " 35 ....... 6l 36 " 40 3' 40 " 45 45 " 50 2 11 50 " 55 55 " 60 i -60 " 65 c one -65 " 70 f From the table it appears, 1. That one-seventh part of all the females w h i ° s marry in England, are married between the ages 0 f of and 20, or one-sev en th p art o f a woman ' s c hances marriage lies between those years. 2. That fully one-half of all the women who foltr r /' are married betwee n 20 an d 25 , or one -h a lf of a , man's chances are comprised within these five years. 3. That bet ween 15 an d 2 5, prec i se l y tsvo-tbil of a woman's chances of marriage are exhausted, 1 : 0, only one-third rem a i ns f or th e rest o f her lif e up to 4. That at 30, no l ess th an 85 chances ou t or "" 100 are gone, and 15, or about one-seventh ottlY. main. She has strong reason now for improving her tta l t o 3. At 35, a fraction, a tenth is all that remains' her—which is reduced to a twentieth at 40. 6. At 45, her chances of marr i age h av e sun k b n t there fortieth ; and a t 50, t o one -h un d re d t h. At 6 "' ea MC is still a glimmering of hope, f or it a pp ea rs tha t : a nd females, about 1 marriage in 1,000 takes pla ce _ - . beyond this age. V nces °I A friend maliciously suggests, th a t the c hit-- marriage above 30 must be considerably better the W they appear in the table, a s f ema l es a b ove that age,„ generally deduct a few years i n ma ki ng t h e i r re port L'' the Registrar. The unmarried ladies, knowing the habits and infirmities of their sex, will be able to deter' mine how far the consolatory inference deducible frosty this remark is real or imaginary. The number of women married between 15 and 20 is six times greater than the number of men. The number of men and women married between °) and 25 is very nearly equal, but the number of fi l L e° , married at all hi g h er ages i s greater than the nu m ber of women. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS, 6. - 15 0 . Wheat. ' Barley. I Oats. B 1 1 eai.s. .........„...., s Per Quarter Is.tos. I s. s. Is.to s. s. to s. • W .s, Bath . '6B 75 126 33 127 36 46 96 -"" ..., Blandtiird . 68 74 I 33 32 48 52 Bridport --- 1 68 —7,,,.. 4 4 Chard «.,..., ',56 78 32 Ni i 3O 3/ 43 54 '",,.., 4 1, Gloucester 168 72 32 46 126 38 52 54 Q. ~.. Exe er l7O 80 27 31 121 28 40 •—•— •'''' Guildford —, 40 46 126 34 40 44 -- 5 ; 50 Newbury .. '56 '76 :14 34 i 2B 35 50 54 ;!, 5° Reading......, '5l 82 32 42 126 35 47 5, I 5 __.- ' Salisbury 5l 7i/ 30 34 r 26 34 44 ft , - ••"' Shrrborne 66 72 3 , 1 31 26 30 44 52 ii l 49 Shepton Mallet 58 80 34 38 1 30 26 50 54 ..... Uxbridge —. 1 37 43 28 32 --„, W.inninster 144 72 27 33 ' 32 35 50 w -- Winchester '64 '76 _ _ ..... '''' .... a ...., feovil '56 68 30 38 30 34 1 34 5 ' LEEDS CORN NI ARKET.—Aug. 25 Itis. 1 Wheat, Norfolk and Stiffislk, 60Ib. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Harley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beaus Oats, Potatoe ---3lealing, For. —d. to—d Eng. 16d. to 17d. P".,000 1 . 'shelling 391. to 40/.1,r DEVIZES CORN MARKET. it. 1.1 0 Per Sack. s. d. a. d. Per Quarter. a. ". to 3i 0 o'irst Wheat 33 6to 37 0 O a t s .. Second 3l 0 33 0 Beans (per sack)... 22 ',J.. 54 0 :bird - 7 --' Barley 5l 0 40 0 Br ea d ( per ga11.)... i - Wheat, Old (Per LoadGUILDFORD to 201 MA RKET. . Os.—New 161. to . 211.10L o 50' , , (41 IS . t4V Barley (Per Qr.) 4°s. to 311 s. I Beans (Per Qr.) ....... slats 32 36 1 Rye 44 Grey Pease. 4cs. to 48s. re speC t' LORD SEGRA VE .—O ne o f t h e highly able Tory newspape rs o f t hi s town h as, we hear, be e '" a ncl sailing the Lord-Lieutenant with its commendation A P s i r e congratulating itself on w h at i t calls his Lordships t'LiQdtl " to shake off Whi g tramme l s, " and find an oPP °l. ti l re "to declare his conversion to Conservatism." l i g - o rate ground for this pl eas i ng assumption is that Lord 'mer'cieat does not admire th e penny postage. And this is stiaor3 to set the Tory c li que a c h uc k l i ng at the prospec t 0' W ill Segrave's political " conversion." Drowning m i e m n MOO indeed catch at straws. P oor an i ma l s. —Che"-fl Examiner. le MUSICAL BOXES of high quality, tir- w e 00 per 0 nism beautifully finished, conv e yi ng t h e id ea o f the witl. surprising perfection and accuracy. s:e. •artd A Catalogue of the var i ous Ai rs, Overtures, &e•, b ' the prices of th e B oxes i s now pu b l i shed, and mar be o st P al gratis, or will b e f orwar d e d, post f ree, i n answer to IP application. T. COX , SAVORY Goldsmith a n d Silversmith. 47, Cornhill (Seven d oo rs 1 00 Graceehureh-street), London. IR TH S. lad`' o f On the 25th BB inst., at Angl esey , near G ospor t, the Henry Folliott Esq., of a son . flotb On the 25th i ns t., at Dorking, Surrey, the lady °I. field Young, E sq ., o f a ( l aughter. the 1011 On the 26th ins t., i n Sussex-place, Regent's-park, of William La w O g ilb v , E sq., of a daughter. r surt On the 27th inst., th e w if e of Frederick Lewis, Egg' Sloane-street, of a con. 11AR.111E. On the 25th in s t., at Llandevarlly D Church, Breckn cie , o rtli Mr. Holderness, o f P ec kh am , Surrey, to Helen Elixabet" child of L. Williams, Esq., of Troscoed, Brecon. f P h° On the 25th inst., at Halifax, Samuel, second 5 011 ,,f u glite ( Waterhouse, Esq., of Wellhead, to Charlotte Lydia.,7; of Henry Lee Edwards, Esq., of Pye Nest, near 11 2114 ,1 . f5cr On the 26th inst., at Islip, Oxon, Richard Halliwe; u ,,hter of Alfred-place, Bedford-square, to Sarah Ann, onlg B b rola ) of the late Capt a in Bi sse t, o f h er M a j esty ' s 93d V . "' Regiment. I‘ 1 • 1 1 On the 26th inst., at Ne w b ury, J. B urne y, . 1 -' s q,% l late • Northbrook -street, to Mary, youngest d aug hter of Wells, Esq., of Bartholo mew - p l ace. ` of On the 26th inst., at B ar bi can c h ape l , M r . James‘,/ , Clare Hermitage Wharf, Wappin g , t o M rs. S ara h Rice, mont-square, Penton w ville. a. of On the 26th inst., at St. Pancras, Mr. Sian's ° , ll Ater ° Ken , ington, surgeon, to Louisa Emerson, third daughter the !ate G. Emerson, Esq., of Bath-place, N es „,...roat , p re' On the 27th inst., at Uhertsey, the Rev. J. Je ‘ n i t g l ' ost e , r ; bendary of St. Peter's, and rector of St. John'st,'"e'ald p ie c e L. Evans, only daughter of the late W. Shaw, to William Evans, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middle se fsg: l& On the 27th w inst., at Petersham, Surrey, IN. t, barrister-at-la, eldest son of W. Lewis, Of Harcourt-s'beoe rg e the city of D u bli n , E sq., to E mily Owen, on l y c hild °f Ball, of Richmonthhill, Surrey, Esq. 01, On the 25th inst., at St. Peter's Church, "-." d ` iras A ° J. W. Seaburne May Es eldest son •f the. late f AJay, k l o e f to th n: Dutch navy, t cl o . ' Ann Jane, only daughter Fr Oa the 26th inst., at St. Mary Woolneth, Lorah,oa' m hter ° Mr. Joh n Same:, of Shrewsbury; to Mary,secondm Mr. Newton, of Mansion-house-street. list t O o n r the late eh James DIED. e Jamaica, Esq. L7ndOn ---- TPrinte(Tand Publisl7 4r ect 31i ._ "AD° 11 , 2 1( ,S tj t; ° _ ,; ; thQ county esatScKtoilngLstanone,j:Prillimillaisc..einut-rl:ale' No. 112, Strand, at Th 4 & nit Office , N o• o f i►liciclle~`ax.~Fcid ay/ August 28, 1840.