The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-27 00:00:00

INC 4 EDI !lON. :BRIT of the PU - BLIC JOURNALS. (From ' be Globe.) The Duke of Welling ,ton on Thursday night, on presenting a petition 10 sus the University of Oxford assainst the Ecclesiastic al Duties and Revenues Bill, dealt out in homely phrase a few of those salutary truths, accompanied bap poignant reproofs and admoni tions, such as that bd ly has long needed to have ad ministered from a qu, .rter which, if not successful in commanding their as' sent, would at least prevent them om treating them with the affected scorn they would ;lave shown to the sa - ,ne truths if proceeding from another , ounce. The Standard is evidently astounded by the ,roc of the ,Duke's language, and endeavours to eakee its crier gy. His Glace, as a plain, straightfor -ard man, knei sr that if the language addressed to such !-::finds was not so explicit as to set sophistry at defiance, ta:el so power Fut as to penetrate the treble-coated prejudices with which the petitioners arc invested, it would be spoken in vain. The reporter of the Sandard is trade accountable for the Duke's severity ; ;Ind more 3.lft and soothing expressions th an t h ese '::hich app sarsad in tae Standard's original report of his `.grace's spice h are supplied in the annexed edition of 'atHis Grace expressed his di ssent f rom lc petition in strong language, though, we are bound confess, sin language nothing like so strong as that ours eporter very improperly ascribed to the ius!rissus D ake in the Second Edition of yesterday's ./.frizdaro'—a n error on the reporter's part for which cannot a acount, but for is hich it is our duty to . s llo%ise." Whoever has ha 1 the opportunity of ob ,;es.rving the D uke of Wellir gton in his place in Parlia rnel.4t, knows vi ell that his 'sirace speaks on all subjects =with the pl.sio stra'ghtlorsaard bluntness of a mind scorns to use dissimulation. Conscious of his position, and of tins importance his co-operation con- ~ !rs on his pa . sty, he ali,ovvs no one to question his wer ; nor will' Sic mea;nre his notions of what is igl,t by the star 41grd of others. Hence the confusion lnd dismay whic..l he e ccasionally spreads among his °flowers, who inn , agine that mere party objects can in fluence a mind lik e his. :Fro' m the Standard.) The House of Lo rds last night was principally occupied in he aring the argument of Mr. Hope azainst the Ee,:lesiast teal Duties and Revenues Bill. W o yesterday :stated, f ally and freely, our views upon he subject of, this E ill, and we find nothing ad -..anced by Mr. Hope that can induce us to change or to modify those views. The Learned Gentleman chiefly relied upon the necessity of adhering strictly to the intesation of the donors, in dealing with Church pro. porty ; this rigour, ho.vever, can be carried too far. We are bound in this, and in every cam, to give to the letter of a danatioat an intention su&ciently liberal to fulfil its plain :ntentiont.. It were a libel upon the pious men who ive bestowed their possessions upon the Church to doubt that their intention was to promote true religion among their countrymee, to the utmost extent that these pons essions could be made available for the pur :ion. It ;is upon this ground, and upon this ground only, that we can defend tile retaining of its property by the Church at the Reformation. The object of the benefactors of the Church was to promote the truth of the Gospel ; that object was advance& not impeded, by the property which they conferred being applied to the teaching of a purified faith with which they unhappily were themselves in many casas unacquainted. (From the Courier.) The Waterfiv? - 1 eh ronicle of Thursday replies to some remarks on ftibbonism, which appeared is this journal on 'Monday. Oirs c ontemporary seems to view this in famous and dangem is conspiracy with a pair of coloured spectacles peculiarly its own, and makes some curious :.:;sections, of whirl we are at a loss to conjecture whether they will excite more the wonder than the laughter of the read. Abundance of evidence is ex tant that the Ribbot societies consist solely of Roman Catholics,—that the:r ol,ject is twofold, political and religious ; the former to obtain a repeal of the Union, end the latter to render else papacy the predominant power in Ireland ; arrA that one of their principal roe oas for banding together is the extermination of Pro- ,:3tants. or Orangcrnev, as the natives choose to term ::.ii who have not enter , d the pale of the Roman Church, and ate attached to :the Constitution of the united , ^l:p:re. their boat and mend their sails—that now the work was done, and to-morrow they must die. " In order to gain grpater confidence with the pirates, Captain Antonio Peloso informed them that he had picked up on the coast an English sailor, who probably had escaped from this vessel, and tc-morrow when they came off to breakfast they should have him. Thus they parted for the night. On the morrow the pirates, faithful to their engagement, came on board Captain Peloso's schooner to breakfast, and at a signal given he and his crew rushed upon them and secured the whole that came off in the boat. After confining them, Capt. P. manned his boat and went ashore and took the two pirates who were guarding the two sailors, prisone:s. There then wes a scene beyond the power of pen to de scribe, the liberator and the liberated rushing into each others arms. The pirate,; and four fishermen are now safe in the Punta prison, and next week will suffer death. J. S. JENK INS, formerly of Columbia (S. C.) " Havannah, June 19, 1840." ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. ESCAPE FROM A LOCKUP. An occurrence which has caused a good deal of con versation in this town took place last Saturday morn ing, the particulars of which we believe to be pretty nearly as follows :—On Thursday last, a lady and gen tleman in a very smart gig, drawn by a capital grey horse, drove up to Mr. Vcst's, the Brownlow Arms, in Ciitheroe. They remained there all night ; and next morning, when the bill ought to have been paid, it was found that the gentleman was in the unenviable situation of being without cash. As credit was not to be had, he left the gig and the lady, as a pledge and a hostage, while he mounted the horse, and rode over to Blackburn, putting up at Mr. Rothweli's, the Dun Horse Inn, Market-street-lane. Here he bargained for the sale of the horse, and gig, and harness, which the buyer was to take on the seller's description ; and the sum he was to receive for the whole was 151. One sovereign was given to him to seal the bargain, which done, be exchanged his horse for a pony of Mr. Roth well's, hastened back to Clitheroe to release his wife and the gig by the payment of Mr. West's bill. With these he returned to Blackburn, the latter being deiivered to its new owner, and the purchase-money handed over to our traveller. Thus matters stood on the evening of Friday, when the suspicions of our active and intelligent superintendent of police, Mr. Burke, were awakened on the fact of this extraordinarily cheap bargain coming to his knowledge. He accordingly made it his business to inquire into the affair, and being, in plain clothes he had no difficulty in getting into con versation with the gentleman and lady at the Dun Horse, the result of which was that he was convinced the horse and gig were stolen. The parties were imme diately taken into custody ; and the male prisoner, being of highly respectable appearance, was granted the privilege of a room upstairs in the Police-office, apart from the herd of common offenders, drunkards, and the like, until the case could be heard before a magistrate. He was placed in a room on the third story in the building, the window of which was secured by a row of iron bars, and in this situation was visited at intervals of about an hour, apparently perfectly safe. Mr. Burke himself, we understand, saw his pri soner a little before one o'clock on Saturday morning. However, soon after that hour, the fellow very inge. niously and dexterously contrived to make his escape. First, he removed one of the iron bars which secured the window, by what means does not clearly appear ; after which, having torn his shirt into strips, and made a sort of rope thereof, he attached it to a remaining bar, and let himself down into the street, getting clear off without discovery by any of the inmates of the po lice-office. 'When the escape was discovered by the means of descent hanging from the window, a hue and cry was raised, and men were despatched in pursuit in all directions ; but the runaway evaded his pursuers, and has not since been heard of. From the statement made by the woman, it appears that the swindler's name is Charles Hodson ; he is said to have been in business in Kendal for ten years as a brush manufac turer, and having failed he is understood to have been afterwards engaged as a commercial traveller. He was married to the unfortunate woman who accompanied him at Manchester, on the 10th of March last, though we hear that he has a former wife living, by whom he has three children. The horse and gig, worth probably not less than fifty guineas (for the gig is a very hand some one, and apparently new), are supposed to belong to Mr. S. Daxon, Griffin Inn, George-street, Halifax, from whose house the woman confesses that they were taken several days before the celaircissement.—Black burn Standard.—[This gentleman was apprehended in Huinie on Thursday last, and committed, at the Sal ford petty Sessions, to take his trial at the ensuing Assizes, on several charges of stealing horses and gigs.] LIFE AND MANNERS IN SHET- LAND. The introduction of a weekly steam-boat to Shet land has begun a new era in this country. Formerly all communications with other places became so tedious and uncertain, that none could be safely depended on. A few years since, one of the principal merchants here, who possessed more than twenty ships of his own, became so anxious for letters, that he sailed off to in quire for them personally at Edinburgh. There the postmaster objected to deliver any, saying it would be too great an advantage to give him over the other mer cantile houses at Lerwick, if he obtained his corres pondence so prematurely, and it was not till after the greatest difficulty, and legally proving his identity, that he could obtain the packet. Before inns ►cere itivented at Lerwick, the proprie tors and merchants kept open house for all strangers without exception, and must often, I should guess, have found occasion to look over the inventory of their plate, when exercising such boundless hos pitality. A party of well-dressed, plausible-looking foreigners arrived here once, and, having previously ascertained the names and connexions of all the chief inhabitants, they passed muster during several weeks, living at the principal house on the island. One Sun day, however, their hospitable host was privately beck oned aside by a friend, who bad observed his com panions in the pew at church, and recognised them as a party of well-known blacklegs from Paris. He recom mended their being ejected from the house in the most expeditious manner possible, but their entertainer re plied, with characteristic liberality, that, " though he would now be on his guard against imposition, yet, while his guests corainued to behave like gentlemen, he should persevere in treating them as such." Previous to departing, the ungrateful visitors attempted some mUidling transactions, which were, of course, counter acted, owing to this timely detection, and they were opprobriously dismissed from Shetland ; but, unfortu nately, their schemes prospered better in Orkney, where they afterwards cheated some merela n t s t o a large amount ; and it was a curious t , :imination of the whole affair, that, upon leaving Kirkwall, they very handsomely transmitted toile parish clergyman 5/. for the poor ! Among countless instances of peculiar hospita;ity, it may be mentioned that a Mr. Bruce received into his house some years ago forty Russian shipwrecked sailors, maintained them during the whole winter, and sent the entire crew, at his own expense, back to their native country. He declined receiving any recompense ; but the Empress Catherine privately obtained an impression of his family seal, sent it overland to China, and ordered magnificent dinner-service, of the finest poraelain, to he manufactured for him without delay, ty some un fortunate oversight, the box containing this precious gift was seized at the Custom-house, and sold to a Mr. Reid, in whose possession it still remains, though I e;:.nnot but grudge him every dinner be Cl.tB o 5 it. Mr. truce, while he lived, lighted a large fire every winter night close to the chore, and had a barrel of meal ready to be cooked into porridge, for distribution among any number of poor sailors visiting those distant shores. They were also allowed clean straw to sleep on at night, when unable otherwise to procure a bed. I expected to o'nserve Shetland ponies galloping in every field ;out they arc chiefly running wild among the a:glint unenclosed hills, where, in must instances, ",:no forelegs arc manacled together. Nothing is trusted to the honour of a Shetland pony, but they arc all shackled in a most uneasy manner, hobbling along like rabbits, which inconvenient contrivance ruins their paces afterwards. an ; early bu t s o age, they grow nearly to " t ' h h e e n height well ofef d frodonkeyat ' • high—notyears ago, Mi . . Hay reared a p erfectl y well-formed pony, which measured only twenty-.c1% inches so tall u -sized hobby-horse:. have heard of horse that would cante r ' sportsmen a cabbage-lent, a s a(1 k c a in t praise but here was one literally capabl e o f d o ing so. The very largest men ride these tiny little creatures at full speed, looking from a distance as if they had merely hooked-on a pair of additional legs , o 7 being scarcely . raised a foot off the ground, and yet racing rapidly alone. flow would a regiment of cavalry look, mounted, or lowered rather, on these stout little chargers ?, Many very curious arctic birds stray over this country ; and I have seen one most beautiful snow-owl, which had been killed in this neighbourhood, as large as an eagle, and the colour of a swan-down muff. Eider ducks are very abundant, and eagles so very destructive, that ss. a-head used to be given for shooting them. Swans appear in great flocks during spring, I The youngest children in Shetland can make an in come of 20s. per annum, by catching the small fish ' named " sillocks," or " pars," abounding in swarms here, which owe their value to the oil extracted from them, 2,000 barrels of which were manufactured in one year from those diminutive fry, not measuring above four or five inches long. Thus food aud light become easily accessible in a country where grain is scarce, and where the days are not over long.—Shetland and the Shet landers. PIRACY AND MURDER. (From the Charleston Courier, June 24.) The toilowing inform:aloe, furnished by a resident of Havannah, contains full, particulars of the loss of the British brig Vernon, and ber capture by pirates, May 1, 3 S4O, together with a list of the crew saved and those murdered : " ylie British brig Vernon left Jamaica, April 26, for Halifax, with a cargo of 85 pun c h eons o f rum , an d a crew consisting oh Janes Cunningham, master, and John M.Leod, mate, residents of Halifax ; George IT Coy, Benjamin Peach, Edward Norton, and James Tyler (coloured man) cook. On May 1, at 10, A.M., Cape Antonio bearing Bondi of west three leagues distant, a boat was seen coming from the shore and making for the brig. At first sight the Captain, sup posing it to be filled with some shipwrecked seamen, bore down for it, but the wind being light there was but little .progress made. On the proximity of the brig to the boat, the latter was discovered to contain seven men armed with muskets and knives. When within reach of their shots they poured volley after volley at the brig's crew, who were obliged to retreat below, with the exception of the mate and one seaman, who took re - Loge behind the masts. Here they remained without any hopes of life except by quiet submission, for there were uo arms on board, until the pirates came alongside, when, by a motion to go below made by the waving of the hand of one of the pirates, they too reluctantly went below, and thus left the decks clear for the pirates, who immediately boarded, and ordered the Captain to .ome on deck. " On the Captain obeying their command, one of them stated that a Spanish man of war was lying in the river, and sent for their papers. They next ordered the flag to be hoisted and the vessel steered for the land, which was done, and at night the brig was an chored in shore close to a fisherman's hut. The sails were clued up, and the crew ordered aloft to furl them. After this was done they conducted each one as be et:llC from aloft, and confined them all together in the forecastle, and closed it tight. In about one hour and a haif they opened the scuttle and ordered them on deck. Oti reaching the deck they found an addition to the pirates' gang of four fishermen, who with the first were eating and drinking,. The crew was then allowed something to eat. During the whole night a strict watch was kept by the pirates, and no one was allowed to approach them. The next morning, they ordered the crew to get the brig under weigh, and after all the sails were set they steered the vessel about ten miles along the coast, where a river discharged it.elf into the sea. Up this river they conducted the brig about six miles inland— the name 01 the river is Paulo del ; here they ran the brig ashore, and ordered the crew to discharge the enrgo. They obliged Capt. Cunningham to assist in discharging, elthough he was feeble from age. When *.he cargo vas out they ordered the captain and three of the crew into their boat, which already had five pirates in it----;he pirates told them all they were not going to kill them, but going to get ballast for the brig. They made the sailors row the boat, and when about four gunshots from the brig the work of death began, by one of the pirates in the bow of the boat stabbing the cook in the heart. This was about four o'clock, and the sie,nal they had to continence the massacre was the order to cease rowing. After killing the cook they threw his body overboard, and then stabbed him again white in the water. At this moment young Peach eprang overboard, and made for the shore, among the mangrove bushes, in which be secreted himself'. Once he looked hack, and saw the captain's head over .the gunwale of the boar, and SAW the pirates cutting his throat. The body of another sailor, Edward Norton, of Eastport, (Me.) was hanging lifeless athwart the boat. Young Peach, after thus escaping f travelled ten miles, through mano.-0:: hus h esom their hands, the time, and swimming the te•;y;iend part of stripped, as they all were, h tee pirates, -.1 Lee remainder. H a I-1 7 wa g s 1 . - .1 el - ! c e , his feet but their pantaloons. rocks. Lleeding from th er. e: rio . d i lie had nothing 4101 t) e received o n the to coralsubsist During this long . a wild pigeon no killed with a stick, on the seco'tis. „ t i on hut morn_ jog. in the ,E, ingrove bushes. S; ill he wandered on, sackedtho blood and eating the fish of this rtl A lasit, he saw a small schooner sailing. along th e coast, but i. growing. dark, he soon lost sight of h er . H ere he slept ad night, and on the morrow saw with mistrust the schooner had reached in shore, and fearing that he was about to fall into the hands of some of the g ang , h e hesitated a moment, but fueh was his miserable condi tion from starvation and thirst, and the heat of the sun on his bare body, that be had rather die than continue such a miserab:e exiatericc—he therefore swam off to the schooner, and threw himself on his knees and begged for life and water. The captain not understanding him, but supposing he was a cast-away sailor, took care of him, and by signs made him understand he was safe. " After seeing the unfortunate man attended to, Cap tain Antonio Pc!oso, the worthy commander of the schooner, coasted along the shore in search of the ves sel supposed to be wrecked. When within six miles of Cape Aitonio, he landed at the spot which the Rig.- PSII sailor pointed out, thinking that the vessel was there, and having no suspicion of pirates. On Captain Peloso's landing, he was met by seven pirates and four fishermen, who threatened his life, but by artifice he deceived then and gained their confidence. From them he gained the intelligence of an English brig bar- 1 ing been taken, and part of the crew murdered—that I two were still alive, but would soon be put to death. It 1 was now that the brave Spanish captain, Don Antonio / f. i A rather singular circumstance occurred on Pcloso, determined to save the pirates three die in Tuesday, at our cemetery. A hearse, with mourning coach, the attempt.. He gave the him three muskets, and ! and the friends of the deceased (.Hiss Briggs), proceeded to the invited them to breakfast with on the morrow ; but ground to inter the corpse, when, on their arrival, it was di sco _ before leaving them, he sought en opportunity o f seeing vered that no orders had been given to dig the grave. The thi: two' sailors who were in their power, still - , • ' andsurgeon left, the '' were conveyed , minister mourners back, and 'the pirate captain said, that after murdering the alive, ' the hearse left the corpse, the bearers remained, and when the L a in and part of the crew, he reserved the g c cap- ! grave was opened the parties agai rest to pai ' n attended, and the fungal at obsequies were proceeded w ith.—Norwich Mercury THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1840. ANECDOTES of DR. BAR.RINGTON, BISHOP OF DURHAM. It was his constant maxim. of conduct, and he often gave it in counsel to patrons, never to make promises, nor even to encourage expectations. He was one day accosted at Court by Queen Charlotte, for whom he entertained an affectionate and dutiful respect, as fol lows :—" My Lord, I have a favour to ask of you. The living of —, in your disposal, is, I understand, vacant, and I shall be greatly obliged if you will bestow it upon Mr. —, for whom I feel much interested." The Bishop, in the most courteous manner, signified, in reply, his desire to meet any wished expressed by her Majesty ; but added, that he felt bound to apprise her of the rule which he had invariably laid down to him self with respect to all such applications. He had no sooner given utterance to it, than the Queen stopped further explanations, by exclaiming. " My Lord, I will not say a word more ; and I beg that no wish of mine may lead you to violate so golden a rule." But, though he never made promises, he always had a list, known only to God and to himself, of the names of those who, he had reason to believe, were most deserving of advancement and patronage. The following incident illustrates at once his unbending principle and great kindness. A near relation of his, who had been gay and thoughtless, applied to him for advice about taking orders ; adding, that he could venture to say, a great improvement had recently taken place in his principles and habits. The Bishop received him kindly, but, before he would enter upon the subject, stipulated for the most frank and explicit replies to any questions he would put to him. In this way an acknowledgment was obtained, that he was influenced by the hope that, as his relation, he would ordain and provide for him. And it further came out, that his wishes were fixed on a particula r li v i ng , then va cant, or on the point of becoming so, the value of which was about 5001. per annum. " And would this amount of income," inquired the Bishop, " en tirely satisfy your wishes ?" He eagerly replied in the affirmative. " You shall have it, then," replied his Lordship, " but not in the way you propose. I can not reconcile it to my sense of duty to ordain you, but I will immediately transfer as much stock into your name as will produce an annual sum equal to that which you have declared to be the acme of your wishes, and may it prove to you all that you anticipate !" Huiford's Life of Burgess. MARYLE BON E VESTRY. On Saturday, at the ordinary weekly meeting of this board (Mr. Daniell in the chair), Mr. JOSEPH informed the vestry that he had seen in the Morning Herald an account of a meeting of the Tory portion of the rate payers who were opposed to them, which called itself the " Parochial Society," at which gross calumnies were ut tered against the vestry, and Mr. Pope, one of the rela tors in the Chancery suit, moved that Mr. Thrupp, the solicitor, be instructed to give the requisite notices of an application to Parliament for a Bill to amend Sir John liobhouse's Vestry Act, by which they hoped to destroy the rights and privileges of the inhabitants ; it was most important that the vestry should be on their guard, and oppose the mischievous attempt. 111 r. BIERS ridiculed the idea of the success of the parochial association. Mr. KENSETT said that the same fate would await their attempt as did that of the Chancery suit, where the Lord Chancellor confirmed their powers, instead of cur tailing them, notwithstanding which he advised the ves try to be prepared to meet their opponents. Mr. GIBSON, after condemning the conduct of the Society, moved that a committee be appointed to watch the proceedings of the Parocaial Society, and to report to the board on the propriety of retaining some eminent counsel to oppose the application at the bar of the Le gislature. . . - The motion being seconded, Mr. KIRBY thought it premature. _ _ Mr. HOVENDEN stated that a Noble Lord, a mem ber of the Vestry, had shown him the heads of a Bill to alter the election of that body ; this was done in !confi dence, and he was not until now enabled to announce the fact, but the proposed measure was so unjust, that he convinced his Lordship of its iniquity, and that No bleman refused to support such a measure. Mr. COCKRANE said, that after what had fallen from the last speaker, the case was so much altered, that he should support the motion. The resolution was then put and adopted. The Clerk produced a bill from Messrs. Forster, the auctioneers, for levying the distresses in the houses of the Churchwardens, amounting to upwards of 96, which at first the vestry were inclined not to pay at present, but, on the Clerk informing them that the Magistrates could issue a distress warrant on the goods of the Churchwarden for the amount, it was ordered to be dis•• charged. Mr. JOSEPH called attention to the resistance of the inhabitants of the south side of Oxford-street to the pay ment of the rates, and read a circular from Mr. Packer, calling on the householders not to pay the rates until the dispute was settled ; he moved that the collecting officer Ise ordered to enforce the rate against Mr. Packer forth with. Mr. Gissow supported the motion, and gave notice that on Saturday next he should move that the law be enforced against all the inhabitants of Oxford-street who refused to pay, and that they should be indicted for a conspiracy. The motion being carried, the vestry broke up. • SINGULAR ENTRY OF THU JUDGES INTO BEDFARD.—At the commencement of these Assizes the High Sheriff, W. F. Brown, Esq., proceeded in an elegant little car riage, drawn by four ponies, guided by two little postillions in striped jackets, along the Brombam road to the Biddenham turn, where he met the Judges, the Hon. Sir E. H. Alderson, 111 and the Hon Sir John Patteson, who were handed into the Sheriff's carriage. Here a daculty arose. The carriage was so small that it would only contain two persons, and the She riff had only expected one Judge to open the Commission. How ever, as the Inside was full of Judges, the High Sheriff took his seat On the box by the side of one of the footmen ! and the other, John Smanker, rode on the springs (for there was no dickey or foot-board behind). In this singular style, to the glee of all persons assembled (the Judges themselves being un able to preserve their gravity), the procession was ordered off at a smart trot, and the moment the trumpet blew, up reared two of the horses bearing javelin men on their backs, snap went two stirrup leathers, and down relied one of the armed officials from his lofty seat. Away scampered the Sheriff's officers and Bailiffs' horses, as if the hounds were in full cry, and some who were taken a little by surprise were obliged to spur their steeds to keep up in the line of procession at all. It is not every livery-stable horse that feels attached to spurs. So in this case some of the nags danced, reared, and kicked ) entil those who happened to be near had great diffictilty in aVeiding a kick from the horse, as well as a prick from the javelin. Upon the whole, it was one of the most singular judicial processions ever witnessed, and it ap peired very like a second edition of the Queen's visit to the city, We hardly know which showed the greatest skill, the Ltedon citie.ens, or the Bedford javelin men ; certainly the latter did "witch the world with feats of noble horsema! ship." However, at last the Judges arrived in the town, and opened the commission at the County Hall, after which they were con ducted to their lodgings. —Hertford Reformer. DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT COIN.-0:1 Thurs day last, as some labouring men were employed in pulling down a wall on the ererniEes of Mr. R. Wippell, BrampfordSpeke, they discovered a large quantity of old silver coin of great value, upwards of 40 pieces of which were coined in Queen Elizabeth's reign. Plymouth Journal. 'l'hc Tail Vale Railway is now carried on with renewed vigour. The undertaking improves steadily in public estimation, and its speedy completion is anticipated.—Shrews bu,,-,9 Chronicle. Mr. Bunn, in his recent work, the Stage Before and Behind the Curtain, relates the following anecdote:— " A friend of mine called on me to-day, who met Mr. Lamb ton, Lord Durham's brother, at dinner yesterday ; and Lambton told him that he was dining at the Palace on Thursday last, and was talking with Lord Melbourne over Lord Mnlgravo's private theatricals,' when, the Royal attention being attractet. her Majesty was pleased to ask what sort of an actor Lord Mulgrave was? Oh, very bad, very bad, indeed,' was the Premier's reply. And 'So I should think,' was her Majesty' gracious rejoinder." THE WEATP.ER.-Our hopes that St. Swithin would have brought us a happy change in the weather have not been realised, for we have been visited with rain in greater or less quantity every day since the 15th, to the material hin drance of the completion of the hay harvest. Yesterday af ternoon, between two and three o'clock, a very heavy but brief hailstorm passed over the city. The stones were of rather a remarkable size, and, as far as it extended, the fruit has pro bably suffered a good deal.— Worcester Chronicle. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—A few months ago, when excavating a grave in Abergcle Church-yard, Denbigh shire, a glittering object was Absei ved by one of the excavators, which, upon a closer totamination, appeared to be a wedding ring, and the metacarpal bone of the finger in it. On remov ing the bone an inscription was found engraved in a rustic man ner, which proved that it must undoubtedly have remained there a long time. The inscription was as follows : " As love has linked both in one, Let none but death part us alone." —Shrewsbury Chronicle. The wheat harvest, if the present fine weather continue, will soon be general in thisneighbourhrod. Mr. Of ford, of Brook's Hall, near this town, began on Saturday last. Suffolk Chronicle. SWIMMING RACE.—We observe that a swim ming race is to take place in the Clyde, on the morning of the 7th of August, under the auspices of the National Swimming Society of London. On this occasion silver prize medals are to be awarded to the three swiftest swimmers. The gainer of the first prize have engraved on his medal, "Glasgow Champion, 1840," which will enable him to enter the list in London as a competitor for the gold medal, value 20 guineas. We hope to see a numerous body of competitors on an occasion so interesting as the above, and look forward to some good sport on the waters.— Glasgow Argus. EXTRAORDINARY CATCH OF SALMON.—On Monday morning no fewer that. 663 salmon were brought up from the nets at Culmore, the take of two tides. This is the largest catch that is within the recollection of those engaged in the Culmore fishery.—Derry Sentinel. One of those wen who follow the hazardous practice of desce ndin g the down a rope to hi companons un erneat on hurs cliffs at 111oher, a lost liferiwhen throwin g i i is3oleogs legs, Clare Journal. idlaeywlaasstd..ra,Tvihi edorwopnetbweasolitieffa,vya,daersiodeintt gporotbraobulnydohf o A ne r fi r s t 3 1 8 th tu e n 3;Eclipse, Joseph Greenland,Gra P y, ETEl '' Chem, "plum, Greenland-80 0 seals, 4 fish, 60 tuns ; Ranger, , Greenland, 2 fish, 20 tuns; Union, Stephen , Greenland , t v t D i ' th j 2 rj ,( l )o Yo 2 se l al — s, flagston, Greenland, 1, 400 se als, 15 tuns; Resolution, Flcgg, 2,100 seals, 20 tuns; Gleaner, Anderson, Greenland, clean. Off port the Friendship, Greenland, '2,200 seals, 22 tuns. The Perseveran c e, o f thi s p or t, with '2,000 seals, was lost at Green land during a gale, 3d May, crew saved. The Commerce, , Martin, and Superior, Manson, of this port, the former with 4,300 seals, 40 tuns, and the latter with 1,000 seals, 10 tuns, , re expected up to-night. A HISTORY. MELANCHOLY DEATH 43}' Mit. WILLIAM PASTON MANN, SURGEON-DENTIST.—We have to record the untimely death of this once highly-respectable, but tru:y unfortunate individual, which occurred at Norwich on the Bth instant, under the following afflicting circum stances :—He bad spent the evening at a public.house up to nearly 11 o'c!ock, when he left, after being told that he could not sleep there. F,r the last few years he had indulged in a propensity for drinking ; and it ap peared that he left the public-house in a state of inebri ation, and was discovered by th e po li ce , l y i ng upon t h e p a v e ment in Wellington-lane, St. Giles's, about two o'clock in the morning, in a h e lpl ess state . Th ey con veyed him to the station-house, a n d pl ace d hi m in the usual apartment for disorderly characters, where he re mained ten hours ; when the police went to his cell, to take him before the Mayor and Magistrates, they found him in the last stage of exhaustion, and apparently in a dying state. Information was instantly given to the Mayor, and Dr. Lubbock was sent for, who did everything he could, but his unremitting exertions were unavailing, and the un f ortunate man di e d a b out seven in the evening. An inquest was held on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." Mr. Mann was a native of North Walsham, in Norfolk ; and in the early part of his life, having received a liberal education, he became a member of the Norwich company iof com e di ans . H e a f terwar d s applied himself to the science of d en t a l surgery , an d at tained great eminence n his profession at Edinburgh, where he practised for ten years, being patronised by the most eminent of the faculty and the nobility, and moved in the most respectable circles. He had at one time ac cumulated considerable property,vvhich he generously lent to a supposed friend, who duped him out of the whole of it. He left Edinburgh soon after; and came to London, where he remained some time, and then came to reside at Colchester, where he was well r ece i ve d b y t h e fa cu l ty, and practised some years with considerable success ; but being seized with mental aberration, he was placed under restraint ; he, however, recover e d i n a s hort time, and resumed his profession, but not with so much suc cess as formerly. He had repeated attacks of mania afterwards, and was again placed under restraint, but, being perfectly inoffensive, he was set at liberty, and was more remarkable for his eccentricities than any thing else. From these unfortunate circumstances, he lost the respectable part of his practice; his patients, especially the female portion of them, being afraid to trust themselves under his care. He soon sank into abject poverty, and became the object of heartless deri sion and scorn from the vulgar and ignorant. At length a friend advised him to apply for an annuity from the theatrical fund of the Norwich company ; he having been a subscribing member in the former part of his life, was entitled to its benefits. His applica tion was successful, and for the last few years of his life, he received from the fund about 181. a year, which was paid by quarterly instalments ; but, being addicted to intoxication, he soon spent the money, and wandered about in a deplorable state, without food, and no place to lay his head ; during the most inclement season of the year he has been known to sleep in the air for three months together, no one caring to take him in, as he was afflicted with infirmities and quite regardless of clean liness. He left Colchester about two months ago, for Sudbury, Bury, and Cambridge ; from thence it appears he travelled to Norwich, his last resting place. He was a fine man, about 53 years of age, and was unmarried —lpswich Express. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—MAIDSTONE, JuLr 25. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Lord ABINGEB and a Special Jury.) LOCKIE V. OVENDON, CLEEK.—LIBEL. This was an action for libel, the circumstances of which, from their peculiar character, and the rank of the defendant, who is connected with the first families of the county, have created very great interest. The declaration alleged that the defendant published a certain letter, containing certain scandalous and de famatory charges against the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded that he did not publish the letter. Sir William Follett, who was specially retained, Sergeant Channel, and Mr. Platt, appeared for the de fendant; Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Peacock were for the plaintiff. Mr. PEACOCK having opened the pleadings, Mr. THESIGER addressed the Jury, and said that the case he was about to lay before them was one of no ordinary nature, and the plaintiff, whose honour, whose character—nay, whose very professional ex istence depended upon the result, looked forward to it, he need hardly say, with the very deepest anxiety. The plaintiff had been for many years a member of an honourable profession, and in which, more perhaps than another, high character was absolutely essential, and without it, however great the mere skill of the party might be, he could have no hope of success. The plaintiff had established himself as a physician at Can terbury in 1838, and his skill speedily obtained for him a most extensive practice, and he was consulted by the first families in that city and its neighbourhood, and had every prospect of speedily obtaining wealth and indepen dence, when the unfortunate occurrence, which led to the present proceeding, unhappily took place. Among the families visited by the plaintiff was that of Mr. Hallett, a gentleman of fortune, and highly connected in the county, residing at Higham, near Canterbury, and the plaintiff had acquired the esteem and respect of every member of that family. About the month of March in the last year some person chose to annoy Mrs. Hallett. by sending a great number of anonymous letters of the most base description. Endeavours were made to dis cover the guilty party, but they were unavailing, and he believed he could state that the matter still remained in the deepest and most inexplicable mystery. There could be but one opinion, however, that the man who could be guilty of such a base and contemptible act was unfit to be regarded or associated with, and if he belonged to a respectable class of society he deserved to be driven from it with contempt. The defendant, Mr. Ovendon, was related to Mrs. Hallett, and he was the curate of a neighbouring parish. He bad been on most friendly terms with Mr. Lockie, but from some cause, which it was impossible to account for or ex plain, he took upon himself to charge Mr. Lockie with being the author of these abominable letters, and in the most hasty and intemperate manner communicated, by a letter to Mrs. Hallett, his opinibn that Dr. Lockie was the author of the anonymous letters. The following is a copy of the letter to Mrs. Hal lett : " October 28, Midnight. " My dear Mrs. Hallett—The anonymous letters to you, and of you, have been of so flagitious a charac ter, and so indisputably requiring detection by any means for the good of society, and for the punishment of the offenders, that Dr. M'Divett and myself, for months have been obliged to play the hypocrite towards Dr. Lockie and yourself; but our suspicions would have been suspected before our proofs could be completed. I will not, however, for there is not time, enter into this part of our conduct till we meet, but I wish now, before I leave England, to tell you that Dr. Lockie is the author of all the letters. I have long satisfied myself of the truth of this extraordinary fact. But it was ra tional to suppose that you would scout the idea unless actual proof could be established against him. We have laboured hard, incessantly, to effect this. The result you will know from Dr. M'Divett. But as one particular proof is required by us before we disclose to you the name of the criminal, Dr. M'Divett will not give you this letter until he effects it, or else fails in realising it, but whether he fails or succeeds, I am ready to swear to Dr. Lockie being the guilty person, and have left a letter, telling him so, and declining ever to speak to him again. Now, my dear friend and cousin, la me strongly advise yoe not to hesitate for a moment (however distressing and inconvenient) to expel him from your sight, he is too dangerous a villain to be in your family. Nor should we have let him remain at large so long about you bad not the success of our exertions to prove our sus picions correct rendered it necessary. We have both felt for you deeply, very deeply, but we would not trust you with our suspicions because he would then have observed your necessarily altered feelings towards him, and thus our efforts would have failed. I have said that we have deeply felt for you, not so much for the absurd and monstrous charges brought against your character, but for the cruel wounds aimed against your 'heart, which has never ceased to ache for the loss of your amiable Fanny. But you have borne it, hitherto, well against all, and I am sure you will do so to the end. Treat the whole with the contempt and pity it deserves. Tell Mr. Hallett the whole from the beginning. It need not go further, but to him it is due, and you can explain why you wished to spare him the pain of knowing it sooner. If you do not like to act upon my advice, which I give with all diffidence, but with a belief that it is rational, consult Dr. M'Divett, than whom you have none more sincere, none more indefatigable, none more judicious a friend. I will only repeat at this late hour of the n i g ht my warmest wish that you will not for your self be distressed at what has passed, but that you will act fearlessly and firmly. The object of the secret villain was to extort more fees. Money, money, money, is the burden of his slanderous song. The abuse was merely the weapon of alarm for you. But, 1 thank God, all his diabolical scheme has failed ; he, and not you, is the victim of his vice. God bless you till we meet. Your's affectionately, "C. 0." Alter some further remarks, the letter was put in, and the Learned Counsel called the Rev. James Hal lett, who deposed that he was the son of Mrs. Hallett, the lady referred to. He knew Mr. Ovendon and Dr, Lockic. The latter visited the family in the capacity of a physician, and had attended upon his mother about a year and a half. The letter containing the alleged libel was in Mr. Ovendon's handwriting. _ _ Cross-examined by Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT—Mr. Ovendon is nearly connected with our family, Ha is the son of Sir Henry Ovendon, and first cousin to my mother, who is sister to Sir Edward Knatchbull. Be sides the relationship, Mr. Ovendon has been on the most intimate terms with our family, and particularly with my mother. Some years ago, my mother had the misfortune to lose one of my sisters. During my sis ter's illness, Mr. Ovendon frequently visited her sick room. He is the clergyman of the adjoining parish. Sit= my sister's death, my mother has been very ill, and she was constantly visited by Mr. Ovendon in her sick chamber, arid he was, in fact, on most intimate terms with the whole of our family, but par ticularly with my mother I knew the late Dr. M'Divett ; he died last year of consumption. My mother's malady was paralysis of the limbs, and she was compelled to keep constantly in bed. My mother was first attended in her illness by Dr. M'Divett, and sub sequently by Dr. Lockie, who was recommended to my mother by Mr. Ovendon. Mr. Ovendon and Dr. M'Divett were on very intimate terms with Dr. Lockie, and did all in their power to forward his in terests, and by their exertions he was appointed physi cian to the Canterbury Hospital, a post which Dr. M'Divett had resigned, in consequence of ill health. I first saw the letter that has been produced on the 11th November, when it was shown me by my mother. I believe an investigation into the charges made against Dr. Lockie was entered into by Sir Edward Knatch bull, and Mr. Hammond, a friend of the family. I have heard Dr. Loekie mention the:investigation in question, and that the result was tantamount to a verdict of guilty against him. He complained of their giving no decision as to the truth or falsehood of the charges. I have heard Dr. Lockie say that he complained to Sir Edward Knatchbull that his not giving any decision was tantamount to saying that he was guilty. Dr. Lockie also told me that he had received a letter from Dr. M'Divett, accusing him of being the author of the anonymous letters. This was before that gentleman died. I first heard about anonymous letters in the month of November, and Dr. .Lockie told me he had seen sonic anonymous let ters that had been received by Mrs. Hallett. He told me that he had seen several, and that they were abu sive of my mother, and accused her of being stingy in the amount of fees she gave her physician. Upon one occasion Dr. Lockie denied that he was the author of any of these letters. I only learnt, in the course of conversation, that these letters had been in the course of receipt by my mother for several months. Since the accusation has been made against Dr. Lockie, some more anonymous letters have been re ceived by my mother. I have heard. Dr. Lockie say that he was very badly used by Sir Edward Knatchbull not giving any decision, because it left him in the same state he was before with regard to the ac susation. Re-examined—Dr. Lockie has not been at Higham since the receipt of the letter in question. He com plained that he was not allowed to be present at the in quiry before Sir Edward Knatchbull. Dr. Lockie told me that he had received ample fees from my mother. Sir WM. FOLLETT then addressed the jury for the defence, but called no witnesses. Lord ABINGER summed up, and the jury imme diately returned a verdict for the defendant. HER MAJESTY'S IIIEATRE.—The perform ances at her Majesty's Italian Theatre on Saturday night were " Lucia di Lammermoor," substituted for "11 Giuramento,' in consequence of the sudden illness of some of the prineipi 1 performers, an d .c Le Brigand de Terraeina." Her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemour . s, and the Duchess of Kent, honoured the opera with her presence durinc, the last two acts. The House was crowdeJ. MIDDLESEX TR AN SPORT.—This vessel, which has been reported lost, arrived in safety at Sydney ; eight nu victs died 011 the passage. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Regan, of the Adelphi Shades public•house, an extensive range of apartments under ground. was sum moned by Mr. Jones, of Goldsmith -street, Cheapside, to show why, as the summons stated, he detained a bill of exchange for 50/., which was Mr. Jones's property, but which had been either lost or stolen. Mr. Jones, who, as well as Mr. Regan, was accom panied by a lawyer, stated that he had put into the hands of Mr. Pigott, a neighbour of his, a bill of ex change at four months' date, brawn by a Mr. Metcalf, upon Messrs. Searle and Co., for 50/., dated March 15, and made payable at the London and Westminster Bank, to get discounted for him. in consequence of a communication subsequently made to him by Mr. Pigott, bills were sent about stating that the bill had been either lost or stolen, and offering a reward. Notices had also been sent to the drawer and the ac ceptor. On Saturday, the day on which the bill be- C2lllO due, witness went to the London and Westmin ster Bank, and in about a quarter of an hour the clerk to another banking-house presented it at the counter for payment. Witness traced the bill easily to Mr. Regan, but there the stream of intelligence was stopped. Mr. Regan's attorney said that his client had given money fcr the bill to Mr. James Wilson, a customer of his. Mr. Jones called upon Regan or his attorney to pro duce the bill. Mr. Regan—l have not got the bill here. The Lon]) Maxon—Surely there can be no objec tion to produce it. Mr. Regan's attorney—The summons says nothing about producing the bill. It is in my possession, but I have it not here. If the Lord Mayor requires to c3e it, he shall see it. Mr. Jones's attorney—Where does this Mr. James Wilson live? Mr. Regan—l don't know, but he is a customer at the Shades. Mr. Jones's attorney—How much money did you give him for the bill? Mr. Regan—Flo owed me between Si. and 101., and I paid him three 101. notes, and I think 101. in gold. Mr. Jones's attorney—At what time did he give you the bill ? Mr. Regan—At about half-past one o'clock in the morning, I think, about six weeks ago. Mr. Jones's attorney—That was an odd time at which to give money for a bill of exchange. Mr. Regan—l did not give him the money then. He left me the bill, and I gave him the cash next night, between twelve and one o'clock. Mr. Regan's attorney—lt is not an odd time at all tor cashing a bill at such a house. My client's house is a night house, and does not commence business before the late hours. He had made inquiries about Mr. Wilson on the day after the bill was left with him, and finding it unexceptionable cashed it, deducting the amount due to him. Mr. Jones's attorney—Of whom did Mr. Regan make inquiry as to the goodness of the bill? A Mr. Bradshaw, of No. 112, Bishopsgate-street, here came forward at the desire of Mr. Regan, and said that about five or six weeks ago Mr. Regan met him in the street, and asked him whether he knew anything of Mr. Searle (upon whom the bill was drawn), of Bishopsgate-street. - He replied that Mr. Searle was a respectable man. That was all that passed on the sub ject, and witness spoke of Mr. Searle from his general character, not from personal knowledge. Mr. Jones's attorney (to Mr. Regan)—Do you know the numbers of the notes you paid to Mr. Wilson ? Mr. Regan—No; I had them by me for a week or a fortnight. Finding that Mr. Searle was a respectable man, I did not hesitate to give the cash. Mr. W. R. Pigott, of No. 1, Goldsmith -street, Cheapside, stated that he received the bill from Mr. Jonas to get discounted for him, and the last place at which he saw it was, to the best of his belief; on his own desk, where he had deposited it. The LORD MAYOR—What is your impression as to what became of it ? Mr. Pigott—l am inclined to think that it was stolen. I might have dropped it out of my pocket, but I do not think I did. The LORD MAYOR—Have you anybody about your premises of whom you have any suspicion ? Mr. Pigott —No, my lord. The LORD MAYOR—Pray, Mr. Regan, have you no idea where you can find this Mr. James Wilson ? Mr. Regan—Not at all, my Lord. He sometimes came to my house, and I think he is a seafaring man. The LORD MAYOR—And do men of whom you know so little run up accounts of such amounts at your house ? Mr. Regan's attorney—lt is not at all unusual, my Lord, for a gentleman to run up an,.account of 10/. or 20/. at houses of the kind. Mr. Pigott—One of Mr. Regan's servants told us the other day that Mr. Wilson was in the habit of frequent ing the Adelphi Shades. Mr. Regan said that 2/. of the money Mr. Wilson had been indebted to him wero borrowed from him. The LORD MAYOR—When did you last see Mr. Wilson ? Mr. Regan—l think about fortnight or three weeks ago. The LORD MAYOR—I suppose he sometimes has been accompanied by ladies ? Mr. Regan—Yes, he has had ladies with him. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I do not say anything against your character by any means, Mr. Regan, but it is your duty to assist Mr. Jones as much as possible to find this Mr. Wilson. Mr. Regan—Most willingly. If he or his friends come to my house Mr. Wilson shall be pointed out the moment he appears. Mr. Jones's attorney intimated that payment of the bill should be withheld, and the probability is that the case will give rise to an action, from which the learned profession will receive the most advantage. John Evans, a cab-driver, was charged by Mr. Sor rell, of No. 8, London-street, Fenchurch-street, solici tor, for having most roughly, and in the most disorderly manner, claimed relationship to him. Mr. Sorrell stated that, having been informed that a cabman was insulting a lady, a client of his who had just left his office, he went out to interfere. The mo ment he appeared the cabman said to him, " Oh, have I caught you at last ? you are my uncle ; you have robbed the whole family, and they are in the work house."—(A laugh.) Cabman —So you arc my uncle. You are Tom Ewins. The name you go by is fictitious, and you have the property of the family, while they are with the Poor-law Commissioners. The Loan MAYon—Do you know this man, Mr. Sorrell ? Mr. Sorrell—l never saw him in my life be fore. He said my client was his aunt.—(Lau g ht er .) Cabman—Your client! Nonsense, uncle T om She's your wife. You think because you were so long in America I don't know you, The LORD MAYOR—Have you ever been in Ame rica, Mr. Sorrell ? Mr. Sorrell—Never out of Eng gland--searcely out of London. Cahman—Oh dear, not you! I have found you at last, and here you are in clover, while I am cab• driving.--(Laughter.) The sergeant of police said that the cabman had been drinking for th 9 last four or five days, and found uncles and aunts in every street. No doubt a few days' so briety would restofe him. Cabman—Why, people talked of sending me to Bed lam at one time, because i happened to know my own relations. The cabman's wife said that the parr fellow had been drinking, and that she knew nothing of the gentleman. Cabman—No, it would be hard for you, for he has been in America these twelve years. The LORD MAYOR ordered that the unfortunate man should be kept in the Compter till Tuesday next. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. (Abridged from the Shrewsbury Chronicle.) An inquest, which has created a great deal of public attention, especially in the vicinity of Dorrington, was held at the La mary in this town, on Monday and Wed nesday, before Mr. Jones, the Borough Coroner, on the body of Sarah Edwards, the mother of two illegitimate children. The deceased woman was only 21 years of age. One of her children was near two years old, the other scarcely a month. Becoming tired of the wholesome restraints of the Union workhouse at Atcham, she insisted on departing thence ; and going home to Dorrington, she left the two infants " at the doors of two houses in that place, and there left them to such care as the humane could afford them, and went off to Wellington." The case attacted the notice of the County Police, and a warrant being obtained, an officer was despatched to Wellington, who appre• bonded the deceased, who was brought froin Wel lington on foot, to the Greyhound Inn, at Dorrington, a distance of ten miles, to answer for her crime. She was taken ill at the Greyhound, and Mr. Mil lington, a surgeon, was sent by the Magistrate's order to visit her, who found her free from pain, but very much terrified at the thought of being taken to Shrewsbury ; but did not believe her removal in a cart would injure her. Police Constable Davies took her from Dorrington to Shrewsbury in a cart ; she appeared both ill and frightened when she started, and infortred Davies that " she bad walked back on the previous night to the houses where she had left her children, to listen if they cried," and that her only support was a draught of water from Condover Brook. On arriving in Shrewsbury, she was taken before Capt. Mayne, at the County Police-office, who directed a sur geon to examine her, and his report induced Capt. Mayne to send her to the Infirmary, where (Mr. Wood, the House Surgeon, stated) she arrived in a debilitated and dangerous state, nearly unconscious, and labouring un der milk fever, and she died on the Saturday following. The object of the inquiry was to decide whether the deceased was in a proper state of health to be re. moved in a cart from Dorrington to Shrewsbury, and on that point the chief evidence was Mrs. Jones, of the Greyhound Inn, Dorrington, who said, when the deceased arrived at her house, she was pretty well, and had some ham for her supper. She was not then in an unfit state to be removed ; nor was there any objection on her part to go to Shrewsbury, although she complained that her head was light. The Jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from natural causes, and that she was not in an un fit state to be removed from Dorrington to Shrewsbury.' FLANDERS' AND DUTCH MAIL. AMSTERDAM, JULY 23. A letter from Batavia! of the 30th of March co n t a i ns the accounts p total destruction of the islandof I ernate by arf earthquake. The desolation is so l complete that the re pre viously brought by the English papers, of the inhabitants had scarcely time to escape to the island of Timor, without saving any part of their property. BRUSSELS, JULY 23.—The King and Queen left Brussels yesterday morning for Peronne, where they were to past the night, and will arrive at Paris the following day. Their Majesties will return to Laeken at the begin ning of next month. We arc happy to announce that the expectation of the ladies who intended to be present to-morrow to witness the proceedings against Colonel Murray, and to see the fair Amazon in the presence of her husband, will not be disappointed. Mrs. Murray will appear in Court as plaintiff. M. Charles Ledru, of Paris, as sisted by M. Dolcz, Advocates in the Court of Cessa tion, will be opposed by two Counsel of the bar of Brussels. The English newspapers have sent reporters to Brussels to report the proceedings. BRUSSELS, JULY 24.—The proceedings in the case of Colonel Kent Murray, before the Court of Assize, commenced to-day. The whole time was occupied in hearing the witnesses for the prosecution, the two prin cipal of whoa), Mr. Grant and Mr. Law, did not ap pear. Mrs. Murray was among the witnesses, though very ill, if we may judge by her pale countenance. The witnesses are so numerous that their examination will hardly be finished to-day. FRONTIERS OF PRUSSIA AND POLAND, JULY 11.— The Emperor of Russia is said to have had many con versations with Prince Paskewitsch, on the approaching military operations in the East, and it is thought that Ithis campaign, for which vast preparations are making, will be decisive in more respects than one. If it is true that Prince Paskewitsch is to have the command, it is evident that something more important is intended than a campaign against the m ountaineers, for which the most eminent General in the service would scarcely be employed. It is probable that as soon as the Turk ish question has taken a more decided shape, and lest something of its threatening c haracter, a considerable Russian army w ill marc h to Central Asia, partly to chastise th e pre d atory hor d es , and partly to set bounds to the i n fl uence o f t h e E n glist', which continues t o spread to the North of India, for if the Russians neglect to assert their supremacy in Central Asia, while it is still time—it .may soon be too late, for the English emissaries spare no pains to make the intention s of Russia suspected, and to unite all the nations,from Kourdistan to the Circassians and Lesghis, in a general confederacy a gainst the Russians. At this moment they are putting everything.in motion to excite disturbances in the south and south-east of Iran, in order to embarrass the Shah of Persia, and oblige him to throw himself into the arms of England. The policy of the English in Southern Asia is cunning, founded en a net of active intrigues ; but the Russian policy is equally cunning, and if it pretends, in western Eu st.loutnWwoeuhetii rope, to act as a ' mediator, and even to appear at times to be duped by the arrogant islanders, whose pride on a. e councilthb the e 02n Black t war, ma o r : f blinds them, it is only that it may be able to operate with more certainty, and to prepare in silence the most effectual measures. col between e a zst r ew n ivrees t erk h nao a l jt t oho s t ef h t, 12 1 0,e E t iwaimbhalpneeerds where Emperor generalsthg r arrived ea t sum moned, was held. It is thought that the Emperor will of July for Sea, whither Prince Paskewitsch will go at the same time. DUTCH FUNDS.—AanrrEttoAm, JUIN 24 Actual Debt, Money. 1:111r. ';l4 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A inert Synclic,4N, per rent 92.A, 1 , ..' 34 Ditto, ditto, 3!4 per cent ili:S 71' Cornmercual Company, 4!.: 2 per cent 1731i. 174 nitt3 (1635 and 1837) :., per cent. Loan 18:3i, 5 per cent . hg i 90 4 " Exchange on London, One mo nth l2 0 Two months Dutch Papers, July 25. GUILDHALL. John Williams, whose real name is John Edward Broad, was charged with obtaining a roll of parchment, value 51., by means of a forged order. The prisoner went to the b:-,use of Messrs. Cooper and:Co , parchment manufacturers, on Thursday, and presenting an order purporting to be signed by Messrs. Williams, xei lum binders, of Bucklersbury, for sixty skins of parchment ; the quantity was given, but after he left suspicion of its genuineness was excited, from the form being written, and not, as usual, printed : on going to Messrs. Williams it was pronounced a forgery. On Friday the prisoner came again and presented another order, upon which he was asked to accompany a person to Bucklersbury, but on the journey he confessed it to be a forgery, and was given into custody. Mr. Williams, one of the firm, stated tho order was forged, and that the prisoner had once been in their service. On being asked by the ALDERMAN if he had any thing to say, the prisoner replied in the negative, and was fully committed for trial. MA RL B ORO UGH- S TREE T. THE LATE OUTRAGE ON A POLICEMAN.--.The Earl of Waldegrave and Captain D 4 ' attended' on Saturday at this office, for the purpose of putting in bail to meet an indictment preferred against them for having grossly ill-treated a policeman, in company with two other young men of rank, who arc not yet under pro secution. Mr. Hobler, who attended on behalf of the prose cution, and who appeared to have been instructed to follow up the case with the utmost rigour of the law, told Mr. Long that he had nothing to allege against the bail produced by Lord Waldegrave and Captain Duff, against whom a true bill had been found, to answer for the assault on the injured policeman. Mr. LONG asked if there were any proof that the bill of indictment had been found. Mr. Nobler admitted that he was at that moment unprepared with the requisite evidence of the fact. Mr. LONG said it was necessary he should have the legal proof of the bill of indictment before he could hold the defendants to bail. The further proceedings were ultimately postponed till Monday. MARYLEBONE. Gardner.Zl S charged with robbing the house of Mr. Ormsby Gore,iu Portland-place, of a quantity o f plate. The housekeeper stated that she heard the jingling of plate on Friday evening, and Mr. John Davis, who was with her, called out " Who's there ;" and not getting an answer, went to the pantry, when the pri- HVENING EDITION. soner dropped the plate and ran out, followed by Davis► and was caught in Wimpole,strcet. The plate, having been mixed, could not be identified ; and the Magill' trate, regretting he could not commit him for trial, sen tenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment for being on the premises with a felonious intent. Jemima Snape, the woman who was on Friday charged with setting fire to the house of Mrs. Thonute in George-street, Portland-place, was again put to the bar, when a witness stated that the prisoner's boxes were against the street door when the fire was first discovered. Day, who first discovered the fire, stated that when he told her of the fire she made no answer. Several of the people ia the house said they were afraid of the prisoner. The prisoner said she was inno cent of the crime laid to her charge ; she was a respec tably-connected person of good character ; she had been employed in going with families from England to India and back ; she also said that a cabman had been in the house shortly before the alarm of fire was given• This last statement was denied by ell the witnesses. The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday, to heel' the depositions read, and to be committed for trial on the charge of arson. HATTON-GARDEN. An old woman, who is stated to be possessed of very considerable fortune, named Desdemona Williamson , was charged by Mr. R. Pethick with setting fire to his house in Thatched-house-row, Islington. The complainant stated that Mrs. Williamson came home on Friday night in a state of intoxication, and set fire to his house, in which k.he lodged. He hoped the Ma' gistrate would award her some punishment, as, had it not been for the intrepidity of the police officer, his whole family and the defendant must have been burned to death. The Magistrate asked if the fire were accidently or wilfully occasioned by the defendant. Mr. Pethick said it was accidental. The Magistrate regretted that he could not punish her, Had it been a servant, he could have fined her 1001. for her carelessness ; and the old woman was coil" sequently discharged. LAMBETH-STREET. Sarah Lott, a middle-aged woman, was charged with stabbing Mary Ann Clewley. The prosecutor stated that on tilts. 9th of the present month the Prir sour, who lodged in the same room with her, citltifr rolled, in consequence of witness wearing some of ber clothes, when the prisoner seized a knife, and aimed thrust at her head with it. Witness put up her arm t o ward off the blow, when the knife entered it et th e elbow, and cut the flesh to the bone as tar as the wris t. She was carried to the hospital, a nd r ema i ns a patient there now. The Assistant-Surgeon of the London Hospital stated the nature of the wound, which was very due' gerous, and expressed a hope of restoring the use 0 the arm. The prisoner declared the wound to be the result er the prosecutor's falling against her while she had the knife in her hand. She was fully committed for trial on the capita l charge. UNION-HALL. A cab-driver stated to the Bench that a female, er parently in a dying state, w as put i n t o hi s car riage at the west-end of the town, and he was d es i re d to driv e her to Union-street. On arriving at that place the woman was speechless, and he took her to the Work' house. He was carrying the poor creature into tba house, when a policeman came up to his cab, mount' it, and drove it to the green-yard. On applying at tb ° station-house the inspector gave him an o rder far th e return of the vehicle, which the keeper of the yard r e ' fused to accede to, unless he paid him five shillings' The cab had not been there more than ten minutes. a The Magistrate said the policeman had acted bey ol3 , o his duty in taking the ca b awa y w ith o ut i n q u i r y, and 1 ° charge was exorbitant for its detention. The Clerk said that the policeman was fineable f° r driving without a licence. The Inspector nn duty told the Magistrate that the man acted according to the direction of the Cosi ll ',l r sinners, who said th a t ca b s w i t h out d r i vers s h ou ld taken to the yard. The Magistrate granted a summons against the Pe r• ties for illegally detaining the cab. THAMES POLICE. Several Lascars belonging to the ship Cha r l e s Gra nt ; „ from Madras and Bombay, complained through an 1 " 0 ; terpreter of having received most cruel treat m ent fr f at duringthe boatswain the voyage. It was stated t b he not only daily kicked and struck them, but used to drive his elbows against their ribs, with great fore;; stretching out their arms at the time, and gagging °l° h. to prevent the captain and officers from bearing tu t e "j complaints : it was added that several men im",.P e d overboard and swam a s hore at M a d ras , t o ge t 00 '. a the way of his ill-treatm e nt, an d th a t th ree ot h e rs di' on the voyage, whose deaths were accelerated Vi m 4 ill-usage. The Magistrates said that the statem•ats the Lascars could not always be relied on, but be vow cause inquiries to be made. THE EYES.—Optical improvements to ena b le persons at an advanced age to read with ease and discritai a_„ n , objects with perfect distinctness. Messrs. S. and B. S ° s ,'"9, mons, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal Farnily,„L t , Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, and 76, King William-st s i Bank of England, and have succeded in effecting a r° t. scientific improvement in Spectacle Lenses, of the gr7bo est transparent refractive power for imperfect Vision; ~,"0 extraordinary advantage derived from this invention is, "" ne , they are adapted to the sight to the greatest nicety bT t rienced persons, of more than 30 years' extensive practice, the vision becomes preserved and strengthened. and persons r a , / enabled to employ their sight for any length of time, e i t h e r bY or candle light, at the most minute occupation, with ease tie comfort ; these Spectacle Lenses are constructed on a princ'F og that persons can see with them of a much less magn if i l to power s nor will they require the change so frequeatlY e. n ob dt g s : aeuno e ee ds a pne t sec e reo r o fibmomji individuals importance ongti objects tig i dab f l n y ueec i cai magnifying s g gtt oho as a p ntl o o,hhe w weob e sp r eea s uecsbncul obi me: aotsi accomplished, eempdr n ia o oryi w uss osblnaye i sn imagined;ea canot injuredtmb eer m i saltedooo aR a distance ; those who have never used Spectacles, by s as the number of inches they can see moderate size ' 140° the eye, and those who are making use of Spectacles b y P sen c d o i ll them, and making the same statement. The Messrs. mon's Voice Conductor's for deaf persons are not the least ,P ceptible, and g i ve i mme di a te relief.—No conn ec tion with F e sons of the same name. ha t VON RAUM E R'S NEW WORK.---From 'I V we have heard of the manner in which the celebrated : et , Raumer has treated his charming and all-popular su r " Italy and the Italians," we are led to anticipate that his for t] , of coming work will, in addition to its attraction as a travels, prove the most useful and generally available p ubtw, Lieu on Italy that has yet seen the light. It is writer has ever before visited that country under circumst so favourable to the acquirement of that important species. of se formation, which, in the absence of o ffi cial facilities , can 10.4 case be obtained. We understand his work touches on evii`or, topic which can interest the statist as well as the gen o r al tea, it and that it will please the mere " Idler in Italy , " as much of will the most profound inquirer into the anomalous con dition that interesting country. certain that the G O ODWOOD PARK.—On Thursday last o f Duke of Richmond was presented with a magnificent pie?: op plate, valued at .1001., by the farmers and principal tenar!',.er e his Grace's estate in Sus7ex, "as a testimony of their 2'o. gratitude to a kind and liberal landlord, and of their high s pect for his Grace's public and private virtues." Mr. Haynes, the successful author of ‘` - ;, 0 % science, or the Bridal Night," " Darazzo," and , . i n td Stuart" (so attractive last season at Drury-lane Theatre s lel Hammond's bankruptcy), is busily engaged in the comP° - of a new tragedy. PLATE SUITED FOR :,`RESENTATION'; Committees or private individual? requiring splendid or s!'t s articles of PLATE for prs.:lentat:on, may, by aderessOoit paid letter as under, have drr , rings sent for their applov,a l i, be is desirible letters should ate about the sum inten de " expended. T. COA. SAVORY, b e oral' Silversmith, &c.,47, CornbiLl (Seven doors from Grac ie i'rect), London. . 4 . g e of N.B. A Pamphlet, containing a detailed list of the P' tior Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had P l .*. or will be forwarded, post free, in answer to a p os t-paid cation. AlMnirnte°l"ll° EIRTIIS. 101 l On the 11th of June la s t, a t Sp an i s h-t own , Jamaica, th e of W. W. Mack eson , Esq., barrister-at-law ; of a son. 0, 0 Oathe 23d inst., at Reg en t-pl ace W es t, the July of J.' M'Kie, of a son. f 11 * On the 23d inst., at Lee. roan, Blackheath, the lAdy 0 Wilkinson, Esq., late of Canton, of a daughter. ~ of On the 24th inst., et Wrashall, n ear Bristol, the is`, the Rev. S. E. Bernard, of a con. On the 24th inst., at Doughty -street, Mrs. Charlet Gale, of a daughter. of On the 25th inst., Mrs. Henry Rees, of Finsbury -s q uat a daughter. t r On the 22d inst., at Waltham Abbey Church, Mr..l a bts Herbert, of Brompton, to Emily, second thughtor of J. w r''' Esq., Royal Powder-mills. ~ On the 23d inst., at St. James's Chapel, Broughton-P4-81 Edinburgh, W. Fordyce Blair, Esq., e ldest son of C ° Ju :4,o Blair, to Caroline Isabella, youngest aughter of the lat e Sprot, Esq., of Clapham, Surrey. DIED. of On the 22d inst., at Finchley, William, youngest 510,J • • George Truwhitt, Esq., of Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn, Finchle th y. g i r burr On e. 26th inst., Mr. Richard Armistead, of street, aged 68. • 0. On the 23d inst., at Lee-road, Blackheath, Eliz a, 01(` ', Robert Wilkinson, Esq., late of Canton, aged 22. Jane golt, On the 23d inst., at Birkenhead, Cheshire, daughter of the late John Holt, Esq., of Crossfield, On the 23d inst., at Sydenham, Eleanor Sophia, d au g hter the late Matthew White, Esq., of London, aged 35. 0/ VS' On the 23d inst., at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, gen' , borne, Esq., of Branches-park SutTolk, d6O On the 24th ind , at Marl; , Parker the 0 0 1 child of D. W. Lucas,. of Low:: e Horner i to m n, aged 2 year s a 6 months. A Co Mrf On the 24th inst., Eliza, widow of the late Townsen— o ton, of Spitalfields, and daughter of the late Pint Nevi"g' Larchfield, Yorkshire, aged Si. Ne w On the 26th of January, at Melbourne, Port Millie,. Roda o 91 South Wales, John Howard, Esq., late of Aston G l 2 l „ d - Bucks, fourth son of the Rev. 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