The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

EVENING E DITION. GEI3MAN TRANSLATIONS OF ENGLISH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-1 have been by the German press called on, in The Sun, which is now widely circulated in Germany, to give my opinion on the General Gazette, or All genwine Zeitung, of Augsburg, chiefly as to its articles translated from the English. In consequence, I have drawn up the accompanying paper, and I trust you will oblige your numerous Continental readers by insert ing it in your columns. I have the honour to be, &c., JOHN VON HORN, D•D• 12, York-street, Covent-garden. NOTES ON THE GENERAL GAZETT tions of the East. The current expression of rotten boroughs caused the adjective rotten, to he taken also in ihe sense of obsolete, antiquated, nor sound, not triloy, Sometimes English phrases are left untranslated in the Augsburg Gazette, e. g. Imperial Parliament, (June, 1841)), Law-officers of the Crown (No. 189, Sat. 7.) The expression Imperial Parliament may indeed puzzle a foreigner, who from the French is accustomed to dis tinguish between royal and imperial, and would think that England being a kingdom the word royal should be put to Parliament. Now, in English, the words king and emperor are also distinguished, but the expression reign, being restricted to denote the period of a sovereign's government, empire is made use of to signify the dominions of a Sovereign, either Emperor or King ; and consequently Imperial Parliament is the Parliament of the United Kingdom, das Britticshe Par lament. As regards tILI law officers of the Crown, they are the Attorney-General (der Staatsanwald) and the Solicitor-General (der Staatsprucureur.) In Ger many Ministers apply nn difficult legal questions to the faculties of law in the Universities ; in England they are constitutionally bound to rely for such cases on the opinion of the law-officers of the Crown, i. e. der KO7Zig• lic.hen Rechtsconsulenten, or der Kronanwalde. Con tinental readers might expect that the Lord Chancellor, who is himself a Minister, should be applied to on ques tions of law ; but Judges are generally by the constitu tion of Great Britain, not allowed to pronounce any extra judic;al opinion, ns this would prejudge a case wl might aft-rwards come before them in Court. To the English Universities, Ministers cannot apply, for this very reason, that they do not contain faculties of law complete in the manner of German Universities. J. VON HORN, D. D., of Gottingen. 12, York-street, Covent-garden. AUGSBURG. The Allge»ieine Zeitung, of Augsburg, is justly con sidered in this country to be one of the best journals published on the Continent for its original infor mation from all parts of the world, its impartiality, and particularly also for the correctness of its articles trans lated from the English. Evidently the editor resided sometime in England, and here perfected himself in the English language, whose range is too wide to be en compassed in the few elementary works adapted for schools and private instruction on the Continent, and serving to the generality of translators as their only sources from which they derive their keowledge of English. But rarely mistakes will be found in the German translations of the Augsburg Gazette, and they never affect this purport of an article, only incidental sentencts and words. The following notes are then offered in ne unfriendly spirit, and only meant to direct the attention of the German editor towards particular niceties of the English language. In the Supplement, No. 86, of March the 6th, 1840, is mentioned Kenny's farce, " R rising the Wald," which the Augsburg Gazelle translates by Wind vaacherei. These expressions differ, however, in mean ing wilely : the English signifies endeavouring to borrow money, and sell goods by various mar oeuvres of puffing, chousing, and deceiving ; but the German signifies swaggering, pretending to great matters with a view of amusing. Thus of the celebrated po.t and Pro fessor Burger of Gertingen, Hanover, who under the name of Baron Munchhausen, wrote the widely circulated Travels in various parts tf the world, it may be said er mach, viol Wind, but not he raises the wind," since his object was only to amuse the public, not by tricks to borrow money or to sell any goods. In the file of March 1840, p. 627, " a whole-hog-hurrah for Jackson" is translated Ganz schwe;in-Harrah Jackson, which gives no sense ; it should be Ein lades Lebehoch Jar Jackson and sera ganzes politisches system. A hurrah of this kind is meant for a general approval of the whole admi nistration of the American President, Jackson, and of ail his political principles. I have been for several years in the habit of putting to my English dictionary phrases extracted from English works, and in referring to the word hog, I find the following sentence added, which farther explains the use of the word hog in the above phrase They went, as the Americans say, the whole hog, i. e , they went all lengths in support of the mea sure?' " I bad made up my mind (to use an expressive but vulgar phrase) to go the whole hog, i. e., to go ex treme lengths." "lam of his party, though Ido not go the whole way (the whole hog) with him." In No. 92, of April 1840, we find in the Augsburg Gazette the English " slovenly" rendered by stunipig in the sentence er benterkte die sache say von corn herein stunspig behatdelt. It appears, however, from Adelung's German Dictionary, that the German stumpig is rather a vulgar word, applied only to carelessness in dress, e. g., er ist stumpig gekleidet ; when the Eng lish " slovenly" has a much wider range, and may be in troduced in refined conversation, as in my manuscript dictionary I find to this word added from a Lon don Journal the sentence :—" After all, the bili was got up in rather a slovenly manner." To No. 104 of the Augsburg Gazette, of April 13, 1804, 1 should observe, that "public error" is an error gene rally prevailing, ein aligenieine verbreitete irrige Mei nung, einherrschender Irrlhuni, but not as the German Paper has it, ern rolksirrthuni, which would be in E iglish, "an error prevailing in the lower classes." Tnc English word " public" cannot, from its wide range, be always translated by the same German word, but various words must be used to express it according to the context, and the nature of the phrase in which it stands; e. g. in the following sentence, p. 197 of Miss Pardoe's work on the Bosphorus—" This trust in public integrity was never in any instance known to have been violated," where public integrity is die Rechtlicbkeit der Turkischen Regierung. I am at a loss to understand on what grounds the English " a rum old chap," has been translated ein steinalter knochen in the Augsbury Gazette of June 1, p. 1,219. Which is here the English word amounting to steinalt ; and which English word is meant to stand for what knochen would imply in this place? The word " ruin" does affect the meaning not of old, but of chap. It appears from tho excellent large dictionary of Chas. Richardson (Vol. IL, London, 1837), that rum" by usage signifies a queer, odd, indescribable person or thing, and for proof he refers to some verses of a distinguished writer, of which the following are the concliding " No company comes, But a rabble of tenants and rusty dull rums." SWIFT TIIE GRAND QUESTION DEBATED. A rum old chap is then exactly in English what can alter Kautz is in German, In No. 144 of the Augsburg Gazette, I find the English " assessed taxes," translated by vereilligte faxen, which would induce a belief as if the Eng lish had something like the French droits reunis. In German direct(' steuru would come nearer the mark, for assessed taxes are those which the subject is re quired to pay directly to Government from certain pro perty, e.g. houses, carriages, dogs, horses, &c. They are raised by assessors under a Board of Commissioners, and the property is assessed. i. c. charged with a certain sum, according to the clauses of certain Acts of Par- ' liament. Further to explain this subject, I may ob serve that taxes in England arc generally either King's (Queen's) taxes, or local taxes. King's taxes arc, 1, assessed taxes ; 9 , taxes upon consumption, or upon commodities, e, g. beer, spirits, wine, tobacco, &c ; 3. Stamp datirs. Local taxation comprehends the county-rates, the borough-rates, tha highway-rates, watching-rates, lighting -rates, sewers'-rates, Church rates, poar's-rates, &c., which are levied by the Grand Jury and ttie Vestry. THE DISTRhSsEI) AND ALMOST STARVING POLES. On Monday next a fete is to be given at Cremorne House, Chelsea, for the relief of this unfortunate band, whose sufferings cry aloud to those who can afford to contribute any assistance. Many circumstances, amongst which may chi( fly be reckoned the extremely unfavourable state of the weather, contributed to ren der the last fete given at the Beulah Spa with a similar object rather a failure, and the Committee of Manage ment have judiciously determined to hold the present at so short a distance from town as will render the means of arriving there by steamers and omnibuses of all de scriptions, at all hours perfectly easy to the great body of the middle classes in the metropolis. The reduction in the price of tickets, to 3s. 61, has also been judi cious, and the public will not only have the opportu nity of hearing all the Italian singers belonging to her Majesty's Tneatre then in town, amongst them Per siani, Rubini, Lablache, Ricciardi, &c., but will also be gratified with horse-racing, the ascent of Mr. Green in a balloon, and a variety of other entertain. ments. The exigency is very pressing. There are numbers of the Poles in a state of miserable destitution. The great, the wealthy, and the gay, who are now about to depart from the metropolis for several months, will remember that they leave behind them here an ho . - nourable, high-minded, though unfortunate class of men, to whom what is vacation to them must be only a time of wretchedness, and all but starvation, if their sympathy and just. appreciation of the circumstances under which the Polish exile has been forced to quit his native land, shall not rescue him from impend ing and utter ruin, The day at Cremorne House will be diversified with such amusements as might even tempt those who had no nobler aim than selfish gratifi cation, to visit these picturesque grounds on Monday. OPENING OF THE GLASGOW AND AYR RAILWAY. In No, 168, June 16, 1840, of the Augsburg - Gazette, the last twa words of the sentence wir bitten aufs ern stlichsee.remeant to express the English word " earnestly," which, indeed, means, like the German corresponding word, " seriously, not in joke," but at the same time, has other signiLations, which in German are variously expressed, e. g., "I am earnestly desirous to see you, but as I cannot hope to enjoy the pleasure, I will con teat myself with a few lines from your hand." In which sentznee earnestly amounts to eagerly. Again, when I say, " I earnestly rtquest," it means, " I pressingly request ;" conseeisently, in the German phrase under consideration, " aufs dringeadste," should have been put. The private opening of the Glasgow and Ayr Rail way takes place to-day ; and to-morrow, the line will be accessible to the public. This is an event which has been anxiously looked forward to, and contemplated with feelings of no common interest. The inhabitants of Ayrshire calculate on the happiest results from it, having already experienced a foretaste of the advantages to be expected, in the increased traffic occasioned by the partial opening of the Railway through portions of the country where little or no intercourse had previously existed. Along the whole line, a new spirit may be said to have been awakened ; and communities, formerly in a state of comparative dormancy, are now roused into useful and active life. This is not less the case in our own good town. Contrasted with the listlessness which prevailed some years back, our streets, more particularly on the Saturday evenings, present, in the bustle of the market-making crowds, all the appearance of a thriving and densely peopled city. There can be no doubt, from the demand for houses, compared with the number of empty dwellings formerly to be found. that a vast accession to the population has taken place of late. The Directors of the Railway Company deserve the highest praise for their exertions in bringing the under. taking so speedily and satisfactorily into a tangible shape. The expedition with which the Company was formed, and the work carried on, is, we believe r unsurpassed 'in the annals of British railway making. The original prospectus was issued in April, 1t,:36 ; th• Act embodying the Company was passed in February, 1837 ; most of the contracts 1. ere entered into, and some of them commenced, in Fe bruary 1838 ; and a portion of the line—from Ayr to Irvine—opened for public traffic on the sth of August, 1839 ; other portions quickly followed—that to Kt!- winning was ready on the 23d March, 1840 ; from Glasgow to Paisley on the 13th ; and from Kilwinning to Beith on the 21st July ; and now on the 11th of August—not two years and a half from the time the first shovelful of earth was removed—the whole line is open for public conveyance. Just as we are going to press, we observe that the procession of gaily filled carriages has arrived, and the company are about taking their places at the board provided for their entertainment.—Ayr Observer, Aug. 11. ENGLISH AND FRENCH NAVAL FORCE. ENGLISH. Line of Smaller Stem Battle Frigates Vessels ers. The Commission NOT in- eluding the reserve 22 .. 29 ... 87 .. 65 In reserve as demonstra tion ships l5 ... 11 In ordinary (good condi dition) and building 7O ... 56 ... 252 ... 11 Men-37,156. ----. ---- -. 96 330 Total lO7 FRENCH. Line of Smaller Steam Battle Frigates Vessels ers. In Commission, including the reserve - 13 ... 22 ... 73 ... 30 Building and in ordinary 23 ... 23 ... 93 ... 10 Men-22,464. Total. 40 It would appear that not the editor himself, but a contributor to the Augsburg Gazette, translated, in No NEW MAIL COACII.—It has been determined 195, of July 13, p. 1,547, the English, " a graceless by the Postmaster-General to establish a new mail coach pet," by cia gottloser Verdru;s des Levers, adding at fdroomm tYheorLk, on t d o oc co b n a ve s y to which th will beparts b t o f to thtleiattg the same time a note, in which he confesses he did not by railway. By thls arrangement, for which we are inty understand the English , words, and deems them debted to Mr. Hodgson Hinde and other northern Mem " strange and senscle.s.' To set him ri;ht, it may be bers, the London letters and newspapers will be delivered observed, that " pet " means, its th e pl ace referred to, in Newcastle on the afternoon of the second day instead of, a favourite, ell Leibling, as, in my manuscript diction- as at present, on the morning of the third. The mail, it nrv, "heis a pet of the c!ubs." The word pct is par• is expected, will reach this town about five tem.—The old titularly used for children soiled oiled by their mothers, Edinburgh mail will be continued for the purpose of cc:n ein verzopencs Ki w i. There is also the verb lo pet, veying the bag s to and from the intermediate places be which moans to spoil by too much fondling, verzieben, tweet. London and the Scottish metropolis. Of the other e. g., "This Government paper is petted and spoiled by arrangements we arc at_ present tt.n unable to speak, but will the laborious co-operation of offi,;iai men of Government.. have the best authority for sa i . . the new . plan 24th instant.— Consequntly the above words should have been in be put T brought into ope.ra sou on Monday, the Tyne Mercury. this lam a ••• • • -• • n...r .—an Ltebling, abet* ohne Anntutla oder ohne Grazie. The Pilot perseveres in calling out for Repeal ; and for proof of the progress the question is making refers in the Garman report of the trial of the assassin to those.public meetings that hive already been called, as Oxford, the witnese, T. W. Linton, is, in No. 135, well as those for which requisitions ate in course of signs_ July 16, p. 1,578, of the Augsburg Gazette, introduced tore. As for putting down Repeal by force, the Pilot sayixig er soy mil Oxford auf den (better nech dens) I Sehiesigraben ins Strand gegangcn, in which words laughs at the notion :—" Put down I l i. j epe . al I . [low ? By force I Why, a resort to that f Fet;)oulaindgilveeeliat Ireland, a im c su t l h s , t. e • Sebiengraben stands for "shooting gallery," Now wh;ele—in the present state Repeal if do not produce srpa. the German ward denotes an open space without world—most accelerateonly thing formidable to repeal is justice. the teAn, where shooting is Ptletised ; but in the ' `nti°e the I hanCeof h utting it down." The Mail says Strand, one of the most crowded streets of London, That ?s t..c y c c ,n o y n chance has become , ' scared at the sounds no sa ._th place can be expected. Tue shooting that ,N l l t !. h ( as mad n e, ' " and at the s ,me time calls on the Lord gellery in Leicester-squ ire, or in the Strand, is wh ' at t seys, a large hall, where they Jeu se tcrant . to put down tly. Repeal agitation! the . name ' TH E ' LATE WAit IN INDIA.—We understand practice by tirin; at the mark, an d --- consequently that the and interesting account of the late the English word referred might have been translated t w i .. a t t V il le most complete Affha by Selaicsshaus. The a i dverb comparati ve l y i s also Ilavelock, of . r istan has been written b y Ca p tain Henr y the 13:i Light Infantry, Aide de - Camp to used when a comparison s neither from words preceding Nlejne- G ene r a l Si r Willoughby Cotton , C ommander of uedersteod net kstinctly expressed, c. g. " This reta i ns t h e Bengal Forces. As soots as the author's intention of thousands who but for those circumstances would have recording th e var i ous even t s of this important camp ai gn found their way to our town, Which is therefore tor))- was mad e k nown to h i s E xce ll enc y departments that all the necessar de. sa Th e comparatively ineo eee , Cernraaneer-in-Cleet, he gave ins!ructione to the heads of paratirely deserted. Sir John Keane, the ' ' B 'B Pardue s • eauties of the os- y ~c urn e reservedly un use of tobacco."—Miss I n se eh eases, when a comparison placed at Captain Ilavelock's disposal. The phorus," P. 150. ; - tits shoule be will know how to appreciate the narrative of one publicgwho took an active part in the whole campaign, and P°! - * is neither understood! nor divinctly expressed, the ad- who such peculiar facilities for the undertaing. It is verb comparatively is in th. , German langua g e, which announced for immediate publication by Mr. Colburn.. requires in wordin.e' tl:e greatest clearness, to be ex in a •e it de pressed by zienifich, i. e. . r t .r the Ge g rman die on hellEStra r RIC--The Commission meets this day gree. From this cbseevation, . the Aug,- will t be muchtlite l i c g f ie case. Our anticipation is, that there vergieichangsmassige Sieherheil, in .finding their . but nothing done. The Non. burg Gaulle, No. 211, of July 29, I. g. may be Intrusionists, g their cause sinking, commenced a the Sultan lived in a new agitation yesterday, which they propose to carry over corrected ; in Enelish I may say the length and breadth of the land, - in order stimulate state of cwnparative security, i. e. of tolerable security ; 1 s t . h .c e m fl g e , gging spirits of their partisans We rt I it t tie either a new Solemn I.en,ue. and C .. a v e e:n o an:, av o e r: a but there being no comparative estimate giveo, word vergieietiitagsmassig cannot here be used in G. r- 1 1 second edition of the old one ! We wait ; sity to see what precise 'shape the thing " vil'illcanisseumcuel.l - In alike manner the adverb proverbially is used, where no proverb is implied, in the sense of, as generally i s cot ,„ zan . known ;e. g., delays are proverbially dangerous. lii I it yE ._lt must be apparent to the electors of speaking of General Paget, the Eeelish, lie is a Are 1 this borough that laborious efforts have lately been made fellow, cannot be rendered er ist ein tuchtiger Bursche, ' to bolster t ie the cause of Mr. Farncomb and the old Augsburg Gazette, No, 217, of Aug. 4, page 1,730 ; it ! . means Ishich the utmost hardih oo d in mis.. should be cr ist embracer .Keel, or M ann . P age 1,731 r .l;ori sby e e pres • e;iteti ' o . n ry , a ssertion. and vulgar abuse could supply, of the same number of that paper, die genetic Areinunrr, The eouNe which Mr. Farnconab ought to pursu e i s quite I the exact ansevning should be die eigentliche Mei:Jung ; plain. He ought to exp ress his re g ret for what ha s oc. and on the same page hall) barbarisehe and v er - ' curred, and at once retire from his usurped position and fault& Einrichltzngen des astens, should be veral- leave the Tory field clear for Captain Monypenny. Will tats Eintichfungen de's • astens, the rotten illaitik. tbe have the-grace to do it: —l3rtyhton Ggardirn. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1840. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURN A.LS. rpEOIA THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTEIWAY.) ( From the Globe.) The announcement of Mr. Thomson's elevation to the peerage will appear to the public as a natural sequel to the ratification on the part of the Imperial Parliament of those great measures for the pacification of Canada, with which his name was so honourably associated. Cer tainly no title in modern times has been more faitly earned than that of the new Baron Sydenham. With out implying the slightest disrespect towards Lord Sea , ton, or any of the other gallant and distinguished officers who have gained their honours at the sword's point, we must be allowed to say that in this instance we think with Cicero, " Cedant arna toga," and consider the rare union of high civil qualities, by which alone the Governor-General of Canada could have succeeded in the arduous task allotted to him, as constituting a juster title todistinction than mete military merit,however great. We do not know a prouder page in history than that which England will have to record of a revolt appeased with so little bloodshed, so few executions, and such a short suspension of the ordinary course of law and civil privileges of the insurgent province. Never, per haps, did the manly straightforward generosity of the English character appear to more advantage than in the spectacle afforded by Upper Canada of a community torn in pieces by the fiercest dissensions, and recently ar rayed in arms against the Government and against each other, throwing aside their animosities, forgetting their old party distinctions, burying the past in oblivion, and uniting cordially in the patriotic task of laying the se cure foundations of future peace and prosperity. (From the Standard.) The Ministerial Journals appear to be highly de lighted at the termination, for a time, of the tries and perplexities of their employers. They are perfectly rampant in their exultation that Lord Melbourne should have falsified the anticipations of his friends and the predictions of opponents, so completely, as to be able to hold office a few months longer. But to what does he owe this security ? Manifestly to the forbearance of his antagonists ; who, satisfied with le gislating through his medium, and having but little inclination to succeed to the perplexities by which he has contrived to surround every great interest in the country, are cantent to " bide their time." On what single Act of the Session, we ask, do Ministers profess to rest their claim to an ovation over their oppo nents ? Is it on the temporary withdhwal of Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill—obstructed, not de feated, by a series of tricks that would not discredit a compsny of thim!ple-riggers at a fair ? Or that the Irish slaves of Mr. O'Connell are still suborned to the commission of every species of fraud and perjury, in order th :t the Parliamentary helots of the great men dicant may continue to " strain their brazen throats" in the House of Commons another year ? Is it to the miserable exh'bition they made on the opening of Parlia ment in their tyrannical attempt to vindicate what they are pleased to call the privileges of the House of Com mons, that they turn for an excuse for the Io pee ins of their journalists ? Can it be a source of honest tri umph to them, that after attempting to set themselves above the law, and suffering defeat in the contest, they should have been compelled virtually to acknow ledge themselves in error, and to sneak out of the di lemma by the only possible mean; that was left them ? Or do they rely on the scandalous job by which Mr. Spring Rice, after having been allowed his full swing to the tune of 500,000/. in the Shannon Navigation job, was permitted to pay his attorney some 10,0001. out of the public purse for assisting him in its con summation, and take 2,000/. per annum out of the pub lic purse, as the retiring pension of a situation he ought never to have held ? (From the Courier.) The supercilious affectation of contempt with which the Foreign Secretary studiously treats and speaks of the vast preparations for a state of open war now going on in France, and openly announced beforehand in the Monileur, with the mock heroic tone in accordance assumed by the journals that wait upon his nod, will not have escaped attention, although the stilted pre tence could impose on none but the sorry tribe of Ministerial hangers on. A distinguished and very clever lady in a certain metropolis over the water, who seems to have taken her cue from the Foreign Office, when she lately declared in the midst of a brilliant circle in her splendid salons, that " England treated with contempt the warlike demon strations of France," will, therefore, be rather sur prised, if not chagrined, to learn that, on this occa bion at least, she will not prove a prophetess abroad, any more than Lord Palmerston a truth-teller at home. For after soaring his hour of bombast-inflated scornfulness aloft, the silly pride of his Lordship, like enother Humpty Dumpty, has " had a great fall." Now that he is released from the curious survey of Joseph Hume and the controlling observ ance of Parliament, he has descended in fact from his stilts, and with something like alarm begins to think the French are in earnest. Sundry smart despatches are, it seems, now inditing here for remittance to Lord Granville in Paris, the purport of which is, first, to instruct him in the terms of an inquiry to be made of the French Government, as to the fact of the prepara tions in progress ; secondly, as to their meaning and object ; lastly, the presentation of various formal and good-natured remonstrances and threats against their continuance. What effect . these gentle expostulations may have upon M. Thiers we shall learn in season meet, but it may be surmised, that whilst his protesta tions of peaceful dispositions may be as softly soothing as ever, he will not the less accelerate the equipment of squadrons and the reinforcement of armies. SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE.—On Sunday even ing, about nine o'clock, three young men, who had been down the river in a strong funny, their own property, were returning towards London, two of them rowing and the third steering, when on arriving off the Tower they saw a steam vessel, containing passengers, approaching them at full speed. The party in the boat thought the steamer would go clear of them, as there was nothing to prevent her doing so, and continued on their course, but seeing the steamer afterwards approaching directly towards them they hailed her, but not the least notice was taken of them. The young men tried to pull out of her way, but in vain, and called out " For God's sake stop, or you will be over us." The words were scarcely uttered when the steamer struck the boat and capsized her, and without easing or stopping went on at a tremendous speed, leaving the three men struggling in the water, and disregarding their piteous cries for help. Assistance was rendered by the watermen on the river, and they succeeded in saving . the young men. They could not tell the name of the vessel, but they believed it was either a Greenwich or Woolwich steamer. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-A CHRIS TIAN CLERGYMAN AND A PAROCHIAL DEFAULTER.—A very old man, named Giblett, a small farmer, who bad been appointed an overseer of Northolt, near Harrow against his will, was on Tuesday last brought before Mr. Commissioner Law, from Newgat , ..., where he had been two months, for a defalcation in his accounts. The old man, in answer to questions, admitted that out of 460/. that he had collected, there was a balance against him of 561 ss. 34d. He stated that the office of overseer had occasioned his insolvency. lie was appointed against his wish, and had to neglect his business to discharge the du ties. He had had 16 children ; and his wife, last April, died in childbirth, with he, 16th child. He had eight children living, and seven of them were now in the work house. A vestry meeting was held, where he attended, and asked for time, telling then he could get some money by his cows and crops. The Rev. Mr. Murray, the cler gyman of the parish, was very kind, and wanted to have time afforded; but a Mr. Beck, the Poor-law Guardian, opposed him. Mr. Commissioner Law adjudged Gib lett to an imprisonment of six months from the date of his petition. He was accordingly remanded to Nowgatc. FISHING ON LAND AND FISHING IN THE WATER.— Lately a worthy citizen of Paris bethought himself that under such a sun there must be a good supply of gudgeons in the Seine, and, having determined to make a Saint Monday, ho walked down to the bank of the Seine, armed in all the panoply which is recommended by our ancient friend !nee Walton. Placed below one of the quays, the water being low, he divested birnself of his upper garments, and wits only his shirt on his back, marched knee deep into the river. For some time he had carefully watched the bundle in which his clothes were de posited on the sea board, when at last, unfortunately far him as a man, though to his gratification as a fisherman, he had a " glorious nibble," as poor Mathews had it, when, after having relied a gudgeon of about two inches in length, he bethought him of his clothes, and saw them walking up the wall just as his fresh.caught gudgeon had walked out of the water. Some land fisherman had hooked them. As he was, he could not pursue them, and therefore was obliged to call for assis.tance, which he got at last, but too late to save his clothes. He was obliged to send to a friend in the vicinity for what was absolutely necessary to enable him to return home. RIVER STEAMERS.—.An important addition to t'ie facilities for embarking o❑ hoard the steamers plying on the river Thames, or of landing from them, his been recently erected at Southwark Bridge. It consists of a very convenient and substantial floating pier. which con tain:, a lofty and commodious waiting room, wherein mere than of clinary care id exhibited for ventilation during summer, and for proportionate warmth in winter. The access is cut through the footway on the western side of the b idge, within the batlustrade, terminating a little be yond the centre of the first pier from the City side, and is easier and safer for the most timid passenger than any similar construction on our useful, healthful, and beauti ful Thames. The floating pier, secured in its pOsition between four immense piles, keeps the same level as the steamers that use it, by rising or falling with the ingress or egress of the tide; and, having a depth of upwards of eight feet of water along irle at the very lowest ebb, there is always plenty of flJatge, and to spare, for the largest steamers that cast come above Bridge—those at present usinr , it draw little more than three feet water. There is, therefor', no occasion for any temporary or insecure lengthening of the gangway eiti.er to or from the floating pier. Already the number of passengers availing them selves of this pier average fifteen hutitlred per diem during six days of the week, and three thousand on Sundays. Much credit is duo to the engineer for the s l kili with which he has effected so desirable an object, without either defacing or weakening the Bridge, and for provid• ing at the same time accommodation for passengers, with out resenting any obstruction to the puma nav:gation of the LIFE AT TIIE LAEKEN. Nothing is more placid than the life which the Royal Family of Belgium lead. King Leopold invariably rises, both in winter and summer, as six o'clock in the morning. The first thing he does is to take a cup of tea, which his valet de chambre brings him. His Majesty, when weather permits, then goes down into the garden, and walks in it a quarter of an hour, half an hour, and sometimes a whole hour, and afterwards returns to his bedroom. Th e f ew p eo p'e on duty at the Laeken , which is considered quite a coun try-house, being aware of the King's habit, manage not to require a walk and fresh air at th e sam e time as his Mj esty. The only individual who dares share with the Monarch the pleasure of seeing the roses salute the rasing sun is Francois, the c h ateau gar d ener , w i t h whom Leopold familiarly converses about his horticul tural pursuits. Nevertheless, a young man, M. , one of M. Van Praet's attaches, being obliged to sleep at the cha teau with his patron for a fortnight, and not knowing Leopold's unwillingness to be disturbed in his habits, contrived to meet him in his garden. M. feigned astonishment and confusion to admiration. His Majesty comforted him. Our youth took courage, exchanged some words with the King, and found means to give him to understand that he also had early habits which he could not overcome, The King con gratulated M. -- upon them, and hinted that he could indulge thorn the more easily as the surrounding coun try was veryextensive. Our blunderer did not take the hint, but treated himself again next day to the amusement of meeting the King, who winced, but whose language was not less affable. Already did M. -- fancy himself on the high road to an overwhelming favouritism — already did he behold himself enacting the part of Struensee, minus the denouement. His dream was of short duration. On the evening of the very same day he was requested by M. Van Praet to go and wait for him at Brussels. His Majesty had rather bitterly complained to his Secretary of his having brought to the Laeken a clerk whose habits were troublesome. At eight o'clock a courier from Brussels brings to the King books, newspapers, and Ministerial decisions, which he is to countersign. At ten he meets his family for the first time at breakfast. He chats with the Queen, pins s with the children, and, above all, puts questions to the Prince Royal, who, though very young, already displays the utmost intelligence. The youthful Prince whom the Queen rather adores than loves, receives thus early the best education. He can converse in French, Flemish, English, and German. He answers all ques tions upon geography, and is well informed in ancient history. This child, upon whom the brightest hopes are founded, is educated with a simplicity which re minds one of the education given to all the sons of Louis Philippe. At noon his Majesty enters upon all the real cares annexed to the throne. He gives audiences. This is a fatiguing task to a Sovereign, for to accomplish it he must ever listen, ever smile, and ever promise. It is but justice to say that the King acquits himself of it as it he had never done anything else in his whole life, and in that respect he proves that he has forgotten none of the good traditions. At three o'clock in the afternoon the audiences are, thank God, at an end. The letters from France and other countries then come in. A courier leaves the Lacken at four o'clock, to carry the Royal correspond ence to the post-office ; at half-past five dinner takes place. The dinner is always en faniille ; and what cooking there is at the Laeken is exclusively allotted to the Royal Family. The scanty personnel of the cha teau receive their culinary supplies from without. There exists, however, a kitchen service upon quite a Royal scale ; but it is at Brussels. There is, there fore, a table at Brussels just as if the King vtere there ; but one dines where be actually is as if he were not present. The reason is, that the King abhors whatever savours of Royal splen dour. He lives, and will live, as an English gen tleman, and would soon abdicate if the constitution obliged him to exhibit himself in public more fre quently. Such was his life at Claremont, such it is in the domain of Laeken, and plainer still it is in that of the Ardennes. As for Brussels, he hates it ; we mean the Palace, of course, and not the capital. It may be easily conceived that a Prince whose plainness is so gloomy cannot kindle about him any very enthusiastic affections. Leopold, besides, would not like to be loved in that way. It is, indeed, already a great deal too much for his Majesty to be con demned to endure the civilities of the Palace Grand Marshal. The King's ever anxious, sombre, and mys terious countenance casts, as it were, a gloomy veil over the whole chateau. Under its roof you never tread but most lightly, you talk in whispers, and unlearn to laugh. The valets, in short, are like their master ; and, me thinks, even the horses paw much less noisily at the Laeken than elsewhere. Nevertheless, the King is not 17-iste, but he labours under a melancholy, over the in tenseness of which the gracefulness and charming ami f ableness of the Queen have never been able to prevail. One would think that royalty is too great a weight to Leopold, and that, however light - the protocol makers have rendered it, it is still Coo heavy for him ; and yet Leopold cannot be said to be wholly free from ambitiov. Look round you, and see how the house of Coburg is spreading its branches over all the thrones of Europe. It is he who contrived, pre pared, and accomplished all this. I can also affirm, for I have no reason to conceal the truth, that if the oppro• brious De Theux C ibinet had not submitted to the fatal influence of Palmerston and Mole, the King would never have come to a promise on the question of the twenty-four articles. It was by repressing all his anger within himself that he signed the cession of Limburg and Lux emburg ; and if it had been possible for him not the national humiliation, in groaning, and by sub timtoit wf t e i o n eul g ltdh to ehcav7e s uperior drbc-eceon u f p o onlyrcof force, , that he would have given such satisfaction to his cousin William. That satis faction he gave, after all, at the expense of his personal vanity and honour, and he has not yet forgiven his father-in-law the hard necessity in which diplomacy placed him. A well-struck coup de theatre might have saved the whole affair—rather than give way, King Leopold should have abdicated. Well, of such abdi cation he did think. At one moment even, notwithstanding the pro found discretion of our Sovereign, his design became so visible that all the peopl e of the chateau no longer met one another without whispering—" The King abdicates !" He was near doing so ; and if Leopold did not persist longer in his heroic resolution, which would have saved all, it was not owir , so much to the solicitations of Louis Philippe and Queen Victoria, as to the scrupulous care with which his Belgian Majesty avoids being talked of. Leopold was afraid of affording a theme to the babbling of the newspapers and public. —Belgian Periodical. LICENSING A SOCIALIST LECTURER.—Mr. Buchanan, the socialist lecturer, appeared at the Borough Court, on Tuesday, and said he applied under the 521 Geo. 111. c. 155, for a license to preach. He made the application, he said, with the view of putting a stop to the vexatious proceedings which had been lately taken against him and those holding similar opinions. Mr. Maude said, all he could do would be to grant a certificate that the party had taken the oaths. Mr. Buchanan said he was aware of that, and that the oaths were those of allegiance and su premacy, which he was now quite willing to take. There was some misunderstanding on a former occasion; and, on ferther, consideration, he found that it was not necessary for him to enter into any explanations of the oaths. Mr. question,wbeforeMaudeheth e said wrio a:3seil theact s t io l je i nn e l sar:sn r idh c seßoi a w,iu s ce o ecl erdhns, Buchanan) Tir h .i 1 near e a.pn se)eßnaol considered nthdhhsa that n andts e ae t nhrq eapugddebamsevtt. believed I io n , een i %t s ie t e administer i :nn t t i particularll c i al the future bind ing ic a nu, a t dr b s e_ s in ta g te n , n after death, of rewards and punishments. Mr. _Bu TchhaenasnAseifiaideihde Iris, in answer that question in the affir mative. He then took the oaths, and made the declara tionforward last week by Lo i r n d under the 19,h Geo. 111. e. 44, and received his cer tificateSLAVEßY THE RESULT OF THE CORN -LAWS. aA llu sh s l io u rt , to fo t r he th m e o p ti r o e n ve b n r t o io u n gh o t f infant slavery in our manufactories, observes that_.. To attempt to regulate by Act of Parliament the time when the children shall work—the number of hours which they shall be allowed for rest and amusement,_the amount and quality of the education which they shall receive, would only be temporising with a symptom, while the cause of the disease remain untouched. The employment of their children is forced upon paren ts by the strugg l e re quired fcr the mainten ance o f a family in this country, where food is kept at the highest possible price, and labour receives the lowest possible remuneration, and the inquiry which Lord Ashley prays for, will, if properly c onducted, show our present bread tax as the cause of this destructive employ. meat of the r i s i ng generat i on . The -1 class legislators s:w com posing the H ouse of Commons refused to permit any in quiry into th e e ff ects of the Corn -lays, because they kne that such an exposure would be made as would render it impossible for them !gamier to retain the monopoly, but ever infant be e slavery,ad adopted p t e d for t o when one branch of the same subject is submitted to them under the specious names of charity and humanity, they pretend to be horrified at the facts adduce& and are eager that an inquiry should take place. We repeat that this , ing food which the deep-rooted disease under which the labouring classes as our mono. te t n o d e e n r sl a a g v e e of this country are now labouring, and that no means can i p t u i t s anosttboipngtobiett,taers, i l s on o g nly a symptom of polists prevent labour finding these markets wherein it will the t their labouringc l meet with adequate reward. It is the difficulty of obtain when the utmost care is required to 12y the foundation far future moral and physical health, thereby sowing the seeds from which springs a future unhealthy, vicious, demoralised children a c t in th ss a c t s generation." 111 ~ueruaie, near th at town ' , THE COIN S FOUND AT CUERDALE.—We seyme time a go extracte d f rom a P r eston Paper an account 6,,f. the finding, in May last on the bank o f the Ribble, at a n immense quantity of an eient Saxon an d ot h er coins, r i ngs , chains, and other or raments of curious workmanship in silver. We under., stand that a Coroner's inquest will be held on Saturd , y next, at Preston to inquire Whether this "treasure trove" belongs to the Qucen, in right of her Duchy of Lancaster, or to W. Assheton, Esq., a s Lord of the Manor of Cuer dale...—Manchester Guardian. GREECE. ATHENS, JULY 27.-11 y reports from this country must contain the same details of mis-government—the :ame idiotic perseverance in an anti-national system, in direct violation of all the engagements of the King and his father towards Greece ; the same fear and tutu - Wing at the displeasure of Russia. The influence of this power is greatly increased by the hold which the Czar has over the Fretty little Queen through the tics of relationship which exist between them. The Russian envoy is, in fact, considered at the palace as " Minictre de famine ;" he has always an ob sequious smile and a cringing bow for her Majesty, and constantly expresses the interest which his august master feels for his " belle niece." The parti sans of Russia are furnished with autograph letters of introduction to the Queen, whose protection is immedi ately granted to them. Unfortunately, the Queen, with all her amiability, is a little uneducated being, who is never seen with a book in her hand, or engaged in any rational occupation ; but spends her days in idle talk with her household (all thorough-paced Russians), and in playing with a parrot and a monkey. The King is known to be—nay, it is useless concealing the truth— a fool ; and you may imagine how easy a task it is for Russia to hold him in her trammels, when you take into consideration also what I have stated about the Queen ! This influence of Russia tvill become doubly appa rent, when I tell you, that the philorthodox conspirators have within the last few days been acquitted, on the ground of there being proof only of a "project unac complished." His Majesty, in order that his sentiments should not be mistaken by the Judges (whom he terrified by the opportune arbitrary dismissal of three of their brethren), sent his Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Colocotroni, to spend the last week at the Convent of Hymettus, in boon companionship with—whom ? why, with the chief of the conspiracy in Greece, Niketas 1 But this is not all. His Majesty has retained in his office M. Paicoc, the Minister of Justice, who has been more than once denounced to his Majesty during this investigation, as acting under the influence of his pro tectnr, the Muscovite Minister, for the suppression of evidence against the conspirators ; and still more strange, his Majesty has dtfied public opinion to the extent of causing the prosecution to be conducted by his Attorney-General, Mr. Typaldas, wlio was hiniselj wind guilty of being a manager of a conspiracy of the Russian party in Greece, in 1834, and who was ap pointed to his present office at the dictation of Mr. Catacazy, whilst the philorthodox conspiracy was in secret progress, and retained his power under the same influence all through the piece. The greatest discontent prevails here. The people, a few months ago, saw half a million of drachms from their revenues go to Bavaria, in part payment of a pre tended loan from King Louis. Now, this very week a further sum is about to be remitted to Munich, at an iniquitous rate of exchange. The old military chiefs are indignant at this state of matters, and only want encouragement to rise " en masse," and drive Otho from Greece. The sole impe diment to such a finale is, the difficulty of finding a suc cessor, or of obtaininc , the support of any of the great powers. Otho no longer possesses the least hold on the affections of his subjects, and all curse their fate in having been tied hand and foot, by the three Powers, to such a weak and imbecile tyrant. Much, indeed, have the allies to answer for on this head. For my part I firmly believe that King Louis, of Bavaria, and the Czar of Russia, knowing the impro bability of Otho ever having offspring, have made a secret compact to allow his Majesty, for his lifetime, to reign in Greece, and at his death this country to become a province of Russia. P. S.—The King seems to think that the sentence of acquittal of the conspirators is " too bad ;" and that something must be done to destroy the opinion that he fears Russia ; so yesterday, to the consternation of the Russian party, their champion, the Attorney-Gene ral Ty paldas, was summarily dismissed, and Count George Capo d'lstrias sent out of the country ; he goes, I be lieve, to Egypt, not daring to return to Corfu, though his Majesty offered him a passage by to-day's Austrian packet ; he dares not go to Turkey on account of his participation in the philorthodox plot.—Morn. Herald. DESTITUTION AND DISEASE IN SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, AUG. s.—At the meeting of the Town Council this day, Mr. Drysdale moved the following resolution : " That a petition be presented to her Majesty, pray ing that the warrant lately granted to the Poor-law Commissioners of England to inquire into the sanatory condition of the large towns of Scotland, and into the causes of fever and other contagious febrile diseases therein, be extended so as to include an inquiry as to whether want and destitution be among such causes ; and, if so, to what extent these prevail ; and whether they are adequately met by existing provisions." . . Mr. Scott admitted the necessity of a minute and searching inquiry into the state of our poor, and into the remedies for improving their condition, but objected strongly to inviting the English Poor-law Commis sioners to undertake it, seeing they were men of Eng lish ideas, unacquainted with the Scottish population, ignorant of the manner in which the poor were main tained in this country, unfamiliar with the mate rials on which they fed—for they did not consider oat meal to be food fit for the human species at all —men, too, accustorled to the habits of a richer country and to the more lavish system of expenditure for the poor which had existed for centuries. If these men were allowed to enter upon the investigation of the sub ject, they would open upon us views respecting the sup port of the poor whieh would astonish th.e people of this country. Mr. Scott then mentioned some instances of the heavy assessments in England, and concluded by cautioning the Council against the consequences of adopting the motion of Mr. Drysdale. Mr. M'Aulay said he rose not to oppose the inquiry, because he agreed with Mr. Scott that an inquiry was necessary ; but he also agreed with him in thinking it ought not to be confided to people from England, who, it was well known, were the most prejudiced people on the face of the earth.--(Laughter.) That an inquiry was necessary had been sufficiently known ; but why should not the people of Scotland be allowed to make the in quiry themselves ? Mr. M'Aulay concluded by pro posing an amendment, to the effect that a Committee of that Board be appointed to inquire into the con dition of the poor, and more particularly to procure tabular statements, showing whether they came from England or Ireland, or from what parishes in Scot land ; and whether they came as paupers or as work ing people ; with power to the Committee to add to their number such citizens as may aid them in their inquiries ; and with power to confer with such public bodies, or private individuals, as could furnish them with information ; and report to the Board. Mr. Scott thought the best way would be to move the previous question as an amendment. This was accordingly done, when the motion was lost by a majority of 3. The numbers being 10 and 13. HARVEST PROSPECTS IN IRELAND. LIMERICK.—The last few days have been everything the husbandman could desire. This day indicates every likelihood of a continuance ; if so, all hands will in busily employed at the scythe and the sickle. If the n'eather holds for one month, the most abundant harvest for the last few years will be gathered in.—Limerick Roporter. ENNIS.-It must be satisfactory for you to learn, as it is for me to communicate, that the late heavy and unintermitting rains have not done the serious injury to the crops in this country which was generally appre hunded. Partial losses have been sustained, but they are chiefly confined to the low meadow lands, which, in many places, were flooded by the continual rains. Let Providence bless us with a little fine weather, and the corn is safe ; the potato crop never promised to be inure a bundant.—lbid. Da G oitEnn.—The prospect of the forthcoming har vest is, thanks to a bountiful Providence, most cheer ing. The country looks delightful, and the condition of the poor is daily improving. Potatoes will be more than an average crop, very few failures being reported, and a great breadth sown. Wheat rather thin in some places, but healthy. At market to-day, John Woolsey, Esq., exhibited an excellent sample of wheat, which, we understand, will be cut soon next week. As regards oats, barley, and hay, we opine th.it even formers will have no reason for complaint—all will yield more than an average crop.—Drogheda Paper. DONEGAL.--We have had very delightful weather throughout this county during the past week, which has greatly improved the crops. The wheat has not sufEired from the late rains as much as was dreaded. The oats, potatoes, and flux, will be abundant. Tue crops in the neighbouring counties alto look well.— Ballysbannou Herald. WEXFORD.—The weather for the last few days has brought joy and gratitude to every bosom. The hay crop, a great portion of which lay in a very precariou s state previous to Monday last, is now all taken up safely in this district, and the corn and potatoes—the latter the poor man's staff—give cheering prospect of an abundant harvest. The last accounts from the midland counties are most gratifying. The oat crop is particu larly prolific. We have seen a field of this grain be longiog to Mr. Walker, of Kiflown, that stands on the average from six and a half to seven feet high, and the bead correspondingly full and heavy. It may be right to state that it is the Hopton kind.—Warford Inde pendent. GOING TO LAW.--We noticed some time since that the Bath rnniitratcs had awarded a firp.i of 1,1491. against the Cr ,at Western Railway Company for stoppi n n, up a thor oug hf a re called :Head-lane. N..tlee of appeal wag given, and the parties are now going betore the Court of Exchequer. This scpLibble, which has already cost upwards of 3,0001., and is likely to dol-ay the opening of the line between Bath and Bristol, might, it is said, have Inca setthd in tho first instance for 10/. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT, Auo. 13. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHEI.L.) REYNOLDS V. DAVIS. Mr. ROMAINE stated the plaintiff's case. It was an action to recover the sum of 1:2/. for work executed and material supplied for the defendant under the following circumstances. In the month of March last Mr. Davis called upon the plaintiff, who is a millwright and engi neer residing in the Waterloo-road, and having shown him some rough drafts or diagrams of a machine which, he had invented, and for which he proposed taking out a patent, required the plaintiff to execute them. The pl, intiff accordingly made some wooden models, from which moulds were taken and metal castings made from them. He should call witnesses to prove that the plaintiff had expended much time and labour in the execution of the original designs and subs?quent altera tions at the defendant's request. Robert Munn stated that he was employed by the plaintiff on the work just named ; was present when Mr. Davis came on the 14th of March and desired the plaintiff to begin the work, when he gave him a sove reign by way of earnest. [The witness here produced a number of models on the application of which to the defendant's design he entered into a lengthened and technical description.] Considering the length of time which he and Mr. Reynolds were employed on the ori ginal design and the various alterations, he considered the demand made perfectly reasonable. Another witness named Martin deposed that he con sidered 151. would be quite a fair sum to charge for the work executed for Mr. Davis. Mr. PETERSDORFF, for the defendant, said, that the plaintiff had admitted the receipt of 41. in part pay ment which along with 21. paid in Court, would amply cover the expenses of time and labour on the part of Reynolds. Mr. Dads was one of a class whom all working mechanics considered it. advisable to extort ex orbitant prices from. After the exhibition of the models to the Jury, he should not trespass on their time by calling any witnesses, but leave it to their own judgment to determine whether the execution of copies of such simple structure as those appeared would call for the sum claimed. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF having summed up, The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a vcr• diet for the plaintiff, in the sum of 101. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. The Lord Mayor, upon going a few mornings ago into Billingsgate-market, accompanied by Mr. Goldham, the Clerk of the Market, to witness the sale of fish, and the general arrangement of the business there, regretted to find that the lobsters sent to town from the west of . England were pegged. Pegs, it appears, are, when the lobsters are caught, stuffed in the division be tween the claws of the fish, for the purpose of preventing them from tearing each other upon being deposited to gether in baskets, and the consequence is that they pine in agony after having been some time subjected to the infliction. His Lordship, considering that the practice was one which certainly came under the designation of " cruelty to animals," intimated that he should endea• your to put a stop to it in some way or other, and de sired that Mr. Goldham should make inquiries amongst the owners, who are, according to the account of the Clerk of the Market, respectable men, disposed to adopt any humane proposal made by his Lordship. Mr. Goldham yesterday informed his Lordship that he had communicated with some of the most extensive owners of the western coast lobsters, and received from them the most satisfactory assurances of their efforts to check the practice of pegging lobsters and crabs. They agreed with the Lord Mayor that the practice was cruel, and they also stated that the quality of the fish was de teriorated by it. Aware of such consequences they had interfered with the labourers, and in many instances they had succeeded in getting them to tie claws of the lobsters, instead of plugging them or pegging them, but without a resolute prohibition of the sale of pegged fish in London, it was apprehended that the cruelty would not be generally discontinued. The LORD MAYOR observed that he had been in formed by competent authority that the fish was greatly injured by the insertion of the peg, and that it became unwholesome, if allowed to remain long in that con dition. Mr. Goldham said that the fish must suffer from 10 to 15 per cent. by pegging, and that in some instances he had known the shells to have become almost half empty when the lobsters were long in torture. In the north, where they seemed not only to have a better notion of what was serviceable to the market, but seemed to be intelligible to the fishermen of Cornwall and Devon, they uniformly tied the claws. Mr. HOBLEA said it was a question whether the Lord Mayor could not order pegged lobsters and crabs to be seized and destroyed as unwholesome food. He felt convinced that the injury done to the poor fish by the kind of torture described, would have the effect of making them injurious to the health of the consumers, and if the public notice which the Chief Mavistrate had taken of the practice, and his Lordship's repro bation of it, did not prove efficacious, Mr. Goldham could exercise his judgment as to the other alterna tive. As the fishermen along the coast of Devon and Cornwall, who, he understood would be readily sup plied with twine by the owners, who wished to have the claws tied, ought to receive notice of the Lord Mayor's views upon the subject, it would be proper to give them official intimation of the time at which the pegging must altogether cease. The LORD MAYOR wholly approved of Mr. Hob ler's suggestion, and directed that handbills should be printed and distributed along the coast of Devon and Cornwall forthwith to the effect above stated. A poor young woman named Mary Donovan, evi dently far advanced in pregnancy, came, with the tears rolling down her cheek, and her hair about her neck, before the LORD MAYOR, to beg for God's sake, that his Lordship would cause the river to be dragged for her husband, Mick Donovan, who had been drowned the .evening before. The distress of the unfortunate creature, who, when she could be got to answer a question, said that she lived at No. 8, George-row, Bermondsey, was extremely affecting. Pcor Mick had, she said, been at work at the Southwark bridge, when his foot slipped, and he tumbled into the water, and was carried away by the tide amongst the barges without ever rising. The LORD MAYOR, who endeavoured to soothe her grief, told her that the body doubtless would be found, and asked her in what condition her husband had left her ? She replied that she had not a farthing in the wide world, and that if she had any money, or money's worth, she would have the whole river dragged, and wake his poor corpse. She knew she would never get over it if she had not a long cry over the poor darling fellow's body. The LORD MAYOR gave the disconsolate woman some silver, and assured her that directions should be im mediately sent to the Humane Society's establishment to drag the river. Mr. Ambrose Le Fevre, a Frenchman, complained that he had been robbed of a bag, containing French and English money to the amount of 210 francs. A policeman who was stationed in Cornhill observed that a crowd was gathered round an omnibus on Wed nesday night, and having been informed that the French man, who had come into the City on the tnp of the omnibus with another person, bad been robbed, took that person and the conductor into custody. It would appear, from the confused account of the business given by the parties, that they had all been more or less intoxicated. The unfortunate Frenchman, it was clear, had lost tl.e money. He is wholly un acquainted with the English language ; and having had a dispute with a cabman in the "Haymarket, found, amongst the crowd assembled upon the occasion, an individual who understood him, and with whom he very readily made acquaintance. A glass of ale was pro• posed as a cement of the friendship and accepted, and the Frenchman and his new friend having tossed off several glasses, which were paid for out of the bag of the former, they walked together to Charing-cross, where they took the omnibus, in which they talked the driver almost off his box, and upon their arrival at Cornhill, caused the disturbance which obliged the police to interfere. The bag of money was not to be found. The Frenchman said that he would give one third of the contents of the bag to the poor of the City of Lon don, if those who had it would be so good as to restore it to him ; but he could not say that he suspected either the gentleman who sat with him nn the omnibus or the conductor, neither of whom his Lordship would of course detain. QUEEN-SQUARE. EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—Mr. William Bell, a man 60 years of age and of respectable connecticns, was brought up for final examination charged with em bezzling sums of money to a large amount, the prop-r! y of the Equitable Gas Company. A report of the prisoner's first examination appeared in this paper a few days back, and it will be recollected that it was there stated that the prisoner had been em ployed for the last ten years as clerk and superintendent of the works of the Equitable Gas Company, Thames Bank, the Directors of which Company placed the highest confidence in him, but the prisoner had abused their confidence and defrauded his employers of upwards of 1,200/. At the first ex , Mination the prisoner was undefended. Yesterday Mr. Humphries appeared for the pros Cu. tion, and Mr. Hobler for the prisoner. Mr. Johnstone Gregory, the secretary to the Corp- Pany, probed that on looking over the accounts in the ledger, he found that a Mr. Martindale appeared there as debtor to the Company in the sum of 81. 63. Bd., for 4,000 gallons of tar, and Mr. L. Goddard as debtor to the amount of 431., for old retorts he had purchased of the Company. Mr. Martindale was then called, and afterwards a great number of other witnesses , to prove similar cases. Mr. Humphries said there was a vast number .of other charges whiCh could be proved against, the prkoner, but as those already proved were sufficient to satisfy the EVENING ED Ti ON. ends of justice, he should decline bringing forward any lhe prisoner, :rho, by tbe advice ct!' his solicitor, declined saying anything, was then fully committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. The St. Leger betting exhibited no improvement in extent and very little in character. We need only state that 3to 1 was taken eagerly about Laur celot, and that a marked anxietY to back Gibraltar caused the offers against him to fall a point no one venturing to exceed 7 to lat the close. 10 to 1 'seat laid against Crucifix to a small amount, being an advance on Monday's odds. Maroon was on the decline ; ditto Galen, against whom Broadwath was backed with a call of 6 to 5 ; at hi! actual price did not transpire. The bets against Theon 'a St. Andrew are in accordance with the last quotations from Wel' vet hampton. Closing prices:— ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Launcelot—taken 7to L agst Gibraltar—taken to to I 10 to 1 agst Crucifix—taken 13 to 1 agst Broadwath 14 to 1 agst Maroon—taken 25 to 1 agst Theon—taken, 25 to 1 agst St. Andrew—take 40 to 1 agst Viceroy—taken 50 to 1 agst Calypso—taken DERBY, 1841. 20 to 1 agst Mobarek, and St. Cross—k intly taken 25 to 1 agst Margellina colt—taken 30 to 1 agst Jack Shepherd—taken 30 to 1 agst Escort—taken - - _ - -- - THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS 1 Wheat. „Barley. I Oats. t'er Quarter. , s. to a. s. s. , a. to s. s. to 0. Bath Mandford --' CO 71 48 52 13ridport « 68 Chard 60 82 3! 36 ?,0 31 43 54 Gloucester......l 68 72 32 46 26 33 52 54 Exe er - Guildford 40 40 2 , 40 44 Newbury 51 76 24 4 2- 35 L 0 54 Reading 54 82 :A2 42 26 35 47 55 Salisbury 54 74 30 4/ 26 14 44 48 ShLrborrie 66 72 :4 , 34 •::6 30 41 52 3oeptonMallet. 60 18 30 38 32 35 5) 54 Uxbridge 37 43 28 32 VV:.rminster —1 44 72- 27 33 3! 35 50 55 Winchester 64 7(1 Ceovil 156 68 j :30 38 .30 34 131 38 pr-s , ----- - - ~ -.. 4 si ... -.. ;0 45 0 43 ; - 3 40 - ... ... - .. ... LEEDS CORN DI ARKET.—Aug. 11 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffiilk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 3ss. to 3t3 , Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding . g's. to 313. Bean. 63lb. Oats, I'otatoe —Mealing, For. —tl. to—d ...Eng. 16 , 1. to rd. per st i 'Shelling 40.. to 41s. pet DEVIZES CORN MARKET. ~., 0 n. Per Sac. s. . s. d. Per s. d. lirst Wheat k d 6 to 37 0 Oats Quarter. .23 0 to : .. 0 Second :32 0 3t 0 Beans (per sack)... 22 0 2 . 0 'third darley 27 0 38 0 Bread (per ga11.)... l 4 " From Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.5.,. Presid e° Preto th e of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Senior Surgeon Westminster Hospital :—" Mr. E. Solomons' Spectacle Len s° seem to me likely to afford additional aids to imperfect visi° ll ; and, because of their superior refracting power to glass, other dense materials, they promise to afford new res eur S i' for the construction of spectacles.—Anthony Carlisle, F•It'„;: rn Langha-place." From Braniby Cooper, Esq., F.R. S. ;von to Guy's Hospital, &e.:—''From the use I have 0 1 ; of the Patent Lenses, and comparing them with those ordinary glasses, I have no hesitation in saying that to 01 sight the former are infinitely preferable, in being less tr y i 4 to the eyes.''—Bransby B. Cooper, 2, New-street, Sproh gardens. From Martin Ware, Esq.. the eminent o eulist. --- d am much pleased with Mr. E. Solomons' Patent Lenses el'huti gentleman, who made trial of them for several days, Ws. 'they relieve the eye much mere than any glasses he has DcT: used.—Martin Ware, New Bridge-street." From J. G; drews, Esq., Senr. Surgeon to the London Hospital. - " 114 , 4 , much pleasure in bearing testimony to the value and 10 ateri 1 ) . ° 11/ ante of Mr. E. Solomon? Patent Spectacles, which rn!_, prevent a too strong glare of light, and will be found m ore neficial that* plain coloured glasses in defective vision.---Lio Andrews, 4, St. Helen's-place." Mr. E. Solomon? v Conductors are not larger than a fourpenny piece. Pe.l. ° o - using them are enabled to hear distinctly the voice of a ( 10 ' - e speaker in church, theatre, or public assembly. Obse l,16!1 No. 36, Old Bond-street ; an No. I, Old Jewry, cheer On DEATHS IN THE LONDON HOSPITAL. - 1 , Wednesday afternoon Mr. Baker held three inquests in an, hospital. The first was on the body of a Germ named Frazu , employed by Mr. Wackerbarth, an e x l - ,.; sive sugar baker, of Parson's -street, Wellclose-aqu a ' e - d It appeared that on Tuesday last deceased was em ploy t in placing some sugar-loaves to dry in a stove ten fe l e ! . square, and heated to 100 degrees. Whilst in the at° he was observed to faint by a fellow-workman, who imi n ty . diately took him out, and conveyed him to his b edroo o , A surgeon was sent for, who treated deceased for.af',e plexy, which it appeared the high temperature of tbQ stove caused. Not recovering, he was conveyed to evening to the above hospital, in wh;ch he died two logs, after his admission of congestion of the brain and caused by the decarbonisation of the blood, produced:l the excessive heat of the stove. Verdict, " APP_ on i by having been exposed to excessive heat." Th e inquest was on the body of a woman named Sarah &it aged forty-two, who took diluted sulphuric acid, on 3d ult., in consequence of being deserted by a paramoUr* The poisonous acid brought on consumption, of which ob e died on the Bth instant. Verdict, " Died from the effec t° of sulphuric acid, but und , r what circumstances taken there was not sufficient evidence to show." The thi rd inquest was on the body of a child scalded to death b) having upset a teapot of boiling water, the contents 01 which were thrown over its chest and abdomen. Verdict , " Accidental death." THREE LIVES LOST AT BATH.—A melan' choly and fatal accident occurred on the river Avon, 11/ Bath, on Sunday. An old man, named William Rai" lings, a painter, residing at Walcot, and two of his song' James and Henry Rawlings, with a grandchild, and ®f young man named King, went out for an excursion s pleasure. They bad not proceeded far up the river ban': the old man, who held in his hands his grandchild, A 11 °, 1 about 17 months old, got up from his seat, and it is a t !„r; posed lost his balance and fell on one side , by 01",, means the light craft in which they were seated we,' swamped. The whole of the party were at once Ph i g i to into the water, where James Rawlings, the father 0, ater child, got hold of it, and supported himself above 00 upon the boat until assistance was procured. He, o ly ► child were thus saved, while the other three, onn a rr i perished. nr kett, ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Mrs. landlady of the Dolphin Inn, having lost a purse conta-i,, ing between 70/. and 80L, }Jr. Lucas, one of the heciaco boroughs of Brighton, accompanied by Superinten,„.o - proceeded to the house for the purpose of 08— :, ing the servants. One girl who had only fortnight gave very prevaricating and unsatisfeeiro answers, and on being searched Mrs. Mockett's roi 9 feu contain' ing one shilling and a fourpenny piece, wa s d d to secreted tr der her arm. The officers then procee ue fus ed her mother's house at Ashurst, where, having been re Aco r. admission, they were obliged to break open the " 0 ,10 Having made a search, they found a box between 5 0 0 sheets which contained 521., and a check for 41. 12 ' . The found by Mr. Lucas underneath the mothcr'a gown . N o been ther e girl said that she had burnt two 51. notes, and threfigio• sovereiols into the river previous to the officers c on '' ° 'o , oi S Both the mother and daughter were committed to soca their trial at the next Quart e r Sessions for the ries division JO the county. —Brighton Guardian. h 01 1 SINGULAR CASE.—An inquest wa a s ec li tiono i ti ts tb li Wednesday before Mr. Payne, at St. Thomas's 11 ,_ °5 ` a l oy 01 the body of John Lloyd, aged 37, who was in t he mr, ploy of Messrs. Barclay anePerkins, the brewers. d w as John Goode, house-surgeon, said that the decea se Sus', brought to the hospital about a quarter before six n il 0 1 day evening, and was labouring under some the throat. He became so dangerously ill that Mr' S e a' , was sent for, and he at once said to save the den e % life, the trachea must be opened. The deceased moved to the theatre for that purpose, and the oer e ie - olf was cumenced, but th e d eceas ed struggled so vl° d be. that Mr. South was obliged to desist. The decesacatioll came more composed in a little time, and the eK r t ot. was completed, but th e d ecea sed died in a few Oland Upon a post mortem examination of the body it %ra s a , Os that there was great inflammation of the trachea. ";; a 5 s Coroner.—His death was cawed by acphixia of very urgent case, and one, at the deceased's t."'(i the life, not met with for a number of years. It apPe ar : t deceased had been in the k‘abit of drinking Verdi a g re- s tent, especially within the last fortnight. ct tural deat h." A QUANTITY OF SECOND-HAND" - ; V ~ SPOONS and FORKS a re o ff ere d f or S a l e , p r ice ire_ „ d s ' to 6s. 9d. per ounce, At T. COX SAVORY'S , (Seven fro° " Goldsmith, Silversmith, & c., 4 7 , Cornh il l .°" Gracechurch-street), London. .._...,..-- : , tli: B I R THS. On the 11th of Julie last, at Wall House, porn in r' c ie ' ll‘ °. lady of James Laidl aw , E sq ., C o l on i a l S ec retary and " ' • the Council in that Island, of a son. 013 if l er On the sth inst., at Farm terrace, C:apham, Mrs. J. of a daughter. -.. gutb, PP F• On the 10th inst., at Brighton, the lady of C. F. of a son. 1049 °f Old On the 10th inst., at Cowden Rectory, Kent, the i i of Rev. T. Harvey, of a son. j ( e ttlevf° , On the 1 lth inst., at Brixton-place, Mrs. R. f C. a son. t , ife ° On. the 11th inst., at Park-hill, Tooting, the 1r Candy, Esq., of a daughter. ___.----------- MARRIED. Wet On the 11th inst.. at St. George's, Hanover-squarep ,e s no Beauclerk, Esq., to Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir Ge6r6 wet Lady Wombwell. fir °° On the llth inst., at Maryl c b one Church, C. ghte r ° Esq., of Woodbridge, to Cecilia Augusta, fourth c lau 7frolk. the late Walter Clerk, Esq., of Last Bergholt House, the On the 1 lth inst., at Chri , t Church HofAlarylebone Triog L A I l e a a j n e t r y L , s C a t o l J. W. Donaldson, M.A., fellow and as,sistant tutor sir job° C. b o i n i g of her d an Ater of ._eise• On the 3d inst., a t Castl j e l d i ar f g :D an . , Sligo, Ja ne ' relict °f 11. Ribton, Esq._. of Dublin. fiartie. t t he On the Sth inst., at Ccaspur-street, 13enjamio On the 10th in.A., at Pudle,ton-court, Ilerefordshireyeirs RCN'. John Wood Dunpa, rector of Pudleston, an d 113°Y T. O l n lay ti n w sfo h r i d il , t a i g n e s d t. 7 , a most active magistrate far the cunt. Mrs' V. On the 10th inst., in Ke telstreet, Russell square, - J. R I ei‘. o. i n Duke-street, P man, Esq., I'. R. S., Clerk Assistant of thVeeslt On the I lth inst., Sarah, the wife of W. Wondbrittg , of Grovela.ne, Camberwell. he stock' . in; j u n se ste o r t ; ) ,, ocrev a i,s o , o l. f ; On the II th inst., Ebenezer Barber, - E 4 ., °f t- Exchange, aged s'). a ..............,,...............----..--' 0 [14 ,1 .° 0 London : Printed and Published by ITUIRDO ' sto od, 1 No. 112, Strand, at The Svn °Mee, No. 1 - 129 ,41 _ the co u nty Of Mid.tievex.- -Friday, AUgust-14, 10