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London, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

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nimmta were transmitted, by electric telegraph, from the
Admiralty to Plymouth I'll Al 011tlaY 1144 fill the eh lute,
:oil, screw, .1/1 11. utmost ; rub.roug, paddle; 1k .p rage,
s, twillv, to irreintrc Mr sea with all despatch. (hi the
tAlowing aftenwon the above-meutioned %easels left the
harbour snider 5t4.11111 and sail. will be followed im-
mediately by the .Iya #u• mown, which has been in:Walled
tor mouths, and will procetml to tlw I lartlanellea. The
others arc to rendezvous at Malta.

IttAIPAIIIM I HAI. I'ANsIIIWE, C.D., Superintendent of
Portsmouth !Mayan', has been muninated to sneeeed
Vieo-Admiral Sir tit•orge Seymour, At, us
eommander-in-chief' of the North American and ‘Veht
India station, whom: tout of tivnice ckpires in January
next. _ . _

CAPTAIN R. L. Wthi:EN (son of the late \lee-Admiral
Warren) will e •ssion the 9111,run screw-ship .Dune.
II *on, at I teviitiport.
LIEUTF.XA NT BLACK Err 111118 'Weft auperiwiled ill the
/Puke of !Felling/on, 1:141, souw, Spithead, at his own
request.
A ualitAIXV, Nov. I7.—The following promotions, conse-
quent on the death of Rear-Admiral Paseo, have this day
taken ',lace !!! i ! iif the White Sir Watkin
Pell, lint., to Iteiw-Admiral of the Red; Rear-
Ail •ul of the Blue Sir.lames Stirling, lint., to lie Rear-
Admiral of the White ; Captain Percy time to he Item-
Atlinind on the Reserved List; Captat'n henry
linalas to lii Rear-Ailmind of the Blue.

'l'o►: Comm ixorn, First Liententult, Second lieutenant.
Surgeon. and Engineer of the steant•sloop Mede«
have received notice ol• their being sutunouily superseded
iu their respective appointments. This, it is supposed.
is e•nisequetit on the late complaints and coati martial,
and subsequent complaints and applications to be super-
seded.

A 1.101 NTMENTs AND PROMOTIONS.
APPoINTMENII4.

4 .0111111H1Oirr—IllillilliOrP, to tlis• 3ledea.
Lieutenants-11. T. t. .11 (181:12), to the ..4 jo.r ; H. Bradshaw
(IsN2), to the Joao; F. It. Smith (1119), to tl e Medea.
Master—John Illehards (V 01), to co tttttt the sumer
Arthur Second Mamter—Syndercoushe, to 11 a .donkey.
riecond Mitsters--John W. Heed (HIM), to tl Stmeeert ; lir Bert
,with (1,446), to the Prince 'truest, ; John &ties, to the Loyal
tootre.
'Mit-tens' Assh,tants—J. Patch, to the Prinee 11,.gent F. .
C•lrloct ,to the . troth, : E. 11. Parsons, to the Rogal George; T.
ti. Itrido.es, to the Mammal: E. A. Deane, to the Pri 'webs
: .1..111, to the Rifleman.
Third (*lass A,sktant.Fittrineer—F.J. Hunter, to the Prlenoin.
Foremius of Smiths—T. Bailer, to Chatham Dockyard.
this Priotecms Mogul; H. .1. Ilan.
cock, to the l'ictory.
Naval Cadets—K. to the St. Jean sr. I, re; 11. P.
Lambert, to the Arrogant.
surgeons—James Laird (18b2), to the Medea ; Cliarle4 W.
White (DM). to the St. Jean &Ally ; Dr. William Modem, (lK A:),
to tilf, BNZZOrti.
Asaistant•Surgeotta—John C. Messer, M.D. (18:c2), to the
N(11'41401 ; Charles 11. Chambers (11451), to the Arrogant.
Chaplaitt—Hev. Arthur Browne, It.A. (1t141), to be Chaplain
and Naval lindruetor to the .4erooout.
Clerks in Cliarge—.Joseph Whittall (181 f d, to the V/tfortor, .1.
A. Everstield (16-16), to the itif/enton.
clerks--John Tromp (1852), to the Neptnne : William T.
llieltards, to the 1-.Antnirgt, : Frederick lAme (1,451), to the
i'sinectin Votfol; .tdillerly W. Chimuts (01(8), to the ;cane.

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A 4...i..llmt.surgeons—Williatin 11. Sloggett (1842), and
(1811), to he Surgeons.

THE CoNSTIIITTION or A NEW SI'IITERRASEAN LINE or
It►n.«AY from Leicester•slp►mr to the Bricklotvers' Aims
~tadionoftheSouth-h{nste►n Railway is projected through the
usual nuu•hinery of it jOhlt-stOch enlitratty. it is prorlosed
thud the lute mllOlllll past:llloer the Thames between Hum
gerford nod Waterloo% loriolge4, procuctling thence, loy way
%of the New Cut, St.% %eoorge%ceircus, and the loondoottoread,
to the t►ld Kent-rand.

...
Inv. tire in the woods in Nlichigim. according to the
last account, was checked by a recent rain, lint it is still
burning in many localities. Tens of thsintumils of acres of
first have been th'strO3 ell, and of the top soil, to the depth
of nearly a toot in many letters, nothing is left lint ashes.
It is estimated that more than fifty barns and houses have
liven blunt. with miles of fence, and many thousands of
dollars worth of analogs, con), wood. ke.
MoNnav, the ith instant, was to have )wen an eventful
day for Athens had the following prediction emu.. true. It
appears that a boy was out in the country gathering olives,
and while SO occupied a supernatural being, mounted on a
Mood-rd horse, rode up to him, and demanded what he
mos doing. lie replied, that he sus gathciing
The mysteriofis stranger then directed ldm to return home
instantly, and to tell his father that on the following Mon.
day nearly the whole city of Athens would lie utterly de-•
strayed by a terrine eaitiumake, and then the apparition
stulaenly vanished. boy on reaching his home eon'.
numieated the message. then swooned away, and, remained
io a trance for a long vet iol. The father also lee nnic so
ill from fright that he took to his bed. The. Monday iu
question was a great saint's day, and the erednlt”s thinly
twinned that the boy's story MAR perfectly true, and ex-
peeled to see its Mend aceompiishmiiit.
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l'ilE tE GREAT 11111 nrsr. contained an
area of nearly slin,4ooo square feet : the new Crystal Palace
at Svdenhatu will contain abort one-fourth more, or nearly
10 II y 10 %pare feet.

SATURDAY,

yaiu nub Voila.

AT THE INVESTIOATION OF AN INsoLVENT's %Ili-.
at tit, Insolvent Debtors' Court some particulate
came out respecting a chancery suit which elicited
the unanimous admiration of all present, as exhibit-
ing the wonderful rapidity which recent reform,
have infused into the proceedings in equity, hereto.
fore so notorious for their delays. The insolvent, a
beerseller, named Cooper, had received notice to
quit from his landlord, and, not complying, was
served with an action of ejectment. Ile pleaded to
the action, and, just before going to trial, tiled a bill
in chancery, supported by affidavits setting forth
certain alleged specific agreements which the land.
lord had entered into to continue the tenancy. This
1411 came before %ice-Chancellor 11'ood, and the con-
sequent proceedings were so promptly completed that,
in the course of one week, the cause was ended and
the bill dismissed. The costs in the action for eject
melt were Ist., those in Chancery only 18/. liamages
were given against Cooper for 751„, and he now ap-
peared in Portugal street, with his landlord as a
creditor for this amount. After duly remarking upon
the newly developed celerity and economy of the
Chancery Court, Mr. Commissioner Murphy adjudged
the insolvent to a remand for six months, 4, as a
warning to other tenants not to hold over and resist
the law."

AN Arno,: was brought by one Warrington On a
promissory note for I,Na V. Originally the document
was thus worded :—" Six mouths after date I promise
to pay 1,00/., with lawful interest thereon from this
date." Subsequently there was added in a corner of
the note, but by whom did not appear, a memoran-
dum to the effect that the interest should be charged
at six per cent. This rate was beyond the " lawful
interest " recognised in the cowis, and the addition
was pleaded to the action by the drawer of the bill.
On trial a verdict was given in his favour, and the
case was then brought before the judges in bane, on
the plea that the supplemental memorandum, written
in au off corner, should not invalidate the document
as to its principal effect. Judgment was given on
this plea in the Queen's Bench on Wednesday, when
Lord Campbell declared the opinion of the court to
be in favour of the defendant. The added words
were considered clearly to invalidate the promissory
note, their effect being altogether inconsistent with
the contract expressed in the body of the document.
AN INFORMATION was laid against the well•known .
supper and singing rooms bearing the title of
" Evans's," in Covent-garden. One Hall, a common
informer, was the prosecutor, and the charge was
laid under an act passed more than a hundred years
ago, in the reign of George 11. This act forbids
taverns from Lein! kept "for purposes of music and
singing." The witnesses clearly proved that both
music and singing were kept up, with little intermis-
sion, during the whole evening in the defendant's
establishment. As it was shown, however, that no
charge was made on that account, and that the cus-
tomers object was quite as much the suppers as the
,ongs, the jury found that the room was used merely
for the common purposes of a hotel or tavern, and
refused to enable Mr. Hall to recover his share of
the penalty.
A FEMALE THIEr-TRAINER, named Ann Burrows,
was tried at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday for
picking pockets. In the course of the proceedings
evidence was given by the police to show that, in
spite of her youth, the prisoner had become an
adept. in the art of educating youth to clime

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William Coombe++, known among thieves under the sobriquet
of " the Surrey Wolf," stated that lie knew the prisoner well.
She Was sentenced to twehe mouths' Wiwi • mt for picking
pockets at the execution of the Miumingii, and subsequently to
two mouths' for picking the poeket of a policeman at the Victoria
Theatre. She was a regular trainer for young thieves, and had
always a gang of boys about eight years of age w ith her, wlaaa
she sheltered and taught to steal. There were u n 1111 l ber of young
thieves outside the court, who were her romplutions,ime of than
railed " Alligo," and another "Shougo," and he could produce
twenty or tiny constables from his nide of the water, if it was
tweessary, What could prove that she was what be had stated.
The AstiIKTANT4 mit: said this Wag the 5111111 aeeolllll of
her, and he should now like to Hear her Middlesex 11.1.01111, 1.1,1*
She was as well known ilt the pliStala of that county as tit those
on the other side of the Thames.
The prisoner declared she had not lawn convicted before,
There was Ittl proof of it at all.
Comultem+ reiterated his statement, and said she was a retmlar
hanger-on at the theatres, with her youie, thieves. ready to pu.li
into any crowd and rob any mw they could.
Being found guilty, the prisoner was sentenced to six
years of penal servitude.
_ .

GRINNEY, the wheelwright who Ii
3s _oi
nearly a month in custody on a charge of cutting bis
wife's throat, was brought up at Lambeth Court for
examination on Tuesday. The poor woman, whose
life was at first despaired of, and who had ever since
remained in Guy's Hospital, was sufficiently recovered
to attend and give evidence. Her testimony proved
that her husband's act was committed with cool &-
liberation, and in a manner almost incredibly brutal.
He was committed for trial.
A Comrt..mr or 3liscoxmr AND INSCIT.ENo `alas
brought against a cabman by Sir Robert l'eA,
at Westminster Police Court :

NOVEMBER 26, 1853.

sir Robert suited that Liu engaged the defendant near Kbights•
bridge Barracks, and ordered twit to drive to Parldaukeut•street.
He started at an extremely low pace, and when he celled to him
to strive faster defendant replied that as the fares were WIT
abated to lA. per wile he could not increase hieowe. Sir Robert
informed him that if he would take him faster he hunt no objee.
uou to give him la. or Is. d,d. per mil., as he was in haste. De.
fondant did not quickest hie pee... hut said that according to the
new law he ought to be paid beforehand.
Mr. Doormat, observed that the driver was dead wrong in that
respect to begin with.
Sir Robert added that he at once intimated to defendant that
be knew better, and immediately directed him to drive to the
nearest police court, but he refused to do so, and *aid he did not
know where there was one. In Pkirliament•rtreet, however, the
app earanee of a police•ronstable had the effect of inducing him
to discover the situation sit this court, which he then admitted he
knew, sue whither he drove the Lion. baronet, who added that In
the course of Lila experieuee of cabdrivers Le tie% er met with one
imbed as thin 11111 U.
. . . .

Defendant admitted that he told the gentletuan he could not
drive Meter than six utiles au huitr. and that malt. all, NIA Ns re.
rattled the remainder he was neither offensive nor insuluim, and
never was to anybody.
Mr. littaonruir remarked that it was quite clear lefendant had
been guilty of gross aniabehat tour, and fined Lim tWellts eldllutbs
or fourteen days.

Defendant was locked up in default.
&ors have frequently occurred at a coffee-shop in
Dean-street, Soho, a place much used by foreigners.
between some French frequenters of the house and
a gang of Englishmen. The disturbances having
been renewed, with increased violence, on Saturday
night last, two of the Englishmen, persons named
Budd and Taylor, were given into custody, and
examined on Monday at Marlborough police-oilice.
Besides the riot, they were charged with destroying
a quantity of crockery and other property in the
coffee-room. From the evidence of the waiter it
appeared that the coffee-house was the resort of a
great numbers of foreigners, prineipally Frenchmen.
On the night in question the defendants came into
the coffee-room, and were told they would not be
served, in consequence of their having been to the
house previously and made a disturbance with the
foreigners. The defendants replied they did not
want serving, they wanted a row with the Frenchmen,
and they immediately began to insult some who were
in the room. One of the defendants commenced the
affray by striking a Frenchman. A general fight
then commenced, the Frenchmen using their sticks
and knives, and the Englishmen their fists. Cups,
saucers, milk-pots, and sugar basins were the ammu-
nition of both sides, and in ibis way damage was
done to the crockery and coffee•room to the extent of
54)5. Witness was certain that. the two defendants
were among the most active in throwing the crockery
about. The riot was subdued by the police, and the
defendants were lodged in the station-house. Mr.
HlN(iii.ol remarked that, of the belligerents, the
Frenchmen appeared to have had the best. The
waiter said he thought is, too ; but there were sixteen
Frenchmen to six Englishmen, and it was sticks
against fists. The defendants asserted that they
received the first insult from the Frenchmen. Some
conflicting evidence was given by different witnesses
on the question of " first insult." Finally, the magic•
trate declared himself satisfied that the defendants
had gone to the house for the purpose of creating a
disturbance. They were fined in the amount of
damage, 405., and ordered to tiud recognisanees for
their future behaviour.

ATTEMPTS having been made more than once to
break into the Lombard-street Post-othce, the police
set a trap, into which a foreigner, named Charles
dos, was beguiled. He got into the premises, be-
lieving them unwatched, and was cleverly captured
inside, with housebreakers' tools and some stolen
articles on his person. The offence was closely
traced at his examination before Mr. Alderman Law•
reuce, at the Mansion house. The chief curiosity of
the ease consisted, however, in the prisoner's de-
fence. He said : A fortnight ago, 114 I was going
over Landon-bridge, an Englishman came w me
and asked me what langnage I spoke. I replied,
" Danish, Swedish, and broken English." I after-
wards said I spoke German and Norwegian. The
man told me that he spoke German too. lie asked
me to go with him to Tower-bill ; and I went to a
small street there, the name of which I do not recut
loct. He asked me if I could go somewhere with
him at twelve o'clock at night. I said I had some-
thing on my mind, and T did not go with him. At
font o'clock in the morning he came to me again and
asked me why I did not go with hint. lie gave me
twelve shillings and a package eontaining the arti-
cles produced by the °dicers. lie ',aid I could get
some money on those things by disposing of them.
I went with him to Tower-hill, when be left me, and
I went home to bed. Before he went away be toLl
tue to meet him in a coe of days the Monument.
lie asked me to go with him that night, as he wanted
to speak to me. I replied, " No; speak to me now."
Ile asked me to wait tiU daylight, and said he would
speak to me then. Ile gave me four shillings, and
told me I should see him asrain on Monday night.
He told me that on the following mght I must do
him a favour which would bring me plenty of money.
He said to me, " There's a house close by, whene
there's a girl, but I can't speak to her ; I can't en in."
He told me that be knew an entrance, and that I
must help hitq. Lie told um to cum • at MOTO