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•VILDIULT..

Yesteeday Henry Finn, a ynoth fonrteen year. of age,
errand boy to M . Corking and Saunders, wholesale st:lte
mercer., teas put to the her.
It appeared from the evidence that the Priesonrr w.. teflt
ley his employers, with three pier.* of satin, to h.:eve-at Sir.
Craig's. baleerelasher, (Word-semi t, at half-past woe o'clock
on Thursday morning last, *hide Ile did not .1. but
went to Mr. Craig% between tru and dives o'clock that
morning, and inquired if the rating hail !wen I. ft there, and
on being aleewerril in the negative, he returned to hi. erne
players, and lOW them that he bad given the .n tit a man in
the street, also said he belonyed be Sir. Craig. Mew..
COCking anal Saunders and satisfied with thus SCCuntst,
sent him to the Cumptcr. They stated the y us, ver had any
reason to dooht the 11..oesty of the trot.er he•fore, he ant
an in-door servant, and his father and conurabun were most
respectable. _

The Pi homer, who is a mild interesting young boy, elate/.
that as he got tufo Holborn with the Nemo, a man came sr.
to him and asked him had be nut row frntn Messrs. Corking'
and Saunders, and was he not going lit Mr. Craig's ?—he
answered in the affirmative, on whorls the man maul be was
the heother•ithlaw of Mr. Craig. that he had helm at Meow,.
Cocking and Samadess for the satins, asel that Mr. Cos king
had told him that he had just sent them by him (the Pri.
'once), sod requested that It: would go aft,, him. take then%
from him, and tell him to return to him NI (orkiog mime,
diately, as he wanted loin particularly. Ito this seprs see.
tat ion he tsar the man the satins, and was returning as
as be could to bis employers when something struck loin h
hill done wrong in giving the 1.111(.0; he Missile:hits ly sari t•
to Mr. Craig's, and (stand the satins fool not In st .14.1v:etc.!
he then riturned to bus employes and tuld Ihi tit sled had
happened.
Sir James Shaw, the Sitting Alderman, observed, there
was no reason to doubt the truth of the atatentrui of ilo•
bey; for his part, he Wove.' rally onud of it, arod wag
convinced he was male the dupe of some mil's,' swim% r.
Therefore, it was his duty to di-eharge Isms, tool tit Join,:
an, he wished it to be nosh rstuoil that the laus'. charnels
for booraiy stood as far as if thus tratissett .... hail not lA. is
place. Many persons, into h older, hid toren impsued sin oi
not 110.11.1_ saying that it 1,14
the same way. lie conldl
wise i• Nrs.ra. COI king and Saunders., to !send a youth s•f
each trailer )eas a with a pared of so much value. Ile ur.
derittood it was of the value of 471.

Isnot Daris was charged e-iiis attempliaig In Menge piece
a V,I).011C111 cloth. .

.....
Charles BI ne, waggon porter to gr. %Man, pruprieti r
of the Sail and :Math Coat h and tVggE. a nili..r,ittato al. 11,ffli
on Saturday evening, as he waa drlirciing ...Hie is it's g Isom
his eart at 111 r. Cash's, In, Kine-merit, t Ili 1,, ivdr, I. •ase
the Prisoner attempting to take the pirre I..tis p....111c. I
Lure the front of Ow cart. Ile erised hull of hint amt F. .s a
hint into She euithiely of an officer.
The Prtanorr, who is well known to the 01firtrr. was fishy
communed fur trial.

MIARI.I

lir T.

ARTFUL Elid.ON V.
Jaws Russell. s will known eharaisir, was chnryil ail s
',collie two savir lei.. uffii and ,11111.1111 0111.. ra. tr
of plate, the propel', of Mr. *older, 'ilea rsaktii, Ike
Strand, by the following plan:.-.
• 'lbw Prosecutor find .Put the plate is opiestion to M..ll.fir.
Trimilet sad iri. y, eugr.r.ru, is 011,C4W,I.Plerti, i.l eu.
graved, •uil the Pi twos. r, by some weans, hail got us tint-
ed with it, sad on iTeshiesiisy last be •teit In the etsyssers
to ask if the plate was eugraved, as Mr. Kiddie was IS mi.
mediate want of it. He was told that a pars of it would he.
reedy is half au hour, sod wept away, and friar.« 41 SICAi
in the half hour, but he was too swum, sad i.e •as Oh 5i5...1%.3
let Mr. Kidder know that it should he mist toque within s t
hour. The boy who had answered the Primmer, sum sect
home with the property. and be was rot t by thlosell
Castioullreet. Leicester-square, who apparently w shy ai
bustle• gist the piste truss hint to tab bow. i.e by wk.
serving that the e did nut gw the diesel wary to the
Prosecstur's house, begat' to thiuk Mat he tad sell/.1 wrist's,
is porting with the properly, and he posesid his coulee to
Mr. Kidder's, and the robbery mu discurrreet
was takes iota custody us the parade In the Park
sad delarerall herr to Pepper, a CAmseaable. SIM Isom* two..
hits seas ileals•scs. tit was ressaisdral, M Ibste Ste agbor
charges a the same kind against bile.

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PETEWS 7.4ErrEns to his KINSrsILK•

frunnea EXTRACTS.]
'IRE !ADM OF EDINBURGH.

However composed and arranged, the routs anti
of this phu•e arr. their reason, paled
'wpm' i.ach other wills (vile as mach hmile and
pomp es those even of 1-widen, Every 'sight, mine
half-a-deren ladies are (41 hone, and every thing
that is in the wheel of fishion is carried round, and
thrown out in doe course at the door of radii of
them There is at least one regular ball every
g, and, besides this, half of the routs are
in their waning I a transformed into carps-I-
d-wee% ar beret" quadrilles are performed in a very
,i)f. ',strop) method to the pimple of the 091 w-forte.
Upon the whole. however, 1 am inclined to be of
oplinoo, that even those oho most assiduously fre-
quent t thee iscel!aiwous assenildeges are soma sick-
ened,if do-pito-I but confess the truth, of the etre-
nal repetition of for %liar i.lesitical crowd displaying
its tini.e and rresmre wider so many differs rit roof-.
Far he it from me to fuller', th.it there are not
Nome faces. or which ito rye can grow .weary ; hut,
in spite of all their loweltuess. I am certainly of
opinion, that the impression made by the bellts of
Edinburgh would be Miff powerful, were it less
'resiliently reiterated. Among the hundred young
ladies, who'e recreate exhibited in these 'parties. a
very smolt forovort -sou. or Califfe, Call have any
risings to that higher kind of beauty. which, like
the beau'sy of pointing or sculpture, most be gaz-11
on for mouth* or years before the whole of its charm
is um &Mood and felt as it ought to be. To see
every evening. for months in succession, the same
merely pretty, or merely plea...nog laces, is at the
lie.t a fatigatur hu.iness. One must soon become
as familiar with the contour of every cheek, mind
the sweep of every ringlet, as one is with the beau-
tiro or defects of one's own near relatives. And if
it be true, that defects in tlii4 way come to be I.
disagreeable, it is no less true, per rewire, that
beauties come to have less of the natural power of
their fascination.

G"rhe effects of this unceasing flood of gaiety.
then. are not perhaps so very favourable as might
I►e exp►rted to the great object of all gaieties—
the mar:spirit% of the unfortunate lords of the
creation. But this is not the worst of the mat-
ter. lamKS I ly very free from ally very puri-
tanical notions. in reseed to the pleasures of liu-
mass life; hut I do sincerely. and in honest ear-
eseatneis doubt, whether any good is gained to
•the respectable ritizesis of this town. by !laving
their wives and daughters immersed, for so coo-
eideraide a portion of the year. in a perpeted
mind of ensusements, so fatiguing to their bo-
dies and their !ninths, mid so destructive, I should
fear. of meth of that quiet ■nd innocent love of
borne and simple pleasures, in which the true
charm of the female character ought to consist,
seed in which its only true charm does at this
moment consist in the opinion of all men of seise
aad feeling. It is a very pretty thing. no doubt,
to ate a ycung I.isly dressed with Parisian flowers
and Parisian•gauzes, and silk slippers and an In-
dons fan. snit the whole. &c. of fashionable at-
ray : bust T qurltinn whether this be. after all, the
sale in whirl, n yottog man of any understanding
sees a yne►n_r lade with most danger to his peace.
I• is very well that people iuthe more quiet walks of
I f- should out be ignorant of what gots on among.
t i.se that we plea.rd to style themselves their bet-
ters : but. I do think that ibis' is rather too entire
a►tri Guns/J! fill initiation into a train of existence,
which is. luckily, as incinoastent with the perms-
e.ert losppitor Ss, as it is a ith the permanent duties,
of those who ClllllOl ulforti all their lives to he mere
6,:ft

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" Fur myself, after living so quietly in Cardigan,
I ;,ate been on the whole mach ',leaved with the full
land leisurely view I have now Intl even of this out-
skirt of the Leah-Nsunde. I ilo slot think matters
I are usidergosie •ity improvement since I List
perpert intoite precincts. The Indies are undoubt-
edly by no means so well-liveried as they were a few
'ears me. belOre these short waists and enormous
Vies of fliwors and tinglets were introduced from
There i., perhaps no one line in the whole
of tt e female form in which there lies vo much
gracrfuliiirts as iu the outline of the back. Now,
that wit% "ern as it ought to be a few years vgo ; but
now. every somiii in Britain looks as if her
clot ea were hung about her neck by a peg. And
the': the tro::, SpaylAii exposure of the kg, which
seeing to be iii fashion. is, in my judgment, the
most unwire thing in the whole world for any
per.m; can tt ft well enough from the vhspe of the
foot aid r.ukle, whether the limb be or be not hand.
• ; what more would the bodies have?
Niorrover, the fashion I:as not been allowed to ob-
latn its asceivhiccy without evident detriment to
thr interests of the majority ; for I hare never yet
Leto no any place where there were not more
that could gain by bring concealed. than
la., tieing exposed. But, in truth, even those
• hit vr Ibe ellope of a Diana, may be savored
that they are Lot, in the mail', genies* by attract-
-1.,g, I'M much utteution to tome of their beauties.
—1 ler that they da rot recollect and profit
Icy the extpii.iie depciiption of the Bride, in Sir
John hog', poem of he U', tiding

• tier feet beneath her petticoat,
Lite little mice stole in and tilt.
As if they feat'd the light'

those, who, with bsi shapes. make an use-
less display of their legs, I must own, I have twu
*lroise ler their lolly. 1 know well enough,
that it is a very eat:lilt thing to form any pro-
per ofiwiliren shoat one's own face ; because it is
universally admitted that faces, which have two
irgu:swity of feuture, may often be far more
ill:resting than those which have, and, of course,
throe who are sensible enough to perceive, that
tlweic heads could not stand the test of sculpture,
way be very easily pardoned for believing. that
their expressiveness might still render them ad-
oworalole studies fur a painter. But as to limbs—l
really am quite at a loss to ceitceise how any person
ilwrould !Amor trader the least dwfficulty in ascertain-
-1,44. in the most exact way, wlwetber handsomeness
may, ur pay not. be predicated concerning an;
given pafF'of legs or arms in existence. Their
bestir), is entirely that of form, and by looking
owser-si few hooks of prints, or a few plater-of-Paiis
4 set., the dullest eye in the world may Into, in the
{AWISIeI a single forenoon, to Le almost as good a

critic in solves and en►lrs as Citifies himself. Yet
nothing can be more evident, thous that the great
majority of young ladies arc 'mot rotirely devoid of
any ideas concerning the beauty of form, either in
themselves, or iii others% they never take the
trouble to examine any such matters minutely, but
soti•fy themselves with judging by the general air
and result, In regard to other people, this may do
v.ry well but it is a very bid plait with respect to
themselves."

BA LLOUN.
RETURN OF 51 F.SSRS. LIPINGSTON AND SADLER.

[FURTREII PARTIMARS.I

No certain intelligence haying reached the town
of the fate of these intrepid aermiant• a• late as
'l'hnr•dsy evening. the public were begi 0000 ing to be
somewhat iiiirasy ; but their mixterty war v re.
hewed by the receipt of several letters from Stock-
ton-up on-Tees. in the county of Durham, hear to
which place Nlessrs. Livingston and Sadler alighted
on t!:e 41 iy of their departure from hence. On
Friday. at half-past twelve o'clock, the !while were
delighted to see them (hive into the town in a chaise
and hoof ; the postillions decorated with white rib-
binds, mid the car tied to the top of the douse.—
They drove tl li Church-street, Lord-street.
Castle-street. Hod Dale-street, to the office of the
Gas Light Company. where they met I Gen-
tlemen of the Committer appointed to cuspid the
ascent, to whom they gave a ►hort account of their
Imig and perilous voyage. At three o'clock they
come in the same chaise to the Exchange, where
they alighted and went into the Exchange News-
room, amidst an immense crowd of the merchants
and gentlemen there assembled, by whom they were
received with three cheers. They here gave a short
account of their expedition and adventures; after
which, they ascended into the Underwritere.roam,
where they were greeted with the tame cordiality.
A collection was immediately made, which soon
■mounted to a considerable sum.

We forbear front giving any detailed account of
this very interesting excursion, at the request of
the Committee, tinder whose auipices a minute
narrative of the whole will soon he published, for
the bent fit of the parties concerned, who are well
entitled to every incidental advantage which can Iw
derived front it, not roily on account of the toils
sod hazards they have undergone, but from the
loss they are likely to sustain.
This is the longest aerial voyage ever made in
Great Britain. The balloon ascended from Liver-
pool at a quarter past two o'clock, and alighted at
tire miiites past five, ■t • distance of about • mile
and a half from the town of Stockton. In a space
of two hours and fifty minutes, therefore, they
traversed • distance of nearly 110 miles iu a lineal
direction, said if the undelations sod aberrations of
the machine are allowed for, it would make at least
170 noles. In the course of this voyage they tra-
versed some of the finest parts of the counties of
York and Durham, the views of which both gen-
tlemen, describe as sublime and enchanting beyond
all description. At a height of nearly two moles
from the earth, they took their refiraliment, and
drunk the health of their Sovereign, and prosperity
to the town and trade of Liverpool, in that awful
symposium.
They frequently, on approaching a town or vil-
lage, descended so low as to he able to converse
with the people, by whom they were often invited
to make a cull and take some refreshment ; but
such n ttttt sing visits bring ►ather inconvenient, they
were obliged to decline the h moor. The noble
waving-line made by the balloon in these dearend-
ings ascending,, must have been the finest
sights which occurred in the whole exhibition, and
accordingly they seemed to excite the highest rap-
ture in the rural spectators. They did not stiffer
much from cold, the mercury in the thermometer
generally ranging about 38. Unfortunately the y
bad 1:0 barometer with them ; hut Mr. Living-
ston conjectures that their utmost elevatiou might
be about four miles and a quarter. Near the
town of Stockton they approached • range of bills,
mid on surmounting these were somewhat star-
tled at perceiving themselves within a few miles
from the sea. They immediately drew the' vulse,
and alighted with all possible expedition. On
reaching the ground, they threw out the grap-
pling iron, the hook of which broke at the first
pull, sod on throwing it out again, another book
was beta straight, and the anchor again dragged.
The balloon now forced itself througli a thick
hedge, the sudden jerk occasioned by which
teufuitunately pitched Mr. Livingston against the
side of the car, by which his head and shoulder
were so severely bruised, that it was thought &dais.
able to have him let blood, but he is now nearly re-
covered. At length, by continually keeping open
the valve, the balloon gradually subsided in a stub-
ble-field, mill was finally set ••.d without having
sustained the least damage.
11'e understand that the aerial travellers under-
took this long vojage w►th the slew of tryitig the
power of the balloon. and its capability of crossing
the Channel from hence, the practicability of which
is now uscertained.—(Liverpool Paper.)

ON THE DOCTKINE OF CONTAGION

IN 7'HE PLAGUE.

(Continued front oar Paper of Friday last.)
Dr. William Gladstone's exastimation continued.
Was on at Constantinople, or any other past of the Le-
vant, at airy period of the year when the plague was raging
violently ?—No•
Do you happen to know what the state of the atmosphere
is, in which it is proo.ssesl to act most violently'-1 believe
a high temperature, from 66 to 76, and upwards.
Is these any reason, wilco there is a hot uncial air in this
country, and temperature is., to that point, that the plague
►nouw nut exist in this country as will as any other "—I do
nut think the summer beat ever rises so high in England as
in those latitudes.
As it appears that it existed at Cuustantinople when the
Temperature was nearly at the frerzing point, a there nay
renwa why it should not exist iis the same temperature in
nay other conutry?-101 Iwot other countries, and particu-
larly in England, the hawses are better ventilated, more
cleanly, and well drained.
Then do yuu mean to state, that the probability of its ex-
isting in England, depends on smoililaliow, and the desalt-
nesa of the people of the couatty ?—Nut entirely, but io •
grist measure.
Du you consider the plague in its character as infectious
or contssiions?—l consider it equally infectious (brunch the
medium of the atmosphere of a sick chamber, as from

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Isle'conteet, Intel's* eltperledeed it tie far as Inning felt tie
arm of a patient under plague.
As you appear to consider She cosnecled with
the state of the atliosphere, lobes the elasosphere is in that
state that it admits of the centilitre of plague, do yen then
consider it an infectious diso►der; I mean when the air Is in
that slate as to produce a liability to infection by the Wick?
—I think it is imponihle Weenie in contact with ■ plague
patient, without inhaling the attars:One of his chamber;
and 111.1 we are more susceptible of irifection by the MIK.
beetles of respiration, than those of the lagers.
Ikt you (*walla, it so the sick climenber, or to the general
at sunsphere?—The eurrounding atmosphere of the chamber ;
She atmosphere of • sick chamber is more infectious that&
any other.
From any etperienee that yon have had of the plague,
have yob seen internees of its being coronsueicated any
other way than by the finch ?—Niit in any way; I have
Never seen as instance of its being commassicated.
You have *lewd, that you were present whew there were
rases of plagoe!—When there were plague patients at ton-
aiiestinople, I male interest to view them, with Ike Arabian
physicians.
State the eircomstatices of your visit!-4 saw him Ap-
proach the patient, and feel the pule, without the least fear;
and 91/011 the second view, but with some apprehension of
meant ..... I was ilibiced In do She same.
iii what state of the disease?—One patient had been iii a
we, k, was recovering; the others Ind brrri ill two or
three dais; I understood they died : the true of the Wetk's
illness, I tooterstuoil to have recovered.
Wele baling and mho ic:les sin these—One in the
stailln.

Were these all the eases that cause under your oborreation?
—These •err all the cases that came under My eve, that
were decidedly plague; I saw a great sal iety of Asiatic
fryers.

Do you rittrublite il. not being commemicshle by contact,
to the stale of the mr!-1 consolre that the pintllC is not
more liable to be contioniiiraleil by coutact, than by in.
halm{ the atmosphere in s lurk room.
Then you IK•lrre it is • tinnily commonirebtr by both,
either by rootlet or labeling?-11 is intpossilite to ap-
proach to coulee& oithoat labeling the atmosphere or a lurk
chamber. .

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What length 14 lime was yon at Constantinople ?—I was
there three or four sonatas. . . .

Do yoti consider these points of metaphyi.ical tempera-
tare of air so it.efial and derkive in the torrid igati dis-
CUB?, IA the plaits fact, whether the disease bait ever existed
of nut fur many yeses ?—No, 1 do not.
Then yin. consider Ike plain fact, where it lia• not eaisled,
the hest eriteriunt—The best criterion ; lint I do nut run.
eider we have arrived at sufficient knowledge wills rt sped to
Mr, so as to ascertain these farts perfectly.
As you touched the pla=ne patients Anil felt their palm.,
and did Not receive the disorder, would not that rather con-
vey the idea that the plague wan not cosoingious?—ThAt would
depend upon the state of the atmosphere, nod on or suoe
and constitution of the individual oho had lonebral the
patient ; and wh•ohcr there was a predisposition to rt cease
the disease or r,si.t it.

Did you make the sseljeet of the plague your study while
yule wan in these places?—From being Artptently mulcr the
restraint of quarantine, I thonlit a good deal upon the sub-
ject and mail a good tidal.
Did you pursue that by isoqu;ries in the country'—fly in-
quiries at the places we touched at ; I insole a point of visit-
ing the I Dos whets I was on quarantine, tool permitird
to Jo .e; where three was no lasarci.oa, I trade a puiut of
Ifettiot isiformati tttt from tncilical practitioncis.
Wrre these practitioners Globs or Tork•?--In Consign'.
ple the., weir Grerks, Arencsiians,aud Arabians; some
few Italians at Peru.
Were they people who entertained tiresome opinion fill the'
subject of Predestination as the Torks?—Slost had nut ;
Millie had; that is no opinion they da nut avow.
I would ask, whether they stated to you that they ronsi-
tiered there was soy danger in the use of the clothes of the
pet •ons who had died of the plague?—Yes; certainly.
Theo yin, infer, that the plague may be conveyed by
clothes or other timings, that. the touch?—Certainty._ _ _ .

Have you any means of !mowing what Irmols of time
parka:es may be couveyA, supposing the air not to operate
opus, them, or any clothes or materials used by persons hay.
Mg the plague, berme they lose the power of rontmoniest-
iog thc ,n 1 entre' ; state, either from your ono experience
or information ?—That entirely depends on the ventilation
of the packages.
If she packages are nut subject to ventilation, yon are of
opinion that the plague may he conveyed ?—lt depends on
the stale of the atmosphere. What I conceive as to cotton
is, that it depends on the state 4.f the cotton when it is
brought un board. The Tusks are a people very supersti-
tious; whey n 'west'', dies of the Vague they put the corpse
Tutu a shell, not! sometimes till buboes discharge matter uu
carrying a rorpee to the grove ; this matter comes iu contact
with the dust, or if that dust should afierwoteds be tuixrd
with cotton, and that eoltou comes to
England
Avid meets
• jib a diseased atmosphere, I cannot answer for the long
conveyance, without ventilation, destroying the inter( 1111 l .
nt be continued )