The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-12-14 00:00:00

MURDER AT WHITECHAPRL.

A few evenings since a young man of the name of Richard
Needs, resoling in the neighbourhood of Castle street,

Whiteelispel, was inhumanly killed by a man of she same
of Makowy. The deceased was waylaid by Mahoney, with
another person, on his return house from she Green Mau
publitrbouse, its Castle-street, where some words had pre-
%grimly taken place between them ; and after being severely
Iwilsen wises on the ground, received • fatal blow nn the
back of the bead from an immense stone. He was carried
to the Loudon Hospiml, but did litti long survive. The de.
erased and Mahoney some time since had • pitched battle to
settle the differences, whirl, ending in favour of the de.
' ceased, was supposed to have instigated this act. He is iff
custody at Lambeth street Police-office.

ORIGIN OP THR BARBER'S POLR AND THE
PAWNBROKERS THREE BALLS.

Is former limes Barber: were also ektrargeons and pMe.
&Amnia:. or blood-liter:; and the Pole, entwined with •
coloured bandage, as it .till appear., represented the staff
which it was usual for patient. to hold during the operation
of bleeding, aceompaukd by the requisite ligature for binds
log the arm when the operation was closed.
The latter inquiry presents a field of wider research, but
we will state succinctly what occurs to us on the subject.
The old banner of Persia, as appears from the sculptures of
Shapour, was • Cross, with the addition of a Globe to each of
the three upper arms, by which, no doubt, some piece of
Theology, similar to that involved in the Egyptian Globe,
wing and serpent. was implied. The Limber& adopted a
bemire in every respect similar ; a fact which would seem to
imply some remote connexion between the two races. It
also appears wpm. some reverses of the Saxon coins, and has
desceuded from the Lombards to the Pawnbrokers, who
Cause originally from Lombardy, and gave name to Lombard.
street. 1161111trIS were always consecrated thing.. Perhaps
.
originally there were Palladia or talismans stamped with
the emblems of the national divinity.

NAVAL INTELLICANCE.

PORTSMOUTH, DFCEMBER 11.

Arrived the Pioneer from Sheerness ;Johis,
from London for Madeira, &r. ; and James Laing, King,
from London fur Jamaica.

PLYMOUTH, DECEMMIR 11.
Sailed the New Volunteer, Dwarris; fur Cork mud Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, DICEMMER
Arrived the following outward-huund from London :
Percy nod Juno for Jamaica; Mumbles fur St Vinceues;
Ealing Grove for Dominica ; Garland for the Cape ; *ad
Cyress for Triesie.

DEAL, I/MINIM It.

Came down from the River the Denmark Hall, Foreman,
for Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales ; Echo, Lin-
der, for Jamaica; Arundel, White, for Grenada; Richard,
Thomas, fur Belfast; and William Fairlie, Smith, for India
sod China—they remain with the David Scott East ludisman.
novae, DICCI6IIBIIII 12.
The Iris, Hutchins. from St. Petersburgh, struck apical
the pica and damaged her stern.
_ _ _

BOLL, incrust& 11.
The William and Aon, Lowry, for Spaltli.nr, and Richard,
Scholleld, fur Lynn, have been ashore briweris !Argots*
and Minaret, but were Rol oif after landing their cargoes—
they will come here to repair.

r AAAAA cr, incuenra 10.
Arrived the Fetich. .4, MortlN, Goat Faro for Londoo, is
dishes., windlass broke and cargo said to be shifted.