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' *Snit s't tr:'.ltr- POLICE.
ouitesevirnry ,
now.'srit stir.
Syrian .Virroo, Kdaterd ifo/mrs, and William Cook,
'were charged with rubbing George Harris, • sailor, of his
watch.—lt appeared in evidence that the Prosecutor had
bees to Covent-garden Theatre last Monday right, and front
the lateness of the hour, knoiring be could not obtain
admittance at hie lodgings, he asked the three him:mere,
oakum he accidentally Fad, altar lihe Theatre, to recom-
mend bim where' he could get • bed for tho'sight, which
they agreed to do, and coudihried him through s num-
ber of streets, the atones of which he did nut know, being
• stranger in London ; bat it Is supposed when they gut him
sear Tesoro Turnpike' the Prisoner COok suddenly snatch.
ed his watch from his fob, gave it to use of the other Pri-
m:men, and they all ran of with greet speed. Hr called
out "Stop thief!" sod one of the patrole belonging to the
'Office being very sear the spot, stopped and secured him.
The two other Prisoners were afterwards take., and the
watch recovered in as extraordinary manner. On the fol.
lowing mania, lensing., one of Lewis's party of the
petrol., went to a watch-maker's to inquire if the watch had
bees offered for sale, at which time James Doughty, who
weeks at Mr. Hall's livery-Mass, is LORI, Brook-street,
entered with the said watch in his hand, to infinite the value
of it, and on his being questioned how he became possessed
of it, he said he received it from the Prisoner Holmes, who
warted in the mime yard with Wm, and offered to sell him
the watch fur thirty
111r:Buttot, the Magistrate before whom the business
was iovietigated, dispatched two officers to search the resi-
dence of the prisoner Cook, who lived with his father and
mother is the oeighbonrbood of Tyburn Tantalite. They
fused the father and mother liven in very great poverty and
distress. In the room is which it was said the prisoner
Cook slept, they found a hos, in which was two old pockets,
belonging to a female, coataining silver coins, consist-
ing of dollars, three shilling tokens, half-crowns, Ste.
to the amount of upwards of 1511.; and its a large pocket-
book were Bank notes to the amount of upwards of 2001—
Finding such immense wealth at such a place of misery, he
took the woman with him, when, awns her investigation
before Mr. BIRIIII4 SSW her pantsuit's of so mach money,
she said the silver was her property, she saved it from the
gain of selling apples, and said she took as much as 18s.
in • day sometimes; this however, was not credited, as she
was literally only clothed in rap, and appeared an object
of real misery. The account she gave of the Bank Soles
was, that her son, the Primmer, sod another buy, were play-
ing is Kensington Gar dens about three years ago, when they
found to the amount of 7501. in the grotto; they had adver-
tised it, bet *a person bad answered it.
The Prisoners were committed for farther examination,
and inquiry is to be made respectiag the wealth iu their
possession.
On Wedaesday evening Bishop, the ofßcer, arrived at the
office from !elitism's, iu Kent, with Winless Sinew, who
keeps the Chequers Inn, and James Carter, a smith, both
of them living on their own rotates, and highly respectable
men, on a very extraordinary chair of arson, I. having
wilfully set fire to the premises of Mr. Thomas Morgan, of
Ighthain, who is bailiff to Simpson, Eeq, of Fairlawn
Howe, on timid instant.
The investigation of this extraordinary ease having lasted
about three hours, we are nailer the aeceasity of postponing
the particulars till twiewrow..
After able arguments on both aides by Counsel, Mr. Bir-
die, after taking a view of all the circumstances, remand-
ed the Prisoners for another examination, there not being
sufficient evidence to commit them.

William &milk was charged wiiisacrilege--7os;li1;;;Iting
open a chapel at Harlington, Middlesex, and stealing there-
from a quilutity of books, aindlesticks, and other articles,
the property of the parishiusers.
The Prisuner was traced to have sold the books to a
dealer in Carsaby-street fur Ave shillings, and the purchaser,
suspecting t►ey were stolen after be bad made she purchase,
wrote to a person whose address was iu the book, and
which led to the Prisoner's apprehension.
In defence, the Prisoner said, he bought Om hooks at
!Nautilus, for two shillings More than be sold them, sad ►is
account of himself was altogether cootradictory..—He was
remanded.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GUILDHALL

TO MORROW.

N. ■.

..... _.
W. N. Wright, Stapleforil Abbott, farmer 3 12
W. P. Cotsfonl, Upper Claptow, plumber
J. Collins, Gosport, g►ocer'
G. H. Dyrn, Bush.lane, wine merchant
R. Almond, Dart mouth, grocer
W. Smith and Co. lerion-bridge, dyers 2 10
S Gates, Mining, wine-merchant
W. Harvey, Houndsditek, coppersmith
J. Miles, late of Uxbridge, truss-maker . ....
W. Towse, %Vokinghani, inerelsaat
J. Procter and Co. Signing-lame, elotb-factors 2 12
E. Wilcoeks, Aldersgate-street. merchant .
C. Osbourn', Billiier-square, merchant 1 11
.1. Atkinson, High-street, butcher
H. Stephens, late of Peoria, merchant 1 12
W. Bell, Hauway.street, lines.draper .. 2 10
E. Read and Co. Great Rasnell.strcet, burn-drapers.. 1 1
R. Meissen, Knightsbridge, baker
R. Petifold, Deptford, •iettsalkr 1 10
G. Biggs, Holborn-bridge, silversmith
DIVIDENDS.

C Pugsley, Islington, Boor-cloth-tuanufarturer
W. Hamilton, and Cu. Rieke...court, mercbauts
J. Stanton, late of Redcross.street, baker lO
G. Turnbrillee and Co. Lower Sbadwell, eoal•ine►ebauta 10
W. Smith, Piccadilly, saddler lO
W. Chamberlain, Watlinvstreef, busier ln
T. West, Greet-choral-street, perfamer ...
H. Chesney, High Holborn, fringe-tnanufacturer lO
.1. sad J. Graffito, Ancona-street, silk-weavers lO

CERTIFICATES.

T. Griffin, of Pedlar's-acre, Lambeth, Surrey, timber.
merchant —J. Elliott, late of Bristol, coal-factor.—s. Tons.
kiwi, of Plymouth, draper.—P. Stints.. of Bristol,
P. Beckett, lois of Wa►atlsW, York, born.
draper.—W. Sedgwirk, of Liverpool, merchant.

It is intended to found s College at Cambridge
fur the cultivatiou of Jockeyship ? Perhaps its
vicinity to Newmarket is too tempting to be resist-
ed. At all events, they am forming an appropriate
library., as the following works, demanded under the
present Copyright Act, appear by the returns not to
have been rejected :
Maya's Sportsman's Dietiosary—Xirirlaird's llaaSeray
of tlis Horse—Filat's Treatise ea Home—Buda ea the Foot
of the Horne.—White•s Treatise ea Veterinary hirdieine—

merdr. Ilvorbonses Card.
What could be the reuses the Curators did not
also deem the " Treatise on Greyhounds" neces-
sary to be placed in the above collection ?

An account of the several Saving Banks in Ire-
land, printed by order of the House of Com-
mons, state the number at seven, in Waterford,
Belfast, Cork, Banger, Kilkenny, School-street,
Dublin, St. Peter's Parish, in the sante city ;
and the amount of the sums vested in Ikea') at
i 4,55.31. lbs. t Id.
A wretch of the name of Williams Bailey, tutu
Kmightom, has absconded from Arkindale, in the
neighbourhood of Borouglibridge, Yorkshire, who
stands charged with administering poison to his fa-
ther, mother, and two other persons, on Thursday
last, whereof his fither has already died. He was
seen at East Keswick on Saturday, inquiring for the
nearest port to take shipping for America ; from
which it is inferred that he would make his way
to Liverpool. Active measures have been resorted
to fur the seizure of his person, if possible.

COMM S 5 MN

N
IRE Gi:INLRAL AssEMMA' OF THE tiTURCII OF
st.OTLAN.u.

On Tliiirstl..v seionig!rt 'tile Commission of the
General convoked by a circular letter
from several Alembers, iiiet at Edinburgh iu the
Assembly Aisle.
After the Alerting had been opened, in the usual
furor, by the Rev. Dr. GNI', Moderator, and the
authority by which it was culled had been wad,
Dr. luvin Untrue shortly stated the urgent ne-
cessity of having the proposed Legislative measure
of the increase of Churches extended to Scotland.

Dr. Nlco'r.r. then read a printed Report of the
speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the
subject, and I this inferred. that it was rioly
necessary to draw up a bowl case of the very des•
titutratate of many parts of Scotland of religions
instiochon, to obtain the concurrence of Govern-
mentfor the requisite exteusion of the Bill to this
part of the island.
Dr. IRVINE. of Little Dutikeld, in a short but
most interesting speech, stated, that it was consist-
ent with his personal knowledge that there were
parishes in the Highlands of 60 miles long by 40
broad with only one place of woeship, and that he
had met with persons of 60 and 70 years of age who
had utile. mice in the course of their lives heard ser-
mon. That ilia ignorance of the people iu tunny
places was I..oli+equently extreme. They were,
therefore, the reedy dupes of the missionaries of
any superstitious or fanatical creed with which they
happened to come in contact. That there had very
recently arisen in thee Highlands of Perthshire a
new stet, detiominated Freemen, who professed open
hostility to all existing denominations of Christians.
In other parts the Catholics were gaining ground
in et most alarming degree ; and though the mis-
sionaries sent out by the Church of Scotland were
very usefill, yet their influence was necessarily
of a far inferior description to that of established
clergymen; and the want of accommodation wits
such, that he himself, when employed iti that ser-
vice, had usually preached under a tree, or a rock,
to is cave, or in a barn.

JAMEI.GRANT. Esq. 11'riter to the Signet, men-
tioned some striking iustaners of the success of the
Catholic Missionaries from the want of established
Churches. Among others lie instanced one parti-
cular district, of very considerable extent arid po-
pulation, where, at the close of the 17th century,
there was not a single Catholic ; but being destitute
of the ministry of a regular Protestant Clergyman,
• Catholic Priest from Ireland land landed its it, and
in the course of hallo century the whole population,
with scarcely an exception, were re-converted back
to the Catholic superstition.
Dr. Nicot.t. then moved, that the House should
appoint a Committee to draw up a strong case to
be transmitted to Government, and to take into
consideration what would be the hest means for
supplying the deficiency of churches, whether by
new parishes or chapels of ease, and also what would
be the best memos for obtaining fonds for the sup.
port of the additional establishments, &c.
Dr. Axneasom said that they ought particularly
to have in view, in this case, the greatness of the
existing evils, and the best remedy for removing
that evil. He stated, upon the authority of is cor-
respondent its the Highlands, that the most imini-
neat evil was the spread of the Catholic religiori ;
and, therefore, be was of opinion that the mere
erection of churches is not sufficient, but that new
parishes should be formed, and proper provision
made for the officiating clergy.
Sir H. Motu:Rum wished to have a Committee
appointed for furnishing particular information to
Government, and moved that the Commission
should draw up a memorial to be transmitted to
Parliament ; and he stated that a Rev. Gentleman
(Dr. Inglis) now iii the house, though not a Ment-
ioee of the Commission, had taken the trouble to
sketch out a memorial, which he proposed should
be read to the Meeting.
Dr. iNG us accordingly read his memorial, point-
ing out, in a very forcible manner, the extreme
importance of increasing the number of Churches
in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands atillnia-
nufacturing districts. Ile mentioned, as extraur-
nary instances of the disproportion between the
population and the established religious accommo-
dation, the parish of St. Cuthbert's, at Edinburgh,
and that of the Barony, at Glasgow, each of them
containing full 40,000 inhabitants, with only one
Established Church. These were extreme cases,
but there were many of a sundae nature, though
less extraordinary, and uiultitudes had become
Dissenters rather from necessity than choice.
It War at last agreed that a 0)11111111We should he
appointed to draw up a memorial to be submitted
to the consideration of the Comniimiori, of which
Committee Dr. Inglis was to be a Member, mud
his sketch to be adopted as the basis of the memo-
rial to Government; and on the motion of Sir
Harry Moricreitf, it was agreed to adjourn till the
following day (Friday), at ter: o'clock, to receive the
report of the Committee, which was unanimously
agreed to.
In the course of the discussion, the following Gem
denten delivered their sentiments :—Dr. D. Ritchie,
Edinburgh; Dr. A. Irvine, Little Dunked ; James
Grout. Esq. ; Dr. Duncan Macfarlane. Dryinere ;
the Procurator; Mr. George Andrew, writer; Mr.
G. Murray. North Berwick; Dr. R. Anderson.
Edinburgh; Sir H. Moncredf, Sr. Crithbert's ; Dr.
A. Rankine. Glasgow ; Mr. William Inglis, W.S. ;
Thomas H. Miller, Esq.; Dr. Aleiklejohn; R.
MiDonald, Esq. of Staffs; Walter Cook, Esq. he,
Friday the Cominiasiort met again, pursuant to
their adjournment of Thursday. The report of the
Committee was read by the Clerk, and unanimously
agreed to. Three copies were ordered to be made
out, and transmitted to the Earl of Liverpool, Lord
Viscount Melville, and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.

BAOII.-40 " Ten Centuries of Observations."
published by Nrcuots in 1809. there is this anec-
dote of the Earl of H•IIDWICILI4 ao any 3 ears
Lord Chancellor:—

" The Chascellor is furnished every year with a new Bag
for the Great Sgal ; but as one is nor wanted so unto, his
Lordship reserved a sew use every now and rhea, till at hat
baring pot • maroon' number, he had them wrought into •
bed, as so many ornaments; and the bed, winch may exhibit
• /Irmo or move of than pawns, is now in bang at Wan-
pole." V. 230.
—Query. Flow does the present CRANcEttoa
dib-
polte of the superfluous bap or purees ?