The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-09 00:00:00

hosrd :JOHN RUSSELL said he would endeavour to
answer the question put by., the hon. gentleman to the best
of his power. With regard the Executive Council and th.e
necessity for special instructions, on that point the Governor
having the power to appoint for a time such persons to be
members of the Executive Council as he should think fit, Lord
Durham had made use of that power by summoning to his
Council certain persons whose names had appeared. The
ndmber of those persons was five, and all of them connected
in some way or other with the Government of Lower Canada.
With respect to the appointment of the Special Council, Lord
Durham had authority given him to appoint a number of per-
sons, not less than five by his own Act, to form part of that
Special Council. The papers which were about to be given to
the other House of Parliament he should have no objection to
produce. The Right Hon. Gentleman made a correct in-
fere!sce when he said that as Lord Durham had thought it ex-
pedient to call persons to his Executive Council not connected
with the parties in the province, he would probably follow the
same principle in the selection of his Special Council.
With respect to the further question of the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, whether the instructions that had been laid on the
table were abandoned, his answer was, that these instructions
remained in the same situation, and there had been no
variation or abandonment of them.—( Hear, hear.) He was
persuaded Lord Durham had used his best discretion in the
exercise of the authority that had been vested in him. The prin-
ciples on which Lord Durham had proceeded had met with
general concurrence, as expressed in addresses from various
parts of the provinces.
Mr. HUME thought it would be much fairer for the consi-
deration of this question if the Right Hon. Gentleman would
move for the production of papers ; that would give many an
opportunity of commenting on what had fallen from the Right
Hon. Gentleman, because he had made many observations
well worthy of consideration, especially when it was recollected
the Right Hon. Gentleman and his party had concurred with
Ministers in giving arbitrary power to the Government.
Lord J. RUSSELL (in answer to a further question from
Sir E. Sugden) said he had no objection to the production
of the letter signed by Mr. C. Buller.

MORNING SITTINGS.
Lord DUNGANNON asked whether it was the intention
of the Government to introduce for discussion measures of im-
portance, similar for instance to the Irish Tithe Bill, at the
morning sittings, because it was next to impossible for Mem-
bers who had many demands on their time to attend in that
House.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought it was perfectly possible
for all Members to attend the House from twelve to four.
at an expense of 5,000/. to the country, but had never been in
any public office; and Colonel Napier had been refused by Sir
George Murray (who lie had been told had possession of the
surveys), permission t.) inspect them ; and it now aupeared
SURVEY OF THE PENINSULA.
Mr. LEADER wished to put a question to the Secretary-
at War (Lord Hoick) in regard to certain surveys of the
Peninsula, which had been made at the close of the Peninsular
war by Captain Mitchell. These surveys had been made
that these sun eys were to be published by private speculation.
Was Vii s a correct statement?
Lord 110 WICK said all the informationhe could give upon
the subject was contained in a return already before the House.
The surveys had not been made through the War-cffiee, nor
had they ever passed through that office.
Mr. LEADER said, if he could get no information on the
subject, he should give an early notice respecting it.
Mr. O'CONNE LL asked if the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer could furnish no information respecting this expenditure
of 50001. of the public money; representing, as he did, the
Exchequer of the period when those surves were made
Sir 11. HA RD IN G E rose, and was

(LEFT SITTING).

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The House met at four o'clock. e.hen✓Lora Lismore was
introduced by Lords Howard de Walden awl Glime!g, when
he tool•: the owl's and hi; seat, upon his elcv;tioa to the ILizish
Peerage.

The LOTH) CHANCELLOR resumed his seat on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

The Duke of CLEVELAND presented numerous peti-
tions from the county of Durham and the North Riding of the
county of York, praying for the iromediwe abolition of the
apprenticeship in the West Indies.
The Earl of RADNOR wished to ask a quesri, n of the
Noble Duke and the Noble Marquis, the Chancellors of the
Universities of Oxford and Carxbridge, and he hoped that he
might be allowed to premise it wit❑ a few observaions.
Last year the ll.:use was led to believe that the
Universities were intending to make great alter itions
in their statutes—the Colleges had done nothing, and the Uni-
versity in Convoca'iou had done something that actually
amounted to nothing. Afier stating that he had been de-
ceived, he begged tl ask the two heads of the Universities
what had been done to carry out the promises of last year ?
The Duke of WELLINGTON complained that the Noble
Earl had not correctly quoted the dissuasion of last year.
The House last Sessio❑ threw out the Bill proposed by the
Noble Earl, and then he had stated that the work of revising
the statutes of the University was already in operation. The
Noble Earl had not only asked a question, but had answered
it himself, and to comment upon what had been
done by the Uni, ersity of Oxford. The Noble Earl had not
only commented upon what had been done with his usual ac-
cumen, but he had been prompted by the Noble Baron, the
Chancellor of the Welty of Lancaster. Now, he thought
the Universities w.re entitled to look for encouragement
and support from her Majesty's Ministers against any
such question as had been put—( Hear, hear, hear)—in
place of one of them assisting and prompting one of their
enemies. Ile thought the Noble Earl had answered his own
question, but he had no objection to say that the University of
Oxford had commenced to review the Statutes, but he refused
to give any other answer. He called upon the House to allow
the heads of the University to go on in the consideration
of their own Statutes, and when they had finally done so, if
the House did not approve of the changes they had made, then
would be the time for their Lordships' interference —( Cheers.)
The Marquis of CAMDEN rose, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Ships arrived since
Per lon. s. d.
Artair's l7 9
Bute's Tanfield Moor l9 0
Original Win.lgor Pontop
Russell's High Main l6 6
South Tan field
South Hartley is 6
Wylina
W,lls End Rewieke and Co ;2l 0
Walls End Brown's
Walls End Heaton 2O 9
Walls End Killingworth
Walls End Nerwmareh l9 0
Walls End Perkins
Walls End Riddell's .. .

last market-day,

___......
rer '1 on S. d.
Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 2410
Walls End Hetton 23 3
Walls End Lambton 23 3
Walls End Lyons 2l 6
Walls End Stewart's 23 3
Walls End Hartlepool 23 6
Dixon's Butterknowl l6 3
Walls End Barrett 2O 9
Walls End Deanery l9 3
Walls End Seymour Tees
Walls End South Dt.rham 2O 6
Walls End St. Helen's Tees 2O 9
Walls End Tees 2l 6
Walls End West Tees l9 9

A very numerously attended meeting, which was
conducted with great spirit, took place at the Town Hall, on Thursday
evening, relative to the encroachments on the downs, and the nume-
rous Pathways and roads that have been stopped up in the vicinage of
this town. It is not long since that the Lords of the Manor tried to
monopolise all the sand and beach, and to compel every builder to
purchase those materials of them. Through the public spirit of the
inhabitants that arbitrary design was frustrated; but that sinks into
Insignificance when compared with the encroachments which have been
Made upon public property in every part of Brighton, and which en-
croachments, we trust, will be as successfully resisted as was the attempt
to monopolise the sand and beach. We have hundreds of poor rogues
committed lo the treadmill for petty thefts; but it would seem that
some popular men can stand by and see the town robbed of its public
lands by wholesale without uttering one word of remonstrance or
making the least attempt to do justice on the wholesale robbers.—
Brighton Herald.
ROLLS' COURT, FRIDAY.—Lord Langdale gave
judgment iii the case cf " Tarleton v. Barnes," which, he observed,
came before the Court upon a plea, alleging that in March, 1832, the
plaintiff filed a bill against him in the Court of Exchequer respecting the
same matter, and that upon being served with process, he on the 25th of
April, 1835, appeared and put in a plea, which was allowed, but that the
suit was not dismissed, and was still pending. The question raised was,
whether the allowance of the plea in the Court of Exchequer (which was
referred to in the present plea) determined the suit, and operated as a
dismissal of the bill. He had inquired into the practice of the Court of
Exchequer, and with some variation in respect of costs, it was substan-
tially similar to the practice in this Courtin similar cases. On the allow-
ance of such a plea in the Court of Exchequer, the defendant obtained
30s. costs ; but the effect was not to dismiss the bill and put an end to
the suit. If the case was such that the effect of the plea could not be
avoided by the amendment of the bill, the allowance of the plea would
be an effectual bar to any further prosecution of the suit, but the bill was
not consequently dismissed. He must allow the plea, and also the costa
of the suit.

Accounts from all parts of the ccuntry speak of the
wheat crop as prodigiously improved within the last fortnight; indeed,
it is everywhere coming into ear most propitiously.

CURIOUS CUSTOM.—In the parishes of Congres-
bury and Puxton, Somersetshire, are two large pieces of common land,
called East and West Dolemoors (from the Saxon dal, which signifies a
share or portion), which are divided into single acres, each bearing a
peculiar and different mark cut in the turf—such as a horn, four oxen,
and a mare, two oxen and a mare, a pole-axe, cross, dung fork, oven,
duck's nest, band-reel, and a hare's tail. On Old Midsummer Day sere.
ral proprietors of the :estates in the parishes of Congresbury, Puxton,
and Week St. Lawrence, or their tenants, assemble on the commons. A
number of apples are previously prepared, marked in the same manner
with the before.mentioned act es, which are distributed by a young lad to
each of the commoners, from a bag or hat. At the close of the dis.
tribution each person repairs to his allotment, as his apple directs
him, and takes possession for the ensuing year. An adjournment then
takes place to the house of the overseer of the Dolemoors (an officer an-
nuallY elected from the tenants), where four acres, reserved for the lair_
pose of paying expenses, are let by inch of candle, and the remainder of
the day is spent in sociability and hearty mirth.

The Prince de Ligne's banquet, given yesterday at
the Clarendon Hotel, was In a style of extraordinary magnificence. The
table was placed in the celebrated banqueting room built by the first
Earl of Buckinghamshire. In the centre of the table was a plateaux of
silver gilt, which is said to hare cost twelve thousand pounds. The
guests consisted of the Duke de Nemours, Marshal Soult, Prince Ester-
hazy,
Prince Schwarzenberg, Count Strogonoff, and the other Ambassa-
dors Extraordinary, &c.
The Gazette des Tribunaux states that for some
time past the police have been aware of the existence of a formidable
band of thieves, nearly sixty in number, and composed principally of old
offenders. Many of these have been taken with evident proofs of their
guilt ; but a few days since a most important capture was made of a
iamily, named Roux, Consiring of a father, mother, three sans, and two
daughters-in-law, who lived in the Rue des Hosiers, near the Mont-de-
Piete, but had depots for their stolen articles in different parts of Paris.
These have been discovered and searched, and clocks, watches, plate,
jewels, linen, and other articles to such an amount werediscovered, that
it required two carts to convey them to the Prefecture. The number of
this band, and the extent of thcir robberies, have been attributed to the
vicious system of allowing liberated convicts to take up their domicile in
large towns, under surveillance, it is true, but which they soon contrite
to evade. This system will, it is said, in consNitei.ce of this discovery
be altered. •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP CHANCERY, Jury 7

U. MORGAN

This was an appeal from the Vice-Chancellor on the con-
struction of the will of Mr. Boys, who died in 1836. This
will, dated in June, 1835, was singular in its language.
" To mv friends and relations who may be curious to in-
quire be- it known that a few years back, of my own free
will, I gave to Eliza Morgan all my furniture, table and
bed linen, and apparel, plate, watches, and trinkets of any
kind then in my possession, pianoforte, all my .MSS., li-
brary i papers, &c., whatever have been added and may
hereafter be added previous to my decease, without any
exception whatever, to her sole use and disposal, under
promise from her that she will take care that I shall never
be in want of any article es long as I live. Having at-
tained to the eighty-second year of my existence, and finding
the infirmity of age increasing, I chose to give her this
voucher of the truth that none may trouble or question her
to make declaration of it. She knoweth that thirty years
ago, I agreed with Dr. Hector Campbell that he should have
my carcass for chemical and anatomical experiments, to be by
him performed on it, if he could prevail on her to give it him.
Doubting her compliance I will trouble my head no more about
it. The world may think this arises from a spirit of singu-
larity ; be this as it may, I have always had a mental aversion
to funeral pomp and expense, and therefore would rather be
given away, with the stun a funeral would cost, fur purposes
of dissection and chemical experiments. I guess there is
sutlicient in my hanker's hands to defray and discharge my
debts which I wish Eliza Morgan to do, and keep the residue
for her own use and pleasure." The question raised by the
will was, whether the residue of the estate, after the payment
of debts, passed to Eliza Morgan, who had cohabited with the
testator for many years before his death.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, after a careful examination of the
will, could not entertain the slightest doubt that the gift of the
residue was a general disposition of the whole of the testator's
property in favour of' Eliza Morgan, after the payment of
debts. On the whole, his Lordship thought the Vice-Chan-
cellor was right, and dismissed the appeal, but without costs,
as he could not say it was not a matter for reconsideration by
another court.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULT 7.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF MANSFIELD.

BE HIGHGATE SCHOOL.

Mr. Knight Bruce stated that this petition was presented by
the relators in compliance with the request of several of the
most influential inhabitants of Highgate, who conceived that
it would be of very general advantage that means should be
provided for the appointment of an additional master in the
school, and an opportunity of making such an arrangement now
occurred, which might not happen again for many years to
come. The present master of the school had been lately
presented to a living, a?d had given notice of his inten-
tion to retire. Now, therefore, was the time, if ever, that
a provision should be made to meet the views of the peti-
tioners, before the appointment of another gentleman, per-
haps in the promise of life, whose vest.‘d interests might
retard the contemplated improvement for the next fifty
years. This information was filed many years ago to
establish the relative rights of a grammar school and a chapel
at gighgate, which were endowed in the year 1565 by Sir
Roger Cholmoley. The decree was pronounced in the year
1826 by Lord Eldon, which declared as regarded the school
that the charity founded by Sir Roger Cholmeley is a charity
for the sustentation and maintenance of a free grammar school
for teaching the learned languages, and a reference was made
to the Master to approve of a scheme for the future manage-
mont and regulation of the charity, as such charity as the same
was thereby declared to be, having reference and regard to
the statutes and ordinances proved in the suit, or which should
be proved before him to have been duly made for the regula-
tion of the charity, so far as the same could be applied to the
then present state of the revenues of the charitable foundation.
After 11.,ar7ng the statements of Counsel at considerable
len zth, his honour, in giaing judgment, said he must at
present act upon the principle of Lord Eldon in the case of the
Leeds school, in which his Lordship said " I do not appre-
hend it is competent to this Court, as long as it can find any
means of applying the charitable fund to the charity as created
by the founder, upon atiy general notion that any other appli-
cation would be more beneficial to the inhabitants of the place
to change the nature of the charity." His Honour, therefore,
refused the prayer of the petition.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JULY 7.
COOPER V. LAWSON.

This was an action for a libel published in the Times news-
paper. The defendant had pleaded a justification.
Mr. TIIESSIGER stated the case. The circumstances out of
which the libel arose were shortly these. At the last general
election two Conservatives, Mr. Hodgson and Mr. W. Holmes,
were elected Members for the town of Barwick-upon-Tweed.
A petition was presented against their return, and the plain-
tiff and another person became their sureties for the due pro-
secution of the petition. Two officers were appointed under
the Act of Parliament relating to such matters to exa-
mine into the sufficiency of tendered sureties. The one
was Mr. Ley, the Chief Clerk of the House of Commons,
the other was a Master in Chancery. Mr. Cross, one of the
Masters, was appointed on this occasion. The plaintiff was of
Liberal principles, ant therefore, thoufzli not directly con-
nected with the town of Berwick upon-Tweed, but resident in
London, he joined another gentleman in offering himself as
surety for the petitioners. This was in December, 1837.
For a year before this time he had been carrying on business
as a factor in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East: but, previously
to the close of 1836, he had been in partnership with a person
named Creer. In December, 1836, that partnership was dis-
solved, and the plaintiff then began business on his own
account. His house in Suffolk-street was very hand-
somely furnished. His business was worth 3,0001. He
had other property, and there was, therefore, no doubt
that he could truly describe himself in a recognizance as
worth 5001. after the payment of all his debts. lie did so
describe himself. It was important for the Conservative
patty to prevent or to stifle the petition, if possible, so they
succeeded in procuring two persons, named Bedwood and
Smith, to come forward before the Committee to dispute the
sufficiency of the suref es. The libel, as it appeared in the
Times, was copied from the Berwick Warder, but was headed,
" More exposures." The Learned Counsel here read the
libel, which stated, in substance, that neither of the sureties
(the plaintiff being one of them) had the slightest connection
with Berwick-upon-Tweed, but that both of them had been
procured for a job, "no doubt for a consideration." The
libel then went on to declare that the agent for the sitting
member was in a condition to rebut all this repetition of the
parties' hard swearing, and asked, in his turn, for time to
do so. The clerk of the plaintiff's attorney proved the
publication.

The ATTORNEY•GENERAL after evidence had been gone into,
on behalf of the defendant, considered the evidence brought
forward for the plaintiff to be a most miserable failure.
The jury retired for about an hour and twenty minutes, and
then returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 7.
CLIFTON V LAKIN.

This was an action of crim. con.
_ _

Mr. KELLY, in opening the plaintiff's case, said that he ap-
peared there in behalf of a man in humble circumstances, who
carried on his business as a dyer in the town of Romford, in
Essex. Previously to the unfortunate occurrence which gave
rise to the present action, he understood that the plaintiff's
wife had always conducted herself in a highly respectable
manner, and the plaintiff had no reason to suspect her of any
improprieties ; she had always appeared attached to her hus-
band, and a fond and affectionate mother to her children. The
defendant was a gentleman of independent fortune, who had
resided in the neighbourhood of Epping, and he was sorry to
add, that he was a married man, and the father of a
family. Now, on the 29th of May, 1837, the defend-
ant went in the course of the morning to the plaintiff's
shop, left a handkerchief to be dyed, and gave his own
name. Previously to that visit the plaintiff was not aware of
any communications or correspondence which might have
taken place between his wife and the defendant ; but, how-
ever, it would appear in evidence before them that on the same
day, between the hours of twelve and one, Mrs. Clifton, and
Mr. Larkin were conversing in the public streets of Romford.
After that interview Mrs. Clifton went home to dinner, and
after dinner went out with a boy on some errand connected
with the business. She left the boy, desiring him to wait for
her, and proceeded out of the high road into a small lane to a
very retired and unfrequented spot, when she met Mr. Larkin.
It did, however, happen, notwithstanding the nature of the
place, that some men at work in a neighbouring farm called
the Little Pettits, saw them in conversation together in the
lane, and that one of those men, having watched their pro-
ceedings, actually saw some things which could leave no doubt
as to the fact that criminal intercourse had taken place between
the parties. He understood that the crime was committed at
a gateway which retired some short distance from the lane.
This occurred on Monday, May 29; and the facts having
reached the plaintiff's ears, nothing was left to him but to adopt
the course which he had pursued. Subsequent to the disco-
very of her disgrace, Mrs. Clifton had exhibited the deepest
mental distress ; and, indeed, that distress had so far over-
come her reason that she had attempted, but in vain, to
destroy herself.
Mr. Sergeant Wit,DE addressed the Jury on behalf of ,the
defendant, after which
s. _

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 501.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UNION HALL.

FURTHER MAGISTERIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE LAMBETH
NIURDER.—Messrs. Jeremy and Traill were engaged some
hours in t'-eir private room investigating the circumstances at-
tending this mysterious tr,u'edv. The news that the owner of
the gloves which were found at the of the bed of the mur-
dered woman had been traced by the police, spread, as might
be supposed with talismanic effect among the inhabitants of
Lambeth, and there appeared throughout the morning to be
no abatement of public excitement and curiosity to obtain the
facts that might be elicited.

Mr. PELIIANI, the solicitor, attended to conduct the pro.
ceecliugs on bealf of the decease3's relittives, and Inspector
Field wai present by direction of the Metropolitan Police
Commissioners.

The object of the present inqiiiry was to ascertain how far
the onner of the gloves had any knowledge of the deceased,
and in the course of the investigation some extraordinary and
highly important, not to say conclusive, points, bearing upon
the p,:rpe:rator of the deed, were disclosed, which, however,
at the present stage of the proceedings, it would be injuf,
cious to give publicity to, as they might interfere with the ex-
ertions of the police, and consequently thwart the ends of jus-
tice. The gloves, which bore the initials " S. K. T.," were it
will be remembered by our readea, of a dark lavender colour i

and the circumstance of their being discovered led to the sup-
position that neither the " fore'gner," who was said to have
(kee, sea home, was nu ire Binary hieii Oar
that th, pr,:ductioh of the soi di.sarst " John Walter
Cavendish" was an invention to gratify a depraved taste.
The labour and indefatigability of Inspector Field, assisted
by Mr. Pelham, has been of no ordinary kind to bring :bout
the present investigation. Soon after the magistrates had
commenced the usual night charges, Mr. skinner, jun.,
the extensive tobacconist near Temple.bar, accompanied
by two friends, together with a gill of the town named
Chaplin and another female, entered the justice room, when
the public business was forthwith suspended, and the following
evidence was entered into before the magistrates in an adjoin-
ing room.

TMr. Skinner recollected visiting the woman Chaplin in
January last, at her lodgings, No. 39, East street, Red Lion-
street, Holborn. Ile then had a pair of lavender kid gloves
on, which he had previously purchased at the shop of Mr.
Cording, a glover, res'ding in the Strand. He was not aware
that he left his gloves behind him at Chaplin's. He was not
at all acquainted with the deceased, Eliza Grimwood, nor was
he aware that Chaplin was connected by relationship to her
until some time after the murder had Leen committed. Sub-
sequent to that event, on his visiting Chaplin, she fell down
on her knees and cried violently, and on his inquiring the
cause he ascertained that the ill-fated Grim wood was Chap-
lin's aunt. Witness was ill during February, and did not visit
Chaplin ; but it was quite possible he might have left the
gloves at her place in January.
Caroline Chaplin was niece to the deceased woman, Eliza
Grimwood, anti lived at No. 39, East-street, Red Lion-street.
She recollected seeing the gloves produced at her lodging in
February last. The deceased called upon witness in Fe-
bruary, which was the only time she had seen the deceased
for the last three years. She could not tell how the gloves
came to be found at the house, No. 12, Wellington-terrace.
She could not say whether the deceased or witness's companion
took them away. She recollected taking them out of her
drawers and cleaning a teapot with them. They were too
large, and she was about to throw them into the fire when
Rebecca, her companion, asked her for them, but whether she
took them or not witness did not know.
By Mr. PELTlAM.—Witness went to No. 12, Wellington-
terrace, on the Sunday after the murder, and there she saw
Hubbard and his mother, with Best and the girl Glover. On
her entering the passage Hubbard seized her by the hand and
threw himself down upon his knees and exclaimed, " Oh, oh,
oh 1" Witness requested him to get up, which he did ; and,
in answer to her inquiries, he told her that he supposed some
foreigner had wanted to do something against Eliza's will, and
that her refusal had caused her to be murdered. He also said
he had heard the dog bark during the night, and he felt S 3
strange that he could not sleep. About four o'clock he came
down stairs and saw that Eliza had been murdered; he put her
hands to her breast, and saw her eyes mvve. Mr. Best then
interposed, and said Hubbard must be mistaken, to VI hich the
latter replied, " I tell you that her eyes were open ; 31E:
looked at me, and I never shall forget the look she gave me."
[This evidence, which is quite new, made an evident im-
pression upon the Magistrates and upon Mr. Pelham.]
Mr. Skinner was asked by the Bench if he accompanied the
deceased home on the night previous to the discovery of thu
murder, when he answered in the negative.
Rebecca Ryan formerly lived with the woman Chaplin, and
that she was now living at a house of ill-fame, No. 2, Ann-
street, Waterloo road. She could not identify the gloves
now produced, but she recollected seeing a similar pair in
Chaplin's possession. Witness added that she had no recol
lection of asking Chaplin for the gloves. She did not take
them away, and could not account for them being found in
Wellington-terrace.
The Magistrates expressed their opinion that it was now
placed beyond doubt that the Cavendish letter was a wicked fa-
brication, and that the circumstances mentioned of a pair of
gloves having been left behind was an assumption that chanced
to prove correct ; but that only p irtially so, inasmuch as the
gloves were stated to be black kid, and turned out to be la-
vender. coloured.

After some further renurks from the Magistrates the rrarties
retired. Steps, it was afterwards said, were about to he taken
that would lead to an. important result.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Thursday afternoon
an inquest was held at the Roebuck, in Southwark, before Mr. Payne,
on the body of Mr. Jeffrey Taalcy Winsbarrow, aged 42, late master of
a West Indiaman, when after hearing evidence at some length, and
reading several communications on the subject, the jury returned a ver-
dict " that the deceased committed suicide whilst labouring under a fit
of temporary insanity, produced by the excitement arising from thu
frauduleat hill transactions in which he has been engaged."
On the Ist of September next the London and
Southampton Railway will be open as far as the great western road
leading to Exeter, and the Southampton end as far as Winchester,
snaking in the whole 53 miles of this great undertaking completed.
About six months since John Callaghan, one et
the rate. collectors of St. Paul's, Corent-garden, was sentenced tra„.
portation, at the Central Criminal Court, for defalcations in, his ac-
counts He has since died on board of the infirmary ship at the hulks,
having been in a very 11l state of health at his trial, which continued
until the period of his death.
Tj.
sStaArkLeT
EAsSq
A meeting
.11;T:1—Lieutenant F.
Roberts, late of her Majesty's ship 11I—n. The former gentleman,
0 okApEtaFceA onIR FOrFidally lOasNt,ObeUtsßveeAn
attended by A. Jenkinson, Esq., left the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, in a
chaise and four, at air early hour in the morning; the latter, attended
by Major Bacon (son-in-law of the Earl of Oxford), left the Globe
Hotel at the same time, for the neighbourhood of Saltash. The ground
having been fixed and the paces measured, the principals took their
places, and exchanged shots, without any injury. Mr. Starke's friend
then advanced, and asked Lieutenant Roberts if he was satisfied ? He
replied, " I leave it to my friend to decide." The seconds were about
to declare the affair at an end, when Mr. Starke observed that, consider-
ing the angry notes that had passed they ought to have another shot.
The seconds, after some consideration, consented. The pistols were
then re-loaded in the presence of the parties, the above gentlemen again
took their places, and both firing at a given signal, each ball passel
close to his opponent. The seconds then advanced, and said no further
hostilities could be permitted. Mr. Starke, addressing himself to
, Lieutenant Roberts, observed, that on the present occasion he had acted
honourably. Lieutenant Roberts paid a similar compliment, and
saluting each other, they left the ground, accompanied by their respec-
tive friends, without any reconciliation being effected. It is not correct.,
as stated in a Provincial Paper, that the dispute originated on account- o
an accomplished " fair one."
An inquest, whose proceedings have occupied ....hree
consecutive days, was held last week at Yarmouth, on the body asf Eliza-
beth Davison, who died suddenly, in the shop of a chemist and druggist
from the rupture of a varicose vein. The verdict was, that the woman
died in consequence of the improper and unskilful treatment of the
chemist.
ELSINEUR.---HAmLET.--The objects of interest
to a stranger are the castle or fortress which I have mentioned, and the
garden of Marienslust, where is to be seen what is called the grave of
Hamlet. The interior of the fortress contains nothing remarkable; the
grave is la misnomer, for Hamlet lived, reigned, and died, and was
buried in Jutland. A conspiracy had been formed against his life by step-father and mother, as the ancient Danish chroniclers state; he
feigned imbecility of mind, being aware of the plot laid to destroy him,
formed another against them, and eventually burned to death the whole
family by setting fire to a house in which they were, and stopping up the
doors. He afterwards reigned quietly and respectably, and died a as;.
tural death. I may affirm that there is no brook crowned with willr,ws
near Elsincur, where Ophelia could have perished ; and the ent'ausi-
astic reader of Shakspeare may be relieved from the pain her fate has in-
spired him with by the conclusion of its falsity. The grave of Hamlet s
as seen in Denmark, is to the back of the mansion of Marienslust,
about a stone's throw; you catch a view of the sea between a continuous
clump of trees planted in a circle, and it is noted by some scattered
square stones of small size, which appear to have once served for a ce-
notaph, and which stand on a knoll or rising mound, covered and sur-
rounded lay beech trees. I could learn nothing of their history ; they
seem little respected or thought about by the inhabitants of Elsineur
but pious and romantic pilgrims have conveyed away considerable por.
tions of them, and a few years will probably witness their total disper-
sion.—Northern Capitals of Europe.
ALLEGED MURDER.--On Tuesday night; 'a
woman named Agnes Connely or Green, wife of Peter Green, weaver in
Calton, lost her life under circumstances which have led to th s
•
tion that she has been murdered. It appears that a quarrel ha e d
ensued
on Saturday last betwixt the deceased
and a neighbour in the Brickfields
Calton—a Mrs. Lowrie, in which the former had her eye blackened •
The animosity betwixt the parties continued to be displayed in eariotts
ways till Tuesday night, when Mrs Lowrie, with her husband, entaree.
the house in which Mrs. Green lodged,
and a conflict was immediately
commenced between the two women, the result of which was that Green
was so much wounded on the head, by blows with a jug
or some other
means, that she died almest immediately after the quarrel. Mrs. Lowrie
and her husband were taken into custody by the Calttm Police., Dr.
Corkindale has examined the body of the deceased, and the w'aole ease
is in the hands of the Fiscal.—Glasgow Argus.
T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith &c., 47, Cornhill,
London ( Seven Doors from Graeechurch-street), informs thePublie,
that he offers SILVER WATCHES, on the celebrated PATENT
LEVER CONSTRUCTION (the most accurate on which a watch
can be made), for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with the latest im-
provements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes,
capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, and maintain-
ing power to continuo going while Winding )
N.B.—lf in Hunting Cases, lOs. I extra.—Second-hand
Watches purchased :n exchange.

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At M BIRTHS.
of Myl afar on the Ist inst., the lady of Wm. Powell, Esq.-
ne-street, Myddleton-square, of a son.
On the Ist inst., in Brook-street, 11,1r5..14,1m Alexander Hr.nke,
of a daughter.
On the sth inst., at Blackheath, the lady of John Caeter, Esq.,
of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., in Blackfriars'-road, Mrs. G. H. Child, of a
daughter, still-born.

MARI7-------
At the Cathedral, P rouRI5
eterbo
the Rev. R. Waterfield, 8.D.,
Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel Coller,e, Cambr;itge, to Anne,
eldest (laughter of the late Rev. R. T. arry, D. r.J., formerly Mas-
ter of the same College.
On the 30th ult., at St George's HanoYer,square, Captain Sir
Edward William Corry Astley, R.IV., to El/Po eldest daughter of
the late James Toby, Esq., of Parliatnent-street, and Richmond.
On the 3d inst., at Alton, Hants, Frederick Smith, Esq., of
Horsham, to Isabella Octavia ,
' lounge t• daughter of the late Rev-
T. James, Esq., D. D., Prebendary of Worcester.
On the sth inst., Mr. Johra Houck, of Bread-street, to Mar-
t© eldest daughter of the late N. Lowther, Esq , of Islingte;a-
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of Uxbridge, Middlesex. -
On the sth inst., Anna Ma DIED.
aria, wife of Mr. George He'l'iry Heron,
On the sth inst., Mrs. Jane Roy, of St. ntry Axe, aged 47.
On the sth inst., in Beaumont-stree ai*ed 60 James Hugo.
of . 2
Green well, Esq.
On the sth inst., in Clone,
aged 78.
On the sth inst. , '.
In Sou::
Hughes, Esq., a,d „. ' ..t ,ter-terrace r-et ee rt:•ac;; n
sNb
uinryi ans
ciPuaarteo,n,HEesnqr.y,
On the 4tl, 'insq. "'
, in Canonbury-place, Islington, Thomas Swain,
Esq., P- -d -3
Rev. Ricl4rd
ead ,14_
,in the 5t inst., Sophia Georniana, youngest daughter, of tl,-,
grove Chelseaßoberts, of Caversham, Oxon, late of Whiten

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112 !lilted and Pubb,hed by iIIURDO YOUNG,of e-
, Strand, at The Sun Odic s, No. 112, Strand, in the counts
of Middlesea.—Monday, daly 9, 183t3.