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London, England, 1825-12-29 00:00:00

to exemption from contributing to defray the ex-
pence of prosecuting the offender.
The charge upon the county is already suffi-
ciently large in carrying into execution those
sentences w hich both the Courts of Oyer, &c. and
Quarter Sessions have pronounced, and it is far
better to leave the expellees of prosecution on the
Counties. We desire to see private persons in all
cases exempted from the charge of a public pro-
secution, and happy should we have been if the
Committee had found no " difficulty in suggest-
ing by what means the expellees of prosecutions
may be diminished," for we think that 15/. for
the prosecution of a man for stealing to the value
of is far more than enough.

The following article, dated Vienna, Dec. 10,
appears in the Augsburgh Gazette. The pre-
sence of Sir Hudson Lowe in this capital excites
very great curiosity. Crowds go to the apart-
ments of Prince Metternich, and to the French
and English embassies, to get a sight of hint ; but
however great may be the services he has ren-
dered the Holy Alliance, it is felt as an incon-
venience that he should present himself in a Ca-
pital which is the residence of the son of Napo-
leon, who lives in the bosom of the reigning fa-
mily, who justly regard him with the most utiec-
: tionate solicitude.
The Protestant Religion is making progress in
Italy. Churches are now erected in Rome, Leg-
horn, Venice, Bergamo, and other parts.
A letter from Liverpool mentions the arrival
at that port of Dr. FlAttels, from North America.
This gentleman was sent out by Government to
assist in arranging the boundary line between the
United States and the British possessions in
Upper Canada, particularly as to the territory
in the vicinity of the lake in the woods. The
letter mentions also that authentic accounts had
been received (by the return of the canoes be-
longing to the Hudson's Bay Company), of the
safe arrival of the North West expedition, under
Capt. Franklin, at Athabasca, *here they had
fixed their winter quarters. The party were all
in good health and in high spirits.

LOCAL NOTts.—Yesterday week a meeting
was held in the Exchange Coffee-room, Preston,
to consider of the best means of clearing the
town of every description of provincial notes, that
the circulating medium might he confined to the
coin of the realm and Bank of England notes. A
considerable number of manufacturers,merchants,
tradesmen, and others, being assembled, Mr.
GILBERTSON was requested to take the chair ;
and having ()pealed the business, Mr. I'. GLA Ran
stated, that the main object of the present meet-
ing was to find out some mode of getting rid of the
provincial notes now in the town. They had
long been a nuisance and a clog to trade,
and the sooner they were sent to their
proper homes the better. It had been men-
tioned, and he considered the plan a good
one, that a depot should be appointed where
the notes night be taken, and forwarded to
their respective issuers, making a charge upon
each note to cover the expellee of trnnsmission
This would at all events clear the town for a
time : as to putting a stop to them altogether, he
was afraid that could not be accomplished.—
After a desultory conversation, chiefly as to whe-
ther a temporary or more permanent depot should
be established, it was finally agreed that the ope-
rations of the plan should be limited to the next
Monday.—( Manchester Mercury.) -
We have been informed of the conduct of a
Clergyman, who resides in a village in the vi-
cinity of this city, which forms an example worthy
of imitation at this peculiar crisis. This gentle-
man has been making inquiry amongst his poor
neighbours for the holders of those notes which
have ceased to become payable, owing to the
failure of a bank in this city, and has generously
given good notes or cash in exchange for them,
taking upon himself that inconvenience which n
temporary delay in the payment of their full
amount must have caused to fall with distressful
presure upon their needy possessors.--(I ork
Courant.)
Mr. HENRY BENGOUOII, the Actor, whose
death we reported on Tuesday last, has been in
the profession 30 years, holding respectable si-
tuations in Liverpool, Bath, Bristol, and the
London Theatres. In private life he was a most
amiable character, and generally admired for his
affability and good nature. Ile was in his bOth
year, leaving a widow and three sons to
lament his loss. We understand his brother
Managers at the Coborg will render ie very
facility in their power, by a Benefit for the Fa-
mily, which we make no doubt will be supported
by every admirer of real merit, and that the
public will give their unsolicited assistance upon
an occasion which claims universal sympathy.
WoncesTrt, Dc.c. 26.—The veteran INCLE..
DON. is now making a short sojourn in this city.
It is truly exhiliarating to notice the firmness
and vigour with which this " child of song" bears
his years, whilst we are told by those who have
been so fortunate as to hear him, that his singing
and voice now display, with but little impair, all
that fire, energy, and excellence, which in his
younger days left him without a rival.
THE LASS OF RICHMOND•HILL.—The follow-
ing narrative of the LASS of RrcitHOND-lIILI. is founded on
facts well-known in the neighbourhood of Richmond :—The
story is simply as follows—A young lady, equally accomplish.
ed in mind and body, the daughter of a merchant of immense
wealth, resident on Richmond-bill, had consented to receive
the addresses of a young officer, of exemplary character, and
respectable parents, but poor. lie belonged to a regiment of
cavalry then quartered at Richmond ; but his offers were re.
jected by her father on account of that poverty. Apprehensions
of a clandestine marriage being entertained, the officer was for-
bidden the house, and the young lady was strictly confined
within its walls. Continued grief and irritation of spirits led
her, in a fit of despair, bordering on insanity, to precipitate
herself from an upper window of her father's house, and she
was dashed to pieces on the stone steps that formed the ascent
from the garden into the house. The unfortunate young man
afterwards served in America, and was shot at the head of his
company. This is the outline ; the rest is embellishment.
T. S. CALowELL, Esq., of the Temple, has
been appointed one of the Police Magistrates at
Union Hall, in the room of L. B. ALLAN, Esq.,
resigned.