The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-05 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind W.—Arrived the (.larente,.
from Santa Cats t Four Brothers, from Norway; Nimble cue.
t 1., from a cruise; and his Majesty's ship Menai, from the
Isle of France, with Sir ROBERT PARQOII4-1:, late Governor
of the Mauritius, and family on board.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 3—Wind W.—Arrived in the Sound
the Lady ICennaway, Swifly, from Portsmouth for Calcutta..
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 3.7—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Ann,
Lacy, Baker, from London for Africa ; Susanna, Clark, for
Naples, and sailed again; American ship North America,
from Savannah in 26 days. Sailed the Aguilar, Watson, for
the Cape of Good Hope sad Vain Diemen's Land.
DEAL, SEPT. 4.—Wind W.—Passed through for London
• the Heart of Oak, Robertson, front Demerara ;.• Alexander,
Evrington, from (.2uebec; and Daniel; Allen, from the South
Seas, with 2,000 barrels of sperm oil—left the Prince of Orange
at St. Helena. Arrived_ the Britannia, from St. Kitt's ; Pa_
Jambam, from Virginia. Sailed the Cretan, Gulliver, for the
South Seas. Passed at the back of the Goodwin Sands a Bus-
i Government ship, for Portsmouth.Sts •
P.M----The ship Glory, from Africa, has just arrived,
under quaranrine—The brig Ibis, Slithers, from Charente to
London, with wines and brandy, is on the Nalnis Shoal, oil'
Deal Castle; but if the weather holds tine, -will float off' with-
out much damage.
IVriristravEm, SPPT. 1.--A vessel of about M.'o tons,
laden with timber, struck on Branock Isle, on the coast of oal.
way, The 21st ult., and went to pieces;, about 200 b'nsms saved,
marked OR and CD. '

a ifl nattvesT.---Froin the accounts in the va-
rious Provincial Papers it appears that, with a few exceptio!
little progress has yet beetr made, in the" harvest ; but from thc
same source we derive the consolitiary . assurance that, ex-
cepting Beans, no essential injury has been done to the
crops; and we understand, from a friend who has lately
visited various parts of England, that take them in
general, the Corn Crops of all kind's were niver ti et
or more heavy ;—indeed, the fact that, the markets can
hardly be said to rise, is evidence the', no real earns exists. In this county, however, a etheiideranie quan-
tity of corn has been cut, and much has been carried in In e.s.
cellent condition. Should we be favoured with a few weeks fine
weather, we. may fairly hope that the country will be still
blessed with the first necessary of life at a moderate rate, while
we trust, at the same time, that the grower will not labour
without profit ; for the prosperity otAgnculture is so intimately
connected with the real prosperity of the country, that neither
can long flourish while either is depressed. We cannot omit this
opporiunity of recommending to our Agricutiurai readers an at-
tention to the practice of hooding., whieh,in precarious seasons has
been found most beneficial. The immense swarms of wasps have,
in this neighbourhood,' been very troublesome to reapers, who
have, in sonic instances, found it necessary to employ the night
previous to the commencement of their labours, in destroying
the nests of those insects. In a field at Earl's Croome, near
Upton-upon Severn, a few. days since, one hundred teatswere destroyed, ant in another field, within a niite of that
place, the number found was forty-seven. It cannot be too
widely circulated that a speedy and simple antidote to their
st.ng may be found in the leaf of the broad-leaved plantain,
which, being bruised and rubbed on the part stung, will, in a
.few minutes, remove all pain and inflammation ; the same re-
medy is applicable to the stings of bees, gnats, &c. The plant
is well known : it grows in must foot paths in the fields ; lee
leaves generally lie flat on the ground, and the seed, growing
on one stem, is used to feed birds,---( Worcester Journ. Srpt. 4.)

StNovLAa dug. 2.)--ftt
May last, Kitty Wilson, a black woman residing
in Gardner, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
A lad, about ten years old, had been living with
her for some time past, and had been several
times unmercifully beaten by her. Some time ht
April the lad suddenly disappeared, and has not
since been heard of. Search was made, and his hat
found on a piece of ice in the river. From several
circumstances this woman Was suspected of having
murdered the child. No satisfactory evidence,
however, was produced against her at her exami-
nation, and she was dismissed. A few days ,in:e
she was arrested a second time, together with
one Stockbridge, who has for time made her
balsa his home, and who was living with her abut
the time the boy disappeared. On examination,
Stockbridge confessed, that going home ono day
he found the boy dead ; that he proposed calliug:
in the neighbours, but was ordered by his mistress
to be silent, and throw the body into the river ;
that accordingly he put the boy into a sack with
some stones, rowed off from the shore, and threw
it into the river, after which be placed his hat on
a piece of ice, that it might be supposed the boy
was drowned. They are both in prison to wait
the trial at the next session of the Supreme
Court.--r-(Nero York Paper).
SHOCKINO ACCIDENTS,—Yesterday Morning,
about seen o'clock, a paviour, who was at work
in King.street, Covent garden, was kilted. in
rt
moment. The 'accident was occasioned by a man
shooting a load of rubbish on the spot where the
poor fellow was stooping at Work. The tail
of
the cart coming down upon him, broke both his
neck and back.—Yesterday morning as, one of
the Covent-garden porters was preparing to
assist in unloading a waggon heavily laden,
belonging to one of the .market gardeners,
the belly,band, which was under the horse,
gave .way, and the cart Atrset., and knock-
ed dOwn the above individual, upon:. Whose
shoulders the whole weight of the cart fell. Se-
veral 'persons instantly endeavoured to extricate
the poor fellow from his perilous situation, but, •
on tire -load being removed, hefwas feaucl to be
quite dead.— Yesterday morning, abotit six
'o'clock, as a paviour's labourer *as washing him-
self 'at the pump in Aylesbury-street, Clerken-
well-green (the pavement of which is undergoing
repair), a brewer'S dray came in contact With the
poor man, arising, in a great degree, from Ms own
deafness, but more from the neglect of the draytuan.
The wheel of the..dray passed over the poor mart
in an oblique direction, from the ankle to the hip.
lie was instantly conveyed by his fellow work-
men to St. Bartholoinew's Hospital, in 'a dread.
fully mutilated state, and apparently with little
signs of life. Re appeared, however, perfectly
strangle'; for, on waiting at the gate for admis-
sion, he faintly exclaimed—" It's of no use, I
must die !" The unfortunate man is about 9.8
years of age, and we are informed that he his a
wife and several young children.

COltN EXCHANGE, SVPT. 5.
There are bus moderate q►antities of Grain arrived this
week—Wheat 3,230, Barley 150, Oats 7,500 quarters. and
Flour 4,200 sacks. Our market is now particularly affected
by the continued fineness of the weather, and it is 1411110 St
possible to make any sales to-day. Witet.t has declined from 2s,
to as. per quarter; Barley, la. per quarter; Beall*, Is, per
quarter; and Oats also are rather lower titan Alondity. The
Flour trade continues excessively heavy.

SMITHFIELD XARKET, Sr r. m.
It being tair time, the market was not so well nrovidad as
on former Fridays, in consequence of which a higher,prke
WAS demanded, but more particularly for Lamb,

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY -
Extraik from the,Marning Papers, September 5.

[MORNING, CURONICLI.]
It is curious to see how strength* resemblance
isin malty respects between the situation of Spain
at. thee present moment and that of England at
.the ,time of the Reformation. In Spain it is well,
known that the wealthy and educated are almost
to.a tannin favour of the Constitution,(with the
exception of the Grandees ,about the Court) ;
but that the very lowest of the people, many
if:whom were dependent On the charity of the
F,rifilits, have been influenced by them to
become the enemies of freedom. The greatest
blunder committed by the Cortes was the
intltrlgence 'she wn by them towards the
P`riesti, and the not parcelling out a consi-
derable portion of the Church lands among the
people as a compensation for the soup and other
food received • by them from 'the
.convents, &c:—•
The miSfortune of the ceites, however, was that
instead of doing what was requisite, they too
often did what they thought would be acceptable
to the English Government, allowing themselves
to be deluded by the idea that the Government
in question would be able to protect there against
foreign aggression.—King Henry was less scru-
pulous than the Cortes in the means be resorted
to for getting the better of his enemies. lie had,
however, a severe struggle with them, and at one
time the chances appeared almost against him.—
Ttie priests were not more willing to quit their
estates than the Monks of Spain now are, and
-they 'were equally successful with the latter in
intlueoCing the lower orders. ",.Tile bc*iolig that
were. published of the disorders in these houses
(says Bishop Burnet) had no great. effect-on the
people : for it was said, there was no
rQa
son to destroy whole houses for the sake
of some Persons, who ought to have
been driven out of them and punished.--
But to remove this general discontent, Cromwell
advisedt the. King to sell these lands "at very easy
rates to the Nobility and Geutryiand to oblige
them to keep up the wonted hospitality. This
would both be grateful to them and would engage
them to assist the Crown in the maintenance of
the changes that had been made,.since their own
interests would be interwoven with the rights of
s the Crown, and the commoner sort, wheselrudges
Tay Chiefly in their stomachs, for the want of, the
good dinners they used to.fihd, would, be easily
pacified if these were still kept up." What an
impediment Ole Roman Catholic Religion every
where interposes in the way of Reform in the de-
moralization of the lower orders

. .
LMORItING POST. j
The French Papers which -reached us las
'night by express only serve to disaPpoirit the
expectations which their arrival had excited.—
At a moment like 'the present, when.lt has been
publicly announced that the greatest operation
"`gf the whole war was to be undertaken, and
when sufficient time has elapsed for the result
-.or that operation to be known, it is natural
to
look for some intelligence on
.the subject.—
'The most. complete silence, however, is oh-
served by the Ultra and Ministerial Journah,
*.hlist those of the Opposition, barren of
.news
ihenisolves, are filled with expressions, of `-asto.
niihinent at the sudden- incommunicativeness of
.their more favoured coternporaries. This sijence
would be provoking, if it were not of good, omen
tothe cause which it. was the boast of the French
Government would be entirely crushed and anni-
hilated by the tremendous blow which was pre-
Bad any thing occurred on which to
found *even a 'pretension to success? 'the Royal
• French Preis would have strained Ifk hundred
, voices to
,proclaim it. But if the
,rumours
which continue to circulate through ;private
channels be correct, it is dumb, not because
it has nothing ..to say, but because what it has
to communicate is of a nature which it is vainly
•'"Woped. to keep secret. As this is impossible
for any length of Aline, Many days cannot pass
without our becoming acquainted with ,the real
state of the case ;'• for whether the French sue.
needed in the intended storm, or experienced a
signal de r,at, the event will certainly have been
deemd of sufficient importance by our Ambassa,
dor' to justify hint in -wilding
,art account of it •by
a special rnelsenger, whose, arrival cannot now lie
'for distant, The Journal des Dbuts contains intel-
ligence from Madrid to the (28tit ult., but it only
- relates to the 'manner in
,which
,the Festival of
St, Louis was celebrated in that capital, and the
description of
,bullfights, reviews, dinners and
concerts, 'supersedes the storminis, slaughters
apd' Military bc•astings, with which it was ex-
' peeled that the communications from that quarter
would have been filled.

[THE TIMES.
A number of .our fellow.subjectl,oti their
turn rrpm abroad, complain of a grievance which
tts :become quite intolerable—we mean the per-
, sepal search to which they are exposed from the
subaltern cancers of the Customs. Au English.
man's person is inviolable : so says the Jaw. lie
can neither he searched nor touched, unless on a
charge of felony, substantiated on the oath of a
informer,
.and backed by the warrant of
a'' Magistrate. Such exemption, indeed, is a
part,and a necessary part, of 44 personal' liberty,"
being in itself the tuw,t sacred right enjoyed by
us under the Constitution : but how, little the
yright is respected, every packet arriving from .the
Continent furnishes abundant proofs. We have
before us the letter of, a Clergyman and
"County Magistrate, giving details of an outrage
to which he was very recently stibjected,
and deserving, as it appears to us, ciThsiderable
untice. This Gentleman arrived from Calais
at' the Custom-house wharf of London, in the
Liverpool steam packet. A Custom-house
officer stationed himself on the gangway, for the
*vowed purpose of searching every passenger
who should be ready to leave the vessel: A
pubmitted, and had some
foreign, gentleman
letters taken from him. .Our correspondent re-
'mated th‘• search, stood upon his rights as a
Uritishlsubject,4threitened the myrmidon' of the

Customs with lego process, and compelled him
to give over the unlawful and odious attempt.—
It appears, however, that the officer produced a.
printed instruction from authority, as a sanction of
his proceedings ; and it would be unquestionably
desirable to ascertain what Board it was, or, what
individual, that could so have construed the laws
and constitution of this country. The gentleman'
states next, that he addressed a letter to the Com-
missioners, remonstrating against the practice, and
calling upon them to prohibit it ; but that they
deigned no answer to his complaint.--Now it is
more than possible that a few yards of lace, or
other petty contrabands, may be sometimes con-
cealed in the dress of a passenger bound home-
wards from a continental port. A prohibited ar-
ticle may thus be occasionally introduced to a
competition with the home manufacture, or to
the partial loss of .e revenue, an oppressive duty
may be evaded. After making this acknow-
ledgment, we assert that it is incomparably less
injurious to suffer one or both of the above evils,
than to break bown a barrier of personal liberty,
coeval with the constitution itself—to subject the
dignity of Englishmen, and the shrinking deli-
cacy of their wives and daughters, to the familiar
hand of ruffians often lifted from the dregs of so-
ciety, and to make the application of the law nu
:-
der which we live depend on the caprice of its
lowest ministers, on 'the degree In which their
insolence may be soothed, or their rapacious ap-
petite contented,

. _
[BRI ISIIPRESS.]
Up to a late hour last eight no intelligence
more recent than what Tuesday's French Papers
contain had reached us, and any thing important
in those Papers we had inticipated in sue columns
yesterday. No' accounts hid :reached town of
the result of the meditated attack on the Isle. of
Leen:and Cadiz. The deepest anxiety universally
exists on the subject. Any thing knewu on that
head we shall have immediate intelligence of by
private express, and
,give, if necessary, in a se-
cond edition. The French, we do believe,
had attacked, as asserted, the fort of Matagorda,
before whieh they had pushed their approaches
within pistel-shot. Reports were prevalent yes-
terday, that they had been repulsed both in the
attack on the Trocadere and an, attempt to land
on the Isle of Leon, with great loss. Cadiz un-
questionably is not as efficientlydefended now, as
in the' former sett!. : our fleet then, held the sea
with numerous gun-boats, and prevented annoy-
ance or bombardment from that side, and provi-
sions in consequence abounded in the city. More
than' 201000 regular Spanish and Portuguese
troops then• also held. .the . place, and -defended
the, authority of the Cortes. The French are xtow
unfortunately in superior force outsidelhe Bay of
Cadiz,. and it is blockaded on both- sidesby their
army and fleet. Accounts from Bayonne to the
23d, represent Madrid, with the exception of
some: passing acts of vengeance against the Con..
sti,tationalists, as tolerably tranquil. Ballasteros
and his army still remain in .the positions assigned,
them by Molitor.' The Regency were increasing
their Worts to form e. royal army, but they had
no funds whatever to meet the expences. In
Arragon and Navarre the French troops were in-
securely scattered thrpughthe Ilifferent towns.—
The Immense preparations, for the siege of Pain-
peluna were. said ,to be completed • and it was
asserted, that, on the festal-day 'of old Limis,
the French "would firi‘ritit;their heavy artißery
on the place. The- corps of the Spanish
Colonel A.mor and 'of Lopez Banos, were said
An be .in .strength and ,-Estremadura,. and . car-
rying alarm through that province... heavy firing
was heard on the 21st,. in the direction of St.
Sebastian, supposed to-proceed from,a.new silly
of the ' Accounts from Perpignan to the
23d, state that 'the troops which set out a few
days before for Montlouis and Arles, to prevent
,a 'violation of the Frenchterritoryovere again re-
turning. ,The h e Constantionalists, itls asserted, had
retired from Began and the neighbouringpositions
occupied by hint : ;they had moved, it was sup-
posed, on.Lerida. Tromelin and,d'Eroles 'till af-
fected to watch their movements. Old• Moncey
hiaself, with a column,also aided in the chase. It is
imagined that the large convoy of cattle which Wil-
iam had with him was intended for the supply of
Figueras. Reports were circulated at Perpigean,
on the 23d, that Figueras had surrendered, whieh
were, considered utterly destitute of likelihood or
authotity. Public attention is now, however,
exclusively directed to Cadiz. It is said, 'that
on tho French Ministry beincapprised that An-
gouleme's propositions were rejected, instructions
were transmitted to him to attack the place- with
, all his force, a toute hazard. If he has been re.
pulsed, the game with hint is completely up; he
must retreat immediately.

[NEW TIMES.]
Consols scarcely varied an eighth in the course
of yesterday : they opened and closed at 82-1 ;.
nor, was there much dpne either in the British or.
Foreign Funds. Colombian Bonds, however,
unaccountably 'rose to 514. The most remark-
able transaction, hewever, is the attempt to im
pose new Spanish Bonds on the too credulous
English capitalists. It is now just two months
since we heard from Madrid that this scheme
was in agitation ; and indeed we alluded to
it soon afterwards. Matters were not then ripe
for the execution of the plot; butlis it was at
that time described to us, it was as,swindling a
transaction as we ever -heard or read or. That
these new Bonds will ever be recogni,sed' by,.the
Spanish Government we think there is not, the
slightest. chance. Directions, we know, were
;given by, the parties interested at Madrid to
watch the market ,here, and -as soon as the
Spanish Bonds in general touched a certain point,
then to throw these new securities suddenly one
the market.' We have, however, done our duty
in sounding the alarrn : if people will be duped
and plundered, they must be so. '

According to the Male, the Rentes, at three
o'clock on Tuesday, were at 92.65. Accounts had
been received from Madrid to the 28th ult.. and
from Port St. Mary to the 24th. The attack on
Cadizrit vvasnow undersiood,would not take place
till the 28th. Meanwhile,•the naval forces which
are destined to acCagainst Cadiz augment daily ;

more especially the lightvessels,which,drawin gbut
little water, can approach nearest to the walls, and
consequently can cannonade and bombard the city
most effectually. It is calculated that more than
a thousand pieces of cannon and mortars will be
ready to play.upon Cadiz at once. This makes a
great distinction between the present siege of
Cadiz and the former one. In 1812 the French
could not approach within cannon shot, nor even
throw a shell into the city, because the English
squadron occupied the sea; whereas now the chief
attack will be by lbe tirefich shipping and gun-
boats'. Riego wasp rudently withdrawn fiom Cadiz, II
as Quiroga did from :Corunna, under pretence of
raising troops elsewhere. The house. is near its
-fall when the rats begin to run from it. General
Zarco del Valle, who some months ago ,was one
of the Revolutionary Commanders in Chief, and
named. as Minister of War, made his submission
to the Regency on the 20th ult. at Grenada.--

(Mid).
We rejoice to learn, that there is, every pro
spect of a 'plenteous harvest, and of cheap provi
sions throughout the year. Wheat and Flour
have.,both fallen.: .considerable supplies, -are
brought to market; :but the pt rchasers bold
off, being well assured .that.,there (must, be a
marked reductionl, so that the kricep hitherto
quoted may be regardea - as inerely nominal.
The Moniteur Of Tuesday contains the French
prices of Corn, which Are periodically published
pursuant to the provisions,of Maw, on _that
subject. The system on which the French table
of prices is framed is rather compleX. We have
not time at present to enter upon its explanation ;
but This we will- do at, a future opportouity.-
(Ibid.)

. .
• mOnNIN9
-
.We -yesterday received • the following latter
tom our Madrid Corrospotident
• • - .. •
M sp nr n; Aga. e yet remelt withouts.nyintelligence
to be relied on, of the exact nature of the transactions going on
at Cadiz. The Duke..ti'Angoulertie neither, consults. with, nor
communicates to the Regency any of hiatneatu.geSt and appears
as indifferent to that body. as iEit.did- tart-exist,, so that the Ors.
vernment isabout- as. ignorant,of the most- important eircunr.
-stances as. those Ilia have rio ,SCee3SctO to the 'Palace, 24E144
confirmation- of thus nssertion,the Ministat of State •Is lulown,to
have declared, sone days'after ttut = news, wita:..given Ant of, the
King. being at liberty, ..that, he. htut , perscins at., Port St..
Mary's employed to. obtain., -and .--sen&.lim pews, and:. le
had ,not then reeeived:a vold .of :'political information', and
nothing further "than -that the: although
'at that, time, the. propositions :for.; =grog:way* pints have
„
-been determined upon in Cadiz. :CcuCinfonkation,. theretOre,
comes-from • the French. officers, who. repiiii.:44N4ouch as. the
Duke de Re.-TiO pleaseir to ,commideafe4acceorditig to this
channel, we:learn. that 104011119g..-V`4o: , hided on ,the 17th
inst., 'the treaties, being sigriedhil.,(QPoerAtieS;,,fthe.Cortes •
r.
and two of the Ministers frein A 740 I:;.:iweradriul
Df Anakegodue-ii
letrie and his Generals... p!, :tlie.Dsy Si. Louis,,
it was to be Publicly made knowi)
Rq6.4gY.Adppn. Victor Damain.'
Infantado,.President of the
'Sae? , 'Minister or State, 'ser off-pes4-,rUtylthe,night of the 'loth,
.for'Pori St: Mary'o; for the prirpost ataitl sl44.cd.in the cir-
cular sent to the Ainhassidor; of be present le-felicitate the
King on'the part or the Regency, when his litafesky maybe at
liberty. It is whispered 'Oat- anotlier of. their otneeis 'Arai, to
procure better terms for the Clergy, who, by the basts.o the
arratigements which- we ',have? seen..'iierai• are. excluded from'
voting at elections Mr Deptittesi--telieing -.electedi but, if it
be true that the dif&raneeg aietetrairrated, these-gentlemen
will have the'farther.raortitlitati coins both the Objects of•
their mission. The French . have _been'. disgusted at the de..
ceptiens,.they have witnessed* Their .a.epeetations have been-
disappointed, and the proniiies nisdelo•them unaccomplished.
.L.The Constitution was the.onerband, as the.
King's absolution hod-teen on.tlidsodivi4 but the former held.
out the hopes.—nay, the certainty ,Of ;amelioration ; and , this
heti been the cause of the absence-of SO matfyfamilies• wherever.
the French entered, or-ofkeeping. invisible.' In Madrid,
the..ofticers have had, and haye Tinto solitary life of it. The,
rejoichiga have, been mostly tionfined,,,-to the lower orders.—..:
They have had to fight an. battlestand. ;to bear, every expence,
for where the'Fr.ench not;the 'Constitutionalists show them.
eclvcs, and the ROy, aliStii. have neither strength . nor energy to
cOpe_with them, as no*.the ease inEstremadura.. : Added to
these circumatancei, the miagoverprnent, the: vengeance, anti
monkish implacability of the. Regency and Ministers, make
the idea of tranquillity under such a rule.quite absurd. The
• French 'Goireinment; therefore, seeing their. army likely to be
entangled in difficulties of all kinds, should the war .be. pro-
tracted much longer, hive, to. get out with , a tolerable:
good grace, .very. wisely offered concessions (if the copy I
sent you be correet), :Which ,have. as wisely . been accepted
by the Constitutionalists t both sides lowering their pre-
tentions. A Freirdi-Offieer has said, we entered Servilis,
„and we return Liberals. suppose they find the latter better
Lfeirotell. About one-half of the Frgrich'anny will remain, it is
said, until the Uovernmeht shall "be perfectly' consolidated.'-
' There is no account to he -relied upon of the surrender of Co.:
runna, nor of the further movements of Morillo after entering
• Vigo. InVittoriannd,in Saragossa there have been some dbl.
tur-bances on account of the: release of the Constitutionalists,
but they have been Veiled-again. The French are determined
to carry this measure through. None of the fortified places
have yet surrendered on the recommendation. Ballasteros..
I am sorry there is such a dearth of information in Madrid. In
the Palace. they' ae dumb ; the. Friars and Absolutists have
-kert a good deal from public observation. The Liberals are
afraid, and will not express. themselves. The letters, if any on
politics, are confided to a very few indeed, but from interrup...
tions and interceptions, most writers have had the prudence to
confine themselves to their particular businest, lest they or the
receivers should find their }lonics in a gaol. A friendof mine,
a Madrid militiaman, who went to Seville on. private affairs,
was immediately arrested on his return here, in consetwence,of
a letter directed for him at Seville detained at this post-ofliee;•.
not a word of
,political matter , was contained therein. Before,
leaving Madrid he had retired from the militia, and was only
released by the Duke d'Angoulime's order.

. -
A few minutes after twelve o'clock on Mon.
day night (or rather on Tuesday morning) a
beautiful meteor passed over the southern part of
. ,
the metropolis. itr direction was from east to
. . . ,
west,'. with a slow motion, remaining visible for
. .
about three. Seconds and could be traced by a
~ ,
. .
flaming tail resembling that of a comet, but emit-
tin;; •
innumerable sparks. In less ' than a mi.
.
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note afterwards another meteor arose in that
,
• • - •• • ,
part, of the heavens in which the first had
•, • •
disap-
peared, hut infinitely.less brilliant, and was visi.;
readers:-"
Wet or 'little than a second.•
more
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The following irhe taken asit specimen of
ra, . -
last
the wonderful stories with which American Editors regale their
fell from ' Amherst, tNew Ilarnpshire,) • August 4.—A
Young. girl, of about fourteen' .years of ago, was assisting
Or 8 feet, on to a stake of the
week in the taking awaY of grain in the sheaf upon a scaf-
fold on the greit beams of the barn, when • she accidentally
cart which had just been Unloaded. The stake entered her bodY,
and eame out on the left side, near the breast,so that she was com-
pletely transfixed upon it. The stake was so attached to others by
the scaifold;u descent of 7
the rove of the cart as that it could not be removed until the
others were broken oft, when it was forced from its place in the
cart, and the in carried out of the barn before it could be ex-
tricated from tier; during all, which time - the girl held on by
the tip of the Stake; which had passed through her side suffi-
cient for her to take hold of with both hands, six or seven inches
"least. A more distres,iing situation cannot easilY be imagin-
ed. The length of stake which passed through her body mea..'
sued full 27 inches ; and in circumference was five - inches
at the largest, and at..least three inches in 'the • firmillest part.
of it, ' . And what is equally remarlcable,e the girl is doing very
well,. and likely soon to recover ; • anti .
ipparently undergone less
stiffering than could postibly be conceived of in such a ca5e.”...4
(Cabinet. )
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

FLY VANS.
MANSIow-Housz.—A question of sonic interest to the pub-
lic, and to coach-proprietors, came on before his Lordship yes-
telay--:namely,, whether those dangerous vehicles called fly ,
vans`should be considered within the meaning of the Act of
Parliament, as coaches br waggons. A tradesman attended to -
request a summons for the attendance of the owner of the Sa-
lisbury. Fly Van, to shew cause.why he neglected to deliver a
parcel in proper lime. A parcel of fish was sent from Salisbury
to the complainant by the Fly Van, which arrived at the Ele-
phant Inn, Fore-street, at five o'clock on Wednesday morning;
the parcel was not delivered until eight o'clock in the evening,
and in consequence of the delay thelsh was spoiled.
The complainant submitted that those vans came within the
meaning of the Act as coaches, and, in fact, paid mile d uty,
and were considered as carriages by the stamp-office. As the
-Act directed that every innkeeper should deliver every parcel
that came by a coach, within six hours after its arrival, under a
penalty, the innkeeper had incurred that penalty by the non-
delivery according.to the terms of the Act. It was desirous to
have the case before the public, that the owners of caravans
might be made acquainted with their responsibility.
The Act was then referred to. It stated that any parcel ar-
riving by a ".public stage coach or carriage, other than a corn-
monitage waggon," should be delivered within six hours; and
that if the•parcel arrived by the waggon, 24 hours were allowed
for the 'delivery. - • ' • • •
The LORD MAYOR asked at what rate the van travelled.
.The complainant sai4, he understood it went at the rate of
five rands an hour, including stoppages ; besides, it , went on
sprifigf, was drawn by four horses driven by a man on the box,
and had a guard. •
from the bill. that it
The Loan MAYOR.—I observe, too,
is calletta fiy-van."
Alderman VEN'ABLES.—Yes, but they call all the waggons'
fiy-waggons." The broad-wheeled waggons lutve pens for
these forty years.
The Loan Mntoa said, .he considered that the van came
within .the meaning. of 't the Act as " public carriage, other
~than a common waggon. His Lordship directed that the inn-
keeper should be summoned to answer the charge, when he
might show cause againkt this construction.
• • • LADY DASH WOOD'S ROBBERY.
Bow-STREET.--Ifilliam Darby, her Ladyship's butler,
and Daniel 21PCarthy, were yesterday again brought up for
exaMination•before Sir R. Bins iz.
Since the last examination, a third person, (whose name we
fprbear mentioning,. :salt subsequently turned, out that he was
perfectly innocent with what he was charged,) has been appre.
hended through the information of the. prisoner, ,Darby, who
alleged that this person had frequently pawned plate belong-
ing to her Ladyship, which he ~Derby, had commissioned him
to do. It however ,appeared, 'that, the man, who is a Gentle-
man's servant, had been for some time past acquainted -with
Darby, and had been applied to on one occasion -by Darby to
lend him 151. -Darby appeared to be in great trouble at the
time, and stated that he wanted the money to redeem sonic
of the family-plate, which he had been foolish enough to
pledge Anil, that Lady Dashwriod was coming to town in a day
or tno'to-look'dverThe plate, and the deficiency would then be
• discovered and he should be totally ruined. The person to
whom this application was made from no other feeling butt at
h
of relieving Darby, contrived to raise the sum required by bor-
. rowing the principal part,of his fellow-servants, and'adding the
punz he had contrived to save out of his wages. Darby promised
to return it in aihort time, but failed to do so, and onlicing
pressed for the money gave the person alluded to several ar-
ticles of plate, and directed him to pledge them for 151., winch
lie 'did, alibis fellow-tereants had repeatedly applied to hhn for
the-money he had borrowed of them :on this explanation he
was of course dischargal. • . • .
The Prisoner, M'c'arth, who, there is sonic reason to be-
lieve, was induced to pawyn 'the goods by Derby's representa-
tions, without any sinister motive, was admitted as
would-be
an evidence
fer the Crown, as withoht hips the case against Darby
incomplete. •
General Maitland; *ho attended Lady Ann, took occasion to
observe that the circumstance stated on the former examins-'
don, oethere being 41. or 51. due to M'Carthy for *nit which
he had. supplied her Ladyship with, was incorrect; or if the
money WAS-ever owing, it was entirely without the knowla.gl e
of her Ladyship; who always was very particular in paying
reedy Money for such articles., as when the- prisoner was em-
plops' by her Ladyship to pledge the spoons, it was to prevent
a bill of a similar description remaining unpaid.
The prisoner was fully 'committed, and the parties bound
Over to prosecute. •
111.tuvLunowls-Orizez..--Yesterday•Mrs. Lee appeared to
prefer a charge of assault against the Duke de St. Lorenzo,
whom she accused -of hiving kicked her, and turned her out of
the hall, when 'She went to claim a small debt due for millinery
:furnished to the Duchess.—The Duke WAS present, And
solemnly denied the charge ; and it was proved by the servants
that his Grace. merely turned her out, In consequence of the
violent-noise she made in the hall while the family were at
dinner. It was also stated that she had several tUnci,
an-
noyed the Duchess, insisting on her Grace paying for millinery
for which she was not responsible, it having been furnished to
a woman who was, formerly one of her lady's maids, whose
present address at Paris the servants had given her. The
..magistrate censured the conduct of Mrs. Lee, and drimisscd
the warrant. •