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No. 16,791.

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CONFLAGRATION at ST. JOHN'S, NEW-
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SUMMER Ar.,,SIZES.
HOME CIRCUIT.--Hertford, July 13:
The business of this ass!ze has been heavier than has
been known for many years. The criminal business
was concluded on Saturday in the middle of the day,
Mr. Justice Coltman then proceeding to try one or two
of the civil cases, and Mr. Baron Parke being
engaged in the other court until nearly ten o'clock at
night. There were then three special jury cases to be
disposed of ; one of them was subsequently adjourned
to the next assizes, and the remaining two were tried
this morning.
(Before Mr. Baron PARK t and a Special Jury.)
BEADLE v. MURRAY.
This was an action for false imprisonment against Sir
Robert Murray, a magistrate of this county.
• Mr. M. Chambers, with Mr. Wallinger, appeared for
the plaintiff ; Mr. Serjeant Shee and Mr. Petersdorfffor
the defendant.
This caw° was 'tried on Saturday, and was not con-
cluded until near ten o'clock at night. It appeared that
Sir Robert Murray, who resides at Yardley Bury, in
this c'..unty, had some fowls stolen from his poultry-
house about the 23a- of December last, and in conse-
quence of the information he gave to the police they
instituted inquiries, and upon going to the village of
Walkern, not far from the residence of Sir Robert, they
found some fowls in a shed answering the description of
those that had been stolen, but a hich the plaintiff, who is
a labauring man and a higgler, and travelling dealer in
poultry, claimed as his, and said that he had bought them.
Lie expressed his readiness to give the police the names of
the persons from whom he bad purchased them, and, at
their request, he accompanied them to the residence of
Sir Robert Murray, woo, upon seeing the fowls, imme-
diately declared that three of them, which were of a
rather peculiar colour, were part of-those stolen. The
plaintiff repeated his story, and offered to go with the
police to the persons who had sold him the fowls, but
it appeared that instead of this being done, he was taken
into custody, handcuffed, and conveyed in a cart through
the village where he reAded, on Chrtstmas-day, and
was confined all night, and next day taken before a ma-
gistrate, when it was pretty clearly made out that Sir
Robert was mistaken with regard to the identity of the
fowls, and upon this Beadle was discharged. He subse-
quently attended at the quarter sessions, but no bill of
indictment was preft rred against him, and due notice
having been given to the defendant, in conformity with
the statute, the present action was brought to recover
damages from him for the alleged illegal arrsst and
confinement of the plaintiff. On the part of the defen-
dant it was urged that he was not responsible for the ap-
prehension of the plaintiff, but that the police had
adopted that step in the execution of their duty, believ-
ing that a felony had been committed, and that the
stolen property was in the possession of the plaintiff. A
number of witnesses were called on both sides, and their
examination and cross-examination extended to consi-
derable length.
Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up,
The jury, after deliberating about half an hour,. re-
turned a verdict for the defendant.

it." The The entries were for 100 shares sold to Danton
Lupton, conditionally upon the preamble of the Ports-
mouth Atmospheric Railway Bill being proved, at
231. 2s. 6d. per share ; for 10 shares, at 221. 10s.; for 50
shares, at 24/ 7s. 6d.; and for 40, at 251. 12s. 6:1. The
accounts were all stated in the ledger, where Mr. Lupton
saw them,.and also that the profit was 1701. on them.
Besides these the firm had several other
_transa?,tions
'with the prosecutor, and eight of them were for some
1,5001., and subsequent to the transactions enuniarated
by the witness. They sometimes sold or transferred
2,000 shares a day in the office of Marcus, Naylor,

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and Co.
D. Lupton said—l am a merchant, residing in Leeds,
and employed Marcus, Naylor, and Co. as stiarebrokers.
I always dealt with them for cash. I never have
authorised the prisoner to buy or sell for me
any London and Croydon shares. The signature
in the transfer, "D. Lupton," is not my writing. I
never authorised the prisoner, or any one else, to
sign them for me. I never authorised him to make
for me time or conditional bargains in shares. He
did represent to me that he could make good bar-
gains for me in the market. I then told him he
might purchase for me scrip to the amount of 1,000/.
Before that I had had but one share transaction with
him, when he bought Lancaster and Carlisle shares for
1,000/. for me. I never authorised any buying of London
and Croydon shares. When he bought or sold for me,
he informed me that day or the following, and I gave
him the money. I told his clerk to look over my account,
and when I saw that entry of the London and Croydon
shares, I said they were not mine, though put down to
me; and I crossed the entry 'out in pencil. I met the
prisoner on the stairs going out, and mentioned this
entry. He said it was a mistake.
C:oss-examined—l have been on terms of friendly
intercourse with the prisoner. The firm is since bank-
rupt. The prisoner stood very high in Leeds as a patron
(if literary and scientific institutions and literary persons.
I believe that on one occasion I told him to purchase
scrip for me. The order was not to exceed 1,000/. in
that case. _ .

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MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Northampton, July 13.
The justices of assize for this circuit, the Hon. Sir
John Patteson and the Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge,
arrived here at half-past ten o'clock, and having opened
the commission for the county and borough, proceeded
to attend divine service at All Saints' Church, at eleven,
and shortly after one o'clock took their seats in the
county hall, Mr. Justice Patteson presiding in the
Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Coleridge (who, though
apparently still far from well, and showing manifest in-
dications of having been recently labouring under severe
and protracted illness, yet seemed, we are most happy to
be able to say, convalescent) taking his appointed seat
on the Civil Side.
The calendar is remarkably light for this county,
presenting only twelve cases, and the names of eleven
prisoners for trial, of whom one stood indicted upon two
charges of setting fire to barns, stables, stacks, &c.; one
for assault with intent to rob; one for stealing from the
person; one for breaking and entering a dwelling-house;
and one for concealing the birth of a child. The other
cases were of a most trifling character. There appeared
to be one case only in the borough, which was for cutting
and wounding.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ParrEsosr.)
At the sitting of the Court, Frank Cox (not in the
calendar) was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. Macaulay appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Miller for the prisoner.
It appeared that at the Michaelmas Sessions, 1845, an
appeal was tried here—Pickworth, Rutlandshire, appel-
lants, and Wakerley, Northamptonshire, respondents.
One of the grounds of appeal was, that the husband of
the pauper had gained a settlement by hiring and ser-
vice at a place called Barrowden, in Rutlandshire. The
defendant Cox swore on that occasion that he knew the
pauper; that he (the witness) was 65 years of age; and
that he, when he was 10 or 11 years old, and the pauper's
husband went together to Moreutt Statutes in 1789 or
1790, and that he (the witness) was hired by a Mr.
Taylor, of Barrowden, and at the same time the pauper
was hired by a Mr. Francis Wright, of the same place;
that he heard Wright and the pauper bargain for a
twelvemonth; and that both he and the pauper remained
in such respective service, at Barrowden, for a twelve-
month and two days. Upon this testimony the order
was quashed. The evidence now went to show that the
prisoner was eight or nine years younger than be had
sworn at the trial of the appeal, and, consequently, that
what he then deposed to could not possibly be true, and,
in short, the_story he had told was an entire fabrication

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from beginning to end.
Mr. Miller was addressing the jury for the prisoner
at a quarter past five o'clock, when this report was
necessarily dispatched.
CIVIL SIDE.— (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)

FOLLETT AND ANOTHER, ASSIGNEES, V. WESLEY.
This cause, which came on at the sitting of the Court,
was still proceeding at a quarter past five o'clock, when
our report was dispatched. It was an issue directed by
the Court of Chancery, of a most dry and uninteresting
character to all but the parties concerned.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.— Winchester, July 13.
The commission was opened in this city on Saturday
by Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Baron Platt, the judges ap-
pointed for this circuit. In the cause list there are
eleven cases, but although they are calculated to occupy
much time, and are of great consequence to the parties,
the interest as regards the public will, it is understood,
be but trifling. There are some serious cases in the
calendar, which, considering that the sessions were held
only last week, is heavy, there being upwards of thirty
prisoners for trial. At the present moment it is strongly
rumoured that Lieutenant Hawkey will surrender, and
every person hints that he knows where he is, but those
whose duty it is to apprehend every person charged
with such an offence, possess such happy ignorance that
it is permitted to the accused to say at what time he
will quietly walk into the prisoner,' dock. How far this
can be considered as the proper administration of justice
it is for wiser heads to say ; but the uninitiated are ex
pressing strong doubts in the matter. If a law is ab-
surd, let it he carried out in all its absurdity, and then a
remedy will be found ; but if it is evaded by a side-
wind, it will disgrace the statute•book by remaining the
law of the land. Two common people fight with their
fists—one is killed—it is called a brutal fight, and the
aggressor is punished for manslaughter. Ignorant
people cannot understand the distinction between such a
fight and a duel. Does not the result point it out ?
On Saturday their Lordships attended divine service
in the Cathedral, and this morning, at ten o'clock, 'Sir.
Justice Erle took his seat in the Nisi Prius Court, and
at eleven o'clock Mr. Baron Platt came into the Crown

Court.
The usual preliminary business having been gone
th rough,
Mr. Baron PLATT delivered his charge to the grand
jury, in the course of which he stated that if any gen-
tlemen who had been summoned on the grand jury,
.and
who were in Court, had not answered to their names,
he should have decidedly felt it his duty to have fined
them, because by ;he Constitution of the country every
man charged with a crime had a right to have the ver-
dict of twenty-four men pronounced against him, and it
he had not a majority of twelve grand jurymen against
him, he had not justice done him. (This observation
arose from a supposition that some grand jurors were in
Court who did not in the first instance answer to their
names, but it is believed such was not really the
case.) His Lordship then wilt at some length into the
criminal returns of the country, which showed that while
crime had decreased in the north, or manufacturing dis-
tricts, it had increased in the southern, or agricultural
districts. His Lordship also referred to the very large
proportion female prisoners bore to males in the criminal
returns. 4

_
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July ii.
RAILWAY FRAUD.—A trial upon three several in-
dictments for fraud in respect to railway shares by 'a
railway sharebroker, which has occasioned great interest
in a certain circle, and which had been postponed at the
desire of the accused from the last assizes, was, by ap-
pointment, brought on today. The court was full
beyond
bpeareacelodaegnt,
on
very intimate terms, and both' menthe prisoner and his prosecutor
h
of respectability.
Herman Julius Marcus, late a sharebroker in the town
a transfer of shares in the
London and Croydon Railway, intending thereby to obfar Leeehdasr,goeudt o,Nnithbail
forging sce last assizes, appeared at the
de-
fraud Mr. Lupton, the late mayor of Leeds.
eof the following
witnesses,
Mr. HALL, R,Torder of Leeds, stated the case, which
Niiltlnebsesebse,st
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the
laftetgrgueadg
documents were put
in and formally proved :
The clerk of the London and Croydon Railway Com-
pany proved the transfer of the shares in July, August.
and October last.
The handwriting of the prisoner, as attesting witness
to the transfer of the shares, was proved by the clerk to
the firm of Marcus (the prisoner), Naylor, and Co.; the
name of Danton Lupton, in the transfer, was also, be
said, in Marcus's handwriting.
Cross-examined—Mr. Lupton had,
in August last,
looked at the company's book. Saw the entry of the
transaction. He cast up the account, and said there was
a balance of profit on the shares, but remarked, " They
are not mine." Mr. Lupton and the prisoner were on
terms of close acquaintance. Prisoner came in soon
after, and was told what Mr, Lupton had said. Prisoner
replied, " Well, if be won't have a profit I cannot help

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Re-examined—l am quite certain that authority was
only to purchase scrip. The signature, "D. Lupton," is
an imita•iof or copy of my own name, as I write it.
In reply to Justice CRESSWELL—He never sold scrip
for me without my limiting the price.
Mr. Naylor, late partner in the business with the pri-
soner, said the transfer deeds bad passed in the usual
course through his hands ; but the purchase and sale of
the London and Croydon Railway shares had been
transacted by the prisoner alone.
Cross-examined—On this occasion when the selling
broker sent to witness for the principal's names the pri-
s.mer was absent, and the witness sent the name of Mr.
Lupton as the principal. This he attempted to account,
for by saying that there was then a great press of busi-
ness in their office, and it was not unlikely that such
mistake might have occurred unwittingly. He admitted
that the signature to the transfer, "D. Lupton," was in
the prisoner's handwriting.
The officer of the Court read the deeds of transfer of
shares. They were to appearance signed, sealed, &c.,
by Danton Lupton, in the presence of H. J. Marcus, by
whom the execution of the deed was witnessed and also

signed.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Sergeant Wimuszs said he had been relieved o:
much of his anxiety as the case proceeded, from the de-
velopment of its singular history, upon which he believed
he might safely rely for a verdict of acquittal for his
client. Their extensive transactions together, and the
intimacy subsisting between the prisoner and the prose-
cutor, might well have induced Mr. Marcus to believe
that he was justified in making an advantageous purchase
for a friend so largely engaged as Mr. Lupton was in
railway speculations. By it the prisoner gut nothing for
himself, and Mr. Lupton might have taken the profit of
it, had it not been considered preferable, strangely
enough, to institute these criminal proceedings. What
could have there been criminal or fraudulent in contem-
plation of the prisoner by the course he had pursued ?
His own name in the transfer would have done just as well
as that of Lupton. In fact, no one had beeu defrauded,
nor was it, as it turned out, even possible the prosecutor
could have been defrauded in these transactions. There
had been no effort made when the signatures to the deeds
were seen to conceal the resemblance of the hand-
writing in both instances, which clearly appeared to be
written by the same person in style and character. Mr.
Lupton, at the period when, in August last, he in-
spected the prisoner's books, thought there was nothing
blameable in the entry of these shares to him; for he
subsequently employed Marcus to transact other
business of the same kind for him to the amount of
1,5001. worth of shares. No attempt had been made to
smooth difficulties, remove suspicion, or conceal any-
thing, though the prisoner must know that in the way of
business the dividend-warrants must be sent to Mr. Lup.
ton, as owner of the shares, by the London and Croydon
Railway-office clerks,which would at once have disclosed
the whole transaction, had any attempt been made at
concealment.
Most respectable witnesses, including Mr. Baines, late
M.P. ; Mr. Luceock, Mayor of Leeds ; and R. Frost,
Esq., were called into the box, and stated they had
known the prisoner long, and he had always borne an
unimpeachable character as a man of strict honour and
integrity.
Mr. Justice CRESSWF.LL said, if the Learned Counsel
for the prosecution wished it, he would now,leave the
case to the jury, and reserve the point for the conside-
ration of the judges hereafter whether any evidence of
the fraud imputed had been adduced? He confessed he
could not see how Mr. Lupton nor yet the railway com-
pany could be defrauded in these transactions, which
would entitle Mr. Lupton to the dividends on the shares,
for which shares he incurred no liability, the registry of
the shares in his name constituting a title in him. The
company could not have been defrauded had the trans-
fer been to a mere pauper. It had no claim on the
shareholders for further advances, the railway having
been, it was well known, in activity and open for some
years, and all the calls necessary most likely were
paid up.
Mr. HALL said he should not, after this opinion of the
case from his Lordship's lips, press the case.
His LORDSHIP told the jury it was his impression that
no such consequence could, according to the evidence
submitted in the cause, have arisen. There was no
evidence of the fraud with which the prisoner was
charged by the indictment. He should, therefore, advise
the jury to acquit the prisoner; who, being acquittedi
was again arrainged on the other two indictments, on
which no evidence, however, was offered by Mr. Hall,
who was assisted by Mr. Boothby is these proceedings,
and the prisoner was acquitted.
On his discharge he was surrounded by numerous
friends in the hall, who cordially greeted him upon the
occasion of his acquittal.

DUTCH, FLANDERS, AND HAM
BURGH MAILS.
TnE HAGUE, JULY 7.—The IViewsbode affirms that
his Majesty is expected to return befere Saturday, and
will set out next week on his intended tour to the pro-
vince of Overyssel, namely to Kampen, there to view
the exhibition 01 works of art and manufactures. Re•
turning from this excursion, his Majesty it is said will
go to Limburg and Luxemburgh, and thence to
Berlin, and to his estates in Silesia. It is affirmed that
his Majesty will return by way of Weimar, where the
Queen will be about that time. After stopping there
seine days his Majesty will return with the Queen to the
Hague.
We hear that before his Majesty's departure, the
commissioners for negotiating a treaty with Belgium,
presented to him the draught of a treaty with which Mr.
Mercier, the &Igian Minister, set out for Brussels yester-
day T.
HE HAGUE, JULY 9.—The King after having pre-
viously visited the Anna Paulowna, arrived on the 7th
in the Niewe Diep, on board the Lewis steamer. His
Majesty was received on landing by the officers of the
army and navy, the civil authorities and the clergy,
after which he visited the rmiritine establishment at
Willemsoord, and then set out in the same steamer for
Rarlingt-n. His Majesty was received at this town by
the Governor of the pro% ince, the Burgomaster and
other magistrates; and on the Bth, in the morning, went
to Leenwarden, where he was received with great re-
joicing by the people. It was expected that his stay
would be very short.
The election of deputies to the Second Chamber of the
States General, are now proceeding with much spirit.
Several of the deputies going out by rotation have been
re-elected.
BRUSSELS, JULY 9.—The Senate, in its sittings to •
day, after receiving several reports relative to several
supplementary votes of credit, continued the debate on
the project of law on the organisation of the Council of
Accounts.
The King will return to the palace of Lacken this
evenir g.
Te Deum will be performed on Tuesday, the 21st of
this month, in the church of St. Gudule, on occasion of
the fifteenth anniversary of the King's coronation.
News has been received from I. Blondel, who was
sent by the Government on a mission to St. Thomas's
and to Guatemala. After having been detained a long
time by illness at Zacapa, he proceeded to the city of
Guatemala. Ile had transmitted to the Government his
report relative to the colony of St. Thomas before his
illnes,.
BRUSSELS, JULY 10.—The Senate, after receiving
several reports, terminated the debate on the law for
organising the Court of Accounts, which is adopted.
The journals of Friday and Saturday contain long
accounts of the dreadful accident on the Northern
Railway.
We have to announce'another accident. The train from
Valenciennes to Brussels, which set out this morning,
arrived at the station of Blanc Misseron, when the
guard gave the signal announcing its arrival. The
conductor, a young man 28 years of age, stooping
to see if it was time to stop, leaned too forward, so that
his head was dashed against a tree, and he expired
shortly afterwards.
The King arrived yesterday evening at ten minutes
before nine o'clock. His Majesty had learned at the
station of Floreffe the dreadful catastrophe which afflicts
this country.
The traffic on the railway from Brussels to Paris is not
interrupted ; the train set out this morning with 25
passengers.
We are assured that Prince Frederick of the Nether-
lands has just purchased the magnificent building

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and the 1,100 hectares of land, meadow, forest,
&c., which the Government desired the Legisla-
ture to purchase, as the agricultural depot for
able-bodied mendicants. Yesterday morning two young
men, coming from Flanders, arrived near the forest of
La Cambre ; they both had pocket pistols. Soon after-
wards two shots were heard, the cause of which was
soon known. The young men, tired of life, had
committed suicide; or rather, as appeared from a note
found upon them, they had agreed to shoot each other.
One was killed on the spot, the other expired two hours
afterwards.

RAGGED SCHOOLS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE---S
Sig,—You will, I am quite sure, pardon me, for soe
lieiting a corner in your truly valuable journal, for the
pcepose of laying before the Christian public the la-•
mefit,:ble condition of the inhabitants (both morally
and spir..illailY) in the neighbourhood of Lamb-and-
Flag-court,
irurninill-stred, Bit-alley, Fryingpan-alley,
Rose-alley, Broa"
`t-yard, Tulle's Head-yard, and other
John, Clerkenwell,
courts and alleys at the back of Saffron-bill,
and all in the parish of st.
too numerous to mentiotf in a L'ingle letter, and
House,
within a few hundred yards of the
Clerkenwell-iven—that a free day-schoe'l was opened
on Monday morning, the Bth June, in Ow. Sunder.
school, Lamb-and-Flag-court, for the aelmissfOn of the
masses of children who are daily to be see." wane;
about in almost a state of nakedness; thejr pet sing
being, in most cases, too poor to pay for their instk:oott on,
er
even the very small charge of twopence per week, se
the poor children soon become a prey to temptation, anti
tie victims of vice and crime of every description; in
fact, the fi:thiness of speech and depravity of habits
which these children early imbibe is awful in the extreme,
and a disgrace to a Christian community. In the fond
hope, however, of checking this great and crying evil,
the district visitors in connexion with St. John's Church,
Clerkenwell, Rev. H. Hughes, rector, last year opened
the present school in Lamb-and-Flag-court, for the ad-
mission, on the Sabbath day, of this poor, unfortunate,
and long-neglected class of children ; and I am most.
happy to be able to say, that much good has been the
result, and a visible improvement in both parents and
children is to be seen ; but it cannot be expected, from
the very limited time tie children are under instruction
on the Sabbath-day, contrasted with the time they wander
the streets, that so great an amount of good can be
effected as in Sunday-schools of a higher order, where
children of a bettt r class attend, and whose parents
set before them habits_ of virtue, honesty, industry, and
cleanliness. This fact renders it quite necessary that
still greater efforts should be made to rescue them from
their present degraded condition, and to bringthem under
daily instruction, that the blessed truth may be impressed
upon their minds, that to fear the Lord is wisdom, and to
depart from evil is understanding ; and also to preserve
them from witnessing the dreadful and revolting scenes
which abound in these courts and alleys. It must be re-
membered, Sir, that these dear children have precious
and immortal souls, and it is the bounden duty of every
sincere Christian, so far as his Heavenly Father hath
given him ability, to assist in endeavouring to train them
up for immortality and .glory, that they may not have to
say, no man cared for my soul.
These schools, which are commodious and airy, are
capable of accommodating 100 boys and eighty girls
with comfort, will not cost a very large sem annually for
a master and mistress, and other necessary requisites—
when the amount of good which must of necessity follow
is taken into consideration—which is proposed to be
raised by annual subscriptions of any amount, however
small, the Christian public may think proper to give; The
sum of about 301. has been already received towards thiedes-
sirable object, and with this amount it is intended to open
these schools, in faith, believing that the faithful and
devoted servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom
worldly substance has been given, will devote a portion
of it to this great and good object, and that they will get
permit the doors to be closed against these poor unfortu---
nate and hitherto totally-neglected class of children for
the want of the necessary means of carrying them on-
I can assure you, Sir, that much anxiety is felt by the •
district visitors who visit the wretched and filthy abodes .
of the poor (gratuitously) from room to room, so that
none are overlooked, and also by Mr. Vanderkiste, the
present indefatigable London City Missionary, who
works in conjunction with us in this work of faith and
labour of love, especially when the number of cases of
juvenile delinquency which are brought to the Sessions'
House (about 100 yards from the school), from the ins..
mediate locality are considered, and the strong remarks
made session after session by the jury, in the discharge
of their painful duty, that the thought of not being able
to continue these schools open becomes really, and with-
out the least exaggeration, a most alarming one. Apolo-
gizing for trespassing at such length on your patience
and kindness, I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. H. FETCH,
Superintendent of the Sunday Ragged School,
Lamb-and-Flag court.
3, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, July, 1846.
P.S. Annual subscriptions and donations will be thank-
fully received by the Rev. H. Hughes, 59, Red Lion-
street, Clerkenwell ; Mr. J. IL Fetch, 3, St. John-street,
Clerkenwell; and by Mr. Terry, 25, St. John-street,
Clerkenwell. Also articles of left-off wearing apparel
will do great service to the cause, which will be called
for if a note is sent to Mr. retch, the Superintendent, at
he school, Lamb-and-Flag-court, Clerkenwell-green..

BRUNSWICK, JULY s.—According to accounts received
here from London, there is no doubt that our former
Duke, Charles, has purchased the " German London
Journal," for 6,000 or 7,000 dollars, and takes a very
active part in ae composition of it. Some numbers have
been received here, and we read them with much interest,
a.: they contain various articles on our situation. In one
of the latest numbers, we see that Duke Charles must
have renounced all thought of recovery of possession of
our Duchy by force of arms; a notion which it is well
known he had entertained. .lany readers, doubtless,
remember that, about ten years ago, he made prepara-
tions in France, had uniforms got ready, and appointed
a Pole to the command of his troops. The expedition
was not, however, undertaken. There was, in tact, no
prospect whatever of success ; and if we are not mis-
taken the Duke was involved in a vexatious and expen-
sive law suit. The uniforms have been lying for some
time in London, and the Duke is now desirous of getting
rid of them. An advertisement in the German London
Journal announces that 6,000 complete uniforms, quite
new, are deposited at the office, and are to be sold for
12.0001 sterling.
PoLisli FRONTIERS,JUNE27.—The term expiring July
1, when, according to the ukase, the Jews of the king-
dom were to lay aside their Jewish costumes, have been
prolonged by the Prince-Governor-till the Ist of October
next. The Ist of October is the next day after the great
festival of the atonement of the Jews, on which they
were to wash away their sins; and therefore it is pecu-
liarly proper to put on new clothes. The Prince
Governor Is said to have had in view only the great dis-
tress prevailing in the kingdom. It is a remarkable
regulation which allows Jewish vagabonds and other
suspicious persons to continue to wear the Jewish cos-
tumes, so that Galicean Jews, if they come into the
kingdom, must lay aside the Jewish dress. Orders are
said to be given to treat Poles, who are brought in pri-
soners, with greater mildness; and we hear no more of
any executions. The Emperor is said to have made
himself very popular on his late visit to Warsaw, by
visiting the exhibitions and other places in plain clothes
and without any attendants.
ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 30.—His Royal Highness the
Crown Prince of Wurtemburg arrived the evening be-
fore yesterday in Peterhof on board the Russian steamer
I(amtschatka, which was sent to Lubeck to meet him.
The Imperial family have resided constantly at Peter-
hof since their last visit to the capital. Nothing cer-
tain is known to the public respecting the celebration of
the marriage.
WARSAW, JUNE 26.—We must correct a statement
which has lately been copied from the English journals
into almost all the journals of the continent, and it was
affirmed that the cholera was so extensive and fatal in
Posen, that a third part of the population of Medschid
had been carried off by it. Some truth there cer-
tainly is in this statement; but it occurred not last year
—but in the year 1832.
POSEN, JUNE 29.—A strange report is in circulation
here, which is spread with an appearance of design.
It is stated " that the Emperor Nicholas means to resign
in favour of his son, and to take on himself the govern-
ment of Poland, which shall be bounded by the Oder
and the Bug. The strangest thing however is, that this
fable is believed.
HAItIBURGH, JULY 10.—The number of ships that
passed the S, and in January, 1846, was:—
From the North Sea .
From the Baltic

Total 2,145

Of these the English were:—
From the North Sea 179
From the Baltic

Total
-Hamburgh Papers, July 10

AQUATICS.
BANKSIDE REGATTA.

... 481

This event yesterday exhibited a novel feature, the com-
petitors being confined to the six oldest watermen and job-
bing lightermen of Bankside, Southwark, who had never be-
fore won the boat annually given by the residents of the
Clink Liberty and its vicinity. The idea is good, and some
of the old ones, who would never by any sort of chance have
had the slightest opportunity of achieving a victory with the
more juvenile, were fairly pitted to fight their battles o'er
again. It was the 28th contest, and great as is generally
the assemblage at the place, it far exceeded anything we
have ever before witnessed; many, indeed, with a desire to
obtain a view of any part of the race, having chosen perilous
positions, from which they ought to have been dislodged by
the police. Independently of the first prize, a new boat,
there was a purse of sovereigns for division amongst the
others, and to defray necessary expenses. The race was in
four heats.

FIRST 'MAT.

John Harrison
Edward Hollam
It was a close heat for some time, and well round.
SECOND HEAT.

John Kingman (Red) 1
Robert Simmonds (Pink) 2
Kingman, who is sixty-two years of acre, shot by, got the
lead, and beat his opponent, who was a dozen years or more
his junior, easily.