The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-01 00:00:00

FEMALE FASHIONS FOR MARCH.

(From La Bella Assembles.)
OPERA DRESS.—A dress of pink satin, trimmed at the
border with two rows of double Vandykes reversed, formed
of white crepe-lisse, edged with white satin rouleaux ; the
corsage made quite plain, confined by a sash of rich pink
ribbon, with a bow, and ends rather short, over the left
hip. The tucker part of the bust is ornamented round
with Spanish points of tulle, edged with three narrow rows
of Vandyke blond, falling one over another. Points, of
this description, form also a mancheron on a long sleeve of
white crepe-lisle, so that on the shoulders the ornament
has the appearance of a row of double points, as they both
fall over the dress. The long, white, transparent sleeves
.are fastened at the wrists with bracelets of braided dark
hair, clasped with an antique head in cornelian set in
wrought gold. The head-dress is a hat of pink satin,
with white plumage, composed of several white ostrich
feathers, placed, and drooping, in various directions. Un-
der the brim of the hat are placed ornaments of very nar-
row Vandyke white blond ; and on the summit of the
crown is an additional sort of crown of richly-figured tulle
edged with Vandyke blond, which surmounts, while it
turns over the pink crown. The ear-pendants are of
pearls, and the necklace of gold and pearls, fastened in
front with a superb diamond brooch.
WALKING COSTUME.—This dress, though apparently
second, or fancy-mourning, is still in high favour, and is the
last novelty we may look for in the pelisse department, till
the approaching spring. It is of French grey gros de
Naples, fancifully trimmed round the border, and down
each side of the front, in diamonds and zig-zags of
velvet : a double row of these ornaments is earned down
each t'de of the bust, in the An to-Greek stle. The.
sleeves are only moderately full, with a double row of
antique points at the wrists, edged round with nen-olve
black velvet. The pelisse is without a collar, d
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finished at the throat by a triple ruff of fine lacte
colour.
bonnet worn with this dress is of a correspondent
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made to fit the shape, and ornamented on each
Tinheribhbeomsnat
corsage
side with two rouleaux of lavender-colour satin, apprezi-
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of the turban s'
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mating at the waist, and spreading like stomacher to-
wards the shoulder ; bows of the same colour adorn the
front of the dress ; two are placed above theenfdceecouiroeu,r
ard six below, at equal distances.
lavender-colour bottom of the dress has a broad s:lt
through it. Tucker of blond, drawn close at the top, and
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Ear-rings of amethysts. Gloves and
stung of lavender-
colour kid.

EVENING DRESS.—Dress of white crepe lisle, over a
lavender-colour Turkish satin slip ; the corsage is full,
and the waist long; the sleeves are in the Chinese taste,
and are formed of four divisions, with projecting points
half-way, edged with lavender-coloured satin, and termi-
nating round the arm with a broad satin band, edged with
narrow blond : tucker of the same. The skirt is decorated
with three rows of the same material as the dress, orna-
mented with small lavender-colour satin rouleaux, q
Sici-
lian and large roses of emarginate satin leaves, with
crepe hue centres; beneath is a rouleax of
behindla in short
gauze scarf; lavender-colour sash tiedddin
large curls,
bows and long ends. The hair ia dressed
of roses and
and the head-dress composed of
Italian
wreath
'a crape; embossed
large bows of lavender-colour
t with a cameo locket.
gold pagoda ear-rings, and necklace
outside the gloves,
Gold bracelets, with cameo, clasps
shoes.
With
which are of white kid. White satin

SPIRIT OP Tie PUttLIC JOURNALS.

The proceedings in the House of Commons on Tuesday
last derived some importance from the subject which

served as their foundation, and 'from the expression of in-
dividual sentiment which it called forth. In all other re-
spects the time of Parliament was as completely wasted,
as the hopes of all those credulous people were deceived
who had flattered themselves that the great bulk of Chan-
cery business would ever, or could ever, be corrected, tin-
der the sanction and with the consent of him, whose inor-
dinate love of money is gratified by their Continuance, and
to whose inveterate prejudices and narrow spirit their over-
throw would administer a fatal shock. The Master of the
Rolls concluded an elaborate and not uninteresting epeech,
by a motion for leave to bring in a Bill "to alter and
amend the practice of the Court of Chancery." But,
from the specimen of projected reform in that abomi-
nable Court, which was contained in the famous 188
propositions, it is obvious enough that any meastreo founded
on their partial adoption, would be in a great degree
frivolous and useless. Of the whole list of names on the
Chancery Commission, there were just two and no more,
from whom any benefit might have been expected. Pr.
Lushington and Mr. R. Smith were well disposed, we
doubt not, to make a thorough investigation !lateen the
crannies in this indescribable Court, where extortion and
iniquity have sought their favourite shelter; but what
could two votes accomplish against eight or ten antagonists,
more or' less influenced, every one of them, by habit,
hope,-or fear, or obstinacy, to let old evils ;squire more
and more of that authority which grows out of long and
undisturbed prescription. The motion of the Master of the
Rolls, who made as much of his materials as any man liv-
ing could have done, went is fact to little or nothing. We
rlo not mean to contend altogether, that the terms of the
-motion ought to have been for leave " to alter" the Lord
Chancellor himself, instead of "the practice' of his Court
—satisfied though we be, that the latter object can never
be fully achieved without the former; but this we may
aver, that of the great and striking mischiefs, not one is yet"
touched : and one is but menaced with alteration at some
future period. The grand evil foretold by Sir S. Romilly,
when the Vice-Chancellor's Court was first erected, exists at
this moment in terrible force—we mean the aggravation of
delay and oppression superadded to the old pre-existing
miseries of Lord Eldon's Court, which has arisen from the
conversion of that Court into one of appeal from the de-
cisions of the Vice-Chancellor. Why should not the ap-
peals from the Rolls Court and from the Vice-Chan-
cellor's be at once to the House of Peers ? What is
obtained by the reference of their decrees to the Lord
Chancellos, but an endless etring of litigious tautolo-
hes, delays of hearings!, delays of judgment, carrying
ome of papers, to be forgotten if read, end redemanded
and retransported, and sometimes increased by new cart-
loads of papers, to be again forgotten ? The appellate
jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor from the decrees of
Judges who are not a whit less competent than himself,
constitutes a branch of ruinous suspense and extortion,
which, so fee es concerns the Vice-Chancellor's Court, has
sprung red of that measure of professed relief to the public.
Here, then, is a point, and one of high importance, left
uneouched by the Report of the twelve Commissioners, and
'oy the motion of the Master of the Rolls. The quadruple
or quintuple duties of the learned Lord at the head of the
(miscalled) equity jurisdiction, are equally unnoticed in
the bill which he has introduced, or, at least, in the
speech which prefaced it. Lord Eldon has still his origi-
nal Chancery jurisdiction—his appellate jurisdiction—his
bankrupt " Sovereignty," as Master Stratford so loyally
terms it—his Speakership of the House of Lords—his
appeal " Sovereignty" in the House of Lords, and his own
decisions as Lord Chancellor—then again his Cabinet and
Courtly " Sovereignty." Mr. Brougham indeed saddles
his Lordship with a million and a half of other Sovereign-
ties—to which we shall not now advert—remarking merely
that neither the report of the Commissioners, nor the
speech of Sir John Copley, has brought them under the
view of Parliament. But there is a feature of the Chancery
practice having no connexion with the person or character
of the Judge, which has been treated by the Master of the
Rolls with the same reverence as he has manifested
every where towards his learned superior in office. We
allude to the perverse, ineffectual, and oppressive system
of seeking facts through written interrogatories, instead of
through viva voce evidence in open Court. Until this mon-
strous anomaly in English practice shall be superseded, and
the natural and almost indigenous method of establish-
ing truth by oral testimony shall be admitted in our Equity
Courts, the most expensive of all modes of delay and op-
pression will still remain to disgrace the country, and tor-
ment it. Nor do we believe that while such an abase
shall be tolerated, any very sensible alleviation can be af-
forded of the miseries in general attendant on a Chancery

Among our extracti from the French Papers will be
round an account of the reversal by the Royal Court of
Bourges of a sentence of the Tribunal of Sancerre, by
which a shopkeeper of that place, who had had the mis-
fortune in shooting at a partridge, to hit a statue of the
Virgin Mary, which some pious individual had stuck up,
was, under the law of sacrilege, sentenced to six months'
imprisonment and a fine of 600 francs. It seems the Sieur
Gobin is a respectable shopkeeper, and he produced nu-
merous certificates from his townsmen, including the
_Mayor, of his irreproachable conduct; and the Curd cer-
tified that hn had never shewu himself an enemy of reli-
gion. If, however, the Sieur Gobin's orthodoxy had been
more equivocal, this affront to the Virgin, however unin-
tentional, might have cost him dear. Though his good
character have borne him harmless, it will be well for him
in future to keep as good a 100k-out for Virgin Mary as
for partridges. To shoot a man by accident is a slight
matter; but only think of the horrid crime of hitting
a piece of carved wood or stone, which some enthu-
siast chooses to christen after the Virgin! There is
no restraint, we suppose, on the exercise of this power
of pious Catholics of creating holy objects protected by
the dreadful penalties of the Law of Sacrilege. The
Judges of the Royal Court of Bourges have given great
offence to the Protestants by declaring that the Catholic
Religion is the only true Religion. In this country our
Judges favour us occasionally with their opinions on many
subjects, which they are not more called on to give, than
the French Judges were to declare their opinion with re-
spect to the truth of the Catholic Religion. If the sen-
tence is good in other respects, it is hardly fair to quarrel
with a portion of edifying matter which the Judge chooses
to give jaw the bargain. Many very original opinions
have, in this country, been propounded from the Bench;
it may truly be said, that both Divinity and Political Eco-
nomy are highly indebted to the venerable Judges for
their volunteer contributions. We shall always remember
the demonstration of the infinite benefit this country de-
rived from her National Debt, and the ingenious theory
of Price, sported the other day by a Lord Chief Justice,
who has since been so powerfully backed by Mr. Cob-
bet% It would never do to confine Judges to the appli-
cation of the law to the cases before them. We leave it
to Mr. O'Connell to reconcile this case under the Law of
Sacrilege in France, with his lofty descriptions of the
liberality of the French Government in religious matters.
—Morning Chronicle.

A Lisbon letter, of a high political character, asserts,
that it was not the intention of the Government to allow
the Constitutional troops to pursue the rebels far into
Tras-os-Montes, but to confine their operations, for the
present, to the guarding of the other provinces, and secur-
ing the safety of the frontiers. The grounds of this policy
are thus described. It is now very well ascertained, that
the Militia Regiments and peasants who joined the Apos-
tolical cat:_:e, had either been influenced by the solicitations
and weight of the Silveira family, or deceived by the
specious arguments used to convince them that Don Pedro
was not the legitimate successor to the Crown. They
were further assured that Spain was arming in their sup-
port, and as long as money was plentiful, and the hopes of
success prevailed, matters went on briskly. Successive
defeats, and the appearance of a British auxiliary force

I have, however, undeceived many; and it is besides
thought that it will be difficult for the rebels to continue
aszembled kir any great length of time in So poor and
barren a pro Vince as the upper part of Tras-os-Montes.
There is, however, another trial of political opinions
which the Government seems inclined to rig! e. it must
have been noticed, that the liicus of the present rebel-
lion, is in thet part of the country usually denominated
the IVine District, round Villa Real, Lamego, &c.
where the Silveiras have their estates. The incomes of
the wine-growers entirely depend 6,e thB gaie of their'
crops, and for the vine arils a critical season of the year
has now cel'.-aaenced. The vines begin to bud out, and
mutt be pruned, as the grounds must be cleared. This
work is usually performed by Gallicians, who now flock
into Portugal, just as the Irish facts inte England in
hay and harvest time, Tile farmers are obliged to obtain
advances on their crops from the Oporto merchants,
otherwise they cannot pursue their field labours. The
marked district produces 60 or 70,000 pipes et: wine
annually, valued, on an average, itt about til pounds per
pipe, and one half of this sum they receive at this season.
This i 3 also the time for the Wine Fair, intended for the
sale of the last autumn crops, so that it is an interesting
moment for those who have been led on by the bribes and
misrepresentations of their ambitious leaders. If they do
not resume the labours of the field, they are ruined the en-
suingeyear; The Government, therefore, feel disposed to
see what effect self-interest will have on the deluded pea-
santry, although it may be expected that the arrival at Lis-
bon of Count da Taipa and General Claudino from the
army, must have a considerable influence over the future
decisions of the Cabinet. The latter, in his character of
Deputy in the Cortes for the provinee of Tras-os-Montes,
has already given his opinion on the danger in which the
kingdom is placed, and the remedy to be adopted. He
uttered his sentiments in a firm and manly tone. He in-
veighed against half measures, and loudly asserted that this
was not a moment for moderation. No doubt he has
submitted to the Government the privations of an army
which has had the glory of saving the country from ruin.
The soldiers are actually without shoes, and six months'
pay due to them, whilst, at the same time, the Peers
were enjoying luxuries and very comfortably inventing
pleas to prevent the Bank from advancing money for the
exigencies of the war. We smile at the paltry and spe-
cious stratagems resorted to in this country to defend the
conduct of some of the Members of the Portuguese Honse
of Peers. It is not here they are to be judged : this
must be judged by their countrymen. Even in Oporto,
Chaves had his partisans prepared; aye, and he has them
in Lisbon too. We have many details in our possession
which convince us of this fact; yet these people ought to
be unmasked. Some will, no doubt, show the cloven
foot, when the measures of retaliation against the Rebel
Leaders, demanded by the army and the country, are dis-
cussed. Why is not a price already set on the heads of
Chaves, Canellas, Varsea, and the other Viscounts and
Barons, who have plunged their country into civil wars?
Why are their estates not confiscated? Do the Portu-
guese Legislators wait for decrees of proscription to arrive
from Rio de Janeiro ? If their Constitution is a benefit,
they must place it beyond danger, and this cannot be done
unless they rid themselves of both secret and avowed
traitors. They must be patriots, in the true sense of the
word, otherwise they cannot continue to be Constitu-
tionalists.

(EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED OPORTO, FEB. 13.)
" You will be informed by the official despatches of the Gene-
rals commanding in this province of Minho, that the Rebels have
been beaten on all points, and pursued with an activity scarcely
ever before witnessed. The officers and men employed against
them have done their duty, and merit the gratitude of their coun-
try. The Rebels, in the several actions they have had to fight,
have lost at least one thousand men, besides cannon, baggage,
arms, &c. ; and the moral effect has even been of still more
consequence. God knows whether they will now desist from their
enterprise. It is nevertheless astonishing to see the number of
Militia Colonels, and others having controul over the people, who
are implicated in the Rebel cause, which must inevitably create
great confusion. How they have been deluded, it is impossible
to tell; but the Curates and Abbots have uniformly been active
agents of the Apostolicals. To-day we have received news of the
arrival of the first brigade of British at Coimbra, where it halts,
possibly to wait orders whether to proceed direct to this place or
advance on Laniego, where the Rebels still persist in their plans.
not being yet disheartened,probably owing to the support they yet
expect to receive from Spain. Although we have not been visited
by the enemy, trade has received a material injury, owing to the
general stagnation and want of confidence which have prevailed.
Great sums of money due here will be lost, or the payment re-
tarded, as the wine districts are in a state of calamity worse than
during the invasion of the French."—lbid.
It is rather inconsistent that Lotteries should have been
suppressed by Act of Parliament, as a species of gam-
bling injurious to the public morals, while the practice of
stock-jobbing is allowed to continue. The latter is a more
fertile source of fraud and immorality than lotteries, con-
trolled as they were by the State, could ever possibly be.
The comparatively small sums which were staked in the
lottery, could not, in the worst issue, be productive of
any thing like the extensive mishief which is the conse-
quence of the desperate speculations on the Stock Ex-
change. The periodical scenes of triumph and ruin which
occur there—the transitions from splendour to misery—
from affluence and pride, to wretchedness and despair,
could not happen in any place but where the most vicious
spirit of gambling exercised its deadly infatuation. Why
does public justice pursue other gamblers into their secret
places, as enemies to society, whom it is a duty to hunt
down, while stock-jobbers are permitted to defraud the
public and each other in the face of day ? Besides, Eng-
land never knew any thing of those pests to society—
bubble-swindlers, before the invention of stock-jobbing.
It is that system of corrupt traffic in stock which gave rise
to the South Sea Scheme, and generated all the periodi-
cal bubble calamities which have since rivalled it in mis-
chief and infamy—stock-jobbing brought on the French
people a great deal of misery of the Revolution. It cre-
ated in that country, as it does in this, a race of wild and
profligate speculators, who induced individuals and the
Government to attempt to retrieve their affairs, oy plan
of extravagant cupidity, which ended in sitter and dis-
graceful rum. In England, however, one generation of
bubble-swindlers after another may be swept away—the
race will be continually renewed, as long as stock-jobbing
is unrepressed by law. This is the root of the evil, and
as long as the root has a place in the soil, though the bran-
ches of this moral upas may be ever so often lopped, the
poisonous influence will be reproduced. 'We are glad to
see that the Chief Civic Magistrate has the spirit and
public virtue to speak of this system as it deserves. In a
case of assault arising out of an illegal bargain on the Stock
Exchange, which came before him the other day, he ex-
pressed
sentiments similar to those which we have more
than once avowed on this subject, and which we now re-
Ibatbdinaks
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e"equally
Certainly,as
gambling-house transactions, and am sorry there is not_ a
law passed making the offence of stock-jobbing a misde-
meanour liable to be visited with a heavy punishment."—
These sentiments are worthy the Chief Magistrate of that
great commercial City which was, before stock-jobbing was
thought of, as remarkable for its solid wealth, as for the
honourable character of its merchants, and was no less the
strength than the ornament of the empire. The late Lord
Mayor, Mr. Alderman Venables, did himself great credit
by the discountenance which he gave to joint-stock frauds,
as did also Mr. Alderman Waithman, when he filled the
same high office. We wish we could compliment all the
members of the Civic Magistracy on a similar line of con-
duct; but unhappily some of them gave encouragement to
the delusions which swindlers practised on the public by
their own pernicious example. What we say of stock-
jobbers is not meant, of course, to have any reference to
those members of the Stock Exchange who are content to
discharge the duties of brokers, and receive their lawful
commission, without engaging in dishonest and gambling
speculations. While there continues to be such a property
as stock, there must be brokers to purchase and transfer it.
Such persons confining themselves to the discharge of their
commissions, are not to be confounded with stock-jobbers,

any more than the character of a regular merchant is to be
mixed up with that of a bubble-swindler.—Morning
Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Ann Fox, formerly a.: resident at Birming-
ham, but who new keeps a snuff-shop in Iggh Holborn, was yes-
terday charged with a felony.
Mrs. Butler, of 21, St. Martin's-lane, said the prisoner occupied
a poor i hot se k'r a considerable, time, but eventually ab-
sconded, leaving an arrear of rent o uPit-:aftl.d cf Rl, unpaid. She
had been absent three days before the furniture was examined, and
then a pair of pillow-cases, a sheet, a table-cloth, and a decanter
were missed.

Mr. BUTLER, the attorney (late clerk to Mr. (farmer), on the
pat t of the prisoner, cross-examined the prosecutrix, Mrs. Butler,
and she stated, that e e had charged the prisoner's servant with
stealing the sheet. She had seen the four times since she
missed the property before she preferred the charge of tdoily. She
called on her for her rent; the prisoner offered her a table-cloth
to make good her loss, but she refused to accept it unless the rent
Was paid, believing it was a manceuVre to do away with the charge
of felony.
Mr. BUTLER, for the 'prisoner, said, that his client's servant
had, unknown to her, pawned some of the property of the pro-
secutrix; but this charge of felony had been trumped up for the
purpose of compelling his client to pak the six pounds, demanded
for rent. There being no proof of the prisoner's having taken or
pawned the property,

Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said, that the prosecutrix must recover
her rent by due course of law, and discharged the prisoner.

HATTON-GARDEN.--STEArxxc DEAD Bonirs.—Yesterday
four men, named Smith, Sheering,Davis, and Petitt, were charged
with attempting to steal dead bodies, in the Church-yard of St.
James, Clerkenwell. The prisoners, on Monday night, accosted
Jones, a watchman who was stationed near the Church-yard in
question, and offered him a sum of money, if he would permit
them to take up the bodies of two children, rgcently interred. He
appeared to concur with their proposition, but he privately com-
municated the object they had proposed to the Superintendent of
the Watch, who stationed a number of watchmen near the
Church-yard on Tuesday night, and captured all the prisoners in
the act of opening one of the graves. Mr. Rogers, the Magistrate,
committed the prisoners for three months to prison.
MARYLEBONE.—An elderly female, named Charlotte
Skinner, was charged before Mr. Ravvrmison with having vio-
lently assaulted Miss Matilda Collins, a young female of considerable
personal attractions. The complainant stated, that she rented two
rooms of Mrs. Skinner, who kept a house in Conway-street, Fitz-
roy-square, for which she paid 104/. a year, but lately she had
received the most barbarous treatment from the defendant and her
son. On Thur&day evening the son invited her to accompany
him to the Masquerade at the Opera-House, and because she re-
fused, the defendant seized her by the throat and threw her down
on the sofa, and held her so tight, that if a gentleman had not
entered the room and rescued her, she certainly must have been
strangled ; the son had also ill-treated her on several occasions.
The Magistrate.asked the son what situation he held ? and'
the son, a slim young man, genteelly dressed, stood forward and
said, he was a dancer in the Ballet at the Opera. He denied having
struck the complainant, and said, that on his return from the Opera
on the evening in question, he found Miss Collins in a state of in-
toxication, and among other extravagancies, she said she was the
" unfortunate heiress of Napoleon Buonaparte," and taking up a
shovel, swore that she would kill any man who approached her.
Mrs. Skinner said, she heard the complainant quarrelling with
her son on the stairs, but denied having committed any assault
herself.

The son admitted having slapped Miss Collins's face.
Mr. RAwuNsoN said he should dismiss the case altogether,
and the sooner the parties made their way out of the office the
better ; and a woman of Mrs. Skinner's years ought to be ashamed
of keeping a,brothel. The parties then retired, without attempt-
ing to prolong the dispute.
UNION-HALL--Two young men, named Russell and Pretty,
were charged with committing a fraud upon the Proprietors of
the Coburg Theatre. Russell is a messenger at the Theatre, and
Pretty is the son of a musical instrument maker. Mr. Davidge,
the manager, stated, that a considerable number of blank cheques
and orders had been stolen from the Theatre, and his name had
been forged to them, and the parties presenting them had obtained
admission into the house. One of the persons who presented a
forged order, after the discovery of the practice, was stopped, and
he admitted that he bought it of the prisoner Pretty. Pretty, upon
receiving a promise that he would not be prosecuted, admitted
that he obtained the orders from Russell, who had access to the
place where the blank orders were deposited. He, however, re-
fused to say who was the person who had forged his (Mr. Da-
vidge's) name. The prisoners were remanded.

WILLIAM BROWN, THE SAILOR.

A ROMANCE OP REAL LIFE.

(From the Liverpool Chrnnicle.)
On Thursday last, as the Commerce steam-packet, be-
longing to the City of Dublin Company, was on the point
of starting from George's Pier-head, Batchelor, the police
constable on duty, called out to the commander of the Tea-
sel to hold on for a few minutes, and instantly went on
board with two of his assistants, and after a few minutes'
search, they returned on shore with one of the passengers
in custody, who was dressed in sailor's clothes, and passed
by the name of William Brown.
The cause of this person's apprehension, was a report
which had been communicated to the constable, that a
female in a disguise, the description of which corresponded
with this person's attire, had taken a passage for Dublin,
by the Commerce. The dress had been so minutely
found deeper
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the disguise
time
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i
de-
scribed, that it was so impossible to mistake the person,
noottowxiitchastitoann, in
dingwthhieohadthde pitiaonrtoy teasf astill
making the capture.

When safely lodged in Bridetvell and about to undergo
a personal examination by Mrs. Clayton, the wife of the
keeper, finding detection inevitable, the prisoner confessed
the fact of her sex and of her disguise.
In the evening, when perfectly sobered, she stated her
name to be Selina Augusta Hamilton. Inquiries, which
had been made in the interim, led to the discovery of the
house in which she had been lodging by the Old Dock,
and one of the constables was engaged, in the course of
the evening, in conversation with the landlady for the
purpose of tracing her history, when a respectably dressed
man entered the room, to whom the landlady pointed and
said, " Here's the very gentleman as can tell you all about
her." The gentleman in question proved to be the master
of the brig Laura, of New York, lying in Princes Dock,
whose name we have been told is Duffey.
From the account given by this person, who, we be-
lieve, was the cause of her detention, as well as from her
own statement, the following particulars of this extraordi-
nary being have been collected :-
-tier father is said to be a. merchant in London, and
owner, wholly or in part, of several vessels, one of which
was stated to be now lying in George's Dock. He was
said, as we understood it, to have a counting•house at
Topham's (query Topping's ?) wharf, and a dwelling-
house at Shadwell. From his house, it appears that she
absconded, about three years ago, to follow a young man
with whom she had fa'llcn in love. He was the mate
of a vessel in the North American trade ; and hearing
that he had sailed for St. John's, New Brunswick, she
came down to Liverpool, and took her passage in a
vessel hound to that place. This part of her story is
confirmed by several persons in this town, who recollect
having seen her at that period, when they describe her to
have been a young lady of fashionable appearance, elegantly
dressed, and lady-like in her deportment. On her ar-
rival at St. John's, she found that the vessel to which her
lover belonged had gone to Quebec; thither she therefore
followed him, and there she learned that he had been
drowned in the passage up the river St. Lawrence. Her
determination was immediately taken to become a sailor
for his sake, and, doffing her woman's gear, of which she
found means to dispose, and submitting the luxuriant
tresses of her flaxen hair to the sheers, in the attire be-
fitting a youth of the station which she assumed, she en. 4
gaged herself as a cook and steward to the master of a
vessel boUnd for London, with whom she remained up-
wards of twelve months. While the vessel lay in the
Thames, she met her father one day in the street, and
touched her hat to him as she passed, but so completely
was she altered as to defy recognition. The next vessel
she joined was that which brought her, some weeks.
back, to the port of Liverpool. In that vessel she served
upwards of twelve months, and would still have con—

tinned in her, but that the Master, ,ti-ipecting her secret,
at length succeeded in extorting from her an deknowledg-
merit of the truth, and afterwards wished her to re-
main with him, upon terms to which she would not
submit. Her assumption of the habits of a sailor, it
seems, has by no means been limited to the " jacket
and trousers Ftne," hint the grog and " the backee,"
and " the pretty girls is boot," have all contributed
their share towards the cOtripletic3 of the metamor-
phosis. Of the grog there was abundant evidence in her
condition at the time of her being apprehended i of the
tobacco, a token appeared in a well-filled box in her jacket
pocket ; and for the girls she has unquestionably been
humming them -;:ith a few adventures a la Paddingtoni.
To one young woman sae p'erform'ed the honours of a re-
gular courtship, underwent the threefold publication of the
banns of marriage, and was only prevented from undergo-
ing the ceremony itself by a timely discovery of the arish
officers that the bride elect was in a condition very shortly
to beceine a mother, when the creature was upon the
point of detiarin'g Out heroine to be the father of her ex-
pected offspring; And than; says the latter, " you know I
could not go any farther," and therefore the connexion
ended. Since her arrival in Liverpool the has bam-
boozled more than one of the frail portion of its female in-
habitants, by affecting a serious attachment ; and one night,
partaking too deeply of the potations to which she invited
' one .of the beauties of Bridge-street, whom she had treated
" to the play," she was robbed by her of the greater part
of her earnings by her last voyage. The discovery of her
sex on that Occasion secured impunity to the plunderer,
who afterwards bud it about; and, to escape from the
disagreeable consequences which the adventure had en-
tailed upon her, she determined to go to Ireland in hopes
of being able there to embark in one of the first vessels for
British America, that being the trade to which she has
attached herself in memory of her
covet William Brown,
whose name she had assumed. She ha:
stated since she
has been in custody, that she will have 1.;.
fortune of
4,0001. at her own disposal when she comes of age---she
is now 'not quite 19—and that she intends to lay it oat
in the purchase and equipment of a vessel, of which she
expects by that time to have qualified herself to take the
command. She is in person of the ordinary stature of
women, but rather stoutly made, and inclining to enhon,
point; of fair complexion, with light hair and grey eyes,
round face, features by no means handsome, though not
unpleasing for a boy. Her hair is cropped close behind,
with curls over the temples in the style of a sailor boy,
and her dress is in every respect that of an ordinary
person of that description, excepting only a greater
appearance of personal cleanliness than they usually exhibit.
On Friday she was brought up for examination at the
Town-hall, before Mr. Alderman Peter Bourne, to whom
a brief outline of her history had been sketched, the Mr.
Duffey, of the brig Laura, before named, appearing to
state the grounds of her detention, in which, we must say,
that for some reason or other, he cut as foolish a figure as
any man could desire to do. We understand that he had
some conversation with the prisoner subsequently to her
apprehension.
Before the lady made her appearance Mr. Duffey stated
to the Magistrate, that he had become acquainted with the
prisoner from seeing her several times in her walks near her
father's residence, but that he had no acquaintance with
her father, whom, however, he knew to be a man of con-
siderable property, as described above.
The prisoner, on being questioned by the Magistrate,
said she knew that gentleman (Mr. Duffey) very well,
having often seen him at her father's house.
The Magistrate reproved Mr. Duffey for having denied
his acquaintance with the woman's father; to which he
answered that he did not thing it necessary to acknow-
ledge it. . _ _

The girl declined telling the magistrate her father's name
or residence. She said, in a tone in which firmness of pur-
pose, and a somewhat approaching to modest reserve, were
curiously blended, that she did not see any necessity for
mentioning those things; that she was a sailor now, and
such she wished to remain ; that she had always done her
duty in that station with propriety ; that no one could
charge her with any offence; and that therefore she was at
a loss to know why she was detained.
The Magistrate then asked Mr. Duffey if he had anything
to say against her; to which he replied, that he wished
her to be given into his charge, that he might restore her
to her father.

A look of something like surprise was the only comment
of the girl upon this application; and the answer was that
he had no authority to give her into his charge, Ho, how-
ever, advised the girl to give up her present mode of life,
and return to her father.

She said she had made her own choice of her present
mode of life, and she did not know why any one should
wish to make her leave it. She repeated that she did not
understand why she should have been brought there, as
she was not roaming about in that disguise, in a disorderly
manner, for the sake of either pleasure or mischief, but to
do her duty as a sailor, which was quite another thing.
The Magistrate said he had no authority to prevent her
from following her inclination, nor to detain her. She was
therefore diseharged.
As soon as the last words were pronounced, the soi-disant
William Brown left the room, and was immediately fol-
lowed by Mr. Duffey, when they both took their course
towards the Prince's Dock together.

THE WAKEFIELD CASE.

MANCHICSTER, •
Fsa 26.—Fresh rccognizances have been
entered into for the personal appearance of Mr. William Wake-
field, to take his trial at the approaching Assizes. The Counsel
retained are—for the prosecutor, Mr. Sergeant Cross, Mr. John
Williams, and Mr. Brougham ; for the defendants, Mr. Scarlett,
.
Mr. Coltman, Mr. Park, Mr. Patteson, an.] four others The
season for retaining so many Counsel for the defence is said to be
the great number of witnesses called by Mr. Wakefield. They
amount to above a hundred, without witnesses to character, of
whom so many attended at the last Assizes, before the charge of
felony was dismissed. The witnesses subpoenaed by Mr. Wake-
field consist, as I am informed, of every person who observed him
and his wife during the ten days that they passed together. Mr.
Wilson, the respectable landlord of the Albion Hotel in this town,
and three of his waiters, are called by Mr. Wakefield. They,
gave an account of the meeting between Mr. and Mrs. B. G.
Wakefield, totally at variance with any that has appeared in the
public prints, and one which would lead to a belief that a great
affection subsisted between the parties before they met at Man-
chester. Many persons are also subpoenaed from Del ph and Hudders-
field, the two first stages from Manchester, where Mr. and Mrs. E.
the
h lodgingsßeartwn nll
will
ell° cbe,
G. Wakefield stopped for some time. They drank tea at the latter
place, and, from their great merriment and freedom of manner,. were
This interesting
taken for comedians on their way to York.
icuastehwe will
Nisibe tpriedriuls)yc aouSrpet
al-
ready taken at Lancaster,
Our newsmongen are astonished at the
as crovdte::oloasbtadinurainbge,t.he last Assizes, when it was next to im-
possiblereturn of Mr. William Wakefield, having, been led to believe that
all the defendants would abscond. They say now that there is
acaiiitadllitjauniscaatepbec.ftedoreMthl:na.ltyr.
more in this case than people suppose ; and there is a general ex-
pectation that Mr. Wakefield will successfully rebut the heavy
charges against him. He has not been here for some time, but is
daily expected at the Albion Hotel.—Morning Paper.

itG Tli S.—The witty and
convivial beingF in his early years much addicted to
dissipation,llLlo
Thr mother S O
advised him to take example by a gentle-
man whose constant food was herbs, and his drink water.
c, What, madam," said he, "would you have me imitate a malt
who eats like a beast and drinks like a fish?"
THE ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.—The heroine
whose romantic adoption of a seakring life we mentioned in our
lot, was married on Tuesday, we hare heard, to Duffey, the mas-
ter of the Laura. Having for the space of three years mourned
the death of her first lover, William Brown, Miss Selina Augusta
Hamilton grew tired of a single life, and took Mr. Duffey " for
better or for worse." She has, since her marriage, changed the
jacket and trowsers for the the gown and petticoat, and may oc-
casionally be seen pacing the deck of the brig Laura, which lies
on the east side of the Prince's Dock. She has not, however,
cast off her taste for the sea with her garments ; on the contrary,
she bas been heard to declare, within the last few days, and in
no very elegant phraseology, that " she'll soon doff her woman's
gear, if things don't go right, and take the command herself."—
(Liverpool Albion.

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Canterbury 50 00 33 40 26 .38 40 50 46 501
Grantham.. 4B 58 41 45 34 42 56 61 --
Grimsby --. 54 56 40 44 36 37 60 63
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Lincoln
Maidstone 50 60 37 42 21 37 46 43 143
Spilsby 50 54 40 42 36 40 sa 60
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