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tating that they were actually starving, not having
tasted any food whatever for the space of forty-eiftht
hours. On searching the-male prisoner at the station-
house, 11. 16s. 6d. in silver was found sewed up in the.
waistband of his breeches.
They were committed for 21 days each.
WORSHIP-STREET.
. A young man, named John Meadows, was charged
with having violently assaulted an eating-house-keeper
named Collins, living in Brick-lane, St. Luke's.
On the preceding evening the complainant was
disturbed by a loud uproar in front of his
house. On going out, he found the prisoner
engaged in beating a woman in a most un-
merciful manner. He felled her three times to the
ground, and continued beating her until she became in-
sensible. The complainant interfered in protection of
the unfortunate woman, upon which he was attacked by
tho ?tisoner, who, struck him several blows in the face,
411. d tke was given into custody.
in his defeuee, the prisoner charged the prosecutor
with U.viv, struck him first, and considered he had no
'444,'1.t to interfere, as the woman he had half murdered
; was. only his wife.
The prisoner was severely admonished by the Magis-
..*;eatez atria fined 21.15. or a month's imprisonment.

Thy rtenen journals publish the following instance
of honesty.. A poor woman, of the hamlet of Bretagne,
with ave children, supporting herself and them by her
labour in a factory, found on the 14th inst,, a pocket.
book, containing 4,500 f. in bank /hoes and commercial
bills, which she imwediately deposited in the hands of
the conamisaary of
' tbo last sitting of the Court of. Assize of the
\rondos°, a man named Louis Montjalard` was con-
' detnned to death for murder, under the following grip.
cumstances :—Montjalard and Eugenie 'Agush were
both domestics in the service of 4, de :Ponson, Mayor of
'lustre], in the
.A 7 too close intimacy took
t'( Vi,twvetl4m, and Eupenie became enciente. Louis,
ashamed of such an intercourse with a girl who was
plain in her person, and who had been previously guilty.
of a similar weakness with another, and also teakillg the
resentM(l4 Of 411 aunt c
ow, whbr,l he had expecta-
tipl9,, saynnt4 kigenie to conceal her condi-
tioP• t;'.elocit in the night of September 19,
tppis iahned Eugenie to wulk out with him, under
, the pretence of getting her some grapes ; but, leading hr.
to the brink of a well some little distance frcip tie
he suddenly pushed her in, t 9 Ale tottona, hut,
iO-11*
; 4V14. 6 tie water, caught by a
OleocM `ll4l §%l.Ptlngd Believing it to be
.4Pcivient, Ftha walled to Louis tolt help her out ;
instead of U4l/I S 5, lie hurled & heavy 4011 p kls)Ai
upon her. This missed it its cliaivet., the clotermtned
man then left hey.l wept hiss k Vito the •-honse, and
bropgtt a 1900 carbide, which he diseharged at the
poor'girl; who was theyeby wounded in the shoulder,
but still no strength
to keep her hold. Finding
no otlivr means of killing her in the well, he helped her
out, and immediately put an end to hvr WV, by -beating
her brains opt with the htOtten4 of the gun. Returning
once 41411'0 40 the huuse; Ice dressed himself and fled, but
PlOt l it acquain4incV, to whom he confessed what he had
done. ileing arrested, he made an explicit declaration
of all the circumstances to the examining magistrate,
and Was committed for trial,
The Peripyr,e, our represents that port to be
state of gyet4depression, from the dismissal of be-
tween pp and .04(1. workmen from the Government
bnilding•yards, in consequence of the reduction of the
estimates in the budget of the Minister of the Marine,
We find the following-in the Canslitutionnel. Our
contemporary is surely growing waggish A certain
number of ladies have just formed themselves into a
committee to exercise a direct influence on the approach-
ing elections, They have chosen for their agent k.
1-)esPlantades, No. 13, Rue Traversiere St. Honore, who
assumes the title of expert verificateur des atiNOTICOS dens
les journaux—a modest employment, which he unites to
that of political reformer, These ladies complain,
through Al, Desplantades, of the diminution of physical
and moral qualities of the present race of Deputies, who
have, for the most part, grey hair, and cannot show the
slightest energy in the accomplishment of their duty. In
consequence, they propose to the electoral colleges not to
re.elcct a single one of them, not even M. Pedre Lacaze,
M. Vigier, and M, Golos, whose black hair might excite
their sympathy. The Committee of these female re-
formers invites provincial ladies to send, as soon as
possible, to the above address, a list of eligible persons
in their departments, aged,' says the circular, trow 30
to 36, well.made, bachelors, men of probity, and disen-
gaged.' Ihey will then take measures to assure the
elections of those young representatives. The ladies do
not explain the means which they intend employing, but
they appear certain of success. "This Committee,' add
these ladies, ' created for the reform of the Chamber of
Deputies, shall be composed, at Paris, of ladies of the
greatest distinction, and quite capable of keeping up a
correspondence,' "
A letter from Blois, after relating the circum-
stances of the murder committed by the man Vigreux
on his wife at St. Laurens-les-Eaux, in the Lou. el-
Cher, of which we have given an account, says that in
a short time after Vigreux fled, his house was perceived
to be on fire', but was very soon extinguished. In the
morning of the 12th inst., while the magistrates were
making inquiries as to the circumstances, a loud detona-
tion was heard from a barn adjoining the house of
Vigreux, in which they were sitting, and a strong smell
of gunpowder was perceived. The door of the barn was
locked, but forced open, and Vigreux was found lying
dead, having shot himself with his gun, which he had
carried with hint and kept. At first it was difficult to
conceive how he had got into the barn, but on searching
around, a hole in the wall was discovered, which he must
hare made himself, and by which he entered.
GOOD NEWS FOR SPORTSMEN.—III a fiwld a few
miles west from Edinburgh, a partridge was found on
the last day of April, sitting on 23 eggs ; a circum-
stance, we believe, unprecedented at that period of the
season.

THE PRICE OF CATTLE.— The price of cattle and
sheep is rising as rapidly as it declined. There was
a large supply at the Liverpool market yesterday, but
still the prices were very high. We stated a fortnight
ago that the decline was the consequence of a mere panic,
and that it would not continue.--Liverpool Times.
About a month ago, says the Courrier de Lyon,
a little girl was bitten by a mad dog. bier father tried
to save her, but he was also attacked and bitten. The
girl died soon after of hydrophobia, and a few days back
the father died of the same disease.
SHOVEL HATS IN SCOTLAND.—The following para-
graph, under the heading of " Reformed Catholic Church,"
appears in the Edinburgh Observer, which gives it on
the alithority of a correspondent :—" The annual meet-
ing of the. Synod of the United Diocese of Dunkeld,
Dumblane, and Fife, will be held this year, at Kirk-
aldy, on Wednesday the 15th day of June next, when
matters of considerable impOrtance to the particular in-
terests of the Diocese, mid to the general welfare of the
Reformed Catholic Church in Scotland, are expected to
come before it. Among others, will be a proposal for a;!
change in the style and title of the United Diocese ; for
a revival of the office of Archdeacon, chiefly with a view
to that functionary's exercising a surveillance over the
temporal condition of churches or chapels, throughout
the Diocese, from year to year ; and for an authorised
and unanimous assumption, on the part of the Dean and
clergy, of the ordinary clerical dress,—the latter em-
bracing the shovel hat, single breasted coat, and short
cassock."— Glasgow Saturday Post.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY FOR THE SLIP-
, PRESSION OF INTEMPERANCE.—Wednesday morning the
Annual Meeting of the above Society was held atExeter-
hall. Earl Stanhope in the chair. On the platform
were a great number of gentlemen, amongst whom were
the Bishop, of Norwich, J. S. Buckingham, Esq., Dr.
Oxley, Rev. C. Stovel, and several delegates from Ame-
rica, &c. The Report, which was very lengthy, was
read by Mr Green, the Secretary : it stated that the So-
ciety had greatly increased in numbers during the past
year, both in the metropolis and the country. A number
of excellent speeches in behalf of the Society were de-
livered by the Bishop of Norwich, Mr. Buckingham, and
other gentlemen, one of whom, named Peck, narrated
the following interesting incident .—" In the month of
June, 1837, a woman named Wright, a very dissolute
character, while drinking. at the bar of a gin-shop in
Drury-lane, offered to sell her child, a little boy, about
two years old, which she then-held in her arms, for a
quartern of gin. A man named Myers, who is a Water-
man, then and now residing in Feather's-court, Drury-
lane, took the wretched mother at her word, paid for the
gin, and received the child from her arms. Since that

period up to the present time, Aiyers, who is a-very
dustrior.s man, although he has at times experienced
great privations, has wholly nraintained the child, to
whom he is greatly attached ; he has had the child
christened in the names of its mother and himself. Since

the day the purchase and exchange were made the unna-
tural mother had never ex pressed any solicitude about it,
and had latterly been lost sight of altogether." Mr. Peck
stated that he had made effiirts to get the boy into the
Blue Coat School, but without success. The thanks of

the meeting were voted to the Noble Chairman, and
separated.

The General Steam Navigation Company's splen.
did steam-yacht, Menia, from Ostend, landed her pas•
sengers at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at London,
bridge Wharf.

Wednesday an inquest was held at the Royal Oak
Inn, Lewisham-road, before Mr. Carttar, on the body of
Miss Jane Sophia Mortlock, aged 19, a beautiful and
accomplished young lady, who committed suicide by
drowning herself. Edward Miles, butler to Mr. Moor,
of Talav era Cottage, Lewisham-road, deposed that the
deceased young lady was his master's netee. She had
resided with her uncle since her father and mother had
left England for India. Iler father was an officer in the
East India Company's service. On Monday afternoon
witness saw the deceased walking in the flower-garden ;
she had a book in her hand ; at dinner-hour, which was

five o'clock, the young lady was missing. Inquiries
were made as to her absence, but nothing satisfactory
took place to account for her absence. About seven
&clock the same evening the body of the unfortunate
young lady was discovered in a pond ill one of the mea-
dows adjacent to the premises. Mr: Nicholson, a sur-
geon; was called in, but all human aid was unavailing.
Other evidence was heard, after which the Jury returned
a verdict of " Temporary insanity."

Fourteen houses, twenty-one barns, and a great
quantity of farming stock and household furniture, were
destroyed by fire, three days ego, at Martinpeuch, near
Arras, causing a loss estimated at 120,000 f.
' PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND.—The yearly
general meeting of the Proprietors of this establishment
took place yesterday, when the Directors made their report
on the affairs of the Bank, from u it appeared, that the
amount of the rest or undivided profits was 114,200 L .55.9 d. ,
and it was announced by the Directors to be their in.
tention to pay, in July next, an extraordinary dividend
or bonus of four per cent. on the capital stock, in addi-

tion to the usual
'tidend of the same amount for
the half-year dirt idsinnmer Ile,: .
In the list of . ,:s.,
which was gliven - fists at; hNerelivtslranjaenstoynsl2iEidiz tl)aasiti:
it was stated that
e\
renee family were
3,,:.
he \rious members of the Fitzcla-
iresq. This was not the case, for
although honoured b
invi-
tation was gratefully %.iit,d.
eiMajesty's command, the
CHURCH-RATE SEIZL,_ .
Vestry-
Clerk of Allhallows, wit 'N. Mr. Drew, the
13/and, the constable from the
Mansion. house, yesterda.
Messrs. Cooper and Co.,
entered the premises of
by virtue of a warrant fru.
the Lord Mayor seized a
quantity of beaver fur to the ,
was for Church-rates, and title of 6°L
,Ix- nce-Pountney,lane, and
rds the stipend of the
Rev. James William Bellamy,
parishes of St. Mary Abchulr"et, The seizure
and St. Laurence-
Pountney, and, Head Master of tA
ctor of the united
Gramtnar-school, and for the Rev.
Merchant Taylors'
l
Vincent, Rector of the united IDa ish
Great and Less, Vicar of Bulanery:e Allhallows the
Isliam St. Andrew
of Chichester Cathedral. ,x, andPrebend

The numerous passengers who lei London on
Sunday last by the Antwerp Compan)
Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, included
this
Smythe, Bart. ; General Trevor ; and Lthvard
Stewart, all with their respective families ; Dn°„ Sirs'
&c, The ship returned here yesterday mornin
( -"
favourable passage of ninleeen hours, to the ToWit' r t
IRON STEAMER, FOR THE
e
nes
steamer, called the Eagle, which has been budr
Alessrs. I)itchburne and Maul, expressly for the le
galloon of the Rhone, leaves the Thames, this day, r,
France, She is a beautiful vessel, and both in her eon
Strnetion and her machinery, is singularly adapted for
that rapid river. Her measurement is about 286 tons ;
her length 185 feet ; and she is. fitted with 'a
pair of ex-
quisite engines of 11Q horse power, made by the emi-
nent house of Mills', Ravenhill, and Co., of Blackwall.
Netwitlistanihng her size • and capacity, her draught of
wetter is only twenty-two inches—a point it wits es-
sential to secure, in order to make her available for such
a river as the Rhone, the depth of which, in many
places, does not exceed three feet. Mr. Miller was
the .first to master t 2tortaidt4e-obstacles to the navi-
gation of tha :pisit-sisit by ; and the engines of this
Wes we understmd, the twenty-fifth pair that his
#0.114e has made kr that river.. Her conveyance to Mar-
useoilshlleisg,et dnriSate to the Rhone, which will be a matter cf
ffieulty, owing to her buoyancy and peculiar
cons troo,
on as a river boat, will be entrusted to Cap-
-1;441 Farmer, sen., whose ability and experience as a
4ke-Are commander eminently qualify him for the respon-
sible charge. A numerous party, including several sci-
entific and nautical men, proceeded down the liver with
the Eagle on Tuesday last, in order to test the ma-
chinery, which was found complete in all respects, and
worked, even at the rate of seventeen miles an hour, in
manner that elicited the warmest expressions ofadmi-
ration. Towards the close of the excursion, the company,
which also comprised several ladies, partook of an ele-
gant collation in the splendid saloon of the vessel, and
spent a very social evening. As a specimen of naval
architecture and engineering, the Eagle must impress
the French with a high opinion of our skill and resources.
The Latter-day Saints have been giving two or
three lectures on the beauties and benefits of Mormonism,
with what success we have not heard. If they are left to
themselves, and not brought into importance by opposi-
tion, the agitation will, we have no doubt, die a natural
death.—Cheltenham Examiner.
Two or three months ago, one-third of the central
prison at Beaulieu, near Caen, was destroyed by fire.
One of the prisoners, named Monbaut, was suspected of
being the incendiary, and indicted before the Court of
Assizes for Calvados ; but, on being tried at the last
session, was acquitted.
The And de 1 Ordre of Arlon, in Belgium, contains
the following:—" The agent of the General Otishier at
Arlon absconded on the 9th instant, leaving 'a deficit
amounting, it is said, to about 250,000 francs, which can
be traced to three years back, but has hitherto been con-
cealed by illicit means."
COPY OF AN OLD RECEIPT.—"ffeb the 17 1600
and Eighty two Received of Will: Knight the sum of two
shillings in full for halfe a years duty for two Fire-hearths
in his house in Kentisborw due and end at St. lifiehall
last past, I say received by —Fel 71 L. hob. Harndull
collector," In the original the words in italics are in
writing; the rest in print. It appears that in those days,
they were obliged to pay a tass fur lighting a fire in their
houses.— Western Luminary.
A correspondent writes from Java, that, in the
morning of isloventher 14, an eruption of the Goenseng
Guentoer Mountain, in the district of l'eranger, took
place with violent subterraneouS noises, which lasted till
three in the afternoon, covering the earth to the extent
of ten miles around with sand and cinders to various
depths, from two -to five inches, damaging a great space
of cultivated around, and %upwards of 400,000 coffee
trees,
Chartism is born of a defeated hope, of disappoiht-
meat of the fruits of the Reforth Act ; it has been fos-
tered by the selfish spirit of Mammon—by a sordid, re-
morseless contempt of the inalienable rights of humanity.
The vice of the age is a want of sympathy with the con-
dition of the great mass of the people. They are looked
upon as the mere instruments of wealth—the mere ma-
chines with eyes to direct them, and limbs to labour for
the privileged classes ; whose money-bags are to them
as the Great Wall of China, shutting them out from the
barbarian poor. In England, the test ofa man's social worth
is to be found only at his banker's. Property is the Mumbo
Jumbo of high•minded, intelligent, John Bull. He
execrates the Pope, and sends out •Missionaries (cer-
tainly not " warranted to stand the Climate") to plant
what shall be future Bishoprics on the banks of the
Niger,—but he makes up for his contempt of foreign
idols, by his frequent genuflexicks to the money-god he
has, at home. By the clamour that some politicians
make for the exclusive rights of property, one would
almost think—did not the existence of fashionable ac-
coucheurs (" for," as Lampedo says, " man-midwife is
grown vulgar") refute the idea—that your men of pro-
perty were coined in the Mint like sovereigns, and were
therefore destitute of that plebeian humanity working in,
and operating upori, the poorer creatures of clay—the
moving mud and soil of the social throng.—Punch.
The M'oniteur states that the Procureur du Roi and
the Juge d'lnstruction of Versailles commenced their
inquiry into the causes of' the deplorable accident on
Sunday, the Bth, on Monday, the following day, and did
not delay it, as asserted by several journals, till Wed-
nesday. The official journal adds, that this inquest is
sufficiently advanced to be annexed to that taken by the
authorities of Paris, with equal promptitude and perse-
verdnee. As soon as these are completed by reports
from men of science and others capable Of elucidating
the matter, the whole affair a ill be brought before the
Tribunal f the Seine, within whose jurisdiction the
parties to whom blame may be imputed are resident.
A fatal affray took place at a public-house called
the Five-sail Mill, at l'errington, on the 6th inst. A
man entered the kitchen, and, without any ceremony,
took up a glass of beer which was ,on the chimney-piece,
and drank it off. On being spoken to by the landlord
he becamoinsolent, and was turned out of the house ; he
soon after returned, when high .words ensued, and the
landlord, a much smaller man, took him in his arms and
threw him out. His head falling on a stone caused a
concussion of the brain, of which he died the following
dayk The landlord has absconded.—Bury Post,
PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS.
—The Anniversary Festival of this Institution took place
yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ;
the Right Hon. 11. Goulburn in the chair. Among the
gentlemen present we observed Sir C. Clarke, Bart., Dr.
Warburton, Rev. Dr. Croly, Sir Claudius Hunter, Alr.
Kemble, M.P., Mr. ,Anderton, Rev. Dr. Major, 11.
Loydd, Esq., &c. After the usual loyal toasts had been
duly honoured, the Report for the last year was read
by the Secretary. From this document it would appear
that, during the past year, upwards of eighty-five addi-
tional names had been added to the subscribers and
life-governors of the institution. During the period
to winch the Report referred, 118 criminal claim n, and
71 boys and 65 girls, the children of convicted parents,
had been admitted to the benefits of the charity. The
Report went on to detail several individual instances of
the beneficial operations of the Society. After the read-
ing of the Report Mr. Goulburn proposed the toast of
the evening-"Prosperity to the Philanthropic Societe,"
prefacing the toast with .a high eulogium upon the eiji‘cts
and operations of the Society. The toast was duly
honoured. A number of toasts were then disposed of,
and the party broke up at a late hour. During the
evening the following, among many other, donations
were announced by the Secretary :—Lord Chief Justice
Tindal, 10/. los.; P. B. Duncan, Esq., 251.; Lord Rad-
stock, 10/. 10s. ; J. Chaterhonse Smith, Esq., 211. los.,
Bank of England, 105/. ; 11. Kemble, Esq., 21/. ; Right
lion. Mr, Goulburn, 101. 10s. ; J. Labouchere, Esq.,
101. 10s.; the Marquis of Bristol, 501 ; Baron Gurney.
201.; Lord Grosvenor, 101.; John Curtis, Esq., 12/. 125.;
Rev. Dr. Rice, 101. 10s.; Alderman Lucas, 51.55., &c. The
total amount of subscriptions was nearly 2,0001.
A PATERNAL MAGISTRATE.--A French journal
publishes the following police regulations, issued by the
Mayor of Lorris, near Montargis :—" Police regula-
tions relative to public balls.—We, Mayor of Lorris,
having considered the improprieties which prevail in the
pubic ball-room, have ordained, and do ordain as fol-
lows :--Art. 1. Having considered the accidents which
have occurred from the manner in which dancing has
been conducted for some time past, it is expressly for-
bidden from this day forward to dance the galop, under
a penalty of from sf. to 10f., to be paid by the musicians
who shall play such a dance. 2. Having remarked how
many young females fall whilst dancing the figure called
pavtourdle, and not having it in our power to suppress
the aforesaid figure, it is forbidden to turn so quickly, to
jump, or to strike with the two feet.—Bon Lay, Mayor.'
We have received the Madrid journals of the Bth
instant. They are totally destitute of' political interest
The Correo Aacional states that the diligence from Se-
ville was stopped on the 3d, near Santa. Cruz, by nine
bandits, who robbed all the passengers.
A second list of bankers, merchants, and others sub-
scribing to the relief of the sufferers at Hamburgh has
been published. Amongst the names are those of Messrs.
Jacques Lafitte, and Co., for 2,000 f. ; Messrs. Gabriel
Odier, Janes Odier, J. Lefevre and Co., P. F. Lestapie,
J. E. Larrieu, A. Dassier, Alleg,ri, IL Lutteroth, Hart-
mann and Son, F. Hartmann, F. A. Selliere, for I,ooof.
each ; and many others for smaller sums of from 600E'
down to 2f. The amount of this list is 19,521 f., mak-
ing the total already subscribed 81,521 f. This subscrip
tion is independent of one opened by a committee com-
posed of Marshal Gerard, Duke de Valmy, and other
persons,of high rank.

• The Governor-General of Algeria has published an
order, dated Oran, April 28, announcing that, from the
Ist inst., a regular Post-office communication would take
place weekly between Oran and Tlemcen, Mascara and
Mostaganem. The mail is to be under the escort of a
detachment of the neighbouring tribes.