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and wished her to live there.

Police superintendent Thoburn's evidence being read, the
prisoner repeated, in allusion to that put which stated the
finding of the bloody rags in her drawer, at her lodgings in
High-street, that they were caused by the wound on het eye,
by the ill-treatment of Holloway.
James Simmonds, the ill-fated Celia's landlord, added
to his former statement, that as far as he could recollect,
Holloway came to his house and abused the deceased
about a week after she received her last money. This in
nowise affected the prisoner, who merely stated that when
Holloway had not money to send to Celia, she had often
pawned her clothes off her back to get it for her.
Amelia Simmonds's evidence was next read. On com-
ing to that part where the witness stated that she heard the
prisoner threaten Celia, the prisoner denied having ever done
so, and stated that the last time she visited Celia, she car-
ried her Is to procure which she pawned a blanket belong.
ing to her landlady, Mrs. Leaven.
Frances Simmons, the child, was next called, and re-
peated that her former statement of having seen the cap, now
I roduced, and found at the prisoner's lodgings, in Celia's
trunk the day before she left her mother's house, was per-
fectly true.
The prisoner.—May I call a witness ? there is a little
girl in the room, named Sally Leavers, who saw me working
on the cap while I was ill at her mother's.
Although decidedly irregular, the Bench humanely con.
eented, and the child was called, and, after a proper exami-
nation as to her understanding the nature of an oath, which
she answered very satisfactorily, was sworn.
The prisoner.—Sally Leaven, did youriot see me working
on that cap ? Child.—l did not.
Prisoner.—Sally ! Child.—l have no recollection of it.
Mr. Seymour..—You have asked her a question, and she
has given a different answer to what you expected ; use your
own discretion as to proceeding.
Prisoner—Yea; when I had the fever at Mrs. Leavers, I
sat up in bed and worked it, the child knows it. [The lit.
tie girl again denied it ] The cap I intended for the poor
deceased creature. I intended to give her a few things.
The prisoner having returned, Sir D. Scott, addressing
her, said, " Prisoner, the time has now arrived when it be.
comes my duty to ask you, if you have any thing to say why
you should not be committed to take your trial as an acces-
sary after the fact of the murder of Celia Holloway ?"
Mr. Milford explained to the prisoner that she was not
charged with the murder, but with being privy to it after it
was committed.

Prisoner—l am innocent !I am innocent of the charge.
The witnesses were then bound over to appear and give
evidence at the next assism._

The Magistrates informed the prisoner that she would go
back to Lewes, instead of being committed to Benham. for
tibia she expressed herself thankful. She was then taken
from the her.
In the minutes of evidence taken before a committee of
the House of Lords, on the Poor Lam, a part of which
has just been printed, by order of the House, we
find " some statements, intended to shew the exist.
ence of an excess of population in England, relatively
to the means of subsistence, and relatively to the means
of employment." It appears from these statements, that
during the early part of the last century, the progress of po.
pulation in this country was exceedingly slow. Thus, from
1700 to 1720, the inhabitants of England and Wales did
not increase more than 90,000; leas, by half, than the in-
crease which now takes place in a single year. From that
time, however, to the present, the rate of progress has be-
come still mote and more rapid ; particularly since the
commencement of the present century ; so that, perhaps,
as great an addition to our numbers now takes place in a sin.
gle week, as formerly in twelvemonths.
This result appears so extraordinary, that we are naturally
led to ask on what pounds it ? No actual enumera-
tion was made until the year 1801 ; all statements of our
population, previous to that period, must, therefore, be in
some measure liable to question ; but the uncertainty which
hangs over such estimates Is greatly lessened when we have
it in our power to adopt several different modes of computa-
tion. and to check them one against the other. This method
is adopted in the evidence referred to. The first table is
entitled, `• A Statement of the population of England and
Wales, from 1780 to 1820, deduced by Mr. Hickman from
the births only." This method of computation has been
very generally employed by statistical writers—it being
found that the medium number of births taking place
annually, bears a tolerably constant proportion to the popu-
lation. The second table is constructed on a different
principle, and I. no doubt intended as a check upon the first.
It is he;ded, " Increase of Population since the beginning
of the last century. deduced from a comparison of the births
with the deaths." It appears, from this table, that the
mean number of births in the year.

1700, 1710, 1721, 1730, 1740, and 1750, was 164.602
The mean number of deaths in the same years was 160,623
Exhibiting an annual increase of only 4000 persons ; whereas
the annual increase from 1810 to 1820, estimated in the
saute way, w..s no less than 125,000. Thus the extraordi-
nary acceleration of our rate of increase is equally proved,
whether we found our calculation on the births only, or on
a comparison of the births with the deaths. Indeed it would
be easy to produce abundant evidence of this acceletation
front other scums.
If, then, our present growth of population is rapid beyond
all precedent, we are naturally led to enquire, with some
anxiety, whether our means of employment and our
means of subsistence for that population are growing in
the same proportion. The witness, by whom the above
statements were delivered to the committee, estimates that no
increase whatever in our annual growth of corn has taken
place in the last 15 years; on the contrary, that extensive
tracts of land, then under the plough, have been since planted,
that still more has been laid down to permanent pasture; and
that even those fields, still in tillage, are lea carefully and
expensively cultivated than formerly. Hence he infers thst
the increase of our agricultural population since the close
of the war is in exam relatively to the means of employ-
ment ; and that a still greater excess relatively to the memo

lof subsistence. "It is well known," he says "
that in
the year 1816 a failure of the hatvest took
place, which
caused a very severe scarcity. If lam right in suppoNitr, that little or no increase of cultivation has taken plate
tune': that time, while our population has increased during th,
same period by 3,000,000 of persons, it seems to follow that,
in the event of a similar failure of the harvest now occurring,
we must look for an extent of distress and privation greattt
than has been witnessed by any living person."
LEWES, AUG. 27.—Wheat (red) new, 31 28; oats, nes,
11 41; ditto, old, 11 8s per quarter. AUG. 30.—Wht„
old, 31 10s t ditto, new, 31 13a to ; ditto, (mixed) ne
313 s to 316. ; oats, old, 118 s ; pease, new, l l ma per qua,
ter; oil cake, 121 per thousand.
DERBY REPORTER, .Cepl. 1.
Btrxrou.—Arrivals.—The Duke of Rutland, Marquis
Granby, Lord and Lady Southampton, Capt. Egerton, Sit
Edward and Lady Banks, Lady Rayleigh, Hon. Miss Strutt,
Hon. Miss Olivia Strutt, Rev. 31r. and Miss Clay; 111 r.
Randle Wilbraham, Mr. and 31rs. Joliffe, Mr. and 31!
Gilbert Joliffe, Mr. Delamarsh Banks, Mr. Copeland, 31
and Mrs. Peen, Captain Whittaker, Lieut. W. Elliot.,
Captain Howard.
%Ve noticed last week, the extensive robbery committe
at the house of Mr. Lees, Burton-upon-Trent, during CI •
races. The robbery was effected by two persons who enter-
ed the house while the horses were running, and proceeded to
the dining-room up stairs. They called for some brandy ate
water, and after remaining up atairs for upwards of an hour,
left the house without any of the family (most of whoa.
were at the races) suspecting the object of their visit --
About seven in the evening, however, Mr. Lees found that
his bureau had been opened by means of false keys, and
that the whole of big cash, amounting to upwards of 3101.
had been stolen, consisting of guineas, sovereigns, and se-
veral old and valuable coins, including a promissory note of
1001. and 401.

There was a cheek upon Spooner, Attwood,andCo. of Bir-
mingham, for 466 10s. a gold watch, chain, and seals, two
dozen silver forks and other articles of value in the same
drawer, which the thieves did not take. Roe and Wood,
' the Burton and Rugeley officers, traced them to Lichfield,
and from thence to Birmingham, where the officers arrived
1, about five o'clock on Thursday morning. On the applica.
don of the pursuing constables at the Birmingham police.
office, Palmer. on hearing their statement, immediately pro-
ceeded to the house of a notorious character, named
Charles Denham, residing with his mother at the
Rose and Crown public-house, Smallbrook-street. In his
pockets were found seventeen and a-half sovereigns.
He was immediately conveyed to the dungeon in Moor.
street, and in the course of the same morning, two of his
known companions and suspected associates in the robbery,
named Richard Fitzgerald, and Charles Baskerville, were
likewise taken into custody. Their examination took place
on Monday last, before Sir Oswald Morley, Bart. when
Denham was remanded for further examination, and
Baskerville was discharged upon bail. The person who
actually accompanied Denham into the dining-room at
Mr. Lees', is supposed to have gone by the Holyhead mail
to London from Birmingham, soon after his arrival at that
place on the evening the robbery was committed. A red
morocco note case and a letter, in which a part of the money
WAS enclosed, was found in the privy at the Saracen's Head
Inn, at Burton, where Denham slept the preceding night.
A new revolving musical time piece has lately been invented
by Mr. D. Kidd, of Cromford, organist of Cromford church.
It is a portable instrument of brass. When our correspon.
dent saw it, it stood upon a table, and being wound up, two
cylinders were put in motion, causing an endless tape to re-
volve round them ; the marks on the tape denoted the pro-
per time to begin and end a bar, or note of music, which
lay on a slide directly under the revolving tape. It com-
bines all the advantages of a speedy accomplishment in that
difficult part of music, called time dividing the time by
inches to the minutest fractional part.
The first part of Mr. Glover's history of this county, will
make Its appearance die latter end of this, or beginning of
next week.

On the Bth of September, the day of the Coronation, it
is determined, by the teachers and friends of Sunday
Schools, in this town, to celebrate the Sunday School Jubi-
lee. The only School of this nature in the world, in the
year 1781, was that set on foot by Robert Raikes, Esq. in
the City of Gloucester, in that year ; and now, at the expi-
ration of fifty years, they have been so far extended in our
own country, that there is scarcely a town, and not many
villages, where their benefits are not dispensed. In Ameri-
ca, and all other countries, where the Protestant re.
hem prevails, Sunday Schools are established and sup.
ported.
About a score dairies of all sizes were offered today in
the cheese market. We have before us an account of
most of the sales that were effected, from which it appears,
colored sold at 821 to 860--the average price nearly 641.
Plain sold tram 801 to 84s—average 82s Bd.
The bodies of Mr. Hurwood and Mr. Brown, late of
Chesterfield, whose melancholy deaths were recorded in our
last paper, have been found at the distance of nearly thirty
miles train each other. Mr. brown was found on Friday
last by a clergyman, on the sands close to the village of Liao-
distil* and the beautiful seat of the Marquis of Anglesey. in
the island of Anglesey,and was interred there on the follow.
ing day.-111r. Hurwood was cast ashore on Saturday, near to
Liandidno, by Conway, on the Welch coast, and wascommit.
ted to the house appointed for all living on Monday last,inethe
presence of triends and townsmen, blr. Holmes and
Wright, whose exertions on this lamentable occasion are
beyond all praise. Their bodies were in the highest state
of decomposition. which would not allow of their remaisn
being brought home. And if it had not been owing to the
clothes they bad on, and their watches, their persons would
not hare been recognised at all. Mr. Brown was an excellent
swimmer, and appeared to have made very great exertions
to save hinuelt. It is very fortunate that the above two
gentlemen were near at hand when the bodies were found, as
they seared what property they had about them. There is
still a trunk belonging to Mr. Hurwood, containing a good
deal of property, which is supposed to be in the wreck of
the steamer; but ample directions have been given con-
terming it, so that if it should be ultimately recovered from
the deep, It may be safely conveyed to its rightful
owner.

CHESTERFIELD, AUG. 27.—Wheat, 68s to trts ; Oats.
24. to 281 ; Beans, 44s to 48s.
Asusoutur Auo. 27.—Wheat, Ws to 70. ; Oats, 26s
to 32s ; Beaus, 42s to 475.

Waxaritui, Fainar.--Tbe arrivals to-day are mode-
rate, and the quantity of really fine wheat offering is ex-
tremely small ; such readily commands an advance of *
per quarter, and other descriptions are is dearer, with a
more tree sale for low qualities. A few samples of new sp.
Ipeered of Yorkshire growth, which were stout, and in fair
condition ; prices 64s to tiffs fur red, and white 725. per
quarter. Barley nominal. Oats and Shelling steady. Beans
still better, and tine sorts are scarce. There is more inquiry
for Rapeseed, but immaterial alteration in value. The wea-
ma on the whole has been favourable for harvest during the
week ; up to Wednesday evening particularly fine.
MARRIED.—At Nottingham, Mr. Alfred Barber, to
Eliza, youngest daughter of John Gill, Gent. of St. James'a
street—Ai Peasely, Charles, second son of Henry Talbot,
Esq. of Oakland. Worcester, to Marianne, eldest daughter
of Decry Hollis*, Esq.—At Cannock, Mr. John Spring,
to Miss Daley. of Lowney Green, Hendesford.
DIED.—At Liverpool, Edward itamsbottom Esq.—At
Winfield Abuser Winfield Halton Esq. and of the
Derbyshire Militia,,
and Justice of the Peace—Elizabeth,
wife of Sir. Edward Court Dewn, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch—
At Matlock. Mr. Richard Green, 64—At Springfield Cot-
tage Prestwich, Ameria Maria Inhoff, daughter of the late
Killian Inh4 Esq. of Demerara.

John Harris, the Forest-of-Dean patriot. who
was left for execution at the last Gloucester Assizes, has
been respited during pleasure. He had snapped a pistol at
the constable who apprehended him.

BIKTH.
Of a daughter, on the 9d inn. the Lady of J. B. Heath,
Esq. of Ruuell-square.