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London, England, 1825-09-02 00:00:00

•°V I •1 IRE THEATUES.

, .• . , HAY-MARKET.
This Theatre; as a sort of set-off, perhaps, against the
debut of NIA ritEws at the English Opera-house, revived
the opera of Ink'e and Yarico last,night, with good part
of the strength of their company. Mr. FA (MEN played
I •Nir ,Chnisiopher Curry ; nineteen-twentieths of which
could not be better acted by any man. llatthEy's
I.re4et as far as the powers of the character go, isone
'of his liveliest performances. Madame VesTßis 'ap.'
peared for the first time in Wowski, which is a' part
entirely within the scope of her powers, and her acting
in it received, as it desei ved, considerable applause.
ENGLISH•OPERA-HOUSE.
Mr. MATH aws made his first appearance for the seasonl
at this Home last night, in thetharacters of IllushinDffton
•iti 7 he Bashful Alan, and Dotubikins in Jonathan in Eng-
land. This last farce, as well as the musical piece
tatted Grdna Green, which preceded it, is put together
with more strength and spirit than is apt to belong to
selrirtirer theatre entertainments in general. NiAlHews's
acting in the American is beyond * all praise ; and the
charactet s in Jonathan in 'England are well- sup-
potted, especially the starved postboy. which, is very
Steadily and cleverly played by KEELey. The perform-,
*nee of WRENCH and Miss KELLY in Gretna Green gave
no less satisfaction ; and, in spite of the oppressive heat.
cif the weather, which makes all public places almost
intolerable, we have seldom seen a house better attended
or' More generally entertained.
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Accounts from. Jamaica state, that the West Indian
Bishops' ate ireceiveel in every part of their respective
dioceses with the strongest manifestations'orrespect and
sineration. The Bishop of Jamaica preached a ser-
mon• id the principal church of Kingston, for the
benefit of the fund for erecting an additional place of
Divine Worship. The church was crowded, and the
collection amounted to 145/. 6s. Bd.
The late alleged conspiracy of the Carbonari, at
Rome, turns out to have been of no serious character.
The parties concerned were principally '• idlers or liber-
tines without consideration or resources.' It was ex-
pected that they would be discharged with very mild
punishments.
A Court of Inquiry is sitting at New York, on the
Aiiiertc .ri Commodore Porter, whose name was so fa-
n,iliar during the last American war. The proceedings
are not given ; but it is intimated that, whether ac •
quitted or not, he will quit the service of the States.
Wednesday, in Wilkes street, Spitalfields, as one of the
loaded drays belonging to Messrs. Truman, Hanbury,
aist.LCo. was coming from the brewery, it drove against
a poor woman who was sitting at an oyster-stall by the
pavement side, who, endeavouring to evade the danger,
fell tinder the wheel, which passed over her head, and
killed her on.the spot. The poor creature had a young
child in her arms, which escaped. The sufferer's bead
was crushed to pieces. She was removed into a house
nest to.which the accident hapl•ened.
Horresry.—Triday sennight a Gentleman who was
passenger on the Dube of Gordon coach, from Inver-
ness to Aberdeen; was not a little surprised,on arriving
at Demster's Hotel, to find that he was minus his
pocket-book and all his money. While the other passen-
gers we,e in the act of condoling with him on his loss,
a baker's apprentice, who had been out with. bread
to some of his master's customers on the canal side,
came forward and put the question, 4, Wha' o' you's lost
onething r, which acted as magic on the countenance
cf our disconsolate traveller, who exclaimed, in a con-
vulsed tone of voice, •4 I have lost my pocket-brok ;1!
when the *boy immediately delivered it up, and appeared'
t,, be equally happy with the owner, who rewarded him
with a one pound note for his honesty.
HARDENED CRIMINAL. Friday, Joseph Burgess,
v ho s as sentenced to be hanged by the Superior Conn
of Law for Prince William County (Va.) held in Oc-
tober last, for the murder of Charles Gollyhornr was
executed near Brentsville, in presence of a large number
of .spectators, who had asietnbled• to witness the scene.
He :was hardened to the last. While religious exercises
were performing at. the gallows, ho seemed. to be
totrtlirigtiorant of, and indifferent to the whole subject,
sual.see, fluting the entire time, marking in the dust on
his oiaffini with the end of the• rope which was tied
about his utrick..,—LitShio Patriot, J
minouni,King ut Comic*, ,when waited upon by
theiChairman ot. the• subscription for his *clic', wl co
ltidging in a gazvit in Dcau-street, Soh% received him
runlet a cottopY formed by the umiailsd valance of the
bed,holdiug cut his hand for the charitable visitor to kiss.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

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CHESTER, AUGUST 50. .
If7ll;am Lee stood indicted with having, on the niShi
of the 20th of Augdst, feloniously stolen front theper-
ssn of Benjamin Ashton, a hat-
The chief witness against the prisoner was an accom-
plice of the name of Mailer, who, it appeared from the
Learned Gentleman's statement, had been in company
the prisoner at a public-house in Hyde, where it
was agreed, in the presecce of more than twenty wit-
.
-r esses, that trey should -gonna 'fib the prosecutor, at
which time it was stated the prisoner had in his posses-
sion a loaded pistol, Which he told Mailer he always
carried about him. After the witnesses had been exa-
mined on the part of the Crown,
Tie CaIEC Jusrldk, in his charge to the Jury, said k
was for them to consider, whether they believed the
testimony of the accomplice (Mallet), who was himsfelf,
an accessory before the fact, and now admitted an evi-
dence on the part of the Crown ? If they did, there could
be no doubt of the prisoner's guilt.
The Jury returned& verdict of Guilty.
His Lortastire, in passing sentence, said, " William
'Lee, you have been found guilty by a very intelligent
Jury, of taking from the prosecutor, Benjamin Ashton,
a hat. The Jury have given, in my opinion very pro-
perly, implicit credit to blither. Your case is a very
bad one; fur it is quite clear, from the deadly weapon
you had in your possession, that had Mr. Ashton made
tt:e least resistance, you, in all probability, souk! have
murdered him, frotn-the language you made use of in
the public house. There are two other indictments
against you, and if you had been arraigned upon them,
there is no doubt but you would have been convicted.
The judgment of the Court is, that ycu, William Lee,
be transported beyond the seas for the term of your
natural life, as his Majesty, by the advice of his Privy
Council, shall order and direct."
William Newton was convicted of grand larceny in
robbing certain premises of some malt. -
From the statement of the Arroanny-Gsweanr. it
appeared that the prisoner, in company with several
others (not yet in custody) had been detected in the
robbery, but only the prisoner taken (who had a gun in
his hand).
The Cntarr JUSTICIC said, in passing sentence, that
had he been indicted for the burglary, and been de-
tected in pulling the trigger, his offence would have
been of a capital nature, and in that case he would
have suffered the extreme penalty of the law. As it
was, the judgment of the Court was, that he be trans-
ported for seven years.
Jonathaa Parsley stood indicted, with having tittered,
at Knutsford fair, on the 27th July, one base half-
crown, to a person of the name of Philip Corking, in
change of a half-sovereign, in the purchase of some
nuts, knowing at the same time it was false and ccun-
terfeit. On searching the prisoner, there was found on
his person eight half-crowns and ten shillings of base
coin, amongst nearly eighty or ninety pounds of good
money. -The money was produced in Cocrt, and cut.
Mr. joists (for the prisoner) took several objections;
and rested his defence principally on the improbability
that a person situated as the prisoner, who carried on'
the business of a confectioner at Derby, could be guilty
of the crime laid to his charge.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character; after
which his LORDSHIP summed up.
The Jury having found the primer Guilty.
The Cities Juarter., in passing sentence, said the
punishment he was -about to inflict, was not propor-
tioned to the offence, atid sentenced the prisoner to six
months'lmpiisonnient l the' Uouse of Correctiori. but
not to hard labour (as suggested by Mr. Tams), and
at the expiration of that period to
.find good security
for behaviour for six months.

The King of FRANCE, accompanied by the DAUPHIN
and the Duke of Witrisaloy, hunted on the 26th ult. in the Foreit
of St. Germain ; 1,594 head of game were killed on this occasion.
The kturins alone fired I,6oollmes.
CHARLES MATHEWS never was so successful in the
country as during his late trip. At Plymouth, at Exeter, at Glou-
cester and at Cheltenham and Birmingham, the houses overawed
each tester,
of his performance.
The plan of extending the fine new street on the
Strand side of Waterloo bridge to the New Road near
Hampstead, is again spoken of as likely to be carried
into effect.

A most atrocious murder was committed in July last,
near Kempsville, United States. of which the following
account appears in the Norfolk Herald of July 27 :
" Monday last an Inquest was held on the body of Jahn
Rudder, who was murdered in bis bed by some un-
known ruffian, between seven and eight o'clock on the
preceding evening. The evidence given to the Jury by
the family of the deceased was, that Mr. Rudder, imme-
diately after eating his supper, retired to bed and soon
fell asleep. The rest of his family, consisting of his
wife, two daughters, (grown) and two sons (one about
ten and the other eight years old) were sitting in the
room in which they supped, and which is separated
from the bed-chamber by a passage, the doors of the
two rooms facing each other, and both left open, when
they heard the footsteps of some person, who entered
the room where the deceased slept, and were immedi-
ately after startled by the sound of blows and a violent
struggling. Mrs. Rudder, in great alarm, ran into the
room, and there beheld a stout coloured-man in the act
of murdering het husband.! She seized the assassin's
arm, and implored him to spare the life of :,is victim;
but the sanguinary monster dashing her from him, bade
her begone, or he would kill her too. Terrified almost
out ot her senses, she caught her youngest son by the
hand, send fled to a neighbour's for assistance—her other
children, equally panic-struck, rushed from the scene of
butchery and fled in different directions, not knowing
whither they went, and tending the air with screams of
" murder ! —the murder of their father ! A number
of persons were soon collected at the hou,e, but too
late; the murderer had completed his bloody work and
fled. -On examining the body of the deceased, it stp-
peareclthat a blow had been given upon the left temple,
with a lathing hatchet, and another on the crown of
the head, which fractured the skull in a shocking
manner. Mrs. Rudder was unable to identify the person
of t' e murderer, it being nearly dark, and all ant she
could discover of him was that he was a coloured man.
The Jury, therefore, could only return a verdict cf
.cMurder, committed by some person uoknoWn."—
We. learn Turther, that a free-coloured man (whose
name it would be improper to menu on at present), is
strongly suspected, and that a warrant had been issued
to apprche nd him." •
RACING EXTRAORDINARY.—The practice of smoking
tobacco has become so tashionlble, that, at thc races of
a certain Yeomanry Corps lately, one of thc members
of a celebrated troop actually rode a- race smoking a
cigar ! Ile lost the race, but boasted he had kept his
I Lizar alive!!

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION- HOUSE. -
A Mr. Duncan tlasitpbetittppesrltd wink several vrafortrien,
who bad neglected to display the number of their boat, on their
hats or caps, which, it seems, title law requires them to do ; and
one of them being convicted and lined, the prastke may be consi-
dered as necessary in order to detect more readily the offender in
cases of neglect, extortion, &c.