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London, England, 1825-08-24 00:00:00

LORD COCH RA NA.-GREECE.

The information of Lord COCHRANE'S intended ex-
pedition to Greece has reached Paris, and produced
general satisfaction. The Journal des Debuts expresses
itself on the subject in the following manner I—" The
London Journals announce an.important event, which
may perhaps save Greece. The celebrated Admiral,
Lord Cocitaanz, has terminated the negociation long
since commenced with the Greek Committee, respect-
ing a naval expedition, of which this skilful Com-
mander has traced the plan, and the preparations for
which are already far advanced. It is to consist of a
squadron of steam-vessels, of a large dimension, to
destroy the Turkish fleets. They will be accompaniejJ
by other vessels, and Lord COCHRANE is to command
the expedition in person. The Greek Committee takes
its expenses upon itself. We hope that this project
will be carried into execution with the promptitude
which circumstances require. It is noble thus to see
the inventions of learned Europe applied to contend
with barbarism, aad to deliver oppressed nations.—
The use of vessels navigating without the aid, and even
against the fat ce of winds, cannot fail to ptoduce great
results in a sea bestrewed with islands and shoals.—
With what stupid astonishment will not the Twits
look upon those machines, which will appear to them
inventions from Hell ! It was cannon, employed by
the ancient Turks, then intelligent and courageous,
which created the preponderance of the Ottoman Em-
pire under the AMURATHS and SOLIMANB : may steam-
vessels effect the expulsion of the dennerated Mussul-
meo r"fhe Conslitutionnd is equally gratified and
sanguine. "We have no doubt," it says, " that in a
very little while Lord COCHRANE will destroy the whole
of the Ottoman navy, even if it should be reinforced
by that of Austria. The talents of that skilful sailor
have been useful to more nations than one ; but they
will never have been consecrated to a nobler cause."
This expedition, in fact, though only the act of indivi-
duals, is one which will- do immortal credit to our
country.

HAYTI. Extract of a letter dated Port-au-Prince,
July 7, 1825 I write the present few lines merely
bec.ruse you will be uneasy to know the result of the
visit of the French squadron, and although I can tell
you but little, that little is better than nothing. At
five o'clock yesterdaj afternoon it was understood the
pop tiers of the force here, the frigate, brig, and schooner,
were ordered off, and that they, with the rest of the
squadron (22 vessels), between Tiburon and St. Marc's,
would be considered and treated as enemies, wherever
they appeared. At 11 o'clock at night the captain of
the frigate desired a personal interview with the Pre-
sident: it was granted : they are still here, and it is
now reported that the recognition of the independence
is decided on. Only the terms of payment, &c. to
be fixed upon."
At the late Galway Assizes an action was brought
by the Rev. Mr. Jennings, a Roman Catholic Clergy-
man, against the Rev. Mr. Galbraith, a Clergyman of
the Church of England, for a libel, in writing a letter
to Archdeacon Trench, in which he stated that Mr.
Jennings had called upon his flock to 44 come forward,
as the time had arrived when they should assert their
tights ; and to be prepared with their shovels and pitch-
forks, as their enemies had swords and guns!" or words
to that effect. It was stated on behalf of the plaintiff,
that his congregation had denied his having used any
improper language ; and on the part of the defendant,
it was contended that he had not acted maliciously,
and that the letter was not intended to be other than
confidential. The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff
—Damages 40s. and 6d. costs.
DANCING.—The Chinese have odd ideas of this
amusement. When Commodore ANSON was at Canton,
the officers of the CzNroftioN had a ball upon some
Court holiday : while they were dancing, a Chinese
who very quietly surveyed the operation, sad softly,
to one of the party, " Wh y don't you let your servants
do this for you?"

It is related of Mr. Cheselden, well known as having
been surgeon to the Queen of George the Second, that
going into an obscure country town, he found a black-
smith, who, with the best intentions and the utmost
confidence, was in the habit of performing the opera-
tion for removing the cataract. Pleased with his talents
he communicated some instructions; and at a future
time inquiring what had been his success? the man re-
plied, " Ah, Sir I you spoilt my trade, for after you
explained to me what t had been doing, I never dared
to try again."
NAUTICAL SCIENCE.—It is not, perhaps, generally
known, that the merry monarch," Charles 11. em-
ployed some of his leisure hours in studying nautical
science, and actu-ally made some improvements in the
construction of vessels. These facts, however, appear
in a letter from him to Prince Rupert, dated 4th
August, 1673, in the Lansdown MSS.:—
“ I believe if you try the two sloopes, that were built at
Woolidge, which have my inventions in them, they will ent.saileH
any of the French slnopes. Sr. Semi Moorland has now another
fancy concerniniweighing encore, and the Reddent of Venice has

made a model also, for tie same purpose. We have not yet eon-
sulfed with Mr. Tippets, nor Mr. Deane, but I hope, when
they are wt:ii•eunsidered, we may find one out of them, that will
be good. I Lave no more to say at this time, but that I m yours.
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INQUEST JURIES. 1
A petition was a short time since presented to the
Court of Common Council by Mr. Savage, signed by
several respectable inhabitants of the Ward of Farring-
d 'n Without, objecting to their liability -to serve on
Juries which were held on persons who died in SP. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital ; and in the meatttime it was
arranged that the inhabitants of each parish in the
above Ward should perform the duty for three months
successively. Accordingly, the parish officers have,
during the last three months, summoned Juries upon
persons who died in the above hospital, from Farring-
don Without. The three months having expired, the
parish of St. Andrew was, according to the arrange-
ment entered into, the nest in rotation, and on Saturday
last, T. Shelton, Esq. the Coroner, issued a warrant
directed to Mr. King, the ward beadle of St Andrew's,
requesting him to summon a Jury, to be held on the
body of John Jones, a lad who was dreadfully injured
in the head by a cart, at the late fire in 011-street-road,
St. Luke's, and died on Saturday at the hospital. Mr.
King, however, being indemnified by the Churchwar-
dens and others belonging to the parish, took no further
notice of the warrant than by sending the following
letter, addressed to Mr. Farrell, the beadle of St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital:—

" Sta—l have to request you will forward this information to
the Coroner, for him to direct as to the Jury, as I am prohibited
frum summoning any Inquest but that which immediately concerns
the parish. " I am, Sir,
1.
Your most obedient servant,
" 11. KING,
" Beadle of St. Andrew's Parish."

" Aug. 23.

Mr. Sitecrou attended on Monday evening at the
Committee-room, at the appointed time, bat no Jury
was assembled. He directed the ward beadle of St.
Bride's to summon a Jury, intimating his firm deter-
mination to try the question as to the liability of the
inhabitants of the parish of St. Andrew serving. Yes-
terday evening a respectable Jury of the inhabitants of
Sr. Bride's met, and, after an investigation, returned a
verdict of 46 Accidental Death."

The Jury next proceeded to inquire into the death of
an infant child, named William Bond, who was left by
its parents in a three pair back room, in Long-alley,
Sun-street, on the morning of Sunday last. The child,
by the help of a stool, contrived to clamber up to an
open window, and unfortunately overbalancing himself,
fell into the street.—erdict—Accidental Death.

Yesterday evening, an Inquisition was taken at the
Five Bells public-house, Lirnehouse, before J. W.
UNWSN, Esq. the Coroner, on view of the body of
David Morris, in the service of a barge carrier, cif
Limehouse, a young man 19 years of age, who was
supposed to have been kicked into the City Canal, by
the violence of his horse, and drowned. The Jury re-
turned a verdict of—" Accidental Death."

An Inquest was held at the Horse and Groom, in
Oxford-street, on the body of Mary Slaughtery, aged
65. About eleven o'clock on Thursday night, a man
came up to her stall and accused her of having sold
him some bad oysters early in the evening ; and after
abusing her, took her by her two shoulders and forced
her into the carriage road, when she fell on her face,
which was very much bruised. The man was secured
by a watchman, but, in consequence of deceased not
being able to go to the watch-house, he set the man at
liberty, and told her she could get no recompenca, as
she ought not to have been out at that late hour. The
surgeon who viewed the body, found it in such a state
of decomposition as to render it impossible to ascertain
the cause of her death by dissection. He did not see
any marks of violence, and, indeed, it would be impos-
sible to describe any in the state the body was. After
other evidence had been adduced, the Jury returned a
verdict—" Found dead ; but that the body, In the
opinion of three Medical Gentlemen, is in so putrid a
state, that it cannot be ascertained whether or not
her death was occasioned by violence, received from a
man unknown."

COMBINATION IN SCOTLAND.—Wednesday week,
came on before the Sheriff-Depute of Stirlingshire, the
trial of A. Webster, W. Bennie, and H. Cowan, colliers
at the Redding and Brighton collieries, belonging to
the Duke of Hamilton. The prisoners stood charged
with assaulting certain labourers employed at the above
works at the time when the regular colliers had struck
work—aggravated by the offenders having, at the time
of the assault, been parties, with a number of other
colliers combined, for raising their wages, and coercing
the masters, so as to controul them in the choice of their
workmen, and the terms which they shall pay for la-
bour, and of using such means as tended to deter other
operative colliers or labourers from altering into the
employment of any other proprietor whatever, as well as
compelling those who had to desert their work. W.
Bennie pleaded Guilty, while the other two prisoners
pleaded Not Guilty. The Jury returned a verdict, find-
ing the prisoner, W. Bennie, guilty, in terms of his own
confession ; finding unanimously, A. Webster guilty of
having stones in his hand among the crowd (who were
throwing stones), with the intent of intimidating the
labourers from working at the coal pits; and finding
H. Cowan, by a majority of voices, guilty of striking
with a stick, and throwing of stones, with an intent to
intimidate the labourers from working at the coal pits
Redding and Brighton, &c. On the following day the
Sheriff ordained Webster and Bennie to find security
for their good behaviour for three years, and Cowan to
be imprisoned for three months, and afterwards find
security for good behaviour for three years.
Mr. BA RRETT, of Aungier-street, Dublin, shoe-
maker, appeared at the Police Office on Thursday last,
to make a complaint of the men in his employment.
They had, he stated, given him notice, some time
since, that they would not bring home their work Qa
Saturday night, leaving him, we suppose, the alternative
of sending for the work, or disappointing his customers.
On Saturday night last they acted in accordance with
this notice, the consequence of which was the disap-
pointment of the persons who dealt with him. When Mr.
BARRUTT'S men came for work on Monday, he refused
to give them any, unless they consented to bring it
home when finished. With this they refused to comply,
and departed, since which time he can get no one to
work for him. He also stated, th he received a letter,
purporting to come from the men in his employment, to
the effect, that "die Council of Trade" would not allow
them to work for him. Some of the men who worked
for him threatened his furen►au, that for every day he
kept them without work, he shi.uld pay a fine of five
shillings. This the Magistrates of • the Head Office of
Police considered to come within the provisions of the
late Act, and issued flit ir summons for the attendance
of the parties, at the tit directing that Mr
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• COUNT OF CHANCERY--THIS DAM.
JUDO/SIERT; .
IX-PARTE SAYNIR, IN THE MATTER OP 000DCHILD.
The Loan Cuasem.coa gave judgment in tills we, which has
excited so mach interest. The short facts of the case were, 'Messrs.
Corsby had occasion to borrow 40,0001. whith was advanced by the
Bank of Ragland, a number of merchants giving their acceptances,
to be renewed as occasion required. for twelve months. Slr.
Rayner eventually became a creditor, and proved against the estate
of the firm of Jackson and Co. but the Assignees refused to Wink
him to prove. The case w.as then brought before tine Court, and
the judgment appealed from; and the Petition now prayed that tho
former order might be reversed, and that he (Mr. Rayner) should
be declared entitled to the dividends ori 25501. which he had paid_
for the firm of Jackson and Co. The LOU/ bimicu.Lout (this day)
reversed the former order, thereby declaring Mr. Rayner entitled
to prove, but 'without coats, farther than the present application,
and without prejudice.

ADULTERATED SUGAR.

Yesterday, in consequence of a report which ap-
peared in some of the Newspapers respecting the
adulteration of moist sugars, by mixing salt with it,
in order to increase its weight, a Grocer, who be-
longs to a very respectable House in the City, waited
upon the Lord Mayor, for the purpo-e of 'hewing
what the mixture was, in his opinion, attributable; and
of course proving that the charge brought against the
trade by Mr. Clarke was without foundation. The
complainant produced a sample of sugar which was of
an exceedingly dark colour, and excessively salt and
biter to the taste. This disagreeable mixture was, he
said, a specimen of the sugar which often came in the
market fiom our colonies. The cause of this apparent
phenomenon was, that the canes from which the sugar
was extracted grew in lands that had been lately re-
claimed from the sea, and imbibed a considerable por-
tion of saline matter, of which the sugar could he di-
vested by the skill of the refiner alone. It was highly
probable that the sugar which had been analyzed, as
was stated in the Manbion-house report, was sugar'of
this description, which had been ignorantly sold. In a
recent sale several hogsheads of sugar of the kind de-
scs ibed had been sold by mistake to a country dealer, to
whom a deduction was made in consequence.
The sample was left at the Mansion-house in evi-
dence of the inaccuracy of Mr. Clarke's judgment, but
that Gentleman had, in a former conversation with the
Lord Mayor, stated distinctly that the sugar which Mlle
from certain parts of the Island of Beshice, and of other
Islands, imbibed the particles of saline matter, in conse-
quence of the condition of the boil, and the flavour was
of course vitiated.
The sample produced was as dark coloured as the sugar usually
sold for making wine.
The sugar which Mr. Clarke analyzed, it will be recollected,
was very fine, and bright in appearance, and he observed that salt
was cakulated to brighten the appearance of sugar, when mixed
with it by the hand of the grocer.
The Lord Mayor was satisfied, that however others might be •
chargeable with the offence of adulterating sugar. the complainant
was acquitted of all idea of permitting such a practice to g,) forward
in the concern to which he belonged.

Count BuLow, the Prussian Minister of State, died
suddenly in an apoplectic fit, on the 10th of this month,
at the Baths of Landeck, in Silesia. He was one of the
most distinguished statesmen of our times.
Accounts from Marseilles state that no new instance
of the plague has appeared either on board the brigs.
Five Sisters and Happy Sabine, or in the Lazaretto.
The 3oard ofTrade of Stockholin announces, that the
Emperor of Morocco has opened the port o' Matagan
for free trade, and appointed a person of the name of
Macnin, to be his agent there.
The builders in Paris are beginning to imitate the bad
example of those in London, by running up in a hurry
slight and insecure buildings, which the Parisian News-
papers describe as •• card houses," and call loudly for
the interference of the Police. A large house, just
finished, on the Boulevards near the Porte St Dennis,
is at present in a most dangerous state; and being situ-
ated near the corner of a street, in a most crowded
thoroughfare, threatens instant destruction to numbers.
As some workmen wete levelling the ground at St.
Mary de Lode's-square, in Gloucester, last November,
on opening the spot where Bishop HOOPER was burnt,
they discovered that part of the stake to which he had
been fastened, which was sunk in the earth. It was
about three feet in length, and eight inches in diameter, .
and appeared to have been an elm nee, with the bark
on. On being exposed to the air, the greatest part
' mouldered to dust ; but some pieces were preserved.
Mr. GREEN made an ascent from the City of Wor-
cester, on Saturday evening, and descended with the
utmost safety at Beauchamp, about three milts from
Gloucester.
One of the largest steam-engines now in use, is at the
United Mine, in Cornwall. It raises 80,000 pounds
one hundred feet high per minute, with about thirty
pounds of coal per minute; and is equivalent to about
the power of two humired and fifty horses.
FORCE or Consetacca.—During the Canterbury-
' Races last year, Mr. MANCLAAK, of Ruch. stet, was
robbed of his watch, and on Saturday last, he was ac-
costed by a man who confessed himself to be the thief,
and said he had not had a moment's perce since, but
was driven to it through distress. He directed Mr. M.
where he had pawned the article, and it was restored
to the owner.
A few days ago, at Swalwell, a man set his bull dog
upon an ass, when the ass immediately took the dog up
in his mouth And dragged him to the river lief went.
into which he put him over head, and lying dean upon
him. kept him down till he was drowned.--1-Nne slier.
RUSSIAN LoAN, NEGOCIATED BY MR. N. M. Roirstr•
cHILD, nt Lowoort.—The Half-yearly Dividend on the above Loan,
which becomes doe on the Fres? or Etrrtstaita sexy, will br paid
by Mr. N. M. Rovescniui, on that and every succeeding day, Sun-
days excepted, between the hours of Ten and Two, at his Counting-
house, No. 2, New-court. The Dividend Warrants, with a List
thereof, in numerical order, must be left one day previous to pay-
ment, for the purpose of being examined.
PIDDING and Co. have had an extraordinary demand
for Whole Tickets at their Office. No. 1. Cotnhill, in caroseguenee
of the Publicity given, by the Friends of Mr. H. the .Member of
Parliament, to his success in gaining somas Guineas the lest day of
drawing; people however remark, that, although the 31. P.'s have
determined to discontinue Lotteries, they most not raped to ems►
gross these choice things to themselves, fee others have an evsal
chance and not less inclitiatios to carry some to their thoses before
the opportunity capitol; and as there will be Four Pr set et
XE5,000 distributed Next W 1111111SDAY. 31st August, (each of
which will be thought seasonable as. a Hawse Bow) no wonder
the demand for Tickets and Shares is so oncommomy OWL at Me-
oure's Lucky Corner, No. 1, Coenhill, awl No. 13, South Midge,
Edinburgh.

CORN EXCHANGE, INARK-LANE, AUGUST 241
The arrivals of fsll sorts of .Grain tkis week are moderate. TIM
is very little good Wheat fee sole, and Monday's pekes at* golly oe.
tined for sucp, with reel taloa trade for tither Talkies. Batley is
scarce, and milker dearer. Beaus remain dull at Alund-y's tom&
- Monday's tonnes. K fair quality, soil to-

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ano issued Litt tr summons fur , -
'ilies, at the t,ame time directing that Mr. ftcriur.full
rtcrs lag looted. bt.t utater°44.0"..•:.6...ir gruatalhettl,reall tt—
vily,
r's foreman should snake information as to EliefA %heat, 4,700 qrs. Rif ky, sso "I. Oats, 3,500
t. qrs. Flour, 4,100 sacks. Irish Om, 3,500 qrs.
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