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POLISH FOR GRANITE.

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The most suitable substance fur giving a fine polish
to granite is the powder of corundum. It is not mixed
uith wax, but with lac ; and the greater the care taken
in effecting the mixture, the finer and more durable is
the polish. It is essential that the powder employed fin-
this purpose should be extremely bard ; and hence that
of emery is preferred.—Mirror of Literature.
PRESERVING DEAD INSECTS.
Steep them in water wherein corrosive sublimate has
been niixed.—Mechartics Magazine.
VEGETABLE CHIMNEY ORNAMENTS.

In Winter an elegant chimney ornament may be
form—ed, by cutting the head or thick end of a carrot,
containing the bud, and placing it in a shallow vessel
with water. Young and delicate leaves unfold them-
selves, forming a radiated tuft of a very handsome
appearance, and heightened by contrast with the season
Of the year.—The

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING TilE BUILDING OF NEW
CnuuCnEs.—A Monthly Meeting of the Society for
Promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches
and Chapels, was held on Mon Jay last, at No. 15,
Duke-street, Westminster. Therc were present—
The Bishop of London, Bishop of Lincoln, Bishop of Bath and
Wells, Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, Bishop of Exeter, Bishop
of Gloucester, Mr. Justice Park, Sir James Langham, Rev. Arch-
deacon Cambridge, Rev. Dr. I)'Oyley, Dr. Yates, Joshua Wat-
son, Esq. and a large number of the Committee.
Applications for assistance horn eleven parishes were
considered, to eight of which grants of valious amounts
wtr.!-made, amounting to 2.1001. The other three cases
were incomplete, as requiring further information. We
are sorry to hear that the funds of this valuable Society
are nearly exhausted.
NATIONAL. Sectery.—Thursday, the General Com-
mittee of the National Society for the Education of the
Pool- in the Priixtples of the Established Church, held
their Meeting at St. Mattin's Vestry-town: Present:
Arclibish,p of Y',rk, lit ;lops of Salisbury, Ely, Bath
and Well-, Lichfield and Covent, y, Gloucester, Exeter,
and Chester; Lord Kenyon, Sir James Lanpham, Bart.
Georz;e Gipps, Esq. Archdeacons Cambridge,
Watson, Rev. Dr. Ih.-11, and olher Members of the Com-
mittee. E' li'.. e,h Schools were united to the Society,
and several grants of nriney were made towards the
erecting, enlarging, and fitung of School-rooms.
Mr. Caultichael, of Boni-place Cottage, Bays..vater,
I-feet health on Thursday night, when,
irs alter, he complained to Mrs. C. of a
heed, and expire.) in is few minutes.
East I!.!ies. ate those natives who are
;ling of but then!, digging of trenches,
loos oseuitaticrts ; and who, supplying
teem cannot be dispensed witivin the
ilitary tactics in Hindostriti. Most of
invents of Artillery have half a company
tr Regiments of Infantry and Cavalry
Ar pioneers each,
.to smooth the toads,
along, Co dig trenches, &c. Bochait
:ord to be derived froan Pwunes a people
rincipal enipkyrnent was to dig the

LEI' T ASTIZES. ."
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CHELMSFORD, *ARCH 10.

James Dant, William Fktcher, and Thomas .I.'inch,
were indicted for burgiariously breaking and entering
the dwelling-hothe of Elizabeth Catley and Susan Cat-
ley, at Ilalsted, on the night of the 16th.. of December,
and stealing a silver tea-pot, and several articles of
wearing-apparel.
The ptosecutrizes were Maiden :women, living in a
lone house in the neighbourhood-of Halsted; In the
dead of night, on the 16th of •December, they were
aroused horn their rest by some persons breaking into
their house. Miss Elizabeth Catley rose and struck a
light, and deScendiog tolhe ground floor, she perceived
the prisoner Finch just quitting the house, with a bundle
under his arm. Both Ladies being greatly alarmed,
screamed aloud ; and presently afterwards the same
prisoner returned to the house, and affecting great con-
cern for their uneasiness, said he came to their assist-
ance, and *asked what was the matter? Both Ladies
were satisfied that the -prisoner was one of the gang
who broke open the house, and they expressed their
conviction to him at the time. He protested his inn°,
cence, and assured them that they %vete mistaken. Upon
his withdrawing, it was ascertained that the house had
been entered by violent means, and robbed of the pro-
perty mentioned in the indictment. The only circum-
stance to
,affect the other prisoners was, that Finch had
been seen in their company at a neighbouring public-
house on the night previous to the robbery..
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found Finch
Guilty, but acquitted the other prisoners.—Sentence of Death was
recorded against Finch.
Richard Byford, Francis Dale, and John Shipman,
were indicted on the 57th Geo. 111. c. 9. 5..1. for being
found armed, in the night of the sth of February,-with
intent to kill game in• a close called Childerditch Field,
the property of Lord Petre.
The principal witness was Ri.-.dersole, who having
been a parliceps criminis, and an old poacher, turned
king's evidence, and swore positively that the prisoners
and himself had committed the offence alleged.
There being no substantial defence set up, the prisoneri were all
found Guilty. The sentence was reserved for further consideration.
LANCASTER, MARCH 9.
Janes Wade, aged 59, stood indicted with having
forcibly violated the person of Mary Connor, at Chorl-
ton-row.
Mr. BROWN stated the case on the part of the prose-
cution. He set out by admitting that it was a case at-
tended by peculiar difficulties. The prosecutrix was a
woman whose appearance seemed by no means calcu-
lated to awaken those passions•which appeared to have
been excited on this occasion, for there was no doubt of
the fact that some person had committed the crime
s ith which the prisoner was charged. She was, besides,
afflicted from her infancy with the palsy, which not only
gave a convulsive affection to herlimbs and caused her
violent fits, but very considerably oppressed her organs
of speech, so much so that it would be scarcely possible
for his Lordship or the Jury to understand her, unless
through the interpretation of her mother, if such inter-
pretation could be allowed. • (His• Lordship dissented.)
Her father was a weaver in a factory at some little dis-
tance from his house, and on the 28th of October last
her mother took Iris dinner about noon ; at the time
all the rest of the family happened to be out, and the
prosecutriz was left at home alone. While she was in
this situation, a person, supposed to be the prisoner, car-
rying a basket of shoes, rapped at the door, and upon
its being opened by the prosecutrix, he asked her whe-
ther she wanted to buy any shoes? she told him, as
well as she could, that she did not. The person, who-
ever he. was, persisted in requesting her to buy a pair
of shoes from him; be went into the house, and entreated
her to allow him to fit a pair of shoes on her feet.—
She continued saying that she did not want any shoes,
but the man took hold of her foot. and immediately
after perpetrated his guilty purpose. She screamed
violently, but the neighbours, knowing that' she was
subject to fits, and that in those fits she usually screamed,
took no notice of the circumstance. The guilty person,
after effecting his purpose, went away. The prosecu-
trix, in her terror lest he should mum, bolted the door
inside, and when her mother returned, she refused to
let her in, scarcely knowing what she did. The mother,
however, got in at length, and the prosecutrix gave a
description of the stranger who had been in the house.
Her mother went out, obtained the assistance of a con-
stable, and not far from the house they discovered the
prisoner with a basket of shoes, and answering in every
other respect the description given of him by the pro-
secutrix. It was due to the prisoner to state, that he
went with the constable without the least reluctance.
He also denied the charge, and said that he had not
been that day near the house in question. There was
evidence, however, to strew that he was seen that day
within a door or two of the house in question, about the
time when the prosecutriz was ill used.
Mary Connor, the prosecutrix, was then called.—
After a little delay, she appeared in the box, accom-
panied by her mother. The Learned Counsel's allusion
to her want of personal attractions was snore titan jus-
tified. Her hands trembled when the book was pre-
sented to her, and she clasped it with a convulsive
effort, looking at the same time with an ,idiotic glare
around her. She seemed about three and thirty years
of age; her frame, approaching the middle height,
seemed ricketty and worn out by convulsions; her
countenance was not only not feminine, but scarcely
human, distorted in every feature, clothed in a dark
livid hue, which no excitation had power to disturb or
alter: her upper lip separated by so great a distance
from the lower, and that distance filled up by such an
irregular mass of discoloured teeth, that she could not
close her mouth—a defect which gave to her whole
appearance a ghastly aspect, and a character of
_mon-
strous deformity. When she was sworn and questioned,
her answers wet &uttered in hollow- inarticulate sounds,
intelligible only after repetition, and even then only
from their striking on the ear rather like the sounds of
words, than as the words themselves.
Mr. COURTENAY, who appeared for the prisoner,
asked the prosecutrix whether she understood what an
oatit was? She answered in the affirmative ; that she
-came there to tell the tr uth, and that it was a rong to
'tell a falsehood.
. To the questions put to her by Mr. Justice BAYLEY,
she answered in the 'burnt way, that she believed in a
future state—that she was taught her prayers by her
father—that she prayed to Gan at night, but that as to
punishment in a future life, she could say nothing to that.
Mr. Janice BAYLEY Said, that he did not think the
prosecutrix was absolutely destitute of intelligence, but
after receiving such an answer horn her with respect to
future punishments he did not think the prosecution
oughr to proceed at present. He desired that it should,
laud over to the next Assizes, and that in the mewl

time emshonTd be taken tainstntsceacproseeuttin isi'
those parts of the Chrisdau faith of whieh she appeared
to be ignorant. His Lordship then discharged the Jury
from giving any verdict in this case. Shortly after this,
his. Lordship called Mrs. Connor, the mother, and ques-
tioned her as to the state of her daughter's information
upon religion. She answered, that her daughter was
carefully instructed in everything respecting a future
state, and that she was well grounded in all the leading
doctrines of ChristianitT, . though, from her defective
utterance, she might not have been able to explain he'-
, self; His Lordship then desi!eti she should be fur
tiler 'instructed as to future teveards and punishments.

THE KING v. PUTT.
Mr. ALDERSON stated, that this was an indictment for
a misdemeanour. The ind current charged, that the de-
fendant, being a public innkeeper, refused to receive
and entertain the prosecutor and his friend, although he
was requested so to do, and a sufficient tender was macle
to him for such entertainment.
Mr. COURTRNAY detailed the circumstances of the
case. The prosecutor, Mr. Wemyss, was a respectable
attorney, living at Appleby. In the month of September
last he came to Lancaster, accompanied by a friend of,
his of the name of Beetham, and they remained during
a few days of the Assizes, at the Commercial. Inn.
They had occasion to go hence to Liverpool, and on
their return they resolved to take their passage by- a
steam-boat, which at that time plied between Liverpool
and Lancaster. They expected to arrive at Lancaster
at about five *lock in the afternoon, but the accidents
of weather prevented thorn from teaching Lancaster till
about 12 o'clock at night. They landed, and proceeded
to the King's Arms, a public inn, of which the defendant
is the proprietor. They were desirous of waiting there
until the mail-coach arrived, by which they intended
to pursue their journey to Aprleby without delay.,
They were told that the mail would arrive about two
o'clock in the morning, and they called for some ale,
which was given them.' At this time several other
persons were in the travellers' room, who, as the night
got late, retired to bed, and the prosecutor and his
friend were left to themselves. They inquired ofsthe
waiter whether they could secure their seats in the mail?
The waiter told them he would inquireof his master. He
did so; returned, and said the seats could not be secured
until the mail arrived, but that, if they wished it, he
would go to the office, and secure them the firstchances.
This being done, the prosecutor and his friend still
remained in. the travellers' room until shortly after
one o'clock, when one of the waiters came in and said,
that as it was Assize time, they were all very much
tired, that that house was about to be shut up, and that
the Gentlemen would find, a comfortable fire at the
mail-coach office. This was, in other words, telling them
that here they could no longer stay, and he proceeded
to shut up the windows. The Gentlemen remonstrated,
and called for some brandy and water. Upon this
young Mr. Pritt came in, and said they were all going
to bed, and could not stop up any longer for two Gen-
tlemen. He added, that had they indeed been staying
in the house, the case would be different. The waiter
then, without 'any further ceremony, proceeded to put
out the candles, and the Gentlemen, after paying for
their ale, were obliged to take their departure. They
went to the coach-office, which they round crowded'
with guards and coachmen, and without any fire. They
then walked up and down the street, until, by the in-
terference of a friend, whom they casually met, they
found refuge in the Commercial Inn, where they were
treated with every civility. In a short time the mail
arrived; the prosecutor alone obtained a place, and his
friend followed the next day. The sole cause of the
treatment experienced by the prosecutor and his friend
seemed to be, that during the early part of the Assizes
they had stopped at the Commercial Inn.
Mr. BROUGHAM submitted that Mr. Courtenay, upon
his own shewing, had opened an acquittal. for the de-
fendant. This was an indictment against the defendant
for a misdemeanour, and yet nothing had been stated
which fixed the defendant as personally refusing enter-
tainment to the prosecutor and his friend. If entertain-
ment had been refused at all, it was fefused by the
waiters, and by_Mr. Pritr, jun. But the defendant could
not be held to be criminally responsible foi the acts of
ethers, which he did not appear to authorize or sanction
in any way.
)dr. Justice Houton), after consulting with Mr. Justice liairLrr,
aided the objection to be valid.
Mr. Committal agreed to abandon the prosecution.
Mr. Justice Hoi.novn said, that even if the case went on,
judgment could not be sustained by a record so defective..'—The de-
fendant was then acquitted.
At the Wiltshire Assizes, Mr. Thomas Flower, -who
held the responsible situation of Treasurer to the Melk-
sham Turnpike Trust, was charged Kith having uttered
a forged paper, purporting to be a receipt for money,
with intent to defraud the Commissioners of the Trust.
There were other charges of the same nature against
him. The prisoner, who had absconded, was arrested
in Holland on the Bth of last month, and brought to
England. When the prisoner was arraigned on the
first charge; he pleaded Guilty, and notwithstanding
he was advised to take his trial, he persisted in so plead-
' ing.—Mr. Serjeant Pau, said, the crime and the prose-
cution originated in a public trust. In the present way
in which that trust was composed and conducted, he
should have to meet with difficulties which he should
not be able to surmount. The long list of names of
which it consisted rendered it almost impossible to say
to whom the trust belonged. These difficulties might
at a future period be removed by the Legislature ; at
present they existed, and therefore he should offer no
evidence whatever in Support of the indictments against
the prisoner. The Learned Judge sentenced the pri-
soner to seven years transportation, for the charge to
which he had pleaded guilty.
At the Lancaster Assizes a trial took place, wherein
a person named Wyke had brought an action against a
Mr. Appleby, for trespassing on his grounds, not being
qualified. The witness to prove the trespass, said, he
met the defendant and a man named Whalley, with
two dogs and a gun. They passed over plaintiff's
fields, but did not kill game, or beat the bashes —Mr.
SGARLETT, for the defendant, said he was really sorry
o see such an action as this brought. The time, he
trusted, would yet come, when the Game Laws would
be ameliorated, and that which so pressed on the phOr
be removed, and the angry feelings of the rich brought
to a termination. A verdict of One Farthing damages
was returned for the trespass. The first count pro
forma set forth that the defendant had killed. 20 hares,
20 pheasants, 20 partridges, Bcc.—At the same As-
sizes, a trial for defamation of character took place.
. Ilse defendant I,C:oa:es) having lost some sheep,. asked
a farmer, named Lupton, it any of his sheep were
among them? Lupton said he had unite of the sheer,
xlien the defendant said, then "he suppo.ed Chapman
the plaintiff) had, as he steak sheep." The Jury gas q
e Shilling. Damages. •


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-UNIMlid Y and CLERICAL
CAMBRIDGE, sAncti 12.
At a dongination on Tuesday last,' Petition from this Univer.,
pity to both Houses of karliament against any further concussions
1 to the Roman Catholics, was voted by 70 to 38.
At the same Congregation, the Rev. Robert J-frerton, B.D.
Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, was admitted'oetor in Dfrinity;
and Henry Revell Revell, of Catharine Hell, was admitted Bache-
lor of Arts. •
The 'Chancellor's Gold Medals for the two best proficients in
classical learning among the commencing Bachelors of Artsi were
yesterday adjudged to Mr. John Fredericklsaacson, of Si. John's
College, and Mr. Richard Williamson, of Trinity Collego.
The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Mr. Thomas Johnson Uni.;
versity Marshal, in the room of the late Mr. J. Challis.

OXFORD, IQ ARCH 12.
Yesterday rennight, Mr. C.Wells was admitted Scholar of Nevf
College; and, on Saturday last, Mr. W. Howard was adniittec;
Fellow of the same Society.
Thursby last the following Degrees were conferred:
The Rev. John Page, late Fellow of Brasennose College, nos,
Vicar of Gillingham, Kent, D.D. Grand Compounder.
The Rev. Richard Howard, Jesus College, Rector of Denbigh,-
Denbighshire, Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity, by accumulation,
Grand Compounder.
The Rev. Walter King Coker, Oriel College, Vicar of Mirth.
Curry, Somersetilire, Bachelor iu Divinity.
MASTERS of Aars.—Rev. Tho Mas Tudball, Ti.lliol College,
Grand Compounder; Richard Thomas Lancaster, Exeter College;
Richard Greswell, Fellow of Worcester College.
Document or Aars.—Edward Rose Breton, Queen's College
Richard Foley Onslow, Christ Church College.

SCCLERIASTIC L TROMOTIONS.
The 29th of January last, the ltev.Thonias Prinee, 0.1). Fellow
of Wadharn College, Oxford, was invited and unanimously elected,
by the British ltesidents at the Hague, to be their (lhaplain, ina his
resignation of the King's Church, at Brussels, to the Chaplaincy of
the British Embassy there. On the same o,:casion, the Bight lion.
the Countess of Athlone nominated and appointed laitlt to be her
Ladyship's Domestic Chaplain.
The 31 instant, the ltev. James Robertson Ilolcombe,
FelloW of Jesus College, Osford,was collated 311,i adtbitted. by the
Bishop of Salisbury, to the Vicarage of Steveoton, Berks, vacant
by the cession of the Rev. Thomas Smith., and helougMg to the
Bishop's Donation or Collation, 1:r this time only, by lapse of time.
The Rev. William Rtes, of Trurch, and late tlf Jesus I.oliege,
Oxford, was, on. Thursday se'nnight elected Master of we Nu: Eh
Walsham Grammar School.
The Itev. John Conic, to the Rectory of Morcott, Rutlarti, void
by the death of the Rev. William Rochin.
The Rev. John Ilollier Stephenson, B.A. of Trinity College,
Cambridge, has been instituted to the Rectory of Dengie, Essex,
vacant by the preferment of the [rev. Robert Faithful.
The Rev. George Williams, to the Rectory of Sedgberrow,
Worcestershire.

POLICE INTELLIGENCe.

MANSION-lIOUSE.

An elderly man, named locharchi, a Florentine, was brought
before the LORD MAYOR, charged with 'having forged a bill of
lading for goods shipped in a vessel, of great value, for the purpose
of defrauding Ur. Aylwiu, an strinent oil-broker, of £lOOO. •
Mr. Aylwip, vidiu resides at No. '26, Thames-street, stated that
the prisoner called upon him about three week' ago, and asked hini
to advance the sum of aBlooo,upon a document which he had in his
possession. He then produced what appeared to be a bill ut lading
for wine, oil, silk, and sponge, which were,he said, consigned to
him on board the Stella Diana, Giuseppo laria de rhino, Al aster,
from the Gulf of Venice. 'The cargo he represented at of great
value. Witness desired him to call again, and detained the docu-
ment. He went to Lloyd's to inquire the particulars of ear cargo,
and was there informed, that uo such skip or cargo were heard of.
and that in all probability the whole story was a falsehood. Witness
subsequently heard that the priaoner had called upon a friend of his
with a similar document, and asked for an advance of 1:8C0 upon
it. Upon telling the prisoner that the bill of I-ding was a forgery,
and that the Lord Jlayor should be informed of the transaction,
the old man dropped upon his knees, and prayed for mercy very
hard, declaring that he had a wife and children, and that they would
all die if he was hanged.
The LORD MAYOR hoped the conduct of the impostor would ia
exposed, and in the hope that those who had suffered by his,prac-
tices would come forward, ordered him to be brought up again on a
future day.

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