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London, England, 1829-11-17 00:00:00

HELIODORA.

tame MI GIB= OF )IRLIAGII
To thee, my 1121101001 LA ! unto thee,
Even in the silent grave, I give my t
My piteous tears—ell that remain to me
Of love, that blest my spirit for long years.
Upon thy much-wept tomb I vainly shed
The tears in which affection must have vent ,
And sadly raise above thy narrow bed,
An idle tribute—Love's last monument.
Thus I, MILLZAGIR I-I—most piteously,
Yea piteously, bewail thee 'mongst the dead!
Where is the germ so precious once to me?
Ah, death hada cropt it—death bath bound its head !
Death—Death hub cropt it!—and the dust defiled
The blooming lower 1.-ob, Mother Earth, do thou,
Thou universal nourisher—with wild
Entreaties I beseech thee—take her now,
And clasp unto thy breast, with gentle a: ms,
My listsooona's all lamented charms.

FACTS AND FANCIES. •

WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE the daily
Papers concur in the statement of the following extra-
ordinary and important fact :-." Despatches from Lord
HEYTESBURY at St. Petersburgh, for the Earl of A DER-
DEEN, were brought to the Foreign Office on Friday
night, by a gentleman." There is something quits
startling in the awful formality and preciseness of this
announcement, which is by no means complimentary to
the good people of Downing-street ; since the appearance
of " a gentleman" amongst them requires so ostentatious
a display in the public Journals. Hitherto, people were
simple enough to imagine that despatches, upon which
the fate of nations might depend, should be entrusted to
none but men of approved integrity, honour, intelligence,
and education—qualities which, in other times, were
looked upon as the indispensable attributes of " a gen-
tleman"—a character which modern " Newsmen" seem
disposed to treat as a " rara atria" in Downing-street.
" RUSSIAN MAGNANIMITY."—We learn from St.
Petersburg that the EMPEROR NICHOLAS has been
pleased to confer on General BARON ToLL the Order of
St. George of the Second Class. We had no doubt, that
as soon as his " magnanimous" Majesty had secured
ion of the high road to Constantinople, we should
Care; his raising Toll.
Tat GREEK PILESIDENCY.WO know not whether
a poet or a philosopher had the merit of discovering that
" a well-bred dog, when he sees preparations making for
flinging bim out of the window, quietly walks down
stairs :" but this we know, that there is nothing so cur-
rish in the disposition of Count CAPO DISTRIAS, who
no sooner perceives that the patriot Greeks are anxious
to relieve him from the anxieties, cares, and fatigues of
office, than he begins to fortify himself against such an
uncourteous proceeding, by employing agents in the in-
terior of the country, as well as at the Courts of the
Great Powers, " to secure to him the office of President
of the Government." The Count, we suspect, is not the
only ambitious Gentleman in the world, who, having
once held the reins of Government, is reluctant to relin-
quish them ; or who, when his fitness for the Ministe-
rial " Minuet de la Cour" becomes questionable, would
not still exclaim " Da Capo."
SUSPICION OF PLUNDER.—" Captain Noah" and
"the Coburg."—ln the "Thames Police" Reports of
last week, we find that Captain NOAH STEVENSON,
of " the Coburg," of Yarmouth, his chief mate, a
seaman, and • Custom-house officer, were charged with
plundering that vessel of two muskets, some tobacco,
sugar, and rum, which were found concealed under the
bed in which the Captain's wife was lying. Of the mus-
kets we say nothing ; and for the tobacco and runs, why,
there never was a sailor yet, " from Captain NOAH
down to Captain COOK," who had not & penchant for
them. Had this been a case of smuggling, or injuring
the revenues of the State, we think we could point to
another " Coburg"—a continental letter of marque—
that requires overhauling as much as "Captain NOAH'S"
bark, since, through the suspicious negligence of a quon-
dam Government officer, the revenues of the State have
been considerably impaired, and British spirits reduced
below proof, by the grasping avidity of the Captain of
the foreign smack.
COMMAND OF THE RUSSIAN FLEET.—It is said
that the command of the Russian fleet would long since
have been conferred upon Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON,
but for the delivery to the Emperor of a round robin
by the seamen of that fleet, without any signatures, soli-
citing the continuance of Admiral GREGG in the com-
mand.

Yesterday, as Mrs. White, a respectable female, who
kept a milliner's shop in Piccadilly, was passing by the
Golden-cross, Charing-cross, an infuriated bull (which
had escaped •from a drove), attacked her, and gored in a
most dreadful manner; it was sometime before she could
be rescued from the merciless animal. She was imme-
diately taken to the hospital, but died a few minutes after
her arrival ; the unfortunate lady has left a daughter and
a husband, who is in ill-health, to deplore her loss.
It has been decided that the large boards placed by
brewers against public-houses are nuisances, calculated
to facilitate fires, and to prevent inhabitants escaping by
their windows, and liable under the Building Act, to be
taken-down. _ _

Thursday last we heard a case in our City Court which I
we believe is unprecedented in its annals, and, take it for all in all,
we are certainwe shell not look upon the like spin. It was an in.
formation laid by a member of the University against a tradesman
of the city, for giving a receipt on unstamped paper for the sum oft Q.
The informer was Mr. Hew Steuart Powell, a commoner of Trinity
College ; the person Informed against was Mr. Messenger, the up-
holder. In consequence of the information senile Somerset-house, S.
Cooper, Esq. stamp distributor for the county, came from Henley
to conduct the case ; the Mayor, Sit Joseph Lock. presided Mr.
Powell deposed that be had been indebted to Mr. Messenger in the
sum of .34, half of wbkb be bad paid in Feb. last, and the balance
on the 3d of the present month ; that Mr. Messenger had signed
his name to the word " settled," but not on a stamp. The bill was
produced In Court, and Mr. Messenger did not deny his having
written the said receipt. Sir J. Lock, during the bearing, several
times evinced his astonishment that the informer should have acted
in the way he bad done. At the conclusion he expressed his sorrow
that such a case should have been brought before him, and said that
it was tbe first of the kind he had ever heard, although he bad been
In the commission of the Peace for upwards of 17 years. He la.
mented his being forced to make the conviction; he understood,
however, that he possessed the power of mitigating the penalty,
ten pounds, to half that sum, and he should have been
happy if he could have reduced it much lower, particularly as Mr.
Powell bad not expressed a wish for a stamped receipt. He bad
heard of intornutions of this nature proceeding from persons in
the lowest situation of life, but never before, to his knowledge,
bad one proceeded from a Gentleman. Mr. Cooper claimed
expenses, as the penalty bad been mitigated, on the authority of
an Act of the 35th of George 111. The Town Clerk objected
to the costs incurred in travelling expences. It terminated in Mr.
Poweffe assuring Mr. Cooper that be would pay these expenses;
and Mr. Measenpr was convicted in the penalty of XS and
135. costs of Court. The reasons alleged by Mr. Powell for laying
the information were, that Mr. Messenger bad dunned him urgently
and repeatedly. and threatened to put him into the Vice Chan-
cellor's Court; and that bad offered him a much smaller price for
goods he wished to return than had been given for them afterwards
by another upholder. The ease having been brought forward so
early as nine o'clock. so persons but those acting ondally were
presens:—.Dpeted Sena

THE CHURCH.

The Rev. Nod Thomas Ellison, Rector of HuntspiU, has gene-
rously allowed 20 per cent. to his parishioners on their corn tithes
due at Michaelmas last. .

Last week the Rector of Loughborough returned 10 per cent.
at his tithe audit, io consequence of the depressed prices of agri-
cultural produce.
It is stated that the Rev. Dr. Nance, Rector of Old Romney,
fitc. has intimated to his parishioners that to those who attend and
liquidate his claims, at the next tithe audit, he will remit of their
pa) merit 101. per cent
At the tithe audit of the Rev. J. Constah!e, held at the Anchor
Inn, RMgmer, on Monday last. the Rev. Gentleman liberally de-
ducted five per cent. from the amount of each person's tithe.
The rectory of Odibam, and rectorial tithes of 6,000 acres
thereto belonging, late the property of N. Nicholls, Esq. deceased,
Were consigned to the hammer on the 3d instant, and were pur-
chased by the Rev. John Orde, Rector of Winslade, for the sum
of £15,0c0.
The Rev. Charles Nlackeretb has been instituted, by his Grac,..
the Archbishop of York, to the Vicarage of Middleton, on the
joint presentation of the Venerable Archdeacon Wratigham. the
Rev. Arthur Cayley, and-Dr. Thomas Smith; and also to the per-
petual curacy of Old Ryland, on the presentation of George Womb-
well, $.441. of Newburgh P.:tic, both v scant by the death of lets
father, the Rev. Michael Niaciteeth, of Th•trnton.