Star.
London, England, 1826-11-01 00:00:00

THE SHOWER BATH.

Quads Doom (a lodger of Mrs. °Tames),

" How queerly my Shower Bath feels !
It shocks like a posse of needles and plus,

Or a shoal of eketrical Ws."
Quoth Muarnr," Then mend.% and I'll tell you bow:

It's all your own fault, my good fellow ;
I used to be bother d as you are, but now

I'm wiser—l take my umbrella."
New Monthly Nagai:esp. IVveneber.

Viscoont PALMIRSTON arrived on Tuesday se'nnigbt
at Belfast. from a tour to the. Giant's Causeway, and proceeded that
day to Ormeau, the seat of the Marquis of Dousam.c. Mr.
HAMILTON, one of the Parliamentary Commissioners, ,and lately
Ambassador to the Court of Naples, and his family, are also inmates
of the hospitable mansion of the Noble Landlord. . _

Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Foreign
Office to Sir Wuziain A'Couer, our Minister at Lisbon; 'also to '
Sir CSARLILS Basin, our Ambassador at the Netherlands.
The LORD MAYOR transacted business yesterday at
the Home Office, with Mr. Secretary Zan. • -
The Hnn. Mr. RANDOLPH has taken his passage in .
the packet ship York, Captain Da Coe:, for New York. The ves-
sel has been wind bound since Tuesday se night.
Sr. CLassarrr DANIS —The election yesterday was
contested with great spirit, sad at the ebbe of the day's palle the
numbers were as follow : '..-
Mr. Cosoaava . 432 J Mr. Ranwoe • 41?
We are Assured the Tariff at St. Petersburgh is in
,d
forward st ite, and that the alterations respecting the
trade frith Great Britain are very iibpoitant !
The answer of. the Ministers to the Deputation of
Manufacturers was most decided. There is to be'no
reduction in the duty on calicoes.
Monday se'nnight, an exciseman knocked down two
partridges at once, ont of a covey, with his revenue wand, as heir's
on his road between Durham and Wittiin Gilbert.
At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, Joseph Sharp,
Wm. Mayston, George &thou; and Jay:aids Waky,
were convicted for a riot on the 19th of August, at the
house of a cheesemonger in Rosemary Lane, named
Marshall, whilst'execitt ng a distress warrant from the
ground landlord, who had a disputed title to the honse.
[be Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the CHAIII-
- sentenced Jdseph Sharp, the bi oker, to two months'
hard labour ; Wen. Msysion, his clerk, • add the other
tWo• who 'Were potters, to one month.each.
CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Nov. 1. • .
The suptilies 'Cif Grain to this morning's market' re very abort.
Tbelittk rood 'Wheat that is at market, obtains rather more money.
There is scut:ay anything doing in other sorts of Grain, and prices
remain as. on Monday.--Arrivals : English Wheat, 1,100 qrs. Har-
ley. 870 qrs. Oats, 1,300 qrs. Floor, 3,130 sacks.' Foreign Wbsll,l
9,300 qrs. Barley, 7S) qrs. Oat% limo qrs. . '

THE ARMY.
The 3d Division of the neth ( itoyal County Down) Regiment
or Infantry, ii ordered to embark forthwith, on bbard the Thetis
transport, which is arrived at Cork, for the Leeward Islands.
Detachments of Irish Recruits arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing, from Bristol, and received orders to embark this morning, on
board sr stistm vessel in the River, for Gravesend, on route to join
their respective Corps and Depots, at Chatham and Canterbiry.
(For * Misery Promotions," seeflrst page.l
OLD BAILEY-THIS DAY.

Williane Eskett, aged 18, was put to the bar on an in-
dictment, charging him with breaking and entering the
dwelling:house of Sarah Stone, and stealing therein •a-
rious articles, consisting of silver spoons, &c. her pro-
perty, on the 27th of September last, at Kensington.
Thrproseattrix in this case was a Lady of fortune, re•
sident at Kensington, and on the day in question the
prisoner was sees running from the house towards a
cart, in which two men were placed.. The property
having been missed by the servant to Mrs. Stone, a hue
and cry was raised, and the prisoner was secured.
The facts were clearly brought home to the ;slimmer,
who said nothing in his defence, and •the Jury without
hesitation found the prisoner Guilty.
Jqseph Jones was put to the bar on an indictment,
charging him with stealing in the dwelling-house of M.
Young, Esq. No. 112, Strand, a watch. a ring, and
various other propetty, the goods. of Robert Iles and
Frederick Hourgan. This robbery took place on the
20th of October last, at the San Office, and the prisoner

and another who escaped, having possessed themselves
of the property, made their escape, but were eventually
stopped with the wearing apparel in their posiession.—
The watch and ring were however not recovered.
• The. Jury found the prisoner Guilty of the minor of.
fence,pere having been a misnomer in the drawing the
indictment; the name of the_ proprietor havipg been
inserted by mistake. .
The prisoner was a well known character, and, when
taken, was in company with thirty or forty thieves.
Mt. Seigel:lt A SAMS directed a note to be made, that the prim
saner was a it subject to be sent out of the country, for the term of
ids natural life.

At ten o'clock Mr. Sergeant ARABIA left the Bench
for a few minutes, and on his return informed the Jury
that he had appointed a case for hearing positively for
ten o'clock in the New Court. Owing however to some
mistake, it was necessary for him, in order to expedite
the public business of the country, that he should go
into that Court for the purpose oehearing the pleas of
the respective prisoners, as neither the Recorder nor
Common Sergeant had arrived. He would, however,
lot detain them but for a short period; but he felt it
necessary to inform them of thacause of his absence.
: The Learned Sergeant then went into the New Court, and the
g prisoners were arraigned:
' it is usual for Mr. Sergeant Musty to preside in the
Old Court till ten or half past ten o'clock, at which
......iiia
dime the Judges of the Sessiod generally arrive, and
'then the Learned Sergeant retires to the New Court, to
ptoceed to the trials of minor importance.
This morning Mr. Arabia took his seat as usual in the
Old Court, at nine o'clock, and remained there till near
eleven, when finding the Learned Judges did not make
their appearance, he retired to the New Court, which
was crowded to excess by witnesses and prosecutors, and
presided there during the arraignment of many pri-
soners. After this proceeding had been gone through.
the Learned Sergeant arose, and addressing the Jury
said, that he should fail in the discharge of a duty he
owed to them, and to the high characters who had
during the present long Session performed a very
fatiguing and arduous duty, if he were not to ex-
plain the reason why they were not now in attend-
ance in the other Court. Last night he was told by
the Learned Judges themselves, that it would be ins-
possible for them to preside to day, in consequence
UV:me-other most important business that they were
obliged to transact elsewhere ; but should they not attend
to that business they referred to, they Most certainly
would preside here at the usual time. He feared there
bad been some misunderstanding on the subject amongst
the Gentlemen at the bar, who he believed thought that
'ber certainly would attend, and in consequence he
IMr. Sergeant Arabia) had remained in the Old Court
longer than was his usual custom, and be now begged
to say, that as their Lordships did not arrive at ten
o'clock, he felt satisfied that business of the utmost
importance had prefented them ; he, therefore, must
settle to the other Court.
Mr. Auer.-.Send for Mr. Denman from Guildhall, he ought
Is come.
Several Attendee complained to the Counsel of the hardship as
their witnesses were all present, sod by the delay would be cough
Amity inconvenienced.
Mr. Sergeant Arians then retired, and the business of this Court
was suspended.
Yesierda y,G. Jell was indicted for embezzling 221.11 s
received by him, on account of his employers, Messrs.
Cooke and Gladstone, of Cheapside.
Mr. BRODRRICIC stated the case for the prosecution:
The case was a very intricate one, and the circumstances
is follows :—The prisoner,. in January, 1825, received
a check for 221. lls. on account of his employer, but
which he did not account for at the time, but kept it in
his pocket until January following, when he presented
itfor payment, and the identical notes he received in
exchange for it were, at the expiration of that time,
paid by him into his employer's bankers, to their credit ;
but he at the same time kept back 221. I Is. from a
larger sum of money. which he was at that time en-
trusted to pay in. He never gave credit on his account
for the amount of the check.
A leas argument took place hetWees the Leaned Counsel upon
the law of the case.
The Common Suoun at length decided that the matter *odd
se to_ the Jury, and he would *serve ;be. point raised for further
onimbieratom
"The Jury, ifter a very careful naimination of the boobs of as-
mosnm, and some of the witnesses, who were recalled, save a ver-
dlit 4 Guilty.
: . ;darks Thomas • While, bookseller, aged 23, stood
,indicted.for setting fire to a certain house, situate in the
parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. There west two other
l'indictinents, varying the terms of the charge.
Mr. Antler stated the ease, and called the fallowing viitnesset :
Michael Shine, a watchman, heard an alarm of fine
on the night of the 4th of August, at the house of the
prisoner, 263, High Holborn. :When he went to the
house the door was shut, and Mr. Lazarus, who lived
in the upper,part, opened it for him ; he went down the
kitchen stairs, and sa or that the fire commenced beneath ;
could not say how long it had been on fize; he got
water and quenched it; he broke up two steps of the
kitthen stairs to see if there was. any. fire remaining.—
The fire appeared to him to have arisen from fire hang-
ing down from the gas. In about half an hour after-
wards he retuned, and a fireman chewed him part of
some links, when be was satisfied that the fire was occa-
sioned by links. A model of the house was then pro-
duced, and the witness described the fire as taking place
under the kitchen stairs; there 'was a ladder placed
'against the closet door; he saw the prisoner and Mr.

llamas •hen he went in ; the prisoner hacta grey frock

morning gown on.
Samuel- Furaman, exv&ned by Mr. ALort—Was,
watchbotsse.keeper of St. Giles's I and diskarered afire
at two o'clock on the morning of the 4th of August.
at the prisoner's house; his (witness's) brother,. And
Reilly, were there before Mai, as were Mo. severni
Gentlemen; the fire was almost out when he came; on

!going down stairs, he observed to the prisoner, 0. there is
something wrong about this fire;" all underneath was
burnt to cinders. He asked the prisoner if he suspected
any one in the hawse? The prisoner said, that previous
to the fire, the table in the front kitchen had been set on
fire by some person ; he (witness) examined the table ; it
appeared that some liquid had been on it, as it was burnt
in the middle ; he asked the prisoner who had the care of
it? the prisoner said that no one but Mr. Lazarus and his
servant had access to the kitchen, and that he suspected
the servant had stt it on fire; Margaret Drew was called
down stairs, and there was some altercation about who
should give charge of her. Lazarus said he should, as she
was his servant; he then made a search with Reilly, when
the latter found too pieces of links, about eight inches
long; on examining the st a'rs he found a quantity of pitch,
which seemed to have fallen from the link which fitted

the place on the stairs where the pitch was. He then
went into the kitchen, and aArd tie prisoner whether
he had any links?. prisoner replied that he never had ;
die girl was then taken in custody ; there was no gas
conductor behind where the fire took place. On the

1 Ith of August the prisoner and Lazarus came to wit-
ness ; the former said that he had been dining with his
mother the day before, who told him that there had
been links in the house six or eight months ago. Wit-
ness said that he wanted to go to Mr. Bradford's, where
he understood some links had been bought. He
asked Mr. W. what he wanted links for six or eight
months ago ? He said he had a party of friends who
were sitting in the yard, and as the candles were blown
out, the links served to light them again ; on the fol-
lowing day the prisoner, with some others, went with
witness to Mr. Bradford's; L zarus said to Bradford.
" Aro I the man who bought the links?" Bradford
replied, u You are not;" it has been s +id by Bradford
that the links had been bought on the 4th of August.
between eleven and one? the prisoner replied, "I can
prove by two witnesses that I was in bed at twelve."
Bradford said, " I could tell better if I saw the person

in his morning gown ;" Lazarus said, " I will go home
and put on any different dress;'' witness said to the
prisoner, " have no objection to go home and put
on your morning gown. and let Mr. Bradford see you?'
the prisoner replied, "I shall do nottlin of the kind,
for I will not make a puppet show of myself; v itness
'saw the prisoner in his morning gown on the occasion
of the fire; when next be saw him in that dress the
sleeves bad been cut a little shorter. _

Thomas Dodwell—ls shopman in the house of Mr.
Bradford, and recollects some person buying link on
the 4th day of August last, between eleven and mit;
believes the prisoner to be the man ; the remnants of the
links now produced are very like those which witness
sold; the person who purchased the links, was dressed
in a grey morning gown. Witness saw the prisoner in
his morning gown, on the 4th of October, in St. Giles's
watchhouse ; it was very like the gown worn by the
person who purchased the links, but it was cut shorter
in the skirts. Witness recollects that the prisoner es. re
with another Gentleman en the 10th of August, and
asked if Mr. Bradford was at home? witness SUlti he was
not ; prisoner replied "my name is White, and I
have come about the links." Witness said, ,4 we want
' none." Prisoner said, 64 I don't mean that. but I have
heard that you said I had purchased some links of ion?"
He (witness) replied, " how could I say so, when I did
not know you ; some person having a grey morning
gown on, bought links here." Prisoner said, " that is
the dress I wear.' The impression on witness's mind
was, that the prisoner was the man ; he di4 not tell him
so, because he did not wish to impute it to him. The
links had been taken away in a blue bag.
Omnsexansined by Mr. Anotenus—lt was his master who sold
Ilse Ulm
By the Comm—Witness has seldom been asked for links since
die establishment of gas lights.
• 'William Bradford—ls an oilman in Broad-street, S .
Giles's, and recollects some person purchasing two links,
on the 4th of August, between eleven and one o'clock,
Of a little after; he paid fourpence for the links, and
carried them off in a blue bag. He (witness) saw the
prisoner and some other person on the 12th of August ;
Lazarus asked him if he was the person who had pur-
chased the links? he said no. This witness corroborated
the evidence of Furzman, as to what took place at that
interview, and added " I have seen the prisoner since
that time at the watchhouse in his morning dress, and
he very much resembles the person who bought the
links of me."
Examined by Mr. Pawns—The coat which the prisoner wore
et the watchhouse was a but. shorter than that which the person
wore who had purchased the links.
Humphrey Lazarus examined by Mr. ALLEY.—Is a
jeweller, and lived, on the 4th August, in the prisoner's
house ; he occupied the first floor, two rooms on the
garret, and the front kitchen; had a wife and family
dare; the gas cocks were in the front kitchen, to which
the prisoner had access to turn the gas ; on the 4th of
August, after he (witness) went to bed, he was. awoke
by the smoke; on getting up, he put his bead out of the
- .
window, and cried out, " fire r then went dbwa
stairs, and opened the door for the watchman, who
bad rung the bell. Furaman questioned witness's
girl respecting the fire ? she denied it, and he (wit-
ness) was of course obliged to give her in charge; when
he came back from the watchhouse, he met the prisoner
laughing in the passag.e, and said," Mr. White,•l really
see nothing to laugh at; he went with him' to the
parlour, when he said, "if I • were you I would not
prosecute her?" wittiest replied,." Mr. White, Ido not
know what you mean; you first make me take up the
girl, and now you tell me you will not prosecute;"
witness attended at the Police-office ; the girl was dis-
charged on the Ist of August; observed a ladder placed
to the trap door at the top of the house; this ladder
used to be in the kitchen; he removed it from the trap
door, but it remained on the stairs until the fire; he
never bought links at Bradford's shop, nor put any
under the stairs. _ _

Cross- examined by me ADOLPHUS—Is not a working
jeweller, but a general dealer; he means that he buys
cloth and every thing ; the place under the stairs where
the fire broke out belongs to him. Mr. White attended
the Police Office next day along with witness, but was
not examined; when the girl was dismissed from the
charge of setting the house on fire, she was detained on
a charge made by him for stealing some things; she
was tried and acquitted at the last session ; witness was
not allowed his expen►es. The garret room in which
he slept was, of all rooms in the house, the most remote
from the fire, yet he perceived Pt first, and gave the
alarm; 'blahs that Mr. %%kelvin coming out of his

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room as be same down stairs ; the trap deo* Was open
From the lit of August until the 4th, yet be never told
the prisoner; he left the house on the Bth; his property
remained there, and was distrained for the Midsummer
tent by the prisoner.
Juliet Lazarus, the wife of List witness, cOrroborated
his testimony, and stated that the prisoner's family and
her's had been on the best terms previously to the fire.
Catherine Taylor examinedlly Mr. ANDINWS—ii
servant to the risoner; the ladder was generally kept
in the kitchen, but the bob having occasion to.go on the
tockioft, he asked his master if -he might take up the
ladder? bis master said yes; and the boy took it up on
the Ist or 2d of linen; on the night of the fire, wit-
ness's master and mistress went to bed at twelve. She
went about ten minutes after. Her mister and mistress
went out to Fulham for the two days following the fire r
she remained in the house, but did not go to bed at
night, at the request of Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus.
Margaret Drew examined by Mr. ANDREWS—Was
servant to Mr. Lazarus when he lived at the prisoner's ;
did not see the house on fire, and had no pitch on her
hands at that time.—Mr. Furocnan said she had.

Cross-examined by Mr. Prituars—Remembers hay.
ing been examined by Furzman, the officer, on the night
of the fire; witness's hands were all dirty and wet, but
it was from having been putting her boots (which were
wet and dirty) on previously.
Joseph Coxhead and William Wilson deposed to the value of the
been
stock at the periods of each fire. They thought it had
been considerably overrated.
A Clerk Isom the British Pits Assurance Office pros
duced the policy of insutance entered into by the pris
loner, whereby he insured his property to the amount;
*14.4001. on the 30th of May ; another Clerk proved
that the prisoner had at that time Cancelled another
policy for 1,0001.
The ptisoner then proceeded to read a long written
defence. Having concluded his address to the Jury,
Which was a recapitulation of the argument used by
him at his different examinations at the Policeoffice, he
proceeded to cell witnesses 10 character.
The Learned Judge summed up the evidence; and the Jury,
after some deliberation, found him Guilty.
The prisoner, who appeared to labour under much
anxiety chile the Jury %et, deliberating (in the Court),
had been allowed to retire from Court a short time.
When he heard the verdict his face assumed a most
deadly paleness. He put his hands up to his forehead
for an instant, and wept bitterly, but not aloud. 1-le was
led to his seat, but in-a moment he fell back in a faint-
ing fit, and in that state he was removed from Court.
I-4atricb Reins, aged 26, and Amelia Roberts, aged
32, were indicted for stealing a quantity of plate, jew-
els, and wearing apparel, and other articles, of the
value of 3001. the property of Mr. Austin, of Red Lion-
street, Cletkenwell.
From the evidence of Mr. Austin, it appeared that
the female prisoner lived as servant in his house. She
was so living on the 10th of August last. Reilly was
in the habit of visiting her at her roaster's house. Mr.
Austin frequently forbad him the house, and at last told
Roberts that if Reilly came again, she should not re-
Main longer his servant. On the 10th of August he and
his wife were front home. He returned in the evening,
and on the nest day found that he had been robbed of
property to a considerable amount, and that the female
prisoner had left his service. Suspecting her as con-
cerned in the robbery, be and his brother pursued her
Into Newport, in Monmouthshire, where she and the
other prisoner acre taken into custbdy. Part of the
property was found on their persons, and the remainder
in a ISOa in a room which they occupied. It appeared
that they lived there as man and a ife. The man pass.
ing as a jeweller, and the woman as a dress-maker.
John Hervey, a hackney-coach driver, proved that
he was called to the house of Mr. Austin, from the
stand, on the 10th of August. The prisoner Reilly got
into the chariot and drove near to the house. He re-
mained in the chariot while the female prisoner brought
out some boles and parcels. They then drove as far as
the Sri and, but told witness to return to Red Lion-strees,
as they had forgot a trunk. He did Meters got the
trunk, and then clicve them to Houuslo*, where they
took a pot chaise, and proceeded on towards Colebrook.
The property found in the prisorers' possession was bOW pro.
tiered and identities! as Mr. Austin's roper,.
It also appeared that when ore female waerecoenised
by her master, she'seid that she was glad that she was
Bolen, but added that the man, her oonspation, was
wholly innocent.
The female prisoner declined putting any questions
its any of the witnesses, and WWI ladled al fat bee de-
fence, said she had nothing to Offer bat to imptare the
*sercy of the Court.
The male prisoner strongly promoted his innocence
of any knee/lodge Ifs or pa ticipation in, the sobbery,
and tidied several Witnesses, who gu'et him a good cha-
racter for honesty Tor several years. Pie had been for
some time iathennsploymeat of Cubist, the builder. as
a carpenter.
Mr. Baron GARROW 110111 Med up the evidence, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty as tolbal prisoners.
Reilly, alter the ternale pass- net, who appeared et-
tternely ill, had been helped out of C,nrt, returned and
applied to have two sovereigns testoted to him, which
had been taken Isom him When be Mat arrested. The
Court refined the application.
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Jose r 4 Gardiner 'taxi indicted for-cutting nod minting Sorrontit
Knight at Cheista. The prisoner, it appentea, arqsabsted with:
the prosecutor, and pkodid a woond is his head, and irritation from
having been robbed that day.
Tbe Common Smilax: urged that passion excieJed hialttOthttu
&Ought, and the prisoner was acquitted.

LEG-AL AticHSALY.—IL is a stnsular tact, that thorn
slisuse the inhabitants of Croydon p tribh are unable to
prove a road therein be a carriage-way. although there
isnot the slightest doubt whatever of the road beim an
old Roman Watling-street load.
A special Grueral Meeting of Proprietors of the Lon-
don Brick Compaub took place yesterday, at their Office,
in Lancaster-place, to coctfirstr forfeitures of Shares,.lltc.
The Meeting was strictly private, acne but shareholders
being perm tred to attend.
The friends of the Guardian Institutiou held their
Anniversary Meeting at the London Tavern, yesterday.
The Lard MaTor presided, and a hanchonre collection
was made. The majority of those present were Ladies.
The celebrated Mhaulle, who exercised the functions
of Procureur Imperial in the Council Court of Paris
during the Revolution, and was banished bi the law of
the 12th January, 1826, died a few days since at Ghent,
in bis seventieth year.
Monday se'unight, u T. Stubbs, pmrkeeper to his Grace the
Archbishop of Tort, for the Manor of Ripon, was shooting near a
wood on the estate of H. R. Wood, liaq. is tampon with ats.:l
Itembert, from London, the following moon sea shot was WWI,
to kill fear cock pheasants at eft aims, with a eisiploholvelled
gun :—ln raven a hedge, two or three cock pheasants rose on the
aide of Mr. Humbert, and four on the side of T. Stubbs, in tali'directionambled ites toils every bkd dead as despot.

UNIVERSIIT OP et, ANDREWS.
INSTALLATION OF fills CHANCELLOR.
11101 E THR FIFE HERALD, 6# hen 90.

. I%e Med Rao. Lord Melville, Cftafte Mot of the Unltertity,
arrived here yesterday afternoon.
This day, the Rey. Dr. Bhist, theltectot, attotripanied
' by the Profe,sors, and by the Noblemen and Gentlemen
assembled, escorted the Chancellor from the houSe of
Principal Nieol, to the Library. Haying entered the
great hall above stairs, the Rector proceeded to the'
pulpit, and eartmience; the proceeding* by prayer; he
then descended, and addressed the Chancellor to the
following purpose:
Mt Loan-.I have now the hotumr add iatitfattion
to welcome 3dbr Lordship to this indent seminary,
Chantelint and Conservator of its pritileges, and to
request that you will take the chair end preside in the
present Meeting. From the period of its establishroent
to that in Which your Lordship comMenced yotir cell-
hetion with it, about five centuries hate intervened..
The ofilte of Chancellor Was instituted by the founder*
of the University, who made provision that his suctes-
sins 'should ex dircio ho li that office. This arrange-
ment continued till the revolution, whets Episcopacy was
abolished, and the Universities we-e deprived of their
Official guardians, and left at liberty to choose for
themselves their Chancellors and C.insettators of their
privileges. This Unitetsil first made choice of the
Duke of Athol to till thiJ Office. The indivijuel neat
elected, Was the Duke of Chandos, who had previously
been their benefactor, by instituting a Professorship of
Anatomy. After him, they elected hit Royal Highness
the Doh of Cumberland, then actively employed as
Commander-in-Chief, in crashing the rebellion. Ts
him succeeded the Earl of Kinnoul, who, hating more
leisure than his predecessors, was enabled to dettste,
more time to the duties of hit office, and Was in the
habit of attending the annual public exatnitatiOns of
the dodo, and inspecting the progress of the students,
and bestowing rewards on those who made eminent pto--
fitiency in the prosecutionof their studies. TneSenatus
Academicus next made choice of a distinguished corn-
Monet, elevated to the peerage by his Sovereign for his
long, faithful, and most important services to the state.
I allude to the father of the noble personage I have
now the honour of ailitessing. He held the office for
0 years, and some of my colleagues are far better able
thstt tam to detail minutely the interest which lie ex-
hibited in the welfare of this institution, and the reach.
nose with Which; on all occasions, amidst the public
bnsioess which requited his attention, he listened to their
applications respecting its affairs. Alter his decease,
the office was filled for a shoat time by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambtidgel. until-the success of our
military operatiois on the Continent tendered it expe-
dient that be should assume the government of his Ma-
jesty's Cnntinental dominions. The Settatus then fixed
on lout Lordship to fill the office v tcant by his depot-
' tune EMI% this country, and I have only to add, that the
same accessibility to its Chancellor has hitherto marked
the intercourse ot the University uith your Lordship AS
its other instanees, and that we have had every tends
to tongrattslate ourselves on Our selection.
Tut CnAlettl.LOß, after acknowledging the pleasure
derived from meeting the Prrdessots, concloded thus :
“ His Majesty #es beets pleased to issue his Relit CoMilissite
for visiting the Universities of &inland, and ingsdrifig into their
condftion; and be has been pleased to include shy name hi the
number. / feel that I should be wanting in my duty to my cid-
leagues If I were tb dier, without eonsultation with than, and 'Miss
out the fullest tailgate:Dhoti, any opibion on the sobject of theta in-
quiries. hot, whatever opinion% on other matters they have been
led to form, there can be no question on this, that respectable old
adequate accommodation is tudispensible for both the itirructory
and instructed ; and I must say, that from what i have this day
seeh, I km bound to Ude*, that here that accommodation is not
what it voght to he. And I trait and hope, that etc an early period,
and without waiting the resuk of the Commiesket. I shall have an
opportunity of tendering my advice to his Majesty, to procure to
you accommodation more suitable to the ithportant Objects which
male 'your attention."
Tt4s:l.lft" Kind Robin lo'es Me."

The itscrost then begged permission, in the name of
the Senates Acaclemicus„ to request that his Lordship
would accept a splendidly bound copy *f the Catalogue
of the pooks in their Library, which. they have lately
repined and published, lor which his Lordship es•
pressed his acknowledgments. The same compliment
was theft paid to Sir Henty Jardine and the Rev. 1)r.
Lee; and when they had severally thanked the Seamus,
the westing Woke up.

THE DINNER
At sit o'clock a company of about 120 sat down to an elegant
dinnsa, presided over by the germ and the &natue Academicus.
Among the Grutlemen present, were Lott! Ikleisille; the Earls of
Kellar, Elgin, itosslyn; the lord Advocate; Lord Pitmilly ; Sir'
Henry Jardine; Copula Weanysa, ft.N. ill'. lion. R. Lindsay,
of Ilaicarres• Dr. Lee, Acc.
Alter the health of the King had been drank, the,
Ilscroa :ma, sod said, 'list he was now about to pro-
pose a toast, which they would all drink with feelings,
of wares approbition. At each periods, they had sea-
soa to be filled with combined feelings of melancholy
and cungratulatioss, of melancholy for the loss of those
to whose exertions they had been indebted, and of cone
gratulation, wise's-Alley were able to procure a successor
who could stead to them the same protection and care;
and whets a natorber of years ago the Senatus Academi
cos made choice of the Noble Lord now their Chancel-,
lore the latter feeling could tint fail to predominate.
Thee, remembered with gratitude the numerous favours,
bestowed upon them by Iris Lordship's illustrious father,'
and the kindness Ise had himself sbewn towards them.
They were well assured, that if he could have found
timer he would have visited them sooner; but the cares
And employments of high and most important situations'
'had bithetto prevented them hem being honoured by
his presence atoong tleth. His colleagues and he had
already te-slay ,publicly espressed their satisfactiou at
the homer his fartibbip had does thee, and lie pro.,
p..sed now, that, in conjunction with their guests, they
shbUld renew their .weltonst to his •Lordship, as an ex-
pression of their earnest and tithed regard, and theil.
"lib that he might lbugtontitmeto be their Chancellor.
The Cr set briefly'rettersved
Tat Clausliamostibia parapeted tie health of 44 The Rector and
Seams' drestimisuersur taversity.-
The &Woe returned thanks and concluded by
calling en the tempshy to drink to the ofemni of their
University, selecting as the representative of them. the
ri Atri of Elgin, who was too well knows' to the world to
require to be introduced teaser by any encomium of his.
Lord Eutaw addresved the Rector at considerable
hug& His Lordship said, the favorer conferred on the
meeting by your Soo. Chancellor is enhanced tenfold.'
. by the circumstances under which it hotelmen bestowed.
His Lordship's public duties were most important and
burdensome, sad he bad she a share in the duties a
the Hord enunissiont and it is from no failure in his
wish to give to this country all the advantages which
its system of education can bestow, that he had not
hitherto visited us. It was one hsucl;ed years since this
Eillimmity bad bees visited by a Royal COMlllissioO,

and h r.ot to he supposed, that in that gate dildgil
houid nit have °kilned requiring te;.ait K *nee A-
mens, or that such a Seminal), ought to rennin station.
ary. What the Nubia Lnrd had said, might onniriuse
the company, that the University would advance under
his auspices. It had to complain of long neglect, but,
it.coUld now say, Nil derperandunt the date. Alluding
to the family afflictions his Lordship had experienced,
and Considering the circumstances of his Lordship's
health, they owed a debt cf kindness to Lady Melville,
for her readiness it laying aside her own anxieties, and
contributing tdhis Lordship's presence among them,
he proposed, therefore, that they should drink to the
health of Lady Melville, and t speedy return of her son
to her in health.
Lord bison.ur twat Mulled thanks.

When a The lilatry of Great n, itain" was given, Lord
Nlatiquat observed, this toast related to a Matter of
a very different description from those they had been
I discussing, and he was proud to find his name in any
way coupled with the successes of out navy, or the
means of them. It is true that the prevalence of peace
rendered it unnecessary to he employed for our security,
and he wished that it might long continue so; but, at
the tattle time, it was not the less tatessary that this
most powerful arm of ours should be kept in a condition
of readiness and forte, fit to sustain the naval glory and
influence of our country, which he hoped would endure
as long as its own existence.

us by tht ltecint—.l His Majesty's Ministers. and may they
long continue to adopt those measures by which the prosperity of
the country may be most effectually promoted."
Lord NlELvita.l Manned thank*, and gave, " The speedy renova-
tion of the Buildings of this University.
The following toasts were then given :
At The Lieweessocy of We and the Hari of aoselyn."
" The PrniVsiorsof the University."
do The Prevost and Math:rates of the City' -
su The Hen. Met Lindsay, M. P, far the Borth."
M Corkin Wentycl."
" The Pttadpals of the Colleges otthe University ...the Rev. Dn.
Haldane•and Nicol."
• The Lord Advocate of Scotland."
" Sir Henry Jardine."
" The Court of Session anal Lord Pltmilly."
• Dr. Chalmers.'
Dr. Criamintas said, the subject referred to (the NM.
Laws) was almost worn nut of his remembrance. His
whole heart and time had been so much engaged in the
freshness, and interest, and ardour of the new pursuits
.he had been introduced to, that his every feeling had
been drown away from them, and these other interests
bad, it. a certain measure, taken their places among
things gone by. Ido not now (said he) intrude myself
on yeinr notice as any other than Dean of Faculty. My
domain in that capacity is somewhat limited, since we
want here a school of Medicine and a school of Law,
and we are even in want of one or two endowments to
coneplete our equipments as a school of Literature and
Pnilusopby. To this last it is Roy wish we should be
limited ; and I would desire no establishment for either
Medicel oe Legal instruction, but that, in any intended
amelioration, there should be kept inviolate this distinc-
tive character among our seminaries—that here is to
be had just all the sc enee and scholarship that can
hberaliae and dignify a Gentleman's education. It
would hold us out in a more attractite light to our
higher Families, that here such could be acquire 1, in
comparative retirement, and apart from the diaractions
of a city's juvenile society. In others, the academic
tone and character is overborne in their admixture with
the bustle and activity • f the large town society. and
the pupils ate dispersed into their widely separated
dwellings ; whereas, here they ftirm their close and an-
broken knots of companionship. We have more to see
then just their benthethood is olfaction, there is an ele-
ment's:l prodigious force in the action and tendon of
their associated intellect. EaCh one knows each other,'
and their whole task daily and hoinly is of literature.—
Literature is their world—their whole imaginings are
coloured by it ; and they breathe throughout all their
tomnitthenshipt A more intense attnosphere..
And among its most valuable molts, is that leelitig of
clanship, that esprit du corps, which gives MO a dispo-
sition more %hot °uglily impregnated with the whole
tr:gand disposition of literary effort. Though at
reilttom of the scale as to onitsbers, St. Andrews has
ever stood eminent in her proportion of those who sig.
indite themselves. Not long ago, seven of her sons
were at once Professors in the University of Edinburgh;
and when we enumerate her Ritchies, her Duncans, het
Leslies, her Playlairs, we glee her—whether we reckon
them by weight or tale—a respectable rank es a menu.
factory of literary and philosophic men; and when like
to be crushed into *weds by yorniste competitors, I
trust that we shall have the privilege of saying some-
thing for ourselves. We would chew that we cannot
only count and appeal to the past; yet we can indulge
a natural complacency, and look erect at the mention
of those who have dignified and illuminated the
ages gone by. We have Knox, Melville, Buchan.
nan, in Theology ; end Rutherford, quaint though
he be, yet filled with deep and pathetic thought..
We have dllllllOl Gregory, in science, the 11WCRber of
the reflecting telescope, and the friend of Newton
And those, thy splendours of our ancient glory, still
gleam upon us through the mist of ages. Our share of
Scottish literature we claim from the olden time. Our
localities net hallowed and canonised by the glories
And manytdoens of our glorious Reformution. I would
humbly suggest to 'you (continued the Dottor), a toast
which comes associated with the occasion we have been
celebrating. There is a Saying of a celebrated States-
man, distinguished alike for literature and politics, who
was admired as an orator when alive, and revered as a
sege when dead; and of whom it was said, that the
splendor! of his genius detracted front the impression
of Ms wisdom. Edmund Burke called Education the
'cheap defence of nations, and most truly may it be
termed so. Why, half the annual expense of a single
tiigate would be sufficient to uphold, as they are, all
the Universities of Scotland. Thos, 'the memorable
fountain head of a nations power may be kept in easy
play for an expense scarcely wraith consideration in a
nation's finance. The materiel of a nation's force may
be expensive—the uferale la not. I propose-.'' A eros-
perous result to the labours of the Royal Commission."

Abeat ten the Chain:dim retired, accompamied by Lou
Righ3, Captain Wen)lss, itc. and very soon after the Rector left
the Chair, and the Company dispersed.

DISTRILMID LIMITA•PRVIS PIUNTZRS. The sub-
scriptions for the Letter-press Printers have fallen of
very considerably. It cannot be necessary for us to
repeat what we have before stated on this subject.—
From the Literary World, at least, distress of this kind,
has a right to expect not only sympathy, but active
benevolence ; and if the patrons of literature have been
less sensible than might have been expected to the mis-
fortanes of these humble individuals, we trust the cir-
cumstance is to be attributed only to their ignorance of
the resting necessities of those who claim their assist anew

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

AA* Oates, an old hand, who has been transported, and Ash
Otherwise well known to the pollee, was brought up, charged br
Mr. Cope, the City Marshaloan suspicion of being concerned in thd
robbery of the Leicester Bank coach parcel, containing APtSiOOO,
ddiedy in country Dotes.
The prosecution was conducted at the Instance of the Society of
Bankers. The only fact adduced against the prisoner at present
was, that of his basing got one of the ifs notes changed at a butcher's
named Cartwright, residing in Westminster. He accounted for
the posseseloa, by allot, that be had taken it at it fair. The an.
swer on the part dam police to this account was, that they did nor
Mime hiss for a long time past, to have been in the honest posies.
oleo of so much money.
He was remanded, to give time for farther investigation.
The Dotes have, we learn, been offered to the Bankers for a coca
taro sous of money, bat they have positively Wailed to baton to ant
compromise of the kind.

GUILDHALL.

John Gale's young man intheeinPciTof a butcher, who rod&
in ikury-lane, but whose name was not mention's', was dbelled
before &Jamas &Law, Bart. yesterday, with ill. treating a bullock.
John Humble, one of the patrols of St. Sepulchre's, stated, that
he saw the prisoner driving the animal through Smithfield, about
six o'cloalt on MOnday evening, and almost every time It put its
hind feet to the ground the prisoner struck it savagely below the
host. In this way they proceeded through King-street, taloa.
Morn, the poor creature evincing the torture it endured by
plunging, and attempting to enter every open door to escape from
its inhuman persecutor, until ttey came opposite the house of like,
the beadle, who remonstrated with the prisoner upon his cruelty,
and threatened to take him into custody. The prisoner replied, he
bad no power to do so, and aimed 'a blow at kitn with his stick,
which the witness warded off from the beadle with his arm. Pare
then secured him, and lodged him in she Cowper, and sent the
beast home to his master.

Pike corroborated this statement, and produced the stick the
prisoner was using. which Was 1 inch in girth.
Gabb oilfired no excuse for the violence he had used, but eons.
&hied that it was am dealing rightly with tradesmen, t• tear their
servants away when in charge of valuable property, upon such ems.
plaints as these.
Sir J. SnAw said, any body bad i right to interfere when such
barbarities were committed; and this was to strung a case of wanton
creek), as bad ever been brought into this Court. He should,
therefore, fix the realty as high as the law permitted him, which
was StOs.
[lf the prisoner had appeared before the Magistrate upon a aunt-
mons, or warrant, be might have been fined St. under Mr. hi iron's
Act; bit as he bad been apprehended immediately upon committitsg
the offence, the Alderman was obliged to apply the old Smithfield
Act to the case. The defendint paid she liOs. which was handed
over to the patrol, as the complainant, according to the statute.
Under Mr. Martin's Act, he would not have obtained a farthing].

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