News in Brief
The Times, 1824-01-06T00:00:00

* About seven months sintce a female advertised for a chila to nure. Shortly after a male infant, about four months olfli sias brought to her; tne tetms being agreed upon, the cbild wasleky~itb a sovereign, and a card of address. From that time no one has called on the nurse, and thr card of addrers left turns out to be : False direction. The poor woman, unable to support the childj was about to taie it to the WoTkhouse; but caDing upon a respectable person and detailing the circumstances,he has undertaken to provide or the poor deserted infant. It is a fine boy, fair complexion, light bair, blue eves, and is at present underthe protectiono Mr. Bisbop, princpal officer of Newgate. *IAdvertisexent.]SHARSPEAIAN RnAXINGS, E5GRTrH SEA so.-.Mr. SMART has the honour of apprising his frieads and pa- trons, and the admirers of Shakspeare in general, that be will com- mance a series of his dzrmatic readings on Thuriday tht 15th, and Thursday the 22d instant, a, his-vown-xesidence, A,west side, oe Leicester.sqiare 4 tD'bWnin at eight o'eiiek purctualy. -msptc tuses may be had as above; 2t Hookhb='s library, Old Bond. street. and Richardson's, Roval Exchange. A subscriber's trans.. ferrble ticket for the secies or eight pays, one sovereign. Single admission-cws t1wtwoitroductoryeeniings, 3s. Id. ; atlerwhih-tine terms of single admission uiill be advanced. [AdvertisemnenLb.TEIAL OF THrURTrLL AIsD THu3wr, theoni lv verbatim report.Inmmediately will be published, at the conclu sion of the trial, A full and correct Report of the Trial ofJohn IThurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the Mlurder of MLr. Weave; contain. ing the speeches and evidence on both sides at lengtb, with all the points of law likely to be disussed in the course of these interestinp proceedings. The whole willbe printed from. the notes of an emi. nent Barrister, ta'ken in short-hand expressly for-tisbedition. Pub- lished by T. Dickie, 34l, Strand. Gentleraen ofthe law,, and per. sons wisbing f6r afull andaccurate report, will find this the only edition to be depended upon. [Adverflsement.RWe doubt if any one of the Seven -W-onde of the World, which have been so much wonderedatcan-o consider- ed more wonderful than the wondrous scheme aftheteirLottery, which contains no less than seven prizes of 20.0001. Every body is wondering how the contractors managed it, and sll are anxious to make purchases before the first day (the 19th of February), when ',be two first drawn prizes will have m addition 29,0001. money e 7, and when, in fact, all the uunubers drawn will be prizes, as .may be seen by a reference to the scheme. The offices of J. and., SwE. WRIGHTr, the contractors, are the favourite marts foradvertturerq. tAdvertisement.1.A BRILLLNqT AND UNPtryXit LIGHT.- UPTON AND Co's rectified sperm oil, 4s. 6d. per gallon. This oil, by a process entirely new, is so highly rectified as to equal in purity spirits of wiine. It has the briuhmncvof tbefinest gas, with these.. perior strength and steadiness of an oil light.without smell or smoke: so positive is its goodness, that it will burn excellently in every kindot lamap. For shups' steerage nd night lrmsitis ofthegreaf. est value, as the light will not go outtiU the oil is entirely consum. ed. Sohl only at Upton and Co's Oil and Colour Warehouse, 64; taeern.street, Cheapside. N.B. Other oils from 2s &d. to 3s. 6dd per gallon.