The Duke of Clarence left...
The Times, 1824-12-02T00:00:00

The Duke -of Clarence left towvn on' Tuesdlay night for B usliy. The Duchess of Glocester was a great dleal better yester.. dlay, havinig hiad a good night on Tuscsday iiighit. Her Royal High-ness rCeeivd vis,its yesterdlay from the Duke of Gloc-ster, the Duke of Sussex, the P.rincess Sophia, and the Princess Sophia Matilda. Yesterdlay afternoon, at twvo o'cloick, the first Cabinet Council sine: the prorogation of Parliament was held at thte Secretary of S!ate's Office for Foreign Affairs, which was very numerously attended for the season of the year. There were present the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of WVel- lington, the Earls of Liverpool, Westmorland, and B3athurslt.; Mr. Secretary Peel, -Air. Secr-etary Caflming, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount MJelville, -Mr. Wynin, &e. The Cabinet broke up at.about a quarter past fivie o'clock. Ai-r. Secretary Caniniiig was buLsiry engaged ort Tuiesday, tranisacting businegs with several Foreign Mlinisters. It will he seen by an adlvertisement in anlother part of the paper, that subscriptions are receiving for thea sufferers by the inunidations in Germainy, of the melancholy effects of which we have recently inserted so many accounts. The numiber of personis rendlered destitulte by this calamnity is believed to be niearly 50,000. It was very confdently stated yesterday on Cliange, that a(tvices over land from India had been receivezl yesterday at the East Indlia-hiouse, anid some extenisive sales of the .stock of the Companiy, wvhich wvere made soon after, tenided to create the belief that thley had brought intelligence of an utifivourable description. Nothing, however, transpired in the course of the gay calcuilated to bear out this suppo- sition, nor indeed fully to establish the facts that aniy de- spatches hadt arrived. The plan of the new Pruissian Bank hias or-iginated withi Mr. S. Rothschild,. and it is understood that shares in it will be circulated here through the mnedium of his brother, M-r. N. Mv. Rothschild. Notwithistaniding the numerous andI zealous efforts that arc miadle, withi a view to improve the morals of the lower classes, of society in this country, it does niot appear that crime has dlecreasedl. It is only just a mionth since the last gaol delivery of Newgate ; yet in that shiort interval, nio less than twvo hunidred' anid twventy-five pers'ons have been committedI to that prison, charged with various offences, principally felonies ; to which are to be added, liras smany more for trial at the Sessions lHouse, Clek-nwel.The Old Bailey Sessions begin to-day M Nr. Justice Bayley and Baron Hullock are the Judges expected. I Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India Hlouse, when the following Captains were sworn in to the comna-nd of thieir reskpectiye shipi, niamely, Captain Williamn Cruik. s.hank, Farq0t5rrsen, St. Helenia, Boimilay, and China; Captain Jon i-ine, Allas, l1adras andI China; and Captain William IHay, Chiarles Grant, China direct. The Guardian, arrived in the Dowvns from Sineapore, sailed fromn St. Hlelenia on the9th of October. Spoke in lat. 6. long. 22. the Biafloonz, from Baltimore to Buenos Ayres; she reported to have been boarded by a pirate, fromi Curacioa, ttill of men, mounting 1'2 guns, but not plund(eretl muchi. Spoke the Joh/s, fromy St. Tho- tutus's, which wias pluindered three times oiff the Caipe tle Verds e Portd thiat three pirates were cruising there, or close by. Thbe following is an extract of a letter from the agenit to Llovd's at Smyrna, dlated Oct. 19:-" There has been an engage. ment between the Turkish fleet and Greek shiips, with but little dlamage to either. We have in this port I-his Alajesty's ships Efnrya. hir, Afartis', C'yrene, and Alacrity, and continue to enjoy perfect tranquillity." Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Constani- tinopIe, dated October 25:-"1 The reports alluded to in ?iv letter of the I1thi instant, o01 an engagement between the Tuxrkishi andl Greek squadrons, appear to have been muchi exaggerated, the losses of the former having been confined to one frigate blown up, and two or thiree smaller vessels destroved, whilst the latter have lost several fire-skips, besides having their fieet much crlppled. Nothing of great importance appears to lhave been clone on either aisle. His M)ajesty's ship Medina, whiich mect withi an accident in the Arches, was much less darmaged than at first reported, and returned to the Dardanelles for his Excellency Lord Strangf'ord, who e-mbarked on board on the 15th instant." It appears from Bostoni papers, that the Colomhia steam- boat, Captain Clark, in her passage from Charleston to Georgetown, sunk within twvo miles of s~ulliyala's island, and four persons on board were drowned : the crew atid the rest of thje passengers were rescued with great difficulty. FooTiE v. HAYNE.-Amiongst the inoblei-aen and gentle- men subpwcnaed on the part of'Ithe defenidant at thieappiroaciting triatl of this cause, is Viscount Deerhurst. *I'he Alarquis of Wvorcester, it appears, was intended lo be called upon, bit his absence from- this countrv prevents it.-AMornzing paper. Duiring the severe gales which prevailed in the Downs on Mnday last, a small bird, called by naturalists the Stormiy Pe- terel,unick-namned by seamen Mlother Carey's Chicken, wasi picked up alive on the sltoer near Walmer-castle, by a servant be-longing to Alr. Brooket, of Mlarine-house. Only three of theste species are said bv Bewick to hiave been foundl in thits couLntry, and these not alive. They swarm in stormty weather in the Atlantlc, and follow tite ships with a eloleful screech on the gathering of a storm. A certaiti gallant officer of our garrisoni sent. a very love- ly, but a very loose fair one, a bank note of one hundredI poundz for one hundred tickets atfadm-is,sion onher benefit night. The lady re. tuirned by the messenger, accordling to the request of her admpirer, the one hiundired tickets: but lite, unexpectedly, senit also the change of the bank biil, reserving to herself the mere amount at' the tickets in question. This, totitegallant Cupict, was a sad disappointment. -Dz,blin paper. Tisa HOUCELES-S IRIsH.-Trhe Dublin .5orning Post says, - We lately communicated an extraordinarj fact, on the au. tliority of a private letter, which, we are convince, w3s well fotund. ed, that in the course of last year contracts were entered inito for buIld(ing 25,000 new houses in; London and its immediate vicinity. The parliamnentary returnis of the population of Ireland show that thiere were, in the sante period, in alt Ireland, but 1,360 hiouses in procoss of erection ? Of these, 479 were in the province of LeinsterC. So that the incereas-e of houses in and shout London alone, is nearly twenty-fold n7ece than that of this entire kingdiom." Fronit the vast number of natives of our siister kingdomi that we mieet with liere, we imagine thAe tfact may be accoutited liar on thie principle of the divi- Sion of labour which is so essential to the perf'ectioni of productioti. WVe make the hotises, anid the Irisli makec the people. rTITHES, 37TnT HENRY VIII.-The Towni Clerk of the Corporation of L,ondon, by the direction of' thle City Tithe Commiit- tee, has issued cireutlars for a conference at Guildhball, on Friday, the I1Oth Decenmber inst., at one o'clock precisely, addressed ta22 parishes, inclutded in the Operation of the above stacute, among which parishies aye those of St. Boroiphi, Aldersgate; St. Botoiph, Aidgate, St. Botolypi, Bishopsgate St. Gregory by St. Paul's Alhahllows Barkintg; Allhallows, London-w-all ; St. Olave, Hart-street ; uau St' Giles Cripptegate ; andi in the tnean time vestries will be held in most of tbe paTishies on the suabject. The last Gazette contains a proclamation, promising His MUajesty's most graciouis pardon to any One coucerned. in the atro. cious murders of Frances Smaller andI Mary Arnnffattsmaborough,the two little girls who were found( murdered near Boston sonic time ago. The proclamation excepts those who actually comniitted either or' the said murders ; andI offers, as a pecuniary rewvard 1351. (wvith the previous exception) to any, person who slitall bring thie n;iurderer or muirderers to conviction, 'in either of the cases: the rewards to be paid by the Rlayor and actilig M.agistrates of.Mioston. Eidward O'Hara, alias C'aptain Patienhoe, has beein fully committed for tria, chargedi with fraudulently utterilag ti'e 101. nlotes$ of t'he "1 Weald of Kent Bank," well knowing that the said Bank had failed, anid that tile notes were of ito value.-3faid.rone GOMMtt. Information was received at the Town-Isall yesterday morning, that a cart loadled withi two hiogshtealAs of litams fro Mil lane-wharf, Teoley.street, had been, diuring the momerftary absLuCe of the carman in a shop in Bishopagate-strect, on business, on 'l'ues- day niight, taken off by seine thieves, wliese retreat remained iindis.- covered, notwithistandling tile utmost indlustry of the nearly petrifledI carman to ascertain it. About sixteeni days back, three poor m-eis, by tiam- Con. sents, M1ann, and Altdots, set out fromn Wells in ani openboait with the intention of voing to Yarmouth for lherrings; thr weather being so boisterous, they colultI not gain the port. and they were drivets about fromi place to place for 14 days, withi little or nothing to support life: eni Tuesdlay night last pooir Aldous died, and on the miorning follow. ine thec other two arrivetd at Wells with their dead cempanioti. Mlann still remains very Oill Cousens; is recovered. A coroner's inquest was held oi lite boy ofAdous yesterday, andl their verdict was-. " Died bv the visitation of God, through, the sieverity of the wea- ther."-h'ury Post. On tIme 26th of November an inquest was taken at Shiplake, near IHenley, Oxon), by Sir. Cecil, Coroner, on view of ithe body of a full-grown male child. Williamn Clark, of Shiplake paper-ma'ker, depoised, that on WednesRday morning last, abouta o'cock, he foundi a male child, appaeen-ly recently born, lying dead in thc waiter, close Collie bank- sidle by Sliiplake'tIill-tail, whic tasm Sitiplake parish, in the county of Oxford. Witnesis took it out of the water, anid carriedI it to ast outhouse beloiuging to Mlr. Hiatt at an adjoining mill. Yesterday miorning witness brOightL it to Ailr. F'rancis Walter's stable, and left it th;re. WVhen witness took the chiild ouit of the water, titers was a piece of cloth wrapped round its head, whiceh completely covered its face ; there v as a bit ohf list tied to the cloth to keep it on the head, and it was tied round thje nieck. The child was quite naked except the piece of rag% on its head;. but, the child's leg was in the rag, and the child appeared ita have been tied <xp altogether in the rag. Witness was of out of the water, that it had been in the water tbree or four days. Willinm Rowland, of Chilworth, Surrey, surgeon, deposed, tlathon Wedtnesday last he examined a malc child, whtich William Clark had that morning taken out of the water, near Sliiplake Aill-tail. Upon examination, iitness dId not discover any mark of violence on the ciilId, excepting a- sli,ht mark round the neck, which might have been produced by a stringbeing fastenedrottnm the neck. Witness had not the slighttest doubt that the child was still-born. Witness formed his iudganent from the lungs appearing never to have-been- inflated. 'I'he jury returned 3 verdict--" Found dead in the water, in the parish of Shiplake, in the county of Oxford; that there 7ere not any marks Af violence; that the chlild appeared to have been still-born; but how, or by what means the child came into thei water, there vae no evideuce to the jurors." And on the 27th of. November, an inquest was taken at Wheatley, Oxon, by the samec Coroner, on view of the body of Richatd S5urge", a shepherd, awed 69, who was found dead at tbe foot of Shotover-hilW, pear *heatley, with a bundle ol' fern amnd his deg by the side ot him. V7crdict_" Died by theV'isitation of Uod."