The Magistrates of Hertfo...
The Times, 1824-01-01T00:00:00

The Mfagistrates of Hertfordshire have ordlered some alterations in the Town-hall of Hertfotd, to afford better accomrmodation to the public at the approaching trial of Thurtell and Hunt. The jury-box has been raised, to obviate thle inconvenience fi;lt by the pressing of the crow.d in front of that place ont the former dlay. A desk has also been constructedl in front of the dock yor TI'hurtell, at imis request. ele says that he shall have to take many notes tdiring his trial, an(d that it will be conveiiieiit for him to have some place upoI NvIlich he can arraAige thenm, as he shall have to rmake refdrenees, wvheni he addresses the Cour t in his dlefence, whichl he states it is his intention to do at considerable length. No alterationi whatever is visible in the conituct or Aemeanour of these prisonels. The Prussian Minister of Comumerce has published a no- tification, stating that, for some time past, English merchants have imitated the Silesian manufactnres by cottons, packed in the same manner as thoso pieces called patellas reakls. The Mlinister warns the public againist this practice, oni tuec grouni of its being injurious i to the good fame of the Silesian cloth ! James Pattison, Esq., was unanimously elected on NVed-, nesdaylast, a Directorof ihe East London Water-Works Company. We perceive, by the American papers,thatat Mr. Havnes' tragedv of Duirazzo has b~en played at New York with the great- est success. Mlr. Cooper, the American Rosacus, as he is coinnaonly termed, performed the Drincipal character. The first night of the I performi-ance was on the i8th of October. The tragedy has thus stood that dramatic test which the Drury-lane mrdnagers believed it could not have borne. It bas also been published at New York, and had a verv great sale. The couitractfor the supply of 3,500 ticrces of navy pork has been taken by the house ot IM'Swiney and ?Brothers, of Cork, ! at 6L. 9s. 6d. per tierce. This is under the price at which tenders were recently made to the, Victualling Board, who, it would appear. have acted upon some correct inthrmiiation in tieclisting the late offers, as it is now tolerably well ascertained that the crop of potatoes in, Irelantd is aburdarnt, and consequenitly that there will be plenty of, hogs in that country. The apprehension entertained of a scarcity of poiatoes there, which has lately caused a considterable advance in thc price of bacon, appears to have been wholly unifounded. Many I heavy engaceue n ts haDVe, -we understand, been lately entered inito ! with Iisih houses, for shipmenits of bacon, at the advanced rate, whice has caused an advance in the price ot bacon pork there; but I when those shipments shall arrive, the great addition that will be made to the surplus quamtity on hand, must cause a reduction, as may be seen by the Smithfield reports, equal, at least, to what has lately taken place in fresh meat. The Naivy Board liave not taken, and will not require, any India provisions. A SMrUGGLERt CAPTUtIED IN BOSTON DEirs.-Last Thursday morning, as a detached party belonging to the Red&r-east | revenue cutter, stationed at Freiston Shore, were returnin l'rou i patrol about nine o'clock, they saw a strange vessel on NV ran4le MUain, to which they proceeded without a inoment's delay. '1 he vessel was found to be a smuggling lugger, of considerable burden, with a crew of nine men, who, on perceiving the determined advance of the armed and omurageous preventive men, betook themselves with great haste to their but. Yet, unwilling to abandon entirely their ship, which had been recently laid on the sands for the more expeditious delivery of her cargo, they continued to lay by for some time, until they observed the Revenue cruiser sailing down the deeps, to reintorce their brave comrades with her gallant crel', when they inst.ntly niade offttowards Gibraltar Point. The cargo, which was immediately secured by the party who took possession was ott Saturday conveved in four waggons to Boston. and sately deposited in the Custoni-liouse. This cargo consists of 318 halt ankers of Geneva, besides fifty bales of dry goods; some of which contain tobacco or snuff, others plate gl2ss, and others highly finislhed Dutch paintings, which are said to be of great value.-Boston paper. IMPORvTATION oF TtlstEi.--Ve are inforined that a gentleman of Port Glasgow has devised a method of importing tim- ber, which, if successful, will tend to reduce very materially the price of that important and us,ful article. The plan is sinmply to lay down a k-eel 300 feet in length, as for a ship of extraordmiary dimen- sions. Upon this base a superstructure of solid logs is to be reared, and the external surface calked and pitched. Having prepared the lower part of the hull, it is then to be launched (while that operation has not yet, from its immense size, become practicable); the build- ing is then to be proceeded in afloat in the same manner as before, forming a solidi nass of tiilber, with exception of a space for the machinery of two powerful steam-engines, by which it IS intended to provel the huge raft. In this way, it is calculated, a single im- p)ortation may extend t not less titan 15.0100 tons ; a quantit)y of timber which would require 30 vessels of 500 ions burden to carry. This scheme, we are farther told, has been submitted to the com- mittee at Lloyd's, and received their aporobation ; and it is added, that the underwriters have entered so 5ar into the views of the pro- jector as to take the risk of the experimental cargo, now in prepara- tion for thevoyage fron 6ne of our port in Canadis, at the ordinary rnte of premium.-Glasgdw Courier. A new Literary Society has recently sprung up in Ediit- burgh, of the natureof thb Londen Roxburghe Club. Sor the repub- lication of scarce and valuable tracts, especially poetry. Sir Walter Scott very properly takes the letd tin this literary Junta, atid Alr. Laing,jun.,son of the respectable bookseller, is the Secretawy. At their last convivial meeting, one of thte members sung a new ballad to the old tune of One Jpfttk Mfore, which was repeatedly encored, and ordered to be repeated at all the subsequent meetingsm This song is attributed to the author of Waverley.