WINDSOR, Sept. 3.-The Kin...
The Times, 1824-09-04T00:00:00

WxINDrSOR, Sept. 3.-The King left the Royal Lodge tbis moninug for the purpose of taking his accustomned ride be- fore dinner, and proceeded to Virginia Water. TIhiis morm- ing, the band of the First Life Guards have gone from W indsor to Virginia WVater, to play for the amuscment of the King and hiis noble visiters. The band of the Second Life Guards was also in attendance yesterday at the same place. Art an early hour ye.terday morning, the Duke of York arrived in town from WVindsor. Soon after 10 o'clock his Royal Highness gave an interview to Sir Hlerbert Taylor, and transacted rmilitary businiess. Yesterday Mr. Secretary Canning came to towii fromn Glocester-lodge, where he slept the night before, and trans- acted business at the Foreign-office. The Cour IRoyale gave judgment yesterday (TTuesday last)in the case of Mrs. Alary f3ryan, a native of Ireland, the di- vorced wife of Colonel Alilley Doyle. The Tribunal of First In- stance had decided against a second marriage, which she proposed to celebrate before the Mlayor of the third arronilisseraent, with Al. Mancion, a miniature painter. This decision the Cour Royale now confirmed, adop ing the opinion of the inferior Court, that as the French law no longer recogn:izes divorce as the dissolution of mar- riage, even strangers divorced according to the law of their country cannot be marrie a seconut tinie in France.-Paris paper. Friday, Mrq. Coutts, accompanied by some ladies, the Lord Proyost of Edinburgh, and other gentlemen, visited the Ceuncil Chamber, the High Church, the Castle and Crown room, leriot's Hospital, &c and in the afternoon this lady entertained the Lord Provost, the }Carl of Laudlerdale, and several other per- sons of distinction, with an elegant dinner, in the British Hotel, 'Queen-street.-.Scotc1, paper. The Itev. Johu 'Wing, ineumbent of Thorney, in _the inglhain'liire . patron the Dukc&of Bedford. VauxhaLl Gardens closed last nigltfor the season, contrary, webelieve, to general expectation. It is true it was announced in all the journals that the termination of the festivities of the season would take place " positively" on the 3d instant- but the public have been so much accustomed to witness a repetition of the - very last niglL" at other establishments, that thc word " positively" was taken, in this instance, with somle qualification, The very finc weather coming in aid ot this opinion, indtitce(i a very general belief that the season would be protracted at least a few tiays loniger. The concluding gala was, ast might be expected, on a scale ot unconmmon splendour. In addition to the whoile of the devices antI decorations which were so muchi admired at the Unioln Gala" on 'Wednesday, the side of the sqluare in front ot the orchebtra was lighted up in a stu- perb manner, and tite words" We respectfully say farewell" stool forth in uncommonly brilliant letters. The whole ofthe amuusenients. including the excellent Baflle Sinfonie, by Air. Reoke, atid the over. ture to Dee Frcisclatz, and the tire-vorks went off in the best style. The gartiens were crowded in every part. Itis worth vof remark, and shows in astrong light thegreat attenion wihiih has been paid to the police of the establiislInM1t, that though upwards of 200,001 persens have visited thte gardens since the commenuntcenment of tie season, there has beca only one instance of a robbery in the Gardens, anld that was irmmlnediately detected, atnd thc oftfnding party sonn after prosecuted to conviction. In the courtrse of the evening, tic tbllow. ing farewell addrets was (leliveredt by Mr. Williams :_ Ladies, and (0entlemen,-At the conclusion of ule thirdl year of tile present proprietorship ot these Gardens I have first to offer yo u their most sincere and respectful acknowle?gmnents for a scason of great success ait(i populanty. Honotured as thev have been by the gracious patronage of -His Maes1aty, the piesence ot Itoyalty, andi tihe repeated visits at the highest *lasses of thc Nobility and the British nation, the proprietors cannot bitt with regret acknowledgc, that tt,is evening conies, like the close of a delightful sumumer's day-too soon ! Yet to prolong the sunshile of their succcss to the detri merit of other public establishmen's, wouldi onlv tend to lessen them in your cstimatiost, an(i consequently in their own. lour generouis patronage has re(leented every hazardous expendittire and given a renewed inipulse to fittitre exertion. Tfle appropriation ot oue night only, in tle scason, to the Juveinilc Fete, seeNIs to have given such entire satisfactioni, that the proprictors have determined not to alter that arrangement in fututre. The gencial and unvarying approbation which, throughr,ut the sca0on, has been bestowedi on tile various amusmitsetts aet d arrangements, as well as otn the refreslt. mecnts, wines, &c.,is a niatter of high gratification to the proprietors; to deserve a continuatice of whichi, will be their incessant aim Imi- proveunents are in contentplation for the next Season, whicl tile pro- prietors trust will cotitinue to render Vauxhall the resort of the noble, the fabhionable, and a discerning British public. In the name of the proprietors, and of every nieniber of this establishment, I beg to offer their grateful acknowledgments, and most respectfully te gay- Farewell !, BAa.\rssOLOMEw FAlt-.-Yesterday the Lor(d MIayor and .Sheriff's proceeded in state carriages to the great gate of Cloth-fair, in We.st Smithfield, anid proclaimiied Bartholomew Fair. A CSourt of Piepowder (c?uria podrs puilverisati) is always held contiguous to the iair, for hearing anti settling all clisputes whichl occur in the fair. These courts, according to Lord Coke, derive the name fromr the dusty feet of the suitors whoin sumimer frequent fairs. Thle judge, who is the steward of the lord of the: manor? must act according to the law of the land and custom of the city of Lodton. Ele is also governed by the statute of Edward IV. reltiting to fairs, ana liable to forfeit 5Z. should lie act contrary to law. Some vears since Bar- thiolomew Fair was proclaimed at midnight on the2d of September, by a rabblc, calledf Lady MoUallsP' Moob. Great excesses were com- mitted, btt of latt the city police lhave checked that scene of disorder. The travelling exhibitors of wonders are arranged in their usual manner, and the carnival commenced upon receiving the expected signal. West Smithfield, where the fatr is held, took its name, according to Stow, from bei-ng a smooth field, in which fienry VIII. was frequently the spectator of tilts and tournanients. It was also a place vhere malefactors were sometimes executed. It was first paved at the request of James I. in 1614, at the charge of the city. The expenhe was 1,0I01., atid was nearly six months before the stones were all laid. The grettXfair for cattle was held in Smith. field. It began on St. Bartholomew's Day, and in the reign of Queen Anne, the fair for toys, diversions, rope-dancers, and wild animalti, continued a fortnight. HOEamIBLS MURDEL.-PAi9ig, Aug. 235.-A most foul and hardly credible murder hali been committed in thte Canton of Ferte, in the Department of the Seine arnd Oise. The following are the details:-On the 10th of August a girl, 13 years of age, went, about five o'clock in the evening, ito the wood to gather herbs. O(n fher not retu-rning, a search was made on the two following days, but without any success. On the l:th, a tnan, whose clothes were stained with blood, was taken up, antI on the 16th, some persons, who were still searching the wood, discovered, in the cavity or a rock, which appeared to have served as a habitation to some one, the body of a voting girl, covered with sand and heath, the hands tied behind the back, and the legs doubled up under the belly; there were tc- veral stabs of a knite on the thighs, and one in the heart. The parents ot thee girl who had been missing immediately recognized in this mutilated corpse their ill-fated child. The circumtstance being made known to the Attorney-General, he came to the spot, and had brottght there also the man who had been arrested some days before, for having blood upon his garments. He was confronted with the body, but showed no signs of remorse or confusion. On the 2Lst day, after die exhumation of the body7, he was again brought to look Upon it, when lie shuddered and cotifessed his crime. He declared, thiat for the last 40 days he hbal inhabited the cavity ini the rock ; that on meeting the young girl lie suddenly seized her by the neck, thrust his handkerchief into her mouth, and, ihrowing her over his shoulders, tnade for the cavern. After walking a quarter of a league, he found that his victim had ceased to breathe or move; he tlheii threw her on the ground, antl stabbed and mutilated the body in the manner above described. Ile added, that on drawing the knife from her heart, he sucked the blood which followird it, which was nearly as much as would hE a wine-tumbler;