TuE Ktixo is in excellent health ; and takes his

drives regularly in Windsor Park ; but, owine to the unsettled weather, has not commenced his ware parties.

The Duke of Cumberlatul has been a frequent visitor at the Castle. It is un- derstood that his Royal Highness is on the eve of departing for Berlin.

The Chronicle contradicts, " front indisputable authority, the idle rumours that have recently been set afloat (doubtless to serve some sinister purpose) concern- ing the health of the Duke of Clarence." We contradicted these rumours about three weeks ago.

A curious report is now circulating amongst a select few in the City, to the effect that seventy Ministerial members of the Commons have signed a round-robin, declaring that they will not any longer support the Government if Mr. Peel be not removed front the Ministry, or, at any rate, from his office of leadership of the

'louse. It is added, that, in consequence of this proceeding, there will be a change of Ministry or a dissolution of Parliament. We give the above as we heard it—neither professing to credit or discredit it ; though we believe the thong rests upon somewhat better authority than the generality of political reports.— Morning Herald, Friday.

Last night's Gazette contains the return of Mr. George Ba.nkes, as member for the borough of Corfe Castle.

The getting up the London and Westminster Anti-Catholic petition, at the Crown and Anchor, has left the projectors 2192/. 12s. minus!

The two Mr. Peels, the Upper and Under Secretary, are said to be busily em- ployed in organizing the former's new plan of police. That it may be under his own immediate eye in the first instance, the office for the new Magistrates is to be near Mr. Peel's own house in Privy-gardens. It is said the plaa is to be con- fined, in the firstinstance, to the parishes in Westminster.—Merning Herald.

STATE OF TIZADE.—Trade throughout the West Riding of Yorkshire remains in statu quo. There is no appearance of improvement. Vegetatioa is, however, everywhere rapidly improving.—Leeds Mercury. Trade still continues in a very depressed state in Paisley. The slight improvement which we noticed a few weeks back has not coa firmed ; and for the last eight or ten days the number of the unemployed has been gradually on the increase.—Glasgow Chronicle. It is said that a large house in the iron and lead trade was yesterday accommo- dated by the Bank of England with a loan of 100,000/. The iron trade, we un- derstand, is in a most deplorable state. At the present prices, a loss of 10s. is sustained on every ton disposed of.---.11i»ezing Herald.

MALT TRADE.—The conference appointed by Government to be held between the Commissioners on the part of the Board of Trade, and a deputation front the general body of Al altsters of the kingdom, took place on Tuesday ; and was satis- factory to the deputation so far as it went. A report, embodying the evidence, is to be Li ared.

I V.4,9 s which exists among the linen-weavers at Barnsley,

la . etched in procession tu Wentworth-house, on Mon- day': ;

d Fitzwilliain, They were met by his Lordship's chaplain, the Rev. J. Lowe. The following day the committee was presented with a sum of 25/. with an intimation that the bounty would he still further extended if necessary, to the amount of from one to two hundred pounds.

SUAKSITARE IN BARTHOLOMEW LANE.—A broker lately received a letter front a holder of Danish bonds, stating (in French) that the writer had seen it asserted in the papers that " there was something rotten in the state of Denmark," and desiring his bonds to be instantly disposed of. The broker took the order literally, and sold out. Danish bonds have risen 5 per cent. since.

Loenots UNIVERSITY.—The first session of this Institution having closed, there was on Thursday a distribution of prizes to the students who had b most distin- guished themselves on their examinations. Earl Grey was in the chair ; and the great room, capable of containing about a thousand persons, was filled.

The building of the London University is rapidly approaching a state of eom. pletion ; the portico in particular, promises to be, when finished, a splendid speci- men of architectural taste. The roof is constructed on the classical principle of the ancient Greek tile. The adaptation of this antique style is quite new, and hiss proved in its practical effect altogether sueeessful.—Morning Post.

STORMS.—About the middle and end of last week, violent storms, accompanied with injury from lightning, wrecks, and fearful inundations, prevailed in various parts of England, mid especially on the West Coast.

In a heavy gale on Wednesday the 1st, several vessels went ashore at Sid. mouth in Devonshire. A fishing-smack, unable to resist the force of the surf, went down, and the four men who were on board perished. The brig Rose, of Yarmouth, which had anchored the previous evening a few miles front shore, pitching for some time in a tremendous sea, and having hoisted signals of distress, was aided by Captain Alanby's apparatus, which saved five of the crew, but one poor fellow was drowned in endeavouring to escape.

In a thimder-storm on the 2d, the old man (seventy-eight years of age) who carries letters from 116:len-bridge to Heptonstall was struck by lightning, wInch split one of hie feet in two, and cut the heel from the other.

On the same day, but in distant places, horses, sheep, and cattle, were struck demi by lightning.

The s illage and neighbourhood of Hurworth-upon-Tees were visited by a thunder-storm on Friday. "The electric fluid," says the Newcastle paper, " de- scended upon the house occupied by Mr. Charles Gascoine, grocer, splitting the shop-door, and knocking down his infant child, who was near the same. The servant-girl, who at the time was engaged up stairs in making a bed, was thrown to the floor, taken up insensible, and completely blackened by the aches of the. lightning:. Medical aid was promptly obtained, and, after two hours of un- wearied perseverance on the part of Air. Walker, surgeon, she was restored to life, and is now i ti a fair way of recovery." On the evening of Friday the 3d, a water-spout burst betwixt Tyn-y-maes and Capel-eurig, about nine miles from Bangor ; washing down an immense putntity of rock and soil from the mountain of Peng,log, into the highway and adjoining, country, accompanied by a deluge of water which swept away hay, sheep; and whatever else lay in the way of its resistless torrent. On the arrival of the mail from London in the neighbourhood about ten at night, the highway was Ihuiel completely impassable., and the coach was delayed until half-past two in the morning., when the llolyhead mail arrived at the other extremity of the broken ground, where it was delayed in like manner. Nothing remained but to attempt exchanging the Ita‘,,,,s ; and this was effected by the hardihood of the guard of the London mail, who, at the hazard of his life, forced his way through amongst large fragments of rock and floods of Water until he reached the spot where the Holyhead coach was detained; whose guard, in like maneer, proceeled by the same dangerous route to the London coach, which imtnediately set out on its return to London, as did the other for Holyhead, passing through where the mail hag from London was delivered at five in the morning, being six hours and a half beyond its regular thne. On Saturday morning, 130 men were collected from Peurhyn slate-quarries, in order to remove the stone and soil from the mad. On the arrival of the London heavy coach, the passengers and luggage were re- moved, the horses unharnessed, and the coach actually carried by the quarrymen across several gaps in the road occasioned by the storm. Some idea of the extent of the devastation may be formed front the fact that these men have contracted to remove three thousand square yards of rubbish. About ten o'clock on Fridaynight, the inhabitants of the village of Aber (several miles from Tyn-y-tuaes) were throw is into a state of alarm in consequence of the water in the river rising very rapidly. About ten minutes after twelve, it wasat its highest point, within four feet of the top of the arch of the bridge. The large stones in the bed of the river being carried by the force of the water, dashed against each other, and kept up a roaring like the loudest thunder, and the very earth shook with the repeated and tremendous concussions. Several houses were inundated, and at Glany-mor, the inmates were sleeping until the water had gained the height of two feet, when they were awakened by some person) from the village. For about two hours, during the greatest fury of the torrent, the inhabitants were afraid to cross the bridge, front the foundation of which two large stones were washed. A small wooden bridge, called Boot Nant, which crosses the river about a quarter of a mile front the village, and which on one side was fixed on a rock of about fifteen ton weight, was hurled into the water and carried off; and the rock was swept away. Another stone bridge leading to Tany-cafn is so much dilapidated as to snake it unsafe to cross. A great number of trees were washed from the banks, and mir correspondent observed a cow borne along on the top of the water.—/Vorth II ides Chronicle.

FIRE.—The house of Mr. Hill, a baker in Eyre-street-hill, Hatton Garden, was discovered in flames soon after one o'clock on Monday morning ; and the inha- bitants were scarcely able to effect their escape.

A good. deal of property was destroyed at Sheerness on Saturday, by a fire which burst front SI rs. Coody's stables,—originating, it is supposed, in a display of fireworks in the adjoining yard, by some boys, on the evening before.

Sarah Howell, a girl of fourteen, died this week in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, from the effects of burning, the cause of which has not been traced: she was found enveloped in flames—literally baked, and never spoke afterwards.

A few days ago, as the Saffron Weldon coach was proceeding to London, the packages on the roof were set fire to by some lighted tobacco falling amongst them from the pipe of one of the passengers ; and before it could be extinguished abet containing cotton and woollen goods was consumed, and very considerable damage done to (lie luggage of a young lady.—Chester Chronicle. • Mr. John Lerner, a respectable carpenter of Little Chelsea, on Saturday week, carried some work to the house of Mrs. Kennet, an elderly lady residing at Brompton. She asked hint to take a glass of gin, and poured a glass of something from a bottle ; of which he drank; but finding the taste disagreeable, he ex- claimed, " Good God, what have you given me ?" She answered, " Gin, to be sure ;" and, taking the glass in her hand, sipped a small portion, but found she had made a mistake; and given him bug poison instead of gin. In great agitation the old lady cried out, " We are poisoned, we are poisoned, send for a doctor !" Four medical gentlemen were shortly in attendance, and the stomach-pump was applied to both patients. It was for some time expected that Mr. Lamer would mover, but, after several days of excruciating suffering, he expired on Thursday. The poison had burnt away his gums, leaving the teeth quite bare. Mrs. Kennet, who is eighty-six years of age, has recovered, except in mind.

Opium was administered lately, instead of tincture of rhubarb, by a surgeon's apprentice. Half the quantity was sufficient to destroy life ; but strong emetics awl a large quantity of warm water proved successful in ejecting the pernicious drug from the stomach. James Smith, a journeyman tailor at Khogsland-road, has been accidentally tolled by a ball, which struck him under the left ear, whilst he stooped to pick up something as he played at skittles.

A journeyman baker, who was crossing Parliament-street Westminster, on Thursday, was knocked down by the Eltham coach, and the two fore wheels went over his body. On his being picked up, he declared lie was not in the least in- jured, and actually walked offas though nothing had hameued.

An infant has been killed at Plymouth, through sonic rash experiments that a boo was making with a loaded gun. Mr. Thomas Self, brewer at Newport in the Isle of Wight, has been scalded to death by the overturning of some boiling beer.

A dray-horse belonging to Mr. Harris, of the Hampstead-road, has bitten off the hand'of a poor coal-heaver, who took hold or his hoot, SONINANIBULISM.—Mitry JOIICS, who Wit', III the service of Mr. Rogers, Pen- linoton-place, Lambeth, had for cone months, in consevenee of a hurt in her head, been at times a little unsettled in her intellect, awl had occasionally got up in the middle of the night with the idea of there being thieves in her master's house. A few nights since, she got up apparently improssed with this idea, and under the influence of her terror threw herself out of the front window into the street, and broke her leg. She was sent to the hospital, where she is likely-to do well.

Mysse mucus Di scuvgity.—Tho body of a man, in an erect position, was this week discovered in Shooter's Hill Wood, against the stump of a tree, with a small cord tied rounml the neck mid round the trunk of the oak; the body was covered with rennin, and decompisition had taken place in every part of it. When the body was removed from the tree the arms dropped off, and it was impos- sible to identify the features. The clothes; were a brown coat, drab breeches, white stockings, and :Aloes: nothing was found in tl•e pockets excepts woman's kid glove. The deceased is supposed to have been between twenty-fire and thirty years of age, and was about five feet ten inchee high. The body was re- moved to the Checquers, at Elthatn•' and the ostler at that house sail it resembled much in stature and dress the body of a person who had fled front justice on a charge of forgery. On the Coroner's inquest, however, nothing occurred to sup- port this notion, or to throw any light on the case.

AN OFFICIAL 0%-rim—At the sitting of the Court of Chancery on Tuesday, Sir Edward Sugden, standing in his place within the bar, took a short oath, which consisted of only one undertaking, namely, that the right honourable and learned gentleman would not in any manner use the influence of his new office to injure the stability of the Established Church of England, or to prejudice or diminish the privileges and emoluments of the bishops and clergy thereof. After having taken the oath the learned gentleman bowed to the Lord Chancellorand retired.— Morning Journal. Mr. Robert Howe, the proprietor and editor of the Sydney Ga.:elle, was drowned on the 29th January, near Pinchgut Island, his boat having upset whilst he was employed in fishitig. H in child (which was in the boat) \VII, picked up, and his servant saved himself by swimming. Mr. Howe was found the next day: his whole body, but particularly his wrists, were bound round and round with fishin,g-lines, in a manner which excited astonislunent; and the basket was found smpended to his neck ! " It is conjectured that in going down he caught at the lines, mid supposing them thrown to his assistance, wounml them about hint to inake them tight, hoping to feel a friendly hand at the tight end; and thus, in his dying effortgothe basket handle slipped over his head."

PROI.IECITTION OF TIIE MORNING JOURNAL.-0II WCIIIIeSday, being the last day of terin, Mr. Denman applied to the Court of King's Bench on behalf of Mr. Alexander, against whom, on the first day of term, the Attorney-General had ob- tained a rule for leave to file a criminal information for a supposed libel on the Lord Chancellor. That rule had been argued a few days ago, and the Court ordered it to he made absolute; notwithstanding which, the parties had on Tues- day been served with a notice apprizing them that an information ex officio had been filed against them by the Attorney-General, for the same matter, and they were required to give bail. In the case of the King v. Sparrow and another,' in 2 Tenn Reports, where a party had applied for leave to file a criminal infor- mation it was held that lie had waved his right to bring an action ; and the same princiCle Mr. Denman submitted, would apply in this case. If the Court had been apprized that an ex officio information was filed, or intended to be filed, for the same matter, they would certainly have paused before they had made the rule absolute ; and as the Attorney-General, as counsel for the Lord High Chancellor, Would, under such circumstances, have been called on to wave his right to file an ex officio information, so now be ought to be restrained front proceeding upon more than one of these informations. It was repugnant to every principle of jus- flee that a party should be allowed to proceed by two modes at the same time for the same offence. Considerable advantage !night be gained by a prosecutor first applying for a criminal information, and afterwards resorting to another mode of Proceeding, because something might be disclosed by the defendant's affidavits as to the line of defence intended. The Attorney-General declared that neither at the time when he moved for leave to file the criminal information, nor afterwards when he applied to have the rule made absolute, had he any intention, nor did he ever contemplate, filing an ex officio information ; but since the rule had been made absolute, circumstances had come to his knowledge which made him feel it his duty to adopt that mode of proceeding. He had, however, no intention to pro- ceed with the criminal information; and he begged to state to their Lordships, that notwithstanding the rule had been made absolute, there had not been any cri- minal information tiled, nor was it, he repeated, intended to tile any.

Mr. Denman expressed himself satisfied with this assurance, so far as regarded Sir James Scarlett; but it should be remembered that the learned gentleman might be promoted, or other events might take place which would put it out of his power to act ttpon his pledge ; and therefore he hoped that the Court would think it only reasonable that his clients should be at once relieved from the peril of this double proceeding, and that their Lordskips would now discharge the rule for the criminal information.

The Attorney-General said, lie was of course ignorant of what their Lordships might think it necessary to do in this case, if they thought it necessary to do any

thing • but as this motion was made on the last day of term, probably for the pur- pose of furnishing an article for the defendant's newspaper to-morrow, he thought it his duty to state, that he should have considered that he had been guilty of act- ing disrespect fully to their Lordships if he had applied for the rule for the criminal information while contemplating the other mode of proceeding. It was not until the day after the rule had been made absolute that it ever entered his mind to adopt the latter course of proceeding ; which he did not determine on without very deliberate consideration, and under circumstances of a very imperative nature, after taking into consideration the question whether or not the defendants would be prejudiced by it. He had satisfied himself that no prejudice.would arise to them ; otherwise he would have waved every privilege' that his office gave him. In adopting the present course he had forgone the advantage which lie pos- sessed of bringing the defendants to trial after the term. It would have been a great advantage to hitn to have been able to proceed directly. A public officer in his situation we's placed in circumstances of some difficulty on occasions like the present. He could not publish a newspaper every day, and therein explain his conduct ; but the defendant might, if he thought proper, make the proceedings which took place in this Court the subject of comment its his paper day after day, At present lie could not disclose the circumstances under which lie had acted ; but he hoped that the Court would give hint credit for having acted with justice and moderation.

Mr. Denman said he was willing to give his learned friend this credit. An Attorney-General had some privileges and advantages, and an editor of a news- paper had also some privileges and advantages which lie had a right to exercise, and if he exercised them improperly he must answer for them. Mr. Denman had only to hope that what had occurred in this case would not tend to prejudice the defendants. He had stated on the occasion of showing cause against the rule, that it would have been more proper in the Government, and more consonant with the ordinary course of law and justice, if the Attorney-General had been allowed in the first instance to take upon himself to file an e.r officio information, and not have brought the defendants into so unequal a contest as that in which they were now engaged with the Lord High Chancellor ; and he still thought that this was the very case in which his learned friend ought to have exercised the power with which he was invested, instead of first calling on the defendant to answer on oath, and then discrediting that oath. Their Lordships were aware that the defendants had been put to considerable expense in showing cause against the rule, and probably some prejudice to their case had arisen ; and he would ask their Lordships whether, if it had occurred to them as probable that an ex officio information would be filed, they would have entered into the details of the defendants' affidavits, or whether they would not at "once have declined to interfere and take upon themselves the invidious and uncomfortable task of de- ciding upon cinch an application ?

The Attorney-General said, that if the Court thought it expedient to discharge the rule for the criminal information, he did not wislt to oppose it ; and he had told his learned friend so.

Lord Tenterden, after distinguishing the case of The King v. Sparrow" from

the present, observed, that in this case the Court hail made the rule for a

criminal information absolute, and tile Attorney-General had since thought fit to

file an information ex officio. He might, however, think proper to abandon the

latter proceeding; but in order that no hardship might arise to the defendants, the Court would now order that no proceedings should be taken upon the rule

for the criminal information without the leave of the Court first obtained. Massaxo's Pic-reites.—The Solicitor-General applied on Wednesday, in the

Vice Chancellor's Court, for an injunction to restr,tia Mr. Day, the proprietor of the Egyptian-hall in Piccadilly, and Mr. Barnard, the keeper of the British Insti- tution, from selling or disposing of certain pictures intrusted to them by the plaintiff for the purpose of public exhibition. The plaintiff Joseph Marie

Massano, who resides at Rome, being possessed of several celebrated pictures, ,—ainong which are " The Martyrdom of St. Peter," by 3limrifio, " The Virgin and infant Jesus," by Rubens, ' The Rape of the Sai)ines," by Ruhens, and " Christ and St. Catharine," after the school of Titian—forwarded these valuable works of art to Mr. Day, for the purpose of exhibiting in the Egyp- tian-hall ; hut during the thne they were supposed to be in that gentleman's custody, Mr. Massano found a customer to whom lie sold the pictures, and gave an order upon Mr. Day to deliver them to the purchaser. Hereupon it was discovered that the pictures had been transferred to the gallery of the British Institution, where they are now exhibiting; and Mr. Barnard, the keeper of that establishment, refused to give them up, and intimated his determination to retain them during the present season. The plaintiff was advised to make this applica- tion for the purpose. of securing his property. The Court granted the injunction.

Jiocrice Noonose.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, a gentleman be- hind the bar applied for a rule to show cause why service of an action of ejed- ment on the wife of the defendant should not be deemed a good service. Baron Vattglian—" Does your affidavit state any particular circumstance, such as the defendant giving orders to be denied, or in any other manner avoiding- process? because, if not, you are askingfor what is clearly illegal." Counsel—" I obtained a similar rule two or three terms since." Baron Vaughan---" I hope it was not that granted it." Counsel—" No, my Lord, I made the application in fall Court." Baron Vaughan—" You surprise me. Well, I suppose we must all have been , asleep and nodded consent. (Great laughter.) We must guard against a similar mistake in future." So the rule was refused.

BREACII OF TUE PEACE.—The Attorney-General showed cause on Tuesday, iii the King's Benclt, against a rule obtained by Mr. Brougham on the first day of term, for leave to file a criminal information against Mr. Hamer for are assault upon a gentleman named Taylor, with intent to excite to a breach of the peace. The assault consisted in the holding up a stick to Mr. Taylor' and calling him a scoundrel, a blackguard, and a coward. The defendant did not deny the use of the expressions complained of; but in his affidavit went into a detail of facts to show that Mr. Taylor had improperly interfered in a suit insti- tuted in the Court of Chancery on the part of some children of the defendant's wife by a former husband, for the purpose of getting himself appointed receiver - in the suit. The Attorney-General submitted that the defendant was justified ins taking some notice of Mr. Taylor's conduct : he had acted under the impression that Mr. Taylor had conducted himself improperly, and that his object had been to get himself appointed receiver in a cause in which the defendant was interested on behalf of his wife's children, for the sole purpose of receiving the emoluments to be derived from that appointment. There would be no objection on the part of the defendant to express his regret for what had happened, if Mr. Taylor would disavow any intention on his part to interfere in the appointment of re- ceiver in the Chancery suit. Mr. Brougham, on the part of Mr. Taylor, rejected this offer, and addressed the Court in support of the rule. Lord Tenterden said it appeared that the words used by the defendant had been spoken in great haste and anger; and as, looking at the whole case, the Court had no reason to think that there would be any actualabreach of the peace between the parties, their

Lordships were of opinion that justice would be best administered by discharging the rule on payment of the costs by Mr. Hamer. CONSEQUENCES OF BEING SURETY.--.The Court of King's Bench WS called to pass judgment upon John Hughes, Robert Salmon, Richard Purser, and David Eagle, who were convicted in October last of an assault upon Mary Lewis and Rosa Lewis. Hughes and Salmon, the one a tailor and the other a butcher, had become bail in the Marshalsea Court for Henry Lewis ; but afterwards they wished to surrender him in their own discharge. He kept out of the way ; and being accosted by one of the defendants, presented a pistol to his breast, and on another occasion came out of his house with a red-hot poker threatening to kill them. One evening in November 1827, the defeadants came, with a number of other persons, to Lewis's house, which they violently broke into, and, not find- ing him in the house, they went in the next, where they found him ; they dragged him from it with great violence ; and on his wife (Mary Lewis) and daughter (Rosa Lewis) remonstrating, struck them brutally—the latter was knocked down with a stick, and fainted. lir. Lewis was dragged to Covent- garden watchhouse ; where he caught a cold, and it brought on a pulmonary complaint, of which he died seven days after the trial of this indictment. Two actions were brought against the defendants, one for the trespass and one for the assault on Mr. Lewis, and a shilling damages was given for the latter. The present indictment was preferred for the assault on the two ladies. Lord Tenterden read his notes of the trial. Affidavits were put in on behalf of the defendants , Salmon and Hughes ; stating that in consequence of the proceedings against them, they had been reduced from the condition of tradesmen in comfortable circumstances to a state of insolvency. Lord Tenterden asked Mr. Brodrick if be did not think that the prisoner; had suffered sufficiently, having been harassed by so many proceedings for the same intemperate conduct? Mr. Brodrick observed that this indictment had been preferred on account of the defendants' conduct to the wife and (laughter of Mr. Lewis; the action which had been tried was at the suit of Mr. Lewis for the trespass and m(ssault upon him. Mr. Justice Bayley —" But all this arises out of an act of kindness on the part of two of the de- fendants, in becoming bail for Mr. Lewis ; who ought to have taken care to see them indemnified from the consequence of what they had done, and not have en- deavoured to conceal himself from them when they applied for the purpose of rendering him," Air. Brodrick observed, that the defendants had become bail for only 221. and they had security in their hands to the amount of 50/. A person situated as Mrs. Lewis was, might certainly be excused for pressing for punish- ment against persons by whose illegal conduct she believed the death of her hus- band had been occasioned. Lord Tenterden said, the Court did not wish to have it understood that they (lid not consider the defendant's conduct highly improper ; but there were extenuating circumstances in the case : the decision of the Court therefore wae, that the prisoners be discharged from custody, on the payment of a fine of one shilling.

Spumous SAUcE SOLD AS HARVEY'S.—Harvey, the celebrated vender of fish- sauce, has brought an action in the King's Bench against Wiregrave, for an al- leged fraud lb selling spurious sauce bearing the plaintiff's name, and purporting to be sold by him. The declaration did not contain the name of any person to whom the defendant had sold the article, and application was made to a Judge at chambers for an order compelling the plaintiff to give the defendant the names, in order that he might be able to meet the case. After counsel had argued the point, Lord Tenterden said—" Let a man sell sauce in his own name, and then no man can complain of- him. This selling of goods in the names of others has now got to a great extent. The first action founded on a complaint of this sort was before Lord Kenyon : the plaintiff, a perfumer in Fleet-street, complained that one had injured him by selling pomatum in his name: the Court held that it would he going too far to give the names, but allowed the rule to be varied so as to mention times when the article was sold." A similar course was taken ou the present occasion.

ST. Mauene's PARISI' BOOKS.—Mr. Fenn, who has been stirring the heaven and earth of Bow-street in order to obtain a sight of these documents, has been obliged to sit down without attaining his object for this year. It was found at the hearing on Friday, that the information was incorrectly laid ; and Mr. Halls was of opinion that it should have at any rate preceded the examination of the accounts by the Magistrates. He at the same time thought that Mr. Fenn had a right to the inspection he required.

SUSPICION or ARSON—The Times of Thursday gives a long ex-pane statement, tending to implicate the party who suffered from the fire in Stanhope-street, Clare-market, on the 31st May, on a charge of arson. The claim on the County Fire Office was 3971., and the property is said to have amounted only to 801. Some other suspicious circumstances were stated to the Magistrate (Sir Richard Birnie), and a warrant was granted in consequence for the apprehension of the party.

PERILS OF EARLY PRAYERS.—Mrs. Hennessey complained to the Marlborough- street Magistrates, that her pocket had been picked while she knelt at early prayers in the chapel of the Sardinian Ambassador, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Time prisoner, Thomas Davis, a very pious and filthy-looking personage, had made a previous attempt on the pocket of a Mrs. Joyce, which he missed, and on that of a Mrs. Denelly, whose purse he contrived to reacit—Committed.

LAWYERs AND JARVIZS.—Mr. Frederick Pollock paid fourteen shillings at Bow- street on Friday for fare and time, in consequence of neglecting to discharge a coach that had conveyed him from Bedford-row to the Temple. Sir Richard Bir- nie said he remembered a case which occurred many years ago, in which a mem- ber of Parliament was the defeklant : a hackney-couch man had driven him down to St. Stephen's, and the honourable niember, instead of discharging him, directed him to wait there till he came ; the member lergot that he had not discharged the coach, and the man waited till the following morning„ when he sent to his master, who supplied horses to the coach, day and night, for three successive weeks ; at the end of which period the honourable member was observed to conic out of the House of Commons, and was told that the coach had been waiting, according to his orders, for the three preceding weeks; and he was sum- moned for the fare, and was compelled to pay it. In another case, a gentleman and several members of his family hired a hackney-coach, to carry them to the Tower-stairs, to go from thence by a packet to France. The gentleman forgot to pay the coachman's fare, and to discharge him : when he returned to England that day fortnight, on going up time Tower-stairs, he was met by the coachman, who politely informed him that the coach was waiting for him, and he was com- pelled to pay the fare for the whole time. [The stories are good, if true. Are they really the witty Knight's, or supplied to the papers for a consideration ?J A SLEDOE-HAMMER.—A young woman, named Mary Thompson, has been com- mitted for breaking a watchman's arm. The witness, when asked if the prisoner (' had any thing in her hand, replied—"No, your Honour—nothing but her fist." Stumps IN A Warcituouse.--On Wednesday evening, John Clossey was brought before Mr. Conant, charged with having obtained goods on false .preteuces from

various tradesmen. During the night the prisoner was so noisy that it was found necessary to place him by himself. lathe morning he was found dead. He had by some means fastened a piece of fringe to a binge on the door, having also fixed it round his neek, when he had knelt down, and in that posture strangled himself. SIIEEP-SPEALINC.—Two men, named Henderson and Wilson, have been com- mitted, on the evidence of an accomplice called Lancaster Jack, for stealing twenty- five sheep. One of them was cut up and hawked, for which Jack got 24s.; the remainder were sold in Leadenhall and Fleet Markets.

STEAM-BOATS--Mr. Somes appeared before the Lord Mayor on Friday, to collo plain that, in returning from Gravesend that morning by the Pearl steam-boat, un quitting the vessel at Stone-wharf, in consequence of the refusal of the master to stop the engine, the waterman was thrown overboard, and he and two others were completely drenched. The boat was very nearly swamped. Mr. Somes had been all his life at sea, and never was in so imminent peril before. If a lady had been in the boat the whole party must have perished. The Lord Mayor advised Mn Soares to indict the proprietors of the Pearl ; he expressed great indignation at the conduct of the captain. [Wherries are completely unlit for landing passere gers front steam-vessels ; the waterrnen ought to have large boats for the pr.. pose.] FORGERIES.—A young man, named Robert Jones, was fully committed to New. gate on Tuesday from time Mansion-house, charged with filling up a cheque for 154/., signed by Mr. C. -Woodward, solicitor, of Broad-steeet, without his autho- rity so to do, and with intent to defraud the firm of Williams, Deacon, and Co, bankers, of Birchin-lane. The prisoner was in the occasional einployment of Mn.: W. The only peculiarity of the examinations was time extreme caution of the prosecutor. On the depositions being read over, Mr. Woodward said. " I see it stated that I believe the signature to be toy handwriting ; now I wish it to be stated, that I have no doubt whatever of it. I also see that I am made to say, that the body of the check was in the handwriting of the prisoner: now I wish the words to the best of my belief to be introduced there. It is also mentioned that the prisoner had no authority from me to fill up checks : I wish the words to be, that he had not authority to use the said signature in a cheek." The prisoner's father, it is said, was forty years in the banking-house of Williams and Co., and was highly respected there.

A CLEVER Timmer:tem—On Tuesday morning, the warehouse of Messrs. Comber and Sons, silk-manufacturers, Union-street, Bishopsgate, was entered by means of a skeleton key, during the short absence of the clerk; and ten pieces of

grns de Naples, value 100L, were stolen. On the return of the clerk the robbery was instantly discovered, and information of time facts conveyed to the public office

at Worship-street. Tyrrel, an active officer, and one of the Bow-street patrol, coming to a knowledge of the facts, and judging of the weight of silk stolen that it would be difficult for one man to carry it through the streets, repaired to the coach stand at the bottom of Bishopsgate-street, where he learned that some short time before a coach had been employed to convey a large parcel, and that it took the direction of Shoreditch Church. The officer instantly followed, and suspecting a journeyman silk-weaver, named Goodwin, he repaired to his lodgings, and going up stairs met Mrs. Goodwin, and asked her if she had any thing in the room that did not belong to her ? She denied that she had; but Tyrrel drew the bag from under the bed. She then pretended that it was brought there before she and her husband were up. The officer brought her and the property to Worship-street, and returned in quest of her husband and his companion. He had not been wait-

ing many minutes when Goodwin, and another man named Stanley, went into Goodwin 's lodgings; the officer followed and securbd both, and brought them also to the office, where Mr. Comber, jun. clearly identified the property. Titus, in less titan one hour of the robbery, the property was recovered, and the thieves in custody.

THE Law's Desraecit—Oti Thursday night, a notorious thief, William Hogg, stole a footman's great coat from the box of the Hon. Miss Fox's carriage, in at tendance at the Opera-house. He was apprehended on the spot by Ivitny, an officer of Queen-square, committed for trial at the Westminster Sessions, and at four o'clock on Friday afternoon received sentence of seven years' transportation. ROBIDIRY.—On Tuesday morning two young men entered the Princess Royal public-house in Paul-street, Old-street-road, and after taking some refreshment, left the house ; when it was discovered they had stolen a canvass bag containing sixty-five sovereigns, a 5/. hank note, and about 10/. in silver. Elizabeth, Briggs and her father Thomas Briggs have been committed for trial, the former for robbing her mistress ten years ago, the latter for receiving the stolen property. The father turned informer, in consequence of a quarrel with his daughter, overlooking that he implicated himself. A few days since, two men of respectable appearance went to a boat builder's at Lambeth, and inquired if they could have a boat to go to Richmond the ensuine

evening: they wished to have a good-sized boat, as they said they had some good's

to take with them, and they also wished to have a man to row them. Every thing was arranged, and the next evening the two men came according to appoint- ment, each carrying a large bundle, or rather sack. They set off about half-past seven in the evening, accompanied by Henry Moulton, a watermail ; and had proceeded as far as the Red House Battersea, when, for the first time, they ex-

pressed their intention of going on ;Imre, for time purpose of leaviter' one of the

bundles at some place on time Wandsworth road. Moulton accordingly pulled on shore a little before the landing-place of the Red House. Time two men them, got out of .the boat and proceeded across the fields in the direction of the back Wandsworth.road, leaving the waterman in the boat waiting for their return. After waiting for them for half an hour his suspicion was excited, and resolving to ascertain the contents of the other bag, he untied the mouth of it, and found the body of a young child. He remained for some time in a state of stupor, out of which he was awakened by a brother waterman, who was accidentally passing.

The two watermen agreed to wait the return of the men and apprehend them. In about a quarter of an hour they appeared on the top of the bank, but on seeing the two watermen talking together' they took to their heels and escaped. The body was brought back to Lambeth, and interred in the burying ground. A person named Hatton, who had pleaded guilty to an indictment at the Lin- colnshire Assizet, for imposing on the examiners of the Apothecaries' Company

by a forged certificate of service, has been sentenced in the Court of Kings Bench to six months' imprisonment in Lincoln gaol for that offence. The law requires that a person applying for admission as practising apothecary shall have served an apprenticeship of five years.

A publican at Islington has been fined in the mitigated penalty of 1001. for mixing salt and sugar with beer which had become stale, and which another pub-

lican had advised hint to apply to make it palatable. For practising this species of chemistry, the law (of which the Islington offender was ignorant) authorizes a penalty of 2001. IKEY SotomoNs.—Some time since it was stated that this hero of many a penny._ the-line-paragraph, bad been apprehended at Bobart's Town, ,Van Dienlen'b Land, and was about to be sent for trial to London, the principal scene of his offences. The rumour was received with incredulity ; but, by an account just received, it appears that the statement was true. Solomons was recognized by some old acquaintances; and, carrying himself too proudly, was denounced by them to the colonial authorities, who ordered him to be seized in his shop. This being effected, he was handcuffed, and takerabefore the chief police magistrate of the colony; and after undergoing a short examination, and being identified as the Isaac Solomons who stood capitally charged in the county of Middlesex, he was committed to gaol, in order to wait the sailing of a return convict transport to the another country. The vessel in which he has been embarked is the Mermaid, Captain Henneker, the same in which his wife was transported. The wound that Lambourn inflicted in his neck is getting better, and liquids can now be passed into his stomach without the aid of the stomach-pump. It is supposed that he may be sufficiently convalescent to be removed from the hospital to Maidstone, in time to take his trial at the ensuing assizes, which begin on the 8th of August.

How TO BREAK Pitisoar.—A man named James Reeson, alias Squires, who is confined in the House of Correction in Skirbeck Quarter (Doncastet), on a charge of felony, made a daring and persevering attempt ta escape last Monday morning. About nine o'clock the previous evening, Mr. Appleby, the gaoler, locked the pri- soner up for the night. Ile then appeared to be asleep, and time fire was extin- guished in his grate. Immediately afterwards, it appears, Reeson arose from his mock slumber, and commenced proceedings by unwrapping a linen rag, which had originally formed the lining for part of his clothes ; in this rag he had placed a burning cinder. With a light obtained by this method, he made a fire of some chips, and piled the embers against the bottom of a strong door, studded with iron rivets. He had previously manufactured two fans by tearing off the covers of a Bible, and fastening them to the end of a wooden spoon, which he had used for eating his victuals in the prison. The flames soon communicated to the door, but the smoke filled the room, and nearly stifled the man, who still kept on at his purpose. In time the door slab and the surrounding bricks became intensely hot, and it is probable that his labour must have ended here, had it not happened that he had a small quantity of water left in his cell for his use, with which he cooled the floor, and the aperture being of sufficient size to admit his body, he crept through, and descended the steps into the prison-yard. Having reached that part, he had then another door to pass, which was stronger than the one he had burnt. He used the same means as before, and the fire was rapidly making pro- gress, when, fortunately for the ends of justice, Appleby, the active and indefati- gable gaoler, was disturbed by a crackling noise, and seeing the fire, immediately took proper precautions for stopping the fellow's egress. 'At this period the fire had burnt a hole large enough to admit Reeson's passage ; but the stone was so extremely hot that he must have been severely burnt if he had tried to creep through ; and as it was, his breast was very much scorched. The man's ingenious industry was rewarded with a safer cell, and other precautions. From his deter- mined perseverance and well-contrived scheme, it is suspected that he is not new at prison-breaking. lie is a young man, blind of one eye, and rather stout made. —Doncaster Gazette.

A young woman, a servant at a public-house in Plymouth, is in custody on a charge of administering a quantity of vitriol to a child of her master, with inten- tion to murder it. The child is not dead, but is still in danger.

A man named Ellis, between sixty and seventy years of age, has been com- mitted for trial at Devizes, for marrying six wives, three of whom are now living in different parts of the country. A fanner from the neighbourhood of Chard was robbed of 70/. at the last Taunton fair by two sharpers, who, having cautioned him against a gang of thieves, advised him to put his money in his watch-pocket. They very kindly assisted him to effect the change, and in so doing exchanged his bank-notes, to The amount of 70/., for a roll of rags. The farmer afterwards cautioned a friend in the fair against the imaginary gang, and on showing him where he had secured his money, discovered his loss.—Bath Chronicle.

On Friday last, several men who had been drinking at Wolvercot, were ob- served to amuse themselves, on their return to Oxford, by violently driving a flock of geese in Portmeadow, the owners of which naturally interfered to protect their property. A fight immediately commenced between the parties, when the pro- prietors of the geese were so severely beaten, that one of therm a fine youth eigh- teen years of age, died on the following Sunday, and another now lies at the infir- mary seriously ill.

Stacey the younger, who is in confinement in Winchester gaol for the murder of Mi. Langtry and his housekeeper, has lately endeavoured to compass his es- cape, and had succeeded in prevailing on five other prisoners to join in the at- tempt, upon his representation that he had buried a large sum of money near the red land mark on Southsea Common, which he promised to share with them. They had cut their blankets into strips to serve as a rope, but were detected be- fore they'had made further progress. Search has been made for this money during the past week, in the spot the young villain exactly pointed out, having, as he said, paced the distance when he buried it, but without effect. In searching, however, for this money, a skeleton has been discovered, which must have been underground for some years. From a button, and a small piece of coarse green cloth, which has preserved its consistency and colour, found with it, it is likely to be the body of some Russian seaman.—liampshire Telegraph.

A suicide of a novel description has been committed in the Rue St. Andre des Arts, at Paris, under the influence of all-powerful love. The hero was an old soldier, seventy-eight years of age, who, perceiving that he was neglected by the object of his adoration, came to the resolution of making away with himself, and accomplished it with all the energy and determination of a youthful lover. He retired to the back part of the premises of a cook-shop, in which he resided with his son, and began by stabbing his breast with an old blunted knife; but the in- strument making but little impression, he ascended to his bedchamber, and took down from the wall, where it had hung ever since the last wars, an old cavalry sword, which he plunged three times into his body, seeking his heart, according to his own expression, without finding it. It was not before the noise caused by the sabre dropping on time floor, from the enfeebled hands of its owner, that any one came to his assistance. Death had not then ensued. The son of this poor man, an invalided soldier like himself, carried:his father to the Hotel Dieu, shedding tears all the way. Prior to quitting his residence, the old man, feeling his end ap- proaching, requested pen and ink, and signed with a still firm hand a document in which he acknowledged his suicide.

A Mr. R. has just committed suicide under very singular circumstances. He was afflicted with a disease, the cure of which he believed to be impossible; and he therefore resolved upon terminating his existence. He left his house at Paris, and went to Pere la Chaise, where he chose a spot of ground, which he said he destined for his best friend. Ile himself gave directions to the grave-diggers, telling them to dig a place large enough for the remains of a man of his height. When it was done, he took off his coat and placed himself in the grave, and, telling them that the body became longer after death, he suggested some altera- tions, and desired theni to make the grave larger. He then ordered a funeral, and paid the expenses, returned home, and suffocated himself with charcoal. On his table was found a will which he had written, by which he disinherited his family ; and the following was added :—" I was lately ill, and my parents came to my assistance, and paid me every attention ; but, restored to health, they have abandoned me. They therefore only cared for my property, but they shall not have it."—Couerier des Electeurs. [This dismal story has been made to read very oddly in some of our newspapers, by that unfilial reproach and disinherit- ment of the " parents," which is doubtless a mistranslation of the French pumas, signifying relations or kinsfolk.] FARITIONABLE PARTIES.—On Saturday, Earl Bathurst, Earl Dudley, Earl Gower, Earl Ferrers, Capt. Bowles, Earl Digby, and the Countess Dowager of Cork, had dinner parties. On Sunday, Earl Manvers, Lord Saltoun, Lord Clifford, Earl of Barrington, Sir Tames Scarlett, Countess of St. Germans, Mr. Brougham, and Sir Charles Morgan, gave dinners. On Monday, the Duchess of Kent entertained the Duchess of Clarence, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and a select party, at dinner. Prince Leopold gave a din- ner to a numerous party. The Countess of Abingdon and the Ladies Bertie gave a ball and supper. Mrs. Annie! had a musical party. The Duke and Ductless of St. Alban's entertained the Duke of Sussex. The Marchioness of Downshire gave a defeund at Roehiunpton. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester were present. The Duke of Cumberland dined with Sii Charles Knightley. On Tuesday, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry gave a public breakfast at Chiswick. On Wednesday, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury gave a dinner to the Duke and Duchess of Glow. cester. In the evening her Ladyship entertained a numerous party. The Earl of Ches. terlield gave a dinner to Prince Leopold and a large party. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, entertained a distinguished party at dinner. Almacks was very fully at- tended. On Thursday, the Duke of Sussex entertained th:! Princess Augusta and a select party at dinner. The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen gave a dinner to Prince Leopold. Mr. and Mrs. Orby Hunter had a dinner party, Lady L. Clinton gave a quadrille party. On Friday, Prince Leopold gave a dinner to a numerous party. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence entertained the Duke of Sussex and a select party to dinner. Mrs. Grey had a musical party. The Bon. Mr. Musgrave and Sir Charles Flower gave dinner parties. 'rho King's new wine-cooler, manufactured by Rundell and Bridge, which is sufficiently capacious to hold six men, was last week assayed at Goldstniths'-hall. It weighs upwards of 8000 ounces, and is by far the largest piece of plate ever marked in this country.

Capt. John Warren, the uncle of Sir Augustus Warren, one of the candidates for the representation of the city of Cork, commanded our present Premier, when lieutenant in a regiment of horse. Mr. Daniel W. Harvey, M.P., has been admitted a solicitor in the Rolls Court.

Corosseum.—This place of fashionable resort has just given a new spur to public curiosity, by toe ering its price of admission. The whole of its attractive features may now be seen for 4s, or portions of them for proportionate sums; and the grand feature of the exhibition, and that by which it is favourably dis- tinguidied from all other places of the kind in Europe or the World (we mean the Panorama of London,) may now be seen for 2s. The most distinguished company have been visiting this place during the present week.— Court Journal.

A new vehicle, called the " Omnibus," in imitation of those in Paris, com- menced running on Saturday I'm ern Paddington to the City. It is made to ac- commodate sixteen or eighteen persons inside, and is drawn by three horses a-breast.

The Marquis of Abercorn left Argyll-house yesterday, for Ireland, fur the pur-

pose of visiting, for the first time, his Lordship's estates in that country. The Marquis, who is now in the twentieth year of his age, will, on arriving at his majority, come into possession of upwards of 90,000/. per annum, in addition to an immense capital which has been accumulating during his Lordship's minority. Among the articles sold last week by public auction, late the property of Mr. Thomas Ansel!, who was an extremely eccentric character, was the identical font in which King John was baptized. It is considered, by antiquarian judges, to be of pure Saxon modelling, and was sold with its stone pedestal for a mere trifle. Time late Mr. Ansell purchased the font some years ago at Bampton, in Oxfordshire, in the castle of which King John was born.—Reading Mercury. A poor old woman on Saturday last bought an old chair at a broker's, and upon ripping the top off to have it new-covered, found concealed, in one corner, 21 guineas—all Queen Anne's coin—and I bank 5/. note, both tied up in a cau- vass bag. She bought the chair for ls. 64. A short time since the clerk of a parish near Stroud was ordered to announce in the church " that all parishoners who did not pay their tithes by a certain day would be prosecuted ;" hut, from a mistake in his reading, he gave out that all those who did not pay hy the time specified were to be executed The father of Maria Marten last week visited Bury Hospital, for the purpose of indulging his curiosity with the sight of Corder's skeleton, and depGsited a shil- ling in the box. Time fatal pistol with which the murder was inflicted has been presented to time hospital by Hart Logan E-q., the High Sheriff at the time of the trial, and is exhibited in time case.—Cambridge Chronicle.

An affidavit having been sworn before a worthy alderman of Canterbury a few days since, he gave his signature as follows :—" As swum befoie me, Justice of time PIECE."— Kent and Essex Mercury.

In the wood of Balkemock, near Sidlaw, a hawk and wood-pigeon have chosen the same tree to build their nests on. The Dundee Advertiser seems to regard this as symptomatic of the Millennium. On Sunday last, a loving couple presented themselves at the altar of the parish- church of Bury, for the purpose of being united in the silken bonds of wedlock. The bands had been duly published in the parish-church of that town, and every thing seemed to conspire to render the business complete. The clergyman (Mr. Potter) was going to commence the nuptial ceremony, when the clerk suddenly put a stop to further proceedings, by telling the reverend gentleman that the dam- sel had already plighted her troth to another man, who was still in the land of the living. Time party were dismissed wit a severe reprimand.—Bo/ton Chronicle.

THE ETTR1CK SIIECIIERD PROMISES TO 'PAINT SiR WALTER SCOTT.—There are not above five people iii the world who, I think, know Sir Walter better, or understand his character better, than I do ; and if I outlive him, which is likely, as 1 amfive months and ten days younger, I will draw a mental portrait of him, the likeness of which to the original shall not be disputed.—Edinburgh Literary Journal.