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At a Court of Common Council, held on Thursday, the report of the Committee to whom the consideration of the provisions of the Poor-Laws Amendment Bill had been referred, was presented. It stated, that in consequence of the numerous alterations the bill had undergone in Committee, more especially in that part relative to the responsibility of the Commissioners, it was not deemed advisable to petition against the bill in general ; but the committee recommended that the clause regulating the voting for the guardians of the poor should be petitioned against, and a petition to the House of Lords to that effect was subsequently agreed to. The report relative to the enlargement of Smithfield Market was brought up. It recommended the enlargement of the Market on the north side; and the amount of the required purchases for that purpose was estimated at 71,0001., to be met by additional tolls on the cattle brought to the Market. The report was adopted.

The office of the South Australian Association is daily crowded with persons who contemplate settling in the new colony. Amongst these there are several gentlemen of considerable property, and many officers both of the army and navy. They are engaged in making preparations for the first expedition of colonists, which is to follow an expedition of engineers and surveyors, and will sail, it is expected, before the middle of October, so as to reach Spencer's Gulf by the end of December, which is the middle of the Australian summer. Guernsey and Jersey are likely to furnish a separate expedition, formed by heads of families amongst the numerous British officers from the rank of General and Admiral to that of Lieutenant, who reside in those islands. As, in fact, it will be as easy for the new colony to obtain food and live stock from Van Diemen's Land, as if it had been planted on an unoccupied por- tion of that island, there is no necessity for taking any cattle, or any large supply of provisions, from England; nor is it at all requisite that every colonist should become a farmer. On the contrary, as we are informed, the first object will be the building of a town, upon a well- regulated plan, with an Episcopal church, a Dissenter's church, a large hotel, and a boarding-house, &c. This is the method of colonizing so successfully pursued on the western frontier of the United States, where it is less easy to obtain provisions and live-stock from a distance, than will be the case with the first settlement in South Australia. The number of persons above the working class who have already decided to be amongst the founders of the colony, amounts to nearly two hun- dred. That number will probably be doubled in a month. Four hun- dred persons intending to buy land, to engage in building speculations, to lend money. at colonial interest, to set up shops and schools, to conduct a provision trade with Van Diemen's Land, and to work the fishing-grounds of Spencer's Gulf and St. Vincent's Gulf, will find employment, we may calculate, including domestic servants, for at least 2000 persons of the labouring class ; and as every man of property will be able to take with him, without cost to himself, such a number of work- men or domestic servants as he may engage to employ, while for every male so taken to the colony a female also will be conveyed cost free, we may reckon that the first expedition of the colonists will amount to nearly .5000 persons. In the way of planting a colony, nothing so great has been attempted since the time of the ancient Greeks.—Morning

Chronicle.

The following statement was made on Tuesday at a meeting of the proprietors of St. Katherine's docks ; when a dividend of 1. per cent. for the half-year was declared, and a favourable statement of the Com- pany's future prospects was made.

From the Customhouse returns for the last six months, and for the corre- sponding period in the previous years, it appears, that in the first six months of 1833, and the last six months, the number of ships that entered the port of Lon- don was as follows—

Ships. Tons.

1833. British ships 1430, of the tonnage of 284,886 Foreign ditto 483 71,642

1834. British ditto 1647 315,892 Foreign ditto 534 88,087

Showing an increase in the last half-year of British ships 217 31,406

Foreign ditto 51 16,545

Making a total of 268 47,951 [ These are some of those stubborn facts which ought to silence the advocates of the Navigation Laws, and prohibitory systems of trade.]

A rumour has been circulated that Mr. Sergeant Spankie is to go India as a Judge; but the Morning Chronicle positively contradicts it. John Henderson, a private in the Third Regiment of Scotch Fusileer Guards, received three hundred lashes on Monday morning, in St. George's Barracks, Charing Cross, for drunkenness on duty, and at- tempting to strike a Sergeant. The sufferings of this man were dread- ful; and his shrieks so loud and piercing that the drums were beat in order to drown the sound. The heat of the weather added dreadfully to the severity of the flogging.

Every thing has been arranged for lifting up the immense equestrian bronze statue of his late Majesty George the Fourth on the top of the arch of the marble entrance leading to the new Palace. The ma- chinery for this purpose was all placed last Saturday near the entrance, and the statue has been finished at the foundry of Mr. Chantrey, at Pimlico. In consequence of the great weight of the statue, it will be raised by iron chains, which are now suspended from the machinery, to- gether with the pullies.

We have received some particulars relative to the imprisonment of Samuel Brazier, the inquest on whose body with the verdict of the jurors was mentioned in the Spectator last week, which gave a different impression from that which our brief abridgment of an account in some of the Daily Papers would convey. It appears that the deceased was detained under an attachment for contempt of court. He had brought the same case five times before different courts and judges ; and it was for the cost of these proceedings that he was confined, under the sum- mary jurisdiction of the Court for contempt, and not under the law of debtor and creditor. He never was in custody for the debt due to Messrs. Clutton and Fearon ; and moreover, he died, and had been living for some time, within the rules, at a house in Lambeth ; having re- fused to give (as the condition of the discharge proffered him) his own security for the amount due from him which was only 75/. while be was worth upwards of 10001. The Jury were, as usual in these cases, themselves all prisoners ; and the Jury-room was crowded with pri- soners. Certainly, under all the circumstances stated to us, it would be extremely unjust to blame the conduct of the solicitors, Messrs. Clutton and Fearon, as far as relates to the imprisonment of the old man. There appears to have been no "cruelty" in the case.

Two fine elephants imported for the Surry Zoological Gardens, were lauded on Tuesday from on board the Malcolm, via Calcutta. A number of persons were assembled to witness the disembarking ; and great admiration was excited by the tractability of the animals while leaving the ship, and passing through the streets following their keeper. They are what are termed in India high caste elephants, their pedigree being transmitted with them as with race-horses in this country. The male, Radjepoor, on being liberated, and meeting the female, Hadje- poor, on the wharf, expressed the most extravagant symptoms of de- light ; both of them sending forth cries of joy, and breathing through their trunks with such violence, that the blast resembled an impetuous gust of wind; tha latter flapping her ears with astonishing velocity, passing the extremity of her trunk over the whole body of the male with the utmost tenderness, and inserting her trunk into his ear, and then into her own mouth.—Times.

In the Bankruptcy Court, on Tuesday, William Venables, lately a mercer in Lamb's Conduit Street, who failed for a large stint, was sen- tenced to four months' imprisonment, as a punishment for not giving a satisfactory account of the manner in which he had lost his property.

Two Jews, Abraham and David Collis, were on Tuesday charged before the EYeise Commissioners with having a large quantity of ma- nufactured glass in their possession, which had not paid duty. The defendants said, that the glass had been purchased at Excise sales; and it appeared that they bad bought a quantity of seized glass in October last, and at previous sales. On the other hand, the excisemen said, that the glass which they had seized had not been made many hours, and that the defendants were notorious offenders. TheCommissionets sagely determined, that as they had doubts as to the defendants' delin- quency, they would impose no penalty, but merely order the glass to be destroyed.

The notorious Joseph Ady was committed from the Guildhall to thltspur Street Compter, on Wednesday, to take his trial on a charge of attempting to obtain money on false pretences. He had used the name of Mr. James Laurie, a relation of Sir Peter, in order to induce a Mr. Tebbutt of Greenwich to pay him a sovereign, in return for some promised information of value. Some letters, written by Ady, were also produced, wherein the Lord Mayor and several of the Lon- don Aldermen were mentioned as guarantees for his respectability. He offered bail, but it was adjudged to be of a worthless description, and was refused.

Information was received on Saturday last, at the Home Office and by the Commissioners of Police, that James Hall, a stone-mason, of Worcester, one of the delegates to Birmingham, has embezzled a con- siderable sum of money belonging to the General Trades Union, and absconded. It is supposed he has embarked for America. The exact amount he has embezzled is not known.

On Wednesday, a woman was marched into the Queen Square Office by an escort of the Coldstream Guards, as if she had been a deserter. The following conversation ensued between the Magistrate and the soldiers.

Mr. White a•ked what the charge was against the woman. One of the private soldiers said that his serjeant had given one of the men who had absented himself from the regiment into his custody, and the female at the bar had rescued the man from him. Mr. White—." Why, my man, this is a most extraordinary charge to bring before me. Could you not take charge of your own prisoner ?" Soldier—" She came up and got him away from me by force." Mr. White—" Why, what would you do in the field of battle if you had charge of a prisoner ? I'm sorry to hear you charge a woman with taking a prisoner from you. What can I do in the business ?" Soldier—" 1 don't know : the sergeant told me to bring her before you." Mr. White—" 1 really can do nothing. Was the man you had in custody a deserter?"

Soldier—" No, Sir, only absenting himself from barracks." Mr. White—" I can do nothing in the case. You must take better care of your prisoners than to let a woman take them from you."

The female was then discharged, and left the office exulting. [ This

almost equals any of the valorous deeds of Joan of Arc. What as Amazon the woman must be, to attack the King's troops in open day in the Metropolis, and rescue her lover vi et armia I]

Mr. Thomas Everett, a surgeon residing in Seymour Street, Distort Square, and his wife, were accused on Monday, at the Marylebone Office, with furiously assaulting a Mr. White, who keeps a liverye stable in Tottenham Court Road. The complainant was most severely bruised on the head, from blows struck both by Mr. and Mrs. Everett; who appear to have bad no reason fix' such conduct, except the inability of Mr. White to discharge a bill due to Mr. Everett, who was glad to compromise the affair by paying 51. and the expenses. In the course of the scuffle, Mr. Everett drew out his lancet, which he threatened to stick into the complainant's eyes. A stout healthy man was committed to the House of Correction on Saturday, from the Hatton Garden Office, for begging in the streets with a child in his arms. The constable found 2L 5s. in his pocket ; which is to go towards paying for his support in prison.