ATTEMPTED FRAUD ON THE Eaxx.—Yesterday morning , an attempt was made

to defraud the Bank of England, by means ofa forged East India document. It appears that yesterday was the day on which the East India Company paid a portion of their men ; and on such occasions it is customary to issue a warrant payable at the Bank. Yesterday, at a much earlier hour in the morning than usual, a man presented a warrant at the Bank of England for 61-It. Whether from the fact that the order had come in earlier, or that the clerks of the Bank saw any thing extraordinary in the manner of the individual, smite_ suspicion was awakened. The man was ordered to stop for a short time ; infor. mation was despatched to the East India House ; and it was soon afterwards found, by the presentation of the genuine document, that a forgery had been practised. The individual was immediately taken into custody.

Snoe-etrauxo.—A lady of fortune, named Sarah Collins, was examined at Marlborough Street Office last week, on a charge of secreting a piece of lace value is. from the shop of Mr Ward, linen-draper, Picea.. dilly. When searched, India bonds to between 7000/. and 80001. and 5201. in bank-notes were found in her pocket, all her own property ! On Tuesday she -was again brought up to the same office. Mr. Isaacs, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. J. Isaacs, and Mr. Wooler appeared on behalf of the prisoner. The examination took place in the private room before Mr. Roe, the sitting Magistrate. The same evidence was gone into as on the previous occasion, and the prisoner, during the whole of the exami. nation, appeared deeply distressed. At the conclusion of the evidence, Mr. Roe committed her for trial, but ordered her to be again brought up, in consequence of some more lace being found upon her, which is supposed to have been obtained in a similar manner. Mr. Adolphus applied to have the prisoner admitted to bail, and some conversation took place as to her sanity ; at the conclusion of which, it was understood that bail would be taken, if it could be fully proved by respectable individuals that the lady was not in a sound state of mind.

• MANSLAUGHTER.—C. Ellison', the driver of a Greenwich 'stage, through whose carelessness the servant of Mr-Minshull of Bow Street was thrown from his master's gig and killed, has been found guilty, by the coroner's inquest, of "manslaughter," and committed to Newgate.

DISTURBANCES IN KENT.—A most alarming fire was discovered to have broken out about ten o'clock on Tuesday night on the premises of Mr. Michael Becker, of Golston Farm, Ash, and which threatened the most lamentable consequences. The fire commenced in the barn, containing a thrashing-machine, eighty quarters of wheat and fifty quarters of old beans ; all of which, with several stacks of wheat, barley, beans, and clover, were entirely destroyed. On the same evening, about twelve o'clock, a fire was discovered on the premises of the Rev. Ralph Price, of Lyminge ; whereby property to nearly a shill. lar amount was destroyed in corn-stacks, barns, &c. in a much less space of time. There is little doubt entertained that both these fires were the work of incendiaries.—Kent Herald.

Two thrashing-machines were destroyed in the immediate neighbourhood of Canterbury on Saturday night, one belonging to Mr. Reader, of Sturry Court, and the other, to Mr. Laslett, of Hole Farm. On Friday night, about twelve or one o'clock, a body of agricultural labourers, amounting to between one or two hundred, proceesled to the farm of Mr. Rose, at Hougham, and destroyed the thrashing-machine, the property of Mr. Barter, of Ewell' ; this machine was Mr. Barter's sole dependence His distress, we hear, is so great, in consequence of the loss be has sustained, that he will be compelled to have recourse to the parish for support. So intent were the laoeurers on the demolition of the machine, that not a fragment was left more than a foot long.—Kentish Gazette.

A GAMEKEEPER SHOT BY PoacirEas.—On Friday night, a party of poachers, four persons, entered the woods at Gatacre, and commenced shooting at pheasants. Information having been received at the Hall, the two keepers, with several of the servants and others, Ira ceeded to the place from whence the report of a gun had been heard to issue, and on approaching the poachers one of them discharged his piece (en air-gun loaded with ball) at Oakley, 'the keeper, and wounded him in the cheek. The poachers were . instantly pursued, and one of them, who proved to be William Bennett, formerly a gamekeeper at Gatacre, was taken with an air-gun in his posses:. sion, and shot and balls were found upon hint. The wood was then surrounded by the remaining keeper and his associates ; and towards morning two other of the poachers, Robert Edwards and James Whalley, were also taken. On examination before the Magistrates at Bridgnorth on Saturday, Bennett, Edwards, and Whalley, were committed to Salop goal for trial. The other poacher, James Morris, was taken in Wolverhampton on Saturday night, by Joseph Sparrow, one of , the police-officers, and he also has been committed to prison. With the exception of the air-gun, the poachers seemed to have, been armed only with sticks. The ball which Oakley received in his cheek passed along the jaw-bone to the back of his neck. It was extracted on Sunday morning, when it was found to be cleft open by the force with which it struck against the bone. There is, we are glad to state, a prospect that Oakley will recover.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.

. BANE ROBBERY.—The banking establishment of Mills and Co Colchester, was robbed on Saturday, of notes and gold to the amount of 2000/. The robbery is charged upon a young man named Jenkins, who has absconded. Jenkins was apprentice: to Mr. Knight, clerk to the bank, who is also a bookseller, and he had been in the habit of assisting his master in his banking duties. On Saturday, Mr. Knight was absent, and Jenkins was left to tell the cash and deposit it in the chest. He did so, and gave his mistress the key, and no inquiry was made until Monday morning, when the money was gone ; and on Jenkins being called for, he was gone also. He is supposed to be in London.

ROBBERY.—The innkeeper of the Globe Tavern, Gravesend, was plundered of IGO/. on Thursday last week. The money was in a bureau in his bed-room ; and is supposed to have been abstracted by a party of four thieves, who dined in the house on that day. One of the fellows . was detected on the second floor, where the bed-room was situate ; and excused himself by saying he had mistaken the floor. [How did they . discover that the money was there ?]

Muanrn.—Three men quarrelled at a public-house in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on Saturday last ; when one of them drew a knife, and stabbed the other two, the one severely, and the other slightly. Tomlinson, one of the wounded parties, has since died. Cross, the murderer, a man of seventy years of age, has been committed to Lincoln Castle.

PAT JUSTICE.—On Wednesday, two fellows offered a splendidly bound copy of Aristophanes for pawn, at a pawnbroker's in St. Martin's Lane. The broker, who did not know the value of the book, sent it up to Mr. Bohn's, Henrietta Street, to inquire ; where it was recognized as one which had been stolen a short time before from their stock. The messenger returned, with an account not of the value of the ancient Greek, but of the modern Greeks who sought to pawn him ; they were immediately given in Custody:

GIN.—A miserable female, the wife of a captain in the Navy, who, it is said, had been Obliged to drive her from his house in consequence of her inveterate addiction to gin, was condemned on Tuesday to a month's imprisonment in the House of Correction, for rioting and irregular behaviour. The woman, who had, it appeared, slept in the streets for several nights, fervently thanked the Magistrate for his kindness. The report describes her as covering her face—still beautiful—from shame of her conduct, and its exposure. Had every means of recovery been employed, towards one in whom where such utter degradation had not eradicated the better feelings of humanity ?

31tra1asv ON BOARD THE Crrnus.—The four men who come home in the Charles Grant and Kellie Castle, and who are charged by Popjoy with being concerned in this mutiny, were re-examined on Tuesday. They will be tried on the 25th. Waldon, the principal party, has not yet been traced.

EXECUTION nr Scorwasro.—William McFeat was hanged at Glasgow on Thursday last week, for the murder of his Wife. A child belonging to this man and his victim was, about a year ago, found dead, supposed to have,been suffocated by its brutal parents, who were lying in the most stupid state of drunkenness, with the dead body beside them. The female in particular was extremely given to drinking. McFeat acknowledged the justice of his sentence, but denied having used any weapon in attacking his wife. It may be recollected she was found wounded apparently with a sharp instrument.

Henderson, the weaver, convicted at the late Perth Circuit of having murdered his master James Millie, in June last (the particulars of which we gave when noticing his trial), was hanged at Cupar, in Fife, on Thursday last week. By some mismanagement, the halter was so placed that the knot was upon the nape of the neck ; from which circumstance the miserable wretch appeared to suffer extremely before he expired.

FIRE.—We have had occasion to notice that the greater number of

fires in London take place about this time of the year. We have had four or five within the last ten days, and shall probably have as many " more ere another week is out. It would appear that the vigilance of housemaids, and housewives gets rustyfor lack of exercise during the summer months. On Wednesday morning, one of these annual burnings broke out in a musical-instmment-maker's, Whitecross Street, Cripplegate ; which threatened very serious consequences. The flames destroyed the ware houses and workshops, and greatly damaged the private house of the manufacturer (Mr. Wrade), and injured the house of a gloveron the one side, and of a publican on the other. A considerable portion of the effect. was happily saved ; and, which is still more gratifying, no accident happened to any of the persons connected with the premises. Part of a coffeehouse in Church Lane, Whitechapel, was dis'covered to be on fire, on Tuesday morning : soon after, one of the serving-girls made her appearance at an upper window, screaming, and entreating assistance. As there was no ladder, she contrived, by a vigorous effort, to get on the sign-board, where she hung fcs some time sus pended nearly thirty feet from the ground. She then, by the advice of the police men present, dropped on a projection at the first floor window; from which she fell, but was caught by her advisers without sustaining may serious injury. In a few minutes, Mr. Handcock, the proprietor, made his appearance in his shirt ; he had contrived to escape by the door. Mr. Handcook had saved his life, but he had left his breeches, and what

is a man without breeches ? On his earnest entreaty a ladder was got, which he mounted with despatch, resolved to rescue his nether garment from destruction, or sperish in the attempt. It was well said by the poet, nil mortalibus anknon—what will keep a wan down who climbs

for breeches ? Mr. Handcock entered the window, reached the place where they were suspended, and returned in triumph to the admiring crowd, with the sacred garment in his hand. It was for some time supposed that another maid-servant had fallen a victim to the flames, but it was subsequently discovered that she had escaped by a back window.

Five PERSONS DROWNED AT SCILLY.-011 Thursday evening last, a small boat belonging to Tresco had just left the pool at St. Marys, when a sea struck her in going over a ledge, and she instantly upse. There were fourteen persons on board, besides a considerable quantity of goods; so that she was laden almost down to the water's edge before her departure. The accident was perceived from the shore immediately, and several boats promptly put off to the assistance of the sufferers, who were seen struggling in the waves. Twelve of them were soon brought to land apparently lifeless.; but by the persevering application of the usual resuscitatory process, most of them were soon restored to life. Amongst those happily preserved, Were the Rev. Mr. Lane, minister of Tresco, and Bryber, and Mr. James schoolmaster, of Tresco. One woman and two men were found beyond the power of human means to restore ; and there are yet two persons who have not been picked up, making a total of five who have perished. It is very remarkable, that the whole of those who were drowned were related to each other. The sea was comparatively smooth, and the weather fine, when the accident happened. An inquest was held on three of the bodies, by John Johns, Esq. Coroner, and a respectable .lurv, who found the following verdict" That James Jenkins, John (Niger, and Catherine Odger, were drowned accidentally by the upsettingOf a boat, which had imprudently approached too near a ledge of rocks called the Cow, the said boat being co heavily laden at the time., and crowded with too many people, not taving accommodation for half the number then on board."

SuICLDEs.—A man named Day, a warellouseman to Mr. Dry, pawnbroker in St. Martin's Lane, shot himself on Sunday last. He was of a reserved, melancholic temper, and frequently in tears. A respectable female, named Rozell, drowned herself in the Soan, near Loughborough, on NVedneJday last week. She hail suffered under depression of Spirits for a considerable time past. Mr. Charles Gough, solicitor, Bristol, banged himself in his stable, at Bishport, on Thu7sday last week. Mr. Gough was a young man, and only married in May last. He has been finsome time in a state of great mental depression, but from what cause is not known. A miserable man named Tow, who rented the tap of the Boar and. Castle, Oxford Street, was found on Tuesday morning, in the cellar of the tap, with his throat cut, and quite dead. A razor with which he had destroyed himself was firmly graz,:uti in his right hand. 0,1 Sunday morning, a man named Haskins, living in Granby Row Dublin, destroyed himself, by cattily,his throat, in the most dreadful manner. He had been low-spirited ?or some time, but not peculiarly so on the day in question ; on which, indeed, it was remarked that lie took his breakfast with rather more than ordinary appetite.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A female, who stated that she had been deserted by her husband, attempted on Tuesday night to drown herself and child, in the Canal near the bridge in Bow Common Lane. Mr. Holmes, a grocer in that neighbourhood, succeeded at considerable risk in extricating them ; and the ordinary means having been had recourse to, they both recovered. The woman described herself as belonging to Stanhope Street Clare Market.

GIG ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning, a gentleman named Baxter, of Bonney Road, was thrown from his gig, in which were himself, his wife, and an infant about four years of age. The horse had taken fright, from being struck with a stone by a mischievous boy, until' pulling up, it fell on its side, and overturned the gig. The child hivi its arm broken below the elbow. Mrs. Baxter, who was in the seventh month of her pregnancy, was delivered of a prematurely born child t,ha same evening. Mr. Baxter, fortunately, was not hurt.

DEATH FROM Four, Am.—On Wednesday last week, three men were suffocated by foul air, in an attempt to deepen a well on the pro. perty of Mr. Jephson (the county member) at Mallow.

ACCIDENTAL POISON1gG.—A child about twenty months old was "poisoned, on Tuesday, by swallowing some arsenic which had been prepared for poisoning rats. The uncle of the infant, in i'hose apart• ment the poison happened to be laid within the infaut's reach, was a mt• catcher.

WINDMILL ACCIDENT.—At Hastings, last Thursday, while Sir Frederick Baker of Jermyn Street was showing a windmill to his children, he was accidentally struck by one of the arms so severely that he died in a few hours.

MEDDLING WITH EDGE Toows.—Two young females, passing down Goswell Road, on Wednesday, stopped to remonstrate with a mob of idle boys who were pelting each other with mud ; when one of the little miscreants threw a stone at the girls, which struck one of them and knocked her eye out. BOAT Accrnmsyr.—Two men were drowned in the Lea, on Sunday evening, by the upsetting of a punt in Which they and another were fishing. The Jury found a verdict of "accidental death," but condemned the boat to be destroyed, for producing it. We think it would have been the fairer way to set fire to the river—it was most to blame. Had the boat capsized on land, the men would in all probability have escaped.

YOUTHFUL HONESTY.^-A poor ragged boy picked up a purse in the church of St. Mary, Whiwchapel, on Sunday last ; and with—we fear we must say—singular honesty, immediately sought the beadle, and presented it to him to be returned to the owner. The gentleman who bad dropped it was soon found, and the purse with its contents restored. It contained a sovereign, four half sovereigns, and some silver. The boy received a half sovereign in acknowledgment of his excellent con. s duct. We regret much that none of our contemporaries give *wawa of the parents of one who would do honour to a whole jacket, And whoa no rags will ever dishonour if he goes on as he has begun. A Lon DIAMOND.—A great consternation prevailed in asjeweller'S workshop in this city one day last week, in consequence of a valuable diamond having been lost. All the men denied any knowledge of what had become of the precious gem, and a general search had proved fruit. less ; when it occurred to the master that the foreman kept a dog which

was frequently about the shop, and he thought the animal might have swallowed it. Accordingly ,N a hint was given to the foreman, the dog was secured, and a powerful drastic purgative administered ; which pro. duced the lost diamond, to the great satisfaction of both master and men, who had been placed in rather an awkward dilemma from the circumstance. A piece of iron was also found with the diamond ; which shows that dogs are apt to swallow hard substances.—Sheffield Iris. LITERAL INTERPRETATIONS.—Some time ago, two unfortunate young men were placed by their father in the Lunatic Asylum at Bedmin. A few days after, one of them tore out his right eye, and casting it from him, exclaimed he was now fit for heaven ; and next morning, the other was discovered secreting a hatchet, with which he declared his intention of cutting off his left hand, lest it should know what his right was doing.

TRAPPINGS or ROYALTY.—Sir W. Knighton's accounts will soon beclosed. The expenditure of the late King's privy purse has been enormous. The tailors' and jewellers' bills are in amount incredible. Sir W. Knighton retires with an immense fortune, and he still retains his lucrative patent appointments.—Standard. BOARD OF GREEN Curru.—Mr. Brent, who so long held the appointment of Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth, retired, in order to make room for Mr. Marrable, late private secretary to Sir William Knighton, receiving, besides a pension of 1000/. a-year from the Treasury, the patent appointment of Surveyor-General of the Duchy of Cornwall (of which Sir William Knighton is Receiver-General). Mr. Brent was also honoured with a cross of the Guelphic Order. He has realized a handsome fortune. Mr. Marrable, his able successor, is pursuing'at the Board an active system of retrenchment. —Morning Herald.

THE Dux R WELLINGTON.—AS Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade, the sum drawn by the Duke of Wellington from the Treasury is only 238/. annually ; but as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards he receives every year 2,695/. The total income his Grace derives annually from offices under the State is 13,179/. Sr.—Morning Herald.

C 0 NSE CRAT 10 Y,—The new Church of St. James's, Cheltenham, was consecrated on Tuesday, by the Bishop of Gloucester. THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S CHAPEL.—Yesterday, the following notice was placarded in French and English, on the inner doors of the /ate French Ambassador's Chapel, in Little George Street, Portman Square.—" The chapel being now no longer protected by the French Government, can henceforth only be kept open by subscriptions and donations of the Catholic public; and it is also most sincerely hoped that non-subscribers will contribute whatever is convenient at the collections at every mass on Sundays, Festivals, Ash Wednesday, and Holy Week. The whole number of seats that hare been free to the Catholic congregation, and which were supported by the House of Bourbon, are now to be let towards the support of the chapel, and the ministers dismissed, through the downfall of the Royal patrons." Yesterday, in a very few hours after the placards had been exhibited, nearly all the seats were engaged, at various prices, according to their respective situations.

Loan:ease PAVEMENT.—The laying down of the improved carriage= way pavement intended to be generally used in future for the streets in the metropolis commenced on Thursday. The spot selected for the beginning is St. James's Street, the lower part of which, nearest the Palace, has been cleared of the old paving materials and the new laid down for the space of twenty yards. It consists of oblong granite stones of equal sizes, and hewn to such a nicety that when laid together they form a very level surface. The intervals are grouted in with a strong cement, which when dry becomes as hard and as durable as the stone itself, and the whole pavement then forms one solid and compact body without the liability of wearing into ruts or unevenness—the inconvenience of which has hitherto been so justly complained of. The stones shoulder one under the edge of the other, and are so pitched that any weight passing over the surface is sustained by the whole body, without the stress being on one particlar part, as there is a corresponding support from the crown or centre of the road to the extremity of the sides. Any portion of it can be easily removed for the purpose of mending the sewers, waterpipes, Sec.—Times. • WIDOWS OF NAVAL OFFICERS—A new regulation respecting widows' pensions has been lately issued. 'Warrant-officers marrying after this period will not be entitled to pensions for their widows. Commis. sioned-officers marrying after the 30th of December next will not insure a pension for their widows until they have been ten years on full pay, unless they are killed in action, or lose their limbs in the execution of their duty. No chaplain's widow to have a pension unless her husband bad sea-service sufficient to entitle him to half-pay. Widows not entitled to pensions unless they have been married twelve months. No officer's widow to be entitled to a pension if her husband was above sixty years of age when he married, or if he at any time declined service. Widows re.marrying after the 30th of December will lose their pensions.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIOIL—A plan is at present in progress by which merchants in Paris and the provinces of France may communicate with each other in clear weather in rather fewer minutes than it now requires hours. The plan is to give to private individuals the advantage which the public have long enjoyed, of telegraphic despatches. The projector, a M. de Draguignan, calculates on being able to transsnit a despatch of several lines from Paris to Havre, for twenty francs, In ten or twelve minutes. If the stations be continued to Dover, the despatches might reach London, in weather in which no vessel could cross, in less than half an hour. All that is requisite is that the correspondents have a common key. The communications will pass in cipher, and the new post—if we may so call it that transmits them will know as little of their nature as the old one dOes. In the present age of improve. ment, we see no reason why something of 'the kind should not be attempted in England.

THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—His late Majesty's menagerie at Sanpit Gate, which has been presented to this society, was a collection of the smaller graminivorous animals ;—llamas; Thibet and Cachemere goats; foreign deer, of several varieties; two or three ghnus ; a flock of kangaroos; a few varieties of the hog ; and a number of eagles, vultures, hawks, and other birds of prey ; besides several pairs of emus ; an ibex ; -:.sind a superb assortment of peacocks, macaws, and cockatoos.

INTREPIDITY OF THE ORDER.—His Grace the Duke of Roxburghe has, it is said, determined to enter the navy, and follow out that periloUS profession—an instance of youthful intrepidity very rare among the " order " to which he belongs.—Morning Herald. [It is, no doubt, a prodigiously intrepid affair for a Duke to become a warrior in the midst of profound peace.] )

BROOM Gutes.----From the evidence of one of these females, who ap. plied on Monday for a warrant against her employer, it appears that the whole amount of the pittance which they receive for selling their wares, is twenty pence per week, or 2id. per day. Out of this sum' they have to board, lodge, and clothe themselves ! We have heard ofa midshipman's half-pay—the interest of a groat paid quarterly—the pay of the broom girls is a little better.

THE HEREDITARY PRINCE OF ORANGE.—His Royal Highness was born on the 6th of December, 1792. He became a Colonel in the British Army in October, 1811 ; and served in Spain with the Duke of Wellington, to whom he was extra Aide-de-Camp till his promotion to the rank of Major-General, which took place in 1813. He attained the rank of General in 1814. His Royal Highness was present at the sieges of Cuidad Rodrigo and Badajos, and the battles of Salamanca, Victoria, the Pyrenees, and Nivelle. At the battle of Waterloo, 18th of June, 1815, his Royal Highness commanded the Dutch troops and was severely wounded by a shot through the right shoulder. CHARLES THE TENTH.—The ex-King has, through the medium of his friend Cardinal Latil, declined the offer of Wardour Castle. A country paper the other day, remarking on the King and his court, noticed the extraordinary appetite they displayed. The same cormorant disposition was observed in Charles's court when he was Duke d'Artois. AMERICAN PRecoesrY.—It was truly astonishing and gratifying to a large assemblage of persons, perhaps exceeding three hundred, who witnessed an infant son of Isaac Billings, scarcely three years old, selling with all the facility and confidence of an experienced auctioneer. This novel circumstance took place at an extensive sale of carpenters' tools. The pleasure derived by the company was fully testified by loud plaudits. Philadelphia Gazette.

FRENCH Pass PORTS.—The French passports at present are made out with some variations from those formerly in use, but these alterationsare made in ink, which almost looks as though the French Ambassador thought the present form of Government would not be of long duration; and therefore that he would not be at the expense of having a new plate engraved. The arms at the head of the paper (three fleurs-de-lis) are struck ont with a cross—thus, 8. To the words "Au nom du Roi" which follow, are added underneath "des Francais." The commencement of the passport originally ran thuS--" None ilinbassadeur de So MajesM tres Chre.tienne"—the two last words are struck out, and the following inserted—" Le Roi des Francais." The remainder is in the usual form.— Tatter.