THE GRAVE OF NAPOLEON.-It will be recollected that the remains of Napoleon were interred in a retired spot abont three miles from the town of St. Helena, and near a well, from which water was procured for him at his particular desire. The land on which this interment took place belonged to a Mr. Richard Torbet. Mr. Torbet gave the deceased hero "a little earth for charity," at the request of the Authorities, without any stipulation; but subsequently a guard was placed over it, and a barrack erected, against which he urged his complaints in a memorial, but got no compensation; he then resolved to obtain payment in another way, and by charging a dollar as a toll on all visitors, he expected to clear a sum of between three and four hundred pounds annually, the average number of visitors to Napoleon's lowly grave being about fourteen hundred. He was ordered, however, to discontinue this toll after it had been collected for a short time. Hereupon he repaired to England to claim compensation, and demanded 1,000l. for his land; but it was settled that he should receive 5001. only, to be paid by the India Company. The PUFF DIRECT. Among those notorieties of which people doubt no more than that the dealers in rotten boroughs are corrupt, is the notoriety that Mr, Theodore Hook, the Author of "Sayings and Doings," is also the writer of the "Smutty Gazette." The aforesaid Theodore however has so thorough a contempt for the readers, that he claps in the following leading article in the "Gazette" of Sunday week: it will be seen how cunningly he manages to make even the slight drawback on his praise of his own book tend to increase the sale of it, and of its successors :-" A second series of Sayings and Doings has made its appearance, and been received with the greatest approbation. We have no room for elaborated criticism, nor lenghened extracts; but we think it only justice to their author to say, that the tales are in every way superior to the former series. The best is Passion and Principle, the last; the worst is the first: and it is upon this conviction, and from a knowledge that the stories were written in the order in which they are printed, that we found an expec tation that the Writer will progressively improve, should he continue his literary career." Chronicle. LEGITIMATE ANTIPATHIES.-A private letter from Paris says," The two last elected Members of the Academy, the Archbishop of Paris and HEARING BOTH SIDES.-The Committee of the Durham Subscription M. Soumet, were, according to custom, presented to Charles X. the other Library, with its characteristic liberality, at the last meeting, refused to day. The King spoke to M. Soumet alone. I am very glad to see you, order Butler's Book of the Roman Catholic Church, recommended by a M. Soumet-I have read your inaugural discourse; it is very well... highly respectable subscriber. The renegade Southey's Book of the you know my plain speaking, however; I do not approve of the eulogium Church had already been obtained. Were we to mention how many you passed on Voltaire you give him a fine character... Voltaire Clergymen are on the Committee, the wonder which the bare mention was doubtless a fellow of wit; but that man has done so much harm...of these circumstances must excite would speedily disappear.-Durham he has overturned all the received opinions-that man has done a great deal of mischief. . . That is my opinion, M. Soumet; for my part, I tell MR. HAYNE AND MISS FOOTE.-Mr. Hayne was present on Friday all I think... Good day, Gentlemen.' His Majesty then retired." week at Miss Foote's benefit, at the Brighton theatre, and was liberal, it How royal a criticism! seems, in the purchase of tickets. The performances were peculiarly SOMERSET MEMBERS.-It is to be hoped that the freeholders of Somer-appropriate, namely, the Inconstant, and Matrimony! A Brighton setshire, at the next election, will remove from themselves the character the much-to-be-pitied young lady."-Mr. Hayne is certainly one of these Paper says "The best understanding seems to exist between him and of intolerance now fixed upon them by both Members, for Mr. Dickenson, « choice spirits" destined to elevate and surprise in the fashionable world, we see, has joined in the "No Popery" howl raised by Sir Thomas Lethbridge and the boys and old women of Wells. This is the more necessary, as we learn from a Somersetshire friend, who is neither an unenlightened nor a careless inquirer after truth, that the county of Somerset does not merit the stigma thus attempted to be cast upon it. He says"Mr. Dickenson has not only joined in a senseless and disgusting elamour, but has made a statement which I believe to be directly at variance with the fact. I do not think that the number of conscientiously zealous supporters of "Catholic Emancipation" is at all lessened, whilst the number of neutrals is very much increased; and that together reproach which I am convinced is unfounded, and a libel at once upon they form but " one in a hundred" of the population of this country, is a the understandings and feelings of his constituents." "to live in description and look green in song." HANG ON JERRY.-Many of our readers may be ignorant of the practice of "hanging on Jerry:" but it should generally be known. The retail butchers, especially those who have stands in the markets of a Saturday night, when the working classes generally are seeking their Sunday dinner, hang on a heavy meat-hook, weighing half or three quarters of a pound, to the end of the beam over the meat-scale. "It's seven o'clock, Bill," says the master to the boy; " hang on Jerry:" on goes the hook, and every joint of meat sold afterwards on that evening is deficient in defraud the unwary.-Economist. weight. This scandalous practice being made public, will soon put an end to it, although the dishonest butcher will soon devise some other to SIR F. BURDETT.-Sir Francis Burdett is a plain, unaffected, unsoTHE AMERICAN STOVE.-Having heard a great deal about an Ameriphisticated country gentleman. He is a person of great reading, too, and dropt in the other day, and were very politely allowed to inspect it. can stove, which was exhibiting at Mr. Cobbett's, in Fleet-street, we considerable information; but he makes very little display of these, The peculiarity of this stove consists in its being much lower than any unless it be to quote Shakspeare, which he does often with extreme aptness and felicity. Sir Francis is one of the most pleasing speakers in all the heat must be felt in the room, whereas with most of our stoves other, and having the aperture for the escape of the smoke so small, that the House, and is a prodigious favourite of the English people. So he half the fire goes up the chimney. We were also assured by Mr. Cob ought to be; for he is one of the few remaining examples of the old bett, jun. that with such stoves there is no danger of the smoke coming English understanding and old English character. There is no honest into the room, whatever may be the construction of the chimney. This cause which he dares not avow, no oppressed individual that he is not alone is a great point, and the saving of fuel must necessarily be consiforward to succour. He has the firmness of manhood with the unim-derable, but we were astonished to hear that the expence of an ordinary paired enthusiasm of youthful feeling about him. His principles are mellowed and improved without having become less sound, with time. Instruction have been in use in use in Paris for the last two years, where stove is 31. 10s. We can inform Mr. Cobbett, that stoves of this congeneral, his love of liberty is pure, as it is warm and steady; his humanity they cost only 30 to 40 francs (25s. to 34s.) they answer very well as far is unconstrained and free. His heart does not ask leave of his head to feel, nor does Prudence always keep a guard upon his tongue or pen. No Cobbett ought to know that smoking chimnies, like scolding wives, are as the economy of fuel is concerned, but not so as to smoking; for Mr. man writes a better letter to his constituents than the Member for West- frequently incurable.-Mechanic's Register. minster; and his compositions of that kind ought to be good, for they have occasionally cost him dear. He is the idol of the people of Westminster: few persons have a greater number of friends and wellwishers; and he has still greater reason to be proud of his enemies, for his integrity and independence have made them so. Sir Francis has often been left 13 a minority in the House of Commons, with only one or two on his side. We suspect, unfortunately for his country, that History will be found to enter its protest on the same side of the question !-Spirit of the Age. any ACCURACY.-Mr. Humbug Hook, when he wants to make out a case, cannot bring himself to tell the truth, even in the plainest matters of calculation. In a late No. of the "Smutty Gazette" (to use one of Mr. Cobbett's felicitous nicknames) he gives a list-to show the mania for speculation in which the old and new Undertakings are jumbled together. This is only stupid; but what follows is something else. He Bakes out a statement of all the foreign loans raised in England since the peace in 1815, among which appear three together, thus :-" Greece, 00,0001. Cyprus, 300,000l., Knights of Malta, 800,000l." The first-mentoned loan, as our readers are aware, is the only one that has had stence, the others being only talked of by some silly adventurers. Of imilar non-existent kind are" The United States, 8,000,000l.-and Guatemala, 2,500,0001.” loans never even talked of in the London moneyarket! The mistakes in the amounts of the real loans are numerousone is a thumper, viz. "France, 112,300,000l.!!" Oh, an error of the press, of course (exclaims some good-natured reader)—an o too much. No such thing-for the items are all cast up into one immense total, to *ich of course this French loan contributes more than half! So that Lariter of the article must have thought on the matter, and could not fal to notice so egregious an item. The labourers in France and other parts of the Continent make a soup from white French beans, which they boil with sorrel, adding an egg and with the beans forms most nutritious food, the latter being served and a little flour when it is nearly ready. This soup is really excellent, up with a little butter and salt and pepper. M. Chauvelin, the celebrated French chemist, has ascertained that the nutritive property of this grain exceeds that of most animal food in the proportion of five to four.-Mechanic's Register. FIRST TYTHE-CASE.-By most of those writers who have argued for the Divine Right of Tythes, the quarrel between Cain and Abel is considered to be the first Tythe-case upon record-so that bloodshed appears to have been an ingredient in the transaction from the very first.-Memoirs of Capt. Rock. CATHOLIC QUESTION-SIR T. LETHBRIDGE AND MR. CANNING.-In Foote's farce of the Orators, there is an unanswerable Speech by an Irishman in favour of Usquebaugh versus Porter. "As for Porter," he exclaims," if 'twas n't for the hops and the malt, I'd as lief drink Thames water."-This (observes Capt. Rock) is like saying, if it was not for Mr. Canning's fine fancy, abundant wit, felicity of diction, and gracefulness of delivery, I would as soon listen to Sir Thomas Lethbridge! DURATION OF CAPT. ROCK. A minor English Peer, of great wealth, who is at present in Paris, continues to be held in silken chains, and prevented from prosecuting his tour to Italy by a fair daughter of Terpsichore. The lady, however, is shortly expected in England to fulfil her engagement at the King's Theatre.-Morning Paper. The Lessee of the Dublin Theatre, it is said, has offered Miss Foote 1,000 guineas to perform 14 nights in Dublin. Dr. Parr, who continues at his Vicarage of Hatton, is said to be in such a state as to leave scarcely any hope of his recovery. We understand Ambrogetti has been sent for from Italy by Mr. Ebers, to give eclat to the comic characters at the King's Theatre, for the ensuing season. Madame Pasta is expected at the end of March. Mr. Cobbett has addressed a letter to a Morning Paper, to contradict an assertion made by the Courier, and copied into the Times, that in the purchase he lately completed of a house, he paid the required premium of 5001. by a check on the Catholic Association. He adds, that "As a mark of the great respect which he thinks due to the Catholic Association, he has directed actions to be brought against the Proprietor of these two Papers." LAW. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE-STEADMAN V. MAYOP. kind, a Jury did wrong if they were to limit their damages to the mere Thursday, Feb. 24. SHOOBERT V. WILLIAMS. This was an action for breach of a special agreement. The plaintiff entrusted a quantity of property into the hands of a friend, for the purpose of liquidating his debts. Among the property was a picture, said to he one of Claude's. This was placed in the hands of the defendant, an auc tioneer, at the Auction Mart, with directions not to sell it without giving a week or a fortnight's notice. The defendant agreed to this proposal. Some time after, the picture was said to be sold to a friend of the defendant's. but the plaintiff had never received any notice of the sale, nor could be obtain the name of the gentleman to whom it was sold. The sum at which it was knocked down was 7 guineas, although the picture was worth 50 or 60 guineas; and the plaintiff brought this action to recover compensa tion. After hearing evidence, the CHIEF JUSTICE said, it was abominable conduct to have sold the picture against the express orders of the plaintiff. As to the value, he was not ashamed to confess, that if it had been brought into Court, he could not speak to its merits; but he felt no shame on that head, when he recollected that in a cause where he had been engaged, two eminent artists on the one side said, that a picture was worth 5007. which two equally eminent artists on the other side denounced as a "mere daub." The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages, 50 guineas. Friday, Feb. 25. THE LANCET.-TYRRELL v. WAKLY. Mr. BROUGHAM stated the case. The Defendant had formerly kept the Gun Tavern in Thames-street, and the Plaintiff, whose sister was married to his brother, had for years been his bar-maid. After he had been for some time retired from his business, and his wife had died, he proposed to wed the plaintiff. On the 16th of September, on the very day that he had told some of the plaintiff''s friends that he should certainly marry her, he had procured a licence to marry another lady, whom he actually married a few days after! The defendant could not attack the plaintiff's character; but he found a younger and a richer bride, and refused to fulfil his promises. A ring had been bought, a licence pro-ance some comments appeared in the Lancet, charging Mr. Tyrrell with cured, a house taken, in which Miss Steadman had been consulted, and her taste employed in the choice of the furniture. She did not ask for damages on any romantic grounds; she appealed on a plain, practical story, to plain, practical men, who would think that though she was more than 40, and the defendant 56 years of age, still the loss of an establishment in life, and a comfortable home, was an injury for which she had a right to expect considerable damages. After witnesses had been examined, Mr. SCARLETT observed, that the Jury doubtless perceived how this matter stood. The wife of this paralytic gentleman died in February, 1823. The plaintiff then thought it a good speculation to minister to his infirmities, and induce him to marry her. To a certain extent she succeeded with this sickly gentleman; and if she had been patient, it was very probable that he would have married her. But she was in two great haste-she went to him with the licence she had prevailed on him to buy, and said, in effect, "Come now-let there be no delay-the parson is ready, and we will be married directly." If she was in too great a hurry to gratify her inclinations-not her passions certainly, for it was too ridiculous to talk of them; he acquitted her of every thing sensual (A laugh)—but if she was in such haste to obtain the substantial benefits of marriage, could she complain if she failed? As she probably went to nurse him with a view to become his wife, so she quitted him for the same reason; went away in the hope he would feel her loss so acutely, as to purchase her return at any price. But she miscalculated a little; absence was a powerful inciter of love in many cases; but then the subject must be younger. In the mean time, this old gentleman fell into the hands of a more prudent candidate, who carried him off. In the drama of "The Farmer," a handsome young fellow was introduced, complaining of the importunities of the fair "God a mercy, Devil's in me, "All the women wish to win me!" And so it was with poor old Mr. Mayop! Now, if Miss Steadman had played her game, and had lost, was she to have another chance? In seeking to marry the defendant at all, she could have had an eye to nothing but his fortune. If, therefore, the Jury thought her entitled to a verdict at all, they would think her sufficiently compensated with nominal damages. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left the case entirely in the hands of the Jury. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages, 5007. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. FURIOUS DRIVING-GLASSE V. GRAY. This was an action brought against the defendant, a stage-coach proprietor, to recover compensation in damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff from the furious driving of the defendant's coach, which coming in contact with the plaintiff's gig, upset it, and threw the plaintiff out, whereby he sustained considerable personal injury, and had his gig and horse much damaged. The declaration attributed it to the improper conduct of the coachman.-After Counsel and evidence had been heard, the CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, stating, there could be no excuse for urious driving, whether the parties were on the right side or not, and if by injury was sustained through such improper conduct, there could be doubt but the master should be held responsible for it. In cases of this This was an action for an alleged libel in the Lancet. Mr. Tyrrell was a surgeon, of St. Thomas's Hospital. Mr. Wakly had been a pupil of the hospital, and was the proprietor of the Lancet. Mr. Abernethy had allowed Mr. T. the liberty to publish his Lectures, and upon their appearimbecility, with having published the Lancet's pages for his own, &c. and asserting that they had been deceived in expecting that the merits of his heart might have redeemed the errors of his head. Mr. VAUGHAN contended that such comments were malicious and unfounded, and called for due reparation. Mr. BROUGHAM, on the other side, argued that the Lancet was calculated to disseminate medical knowledge, and correct abuses; that the comments were not malicious, and had been directed not against the man but the author. Mr. Justice BEST said, that when an author sent a work into the world, it was subject to criticism. The liberty of the press was the child of a free government, and he for one would never pluck from its wing a single feather. But all criticisms must be fair, and not attribute a corrupt or bad motive to the author of any work; that was without the bounds of the liberty of the press. The Learued Judge then adverted to particular passages, and left it to the Jury to consider whether or not a corrupt motive could be attributed to the defendant for the publication in question. The Jury consulted for a quarter of an hour, and found a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages, 50/. CONSISTORY COURT.-FEB. 23. This was a suit of divorce by reason of adultery, promoted by Mr. Bain against his wife. It appeared from the proceedings, that the parties bad married in 1800, when both young, and had lived a good deal in the West Indies, of one of the islands of which Mr. B. was a native. They had not lived very happily together, and latterly they were often separated. In 1819, the lady fell in love with a young gentleman named Mason, and in 1823, she was seen coming out of his bed room. She was then 40 years of age. Some copies of letters which she had kept, written to Mr. Mason, were produced in Court, which confirmed other suspicions. In one of them she said, "I am neither a coquette nor designing, but you are as cold as a stoic."-Dr. LUSHINGTON, in the course of the pleadings, asserted that the age of forty was a very dangerous climacteric in the life of a woman; and he did not hesitate to say, that, in the common run of adulterers within his experience, the ages of the female offenders had been from twenty-five to thirty-five. The average age, however, was twenty-seven. (Laughter). He knew not why it was so.-Sir C. RoBINSON: "Possibly because married ladies then begin to feel independent."-Dr. LUSHINGTON: "Aud tired of their husbands. The practice of these Courts, however,” he added, “depended upon the slips of ladies of all ages."-The Court pronounced a sentence of divorce. SECONDARIES' OFFICE, FEB. 21. THE HON. JOHN AUGUSTUS SULLIVAN V. HENRY GOULDEN. This was an action on account of criminal conversation alleged to have taken place between the wife of the plaintiff and the defendant. Judg ment having been suffered to go by default, a jury was summoned for the purpose of estimating the amount of damages to which the plaintiff wa entitled. Mr. BROUGHAM stated that the plaintiff was a young gentleman of big rank, who, in 1816, had the misfortune to become acquainted with woman of low birth, and married her. He was then at the inexperience age of 17. Such a connection could not fail to be most wounding to all the members of his family. This inexperience, however, argued in his favour, and he was again allowed to come within its hallowed precincts, on condition of separating himself from his newly married wife. This erent took place at the end of rather less than a month; and from that time forth she was allowed 3004. a-year to support her expences. This annuity continued till the year 1821, when an instrument was executed, by which he bound himself to give her the sum of 1000l. down, and 500l. a-year during her life, on condition that she would not molest him, and he undertook to allow her to act precisely as she liked, and as if she were a single woman. About two years since, the defendant had formed an acquaintance with this woman, and by her had had a child. The principal object of the plaintiff in bringing the action was, that the Jury having granted him large damages, he might proceed to obtain a divorce. Mr. F. POLLOCK addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant. He contended that the Plaintiff had, by this deed, almost invited such conduct as that of the defendant. Had the plaintiff received injury? Had he lived with his wife? Yes, rather less than a month. Had he been separated from her? Yes, nine years. Look at the situation of the unhappy girl, who had been joined to him by that which ought to be the holiest of bonds. She, it was true, could not boast of near relationship with nobility; but, such as she was, he had been able to obtain her affections. His rank, his fortune, his title, and his promises, all conjoined to dazzle the mind of the unfortunate girl; and imagining that she was to be introduced to persons of respectability, she consented to become his wife. What then must have been her feelings to find all these gilded hopes deceitful-her person and her birth despised by her husband's relations and his friends; and when he, for whom she had subjected herself to these complicated miseries, turned his back upon her in less than one short month, and left her to pine in misery, wretchedness, and despair? In this situation, continued as it was for nine years; left without a protector, and become an object of hatred to all her husband's connections, was it wonderful that she should yield to the impulse of her passions, and commit an act of which she must for ever repent? The defendant had broken no plighted friendship; he had not, with serpent wiliness, wound himself about his innocent victim, until she perished in his coils. No; he had but taken that, which had been cast away by her husband-his scoff his loathing. What, then, could be the injury done to the plaintiff? While he was revelling in all the licentious pleasures his fortune could afford, or his imagination dictate, could he expect that this unhappy female should withstand all temptation? And yet the present defendant had done nothing more, than take a woman under his protection in whom he could discover virtues,-which virtues might have been made known to the plaintiff, had he but treated her as she deserved. He required large damages, in order that he might with a better grace go into the House of Lords and seek a divorce. This wish, he was sure, would have no effect upon the minds of the Jury. His wife's dishonour was caused by his own connivance, and now he comes to demand large damages at the Jury's bands! They now stood the arbiters of public morals, and of public decency; he therefore conjured them, as enlightened men, alive to the feelings by which their conduct ought to be guided, not to encourage so audacious an attempt as the present. The SHERIFF told the Jury that in this case, notwithstanding the very eloquent speech of the Learned Gentleman, the sole question for their consideration was, what damages they thought a sufficient compensation for the injury received by the plaintiff. In doing this, they were to remember the rank of both persons, the plaintiff and the defendant, the terms on which the former lived with his wife, and the mode in which the latter bad accomplished his intentions. The Jury, after about an hour's consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff Damages, Five Hundred Pounds !¡!! OLD BAILEY. in the house with him for hours together. He said, "I am like our Saviour, and have fasted forty days and forty nights."—He was industrious. As Mr. Justice BURROUGH began to charge the Jury, the prisoner interrupted him, saying-" Judge, I wish to say, after I received the Holy Ghost, it wanted to make me believe I was the Saviour; at first I said I was not, but afterwards it came into my head that I was." The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal, on the ground of insanity. The prisoner was ordered to be detained, being under the statute placed at his Majesty's disposal. On going from the dock, the prisoner said "they (the Jury) are a parcel of fools."' On Wednesday, the Recorder passed sentence upon the numerous prisoners convicted during the present session, when thirty received the awful sentence of death, two were ordered to be transported for life, and forty-four for seven years. A great number were sentenced from one year to one month in the House of Correction and hard labour; among whom was Mary Keaton, for killing her husband, and William Bennett, for a similar offence on the person of Mr. Parry. The RECORDER, before passing sentence, addressed the prisoners, exhorting them to prepare for that awful fate to which a Jury of their countrymen, influenced by no other motives but those of a just regard to the laws of God and civilized society, had doomed them. The laws of God!-where, Mr. Recorder, do you find the punishment of Death is ordered in the Bible for theft and such offences? We had thought that the sacred law runs thus: "Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.-Another foul and bloody deed has been committed on the turnpike-road, about 24 miles from Tring, and about 3 miles from Aylesbury. The unfortunate victim is a young man about 20 years of age, named William Morris, a farming man of respectable connexions. The supposed perpetrators are John Allen, Thos. Collier, and Thomas Reeves, all labourers and associates of Morris, who were apprehended before their victim was cold, and lodged in Aylesbury gaol. An inquest was held on Monday, and after an inquiry which lasted seven hours, the Jury returned a verdict of" Wilful Murder against Allen, Reeves, and Collier."-On Wednesday, Colonel Browne, the Rev. Mr. Ashfield, Rev. Mr. Owen, and the Rev. Mr. Turner, assembled in the Magistrates' Chamber, at Aylesbury, for the examination of the prisoners. They are all young men, of rather diminutive stature.-William Reeves sworn: On Saturday night, about half-past ten o'clock, I was at Blackburn, with the deceased, and after leaving there, we overtook the prisoners at Aston-Clinton. Allen, Collier, and my brother went on towards Allen's house, and I and the deceased followed them. As we proceeded, my brother (Thos. Reeves, the prisoner) turned round to me and said, "You deserve a good hiding," and told the deceased he ought to have a good hiding too. My brother then went towards his home; Allen ran down the street, and returned in about a minute with the stake now produced, in his hand. He said, "Now, I'll end it." and then made a plunge with the rail at me, but I warded off the blow. Allen then struck the deceased a violent blow on the head, which brought him to the ground, and at this moment my brother returned again, and endeavoured to take a spade out of my hand, and in the struggle I was knocked down and kicked by Collier and my brother, and beat so unmercifully that the bone of my right knee was put out; they then left me, and presently Allen and Collier came back together, and began again to kick and beat me. I said, "For God's sake, have mercy on me." Collier and Allen then went away, and I crawled to the deceased, who was lying on the slope. I felt his body, it being dark; and on feeling the back part of his head, my fingers rushed into a very deep wound. The deceased seemed quite dead, he did not move or groan. The men were rather fresh, but certainly not drunk.George Thorn stated, he heard loud screaming on the night in question. He heard John Allen's wife say, "God bless you, John, don't strike him any more; if you do, you'll certainly kill him." Witness beard several blows given in quick succession. After the blows, he heard Allen say, “I have settled him, and if you dont be off, I'll settle you." Witness heard Thomas Reeves say, "If you had'nt been my brother, I would have served you before now ;" and Collier said, "And serve him right too." The witness added, that the deceased's head lay in a hole in the earth, as if it had been pressed in by some person. Mr. Hayward, surgeon, stated that he found a wound at the back part of the deceased's skull, too inches long by one and a half deep; this wound occasioned death. He found wounds on several other parts of the body.-A man named Lutman proved that the rail with which the deceased had been struck was taken out of a evidence proved that the deceased and the prisoners were heard to quarrel at the public-house. They were fully committed for trial. On Monday, William Shade, aged 39, stood indicted for assaulting John White, and giving him divers blows with a sharp weapon.—John White, a distraining broker, lives in Exmouth-street, Hampstead-road. He went to prisoner's house, to distrain for rent. While witness had his hand in his pocket, prisoner took him by the collar, tripped up his heels, seized an axe, and began chopping at his legs. He asked prisoner to let him get up and go out. He replied, “He would be d―d if he would, he never should go out of the room alive." Persons came in, and seized the axe. His leg was cut in two or three places at the commencement. Prisoner stated that he understood that he had no right to seize his workng tools. He wished to ask if it was legal to seize his working tools?-hedge near his residence.-Several other witnesses were examined, whose The JUDGE informed him it was, if he had no other goods.-The Prisoner stated that what had been said was false; that it was hard he should lose the means of supporting his child; he had been insane and confined in a mad-bouse. He had received the Holy Ghost; that he then thought he eaght to preach, but he was told that as he had not been brought up for the ministry, he had better not.-The JUDGE asked him what he meant by receiving the Holy Ghost?-The Prisoner answered, that fire came from Heaven and entered his mouth; it burnt his stomach very much; after he mceived it, it caused him to kneel down so very often in repentance, that they thought he was ill, and they put a straight jacket on him.-The JCDGs asked him if he was better after he had received the Holy Ghost? Prisoner: I was in better health, but could not work, it controuled my body, and made me walk along!-Richard Skinner said he had known paer four or five years. Had heard him preaching when no one was EXECUTION.-On Tuesday morning, Edward alias Kiddy Harris, aged 37, convicted of highway robbery and brutal assault upon Sarah Drew; Cornelius Wood, aged 20, for robbery and rape, attended with most aggravated circumstances, upon Mary Eyre; and Henry Durham, aged 19, for a burglary, were executed. After the convicts had taken some coffee, &c. (during which time the Scriptures were read) the unhappy men all partook of the sacrament. Harris, however, frequently interrupted the devotional exercises, by making the most solemn asseverations of his innocence. Wood said, that he was innocent of the outrage on Mary Eyre; for Day, the man in whose cart they rode, and who was a principal witness against him, was the perpetrator of the deed, he (Day) having borrowed his (Wood's) coat for the purpose. ~ Durhata të much that by his conduct he had not only disgraced his respectable family but also been the means of bringing down the gray hairs of the best of mothers to a premature grave. Here followed a scene which sets all description at defiance. Harris, on entering the press-room, exclaimedOh the villains, the villains, to hang an innocent man! I know nothing ot it ; if I did I'd tell—Marder, murder! Indeed, Mr. Sheriff Brown, you are going to hang a man that is entirely innocent-what bad laws are are to hang an innocent man! By G-d I'm innocent of the charge!" Tsaying which he knelt down and lifted his eyes towards heaven. He continued to make similar assertions for several minutes, and, turning to the reporters for the public press, exclaimed, "Tell them (the public) I die innocent." The procession then moved through the avenues of the prison, when Harris commenced his vociferations of "Murder, murder!" until he got to the lodge, occasionally interlarding his exclamations with "D-n their eyes, what do they hang me for, after keeping me here five months?" Mr. Sherriff Brown attempted in vain to sooth the irritated feelings of the culprit. Just before he ascended the scaffold, Harris said, I suppose they will not let me speak outside, but I will though," and he was as good as his word, for immediately that he got outside, he roared out " Murder!" and "Innocent!" lustily, and continued to do so until the ap was drawn over his face, when the executioner almost instantly withrew the bolt, and the lives and sufferings of the unhappy men terminated. Long before six o'clock the crowd began to assemble to witness the scene, and although the concourse was not equal to that, at the execution of Fauntleroy, yet it exceeded the numbers who attend generally on such mournful occasions. Great exertions were made to save Durham, but in vain. A petition was drawn up for Wood, but the prosecutrix refused to sign it, alleging, that as the prisoner had been careless of her honour and FIRE. On Sunday morning, about half-past three, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Blackburn, pawnbroker, on Saffron-bill. Four men belonging to the Hand-in-Hand office, got through the first floor window, at the imminent risk of their lives, to ascertain the state of the premises, when suddenly the roof and second floor gave way, and the entire were precipitated into the cellar. No lives, were lost, but the men were all dreadfully injured, her life, she need not interest herself to save him. A MONSTER. A young lady named Oakes, who resides at Pimlico, attended on Saturday week at Marlborough-street Office, and stated that some wretch had attacked her in Piccadilly on the preceding evening, when accompanied by her female servant, with a pointed instrument, which had fortunately struck against the bone of her stays. Miss Oakes produced the gown worn on the evening in question, which had a hole in the side, just over the hip, evidently made by a sharp instrument. As Miss Oakes could not identify the man who had attacked her, Mr. Conant observed, that he could not take any effective step towards his apprehension. The ruffian, it seems, was dressed like a gentleman. HYDROPHOBIA. A young man, a labourer in the neighbourhood of Colnbrook, died on Sunday morning of this dreadful disease. He was bitten about six weeks ago by a strange dog which ran up his master's staircase. In getting the dog down, his foot unfortunatety slipped, and he rolled down stairs with the animal, which bit him. He was attended by six surgeons, among whom were Sir A. Cooper. 105th year of her age. At Llangamarch, Brecon, Thomas Morgan, a native of that place, at the age of 102 years, retaining full possession of his mental faculties to the last. On the 11th inst. Mr. Wm. Hughes, one of our most eminent Engravers on Wood. Extreme application to his profession terminated his life at the early age of 32. His widow, with able assistants, will continue the business for the On Sunday, Mrs. Maria Hoddmott, at Hornsey, many years proprietor of the support of herself and three young children. Chapter Coffee house, Paternoster-row. On Monday, in St. Janies's-street, Richard Walker, Esq. Apothecary to the King On Tuesday, at Hensley-lodge, Sir Thomas Heathcote, Bart. aged 45. The entailed property devolves upon the son of the late Rev. William Heathcote. On Wednesday, in the prime of life, Mrs. Franklin, wife of Captain John Franklin, R.N. in Devonshire-street, Portman-square. On Tuesday, Mrs. Stebbing, wife of Mr. Stebbing, of the Swan, Lynn. She appeared in her usual good state of health, and was preparing breakfast for her husband, when she suddenly fell off her chair--a corpse. died. On Thursday week, at Ballingdon, aged 48, Mr. Thompson, silk-manufacturer, of Sudbury, leaving 14 children. He rose in the morning in his usual state of health, and whilst taking his breakfast was seized in a fit, and in a few hours On Saturbay week, in Korbury workhouse, Hannah Metcalfe, in the 70th year of her age; she took to her bed 45 years ago, owing to a disappointment in love, and never rose from it to the day of her death. It is calculated that this pauper had cost the parish 5001. On the 21st inst. Catherine, wife of Benjamin Hodges, Esq. of Cadogan-place, the seventy-fifth year of her age. SECOND OVERLAND EXPEDITION. Captain Franklin and suite, including our friend and townsman, Dr. Richardson, embarked at Liverpool on Wednesday last, in the Colombia packet, direct for New York the first stage in their three years' voyage of discovery and adventure, though not, we fondly hope, of peril and privation. As the illustrious travellers stepped on board the steam-boat appointed to tow the Colombia out of port, thousands of spectators crowded the quay, cheering to the utmost bent of their voices; and with many a prayer for their safe return, wishing them all the comforts which men can well enjoy amidst the eternal sterility of the Arctic Circle. On leaving New York, Captain Franklin and party will proceed by the Lake Erie Canal, through Lake Huron and Lake Superior to Fort William, the first of the Hudson's Bay Company's settlements; and from thence by the river communication to Winipeg, Athabasca, Slave, and Great Bear Lakes. Near the latter place, the winter-quarters of the travellers will be fixed, where the above Company have already built a house, and laid up provisions, and where they expect to be met by 16 able-bodied seamen, all natives of Argyleshire, who were sent out last season, and who have had ample time to forward the instruments and luggage intrusted to their care. In their voyage through the principal lakes, the travellers will be conveyed in American steamboats, and when this accommodation ceases, they will procure, as formerly, the services of stout Canadian boatmen. And here we may mention one of the greatest evils attendant on the expedition, namely, that it requires upwards of 12 months to convey them to what may be called the starting point of discovery. And, however heavily the time may hang on their hands, they must patiently wait the tardy lapse of an Arctic winter; and even after the sun begins to peep above the horizon, there are not above six or eight weeks during which they can travel with anything like safety. In many respects their winter-quarters will be pretty comfortable. Fuel and provisions have been provided in abundance, and though glass cannot be carried to such high latitudes, and their windows must be formed of oiled parchment, a rude sort of candle, which is made from the fat of the elk and other animals, will enable them to read and write, and perform various other necessary operations. At times, too, they may venture out of doors, buckle on their snow-shoes, and, by boring holes in the thick-ribbed ice of Mackenzie's River, set their nets, and drags many kinds of fish "into day," sters in the finer climates of the south. In this way they which, from their enormous size, would be regarded as monmay partake of many a savoury meal, and we had even, we confess, the curiosity to inquire, whether the ancient "sons of the mist" might not now and then be permitted to season their fish with a welcome dram of Fairntosh. But no, 12 whisky is too bulky an article to be carried so far, and besides, would be exceedingly hurtful in a climate where the thermometer stands below zero. Water, therefore, must be the sole beverage of both officers and men, with the exception of two solitary gallons of wine, included in the bill of lading for the Arctic Circle, and which are husbanded for a carousal at the approach of spring, and previous to prosecuting the ulterior objects of the expedition. In spring, Captain Franklin, and his old companion, Mr. Back, who goes out on promotion, with one half of the party, will proceed down Mackenzie's River, and from thence explore the coast to the westward, as far as Icy Cape and Behring's Straits. Here Captain Beechy is appointed to force a passage by the coast, meet the party, and convey them to China in his vessel, the Blossom, which is at present fitting out at Deptford, and will by and by proceed to double Cape Horn, with the view of getting into the South Sea. On dal, who was assistant surveyor in Captain Lyon's late expethe other hand, Dr. Richardson's party, including Mr. Ken Exchange on London, one month, 25. three ditto, 24. 85.- dition, will separate from Captain Franklin at the mouth of Mackenzie's River, to explore the country stretching to the eastward, as far as the Copper-mine River. In this excursion, the extensive track of mountain country, abounding in WINDSOR, FEB. 24. His Majesty has not taken any outcopper ore and fields of coal, will occupy much of our door exercise since his return to the Royal Lodge. Yeste townsman's attention. The Forfarshire botanist, Mr. Drum- day her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta paid a morn mond, accompanies the expedition part of the way, to collect ing visit to his Majesty. Sir Charles Long arrived yesterday botanical and zoological specimens; and the liberality of at the Lodge, and had an audience of his Majesty. Yester Government has provided an able naturalist to assist Captain day Mr. Wyatville laid before the King several drawings, Beechy, so that the natural history of this division of our relative to the interior of the state apartments, for his MaAmerican dominions bids fair at length to be effectually inves-jesty's approval. Mr. Wyatville was at the Lodge nearly the tigated. After landing Captain Franklin at Canton, Captain whole day. Beechy will take in provisions and return to Behring's Straits the following season, with the view of succouring Captain Parry; and should that hardy mariner appear on the coast, or should he even leave land-marks behind him, we need scarcely allude to the eager interest, we had almost said feeling of veneration, with which those monuments of the progress of science will be approached by our weary far-travel-Majesty's ship Maidstone had occasion to visit nineteen vessels, led countrymen. The above particulars have been gleaned from conversations with our excellent and accomplished friend, Dr. Richardson, and we have only to add, that from the judicious nature of the arrangements that have been formed, he anticipates none of the sad disasters that befel the expedition on a former occasion. From the sixteen sailors that went out last year, the most gratifying accounts have already been received, as well as from the agents of the Hudson's Bay Company, who have formed depots of provisions along the whole route, and otherwise forwarded the views of the travellers to the utmost of their power. Indeed the union of the two Fur Companies into one, under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company, is a most fortunate circumstance for the interests of science, and has enabled the directors to remove stumbling-blocks from the path of discovery, that were nearly as formidable as the rigours of the climate in the former divided state of the country. The want of the canoes, which were abandoned at Cape Turn-again, from weakness and fatigue, proved a terrible bar to the crossing of rivers; but on this occasion a water-proof canvass boat has been provided, so admirably contrived, that it may be separated into pieces which each of the party may stow into his knapsack, or carry in his pocket. CITY, 1 O'CLOCK.-Consols for Account, 943. In the Foreign Market, there is very little to notice. Mexican Scrip, 2 to pm. and the Bouds, 801 Colombian is 903. In the Share Market there is little to notice. POSTSCRIPT. MONDAY, FEB. 28. THE French papers of Thursday and Friday are chiefly filled with debates on the indemnity law. The discussions on the general principle of the indemnity have terminated, and the Chamber has begun to dispose of the numerous proposed amendments. The spirit which dictated the first of these amendments would have been alarming, had it been shared by any considerable portion of the assembly. It went to no less an extent than a total change of the law, proposing the restoration of their landed estates to the emigrants, and to the purchasers of those estates the indemnity intended for their original proprietors. This amendment was not supported or even seconded, and was dismissed by voting the previous Chestion. As it is proper that the name of this adventurous legislator and intrepid Royalist should be known to all whom may concern, we may mention that he is called M. le Baron de Coupigny. The Chamber adjourned after disposing of home of the 17 amendments placed in the hands of the Predent. The following was the state of the funds on Friday :PARIS, FEB. 25.-Five per Cents. 104. 75.; Bank Stock, 1,998. 75.; Rente de Naples, (Certif. Falconnet), 90. 45.; Rente d'Espagne, 184; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 56. SLAVE TRADE.-To the disgrace of civilization, the inhuman traffic in human beings is not only continued, but seems to have increased. France is the great culprit in this respect, and the greater, because she carries it on in the very face of treaties which she has entered into with this country ostensibly for the purpose of putting it down. In two months his all engaged in this nefarious trade. These vessels were all furnished with French papers; and the French traders laugh at the idea of their being taken or molested by their own vessels of war. Looking at what is permitted, there is every reason to hold that the French Government is not serious. The Portuguese are also deeply engaged in this traffic; but the Brazilian Government seems to be the worst of all; since it is asserted, on good authority, that frauds are committed in licensing vessels for this trade, as if they were one-third larger than they truly are. A vessel of 95 tons, for instance, is licenced as of 146 tons. Only 3 square feet is allowed for one adult African. Oiscan, a Frenchman, on one occasion thrust a full cargo of slaves between decks, only three feet in height, and closed the hatches for the night. Fifty died before morning. Their bodies were thrown into the river; and the wretch who commanded the vessel went on coolly next day, to complete his cargo! We have extracted these facts and given this short view of the case, from documents published and circulated at the expense of the Society of Friends (Quakers), whose philanthropy never sleeps, and to those exertions in this matter of the slave trade in particular, humanity is greatly indebted.—Scotsman. AMERICAN CANALS.-The two great canals executed by the State of New York seem to hold out a prospect of success scarcely equalled in the case of any similar works this country. They are together almost 400 miles in length; and though commenced only seven years ago, are now nearly finished. Even in the past year, the tolls yielded a revenue of 410,000 dollars (98,000l.), while the whole interest of the capital sunk in the undertaking is only 375,825 dollars. The Governor De Witt Clinton, in his message to the legislature of New York, estimates, that when the various other sources of income are added to the produce of the tolls, these unfinished canals will have yielded very nearly twice the interest of the capital; and that in the current year this large revenue will be nearly doubled. Boats with commodities proceed at the rate of 55 miles in 24 hours, and boats with passengers near 100 miles in the same time "For almost all purposes, the city of Detroit will, on the completion of the Erie canal, be brought within 100 miles of the city of Albany (its actual distance is 500 miles). Already have we witnessed the creative power of these communications in the flourishing villages which have sprung up or been extended, in the increase of our towns, and above all in the prosperity of the city of New York. If, as is said, upwards of 3000 houses have been built in that city during the last year, it is highly probable that in fifteen years its population will be double, and that in less than thirty years it will be the third city in point of numbers in the civilised world, and the second if not the first in point of commerce." The commercial advantages of the western canal will be still farther extended, by the project now under consideration for uniting the Ohio with lake Erie, |