Letters and papers have been received from Demerara to the 11th ult. The trial of one of the Colonists for forgery had excited great interest. After a long investigation, R. C. Storey had been found guilty of forging bills of exchange on the house of Daniel and Co. Bristol, purporting to be drawn by John Austin, in Demerara. The latter, on his arrival in England some time since, was surprised on finding bills of exchange to the amount of nearly five thousand pounds had been accepted and paid in his name, and that others were left to a considerable amount to be accepted; an investigation immediately took place, which ultimately led to the arrest and trial of R. C. Storey; he has now been found guilty, and awaits his sentence, As Demerara is governed by Dutch faws, he is not likely to suffer death. The penalty is branding and banishment. The sentence was daily expected to be promulgated." SLAVE OWNERS' OBSTINACY.-The House of Assembly in Jamaica, in their reply to the Governor's speech, give the go-bye to the recommendation to take measures for meliorating the state of the slaves. The Orange arguments, so often urged in Ireland, do quite as well in Jamaica-"The negro mind is in a state of agitation, and this is not the time."-Scotsman. GENERAL LA FAYETTE.-The Bill for granting 200,000 dollars and a township of land to this illustrious Patriot, has been passed through both the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, with remarkable celerity and without one dissenting voice. When was a gift so truly national? POLICY OF A BOURBON GOVERNMENT.-It is mentioned in a Liberal Paris Paper, that four merchants from Colombia, having arrived in England and made their purchases of English machinery, wished to proceed to France to buy silks and other commodities of that country, to the amount of about 100,000l. These persons naturally applied to the French Ambassador in London for passports, but were told, that being subjects of his Catholic Majesty, they must first get permission from the Spanish Legation. These independent Republicans, who would as soon have thought of applying to the Pope's Nuncio, because three centuries ago one of the Pope's predecessors pretended to have the disposal of the new world, kept of course on this side of the Channel, and commanded heir goods from a different market! THE ARMY.-The Courier says the army will probably be increased, as soon as Parliament meets, by a new levy of 15,000 men, of which 5000 are for India-the rest, we suppose, for Ireland and the peace-establish ment barracks at home. IRELAND. CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. Thursday, January 20. without knowing "the suffering of the just for the unjust, must be damned.” ASIATIC MODE OF TRYING THE STRENGTH OF TOBACCO-A leaf of MRS. KEAN, the tragedian's wife, was married to Mr. Kean some years before his celebrity. She was a Miss Chambers; and she and her sister were dancers at the Cheltenham theatre; but so neat were their demeanour, style of dressing, and general conduct, that, to adopt the language of those who remember the Misses Chambers, they were always taken for "ladies." Miss Chambers was exceedingly fond of Mr. Kean, and declared that she should never be happy except she was married to him. Mr. K. had been in trouble, which was no novelty-and perhaps in prison on account of debt; and Miss Chambers received the attentions of Mr. Kean, he believing her to have money-and a marriage soon followed. The wedding was a fine one-coach-and-four, &c., and all paid for by Mrs. Kean. Something might be said of money borrowed, of repayment after Mr. K.'s celebrity, &c.-but no matter. Mr. Kean soon found that he had not married a "fortune," except so far as a good wife is a fortune. She was only as rich as he was; but she had high notions; and even then she was nothing without a servant. She is clever, but not handsome; even Mr. K. acknowledges her abilities. At home, she rules, as indeed the letters showed; but persons of "distinction," whether from the East or the West, only are valued by her. Hence, if Mr. K. would have his "mixed" company, he was obliged to have it at Mrs. Pryce's, Miss Tidswell's, at the O. P., or at the Coal-hole-theatrical houses. Mrs. K. has also, and it is calculated that since Mr. K.'s celebrity in January, 1814, his perhaps fortunately, been able to have some control over money affairs; receipts have not been less than 90,000l. How much of that remains is another affair; for his habits, a house in Clarges-street, taken furnishedcarriages-other establishments, &c., are potent means to reduce thousands. Miss Chambers, the sister, lives with Mrs. Kean. Mr. K. has was his favourite child.-Morning Herald. one son alive; one died while he was in the Exeter Company, and that The money-receipts at Drury-lane, on Monday, the night Mr. Kean performed Richard, have never been exceeded, except on one evening when his Majesty visited the theatre. The sum received was upwards of 7204. of which 400l. were in silver. The week's Rent amounted to 6251. It included 101. from the Devon Whig Club, at the head of which stands the name of the Duke of Bedford. Mr. BRIC narrated some proceedings in which he was professionally concerned for the Association at the Cavan Sessions, arising out of the late riots in that place. He bore testimony to the impartial conduct of the magistrates on this occasion, although some of them were notorious Intolerants. Several Catholics were acquitted by an Orange Jury, and one Orangeman was found guilty by the same Jury, greatly to the satisfaction of the Court. He (Mr. Bric) had by the conviction of that man disposed of one case; he had twenty-nine others to bring forward; but he had then to consider, whether he should act more in accordance with the wishes of the Association, by promoting conciliation, or by sending a great many Orangemen to gaol. When he had established that Orangemen were WARM WORK.-An extraordinary circumstance took place a few eventhe aggressors, he held forth the hand of forgiveness to them, in accord-ings since, on the road near Rochester. Two respectably dressed men, ance with the advice of Mr. O'Connell and of the parish priest. The Pro- well mounted, were slowly riding along the road, and were distinctly estant Bishop of Kilmore (Beresford) and the Cavan magistrates assisted heard to wrangle with each other" in good set terms," which at length n the work of peace; and the result was so complete, that all the parties rose to so a high a pitch of aggravation, that the disputants brandished oncerned in the riot had walked home from the court in kindness with their whips and thrashed each other soundly. The slashes were quickly each other. (Applause.) and heavily repeated, yet neither of them uttered an audible sentence-a few reluctant wincing groans only escaped them, when they at length desisted. The stoutest of the two showed an inclination to address himself to the astonished few who had casually witnessed the battle royal; but hearing (for it was dark) other horsemen approaching, again joined company with his opponent, and set off side by side at a moderate trot through Rochester. It is said that a similar conflict took place in about an hour afterwards between the same persons (according to minute description) on the Gravesend road. From certain words which dropped during the latter encounter, they are known to be a respectable gentleman and his NEWSPAPER CHAT. TASTE. As a physical bad taste consists in being pleased only with bigh seasoning and curious dishes, so a bad taste in the arts is pleased only with studied ornament, and feels not the pure beauty of Nature. The best taste in every species of cultivation, is to imitate Nature with the highest fidelity, energy, and grace.-Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary. servant!-Kent Herald. "PASTORINI'S PROPHECIES."-CATHOLIC CLERGY.-Mr. M'Donnell has replied to the Rev. Hugh M. Neile in a very ingenions letter to the Chronicle, pointing out the evasive manner in which the Rev. Gent. avoided the principal charge against him (of calumniating the Catholic clergy)and talked vaguely of his "want of recollection." Mr. M'Donnell remarks, that the Rev. Mr. M'Neile does not, after all, deny having received copies of Pastorini from the Archbishop of Dublin. To show in what sort of a spirit the Rev. Gentlemen speaks of Catholics, Mr. MDgives the following from a sermon preached by him at Percy Chapel, othbone Place, last April :—He assured his hearers, that all who die ❘ of profit.Edinburgh Star. SIR W. SCOTT.-Among the on dits of the literary world is one that marks the kindheartedness of Sir Walter Scott. It is said that upon hearing of the premature death of the late Rev. C. Maturin, and learning that he had left a widow but ill-provided for and some unpublished manuscripts, Sir Walter wrote a letter of condolence, in which among other expressions of respect for the genius of the departed author, he gra tuitously offered his editorial services for the purpose of giving those works to the world in a form the most likely to be productive to her About a quarter of an hour after the London mail had left Exeter, on Monday morning, a carriage and four drove up to the door of the New London Inn, containing a young couple, who eagerly inquired if the mail had left. On finding it had, they immediately proceeded on in a fresh carriage and four. We understand they overtook the coach at the Halfway house, on the Honiton-road, where they got into it. From what we can learn, the parties came from Bodmin, and it is conjectured their Journey lies towards the north. They had no luggage with them.-Devon Freeholder. The Reverend Magistrate, whose extraordinary imprisonment of his maid-servant occasioned so strong a sensation, has, we hear, not only abandoned the charge of robbery against her, but has made her a remuneration for the sufferings sustained by her illegal detention.-Morning Paper The Rev. John Bond, of Hanwell, is the offender. the actor. Lord Byron's motto to the Don Juan, taken from Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, was thought peculiarly happy in its application; but we think it even more forcible in reference to a recent theatrical case. "Because thou" (the most moral public)" art virtuous, shall there be no more good Richards and Othellos?" It is thought a great merit in an actor to separate bis personal from his stage character; and surely the public would do well to make a like distinction. A man must have a diseased imagination who cannot enjoy a fine representation of Iago or Macbeth, without carrying his thoughts beyond the theatre, and dwelling on the private immorality of Last Sunday evening, a person bordering on his grand climacteric, who was listening to Mr. Irving's denunciations against sin, felt some of those qualms of conscience to which maudlin gentlemen at that time of life are subject-shed tears, and fainted away; and finally, was carried out in a State of insensibility. Mr. Irving's admirers go about describing in rapturous terms this astonishing proof of the powerful eloquence of their favourite preacher. Without at all wishing to under-rate Mr. Irving's powers, we have seen enough of climacteric sinners, to know that an extra pint of wine would have produced precisely the same effect.-Times. PRICE OF BREAD.-At the very time when wheat is falling in price in Mark-lane, the bakers are raising the charge for the quartern loaf. Never will ruinous fluctuations and grinding prices be put an end to, until a free trade in corn is permitted. The following strange story (says a Paris letter) is in circulation, and is quite true :-The young Monsieur de Bouillé was married not long since to Mademoiselle Beauchamp, a name illustrated by the Vendean wars, and it was not possible to see a more happy couple. Unfortunately, Monsieur de B. had the habit of walking in his sleep, and a few nights since, in one of his fits of somnabulism, fancied that he was attacked by robbers. His poor young wife was dragged from her bed by the hair to experience the most outrageous treatment. Happily the occupiers of the apartment below, alarmed by the dreadful cries, burst open the door in time to rescue her with life. His illusion continuing proof against every other effort, he was at length roused by the shock of cold water, and awakened to a sense of the keenest misery. Poor Madame de B. is in no danger, though very unwell. An event has occurred at Paris, which is the converse of that of Miss Foote. Mademoiselle Mars, the comic actress, lately offered in vain to give her lover, the Chevalier Braque, 12,000 francs, which he was indebted to her, if he would cement at the altar the union which has now existed between them for eight years. But the lady is 20 years older than the gentleman, and though agreeable and young on the stage, she cannot conceal, in a tête-à-tête, notwithstanding her most delightful conversation, the ravages of time. The Chevalier required that a party of 28 persons should be invited to dinner; and at the end of the repast he addressed them as follows:-"I must tell you a curious anecdote. An antiquated coquette, misusing her power over a young man who had devoted the best years of his life to her, presumed to make him her's for ever by indissoluble bonds; but the young man saw his danger, and departed from the syren. I am this young man, and Madame (pointing to Mademoiselle Mars) is the coquette." He got up instantly from table, and left the room, leaving all the company astonished, and his Ariadne in convulsions. There is a report that she means to quit the theatre, which will be an irreparable loss to the stage.-Evening paper. LORD NUGENT. This Noble Commoner of the House of Buckingham has stood the test of every political change of the Grenville party, and adhered to the fruitless politics of opposition. His Peerage is independent PROPOSED THIRD ENGLISH UNIVERSITY.-One of our contemporaries and Irish, having made himself an English Commoner for life.-Lord has the following paragraph: "In consequence of the overflow of students Nugent can speak with great force and point. He probably has never at both of our Universities, it is in contemplation to found a third Univerattempted to address the House of Commons without careful preparation, sity, in the neighbourhood of York, towards which the venerable Earl and even elaborate composition of his periods; but his preparation is Fitzwilliam has promised to subscribe 50,000/." What is wanted in sufficiently concealed, and his periods flow with sufficient smoothness. It England is the establishment of universities upon a footing entirely different is quite evident that he is an extensive and reflecting reader; that he from those of Oxford and Cambridge. The expensiveness of the two views principles and traces associations with accuracy and candour, and English universities absolutely limits their benefits to two or three very that his attachments are all justified by his convictions. This last con- narrow classes, viz. persons of great wealth, young men destined for the nection of opinion with sincerity it is which gives peculiar earnestness to church, and the few boys sent on exhibitions and scholarships, &c. from speech, which carries eloquence home to the heart of the hearer, and the grammar school foundations, who, for the most part, by the way, are which stamps public exertions with the sure passport of integrity. Lord included in the last-mentioned class. The lowest sum on which a young Nugent is at once recognised as mainly anxious to express forcibly and man can, with comfort to himself, live at the Universities, is from about elegantly what he really feels and thinks. His expressions are often 250l. to 300l. a-year; and this is a sum which evidently puts an University perhaps too unqualified, too general, too sweeping. This is a blemish of education out of the reach not only of the children of all persons of narrow Laste rather than of feeling. Lord Nugent is spoken of with great affec-incomes, but even of persons of very good fortune, who happen to have tion and esteem by those who enjoy the honour of his friendship. His large families.-Globe and Traveller. countenance indicates the happiest combination of good nature and high spirit. But his easy, affable, elegant habits, are perhaps incompatible with the severe labour, the gloomy confinement, the irksome researches, the exhausting perseverance which excellence in eloquence or poetry exacts with impartial rigour from Peer and peasant.-Morning Herald. RUSSIAN LITERATURE.-There are well meaning men, I understand, who look forward to the speedy growth of Russian literature; and they are right in predicting that it will be wonderful: Yes; literature in a country where truth cannot be spoken, and poetry where an author writes with the knout and Siberia in bis imagination, will indeed be very wonderful! But Russia must first change her government; and that is a serious matter. At present she looks more likely to terrify than encourage European intellect. Meanwhile, in the scale of science and letters the numbers of her population are cyphers and zeros, that express, and will long continue to express, nothing; and if he should ever get hold of Greece, there are no eircumstances that seem immediately to promise the Emperor of all the zeros a flourishing Parnassus in his dominions.-LECTURES ON POETRY BY T. CAMPBELL.-New Monthly Magazine. DR. STODDART.-A Sunday Paper has asserted, that there is a rumour in circulation that the New Times has been sold to the Proprietors of another Paper; and that the Individual who has for the last eight years had the principal interest in and direction of these pages is on the eve of obtaining a place under Government.-Although we are not in the habit of noticing any thing relating to ourselves, which proceeds from such sources, we think it proper to make a short remark on the above statement-It is utterly false-There is not a syllable of truth in any part of | it-New Times.-The "Sunday Paper" alluded to is the Examiner. Dr. Stoddart, we suppose, does not attempt to deny that there was such a amour in circulation, for it is a fact which several persons can prove-all be means perhaps to intimate is, that his apostacy and political servility have not yet procured him a place; and that the Proprietors of the Courier have not bought the New Times. What a pity! should the dolorous Doctor (who is not, pray let it be duly marked, in the habit of noticing anything from nich sources!) be unable either to get a place or to sell his paper! It is now said, that though the Courier people do not buy the Doctor's journal, they are going to print it for him. Mr. Owen calculates that 200 arms, with machines, now manufacture as much cotton as 20,000,000 of arms were able to manufacture without machines 40 years ago; and that the cotton now manufactured in the course of one year in Great Britain, would require, without machines, 16,000,000 of workmen with simple wheels. He calculates further, that the quantity of manufactures of all sorts, at present produced by British workmen with the aid of machines, is so great, that it would require, without the assistance of machinery, the labour of 400 millions of workmen. COLONEL BERKELEY AND MISS FOOTE.-Much has been said to the prejudice of Colonel Berkeley in allusion to his supposed parsimony towards Miss Foote. A respectable correspondent informs us that this charge is altogether without foundation, for that Miss Foote received from the Colonel, upon an average, 7004. per annum, in addition to 6007. paid in 1819, to enable her father to come from Devonshire to London.Chronicle. THE BUTCHER BIRD.-This singular bird was taken in a common trap cage at Bridlington a short time ago, and is now alive in the possession of Mr. Rayner, druggist. From the very exhausted state when taken, the It is wonderful to see with what dexterity this little creature destroys a flight must have been long and rapid, probably across the German Ocean. small bird, which he seizes by the throat and stangles in an instant. THE PRESENT LICENSER. (From Oxberry's Dramatic Biography, No. I.) The present licenser, G. Colman, author of Broad Grins and other chaste productions, in his official capacity, struck out all the " damme's" that occurred in a character in Married and Single, "because such language was immoral." On receiving the licence, Mr. Elliston wrote the doting courtier the following epistle: "Dear Colman, "Dn me, if it isn't the brazier.'- Damn the traveller do I see coming to the Red Cow. Damn this fellow.'t- Sooner be d- -d than dig.'-&c. &c. &c. "Yours, "R W. ELListon." * These words occur in Colman's Comedy of John Bull, + These in, the Review. And these in Ways and Means. MR. KINZ AND MR. KUNZ. (From Lessing's Fables and Epigrams.) Kunz. Friend Kinz, I've heard grave people mention Gunpowder as the Devil's invention. Kinz. Whoe'er informed you so was drunk; LAW. COURT OF CHANCERY. Monday, January 24. BAKER V. CHILD. The defendant is the widow of a gentleman of a considerable family in Salop. The plaintiff, his executor, had obtained an injunction to restrain her from publishing love-letters, odes, and various other epistolary treatises-amorous, scientific, horticultural, and what not; which, from the reputed genius of the author, were likely to prove profitable to her. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Tuesday, Baron Von Weittenstein, who was dressed à la militaire, with a blue frock coat covered with braiding and tassels, and who stated himself to be a Captain in the Prussian service, was charged with fraud.-Mr. Adams, who keeps a lodging-house in George-street, St. Giles's, stated, that about a fortnight ago the prisoner came to lodge at his house, and after a few days borrowed some silver. When the fortnight's rent became due, the Captain said he would discharge it as soon as he got change; and to set Mr. Adams's mind at rest, pulled out what appeared to be a 51. note, folded in a letter, and showing the word "five" to Mr. Adams, he sealed it up, and gave it as security, and at the same time borrowed another sum. After that day, however, the Captain did not return; and on opening the letter, it only contained a 51. note of the Falmouth Bank, without signature, date, or number, not worth a farthing.Upon searching the prisoner's person, the officer had found a number of documents, which were now examined, and proved that he was a Prussian officer; that he was in England on private business; that he had been recalled on pain of losing his little pension; and that being destitute of the money for travelling, he had solicited aid from various persons. The names of Colonel Lindsay and other officers were attached to his memorial, as subscribers of 11. each.-The Baron said he really intended no fraud upon Mr. Adams. What he had done he did out of pure ignorance, not Adams, who now said, that on recollection he could not say the Baron showed the note, but he certainly told him there was a 5l. note in the letter. Mr. CONANT said, the prisoner had, by this account, only told a bare lie, and not made legally a "false pretence."-The Baron was, therefore, ordered to be discharged, and his papers returned to him; and Mr. Adams was told that his remedy must be to sue for the money.-The Baron made a low bow, and retired. The SOLICITOR GENERAL moved for the dissolution of the injunction; and contended, that there was nothing in the letters, &c.—they being "free-will offerings of the husband's natural love"-to limit the de-knowing there was any offence in it-Mr. CONANT again questioned Mr. fendant's right of ownership; and that their publication was necessary to clear her character from certain slanders. The LORD CHANCELLOR was determined to abide by the settled rule in these cases-that the receiver of a letter had every right over it except that of publication, which could not be allowed unless by express permission of the writer. He had so decided in the cases of Lord Byron and Mr. Abernethy. As far as his age allowed him to judge of "natural love," it could make no exception in favour of the present application.Injunction confirmed. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Tuesday, Jan. 25. POLICE REPORTING.-DUNCAN v. TREND, &c. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a rule nisi for a new trial. The articles in the Morning Advertiser regarding the plaintiff were clearly libellous indeed the defendants had not pleaded a justification; the Judge directed the Jury that the law was in favour of the plaintiff; yet the Jury, for some reason which did not appear, found a verdict for the defendants. Wherefore he submitted that the verdict was clearly wrong, and that the case ought to go to a second Jury. The CHIEF JUSTICE asked if there was not some question as to the identity of the plaintiff? The ATTORNEY GENERAL answered in the affirmative. [There was a merely legal point of this nature on the trial, which however was made light of by all parties.] Mr. BROUGHAM.-I think your Lordship left the Jury to say whether the articles were libellous. The CHIEF JUSTICE-Ob, there could be no doubt that they were libellous. I own I thought that the plaintiff' would obtain a verdict; but I expected it would be for very small damages. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. FEROCIOUS OUTRAGE.-A few days after Christmas-day, three labouring men, named Taylor, Brown, and Martin, called at the cottage of Mr. Savory, at East Moulsey, for a christmas-box; and the master being from home, his servant, a powerful young Irishman, Anthony Dukin, gave them some ale. While they were all drinking together, Dukin took offence at some oath Taylor uttered, grew violently enraged, and in spite of all remonstrance, attacked the three others with the tongs. He beat them dreadfully, both in the house, and in Sir G. Berkeley's park, into which he pursued them, and threw Martin over the railings into the road. Taylor lingered in great tortures until the 19th instant, when he died. Martin received severe injury on the spine, and it is doubtful whether he will recover. Brown was less hurt, but is still weakly. The Coroner's inquest upon Taylor returned a verdict of "Manslaughter," and Dakin was apprehended. He was conveyed towards town in a chaise; but near Wandsworth he obtained leave to get out for a few minutes, and while the constable was engaged, he ran across the fields, and escaped in the dark. Next day however he applied to the London police to surrender himself, and was lodged in Surrey jail. On Monday morning, at Gravesend, a young gentleman named Brown, The CHIEF JUSTICE, after consulting with the other Judges, said—second officer of the Company's ship Waterloo, left Northfleet in a wherry There must be a rule to show cause, unless the case can be settled in some to join his ship off Gravesend; and while standing up to ascend the ship's other way. This is not the case in which there is a plea raising the gene-side, he shot himself through the head with a pistol. ral question of police-reporting; that, I think, was an action of "Duncan v. Thwaites." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL-It was, my Lord; and I rather think that the Jury considered themselves as a court of error for the occasion. Rule granted. POLICE. BOW-STREET. On Tuesday, a gentleman complained of the conduct of a constable in Drury-lane theatre on Monday night. The complainant was in a box with five or six strangers; and when Mr. Kean appeared, he hissed, while the other persons applauded vociferously, calling out "Kean for ever!" &c. clapping their hands, and stamping with their feet. He was too much a friend to freedom in such matters to complain, and contented himself with simple hissing. But the Keanites called for an officer to "turn the fellow out." An officer came, seized him by the collar, and dragged him into the lobby. The officer performed the task with perfect readiness, and the applicant's remonstrances were useless. Mr. HALLS strongly reprobated the officer's conduct, and assured the gentleman, that if his name could be procured, a warrant should be issued against him. [Sir R. BIRNIE on Monday, in directing the patrol to be in readiness at the theatre, particularly ordered them not to enter the body of the house unless in case of actual breach of the peace, or to interfere with any expression of opinion. People (he observed) had a right to be left in perfect freedom in such a matter, and he would not suffer any officers to lend themselves to dragoon his Majesty's subjects into approval or disapprobation, or even passive acquiescence in the opinion of others-perhaps the stronger party. This order was given publicly.]-On Wednesday, Sir R. BIRNIE examined the conductors of the patrol respecting the perpetrator of this assault; and it appeared most likely that the offender was one of the Keanites dressed up as a constable-or, as the officers termed it, "a Wolf in sheep's clothing." A dreadful fire broke out on Friday week in the range of buildings over the High-street Market-house. The whole of the Market-houses from Messrs. Councells and Co. to the Crown cellar, wene a prey to the devour ing element.-Bristol Mercury. ACCIDENT AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.-Wednesday morning, about half past nine o'clock, a portion of the floor at the east end of the long roo gave way, and was precipitated with a dreadful crash into the King warehouses, immediately under it. The arches of brick-work whic supported the floor were not sufficiently strong to bear the immense weigh placed on them, and were further weakened, as is supposed, by th loosening of the earth beneath by the late high tides. The portion whic has given way is about 40 feet in breadth, and 20 in length. The des at each side of the room are left standing, the middle part of the flo alone having sunk. The accident took place half an hour before t commencement of public business: only one individual was standing that part of the floor which fell in, and he saved himself by springing into the window-seat. Some workmen were employed in the warehous below, but they all saved themselves on the first alarm, though with gre difficulty. Orders were issued to close up the doors of the long room and it was of course impossible to transact any public business. Mr. Lain the surveyor, was sent for; and the result of Mr. Laing's survey w that that portion of the room which had not fallen was perfectly secu and that the interruption to public business need not exist longer than the following day. FIRE IN DUBLIN. On Tuesday, between twelve and one o'clock fire broke out in the house of Mr. Bristow, the battér, of Sackville-stre Such was the rapidity of the flames, that in less than a quarter of an h the whole of Mr. Bristow's premises, together with Mr. Smith's and A Clark's houses were entirely consumed. The fire originated in the av wardness of a boy when heating a pot of varnish in the shop. Whitehead's lace-shop, in Sackville-street, was also destroyed; and damage and loss of property in all that range of houses is very c siderable. once. FATAL PUGILISM.-Two young men, Ezra Cozier, a blacksmith, and ranking high in life, who effected her ruin, and took her with him into Miller, a carter, quarrelled, and determined to meet on Monday, to decide the country, where she remained until the birth of an infant, which dying their dispute. They met, each attended by his backer. After fighting soon after, the deceased was abandoned by her seducer, and in October for nearly half an hour, Cozier appeared so incapable of further exertion, she returned to London, her spirits quite broken. Her constant wish was that the spectators separated the combatants, and it was discovered that be to return to her native country. On this subject she had repeatedly had received serious injury about his head. He was carried to the Nor-written to the person by whom she was seduced, entreating such pecuniary wood Arms Inn, but before he reached the house he was a corpse. On assistance as would enable her to quit England, but only in two inTuesday, the jury assembled, and viewed the body, which was subsestances were her letters answered; the one was a little before Christmas, quently opened and it was clearly ascertained that his death was occasioned conveying a direct rafusal; and the latter was about ten or twelve days by a blow on the jugular vein, on which a severe contusion appeared, and ago, when deceased received a letter from him, enclosing a 10%. note, a quantity of extravasated blood was found on the brain. The jury rewith a few words of unkind import; one expression was to this effect:turned a verdict of "Manslaughter" against J. Miller, as principal, and "You say that the death of your child has tended to impair your health, E. Mansel, and W. Hadlam, as seconds. The father of Cozier was pre-of a piece with the artifice of your sex. Who ever dreamt of meeting and to incapacitate you from pursuing your business as hitherto. This is sent throughout the strife that ended so fatally. He repeatedly, but ineffectually, interposed. This is the second instance of the fatal termination with such sublime feelings in the bosom of an Italian flower-girl? I only of such contests within the brief space of ten days. When will the country regret that you did not accompany your heart (which I never believed to be free from the disgrace of this ruffianly system? A century ago, En- be mine), and then I should have been freed from both incumbrances at glishmen required no such brutal practice to stimulate their native The enclosed will be the last assistance you can expect from me, courage.-Cheltenham Chronicle. und is more than I have any right to give you." Since the receipt of this letter deceased wept night and day, and talked in so wild a manner, that she began to apprehend her reason was fled. On Sunday she appeared more composed, and attended the service of the Mass at the Spanish Ambassador's Chapel. Until Tuesday morning she was calm, though melancholy. On Tuesday she went out, and did not return until the evening, and when questioned as to the cause of her staying so long, she replied, "I have settled everything this day, but it has cost me many Witness thought that she alluded to her departure for Italy, and observed, "Christina, you must not think of going; there is no occasion I must. Oh, God forgive him that forces me to such an act!" She for it, particularly as Morcani is away." Deceased said, "Yes, yes, but then went to her room; in some short time witness followed her, and pressed her to come down, but she begged them not to disturb her. Witness did not see her until the servant-girl informed her that Mademoiselle was in a fainting fit; and upon going up, she found her lying on the floor to all appearance dead. Witness used various means to restore her, and went for a surgeon, who declared that it was all over, the deceased having swallowed poison. Mr. Dubois, surgeon, was called to assist the deceased. He adopted the ordinary modes of treatment, but without effect. The contents of the stomach proved to be laudanum, in a quantity of greater magnitude than he had ever witnessed in any similar case. The Jury expressed themselves in strong terms of reprobation at the unfeeling conduct of this wretched young woman's Seducer; and concluded by saying, that they only regretted it was not in their power to couple his name with the infamy that attaches to it from this melancholy event, of which he was unquestionably the cause.-Verdict: "That the deceased committed suicide by poison, whilst in a state of temporary derangement." JEALOUSY.-Thursday morning the neighbourhood of Parker's-place, Drury-lane, was thrown into some confusion by a man of decent appearance rushing out of a house, covered with blood, who, after running a few paces, fell to the earth insensible. He was pursued hy a woman of decent exterior, who hurled a flat-iron at his head, and was proceeding to further desperate measures, when some persons seized and carried her into the house, where the man was also taken. His name is Conad; he is an engraver; but having of late been very irregular in his conduct, his wife became jealous, and on his return home attacked him with a case-knife, and stabbed him in the face, neck, left breast, and in the groin slightly, he escaped her fury and instant destruction by rushing out as described. On being taken into the house, medical advice was procured, and he was put to bed in a dreadful state. The wound in his neck is the most severe. Mrs. Conad is now extremely attentive to her unfortunate husband. On Wednesday an inquisition was taken at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of William Hale.-Mrs. Hale, of Farthing-street, Spitalfields, mother of the deceased, stated, that on the 13th instant witness, the deceased, and another son, were at breakfast; the deceased, was toaoting a piece of bread, when John, the other son, snatched it from him, and ran away; the deceased followed, and taking off his shoe, struck him with it on the head, on which John threw a knife at his brother, which inflicted a deep wound on the side of the head: the deceased put his hand on his head, and exclaimed, "Where am I?" His brother was much affected. The deceased bled copiously and was taken to a surgeon, who attempted to stop the effusion of blood, but could not; the deceased was afterwards brought to this hospital. The brothers had always lived on the best terms. The deceased was twenty-two years of age, and his brother seventeen. Mr. Birch, house-surgeon, said, the deceased had a wound on the left side of the head, which laid the skull bare. The deceased died on the 23d, from the effects of the wound. The Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against John Hale, who is now in custody. At no period in the recollection of the oldest person connected with the police, was the crime of horse-stealing so extensively carried on as within the last nine or twelve months, particularly since August. Scarcely a day has elapsed that information has not been received of horses stolen from some parts of the country. It has been pretty clearly ascertained the thieves export them all to the Continent. On the 12th instant, a most daring attempt at murder and robbery was committed at the house of Mr. J. Brown, schoolmaster, of Scalford, near Melton Mowbray. At twelve o'clock, Mr. Brown left his school, a small distance from his dwelling-house, and on entering the latter he found Mrs. Brown lying on the floor, weltering in her blood. In the afternoon she so far recovered as to give the following account:-"As she was coming out of the parlour, two men came into the house, viz. John Brown and George Gibson, labourers, of Scalford. Brown knocked her down, knelt upon her back, and greatly abused her till he supposed her dead. After this they went into the parlour and tried the bureau, but it happened to be locked, and they did not attempt to break it open. They then left the house."-They were taken at their own homes in the evening, and committed to Leicester county gaol, to take their trials at the next assizes.Mrs. Brown still continues very ill, but there are great hopes she will recover.-Stamford News. On Friday morning last, John Huskis, one of the Carron Company's everseers, at Carronball colliery, after having got all his men down the pit, had just seated himself in the bucket, when the hook to which the chain was attached gave way, and he was precipitated to the bottom, a depth of about twelve fathoms, and was killed on the spot.-The deceased was about 40 years of age, bore au excellent character, and has left a widow and seven children to deplore his loss. It is rather a singular coincidence, that his father was also an overseer at the same work, and was killed there 14 years ago by a similar accident.-Edinburgh Star. SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.-On Thursday, an inquest was holden at the Three Cups, Oxford-road, on the body of Christina Marie Briscolie, aged 19 years, who put a period to her existence by poison, on Tuesday last.— Louisa Morcani, of Drew's-place, stated that the deceased was niece to ber husband, Carlo Morcani, a manufacturer of artificial flowers. The deceased was much noticed by various persons, and was offered a situation a very eminent florist's house in New Bond-street, which she accepted, and where she had the misfortune to attract the regards of a Gentleman tears. As A. Christie, Esq. of Peterborough, was hunting on Tuesday, his horse fell with him, and he was so much hurt that he was obliged to be conveyed home in a carriage.-The same day, while hunting, Sir Charles Wentworth's horse fell with him, and fractured his collar-bone-Stamford News. A serious accident befel Lady Mostyn on Tuesday evening, as her Ladyship was returning from Spring Bank; one of the wheels of the carriage slipped into a water-shoot, and the shock precipitated the coachman from the box, who immediately ran to the heads of the horses, but was knocked down, and the wheels going him, he was severely injured. The horses proceeded at a smart trot, about 200 yards, when unfortunately, Lady Mostyn attempted to leap out of the carriage, and it is supposed that her clothes entangled in the wheel, by which she was thrown down, and her head and face dreadfully bruised; she was taken up insensible and conveyed to Spring Bank. We regret to add, that Lady Mostyn's case is considered hopeless.-Lady M. died on Thursday.-Worcester Journal. MARRIAGES. On the 27th inst. Francis Frederick Rougemont, Esq. of Dulwich, to Marianne, On Wednesday, Charles Loftus, Esq. third son of General and Lady Elizabeth Loftus, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late Colonel John Dixon, of Rainhamhall, Norfolk. On the 27th inst. the Rev. William Hutton Wilkinson, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and of Nether-hall, Suffolk, to Eliza Caroline, daughter of G. B. Tyndale, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn-fields. DEATHS. On the 7th inst. at Wymondham, Norfolk, sincerely regretted, Mrs. Tillott, wife of John Tillott, Esq. aged 63. On Tuesday evening, after a long and painful illness, Mr. William Goodall, of Lambeth. in the 76th year of his age. He was uncle to the present Sir John Thorold, On Tuesday se'nnight, at Welham, near East Retford, Samuel Thorold, Esq. Bart. of Syston-park. On the 17th inst. at Edinburgh, after a lingering illness, Lady Alvanley. On the 25th inst. aged 76 years, Mr. Isaac Venes, of Duke-street, Portlandplaće, wine-merchant. On Tuesday afternoon, an elderly person, named Perry, formerly a Captain poor-house, after eating a hearty supper, on retiring to rest was seized with an in the East India Company's service, and for ten years an inmate in Lambeth apoplectic fit, and instantly expired. Alexander Tilloch, Esq. long the proprietor and conductor of "The Star" evening paper, on Wednesday, in Pentonville. Mr. Tilloch found leisure for philosophical pursuits, and published many useful works, LIBERAL PRINCIPLES. At a late Fox Dinner at Edinburgh, Mr. JEFFREY spoke in the following terms of the "liberal principles" recently displayed by his Majesty's Ministers :-" The phenomenon pointed on Irish grievances-the tone of decided hostility to the maxims of the Holy Alliance in the debate on the Spanish question, and since, the cordiality and respect studiously expressed towards the Government and people of America, and the recent recognition of the independence, of what, a few years ago, we should have expected to be called the revolted and rebellious colonies in the southern part of that great Continent-all occurring, I believe, since the period of our last meeting, seem to me to afford conclusive proof of the singular and surprising fact, that principles of liberality and reform, so long advocated by the Opposition, have at last forced their way into the high places of Government, and actually produced their fruit in that most ungenial soil. The thing itself is beyond all doubt to be rejoiced at, and if it were only possible to hope that it could go onthat Ministers might adopt the whole creed of what they have now acknowledged mere detached articles-that they might become Whigs in principle and in practice, and give the country and the world the full benefit of that entire and miraculous conversion-then, gentlemen, though we might grudge a little that the true author and teachers of these doctrines were deprived of the honour inseparable from their practical assertion, by their tardy, untractable, and reluctant pupils, yet, I am persuaded, that all sense of this personal injustice would be lost in one common joy at the deliverance of the country; and that, satisfied with the blessings that had been obtained, we should willingly leave the adjustment of our share of personal merit to the judgment of an impartial posterity. But alas, gentlemen, this is a vision which can never be realised-Ministers, I fear, are not so much converted to our ways of thinking, as compelled to give effect to them by the conversion of the country at large. It is measures, no doubt, and not men that we contend for-but no measures can ever be successfully or effectually carried through by men who are not cordial in their attachment to the principles from which they proceed. Detached fragments of a liberal policy never can be steadfastly or consistently maintained by those who are adverse to the system to which they belong; and when patched on the vile tissue of corruption, for purposes of disguise or protection, serve only in the end to show more offensively, by the contrast, the incongruity and unpopularity of the union. While we rejoice, therefore, in the practical good which has arisen from the limited adoption of some of our principles, we are bound to say, that we ascribe but little merit to the Ministers by whom they have been adopted-being persuaded, upon grounds that seem but too conclusive, that they have been forced upon them, not by any approach on their part to a general system of liberal and popular Government, but unwillingly, and from dire necessity, by the general voice and sense of the public. They have given no indications of a sincere desire to reduce the forces of corruption, or to trust the people with the free exercise of their rights, but have reluctantly made this sacrifice of a few of their prejudices to give them a better chance of excluding their opponents, and maintaining their own privilege of misgovernment and oppression. I give this toast, however, with the most unqualified pleasure. First, for the great practical benefits which the phenomenon it announces will confer on the country; and, secondly, and chiefly, for the triumphant evidence which that phenomenon affords of the extent to which our principles have spread in the country, and the firmness of the root they have taken there when we find that they have thus, for thus only it could have been-forced their way to those inaccessible and unfriendly heights on which we have so long wished to see them planted. The triumph of those principles is our triumph-and by whomsoever the honour of introducing them may be usurped, we may rest assured not only that the public and the nation at large will do us justice in this respect, but that the time cannot be far distant when the whole of our principles and our system will be established by its true adherents, on the ruins of that which now seeks to adorn its rottenness by borrowing or stealing a few ill-assorted fragments from our plan." THE HOLY ALLIES.-AMERICA. At the same dinner, Mr. B. GREEN SHIELDS thus characterised the detestable alliance so facetiously termed "holy." The toast that has now been given, naturally turns our thoughts to a country which can never receive the boon of Catholic Emancipation, because it has never suffered under the curse of Catholic subjugation. Need I name the United States of North America,-a people who are at once our glory and our shame. We may be proud of our relation to them, we may boast of them as our kindred in lineage, in religion, in language, laws, and literature, and in those principles of freedom which they and we have derived from the same common ancestors. But we may well be ashamed at being outstripped by them in the career of liberal policy, and compelled to take lessons of wisdom from our younger brethren. They pursue their march of prosperity and greatness,-unimpeded by feudal rubbish, unembarrassed by regal and priestly pretensions, unappalled by difficulty or danger. But we cling to ancient abuses, because they are ancient, and shrink from the adoption of manly and energetic measures, waiting till the time shall arrive, which never arrives to cowards, a time of perfect safety. Yet, confessing our inferiority,-still how much more below America are the Continental States of Europe. There the nations are oppressed for the pleasure of their rulers alone, there they are proscribed for their security. And what rulers! Contrast to the honoured names of Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, those of Alexander, Frederic William, and Joseph. Which have the best claims to renown-which the strongest title to the gratitude of the present age, and the applause of posterity? Did the eminent men whom I have named,-whether in the mild exercise of limited power, or in their grateful retirement to the shades of private life,-did they experience reflections less pleasing,was their repose more insecure, than that of the Continental Despots, encircled as they are by arms, and covered by the threefold shield of the Holy Alliance? Holy Allies!-this is the name which the conspiracy of Imperial and Regal Bandits have assumed to themselves. Who can pronounce the name, or hear it pronounced, without indignant emotions? That man is unworthy of the appellation of a Briton who would not lend his best efforts to abate the great public nuisance of Europe, even though we were entirely safe from their arms and machinations. But are we safe? Liberty is declining, is almost extinguished, on the continent. Every year witnesses its decrease,-thanks to our own feeble and selfish policy. The independence of Naples would have cost us but a word,-and a glance of indignation would have saved the liberties of Spain. But in the one instance we were silent, in the other we looked on with the unmeaning smile of perfect neutrality. Switzerland it may be said remains-but how fallen from her high estate ! An Ambassador of France domineers over the councils of the Republic, and an Austrian rescript carries proscription through her territories. Yet I will not despair of that people. There is among them, whatever may be the case with their rulers, a deep and resentful feeling of their humiliation, which may lead to happy results. The Austrian may again be taught by them that lesson which his forefathers learned, and the horn that sounded at Morat may yet startle the ears of tyrants on the plains of Burgundy. But the future is uncertain. On the Continent, the present is gloomy, the prospect louring," Star after star goes out," and it may perhaps be doomed to the utter darkness of despotism. If such be the consummation, shall we remain unassailed? Will the Holy Allies change their nature, and cherish that freedom in Britain which they abhor in every |