: PROGRESS IN SINGING.-When Salomon was asked by one of the Royal Dukes, who was learning to fiddle, what progress he had made, Salomon said, in his broad German English," There are three stages of playing music play not at all; play very bad (pronounced bāāāād); and play very well;-now your Royal Highness has made very great progress in the second stage-play very bāāāād.” The rage for building continues unabated. The extensive track of ground between Millbank and Chelsea, which has long supplied the London markets with vegetables, has been lately let on a building lease by Earl Grosvenor, to Mr Cubitt, the builder, who has delivered in a plan of 5,000 houses to be there erected. The market-gardeners have received notice to quit. THE GREAT UNKNOWN. We have heard that several curious and hitherto unpublished documents, relative to the Corsican Adventurer, have found their way into the hands of Sir Walter Scott; particularly, that he possesses the private journal of Captain Maitland, kept on board the Bellerophon during Bonaparte's voyage to St Helena; and, what may be thought still more curious, the billet-doux that passed between him and Josephine, at an early period of their acquaintance, From these materials a book is in progress; and our informant goes on to say, that the first volume of this interesting work is already in the hands of the printer, and that the copyright has long since been purchased for a round number of thousands.-New Times. ROYAL NETHERLANDERS.-There is nothing pleasing or promising in the physiognomy of the Royal Family; the King has a wide mouth, which seems scarcely capable of assuming a smile, very ordinary features, a dumb eye, and a cropped head of stiff sandy hair. The Prince of Orange strongly resembles him, but has the difference in his favour of being thirty instead of nearly sixty years of age. The Queen is a fair match for her husband, and the Princess Frederick does not seem made either to captivate or disgrace her lord.-Leeds Mercury. I J take his dinner with me; he wrote a very excellent Bacchanalian song, "I knew Dr Jenner (says Mr Kelly) who often did me the honour to for which I composed the music. When I was about leaving Cheltenham, was lamenting to the Doctor the loss of the Spa waters. He told me, under an injunction of secrecy (which I never violated during his lifetime) that the Cheltenham salts, which you can procure of Mr Paytherus, in Bond street, are to the full as efficacious and conducive to health as the waters from the well." A GOOD SHOT." I was once acquainted with a famous shooter, whose name was William Ewing. He was a barrister of Philadelphia, but became far more renowned by his gun than by his law cases. We spent scores of days together a shooting, and were extremely well matched, I having excellent dogs and caring little about my reputation as a shot, his dogs being good for nothing, and he caring more about his reputation as a shot than as a lawyer. The fact which I am going to relate respecting this gentleman, ought to be a warning to young men, how they become ena- RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION.-Patience under the detested tyranny of moured of this species of vanity. We had gone about ten miles from man is rebellion to the sovereignty of God, because allegiance to that, our home, to shoot where partridges were said to be very plentiful. We power that gives us the forms of inen commands us to maintain the rights found them so. In the course of a November day, he had, just before of men. And never yet was this truth dismissed from the human heartdark, shot, and sent to the farm-house, or kept in his bag, ninety-nine never in any time, in any age-never in any elime, where rude man had partridges. He made some few double shots, and he might have a miss any social feeling, or where corrupt refinement had subdued all feelings or two, for he sometimes shot when out of my sight, on account of the -never was this one unextinguishable truth destroyed from the heart of woods. However, he said that he killed at every shot; and, as he had man, placed as it is in the core and centre of it by his Maker, that man counted the birds, when he went to dinner at the farm house and when was not made the property of man-that human power is a trust for he cleaned his gun, he, just before sun-set, knew that he had killed human benefit-and that when it is abused, revenge becomes justice, if ninety-nine partridges, every one upon the wing, and a great part of them not the bounden duty of the injured.-Sheridan.-Sentiments like these in woods very thickly set with largish trees. It was a grand achieve- will never, we trust, want admirers in Britain, in spite of the doctrines ment; but, unfortunately, he wanted to make it a hundred! The sun promulgated by the Rev. NERO WILSON, and other such pious serviles, was setting, and, in that country, darkness comes almost at once; it is who maintain that a ruler is to be implicitly obeyed, although he be a more like the going out of a candle than that of a fire; and I wanted to monster of the first magnitude,-a Nero, a Commodus, or a Caligula ! be off, as we had a very bad road to go, and as he, being under strict And why? Because, forsooth, an intemperate little man, who lived in petticoat government, to which he most loyally and dutifully submitted, Judea 1800 years ago, of a very suspicious character, thought fit to say was compelled to get home that night, taking me with him, the vehicle that "the Powers that be are ordained of God." According to which, (horse and gig) being mine. I therefore pressed him to come away, and the Prince of Darkness himself ought not to be resisted, for he too is said moved on myself towards the house (that of old John Brown, in Bucks to be a "Power," and if so, must assuredly have been " ordained of God." county, grandfather of that General Brown, who gave some of our whis-In one sense, no doubt, all things are ordained of God-the power to kered heroes such a rough handling last war, which was waged for the resist, be it however remembered, as well as the power to oppress. purpose of "deposing James Madison"), at which house I would have stayed all night, but from which I was compelled to go by that watchful government under which he had the good fortune to live. Therefore I was in haste to be off. No: he would kill the hundredth bird! In vain did I talk of the bad road and its many dangers for want of moon. The poor partridges, which we had scattered about, were calling all around us; and, just at this moment, up got one under his feet, in a field in which the wheat was three or four inches high. He shot, and missed. "That's it," said he, running as if to pick up the bird. What!" said I," you don't think you killed, do you? Why, there is the bird now, not only alive, but calling, in that wood;" which was at about a hundred yards distance. He, in that form of words usually employed in such cases, asserted that he shot the bird and saw it fall; and I, in much about the same form of words, asserted that he had missed, and that I, with my own eyes, saw the bird fly into the wood. This was too much! To miss once out of a hundred times! To lose such a chance of immortality! He was a good-humoured man; I liked him very much; and I could not help feeling for him, when he said, " Well, Sir, I killed the bird; and if you choose to go away and take your dog away, so as to prevent me from finding it, "you must do it: the dog is yours to be sure." "The dog," said I, in a very mild tone," why, Ewing, there is the spot; and could we not see it, upon this smooth green surface, if it were there" However, he began to look about; and I called the dog, and affected to to join him in the search. Pity for his weakness got the better of my dread of the bad road. After walking backward and forward many times upon about twenty yards square, with our eyes to the ground, looking for what both of us knew was not there, I had passed him (he going one way and I the other), and I happened to be turning round just after I had passed him, when I saw him, putting his hand behind him, take a partridge out of his bag and let it fall upon the ground! I felt no temptation to detect him, but turned away my head, and kept looking about. Presently he, having returned to the spot where the bird was, called out to me, and in a most triumphant tone: Here! Here! Come here!" I went up to him, and he, pointing with his finger down to the bird, and looking hard in my face at the same time, said, "There, Cobbett ; I THE TIGER AND THE ALLIGATOR.-(From a Dutch Paper.) We hope that will be a warning to you never to be obstinate again!" learn from Bantano the following singular occurrence, for the authen"Well," said I, "come along :" and away we went as merry as larks.ticity of which we can answer :-A man fishing on the banks of the river When we got to Brown's, he told them the story, triumphed over me Tyeliman, heard something splash into the water, and perceived a tiger most clamorously; and, though he often repeated the story to my face, I at no great distance swimming from the other side of the river. The never had the heart to let him know that I knew of the imposition, fisherman thought he should best provide for his safety by climbing which puerile vanity had induced so sensible and honourable a man to be a high tree, and had scarcely effected this, when the uger reaching a mean enough to practise. A professed shot is, almost always, a very tree that hung over the water, attempted to get upon it. At that moment disagreeable brother sportsman. He must, in the first place, have a head an alligator of the largest size darted out of the water, seized the tiger, rather of the emptiest to pride himself upon so poor a talent. Then he is and dragged him back. This gave the fishermau courage to look at the always out of temper, if the game fail, or if he miss it. He never par- strange sight, and be witness of a combat between the two most rapacious ticipates in that great delight which all sensible men enjoy at beholding animals of these countries. Six times the two combatants appeared above the beautiful action, the docility, the zeal, the wonderful sagacity, of the the surface of the water, exerting their utmost efforts. The water was pointer and the setter. He is always thinking about himself; always dyed with blood, and the tiger, which was seized by the alligator across anxious to surpass his companions,”—Cobbett's Register. the back, became at length the prey of the latter." Captain Sutherland, who perished in the Comet, was an excellent swimmer; a soldier who served with him in America says, that he has seen him swim as far as from Inverness to Kessock-yet, this noble fellow scorned to avail himself of this advantage, and remained clasped in his lady's arms till both sunk to rise no more.—Inverness Courier. SILENT DOGS.-There is a nerve called the recurrent nerve (from its turning back), which governs the voice. This nerve has been found out by poachers, who manage to get at it in the dog, and divide it; the consequence is, that dogs who are thus treated hunt silently in the night.— Iris: Dr Speir's Lecture. A VENERABLE SEDUCER.-Thomas Adams, aged eighty years, was committed on Monday to Brecon county gaol, for want of sureties to indemnify the parish of Llangottock Crickhowell, for the maintenance of his bastard child, wherewith a poor woman, aged fifty years, is now pregnant. Hereford Independent. HERRING FISHERY.-An interesting and novel sight eccurred at Folkstone on Saturday week: The fishing boats belonging to that town brought on shore six hundred thousand herrings, caught within one mile from the shore, a circumstance never before remembered to have taken place in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. What makes it the more remarkable is, they were caught in the day time, and so speedily, that many of the boats were not out an hour before they were completely filled, and this occurred to many of them twice and three times on the same day. BILLS OF THE PLAY.-We quote the following eulogy from the New Monthly Magazine, because our own inspection of the publication spoken of enables us to confirm its justice. The great utility of such a substitute for the old play-bills, is too obvious to need comment. We like everything about our new Theatrical Calendar but its name, which is a little too recherché for so unpretending a sheet: We are happy to mention, as a piece of literary intelligence for the frequenters of the theatres, that there is at present in course of daily publication, a very spirited and clever little manual or companion to the playhouses, called the Thespian Sentinel. It comprises correct bills of the plays represented at all the houses for the current evening; together with remarks on the preceding night's performances. Some publications of a similar description had been started before the present, but they were so execrably printed, so incorrect in their information, and written in such queer English, as to be almost, if not altogether useless. The Sentinel is neatly brought out; and the criticisms (written expressly for the work), are executed with all the intelligence of a man of letters and an acute observer. It is altogether one of the most interesting of the cheap publications with which the present day so abounds; and it cannot fail, we think, to be encouraged by all lovers of the theatre, as a useful compenion in their hours of amusement, and as a record for future reference, of the events connected with the Drama." THE PLAGUE-During the plague of 1813, when all the English and the greater number of the native inhabitants of Malta, were terrified and overcome with horror at this calamitous visitation, and each man, instead of approaching his dying neighbour with relief or consolation, suffered him to expire in neglect and destitution, a great number of Jews, tempted by offers of reward, came down from Smyrna, where the plague is almost an annual visitor, and engaged to treat all the infected medically, on condition of receiving a certain sum per head for as many as were cured. Their offer was accepted: they went boldly among the dying, where no one else would venture to accompany them. They cured the greater number of those attacked, and not one of their whole body was affected by the disease. Surely this could not have happened bad the plague been highly or even slightly contagious.—Oriental Herald. NEEDLE-WORK. (From William Hone's " Every Day Book.")-This word "work" is significant of an employment which astonishes men, and seems never to tire the fingers of their industrious helpmates and daughters; except that, with an expression which we are at a loss to take for either jest or earnest, because it partakes of each, they now and then exclaim, "women's work is never done!" The assertion is not exactly the fact, but it is not a great way from it. What" man of woman born" ever considered the quantity of stitches in a shirt without fear that a general mutiny among females might leave him" without a shirt to his back?" Cannot an ingenious spinner devise a seamless shirt, with its It is said, that Mr J. G. Lockhart, the son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, gussets, and wristbands, and collar, and selvages as durable as hemming sometime the reputed Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, leaves the ScotThese inquiries are occasioned by the following Letter from a Lady :tish bar for London, to be there Editor of the Quarterly Review, and to "To the Editor of the Every Day Book.-Sir, I assure you the Every hold a place under government, vice Mr Stewart Rose, resigned.Day Book is a great favourite among the ladies, and therefore I send for Scotsman. insertion a calculation, furnished me by a maiden aunt, of the num- At a parochial examination in the neighbourhood a Reverend catechist ber of stitches in a plain shirt made for her grandfather:-Stitching the obviously wishing to excite among his simple and unlettered parishcollar, four rows, 3,000; sewing the ends, 500; button-holes, and sew- ioners a high admiration of his originality and profundity-proposed to a ing on buttons, 150; sewing on the collar and gathering the neck, 1,204; countryman the following question. "Can you tell me, my friend, how stitching wristbands, 1,228; sewing the ends, 68; button-holes, 148; long Adam was in Paradise before he sinned?" "Just until he gat a hemming the slits, 264; gathering the sleeves, 840; setting on wrist-wife," promptly replied the rustic disciple.-Dundee Advertiser. bands, 1,468; stitching shoulder-straps, three rows each, 1880; hemTHE WINTER.-The Farmer's Journal, says, "Without any supernaming the neck, 390; sewing the sleeves, 2,554; setting in sleeves and tural pretensions to foresight, we certainly do forbode a severe winter; gussets, 3,050; taping the sleeves, 1,526; sewing the seams, 848; set- our reasons are, that the oldest man living cannot remember three mild ting side gussets, 424; hemming the bottom, 1,104-Total number of winters together; and nine times out of ten a hard winter follows a hot, stitches 20,646 in my aunt's grandfather's plain shirt, as witness my hand, dry summer." -Gertrude Grizenhoofe.-Cottenham, near Cambridge, Sept. 1825." DOCTRINE OF PERFECTIBILITY.-On hearing that a certain modern CHEERING INFORMATION.-On the 14th of January 1792, the Pan-philosopher had carried his belief in the perfectibility of all living theon Theatre was burned. Mr Sheridan was with me on that day; I things so far, as to say that he did not despair of seeing the day when went with him to view the conflagration, While Mr Sheridan was ob- tigers themselves might be educated, Dr T. (a Scotch critic) exclaimed, serving how very high the flames were, he said, "Is it possible to ex"I should like dearly to see him in a cage with twa of his pupils." tinguish the flames?" An Irish fireman heard him make the observa- their High Mightinesses the Porter Brewers, would amount to a tax of RISE IN BBER.-It has been stated that the recent rise ordained by tion, and said. "For the love of heaven, Mr Sheridan, don't make yourself uneasy, Sir; by the powers, it will soon be down, sure enough, for upwards of a million per annum upon the pub ic, but we find that conthey won't have another drop of water in five minutes." Pát said this siderably below the mark; for it appears by the following statement that in the natural warmth of his heart, for he imagined that the burning of the rise on the porter alone will put into the pockets of these gentry the Pantheon must be gratifying to Mr Sheridan, as the Proprietor of nearly 400,000l. per annum, as follows:Drury lane. Kelly's Reminiscences. SOCIETY OF KINGS. Besenval, who was himself a courtier, and enjoyed long the intimacy of Lewis the XVth and XVIth, gives us the following account of the society of kings:"With them there is hardly any subject of conversation: one cannot certainly talk to them of politics, or of the news of the day; that would be to want respect, from the impossibility in which they are of answering; to dilate upon the administration, and to discuss it, would likewise be to oblige them to keep silence, and to fall oneself into the situation of attacking those who have offices, of hurting them, or of making oneself enemies to no purpose. An event of society, of whatever nature it may be, presents the same difficulties; besides, kings are not sufficiently acquainted either with its forms, or with those who compose it, to judge otherwise than with prejudice. One must forbid oneself the very word of religion; kings are obliged to respect it; past wars, ancient history, events sometime gone by, sciences, and literature, might furnish matter for conversation, but where should we find courtiers sufficiently well-informed to talk on these subjects? It is rare to find kings able to comprehend them. There remain therefore only subjects which mean nothing, common-places, plays, or the chase.” 1824. Barclay and Co. brewed Taylor Elliott Cross Barrels. Difference at 55. per Barrel. £89,520 356,281 215,317 53,829 And as there is every reason to suppose that the rest of the brewers throughout the kingdom will readily follow so good an example, should that be the case, the tax upon the community will be nearer two millions than one. So much for combinations among one branch of masters !— New Times. RUSSIAN MILITARY DANDIES, AND RUSSIAN EQUIPAGES. (Date,Paris, April 8, 1814.)" Some of the Russian officers were mere boys; and all of them either wore stays, or else were very tightly girt above the hips; their breasts were very much padded, and they wore white kid gloves, with their hair very bushy, down to the shoulders. Russian carriages were to be seen with rope harness, the bearded coachman holding the reins in both hands, with extended arms the width of the body asonder, the whip hanging to the right wrist, dressed in a robe and a broadbrimmed hat, with the crown enlarging towards the top; the posti Hion mounted on the off horse. Such was the equipage of Baron Sacken, Russian Governor of Paris!"-Journal of a Detenu-London MagazINE for November. No FLATTERER!-In a letter addressed in 1811 to his present Majesty, Mr Sheridan had the hardihood thus to describe both his Royal Patron and himself:"To this line of conduct I am prompted by every motive of personal gratitude, and confirmed by every opportunity, which peculiar circumstances and long experience have afforded me, of judging of your HEART and UNDERSTANDING,-to the SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE of which (beyond all, I believe, that ever stood in your rank and high relation to society) fear not to advance my humble testimony, because I scruple not to say for myself, that I am no Flatterer, and that I never found that to become one was the road to your real regard."-Ought not the Sycophant and Hypocrite who could have penned such a passage, to have been publicly pumped upon, every levee-day, for the remainder of his degraded life? And for what was it that the writer thus ventured to outrage decency and truth? the hope of securing that which his Biogra- FRENCH GALLANTRY.-A British Colonel of dragoons, who had lost his pher well terms the frailest of all sublunary treasures, a Prince's right arm in the Peninsula, was leading his regiment to the charge in the friendship." How he succeeded, we all know; and the lesson is a battle of Waterloo, when a French Officer rode furiously up to attack him: useful one. the arm of the foe was raised, his aim was taken, when his sword, though SPRING GUNS. On Tuesday week, a poor woman was shot by a spring-on the point of a fatal descent, fell harmless at his side: seeing the En gun whilst getting acorns in the Link Wood, Bradfield, belonging to J.glishman defenceless, the gallant Frenchman checked himself even in Moseley, Esq. The woman was conveyed home much wounded, and has the heat of his blood, and went in quest of a more equal enemy.-Leeds been confined ever since the accident,-Bury Gazette, Mercury. INTOLERANCE. The Pope has ordered the Jews to wear yellow Mr Liston, it is said, is to receive 151. per night for four nights of each covering on their hats, and the women a yellow riband on the breast, week! under the pain of severe penalties. LAW. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. MUNKHOUSE U. ADAMTHWAITE-PUFFING. SIGNS OF PROSPERITY!-" From Tavistock I passed over a part of Dartmoor forest on my road to Okehampton. In this part of Devonshire, and, indeed, in every part of Devonshire, the farmers' labourers appear to be in a miserable condition. Their wages are about fifteen pence a day in the winter, and eighteen in the summer; but then the farmers let them have wheat at about one-fourth less than the selling price. Nevertheless they are unable, as may be easily imagined, to maintain their families upon this pittance without parochial assistance. The consequence is, that their cottages are dirty and unfurnished, their children pale and squalid, and themselves idle and improvident."-Private Letter in a Morning Paper. MAZURIER (the Polichinello), is paid the enormous weekly salary of 1507. being at the rate of 257. per night. Previous to his treaty with Mr C. Kemble, Mazurier was applied to on the part of Mr Elliston, and refused to take less than 401. per night, and sixty pounds each for the maskssioned by him to bid up to 8001. Dr Adamthwaite himself finally bid he might require! Those indispensables are certainly masterpieces in their way; Mazurier's eyes alone are all that can be seen of his own countenance. The mask is so firmly fitted to the face as to be susceptible of the most minute contraction or expansion by the motion of the actor's muscles. Daily Paper. NEW BUILDINGS.-The improvements projected in London and its neighbourhood, and to be submitted to Parliament in the next Session, are as considerable as any that have been produced in any one season. The great street from Charing cross, and the alterations at the latter place, the opening from Pickett place to Lincoln's Inn fields, a bridge from the Horseferry to Lambeth church, and a new bridge at Hammersmith, are among the number. Among the lesser changes is to be a widening of the west end of Threadneedle street, to be effected by the Directors of the Bank of England, who are to purchase and take down a few of the houses, and to carry a footway through the tower of St Bartholomew's church. If we add to these the removal of Fleet market, and the great thoroughfare to be opened from Blackfriars bridge to the northern roads, the buildings in progress near Whitehall, the demolition or restoration of Buckingham house, the alterations (we do not know yet whether we can call them improvements) in Hyde park, and the rapid extension of the buildings about the Regent's park, we may conceive the change which will probably be effected in the appearance of the metropolis in a short time. SIMPLICITY REWARDED." Does your husband expectorate?" said an apothecary in this town, to a poor Irish woman who had long visited his shop for her sick husband-"Expect to ate, yer honour-no sure, and Paddy does not expect to ate-he's nothing at all to ate!" The humane man sent a large basin of mixture from a tureen of soup then smoking on his table.-Cheltenham Journal. A gentleman who was severely cross-examined by Mr Dunning, who asked him repeatedly if he did not live within the verge of the Court, at length answered that he did. "And pray, Sir," said Dunning, "why did you take up your residence in that place?"" In order to avoid the impertinence of dunning," answered the witness. SINGULAR FACT.-A pear-tree, in the garden occupied by Mr Mills, near the New Church, Waterloo road, now contains a considerable quan tity of fruit, being the second crop this season. In January last it was in full blossom, again in April. and, almost before the pears became ripe, the tree was remarked suddenly to have shed its leaves. Towards the latter end of September this extraordinary tree again blossomed, being the third time, producing a second crop of fruit, part of which is now suffered to remain for the gratification of those who feel inclined to witness the fact.-Daily Papers. APPLE-STEALING.-Wm Horrocks, the old man of 72, found guilty at the last Salford Sessions of stealing apples," seemed (says the Manchester Journal) to have the intellect of a child, and the 14 days' imprisonment to which he was sentenced, showed that the Bench did not regard the act as evidence of confirmed thievishness. The old man was very deaf. It was shouted in his ears, " You are charged with stealing apples."-" Oh yes," said he, laughing," the gardener caught me !"The Chairman of the Sessions directed that he should be told that was now a felony! "You have committed a felony," shouted a Junior Counsel.-" Oh, no," said the old man, seriously, "I never did in my life. Oh no, I never did."-You have committed a felony in taking the apples." ""Take the apples" said he, smiling again, "Oh yes, I took the apples-I had them in a bag, and the gardener caught me !" LONGEVITY.-There are now living at Butley, in the parish of Prestbury, a brother and sister, whose united ages amount to 188 years-he being 97 and she 91. Francis Perry, for that is his name, has occupied his present residence during his whole life, with the exception of about three years after his birth. It is difficult to say which affords the most extraordinary instance of mental faculties, vigorous in old age. He, with only a slight deafness, and an occasional giddiness when he walks, has a nervous and steady hand, enabling him, not only to sharpen his own ra zor on a stone, but to shave himself! which he can do without the aid of spectacles. His sister is neither deaf nor dizzy-nor is there any of that tremulousness of voice usual in old persons. She manages her little affairs in the house with astonishing activity and neatness-washes for herself and brother, cooks their frugal meals, knits stockings for her brother's use, and reads for his amusement-with glasses it must be conessed,—Manchester Journal. This was a suit instituted to compel a specific performance of a contract for the purchase of certain land near Appleby.-Mr HEALD, for the plaintiff, stated, that the premises had been put up to auction, and that, according to a custom prevalent in Westmoreland, two persons were employed to raise the biddings to a certain amount, so as to prevent the property being brought in at a low sum. Dr Adamthwaite commissioned a person to bid for him to the amount of 6004. When the sale had reached this price, the agent went again to Dr Adamthwaite, and was commis1000 guineas, at which sum he was declared the purchaser. Soon after, the defendant objected to complete his purchase: he complained that the price had been unfairly raised against him by puffers, he being the only real bidder; that the property was not of the value described; and that be was in a state of intoxication at the time be purchased. The plaintiff contended, that he had done no more in employing puffers than he had a right to do, in order to prevent the disparagement of his property, and that their biddings had no effect in raising the price unfairly, because it had always been resolved that the estate should not be sold for less than 8007., and the agent of the defendant had actually bid this sum before the defendant himself offered 1000 guineas. With respect to the defendant's being intoxicated, it was his own fault, for whatever he drank was at his own expense. Mr SUGDEN for the defendant, contended, that this was a sale of which a court of equity could not decree the completion. From the evidence of the persons employed as puffers, it appeared that one of them, Hammond, had been instructed to bid up to the sum of 6004.; and that afterwards he was requested to raise the price up to 8001. He did continue bidding, and as he was a person of substance, and considered to be a good judge of the value of land, everybody present believed that he was a bona fide, bidder. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that the question seemed to be, whether the biddings of the puffers had such an effect upon the sale as to raise the price frauduently against the purchaser. It seemed that Dr Adamthwaite knew that Hammond was a puffer; but it did not appear to what amount Hammond's biddings actually reached. This must be ascertained before that point on which the case turned could be made clear. In order to do this, therefore, his Honour directed that it should be referred to leave to state any special circumstances. the Master to ascertain what were the several biddings of Hammond, with COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD V. THE HON. AUGUSTUS STANHOPE. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the Court on the part of the Marquis of Hertford, to grant articles of the peace against the defendant, who is the son of the Earl of Harrington. The Noble Marquis, who was on the bench, swore to the affidavit upon which the motion was founded. The affidavit stated, that the exhibitant having in 1816 been informed that the defendant invited to bis quarters at Paris the exhibitant's son (Lord Beauchamp), who was then only sixteen years of age, and that he there lost at play, in a few hours, 16,000. for which he gave to the defendant two acknowledgments, one for 8,0001. and upwards, and another for 7,000l. and upwards, stated the facts to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Occupation; and the defendant was tried by a Court-martial at Cambray, and dismissed the service, for having conducted himself in a manner unbecoming an Officer, inasmuch as he joined in a conspiracy to induce Lord Beauchamp to play. In consequence of this sentence, the exhibitant believed that the defendant indulged great enmity against him. The exhibitant had no communication with the defendant since this transaction until July, when he was grossly insulted by the defendant in Hyde Park. Application was then made to Sir Richard Birnie; but in consequence of the defendant's having pledged his word of honour that he would not repeat the insult, and having repeated the pledge to his father, the Earl of Harrington, and also by letter to the Duke of Wellington, no further proceedings were taken against him. On the 20th of August last the defendant renewed his insult, by thrusting his stick into the exhibisant's carriage whilst going across Grosvenor-square. The affidavit further stated, that exhibitant was informed by Sir Richard Birnie, and believed that the defendant bad expressed his intention to pursue towards the exhibitant a certain course of insults, by whispers and gestures, which would not subject him to Magisterial interference, during the lifetime of his father (the Earl of Harrington), to whom he had pledged himself not to repeat the first insult; and that the defendant had said he did not think he had violated his word of honour whilst he abstained from repeating the first insult, and that he would annoy the exhibitant until the exhibitant shall either pay him the 16,000!. won from Lord Beauchamp, or get him restored to his rank in the army, or a situation of 3004. or 400 a year in the Customs or Excisé. The affidavit further stated, that the exhibitant believed the intention of the defendant was to intimidate him into a compliance with his demands, or to provoke him to a breach of the peace; and thirdly, that he was not influenced by any malice or ill-will towards the defendant in making this application to the Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE asked the Attorney-General if he had the affidavit of the person who had communicated to the Marquis of Hertford the expressed intentions of the defendant. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he had no affidavit of that kind, but he would either search for a precedent, or apply to Sir R. Birnie to make an affidavit, or to assign a reason why he did not make an affidavit. The case was ordered to stand over, and to be mentioned to the Court again in the course of this day or Friday: but at three o'clock Sir R. Birnie came into Court, and made an affidavit, verifying the statements contained in the Marquis of Hertford's affidavit.-Articles of the peace were then exhibited against the defendant. THE KING V. BRYANT AND HARMER. libel pleaded the marriage of these parties in 1808, their subsequent cohabitation until 1819, the birth of several children during that interval, and the separation which took place in 1819, by reason of certain differences which had arisen between them, but the nature of those differences was not stated. It then went on to plead a long course of adulterous_intercourse between Lady Lismore and the Hon. Mr Bingham at Naples, Paris, and Rome. No defensive allegation on the part of Lady Lismore had been given in, but her Counsel had raised an argument on her behalf, the substance of which was to show, that the adultery charged was net proved by credible witnesses; and that even were that fact otherwise, the culpable negligence of Lord Lismore in exposing his lady to those temptations that she must necessarily encounter in travelling without his protection on the Continent, ought to exclude him from the remedy which he prayed.-Sir CHRISTOPHER, after noticing the various points of the case, said that the adultery had been clearly proved, and that, as the Court acquitted Lord Lismore of any connivance or culpable negligence, he was entitled to the divorce he sought for. THE MARQUIS OF WESTMEATH V. THE MARCHIONESS OF WESTMEATH. In this matter the Marquis of Westmeath promoted a cause of restitution of conjugal rights against the Marchioness. On behalf of the Marchioness, an allegation was given in, in which the Marquis was charged with having on various occasions grossly ill-treated her-by calling her a “d—d b—h”—by threatening to "kick her to hell”—by repeatedly striking her with his clenched fist-by once attempting to smother ber with a pillow-and by his having repeatedly had criminal connexions with Sarah Smith and other women.-In consequence of the quarrels that arase between these Noble Personages, a separation ensued. In answer to the above charges, Lord Westmeath gave in an allegation, in which he set forth, that so far from treating his wife with violence, his behaviour to her bad been uniformly affectionate; that while the parties were residing at Black Rock, Lady Westmeath sent to him two letters, in which she expressed herself in terms of great fondness for him; that what disagreement ensued, and what occasional warm language was interchanged between them, were principally from the reproaches with which the Marchioness was constantly assailing him, on account of two natural children which the Marquis had had before his marriage.-The Marquis further pleaded, that in order to suppress the angry and vehement tone in which, on the occasion referred to in Lady Westmeath's plea, her ladyship was veating her reproaches against him, and unwilling that her taunting language should be heard by the domestics in the house, he (Lord Westmeath) what-placed a pillow over her mouth, but without the slightest intention of doing any giolence, and much less of smothering her.-Case adjourned. This was a rule obtained by Mr Brougham, calling on the proprietor and publisher of a newspaper, called Common Sense, or the Weekly Globe, to show cause why a criminal information should not be exhibited against them for a libel on Colonel Berkeley. The libel consisted of the paragraph which had appeared in most of the papers, stating that an unmanly ruffian had secreted himself in Miss Foote's chamber at Edinburgh, for an unworthy purpose, with this addition-" A private correspondent informs us, that this unmanly ruffian was Colonel Berkeley, in the disguise of a gentleman. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now showed cause. Mr Bryant swore that he knew nothing of the paragraph till it appeared in the paper. The other defendant stated, that the greater part of the paragraph was a mere copy from the daily papers. consists. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.-And that, you know, is no justification. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. And what is the usual way? I suppose some one drops a letter into a box, and thence it is transferred to the paper Mr BROUGHAM.-Yes; from "A private Correspondent." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL.-I told these parties that their affidavits furnished no answer to the application; but they were anxious that the exact position in which they stand should be represented to the Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. They certainly furnish no answer ever. The rule must be made absolute. MR. WOOLER. As their Lordships were rising, Mr Wooller, who had been in Court throughout the day, rose to renew his application for the appointment of some day when, consistent with the other business, he might be permitted to enter upon his application for a mandamus to the Benchers of one of the Inns of Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE-In the present state of business, it is difficult to name any particular day; and I doubt, after all, whether it is in our power to give you any relief. Mr Justice BAYLEY.-We understand you to be applying for a mandamus to the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, commanding thein to do some particular thing? Mr WOOLLER.-That is the object of my humble application to your Lordships. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.-I question very much the power of this Court to interfere by mandamus with such a body. Mr WOOLLER expressed his strong hope of being able to convince the Court that, under the peculiar circumstances of this case, their extraordinary interference was demanded. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE-We only doubt our jurisdiction. Mr WOOLLER.-But I may hope that your Lordships will decide nothing prematurely. I humbly request a hearing from the Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.-To that you are entitled as of course; my only object in expressing an opinion now was, either that you should be spared further trouble altogether, or know to what particular part of the case to address your attention. MrWOOLLER expressed his thanks for this kind intimation, and then took occasion to apologize for the frequency of his applications to the Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.-Make no apologies, Mr Wooller; it is very natural you should feel anxiety to have an issue put to this matter. Mr Justice BAYLEY.-We are disposed to hear you the first opportunity -say Tuesday or Wednesday. Mr WOOLLER bowed and the Court rose.' Friday, Nov. 18. COURT OF CON-DELEGATES.-TUESDAY. BRISCOE . BRISCOE.-FRACAS. The defendant, Sir Wastell Briscoe, having resisted the payment of costs upon a collateral proceeding, a motion was submitted to the Court. Whilst their Lordships were in consultation, Sir Wastell attempted to address them for the purpose of showing the grounds why he refused to pay the costs. At length he got out of all patience, and looking stedfastly across the table to Mr Jenner, the adverse Proctor in the suit, he was heard to say that Gentleman was a sneaking fellow, and from murmurs, the Baronet proceeded at last to utter the word "scoundrel” in an audible tone. Dr LUSHINGTON, Counsel for Sir Wastell-I have to state that I look upon his conduct to be a gross violation of the dignity and decorum that should be preserved in a Court of Justice; and I have no hesitation in saying that if the improper language be not retracted in the most unqua. lified manner, I shall cease to hold a brief on his behalf. If a sufficient apology be not made, it will be the first step towards turning the Court into-what it has been converted this day in some measure-a mere beargarden. The COURT-The Court is bound not to allow the solemnity of this tribunal to be debased. It is for Sir Wastell Briscoe to determine now whether or not he shall oblige the Court to pronounce him in contempt. BUNN v. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE COMMON SENSE." Mr ADOLPHUS, on the part of Mr Bunn, the comedian, said he had to move for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the publisher and proprietors of the Common Sense for a libela of the most malignant description. It imputed to Mr Bunn an abominable offence, which must exclude any man from society, and was contained in a deliberate statement put forth by the Editor. The libel having been read, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said-Take a rule to show cause. CONSISTORY COURT, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16. LORD VISCOUNT LISMORE V. THE COUNTESS OF LISMORE. Sir Walter Briscoe, after having been advised by Proctors and Doctors, made up his mind at last to make the necessary retraction. The Delegates were about to retire, when Dr LEE said, "you have not done an act of justice to one of your officers, let me request that you wi do the like to a suitor, who has an equal claim to your protection. It has come to my knowledge that a Proctor, whom I now point out (pointing ea Proctor), called Sir Wastell Briscoe a scoundrel." The COURT-There is an end of the business for which we are hert We cannot listen further to you, Dr Lee. Dr LEB-1 insist, in the name of justice, upon your requiring from this Proctor a retraction. The COURT would not listen to him, and before the Con-Delegais separated, Sir Wastell Briscoe said, "If this Proctor does not retract the gross insult which he offered to me, I retract my retraction," The Delegates retired without any further observation. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. On Friday, a Stockbroker, who had on Wednesday been remanded on a charge of embezzling a sum of 300/. entrusted to his care for the purchase of Stock, was brought up for re-examination, but the complainant, the Rev. H. Hodgkinson, of Arborfield, Berks, did not again appear, and the prisoner, having procured bail, was discharged.-Unsuccessful speculations in shares, it is said, have led to the defalcation. MARYLABONNE. prosecutor, when being informed that he did not mean to attend, he de- Mr Byrne said, that let the expenses be what they might, he was determined to follow it up. Mr HARDWICK asked Mrs Byrne, if Sheene had laid his hands on her, and she replying in the affirmative, an assault warrant was forth with issued for his apprehension. In a short time he made his appearance, ad the above facts being sworn to, he was held to bail, to answer for the assault. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. CHARGE OF SWINDLING.-On Wednesday, the office was crowded with persons anxious to hear the examination of Stanley de Courcey Ireland, who stands charged with being concerned in various extensive acts of swindling, in connexion with an individual styling himself the "Honour able Frederic Ponsonby," after obtaining possession of a mansion in Glocester place, through the recommendation of Richard Martin, Esq, the Member for Galway.-Stowel, the Police-Officer, had discovered the abode of Mr Ireland, which was in an obscure court in the Borough, where he found him, passing by the name of Jones, industriously brush ing his own boots in the back yard. A woman named Gravett, who acted as his housekeeper, was also placed at the bar with Mr Stanley De Courcey Ireland: she is a homely looking person, about 40 years of age; he seemed to be about 30, was attired in black, and looked like a gentleman. Several tradesmen attended to give evidence: Mr Daniels, silversmith, 214 Oxford street, said he had sent in various articles to 91 Gloucester-place, by order of Mr. Ireland, but for which he could get no money-and it was proved that several of those articles were soon after pawned at Mr Bentham's, in Holborn, by the female prisoner.-Mrged into a dungeon among felons and prostitutes! What kind of places. Vickary, of Regent street, proved that he had taken patent glass and vathese are, the investigation at Bethnal green, where an unfortunateJuable decanters, by order of "the Hon. Mr Ponsonby," to the house in woman has lost her life, has shown to the public. I think it would be Baker street, who desired him to call upon Mr Ireland there for payment. necessary to examine the different watchhouses in our district. Then He did so, when Mr Ireland himself told him that " Mr Ireland was out turning to Mrs Byrne-if the person who incarcerated you be a mark for of town," but he might leave the goods.-This property was also pledged damages, I think you have very good grounds for an action against hinn at Mr Bentham's-Mr Saxby, chinaman, of Albemarle street, deposed for false imprisonment. that "the Hon. Frederic Ponsonby" ordered from his shop a valuable tea and desert service to be sent to Baker street. They were accordingly sent, but he never saw them since or got paid for them.-Mr Miller, oilman, of Piccadilly, stated that he had sent in lamps and candles, by the order of Mr Ponsonby and the prisoner Gravett, who described Mr. Ponsonby as a rich young man who was going to be married. [While these proceedings were going on in the office, a report was spread, that "the Hon. Frederic Ponsonby" himself had been arrested. In a short time, a young man was actually brought in custody into the office, who having an unlucky cast in his eye, like the aforesaid "Honourable," had CONDUCT OF PARISH OFFICERS.-On Saturday week, and by adjourn been mistaken for that worthy, while offering to pawn something at Mrment on Monday, an inquest was held at Bethnal green, on the body of Neate's, in Duke street. He said his name was Knatchbull, and the error Ann Ashley. It appeared that about two o'clock on Wednesday morning, being discovered, he was forthwith discharged-when he went away, the deceased was found in the street by a watchman. She was then very uttering an undergrowl about "redress."]-The prisoner Ireland, in his cold, and her clothes were saturated with rain. She also appeared to be defence, said that Ponsonby ordered the things unknown to him; that he intoxicated. She was carried to the watch house, and thrust into the disavowed all that he was charged with; and that he could not be made black hole. No charge was entered against her, and on the watch-houseresponsible for another's actions.-Mrs Gravett said she only acted, as a keeper leaving duty, about five o'clock, they dragged her out of the hole, housekeeper, under her master's directions. They were remanded for a and placed her in front of the watch house, but she was then so ill that week. she could not support herself. She was lying there till 9 o'clock the same morning; from thence she was carried to the work house, and on her arrival there, it was discovered that she had breathed her last. The Jury were of opinion that she ought to have been permitted to remain by the fire, instead of being placed in a damp dungeon, which was a disgrace to. the parish, and which they hoped would be pulled down, and a more fit place erected for the reception of night charges.-The Coroner said, that: there was certainly proof of imprudence and inhumanity, but none, as he thought, that could bear out the charge of manslaughter. The death of the deceased might have been prevented by proper care on the parts of the night constable and watchmen. That it was accelerated by the manner in which she was treated, he had no doubt. It rested with the parochiak authorities to indict the parties for a misdemeanour, a measure he would strongly recommend, as it might serve to teach others to act, if not with natural humanity, at least with that portion of it which the law requires.The Jury, after a lengthened deliberation, returned a verdict of "Died from the combined effects of cold and intoxication," and expressed a determination to prosecute the constable and watchmen for the misdemeanour at the ensuing sessions.-During the inquiry, it was suggested by one of the Jury that they should proceed and examine the place in which the unfortunate deceased had been incarcerated. They went in a body to the is about six feet square, with a damp gravelly floor, and reeking with the smell of human excrement to such a degree that it is really astonishing that any person who had been confined there, even but for an hour, could escape contagion. Were it not that the thing had been seen, it would be almost impossible to believe that such a diabolical purgatory could exist in London. HATTON-GARDEN. CURIOUS CASE.-A pretty young woman, who stated herself to be the wife of a carpenter, named Barnett, in the employ of Messrs Cubitt, of Gray's lun lane road, complained on Tuesday of her husband's violent conduct. The complainant stated that she was a native of Berkshire, where her parents were in affluent circumstances. At the age of 15 she became acquainted with a young man in the neighbourhood. He was greatly her inferior in birth and education, but his person being graceful, | and his manners insinuating, she fell in love with and eloped with him to London. They were married, and in two years she became the mother of two children. Her friends deserted her, but she notwithstanding lived happy in the society of her husband. At this period her husband died, and at seventeen she found herself a widow with two children dependant on her for support. About three weeks after her husband's death, her present husband visited her, and, after a short courtship, she was married to him. From that moment she had not known an hour's peace, because she refused to place her children in the workhouse. On Sunday morning he turned both her and her children into the street; and when she remonstrated with him, he attacked her in that violent manner, that she was reduced to a state of insensibility.—The Magistrate immediately issued his warrant, and the complainant left the office. In a few minutes she re-watch house. Words can but very faintly describe the horrible hole; it turned, and with tears entreated that the proceedings might be stopped. She stated, that, on returning home, she found that her husband had banged himself from a beam on the landing place. She was greatly alarmed, but, with proper assistance, he was recovered. It appeared hat some person had informed him of his wife having applied for a warant against him, but whether the dread of investigation induced him o hang himself is not known. The poor woman's application was attended to. LAMBETH STREET. FALSE IMPRISONMENT.-Mrs Jane Wilkinson Byrne, the wife of a respectable tradesman, residing in Ratcliff Highway, was brought up, accompanied by her brother and husband, from Whitechapel watch house, na charge preferred against her by a person named Sheene, an underaker, living in Leman street, Whitechapel, of being disorderly on Monay night. On being placed at the bar, Mr HARDWICK asked for the MELANCHOLY DEATH.-On Friday, an inquest was held on the body of Mr Zachariah Browne, aged 72, one of the Society of Friends, and formerly in opulent circumstances, who was found dead lying on a wretched bed, in a damp back attic, in Hartford place, Drury lane, with his clothes on. From the evidence, it appeared that the unfortunate gentleman had been living without a fire, and almost without food, for some days, When he was dying, a lodger called in medical aid, but it was too late, the poor emaciated creature had breathed his last.-Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God, accelerated by want.” 1 |