" BIRTH On Wednesday the 23d at her house in Brompton Crescent, Mrs J. A. Planche, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Monday, J. Charles Wright, Esq. eldest son of Ichabod Wright, of Mapperley, Nottingham, Esq. and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, to TheoHester, second dosia, eldest daughter of Thomas Denman, Esq. M.P. On the 21st inst. at North Ninims, E. B. Kemble, Esq. to Hester, A མཚོ་དེ། ན་ པའི daughter of the late Thomas Kemble, Esq. Gobions, Herts. On the 24th inst, the Rev. Wm Lonsdale, A.B. second son of C. Lonsdale, Esq. Arlaw Banks, Durham, to Jane, eldest daughter of James Power, Esq. BuckOn Tuesday, H. Lloyd, third son of G. T. Lloyd, Esq. of Clapham Common, to Elizabeth Stacey, daughter of Mrs Richardson, of Clapham Rise. DELIBERATE MURDER.On Thursday week, a murder, attended by A person rather singular circumstances, was committed in Guernsey. named Chapman, who had passed in Guernsey by the name of Melmoth, got out of bed, deliberately loaded his gun with common shot, and killed a Han named Brown, iu whose house be lodged. Brown was poor, and had consented to his daughter's debauchery; in fact, Mr Chapman has lived with her under her father's own roof since she was 12 years of age. Brown and Chapınan had been wrangling the night before, and Chapman had repeatedly threatened to shoot him; and all that is known at present about this horrible affair is, that the daughter beard her father begging on his knees for life, and mentioned his four children, when Chapman shot him. Browningham street, Adelphi. made for the door, and Chapman followed him, beating him with the butt of the gun! Chapman then went in and said to the girl, "My dear, I once saved my life for a thousand pounds, and I'll give that sum again to you if you will speak for me." He was then taken into custody, and conducted to gaol, Mr Chapman is separated from his wife; he is a Lieutenant or Captain in the 61st on half pay; his income is about 6001. per annum. He was always considered a very eccentric man, strange in his walk and appearance, but much of a gentleman. Seduction was, it is said, his employment. Daily paper. AN IMPOSTOR. A letter addressed to the Editor of the Times, says, "A person about 50 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches in height, of genteel manners and appearance, has been residing in Ireland for the last six months, principally at Gresham's Hotel, in Dublin, during which time be assumed the name of Thomas Edmund Cole, Captain, Royal Navy, and stated his residence in England to be Weddel Abbey, near Scarborough. During the time he resided there he formed acquaintance with respectable families, one of which he married into, With this nufortunate lady and her sister he left Dublin about 10 days since, as be informed them, for the residence above-mentioned, and travelled post, with four horses, from Holyhead to Chester, and from thenee to Birkenhead, near Liverpool, where, under the pretence of going to seek for his carriage and servants, he decamped (leaving them at an inn), and has never since been heard of. Previous to leaving Dublin, he drew several bills to a large amount on Messrs Drummond and Co. of Charing cross, whom he represented as his bankers, and obtained cash for the same. It is needless to say, upon presenting them, that repectable firm returned them, not knowing this fellow; that in addition to his villany in thus deserting his wife and sisterin-law, he has committed forgery to a great amount, under the assumed name of Cole. By giving publicity to the above, you will prevent others becoming dupes to similar artifices, and may be the means of bringing such a delinquent to justice. When he left his wife and sister-in-law, be was dressed in a dark blue coat, buff waistcoat, dark trowsers, and olivecolour great-coat. Any information that may be obtained will be received with thanks, by addressing a line to Mr J. L. P., No. 8, St John square, Clerkenwell, or No. 7, Mecklenburgh street, Dublin.-F. B. A.Nov. 21," A melancholy accident occurred on Monday night in Farnham-lane, leading from Bagshot Heath. A gentleman of the name of Frimley, together with his wife and a little boy, returning home from Wingfield, Berks, iù a single horse-chaise, got out of the track of the heath near the Serpent public-house, and the chaise and horse went down a precipice of 15 feet and upwards. Mrs Frimley was killed on the spot, the boy had his arm broken, and the chaise was dashed in pieces, but Mr Frimley escaped unhurt. DIED. On Tuesday week, aged 70, Mrs Fearne, of Leeds. The report made by the THE ASSESSED TAXES. The next Session of Parliament is of course expected to produce a further remission of taxes. To this Ministers have given a pledge; and the continued peaceable relations of the country, and the success of the late reductions, as regards the increased amount of Revenue, warrant us in exacting it from: them. The question is, on which branch of the Tree of Taxation this pleasant work of pruning is to recommence. The existing mode of arranging what imposts are, or are not to be paid by the very loyal and acquiescent people of Eng land, is a little arbitrary. The Minister of Finance, with not much more regard than an Oriental despot, to the wishes of the nation, determines in his cabinet the measures which he will submit to the House of Commons:-the deference to public opinion, in the present state of the Representation, is. nominal-the opposition of a few independent members nugatory, except as to keeping up a show of deliberation, which amuses some persons, but deceives none; and the opening. of the Budget is, in fact, the sanctioning of the scheme it contains, unless the mover magnanimously throws of twopence or so, when haggling with Mr Hume for the price of a... gallon of cider! An ingenious species of fraud has of late been practised to a considerable Now, having no worse an opinion of the present Chancel'.or extent in this city... Parcels said to have arrived per mail are presented at respectable doors, and payment of the carriage demanded and received; of the Exchequer than Journalists on the popular side are when, on examination, they are found to consist of straw, paper, or saw-bound to have-taking no other objection to any of his meadust..-Edinburgh Times.. EARTHQUAKE. On the 20th of September, between nine and ten o'clock, the island of Trinidad was visited by an earthquake, the shock of which was felt, according to some statements, for three minutes. Scarcely a house in the town of Port-of-Spain, escaped damage, though no lives were lost, and only two persons were hurt. In every part, sheds and stalls were levelled, and bedsteads, tables, and other heavy articles, were removed from their places. The Protestant Church was considerably damaged, while the new Roman Catholic Church escaped entirely. Sir Thos. Lethbridge and other such Anti Catholic wiseacres, will probably not call this a "providential" incident. The shock was as much felt in the harbour as on shore. Several persons were thrown out of their hammocks on board the vessels there. MURDERA most atrocious murder was committed at Nottingham, on Wednesday week, by a man named Wood. Being in a state of intoxication, and having, it is supposed, quarrelled with his wife, a cry of "murder" was heard in the house. Elizabeth Burrows, a girl of 14, ran into the room, where she saw the ruffian standing over his wife, who was lying on the floor, She was struggling with him, endeavouring to prevent his striking her with a coal-pick. She failed, however, and the wretch, wielding the deadly instrument with both his hands, struck the unfortunate woman three blows on the head with all his might! The blood flew in every direction. The girl exclaimed, "Oh, Mr Wood, what are you doing?" when he ran after her, but she got away from him. He was taken into custody while in the act of making his escape-An inquest was held, and a verdict of "Wilful Murder" was returned. The savage has given out that his wife's criminal conduct with another man led to his commission of the atrocity; but this story is not at all credited, as she had borne an excellent character in the neighbourhood.: sures, than that of entirely disapproving the greater part, and thinking the rest do not go half far enough-being, sufficiently candid and liberal to suppose that most of his plans are dietated by ignorance on this side, and contempt of popular feeling on that; and that, in every other respect, he is an excellent and approved steward to John Bull: being, as we have said, thus inclined to give him due credit for qualities becoming a great Statesman, and which we should have much more sparingly allowed to his predecessor, Vansittart, of oldwomanish memory-we, in our favourable judgment of Mr Robinson, will not decide at present, whether the continuation of certain obnoxious imposts is to be attributed to his profound disregard of our wishes, or to our lukewarm and half-earnest mode of expressing them. We may suppose that he is now preparing the accounts which are to be audited in a few months, in our National Assembly; and from certain intimations, we fear, that among the items of reduction, we shall not have to observe that of the Assessed Taxes. It is to this we wish to call the attention of our readers and the public. There is a very general desire to see these taxes repealed, and a proportionate tenacity on the part of Administration to retain them, wherefore, we know not, their amount being comparatively insig nificant to the Treasury,-unless it be a reluctance to give up the scaffolding of financial surveillance which commands and disfigures our homes the harness which keeps us personally yoked to the state machine of taxation. The domiciliary visits of the Collector, we hold to be particularly obnoxious; and the present circumstances of the country afford to our rulers a fair opportunity of releasing us, in many instances, from all direct contact with their crook-fingered instruments. We promise to be ready enough to find sufficient fault with indirect Taxation hereafter; but for our present purpose, we cannot avoid stating, that we consider taxes on commodities a less vexatious, and more (apparently) independent mode of contributing to the exigencies of the State, than the imposts which so insolently call on us to live in dark and deformed houses-to admit a prying surveyor into the penetralia of our domestic privacy, and have a quarterly schedule of our degradation thrust into our face, by an impatient collector, who makes us, four times a year, disaffected towards his Majesty's Government. of the unhappy accident which befel the Minister for Foreign Nov. 24.-On the 18th of this month, in the evening, an encounter took place between some French smugglers, and some of our Custom-house officers, near Mairousel, in the province of Namur. Paire Mamelot, of Givet, one of the smugglers, was wounded in the shoulder, and died the next day. The Journal of Cambray says, that several young Belgians, intended for the ecclesiastical profession, have entered the Episcopal Seminary of that city. These young men are from the dioceses of Ghent, Maline, and Tournay. Nov. 25. We learn from Bruges, that within these few days the fishermen have picked up at sea, and brought on shore, the following articles, viz. at Ostende, 337 bales of cotton, 6 pipes of red wine, and 4 barrels of gin; at Blankenburg, 53 bales of cotton; and at Heyst, 57 bales. A vessel, looking like a brig, stranded near Wanduyne, and was abandoned by the crew; she seems to have been loaded with grain and pipe-staves. It is supposed that it must have been lost about a month, as some of the corn had begun to shoot, and the body of a dog was in a state of putrefaction. On the 22nd, it was beat to pieces by the waves. There was a book of geometry on board, on the first leaf of which is written, "THOMAS LIDDLE's book, born March 15, 1803." If, as we are told, the taking off a portion of the duties which operate against the freedom of trade, is doubly beneficial to the people, the increased consumption much more than counterbalancing the diminution of the former rates, while their comforts are proportionally increased;-if this be the operation of lessening the Customs or Excise duties, as we believe is sufficiently proved in the articles which have already undergone this salutary process, why, what else, in G-d's name, (pardon us the exclamation) have we to do, than extend this principle a little farther, and thereby enable the Revenue to afford us the primary comfort of living in tolerably light and roomy habitations? If taking off 1s. per pound from any given commodity puts so many thousands into our pockets, it strikes us as the easiest thing possible to put double the number there also, by taking off 2s. per Ib. from some other article! Puerile as this may seem, we believe it may be carried into practice to a certain-to a very great extent and it should be the chief study of a financier of the present day, to ascertain what is the lowest rate of duty which, by increasing the consumption, will not injure the Revenue. It seems not worth while to seek the augmentation of the national income, with any other view, since the surplus which could result towards diminishing the Debt, is, in that immense amount, utterly insignificant. With all our vaunted prosperity, it should be constantly kept in mind, that we are still burthened with this Debt, and that however splendid our income, we are doing little or nothing towards liquidating dessa da Ponte, Capt. Jose da Silo Aurora, in 64 days, from LISBON, Nov. 7.-On the 4th inst. arrived the Conthe amazing sum. What would be thought of this state of Rio de Janeiro. The Captain brings word that the Royal affairs in private life? What ought to be thought of our public condition? What will it be felt, in case of a war, or of Family were in perfect health, that Sir Chas. Stuart had any circumstance which may affect the credit of the country? concluded his negociations, and that the result was to be pubThis is too grave a consideration for the present moment; but lished on the 7th Sept.; it was not known what arrangeone to which we fear we shall have frequent occasion of re-ments had heen made, but some of the Ministers had declared verting. that everything was settled in conformity with the interests in both countries. But to return to the subject of the Assessed Taxes, more especially the House and Window Tax. We do think, and we find we are not alone in the opinion, that an united and vigorous effort of the people of England may now rid them of these vexatious and oppressive imposts: Let no time then be lost-let petitions for this purpose be, before the Meeting of Parliament, generally prepared. Let our representatives be requested to enforce their prayer-and the majority of the members of both houses, being understood to be friendly to their abolition, there are the best grounds for anticipating our final release from this odious and long-standing grievance. Let no time be lost. Kent Herald. Two fishing boats have found at sea a three-masted vessel, copper bottomed, thrown very much on one side, and appearing to have its full cargo. They brought it within two leagues of the coast, where a sand bank obliged them to leave it. The next tide they went with other boats to fetch it, but it has disappeared, and is probably sunk. FRANCFORT, Nov. 20.-Sir Hudson Lowe has arrived here.-Brussels Papers, Nov. 26. from which the following are extracts :~ bassador from his Catholic Majesty to this Court, arrived "Nov. 11.-His excellency the Conde di Cazaflores, Amhere yesterday. time ago, to repair the fine bridge over the river Dao, near "The Board of Works had given orders, a considerable the town of Santa Comba, which was blown up on the 20th Sept. 1810, for the purpose of retarding the march of the munication between the province of Beira Alta and the cities French army. This bridge being in the main road of comnof Oporto and Coimbra, the destruction of it has proved a great inconvenience. Notice is now given, that this work is concluded, and the bridge now open to the public. The Lisbon Gazettes to the 14th Nov. inclusive, contain no polilical news; no farther mention is made of the negociations with Brazil.-Lisbon, Nov. 11.-Exchange on London, 521. THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA.-A report has just reached BRUSSELS, NOV, 23. We have the following particularsus, upon what we conceive good authority, that it is rumoured POSTSCRIPT. MONDAY, Nov. 28, WE received last night German and Brussels Papers, from which the following are extracts: in the best informed circles in London, that his Lordship is likely to be appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.-Evening Mail. We suspect this to be a joke of the Mail. At the same time we believe that a great deal too much has been made of an incautious and silly speech of the nobleman in question, an unpractised orator, who took the first opportunity that presented itself afterwards of disclaiming the intention imputed to him.-Dublin Morning Post. On Tuesday the household furniture of Mrs Wright, who perished in the Comet, was sold. To show in what respect the relations of this affectionate pair held their memory, their liknesses in wax, neatly framed together, and facing one another, which at first might cost 10s. 6d. was put up. The auctioneer said he would not put it up under 5s., when Deacon M'Arthur, of this city, bade 11. 1s.; another young man bade 51.: the contest then began, when the Deacon stood firmly, crowning every pound to a guinea, until it reached to 391., which he likewise crowned. He stopped his opposition by making it even pounds, when a young man, a student in this University, and a relation, bade 42 guineas; another young man, in the same relationship, bade 45 guineas. The agent of Mrs M'Intyre, of Forte William, bade 50l. for that lady, to whom it was knocked down. He rejoiced at his bargain, saying, that although it cost 100 guineas, he would have bought it for her.-Glasgow Chronicle. A SMUGGLER SHOT.-On Sunday last, at an early hour, a man of the name of Stent, while engaged with other smugglers, in running a cargo of contraband goods near Salt's Farm, was shot through the body by one of the Coast Blockade-men. The ball has been extracted; but the unfortunate man lies at his own house, at Old Shoreham, without the slightest hope of recovery.-Brighton Herald. Hay..... To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs. 4s. 6d. to 5s. 2d. Veal.......... .4s. 10d, to 5s. 2d. Pork... HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY. 5s. 4d. to 6s. 2d. 5s. Od. to 6s. Od. 130 112 £1. 168. to £2. 2s PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW. .£3.7s. 6d .to £5.0s. | Straw Clover £4. 4s. to £5. 12s. 6d. TYPOLITHOGRAPHY. 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We shall not expatiate upon the valuable instruction derived by the public from attendance in law courts, or the still more valuable check upon judges and juries, which the presence of an intelligent auditory supplies. Whatever natural dread certain hole-and-corner persons may feel in regard to publicity, a desire to exclude the public from the chambers of justice, as a general rule, is no longer avowed. If the haters of publicity however have become less audacious, they make amends for it by a greater degree of cunning. They have found out, says JEREMY BENTHAM, how much more effectual are bricks and mortar than rules and regulations to shut out their grand enemy the people. We shall accordingly advert a little to the curious details of the contrivances by which courts nominally open to the public at large, are practically shut to all but a mere handful. bitious, sickly, and prematurely old, could not readily be found elsewhere. As for the unfortunate suitors and witnesses who are kept in waiting about the purlieus, with a chance every moment of being called, though a probability of staying for many hours, days, or even weeks, they have to dance attendance in stone passages, exposed to take cold, and with nothing to amuse them. It is inconvenient and tiresome enough to be a witness, or a suitor, at the best; but surely, when individuals are compelled to attend the courts of law, to serve the ends of justice, a certain degree of comfort is no more than what is due to them. A decent room might be provided, protected from damp and cold, with seats, and an easy access to the court. We have often grieved to see females, sometimes in evident ill-health, standing about the cold lobbies, exhausted with anxiety and waiting. We have not the slightest doubt, that many fatal maladies originate every term in the unwholesomeness and wretchedness of the Westminster courts, to say nothing of the constant suffering of the numbers necessarily in Such are the miserable and ill-contrived chambers in which the principal judicial business of this wealthy and enlightened country is performed! What makes the evil more monstrous, too, is that new courts have just been built in Westminster at a handsome cost, for the King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer; which are scarcely larger and no more commodious than the old ones, although the complaints against the latter have been loud and general for years, and we are certain that the barristers alone would gladly have borne a heavy. share of the expense, if by so doing they could have procured the courts to be built in a comfortable and convenient style. attendance. The first thing that strikes one in entering our principal law-courts (those at Westminster) is the total want of provision for the presence of an auditory. Let us take, for instance, the first in rank, the King's Bench. There is, it is true, in that court, a narrow space between As if there was a settled design to make the details of law proceedthe bench of the King's counsel and the enclosed desks of the officers of the court, called "the floor;" upon the seats on both sides of ings as irksome as possible to the public, the misery consequent upon which perhaps thirty individuals may sit if closely packed. But this is the bad construction of the courts is much aggravated by the very faulty properly no place for the public. Here defendants are placed; here arrangement of their business. Trials, we believe, are taken in the also the attornies in causes going on or expected to come on must sit, order in which they have been set down; and we do not know that in order to be near the counsel they employ: here jurymen and we could suggest any improvement in regard to that part of the witnesses in waiting naturally crowd, in order to be within hearing business, except perhaps that some pains might be taken beforehand and in readiness when called. There are, besides, small intervals to ascertain the probable duration of the defended causes, so as to between the barristers' benches in the centre, and the jury and stu- avoid in general the inconvenient practice of setting down in one dents' boxes on the sides of the court: in these slips a few spectators day's list as many causes as are tried in two or three. In regard may squeeze themselves; but their footing being the only avenues however to motions for new trials, for judgments, &c. (in fact all the for the counsel, witnesses, jurors, suitors, &c. they are perpetually regular term business) there is a shocking want of classification. pushed and driven about, and frequently pressed out of court, by the Parties concerned have to be in attendance usually for days and ushers in making way for the ingress and egress of lawyers or persons weeks, sometimes for months, in cases where a day's or half a day's summoned. In a word, the judges, and the officers of court who sit attendance would under a proper arrangement be sufficient. The under the bench, occupy the only divisions of the chamber wherein a Proprietor of the EXAMINER had actually to wait during three sucdecent freedom of limbs can be enjoyed. The jury-box is scanty; cessive terms before he received judgment, and but for the courtesy of the students or reporters' box not one third as large as required; the the judges in granting him an occasional leave of absence for two or barristers' benches not sufficient to contain half who would be present hours together, during the whole three terms! And why all this three days, would have been kept there from day to day, for 6 or 7 at important arguments or trials, if there was room; there are no proper divisions or adequate space for suitors, witnesses, attornies, or harassing and mischief? Simply because, instead of classifying the parties interested; and we may justly assert, that there is no accom-cases-instead of appointing certain days for motions for new trials, modation whatever for mere auditors, since the wretched corners and certain others for judgments, &c.-all are heaped together, and come avenues in which the parties we have enumerated are huddled on at random, according to the precedence of the counsel present, together, could always be filled by a portion of the individuals having who make the motions, or the accident of their putting their hands duties or business in the court. It is by no means an uncommon upon some briefs before others. The effect is, that in lieu of 20 or 30 occurrence, that a plaintiff or defendant cannot get in to hear his parties who would be obliged to wait, there are 200 or 300; that is own cause tried! When a new jury is introduced, or a witness called to say, perhaps ten times the number of those who ought to be in atinto court, the crowding, buffeting, disturbance, and delay, in making tendance, are compelled to loiter there in exceeding personal dis a passage through the aforesaid slips, are truly scandalous. It seems comfort, and are kept away from their business or pursuits, with the difficult to suppose that so obvious a thing as the construction of additional mortification of knowing that they suffer so much incon proper avenues could have been omitted from mere negligence by venience, merely because one of the well-paid officers of the court is those who had the arrangement of the edifice in the first instance. not directed to make a classification and distribution of the cases, so Any common architect's apprentice would perceive the necessity of that an individual need not be made to lose very disagreeably 10 or some railed-off passages by which the various parties in a cause 20 days, when 1 or 2 would suffice. It is hardly possible to suppose, could advance without impediment to their respective divisions. But that this want of arrangement should have gone on so long out of not the slightest appearance of so essential a convenience exists here: mere neglect and reluctance to change; yet we are loth to suspect every individual summoned into court has to make his way literally the only motive for it which the circumstances would seem to point by force of arms; and the court waits while a witness or defen-at. By taking motions not according to their class, but according to dant slowly elbows and wriggles himself from the door to the the order in which the counsel who have them to make are by custom centre. We need hardly add, that the air is extremely foul heard, a motive is furnished to suitors to heap briefs upon the counsel and oppressive, owing to the quantity of human breath, in all of highest rank at the bar, in preference to giving them to junior seasons. In summer, the heat is often overpowering; in winter, barristers whom otherwise they might prefer. Thus every day in ou have to endure a fetid atmosphere, varied by dreadful term Mr SCARLETT or Mr GURNEY may be seen with a large pile of cold draughts when the doors are opened: nothing can be worse than briefs before him, but a small part of which he can get through; after he ventilation, or rather the want of it. The bad effects of this unvholesome place are abundantly proved by the countenances of the parristers and other constant attendants on the court: a set of faces sodation. They may be considered as serving the public; and the public would willingly incur the trifling expense of a reasonable accommo ་ |