Two important seizures of silk took place at Southampton last

week, amounting, it is supposed, to several thousand pounds. The first on Monday, when three out of ten cases, brought over by the George the Fourth, and supposed to be wine, were found full of the finest French silks; the second on Thursday, when a similar cargo was found secreted in some cases of eggs, which were brought over iu a small French vessel.

A daring burglary having been committed last week on the house of Mr. Bowles of Enfield, the patrol in that quarter has been on the alert ,ever since, and on Monday night succeeded in apprehending two men, in a stanhope, in which was found a complete set of house-breaking instruments. One of the men lived formerly with Mr. Bowles as a footman. Hops and malt, of the value of 250/, were stolen on Monday night from the premises of Messrs. Truman, Banbury, and Co. It is supposed that some indi- viduals connected with the establishment have been accessary to the robbery.

A swindler, of dashing exterior, lately took up his residence in Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, and contrived to lay the neighbouring tradesmen under contribution. One of these dupes at length applied to a Magistrate; but the swindler decamped, and has not since been met with in that quarter.

On Monday night, the house of the Rev. W. F. Hook, in St. Nicholas Place, Coventry, was broken into. The thieves, after searching several rooms, and regaling themselves with cold meat and wine, decamped, carrying off with them several articles, among winch was a valuable gold snuffbox, presented to the late Dean of Worcester, Mr. Hook's father' by the late King.—Birmingham Gazette. Last week, Messrs. Leake and Marsh, silk-mercers, Manchester, learned from an anonymous correspondent, that their confidential porter was in the habit of robbing them. It turned out, that the porter bad for months supplied a gang of thieves with goods, which they pledged, allowing him but a small portion of the plunder. Mr. Franklin, the jeweller's porter, was proved to be connected with the same gang. Both porters and one of the gang were committed on their own confessions. Search warrants against the pawnbrokers were refused.

A man named Simon Ifickerdike died at Kirkgate, pear Leeds, of the blow which Inc received in a brawl with John Gibson and John Dickinson. The Jury, who sat upon the body, after examining the witnesses of the fray, returned a ver- dict of "wilful murder against John Dickinson," and acquitted John Gibson.

Last week, an affray took place between the game-keepers of Sir George Ar- rnytage, of Kirkless Park, and a band of poachers. Some of the keepers' dogs were shot; and one of the poachers was disabled and captured.

Mrs. Luken, the keeper of an infamous house in Hart Street, was brought be- fore Mr. Minshull, at Bow Street, and held to bail for having enticed a girl of thirteen years of age, the daughter of an industrious woman, to meet gentlemen in her house. She lives, it appeared, by the prostitution of children; girls of six- teen or eighteen are too old for her purpose.

At the Mansionhouse on Monday and Tuesday, a young man named Emanuel was examined on a charge of uttering a forged 51. note. The principal witness was a woman of the town, who swore that she had received the note from the prisoner. Her servant corroborated this statement. The prisoner 'retried that he had ever held the note in question, and offered to prove an alibi. Many merchants of the highest respectability stated the prisoner's character to be irreproachable ; and Inc was ultimately discharged.

Allan, the man in custody for the robbery of the agent of the Taunton Bank;avas reexamined at the Mansionhouse on Thursday, and fully committed for trial. Soon afterwards, tine Grand Jury found a true bill e hint. .

A woman named Strowd, who had administered a narcotic to a gentleman, and robbed him of 47 sovereigns, was reexamined on Wednesday at Bow Street. The witnesses were the keepers of the brothel, in which the robbery had been committed, and a man named Stewart, her paramour. She confessed the robbery, but stated that all the witnesses were acconiplices ; and from what she mentioned of Stewart's share in the business, he was sent to gaol along with her. A retail brewer has been fined in three pounds for assaulting Atkinson the in- former, as he was quinine Hatton-garden Office on Thursday. At Queen-square, on TEursday, a private in the Foot Guards was brought be- fore the Magistrate for a brutal assault on a girl of the town ; and remanded till she shall be pronounced out of danger.

A fellow was detected on Wednesday evening, pickiing pockets on the Enfield coach, and sent to the tread-mill for three months.

A young man named Muncaster shot himself on Thursday night at the King'S Arms in the Walworth Road.

A man, who called himself Westmoreland, after living on credit for twci months at an inn in Penrith, decamped lately, with 334 which he stole from the house of a casual acquaintance. He was overtaken, and the money recovered, but he was allowed to escape.

A street-keeper in the Haymarket was brought up on Thursday at Bow-street, and ordered to find bail for a brutal assault which he had committed on a boy.

A man was brought up at Marlborough Street Office yesterday for swindling by means of sham parcels. He had been more ingenious, however, than most of his class: he had delivered at a gentleman's door, on receiving3s.6d. of carriage, a basket nicely stuffed with straw, from which were visible. the legs of a hare, as it seemed—of a dead cat as it proved, that had been sowed in the skin of a hare for the nonce.

On Sunday last, after morning service had terminated in the parish-church at Finch ley, a vestry meeting was held for the purpose of discussing some matters connected with the death of Mrs. Phillips. Mr. Phillips presented himself at the meeting, but he was requested to withdraw. After some discussion, however,. he was allowed to remain i all other strangers being excluded., The 'course which the parish officers mean to adopt, for the purpose of rendering their inquiry into the cause of Mrs. Phillips's death effectual; has not transpired.

A travelling bookseller was robbed, and left for dead, last week, in Gloucester- shire, by a sailor who had joined him on the road. A famous smuggler of Bognor, of the name of Smith, has been apprehended, and condemned to serve five years in the Navy.

Mr. Machen, of Stubbing-house, near Ecclesfield, lately received some anony- mous letters of a threatening import ; and last week a stack of hay and another of clover in his farm-yard were set on fire, by which he has incurred a loss of 701.

A man named M'Dougall, in the employment of the auctioneers at the loot of Southampton-street, has been held to bail by the Magistrate at Bow-street, for an assault upon a person who had stated to a purchaser at the auction-room tint she had been duped.

A Calais paper complains of an outrage committed lately by some English residents at Boulogne, where they have been in the habit occasionally of getting up a hunt in the English fashion. When remonstrated with by the bailiff of one of the gentlemen, on whose grounds they had committed depredations, they are said to have been guilty of a personal attack upon him.

At the Hampshire General Quarter Sessions, held at Portsmouth, Charles James White has been sentenced to fourteen years' transportation, for embezzling upwards of 500/. the property of his employer, Mr. Thomas Wildey, banker.

The Demerara Chronicle of the fith of September states, that in May last, a Dutch sloop of war fell in with and captured a Buenos Ayres privateer, whose commission had expired, and a ship which the privateer claimed as a prize. The ship proved to have been engaged in the slave trade. Its crew had been put into a boat and sunk by the pirates. Its stores were sold at Surinam ; and among them were found some hogsheads filled partly with pork, and partly with human carcases, cut up, and pickled!