MONEY-MARKET.

There has been some excitement in the Money -market this week, owing to tin. official announcement of the Directors of the East India Company that they intend to reduce the amount of the interest payable upon their Bonds. An intimation of this kind was given some weeks ago, and the premium on India Bonds then fell considerably; but the delay in making the announcement led to a pretty general belief that the intention had

• been abandoned, and the premium had again risen to nearly its former quotation, when the official notice was given in the•Market, and in an instant the premium fell to between 70 and 80. The panic, however, was of short duration, for by Friday it had again risen to 89, and from the readiness with which sales were effected at that price, it might be inferred that, with the usual inconsistency of the Money-market, in which there is no fixed value for property but the Hudibrastic one of " what it will bring," the premium will ere long reach 100. The abundance of unin- vested money, arising partly from accumulated capital, but chiefly from the difficulty which exists as to the safe and profitable employment of money in mercantile undertakings, has rendered this operation of the East India Directors comparatively easy of execution; and it has natu- rally had the effect of giving a little life to the Consols-market, in the double sense of inducing some to transfer their investments of India Bonds to Consols, and of leading to a conclusion that this abundance of unemployed capital may cause a further rise in Consols, and therefore that the wisest course is to purchase even at the present high prices. The effect, however, has not been so great as might be expected, if other circum- stances had not occurred to induce caution. The accounts from Odessa are not just what the Bulls in the Money-market desire them to he; they seem to have much less confidence in the fine promises of the Emperor Nicholas than the Earl of Aberdeen and the Duke of Wellington, and they do not consider a rupture with the Autocrat as quite impossible. Con- sols rose on the day of the notice of the East India Directors from 88/ to 88g, and fluctuated until Friday about * to per cent. ; on the afternoon of that day they closed at 881.

Portuguese Bonds, owing to a report which was current, that the Em-' peror of Brazil had ordered the payment of the overdue dividend, rose to 56, but at that price they began to be heavy, as no confirmation was given to the report. Of the disposition of Don Pedro to pay the dividend little doubt is entertained ; but his own financial difficulties in Brazil will pro- bably exhaust his resources for the present, although the stability of his government and the really solid state of his financial system are con- sidered as certain. From Portugal there is no chance of a dividend being received, for, according to mercantile letters from Lisbon, Miguel, even with his assistance from the clergy, has not money enough to pay his own soldiers.

In the Foreign Market generally, there is little to notice. The following have been the average prices during the week. Russian, 94*. Prussian, 103. Danish, 63k. Brazil, 63g. Mexican 6 per Cents., 401. Columbian, 241. FrenCh 3 per Cents., 731, with an exchange of 25. Greek, 19. Spanish, 111.

There have been a few exports of gold during the week, in consequence of its being 1 to d per cent. higher in price on the Continent than in this country ; but as Mr. Rothschild, who is the great specie broker, is absent from London, the exportations have not been extensive.

SATURDAY, ONE O'C LOCK .—The funds are heavy to-day ;—Consols during the morning have been fluctuating from 884 to 88k, with little doing. In the foreign market there are no transactions worth reporting.

Two o'CLocK.—Consols, 88k; India Bonds, 90; Exchequer Bills, 73 to 74; Portuguese Bonds, 56.

FOUR o'CLome.—Consols closed at 88+.

The Duke of Wellington left town on Tuesday morning on a visit to the Earl of Westmorland, at his seat at Apthorpe, Northamptonshire.

Count Potemkin, the late Secretary to Prince Lieven, has been appointed Minister at the Court of Munich. He has been succeeded at the Court of London, by Count Sobolawski.

The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's arrived at Stratton-house, Picca- dilly, on Sunday night, from the Continent.

. The Duke of Wellington has, it appears, distinctly pledged himself to the agents of the Shipowners' Society at North Shields, to take the alleged distress of the shipping interest into consideration during the recess, without bias or partiality to any particular system, and for the avowed purpose of doing all in the power of Ministers to alleviate that distress, which, say the shipowners, they no longer appear to doubt or deny. The Premier has pledged himself to the same effect to the Duke of Northumberland and the Earl of Eldon.

The relief which it is supposed the Noble Duke will grant to the suffering

shipowners will be the repeal of the law which admits Baltic produce into this country on bond. If this should be the case, a valuable boon will be taken from the Russian and Prussian speculators, and given to Canada. The length of the voyage will increase the demand for shipping, and this shipping will be exclusively British.—New Times.

1:1ad-t11e Archbishop of Canterbury been enthroned in person, instead of is said that the ceremony would have-cost him 30,0004 The Derby musical festival commenced' on 'Tuesday, under the auspices of the Duke of Devonshireand the principal noblemen of the county. The town was thronged with company. Arrangements are making for a music meeting at Exeter, in October Catalan i and other-distinguished singers are engaged.

Mademoiselle Sontag is said to have been engaged as a singer of the Royal Chamber at Berlin, with an annual income of 5000 rix dollars (10001.) for life.

Covent-garden and Drury-lane open on the 1st of October. At the former no new arrangements, with the exception of a singer, Mr. Bianchi Taylor. At the latter, Young is added to the company. Cooper succeeds Wallack as stage-manager at Drury-lane.

The Adelphi Theatre opens on the 30th. Besides Matthews and Dowton, Sinclair and Miss Graddon are added to the company.

The Rev.Mr. Smith, of Penzance celebrity, and some others of his con- nexion, attended on Wednesday on the site of the late Brunswick Theatre, for the purpose of preaching a sermon, and recommending a subscription for erecting on the ground where the unfortunate theatre stood, an asylum for shipwrecked sailors, a marine school, &c. The reverend gentleman, how- ever, not having been so fortunate as to secure fine weather for his exhibition, his audience, consisting chiefly of women and children, disappeared, after having for a few minutes been exposed to a heavy shower of rain. The plans which Mr. Smith and his fellow-enthusiasts propose to complete, if they can find the means, are benevolent. The leasehold portion of the ground is said to have been already purchased, and arrangements are making to purchase the freehold part ; the cost of the whole will be about 1A00/.

The Jewish year 5589 was ushered in on Monday evening with the pre- paratory rites observed on such occasions by the Israelites. At sun-set, the Jews resident at this metropolis all assembled at their synagogue, when the usual prayers, &c. were read, and the congregation remained until between eight and, nine o'clock. On Tuesday, their,new-year's day, they again assem- bled at half-past five o'clock in the morning, to celebrate the Feast of Trum- pets, in commemoration of Abraham's offering up Isaac. At ten o'clock the trumpets were sounded, which announced the commencement of the year, and those who thought proper left the synagogue ; but many of them re- mained until one o'clock. They met again at sun-set ; and also on Wednes- day, at the same hour, when the observances terminated.

The people of Guernsey, not content with the determination of their civil and military rulers to refuse permission to the two Jesuit priests to establish schools in the island, have deemed it necessary to petition the King on the snbject: they pray that his Majesty may on no account allow his government to give the Jesuitical project any countenance.

The contributions received last year by the Society for promoting Chris- tianity among the Jews was 12,7271. 7s. 3d. A gentleman in Scotland re- cently left the Society 30001. In the different schools in Europe there are altogether five hundred children receiving instruction.

The Committee of Aldermen appointed to take into consideration the charges against Mr. Spencer, the late Governor of Whitecross-street Prison, have met and reported. The first charge against Mr. Spencer was of a serious nature, and was taken up in consequence of a complaint from the Society for the payment of small debts, in Craven-street. When this Society were to relieve an unfortunate individual, the sum proposed to the creditors was placed with Mr. Spencer; but it happened that there was frequently a difference between the amount paid to the creditors and that advanced by the Society. This inaccuracy, however, was greatly palliated, by the fact that Mr. Spencer had given the difference between the sums received and the,:sums paid away, to the debtors, under the impression that a few pounds would be of important service to the latter in again beginning the world, and that the creditors would not feel the loss. It did not appear that Mr. Spencer contemplated the slightest advantage to himself from this species of impo- sition; on the contrary, several persons came forward to declare that they believed him to have given 501. or 601. a year out of his own pocket, to ame- liorate the sufferings of some of the unhappy creatures in the prison over which he presided. Mr. Spencer, in the opinion of the Committee, stands completely exonerated from all moral censure, although he is considered blameable in having, under any circumstances, applied the contributions of the Society in a different manner from that intended. The other charges, which were preferred by prisoners, the Committee considered altogether frivolous and vexatious. The debtors have signed a petition to the Court of Aldermen, in which they, one and all, hear testimony to the humanity of Mr. Spencer, and pray that he should be immediately reinstated.

The din of Bartholomew-fair ceased for the year on Saturday, at midnight. The fair had been attended by immense crowds, and the profits of the keepers of booths and shows were proportionally great. There were seven- teen exhibitions in Smithfield ; and it is computed that they received among them not less than 53751. The commitments for felonies at the fair have not exceeded ten.

The increase in the number of buildings in the vicinity of the metropolis, in twenty years, has been thirty per cent.; which is one per cent. less than the rate of the increase of the population for the same period.

The first lateral navigable canal was commenced in England about seventy years since. At the present time there are nearly eighty canal companies in operation, who have expended thirty millions in their undertakings, and make a yearly dividend of 800,0001. upon their capital.

The handsome new stone dock at Chatham Yard was opened last week, and the caisson, or floating-gates, were docked in. The dock has been ten years in building, and has cost 200,0001. It has iron gates, and presents a Mr. Justice Heywood died on Thursday, at Tenby, where he had been residing since he was taken ill at Haverford-west.

very fine specimen of masonry. The remainder of the docks are of wood. The amount of gold in the Bank of England at present is estimated at about twelve millions.

By the will of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, the Speaker of the House of Commons receives at once a legacy of 50,0001., a reversionary legacy of 50,0001. more at the death of his mother, and other items, making the whole amount to nearly 120,0001. The subscribers to the projected monument to Mr. Canning in Liverpool have determined that it shall be of bronze, and not of marble, as at first in- tended.

There are now about six hundred Portuguese refugees at Plymouth. Some hundreds more are at Falmouth._

Perhaps the most interesting creatures in the Zoological Gardens are the dogs brought from *Kenzie river by Captain Franklin, and presented by that intrepid seaman to the Society; they have a suspicious, wolf-like look, but are perfectly harmless. Of the four, two have been whelped in England, and have acquired the habit of barking merely from hearing the hounds and dogs in the neighbourhood of the park ; nothing could exceed the distrust and alarm which the old ones evinced on their first noticing the new and unheard-of acquirement of their progeny; the usual nasal test was resorted to again and again, and each succeeding bark utterly confounded their dis- cernment; they have now, however, become familiarized to the barking. Another curious characteristic of these dogs is, that the tail is curled in a contrary direction to any European species. Notwithstanding that they are placed in the most cool and shady part of the gardens, a day moderately warm makes them excessively faint; they are very clean and playful.—New Times.

A sale took place at the Auction Mart on Wednesday, which excited an extraordinary interest. The property consisted of two sugar plantations in St. Kitt's, containing 400 acres of Ind, with dwelling-houses and all neces- sary buildings, and live stock, consisting of negroes, 107 men and boys, 94 women and girls, and 69 children, all stated to be in good condition ; one hull and 43 oxen, 24 cows, 25 calves, four horses, seven mules, and six asses. The sale appeared to excite considerable competition, and the great room of the Mart was crowded. The first bidding was 10,0001., and it was knocked down at 16,2501., being a bona fide sale.

There was a regatta at Margate on Wednesday, consisting of a contest for a silver cup, value 201. ; the second prize, 10/ ; the third prize, 71. The candidates were three six-oared gallies;viz., The Pope of Rome, The l'o, and The Queen. There was also a rowing-match by four in skiffs, for 41.; and a sailing match for the same sum. The whole county of Kent seemed to have poured forth its population to witness this contest. Horses, carriages, and every description of inhabitants, lined the streets, piers, houses, &c., and the rain gave them an abundant wet before dinner.

Cootes the pedestrian has completed his extraordinary task of rowing a boat one thousand miles in a thousand successive hours. He began on Monday, the 28th July, at six o'clock in the afternoon ; and the thousand hours expired on Monday morning at ten. When the weather was wet and stormy, about three weeks ago, he antlered much, and was actually fifty- seven minutes in rowing his mile ; and on the 23d August, lie fell asleep while rowing, and must have failed had he not run foul of a barge, which awakened him to a sense of his danger. After he had fulfilled his great un- dertaking, Coates continued to row a mile each hour till five o'clock, to decide sonic private bets.

A gentleman presently at shooting-quarters in the Grampians. above Lo- gioalmond, has killed, since the commencement of the season, 200 brace of grouse, 3S of partridges, 2 of black cock, and 12J, of snipes, at 525 shots. Another has bagged 142 brace of various kinds at 790 shots. On the hills of Logiealmond, Colonel Paterson. of Castle Huffily, has shut from 12 to 30 brace a day. Lord Elcho shot 179 brace of grouse the three first days of the shooting on the moors in Giengairn.—Caledonian Mercury.

A beautiful specimen of the Spanish partridge was shot by Major Hamer- ton, on the manor of Lekhampton, on Friday last. The bird is very elegantly marked—the beak, eyes, and legs being of a beautiful vermillion colour, and the belly variegated with handsome brown and black feathers.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

In consequence of the wet weather in the spring, more than 1500 phea- sants are known to have perished around the neighbourhood of Stowe alone.

The slaughter amongst the partridges on the 1st, it appeared from the re- turns of the killed and wounded, had been greater than was expected, some veteran shots having each bagged twenty brace of birds ; and others of secondary fame, from ten to twelve brace ; while the Cockney-like sports- men complained that the game was very scanty.—Sussex Advertiser.

The 1st of September is over. The birds were numerous, but wild as the haunts where they loved best to con,gregate.—Vork Herald. In many situations, the continued wet weather during the breeding season completely destroyed the young birds, or very much limited their number ; but the strength of the coveys in more favourable localities is more than equivalent, and, generally speaking, the slaughter on the first three days was very great.—Gloucester Journal.

About a quarter past six o'clock on Monday morning, the inhabitants of Charterhouse-lane were alarmed by a horrible crash, and for a moment ex- pected destruction from some unknown cause. It was soon ascertained that it proceeded from the bottom of Frogwell-court, where a range of old and dilapidated buildings had stood, but which then presented but a heap of rub- bish. The half-buried body of a female, named Morgan, was immediately drawn out by the persons assembled ; and in frantic accents she implored them to save her four children. Some workmen immediately procured pickaxes and shovels, and in a very short time the two eldest children were dug out, they being fortunately but slightly embedded in the rubbish, and their voices being heard while the men were digging. Their preservation was owing to two beams coming in contact, and forming a support over their heads. The other two (an infant about six months old, and a child about two years) unfortunately perished, and were taken out dead. Morgan, the father, had gone to his work half an hour before the fatal accident ; and Mrs. Morgan was in the act of dressing herself, having left the infant in the • bed, where, had she remained, she must also have been killed, as the bed- stead was broken to splinters. It was at first supposed that two other indi- viduals were buried in the ruins, but they had left the house before it fell. The house, it appears, had been in a very dangerous state for several years.

On Saturday, a Captain Brown, his son, and a Mr. Mamie') were crossing Skinner-row, immediately at the end of High street, Dublin, when two soldiers came riding at a gallop down the latter street. Before the party on foot could get out of the way, both horses came in contact with them, and by the violence of the collision, instantly prostrated them, trampling them as they dashectover. Captain Brown was so much bruised, that he lived only two hours; his son, who is blind, and was leaning on his father's arm for guidance, escaped unhurt ; the other gentleman received some slight in- juries. The soldiers, who were drunk, have been committed for trial.

On Tuesday morning, the lifeless body of Mr. Bolt, clerk to Messrs. Fox and Company, Devonport, was found near Stone-house Bridge Hill. The deceased was drinking with some companions till an early hour that morn- ing.; and it is supposed that he had fallen from the effects of liquor, and been unable to recover himself.

Three fires were discovered in different parts of the metropolis on Satur- day morning. The first was at the cottage of an old lady, opposite Stepney church, which was completely gutted by the flames. 'fire next was in the premises of a grocer and oil-man, named Jago, in Millitt place, Newington, which was also completely destroyed; and a girl, who leaped, in her anxiety

to escape, from an upper window, was much injured. The premises of the Morning Advertiser were in some danger from the third casualty ; but the flames were got under before they had acquired any degree of strength.

The body of Mr. Hawley, jeweller and silversmith, Strand, was found, on Friday morning, lying among the mud on the Surrey side of the Thames, about one hundred yards beyond the Red House. No marks of violence were discernible on the body, and all the clothes were on. When Mr. Hawley left his shop on Thursday afternoon, lie had no property about him to tempt cupidity, and he seemed to be in his ordinary state of health, both bodily and mental. On the other hand, some people who reside near the Red House, think that, on the Thursday evening, they observed the deceased lingering about, low-spirited and dejected; and the inference is, that he had drowned himself.

On Monday afternoon, a little girl, one of a number of young children who were playing in Little St. Andrews-street, ran heedlessly against an empty coal-waggon which was passing; she was thrown doe n, the hind wheel passed over her body, and she was killed on the spot.

While some boys were amusing themselves last week. in an open space, betwixt Clerkenwell Church and John-street, one of them received a blow from a stone, which cut out his left eye.

The dead body of a man was, on Sunday, found floating in the Thames, off Woolwich. The throat was found cut in such a manner as nearly to sever the head from the body ; and a large stone was tied to the body, ap- parently for the purpose of keeping it under water. The conjecture in the neighbourhood is, that the man had been murdered and thrown into the river. A Coroner's jury sat upon the body; and after a long investigation and much discussion, a verdict of " found drowned " was returned.

The body of a female was lately found floating in the Wye, near Hereford. A curd was tied to one of the arms, with a noose at the cud. She was seen to leave her master's house some days before ; but no trace of her could be found till the discovery of her corpse.

Last week, as Sir. C. Beckett. of Leeds, was shooting in Springthorpe- field, near Somerby House, he found an otter very quietly making his way across a flat of potatoes. Ile attempted by various manceuvres to take the animal alive, and at last ran into him, when the otter bit him so severely on the fingers, that it is feared he will lose his hand and part of his right arm ; nor could he disengage himself till his cries brought a gentleman to his aid. —Leeds ..Wreury.

Last \reek, as three persons were firing at partridges in a field near Monk- seaton, they missed the birds, and wounded three passengers on the top of the Waterloo coach returning from Morpeth to North Shields.

By an explosion on Monday week, in the New Pit at Houghton-le-Spring, belonging to LOfti Durham, three men and four boys were burnt to death.

A widow lady in Birmingham was last week thrown down in the street by a spring cart, and died in a few hours. She was deaf, and heard not the approach of the vehicle, or the cries of those who warned her of the danger.

Last week, a farm-servant was struck dead by lightning in the marshes of Farlington. The clothes on one side of his body were torn to shreds, and his skin was much discoloured. His mother was standing near.

An earthquake was lately felt at Carcurreta, in Spain, which threw down many houses as well as the church, and more than one hundred persons are said to have perished.

An accident occurred last week at Drumshard, a farm on the shores of Carrick, Ayrshire, which has plunged two families in deep affliction. The children of Mr. Macjannet, the farmer, and those of Mr. Williamson of Ayr, were amusing themselves at the side of the reservoir for driving the threshing-mill. The farmer's daughter, a girl aged seven, dropped an apple into the water, and in attempting to regain it, fell in herself. Young Williamson, who is about thirteen years of age, sprang to assist her; but both of them sunk. The eldest daughter of Mr. Macjannet, a child about eight years of age, attempted also to lend her feeble aid ; and she too was swallowed up in the waters. The three bodies were taken out in little more than twenty minutes, but too late for their recovery.

The Exeter Defiance coach, on Wednesday evening, ran against a turn- pike-gate between Ilminster and lioniton. By this accident, the coachman and two gentlemen were thrown from the top, and severely bruised; one of the latter so much so, as to prevent his proceeding.

On Tuesday afternoon, some paint was accidentally spilt through a grating upon the back of a leopardess, in Wombwell's menagerie. The keeper im- prudently scrubbed her back and sides with turpentine, to get it off. The beast became enraged, seized the keeper, and dreadfully mangled him before he was rescued from his dangerous situation. A bull deliberately walked into a glass-shop in Shoreditch, on Monday last, and marched round tire counter without disturbing any of the brittle articles about him. A man who was looking on, observing that the animal's at- tention was intently directed to the reflection of his own horned figure in a large looking-glass near the window, closed the shutter, and darkened the shop ; and a clear passage having been effected by the removal of the counter, the bull retreated without having done the slightest damage, and walked quietly up the street. The same bull had previously entered a hatter's shop, from which it was also ejected without mischief. Fears are entertained, at Ilfracombe, that Mr. C. Cornish, chief officer and Controller of the Customs there, together with two men, his boat's crew, have been drowned on their passage from Lymouth, where he had been on business. They were last seen about a mile from land ; and it is supposed that they had gone down in a sudden gust of wind which came off the land, as there was no appearance of the boat next day. The village of Staplehurst, in the Weald of Kent, was, on Tuesday morn- ing, visited with a hail-storm of such violence, that scarcely a whole pane of glass was left in the village.

A very shocking accident has occurred at Lough Corrib, a large lake whose waters are discharged into the Bay of Galway. Thirty-one persons had em- barked in a crazy boat to come to the fair of Galway ; when about two miles from the shore, the,_ boat went down, and nineteen unfortunate creatures perished—mostly women. It appears that the accident was occasioned by a sheep putting its leg through one of the rotten planks. In order to stop the leak, a passenger applied his great-coat to the aperture, and stamped upon it with his foot, by which he started one of the planks altogether. Thet boat then immediately sunk. The premises of Mr. Connell, farmer of Huxham, near Exeter, being in- fested with rats, arsenic was procured, and mixed with meal for their de-

struction. The poisoned lump was placed near the meal.tub, and by acci- dent thrown into it by a domestic who was not aware of the mixture. It was made into puddings. Fifteen people partook of them ; and the symp- toms of poison becoming apparent, medical aid was sought. Twelve of the patients were speedily relieved, and the others are recovering. The commander of the Salamander steam-packet says, that the bell of that vessel tolled audibly about one o'clock on Tuesday morning, from being vio- lently affected by lightning.

A Dover correspondent of the Globe thus notices the storm of Monday night_" I have conversed with several old fishermen and sailors who were out in the storm on Monday night, and they have all told me that they never saw such lightning. One man told me that he was off the coast of France in an open boat, with two other men, and for a few minutes they were obliged to let the vessel drift, the lightning was so terrific that they could not bear up against it, and hid their faces under the canvass, lading up water as well as they could with the hand that each of them had disengaged from holding the sails before their eyes, so as to prevent the vessel from taking fire, which they expected every moment to be the case. The wind was not so boisterous im- mediately off the French coast ; but a sailor, who was in a pilot-boat mid- channel, describes the hurricane as awful. There had been a good deal of lightning at sea in the early part of the night, but the storm was not at its height much before twelve o'clock. They had been sailing and rowing for several hours, and just before the storm commenced they had every inch of canvass set, it became so calm. In a few minutes after, it blew such a hur- ricane that they were obliged to haul everything in. It then moderated a lit- tle (about half-past eleven), and about twelve the wind blew so hard that it was with difficulty they could keep their seats in the boat. In this vessel there were five men ; and the whole were incessantly employed in wetting her sides, to prevent her taking fire. They covered all the iron-work with canvass ; and, notwithstanding these precautions, they were in continual fear of being on fire, the flashes played so incessantly in the boat. There was scarcely a minute, for an hour and a half, that a pin might not have been seen at the bottom of the vessel. The fury of the storm lasted for about an hour and a half at sea, then moderated a good deal, and at break of day the sea was as calm as a mill-pond. Whilst it lasted, this old sailor said, it was enough to daunt the stoutest heart."

A labouring man named Pindar, residing at Holloway, while under the influence of liquor, deliberately placed his right hand on a block, and with an axe in his left endeavoured to chop it off. In this he failed, but the blow took effect across the fingers.

Lieutenant Crawford, R. N., who had retired with a large family to a lit- tle town in Bretagne, France, destroyed himself with a pistol, during a tem- porary fit of despondency, on the 2-2d ult.

A young lady in Dublin, the daughter of a wealthy bookseller, being thwarted by her parents in her attachment to a young man whose expecta- tions in life were not so good as her own, last week swallowed a dose of arsenic.

On Saturday, George Morrison, the keeper of a victualling-house, cut his throat in Tothill-fields prison, where he had been confined for an assault upon his wife, and afterwards detained on a charge of bigamy. He was still alive when a person entered his cell, and he asked for a drink of water; but when he attempted to swallow it, the water ran out of the wound across his neck.

At an early hour on Sunday morning, the wife of a tailor named Davis,

and the mother of five children, hanged herself in her house, Grey Eagle- street, Spitalfields. When discovered by her husband she was quite dead, and it appeared that great determination must have been exerted.

In the course of the same day, another woman in the same neigiubourhood committed suicide, but by timely interference her life was saved.

Captain Stewart, who was recently tried at the Cork assizes for the murder of his crew, is to be confined for life in the Dublin Lunatic Asylum.

A picture-dealer, no mean artist in his way, has recently taken flight from the neighbourhood of New Bond-street; and is now on the seas for America, with some 20,000/. in hand, money and works of art, the property of auc- tioneers and others. One gentleman had so much confidence as to lend him 40001. at five per cent. interest, thinking he could not better dispose of his money ; another individual has been defrauded to the amount of 12001. One of the auctioneers is in hot pursuit.

On Friday morning Caversham Grove House, the seat of Mrs. Scott Wa- ring, was entered by thieves, and robbed of a large quantity of plate.

On Sunday afternoon, the shop of Mr. Linton, jeweller, Knightsbridge, was entered by some thieves, who completely dismantled it, and carried off the whole of his stock.

The out-going booking-office of the Bull and Mouth was last week broken into, and plundered of three parcels which are said to contain stamps to the value of 60001., intended for the stamp distributors at York, Manchester, and Leeds. A reward of 5001. is offered for the apprehension and conviction of the offenders.

In one of the Margate steamers which carried down company a few days since, at the rate of 5s. per head, the pickpockets committed robberies to the amount of between 3001. and 4001.; and not satisfied with this, endeavoured to deprive the captain of his fare. One of the gang was secured and sent to prison.

The public mind was for some days this week disquieted by the report of a child having been murdered in Thames-street. The report was first circu- lated by the mother of the child, a woman of abandoned habits, who carried about the corpse in her arms ; and on her statement a man was arrested. An inquest was held on Thursday evening; when it was found that the story was the mere invention of a drunken brain. The child was found to have died a natural death, in a dreadful state of disease.

Mr. Francis Freeman, a person in good circumstances, who recently came from the south of France, on Wednesday morning stabbed himself in the throat, in his lodgings, Catharine-place, Friar-street, which he only came to occupy on the previous night. When the landlord entered the room, the alarm was given ; he asked the deceased if he had burst a blood-vessel ? The answer was, " No, I have stuck myself; give me some water." Water was given him several times ; and upon moving his head, a stab on the right side of his neck was discovered. He was asked what caused him to com- mit such an act? to which he replied, " Trouble : I cannot bear my troubles." Before a. surgeon had arrived he had fallen on the floor, where be died in a few minutes, About eleven o'clock on Tuesday evening, a desperate attempt at murder was made by James Abbott, a leather-dresser, residing near Perry's chop- house, the.Three Tuns, in Fetter Lane, upon his wife. It seems the wretched man had for some time entertained unfounded doubts of his wife's continence, and he repeatedly vowed that he would " serve her out some day or other." On Monday afternoon he is said to have attempted to poison her with arse, nic mixed in gin ; but, disliking the taste, the woman refused to drink, and escaped for the time with a beating which left her almost insensible. At din- ner, on Tuesday, the quarrel was resumed ; but the woman continued sharing at Mr. Perry's till about nine o'clock, when she went home for the night. Here she again encountered her husband ; and being struck and wounded by him. fled towards the door, calling as loud as she was able—" Murder, mur- der P' She was pursued by Abbott, who thrust a large clasp-knife into her throat. The woman, in this state, ran down stairs, with the blood flowing from the wound, and sought refuge in Mr. Perry's house, where she fainted from exhaustion. Several persons rushed up-stairs, and met the husband coming down, with his hands and clothes covered with blood. He was im- mediately secured and carried to St. Dunstan's watchhouse. The wounded woman was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she received the attentions of Drs. Ewers, Taylor, White, and Davis: they found that on the right side of the throat there was a stab extending about three inches and a half in a direction towards the breast, and about a quarter of an inch deep : the poor creature was quite insensible, and in a very dangerous state. (Mrs. Abbott has since been reported to be out of danger.) Abbott was securely handcuffed, and conveyed to the Compter. He is about twenty-six years old, has been married for seven years, and has three phildren.

On Wednesday afternoon, as Mrs. Whitmore, the wife of a gentleman who holds a high situation in the Custom-house, was driving through Thames Street, in her phaeton, a fellow named Williams made :leap and snatched away her reticule, out of which she had just taken her purse containing gold arid bank-notes. The thief ran among horses and carts, in the hope of escap- ing; and even after he had been seized, he struggled hard, and was plunged two or three times in the kennel, before he was properly secured.

On Monday, the wife of Mr. Willey, dsolicitor's clerk, residing in Tooley- street, swallowed nearly an ounce of arsenic, in a little milk. The husband was preparing to go out, when the unhappy woman said to him, " Oh, dear Thomas, do not go out for half an hour or so, as I have taken poison, and I wish you to close my eyes." She expired in a few minutes. She was only nineteen : she had lately suffered under great depression of spirits, in conse- quence of her husband being out of a situation.

On Wednesday, a man named Greengross attempted to commit suicide in a field near Risby, Bury. He first inflicted a large gash in his throat, and then thrust the knife into the abdomen, a depth of two inches. Haying, as he says, sunk down faint, he lay till next morning, when he revived ; he then walked into Bury, covered with blood, entered a public-house, and obtained assistance. He was taken to Suffolk Hospital, and is likely to recover.

The other day, a boy, aged eleven, contrived to steal a parcel containing. 771. from the locker of a Deptford errand-cart. He was caught with the money in his possession, except a 51. note, which he said he had destroyed.

On Tuesday evening, a woman who lodged at a public-house, Whitechapel, was conducted to her bed drunk. Next morning she was found dead, hav- ing, in the course of the night, swallowed laudanum.

An attempt was recently made by thieves, to poison a dog kept by Mr. Gude, of Battersea, to guard his premises. To prevent his making a noise, the thieves threw him a piece of liver, in the heart of which they had placed some arsenic. Several robberies have of late been committed in this neigh- bourhood.

A letter from a gentleman in Jamaica, to a friend in London, dated July 6, has the following sentences :—" Pirates at Cape Antonio. Crew of a French and English brig murdered." All merchantmen about to sail are recommended to go well armed; and on no account to let any strange craft come close.

The ship Fortune, from Copenhagen to Greenland, with a new church on board, has perished on the Greenland coast. The church is said to have been saved.

His majesty's ship Grasshopper recently captured, near the Havannab, after a long chase, a Portuguese schooner, with 408 slaves on board.

The Russian squadron having been refitted, sailed from Plymouth on Thursday week, for the Mediterranean. The squadron consists of three ships and three frigates. The fear lately excited for the !admiral's ship has proved groundless; she is at Gibraltar. The brig Thetis, Captain Baillie, of Bristol, sailed in June, from Sierra Leone, for Cork. As part of her crew had fallen sick, and were necessarily left in Africa, four Portuguese were taken on board to aid in working the vessel. Their conduct seemed to be unexceptionable for the first few weeks. On the evening of the 31st July, however, after the Captain had retired to bed, he was awakened by three loud knocks on the deck. On attempting to go above, he was met at the cabin-door by one of the Portuguese, armed with a knife and an axe. The assassin with the knife wounded the Captain in the arm ; but he closed with him, and succeeded in wresting the axe from his grasp. A seaman named Smith then rushed down into the cabin with his throat and shoulder frighfully lacerated with a knife. All the English por- tion of the crew were below, and fastened down, except one man, who was never seen. The mutineers then lowered the boats, took every portable article, fired the ship, and left her and all on board to their fate. They, however, succeeded in releasing themselves ; and having constructed a little raft, committed it to the waves. Captain Baillie contrived to steer north- ward for three days and nights, in hopes of meeting with some vessel, arid on the fourth day, he and his companions having subsisted upon 51b. of bread (they had no fresh water), he was picked up by the Liverpool brig, Cognic, from the Brazils.

Mr. Macculloch, the economist, was publicly entertained on the 2d in- stant, at Newton Stewart, in Galway, (his native county,) previous to his assumption of the chair of Political Economy in the University of London. Besides the spoken compliments paid to the new professor on this occasion, he received a more substantial token of regard, in a service of plate that cost three hundred guineas.

The large distilleries around Glasgow were formerly in the habit of resting from labour during the summer months ; but such, this year, has been the demand for spirits, that they have not ceased working, however sultry the weather. Glasgow is now a privileged East India port, which is a matter of consider- able importance to this country. It is in this way our present Ministers take off the real and the most injurious shackles on trade.—Glasyow Courier. A writer in the Stirling Advertiser mentions the following ludicrous blun- der. "The British and Foreign Bible Society sent a liberal donation of Bibles to the Highlands of Scotland. But, lo ! on being opened, they were found to contain the Apocrypha—not indeed in Gaelic, but in Spanish 1' "An untoward event ;" and one of the Secretaries ordered them to be re- turned immediately, at any expense. A new Light-house is being erected on the Mull of Galloway, and will be finished in August, 1829. The elevation is beautiful ; and, independently of its utility, will prove a real ornament to the giant Mull. The tower, when finished, will stand 85 feet above the base, which, added to an elevation com- pletely natural, from the level of the sea to the.apex of the rock, of ,270 feet, will make the beacon one of the highest and most commanding in the whole kingdom. The total expense is estimated at only 8,000/.

" No one is ignorant," says a Roman paper, " of the fame of the blessed Alfonso Maria De Liguori, founder of the congregation of the Holy Re- deemer, and Bishop of St. Agatha of Goti ; the sanctity of his character and the merits of his works have made them known throughout the world. Since the time in which his beatification was pronounced by the late Pope Pius VII., the Lord has been pleased to operate several notorious miracles at the intercession of this saint." For these reasons the said Alphonso is about to be canonized.

The Courrier du Haut Rhin contains the following account of a miracle.: —" The Upper Rhine has no longer reason to envy countries the most under the protection of Heaven—it also has become the scene of miracles. During the last prayers in the evening of the octave of the Fete-Dieu, in the church of Hartmansweiller, near Soulk, the host was suddenly seen to become transparent and luminous, and to offer to the eyes of the surprised spec- tators a miniature portrait of Christ. The effect of the miracle was such, that one of the chorister boys, who was among the first to perceive it, fainted away." The details of this affair have been published for the edification of pious souls. THE FRENCH Cteecv.—Time, so rich in instruction for all men, has no influence on them. It has left them with all their ferocity—with all their ancient hostility to reason. Let a learned man make some discovery as to the seat of our faculties, or the relation of our inclinations to our organs—he is a materialist, a blasphemer, a scoundrel. Science is atheism—instruction is impious. They are still the same men who imprisoned Galileo, because he discovered the motions of the earth—who persecuted Columbus because he conjectured that we had antipodes. The compensations they offer us for that science they proscribe, are orations against the scurf, aeainst madness, and against the tooth-ache ; they represent the end of the world by petards : they sell holy letters written by Jesus Christ ; they talk about the angel Gabriel, and substitute despicable tricks and shameful stories for whatever is pure and elevated in Christianity. The luminous crucifix of Migne has begotten a shining victim in the Upper Rhine. Is it not to be regretted that the French clergy have acknowledged the pretended miracle of Migne Formerly the French clergy were celebrated for their wisdom and know- ledge, and now they receive lessons of prudence and good sense from Rome. The Pope has refused to acknowledge the miracle which a French bishop has recognized. Do they expect thus to preserve the august cha- racter of religion, and recommend it to the veneration of the people ?— Cortrrier Francais. Mr. Charles Dupin gives an account, through the medium of the Journal des Debats, of the progress made in executing the medal projected last year to commemorate the merits and talents of the late Mr. Canning. A jury, composed of ill. Girard, the first painter in France, of M. Carlot, sculptor, and of M. Desnoyers, engraver, was appointed to select a design for the medal; and an artist to execute it. M. Gallo, member of the Academy of the Fine Arts, was chosen to execute the medal, and the choice of the jury has been justified by the artist : it is said to be a master-piece of the French school. Among the subscribers are Capo d'Istrias' the President of the Greek Re- public, the ministers of the new States of South America, the most eminent men in France, Switzerland, and Germany ; and among the latter, in parti- cular, the celebrated Goethe.