Tut Emir, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather,

has been far several ays back prevented from taking his usual exercise. His Majesty still continues reside at the Royal Lodge ; but it is expected that he will take up his residence 'lime 'Castle for the present season on Tuesday. The Delee of Cumberland has been at the Lodge more than once during the eek._ . Yesterday he came to town, and returned to Kew in the afternoon. ,The Dulte-anti Duchess of Clarence returned to their residence in Bushy Park, Thereklay, from a visit to Mr. and time Hon. Mrs. Hope, at Dcepdcne, in Surrey.

Prince Leopold has given several more grand dinners. On Wednesday, his Royal Highness completed his thirty-ninth year. On Thursday he left town for the residence of the Duke of Wellington, at Stratfieldsay.

A Quarterly General Court of the proprietors of India Stock was held at the ludia House on Wednesday morning, for the purpose of declaring a dividend on the capital Stock of the Company from Midsummer last to Christmas next. The Court was made special for the purpose of submitting for confirmation, some al.. terations in the by-laws. Mr. Loch, the Chairman, stated that time accounts from India up to May 1828 had not yet been received, and therefore a general state- ment of the Company's affairs could not be made out. A dividend of 5-1 per cent. for the current half-year was declared. Mr. Hume thought that the Com- pany ought not now to make any mystery of their affairs. These would soon be discussed in Parliament, and the public would look with suspicion on any attempt at concealment. He farther remarked on the excitement caused in this country, as well as in India, by time late reductions of the army's allowances. He thoileht these impolitic and unjust. Time Chairman stated, :in reply, that the allowances were to be increased, particularly those of the medical officers. A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday ; and after a good deal of routine business had been gone through, a report-from the Coal Committee be- came the subject of discussion. A Mr. Blanshard, of Durham, had laid before them plans for procuring a supply of coals at low rates, by means of a railway, and had applied. to them for the means of forming one. The Committee, though they approved most heartily of his plans, did not feel themselves warranted in making such an application of the public money intrusted to them ; but they had recommended Mr. Blanshard's scheme to the notice of Government. Alderman Waithman enlarged,with his usual eloquence and success, against the monopoly of the coal-lords; and declared that the outcry against bakers and butchers was without foundation, when compared with the reasons for resistance which the coal- monopoly supplied.

Mr. Scales, the candidate for the representation of the ward of Portsoken in the Common Council, was entertained at dinner. on Thursday, by his supporters at the Three Nuns, Aldeette. When the candidate's health was drunk, he de- clared that he never should have aspired to so lofty a rank as a place in the Com- mon Council secures forthose who hold it,had he not had the degrading drudgery of a Constable's duty forced upon him, most unjustly, and in violation of routine, by the Ward and the Court of Aldermen. Front that momnent, lie was free to confess, that the desire of revenge had seized him, and made him familiar with ambitious thoughts, as the only mode of obtaining it. He lived but for the pur- pose of displacing one of his oppressors among. the Aldermen, and rising superior to the title of " Mr. Constable."

Mr. Alderman Winchester's return for the ward of Vintry was celebrated on Thursday, by a splendid dinner in the Albion Tavern.

There was a general meeting of the parishioners of St. Saviour's, Southwark, on Tuesday, to receive the report of a Committee that had been appointed to investigate the parish expenditure, which had been swelled enormously by job- bing in various departments. Time immediate subject of investigation was a con- tract for building the market. The report acquitted the contractor and the sur. - veyor of blame; and was agreed to by the meeting.

A very striking exposition of the atrocities of the Select Vestry system is fur- nished to the Morniny Chronicle of Tuesday by a parishioner of St. Pancras. The Select Vestry of that parish—an irresponsible body, like all other select ves- tries, are said to squeeze about 60,000-1. out of the pockets of their neighbours for poor-rates and church-rates, and to render time cost of management equivalent to upwards of 21 per cent. The rates and charges of all sorts have rapidly in- creased since the Select resiry system came into operation ; and they have generated abuses, which nothing but restoring to the parishioners the power of checking parish outlays will ever remove.

Mr. Peel has consented to become the patron of the Metropolitan Female Asylum, which the inhabitants of Hackney have proposed to establish.

A special sessions was held on Thursday at the Town Hall, before Mr. Sergeant Arabia and a special jury, for the purpo,e of determining the amount of compen- sation to be awarded to those whose premises have been sacrificed in time com- pletion of the new London Bridge. Several cases were submitted to them, and were easily disposed of.

Our readers are aware that the malt and beer duties have of late attracted a great portion of public attention. Their pressure on the poor, and their gross injustice to that class, have been repeatedly proved by the press, and at meetings called for the purpose of discussing the propriety of reeealing them; and there can be no doubt that the whole of the middling classes in this country are prepared to second, and approve every measure tint may lead to their idemlition. A meet- ing was held at time London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill, on Tuesday, for the pur- pose of considering the second report of a Committee formed fur the pin.i„,„ of forwarding the means by which they may be most speedily removed. Mr. Her- bert Curteis (son of the member for Sussex) was time Chairman; and after reading the report of the Committee, he expatiated on time privation to which these duties subjected the poor, and on time increase of crime to which they led by increasing the consumption of ardent spirits. He stated, too, that while the yeomanry and middle classes felt most deeply the necessity of rescinding duties that destroyed time comforts and impaired time morals of time poor, time aristocracy looked on with supreme listlessness, as if time condition of the poor cencerned them not. Lord Teynham bore testimony to the misery whiett had overtaken the labouring classes in this country. He had made himself familiar with their condition—he did not speak on hearsay—and he did not hesitate to assert, that time pressure of taxation on them was intolerable ; and more intolerable in none of its forms than when it removed wholesome beer from the number of those timings that custom had rendered necessaries. His Lordship stated some unpleasant facts as to the effects of the administration of the poor-laws on the morals of the labourite; classes, more particularly of females. " In twenty-six parishes irk Kent he knew that not one female in fifteen was ever married till she was ready to tumble to pieces. In fact, there was no other way to get married. Till these laws were altered, the labourer had no motive to guide his conduct by reflection ; he looked on the parish as his property, and endeavoured to get from it as much as he could. The conduct of the parish-officers to resist this was' in many cases, most disgraceful, and would offend every thinking person. In one parish—that of Northam, in Sussex—they shut the poor up like cattle in a pound ; in another parish, in Kent, they had been all thrust into a gravel-pit, and men placed around the edge to keep them there during the day. Other parishes sent their paupers strolling through the country. Near Hastings, the smugglers could at any time have without any difficulty, five hundred men, or any number they pleased, at 3s, a day, who were ready to do any work whatever." Mr. Sinclair Cullen, while he concurred in all that had fallen from the previous speakers, declared that in his

opinion the mere removal of the malt and beer duties would do little towards im- proving the condition of the poor, unless the licensing system—that system which sacrificed the comfort of the largest class in the country to the rapacity of a few monopolists were utterly abolished. The learned gentlemau seemed disposed to enlarge on the state of the country—on the currency question, and the general policy of the Duke of Wellington ; but the meeting testified its impatience of instruction on such points. The Chairman then put a stop to digression by giving it as his opinion that the licensing system was irrelevant to the business of the meeting ; and the meeting, without a division, echoed their Chairman's opinion,— nay, it formally enjoined the Committee not to entertain any resolution on the subject of the licensing system. And so ended this anomalous meeting. Mr. Curteis and his party assembled as the professed friends of the poor, and after taking no slight portion of credit for their efforte and sacrifices in the cause, they plainly refuse to make common cause with the poor against their great enemies the monopolists. What are Mr. Curteis's services, and what does he propose as his object? Front all we can discover of the nature of his service, we should think that the opportunity of display which his professions have procured for hint ample reward ; and as to his object, the reduction of the amount of duties, or their abolition, what are we to infer from it, but that he looks on Government as the oppressor of the people ? It is not so ; Government has no interest in destroying the resources or impairing the morals of the poor. Government will not refuse to levy the same amount of revenue from other articles of consumption. There was a general meeting, last week, of the merchants, shipowners and Others interested in the improvement of the port and harbour of Bridgewater, for the purpose of considering the propriety of applying to Parliament for a bill to sanction the improvements, which seemed to them most advisable.

A subscription has been opened at Leedsfor the relief of the unemployed poor there. Mr. Hobbouse is said to be busied in preparing a new Vestry Bill. The freedom of the city of Worcester was presented last week to the Marquis of A rglesea. We understand that it is decided to construct a bridge across the Avon, at Bristol, of stone, in one semicircular arch, whOse span shall be 300 feet. The banks of the river on both sides are so high as to form natural and secure abut- ments for it ; and it is said that the height of the carriage-way from the surface of the water will be 200 feet! The plans have been submitted to Mr. Telford for his opinion of its practicability. Designs for a chain bridge had been previously submitted.

The Protestant laity of Cork have prepared a petition to Parliament for reform of the abuses in the Irish church.

The Catholic Finance Committee met last week at the rooms of the late Asso- ciation, in Dublin, and a most edifying scene of recrimination and mutual abuse was enacted by the worthies who formerly directed the energies of that body.

Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the Editor of the Dublin Pilot, in which be reiterates his charges of venality against the Times, in his usual boister- ous and vulgar manner. We really think that Mr. O'Connell might be much better employed.

‘§EVEIZE REGULATION OF TEE NEW POIICE.—In consequence of a burglary last . week at Mr. Sergeant D'Oyley's, in Argyll Street, where the thieves forced their . way through a brick wall two feet in thickness, the sergeant of police and the Iofficer who were on duty in that quarter have been suspended, by an order of the Commissioners ; nor are they to be restored to their office until they have dis- ' covered and brought the burglars to justice. The Commissioners' order for the men's suspension was sent round to every new police division on Friday, with a command to the inspectors on duty to read the same to all the men under their command, and to inform them, that whenever a robbery takes place under similar circumstances, the sergeant and men on duty at the time will be held responsible, and suspended.

'fie stated last week, that the Finchley case was to be investigated on Wednes- day, by the Magistrates at Bow Street. At twelve o'clock, as they were about to enter upon the inquiry, Mr. Halls fainted ; hut, by the aid of the medical men in attendance, he very soon recovered. Neither Mr. Phillips nor Mr. Cox pp- peered, and Sir Richard Birnie was obliged to postpone the examination till Fri- day, after declaring that some of the papers which he had examined contained statements of very serious import. On Thursday, Sir Richard stated that the inquiry would not be resumed till Tuesday next. A poor woman was brought to Bew Street on Saturday, by a parish-officer front St. Clement Danes, for the purpose of being removed to her native parish, Pad- dington. On leaving the office, site fell into premature labour, and was delivered on the street. The parish-officer hurried the woman off in a hackney-coach, leaving the child, apparently a still-born one, on the street. Mr. Halls, when in- formed of what had been the woman's situation, declared, that should she die, the overseers of St. Clement Danes should be prosecuted for murder. Richard Powell, a boy of thirteen years of age, was brought up at Guildhall on Monday as a vagrant. It appeared that the boy's father died worth 11,0001., part of which was bequeathed to him. The widow turned hint out of doors some Years ago, and he has wandered about ever since.

Jeremiah Evans, and William Evans his father, were committed at Bow Street on Tuesday, for having broken into the wine cellar of Messrs. Richardson, in 'Cliandos Street, and having, with tile aid of some other ruffians who attempted their rescue, nearly murdered one of the polieemeu who assisted in securing them. William Steer was charged at Worship Street Office, on Tuesday, with an at- tempt to hang his wife on Sunday. The wife, a very respectable modest young woman, gave evidence with great reluctance. The prisoner said it was a joke. He was remanded till Thursday. The female did not appear on that day; and the Magistrate refused to liberate the prisoner on bail. He was again remanded till Monday.

The driver of a Fulham stage-coach was fined 5/. for taking up a passenger and setting him down within the limits of the hackney-coachmen's monopoly. A brothel-keeper in Shire Lane, and one of the women of his house, were com- mitted to Newgate by Sir Richard Birnic, on Monday, for assaulting and robbing a young man named Davie in their house. Robert Keyse was charged before the Lord Mayor, on Monday, with working a private still in Moorfields, on the premises where he lodged. No evidence was adduced that the prisoner had had any concern with it ; he attempted no conceal- ment; he offered no resistance to the officers ; lie denied all knowledge of the still. The Lord Mayor remarked that the case was a suspicious one, but that he did not feel himself warranted in committing the prisoner. Ten cads of hackney-coaches were committed at Bow Street on Thursday, as public nuisances.

A man named Williams was held to bail at Union Hall, on Wednesday, for an outrageous assault upon a-watchman who had prevented him front leaping over Waterloo Bridge. The Magistrate trusted that the Solicitor of the Waterloo Bridge Company would prosecute the prisoner at the Sessions for his brutality. A man of the name of Gregory was sentenced at Bow Street on Monday, to three months' imprisonment for hawking tracts -without a license. Time poor creature pleaded poverty—his rent was unpaid—his wife was starving ! he begged for mercy, fur his wife's sake. He had attempted to hang himself in the watchhouse, and was brought before Sir Richard Birnie handcuffed. Sir Richard ordered the irons to be removed, and regretted that he had no discretion in the case.

A female named Thomas was committed at Union Hall on Monday, for robbing her master of forty sovereigns. She was apprehended on the day after site coin. mitted themobbery, but had in the short interval contrived to lay out thirty-five of the sovereigns upon finery. Benjamin Cox and William Wilson were committed at Union Hall on Thurs- day, for breaking into and robbing the Beckford's Head, Bermoudsey, on the night before.

James Butler, James Pickett, and John James, were committed at Mary-la- bone on Thursday, fur the robbing of a house at Paddington when the family were at church. Some females, their associates, were discharged.

Mr. Joseph Dykes was fined in N. at Lambeth Street, on Wednesday, for having sold a glass of elder wine, and allowed it to be drunk on his premises. A Mr. Ellis, of Basing Place, Waterloo Road, gave information yesterday at Union Hall, of a robbery and outrage that had been committed in his house twq days before. A man called on Tuesday to purchase a fourpentty stamp ; another man called at the same time to purchase some mimeo t. While Mrs. Ellis was in the act of lifting the stamp, the fellow who inquired for it knocked her down, and forced a towel into her mouth ; while the other ruffian rifled the drawer, which contained upwards of 15/. worth of stamps. Both then escaped. Mr. Ellis has been but three months in his present shop, and he has been robbed three times. The Imperial Gas Company's counting-house in Hackney Fields was broken. into on Thursday morning, and robbed of nearly 600/.

The dwelling-house of Mr. Griffiths, Guildford Street, Brunswick Square, was entered on Tuesday night, and robbed of some articles of plate. The entrance was made by a window on the back premises, in which a hole was cut only large enough to admit the body of a little boy. The thieves left behind them a crow bar and phosphorus-box, with a bundle of matches. A barber in Rochester Row was charged at Queen Square Office on Saturday, with having caused two children to become chargeable to the parish. The baring had a notice posted in his window—" Children taken in to nurse by the day." A woman called with two children, and expressed a wish that he should give them, board and lodging for four-and-twenty hours. She forgot, however, to call for them again. The Magistrate said that the parish must support them. About a week ago, a girl presented herself before the Magistrates at the Union Hall Office, with a letter detailing a lamentable story of seduction and distress. • She begged with tears to be sent to her aged mother, near Portsmouth. Time Magistrates melted at her story, and the parish overseers themselves were in- fected with sympathy. Both gave her the means of relief—and had the satisfac- tion of seeing her brought before them drunk two days afterwards.

At the Maidstone Assizes yesterday, Stephen Price was tried for killing and slaying Anne Fairhear, near Sutton Valence. It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased were hop-pickers on the same farm. The prisoner had chastised his wife for some offence, and by doing so brought upon himself the enmity of all the females on the farm. They pursued him whenever he appeared, and threat-. coed to whip him with nettles. He was at last brought to bay, and forced to de- clare that he would defend himself with his sickle. The deceased disregarded this intimation, rushed upon him with' a bunch of nettles, and received a wound of which she died. He was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.

Mr. Davis, a highly respectable soliciior in the City, was tried at the Westmin- ster-kessions for an indecent assault. A policeman deposed that he had found the prisoner in a suspicious situation with a soldier. There was no further proof. Many respectable persons gave the prisoner a very high character; and the Jury found him not guilty. John Ayes, a King's messenger, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for an :Jesuit of the same nature.

In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, John Ellsworth, fate a collector of rates to the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, for having embezzled 264/. of the parish money.

William Vaughan Price, a schoolmaster, late of Turnham Green, was sentenced , to eight months' imprisonment, for having concealed property.

A correspondent of the Times of Thursday narrates a singular adventure that lately occurred at Portland Island, near Weymouth. Governor Penn, the old and infirm Governor of Portland Castle, is said to have received a letter, purporting to be from four reduced tradesmen, and demanding 50/., to carry them to New South Wales. They declared themselves desperate, and assured the General, that his immediate death would follow his failure to comply with their requisition, or his making, the requisition known to any one. The General was advised by his friends to deposit a check at the appointed spot, and watch the person who should ! remove it. A lady well known at the Castle was observed to approach the spot 't and examine the check. A second note reached the General, that unless money were left, his blood must be shed. A meeting of the inhabitants of the place was' called in consequence, and the assistance of a Bow Street officer applied for. He succeeded in tracing the whole affair to the lady. She had written the let-. ters in question, and poverty had driven her to these very strange expedients; Such is the story in the Titres. The sentence of imprisonment on Edwin Harris, which we noticed last week, 1, has called forth a letter from another medical gentlemen, corroborative in every- respect of the statement made by Mr. Whitmore, that the assault for which the prisoner suffers could not have been committed by him. This letter is addressed, like Mr. Whitmore's, to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, and has elicited . front him some observations of very great weight, on the nature of our courts of law. At the pit entrance of Covent Garden Theatre, on Monday night, Mr. J. B. Wood, a stock-broker, was robbed of a purse containing a 51. Bank of England note, several country bank notes, three sovereigns, and some silver. On Monday night, Joseph Jones, a waterman, who plies at Blackfriars Bridge, discovered a hamper on the causeway, which on examination was found to con- tain the body of a female, apparently about sixty years of age, which is supposed to have been stolen from some churchyard. It was taken to the watchhouse, Blackfriars.

An attempt was made by three ruffians last week to rob the mail-cart between Rochester and Maidstone. The horse, however, started off and left them behinds A brutal assault was made last week by a party of ruffians upon some privates of the 62d Regiment, stationed at Rathkeale. The soldiers in self-defence, were obliged to use their fire arms, and a countryman was in consequence wounded, The conduct of the soldiers was inquired into by the Magistrates, and after a searching investigation, pronounced to have been warranted by circumstances.

Last week, Mr. John Sims, a man of ninety, was murdered in his cottage, near Havant, Hampshire. He was reputed rich, and had but one attendant, an old housekeeper. Here is her account of the mode in which the crime was perpe- trated. " About two o'clock on Thursday morning, having occasion to go out of the house, I opened the front door, when three men immediately rushed by me into the house, nearly pushing me down : one was a tall man, and the other two rather short, one of the short men having a black crape over his face. The tall man remained with me in the kitchen, standing over me with a short bludgeon, telling me that if I made any noise it would be the worse for me. The two then went through the little room up stairs, to my master's room ; they had not been there long before I heard my master cry ' Murder, murder l' I then said to the Man who was with me, ' I hope they will not hurt the old man;' when he replied 6 he had better hold his tongue, or it will be the worse for him.' I did not hear My master call out after this. The two men, after having been some time up stairs, came down into the little room, where they took from a cupboard several articles of plate ; they then went into the pantry and took a cheese, some pork, beef, and a loaf of bread, which they put into a bag. The man who had crape over his face then came up to me saying, ' and what have you got ?' I said, 6 Only a shilling or two.' He then searched my pockets, and took from them one shilling and twopence. The men then left the house; and on going out one said M me that if I made a noise or came out it would be the worse for me, as one of ahem would wait under the hedge near the house. After the men had left the muse, I called at the foot of the stairs to my master, but not receiving any an- swer, I concluded he had been murdered; and being afraid to go up stairs, I went out at the back-door, and called Charles Cooper and his wife, who lived a short distance off. They came, and on going up stairs, found my master lying on the bed quite dead." Two men have been apprehended on suspicion : and applica- tion has been made to Mr. Peel for pardon to the accomplice who may convict the others, and the parish-officers have offered a reward of 501. for their appre- hension.

A matt named W. Ashley, the master of a gang of horse-stealers that has been infesting the counties of Wilts and Gloucester for a long time past, has been committed to Fisherton Gaol.

The Alliance coach, from Liverpool to London, loaded with transports, arrived On Monday last at the George Inn, Knutsford, to change horses. The convicts, who had all along the road behaved in a most mutinous manner, now openly de- fied and fought the keepers having them in charge—getting off the coach, and peremptorily refusing to resume their places. In this dilemma the guard procured the assistance of the governor and two turnkeys of the gaol. The prisoners were then marched into the prison, and the coach being drawn into the yard, they were placed on it, and proceeded under the additional charge of one of the turnkeys. The convicts subsequently got off, and entering the taproom of a public-house, seized the poker, and threatened to run it through one of the keepers if he resisted Any attempt of theirs. We have since been informed that all the convicts were drunk, and were in the charge of two men who were not gaolers, but servants of a person who had contracted for the removal of the prisoners from Kirkdale..— Stockport Advertiser. 0 A few nights since, a boat containing two men was observed stealing up the (Trent, in the neighbourhood of Walcot, where these " saieigns.ctf.aknaoen:' effected a landing on part of the estate belonging to M. Constable, Esq. One of them was furnished with an air-gun, which he used with so much skill that a three- bushel bag was soon filled with pheasants. Satisfied with their booty, the marauders were in the act of retiring to the boat, when they wore attacked by Mr. Constable's game-keepers, and he who bore the bag suffered himself to be made a prisoner sooner than relinquish his prey. The other reached the skiff in safety, and, pushing her into the stream, was in a very short time beyond pursuit; his less fortunate companion was despatched in a cart to Kirton House of Correc- tion, handcuffed to another captured caitiff, and guarded by a constable. When near the end of their journey, the bagman, observing a public-house by the road- side, entreated the officer to allow them a glass of something comfortable, ob-

' !serving that it would be long enough before such another opportunity might be in !their power. The officer consented, and the wily poacher, who had managed to

Iget rid of his fetters, no sooner descended from the cart, than wishing the con- stable a good night, and thanking him for his politeness, he bounded off with the speed of the wind; to the great delight of several spectators, not one of whom ould stir a foot to recapture him.—Hull Packet.

The gamekeepers of Mr. Heneage had a -desperate rencontre with a band of poachers on Sunday, in Hookham wood, near Devizes. Four of the poachers were captured. Front their appearance when brought to prison, it might have been imagined that they had just escaped from a slaughter house : they were covered with blood. The left hand of one is cut almost to pieces ; the right hand of another has been run through with a cutlass ; another has two severe gashes in his head ; and the fourth is wounded in various parts. Most of the keepers are also wcunded.—Devizes Gazette.

An incorrigible poacher was committed last week to Lewes House of Correc- tion. He has managed his concerns so seasonably, that his last eleven Christmas dinners have been taken in the same prison. A female has been condemned, by the Justices of Lanarkshire, to three months' imprisonment for poaching.

A correspondent informs us, that the locksmiths in Sheffield have come to a determination for the future not to make any key from a pattern or from an im- pression, since the discovery of the false key made from a pattern to the iron chest at the betting-rooms, Doncaster. Prior to this determination, a gentleman of Doncaster, hearing of the facility with which a key might be had, went to a locksmith in Sheffield, and taking with him the key of his portmanteau, he got one made in eight minutes. Upon reference to an act of Parliament it will be seen, that to make a key by any other way than from the lock, and then deliver- ing it at the residence of a housekeeper, subjects the party to fine and imprison- ment—Doncaster Gazelle.

An unfortunate duel took place at St. Omer on Tuesday the 8th inst. The parties were a Mr. Bligh and a Mr. Williams. At the third fire Mr. Williams was shot dead. Mr. Bligh and the seconds (a Mr. Maitland and a Mr. Tolfry,) imme- diately fled.

Whilst the fads Court of Assizes was occupied on Wednesday with the trial of several persons for robbery, one of the auditors detected a man who stood next him in the act of stealing a pipe from his pocket. This complaint led another person to state that since he had been in Court his pocket-handkerchief had been stolen. The offender, a cook out of place named Caudon, was immediately arrested and searched, and the stolen handkerchief was found on him. As he maintained thatit was his own, the Advocate-General asked him whether he took

scut? No, said the prisoner, How happens it then, replied the Advocate, that

the handkerchief is covered with snuff? I forgot, rejoined the prisoner, I do take snuff, and as a proof here is my snuff-box. The snuff-box being handed to the Bench, he was desired to give a description of it, which he was unable to do. He had recently stolen it, and had not had time to examine it. According to the general practice in France of immediately condemning for offences committed in Court, he was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment.

The diligence from Barcelona to Valencia was lately robbed near Tortosa. Amongst the passengers, besides the Governor of Madrid, General Fernandez, and his aide-de-camp, were three English travellers—Colonel Paty, Mr. Wade Brown, and Captain Waller. The brigands obtained a booty of nearly 2,000 francs, and the watches of the Spaniards. This is the second time within a fort- night that the mail has been pillaged in this part of Valencia; and the Captain- General of the province, General Longa, allows these brigands to enjoy their plunder undisturbed.