THE MONEY MARKET.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.-There has been a good deal of business doing iu the public Funds during the present week, and some fluctuation, although not to any great extent ; the highest price having been 86i, and the lowest 86i. The purchases of an eminent broker, to which we alluded in our last report, were continued in the early part Of this week ; and the stock taken by him both for money and for the ac- count, although variously stated, undoubtedly amounted to a very large sum. Such, however was the state of the market, that prices did not rise in any thing like the ratio which has been observed at other times on similar occasions; on the contrary, so soon as the extraordinary demand had ceased, they began to decline. The inference from this circumstance is obvious ; and we cannot help concluding, that if it had not been for these large purchases, a considerable fall might have occurred, in conse- quence of the large supply of stock brought to market for sale, and which these purchases have for the present absorbed.

Money continues to be abundant. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds maintain their prices ; and all the heavy stocks have advanced during the week, although at the close to-day they were about I per cent. lower.

In the Foreign market, every description of security is lower. The de- cline in Brazil Mining Shares appears to have alarmed the holders of all other Shares, and caused a great many to be brought to market. Coupled with this, the arrival of a Mexican packet during the week, bring- ing unfavourable reports from the mining districts, has had a material effect in adding to the depression. It seems that an extraordinary drought had occurred there, which had occasioned a dreadful deficiency of food and fodder for cattle ; thereby causing not only great additional expense to the MiningAssociations in the increased expense of feedingtheir mules, but also a considerable loss by the mortality which bad as well as deficient food had occasioned. In other respects, however, these undertakings ap- pear to be going on more favourably. The Mexican packet brought no- thing consolatory to the Bondholders, and the Bonds have again fallen in price ; they have been sold at 33, but are now about 341. All other South American Bonds, Brazilian included, are lower. Portuguese have fallen to 551; Russian Stock continues to be the eighth wonder of the money-market-the price having advanced to 93f.

BEITISTI FUNDS. B per Cent. Consols, 86a to

Ditto, for Acct. 27th Nov. 862 to a 3 per Cent. Reduced, 851 to I 31 per Cent. Reduced, 94a to 4 per Cents. 1024 to a 4 per Cents. 1826, 1031 to Long Annuities, 19 5-16 to India Stock, 236 to 7 Bank, 2091 to 10 a

Exchequer Bills, 75s. to 76s. India Bonds, 86s. to 83e.

FOEEION FUNDS.

Brazilian 5 per Cents. 64 to a Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents. 481 to 91 Chilian, 6 per Cents. 261 to 76 Colombian, 1824,6 per Cents. 18a to Danish 3 per Cents. 611 to French 5 per Cents. 1055 to Ditto 3 per Cents. 74 to a Greek 5 per Cents. 17 to 18 Mexican 6 per Cents. 34a to 2 Ditto 5 per Cents. 26 to 7 Peruvian 6 per Cents. 161 to 171 Portuguese 5 per Cents. 55/ to Russian, (SterlingBonds) 5 per Cents. 93 to

Spanish, 1822, 5 per Cents. 111 to American 3 per Cents. 75 to 76 Ditto 1815,0 per Cents. 94 New York, 1845, 5 per Cents. 97 to 98 Pennsylvania (1850) 5 per Cents. 94 to 95 Bank Shares, 7 per Cent. 25 to 10

SNARES...

Alliance Marine, 61. Ss. to 61. 10s. Anglo-Mexican, 22/. 10.s. to 25/. Bolanos, 450/.

Brazil 621. to 641.

Colombian, 16/. 10s." to 171.10.9. Del Monte, 180/. to 200/.

Tlalpuxahua, 25/. to 30/.

United Mexican, 16/. 10s. to 17/. 10s.

SATURDAY, ONE O'CLOCK.-This 864 to I. Very little doing.

FOUR o'Caocx.-Consols, 861 to

is a Holiday at the Bank. Consols,

THE KING'S COURT.-His Majesty held a Court at the Royal Lodge in Windsor-park, on Monday afternoon ; which was attended by several of the Cabinet Ministers, and the Bishops of Chichester and Chester. Viscount Itabayana, the Brazilian Minister, who came in state, was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen ; when it was understood, his Excellency invested his Majesty with the insignia of the order of Don Pedro. The Rev. Dr. Sumner was introduced, and did homage upon his being appointed to the see of Chester. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which the Parliament was further prorogued from Thursday last till the.18th of December next. The Duke of Wellington officiated as Lord President of the Council, in the ab- sence of Earl Bathurst. The Earl of Fife was the Lord in Waiting. The Council broke up about five o'clock. His Majesty, although hi good health and spirits, has not resumed his favourite excursions in consequence of the cold northerly winds that have lately prevailed.-Irorning Post, Saturday. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester visited his Ma- jesty yesterday. The Princess Augusta goes to Brighton next week, to reside for a time.

PALACE Mvsreetes.-Whatever may be the nature or extent of the pro- jected alterations now going on in that part of St. James's Palace appropri- ated to the Duke of Cumberland, we can state, upon an authority which we have every reason to believe, that those alterations were begun without waiting for the sanction of the King ; that, in fact, his Majesty never was consulted on the subject at all ; and that it is very far from having his approbation. If this be true-and that it is true we have no doubt whatever-we can only surmise that the Duke of Cumberland took upon himself to order the alterations, and that they are only suffered to proceed upon an understanding that his Royal Highness shall disburse the cost out of his own pocket. Indeed, we have heard that his Majesty expressed himself peremptorily to that effect; at the same time observing, that he would not allow any of the public money to be used in patching up an old palace, at a time when so much was expending upon the new ones. The place needed repairing badly enough, we believe ; and if his Royal Highness pays for it out of his own proper purse, John Bull will have no reason to complain.-Morning Herald. The Morning Chronicle asserts, that notwithstanding the King's attention to business, it is much in arrear, and "that not one single military commission bas been issued to the officers of the army for nearly two years." The Ile en Thunday kresented to the Lord, Chancellor

Mr. Secretary Peel, with his lady and family, arrived in town yesterday.

The Earl of Blesinton has taken Marshal Nay's noble mansion on the hanks of the Seine, in Paris ; where his Lordship, the Countess, and Lady Harriet d'Orsay, intend to reside for a year or two.

Lady Burdett is in Paris, with restored health.

In a Congregation held in Trinity College, Oxford, on Thursday, the thanks of the University were unanimously voted to Mr. Wynn, for his second offer of a writership in India, as a prize for competition among the junior members of the University. Mr. George Coates, the successful candidate for the first writership, has had the honorary degree of M.A. conferred upon him.

The King has given a donation of 2001. towards completing the repairs of the German Lutheran Church, in the Savoy, near Waterloo-bridge ; and the Duke of Clarence has also presented 50/. for the same object. The subscription for the sufferers at Gibraltar amounts to about 1600/. A subscription has been commenced in Liverpool, iii aid of the London subscription.

The proceeds of a sermon recently preached in the Unitarian Chapel, Finsbury-square, for the benefit of the Spanish and Italian refugees, was up- wards of 110/.

The attempt to raise a subscription for a monument to the memory of the late Major Cartwright has failed. Little snore than 500/. had been collected, and laid out on exchequer bills to accumulate. The Committee consider it too small to erect any thing worthy of the late Major, or of the cause of Radical Reform.

A public dinner, at twenty shillings a head, is to be given to Mr. Shiel, on Monday, in the London Tavern ;-Mr. .William Smith, M.P., is to preside Commote Cotascna-This body, at a meeting yesterday, received the report of the New London Bridge Committee on the state of the works, and their opinion of the nature of the approach to it on the London side. They seemed to think that the plan of throwing an arch over Thames-street would be the best, and they recommended that it should be adopted. The report was ordered to be printed. The other business was of no interest.

QUARTER SESSIONS.---A numerous assemblage of the Magistrates of Mid- dlesex, was held on Thursday, in the Clerkenwell Sessions House, for the despatch of what is called " county" business. A return from the Keeper of Coldbath-fields prison stated the number of prisoners under his charge at 842. This number was too large for the prison ; for he could not accommo- date more than 660 without inconvenience. On the motion of Mr. Flower, it was agreed that 15,000/. should be expended to prc.cure additional ac- commodation for classifying, &c. The Chaplain's report stated that the reading of the Bible had wrought considerable reformation in the conduct of many of the prisoners. The visiting Magistrates of Clerkenwell Prison re- ported that those occupied therein were generally healthy, and their conduct as good as could be expected. Sir George Hampson complained of ineffi- cient room in the sleeping wards : he had measured one ward, and it did not give more than sixteen or seventeen inches to each person. A long con- versation ensued about the erection of a pauper lunatic asylum, the expense of which, it was supposed, would be 100,000/. Sir G. Farrant moved that the project should be abandoned; but the meeting adjourned without de- ciding the question.

THE TOMAS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.-A correspondent of the Times wishes the public to attend to a project of desecration contemplated by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. It is said that these authorities " are about to permit (for the purpose of receiving a statue of the late Mr. Watt, of Soho) the removal of a venerable and beautiful altar-tomb in the Chapel of St. Paul, which now covers the remains of Sir Giles Dawbeny, and dame Elizabeth his wife." As the monument to be sacrificed is both valuable to the artist and historically useful, he thinks the Dean and Chapter ought not to be permitted to remove it. Sir Giles Dawbeny was "a Lord-Lieutenant of Calais, Lord Chamberlain to Henry VII., a Knight of the Most Noble order of the Garter, and father to the first and last Earl of Bridgewater of that sirname • and, moreover, a man of much piety and regard in his time."

LONDON UNIVERSITY.-Dr. Lardner's first lecture on Natural Philosophy was delivered on Tuesday, and was attended by about seven hundred per- sons. Long before the hour appointed for its commencement, every seat in the lecture-room was filled. At three o'clock the Council and Professors entered, and took their places around the lecturer's table, Dr. Lardner fol- lowed, and was received in the most distinguished manner. The entrance of Mr. Brougham, Dr. Birkbeck, and others, was also marked by the cheers of the audience. Dr. Lardner, to illustrate his discourse, gave various expe-

riments; and in particular on the operation and effects of steam. He had a section, modelled in wood, of a steam-engine, by which he exemplified the whole system of steam machinery. The lecture concluded with several experi- ments on small brass steam-engines, all of which were very successful, and a small steam carriage was made to work well. The introductory lecture was repeated on Friday, to accommodate those who could not gain admittance on Tuesday.

MEDICAL CEP-TIFICATES„-It was formerly mentioned that the University of

Edinburgh had passed a resolution that they would not receive the certifi- cates of the Medical Professors of the University of London, because it has not a Royal charter. The Times, from authority, declares that the Univer- sity of Edinburgh has not passed any such resolution. The certificates of the Professors of the University of London will have equal consideration with those of any of the lecturers at the London hospitals. The other Uni- versities of Scotland are charitably supposed to be equally incapable of so unworthy a proceeding as that of taking any step in opposition to the Uni- versity of London.

MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.-The first meeting of the ninth session was held on Wednesday evening at the Society's apartments, Sackville-strect.

The' meeting was very numerously attended. Among the company were

Count Ludolf, the Neapolitan Minister, Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minis- ter, Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister, Baron Ralamb, Charg6 d'Af- faires for Sweden ; all of whom wore their orders. They were admitted

members of the Society ; as were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Bedford, and some other distinguished gentlemen. Previous to the chair being taken by Sir James M'Gregor, the President, Earl Stanhope, invested him with a splendid gold medal and chain, the latter being that worn by the late Duke of York, the former patron of the Society. The Secretary, Mr. Josy, enumerated a great variety of valuable presents to the Society from the East India Company, Earl Stanhope, the King of Ba- varia, Sir J. M‘Gregor, and others .includin g specimens of valuable medical

plants. ST. KATIIARINE'S Dom.—The vessels which entered these maiden docks on Saturday:, last, with cargoes, began to discharge on Monday morning, with all the facilities of an old establishment. These docks are situate immediately below the Tower of London. Part of the ground they occupy was formerly the site of St. Katharine'e Hospital, which was founded by Matilda, wife of King Stephen, and extended by the „ Queens of Edward 1. and HI. In clearing the site, altogether about twenty-four acres, no fewer than 1250 houses were pulled flown, leaving 11,300 inhabitants to seek habitations in other quarters of the metropolis. The capital of the Company, raised by shares was 1,352,800/. Of this sum 1,200,000/. has been expended, and 500,404 more will be raised by loan', on. the credit of the rates, before the whole plan is perfected. The docks, and the immense warehouses which surround them, and which are nearly matchless for convenience and strength, have been built with amazing rapidity. The first stone was laid on the 3d of May 1827; and upwards of 2,500 men have since been employed front day to day. The canal leading from the Thames is one hundred and ninety feet long and 'forty-five feet broad ; and is crossed by a swing bridge twenty-three feet wide, supposed to be the largest of the kind yet executed. The docks will be capable of containing nearly one hundred and sixtyships at one time,inde_ pendent of craft. The depth of water at spring-tides is twenty-four feet; being four feet more than any other dock in London ; and in consequence of a channel of three hundred feet wide, being now kept clear in the river, the largest ships may come up to the St. Kathariue's docks at any time with the certainty of admission. The entrance lock, basin, and west dock, with warehouse, vault, and shed-room, equal to the stowage of about 90,000 tons of merchandise, have been completed ; and the east dock. with ware- houses, vaults, exc., which will be capable of containing about 120,000 tons of goods in addition, are now in progress, and will be completed about the end of the ensuing year. From the improved construction of the ware- houses, goods will always be housed under cover, and much labour saved. The warehouses are five stories high above tile ground in the fronts facing the docks, and six in those facing the streets ; the former half of the ground floor being eighteen feet high, open, and supported by pillars for the ac- commodation of vessels discharging, and the latter being divided into two stories by means of a mezzanine, and devoted to the warehousing of goods ; and there are commodious vaults under the whole. There is :liberal sup- ply of powerful cranes below • and over the wells or shafts, which reach from top to bottom of the building, is machinery for raising goods to the height required. Tile columns supporting the walls of the warehouses next the dock are three feet nine inches in diameter, with Doric capitals, and of most admirable workmanship. They are of cast iron, two inches thick. The pillars supporting the floors are also of cast iron, three inches in diameter, and so furnished with flaunches as to give their section the appearance of St. George's Cross. The stairs are wholly of granite, and the pavement of the quays, in the neighbourhood of the cranes, of cast iron. The permanent establishment of persons employed about the docks, will be about 100 offi- cers and 120 labourers.

The entertainment in the warehouses, after the ceremony of opening the decks on Saturday, was attended by some of his Majesty's Ministers, the Foreign Ambassadors, and most of the leading gentlemen in the commercial world. About three thousand persons are said to have been accommodated at the tables. A momentary inconvenience from the numbers was created by the misbehaviour of a few; but the arrangements were admirable.

PROTESTANT MEETING AT BEWOLEY.—The people of this place met this week, and resolved to petition Parliament against any further concessions to the Catholics. The petition was proposed by the Reverend John Cawood. It set forth that to place Catholics-.-men of a divided allegiance— on the same level in point of political privilege with those whose allegiance was perfect, would be injustice to more than twelve millions of Protestants, and treason to a Protestant constitution. The petition was adopted without d:scussion.

The first dinner of the Kent Brunswick Club was given at Maidstone on Friday ; the Earl of Winchilsea in the Chair.

The Kent Herald says that a counter address is now in circulation, the signatures to which will show that the sentitnents of the men of Kent are hostile to the Brunswickers. "In this way," says the Morning Chronicle, "the glaring partiality of the High Sheriff, which we are willing to attri- bute to sheer stupidity rather than a corrupt motive, may in part be obviated."

PROSECUTION OF Tinsves.—A meeting of agriculturists was held in Halseworth, on Monday last, to form a society for this purpose. Lord Huntingfield, who presided, said that the robberies committed on agricul- turists wore quite ruinous : " So help me God ! " he exclaimed, "there is not a county in England like Suffolk for the frequency of these thefts." There was "nothing that the thieves would not steal "—pigs, fowls, even the most trifling articles. The thieves have a plan of muzzling the pigs, to prevent their squeaking and alarming the owners. The meeting agreed, in the mean time, that the reward for the conviction of a horse-stealer should be 20/.; and for most cases of petty offences the reward was fixed at 2/. It was feared that the rewards might encourage offences if they were rated too high.

The Spartiate and Windsor Castle, men-of-war, have sailed for the Medi- terranean.

The Ontario, which was stated to have left Calcutta on tile 19th May, brings letters to the 29th of that month, several days later than those by the Mary Ann. The Candian, Reed, arrived at Calcutta on the 26th May, and the Sir David Scott, M'Taggart, on the 29th.

7Mr. Martin, the painter, met with a painful accident the other day, in the gardens of the Zoological Society. He was playing with a monkey of a very large species, and very savage nature, which' suddenly snapping at his hand, tore off the flesh from the under part of his right thumb. Thisis not the first offence of this vicious creature; and to prevent future ones, and more painful consequences resulting from them, we would recommend that he be forthwith strangled. Monkeys arc not so scarce as to be valuable when mischievous: the Society may catch a substitute at arty time between three and six o'clock in Bond-street, and its neighbourhood.

A woman died the other day in a church in -Guernsey, while in the act of partaking of the sacrament. On Saturday, as Mr. Jefferson, a farmer near Maidstone,was passing along Oitford-street, conversing with a gentleman, befell to the ground dead.

On the same day, as Mr. Watkins, the foreman to the builders of the Wes. leyan chapel„ at Brixton, was superintending the laying of one of the truss- girders, it miSsed the bracket on which it was to rest, and killed him on tho spot.

The body of a young girl was found on Monday, in the Serpentine River. It is supposed that she had destroyed herself, in consequence of having been deserted by a young man to whom she expected to be married.

A woman, aged thirty-five poisoned herself with arsenic, on Monday, at Bermondsey. She left her husband some time since with a paramour ; and was in her turn deserted. The misery andsuffering to which she was thus exposed, brought on insanity, under which she'committed suicide. On Tuesday evening, a tradesman residing in the Borough threw himself from a second-floor window. He was deranged, and had attempted to kill his wife a little before.

A Coroner's Jury sat on Thursday, at Stockwell, on the body of Mr. Cartwright, who shot himself in his garden. The deceased had been fre- quently outrageously mad; and was once confined in a madhouse. Verdict —Insanity.

Mr. Williams, druggist, Bath, died suddenly on Tuesday week, from time effects of an over-dose of prussic acid. He was in the habit of taking some of this drug along with other medicine ; but on the present occasion the dose proved too powerful.

On Thursday, a young girl in Manchester stood close to a wall, in a nar- row lane, in order that a cart might pass. The inequality of the pavement caused the cart to jolt ; and the girl's head was crushed to pieces between the wheel and the wall, in the view of her agonized mother.

A deplorable coach accident occurred one night last week, near tile Pen- dleton toll-bar, on the Manchester and Liverpool road. The Doctor coach, on its way from Manchester to Liverpool, was going at a quick pace up the gentle ascent beyond the Wool-pack Inn, with the lamps lighted, when it came in contact with the Volunteer, which was coming down tile hill towards Manchester, without lamps • and such was the force of the con- cussion, that the Volunteer was instantly overturned, and the whole of the outside passengers, seven or eight ill number, together with the coachman, were precipitated with great violence upon the road, and were all more or less injured. The coachman and a young lady were expected to die of their wounds.

A few days since, a wolf issued from a forest in the vicinity of Ruffec, de- pertinent of the Charente, and attacked at noon-day two women returning from market, whom he tore in a most dreadful ma.niter. After seriously wounding two other women, he was shot at the moment when he was attacking a flock of sheep. One of the women has since died, and serious apprehensions are entertained for the recovery of the others.—Frencii Paper.

In May last, a fire broke out in the stables of the IlorseArtillery, at Cawn- pore, ill the presidency of Calcutta, which reduced to ashes the stalls of twelve hundred horses. A few horses were destroyed. On Sunday evening, a fire broke out iti the house of Mr. Shealdrick, shoe warehouse, in Whitechapel-roacl ; which, together with the entire stock in trade and furniture, was consumed. The houses adjoining were partially injured.

On Tuesday night, a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Thomas and Benjamin Capper, Beaufort-wharf, Strand ; and in spite of every exertion, the buildings, including storehouses, sheds, meters' counting-house, &c. were totally consumed. The building destroyed was full of coal-sacks, tar, and other stores. The illumination of the atmosphere by the fire was bril- liant ; and the bridges on the Thames were crowded with persons viewing the conflagration.

A barn, the property of Mr. 'Webb, of the Park, near Ross, was wilfully set on fire on Friday night, and three hundred and fifty bushels of wheat and barley consumed.

The Highlander, steam-boat, on her voyage from Oban to Glasgow, last Friday night, came in contact with a sloop sailing in an opposite direction. Captain Johnson, who was standing on the paddle-box, was thrown into the sea by the shock, and drowned. The steamer received considerable injury. The brig Carleton became water-logged on the 29th August, on her voyage from St. John's to Demerara. The Captain was washed overboard, and drowned. The crew continued by the wreck for fifteen days, having nothing to live upon but flour and salt water. They were taken off by a vessel bound to London, except two men, who died of famine.

The Times of yesterday mentions that several extensive forgeries have lately been detected in the City. One of the parties was a merchant of some

credit, in a lane leading into Fenchurch-street. The bankers who discovered the forgery had bills to the amount of 5000/. in their hands, all bad. The merchant was sent for and admitted his crime. His friends were also assembled, to devise means to take up the bills which were in other han,15,

that the penal consequences might he averted. The bankers, averse to prosecute him to death, unlocked the door of the room where he was con- fined, and bade him go forth and seek his safety where he could. He is supposed to be on his way to America. The bankers lose 50001. by his forgeries.

Another banker this week allowed a forged bill to be taken up at his counter, though he was aware of its character.

The Morning Chronicle contains a circumstantial account of a singular robbery upon an officer of high rank, not in the country, by two of the

nephews of his lady. They are represented to have plundered the General of a collection of gold and silver coins, which it cost the owner infinite labour to bring together at an expense of 20,000/, the whole of which has been dissipated. Though the police has been employed on the occasion, the utmost secrecy has been observed. A few of the coins have been redeemed from pawnbrokers ; but it is thought that the most valuable portion of them has been smelted down.

A gentleman was on Saturday robbed of his watch at St. Katharine's docks. A house in Trinity-square, Tower-hill, was in the evening robbed of plate and wearing apparel. The house of Mr. Sergeant Andrews, in Guil- ford-street, was likewise robbed of a gold watch on the same evening, by a female, who obtained admittance under the pretence that she wanted the si- tuation of house-maid.

On Monday evening, a thief entered Mr. Baron Garrow's house, and car- ried off a purple robe and vest belonging to the learned Judge.

A daring act of robbery was on the same day committed at Mr. Hubbard's, gold refiner, Long-acre. A fellow entered the shop on the pretence of pur- chasing a few grains of fine gold. He threw a pantity of arafortis in the

shopman's face, and ran off with a canister, containing about 140 ounces of pure gold, valued at 680/. The shopman's face is dreadfully burnt, and it is feared he will lose the sight of an eye. A robbery of great audacity was on Wednesday committed in a watch- maker's shop, Mary-le-boneestreet, by two fellows who pretended that they wished to purchase a watch. They had no sooner got the watch than they threw snuff in the shopman's eyes, and escaped with their prize. The Hector, lndiaman, lying in the East India Docks, hasbeen robbed of plate and jewellery of the value of 200/ belonging to the captain. A boarding-school, at Layton, in Essex, was on Friday robbed of plate to the amount of about 50/. This is the twelfth time that the same house has been robbed.

The Catholic chapel at Lytham has been robbed of golden candlesticks, chalices, and other sacred paraphernalia, to the amount of 400/. Tavistock chapel, in Broad-court, was entered on Saturday night by thieves but their only booty was part of a bottle of wine, and some useless keys. This chapel has twice before been robbed.

William Birmingham, the young man who was mentioned last week as having been committed for stealing a shawl and a Bible, to satisfy his wants, has been tried for the offence at the Surrey Sessions, and sentenced to be imprisoned fourteen days. A magistrate and some individuals commi- serating his destitute condition, have entered into a subscription to release his clothes from pledge, and furnish him with the means of going to Jamaica, where he is sanguine of procuring a situation in the medical profession.

At the Knutsford sessions, an old man named Thomas Percival, in his eightieth year, was convicted and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, on the charge of intending to steal a duck. He picked the bird up, but for some reason or other he laid it down again, and walked away. He was af- terwards followed, apprehended, .and ultimately committed to take his trial. . On Friday morning early, the neighbourhood of Hackney-road was thrown into the greatest confusion, in consequence of a man named Scorey, who keeps a tripe-shop in the Hackney-road, having stabbed his wife. The poor woman was found in the up-stairs room, weltering in her blood, having been stabbed in the abdomen with one of the shop-knives. Medical assistance was immediately sent for, but there is no hope of her recovery. Scorey was taken to Shoreditch watchhouse.

Mr. Eden, an opulent farmer, was murdered on Saturday, as he was re- turning from Hilsbury market, about thirteen miles from Oxford. The mur- derers dragged their victim from the cart he was driving, and beat him till life was extinct. About a year ago, this unfortunate gentleman was assaulted and robbed of about 200/.

The neighbourhood of the village of Haddenham, which is within five miles of Aylesbury, has also been the scene of a murder. The victim is Mr. Nad- der, a respectable farmer of the middle class. His body was found late on Saturday night, by the road-side, about half a mile from the village. On ex- amination, it was discovered that three or four of the deceased's ribs were broken, as if from a kick or blow of a blunt stunning instrument. On the head, towards the occiput, there were also discovered marks which appeared to be wounds inflicted on the unfortunate man.

About ten years ago, a waggoner named Brockway was robbed on the Wilton-road, and afterwards found dead. Four men were apprehended and convicted of the robbery ; but though it was suspected that they had added murder to their crime, the story that the waggoner had fallen from his cart and been killed was taken for granted. The four men who were transported for the lesser crime, have since returned ; and one of them named Hunt, labouring under a dangerous illness, is said to have disclosed all the circum- stances connected with the murder. The robbers having dragged Brockway from the cart, placed his head before the wheel, which passed over it, and caused his instant death. Hunt, says the account, takes to himself the act of placing the head under the wheel ; incessantly exclaiming, "This is the arm that did it."

The Jamaica papers contain the trial of Lieutenant Edward Holland, and

the first and second mate of his Majesty's ship Nimble for the murder of Peter Swanson. They were charged with having put him in irons' lashed him to the deck under a burning sun, and gagged bins with an iron bolt, of which suffering he died. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

A Frenchman in the department of the Upper Marne recently murdered his infant, only six months old; by giving it vitriol. When apprehended, he tried to fasten the crime ors his wife.

On Wednesday week, all the clerks in the Arrival Department of the Paris Post-office were seized in the office, and carried in parties to their homes, where they were obliged to deliver up all their papers, family letters, and private correspondence. The motive for this extraordinary measure has not transpired.

A few days ago, a woman who keeps a wine-shop in the Rue Jacob, at Paris, was told by a man that the wine was running out of a cask in the cellar. She immediately descended, but no sooner had she got to the middle of the stairs than the man shut the door and locked her in. He then went up stairs, broke open the till and desk with a hammer, and carried off the sum of 1,500fr. The prisoner remained in her captivity for about half an hour, not- withstanding her cries for help. At length a customer went into the shop, and hearing her shrieks, hastened to set her at liberty.

It is stated jn a letter from Paris, that an English clergyman, of middle age, has eloped with the wife of an English friend at whose house he visited, The parties were pursued and overtaken at Beauvais, on their road to Eng- land. An action is said to have been commenced in a French court against the reverend seducer.

John Brown, formerly a clerk to Mr. Rothschild, who escaped to America with sundry dividend warrants of the Prussian loan, has been arrested in New York. He delivered up the warrants, and was liberated.

The Irish have discovered a new product for exportation. On Saturday morning, as the revenue-officers at Greenock were searching the Eclipse steamer, which had arrived from Belfast, a human foot started up in their faces ; and the bodies of two men, two women and a new-born child, were found closely packed in three trunks, and a chest fictitiously addressed to persons in Glasgow and Leith. The bodies were taken and buried, under the authority of the Police, and the scrutiny of the people who were roused on the occasion. The Greenock Advertiser adds, that "by the same vessel a large quantity of oatmeal was brought over to a respectable dealer in town, but on the first cart-load being brought up, it was found to be so strongly impregnated with the putrid smell of the corpses, that the bags were returned unopened, and the dealer refused to take delivery of the remainder."

The French papers are at a loss to conceive what has become of the Marquis of Falaiseau, Inspector-General of the services of the King's household, who has suddenly disappeared. Some will have it that he has been assassinated ; and others that he has, in a fit of devotion, shut himself up, with his money, in a religious establishment.

A French letter-writer thinks it singular that Englishmen should be buying up corn at Rouen, while Frenchmen are making large purchases in Lincolnshire.

Vincent Monti, the Italian poet, died at Milan on the 13th October.

A German paper announces that the Grand Signior has just inherited, by the death of Emir Wahid Paella, the sum of 45,000 purses, or upwards of twenty millions of piastres in specie and jewels. The deceased is well known for the part he took in the negotiations for peace with England in 1809, and his mission to Napoleon during the campaign in Prussia in 1807.

It is said that the officer who is second in command in the Turkish ar- tillery is a Frenchman, named Dalhousie, formerly a sergeant in the French service; and the same who, in 1815, assumed the command of Strasbourg at the time of the insurrection of the garrison of that city.

However the Turks might be " discourteous " in the eyes of the male part of the Greek population, they seem to have been anything but" dis- courteous" in the eyes of the females. It was with great difficulty that the Greek parents prevented a crowd of Greek women from accompanying their Turks, as they called them. In one instance, a Greek girl was torn by force from the arms of an Egyptian officer: she declared herself to be twelve

THE WINTER Timis:rm.—The new tragedy continues to draw good houses at Drury Lane three times a week ; the nights have generally been Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On Thursday, Cibber's °Love makes a Man was revived ; Don Lewis by Farren' Clodio by Jones, Angelina by Miss E. Tree. The Green-eyed Monster has been imported from the Hay- market. Liston has played a few of his favourite parts.

At Covent Garden. Kean plays twice a week, to considerable but nut overflowing houses : Richard, Sir Giles, and Shylock have been the alter- nating characters, till this week, that Macbeth and Othello have been added to the list. Madame Vestris has returned. A Mr. Gray has been attempting Sir Anthony Absolute. We have heard that both De 13egnis and Miss Paton are engaged, and that the Pirate of Genoa is to be got up for them. At the Adelphi, Matthews has been great for some weeks in a tipsy tinker ; and the Mason of Buda has a fair run, as an affair of song and scenery.

ne Bishop of Salisbury has given 100/. for the purpose of erecting a Sun- day school in the parish of Monckton Farley.

Mr. Cobbett says, that in 1806, Mr. Wyndham, then one of the Ministers • sent him to the present Earl of Radnor' then Lord Folkstone, to offer him a sinecure plaCe of 1000/. per annum. His Lordship indignantly refused time offer ; exclaiming, "No, Cobbett, as I cannot earn it, I will not have it."

The high price of flour has already led to a very diminished consumption of that article in Shields and Newcastle ; the people having found a good substitute in potatoes.

Mr. Cobbett continues to impress upon the public the fitness of the flour of his Indian corn for making bread, and its nutritious qualities. He sells the one-pound loaves at 21-d. each ; which is about one halfpenny in the pound less than bread made of the best wheat flour.

There is a project on foot for constructing a tunnel under the Mersey from Liverpool to the opposite bank of the river.

The pilchard fishery, the season of which is now about closed, has been tolerably successful.

STEAM-CARRIAGE.—Mr. Burstall again tried his steam-carriage in Leith Fort on Wednesday last. It was propelled at the rate of five or six miles per hour, turning every fifty yards over a heavy gravel, which is only consolidated by the exercise of the soldiers upon it. It travelled upon a very rough pitched pavement, leading to the turnpike-road ; and when there, fifteen stout men having got upon it, it carried them up a road, constantly ascending, at a rate of five to eight miles an hour. On the return, any velocity might have been got ; but great rapidity was not thought prudent, the boiler not being yet fixed upon springs. A. string of six or eight country carts met, and were passed by the carriage, as well as two ladies on horseback, without danger or alarm.—Scotsman.

KITE CARRIA0E.—On Friday, Mr. W. Yates passed along the Welling- ton-road, Stockport, on his way to Buxton, in his kite carriage, accompanied by a friend. The carriage proceeded at a rapid pace, sometimes as quick as fourteen or fifteen miles an hour.—Manchester Courier.

BALLAD-SINGING NOT TREASON.---NOt long since, Some dr the zealous Galway Justices placed a poor ballad-singer in durance for having sung ballads of a political cast, displeasing to their worships ; and at the late Gal- way sessions, they actually laid bills of indictment against him before the Grand Jury. The Jury, however, did not see the matter in the same light as the Justices, and forthwith threw them out, and ordered the boy to be liberated.

Galway NUISANCE.—Do the Mayor (God save the mark 0 and Magistrates wish for any thing to do ? If so, we would recommend them to take the mad dogs off our streets, and have logs tied to such as move about at large. A poor harmless idiot has been lamed by a bite from one, which cut the tendons of his right leg : but we might as well be speaking to a stick.—Connaught Journal.

The Dublin Evening Mail announces that the Evening Post and the Register now publish the proclamations of the Irish Government, for which 6000/. a year is annually voted. Hence it infers, that these journals, the most strenuous advocates of the Catholic cause, have been constituted organs of Government ; and the Mail exults in this act of Government as "accelerating the crisis which is at hand."

The Catholic Association will, it seems, be called upon to pay the 500/. offered for the murdirer of a Catholic at Ballibay. The leader of Orangeism in that place has himself arrested the murderer.

A farmer, in the parish of Methven, Perthshire, had lately a favourite calf bitten by his dog; and fearing what consequences might ensue if the dog should prove to be rabid, he shot not the biter, but the bitten calf, and buried it in a plantation near his house. About the same time, a marriage was to be celebrated among a band of tinkers, which have long infested that part of the country ; and hearing of the interment of the calf, they lifted the carcase, which was served up at the wedding feast as the principal dish which graced the entertainment.—Cakdonian Mercury. years of age, and therefore free to accompany her lover; but her mother proved her to be only eleven, and permission to embark was refused. The gendarmes were obliged to carry her off in their arms to her family.

The Calcutta papers say that all the Roman Catholic Missionaries` have been sent out of China.

The enterprising blind traveller, Lieut. Ifolman, R.N., has informed his relatives, under date of Rio Janeiro, August 8, that he was about to proceed into the interior of South America, in company with Capt. Lyons.—Devonport Telegraph. An "air serpent" has lately been seen in Alabama by divers witnesses. It appeared to the eye of the observer about twenty-two feet long and three broad; and its motion and appearance are described as " geutle and undu- lating, graceful, terrible and sublime."—American Paper.

A Philadelphia paper gives a description of a stage-coach building in that city. It is twenty-three feet long, five feet wide, and ten feet in height ; it is to be set on four wheels, each eighteen inches broad ; and is to be drawn by twelve horses, three abreast. It is to carry fifty-six passengers, and is expected to travel at the same rate as the four-horse coaches. The baggage is to be carried on a car, attached behind, and drawn on a single wheel two feet and a half broad.

A paper printed in the state of Alabama speaks of a most deplorable and alarming scarcity of young ladies. Every respectable female, native or stranger, found there, is, as soon as possible, hurried to the hymeneal altar. The young men are as one hundred to one to the young ladies!

The Times of ibis morning presents us with the following portrait. Does the being exist who would claim the likeness: as his own, and complete the picture by adding to it his name?

"The story we are going to relate is a melancholy one, but it is true— it is no romance. The chief actor in it still lives to disgrace the sacred profession to which be belongs, and raves with a fury perfectly devilish. Our columns have borne evidence to the malignity of his nature against Catholic emancipation, the Catholic religion, and even the persons of Catholics. About seventeen or eighteen years ago, this clergyman, then married and residing, we believe, in London, became acquainted with a lady of respectability and beauty, the wife of a gentleman of large landed estate. Neither the subject of this memoir, nor the couple into whose house he was unhappily introduced, had children. The lady belonged to that sect which is termed evangelical, and her spiritual fervours were there- fore perhaps the more easily convertible into those of the flesh; or, at all events, her reason being bewildered, her virtue was the more exposed to the attacks of a seducer, who, being evangelical also, drew his weapons from the armoury of truth, but dipped them in the poison of his own corrupt heart before he discharged them against her. Never did he visit the house of her husband, now become his friend, without the Bible under his arm ; and she was at last made to believe that the fulfilment of the first great blessing was paramount to all obligations of duty—to all the injunctions of religion. She had no child by her husband, but she be- came the mother of a male infant by this sable-habited perverter of Scrip- ture. The husband died, and the seducer became a widower also. The execution of the conditional promise which had been given in the season of guilty pleasure, was consequently expected and claimed by the lady,— was eluded and refused by her satiated lover. Remorse now occupied the place of criminal passion in the bosom of the deserted mistress : she con- fessed her guilt, and proclaimed her own injuries, but more loudly still the wrong which was suffered by the legal heir of the family—a distant relation of her late injured husband. The matter was taken up by two gen- tlemen of great prudence and experience, belonging, indeed, to the same religious party, but of untainted character. It will probably be known whom we mean, when we say the initials of the names are T. and P., and that one (if not both) is a commercial man of great credit. The evil was found irremediable, for the confession of the afflicted penitent could not bastardize a child born in the life, time and during the cohabitation of her husband. So far as her power could go, indeed, she has abated an injury which cannot be wholly redressed; for through the hands of those gentlemen to whom we have alluded, she has conveyed to the disinherited relative no less a sum than ten thousand pounds."