The Prussian State Gazette of the 20th inst. contains, under

the bead of "Turkish Frontiers," intelligence that part of the Russian besieging corps before Silistria had received orders to hasten to the assistance of General Roth, at Pravadi.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Smyrna, dated May 19 :—" There are reports in circulation, resting on the autho- rity of some masters of vessels, that the Russian Admiral at the Dardanelles had verbally informed them of his intention to establish a general blockade of that passage ; but on inquiry, we find that he had given no notice of the kind to the Dutch Consul. The latter has received intimation from him of the blockade against the conveyance of provisions being extended to all the coast from the .Gulf of Contessa to Cape Baba, and some vessels have been actually turned off from the entrance of the port of Enos, and the Gulf of Adramati."

THE KING'S Comm—His Majesty held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter on Monday, at Windsor Castle. The object was to fill up the vacancy caused by the death of the Earl of Liverpool ; and after the accustomed state ceremonies bad been gone about, the Sovereign conferred the garter of Knighthood on the Earl of Asliburnhain. His Majesty afterwards held a Court, which was attended by the Ministers of State, and at which the speech to be delivered at the closing of the sessi9n .040.14,::menritIss, reed upon. The King returned to the Royal Lodge in tfe even: itifk-4ncl. cef Cumberland dined with his Majesty. The House of Lords is to receive forthei.th an accession of dignity in the per son of Mr. Peel ; thus, as Mr. Canning said of the University of Oxford, in reh. tion to said gentleman, " receiving and reflecting honour.' The House, we hope, will not be quite so soon. tired of him as the University has been. Mr Vesey Fitzgerald, it is said, is to wear the Exchequer-robe, and lead the House of Commons. And even the incredible rumour prevails that Mr. Goulburn is to he Speaker. A fitter man to represent Lenthall, or Lucien Buonaparte, except that Lucien had some talent, could not be found ; but for anything else, a tobacco. nist's sign, or the cat-water head of the good ship Kangaroo, would as fitly occupy the Speaker's chair and wig as the Right Hon. Henry Goulhurn.-- Standard.

The Government has declined at present to advance any money to complete the Thames Tunnel.

• We believe it is determined that a person of high consideration, and fully in the confidence of the British Cabinet, shall proceed almost immediately to the Conti- nent, but without being invested with any ostensible and definite character. The extent of his projected circuit, as well as the time that it will occupy, must neces- sarily depend upon circumstances. The political objects particularly contem- plated by the mission are, of course, matters of conjecture ; all we pretend to say is, that the measure is determined on. We have heard more than one name mentioned as likely to be selected for this arduous and delicate duty, but we do not conceive these nominations to rest on any sufficient authority.—ilforning Chronicle.

The third battalion of the Grenadier Regiment of Guards, commanded by Colonel Lord Saltoun, was reviewed on Tuesday, in Hyde Park.

The East India Company gave a splendid dinner to his Majesty's Ministers on Wednesday, on the occasion of and previous to the departure of the Earl of Dal. housie, to take the command-in-chief of the army in Bengal, and of Sir Sidney Beckwith to Madras. The happy termination of the session of Parliament was evidenced in the numerous muster of Ministers at the dinner. •

Commots CouNen..—At a meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Richardson, citizen and vintner, and Mr. Ward citizen and wheelwright, were elected Sheriff's for the en- suing year. Mr. Hunt then harangued at seine length on the extravagance of the City expenditure. One of his assertions was, that the City last year paid no less than 13,632/. 9s.10d. to support the Lord Mayor in what was considered suitable splendour. This sum was more than half the amount which the President of the United States received, to support the dignity of that exalted station.

The Hon. and Very Rev. Richard Bagot, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, is ap- pointed to the Bishopric of Oxford. Dr. Bagot was formerly of Christ Church, and afterwards elected a fellow of All Souls' College. Dr. Bagot is to retain the Deanery of Canterbury with the See of Oxford. The former is worth 2000/. pei. annum. Morning Paper.

Barrisr MISSIONARY SOCIETY—The anniversary meeting was heldat Spatields Chapel last week ; and such was the excitement produced by the orators, tha 3000/. was raised within an hour.

WEST INDIA TaaoE.—The Duke of Wellington and most of the other Members of the Administration dined at the City of London Tavern on Thursday, by invi- tatiott from the merchants and planters of the West Indies. The dinner was given on the occasion of the Marquis of Chandos being voted to the office of Chairman of the West India body. Mr. Hibbert was in the chair. The speeches were confined to mere compliments to the parties present.

Mr.O'Connell, says the Irish correspondent of the Times," continues to agitate with more vehemence, and apparently with greater success than ever." He de- clared at Kilrush, that he would be satisfied with nothing but a repeal of the Union.

It appears that the Government of Ireland are still determined to prosecute Mr. Lawless for the Ballibay affair. He has received notice of trial for the Sum. mer Assizes.

At a meeting held in the Dublin Corn Exchange, on Sunday, Mr. O'Connell announced that it was " impossible by any human means " to prevent his return for Clare. This he demonstrated by a reference to the numbers registered front among the old forty-shilling freeholders, friendly to him, compared with the num- ber of 50/. and 20/. freeholders by whom Mr. Fitzgerald or any other candidate might expect to be supported. Mr. O'Connell afterwards strenuously urged at combination among all parties and creeds, to obtain the repeal of the Union ; and another gentleman suggested the propriety of requiring from every candidate who offered himself in the independent interest, a pledge that he would support the repeal.

In many parts of Ireland the recent rains have wrought a favourable change in the face of the country ; and the price of provisions have in consequence shown a tendency to decline,

ANOTHER LIBEL 0 N LORI) LYNenunsT.—In the Court of King's Bench yester day, the Attorney-General moved for a criminal information against the Atlas, for a libel on the Lord Chancellor. We copy the report of the Times. Mr. Attorney-General—" I am to trouble your lordships with a motion, which I must introduce by observing that I cannot make an application of this sort to the Court without expressing a degree of concern and humiliation at the state to which the press in this country is reduced. I apply to your lordships for leave to file a criminal information against Robert Bell, the editor of a newspaper called the Atlas. My instructions are from the same eminent person on whose behalf I applied to your lordships on the first day of Term. I have the affidavits of the Lord Chancellor, and several other affidavits, which I wish to state, that your lordships may see in what manner an attempt is made to destroy the character of an individual who, notwithstanding his eminent station, is attacked by the meanest of mankind in a way that, at former periods of our history, would not have been endured; and I beg to state, that in making this motion, I comply with the ex- press desire of the noble lord, who prefers this mode of proceeding, as it gives him the opportunity of vindicating himself from the most atrocious charges that he has recently learnt have been circulated against hint with a perseverance and assiduity that have no parallel in the history of calumny."

Lord Tenterden.—" My brother Bayley will he here directly : you had better wait till he comes in."

(In a few minutes Mr. Justice Bayley came into court.) Mr. Attorney-General.—" I was about to state to your lordships, that attacks had been made upon the Lord Chancellor with an assiduity and perseverance of which I believe the history of calumny furnishes no example. I am now to show your lordships the statei of utter degradation to which at least one part. of the press of England is reduced, as your lordships will find that the character of a lady is brought in question for the purpose of serving some political object of•the Writer. I will now read the paragraph. It is published in a paper called the Atlas, and

it runs in this form :—

"s There were rumours in the highest political circles last night, that a certain noble lord, holding a station of vast responsibility, and who is said to be on terms of disagree-

ment with another of His Majesty's advisers, has been charged with bartering ecclesias- tical livings. His lordship's friends du not believe the imputation, and repel it strongly; while they intimate that the dealings in the wages of clerical advancement has been

transacted by his lady without his lordship's knowledge. By slow and painful degrees the secrets of state come out. Such is the nature of the human disposition, that differ- epees and quarrels arc much sooner reported abroad than the causes of them. The dis- grace of losing office is known at least a week before the reason of the dismissal can be ascertained.' 0 Nov, my lords, I ara to state to your lordships the history of this paragraph. I have the affidavit of two persons, the proprietors of the paper. Your lordships

may say it is singular I should not make the application against them; but when

you come to hear the circumstances, I trust you willthink I am correct in the course I am taking. This newspaper purports to he published on a Sunday, but

it is usual with this, as with some other weekly newspapers, for one edition to be struck off on the Saturday afternoon, to be sent into the country, and another edi- tion to be struck oil On Sunday morning. Mr. Lowdkam, one of the secretaries

of the Lord Chancellor, states, that a fe.w days ago this paragraph was put into

his hands for the first time : it was published about ten days ago, and Ise thought it his duty to lay it before the Lord Chancellor. That seeing the newspaper con- tained the name of Mr. Whiting, he was directed to proceed to him immediately, and demand the name of the author of the paragraph. He accordingly saw Mr, Whiting, and when he showed him the paper, he said he was not aware that it contained such a paragraph; that the paper he had seen on Saturday contained no such paragraph : and he offered to convince him of that, by showing him the pa- per published on Saturday, which he did. He then sent for the person against whom I move, the editor of the paper, a person of the name of Bell, and inquired how that paragraph happened to be it; the paper. Mr. Bell admitted he had in- serted it, but refused to tell upon what authority or upon what ground; he was pressed by Me Whiting to do so who thought it his duty, if he could, to ascer- tsin the author of this base calumny ; but Mr. Bell thought fit to consult his own discretion upon the subject, and he would not disclose how it was he was prevailed upon to strike out one paragraph in the paper published on Saturday, and insert this in the edition published on Sunday. For this reason I make Mr. Bell the object of suy motion. If Mr. Bell is not the author, but has received a

bribe to put in sthis. calumny for some mean, paltry, political purpose,—if he

would have condescended to state who the author was, we should have endea- voured to bring him before the Court. My lords, I have now only to state the the affidavit of the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst, The Lord Chancellor states, first, that looking at this paragraph, and combining it with several others that were about that time or shortly before brought to his notice, containing no

specific charges, but merely consisting of obscure and calumnious insinuations, he

has no doubt lie is the person alluded to in this paragraph, and that the intentions is to impute to him some corrupt or improper transactions in the distribution of his ecclesiastical patronage. He states further, "That he has never in the course of his life, directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person on his be- half, received or had, or expected to receive or have, from any person whomsoever, either by barter or otherwise, in any manner whatsoever, any sum of money, gratuity, benefit, or emolument whatsoever, for or in respect of the presentation or appointment to any ecclesiastical office or pre- ferment, or for or in respect of any promise of such presentation or appoint- ineutwhatsuever, nor has he ever, directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person on his behalf, bartered any such presentation or appointment ;' anti he further says, That he has never at any time known, or believed, or suspected, or had any reason to know, believe, or suspect, nor does he now know, believe, or suspect, that any other person or persons have at any time, either by barter or otherwise, in any manner, directly or indirectly, received or had any sum of money, gratuity, benefit, or emolument whatsoever, in respect to the presentation to any ecclesiastical benefice.' Repeating, in the same words, that he has no reason to suspect or believe, nor does he suspect or believe, that any person has received any benefit or emolument, or is in the expectation of any in respect of any ecclesiastical patronage he possesses. That is the Lord Chancellor's affidavit.

My Lords, I now come to the affidavit of Lady Lyndhurst, and I say I feel it a disgrace to the press of England, that a lady is obliged to come into a court of justice to acquit herself upon oath of an imputation' of this nature, that can only have been made from the meanest and most dastardly motives, for the purpose of

wounding her feelings, and wounding the honour of her husband ; combinine with it some political Purpose which the author of this calumny had in his mind. Lady Lyndhurst swears that she has never, directly or indirectly, had any con-

cern in this distribution of the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, ins respect of ecclesiastical livings. That she has never in any the most remote degree re- ceived, or expected, or hoped to receive any species of advantage whatever, from such distribution of ecclesiastical preferment; and that the whole of this para- graph, from beginning to end. and all that it insinuates or can be supposed to

insinuate, is utterly false and without foundation. My lords, under these cir- cumstances, I move for a rule to show cause why Mr. Bell should not have a criminal information filed against him for this libel. I will just observe the ingenuity of the libeller. He puts the language into the mouths of the Lord Chan- cellor's friends : he says that the Lord Chancellor's friends rescue him front the imputation, by saying it was the fault of Lady Lyndhurst."

Lord Tenterden-...." Take a rule to show cause."

In the case of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst against the Morning Journal, the rule to show cause against his criminal information, has been enlarged till Mon- day next.

LIUEL.—In a former number of the SPECTATI/R it was mentioned that the Reve- rend Humphrey Price was convicted at the Hereford Assizes of having published five libels, with the intent to excite the carpet-weavers belonging to time factories of time town of Kidderminster to a continuation of the disturbances which had taken place there in the early part of last year, in consequence of the men having re- fused to work at the reduced prices fixed by the masters. The reverend defen- dant was found guilty ; and on Thursday he appeared in the Court of King's Bench to abide judgment. He addressed the Court in a foolish and offensive strain. Mr. Justice Bayley reprobated the conduct of the defendant, and sen- tenced him to one year's imprisonment.

THE HaelovEneser SisrEns.—The body of Miss Hermandine Both was dis- covered on Sunday morning, floating on the surface of the Thames, near Deptford. It would have been difficult to identify the body, it was so decayed, but that the dress and trinkets supplied the necessary evidence on this point.

An inquest was held on Monday evening. Mr. John Dickson, solicitor, Copt- hall-court, stated some circumstances connected with the previous history of the ladies. He had become acquainted with their afflicting, situation while they were in Whitecross-street Prison ; and he was instrumental in obtaining their discharge from the Marshalsea, where they were confined in about six weeks after their release from the Fleet. Here they were in want even of a change of linen, and the coalition necessaries of life. " While imprisoned they carried knives about them, and I have authority enough to state that they proposed dying either sooner or later by their own hands; and indeed the elder sister asked me where, in the event of their dying in prison, they would be buried." On their liberation), they expressed a wish to leave England, where they considered that they had been ill- treated ; but though Mr. Dickson ntade all the necessary arrangements, they changed their mind. Miss Charlotte Both was particularly anxious to have an interview with the King ; but she would not disclose to Mr. Dickson the nature of the communication she wished to make. This young lady, who seems not a little imperative in her bearing. has guided all the movements of tier other sisters., and Vas influential in the fatal nievement which they =dem the Continent, ;mil in which

two of them were drowned. The others, ill her absence, evinced a more humble feeling, and expressed a willingness to make themselves useful in any respectable family that would accept of their services ; but every proposition for their benefit was rendered abortive by the pride and pertinacity of Charlotte, who protested against their receiving any pecuniary relief except that to which they were entitled. Whet' they came to this country, Earl Darnley invited them to spend some time at his country seat, and otherwise tendered them his assistance; but this, as in other cases. they refused, and the refusal led to a breach of the acquaintance. Mr. Dickson said, he had not perceived any symptoms of derangement about the deceased. The Jury were at a loss for evidence as to the state of her mind ; for the question of self-murder having been raised, the body could not he buried till the verdict was returned. The constable was sent to make known their dilemma to the survivors, and the necessity of their appearing before the Jury. The taffies declared that they would sooner perish than appear before the Court. They, however,inade a communication in writing, which he handed in to the Coroner: it was in French.

" We acknowledge by ottr signature that Mademoiselle Hermandine Both, under the influence of extremely oppressive has voluntarily sought her death."

" BOTII. • "London, June 22." " A DOI.Pil I NE BOTH." This was not considered evidence, and the inquest was adjourned.

Two witnesses (one of them Mr. Roche, the editor of the Courier) were

examined next day, who had seen the ladies very shortly before they went to Greenwich. They spoke of the very destitute state in'whiell they were, and had no doubt that their aggravated distress hash induced this too successful attempt at suicide. The Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and found a verdict of " Suicide committed by Miss Hermandine Both while under the influence of temporary derangement."

FIRES.--Two houses in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, were on Saturday morning burnt to the ground. The inmates of the one escaped with difficulty naked, and those of the other only saved their wearing apparel. On Monday night, a public- house was partially destroyed at Lambeth.

A nurse-maid, aged twenty, was burnt to deaths on Thursday, at Dulwich Common, front her clothes having caught the flames while site was lighting, a tire.

On Saturday, an inquest was held in Whitechapel, on the body of a youth aged eleven, who was crushed to death by a waggon. On Monday an inquest was held at Greenwieis on the remains of a lad a year older, who was killed by the wheel of a coach passing over his chest. In both cases the verdict was acci- dental death.

Two men were hat week killed at a new coal-pit at Eceleston near Present. The pit had been sunk to a depth of sixty-four feet ; the men had Charged a mine for the purpose of blasting the rock, anti were standing on a stage at the mouth of the pit, when the train was fired: the flash of the powder operated on the fire-damp : the explosions laid the works in ruins, shook the neighbouring town, and was heard several miles off; and fragments of the men and of the scaffold out which they stood were found scattered around at a great distance from the pit.

During a thunder-storm on Thursday, the windmill at Foot-hill, near Ongar, was struck with lightning, and rent to pieces. Fragments of it were driven to nearly one hundred yards' distance, and the corn strewed about. The miller was buried among the ruins; but he wa: got out alive, though frightfully mangled : splinters of wood, and even grains of wheat from the hopper, were found driven into various parts of his body.

About two o'clock on Tuesday, a meeting took place in a field near Hampstead,

• between a Captain W. amid a Lieutenant 111—y ; in which, at the seconel fire, the latter received his adversary's hall in the knee, which it fractured, suet lodged in the other thigh. The limb was subsequently amputated by Mr. Brausby Cooper, as we are informed.—Morning Journal As Aaron Deighton, a labourer in Bridlington, was leading gravel through the Back-street-quay on Friday fast, he very imprudently got on the shields of the cart to ride, and by sense unaccountable movement fell down between the horse and the cart ; and the wheels passed over his body. He directly rose on his feet, but it was in the agony of deals: he fell instantly, and died in a few moments. A few days since, as a child only two years and a half old was standing in Castor, near Peterborough, eating bread and butter, a sow came up and seized it by the arm, which it broke. The animal then dragged the child under a wag- gon, about twenty yards distant, and tore off a piece of the check and forehead, missing the eye, and would most certainly have destroyed the child had it not been seen and driven off. The wounded infant is now doing well,—York Herald.

DISASTERS AT SEA.—The brig Hibernian, Captains Pollock, from Quebec, for Portaferry, and the George Catmint% Captain Bryinam, from the same place for Cork, were wrecked on the 7th or November last, on the west end of Anticosti, an uninhabited island in the mouth of the river St. Lawrence. The captain and three hands belonging to the latter vessel were killed by the falling of the main- mast; and four of the remaining seamen perished from cold. Both vessels were lost near each other, arid were total wrecks.

A letter from Nismes mentions the wreck of the Post-office packet, from Dyons, opposite Roquemare, on the night of the 7th. A woman and two children are known to have perished, but there is a hope that the others on board have been saved.

On Sunday evening, as four young men were endeavouring to navigate a small boat under the open arch of London Bridge, it broached-to and upset. They were all thrown into the water, and instantly overwhelmed by the tide, which was rushing through the arch with great rapidity. One of them was swept away sorne_distance into the river, and was saved by a ship's boat. His three unforta, ante companions struggled for a moment with the swell of the waters, and perished isefore assistance could reach them.

At Fraserburgh, in the North of Scotland, last week, two men and three women procured a small boat and a fisherman to guide it, for a water excursion. About half a mile from shore, the boat upset, and the whole party were drowned.

THE OEFORChSTREET FEVER.—It was stated at Marlborough-street Office, on Monday, by Mr. Grist, assistant overseer of St. George's Hanover-square, that the fever which had broken out in Oxford-buildings had somewhat abated, owing to the favourable state of the weather, though the danger was not yet over. The case of another of the individuals taken to the Hospital is considered hopeless.

AnsoN.—Thomas Macauley and his wife were examined at the Thames-street Police-office, on Saturday, on the charge of having set fire to their house in Cooper's-row, Aldgate, with the intention of defrauding a Benefit Society in which their furniture and clothes were insured. On the morning when the fire was discovered, the prisoners were overheard discoursing in a low voice. Macauley addressed his wife—' Are you ready ?" His wife answered—" What about these two beds ? I won't leave them; I'll get 'em out." He answered with an oath—" Oh! let them alone, let them burn to the Devil ; we will get double the value." His wife said—" here's that old shawl. charge 3s. for that." They went out of the house, locked the door, and took the key with them. Soon after, the room was discovered to be on fire. '1'lle door was burst open by the neighbours, and the fire extinguished. When the prisoner returned, he seemed angry at the interference ; he said, " Why the hell did you go near it ? why didn't you let it burn to hell ?" Ilk wife was very much agitated. The room vas found to have been on fire in five places. The drawers and the box in which the clothes were kept had not been touched with the fire outside, yet their con- tents were reduced to tinder. The prisoners were remanded.

FORGERY or A WILL.—On the 13th September, Thomas Brandreth, an old sol- dier, died suddenly, at Langley, in Kent. Besides his pension, he enjoyed a small annuity left him by the late Lord Frederick Bentinck ; and being of parsimonious habits, it was known that he had saved a considerable sum, NVIliCh he had placed in the Funds. James Suffolk, also an old soldier, lived in the neighbourhood where Brandreth died: he knew the deceased, took an active part in the inquest which was held on the body, assisted at his funeral, and engaged to notify the death to his relations. This he did not ; and Brandreth's sisters became acquainted with the demise of their brother only in the month of April, when they discovered it by accident. In the mean time, Suffolk had proved a spurious will at Doctor's Commons, and obtained the money (nearly 8000/.) left by the deceased. Suffolk then came to London, with the intention of proceeding to America ; and he was apprehended on Sunday night in the act of packing up his luggage. On Monday he was brought to Bow-street for examination ; but it was agreed that he should Fe sent down to Maidstone. Two other persons are implicated, one not yet in custody.

A Nsetv PRETENDER.—A maniac, who claimed to be heir to the throne of these realms, was brought before Sir Richard Birnie, on Monday, charged with rioting at Mr. Peel's office, and threatening the Home Secretary with Royal vengeance, unless his claim was speedily recognized. His name is Lewis, and some useless papers found upon him having been handed to the Magistrate, a colloquy ensued. Lewis—" It is a most rascally thing that I should be kept out of office by Popery and the spiritual power. Do you believe that the Archbishop of Canterbury can make a piece of ground holy any more than the Pope can forgive sins ?" Sir R. Birnie—" 1 don't interfere in spiritual matters, nor much understand them." Lewis—" No, and it's very little you do understand." Sir R. Rirnie—" I don't know that I have done with you yet." Lewis—" The sooner you do the better, for 'tis a very pretty thing for the Bishops to be sucking the blood and the very marrow of the poor in this way. Pray, Sir, where is the King ?" Sir R. Birnie- " I really don't know ; I have not seen him to-day." Lewis—" Pray, where is the Court of Excise ? " (In reference to one of his papers.) Sir R. Birnie- " You had better apply to the Commissioners." Lewis—" I'll thank you to do

it for me shall have no chance ; Lawyers are sent by his Majesty to Oxford and Cambridge to learn the art of roguery, and after taking an oath, are legal men to rob the country, and the poor man cannot get justice." Sir R. Rirnie- " Pray answer me one question. Where did you sleep last night ? " Lewis- " At the Turk's Head, Old Kent-road. Sir R. 13irnie—Have you any linen and any clothes there." Lewis—" No, my box and clothes are at the Secre- tary of State's Office." This was corroborated by the officer who brought him. Sir R. Birnie---" Will you give me the key, and I will take care that everything in it shall be taken care of as well as yourself." I.ewis—" That is all that I want." Be then left the office in custody, apparently quite satisfied with the re- sult, and was conveyed to the House of Correction.

Eaarets IN lamistarioN.—A woman was on Saturday brought before the Worship-street Magistrates, charged with cutting her master's silk in the loom. Site had been first taken before a Magistrate in the City ; but he found that the crime had not been committed within his jurisdiction. It was contended before Mr. Broughton, as a county Magistrate, that the accused and the accuser must he resident in the same place before any Magistrate could interfere ; and as the complainer was resident in London, the Magistrate had no jurisdiction. The act of Parliament was found to be so vaguely worded, that the Magistrates, as the safest course, dismissed the case altogether. Mr. Phillips the barrister then remarked, that it would really be a very desirable thing for the gentlemen of the House of Commons to keep a schoolmaster to attend to the language of their acts, for scarcely one of them could be produced whose meaning was to be under- stood from reading it. Mr. Broughton—" We can only take an act of Parlia- ment as we find it, you know, Mr. Phillips."

FELONIES.—John Masters, servant of Mr. R. Wingfield of the Inner Temple, is committed for trial on the charge of robbing his employer of plate and wearing apparel. A young man fashionably dressed, is committed for stealing some silver articles from a hotel in Oxford-street.

A LADY SHOPLIFTER.—On Tuesday, a woman having the exterior of a lady, was brought to Marlborough-street, charged with having stolen a cambric hand- kerchief from a shop in Regent-street, where she was making purchases. She was allowed to leave the shop with the handkerchief, and when challenged in the street, she dropped it and her purse containing gold and silver. She said that if she took it, she must have done it by accident. It appears that she has only recently arrived from Bath, and is possessed of an independent fortune. Several gentlemen became bail for her future appearence.

Meanans.—The dead body of a man was last week found on the banks of the Mersey-, near Ince Hall ; and a coroner's inquest has found that he had been mur- dered, but there is no trace of the criminal. A man residing near Belfast, has been committed to prison on the charge of Gavin(' murdered his son, a child two years of age. A woman with whom he co- habited has been committed as his accomplice.

SUICIDES.—On Monday evening, Robert Jackson, who for six months has been confined in Whitecross-street Prison for debt, threw himself from the window of his bed-ward. He fell into the prison-yard, a height of about fifty feet, and was taken up quite dead.

A tailor at Horselydown has hanged himself in a fit of drunkenness. A Parisian hairdresser threw himself front the top of a house five stories high, in the rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, at the corner of the rue St. Nicholas, and was killed on the spot. Before he took The fatal leap, he stabbed himself in several places, cried to the persons passing to get out of the way, and made upon his body the sign of the cross.

Mr. Leonard, who was formerly Chief Justice of Bermuda, fired a pistol into his mouth yesterday morning. Mr. Leonard was of the advanced age of ninety- three years, and resided with two daughters, in Judd Street, Euston Square. lie had, it appears, retired from his official duties some years, and had subsequently enjoyed a pension from Government, sufficient to support himself and family in affluence.

Some weeks ago, three well-dressed Irishmen took a house in Freeling's Rents paid a quarter in advance, and entered into possession. It was observed that a covered cart used to come to the house two or three times a week, and that a number of persons went to and from the house at night. One morning the shutters Wore found closed, and they continued so for some days. To clear up the mystery, the landlord and others, broke open the door : the furniture which the tenants placed in it was gone ; the floor of the hack parlour waa covered with blood and strewed with fragments of human bodies; and in another room the mangled carcases of three children were discovered. The bodies have lees taken to St. George's Hospital, and an inquest has net upon them ; but nettling has been elicited to explain the surmises to which the circumstances give occasion.

Poltemilas.—The house of Mr. Harris, bookseller, Royal Arcade, Pail Mslf was robbed on Saturday night of a considerable quantity of starnpe, and severa hundred volumes of books. The robbery is nothing out of the ordinary way ; nor perhaps is this a singular circumstance, that two watchmen who are stationed at the top and bottom of the Arcade declare, that they never heard or saw any thing of the work of plunder.

" A SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE."—A singular circumstance took place at the Duchess of St. Alban 'sfdte, which was not noticed in our account. There was present on the occasion a very aged gentleman, to whom the Duchess paid parti- cular ittemition during the early part of the day. In the evening, the noble hos- tess rose from her seat, and, having asked one of her attendants for a light. pro- ceeded to make a circuit of the dratving-room. Suddenly her grace stopped shim, before this mysterious personage, whom nobody knew, and exclaimed, " I have found an honest man." We understood the gentleman's name to be Diekie; and that he has long been a confidential clerk in the banking-heuse.—Csur/ Journal.

THE Cuuncm—It appears from an analysis of the last edition of the Cleried Guide that the grand total of benefices, dignitaries, and minor canonries, in Ens,. Tend and Wales, is 12,200; that they are divided amongst 7,669 persons, of whom 3,853 hold one preferment only, 3,301 two, 370 three, 73 four, a'S 13 six, 4 seven, I eight, 2 nine, and 1 fifteen.

MARCI1 OF LEARNING.—Marching the other day through the City, we fell upon Eastcheap, and of course inquired, for the ghost, at least, of time Boar's Bead, visions of Shakspeare, Hal, Falstaff, &c., rising upon our memory. After vari- ous futile efforts, the intelligent countenance of a vender of Cheshire cheeses be- tokened success; but on mentioning Shakspeare and Falstaff lie replied, " Really, gentlemen, I don't know the firm, but I'll look in the Directory."—sliorniny Journal, after Joe Miller.

A discovery has been made by Government, of some extensive .sititizeling going forward at the mouth of the Thames, in consequence of which time Gldster man-of-war has been ordered elf that station.

A young surgeon was apprehended last week at Sheffield, under a warrant, charging him with having stolen a pair of stockings, a flannel petticoat, a dimity petticoat, a satin slip, and a bonnet ! It appeared that the young gentleman had, in fact, stolen a young lady, end had been married to her at Gretna Green ; and that her mother, not relishing the connexion, had gone before a magistrate, and preferred a charge of stealing the clothes in which the fair fugitive was attired at the time at her flight. What became of the case is not mentioned in any of the Sheffield papers that we have seen.

In the Reading, borough gaol there is a poor stay-maker, named Thomas Tur- butt, who has been confined in that dreary abode upwards of twelve weeks, for a debt of 14s.! Turbutt Ilea a wife and six children under nine years of age, who. are supported by St. Mary's parish, and he himself receives 6d. per day from the- same source I—Readinilireang my.

The bedstead that King Charles the First made use of, when a prisoner in- Carisbrook Castle, is now in good preservation at a public-house in Newport., The unhappy monarch's watch is also it, the possession of a clergyman in the island.—llampshire Advertiser.

One of the greatest terrors of a domesticated dog is a naked man, because' this is an unaccustomed object. The sense of fear is said to be so great in this situation, that the fiercest dog will not even bark. A tan-yard at Kilmarnock, in. Ayrshire, was a few years ago extensively robbed by a thief, who took this me- thud to overcome the courage of a powerful Newfoundland dog, who had !over- protected a considerable property.— Greenock Advertiser.

A married couple of the name of Small, died lately at Brauglity Ferry, a fish- ing village on the banks of the Tay. Their united ages amounted to one hun- dred and eighty ; they had lived together for sixty-seven years, died within two days of each other, and were buried in the same grave. Emigration from. Perth and Stirlingshires continues active. One vessel sailed' last week from Greenock for New York, with ninety-two passengers, and another with one hundred and fifty-four for Quebec.

SCRUPLES OF CONSCIENCE.—III the course of a trial before the Scotch Court of Justiciary, a Mrs. Turnbull was called as an evidence ; but on being asked to take the oath said, "I am ready to tel the truth, but I will not swear." Loud Justice Clerk—" Are you a Quakeress, or what is the ground upon which You. refuse to take the oath?" Mrs. Turnbull—" I am not a Quaker. I follew Christ's rules. Christ says, ' Swear not at all.' " Lord Justice Clerk—" We aU abominate profane swearing, but the rule of law says you must take the eadhr This is a grave question, and you must be dealt with as a person refusing to mite the oath, for there is no exception but in favour of the Society of Quakers. UNA. minister do you attend ?" Mrs. Turnbull--" No minister in particular," Lord siustice Clerk—" What church or body of Christians do you attach yourself to ?" -Mrs. Turnbull—" A Christian body." Lord Justice Clerk—" Who preaches?" 'Mrs. Turnbull—" No person in particular." Lord Justice Clerk—" Do you preach yourself?" Mrs. Turnbull—" No, Sir; but I am not here to answer questions about religion." Lord Justice Clerk—" We must put such questions about your religion, and insist upon your taking the oath; you are not a Qua- keress, and therefore we have no power to dispense with your taking the oath." Lord Gilles—" What sect do you belong to—what name are they known by ?" Mrs. Turnbull—" I belong to a body.of Christians." Lord Gilles—" What is their name?" Mrs. Turnbull—" Christians." Mrs. Turnbull was then removed, and her husband put in the box. The Court endeavoured to explain to him the ne- cessity and propriety of giving evidence, and asked him to explain what were the ecrupies which affected his wife's mind. Mr. 'Furnbull—" I can explain it in a ovord. It is just because we are Christians we will not swear." Lord Justice 'Clerk—" Do you attend public worship ? where do you meet ?" Mr. Turnbull —" We attend worship, and meet in Broughton." The Court—" Who preaches ?" Mr. Turnbull—" I do not think I am called to answer that question." Lord Justice Clerk—" If you do not give some satisfactory explanation of your reasons for declining to take the oath—an oath taken by all who give evidence, escept Quakers—we must deal with you as a person who refuses to give evi- dence." Mr. Turnbull—" I consider it better to obey God than man. If I am punished for conscience sake, I will bear my punishment as becomes a man in that situation." Lord Meatlowbank—" Would you refuse to give evidence for crimes committed against yourself?" Mr. Turnbull.—" I know we must suffer much on earth, and would allow the person to escape rather than give evidence." Lord Justice Clerk—" Suppose. ft ruffian were to force his way into your house and put your wife to death, would you decline to give evidence ?" ilr. Turnbull, _ss I would my Lord." Lord Gilles--" Hold tip your hand, and repeat, after !!00, the words of the oath." Mr. Turnbull—" I will not, my Lord." The Lord Advocate moved that the witness be coinmitted. Lord Justice Clerk---'' I have -to inform you Mr. Turnbull, that, unless you give us some grounds for your refusal, aye most proceed against you as against a person refusing to take the oath, and not being excepted by law . Do you refuse to swear ?" Mr. Turnbull—" I do satfuse, Sir." The Lord Justice Clerk—" Then we must commit you to gaol." warrant for the witness's imprisonment, subject to the future orders of the Court, was instantly made out, and he was removed in the custody of a macer. The Lord Advocate said, he was disposed to adopt a similar course as to the wife. it was really a serious matter for the ends of justice that individuals should form themselves into religious societies, and dare to put the law at defiance. He was, however, induced not to press for a committal against the wife, because he under- stood she had four young children, one of whom was only ten months old ; and he sincerely hoped that the example now made \would be sufficient to put a stop to such a practice in time coming. The Court highly approved of the humane motives which actuated the public prosecutor. Lord Meadowhank remarked, that these people were not aware of the consequences an avowal of such sentiments exposed them to. The knowledge of the fact that they would not give evidence

in a court of justice, was sufficient to mark them as objects of attack for the vicious, the lawless, and the dissolute.

Set-its-ries ON MADNESS AND 6E1E11313.—Mo late M. Monthyon left a consi- derable stun of money to be expended by the Royal Institute of France in pre- miums. Some of these premiums have for their objects the encouragement of virtue, and others the promotion of knowledge. The subject lately given out for competition was a treatise on the " Statistics of Madness, Sudden Death, and Sui- cide." A great many papers were presented, but the examiners thought only one worthy of particular notice. The author of this essay was a M. Falret. His investigations furnished the following results :—The number of persons afflicted with madness is one-third greater among women than among men. Men are struck with madness must frequently about the age of thirty and thirty-one; wo- men about the age of from forty to forty-three. Women are generally most dis- posed to melancholy ; men, to suicide. Suicides are generally more dommon among men in the mouth of April, and among women in the month of August, Suicides are more frequent among unmarried men; but with women it is observed that suicide is more common among the married. Suicide be- comes more common among men front the age of thirty-five to forty-five . among women, from the age of tweuty-the to thirty-five. It is a remarkable fact' that the two sexes appear to preserve the difference of their manners and habits' in the choice of the means of destruction to which they have recourse. Thus men choose cutting instruments, and tire-arms; women choose poison and suffocation. The most immediate causes of suicide among women are jealousy, and unfortu- nate attachments; among men, disappointed ambition and reverses of fortune. Misery produces apretty nearly equal number of suicides in both sexes. About

half the sudden deaths are produced by apoplexy. It has been observed, that from 1804 to 1813, there was a much greater number of apoplexies than from 1813 to 1823. Is: this difference to be attributed to the moral effects: produced by the political events which tilled the former period ? The proportion of apo- plexies among men and women, is 1670 for men, and 627 for women.

TIte poem entitled Le MIS de l' Homme, with a portrait of the Duke de Reich-

stilt, after having been suppressed in Paris, has made its re-appearance at Briosels.

About a mile from the Falls of Niagara, is a singular phosphoric burning spring, the water of which, if passed through a gun-barrel tube, will burn like a candle!There is also a curious cave in the neighbourhood, in which, if water be

laid during the warmest day of summer, I have been told it will turn to ice !— Three Years in Canada.

YANKEE EDITOEIAL MISENI Es.—The printer of the Harrison (Ohio) Telegraph makes a most touching appeal to the feelings of his subscribers. " It is common, we know, for delinquent subscribers to assert that the printer is always making a poor mouth; hut it really would be difficult for us to make a fat one. 'And all will accord with us in opinion, when we inform them that from tile 1st of August last, up to the 4th of March instant, we have received on account of subscription, but bushels of wheat, 2 of corn, 6 of potatoes (half of which are frozen), 127 lbs. of pork, 3 qrs. of beef, and 1 qr. of veal. We have not received cash enough durirg this time to pay for the paper we used. And all would justify us in putting the screws to delinquents, when they are further informed that we are now out of paper, out of ink, out of flour, out of meal, out of beef, out of pork,

out of caeh, out of credit, most desperately out of humour, and a little too deeply in debt."

FASRIONABLE PAnTrEs.—On Saturday, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester gave a grand dinner to the Princess Augusta, and a select party of the nobility and gentry, who were invited to meet her Royal Highness. The thike of Wellington gave a grand dinner to the Ad,trian Ambassador, Pr'incess Esterhazy, the Netherlands Ambassador, and on of the Foreign A inbassgaQrs and Midst: rs and their ladies. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a grand dinner party. On Sunday, Prince Leopold gave a grand dinner. The Duke of Cumberland dined with the Earl of Belfast. The Earl of Bathurst, the Duke of Grafton, and the Marquis of Cleveland had dinner parties. On Monday, Prince Leopold gave a grand entertainment in the evening. The Duke of Sussex had a grand dinner party. Lord Anson, Lord Manners, Lord Dude, Mr. BPDonnell and the Coon- teas of Antrim, and Sir C. Wetherell had dinner parties. The Countess of Tankerville gave a ball and supper. On Tuesday, Sir John Beckett had a dinner party, and Lady Beckett had an assembly in the evening. Mrs. W. Camac gave a ball and supper. On Wednesday, The Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of Stafford, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl of Mansfield, Lady Hampden, the Earl of Harrowby, Dowager Viscountess Anson, Count Munster, and Mr. II. J. Hinchcliff, had dinner parties. The Countess Munster and the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury had evening parties. Almack's was very fully attended. On Thursday, The Duke of Grafton, Sir Charles Burrell, the Earl of Sefton, and the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury had dinner par- ties. Lady R. Sheffield gave a ball and supper. Sir Wm. Abdy had a musical party. The Duke of Somerset and the Ladies St. Maur gave a &germ., at their villa, Wimble- don-park. Lady Warburton entertained the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester at dinner. The Earl of Scarborough gave a dinner to the Duke of Cumberland. On Friday, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester gave a dinner to the Duchess of Clarence, and the Duchess of Saxe Wiemar. The Duke of Beaufort, the Hon. George Agar Ellis, Mr. M`Donnell and the Countess of Antrim, and Mr. M. A. Taylor gave dinner parties. Mrs. Parnther had a musical party. Mrs. Angerstein gave a ball and supper.

Tito WINTER Tneacess.—Drury Lane closed last Saturday, and Covent Gar- den last Thursday. The season, we regret to say, has been far from profitable. Each theatre has had its flashes of good fortune ; but they have been but flashes, like the lightning's, which are gone "ore one cant say it lightens.' " Want of novelty cannot have been the cause, for there have been twenty-seven new pieces produced between them—sixteen at Drury Lane, and eleven at Covent Garden ; —nor want of success, as Rienzi, Charles the Twelfth, Nassaniello, the Maid of Judah, and Home, sweet Home—to say nothing of pantomimes and Easter-pieces —have all for a term brought large sums of money. That these establishments should suffer, in common with all others, from the peculiar pressure of the times, is to be expected ; yet as, despite the want of money so generally complained of, the best pieces produced this season have really brought it in shoals, we have a right to place the heavy loss to the account of circumstances unconnected with the public. Law has pounced upon Covent Garden ; and the poor theatre quivers in its clutch like a sparrow in the talons of a hawk. The star system—the next most fatal misfortune on the theatrical list—has shed its baneful influence upon Drury Lane. Did the management put up the Provoked Husband, or the Jealous Wife, with Love in Wrinkles, or Mossaniello—away went front sixty to eighty pounds between three performers, before the regular nightly expenses could be thought of. Place only twenty or thirty such evenings at the back of a rent of 12,0004, and let our readers say if the lessee or proprietor of a theatre royal has not some reason to shudder at a bad box-book, or a pit you may count the heads in.—Literary Gazette.