At Union Hall Police Office, on Tuesday, Beale, the driver

of one of the Clap. ham stages, was summoned for wantonly backing his coach against the horses of the " Fair Lady " omnibus, the property of Mr. Dixon, of the Repository, in Barbican, which runs to and from Charing Cross to Clapham. One of the horses in the omnibus was injured. The defendant was fined 40s. and costs, and Mr. Dixon was recommended to bring his action for the damsge done to the horse.

Stephen Williams has been committed at Bow Street for a burglary which he effected on the 1st of November, on the house of Mr. Newman, near Salisbury. About 2001. in money, besides coins, were carried off. The prisoner confessed the robbery.

A man of the name of Stevens has been committed, by the Magistrate at Union Hall, to Brixton tread-mill for three months, for having, with a gang of assn. ciates, plundered a person named Crampton of 101. at cards.

John Brenham, a porter in the employment of Messrs. Bowman and Winter, Manchester warehousemen, Watling Street, has been committed on a charge of robbing his employers of a one thousand'pound Bank of England note. The note had been received on Thursday, the 19th, and placed by a clerk in an open drawer. On Friday it was missed, but its number was ascertained on applica- tion to the gentleman who had paid it to Messrs. Bowman and Winter. On ap- plying at the Bank, they found that it hail been paid in, in the name of " John Law ;" and before leaving the Bank, they learned that their porter had absconded. He was apprehended two hours afterwards in the Bath coach, and the whole money viz. 650 sovereigns, a 3001. note, and a 501. note, found upon his person and in his trunk.

Mr. Forster, alias Captain Forrester, was finally examined on Tuesday, before Mr. Roe, on a charge of stealing a horse from Mr. Spencer Collier of 9, Park Place, St. James's. Mr. Roe declined committing the defendant in Middlesex, but left the complainant at liberty to indict him in Berkshire, where the transac- tion took place. As the Captain was leaving the Marlborough Street Office, there was a general rush towards hint by a body of Sheriff's Officers. He was marched into custody on fresh charges. Forster is an individual of high notoriety in the West end of the town. About five years ago he rendered himself conspicuous by carrying off a beautiful young opera-dancer, as she was returning from the King's Theatre, accompanied by her father.

A gentleman and lady waited on Mr. Halls at Bow Street, on Tuesday night, for the purpose of charging the lady's brother whom they brought along with them with robbery and fraud. The prisoner's father is a Major-General, and his brothers hold high stations in the Army and Navy. It was stated to he the anxious wish of the prisoner's relations to have him sent out of the country. His general habits were said to be those of a swindler, and he was charged before the Magistrate with defrauding an innkeeper of 6/. on false pretences, and robbing his sister of all her jewels.

William Jones, a manInear thirty years of age, who has been for some time cor- rected with a gang of notorious burglars, and is the" fancy man " of a female, who has brought half a dozen young fellows to the gallows, was charged at Bow Street, on Wednesday with being connected with the late robbery of the shop of Mr. John- son, ironmonger, Greek Street, Soho Square. Great part of the stolen articles had been found in his possession. He could give no account of the mode by which he acquired them. He was remanded.

Allard, the proprietor and driver of the hackney coach, No. 727, was charged with having driven his coach furiously and wantonly against a horse and chaise, in consequence of which the chaise was destroyed, the horse killed, and the lives of two gentlemen in the chaise endangered. He was severely admonished by Mr. Halls; but on giving security for payment of the value of the horse and chaise he was suffered to leave the office.

Information was given to Mr. Halls, that a farmer of Bedfordshire had been robbed of his horse, while partaking of some refreshment at the Nag's Head at Wybotson. The horse was ordered to be advertised in the Police Gazette.

John Blake, the driver of the Winchester waggon, was fined at Guildhall on Thursday, in 50s., for assaulting a gentleman's servant, while in charge of his master's horse and gig. The servant had the gig as close to the curb as possible, but the prisoner contrived to entangle the vehicles together, and while the servant was endeavouring to get them clear of each other, belaboured him with his heavy whip. A fellow, calling himself Spencer Barrington Bloomfield, has been twice under examination before the Magistrate at the Mary-la-bonne Office, on charges of swindling preferred against him by various individuals. Mr. Cropley, of Tun- bridge Place, New Road, stated that the prisoner had been furnished with board and lodging at his house for upwards of a month without payment, and that he had finally decamped with some books belonging to the house ; an innkeeper had been swindled out of the hire of a gig and a horse which the prisoner had used for three months ; and a tailor, who had been induced to give him credit for clothes to himself and his brother, had on asking payment in the street, been trbiseked down by this very impudent debtor. A tinker's bride was committed at Union Hall yesterday for drunkenness, although her spouse assured the Magistrate that she was in a fair way of getting rid of her unfortunate propensity for gin having been at one time in the habit of taking sixteen glasses a day, while she now rarefy exceeded half that quantity." At the Westminster Sessions, on Thursday, Thomas Metcalfe, a porter in the employment of Messrs. Sewell and Cross, Old Compton Street, was sentenced,

for stealing 1,. Gel., to one month's imprisonment, and a whipping ! John Harris, a boy of fourteen, was tried at the Westminster Sessions on Friday, for stealing handkerchiefs. He was proved to be a notorious thief, found guilty, and condemned by the Chairman to seven years' transportation. On leaving the bar, the lad was guilty of some insolence to the Chairman who im- mediately called him back, and sentenced him to transportation for life ! This power of pronouncing two sentences, one for a public offence, the other for in- solence towards an individual, is well commented on in the Morning Chronicle.

The Bath papers have teemed this week with the details of a horrible case of murder and suicide. A baker, named Beer, residing with his wife and child in St. James's Square, left his lodging on Monday morning at his usual early hour. Shortly afterwards, a woman lodging in the next room, heard a noise like the gurgling of water ; and thinking that Mrs. Beer might be unwell, she proceeded to her door to make inquiry. She could obtain no answer, and getting alarmed at this, she called her husband and entered Mrs. Beer's room. They found Mrs. Beer and her baby quite dead, their throats frightfully cut, and the room flooded with their blood. A bloody razor and two half-crowns were found beside the bed. Officers were immediately despatched in search of Beer. A jacket covered with flour, and bloody, was found near the river; and the body was shortly afterwards taken out of the water at a little distance from the jacket. Beer's habits were those of a sober, industrious man. He was fond of his wife, and doated on his child. He was twenty-three years of age, and had been married eighteen months.

A very dreadful affair has occurred this week at Hull. About eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the house of Mr. Hentig, at the Old Dock, was discovered by the watchman to be on fire; and just as he gave the alarm, the report of fire-arms in the house was heard, followed by shrieks for assistance by a female who showed herself at an attic window. The door and windows were immediately forced by the neighbours, who found the house burning in five or six different quarters. The servant, whose screams had been heard, and the children, three in number, were removed without injury. On proceeding to Mr. Hentig's bed-room, the watchmen found him on the floor, his skull literally blown to pieces, and Mrs. Hentig was discovered " in the bed, in a sleeping positioa, dead, with her head perforated by a pistol-ball, which had passed through her left eye, her face scorched to blackness, the hangings burned from the bedstead, and the mattress and bedding in flames." The servant when examined by the Coroner, deposed as follows. "On Sunday night I went up to my bed-room about half-past ten o'clock, leaving my master and mistress up in the sitting-room. About ten mi- nutes after I heard them come up the stairs to bed. I had been in bed about ten minutes when 1 heard the report of a pistol. I was much frightened, and sat up in the bed to listen if I could hear anything in the house. In about three or four minutes I heard my master walk along the passage. I called to him several times. At first he did not answer, but afterwards asked me what was the matter, and if I had heard anything ? I said I had heard a pistol fired. He asked if I thought it was in the house. I said yes, I was sure it was, for that I could smell the powder. He then left the door, and went, as I suppose, to the closet on the landing where the candles were kept. I heard something fall heavily, as if the candles had fallen, as I think, from the strings being burnt. I think I heard him go down stairs. He returned after a short time, and bid me open my door. He said, two or three times, Spencer, open the door.' He spoke quite coolly. I opened the door a little way, and he immediately fired a pistol 'at me ; the ball passed me; but my night-gown and night-cap were much burnt by the effects of . the powder. I shut the door instantly, and fastened it. I then ran to the window, screaming and calling for assistance." The witness had perceived no symptoms of a quarrel between her master and mistress, nor had her master been drinking; and she stated that nothing could be stronger than the affection which subsisted between them. Her master was, however, liable to a "confusion in the head," for which cupping was necessary. The medical attendant of the family corrobo- rated this fact, and also bore testimony to the deep-rooted affection which Mr. and Mrs. Hentig bore to each other. The whole of the evidence having been heard, the Jury returned two verdicts, in substance as follows :—" That the de- ceased William Henry Hentig, while in a state of temporary insanity, had shot himself with a pistol, from the eflects of which he had died ; and that. the de- ceased, Sarah Hentig, had died from the effects of a pistol-ball, discharged at her by the said William Henry Hentig, while labouring under a temporary fit of insanity."

A QUAKER SWINDLER.—On the 31st of October, a young man clothed in the' decent attire of a Quaker, called on Mr. J. Morris, a respectable inhabitant of this town, and accosted him with " Friend, I understand thou hest a house to let, and I wish to take one." He was accordingly shown two houses, the property of Mr. M., one of which he engaged at 251. per annum for one year on/y, adding, that if he liked the premises, he should probably continue there for seven years. He informed his landlord that he intended to furnish the house, and wished to be recommended to an upholsterer. The name of Mr. Wood, of St. George's Place, was given ; and he called upon " Neighbour Wood," and requested that the house might be furnished immediately. Mr. W. looked over the rooms, and after his customer had fixed on the goods, such expedition was used in executing the order, that the whole was completed in four dabs; and the respectable-looking quaker entered into the full enjoyment of his " otium ever diynicate." He called on several other respectable tradesmen, from whom he purchased various articles ; and among the rest, he went to the shop of Mr. Barnard, in the Arcade, and bought a watch and timepiece, with other plate and jewellery goods. He said that he expected his father in a few days, when he would pay the money; closing his remarks with, " I tell thee what, neighbour Barnard, I find my house very lonely without a timepiece, and should be glad if thou wouldst send me the one I have bought of thee in the course of the day." The timepiece and part of the other purchases were sent, and the remainder were to be forwarded in a day or two. Having succeeded thus far, he told the landlord he had some property in Messrs. Hartland's bank, at Tewkesbury ; but it not being convenient to go there that night, he should feel obliged if friend Morris would lend him 201., as he had pro- mised to pay that sum to neighbour Wood on account of his bill. Mr. M. lent him 131., and early in the following morning he told the servant that he expected his father (a very wealthy man) from London, and he should go and breakfast with him at the Royal Hotel. He went accordingly ; but not returning during the day, suspicion was aroused ; and after his creditors had endured considerable anxiety and impatience during the ensuing week, the melancholy truth flashed upon their minds that he had absconded, without thinking it worth his while to pay their demands. Mr. G. Lambert having obtained a Magistrate's Nyman', from some intelligence he obtained, was induced to go in search of Mr. Thomas Carver, to the romantic village of Bourton-on-the-water, where he was fortunately enabled to take him into custody. He was brought before the Magistrates on Saturday last, when he stated in his defence, " that he should soon pay everybody, as he meant to marry a lady with a large fortune !" This not proving satisfactory, the

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case was adjourned to Tuesday, when he was committed to take his trial for the offence at the next Quarter Sessions. We understand that the accused was a journeyman tailor at Bourton-on-the-Water.—Che/tenham Journal.

At the inquest on the body of Yandell the pugilist, whose death wetnentioned last week, no light was thrown on the causes of it ; and the Jury returned the following verdict :—" That Robert Yandell died on the 20th of November 1829, in consequence of two severe wounds on his head; but whether such wounds were inflicted by any person or persons, to these jurors is unknown ; or whether they were the effect of accident, no sufficient evidence thereof doth appear to the jurors • but according to the evidence of Mr. Oilier, they (the Jury) are of opinion that the wounds were wilfully inflicted. A gentleman in Monmouthshire had occasion last week to eject a farm tenant, with whose conduct he was dissatisfied. When the officers arrived to execute the ejectment, they found only the tenant's mother-in-law in time house. Shortly after they had begun their duty, this woman went out, and in half an hour afterwards the barn was discovered to be in flames. One of the officer's horses was burned to a cinder ; the other was with difficulty taken out alive, and immediately de- stroyed, both its eyes having been burned out. The woman has been apprehended. Last week, a band of poachers attacked and put to flight the gamekeepers at Bold, near Manchester.

On Tuesday week, a gang of poachers from the English Border scoured the whole of the Duke of Roxburgh's preserves. Great efforts have been used to ap- prehend them.

Last week, a body of poachers, nine in number, were discovered ranging the grounds near Denton Hall, the property of Sir Charles lbbetson. They were overpowered, in spite of a daring resistance, and six of' them lodged in gaol. A few weeks ago, Messrs. Gould and Cooper, cotton-spinners at Oldham, in- troduced some new machinery into their mill. The consequence was a turn-out on the part of the workmen. Other spinners were brought front Warrington, but the " turn-outs" fell upon them, and drove them back again. The military were called for the purpose of quelling time riot ; no further outrages, however, have taken place ; and the workmen who had been driven away have been brought back under an assurance from the Magistrates that their safety should be provided for.

Some very extensive frauds on the revenue have been lately discovered at Southampton. An investigation at the Customhouse has just closer'. One of the Officers has been suspended, but his sentence and the extent of his guilt must be pronounced by the Board of Customs.

Mockford, the collector of taxes for Eastbourne, has been released from custody, on satisfactory grounds. A reward of 2001. is offered for the discovery of the incendiaries who lately set fire to the farms in the Isle of Sheppy. Sheep-stealing is practised at present to a great extent in the county of Bucks. A young ruffian was committed to Cork bridewell last week for biting off his father's nose.

Last week, Mr. Newman of Darley Hall, Lord Fitzwilliam's agent, while busy receiving his Loadship's rents, was favoured with a communication front Mr. Peel, that "a plan had been laid in London for the robbery of Lord Fitzwilliam's agent, and that the thieves, it was supposed, had actually left London." Great care was in consequence, taken to secure the money ; and on the following day, another letter was received from the Home Secretary, containing a detailed account of the intended operations of the thieves. Strangers of a suspicious appearance were noticed in the neighbourhood ; but as no attempt was made to perpetrate the robbery, it is supposed that they had been made aware in some way of their plans having been detected.

An alarming sensation has been produced in the South of Scotland by the severe and sudden illness which affected the members of a recent dinner-party in genteel life. The dinner was given by a person of some rank at a country- house, not his usual residence, and where there were few servants in attendance. The party consisted of time gentleman himself, his lady, and four friends, near relations of each other. The symptoms of poisoning were speedily experienced by each of the party; and great anxiety and distress ensued;—yet suspicion was without any rational object. It was thought necessary, howeversto examine the viands and liquors that had been used ; and it has now been found, upon analysis by Dr. Christison, that the champagne which the party had at dinner contained half a grain of arsenic per ounce measure of wine ! The party have escaped—

not without severe illness ; but the suddenness of the attack saved their lives ; since there is little [doubt that, had !another glass of champagne been taken, death would have been the consequence.—Scotsman.

A Coroner's inquest was held on Tuesday morning at the Crown and Thistle, near Vauxhall-gate, on the body of Mr. Joseph Hawkins, who died last week.

His wife died about a fortnight before, and he had never recovered from the effects of his bereavement. He had visited his wife's grave on Thursday, and caused it to be opened, that he might be sure her body had not been removed, He died that night, and some rumours had gone abroad that he had been poi- soned. The Jury returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." An application was made on Monday, at Union Hall, by some friends of a Mr. Watts, formerly box-keeper at Drury Lane Theatre, for the Magistrate's assistance

to prevent Watts from committing suicide, which it appeared he meditated. Mis- fortunes had made him desperate ; and the application was meant to serve as an intimation of his circumstances to many of his friends who might be willing to aid him, but to whom he would not apply in person.

A girl of the name of Maria Darnell, residing at Mile-end New-town, poisoned herself last week in a fit of jealousy. On Wednesday evening, a journeyman tailor residing in High Holborn, hanged himself in his lodgings.

Jane Long, a girl seven years old, living in Lambeth, was burned to death last week, in consequence of a candle catching her clothes.

A girl in Oxfordshire drowned herself last week, in consequence of the harsh treatment to which her father subjected her.

A boy about fourteen years of age, while cutting chaff with a machine, near Bury last week, unfortunately stumbled while the knives and wheels were in rapid rotation, and had his arm instantly severed above the wrist.

The body of a man, who seemed to have perished of cold and want, was found in a thicket by some sportsmen, last week, at Rookhall, Dumfriesshire. He had a letter on his person, from which it is inferred that his name was Rossiter.

The body of a man was found floating in the Exe near Tiverton a few days ago, and on examination, it was found to be covered with wounds.

A poor woman, while riding in the cart of an acquaintance near Hoghton, was killed in consequence of the shafts breaking, and a large cask falling upon her.

As a gentleman was returning home from Bristol to Westbury, on Tuesday last, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, a sudden explosion took place in

a quarry, situate at the entrance of Durham Down, leading to Westbury, belong- ing to a persbn named Hawkey. The stones ascended to a considerable height, and fell around him; one stone in particular, which could not have been less than half a hundred weight. Fortunately, although the fragments of rocks literally surrounded him, he escaped without injury. A large butter and cheese warehouse, in Park Lane, Liverpool, was burnt last week. Property to the amount of 20,0001. has been destroyed, and several lives have been lost. Two bodies have been taken out of the ruins.

James Platt, a bleacher in the employment of Mr. Pendlebury, at Heapy, near Manchester, drank last week a quart of whisky, in less than an hour, and died in consequence. Last week, the Edinburgh mail, on its way from London, was overturned near Leeds, and the coachman killed. The guard's leg was broken, but none of the passengers were injured. Vast week, the guard of a coach running between Doncaster and Stamford, fell from his seat at Bawtry and was killed.

The Preston Pilot states, that an old horse committed suicide in that neigh- bourhood last week, by deliberately drowning himself!

• A poor woman and her child were suffocated at Stafford last week, by the vapour from coke which they had used to warm their bed-room at night.

On Monday last, as Mr. Arcoll, of Findon, was in the act of giving a bolus to a young horse in his stable, the animal with his fore-foot struck Mr. Arcoll so

severely on one of his legs, that it was broken in two places. The horse at the same time reared up, and fell backward with such tremendous force that he died instantly.

A most destructive fire took place in Glasgow, on Friday week, in the cotton store of Mr. Donaldson, in Mitchell Street. The insurance amounts to 42,0110/., and will not, it is said, cover the loss.

A man named Lander, living in Mayo, was heard last week to beat his wife se- verely for being drunk. During the night, her screanis were heard, and on the following morning, she was found stretched before the fire, her neck and side burned to a cooler. A jury found a verdict of " wilful murder" against her husband. A raw-head and bloody-bones story has found its way into some of the papers. It comes by the way of Paris; and bears that the cook of an English whaler, having been struck by the captain for keeping blunt knives on board, promised forthwith that his commander should find them sharp enough ; and that at night he proceeded to cut the throats of the captain, the second, the lieutenant, and live men. He is said then to have thrown himself into the sea.

The shop of Mr. Welsh, of Newbury, was broken open last week, and thirty- four watches, a cushion of gold brooches and pins, a tray of gold seals, and a do- zen silver forks, marked with a boar's head (the crest of the Bacons) were stolen.

There are thirty-five prisoners in Aylesbury gaol for offences against the game- laws.

The Mountaineer, Shed, frem the Cape of Good Hope, was wrecked off. Deal on Tuesday.

A Paris paper states that an apothecary has been fined in a thousand francs for having imprudently sold poison to a girl, who in a fit of jealousy swallowed it, and expired in the presence of her lover. An officer on half-pay, living at Pont a Mousson, fell into a lethargy, and was buried at the expiration of thirty-six hours, in violation of the police regulations

that no one shall be interred till forty-eight hours after death. During the filling up of the grave, groans were heard proceeding from the coffin. The grave-digger, instead of opening the coffin, rat, for the Commissary of Police. When the coffin was opened, its tenent was found bleeding at the mouth, and with one hand at the back of his head. No subsequent signs of lire could be discovered.

We are enabled to state, from authority, that the Life of Sir Humphry Davy is to be written by Dr. Paris, and that it will be published by Mr. Murray in the course of the ensuing spring. The King, it is said, has placed the " Stuart Papers," which were brought from Rome, On the death of Cardinal York, at the disposal of Sir Walter Scott. Mr. Lockhart is, on the same authority, stated to be at present busied in their arrangement.

DLE Or THE TII EATRES.—Kean has returnedfrom his provincial tour, and his friends have contrived to get up one or two ovations for him by the way. His pro- fessed intention was to render his services gratuitously at Covent Garden for some nights ; but since the rising of that "bright star," as the papers delight to call Miss Fanny Kemble. the managers of Covent Garden seem to have lost some of their humility, and Kean some of his value in their eyes. Kean expressed a wish to supersede the " bright star ;" and was given to understand, by those who regu- late her rising and setting, that they could now dispense with his services. These, however, Mr. Price is glad to avail himself of, and the Strafford-epon-Avon ad- mirers of the tragedian will be glad to perceive, that " the only representative of Shakspeare's immortal creations," will not be without an arena for the display of his peculiarities.

The female elephant has just arrived ?ion Paris, under charge of Mr. Yates. she is expected to prove "a star of the first magnitude" at the Adslphi.

A play written by Charles Ketnble, and formerly produced at a summer theatre by the title of the Mindcrer, was on Thursday night brought out at Covent Garden under its origival title of the Royal Fugitive, or the Rights of Hospitality. It is founded on the adventures of Charles Edward Stuart ; but the loyalty of the licenser having been alarmed when it was first submitted to him, other names and a dif- ferent scene had been substituted. The plot turns upon the fugitive passing him- self off as the Duke of Atholl, upon Cumberland's soldiers, and upon the Duke consenting from gratitude for former kindness to represent the royal captive. The authorship, acting, and singing, are all fair enough after their kind.

It has been reported that Mrs. Granby Calcraft (Miss Love) intends to offer no opposition to the suit instituted against her by her husband, and that on a divorce being granted, a marriage Will take place between her and her Noble admirer. This report, however, must be untrue, for we find the lady has ap- pointed a Proctor to resist the suit, on grounds which promise some curious dis- closures.—Globe.

A Life Guardsman, mounted upon a remarkably fine horse, took his place on Thursday in one of the niches at the Horse Guards. The horse, whatever may be his good qualities, has nothing_ to boast of on the score of politeness to the public ; for, not relishing the state of the atmosphere, he reared, wheeled round, and presented, suns eeremonie, his hind-quarters to the passengers. With the greatest difficulty he was forced into a more becoming position ; but no sooner had the keen air saluted his nose, than he again made a retrograde motion, and resumed his favourite posture • and it being found impossible to stir him, he re- mained in this position until he was relieved, when the guardsman apologized for the rudeness of his horse, by stating that it was his first appearance before the public in that situation.

One of Mr. Maule's gamekeepers, when shooting last week (in the North of Scotland), heard a hare scream, as if seized by a dog. He at length discovered it and fired, and shot nut only the hare, but a weasel which had fastened on its throat.

Ileatern [NESS Or WORTLIING.—Since our former notice of Worthing, we have

had sent to us a very curious set of tables, illustrative of the he.:Ithiness of that now fashionable watering-place. There once existed, it would seem, a notion that there was something trying to the constitution of invalids in its atmosphere at the latter end of the year ; but the tables before us prove that no opinion could e more groundless. What may have been the case at some distant period, we have no means of knowing ; but if the climate of that part of the coast was ever in any way unfavourable to health, the draining and improvements of all sorts in the town and around it, have now at least wrought a complete Oeuvre in that respect. The tablet; give the absolute number of inhabitants, and the pro. portion of births and deaths, besides an abstract of the relative number of deaths at various portions of the year. From these we are warranted in concluding, that the population must be about the most healthy in England—the rate of mortality being so low as 1 in 74 during the whole year; and during the months of No- vember and December, generally the most unhealthy everywhere, and formerly reported to be particularly so at Worthing, the rate of mortality is proved to he absolutely lower than during the more genial periods of the year. These details are amply proved by the parish registers ; and, curious as they are, they are amply corroborated by the returns of the Sick Poor, and by the state of the Na- tional Schools. The spirit of improvement is busy in the place. At this moment workmen are employed in fringing the beach to the west of Parson's with a walk of smooth green turf. The inhabitants are about to meet in order to concert mete sures for the introduction of gas hi ht. The light of Royalty is not withdrawn— the Princess Augusta remains at Worthing ; and Lord Ellenborough is Otero, "alone in his glory"—conning perchance 'some future noble oration for Britain's Senate, as he daily paces the sounding shore at eventide.

A DUMB BA eeisTen.—Mr. Lowe, a gentleman who has been deaf and dumb from his infancy, will; we understand, be called to the bar by the Society of the Middle Temple on Saturday next. He has had a good legal education, and is considered very clever as a conveyancer.—Brighton Gazette. CAl'ACIOUS CASES or SOME RSETSIIIRE.—On Monday se'nnight, a party of friends at Leighton Buzzard partook of an excellent dinner, arid spent the a!ter-

noon pleasantly together, in a large cask, which had been made for a respectable innkeeper of that town, celebrated for the goodness of his ale. It holds 1,300 gallons, is sufficiently capacious to hold fifteen persons, and is the largest ever

made in that place. The party sipped [the men of Somersetshire ought to think, not sip, their beverage out of a stone pot, which holds a gallon. There is a much larger cask than this at Jacobs and Son's, Mary Street, brewery, in Taunton, which contains, we believe, 5,000 gallons ; and in which, before it was first tale], twenty persons, some years ago, partook of a liberal dinner, and spent a convivial afternoon —Taunton Courier.

...- CIMAP WINE.—At the recent sale of the late Earl of Bridgewater's wines, at /the Rectory House, Whitchurch, by Churton and Sons, port and sherry only sold f for from 7s. to 10s. per bottle. The residue of the old stock, such as hock, sack, ' &c., from 10s. to `22s. per bottle. Home-made wines as low as frosts 4e. to ee per bottle.—Morizing Herald. At an auction of a fanner's stock near Falmouth, a few days since, six Jersey cows and heifers, four of them in calf, sold for about twentv-two pounds ! tftlier t parts of the stock sold nearly in the same proportion. Tea) years ago, two of these cows would have brought more than the six now sold for. A great many persons were present ; but some did not like to be " overstocked against winter," and others " did not want to buy."—Fechnonth Packet. A respectable fanner of the neighbourhood sold some sound lambs at Mad- 'borough lair on Monday last, at the rate of 42s. per dozen ! !—Derf arts Goa t/'. ;--1 ..1 ORINCE I ,T, ALLEYRAND.—It appears from the following account in a rdorn:re Paper, that the remarkable person to whose wit one of our pares this dav4met its capacity of amusing, has been on the point of becoming as mute as .i.orita.

" On retiring to bed ott Wednesday, with the accustomed suite of serviemrs (fur the Prince is the only nobleman of the present day who keeps up the stmo and ceremony of the former Grand Seigneur de France), he gave directions to

his valet-de-eh: more to wake him at half-past seven. On entering at that fitalr into his room, the prince was found bathed in his blood, which had issued from

his cars, eyes, and mouth. The immediate application of a multitude of letchte

brought him back to his senses and saved his life. The effusion of blood fortu- nately had taken place before reaching the brain. The prince felicitated himself a day or two afterwards on his not having proceeded to Vallencey (his country seat). as he had proposed : ' for.' added he, '1 should have just reached Chartres ; and had I fallen ill there, instead of leeches, they would have given me the sonde viatique, and I should not have been here to testify my gratitude to Dr. Cora, who dissuaded nut from my journey. " Deem or M. V Al-QUELIN, rims CIIIIMIST.—M. Vanquelin, the celebrated chemist, has lately died at the house of AL Dnhamel, in the same commune as that it) which he was horn, after a severe illness of a few weeks. This learned, scientific, and good man, bears universal regret with him to the tomb.—journal des Debuts. f A Mademoiselle Peirier died on the 9th of November last in the commune of N.H.. fleveque, at the age of 101 years and eight months. She was a very distinguished /actress of the French stage. To the end of her life, she enjoyed the entire use 4)1 her reason, her gaiety, and the equanimity which marked her during her long ca- reen—Paris Paper. A. duel took place last week in Paris, between two officers. Snell was the ob- stinacy of the combat:tuts, that five shots apiece did not satisfy their resentment. The sixth ball struck one of them iu the chest, but it is hoped thaat his life is not in danger. We have heard that Mr. Gurnee has undertaken to have two of his steam-car- riages ready fur workieg on the Western road by the first of January next.

The great Welland Canal, connecting the lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Mi- chigan, has been opened. The Dutch Government sent out recently to Japan, Sibolt, a naturalist, for the purpose of ascertaining the peculiar soil and climate of the place. The naturalist contrived, among other things, to make a chart of the country, for which the Japanese Government have condemned him to perpetual imprisomnent.

THE TWO-HEADED GIRL.—The bicephalous girl, has been in Paris some days. At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences, M. Geoffory de St. Hilaire placed

her portrait before the eyes of the assembly, and gave some explanations of the observations he had already made on this singular phenomenon. This child is double from the head to the hips. Her right part has been baptized under the

name of Christina, and the left under the name of Ritta. Christina is obviously inure developed than Ritta; almost the whole of the upper portion of the body is on the other side. Yet on examining them, with the assistance of the stethoscope, one cannot help thinking that Ritta alone possesses the organ of the circulation, that is, the heart. Looking at them behind, the two vertebral columns are seen to continue in a manner very distinct down to the eoxis (the hip-bone), where it is confounded only in the lower part. There are two stomachs ; and there is reason to believe, that the mixture of the digestive organs begins only in the small Intestines. The rectum is evidently single, though we remark a sort of hollow cut which seems to show a tendency towards doubling. This child was directed to Paris by Professor Rolando, of Turin ; but it is singular enough that the police keeps back the licence which the father solicits to satisfy the public curiosity. A refusal of this kind on the part of M. Mangin would serve for a pendant to the ordinance of M. de la Bourdonnaye respecting Punch. Whatever it may be, M. Geolfroy de St. Hilaire, who has, so long a time, been devoted to the study of monstrosities, and who has even founded on his observations of them a system which has become classical in Europe, cannot believe in this refusal, and hopes, for the interests of science, that the licence asked for will not be further delayed from the father of Christina-Ritta.—Courtier Francais..

She has since died. Ritta, or the right side, had been ill for three days, and her illness did not appear in any degree to influence the health of Christina, or the other side ; so that at the moment when Ritta had given up the ghost, Christina was hanging to the breast of her mother and playing with her face. But sud- denly she let go, heaved a sigh and died also. At the end of ten minutes, Chris- tina was cold, while Ritta, who had first died, still retained some warmth eight hours afterwards.

Tnr. CURSE OF SCOTLAND.—A correspondent of the Times suggests that one of the following stories may account for the " nine of diamonds" being called "the curse of Scotland." Of the two, we prefer the first.—" 1. At the time the order was issued by King William III. and his Government, for the destruction of a tribe of the Macdonalds, who lived in Glencoe, a son of the Earl of Stair—the Master of Stair, as he was then styled—was Secretary of State for Scotland. This minister had, in the course of his duty, to countersign the bloody mandate. It is well known from history how effectually the decree was executed, and how much all those concerned therein were execrated ; but no one suffered more in the opinion of the Scottish nation than the Master of Stair. The armorial bear- ings of the Stair family has nine diamonds in the shield. The Scotch considered the dreadful transaction of Glencoe as a curse upon their country, and in order to express their detestation of the Master of Stair for the part he acted therein, named, in allusion to his coat of arms, the nine of diamonds, the curse of Scot- land.' 2. During, we believe, the troublesome times of the unfortunate Queen Mary, a notorious character, named George Campbell, made an attempt to steal the crown of Scotland, and succeeded solar as to rob it of nine precious jewels, with which this Scotch Colonel Blood escaped beyond seas. This loss to the regalia of the kingdom was considered by the inhabitants a national calamity, more especially as a tax was levied throughout the land to restore the crown to its former grandeur, and they are supposed to have named the nine of diamonds 'the curse of Scotland' from the imposition of such tax, and the number of diamonds purloined agreeing with that card. The writer of this article has many times in early life heard, in the northern parts of Scotland, the nine of diamonds called George Campbell."

When the Irish Union was effected, Sir John Parnell's health was frequently drunk in companies. Being one day in a couvivial party, he said jocularly, that by the Union he had lost his bread and butter (he was Chancellor of the Exche- quer). " Ah, my dear Sir," replied a friend, " never mind, for it is made up in tuasts."—doe _Miler.