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and that it disappears in the west at night.—A letter from 
Paris, under the date of Friday, says :—‘« A most extraor- 
dinary change has taken place here in the weather. We 
‘ave been for the last two days favoured with the warmth 
of July ; but the most extraordinary thing is the sudden, 
and it appears, unexpected, appearance of a comet yester- 
day evening, the largest, says the Univers, ever known. I 
did not see it myself, nor have I met any person who can 
say he has seen it; but a singular appearance in the 
heavens was noticed by hundreds. According to the 
Univers, the comet was discovered at seven o’clock, with 
a tail extending over a space of sixty degrees 5 viz., one- 
fourth of the heavens. It proceeded from the constella- 
tion of Orion, which it crossed at an angle of forty degrees. 
If the moon had not risen so early, or the daylight had 
been less, probably a brilliant sight would have been wit- 
nessed by all Paris. Several gentlemen, astonished at the 
Statement in the Univers, as they had no suspicion of the 
appearance of a comet, went to M. Arago this morning, at 
the Observatory. Ue was in bed, but he had charged a 
member of his family to inform all who came to make in 
quiries, thut the account in the Univers was substan- 
tially correct ; and that he intended, with his colleagues, 
to watch its appearance closely this evening, and publish 
un account of his observations, The nucleus of the comet 
was not visible, on account, as is supposed, of its immense 
distance.” A subsequent lettter from Paris, of the 21st 
inst., states, that M. Arago on that day had announced 
to the Academy of Sciences, that the luminous meteor is 
@ new comet, as stated above on the authority of Sir J. 
Herschel and Sir J. South.—** Such being the case,” says 
the Journal des Debats, ‘* how can a comet have suddenly 
appeared in such way asto attract public attention at a 
large number of places at the same time, without having 
been previously d p ional astronomers? 
The tail of this comet extends in the shape of a narrow 
luminous train, on a space which contains no less than 
forty and odd degrees ; the cloudy state of the weather, no 
doubt, did not permit astronomers to observe the heavens 
from the 10th to the 15th of this month; but there is, 
nevertheless, good reason to wonder at the phenomenon 
having been first remarked and pointed out to astrono- 
mers by loungers and ladauds.’’—The Diurio di Roma 
has the following account, communicated to it by the Ob- 
Servatory of the Roman College :—The comet of M. 
augier, on its return from its perihelion, at length pre- 
sented itself on the 6th March, at three in the morning, 
in circle of Cauchoix telescope. The clouds, which have 
covered the heavens for some months past, have scarcely 
permitted its being seen during two or three minutes 3 and 
it has been impossible to take a regular measure of it! 
Position. This comet preceded a little the middle of 
Scorpio, and was very near the place assigned to it in the 
ephemeris calculated by M, Petersen. The bright light 
it emits gives us reason to hope that we shall be enabled to 
follow it for along time to come, if the sky become clear,’’ 
Hah. 
Assizi INTEL1iceENcr.—Midland Cirenit (Derby).—John West 
‘was placed at the bar on a charge of sedition. Mr. Waddington 
and Mr. Macaulay stated that the prosecution had been insti. 
tuted by the magistr: ict i 
Offence was com: 
Seditious character, calculated to incite persons to commit acts 
of outrage and insubordination. The law upon the subject was 
this:—The first duty of every subject was to obey the existing 
law, but it was the privilege certainly of all to complain, either 
might con- 
Owing to a disagreement between master: 
Subject of wages. T i 
two hundred on Gresly Common, taking a text 
{0 the progress of his discourse he had uttered these word 
We are told to unite together to oppose the abom 
Which stop our rights by class legislation.” We m 
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pen the locks of the prison-doors, and liberate those of our 
hatbren who are confined for askin “We 
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puyeose truths which referred to their eternal welfare, for which 
the po8e he-had selected one of the most appropriate passages in 
that people might by ex- 
‘nt be carried beyond the proper bounds of discretion, and 
he thought every fair chance should be given to a party, and 
that it was not right to have certain sentences picked out of a 
long discourse for the purpose of founding a charge upon them. 
Tt was impossible to suppose that he could have had a seditions 
1. Baron Alderson said the only question was, whether 
the fair and reasonable inference to be drawn from the words 
} was such as had been drawn from them in support of the prose- 
| cution. The difficulty was, that they did not know the context. 
He would say then, as he hat said before, when trying a person 
f the name of Vincent, that nothing was more unfair than to 
take detached portions of a discourse; for exam 
man said he had heard such a one say, “ There is no God ee 
that would be very bad; but suppose another had come forward 
and said, “ Yes, that was so, but he prefixed the words, ‘ The 
fool has said in his heart,” which would make all the difference. 
case, with perfect confidence, in the hands of the Judge and 
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with assembling together to turn out workmen. ‘They pleaded 
guilty, and were ordered to enter into their own recognizances 
in the sum of £100 to keep the peace. The learned Baron told 
them they had been in great jeopardy, as the offences with whic! 
they were charged were serious. 
if they were to know what their rights upon the subject for 
themselves they were bound to allow to others—that was only 
justice, and was both the law and the prophets. 
Samuel Bonsall, William Bland, and John Holme, were indicted 
for having murdered Miss Martha Goddard at Stanley, on the 
30th Sept. The circumstances of the case were fully noticed in 
this Paper at the time. All the prisoners were found Guilty, and 
Mr. Baron Gurney immediately sentenced the three to be exe- 
cuted, holding out no hopes of mercy. 
RT.— West vy. Girdlest.ne.—Lord Langdale gave 
judgment in this case, and stated that certain lands were vested 
in the trustees of a marriage settlement, with a power to sell the 
same and invest the proceeds in land, to be settled to the same 
uses, or upon Government or real securities. In 1811 they sold 
the settled estates for 2,20 was neither laid out in the pur- 
chase of land, neither was it invested ; but in July, 1816, the 
trustees advanced it tothe husband upon personal security, in 
far released from their breach of trust. The 
plaintiffs, however, insisted that they had a right to have so 
much stock replaced as could have been purchased with 2,200. 
in the year 1811, on the ground that, having neglected either to 
purchase land or invest the money, they were answerable for 
any loss which might have been sustained, and consequently 
that they were compellable either to make good the money, or to 
replace the stock at the option of the cestui que trust. It might 
be doubted whether trustees ought to have sold the settled lands 
until they had another purchase in view. ‘The settlement, how- 
ever, did not contain any plain directions, and there might have 
been some difficulties in the way. The circumstances were un- 
explained. The trustees, however, were not 
more money than they had received; they had committed a 
| wood, in the county of Southampton, was possessed of a sum of 
2,194. 15s. Sd. Consols, standing in the name of trustees for he: 
benefit. By her will, dated July 8, 1835, she gave the stock to 
John Foster and Daniel Grigg Hewett, upon various trusts for 
the benefit of Mrs. Hewett and her children, and appointed Daniel 
Grigg Hewett her sole executor. Mr. Fost 
join in selling the stock, and to allow D. G. Hewe 
This suit was stayed upon an agreement that Daniel Grigg 
two of the adult children joined in releasing their share of the 
i e sum due upon the policy 
ut Mr, Hewett subsequently absconded, i 
1,947. due to the estate of the testatrix unpaid, upon which the 
mdant in parting with the 
fund, he must replace so much of the stock as would be sufficient 
to meet the shares of the parties entitled ,and he must pay the 
costs of the suit. 
Prerocative Court.—On Saturday Sir H. Jenner Fust 
decided against the validity of the four codicils to the will of the 
late Marquess of Hertford, which had been propounded on behalf 
of the Countess Zichy and Mr. J. Wilson Croker. a 
held that they were not entitled to probate, on the ground that 
they bad not been executed in strict accordance with the pro- 
visions of the law, inasmuch as they had not been attested as 
required by the New Will Act—and could not therefore be taken 
as a part of the testamentary documents of the deceased. 
application, the Court directed that the whole of the expenses 
should be paid out of the estate. The proctor for the Conntess 
Zichy and Mr. Croker intimated that an appeal would 
moted against the decision. The Judge said it would bea matter 
of satisfaction to him if the case were taken to a higher Court, 
as it would afford him a guide for the future. 
Povice.—On Monday, another monomaniac, called John Ed- 
ward Freak, a native of Dunbar, who appeared by his dress to be 
a seafaring man, was brought before the magistrate at Bow- 
street, charged with attempting to force his way into Bucking- 
ham Palace, he being in a state of insanity. A police constable 
stated that about 1 o’clock on Sunday, he observed the prisoner 
pacing up and down outside the palace gates, and having in- 
quired of the sentinels how long he had been there, they said 
about an hour. Witness immediately went to him, and having 
asked him what business he had about that place, he thought at 
first by his manner and the answers he gave that he was in- 
toxicated; but after a little delay, having used threatening and 
incoherent expressions, saying le had been robbed, and should 
be allowed inside the gates, he took him into custody, and con- 
veyed him to the station-house, when a quantity of papers and 
other articles were found upon him, After a desultory examina- 
tion, the magistrate ordered the prisoner to be put back until a 
messenger could be sent for the surgeons of Clerkenwell and 
‘Tothill-fields Prisons to attend and give their opinion respecting 
the state of the prisoner’s mind, In the course of the day the 
medical gentlemen. came into Court, and examined the prisoner 
in a private room, where they remained in conference about 
half-an-hour. On making @ report of their inquiries into the 
prisoner’s state of mind, they stated they could not, in so short 
a time, come to a final conclusion, and recommended that the 
with the Commissioners of Ctistom: 
examination. His wife attended, and explained that he was per- 
fectly mild and inoffensive, and 
was examined last week before the Lord Mayor, in consequence 
of the declarations he made on board the steamer Gazelle, on his 
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considers himself aggrieved by some passage printed in Cham- 
bers’ Edinburgh Journal several years ago, was also brought up 
Tuesday, having been found some days since watching at the 
Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the printers of that jour- 
nal, in Whitefriars, with eight stones in his pocket, for the pur- 
pose of breaking the windows at the printing-office, or of doing 
injury to some individual. The magistrate had remanded the 
prisoner that the surgeon of the prison might give a certificate 
of his state of mind. After some demur on the part of the surgeon, 
he signed the certificate of insanity, and the prisoner has been 
removed to Bethlehem Hospital.—On Tuesda r. F. David- 
son, formerly assistant commissary-general, was brought before 
the magistrate at Mary-ie-bone, charged with having threatened 
r a Mrs. Rumble, in whose house he lodged near the 
Hampstead-road. The offence was fully proved; and the pri- 
soner, in his defence, said that there had been a great de 
whistling going on in her house, and he told her that if it was 
continued he would kill her. She had destroyed some of his 
property, and he had been accused of having given information 
at the Audit-office reflecting upon several public characters, and 
also upon some ladies residing in Lincolnshire. The magistrate 
was satisfied of his insanity, and committed him to prison in 
default of bail. 
PORTING. 
TATTERSALL’S, Tuurspay.— DERBY.—7 to 1 agst Mr, 
Blakelock’s A British Yeoman; 1 agst Mr. Goodman’s 
Maccabeus ; 18 to 1 agst Colonel Peel’s Murat ; 25 to 1 agst Lord 
Eglinton’s Aristides; 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bell’s Winesour ; 30 to 1 
agst. Mr. Bowes’s Cotherstone; 35 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield’s 
Progress colt ; 35 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote’s Amarino; 35 to 1 
agst Duke of Grafton’s Cataract; 40 to 1 agst Mr. Griffith’s 
Newcourt (taken) ; 40 1 agst Colonel Anson’s Napier ; 50 to 
1 agst Colonel Peel’s St. Valentine; 2000 to 35 agst Mr. T. Tay- 
lor’s Gamecock (taken); 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Ferguson’ 
away (taken); 1000 to 10 agst General Pollock and Earl of 
Richmond (taken).—5 and 6 to 1 was laid and afterwards offered 
agst Coth fe i and Murat for the Column 
Stakes. 
LANE, Frripay, March 24. — Since Monday some 
quantity of English Wheat has been refused, owing to the bad 
condition, anc resold at reduced prices; there are still several 
runs unsold, although offered at is. to 2s. decline. Foreign is 
ITISH, PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. $. 8. 8 8. 
at, Essex, Kent, and Suffolk. -... White 44t 62 Red 40 to46 
Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire. ... 441050 White —to— 
+ + + Malting and distilling 25 to30 Grind. 19 to 25 
shire - folands 18to23 Feed 14 tot 
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Oats, Lincolnshire and Yor 
—— ‘Northumberland and S: —to— Potato 15 to 24 
i SrarABE Feed 9 to i8 Potatol4 to 92 
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Beans, Mazagan, old and new . 92 to 27 Tick 93t0 28 Harrow 24 to 80 
——— Pigeon, Heligoland . 82 Winds. 26 to 24 Longpod 24 to 28 
Peas, White. 93 +). ++ oT 
WEEKLY IMPERIAL AVERAGES. 
| Wheat. /Barley./ Oats. | Rye. | Beans.) Peas 
Feb toe | ar | a 1] te) ad 1} a7 6] a0 4 
= ae ee a engeos) categt) a7 0 90 95 
SP. 84 cee alee 7 2) I 1 }-28 4} 2611] 20 
Se +| 48 3) 27 4] 17 3| 99 0| 26 7] 2B 6 
Mare 10 4. os. / 48 1] 97 7| 37 2). 98 4) 36.6] 99 4 
<r Yo. ear 6] aru} 17 4] se 10 | 26 8] 28 6 
Gweeks’ Aggregate Aver. 471 57 4/17 2| 23 5| 2610] 29 4 
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Duties 3 neé|u¢é| n6 
ARRIVALS IN THE RIVER LAST WEEK, 
Flour. | Wht. Barl, | Malt.) Oats. | Rye, | Bns: | Peas 
English . 4561 Sks. — Brls. | 3513 | 2900 | 7542 | 052 | 224 
Irish. . 1384 4, = ow» a | _ <9 
Foreign. — 5, gli cial sti ol, 870 ee jenn 
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK, 
Wheat Barley Oats Flour 
English . . 4520 5390 4940 09 
Tesh ee - 13100 _ 
Scotch. 60. - = - on 
Foreign <>. = = ai = 
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BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.. 
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Canal, Old Kent-road, coal-merchant—G. J. 
RUPTS.—E. M S 
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ironmongers — T. 
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field, carrier—E. Turmaine, Canterbt 
street, Islington, victualler—J. Gibbs, 
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PHS.—On‘ the 18th inst-, in! South Audley-; 
BIRTH athe 17th, at Claydon House, Bucks, 
No. 
tigg, of the Grenadier Guards, of a 
Somerset, the Lady Roberts, of a 
house, Wilts, the lady of Lieut.-Col dencieuee = 
ARRIED.—On the 5th inst., at Valetta, Malta, Lieut- Sharpe, R-N., of 
Howe, eldest son of the late B. Sharpe, Esq.,of London, 
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+ » Esq, of Westwood, Southampton—At Paling, on the 20th inst, 
J. G. Moon, Esq., of Dorset-place, Dorset-square, to Alicia Elizabeth, younger 
E N., of Hareden, Forest of Bowlard, Yorkshire, 
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Laureate—On the 22d inst, e ath year of his age, George Edward, ‘only 
son of W. H. Harrison, Esq., of Camberwell—On Thursday, 
Dowager Marchioness of Northampton—In Tavistock-squai 
John Hull, M.D., F.LS., &c.—On the 17th in: 
Hon. Robert, Talbot, aged o7On the 1oib inst at 
shire, Jane Rebecca, wife of Sir Theophil i] 4 
Randolph-crescent, ‘Edinburgh, on the 7th inst., Six John Robinson, K.H—On 
the 17th inst., at Hatherton, in the county of Stafford, Mrs. Walhouse, relict of 
M. Walhouse, Esq., of Hatherton, and mother of Lord Hatherton. 
