BRUTAL ASSAULT BY A LINEN DRAPER AT STOCKWELL, UPON A LADY.-At Union Hall, Henry Vince, a linen draper, residing at Stockwell, Thomas Collier, his shopman, George Skinner, Mary Ann Vince, and Charlotte Fayer, were brought before Mr. Murray and Mr. Hawes, M. P.,on the 15th ult., charged with having assaulted Miss Caroline Amelia Newton, a highly respectable maiden lady, residing at Clapham-rise. Miss Newton stated, that seeing some articles in the shop window, she went in to inquire the price and examine the quality, and, on remarking that the article shewn was of an inferior quality, and that they asked two prices, Collier immediately said, "What do you mean by that?" Miss Newton then repeated the observation, saying, that she had made purchases before at the same shop at a different price. Anxious to get home, before dark, Miss Newton departed, and had not proceeded far before she was overtaken by Collier, who said, "We have lost a piece of handkerchiefs from the shop." Assurance to the contrary was of no avail, and he took her arm to bring her back. They were met by Vince, Skinner, and a policeman. When they got to the shop, she was shown into an inner apartment, these persons and the two female defendants being present. Vince then said, you must strip; (at this part of her narrative the feelings of Miss Newton, for a considerable time, were so much excited, that she could not proceed until her brother and sister had used various restoratives ;) the lady then said that she took off her bonnet, &c., but expressed her determination not to consent to be stripped before so many persons. Vince insisted; but, before leaving the room, said to the policeman, "that if you had not said that I charged two prices, I should not have insisted on your being searched." She was then taken up stairs; and article after article taken off her person, until she was almost in a state of nudity. Vince then exclaimed outside, that he only suspected her. Miss Newton then said, you have now had an opportunity of seeing I am innocent; upon which Charlotte Fayer, a servant in Vince's employ, said, "Oh, but you must have dropped the property." Mr. Hawes characterised the whole proceedings

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of the defendants as of the most infamous description. Mr. Murray fully agreed with the worthy magistrate, and resolved to send the case to a jury. The policeman confirmed the statement, and said that he conducted Miss Newton home, who appeared to labour under great agitation. spectable friend of Mr. Vince's begged that the case might he dealt with by the magistrates, as other proceedings would have the effect of destroying Mr. Vince in his busi ness. After retiring to the magistrates' room, in consequence of the delicate state

of Miss Newton's health, the party returned, and the magistrates, much against their inclination, reversed their decision, and fined each of the male defendants 5!., and, in default of payment, to be committed for two months to gaol. At the particular request of Miss Newton, the female defendants were discharged; the magistrates remarking, that it was owing to their having acted under the direction of their employer, that such lenity was extended to them.

AN EXTRAORDINARY PENSIONER. There is upon the Pension List, in the shape of a superannuated public servant, a gentleman, who has received, since his retirement from his official duties, no less a sum than 40,0007. of the public money. The facts are singular-This gentleman, a most valuable officer to the governments under which he held his situation, after a service of fifty years, retired upon an allowance of 2,000l. per annum. Being at the period of his superannuation seventy-five years of age, a prolonged existence, and a consequent burden upon the public purse, could not be anticipated. In proof, however, of the mutability of human calculations regarding the continuance of life, this gentleman still lives, has received the pension twenty years, is therefore ninety-five, and enjoys, we uuderstand, a comparatively good state of health.

AN EXPENSIVE LADY PENSIONER.-By the demise of Lady Nepean, 500l. 16s. 6d. per annum, the amount of her pension, is saved to the country; it having been granted in 1792, her ladyship has consequently received upwards of 20,000l. Her husband, the late Sir Evan Nepean, was secretary to the Admiralty a number of years, and received a handsome allowance for his useful services, notwithstanding his wife was also in the receipt of the above annuity.

ROWLAND STEPHENSON.-The arrest of the ex-banker of London at the suit of the ex-sheriff of London, and the fact that both were in confinement at the same time in the debtors' prison of this city, has been previously noticed. The former has procured bail for the limits, and was released from durance vile on Thursday evening. prosecutor has not been so fortunate.-American Paper.

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STRANGE OCCURRENCE.-A Mr. M. having lived two years with a Mademoiselle L., the parents of the young people at length agreed that they should be lawfully united, and the marriage was to have taken place towards the end of the month. But a few days ago Mr. M., having gone out on business, leaving his intended occupied with embroidery, on his return found her dead. She had taken the unaccountable resolution of dressing herself in her wedding clothes, with a nosegay at her bosom and a crown of orange

flowers on her head, and then shut herself up in a smail room and put an end to her existence by suffocation.-French Paper.

THE ENGLISH IN GREECE.-The Suabian Mercury states that a great many Englishmen have made purchases of land in Greece, and among them Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who has bought a very fine estate in the environs of Athens. The admiral also built a very large house, which he has since sold to King Otho for a considerable profit, and with the money has bought the seven islands called the Petales.

SINGULAR STORY.-Mr. Combe mentions a porter who, when drunk, left a parcel at a wrong door; on becoming sober, he was told of his mistake, but could not remember what he had done with it until the next time he got drunk, when he at once called to mind the house, and went and recovered the parcel.

MONT ST. BERNARD.-The Lausanne Gazette announces that Mont St. Bernard is at this moment very dangerous. In consequence of the quantity of snow that has fallen, travellers are threatened by the avalanches. Three persons arrived lately at the house of refuge with their hands and feet frozen. They received immediate assistance, and are to remain until perfectly cured.

GIANT FAMILY.-At Rhinwald, in Switzerland, the postmaster and landamman of the district is a fine man of about fifty, who is nearly seven feet high. His wife is above six feet, and of seven or eight children, sons and daughters, the boys are all above six feet six, and the girls above six feet.

A WOODEN LEG IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. -When Captain Ross had been two months in Boothia, he discovered a native whom his companions called "Tullooahia." He had lost his leg by the frost, and had been drawn about on a sledge. Captain Ross made him a wooden leg, and when the natives saw him again stand erect, their surprise and delight were depicted in their countenances, and afterwards their demonstrations of gratitude were evinced by their attention to Captain Ross, who, with his brave crew, were thus secured a hearty welcome during the severe winter they passed among these natives.

A TEMPERANCE TEA-PARTY.-The third tea-party of the Preston Temperance Society was celebrated on Christmas-day, in the Exchange Rooms. The company amounted to about 1,200; the tea-kettle was a boiler containing 200 gallons, erected in an out-house, and forty reformed drunkards officiated as waiters!

WOMEN.-Lady Blessington, in her "Memoirs of Lord Byron," thus describes the feelings under which women exist:-" How few men understand the feelings of women! Sensitive and easily wounded as we areobliged to call up pride to support us in

trials that always leave fearful marks behind-how often are we compelled to as sume the semblance of coldness and indifference when the heart inly bleeds; and the decent composure put on with our visiting garments to appear in public, and, like them, worn for a few hours, are with them laid aside, and all the dreariness, the heartconsuming cares, that' woman alone can know, return to make us feel that though we may disguise our sufferings from others, and deck our countenance with smiles, we cannot deceive ourselves, and are but the more miserable from the constraint we submit to. A woman only can understand a woman's heart-we cannot, dare not, complain-sympathy is denied us, because we must not lay open the wounds that excite it; and even the most legitimate feelings are too sacred in female estimation to be exposed; and while we nurse the grief 'that lies too deep for tears,' and consumes alike health and peace, a man may with impunity express all, nay more, than he feels, court and meet sympathy, while his leisure hours are cheered by occupations and pleasures; the latter, too, often such as ought to prove how little he stood in need of compassion, except for his vices.'

POPULATION OF ALEXANDRIA.- -The Moniteur Egyptien contains a statistical article on Alexandria, from which it appears that the population of the city amounts to between 36,000 and 40,000 individuals; of whom 3,000 are English, Maltese, and Ionians, 300 French, 40 Germans, 30 Italians, 10 Swiss, 10 Algerines, 20 natives of the Levant, 400 Greeks, 500 Tuscans, 296 Austrians, 150 Neapolitans, 70 Sardinians, and 60 Spaniards-in all 4,896 foreigners.

JUNIUS. It is reported that Lord Nugent is in possession of the secret as to who was the author of "Junius's Letters"-a fact, however, that is little more than a curiosity of literature, illustrative of a well-kept secret. It is stated that the proofs, as well as many original letters, are among the valuable MSS. in the archives at Stowe.

MATRIMONIAL STATISTICS.-In Glasgow, in 1821, one of each 100 inhabitants took a wife; in 1831, one out of each 105 did likewise; and in 1833, one out of each 80 tasted the realities of wedded bliss. In the New Town, Edinburgh, one out of each 131; and in the Old Town, one out of each 190 inhabitants were married; little more than half the number in Glasgow. We would humbly recommend the fair Edinburgensians not to permit this state of things to continue, but forthwith to institute a committee of inquiry, before which all ob tinate bachelors should be hauled over the coals. Scotsman.

FULL WORK-There are nearly 21,000 workmen in the lodging-houses of Paris; 20,000 are in full employment,

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT AND THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. The names of their Royal Highnesses have lately been most improperly used as a blind for the apprehension of a woman selling playbills at Drury-lane Theatre, who was alleged to have rudely forced them into their carriage with insolent language. Seeing the account in the newspapers, Sir John Conway, by desire, wrote to the magistrates at Bowstreet, disclaiming all knowledge of, or inter ference in the transaction, and requiring the poor woman's immediate liberation. This has been done. Of course, previous to the woman's incarceration, the honest, active, intelligent policeman gave his evidence upon oath, but now he will, at the suit of the commissioners, be indicted for perjury. Thus the great housebreakers pursue theirca ling unannoyed, whilst the petty traders, appplewoman, pamphleteers, and others of the several grades, are annoyed unceasingly, to the great

public disadvantage. We hope justice will be strictly administered, and expect next month to be able to state what view the commissioners take of the subject.

ANTIQUITY OF THE JEWS -The Jewish nation is of the greatest antiquity upon earth. It is a remnant of a dispensation that has passed away. The law and the prophets are their family history, their rites and customs, their food, their daily life, are derived from times long anterior to all records but their own.

TURKISH MANNERS-The Turks of all classes have more innate good breeding than any of the European nations. Though suddenly raised from the dregs of the people to offices of the highest distinction, one can never detect any deficiency of dignity in their demeanour; and their affability and condescension to their inferiors, put the latter at their ease after the first moment they are in their company.

BIRTHS.

Jan. 12, at Camberwell, the wife of Mr. J. T. Barker, of a daughter. Jan. 13, at the Royal Mint, Mrs. Bingley, of a son. Jan. 14, at King's-road, Bedford row, the lady of Mr. J R. Yglesias, of a son. Jan. 14, at Empingham Vicarage, Rutlandshire, the lady of the Rev. Lovick Cooper, of a son, still-born. Jan. 8, at the Clarence Baths, Devonport, the lady of Lieut. E. F. Wells, of his Majesty's ship San Joseph, of a son. Jan. 15. at Upper Tooting, Surrey, the lady of J Rogers. jun. Esq., of a son. Jan. 16, Mrs. Young, of Canonbury square. Islington, of a daughter. Jan. 4, in Upper Harley-street, the lady of Benjamin Goad, Esq., of a son. The lady of Bolton King, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. Headingley, the lady of J. Marshall, jun. Esq. M.P., of a son. Dec. 25, at 17, Dundasstreet, Edinburgh, Mrs. Montague Stanley, of twins.

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Jan. 13, at All Saints. Southampton, by the Rev. Charles Hatch, of Chelsworth-grove, Fellow of the King's College, Cambridge, R. G. Hubback, Esq. of Kensington, to Frances, third daughter of the late Lord Charles Beauchamp Kerr, and grand-daughter to the late Marquis of Lothian. Jan. 14, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Mr. Orlando Balls. of Greenwieh, to Anne Maria, the third daughter of Charles Charriere, Esq. of Blackheath-road. At Farley. Quintus Vivian, Esq. of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars, to Isabella Jane, the third daughter of J. Heulston, Esq. of Farley Castle, Somerset. Jan. 8, at Coudover, the Rev W. Evans, Rector of Shipstou-cum-Tidmington, Worcestershire, to Katherine, only daughter, of T. Parr, Esq. of Lythwood Hall, Salop. Jan. 16. at Camberwell, the Rev. Ebenezer Temple, of Birdburh, Wilts, to Harriet, the eldest daughter of Henry Crosby, Esq. of Camberwell-grove.

Jan. 15, Mr. John Reid Jackson, of Cork. street, Burlington-gardens, to Susan, second daughter of Mr. G. Cooper, of Windsor. Jan. 16, at St. George's, Hanover-square. Thomas Bently Phillips, Esq. of Beverley, to Anne Leonora Taylor, eldest daughter of the late J. B. Taylor, Esq. 43d Regiment.

DIED.

Jan. 10, at Tottenham, Frances, wife of Richard Johnson, of Lane end, Potteries, Staffordshire. Jan. 12, aged 47, Hannah, wife of Mr. Gantillon, of Turnham-green. Jan 12, at his house at Wallington, Surrey, George Lorraine, Esq. aged 76. Jan. 12, Miss De Riemer, of Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. Jan. 13, at Hampstead, James Fenton, Esq. aged 89. Jan. 14, at Brighton, Mary, the wife of Thomas Bish, Esq. M.P. Jan. 14, in the evening, at No. 6, Staffordrow, Buckingham-gate, Wm. J. Power, aged 13 years nine months, eldest son of Lieut.Col. Wm. G. Power, C. B., of his Majesty's Royal Artillery. Jan. 13, Wil iam Blackall Simonds, Esq. of Caversham Rectory, late Receiver-General for the county of Bucks. Jan 16, aged 15, Julia Amy, second surviving daughter of K. Graham, Esq. of Henleyupon-Thames. In Upper Baker-street, Melina relict of the late Col. S. H. Showers, aged 87. Aged 97, Mr. W. Osborn, formerly of Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Browne, relict of the Right Hon. D. Browne. At Doneraile, on Christmas-day, Ellen Hogan, aged 107 years, having been employed upwards of 90 years in the gardens of Lord Doneraile. At Somerford Hall, Stafford, Sophia, relict of the Hon. E. Monkhouse, aged 76. Aged 64, J. Calvert. Esq. of the Phrnix Fire-office. At Woodmansterne, Surrey, aged 84, the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, 50 years rector and magis. trate of the county. The living of Northfleet, in Kent, also becomes vacant by his decease.

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