Shocking Accident-Mr Ronaldson, baker, Causewayside, Edinburgh, and Mr Aitken, farrier, rode to Haddington on a wager on Saturday afternoon, and when at Fisherrow, on their return, the former, be ing in advance, and pushing his horse at great rate, came violently against a car riage, the pole of which struck him on the breast and killed him on the spot.

21 Police.In the Edinburgh Police Court yesterday, a case of rather a ludicrous nature came before the Magistrate. A la bouring man, who lives in the Cowgate, happening to awake about four o'clock on Sunday morning, he was surprised to find that his wife was not beside him. He immediately arose, and awoke a neigh bour who lives next door to him, and to his astonishment he found that his wife was also missing. The two husbands now procacded in quest of their wives, and found them in a tippling-house in the Cowgate, where several other persons were assembled. One of the women immediately returned home with her husband, but the other hus band, not being of a very placable nature, proceeded to attack his wife with both hands and tongue, when a severe scuffle took place, and the husband alleged, and, indeed, a surgeon certified, that he was very severely hurt. He now brought his action against the publican for the assault but all the persons present declared that he bad not struck him, and that if he received any injury, he brought it on himself by his own, violent, conduct The Magistrate, therefore, found the complaint Not Pro »

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Ya Jan L.2800 Emigration.Within these few weeks, the Skene, Mason, with 150; the Perce val, Scott, with 35 ; and the Mary, Mun ro, with 32 passengers, have sailed from Leith, for Halifax and Quebec. Most of these emigrants consisted of whole families from the country, many of them with small properties. The Skene carries out one family, from the parish of West Calder, consisting of a father, eight sons, a wife, and two daughters. Six of the song are stout young men, and they took with them property amounting to nearly 1. 1000.4 The Agincourt is now in the Roads, for Halifax, with about 200 passengers. A ship and three brigs sailed last week from Dumfries for British America, with 581 passengers and various kinds of goods. They are mostly all of the lower orders of society, either connected with agriculture, or labourers, and some of them paupers from the north of England, for whom the overseers of the parish pay the passage. The Londonderry newspapers advertise no less than fifteen ships to take out passen gers to America, whose tonnage amounts to eight thousand two hundred toas, and the Belfast papers nearly as many more. By the returns of the latter port, it appears that about eleven thousand persons eni grated to America from thence last season.

26. The Declaration of Warden. Mr Dingwall, the postmaster of Aberdeen, în reference to the declaration of George War den in page 463 of this number, addressed a letter on the 23d to the editors of the Edinburgh newspapers, in which he says, "It is true, that by his (Warden's) agreement with me his salary was only L. 40 a year; but he was in addition afforded, at my expence, a furnished room, coal, and candle, and he also drew the perquisite arising from the penny letters, which I never exacted

from him. His emolument from all these sources exceeded the allowance made to ine by Government for a clerk; and besides, during the period of his service, which was only twenty-one months, he was short in his cash to me upwards of L. 23. I may likewise mention, that he did not perform all the duty incumbent on the situation, as I found it necessary to employ an assistant clerk."

Monument to Robert Burns.-A meeting was held on Saturday the 24th, at the Free Masons' Tavern, London, the Duke of Athol in the chair, for the purpose of entering into a subscription for the erection of a monument to the memory of Robert Burns. The chairman having shortly stated his hearty concurrence in the object of the meeting, Forbes Mitchell, Esq. read a printed document, which stated that a subseription had been entered into some years ago by some gentlemen at Bombay, for the purpose above mentioned; and that a committee had, on application to the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, obtained the grant of a piece of ground for the purpose, eligibly situated on the side of the Calton-hill, and near the splendid new approach to that city. Mr Mitchell then read over a list of the original subscribers in India, as well as of the more recent ones in this country, from which it apepared, that a considerable sum has been already collected. Several resolutions were then put and carried, the substance of which was, that committees were to be appointed in different parts of the United Kingdom, in the colonies and other dependencies of the realm, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions; that advertisements were to be inserted in all the public papers for the same purpose; that a meeting for the same purpose as the present was to be held in London on the 5th of June; and that Forbes Mitchell, Esq. was to be treasurer.

Justiciary Spring Circuits Inverness. The Court at Inverness was opened on the 16th, and closed on the 17th instant, by Lord Reston. No cases of particular interest came before it. In the address to the Sheriffs, with which the business of the Court closed, Lord Reston strongly recommended to them to use their utmost exertions to repress the two species of crimes, sheep-stealing and illicit distillation, which were the most prevalent in the northern district; and suggested the propriety of landlords in future introducing a clause into their leases, rendering the crime of illicit distillation a ground of irritancy.

Dumfries Circuit.The Court was opened here on the 17th by Lords Succoth and Pitmilly, and closed on the 20th. Two men, Peter M-Finlay and W.. Donald, were found guilty of housebreaking and robbery, and sentenced to be executed at Dumfries on the 19th of May; and Arthur

Killan, or Kelly, was sentenced to be executed on the 26th of May for robbery, but has since been respited by the Prince Regent. Several other convictions took place for minor offences; but the most remarkable case before the court was that of Isabella Halliday, accused of murdering the child of Mary Ann Wilson, who, although doubtless a participator in the crime, had turned what is termed King's evidence. The pannel, one of the most miserable looking objects ever brought to any bar, was aged 80 and upwards; and for the last 60 years had resided in the parish of Borgue, and had been a pauper during a considerable part of the time. She never was married, but lived in a miserable cottage with her sister, who died six years ago. Since that time she had been taken care of by Mary Ann Wilson, who was in the habit of going round the parish to collect the private offerings of charity, by which they were partly supported. The prisoner was carried to the bar in the arms of an officer; and when he had propped her up in the scat, and had raised her head so as to disclose to the bench her ghastly and shrivelled countenance, and body wasted to the last degree of emaciation, an universal exclamation of astonishment burst from the audience, mingled, no doubt, with a secret feeling of horror, that she, who was se near her last account, and apparently without a motive for her cruelty, should nevertheless have been guilty of a deliberate and horrid murder. It is impossible to describe adequately the appearance of this miserable old woman, and the effect it produced on the minds of the court; but, when the officer occasionally held up her head, the spectators were powerfully reminded of an Egyptian mummy, which some rude hand had raised from its niche, or one of those unhappy creatures, who, in no very remote time, were tried and tortured for the ideal crime of witchcraft. It appeared in evidence, that the pannel was supported entirely by private charity, in a small hut in the parish of Borgue, and for years was unable to get out of bed without assistance. For six years past, a young woman, named Wilson, had resorted to the hut, and had been very industrious in levying charitable contributions for her own and the old woman's support. Towards the end of the year 1818, Wilson appeared to many persons to be in a state of pregnancy; but, when challenged, she uniformly denied be ing in that situation. Observing a change in her appearance, several persons asked her what had become of her child; to sqmne she answered it would never trouble any one, but did not deny having been delivered. Wilson, being apprehended and carried to Kirkcudbright, in her examination bciore the stewart-depute on 11th February last, admitted that she had brought forth

specimen of Hebrew Penmanship-Mr William Steven, Peebles-shire. 2. For the best Essay-Mr Robert Brydone, Edinburgh. 3. and 4. For general good conduct and proficiency-(junior side) Mr Robert Paton, Ayrshire; (advanced side) Mr Daniel Gorrie, Perthshire.

In the Rhetoric Class.-Messrs William Veitch, Roxburghshire; John Purves, Berwickshire; Robert Meiklejohn, Clackmannanshire; Hugh Bruce, Clackmannanshire; Hugh H. Brown, Edinburghshire; Hunter Gordon, Edinburghshire; George Lyon, Lanarkshire; William Glover, Edinburghshire; James Bonar, Edinburghshire; John Kerr, Peebles-shire; Joseph Thorburn, Edinburghshire.

In the Logic Class.-Messrs John Clarke, Edinburgh; Abner William Brown, Jamaica; William Glover, Leith; James Anderson, Lanarkshire: Patrick B. Henderson, Caithness; James Moir, Edinburgh; William Ramsay, Perthshire; Charles A. Stewart, Ayrshire; Robert Grant, Morayshire; James Scott, Roxburghshire; George Lyon, Lanarkshire.

In the First Mathematical Class.Messrs John Lothian, Edinburgh; James Carter, Berwickshire; Amos Ansley, Upper Canada; Alexander Gibson, Lanark; Robert Shortreed, Jedburgh.

In the Second Mathematical Class.Messrs Caleb Evans, London; Sandford Arnot, Cupar of Fife; William Murray, Selkirk.

In the Second and Third Greek Classes. For Greek Poems-Messrs William Glover, Leith; George Mylne, Middlesex; William Reid, Edinburgh; William Forbes, Edinburgh. For Latin Poems-Messrs John Dundas, Edinburgh; Hart Logan, Edinburgh; Samuel Hay, Edinburgh; James Colquhoun, Lanarkshire. For English Essays-Messrs William Pitt Dundas, Mid-Lothian; William Menzies, La

narkshire; Robert Irvine, Selkirkshire James Ferguson, Perthshire.

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In the Advanced Humanity Class.-For Latin Poems-Messrs Edmund Moffat, Edinburgh; David Thomas M'Cheyne, Edinburgh; William Dunnet, Glasgow ; Robert Hogg, Peebles-shire. For Latin Essays--Messrs Alexander Cumming, Edinburgh; George L. Cameron, Edinburgh; James Charles, Edinburgh; Christopher Greig, Fifeshire. For English Essays. Messrs Hamilton Buchanan, Peebles-shire; James Colquhoun, Glasgow; John Spear, Lancashire; Alexander Cameron, Edinburgh.

Calcutta. The following statement of the shipping and tonnage of the Port of Calcutta in the river Hoogly, 1st September 1818, gives an interesting picture of the commercial enterprise of the capital of British India. It shows that the late act, permitting a direct trade between India and Malta, has begun to be acted upon. Ships. Tonnage.

Honourable Company's ships
for England,
Do. for China,
Do. for Bombay,

Do. for China,

4

3,538

2

2,525

2

1,178

Free traders for Great Britain, 31
Country ships for do.
Do. for Malta,

15,307

1

500

2

1,563

447

LONDON.

King's Theatre. On Saturday 1st May, a new ballet, Adolphe et Matilde, introduced to our acquaintance the celebrated M. and Madame Duport. Duport is indeed an admirable dancer, and the frame of the ballet, which shews him at first an unwilling victim to a music master and dancing master, had a good effect in preparing the way for the great impression his talents were calculated to make. When the disquise of pupilism was thrown off, and the utmost exertion diplayed, rapturous bravos succeeded to the listlessness which the beginning had not dissipated. Duport is about five and half a feet in height, and slightly and handsomely formed; his execution the most brilliant, we think, we ever witnessed.

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His merit consists in this brilliancy, grace, and finish, rather than in air and dignity; but though not so elevated, his style is as fascinating as that of le dieu de danse himself. The story of this ballet is but poor, and we expect to see the powers of the new Wonder more highly evinced on better materials. Lit. Gaz.

Drury-Lane.-Honour, or drrival from College, a new comedy, written by Mr Cromwell, formerly a bookseller in Skinner Street, was produced at this theatre on 15th April. The plot, as stated in the daily papers, is as follows;-Villiers, (Mr H. Kemble,) a young Oxonian, is in love with his cousin Emmeline, (Mrs West,) the daugh ter of Colonel Villiers, (Gattie,) on whom the young man is dependent, and who had, before the period at which the play begins,

encouraged their mutual passion. But Villiers is represented to the uncle to be a seducer, a coward, and every thing that is bad, by Freeman, (Mr Penley,) a lying brother collegian, and Flora, (Mrs Orger,) an abandoned woman. In consequence of this the Colonel encourages Sir Jasper Jay, (Harley,) a Dandy Baronet, to pay his addresses to Emmeline. The latter believing the calumnies spread abroad to the prejudice of Villiers, submits to the will of her father, and is about to be married to Sir Jasper, when it is proved, on the evidence of the dying Flora, communicated by a Captain O'Carolan, (Mr Johnstone,) that the dandy is the real seducer of Flora, and the character of Emmeline's first lover be ing in every respect cleared up, the original purpose of the Colonel is carried into effect, and the union of Villiers and Emmeline terminates the play.

The three first acts of this comedy went off very glibly; the dialogue, if not sparkling, was lively, the interest, if not intense, was considerable, and the characters, if not all well drawn, were at least in several instances amusing. It was repeated on Monday, but not with much success; and on its third night, was finally condemned.--Lit. Guz.

A new Comedy, entitled "Wanted a Wife," by Mr Moncrieff, was produced here on Monday 3d May. To call it a Comedy, however, is a misnomer: it wants all the sterling qualities of such a composition, in the proper sense of language, and is, in truth, a farce in five acts. It begins with an advertising office, kept by M'Shift, (Johnstone.) Arthur Wildfire (Russell) applies there for a wife, and his servant, Frank, (Harley,) who had been discharged by his master, who could only pay him with a draft on the pump of Aldgate, resorts there for a place. After many perplexities, Wildfire marries Miss Catharine Arragon,) Mrs West,) a lady whose mind has been bewildered by reading old romances. She is the ward of Sir Gabriel, (Munden,) an old man who delighted in sights, and who describes all he has seen.--As all the other comic actors belonging to the company are thrown into this piece, its trifling equivoque and sprightly dialogue enabled it to sustain the struggle for a few nights' existence. More it does not merit, nor will obtain. The denouement is abrupt, and from the manifestations of dislike in the theatre, it is evident that this Check on my Banker" will not be answered, nor this Wife be long wanted. It is nevertheless a work of talent, and we anticipate more mature and successful efforts from the author. Lit. Gaz.

Covent Garden.-A Musical Drama, founded on the celebrated tale, entitled "The Heart of Mid-Lothian," was brought out here on 17th April. It is the produc. tion of Mr Terry, and bears ample testi

mony to his taste and judgment. The fa ble of the drama departs, however, considerably from that of the novel; and, so wedded are we to the sort of historical truth of the latter, that we cannot view the former but as detrimental alterations. In other respects, the incidents of the original have been ably adapted to the stage. The character of David Deans, supported by Mr Terry, is an exquisite and pathetic portrait ; and Macready made a great deal of the part of George Robertson, though hardly worthy of his great abilities. Liston, as Dumbiedykes, (combining some of the fortunes of Reuben Butler,) excited much laughter; and Sharpitlaw and Ratcliffe were made more than effectual, by the excellent acting of Blanchard and Emery. The female parts were not so well cast: Miss Stephens and Miss Brunton had little more than voice and looks to recommend their Effie and Jeanie Deans; and Mrs C. Kemble was not a Madge Wildfire agreeable to our idea of that personage. The scenery is admirably correct and well painted; but still we think the vice of this theatre prevailedthere is to much given to spectacle, and too little to entertaining dialogue and spirited representation.-Lit. Gaz.

A very clever and laughable Farce, altered from the French, by Mr Morton, and entitled "A Roland for an Oliver," was produced here on the 29th. It was completely and deservedly successful. Laughter, the best applause of a farce, followed almost every scene, and proclaimed the whim and humour of the performance. The chief characters were admirably sustained by Messrs Fawcett, Jones, Emery, and Abbott.-Lit. Gaz.

The Minor theatres open at present in London are the English Opera House, supported by the individual talents of Mathews; Royal Circus and Surrey Theatre; Sadler's Wells; Astley's Amphitheatre; and the Cobourg Theatre.

The Royal Academy.-The 51st exhibition of this Institution commenced on Monday 3d May. It consists of not less than 1250 performances, the greatest number, it is believed, ever exhibited. Among these Mr West is said to have a fine sketch of the Resurrection; and another of Cæsar reading the history of Alexander's exploitsMr Turner, a picture entitled England'; Richmond Hill on the Prince Regent's Birth-Day; and the entrance of the Meuse, with a vessel going to pieces-Mr Wilkie, the Penny Wedding; and in portrait paintings, sculpture, and architecture, many fine specimens of art are exhibited.

The British Gallery, Pall-Mall, opened on Monday the 19th April, with such a collection as more than realized all the expectations previously raised. It contains 155 pictures of every description, and of the foremost class in each. The Italian,