lowed up his threat by immediate execution.

On his further cross-examination, he said he was not aware that there had been previous differences between Mr. Elliston and the plaintiff, but recollected that the plaintiff had said that there was some misunderstanding between him and the manager; the plaintiff had said that he had in the public prints held Elliston up to public ridicule; but did not recollect his saying that he would do so again. The plaintiff did not state he was going to the theatre for the purpose of insulting Mr. Elliston.

Mr. Scarlett then addressed the jury for the defendant.

The lord chief justice summed up, leaving it with the jury, that if they thought Mr. Poole had brought the assault on himself, they would give only the most moderate damages. The jury, after consulting for ten minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff -Damages 801.

HOUSE OF LORDS-Maule v. Maule (of Panmure).-The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in the appeal of "Maule v. Maule." The father, Mr. Maule, has the entailed estate of Panmure, in Scotland, producing about 20,000l. a year; he purchased for the son a commission in the 37th regiment, and allowed him besides about 100%. a year; but the son urged that such a sum was not sufficient to maintain him, and to enable him to mix with that company which would qualify him for his future station in society. He therefore instituted a suit in the court of session, proceeding on the law of aliment, peculiar to Scotland, for further allowance from his father. The court adjudged the father to allow

the son aliment to the extent of 800l. a year. Against that decision Mr. Maule, sen., appealed to the House of Lords. The son had proceeded for 2,000l. yearly, as a reasonable and suitable allowance, according to his rank and station, and for the support of the rank of his family. The lord chancellor, in pronouncing judgment, said, that, if the principles recognised by the decision now appealed against were established, the court of session in Scotland would have power superior to that possessed by any court in England. It would empower the next heir of entail in all cases to call upon the court to require an account of the income, debts, and burthens of the estate; and then to decree a portion of the estate's produce; or, in other words, to render it competent, on arbitrary notions of what might be suitable and reasonable between father and son, "to take what is confessedly the property of one man and give it to another." That was a principle, which he (lord Eldon) could not recognize-it was not consistent with the laws of the land. For the court of session to take to itself the right thus to interfere between father and son, was contrary to all notions of law and equity; and it was against the laws of nature, as recognized by society, which gave the power assumed by the court of session, to the father alone.

The decree of the court of session was reversed.

LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-A quarterly general meeting of the London Mechanics' Institution, took place in the temporary lecture-room, Monkwell-street, Falcon-square: Dr. Birkbeck, the president of the Institution, was in the chair, supported by Dr. Gilchrist and Robert M'William, esq.,

It appeared from the report that 134 volumes of books had been presented to the Institution during the quarter, and that the library at present consisted of upwards of 1,400 volumes; that the Institution had increased in number, within the same period, by 239 members; and that the total number of members regularly paying subscription is 1,185.

It also appeared that the following elementary schools had been opened gratuitously to the members: -Four schools for teaching the French language on Mr. Black's system; three arithmetical schools, one for instruction in drawing; and another for teaching mathematics.

A SEA-HORSE.-A walrus, or sea-horse, was discovered on the rocks of Fierceness, on Eday, Orkney. Having been shot at and wounded by one of Mr. Laing's shepherds there, it took to sea, and was followed by him, and some others, in a boat. The man fired a second time, and pierced the animal through the eyes; it now lay on the water apparently lifeless, but, upon the boat coming alongside, and one of the men catching hold of the forepaw, the walrus made a sudden plunge, and carried the man to the bottom with him; and it was with

difficulty, upon his rising to the surface, that he was got back into the boat. Another shot, however, was fatal to the animal, and it was towed ashore in triumph. The skin of the walrus, when dried, measured 15 feet by 14 feet; and the tusks, which appeared much worn at the ends, protruded from the head about 12 inches.

2. UNION-HALL.-Several of the parish officers of Newington attended at this office, before the sitting magistrate, in order to state facts which had come to their knowledge, relative to the ill-treatment of a young girl named Sarah Holman, by her father, who had turned her out of his house into the streets, in consequence of her refusal to become a convert to a sect of which he was a member, who denominated themselves "The true believers in the faith of Mary Johanna Southcote, and the coming of the young Shiloh."

The female, who now came forward to make a complaint against her parent, had attended at their workhouse the day before, and applied for parish relief, stating that she had been turned out of doors that morning by her father. The girl, being questioned as to the cause of the conduct pursued towards her, and as to who and what her father was, replied that he was a master-tailor, in comfortable circumstances, having two houses in which he alternately resided, one of them situated in Pleasant-row, and the other in Pleasant-place, Walworth; and that her determination not to become one of the believers, in the faith of " Mary Johanna," was the sole cause of the cruel manner in which she had been for a length of time persecuted by him. Upon hearing this account, the parish officers

proceeded to Mr. Holman's house, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he was in competent circumstances to support his child. The result of their inquiries was as follows:-On entering a room in the house in Pleasant-row,they observed a most extraordinary-looking man, a cripple, sitting at a table, busily engaged in writing to the dictation of an equally extraordinary-looking woman of frightful aspect, having only one eye, and disfigured by a hair lip, which extended so far up her face, as completely to divide the nose into two parts. This personage was "the real Mary Johanna;" and upon asking what the old man was doing, they were told he was her amanuensis or clerk, and that he was then writing the dream of his mistress, who was to bring "Young Shiloh" into the world, and was considered to have been specially sent upon earth for that purpose, as well as for the performance of some other wonderful prodigies before she made her exit. The parish officers also saw two or three other women in the house, one of whom, on being questioned respecting an infant which she carried in her arms, said that it was her child-that Mr. Holman was the father of it; but that she was not his wife. On visiting the other house belonging to Mr. Holman, they observed several other women, all of whom cohabited with Holman, the forms of whose system of faith allowed a plurality of wives without the necessity of the ceremony of matrimony in any of the cases. Subsequently they had an interview with Holman himself, who on being informed that he was bound either to allow a reasonable maintenance for his daughter to the parish, or else to take her home, refused to

do either, on the ground that he did not consider her as his daughter, because she was not endued with the spirit of the Lord; the fact, however, of the girl being his child, they established by producing the certificate of the marriage of Holman with her mother, in the year 1794.

Sarah Holman, on being sworn, stated, that about three years ago her father's barbarity commenced, by turning her mother and herself out of doors. After that she went into service, but on account of ill health was obliged to leave her situation about five weeks ago. She then went back to her father, and had not been many hours in the house, before she was surprised at the extraordinary scenes she beheld going forward. A Mrs. Browne, who appeared to be at the head of every thing, called her on one side, telling her that she was the real "Mary Johanna," that she was sent upon earth endued with the spirit of the Lord, and that she would perform miracles before she was translated back into heaven again. "Seeing that I was not much inclined to believe her," said the girl, she appeared greatly enraged, and exclaimed, "I grieve the spirit of the Lord, and such a creature as you shall not be suffered to remain along with the true believers.' She was then asked, whether she did not believe that the real Sabbath-day fell upon Saturdays? Upon stating her disbelief of any such thing, she was considered, she said, as bad as a pestilence in the house-was treated by her father and the rest of the inmates in the most cruel manner, until at length her life became miserable, and she was anxious to get away from such a crew, and some days

ago begged that her father would purchase her a few necessary articles to go back into service. Her application was treated with derision, her father declaring that such an unbeliever was not worthy to live; and he actually kept her for the last three days without victuals, the only sustenance she had during that time being the leaves of some lettuces, which she picked up in the garden behind the house. On Tuesday last, on remonstrating with her father for treating her so cruelly, and begging that he would act differently towards her, he kicked her out of the house, bawling out, "That is the punishment for an unbeliever." Her father, she said, some time ago went to considerable expense in making up a most splendid red coat, richly embroidered with gold, and with letters worked in gold on the back of it, to this effect-"This coat is for the young Shiloh." This coat, she said, was given to Mrs. Browne, alias Mary Johanna, by her father, who, on presenting it, said, "What am I to do with this coat?" Mary Johanna's reply was, Let it be given where the Lord's spirit dwells in perfection." "Then," said her father, placing the coat over her shoulders, "it dwelleth in thee." Mary Johanna then got up off her seat with young Shiloh's coat thrown over her shoulders, and marched out of the room. Complainant said, that she had since been told that this coat was now in pledge for liquor drank by this very woman, who was considered an object of adoration by those of her sect. Their particular days for devotion were on Saturdays. On Sundays they always work, and she was never permitted to enter the room where they con

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gregated, because she was unbeliever. In reply to questions by the magistrate, the girl stated that she had frequently seen her father leave the bed-rooms of different women who lived in the house with him, early in the morning; and that she was convinced he treated them all as his wives.

Holman declared that the greater part of his daughter's statement was false. With respect to his mode of worship, he submitted that had nothing to do with the question.

The magistrate, having listened to him for a long time, said he must give the parish some security for the maintenance of his daughter. An arrangement was ultimately entered into.

QUARANTINE AT NAPLES. The following is a copy of the quarantine regulations established at Naples in consequence of the measure proposed in England for modifying the quarantine laws of this country :

1. All vessels arriving from Great Britain, or with a portion of. cargoes shipped there and not landed at an intermediate port, must proceed at once to the lazaretto at Nesita, there to unload.

2. If the cargo consists wholly or in part of manufactures, such manufactures must perform 21 days' quarantine at the lazaretto of Nesita, and the vessel 14 days, which quarantine commences from the day the last package has been discharged. If the cargo consists wholly or in part of cotton yarn, the same must also be unloaded at Nesita; but the Board of Health has not yet decided upon the extent of quarantine, which will, however, be of longer duration than that on manufactures. Sugars and other unsusceptible goods must