servation of the peace against a misguided populace, they desire to offer, in the form of timely remonstrance, a few remarks deserving of attention :: "If grievances exist, do the persons concerned in the riotous proceedings before alluded to, suppose that they can be remedied by violence? To what possible beneficial result can their proceedings tend? To what have they tended in other parts of the country, but to the loss of many valuable lives, and a curtailment of British liberty? "Let the people beware of bad advisers-those who may pretend to sympathize in their alleged grievances, for the purpose of exciting them to acts of mischief, in the punishment for which the instigators generally take care to have no participation. Let them be assured that it is equally wicked and unwise to resist the law; wicked in principle, and unwise in practice, because ineffectual to any good purpose.-By order of the Court, "COPEMAN, Clerk of the Peace." Several places in this county continue in a very disturbed state. On Monday morning, about three hundred persons, principally labourers, assembled, and commenced breaking thrashing machines in the parishes of Wicklewood, Morley, &c.; about two o'clock in the afternoon they arrived at Attleborough, where, as in other places, they compelled many to join them they then proceeded in search of machines, but found only one in that place, which was instantly destroyed. By this time their numbers were greatly increased. From Attleborough they marched to Shropham and Snet : terton, where they broke four or five machines, and, in consequence of the opposition they experienced at the former place, a drill also. On their return, information was given that a thrashing machine was secreted on the premises of Mr. W. Parson, of Attleborough; they, therefore, proceeded thither, and found the object of their search under a straw stack, which they took, dragged to the market-place, and immediately demolished. The magistrates, wishing to adopt some efficient measures to put a stop to such proceedings, requested many inhabitants of the neighbouring parishes to meet at Harling on Tuesday morning, where they were joined by the Eye troop of horse; and after having passed through Buckenham, Burnham, &c., halted at Attleborough: after being there about an hour, information arrived, that the machine-breakers were assembled at New Buckenham the troop, with a number of horsemen, proceeded thither, and succeeded in taking twenty, seven of whom were committed to Wymondham Bridewell the same evening. There are several parties of these misguided men about, and their whole object appears to be, the entire destruction of thrashing machines. The spirit of insubordination still shows itself in the neighbourhood of Diss, by assemblies to the number of some hundreds of labourers, for the purpose of stopping the use of machines. The deluded persons, who set fire to the hay-stacks in Diss a few nights since, which caused so much alarm, have surrendered themselves, and are now in Norwich Castle; and on Monday last three men were committed to the same prison, on suspicion of assisting to destroy two or three thrashing machines, in the parish of Wymondham, on Saturday night. Norwich Courier. 7. PARIS.-Yesterday the school of law was shut, by order of the superior authority. M. Portels, professor of Natural law, had a few days ago torn down a seditious placard, calling upon the students to join in the tumults, of which the mission at the church of Petits Pères was evidently only the pretext. When he began his lecture yesterday, two or three The disturbers hisses were heard. were immediately attacked, and driven out by the sound majority of the pupils; but others, armed with canes and sticks, having come to their assistance, the tumult was renewed in the square of the church of St. Genevieve, at the other division of the school of law, whither the students had proceeded in a body to hear the lecture of M. Poncelet. There great disorders broke out. Being insulted in the most audacious manner, the well-intenstudents who were tioned, fell upon their assailants, whom were remarked, men, among who, from their appearance and costume, did not seem to be students of either law or medicine. The dean, M. Delvincourt, and Messrs. Duranton and Poncelet, proceeded to the scene of tumult. Already the combatants, divided into two bodies, appeared ready for action. An imposing majority had rallied to the cry of "Vive le Roi." Another band ranged themselves against them, uttering divers exclamations: for, with the cries of "Vive la charte," there were mixed expressions of the most seditious nature. The dean and the professors exhausted all their gens efforts in vain, to quiet the mis- The representations of the professors, with difficulty appeased the riot, which did not end till half past four o'clock. The young men, who had at first shown hostile feelings to M. Portels, appeared to yield less to the remonstrances of their professors, than to the number of their antagonists. Two of the pupils of the school of law and two pupils of the school of medicine, who were arrested at the missions, have been excluded for six months from the academy of Paris.-Journal des Debats. 9. BARBAROUS MURDER.- A murder, attended with circumstances of peculiar atrocity and cruelty, was committed in Robertstreet, Bedford-row, upon an elderly lady named Donatty, residing Mrs. at No. 2, in that street. Donatty, the widow of a person of the Jewish persuasion, but herself a Christian, had resided for several years at the house mentioned, having a small independent fortune to subsist upon. The house is rather a large one, consisting of about ten rooms, but she was the sole occupant, with the exception of a girl who came at night merely to sleep with her. It was well furnished, and, among other valuable articles which the old lady possessed, were several pictures by celebrated masters, for which she had been offered very considerable sums. It was her custom to sleep in the kitchen, and the girl, who was paid to sleep with her, generally came to her about half-past 9 or 10 o'clock at night, and left the house after breakfast in the morning. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Donatty went out, for the purpose, as it was understood, of receiving rents due to her from some tenants; and she returned home about ten minutes past nine in the evening. She stood for some few minutes at the door, talking to a neighbour, and then went in and shut the door. She had scarcely been in a moment, when her neighbour (the mistress of the next house) heard a faint cry of "murder" in the voice of Mrs. Donatty, and she immediately called one of the parish patrol, and, acquainting him with what she had heard, expressed her suspicion that something dreadful had happened. The patrol called others to his assistance, and they knocked at the door a great number of times, but received no answer. Not withstanding this, the patrol did not take any measure to get into the house, until half-past 10 (a lapse of upwards of an hour); and then some parish constables having arrived, an entrance was effected by placing a ladder at the first-floor window. Two constables entered by that window, with a light, and went down stairs; where the first object, which presented itself, was the corpse of the unfortunate widow, mangled in a most horrible manner, lying in the centre of the passage, which was discoloured with streams of blood. Upon examining the body, a handkerchief was found stuffed into the mouth, and a stab, apparently inflicted with a butcher's knife, under the left ear, and penetrating nearly through the neck to the other side; there was also a cut on the back of the neck, and another on the right side. Both ears were lacerated, and the earrings, which she was known to wear, were gone. Her wedding ring was also forced from her finger, in doing which very brutal violence must have been used, as the flesh was literally torn away. An alarm was immediately spread in the neighbourhood; and some officers of Bow-street and Hattongarden being sent for, the house was narrowly searched, and two bags were found, in which every thing of any value which could be removed was packed. These bags were in the passage up stairs. The window-curtains of the firstfloor, and of some of the other rooms, were removed, and put into these bags. No person was found in the house, and the supposition was, that the perpetrators of the murder had taken advantage of the time which was given them, and had escaped by the back part of the house, there being no other impediment that way than a wall about 11 feet high, which incloses the yard, and by surmounting which they could escape into Millman-place, a thoroughfare situate at the back of Robertstreet. About 11 o'clock, the girl who usually slept with Mrs. Donatty came to the house, and on being informed of what had happened, she seemed very little concerned, and said she should go home. She was asked where her father was, and she said he was not at home. An officer was despatched to his residence, and it was found, that he was from home. The girl meanwhile went away from the house in Robert-street, and it being afterwards thought expedient to apprehend her, an officer went in search of her, and found her conversing with her father in the street at Mount Pleasant, near Cold Bath Fields' Prison. They were both taken up and conveyed to the watchhouse. Subsequent examinations proved that there was no reason to suspect either the girl or her father. Every effort was made both by the police and by the parish to discover the murderers, but without success. HAMPSHIRE. The Lent assizes for this county concluded this morning. The Criminal Calendar contained 58 prisoners for trial, 16 of whom have been sentenced to suffer death, but 2 only of that number (poachers) were left by the judges for execution, viz. James Turner, aged 28, for aiding and assisting in killing Robert Baker, gamekeeper to Thomas Asheton Smith, esq., in the parish of South Tidworth;-and Charles Smith, aged 27, for having wilfully and maliciously shot at Robert Snelgrove, assistant gamekeeper to lord Palmerston, at Broodlands, in the parish of Romsey, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The circumstances of the case of Charles Smith, as they appeared in evidence, were as follow:-On the evening of the 22nd November, Snelgrove, being an assistant, made an appointment to go out with C. Martin, the gamekeeper to lord Palmerston. Be tween six and seven in the evening, they heard a gun in Hove Coppice. On their approach to the spot, they heard some one in the cover, when Snelgrove went and placed himself at the upper end of the coppice, against a tree. Soon after, two men came out of the cover towards him; and hearing the keeper's dog snort, they stopped, looked round, and then ran away, pursued by Snelgrove, who soon came within five or six yards of them, when the prisoner turned round and shot him through the thick part of the thigh, the smoke from the gun flying into Snelgrove's face. It was light, but the moon was not up. He kept his bed a week, and continued ill from November till March. Snelgrove had known the prisoner for five or six years, and been in the constant habit of seeing him. Death. To be executed on the 23rd inst. James Turner was found guilty of aiding and assisting one James Goodhall and others, in maliciously firing upon and killing Robert Baker, on the 10th of December, in the parish of South Tidworth. The prisoner, in company with four other poachers, viz., Edmund Steele, Richard Goodhall, James Goodhall, and James Scullard, left their home on Sunday evening, the 9th of December, and after they had drank together, proceeded from the neighbourhood of Andover, where they lived, to Ashdown Coppice, a distance of about four miles. On the road, Scullard and the two Goodhalls tried their guns, which went off well. Soon after they got into the wood, Robert Goodhall killed a pheasant, and immediately six keepers came up to them. James Goodhall turned round and said, with an oath, "If you don't keep off, I'll blow a hole through you." The poachers retreated, offering defiance to the keepers, who were continuing their pursuit closely. Goodhall turned round and fired, when Robert Baker fell. He was wounded in the neck, and soon after died. They then became intermingled, and a violent struggle ensued. The prisoner took a gun out of Scullard's hand, and pointed it towards the keeper: the gun flashed, but did not go off. One of the keepers following up the prisoner, he said, "D-n it, have you not had enough of it?" and struck him with a gun, which broke off close to the stock. The prisoner turned round again, and hit the keeper twice with the stock of the gun, who fell down, when the rest of the party were nearly or quite out of the wood. poachers kept together until they came within three quarters of a mile of Andover; before they parted, they looked over their guns, when it appeared that Goodhall had not his own, but one of Mr. Smith's guns. The prisoner received a good character from Mr. Phillips, of Andover, who had known him 18 years. He was sentenced to suffer death; and to be executed this day. The 11. PARIS.-A notice was issued from the prefecture of the police, warning the inhabitants to keep at a distance from such tumultuous assemblages as had recently taken place, and announcing the intention of employing measures of the utmost severity towards the really guilty, in order to put an end to the disorders. Between 200 and 300 young men collected near the Place de la Bastille, but were dispersed by the gendarmes, a strong patrol of whom remained on duty till eleven o'clock at night. The Missionaries have continued their labours almost without molestation. 14. STANDING MUTE. - At York assizes, John Holdsworth was placed at the bar and arraigned on the charge of manslaughter, for killing his brother by beating him on the head with a stone. On being asked, whether he pleaded guilty or not guilty to the indictment, he remained silent; and it appeared that, though 27 years of age, he had never manifested any signs of intelligence or affection, except that maternal kindness had occasionally awakened in him some faint gleamings of mind. The verdict of the jury was, that he stood mute by the visitation of God, and that he was not able to take his trial owing to alienation of mind. 15. PORTUGUESE CONSULATE GENERAL.-The Portuguese minister has transmitted the following order regarding the exportation from this country, of Portuguese produce to Portuguese ports, in British and other foreign vessels:— "His Most Faithful Majesty's law, prohibiting the importation of Portuguese produce and merchandise in foreign bottoms, either from port to port of the Portuguese dominions, or imported in foreign vessels from foreign ports, to be reexported for the Portuguese, not having hitherto been executed in the country, you are desired to make it public, that consular papers will not be granted to any foreign vessel bound to any of the said Portuguese ports, having on board produce of Portuguese growth; and that no entry will be permitted to any such produce, at any of the |