... BLESSI9GS OF THE GAME LAWS. On the niglht of Thursday, the 1Sth ult. a desperate lfrt5 took place between a party of about twenty gamekeepers aB, their assistants. and a gang of about thitty poachers, on tI e grounds of J. Wilkes, Esq., of Emden Essex. Most of th- poachers had guns, and the rest were art ith stakes. A I a desperate struggle. the keepers were coiffed to retreat, aft many severe ...

... I o vlreopoilltnce. IMPAOYEMENT OF THE MERSEY. TO Tap EDITORS OF THY LIVRRPOOL AfRACUrr. RESPECTED FniESDs,-By your tnserting this letter in the r Mercury, Ishball again feelobliged; although it is at varianlewit;i the opinions.of shose who contend for a great increase-of .tream. down the Mersey, yet I believe that such incre'ase, would raise .the tide to an inconvenient height at Liverpool, ...

... ,nS 'r 1 DETHTS IMPOLICY AND INADEQUACY To THE ENDS OF JUSTICE. I : - is LCuoaed fromi thre Ifer Try of Decemibr 19. is. Although we.must defer our further arguments on Ythe effect of the penal code until next week, we cannot Le suffer the present to pass on without a fewr words to . Civis, of the Liverpool Courier:-- If (says he) a judge r-passes sentence, when he is, at the time, determined ...

... OFTIIIEVES IN GENERAL . EFron ile )?xn ltxiners.] IN complinment to thie police, we talk of the escmpe of Ste- phelson, but more strictly wve should deScribe it simlly a de- ;ssst~o'e, such cs the Me wing Post mIigilt illsert in its list of fashidon ble chan!res. 1ne Etlir, 'lideed, wears no cha racter of escapc. Afr. Rowland Stephelnsoll set o Ol' or voyage across the Atlantic by a direct ...

... NESW BAILEY.-AY. I 'Thoznos Hop7e wtas coniilitted for trial, for stealing tWo brass taps' roite O it e loi net-ae brnseyl~ Mrooss tl was charged wvith illicit distillation. Mr. Boys, the superdisor, stated that on Saturday, aboutt two o'clock, lie w ent anl a coacb, accompanied by'soni1c tpol°ice ofcers, to the cellar of the prisoner, near the Cleck Face, in Nvewton lanle; and on breakisg ...

... M THE IRlONT MANUFACTURE IN ENGLAND. il _ (From tIle Jo'snal du Commerce.) ai At a time when the committee on trade have devoted so S ;much anxious attention to thie subject of the introfuction of' G Eeeg ish iron into Fr.nce, the fo..ow ng accurate statement, t which has beel furnis'ied to us by a correspondent, of the improvement is the iron manufacture ,n Engiand s nce5 COl ihas been ...

... Ii Shigwre'ck.-On Friday morning, the 19th ult. the brig Wil- liam, of Liverpml, from the West Indies, with a cargo of cotton, coffee, sugar, and logwood, went on a Teef of rocks near Fortelle, atout two miles east of Boulogne. A dreadful surf was running at the time; and she very shortly rolled over and went entirely to pieces. All on board perished. A man of colour reached she shore, ...

... AuOrelfalWOU0 Elitelliornrf'. I The tinei mentioned for the 6Openi~o h iepo and Manchester railWay is thle muiddle of the year -IS30. Shares in that undcrtakiing, onl Which S70 has been paid, Denow at a prelaiumi Of 46 to 5i) pe Cent,. The best thing, that can be provided to extricate persons in dhangcr of drolvning, from tile breaking of the ice, is t. cmmo iladder ;-a coninson pole wvill ...

... TI . MANM 1 CELSTER TiMES. I SATURDAY, j,&NUAIY 24, 16'W9ci WI: InI tile first numrber of this Journal w ad e i lieving hat Refrml ill Parliiutlf It could not have pa taken, place one wekbfrei Ihud have bestowed th( uPOn all classes of. his Mlajesty S subljects,wtotm distinction of, sect or party, Itl nietrerlgos0 and ciiietwe Shall not occuelpy much of' the U11 attention of our readers inl ...

... I p The Act of the 9th George IV. Crap. 14, entitled, An s Act O0RelinilIg a vLe .ttell Mte.oranmdunii necessary to the Validlity of certuln Ploouises and l4,lgigelile)tA,' call e into e sperlLtion on Thursday. By the last section it :s prov ded, p that no acknowvleiigell.Cnt or pronise sols Lte ternied suni:- 11c cnt to takie a case OLit of tiIe StatIte of Lilitations, un css cit be in Wl ...

... MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE It will be remembered that about four weeks ago, we no- ticed a somewhat strange rumour of a person having been drowned in the Infirmaly pond. The ruinour-arose from the circumstance of a bitch having for several days together kept wandering about beside the pond, and occasionally howling in a piteous manner. Crowds assembled about the place watching the strange conduct ...

... I . - NEW BAILEY.-MONDAY. A miscreant named WI~iliasr Copper, was committed to the sessions, under Mr. Peel's recent sIfterAtion of the criminal law s, for throwing vtriol upon tile person of a ian w:tb lhomn he had had a serious quILlTel. Tlhe law as it llow stands mikes this oflence a felony. The colilpailtilt's face was shockingly scarilied, James Burns, a man wilo hasbeen convicted of an ...