morning, "and continued without intermission until ten o'clock, when it was discovered that the vessel's timbers were opened, and that a leak was gaining on her at the rate of two feet per hour. All hands immediately went to the pumps, and notwithstanding that they had the assistance of a steam-engine of such power as would discharge at the rate of 1,400 gallons of water per minute, still they were unable to get it under. In this perilous situation they descried a sail about a league and a half to windward, the first they had seen since they left England, and they made signals of distress to her, when she bore down, and proved to be the Dolphin, bound to St. John's, Newfoundland, with a general cargo. Captain Munro, having mentioned their distressed situation, requested that the other vessel would remain in company to afford them assistance; the captain did so, and the crew of the Columbus redoubled their exertions, if possible, to save her, but to no effect, for after being in this state for eight hours, up to 6. p. m., she rolled so much that the steamengine was rendered unserviceable, and the pumps were choked, there being from 14 to 16 feet water in the hold. The captain, finding all attempts to save her fruitless, then considered it necessary to consult the safety of the crew, and accordingly put out the launch, with a quantity of provisions, to be conveyed on board the Dolphin, but in a moment she was stove to pieces against the ship's bow. Their situation now became truly alarming, as every moment they expected the vessel would founder, so open had her timbers become. There remained only two boats; those were launched, and in them they

succeeded in gettin other vessel, the capter finding he had not so visions and water i sons on board, amou. including his own ci his course and saile with the intention. Falmouth. In this was frustrated by winds that prevai beating about for great distress, being the period of their subsist on a biscuit water each man, ar. of pork between tr they arrived at Corl remained out three their situation would most deplorable, for the and water ran so short, man would of necessity limited to a single gla of the latter, and of t there only remained of tire stock about 60lb.

RELIGIOUS FANATIC IMPOSTURE.-There is in the parish of Stavert vonshire, a woman whose is Mary Boon, the wife maker, and, until the 1 three years, a pauper of ti and who has assumed t

Mary Joanna the Lor With the assistance of J a stonemason of the same who appears to be the chi in the business, she has con to procure many followers a.. lievers in her pretensions to communications. By the su which has attended her decept from a pauper she is now bec an affluent person; for, so grea her influence among her followe she has only to say that "t Lord says she must have a cloa a silk gown," or any thing els

small book plate. At last, having worked regularly for two or three days, but wanting a pair of shoes, he asked the loan of money, to buy them, and ten francs were given him for that purpose. Instead of buying his shoes, he went and bought a bottle of brandy; he stayed out all night and all the next day in that evening he laid out the remainder of his money in brandy, and took the road to the river, followed by all the children of the village. Arrived on the banks of the Seine, and having fallen several times in his way thither, he pulled off his coat, took off his cravat and hat, put the bottle to his mouth, and having drained it of the last drop, threw it into the water, leaped in after it, and was drowned. The next morning the body was found by some fishermen on drawing their nets. Only two days before his death, he expressed how happy he was, and how well he lived, having excellent dinners and a bottle of good wine a day for twenty

pence.

28. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. -H. Down, Esq. v. Halling and Others. This was an action for money had and received by the defendants, to the plaintiff's use. Plea, the general issue.-On the 16th of November last, the plaintiff received a check for 50l. drawn in his favour by his brother, Mr. Edward Down, a partner in the house of sir P. Pole, bart. and Co., upon that firm. The plaintiff and his wife were, on the same day, at a shop, in the Burlington Arcade, purchasing some goods. Mrs. Down, who had possession of the check, by some accident dropped it out of her pocket-book. On the 22nd of November, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, a

female came to the shop of the defendants, who are linen-drapers in Cockspur-street, and purchased a shawl and a scarf at the price of 6l., saying she wanted them for a lady. She then tendered the identical check in question, in payment, and desired to have the change. The clerk at the counter having made out a bill of parcels, took the check to one of the defendants, in the counting-house, to consult him about taking it. The latter came into the shop, and observing that the woman was of respectable appearance, he asked her to write her name and address on the check. She said she was a bad writer, and requested him to write it, and he accordingly wrote with a pencil, "Mrs. Jones, Leader-street Brompton," by her directions. He then gave her 447. in cash, and she went away with the money and goods. It being too late that evening to present the check at the bankinghouse, a clerk was sent next morning, between nine and ten o'clock, to sir P. Pole and Co.'s, who paid it with a 50l. note, which the clerk took to the house of Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith, and paid it into the account of the defendants, who banked there. He also paid in other monies, and five checks for different sums. In general, the defendants were in the habit of paying checks received in the course of business, into the hands of their bankers, and not of getting them cashed in the first instance at the places where they are made payable. No notice was given by the plaintiff of the loss of the check until the day after it had been paid by sir P. Pole and Co. The check being afterwards traced to the defendants, the plaintiff demanded the amount of it, on the ground that it had been paid in their own

wrong; and they having refused to repay the money, this action was brought. Upon being applied to as to the circumstances under which the defendants had received the check, they said they had taken it without suspicion. In general, they were not in the habit of taking checks from strangers in payment of goods, unless the parties came in carriages, or appeared otherwise to be persons of respectability, or unless a large quantity of goods was bought. Upon inquiring at the address written on the check, it turned out that no such person as Mrs. Jones lived in Leader-street, Brompton. The question was, whether the action was maintainable.

For the plaintiff it was contended, that the defendants having received the check under circumstances which ought to have excited suspicion, they were liable in law to repay the amount to the real owner, in consequence of their want of due caution in ascertaining whether the woman, who presented it, had a valid title to it. First, the check was taken of a total stranger; secondly, it was over due six days; thirdly, it was brought by a woman who said she could not write, and brought it on behalf of a lady; fourthly, it was presented at a late hour of the day, when it was impossible to make inquiries about it; fifthly, the amount of goods bought was only 6l.; and lastly, the defendants had departed from their usual course, by presenting the check themselves, at an early hour the following morning, instead of paying it to their own bankers. All these were circumstances of suspicion, which ought to throw the loss upon defendants.

the

For the other side, it was argued,

that, as the defendants had received the check fairly and bona fide in the ordinary course of trade, it would be unreasonable to call upon them to refund the amount of it in this action. They were in an extensive way of trade, and had taken every precaution which could reasonably be expected in such a transaction. If this case were to be determined as a question of carelessness, the balance of negligence was clearly on the side of the plaintiff; for, in the first place, it had been loosely carried in Mrs. Down's pocket-book; and in the second, no notice of the loss was given to Pole and Co. until seven days afterwards, when the check had been paid. Indeed, there was no evidence whatever that the check had been, in fact, lost in the manner stated; and, for anything that appeared to the contrary, the check might have been paid away by the plaintiff, and so find its way into the hands of a bona fide holder. On that ground there ought to be a nonsuit.

The lord chief justice charged the jury, that if they were of opinion that the defendants took the check under such circumstances as ought to awaken suspicion in the minds of reasonable men, acquainted with business, in point of law, the plaintiff would be entitled to a verdict. On a former occasion (in Gill v. Cubitt) he had laid down the same rule of law in a case somewhat similar. That opinion was afterwards controverted, but the Court of King's-bench were of opinion that his ruling was right. Trying this case by that rule, they would dispose of it in such a manner as appeared to them to be just and proper.

The jury retired for upwards of an hour, and at length returned a

verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 501.

28. CEREMONIES OF THE CORONATION OF CHARLES THE 10TH. -(Rheims.)—Decorations of the Cathedral Church at Rheims.-A covered gallery is raised, extending from the great hall of the archbishop's palace to the square before the cathedral, under which the king is to pass; this gallery joins a colonnade which embraces the whole façade. From this gallery, which is magnificently decorated, the king enters the church, the nave of which, as far as the entrance to the choir, is enclosed by a barrier breast high, raised between the pillars. The enclosure thus formed is furnished with rows of benches; the pillars are hung with tapestry: from the roof of the church a great number of lustres, furnished with lights, are suspended. The choir is decorated with the utmost magnificence: above the stalls for the prebendaries, is raised an arched basement, on which is elevated a row of columns of the Corinthian order, which surround the choir, the sanctuary, and the pulpit. These columns, which are of violet marble, with golden pedestals and capitals, rest one-fourth on the angles of the galleries, and project before the pillars, on a back-ground of black-veined marble. They separate the galleries, which extend from the pulpit to the sanctuary. The entablatures of this line of columns, with all the mouldings, modillions, and ornamental foliage, which enrich the frieze, are cut in gold, and surmounted by a slab of black-veined marble. In a perpendicular line with the columns are placed statues of children, in dove marble, holding branched candelabras. All the galleries are furnished with seats, in the form

of an amphitheatre. The front of these galleries is formed by a balustrade of white marble, with ornaments of gold. From the middle of the ceiling of each gallery a twelve-branched lustre is suspended. The back-ground between each of the columns is decorated with gilt figures, holding branched candlesticks, furnished with lights.

The arched basement already mentioned as supporting the whole of this colonnade is of dove marble, furnished with strong brackets, and ornamented with golden garlands.

At the entrance of the choir is the pulpit, which is ascended by winding stairs of considerable breadth. On this pulpit the king's throne is raised; and over it is suspended a canopy, supported by four columns, looped with hangings of violet satin, embroidered with gold fleurs-de-lis. The back of the throne is open, that his majesty may be seen by all the persons assembled in the body of the church. To the right and left of the throne, are placed the seats for the temporal and spiritual peers; and at the foot of the throne are the accommodations for the great chamberlain, the first gentleman of the bedchamber, and the grand master of the robes. In front is the seat for the constable, over against which are those of the grand master and keeper of the seals, acting as chancellor; on the right of the king is an altar.

The end and sides of the choir are decorated with a row of columns in a circular form, furnished with seats, forming an amphitheatre, in front of which the orchestra is stationed.

Within the recess of the transom-window in the choir are two large and richly-decorated galleries: