. . . - Pass Tort Gumn.---T - his festival is perfectly waive, there being no other of the kind in the king esel ; it may be proper, therefore, shnrtly to explain its object and origin. The institution is of the standing of five centuries, and is confirm,nl by char ters granted by Edward II! , Rieliatd I I , and Charles 11., wh e reby the burgesses were anciently enabled to 'mid eer:Mn pleas of land, within their own precincts, and are now required to renew their claims to the rights, privileges, and freedom, which belong to them in virtue of their charter, which franchises devolve every twenty years into the hands of Mayor and Corporation, and be come extinct if not renewed at these periods. It appears from the record of the borough, that there have been ‘.!O Guilds in five hundred years : that in the two first centuries they were held at gular periods, but since that time, beginning with the t:.ign of klenry VIII., they have been cele brated nularly without intermission, every twenty years. In the times when Guilds were instituted, it was lie practice to commit all great affairs, spi ritual and secular, to the guardianship of some particular Saint ; in conformity with this super stition, Preston Guild was placed undtr the patro nage of S!..lolin thr 13aptist, and this King of feasts always begins the Monday next after the decollation of the Baptist. There was tnrmerly in the city of York, and other ancient English cities, a Gilda Mer world, or Guild Merchant, held by Royal Charter, at which it is probable that pageants, similar to those exhibited every 20 years at Preston, were per linmed : but in York this ceremony gave way to the sacred drama of Corpus Christi, performed un nu:* in the public streets by tit.: fraternities of thut , eity, and of which so circumstantial and ex traordinary an account is to be finmd in the Ap pendix to Drake's Eboracum. At Preston, time has diminished nothing of the splendour of this mwient foaival which is enhanced in value by the rarity of its recurrence, and of which the inclinations of the native inhabitants, resident and nun-resident, -dispese them to say estoperpetua. Vie passage-vessels Earl St. Vincent, Parkins, of Southatupton, and Ant, Summers, of Cowes, which have kali!, been in the habit of wearing navy colours, bud their pendants struck on Saturday last by the tide surveyor, on entering Cowes harbour, and no tice given them that a repetition of the offence would subj et each to a penalty of 5001 under the 2d sec. Geo. IV. c 110. Fistiznv.—Before the rising of the moon on Thursday evening last, two scans, belong ieg to Mevagissey, shot upon some brimming fish, and were supposed to have enclosed tuo maunds of pi:el:aids. The next morning, to their great dis appointment, they found the enclosure to consist of from 40 to 50,000 mackarel. Tlw circumstance, however, gave rise to u hope, that a large body of pilchards were not f r oil; particu'arly as some tine fish were taken by the driving bouts on Frit!Ay morning. The expectations of a successful season have been nearly destroyed. The wcather of last week have been very unfavourable, and very few fish have made their appearance in the inoulli of the channel. At St. Ives alone, there uret:inety scans, w:dch for the last six years have occasioned to their owaers a heavy has. A letter from- Marazioa of the 4th September says, there are about thirty scans stloat in the Mount's Bay, which up to the time had not caught more than 350 hogsheads, but that dri:t boats hal been more than usually success ful, hauls;; Luken on an average from Is to hogs sleuth; each.—h'ealer's: Luminary. We are concerned to hear that the typhus fever, which was su fatal at the village of Eigle, near Lin coln, has not been eradicated, but is now equally alarming in the adjoining village of Bassingham— five persons in the latter place have f..;:co victims to it, and others are suffering dreadfully. A great robbery was committed on the Ipswich mail, coming to town, on Thursday morning. A retain inside the coach had the care t,t . property, Irma four difiLrent banks, to the amount of linty thousand pounds, and baring► been obliged to leave the coach for one minute, the bag was stolen. One thousand punnet; reward was offered fur the appre hension of the rubbers. A widow woman named Wilson, at the advanced age of seventy eight years, travelled hum a village in Westmorland, on a visit to her son, who is land lord of the'King's Head public-house, in Mansfield --The distat:ec is Gne hundred and eighty miles, which she per:brined on foot in five days, waking an average of 35 miles per day. CRUELTY TA ANIMALS -A person travellim; lately from Maidenhead to Marlow, saw lylog in a ditch on the edge of a common about two miles from the flouter place, a bull, cruelly beaten about the head, and u fire blazing under him! The dimes made the wretched animal move, otherwise the eb terver would have considele.l him dead. The per son wl:o opened a gate close by, sail:, in answer to the inquiries Made of h;rti, that the bull was ( bsti• nate, and that thy tl.ruyer was r 'uzing hitu up • • - . _>_. ~ 5 .~._. 7 F, DREADFUL AFFRAY AT CIIIPPENHAM. -- At the last Kingtoh-Langley revel, which took Otte settee] ' weeks ago, some 'offence, it appears, was taken by some indi vidual of Langley at the comiuct of some touree men of Chip penbam ; since which time a desire . ... rev-age 1149 been brood iae, and during many a Saturday night there has been slight Skirmishes at Chippenbam between a few of the parties. It was resolved, however, by the [ Angle,' people. that the grand attempt should be made eu Saturday evening the TO Met. when • most barbarous and blood-Marshy coeflirt took place. For this purpose, it is supposed, that thirty or forty men mast have asseuthled during the evening —many, it is con deetured, even hired for the ocearriou ! At shout nine o'clock a purr fellow fell dove- • in a fit near the Bear Imo ; several of the wr. tidies here endeavoured to excite curesion, but no col lision took place ; they did not g'a far enough to provoke a quarrel —it was tee, early, perhaps, for their di:Mae:al scheme. At about half-past ten, however, they f:0111111eSC.d iii au oh acure part of the town, called Tuarber-street, where armed with b!adgeoris, they spared neither man, woman, nor child ! but indiscriminat, ly Oinked all who came in their way. The cry of Murder ! called many from their hods, who, on coming out arid enquiring whet wag the nailer, were immediately knocked down, beaten with sticks, arid trampled ripen. The alarm becoming extender!, mid larger whither* arriving, the assailants retreated to the lower part of the town. By this true, Mr. Moore, of the Duke of Cumberland, the respectable Ili4llConitable arrived, with a view to appease the strife, Ttnt before he could well speak, lie was felled to the ground, on mercifullybeat, and soon after caviled Wine senseless; one I eye was nearly knocked nut, and his body dreadfully cut and bruised. He now lies in a very dietressine state, though free front danger. His toothier was also several time* knocked down, but received no serious injury. Mr. Hull, saddler, was called front his bed by the horrid cries of murder! which now ' proceeded from all parts: and without waiting to put oil his stockings nr Iris hat, he hastened, alainst naked, to render as Ire thought, • hallow creature assistance ; but, within au hour nut a half, after lie went out, he wan, found near the Ivy•bouse in a most deplorable stile, bleeding to death ! scarcely an inch of Iris head free front cut or bruise. Ile was taken home, and expired within a hew hours. His remains were interred in the churchyard at Chipvenliam. Miss Watlield, who keeps a ladies boarding-school near the bridge, hearing a great noise, opened her bed-room window to ascertain the cause, when a large stone was immediately thrown at her, and she was knocked backwards. Mr. Beyaulds, a brazier, was carried home soon after twelve, bruised from head to foot. He was beard praying most piteously for his life. Don't kill me ! don't knit me, Mountjoy ' he said) and I I will give thee a guinea :" but no mercy was shown to him—he died on Tuesday evening. Unfortunately be wan insensible from the time he was wounded to the moment of his death, so • that his deposition, which aright have important, could sot be taken. The wife of Poona, the carrier, in Tonber-street, where the fiends commenced the easy, hearing her husband knocked down at the door, ran out and was imitrintly felled ; and her blow, and she alarm for her husband, who was scarcely risen before he wan beat down again, has had *cell an effect upon her (she being pregnant), that seasons apprehensions are eli te:mined for her life. Mr. 1314111 . 11.41 . 11, the o unstable, was knocked down doling the 'dray, and received a severe contu sion on the brad, and • blow ma one of his ep.s. Janice Roby was rut in a snockin;; urnmer eh out the mouth end ryes ; one eye is closed. In short, there are one and thirty' wen, women, and children, Inure or less wounded! T..e magistrates have been indefatigable in their exertions to get at the perpetrat rs of the above horrid di rs. Imineuse numbers of witnesses have been, an .I a v.:l number more remain to he examined. Ww. Clare, Esq. the Coroner, arrived at Chippenhant, on Monday, about noon, and immediately int paunelled a Jury limn the most respectable inhabitants ofellip r iihain, and its neighbourhood, on the body of Mr. Hull ; they sat in the Town HO mail ten o'clock each night, anti here not Set come to a conclusion ; each witness undergoes the closest examination ; no patios or trouble are spared to sift the matter to lbe bottom. The same Jury will be .worn on the body of Mr. Reynolds. The following persons are already in cnsto‘ly, and warrants have been issued against several others :--llenry Knight and John Matthews, two iespectable formers of Langley Win. Bryant, George Thomas, John Thomas, Titomas Pearce, Charles Elms. Ja ties Isaacs, Jame. Langley, J.ilm Langley, JllllO Moody Wallop. Isaac Musto, Benjamin Salter, Joseph 11:tyly, William 'fanner, William Batten, Philip Cole, John W nod man, John Ailderell, and George Bayley, all of Langley.— They all appeared cureless of their situations when lirst taken into custody, butt their was a very visible alteration in their countenances after they heard of the death of poor Reynolds. The Governor of the New House of Correction, Devizes, is ou the spot, rendering his assistaoce. ~{.• Dtsous - rtNo DimeAetTir.—On Monday last, Ben Candler, late valet to the Doke of Newcastle, WJ6 com mitted to Lincoln Castle, by Sir It. 110,011, charged wilt a nameless offence. o.i the mine day was milted to the same Place, by the Alderman tit Gra on NM, %Villiain Arden, El of Gr. at Virliney-siren, square, London, cliaril.ed wiai the sane idlence; and on Tuesday 'was col:mimed to the Caste, by the Alder man of Goa natant, J. I)oinality, tit Grantham, inner, charted with the saut,e. A discos ery of the ate hle intercourse which mad been carried on, it is stated. was made throne!) the etre 1111 l stance of a le ter from Gran tham, intended tor the tale, at Cliithb:r, but accident ally not addressed oil the outside, f.ilhui into the hands of the I)tike of Newcastle. His Grace, 011 tl.scoee:intt the hatu-e of the contents, procruded with dye caution fur furthering the poriaises justice, 811€1 the cimse quehce has oven the c 1111 l mitustut of the ....we rrsons to Ltucolii Castle fur trial at the next ass•zes. prison committed as an Esquire, was apprehended ht London alter she fist - • In the collets at Grantham. and was broopin down in safe custody in tine of the wa,l-cuaehts on Stionlay morning, the 7th inst. We understand that tte had apartments at Grail thaw during the lest hooting season There is now grins ink i i the ,sarden of a (trlllklll3n belt/114.111g to the atck-yard at Sitterlltlf, a species • I the gourd germs, the seed of Wil1( . 11 .vas heiti.iiit from V(111 Diemen's Land in tbs. Dronerdiey store sivp. h is caded by the natives of the island 7 tyarra. 311(1 nears a beautiful While Rover gourd is in the form id a b.. 11 iii‘, , Sllring ten inches tit Ismaili and him teen he ci - t uniferelice. It is considered as 4 ,(rest curiosity, and prolLilily the only Due that ever art iced to pesisteuen in ill, coo:. try. THE NATIONAL REGISTER *,.-~~ N OLD BAILEY - SATURDAY, SEPT. 1 IGHWAY ROEI Abr.!lt.tual Henry, Hard IN. 1 / 4 43 tudtclr.l lor thomeltitstr SAntutol Dolig , a% EII4III, 0:1 the ii,ny's run! taking Irout tii.rrbott J gold Cil4lll, %AOC 101. 11. t.ro l v•r:y —G.sulty. Tie Recorder udidd.:,d hits to be trativortetl for the onto of ios ortorral Cornelius Beading and John Boyle were indicted for sicatitia a silk handkerchief, the property or flioinas Seartlfield. • .0 Toe theft was clearly proud atainst the prisoner litoy4., who aiimitted it, bitt deelured in his dr.ence twit It , 111•112 had 110116112 to tin with it.. The Joty foinitl both prisoners chilly Tile or r told the Harmers that they might de. prod tot it they %obit' lac sent out of the country. Foact:•.ast —li•etwool afoul. a y it no toast res.' prieuttny aimed was iodic:el for feloniously forging all 111111Orseil.C11t Ili/1)11 a b.enk-piist bill, to. the piyettent of 59'.. with ,strut t, JrtrruJ John Limo liogersoli. ilir the prover-wino, stated the case to. ' tto Jury. Ile Uhl. reed that thisi ea , e retpiirecl rcultar •Iteinoni, hecause It was- one where. if I :r.rsed, In ley could 1101 he est, , ecieil to he re:tooled. Toe poi: • .tsier meted to NI r. Rogerson. the prosecutor, that from lois reap. citable coolie he was able to procare an eli gible sittution under Government, but in Order to set' the machine at wink, it was necessary to hate an advance of SOL prosecutor dictisied making a deposit. on u :licit the prismicr said he might kti.e Iwo a IL, Ilk post hill, which lie could not part with. without his (ruse llolorwilltoll. Conceit hog this to be rquitar, nn the Ist of Mly Mr. linger: 4m repaired to the Batik, and deposited SW. and gate the bill to the prisoner, the in. • ittbseitielit oo which the Indic: meta elsurged - rhe prisolier %so It Itor,;ing. lie would he able to prove in evirh nee, that the In 11 was delivered without itoutosetioent, anti-traee sue • ;co" mem ~r it by the prisoner for a (4 . 41 of 30 . Iq.. 4:1... • Which elitist ittlied the nor-ring; and lie sliOu:tl also be able to bring home tile charge of t ireery to the prisoner. Tile witnes-et fully pros, d the case as stated by :SIT. Bullaud. and alter Justice Bat had slimmed tip the Jury, • alter a short detioeratioii, r. turned a verdict ut Guilty— - Death. ALLEGED CHILI) MURDER. Elizabeth J1M..., 111,1 Jllllll . l urima wre capita!ly dieted for the wiltul murder of a new .urtt male baatarti Mr. Waki field, a surgeon at Smaters Town, sworn— ! wr, called to - ttie Illiauulr .11/11CS, WI/o.told I n c sec ha I Ourll delitrred Of d suibb tit child, aod that wit by the stile ; f the hod. I tiiiiiit it io 31l fly cloth take toaVel. It was dead, 11VJey cold 1 t'XJ itit, e.I it - doeutively, 111/ 111.1. k a.. s ',deuce tin it. It was fill gr.two, and perfect to 1 s aural. 1. 110,%eVrf. 11010 it list J: id 'kg 1131 C 1.1C;II 511.1.1Y1f11. JWICS bald Ilie cisiiil led 110111 hl r as 'she stood by the side of ttte bed. A citii i stititltt bleed to death front bring tti. ttlecte.l. It novo he oil:Oct:Led (root tibmentiott, or *ruts W.llll Of prop, r knowhd,:e. A pariiiia r savor • that he went to Mrs. boos: an I humid a bill Intro to one fir tier ii' wens. Elia Awih i.e at Airs J.olltlll, who 10111 months ago told nee she was 111 the lamely wdy,. :out etigaged we to ottio.e her. I saw her Uus accident, ;bid she dal Slit say when she expected to be b tzln to bed. bite said no lithits6 about bail limn,. our ;lid I ask her. Mr. Justice lticharlson charted the Jory, that 1141C3SC of iteuidcr tiad ore.. inade htll against either 01 . the !m -ilt:um, hot as to Wiielher too fvniale priNtiner had or ii.d not hero guilty of the c 1111 l r of concralineol, was, he thottAitt a (tors for their coosideration. Tor .bury, with rely tittle hentatiou, pronoutteed ar verdict tit out guilty, as aaatit,t both the ;or kotris, mak they wire 1111 l disCillr,rei!. AMLICIOUSLY STABBING: Wil:iato A I.lltis %sat Mulcted :to I, luttioosly and nta llCluuf strootiv.: E itvards wait ialettiolk, • at Eliti.old. oil ille 31 ot with•1114v111. to kil: ao:I • Mohler 111111. 0.11.:r eithiltS Lila the littera l 0 mato. or do 11111 l rO ie ivievoosly b oan u. It apiwareo, 11:111 the lestioitioy hl several WttneSSeS, that tit- priNotaer and Cie lauiecdtur, who here 111:01.r. nig into, lo 'grit w ne;: t otantritig cottages at Eittivld.-- 1.1. tweets to a+lll I I tivluck at tot the J:I of Au gust, Ilse prostcutor heard the vrisuiter and a evwll3ll • with whims hr U pito Itear.aig the cry of '• It: W,41l hwt aud louttd tile tritiaie eta the ground, the 'distiller ill-untig and Leavitt& 11Cr.— tie reutoilatrated with tor ptisoiser upon ha Isoproisli eldritsvi w Mating the *v41(1131110 that na., 31.11 laid his 11.111113 upon ht. shoulder anti pushed hem away Irmo her. Ile prisoner, ill i laird 3U this iisterience. nittandwiely rats Into 111111 ILbother ' S Collage and brought 0411 U Ititcts lurk, MOM he Whiil.l slab the prosecd,of'S eyes out, and with both his llai.d, rut at the pr illOr t all b s force, and out: 111 the Prologs etuered Ills head under the right eye, 11114110i•:reed Mill to the br. 11. lie ti4eta drew out tise lurk and fail 1(10 his Cut:ap. lit prosecutor, who was k against some itii'!oo, recovered liar a twoisent, and rail alter the joisolier attempted to strike hiui, out be,nnitug seitsrltsv, tIC tell. and was carded to his own cottatee, where he reinallied • Insensible 101 anoveiltree weeks, tits despairr.l 111. lie tam swore lie lia.l.comid:tely lust the use 4.f Ills riAitt rye, and Was 41113 1 .1 e lo work in CollSCliorliCe of the airsetS 01 lite Winlll.l 1104111 lIS head. Its tiellied that he had any crania with toe prisuaisr. he case went to the Jury tiourr the iiireellolll of the nest iucloe (Nlr. Baron Cualtalit). and Iltry Minns , C pr4tru.: spailty rt.c.ititiiitrodest eaderes tog It pussilde that sorer orris some pruvueatiutt, the truth of winch tory. cuts.tl taut . ' seerlattl. . It is said vtlctl ccletrity. was luatrik.d last %yea t.) Mr. T. Br.)..(lwtxxl, of 'tat. firm of Broiltivett.d atia Co. nau.i,:di ic,btr.tuttut makers. - rs - - .% 1 % :, ' 't I :it .1.