We understand Mr. Payne K...
We uuderstand Mr. Pay:e Knight has ibequeathed his matchless collection of medals, drawings, and bronzes, worth at least 30,0001., to the British Museum. They indude a single vo- lumne of diawings by the inimitable Claude, which we recoUect Mlr. Knight purchased for 1,6601. from a private individual, who a sbort tine prenously, had given 31. for the same volume. Mlr. kni&ht's general library is by no means particularly distinguished for either rare or splendid works.-Evcningpaper. CoummITMENTS TO PRISON.-In jutstice to the Magis- trates at the Policc-office, Union-hall, it ouFht to be stated, that although the return of commitnments for the county gaol of Surrey is numerically correct; yet that many of the commitmaents were or acts of vagrancy, charges for disorder, and bastardy before birth, for want of sureties, in which cases to bills would or could be preferred; and in other instances for common as%aults and misdec meanours, for want of sureties, likewise, in neither of which cas- a were the prosecuting parties bound over, and consequently used their own discretion as to preferring bills of indictnent betore thnc grand jurv at the assizes or sessions. Tlhe only way to arrive at a fair estimate would be, to select only the commitments for felony where the parties are bound over to prosecute; and by leaving out aUl other commitments, it would be fbunid that the sluniberof bills fnund upon the several commitments for felony, and convictions thereon, will be comparatively equal with those of any other police. office including a dis'ict so extenaive and populous.