Star. — London, England, 1824-09-16 00:00:00

ASTRONOMY. M.L. Huzarche has lately invented an equinoctial. astronomical dial, which tells the hour in all parts of the world. By the mobility of its gnomon, and its cir cular construction, every observation can be made with it, connected with solar and lunar astronomy. -7-News of Literature, 4c. TO BREATHE FIRE. Isolate electrically a large shallow dish, and then electriry the water strongly. If while this is going on, a person, having wetted his month, breathes towards the water, standing about a foot from it, he will, to the spectators, have the appearance of breathing fire, and may, if he be so disposed, play the devil Zarnicl, in the Freysehutz, or persuade the credulous that he is a ma gician —Vie Ckentist. NEW YELLOW DYE. A chemist of Copenhagen has discovered a brilliant yellow matter for dying in potatoe•tops. The mode of obtaining it is by cutting the top when ►t ►s in flower, and braising and pressing ►t, to extract the juice. Linen or woollen imbibed imthis liquor 48 hours take a fine, solid, and permanent yellow colour. If the cloth be nfierwards plunged in a blue dye, it then acquires a beautiful permanent green colour.—The Mirror. \ - P. ise -a. APPLE-BREAD. A very light, pleasant bread is made in France by a mixture of apples and flour, in the proportion of one of the former to two of the latter. The usual quantity Of yeast is employed as in making common bread, ;and is beat with flour and warm pulp of the apples after they have boiled, and the dough is then considered as set: it ib then put in a proper vessel, and allowed to rise for eight or twelve hours, and then baked in long loaves. Very little water is requisite ; none, generally, if the apj.les are very fresh.—lbid. A HINT TO HORTICULTURISTS._ Common salt effectually destroys slugs and snails, so destructive in most gardens ;so inimical it to them, that it not only immediately deprives them of life, but in a very short time entirely dissolves them.—lbid. NEW PAPER. A new kind of paper is stated to have been invented in France, which is made of a composition that re-, sembles a preparation of the finest quality of rags, and is readily converted into a pulp, without the employ ment of any kind of machinery. The material, it seems, can be provided at so theap a rate, that it is estimated its whole cost, including the expense of manu tncrure, will be less than sixpence per pound. The in. yenta, however, keeps the nature of the composition a secret, and the merits of it are as yet all matter of assertion.--Mechrmie's Magazine. EFFECT OF OXYGEN ON GLOW-WORMS. It i 3 an interesting experiment (says Mr. Parkes) to place a glow-worm within a jar of oxygen gas in a dark room. The insect vtill shine with much greater bril liancy than it does in atmospheric air. As the luminous appearance depends on the will of the animal, this ex prriment probably affords an instance of the stimulus which this gas gives to the animal system. EDECTRICITY BY WATER FREEZING. When water is frozen rapidly in a Leyden jar, the outside coating not being insulated, the jar receives a feeble charge, the inside being positive and the outside ilega:ive. If this ice be rapidly thawed, an inverse result is obtained; the inside bec.nses negative and the outside positive. M MICA I. BAROMETER. A Gentleman at Burkil, by the name of Ventain, not far from Basle, -in Switzerland, invented, some yeas ago, a sort of musical barometer, which has been called in. German teetterharfe (weather harp), or riesen harfe (giant harp), which possesses the singular property of indicating changes of the weather by musical tones.— This Gentleman was in the habit of amusing himself by shooting at a mark from his window, and that he might not be obliged to go after the mark at every shot, he fixed a piece of iron wise to it, so as to be able to draw it to him at pleasure. He frequently remarked, that this wire gave musical tones, sounding exactly an octave, and he found that any iron wire, extended in a direction parallel to the meridian, gave this tone every time the weathei changed. A piece of brass wire gave no sound, nor did an iron wire extended east and west. In consequence of these observations, a musical barometer was constricted. In the year 1787, Captain Hans, of Basle, made one in the following manner:— Thirteen pieces of iron wire, each 320 feet long, were extended from his summerhouse to the outer court, crossing a garden. They wee placed about two inches apart; the largest %%ere two lines in diameter; the smallest only one; and the others were about one and a half. They were on the side of the house, and made an angle of 20 or 30 degrees with the hcrizon. They were stretched and kept tight by wheels for the pur pose, Every time the weather changes, these wires make so much noise that it is impossible to continue concerts in the parlour, and the sound sometimes resembles that of a tea-urn when boiling, sometimes that of an harmo nica, a distant bell, or an organ. In the opinion of the celebrated chemist, M. Dobereiner, as stated in the But. letin Technolagicue, this is an electro-magnetical pheno. rnenon. Do any of our Readers know of sucl: an instru ment having ever been tried in Li; itain Chen:Lt. The LORD CH A NCELLOR has bagged a number of birds this season. He is an excellent shot, and is always early in the field. Slur CoLustaus.—As we think that whatever con cerns this vessel must be interesting to our Commercial Readers, we offer no apology for presenting them with the following eight and dimensions of her ground tackle:— Tins. re I.frs.l6s. I chain cable, 2 in. diameter, 120 fathoms . 11 9 0 6 I chain cable, 2 in. diameter, 120 fathoms . 11 7 220 anchor for chain cable, Mews. 1 qr. 271135. t 4 3. 3 10 Shackle therein, 3cwt. 1 qr. 1 Ilbs. Thirty years ago it was thought quick travelling from London to Oxford in 20 hours, but twice last 'week the Magnet Cheltenham . coach performed the journey from Cheltenham to London (a distance of 100 miles) in eight hours and a half, with a full load, in cluding a stoppage of 25 minutes for breakfast Letters were anciently fastened with.wax and ravelled silk, as late as 1595, and continued until 1678. One from Christine Il."of Sweden, to Charles 11. Sir John Cullum says he saw so seemed. This custom is men tioned by Shakspeare, in his Lover's Complaint: " Letters sadly penn'd in blood, With sleided silk, feat and affectedly, Enivrath'd and seed to curious secrecy." OUTRAGES IN CORSICA. The Journal of Corsica furnishes a series of crimes : " On the Sd of August, after a disturbance which took place at Paggiodimorians between two brothers, Bastien and Martin Albertini, both labourers and of the same commune, the latter killed the former with a hatchet by two blowy on the kead, and then stabbed his sister in law with a stiletto in the groin. The assassin afterwards fled. " On the 13th of the same month the wife of Sieur Antoine Ercole, an inhabitant of Bastin, was sitting be fore the door of her house with a soldier, who was pre sumed to be her gallant, when her husband ordered her to go in. The woman, seeing that, upon her refusing, her husband would force her to obey him, immediately rose, and baying a carving-knife in her hand, gm him three stabs, by which he was severely wounded. " On the 16th of the same month, one Sicche, of St. Margaret, in the Duchy of Genes, having embarked iu an opeb boat, reached the island of Rousse, in company with a friend named Galinna. Sicche now asked for some supper, when Galinna requested him to accom pany him to the Custom-house. Sicche here repeated his request, upon which Galinna, who seemed to be sporting with his carbine, said—' Ilere is what I have to give you to eat!' The unfortunate Sicche tried to turn away the muzzle of the piece, but ineffectuAly ; it went off, and the ball passed through his body. It Ap peared, however, the wound was not mortal ; the crimi nal, who took to flight, is pursued." JEMMY DAIVSON. Shenstrne's pathetic and affecting ballad of " Jemmy Dawson" has drawn tears fiom every person of sensi bility, or possessing the feelings of humanity ; and it will continue to be admired as long as the English lan guage shall exist. 'This ballad, which i, founded in truth, was taken from a narrative first published in the Parrot of the 2J of August, 1746, three days after the tiansaction it records. It is given in the form of a let ter, and is as 1,11ows: " A young Lady of a good family and handsome fortune had for some time extremely loved, and was equally beloved by Mr. James Dawson, one of those , unhappy Gentlemen who suffeted on %Vedoesday last, at Kennington-common,for high treason; and had he either been acquitted, or have found the fop, me:cy after condemnation, the day of his enlargement was to have been that of their marriage. 44 I will not prolong the narrative by any repetition of what she suffered on sentence being passed on Trim ; none, excepting those utterly incapable of feeling any soft or generous emotions, but may easily conceive her agonies ; beside, the sad catastrophe will be sufficient to convince you of their sincerity. " Not all the persuasions of her kindred could pre vent her from going to the place of execution ; she was determined to see the last of a person so dear to her, and accordingly followed the sledges in a hackney coach, accompanied by a Gentleman nearly related to her, and one female friend. She got near enough to see the fire kindled which was to consume that heart she knew was so much devoted to her, and all the other dreadful preparations for his fate, without betraying any of those emotions her friends apprehended ; but when all was over, and that she found he was no more, she threw her head back into the coach, and ejaculating. "My dear, I follow thee ! I follow thee ! LORD Jaws ! receive both our souls," fell on the neck of her cam panion, and expired the moment she bad done speaking. " That excessive grief which the force of her resolu tion had kept smothered within her breast, is thought to have put a stop to the vital motion, and suffocated at once all the animal spirie-." - In the Whitehall Evening Post, of August 7th, this narrative is copied with the remark, that " upon in quiry every circumstance was literally true." A ballad was cried about the streets at the titre, founded on this melancholy narrative, but it can scarcely be said to have aided Sheostonein his beautiful pt odoction. Last week a ship was taken on a slip in Plymouth Dock-yard—lifted on Sir Robert Seppings plan, her old false keel taken out and a new one put in and fast ened, befote the teflowing of the tide ! Dr. Dartwtx, one day at Nottingham, assembled a large crowd round him, and standing upon a tub, thus addressed them : " Men of Nottingham, listen to me. You are ingenious and industtious mechanics. By your industry, life's comforts are procured for yourselves and 1 - amines. if you lose your health, the power of being industrious will forsake you. That you know ; but you do not know, that to breathe fresh and changed air constantly, is not less necessary to preset ye health than sobtiety itself. Air becomes unwholesome in a few houts,-if the windows are shut. Open those of your sleeping-rooms whenever you quit them to go to your workshops. Keep the windows of your wdrkshops open, whenever the weather is not insupportably cold. I have no interest in giving you this advice. Remember what I, your countryman, and a •physician, tell you. If you would not bring infection and disease upon your -elves, and to your wive; and little ones, change the air you breathe, change it many times a day by open , ing your windows." At an Indian wedding in the Philippine Islands, the ' bride retired from the company, in order to go down to the river and wash her feet. As she was thus em ployed, an alligator seized her. Her shticks brought the people to the place, who saw her between the monster's teeth, and just drawn under water. The bridegroom instantly plunged after, with his dagger in his hand, and pursued the ravisher. After a desperate conflict, he made him deliver up his prey, and swam to shore with the body of his dead wife in his arms. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Stn—For some time past reflections injurious to our reputation have very frequently appeared in the" Medical Adviser." The Proprietors of that work, sensible that they have been grossly imposed upon, have published an address to their Readers, in the last Number, wherein they make the " amende honorable." 'l he following are extracts from that Address (Vide No. 42): " We have now to express our regret that we have been the means of giving publicity to that, which subsequent inquiries have convinced as was unfounded. We are now speaking of all thorn parts where allusions have been made to Messrs. Goss and Co. &aerie -street, Fleet-street. " The allusions made to the professional claims of that firm were made from information we had received, that the Gentlemen con ducting it were not regular practitioners. Subsequent inquiries have convinced us, that such information mast have been given to impose upon us—indeed we have much pleasure in stating, that they are Members of the Royal College of Surgeons, and that their professional education has been regular and liberal." Anxiety to rescue our character from undeserved re proach, must plead our excuse for requesting an early insertion of the above ; we remain, Sir, your obedient Servants, G 033 & Co. Surgeons. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. . MANSION-HOUSE. A porter of Mr. Lee, a hardwareman in the City, Was lsronght before the Lora Maros, upon suspicion of having stoke a parcel, containing bilis of exchange for upwards of XlsO, and also of hay ing forged a receipt in the mune of the proprietor of the Swan with Tivo Necks, in Lad-lane, for the parcel. Mr. Lee stated, that he had several days ago sent the prisoner to the Swan with Two Necks Inn with a parcel, containing bills of exchange tothe abovementioned amount, and directed to a Gentle-I man in Birmingham. The parcel had not been duly received, and had not been heard of since it was delivered into the prisoner's bands. Upon the file of the prosecutor's once was fixed a piece of paper, purporting to be a receipt for the parcel, and with the signature " Waterho" to it. The clerk at the Swan with Two Necks denied, upon being shown the paper, that any part of the writing was his, and it did not ap pear from his books that any such parcel as the prisoner was en trusted with had been received in the booking-once on that day. The prisoner, upon being suddenly questioned as to the writing on the paper, appeared greatly confused; at first he said it was not his writing, and afterwards that it was, with the exception of the abbreviation of the name of Mr. Wm.:thous., the proprietor of the inn, which he asserted was written by Mr. Waterhouse's clerk. The Loan Maros gave directions to Mr. Cope, the Marshal, to make further inquiries, and the prisoner was remanded. Earn:siva Itosasse.—Mr. Alderman Thompson, accompanied by Mr. Stanley, of the firm of Hawker and Stanley, came to the Justice.room to complain of a very serious robbery which had been committed on the premises of the Latter Gentleman, in Duck's-foot lane. We understood the Alderman to express his opinion, that the circumstances did not reflect any credit on the vigilance f the watch and ward officers of that district. The warehouse and pre mises were left strongly secured on Saturday night, and on Mon day morning it was discovered that they had been entered, and robbed of hills and negotiable securities to the amount of 41,000, and 40 sovereigns. Mr. Brown, the Marshal, said the robbery had evidently been committed by experienced thieves. Several serious robberies had been committed upon premises which had been left uNuarded, as was the case in the present instance. The impression of a front dour lock was speedily taken, and when a key fitted, admission was instantaneous. W ken thieves got in on Saturday night, they often remained on the premises the whole of Sunday, packing up for Monday ntor ll ill g, when a coach drove up after the departure of the watch, and received the thieves and the plunder. The Lotto :11). you gave the Marshal some directions on the sub. ject: Four thousand pounds, in Navy bills, were kft ur.touched. GUILDHALL. A very elegantly-dressed female, apparently abbot 30, who stated herself to be Mri..444 Fwid, the wife of a, cattle jobber, was brought up yesterday before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Sumer, on toe charge of having defrauded one Isaac Hicks, a farmer and grazier from Wialsech, in Cantbridgeshire, of the sum of five hundred pounds. The prosecutor, a plain-looking countryman, apparently old enough to be the pi iioner's father, contented himself with saying that she had asked him for the loan of X5OO to redeem some money that she was to get out of Chancery : that be was desirous of assist ing her to obtain this property, and bad accordingly furnished her with a draught upon Meurs. Fuller and Co. to that amount. That he waited at the Goose and Gridiron, In St. Paul's Church-yard, while she went to get the money, and on her return be allowed she 'hewed him the notes, and alio a paper upon which she had taken down the numbers of them. They then walked together to South amptonsbuildings, Holhorii, where they went into a tavern to take .some refreshment, and while there, she pretended to miss the notes, and still persists that she has lost the whole of the money. He bad , since ascertained that she had no money to redeem out of Chan-1 cery, and he therefore concluded that the whole story was a trick to defraud him of the property. The prisoner, who is a woman of much personal attraction, seemed perfectly at her ease under the accusation. She declared that the complainant (who, by the bye, has a wife and family in the country) had deluded her away from her husband, and that she had been living with him as his wife, ever Minx last Easter-day was twelvemonth. She, however, omitted all mention of the money that she was to get out of Chancery ; but she was extremely sorry fur the loss, and she was willing to try if she could raise him any money to supply a part of it. Mr. Alderman Seminar observed he was extremely sorry, but it was wholly out of his power to afford the complainant any relief. Ile had parted with the money to the prisoner voluntarily, and whether she had imposed upon him in the first instance, or whe ther site had really lost the notes or rant, there was no criminal of fence in the transaction of which lie could take cognizance, and the prisoner was accordingly discharged. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Samuel Lloyd, in eMetly man,armis charged, with embemleinent. The primmer had bcevo a clerk in the employ o/ Mews. Grading and Broatiweidd, the ale-brewers, of Broad -street, Golden-square, to at tend the.drays. It was proved that on the 10th July, he received a sum of Sit. 10s. front a person named Franklin; on the 12th of July, 201. from a Mr. Caley, on account of .15/.•and in November last, 51. 10s. from Mr. Duggan. These sums Mr. Iluggings, one of the clerks, raid had not been accounted - for by the prisoner. Mr. Gotliug arid, that a number of similar charges could he made out to the amount of 200/. In Mr. C.'iley's case, the 201. had been paid to the prisoner's wife, and that charge could nut therefore be proceeded M. Upon the others he was committed fur trial. ~..y~ t M 111.11tY-1..-1-BONNE. A Roman Catholic Priest, who stated himself to be the Rev. Michael Goegliagen, was charged with a robbery of a very trilling nature, which he admitted. On searching his pockets, the con etable found a printed paper, and several letters couched and written in an elegant style, front the prisoner to the Nobility, soliciting their aid for the purpose of finishing a chapel and school-house, in the parish of lldlyslarens, Ireland. lie had testimonials from the Rev. I'. Walder, Bishop of Killala, Ballina, &c. and the Rev. Pa• trick Reilley, the Rector-General, which certified that he was a Clergyman, of " tried prudence and integrity," and declaring that the chapel, &c. was partly commenced, but from the want of means, could not be finished, therefore an appeal was made to the known liberality of the British nation. Added to these, was the' following : " We have received a letter from a highly respectable friend of ours in Dublin, with a copy of the annexed printed document, re commending the Rev. Mr. Goughagan, the bearer, and requesting us to forward the object of his journey here, which, we believe, to be most deserving of encouragement. (Signed) " Viscount DILLON; Nerot's " Dowager Viscousness DILLON, Fitzroy-square. " Dated July 24, 1824." In addition to this, was a similar certificate, strongly recom mending such a subscription, from Owen Galaher, Esq. of Red Lion-square, and 3lartin Flowers, Esq. of Eagle-street. The defendant stood leaning on his arm in the bar, evidently la bouring under great agitation. On being required by Mr. Gate- Pints to account for his conduct, he, with a sigh, exclaimed, in Latin," Oh, LORD ! make haste to help me !" and continuing, said, he had an illness in his head, and when he committed the crime, he was reduced to the extreme of poverty; but he was sorry for what he had done, 4nd if his repentant prayers were refused, he was shut out from society. He was also charged with stealing anothsr man's hat, but he said he intended making a reparation , when he had paw ned the goods.—Mr. Garrerrus said, that he mast act upon the facts before him, and commit him for trial _ _ The p►isoner said be was sorry for ft, but as little mercy was shewn to the unfortunate on this earth, he hoped to receive it here after from the most Moo Jumr, before whom all will stand. Hurley and Lowry, the constables, said he was prevented from officiating as a Clergyman, being excommunicated for drunkenness. On the clerk calling on some of the witnesses to enter into the recognizance, to prosecute, the Irish character forcibly presented i:self, as Lowry exclaimed, " Me prosecute ! by the HoLv FAMES I will not prosecute a Priest," and ran out of the office. However, the othtrs were bound over. UNION-lIALL. Txs Mutant AT BUIEEMIAPL.—Yesterday, Throat Cbounks, the man charged on suspicion with having shot James Morgan, at Langley Park, near Beckenham, on the 15th of August, was brought before L. B. Attair, Esq. and a full Bench of Magistrates. Mr. Goodhart, the employer of the unfortunate man who was shot, attended. Mr. Atten inquired what further evidence was now to be adduced? Mary Wright Lawrence, the woman with whom the prisoner co habited, was assisted into the office. She is a young woman of ra ther interesting appearance. She appeared to be much agitated, and cried bitterly un seeing the prisoner, who said to her, as she was passing close to the slip in which he was placed—" D on't cry, my dear Mary; you have nothing to fear, and I am sure I have nothing." The oath was then administered to her, and she made the following confession, which we give in her own words; • Mary Wright Lawrence, a single woman, of No. 12, Taxes buildings, Kent-street, stated as follows lived with Coombs since the 22d or 23d of July. I met him at Deptford, 15 or 18 months ago, when I was lodging at Mr Mrs . Grady's, Mill lane, Dept ford. lie has lodged there for nearly three year& The prisoner promised to awry me, and on the 6th of April the banns e "ne • put up in St.Georie's Church, where they were published an the three following Sundays. I lived with him nearly a week at that time,when be went into the country, saying. he would be back in a fortnight ; but he did not return. I lived at Mrs. Grady's for a month after, without seeing or hearing anything of him. The next time I saw him was about the 17th of July, when be again came to Nlrs. Grady's, where I had returned to lodge. He asked me if I was in the same mind to have him then ? I said, he bad used me ill, in leaving me. However, I agreed, after some persuasion, to marry him, and came up for that purpose on the 924 or 23d of the same month, but found I could not do so without the banns being re. published. I then lived with him at Leodsy's lodging-house, No, 12, Taxes-buUdinp, until the time of his apprehension. I remem ber the Sunday before the murder; the prisoner was not front home ,he whole of the day, except at the White Bear, in Kent_ streel, to fetch some beer. I remember the day very well, for i t was a very rainy one, and my mother and two sisters came to dine with us at Lendsy's. They all stayed together until after dark, when my mother and sisters left us, and the primmer and I shortly after went to bed, and he got up the next morning abort seven o'clock. The same day the prisoner dined at home with me, about two o'clock, and he went out directly afterwards, and took a bagging-hook with him, and told me he was going t o a „ elation of his, a master gardener, who lived about four miles on the other side of Eltham, and told me not to expect him home that night, if be was not back by eight o'clock. Ile returned the following morning about eight o'clock with the bagging-hook ; his coat was torn in the arm. My mother was with me at the time. Ile toll me he had been at Sevenoaks. I poked him bow his coat became broke? be said it was a good thing his neck was not broken. To t prisoner then laid himself down on the Boor, and I put the blanket over him. He laid there till tea-time, when he got up, and after wards laid down again in the same place until nearly day ; he dun got up, and sat by the wit.davr. He said," Mary, Direr et( t a man." I said, " Oh, my Goa! what did you do that for ?" He said," If I had not done it, he would have shot me. I did not hurt him, I only blowed a little powder in his face." Witness again said," What did you du it for ?" He replied," The man was running after me, and I only Wowed a little powder in his face to blind him, that he should not see which way I was going." On the Friday afterwards the prisoner went to Camberwell Fair. In his absence my aunt came to me, and told me that a Gentleman's gardener bad been murdered ; and that be had been shot; but she could not tell where it happened. 'lite prisoner came home before eight o'clock that night ; I told him what my aunt had mentioned to me, when he replied, "Thank Gun, I did nut do it; and them that did," he sup posed, "did it in thir own defence." I then asked hint where he had been on the Monday night? Ile said, at Sevenoaks. Says I, you told me you were going to your relations at Eltham. He told me he did not go there. I said, it is very curious about this mur der, that you should be out that very night, and stated my uneasi ness. Ile told me I had no occasion to make myself uneasy about it—that I could do him no harm. I then reminded him of what be had told me about shooting at the man; when he told me, that it I ever mentioned it to any person in the world he would shoot nee. I told him I would never say anything about it. He never slept at home aftei that night; he used to come home in the day time. On the Monday before he was apprehended, he left me, and I did not see him again till he was taken away as a prisoner trorn Union-hall on Thursday last. There was only one man in the habit of coming to see the prisoner, whose Christian name is Richard, but whose surname I do not know ; he came twice, two days suc cessively, about five weeks back." Witness added, that she thinks he was a sailor - but she could not speak positively to that fact. During the t ime the above evidence was read over to the prisoner, his face, which is naturally of a pale and sallow hue, became fiushrt!, and he wiped away the perspiration, which was profuse on his fort head, with the tails of his coat. When the Magistrate had finished reading it, he asked the prisoner whether be wished to put any questions to the woman? The prisoner replied, " What use is there in my 'putting any questions to her ; she has sworn to it, and I suppose her oath n.ll be taken before mine." Sarah Lawrence, the mother of the last witness, was then exa mined. She stated, that tin Tuesday, the 17th of August, she came from Islington to see her daugh•er, who lived with tha prisoner in Fox's-court. When site went, she asked her daughter where Tom was? she said be was out. In a shirt time the prisoner came in, with his coat torn in the arm. Witness offered to mend it, but he answered ber very crossly. Witness heard the prisoner tell her daughter, when she remarked that his coat was broke, " that it was. wonder his neck was not btokeu." Witness went with her daughter to pledge a shawl to get the prisoner a breakfast ; we then at down, and the prisoner appeared very melancholy during the whok time we were at breakfast. The prisoner's cost was here examined, and the rent which was spoken of by Mary Lawstnce and her mother discovered in it. Isabella Lawrence, a daughter of the last witness, stated, that she was at her sister's, who lived with the prisoner, on the 15th August; the prisoner was at borne all that day. Matthew Itiely stated, that he lodged at Grady's, its Mill-lane, Deptford, where the prisoner also lived a short time since. About the 17th or 18th August, witness met the prisoner, about five o'clock in the morning, on the road between Bromley and London, a short distance from the former place. %Vaultss spoke to the prisoner, but he did not a nswer him at first ; he then asked the prisoner what he was doing in that part of the country? The prisoner replied, that be had been at work in the neighbourhood of Sevenoaks, and that he came from thence that morning, and was proceeding on to town. !Hely added, that the prisoner appeared to be much confused when he was in conversation with him. Mr. Tyler, a farmer of Ekham, stated, that on the 29th of July, a neighbour of his informed him that he bad been robbed of some canvass in the night; they were subsequently informed that a taU M4ll had been observed to come out of a wood, near Elthain, at an early ►our on the morning the canvass was missed ; they accord. ingly proceeded them, and in an unfrequented part of it they found a quantity of black grapes, which were covered over with some twigs; and near the same spot they discovered a bag, in which was a gun that was charged with shot, slugs, and pebbles. Witness added, that he and another Gentleman watched for two nights running, in order to detect the person, who would, most probably, come for the things, but the party did not come. The man who informed the last witness of his having seen a per. son coming from Westwood, at an early hour in the morning, attended. Hr stated, on looking at the prisoner, that he was the very man whom be had seen. A pattern of the canvass which had been stolen from the Gentle. man at Eltham was here produced, and it exactly corresponded in quality with a pair of canvass trowsers which the prisoner now wore. The woman with whom the prisoner cohabited was asked whether she had made any canvass masers lately for him? She replied, that she had, about the latter end of July. Hall said, there were other material witnesses down in the coun try, whose evidence would be requisite. The Magistrates, after some consultation, remanded the prissier for another week. Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, a meteor was seen at Stratton-on-the-Foss, travelling from north to south, and was lost sight of in the distance over Mendip Hills, after being in view for 45 seconds. There is at present growing, about SW yards from Ravensworth Castle, an oak tree in full foliage, in the hollow trunk of whi ch nine men took shelter from a shower of rain during the late mowing season. REPENTANCE.—A respectable shopkeeper of Sand. gate, Newcastle, had the misfortune to be robbed of his watch, when he was apprentice to a shoemaker .in that town. It was through intoxication. He made every endeavour in his power to recover it, but in vain; he even offered a reward, and met with no success. He heard no more of it until a few days ago, when it was sent' to him by the Hexham carrier, in a small parcel, carefully directed, and enclosing a brief anonymous note from the delinquent, saying—" This, Sir, is the watch I robbed you of at Hexham, above 20 years ago." Ships at Market. 47 Newcastle 11 Sunderland Ships Sold. 381 11 Price. 294 Od to 36, 34 30$ Od to 391 6d hi A 118. -' . AIM Mi. 1 0 1 0 O 0 O 0 O 0' O 0 LIS DAL. 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