Star. — London, England, 1828-10-30 00:00:00

DUMFRIES. 'Om 2S. SHIPWRECK.—A little before daybreak on %Vednes say morning last, the smack Two Brothers, laden wish cattle from Dmaghadee to Port Nessock, reached the Clonyeard, a little below the new quarries—wind south, and blowing hard. Here, unfortunately, the smack made "too tree witL he land," and on the crew attempting to ease her way, t rudder unhinged, past of the ropes gave way, and the vessel, in spite of every effort, backed in upon the rocks, where she soon became a total wreck. The master and crew reached the shore with great diffi culty, and of the passengers, nine in number, two men unfortunately perished : their names are James Walker and Francis Linning, and both, we regret to sal., have left wives and families t, deplore their loss. One ac count we have seen states that three men perished ; but we trust the lesser number is the more correct. It is supposed they were below, and asleep at the time.— Out of forty head of cattle, only two were saved—a cow and a stirk. On the WO inst. James Wright, gamekeeper to C. G. Stuart Menteatis, E.g. went out to shoot on the beau tiful and extensive estate of Closeburn. His instructions were to bring home, if possible, a brace of every kind of game founJ on the property,and although the weAther was wet and otherwise unfavourable, he bagged in the course of five hours, eight grouse, eight black cocks, four wild ducks, three snipes, two pheasants, and six partridges—in all 31 birds, without ever missing a shot. Four hares were also bagged, and an additional brace of pheasants fired at and killed, though lost among the brushwood or other cover. THE CHASE. Our Cumberland friends intend to fix dick bead quarters at Lockerbie, on Saiarday, the le November, and the matures pre. eently arranged are: For Handykes, on Monday, the sd; Kirk wood. Thursday, the 6th ; and Reese hill, oa Saturday, the Kb-- oath morning at ten o'clock. STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. GLASGOW. Oes. ea. Friday evening. between seven and eight o'clock, as the Highlander steam vessel was passing Loch Craig nish, on her voyage from o.ian to Gl swim, she was run foul of by a sloop or smack, in consequence of which, we are sorry to state, the C •plain or the Highlander was drowned. The two .vessels were going in apposite di. rections; the peo,le on board the Highlander had a light out, and being otherwise gin the alert. they obseived the sloop bearing down on t e steamer. The alarm bell was rung, arid the sloop called to beat ewer ; but the hands in the sloop, either not hearing the alarm, or not at tending to it till very near the steam boat, on a sudden the helmsman of ve sloop a ttnikted to keep her away, hut in the hurry he Rase his vessel a wrong direc tion, which brought her u t , instant collision with the Highlander. The crash was tremendous, aud in con sequence of it the cutwater and the stern of the High. lender were carried away. The greatest alarm pre vailed among the passengers, about one hundred in number, the whole of whom came upon deck, some of them having forced their way from the steerage through the sky light. Captain Johnson, of the High lander, was attending his duty on the quarter deck, and hay* run from thence to the paddle box, giv. ing directions with the view of preventing' the • acci dent, he was standing on the paddle box when t e collision ,took place, and the shock precipitated him' into the sea. Every exertion was made .to save him, by throwing out ropes, and lowering the small boats; but Af the sails • the sloop were kept up while she was tp CinKan, with the Highlander, both vessels were cat rieo away, from the spot, and all their exertions were therefore unavailing. The people in the slonp would not speak 'when called to, and of course it was impossible to learn her name, or any thing respecting her. After endeavouring to save Captain Johnson, and ascertaining that there was no immediate risk to the steamer, the small boat was put off to render assistance to the sloop if she needed any, but none was required. Captain Johnson was a very sober and remarkably at tentive man, and his loss will be regretted not only by the owners of the Highlander, but by the public who frequented the vessel. He has left a widow and two children, to whom his premature death will be irre parable. Extract of a letter from Carthagena, dated 20th Au gust—" Santander is proceeding slowly to Bogota to answer for his crimes, and it will go hard with him, as 'Padilla has mined informer against him. The Presi dent (Bolivar) is making great changes for the better, and every thing will go on well. I natter had a better opinion of Colombia. General Montilla had been ap. pointed Civil and Military Chief if Panania, Cartha• Rena, and Maracaibo ; and Chitty, General Comman dant ti the Naval Department of the same proiinces." A letter from Havre says—" It is calculated that I within three months there have entered into this port and that of Rouen 200 cargoes of foreign corn, which at the rate cf 70 tons the average burden of each cargo, gives a supply of 14,000,000 kilogrammes, or 17,500 hectolitres. It is probable that the quantity of cora imported at other prim, is also very considerable. An acquaintance with these facts is calculated to remove the apprehensions that mar have arisen in the interior of the country relaThe *Mlle deficiency in the late harvest, and the sonsehriences thereof. It is a singular fact, that whilst Englishmen are buying up corn at Rouen arid the environs, Frenchmen are making heavy purchases of corn in Lincolnshire." A lever of the 16th inst. from Bourdeaux, announces that the vintage it nearly finished in that department, and that the quality of both the red and white wines turns out much better than was expected. As to the quantity,the following details ate given —In the Meant there is, in general, a full third less than 'East year; in the product of the hills of our different arrondisse• mints these is a greater or less diminution, according sas the hail or the fill of the grapes spared more or less certain vineyards. In the country of Grav es , w hi c h pro duces superior white wines, there are some tracts which have come off well, and others where the quantity was not abundant, on account of the overflowing of the Garonne this year. - As to the wines of Pales, the pro portionate quantity is not known, bat it seems it will be greater than was expected at the beginning of the vintage.—Galignans's Messenger. Issocvsnr AND Basticaurr.—The great difference between bankruptcy and insolvency is this--If a Bank rupt receives his certificate. he is for ever discharged from all his•debt.; but an Insolvent, when discharged, contracts at the very instant of his discharge, a liability to pay the debt, by a solemn instrument which he signs, and which the creditors have the power of enforcing for ever after. The Insolvent, although discharged by due process of law, when no fraud has been proved against him, is still liable. until the latest period ref his life, to pay his debts in full; the creditors have a right to en force the payment, it ever the Insolvent should have it in his power, in future life, to liquidate their just claims, by bringing him up again from time to time before the Court, which will judge whether he is, or is nos, able to pay his debts tut of his dm) property. THE CATE MAJOIt LAIiIG, Tilt AORIC,OI THAVELLIIIL Tie following biography of this distingtikhed tra• •rlier is abtidged from one compared fur the Edinburgh Adrediser ow Major Alexander Gordon Lain', eldest son of 11r. Wm. Laing, A.R. was horn at Edinburgh the 27th of December, 1794. His father, one of the most popular classical teachers of his day, having for *rally years had an Academy in the New Town of Edinburgh. young Laing received nearly the whole of his education under the paternal roof, and, indeed, all that valuable pot thn of his learning which went to prepare him for the University, he received directly at the hands, or rather we should say from the lips of his father. Under such guardianship, and possessing, as he did, a quick intuitive perception, together with an ardent desire fur the ac quirement of classical knowledge, it might naturally be expected that he would make rapid progress in his aca demical studies, and accordingly, at the early age of 18. he entered the Alma Mater of his native city. The late respected Professor of Humanity, Mr. Christison, per ceiving his taste for literature, frequently took occasion to point to this youth, in the public class, as one whose example it would be for the benefit of all his fellow• students to imitate, though few might aspire to rival him. With the view to habituate him in communicating that knowledge to others which be so eagerly acquired himself, Master Laing went, in his 15th year, to fill for a time the situation of assistant to Mr. Bruce, an eminent teacher in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, whence he returned to Edinburgh, six months after ' and entered upon a similar duty under his father. 4 4 At this period the habits and prospects of the embryo traveller had apparently assumed a settled and determinate form; at least, nothing appeared to be farther from his intention than the active. bustling. and adventurous life of a soldier, or the still more hazardous and arduous employment of a professional traveller in the unexplored regions of inhospitable Africa, amid the hordes nf its selfish,treacherotmand uncivilized Africans. Circumstances. however, occurred which unsettled all his peeconceived plans, and'aroused him to that spirit of enterprise and adventure which characterized his after life. It was his fate to emerge into the world at a time when the profess:on of arms was everywhere blended with that of the civilian; at a time. when it was considered that' every man in Britain was in duty bound to hen a sword or a firelock. and to know how to use them ; and it may be safely said, that nowhere was that feeling more generally acted upon, or that duty better understood. than in Edin burgh, the birth place of Alexander Gordon Laing.— During that rage of martial fever, which few men and fewer youths escaped, Master Laing having attained his seventeenth year, was, like most of his acquaintince, not invulnerable to its attack; he was, in 1810, appointed anEnsign in the Prince of Wales'sSiinburghVolunteers —a corps which certainly had n.,thing fascinating about . it, though it afforded the asecasinnal oppostunity of sporting a military uniform, and of displaying a staid' of colours. This regiment was originally armed with pikes, and although it was afterwards provided with muskets, the men continued to be vulgarly, and rather iionically, 'denominated the pikemen. Captivated with the slight foretaste of military ser vice which the volunteer system afforded him, the ob. ject of this memoir would be a soldier,' and would be nothing else ; he could no longer submit to the restraints, or go through the monotonous routine of school disci pline; he, in fact, now regarded teaching with the most sovereign contempt, and finally gave it up at the termi nation of the second year, the latter of which was doubt less spent in a struggle between duty and inclination, as it was anxiously desired by his patents and relatives that he should not change his profession. Being. how ever. bent upon the military service. he, in the year IEII, went out to Barbadoes, where his uncle, Colonel, afterwards General, Gabriel Gordon, then was, and with whom he remained a short time till he obtained an Ensigncy in the York Light Infantry, which regiment he immediately joined at Antigua, and in two years thereafter he was promoted to a Lieutenantcy in the same corps. which he held until the regiment was in. duced. and Lieutenant Laing was then placed upon the half pay. • i• Having no relish for inactive life, he exchanged, as speedily as the business cobld be negotiated, into the Second West India Regiment, which he joined at Ja maica. While•there he had to undertake the duties of Deputy Quarter Master General, the exertions of which department induced a liver complaint ; and in order to I re establish his health, the Medical Gentlemen mom. mended a sea voyage. He accordingly sailed to Hon disras,by which his complaint was considerabtfedhevid; bist the Governor, Colonel Arthur, finding bias an at tive and intelligent Officer. appointed him to the office of Fort Major. and would not suffer him to return to IJamaica, but bad him attached to another division of Ibis regiment, then in Honduras where he remained until a return of his complaint for ced him to come home, his frame being so much debilitated that be was unable to walk, and it became necessary to carry him on ship• board. • " The effects of this attack made a serious impression on his constitution, and, in consequence, he remained for nearly 18 months with his friends in Scotland.— During this time, however, one-half of the 2d West India Regiment, that to which he was attached, was reduced, and he was again placed upon half-pay. to the autumn of 1819 he returned to London, and having been sent for by the late Sir Henry Torrens, then Colonel of his regiment, was familiarly complimented by him on his former services, immediately appointed Lieutenant and Adjutant, and proceeded to Sierra Leone. "Early in January,lB22, Lieutenant Laing was sent by the late Governor, Sir Charles M4Carthy, on an em bassy to Kambia and the Mandingo country, to ascer tain the political state of those districts, the disposition of the inhabitants to trade, and their sentiments in re gard to the abolition of the slave trade. Having eze• cuted that mission to the complete satisfaction of the Governor, and some alarm having arisen as to the fate of Sannaster, a Chief in amity with our Government, who had been taken prisoner by Yarradee, a war man of the Bing of Soolima, Lieutenant and Adjutant Laing, though his health, which had suffered from the effects of his f .rnser journey, was yet only in a state of conva. lescence, was appointed to undertake a second embassy, for the purpose of proem ing Sannassee's release from cape tivity. On arriving at the camp of the Soolima army, he was infcrmed that the onfortunateSannassee had been set at liberty after his town had been burnt, and that his life bad been spared only from the fear of offending the British Governor. While upon the second mission he had observed that many men who accompanied the m a as my possessed considerable quantities of gold, and having learned that ivory abounded in Soolima, he suggested to the Governor the advantages to the colony of opening an intercourse with these people; that such an attempt would not be attended with much hazard or expense, and that a great object would be attained by the knowledge of many coot• tries to the eastwatd of the colony, which, like dot of t) Soolimas, Was !crown only by name. This suggestion was •uhmitted to the Council. •ho ap proved the andcrtakinq. and left it to the judgment of the traseller t s pursue his own route. He was now as Much a airlontcaer traveller as before he had been a volunteer Officer—nay more se, being in tact al !Owed to prosecute his own enterprise in his own way. This thttd mission, upon whith he set out from Sierra Leone On the 16th If April, 1822, led him to penetrate through a far more extensive track of country than before, much of it s previctsly unexplored, but which is particularly described, together with the inhabitants. their manner:, cu toms, itc. in his highly interesting Journal, published only three yeas since, its publics• Lion having been retarded, first, by his being called into active service during the unfortunate Ashantee war, and subsequently by his being hurried off on his last great enterprise, when he was compelled to leave the superiniendence of its publication to his friend C tram Sabine. ~ " While at Fahtba, upon his third embassy, l'e to ceived intelligence of his ptomotion to the rank of Captain, and immediately .on his return to Sierra L .one, in the autumn of 1822, be was ordered to join his regi ment on the Gold Coast, ahem he wasemployed in the command of a considerable native fOrce on the frewtier of the Ashawee country, and was frequently engaged with detachments of the Ashantee army. Upon the death of Sir Charles M'Caithy in 1824, Captain Laing was sent toEngland to acquaint the Government with the state of Inc command in Africa. At this period he obtained a short leave of absence to revisit Scotland, and.again returned to Lnndon in October, 1824. "An opportunity now presented itself, which out, traveller had long ansiothly desired, of proceeding, under the auspices of Government, on an expedition to discover the course and termination f the Niger. He was now promoted to the sank of Major. and departed from London on that enterprise early in Feb. 1825, with the intEation of leaving Tripoli for Timbuctoo in the course of the slimmer of that year. The kind treatment which he ex 3er ienced from the late Marquis of Hastings. then at Ma.ta, where the Major went on his way to Tripoli, will be in the recollection of most newspaper readers, as the fact of his being repeatedly entertained at the table of the Noble Marquis was noticed in all the publ c journals at the time. " At Tripoli a highly interesting scene awaited him, while at the same time it must have been to himself, and at least one other individual, a peculiarly painful one, both in prospect and in retrospect. In the progress of the intercourse which the Major necessarily had clay with Mr. Warrington, the British Consul at Tri poli. a strong friendship between them was contracted, and it led to a more tender feeling between the Major and the accomplished daughter of his friend. The parties, it will be recollected, were utter strangers to each other but a few weeks before—there was nn time to waste in protracted courtship. and on July 14, 1825 ) Major Laing was married to Miss Emma Maria Warrington. But The eie of their marriage was also the eve of his depar ture upon that mission Irons which he was doomed never to return ! The second day after the nuptials he set out for those vallWs of death wherein all preceding adventurers had found a grave. The bitterness of part ing the object: of recent and romantic passion, under such circumstances, is to us altogether inconceivable ; to the parties it must have been indescribably distressing. We base but a few steps farther to trace. and these lead to the commencement of the traveller's thirty second year; beyond this is a chasm which cuts us off from his tomb. From the time of his leaving Tripoli until he reached Teat. which he was forced to do by a circuitous route. letters were frequently received from him ; the last that reached this country was from that place, under date of the 27th December,lB2s ) the 80th anniversary of his birth. From that time no accu rate accounts were received of his farther progress, and indeed little else was heard of him but vague re ports of his death, with alternately equally vague con tradictions of these reports. Within the last few weeks the reports of his death have been confirmed in itman ner which has removed all doubts of the melancholy fact from the minds of his frieods ; and these but too well authenticated accounts state him to have fallen by the hands of the barbarians, under the murderous Gat of the King of the Potash% to a portion of whose sob , jects he had been known in his previous missions. He is stated to have suffered soon aftet the 21st of Sep tember, 1826." Thursday se'nnight a brown paper parcel, containing a slow fuse, encompassed by brimstone. matches, and tow, which 'had been ignited, but which extinguished itself, 4was di►covered in some straw in the hay lot of 4k. John Holland, of Pevensey, placed there unques dolts-ably for the purpose of destroying it by fire. Last week as a Noble Lord was driving home his carriage from Nottingham, having his greys four in hand, he overtook an old woman, one of his tenantry.' whom be accosted, " Well. young woman, where are yon going?" As her eyes were none of the clearest, she did not recognise him, but said. " Mr. Coachman, can you take me to Bonney r Ask the guard." said he, at the same time giving the footman a significant look. She was put inside, where she soon observed that the coach was very splendidly lined. On stopping, she said, " What a smart coach you've got, I reckon it's one of the London um J what mun I re ye. coachman 7' " Oh, ask the guard," said he again ; he refused to take any thing. and drove off, leaving the old woman wondering at the fine coach in which they took folks for moots Tuesday. in the evening. several shopkeepers residing in Shadwell and its neighbourhood were defrauded of money, by an individual who went into several shops under the pretence of purchasing goods. The following.' is his mode of proceeding :—Upon going into the shop be addresses the person in the shop by his or her name, and order sdiffereut articles. which haloes approves, to be sent to some neighbouring house, which he desires to be in about a quarter of an hour. as he has to call at some other place previous to going there. He has net left the shop many minutes before he retoms in great haste, and invariably asks the loan of 90J. for a me. merit. as he is in want of that sum to make op a put. chase ; this being obtained, the goods are sent as di rected. but the direction proves false, and be never re turns to pay the money borrowed. El these MOMS be has defrauded levers!. An extraordinary measure was taken by the police in Paris on Wednesday morning, regarding sitar or eighty of the clerks employed in the Artival Depart ment at the General Post-office. At the hour when they usually commence their work, a detachment of polite -agents broke into the office and seized all em• ployed in the above division, including M. Jacqueson. who is their chief. In order not to interrupt the busi• aitss, the clerks were conducted by small detachments to their residences, where they were summoned to de• fiver op their papers, family letters, private correspon• deuce, Ike. all of which were seized asd carried of So great was the number of perquisitiont, that it was diffi. cult to procure a Commissary of Police to be present, at eaeb.—Poris Paper. SPORTING INTRLUGEN‘Ii. i 'IT NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOBER MEETING. Nawssa age; Oetoonn Handicap Mate of in for three yr olds and upwards. A.F.. • Lord Yen+lans's b e Hebs, S yrs, Tat Mb .. .. Lord Cavrodisbis Auriphion, 4 yrs. Sot Sib S Mr J. Shelley's b I Rosa* S yr., ist itlb ••• .11 Mr. Aleynell's b e Serf. 4 yrs, est 121 b ••• ... 4 Duke of Richmond'. Alderman. s yrs, sot mdb Won by a neck. Lord Sefton's Pastime Mr. Radcliffe 's Fleter•de-Lls, Weatherley's Tay, Lord Tavistack's Tice Vicar, and Doke of Grafton's Oases, were drawn. Match 300 mos k ft. Sst 71b. rads. A.B. M. Duke of Richmond's Guinan tee. ft. from Mr. Tbenairs Merchant. Fifty Pounds for two yr olds est 71b. and diree. Mt 10Ib. T.I.C. The winner to be sold fur 350 gs. ke. ?.b. Udny's b f Sontag. 3 yrs ... Mr. Guiles e by Borodino. 2 yrs .. Won by a length. .. 1 le Towasir—Fuans Mt PA IMOLAI& Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 son. each. Ad U. Mr. Robert's fby Blacklock. 3 yrs, 710 .. ... 1 i Lord kgremont's &umps, 6 yrs. Mt 1116 ••• ••• • " Lord William's Brocard. 4 yrs, est 76 ••• ... • Betting-4 to 1 apt Mr. Robert's fby Madlock-4 to S nit i t ' Stump. -7 to 4 apt' &.card. The Judge placed but two.-62 paid. At the Bushes, the mot behtg beat off, the coolest lay bm tween the filly by Blacklick and Stumps. the former ru s h e d fam ward, and woo dried , ' by two lengths; rode by Pavia. Fifty Pounds for two yr old, carrying a limber; three, ?et A; tour, 114 Mb ; five, lit 31b; sis, est ?lb; and aged, Set 106.... List three silks of B.C. Mr. Sowerby's b c Palawan, 3 yrs . .. ... a.. 1 Mr. O'Connor's b c Charon. 2 yrs ••• ••• .. S Mr. Henry Symonds's b f Careful, 2 yrs .• ..r. Payee's ch f Urgaads•S yrs ." ••• ... • Betting-100 to 4 aim Paleareo-10 to 1 agst Chars—S to 1 apt Urganda. The Judge placed but threw Nieman, Charon, Careful. and Urgaoda, ran abreast to the Doke's Stand ; Palemon and Charon then sioskd themselves out, and a beautiful struggle ensued, terminating is favour of PAWNS by a length ; rode by Wakefield. Match 100 salmis ft. Sat alb each. A.F. Lord Southampton's Lepanto rev ft. from Mr. Payee's c by Walton. At the nest Datietster ?dealing Mr. Rabissotes b f Mr 011viri is mucked &vitas Mr. Ritmlales eh l by Mgare, fur Soo, k ft. CRICKRT. The following Cricket Match was played this wadi at Kneels.. too Common -Ist limbo. td Innings. Bennett, run out Coggin, b. Banked Wells. stumped Mille 111 dine •• ....erne Ipe••• .116 Beech, c. Calcon MA b. Danford 0 run oat ••• •• .....•............ 1 Wybro, c. ditto ...... Pointer. run out *alley, ditto Hatch. c. Taylor— Hannan, e. Hopkins Williams, not oat SS Kissossos. Ist halm. 1141 innings. BOlas, b. Wells .......14 c. Wybro . ... ...» I Taylor, rim out ... 8 rue out Hanford, c. Harmer 23 b. Beaten ........... ... ..... S G. Walker. stampedPointet 1 b. We 115......... .. ...... ..... 0 H. Walker, b. Wells t 4 ditto ... 1 Smith, stamped Pointer 9 ditto Oakley, e. Hatch.. ...... . 0 b. *neat S Calcort, b. Welk ... ....kb ruts out .. "... S MIKCo a il, •••obb 0 b. wens... ..... •a* ....sow. 0 Wee; b. Wells ...... .. 0 b. Bennett .............. 0 Cantata, Dot out ......" 1 not out Byes A 104 * IClaptes winning by 24 teas. The hatdei in the Ist Wigs ei the Kinston was beautiful ; bet In the 24 it was so dark, they could scarcely we the ball cowards the coadasiaa, sad this se , mats for the groat asasb's of bye*. A few evenings since the cabin of the Hector East Indiaman was entered, and robbed of six valuable watches, and a quantity of plate and jewellery, vatted at upwards of 200 i. Yesterday an Inquest was held at Storey's Gate Coffee. both', on the body of Mrs. Sarah Hurst, aged 49 jean, a respectable widow Lady. It appeared from the elf. dance that the deceased bad pone last Tuesday week to Watling•street, to call on a friend, and in crossing the street her foot slipped and she fell down, and the hind wheel of a waggon, which was passing, went aver her by accident ; her leg was dreadfully lacerated. and met. tification ensued: she died on Saturday. Verdict-- Accidental Death. Suwon, Ocv. 49.—Yesterday afternoon a Coroner's inquest was held at the Darnley Arms, Strood-hill, on view of the body of Silvester Thornley. Esq. who met his death under the following circumstances: Charles Thompson deposed, that in the afternoon of the day previous he was proceeding down Strood•hill, when be saw the deceased on horseback, about thirty yards be• fore him; he was tiding at a slow pace; he saw him suddenly fall from his horse as though he was shot, and the horse gallopped away ; he ran to the assistance of the deceased, who was gasping for breath, and ap. permed as if he were in a fit ; witness raised him up, but he bad ceased to breathe..—Kr. Charles Carrother, sur geon, deposed, be was ►ent for to the Darnley Arms ; the deceased had been dead some time when he arrived there; witness had attended the deceased and his family for some years; witness bad opened the body of the de ceased, and from its general appearance, did not hesi tate to state that the deceased had died from apoplexy. The Jury returned a verdict of—Used by the visitation of Gon. Friday, as the shipwrights were attending the boiling of some plank. in Sheerness dnck-yard, one of then, ei the name of °moon. who was standing on the edge of the kiln, assisting in getting a plank out. slipped into the boiling water up to his breast, immersing oat of bh arms also; he cried for help, and was immediately takes out of the kiln; whe • without any assistance. he threw off his jacket and waistcoat, loo s ened hi s br ace ., an d ra n t i the Dock-yard surgery ; however, he was so dread. lily scalded that he died the next morning—An In. quest was held on the body, when a verdict of ti Acci dental Death" was returned. Tax COSIIMSSION Or • Minipanic— About ten years ago, Brockway, a waggoner. while passing on the Wits ton road, was attacked by five persons, named Foyle, Jennings, Cable, Eyres, and Haut. The three first and the last were identified by a boy as the panics who dragged him out of the waggon and robbed him. Eyres absconded, but was subsequently apprehended, and after a short confinement liberated. The others were sentenced to transpOrtation, and have since returned. Brockway was found in the morning with his head dreadfully bruised. It was intimated at the trial that the unfortunate man must have fallen, and that his death was occasioned by the wheel passing over his bead. This was deemed improbable at the time, and the Judge expressed his suspicions. The prisoners were sent abroad, and nothing further transpired until abwat a fortnight since, when Hunt was taken dangerously ill, and has made a full disclosure of all the circa*. st am's ; the most prominent fact of which is, that after having robbed Brockway, they placed his bead White the•wheel, which passed over it, and caused iambs death. • The -state of Hunt's mind is represented as • dreadful. He takes to himself the act of placsag the bead seder the wheel. incessantly exclaisiergoe This is the aro that did k."—Drek Journal. 1 rf