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+} 7 }T ;~ •,- ~' 't. " A . • A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In the time of our youth, when the day and Ihit hour ' For laughter and frolic comes round with the year— When the pledge in the wine-cup redoubles its power, And brighter the eyes that we worship appear ! Now sweet, to remember our sorrows no more, And a while to disport in the gay title of mirth, Like the larks, with the first blu4h of Summer that soar, And start from their cold beds of clay on the e ! Then farewell to reflection—hail mirth and good cheer— Let the Winter of care sink in Summers of smiles -llay a Christmas of mirth, and a jovial New Year, Throw their halo of pleasure in light round our Isles ! Ah ! little they knoW, in the far foreign clime, Of the women of England, who say they are tame; Fur their hearts, like the sun tl6t is changeless by time, To the bosoms they love are for ever the same ! Hand in hand then unite;to each lip pass the bowl, " The bright days of Albiun" be still our lov'd toast ; While each heart the wine cherishes dwells on the soul That beams from the eyes of the girl he loves most ! Then farewril, &c. Swift, swift pass the dance, and high raise the song, 1,..t each bosom beat with the bound of the roe, While the stream of festivity bears us along, And the zephyrs of joy and delight gently bloW ! Those we love, by our side—those we hate, far away-I-. :Ally no speck on the fir tide of pleasure be seen ; But may Fancy wreath garlands of gladness to-day, That each coming season may findrerer green! Then farewell, &c. • Dec. 29,1824. KIT. COURTWELL. DUMFRIES, DECEMBER 28. Christmas Day, the water accumulated to soar a depth on a morass near New Cumnock, is Ayrshire, that the public road which passes• through it, although raised on an artificial mound, left no indication of its existence visible, except the ledges. of a bridge which seemed to rest on the surface of the new-formed lake ; and when .the Independent and New Tines coaches reached this dangerous spot, they were fain to avail themselves of the security afforded by a guide preced ing them on foot. At Anldgirth-bridge, the road was also immersed by the overflowing of the Nith, an event which has not occurred for many years before. Lower down, after this river had received the tributary streams of Scar, Cairn, Cluden, &c. it rose to an alarming height, sweeping away the parapet wall, which had been built along its margin, to secure the gardens of Mr. Thomson, architect, and Mr. Threshie, writer, near to the Academy. Opposite to this town, it covered the Green Sands, from whence it sent a stream down Brewery-street, not less it is said, than two feet deep, It ascended the Friars Vennel, as far as Mr. MgCaskie s shop, spread all over the White Sands, and the wood yards towards Waterloo-street, converted Nith-street into a pool, crimpletely cut off the communication with St. Michael's-street, by Nith-place, and submerged the Dock from end to end, and from side to side. A small coal vessel which lay in the river opposite to the In firmary (the Neptune, of Workington) rendered buoyant by having discharged her cargo, was fairly lifted by the waves,• over the wall or wharf, which bounds the channel of the Nith, and after a granite pavl, or moor ing post, had thrust its head through her bottom,settled down upon the Dock Parade, where she lay high and try, upon the subs:ding of the flood. The river entered many houses in the luw part of the town. In soma the water remained from four or five o'clock in the after noon till after midnight. It is said that, bursting through the temporary barriers erected against it at the door of an Inn in Nith-street, it rushed, an unbidden guest, into a room where a Christmas party were just abou,t to sit down to dinner, overset the table, and, to the dismay of the hungry company, swallowed up the whole banquet at one gulp. A large and valuable raft of wood citified from its moorings on Saturday, bit was fortunately caught by two weirs at the Nether wood Terse. In several in stances, houses hive been unroofed, and in Barns-street a stack of channies fell this morning, with a fearful crash. But solar as we have heard, no lives were lost - _ • • „ .Yester.day morning, justbefore 6 o'clock, :two higler; ' catts, coming to town with ultry,.&c. endeavouring • tci'pass each other, in thellfile-end-road, the wheels of the vehicles got locked todther, ancrthe concussion was so,great, as to. throw,b46l the drivers off their seats.- One bad his leg brokeit,;and the other his head dread fully fractured. -:,Xltursday se'nnigliC three brothers, named Grant, charged with having been g ,concerned in an atrocious murder, were sent off, under a proper escort,:to Ireland; / They had arrived at Liverpool about a fortnight since. and after a diligent and patient search, dining several days, were all apprehended in one night, at their places of 'abode, in different pints of the town, by the ,Mtianea OF A TITHE PROCTOR NEAR BLESS , INGTON, COUNTY OF WtocLow.-71Arednesday last. William Wal lace, tithe-proctor to the Rev. Mr. Tucker, waited on Mr. George Hot nidge, a Gentleman . or high rank and fortune, for the purpose of settling tithes. Mr. Hor nidge kept Wallace to dine with him, and after dinney an allet cation unfortunately took place, and blows en sued. In the scuffle both the men sell, when Mr. Hor rtidge stabbed Wallace with a small dit k, which caused his immediate death. A young lad, a nephew of Wal lace's, was preietti; and in trying to save his uncle, was also wcsilded. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the body of Ole deceased, and a verdict of Wapiti Murder was returned agaipist• Mr. Hornidge, who has fiedo r .- Dublin Evening iftsoi . • - 'Saturday sennigitt, iii theltening,. as Wm. DUNCAN ol'. Hoylake, was op, his return hom e, ia walking to - %aids the pier-head, Liverpool,. through ignoratice hii:Way,.and fru m the sad deft of lamps in that pareof .the :Dock,. he was piecipitated into the gut, which unites the rriiFe's Dock iitd Geolge's Dock Basin i• vihen takentout he, was alive, attdiingered for firleurs. 'He has left I widow and' nine children, seven of wilt= are under fourteen years 'of age, who solely t lO:his labour for surport. A4,eitraotdinary instance of so indling and forgery took place in Okfo:d last week. A Mr. Busby, a sale:- m . la of;Loiidon, the sum of .Cl 5 10s. for a bull stag de.,ll,ited to him' for sale by Mr. tee, of Hinkiey Hill, It sford, with Mr. Graham, of the White Hart Inn, "yo: ket. On the evening of Christmas day, the apreatance .of a fat :flees servant, 'altam, and produced a note which he from .Mr. Gee, and which. was signed tidet tag the payment of the £l5 los, id the money, and has since discovered w nothing of the order. * 7 ...4 t 4 • INSOLVENT D.EBToRg.CQUAT, DEC. $l. PETITIONS of. INSOLVENT DE TORS, to be heard in PORTUGAL-STREET, Lincoln's-Inn:Fields, on TUES DAY. J.inury 11; at Nine in the Forenoon. ' • John Staples, *art-street Lissom-grove,' Police-officer. George William Butler, Fleeet-market, baker. Ralph Pearson, Bermuda-place, ,Commercial-reed, butcher. Wm. Watling, Thames /3ank,place, Westminster, publisher. Thomas Davison, Barking, Essex, oilman and shopkeeper. Robert Reynolds, Cannon-street-road, carpenter. Charles Avory, Kent-road, Camberwell, baker. Joseph Phillips, Farringdon, Berkshire, victualler. llenry Horne, Margate, lodging-house-keeper. s Elward Simmons, Stanway, Gloucestershire, road-maker. William Arthur, St. Neot's, Cornwall, baker. John lleatimont, Hurl, master-mariner. Thomas Wakeling, Prescott-street, Cify-foad, cheesemonger. George Whittaker, Parson's -street, Kateliff-highway, stationer, Hare Woodhouse, Allen-street, Clerkenwell, baker. Richard Johnson, Garden-terrace, St. Lute's, chin-dealer. Thr.s. Norris, lawstorne.street Goswell- street -road, silversmith. George Slow, Caroline-place, Regent's Park, merchant's clerk. John Perry, Turnbam-green, chandler's-shopkeeper. Henry Allihon, Ilanwortb, Middlesex, whitesmith. George Crooks, Kennington-street, Walwortb, brewer. -Fred. Thos. Malleson, Stafford -street, Lisson-green, gardener. Robert Stanford, Church-street, Greenwich, baker. John Furneaux, Oraiige-street, Red Lion-square, shoemaker. William !lurch, Whitmore Road, Hoxton Old Town, builder. Thomas 'Print,. Martha-place, Hackney-road, labourer. Alfred Grave, Hounslow, baker. John Karn, North Keppel Mews, Bedford-square, backneyman. William Adams, Cumberland-street, Middlesex Hospital, cabi net-maker. Charles Butcher, Thurton, Norfolk, victualler. .. 1 - IN THE MATTER OF JAMES MARTIN. The insolvent, who was formerly a druggist at Bris td, was discharged under the Act in the beginning of the year 1822. Some time ago, Mr. HEATH, on be half of one of the creditors, Obtained an order for bring ing up the insolvent to be reheard, on the ground of his having made a fraudulent transfer of his business and property to his brother Charles, and also of his having been collusively arrested at the suit of Mr. Bowles, on a fictitious debt. In consequence of that order, the case came on for rehearing to-day, and occupied the Court until past six o'clock in the evening. The insolvent stated, that he went to jail in 1821. He became a bankrupt in 1819, but did not obtain his certificate. About the time of his bankruptcy, Mr. Rowles, an attorney and conveyancer, at Bristol, lent him the several sums of 311. 10s. 181. 10s. and 151. and also took three journies to London, for the purpose of endeavouring to procure his certificate for him, for which he charged him 201. making his debt to Mr. Rowles altogether, 851. for which he passed him his bill. He dented having come to town for the purpose of Mr. ltowles arresting him, or having gone to the King's Bench prison the day before he did arrest him, to bespeak convenient apartments for himself ; but he admitted that he did go there the day before his arrest, for the purpose of inspecting the premises. His brother Charles had purchased his business at Bristol from the assignee under the Commission of Bankruptcy, for 1801. and paid the insolvent a salary of 801. per annum, for assisting him in conducting it. The insolvent un derwent a long examination, and gave his answers in a very unsatisfactory manner; his memory appearing to be extremely imperfect on many points. James Grey, shoemaker, swore that the insolvent and Rowles concerted the arrest at his . house in Clerken well; and that the insolvent and witness went to the King's Bench the day before it took place, to bespeak apartments to be occupied by the former in a day or two. Edward Grey, brother to the last witness, who de scribed himself to be a licensed preacher, having a cha pel for the last three years at Bristol, swore that he was present in 1821, when the bill for 851. was manufac tured between Bowles and the insolvent, who arranged it so, that it was to fall due by th e ensuin g November, in o rder that the arrest might take place on the first day of Michaelmas Term. The deed executed hetven the insolvent and his brother Charles, now produced, was executed in witness's presence; but it must have been antedated, as he (witness) was not in Bristol inlB2o, the year it purported to bear date. I This witness underwent a rigid cross-examination by Mr. CooKE, on behalf of the insolvent. He would not allow, he said, that he was a shoe-maker; his father was one, and he had assisted him ; he could make a shoe, but he had not made shoes for bread. He was asked respecting his separation from his wife, and whether another woman did not live with him ? bat the Court interposed. ,He denied, however, having ever: lived with any other woman, or having been obliged , to escape through a wiadow from his flock, in conse-1 quence of something that had occurred in his chapel about six months ago. Mr. HEATH having , closed his case;Mr. Coosa ex amined the insolvent in explanation. He then called John George Crannidge, who stated that he was an accountant at Bristol, and made up the accounts be- tween the insolvent and his brother. He was present when the latter purchased the insolvent's property from the assignee Or 180/. of which he saw him pay 1001. in. cash, and give his note for the balance. He also spoke to the transactions between the insolvent aad Rowles' as being bona .fide, so far as his knowledge went; and swore ne would not believe the witness Edward Grey, of whose " ministry" he spoke in very contemptuous terms, upon his oath. After hearing far ther evidence, and the arguments of Counsel on either side, the COURT deliberated for a few minutes, and then pronounced their opinion, withotlC being called upon to decide upon the question of pro perty, that there was no debt existing between the In-. solvent and Mr. Bowles at the time of the arrest of the former ; and consequently that his discharge must be revoked arid his petition dismissed. The cause betty een Miss Foots and Mr. HAYNE has found insertion in the French papers. The Journal des Debuts of Sunday be ins att anslation of the trial in the following terms :—" Miss Fools, the first actress of Covent Garden Theatre, demanded 10,0001. sterliniG l with interest, from a very rich young man named "'Ayes, fol. having broken his promise of mariage M. IIAYN it, according to the expressions of his own. Counsel, was a sort of innocent who had been made the victim of a coquette ; but notwithstanding the tertifi-* cate of innoce i nce given* to Monsieur HAYNE, by his Advocate. he was condemned by the Jury to pay MOIL sterling (72,000 francs) damages, and costs:' The once celebrated singer, Madame MA RA, who re sides at Revel, was lately thrown down in - the street aid a carriage passed over her ; but she only received some bruises, from which she has recovered. She is at a very advanced age, and is said to have lost nearlY the whgle of her property by the burning of Moscow. During the last Assizes at Lewes, a Gentleman asked Mr. Seijeant ONsLow, what was meant by an alibi?" " It's a lie by which many a rogue escapes hanglag," replied the Serjeant.. of ~. • ar f _; sa :~ % .4re ?'l ) 4Cf -o:&eFc.fAics• 1 . • MAIiSIO*HOLIM • • An maffinagettreerman, lathe 'Path yard his ye, washesloght before the Lose MAYOR for begging in the streets. Tian poor - fel.. low4it appeared, bad been transported for stealing a waistcoat, and upon completing the term of his _sentence, he. was on Weehisoffay sentatdcift upon the-world, - without any means bf existence. He lamented much his discharge from the bulks, where he wis,well treated, for he was always willing to work, but unable to preform the rough duties of a seaman, as he had done id his former days. • The Loan Maths directed that an application should be made to !the Bavarian Consul on the subject, and that in the mainline the than should be relieved. BO W-ST B EET. Mt. Jeremiah Miller was charged with assaulting the persons, and cutting the throat, and breaking the best black chip bonnet of Mrs. Mary Jones, the sprightly spoose of Mr. Griffith Jones, Cam brian purveyor of skykidus to a very large proportion of the worthy tea-drinkers of St. Clement Danes. Mr. Jeremiah Miller is a green islander, who, after many vicissi tudes, has settled down as a green•groecr, and picks up a pretty little living by the dispensation of praturs, parsnips, and pot-herbs, from his own rented place in that lane of strip, slush, and fog, which leadeth from St. Clement's Church-yard to the mutton ntanufacto ries in Clare-market. He is a great contemner of soap and water, and has a mortal antipathy to razors ; but be is a man of a merry temperament withal; and it was this merry temperament that brought him into his present predicament with Mrs. Jones. " And please your Worship," said 'Mrs. Jones, "as I was standing on a step oppz.site Jerry Miller's shop last night, he and his second wife, and his first wife's daughter, and two or three others of 'em, sallied out at me, and basted me shameful, and dragged me about by the hair of my bead, and cut my throat with A piece of broken glass, and ranted my best black chip bonnet ail to tatters !" This was an awful charge; but awful as it was, Mrs. Jones could not deliver it without laughing. " Here, your Wot ship," she continued, holding the tattered bonnet upon one hand, and a quantity of hair in the other—" here, your Worship, here's my bonnet, and here's my hair pulled off of my head, and here's my throat cut, as you see !" Here she pointed to a scar on her fair neck, and still she smiled ad tittered, and seemed to have much ado to help laughing outright. The-Magistrate asked Mr. Miller what he had to say for himself? " Laws bless your life and soul, Sir !" replied Mr. Miller— " there isn't a nsonny-kyllibk of truth in it frost *beginning to end ! It's all spite andjillisy agen me, because she's got into a holy alliance with the green-grocer's shop over anunst mine. And what are your praturs a pound, Jerry Miller ?' says she. Don't be axing the !nice when ye don't want the praturs, Mrs. Jones, ' says I; and with that she stoops down and grabbler up a double hantle admit and slaps it right at me !" • Mrs. Jones, in reply, declared that there was not a monosyllable of truth in Mr. Miller's statement, and she called a disintelested witness, who swore that be saw Mr. Miller and his wife take Mrs. ,banes up in their arms and shave her head right bang through a pane of glass in a shop window—battering-ram fashion; and that was the way her throat was cut. This witness also corroborated all the other material points in merry Mrs. Jones's story, and Mr. Jerry Miller was ordered to find bail, whereupon be withdrew, exclaiming—" Oh, Jewel Oh, laws! there's neither law nor justice to be had in this wicked world !" MARLBOROUG H-STREET. • Yesterday, a young man, named Henry Zing, in the employ of Messrs. R. W. and C. Jearrad, the eminent builders, at No. 261, Oxford.street, and clerk of the works that are now extensively going on at the mallow of Lord Suffield, in Park-lane, was brought before Mr. Cortex:, the Magistrate, by two of the Bow-street patrol charged with having stolen a large quantity of lead pipes and sheet lead ; and Mary Ann ling, his wife, was charged as an accessary. After an examination of witnesses, the prisoners were remanded. T. - -,.: ' ' - . VP- '''-• - ,* ' • - • - • - • - -;4"-id 'if. 4 . _ . . '.i *. " . . spo/triefttmrpkvapycE, • . . I• 4'.1.`• • ' BUNTING. • ' • Dirt MosgaelliadElomids "Mk meet on .binadisjihiitsry a/ lot .wood i Thersday, Swarksiotto .114111pAistuk ass So n . day,lan 8, at Blitiield. Sri George Sitwell% Fos IFicithds ati•TnesdaY Jai 4, at 81oswy Houghton. Haar ; and on Priday, Nadi Is ‘4111611 Li r 11losbro' floor. . • .• ! ;1' • !.• GERMAN. SPORTVVO; • The . Eniperne Francis I. made a bunting party in the year.l7ss r consisting of twenty-three persons,. three of • whom were Ladl es -. the Princess Charlotte of Efir" rinse The chase Loted le days, and. dig tbat tithe they killed 47,9t0 head ntgame and Wild deer; of which 19 were stags, 77 roebuck., 10 foxes, 111,44; hares, 19,545 partridges, 9,499 pheasants, 114 larks, 55G -and 54 other birds. '.Emperor fired 9,798 shots, and die eria , cess Cbatlotte.9,oJo ; in all, there were 116,`„:09 shuts fired. • Eeeetmow.-..-Thursday morning the dreadiiil seri, tence of the law was enforced upon the three uahai v s: culprits who were convicted at the late Assizes for thy! county of Kent, viz.—John Turner Ingram, for bleak int; into the dw•elling.honse of Mr. Abrahams, a! Sheerness; George Shrubsok, for stealing twenty-nine sheep, the property of Mr. Edward Hughes, of Smeeth;. and J. Ludlow, for th..: highway rubbery o: J. Olive, at Gillingham. At half-past eleven o'clock, the pro. cession began to move for Pennenden Heath. The condemned were as usual conveyed in a waggon, and while moving on, seemed engaged in fervent pi aye,. They all acknowledged the justnes of than- sente .ces: but Ludlow denied having ►ll-used Olive on the night of the robbery. On their arrival at the place of exe cution, they - devoted some time to prayer with the Rev, Mr. Winter, and appealed resigned to their fate.— Havingascencled the scaffold, the hangman proceeded in the discharge of his duty. Daring the time, a ,on. versation was kept rap between theutiblippy-men. When the rope was adjusted, Ludlow appeaked to the p,,pu!ace, enquiring if any one was there from Gillingham ? and on a person answering in the athtrnative, he requested that when he had hung his hour, that his clothes might be taken off and conveyed to his wife. On heating which, Ingram said, " Do you want your wife to wear the breeches then?" Ingram behaved with the most unbecoming levity—before being launched off he wished them all " Good night." Shrubsole was penitent, and addressing the populace said, " Got) bless you all," and hoped his fate would prove a warning to others. - The signal e as soon after given, the drop fell, and the suf ferings of the wretched men appeared of short &nation. Although it rained incessantly, the concourse of people to witness the execution was numerous. - •'‘ 1 nii:nyyrora, witii in t ,tht o: nNI arke i a person, having c .i. c01c,41.9n Mr: Gra • . sa9.l4ip hi ought .! 4 . s 4 4 4 l,..e_plin:niule.l;did Oat leit,-Gee kiu:. t WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday, Mary Steer, a silk-winder, was brought before the Magistrates of this Mee, upon a charge of secreting a quantity of silk,tbe property ,of her employer, a Mr. Barton, of Beacon street, Bethnal-green. The prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and there to be kept at hard labour. UNTO ~-HALL A man named Rook, one of the persons appointed to attend upon Sir Gregory Page Tut ner,vras charged with having assaulted Eliza beth Elston, daughter of the late Colonel Elston. It appeared that Miss Elston was particularly desirous of presenting to Sir Gregory an account of an interesting trial that took place its the Court of Chancery in Ireland, in the matter of Carpenter an alleged lunatic ; and whose case she considered resembled that of her friend, Sir Gregory. She approached the Baronet, who was walking in the ground which surrounds the prison, accompanied by his couple of attendants, to present him the trial, when the defendant gave her a violent push, and prevented her from so doing. The defendant did not deny the charge, but said it was a gentle push to prevent her annoying his master with her communications, which might have the effect of irritating and distressing his mind. The Lady had been for a considerable time past in the habit of sending letters to the Baronet, and attempting to obtain interviews with him, and ft was the particular desire of the Lord Chancellor, that Sir (re gory should not be subject to such annoyances from strangers. The NAOUTSATIL, oo hearing this statement, said there was no pretence for charging the defendant with an assault, and he was discharged. Miss Elston was advised not to annoy the Baronet. Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of the Union Ale Brewery, in Lam beth, attended at the Office for the purpose of giving information of the following gross fraud, as a caution to the Public, which had been successfully practised upon him a few days ago:—A lad, dressed as a publican's pot-boy, came to his office and handed the clerk a letter, purporting to have been written by J. Sheen, land lord of the Three Stags Potliclouse at Kennington, inclosing a check on Messrs. Masterman and CO. bankers, for :E52, and re questing that it might be cashed, to save the trouble of going into the City. Mr. Simpson's clesitotmulateriPg it to be genuine, im. thediately complied with the request. When the check was subse quently sent to the banker's, it was pronounced to be a forgery. Mr. Simpson has offered a reward of ,C2O for the apprehension of the party traho committed the forgery. One of those melancholy and distressing occurrences, of which we have latterly too frequent instances, has, we are concerned to state, taken place within a few days in the town of •Enniscorthy, and has plunged a highly respectable .and hitherto happy family into the deepest allaiction. .The wife of most respectable Me dical Gentleman, Doctor S—, of that town, having left her home under the impression that she was about to see her mother, Mrs. B--, of ltathdrum, who has .been a long time in a precarious state of health, was met according to previeus arrangement, by a person', named B—, a baker, in the town of Arklo w, with ' whom she spent two days in Ferns, and the following night proceeded to her mother's house. This truly un fortunate Lsdy is now with her own family, there are rtwo children to witness the degradation, of until this. event, a fond and affectionate mother. There has been l a Fiat issued against B—, and to which we learn he has given bail. It will . undergo a legal investigation at the next Assizes for Wicklow.—Dublin Journal. • On the night of the 22d ult. a fatal event Occurred in Mendlesham,Stiffolk. The bailiff of Mr. Sheppard, .at his off-hand farM, being, alarmed by a noise at the fowl-houses, got up and Went out, when be found three men in the yard; one of them rushed towards him with - an uplifted' bludgeon, but finding that he was arme. syith a gun, the man turned round and ran off. T,.e. ' bailiff called to him to stand, andin his not complying, discharged his. piece. The contents passed thr i ongh the body of the unhappy Wretch, and his hoe/chi:4oow*, from lb* wound; he lingered in great apnyTor hours, and thenizpired. The oiler two men have since, been apprehended, and one of theMpiiives to have been employed in Mr. ShepPard'i malting. Cowes, Dec. 30.—The Beaufort, of London, in coming in from sea, ran foul of the Busirus, Gamma and= carried awa y her head cutwater; spiting her bowsprit s carriolaway bet tipipillinvatasts, Ite. and did other -considerable damage. Anima-die, Fria% Casa, from the Downs for New South Wales. SCILLY, 45.-Blowingec. 48.BloWing a strong gale at Weit.l-41nWealtis Majesty's ship PAIITHIAN front a etuiae. The stern et Oboat vatked " klor. of LuteliOn" °inside, and " i4LizioniPtAlNOrtfe . side. was found oU, PAW . 4 viiklif4s OW4II as 44044" hale is the rata. t -i • -t , 31:1.4 BI RTIJ. Saturday, a Southway the Lady of Lieutenant Dickson, 67th Regiment, of a daughter. - . DIID. At Dumfries, on Saturday serusight, Henry Duncan, youngest son of John l‘PDiarmid, Esq. At the Manse of Johnstone, on the 20th uk. aged 14, Robert, elder inn to the Rev. Dr. Colvin. The 19th ultimo, Andrew:Johnson, Eat. of Castlehill, near Dum fries, at the advanced age of 90 years. At Catrine, on the 15th inst. Mary, fourth daughter of the Rev. James Currie, Minister of the Chapel-of-Ease there, aged four years ten months and ten days. At Calcutta, on the 10th June last, in entering upon his 24,tk year, John Halkerston, M.D. in the service of the Hon. the East India Company. Nov. 25, at New York, Mr. John Cartwright, the celebrated performer on the musical glasses, aged 68. June 30, at Rangoon, of the cholera, Captain Alexander Cum ming, Assistant-Commissary-General on the Military Estshti:!:. ment of Fort St. George, and in charge of the Comni:ssariat to the force from that Presidency, employed in the Burmese war. At Clauchan of Tongueland, in Galloway, on the 11th instant. John Wood, a native of the parish or Kirkgunzeon. His age is rather uncertain, but he has often been heard to say, that in the year 1745, when Prince Chalks and bis army passetithrough Dum fries, be was a man in his prime; and that in the year of the great wind (1748) be was p married man and had several children. Ac the former of these periods, it is therefore supposed that he would not be under 2 1 2 or 23 years of age; so that at the time of his death his age could not he less than 100. He was endowed with great bodily strength, enjoyed the use of all his faculties, except hearing, and was never known to have even a bead. ache, or any kind of sickness or ailment, except ague, dB his death, prior to which he was only confined a day or.two. ••"' NRWGATR ANU LRADENTI Abt MARKETS. Dec. 31. B et i 25 8d to Si ad Veal 3s 44 to Ss Ad Mutton ... ...350dt0 4 $ 4 d I Pork 3s 4d to 5s 81 PRICES or HAY ♦t STRAW . YESTERDAY. ST. JAITZS'II. WISITECUATZ 4 • Hay 31 04 041 to 51 10. 6d Hay 31 64 to Si 04 0d• Clover 41 Os Od to 51 10, Od Clover 41 lOs to 61 Os 6d Straw lll4s ad to 21 8s Od Straw 11 16i to , 21 Or 04 , PRICE or TALLOW, tii)AP, Scc, per 11Whi .TOWn Tallow 46s 6(1 Thtfo rough ....... .... . 191 Ad *Yellow Russia ......» 594 64 Yellow Soap White ditto Soap ditto Melting Stuff ... ..... ... I _3ls Od I Graves l6s Od PRICE -OF LEATHER. Butt*, 50 to 561bR each.........., • 20d to 21d per lb Ditto, 56 to 661bs each 22d to 231 Dressing Hides. 164 to 16d Fine Coach Hides - . l9d to Lied .Crop. Hides, 55 to 40Ibs foe cutting 15/d to to 17/4 Ditto 45 to Nibs ttcl 51,94 244 . Calf Skins, 56 to 40165 55 55 1841 to 'Ditto 50 to 70 1 b 3 Dias 70 to SOlbs Small Seals, Greenland) ~ 17d to 1841 Large Ditto... .................. „. 16d to 184 Tanned Horse Hides l3d to 16d Spanish Horse Hides . • lil t‘t 274 ---.1-:L-- -------- COAL MiAItiERT. DEC 61. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. puce. 60 Newcastle 171 , Ilis 651 tit 40s 651 9, 866derlaad • 61 - '. Sps ed to 415 6..1 . 101,0 d to 5 (xl jC .IIIIII . • 'k____------- ---- ----'" `l6. P.XCHANGIR COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Dim. 41. Amsterdam ......i2 2 C.F. 'Seville —4.• ...: Sie Ditto at 5ight......11 19 Gibraltar »#. 14 i,..: 10 tvv , Rotterdam... ..... 12 s . Leghorn st .. Ilit ~ ..;,, 4 Antwerp, ex-mo. ill 5 Genoa ...... ...... 441 ' ituriburgb... ..... 57 0 Venice Ital.LiV. 27 lAbona ............57 1 , Malta ........... •—• I Andanslay'saight 25 15 Napins ....,...... 19e Dilto . 25 45 Palermo ..... ...117/ifs.o9r 'Madrid, effective 56 • 1.i,h0n.... ..... .. 51 (I tiadisilkit 15i • - Rio Janeiro..... 46 IBasalipa ...... so-`: , . Dublin .... ..... ... 91 L i fts, effective :.al I C0rk...... . .... .. 94_ •Till ° .. ~ • . , L,11a11.11.--, 4 ---------------7 DA2. ~,.l 4 .. .. . •WIL DU& 416. Pali 0111111 . 1 0 France 1 . et Williford ' 1 1 HambuHamburg. 0 &Weaver aia:mwel 0 '1 Panders 1 * LIMNS • :0 0 Holland •• 5 a qlibyrsh . , 4 Leeward lolanda 0 . 0 0 America 0 1 '.. lUeliMitcnirst LOMDON-131UDGE Tam oURO*- ~Jitk• • -•- is agnates after It • 0, 'ablates after - 77 a. awiWtblisised b ) Na Ickiti-rface l acm.r. • 4 ./ ' .• • . " ' , 1.. • - _ pro` ~_ W T r~,. ;. ifie SIAS Ovricallf . PRICE OF HOPS. NEW POCUTIL NSW SAGS. Kent 1203 to 1603 I Kent ...... 110$ to 141 Sales Essex Farnham, fine 240. to 25J •Tronds, 1803 to 2003 - -