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rotator; Pi ''NO O'CLOCK. - Austrian Fonds 5 per Ct. 971 --"na I3rasilian Bond, 881 Ditto Scrip, 5 per Ct. 161 pm. Ditto 1t125, 41 1 pm. Buenos Ayres Bondsllll 1 . Ditto Ace. Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 89 • Ditto Ace. Columbian Bonds, 6 per Ct. 211 Ditto for Ace. Ditto Bondy 1824, 91 Ditto Acc. Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. 1011 21 Greek Bonds Ditto Scrip 01$ 1 pas. • BRITISH AND FOREIGN Max. Bonds, 5 per Ct. $ll Ditto Scrip .51pm. Nvapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct. Perue. Bonds, 6 per Ct. Portuguese Bonds 501 Ditto Acc. toe Press. Bonds 1802, 5 p. Cl.lOO Russ. Bonds, legs, sp. Ct. 971 Ditto Acc. 97J Spanish 5 p. Ct. Cons. 241 4 4 Ditto for Ace. 24* Span. 5 p.et C. 1823, 19k Spanish Bonds, 1820, S per Ct. Ditto for Acc. 19k French Scrip 151 pm. SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. ASSURANCIt COMPA N I E.S. All. Brit. For. Fire lc Life Do. Marine . IMAM •AUW. P*ICI Pta MAIM aeloo -XI 0 ae 184 100 - 5 - 7i MINES. MARC TAIP. 'PRICE PIM SNARL Anglo Mexican - - flOO -JEIS- iss. 45 pm. - £l3O 135 /25 Anglo Milian - - 100 - 5 - . 17j 18 16i 17 Arigna Iron and Coal - 50 5 - ..- 17 Brazilian - - 100 - 5 - 5 - 27% 28 26i 27 Chili= - - 100 - S - -23 24 22% 23 Colombian - . - 100 - 5 - 5 -40 41 7.9% General Mining Association - - •16 17 Hibernian - - SO - 4 - - 9 % i Pasco Peruvian - 100 - 5 - -50 59% 48% 49% 47 Rio de ►a Plata - 100 - 5 - .34 Tlalpuzahua - - 400 -20 - - 235 United Mexican - 40 -20 - 2 pm. - 150 155 150 Dino New - 40 - - 35 pm. Welch Iron & Coal - 25 - S - -7% GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. SHARP. PAID. PRICII PIM SHALL - 100 - 8 - -1 - 3 ARMY ESTIMATES. The Army Estimates for the present year have been laid on the tablets( the House of Commons, and have been printed. These Estimates cootain two separate accounts : the first for the troopeitept up from the commencement of the present year to the 25th March ; the second for the troops from the 25th March to the 24th December; the former amounting to 71,165, the latter to 86,456, and the increase amounting to 15,271. The numbers we have given above include the °lacers and the increase is anted by raising the number of each Battalion from 676 to 740 rank and lie, and, including Officers, from 650 to 855. The above statement Is entirely exclusive of the King's troops I yed in India at the charge of the Company, the number of ieh amounts to 25,812, at a charge of £785,971 es. 10d. The present establishment is thus disposed of—For Great Bri tain and reliefs, 18,120 men; for stations abroad, except India, $2,166 men ; for Ireland, 20,879; total, 71,165. The sum to be voted for Army Estimates is £6,475,647 12s. 4d. standing ; and altogether the adjoining country pre- . in maicien-lane, Covent-arden, which consumed that house and damaged the Peacock Tavern, also the back Haus, 3,454; part of the premises of Mr. Ravenscroft, carpenter, ad- &us, 71,165. 1 ' joining. As on such calamitous occasions, many tu- -1 MOWS are afloat; the cause is said to have originated by a lighted candle being left in the window for one of the lodgers, which set fire to the curtains. Mr. Birnie, mho has lived in the house forty years, fortunately escaped from the flames, though in a state of nudity. Great praise is due to the firemen for their exert' . ions, 111 stopping the progress of the flames, in which they were assisted by a good supply of water. tine suns to oe votea tor army simulates Is au,: tu,ot7 ims.ici. name. For the three first months of the year the numbers are u follow : said , rank and file, 64,546; numbers, including Of- lleiMateffs EXECUTION. -- New — This morning, at eight o'clock, the dreadful sentence of the law was carried into execution in the Old Bailey, Ailey araggea nor CO the pit, ana rums, sue took out a rope, and proposed to strangle her, and the was thrown into the water, Harris having previously saken her money out of her pocket. Only her mouth was above water ; and after she had been in some time, Harris said, " Curse her, she is done for ;" and the menof ravage and desolation, and gives prodigious power of the agency A ploughman, about a mile off, was thrown plough went away. For the defence, three of Harris's chil- no - dren, and several neighbours, were called, and they upon Edward Harris, aged 40, for a robbery and out. swore he was at home at the time the outrage was . com- rage in Stepney fields ; Cornelius Wood, aged 29, for a mitted ;but, inconsequence . of . rape and robbery ; and Henry Durham, aged 21, for evidence , some contradictions in the the Jury discredited it, and found him guilty. burglary. Harris, most unceasingly, from the day Durham was a young man of about twenty ears of sents a striking scene y fearful evidence of the . which could in a moment produce such terrible effects. from his to the distance of nearly 30 yards, but received injury. The quantity of gunpowder exploded is estimated at about 60 barrels, containing each 1121 b. The damage to the work is estimated not much to exceed 1,0001. as the buildings are slight. Such parts of the remains of the unfortunate sufferers - - • The following letter, communicatin some hasty of conviction until almost the last moment of his age ; he recewed a decent education at Westminster, by this accident as could be found were interred yester- • particulars of another murder committed in Bucking- existence, declared his innocence of the crime for which, and' was intended; for the counting-house ; his father day. They had both families. Walter Thomson has left hamshire, is from the County Chronick:— he suffered. The attempt made on his trial to prove an was a master .tailor of respectability, residing sear a widow and family of five children, the youngest only " AYLESBURY, Fs& 20 ._ 1 have to communicate to you one of alibi, coupled with his demeanour and asseverations of Charing-cross, and his unhappy mother is a widow , ten months old, and the oldest only thirteen years. Tie those horrid d ee d s which so often stain 4be pages of our bistoryi i nnocence , ha d t h e e ff ect o f ca lli ng t h e attent i on o f the li v i ng in --street, Strand, and supports her family. by family of Cornwall, who had been employed about A murder was committed last night, about 11 o'clock, on the per- Executive, and his case was reserved from the October keeping a family hotel, in great . credit. He bad !en of a fine these mills for 25 years, are mostly grown up. • the half way young man, named Morris, at Aston Clinton, about Session. However, the recult of the most unwearied formerly been in prison, but was clischarged, and put A dreadful explosion took place at these mills on the from hence to Tring, and not above one mile from the • • • phier wh ere inquiries, made by order of Mr. Secretary Peel and the on board a ship destined for the West Indies: Bch" 30th June, 1803. On that occasion three lives were lost ; the two old persons, Edward NeidLe and Id. wife, were murdered a b out two years ago. / visited the spot t hi, am ,. Recorder of London, and the st r ictest ex a mi na ti on an d it sa il e d, h e con t r i ve d to induce the Captain to refund Mr. Hunter, a proprietor, was , killed in his wan gar den, i"t, sad saw the body of the deceased. There is a considerable scrutiny of the evidence, has been the establishment of the money paid for his passage, and he came on shore, by a large stone, which carried away his arm. I bruise on one of his temples, also on the cheek, and the throat an undoubted conviction of his guilt ; and the circum- and joined an old acquaintance, Liam, and a Jew, o he. Th stances of atrocity attending the case, rendering a cono. named Abrahams , in robbing the house of Mr-Fraser, in • . rce men, named Allen (the principal), Reese. , and Cbker, , are in custody here, charged with having comusitted the murder. mutation of punishment impossible,he was left to his fate. Nurfolk-street,Stran , . y d and the cut off the head of Mr.F.'s. Private *deices from Path state, that the Emperor of h • for Ru-s The wea p on lu PPohed to have been used was a common rail, —Cornelius Wood also pursued a similar line of con- dog. Abrahams was caught in the area of the ouse ~s IA has positively declined interference . in the d . i s - out eight feet long. f Two of nur Magistrates, ( Sir John Dash- duct for a short time, but, finding his dreadful doom this offence Abrahams was convicted the Session befog e cute between . Spain and he r . ca deennt (mimes, roiliest& . Kin g , Bart. and Robert Brown Esq.) attended at the Ida- -1 B;:i:St e ralatKesi. Cha ff l e r fhb 11 71= timairrOw tc:ok the4eP rad i could not be averted, he, on its near approach, ceased last ; and, in consequence of his . impeaching Durham standing the urgent ntreties of Ftltnlithilli t with an • 'Ripest w , I tie ..,4• the ~....;,. • ' t i l l in priv ate. to protest his innocence , tacitl y confessing the justness and Lintot;they were put on their trial . last Session. o ff er to cede the California , t ' to Russia, mile vast ' an . ... . =mow will takeplace ois Wednesday. ' • ' ' ma of the law, and his resignation to its Durham was convicted, and. Lintot, whose parents re.. exclusive privilege of trade as' the pun al has assistesee. a • • - • • _ • , . Continental - Provincial Portable IRON RAILWAYS. • - 100 - 1 - It MISCELLANEOUS. IMAM TAIT,. PRICE PIM SHAM Australian • - 2100 . 21 -226 Briti,ll iron Company - 100 - 5 - 74 S Equitaiiir Loan Bank - 1 - Gold Coast Association- - 6 - 5 - 71 11 l'sletropolnan Aldrrney Dairy £4 pd. - 44 Netropoli!ao Vasil Company . 25 • 1 - I 1 l't.arl 11,hery £25 sh. .E 2 pd. iss. 610 pm. } 18 171 Yello% Receipt Provint.i.l Bank of Ireland - 81 10 VI Patrntitricks' - - 50 - 2 - 44 London and Northern NAVAL IN I r.t.LIGENCE. The ZZ/IltA, fitting at this port, is said to be intended for the Me diterranean station. The three trial sloops are nuking every preparation for a third contest, and it is expected they %%ill be ready by the first of next month. The Gtascow ig fitting at Deptford for Channel service; Captain the I lonourable A. MAUVE, now commanding the Dattmouth, it is said, will command the Gt.asoow. _ _ Rear-Admiral PLA atm has been appointed to succeed Lord CAL •tl.t.s, as Commander-in-Chief on the Irish station. >lr. Et.t.tort, Purser ofthe Ordinary at Portsmouth, Is to be Secretary to Admiral PLAMPIN. _ Arromemerrrs.—Mr. 'Noma% WALTON. Boatswain, to the CHAMPION ; Mr. ReTurstoc, Assistant Burgeon, to the ZEBRA; Mr. H. Gucrufzir, ditto, to the GLAUSOW ; Mr. ISAAC Rouccit, Gunner, late of the l'AuTsloot, to the Rose. 'rite New NATAL UNIFORM.—An alteration has taken place in the Naval Uniform recently ordered to be worn, which it may be of importance to make known. In the undress of Petty Officers, :he same coat has been assigned to Mates and Midshipmen as that of a Lieutenant, but without the epaulette. This we understand to be a mistake in the wording, as it is Hot intended that this descrip tion of Officers should wear other than a single-breasted coat; and the difference between the full dress and undress coat, consists in the former toeing lined with white cloth. and the latter not. NOTICIC TO MAILINERL—The wreck of a vessel having been dis covered in the track of vessels yenning into the anchorage at Dun geness, the Trinity House, London, have placed a green buoy on the same, with the following marks and bearings :—" In eight fa. th9m, high water, spring tides, Dungeness Light House, S.W. wes terly, Romney Church on a martello tower, and a single tree on the high back land in one bearing, N. by E. half E." Wednesday his Majesty's ship BLAZES fell in with and gave chase to a smuggler, which she ultimately succeeded in capturing by her boats. She proved to be the Elizabeth, of Chichester, with a crew of fouemen, and fifty tubs on boards; and the vessel and goods have been sent to Portsmouth. Off Plymouth, the Teneriffe packet, from Teneriffe. The Hcnour.thle Company's ship Inglis landed her pilot off Sidmouth, the 19th instant. FALMOUTH, Frs. 20.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Ebenezer, BUSTARD, for Jersey. PLYMOUTH, Frs. !O.—Wind S —Arrived the Louisa, Massuou, front St. Alichael's, in 16 days. Off the port the Martha, Bo wasps from New York, in 24 days. for Amsterdam. Pcersmotrru, Frs. 21.—Calm.—No arrivals or sailings. DEAL, Frs. 21.—Wind N.N. W.—Arrived the Apollo, BLUM; from Berbice.—Passed through the Clio, Foarsta, for St. Vincent's. The whole Of the outwsrd.bound have sailed in the course of the day ; also a large fleet from Ramsgate harbour. A ship from the westward, with " Elizabeth" in her foretopsail, passed up to-day. His Roy al Highness the Duke of YORK has been in disposed, but was so much recovered yesterday, as to be able testicle out in his cabriolet in the course of the afternoon, and is pay a visit to the KING, at his Palace in Pall Mall. His Royal Highness was. visited yesterday by the PrillCtSs SOTHIA. The remains of the late Lady MosrTs were, on Sa turday interred in the family vault, in the church at Llannas, Flintshire. 6ir Rewaan attended as chief mourner. The Marquis WitI.LISLItT, we regret to hear, was so severely indisposed with a cold, as to be obliged to postpone Council appointed to be held at Dublin Castle, on Thursday last. The mission of his Grace the Duke of NOJITHUM• mutat), as Ambassador Extraordinary on occasion sf the Caro. nation of the King of FILAXCL engrosses at present a great share of the public attention and conversation. This embassy will be sup ported with extraordinary splendour. Forty of the Duke's principal lessees have offered to accompany him at their own charge, as a mark of respect; and it is very currently reported that his Grace's suite will be augmented by a very numerous body of his tenantry. This morning, at h a lf-p ast t h ree o'clock, an alarming fire b:oke out at the house of Mr. Birnie, bookseller, in Maiden lane, Cow 'den, - hich consumed ' • • tilE Tit opasing e 1111130 of quartets art to tabs plan friday.: Theist flataalles the Grenadier:Guards, from Westminster ue: Whedsoe. Ti. Id ditto, from Poetlian-street Barracks to the rower. The 3cl ditto, from Wha &sr to Knightsbridge. The let Battalion ofarieuldstroans, from the King's Mews to Lower Westminster. • The 2d do. from the King's Mews to Portman-street Barracks. The 2d Battalion of the 3d Guards, ` frog ;be Tower to the King's Mews. The Veteran Battalions are to be reduced tom -tb• 115th of March ensuing. The Depots at Albany Barracks, Isle of Wight; are to be broke ep as soon as tile new Provisional Battalions 'or Depots are formed. There are to be eighteen, consisting of twelve companies each, and will be liable to be matched about, In the same m a nne r as Regiments now ar e ; b ut t h ey w i ll not b e sent out of England. If the senior Lieutenants have held that rank for a considerable period, they will be promoted to Captains ; and all Kosigrts who have served ten years will be promoted to Lieutenants, If they come r within the A detachment belonging to the Ist Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, under the command of an Officer, is ordered to march this day front Westminster for Brighton, for the purpose of reliev ing a similar detachment, which is ordered to London. A detachment belonging to the Ist Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, under the command of a Serjeant, is ordered to march to-morrow morning, from Westminster, for Reading, to replete a similar detachment ordered to London. Detachments belonging to the 2d, 13th, 18th, 20th, 30th, 31st, 44th, 47th, 48th, 54th, 64th,.67th, 85th, and 94th Regiments of Foot, the East India Company's Artillery and Infantry, embarked on the sth inst. under the command of Staff Serjeant Wiettams, at Cork, tar Bristol, on route to the Depots of their respective Corps. GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL, Held at Up Park Camp, Jamaica, on the 20th and 21st September, 11124, for the trial of Captain JOHN WA Rags, of the 92d Regiment. Hoasa GUARDS, 2011/ JANUARY, 1625. At a General Court-Martial held at Up Park, Jamaica, on the 20th and 21st September, 1824, Captain JOHN WARRIW, of the 92d Itegiotent,-was arraigned upon the undermentioned Charge, via. 0 Fur conduct most unbecoming and disgraceful to his character as an Officer and a Gentleman, in engaging in a personal con. filet or struggle, with Ensign Virturon, of the same corps, on the night of the 9th inst. thereby sinking the authority of his rank and situation as Captain in the 92d Regiment ; and losing sight of all sense of decorum and decency, such conduct • being in disobedience of the Articles of War, subversive of all principles of military discipline, and most prejudicial to the reputation and well being of his corps." Upon which charge the Court came to the following decision : 6' The Court having given the whole of the evidence adduced On the part of the prosecution the most attentive, mature, and deli berate considerarion, as also what the prisoner, Captain Warren, has offered in his defence, is of opinion as follows, viz. " With regard to the first part of the Charge, viz. conduct most unbecoming and disgraceful to his character as an Officer and a Gentleman, in engaging in a personal conflict or struggle with En sign Wilton of the same Corps, on the night of the 9th inst. the Court is of opinion that the prisoner, Captain John Warren, is not guilty, no evidence having been produced to establish that part of the Charge. " But, it having been clearly proved to the Court that Captain Warren was actually engaged on the night of the 9th inst. in a per sonal conflict or struggle with Ensign Wilton, and that he, Captain Warren, did not make use of the authority vested in him as Captain in the 92d Regiment, to repress the violence of Ensign Wil to n, and recall him to a sense of bis duty, consequently sinking that authority as stated in the Charge, and losing sight of all sense of decorum and decency, such conduct being in breached the Articles of War, sub versive of all principles of military discipline, and most prejudicial to the reputation of his Corps; the Court does, therefore, find him the prisoner, Captain John Warren, of the 92d Regiment, Guilty of the latter part of the Charge, as above recited. " That part of the Charge of which the prisoner bas been proved guilty, being in breach of the Articles of War, the Court does, by virtue thereof, sentence him the prisoner, Captain Join( Warman, 92d Regiment, to be dismissed his Martine. service. "The Court having performed a painful, though an imperative duty, in awarding a sentence commensurate with the crime of which Captain Weems has been found guilty, the punishment of which is expressly pointed out in the Articles of War, feels an anxious and ardent wish to recommend the prisoner to the merciful consideration of his MA/SST!. First, en the grounds of his long and meritorious services with the 92d Regiment. Se condly, from the excellent character which he has received from several Officers of longstanding and experience in the service; and Thirdly, from the circumstance of Captain Wsiaaan's being a mar ried man, and, as far as the Court can learn, having no means of existence, except what he now derives from his Commission : under all these circumstances the Court begs leave, most humbly, yet in the strongest manner, to recommend the prisoner to his Maseru's clemency." His Maisser has been pleased to approve and confirm the find ing and sentence of the Court; but, upon due consideration of all the circumstances of this case, together with the evidence adduced in the course of the trial, and in consideration also of the long and meritorious services of the prisoner, and the strong recommendation of the Court in his favour, his Mazurr has been most graciously pleased to remit the sentence of dismissal from the service, as awarded by the Court. Adverting, however, to all the circumstances of the case, lob Mums' has been pleased to consider that the continuance of Captain WARRRN in the 92d Regiment, could not tend to the advantage of the Corps, or to bis own satisfaction, and has, there. fore, been pleased to command that be should be required to send in his resignation, with a view to biz retiring from the service, by the sale of his Commissions. His Royal Highness the Conscawnsi-nr-Cumv directs that the foregoing charge, preferred against Captain Joan Waltzes, together with the finding aad sentence of the Court, and his Manarr's pleasure thereon, shall be entered in the General Order Book, and read at the head of every Regiment in his Masan-es service. By Command of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, HENRY TOR RENS, Adjutant-GeneraL award. Ddrh am evince() A similar cffspoitiOli ;lad, froth' !tie day of learning theimfavourable nature of .the Re corder's Report, they a ll cont i nua lly employed them . - selves in pray er , w i t i c h had the happy effect of render:- mg thelitt er two composed and calm. Tile heart-rend ing'acene. of taking a last earthly farewel of mothers, wives, children, and relatives,, took place on Sunday and yesterday. Harris had i . wife and family, the -others, it appears, were pot rplcried, but were visited by their almost heart-broken parents. .This affecting interview will, perhaps, be more readily imagined than described. Thin morning, shortly before eight o'clock, Mr. Alder- man Kay and Mr. Alderiaan Baows, the Sheriffs, with their Under-Sheriffs and Assistants, arrived at Newgate, and proceeded directly to the Press-room. In a few minutes after, the Officers proceeded to the loom in which the unhappy men had been placed.' Durham first made his appearance. He seemed perfectly re signed to his fate, and observed, that the only thing he had to regret was; Olt he had brought disgrace on a virtuous and now heart-broken parent. Wood was nest brought forward. He declared his innocence. Harris was the last ushered into the Press-room. He, in the most solemn manner, protested his innocence; and de clared that he did not know who committed the crime. —ln proceeding along the , dreary passages, he con tinued to exclaim " Murder, marder !" and even to the very, moment of being launched into eternity, he protested his innocence. While exhorted by the worthy Sheriffs to prepare for his awful end, he turned round, and in a truly frantic manner said, " Is not this cruel—l don't know anything about it, Gentlemen, so help me GOD ; I don't really. Here, I've been confined for five months, and now lamto be murdered. I was not out from`my wife and children on the 3d of Oc -tober ;" and falling an his knees, he again called the ALMIGHTY to witness the truth of his asseverationl. The Sheriffs exerted themselves to the utmost to recal him to a sense of the few moments he had to live, but all was vain—he continued to declare his innocence. In vain did Mr. Baker and Mr. Cotton urge him to . join in prayer with the other unfortunate malefactors. As the time approached, his behaviour surpa s sed every thing before known,—hallooing " Murder ! Murder !" and swearing that it was because he had been a fighting man, drpnkard, and transported, that he was now to be hanged. Mr. Sheriff Brown did everything to calm his mind, but he was quite inexorable. On his being pinioned, he became more frantic ; his shrieks and cries, which were dreadful, continued till he arrived on the scaffold, where he was obliged to be supported by the Sheriffs' officers; there he would not suffer the Ordinary to speak to him, and disturbed the other two. Durham was very penitent, and confessed his crime. Wood also was penitent, and in his private ejaculations, while being pinioned, called upon GOD to forgive him his numerous sins. In consequence of the be haviour of Harris, the execution did not take place for a quarter of an hour later than usual. An immense number of pet:sons assembled upon the occasion, whose feelings were much hurt at the conduct of Harris. PURTURR PARTICULARS. The three miserable beings whose crimes have brought this day upon them the severest punishment which human laws are capable of inflicting, appear, from what can be learnt concerning two of them at least, to have pursued that course of conduct which might naturally be expected to terminate in an ignominious death.— Harris, convicted of highway robbei y, attended with cruelty, has long been well known at the eastern parts of the town, as a notoriously infamous character. About eleven years bad he was convicted at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to seven years' transportation : he was not sent out of the country, bus-was kept on board the Retribution hulk, at Sheerness, where he conducted hiniself in so orderly a manner, that he obtained a mitigation of his sentence, and did not serve above three years and a half of his term. Since his return from the hulks, he has been the constant associate of the profligate and abandoned, and has, no doubt, -lived almost wholly upon the produce of dis. honest practices. His companions in iniquity, who are well known, are said to have contributed towards defraying the expenses of his defence, and assisting him since his confinement. Kiddy Harris, as he was generally called, was held in considerable reputation as a pugilist ; and, at one period of his life, was supposed to be capable of fighting any man of his own weight. —He was convicted, three Sessions ago, of robbing and maltreating the servant girl of a Mr. Hale, a silk-mer chant, in Stepney-fields. The facts against him on the trial were shortly these :—Mr. Hale's house was robbed, and the servant girl informed the officers of Worship street, that about the time of the robbery she saw a man lurking about the front of the house. The officers took the girl to the yard of a public-house in Spitalfields, where men were playing at skittles ; the prisoner was there playing, and pointed out to the girl twice, and she said " he is not the man." On the Sunday follow ing she went to Church, and on coming out in the after noon, about five o'clock, she saw the man she had de scribed to the officers, standing by the Church-yard railing, and, according to their previous directions, she followed him till he get into a remote part of Stepney-fields, where there is a pit of water, about a quarter of a mile from the Cat and Mutton public-house. ...The man . then came up to her, and was joined by Harris and another man, and she knew Harris to be the 'person she twice had seen in the yard of the public house, They dragged her to the pit, and Harris, she The present Session, Lint* has been convicted of com mitting a burglary, with Durharn; On the premises of Mr. lt. Laae, tailor, in Burlington-street. The as•ercbd innocence of I-Lir ris, as to the crime for which he suffered this morning, must • be en tirely dis believed, if , is reported thi s m o rn i ng , hi s pocke:- book was found near the spnt, where the crime for *hid) he suffered was committed, containing :t ntia her of receipts, particularly for rent. Wood, who was found guilty of *rape near tldrnsey, although not known is a thief by prbfession, was not of good repute in his own neighbOtirhood. After hit con victiorf, he denied hiving coibmitted the act, but charged it Upon the man who g ave evidence against him. DESTRUCtIO:v OF STOBBS' POWDLIt MILLS. FRoM THE EDINBURGH OBSIRVIR. A few minutes before eight o'clock, on Friday morn ing, the drying-house of Stobbs' powder-mill:, about four miles south-west of Dalkeith, blew up with a terrible explosion ; and almost instantly thereafter, the " relief-house," or store-room, also exploded in a manner still more terrific. Cornwall, a workman, who has been about thirty years at the works, was in the dying-house, rernovin&a quantity of gunpowder. At the door stood a small waggon, attended by a man named Thomson, who was conveying the powder iii casks from the drying-house to the other building called the " relief," about thirty feet distant. How the accident originated cannot be exactly ascertained. The first explosion certainly took place in the drying house, of which scarcely a stone remains in its original position, being scattered in all directions. At three o cluck yesterday, part of the mangled remains in Cornwall had been found. The head and part of the body of Thomson were also found at some distance. It is very difficult to say to which of the bodies the fragments that have been discovered belong. Our reporter saw part of the intestines of a man drawn from a burn - that runs near by ; also part of a body picked up in a field nearly a mile distant. The horse which stood in the waggon was killed. 'lt was hurled to a distance of forty feet, and the shoes of the fore and hinder feet of that side which was next the door of, the house were torn off. A large puncture was visible in the animal's side, as though something had pierced through the body. It is scarcely possible to describe the effects of this awful explosion on the buildings and trees adjacent. The houses for carrying on the various branches of the work stood detached, and at a consider able distance from each other ; but, with one exception, all are more or less injured, either in walls or roofs. Some of the latter are completely driven in by thz tremendous concussion, but no part of the machinery seems to be injured. The houses in which the explo sion took place are entirely destroyed. Many of the stones belonging to them ale driven into the earth to a considerable depth. Most of the glass in the windows of Stobbs' village, and at Gorebridge, are shatteted, many of the casements forced in, and the tile roof partially, and in some cases completely, destroyed. The trees in the neighbourhood, many of which are of con siderable size, are shivered as if by lightning. To. persons on the spot the scene was truly terrific.— Several leaped into the water for safety, others were beaten to the ground by the concussion, and for a time no one had courage to inquire the extent of the devasta tion. People who were on the high road were com pletely astounded, and felt a sudden pressure, of which they could not discover the cause, till a huge volume of black smoke, mixed with large stones, &sc. rose from the valley, like the eruption of a volcano, and com pletely darkened the air. The shock was felt at Edin burgh, at Lauder, and ai Haddington. At Dalkeith one of the bells tolled, from the concussion of the air ; and in Musselburgh several panes of glass were broken. Several persons received contusions from stones, and a shoema,ker, sitting at work at Gorebridge, h a d hi s h ea d cut by a piece of glass forced out of his window. FURTHER PARTICULAR& IROM THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY OR SATURDAY. The explosion of Stobbs' powder mills, on Friday morning, shook the country fur 20 miles round. This manufactory, which has been carried on for many years by Messrs. Hitchiner and Hunter, at Stobbs t is situated in a deep ravine, about four miles south of Dalkeith, surrounded on all sides by a plantation of young trees. The viol ks are extensive. The horse which was in the waggon, was thrown to the distance of about 30 yards; the waggon was shattered into a thousand pieces, some of it being found at a great distance from the works. There were two persons about 50 yards di,tant wheathe !souses blew up, Mr. Hunter, and one of the wot kmen who was loading a cart with wood. Mr. Hunter was slightly hurt in the leg. He was driven into as adjoin ing drain, to the protection of which it is supposed he owed his safety,the materials projected by the forceof the explosion flyingover his head. Toe burning rafteis olthe buildings were scattered in various directions, and some of these, being thrown on the top of the knowe among the broom and whine, set fire to them, which being seen burning added considerably to the alarm spread by this dreadful catastrophe. The adjoining trees are some of then; torn up by the roots, while others are cut asunder about the middle, as if by the operation of a saw, the stump being only kit and all . . 2 • I