Star. — London, England, 1824-08-27 00:00:00

ANCIENT TAVERNS. The nature of our English inns and taverns, in early ages, are to be gathered from various old writers. Harrison, in his account of England, written in the reign of Elizabeth, tells us, that in all chief towns, our inns were " verie well furnished with naperie, bedding, and tapestrie—had plentie of beere, ale, and sundrie kinds of wine; and such was the capacities of some of them, that they were able to ledge 200 or 300 persons. How beit," he adds, " of all England there are no worse inns than in London, and yet made are there far better than the best that I have ever heard of in anie forren coun tile if all circumstances be duly considered." There is a well-known proverb, " Good wine needs no bush," i. e. nothing to point out where it is to be i sold. The subsequent passage, from a book published in WM called Good News and Bad, seems' to prove, that anciently tavern-keepers kept both a bush and a sign : a host in speaking— " I rather will take down my bask and sign, Than live by means of riotous expense." Shakspeare furnishes us with a specimen of the. charges at the tavern of his time, in the bill which Peto takes out of Falstilfs pocket, of the expenses of his supper and night's drinking at the Boar's Head, in Eastcheap --" Irvin, a capon, 2s. 2d. sauce, 4d. sack, two gallons, Ss. Bd. anchovies and sack after supper, Od. bread. a halfpenny." Ben Jrpson's favourite bruins appears to have been canary, as sack is stated beim e to have been Falstaff's. His principal place ofresort for indulging in this beverage appears to have been the Swan Tavern, by Charing-cross; the drawer at which had the art of pleasing him so much, that he has commemorated his name in one of his metrical jeu cresprits, with a benediction on him for his attention to him in this respect. The character given of our taverns, and the incorrect manners of the company frequenting them, are most scur rilously overcharged in the accounts of some of the early foreign travellers. In a work called A Character of Ragland," Eic. 1659, addressed by oue of these in a series of letters to a French Nobleman, the author, speaking of taverns, says :•••." Your L. will not believe me that the Ladies of greatest quality suffer themselves to be treated iii one of these taverns ; but you will be more astonished when I assure you that they drink their crowned cups roundly, dance after the fiddle, kiss freely, and term it an honourable treat." And M.Joreviii, another French traveller, speaking of Worcester and the Stag Inn there, tells his readers—" According to the custom of the country, the landladies sup with the strangers and pas sengers, and if they have daughters, they are also of the company, to entertain the guests at table with pleasant conceits, where they drink as much as the men ; but what is to me the most disgusting in all this is, that when one drinks the health of any person in company, the custom of the country does not permit you to drink more than half She cup, which is illed up, and presented to him or her whose health you have drank." He next speaks of tribacco, which, as he says, the women smoked as well as the men. 11I.Jorevin was here in Charles the Second's reign. THE TOILET OF -I ROMAN LADY., A woman of quality,.on lesvipg het bed, which she usually did about ten or eleven o'cladt, repaired to her bath. After remain ing there for some time, where she was carefully rubbed with a pumice -stone, she came forth to pats-isito the handset the counters. These cosmetes were slaves, who possessed .many secrets fur pre. set ving the skin and complexion, and who derived this name from the Greek word Kilmer, which signifies beauty. The moment she left the bath, a sort of cataplasm, invented by the Empress Poppaai was• applied to her face, which she took off only ohm- she went abroad, or on the arrival of a gimlet - pro that the poor husband could never see his wife without her features being covered with this mask, which she often replaced in the evening to preserve her face throughout the night from the contact of the air. As soou•as she had finished bee toilette, a slave removed it, and bathed her face with a sponge steeped in asses milk, whilst another endeavoured to give to the. skits all possible freshness by rubbing it, according to Pliny, with the ashes.of snails, or of large ants, burnt and bruised in salt, with honey in which the bees had been smothered, with the fat of a pUllet mixed with unions, and lastly, with the fat of a swan, to which they attributed the property of re moving wrinkles. Iler next care was to efface any red spots, with a piece of woollen cloth, steeped in oil of roses, and to remove freckles with a scraping of sheepskin, mixed with the honey of Cor sica, to which was sometimes added the powder of frankincense. • This operation finished, a third slave approached, provided with a pair of pincers, with which she mercilessly plucked even the mi nutest hairs from the face of her mistress. This duty of the toilette over, that of the ti,eth _ . When fresh water was found insufficien t to cleanse them, they were rubbed w ith grated pumice -atone, or marble dust, a method still employed. The use of moth-brushrs was known at that period; it'd the coquettes of the time, like those of the present day, re placed the teeth they lost with false ones, which were fastened with gold. To heal or prevent chaps in the lips, they rubbed them with the inside of a sheep-skin, covered with a gall-nut ointment— or, what was better still, with the ashes of a burnt mouse, mixed with fennel root. The teeth being cleaned, a third class of slaves appeared to co loot the eye-lashes, eye-brows, and hair, according to the age or taste of the Lady. Thu last part . of the operations of the toilette ended, a slave spread a red pomade on the lips of ►er mistress to heighten their freshness and bloom, whilst another presented a round mirror, ornamented with precious stones, and held by a handle of mother-of pearl ; which mirror, from the want of glass, was formed of a composition of several metals, to which was given an exquisite polish. They were sometimes so large as to reflect the person trom head to foot. Firing at marks formed part of the amusement of a certain class of people in 1709; and prises were offered of various descriptions, particularly one at Islington of a pair of doe4kin breeches, worth £3. The terms for the privilege of firing were a subscription of Is. each by 60 men. Matches at cricket were played for many years, on Tuesdays ' Thursdays, and Saturday, ' at the Duke of Ormond's Mead, in Lamb's Conduit Ileitis. The following notice was issued in August, 1710, " that a gold ring is to be danced for on the 31st aod a hat to be played for at skittles the next day following, at the Green-gate, Gray's-walk, near Lambeth Wells." There was an established cockpit in Prescot-street, Goodman's-fields, 1712 ; there the Gentlemen of the East enter tained themselves, while the Nobles and others of the West were entertained by the edifying exhibition of the agility of their run ning footmen. The Duke of Grafton declared his man was un rivalled in speed ; and the Lord Cholniondeley betted hint 500 gui neas that his excelled even the unrivalled: accordingly the ground Was prepared for a two-mile heat in Hyde Park ; the race was run, cud one of Ow parties um vioter, but which, we are not informed.— In the same month a curious brass gun was advertised to be shot for at Holton: it was in the shape of a walking-cane, and might be used as a gun or pistol; it contained a telescope, a dial on the head, and a perpetual ahuanack. On the Bth inst. a person in the parish of Martock, Somerset, lost his pig, and after many inquiries was in formed that the animal had walked upw.irds of a mile and entered the church during Divine Service. So strange a guest rather alarmed the congregation, and he was immediately driven out by the sexton. Nothing daunted, the grunting lounger proceeded to a meeting house, a short distance from the church, and walked with stately step up to the polpit, when he was observed by one of his• master's servants, who drove him home. Saturday, the 7histiat, Lard Kennedy, and James Cruick shank, Bag. of Langley Park, played six golf matches, of seven bales each, oit Avererff's Limbs, • The latter -received consider able odds from his Ladlehip s and woa flee out of the eta matches. iricuriozi OF W A t idS,ZIARYY MAHER: .~~ . a CLONICEL. AUQPIT.b.. . At ten o'clock this morning, • Winierts...and Darby Maher, - convicted of the burning of the Shea; were taken from the jail to be executed at Tubber, the scene of the horrid grime. They were escorted by a troop tithe Sd Dragoon Guards, from Caber, a large patty of mounted police, and a party of the 58th Regiment. Wm. Maher, who was attended by the Rev; Mr. Fogarty, - seemed, on leaving the jail, to. be quite resigned .to his fate, and beheld the awful preparations with apparent indiffer ence; he stepped into the chaise unassisted and with the greatest alacrity. Darby Maher, who was attended by the Rev. Mr. Brenan, quite unlike his companion, was horror-struck at the bustle and appearance of the mili tary outside the jail. He was in an exhausted state, and. was obliged to be assisted into the chaise. They were both very young men. A chaise, containing the executioner; who was masked, and a police constable, followed the prisoners. The Sub-sheriff, accompanied by Mr. Wilson, of the police, and Mr. John Maher, of Tullamine, in a carriage, fol lowed in the rear. The procession altogether was so solemn, the most perfect silence having prevailed, that, it struck with awe the vast multitude assembled round the jail, from an early hour, to witnessthe sad spectacle. The Rev. Mr. Fogarty exhorted the spectators in Irish, and seemed to make a deep impression. Immediately afterwards the culprits were launched into eternity. AUGUST 21.—Yesterday, pursuant to sentence, John Kennedy underwent-the sentence of the law. Precisely at one o'clock he made his appearance on the.platforrn„ attended by the Rev. Mr. Baldss in, whose exertions, to bring the unfortunate man to a sense of his awful state, were unremitting from sentence to execution - --and im mediately addressed, to the following effect, the vast con course assembled to witness the melancholy scone: . " I am guilty of the crime for which I am now about to suffer ; I killed the map in a At of drunkenness, and no one el.e bad We'd, act, or part in it. lam heartily sorry for it, and hope that my ex ample will warn you all to avoid bad company and drunkenness, those vices that have brought me to this untimely end. I was stu pidly drunk when I committed the murder, and therefore hope Goo ' will have mercy on my soul. Nay be bless you all, and I beg your prayers for my soul." • , The rope being adjusted, and the cap drawn over his face, the unhappy Mali ' S soul was launched into eter nity. After hanging the usual time, the body was cut down, and conveyed to the County InGrmary, to be 1 1 anatomized, according to sentence. A SLEEP WALLER.--ThUTSday, the 10th, at eleven o'clock at night, a man without a coat or waistcoat, and with a night-cap, but no hat, was, observed by the patrol of Bankside to walk along the bank very sedately, through a small passage between two piles of large stone, where there is only room for. a middle.sized per son, and then to ascend the steps of theoele Southwark Bridge, above forty in number. He then went to the tollgate, paid the toll, and went through . the piece of machinery called a tell-;aloe; ,, thence ,orer ,tile..s9uth wark Bridge. Not long afterwards the same person re, turned over the bridge, and was accosted by the patrol in the following manner:—" My friend, you are soon returned ?'' " Yes ; after a long walk, sleep, and dream ; and, if I had not fallen over some stones up in Queen street,'-Cheapside, I dare say. I should : have gone to Moor fields, for I dreamt a friend of mine was very ill, and had sent for me to come directly to their-house in Moorfields, to which I was on my journey." He did not seem irritated, and informed the patrol that he had done so once before. He then went home to his house in Moss-alley, Bankside. His name is W. Simonds. CORONER'S INQuasT.—Yesterday morning an Inquest was hild at the Vauxhall Tap, Vataball, before Cum. de/astir, Lsq. Coroner for Surrey, on view of the body of a man whose.name was unknown.- Thomas Rose, of the Vauxhall. Tap, deposed, that on Monday last, ,while he was sitting by the window, he heard the noise of a herse coming hy, and, on looking out, he saw a horse in full gallop in the road, with a man on him ; in a few seconds he. heard the cry of " Oh !" and on going, out of doors, he saw the man lying on the ground, near .a bar which,crosses the road; he was bleeding very much at the head ; witness assisted in taking him up, and a surgeon was sent for, who ordered him to be taken into the tap: this was done, when the man's skull was dis covered to be dreadfully fractured. He died soon after. Charles Pennington, of : Kennington-cross, deposed, that his father was ;he owner of the horse on which the de ceased was riding; the deceased was in the witness's father's employ ; he had stated his name to be . 44 John Horton;" but that has been ascertained not to be his name. On Monday he and the witness went out each on a horse and when they got to Vauxhall the deceased stuck his heels into the horse's sides, which made him set off at full gallop, and.when the witness came up be found the deceased as before described. The horse on which the deceased rode was a perfectly quiet one in general.—The Jury returned a verdict of—Accidental Death. Deodand on the horse Is.. Wednesday evening an Inquest was held at the Bar ley Mow, Mount -street, on the body of a respectable young man, named Riches, who was drowne4 in the Serpentine.— The Jury remarked, that the accidents which had too frequently happened in the river, were occasioned by the great quantity of holes at the bottom, and the cold springs, which were equally dangerous, and recommended that some representation should be made, either to the Banger or the Secretary of State, to remedy the evil.—The evidence proved that the de ceased came to the water very warm, and immediately walked in, when .he disappeared.—The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.. An Inquest was held at the Fleece, Northampton street, Clerkenwell, on the body of Mary Chamberlain, aged 40, who went to bed on Tuesday night in perfect health, and was found dead by tbe,side of her husband in the morning; also on the . body of R. Calvary, of Sloane -street, who was• found the same morning, under similar circumstances, by the side of his wife. Verdict in both cases--Natural Death. Sunday, the 15th instant, at the church of Drone, Perthshire, just as the sacramental service was conclud ing, one of the joists of the east gallery partially gave , way, when the people were thrown into indesetibable perturbation ; and in the confusion to escape, suffered no small injury, some in their persons, others in the de struction of their clothes. Sir ROBERT WELBoLE had always very exact intelli gence of all that was passing at the Court of the Pre tender. When Alderman BARBER visited the Minister, after his return from Rome, be asked him how his old friend, the Pretender, did ? The Alderman was much surprised. Sir ROBERT then related some minute par ticulars of a conversation which had taken place be tween them. " Well then, Jack," said Sir Rosner, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee." ITALIAN BRIGANDS. The Chevalier de Angelis, in a Paper on Italian Man ners, just published, speaking of the Brigands, relates that one of them, covered with wounds, and having lost a leg, continued to defend himself against the soldiers by whom he was attacked. Another set fire to a hay left, and they perished in the midst of the flames, in or der not to expose themselves as trophies to their enemies. Some Ca‘abrese banditti having been pursued by a numerous body of troops, were arrested in their flight by a river, which the continual rains had rendered im possible to be forded. Despairing - of their safety as', well as of their pardon, they destroyed their ammu nition, embraced one another, and disappeared together' in the midst of the torrent. Bizzarro, the terror of the Calabrias, was always ac companied by his wife, who made him a father at the moment when his life was exposed to the most imminent danger. Fearful that the cries of the infant might dis cover his retreat, he determined to sacrifice it; and tearing it from the embraces of its mother, he mur dered it in her presence. The wretched woman stifled her grief, not to expose herself to the same fate; but no sooner did she perceive Bizzarro overwhelmed with sleep and wine, than she seized his arms, and avenged the death of her son. A reward had been set upon the head of this monster; his widow came to de mand it, confessing her crime, and exhibiting the tt unk less head of her husband. A chief of bdnditti was taken, and condemned to lose his right hand before being . hanged. The executioner, who was inexperienced, having failed in his first attempt, was. about to repeat it ; the criminal requested and ob tained permission to cut it off himself. He chopped off .his hand, and presenting it to the executioner, said to him coolly, " Learn another time to be more expert in your business 1" BRIGHTON, AUGUST 26.--This morning, at seven o'clock, as the workmen, nine in number, employed in erecting the large building at the end of the Steyne, had arrived at the top of the house, the front wall gave way, and fell with a most tremendous crash, and two of the unfortunate men were plunged from the top to the ground ; there are no hopes of their recovery ; the other seven got hold of the scaffolding, and hung suspended in that manner until assistance came to their relief. Sattirday after noon, as the Rev. Mr. Read, of Stone aston, was returning from Chewton, in a four-wheel pony.carriage, in which were also his wife, his son, and a man servant, the animal became restive, ran away, and in turning out of the road close to Chewton turn pike-gate, the carriage came in contact with a wall, part of which was broken down, and it was upset, when the whol.e party were thrown out. Mr. Read was so dreadfully injured that he died the following night; as did likewise his son an hour afterwards. Mrs. Read is also so seriously hurt that s little hopes are entertained of her recovery, her skull being badly fractured, and one of her arms brciien. The servant also had his shoulder disloiated; and was further much injured. Mr. Head has left a family of seven children to bewail his lois. FASmoicsm,E,BEQGlN9.—Extractnf a letter, dated Keswick, August 18 :—Mnch..atte t ntion .has been .ex ci,ted in the region of the Lakes ; by the following dent. A few days ago, a very genteel young man, TO a real or affected Scotch a.ccent, made his appearance in the character of a beggar and ballad-vender, attended by another young man, about his own age, apparently his servant, who deals in threads and bobbins, and such small .gear.. A certain nunivaisc.honte—a!rjaaptaess to the business of a mumper—ibout the first-mentioned personage, excited suspicion, and led to a very narrow observance of his 'notions; tire result was, tcpretty. clear :conviction that be, is not osily.not a , metrcheant and ven ljer of ballads, ,bt4 a ,petstin of much gentility and in ; formation, it not , , klgh birth. Rumour, as usual, is 'busy. It is whiipered that the young wanderer is the 'son of the of and that he has left his father's . mansion under pretence of visiting an old preceptor., I but, in reality, to undertake this frolic, to which he has been led by a bet with a fellow-cnllegian, that he will, •in a month's tour s return with 101.. in his pocket, the fruit of public chaiity and ciedulity . The discovery which bas been made, or. which is said to have been mide, will in no wise frustrate hil object, as every one who hears .of the- circumstance appears anxious, not merely to line his purse, 6ut also to line his stomach with cates of the choicestooler. The dress of the par ties is quite opropec to their assumed, character; hut their pedestrian powers irre,evidently much superior to those ofehe wandering wit', in general. . . How TO IDENTIFY .4 WRI T TXN ISSTAUMENT,.-At the late WatetforCi Assizes, much ,amusement was af forded on one occasion in the Criminal Court, by the method taken by A witness who could neither read, nor Iwiite, nor speak English, to identify a piece of writing. His name. was Charles House, and, he was the prosecu tor in a case in which two fellows stood indicted for de ft auding him of money, under pretence of having a civil bill decree against him. Through the medium of an interpreter, House appeared to be one of the most stupid and incomprellensiblenf witnesses, though, as it would seem, he really was not deficient in understanding. The prisoners, when they, had, obtained the prosecutor's moneTishad given him a, receipt foi it, and this receipt it became necessary, in the cow se of the examination, to prove. It was shown toklonse,;.and be was.asked.if he could swear it wristhe•same which, had been given tp bim ¢I the prisoner'? oterky made . no answer, but with great deirberatiOn pr o ceeded to . search his poc kets. 4t length he drew for - ,ch an old jin snuff-box; opened.it with great caution,. ;W a ist last, produced a bit of paper. This precions ortivreeethe then, without uttering a word, applied to the paper which he was called upon to iden tify ; when it at once appeared that the scrap had been torn from this paper. The thing was evident, and re quired np words. During the laughter which this dis play of cuteness occasioned, Charky loo ked about him with a smile of triumph and self-congratulation playing on hii lips., The Chief Justice afterwards remarked, 6 , that the only intelligible evidence which Mr. Charks House bad given, was that in which he said nothing." A poor Irishman, who kept dry lodgings in a sea port town on the west coast, lately called in great haste. upon a surgeon to go down to his houie and see a man who was 6 , either. dead or dying." On the surgton's arrival he found the patient actually dead, with ilarge bone sticking in his throat; and, upon inquiring into the circumstance, " mine host," with a mixed expression of sympathy and native humour. said-46 Fait, doctor, I can tell you no more about it than this: as Molly and I were eating some pork and praties, the man came in just off a voyage from the de ar c o untr y, an d f e ll to, and, he ate and he ate away, and nothing at all would do hjm, till at last I gave hias.apig's foot, and by that done him! "—Glasgow Herald. POLICE INDELLIOENCE. M A NS IO N-HOUSE. Robert Weightnuts. who was some days ago charged with hav:t g stolen a letter, containing half a-sovereign, was brought up for ano ther examination. It *lll be recollected that Mr. Harmer objected to the committal of the prisoner upon the ground that the statute did not comprehend the case. Mr. Dowuxo, the Solicitor to the Post Office, on the present ()C -ession, said, be-requisod the committal of the prisoneron the third section of the Act, for stealing the letter only, and stated that th e case of the King against Albin was a case in point. Mr. Harmer's Clerk said, the case alluded to was not at all z.na logous, as the letter is that case contained a bank-note, which bank-. note, w a s regularly traced to the prisoner. _ . Mr. DOWLIKO said, the Attorney-General had determined to pro ceed on the third section- under the impression that th e note nnyll , not be traced; but he admitted that the conviction took place up on the general merits of the evidence, and not upon the mere proof th 4: a letter bad been stolen. The Loin MATO* certainly thought there was no analogy c tween the cases, but be was determined to commit th e ;., „, confident a decision of such importance to the pnblic th left to a Jury. The prisoner wrs then committed. Yesterday, Thomas Gossioacip, a porter in the eniployniv:.t ;• merchant, was charged by Mr. l'eHat, glass-manufacturer, of Paul's Church-yard, with having feloniously appropriated ettec;• for £llO. It appeared that the prisoner and another man, hid found the check in Leadenhall-street. The prisoner took it up, and asl,c4! his companion to take it into the banking-house and get it calla S' For this service the prisoner promised his companion the share he would be entitled to as a part finder; but epos getting the bank Dotes into his hands, he offered his companion a mere which was rejected. Expecting what would follow, he ran with the greatest speed to the Bank of England, and got the notes thang e y for sovereigns. In the meantime, his companion gave inf , ril,ztortu. The prisoner, in his defence, declared that he had found the check, and sent a person to Sir John Perrin 's banking.hoi.se ; bet his directions were, that the check should be .kft for the ()weer., and that nothing but the reward for honesty should he taken. lite clerk, however, having made no objection, he kept the Money. The Loan Marcia asked Mr. Pellet, whether he wl a convinced that the check had not been stolen ? Mr. Pellat said, he considered it almost impossible. Ile was sa tisfied that no robbery had been committed. The Loan Maros observed, that an impression existed amongst the lower orders of sockty, that a man was entitled to whitever he found. Nothing could he more fatal to honest dealing than the :w. mission of such a principle for a moment. The prisoner was then remanded. MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE A borse.dcaler in Montague-street, was cluirgeti with defrauding Dr. Coyne. The Doctor sent a mare to the defendant's stablei fur sale on commission, and directed it not to be sold under twenty guineas. In a few days the defendant paid the Doctor that sum, after deducting his commission ; but shortly after he (the Doctor„ heard that Captain Hall, of the Regent's Park Riding School, had given the defendant twenty-five guineas for it, which differelic, the llwtnr could not obtain. In defence, the accused said he had ac tually sold the horse to Mr. Moody, the coachmaster, for twernv guineas. Mr. Moody said such a bargain had been made, but tu s e money had not been paid, and the horse was afterwards so;:i ac above. The defendant was held to bail. M A R LBOROUG H-ST RE ET. Yesterday Henry Charles Pepperell, one of the patrols of St. Giles's parish, who has been some days in custody upon a charge of rob bery, was brought up for reexamination, and fully committed. Mary lambs, a young woman of decent appearance, was ch.tigett with robbing her mistress, Mrs. Miller, the wife of Mr. Mater, 4sbmonger,,in Piccadilly, of several article' of jewellery, of consi derable value.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial. W ORS H I P-STII.KET. I.lrteist, a hawker of books, was remanded for offering fur sale, at the sign of the Baker and. Basket, close to the office, obscene books. Four fellows, named Iludgmt, tilarks, Lane, and Chortle, were charged with attempting to break into the Shears public-house, ut Chequer-alley, Bunhill.row. The servant (an Irish girl) was awoke by .a pane of glas being broke in her bed-room window, when she saw a band put through to. open it. She instantly seized a poker, but was told, if she was quiet, they would not hurt her ; but if otherwise, they would destroy her. The daughter of Erin was not, however, intimidated, but gave one of them a blow on the head with the poker, and alarmed her master, who procured assistance., and they were all secured. She, however, could only swear to Hodgson, and he was committed, with orders to give twenty-foie hours notice of bail.—The rest were discharged. TOWN-HALL A girl, ten years old was purto the bar, when Mrs. Andrewi. of Green Walk, stated, that the • little Impostor Placed herself, the pte cediug night, in front of her iviudow, wringing her heeds in the greatest apparent agony, stating that she had lost her way, and never should see her de* mamma again. Mrs. Andrews and ber inmate, compassinnating her case, took her in, fed her, and put her to bed. The next morning, after giving her a com Got• able breakfast, Mrs. Andrews went with her to endeavour to find her parents; but having reached Billingsgate, the little ingrate oFsti• 'nicely refused to proceed, and Mrs. Andrews at length took her back, when she found that Miss face had in the interim missed a pair et stockings and several other trifling articles, which were found upon .he urchin. Mr. Alderman SMITS lamented that such abandoned conduct should be found in one so young, and ordered her to be taken care of till her parents could he found. Yesterday morning, as an elderly Lady was passing along the Hampstead-road, she was knocked down by a carriage; the wheels of which passed over her body. `Several Gentlemen immediately proceeded to her assist ance, and found her in a most dreadful situation, and in a state of insensibility. She was instantly carried to a neighbouring surgeons, who rendered her every as sistance, but unfortunately the vital spark had fled. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—The 15th ult. a fishing boat from Walls in Zetland, struck on a s unken rock, near the island of Papa, and the crew, consisting of five men, all perished. Some of them seemed to struggle hard for existence, by getting on the keel of the boat, liut were dashed off by the fury Of the waves, which pre• vented every means of access to them. By this truly melancholy event, five widows and twenty-four children have been left utterly destitute; none of the children are above seven years of age. Tinks.—The exactness of the time, at which they ob served the recurrence of the swelling waters to take place occasioned our Danish ancestors to give that over flow the designation of time itself, for tid or tide I% their language signifies time. So that, even at the present day, a Dane, on inquiring the hour, exclaims—Was TID paa dagen ist?—what tiine of the day, or wliat o'Clock is it? As there are every day two tides, so in every month, two courses of great tides and small, for seven days about the change of the moon, are the great or Spring tides so called from the German springer to rice • and the next ensuing seven are the small or neap tides, so called from the Saxon neap, low; which course of the sea is thus monthly renewed. MARRIED. August 17, at Invergordon, the Rev. David Fraser, Minister of Dores, to Miss Catharine Stormonth, third daughter of the late Rev. James Stormonth, Minister of Airly. DIED. August 20, after a few hours' illness, while at a shooting quartet, near Blair, in Atholl, with his nephew, the Hon. John Gray, Lieut.-Colonel Johnston, late of the 4th (or King's Own) Foot• April 18, at Bombay, G. A. C. Hyde, Esq. of the Bomb:7 Civil Service. The Ist of February last, in the East Indies, on his way to Cal- Cutts, in order to return to England for the recovery of his health, aged 55, Capt. Oakes, 4th Regiment Native Infantry. hi A ILS. A US. 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