Star. — London, England, 1827-11-07 00:00:00

TIE MOW.. DEATH 01 GINRRAL SIR ROBERI AIRRCROIIII2. -.Accounts reached Glasgow on Sato/44 , of dui death of Sir Bossier Mistiest:mate that morning, it his lest of Airthrey, near &Wing. Sir Rosalie was at the head of Wile of Generate, and by Im am's the Gort;runtent of ligsllaburgb Castle abilbolonefcy of 'the 7Stb Regiment bait hieinne vaeaaV. Lord Firsitor Somaintiti, Steretery to the Com taanaer-in-Chief, went through the La yesterday, at his Mee in the Horse Guards. A few General, and about forty other ()facers,' uamacted military butinesh `is Lordship. M on day, the 26th Regiinent arrived at Chatham, from Ireland. D i tathatentl bailment; to the 40th, 46th, and 634 Regiments of I cy, atrited In town yesterday, from Urinal, on route to Chatham. A Detachment belonging to the 3d Regimeot of Foot, arrived iitow a yesterday, from Ireland, on route to Sheenier'. Datachnients belonging to the 20th owl 89th Itegimems of In• isimq , envied in town yesterday from Drina, 011Millitit to Can. ternary. • A Detachment of Tri.h Recruits, belonging to the Artillery and w i ntry of the Katt Jodie Company, arrived in town yeatenlay boat 11116101, 00 mute to Chatham. The let and Sid Division' of t►e 26th (Cameronitn) Regiment of Lufaatry, sailed on the 30th ult. from Cork for Chatham. WAR OFFICE, NOV. 5. 1827. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Thus. Wood' from the half pay, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice Willis= B u mp, Who eschauges, receiving the difference. 40th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Jetta Storey to be Captain, ,t c p King, deceased. iist Ditto —Captain Thomas Fairweather to be Major,by purchase, vim Bereiford, promoted; Lieutenant John Ptcton Mete to be captain, by purchase, vice Fairweather. nth Ditto.Etwign and Adjutant George Conic to have the rank of Lieutenant. • gib Dino—Lieutenant General Mitttheer rapetli Aylmer, K.C.B. to bs Colonel, vice Stojtsbn Murray. deevieed. 11911 Ditto—Captain Francis Jackson to be fifijor, by purchase vice Fairfax, promoted; Lieut. Hon. James Stuart to be Captain by purchase, vice Jackson ; Ensign John Junes tobe Lieutenant, bysil iph orchase, vice Stuart; Hon. Richard Howe Errant', to be by purchaae, vice James. UNNITACIIED. To be Lieweenant Colonels of Infantry by purchase—Major Henry Fairies, (rem the 05th Foot ; Major Marcus Lieresford, from the flat Pout. To be Lieutenant of Infantry, by purchase--Enstn Ralph Allen Gossett, hum the 67th Foot. nollerrat STAVE. Brevet Deputy Inspector Of Hospitals David Drownrigg, from half pay, to be Surgeon to the Forces, vice Qiincy, placed upon half pay; John Clark, M.D. to be Hospital Auietant to the Forces. vice Allman, promoted in the S6th Foot. MEMORANDUM. ibe undermentioned Officers have been allowed to dispose of their Commissions : Lieutenant Colonel Sir James Malcolm, KGB. late of the Royal Mariltel; Lieutenent Colonel James Thomas Robertson, half pay Unattached. Conithistioni signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of the County of Trak. Christopher Richardson, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant; Edward Chapman, Esq. to be ditto ; William Rocket Compton, Esq. to be ditto; Edward Swainston Serangwayes, h:sq. to be ditto. Commissions in the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Battalion of Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of _ Ghmorgan. Adjutant Jonathan Howells to be Captain, by Brevet ; William Dales, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant. NAVA L IN I'ELLIG ENCE. pu m ping; Nov. S.—Wind W.—Arrived the Carolina, Homey, Item ikon. Arrived from London the Druid, Muumuu., fur bleatierratt. Pearsuottru, Nov. 6.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Reliance, Bern, for Calcutta. Dm, Nov. 4E—Wind N. W.—Arrived from London the Isa belt, Tweenou, for Trieste • Isabella, Commitame. for Gibraltar ; hideosity, Woooma..„ for Demerara ; Mary Ann, O'Beint, for Basal; Everett*, A armee, for Bethke; and Landover?, WHIT; for.larnaica. Arrived the Neptune', from ditto; Silva. from Pil las; Thaia. Haneoato, end Malvin', Nampa, from Cephalopla. &east o f time outward-bound have sailed. - listerday was launched from. the Themes Sitip.building Com pm% Tied at Demford, a superb ship. being opwaads of 1,100 Ism Wren, foe the service of the. East India Company. She was b. by J. F. Tones, Esq. In lieu of 'the late unfortunate %nal .6ssige.'aed Is to sail early in February to Bengal and China, Wm the temoilland of Captain C. S. Tunes. /Jim was tamed the Abner from the agent to Lloyd's at Arklow, to the Collector tad Comptroller at Milford, dated the 211th of October, gives the Melt weelemehtlp element t * Omortmaie--1 MO the Minute of informing you, that about twelve *Week this day, a small boat was seen drifting through this bay, with four men and one boy in her ; a very short time after she we, deserved, about a quarter of a mile to the North of Arklow Beek, coming ashore ; was capsized, and, I am sorry to say, al 1 bola s prlsbed. The small boat came ashore, and was marked the" I I I sabots, of Milford; being the name of the vessel and the prt I appose she belonged to; and the letters inside her stern were a' which, I suppose, were the initials of the Captain's name. Aim large vessel has bein; seen, as yet, by auy person here, it is ON insult what size vessel she was. or where she has been lost ; hack is supposed she foundered, as the hands in the boat had oo elm when at sea. It is expected that the bodies may be Imbed tes dare, as it was hut a ?dry short distance from it they were hil."—Tbc above vessel is supposed to be the schooner Elizabeth, if Milked, %Victim' Gamin's, master.—Bristei The vessel Margaret, at present a Scotch trader, is the identical vessel which carried dm Pretender—the unfortunate Prince Chades—front Stornaway over to the Hebrides. .This circuns. nate naturally recalls to mind a very interesting incident with which it is associated in the history at this unfortunate Prince.— Haag understood that the vessel in question had been prepared! for him, the Pretender left *Lend's, laird of Glass, and see out es foot far Stotuaway, which is distant about thirty miles. The only 401 Plininns so his journey were O'Neil and Sullivan, and a guide ter direct ans. They travelled for s hours through the hills, in a l vet rod stormy night,without the smallest refreshment ; and, owing rlthei ti the ignorance or trickery of their guide, they were led shout eight miles out of their omen. Under all the circumstances ithe ease, the Prince considered this a peculiar hardship ; but it Wort tot to be a Providevnial interposition in his favour. Over tone with hunger and fatigue, they rested within half a mile of Stor. nattily, while they sent a trustworthy friend to procure some pro visions for them. On his arrival there he found 100 men all in inns against the Pretender. He returned insufficient time to sp. PLR the Prince of his danger, sod be accordingly escaped. Had it to bees for the circumstance of Charles's guidemisieading him, he would have reached &areaway that night ; and would, to a err. uolr,baa bees taken prisouten—lagiss thwriee. Inc IHAHas Tureset..—The woks at the Tunnel ale proceeding in the most satisfactory manner. The archways have been extended upwards of 16 feet from the point at which the water entered the tunnel in May lot. The miners have completely got through the whole of the bed of the river which was considered dAngetutn, and have reached the solid clay, the exist. once of which the horizontal borings indicated before the shield was again advanced. The measures adopted by the engineer, to protect the works from any further irruption of the 'flumes, have therefore answered all the expectations entertained. Some hundred tons of turbot were landed on Wed 'y at Dover; a new bank has been discovered , ming with turbot and brill. The main herring 'y has commenced; two Brighton boats rerurneJ aturday, with 6000, realizing 6s. 9d. per 100. was stated by one of the overseers of the parish of tingly, be' ore the sitting of Magistrates at Brighton, ionday last, that 500 paupers were receiving relief the rates, although the population of that parish not etceed 900! t Saffron %%Alden Fair, on Thursday last, a pang about 17 or IS years of age, dressed in a smock , , offered a horse for sale. On being questioned whom it belonged, and where he came from, he several very contradictory accounts; and suspicion consequently excited, he was taken hefore the 4 , , and alter an examination committed for a further 'g. Ott being brought up the following day, he A full confession of having stolen it horn his em. at Enfield the preceding night. ea Son sd to day to scor n led Let, y AA DA s al Deo It Iv ea tiddi of on Ni o , I;ty from tl Rod did toi the 4t vet Ilan, a del frock, at it v, time gav e s , nch being li sh be in g oat aade DRURY•LANE THEATRE. ' Mrs. env/I.We pleasant Comedy of The Belle's Stra tenon was perk., med pt this Theatre last night, in which Miss Foote Petlormed Letitia Hardy, a character which she ears with perfect satisfaction to the audience. She sang::—Where are you going, my pretty Maid? which was encored, as was also the Pat de Deux by herself and Miss Ilvacs. COOPER played Sir George Touchscood with considerable effect. WALLACE in Dopicourt, exhibited a gaiety of deportmei,t a• d vivacity which were really very characteristic. DOWTON; in Old Hardy, was excellent. We most not forget to notice M. JONES in klatter, w ho trifled-away the character, but preserved the test of the author. Indeed Jones, in characters of this k:nd, is without a rival. In the Farce of A flowtaed for on Oliver, Elowros played Sir Mark Bate most respectably, we cannot say equal to FAWCETT at the other House, for this is one of FAN• caria clieYdietnlres. Miss Foora, in Maria Darlington, afforded a rich treat ; she seemed to have preserved her animal spirits to the last, and iv t to have been the least fatigued trout the vest exertions which she had under. gone. The audience testified 'heir approbation of her acting by repeated applauses, which she well merited, and which clearly chews that she still retains that hold on the public favour which she eminently established for herself lung sinee. NEWCASTLE, Nov. 6. Wednesday morning the first public meeting of the , Newcastle and Gateshead Amateur Choral Society tank place ai 8. Mary's, Lii iteshea.l. On this occasion the Oiataiin of. the • Messiah was peitolmediw.a mannes that ieflecte l the greate,t cted t upon the talent and idustry of the meiiihers, and highly surprised and gratified a numerous and genteel audience. The per f , mance was p stronizA by Lind and Lidy Itsyssa svottau and the and MA)oress of Newcastle, and the meeting was lioncured by the prestnce of the Biship of lluattsst ; all these distinguished rersons we e pleased to compliment the Suciity in the most flattering terms. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, at the adjourned tea ions at Dutham. on Saturday took the oaths qualifying him to act a; a M igistr ate for the county f a!ati.ie of Dur• him. The inference drawn from this citcumstance is that the No'sle Marquis intends to reside the principal put ot his time in the county, and to devote scum considerable c'e.tree of attention to its concern., N hich require tl e strictest and most practical observation. In consequesce of an uncommon rapid tide, between Thursday night and Friday morning, upwards of 900 loads of timter, belonging to Seanz and FOSTER, CRAIG, Stc. broke adrift and was carried to sea out or Shields harZiout. Pitt of it washed on shore at Marsden Rock, and at the entrance of the harbour, A farmer living at Quarry House, near Counden, in the county of Durham, has a goose that hatched a broad of goislings in May lay, and is now sitting her second set of seven eggs; but what may be considered somewhat remarkable is, that one of tlie first brood has also just laid two eggs, which the mother is also now hatching, the young goose still c ntinuing to lay. • Last week, at North Shields, a jolly old son of Nep tane sacrificed 'o freely to Bacchus, that he measured his length on the floor. His host coaxed and threatened in vain ; he appe ire•l as torpid as a hedgehog in November. His rib hearing of the affair; and thoroughly acquainted with the humour of ber old spark, set out with all possible speed, et-sely'fisilowed by a modem Orpheusosho on entering the ta , ern. struck up ": f alt's alive!" The see tit iney li elen lump ',stung up in& caFiered about the -room, beating time to the tune with the agility of a lad of 16. The scraper of cat-gut having- got his 'cue, wended his way toward the residence of the merry tar, followed by him dancing, and a numberof bisys cheering. Puma SMOUTING.—Last week, a number of the most expert spot tsmen of North Shields and vicinity, as embled to determine who was.the best shot. The prize contended for was a new plough. Five of them having shot an equal number of birds, it was agreed they should determine the contest on Saturday. A Shields youth, confident of success, brought with him a score of stout young fellows, to carry home the prize,nor did he reckon.witohut his host. On being duly proclaimed con queror, the lads from the county of Durham tied the pigeons he had shut about the plough, on whkh ttey hoisted a flag, and as many as could possibly get in cartittl the implement of husbandry triumphantly upon their thoulders, while the winner marched at their head, " tripping it away on the light fantastic toe," without pipe or tabor.-7,yne Mercury. HAMMERSMITH SI/STRIHHO* Bobs.—This 111 really a most magnificent piece of architecture, and, unlike some modern improvements, is as useful as it is omit mental. When viewed horn the land in a right line with the bridge, it is by far more beautiful and imposing in its appearance than any other bridge either in Lon don or its vicinity. A great number of people are in the habit of visiting the bridge out of curiosity. The receipts on Sundays average about twenty-five pound a day. There is a curious story told about the o r ening of this bridge, which was intended to have been public. The Committee, in order to give the thing as much *Jet as possible, invited the 130:ke of CLARRIICS to take the lead in the ceremony of opening; but ii is said that his 11..yal Highness, having • learnt that his brother the Dike of Sousa laid the first stone, very properly thought that he ought to have been solicited to open the bridge, and consequently re fused. Upon this the Committee applied to the Duke of Sussex, who feeling hurt that he had not been first 'requested, also refused. Thus the good people of Ham mersmith missed a good show, the publican's a good day's business, and the bridge proprietors rod extra receipts. FlRRL—Yesterday morning a fire broke out in the workshop.of Mr. AZALEA NDEft. joiner and cabinet-maker, Hoxton Old Town. Being built of stood, it was ra• pidly consumed, log. Cher with several chests of drawers, chairs, tables, &c. in an unfinished state. Na further damage was done.—About six o'clock last evening a fire broke out in the upper rooms of the house of Mfr. GIBBS, Jermyn street. An alarm of this nature excited an unusual degree of confusion in such an extremely populous and fashionable neighbourhood, but we are happy to state that those fears were soon quieted, and the alarm subsided. The fire broke out in the attics of Mrs Glebes house, in consequence of one of the chim nies having taken fire, and the flsmes would have been extinguished without much mischief, but unfortunately there was a scarcity of water, and helot e a good supply was obtained the attics and their contents were entirely destroyed. The flames were, however, stopped before they extended to airy other part of the premises. A fire broke out at Injouville (S-inn liifetieure) on October 30th, in the storehouses of Mr. Luscouse. and in a very short time the whole were destroyed. 'l'h•re were upwards of 100 barrels of oil on the premises,and it was found impos•ible to cock a fire supported by such a combustible mater i The loss is estimated at more than 100,0V0 francs (4,0.01.) but the Allele was insured. ,COUfirOir Abs : llßALilr. Not:11; This bring the first day of Term in the Maritime Course, iand StowELL toot his stet at eleven o'clitit and the Court Was opened with the usual f•rmahtier. JOHN JOSEPH NIUNDrbI and CHARLES Tociatt were 'admitted and mow in Pi °MIS of this HoNoulable Court. IN THE NATTER OF THE SLAVE GRACE. Lord Srowtu. gave his judgment in this case. The venerable Ji.dge said he had hitherto invariaqy pro• nouticed his judgment with his own voice, but he now bound it necessary to devolve the pronouncing of the judgment sin Dr. DODV)H, the junior Counsel in the ease — . This was the more necessary, as his eyes were unable to the task of reading a long and complicated judgment. Di. DODSON read the judgmen•. The case is one of the most important which, perhaps, ever came before the Court, as it involved the question, whether a slave who once touches the British snore is thence After c dered to be free? The judgment of the Noble Lord entered m;nott ly into the facts of the case, tstfch have been alreidy before the publk. The first two count. of the chhsvie slid not at all ihoi hence the decision of the Court, and wo , ild be at once di,missed. The third count pleads that this woman, Grace, was exported frorn•Xntigua to this country without the regular cet tifica.e necessary. on such occasion; and the fourth count pleads that the laid Grace was forcibly bought back to Aniigua, and there entered as a slave, without cestifica,e of the same name which was requiteo by the remit:aliens of the coloay. It appeared to . his Lordship dr such • certificates were not necessity :lc cording to hi t view of the Act of iment : at least not so op 'coming to this country. • 'fhe.fifth count reamed Id' ter illegal detention in Antigu.i ; being m free btltit subject of Great B item. This was liable to many objectio"s; for what necessity had a freeborn Baittsh qttsject to the credentials bete sought for, to the credentials of slavery ? The process was only neces sary for the emancipaion of a slave. But then it was 'aid to b: contrary to the statute. To what statute he would ask? to none that he could find out. • She sea, - . - described as a free-mourn sti4ject sailing from Great Bri tain, and could cot seek the remedies demanded by a, slave. if the case depended on this fact alone, it must be dismissed; but there was a still move important ques tion behind, which his Lordship would boldly come at. His Lordship was the more induced to do this, as papers had been submitted by hi. Majesty's Advocate General, to his Majesty's Government, containing the facts of the case. The case depende d principally on that of Somerset (a slave), which bad been so much alluded to in the arguments in this case. In that case, one of a . similar nature, the then Attorney General and the So licitor General had decided, that Somerset might be tent back by his master, and this was confirmed by Sir Philip Yiak, the Chancellcir. But in 20 years after, Lard Mansfield teemed that judgment, a:though he, for three or four terms, avoided c.ming to the que.tioe. This judgment decided, th:st masters had no controul , over their slaves in England, nor could they send them back without their consent. To this opinion the other' Judges silently confotmed, and within 20 years as great a change occurred on the subject as was said of the Romans on another occasion, popu!us Romanus subito alienus. Lord Mansfield has said, that" slavery was so contrary to nature, that it must not be supposed to exist any wh.re but by positive law." This opinion his Lord , ship could not acceJe to, for the foundation of most laws oral ancient custom. and in this.coonstry villeinafte, species of slavery, existed for a considerable time. There were in this coon ry'two.species of 'class ; yilkins en gros and vilkics regardans. Thus species of slavery was not similar to that of the Al - Licari'; they were persons of the same colour, and, after the lapse of some ye .rs, public opinion operated to put an end to the system. It was much to be lamented, when this occurred, that Parliament did not by an enactment put an end to all doubts on this subject, it any doubt existed.— Lord Mansfield had, when pressed at length to pro noance his judgment, confined himself to its applies- Rion to this country, and left what related to the Colo nies as he found it, merely recommending that the mer chants would apply to the Legislature to settle the question. It appeared to his Lordship favourable to the persons charged, that no complaints had for fifty years been made against the slave owners of this island; for it ; was scarcely possibly to suppose that cases of' a native similar to this had not occurred. It had, been said in the system of ancient villeinage, thatl " once a freeman, a freeman for ever," and its goal plicability to tbis case had been urged on the cond. deration of the Court. But his Lordship was of opinion that no similarity existed. Villeinage was confines' to this couatry, and did not travel out of it; it had no re ference to foreign countries, and :elated only to the service due from the.villein to his master. It, therefore, coul.' not be contended that any similarity existed. His Losdship alluded to several judgments in cases some what similar. Lord i%lotthirgion (Chancelloi) had de. tided, as he (Lord Stowell) considered somewhat pre maturely, that the moment a slave touched English ground he became free, and that if detained here by his master he might obtain his discharge by habeas corpus. ,But the great difficulty in the case was, that it was th %lit the law of this country abroga ed that existing in the Colonies. His Lordship then reviewed the several casei applicable to this subject. Those who contended that t-slavei coming to this country should be ever after her, •arere bound to show Ilia slaves, on their return from England, were set free. It was also said that the cone m u law must supersede all other s turns of law but a po itive enactment for slavery ; but those who so argued forgot that another great source of law existed, 'lamely, ancient custom. which bad sanctioned the habit of slavery in this Atchipelago of our West Indian pos. sessions. It was said that slavery was a *alms usus et abolendms est ; and this when it was sanctioned by his Majesty's Privy Council in the hearing of appeals; and by the Courts of law by the original hearing. It was not till a late period of the last century that it was pronounced incompatible with this country s i and his Lordship, therefore, could not as yet pronounce it a maw usus abolendms est. The time might come when its abolition should be demanded by the provosts f opinion in the Colonies, as well as in this country. But, at present. it had not as yet been so pronaunced,: Several recent Acts of Parliament had sanctioned slavery in the Col 'nits, and pronounced slaves as disposable as any other chattel property. How could it then be said that the law of England did not sanction slavery in its West Indian Colonies? It that were a sin it was one in which this country had borne its share, and the remedy of which k should'also bear proportionately, not allow jog its feelings of charity to supersede its justice. Not •lthstanding the ex:rtions of serval eminent indivi in Is of thus country to accomplish the abolition cf - slavery, they had hitherto been unavailing. His opinioli was that such slaves, when brought back to their colo nies, aetestill in a state of slavery.. Atitt tt , e reading of the judgment, Lord'Srowata. said it had expressed fairly his serious opinion of the case, which was, that persons bringing back kivero s loan 1. ire Oa* Imn ix! to maintain diem. He - 0411 , 140. 7 eoeiplii -eivraiss fie appeal, and coo firm, the je.lmilint it the. Coui t below; . with costs, Ind :edit tficeitte. ' Dr. Jes,san raid there lasi anothor question as to iestitutin, which trevadd trader it aecessiry that the cave sh , aid wat,factertuttett Lord SrowiLL—Let it be so. EDINBURGH, Nov. S. • — r 4oo " -- . A tenet ha% lieen received tn- day from Dr. CHALMERS. acceptink the litswofessor ship of Divinity in our Unisys sky; ho', in costtequence of his previous engagements at St. Andrew's, for the minter ses%ion. tie Learned Doctor will be unable to commence his lectures het this season. It is remarkable, that two ships, the Rattler, of Le'th, and Pl•anix of Whitby, on their return heme, in the middle of September, alter getting clear niche ice to the west maul, in lat. 79. kilted in clear water ai many ash, about four each, as made them bumper full. Last week as a man was qua• Tying on a farm in the pati It of At birlot, he accidentally came upon a round stone, wl ich excited his curiosity. He accordingly lbroke it with the view of examining it more tiartienlarly, when, to his a.tonisbment, be found a living tod Indeed tin its centre. 'Tne sides of the hollow or cavity in which it was found were covered with an incrustation of crystallized spar. Hat what renders the phenomenon the more Singular it, that the back of the animal was covered with a coat of the same substance. • RoIIaNSON enutioc.—John k and Eepbeinia Mackie, Selkirk's father and mother, were married 16511, and lie was their seventh son, born 1678 ; John, his e'de_t brother, married Margaret Bell, 1682; William, their eldest son. was married 1712, to Elizabeth Pearson ; and they all• inhabited one house by rota.' tint. which is now the site of the Relief Make. John, who was William's eldest son, was been 1714, and married, 1736, Susan Adamson; afterwards mar ried Elizabeth Yule, my mother, in 1762. lam alone the only male relation alive. I have in my ca► tody S:lkirk's flip jug and cane, along withthecootieets l of maul:get of tho e mentioned. On the jog these is the following distich When you me take on board of ship, Pray fill me full of punch or ffp. These elics may be seen by calling upon Jahn Selkirk, teacher, Canoilmills.—Scotsman. DALIeiNY.--The assemblage of people from the star rounding parishes was greater on Sundry than on any preceding Sabbath since the suspension of Mr. Greig, it being understood that there was an order of the Sheriff to put the Presbytery in possession of the church. Accordingly, in due time the Sheriff Substitute mad. ids appearance, and repaired to the manse, where be was joined by the Reverend Mr. M'Call, minister of kluiravonside, the Gentleman appointed by the Presbytery to officiate on the °tendon. In the meantime two Sheriff facers hid,by the direction of thy Sheriff, taken their station at the church door, with a seeming deternsioadat to exclude all intruders, and to carry the *entente of the Alserir into effect. While the congregation were anxiously waking the result, the Sheriff- depute and Mr. 'Wean came from the manse with the unexpected information that Mr. Orelg had promoted, against 'the Sheriff's sentence, r suspension and interdict, pro. Daunted by Lord hiedwyn, on Saturday at two o'clock, es as application from Mr. Greig, said to be drawn by Counsel. but signed by Mr. Greig himself. Tile principal grounds alleged by Sr. Greig. brapplying for this suspension and interdict, were that the interlocutor of the Sheriff had not been waved upon him, awe se messily, that tke...erbole.proceedings of the Presbytery against him were informal, and ought, therefore, to he null and void. The Presbytery, I: is said, are enjoined to give in dun. usurers Ofibin six days. In consequence of this circumstance Mr. his Call, of course, declined to officiate, and Mr. Greig proceeded with his lec ture and sronwra in the usual way. Among elbow prevent, before the ringing of the bell, were ohwived the Marl of Hopetosa, Mr. fends. of Duodaa, Sir David Wedderburn, the Sheriff-Depute of Orkney, and many other Gentlemen, echo divulged when Inkiest! of the interdict.—Caledonian Mercury. THE NON HEARER. • Austere and timely, cruel to himself, " Did they report him."—Home. In a sequestered glen in the Upper Ward of La narkshire stands the ruins of a co tage, inhabited, about half a century ago, by William Witten, the last of the Non-hearers, a sect whose very name is fast re ceding from oar view, but the principal features of which are well worthy of being remembered. Their strict celibacy, and other peculiarities, may be regarded rather as grievances arising from the peeuliar circumstances of their situation, to which they contain. tiously submitted, than as leading dogmas in their creed. They asserted that they were the only legitimate representatives of the old Covenanters, and were Atigi nally the collected remains cf the suffering remnant, into whose soulthe iron of persecution had entered most deeply, adding a still darker hue to the austerity of their Calvini►m, and whose morbid feelings were still fiirther deepened by the final extinction of those hopes of ven geance on the matignants, in a hich they fondly, indulged at the Revolution. Wilson's meditations, composed in doggerel rhymes, exhibit the piety of a saint, with the stern devotion of a martyr, and show that he inherited no inconsiderable portion of that seal which animated the heroes rf Drumclogg and Bothwell Brigg. The echoes of Paddle Wood have long slew undisturh-d by the ferient thanks givings for heavenly vi4iati•• ~ or perilous victories ach:eved over the foul fiend by this doughty champion ot the covenant ; but his fame still sur.ives in the sur rounding neighbourhood, and his prophetic annuntia. lions of coming judgments on backslidden Scotland, ate till hinted at in fetuful shispers by the pious spins:Ala ot Douglas Water. CORN RXCHANGR, MARK-LANE, Nov. 7.. Our supplies (2,500 sirs. of Wheat, 780 qrs. of Barleys 10.1130‘r0. of Oats. and 1,550 sacks of Flour) being large, (Barley excepted) the sale of all descriptions of Grain was extremely heat; this wow in, and with difficulty kletiday'a prices were maititiked, for lee samples of Wheat and Barley that was In abort supply was hot Meth sought after. Oats were nearly unkleahle, the supply frees Ireffsed, and what is still on its passage, being immense, have cussed& seek 'stagnation in the trade. Between midoight on Saturday and nron on Sunday sennight, the town of Sherborne was inundated M Many parts horn the torrents of rain which fell in that interval. In the cottages near the river, at the foot of Dancing gill, ts . e water was four feet in height on thegioand floor, and in , everal houses in the town the water ran through them like a mill stream. OR the following day the weather was so fine, and the wind and sun - had so eismpletely dried the roads in the town and neighbour. hood, that many per•ods who came in from the ei.untry inquired whe her no rain had fallen. Monday evening, as a yot ng Gentleman, tie onlrsou of DAVID GRIMORT. E.q. residing rn the City Itoad, -was amusing himself in lettng off fireworks in the Gals. well•street Road, a lid who had set light to a serpent, placeJ it so near the young Gentleman% trowsers rockets, which were crammed with fireworks, that the whole ignited, enveloping the f•ody and legs of the youth in one mass of sparks and fire, and throwinillM . sa his back. Ile was taken up perfectly senseeo, his body trom the breast downward, with the upper part ,of both his legs, being so frightfully burnt 'Out * hopes are entertained of his recovery. His hands likewise seriously injured in his endeavours to fireworks from his pockets for they were so crammed ,a that his attempts roved fruitless. )per part thut DO ads iv:* take the :rammed •