Star. — London, England, 1826-01-13 00:00:00

ENGLISH RESIDENCE AT ST. OMER'S. saindnw in the C . ffeerhotre, which looked into the yard, open, and a man in the room without a light amongst the various places of residence and resort' He also saw two sUspicions Looking men in the Inn, w:ected by our numerou s transmigrating families, On upon which he . called out •watch ; they immediately one , perhaps, has of late more rapidly risen in repute ran away, and file man in the room jumped through than the fine and populous town of St. Omer. Its the window with a bundle, and ran off. Witness pur neeness to the coast, by its .vicinity to the ports of sued and overtook him, but he had dropped the bundle, cialais, t f 'Dunkirk, and of Boulogne, with constant ich was, however, soon found outside the window. conveyance both to the former and Patis, offer at all The property was identified by Mrs. Smith, as being times an easy access, while the decided advantage it the property of her husband—it was in an unlocked possesses ober these and many other place s , i n point of drawer in the room w hi c h h a d b een p l un d e i e d. eeirness, from tl:e reasonable rent of houses, the abun- The prisoner said nothing in his defence.—Verdict, dance of provisions, its well-supplied markers, canal Richard West was indicted 10. embezzling 291. the c,mmunications with the coal districts, and above all, property of Messrs. FAirbrother and Co. The prisoner cvlient maters in every brAnch, present a combina- was in the employ of the prosecutors, and on the 19th l ion of inducements to recommend it as a residence for of November last, was sent to 'Romford to receive the th e l. arposes either of economy or education, above sum at a banker's, and which was paid to him on It has the advantag-s also of a British Church Esta- account of the prosecutOrs, ben. for which he never bli.hment, with a regular Minister (the Rev. Dr. Sandi- accounted, and afterwards. absconded. The prisoner Lyles) at all times resident ; and to meet the fast war fonnd Guilty, but strongly recommended to mercy increasing population of English residents led to this by the prosecutor. rlice, from the high demands for house rent and pro- James William Bryan was indicted for stealing thirty vis.l,7s in other continental towns, a plan is in contem- two shillings in silver, and a decanter of Hollands, the rlazi-n for the put chase or erectiol of a more commo- property of John Moore. The prosecutor said, the prim Oimis phice of wm ship, calculated for the schools and sorter came to his house on the sth instant. He had tor.iltes now settled here. The nAghbouring country lodged there for some time previous. On the night in i, remarkably fine, with admirable roads, affording question, he and his wife went to sleep, and on their excelleva drives, and presenting, in addition to its beau- awaking found the prisoner in the bar; and on elamin :,•ol .and extensive ramparts, pleasant and healthy ing the till, the money was Missing, and the spirits promenades. The number of English now resident is from a shelf in the bar. He went up to the prisoner's .thrto t . ur hundred, and the town and surrounding room, and found the property there. country affords great acFsmiitodation for any increase. Several respectable witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent cha . ratter; and the Jury, without hesitation, acquitted him. The following were convicted of larcenies: William Ferrar, 56; Richard James Harris, 34 ; William King, 24 ; James King, 22 ; William Aldia, 22 ; Wm. Arrow, 46 : Jas. Smith, 24; Thomas Adams, 20; John Bright. 21 ; Hannah Cronin, 30; Hannah Barry, 21 ; Thomas Hewitt, 25; James Harris, 20; Thomas Spears, alias Jenkins, 28 ; John Thomis Vaughan, 70; Henry White, 18; Sarah 'Moseley, 33; Thomas Blackmore, 16 ; John Fergusson, 19 Daniel Sullivan, 15 ; Cor nelius Connelly, 15; Benjamin Bond, 17;. Thomas Lake, 20; Richard West, 61; James Glover, 30; Phcehe Harris, 40; Wil liam Hooper, 46; Charles Hutchins, 4ti ; Andrew Alacdonahl, 36; James Pinner, 25; James Rogers, 19; Win. Robertson, 21; Robert Standwick, 16; G. Beundy, 22; and Andrew Anjer, 56. The following were acquitted, viz. Daniel Ferris, aged 50; Mary Bailey, 54; Mary Ann Hannan, 24 ; Eliza Welsh, 26; Edward Murray, 17 ; Henry Williams, - 4 ; Margaret Hewett, 39; Joseph Lee, 17 ; and D. Morgan, 23. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS-:-THIS DAY. • —kap— o'eor.;e Williams, a paintertY trade, was put to the bar on an inclement charging hint with burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Georie Prosser, and stealing therein certain g oods his property. Several witnesses were called to bring home the charge to the prisoner, who merely denied the charge, and the Jory found hint Guilty—Death. Hunt, aged only 14, was put to tke bar on an indict ment charging hint with hurglariously breakiatg and entering the dwelling Itou.e r of IValliain C u :, and stealing therein a pair of shoes, &c. his property. 'l ilt! charge was fully brought home to the pri , otier, and the Jury found him Guilty-I:mA._ Savannah Barnet was put to the bar ou an indictment charging her with assaulting, on the King's highway, James Bartley, and taking (tom his person a watch and other articles, his property. The prisoner protested her innocence, but called no &len& to freak to her character. The Jury found her Guilty—Death. THE LATE AIURDER IN GRAY'S-INN-LANE. At ten o'clock the Judges took their seats, on the bench, accom yaititti by the Itecoanait, when Mary Caen, charged with the mur st Matatict: Fitzgerald, on the 26th of December, was put to the bar. ilbe'prLsoner pleaded Not Guilty, and the witnesses, sixteen in number, were then sworn. Mr. - ilatusasca appeared for the prosecution, and stated the case to the Jury, ib nearly the same terms as have appeared on the examinations before the Cotoner's Jury, and the Magistrates at liatton-garden Office. The Learned Gentleman then called his witnesses. The prisoner was without Counsel. One of the witnesses swore, in addition to the formet evidence, ti.Pt she saw prisoner wash the yard some time after the murder. C.i`eO, the daughter, was put in the whiteouts box. She persisted in stating that she knew nothing of the transaction, until oe.tieceased had been wounded. • She added, that on Mrs. Kyle) , telling her she would . .for a Doctor, she said, " Do, do, and make baste.", .• *I he 'other witnesses were n nerlY put f the boa pro forma. ThA N? „ r for the prpsecution, having dosed, the prisoner, who arento in deep agony, was called on for her defence, She banded in a whiten paper, hut it appearing that it had not been read over to hef; Mr. Wonkier, the Governor, was directed to do so. On coming into Court again, she expressed a wish to have it read.- The purport of it was merely a repetiticn of her former testimony. Mr. biarun iseexaszoxa summed up the evidence to the Jury, who refit dat one o'clock. After au absence of *Vieux, minutes, they returned into Court with a verdict of Guilty of the liforder. The lia,..otnea, in a most impressive address, passed seskence op the prietnaer, namely, that she should be taken from the place in 4,ch she then stood, back to the gaol of Newgate, and on Monday . morning be executed, before the said gaol, and her body delivered tAr• r tor dissection. "11. unhappy woman could scarcely support herself during the iddiess of his and a pin might have been beard if dropped t tog the p.iuses be matte. She was removed from the bar; by two the gaoleis. Yesterday, Mary Prior, and William IVood, aged 22, were iii&cted for stealing 40 yards of Norwich crape, v dlire 31. the proper ty of W. M. Lander and I'. Dingley, s! , .;.keepers, in Svutton-ground, Westminster. li to tie prisoners said they were innocent of the cHrge. The woman was looking at the shop window, ulito a person came our a nd dropped the crape. Several persons gave them both a g: od character. The LORD CHIEF BAR ,)N, in summing up, observed, the evidence was conclusive against the prisoners, but hi, Learn d Brother Park expressed a doubt whether it Was not necessary, as both parties were indicted, that the whole body of one of them should be in the shop to constitute the tame of sliding iu a dwelling-house? Itlaw it Was only proved that the hand of Mary Prior was in at the window, and took out the good,. They would give the prisoners the benefit of any doubt. Mr. flsiltßY 1 , ere wished the Jury to look at the goods, i.) order that they might judge whether they were worth ".1. they might not be worth 40s. While the Jury were looking at the crape, Mr. Justice Pane said, that the prosecutor swore it cost Is. 9d. 2 yard, and there were forty yards of it, which made it clearly ibt:rth more than 406. A Juror here observed, that the pattern of the crape (which was brown double striped) Might be now out of fashion. • - Mr. Justice Ps IM—Ala, that rimy be very true, but I do not e•low anything about it. The Jury then found both the prisoners Guilty, but they found .he crape worth only Us. which dues away with the capital part of the felony. *Wallin Groves, alias Cuflree Broker, aged 51, gar de.er, was indicted for stealing a grey gelding from Vle grounds of the Hon. Mrs. Fuller, at East Grinstead, the ptopetty of her son. The pony was sold by the prisoner it Bow, and the purchaser thinking he had boirght it too cheap, returned ir, aad this led to the ue ection of the robhery. Tile case %%as clearly made out, and the Jury found the prisoner (;rtity—Detotla, but recommended him to mercy. :de/,hen Lioarier, aged 47, a clerk, stood indicted lot etniksziing, on the 30th of May, a banker's draft : , .r the payment of 451- received by him on account of ills etnidoer, Mr. Robert Spiller Wadeton. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and the Learned }femurs blitiaLed up the case to the Jury, "who found the friar/Ger Guilty, and he was sentenced to 14 years' transportation. NEW COURT. William Jackson, aged 30, was convicted of stealing 4 1 A t sir. of tl 'noel, the property of Jacob Blake, pri • .. rly in his shop. Harris, was indicted for stealing a half ciwii and fifteen shillings, from the person of William 1 urr,bull , an tl e 26th December last.—Aotlty. ki - caldMao and C'hades Coilisan were indicted 4 •qt Stealing eighteen sheep, the property of William Welch. --Not Guilty. George Coxhead was indicted for a borglary in the 1 1 , ,5e of Henry Taylor and John Woodcock Smith, " i Stealing agold watch, and other articles, value Wt. John Nichols stated, that on the 28th of December Et aids :corning to hi. Chambers, in Symond's Inn, ab of six o'clock :o the evenins, whir. he observed a NEW WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. In teceivinz the Returns from the several Ward In spectors, at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor directed their attention to the provisions of the New Act, respecting the'Weights and Measures; his Lordship advised that the usual perambulations for examining the weights and measures, should be deferred until the Ist February, to give the Public an opportunity of procuring them, which, his Lordship said, he believed they might by that time accomplish, as he h , d given directions for more persons to be employed at Guildhall, to meet the immense number of applications with as little delay as possible. His Lordship further added, that he had directed the officers not to refuse the seal to any mea sures that were in conformity with the Act of Parlia ment, as to capacity or dimensions, of whatever mate rials composed, or whether new or old, provided the . seal could be so placed as in secure the Public ft.( m the possibility of the measures being cut or otherwise altered. In reply to an applkation fromseveral of the parties as to the persons from whom they were to receive the standards, and where the expense was to be de. frayed ? the Lord Mayor observed, that as the I , quest .was chosen from the Wardmote, for the set vice of the Ward in general, lie had no, doubt that the proper fund Irons which the increased charge should be paid would be a ward-rate. Vast numbers of local measures, chiefly public-house pots, are still brought to receive the City stamp, I,r no other seems to have the entire confidence of the lower classes. Orders, however, have been given, that the measures intended to be used in the City shall have the preference; the weights are sent out with greater dis• patch than the measusus. From the Ist of November to the 7th of January, 358,000 weights were stamped. A general misconception appears to prevail on the subject of Weights and Measures. The object of the late Bill is to simplify the system as much as possible, and to make no al elation but such as may tend to in sure uniformity by affording superior facility of veriti cation. Measures of capacity are no longer d, fined by cubical contents, but by the weight of pure water which they should contain. Thus, any vessel which contains, when exactly tilled, ten pounds &writ dupois, of pure rain water, is an imperial gallon; any vessel which will sentain when so filled 2i pounds avoirdupois, of pure rain water, is an imperial quart; a';d the vessel contain ing 1# lb. of rain water an imperial pint. The bushel is any vessel which will contain, when exactly filled, eighty pounds avoirdupois of rain water; but it must be remembered, that the bushel of heaped measure must be cylindrical, and its outside diameter 191 inches . Ne,idteration has been made in the existing standards of linear dimensions, or of weight; arid the change in the measures of capacity is such, as, it is presumed, must tend to cause the new system speedily to become gene.' ral, by the facility it preseuts to persons possessing weights, to construct or verify their measures of capa city at pleasure. FlRF.—This morning, about four o'clock. one of the watchmen, in going his round, di,covered fire issuing from the shop of Mr. Will , ngton, a locksmith, nearly oppo,ite James-street ; he immediately gave notice at Ole watch-h. use, and also at the engine station of the. Westminster Fire Office. The parish engines 'of St. Paul, Covent-garden were prompt in their attendance, and one of them was conducted by Mr, 134:tlett, the watch-house-keeper, with great effect; .but .from the ieflArnmable state of the buildings, bring composed of wood, it speedily extended to the bird-shop adjoining, and also to the shop of Mr. Webber, the ft uit and egg salesman, which it partially injured. The two.other shop were gutted. The market was completely illu minated, so much so, that ynu might distinctly see the hour by the Church clock. The LITERARY GAZETTE of Saturday, the 14th 01 January, 1826, will contain a condensed and remarkable View of the West India Islands, in a Notice of Iluniholdes new Volume, just published in Paris: a Digest of the State of Cochin China; Reviews also of the Annual Obituary, with Anecdotical and other Illustrations; of Waterton's Wand& rings and extraordinary Tales of a 'traveller; of the Edinburgh Janus, with amusing Scottish Story; and other New Works. A Selection of .curious Anecdotes from the yet unpublished Volumes of the Nlargravine of Anspach is given in the Sketches of Society. Poetry by . 11— E. L. and other popular writers. Scieucifie Novelties; the Fine Atts ; Musical, Dtantatic l and other Criticisms; riliceedings in Lstera sure ; Varieties, &c. &c. &c.—Published every Saturday by W. A:St:niers, 102, (Exeter 'Change) Strand, price Bd.; orjetamped fi ler Country Circulation by Post, price le. • &Utlt4 \l€lvale d'ar pets the I hi, 1 was the ei4a l 1•11 v was wou i.) 01 1 %V Al yar A brow Au ir.ow 11 .he c part Vlr the prise boo) ur r t;kui tor : , .r ills I{2o itisc 41 C 14114 Or 4 91' (.1 „i J Ee • THE Spin: Tll ADE. The fsainwit3g are.estraicts from I. tiers received" in Glasgow, from a Gentleman on ho.rd his M rjesty's ship Maidstone, col the coast or Afr'ca, dated at sea 3d August, and Prince's Island. 12th September : The small schooner, tinder Doter colours, rnr rationed in my last, has been condemned. After taking her, we came along the coast and boarded tv.eiry vessels, Only two of them, to the best of my recnllecti la, in a fair way of trade, the others evidently for slaves, and most of thern.under.French colours. On the 29th July, while cruising at sea, a brig was reported from the mast head, and all sail made after her. We came up with her at 8 1 3 .61. when shehoisted the Dutch flag. On borrd ing she was found well manned, armed, and fitted for a slave cargo; and, from circumstances, it was evident she intended making the land. According to our treaty with the Dutch Government, we cannot seize any vessel, fitted for slaves under their flag, unless within 2 geo graphic degree of the land; and this vessel was not in the proper place for us; and, after being detained for the eight on suspicion, she was alloxed to go, and set sail in the morning in perfect security. We followei, and being the fastest sailing vessel, kept sight of her 'till the 31st, when we hoisted colours and ti. el a m•isket. She shortened sail. We sent a boat on b bard, and finding that the man at tl'e mast-head reported land, and that it was marked in her log-book, her crew were brought on board the Maidstone, and the vessel caprured. She is a fine large brig, with a valu-ble cargo, and is supposed to he worth 4,0001. Being manned horn our ship, she sailed in company with us to N.W. Bay. Prince's Island; and after watering, she. sailed for Sierra Leone for condemnation, and, it is tho..glar, will meet the fate of the other. When at P• loses Island, a Kroomen was sent over' the Island, and on return, reported there were armed vessels in Pott Ant nio harbour. Immediately on our watering being tinislied,•we hoisted anchor, and in the afternoon made Port Antonio, where we found two brigs; one of t' em a large vessel pierced for 22 guns— the other called the Concine , tadore, is an old stager on the coast. Both of them were fitted up for slaves, but had none on board, and being under the Spanish fl ig, we had no althority over them in their present state. The two will rake at least ow.thousand slaves. Leaving this on the 6th, we came to anchor cff the river Bonny, and the boats were prepared for a cruize up the river, and a cutting out, it anythng off red. These I was appointed to accompany. We passed the bar of the river without the slightest danger, though it was here my unfortunate friend Mr. lost his life. The first vessel we boarded was a schooner; she did not seem willing to shew her colours, but the firing of a musket ball brought her to, and her colours were, as usual, French. Next was a palm oil ship, which shewed her flag long before we came near her. We hoarded no less than sixteen vessels—all of them fitted for slaves—twelve of them French, and four Spanish. On. S i ;attish brig was manned with 80 hands when she came on the coast, but had lost a number of them by death. She was mounted with 14 guns, and, by ac counts, very well disciplined for action. One of the 'French vessels had her slaves on board when we en teed the river, and not knowing whether we were French or English, commenced landing them, and had thenrlanded before we boarded. While him some of our party went ashore and visited King Pepple. Their reception was hospitable, though nut elegant. The King lives in a very pour style, but it very poWerful and rich. He was unable to procure slaves to supply the demand of the different ships, but expected 200 next day from the inland: he looks on them with far less interest than a farmer would on as many head of cattle. On the .sth June he made a human sacrifi e. Tire victim was a fine young lad. When a sacrifice is to be made the v;crim is dressed in a superb style, and painted; he is put into a canoe and carried to the bar of the river, just as the tide begins to ebb : here he is sl.oved overboard, and the sharks swallow him. Tire victims are young persons, who are purchased and kept on purpose. • woman or man is alternately sacrificed ; the first is made to believe that she is going home, and that the way is below the sea= - the second is made to believe that he is going to his own country, and following the woman who has gone before him. The inhabitants of the place believe that these sacrifices bring trade to the river. • There'are several kinds of punishment made use of here among the natives, the most horrific of which is that of the ant tree. If a felon commits any 'peat offence, - he is made fast by the arms and legs to a tree infested with ants, which soon cover his whole body, and pi. rce him with holes ; and in this dreadful state he continues, the vermin working their way deeper and deeper, till death puts an end to his sufferings. In the Caliatiar, about nine miles distant from Bonny, we boarded only two vessels, one French, the other Spanish, which carried live guns, one a twenty our set on a carriage which wrought on a 1 ng slide, which again was set on a wcoden circle, the diameter of which was equal to the breadth of the deck. On this circle the slide could be moved round, carr yin g the gimscar nage with it, so as to point tore and aft, or on either side. Notwithstanding this parade of force, these poor wretches had no antidote to the poison of African efflu via, and were dying, as the phrase goes, like rotten sheep. They had no slaves in; but there were 14 miserable beings in their slave room, in the last horrid stage of African fever ; and the smell coming up the hatches assailed me with such force that I was glad to .make the best of my way to the boat and get a cigar 4 under ueigh . ." The 4th of this month, when at sea, we chased and 'Came up with a ship, found to be of 370 tons, under French colours, and having on board no less than 698 slaves ; 700 had been her complement, but she had lost two at sea by death. Several of them were labouring under fever and a species of itch, arid the ship's com pany w e re sickly. Being under the French flag, we had• no power over her, and left her to make the best of her way to the slave marker. Prince's Island, September 12. The Esk arrived last night, and brought intelligence of the capture of a Brazilian slave vessel, with 362 slaves by her, in company with the Redwing and A hol, and that the last mentioned vessel had captured a brig, under the Dutch trcat), being fitted for slaves, and taken on shote.—Gtargoto lousier. The consumption of Itum in the Clyde during last y. ar was 66,000 ga llons. In one day the quantity on which duty was paid in Glasgnw %%as about 10,000 gal lons. In the ports below thtre was , probahly an equal quantity—or nearly on -third of last year's consump tion taken out-in r,ne day ! Tion.day night, Mr. RAISPIgR left ilie Foreign Offi e with tikpatchts fin .Ltittl Ci.wswst.t.tats, the British Aelbausder at • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, J•n. It. Very little business was done on any of the Stakes, and but few abet ations in the odds. Filagree, it will be seen, is now at evens with Pawn and Mignionette; the others have of course gone hack. Monarch keeps firm in bis place, and no one could be prevailed on to het more than to 1. Tredtille and Gramarie got up a trifle. Waterman is talked of as a likely hotse, and from the timidity with which the odds were offered against him, we have no tliiiiht that he will speedily get before many of the other outsiders. The general odds are as under : - DERBY. SI to 1 agst Monarch 11 to 1 apt TredriUe 16 to 1 apt The General 16 to 1 apt Gramarie 20 to 1 apt Advance 23 to 1 ago Zuleika 25 to 1 apt Sophist 27 to 1 apt Pranks 28 to 1 apt Rowena S 3 to 1 apt Bolivar 35 to 1 agst Cedric 35 to 1 apt Canvaiis 35 to 1 apt Waterman SO to 1 apt Henry (taken) 50 to 1 apt Pluto (taken) ti to 1 agst Ilignionette 65 to 1 agst Filagree 65 to 1 agst Pawn 12 to 1 agst Mates 12 to 1 agst le.lizabeth 13 to 1 agst Henry 16 to 1 agst any other. DONCAMIR Si. LEGER. 71 to 1 agst Bediatnite 4o to 1 agst Barataria to 1 agst Belzoni 313 to 1 nit Calypso 12 to 1 apt Crusader 40 to 1 agst Barefoot BUNTING. The Brighton ilarrien meet on Monday, at Patehatn ; Wednes. day, at the Race Course; and Friday, at the Dyke. The Brookside Harriers on Monday, at Newmarl nesday, at Kennel ; and Friday, at Telescombe Tye. Mr. Meynell's Hounds nu Mindai, it Carton; Thursday, at Swarkstone; Saturday, at Sudbury. Sir G. Sitwell's Hounds on Tuesday, at Stoney Houghton-bar ; Friday, at Barlow Wood. Wed- PIGEON SHOOTING. The rerurn Pigeon Match, hetsteen eleven of Hampshire and eleven of Berkshire, at eleven bird• each, was won, on Sunning Common, on Wednesiay, by Berkshire, killing eighty-eight birds, and Hampshire eighty-six. PEDESTRIANISNI. Mr. Frampton, the pedestrian, who lately performed a hundred mileb in twenty two hours, started on Wednesday from the forty. one mile stone, two miles on the Bath side of Reading, to go by, way of Henley.upon-Thames and Maidenhead to Kensinren Park-gates, forty-five miles, in six hours, for a bet of t2OO sove reigns. He started before day-break and went to Henley E ten miles, in an hour and ten minutes, and breakfasted off a mutton+ steak from the leg. He proceeded on to Cohibtook, at the rate of eight miles an hour, where he refreshed again, and left himself two hours and forty minutes to accomplish the remaining eighteen miles in. He won the match without fatigue with ten minutes to spare, and offered to take a hundred sovereigns to ten that he would rest an hour and perform the ground back again in the time. RIBAND TRADE.—One of the manufacturers of Co. vents y, Who is known to be very well versed in all that relates to the tiband trade, had on Wednesday an inter view with Mr. Husixissom, who manifested the greatest anxiety to relieve to the utmost any oppressive' conse quences that might arise from the operation of t e new law. After going into a full investigation of its proba• ble result, as applied to Coventry, he concluded by in- timating that he would collier upon the subject with Lord LIVERPOOL and Mr. Secretary PEEL, and woulei .forward the result of the communicati•in on Friday. Wednesday slides were formed nearly in the centte of the Canal, in the Regent's Pork, which were occupied by a number of lads sliding. It appears that several of them had collected in a group, and the weigh: being too great the ice broke, and the whole were immersed in the water. By great exertion and infrepidity the whole were extricated, except one fine boy, who sunk to rise no more. Drags were put in requisition, but it was not till nearly dark tharthe body was found. The youth appeared to be about 1.5 years bf age, was dressed . genteelly in black, and in his pockets were found some, silver in a purse. and a note bot - Y. _ _ _ In Birmingham,...nerueiday se'nnight, the counting. houseof M-ssrs. Phipson and Co. in P..radise-street, was broken into by some person or pers ns, who suc c-eded, in forcing open the iron chest where the honks were deposited, which they took out, and after heaping them on the office floor, s t them on file. The fire was discovered in time to inevent the fl Imes from communicating with the building, but not b. fore the books- had become so consumed as to render them quite useless and ill•fgible. MATRIMONIAL JOURNAL.—A Gentleman lately took the following meteorological journal of his wife's tem per per: Monday, rather cloudy; in the afternoon rainy. Tuesday, vapoutish ; brightened up a little as night. Wednesday, changeable, gloomy, and inclined to rain. Thursday, high wind, and some peals of thunder. Fri day, fair in the morning, variable till the afternoon, cloudy till night. Saturday, a gentle breeze, hazy, a thick fog, and a few flashes of lightning. The 17th of August last a hawk, with bells to its thighs and a silver ling to its leg, with the name of the Hon. J. Finch engraved thereon, flew on board the Spence, of North Shields, Captain Huggup, bound to Quebec, in la.. 44. long. 25. west, about midway be tween Iceland and the American coast, and after being on board about twenty days, unfortunately died. It was perfectly tame. The Captain having some chickens on board, allowed him to help himself. A chicken served him five days. A MAN SCALDED TO DEATH.—Saturday morning last, Wm. Bibby, •111 crofter, in the employ of Mears. Ridg way and nephew, at Norwich, sat down on the side of a pan nearly full of boiling liquor, for the purpose of taking off bis tarpauling and the rags; and whilst en gaged in that position, he fell backwards into the scald ing furnace. His piercing cries immediately called the workmen to his assistance; and when extricated, he presented a most appalling object and died • about five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, in the most excruciating agonies. • WATERLOO POLL.—MaryJones,alias Waterloo kali, was yesterday brought before F. A. Roe, Esq. by the officers of the Mendicity Society, under the Vagrant Act. She had been found begging in Regent•street. The prisoner appeared with a knapsack on ler back, which she is said actually to have worn in the field, when serving under the disguise of a man. She has seldom been sober since the war ended, except when in prison, whither she was sent for a month. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, iMIIIARY 13. There is very little corn fresh up, and the frost continuing with severity, sales are, for the present, nearly suspended—pricey, cos. 'equality, nominal.—Arrivals: English Wheat, 1,030 qua. Oats, 5,050 qrs. Barley, 1,560 qua. Flour, 5450 sacks. Foreign Oats, 1,400 qrs. Barley, 5,200 qrs. SMITHFIELD AIARKET, JANUARY 15. There is a fair supply of Meat at market, hut the prices are without any variation of consequence, best Oxen being at 4s ad. to .s*. per stone ; and the coarser is. :d, to 45. 6d. Fee stone. The very in ferior Mesa; old Cows, &c. are 44. to 4s. 4d. per stone. The price of the best Mutton is a shade lower, ss. per stone being the extreme price; sud 5s 10d. to 41. Ed. per stone that of inferior Meat. In Veal and Pork there is ao alteration —l.Seasts.63l; Sheep, 5,L110 ; Pigs ' 70 ; Calves, 143. Beet, 4s. 611. to ss. past* Mutton, 4s ad. to Ss. Veal, Ss. ltd. to 6s. Pork, 4s. 6d. to $O. *L.—Hay per load. .1113 15e. to ree. 15$ I Cluver, sa4 10 AS. Ss. Straw, Al 14.. to Xi