Star. — London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

NArAL INTELLIGENCP. The gatenrcAvATAM, of 40 guns, Captain WAttate, was towed' cn Monday fr ns Chatham to Sheerness, by the Comet steani boat : the bannio AAAAA m was ordered to be at Spithead on Thursday. One of his Majesty*s ships at Plymouth, is about to be par tially caulked with wool, instead of oakum, by way of experirhent. Captain Bowtes, IL N. Comptroller-General of the Coast ce.ard of England, is now travelling through Devon, Dorset, and Pants, making an inspection of the stations in these counties. FALMourn, SEPT. 19.—Wind E.—Arrived the Whim, SMALL, r7oni Montserrat, sailed the Ist August, for London ; Nancy, SvAcer, from Gallipoli, in seventy days, for orders t and his Ma esty's ship Laxity Tarr, from Gibraltar: sailed the 6th instant. PLYMOUTH, SUT. 19.—Wind E.—Off the port, the Mirables, Berns:tromp, from St. Vincent's, in forty-eight days : spoke the Vmetican ship Amphion, of entefrom New York, bound to Rio e is Plata, in distress, having been struck by lightning four days floret her mizen-mast was gone, one seaman In the cabin lost bis life, and another was much hurt; and the vessel, although much shattered, made but little water. Also off the port, tne i, Palladium, PArraason, from St. Vincent's; and Valencia, Kiss- , lux from Demerara. Arrived the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, from London to Madeira • Bolden OLortres, from Honduras; Amity, BLOOIIPIIILD, for Le ghorn; and Regard, FIXG, for Cadiz. Mat., Sam 20.—Wind N.E.—Came down from the River, the Hero, FAtt.LArr, for Calais. Coat, Sam 16.—Arrived the Ocean transport, from London, to take troops for Gibraltar. Gill:AlMa, A tic. 27.—Captain 110 WGHTON, of the brig George, arrived yesterday from Valparaiso, states that he met with very thick fogs off Cape Spartel, on Saturday afternoon ; and during the night, towards morning, he heard many guns fired in the direction of the land, as from vessels in distress. On the weather clearieg up at about nine a. as. he saw on shore, to the southward of the Cape, a line of battle siljp and two brigs, the latter with French colour.; one of them Ippeared to bare gut off, but the other was rolling very much; they bad boats about them, as if c.:rrying out anchors. There seems to be no doubt that these st..tsiels helong to the French squadron mentioned on 21st Lost. Tat-Lox, Jnt.v 31.—The squadron • under the command of IL•ar-Admiral 11.3saLm, sailed at five o'clock this morning. It cinsists of the Clome, on beard of which the Admiral has ...fisted his Rag; the Guerritr and Thetis frigates; Echo cor e- :re, and hlomus schooner. This division will be reinforced by t:, . Jean Bart, and Sybille brig, from Brest. Its destination is net known, but believed to cru.xe on the coast of Spain • and it :• : :id :hat all the King's vessels in the Levant have orders to 7 :•tiorze this squadron. Ces-rust-llousa, San. 20...—Ships Entered Inwards:—The Kin; ':r the Netherlands, and Elsina, from Rotterdam ; Sir W ..,,am Curtis, arum Sr. Petersburgh ; St. Johannes, from Dam ni • ; Sarah, end Paint:: Royal, from Archangel; - Industry, and Net-, tune, from the Greenland fishery; Britannia, and Salads, Ira rat I Lin!,t.rsh ; l‘lerit, from Quebec ; and ord Melville, from Cai is. Entered Outwards :—The Rolla, for Malta, Neb tt.is, ',, .1 ~.,..i.:.: ; liar. - ty, and Rebecca, for Trinidad; Deux re.rtirs, ;or ....arseillts; Cornelius, for the Cape of Good Hope; Wish., and Neptenr, for Ostend ; and Ann, for Constantinople. CL:ar d tottwards:—The Robert Edwards, for New York; Ilarritt. fur 6,:e.0a ; Widan, anti King of the Netherlands, for Pat terdam ; Lonoon, for Hambuigh; Robert, for Venice; and Talbot, and Lord Melville, fur Calais. • DAVIS' STRAITS WHALE FISHERY. ABSTRACT OF THE JOUR NA L OF THE SHIP BRUNSWICK, MIMEO AT HELL ON THE 12111 1N5T..111.014 THE Milne MI en TAM'S, AS rili.7 BY THE SURGEON Or THE SAW seer. The Brunswick's :hip company was mustered on the Stb of Narch, sai:ed on 7:h, and was anchored at SUOIMIESS the 13th. We get under v:eigh the following morning, and beat out of Hog Mouth, with the wind blowipg fresh from the W.N.W. On f:te 7'h of April we were tr ecalztird off Cape Farewell. At -eon or the 12th, we were is lat. by meridian observation, 60. ee. N. and 52. 45. N. by dead reckoning ; a stream of ice, and I.:Vt ral icebergs were seen from deck. On :he 19th, we were as high up the St rait- as Wylufyord(Holstenburg),where we were de teti.ed (w..iting the breaking up of the ice to the northward) till the reorning of the 26th, when we experienced fresh breezes froze 1.1 N.H. Two Esquimau: (whom the Governor very kitelly allowed to accompany us) acted as pilots, the length of SOL.tO Bay Island, where they left us, leaving a favourable int pre §-inn on our minds of their accurate knowledge of the coast. On the 2d May all hands were employed towing and warping the ship through ice, leading from Dog to Whale Islands, anti the island of Dairy). Several white whales were seen, but none ef the black species. On the 3d, 4th, and 6th several black whales were seen, but we were not so fortunate as to harpoon any one of teen:. Ou the Bth spoke the Cambrian of hull, then clean. The :we ships attempted to enter South-east bay,hoping to fall in with :he fish, but after standing some time in that direction the pas sage was discoverrd to be cloaked up with ice; the ships then Lard and stood off to the westward. On the 9th the gull species became unconunoady numerous—the Larus Risa, l'Ariticus, and the Glaucns. It was, I think, the prevailing opinion among the Masters of the different ships now with us That the ice to the southward was much lighter than that which they bad seen in farmer years; owing to this circumstance, it was expected that the hairier of ice which extended from the north end of Drisco to the westward, would form little or no impediment to the pro gress of the ships northward this year ; accordingly we ran to the northward along Drisco, with the Albion and Cambrian in company, to ascertain the fact ; but to our great mortification on the morning of the 11th, the barrier was seen as compact and gelid as in former years. We again put about in order to beat to the southward. On the 12th we were again at the south end of Drisco, the Albion and Cambrian attempted to force a passage into South-East Bay, but were completely frustrated by the compactness of the sea. At ouon on thelStb, the ice seemed to be in motion and apparently drifting in a solid body to the south ward, we took advantage of mooring to an iceberg, in order to alluw the flaws to drift past us. At one F.M. the Cambrian har pooned a whale, which took into the pack, and shortly liti rAvards came up alongside of us, when our boats and the Albioa's assisted to kill her. We got through this blockade on the 21st, after sus ta:aing some heavy blows in boring through the pack (ice). It fell calm at noon, all hands were therefore called to man the boats, and commence towing northward. At two a. at. on the morning of the 22d, we passed Four Island Point, and in the evening were In the open of the Bay, our latitude at noon ;0.45. On the 24th we seemed to be in the head-quarters of the whales, and were fortunate enough to capture two, the length of whalebone mea suring nine feet four inches in the first one, and nine feet 10 inches in the other. We then moored to an iceberg for the purpose of flinching, We kept plying about in this latitude till the 29th, when we succeeded in harpooning another whale, but in the cap ture of this one I have to lament the death of a brave seaman, whom she struck with the fork of her tail. Three other men were hurt at the same time, but they recovered. On the 6th June, a dead fish was seen by one of the louse harpooners front the mast head, we succeeded in securing her as a prize ; the bone mea= sered Ili feet ; this was the last whale we saw during the season. Early in the morning of the 10th we were up with that barrier of ice which lies off Faeroe Islands, and were under the neces, shy of lyaig-to to await its opening, but a few hours soon re-: leased us and the ships that were in company with us from the anxiety w.hieLt the blockade occasioned. On the 11th we got feta the water, and about two A. et. on the morning of the 18th, the lowering as; of the western horizon indicated an approacb tug gale ; at three our conjectures were verified by the presence of one of the heaviest gales ever remembered by die oldest seaman in Davis Straits. On the 23d, we were abreast of Puck Islands, Sugar-loaf Hill bearing south; here another :blockade was found. We made fast to the flaws for the Iserpose of waiting its opening. The flaws separated a little zn the 25th, whea we entered the channel of water caused •thereby, but did not move more than two miles N. We again armored to theflaw, the Active, Hero, Eon Accord, Lady Forbes, 'William, Cato, and ethers in company. Early on the following morning the flaws again opened, and we got through into a good deal of water. In rot/owing our example, the Lady Forbes got jr.irmeri between the points of the flaw, and in every short time was a complete meek, the men having scarcely time to save their clothes before the flaws crushed through her. The Cato' likewise got materially damaged. The intrepidity and skit of OW Captain were here eminently displayed. Leaving the land Slaw, where upwards of twenty sail were in -dock, be penetrated tt migh the ice, undaunted by the dreadtul collisieui of the dash log flaws and icebergs, which carry allbefore them. On the 16th a very heavy press came on the ship ; the ice was running at the rate of three miles an hour, and large fragments were daahed against, and curled up the side of the ship. At this time the rudder was unshipped, the b itches thrown aff, and nothing but suia before us. The breeze Irons N.N. W. was aucceecied by a 1 pk:tect hurricane from S.W. Such a hurricane, especially from :bet quarver, %Amid dot fail to make a great havock arwwg the SAWS to tie southward, where the greatest part of the ships were Wng. degroyhig afl bereft chats.. Aeeordhisit. bei the following morning we sew three ships wrecked (Eau, Va liant, Invincible). On the litb, after much difficulty, we got the ship off the flaw (where she lay embedded with masses of ice many hundred tens weight) and tacked, warped,-and towed to the nerthirard. On the Seth, we were lying in a stock, with the William and Old Middleton. There again we were near being crushed by a large iceberg. All the seamen's chests, beds, &c. of the three ships were taken out, and left on the Haws, we expecting to see the ships crushed every instant. At midnight we saw the crew belonging to the Calypso liunching, over the flaw, their boats to the Beet more to the southward. The Calypso was lost on the 27th. On the 30th, we quitted oat dock, and warped the ship more towards the land—the William and Middleton fol lowing our example. August 2d. The idea of the ice clearing away to the northward, and leaving a passage for the ship in that direction, in order to prosecute the fishery, was now completely given up. Nothing but a solid field of ice could be seen, as far as the eye could reach to the northward, on which the easterly winds had little or no effect in drifting it off from the land. Dui nights were corning on, bay ice was making rapidly, and cement , ing the louse flaws together; in fact, is was morally impossible -fur any ship to gain a passage this year to Prince Regents Bay, although Captain Ross has given it as his opinion that a passage may be found every year; experience is, therefore, at variance with his opinion. We bore up to the southward, and were ac companied by the William and Middleton. It came on thick in the evening, and we were necessitated again to saw a dock in the flaw, for the preservation of the ship. We there learnt the loss of the British Queen, and at noon, on the Sth, saw the Hero wrecked. Here we lay till the 14th of August, when, after an amazing deal of labour, we forced our way through all danger, towing, &c. till the evening of the 15th, when we got into the Open sea, leaving 16 vessels beset to the northward. I have no hesitation in saying, if a passage is found this year to the west land, it must be more southerly than has yet been attempted.— In our passage down the Straits twice were we led into the ice, In the hopes of discovering it, and both times failed. The lati tudes which we atiimpted were 73 first, and 71 the second time. We bore up for England on the 27th of August, were off Cape Farewell on the Ist of September, ran through Hoy Sound (Orkner,) on the Bth, and finally arrived in the Humber, with four fish, 130 butts, after a passage of thirteen days, unexampled for its celerity. SPORTING IN I'ELLIGENCE. CROSS IN THE SPORTING WORLD. Swap, the first favourite for the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster, as it turned out in less than forty-eight hours after, could have won that race in a common canter, but for the revival of the physicing system and other mishap., which the fate of Dawson, some years since, for a while sounded a warning. Swap beat Theodore the winner of the St. Leger, on Wednesday, over the same Sr. Leger Course, and he won the race hollow, without a struggle. A more honourable Gentleman than Swap's master Yorkshire cannot produce, and, from an inquiry now on foot, the speculations of these unprincipled wretches will, we trust, chew to the world, as in the case of Dawson, that a repetition of his crimes cannot be practised with impunity. The settling day at Tattersall's will be held on Monday nest, and there the great winnet will be seen. The regular jobbers in fraud even refuse to pay upon the race, and certainly the fair and honourable adventurer will not part with his money upon so glaring a case. DONCASTER RACES—Timm:v.l-, Sirr. 19. Match for 200 gs. h. ft. Last mile. Mr. - Lane Fox's b. c. Macduff, Bst. 31b. - Mr. Wrrill's b. f. Marchesa, Bst. - 2 5 to 4 on Marchesa. The Doncaster Club Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. for 5-yr-olds, lit. 41b. four, Bst. 51b. five, Sat. 12lb. Two miles. (4 Sobs.) Ld . Fitzwilliam's ch. 1. Ursula, 4 yrs old - - Mr. Milnes's br. h. Sir John, S yrs old - - Match for 200 gs. each, h. ft. Bst. 31b. St. Leger Course. Mr. Lambton's ch. c. Lorenzo - - Mr. Lane Fox's b. c. Macduff - - 2 to 1 on Lorenzo.-Won with ease. Sweepstakes of 30gs. each, with 10gs. ft. for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst. 31b. fillies, Bst. Last mile and a half. Mr. Gascoyne's ch. e. by Comm - - 1 Sir J. Byng s b. in. Madelina - - 2 Ld Scarborough's b. c. Regalia - - 3 Match for 100 gs. each, h. ft. -St. Leger Course. Mr. Petre's br. it. Sir John, Bst. 10Ib. - - I Mr. Lane Lox's ch. s. North Wester, Bst. 31b. - 2 Won very easy. Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, with 20gs. added by the Corpora tion, for 3-r -old fillies, Bst. 21b. St. Leger Course. (13 Subscribers). Mr. Gascoyne's c. Violet - - 1 Lord Scarborough's b. Fair Charlotte - - £ Mr. Watt's h. by Tramp - - 3 Lord Milton's b. Mdelina . - 4 Mr. Reed's ch. Miss Wentworth - - 5 Fair Charlotte the favourite ; a near race with all three. Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for 2-yr-old colts, Bst. 21b. fillies, Bst. Two.year-old Course. (2?. Subscribers). Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Sherwood • - - I Mr. Lambton's b. f. Beresina - - 2 Mr. Ridsdile's ch. c. Rhubarb - - 3 Mr. Frankland's ch. c. Crabb - - 4 Ld Fitzwilliam's br. c. Bourdeauz - - 5 Four others started.-The Judge placed but five.-5 to 4on Sherwood, who won easily, and is now-first favourite for the next year's St. Leger. All-Age Stakes of 25gs. each, for 4.yr-olds, 7st. 91b. five, Bst -51b. six, and aged, Bst. 101 b. Four-year-old fillies allowed 41b. Four miles. (3 Subscribers). Mr. Houldsworth's ch. c. Catilide, 4 yrs old - - 1 Ld Milton's b. c. Fitzwalter, 4 yrs old - - 2 Match for 100 gs. h. ft. Last mile. ' Mr. E. Petre's f. My Lady, Bst. 51b. Sir J. Byng's ch. 1. Civet, Bst. fib. Match for 100 gs. h. ft. St. Leger Course. _ Mr. E. Petre's br. f. by Pericles, Sst. - - i Sir J. Byng's b. 1. hladelina, Bst. Mb. - - 2 The 1:100 Plate, for three and 4-yr-olds ; three, 7st. Sib. and four, Bst. 71h. Maiden colts allowed 21b. maiden liliks, 31b. Two-mile beats. Mr. Larnbton's eh. f. Fortuna, 4 yrs old - - 1 1 IA Scarborough's bi. f. Ebony, 3 yrs old, (ret. 20gs.) 4 2 Sir 11. Nelthorpe's b. c. Seawby, 3 yrs old - 2 3 Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Mowbray, 5 yrs old - 3dr LEICESTER RACES—Sarr. 19. The Burgess' Plate of .0.50 for all ages. Three-mile heats. Mr. Field's ch. c. Chew Bacon, 4 yrs old - 1 2 1 Duke of Butlaad's eh. c. by Octavian, 4 yrs did 2 1 2 Each heat was closely contested. -- - - The Yeomanry Plate of 50gs. given by Colonel Keck and the Officers of the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. was won by Mr. Fowkes's m. Nancy Dawson, • beating five others. SIIREWSBURY RACES—SETT. 18. The Gentlemen's Subscription of £56, for three and 4-yr-olds. Heats, twice round and a distance. Ld Grosvenor's br. f Tempe Sir T. Stanley's br. c. Aimwell Mr. Wright's b. c. by Weaver 2 1 1 1 2 2 .. 3 dr - Every one of these heats was finely contested. Ainswell the favourite at starting ; S to 4 agst Tempe ; 6 to 4 apt Weaver. After the best heat, 2 to I on Aimwell; and after the second, 6 and 7t02 on Tempe. Won by only half a neck. The Gentlemen's Subscription for a Gold Cup. value 100 p. for all ages. Twice round and a distance. Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. The Doge - Mr. Mytton s b. b. Ralston - - z 3lajor 0. Gore's ch. h. the Du!re - - - 5 Seven others were drawn. This was' a good race, and won by a length. Sweepstakes of 20p. each, for colts and fillies then two years old. One mile. T. Y. C. Lord Grokvenor's br. f. Fzivette - Sir J. G. Egertow's ch. c. by Soothsayer Sir G. Pigott's b. f. Active - - Mr. Mytton'sch. - e. Enterprise - 4 This was a welLcomested race, and won in high style. Eti quette was the favourite against the field at starting. 1 Shrewsbury Stakes of 10p. each, for all ages, with mss. added by the 'l'own. Once round and a distance. Mr. Mytton'sbr. h. Banker - - 1 Mr. Fielding's gr. h. Snowdon - - - 9 Four others were drawn. Every yard of this Teat was raced, and won only by Italia neck. Even bruin at starting. - . •I . tit •• • - gLEY LODOS. • The fourth Meeting of the Needwood Foresters was held on Wednesday last, at the beautiful seat of En. WARD &MD, Esq. The day was delightfully finer and a large part"! assembl e d. N ot hing could exceed the hospitable and elega nt enter t a i nm ent provided bit Mr. and Mrs. SNITD, for the accommodation of thein l company. A number of tents were placed of difs ferent farts of the grounds, and about 130 of the Archery. Society and their friends sat down to a most sumptuous dinner, under a spacious tent, during which the band of the Derbyshire Militia played a variety of airs ; the bugle also, which was played in a very masterly style, occasionally enlivened the com pany during the day. The archery was kept up with considerable spirit both before aad after dinner; and the following prizes were awarded to the successful competitors : Captain Hall, a bow and six arrows. Hon. Mr. Frederick Curzon, one of flramah's patent pens. Miss Emily Johnson, a gold watch. Miss Gisborne, a musical snug -box. The dresses of the Archers accorded well with the Ge romantic beauty of the s u rroun di ng scener y, and the . Ladies seemed peculia r ly f orme d on t hi s occ asion To give soc i et y its highest taste." The evening closed with dancing. The ball-room, which was very tastefully decorated, and lighted with variegated lamps, had a most enchanting appearance. We never witnessed a greater display of rank and beauty.—The Members of the Society of Needwood Foresters assembled on this occasion were— The Dowager Countess of Dartmouth and Lady Mary Legge, Lady Scarsdale and the Hon. Miss Curren, Lord Bagot, Lord Vernon, Mr. and Lady Barbara Neudigate, the Hon. Colonel Cavendishohe Honourable Captain Curzon, Hon. and Rev. Frederick Curzon ' Honourable Alfred Curzon , Hon. Francis Curzon, Hon. and Rev. John Vernon, Hon. and Rev. Richard Bagot and Lady Harriet Bagot ' Hon. William Anson, the Hon. and Rev. John Talbot, Mr. G. J. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Sir Trevor and the Mist Whelers, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ark wright, Mr. and Mrs. hleynell, Mr. and Mrs. Littleton, Colonel and Mrs. Sneyd (of Kiel), Miss Sneyd, Miss Fanny Sneyd, Miss Charlotte Sneyd, Mrs. and Miss Levett (of Wichnor), Mr. Lane, Mr. Newton Lane, Mr. Leveson Lane, Mr. Johnstone and Miss Johnstone, and Miss Emily Johnstone, Miss Eliza Sitwell, Miss Susan Sitwell, Miss Crompton, Mr. Edward Mun day, jun. Mrs. and Miss Gisborne, Mr. H. Lister, Mr. Treva nian, the Rev. Richard and Mrs. Leven. In addition to this numerous and brilliant company were the following ditinguished visitors : Earl Talbot, Viscount Ingestrie, Count and Countess Antonio, Hon. and ltev. T. Coventry, Hon. Miss Vernon, Miss Sneyd and Miss Harriet Sneyd, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Anson, Miss Ann Bagot and Miss Bagot, Nlrs.Wilmot and Mr. Robert Wil mot, Mr. Tcale, Mr. William B.igot, Mr. Edward Mundy, Miss Mundy, and Miss A. Mundy, Captain Chambers, Miss Barwell, Mrs. Richardson and Miss King, Mr. Richard Wilmot, Mr. Edward Monkton, Mr. Mrs. and bliss Mundy (Markeaton), Mr. Wellesley, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. Pole, Mr. Edward Coke, Mr. and Mrs. Lister, Colonel and Mrs. Seale, Miss Beres ford, Hon. Henry Legge, Miss Coventry, General Dyott, Mr. George Lawrence, Mr. Winter, Mr. John Arkveright, Rev. H. and Mrs. Bailie. Sir John Phillimore, Rev. Thomas and Mrs. Levett, Rev. B. J. Proby and Miss Probys, Mrs. Greseley. 2 Miss STitmENs.—lt is stated, from authority, that it is not true, as has been reported in the Litchfield and other Papers, chat Miss STEPHENS has changed her condition, and is married to Mr. BROADWOOD. ORIGIN OF THE TERM " SPINSTER! „ —Among Our industrious and frugal forefathers, it was a maxim that a young woman should never be married until she had spun herself a set of body, bed, and table linen. From this custom all unmarried women were termed Spinsters—an appellation they still retain in all law proceedings. - - So rare an accomplishment is the knowledge of , Music in Ireland, that in the town of Strabane, a piano-forte cannot be tuned without sending to Ilaphoe for the organist ; and the music-master of a respectable boardixt-school at Cole raine, comes every third week from Belfast, which is better than 50 miles distant BUNDLING.—We know not whether this custom be still as general in New England as it was 20 or 30 years ago, or whether it continues equally harmless. The following .particulars respecting it are taken from a very curious History of Connecticut, published in the year 1781 : " I am no advocate for temptation, yet must say that bundliug has prevailed 160 years in New England, and I verily believe, with ten times mere chastity than the sitting on a sofa. I had daughters, and speak from nearly 40 years experience. Bundling takes place only in cold seasons of the year. About the year 1756, Boston, &lens, Newport, and New York, resolving to be more polite than their ancestors, forbade their daughters bunging on the bed with any young men whatever, and introduced a sofa to render courtship more palatable and Turkish. Whatever it 'was owing to, whether to the sofa or any uncommon excess of the jets d'esprit, there went abroad a report that this el:Omar produced more via/spat consequences than all the bundling among the boors with their sweethearts, through every village in New England besides. " In 1766, a Clergyman from one of the polite towns, went into the country, and preached against the unchristian custom of young men and maidens lying together on a bed. He was no sooner out of the Church, than - attacked by a shoal of good old women, with " Sir, do you think we and our daughters are Naughty, because we allow of bundling?" He answered, " You lead yourselves into temptation by it." They all replied at once, " Sir, have you been told thus, or has experience taught it you ?" The Levine began to lift up his eyes, and.to consider of his situa tion, and bowing, said, ' 4 I have been teld so." The Ladies, una vxe,bawled out, " Your informers, Sir, we conclude, are those city ladies, who prefer a sofa to a bed; we advise you to alter your sermnn,-by substituting the word sofa for bundling, and on your return home preach it to them; for experience has told us, that city folks send more children into the country without fathers or mothers to own them, than are born among us ; therefore you see a sofa is more dangerous than a bed." The Priest confessed his error, begged pardon, and promised never more to preach against bundling, or to think amiss of the-custom. The Ladies generaualy fOrgave him, and he went away." A peat medical writer has remarked r that he !Inver knew a single instance of el person living beyond eighty years of age who was not descended from long lived ancestors. • TENACITY or LIFE IN Bsgs.—The following sin , • gular instance of the great tenacity of life in Bees is related by Mr: SEDDON; chemist, of Tooley-street : " 1 had purchased 20 large hives. and a hogshead of I)utcb honey In the natural scam not separated from the wax, which had been in my friend's warehouse above a year ; and, - after emptying my hives as well as I could, I boiled them for a consi-. demi& time in water, to obtain what honey remained between the interstices. A considerable number of bees that had been suited with the honey were floating on the surface of the water, and these I skinuvied off and placed on the flag-stones outside my elaboratory, which was at the top of the.honee, and then ex posed to a July meridian sun. You may imagine my astonish ni..nt when, in half an hour ' I saw scores of these same bees that bad been for months in a state of • suffocation, and then well boiled, gradually come to life and fly away ! There were so many of them :hat I closed the door, fearing they might be disposed to return and punish me for' tbe barbarous usage they'had re ceived at my bands." Foot- Ram—Yesterday erects took place at Somers'Town, be tween a young man of the tame of Pat, and. the celebrated run ning Mikweus. The distance was 200 yards; and the bet a garge—the milkman woe beat only by a yard—and be was offered to be backed for £5O to eon again, making the distance 220 ' yards. * )teat aceiPtcd the challenge, and Me race Is to taketilace cu Ilutradiay asst- . . . . . ad 00 ;#' A SargES. At the Glasgow Assites, on Monday last, Janet tompbell was placed at the bar; charged uith enteo jag the house of William Jones, gardener, LdgerAy. loons, by means of false keys, and stealing 1:85 in Bank -notes, on the 12th of July. The prisoner was proved by several witnesses to have been near to the house at the time of the robbery, and many of the stolen notes were traced to his possession. The Jury, by a plurality of voides, found Campbell Guilty.— Lord Pr/watt said, as there was a majority and minority iri this case, he thought it proper to state, I that had he been on the Jury, he would have agried with the former. His Lordship then addressed the prisoner, and sentenced hiM, in the usual form, to be executed on Wednesday, the 23d of October next-- At the conclusion of this address, Campb . •ll said, " My Lord, as this is the last time that you and I will meet together on this earth; I have two requests to make, which I hope your Lordship will grant me. The first is, tkat my nameshaU not be cried through the public streets in those puny papers, ao is usually done with persons in my situation ; and that on the day - 'of execution I shall not be brought into the Court Hall amidst the gaze of , an ignorant rabble, by which my devotions may be disturbed, and my thoughts discomposed. I will ever be very glad to receive the instructions of any Protestant Ministers who may desire to visit me, u I was brought up in that persuasion; and I hope that your Lordship will indulge me in my wishes, and that, though we have been enemies bete today, we will meet together as friends in Heaven."—This was said in a very Arm and audible voice. Lord Prrstu.Ly said he would do everything in his power for him; but it lay nut with him to grant his requests. lie had no doubt, however, if he would Apply to the Magistrates of Glas gow, who, while they acted with firmness, were at the same time merciful, they would do everything possible in his unhappy situation. Campbell then said—' I have your good will, my Lord," and left the bar, saying, " Death was sweeter than confinement; cowards die many times, but he should only die once." Last week, the Odiham stage-coach was overturned on Hounslow Heath on its way to town, owing to the coming off of one of the fore wheels, from some insufficiency in the linch-pin. The roof was nearly full of passengers, but there were none inside. Pro- vielentially no lives were lost : one Gentleman was so seriously hurt as to be confined to his bed in a public-house on the spot ever since the accident. Se veral other passengers suffered more or less by the same calamity. The accident was purely the effect of some fault in the linch-pin ; no blame being in any manner imputable to the coachman, who is one of the most careful drivers on the road. A dreadful accident occurred last week, through the breaking of the fore axletree of one of the Graves end coaches, near Dartford. The coachman and pas sengers were thrown off, and an elderly man, named Bryan, had the flesh literally torn from his right thigh and leg. He was conveyed to the house of a surgeon, when it was found necessary to amputate the limb above the knee, and he is doing well. To add to the affliction of Mr. - Bryan, his wife, who had been some time ill, has died since the accident, but she had not the pain of learning that distressing occurrence. It is singular, that a Gentleman who was in the coach when' it broke down went to London by another, and the axletree of that also broke, just as the coach was entering the inn yard, but fortunately without injury. A fire at the Golden Cross, Charing-Cross, took place at nine o'clock last night, occasioned by the gas, which burnt and damaged a past of the first floor of the above Inn, but from the prompt and timely assistance of the firemen, and plenty of water; it was soon put out. Bread, of as fine a quality as any sold by the Lon don bales, has been selling - for some weeks past, at a village tin the lower part of Hampshire, at sd. the quartern loaf; and Veen the writer's informant left, about a week since, one baker had announced his in tention of lowering it to 4.Acf. Genntram..A ruffian-looking young fellow, an Irishman, named Thomas Fitzgerald, who has been detained in custody for ' nearly a fortnight, until it should be ascertained whether an un fortunate female, upon whom he Was charged with having com mitted a most brutal outrage, would survive the effects of his barbarity, was brought up yesterday before the sitting Magis trate, Mr. Alderman Cox. Eliza Simpson, the female in question, although apparently in a very enfeebled and dangern's state, was sufficiently recovered to attend. She stated herself to be a servant at a house of ill fame, in George-alley, Fleet-market, and knew the prisoner as one cf the constant frequenters of that sink of vice and infamy. A little before twelve o'clock at night, on last Saturday week, he came to their house in company with ancther man, who was much intoxicated, and sent for two pots of beer. She told him that was not a public-house, and if her mistress was at home shie•' would not suffer it. The porter, however, was brought, and in her endeavours to prevent them drinking it there, a great part of it was spilt. The prisoner insisted that -he should give bin money to replace it. This, however, she refused, and wished them to go away. He then said he was sent there by her mis tress to take care of the house, and insisted upon her giving hint all the money she had taken during her mistress's absence; and on her refusing, he knocked her down, and knelt upon her sto mach with all his weight, to keep her so, while he forcibly took the key of the cupboard out of her pocket. He then stamped upon her with great-wiolence, and stood upon her body while he unlocked the cupboard, and took led, out of a cup. There was money to the amount of 13s. ad: in another cup, but it was out of his reach, and consequently escaped his observation. The outrage she had suffered occasioned her to vomit a considerable quantity of blood ; and the Medical Gentleman under whose care she had been ever since, declared that she would never com pletely recover from ae injury she had sustained. She had called out for assistance at the time, and there were persons who bad witnessed great part of the prisoner's ill-usage towards her ; but they could not be prevailed upon to come forward and give evidence, from the-dread of the vengeance of the number of Irish inhabiting and frequenting the alley. The prisoner exhibited the utmost unconcern and indifference while this story was telling, and did not contradict any part of the brdtality imputed to him, but seemed to think the whole of his conduct fully-justified, by his having, as he said, found the 00133plainant's band in his pocket. Ile, however, denied the robbery. The principal charge on which the prisoner had been Apprehended at the time, was the violent assault, there being reason to apprehend that the unfortunate woman's life was in dangerl but upon hearing the circunutances, the worthy Alder man was .of opinion that the due punishment of the prisoner would be more certainly effected by committing him for the fe lony, and he was accordingly sent to Newgate, to take his :ad for stealing in thedwelling-hoilse. Maasiox-Houss.—The question of the right of carmen to be hired in rotation came formally before the LORD Mavonon Thurs. day. The City Solicitor attended as his LOrtiihip's assessor, and Mr. Mixes for the cairnjo. The complaint was against one Asbenden, the owner of two carts, for obstructing the highway with a view of getting kturn, by placing them before the am pl.hiciata carts, although they hail-been engaged to do the week. —The defendant and his biethren urged that turn-keeping was sanctioned by custom, the groundwork' of most of the City 14ws • a nd that carmen had actually been fined for taking wo r k out oi turn. One of the carmen said that when he, the other day - , gave £'2oo fur a license, he was informed that c turn-keeping was part of the birthright he purchased, and would always secure bins enough of work to live by. The license he now considered not worth a farthing. The City Solicitor said, that what %els a mere regulation amongst. the carmen tbentselves bad been cos founded with the regulations a the Court. The first had bees acquiesced in by the Magistrates, in consideration of the poorer carmen, but such an uproar and disturbance had resulted that they had determinea to put en end to it as utratAorised. •The Logo y Ar „, t h en cum Java tlpe.deicndtuit, but L:ntitted the penalty.